Good morning. [applause] good morning early birds. Thank you so much for coming out early for a private breakfast. Welcome to those of you and livestream land. I appreciatappreciat e having you. This is the first playbook wreck the stuff 2013 so we look forward to seeing you throughout the year after the amazing year that we had last year. This morning we are going to go inside the gang of eight. We have two of the ringleaders here this morning senator mccain, senator schumer who helps pull off something that in Washington People didnt think was possible which was a bipartisan agreement so they will take us inside that and we are going to look ahead to the coming day. Before we chat with the senators we are going to welcome politicos manu raju who helped break the story and after that senator mccain. Before that i would like to thank bank of america for their partnership for making these conversations possible including that incrediblincredibl e brunch and inauguration where people had
Laws, while failing to enforce the thousands we already have, is not a serious solution to reducing crime. Ifill then, we assess the state of the economic recovery, as key indicators show trends both up and down. Brown from jerusalem, Margaret Warner has the latest on the attack by israeli warplanes inside syria. Ifill Judy Woodruff talks with newly elected senator Tammy Baldwin, a democrat from wisconsin. Brown we examine how some schools are translating lessons into real world applications in an effort to close the achievement gap between rich and poor students. Im actually really excited to be creating this device. It really makes you feel, i dont know, grown up, i guess . Its not just learning, its experiencing. Ifill and we close with a first person account of the struggle for human rights in china. Ray suarez sits down with an activist who spent two years under house arrest. Ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and wi
And we will talk to one member who is part of that bunch leading the charge. 48 hours after joking about his weight with letterman, Chris Christie gets serious and tough when asked about what a former white house doctor had to say about him. There is something going on that has a lot to do with 2016. Its thursday, february seventh, 2013. Its tthe daily rundown. Lets get to the first reads of the morning. You may be breaking off to hear from president obama at the Prayer Breakfast. Lets start with the first read. After years of secrecy, president obama ordered the Justice Department to release a classified memo detailing the legal justification for killing americans considered terrorists to two congressional committees. They will do so on a classified basis. The disclosure to congress happened on the eve of this afternoons confirmation hearing for john brennan, the president s choice to be the next director of the cia. Press secretary jay carney refused to acknowledge that the memo exis
Obama be held to after the pictures of the little children who were killed by his cone drone attacks are placed before the jury in the hague . I was encouraged last night when the president called and he said as part of this effort, he is going to try to drive a more extensive discussion about these issues. Every american has the right to know when their government believes its allowed to kill them. I dont think that, as one person said, that is too much to ask. So right now the Senate Armed Services committee is holding a hearing on the response to the attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi. Leon panetta testifying and likely to face tough questions. He started off by defending the militarys response to crises around the world. The United States military, as i have said, is not, and, frankly, should not be a 911 service capable of arriving on the scene within minutes to every possible contingency around the world. So lets bring in our power panel. Good morning to former democrat co
Cenk welcome to the young turks. As you might imagine im a little worked up about the hearing on gun control today in the senate. And they got a little fiery as well. You missed that point completely. Its basic. Senator i think you missed it order cenk i think they all missed the point. All right. Were going to have two great guests on that. Former gun lobbyist and then someone who quit the nra in disgust after newtown. Hell be on the show as well. And then well talk about oakland. Well, not only is violence bad, but Racial Discrimination in oakland is so bad recently a mother said this. Im sad and scared to be having a black boy in oakland. Cenk shell be joining us on the show as well. And then finally, in texas you know they were doing the crazy creationism teaching . Well, the guy who literally did the movie on that will join us. We say on this day, the will be done. Cenk some schools in texas are teaching that the universe is missing a day because thats what it says in the bible. W