Well hock the person to buy our bread. If you believe the headlines, then were sunk. Greece downgraded deeper into junk. Ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshour. N major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill much of the world paused today to observe christmas. The day brought all the traditional rites of faith for christians and a new urgency to calls for calm in the troubled corners of the globe. Thousands of the faithful greeted Pope Benedict xvi today at his cal bony overlooking st. Peters square. In that timeless setting, the pontiff issu
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions ifill there were calls for peace around the world today, as millions celebrated christmas. Good evening. Im gwen ifill on the newshour tonight. From remembrances of young lives lost in newtown, connecticut, to Church Services in bethlehem, we wrap up the news of this holiday. Then, part two of our conversation about upcomingin elections house races in illinois and south carolina, an highprofile politics in new jersey. We have two Health Stories. First, are annual mammogramswn necessary . Betty ann bowser examines theil conflicting answers. Or its going to result in an excessive treatment required for people that delay getting their cancer detected. Re ifill plus, 2013 will be am pivotal year for the new Health Care Reform law. Ray suarez gets an update from julie rovner of npr. From the island of mindanao in the philippines, fred de sam lazaro profiles a group of peacekeepers struggling to maintain a fragile ceasefire between governmen
A whole bunch of other things. Mentioned surveillance. We do bulk collection. Thats different from massive surveillance. We can talk about that later. Glenn says we collect everything there is. Nsa actually on any given day collects, listen up carefully, its a big number, collects. 00004 of Global Internet traffic. I have no idea what 1. 7 billion intra american email collection means. That is simply not happening. What we have here are people trying to keep you safe, and ive got an image coming out with the people who work in lead in this they are like that character in the simpsons, you know mr. Burns, after finally figured to go excellent, excellent. Youve got a lot more to unpack but you get the drift. Thanks. [applause] extra points for any simpson references from this point forward. Alan dershowitz, your rebuttal. I think we for two strawmen from the other side. The first strawman is raising the issue of torture and rendition. That proves my point. Im a liberal democrat vote agai
Blindsided by these bridgegate emails. Its my personal take. I just wanted to get that in there. We have ron fornier from the well cover that in Great National journal, how Chris Christie can save his career and detail. We also welcome back ann and pushing down oil prices, that is good news for the economy. Matt arco who has been following and a week after legal pot sales this story from the beginning in colorado, well look at the and we welcome new Jersey Assembly majority leader lewis financial score. Remember, pot heads are expected greenwald. General and gentlemen and to generate reverend few. How can they if they are always stoned and not working . Thats coming up on the kudlow ladies, welcome. Report right now. Thank you very much. Do you think christie had a Sister Soldier moment . Did he go against the normal political grain . Yeah, in a lot of ways he good evening, everyone. Did. It was a pretty remarkable day, im larry kudlow. Like you said, larry. Its 7 00 p. M. Eastern, 4 0
International problems. Deadlock over the crisis in ukraine and john kerry tries to find Common Ground with his russian counterpart. They wont be used search dogs today as they are working on the mudslide and they have been given to days off because they say the cold and rain could dell their sense of smell and the death toll is 21 and expected to rise and dry weather is in the forecast after rainfall over the weekend hampered results and we are in arlington and there is discrepancies with the death toll and what do we know now . 25 people notified and relatives notified and that is the number officially as deceased here and we know four additional bodies have been identified at the slide site but has not been removed. That is a bit of confusion along the way, people taking the two different numbers adding them up and going with the number but they are saying right now 21 dead. We will see the sunshine here today in the river valley and a welcome sight as the search and rescue crews go