Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions brown congress stepped back from the brink of financial turmoil, at least for now, after the house passed a tax plan late last night and sent it to president obama. Good evening, im jeffrey brown. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. On the newshour tonight, we look at how the vote came about and sort through some of the political consequences as a result of whats in the bill and whats not. Brown then, new killings in pakistan, we look at the uptick in violence against aid workers and women teachers with Washington Post Foreign Affairs reporter pam constable. Woodruff paul solman takes us inside a company that turns a profit by employing an unusual workforce. A massachusetts Manufacturing Firm founded in 1932 where the median age is 74 and Rosa Finnegan over there, is 100. Brown and ray suarez talks with journalist and author Claudia Kolker about what she calls the immigrant advantage. I began to ask foreignborn people what i call the questi
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions brown congress stepped back from the brink of financial turmoil, at least for now, after the house passed a tax plan late last night and sent it to president obama. Good evening, im jeffrey brown. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. On the newshour tonight, we look at how the vote came about and sort through some of the political consequences as a result of wts in the bill and whats not. Brown then, new killings in pakistan, we look at the uptick in violence against aid workers and women teachers with Washington Post Foreign Affairs reporter pam constable. Woodruff paul solman takes us inside a company that turns a profit by employing an unusual workforce. A massachusetts Manufacturing Firm founded in 1932 where the median age is 74 and Rosa Finnegan over there, is 100. Brown and ray suarez talks with journalist and author Claudia Kolker about what she calls the immigrant advantage. I began to ask foreignborn people what i call the question
A massachusetts Manufacturing Firm founded in 1932 where the median age is 74 and Rosa Finnegan over there, is 100. Brown and ray suarez talks with journalist and author Claudia Kolker about what she calls the immigrant advantage. I began to ask foreignborn people what i call the question whats the smartest thing that people did in your home country that you want to hang on to while youre here and the rest of us ought to copy . Brown thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by 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. Woodruff while much of the country kicked off the new year by going back to work today, washington said its goodbyes to the 112th congress, after a late night of final suspense on the fiscal cliff legislation. It gave the president much of what
Brown and ray suarez talks with journalist and author Claudia Kolker about what she calls the immigrant advantage. I began to ask foreignborn people what i call the question whats the smartest thing that people did in your home country that you want to hang on to while youre here and the rest of us ought to copy . Brown thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by 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. Woodruff while much of the country kicked off the new year by going back to work today, washington said its goodbyes to the 112th congress, after a late night of final suspense on the fiscal cliff legislation. It gave the president much of what he wanted on taxes, and left republicans sharply divided. For president obama, the end for now of the washington bud
Thats right. And if isis has assets from aleppo to baghdad, theyre enriched, the country that we know as iraq, financially collapses, dont you think that would affect the region and energy crisis, from the average American Point of view, iraq matters. It does, and also, you know, youve been there many times, senator. The southern part of iraq possesses a tremendous amount of o oil, so different scenarios the iranians operate the southern part of iraq. Well get hit in the wallet. But isis theyre about to attack the United States, is that correct . Although a regional threat, they do have aspirations to attack western interests. If they have a safe haven in syria or iraq, thats a bad scenario for us, is that true . That is a high risk scenario. Yeah, to our homeland being attacked by this group. Over time, not at this time, but over time. I would say that the baghdaddy, the director, the head of this group was a former gitmo a camp bucca detainny, is that correct . Correct. I know the co