Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions 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 on ts day when a pope and two president s were already making headlines a surprise resignation came along to stun washington. We begin with the announcement that the speaker of the United States house of representatives is stepping down. Newshour political director Lisa Desjardins reports. Reporter with his decision, House Speaker john boehner, the happy warrior, projected a kind of personal relief and institutional sacrifice. Its become clear to me that thi
C cydney long joins us with more information. Reporter good morning. We got brand new investigation from investigators on the scene. I want to give you an idea of what you saw on that shot from skyforce. You can see detectives gathering here near cooper street and virginia. This is a tightknit Small Community in Haddon Township but the details of this little boys disappearance still unfolding, unclear if there was trauma or if it was a terrible accident. Were along cooper avenue which is crawling with police and detectives after were told a loved one of the little boy reported him missing at 6 00 this morning. A source confirms the father is the one who reported the boy missing. The come den county Prosecutors Office is the lead on this investigation and they just confirmed for me our Source Information that, in fact, the little boy has died. Skyforce 10 over cooper river park just an hour ago as the details began to unfold. What we know for sure is that the little boy was reported mis
Mr. Ambassador, welcome. Im thrilled to be here. Thanks for letting me come home. Very nice to see you again, sir. Thanks for letting me come in this building. You know, ive been by here millions of times. I dont think ive been here in years. Welcome to this great stage. Were happy to have you here. Youve spent more than 20 years alternating between public life and private life. You did a stint as secretary of state, seven or so years as mayor of dallas. You resigned to run for the senate. Then you went back into private life, practiced law. Came back out to be the ustr. Do you prefer being in private life or public life better . Yes. Which one . Youre liking both. No, im going to make you pick. I can tell you that my bride loves the time of being an incomeproducing spouse. Oh, thats what she cares about. No, look, im blessed ive been able to do both. Ironically, as a kid growing up in austin, and austins a wonderful place to be from, but 60 years ago, we were still the segregated sout
Morning more proof his campaign is struggling in iowa. Now 3 polls showing dr ben carson is the new frontrunner in the hawkeye state. Sot trump i am number 2 in iowa. I said, i dont believe it. Ones bloomberg, they hate me, the other one is a super liberal newspaper, the des moines register, which is 3rd rate totally 3rd rate trump not ready to surrender his position. Describing the former neurosurgeon as sleepy. Sot carson my Energy Levels are perfectly fine. As i have said many times there had been many times i have operated for 12, 15, 18, 20 hours this morning trump dealing with more than a surging carson some pointing out trump, whos celebrated his wealth on the campaign trail by signing dollar bills, may be too out of touch with middle and working class voters after saying this sottrump town hall i started off in brooklyn. My father gave me a small loan of 1 million trump defending it saying a million isnt very much compared to what hes built. One of trumps rivals jeb bush, strug
Big business can help communities who are asking, what rekoh are ri . And do you think that the Community Map can be expanded for 2016 . We won in red states, blue states and more purple states. And surprise they may be seeing more blue than ever before. Im chuck todd and joining us are eric canter and stephanie cutter, former adviser to president obama, amy cook, as well as my colleague over at msnbc and telemundo, jose diaz valart. It has been a drubbing. It happened to george bush and to barack obama in 2010 and now history has repeated itself tuesday. There is some localizing of the e elections and the vaunted turnout efforts and democrats thought some luck could hold the losses down. Well, nothing worked. Pick the adjectives, beating, trouncing, shellacking, and all of them fitting for what happened to the Democratic Party. Another way to describe the election is what happened to president barack obama even if he does not see it that way. Every election a moment for reflection. I