Ceo and founder and chief executive officer of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, paul rieckhoff. You heard the president on the veterans scandal. Were you satisfied with what he said . No. That was no action or plan. It has taken three weeks. We expected to hear news. We thought he would tear into the issue with the severity it deserved. We did not hear it. I immediately heard from our veterans nationwide saying, is that it . We are disappointed. Should general shinseki go . We dont know. We will talk to our members. We pulled our members and we will make a decision based off of that. Well talk about it and make sure we talk to our members nationwide. They are outraged and disappointed. This is about nine different cities. About six years of problems. One thing after another. If you have been paying attention, we have been outraged for a few years. What would you like to see him do right now . He dithers. The congress could take action. It will strengthen the v. As ability to f
American education. First black general, first black graduate of the naval academy, second black of the naval academy, first black president ial cabinet member. What do they all have in common . Its this place, its Dunbar High School. Woodruff and mark shields and Ramesh Ponnuru analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by ni supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdat;and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Oro o and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. nr 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 our lead story tonight washington headed into the final weekend before a potential Government Shutdown with the outcome still in doubt. The senate adopted a stopgap
The First Quarter revision was driven by bad weather, one of the worst winters on record. There are volatile numbers such as inventory numbers. We really view the First Quarter in the rearview mirror. We looked at more current indicators manufacturing, auto, consumer confidence, housing. We agree with the forecast that there will be a rebound and we are going to have a solid quarter the rest of the year. 4 . It is hard to project. We are not forecasters per se. When we talk to businesses about their hiring and of back logs and their sales, they are pretty decent. There is more to do. The imf lowered the long term growth of the United States to 2 and cited an aging workforce and mediocre productivity. As i said, theres a lot we could do to celebrate. We believe theres a lot to do given our position in the global economy. We are really well position the global economy. We have 15 of the 25 top universities and the most productive workforce. Multiple times more productive than china. We h
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Issuedinvestment corp. Several anticipated rulings. Affecting everything from how we watch television to when the police can search euro cell phone. Joining us from washington to talk about the high courts ruling is adam liptak. Characterize this day and these decisions. On one level the Supreme Court confronted two big technological issues and you would not think they would be particularly good at this but they were fairly savvy in both cases. The bigger, more surprising one was a sweeping privacy ruling saying the police have to get a warrant before they search the cell phones of anyone they arrest. 12 Million People are arrested and the search is a routine so that is a big pushback from a court that is not often sympathetic to arrested people and criminal defendants but they seem to think that the digital age is different and we need different Fourth Amendment rules in the air of big data. A 90 decision . 90 and i got to say i
The First Quarter revision was driven by bad weather, one of the worst winters on record. There are volatile numbers such as inventory numbers. We really view the First Quarter in the rearview mirror. We looked at more current indicators manufacturing, auto, consumer confidence, housing. We agree with the forecast that there will be a rebound and we are going to have a solid quarter the rest of the year. 4 . It is hard to project. We are not forecasters per se. When we talk to businesses about their hiring and of back logs and their sales, they are pretty decent. There is more to do. The imf lowered the long term growth of the United States to 2 and cited an aging workforce and mediocre productivity. As i said, theres a lot we could do to celebrate. We believe theres a lot to do given our position in the global economy. We are really well position the global economy. We have 15 of the 25 top universities and the most productive workforce. Multiple times more productive than china. We h