Sparked by the gang rape of a young woman. Warner john merrow has the story of a group of california Charter Schools that aim to be the modelts of education. America has lots of terrific schools. People open Great Schools every year, but they typically open just one. Nobody has figured out how to mass produce high quality, Cost Effective schools. Brown we remember general Norman Schwarzkopf the man who commanded americanled forces in the persian gulf war known as desert storm. Warner plus, mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Brown thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by co
Effective schools. Brown we remember general Norman Schwarzkopf the man who commanded americanled forces in the persian gulf war known as desert storm. Warner plus, mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Brown thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. 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. Brown the final weekend has now arrived before the fiscal cliff hits on new years day and with it, more than 600 million in tax hikes and spending cuts. In a last bid for a deal, president obama stated his terms facetoface to Top Republicans and democrats. Congres
Why its finally coming to light nearby buildings. Today, friday, january 4th, in case you are just waking up right now, let me be the bearer of good news. 2013. Its friday. It will look good out there. Announcer from nbc this is Christina Loren, good morning. Good morning to you, jon kelley. 7 27 now on a friday morning. Today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from taking a live look beautiful start over the city by the bay youll notice we have low clouds studio 1a in rockefeller center. Increasing. Winds are shifting out of the good morning. Welcome to today on a friday west. Morning. Im matt lauer. And im erica hill in for onshore flow making for milder conditions. Savannah this morning. There is good news for secretary of state Hillary Clinton. 43 in San Francisco. She plans to return to her 38 this time yesterday. 32 in gilroy. Office next week after she was, of course, hospitalized for a 34 in livermore. Blood clot in her head. Well see clouds increase as we head through 8
President ial debate. Lets go to David Axelrod first. Youre a former Senior Adviser to president obama. What do you think did Hillary Clinton, some pundits are suggesting, did she miss an opportunity tonight to stand out given her experience as a secretary of state . You know, it was interesting to me, normally shes being attacked for being too political. I think in this moment she was really thinking like a person who might become president of the United States. She was very tempered in her answers because of that. It may have been in the short run not to her political benefit, but it may be to her credit in the long run that she took that posture. She was a member of this administrati administration, as you know. She was walking a fine line trying to distance herself to a certain degree from president obama saying that, using the line that isis cannot be contained. It must be defeated. Thats a direct reference to the president. Saying that isis was contained. And also pointing out th
Everything indicates thats where this investigation is going next. Robert mueller is staffing up. He has a dozen lawyers now on his staff. Part of what he is looking at is whether or not to launch a fullblown investigation into whether the firing of comey and whether the other aspects point to obstruction and interference by the president in this investigation. If that day comes where he gets a call from mueller saying that you are a witness in this case, it really makes the decision very difficult for him to remain involved in overseeing this investigation. You are getting new information tonight about infighting, tension inside the department of justice. What can you tell us . The tension is between the staff of the attorney general of the fifth floor and fourth floor. Rod rosenstein appointed the special counsel Robert Mueller. Theres a lot of anger coming from the fifth floor where the attorney general sits. The attorney general was surprised by that decision. Ive been covering the