it encourages these young people to step up their game, and i think too many of our high schools are sort of structured with kind of minimal expectations. and you reap what you sew. woodruff: all that and more on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. 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: for the first time, the u.s. environmental protection agency formally proposed cutting methane emissions from oil and gas production today. the goal is a reduction 40-45% by 2025, from 2012 levels. energy companies would have to repair leaks in oil and gas wells, and capture gas that escapes during hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. authorities in thailand have pinpointed a
and i think too many of our high schools are sort of structured with kind of minimal expectations. and you reap what you sew. woodruff: all that and more on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. 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: for the first time, the u.s. environmental protection agency formally proposed cutting methane emissions from oil and gas production today. the goal is a reduction 40-45% by 2025, from 2012 levels. energy companies would have to repair leaks in oil and gas wells, and capture gas that escapes during hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. authorities in thailand have pinpointed a suspect in the bangkok bombing that killed at least 22 peo
speaking from my new, almost seven months perch as a federal official, i want to share that as a physician and public health practitioner, i m speaking to you from both of those heads knowing my words are those of a person will always be herself as a doctor first. people who only know me as someone who works in government asked me, have you ever been a real doctor? i assure you, from the way in which i approach my work, that i still am. so know that i mean it and understand when i say i really appreciate this meeting and your work because what you do is so much closer to the people, the community, and the patients than i am at this point in my career. for the administration, so much of the work and progress of the past several years has been rooted in the belief passed down from generation to generation that we can continue to strive toward equity. and that we can work together to level the playing field for all americans. that we can give all of our sons and daughters, our f
donald trump s new team of billionaire advisors could threaten his populist message. what do you think? guest: i do not think that is true. this is not a nation of and the. thise who are not rich is not a nation of envy. to have on your economics team not just academics and he has some impressive academics like but also people who have done it in the real world, built companies, that is to his credit, not his discredit. host: we want to show a short clip of president obama at a news conference this week, asked by a reporter about donald trump s fitness for the presidency. we will look at that and get your reaction. [video clip] yes, i think the republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. week, and het keeps proving it. the notion that he would attack a gold star family that had made such extraordinary sacrifices on , the factour country that he does not appear to have basic knowledge around critical issues in europe, in the middle means that he is woefully unpr
a t. he grew up like that. we always had a mother and father to whom we could go. he did not. he grew up not knowing what real deep personal love was. he had not had feelings like that before. i cried writing chapter one. i just felt so sorry for him. and yet, he would become the most brilliant general in the world. host: why? professor robertson: his tactics and the deception. even more than that, jackson was fighting for god in this war. i think it makes him a very unique individual. he searched throughout his young adult years for a safe, and he finally found it after he went to lexington, virginia. he became a presbyterian, not really. he became a calvinist in every sense of the word. he dedicated his life to god. and indeed, although it may sound evangelical, god was his heavenly father. he became the father that jackson never had. everything he did was for god. he gave thanks to a glass of water. knowing this was a gift from heaven. when the war comes, jackson concludes