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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 man picked to lead the central intelligence agency was called today to defend his positions in the war on terror. john brennan s senate confirmation hearing revolved around several hotly debated policies. newshour congressional correspondent kwame holman has our report. reporter: even before the hearing got truly under way, protesters from code pink disrupted john brennan s opening statement signaling that passions were running high on the targeted killings of terror suspects. they won t even tell congress what countries we are killing children in. reporter: the interruptions continued, and the chair of the senate intelligence committee, california democrat dianne feinstein, ordered the room temporarily cleared. we re going to halt the hearing. reporter: once the hearing resume ....
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions brown: john brennan, president obama s choice to head the c.i.a. faced a volley of questions from senators today about counter-terrorism policies, including waterboarding and drone strikes. good evening, i m jeffrey brown. suarez: and i m ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, we excerpt today s testimony, which was interrupted from the start by protesters from the anti-war group, code pink. brown: then, we get the latest on the massive manhunt for a former los angeles police office wanted for murder. suarez: we turn to iran as the u.s. tightens sanctions but tehran shows no signs of halting its nuclear program or engaging in talks. brown: from our american graduate series, we have the story of a chicago non-profit that aims to change the lives of would-be dropouts. what s interesting about one goal is that it pinpoints and targets low-income, underperforming students in non- selective chicago public school ....
was a patriot. called for a thorough review of our surveillance operations before mr. snowden main these leaks. as president obama outlines proposals to reform the surveillance programs, the guardian newspaper reveals new details about how the nsa had permission to search databases of phone calls of americans. we will speak to senator ron wyden. then we look at the lives of civil rights legend bayard rustin. we need a group of angelic troublemakers. ability tos in our make things and workable. the only weapon we have is our body and we need to talk to them in places so that we ll do not turn. month byrs ago this your rustin organized a march on washington. he buys black, gay, and a pacifist. he will be honored with the posthumous medal of freedom. naegle,speak to walter and john d emilio, author of lost prophet: the life and times of bayard rustin. all that and more coming up. to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. a u.s. drone strike kille ....
states. this one in new york is a regional branch of it. officials say the suspect was planning to set off an explosion there with what he thought was a 1,000 pound bomb. now, it wasn t real. the false explosives came from an under cover agent. quazi nafis came from bangladesh. but prosecutors say his real goal was to set off the attack. there are a lot of ways to pay for college. scholarship, financial savings, working through it. another option is student loans. now, those have to be repaid. today s college seniors are graduating with more student loan debt than has to be paid than ever before. this report says two-thirds of the class of 20111 had student loan debt and the average borrower owed nearly $27,000. part of this dependant what school you go to. the low end of the average debt per graduate was $3,000. the high end, more than $55,000. a couple exclamations were offered for the debt increase. one is rising tuition prices. the other is the tough job market for ....
in talks. brown: from our american graduate series, we have the story of a chicago non-profit that aims to change the lives of would-be dropouts. what s interesting about one goal is that it pinpoints and targets low-income, underperforming students in non- selective chicago public schools, students who are least likely to graduate from high school, let alone college. suarez: we look at newly released documents showing leaders in the catholic church in los angeles shielded pedophile priests and failed to report allegations of child abuse. brown: and gwen ifill talks with biographer jeanne theo- haris, who offers a complex portrait of the woman best known for refusing to give up her seat on an alabama bus in 1955. she is celebrated for one act and i think part of that celebration puts it all in the past, right, when the actual rosa parks keeps working on racial and social justice issues all the way up to the end of her life. brown: that s all ahead on tonight ....