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city and headed west towards the gulf coast. we ll have the latest on its track tonight. woodruff: here at the convention site, we ll be discussing the republican party s message with the convention chairman, virginia governor bob mcdonnell and representative cathy mcmorris rodgers of washington state. ifill: our floor reporter jeffrey brown will talk to andy kohut about what voters say they want to learn from this event. woodruff: political editor christina bellantoni plugs into the daily buzz about how the romney campaign sees the week ahead. ifill: and judy and i will be joined here tonight and every night for insight and analysis from newshour regulars mark shields and david brooks. woodruff: plus, margaret warner has a report on how the war in syria is now spilling over to lebanon. ifill: and miles o brien remembers the first man to walk on the moon, astronaut neil armstrong. woodruff: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newsho
discussing the republican party s message with the convention chairman, virginia governor bob mcdonnell and representative cathy mcmorris rodgers of washington state. ifill: our floor reporter jeffrey brown will talk to andy kohut about what voters say they want to learn from this event. woodruff: political editor christina bellantoni plugs into the daily buzz about how the romney campaign sees the week ahead. ifill: and judy and i will be joined here tonight and every night for insight and analysis from newshour regulars mark shields and david brooks. woodruff: plus, margaret warner has a report on how the war in syria is now spilling over to lebanon. ifill: and miles o brien remembers the first man to walk on the moon, astronaut neil armstrong. woodruff: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. the william and flora hewlett foundation, w
representative cathy mcmorris rodgers of washington state. ifill: our floor reporter jeffrey brown will talk to andy kohut about what voters say they want to learn from this event. woodruff: political editor christina bellantoni plugs into the daily buzz about how the romney campaign sees the week ahead. ifill: and judy and i will be joined here tonight and every night for insight and analysis from newshour regulars mark shields and david brooks. woodruff: plus, margaret warner has a report on how the war in syria is now spilling over to lebanon. ifill: and miles o brien remembers the first man to walk on the moon, astronaut neil armstrong. woodruff: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support
washington for 2012 changed before we got the results of those two primaries last night. hold that thought. in april of 2010, just before he retired from the supreme court, justice john paul stevens did an interview in his chambers with a reporter for the new york times, and at the age of 90, on the eve of his retirement, justice stevens said when he looked back at his career, when he looked back at every one supreme court justice who joined the court in the previous generation, in the previous 35 years, he told the reporter every single one of them was more conservative than the justice he or she replaced. with only two possible years.se. when a republican president replaced justices on the supreme court, they picked judges further to the right than the judges that were being replaced. also, when democrats picked new justices for the supreme court, over the past 35 years, the justice arriving was almost always more conservative than the justice who had been there before. thi