Apr 30 Watch 100 Days In, President Obama Holds News Conference on Second Term Priorities From the White House briefing room President Barack Obama joked and jabbed with the press and promised to keep pushing his priorities, including immigration reform and closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Kwame Holman reports on what the president said… Continue watching
Apr 29 Little Consensus Among Lawmakers on Next Steps With Syria President Obama discusses the crisis Syria with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Oval Office last week. Official White House photo by Pete Souza. There appeared to be widespread agreement among lawmakers Sunday that the U.S. must… Continue reading
Apr 26 Shields and Brooks on Bush Legacy, NFL Draft By Hari Sreenivasan The musings of syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks return in this, another episode of the Doubleheader, where we tackle the sport of politics and the politics of sport. Our captains of civility… Continue reading
Apr 26 Judy Woodruff Recounts Day President Reagan Was Shot EmbedVideo(6320, 482, 304); March 30, 1981 was a routine day for Judy Woodruff as she traveled with the press pool to cover a speech by President Ronald Reagan, two months into his presidency, at the Washington Hilton. Continue reading
Apr 26 Watch Shields and Brooks on Red Line Reluctance, Flexibility on FAA Furloughs Shields and Brooks on Red Line Reluctance, Flexibility on FAA Furloughs… Continue watching
Apr 26 Non-Citizens Would Earn Legal Status Under Immigration Bill, Meissner Says EmbedVideo(6319, 482, 304); Doris Meissner, director of the Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute, says the current proposed immigration bill offers "earned legalization" rather than amnesty. Provisions in an immigration reform bill introduced earlier this month would… Continue reading
Apr 26 Congress Begins to Weigh In On Drone Strikes Policy Walking down a hallway of the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday, Georgetown University law professor Rosa Brooks was reminded that President Barack Obama has seemed uneasy about the administration's highly secret U.S. drone program which targets and kills… Continue reading
Apr 26 Bush Library Dedication Celebrates Complicated Presidential Legacy President Barack Obama and former presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush and Jimmy Carter attend the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. The celebration of George W. Continue reading
Apr 26 Gwen's Take: Will Jeb Bush Run? How Confrontation Politics Will Shape 2016 Leave it to Barbara Bush to cut through the confusion. When she was asked just before the opening of her son's presidential library whether her other son, Jeb, should run for president, she said no. And she didn't dance… Continue reading
Apr 26 Watch News Wrap: Boston Suspect Transferred From Hospital to Prison Medical Center In other news Friday, surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was transferred to a federal prison medical center. Tsarnaev is facing federal terror charges for the April 15 attack. Also, police in New York think they found a part… Continue watching