May 23 Watch As Obama Kicks Off Trip, How Far-Reaching Is Europe's Economic Crisis? Europe's Economic Troubles: How Far-Reaching Is the Crisis?… Continue watching
May 23 Marcia Coyle: 'It's Homestretch Time at the Supreme Court' By Elizabeth Summers Supreme Court (Photo by Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images) Monday's sharply divided ruling ordering California to release tens of thousands of inmates from its overcrowded prisons was just one of several widely-anticipated decisions the Supreme Court is expected to issue… Continue reading
May 23 Watch Political Checklist: GOP Field Clearer with Pawlenty In, Daniels Out Gwen Ifill and David Chalian explore what we know about the GOP field for 2012. Continue watching
May 23 Political Checklist: GOP Field Clearer With Pawlenty In, Daniels Out EmbedVideo(630, 482, 304); In just the past day, the 2012 Republican presidential field has become clearer as Indiana governor Mitch Daniels opted out of the race and former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty went all in with… Continue reading
May 23 President Obama Goes to Europe: Track His Trip By Larisa Epatko President Obama will spend this week in Europe, meeting with dignitaries in Ireland, England and Poland. He'll break away for the G8 summit in France, where he's expected to ask for a financial plan to help struggling democracies Egypt and… Continue reading
May 23 Pawlenty Officially Launches Campaign Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty plans to announce his bid for the White House in Iowa. Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr. Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor, gets his moment in the spotlight Monday when he… Continue reading
May 23 Watch Divided Supreme Court Orders California to Ease Prison Overcrowding The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday that the living conditions in overcrowded California prisons threatened inmates' health and violated constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment. Ray Suarez discusses the outcome with The National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle, who was… Continue watching
May 20 Shields and Brooks on Goodwin Liu, Brooks the Meme and the Macho Man By Hari Sreenivasan New York Times columnist David Brooks just flew back to D.C. from across the pond (London) in time to make his appearance on the Newshour and of course for a Doubleheader segment with syndicated columnist Mark Shields. In… Continue reading
May 20 Watch The Doubleheader: Goodwin Liu, David Brooks Meme and the Macho Man Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the filibuster of one of Obama's judicial nominees… Continue watching
May 20 Watch Gingrich Campaign Suffers Setbacks as GOP's 2012 Field Sees Topsy-Turvy Week In a week that was supposed to be about bolstering his presidential campaign, Newt Gingrich outraged many Republicans when he dismissed Rep. Paul Ryan's proposal to reform Medicare in an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press." Ray Suarez reports on… Continue watching