Aug 23 Watch Pakistani Aid Effort Hurt by Scale, Terrain, Instability As millions of Pakistanis struggle to meet their basic needs due to widespread flooding, aid groups are running into significant challenges trying to help them. Judy Woodruff talks to Daniel Wordsworth, CEO of the American Refugee Committee, about the myriad… Continue watching
Aug 23 Watch In Pakistan, Years of Future Hardship in Water’s Wake Floodwaters are moving south in Pakistan but trouble is possibly brewing in the unstable north as well. Special correspondent Saima Mohsin reports on the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Continue watching
Aug 20 Shields and Gerson Grade Obama’s Campaigning, News Corp. Donation By Hari Sreenivasan Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post opinion columnist Michael Gerson, sitting in for David Brooks, stopped by The Rundown before this week's broadcast appearance and disagreed whether President Obama's campaigning will resonate with voters ahead of… Continue reading
Aug 20 Watch Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks: What Will Help, Hinder? The first peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians in nearly two years are set to resume in Washington next month. Jeffrey Brown talks with analysts David Makovsky and Ghaith Al-Omari about what could come out of -- or derail --… Continue watching
Aug 20 News Corp.’s $1M Contribution to GOP Governors Group Under Fire News Corp.'s $1 million contribution to the Republican Governors Association has drawn fire from journalism schools, ethics analysts and progressive political organizations this week. Owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. is the parent company of… Continue reading
Aug 19 Watch Oil Plume Study Raises New Questions on Spill Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution released the first conclusive evidence of an underwater oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico. Jeffrey Brown talks to one of the study's authors, Chris Reddy, and David Farenthold of The Washington Post. Continue watching
Aug 18 Watch For Pakistani Flood Victims, Is Worst Yet to Come? As the need for aid in Pakistan worsens, new questions are being raised on whether the government can handle a crisis of this magnitude. Gwen Ifill talks to Shuja Nawaz, director of the Southeast Asia Center at the Atlantic Council,… Continue watching
Aug 18 Watch Pakistan ‘Can’t Cope Alone’ With Massive Flooding The Pakistan government is faced with overwhelming troubles due to the widespread floods, including disease, starvation and death. Some question whether it is able of dealing with this crisis. Gwen Ifill speaks with special correspondent Saima Mohsin in Karachi about… Continue watching
Aug 16 Political Checklist: Obama’s Campaign Road Show, Mosque Remarks By David Chalian In a weekly segment now dubbed “The Political Checklist,” senior correspondents Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill tick through this week’s list by weighing in on President Obama’s three-day, five-state campaign swing and what clues his stops provide in figuring… Continue reading
Aug 16 New Political Groups Face Few Spending and Donation Limits In the wake of the landmark Citizens United v. FEC campaign finance ruling, unions and corporations are now allowed to spend unlimited amounts of their own money to support candidates via advertising. But those are not the only changes… Continue reading