Aug 16 Margaret Warner Heads to Iraq to Report on Troop Drawdown By Hari Sreenivasan As we near the end of official combat operations in Iraq at the end of August, the NewsHour's Margaret Warner is headed there for a reporting trip. We caught up with her on the Rundown for a pre-brief on… Continue reading
Aug 13 Watch Napolitano: Immigration Issues Don’t Merit Constitutional Changes A new $600 million bill will put more personnel and security measures along the U.S.-Mexico border. Jeffrey Brown talks to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano about how this bill will affect security efforts already in place. Continue watching
Aug 13 Waters Disputes Ethics Charges: ‘I Have Not Violated Any House Rules’ California House Democrat Maxine Waters defended herself against ethics charges Friday, reiterating that she did nothing wrong or improper in seeking federal help that could benefit a Los Angeles bank where her husband is an investor. At a Capitol… Continue reading
Aug 13 Leaning Left and Right: Why Labels Won’t Help This Year OK, folks, it's time for another of my periodic forays into definitional politics. To accomplish this, I have to take my own profession to task - and then rise to its defense. The problem: we reach too easily for shorthand. Continue reading
Aug 13 The Morning Line: Campaign Ads Begin to Flood Airwaves We still may be in the dog days of summer and many voters are trying to squeeze in one more trip to the beach rather than worry about the upcoming midterm elections. But that isn't stopping several campaigns from full… Continue reading
Aug 13 Watch Lyndon Johnson’s Complex, Outsized Presidency Examined in New Book Veteran journalist Charles Peters, founder of Washington Monthly, talks with Judy Woodruff about his new book on the presidency of Lyndon Johnson. Continue watching
Aug 12 Watch Online Crime a Cat-and-Mouse Game for Hackers, Security Companies Spencer Michels wraps up his cybersecurity series with a look at online crimes and the technology being used to stop them. Continue watching
Aug 11 The Congress That Won’t Take a Break Just when you thought it was safe to take a vacation in August, the Senate announced it will return to Washington to reconvene for a short session on Thursday to vote on border security funding and a remembrance of the… Continue reading
Aug 11 Ifill and Chalian Dissect Primaries, Obamas’ Vacations, Iowa Stumping By David Chalian Senior Correspondent Gwen Ifill spoke with me Wednesday about the bigger themes coming out of Tuesday night’s primary results in Colorado and Connecticut. Also in the NewsHour’s look at the week ahead in politics (a segment for which… Continue reading
Aug 11 Watch Wall Street Suffers Bad Day Over Fears of Stalling Recovery Major indexes on Wall Street gave back more than two percent of their value Wednesday over concerns about the strength of the U.S. economy. Gwen Ifill discusses the plunge and the Federal Reserve's acknowledgment that the recovery has slowed with… Continue watching