May 17 House Committee Holds First Hearing on IRS Scandal The House Ways and Means Committee will hold the first hearing on the IRS scandal. Watch a live stream of the hearing. The former acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, will take his place… Continue reading
May 17 A Look Back at the Senate Watergate Hearings EmbedVideo(6481, 482, 304); The Watergate hearings began on May 17, 1973. Public Television aired all 250 hours of testimony that summer. Here are some of the highlights. Video edited by Justin Scuiletti The Watergate scandal began with a… Continue reading
May 17 Gwen's Take: I See Your Benghazi and Raise You One IRS It was scandal week in Washington, but because of an accident of scheduling, I had the opportunity to view it through an altered lens. The president's week was turning into a very bad one -- with new revelations about… Continue reading
May 16 Watch 16:07 Covering Watergate: 40 Years Later With MacNeil And Lehrer By PBS News Hour On May 17, 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer launched public broadcasting's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings. Forty years later, the two recount their memories after some of the more gripping moments and how their partnership changed not… Continue watching
May 16 Watch Major Embryonic Stem Cell Advance Raises Ethical Quandaries Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University have achieved a longtime goal. They cloned a human embryo to derive embryonic stem cells able to transform into tissues and organs genetically identical to patients who need them. Jeffrey Brown talks to… Continue watching
May 16 Watch Demographic Shifts, Biblical Ideals Contribute to Evangelical Immigration Stance Demographic Shifts, Biblical Ideals Contribute to Evangelical Immigration Stance… Continue watching
May 16 Watch Obama, Turkey's Erdogan Reaffirm Urgency of Ending Bloodshed in Syria Obama, Turkey's Erdogan Reaffirm Urgency of Ending Bloodshed in Syria… Continue watching
May 16 Watch Keeping on Top of Priorities When White House Deals With Drama Keeping on Top of Priorities When White House Deals With Drama… Continue watching
May 16 Watch White House Works to Calm Storm of Scandal President Barack Obama used a rainy, Rose Garden news conference to get in front of a series of political storms, tackling questions on the IRS scandal, the AP subpoenas and Benghazi. Judy Woodruff talks to White House communications director Jennifer… Continue watching
May 16 15 Figures Who Made Watergate an American Epic On May 17, 1973, Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C., gavelled in the first public hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, better known as the Senate Watergate Committee. The impending result was almost unfathomable. The months that… Continue reading