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and i think that was the right decision for congress and the marketplace. i think what will happen is people will have to go back to credit cards. hopefully they will have better financial positions by paying off the debt this is not just a large bank issue, this is a credit union and small bank issue. will you see thousands of small community banks go under because of regulation by congress. >> brown: all right. keep watching, richard hunt, david laz russ, thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: a farewell to one of the most influential military leaders in modern u.s. history. kwame holman has that story. >> holman: his four years overseeing the u.s. military have taken admiral mike mullen around the world many times over-- meeting with troops in two war zones; attending elaborate military ceremonies in china; coordinating disaster aid in earthquake-stricken haiti. but mullen's greatest role was in helping wind down the war in iraq and expand the war in afghanistan. at his senate confirmation hearing in 2007, he expressed characteristic candor
and i think that was the right decision for congress and the marketplace. i think what will happen is people will have to go back to credit cards. hopefully they will have better financial positions by paying off the debt this is not just a large bank issue, this is a credit union and small bank issue. will you see thousands of small community banks go under because of regulation by congress. >> brown: all right. keep watching, richard hunt, david laz russ, thank you both very much....
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it's obviously not going to make any headway in congress, and so i think the this administration you could divide really into three sort of separate, distinct chapters. the first two years were the big initiatives it's health care, tarp, the auto bailout, the stimulus package. and then the defeat in 2010, followed by a year where the republicans dominated the entire debate on terms of deficits and debt and the president overestimated his own power to negotiate bipartisan solutions. and found himself plummeting in popular support. i think now we're in that final chapter of the first term, and he's about trawg differences and doing what he can with executive orders and simply without the involvement or consent of the congress. somebody said to me the other day that the executive orders are like the drones of domestic policy. that a president can launch them himself without consulting congress and get a specific task done. >> woodruff: are these things, david, that can make a difference? >> not substantively. they're drones but they drop little, caps, i guess you call them. there's the
it's obviously not going to make any headway in congress, and so i think the this administration you could divide really into three sort of separate, distinct chapters. the first two years were the big initiatives it's health care, tarp, the auto bailout, the stimulus package. and then the defeat in 2010, followed by a year where the republicans dominated the entire debate on terms of deficits and debt and the president overestimated his own power to negotiate bipartisan solutions. and found...
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if congress does something, then i can't run against a do- nothing congress. if congress does nothing, then it's not a matter of me running against them: i think the american people will run them out of town because they are frustrated, and they know we need to do something big and something bold. the american people are living that emergency out every single day. >> reporter: mr. obama insisted he's open to negotiations, but republican leaders charged that, in fact, he's already put campaigning ahead of legislating. house speaker john boehner made the point at a washington forum, suggesting he'd ask this question at the white house news conference. >> mr. president, why have you given up on the country and decided to campaign full time instead of doing what the american people sent us all here to do? and that's to find common ground to deal with the big challenges that face our economy and our country? >> woodruff: the republican leader in the senate mitch mcconnell criticized democrats for proposing a tax on millionaires to pay for the jobs bill-- an idea th
if congress does something, then i can't run against a do- nothing congress. if congress does nothing, then it's not a matter of me running against them: i think the american people will run them out of town because they are frustrated, and they know we need to do something big and something bold. the american people are living that emergency out every single day. >> reporter: mr. obama insisted he's open to negotiations, but republican leaders charged that, in fact, he's already put...
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the white house has said we don't want pieces of this to come back from congress but if that happens we'll look at it, we might support little pieces. >> brown: very briefly, any sense of when things will get going? >> a lot of this may happen in the supercommittee that has to record out language november 23. so battles over october into november but we're looking at senate votes on this new bill as early as next week. >> brown:ed to zwillich, thanks a lot. >> my pleasure. >> woodruff: still to come on the "newshour": the wall street protests; a church and state case at the supreme court; mental health trauma in liberia; google's executive chairman eric schmidt and a poet copes with dyslexia. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame hoan. >> holman: stock markets in the u.s. and europe recouped more of their recent losses today. they rallied on news that policy makers are working on plans to support ailing european banks. on wall street, the dow jones industrial average gained 131 points to close just short of 10,940. the nasdaq rose more than 55 points to close at 2,460. p
the white house has said we don't want pieces of this to come back from congress but if that happens we'll look at it, we might support little pieces. >> brown: very briefly, any sense of when things will get going? >> a lot of this may happen in the supercommittee that has to record out language november 23. so battles over october into november but we're looking at senate votes on this new bill as early as next week. >> brown:ed to zwillich, thanks a lot. >> my...
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and we will not let republican political games stand between congress and its most important duty: to put 14 million americans back to work. >> reporter: in turn, the senate's republican leader mitch mcconnell charged the president and his party were never serious about the bill. >> the white house has made it clear that the president is praying for gridlock. he's actually hoping for gridlock so he has somebody besides himself to point the finger at next november. i'd like to repeat my call to the president to put the political playbook aside and work with us on the kind of bipartisan job creating legislation that the american people truly want. >> reporter: in fact, there was bipartisan unity today on another economic package-- new trade agreements with south korea, colombia, and panama. supporters said they'd boost u.s. exports by $13 billion. the deals date from president george w. bush's administration, but they'd been delayed by a fight over helping workers who lose their jobs to foreign competition. lawmakers on both sides touted the trade deals today as job u.s. job creators. t
and we will not let republican political games stand between congress and its most important duty: to put 14 million americans back to work. >> reporter: in turn, the senate's republican leader mitch mcconnell charged the president and his party were never serious about the bill. >> the white house has made it clear that the president is praying for gridlock. he's actually hoping for gridlock so he has somebody besides himself to point the finger at next november. i'd like to repeat...
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. >> suarez: congress is caught up in the battle over jobs, as well. senate republicans have blocked the president's plan, but yesterday, they offered their own. it calls for blocking new regulations until the unemployment rate drops to 7.7%; and for lowering the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25%. arizona senator john mccain is one of the plan's main advocates. >> president obama and my friends on the other side of the aisle believe that they can create jobs through government spending. we believe that we can create jobs through growth. >> suarez: senate democrats are expected to begin taking up individual pieces of the president's jobs bill as early as next week. >> woodruff: still to come on the newshour: a referendum on restricting labor's bargaining rights; the monsoon rains in thailand; shields and brooks; and a new home for the arts in kansas city. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: a federal appeals court today upheld one key part of a hotly debated alabama immigration law and blocked another. the rul
. >> suarez: congress is caught up in the battle over jobs, as well. senate republicans have blocked the president's plan, but yesterday, they offered their own. it calls for blocking new regulations until the unemployment rate drops to 7.7%; and for lowering the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25%. arizona senator john mccain is one of the plan's main advocates. >> president obama and my friends on the other side of the aisle believe that they can create jobs through government...
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. >> brown: for more on the president's jobs plan in congress, judy woodruff talked to two senators a short time ago. >> woodruff: joining me are democratic senator carl levin of michigan and republican senator johnny isakson of georgia. senators, it's good to have you with us. thank you. >> thank you. >> good to be with you, judy. >> woodruff: let me just try to break this up into a few questions hopefully to get to the heart of this. one is, senator isaacson, the president says we have an economic emergency, that the country needs to do something right now to create jobs. is he right? >> i think he's right that we have an emergency. i think the way he wants to go about doing it is all wrong. i think we need to revis it what happened with the first sometime lugs stimulus and why it didn't work and look at what is causing corporate capital to sit on the sidelines: overregulation of american business. >> woodruff: what do you think should be done in the short term that's different from what the president suggests? >> well, the first... i would do three things. the first thing i would d
. >> brown: for more on the president's jobs plan in congress, judy woodruff talked to two senators a short time ago. >> woodruff: joining me are democratic senator carl levin of michigan and republican senator johnny isakson of georgia. senators, it's good to have you with us. thank you. >> thank you. >> good to be with you, judy. >> woodruff: let me just try to break this up into a few questions hopefully to get to the heart of this. one is, senator isaacson, the...
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today, president lee journeyed to the capital to thank congress for passing the trade deal, and tomorrow, he and president obama will make a joint visit to an auto plant in detroit. >> woodruff: to a story with origins many centuries ago, scientists have recently unraveled the genetic code of the black plague and are studying its relevance for our modern age. ray suarez has the story. >> suarez: the microbe that caused the black death killed some 30 million people in western europe in the mid- fourteenth century. researchers have long tried to understand how the bacterium really could have been that deadly. now, scientists have collected d.n.a. from the bones of black death victims buried in a london cemetery. the genetic blueprint was taken from extracted teeth and then compared with modern-day bubonic plague. geneticist hendrik poinar of mcmaster university in canada was a leading member of the team and he joins me now. professor, welcome. why sequence the genome of a bacterium that was killing people almost 700 years ago? >> i think one of the reasons is really so that we can hope to
today, president lee journeyed to the capital to thank congress for passing the trade deal, and tomorrow, he and president obama will make a joint visit to an auto plant in detroit. >> woodruff: to a story with origins many centuries ago, scientists have recently unraveled the genetic code of the black plague and are studying its relevance for our modern age. ray suarez has the story. >> suarez: the microbe that caused the black death killed some 30 million people in western europe...
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president obama issued a new challenge to congress today over his jobs bill. in mesquite, texas, he charged again that republicans, in particular, are blocking action. on monday, house majority leader eric cantor said republicans can accept parts of the bill, but not the whole package. the president jumped on the statement. >> what's the problem? do they not have the time? they just had a week off. is it inconvenient? i'd like mr. cantor to come down here to dallas and explain what exactly in this jobs bill does he not believe in? what exactly is he opposed to? >> holman: republicans answered with a challenge of their own. on the senate floor, minority leader mitch mcconnell called for a vote now, knowing that even some democrats have problems with the obama plan. >> i don't think the president is saying he wants an extensive debate on it. i think he wants a vote on it. and i wanted to disabuse him of the nation that somehow we're unwilling to vote on his proposal. even though there is bipartisan opposition to the president's jobs proposal, bipartison oppositi
president obama issued a new challenge to congress today over his jobs bill. in mesquite, texas, he charged again that republicans, in particular, are blocking action. on monday, house majority leader eric cantor said republicans can accept parts of the bill, but not the whole package. the president jumped on the statement. >> what's the problem? do they not have the time? they just had a week off. is it inconvenient? i'd like mr. cantor to come down here to dallas and explain what...
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the congress was submissive, docile, it was not involved, took no responsibility. we went strayed ahead and the widespread use of drones is still an open question. was it effective? yes. is it a long-term strategy that is going to work well for the if united states around the globe? i think that's very much an open question. in libya, yes. >> woodruff: and what about in terms of next year? >> in terms of next year? it's already worked for the president in terms of the wall street general/nbc news poll when the president got dismal marks on his handling of the economy, on a 2-to-1 margin they gave approval on his handling of terrorism. but it doesn't make a difference when it comes to voting next year. it has diminished the liability of the democrats as other party that is sort of soft on national defense. i don't think that argument can be made. >> woodruff: glued and which is something hillary clinton went after obama on the campaign. what do you think? do you agree with mark? >> i think it may make a difference. he's had a very good run on foreign policy, and i t
the congress was submissive, docile, it was not involved, took no responsibility. we went strayed ahead and the widespread use of drones is still an open question. was it effective? yes. is it a long-term strategy that is going to work well for the if united states around the globe? i think that's very much an open question. in libya, yes. >> woodruff: and what about in terms of next year? >> in terms of next year? it's already worked for the president in terms of the wall street...
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. >> congress has a choice to make in the coming weeks. if they vote against the proposals i'm talking about, if they vote against taking steps that we know will put americans back to work right now, they don't have to answer to me. they're going to have to answer to you. they're going to have to come down here to north carolina and tell kids why they can't have their teachers back in the classrooms. >> holman: senate democrats plan to bring up a $35 billion piece of the plan to help local governments pay for teachers, police and firefighters. but senate republican leader mitch mcconnell argued thew3Ñili president's previous attempts to create jobs have not worked, and just drove up the nation's debt. borrowed. they spent. they overregulated. all of those policies are in place. you can see how much it's done for the economy. 1.5 million jobs lost since the first stimulus. now he's coming back and asking us to do it again. y'all have heard this before because it's one lv my favorite sayings. at home we say there's no education to the seco
. >> congress has a choice to make in the coming weeks. if they vote against the proposals i'm talking about, if they vote against taking steps that we know will put americans back to work right now, they don't have to answer to me. they're going to have to answer to you. they're going to have to come down here to north carolina and tell kids why they can't have their teachers back in the classrooms. >> holman: senate democrats plan to bring up a $35 billion piece of the plan to...
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the president's action was the latest in a series of executive orders taken to circumvent the congress which has refused to pass mr. obama's jobs bill and other legislation. the president also said he supports a proposed bill that would require drug makers to notify the fda six months before a potential shortage. >> we'll still be calling on congress to pass a bipartisan bill that will provide additional tools to the fda and others that can make a difference. but until they act, we will go ahead and move. >> reporter: today's orders is just the beginning of a process that could take months before patients are able to get the drugs they need. moreover, it may not solve some of the fundamental business problems that led to the shortages in the first place. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day. republican presidential candidate hermann cain denied claims he sexually harassed two female employees when he was the head of the national restaurant association. he told the newshour, "i have never sexually harassed anyone." more than two million homes and businesses in the northeas
the president's action was the latest in a series of executive orders taken to circumvent the congress which has refused to pass mr. obama's jobs bill and other legislation. the president also said he supports a proposed bill that would require drug makers to notify the fda six months before a potential shortage. >> we'll still be calling on congress to pass a bipartisan bill that will provide additional tools to the fda and others that can make a difference. but until they act, we will...