PBS NewsHour; January 29, 2010 7:00pm-8:00pm EST

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>> Lehrer:OOD EVENING. I'M JIM LEHRER. THE PRESIDENT TOOK H "LET'S WORK TOGETHER"ESSAGE DIRECTLY TO THE REPLICANS TODAY. >>oodruff: AND I'M JUDY WOODRUFF. ON THE NEWSHOUR TONIGHT, WLL HAVE EXTENDED COVERA OF TODAY'S EXTRAORDINARY MEETIN BETWEEN THE PRESENT AND HOUSE REPUBLICANS.

>> THE DISCUSSION TH ALL OF YOU JUST WITNESSED IS FIRST. IT WAS THE KD OF DISCUSSION AT, FRANKLY, WE NEED TO HAVE MORE OF.

>> Woodruff: AND GET THE ANALYSIS OF MARK SHIDS AND DAVID BROOKS.

>> Lehrer: THEN, THEEBATE OVER WHERE TO HOLD TRIALS OF 11 SUSPECTS. MARGET WARNER REPORTS.

>> AFTER A STORM OF PROTESTS THE WHITE HOUSE HAS ASKED THJUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO SCT OUT LOCATIONS OTHER THAN N YORK CITY TO TRY 9/11 MASTEIND CHALLI SHEIKH MOHAMD.

>> Woodruff: AND IN HAITI, R SUAREZ LOOKS AT THE PROSPECT FOR A COMMERCIALEVIVAL THERE. >>ehrer: THAT'S ALL AHEAD... ON TONIGHT'S NEWSHOUR. MAJOR NDING FOR THE PBS NEHOUR IS PROVIDED BY: CHEVN. THIS IS THE POR OF HUMAN ENERGY. GRANT THORNTON. THE WILLIAM AND FLORA HEETT FOUNDATI, WORKING TO SOLVE SOCIAL ANDNVIRONMENTAL OBLEMS AT HOME AND AROUND TH WORLD. ANWITH THE ONGOING SUPPORT OF THESE INSTITUTIONSND FOUNDATIONS. AND... THIS PROGRAM WAS MADE SSIBLE BY THE CORRATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTG. AND BY CONTRIBUTIONSO YOUR PBS STATION FROM VIEWERSIKE YOU. THANK YOU.

>> Lehr: PRESIDENT OBAMA WENT AT IT WITHOUSE REPUBLICANS DAY AT A CONFERENCE IN BALTIMORE. IT WAS A RE NO-HOLDS-BARRED SESSION BETWEEN THE CHF ECUTIVE AND THE OPPOSITION. WE BEGIN WITH EXCERPTS.

>> PAROF THE REASON I ACCEPTED YOUR INVITATION TO COME HERE WAS BECAUSE I WANTED TO SPEAK WITHLL OF YOU, AND NOT JUST TO ALLF YOU. SO I'M LOOKINGORWARD TO TAKING YOUR QUESTIONS AN HAVING A RL CONVERSATION IN A FEW MOMENTS. AND I HOPE THE CVERSATION WE BEGIN HERE DOESN'T END HE, THAT WE CAN CONTINUE OUR ALOGUE IN THE DAYS AHEAD.

>> I AM OPTIMISTIC, I KN MANY OF YOU INDIVIALLY. AND THE IRONY, THINK, OF OUR POLITICAL CLIMATRIGHT NOW IS THACOMPARED TO OTHER UNTRIES, THE DIFFERENS BETWEEN THE TWO MAJOR RTIES ON MOST ISSUES IS NOTS BIG AS IT'S REESENTED. BUT WEE GOTTEN CAUGHT UP IN THE POLITICAL GE IN A WAY THAT JUST NOT HELPING. IT'S DIVIDING OUR COUNTRY IN WAYS THAT ARE PREVENNG US FROM MEETING THE CLLENGE OF THE 1s CENTUR I'M HOPEFUL THAT THE CONVERSATIONE HAVE TODAY CAN HELPEVERSE THAT. SO TNK YOU VERY MUCH. (APPLAUSE)

>> THANK YOU. NOW I WOD LIKE TO OPEN UP FOR QUESTIS.

>> NOW LAST YEAR ABOUT THE TIME YOU MET WITH US, UNEMPLOYMENT WAS 7.5% IN THIS COUNTRY. YOUR ADMINISTRATION ANYOUR RTY INONGRESS TOLD US THAT WE'D HAVE TO BORROW MORE TN $700 BILLION TO Y FOA SO-CALLED STIMULUS BILL THAT WAS A PIECMEAL LIST OF PROJECTS AND BOUTIQ TAX CUTS, ALL OF WHICH, WE WERE TOL HAD TO BE PASSED ORNEMPLOYMENT WOULD GO TO 8%, AS YR ADMINISTRATIONAID. WELL, UNEMPLOYME IS 10% W, AS YOU WELL KNOW, MR. PRESIDENT. HERE IN BALTIMORE ITS CONSERABLY HIGHER. NOW REPUBLANS OFFERED A STULUS BILL AT THE SAME TIME. COST HALF AS MUCH THE DEMOCRATIC PROPOSAL IN CONGRESS ANDSING YOUR ECONOMIC ANALYSTS' MODELIT WOULD HAVE CREATED TCE THE JO AT HALF THE COST. THE FIRST QUESTION I WOULD POSE TO YOU VERY RESPECTFUL, MR. PRESIDENT , IS, WOULD U BE WILLING TO CONSIDER EMBRACI THE KIND OF ACROSS-THE-BOARTAX RELIEF TT REPUBLICANS HAVE ADVOCATED, THAT PRESIDT KENNEDY ADVOCAD, THAT PRESIDENT REAGAN AOCATED AND THAT H ALWAYS BEEN THE MEANS OF STIMULATING BROAD-BASED ECONOMICROWTH?

>> WELL,HE... THERE WAS A LOT PACKEDNTO THAT QUESTION (LAUGHTER)

>> WE CAN SCORE LITICAL POINTS ON THE BASIS THE FA THAT WE UNDERESTIMATED HOW SERE THE JOB LOSSES WEREOING TO BE. BUT THOSE JOB LOSSES TOO PLAC BEFORE ANY SMULUS, WHETHER IT WAS THE ONETHAT YOU GUYSROPOSED OR THE ONES THAT WE PROPOSED,OULD HAVE EVETAKEN INTO EFFECT. THE PACKAGE THAT WPUT TOGETHER AT THE BEGINNINOF THE YE, THE TRUTH IS, SHOULD HAV FLECTED... AND I BELIE REFLECT WAD WHAT MOST OF YOWOULD SAY ARE COMMON SENSE THGS. THIS NOTION THAT TS WAS A RADICAL PACKAGIS JUST NOT TRUE. A THIRD OF THEM WERE T CUTS AND TY WEREN'T-- WHEN YOU SAY THEYERE BOUTIQUE TAX CUTS, MIKE, 95% OF WORKING AMERICANS GOT TA CUTS. AND THE TION THAT I WOULD SOMEHO RESIST DOING SOTHING THAT COST HALF AS MUCH BUT WOULDRODUCE TWICE AS MANY JOBS, WHY WOULD RESIST TT . I WOULDN'T. THAT'S MY INT. IS THAT AM NOT AN IDEA LOLL--DEALOGUE I'M NOT. IT DOE'T MAKE SENSE IF SOMEBODY COULD TELL ME, YOU COULD DOHIS CHEAPER, D GET INCREASERESULTS THEN I WOULD SAY GREAT. THE PROBLEM , I COULDN'T FIND CREDIBLE ONOMISTS WHO WOD BACK UP THE CLAIMS AT YOU JUST MADE.

>> MARCIA BLACKBURN, TENNESSEE. >>HANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. AND THANK YOU FOR ACKNOWLEDGING THATE HAVE IDEAS ON HEALTH CA. BECAUSE INDEED WE DO HE IDEAS. WE'VE GOT PLANS TO LOWER COSTS, TO ANGE PURCHASING MODELS, ADDRESMEDICAL LIABILITY, INSURCE ACCOUNTABILITY, CHRONIAND PREEXISTING CONDITIONS A CESS TO AFFORDABLE CARE FOR THOSE WITH THOSE CONDITNS. INSURANCE PORTILITY, EXPANDED ACCESS BUNOT DOINIT WITH CREATING MORE GOVERNMENT, MORE BURUCRACY, AND MO COST FOR THE AMERICANAXPAYER, SO MY QUESTIONO YOU IS WHEN WILL WE LOOK FORWARD STARTING ANEW AND SITTING DOWN WI U TO PUT ALL OF THESE IDEAS ON THE TABLETO LOOK THESE LESSONS LEARNED, TO BENEFIT FROM THAT EXRIENCE, AND TO PRODUCE A PRODUCT THATS GOING TO REDUCE GOVERNNT INTERFERENCE, REDUCE CT, AND BE FAIR TO THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER.

>> IF YOU LOOK AT THE BASIC PROPOS THAT WE PUT FORWARD, THAT HAS AN EXCHANGE SO TH BUSINESSES AND THE SELF-ELOYED CAN BUY INTO A POOL AND CAN GET BGAINING POWER THE ME WAY BIG COMPANIES DO, THE INSURANC REFORMS THAT IE ALREADY DISCUSD, MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S OICE AND COMPETION FOR THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE. THE COMPONENT PARTS THIS THING ARE PRTY SIMILAR TO WHAT HOWARD BAR, BOB DOLE, AND TOM DASHEM-- DASCH PROPOSED AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS DEBATE LAST YEAR. NOW MAY NOT AGREE WITH BOB DOLE AND HOWARD BAKER AND CERTAINLY YODON'T AGREE WITHOM DASCHLE ON MUCH, BUT THAT'S NOT A RADAL BUNCH. BUT IFOU WERE TO LISTEN TO THE DEBATE, AND FRANKLHOW ME OF YOU WENT AFTER THIS BILL, YOU'D THINTHAT THIS ING WAS SOME BOLSHEVIK PLOT. I MEANS THAT'S HOWOU GUY GUYS... THAT'S HOW Y GUYS PRESENTED IT. AND SO I AM I THISINTO MYSELF, WELL, W IS IT THAT A PLAN THAT IS PRTY CENTRIST . NO, LOOK, I MEAN I'M JUST SAYING, I KNOW YO GUYS DISAGREE. BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THEACTS OF THIS BILL , MOST INDEPENDENT OBSERVS WOULD SAY THIS IS ACTUALLYHAT MANY REPUBLICANS. IT IS SIMIR TO WHAT MANY REPUBLICANS PROPED TO BILL CLINTON WHEN HE WADOING HIS DEBATE ON HEAL CARE. SO ALL ALL I'M SAYING IS WE'VE GOT TOLOSE THE GAP A LITTLE BIT BETWE THE RHETOR AND THE REALITY.

>> MR. PRESINT, I HEARD ECHOES TODAY OF THE STATE SENATOR TH I SERVED WITH IN SPRGFIELD. AND THERE WAS ANTTRIBUTE AND A CHARACRISTIC THAT YOU HAD THAT I TNK SERVED U WELL THERE. ONE OF THE KEYS S YOU ROLLED YOUR SLEEVES UP, U WORKED WITH THE OTR PARTY, AND ULTIMATELY Y WERE ABLE TO MAKE E DEAL. NOW HERE'S AN OBSEATION. OVER T PAST YEAR, IN MY EW, THAT ATTRIBUTE HASN'T BEEN IFULL BLOOM. AND BY THAI MEAN YOU'VE GOTTEN THISUBTEXT OF HOUSE REPUBLICANS THAT SINCELY WANT TO COME AND BE PART OF THIS NATIONAL COERSATION TOWARDS SOLUTIONS. BUT THEY HAVREALLY BEEN STIFF-ARMED BY SAKER PELOSI. NOI KNOW YOU'RE NOT IN CHGE OF THAT CHAMBER. BUT THERREALLY IS THIS DYNAMIC OF, FRANKLY, BNG SHUTUT. SO HERE'S THE QUESTION MOVING FORRD I THINK ALL OF US WANT TO HITHE RESET BUTTON ON 2009. HOW DO WE MOVE FORWA? >>E'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT WE SAY ABOUT EA OTHER SOMETIMES. BECAUSE IT BES US IN IN WAYS TT MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR US TO WORK TOGETHE CAUSE OUR CONSTITUENTS STT BELIEVING US. THEYON'T KNOW SOMETIMES THIS IS JUST POLITS WHAT YOU GUYS, YOU KNOWOR FOLKS ON MY DE DO SOMETIMES. SO JUST A NE OF CIVILITY INSTEAD SLASH AND BURN WOULD BE HPFUL. THANK YOU EVERYBY. GOD BLESS E UNITED STATES AMERICA. THANK YOU, EVEBODY. (APPLAUSE) >>oodruff: NOW, MORE ON THE PRESENT'S APPEARANCE BEFORE HOUSE REPUBLICANS-- SOMEONWHO WAS THERE FOIT ALL, TEXAS REESENTATIVE JEB HENSARLING. CONGRESSMAN HEARLING, THAN FOR BEING WITH US AND FOR STANDING OUTN THE COLD. WHAT DID YOU TE AWAY FROM THIS USUAL SESSION? WELL, YOU'RE RIGHT, JUDY, IT WAS AN UNUAL SESSION. STEN, THE PRESIDENT DESERVES GREAT CREDIT FOR ACCEING OUR INVITATION. I'M GLAD THAT HE DIDT. I'M HOPING SOMETHING GOO LL COME OUT OF IT. WE'VE NEVER EN ANY KIND OF OUTREACH FROM SPEAKEPELOSI TO AEMPT TO WORK ON A BIPARTISAN BASIS. I HOPE WSEE ONE OUT OF THE PRESIDENT. THERE ARE SOME AREAS MAYBE WE CAN WORK ON. BUI GOT TO TELL YOU, THE AMERICAN PEOE WANT ACCOTABILITY IN GOVERNMENT. ANREGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU ARE A REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT TODAY I THINK WAS AT LEAST A CHAPTER I ACCOUNTABILITY. I MEAN THINGS LIKE THE LOUISIANA PUHASE AND THE CORNHUSKER KICKBACK, PPLE WANT TO E SOME ACCOUNTABITY. THEY SAW ITODAY.

>> Woouff: YOU ASKED HIM A QUESTION ABOUT THE BUDGET 'S GOING TO SUBMIT NEXT WEEK. AND HE TOOK ISSUE WITH YOU CHARACTERIZATION OF HOW E DEFICIT HAS TTEN TO WHERE IT IS . DID U CHANGE YOUR PERCEPTION AFTER YOU HEA WHAT HE SAID?

>> WEL NO. I MEAN LISTENED. I STILL LIKE AND ADMIRE OU PRESIDENT. DON'T KNOW HOW MUCHE LIKES ME. FACTS ARE PESKY THINGS. AND THE FA IS A YEAR AGO HE PROPOSED BUDGET THAT WAS GOG TO ALMOST TRIPLE THE NATIONAL DEBT IN TEN YEARS. HE PROSED A BUDGET THAT OVER TEN YEARS WOULD INCREASE GERNMENT FROM ROUGHLY 20% OUR ECONOMY TO 24.5. AND I ASKED HIM WAS HE GOING TORESENT THIS IN THE NEXT BUDGET. UNFORTUNATELY, THE PREDENT OSE NOT TO ANSWER THE QUESTION. HE QUESTIONED ME ON SOME O MY FACTS. I STAND BY MY FACTS. THEY'RE POST ON MY WEB SITE. ANYBY CAN SEE THEM.

>> Woodruff: WEL HE DID CHALLENGE YOU, YOU'RRIGHT. HE WENT BACK A DESCRIBED HOW HEAD INHERITED A LOT OF THIS DEFICIT. BUT WITHOUT GETTING IN THAT, WHAT ABOUT THIPOINT THAT HE MADE ON HETH CARE. THATHIS PLAN, IN HIS VIEW, WAS REALLY HE SAID PRETTY CENTRIST PLAN. THAT BOB DOLE, HOWARD KER WERE FOR SETHING LIKE THIS A YEAR AGO HE SAID IN EFFECT, YOU HAD REPUBLICANCALLING IT A BOLSHEK PLOT.

>> WL, I THINK THE PRESIDENT US A LITTLE OVERHEATED RHERIC THERE. I JUST DON'T BELIE PEOPLE IN AMERICA BIEVE THIS IS A CERIST PLAN. I THINK IF YOUO ANY KIND OF HONT BUDGET ACCOUNTING, YOU WOULD HAVE TSAY IT'S CLOSER TO A $2 TLLION PLAN. I THINK TIMATELY YOU HAVE GOVERNMENT DEFINING COST. YOU HAVE GOVERNMENT DENING BENEFITS. IT'S JUST NOT A NTRIST PLAN. AND IN SOME RESPTS, AFTER THREE ELECTIONS IN A R, IT'S PRETTCLEAR THE AMERICAN PPLE DON'T BELIEVIT. WITH A DUE RESPECT TO THE PRESIDENT. NOLISTEN, I AGREE WITH THE PRESIDENT. WE STILL NEED HETH-CARE REFORM BUT THE AMECAN PEOPLE AREAINLY CONCERNED. CAN WE MAKE IT AFFORBLE. CAN WE MAKE IT PTABLE. REPUBLICANS HAVEUT A PLAN ON THE TABLE THAT WOULHELP DO THAT. HOPEFULLY CAN WORK WITH THE PRESIDENT. WE CERTAINLY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO WORK WITH TH SPKER, AND WORK OUT A FEW OF THESE SOLUTIO.

>> WL, THE PRESIDENT SAID HE HAS TAKEN OBOARD A NUMBER OF REPUBLICANDEAS. AND HE KICKED F WHAT THEY ARE. IN THE HEALTH-RE PLAN AND IN THE STIMULUS CKAGE. ST YEAR. DO YOU --

>> NUMBER ONE,UDY, I RESPECTFLY DISAGREE WITH SO OF THE PRESIDENT'S CHARACTERIZATION. NUMB ONE, YOU'LL FIND NOTHING IN THERE OF ANY SUBSTANCE HAVI TO DO WITH LIABILITY REFORMMEDICAL LIABITY REFORM. HE SAID HIS PEOPLE S ONE TO TWO PERCENT. FRANKLY MOST OF E STUDIES I SAY SAY 8 TO 10%. AS FAR AS Y KIND OF EFFEIVE MEANS TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCECROSS STATELINES, AGAIN WITHLL DUE RESPECT, I DON'T QUI SEE ITN THE PRESIDENT'S AN. NOT TO SAY THAT 'S TOTALLY WRONG. THERE ARE A LANDFUOF IDEAS. BUAT ITS CORE ESSENCE IT IS A HUG EXPENSIVE, DRACONIAN PACKAGTHAT HAS GOVERNMENT TAKING OVER A HUGE PORTI. ANPEOPLE JUST DON'T CONSID IT CENTRIST. >>oodruff: WHAT ABOUT HIS POINT, CONGRESSMAN, ESSENTIALLY THAT REPUBLICANS HAVE TO UNDERSTANDHAT NEITHER SIDE CANET 100 PERCENOR EVEN 80% OF WHAT THEY WANT THERHAS TO BE GIVE ON BOTH SIDES HE WASEALLY SAYING REPUBLICANS HAN'T BEEN PREPARED TO GIVE ANYTHING.

>> WELL,UDY W ALL DUE RESPECT, WE HAVEN'T D AN OPPOUNITY BECAUSE WE HAVEN'BEEN INVITE MOOD THE NEGOTIATIONS I'M T SECOND RANKING REPUICAN, THE COND MOST SENIOR REPUBLIC ON THE HOUSE DGET COMMITTEE. I CAN ASRE YOU I HAVE BEEN BROUGHT IN ON L OF THE NEGOTIATNS OF THE $2 TRILLION HEALTH-RE PLAN. WASN'T BROUGHT IN SO A OF THE NEGOTIATIONS ON THE BUDGET. LIST THE PRESIDENT IS RIT BUT I'M AFRAID THAT MANY ON HIS SIDE OF E AISLE BELIE THAT BIPARTISANSHIP IS HERE'S O LEGISLATION. AND IF YOU DON'T VOTE R IT, THEN YOU'RAGAINST IT. I THINK ONE ING THAT CAME OUT DAY WHETHER PEOPLE DISAGREE WITH THE REPUBLICANS,HEY KNOW WE PUT FORTH ALTERNIVE PLANS AND THAT WASN DISPLAY FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPL

>> Woodrf: DID YOU BELIEVE HIM WHEN HE SAID AT ONE POT I'M NOT AN IDEALOGUE ANHIS WHOLE POINT THAT HE SA I WANT TO WORK WITH YOU.

>> WELL, LISTEN, WE WANT TO WORK WITTHE PRESIDENT. AGAIN, I GIVE HIM MO CREDIT TN THE SPEAKER WHO HASN'THOWN ANY NOTION TO WO WITH US AM I'M NOT GOING TO CRITICIZE THE ESIDENT. CLEAY HE HAS STRONG PHILOSOPHIL BELIEFS AS DO . BUT HOPELLY TRILLION'S BE SOME COMMON GROUND. BUT AGAIN FACTS ARE FACT AND STILL HAVE A BUDGET PLAN TT HE SUBMITTED ON THE TABLE, I HOPE, I HOPE NE WEEK WE'LL SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT. BUT ARE DOWNING IN DEBT AND DEFICIT. WE H A $1.2 TRILLION ESTIMA PLUS PLAN AND UNFORTUNATELY WE'RE STYLE MIRED DOUBLE-DIGIT UNPLOYMENT. THOSE ARE PESKY FACTS. I HOPE THE PRESIDENT WL REALIZE THAT ULTIMATELY THAT'S NOT THE WAY TO CRTE JOBS. I'M HEARTENED TO HEAR SOME OF THE THINGS HE H TO SAY ABOUT ALL BUSINESS TAX LIEF. WILLING TO SIT DOWN, HEFUL, PEFUL WE CAN SIT DOWN AT THTABLE AND EMPOWER THOSE SMALL BUSINESSPEOPLE WHO ARE TRULY THE JOB ENNE IN AMERICA.

>> Woodruf SO FINALLY WHERE DO YOU SEEOTENTIAL AREAS WHERE YOU N WORK WITHHE PRESIDENT?

>> WELL, THINK I JUST MENTIONED ONE D THAT HAS TO DO WITH TAX RELIEFOR SMALL BUSINESSES. ALWAYSHE DEVIL'S IN THE DETAILS. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE TH. THE ESIDENT HAS STATE OF THE ION MENTIONED HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE FREE-TRA AGREEMENTS PASSE I THINK THOSE WILL CREATE JOBS. I THINK REPUBLICANS WILL RK WITH HIM ON THAT. BUT WE'RE NOT GOG TO WORK WITH HIM ON THE NATIONALIZATION OFHE HEALTH-CE SYSTEM. WE'RE NOT GOING TO WORK WI HIM TO PLUNGE THE NATION IN TO DEEPER DEBT. BUT ON ITE WHERE THERE IS SOME COMMON GROUND, IS ISN'T ABOUSAYING NO. THIS IS FINDING COMMON GROUND TO HE CREATE JOBS IN AMERICA ANDNSURANCE WE DON'T AVE UNCONSCIONABLE IMMORE RAL DEBT UPON OUR CHILDREN AND GNDCHILDREN.

>> RRESENTATIVE JAPANESE YEN NSARLING OF TEXAS, WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

>> THANK YOU.

>> Lehrer: WLL TALK TO SHIELDS AND BROOKS ABOUT T MEETING RIGHT AFR THE OTHER NEWS OF THE DAY. AND FOR THAT, WE GO HARI SREENIVASAN IN OUR NSROOM.

>> Sreenivasan: U.S. ECONOC GROWTH AT THE END OF 29 WAS THE BEST IN SIX YEARS. NEWSHOUR CORRESPONDENTWAME HOAN HAS THAT STORY.

>> Holman: THE LATEST ON THE ECOMY CAME SHORTLY BEFORE THE PRESIDENT LEFTOR A DAY TRIP TO LTIMORE TO TALK UP JOB CREATION. THE COMMERCE DEPARTMENT RERTED THE GRS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GREW AT AN ANNUAL RATE OF 5.7% THE FOURTH QUARTER OF LASTEAR. IT MARKED THSECOND QUARTER OF GROWTH IN A ROW.

>> JUST TO GIVYOU A SENSE OF PERSPECTIVTHERE, THAT'S THE FASTEST ECONOMICROWTH IN SIX YEAR AND IT'S A STARK IMPROVEMENOVER THE RAPID AND TERRIBLE DECLINE THAT WE WER EXPERIENNG ONE YEAR AGO.

>> Holman: THE PRESIDENT WELCOMED THE NEWS AS HE URED THCHESAPEAKE MACHINE COMPANY IN BALTIMORE. BUT HE WARD AGAIN THAT TOUGH TIS ARE A LONG WAY FROM OVER.

>> EN THOUGH THE STORMS OF THE PA TWO YEARS ARE STARTING TO SSEN, THE WRECKAGE THAT'S BE LEFTEHIND REMAINS. ILE THE RECOVERY ACT HAS CREAD AND SAVED TWO MILLION JOBSTHIS RECESSION HAS COST US SEVEN MILLIOJOBS. SO TRE'S STILL A BIG GAP, STILL A BIG HOLE THAT WEAVE TO FILL.

>> Holman: INDEED, 1 OF AMERICANS STILL ARE T OF WORK, A LEVENOT EXPECTED TO RECEDE BEFO THE END OF THE YEAR. AND SLOW CONSUMER ENDING STILL COULCAUSE THE ECONOMY TO WEAKEN AGAIN. RESPONSE, THE PRESIDENT CALLED FOR $33 BILLION ITAX CREDITS FOR SMALL FIRMS THAT HIRE NEW EMPLOYEES. HE PVIEWED THE PLAN IN HIS STATE OF UNION ADDRESS. DEMOCRATIC LEADERS IN CONGRE HAVE SNALED THEY ALREADY ARE MOVING ON A JOBS BILL. SENATE DEMOCRATS SAID THEYL HAVE A PLAN BY NEXT WEEK. AND HOUSE MAJORITY LDER STENY HOYESAID HIS CHAMBER COULD ACT QUICKLY AS WELL. IN T MEANTIME, THE PRESIDENT REVIEWED T SITUATION LATE TODAY WI HIS EMBATTLED TRSURY SECRETARY, TIMOTHY GEITHNER. HE'S COME UNDER GRING CRITISM OVER FINANCIAL BAILOUTS, INCLING A CONTENTIOUCONGRESSIONAL HEARING THIS WEEK.

>> Sreenivasan: STOCKS FELL DAY, DESPITE THE REPORT OF SURGING GROWTH IN THFOURTH QUARTER. WALLTREET FOCUSED MORE ON SIGNS THE SURGE MAY BE SRT- LIVED. THE DOW NES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE LOST 53 POINTS TO CLOSE 1067. THE NASDAQ FELL MORE THAN 31 INTS TO CLOSE AT 2,147. OVALL, THIS WAS THE MARKET'S WORSMONTH SINCE LAST FEBRUARY. THE DOW ENDED WI A LOSS OF 5%. THNASDAQ FELL MORE THAN 5%. TOYO MOVED TODAY TO BEGIN FIXING A GAS PEDAL PROBLEMHAT HAS FORCED IT TO STOSELLING MO MODELS IN THE U.S. THE PEDALS CAN STICK, FORCG THE CAR TO ACCELERATOUT OF CONTL. THASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTED NEW RTS ARE BEING SENT FIRST TO FACTORIES. E PROBLEM AFFECTS ABOUT 4.2 LLION VEHICLES IN NORTH AMICA, EUROPE AND CHINA. TOYOTAS A NEWSHOUR FUNDER. THREE MORE AMERICANS HAVE BE KILLED IAFGHANISTAN. AT MAKES 29 THIS MONTH. A NATONNOUNCEMENT TODAY SAID THE LATESTATALITIES WERE TWO U. TROOPS AND ONE CIVILIAN. THERE WERE NO DETAILON HOW THEYIED. AND AFGHAN OICIALS REPORTED SIX TALIN FIGHTERS WERE KILLED IN SEVEN-HOUR SHOOTOUT IN THE SOUTRN CITY OF LASHKAR GAH. MILITAS OCCUPIED A VACANT BUILDINGEAR AN ARMY BARRACKS AND MACHINGUNNED GOVERNMENT OFFIS. IT WAS SILAR TO AN ASSAULT IN KABUL TWO WES AGO. IN BRITA TODAY, FORMER PRIME MINISTER TONY BLR MADE HIS LONG-AWAED APPEARANCE BEFORE A BRITH COMMISSION INVESTIGATING THIRAQ WAR.

>> BLAIR LD, THOUSANDS DIED.

>> Sreenasan: BLAIR HAD TO AVOID MORE THAN 150 OTESTERS OUTSIDE A LOND CONVENTION HALL AND CHANTS OF "JL TONY!" AND "BLAIR LIED, THOUSDS DIED." BUT ONCE HTOOK HIS ST SIDE, BLAIR DEFENDED HIS DECISION TO HAVE BRITAIN JOI THE U.S. IN THE 03 INVASION OF AQ.

>> THE PRIMARY CONSIDERATIONOR MEAS TO SEND AN ABSOLUTELY WERFUL, CLEAR AND UNREMITTIN MESSAGE THAT, AFTER SEEMBER THE 11TH, IF YOU WERE A GIME ENGAGED IN W.M.D., YOU HADO STOP.

>> Sreivasan: INDEED, THE FORM PRIME MINISTER SAID THERE WERE STRONG ARS THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN ALREADY HAD, OR WAS WORKING HARD TO TAIN, EMICAL, BIOLOGICAL OR EVEN NUCLEAR WEAPS. >>O FAR AS UNDERSTANDING THE DECISION I TOOAND, FRANKLY, WOULD TAKE AGAIN-- IF THE WAS ANY POSSIBILITY THAT HE COD DEVELOP WEAPONS OF MASS DERUCTION, WE SHOULD STOP HIM. THAT WAS MY VI. TH WAS MY VIEW THEN, THAT IS MY VIEW NOW.

>> Sreenasan: THE FIVE MEMBER NEL PRESSED BLAIR ON EXACTLY WHENE OFFERED TO SUPPORT THEN- PRESIDT BUSH IN THE INVASION OF IRA PREVIOUS WITNEES HAD CLAIMED IT WAS IN 20, MORE THAN A YEAR BEFORE PARLIAMENT APPROVED MILITA ACTION.

>> DO YOU THINYOU GAVE HIM ANY COMMMENTS? THE ONLY COMMITMENT I GAVE, AND I GAVE TS VERY OPENLY AT THE MEETG, WAS A COMMITMENT TO DEAL WITH SADDAM NOW, WCAN DEAL WITH IT...

>> SO YOU WERE AT ONE AT YOU HAD TO DEAL WITH.?

>> ABSOLUTELY, AND THAT SN'T A PRIVATE COITMENT, THAT WAS A PUBLIC COMMITMENT. SO YOU WERE AGRD ON THE END, BUT NOT ON THE ANS?

>> Reporter: THE FORMELEADER ACKNOWDGED SOME ERRORS, BUT IT WASN'T ENOH FOR RELATIVES OF SOME OF THE BRITISH TROOPS KILLED IN IRAQ.

>> I'M REALLY DISGUSTED IN H, THE WAY THAT HSPOKE.

>> I'D GO FAR AS SAYING HE'S A TRAITOR TO HIS, HE'S A TITOR TO HIS COUNT, TO HIS SOLDIERS. AND HE WON'T BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. HE'S N, YOU KNOW, HE'S NOT GOING TO PAY FOR IT.

>> Sreenivasan: TH IS BRITAIS THIRD INVESTIGATION INTO THE IRAQ WAR, WHICH RESULTED IN THE DEHS OF 179 BRITISH TRPS. THE BRITISH THDREW FROM IRAQ LAST YEAR. E BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION WILL DONATE $ BILLN TO RESEARCH NEW VACCINES R THE WORLD'S POOREST NATION ITORE THAN DOUBLES THE AMOUNT THE FOUNDATION HAS ALRDY GIVEN TO VCINE RESEARCH. CROSOFT CO-FOUNDER BILL GATE MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY THWORLD ECONOMIC FORUM IN DAVO SWITZERLAND. TODAY WE'RE ANNOUNCING A COMMITMENT OR THIS NEXT DECADE WCH WE THINK OF AS A DECADEF VACCINES HAVING CREDIBLE IMPACT. WE'RE ANNOUNCI THAT WE'LL END OVER $10 BILLION ON VACCINES. THAT WILL HELPNVENT NEW VACCINES, THAT WILHELP GET SOME NEW VACCINEOUT, THAT WILL HELP INCRSE THE COVERA.

>> Sreenivasan: THE GOAL ITO MAKE SURE 90% OF THE CHILDREIN OR NATIONS ARE IMMUNIZED. FOR THRECORD, THE BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION IA NEWSUR UNDERWRITER. JURY IN WICHITA, KANSAS, HAS CONVTED AN ABORTION OPPONENT OF MURDER FOR KILLING ABORTI PROVIDER LAST MAY. THE PAL DELIBERATED JUST 37 MINUTETODAY BEFORE RETURNING THE VERDICT AGAINST SCOT ROED. HE ADMITTED GUNNINDOWN DR. GEORGEILLER INSIDE A CHURCH IN WICHITA LAST MAY. HE FACES A MANDATORY LIFE SENTENCE. TILLER WAS ONE OTHE ONLY DOCTORS IN THE U. PERFORMING LATE-TERM ABORTIONS. THOSE ARE SOME OF THE DAY'MAIN STORIES. I'LL BE BACK AT THEND OF THE OGRAM WITH A PREVIEW OF WHAT YOU'LL FIND TONIGHON THE NEWSHOUR WEB SITE. BUT FOR NOW, BACK TO JUDY.

>> Woodruff: AND STI TO COME THE NEWSHOUR: THE BATE OVER WHERE TO HOLD TEORISM TRIALS; AND THE CHALLENGE OFEVIVING ITI'S ECONY.

>> Lehrer: BUTOW, AS PROMISED, THE ANALYSIS OF SHIELDS AN BROOKS-- SYNDICATED COLUIST MARK SHIELDS AND "NEW YORK TIMES"OLUMNIST DAVID BROOKS. MARK WHACK DID YOU THI OF THE OBAMA AND E REPUBLICAN SHOWN BALTIMORE.

>> I THOUGHT IT WAS TERRIF. I THINK IF THE WTE HOUSE HAD S CHOICE IT WOULD HAVE SUIDY DOUBT-- SUBSIDY FUTURED THAT FOR THE STA OF THE UNION ADDRESS AND WEREN'TED IT IN PRIME TIME. THOUGHT SHOWED THE PRESIDT AT HIS BEST. HE MARSHALS FACTS, PRESENTS ARGUMENTS, HREBUTS CRITICISM, DOES IT IN A CIVIL Y WITHOUT ANY RAOR. I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS A TOUR DE FORCE. AND E REPUBLICANS ARE SORT OF HOISTED ON THEIR TRANSPARENCY PITAR THEY HAD CRITICID THE PRESIDENT FOR NOT FUILLING HIS PLEDGE OF OPENSS AND ANSPARENCY AND HAVING THE HEARGS AND C-SPAN AS PROMISED DURING TH CAMPAIGN. AND SO THEY WE STUCK WITH BEINOPEN. THEY DIDN'T WANTT TO BE TELEVISED, THAT Q&A PART.

>> Lehrer: IT WAS.

>> I THINK WAS THE AND THE THINK THE ESIDENT ENGAGED THEM IN A WAY AT YOU CAN'T IN THE STE OF THE UNION WH THEY JUST SIT THERE, STOLE I HADLY ANSILENTLY. YOU GOT A SENSE OF COMPARON TODAY AND I THINK WORKED TO RACK OBAMA'S ADVAAGE.

>> Lehrer: DYOU AGREE, WORKED TO HIADVANTAGE.

>> BIT. EVERYONE WAS SORT OF CHAED UPBOUT IT. ALL OF WASHINGTON IS ACTUALLY VERY EXCITED ABT IT. PEOPLEERE THRILLED. MEAN, AND DEMOCRATS WERE VERY THRILLED. THE PRESIDENT'S NATURAY GOING TO DOMINATAN EVENT LIKE THA HE'S GOT THE PODIU THEYRE JUST HOLDING NDHELDS. BUT REPUBLICANS RE THRILLED TOO. I SPOKE TO A BUNCH OF REPUBLICANS WHO WERE TRE AFTEARDS AND PEOPLE WHO ARE-- .

>> Lehr: WHAT DID THEY Y. THEY WERE HAPPY. THEYAID HE SAID ALL ALONG WE DON HAVE PLANS BUT OVER AND OV AGAIN HE ACKNOWLEDGED YEAH, WDO HA ALTERNATIVES, WE'VE BEEN OFFERING THEM. SO THEY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT GOT MOST OF THE TIME, DID VERY WELL. BUT THEY WERTHRILLED THAT THEY GOT SOMPOINTS ACROSS. AND THEY WE THRILLED BY E EXCHANGE. AND I THINK AMERICANS WI BE THRLED BY THE EXCHANGE, TO T EXTENT THEY SEE IT ANWILL IT LEAD TO A MASS DEPOLARIZAON, NOT EXACTLY, VIOUSLY. AND YOU KNOW, THERE ARE FUNDAMENL DIFFERENCES ON MANYS LIKE HLTH CARE THERE ARJUST DIFFERENT APOACHES. BUI THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THE PRESINT DID VERY WELL IS LIST A WHOLE SERIES OF THGS ON WHICH THERE IS NOT NECESSARILY DIFFERENCES. THINGS LIKE--

>> Lehrer: HE MA A POINT THAT.

>> LEGISLAON, SPENDING FREE, A LOT OF THE CUTS IN THE CAPITAGAINS TAX, THERE IS NO REASON THERE CAN BE SOME AGREEMENT ON THAT STUFF. SO I THOUGHT IT'S POSSLE TO SEE GOING FORRD ON SOME OF T JOB CREATION STUFF. YOU COULD SEE SO BIPARTISANSHIP.

>> Lehrer: DO U SEE, THAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT COD COME.

>> I TNK THERE WILL BE ON CERTN SELECTED ISSUES, BUT THERE IS REAY NO INCENTIVE FOR THE REPUBLICANS TO BE BIPARTISAN. AND I MEAN JUSLOOK AT WHERE THE REPUBLICANS REMENT THEY WENT THROUGH TWSINGING ELECTION FEATS. THEY LOST 52 SEATS ITHE HOUSE IN THE TWO ELECTIONS BACK-TO-CK, 2006, 2080. AND THE PAY RIGHT NOW TODAY IS AT A LOR POINT IN PUBLIC AFFECTION AND REGARD THAN IT WAS IN 2006 AND 2008. OKAY.

>> Lrer: WHEN THEY LOST.

>> WN THEY LOST THOSE SEATS. IT'S AARTY WITHOUT A COMPELLING VOICE,ATIONAL VOICE, A LEADER. OR A FACE. I MEAN TO SAY WHS THE LEADER OF THE REPUICAN PARTY. AND YET AT THE SAME TIME THEY A TIED WITH THE DEMOCRATS WHO HAD TROUNCED THEM IN E TWO PREVIOUS ELTIONS. WHAT IS THE INCENTIVE POLITICALLY GOING IN 2010 FOR THEM TO BE COLLEGIAL A OF A SUDDEN. WH THEY HAVE DONE SO FAR HAS GOTTEN TM TO THE POINT WHERE THEY ARE AT A PARITY. THEY'RE T BELOVED, NOR ARE THDEMOCRATS. THEY'RE FAR MORE POORL REGARD THAN THE DEMOCRS IN THE POLLS. BUT THEY ARE AT A PARITYND THEY ARE POISED TO HAV QUITE AN ELECTION YE.

>> DO YOU SEE THEY DON'T HAVE ANY INCENTIVE, POLITICAL INCENTIVE TO MAK A DEAL.

>> THEY CERTNLY HAVE NONE. THEY'RE RIDI HIGH. YOU LO AT THE POLLS. WENOW WHAT HAPPENED TO MASSACHUSETTS BUT IF Y LOOK AT STATE AFR STATE WHERE THE SENATE RACES IN PENNSYLVANIA, IN OHIO, IN LINOIS, IN MISSOURI, YOU HAVE SEEN THE SAME TRENDN THE POLL LINES THE REPUBLICANS ARE OOTING UPWARDS, NOWVEN IN NNSYLVANIA THE REPUBLICAN HAS A SIGNIFICANT AD OVER THE DEMOCRS THERE. SO THEY HAVE NO INCENTIVE TO CHANGE THINGS. SO WHEN I'TALK ABOUT DEPOLAZATION, SOME COOPERATION, IT IS OLITTLE STF HAVING TO DO WITH JOB CRTION AND GROWTHMENT BUT CERTAINLY IT'SOT ON THE BIG THG. AND THE BIG THING IS THE ZE OF THE GOVERNMENT. THAT'S CLEARLY THE CORE ISSUE. REPUBLANS ARE VERY COMFORBLE WHERE THEY ARE. ANOBAMA HAS TO DO, MAKE A TRICKY ARGUMENT WHICH IS Y HATE WASNGTON, YOU DISTRUST WASHINGTOBUT HERE WE'RE IN WASHINGTON. WE WANT DO THESE PROGRAMS AND THAT IS A TRICKIER ARGUMENT.

>> WHAT ABT THE PRESIDENT. OF COURSE HE STAED IT IN THE VERY DECTLY IN THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDSS WEDNESDAY NIGH HE PICK APPROXIMATED UP ON IT TODAY. HE SCOLDED TM AS WELL. I MEAN IT WASN'T ALL H, LET'S ALL WORK TOGETHER. HE TOOK THEM ON. USING UGH WORDS.

>> I TNK THE PRESIDENT, DAVID AND DO DISAGREE ON WHETHER IT IS LE OR RIGHT OR BIGR SMALL. I THINK IT HAS TO BE SHOWED THAT GOVERNMENT WORKS. AND I THOUGHT S REBUTTAL RESPONSE TCONGRESSMAN MIKE PENCES QUESTIOABOUT THE UNEMPLOYMENT, AND POINTED OUT THAT THERE ARE 65000 PEOP LAID OFF AND LOST THEIR JOB IN DECEMBER 2008 750,000 JANUARY, ANOTHER 650,00IN FEBRUARY, BEFORE HIS PLAN KKED IN. ANTHAT ECONOMISTS NOW, AND HEAS TO MAKE THE CASE WHICH THINK HAS BEEN VERY POLY MADE THAT GOVERNMENT DOES A HAS MADE A DIFFERENCE WHETHER IT'IN-- .

>> Lehrer: YOU MEAN THE STIMULUS PACKAGE.

>> THE STIMULUS PAAGE AND HIS OTHER INITIATIVE BECAUSE YOU CAN'T BE THE ANTI-GOVERNMENT NDIDATE WILE AREOU THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STAT. RONALD REAGAMANAGED TO DO IT FOR EIGHT YRS.

>> Lehrer: IT IS HARD. IT IS A VERY, VERY DIFFICULT. AND HE W STILL TALKING OUT THE PUZZLE-- ON THE POTOMAC WHERE HIS OWN OPLE WERE RUNNI IT. SO I DO THINK THAT THE PRESIDENT YOKNOW QUITE HONESTLY HAS TO DO THAT. AND THE SCOLDING PART, H MAKES A GOOD ARGENT AND IT'S TRUE TO DEMOCRATS AS WELL AS REPUBLICANS. AND THAT WN YOU AND I ARE THE DIFFERENT SIDE OF AN ISE AND YOU SAY TO ME, MARK, YOU'RE WRONG OTHIS, I THINK YOUR FACTS ARE INCORRECT. AND MAYBE IF I AGREE WITH YOU OR DISAGREWITH YOU, THAT DOE'T PRECLUDE OUR WORKING TOTHER IN THE FUTUREMENTUT IF I SAY TO YOU, J, YOU'RE IMMORAL ON THIS, YOU ARE AMERICAN. YOU DON'T CARE AUT WIDOWS AND ORPHANS. YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT T COUNTRY ORHE ECONOMY. THEN I HAVE PUT A GULF BETWN US, A DEMONIZED YOU IN A WAY THAT PREINCLUDE-- PRERUTEDS OUR WORKINTOGETHER IN THE TURE. AND I THINK AT HAS BEEN, QUITE HONESTLY, MUCH OF THE CRITISM HAS BEEN THAT PERSONAL AND THAT DEMONIZING.

>> DO YOTHINK THIS COULD ANGE THAT. I MEAN NOT SOME OFMAYBE NOT LEADO A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, LET'S GO MARCH AND LEGISLATE TOGETHER B AT LEAST THE RHETORIC MHT CHANGE?

>> MAYBE, MARGINLY. I WOULDN'T THINK SO IT IS PARTLY THAT. AND PRETTY NASTY THINGS RE SAID AGAINST PRESIDENT BUSH. IT'S PARTLWHAT A LOT OF THE HOUSE MEMBERS WERE SAYINGODAY WHICH IS IT'S FINE FOR PSIDENT OBAMA TO TALK ABOUT THESE THINGS. BUT IF YOURE SITTING IN THE BUDGET COMMIEE OR APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE,nd ARE YOU IN THEINORITY YOU HAVEO JOB. YOU HAVE NO Y. D THAT WAS TRUE WHEN THE REPUBLICANWERE IN CONTROL. AND TH ARE THE HABITS THAT HAVE BN CONDUCTED IN. AND PRESIDENT OBAMDOES NOT CONTROL NANCY PELOSI. AND THE HOUSE HAS JUST BECOME STRUCTURED LI THAT. THE SENATE IINCREASINGLY STRUCTURED LIKE THAT AND THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF THE RESENTMENTS, THE FEELINGS OF BEING IGNORED.

>> DO YOU THINK THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA COULDO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, HAS NO INFLUENCE ON WHAHAPPENS IN E HOUSE.

>> WELL, THINK THE PRIDENT COULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. BUT IS, YOU KNOW, THE WAY YOU GET PROMOTED IN E CONGRESS IFUND-RAISING. AND THOSE PEOPLERE PARTISAN. AND THAT'S H LEADERSHIP WORK

>> I THINK IT'S A LOT TOUGR TO BE EXCORIATING IN SPEE OR CONDEMNING IN SPEECH WHEN ARE U SITTING ROSS THE TABLE FROM SOMEBODY. I REALLY DO. THINK THAT THE PRESIDENT CAN DO THAT MORE OFN WITH A PERSOL EXCHANGES. IT'S EMBARSSING EN VING TALKED TO YOU AND ATTED WITH YOU THAN TO STAND UP AND DENNCE YOUR NEWORTH. A GREAT REPUICAN SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE JOE CANON EARLY IN THE 20th NT RESAID THE MIRITY HAS A RESPONSIBILITYND THAT'S TO HELP CONITUTE A QUORUM. AND THAT'S BEEN THE RULEF THE USE FOR A LONG TIME.

>> ONE THING TT COULD HELP, I THINK OPLE IF THEY MET MEMBERS THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE WOULD BE ASTOSHED AT HOW LTLE THEY KNOW ABOUT EACH OTHER ACRS PARTY LINES. JU PERSONALLY. >>HEY DON'T ASSOCIATE.

>> WITH WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT IN THEIR OFFICES OR IN THEIR CAUCUS, THEY KNOW NOTHING. ANKLY GI INTERVIEW PEOPLE ON EACH SIDE AND SOMIMES YOU FEELIKE YOU SHOULD BE THE DIOMAT, ACTUALLY THEY ARE SAYING THIS. ARE YOU WRONG ABOUT THAT. THEY ARE SING --

>> SHUTTLE DIPLOMA.

>> AND THE EFFTIVE LEGIATORS ARE THE ONE WAS DO. I MEAN THE ONE WAS DO --

>> IT HAALWAYS BEEN TRUE, HAS IT N? YEAH. HOW DOES THETATE OF UNION ADDRESS. I STILL THINK IT WAS A GOOD SPEECH, A GOOD SPEECH FOR PRESIDENT OA. I GUESS WHERE MY SECOND THOUGHTS ARE IT DIDN'TO FAENOUGH. AND OK AT WHERE THE COUNY IS. AND HISTORICLY UNPRECEDENTED DISCUSD AT WASHINGTON. TOE SHOOT IS NOT LEFT, RIGHT, IT'S , OUT. AND THPRESIDENT DID STEP AWAY FROM THE MESS IN WASHINGTON AND THE FAILU TO GET ANYTHING DONE. HE STEPPED AY, TO SOME DEGREE BY PROPOSINPOLICIES THAT ARE NOT ORTHODOX DEMOCRATIC BY SCOLDI PEOPLE ABOUT THE WAY THEY BEHALF. BUT I DON'T THINK STEPED AW FAR ENOUGH. I WISH HE HAGONE A LITTLE FAHER. SAY GOT TWO SUGGESTED INTO WASHINGT, I'M REALLY PULLING BACK AND DOING SOMETHING RADIL. BECAUSE IF THE FAILUREF HEALTH-CARE REFORM A ALL E STUFF OF LAST YEAR DIDN'TADICALIZE THEM, I N'T KNOW WHAT WILL. SO IN SECRETY THOUGHT I WISH HE HAD NE FURTHER ESPECIALLY ON THE ISSUE OF THE DEFICIT WHICH THE SYMBOLIC ISSUE IN TH COUNTRY'S MINDTHAT IF THEY CAN'T EVEN TAKE CARE OF TH LONG-TERM FISCAL SITTION, TH'S A SIGN 6 SEVEN DULL AGAINST ANCORRUPTION AND WEAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THAT ISSUE. AND I WISH HE HAD GONE FURTHER TO CATCH UP TO WHE THE UNTRY IS. >>HAT ABOUT THE SPEECH. I AGREE WITH DAVID THE DEFICIT. I MEAN HE SHLD HAVE MADE A BIER DEAL.

>> THE DEFICIT H IS THE FIGURE THAT JU ABSOLUTELY BLEW ME AWAY. THE DEFICIT OF THE UNITED STATES IS BIGGERHAN THE BUDGET, THE TOTAL BUDGETF ALL THCOUNTRIES IN THE WORLD EXCEPT JAPAN AN GER-- UNITED KINGDOM. OTR THAN THAT, EVERY OTHER COUNTRY S A SMALLER BUDGET THAN WHAVE A DEFICIT. CHINA, INDIA, GERMANY, A OF T OVERS, DO I THINK THE PRESIDT DIDN'T GO FAR OUGH? THE DEMOCRATS ARE E PARTY GORNMENT. THE REPUBLICANARE THE PARTY OFONGOVERNMENT, I MEAN, OKAY. WHEN GOVERNMENT SUN POPULAR.

>> Lehr: YOU MEAN IN TAERM TERMBELIEF.

>> DEMOCRATS BELIEVE T GOVEMENT CAN BE AN INSTRUMENT FOR SIAL JUSTICE FOR ECONOMIC PROGRESS. AND I THINTHE PRESIDENT CANNOT DISNCE HIMSELF FROM AT. INACT, I THINK WHEN HE LKS, IT'S GREAT TO BE OUT OF WASHINGTON, BE AWAYROM WASHINGTON AND ALLHAT, I THINK HE HASO MAKE THE SE THAT PUBLIC SERVICE IS IMPORTANT. THATHE PUBLIC MISSION, THAT THE DIFFEREE WHETHER 90% OF THEIDS IN THIS COUNTRY GO TO PUBLIC SOLS. -- SCHOOLS. THATS WHY OUR BUSINESS, IS THE PUBLIC'S BUSESS. I REALLY THI THAT IS IT. IT IS A TOH SLOG BUT THAT IS WHAT THOSE DO.

>> H DO YOU READ BEN BERNANKE'S CONFIRMATION VOTE. ONLY GOT0 VOTES AND 30 AGAINST HI RIGHT, I HAVE SAID ON IS PROGRAM WE INTERVIEW PEOPLE AND SOMETIM YOU INTERVIEW SOBODY WHO TREMENDOUS IMPRESSES YOU. AND PERSON BERNANKIS TREMENDOUS IMPRESSIVE. SO I PERSONALLY WAS HAPP HE WAS RECONFIRMED. WHWAS IT NOT UNANIMOUS. PART OF IT, YOU KNOW, HAS MADE MISTAKE LIKE ANYBODY IN THIS KIND OF CIRCUMSTANCES BUT FRANKLY A LOT OF IT WA THIS WASN EASY SHOT AT WALL STREET. AND ERE WERE SEVERAL PULIST MOVES, OKAY, I'M NOT GOING TO USEHAT WORD. THERE RE SEVERAL WORDS, SEVERAL MOVES THIS WK.

>> Lehrer: THEY'RE AVAILAB ON-LINE.

>> BY PEOPLE WHOANT TO TAKE A ST AT WALL STREET OR WHO JUST WANT TAPPEAR POPUR AND ONE OF THEM WAS VOTING AGAINST THE BGET COMMISSION WHICH SEVEN REPUBLICANVOTED AGAINST EV THOUGH THEY COSPONSORED THE LEGISLATION. AND ONE OF THEM WAS VOTING FOR BEN BERNAN. AND BECAUSTH WERE EASY, POPULAR MOVES.

>> IS THE-- .

>> Lehrer: IS THE SEETARY OF THE TREASURGEITHNER NOW IN THAT SAME KIND TARGET, ESSENTIALLY ME BRAND OF TARGET TT BERNANKE WAS?

>> SHELDON WHITE HOU THE SENATOR FROM RHO ISLAND I THOUGHT PUT IT QTE WELL. HE SAID BERNANKE AA FEBRUARY OF THE FED LEADERSHIP WAST PARTICULARLY GOODEN FORCING THE FIRE CODE. T ONCE THE FIRE BROKE OUT, HE WAS TERRIFIC AT PUTTING IT OUT. AND I THINK OPLE ARE STILL ANGRY AT WHY T FIRE HAPPENED. AND I THINK THAT ANGERHAT WE SAW ITHIS WEEK IN THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITE.

>> Lrer: THEY WILL PETE UP ON GEITHNER.

>> THEY DI AND HANK PAULSON, THE FORR SECRARY OF THE TREASURY. IN A SENSEWE DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPED. I MEAN WE DO KNOTHAT AIG GOT 85 BILLION DOLLARS AND THEN THE COMPANIES THAHAD T ON THEM AND TAKEN THIS CRAZY BET WERE REIMBURSED 0 PERCENT. THEY DIDN'T KE A HAIRCUT ANYTHING. AND WE DON'TNOW HOW IT HAPPENED B WE KNOW THE PEOPLE WHO DID IT ARE PROSPENG, WALKED AWAY, AND ARE UNTOHED. SO I THINK THERE IS AN ANG THAT IS STILL LOOKG FOR A TARGET.

>> WDO KNOW ONE THING THAT HAPPENED. WE JUST N OUT OF TIME. THANYOU BOTH VERY MUCH.

>> Woouff: NOW, THE DEBATE OVER WHE TO HOLD THE TRIALS OF SUSPECTS AUSED OF MASTMINDING THE TERROR ATTACKS ON T WORLD TRADE CENTER AND THE PENTAGON. MAARET WARNER HAS OUR REPORT.

>> TRE ARE PLACES THAT WOULD LESS EXPENSIVE FOR THE TAXPAYERS, ANDESS DISRUPTIVE FONEW YORK CITY. Warner: IN A SHARP REVERSAL MAYOMICHAEL BLOOMBERG SPOKE T THIS WEEK AGAINST HOLDING THTRIAL OF KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED, THE ALLEGELEADER OF THE 9/ CONSPIRACY, IN LOWER MANHATTAN.

>> IT WOULD BE PHENOMENALL EXNSIVE, AND IT IS VERY DISRTIVE TO PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE AR AND BUSINESSES IN THE EA, SO THAT THE ECONOMIC IMCT IS DETRIMENTAL. AND NODY KNOWS HOW BIG. AND IT WOULD BE BETTERO DO IT ELWHERE, IF THEY COULD FIND A VENUE.

>> Warner: THE TAL FOR MOHAMMED AND FOUR OFIS CO- CONSPIRATORS WAS SCHEDED TAKE PLACE HERE AT A FEDERA COURTHOUSE JUST BLOCKS FROM WHERE THE WORLD ADE CENTER ONCETOOD. THAT ANNOUNCEMENT S MADE IN NOVEMB BY U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL IC HOLDER.

>> THEY WILL BE BROUGHTO NEW YORK, TO N YORK, TO ANSWER FOR THEIR ALLEGED CRIMES...

>> Warner: THAT SAME DAY, HE TOLD THE "NEWSHOURHE WAS CONFIDENT THE CITY WAS PRERED.

>> NEW YORK HAS ALSOONE A NUMBER OF THESTRIALS IN THE PAST, HAS A TRACRECORD FOR ING THESE HIGH-PROFILE RRORIST TRIALS.

>> Lehrer: BUT YOU COPEDITH THE THOUT OF YOUR DECISION CREATING AIG RED BULL'S-EYE FOR EVERY TERRORIST IN THE WORLD?

>> I TALKED MAYOR BLOOMBERG. I TALKED TGOVERNOR PATERSON. AND MAYOR BLMBERG ESPECIALLY SAID, "YOU KNO THIS IS THE PLE WHERE THIS CASE OUGHT TO BE BROUGHT. WE CAN HANDLE IT Warner: BUT ESTIMATES OF TH COSTS HAVE GROWN INTO NDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLA FOR SECURITY ANDOST REVENUE FOR BUSINESSES. ANFEARS ABOUT A POSSIBLE ATTACK HE GROWN AS WELL. NOW, NEW YK STATE'S SENIOR DEMOCRATIC SENATORHUCK SCHUMER HAS CHAND HIS MIND, TOO.

>> I CALD THE WHITE HOUSE AND TOLD THEM THAT I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE VERY GOOD IDEA THAT THEY LOOK FOALTERNATIVE SITES.

>> Warner: BY TODA IT WAS WIDELY RORTED THE OBAMA MINISTRATION IS CONSIDERING MONG THE TRIAL. THE ITE HOUSE HAS ASKED THE JUSTICDEPARTMENT TO FIND ALTERNATIVE SITES NEAR NEW YK CITY. BUT A WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN ID THE PRESIDENT REMAINS COMMTED TO HOLDING T TRIAL IN FEDERAL COURT. IN FACT, A NUMBER OF INFLUTIAL LAWMAKERS IN WASHINGTON ORIGINALLY SUPPORT HOLDING THE IAL IN NEW YORK, INCLUDING SENATODIANNE FEINSTEIN, WHO CHAIRS THE SENATE INTELLENCE COMMITTEE.

>> AND I HAPPEN BELIEVE THAT NEW YORK CITY IS ABLE TO HANE THIS IN A VERY PROFESSNAL AND DEFINITIVELY LEGAL MNER. >>arner: BUT THE ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP AN AIRLINER OVER DROIT ON CHRISTMASAY RAISED NEW FEARS. D SENATOR FEINSTEIN TOLD NBC NEWS YESTERDAY: THE ADMINISTRATI ALSO FACES INCREASING PRESSURE TO TRY ALL TERROR SUSPECTS BEFORE MILITARY CMISSIONS INSTEAD. REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN PET KING OF NEYORK HAS INTRODUCED A BILL TO BAR USE OF JUSCE DEPARTMENTUNDS FOR TRYING GUANTANAMO DAINEES IN FEDERAL COURTS. KING'S FELLOW REPUBLAN, MIKE PENCE OF INDIANA, SAID TAY SOME DEMOCRATS MAY JOIN REPUBLICANS AT LEAST IBLOCKING FUNDINFOR HOLDING THE 9/11- RELATETRIALS IN NEW YORK CITY.

>> THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA T RETURN THE MASRMIND OF 9/11 TO THE SCENE OF T WORST TERRORIST ATTACK IN AMERICAN HISTORY NOT ONLY FINANCIAL COST,UT THE EMOTIONAL COST. AND FRANKLY, IT COMPROMIS THE SERITY OF THAT CITY BY MAKING IT A TERRORIST TARGET.

>> Warner: IN ADTION, SIX SENATORS-- BOTH REPUBLICAN A DEMOCRAT-- SENT A LETTER T ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER RLIER THIS WEEK URGING A NEWITE FOR THE 9/11 SUSPECTS' TRIALS. IT READ: "Y WILL BE PROVIDING THEM ONE OF THE MOST VISIBLE PLATFOS IN THE WORLD TO EXALT TIR PAST ACTSND TO RALLY OTHERS IN SUORT OF FURTHER TERRORISM."

>> Warner: MEANWHILE ON TH STREETOF NEW YORK TODAY, THERE WAS STILL A FIERCE DEBE ABOUT WHHER TO HOST THE TRIAL. I THINK IT'S NEW YORK. NOBODY REALLY CARES, Y KNOW. IT'S JUST THAT PEOPLWILL BE DISGRUNTLED A LTLE ABOUT THE SECURITY BARERS AND THAT KD OF STUFF. BUT I THINK ASONG AS THEY GET PASSED IT, IT IS RELAR DAY AS USUAL.

>> I FEEL A T SCARED FOR THE FACT THAT THEYOING TO BE HERE THE STATES. WE'RE LIVING HERE. ALREADY WHAT HPENED, 9/11, I JUST DON'T WANT TH TO HAPPEN AIN. YOU KNOW, I THINK THEY SHOULD BE IN THE MILITY. I THINK SHOULD BE TRIED OUT THERE, MORSAFER, MORE SECURITYTIGHTER SECURITY.

>> Warner: STILL, MAYOR BLOOMBERG SAID TODAYIF THERE ARE NO AERNATIVES, NEW YORK CITY WILL GO THROU WITH IT.

>> IT'NOT MY JOB TO TELL THEM WHAT KIND OF A TAL. I'M NOT A LEL EXPERT, IN ANY CASE. BUT, YOU KW, IF CALLED ON, WE'LL HE THEM. I WILL SAY, THEY UNDERSTD AND THEY'RTRYING TO DO SOMETHING. IT'S JUSTHERE ARE NO EASY ANSWERS TO ANY OF THIS.

>> Wner: IN THE MEANTIME, THE MAYOR OF NBURGH, NEW YORK, 60 MILES NOH OF MANHATTAN, VOLUNTEEREHIS CITY. HE SAID IT WOULD BENEFITROM THE ATTENTIOAND POSSIBLE FEDERAL AID. THERE HAVE AO BEEN SUGGESTIONS THE TRIAL ULD BE HELD ON AN UNPOPULATED ISLANDEAR MANHATTAN, OAT A NEARBY MILITARYNSTALLATION. FOR NO THERE IS NO INDICATION OF WHEN THE 11 PROSECUTION WILL BEG, WHEREVER IT IS HELD.

>> Lehrer: AND FINALLY TIGHT, MORE ON THE HAITI RTHQUAKE. RASUAREZ HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE ALL WEEK. TONIGHT, HLOOKS AT REBUILDING HAITIAN BUSINESSESND THE ECONOMY.

>> Suare THE REALITIES OF THE PORT-AU-PRINCE ECONOMY ARE BRALLY SIMPLE-- HUNDREDS OF OUSANDS OF WORKERS HAVE HAD WAGES FOR WEEKS; THE BKS ARE MOSTLY CSED; THE WIRE TRANSFER BUSINESSES CAN'T GIVHAITIANS NEY WIRED IN FROM ABROAD FAS ENOUGH. TH IS UNCOMFORTABLY CLOSE TO A CASHLESS CITY, WHICH IWHY THIS WAS SUCH A WELCOMEIGHT: FACTORIES, GETTING READYO OPEN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE QUAKE, THREW OPEN THE GATE AND WORKERS ANXIOUS FOR SALARIES POED IN. ,000 WORKERS GENERATE 10% OF THE UNTRY'S ENTIRE G.D.P. EVEN AT FIVE DOLLARS A DAY ESE JOBS ARE HIGHLY PRIZED. SOHAT ARE WE MAKING?

>> UFORMS. >>uarez: CHARLES BAKER'S FACTORMAKES LAB COATS, SURGICAL SCRUBS, FOOD RVICE WHIT, AND UNIFORMS, MOSTLY FOR EXPORT TO NOH AMERICA. HE SAYS S WORKERS STARTED FILTERING BACK TO THE FAORY FROM DAMAGEDEIGHBORHOODS LAST WEEK. THEY WANTED TOET BACK TO CUTTING, SEWING,ND PACKING

>> WHATHEY NEED RIGHT NOW IS WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE HER SIDE. THEY'RE BACK AT RK. I WOULD SAY 90% OF TM LOST THEIR HOME ARE SLEEPING OUTSIDE. AND FOR EM, THIS IS HOME.

>> Suarez: OHIS 750 WORKERS, KER DOESN'T THINK ANY WERE KILLED. MOST FACTORY WORKERSURVIVED BECAUSE EY WERE STILL AT THE JOB WHEN THE QUAKE HIT. BUT MANY HAVE ENDURED SSES.

>> HE LOST HIS 20-YEARLD SON, A UNIVERSY STUDENT.

>> HE DIED STING UP, A PIECE OF CENT FELL ON HIM WITH HIS BAG RIG BY HIM AND EVERYTHING. LO OF KIDS DIED. TEHERS DIED. SO MCHILD DIED. BUT I'M NODISCOURAGED. BECAUSE GOD GAVE ME RENGTH. I STILL HAVE LIFE . THIS MECHANIC STILL HAS HIS HOME THOUGH IT'SAMAGE. S SISTER DIED JANUARY 12th MANY ATHIS FACTORY LOST MEONE BUT HE SAYS HE HAD TO GET BACK WORK.

>> WE CANNOTUST SIT THERE AND TO THE DO ANYTHING. FOR IT'S PREFERABLE THAT WE COMTO WORK SO WE CAN SEE CH OTHER AND PROVIDE SUPPORFOR ONE ANOTHER.

>> Srez: BAKER'S WORLDWIDE APPAREL CANT GET BACK TO FUL PRODUCTION UNTILIS SECOND BUILDING GS SOME REPAIRS AND REINFORCEMT AFTER EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE. HE'S LESS SURE ABO GETTING AT CLOTHING HE CAN PRODUCE O THROUGH THE COUNY'S DAMAGED PORTS. PACIFIC SPORTS IS TTING ITS STOCK ON THE ROAD FOR SHIPNT THROUGH THE DOMINICAN REPUBL. THE COANY COULD GET EVEN MORE PRODUCT OUT IF THE CARGOLANES BRINGING ALL T AID FROM THE U.S., INSTEAOF FLYING BACK EMPTY, HEADED BACK LOAD WITH HAITIAN-MADE CLOTHING. GEORGES SASSINE IS TRYING TOET AROUNDAITIAN CUSTOMS AUTHITIES HE SAYS ARE GUMMING UP AN EASY SOLUTION A TOUGH PROBM. HE'S PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION HAITIAN DUSTRIES. HIS OWN FACTORY TOO DAMAGED TO RESUME PRODUCTION; PAIRS ARE UNDERWAY.

>> AND FIND SOME OTHER PCE TO PUT MY OFFICE. BUT WE CAN DO IT, PROBLEM.

>> Suarez: BUT FIXING HIS FACTORY IS GNG TO TAKE LONGER THAN HE FIRST THOUT. MEANWHILE, HISACHINES ARE SILENT AND HIS WORKERS IDLED RMALLY, THEY TURN OUT WORKOU APPAREL FOR RUELL ATHLETIC AND NEW BALANCE SOLD AT RGE U.S. RETAILER BUT WHAT IF THOSE STOR TURN ELWHERE?

>> IT'S NOTHINPERSONAL, IT'S NOT LIKE TSE PEOPLE ARE HEARTLESS, IS JUST BUSINESS. THE SHELF IS GOING TBE EMPTY; IT CANNOT BE EMP. THEY WILL HAVE TO MAKE THAT DECISION. WE DON'T WT THEM FACING THAT DECISION. WE JUST WANTHEM BACK ONLINE SO THAT THAT SHELF IS OCCUPIED THE SAME PEOPLE.

>> Suarez: SASSINE WAS PROFID ON THE NSHOUR JUST BEFORE THE RTHQUAKE. WE BROCAST A REPORT ON HOW THE ECONOMY HERE W FINALLY LOOKING UP.

>> I HAVE TO BE LIKE DISPATCHER-- INVTORS FROM BRAZIL, FROM ILAND, AND FROM KOREA CONG ONE AFTER THE HER. SO IT'BEEN VERY HECTIC, BELIEVE ME. BUT IT'S A GOOD PROBLEM HAVE.

>> Suarez:ND SASSINE SAW BETTER TIMES AHEAD. NOW,E SCRAMBLES TO HELP HIS MBERS REOPEN, AND USES HIS INUENCE TO GET THINGS DONE. ON THIS MORNING, HE'S HELPIN ROAD CREWS ASSIGNED TO MOLITION DUTY IN THE QUAKE RUBB WHO NOW HAVE SADDER DUTI THRUST UPON THEM.

>> I'M HERE TO PICK UP MORE DY BAGS.

>> Suarez: THE CWS ARE STILL FINDING VIIMS AS THEY CLEAR BUILDING SITES. HE'S TRYING TOUSTLE UP AID FOR HIS RKERS, AND LOSING BIG MONEY EVERDAY HIS FAORY DOESN'T SEW A SINGLE GARNT. WHILE INDUSTRIALISTSTRUGGLE TO GET EXPORTS TO AMERICAPOORER HAITNS ARE WAITING FOR WEALTH TO FLOW OUT OF AMECA. HAITIANSELY ON RELATIVES ABROAD FORINANCIAL HELP, MAKING RITTANCES THE COUNTRY'S SINGLE LARGESTOURCE OF INCOME. BUT NOW,HEN THOSE DOLLARS WIRED FROM WORED FAMILY ARE MO CRITICAL, PEOPLE CANT GET EIR MONEY. E CASH TRANSFER SINESSES WERE DESOYED ALONG WITH ERYTHING ELSE PIRE MARIE ORLEAN HAD BEEN IN LINE SINCE 5:00 A.M., WAITINTO T A TRANSFER.

>> ( translat ): WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING SINCE THE EARTHAKE. OUR USE FELL DOWN. WEON'T HAVE ANY FOOD, WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING.

>> Suarez: WITH SO MANY JOBS MPLY GONE AND SOURCES OF CAS BLOCKED, COUNTLESS HAITIANS E FORCED TO RELY ON EACH OTHERAS THEY DIN THE TENT CITIES THAT HAVE SPROUTED UP AROUND RT-AU- PRCE; AND ON FOREIGN AID. WHEN RUMORSPREAD THROUGH A CRD WAITING OUTSIDE FACTORY GATEFOR WORK THAT AID WAS BEING GIVEN OUT A NEARBY REHOUSE, HUNDREDS RUSHED THE TRUCK AND THE GATETO SEE IF THEYOULD GET ANY.

>> THE REST RUSH FWARD LOOKING FOAN EQUAL OR A BETT HAUL BUT THE GATES CLOSE. HAITIAN LICE AND PERUVIAN PEACEKEEPERSIGHT HAVE GOTT THE CROWD'S HOPES UP BY HAVING THEMET IN LINE. THEY WE JUST USING THE GESTURAS CROWD CONTROL. AND EVYTHING ELSE IS RUNNING OUT, IT SEEMS, THERE'S STILL ENOUGH PATIENCE.

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