“Tea Party Activists Protest ‘Obamacare’” (2009)

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>> Lehrer: GO EVENING. I'M JIM LEHRE ON THE NEWSHOUR THIS TUESD, THE LEADTORY IS PRESIDENT OBAMTAKES HIS HEALTH CARE REFORM CASE TNEW HAMPSHIRE: WE HAVE OUR OWN DEBATE ONG EDITORIAL PAGE WRERS; THEN COME THE OTH NEWS OF THE DAY, INCLUDING THE TEST FROM BURMA ON THE SENTENCING OF NOBEL PCE LAUREATE AUNG SANUU KYI; THE LATEST ON E TRAGEDY-TORN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIOF THE CONG AS SECRETARY OF STATE INTON WRAPS UP A VISIT; AND REVIEW THE SPECIAL LEGACY OF EICE KENNEDY SHRIVER, WHO DIE TODAY. MAJOR NDING FOR THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER IS PROVID BY:

>> WHAT THE WORLD NEE NOW IS ENRGY. THE ENERGY GET THE ECONOMY HUMMING AGAIN THE ENERGY TO TACKLE CHALLENGES LIKE CLIMATE CHANGE. WHAT IF THAT ENERGYAME FROM AN ENERGY COMPANY? EVERYDAY, CHEVRON INSTS $62 MILLION IN PELE, IN IDEAS-- SEEKING, TEACHIN BUILDING. FUELING GROWTH OUND THE WORLD TO MOVE US ALL AHEAD. THIS ISHE POWER OF HUMAN ENERGY. CHEON. INTEL. SUPPORTING TH AND SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR TOMORROW'S INNOVATORS. THWILLIAM AND FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION, WORKING SOLVE SOCIAL ANENVIRONMENTAL PRLEMS AT HOME AND AROUND THE WORLD. AND WITH THE ONGOING SPORT OF THESE ITITUTIONS AND FODATIONS. AN.. THIS PROAM WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING. AND BY CONTRIBUTIONS TOOUR PBS STATI FROM VIEWERS LIKE YOU. THANK YOU.

>> Lehrer: PSIDENT OBAMA TRIED TO BLD NEW SUPPORT FOR HIS HEALTH CARE PLAN TODAY, A HE CHARGED OPPONENTS ARE TRYINTO SCARE PEOPLE. THE PSIDENT GOT A FRIENDLY RECEPTION AT A TN HALL MEETING IN PORTSMOU, NEW HAMPSHIRE. JEFFREY BROWN HAS R LEAD STORY REPO.

>> Reporter:HIS WAS MR. OBAMS FIRST FORAY INTO NEW HAMPSHIRE AS PRIDENT, AND HE MADE CLEAR HE W READY TO GOON THEOFFENSIVE IN WHAT HAS BECOME RANCOROUS TIONAL CONVERSATION ON HLTH CARE.

>> L'S DISAGREE OVER THINGS AT ARE REAL, NOT THESE WIL MISREPSENTATIONS THAT BEAR NO RESEMBLANCE T ANYTHING THAT'S ACTUALLY BEEN PROPOD. THE WAY POLITICS WORKS, SOMETIMES, ISHAT PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KEEP THINGS T WAYTHEY ARE WILL TRY TO SCARE THE HECK OU OF OLKS, AND THEY'LL CREATE BOOGIEMEN OUT THERE TH JUST AREN'T REAL. NOW THEARD PART, BEUSE THE HISTORY ISCLEAR. EVERY TIME WE COME CLOSE TO PASSING HEALTH INSURANCEREFORM, THE SPECIAL TERESTS FIGHT BACK WITH EVERYTHING THEY'VE GOT. THEY USEHEIR INFENCE, THEY -- THEY USE THEIR PLITICAL ALLIES SCARE AND MISLEAD THE AMERICANPEOPLE, TH START RUNNING ADDS. THIS IS WHAT THEY ALWAY DO. WE CAN'T LET THEM DO IT AGAIN -- NOT THIS TIME, NOT N.

>> Reporter:HILE PUSHING HIS PLAN TO EXPANDOVERAGE TO THE UNINSURED, THE PREDENT TODAY REPEATEDLY SOHT TO ADDRESS THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WHO ALREY HAVE INSURAN AND WORRY ABOUT WHAT CHAE MIGHT BRING, AND HE CAME DOWN HARD ON SURANCE COMPANIES.

>> NOW, L ME JU STARTY SEING THE RECORD STRAIGHT O A FEW THINGS I HAVE BEEN HEARING OUT HERE ABOUT REFORM. UNDER T REFORM WE'RE PROPOSING, IF YOU LIKE YOUR DOCTO YOUCAN KEEP YOUR DOCTOR. IF YOLIKE YOUR HEALTH CA PLAN, YAN KEEP YOUR HEALTH ARE PLAN. OU WILL NOT BE ITING IN ANY LINES. THIS IS NOT ABOUTUTTING THE GOVERNMENT INHARGE OF YOUR HEAH INSURANCE. I ON'T BELIEVE ANYONE SHOULD B IN CHARGEF YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE DECISIONS BUT YOU AND YOUR DOCTOR.

>> I DON'T THINK GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS SHOULD BE MEDDLING, BUT I ALSO DON THINK INSURANCE COMPANY BUREAUATS SHOULD BE MEDDLING THAT'S THE HEAH CARE SYSTEM I BELIEVE IN.

>> Reporte THE PRESIDENT SPOKE TO, ANDOOK QUESTIONS FROM,A CORDIAL CROWD OF1,800, MST OF WH APPLIED FOR TICKS ONLINE. AT ONE POINT, HAD TO ASK FOR QUESTIONS FROM THOSEHO DON'T LIKE HIS PLAN.

>> SEBODY HERE WHO HAS A CONCERN ABOUTEAL CARE THAT HAS NOT BEEN RAISED OR IS SKEPTICAL AND SUSPICIOUS -

>> Reporte OUTSIDE THE HIGH SCHOOL WHERE THEMEETING TOOK PLACE, THE DEBATEHAT'S BEEN GROWING AROUNDTHE COUNTRY RECENTLY WASMORE ON SPLAY. ITS SUPPORTERS CHTING. AND OPPONENTS SHOWING THEIR IRE.

>> I EARN MY HEALTH INSURANCE. I PAY FOR IT WITHMY MONEY THA I WORK VERY HARD FOR.

>> YOU'RE PAYG FORIT, I HOPE YOU'REAPPY BECAUSE HE'S ENJOYING YOUR TAX MONEY --

>> porter: REPUBLICAN STATE REPRENTATIVE SEAN DOHERTYAS ON HAND, TOO ARMED WITH HIS OWN FLOW CHART. HE SAI IT DEPICTS TH BEAUCRACY THE PRESIDENT'S PLAN ULD CREATE.

>> I CE OUT HERE TO EXPRESS MY OPPOSITION TO THE CUENT HEALTH CAREREFORM PLAN THAT THE PRESIDENT IS PROPOSING. I SUPPORT REFORMG HEALTH CARE, BUT THI IS NOT THE REFORM THA I SUPPT, AND I THINK IT CREES A GIANT BUREAUCRACYND IT WOULD AUALLY HARM OUR HEALTH CAE SYSTEM, NOT HELP IT.

>> ReporterTHAT OPPOSITIONAS BECOME INCREASINGLY LOUD AND MBATIVE AS MEMBERS OF CONESS EET WITH CONSTITUENTS IN TIR HOME DISTRICTS, AS TODAY WITH DEMOCRATISENATOR ARLENPECTER OF PENNSVANIA.

>> ONE DAY D IS GOING TOTAND EFORE YOU AND HE IS GOING TO JUD YOU AND TH RESTOF YOUR DAMN CRONIES UP ON T HILL. AND THEN, YOU WILLETOUR JUST DESERTS. I'M AVING.

>> OK, OK. OK. WE HAVE JUST -- WE JUSTAD A -- WE'VE JUST HAD A DEMONSTRATION F DEMOCRACY. >>PRESIDENT AMA'S PLAN LL END UNFAIR --

>> Reporter: WITHHE PRESIDENT FIGHTING BACK, THE DEMOATIC NATIAL COMMITTEE HAS JU LAUNCH AN AD CALLED "SOMETHING IN IT FOR ALL OF US."

>> HEALH INSURANCE REFORM MEANS YOR FAMILY'SCARE COMES FIRST, NOTINSURANCE-INDUSTRY PROFITS. CALL CONGRESS. TELL THEM WHEN IT COMESTO HEALTH INSANCE REFORM THERE IS SOMETHININ IT R ALL OF US.

>> Repter: THE AD IS RUNNING ON CABLE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, COLORADO AND MONTANA, STATES WHERE THEPRESIDENT ISELLING HIS PLANHIS WEEK, TRYING TO REVERSE GROWG DISSATISFACTION OVER HEALTH CARE REFORMTHAT SHOWED UP IN POLLS OF HIS OWN POPULARITY. AND WH ME NOW TO TALK ABOUT THE PSIDENT ASSESS PRESIDENT OBAMA'SERM IN OFFICE SO FAR ARE TWO ITORIAL PAGE EDITORS, NOL FINLEY OF THE "DETROIT NE" AND JOHN DIAZ OF THE "SAN FRANCISCO CHROCLE," AND TWO COLUMNISTS, CYNIA TUCKER OF THE "ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITION" AND ROBERT ROBB OF THE "ARIZONA REPUBLIC." JOHN

>> JOHN DIAZ, WE HAVE THE ESIDENT PUSHING BACK. AT DO YOU SEE GOING ON? HAS HEOST GROUND ON HEALTH CARE?

>> HE HA LOST GROUNDAND THE THING I WOULD SAY THE PRESIDENT WAS TRYING TO DO TODAY, VERY WISY IN MY OPINION IS RESHPE IS DEBATE, BECAUSE ALTHOU WE ARE TAKINGBOUT SOWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF50 MILLION PEOE WHO DON'T HAVE INSURANE IN THI COUNTRY, TE FACT REMAIN THE VAST MAJORITY O AMRICANS DO HAVE COVERAGE AND THAT'S REALLY THE AUDIENCEE WAGOING AFTER TODAY, BECAUSE THE THING THE PRESIDENT HAS TO PERSUADE THEM THAT THIS GOING TO SUEED IS THAT THEY HAVE A SKE IN IT, AND I THINK THE IS AOOD CASE THAT WE DO WHEN WE LO AT THINGSIKE COST SHIFTING AND THINGS WHETHER TEY HAVE THE COVERAGE THEY TINK THEY HAVE.

>> Lehr: ROBERT ROBB, WHAT DO YOU E?

>> I THINK THE PRESIDENT'S GROUND HAS SIFTED DRAMATICAY AGAIN HIM AND IT'S BYOND THE ISSUE O HEALTH CARE, CERTAINLY AS WE COME CLOSE TO REFORM, PEOPLE HAVE UNDERSTANDABLE ANXIETY ABOUT WHAT IT ANS TO HEM, BUT I AL THINK THERE IS A GROWING SENSE IN THECOUNTRY THAT TEDERAL GOVERNMENT I OVERSTRETCHED. 'S TAKEN ON TOO MUCH. IT'S TOO MUCH IN DEBT. ND NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO BE ACCUMULING ADDITIONAL LARGE OBLIGATIONS, AND I THINK TT'S CREATED A HEADWIND IN ADDITION TO CONCERNS ABOUT THESSUE SELF.

>> Lehrer CYNTHIA TUCKER,E HEARD THE PRESIDENT SAY "NOW IS THE HARD PART." WH DO YOU SEE? IS TH A HEADWIND AGAINSTHIM? IS THIS A HEALT DEBATE, WHAT?

>> NOWS THE HARD PA. THE PRESIDENT WAS ELECTED WITH PROMISES OF HEAH CARE REFORM IN FACT, HE WOULD PROBABLY ARGUE HE HAD A MANDATE TO REFORM HEALTH CARE, AND I DON'T THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE AN EXAGGERATN. WHAT HAS ALWAYS HPPENED IN THIS DEBATE,NCE YOU START LEGISLATION MOVG THROUGH CONGSS, THE OPPONENTS HAVE BILIZED AND THEY HAVE MOBILIZED NOT JUST WTH LEGITIMA CRITICISMS,ECAUSE THERE ARE CERTAINLY THO, COSTS BEING ONE, B ALSO WITH ALL SORTS OF MISREPRESENTATIONS, DISTORTIONS D OUTRIGHT LIE AND T PRESIDENT AND DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESSOST CONTROLOF THE DEBATE. THEUNDERSTAND THAT. T OPPONENTS HAVE TIME TO BUILD UP MOMENT. YOU HAVE SEEN THESE ARY TOWN HAL MEETINGS. SO T PRESIDENT IS TRYING VERY HARD NOW TO REGAIN THE MOMENTUM.

>> Lehrer:OLAN FINLEY, YOU HAVE HAD SOME OF TESE TOWN HALL MEENGS WHERE YOU ARE. WHAT DO YOU S GOING ON WITH THE PRESIDENT TODAY?

>> WE HAD ON OF THE ANGRIEST TOWN HALL MEINGS WITH JOHN DINGELL IN YPSINTI THE OTHER GHT. THIS IS CPLETE WITH ATTACK ADS, MINFORMATION CAMPAIG, PARTISAN TALKIN POINTS. THAT'S THE WRONG WAY TO DID REPRESENTION THIS LIFE CHANGIN. THESE BILLS WE WRITTEN FROM THE LEFT AND ARE N TRYING TO BE PULLED TO THE MIDDLE. CONGRESS NEEDS TO BACK AFTER THIS RECESS,TART FROM THE MIDDLE, GET BIPARTISAN SUPPORT AND DELIVER A BILL THAT DOESN'T SCE THE HECK OUT OF THE AMERICAN PELE. >NOLAN, STAYING WITHYOU, DO Y SEE WHAT'S GOING ON, THE CONFUSION A THE WAY TO ANGER -- IS THATROM A KIND OF CONFUSION OV THE PARTS -- THE SPECIFIC PAR OF THE REFORM PACKAGE? OR IS IT MORE GENERALLY IN THE AIR? AS I THINK ROBERT ROBB WAS SUGGESTING? >>AND I THINK HE'S RIGHT, BUT I THINK YOU HAVE SEE ELEMENTS OF TH. THIS IS AERY COMPLEX BILL. PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. MICHIGAN IS A VERYOOD EXAMPLE. WE HAVE SOME O THE BEST EMPLER-OFFERED HEALTH INSURANCE IN THE NATION, BUTOU ALSO HAVE A L OF PEOPLE BEING ASHED OUT OF INSURANCE BAUSE OF LAYOFFS,O YOU'VE GOT PEOLE FEARING THAT TY'RE GOING TO LOSE THEIR VERY GOOD INRANCE AND PPLE AFRAID TAT THEY WON'T HAVEANY INSURCE, SO PEOPLE ARE AFRAID,AVE VERY LEGITIME CONCERNS ABOUT THE SCOPE AND SIZE OF THE LL, AND THEY'VE REACHED THEIR TOLERANCE LEVEL FOR GOVERNMENT SPENDNG AND GORNMENT EXPANSION.

>> SO JOHN DIAZ, TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE ISSUES A LITTLE SUBANTIVELY, PIECES OF IT, WHAT HAVE YOU FOCUD ON IN YOUR WRITING OR WHAT HAVE PEOE BEEMOST INTERESTE IN, PRO AND CON?

>> I TNK A COUPLE THGS HAVE COME TO THE FORE JST IN THE PAST WE. I THINK ONE OF T THINGS THAT WE HE BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT AS AN ITORIAL PAGE, ALTHOUGH WE GENERALLHAVE BEEN VERY SUPPOIVE OF THE IDEA OFHEALTH CA REFOR IS THE SECRET DEAL THAT BARACK OBAMA'S ADMINISTRATION MADE WITH THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDURY, WHERE THEY HANDEDHE DRUG MAKERS BASICALLY MADE AEAL WITH THE WHITE HOUSE WHERE TH WOULD HOLD TIR CST SAVINGS AT SOMEWHERE AROUND $80 BILION. NOW, THAT SODS LIKE A LO OF MONEY TO YOU ANDE AND MOST US WOULD HAVE NO IDEA WHETHER THAT'S REALLY A REONABLE SAVINGS TOET OVER THE NEXT DECAD BUT YOU CANBET THE DRUG MAKERS KNEW, AND I THINK THAS BEEN A CONCRN -- I WOULD SAY MORE TH ANYTHING ELSE, THE ISSUE IS THE POTENTIAL COST OF THIS -- WE'RE TALKING AOUT A TRIION DOLLARS OVER 10YEARS. SO THERE SOME CONCERN THER

>> ROBERT ROBB, HOW DOES THAT JIBE WIT WHAT YOU HEAR FROM READERS OR WAT YOU ARE FCUSING IN YOUR EDITORIAL PAGE?

>> I THINK THERE I TWO DIFFERENT POINTS OF CONCER AND DISPUT AMONG REPUBLANS AND, TO A LARGE EXTENT, INDEPEENTS, IT'S A CONCERN THATHE FEDERAL GOVERNME IS SIMPLY OVERREACHING AT A TIME THAT THE COUNTRY CANNOAFFORD IT. WITHIN TH DEMOCRAT PARTY, I THINK THERE IS AN INTERN DEBATE OVER THE COST O THE PGRAM WITH BLUDOGDEMOCRATS BEING CONCERNED ABOUT THAT AND HOW IT'S FINANCED, AND OVER WHETHER THERE IS A PUBLIC OPTION, BECAUSE MANY ON T LEFT OF THE DECRATIC PARTY FEEL THAT HEAL CARE REFORMSN'T WO IT IF THERE IS - IF THERE IS NOT A PUBLIC OPTION, AND I THINK BLUE DOGS A INDENDENTS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT GOVEMENT GETTING TH DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE.

>> CYNTHIA, Y'RE SAYING TT THIS IS WHAT BARAK OBAMA WAS ELECTED TO DO.

>> ABSOLUTELY, TIS IS ABOLUTELY WHAT HE WAS ELECTE TDO AND ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTINGHINGS ABOUT THE OPPONENTS WHO SAY THAT THEY DO'T WANT GORNMENT MORE INVOLVED IN HALTH CARE IS THAT MANY OF THE CRITICS SAYI THAT ARE MICARE RECIPIENTS. EDICARE IS A GOVERNMENT-RUN, OLD-FASHIONED CANADIAN-LI SINGLE-PAYOR SYSTEM, AND SO TO LISTEN TOOME OF THE CRITICS AT TOWN HALL MEETINGS -- THE VERY ANGRY, "I DON'T WANT A VERNMENT HAND IN HEALTH CE" HEN IN FACT THEY'RE MEDICRE RECIPIENTS LTS YOU KNOW THAT SOMEOF THE FEARS ARE ILLEGITIMATEFEARS, AND HEARING ABOUT A PLIC OPTION FROM SOME READERS,ABSOLUTELY, I THINK IS LEGIMATE TO WOND, IN AN ERA WHERE THERE IS VERY LITTLE COMTITION, STATE BY ATE, AMONG INSURANCE CARRIERS, WHETHER W WOULD HAVE THE RERM WE'RE LOOKING FOR WITHOUT A PUBLIC OPTI. I THINK IT'S ALSO FAIRO SAY -- JOHN DIAZ WAS ABSOLULY RIGHT AUT THE BEHND-THE-SCENES DEAL WITH PHARMEUTICAL COMPAES. I THI THAT THATS A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT ANG MANY WHO ARE CONCERNED ABOUT COST CONTROL, BUT I ALSO THINK W NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON T AMOUNT OF MONE INURERS ARE URING IN TO CONGRESS -- PARTICULARLY THE BLUE-DOG DEMOCRATS -- TO KEP THEM FROM PUTTING A PUBLICOPTION IN PLACE. HEY DON'T WANT REAL COMPETITION. Lehrer: AND NOLAN FINLEY IN FACT, WEEARD AGAIN TODAY TH PRESIDENT SORT PUSHINGBACK -- ESPECIALLY OTHE INSURERS, MAKING THAT PART OF THE DATE NOW. WHAT JUMPS OUT AT YOU IN TRMS OF THE SPECIFIC PIECES OF THE REFORM PACKAGE?

>> LL, I THINK THE PUBLIC OPTI IS THE DEAL BREAKER,AND YOU HEA THE PRESIDENT MAKE PROMISES TDAY THAT HE CAN'T KEP -- HE CAN'T PROMISE PEOPLE THAT EY WON'T LOSE THEIR PRIVATEINSURANCE. IF YOUR EMPLOYER DECIS TO GET OUT OFHE INSURAE-PROVIDING BUSINESS,YOU'RE DUMPED ONHE GOVERNNT. HE CAN'T TALK WITH ANY CERTAINTY AUT WHAT THIS BILL ISOING TO LOOK LIKE BECAUSET'S NOT HIS BILL. IT'S BENG WRITTEN IN CORESS. I THINK -- I HEARD CYNTHIA MENTION THAT MECARE -- AND THAT THE PELE RAISINGTHESE CONCERNS ARE MEDICARE RECIPIEN. EXACTLY, TH SEE A PROGRAMUN BY THE GOVERNME THAT IS HURTLING TOWARD DIASTERO AND CONGRESS ING NOTHING TO ADDRESS THE PROBLE WITH MEDICARE SOCIAL SECURITY, AND NOWOU'RE ASNG PEOPLE TO TRUST THAT THEY CAN DO BETTER JOB WITH TH OVERALLEALTH CARE SYSTEM?

>> JOHN DIAZ, THAT SORT OF PUTS IT ON THE TABL HERE. ARE WE GTING TO THE POINT ERE THIS IS ABOUT TRUST, AUT WHETHER HE'S MAKING PROMISES HE CAN OR CANNOT KEEP? IS THAT WHE WE'RE HEADING? RATHER THAN TO THE SUBSTAE OR THE COMPONENT PARTS OF THE REFORM PACKAGE?

>> I THINK IT'S VERY INCUMBENT ON THE PRESIDEN TO GET THE DEBATE BACK TO THE SUBSTANCE, AND TO TAKEON THI ISSUE OF THE UBLIC OPTION, BECAUSE LET'S FACE IT,F YOU MANDATE THAT AMERICANS BUY INSURANC EITHER THROUGH THEIR EMPLOYERS, OR THEMSELVES, AND YOUON'T HAVE ANY KIND OF SAFETY VAL, THAT JUSMAY BE GIANT PROFIT CENTER FOR THE SURANCE COMPANI. THE PUBLIC OION WOULD INSURE THAYOU WOULD HAVE THE COUNTERBALAN OF NOT ONLY THE -- THE OPON OF INSURANCE AT DOES TAKE TIS AS A REASON TO GOUGE BUT ALSO TO GET SOME OF THE LEVAGE OF BUYG POWER ON THINGS LIKE PESCRIPTION DRUGS THAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN BUYN A VOLUME THAT CAN UPHOLD -- HELP HOLD MEDICAL COSTS DOWN.

>> ROBERT ROBB, I WANT TOOME BACK TO SOMETHINGOU SAID ELIER, THAT A LOT OF THIIS ED TO STILL, YOUTHINK, TH UNCERTNTY OVER THE ECONOMY AND THE JOBS SITUATN.

>> IT'S -- 'S THAT, BUT I THINK IT MORE A CONCERN ABOUT THE REACTION OF THE FDERAL GOVERNMENT TO THEECONOMY, THE NSE THAT THE FERAL GOVERNMENT HAS TAKEN ON HU OBLIGATIONS WITH NO PLAN IN PLACE TO FINANCE THEM, HUG DEBT WITHOUT ANY PL IN PLACE TO DUCE IT,O I THINK THAT THERE IS A BROADND GROWING SENSE THAT THE FEDERAL GOVNMENT IS OVERSTRETCHED, AND THATHIS IS SILY NOT A TIME FOR THE FEDER GOVERNMENT TO BE TAKG ON MASSIVE NEWOBLIGATIONS, AND THAT'S SORT OF THE UNDERLYING SENTIMENT THAT'S DRIVING THE EXTENT OF CONRN, THE PASSION THAT YOU E SEEING, BEYON SIMPLY THE SPECIFICS O THE HEALTH RE DEBATE.

>> WAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT, CYNTHIA, AT THAT IS SORT OF OVERWHELMINGHE NEW SPECIFS OF HE HEALTH CARE BATE?

>> I DOHINK THAT THE IS A GENERAL UNEASE OUT THERE, BUT I WOD DESCRIBE IT DIFFERENTLY. I DON'T THI IT'S ABOUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ING OVERSTRETCH. I THINK THATHERE IS A SENSEF UNEASEECAUSE THE ECONOMY IS SO BAD. PRESIDENT OBAMA CAUTION WAY BACK IN JNUARY AND FEBRUARY THAT THE ECOMY WOULD REVER VERY SLOWLY. BUT I D'T THINK THAT PEOPLE EXPECTED THAT, EVEN NOW, UNPLOYMENT WOULD BE INCHIN TOWARD 10%. TH DOESN'T MAKE PEOPLE VRY TRUSTING. IT DOESN'T MAKE THEM VERY CONFIDENT ABOUT ANYING. AND IT CERTAINLY ESN'T INCREASTHEIR LEVEL OF TRUST IN THE OBAMA MINISTRATION. SO IO THINK THATHERE IS A FREE-FLOATING ANXIETY O THERE ATTACHED TO THE ECONO AT E MOMT.

>> NOLAN FINLEY, IT AUGUST. IT'S SUPPOSEDTO BE A QUIET MONTH FOR ALL OF US, AT THE BEACH OR OTHERWISE AND YET WE HAVE THIS HUGE PLIC DEBATE. HOW MUCH DO YOU SEE -- WHEN YOU LOOK FORWARD NOW TO SEPTEMBER, DOES THE PUICANCOR OF AUGUST RELLY HAVE AN IMPACT ON MEMBERS OF CONGRESSND THE NATIONAL DEBATEIN SEPTEMBR?

>> OH, ABLUTELY. I THINK IT WILL RESHAPE THE DEBATE WHEN THEY COME BCK TO COGRESS, AFTER THE RECESS. I BELIEVE THAT THING WILL HAV TO ME TOWARD THE MIDDLE. YOU HAVE D VOTERS OUT THERE WATCHING A LOT OF MONEYE SPNT, THIS YEAR -- $800 BIION, STIMULUS LAN. AN EQUAL AOUNT FOR BANKS AND THE CREDITMARKETS. 10'S OFILLIONS FOR OORMS. AND PEOPLE HEN'T YET -- FOR AUTOMAKERS AND PEOPLE HAVET YET SEEN IT PAY OFF IN A BETTERI O THEIR CONDION. CONGRESIS GOING TO HAVE TO GO BACK IN SEPTEMBER D CRAFT A BILL THEY CAN SE TO THE AMECAN PEOPLE AS BEING GOOD FOR THEM, AS A BILL THAT WILL MA THINGS WORK BETTER IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL LIV. >>OLAN FINLEY JHN DIAZ, ROBERT ROBB A CYNTHIATUCKER, THANK YOU ALL FOUR.

>> Lehre ON OUR WEB SITE, YOU CAN FIND REPTS FROM LOCAL STATIONS ABO THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE, INUDING NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC TELEVION, WHICH COVERED THE PRESENT'S TOWN HALL MEETING TODAY. IN OTHENEWS TODAY, THE U.S. MITARY IN AFGHANISTAN ANNOUNCED THREE MORE AMERANS HAVE DIED IN FIGHTINGINCE SATURD. TT MADE 18 KILLED SO FAR THI MONTH. AND IN IRAQ, MORE BOMBSENT OFF SHIITE SECTIONS OF BAGHDAD. AT LET EIGHT IRAQIS WERE KILLED. INTELLINCE OFFICIALS IN PAISTAN REPORTED A MISSILE STRIKE KILLED AS MY AS 14 MILITANTS. THEY SAID A U.S. DRONE AIRCRT ATTACKED A TIBAN CAMP IN PAKISTAN NEAR E AFGHAN BORDER. ANOTHER U.S. STRIKE APPENTLY KILLED THCOMMANDER OF THE PAKISTANI TABAN LAST WEEK. THE TALAN INSISTED TODAY'S SSILE ATTACK HIT A HOUSE AN KILLED SIX CIVILNS. A COURIN MYANMAR HAS SENTENCED OPPOSITION LEADER AUNSAN SUU KYI TOORE DETENTION. THE NEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATE HEARD DAY SHE WILL SPEND ANOTHER YEAR AND A HALFS A PRISONER IN HER OWN HE. WE HAVE A REPORT NARRATEDY NATHAN RUGMAN OF INDEPENDENT TELEVISION NEWS.

>> SHE' 64, NOW, AND HAS PAID FOR TH NOBEL PEE PRIZE SHE WON IN 91 BY SPENDING MOSTF HER TIME IN ETENTION. SHE WAS LET OUT, EARLIER THIS YEAR, TO MEET FOREIGN DIPLOMATS, BU WHO KNOWS WAT TOLL 14 YERS OF NFINEMENT AND HOUSE ARRES HAVE TAKENN THE FAMOLY SANGUINE AUNG SAN SUU KYI. TODAY HER SUPPORTERS DARED TO GATHER ON RANGOON STETS AND FILM SECRETLY OUTSIDE THE PRISON WHERE SHE STOODTRIAL. BURMA'S GENERALS REDUCED HER THREE-YEAR JAIL SENTENCE BUT THEY SHOWED NO INNTION OF RELEASI HER YET. THE VERCT WAS BROADCAST ON BUA'SNEWS. 18ONTHS MORE HOUSE ARREST FOR VILATING INTERNA SECURITY. E PRESENTER ADDED THAT SHE WOULD ABLE TO WATCH STATE TELEVISION AS IF THAT WOULD SOFTEN THE BLOW. ER LAWER WASN'T SURPRISED. HE HAD BEEN STOCKING UPN BOOKS AND MEDICINE HIS CLIENT PREPARES TO WLE AWA MORE HOURS AND MONTH IN HER LAKESIDE VILLA UNTIL THE WOM ELECTED TO LEAD HER COUNTRY 19 YRS AGO CAN ACTUALLY LEAD THEM. IT WAS TH AMERICAN TOURIST WHO GAVEBURMA'S GENERA THE LATEST EXCUSE. HE USED FLIPPERS TO SWIM ACROSS THE LAKE IN MAY TO SEE HER WITHOUT PERMISSIO WAS IMPRISONED FOR SEVEN YEARS INCLUDING HARDLABOR, AMONG THE CHARGES SWIING IN A NONSWIMMING AREA AROUND THE WORLD, INCLUING LONDON, THERE WERE PROTESTS ON AUNG SANUU KYI'S BEHALF. ALK ABOUT SANCTIONS ON WO AND RUBY EXPORT THAT THE ELECTINS WOULD HAVE NO LEGITICY WITHOUT SUU KYI. ON THE ROAD WHERESHE WAS TRIED AND WHE SHE GAVE THIS MESSAGE TO THE FOREIGN DIPLOMATS WATCHING. "I HOPE WE CAN WORK CLOSELY FOR PEACE A PROSPERITY," SHE AID, "A WORK THAT SETCHES BACK DECAD. BEHINDHESE BARRICADESLEADING TOER HOME.

>> Lehrer: AFTER THE SENTCING, PRESIDENT OBAMA ISED A ATEMENT THAT CALLED FOR SUU KYI'S MMEDIATE UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE." RESCUERS IN TAIN SCOURED REMOTE VLAGES TODAY, LOOKING FOR SURVIVORS OF A DELY TYPHOON. E STORM'S WEEKEND ASSAULT KILLED AT LEAST 70EOPLE. SO FAR, MILITARY HICOPTERS HAVE AIRLIFD MORE THAN 900 OPLE WHO FLED THREE VILLAGES IN THE SOUTH. BUTUNDREDS OF OTHERS MAY STILL BE TRAPPED IN MUDSLIDES THAT COVERED VAST AREAS. THE STM CAUSED THE WORST FLOODINGN TAIWAN IN 50 YEARS. IN U.S. ECONOMICEWS, THE LABOR PARTMENT REPORTED WORKER PRDUCTIVITY SOARED LAST SPRING BYHE MOST IN ALMOST SIX YEARS. BUT ON WALL REET, STOCKS WERE DO AS NEW CONCERNS ABOUT BA PROFITS DRAGGED ON THE BADER MARKET. THE DOW JONES INDTRIAL AVERAGE LO 96 POINTS TO CLOSE AT 9241. THE NASDAQELL 22 POINTS TO OSE AT 1969. OIL PRICES WERALSO DOWN. THPRICE IN NEW YORK TRADING DROPPED BACK UNDER $ A BARREL. GENERAL MOTORS ANNOUNCETODAY IT'S READY TO SET A RACAL NEW GAS MILEE STANDARD. THE COMPANY ID ITS PLUG-IN ELECTRICAR, THE CHEVY VOLT, SHOULD GET 23MILES A GALLON IN CITDRIVING. C.E.O. FRITZ HENDERSOSAID THE VOLT WILL TVEL UP TO 40 MILES ON A SINGLE BATRY CHARGE. AFTER THAT, A SMALL GASONE ENGINGENERATES THE ELECTRICITY.

>> THREE QUARTERS OF AMERICA COMMUTEEWER THAN 30 MILES A DAY, MOST VOLTDRIVERS WILL ERATE ON A DAI BASIS WITHOUT HAVI TO USE AINGLE DRO OF GA. INCIDENTALLYIT'S ALSO MUCH LESS EXPSIVE TO DRIVE A CAR WITH ELECTRICITY. IN DETROIT, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU CAN CHAR THE VOLT AT NIGHT, OFF PEAK FOR ABOUT FIVE CEN PER KILL WAT HOUR WHICH MEANS A FULL 40-MILE CHARGE OF THE VOLT WILL COSTABOUT 40 NTS.

>> Lehrer: THE VO COULD COST AROU $40,000 WHEN IT HITS DEAL SHOWROOMSEXT YEAR. HENDERSON SAID THE PRICE IS EXPECTED TO CO DOWN IN FUTURE ARS. HE ALSO ACKNOWLEDGED PLUING IN THEAR WILL BE A PROBLEM FOR OPLE IN APARTMENTS. ULTIMATELY, G.M.XPECTS CHARGING STATIONS TO MEETHAT DEMAND. MEDICARESEARCHERS MAY HAVE FOUND ANOTHECRITICAL USE FOR PIRIN. A NEW STUDY INDATES IT COULD CUT THE RISK OF DEATH COLON CANCER PATIES BY 30%. THE FINDINGS ARE IN T "JOURNAL OF T AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION." THE PATIENTS TOOK ASPIN IN CONJUNCTION WITHURGERY AND CHEMOTHERAPY. COLO-RECTAL CANCER KILLS NRLY 50,000 AMERICANS EACH YEAR. AND STILL TO COME OTHE NEWSHOUR TONIG, REMEMBERING EUNICE SHRIVE BUT FIRST, UPDATE ON THE SITUATION IN THE WAR RN DEMOCRATIC REPLIC OF CONGO. CRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON VISITED THE EASRN PART OF THE COUNTRY TODAY, WRE GOVERNME AND REBEL FORCES FREQUENTLY CLASH. NEWSHOUSPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SON MALONEY WAS THERE THIS SPRG, JUST AS A NEW INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEENG EFFORT WAS GETTING UNDEWAY. HE ACCOMPANIED THE UNED TIONS' CHIEF OF MISSION THER ON A TOUR OF U.N.ASES IN NORTH VU PROVINCE.

>> Reporte IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, UNID NATIONS PEACEKEEPERS ARE FANG FRESH CHALLENGES TO THEIR 10-YEAR MIION HERE. HOW SOSECURE MIMS OF PEOPLE AS FIGHTING HAS TO SECURE MIIONS OF PEOPLE AS FIGHTING HAS FLARED UP IN RECENT NTHS. OVER FIVE MILLION HAVE DIED AS A RESULT OF THIS COUCTUELED BY RIVALRIES. AS MA AS35,000 IN THE LAST MONTH ALONE. THE U. HAS IN FACT COME UNDER INTENSE CRITICM FOR FAILING TO ADEQUATELY RESPOND TO THE LATT WAVE OF VIOLENCE AGNST CIVILNS, SOMETHING THAT IS AT THE RE OF ITS MANDATE HERE.

>> OUR FIRST CHALLENGE I PROTECTION. PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN POPULATIONS. AND THAT'S A HUG CHALLENGE BEUSE OF THE SIZE AND COMPLEXITY THE COUNTRY -- THIS AREA ALONE,HERE WE'RE FOCUSING RIGHT NOW IS THE SE OF CALIFORNIA.

>> ALA DOSS IS THE U.N. SSION CHIEF IN CONGO UNDER PRESRE TO ADDRESS THE DERIORATING SECURITY SITUATION THISSPRING, HE TRAVELED TO THE FRONT LINES FOR A FIRSTHA ASSESSMENT. HIGHN THE AIR IT BECOMES IMMEDIATELY CLE WHAT THE U.N. IS UP AGNST HERE. IT'S SEEMINGLY ENDLESS STRETCH OF HI AND JUNG, AN AA THE SIZE OFHE U.S. EAST OF THE MISSSIPPI, THE CONG HAS ONLY AS MANY MIES OF PAVED ROAD AS PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

>> IF YOU' IN EUROPE YOU GO IING AT THIS ALTITUDE. I DON'T THINK WEL BE SKIING HERE, THOUGH.

>> Reporter: FIRST UPN DOSS TOUR, THE MOUNIN TOWN OF YANGA BYONGA. HIGH OR THE HILLTOP WITH VIEWS OF THE TOWN, DUG WITH BUNKERS. WERE USHERED INTO A TENT FOR A MILITARY BRIEFNG AND IS CLR WHY ALL THESEEFENSES ARE NESSARY. THIS IS E HOT ZONE OF FIGHTING BETWEEN THE CGO ARMY KNOWN AS THE FDRC AND THE MAIN REBEL GROUP T FBLR.

>> ABOUT 25 OCCUPAS. ON A LATER DAT

>> KAA BIYANGA IS ONE OF SI BASES SITUED ITHE PROVINCE. THE AREA ISNOWN TO A DIZZYI ARRAY OF FIGHTING FORCES EACH BATTLG FOR THEIR OWN PATCH OF THIS MINERAL-RICH REGION. CONGO'SWN ARMY WHICH THE U.N TASKED WITH WORKINGLONGSIDE IS SOMETIMES JUST AS PRDATORY ONHE LOCAL PEOPLE AS T REBS. THIS IS THE CHAOTIC NEW REALITY OF PCEKEEPING IN TH 21 CENTURY.

>> WE ARE FAR FROM THE CLASSIC MOL OF PEACEKEEPING, THEHIN BLUE LINEEPARATING TWO STATES. THAT'S NOT THE CASE HERE. IN NORTH KIVU, WE'REEALING WITH 20,0 ARMED GROUPS, NATIONAL ARMED FOE THAT IS AT TIMES HA DISINGRATEDAND IS HAVING TO BE REBUILT, FOIGN ARD GROUPS FROM RWANDA, FROM UGANDA, IS IS ANINCREDIBLE X.

>> ReporterTHE U.N.'S MAIN CONCERN THE FDLR, KNOWN AS FINANCIAL FOR T GECIDE WHO ESCAD IN THE BUSH. TH U.N. IS HELPING TO FGHT THE DLR BUT THIS IS NEVER AN EASY TASK WHETHE ENEMY CAN MELT AWAY INTO THE JUNGLE A YOUR FIGHNG PARTNER LACKS DISCIPLINE. DOSS SAYS HE'S HOPING IF THEY CAN JUST WIN TH BATTLE, THE END MAY BE IN SIGHT.

>> WH WE SEEOW ITHE OPPORTUNITY TO TURN TH LAST PAGEON A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE AND CONFLT THAT HASRAVAGED THIS COUNTRY ANDPARTICULARLY THE EASTERN PART OF THIS COUNTRY FOR THE LAST YEARS. I THINK WE SHOULD CONSID THAT AS A TREMENDOUS OPPTUNITY. T CERTAINLY NOT ONE TH CAN BE WASTED. WE VE NO TIME TO SE.

>> Reporter: AND SOWITH ALL THE URGENCY OF A POLITICAL CDIDATE IN THE WANING DAYS OF A TOUGH CAMPAIGN, DOSS LEAVES KANYA BINGA AND HIS TRIP SWITCH INTO HIGH GEAR. HE LLIES TROOPS I ANATTEMPT TOOOST MORALE TTERED BY DIFICULT CONDITIONS AND OVERWHELMING DUTIES. THERE IS A STOP AT A PIGME VILLAGE WHERE THE U.N. MISSION HAS BUILT HOUSE FIGURENE OF THE MOST DISADVANTAGEDND DISCRIMINATED AGAINST ETHCITIES.

>> WE'RGOING IT PUT A SCHOOL HERE.

>> I THINK THIS IS A GOOD IDEA.

>> Reporter: AND THERERE TOWN HA MEETINGS WITHLOCAL LEARS WHE DOSS LISTE TO THEIR CONCERNS.

>> THERE H BEEN THE PROBLEM OF RAPE. HERE IS THE BURNING OF HOUSES. THERE HAVE BEEN KILLINGSND MANY FLAGRANT VIOLATIO OF HUMAN GHTS. ReporterWINNING THE GOOD FAITH OF THE LOAL POPULATIONS KEY TO THE U.N.'S SCESS HERE BUT IT HASOT ALWAYS GONE VERY WELL. A SERIES OF RECENT MASSACRES CAIED OUT BY REBE HAVE THE POPULATON FRIGHTENED AND A HIGHLY PUBLICIZEDTTACK LAST FALL INHE NEARBY TOWN OF KAWANYA ERE MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE WERE KILL LESS THAN A MILE FROM A U.N. BASE CAUSED ARS TO BOIL OVER INTO ANGER AT WHAT LALS CALL THEU.N.'S FALURE TO PROTECT THEM. THOUGH DOSS ADMS MISTAKES WRE MADE IN WANJA, HE INSISTS LIVES RE SAVED.

>> WE WERE PROTECTING 500-6,000 PEOPLE AROUND THE BASE WE HAD IN KIWANJA, WE HAD AT THAT POINT THERE 12 EACEKEEPERS. THEYWERE PROTECTING BETWEEN 5,000 AND 6,000 PELE WHO HAD COME AROUND THEASE FOR PROTECTION. SO THEY WERE BU DEALING WITH THAT SITUATION COLD THEY HAVE DONE MORE? WE OBVUSLY WILL LOOK THAT, ANHAVE LOOKED AT THAT WE HAVE TO LO AHEAD, RECOGNIZE THAT THERE E GOING TO BE FFICULT MOMENTS, DIFFICULT MES, EXPLAIN WH WE'RE DOIN AND PERHAPS THENE CAN AN SHLD DO A BETTER JOB.

>> Repoer: DOSS, A VERAN OF U.N.ISSIONS IN SIERRA LEONE, IVY COAST AND LIBERIA, KNOS THEU.N.'S WON'T BEERE FOREVER. IT'S THE THOUGHT ON EVERYONE' MIND AS WE WIND UP OUR WHISTLE-ST TOUR ARRIVING A POLICE STATION IN THE CITY OF BENYI. WHEN COMPLETE THISILL SERVE AS A TRAINING CENTEROR A POLICE FOE THAT WILL BE KEY IN MANTAINING ORDER FOR THE Y WHEN THE U.N. MISSION KNOWN A MANUK FINAL DRAWS DOWN. DOSS HAS BEENNVITED TO PRESIDE OVER A RIBBON CEREMO. THAT ACCORDING TO TRADITION INVOES POURING A TOAST OVE THE FOUNDATION.

>> I THINK FOR US TLEAVE -- THAT WE ARE NOW THINKING ABOUT LIFE AFTER NUK, WE MU BE WORNG WITH THE GOVERNMENT TO BUI ITS OWN NATIONAL SECURITY FORCES AND THAT'S A BIG JOB. THAT'S A HUGEOB IN A COUNTRY LIKE. THIS THERE ARE PEOP IN THE ARMED FOCES, WE KNOW, WH HAVE COMMITTED VIOLATIONS -- HAN RIHTS VIOLATIONS THAT HA TO DEALT WITH, BUT IT IS GOING TO TAKE TIE, YOU KNOW -- YOU ON'T REBUILDND CREATEN EFFECTE, LOYAL AND COMPETENT MILITRY IN A FEW WEEKS OR MONTHS.

>> Reporter: BUT A LIFE HERE AFTER THE U.N. SEEMS A LONG WAY OFF. ATHE REBEL FDLR RAM PAG CONTINUES IN NORTH KIVU WITH HUNDREDSKILLED,LEAVING A LOCAL POPULATION FRIGENED AND NCERTAIN OF THEIR FUTURE.

>> Lehrer: >>ehrer: DURING SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON'S TRIPO THE REGION TODAY, SHMET WITH REFUGEES AND CTIMS OF RAPE. E TOLD CONGOLESE PRESIDENT JOPH KABILA THERE SHOULD BE "NO IMPUNITY FOR SEXUAL AND GENDER-BED VIOLENCE."

>> Reporter: I HAVE ST COME FROM MEETING WITH TWO SURVIVORS --

>> HAVE JUST COME FROM A MEETING WITH TWOURVIVORS OF SEXUALATTACKS. THETROCITIES THAT THESE WOMEN HAVE SUFFERED, WHIC STAND FOR THE ATROCITIESTHAT MANY HAVE SUFFERED, THE UNITED STATE CONMNS THESEATTACKS, AND ALL THOSE WHO COMMIT THEMND ABET THEM, AND WE STATE TO THE WORLD THAT THOSE WH ATCK CIVILIAN POPULATIONS USING SYSTEMATIC RAPE ARE GUILTY OF CMES AGAIN HUMANITY.

>> Lehre FOR MORE ON THE CONFLIC WE TALKED TO ZAINAB SALBI, THE FOUNDER ANDC.E.O. OF WOMEN FOR WEN INTERNTIONAL, AN ORGANIZATION THAT AIDS WOMEN CONFCT ZONES. S'S A FREQUENT VISITOR TO NGO. MISS SALBI, WELCOME. THE UNITED NATIONS HASALLED THEASTERN CONGO THE RAPE CAPITAL OF THE WLD. EXPLN WHAT THAT MEANS.

>> CON HAS ONE OF TH WORST CASES IN TERM OF RAPE SINCE WORLD WAR II WHERE 900,000 GERMAN WOMEN WERE RAPED AND SINCE THE GENOCIDE OF RWANDA WHERE MORE THAN HA A MILLI WOMEN WE RAPED. IN CONGO, WE HAVE HDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF WOMEN WHO AR TAKEN AS SEXUAL SLAVES, WHERE THEY ARE RAPED ASREQUENTLY AS POSSIBL BY REL AND SOLDIERS AND WHERE THEY ARE FORCED TO CLEAN AND COOK ANDARRY THEIR AMMUNITION AND FOOD FOR FREE -- OR AS A SLAVE. RAPE ISAPPENING ON A PUBLIC LEVELN FRONT OF HUSBDS, IN FRONT OF FATHERS, WHERE THEY ARE FORC TO SEE THE RAPE OF THEIR MOTHERS ANDHEIR DAUGHTERS, AND IT'S HAPPENING IN PUBLICEVEL FRONT OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY, PATICULARLY VIS-A-VIS RESPECTED MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNI SUCH AS TEACHERS. IT IS ONE THE WORST CASES WHERE RAPEAS BEEN UTILIED AS A WEAPON OF FORCE

>> Lrer: WHAT IS TH POINT OF IT? WHAT ARE THEY TRYINGTO ACCOMPLISH BEYOND THERING SLAVE LAR?

>> WELL, THE SLAVEABOR OFTEN HAPPS. IT'S SERVICI THE ARMY, BASICAL. YOU GO, YOU RAPE,OU PILLAGE, YOU BURN, AND YOU TAKE A LAVE, SO THAT'S ONE OF THE PASSIONS IN CONGO AND IN OTHER WARS AS WELL -- ONE OF THE PATTERNS IN CONGO AND IN OTHER WARS AS WELL. AND TO DESTROY THE FABRIC OF THE SOCIETY. ONE HUSBAND IS FORD TO SEE THE RAPE OF H WIFE OR HI DAUGHTER IN FRONT OF HIM, THISS A COLETE EMASCULATION OF THE USBAND D TELLINGHE WHOLE CIETY THAT WE ARE DESTROYING THE MOST REPECTED MEMBERSOF YOU SOCIETY, IN ONE OF T INTERVWS I CONDUCTED A WOMAN SAYS THEY TOOK THE MOST PRIVATE ACTSND THEY MADE IT INTO SUCH A PUBL DAIN, DESTROYING US FOREVERN FRONT OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY. IT IS ALSO ONE OF THE INTERVIEWERS I HAD WITH A SOLDIER, SAID, "I NEVER QUSTIONED WHENEVER I ENTERED ANOTHEMAN'S HOUSE WHEN I HAD A GUN ANDE NEVER HAD A GUN I NEVER QUESTIONED MY RIGHT TO RAPE HISWIFE. I ALWAYS RAPEDHER. IT THE MESSAGE FROM ONE MAN TO ANOTHER, I HAVE A BEGIN, YOU DON'T, I'M STRONGE THAN YOU SO T'S DESTYING THE SOCIAL FABRIC OF THE SCIETY TO E SERVICING OF THE REBELS AND THE ROOPS TO A MESSAGING FM ONE MAN TO ANOTHER.

>> Lrer: HOW IN THE WORLD DI A CULTURE LIKE THAT GET STARTED?

>> THAT'S AULTURE THAT OFTEN ACTUALLY HAPPE IN MILITARY -- AS I SAID, IN WORLD WAR II THE RUSSIAN ARMY RAPED 900,00 GERMAWOMEN.

>> Lehr: NOT A SPECIAL SITUATION, THE IN THE CONGO?

>> 'S NOT A SPECIAL SITUATN IN THECONGO. IT HAS GOTEN OUT OF HAND IN THE CONGO. INITILY, THIS WAS NOT A CONGOLESE CULTURE, IT CAM WITH THE INTERHAMWE, OR THE FDLR WHO ARE THE RNDA REBELS WHO CREATED THE EXTREMISM AND ENTUALLY THAT BECAME A PRACTICE OF THE CONGOLESE REBELS AND PRACTICE OF THE CONGOLES ARMY ITSELF. IT WASN' A COMMON THIN AND NOW IT' BECOMING A COMMON THIN ERE IS ONE THING THA IS COMMON IN THE TRITION, IF YOU RAPE A PME WOMANOURE IMMUNE FROM H.IV. -- IF YOU RAPE A GMY WOMAN YOU ARE IMMUNE FROM H.I.V.-AIDS.

>> Lrer: IS THERE ANY WAY TO JUDGE THE INFLUENCE OF SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON MIGHT HAV ON THE SIATION THERE?

>> IT'S VE IMPORTANT. A,HERE ARE LOTS OF AMERICANS WHO ACALLY CARE ALOT ABOUT CONGO, SO THAT'S O ONE HA -- SUCH GROUPS SUCHAS RUN FOR COGO AND OTHERS WHO HAVE BEEN RUNNING ANDEMONSTRATING FOR YEARS T SAY WEE GOT TO DO SOMETHING TO STOP THE RPE IN CONGO A THE VIOLENCE IN CONGO. B,CONGO, FOR THE LONGEST TIME, SAW THAT AMERIC IS LOOKING THE HER DIRECTION AND TOLERATING THE KILLI OF -- AT LEAST FIVE MILON PEOPLE, THETATISTICS --

>> Lehrer: FIVE MLION PEOPLE -- AT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER OF PELE.

>> AND THIS IS A 10-EAR-OLD STISTIC WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN UPDATED, ACTUAY, SO IT'S GNIFICANT IN R MESSAGE AND THE U.S MESSAGE TOWARD CONGO THAT WE DO CARE ABOUT YOU, HER INVESTMENTHER ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT $17 MILLION FOR INVESTMENT ON WOMEN AND CHILDN, HER INVESTMENT -- HER DECLARATION THAT WE NEED TO VEST IN PROFESSIALIZING THE CONGOLESE ARMY AND IN THE GOVERNMENT. IT'S SIGNIFICANT F CONGO AND T'S THE FIRST TIM THAT CONGO GETS THIS LEVEL OF ATTENTION FROM THE U.S. -- IT'SLSO SIGNIFICANT TO NEIGHBORI COUNTRIES IN TMS OF SENDING THE MSAGE TAT THIS IS PORTANT AND WE -- AND WEAVE T ATTENTION THAT WE HAVE -- WE WA TO HAVE A PEACE AND CIVILITY IN THE REGION, SO IT'S ACTUALLY QUE SIGNIFICANT FOR CONGO AND ITS NEIGHBS. >>ehrer: IS THERE A SIMPLE EXPLANATION AS TOWHAT THIS FIGHTING IS REALL ALL ABOUT?

>> T FIGHTING STARTED BECAE OF T GENOCIDE IN RWANDA. IT'S CONTINUATIONOF THE GOCIDE IN RWANDA. AND IN MA WAYS, IT TELLS US WHEN DIDN'T DEAL WITH IT 15 YEARS O, WE'RE STILL FING IT TODAY. T INTAHAMWE, THE REBELS O COMMITTED THE GENOCIDE IN RWANDA ESCAPED TOCONGO. THEY ESCAPED TO CONGO AFTER A FEW YES OF CONTINUING THE ATTACKS AGAINST RWANDA, THE RWANDESE SENT THEIR TROOPTO STOP HEM, UPON THATHERE WERE NEW REBEL GROUPS CREATED IN CONGO, ONGOLESE GROUPS -- OR REBEL GRPS TO FIGHT THE INVADERWHO ARE T RWANDESE ANDEVENTUALLY THE ARMYLSO CAME INTO POWER, SOWHAT STARTED A CONTINUATION OF ANOTHER GENODE EENTUALLY BECA INTERFIGHTING WITH ALL THESE LAYERS, IT EVENTUALLY BECAME A FIGHTING OVERESOURCES AN IT EVENTUAY BECAME ALSO COMBINED WITH CRINAL SOURCES, S IT'S ONE THING AT STARTED WITH A POLICAL REASON, IT'S NOW ALL OVER THE PLACE.

>> Lehrer: INALLY, IS THERE ANY REAN AT ALL TO BE OIMISTIC THAT ANY OF THIS AWFULNESSS GOING T END ANYTIME SOO OR CAN BE ENDEANYTIME SOON? >>FIRST, IT'S A GOOD PERIOD RIGHTOW -- THERE A POLITICAL WILLINGNESSY BOTH THE ONGOLESE GOVERNMENT AS WELL AS THE RWANDESE GERNMENT AND DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT WE WAN TO HAVE E STABILITY OFHE REGION AND BOTH COUNTRIESND WE'VE GOT TO STOP T WAR, SO THAT'S REALL GOOD, BUT BEYONDHAT -- THEISIT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE IS VERY IMPORTA IN ENDING POLITICAL MESSAGES BUT BEYD THAT I WORK WITH POLICAL SURVIVORS, ONE OFHEM I WORK WITH, HANRATTAN, SHE WAS A SEXUAL SLA FOR A YEAR AND A HALF AND THAT WOMAN HAD ESAPED, RUN IN THE BUSH F ABOUT TWO MONTHS THEN MANAGED TO GO THROUGH A PROGM AND BUILD ER LIFE AND NOW SHE IS ONE OF THE MO IMPORTANTOMMUNITY OANIZERS IN GOMA, ACTUAY, WRE THE SECRETARY OF STATE VISITED. IF SHE IS STA ON HER FEET, I FEELVERY MUCH HOPE. THERE HASO BE HOPE.

>> Lehrer: ONE GOOD STORY, AT LEAST.

>> INDEED.

>> Lehrer: MISS ALBI, THANK YOU VEY MUCH. >>PLEASURE. A OTNOTE, JASON MALONEY'S REPORT IS PART OF THEULITZER CENTER ON CRISISEPORTING'S "FRAGI STATES" PROJECT, A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BURE OF INTERNATIONAREPORTING. YOU C FIND MORE INFORMATION ABOUT BOTH AT newshour.s.org.

>> Lehrer: ANFINALLY TONIGHT, THE GACY OF EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER. JUDY WOODRUFF BEGINS WH SOME BACKGROUNDN HER LIFE.

>> EUNICE KEEDY SHRIVER W THE FIFTH OF NIN KENNEDY OMILEN, AND GROWING UP IN THAT INENT FAMILY WAS OFTE OVERADOWED BY HER BROTHERS -- JOE,JOHN, BOBBY AND TED, BUT IT WAS HEROLDER SIST, ROSEMARY, WHO INSPIRED HER LIFE'SWORK. ROSEMARY WAS BORN, AS DESCRIBED IN THE DAYS, MILDLY RETARD, AND AT A 23 UNDER ALOBOTOMY WHICH MADE HERORSE OFF. SHE WAS INITUTIONALIZED FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE. JIM RIVER, ONE OF EUNICE'S FIVE CHILDREN SPOKE WITHUR RAY SUAREIN 06.

>> SHE TELS WONDERFUL STORIES ABOUT IN HER TEENAGEEARS DEALING WITH HER SISTER IN A VE COMPETITIVE FAMILY WHERE ONE WAS EXPECTED TO COM BACK WITH A FIRST-PLACE FINH IN A SAILBT RACE,AND GOING OUT WI ROSEMARY AND REALIZING RIGHTHERE AND THEN TAT SHE COULD SAIL, SHEOULD PULL ON THE JIB, SHE COULD CREW -- HER SISTER COULD DO THINGSND PARTICULARLY DOTHINGS IN SRTS.

>> Reporte: ROSEMARY WAS LARGELY KEPT OUT OF THE PUBL EYBUT IN 1962, EUNICE SHRIVER WROE A CANDID ARTICLE ABOUT MENTAL RETARDATION IN AN IUE OF "THE SATURDAY EVENING POST." THEARTICLE HELPED TO EASEHE ATTACHESOCIAL IGMA. AFTER HER BROTHER JOHN F. KENDY, WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT, SH USED THE OPPORTUNY TO PUSH FORHE RIGHTS OF PEOP WTH TELLECTUAL DISABILITIE HER BROTHER, SENATORED KENNEDY.

>> AER PRESIDENT KENNEDY WAS SRN IN, HE US TO JOKE WITH THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY TT HE ALWAYS FEARED SEEING EUNICE CAUSE EUNICEALWAYS HAD AN AGENDA.

>> Woodruff: INHE SUMMER OF 1963 SHE RAN A CAMP FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISLED CHILDREN ANADULTS AT T HOME IN MARYLANDTHAT SHE SHARED WITH H HUSBAND, SAENT SHRIVE WHO HELPED LAUNCH THE PACE CORPS. HER HUSND,TIM, RECALLED A MARKABLE SCENE.

>> REMBER VERY EARLY, I DON'T REMEMBER ACTLY WHAT AGE, FIVE OR SIX YEARS OLD, REMEMBER LOOKING OUTY WINDOW IN THE MORNING AND SEE PEOPLE COME FROM INSTITIONS, GET OFF YELLOW SCHOOL SS, EMPTY INT THE BACKYARD, RAI THEMERICAN FLAG, SG SONGSND THEN FAN OUT FOR KICKBALL OR FOR SWIMMING OR FOR HORSEBACK RIDING IN THIS BEAUTIFUL MARAND FARM. IT TOOK ME A LONG TI TO REALIZE THAT AT WASN'T NORMAL, YOU KNO TO HAVE 0 OR SO YOUNG PEOPLE WI INTELLECTUAL SABILITIES IN YOUR BACKYARD, WASN'T A NORMAL SUMMER ACTIVITY.

>> Woodrf: THAT FALL, HER BTHER, THE PRESIDENT, WAS ASSASSINATED.

>> SGENT RIVER, EUNICE, AND THREEF THE FOUR CHILDREN A AMONG THE VISITORS ATHE GRAVE.

>> Woodruff: FIVE YEARS LATER, ANOTHER ASSASNATION -- THIS TIME HER YOGER BROTHER, BBY. BUT JUST ONE MNTH AFTER, SHE AUNCHED THE FIRST-EVER SPECIAL YMPICS IN CHICAGO.

>> IN ANCIENT ROME, TH GLADIATORS WENT INTO THE ARENA TH THESE WORDS ON THEIR LIPS. "LET ME WIN. BUT I CNNOT WIN, LET ME BE BVE IN THE ATTEM."

>> A HER ROLE WAS F MORE THAN CEREMONIAL.

>> WELL DONE.

>> Woodruff: HER HANDS-ON APPROACH WONADMIRATION D NDERSTANDING FROM BOTH THE ATHLETES ANTHE PUBLIC.

>> IAM DELIGHTED TO MEET YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 'RE FENDS, RIGHT

>> Woodruff: OSE ATHLETES SAW IN HER A CHAMPION OF THEIR N.

>> MOST OF ALL FROM S. SHRIVER THAT I HAVE RIGHTSND WEAVE A GHT TO LIVE AND ENJOY LIE TO OUR FUEST.

>> Woodruff: EUNICEKENNEDY SHRIVER RECEIVED THE MAL OF FREEDOM IN 1984 FROM PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN. THR YEARS O, SHE WAS HONORED AGAIN,AT A DINNER HOSTED BY PRESIDENT GEGE W. BUSH.

>> LEUS NOTFORGET THATE HAVE MILES T GO TO VERTURN T PREJICE AND OPPRESSION FACING THE WORLD'S 180 MILION CIZENS WITH INTELLECTUALDISABITIES.

>> Wdruff: IN THE FOUR DECADES SINCE THEGAMES BEGAN, MORE THAN TWO MILLION COMPETITORS FRO MORE TH 150 COUNTRIE HAVE PARTICIPATED.

>> YOU ARE THE STARS, AND TH WORLD ISATCHING YOU. BY YOUR PRESENCE, YOU SEND A MESSAGE TO EVERY VILLAGE, EVERY CITY, EVERY NATION, A MESSAGEF HOPE, MESSAGE OF VICTORY. THE RIGHT -- T RIGH TO PLAY ON ANY PLAYING FIELD. YOU HAVE EARNEDIT. THE RIHT TO STUDY IN Y SCHOOL. YOU HAVE EARNED IT. E RIGHT TO HOLD A B. YOU HAVE EARNED IT. THE RIGHT --

>> THIGHT TO BE ANYONE NEIGHBOR. YOHAVE EARNED IT.

>> Woodruff: EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER WAS 88 YEAROLD. FOR MORE ONUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER'S ACHIEMENTS AND LEGACY, WE ARE INED BY ANDREW IMPARATO, PRESIDENT AND C.E. OF THE NON-PROFIT AMERIC ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. ANTHONY IMPATO, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

>> GOOD TO BE HE.

>> Woodruff: YOUORKED WITH EUNICE SHRIVER IN THE 1990'S. TELUS ABOUT THAT.

>> I CAME TO WASHINGTON TO WORK FOR SENATOR HARKIN IN THE DDLE HEALTH CARE REFORM UNDER THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION AD I REMEMBER EICE CALLING THE OFFICE AND WANTING TO KW WHAT WAS ITHE BLL FOR POPLE OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILIES. SHE WAVERY FOCUSED. SHE LLED SENATOR NNEDY'S OFFICE D SHE CALLED SENATOR HARK'S OFFICE AND SHE HAD ME IDEAS ABOUT WHAT SH WANTED IN THE BILL AND THEY FOUND THEIR WAY INTO THE BILL THATGOT MARKED UPIN SENATOR KENNEDY'S COMMITE, SO I WAS PRESSED WITH HER SSION, I WAS IMPRESSED WITH HOW SERIOUSLY PEOPLE TOOK HER INPUT. SHE CLEARLY WAS VIEWED AS A HEALTH-LICY EXPERT BY SENATOR HARN'S OFFICE AND SENATOR KENNEDY'S OFFICE ANDHAT WAS ONE OF THE MANY THINGS E WAS AN EXPERT IN. >>oodruff: YOU KNOW THIS FIE SOWELL. AT WAS IT LIKE FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUADISABILITIES BEFO NICE SHRIVER CAME ALONG?

>> WELL, IF YOU LOOK BACKT THE CLIP THAT YOUJUST SHOWED, IN THE 1960'S, WE HA LOT OF PEOPLEdU)Ud TELLECTUAL DISABILITIES WHO WERE SUCK IN NSTITUTIONS FROM THE MOMENT THEY WERE BORN. CHILDREN WOD BE BORN, THE PROFESSIONALS WOUL TELL THE PARENTS THEY HAVE HOMES WHERE Y CAN SEND THESE CHILDREN, THEY'LL BE TAKEN CARE OF FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES ANDIT WAS BASICALLY WAREHOUSG HUMAN BEIN, AND I THINK SHE-- SHE SAWTHAT THERE WAS VALUE IN CREATINGPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU PELE AND ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES TO BE IN THE COMMUNITY, TO BE VISIBLE, TO HAVE FRIENDS, TO PARTICIPTE IN SPORTS AND YOU SAW THAT LA EECH THAT SHE GAVE, SHE TAED ABOUT JOBS- I MEAN, OVETHE CRSE OF THE DECES OF H LEADERSH, SHE GOT MORE AND MORE INTESTED IN HEALTH RE, BS, OTHER THINGS THAT WOU HELP IMOVE QUALITY OF LIFE

>> Woodruff:O IT WAS THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS,BUTIT WAS MORE THAN THAT. SO THE LEGACY GOES BEYOND SPORT ALTHOUGH THAT WAS A BIG CNTRAL PART OF IT.

>> I THINK THAT'S RIGHT, SPORT WAS TH CENTER, BUT THE SCIAL OLYMPICS DESCRIBES THEMSELV AS A MOVEMEN AND I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF PARALLELS BEEEN THE SPECIAL OMPICS MOVEMENT AND THE BROADER DISABILITY-RHTS MOVEMENT. BH MEMENTS, AT THEIR CORE, ARE ABOUT THE IDE THAT DISABILITY IS NATURAL PART OF THE HUMANXPERIENCE AND YOU SHOULDN'T BE MITED IN TERMS OF HAVING A FULLLIFE JUST BECAU YOU HAVE ADISABILITY.

>> Woodff: IF SHE HADN'T BEEN A KENNEDY, COULD SHE HAVE DONE WHAT SHE DID?

>> WELL, I THINK SHEOULD HAVE BECAUSI THINK IT WAS ABOUT HER -- IT WAS HER SPIRIT. SHE HAD AN INDOMITABLE SPIRI IT WASN'T ABOUT HER LT NAME. THS MOVEMENT IS FULL OF PEOPLE THAT DO NOT HAVE FAMOUS LAST NAMES BUT TEY ACCOMPLISH THINGS BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT --THEY WILL NOT LET OTHER PEOPLETOP THEM, ANDTO ME, UENICEAS THAT KINDF PERSON SHEAD FIRE IN THE BELLY, SHE HAD PASSION, AND SHE KNEW HOW TO GET THGS DOE.

>> Woodruff: HER BROTHER, SENATOR EDWARKENNEDY -- TED KENNEDY IS RIGHT N BATTLING BRAICANCER BUT I KNOW HE'S EN QUOTED-- HE WAS QUOTED TOAY IN A STATEMENT AS SAYING HAT IF IT HADN'T BEEN FOR HER, THE AMERICANS WITH DISILITIES ACT, THE A.D.A., WOULD NOT HAVE PASSE. HOW DO YOU SE THAT?

>> WELL, I INK, AGAIN, G BACK TO HER LEADERSHIP IN THE 1960'S. SHE LAID T FOUNDATION F THE INDIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES WITH EDUCAON ACT WHH PASSED I1975 -- SHE LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR THE CIIL RIGHTS LAWS THAT LED U TO THE A..A., SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT HE W SAYING. SHE WAS A PIONE, FIGHT THANKSGIVING FIGHT, BEFE MANY OF THE CHAMPIONS WHO GOT THE A.D. THROUGH CONGRESS WERE EVEN THINKING ABOUTHESE SUES AS CIV RIGHTS ISSUES.

>> Woodruff: SO HELP US UNDERAND, ANDREW IMPARATO, HOW HARD WAS IT? WHAWAS SHE UP AINST?

>> WELL, I INK THAT SHE WAS U AGAINST IGNORANCE, SHE WAS UP AGAINSTSTIGMA, SE WAS UP AGAINST PREJUDI AND I THINK BECAUSE AT HER HEART SHE CARED ABOUT SOCIAL JUSTICE, SHE SAW DISABILITY ISSUES TROUGH A PRISM OF CIVILRIGS, AND MANY, MANY AMERICANS,HEN SHE STARTED DOING THIS WORK, DID NOT SEE SABILITY THAT WAY -- THEY SAW IT AS AN ISSUE OF CHARITY OR ISUE OF HEALTH CARE, MEDICINE, BUT THEY DIDN'T SEE IT AS A CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE. IF YOU CODN'T GET INTO A BUILDING BECAUSE IT HAD A YOU KNOWSET OF STEPS THAT'S BECAUSE YOU WRE I A WHEEHAIR, IT WAS NOTECAUSE THE BUILDING WAS NOT ACCESSIBLE SO I THINK SHEELPED TO RECOGNI THAT BY OPENING UP DOS FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTL DISABILITIES, SHE S HELPING SENSITIZE AMERICA TO THE FACT THAT THIS IS PART OF HUMAN DIVERSITY,THAT WE HAVE NOT DONE A GOOD JOB OF EMBRACG AND I THINK SHE WAS VERY EFFECTIVE.

>> Woodruff: ANDY IMPARATO FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF PEOP WITH DISABILITIE THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

>> THANKOU.

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