Designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, Hari Sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thank you for joining us. The department of Homeland Security announced last night it would resume accepting renewals for daca, the obamaera program that protects young immigrants from deportation. This follows tuesdays decision by a federal court blocking the Trump Administrations plan to put an end the program. This morning, President Trump weighed in on twitter calling a bipartisan immigration deal that includes daca, probably dead because the democrats dont really want it. Democratic senator dick durbin responded in a tweet saying republicans and democrats negotiated in good faith to reach a deal that gives you what you asked for. On thursday, the president rejected a bipartisan proposal, saying the following day in a tweet that the wall was not properly funded and he wanted a merit based immigration system. But prospects for a deal have been overshadowed by reported derogatory comments the president made about haiti and other countries that were mentioned in the bipartisan proposal. Republican senators tom cotton and david perdue who were present at the meeting again denied that the president used the reported vulgar language. I am telling you that he did not use that word, george. And im telling you its a gross misrepresentation. How many times do you want me to say that . Sreenivasan republican representative mia love of utah, and the first haitianamerican elected to congress, called on the president to make an apology for his comments about haiti. We have to find a way to fix the immigration issue, fix the daca issue. And we cant let this derail us. I think the worst thing that can happen from anyone is to let this go away and leave these families in limbo. Sreenivasan republican Senator Cory Gardner said he hoped lawmakers could move beyond comments made by the president. We know that most americans agree that our immigration system is broken. They know we can do better than were doing right now. And this fourpart deal begins to address the challenge in front of us. Sreenivasan politico reporter Josh Gerstein has been following the daca story and he joins me now from washington, d. C. Well, people that want to renew their expiring daca permits, which are basically work permits that allow them to work legally in the United States, are basically getting another chance to do that, either if they missed the earlier deadline or if theyre among those people whose permits are set to expire after march 5th, which was when the bulk of this shutdown was going to kick in. Those people with go ahead and ru renew their dhakaca status. Hari sreenivasan im assuming that the administration is unhappy with this particular courts findings and that they will challenge is it, so is there a possibility that this process can be frozen again . Yeah, it can definitely be halted again. The Administration Says theyre going to continue to fight the legislation that led to restoring the daca program, but so far we havent yet seen an appeal or request to stay the order. It sounds like for the foreseeable next few days or few weeks theyre going to offer these renewals again while the Justice Department decides on a legal strategy to keep fighting this. Hari sreenivasan put this in context of the conversations happening on capitol hill between members of congress in trying to hammer out something and of course where the president stands. Well, not all immigration advocates were really excited about this decision from the judge restoring the daca program in part because they felt that it might undercut the impetus, the momentum on capitol hill, towards cutting a deal. You had Business Leaders weighing in over the course of the past week, saying it was essential to resolve this daca issue, and so kind of it was a mixed bag of reaction when the judges order came out. Of course, theres a third possibility and that is that we sort of roll into this march 5th deadline that the administration set and the president has suggested he might take some further executive actionrecipie Hari Sreenivasan there seems to be pressure on the left saying, take this as a clean deal on its own. Dont bundle up daca with Border Protection and temporary protection status and the wall. Yeah, ive heard a lot of liberals, including some of the people behind the litigation, which lead to the court order, the attorney general of california, come out and say, yeah, dont take a bad deal, democrats. We should just do a clean renewal of daca. Maybe something could be done on border security, but we shouldnt be doing a wall. What is more controversy is what the Trump Administration wants to pull into this in terms of dealing with the family reunification policies. Youre talking about a pretty dramatic revision to laws that have been in place 50 years here in the United States governing immigration. Others have said to try to open that up on the very tight deadline of trying to do a daca deal could be difficult, but that is the administrations position. How unusual is it that the judge lays out a decision and then on friday he looks at the possible motivation that trumps views could have played a role on this . It was interesting to see the judge come in on a second order particularly because trumps racial views had been back in the news at the very top of the National Agenda as a result of his comments about countries overseas. Certainly a very interesting injection of the racial issue into the national debate. Hari sreenivasan all right, Josh Gerstein, senior white house correspondent. Thank you so much. Thank you. Any time. Sreenivasan we are learning more about the chaos in hawaii caused by yesterdays Early Morning false alarm warning that a Ballistic Missile attack was headed for the islands. People ran for shelter, with some taking cover in sewers after the states Emergency Management system sent alerts to more than a Million People around 8 00 a. M. It took more than 35 minutes before the same system was used to confirm it was a false alarm. The states Emergency Management administrator took responsibility for the blunder, which he says was the result of someone pressing the wrong button. The state has pledged a complete investigation of the incident, and the federal Communications Commission has launched a probe. Homeland security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen warned that citizens need to be able to trust government warning systems. This was a very unfortunate mistake, but these alerts are vital. Seconds and minutes can save lives. Sreenivasan democratic Representative Tulsi Gabbard was the first public official to report the false alarm on twitter, and used it as a reminder of the danger her state faces from north korea. This was unacceptable that this happened. But it really highlights the stark reality the people of hawaii are facing. Sreenivasan irans president , Hassan Rouhani ridiculed President Trump for trying and failing to kill off the Iranian Nuclear deal. In a speech today, rouhani called out President Trumps efforts to overturn the agreement. translated he hasnt succeeded so far. This shows the deal is solid, and it means a victory for international commitments, it means a victory for law over dictatorship. Sreenivasan rouhanis remarks come days after the u. S. Targeted 14 high ranking iranian individuals and entities with new sanctions in response to the handling of weeks of often violent protests there. Also in iran, the government is claiming that it released hundreds of people arrested during those protests, but its still unclear how many remain behind bars. A prosecutor in tehran reports 440 rioters were released in the capital alone, and claims just 55 protesters are still being held there. But an opposition lawmaker argues that some 3,700 protesters were arrested across iran and says he has no way to know how many are currently in detention. The iranian government also reports that 25 people died in the protests, but denies any were killed by the countrys security forces. Sreenivasan more than 33,000 people in the United States die in firearmrelated deaths every year, and a gallup poll taken after the Las Vegas Shooting last year showed that 61 of americans say they would like to see gun laws strengthened compared to 11 who prefer fewer restrictions. But it remains a politically divisive issue. In tonights signature segment we report from oregon, a traditionally gunfriendly state where a group of gun owners say they are looking for middle ground. Special correspondent Joanne Jennings has the story from clackamas county. Reporter paul kemp is one of tens of millions americans who own at least one firearm. Growing up in rural michigan, he learned to shoot at an early age. Being able to go out hunting with your dad and your uncles, that was kind of a rite of passage. Opening day of deer season theres no school because half the kids dont go anyways. Reporter and its a tradition he passed onto his children when he moved to challenge the kids with waysn marksmanship. They were using air rifles and bb guns at real young ages. Reporter kemp never imagined hed become an advocate for gun control. Then on december 11, 2012 came news reports that shocked the portland area. Chaos amidst the Christmas Shopping rush. Lines of shoppers, even children, could be seen streaming out with their hands up while a shooter was still inside. Reporter a 22yearold man, armed with a semiautomatic rifle, fired on Holiday Shoppers and employees at a mall just down the road from kemps home. There were helicopters and fire trucks and ambulances. I must have got passed by 100 police cars coming over from work. Reporter police intervened quickly, but it was too late for kemps 45yearold brotherin law, steven forsyth. He, and 54yearold cind yuille, were shot dead before the gunman took his own life. A few hours earlier, the killer had stolen this ar15 from a friend who didnt report the theft until after he heard news of the shooting. Gun owners are not required to report lost or stolen weapons in 39 states, including oregon. I started researching the gun laws within 24 to 48 hours of when steve was killed. Reporter kemp goes to Great Lengths to secure his own firearms. He was surprised that theres no Legal Mechanism compelling other gun owners to do the same. The gun owner saw the gun was missing before he went to work and he didnt call the police and report it. So, yeah i think as a responsible gun owner i would have reported the firearm missing. Service was taken at clackamas town center, steven forsyth. Reporter as kemp mourned his brotherinlaws death, he felt compelled to take action, but as a lifelong gun owner and hunter, he didnt know where to turn. In oregon, there are some groups that are on the far right of the issue and then there are some groups on the far left of the issue. And there was no one; no voice in the middle. Reporter so he helped start a new group gun owners for responsible ownership or gofr for short. On this day, they are at a pediatricians office in portland demonstrating gun safety locks using a plastic model of a glock 9. This will open and then you would thread the cable lock through here on this type of gun. And then the gun is positively unloaded. Reporter the training is intended to help doctors and nurses better relate to patients who are gun owners; to explain for example why gun locks are so important if a child gets a hold of a firearm. They dont have enough pull in their index finger to pull the trigger. The only way they can do that and the reason a lot of them get shot is they turn the gun around this way and they put both their thumbs on it and they pull the trigger and its pointed right at them. Wow. Reporter kemp says his organization is focused on promoting gun safety rather than gun control. But not all gun owners believe him. The Oregon Firearms Federation considers itself a stronger defender of gun rights than the National Rifle association. Thanks guys. Thanks for coming out. Reporter Kevin Starrett is executive director. So what do we have here . Well, here we have a shotgun range for trap shooting. Reporter hes based at a gun club so thats why youll hear some gunfire during our interview. I feel Great Sadness for anyone whos lost a loved one, but nothing that theyve proposed would help anybody, and in fact they are every bit as radical and Antigun Group as any thats ever come down the hot pipe. Reporter starrett says theres no need to legislate Firearm Safety because most gun owners are already responsible. Were at a firing range right now, and soon therell be 50 people here with guns and no one ever gets shot. So the access to guns, the availability of guns obviously isnt the issue. When we have hunter Safety Training here, we have a hundred kids Walking Around, 12, 15 year old kids. Every one of them is Walking Around with a rifle and no one gets hurt and no one gets hurt. Reporter Ginny Burdick is majority leader of the oregon senate. She has been working on passing gun safety legislation for 20 years. But it hasnt been easy in a state that has been traditionally gun friendly. Historically no one would talk about guns because it would evoke all these strong emotions. And when i started my First Senate Campaign i decided that somebody had to talk about it and that would be me. I went door to door and i was absolutely stunned by the reaction from gun owners. Reporter what was the reaction . Their reaction was, yes, its about time. We need to keep guns away from dangerous people, from felons and yes, i support you. Reporter over the years, shes had some successes, like passing a law requiring background checks for private gun sales. But her biggest legislative victory came this summer with the passage of a bill called erpo. Erpo is the extreme risk protective order legislation and it basically allows people, families or Law Enforcement who are aware of someone in crisis and at risk of posing imminent danger to themselves or others to go to a judge and get an order to separate them from their guns. Reporter erpo, modeled after similar laws in three other states, went into effect in oregon on january 1st. Its intended to reduce suicide. In oregon, 82 of gun deaths were due to suicide between 2010 and 2015. The purpose is to intervene very quickly and try to give that person a Second Chance instead of a funeral. Reporter in a surprise move, republican senator brian boquist, an army veteran with high marks from the n. R. A. Co sponsored the bill. His stepson, also a veteran, used a firearm to kill himself in 2016. So im at a point now where its time to do something. This particular bill does not take away any constitutional rights. This particular bill is very targeted and very precise. Thats a tragic loss, you know. As i said, you know, when his stepson took his life, we sent a note to his wife. She sent back a very nice thank you note. Ive known brian for many years. But heres the thing, if he knew his stepson was in crisis he should of done something. If he didnt know his stepson was in crisis, then this bill wouldnt have helped. Reporter the Oregon Firearms Federation opposed the legislation and tried to pass a ballot measure that would overturn it, but they didnt get enough signatures. Theyre concerned that theres a slippery slope and that you say that youre just passing some gun Safety Measures but that your ultimate goal is to verely restrict peoples rights to firearms. How can you ensure that, thats not the case . Nothing can be farther from the truth, for one thing this is a high gun ownership state and we are relatively high gun ownership country so youre not going to get anywhere without the acceptance and endorsement of gun owners, you just are not. Reporter getting enough gun owners to accept and endorse a law like erpo was a tall order in oregon. Whether or not more states will follow remains to be seen. Sreenivasan on friday, kentucky became the first state granted permission to mandate work requirements for those receiving medicaid benefits. The new requirements affect approximately 350,000 adult recipients in the state aged 19 to 64. About half of them already have jobs. The changes do exempt certain groups including pregnant women, fulltime students, and the medically frail. And the state will also begin charging recipients a monthly premium based on income. For more on what this means for medicaid recipients in kentucky and other states, i am joined from washington, d. C. By Amy Goldstein of the washington post. First, whats the impetus behind this . What kind of was kentucky first in line . The idea of requiring people on medicaid to work or do some other kind of Community Engagement has been something that many republicans and other conservatives have been eager to do for years. It started with welfare reform 20 years ago and then moved into food stamps, now called snap. The notion that people who receive certain government benefits should have to do something in exchange for getting that help. But thats never been part of medicaid before, which is, of course, Health Insurance for lowincome people in this country. And a number of states had asked for federal permission to do this during the Obama Administration and always been rejected, but under the Trump Administration theres been much more sympathy for this idea. As you said, kentucky just became the first state to get permission on friday. Sreenivasan there was medication expansion in several states, so that increased the number of people in states like kentucky that were receiving medicaid. Im assuming that also costs the state more. Is this partly motivated by the state wantsining to try to decre those costs . It absolutely is. Governor matt beavan when he was running for office in 2015 campaigned on this issue to a large degree and he said the Medicaid Expansion should be reimbursed. A lot of people, close to a half Million People, have joined as a result. So first governor beavan thought that he would get rid of that expansion. They decided instead to keep the expansion, but require people in that group and other ablebodied adults in the traditional Medicaid Group to work or go to school or do volunteer work or otherwise engage in their communities in order to keep those benefits. And they estimate that there will be a reduction in people on the medicaid rolls as a result, saving the state money. Whether thats a good thing or a bad thing really gendepends on r point of view. The governor says people will be working their way out of medicaid because theyll be working naiwork ing their way out of poverty. Critics y people will be bounced off of medicaid for not meeting the requirements or failing to document to the state that they do so. Sreenivasan roughly, how many people do to the critics say would be bounced off the kentucky medicaid rolls . I havent seen any projecti n projections as to how many will be bounced off by the critics. The state estimates by the end of five years, which is the length of this experiment that the federal government is letting kentucky try, therell be perhaps 95,000 fewer people on medicaid than there are today. Sreenivasan what about the other states that are in line with some ideas of their own or ones that might not be in line now but are watching kentucky closely . Well, its interesting because when the federal government announced on thursday that they were going to allow this kind of work requirement in medicaid, there were already nine or ten states that had submitted applications to be able allo allowed to do this. Kentucky is the first, and the expectation is therell be others. Perhaps the next will be indiana is what im hearing. Soon will be allowed to follow suit. Even in the day after this was permitted, there were two more states that said, yeah, were interested too, so there could be a wave of predominantly republicanled states that could be doing the same thing. Sreenivasan thank you so much for joining us. Glad to be with you. This is pbs newshour weekend, sunday. Sreenivasan crews in California Armed with backhoes, jackhammers and chainsaws are working to clear out masses of mud and debris from last weeks deadly mudslides. Officials say enough debris has been removed from creeks and canals to avoid another disaster when the next rainstorm hits. The mudslides killed at least 20 people. Four others including a two yearold child are still missing. A teetering plane in northeast turkey a Pegasus Airlines jet skidded off the runway last night during landing, coming to rest on a steep hill just feet from the black sea. Amazingly, all 168 passengers and crew members everyone survived and no injuries were reported. Preparations are underway to remove the aircraft and authorities are investigating the cause of the accident. And the Iranian Oil Tanker that collided with a cargo ship in the East China Sea one week ago has sunk. The ship, called the sanchi, exploded in the collision and had been burning until it finally went under. Officials say there were no survivors and the 30 iranian and two bangladeshi crewmembers likely died shortly after the impact. The sanchi was carrying about onemillion barrels of oil from iran to south korea. Puerto ricos Power Authority suspended three workers while it investigates 25 cases of possible bribery. The employees under investigation are accused of asking for as much as 5,000 in exchange for reconnecting homes to the power grid. The Energy Utility says any employees found to be complicit will face criminal charges. The island is still struggling to restore power to more than 500,000 homes following Hurricane Maria last september. Read more about the investigations at puerto ricos Power Authority. Visit pbs. Org newshour. Sreenivasan on the newshour tomorrow, actor tracy ellis ross. Thats all for this edition of pbs newshour. Captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org pbs newshour weekend is made possible by bernard and irene schwartz. The cheryl and Philip Milstein family. Sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. Dr. P. Roy vagelos and diana t. Vagelos. The j. P. 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