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In the ds other news, President Trump and irans president hass rouhani traded insults and tough talk over new sanctions. The targets, announced monday, included ayatollah ali khamemei, irans supeader. Today, rouhani called the move outrageous and idiotic. In a televised address, his audience laughed as he mocked the white house and said it is afflicted by mental retardation. translated this means the certain failure and defeat of the united states. N i have any doubt about that from political viewpoint. No wise person wouldo what they are doing these days. I feel that there is a severe frustration and a big confusn among the u. S. Leaders and in the white house. Woodruff President Trump, in turn, called rouhanis remarks ignorant and insulting. In a tweet, he charged that rouhani does not understand reality, and he warned that any iranian attack would be met with overwhelming force and obliteration. U. S. Secretary of state mike pompeo made an unannounced stop in afghanistan today to talk up peace talks. He met with president ashraf ghani in kabul. Later, he said he hopes for a peace deal with the taliban by arptember 1. The current afghanas raged since the u. S. Ousted the taliban from power after the 9 11 attacks. In bahrain today, the trump u administratied support for a 50 billion economic plan to promote israelipalestinian peace. It calls for health, education and public works projects, but does not deal with the Israeli Occupation of the west bank or the blockade of gaza. President trumps Senior Adviser and soninlaw Jared Kushner argued prosperity would lead to peace. My direct message to the Palestinian People ithat despite what those who have let you downn the past tell you, President Trump and america have not given up on you. This work shop is for you, the vision we developed and released if executed correctly will lead to a betfuture for the Palestinian People. Woodruff in the west bank, Palestinian Protesters battledps israeli trwhile their leaders boycotted the bahrain conference. There can be no economic solution as a substitute to our freedom. And second, how can we have Economic Development when we cannot control our borders, our import, our export, our free market, our freedom of movement, and even we do not control the taxes we pay. Its a deceit that mr. Kushner is spreading. Woodruff americacials say they could be ready to address thpolitical aspects of a peace plan by fall. Sweltered today as a potentially historic heat wave gripped much of the continent. In germany, zookeepers hosed down overheated elephants in berlin, where mperatures reached 93 degrees. And, authorities in france began taking steps to helplderly cope. Temperatures in some places could reach 104 to 105 degrees this week. Flood damage along the Mississippi River corridor will total at least 2 billion. An Advocacy Group for river communities says that is the estimate through march, and its expected to increase. Heavy snow melt and repeated rain have led to record flooding from iowa to louisiana since early in the year. Back at the whithouse, Stephanie Grisham was named today as White House Press secretary and communications director. She is the longtime spokeswoman rer first lady melania trump. Thedent said grisham will be a great fit in her new roles. Shes here. She knows everybody. She actually gets along with the media very well, as you know. A lot of the folks in the media like her very much and i think shes going to be fantastic. I think shes going to do a great job, so i offered her the job this morning and she accepted. F woodrrisham succeeds sarah sanders, who is stepping down at the end of this month. The president today awarded the medal of honor to a former Army Staff Sergeant from the iraq war era. Tdavid bellavia is the fi living veteran of that conflict to receive t nations highest military award. He risked his lifeavepeatedly, tohis platoon in fallujah, in 2004. City supervisors in San Francisco have voted to ban the sale and distribution of ecigarettes. Todays decision makes it the First American city to take that step. Enforcement would begin early next year. San francisco home to juul labs, the biggest producer of ecigarettes in the country. Federal reserve chair Jerome Powell said today that the central bank is insulated fro shortterm political pressures, despite the president s growing criticism. He also said the fed is grappling with whether to cut interest rates. And, on wall street, tech stocks led the market lower, partly on weak economic data. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 179 points to close at 26,548. The nasdaq fell nearly 121 points, and the s p 500 slipped 28. Om still to con the newshour on the southern border. Funding u. S. Border operations as the acting head of the Border Patrol resigns. Stonewall at 50. The legacy of the uprising, and what imeans today. Eliminating the stigma of unaffordable menstrual products. And, much more. Woodruff as we repted, the administrations top border enforcement official john sanders will leave his post, amidst scrutiny over treatment of Migrant Children. As capitol hill correspondent Lisa Desjardins reports, the news comes as lawmakers are scrambling to reach a deal to Fund Government border operations. Desjardins today, more turbulence for the men and women who patrol and monitor u. S. Borders, as the acting head of u. S. Customs and Border Protection resigned, after roughly two months in the position. This, as Border Patrol agents remain overwhelmed by a surge in migrants, especially children ded families, who are now spending days in bpatrol processing stations meant to hold them for just hours. And, the agency caring for the kids says it will run out of funding for them in a few days. At the capitol, all of this is sparking a furious fight over an emergency funding bill. There is absolutely ndoubt that the numbers of families and children who are arriving at our frt door, those numbers ha increased. Desjardins House Democrats, like el paso congresswoman Veronica Escobar want requirements, like bedding, toothbrushes and translators, to go along with nde additional putting small children and t eir families and individuals who are at their mlnerable state in their life as they cross our border seeking support and solace are greeted with nothing but misery. Desjardins republicans agree on the scale of the problem. We have the capacity in our processing centers, our c. B. P. Processing centers, a capacity of 4,000 we now have 20,000 people in those facilities. This has got to be addressed. Desjardins but adamantly oppose efforts to tie new funding to new ruirements. They say the real issue is weak u. S. Immigration law. Our asylum laws are sbroken that theyve literally led to hundreds of thousands of people coming to cross illegally. Desjardins house and Senate Leaders agree on how much to fund about 4. 5 billion but the bill from House Democrats would also require new standards in basic health and safety for detainees, and it would block immigration agents from deporting people who want to sponsor a child in thei home, but arfound to be undocumented themselves. Ir some ways, the two sides are not far apart, but differences have realworld and ph osophical impact. Adding to the complicated dynamics is President Trump, who weighed on conditions at the border. I m very concerned. Desjardins he said he wants humanitarian aid, but indicated he would lika larger deal with democrats to toughen u. S. Asylum laws. What we would like to do is e k the democrats to give us help on asylum, rrible loopholes that dont allow us to do what we need to. Desjardins even as trump lashed out at democrats, Senate Republicans told newshour that he has not yet gotten fully on board their border funding bill either. And of course, the impact of any congressional deal would be felt far beyond the beltway. Immigration reporter bob moore heads the Digital News OrganizationEl Paso Matters and joins us via skype from there. And i must give a warning to our viewers. Iscussion includes graphic images that many could find disturbing. Bob, i want tfirst ask y about some of the news weve gotten recently. We reported c. P. B. ,ustoms and Border Protection, moved hundreds of kids out of aa facility jus few dozen miles from you in clint, because ofep conditionsted by attorneys, kids urinating on themselves, children who were sick and hado ce for each other. Now we learned they moved 100 children back into that facility. You can describe what the conditions are like in that kind facility or in nt . I think its important to understand that theiese facil were never set up as detention facilities. Theyre either Border Patrol stations with Small Holding cells, or space thats been converted. So its not set up to hold adults, let alone children. So based on the reports that came out last week, the conditions there are very, verhy rohat children dont have access to basic sanitary care. E and whhis got a lot of attention, the truth is, this is being replicated all along the border in Holding Facilities for both adults and children. The conditions are very unsanitary, inome cases very unsafe. Bob, why is there such a are there not new facilities being opened . Whats happening here . In part, were ying for five years of inaction on this issue that we knew wasmi co with the change in migration from single men lyto lar families. And so were not set up to hold them. And now yo got this congressional funding thats been sort of put on hold as they try to figure t whether the democrats can trust the Trump Administration andice versa. Is and so theres a huge icvestment needed just for bas Emergency Care to house these people that have been coming across in large nubers. But its all caught up in politics right now. Exactly. D while were talking about the turbulence in washington, you can talk us through what the resignation of the acting chief of border customs and Border Protection means out there . I think one of the things weve learned fm the last several months that having a highranking position in the department of Homeland Security is very similar to being a drummer in spinal tap. Youre not going to have a very long ture. And your exit is going to be rather spectacular. So lets look at what happened today. We have the resignation of the acting commissioner of customs and Border Protection. He, who is apparently going toth be replaced be acting head of immigration and customs enforcement, who early on in the Trump Administration, was fired as chf of the Border Patrol. We now have an acting Homeland Security secretary. We have an acting head of customs and Border Protection. We have a vacancy in acting hea of immigration and cuft opposits enforcement. We have an actinhead ofu. S. And immigration services. So that sort of instability does nolead to go policy making. Its a reflection of the disaeements within therump administration on what our immigration and border policyk should look and one more acting head of an Agency WithinHomeland Security is just going to add further to thatncertainty. I need to turn to another very serious subject. Recently, weve seen many alarming reports of Migrant Deaths crossing by land and by water. And tably, these inclu children. I want to show a very difficulttosee photo. This is of a father with his toddler whose bodies were found along the rio grande this week. They washed ashore. Is this something new . Are we seeing an uptick in death and danger to these migrants or some just something were paying more attention to now . I think theres probably mor attention beid to it now. Yoe truth is when you adopt a policy to haern borders and make it more difficult for people to cross in urban areas make it more difficult for them to come to ports of entry and seek asylum, that forces them to make under dangerous crossings, and sowere hearing stoes of children dying in the desert. Were seeing stories of people i drownirivers. Here in el paso, weve begun rigation season. So rivers and canals that normally dont hold much water are running hot and heavy. That makes it more dangerous for people to css. The summertime is always a time when we see deaths spike. This has been something thats been going on for more than 20ar and hasnt gotten the attention it needs. And i think the American Public needs to understand that if we decide to make it moreic dit to cross the border, if we decide to limit access to the asylum process, this forceso migrants iese more dangerous conditions. And we cant pretend to be shocked when people start to die, including children. Its, obviously, a critical story and a test for ts nation and our government. Thank you for helping shed light on this. Bob moore with El Paso Matters. Thank you. Woodruff friday marks the 50th anniversary of the uprising at the stonewall in new york city, a milestone and catalyst for the gay righ movement. We are going to examine the progress since then and the considerable challenges today. But first, a look back at that moment and just some of the notable moments since. In the Early Morning hours of june 28, 1969, new York City Police raided the stonewall inn, a popular gay bar in the greenwich village. Back then, with different laws, police raids on gay bars were common. But gay, lesbian and trans residents fought back. Streets erupted into violent protests and demonstrations that lasted days. Be the riotgan paving the wayr e l. G. B. T. Rights movement. And by 1979, more than 100,000 people took part in the First National march for lesbian and gay rights. But the challenges have been immense throughout. By the 1980s, the aids epidemic ed a crucial role in the struggle for gay rights. As thousands died, patients protested for drugs and better treatment medicati that would eventually turn aids into a chronic illness for many. Even so, in the two decades after 1981, the epidemic killed more than 460,000 people in the u. S. During the 90s, there was greater recognition and acceptance for many individualse but it was pre bill clinton who signed the defense of marriage act preventing government granted federal marriage benefits to samesex couples. Other important victories were to come. Notably, in 2003, in the case o lawrencexas, when the Supreme Court struck down the states antisodomy law, effectively decriminalizing homosexual relations nationwide. It wasnt until 2012 that att g president publicly supported samesex marriage. E forrsonally, it isme important foo go ahead and affirm that i think samesex couples should be able to get married. Woodruff the supremeourt eventually struck down state bans on samesex marriage, making it legal across all 50 states. But ev as l. G. B. T. Q. Communities have won more acceptance and recognition, there have bn other setbacks. President trump is the first republican presideco to formally ize pride month. But, he is rolling back a mber of protections for transgender americans, involving social services, health coverage, and tking it harder to serve military. The murders of transgender people particularly trans women of color continue at alarming rates today, with ten known black trans women killed this year. For its part, the new York City Police department issu an apology this month for its actions at stonewall 50 years ago. I do know what happened should not have happened. The actions taken by the n. Y. P. D. Were wrong, plain and simple. The actions and the laws were e,scriminatory and oppress and for that i apologize. Woodruff this week, the stonewall anniversary is being commemorated across the country. And, to discuss the 50th anniversary, four perspectives. Reverend emma chattin is ordained in the metropolitan community church, and serves a parish in northern virginia. She is also executivctor for the transgender education associwaion of greater ington. George johnson is an l. G. B. T. Q. And h. I. V. St. He is also a columnist for afropunk, and a guest editor for b. E. T. Digital. Y beverly till the executive director of the antivionce project, an organization dedicated to ending violence against the l. G. B. T. Q. Community. And, mark segal was at stonewall thnight it was raided by police, and participated in the riots. He is the foder of philadelphia gay news. And welcome all of you to the wshour. Thank you for being here. Mark segal, i want to start with you. You were there on the night of june 28, 1969. You were 18 years old. What did you see . As an 18yearold kid, i moved from pyiladelphia, a ci of 1. 6 million, to be with my people, in a sense, because we were invisible. That night, like every other ownht, i was walking up and d crystal street and at the end of the night, you would go into the stonewall. Ing into the stonewall was a typical night until the lights flickered on and off, andthen they came on full force, at which point, police barged in, slammed people up against the wall, used every kind of profanity you could imagine against us,roughed us up. Then they went to people who looked success asked them to take out their wallets and took money from their wallets and put it in their pockets. We had nothing to do because they were the police. What were weoing to do, call the police . One by one, they let us out of the bar. As we were let out of the bar, each time somebody would come out, we would applaud eventually, they wanted to leave flrp only Six Police Officers in the bark plus the bar workers. Outside we were 50 to 75. En ally, when we wouldnt leave, we started throwing stones. We started throwing cans anything we could find from the street for the first time in history, the police were imprisoned, rather than us. Woodruff and that was a those demonstrations went on for days. Mark segal, did you have any idea at the time that that was the beginning, that you were part beginningf the gay rihts movement . No not at all. When Marty Robinson came up to me with a piece of chalk that night and sairite on the walls and the streets tomorrow ght stonewall. I didnt realize that would create the second night. I didnt realize us leafletting the second and thir nights, protesting against the police, thate could take back our neighborhood, protesting against time, life, Village Voice led other media so we could become visagain. I had no idea that would become history. Woodruff beverly tillery, as somebody who worked against violence, you have watched the efilization over the years. Ho have you seen any progress made since stonewall . Ll, you know, in a way, i would say were living a dual reality because, of course, we are benefiting from the arc ofpr ress that has come from stonewall and before. We are more organized as a community. There are resources and organizations that, you know, we can speak of that have been around for years. My organization is going to be celebrating its 40th anniversary next year. O came just after stonewa so we have this infrastructure. Weve defninitely many gains related to our legal rights and protections. So theres certainly progress. What many people will say, however, is that many of us in the community, those who wer always more marginalized, those information who hold multipl identities that are already oppressed are still left behind and continue to be left behind. Wodruff and george johnson, as someone who hash living w. I. V. Youve been an activist for many years now. From your perspective, how have you seen either progress or lack of it in your time . Yeah. Its really tough. Kind of wh beverly says, its kind of like we live at two different almost like two different stonewalls for black queer people. When we think about stonewall we think about marcia p. Johnson and mismajor, and allf the black trans and femme people who fought so hard through those nights, not knowing they were noing to start a movement. But we alsw, 50 years later, were still burying more transgender people. Theyre facing black trans women, in pfacing higher amounts of violence. H. I. V. Is still an epidemic for black m. S. M. S. So while, you know, rainbow capitalism has kind of stepped in and everybody is thring up rainbows and its 50 years aloit erous still grieving and were still mourning. We recently had nigel shelby, a 14yearold black boy, gay boy in alabama, who lost his life by suicide. An so, you know, our pride right now is kind of its just two different pride celebrations kind of happening. Woodruff and reverend emma chattin, someone who has been active in the transgender teducation efforts, who e pastor of a church, what have you seen . I moan, how have you seen any progress . L, from my perspective, its been dramatic because, particularly if you consider the abolishment or the nonenforcement of the presentation laws, where we could finally present o gender as we experienced it, and that began to happen in blossom after stonewall. One of the other things that wah reale is just the advent of the internet in the las, s to how we began to communicate excuse me communicate, coalesce, and come together as a conity. Woodruff and how has i mean, your much of your effors ocused on the transgender community. How has that intersected with the broader l. G. B. T. Q. Movement . Well, education is necessary. There is tension between the trans and the gay, lesbian, and bi communities. So we cant just say that these are our people. We have to educate everyone becauswere verifferent. Were identitybased. Whereas, when were looking at y, lesbian, andisexual, were talking abou talking abou. Woodruff and picking up on that, mark segal, the challenges abound. I mean, people like to say that the countrys come a long way. We referenced howsome laws have changed. Burtainly attitudes have changed. There are still obstacles. Theres still prejudice. It exists all around us. Were still secondclass citizens. Can get married today almost anywhere in this country, and later on that day, be firedwe becausare married. Were secondclass citizens because we dont have the equality act. And i think because of that, we need to go back to that time right after stonewall. Stonewall from stonewall came Gay Liberation front. Gay liberation front was the First Organization in america that believed in diversity. We had drag queens which today woue wld call trans we had biskupics, we had women, we had radical peoe, and at that time we had young people like me. We need to learn to go back, g off twitter, getaur facebook, stock looking fo likes, get into the streets, and lets get arrested again. Woodruff beverly tillery, what about that . How do you see th obstacles that are out there today . And how do you strategiznk how do you tbout how to get around them, beyond them, through them . Well, its ally interesting, you know, hearing marks story about stonewall. One of the things that ses me is that, you know, we dont often talk about the rot causes of that stonewall riot. It wasnt just, you know, a raid that just happened to happen that day. As emma sas, you know, this wa coming on the heels of people beg oppressed for years under laws that were meant to criminalize the community. And those laws mand daow you could dress, whether or not you could gatherr toget a community, what kinds of jobs you could have. You were banned from having a j governme, you know, for some period of time. And so, those criminalization laws were the foundation of what led to the both oppression and the uprising from folks. And what were seeing right now is an attempt to brikng bac those laws to criminalize our communities. Look a little bit different, but, again, were trying to not deny people access to education and jobs when ou talk about a trans military ban. The access to health care. And, you know, all of that is exasperating the climate of violence thats leading the numbers of folks who are dying in our streets, who are subjected to all kinds of hate violence inur communities. That violence hasnt stoppi. So whauld say is we have to really goto the core here, go back to looking at the criminalization thats happening in our comunities, talking about it, naming it and undoing jl of that criminalization. Woodruff georghnson, do you, as we just heard beverly suggest, do you see this as a moment where weve stepped back as country on the things that armost important to you . Yeah, again, its interestin becahen we discuss some of these issues, its like its based off of where ur viewpoint is. You can see progress, where we some of us may have not seen anything. And so whereas marriage equality, like, i was happy that day, but i also remember, like, while a lot of more organizations were re fighting for marriage equality, you had black queer people who re just fighting t survive. So there was, like, this huge gap being miss and a divide between both communities. And we saw in 2016 when we tried to add a brown stripe, just something simple, so we fellu more id to the flag, it made, like, headlines because so many people were agast even us including ours in part of a movement that we started. And it also speaks to, like, how you have, like, the Matthew Sheppard act, right . But its actually tthew sheppard and james byrd. And everybody oft forgets that that act is a white gay man, but is also a black man, and that some of us sit at that intersection. So its very important that youre connecting the issues that we facome across munity together. Woodruff what needs to be done . Weve hea erdmma chattin, reverendchattin, weve been hearing about the attacks on trans wome especially trans women of color. What needs to be done specifically about that . And, you know, why are we having this happen now is my question. Well, what needs to be done about that is that there needs to be movement. If were looking at Matthew Sheppard galvanized a community and strengthened aemmovt. The trans communities have yet to have that, and weve had 10m violenders thus far this year of trans women of color,. 10, oka and if we look at the years past, its6, its 24 every year. And it is, by and lar, trans women of color. What needs to happen is a Movement Needs happen. Peopled eed to stand up y, this is enough. And we need more education. We need more connection among people intersectionally with different commu aties. And it long, hard pull. So woodruf to take . It going its going to take a lot of people. Fnd its going to take a lot o hearts, and its going to take a lot of people coming together. But its a movement, and it has to happen. N woodruff we hear each of you and we thank you so much for joining us today, emma chattin, george johnson, beverly tillery, mark segal. Thank you very much. Thank y thank you. Woodruff stay with us. Coming up on the newshour aluating the impact of Sexual Assault allegations against President Trump. The death of politics, a new book by conservative author peter wehner. But first, there is growing attention about the of menstrual products, how they quickly add up and the subsequent impact on access,ul partly for lowerincome women. Now, Many School Districts and universities, as well as a few cities and states, are providing free period products in schools for students who might need them or cannot afford them. For our weekly segment making the grade, l correspondent Kavitha Cardoza with our partner education week, reports on efforts to end whats been called period poverty. Hello hi te rep young women all over the country report remarkably everyones just kind of grossed out and then embarrassed to talk about it. Aot of people say that time of month. People say aunt flo has come to visit. People say shark week. We shouldnt be made to keep it aecret. Reporter jorge elorza agrees. Periods are a part of life, period. Reporter hes the mayor of providence, rhode island and hes on a mission to reduce the stigma around menstruation. We want a of us to feel comfortable saying the word period, saying the word tampons, and pads. Thats a big part of what were trying to overcome. Reporr were you awkward about using the words in public . Probably like, at first, it didnt flowas asily. Now i wear a p for periods, pin on my lapel reporter you better clarify that, because people will really think that okay, not really, its for providence reporter elorza says the shame surrounding menstruation has practical implications. A year ago, the city began looking into why so many of their students were chronically absent, missing 10 of the school year. Ellen cynar, the head of the citys Health Communities initiative, found, in many cases, it was because girls were on their period. Its affecting their attendance at school. Its affting their participation in physical activities. And, its affecting their partication in social activities. Reporter 16yearold litzy feliz has friends who stay home when theyre menstru some cant afford to buy pads. Some of them have to buy it themselves because their parents doesnt buy it f them. I have a friend she buys it herself. Shell be li oh, i have to y it now, but i dont really have the money. I dont know whether its going toe more or less. Like, i see them worry about it. Reporter cynar says this is not an uncommon scenario. The vast majority of students in providence schools are low income. Theyre either finding proxy products so that would be rolling up toilet par, for example. Or, theyre not changing their product as often as they should. Which is very dangerous toheir health. Reporter there are usually pa ids availablen the Nurses Office, but advocates say many students are toombarrassed to ask, and not all schools have a nurse. Besides, says maggie di sanza from madison, wisconsin, theyre not ill. People go to the Nurses Office when they are sick and when something is wrong with their body, or when something is irregular. But having a period is not irregular. Reporter Cordelia Longo from mercer island, washington, forgot a pad one day and spent 20 minutes out of class looking for one. Lots of her friends had the same experience. N i just wanted kids to step back and see it dojust happen in african countries or in other places. It happens at home. Orter both teens raised money to buy period products for their schools. Soon after they were able to convince administrators to provide them in most bathrooms for free. Nadya okamoto founded the zation period when she w 16. When i heard about period asverty, my first reaction not oh, that makes sense. It was are you kidding me . Reporter its donated more than seven million free pads and tampons. They have 400 chapters in schools and iversities in all 50 states. Okamoto says this issue resonates with young people because the stigma around periods is not as ingrained. Also, she says, theyre more connected. In this age of social media, when social media is an extension of our own Self Expression and we can use it to connect with people and start conversations, were able to break the stig digitally, in more ways than could ever been imagined before. Reporter states including california, illinois, new york and tennessee have pasd laws to provide students with free period products in Certain School bathrooms. But some principals, who did not wish to be identified, complainc these pr are expensive and they arent getting reimbursed. Some say students take hompads for family members, or even sell them, adding to the cost. But providence Officials Say they havent had these challenges. D that the 75 thousand set aside for this initiative is a fraction of the 75 million city budg. Last year, they installed free dispensers in a few school bathrooms. So, if someone were to want something, so tell me, what would you like today . Reporter say i wand a pad . Okay, so all you have to do ery easily ipush a button and the product dispenses with a box. Reporter solight sou heads Wellness Programs for city schools. She says students can only take one pad or tampon at a time. These are s with a timer for about a minute and a half to avoid any exploitation or over usage of the procts. You need to be able to help them during the school hou. Reporter carina monge, who works with middle schoolers, says the dispensers are part of a broader push around health education. She says children often dont have access to basic information at home. I have a student that, she lives with her father, and the father never told her about the periods. So she learned about how to use a pad, how frequently she needsa to ce the pad, in school. Reporter sou says, ecdotally, theyre already hearing positive feedback. Our students did tell us they thwere more ready to learn were able to engage in physical activity such as gym classes without the level of discomfort they had before. They also had increased confidence, and it became less taboo overall. Lets make it to classes on time, lets make it on time. Its a sense of relief. Yo can see it in their faces, the fact that a barrier has been removed. S itsse of freedom. Reporter principal wobberson torchons school had free dispensers this past year. N hes seen the differences students first hand. Torchon says this issue is bigger than educatio this is an ethical issue. Its a moral issue for the principal. So whatever problem you have in education with a subgroup, with a section of the population, we need to address it so that everyone can be on an equal footing inhat learning. Anything that affects my students becomes mysp sibility. Reporter this fall when schools reopen, there will bers two dispense stocked with Free Products in every middle and high school in the city. For the pbs newshour and education week, im Kavitha Cardoza in providee, rhode island. Woodruff last week, another woman stepped forward toib cr accuse President Trump of a forcible, violent sexual woodruff last week, anothe woman stepped forward to accuse President Trump of a forcible, violent Sexual Assault one that meets the Legal Definition of rape. It allegedly happened back in the 1990s, but as William Brangham reports, this latest, startling allegation hten far less attention than one would expect. Brangham on friday, lo ctime writer aumnist e. Jean carroll accused President Trump of attacking her back in the late 1990s, describing a rape we alleges occurred in a York Department store. Carrolls legation is detailed in her upcoming book, and was excerpted in new york magazi. She describes a violent encounter with the thenreal estate mogul insidthe stores dressing room. S. He pulled down my tig and it was a fight. I want women to know that i did not stand there. I did not freeze. I was not ralyzed, which reaction that i could have had becausit was so shocking. No, i fought. And it was over very qckly. It was against my will 100 . Brangham carroll confided two friends soon after the event, and both have recently corroborated her account to multiple news organizations. President trump, however, has repeatedly denied the accusation. What she did is a terrible whats going on. So its a total, false accusation. And i dont know anything about her. Brangham and to the hill newspaper, he said of carroll, shes just not my type. E atute of limitations for , pe has passed, going by carrolls timeliich means the president cant be charged. E. Jean carroll is now at least the 16th woman to credibly accuse President Trump of some form of physical Sexual Misconduct or assault, and the second woman to credibly accuse him of what the law would consider rape. The president has denied each and every one of thesecu tions. Lucia graves writes for the guardian, and she detailed the story of one of the president s earlier accusers and shes spoken with many me of them in the course of her reporting. Welcome to the newshour. Thanks for having me. Brangham so miss carrolls allegation, as vivid and graphic as it is, traction with what the president said he does in that notorious access Hollywood Tape where hesays he grabs women by the genitals without hesitation. It also dovetails with what many women have said the president has attempted or done to them in the past. I men, there is a a pattern has emerged. Yeah, it actually tra almost exactly with the story that jill harth, his forssmer busissociate told to me brangham this is the woman you reported on. N ly of 2016. Yeah, she was the first accuser t come forward with the story of sexual assagainst the president. Although, she also filed it in a lawsuit in the 90s all of the details that are in the account and the sort of thing that he described doing on tape as published in the Washington Post are almost remarkably consistent. Brangham when carroll account came out on friday, the New York Times didnt put it on the front page. They put it in their book section. Same with the los angeles times, the chicagtribune, the wall street journal. Why do you think this accusation didnt get more attention . So that did surprise me, even though i felt when my story came out in 2016, it didnt receive anything approaching the coverage and pickup that it should have. But i would think that with a sitting president and with 16 credible accusers and the charge of rape, that would have changed. Brangham do you think its just that the press has become inured to it,hat theyve it feels luke there are just so many of thes accusations, they cant run them all down. The New York Times editor sort of regretfully said we didnt give it the play we really should have. What do you think is going on there . I dont think that the times should necessarily be i do think that this is very prevalent in political media culture. And i think its part of why weve been and i do feel its a we have been so slow to this story and these kinds ofor s and why coverage of other men, Harvey Weinstein and bill cosby didnt come until as late as they di brangham you have spoken to not just one but many of the women who have accused President Trump of this kind of behavior. And im just curious, what is ur sense of how they do, both coming forward, coming with the courage to come forwaraandy this, the attacks that then follow, and then the aermath, when there continues to be this ongoing echo of new accusers piling on . How do they handle that . I think its exhausting andti trauand i think that you we actually heard this directly from e. Jean carroll when she talked about why she didnt come forward sooner, which was one os the things that was sort of leveraged at her, and she knew would be. And shekn said, yo, i had no desire to joint ranks of those womenfacing Death Threats and troll and, you know, people calling them liars, the president calling them too ugly to sexually assault. Brangham and we should say again for the record that the 1esident has00 denied all of these accusations. But what does it say to you that ye still seem to have a ver difficult time reckoning with the seriousness of these allegations, even today, in the me too era . I think its incredible just the notion that women get raped is because theyreve attracnd not because its an insult and about power isng very wreaded. And i think that we like to think theres been so much growth. And, clearly, the media and i would and even sort of political establishment, to some is evolving on this. But i think this shows that wernot anywhere close to where we thought we were and where we like to consider oursel s to be. Brangham lucia graves of the guardian, thank you very being here. Thank you for having me. Druff the next item on the newshour bookshelf, the death of politics. How to hl our frayed republic after a period of deep divisiveness. Author peter wehner served in three republican white houses, and writes about the tone and rhetoricf President Trump and its effect on the polity. Peter wehner, welcome back to the newshour. E. Hanks, thanks for having woodruff so even though the title is the death of politics, i think its clear ality to this book because ink feel like politics is a low moment, and a lot that has toha happen isntening and there is danger that this could be a death of some of the best of the american political tradition. But, ultimately, its abook of hope. Its a book that argues aginst cynicism, corrosive cynicism; against fatalism; and a reminder that the public can change thena re of politics and make it better and higher and that it can once again stand for things that the politics should, which really justice. Woodruff so before we talk about the prescriptions, talk about why you think politics had been so damn this country . What has gone wrong . Yeah, thats a good queion. I think there are a whole confluence of facertors. S been a tremendous amount if cultural and economic change in this country,location, which i think has caused people to be 2 become unsettle i think there have been failures of the political class, which has left peoped discournd frustrated. I think there are political cultures gotten angrier. Social media has been introduced thats a new phenomenon which riestmplified the ang voices. So i think a lot of things have happened. Adershipour political has has not been up to the task. And the country itself i think is in a state of disrepair, a lot of loneliness, a lot of lack of connection. I argue in the book that our politics is angry and brokenm because nsomsure, our country is angry and broken. And politics is a stagche on whi that plays out. Woodruff and do you write about, peter wehner, how this all started yars ago. And, yet, you do spend time, lot of time in the book, focusing on how President Trump, in your view, has made it worse. I do, i do. I ont blame him for all of these situations because a lot of these trends predate him, but i think hes made virtually all of them worse. You know, weve had divisive a polarizing president s in the past. Whats different with donald trump nmy estimation, is veral things, one of which is i dont think we have ever had ain presidenamerican history who seems to take such delight in inflaming th dy politic, a person who seems to get a kind of psychic satisfaction out of antip theerk creating antipathy, anger, and divisions. He seems to thrive on that, and he keeps going back to it again and again and again. I dont know that anyone has ever controlled the public conversation like trumpas. And the fact that he uses that bully pulpit to divide suin my estimation, a terrible thing that has to be correctedfor politics to get better and for the country to get better. Woodruff what also mes across you, as a republican, and as a chrstian, that its been very painful for you to watch this happen because you feel republicans have enabled it and the christian evangelical community. Thats exactly riht. Ive been a republican my entire adult life, and a christian for most of my adult life as with. My faith is mo important than my politics. Theyre both important to me. And it habeen both air diing and a painful time for evangelical chrtians, whats been most pa mnful fore is i think they have many, not theirut many of them in leadership have discredited the christian witness. What i think they have done, which is shameful, is it thata theyvent spoken truth to power. They havent held him accounotble. Theyve only gone silent with his moral and ethical transgestions. Theyve defended him. And that i think is kind of intellectual and moral mistake of tremendous dimensions. Woodruff so whenlook at christian leaders, how do you explain their enthusiastic w,pport for the president . Well, you kni think part of it is a kind of political tribalism. I think they view donald trump y, the general of their arm the leader of their cause. And hes under attack, and theya have decided theyre going to defend him, no matter what, because he needs their defense. Think, frankly, that for some er them, theres the seduction of political powthat the idea that if they are at all critical of tusm, theyre going to lose access to that power,ey and dont want to do that. Ill tell you, judy, the other thing thats important f some evangelical christians not all is at precisely the thing that ought to bother them the most, the cruelty, the dehumanization t characterizes donald trump i think they not only are not troubled by it, i think for some of them they appreciate it because they feel like this guy will figuratively bring a gun to a knife fight. And theres a tremendous amount of anger and frustration and grieences that christians ha felt, and they look at donald trump as someone who is going t fight em. I think its a huge mistake. I think its led them to very dark places, but i think thats part of whats going on. Woodruff so theres a lot of write here to despair over, in your view. But you also write that you think this country can come through it, that the amrica people can come through it, but its going to take effort by not st people in the political realm but by citizen, by the press, that a lot of peoe have a role poplay. Thats exactly right. This is goa selrning country, and we have it within ourselveseourselvetes to wriondl new chapters in the american story. But it does require will and persistence, and it requires reclaiming an appreciation for values and virtues that matter, that maybe over time we took for granted and forgot about, things like honor and integrity. Th ane is something, they argue in the book, of the mantle of citizenship, that we have take control of our lives and politics but we can do it, one person acting alone may not make era dice, but a lot of people act together can make a culture, and that culture can fix our pol and i cans make ouy coun better and more decent. Woodruff peter wehner, the book is the death of politics how to heal our freyed republic after trump. Thank you. Ha thanks so much forng me. Woodruff and that is the wshour for tonight. On wednesday, countdown to the first democratpr president ial ary debate. Im judy woodruff. Join us online, and again here tomorrowight. For all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, and well see you soon. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by babbel. Aca Language Program that s spanish, french, italian, german, and more. Conmer cellular. Financial Services Firm raymond james. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. Carnegie corporation of new york. Supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of International Peace and security. At carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made n possible by the corporatr public broadcasting. 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