Tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. Andith the ongoing support of these institutions. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributis to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. For the first time, investigators in the house of representives have heard a direct account of the phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry. It came today from a veteran of 20 years in the u. S. Military. Our White House Correspondent begins our coverage. He arrived at the capitol in uniform, wearing his metals. An army lt. Col. Works for the National Security council. On tuesday, he became the First White House official who was in the call between President Trump and president ukraine to testify in the impeachment inquiry. That call sits at the heartf o the democratic investigations. He said he was concerned about what he heard. Some republicans, like congressman jim jordan, dismissed the testimony and advanced. The fundamental facts have never changed. We know what President Trump said. Democrats said it was more confirmation oresident trums misconduct. You have a whistleblower complaint thahas been repeatedly validated by trumps own appointees. Vindmand s witnessed attempts to pressure the ukrainian president into opening an investigation into former Vice President joe biden and his son, hunter. In his oning statement, vindman said, i did not think it was proper to demand a Foreign Government investigate a u. S. Citizen and i was worried about the impcations for the u. S. Governments support of ukraine. He went on. The investigation, it woulded likely be interpreted as a partisan play, which would undoubtedly support in ukraine losing bipartisan support it had thus far maintained. Soon after the call, vindman relayed his worries to the National Security council. It was the second time he raised the issue. The fi meeting including the ambassador to the European Union and ukraines national. According to vindman, the ambassador said it was important that they open a meeting ifra te ian president one in meeting with trump. Vindman said the s inappropriate, that the requests had nothing to do with National Securi and that such investigations were not something nsc would get involved with or push. ,earlier this month sunland told lawmakers that no one at the nsc ever expressed concerns. Some of President Trumps allies attacked vindman and question his loyalty to the u. S. We also know he was born in the sovietit union, emigrated his family. He tends to feel simpatico with the ukraine. I dont know that he is concerned about american policy, but his main missi was to make sure ukraine got those weapons. We all have an affinity to our homeland where we came from. The preside tweeted without idence that vindman is a nevertrumper. Vindman said his family brought him to the United States in 1979 , en he was three years o served in the u. S. Military for two decades, he earned a purple heart after being wounded by a roadside bomb in iraq. He also held various diplomatic posts before joining the nscn 2018 as a ukraine expert. He has serd in a nonpartisan manner. At least one republican defeed him. I think that we need to show that we are better than that as a nation, their patriotism, love of country, we are talking about decorated veterans who have served this nation. House democrats moving toldrm her holding a vote in impeachment hearings. The text of the resolution was released. It gives rublicans some of at they have been demanding. The house is expected to vote on thursday in the resolution. And we are joined now. Ohello to botyou. What do we know now about what the democrats are proposing to do f how to run this impeachment process . We just got a look at the detail in the last couple hours. With this resolution does not do is itic is not specly changing the status of the inquiry. It is not a test of whher this is a formal inquiry. Democrats maintain it already has been. This lays out procedures, a framework, for goith aad with investigation. What republicans are getting that they like out of thingis public hea that is something we know the public wants. It wille held by the Intelligence Committee only. During those committees, house lawyers may question witnesses, both parties will get equal time, members can also question, they will probably have less time than the lawyers. Republicans are unhappy because these rules mean theepublicans will not be able to subpoena witnesses on their own. After those public hearings, the plan is t committee and in impeachment debate. During that process is when the president and his attorney may be present. Othat attorney canect and crossexamine witnesses. This all will be in public. Republicans will not be able to subpoena without essentially help from the democrats and the blessing ofemrats, mething the republicans do not like. Intelligence community will be doing these hearings, that is only 22 members of congress. This is a small Group Democrats are focusing on the first of all. Th a Judiciary Committee process that will be highly odramatic,y the third time in modern history we have seen anything like this. So, we know that this vote, there will be a formal vote, as we heard on thursday, on this impeachment inquiry in the house. What is the white house saying. E they going to be more cooperative . The white house is very unhappy with this resolution. Rey are making it very cl tonight the White House Press secretary said essentially that this is an illegitimate continuation of what she sees as an illegitimate sham. She says the resolutn does nothing to change the fundamental fact that House Democrats refused to provide basic Due Process Rights to the administration. The first is the white house participation. The white house is really included in the second part of is when the Judiciary Committee gets involved. The white hou is saying that a onesided hearing in the house intelligence and then you will have a biased report for the judiciary we report and then we get to be involved. The white house does not really have its own rights defined. They are essentially saying it is uncertain howou the white is going to actually be able to have input in the process. I was talking to a senior white house official before this text came out and the i saidm really worried this is going to provide cover for democrats, but is not going to solve the issues republicans have. The white house is saying this is not solving the issues w have wit this investigation and the inquiry. It seems as though the white house will not be complying with any sort of witness requests or document requests. Just continuing all of this today, this very coerning testimony from vindman, how is it thought that that fits into the inquiry and what is the white house saying about it . Lieutenant colonel vindman is seen as a critical witness in this impeachment inquiry by democrats. He came to congress and saide thwas concerned about the president pushing for these investigations into ukraine. He also said that he basically wanted to come forward as a patriot. His testimony led to a fiery backandforth between lawmakers. The reporting i have is that lawmakers republicans were being accused by democrats that vindman was being pushed to reveal the identity of the whmatleblower. Vi says very clearly, imeb not the whiswer and i do not know who the whistleblower is, but democrats are sayingan republwere still trying to push and with that. President trump has been tweeting he wane to know who istleblower is and he has been lashing out at vindman. He also said that this is someone that did not know, even though he is in the National Security council, he is still working at the white house right now. I want to walk you through the timeline that vindman laid out. There is this july 10 meeting and it is a meeting with ukrainian officials and u. S. Officials in washington. Ambassador to the an union started to speak out asking ukraine for specific investigations. He says then that the National Security advisor cut the meeting short and that essentially several u. S. Officials said to the ambassador that this an appropriate. He said, i myselfssent to the amor and said this is an appropriate. Vindman then is so frustrated by this and so concerned that he goes to the nsc lead counsel. Then move forward to the july 25 phone call. Vindman is on the call listening. President trump mentions biden, talks about a favor from ukraine, vindman thenoe again to the nsc council and says, im very concerned by this. Kethere are severa players that have come to congress that he is nodescribing their actions and what he has seen firsthand. What you have is somebody describing what was before and after the call. Clearly, things are movingh very quickly w this. These developments. Do we have a sense of the timeline in impeachment . Who else remains to be called before these committees . If anyone says they know for sure, that is just not true. I think we are narrowing down the window that democrats are looking at in concept. I think generally to summit up, this is a quick timeline and we will talk more about this. Quickly just to tell you, it es look like we could be heading toward a full house vote in impeachment before the end of december or beginning of january. That seems to be the path right now. That is in the house only and then that would set up the senate trial folwing that in the end of december, early january. Alright, thank you both. Good evening from newshour west. The latest headlines. Calirnia is in a high state of alert as the National Weather service warnsli that 18 m people are in areas of the highest fire risk. In what is becoming an all routine, the states largest powerrovider is cutting off electricity to more customers. The wind across Northern California is picking up and fears that fires will only get worse. He Sonoma County sheriff told evacuees not to e yet. With the wind, we haveg been gettlot of questions about plrepopulation, how peoe can get back to their homes. Communities across Northern California are facing more blackouts. The new high wind advisory prompted Pacific Gas Electric cutting off power f the fourth time this month, aimed at preventing downlines from sparking new fes, but the frequency of the widespread outages are adding to frayed a nerv frustrations. More than 1. 5 Million People are affected, on top of 2. 5 million o lost power over the weekend. Then there are the many People Living in ecuation shelters, anxiously waiting for the all clear. It is hard for us. All the resources and everything that is going on is great, but it is frustrating not knowing. To the south in los angeles, daylight revealed damaged homes near thehed hillside famed getty arts complex. The Los Angeles Mayor warned that smoke clearing does not mean the area is complety im sure we have gotten phone calls and hadat convens of people saying there is not a lot of smoke, it should be fine to go home. I want to continue to tell people to listen to the professionals and the firefighters who are askg you to stay away and mandating you stay away. Sp wind eeds are expected to peak with gusts over 80 les per hour in both ends of california. The mayor of los angeles says the getty fire was started by a tree branch blown into power lines during high wind. The lines are operated by the Los Angeles Department of water and power. A bloodbath overnight in iraq sparked one of the largest antigovernment protests yet. Masked gman shot dead 18 people at a tent encampment. Hours later, thousands of people packed the main square in d bagh police fired tear gas. In geneva, a u. N. Spokesman called the reports particularly disturbing. We call on the authorities to launch investigations into the use of forcen these continued killings and injuries that are taking place and to really knuckle down to meaningful dialogue to try to reduce the tension a bring some tisfaction to the situation. In the protests that begane died october 1, demanding jobs and an end to corruption. Lebanons embattled Prime Minister died after nofrly two week resigned after nearly two weeks of mask of protests. Protesters in beirut welcomed the news. It was expected. Under t pressure of this peoples uprising, there is something joyful for the lebanese people because he was one of the symbols of the authority and the authority strength. They really should all be held accountable. Earlier, supporters of has bull torch supporters of olheh torched a protester camp. The deadline ran out for syrian kurdis fighters to withdraw from near the border with turkey. Kurds have complied. The the socalled safe zone extends 19 miles into northeastern syria. Turkish and Russian Forces plan joint patrols in a narrow zone. The u. S. House of representatives passed two measures to punish turkey for invading syria, proving sanctions and formally recognized the Armenian Genocide in turke t seen asmb in the eye to the turks. The British Parliament agreed to college december election to break months of deadlockit over br Prime Minister Boris Johnson pushed to let the public decide who can best deliver britains departure from the European Union. There is only one way to get brexit done in the face of this unrelenting parliamentary obstructionism, this endlessge, wiful, f crossed refusal to deliver on the mandate of the people and that is, mr. Speaker, to refresh thiparliament. The decision came afterop the sition labor party changed course and agreed to the early election. British police are hunting two brothers in the deaths of 39 migrants. The victims were found last week in a container truck in southwestern england. It has been confirmed that some were vietnamese. Theri truckr has already been charged. Back in this country, a federal judge in alabs temporarily blocked a state law banning nearly all aboions. The measure as part of a wave of state laws pushed by abortion opopponents who to get the issue back before the u. S. Supreme court. A major coal mining compa filedor federal bankruptcy protection today. The eighth in the past year to do so. Murr energy is the largest private coalminer with nearly 7000 eloyees. Demand for coal has plummeted as utilities switch to cheaper natural gas and renewable energy. Still t come in the newshour, the ceo of boeing comes facetoface with lawmakers a year to the day after a fatal crash. How a school in one of baltores poorest neighborhoods graduates 90 of its students. And much more. This is the pbs newshour. Boeing 737 max planes have yet to return to the skies worldwide. Governments, airlines, and passengers all remain concern about the airplanes safety issues after a pair of crashes in indonesia and ethiopia last year. Investigations have opened a window into much bigger questions about going boeing and its larger cultuhen it comes to safety and certification of new planes. Its ceo came to capito hill for the first of two days of hearings about accountability. Yaas joh tells us, he was in the crosshairs. A year to the day after the lion air crash in indonesia, some of the most powerful witnesses did not speak at all. Families of the 346 People Killed i two crashes of boeing 737 maxes five months apart. They werehere with photos of their loved ones as the boeing ceoe faced the senmmerce committee. He began with an apogy to the families. On behalf of myself and the boeing a company, sorry, deeply and truly, sorry. Senators from both parties slammed the ceo with questions of safety and accountability. Some flatly accused him of outright deception. He was asked whether bing withheld damaging inrmation about the automated control session system thatbl has ben ed for the crashes. Boeing came to my office shortly after these crashes and said they were the result of pilot error. Those pilots never had a chance. There are a lot of reasons an airplane can go down, but safety should not be one of them. Senators showed little we share your focus on safety and i can confidently say that that is our number one priority. Ok, cool, we failed in this case and there are a whole bunch of people going through incredible anguish because we failed. Recently disclosed documents show a boeing test pilot complained the system was running rampant in simulator tests. The ceo indicated he knew about that after the first crash, but boeing did not hand over the documents to iestigators until much later. You are the ceo, the buck did you read this document and how did your team not put it in front of you with their hair on fire, saying, weve got a real problehere . After the hearing, family me ters said the apology wa little too late. I was hopin today coming here that he would at least answer some questions why he didnt ground thelane five months after the crash . If he did, my dilghter would be here. Boeing ceo is back in the hot seat tomorro in front of the house transportation committee. The transportation reporter for reuters covered the hearing. We saw how angry the senators were. What did the ceo seem to be ying to accomplish at the hearing and how successful was he . Lk, clearly they have moved beyond the initial message of making a safe plane s he did acknowledge mistakes. They did not disclose the faa about a sensor. They stayed away froeca lot of the ic questions the make critical mistakes duringey that 2016 timeframe in the development offo the stion of the airplane . How badly was his credibility hurt on the issue of the Text Messages from the test pilot saying the system is running sirampant, thlator . Years, months beforehe crashes. Just aboas angered everybody. The faa said, why did you wait months to nd this over . The senators anger isnu over a er of different buckets. There is the issue of did they properly designed the plane mcas . We now know that stall Software System did not have the arsafe it was demanded to have to return to service. Did boeing do enough between the first crash and the second crash in march . and why didnthose concerns that have been raised, why didai that not immediate alarms . Finally, why did it take so long after march to turn over that material . A lot of questions also about the process of approving this aircraft as airworthy to fly. A lot ofes talk about the coz between the regulators. Is congress likely to do something about that, do you think . They are going to be shifting on a dime, if they do. In october 2018, the congress moved to p give morer and authority to airlines to do more of the work. I dont think we are going to see immediate action. Everyonegrees that changes need to be made. Understaffed and some officials do not have enough experience and that boeing employees feel undue pressure to get these r. Planes certified fas do think you are going to see reforms, but there is still the investigation into eth airlines. There are other reports that the fbi and the doj are investigating. What was the impact . U were in the committee room. What was the effect of having having them stand and show the pictures of their loved ones . It was incredibly moving. Many of these Family Members are Walking Around with open wounds. There was a father who lost his entire family in the ethiopian crash. When they stood up, you ca ld really hean drop in that room. There was another moment wh mr. Muilenbu left the hearing in one Family Member said,ldou she saying sorry directly. He turned to this mother of a young womrr and said, im boeing is trying to show more contrition. He met with the indonesian more sympathies. Night but this is not it by ang ot. There are more reports, another rough day of hearings ahead. The questn is will this be enough for the families and there are still lawsuits to be resolved. Thank you so much. As we have hard tonight, so much of the news theses d centers in ukraine. Now, we turn to one of the darkest chapters in countrys history, the explosion of the true noble nuclear plant. That came before its independence from s tiet union. Our special correspondent tells usow that darkness is now pierced by an unlikely wave of something strange is happening in chernobyl, the site of the worlds worst radiological cmiastrophe is back to life. It is not theesidents who are returning or nature taking over, as you may have heard, it is tourists, and they are coming in , thanks in part to an american tv show. Ve i will haou shot. If you fly directly or that , by tomorrow morning, you will be begging for that bullet. Tyler aley is an american visiting true noble chernobyl with his fatherinlaw, and part thanks to the hbo mamiseries that out earlier this year. I thought as my wife and i were watching the series, now it is going to be a popular tourist destinationchefore we get a ce to go, hopefully it is not too crowded. The series brought not just the chronology of the disaster into tragic relief, it also texposed topheavy soviet bureaucracy that tried to hide the scope of the accnent from its people and from the world. Humiliate in nation that is obsessed with not bein humiliated. We can make a deae a deal with the kgb . Graphic scenes from the miniseries, which we wont show here, have inexplicably failed to deteror visfrom the exclusion zone, as the area around chernobyl where habitation is forbidden is known. We did research to see if it is at all dangerous. S we saw that itfe. Even though i started to get a little panicked as it was coming up researching ift is safe, so still a little scared. The founder of oneal of sev travel agencies bringing people to chernobyl told us there has interest. Ic increase in well, this miniseries has increased the interest in the chernobyl zone. We predict it will be like a increase. We expect 150,000 visitors this year in the zone. 150,000 people. Maybe not or the mona lisa, but the louvre does not exactly have plutonium 241 on display either. These are supposed to tell the researchers here hur much every t absorbs in terms to the exclusion zone. Eir trip we are right at the checkpointri t now. From here, it is to the reactor. Guides do what they can to reassure nervous visitors about the dose of radiation they will exclusion zone. Ip to the do you know tt our bodies produce radiation . It is contained in our favorite fruits, bananas, and nuts as if you surround yourself with 40 bananas and spend one hour acmpanied by 40 bananas, you will get the same radiation that you will accumulate during your presence in the exclusion zone. Ur the reassances also come with a warning, not to stray from approved routes, and casey blunder into a radioactive hotspot. In case you blunder into a radioactive hotspot. If you do not do this, everything will be all right. Underneath this b shelter is reactor number four, which exploded and sent lethal doses of radioactive materiallu through the eon zone. Is not that exclusive. E draw is vious. It is a bilan openair museumd of the soviet era, uninhabited since gorbachev was in charge. Frozen in time, tak. Over by natu chernobyl, for me, is kind of a mecca, of sorts. Back home, im a professor of russian literaturur history, cu i grew up in the height of the cold war. I remainder remember climbing under desks, when i see all this debris and dtruction, i is kind of symbolic of the soviet era. Do you feelike chernobyl might have been the beginning of the end for the soviet era . Absolutely. The moment gorbachev tried to correct soviet policies, i dont think he knew what he was opening up. Aftermath of th burned pretty hot. Asr, of septemore than 90,000 people have visited. It is already wel t abo number of people who decided to brave chernobyl in the whole of 2018, according tonehe exclusion dministration. This is actually my third trip to chernobyl, but my first ip since i watched the hbo show, and ive got to say, it is a different experience because a disaster ive lived with entire life, i but did not have an emotional connection to. Now that im here, im imagining the drama that played out here from the scenes in the show. Chernobyl lies now in an independent ukraine. Then, it was the ukrainian soviet socialist republic, and for ukrainians all too familiar with the consequences of the disaster, the show has served as a fresh reminder of what life was like under moscow rule. The hbo miniseries has reminded many ukrainians about the necessity to have more control of their lives, of tir country closer to their own hands, because it is a terrible wfeelingn you are only to rely on somebody elses decision who is very removed and may or may not care about you. For the pbs newshour, the chernobyl exclusion zone. Stay with us. Coming up, will the ncaa allow College Athletes to cash in on their fame . Yland choreographer tharp, 78 and not slowing down at all. Orbalt is a city that has long struggled wh poverty, crime,nd a high in ointment rate. Another crucial challenge to tackling those problems, Public High School Graduation Rate currentlyd aro . Our special correspondent recently vetted visited a charter middle and high schoo bucking those trends, graduating 95 percent of seniors and sending them on to college and careers. His report is the latest in a special series on rethinking college. Thank you for giving us this day. Every day begins with a prayer. Amanda. A single mom who works as a Security Guard and has to leave early for work worries about amandas safety in her morning ndmmute through the surroug neighborhoods, but she is relieved when amanda arrives at her destination, and educational oasis in the heart of baltimore. She is a senior at the grnstreet academy but currently has about 150 students. In many ways, it is a Typical School with courses like science and spanish. T there was a lot about greenstreet that is not typical for an urban school. Students are exposed to a wide range ofo opportunities explore and learn outside of the classroom. In a recent afternoon, amanda d her classmates tended to a flock of chickens in the eight acre farm behind the school. Chicken eggs that we will sell to different places like stores orta rants around the neighborhood. To work with these animals and stuff, to get the handson experience, it makes me happy. Four years ago, the school moved to its current location, a renovated buildingarbandoned 30 ago. There is a lottery to get in. Last year, more than 1000 applied for 250 openings. Gaccord to the school, 90 of graduating seniors were excepted to two and Fouryear College programs. Their learning. To incorporate anks provide handson aquaculture, one the countrys Fastest Growing Food Production industries. All of that training in oeder career foc courses in Construction Management and nursing are part othe schools the skills and expes theydents need to be successful after high school, ready for both college and careers. I think adults sometimes limit kids options, telling other. Be one way or the at our school, it is not like that at all. The executive director of the school and othervienior staff sit classrooms to check on students. 97 of the students applynd are accepted for reduced or free lunches. One of the school top priorities, getting students into high quality, paid inrnships as bee a big boost to students and their families. What we do is wewarovide a for them to make money while going to school, kind of restructure the trajectory of their lives by saying, you can make money, you can also get back to your community, you can also go to college. It does not have to be one or the other. It can be a combination of things. The dual emphasis on college and careers is reinforced during their time at greenstrt. By ninth grade, students are required to have resumes and are encouraged to consider careers they may not have. I want us to take a deeper look into stem fields and stem jobs. College logos line hallways and seniors have to apply to at least one communityerollege or unty. I would like you to do ait littleore research and pick one more maryland college. In a recent afternoon, the seniors gathered for a class meeting about the year ahead. I need are greenstreet kids to go in there and while people. The director of internships and enrichment is promoting an internship through an Organization Called urban alliance, which provides intensive workplace training. Students are then played ste placed in paid internships. A few lend permanent jobs after they graduate. Im going to specifically think speak to those of you who know you are not going to college. If you need a fulltime job when you graduate, this is your shot. For t past three years, they have been building the internshipgr pro and now, close to 60 of the High School Students participate, but she says it is not always easy. I feel like some of our kids have stopped dreaming. When you ask them what they want to be, it is flatlined because they cant believe it will happ to them. Letting them see, this is your peernd who did Johns Hopkins loved it, you try it. Or try the law program. Keeping them exposed. Amanda has participated in several internships, including one with kaiser permanente, where her payment was00 a 10 college scharship th will come in handy next year. She is currently applying to colleges and hopes to be a marine biologist. Her big brother jordan graduated fr greenstreet last spring and he decided to go the career route, he is now in a paid earning certifications. I did not really want to go to college, so i knew that once i graduated, i wanted to get a job. Im pretty good with my hands, so ill do construction. Their mom says greenstreet has given her children oprtunities that match their interests. Amanda wants school, jordan does not want school. Thiss what he wants, his dreams. That is what i like. They dont sell a fake dream, they give yoreality. For most graduates, the reality is school and work go hand in hand. A recent grad is at schoo10 minutes away from greenstreet studying to eventually become an ob gyn while also working parttime. She said greenstreet prepared her to juggle both. M i was prepared based time management because that is what they need always, strive , time managemen dont procrastinate. Back at greenstreet academy, students are harvesting apples and enjoying the fruits of their labor and the school will begin a Capital Campaign for a new living wage Career Training for students and their parents. For the pbs newshour, im in maryland. For decades, the governing body overseeing collegiate sports has refused to budge from its position that studentathletes should not be financially compensated for their performance the field or on the court. Today, for the first time, the ncaa seemed to open the dr to change. But the announcement comes with many caveats. The ncaa was facing a wave of new pressure on is issue from california and a dozen other states. The california governor recently hasigned a lawwould allow studentathletes to profit off their name, image, and likeness, including money from videogames. Thathange would not take effect until 2023, but other states are continuing following suit. The ncaa board of governors owacdged that pressure and voted to consider allowing a similar practice throughout college sports. This is just the beginning of a very long path. The ncaa maintains there will be a clear distinction between esamateur and pronal athletes. Le this got a ton of attention today. The headline said ncaa will allow athletes to get their money james said this was a Beautiful Day for College Athletes. What did the ncaa actually say today . First of all what they did was they were like the robber coming out of a bank surrounded by the police and they held up their hands and said, we give up. Ive never enjoyed bank robbing, i totally disavow it. Lets negotiate. Then they were saying, we got this. Other states need a law. Weve got this and we are going to take care of our studentathletes, which is one of the great myths of our time in terms of the bigtime football and mens basketball players because they are training to be professional athletes. There nothing wrong with that , but they want to maintain this amateurs, which they are not. They are recruited in a different way, they travel, they have locker rooms that are bigger than this set, they live in luxury because they are semi pro. I dont think there is anything wrong with that because they make huge money for the universities. They say weve got this and we are going to pay them, but i you read through this list that is in front of me from the ncaa with all these caveats, and one of them was wtill want to distinguish between amateur athletes and professional athletes. Exactly how do you do that esther and mark there is no real answer in terms of paying them. Exactly how do you do that . There is no rl answer in terms of paying them. We still have to make sure recruiting is t affected. Any change to recruiting would be a good thing first of all. Secondly, if you are being recruited and kentuck which is a big basketball power, has more power money from alumni that it can legally offer to you because you are a star , but americlaye university in washington does not have nearly that money, then ky has an unfair advantage. Those unfair aantages already existing facilities and how you travel and things like that. What is the ncaa doing . I get it you are trying to say they are holding off state and congressional efforts. They have dirted their three divisions to open up the door to possibly allow students to be compensated. Sisnt that progress e way . It is a small first step. Again, that is all it is. Again, they are trying to hold off the avalanche that is coming in their direction of people saying, we are not buying this bid that the sky will fall if College Athletes get paid by outside agencies or as the presidenof the ncaa said, it is an existential issue. T what the heck does tan . [laughter] i guess im not sma what is an existential issue when it comes to paying people . Aythey areg, weve got it, we are going to work this out. What it is it is an opening bargaining ploy. They saying, we will do this. Lawmakers are saying, no, we want that. The ncaa will say, what about this . They will try to give away as little of the store as they can so the schools and the ncaa can continue to rake in the billions of dollars they make off these kids. That is the essential argument, the economic fairness argument, that t students are the revenue drivers and no one is there to see the coaches in the grandstands, they are there to see the athletes play and that those athletes out to get a slice of that pie. There are people who come to see the coaches and they are compensated for that. Coaches and bigtime programs make sevenfigure salaries. Lets use zion williamson, the t first pick i nba draft, the money that he alone brought into duke, to the acc, the conference, to the ncaa is part of their multibillllar tv contract cant be calculated. What did he get in return . Iotu books, fees, period. Why cant he go out still in college and sell a car . Why nte do an autographed show and get paid for that . He ncaa says, we will look at this and you are arguing it as a bargaining ploy. To end up . Think this is going it is going to end up with some sort of rule being put in place that will allow the athletes you think it is a fork in conclusion. It has to be. Certain things have their time. The ncaa is going to fight as hard as it can to give away as little to the athletes as it possibly can. They are going toetontinue to pete this myth of the studentathlete, but eventually, they are going to have to give in. If they dont, congress is going to step in and pass a law. John feinstein, always a pleasure. Thanks. Finally tonight, a groundbreaking career in dance nnhas led to anative approach to health and aging. And a new book released today. Jeffrey brown went to the american ballet theater recently to stay in ep with twyla tharp. It is part of our ongoing arts and culture coverage. Breathe deep. Shoulders back. Now we stride. A lesson from twyla tharp and allowing our bodies to take up space, even as we grow older. What she refers to as amplitude. Amplitude, moving out, constantly feeling youove out. As age becomes a reali,e start to retreat, we retract, we become protective, we become secluded, we begin to ossify. But that is the body becoming smaller in the way it is becoming smaller. Bl all, that is its pro at age 78. And a new book. Keep it moving, lessons for the rest of your life. Believe that constantly you can be evolving, that you dont except to the rumor that is them body ages it b less. It becomes different. Do you think of this as a selfhelp book . Look at it as a self survival book. Is a girl, twyla tharp took dance and Music Lessons of all she was dancing and choreographing as part of an export and important, experimental modern dance scene and she was creating groundbreaking works by the 1970y set to musice beach boys, it brought together elements of ballet and modern dance. She made push comes to shove for baryshnikov. Part of the acclaimed partnersp. Dance after dance, combining rigor and boundless energy. She also choreographed films, including hair and amadeus. She also created moving out to the music of billy joel. She has been the recipient o pretty much every part tedious artistic award, incding a Kennedy Center honor in 2008. In her new book, she provides a series of exercises and says ags ot the enemy, stagnation is the enemy. We all have that laid on us by our culture. Being squirmy you cant do this at dinnerarties, but this is how you keep yo system, rollingabolic system you dont do it like this. You cant do this even in the alway we areng about, but you want me to. If you keep doing this, chances are your body is going to be more productive in the moment and you will have i something leftthe evening, particularly as you become older and you buy into this reality that older folks can do less. Ok, prove it. Her own physical regime is legendary. We watched an Early Morning workout at her home studio. Breathing and stretching, cycling, and various kinds of strength and resistance exercises. I can bench my bodyweig for three and i dead lifted 227 pounds at the waist, which was twice my bodyweight. But i developed a core strength that the classical dancer does not ve. Now im making a piece of this sort for a classical dancer and i can bring that sort of physical intelligence to them and say, try it this way. A fanfare. Then we will move along to the presentation. Her new dance, notated over three months in intricat detail , directly addresses ang. Title a gathering of ghosts, its made for a danc now 38, who is being honorat for 20 yearhe avt abt. Twyla tharp says the quality she looks for most in a dancer be in is optimism. You will fix that, you will make it work. Yo failed, you turn it into comedy. Are you kidding . At success. You advise us in the book to accept failures. They are not failures. They are adventures of a different sort. You may not have gotten what you set out to get, but there is something to be learned from everything. There was a profile t in times, that says twyla tharp remains among the very few female choreographers to have had a lasting influence on ballet. Why dont they say one of the few short choreographers to have an iluence on the ballet . The female nomenclature is highly abusive, it is icing, and it is irrelevant to what ive done. you t want to hear it at all . Im not ierested. m a worker, im an artist, i make dances, and of story. Judge me with the best, dont judge me with the best women. You wrote in a book that you are asked, how do you keep working . The subtext isge at youryou said. Every day. Day, daily, do it i look at the past to see what works and let go what doesnt work and build on what does rk. In the meantime, the final piece of advic is shut up and dance. Thats right. Shut up and do be grateful and keep doing it and stop secondguessing it. Old good, im getting cant do what i love. In a word. [laughter] it is going to change. It is not going to be the same, its going to be different. The dances a gathering of ghosts, the book is keep it moving. Im Jeffrey Brown at the american ballet theater in new york. E a want a little piece of that. Newshour fo tonight. Join us online and tomorrow evening. Thank you and we will see you soon. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by sf railway. Consumer cellular. E ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. , supporting innovations in york education, democratic engagement ,nt and the advancef International Peace and security. And with the ongoingupport of these individuals and institutions. This programas made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs stations from viewers like you. Thank you. 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