Transcripts For KQED PBS NewsHour 20140510

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Sreenivasan House Democrats were divided today on whether to join republicans in investigating the benghazi attacks. It will be the eighth probe of the september 2012 attack that killed four americans in libya. At a briefing today, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called this latest investigation a political stunt, but she said her members are still considering what to do. Our caucus is clearly among those whohsaid dont have anything to do with it, its a kangaroo court, its been identified as such. I dont dignify what they are doing. They say just send one person so we can seec what theyre doingo the witnesses and have access to that testimony, and the third option is lets see what they come back with in terms of engagement. Sreenivasan pelosis office is negotiating with House Speaker John Boehners office on just how the investigation will be run. South sudans president salva kiir rebel leader riek machar agreed today on a ceasefire. They met in addis ababa, ethiopia in their first faceto face session since fighting began in december. In addition to the ceasefire, the two men agreed a Transitional Government offers the best chance to move toward new elections. The United Nations has accusedc both sides of crimes against humanity, and the u. S. Has imposed sanctions. U. S. Auto makers have announced two major recalls. Ford said today its callingc back nearly 700,000 escape s. U. Vs and cmax hybrids from the last two model years. Their side curtain air bags may not inflate in a rollover crash. And, outside door handles could bind and prevent the door from locking properly. And chrysler is recalling 780,000 minivans from 2010 through 2014 with window switches that may overheat. Thereve been no reports of crashes or injuries from the problems. Wall street closed out the week with modest gains. The Dow Jones Industrial average added 32 points to close at ac new record 16,583. The nasdaq rose 20 points to close near 4,072. The s p 500 was up two, at 1,878. For the weekx. Qje8rged fourtenths of a percent. The nasdaq fell more than one percent. And the s p was down onetenth. Still to come on the newshour, russian president putin celebrates his countrys hold on crimea, can social media help bring back the girls in nigeria, how time has changed the way jerry brown governs, should American Parents let their kids take more risks, mark shields and david brooks on the weeks news, plus, race, gender and class through one photographers lens. c sreenivasan russian president putin appeared at two major victory day celebrationsc today, drawing criticism from nato and ukraine for attending one of the events. In moscows red square, in a show of military might, putin presided over a ceremony honoring the soviet union Armed Forces Victory in World War Two over the nazis. Later, he made his first trip to the crimean port of sevastopol since the region was annexed by russia. He told thousands there that incorporating crimea had made his country stronger. Back in eastern ukraine, unrest continued ahead of sundays secession referendum as Government Forces launched an offensive. We have a report from alexc thomson of independent television news. Reporter the Ukrainian Forces knew what they wanted and they came in force. c the first time weve seen anything like this. Their assault on mariupols Police Station sustained. Rocketpropelled grenades fired in city center streets. Shooting where yesterday people were shopping. Today, they were just trying toc stop it all any way they could. Bodies were soon lying in the streets. How could a man with a brokenc arm be a fighter, the crowd said. We saw two bodies. Kiev claimed they killed 21. Many more injured of course as a city center became a battle ground. Ukraine says its a legitimate military action to evict pro russia militias out of buildingc theyve occupied. Many here say its nothing more than the action of a fascist regime supported by the west. c translated we live here in our native land. Fascists are coming, occupying the place, pushing us around. Reporter their Mission Completed at the Police Station, the Ukrainian Forces moved out, abuse hurled by locals as they did so. Leaving people here building barricades tonight, expecting more. translated we like, uh,c indpendent, independent region, you know. We like the independence. We no terrorist. We not killers or somec criminals, we not criminals. We honest men. Reporter in the regional capital donetsk, with their old shotguns, kalashnikovs have cobbled together uniforms, the peoples militia out on the street, no more masks these days. Armed men, militias walking straight down the main boulevards of one of the biggest cities in the east of ukraine and Ukrainian Government cant do anything about that. The Ukrainian Governments violent show of force in mariupol, and the oppositions armed force on the march inc donetsk. Greeted with cheers and flowers from the crowds as they entered the citys lenin square. c russia, russia, they chant as a speaker reminds them that today, victory day, is all about commemorating russias victory over fascism 69 years ago. Clearly for some on the streets, perceived fascism remains unfinished business. Sreenivasan i spoke with alex thomson earlier today. Thanks for joining us. What you saw today, have you ever seen the size of Ukrainian Forces or the racistance this big . Well, you hit on the Central Point here. As is the way with these events, there will be an enormous amount of,c frankly, propaganda, blame and attrition from both sides, but you do really need to focus in on what is new and what is above all indisputable about what happened today in maripal. Weve seen armed forces penetrate into certain urban areas and big cities. Sometimes thats easy to do for security reasons, not always a difficult event and not particularly difficult in this city itself. Today we saw the scoresc of soldiers, they were transported to the Police Station at one point. There were armed personnelc carriers, what looked like small tanks and rocketpropelled grenades and they used the weaponry in a sustained firefighting. This is new in the center of a big city. Reporter what are the securities for this weekends referendum vote . I think the number one security concern is nobody has the slightest idea of what the number one security concern is. I dont wish that to sound flippant in any way, shape or form. But there are a number of factors which are completely unpredictable here. Clearly, we do not know what may or may not be the next target for thisc ongoing operation master mieppedded by kiev, as they see it, to eradicate and evict what theyc see as terrorists, thats the term they use, these militias whove taken over government buildings. This is happening in a number of cities large and small. When that happens, that can provoke violence. Its clear from everybody you speak to on the ground that that will go ahead, how many people will turn out, how many people feel safe to turn out. Any reaction on the ground tc putins stroit visit to crimea . It is aoc enormous day, itsa victoryday celebration of the soviet effort and success in overthrowing the nazi fascist attack 69 years ago in the confusion of the second world war. I think thats what you will see. Ukrainians across the length and breadth of this country will absolutely take from that what they want to take. It doesnt matter, frankly, what Vladimir Putin does. She going to be a hero. He is going to be the father figure. He is going to be the great leader, and unquestionablyc you have to say he and russia are having a great streak of selfconfidence at the moment. That is how many people will see him. c obviously, many other people in ukraine will see him as a master mind behind what is happening here and someone they allege is playing a huge part in destabilizing events on the street. I dont think either side will be shifted one iota, frankly, about what Vladimir Putin did or did not do both in red square earlier in the day and when he flew into the crimean peninsula. Reporter alex thompson, in eastern ukraine, thanks so much. Sreenivasan the United Nations Security Council todayc condemned the Islamist Militant Group boko haram over the kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian School girls. c this came as more criticism mounted against the government for not doing more to rescue the students. Brown frustrated nigerians were out again today, protesting in lagos. They demanded action to find the missing girls, even as u. S. And british teams arrived to help. That effort will be limited at best, as pentagon spokesman, rear admiral john kirby, pointed out today. Were not talking about u. S. Military operations in nigeriac to go find these girls. Thats not the focus here. The president was clear he wants to help in any way we can. This is the this is the helpc that nigeria has accepted, and we believe its the appropriate step right now. Brown its been almost a month since the islamist Group Boko Haram attacked chibok village in the northeast, and made off with more than 300 girls. Roughly 50 managed to escape, but this week, boko harams leader declared the rest are slaves, and will be sold. Today, nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan said he believes the girls are still in the country and have not been sold acr]ss the border. Nigerias government and military have been criticized for failing to do more to get the girls back. c and today, Amnesty International reported officials failed to prevent the attack despite a fourhour warning. Weve had people in the military in northeast nigeria telling us that there is a war weariness and a fear among the soldiers. Were not there, its hard to say why the help didnt come. But the reality is they had warning that this school was under threat and nothing was done to save these girls. Brown the incident has now campaign titled, bring back our girls. This timelapse map fromc time. Com shows the online conversation began in nigeria and slowly spread abroad. Then, last week, bring back our girls began trending online in the west. By now, more than one Million People have mentioned the campaign via twitter. From first Lady Michelle obama. To the pakistani teenage activist malala yousufzai. To talkshow host and comedian ellen degeneres. To georgia congressman john lewis. We have to make it the biggest story in the world. Brown the online effort is that social Media Campaign was started two years ago by the western group, invisible children, to raise awareness of alleged war crimes by ugandanc rebel leader joseph kony. But the drive to save the nigerian girls has also been criticized as being overly simplistic and ultimately ineffective. And, in a further twist, it turns out the young woman in this photo is not nigerian. In fact, she is from guinea bissau. Her photo was taken in 2011 for a reporting project unrelated to nigeria. All the same, the mass abduction is being widely condemned, including by islamic leaders. Today, the top religious official in saudi arabia chargec boko haram is misguided and should be made to reject its path. Sreenivasan california governor jerry brown is embarking on what is likely the final campaign of a political career that spans nearly half a century. He is seeking an unprecedented fourth term 40 years after he first won the job. And at every turn in this electoral twilight, brown is embracing something he famously rejected in the 1970s tradition and the long view of california, the nations most populous state. K. Q. E. D senior Political Editor john myers reports f om sacramento. Reporter it is part of californias rich political history, the house that servedc for more than six decades as a governors mansion. To the public, its a museum. To jee jerry brown, it was a ho briefly. Brown was 20 years old and in Seminary School when his father the late pat brown took office and moved the family into the sacramento mansion. But the younger brown refused an official home when he first became governor in 1975. A campaign he ran, thumbing his nose at tradition. I need add more modest apartment, which i got. Reporter it also fit 234 with thec times for you. It fit in with the times. Reporter but times have changed and so has jeer where brown. now 76, he seems to take defendant in tradition and history and the old mansion has become a favorite hangout from private dinners have legislators to inviting in distant relatives to help celebrate his birthday. I find a certain strength, orientation and clarity by thinking about where we came from. Reporter brown made the long view of california a focus of his governing philosophy. The state was facing a 25 billion budget deficit when eh took office in 2011, when he its expected to include a multimilliondollar surplus. Brown is pushing to put extra tax revenue in the new morec robust rainyday fund. When the money is here, they tend to think its going to be here in the succeeding years and thats proved to be untrue. So in order to maintain a fiscal balance, you do need a reserve, and thats the purpose of the Rainy Day Fund that im proposing to the legislature. Reporter many of jerry browns fellow democrats in the California Legislature wants to restore programs that were cut. Republicans say he hasnt done enough to erase longterm government debts. The jerry brown of thec past would have fired back in an instant. I havent seen too many good suggestions coming my way. People in government are people who have gotten through system and collecting a paycheck, purporting to help the people bring helping themselves. Reporter his first go around of governor in the 1970s was thato as politician in a hurry. His president ial ambitions left little time for governing. Now his political pace is slower. It changes because we are changed, and the world is changing. c there are walls i endeavored to pull down and have fallen down and now we need to build them up and createc structures and foundations on which we can build this everchanging, evercomplex, diverse world. Reporter building and planning make this version of jerry brown sound a lot like his father. The late pat brown led epic endeavors to modernize california schools, roads and a water aqueduct from north to south. Jerry brown has big plans, too, ones that could make or break his legacy. Hes pushing his own massive water project, a 25 billion plan, as well as a highspeed rail project, a 68 billion effort that, if completed, would be the first of its kind in the country. Brown hassles pushed the nationsc largest expansion of healthcare under the Affordable Care act and has continued californias efforts on Climate Change. So theres a lot of change me, but these are tall hills to climb. But i feel exuberant, excited, and im sure ready to go forward. Reporter critics, though, say cc isnt Going Forward as much as it is stuck. Unemployment remains fourth highest in the nation, and last month toyota announced its moving 3,000 jobs from Southern California to texas. Republicans say the state is unfriendly to business. Others say it remains unfriendly to the working poor. c protests in the San Francisco bay area are frequent and buses drive tech workers to Silicon Valley jobs as a symbol betweenc the growing gap between rich and poor. Do the protesters have a point . They have a point because inequality, the return on assets is better than the return on labor and salaries, but it also is part of the economy, the prosperity and the tax system, so its a matter of taking reasonable steps, and i think were doing that. We have to raise the minimum wage. Were giving drivers licenses to undocumented people, that certainly is going to help. We have the localc funding formula which directs billions of dollars to schools to help them cope with lowincome familiesc with nonenglish speaking families, with foster care kids, but to try to close the gap. Reporter jerry brown has befuddled his supporters in environmental circles with what they see as an embrace of fracking. Last year he signed a law to study its effects but to allow fracking to continue. They believe that you near denial about the dangers of fracking and want a moratorium. Yeah, i understand that. Some cities want a moratorium on oilc production in california, and, yet, when it comes to moratorium onc driving, californians own 32 million vehicle and they travel in one year over 330 billion miles and most of those are fed by petroleum, so if it doesnt come out of the ground in california, its got to come on a boat or in a train, and that causes pollution, has dangers. So we need a balance. Reporter balance is one of jerry browns favorite phrases in his political twilight. One is the demand for political revolution, in its place anc appreciation for political revolution. When youre 76 youre not as excited about change as when youre 26. c i like change but i also like continuity. Tradition has value. What is california . Just the idea of the gold rush. What brought people here is still bringing people here. The google and internet and apple and california is still kind of a gold rush. So i think its good to view the present thru the lens of the past, but open to this incredible future that the state still possesses and i feel very blessed to be a part of. Reporter on tuesday, new budget with events in sacramento, los angeles and san diego. c finally tonight, how we watch over our children and whether the balance has tipped. Its the last installment in our series on parenting now. Throughout the week, we have looked at a wide variety of issues that mothers and fathers contend with, including their changing roles, the way we raise kids and the costs of child care. Judy taped this conversation earlier in the week about how we deal with risks and safety concerns when it comes to our children. Reporter woodruff a gener, children walked to school by themselves and enjoyed hours of unsupervisedc play. Times have changed considerably and so have attitudes about the way we raise our children. Journallestc and author hanna rosin wrote about the overprotective kid, sparking conversation about how we keep our children safe, perhaps too safe. Hanna joins me. Welcome to the program. Thank you. Glad to be here. Woodruff overprotected kid, what did you mean . What i mean is weve become so preoccupied with safety that were basically robbing our children of the chance to tassic the kind of physical and emotional risk they need to become independent adults, basically. So i tried to exp q why, why did that happen . How did we change in one generation so drastically the norms of childhood. Reporter when you start out visiting thisc extraordinary its a playground but kind of a nonplayground in england which is dirt, mutt, on tires, in a creek, kids could build fires, why did you go to this place . I heard about it because its so different from the kinds of plaplaygrounds we have today ine u. S. It looks like a junkyard. Kids building fire . Thats the most stressing thing. Theyre supervised by these people called play workers hired by the government. c basically, the idea is to let them learn on their own how to manage things that feel dangerous to them, not that are dangerous, but thatc feel dangerous so they can feel mastery over them. Woodruff this was a part of saying weve gone too far in trying to keep sids safe and this is an effort to pull back. Yeah, the playgrounds are made for people to have a shock to the system, is there really places where children are allowed to do these things . Just that theres an alternative that the children adore. They cant wait. I took my own son and he talks about it every day. Theres no placec like that. Woodruff this is a reaction to what . Whats happened . This is a reaction to how fearful we are of letting children takec physical risks. So take playgrounds, over the last 30 years, i describe thousand playgrounds shifted towards the normal safety, almost to an extreme. The rubber padding, everythings been lowered and homogenized. So theres no sense in which children are doing things that are a little scary but which they can master. They can pretty much already do everything before theyve gotten there. And same thing with emotional risks. We like to intervene before anything bad happenqc is whats considered a good parent these days. Woodruff and, of course, it wasnt always like this. My generation, we went out aftec school and didnt come back for hours. What happened along the way . Why did it turn out the way it has . That was the impetus for me writing this book is thinking how is it that my daughters life is so different from mine . I have three children and i thought how is it so different . I used to play cops and robbers in the street. I just had to be home for dinner. That would be shockable and unthinkable for the children of this generation. We have a sense the world has become a dangerous place. Are you kidding . c my kid might get abducted if theyre out on their own. So we have a feeling the world is a more dangerous place. Woodruff is it really morec dangerous . Youve looked at statistics. In 2004, the world was not the most dangers place, but child abduction is just as rare today as in the 1970s. Telling kids not to talk to strangers has become a norm. Its not a common crime. If abductions increased, its because of divorce. So neighborhoods changed. The world hasc become a differt but not a more dangerous place. Reporter you go on to write about that thec overprotectiveness has had consequences for kids and that theyre growing up to be people who cant cope in some ways. Thats some of them. Thats what i wanted you to think about after reading this story. We go along with the tide, we do what other parents do, we think about it being a good parent. There are a lot of research about benefits of taking and mastering risk. Its likec staging of childhoo. Ill do what im afraid of and master this thing and thats where confidence comes from. Also taking risks, thinkingc outside the box, measurers of creative which has gone down in this generation, and creativity, thinking in ways that are different, not necessarily accepted, that are not approved necessarily by the people around you, to be an independent thinker, essentially. Woodruff i can just hear parents listening and saying, but i really have to be careful. I cant imagine letting my child go off on his or her own for a long time unsupervised. And thats common sense. You should keep your kids safe but shouldnt optimize every single decision you makec shouldnt be in order to optimize safety. Also i dont think we should go back to the 70s. A lot of people might say, i wac unhappy, my parents never paid attention to me. I sympathize with that. Thats not what im advocating for because people felt neglected in the 70s. I think its nice people have Close Relationships with their children now so thats not what i would want parents to take from this. Woodruff is there advice for parents to think about . What should parents think . In my mind, i think of it as slightly shifting the definition of what it means to be a good parent. Instead of saying, but a good parent keeps their child safe. Add to thec job description. A good parent creates opportunities for your child to think independently, take risks or build character, you know,c that failing will build their character and think to yourself, thats part of being a great parent, im not failing or neglecting my child by doing that, im actually doing something great for their future. Woodruff its a remarkable article. I recommend it to everybody. Overprotective kid. Hanna rosin. Thanks so much. Sreenivasan . Sreenivasan we continue the discussion online, where we asked three experts to weigh in on how to discipline your child from toddler to teenager. Find the story on our homepage. Wed love to hear yourauvice as well, which you can leave in the comment section. And to the analysis of shields and brooks. c thats syndicated columnist mark shields and New York Times columnist david brooks. Lets talk first about the politics of the week. We had primaries. Weve got ohio, indiana, North Carolina, 36 for 36 when it comes to the incumbents retaining their control. So i want to ask you first, is this a sign of things to come, especially in these republican races . Have the republicans learned something from the previous elections where they were displaced by more conservative or Tea Party Candidates . I think so. You have the dynamic of the scab lishment ofrthe tea party segment, especially the rogue elements. Rand paul willc campaign, Mike Huckabee against the establishment candidates and all those candidates lost this time. So i think a couple of things happened. The establishment moved right to defend some of the criticism. Secondly theyre better organized. Third, a lot of the coverage has been well, but the money is flowing, the establishment changed. Look at the voters. The voters make the decision. The voters are not idiots and they dont want to elect people who are not electable and i think the voters also decided, you know, we need people who believe in governments, and thats really the crucial difference here. Its not more conservative, less conservative, its do we wantco use government to govern or as a platform for a rid owe and tv show and that often is the difference between the two candidates. Sreenivasan c mark . Thats a cosmic conclusion off of three families, but i stand in awe, i really do. Its what you want to believe. The voters are introspective and didnt scratch their mosquito bites which voters do in primaries, its a Western Union experience. But davids point is very valid, the Republican Party, why did dick riewger lose in indiana . He was clubbed over the head, collaborated and worked with barack obama on nuclearc nonproliferation. Why did it benefit a card carrying conservative . Because he came up with a more modest healthcare bill acrossc the board, that was the case. So david is right, the established republicans kind of preempted. Thats a pattern in american politics that the progressive is preempted by the democrats. Something that the southern dixiecrat movement was coopted by the Republican Party in this country. And thats what theyve done. Theyve moved to tamp down the differences between themselves and the tea party. And i think the most important race in 2014, so far, was the congressional race in North Carolina where walter jones, a 20yearc incumbent, 1 conservative, 100 record with the n. R. A. , National Rifle association, national right to life committee, voted against obamac care, bailouts, everythg else, was opposed. They spent 1. 2 million in Congressional District where that can buy you eight months of television. Outspent five to one, walter jones won. Im telling you, this is the future. Walter jones, to his ever lasting credit, voted for the war in iraq, had a crisis of conscience and has written a personal note of condolence to 14,000 people whoc have lost their loved ones in iraq and afghanistan. Thats what they clubbed him over the head on. Thats thec future. It will be from the right, the left. Thats how important money has become in 2014. He won. In part, he is deepest in the district. If you hadnt been there 20 years, youre not going to have those kind of roots, but it is a lesson and people in congress, especially in the house, are terrified but they dont need to be. Youc can be outspent. They just have to be braver because there is case after case of people gettingc badly outspt and win because theyve done their job. David, not in disagreement, but the natural inclination, someone who spent a Million Dollars against you, harri harrs how to make this go away. Its a likely inclination. A chilling effect. Sreenivasan in congress, it seems the republicans are pivoting back to the b word, benghazi. Theyre not talking about the act act near asc much, the eigh inquiry in this. Is this merit to this and will it galvanize the base . Theres some merit toc it. The administration did spend and theyre not the First Administration to spend but on occasion they have had their Foreign Policy be overly influenced by messaging priorities. Theyre not the First Administration to do that but theyre sometimes guilty. Is it the subject republicans should be emphasizing . Foreign policy subjects, i think it probably would rank 47th. Theyre just much bigger subjects. Why are they doing that . I have a theory the voters dont want toc be interventionists abroad. The republican natural attack is to attack the democrats for not being strong and interventionist enough. c benghazi allows them to attack the democrats for being incompetent or weak without the republicans having to commit to anything interventionist abroad, so a cheap way to score points without actually being a Foreign Policy. Has the white house been transparent . Absolutely not. In two sentences in a fourpage memo to susan rice where they emphasized the internet videos a the primary cause of the outburst, that, i think, was the bridge too far for johnc boehn. John boehner didnt want these hearings and had 190 republicans sign on that they did and he held them off because its going to be a disaster. c it wont be good for the country. Running congressional hearings, the short list of successful congressional hearings had been run by successful legislators. People with great preparation, a great staff, long term and deep intelligence. Henry maxman, tom davis in baseball, kyle evans, sam irvin, and the foy years, people go out and grab a headline, get on cable news that night and, you know, all they want to doc is T Hillary Clinton up there. I think shell knock their socks off. For a country sweeping the base of the Republican Party. The tea party is very energized on this. Fox news lives and dies with it. Thats basically why the hearings are being held. Sreenivasan we talked about establishment gaining points at the polls, is this why tea party as dominance setting the agenda . Its more than the tea party, its a lot of republicans and a lot of republicans were offended some emails came out whichc seemed to suggest some of the political spin and then just the momentum behind the investigation you begin to believe. But i would go after the administration, i uo g÷ go after syria, there are big subjects to go after, iran, but there is always a temptation, since were very dysfunctional in our politics to try to win ideological politics through schemes. Sreenivasan the National Climate assessment came out this week. I see a lot of responses. President obama making comments about solar energy, standing in front of a walmart, which didnt do too well with his supporting base, but is that gaining anyc traction . It certainly is intellectually. I mean, i think the evidence is overwhelming, to be frank aboutc it, but the Climate Change is real and its the human cause and contribution to it is significant, and the prospects are just absolutely daunting and terrifying. But i dont think, politically and i would be very cynical they have big senate races in West Virginia and kentucky, the two and three biggest coalproducing states, and louisiana, a major energy state, and Mary Landrieus committee. I think the president c will do what it can on executive orders, but i dont see it becoming a political issue that leads to legislation and statute. I completely agree, but if you ask voters what they care about, its a very lowranking issue. So if you want a solution, we almost have to wait for a tech logical, scientific advance and innovation. The political process is not even close to getting at it. Sreenivasan is there even the possibility away from just the climate conversation, just the fact that the optics of him standing in front of the walmart while the administration has been for a living wage and theres quite a few people who feel like walmart is not paying that, is this the right place to stand . Its a good question and walmart, you cant just say there are goodc and bad guys. Walmart has not certainly been an admirable employer because so much of its workforce is on medicaid, but at the same time they hcv been in front in solar and energy. And i think the president is trying to build support where he can and not just going to his natural base and revving them up, no pun intended. America shops at walmart. So its a nobrainer. This is where america shops. Some people shop. Sreenivasan this would be the doubleheader taking over the broadkart program. Most folks dont know what rabid sports fans you are. This week, this is the most valuable playerc of the nationl basketball association, kevin durant, 29. 6 points per game, the Oklahoma City thunder, people gets get the these awards every year, you never hear about it. But i want to play a clip of the speech because its mothers day weekend. You kept us off the street, put clothes on our backs, food on the table. When you didnt eat, you made sure we ate. You went to sleep hungry. You sacrificed for us. c youre the real m. V. P. applause sreenivasan were seeing pictures there of hisc mom. Lebron james, which is sort of a household name, hes won four out of the last five or so. Just to give you an idea of how massive the switch was in the votes. This guy got 119 votes to be the mvp and lebron james got six. Thats right. Sreenivasan the speech crossed over. A lot more folks than just Pay Attention to basketball paid attention to this. Its such a tribute and a testimonial, and its so real. Its authentic. We prize the real,c the pretentious. The gentleman, very few people knew about it and it was just its an absolutely touchingc exchange, and the nba, buy time and show that instead of the next tattooed jerk threatening a referee. I mean, i just think its marvelous and it was the perfect time for it. People should watch the whole thing. I defy them to get through it without crying. He used the word unconditional at one point, and especially because the way sports have taken off among young people and the parents put the pressure and all the travel teams, what he talked about was not only his mom but his brothers, his friends on how they were withc him win or lose, whether he was doing well or not, there was no withdrawal of affection, if he was not doing well, therec waso extra cheering for a fantastic game, and the love he showed was a renunciation or rebuttal of some of the pressures taking over youth sports and is a model to parents to remind them. Happy mothers day to the families. Sreenivasan finally tonight. c sreenivasan finally tonight, an artist examining history and her own times, through photography. Jeff is back with our report. c a woman sitting at Kitchen Table. An everyday snapshot, perhaps, but this is carefully constructed. Part of the Kitchen Table series created in 1990, of scenes from a womans life. The life of a woman in relationship to a family, to a man, to children, to her friends and to herself. Sreenivasan and the woman, the subject is the photographer herself, carrie mae weems. Somehow i took pictures of myself sort of standing in for something more thanc me, that this character ive developed leads me through the world in an through situations and places that probably carrie wouldnt ordinarily go. Sreenivasan so were seeing yourself as kind of a character in these photographs were looking at. Absolutely. Sreenivasan the artist, carrie mae weems, is in the midst of a major moment, winning mcarthur genius award, traveled around the country, ending at new yorks guggenheim museum, the first africanamerican woman ever given a solo exhibition. Among thec work, series of her extended family pushing back against the narratives ofc breakdown of africanamerican families, and links between the history of blacks in africa and the american south. Born in portland, in 1953, weems didnt pick up a camera in a serious way until she was 20 years old. Did you understand the power of the image right away and the importance it will play for you in your life . I didnt know it will play for me, but i knew something was really profound about it and i immediately loved it, you know. Sreenivasan what did youc love . Photography is a wonderful way of entering into the world and getting outside of onesself. It forces you to look at thec world in a different kind of way and asks you to look not at that but at this. And its in that looking that you discover really the multiplicity of a single thing and the depth of a certain thing. Not only of a certain thing, but your relationship to that thing and your relationship, therefore, with yourself is deepened. Brown one of her best series is from here i sawc what happened and i cried, in which weems took 19th century photograph, many slaves, tinted them a deep red and putc text across them. A negroid type, an anthropological debate and her daughter and giving the subjects a voice in their own right. Im deeply fascinated with history and have been for a long time. Its part of my dna trying to understand the Historical Context something is situated in. Its within that context im allowed to play with other kinds of questions. What are we looking at within thatc context. Well, for me, of course, im always peeling back what ikx3 understand is the power. Really fascinated with the hand of power and justice. There are gestures of power. And how to penetrate it, understand it, rebuke it, challenge it, question it. But also to understand it. Brown in more recent work, weems brought herself into the frame once more, but now with her back to us, the viewers. Here shec says hes a silent witness of institutions and places. I love that gesture. Its a wonderful gesture, youc know, of displacement. Even as im in the center of the frame, theres wonderful space for the audience to move past the subject, the body and towards the subject. I think theres a wonderful sense of discovery and transformation that happens there that excites me. Brown at heart, weems says shes a stor storyteller, workig with imagpz that asks the viewer to look, then look again, even at what on the surface seems familiar. The story continues. Shes at workc on a new project called swinging into 60, about women like her in their 60s who came of age in the 1960s. If each series of photographs is a kind of story, i asked, what larger tale emerges from her whole body of work. I dont know if it adds up to a story, but i do think that it adds up to a very particular kind of point of view. I take great joy in the idea ofc communicating, of expressing an idea, of challenging existing notions. c so its an important way of me living my life, and ive heard its actually a very courageous thing to do. Brown thank you for being here. Thank you so much for having me. Sreenivasan again, the major developments of the day. At least seven people died in fighting between Ukrainian Forces and prorussian gunmen in mariupol. The violence erupted as russian president Vladimir Putin visited crimea for the First Time Since it was annexed. British and American Teams arrived in nigeria to help findc 276 school girls, abducted by islamist militants. And House Democrats divided on whether to in republicans in investigating the benghazi attacks that killed four americans in 2012. On the newshour online right now, hes just an ordinary dad with a smart phone and a cape. And hes taken his parenting superpowers to the internet in the form of sixsecond videos about the everyday trials of raising four kids. Meet batdad and his special sidekick his wife jen. The couple star in their self made family drama on the social media app vine. Youll laugh, youll cry, youll want to start making your own. Find out how, on our homepage. c all that and more is on our web site, newshour. Pbs. Org. And a reminder about some upcoming programs from our pbs colleagues. c gwen ifill is preparing for washington week, which airs later this evening. Heres a preview ifill so much news this week well be going inside the story on Climate Change in nigeria at the Supreme Court and the ballot box. Thats later tonight on washingto on tomorrows edition of pbs newshour weekend sarah james reports from australia on a new government effort aimed at increasing the number of organ donations from living donors. And looks at whether the program might work in the u. S. c the suffering the whole time, if i can do something, ill just do it. How are you with the pain . Much better. Reporter but it took timec to recuperate from surgery and rose mary was thankful her time off was paid. She received just over 600 a week for six weeks. Her employer was reimbursed by the federal government. I didnt have to worry that im using sick pay that i had saved up or using something that i dont have. Reporter initial signs suggest the new program is encouraging more people to be living donors, helping more people like simon. c it feels like somebody saved my life. Sreenivasan and well be back, right here, on monday with a iook at a new book on inequality thats sparked a heated debate among economists. Thats the newshour for tonight. Im hari sreenivasan. Have a nice weekend. Thank you and good night. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by when i was pregnant, i got more advice than i knew what to do with. What i needed was information i could trust, on how to take care of me and my baby. United healthcare has a Simple Program that helps moms stay on track with their doctors and get care and guidance they can use before and after the baby is born. 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