Designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. Emmanuel macron has won one of the most divisive and acrimonious political campaigns in french history in the run pulist Marine Le Pen. Htwing projections give macron what analysts are calling an emphatic victory over his bitter rival, winning over sixty percent of the vote. Macron, who will become frances youngest president since the office was established almost 170 years ago spoke to supporters this evening translated after a long democratic confrontation, youve decided to grant me your confidence and i want to express my profound gratitude. Its a great honor and its a great responsibility. Sreenivasan Marine Le Pen conceded defeat and called macron to congratulate him, wishing him success in dealing with the massive challenges facing france. In a tweet, President Trump also congratulated macron and said he looks forward to working with him. The choice couldnt have been more stark to succeed socialist Francois Hollande between the 39year old former economy minister macron who wants to bolster european integration and who supports immigration, and le pen, who wants to leave the e. U. And the Euro Currency and crack down on immigration. Macron and his wife cast their ballots today in the town of le tourquet, while le pen voted in a town controlled by her National Front party, henin beaumont. Despite the high stakes, Election Officials say the turnout was lower than the previous several president ial elections. Both candidates had their supporters with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Calais resident, mathieu. translated we end up with two candidates from the oligarchy, there you are. I am happy with neither of them. Neither of them have an Interesting Program for tomorrows world. translated i voted le pen because macron, we dont know where he is coming from, and france will have Serious Problems if he gets at the helm. It wasnt easy for me to vote for mr. Macron because he represents a kind of financial elite that i dont recognize myself in so it wasnt easy sreenivasan joining me now from paris, outside jubilant macron headquarters, is newshour weekend special correspondent malcolm brabant. Malcolm, how much of a victory was this for him as we heard from people at the polls here . Some say it wasnt a vote for him, it was a vote against the opposition. Well, this is if you look at the numbers, it looks like a really substantial victory. 65 versus 35 . But the real numbers that actually voted for macron it is not that big. He cannot really regard this as being a complete mandate, a popular mandate because there were so many people who abstained and overall there were only about 20 million french voters who actually voted for him and thats less than a third of the country. Many of the people who voted for him werent necessarily voting for him, they were voting tactically. What they wanted to do more than anything else is Marine Le Pen from getting into the elisses palace. Sreenivasan there is the difficulty of governing now. Very much so. The president has the ability to appoint a Prime Minister and various other ministers. But like the u. S. President he needs to have the French Parliament with him and French Parliamentary elections are coming up in june and he has not any real Party Formation or party history. He has somehow got to get about 270 people into parliament if hes to have his movement in the majority there. And i think that what we are really going osee is not so the other parties doing their utmost to try to stymie him. Or the the next four years he may find it very difficult to get his policies through especially if the parliament doesnt support it. Sreenivasan one of the issues that was very clear cut, between their relationship and what they would like the relationship be to the eu. Should the eu take some comfort that le pen did not win or should they be concerned that macron does not have that mandate yet . You know what, any sort of a servinger would say to the bureaucrats in brussels, there are very many people in europe who are very unhappy with the way the eu is run and those are the people that need to be listened to. Otherwise the right wing nationalist movement is going to continue. What possibly happened here tonight is this movement, this wave which lots of people were hoping was going to sweep across europe seems to have come to another dead halt here although Marine Le Pen says shes the head of a great opposition. Thats the destiny of this section is its going to be destiny rather than government. Thanks so much. Youre very welcome. Sreenivasan Trump Administration officials and allies defended the Health Care Bill passed narrowly last week by the house. Speaker paul ryan called the status who have a preexisting condition get affordable coverage and thats not happening in obamacare. You gotta remember if you cant even get a Health Insurance plan, what good is it . You dont have Health Insurance. Sreenivasan but Ohio RepublicanGovernor John Kasich said the proposed eightbillion dollars for a risk pool for americans with preexisting conditions is, totally inadequate. Now i can tell you we can do with less resources but you cant do it overnight and you cannot give people a three or fourthousand dollar Health Insurance policy, you know where theyre going to be . Theyre going to be living in the Emergency Rooms again. Sreenivasan health and Human Services secretary tom price insisted that cutting almost onebillion dollars from medicaid will actually give states more flexibility to provide coverage. So what were fashioning is a system that would allow the states to tailor their Medicaid Program to those specific individuals thereby saving money, yes, but also making it so they have a higher level of care, Higher Quality of care than they currently do. Sreenivasan with the bill now before the senate, President Trump today pressured republican members, tweeting sreenivasan democratic senator Dianne Feinstein said that she is concerned by the lack of analysis of the bills cost and coverage by the non partisan congressional budget office. Im really very worried that in our rush to judgement, we create a major healthcare problem for people and we lose a lot of jobs in so doing and we create a whole atmosphere of unpredictability. Sreenivasan on questions of russian meddling and hacking in the u. S. President ial election, congressional committees are probing ties and communications between Trump Campaign operatives and russia. Tomorrow, former deputy and acting attorney general sally yates is scheduled to testify in public about what she knew about ousted National Security adviser Michael Flynn, as well her conversations with the Trump White House about him. Associated press Reporter Eric Tucker is covering this story and joins me now from washington. What is the discrepancies likely to be . So we are going to hear sally yates describe a conversation she had in january with the white House Counsel and shes likely to say that she warned the white house that there is a major discrepancies between what they were saying publicly about Michael Flynns conversations with sergei kisliac, who was the Russian Ambassador and what he said he said. In sally yates in particular it was enough to leave Michael Flynn in a compromised position. Sreenivasan thats a different narrative from what the Trump Administration is initially saying about this. Yes, the administration said yes indeed sally yeats came to us in january to let us know that there was a discrepancies but what we expect, we expect sally yates to testify that this seasonality just a heads up but this was an alarm and owarning that you guys keep saying based on what Michael Flynn was pelg telg you, he didnt discuss sanctions with mr. Kisliac. Sreenivasan to the point where the Obama Administration was not actually giving information to the incoming Trump Administration because they didnt trust that this information wasnt going to get pack to the russians. Thats correct. My colleague wrote a big piece on friday suggesting these alarms that were surfacing within the Obama Administration based on questions and information that the Trump Transition Team that was asking particularly as it related to sergei kisliac, you are already seeing this area of mistrust to develop. Who is about to be called up to rebut the testimony that sally yates will give tomorrow . To point out back in february the conversations that occurred were Reince Priebus and sean spicer, they were out there characterizing the conversations. Well see tomorrow. The actual january 25th conversation sally yates had involved don mcgann, its not certain what he will have to say in response. Sreenivasan clapper in march said i havent heardfully evidence of any conclusion. Thats right, republicans seem to seize on that statement as some sort of vindication. However, clapper at the time did have a sort of important caveat when he said, at the time i left the administration which would have been january, and when we know from fbi director jim comey this week, this investigation is ongoing, new intelligence is being reviewed, new information is being processed and assessed so it is not clear how significant it is if in january no conclusion existed. That doesnt necessarily, not dispositive of anything necessarily. Sreenivasan sally yates testimony begins tomorrow at 2 00, you can expect it to be covered, thanks eric. Thank you for having me. Sreenivasan every year, the u. S. Deports thousands of documented immigrants after they complete prison terms for certain felonies. The policy applies to legal permanent residents green card holders from just about any country, including those granted asylum as refugees. The policy dates back to the clinton administration. Enforcement was stepped up by the Bush Administration following 9 11 and continued by the Obama Administration. It remains in effect today. In tonights signature segment newshour weekend special correspondent kira kay reports from cambodia on a tightknit community of war refugees turned u. S. Deportees, fighting to change the policy. Reporter when chally dang was growing up in philadelphia, he dreamed of playing professional basketball. Wed just shoot hoops and dream of one day making it big in the nba. So its part of being american. Reporter but america is just a memory for dang. He plays his sunday pickup game ninethousand miles from philadelphia, in phnom penh, the capital of cambodia, where his parents were born. Reporter dang is not here by choice. He grew up in the u. S. As a legal permanent resident, a child of war refugees. But in 2011, he was deported to a country he never knew. Everything was different, it was like a culture shock. The environment is different, the people are different, the language is different. Reporter his crime was firing a gun in the air during a gang standoff when he was 15 yearsold. He served five years, and upon release, the government ordered him deported, but didnt act on it. He got a job and had five kids. But deportation orders never expire, and eight years later, when dang went for a routine immigration checkin, he was detained and put on a plane to cambodia. He says theres a stigma to being a deportee. We are in our own category, because the Cambodian Community look at us as foreigners who decided to come back, and those that know we were deported look at us like we are criminals that got rejected from another country so why are we back in cambodia . Reporter dang is one of 550 deportees from america now living in cambodia. They began arriving in 2002, when this country signed a repatriation agreement with the u. S. To accept green card holders of cambodian descent who had committed aggravated felonies, even nonviolent offenses that carried short sentences. The cool lounge, a bar run by deportees, is home away from home for these people who went to american schools, listened to american music, ate american food. Reporter chandara tep is from modesto, california. I grew up 4th of july, you know, fireworks, bbq, spring breaks. I shed tears when 9 11 happened, because i felt like i was american too. Reporter tep was deported six years ago, following his conviction for assaulting a police officer. Sophea phea and bobby orn also arrived in 2011, kalvin heng, in 2004. Heng and phea werent born in cambodia. Like many deportees they were born in refugee camps in thailand, after their parents fled war and the genocidal khmer rouge regime that ruled cambodia in the 1970s and killed two million people. The American Bombing of cambodia during its war in vietnam added to the chaos. The u. S. Eventually granted asylum to 150thousand cambodian refugees between 1975 and 1994. You come from a jungle to a concrete jungle. You are over here in cambodia, you know, you dodging bullets. Over there youre living in the project, youre dodging muggers and robbers and thieves. In the states, being in bad neighborhoods, sometimes we make mistakes, and sometimes we go on a wrong path, and not knowing what the bigger consequences are. Reporter these children of refugees say they had no idea their brushes with the law made them vulnerable to deportation. Kalvin heng says he didnt fight his assault with a Deadly Weapon charge and accepted a oneyear sentence, not knowing that made him deportable. We werent informed about taking a plea bargain, or anything like that. If we take a plea bargain we could be, you know we could face deportation, and so on and so on. We didnt know any of that until like now, when we started doing our research. Reporter American Immigration judges have no leeway to consider how potential deportees have rehabilitated their lives. Tep had been out of prison for 13 years when he was deported, leaving a wife and three kids behind. We changed our lives. We had families, you know. We bought a home, you know, we did all that stuff already, and then knockknock, you know, youve got to go, because youre not a citizen. Reporter by the time they land in cambodia, deportees have been stripped of all american identification. Cambodian immigration officials give them a single document with their name, birth date, and photo. Their lives start over from scratch. I had no luggage. I had about 150 in my pocket. No possessions at all. Everythings in cambodian and you dont even know how to write your name in cambodian. Reporter local officials wouldnt even recognize hengs immigration document. So he got creative. My uncle had to play my dad. And then i had to be put into his family book and use the identity of my cousin that passed away the year before i came. So i was under a whole new identity for 12, 13 years. Reporter what do you say to the comment that im sure you guys get a lot, tough luck, you guys had an opportunity in the states, you blew it . What i say . My answers always like this yes, i messed up, i confess to it, you know what i mean, but you are not seeing where were coming from, you know, were refugees of the war and i lost my rights, of course, because im not a citizen. But my kids has rights, my mom has rights, a right to be a family member, a right to be with one another, you know what i mean. I do believe that you do the crime you do the time, and you know for most of us, or all of us, weve done our time. These are not illegal immigrants. They didnt sneak into the u. S. Reporter american bill herod was living in cambodia when the deportees began arriving in 2002. He says back in the u. S. , officials had left refugees to fend for themselves. Because of the failure of the Refugee Resettlement program, no case officer came around and knocked on the door and said, you need to fill out these papers to get citizenship. Reporter herods charity, the returnee integration support center, or risc, is staffed by deportees and helps newcomers through the difficult adjustment. They actually live here in this building if they dont have any place else to go, or we pay to put them in a guest house. Et. Just help them get on their and then we find out what their interests are, what their Work Experience is, and try to help them find jobs. Reporter risc has helped 50 american deportees train for and obtain jobs teaching english and keeps tabs on them as they assimilate into cambodian society. Despite many success stories, some deportees succumb to drug use, Mental Health problems, and crime. Herod lost an eye when grabbing drano out of the hands of a despondent deportee. And some dont make it. Weve had suicides. And its heartbreaking when we realize that maybe if wed made another field visit or another phone call or taken him out for pizza one more time, we might have been able to help them get across that blockage. Reporter deportees struggle with whether or not to reveal their criminal records. Heng works as an advertising manager at a local english language newspaper and was candid with his employer. Ive made a mistake in the past. Ive did my time for it. Ive rehabilitated. So please dont look at what ive done in the past affect what i can contribute. And theyve been very good to me about it. Reporter but phea, who was deported for credit card fraud, needed three years to open up to others about her past. I was lonely. I was depressed, i kind of was lost. Reporter she now teaches Cambodian Children in a phnom penh school, but she isnt raising her own 13yearold son, who remains in california with his father. Im angry that this has fractured my relationship with my son. We dont have that communication anymore. I dont know if hes going to turn out to be angry at me or just Holding Grudges against me or just feeling lonely that im not there. Reporter he visited her last year for the first time. She hopes it wont be the last. And he didnt know how to call me mom anymore, and that hurts. In the u. S. , deportee families and cambodianamerican Community Leaders have lobbied american officials for changes in immigration policy with few results. Last year, kalvin heng had a realization. I just blurted it out, you know, lets take it to the cambodian government. Heng recruited his deportee friends and formed a Political Action group, one love cambodia. They are pushing to amend the repatriation agreement from the cambodian side. Most crucially, they want the cambodian government to refuse to accept anyone who was once a refugee. To their surprise, this group of exconvicts was granted a meeting with high level officials at cambodias interior ministry. They sat there and listened to each of our stories and seeing what we struggle here. No one had gone up to them and officially filed for a grievance and, you know, really let them know that you know this is really, really messing up our communities and our families across the u. S. Reporter only days after that meeting, the cambodian government sent a letter to the american embassy, requesting to amend the current repatriation agreement and suspend temporarily the implementation until a new deal is struck. The u. S. Rejected cambodias request to suspend deportations and has sometimes withheld visas and economic aid from countries that refuse to accept deportees. U. S. Officials have agreed to a first discussion with cambodia, expected to take place soon. Reporter just ten days ago, cambodias Prime Minister publicly demanded to renegotiate the agreement, calling the deportations a sad separation of families. Nobody ever stepped up to them and told them this is whats happening. Reporter the one love Cambodia Team is assisting the cambodian government in preparation for the talks talks they hope will yield changes that might come too late for them, but could stop others from following in their footsteps. Sreenivasan the 82 kidnapped nigerian schoolgirls freed yesterday by boko haram islamic militants arrived in nigerias capital today to meet with president muhammadu buhari, as their families looked forward to being reunited. The government said today the girls were released in exchange for five captured boko haram leaders. The freed girls were among 276 girls kidnapped from their school in chibok more than three years ago. More than 100 of the kidnaped girls remain in boko haram captivity. Attempts by migrants and refugees to reach europe are accelerating as the weather improves. More than fourthousand were rescued in the mediterranean over the weekend. A spanish aid group said today one of its ships picked up more than fivehundred migrants from syria and subsaharan africa. The group said the migrants had departed from libya. A spanish warship picked up more than 650 migrants off libya yesterday. Also yesterday, the Italian Coast Guard and navy and other groups rescued threethousand migrants in the Mediterranean Sea in more than 20 separate operations. The International Organization for migration reports that almost 44thousand refugees and migrants have arrived in europe by sea so far this year. North korea said today it has detained yet another u. S. Citizen, the fourth the country is now holding. The official news agency said kim hak song was detained yesterday on suspicion of what it called acts against the state. He worked at the same Pyongyang University of science and technology where the third u. S. Citizen was detained last month. The university was founded by evangelical christians in 2010. California is leading the nation with the highest percentage of state and federal prisoners serving life sentences. Find out why at pbs. Org newshour finally, returning to our top story, 39year old centrist Emmanuel Macron has been elected frances next and youngest president , winning a decisive victory over farright populist Marine Le Pen in todays runoff election. And in boston, former president barack obama is being honored tonight with the kennedy foundations annual profile in courage award, presented by president kennedys daughter is evening after experts homes defused three british bombs dropped on the city during world war ii. Thats all for this edition of pbs newshour weekend. Thanks for watching. Im hari sreenivasan. Captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org pbs newshour weekend is made possible by bernard and irene schwartz. Judy and josh weston. The cheryl and Philip Milstein family. The john and Helen Glessner family trust supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. Sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by ontributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Stephen edwards ive spent my entire career scoring hollywood films and tv shows. The sudden loss of my mother to cancer inspired me to compose a requiem just for her. A requiem is a mass for the dead, so its an ancient catholic burial rite, and its a recipe, a series of prayers that basically sends a persons soul from the living world to the cosmic, eternal world. [chorus singing in latin] edwards a requiem is intense. Its talking about death and fire and hell and damnation and trying to save the soul of the person thats departed, and i did it for my mother. We got sort of blindsided by this invitation from the musica sacra festival in vatican city, and i was the First American composer ever invited, so the invitation included a live broadcast on italian tv