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"he fought back." of course they fight back, because it was a false accusation. >> brangham: as for impeachment, the president called it "a dirty, filthy, disgusting word." separately, president trump denied knowing of white housefo s to keep a warship out of his sight while he was in japan this week. the u.s.s. "john s. mccain" is named in part for the late arizona senator who noted antagonist of the president's.um mr. acknowledged as much today, but he insisted, "i would never do a thing like that." in singapore, actingse secretary patrick shanahan said he, too, was in the dark. >> i never authorized, i nevered apprny action around the movement or activity regarding that ship. furthermore, i would never dishonor the memory of a great american patriot like setor mccain. >> brangham: shanahan said he's asked for an investigation. the push to pass a disaster aid package in congress has failed yet again. the $19 billion measure would help victims of hurricanes, a floo wildfires. democrats tried again today to have the house of representatives pass it by unanimous consent, but republican congressman john rose of tennessee blocked the action. severe flooding agued several states today, and threatened to asrst through aging levees. the arkansas riverit record levels, and submerged parts of fort smith, aansas near the oklahoma border. the mayor today warned there may be worse to come. >> let's be patient. is is a long, drawn out process. as i moved about, i could feel that the fear that citizens felt is beginning to subside when the numbers were given about the crest. the fear is beginning to subside, but the suffering is about to begin. >> brangham: a series of storms dropped more than 20 iof rain across the region over the past month. prosecutors inhicago today filed new sex-related chargesns agr&b singer r.kelly. the "chicago sun-times" reportsf the ony counts include aggravated criminal sexual assault and apparently pertain to one underage victim. some of the charges carry a maximum sentence of 30 years i prison. a new lawsuit today charged that mississippi's method of electing governors and other state officials is racist, and shouldu be throw currently, candidates must win the popular vote, and carry a majority of state house districts. mississippi adopted that rule in 1890, to suppress black voting power. nother state has a similar system. former mississippi senatorhad cochran has died. he first won his seat in 1978, becoming the first republican ected to statewide office in mississippi since reconstruction. he went on to serve six terms before resigning last year. thad cochran was 81 years old. and, on wall street, the dow aijones industrial averaged 43 points to close at 25,169. the nasdaq rose 20 points, and the s&p 500 added five. still to come on the newshour: will missouri's only abortion clinictop providing abortions tomorrow? the future of the israelirn gont hangs in the balance as new elections are called. children in the world's largest refugee camp go to desperate lengths to get an education. and much more. >> brangham: in the ever- escalating battle overribortion, misss one of the central battlegrounds. that's due in part to a new law that is among the toughest in thcountry, if it were to b enacted. it's als trying to close off access to abortion as early as tomorrow. the legal battle playing out in missouri is over this one planned parenthoodlinic in st. louis. it's the only abortion clinic left in the stat the clinic's annual license, which it needs to perform abortions, expires friday. but, the state is fighting to withhold that license, which, if ccessful, would make missouri the first state in 45 years toof nor the procedure. >> planned parenthood has been actively and knowingly violating state law on numerous occasionss >> brangham:uri's republican governor mike parson alleges that state health inspectors have found the clinic violated state regulations arnd abortion-- like requiring pelvic exams and counseling, before performing any abortion procedures. >> tre are a number of >> brangham: parson insi move is about protecting women's safety-- and is not a political move. >> if you support abortion or not, planned parenthood should be able to meet the basic standards of health care under the law. >> brangham: but planned parenthood said it has addressed the state's complaints. joined by abortion-rights supporters in st. louis today, planned parenthood argued the state is constantly changing its regulations in an efo end all abortion services in the state for more than one miion women. >> the high quality health care provider thaplanned parenthood is has bent over backwards with trying to comply with, frankly, medically uncessary and medically inappropate rules, by the state, only to have them change. >> brangham: missouri's move comes less than two weeks after governor parson signed a law tht bans abortions after ei weeks of pregnancy, joining a recent wave of six other states, including louisiana just last night,hat have passed similar,st hiic abortion restrictions. the missouri law, which would go into effect in august, also makes performing an aboron a felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. it has no exception for rape or incest. planned parenthood says that law is why several providers at the clinic have been unwilling to cooperate with state investigators. we get two views now on the abortion battle in missouri, and elsewhere in the country. we begin with dr. leana wen. she's the president of planned parenthood.th i spoke er earlier this evening. dr. wen, thank you very much for being here. the statesof missouri argu that the planned parenthood clinic in st. louis has not been complying with state health regulations and that it shouldlo its license because of that. how do you respond to that? >> it's simply not true. actually, what's happened is that, over the last decade, the state has layered on restriction upon restriction, things that have no basis in medicine or science -- things like forced 72-hour waiting period, mandating hallways have to be extra wide, even forcing, most recently, for women to undergo multiple invasive pelvic exams for no medica reason. the national academy of medicine had said that these types of regulations ar burdensome, that they just impede medical care and ve no basis in medicine, and this most recent attack by the state comes less than a week efter the governor of missouri signed into law f the most restrictive regulations, one of the most restrictive laws banning abortion care in th country, jailing doctors for up to 15 years for providing care, with no exceptions for rape or incest, d there's nother way to describe what's happening here than theap wonization and the politicization of the licensing process with one goal in mind, to end safe legal abortion care in missouri. >> and as you know, missouri i o just omany states that is trying out different versions of this law, and as i'm sure you also know, these other states a are havireat deal of ccess. the legislatures are passing these, governors for the mostre partigning them. >> this is a public health crisis. it's a state of emergency for women's healthcare all across the country. there are at least six statnoes that have banned abortions from the time womn could ev know that they're pregnant. multiple states have laws that they have just passed to criminalize doctors, including in alabama, to put doctors in jail for up to 99 years for providing care to ourpatients, even allowing the state in alabama a georgia and missouri to investigate women for having miscarriages. it's an unprecedented time for women across america, and women are paying attention. we are outraged, and planned harenthood is leading the fight to fight back w everything that we have because our health and our rights are on tlie. >> some of the advocates cat of these laws are very open argue weg're pushinthese restrictions, one, because they vehemently disaee with abortion, but also they would like to trigger a legal fight for this to go to the u.s. supreme court where they hope they will be victorious. would you and planned parenthood welcome a review of te supreme court on roe v. wade? >> well, first, i want to say that what the ce seque these laws will be is tond directlynger women's lives. missouri could very well be thes state in the country to have no health center to provide abortion care in almost 50 years, which means that 1.1 million missouri women of reproductive age will no nger be able to access essential healthcare in their states. banning abortion is not going to op abortion, but it will stop safe, legal abortions, and the consequence could be women's lives. now, we are very concerned about the challenge to roe, because if roe is overturnedor further eroded, that means one in three women of reproductive age in this country, 25 million could be living in states where abortion is banned, criminalized consequence will be an impact on women's health and lives and futures. >> some of these legislative moves do come from, albeit it's a minority of voters, according to most polls, but what do you say to that minoty of people in the united states who believe that, no matter when abortion occurs, that it is tantamount to taking a life? how do you respond to that argument that they make? you are entitled to your own opinion, but please do not impose it on other people. i'm a physician, and i've treated women, patients families who have been in very challenging circumstances, and these women need our compassionu anport. the last thing that they need i oliticians to be telling them what they should be doing with their personal hea this is a point of view that the majority of americans agree with. actually, support for roe v. wade is at 73%, higher than it's ever been. there's not one stathee in t country where the majority of people support overg turne. the american people stand with us, and they runsing thatis abortion carart of the full spectrum of reproductive, healthcaich is healthcare. >> dr. leana wen, president planned parenthood, thank you very much. >> thank you. w >> brangham: and now f other side. i'm joined now by mallory quigley of the susan b. anthony list, a naonal pro-life organization. elcome to the "newshour". >> thank you so much for having me. >> so the state of missouri t saying it's close the planned parenthood clinic violating health standards.y, >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: you heard dr. leana wen of planned parenthood, they say the state just keeps trying to move the goalpost, that their real aim is just to close the clinic andbo stoprtions in missouri totally. what is your take on that? >> i think we just have to look at the facts. it was a patient complaint that actually prompted the investigation into the clinic, and they found multipleol ions. a woman who went in for an abortion actually remained pregnant. there's talk of botched abortions, failure to do proper informed consent. actually, an ambulance has been called to this particular facility in st. louis morehan 70 times since 2009 that, as she mentioned, a public health crisis. that sounds like a public healts to me. we know what happens when public health officials don't inspect abortion faclities. it happened in pennsylvania for 17 years, they did not insect clinics. gosnell was convicted of killinb children who hn born alive and the death of one patient. in fact, e.ls. counot get her out because the hallways were not wide enough, and thde waris everywhere. so these regulations aren't arbitrary, they're about the health and safety of women. i hould state for the record the case you're citing is not a planned parenthood clinic >> true. you know, the missouride rtment of health is tasked with protecting the health and safety of women. that what they're trying t do here. >> let's just say that planned parenthood clinic, the only abortion-providing clinic in missouri, were to not be able to do that, don't you worry that women who still would like to have an aborcetion will p to find that procedure in much more dangerous,uch more unregulated ways and in fact, in tend, could be much more harmful to women in missouri? >> well, i think just because it's the last abortion facility doesn't mean it shouldn't be held to any stananrd. d parenthood shouldn't get special treatment because they want to stay open. there is actually a planned parenthood clinic doing abortions just across the river, so it is quite nearby to st. louis. i think that we're really speaking about the issue of abortion and less access, we need to provide better anwers for women who are facing unexpected pregnancs. abortion isn't the best solution. >> right, but should wome it's still a legal procedure under roe v. wade that women across the country -- and thewo majority on polled in almost every state in the country are i understand the position of the anti-abortion movement, but this is still aed legal pre, it is my body and i would like to have the right, with consultation wit my doctor and partner, perhaps, to make this choisece for mlf. >> well, in missouri, the people, the duly-ected representatives of the people, sent them to jackson city with a mandate to protect life, and i would argue that this is theob m with roe v. wade is that it was profoundly undemocratic, prevented the states from reaching consensus, and now what we're havg is a breakthrough moment where statet legis want to go ahead and have these debates and missouri ssed sweeping pro-life protections, the way it was meant to be done, through the through the, not courts. >> missouri, as you mentioned, is one of many states that is going through this process of enacting restrictions on abortion and many advocas say we are trying to trigger a supreme court challenge, we would love the supre court to take this up. do you think that that review would go in your favr? >> well, i don't have a crystal ball, i don't know which billl that they choose to take up. missouri, for example, the legislators really threw in the kitchen sink. it limits abortion at eight weeks, it also limits abortion at five months, which is when science tell us the unborn chil can feel paid there's a slew of other regulations. so i think a tme is cing the court is probably looking at try,'s happening across coun not just states in missouri and louisiana and in the deep south. we have, u know, probably protections passing elsewhere across the country. there's really a lot of momentum, and this tell us that roe v. wade isn'led in the hearts and minds of the american people, and, so, i do believe that the court is goinge to ho eventually take up one of these cases to give the urt a wide range of the trump administration had already agreed to release that plan after lasmonth's israeli election, so it would not become an issue. joining us now is david makovsky. he is a distinguished fellow at the washington institute, and director of the project on arab- israel relations. after the election last month, no one said this was going to be easy for netanyahu to build aco ition to form a government. what happened? >> what happened is the person who's kind of known as the magician in isrl seemed to have lost his magic. he's a very formidablel politica campaigner, but part of his success is, after the results, it's cobbling together the requisite government, you need 61 out of 120 seats in the parliament. part of hiscc ss in the past is his ability to reach across the ais and bri in parties when he has recalcitrants from the other side within the ranks. ithe polarized system in israel, that the center party that normally would have been mohe open to they call unity government, a big tent, they said we will not talk to this guy as long as he is under a legal cloud, that healing cloud has -- legal cloud has to be lifted. so his room toru maneuver s dramatically and he became more beholden to the parties to have the right. lieberman identified where there is schism in the right, and hed where to go, so it was a straitjacket polically. >> why is lieberman doing this? he has five seats in the cay cae kn >> lieberman was his chief of staff in the '90s. lieberman was like a bridge with a link to a milon plus immigrants who came to israel after the civil war with the s formiet union. he started his own immigrants party. now it'sft almost 30 years the end of the cold war and these immigrants have kids and they fl like they're israelis, not russians. so he's trying to rebrand his party as being the secular right, as he pointed out in the setup piece, to be a guardian for israel's sevilarues and that means ending the exemptions for the ultra orthodox, and he said i'm sticking to it, and he did. but, ofourse, it was said it's a vendetta, pretext, not principal. >> how big a hit has netanyahu's taken and how will that affect his in the elec on? rt of his success is he said i dominated israeli politics or a decade, i want my firth term. he said i brought pros terrory and i brought relatively stability in a region that's got a lot of choppy waters, and i've done a lot of outreach to a lot countries around the world, that i'm one of the only people that can talk both ttrump and president putin and the israeli public likes they have a leader playing on the world stage that way. a so in certain way, he's looking very good, even though he and neither the northern palestinians have moved an inch on that issue. since september 9, he's done a couple of moves to help theblue white party he named after israel's flag, and when he wants to change his personal immunity in the can knesset, in the particle comment and to change the judicial rule over the parliamentary measures to insulate himself from legal proceedings,che israeli pub says you've gone too far and i predict his rifle blue/white party will run and say we're safeguarding israeli democracy in 2019. so i think they'll run on that, and he will run on trying to reach out to the russian immigrants. i wouldn't be surprised if he invites vladimir putin to israel because the russian immigrants find president putin as someone who has been beer toward israel and he could siphon off some of the voters lieberman always had the majority on. >> david makovsky, thanks for joining us. >> brangham: inside the sprawling rohingya refugee camps in bangladesh live an entire generation of children without proper education as special correspondent tania rashid reports, some of them are still fding ways to make it to school, even if it means breaking the law. >> reporter: in the wos largest refugee camp onhe bangladeshi-myanmar border, this 14-year-old rohingya girl, whose me and face we concealed to protect her identity, has risked it all to follow her dreams.le sh the schools inside the camps for a formal education that could offer her a better future. >> ( translated ): i want to work in human rights and education, so my people, the rohingyas, have rights. i erll do everything to empo my people to get an education, for all those kids camps unable to study, i want to fight for them. i want to give opportunities for my generation. if they can't study, what will they do? how can they live their lives? >> reporter: rohingya children, according to banglalaw, are not allowed to attend local schools. tht's because they are not recognized as refugees. but this girl didn't let that stop her. she's presently enrolled in school in south eastern bangladesh, illegally. stateless and displaced, over 730,000 muslim rohingya refugeeh fler native myanmar into bangladesh in 2017, amid a brutal crackdown led by myanmarc military foes. u.n. investigators have described it as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. today, half a million children living in these camps have no access to a formal education. and, it's young girls like her who are most vulnerable to exploitation.ey isk early marriage, child labor, or being trafficked onto the black market. but her mother wasn't going toth allow that to happen. she fought to push her daughter out of the camps. her father wanted to marry her off at just ten years old. ( translated ): her father said she's ready to be married. but my daughter and i fought with him. if she got married now, a i said you can't force my daughter to get married. lots of people in the camps can't get an education. my daughter has the opportunity. why wouldn't i give that ther? >> reporter: she sold her food rations, and borrowed money from family to pay a teacher to create a fake, bangladeshi birth certificate. shortly after, a smuggok her daughter out of the camps and into a local school. >> ( translated ): i told her to go, go somewhere else. we have no stability at the camps. it's not safe here for myn. child i had to think for my daughter and her future. >> reporter: todayshe studies at a bangladeshi government-d fundhool in the 9th grade, with access to a range of subjects including english, bangla, math, science religion, and history. it's a different world from the camps, that offer a limited education. >> ( translated ): they don'tyo teacanything in the camps. they taught us burmese and english. hey won't teach us bangl but for me to live here, i need to know bangla. the only way i could learn bangla is if i leave the camps. they only teach you up unt fifth grade, and then there are no opportunities. >> reporter: her older sister, who works for a local n.g.o., barely manages to pay $50 per month to fund her education and lodging in the city. but faking her identity as a bangladeshi national comes with high risks. since janua, scores of rohingya students have been expelled from schools in south eastern bangladesh for not having citizenship. r ny of them have been studying in the schools ars, arriving with previous influxes. but this girl managed not to gen caughtplans to continue to live in hiding. >> ( translated ): people ha the rohingya here. i don't tell people i am one. were the most persecuted community in the world. that's why i don't say i am rohingya. i have to lie about my identity to survive. even though it's a big struggle for me, i am able to study. there are hundreds of thousands of kids like me inside of the camps who are forced to married off early, they are living a very tough fe. they have no opportunities.ep >> rorter: they include kids ke 13-year-old halim. but instead of giving up on his education, he took matters into his own hands. day, he runs a tutoring service deep inside the settlements, where he teaches more than 20 chiren. he says teaching is his way of remembering what he learned in myanmar. >> ( translated ): i really miss my friends a education of that school. >> ( translated ): as we forgetting the education of our nation, i am teaching them so that they can fight. i am teaching them so that they can do something for our tion. pe they don't learn anything, they can't prosr in their life, as well as, they can't fight for the nation.er >> repothe camps are a grim space-- disease-ridden, crowded and congested, with over a million iabitants. everyone here depends on aid, with no opportunity to generate income. with no autonomy or ability to contl their futures, drug addictions to yaba, a methamphetamine, especially among the youth, are on the rise. recently, international donors have set up learning cters where rohingya youth are taught basic english, burmese and math. but even these spaces are temporary. they do not provide a long-term education or technical training skills. unicef has set up over 1,900 learning centers so far, and has plans to set vocational training for long-term opportunities for teenagers and young adults, the demographic most lacking in opportunity. >> we are developing 100 developing centers, differenton tradehat's needed, what they want to learn themselves, sewing embroidery, mobile phones, service repairing computer skills, improve digital competence as well, covering a r wideange of areas. >> reporter: but as it stands, the local population are being outnumbered by the refugees. with tensions mounting between both groups, the bangladeshi government has no plans to keep the rohingyas. >> ( trslated ): right now, there is no future, so actually, who will work for them is the actual question. will it be government or the international community? the government think they have to stay in our country, they have to stay in our country for a long time. that is why government is waiting as soon as possible to repatriate them peacefully in their country. >> reporter: the government also has plans to send the rohingya to a remote island, that is underwater half the year, off the coast of bay of bengal. but none of that stops this girl from continuing to push forwarda with her s. >> ( translated ): i was scared before, but now i am focused on my goals and career. and now my fears went away. if i want to survi, i need to push forward with my life, even if it means i have to lie.d >> reporter: ough her mother is stuck in the camps alone, she feels at peace knowing her daughter is helping herself, and others. >> ( translated ): i couldn't do anything with my life, but my daughter is. i feel good. there aren't many girls like my daughter at the rohingya camp. my daughter is unique. i o m a very lucky motherve a daughter like her. she's a role model. >> reporter: and with her mother's blessing, she hopes she can continue to fight forhe education of future generations to come. for the pbs newshour, i'm tania rashid, reporting from cox's bazaar, bangladesh. >> brangham: now, a retired general takes on a nemission. over the past few months, economics correspondent paul solman has been reporting on the tensions in losiana between energy production, jobs and environmental concerns. tonight, he looks at a most unlikely battle that's been playing out on that front. it's part of our regular series, "making sense." >> our greatest gift has become our problem. >> reporter: general russel honoreé earned three stars durig his armcareer, and a lot of nicknames. the "ragi cajun." >> don't get stuck on stupid, reporters! >> reporter: the "black john wayne." >> hey! weapons down! weapons down, dammit! >> reporter: the "category five general." >> the next 24 hours will be critical to us as we try to evacuate the approximately 25,000 people at the convention center. >> reporter: honoreé had commanded the second infantry division in korea, saw action in operation desert storm, was commanding general of the first u.s. army.ey >> h tiger, let's go. >> reporter: but it was his service in 2005 as commander of the joint katrina task force that won him national acclaim. and, he says, it radic him. >> i remember flying out from new orleans on a navy helicter, and as we were flying out, i saw these streaks of oil. and asked the pilots, what the hell is that? he said, general, that's the oil derricks that have llen over. and i said, oh my god.r: >> reporteouisiana's greatest gift-- the basis for its econom- was, honoreé suddenly realized, perhaps ts biggest problem. the three-star retired from the army in 2008, eventually moved back home to his native w louisianre he began a new career, as an environmental activist. in this ted talk, for example. >> our coastline is disappearing, and it could be measured by the hour, not the year. our air is some of the worst in america, and many of the ondustries we have create high rates of cancer our people. ee must act now, because future that we fear is here.te >> rep the general thinks he kno a disaster when he sees one. and he found plenty in his own backyard, starting with bayou drcorne, about an hour's ive south of baton rouge, near a strip of the mississippi studded with petrochemical plants, knowa as cancey. on aust 3, 2012, bayou corne cracked open into a giant, sinkhoaving an oil-slicked lake. mike schaff, an offshore drilling platform worker, had lived in bayou corne since the early '90s. >> this pipeline right here is where this wholbayou right here was bubbling. little bubbles all over the place. it looked like alka-seltzern there. >> reporter: the bayou sits on what's called a salt dome, whi had been mined for decades by a firm called texas brine, creating a cavern. what caused the sinkhole? >> what caused it was the cavern collapse. >> reporter: as "nova" explained in a 2015 documentary, rock andn soil pourehrough a breach in the cavern wall. and this, in turn, sucked the surface down into a massive sinkhole. for months, gas shot out of the vent wells. was it dangerou >> oh, yes. if it got through your cracks in your slab and into your house, then you, if you threw a switchg switch, on, if your home was filled up with the gas, it would explode your >> reporter: this is the slab of mike schaff's home. >> that's my house. what's left of it. >> rerter: it didn't explode. texas brine eventuabought out the residents of crawfish stew stree tearing down some houses, moving others, even though schaff and some neighbors had wanted to stay. >> this doesn't look like paradise to people, but it is to me. te reporter: a lawsuit led to a settlement with s brine. general honoreé had been called in for help. >> everybody knows about him, with the work that he's done for katrina, the work he's done in our mitary, and now the work that he's doing with us. >> they said, the state's not helping us. the federal government is not helping us. and we created the green army to help give voice. >> reporter: a green army of environmental activists. but how to recruit in such a red state? >> if i go in and say i'm alking about global warming, nobody's listening. they get up and walk out. >> reporter: because at's such an ideological trigger. >> right. it's fake news, it's a hoax. well, bull ( bleep ) . we got pollution. porter: which is why the general has taken to the speech circuit to make the larger case. >> howany people like clean air? how many people like clean, safe water? how many people like their crawfish without any oil on them? rg reporter: we contacted the state's five laest industry groups about general honoreé'sen co. all declined an on-camera interview. but in a joint written statement, three of the groups said: "industry in our state works as a willing partner with the losiana department of environmental quality, our communities, our partners and employees, tensure our most precious assets-- our environment and our citizens-- are protecd. the entire state of louisiana continues to meet all of the u.s. e.p.a.'s national ambient air quality standards." meanwhile, back on the bayou... you were, and are, a member of the tea party, righ >> that is correct. ra reporter: so is mike shaff enlisting in gehonoreé's green army a harbinger? are fellow conservatives like you becoming more environmentally aware? >> my barometer on how many of my friends are with me on certain issues is my facebook posts. i'd say 80% of the time, i post something conservative. >> reporter: and how many likes do you get? >> i get many likes. and then when i post something about the environment, i get four or five likes. >> reporter: so you're still an outlier inrvacir >> yeah,, you know, i'm no banished. around here it's oil industry that has got them. the logic that's thrown at the people, including myself, is that, if we restrict them or regulate them, then they're going to pi up and move, and we're not going to have thosebs . >> reporter: but with the jobs may come risks, says schaff. >> everybody here that passed away while i was here i lived here for 25 years-- died of cancer. >>porter: everyone? >> everyone that died, died of cancer. >> reporter: ten out of 100 residents, says schaff, and schaff himself has kidney cancer and a sarcoma on his leg. >> who's to know, you know, if it wasn't my lifestyle orli anything that?l we have chemiants along the river, about 20 miles that way. but if you want to live in radise, you have to sacrifice something. >> reporter: russel noreé doesn't see it that way. >> i'm generally pissed off. i spent 37 years, three mon and three days defending this country. i spt 9.5 years overseas. okay?e in s the most horrific places you ever want to see and have to work in and tin. and to come back to my home state and see it controlled by multinational corporations is a crying damn shame. p at's the exxon flag on of the capitol. >> reporter: is that the exxon flag? >> no. physically it is not, but mentally, it is. >> reporter: now, horeé's beef isn't with exxon mobil in particular. it's with the entire industry. >> they own the legislature. the companies do. less regulation bring you more pollution. >> reporr: but it also brings you more growth. >> well, you don't see that growth bearing out, because l we're the thigest energy producer, and we're the second poorest state. n reporter: exxon mobil h comment. in their joint statement, the three industry gups said:" there are many voices speaking on behalf of louisiana families, workers and businesses at the capitol. they all have an important role to play in the democratic process. we are proud of our effortsto promote free enterprise and economic growth on behalf of louisiana employers an entrepreneurs of all sizes working to improve our great state." but general honoreé is paying a price for his activism. for example, his work in saint rose, louisiana, where residents were sickened by emissions from a plant operated jointly by a company called i.m.t.t. and shell oil. two mon,s later, says honoreé he was asked to resign from the board of crawford and company, an surance claims manager. >> the chairman said, "we have a pending contract with shell. and they said they won't give us that contingency contract if you're on r board. we got to look out for the employees here, general." i said, well, you're right. and that may meeting was my last meeting. >> reporter: crawford and co. had no comment, and shell told us the matter was under investigation. as for the general? he is undeterred. >> i'm still in this fight, and it's not over. and one of these days, we'll get them. >> reporter: for the pbs newshour, i'm business and onomics correspondent paul solman, reporting from louisiana. >> brangham: and to our monthly conversation for our "now read this" book club, whia partnership we have with the "new york times," where we encourage you to join on our facebook page, read along wi us and thousands of others, and hear directly from the authors. jeffrey brown has our june pick, a story at once epic ande. intim it's part of our ongoing arts and culture coverage, "canvas." >> brown: what happens when an 81-year-old father sitsin his college professor son's class, and what if t subjects of that class is one of literature's greatest epics, a the heart of which is the story of a father and his son. "an odyssey" is a personal memoir about the oddsy and family l teaching,rning and much more. author daniel mendelsohn is a writer and literacy professor at bart college and he's here towe aquestions of the readers. thanks for being a part of this. >> thanks for being having me. >> brown: first, tell us and the rest of the audience, what was this book what are you after here? >> well, the book is really two stories twined together. the first story is a personal story. my father at the age of 81 w announced ted to be a student in my freshman homer s clas that becomes the story, what's it like to have your father as a stunt. then, at the end of that thmester, we heard about a cruise recreates the voyages of odysseous, so we went on the cruise, had another interestinset of experiences, and then he fell ill not so long after. so there are thr acts, the classroom, the cruise and the hospital, all filtered through the odyssey. >> we'll go to the first question which gets us into the oddsy and your father. >> repeatedly chamgd challenged euless seize challenge as hero and i don't see your take on that. do you considedo you ulyses her? >> well, i think the thing abou heros tre interesting is they're heroes not because they're necessarily 100% good but because they're 100% interesting, and, so, odysseous has dark sides, he's difficult, he's liar, ceat. >> which your father calls you out on. h he cheated o wife, he lost his crew, couldn't get s way home. >> right. my dad, a mathematician, wasn't charmed by him and kept challenges me all semester long. said i don't think he's a hero, kept interrupting my speeches in class. so the tension between me and mt dad classroom became kind of a vehicle for the students to learnbout the odyssey. >> that leads to the nextn. questi >> can you talk about the atelings of embarrassment and shame t your dad's behavior in your classroom brought up for you and about how those feelings changed? >> this really goes to what are the most touching aspect of the book, the personal, how you felt about having your father as outsider there. >> i'll have to say, i won't lie, it wsn't always easy. when you're teaching, you have to establish kind of an authority in cour ownssroom, especially with freshmen. >> right. and here was my din si behind me all semester raising his hand and interrupting me. but i beg to see aspects of my father that i thought were very touching through his combative interaction with me, the professor, his son, and i was very touched by how important it was for him to show that he knew something about the life experience that great home is about. >> all right. the next question ce in, and this is irresistible to us, because it's both from a father and a son. let's see that. >> from uselessies point of view, a paradigm or a confession? >> so the paradigm question we went back and checked abouty exacat he meant which is sort of asking were you tryingto ite a primer about fathers and sons oron aession of your own life? >> i think it probably lies between those two polls. i don't think it's a confession. i've written three memoirs. i just tell things the way they are, but i thought this experience of interacting with my father in this classroom, in the cruise ship, in the hospital, having been thinking for a full year about the oddsy homer's oddsy, which is, you know, largely about fathersand sons. i mean, everybody knows it's about a guy trying to get back to his wife. >> right. but there's also a great father-son story. i should say parents and chistren, it's not fathers and sons. >> let's go to the next video. have you taught the odyssey since this class and, if so, have you been more flexiblelo about ang your students to take more leadership in the discussion? > i was glad to get the question. so much of it is about the act of teaching, right, and theri excing of it and learning from your students. >> yeah, so i admit, in the book, that i learnea lot from the students in this class, among whom was my own father, you know, about teaching, and i felt that, during that semester, i learned something very important. i love the odyssey, i have been reading it and teaching it my whole life, and ited the students to love the odyssey exactly the way i loved it, and that was a mistake. >> right. as if there's one way, right? >> yeah. learned after that to loosen up a little and to let the students approach he work in their own way. i i like to think that learned something that semester, and i'm a little more flexible th i used to be. >> you like to think it. you look like you're not sosu e. >> well, you know, you only know what you know, you know. >> all right. we'll continue this conversation and have it all available online and on our facebook page. for now, daniel mendelsohn and "an odyssey." thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. and next a very different kind of trip, our june book club pick takes place on a planet not our own awe but the premise is too timely in "the fifth season," the world is menaced by environmental catastrophe andts inhabitants struggle to survive. it won the 2016 hugo wared, science fiction's highest honor. l hope youjoin us, read along, get to know the author anderany o readers, now a part of "now read this," a partnership with the "new york times." >> brangham: earlier this month, our "brief but spectacular" te highlighted the need to raise awareness of sexual assault cases on the navajo nation. tonight, meskee yana yatsayte tells us about another silent epidemic in the nav community. she leads an organization that aims to provide a voice for those who don't have one. >> once a person goes missing, i always tell the families, you know, be aware that you become the advocate, you also become the vestigator. nobody knows what is going on, on our reservation. not,ust the navajo reservati but nationwide. these cases are not taken seriously. they don't hit headline news. we asked where were these cases going andwe are told that they are being looked at, but are they? >> when i first started this, i realized that our people did not have a place to go to report our missing people. i decided to create a booklet. this includes all of our updated missing persons from back from 1956. a lot of them do get found, but thre are some that's been these booklets ever since i've made them. the goals of the group is spreading awareness, and then helping the families get their voices heard, because this is a silent epidemic. and to try and get people to listen to our voices and hear our cries is, you know, almost near impossible to do. the case that really meant a lot to me was kczizki ariel begay. hold on. we did marches, we did awareness stands. and we were going to do another awareness event for her, and that weeks when we found out that they had found the remains of ariel. ariel was murdered. even after her murder, her mome took it to thnext level to find justice for ariel. and just recently, she just passed. so, we will continue to seekti ju for ariel because we know that was her mom,is jacqueline's, i have been a target of threats. so have the other four of our advocates. but these are the things that we have to face. i always tell the people that want to help and become a volunteer advocate, this is something that you have to be comfortable with. i've been scared for most of my nolife, because i was tolto speak. icut, but now, i have the o d i'm not scared anymore. i'm not scared peak, and i will do this for the people thab are no to speak now.ke my name is myana yatsayte, and this is my "brief but spectacular" take on finding our ssing relatives. >> brangham: you can learn more about her work on the "navajo nations missing persons updates" page on facebook. and, you can find additional "brief but spectacular" episodes on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour/brief. the last three ecades of u.s. ctions show presidential hopefuls usually do not prevail if they try and run again. the trend is especially relevant for democrats now whose top two presidential candidates, according to earlyolling, have both been past candidates. read more on our web site. all tha and more is on our web site pbs.org/newshour. and that's the "newshour" for tonight.il i'mam brangham. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm william brangham. join us online, and agre tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thankou, and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> babbel a language app that teaches real-life conversations in a new language, like spanish, french,a lurn, italian, and more. >> consumer celr. >> bnsf railway. >> home advisor. >> financial services firm raymond james. >> and with the ongoing support of these institions >> this program was made possible by the corporationor public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ♪ >> hello, everyone. welcome to ammanpour and company." as anti-semitism rares its rugly head, i travel to berlin to hear the incredible life story of hilda hilda. she has devoted her life to u raci jewish rights. plus walter isaac sson speaks wh debra upstad. >> you are never too small to make a difference. >> the 16-year-old climate change activis who's

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