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And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers lu. Thank you. Woodruff democrats in the u. S. House of reveesentatives truck the latest blow in their subpoena struggles with the trump administra the house voted today to let committees sue agencies and witnesses who defy subpoenas. That includes the attorneyge ral, william barr, and former white House Counsel don mcgahn. President trump insisted again today that a key part of his deal with mexico, to curb migration from central america, has not yet been revealed. On the white house lawn, he repeatedly held up a single piece of paper, and said, thats the agreement thatys everybody dont have. A blownup image of the document showed writing that said mexico agreed to a regional asylum plan and, possibly, to new laws. President trump and democratic president ial candidate joe biden fired new broadsides at each other today, on a day when both men campaigned in iowa. The former Vice President currently leads the democratic field. But, as he left the white house ump called him a loser and a dummy. Id rather run against, i think, biden, than anybody. I think hes the weakest mentally, and i like running against people that are weak mentally. I think joe is the weakest up here. He looks different than he used to. He acts different than he used to. Hes even slower than he used to be. Woodruff biden answered in xitumwa, iowa, branding the president , anential threat to this country. This is a guy who doesyt evng to separate and d ighten people. Its about fear athing. Its about what he calls people, the names he calls them. No president has done Something Like that, for gods sake. I mean, its bizarre, and its damaging. And so i think hes genuinely a threat to our core values. Woodruff the two men also traded jibes over trade policy, and who has done more to help farmers. The nations largest protestt ligious denomination, th southern baptists, opened their annual meeting today, focused on sexual abuse. Hundreds of Church Leaders abe staffers hav accused of Sexual Misconduct over the last two decades. Ithe agenda at the meetin birmingham, alabama, includes making it easier to expel churches that mishandle abuse claims. Meanwhile, u. S. Catholic bishops convened in baltimore, undal pressure to ith their own longrunning clergy abuse scandal. At issue is how to hold bishops accountable if they fail to address abuse cases. The head of the conference, Cardinal Daniel dinardo, is himself accused of improperly handling a case in texas. In hong kong, new protests geared up against extradition proposals that could extend chinas control over the territory. At hundredsred as the citys legislature opened debate this evening. S e crowds oppose extraditing hong kong reside the mainland, to face criminal charges. China defended the proposals. It also rejected u. S. Criticism. translated i want to stress oe again that hong kongs affairs are purely chinas internal affairs. C ntry, organization or individual has the right to intervene. Ss we exptrong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition to the u. S. s irresponsible remarks on hongff kongrs. Woodruff hong kong lawmakers are due to vote on the extradition issue next wee in south korea, a human tghts group sat it has identified hundreds of public execution it cites interviews with more than 600 north korean defectors. They report that north Korean Leader kimongun is using executions as intimidation, with family members of the condemnedf n forced to watch. Today, President Trump cited a beautiful, warm letter he received from leader kim, and said that under his leadership, north korea has great potential. Back in this cntry, Comedian Jon Stewart blasted congress at a hearing on capitol hill on helping 9 11 responders with health problems. Stewart is a longtime advocate of that cause, and he appeared before a house subcommittee. But, most of the members were absent when his turn to speak came and he denounced them. Behind me, a filled room of 9 11 first responders. And in front of me, a nearly empty congress. , sick and dyiey brought themselves down here, to speako toe. Woodruff in fact, 12 of the subcommittees 14 members did attend parts of e hearing, but many had left for other hearings when stewart spoke. Tomorrow, the full house is expected to approve payingit health benfor 9 11 responders for the next 70 years. Flooding rain this spring may take a heavy toll in the gulf of mexico this summer. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports the socalled dead zone in the gulf could reach nearrecord levels, roughly the size of massachusetts. Scientists say that runoff from all the rain is feeding algae that will rob marine life of oxygen. On wall street, the Dow Jones Industrial average lost 14 points to close at 26,048. The nasdaq fell a fraction, and the s p 500 slipped one point. And, the u. S. Womens socceror team began its cup title defense today, in france, with a recordbreaking win over thailand. The final was 13 nil. Or alex mn scored five times to lead the onslaught. Overall, the u. S. Tallied the most goals ever in a single match in womensorld cup play. E americans play chile on sunday. Still to come on the newshour how will democrats move forwardt ir investigation of President Trump . Sitting down with 2020 p democratsidential candidate, massachusettsth congressman oulton. Catholic nuns speak out, after years of sexual abuse by priests. The hardships faced by adults who lack basic reading comprehension skills. And, much more. Woodruff democrats on capitol hill are still grappling with questions of whether pursue impeachment against President Trump. Speaker of the house nancy pelosi was asked today why she supports congressional investigations intthe president , but not a formal impeachment inquiry. So the question you ask, do we get more by having an inquiry . Some say yes, some say no. If a majority of your caucus wants to go forward with an impeachment inquiry, would you go for it . Its not even close in our caucus. Nt but elly . Why are we speculating on hypotheticals . What were doing is wiin court. T the path tre on is a path that, i think look, i want to tell you something. crosstalk there is nothing as much, as divisive in our country, in my view, than impeachment. Woodruff and our congressional correspondent, lisa desjardins, is here with me now. So, lisa, weve just heard what speakepelosi is saying. So tell us what exactly are the House Democrats doing or not doing today. Well, lets talk about the thsolution that the house passed todd. Is is a resolution that democrats refer to as civil contempt, but what it really does is it gives democrats House Committee chair men the power to move forward with civil lawsuits they want to do that in order to try to compel testimony from a court from the witnesses who have us far r to talk to them. On that list, at the top of that list, is former white House Counsel, don mcgahn, but also on the list is the current attorney general hiself, bill barr. And basically, judy, democrats like this because it will give this power tocommittee chairman. Republicans say thats exactly the problem that its too much power in Committee Chairmen cnds. Its noar when the Committee Chairmen will file the lawsui, but imld theyre interested in doing it quickly. Woodruff whats the plan the democrats have. And what are these documents that they now are going to have permission to see that have to do with the Mueller Investigation . Dowas able to ome good reporting on these documents. These documents are available starting today only to members of the House Judiciary Committee and only in a secure setting. They cannot take them out department of justice. Now, also, we dont know how many documents there will be. They will be given to these members in sort of trawrchs. They wont get all of themow, because the department of justice has to go through and make surexecutive privilege is honored, all of those kinds of things. But they can start looking at them now. Theyre not sure whats there. They think perhaps interview transcripts, other evidee that ed to the Mueller Report. Well find out more maybe in the days ahead. As to the democratsacy plans now, judy tinclude looks at these documents, holding more hearings, probably issuing more subpoenas and probably because o tf that goicourt more often. So it is a longterm plan, and there is no plan for formal impeachment inquiries right now. Woodruff so lets talk about the politics. What are the democrats thiking in terms of impeachment, both from inside thecaucus, what the members are thinking, but also what theyre hearing from their constituents. Thats the thing. There is so much pressure on many thieves membein, especially the more liberal, more democratic districts, they say they are getting hundreds of phone calls from their voters saying, we would like this president impeached. What are you waiting for . Its very different in moderate swing diswrictz democrats may be vulnerable, theyre hearing impeachment as well, but theyre hearing that perhaps that could be a negative, that democrats are moving too fast, look like theyre vindictive. But the pressure is also coming from chiwhtty chairmeo are frustrated because they havent been able to get answers they want. In all, jude i, theyre in a difficult position. I did see some discipline today. Those who want impeachment inquiries seem to be doing downi le bit, going with ploas plan, which is just to investigate. I heard a strange quote from a freshman democrat, he told me formality, formal impeachment proceedings. Thats all relative. Dont know what that means. It shows they are having trouble explaining this to some people. Woodruff as the speaker said the country is divided on this. Thats right. Woodruff lisa desjardins, thank u. Woodruff seth moulton, a democratic congressman from massachusetts, is among the crowded field of candidates running to claim the democratic rtys nomination for president. A former marine who served four tou in iraq, moulton has made service and National Security central elements of his campaign. Congressman seth moulton joins me now. Welcome to the newshour. Thanks, judy. Its good to be here. Woodruff so in this crowded field of democratsmore than 20 of you, what makes you the person to take on donald trump . We know there are several other candidates who as young as you are. There are several who have served in the military. Whats unique . I think donald trump is going to bcu more dif to beat than Many Democrats think. And to do so, we need to build a coalition, a coalition that includes everybody in our party, plus those independent obama trump voters and even disaffect republicans, and thats hard to do. But thats exactly the job they in iraq. And unluke any other candida in this rae, i led troops on the ground, had to build aal ion of people from all over this country in my platoon different reigious beliefs, different political beliefs and get them to not just vote for me but actually to risk the lives for what we were trying to do. Im also taking on donald trump in his job not just as esident but as commander in chief. I think thats actually where hes weakest, annei think we to do that if were going to win. Woodruff lets talk about something thats before the congressnight now in may ways, and we just talked to our correspondent, lisa deins, that is the question of impeachment proceedings. Youve said they should start right away. Speaker pelosi is saying no, lets hold off. Why is her argument wrong . Well, st makes acually a very good argument on the politics, which is that maybes the politke this tricky, and i understand that. I accept that that might be the case. But how about just doing the right thing on principle, on the oath that we swore not to protect our Political Party but to protect and defend the constitution of the united veates . The principle isy clear here. I mean, half the president s Campaign Team is in prison. His Campaign Chairman is in ison. You cant read just a page of the executive summer of the Mueller Report and not say th just by the facts, we should be having this debate in congress and before the american people. Woodruff lets talk about some of the issues congressman as i said you served in active duty. Youve just talked about that, gives you some credentials when it comes to National Security. In a nutshell, what is working with the Trump AdministrationForeign Policy and whats not arking . Well, theremost nothing thats working. He is putting us in tremendous danger around the globe. The one thing i will give him fcredit for or standing up to china because china is a serious longterm economic and National Security threat to the United States but his tactics are all wrong throwing around tariffs, not working with our allies. Its exact lets wrong approach. We should actually be buildinal ions in the pacific. I talked about a pacific version of nato to help containt rise of china and north korea. We should be strength nin the iran deal not pulling out of it arting a war. We should be strengthening nato toeal with the Net Generation of threats from russia, which is which are coming through the internet not by rolling tanktanks into eastern europe. Trump is doing nne of these things. Hes just disparaging our allies and, frankly, cozying up to our enemies all around the globe. Woodruff veterans you have talked, of course, about veterans. A veteran yourself. President trump says that he more than any other president would take care of americas veterans. Well, hes faid to do so. Hes failed to do so. I mean, we still have historic rates ofeteran suicide. President trump thinks that patriotism is hugging the flag. Thats not true. Triotism is fighting for what the flag stands for. And this is a man who dodged th draft, let someone else go in his place when it was turn to sei e the country. Ink thats wrong. And i think its a good thing that unlike any other candidate isin th race, the first time inat i have to make a decision invothe lives of Young Americans and live with the consequences of thatsion wont be when im sitting in the situation room at the white house. Ive made those decisions before, and i can talk with credibility abt our National Security and making the hard choices about when we go to war and. When we do not. Woodruff some domestic issues health care. Are you for thecalled public option. Thats right. Woodruff whereas, many of your fellow candidates say they favor a governmentn singlepayer health care system. Whats wrong with their idea well, i the only candidate in the race that gets a governmentrun singlepayer system because i made ita cont to keep going to the v. A. For my health care between when i w elected to congress. And ive seen the good, the bad, the ugly of thasystem. Thats why im with president obama. His plan, admittedly was not passed. It was to have a public option that would compete with privatesector plans. Woodruff the original plan. Thats the original plan. Thats what we should have today. There are this somethings the v. A. Does well. They negotiate Prescription Drug prices, which medicare does not. But i also had surgery at the v. A. A few years ago and was literally sent home with e wrong medications. Thats not the health care that everybody in america deserves. Woodruff the economy the other bay state, massachusetts ndidate in the race, Elizabeth Warren has talked about what she calls a wealth tax a special tax on people whoe have save t overs 50 million, an annual tax. Do yougree with her about that . Its not nice idea about theute noaboutbut youcant make. We neef to ence the tax system toik ma it fair. Right now, almost every aerican is paying more taxes than amazon, netflix, Delta Airlines combined. There are true inequities in our tax system. What we need to do is make sure everybody isirpaying the fair share, not pit the poor versus the wealthy or anything lik that, but just make sure everybody is on an equal playing field. And if you do hard or a living, youre going to pay the same taxes as someone who is just trading money on wall street. Right now, thats not the case. Upon thats whatwe need to fix. Woodruff senator warren argues you need to raise thisom money to doof the great things democrats want to do. I agree with that. But im not going to pt forward a tax system that will not work and her system has been proven inef