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And by contributions to your pbs station thank you. Like you. Woodruff democrats in the u. S. House of representatives have struck the latest blow inna their subptruggles with the Trump Administration. The house voted today to let committees sue agencies and witnesses who defy subpoenas. That includes the attorneyli general, w barr, and former white House Counsel don stgahn. President trump in 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 that everybody says i dont a blownup image of the document showed writing that said mexico aganed to a regional asylum and, posbly, to new laws. President trump and democratic president ial candidate joe biden fired new broadsides at each other today, on a day when bothi men caed in iowa. The former Vice President currently leads the democratic field. But, as he left the white housed mr. Trump caim a loser and a dummy. Id rather run against, i, think, bidan 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. D he looferent than he used to. S he afferent than he used to. Hes even slower than he used to be woodruff biden answered in ottumwa, iowa, branding the prident, an existential threat to this country. This is a guy who does everything to separate and frighten people. Its about fear and loathing. 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 protestant religious denomination, the southern baptists, opened their d nual meeting today, focu sexual abuse. Hundreds of Church Leaders and faffers have been accused Sexual Misconduct over the last two decades. The agenda athe meeting, in birmingham, alabama, includes making it easier to expel churches that mishandle abuse claims. Meanwhile, u. S. Catholic bishops convened in baltimore, under pressure to deal with their own ngrunning 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, isel hiaccused 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. Hundreds gathered as the citys legislature opened debate this evening. The crowds oppose extraditing hong kong residents to the mainland, to face crim charges. China defended t a proposals. O rejected u. S. Criticism. translated i want to stress once again that hong kongs affairs are purelya chinternal affairs. No country, organization or individual has the right to inteene. We express strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition to the u. S. s irresponsible remarks on hong kong affairs. Woodruff hong kong lmakers are due to vote on the extradition issue next week. In south korea, a Human Rights Group says that it has identified hundreds of public execution sites in north korea. It cites interviews with more than 600 north korean defectors. They report that north Korean Leader kim jongun is using executions as intimidation, with family members of the coemned often 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 country, Comedian Jon Stewart blasted congress atp a hearing onol hill on helping 9 11 responders with mealth problems. Stewart is a longdvocate of that cause, and he appeared before a house subcommittee. But, most of the members were his turn to speak came and he denounced them. Behind mea filled room of 9 11 first responders. O and in frome, a nearly empty congress. Sick and dying, they brought themselves down here, to speak to no one. Woodruff in fact, 12 of the subcommittees 14 membd attend parts of the hearing, but many had left for other hearings when stewart spoke. Tomorrow, the full house is expected to prove paying Health Benefits for 9 11 responders for the next 70 years. Flooding rain this spring may take a heavy toll in the gulf or mexico this su 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 at will rob marine life 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 soccer leam began its world cup t defense today, in france, with a recordbreaking win over thailand. Fe final was 13 nil. Alex morgan scorede times to lead the onslaught. Overall, the u. S. Tallied the most goals ever in a single match in womens world cup pla the americans play chile on sunde. Still to c the newshour how will democrats move forward in their investigation of President Trump . Sitting down with 2020 democratic president ial candidate, massachusetts congressman seth moulton. 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 to pursue impeachment againstt presidump. Speaker of the house nancy pelosi was asked today why she supports congressional investigations into the president , but not a formal impeachment inquiry. So the question you ask, do we get more by ving 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. But eventually . Why are we speculating on hypotheticals . What were doing is winning in court. The path that were 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 ngressional corresponden lisa desjardins, is here with me now. So, lisa, weve just heard what Speaker Pelosi is saying. So tell us what exactly are the House Democrats doing or not doing today. Well, lets talk about the resolution that the house passed toddes this is a rlution that democrats refer to as civil contempt, but what it really does is itgives democrats house hommittee chair men the power to move forward w civil lawsuits. They want to do that in order to try to compel testimony from court from the witnesses who have so far refused to talk to them. On that list, at the top of that list, is former white House Counsel, don mcgahn, but also on tst is the current attorney general himself, bill barr. And basically, judy, dlimocrats this because it will give this power to committee chairman. Publicans say thats exactly the problem that its too much power inCommittee Chairmen hands. Its not clear when the Committee Chairmen will file the lawsuits, but im sold theyre interested in doing klit quic woodruff whats the plan the democrats have. And what are these documents that they now are goingo have permission to see that have to do with the Mueller Investigation . I was able todo some god 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 of tht dent of justice. Now, also, we dont know how many documents there will be. Il theybe given to these members in sort of trawrchs. They wont get all of thwm no, because the department of justice has to go through and make sure execprivilege is honored, all of those kinds of things. But they can start looat them now. Theyre not sure whats in there. They think perhaps interview transcripts, other evidence that led to the Mueller Report. Well find out more maybe in the days ahead. As to the democratsacy plansju now,y tinclude looks at these documents, holding morely hearings, probssuing more subpoenas and probably because of that going to court more often. So it is aongterm plan, and there is no plan for formal impeachment inquiries right now. Woodruff so lets talk about the politics. What are the democrats thinking in terms ofimpeachment, both , om inside the caucus, what the members are thinkit also what theyre hearing from their constituents. Thaterthe thing. Is so much pressure on many thieves members, especially in the more liberal, morecr deic districts, they say they are getting hundreds of rsone calls from their vote saying, we would like this president impeached. What are you waiting for . Its very different inmoderate districts. Swing diswrictz democrats may be vulnerable, theyre hearing impeachment as well,t theyre hearing that perhaps that could be a negative, that democ are moving too fast, look like theyre thndictive. Bupressure is also coming from chitty chairmen who are frustrated because they havent been able to get answers they want. In all, jude i, theyre in a fficult position. I did see some discipline today. Those who want impeament inquiries seem to be doing down a little bit, going with ploas plan, which is just investigate. I heard a strange quote from a freshman democrat, he told me formality, formal impeachmentee prngs. Thats all relative. I dont know what that means. It shows they are having troub explaining this to some people. Woodruff as the speaker usaid the contry is divided on this. Thats right. Woodruff lisa desjardins, thank you. Woodruff seth moulton, a democric congressman from massachusetts, is among the crowdefield of candidates running to claim the democratic partys nomination for president. A former marine who served four tours in iraq, moulton has made service and National Security central elements of his campaign. Congressman seth moult joins me now. Welcome to the newshour. Thanks, judy. Ths good to be here. Woodruff so ins crowded field of democrats, more than 20 of you, what makes you the person to take on donald trump . Eral otherere are sev candidates who as young as you are. There are several who have served in ate military. Unique . I think donald trump is going to be more difficult to beat than Many Democrats ink. And to do so, we need to build a coalition, a coalition that includes everybody in our party, plus those independent obama trump voters ands even diaffect republicans, and thats hard to do. But thats exactly the job they in irq. And unluke any other candidate in this race, i led troops on the ground, had to build a coalition of people from all over this coury in my platoon different religious eeliefs, different political beliefs and them to not just vote for me but actually to risk their lives for what we were trying to do. Im also takinon donald tru in his job not just as president but as commander in chief. I think thatwhactuallere hes weakest, and i think we need to do that if were going to win. Ab woodruff lets talkut something thats before the congress right now in many ways, and we just talked to our correspondent, lisa desjardins, that is the question of impeachment proceedings s youd they should start right away. Speaker pelosi is saying no, lets hold off. Why is her argument wrong . Well, she makes actually a very good argument on the politics, which is that maybe the politics make this tricky, and i undstand that. I accept that that might be the case. But how about just doi right thing on principle, on the oath that we swore not to protect our Political Party but to protect and defend the constitution of nied states . The principle is very clear here. I mean, half the president s Campaign Team is in prson. His Campaign Chairman is in prison. You cant read just a page ofut the exe summer of the Mueller Report and not say that just by the facts, we should be having this debate in congress and before the american people. Woodruff lets talk about some of the isues congressman as i said you served active duty. Youve just talked about that, gives you soiae crede when it comes to National Security. In a nutshell, what is working with the Trump Administration Foreign Policy anwhats not working . Well, theres almost nothing thats working. He is puting us in tremendous danger around the globe. The one thing i will give him credit for is for standing up to china because china is a serious longterm economic and National Security threat to the united t states but hitics are all wrong throwing around tariffs, not working with our allies. Its exact lets wrong approach. We should actually be building coalitions in the pacific. Acific version a p of nato to help containt rise of china and north korea. We suld be strength nin t iran deal not pulling out of it and starting a war. We shou be strengthening nato to deal with the next generation of threats from russia, whih ish are coming through the internet not by rollingnk tanks into eastern europe. Trump is doing none of these things. Hes just disparaging our allies and, fraly, cozying up to our enemies all around the globe. Woodruf veterans you ve talked, of course, about veterans. Youre a veteran yourself. President trump says that he more than any other president would take care of ameris veterans. Well, hes failed to do so. Hes failed to do so. I mean, we still have historic rates of veteran suicide. President trump thinks thatpa iotism is hugging the flag. Thats not true. Patriotism is fighting for what the flag stands for. Is and s a man who dodged the draft, let someone else go in his place when iwas turn to serve the country. I think thats wrong. And i think its a good tngi that unlike any other candidate in this race, the first time that i have ake a decision involving the lives of Young Americans and live with the consequences of that decision wont be when im sitting in the situation room at the white house. Ive made those decisions bere, and i can talk wih credibility about our National Security and making the harced chabout when we go to war and. When we do not. Woodruff some domestic issues health care. Are you for the socalled public option. Thats right. Woodruff whereas, many of your fellow candidates say they favor a governmentrun singlepayer health care system. Whats wrong with their idea . Well, im the only candidate in the race that gets arn gontrun singlepayer system because i made a commitment to keep going to the v. A. Forca my healt between when i was elected to congress. And ive seen the good, the bad, the ugly of that system. 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 thel v. A. Does l. 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 the wrong medications. Thats not the health care that erybody in america deserves. Woodruff the economy the otheabay st, massachusetts candidate in the race, elenizabh waas talked about what she calls a wealth tax a special tax on people who have save the overs 50 million, an annual tax. Do you agree with her about that . Its not nice idea about theute noaboutbut youcant make. We need to enforce the tax system toik ma it far. Right now, almost every american is paying more taxes than amazon, netflix, Delta Airlines combined. There are true inequities in our tax system. What we need to do re make everybody is paying their fair versus not pit the poor the wealthy or anything like that, but just make sure everybody is on equal playing field. And if you do hard work for a living, youre going to pay the same taxes as someone who is just trading money on wall streh. Right now,s not the case. Upon thats what we need to fix. Woodruff senator warren argues you need to raise this money to do some of the great things democrats want to do. I agreeit that. But im not going to put forward a tax system that will not work and her system has been proven ineffective in other cotries around the world. I like the idea of it, but it wont work. What will work is raising the corporate rate back up to 25 . Am for that. Its raising thete on investment money so the Capital Gains tax is comparable with whatou make in a payroll tax, so if youre doing hard work youre going to pay the same rate as people trngmoney. Thats basic fairness. Thats what we need in the system. Woodruff something else. We know President Trump ist famous for png labels on people he doesnt like. Today and recently he called j biden he called him 1 joe, sleepy joe, and today i think he called him weak. Today joe biden called the president an existential threat. Do you think democrats have to come up with a way to label the president , or can democrats be above the frey . No, i think thats kind of a waste of time. This is the dirty politics the president plays. Weateed tuke about were going to do in the country. We need to put the president in place. We cignore him. Hes the commander in chief of the United States and hes a real threat to our couney. Thats t but lets talk about how we are going to lead. Lets talk about how President Trump has failed in his policies, about how romised a tax cut for the middle class but just gave it to the rich. How he prod to take cares of veterans but hes failed at the v. A. , pw heromised to give health care to everybody but his administration has spent years trying to take it away lets focus on where hes failed as president , where hes failed as demander in chief and then talk about our vision for t thats what im doing in this campaign. Woodruff congress seth moulton, looking to win the democratic nomination, thanks very much. Thanks, judy. Woouff this week, catholic bishops are meeting in baltimore to discuss the priest seabuse crisis in the catholic church. And new rules on reporting that abuse go into effect thrghout the church. They are the most concrete steps the tican has taken to count priest sex abuse and coverups. Most of the attention has focused on child victims. But, as special correspondent Christopher Livesay reports from the vatican, now, in the metoo era, theres a growing chorus of nuns speaking out as srs of abuse, as well. Reporter theyre known as brides of christ, revered for their quiet service, not for speaking out. But thats beginning to change. I joined the convent in 2003, and i was raped in 2008. Reporter raped, she says, by a priest. A devout catholic from germany, doris wagner was 24 years old, living and working at this religious Community Just outside the vatican. Nd e came into the room. Be closed the doond him. Y was sitting onght hand. And he just started to undress me. Reporter when she told her superiors, she says the priest went unpunished, allowing him rape her again and again. This whole tim the perpetrator s still living in the same. Yeah. Reporter so you had to seeis your r. Every day. Reporter every day. He was preaching chapel. He was giving me holy communion. He was sitting at breakfast, at lunch, at dinner, at the same table. I was ironing his shirts. Reporter story after story like wagners is reaching a crescendo. India, a bishop currently faces charges for repeatedly raping a former mother superior. And a recent investigation by the Associated Press found cases of abuse across four continents. Now, the vatican can no longer ignore the scandal. This year, pope francis made a shocking admission and acknowledged what had been a longstanding dirty secret in the Roman Catholic church that p soests had sexually abused nuns. It was a stain the church could keep under wraps. That is, until the metoo era. Now, religious women are beginning to speak out, and a nunstoo era has been born. Helping break down that wall of since was, of all things, vatican magazine donna chiesa mondo, or women church world. Its lwomen staff included former editor lucetta scaraffia. She listened to hundreds of stories from nuns, and in february, published an article accusing the allpowerful priesthood of not on exploiting them for sex, but first and foremost, for their labor. tranated it happens as high as the vatican ministries, anere women carry out secretarial work translations, but they can never be promoted, and the men get all the credit. They also exploit nuns as housekeepers. They do all of the cleaning, prepare all the food, without fixed hours, all day, every day. Priests see this almost as their right to take advantage of women. Reporter theyre not paid for their work. Theres no chance of advancement. Some people have likened this mistreatment to slavery. Is that accurate . translated thats accurate. Given this habit of servitude, its easy to understand how it can morph into sexualoi extion. Reporter doris wagner says thats what happened to her inme c i was only working in the kitchepping vegetables. Anyone who wants to become a nun wants to serve, and wants tolf give hero god. And thats why its so easy to abuse nuns. S because they aready to listen to others, who te a them how th supposed to be. Ain and again, i was reproached for not sitting right, talking right, because some man in the house had a. Roblem with reporter they had a problem with you . They were, in a way, attracted to us. Repter and this was your fault . This was our fault. Reporte she says it was also her fault when she reported the priests advances to her female superior. She became furious she literally jumped on her feet and was shouting at me, and she was very angry with me, and she said, you are dangerous for m leave him alone they tell them, keep quiet, or our congregation will be persecuted. These women cant even contemplate leaving, becausee they dont hy alternatives. They have no trade, no support group. Theyve severed ties with their so they are forced to endure this abuse, that often leads to pregnancy, and the priests or bishops force them to have abortions. Reporter nuns are forced by the fathers of these children,ts by prito have abortions . translated yes. E and thor women now have to live with the anguish of having committed a mortal sin. Es we have manymonies from nuns who had more than one abortion in thisr ay. Reporestimonies that became too much for the vatican to handle, she says. Soon after they were published, the director of the vatican newspaper, andrea monda, toldth he he would now be sitting in on the editorial meetings of her womens magazine. Monda denies any interference in the editorial process. translated there was an effort to suffocate our voice. So we decided, before were suffocated, it would be better for us to resign. Reporter and almost all of the women did indeed resign. Change, she says, is happening, thanks to nuns speaking out. This year, the vatican held an extraordinary summit on sex abuse by priests. Some of the most powerful testimonies there came fm nuns, such as sister Veronica Adeshola Openibo from nigeria, who read the riot act to a room full of the most powerful men in the catholic church. I think of all the atrocities we have committed as members of the church. I say we. Not they. We. Reporter openibo sits on the ive board of the International Union of superiors general, which counts some 450,000 women religious leaders. Its recently called on nunshe acrossorld to report abuse, and held a rare meeting in rome, whesu pope francis, ounded by nearly 1,000 sisters, once again confessedre that priestsbusing nuns. translated im aware of the problems. Its not just the sexual abuse of nuns. You didnt sign up to become somelerics housekeeper. No. Reporter on the sidelines of the meeting, the executive board agreed to an iromptu discussion with me. The church has had so many cases, and has been dending itself. Like on a football fie reporter can you provide ann sight into what the pope could do to fix this problem . I think i know what we could do. We need to create a culture of care. Care at every level. An open space. Its not shameful. And also to be able to say who the perpetrator was. We would not want that pern to continue hurting other sisters. We can be a dangerous memory. We can call the church to what they are professing, that they want to see changes made, but they dont happen. Reporter right after the meeting, pope francis made a surprise announcement, andew issued aule calling on local dioceses to create public and easily accessible offices to receive abuse claims. O the rule ays out a way to proceed when prelates are accused of a coverup or carrying out abuse themselves. Its perhaps the pope concrete attempt to battle abuse. But crits say the law has a major weakness it still keeps the handling of cases within the church, as opposed to involving outside authorities, and does not detail anypecific punishments for prelates, like the one who raped doris wagner. They should find whoever is a perpetrator or protected perpetrators, and make sure they are legally prosecuted. Reporter something that never happened to her rapist. Instead, she says hes still a priest in the same communi today. The trauma was so unbearable, she says she almt committed suicide, one day when she was high up on a balcony, inside the papal palace, right in front of the pope. And i could jump on the square. It would have been so easy. You know, i had my leg already halfway up the wall. Reporter instead, she decided to speak out. R was a long process, that eventually led to aving religious life. Today, she works as a headhunter back in her native germany, and hopes that young women enteringo thent today do so with open eyes. He should be aware that sexual abuse of nuns exists. If victims dont speak out, perpetrators will just go on. So i actually have the responsibility to speak. Reporter for the pbs wshour, im Christopher Livesay,n rome. Woodruff adults often go back to school to get a better paying job. But one important, and often overlooked, segment of the population a those who struggle to read or do basic math. They cant read a street sign, a pay stub or a menu. , every yeousands of these individuals overcome shame and fear to go back to school. But inadequate funding and long waiting lists have made thr struggles even harder. Maine is one of the few states where the governor has proposed increasing funding for Adult Education. Special correspondent Kavitha Cardoza, of our partner education week, reon those efforts, part of our regular segment, making the grade. The twodigit numbers from my, by my. R orter carol palmer is 63. She graduated High School Years even though she couldn read or write. Lw is read backwards. I ended up going to l ed class because i couldnt do the hework, and i didnt get n to do it. Reporter palmer developed several coping skills to hideou the fact shent read. If i went to the Grocery Store and i couldnt know how to spell peas, id find a picture and then id knoit was that. Reporter gail senese heads Adult Education in maine. She says a lot of people hide the fact they cant read. Theyre so ashamed. Weve had students who didnt even want to tell a spouse for years that they were kind of d,king it. I dont like to rd rather watch television. Or you pay the bills, its just easier that way. Its isolating because you dont want your secret to be found out. Reporter palmers at the third grade level no and dreams of being able to read books to her grandchildren. Shes not alone. Spruce mountain Adult Education has grown almost 200 in the last three years. Reporter Robyn Raymond runs this program. She says the increased demand for classes is because local paper mills went to automation, or moved jobs overseas also, theres less demand for paper. So, positions that paid well even if you didnt have a high school diploma, vanished. Month after i started, verso paper laid off 300 workerr their mill. A year later, they ended up clying off another 200 workers. Reporter milings caused a Ripple Effect throughout this region. It does tend to look like a ghost town. Heres the site of the old oss mill, thateen gutted and run down, so its now a scrap yard. T reporter the need for Adult Education isst concentrated in maine, where manufacting was the backbone of the middle ass. Hundreds of Adult Education Centers Across the count help with everything from High School Completion to resume writing to job training. But an area thats often overlooked is basic reading and math. 36 million adults in the s. Lack the basic literacy skills that they need. Reporter Sharon Bonney heads the coalition on adult basic education, a national nonprofit. These are folks at the lowest literacy levels. They cant find a job, or if they find a job, its at entry level, minimum wage jobs. Reporter she says of the 36 million, Adult Education programs across the country only serve 1. 5 million because of funding. Federal dollars have not kept up with inflation. Historicay, funding has actually been about half what i st 15 years ago. So we are only able to serve a percentage of what we were 15 ars ago. Reporter state and local funding has also seen cuts. Nney says some people dont realize how big a need there is. Others feel adults have already had a chance at an education. A Trump Administration proposal atr next year has called for an almost 25 cut to Adult Education programs. Advocates say thst would be deing. So states already have lon waiting lists, some have cut back classes, and others have had to increase student fees. Many adult learners have an added challenge. They need to learn to speak english. These are our graduates from last year. Reporter anita s onge is the director of portland Adult Education, which serves 2,000 students, mostly immigrants. Some were doctors and lawyerin their home countries. Others never got a chance to go school. St. Onge says they offer classes from 8 00 in the morng to 8 00 at night. Some of our classes have 30 in a classroom, so theyre quite full. Our stents have lives. They have children, they have families, they have jobs. Sometimes they have two and three jobs. I have a fever. Reporter this beginning english class allows students to practice spebeing. I remthe challenge we have to arn one word everyday. Reporter 27yearold divine mushiya is from the democratic republic of the congo. All i knew to say was hi and good morning even when you go out and peoplen trtalk to you, you cannot answer them, because you dont un that was really hard. Reporter she starts work in4 a factory 0 in the morning, so she can come to classes at night shes slowly getting more fluent. Wheyou learn english outside, you dont know vocabulary, how to use correctly thword. So coming here was very helpful for me. When my english get better, i get a promotion it was really great. He has a backache. Reporter st. Onge says h students say they want to feel more integrated into the fabrice of social once you learn english, you can participate in a much more meaningful way. You can participate in Community Meetings and neighborhood associations. The people who came to portland goadult ed ten, 15 years are some of the pillars in our mmunity. Reporter advocates also say giving adults a Second Chance aa an eon makes economic sense. Better jobs, more taxes, less reliance on social services. Adults who are poorly educated are also less likely to be involved in their childs education, and less likely to volunteer or vote all of which have implications for the entire country. Crawford can trace her family back five generations inn ma shes 45, and struggled through school before dropping out. She couldnt fill out forms, couldnt read road signs, couldnt help her kids with i felt really upset and just kind of stuck in the box of not having that education that i nted. I felt worthless. Reporter three years ago, she enrolled in Adult Education classes. She reived her High School Equivalency diploma. Now, shes a school custodian, a job she wouldnt he qualified for in the past because she needs to read and write every day. You have to know everhing thats labeled, because some chemicals can be really harmful. Some you cant mix together. Reporter crawford orders cleaning supplies, reads machinery manuals, and fills out accident reports. She says her life now is a dream come true a stable job with benefits. If i didnt have that, i wouldnt have my smile today. Im always smiling. I cant stop, even if i cry my life back then, i was an ostrich in the ground. And my life now . I am bloom and blooming reporter for the pbs newshour and education week, im Kavitha Cardoza in portland, ine. Woodruff ever since the febrry summit in vietnam between President Trump and north koreas leader, kim jongun, u. S. Officials say the two sides have not been talking. But toda President Trump revealed he received a letter from kim. And President Trump also extended an olive branch to kims a promise not on him, using his family. That news was revealed in a new stok out today, and Nick Schifrin has thay. Schifrin kim jongun has gone fm privileged son of a dictator, to mostlyanonymous student in switzerland, to commander of a military with a thermonuclear bomb, to scribe of whatresident trump calls beautiful letters to the white house. He is only 35, and leads one of the most opaque countries on the planet. Perhaps thats why the c. I. A. Recruited his halfbrother. The book, out today, reveals that news, and tries to makes clear kims history an motivations, and also reveals what life is really like in north kore it is called the great successor, the divinely perfect destiny of brilliant comrade kim jong. The author is anna fifield, the washington posts beijing bureau chief. Thanks so much for coming on the newshour. Thank you. Lets start with the news today, kim jonguns halfbrother was providing information to the c. I. A. That was something you first revealed. President trump was asked about that today. And he was also asked about a letter hes received from kim stngun. So lets take a to that. I just received a beautiful letter from kim jongun, and i think the relationship is very well, but i appreciated the letter. I the information about the c. I. A. With respect to his brother, or halfbrother, and i would tell him that would not happen under my under my auspices. Thats for sure. Schifrin president tru saying he would not recruit a member of kims family for spying. Remind us, who was what did he provide to the c. I. A. And remind us how he died sopublicly . He was the firstborn son of the leader kim jong il, according to the hierarchy of korea, he should have been the successor, the firstborn sun. He was not. He apparently fell out of favor, and he putmself into a kind of quasiexile after 20. Until his younger brother, kim ongun, became the leader of north korea at thd of 2011, and then he seems to have rlly fallen out of favor. He started to publicly criticize his brother in quite oblique rms, but stilt leader brooks no criticism. Even that was too much. And what i discovered in these cof reporting this book was that he had become an informant for the c. I. A. And that he was supplying information about theregimeto american intelligence services. He would meet them in various locations in southeast asia, and in fact, on the day he di when he was killed with a chemical weapon here, had 120,000 in cash in his backpack. B schifrin he was kill foreigners. That was the first time the north korean regime had donen that and an assassination like this so brazenly. The great sucessor is called that, of course, because you mentioned kim jonguns father, which he whom he succeeded. And you talk about how the succession was risky, and this crackdown on any dissent, even smembers hifs family, part of kim jonguns power from the very beginning. And you call him the most machiavellian leader of our time. Right. So kim jongun was only 27 years old when he became the leader of north korea. And this family has kepa hold on this country for 70 years by propagating this myth that they are some kind of quasideities who havthis divine right to rule. So he very much gains his legitimacy from this family line from being the sion of this family. He was staking his claim to ther leip, and he wanted to get rid of any detractors, anybody who might rival his claim to be the leader of the north korean regime. D his brother who had the same divine blood pump thriewg his veins was clearly a rival. He dispatched with him. But kim jongun also got rid of his unc quite early oin the second year of his regime. The uncle was accused o having too much power or trying to amass power. So kim jongun was very kind of shrewd and ruthless in how he got rid of anybody o cou pose a threat to him and his hold on power. Schifn and yet you right how he took power, unlike his father and his grandfather before him, at a young age. N kim jongs so young. And, therefore, he had to do more than survive. He had to gi as you put it, give his own people a sense of a bettth life. Anat in part led to economic changes and an opening up that we havent seen before, right . Very early on, in 2013, he said north rreans will neve have to tighten their belts again. , first of all, he tended to the Nuclear Program. Now that thats all done and he has credible nuclear threat, hes really turning all of his attention to the economy as a way to pve that lie is Getting Better under him. So he i tol rathe markets on a much greater base than ever before, and is a real kind of nascent entrepreneurialism in north korea where individual people are able to go out and trade and maney for themselves and to be more independent of the stte. That is changing, and its moving in that direction. And this has given people more freedom from the state d more ability to make their own living. Schifrin himself, talk about how secluded his childhood was. D one of your interesting source, talk about the japanese chef. So kim jongun, when he was growing up, didnt have anybody else to play with, so when this japanese sushi chef arrtived make schussy for the royal household, kim jongun seems to have kind of taken a shine to him as somebody interesting and eccentric and spent a lot of time with him. They flew kites it is. He went out fishing with him and he told me, when i ha met m in japan, he would catch fish from the boat, and kim jongun would come along and take the fishing pole off him and brag , i caught a fish i caught a fish. And take the crit for this. He was somebody who was used to being doted upon and havg his own way from a very early age. Schifrin fast forwarding to today, does the boy who wason doteand who claimed to catch fish he didnt actually catch, is he going to consider giving up his Nuclear Weapons in talks with the u. S. , and is he going to keep talking with s. E do you think . There is no way he is giving up his Nuclear Weapons. He has put so much energy int o thclear program because it gives him a lot of legimacy in this militaristic regime. Its a way for him plcate the hardliners. Often, something that is notgn reed about north korea, is that this Nuclear Program is a great source of national pridet amone ordinary people, even amongst people who defect and dont likeghe reime, theyre still proud that north korea has managed to develop this Nuclear Program that south korea and japan have not. It was in 2011 when he was taking over the leadership thati the arab was happening, and he saw what happened to Muammar Gadaffy in libyawho had given up his Nuclear Program in a deal with the u. S. Soy i cannot see a situation where he gives it up entirely. But i can see a situation where he gives uphi som, he makes some gestures. He may give up some harare, some of these missiles. Because i think he does want these diplomatic talks with the United States to continue beuse he wants sactions relief. He wants to groat economy, and he cant do that while the sanctie s arin place. Schifrin an insight into kim jonguns motithtions. Book is called the great successor. The author is anna fifield. Thank you very much. Thank you. Woodruff we continue our series now on the best summer entertainment. Tonight, jeffrey bro w gets a prevhats to come the biscreen, from the blockbusters, to movies not to miss. It is part of our arts and culture series, canvas. B wn as always, blockbuster series will dominate many theaters this summer. But there aralso a number of smaller films that may whet your appetite. T l us more, ann hornaday, the chief film critic for the washington post, is back with us. She joins us this evening from baltimore. And nice to see you again. So, start with some of the biggies. Avengers endme is out and its really big. What else do you see coming that youre interested in . Well, you know, this is the summer of the sequelprequel rebootremake. I counted more than a dozen movies that are based on something else, and something that were all familiar with, but two that really i ha very high hopes for are toy story 4 anything with a four at the end fills me with fear usually, but the people at pixar are so good with their stories. A great day in class and were going on a road trip. Road trip. Vacutation something really weird happened bone made a friend in class. Oea shes alr making friends. No, no, she literally made a new friend. Hey its okay. N comet. Thats it. Come on. E thu go. Come on. There. Et you out of you got this. Good, good. Everyone, i want to you meet. Forky. At that look how long his arms are i mean, they really make sure that script is solid before they oceed. So i do have cautiously high hopes for that one. And the lion king is a live action remake of the classicta animated disne. This is directed by jon favreau, who i think just did a spectacular job with jungle book, sort of in a similar mde. So, and this hasust an amazing voice cast, with beyonce and Donald Glover and many others, sohose are the two i have eye on. Brown how about a slightly smaller scale . I mean, one thats getting a lot of attention, of course, is rocketman, the elton john film. You know that one. What else . Yeah. Thats a lot of fun. One that i have kind of a crush on right now is a raunchcom called booksmart. Its a comingofage movie in the tradition of a fast times at ridgemont high or dazed and confused or super bad, but this features two young women, beanie feldstein and caitlin deaver, who are really charming as these two girls seeking a night of debauchery in modern day l. A. We havent done ag we havent broken any rules. Okay, weve broken a lot of rules one, we safake i. D. S. Fake college i. D. S so wege cat into their 24hour library. Name one person whose life was so much better because they broke a couple of rules. Micauseo. He broke an art its the directorial debut of the actress olivia wilde. I think she really makes a very assured, very graceful directing debut with this movie, suli wod encourage people to check this one out. It a lot of fun. Brown theres one called the kitchen, right . Im very intrigued by this this stars Tiffany Haddish and Melissa Mccarthy, as well as elisabeth moss. But in a drama. And this is set in the 1970s, in Hells Kitchen. Its based on a graphic vel, so its not based on a true story, but it sounds very reminiscent of the westies and the gangland wars and competitions thawere going on in Hells Kitchen in that era. Its such an evocative atmosphere and environment, that i and i cant wait to see what Melissa Mccarthy and tiffany tihaddish do in a more dra setting. Brown and then, if we go even smaller, to some of t independents, there were a few you were interested in that came out of sundance. Yes, there were two in particular that got a lot ofom buzzg out of park city in january. One was called the last black man in San Francisco, starring jimmy fales, directed by joe talbot, who got an award at sundance for this movie. Its about a man sort of navigating this rapidly gentrifying San Francisco thats being priced out of any kind of livability for normal people. Im the last one left. It reminds me of thematicallb a litt of blindspotting, a movithat i was a huge fan of last year, and again this got incredible positive buzz coming out of sundance. Im very much looking forward to that. Another one called the farewell with awkwafina, who a m lot of people remember fr scenestealing performance in crazy rich asians. This is sort of a serious comedy about a chinese family who leard that their grandmother is facing death, and want to give her a weddingo sort of send her off with without telling her that shes actually dying. And so, it kind of has, again, it reminds me a little bit of maybe the big sick in terms of the tone. So i have i have high hopes for this one too. Brown what about documentaries . It strikes me that theres so many good on out and they continue to come. Whats new, whats coming . One, maiden, which just made a sensation at the Toronto Film Festival last year. Its about the first allfemale team to sail in the whitbread yachting race, a really grueling long sailing race. And it just, it has ated audiences on the festival circuit. T and then ot i saw recently at the maryland Film Festival here in baltimore, again out of sundance. Its called cold case s aboutkjold, and i the death of the u. N. Chief dag hammarskjold in 1961, which for many years has been since suspected to have been a murder. Ruand this movie takes the crime genre into completely untold territory. Its very unsettline, very well and a really excellent, i think, excellent piece of nonfiction storytelling. Brown just as you briefly and, does summer matter anymore as a season . How do studios think about it . How doou as a critic think about it . What do we look for in the summer now . Well, i do think it matters, and its that season has been extended. But what fascinates me is that it has really become a documentary seon. I mean, last year, the summer saw these breakout hits like r, wont you be my neighbor, free solo, three identical strangers. And i guess the term of art for that is counterprogramming, right . So people dont really want to go to a spectacle or a blockbuster. Its a chance for these smaller movies that connect on a human level and become really big hits and punch far above their weht. So thats always what i look forward to. Brown all right. Ho anaday of the washington post, thanks very much. Thank you. Oo uff so many movies, so little time. And that is the newshour for tonight. Ijudy woodruff. Join us online, and again here tomorrow evening. For all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, and well see you soon. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by babbel. 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