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Raaner and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. S bib woodruff the tone and tensions grew sharper today on the democratic side of theda president ial contest. It happened as critical newri primaries loom in new york, pennsylvania and other northeastern states. Bernie sanders walked to the mike this morning in philadelphia, and picked up whered left off last night, on hillary clinton. Ia are you qualified to be president of the United Statesni when youre raising millions of dollars from wall street, an entity whos greed and recklessness helped destroy our economy . Woodruff during tv interviews yesterday, clinton never actually called sanders unqualified, but she did say this al well, i think he hasnt done his homework, and hed been talking for more than a year about doing things he hadntt really studied or understood. Woodruff that was a shot at sanders stumble in an interview on how hed break up big banks. Today, the vermont senator argued he had no choice but to respond in kind. If we are going to be attacked on my qualifications in this country if theyre going to question my qualifications, i think i have a right to question theirs. Woodruff but this morning, in new york city, clinton, dismissed sanders criticism, and shifted back to the republicans. S g icstmo look, i dont know why hes saying that, but i will take Bernie Sanders over donald trump or ted cruz anytime. So lets keep our eye on whats really at stake in this election. Republicans, too, descended on the empire state today. Dngrn re texas senator ted cruz was upstate, and focused on the g. O. P. Frontrunner during a stop outside schenectady. Y. Donald trump has been supporting liberal democratic politicians for 40 years. When it comes to religious liberty, when it comes to the Supreme Court, he said ted, you gotta learn to compromise. You gotta learn to cut deals with the democrats and go along to get along. Esbeem cle woodruff trump was off the trail today, as his Campaign Announced its beefing up its delegate hunt. But last night, the new york billionaire reached back to a cruz jibe in january that trump symbolizes the states liberal politics. Do you remember during the debate when he started lecturing me on new york values like were no good. And i started talking to him about the world trade center, the bravery the incredible bravery of everybody. Woodruff Ohio Governor john kasich, polling second to trump in new york, joined in today, y with a new ad that rips cruz. Theyre not iowa values and theyre not New Hampshire values. Lu everyone knows what new york values are. Ted cruz divides to get a vote. John kasich unites to get things done. Woodruff former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani also criticized cruz today, as he endorsed trump. Ifill in the days other news, russian president Vladimir Putin is denying hes tied to offshore accounts, as detailed in the Panama Papers leak. In st. Petersburg today, putin dismissed reports that a close friend channeled 2 billion to his supporters. He said its part of a u. S. Leds plot to discredit russia. translated more than anything our opponents are concerned with the unity and u consolidation of the russian nation, of the multinational t russian people. Because of that, attempts are made to destabilize thest situation from within, to make us more agreeable and to shape us the way they want. Ifill putin himself is not n directly named in any of the leaked documents. Woodruff in syria, Islamic State militants abducted more than 300 workers and contractors today. State tv reported it happened at a cement plant, about 28 miles from damascus. Ifill and in iraq, elite Government Forces entered the center of a key town held by isis. Theyve been fighting since last month to retake hit. It sits on a major isis supply route from syria. Woodruff irans president Hassan Rouhani delivered a jab to his countrys hardliners today. In a televised speech, he said his government favors, a policy of moderation. And, he said iran must engage with the world now, to take advantage of last Years Nuclear agreement. translated the opportunity the nuclear deal has created for us is not permanent and eternal. Opportunities pass like passing clouds. If, god forbid, a small group succeed at not letting us take advantage of this opportunity, the opportunity will not return. Woodruff rouhanis remarks are a challenge to irans supreme leader, ayatollah khamenei, and his hardline allies. Ifill prosecutors in belgium have issued a new appeal for help finding a fugitive from the brussels attacks. They released new Security Camera video today, showing the socalled man in the hat as he left the airport, walked away and finally, disappeared. Y, in all, 32 people died in the brussels attacks. The Islamic State claimed responsibility. Woodruff president obama went back today to where he once taught, to press his case for Supreme Court nominee merrick garland. H at the university of chicagos law school, he argued the u. S. Senate has to vote on garlands nomination, or risk sabotaging the system. We are going to see the kinds of sharp partisan polarization that have come to characterize our Electoral College seep into our judicial system. Ys and courts will just be an extension of our legislator. Woodruff republicans insist theyll wait for the next president to name a nominee. Am and the chair of the Senate Judiciary committee, chuck grassley, said today theyre committed to that stance. Te our side believes and our side know that what were doing is right. And when thats the case its not hard to withstand the outrage and the pressure theyve manufactured. Woodruff garland met withh more Democratic Senators today. Hes also met with a handful of republicans. Em ifill wall street had a tough day, as sluggish growth hurt bank stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 174 points to close belowto 17,542. The nasdaq fell 72 points, and the s p 500 slid 24. Woodruff and, a rare First Edition of William Shakespeares collected plays has turned up in scotland. The first folio was found at mount stuart, a vast estate on the scottish isle of bute. It was printed in 1623, and is one of only 234 known copies in the world. Britain is this year marking thm 400th anniversary of shakespeares death, in april 1616. Still to come on the newshour a crackdown on Companies Seeking tax havens overseas. Refugees Economic Impact on a city in upstate new york. The u. S. Role in yemens civilu. War, and much more. Ifill the Obama Administration took steps this week to rein in big businessek when it comes to taxes and mergers. First, the Treasury Department issued tough new rules that make it harder for one Company Merging with another, to lower its taxes by taking a foreign address. No the president spoke out against the socalled inversions, saying they lead to one of the most insidious tax loopholes. A day later the Drug Companies pfizer and allergan called off a 160 billion deal. Plus, the Obama Justice department is trying to block oil services giant, halliburtona from merging with its rival baker hughes. Other proposed mergers may alsor be in trouble. Jim tankersley writes about this for the washington post. Thanks for having me. Ifill so give me a sense of whether this is a conscious, strategic use by the administration on tax policy to crack down on business. Well, in this particular case, its absolutely the administration saying this is a practice in the corporate worldo that we dont like, and were going to use tax policy to stop it. Itop looks very tailored in particular to mergers like the pfizer one which, i mean, its very rare that you see a rule get announced on one day and the merger get called off the next but thats what theyve pulled off here. Ifill so one of h the things when we talk about this, though, for instance, the administration decided they wanted to make Financial Advisers more accountable to clients. C yes. Thatill is that part of same strategy, or is that different . I think what were seeing are two things. Tw over time, weve seen the president sort of shed his inhibitions about taking positions that might be opposed by the bus community. He doesnt seem to really careca too much anymore if hes being called antibusiness. So we saw awe sort of string of decisions this week that weve mentioned that are all in that vain. And the Business Community hasmu howled and he hasnt really let that bother him. Shorter term, what were seeing, though, is the president i think is thinking about his legacy, and he knows right now were in a time of, a very populist time, a very anticorporate time in the america in the campaign, and by personally getting out and announcing details of o the inversions rule, make a case for it, for example, this week, hes trying to cement that rule in thee publics mind so the next president doesnt change it or walk it back. Ac ifill it does seem like were in a different time when it comes to taking shots at big business, and that on both the republican and the democratic side of this 2016 campaign that seems to be more acceptable. Cc absolutely. Were used to it, i think, to a degree in democratic primaries for president , the Business Community tends to take a lot of flak, and then off times candidates tack towards a more probusiness approach. O thats not been true this time. Both hillary clinton, and Bernie Sanders, especially, hav have bn very populist. O they both talked about corporate behavior, the bad behavior theyr want to see changed. But the big change is the republican side. Donald trump, companies being unpatriotic and moving jobs overseas. Ifill he has talkedin about tax evasion for hedge fund managers. Yes. Ma its this moment of anger. Its a sense for a lot of voters on both sides of the aisle is, hey, Corporate America is lining its pockets but im not getting ahead. Whether the policies the candidates are talking about a would actually, you know, speak to that problem or not, they are definitely channeling this moment of the politics, and il think the president is kind of piggybacking on that a little bit. Ifill Bernie Sanders, whobe has probably gone farther than any of the candidates right nowi in the race to hammering away at this was scolded today by the president of g. E. For sayingfo they were examples of im paraphrasing here corporate greed. What is the push back coming from the corporate world. Wo the push back is, wait a second. We create a lot of jobs. Ob we do a lot of economic activity. The g. E. Oped which ran in my newspaper, basically said, look, we have a big plant in vermont. Wed love it if you visit, by the way. Youve never done that. And we create a lot of goodpaying jobs for people of the type you say you want to happen. Dont denigrate us because we play by the rules like everybody else to taxes. The response to that, that t Bernie Sanders and others say is these are companies that coa lot of things to try to avoid paying federal Corporate Income taxes, in particular,po or they move production overseas to find lower cost labor. L and that upset people who say, you should put america first. I ifill is the president or the Justin Department or thest Obama Administration puttingt their thumb on the political scale inon this . Le there are some who say, of course, theyre on their way out, so theyre destroying everything at it. I think with the Justin Department in particular, its hard tonkrt call this political plil. This would be when you talk to neutral observers of antitrust law, this is an example of this is a couple of very big players in an already consolidated market that would, you know, the Justin Department believes pushv up prices for consumers if theyt were allowed to get a bunch of market share together. T so thats something that democrats and republicans have done. Thats a power theyve exercised as president. Im not sure we can call this a political move by obama. O ifill is it balanced out by Early Administration moves to bail out the Auto Companies in detroit, to bail out wall street air quotes. The president certainly had his moments of working withs business, and he still does. Hes pushing the Transpacific Partnership trade deal right now hand in hand with the chamber and other groups of business lobbyists. So this is a president who in the beginning spent a lot of time trying to, you know, help the Business Community dig outmu from the rea recession. Then said a lot of things about them being fat cats or talking down wall street bonuses as pad. And then took a lot of flacka from them and reached the moment where he meets them on a few things, fights others. Ifill the wind is definitely blowing against themt at the moment but well see whaw happens next. Jim tankersley of thele washington post. Thup. Thanks for having me. Woodruff lets turn to a different story at the intersection of jobs, business and politics, this on theti question of settling and integrating refugees into american communities. Polls have shown concerns about doing so among a large percentage of voters. Economics correspondent paul solman has the story of one city in new york state that continues to offer a welcome mat, and seeo it as good business. Its part of his weekly series, making sense, which airs thursdays. Of reporter postindustrial utica, new york. Upstate. Downtrodden. And in the heart of downtown, where the United Methodist church used to be, a thriving mosque. In the world beyond utica, the tide of refugees rises; the fear of foreigners swells. Muslim terrorists, real and imagined, haunt us. Ted cruz calls for increased policing of muslimor neighborhoods. Focus on communities where radicalization is a risk. Reporter Donald TrumpsFirst Campaign ad went further. The politicians can pretendte its Something Else but donald trump calls it radical islamic terrorism. Thats why hes calling for ag temporary shutdown of muslims entering the United States untig we can figure out whats going on. Reporter but when we asked utica mayor Robert Palmieri if the city would be willing to resettle Syrian Refugees . I would say absolutely we would be. Because utica starts with u its as simple as that. Reporter theres the humanitarian aspect of course americas historic promise to extend a hand to huddled masses yearning to breathe free. But utica likes the economics. Theyre willing to work and they work extremely hard. Its the rebound for a greats city. Reporter Refugee Resettlement as an Economic Development tool, a rust beltel revival strategy utica has pioneered. After decades of decline, the city lost a third of itsth population when its factories closed, utica is growing again, back up to 62,000 people, thanks in part to its reputation as, the town that loves refugees, who now make up one out of every four residents. Thousands are muslims from bosnia, refugees of the war there in the 1990s. We left everything what we have at that time and start from zero again. Reporter sakib duracak, who trained in bosnia as a construction engineer, started a Small Business in utica rehabbing cheap, often crumbling, houses for refugees looking to build a new life. A huge opportunity, because at the time when we came in utica is relatively very dead and poor city. Reporter bosnians have visibly spruced up