Transcripts For KQED PBS NewsHour 20170501

Language. Brangham all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. Supported by the rockefeller foundation. Promoting the wellbeing of humanity around the world by building resilience and inclusive economies. More at rockefellerfoundation. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. And individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brangham in the art of the latest deal to come from capitol hill, a number of President Trumps Top Priorities were cast aside to get enough democratic votes on board. Lisa desjardins reports. Desjardins the massive trilliondollar plus spending deal keeps government funded through the fall and gives this congress its first bipartisan success. Hard work, they promise to positively and meaningfully impact the lives of the men and women we represent. And at the end of the day, this is an agreement that reflects our basic principles, something both democrats and republicans can support. Desjardins President Trump told Bloomberg News hes very happy with the bill. Whats in it . First, what was a Sticking Point security. In the end, the pentagon got a healthy boost of 20 billion. And immigration and Customs Enforcement will see an increase of eight percent, much of that for increased detention beds. The bill also funds ten new immigration judges. But it provides nothing for a President Trump priority the border wall. Despite that loss, Vice President mike pence, speaking on cbs called the deal a bipartisan win. Itll avert a Government Shutdown but more important than that theres going to be a significant increase in military spending. Our armed forces have been hollowed out in recent years by budget cuts. Desjardins outside of defense, and in contrast to President Trumps proposals, few agencies face significant cuts. Some, like the National Institutes of health will get a big lift 2 billion. Plus, there is increased funding to help puerto ricos financial crisis, to fund pell grants year round, expand a Mental Health office and to fight opioid addiction. Also in the bill 2 billion to extend, permanently, Health Benefits for a large group of coal miners and their families. House Speaker Paul Ryan said the bill makes america stronger and safer. But contrast that with republican jim jordan of ohio of the conservative freedom caucus. I think youre gonna see a lot of conservatives be against this plan this week. Why did we last fall do a short term spending bill if we werent going to fight for the things we told voters we were going to fight for . Desjardins white house Spokesman Sean Spicer acknowledged republicans needed democratic votes this is something that required 60 votes in the senate. We couldnt have our entire way on this, but were five months away from having a 2018 budget and i think the president s priorities will be reflected much more in that. Desjardins with the latest stopgap funding measure set to expire on friday, the legislation could see a vote in congress as early as tomorrow two very hot topicsing planned parenthood and sanctuary cities, as they are call, were ignored in this bill. Both keep their current funding for now but expect those fights to heat up again likely as other bills, william. Brangham the democrats are claiming this as a pretty big victory for them. The gop as we saw in your piece, a little bit less so. How do you see this shaking out. The emails came out first from the democrats overnight. And it took a little longer to hear from the republicans. But lets look at the broad priorities what they did here. Republicans made one big tradeoff. They wanted defense spending to go up, they wanted more Border Security spending but not the border wall. For that they trade off a slew of issues that were important to democrats, as we said, puerto rico. But there is a whole other rangee of them including for example the National Endowment for the arts which got a slight increase in this as well. Brangham in the past we have had shutdowns where we came very, very, very close to having a shutdown, this was not the case. The gop seemed to think that they were just going to get blamed if the government shut down and that is why they seemed to have backed off a bit sp. I think that is exctly right. There were republicans talking with us privately last week trying to get reporters in the framework of oh, democrats will be blamed if this shutdown happens am but the thought that they were bringing that up, william, you knew that they were worried they would catch the blame. Part of that because they were blamed the last time that happened because they shut down government over the Affordable Care act in trying to end that. But i think theres also an issue with republicans that they are concerned that some of the issues they feel strongest about do not yet have majority of approval like planned parenthood. Most americans want that to continue to be funded. So if they are willing to shut down government over something that is unpopular, they think that go blow up against them. So they didnt stake those stances in this bill. Brangham you touched on some of the very broad things that were being cut or being supported. But there are some very specific real people that are targeted here. Or benefit here. Tell us about those people. I get to use more graphics. Im excited. Lets talk about the winners here that i found point to the bill you might not hear about otherwise, top of the list are military personal receive a 2. 1 pay rise, they have been fighting for. That is not an enormous pay raise but it more than they had been getting, 1. 6 otherwise. The cities of new york and palm beach have a lot of residents in common, i think often, in winner an summer. One of those is President Trump. And he has been costing millions of dollars to those two cities to try an protect him and protect their residents as he comes. They will receive some 68 million to help pay for that added protection. They are the two largest recipients of that money. And amtrak, people who travel up and down the east coast in particular, amtrak is getting a big funding boost. Now not everyone did all that well. A couple of things that i noticed that did get some cuts, you might not hear about, the coast guard. The u. S. Coast guard will not get as big of a pay raise as the rest of the military and also getting a cut and the u. N. , listen to this, the u. N. Will see some 640 Million Dollars less from the United States in this bill that was passed than last year. That is a lot of money. Brangham indeed, it is. From the outside as an observer, this certainly seemed like a relatively civil process is. With not the usual sort of fighting and recriminations. Is it too much to read into this or do you think it actually could be a change in the tone on capitol hill . I dont think so, actually. I notice when senators and congressmen came back from easter recess there seemed to be less of a personal sense of animosity, that we had had up until that point. And that there had been more of a sense of the political. So i guess to para phrase the godfather, its not personal, its political. It it had been personal. I think thats good for civility, thats good for conversation. But we still have a very large political problem especially for republicans. They still dont have all the votes coalescing to get across the bills that they want. Brangham speaking of those quickly, the healthcare bill what is the likelihood we will see something this week . I think you will talk to amy and tam coming up. I would like to hear what they think. But i think unlakely for now. They do not have the votes. We look ahead, a lot of these are kicked down the can. The white house has been saying tonight they will bring the border wall back up again later this summer. So i think were going to be regurgitating all of these issues again. Republicans will have more and more chances to get their votes. Well see if they do. Brangham news hours lisa desjardins, thank you very much. Brangham in the days other news, thousands of demonstrators across the country took to the streets in massive may day events, mostly protesting President Trumps policies. May 1st is International Workers day, and has become a rallying point for immigration advocates and labor unions. Strikes and marches were organized in more than 200 cities. One protest in new york city denounced the president s views on immigration. There is fear and anxiety. But what gives me hope and gives me resilience moving forward is that the community is resisting. This is not the way we should operate in the United States and we got to stop. And we are going to push back. And thats why i am excited today and thats why were here marching and being loud and visible. Brangham may day demonstrations also took place around the world. In france, protests grew violent when activists interrupted a Peaceful Union march in paris by throwing molotov cocktails at officers. Police responded with tear gas and batons. Parts of the south and midwest braced for more Severe Weather today. This comes on the heels of a line of powerful Weekend Storms that killed at least 16 people. That weather system spawned tornadoes and heavy flooding, and inflicted widespread damage. Deaths were reported across five states texas, missouri, arkansas, mississippi, and tennessee. North korea said it is ramping up its Nuclear Arsenal in the face of growing u. S. And international pressure. This comes two days after north korea conducted another Ballistic Missile test, which failed. State television announced the new threat today, and hinted at more tests to come. translated now that the u. S. Is kicking up racket overall for sanctions and pressure against us, we will speed up at the maximum pace to bolster our nuclear deterrence. It will be taken in consecutive and successive ways, at any moment and any place decided by our supreme leadership. Brangham President Trump told Bloomberg News hes open to meeting with north Korean Leader kim jongun, if the circumstances were right. He said if it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, i would absolutely, i would be honored to do it. Meanwhile, President Trumps re Election Campaign unveiled new ads today, hailing accomplishments of his first 100 days. The 1. 5 million tv and Online Ad Campaign touts achievements like the confirmation of Supreme Court justice neil gorsuch, tax cuts, and the approval of the keystone xl pipeline. It doesnt mention the failed attempt to repeal obamacare, or the president s controversial travel ban. Fox news copresident bill shine has resigned amid network turmoil. Shine was tapped as copresident after c. E. O. Roger ailes was ousted last summer, following a Sexual Harassment scandal. Shine was named in at least four lawsuits or allegations involving alleged Sexual Harassment or racial discrimination. His departure comes just two weeks after anchor bill oreilly left the network. The Trump Administration today rolled back nutrition standards for federally funded School Lunches put in place under president obama. That means schools can now delay implementing stricter requirements on the amount of sodium and whole grains in the food they serve. Agriculture secretary sonny perdue signed the order at a school in virginia, after eating lunch with Elementary School students. The Supreme Court ruled today that cities can sue banks for discrimination under the fair housing act. But they must prove a direct connection between predatory lending and the citys loss of revenue. The case involved a lawsuit filed by miami against bnk of america and wells fargo, which accused them of targeting minority borrowers with risky, more expensive loans. And, stocks were mixed on wall street today. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 27 points to close at 20,913. The nasdaq rose 44 points, and the s p 500 added four points. Still to come on the newshour trumps Controversial White House invitation to the philippines strongman president. Inside the civil war ravaging the worlds newest country. From elementary to high school an investigation into thousands of Sexual Assaults, and much more. Brangham now, the president s weekend phone call with the president of the philippines and the uproar that has ensued. Theres a lot that the president talks to these leaders in private about. Sometimes that kind of diplomacy privately talking about them and building a relationship can achieve results. Brangham the white house defended what it said was a very friendly phone call. On the other end of that call the president of the philippines, rodriguo duterte, a man whos presided over a bloody antidrug crackdown thats killed thousands of people in his country. Also during saturdays conversation was an apparent surprise invitation from President Trump to duterte to visit him in person at the white house. That prompted an outcry from human rights advocates, including the United Nations human rights commissioner. My hope is that the president of the United States will convey this deep sense of alarm about the apparent shirking of the obligations under law. Brangham the scale of the killing in the philippines is enormous. Human rights watch found that over 7,000 people were killed in dutertes First Six Months in office. Duterte has been defiant, and was roundly condemned for comments like this last fall hitler massacred three million jews. Now there is 3 million, what is it, three million drug addicts, there are. Id be happy to slaughter them. Brangham white house officials said the overture part of a wider effort to rally asian leaders against north korea and its missile program. Speaking to a summit of south asian nations just before the phone call with President Trump, duterte appealed to the u. S. To show restraint. I will say ust, mr. President , please see to it that there is no war, because my region will suffer immensely. Brangham poor relations with the Obama White House led duterte to threaten a pivot to warmer relations with china the philippines and china continue to dispute territory in the south china sea, but today, duterte welcomed a Chinese Naval fleet to his countrys shores. As for taking up President Trumps invitation to the white house, duterte played coy, saying he was tied up with a full schedule. For more on President Trumps invitation to president duterte, as well as his relationships with other authoritarian leaders, we turn to david kramer. He served as assistant secretary of state for human rights during the george w. Bush administration, and is now with the Mccain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State university. Welcome. Thanks. Your first reaction to invitation to president duterte. I think it one thing for the president to have a phone call with president duterte, it needs to be done given the tensions in asia, the problems in north korea, the problems with china. It it is a different matter to embrace duterte and invite him to washington and the white house. I think thats going much too far given the gross humanrights abuses that are occurring in the philippines, with estimates of some 7,000 People Killed since duterte became president if june, a number of victims of extra judicial killings. Brangham we touched a little bit of this in the setup. How much do you hold duterte responsible for those killings . He certainly is not discouraging them, in fact, he is is encouraging them. He is taking credit for some killings including when he was mayor before becoming president. And he is creating an environment in which this kind of action is being encouraged, not just condoned. So i think duterte does deserve a lot of responsibility. It is popular in certain segments, in part because a lot of the people being killed come from poor, impoverished areas and they dont have strong advocates speaking out for them. But there is this concern it could spin out of control and create all sorts of problems. It it already has. 7,000, that is an extraordinary number in such a short period of time. Brangham apparently President Trump did not clear this with the state department before issuing thoo this in invitation, is that unusual. The president of the United States, can basically do what he wants when it comes to invitations to the white housement but it it is a little unusual that this kind of invitation would not have been prepared ahead of time as part of his talking points. The reports indicate it came as a surprise not only to the state department but to some people on the National Security council and the white house as well. Brangham do you think of this invitation as an endorsement . You described this as an open arms embrace of sorts. Is the president endorsing this behavior by bringing this man, seemingly with open arms . In the statement there didnt appear to be any reference to Human Rights Concerns in the philippines. And by inviting a leader to the white house or to the United States to visit with his american counterpart, it does send a signal that president is not attaching much importance to Human Rights Concerns. Weve seen the embrace of president sisi from egypt, the phone call to president erdo want of turkey weve seen the admiration voiced by candidate trump and President Trump to vladimir putin. So there does seem to be this affinity for strong men around the world, without an accompanying expression of concern about the humanrights abuses that are occurring in these countries. Brangham you were in the state department. You know that president s often have to deal with unsavory characters. And sometimes there is a strategic goal in putting your arm around someone who you may personally feel is a reprehensible human being. Couldnt there be a strategic interest . I mean couldnt this really just be about north korea . Well, for sure. Those of us in the Human Rights Community have never argued that human rights should drown out other interests the United States have. We have energy, economic interests with countries, security interests but we also have democracy, human rights interests with countries. And our argument is that that last set of interests should not be shortchanged in the pursuit of these other interests. Lets sea a President Trump did speak out and show condemned what duterte has been doing or been involved in. Isnt there a risk given dutertes personality that we could jeopardize the philippines as an ally who are a very crucial ally to us. Isnt there a risk that he could sully that relationship. There is a risk. And we saw this last year when president obama indicated he was going to raise human rights issues if he met with du tert ite and duterte responded with an epithet toward the president. And basically said he was going to turn to china and russia. I think thats a little more bluff, even though today there were Chinese Naval vessels in a port in the philippines that duterte himself visited. But at the end of the day the philippinesamerican relationship is longstanding. We have very strong ties between our peoples, our countries and our governments. And i think its important to use those ties as leverage to insist and press for better treatment of the people of the philippines. Brangham last quick question, President Trump today also said he would meet with the north Korean Leader. How does that sit with you . I would hope that that would be a last resort after Everything Else is tried at lower levels. Granting an audience to the worst abuser of human rights, the north Korean Leader, president kim, is something i hope we dont see any time soon. The problem is, obviously, not just nuclear concerns, nuclear security, but also the treatment of north Korean People by its leader. That is a huge problem. And i hope that would also not get swept under the rug. Brangham all right, david kramer of the Mccain Institute, thank you very much. Thank you. Brangham the worlds youngest country is tearing itself apart. South sudan was founded in 2011, but two years later, forces allied to the president and Vice President began fighting each other. That civil war has led to the near collapse of the country. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center on crisis reporting, special correspondent Jane Ferguson begins a series of three reports. Tonight is a look at this brutal war and its tribal roots. And a warning some images and stories in this report are disturbing. Reporter this was once a busy market town. Villagers from the countryside would come to leer to trade goods and catch up on news. Now there is noone. All the people have fled into the bush, hiding from violent raids by government soldiers. We found some of them a few miles away, in rebelheld land. They had crept out of hiding to get help from aid agencies. Without it they will starve. Their stories of what they have endured are horrifying. translated the government is killing men, women and children and sometimes they even cook the dead bodies and force us to eat them. My fiveyearold daughter was slaughtered and they made me eat her body. Reporter tales of such brutality are common in south sudans civil war. A fallout between president salva kiir and his Vice President riak machar began in 2013, tearing the country along tribal lines. Kiir is from the dinka tribe, machar from the rival nuer tribe. Fighting between the two sides soon involved other subtribes. Battles broke out across the country. Murderous raids on civilian communities are a favored tactic according to Jonathan Pednault of human rights watch. Both opposition and government fighters see specific ethnic groups as being supportive of either of their opponents and in order to decrease the military capacities of their opponents they decide to target civilians because without civilians those fighters wont have a place to stay, receive food, receive popular support. So the aim by targeting civilians is meant to cut the grass under the feet of those fighters. Reporter this is what ethnic cleansing looks like. Entire populations of specific tribes are being forced out of areas in south sudan. Malakal town was a mixture of tribes. Government and Opposition Forces have been fighting over it throughout the war, both committing atrocities. Each time the town changed hands, civilians of a specific tribe were targeted. Its now controlled by dinka government soldiers. Entire neighborhoods, where the neur and other tribes at risk used to live, lay silent and empty, the grass reclaiming streets that used to be home for so many. We are not allowed to get out and film in the town center. Theres lots of police and army around but what there arent are civilians who live here. This was once south sudans second biggest city and the streets and neighborhoods are completely abandoned now. Civilians are fleeing towns and cities across south sudan because of repeated attacks and theyre just turning into ghost towns. They ran to this camp just outside the town. It is a dusty hell of a miserable place, where sewage runs between shacks and desperately poor survivors of the violence try to go on living. Elizabeth is one of them. A single mother of six, she sells cups of tea in the camp to earn some money. But the memory of what happened in the town is always with her. translated i saw many People Killed, including my brother. They called my brother to come out of the house and shot him in front of me. Reporter the only thing standing between her and the government soldiers are u. N. Peacekeeping soldiers. They guard this camp and others like it across south sudan, trying to stop more massacres. The u. N. Said in a Statement South Sudan is on the brink of allout genocide similar to what happened in rwanda in 1994. And yet its peacekeepers seem unwilling or unable to stop it. Last year government soldiers forced their way into the camp and over several days murdered more than 25 people and injured and raped many others. Elizabeth shows us where they came in. She remains bitter that the u. N. Soldiers didnt stop them. translated they did nothing. When they saw the soldiers cut the fence and come into the camp they just opened the gate to allow the people to escape. Reporter there are over 13,000 u. N. Peacekeeping soldiers in south sudan. More than 200,000 civilians have fled to their bases across the country when targeted by the violence, forcing the u. N. To create guarded camps in order to protect the people. Despite having authority to use force if needed to stop attacks against civilians, the peacekeepers have come under criticism for not doing so when attacks have happened in front of them. Peacekeeping. Its really you keep peace. So normally the people who come in Peace Keeping, their troops and so on, are really prepared in the spirit of Peace Keeping not really entering into direct fight. Reporter despite this he says the u. N. Have now pushed their forces to improve they have been instructed that if you see Something Like that you make a warning shot. If people have actually not responded you can use your firearm on that. Reporter south sudan is the worlds youngest nation, and the International Community played a major part in its creation. After decades of devastating civil war with the north, south sudan finally won its independence with a referendum in 2011. American church groups, and politicians, had campaigned for the peaceful birth of the nation for years. But it was south sudanese fighters, Community Leaders and advocates who sacrificed so much to see this country find its freedom. One of them was alfred taban. A veteran journalist and newspaper editor, he was jailed and tortured repeatedly for years in the Northern Capital of khartoum for calling for independence. Well i knew we were going to succeed. I knew we had not we had not done anything bad. We were struggling for our rights. As human beings. And thats what let me to survive. I knew we will succeed. Reporter after sacrificing so much for his country, its rapid descent into civil war has broken his heart. The killing of one another started. The nuers being killed. The dinkas being killed. And other tribes. Then i knew things had really gone bad. Then i knew that partly we or they themselves, they were not really struggling for the people. But they were struggling for themselves to lead. Or to rule. I became very, very disappointed. Reporter in frustration, he wrote a column in the newspaper he runs, called for the leaders of both sides in this war to step down. Shortly after, the government he sacrificed his freedom for jailed him for nearly two weeks. They were not struggling for their people. They were struggling for themselves. And this is why really the struggle of the people of south sudan has been hijacked. From the very beginning. It has become a struggle for position and wealth. Not a struggle for the betterment of the lives of the people of south sudan. Reporter yet neither side in this war is backing down. It is spiraling into a frenzy of ethnicdriven murder and revenge. The dream of a peaceful south sudan is dying with its people. For the pbs newshour, im Jane Ferguson in juba, south sudan. Brangham for the record, the south sudanese information minister canceled an interview with Jane Ferguson, to respond to charges against the government. Tomorrow, jane reports on the famine that the war has caused. Brangham stay with us, coming up on the newshour a weekend chockfull of politics kicks off a busy week on capitol hill. Our politics monday duo breaks it all down. And a behindthescenes look at one of the worlds Fastest Growing social Media Networks. But first, a new investigative report finds a disturbing pattern. Sexual abuse of students by other students happens more frequently in schools than reported. And the consequences for the offenders vary considerably. Jeffrey brown has the story. Brown a hidden horror educators have long been warned not to ignore. Thats the description of sexual abuse in schools by the associated press, which published its story today. A. P. Reporters found that students were seven times more likely than adults to sexually assault another student. During a four year period, the a. P. Tallied at least 17,000 cases around the country. These included many cases that were treated as bullying or hazing instead. Emily schmall is a member of the a. P. Team. She joins me now from dallas. Thanking for joining us. One key point youre making is that this happens more often than we know, right . Is it possible to say how pervasive it is . Yes, its absolutely true. It happens far more often, i think, than people realize. To say exactly how pervasive it is, its difficult though. Because just like rape and Sexual Assault perpetrated in other places, rape and Sexual Assault in schools is definitely underreported. So while we have been able to tally about 17,000 incidents over the four years, experts have told us its just the tip of the ice bherg. Lets establish what we are talking about. Really, were going beyond bullying, beyond hazing. Tell us what you are looking at exactly. Yes. So we were very, very deliberate in what we counted. And we are looking at Sexual Assault as defined by the Justice Department which means forced intercourse ored so omee sodomy. Forced oral sex, the most severe forms of Sexual Assault. We deliberately did not include categories like Sexual Harassment or bullying, even though as you notedded, sometimes sex assaults are reported as these things. So if you look at the rules governing schools, i gather that it it really varies from state to state in term its of how much this is tracked and what kind of actions are taken. Yes, and even sometimes within School Districts. Theres no federal requirement that says schools have to track student on student sex assault. Even though for a long time schools have been tracking things like free and reduced lunch, guns, drugs on school property, this is just something that they are not obligated to track. So various states do collect some sort of information but its hes inconsistent, state to state. And a lot of times School Districts sort of have the discretion over how they report these things. Therefore in a case, there were plenty of cases we found where theyve lead to a criminal charge but the act it itself was categorized and reported to the state as bullying or as Sexual Harassment or as a lesser form of sex offense. You referred to this a little bit earlier, emily. Just in term its of why these cases float so much under the radar, why we know so little. Spell that out a little bit. Yeah, so the experts we spoke to said there hes just a real reluctance on the part of not only School Administrators but parents as well, to acknowledge this for what it is. They have a hard time recognizing that kids at such a young age can be perpetrators or be victimized in this way. So thats part of it. The other part is that a lot of schools have said that they arent really aware of what they are supposed to do when an allegation of Sexual Assault between students surfaces. And then lastly, some experts have actually said that schools are just looking after their public image more than they are the victim. An of course in the wider public its just something hard for all of us to want to even discuss, i assume. I think so. I mean i think theres still really a stigma about Sexual Violence not only in the context of k12 schools but in our country at large. So its even more intense at the Younger School level. Well, so what can or should be done . What for parents for educators, what are the experts telling you . The experts are saying that, you know, there is a real reluctance among not only School Administrators but parents as well to acknowledge, even, that this is happening. And that kids of such a young age are perpetrating these kinds of offenses. So the experts say that it needs to be recognized for what it is. Theres a lot of people working in the space of how we solve this, how we empower other kids to report it, it is actually something that were going to be taking on later on in the series. Our stories are running every monday in may. All right, Emily Schmall of the ap, thank you very much. Thank you. Brangham turning back now to the compromise reached in congress to avoid a Government Shutdown, the effort to pass a healthcare replacement and the president s contentious relationship with the press. Its time for politics monday, with tamara keith of npr and amy walter of the cook political report. Welcome to you both. Nice to be here. Brangham amy, i would like to start with you. So government didnt get shut down, thats a good thing, right . What happened . Yeah, great, they kept government functioning. And the most basic thing congress can do is keep the lights on. So yes, this is a success but it also is not the hardest thing that they need to do. We have big, difficult pieces of legislation that weve been hearing about, obviously one of those pieces of legislation, health care has already been pulled. Theres talk it it may be reintroduced this week or later on. But the fact that they were able to get one basic piece of legislating done which by the way is supposed to be the easiest, i dont think means that were going to suddenly he see the flood gates open and now everything is going to everybody is going to Work Together and get the big stuff done. Brangham do you think that is right snr have we just lowered the bar so low that when they do basic things like kids cross the sidewalk it to school, that is a huge victory. Yeah, and if you liked this movie, just wait. The sequel comes in december. Because this was just basically finishing out of the the year, the year endses in september and what the Trump Administration is saying is you know we didnt try that hard to get what we wanted this time around because the were ses was under way. It it was a bipartisan effort. But were going to really fight for what we want next time around. So it becomes potentially a bigger battle in september, where you have a president who needs to prove that he can get some of the things that he wants and democrats arent going to be any more willing to roll over than they were this time around. It is a fascinating thing. Basically democrats and republicans in congress have been fighting over how to fund the government and not very successfully fighting about it. For years and years and years. And then you just, you know, were on like the 8th or 9th sequel, like the fast the furious. Without any of the cool. Brangham no car crashes, no vin deesel. Is this just a case where the gop was scared they were going to get the blame . Yeah, if you control the government, you get all the blame. And you get the credit. The bottomline is we have seen now this these past 100 days, that despite the fact that republicans control all three levers of government, getting stuff done isnt as easy as they thought it it was. The president himself has said boy, this is a little bit harder doing this governing thing that i thought. And he is rightly pointing to the fact that republicans have never had to govern before. They have been most of them, have been in the minority. Theyve never been with a republican president. Theyve never had control of government. So this is a wrap new experience for them. All the old fights that, by the way, to tams point, have been drewing for years and years and years, this isnt Donald Trumps fault, the divisions have been there i would argue going back to the Bush Administration on a lot of these issues. They didnt just get cleared away because there is a new president. Brangham on health care, tam, rumblings that there might be a piece of legislation . Are they going to be able to solve these divisions that the gop discovered last time. These rumblings have been rumbling basically every week since the healthcare bill in the house failed to get a vote. They pulled it it from the floor without a vote because it was going to fail. So these rumblings happen every single week. They are happening again. But until we see house leaders put a bill on the floor, the votes arent there. When they have the votes, they will put it up for a vote. But in the mean time we will continue to talk about it. Today in a bloomberg interview the president said i want this to be good for sick peel. Its not in its final form right now it will be every bit as good on preexisting conditions as obamacare. What he is describing is not the thing that they are potentially voting on right now because advocates from various nonpartisan groups will say that it it isnt as good on preexisting conditions. So does that mean that this is reopened . I guess well find out. And thats a very difficult place if you are a republican right now. Your choice is we dont get anything done and then the basis , you have been telling republicans, the whole country, vote for us, we going to repeal obamacare. Brangham for seven years. Done do it, thats a problem. Or do you pass something that is not particularly popular where you lose the support of the moderate wing of your party, the folks who are in the most vulnerable districts, most likely to lose in a mid term election. They are voting no because they see it as being unpopular, whether on preexisting conditions or others. That is a very uncomfortable spot to be. Dont pass anything, people are angry with you. Pass something that even a lot of your supporters dont like, and then you have to defend it it coming up in the mid term election. This is a very, very, you know, its like being in a vice, not comfortable. Brangham lets talk about this weekend. Lets just say, if i had been rip van winkel and i woke up sunday morning and looked at the newspaper and saw President Trump had had that rally and seen clips from that rally, i would think we were still in the middle of a campaign. It it was absolutely a campaign rally, it was put on by his campaign it included some of the greatest hits from his Campaign Including the snake poem song thing that was hugely popular among his supporters. It is a cautionary pale about tale about immigrants. Brangham there is about, trump is saying if you let the snake into your house and that snake bites you, who is to blame. You are to blame. Exactly. And its been something, it is the kind of thing where he would say i might talk about the snake at his rallies and people would go wah and this that is exactly what happened at this rally. He also did the cnn is tenter, the failing new york times, the whole thing. A lot of bashing of the media, which is kind of fascinating because it comes in a week where he has done so many interviews, with basically every news outlet in america. If the media is the Opposition Party or whatever he wants to call it it, why does he keep talking to us . Brangham right. And his campaign, by the way, on top of all of this, not only did he have a Campaign Style rally as a president , but his campaign is literally running ads right now that look like. Brangham how unusual is that. Its not that unusual for a president out of the time when he is running for president , trying to sew some good feelings and definitely he needs to boost his approval rating. But it is unusual that the campaign itself is already spending money trying to talk about a president who is a hundred days into his presidency. Brangham right. The other thing you noticed was it wasnt just the media, of course. They had their own special event where they were defending themselves against the tax r 1 ose 0 the correspondent dinner. Right, which felted like we were back in 2016. And then there were rallies around the country, here in washington washington d. C. , on Climate Change where you had the so called resistance shouting about how much they dislike the president and want to see him go. So it feels like we are never going to break out of this. Brangham tell me why he wanted to get out of town. Amy walter, tamara keith, thank you very much. Urs youre well konl. Konl. Welcome. Brangham next, the rapid rise of one of the worlds biggest social Media Networks instagram. Its building up steam. 700 Million People now use it each month, and it just took four months to pick up its latest 100 million accounts. But along the way, the company has faced concerns over how it can be used. And even some criticism for the way it essentially copied ideas from its rival, snapchat. Judy woodruff recently got an inside look during her trip to Silicon Valley. One, two, three. Woodruff one of the first things that greets you inside instagram is, no surprise, a place to take pictures. The free photosharing mobile app was born in 2010 with its first post a foot in a flip flop alongside a stray dog. Turns out it was taken in mexico by cofounder, kevin systrom. Weve got design teams, weve got partnership teams, weve got a Community Team and engineers. Woodruff systrom showed us around instagrams new offices in menlo park, california, designed to accommodate an ever expanding staff. You moved here six months ago, right . Yeah, six months ago we moved from the original campus and we designed this entire experience inside here to be cleaner, and a little bit more instagrammy, so weve got the hip wood walls, the polished concrete floors, its very start uppy but its in an instagram way. Woodruff a startup no longer, instagram was acquired by facebook in 2012 for a cool billion dollars. Then, the company had 13 employees. Now, it has more than 600. Its user base is growing rapidly too, boasting 700 million monthly active users and counting; 80 of them outside the United States. How do you explain the phenomenal, rapid growth of this . On instagram, very early on, you would post an image, and anyone anywhere in the world could see that image, and understand what you were trying to say without speaking your language. So, we like to say that instagram was one of the first Truly International networks in the world. And i think thats whats allowed it to scale to the hundreds of millions of people that use it every day today. Woodruff it still is a pretty extraordinary growth rate, isnt it . Yeah. I mean, even with that rational explanation, its hard for people to understand how it happened. Yeah. You know, back in the day, if you started a company, youd have to rent a warehouse, youd have to hire a bunch of employees. But, you know, with very, very few people sitting here in this building today, were able to scale it to hundreds of millions of people around the world, because of the innovations that we are built up upon. And, thats the cool thing about running a company today, is how many people you can touch how quickly. Woodruff for a Company Founded on images, the walls here are adorned with some of the best culled from instagram users around the world. Well, not to invoke the common saying, but a picture is worth a thousand words. And, thats kind of like the, the phrase that this company is built on. Its just something thats unlike traditional texts and traditional media. And i think it allows you to see a different side of people, maybe a more raw and human emotional side of people. Woodruff celebrities have embraced the app. Singer selena gomez has the most followers 117 million. And beyonce has the distinction of having the most liked image in the history of instagram 10. 9 million and climbing for this photo that announced shes pregnant with twins. For teens, the quest for more and more likes and followers, plus the pressure for perfection as portrayed by some mega popular users has been cause for parental concern. Body image and bullying are also problems in the community and instagram is grappling with how to foster a safe community, free from abusive behavior. So, when you started instagram seven years ago, in 2010, did you have any idea you were going to be spending time, a lot of time, now, thinking about protecting the people that use it . No, i would say, every day at instagram is not only the most complicated day of my career, but also the most interesting. Woodruff how do you, how do you prepare yourself for this kind of responsibility . I mean, what are you, 32 years old . 33, yeah. Woodruff 33. Yeah. Woodruff all of 33. Thats a lot of responsibility, isnt it . Yeah. There are a lot of parents here at instagram, who think deeply about a world in which their children are going to grow up online, and what kind of product they want to create, and what kind of legacy they want to leave. I dont yet have kids, but in a world where i do have kids, i want to make sure that the world they grow up in is one that is safe online, and that instagram led the way to create that world. Woodruff but with 95 million uploads a day, monitoring is a tall order. New guidelines blur out sensitive material before the user even sees it, with a screen labeled sensitive content. Theres also a reporting function for content about self harm or suicide. Systrom says the companys work is far from over. This is a constant process. This is about making sure that we continue to evolve the way we attack the problem. This isnt about getting to an eventual future where it is absolutely gone. That being said, it doesnt mean that we cant make Real Progress on it, and more importantly, show the leadership that i think our company can and should, so that other Tech Companies do as well. Woodruff the pressure in Silicon Valley to lead, innovate and stay relevant is intense and instagram has come under criticism for its outright copying of rival snapchats video stories feature, already hugely successful. The way things work in Silicon Valley is that companies will think up ideas and if theyre good, theyll stick. And often they spread to other companies. If we can learn from other companies that do it really well, were gonna continue to do that. Woodruff advertising on the app is also growing and reaping rewards. There are one million active advertisers, a 400 increase from last year. How have you changed your advertising philosophy over time . There were two major changes that i think to our advertising philosophy over time. First to have advertising at all. Woodruff period. That was a big one. But we always knew we were going to be a business and thats how we were going to be a business and thats advertising. The second shift was going from a world where we had a small number of advertisers doing very refined ads to now where we have many, many millions of advertisers on facebook able to buy instagram ads and what that woodruff we ended where we began, in front of instagrams wall of photo ops where systrom shares credit for how far the company has come. It was the right time, the right idea, and it was the right team. You need a lot of things to go well to get to this point so i feel very lucky. Brangham the Business Practices and decisions of instagram and, much more broadly, at facebook are increasingly under scrutiny. Well have a closer look at that later this week. Brangham now to our newshour shares, something that caught our eye that may be of interest to you, too. Herbert hoover may be best remembered as a rigid republican whose presidency saw the start of the great depression. But newly discovered reels of film are revealing a softer, more human side of the man and his family. The newshours Julia Griffin explains. Reporter Herbert Clark hoover engineer, humanitarian, and 31st president of the United States. Forever imprinted in our history books in depressionera black and white or maybe not. Seven recentlyunveiled home movies now place his white house in a colorful new light. You get used to seeing the twenties and thirties in black and white only, so, to see them in color is kind of like going through a time machine. Reporter lynn smith is the audiovisual archivist at Herbert Hoover president ial librarymuseum. In 2014, she discovered the films werent black and white as previously thought, but, rather, kodacolor a shortlived product that requires a special projection lens to reveal colored hues. Its nice to have little color films, but white house color films, theres only one first and i think we may have it. Reporter the camera belonged to hoovers wife, lou, an early home movie technophile. Now restored, they show unguarded moments of first family life. A 1929 fishing trip, in which then president elect hoover catches a barracuda. Or a game of fetch on the white house lawn between first lady lou and first dogs weegie and pat. One even features alonzo fields, who served 20 years as the chief white house butler. Here he stands in the 1930 rose garden. The longest clip offers a rare glimpse of the president s favorite physical activity a morning match of catch the press dubbed hoover ball. it was a sixpound leather ball that was filled with stuffing and theyd have cabinet members, some members of the Supreme Court out every morning, six days a week and there would be a toss and catch thin and youd score it similar to volleyball. Reporter the videos show the hoover familys lighter side. He wasnt just the dour stonefaced man that was president during the depression. He did have a heart and soul. Reporter smith is busy scouring the museums archives for more shots like this. For the pbs newshour, im Julia Griffin. 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