Transcripts For KQED PBS NewsHour 20240621

Behind the blockbuster movies sweeping the summer. And its friday, mark shields and david brooks are here, to analyze a full week of news. Those are some of the stories were covering 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. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This prgram was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff hackers linked to china may have accessed sensitive background infmation of intelligence and military personnel. The Associated Press reported today officials believe it involved security clearance forms with possible information about mental illness, drug and alcohol use, past arrests or bankruptcies. Its the second cybersecurity breach of federal records in the past week. The office of Personnel Management was the target of the hack and has yet to notify people whose data was breached. Law enforcement officers in new york refocused their search for two escaped convicts after reports two men were seen jumping a stone wall. The manhunt stretched into a seventh day, as there was confirmation a female prison employee gave the inmates contraband but not the power tools they used to break out. District attorney andrew wylie new York State Police arrested George Mitchell for providing assistance to help the two inmates escape. Earlier in the day, District Attorney andrew wiley said mitchell had a relationship with one of the men. There wasnt enough information to either block her out of the facility, have some sort of formal charges within the facility filed against her. But action was taken i think to separate the two of them for a period of time. Mitchell and her husband both worked at the correctional facility. Water officials in california ordered the largest cuts on record for farmers today, to try and cope with a now four year long drought. The order affects thousands of farmers, some of whom hold the strongest and oldest legal water rights in the state. Todays decision includes californias sacramento, san joaquin and delta watersheds. Many of the farmers affected argue the state has no authority to mandate the cuts. The former head of the International Monetary fund, dominque strausskahn, was cleared of pimping charges today. He was seen leaving for a court in lille, france, but made no appearance after the verdict. The trial centered on sex parties with prostitutes during the global fincial crisis. Strausskahn said he didnt know the women were prostitutes and needed the, quote, recreational sessions to relieve stress. In germany, prosecutors closed their investigation into the alleged tapping of chancellor Angela Merkels cell phone by the u. S. National security agency. The probe was opened last year after n. S. A. Leaker Edward Snowden said he had documents proving her phone was bugged. Prosecutors said they were unable to find evidence that would std up in court. Greek stocks tumbled today on news that the countrys debt talks with european creditors in brussels are unraveling. With one week to go before the negotiation deadline, European Union officials held their first meetings on a plan b if athens should default on its loans. But in berlin, german chancellor merkel urged all parties to keep on negotiating. translated and on greece i would like to say, and have repeated this over the last few days where theres a will theres a way, so its important that we keep speaking with each other woodruff after european markets closed, greek officials indicated they would present new proposals over the weekend. Uncertainty over the greedebt talks sent ripples through the u. S. Stock market. On wall street today the Dow Jones Industrial average lost 140 points to close at 17900. The nasdaq fell 31 points. Thsandp500 dropped 15. For the week, the dow gained threetenths of a percent. The nasdaq rose a tenth of a percent. And the sandp lost three tenths of a percent. And the Republican Party of iowa has dropped its famed straw poll. It had been a staple pre electionyear event for g. O. P. President ial candidates since 1979, but there was waning interest among 2016 hopefuls. The party voted unanimously to cancel the event in a Conference Call today. It had been scheduled for august 8th in the central iowa city of boone. Still to come on the newshour whats next for president obamas trade bill, after more than 100 House Democrats abandon it; the front lines of fighting ebola labs in sierra leone where new vaccines are being tested; how one former captive is working to free jailed journalists in iran; shields and brooks on the weeks news; and, beating the heat with this years crop of summer blockbusters. Woodruff the debate over trade saw one of its most dramatic days yet, as the u. S. House effectively rejected a combination of proposals that together would give the president socalled fasttrack trade authority. Our political director Lisa Desjardins begins our coverage with the surprise inperson lobbying effort from the white house. Reporter hours before todays showdown vote, president obama made a rare, lastditch appeal to House Democrats on capitol hill rebelling against his trade agenda. The socalled fasttck trade legislation would help pave the way for the multination so Transpacific Partnership deal thats near completion; its a key component of the president s economic agenda. The bill will allow the president to finalize global trade deals that congress can either vote up or down, but not amend. After the 30minute morning meeting, the president smed unsure if hed secured his own partys support. I dont think you ever nail anything down around here. Its always moving. Reporter californias brad sherman was pretty clearly un moved. Did he persuade me that our that thats a good policy . No. Reporter but ron kind of wisconsin did pledge support. For us as a caucus now not even to give him the decency or the respect to trust him a little bit, to try to go out and negotiate a good trade agreement that we will have plenty of time in the future to analyze and determine whether it makes sense for our district, our states or our country, i think is selling this administration short. Reporter the president wasnt the only one making a do you know about fast track . Fullcourt capitol press. Reporter antifasttrack activists made their opinions known outside. And if you knew where to look you could see lobbyists supporting the deal quickly working their cell phones a few steps away. Inside, on the house floor Speaker John Boehner insisted the trade legislation is crucial to americas prosperity. When america leads, the world is safer for freedom and for free enterprise. And when we dont lead, were allowing and frankly essentially inviting china to go right on setting the rules of the World Economy. Reporter boehner doesnt typically vote on bills but made an exception today. Wisconsin republican paul ryan, the head of the house ways and means committee, echoed his support. If we want to create more jobs in america, weve got to make more things here in america and sell them over there. Reporter but democrats like Debbie Dingell of michigan charged the legislation actually harms u. S. Job creation. The vote today is why i came to congress. I promised the working men and women in my district tha i would fight to make sure they had a seat at the table when we were making decisions that impact their life and their livelihood. Enough is enough congress cannot abdicate its responsibility to the working men of this country. Reporter democrats faced a kind of sophies choice, the bill they opposed, t. P. A. Or fasttrack ability for the president , depended on passage of a bill that democrats have traditionally loved. That is called t. A. A. , or trade adjustment authority. Decrats support it but they blocked it today in order to try to take down the fasttrack trade bill. One of the democrats, minority leader nancy pelosi. Im prepared to vote against t. A. A. Because then its defeat sad to say, is the only way that well be able to slow down the fast track. Reporter that vote on the t. A. A. Came in the early afternoon and, it went down in a rout, 302 to 126. Republican leaders then held the vote on the fast track trade authority, at that point a symbolic gesture. That narrowly passed, 219 to 211, largely with republican votes. But again, both t. A. A. And t. P. A. Needed passage for the overall legislation to become law. At the white house, press secretary josh earnest tried to strike an optimistic tone. There was a lot of skepticism about how much democratic support the president would succeed at building and getting the support of 28 House Democrats is a good sign of the kind of bipartisan majority the president was seeking to build. Reporter so what now . Republican leaders plan to hold another house vote on the t. A. A. By tuesday. If it passes, the president will get the fasttrack trade authority he wants. But how to get those votes, that remains unclear. Woodruff in fact, the president lost more than 140 democrats on a crucial trade vote today, more than expected. Last night, we heard from White House Press secretary josh earnest. Tonight, we hear from a house democrat, whos been a vocal opponent. Representative Peter Defazio is from oregon. I spoke with him late this afternoon. Welcome, congressman Peter Defazio. Congressman, in voting down this trade legislation, something the president has lobbied for for months, this was a direct rebuke to him, wasnt it . Its a rebuke to the policy hes tryi to push through congress with fasttrack authority no amendments allowed, up or down vote only for the largest trade agreement in the history of the United States, 29 chapters long and it was reviewed for what we know of those policies. Its a classified document many of us have read part of it. It does not do many to have the things he purports it does. It does not have enforceable labor standards or enforceable environment standard and doesnt do anything for currency anipulation, he admits that, and sets up new secret, private tribunals which are only accessible by multinational corporations where they can challenge our domestic life. Thats Pretty Amazing stuff. Woodruff congressman, you told reporters earlier that the president hurt his own cause, in effect, by what he said to members when he met with you earlier today. What did he say . Well, he feels like hes being personally attacked. Were not attacking hill personally nor his motives but he went on at some length about that. We are opposed to the policies hes putting forward. Secondly, he questioned us saying we werent being straight implying we were being less than honest by using the only vehicle we had to slow this thing down which was voting down trade adjustment assistance. I found that offensive as did many other members of the congress. Woodruff we interviewed josh earnest the White House Press secretary on the newshour last night. He said it does have enforceable labor standards,he says it does have enforceable Environmental Standards. He talked about its going to create jobs. Are you saying the white house is mistaken or what . Probably the white house has been briefed by their special trade representative whos a salesman, and, you know, i have read those chapters, i cant talk about them in detail because theyre classified, but let me just say this the use of the word may does not sound like a binding standard to me. Woodruff well, let me also quote to you from what one of your fellow democratic congressmen ron kind said. We just heard him tell our reporter Lisa Desjardins he said for our caucus not to even give the president in his words, the decency or respect to trust him a little bit to go out and negotiate a trade agreement, he id, is selling the administration short. We have read in classified form which we cant talk about the proposed document. We see sections that have been written by corporations and confirmed in emails that they were written by corporations and inserted into that bill. We just saw last night the republicans repealed country of origin and 90 of the people support that because of a weaker trade agreement where we cant be challenged by the corporations. Other governments than this one, new corporation can challenge any law. The pharmaceutical companies are a big win around we know they will challenge our requirement that they give lowest price to medicaid patients and reduced prices to medicate part d and our purchasing for veterans. The president is right, they cant make us repeal those laws they can just make us pay to keep them. Thats why last night the republicans refield country of origin Meat Labeling because we would have had to pay 3 billion a year to label where your meat came from. Very little is about trade or tariff. Its all about making it safe for me u. S. Companies to move jobs overseas. Woodruff one thing i want to ask you about, in voting as Many Democrats like you did you voted down something the democrats normally support with a lot of passion, and that is assistance for workers whove lost their jobs. What happens to at legislation and to that support, now . Well, first off, it was a very inadequately funded provision and the republicans proposed a fund by cutting medicare. We didnt much like that. Secondly, this trade agreement is so big there are going to be hundreds of thousands of jobs lost and, you know that trade adjustment assistance package would not be adequate. Third, were legislators. We are 85 of the Democratic Caucus is opposed to the transpacific under the conditions the president is putting it forward and that was our only legislative opportunity to derail this thing. Woodruff conessman Peter Defazio joining us from the the capitol. Thank you. Thank you. Woodruff now the last in our series on ela in west africa, tonight a look at new research to help stop or slow the next outbreak. The best hope may ultimately come from a new vaccine. Science correspondent miles obrien reports, part of his series on cracking ebolas code. Reporter its dark and early in freetown sierra leone. A team of pharmacists is in a nondescript government building preparing the days supply of an experimental vaccine against ebola. The clock starts running when they take the vaccine out of a very deep freeze. This is likely the coldest spot in the whole country. The vaccine can only be thawed out right before it is injected, or it will lose its potency and all of this will be a waste of time, money and hope. So right now timing and temperature are absolutely critical. And then it happens. The power went out. Reporter anher reminder of how hard it is to conduct a hightech vaccine trial in one of the poorest countries on the planet. But they are ready theyve got two backup generators for the building, solar charged batteries, and if all else fails, a special container that maintains about 100 degrees below zero fahrenheit for five days, without power. Pharmacist Morrison Jusu is delivering the vaccine three and a half miles across freetown. After a seemingly endless national nightmare, he carries a cooler full of expectations. He knows much is riding with him. Some people lost family members. Some families were essentially wipedout as a result of this thing. If this vaccine proves out to be something that prevents such in the future, then its, words cannot describe how much relief that would be to this community. Reporter while jusu and the vaccine are wending their way, a line is growing outside their destination freetowns connaught hospital. The volunteers start showing up before dawn. They are healthcare workers this trial is limited to them because they are, by far, the most at risk of contracting ebola virus disease. Even though there is no evidence the vaccine poses any real danger, they must weigh the rumors and the uncertainties. Life is all about risks. But i believe it will be of help in the job that i do. translated it is a high risk for me. I believe this can protect me from ebola and thats why i came here for this vaccine. Reporter it wasnt always this way, the trial got off to a slow start when it began in april, people were too afraid. Dr. Mohammed samai is one of the principal investigators. People said the vacci was the ebola virus. So once you get it, you become infected. So a lot of people were not willing to come forward there in thfirst week to take the vaccine because they thought they should wait and see what happens. Reporter the vaccine does contain a piece of the ebola virus, a protein, its enough to trick the body into triggering its natural defenses, but wont give the recipient ebola virus disease. On the wall in the lobby of the hospital a spontaneous memorial to some of the doctors and nurses who died here during the epidemic, a grim reminder of what motivates volunteers like richard kanu. translated i became aware of it through my friends who got the shot three days ago. Since theyre not having side effects, i decided to come and have a go at it myself, because i feel it will protect me. Reporter kanu works on a team that buries the highly contagious dead. He has been shunned by friends, even forced out of his own home. I will go back and tell them that ive had the vaccine and they should rest assured that i wont have the virus. I will probably encourage them to step forward as well. Reporter bad traffic delays jusus ride to the hospital but when he arrives, everything is okay. The vaccine isnt spoiled, and the volunteers are ready. The nursing team does not waste any time prepping for the jabs. Aruna thorlie is a chlorine sprayer who disinfects ebola treatment units. Have you felt anything different . Did it hurt or anything . I feel the same as i did before. I hope and pray that it works. Reporter the vaccine is made by merck. The trial is a partnership between the Sierra Leone Ministry of health, the u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention and the Medical College in freetown. Once we can document the effectiveness of the vaccine and we are now sure that it can really protect them, we can move to another stage where we look at the community and the population at large. Reporter across the border in liberia, a separate trial is testing the same vaccine, along with another one made by glaxo smith kline. It is open to all, and based at this hospital in monrovia. In the darkest days of the crisis here in liberia, a senior doctor and nurse here at redemption hospital contracted ebola virus disease and they subsequently died. Many of the Health Care Workers here became afraid to come to work and the hospital had to close for a time. In all 13 members of the hospital staff diere. It was scary. It was confusing reporter dr. Mark kieh is the site physician for the trial. So far, there are 1,500 volunteers. He is carefully watchi them for side effects. So far so good. Those weve seen are expected side effects of fever, muscle pain, pain at the injection sites, some joint pains, few people with rashes that resolved over time. Reporter the trial is run by liberias ministry of health and the u. S. National institute of allergy and infectious disease. Its director, dr. Anthony fauci, has intense, intimate understanding of the ravages of ebola. At least in the most recent patient that we took care of, thats about as sick as you can get without dying. Reporter on march 14, 2015, he suited up to treat a u. S. Health care worker who became infected in sierra leone, and was airlifted to the n. I. H. Hospital outside washington where he received the highest level of intensive care possible, it kept him alive while his body mounted its own defense. Reporter it was touch and go for a week, but he survived. All of the people who have recovered from ebola, even those who have been very ill it was their immune system that ultimately suppressed and eliminated the virus. Reporter this is why fauci and others are optimistic they have a found a way to stop ebola its tracks. The human body can create the antibodies to fight off ebola, but usually not fast enough. An effective vaccine creates an army of ebola antibodies that can stop the virus before it stampedes through the body. But here is the ironic rub if we are successful in controlling ebola, we wont be successful in determining whether the vaccines are effective at preventing ebola. Reporter dr. Tom frieden is director of the c. D. C. Ebola cases in liberia are now at zero, and sierra leone is close behind. If no one is getting ebolaaa you cant tell for sure if the vaccine is protective. So they have to rely on other evidence. Reporter the trials underway now will at least tell us whether theyre safe, and they will tell us whether they lead to an immune reaction. We wish we were further along with the vaccine, but its very difficult to do research in the middle of an epidemic. In freetown, pharmacist Morrison Jusu is among those who scrambled to get this trial underway at all. He is anxious to know if the hard work will pay off. We are really looking forward to it being successful so that someday in the future we would be able to say yes, i was a part of that team and i contributed. It will be a great feeling then. Reporter the awer will have to wait. But no one doubts the vaccine will meet its viral foe someday. Miles obrien, the pbs newshour freetn, sierra leone. Woodruff we have more with miles online, he wrote a personal account of traveling to sierra leone and the unique challenges he had as an arm amputee. And on the newshours podcast shortwave he spoke of his own close call with the virus. Find both of those links on our home page. Woodruff we turn now to iran, and a new effort to bring freedom to the all the jailed reporters there. Correspondent William Brangham has more. Brangham earlier this week, Washington Post reporter jason rozion had his second day in an iranian court. He has been locked up in a tehran prison for nearly a year, facing charges of espionage and propaganda. Very little known about the proceedings. A report that rough he defended himself in english. This week a new web site launched hoping to draw more attention to those dangers and to other reporters imprisoned in iran. The web site is called journalism is not a crime. Com. Its founder is no stranger to the cause. Maziar bahari was held for months in tehran prison after being arrested in 2009 while on assignment for news week. His memoir of the ordeal then they came for me was the basis for jon stewarts film rosewater. Also a film about a forced confession. Maziar bahari, thanks for joining us. Nice to be here. Brangham so you know about jason rozions case. How many other journalists are locked up in iraright now . At the moment, we can say about 50 because its a revolving door. They let some people go out of prison, then they arrest some people burks irans 50 professional journalist and bloggers are in prison at the moment. Brangham what if they been accused of doi the official accusation for most of these people is endangering the the national security. But that can include revealing secrets dealing between different governments, or it can be just exposing corruption in a school. So anything from a minor reporting investigative reporting to a major story can be regarded as undermining naal security. Brangham so its this incredibly broad definition allows the government to lock people up whose views they dont seem to like. That is the problem with riern that the government with iran that the government because its not secure within its own legitimacy is trying to make everyones life as insecure as possible. They want everyone to be on their toes, they want everyone to be careful about what theyre writing, what they are saying, what they are publishing. Brangham you have any sense of how these reporters are being treated while theyre locked up . It depends. One of the reasons is we started this project is to make the government accountable for what it does. When president rouhani or his foreign minister came to the United States and the journalists ask them why do you arrest journalists, they say this is not our responsiblability, the iranian judiciary is an independent body and we are not involve when you talk about the judiciary, they say it is because of other crimes, not journalism. So no one wants to take responsibility for what happens in iran. We want to make the government accountable for the interrogation they are suffering, the torture theyre suffering their physical torture and psychological torture and, in my own experience, we know that, if you wave the profile of a journalist or of any other prisoner in iran, the possibility of physical torture or of them suffering physical torture or psychological torture is less. When youre unknown in an unknown prison in iran, there is more chance of you suffering from psychological and physical torture, and there is also more chance of you getting killed by an interrogator who is not accountable to anyone. Brangham how far does that accountability go . Weve heard rorts john kerry in the u. S. Government brought up the case of jason repeatedly with the iranian government yet he remains clouded in secrecy in is horrible circumstance. How much do you think your project can really do to change the outcomes for these reporters . We are trying to make the iranian government accountable, but our project also tries to help individual iranian journalists to have legal and psychological help. When i came out of prison, after 107 days in solitaire confinement, 118 days in prison i was lucky enough to have Newsweek Magazine as my employer. They provided a lawyer for me, they provided a psychologist for me, but most of my colleagues in iran do not have that opportunity. So what we do is we have a legal team who can help the journalist and their families with their legal questions and also we have psychologists on our team that they can help them. Jasons case, unfortunately, has become i can say jason is a victim of infighting between the different factions within the government. The people who arrested jason are the revolutionary, they also arrested me. They are trying to use jasons case as a leverage against the rouhani government during the negotiations. Unfortunately, this is the situation for jason and many other journalists that the government is using them for different for a variety of reasons. Brangham the web site is journalism is not a crime. Com. Maziar bahari, thank you very much for coming in. Nice to be here. Woodruff with the showdown on trade in the house of representatives today and president ial candidates on the trail, theres lots to talk about in our weekly analysis session with shields and brooks. Thats syndicated columnist mark shields and New York Times columnist david brooks. Gentlemen, we talked about it at the beginning of the show. Mark, the president has lobbied for this for months. It went down to defeat. What happened and where do you see this going . I think the president was fighting uphill, judy. The leadership in the democrats and the house told him not to come up not unlike his trip to get the olympics to the scandinavians in chicago and didnt make it to the second ballot. You had 85 democrats already made up their mind on. This it isnt a question whether trade is goodfor economic growth, it is, but the benefits have been unevenly distributed in this country, and the burden of change has been unevenly distributed. Organized labor worked long and hard against this, but the realities of empty factories of lost jobs, empty stores, free trade has been overpromised and underdelivered in this country and i think thats the reality the president was fighting. Woodruff where does this leave this . I think they will come back to it. It was a big defeat and he hasnt exactly proven himself an able salesman. As Peter Defazio was saying, making it about himself. This has been a bit of his mode, making it personal and then saying youre not playing straight. Thats probably not the best way to persuade people over. So hes not been the best salesman and the parties move to the left and especially on trade. The substance of my problem is we can argue about nafta and all the other things, i think they have been amazingly positive goods, but this is not like the other trade agreements. First the primary reason we need this specific one is political and foreign policy. Asia will be the center of the World Economy for the next x number of years and we need to have a global architecture thats stable and doesnt generate economic friction and that china doesnt write and this is our shot to do it. Second, this isnt about reducing terrorists, those are gone. This is about a bunch of other things having to do with intellectual Property Rights data flows making sure other countries cant use stateowned properties, about areas where we have undisputed advantage in services and pharmaceuticals, getting those protected so they can sell overseas. Seems to me the opponents are fighting the last war theyre fighting the war about nafta when this is a very different trade agreement. Woodruff was it the selling job or the substance . It was the substance judy. This has been the pattern that ongoing enforcement provisions in the trade agreement for workers rights. When youre competing, now as workers in vietnam are making 50 cents an hour, that is a disadvantage to americans. There is no enforcement for Environmental Standards and certainly noenforcement, only mechanism as far as currency manipulation which the japanese and chinese used to benefit in trade by driving down the price of their own goods to the disadvantage of our country as well as our workers. So i dont argue that theres a great future in asia but i dont think this is the way to it. As far as the president s offensive, too little too late. He showed up at the congressional baseball game last night and the caucus today where he spoke for 40 minutes and didnt take any questions and basically said, i know unemployed steelworkers on the south side of chicago, i care. It s not unlike george bushs Reelection Campaign in New Hampshire in 1992 and questions about his empathy and questions of i care. That didnt persuade anybody. Woodruff as you both pointed out congressman Peter Defazio said he and others were offended by what the president said. You have tore relationships and this has been a constant theme especially in the second term, a lock of relationship, and going up there and being a strange around not taking questions is something. Woodruff they will try come back back to it next week. Something else that happened this week, the white house the president i guess, surprising a lot of people mark and saying he wants to send more military trainers and advisors to iraq. Open up at least one more base. There are reports there may be several more military bases in iraq. Whats going on here . Admission, an acknowledgment that what is going on is not working, and the president although slow to do so and resisted is really going back on what he had executed once in office in two terms and that was to wind down american presence in iraq and weve shown an enormous ability to destabilize the middle east and not much success in trying to stabilize the region. There is an appetite in this country for enlarged activity. And there seemed to be in the wonderful discussion you had this week with general zinni, a secretary panetta and others that there seemed to be a consensus that it wasnt going to happen without greater u. S. Involvement and engagement, and i just dont see that being a reality either politically or militarily. Woodruff the majority view of some of the analysts out there but david is it the right thing to do now . I think so. I think the drawdown of the troops was too fast. One of the biggest mistakes of the presidency is to draw down the troops too fast. Some stability had been achieved, the sunni tribes in sunni areas drew down too fast i. S. I. S. Came in. The troops, what 450 advisors will do, their effect, the key thing is we were effectively arrived with sunni backed shias. Theyre shifting helping some of the sunni tribes. And its got to be the sunni taking over sunni areas. It does not work to have irony backed shia taking over sunnis. Thats a recipe for hostility and resent meant. A lot of the irani militias were coming in executing and looting places. David makes a good point. The status force agreement, the drawdown of u. S. Troops was signed, developed and executed under president bush, but i make oneout pointer judy. In the several years since world war two, there has been one successful American Military venture and that was the persian gulf war under george h. W. Bush, and it had the elements that are missing and have been missing in every one since. It had a limited objective guiding Saddam Hussein out of kuwait. It had overwhelming force. Itad popular consent. It had congressional backing by the opposition party. It had u. N. Support. Woodruff youre saying thats not there now . And a known exit strategy. I dont see any of those elements present in anything since. Woodruff well, just to quickly move to president ial campaign because i want to get to Hillary Clintons big announcement rally tomorrow david. National security has been a big topic among the republicans but were hearing that secretary clinton tomorrow is going to be talking in a more personal way. What does she need to do as she moves into this more public phase of her campaign . Not the free trade agreement. Reporter which is what she is criticized for. Shes dodging it now. Shes introduce herself as a person. All the reports is shes going to talk about her mom and very sad childhood and, you know, a few of the things people dont like about her the big one is honesty and trustworthiness and the second one is does she relate to people like me. Shes led a Pretty Amazing life in the last two decades but not exactly but, even thinrq at a restaurant like that would go a lodge way because as secretary of state, as senator, as global celebrity, she has arisen into a very strictlydefined role which is hopefully not her whole person. Woodruff what do you think she needs . I agreebt the point about her honesty. I dont know how you do that. Richard nixon tried, i dont compare the two, you cant say im honest im not a crook. What she has to do is make the campaign about the future. Thats what president ial campaigns are about, and tell ug why she wants to run for president. Woodruff youre saying she hasnt done that . I dont think she has yet. I think thats what it ha be. Its a tricky position to run to succeed an incumbent executive in our own party whether a mayor, governor or president , because you have to be you cant be disloyal to the president , governor, mayoro who has his or her own loyal constituents, but you have to somehow separate yourself. And i think americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders whether bill clinton or Ronald Reagan or jack kennedy brought a sense of optimism and possibility. They see her already as a strong leader, which is important, but i would be interested to see whe she stands on the trade act as well. Woodruff what does that mean . Her husband, a part was foreign policy, nafta 1993, and staked his presidency on it, worked hard effectively to get it through, and totally identified with it and so is she. In 2008, she was a little critical, and she and president obama were as candidates in 2008 of nafta and whatever it meant. But i think shes certainly the secretary of state. I think people expect her to be on the president s side but, obviously, the political reality in her own party theres in the a lot of support there right no woodruff but you get the sense, david, her campaign has felt they could hold that off that they dont need to talk about trade and other issues just yet, that they dont need to roll it all out. Thats fair. They dont need to present all the policies at once. There have been accusations shes shifting too far to the left and too far a base mobilization strategy and the trade will be the big test of that. Woodruff gentlemen, next week we have to talk about jeb bush. He announces monday. Mark shields, david brooks we thank you. Thank you. Woodruff summer film season is upon us, a crucial time for movie studios to draw big audiences. So far this season, ticket sales are below expectations. But a possible game changer opens today, the sequel Jurassic World. Jeffrey brown reports on why hollywood is betting more heavily on the blockbuster strategy. Brown avengers age of ultron. Mad max fury road. And, furious 7 brian, youre up. Brown in theaters near you this summer, hollywood is heating up, and looking for a hero, a familiar hero, to entertain the masses, and boost its own bottom line. Film critic mike sargent of pacifica radio youre seeing a lot of sequels, reboots, re imaginings, things that have some sort of following. Reporter an emphasis, that is, on films hollywood and we, the consumers, already know or, at least, knew a remake of an old 80s film, like poltergeist, a riff on a once popular tv series, like entourage. Next level is coming. Reporter sargent calls these prn movies. I think the audience for a popcorn movie is the audience wants to go into in the heat of summer, go into an air conditioner and kind of checkout you know . I thought you were dead. What are you talking about . Mission impossible 5 where you know its goi to be fun. Its not about anything. Theres no message theres no exploration of the human condition but youre going to forget your troubles. Brown and superheros remain all the rage. Studios have announced plans to release nearly 30 more superhero films between this summer and 2020. Superheroes essentially are the greek gods of today. Back in ancient times, they retold stories about gods and the things that they did, hercules and things, all these super human things. And i think thats what comic books are today. Even if you never read iron man or a number of characters that you hear about, you know who they are they are part of the iconography of america. Reporter avoiding risks on the unfamiliar, spending, and hoping to net lots of money. Paul dergarabedian analyzes movie trends for rentrak, a global media Measurement Company serving the entertainment industry. On average theyre spending 75 to 100 million and often more on a big summer tent pole movie. You added that 50 million at least in marketing cost and suddly you have to create films that are guarantee a big return not just in north america but around the world. Reporter he says summer represents 40 of the total year revenues for studios, but the definiti of summer has changed. It used to be that summer movie season officially started on memorial weekend and played through labor day. Thats moved up officially to the first weekend in may and of course we saw avengers age of ultron this year kicking off the summer, last year the amazing spider man 2, the year before that iron man 3, all that first weekend in may. So the summer movie season is definitely widening at least in the psyche or emotionally or in the perception of hollywood. Who runs the world girls reporter industry watchers also see more films aimed at the growing market of young girls and women. Films like Pitch Perfect 2, yes, another sequel, hot pursuit, and spy. It used to be the 18 to 24 yearold male and now weve seen women are really powering films. Were seeing more female centric big movies, not st womens movies or things that are marketed to a female or date market. Reporter slate movie critic dana stevens movies like spy with Melissa Mccarthy in the starring role, as kind of this james bond parody. Or inside out, the pixar movie, which will be the first pixar movie to have a female heroine, and the concept is that all of her emotions become characters in her head. Her rage, her love, her sadness all become personified. Reporter so many big films, and many that will bomb, or at least perform below expectations. Dont thank me yet. Brown one of those, so far at least the disney film tomorrowland, featuring huge robots, and george clooney. Its poor opening on memorial day weekend raised some early summer alarms throughout the industry. The next big test comes this weekend, with the release of Jurassic World, the fourth in that scifi franchise. With no other blkbuster openings competing with it analysts have predicted the film could earn more than 100 million in its first three days. Film critics, of course, focus on quaty more than box office, and dana stevens reminds us that big doesnt have to mean bad. Well im hoping Jurassic World will be on the craft side and it will be sort of true to the spielberg vision of the original movie. Action and they did choose a a young director, Colin Trevorrow to direct Jurassic World, who has very few film credits to his name but he is an exciting a creative young director and the id of giving it to someone whos not a studio familiar, but someone whos from the indie world and from the outside, makes me think that that one might have some sort of real spirit. Eporter and for those who want smaller, more, well, human stories, i asked film critics stevens and sargent for recommendations. Its called results. Its this smallish scale movie thats set in texas. Its directed by a youngish director named Andrew Bujalski whos been making interesting movies for years that not enough people go to see. There are two films in terms of festival darlings that stand out for me, and they dont always. One is a film called dope, which is, its just amazing its just a film that reminds you, for me, of why i love and another film called, me earl and the dying girl. And thats another great film again its young filmmakers with something they have to say, saying a lot. Reporter one last striking thought even with all the talk of Technology Changing our viewing habits, people do still go to the movie theater. The movie is singular in it its experience you cant really have that experience anywhere else, look we had Television Come in the late fifties, it didnt happen the home theatre evolution in the 80s anow this on demand the movie theatre continues to be the premier experience. Reporter and coming to a theater near you later this month the original summer blockbuster, jaws, being re released to mark its 40th anniversary. If that makes you feel old, go jump in the ocean. For the pbs newshour, im Jeffrey Brown. Woodruff late breaking news this evening. 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