it comes from robert andrews, he's a 40-year-old stay-at-home dad in dover, massachusetts. he said the world has seen many great leads are in the course of human history. can you name two leaders, one american, and one foreign, who would influence your foreign policy decisions and why do you see them -- why are they influential? >> you know, franklin delano roosevelt took the oath of office in 1933 at a time when 25% of the american people were unemployed, the country was in incredible despair. he stood before the american people and each said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. a profound statement that gave the american people the courage to believe that, yes, we could get out of that terrible depression. and then what he did is redefined the role of government. you had herbert hoover before that saying only worry about the deficit, so what if mass unemployment exist, so what if children are going hungry, that's not the role of the government. what fdr said, yeah, it is, that we are going to use all of the resources that we have to create jobs, to build homes,

police say robert bowers killed eight men and three women at tree of life synagogue. the victims range in age from 54 - 97. people were injured in the rampage. four of them responding police officers. bowers is now facing 29 federal charges including hate crimes. the majority of which carry the death penalty. bowers was injured in a shootout with police. he is currently hospitalized with gunshot wounds but said to be in fair conditions and is scheduled to make his first court appearance tomorrow. he's considered one of the deadliest attack in u.s. history. now back to fox nation first look. ♪ ♪ ♪ we are back at my old college major the bar. i told you we'd be back. now, if this were vaccination we would never ever leave. we would be here forever, we always be with you because there aren't any commercials. he makes promises a lot to me and always deliver so who the heck are we. he's one word, like madonna, you may know him from a show, a little show, a very big show called the greg gutfeld show and he is also known for slamming people around the wrestling ring, n

well, to name a few, there was ashley roberts from the pussycat dolls, audrina patridge from "the hills." i believe carole baskin's even hosted a segment in the early 2000s. [crickets chirping] morgan willett: so the show must have gotten a whole new feel with a bro host like yourself taking over. - damn right. but you know what? i slipped right in without skipping a beat. let's check out the very first episode of "1st look" i ever did, and the origin of my alter ego, havana banana. [flashy brass music] havana banana was the best damn boy-lesque performer-- can you-- --downtown los angeles has ever seen. can you explain "boy-lesque?" for those, like myself, who may not be educated on the term. i had to dress in drag and strip. were you nervous? i didn't know what to think. i was like, "i thought this was a travel show." [laughs] and here at bar mattachine, to help me do just that, is male burlesque artist tito benito. tito! --going to transform me from bro to male burlesque artist. those are michael's. oh. i always thought burlesque was, like-- - did you wear nipple tassels? - oh, yeah.

so while checking out london, i hit up former "1st look" host ashley roberts, and boy did i get more than i bargained for. it's great to finally meet you. it's great to finally meet you. that's quite a handshake you've got there. so, bananas, tell me how "1st look" has been. you liking it? who's interviewing who here? i'm asking you how it's been since you took my spot. listen, it's been great, all right? it's pretty awesome, isn't it? during ashley's reign as host, viewers watched her dance like a pro. you let the music move you, huh? compared to my tenure, when viewers watched me dance like a drunken hobo. should we cha-cha? sho? where are the maracas at? there's no maracas in cha-cha, unlessof the. no, don't answer that. don't threaten me with a good time. cue matt harris, the man behind the routine we hope will turn ashley and i into fast friends. have you ever danced with a girl outside of a club context before? define dancing. holding a girl's hand and leading her where she needs to go and bringing her back to you. yes, yes i have. you have? into an uber. so when i push ashley,

director robert mueller. and, mary mccord was acting head of the national security division in 2016 and '17. she is mentioned in mueller's rert, as part of the team that went to the white house to voice warnings about former national serity adviser michael flynn. they both have worked at justice moin both atic and republican administrations. hello to both of you. we have been together all day long, but let's try to sum it all up. john carlin, what, for you, is the main takeawa? we heard robert mueller saying, daat several points it's not normal for a prosecutor to be testifying before congress. >> that's right, and you saw different agendas. i think you saw the democrats caying to use this moment to make the amepeople more aware of certain parts of the report and use it as feeder in that regard. you saw the republicans by and largest special in the earlg mornying to attack the credibility of mr. mueller and his team. and you saw mr. mueller and his agenda, which was to stick with othe departmejustice guidance

>> i think it's fti robert mueller to testify. a lot of americans have been -- tven't been paying close enough attention is, most aren't reading the mueller report, most aren't watchwsing cable shows, frankly. i think having him testify will ucaw the attention much as watergate, as the anita hill hearings, focusing the american attention, and i think this is the time. >> woodruff: so chris buskirk, if tt were to happen, if he were to be required to testify, and we had a guesti tght, congressman connolly of virginia, saying that is something congress can require, what would happen, do you think, in the minds of aamerican voters? i think we get the sort of sense of deja vu allver again which is didn't we just end this? you robert mueller has been two years, $35 million, hundreds of hours of interviews, issues a report and then ngress wants him to testify, which, okay, fine, i think congress may want him to d i actually sort of tend to agree with connie on this one, which i think that might actually be helpful. but for soa of your av

what to expect from robert mueller's long-awaited congressional testimony. venezuela's former spymaster speaks from here in s. after defecting from the maduro regime. and much more. >> nawaz: it is often easier to spend money than it is to save it. that seems to be at the heart of the new two-year budget deal crafted by the white house and top congression democrats. in a nutshell, spending on both domestic and military programs will go up, and debt ceiling limits are suspended until after the 2020 election. our own lisa desjardins, as always, is here to break it all down for u break it down for us. what's in the deal, and what's not? >> l numbers. with the big first of all, amna, this does raise the debt ceiling for two years. f that's ocal crisis averred for now. that's good. also, right now in the law there are ab bt 10%get cuts that were going to hit most of government, the military antad non-mi alike this. deal removes those budget cuts altogether. t me show youhat it does instead. let's look at current spending right now broken down by defense and non-d

a long-time aid to robert mueller and is described as a deputy special counsel robert mueller. robert mueller wanted aaron to speak next to him because i'm told he wantedto zebl talk about personnel issues and the hiring process to take some pressureueff of roberter. the committee, of course, said, no, you cannot do that. as aon result, a zebly will sit ongside robert mueller as his counsel, but he'll be to talk to aaron, ask him questions, and confer if there is something he wants to talk about that may be outside therv w of the report. but the fact that we got this big surprise the day before the testimony sa there could fireworks we don't see coming. >> nawaz: some last-minute developmen behind the scene there. there is also the issue of this letter, yamiche, that the idea sent to mueller offering him some guidance on the testimony. how could what they laid out affect what he does or doesn't say? >> the department of justice has leaned in on robert mueller to stick to what's in the reporllt. robert m agrees he wants to stick to what's in the report, but the department of jus

robert de niro. jeffrey: last week saw another honor, a lifetime achievement award from the screen tors guild. an outspoken critic of presidenr p, de niro used that platform to defend his right as an artist to speak out. robert: if i have a bigger voice because of my situation, i'm going to use it whenever i see a blatant abuse of power. jeffrey: in addition to starring in "the irishman," robert de niro served as one of the film' producers.ll be at the academy awards next month whenst it vies for ilm at the oscars. robert: ion't know what to say, russ. >> say anything, see how it looks. jeffrey: for the "pbs newshour," i'm jeffrey brown in new york. >> feel good? yes. judy:ne of the best ever. we hope he keeps doing it forever. that is the "newshour" for tonight. thank you and we will see you soon. >> major funding for the "pbs newshour" provided by -- >> colette guides travelers to experience the world in more than 160 destinations across five travel styles like small-group explorations. inclusive t

robert mugabe is no longer their president. it is exactly one week since the military moved in, and two nights since his last, bizarre public appearance. mugabe alone, a man out of time. the last time harare celebrated like this, it was to greet robert mugabe as their new leader, in a land he liberated from white minority rule. this is a second liberation, every bit as special. >> woodruff: that report from john ray, of independent television news. we will address zimbabwe in greater detail, after the news summary. in the day's other news, the u.s. military launched a new air strike in somalia, and said it killed more than 100 al shabaab militants. u.s. africa command reports that it happened 125 miles northwest of mogadishu, part of a stepped- up u.s. air campaign there. a teenage suicide bomber in nigeria blew himself up at a mosque today, killing at least 50 people. the blast turned the worship site into blood-soaked ruins. police say the attacker detonated the bomb as he mingled with morning worshippers. the militant group

robert caro, thank you very much. >> brown: you can find more of gwen's interview with robert caro. plus, photos from his book on our website. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: suicide bombers struck the heart of syria's capital, killing 55 people and wounding more than 370. and republicans in the u.s. house pushed through a bill to prevent an automatic 10% cut in the defense budget at year's end. instead, it cuts food stamps, health care and federal pensions. online, we update on the debate over changing the name of post- traumatic stress disorder. hari sreenivasan explains. hari? >> sreenivasan: some experts propose calling it post- traumatic stress injury instead. find the details on our health page. plus, remember the sale of the painting "the scream" for nearly $120 million last week? paul solman looks at price tags for other major works and at the investment value of art on his making sense page. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. judy? >> woodruff: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey bro

mueller was trying to defend in all fairness to robert mueller. whether his performance was a bad one or a good one, i think everybody understands that, i think everybody understand what's going on. there was no defense for this ridiculous hoax, this witch hunt that's been going on for a long time, pretty much front he time i came down the escalator with our first lady, its disgrace what happened but i think today proved a lot to everybody. >> woodruff: our yamiche alcindor who has been tracking the response from the white house. so, yiche, you did hear all what the president had to say. what are you taking away from whee house? >> the president, h words an white house aides all agree that the president feels like he's in a better position today than he was yesterday. he se this hearing as really foubling down and being proof o what he's been saying which is all a witch hunt and a waste time. he said the democrats were in a worse position today because they came away with nothing. democrats, of course, take issue with that. they think getting robe

for insights into what led the s president ke up his national security team, we are joined by robert costa, host of pbs' "shington week" and national political reporter for the "washington post." and josh lederman, who covers the state department for the associated press. robert, to you first, we have been hearing for monthshat rex tillerson either might be forced out or might resign on his own. what led to this right now? >> there was not an event that led directly to this decision, judy. it was aong-simmering frustration by the president with his secretary of state. they saw the wor in different ways. and the president really wanted to assert himself more on foreign policy. he did not like delegating decisions to tillerson, a lotime executive at exxon-mobil. he wanted to move in a new direction where foreign policys reated inside of the white house. >> woodruff: josh leaderman, what would you add to that? >> i think tt over time the fact that tillerson and trump were not going to beo a god pair, a good partnership became more and more apparent until it was just impossible to overlo

then, president trump lashes ons at special c robert mueller, after an f. raid on the president's personal lawyer, michael con. and, securing schools in the wake of the parkland shooting. how a district in texas is taking precautionary measures to protect students agast the worst. >> i think parents are open to it. they've seen thatimes have changed, unfortunately, and they do see we're putting children's safety first. >> woodruff: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> kevin. >> kevin. >> kevin. >> financial services firm raymond james. >> babbel. a language program that teaches real-life conversations in a nea langge. >> bnsf railway. >> consumer cellular. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation car public broing. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: we have two major stories tonight. first, the white house now says that president trump believes he has the power to fire

t >> woodruf russia report by special counsel robert mueller remains confidential tonight, but a brief summary has sent ripple effects spreading across washington. on one hand the president is claiming victory. on the other, democrats are demandg the full report. >> it lasted a long time. we're glad it's over 100% the way ithould have been >> woodruff: president trump today, still reveling in the results of the mueller investigation. in a four-page letter to congress on sunday, attorney general william barr reported that the special counsel found no evidence that "the trump campaign or yone associated with it conspired or coordinated with russia to influence the 2016 presidential election." barr also concluded there is no basis to find the president obstructed the investigation-- after the special counsel reached no conclusion on that point.e thite house-- from the president on down-- claimed full vindication. press secretary sarah sands: >> the whole purpose of this investigation was to determine whether or not there was collusion. and there wasn't. they were incredibly clear in the r

robert e. lee's connections to george washington. and remembering former poet laureate philip levine. >> ifill: the islamic state's gruesome attacks in libya over the weekend raises the specter that the militant group is expanding beyond syria and iraq. we take a look at that now with frederic wehrey of the carnegie endowment for international peace, he's recently returned from a trip to libya. and, michael leiter, he was the director of the national counter-terrorism center from 2007-2011. he is now the executive vice president at leidos, a science and technology company specializing in national security issues. michael leiter, what are we to take from this particular move into libya? this seems like an expansion of the footprint we've become familiar with i.i.l. >> that's right, gwen. we've really seen this expansion beyond just libya. i.s.i.s. has over the past several months gained some foot holds in egypt to the east in the sinai peninsula as well as smaller elements in algeria afghanistan

for decades roberts worked at ws. and abc vanocur participated in the kennedy and nixon debate and the war in vietnam. he died last night in california at 91. cokie roberts passed away today in washington. she was a oneering journalist and political commentator known toillions over the years. r spannederts' car more than 40 years, taking her from the u.s. capitol... >> both parties think they can puse concern about drugs y to their own particular strengths. >> woodruff: ...to the floors of national political conventions. >> we've seen an awful lot of years of the wan. this one could be different, but the economy is so bad and that is something that women care about a great deal >> woodruff: s was born mary martha corinne morrison claiborne boggs in new orleans, and early on, picked up the nickname "cokie." it was a political family. her father, hale boggs, a democratic congressman from louisiana, became the u.s. house majority leader, and her mother, lindy, who succeeded her husband in office after he died in plane cr

roberts called the comments inap we'll have more on this later in the program. and, toyota has expanded a major u.s. recall by another 1.2 million vehicles they may have fuel pumps that could fail and cause the engines to stall. the affected models include toyota and lexus vehicles going back to 2013. toyota already recalled nearly 700,000 vehicles for the same problem. still to come on the nr: it is biden versus sanders after fisuper tuesday remakes tht a report from san francisco's. chinatown, where coronavirus stokes fear and ejudice. the future of abortion rights is back in the balance. the supreme court hears a landmark case. and, american history, as seen through the art of renowned painter jacob lawrence. >> woodruff: a dramatic turn on the road to the democratic nomination. what did not seem at all likely last week is now the d narrative, as moderate voters come together behind one candidate, leaving two men in a fight to the finish. in los angeles, joe biden basked in the glow today of front- rarunner status in the demc field. >> but those of you who ha

. >> robert levinson was a former fbi agent. hes with an expert. he was brilliant there money laundering expertise, russian organized crime. he had a number of areas of expertise. when he left the bureau to make money to help fund his 7 children's college education, he reached out to the cia which fapped-- tapped his expertise and brought him on as a contract officer. >> he roached out to the cia but it -- but he worked for part of the cia and the other part of the cia didn't know what was doing. >> that's right, the cia is divide mood operators and analysts. operators run the assets and the spies out in the field. and there's a very specific reason for this they're very good at their job. they have established practise and procedures, security protocols to prevent spies from running into risk from being turned, from being fed that information. the analysts on the other side digest and ingest the information from the assets and the spies in the field. and in this case, bob was contracted with the cia analysts. >> brown: to do wh

robert: it is possible, of course. every day that goes by it becomes less possible, but it is possible. i just want to say before i leave just a thought, american detainees unjustly detained in iran, we can't forget them, and anything on the nuclear side, whher we succeed or fail, our goal is to get them back home, one of them will be marking 2000 days unjustly detained in an iranian prison tomorrow, so we will work as hard as we can and get it as soon as possible, but we will never forget the americans who are wrongfully deined and need to be re-knighted with their loved ones. judy: can there be a deal if they are not returned? robert: we will get them home and do everything we can. that is a priority for the president, the secretary of state come in for my entire team. judy: the u.s. special envoy to iran, thank you very much. robert: thanks so much for having me. ♪ judy: last month, connecticut became one of a growing number of states to make race-based haired is from a nation illegal. we have this report on how b

and john roberts dimething unusual. he issued a public statement that said, "there are o noama judges. there are no trump judges. what we have are a group of men and women wearing roabz committed to impartial justice." to picup a line he used during his 2005 senate confirmation hearings, "we're just umires calling balls and strikes," and that's what he'll want to do at the senate trial. >> yang: and he'll be behind home plate at the senate ial. joan biskupic and marcia coyle, thank you very much. >> pleasure, john. >> thank you, john. >> woodruff: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: outbreak-- the race to develop a vaccine to stop ebola. and the woman who became a symbol of the vietnam war ves her brief but spectacular take and forgiveness. this year marks the 100th right to vote in this country.he people may not know it, but thei t to instill equal rights rerdless of sex in our u.s.ti consti is nearly as old. that fight became a big part of 1970s.tional conversation in the yesterday, all these years later, virgini

we have a robert from robert moore of independent television news. >> ma'am, would you please give your name. >> naomi campbell. >> reporter: the key question for her: did the accused, the former liberian president and warlord charles taylor, give her some diamonds as a gift one night in south africa 13 years ago. >> when i was sleeping i heard a knock at my door and i opened my door and two men where there and gave me a pouch and said "a gift for you." >> when you opened up this pouch, what did you discover? >> i saw a few stones in there. and they were very small dirty looking stones. they were kind of dirty looking pebbles. they were not... they were dirty... i don't know. when i'm used to seeing diamonds, i'm used to seeing diamonds shiny and in a box, you know? that's the kind of diamonds i'm used to seeing. >> reporter: diamonds were the currency that fueled sierra leone's savage civil war. but was the gift actually from taylor who, in 2006, was arrested and charged with war crimes? a fellow guest that night, the actress mia farrow, thought so. >> what did you think? >> i assumed

robert dahl , i want to start with you to set the scene. what drove lbj to undertake a war on poverty it. >> well, he wasn't the first one to want a war on poverty. in fact, what i find so interesting is herbert hoover in august 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the united states. and then of course we had the great depression. in 196 -- 1962 a man named michael harrington whos with a socialist, part of the democratic catholic workers movement published a book called the other america, poverty in the united states. it has had a great impact. >> well, what really gave it a great impact was the fact that dwight mcdonald, the critic, then published a discussion of it in "the new yorker" called a reviseable poor. and that created this sense that america has a problem. and john kennedy when he was in west virginia for the prime area in his-- primary in his struggle to win the nomination for presidency, he got a firsthand glimpse of the suffering, the difficulties that people had in that state. and in 1963 he

robert grenier, you just listened to what senator feinstein said. i asked her essentially what you and others in the c.i.a., former c.i.a. officials are saying, that this report is just way far exaggerating what actually happened. >> yes, i think that the report gets a lot of things factually wrong. i think that it incorrectly analyze as number of things. not to say everything is false by any means, but many of the true assertions in the report are presented in a very misleading light and lead to false conclusions. >> woodruff: the picture that comes through loud and clear are extreme methods taken time and again for dozens, scores of detainees being held, in some cases leading to their death. >> you know, this is a really important case in point. one of the things that is pointed out -- in fact, in the press summary that was handed out that was first released, it states that the case of a detainee in afghanistan, actually an afghan national, an individual who died as a result of exposure. he was being guard bid afghan militiamen at the time. this i

pat roberts is someone who's never really had a race. he's been in washington since 1980 when he first came to the house, to the senate in 1996, never received below 60%. why is it different now? because he is somebody who's been attacked from the right for the entire year, a tough primary from a tea party opponent, made a few gaps on the campaign trail that are connected to the fact that he does not have a home of his own in kansas anymore. his primary home is in alexandria, virginia, in the washington suburbs. so he was vulnerable to a primary challenge, won his primary in august but only got 48% of the vote. there was polling in the weeks after that that showed this third-party candidate who, again, has been on tv because he has money, was competitive with roberts and democrats believe that if their own nominee was to get off the ballot and they could make the independent the de facto democratic nominee, they would have a shot to pull off one of the biggest upsets in senate history and beat pat roberts in kansas, a state which has not

for that, i'm joined by robert ray. he was independent counsel during the whitewater investigation into president clinton. and garrett graff.he a contributor to "wired" magazine and the author of "the ndreat matrix: inside robert mueller's f.b.i.he war on global terror." hello to both of you. thank you for being here. i want to get to subpoena question, but, first, i want to ask you about the -- what mr. mural did in trying to determine whetherhere was obstruction of justice. robert ray, thevestigator -- rather the investigators, uincluding the special cel, clearly spent a lot of time looking at what the president did, and we learned that he asked, on a number of occasions, people who work for him, the white house counsel, other advisors, to either go and ask the attorney general to resign, to step down or to stop the cork oork that he was doing, tried t get mr. mueller to stop what he was doing. how do we read that and how do we read that as not obstruction? >> i think at one level, of course, most of what you refer to

with me is john jacobs, the proud mayor of robert lee, texas. his family has been on these rugged and windy west texas plains since the civil war. we drove up to a vista overlooking the reservoir that was built after the last megadrought in the 1950s. what two summers have done to this region became strikingly clear. so this is e.v. spence reservoir? >> this is e.v. spence lake or what's left of it. >> sreenivasan: the town of robert lee has depended almost entirely on this reservoir for its water and the record setting drought has forced it to drink from its last reserves. across texas, towns like robert lee experienced record breaking temperatures last year. some saw more than 100 days straight of 100 degrees and that scorching heat began evaporating reservoirs like lake e.v. spence. when did you start to think this was a real big problem? >> we started to get concerned about two years ago that it was going to turn into something. of course like everyone else we thought, it's going to rain. >> sreenivasan: but it did not rain enough. in 2011 t

robert califf testified remotely at a congressional hearing. he said the fda made missteps after contamination closed the nation's largest formula-making plant in february. robert: it was too slow and there were decisions that were suboptimal along the way. and i'm sure you also know that as i was going through confirmation, i got many calls from people concerned about the food side of the fda because of the lack of resources and concerns about the organizational structure. stephanie: meanwhile, a second shipment of infant formula from germanarrivein the.s. first lady jill biden and the u.s. surgeon general, dr. vivek murthy, welcomed the plane at dulles international airport, outside washington. oklahoma's republican governor kevin stitt signed the nation's strictest abortion ban today. the action takes place immediately and ends the procedure in the state with few exceptions. those exceptions include measures to save the life of a pregnant woman or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. the president of ukraine insisted today he wi

robert, welcome back to the program. so it was just two months ago, we saw a change at the top ofto the trump campaign. so what happened? >> that change two months agog saw paul manafort, the campaign chairman, take control of theke trump campaign from corrie lewandowski the long timee campaign manager and it was a change of philosophy back then from let trump be trump to a more disciplined strategy, more party unity, more focus on a scripted message. trump has scrapped that manafort playbook, however, over the weekend, deciding to go witho this new team, steve bannon from breitbart, kellyanne conway the long time poll ster who he is fenldly-- friendly with, because trump, is looking at the last 08 days and says to himself, hehe wants to do it his way, run from the gut, run from his instinctss >> woodruff: tell us about stephen bannon. who is he?is he is not someone we have known associated with the campaign although we know he's been closc to mr. trump. >> he's a colorful and populist figure on the american right. someo

robert: it wasn't political. it just -- i didn't figure i was going to need it, because nobody really knows the long term of this vaccine, and people are scared of it. william: so, that was your concern? that you might take the shot, and it might harm you long-term? robert: down the road, we don't know. and that's most people's stance that i know. but if it combats this, i'm going to get it, this go-round. william: because of his brush with the virus, wilson says his family is planning to get vaccinated too. 32-year-old jordan miller is an icu nurse. she's been here through the whole pandemic. jordan: how we feeling? william: and she says, for her, this is the worst yet. staff are tired, burned out. they're working overtime. and she says too many people don't take the virus seriously. jordan: it's something that could have been prevented. and that's what's so hard. and because these people are younger and healthier, it hits even harder. you know, i had a 34-year-old patient that i was talking to, communicating wi

: last year this time, michele roberts was one of the country's leading trial lawyers. an unknown quantity in the world of basketball, she was still chosen out of 300 candidates receiving almost 90% of the vote from player representatives to lead their union. >> initially when i got the job, and this is true, there were literally mornings i'd get up and i remember that i was no longer in d.c., i was no longer practicing law and then i just burst into laughter, and think like, "this is so cool!" my two older brothers were basketball fans. we had one television growing up and we saw a lot of knicks games. and so, just by osmosis, i started watching the game and loving the game. that love of basketball never changed. >> woodruff: the first woman ever to run a professional sports union in north america, michele roberts, is undeniably on top of what is still very much a man's world. when i caught up with her at a knicks game last month, it was clear that even big time players like the legendary walt frazier understand her value. >> i spent about 12 seconds thinking that i wo

director robert mueller. and carrie johnson is the justice department correspondent r.r and welcome back to the "newshour" to both of you. i want to get your reaction, both, first to you, carrie, you have been foll twis investigation for the last few years. this is the first time we have heard publicly from the special counsel. what did you make of those nine minutes? >> you know, he used his words carefully. he said his written report mostly speaks for itself, as you said, it is his testimony, but he used his short time -- ninune s or so -- in front of the cameras and the eyes of the world to make a few key points. one is that the russians attacked our elections in 2016, and they may be up to that again. another is that the case and the evidence theyem abled with respect to obstruction were su that the special counsel team could not exonerate president trump of obstruction. the third is people should read his report. he doesn't want to testify to congress. he says if people read hi report, the answers to the

capitol as former special counsel robert mueller is set to testify before two committees of the eshouse of representat when his redacted report was publicly released in april, mueller indicateitthat it speaks folf. but the report is 448 pages lg. it is dense, and many of us don't have time to read it from cover to cover, itso my colleaguesany oflisa desjardins and to william brangham decided to dig into what it does, and does not say. they begin with the question of russian interference in the 16 presidential election narrator: major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by... and with the ongoing support of these institutions... and friends of the newshour... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and from viewers like you, thank you. brangham: through two years of this investigation, through the indictment of 34 individuals, d then spelled out clearly in his final rept, robert mueller made one thing crystal clear,pt russia att to interfere with our 2016 election. here's the last thing mueller said. mueller: and i will close by reiterating th

. >> brangham: the robert e. lee statue in downtown new orleans came down today, the fourth confederate monument to be removed by the city in the past month. new orleans mayor mitch landrieu: >> for that matter. to drive by property that they own, occupied by reverential statues seems perverse. >> brangham: the city dismantled this statue in the broad light of day, but three others were taken down in the cover of night-- with no advanced notice. because of threats of violence, city contractors wore masks and bulletproof vests, and were guarded by police snipers. >> it's cheap, it's low. it's cowardly. if there ever was cowardice, this is an act of cowardice and treachery, right here. this is american history, whether you like it or not. >> brangham: this all goes back to a december 2015 city council vote to take down these monuments, following an op-ed by city native and jazz musician wynton marsalis. many have argued it was an appropriate response to the killing of nine black church parishioners that year in cha

bill and jeff's stepmother in point roberts, a small community on the tip of a peninsula just to the south. but these days, bill and his granddaughters might as well be on opposite sides of the world. >> it tears me up not to be able to, you know, take them by the hand and go somewhere and buy an ice cream. >> yang: through a quirk of history and geography, the five- square miles that make up point roberts may be attached to canada, but it's in washington state, across an international border that, because of the pandemic, has been closed to non-essential travel for an entire year. >> the big cement monument is the border and the other side is canada, obviously our side as the usa. >> yang: brian calder, president of the point roberts chamber of commerce, showed us the beaches and bay that make the area so attractive as a weekend and summer getaway for canadians, who own three-quarters of the private homes. >> they'd be on the water out here even at this time of the year. people used the boats obviously every weekend, big time, like a hundred. and here nothing. no boats, no people, n

director robert mueller. >> well, i was surprised. i was surprised in a good way. i think this is the right thing to do. the reason i called for it today with the revelations of the supposed memo yesterday, the questions that have been arising, i just came to the realization-- and i've always said from the beginning it's american people deserve the facts. whatever they are, whoever they exonerate or whoever they indict. the american people deserve that. and this had become way too political. any new story, any new piece of information that had come out, you know, the left screams-- some on the left mention impeachment right away, some on the right say it's fake news, and neither is true. so we need to get to the bottom of it. we need answers, and we need them in a nonpartisan way. and my hope is this is the beginning of the process of saying let's all tack a deep breath. let's aggressively find out the truth of everything and the facts and we can move ahead and the american people can have faith again in the institution of government. >> yang: do you think this is

cokie roberts passed away today in washington. she was a pioneering journalist and political commentator known to millions over the rs. cokie roberts' career spanned more than 40 years, taking her from the u.s. >> both parties think they can use concern about drugs to play to their own particular strengths. >> woodruff: ...to the floors of nationalolitical conventions. >> we've seen an awful lotf years of the woman. this one could be different, but the economy is so bad and that is something that women carede about a grea. >> woodruff: she was born mary martha corinne morrison claiborne boggs in new orleans, and early on, picked up the nickname "cokie." gs was a political family. her father, hale ba democratic congressman from louisiana, bame the u.s. house majority leader, and her mothera lindy, who succeeded her husband in office after he died in acr planh in alaska. the young cokie boggs graduated from wellesley college in 1964 with a degree in political science. two years later, she married journalist steven roberts, and the c

president trump said why does robert mueller have to testify. he accused robert mller of wrongdoing saying he unfairly and illedegally delmails between two f.b.i. officials who had been talking disparagely the president. there's no evidence robert mueller did anything wrong as former special counsel. but the president itting that out there. >> woodruff: so, bottom line, yamie, what do they expect robert mueller can say? what do they expect him to say?e >> well,re's what robert mueller had to say on may 29 when he was talking about thatue very iss >> any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report. it contains our findings and analysis and the reasons for the cisions we made. we chose those words cd arefull, e work speaks for itself. and se report i my testimony. >> so former d.o.j. officials have been telling newheshour tht an't talk about ongoing criminal investigations or classified informationbut ything else that he decides he doesn't want to talk about, that's robert mueller's judgmes . so it souere that he doesn't want to go p

john: ryan calder is chairman of the point roberts chamber of commerce. it's an attractive we can get away for canadians who own three quarters of the private homes. >> even at this time of year, every weekend, big time, and here, nothing. no boats, no people, nothing. john: two other american communities are also only accessible by land from canada. but their populations are much smaller than point roberts, and canada doesn't require their residents to quarantine after entering the country for food or doctors appointments. in point roberts residents leave, they have to drive straight to washington state, a 25 mile trip, without making any stops in canada. in a statement to the newshour, the canadian public health agency said it doesn't exempt point roberts residents from quarantining because they have access to the necessities of life within their own community. >> it feels almost like a been punished, like i'm in jail. john: gail and her family have lived in point roberts for 22 years. >> you have to ask them permission to leave. it has to be essential

robert: it was a very tough decision. i think i probably would have recommended keeping a small u.s. force there. but the reality that the president was facing is that even with our forces there, every day the taliban is taking over more and more of the countryside and making greater and greater progress against the government of afghanistan. so even if we kept troops there, that is no assurance that the current trend would not continue. i think of all the possible endings in afghanistan at this point, the least likely is a happy ending. i would say the one thing that is important, and critically important is that we continue our economic and military assistance to the government of afghanistan even after our troops are gone. the government the soviets installed in kabul survived for three years after the soviets pulled all their troops out in 1988. because of the flow of economic and military assistance, it was only when the soviet union collapsed and the aide stopped that the government collapsed. i think there is a les