news provo city. >> we are a very red state,ut be a welcoming state for refugees. >> iss l aregearti and our ies. >> reporter: in october, president trump boasted about new executive action. >> no refugees will be resettled in any city or any state without the express written consent of that city or that state. >> reporter: weeks later, utah's republican governor sent his "i encourage you to allow us to accept more international refugees in utah." >> i can tell you here in utah this has never been a partisan issue. our state was settled by individuals that were fleeing religious persecution. >> reporter: house speaker brad wilson who supports president trump, and like the governor is mormon said the history of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints sustains the state's commitment to refugee resettlement. >> i think it's just kind of in our dna. >> reporter: has utah ever felt

overrun by refugees? >> not that i'm aware of. >> reporter: haymar arrived in utah in 2008. she fled violence in burma for thailand when she was 13. how did you get from burma to thailand? >> 19 day i have to get thailand, we walking. >> reporter: walking? >> yes. >> reporter: she became a u.s. citizen in 2013 and helped by a program for immigrant and refugee entrepreneurs, now owns her own burmese-thai restaurant. >> we're not trying to bring refugees here to take on our low-wage paying jobs either. we are putting them on career paths. >> they are some of the most hardworking, dedicated people you'll ever meet. and that's what i would hope president trump would see. >> hi, guys! >> reporter: the mayors also hope president trump would see what asma is doing now. she is a public health major at westminster college in salt lake city and plans to become a physician assistant. and she volunteers with newly oprived refugees,ing to pay

hforward the opportunities she had. >> are you going go to college? >> yeah. >> yeah? do you know what you want to be? >> i feel it's a cycle for younger folks raised in utah have the ability to become successful, and then they want to reciprocate that with future generations. chief washington correspondent major garrett on the case. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. what'd we decide on the flyers again?

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former talking heads frontman david byrne is now on broadway. his show is called "american utopia." it's been a long strange trip for the one-time art student. byrne looks back on his life and career with serena altschul. ♪ >> reporter: take in david byrne's critically acclaimed show on broadway -- ♪ you may ask yourself, well, where is that large automobile ♪ >> and you might askelrs yfhe. ♪ you may say to yourself, my god, what have i done ♪ ♪ letting the days go by >> we're going to take you on a whole journey that's not just a bunch of songs and you're going to have a party, but you're going to be in a different place

emotionally and intellectually or whatever by the end. >> reporter: the show "american utopia" takes its name from byrnes' last album. for which he developed an innovative and unusual stage show. awonore tn four decades ♪ and while much of the music is familiar -- ♪ burning down the house ♪ >> reporter: it's clears marching to a different beat.yre ♪ burning down the house >> reporter: the show begins with byrne contemplating how a child's mind develops. >> babies' brains have hundreds of millions more neural connections than we do as adults. >> reporter: byrne told us why

as he prepared to take the stage. >> they come with all the vocal sounds. try them all out. let me see what my mouth can do. and thenlydu gy talhe ones that and dad talk to one another. >> reporter: and if you're i w a granddad. byrne's only daughter, malu byrne gave birth to a son in 2018. so he must be lthhe tdareys gat >> he is a lot of fun. how are we doing? >> reporter: it looks good. you look clean, no nicks. david byrne himself emigrated to the u.s. at the age of 8 with his scottish parents. >> i felt like a little bit of an outsider, but i realized that the world was made up of people that were different but we' all here. >> reporter: music helpedre a young david byrne find his voice. ♪ i don't know why i living like

i do ♪ >> even though i was painfully shy, i put myself on stage and performed and do really sometimes wacky things. ♪ i had no fear on stage. and then coming off the stage, i had -- frozen as far as social interaction. >> reporter: i love the way you some kind of described yourself as painfully shy. it's hard to believe. >> we change. thank god we can change. ♪ this ain't no party, this ain't no disco, t >> reporter: byrne wanted to become a visual artist but fell into playing music with college friends tina weymouth and chris france. that band would become the talking heads. but almost from the beginning, the ba fought over songwriting credit and creative control.

if you could kind of time machine back to the '70s and your early days, what would you say to yourself? >> don't worry, david byrne. it's going to be okay. you don't have to panic. >> reporter: do you feel you were more controlling back the >> oh, absolutely. ♪ can't sleep, head's on fire, don't touch me, i'm a real live wire ♪ ♪ psycho killer >> you're really tight. your friends and you are making a living all together and all that. it's really high pressure. ♪ run, run away . >> in certain ways, it's just never going to last. >> reporter: and it didn't. in 1991, weymouth and france learned that the talking heads had broken up by reading about it in "the l.a. times." but the end of the talking heads was just the beginning of david byrne's artistic odyssey. he started a record label specializing in world music, put

out a number of solo albums, and worked with scores of musical partners. ♪ >> i think i am a better collaborator. now i give morley way, i give more. i think by giving more i get more. >> reporter: touring with "american utopia," byrne decided to ask the students of the detroit school of arts to record a version of his song "everybody is coming to my house." ♪ everybody's coming to myng to be alone ♪ >> they changed thengt fea m you? >> for me. i looked at their performance on video, and i thought they've brought out a different meaning in the song than when i do it. ♪ everybody's coming to my house, everyone's coming to my house ♪ >> when i do it, it seems about a person. not quite sure if they want everybody coming over to their house. but on their version, it's like

yes, come on over. ♪ and we're going to go become home ♪ >> i like of like their version better. we have a lot of people from different parts of the world in this band. i myself am a naturalized citizen from scotland. >> reporter: that happened in 2012 after an unlikely run-in at the voting booth. why do it in 2012? >> because i was busted. cou vote in electio didn'ote f president. and i did it. >> reporter: it turns out. >> i did it. for many years. see? they were right there. is a lot of voter fraud. >> one city, sometimes in one location -- >> reporter: byrne is passionate about being a good citizen of the world, but like many, has

struggled with current events. >> we have possibility. we can do things. >> reporter: so he created an online forum to highlight the ways the world is working. the project is called reasons to be cheerful. ♪ ♪ one fine day is that kind of where you are in your life now? are you a more optimistic, joyful person these days? >> i ask myself the exact same question. am i a different person than i was before. is my innate nature joyful and optimistic or i think this is maybe more likely that i love working with these musicians so much. i love performing. i love what i'm doing, ♪ i love the message that we're

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once upon a time in hollywood and "1917" scored big at this weekend's golden globes, and they're now front-runners for the academy awards. if you missed the globes, kevin frasier of entertainment tonight brings you up to speed. >> you know, a lot of people expected renee zellweger's win, but taron egerton beat out the likes of olympia leonardo dicaprio, eddie murphy and so many more. but leo's movie was one of the night's big upon a time in hollywood. >> it is quentin tarantino's revisionist history of the 1969 manson murders. it focuses on a fading tv star and his stunt double. >> how

you feel. >> pold me the night was abouee old friends than winning an award. >> we're the same home you have all that damn hair? >> i don't know, but i got other problems. we'll talk afterwards. >> reporter: "1917" won in the best drama category. it also won best director for sam mendes, who filmed it to appear as if the entire movie was just one continuous should. >> i'm sorry. >> reporter: tom hanks got emotional when he saw his family in the audience while accepting a lifetime achievement award. >> a man is blessed, man is bld ail sngdo front like that. >> awkwafina. >> reporter: awkwafina made history of the first woman of asian descent for the farewell. she told me the multigenerational family saga resonated across all cultures. >> we're all connected by love and loss. >> yes. >> and especially the love we have for our grandparents. >> reporter: as the joker,

joaquin phoenix's descent into madness earned him a best actor in drama of i'll taron egerton won for portraying elton john. >> to be working in films, to be portraying an icon and then to win an award for it is quite actually literally the stuff that dreams are made of. ♪ clang clang clang went the trolley ♪ >> reporter: renee zellweger also won for portraying an icon, judy garland, solidifying her status as an oscar front-runner. is judy still inside you? because you did morph into her. how did you get that out of you? >> oh, i don't want to. to have learned all of that and spend so much time digging through the treasure and her legacy? i'm going to hold on to that. >> loved renee zellweger as judy garland. and that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm nikki battiste.

it's tuesday, january 7th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." intensifying threats. an iranian military leader threatens to set fire to places supported by the united states. why the next 24 to 36 hours are critical i willing to testify. former national security adviser john bolton says he would appear before the senate under subpoena. the reason some republicans are interested in the idea. new charges. as harvey weinstein faces trial in new york, more accusations of in new york, more accusations of rape and sexual assault. captioning funded by cbs