captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> the motion is not adopted. >> woodruff: president obama's long-sought trade deal hangs in limbo, after a key part of the bill goes down to a stinging feat at the hands of his own party. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. also ahead, new breakthroughs in ebola vaccines may be west africa's best hope to stave off the virus. but running the trials in one of the world's poorest countries presents a new host of challenges. >> right now, timing and mperature are absolutely critical. and then it happens. >> woodruff: classic action films get big budget reboots and women get the last laugh as leads in comedies.

a look at some of the trends behind the blockbuster movies sweeping the summer. and it's friday, mark shields and david brooks are here, to analyze a full week of news. those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's "pbs newshour." >> major funding for the p 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 program 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 information 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. it's 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 tify people whose data was breached. law enforcement officers in new york refocused their search for two escaped convicts after reports two men we 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 wasn't 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 thousas of farmers, some of whom hold the strongest and oldest legal water rights in the state. today's decision includes california's 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 strauss-kahn, 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 financial crisis. strauss-kahn said he didn't 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 merkel's 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 stand up in court. greek stocks tumbled today on news that the country's 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 i have repeated this over the last few days-- where there's a will the's a way, so it's 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 greek debt 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. the s-and-p-500 dropped 15. for the week, the dow gained three-tenths of a percent. the nasdaq rose a tenth of a percent. and the s-and-p lost three- tenths of a percent. and the republican party of iowa has dropped its famed straw poll. it had been a staple pre- election-year event for g.o.p. presidential 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: what's next for president obama's 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 week's news; and, beating the heat with this year's 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 so-called "fast-track" trade auority. our political director lisa desjardins begins our coverage with the surprise in-person lobbying effort from the white house. >> reporter: hours before today's showdown vote, president obama made a rare, last-ditch appeal to house democrats on capitol hill rebelling against his trade agenda. the so-called "fast-track" trade legislation would help pave the way for the multi-nation so-

"trans-pacific partnership" deal that's near completion; it's 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 30-minute morning meeting, the president seemed unsure if he'd secured his own party's support. >> i don't think you ever nail anything down around here. it's always moving. >> reporter: california's brad sherman was pretty clearly un- moved. >> did he persuade me that our that that's 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 anale and determine whether it makes sense for our district, our states or our country, i think is selling this administration short. >> reporter: the president wasn't the only one making a >> do you know abt fast track? full-court capitol press. >> reporter: anti-fast-track 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 america's prosperity. >> when america leads, the world is safer for freedom and for free enterprise. and when we don't lead, we're allowing and frankly essentially inviting china to go right on setting the rules of the world economy. >> reporter: boehner doesn't 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, we've got to make more things here in america and sell them over there. >> reporter: but democratlike 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 that 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 sophie's choice, the bill they opposed, t.p.a. or fast-track 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. democrats support it but they blocked it today in order to try to take down the fast-track trade bill. >> one of the democrats, minority leader nancy pelosi. >> i'm prepared to vote against t.a.a. because then its defeat sad to say, is the only way that we'll 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" trad 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 fast-track 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 hed from white house press secretary josh earnest. tonight, we hear from a house democrat, who's 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, wasn't it? >> it's a rebuke to the policy he's trying to push through congress with fast-track 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 i was reviewed for what we know of those policies. it's 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 doesn't do anything for currency manipulation, he admits that, and sets up new secret, private tribunals which are only accessible by multi-national corporations where they can challenge our domestic life. that's 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 he's being personally attacked. we're not attacking hill personally nor his motives but he went on at some length about that. we are opposed to the policies he's putting forward. secondly, he questioned us saying we weren't being raight 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 it's 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 who's a salesman, and, you know, i have read those chapters, i can't talk about them in detail because they're 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 deardins 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 said, is selling the

administration short. >> we have read in classified form which we can't talk about the proposed document. we see sections that have been written by corporations and confirmed in e-mails 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 can't 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 can't make us repeal those laws they can just make us pay to

keep them. that's 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. it's all about making it safe for more 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 t democrats normally support with a lot of passion, and that is assistance for workers who've lost their jobs. what happens to that 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 didn't 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 packa would not be adequate. third, we're legislators. we are 85% of the democratic caucus is opposed to the trans-pacific under the conditions the president is putting it forward and that was our only legislative opportunity to derail this thing. >> woodruff: congressman peter defazio joining us from the the capitol. thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: now the last in our series on ebola 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 correspon miles o'brien reports, part of his series on "cracking ebola's code." >> reporter: it's dark and early in freetown sierra leone. a team of pharmacists is in a nondescript government building preparing the day's supply of an

expimental 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 cannly 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: another reminder of how hard it is to conduct a high-tech vaccine trial in one of the poorest countries on the planet. but they are ready: they've 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 wiped-out as a result of this thing. if this vaccine proves out to be something that prevents such in the future, then it's, 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: freetown's connaught hospital. the volunteers start showing up

before dawn. they are healthcare workers is 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 ses 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 that's why i came here for this vaccine. >> reporter: it wasn't 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 vaccine 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 the first 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, it's enough to trick the body into triggering its natural defenses, but won't give the recipient ebola virus disease. on the wall in the loof 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 they're not having side effects, i decided to come and have a go at it myself, because i feel it ll 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 i've had the vaccine and they should rest assured that i won't have the virus. i will probably encourage them to step forward as well. >> reporter: bad traffic delays jusu's ride to the hospital but when he arrives, everything is

okay. the vaccine isn't 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 died here. >> 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 watching them for side effects. so far so good. >> those we've 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 liberia's ministry of health and the u.s. national institute of allergy and infectious disease.

its director, dr. anthony fauci, has intense, intimate understandinof the ravages of ebola. >> at least in the most recent patient that we took care of, that's 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 waington 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 itsracks. the human body can create the

antibodies to fight off ebola, but usually not fast enough. an effective vaccine creates an army oebola 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 won't 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 ebolaaâ you can't 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 ether they're safe, and they will tell us whether they lead to an immune reaction. we wish we were further along with the vaccine, but it's 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 answer will have to wait. but no one doubts the vaccine will meet its viral foe someday. miles o'brien, the pbs newshour freetown, 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 newshour's 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 freedomo 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, fang 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 a 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 stewart's 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 rozion's case. how many other journalists are locked up in iran right now? >> at the moment, we can say about 50 because it's a revolving door. they let some people go out of prison, then they arrest some people burks iran's 50 professional journalist and bloggers are in prison at the moment. >> brangham: what if they been accused of doing? >> 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 national security. >> brangham: so it's tis incredibly broad definition allows the government to lock people up whose views they don't seem to like. >> that is the problem with riern that the government -- with iran that the government because it's not secure within its own legitimacy is trying to make everyone's life as insecure as possible. they want everyone to be on their toes, they want everyone to be careful about what they're writing, what they are saying, what they are publishing. >> brangham: do you have any sense of how these reporters are being treated while they're 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, ty say this is not our responsiblability, the iranian judiciary is an independent body and we are not involved. 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 nt to make the government accountable for the interrogation they are suffering, the torture they're 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 you're 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 interrogatorho is not accountable to anyone. >> brangham: how far does that accountability go? we've heard reports 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 this 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 psycholost 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 hp the journalist and their families with their legal questions and also we have psychologists on our team that they can help them. jason's case, unfortunately, has become -- i can say jason is a victim of infighting between the different factions within the government. the people w arrested jason are the revolutionary, they also arrested me. they are trying to use jason's 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 presidential candidates on the trail, there's lots to talk about in our weekly analysis session with shields and brooks. that's 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 h not to come up not unlike his trip to get the olympics to the scandinavians in chicago and didn't make it to the second ballot. you had 85% democrats already made up their mind on.

this it isn't a question whether trade is good for 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 that's the reality the president was fighting. >> woodr where does this leave this? >> i think they will come back to it. it was a big defeat and he hasn't 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 you're not playing straight. that's probably not the best way to persuade people over. so he's 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 o 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 that's stable and doe't generate economic friction and that china doesn't write and this is our shot to do it. second, this isn't 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 can't use state-owned 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 they're 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 you're competing, now as workers in vietnam are making 50 nts an hour, that is a disadvantage to americans. there is no enforcement for environmental standards and certainly no enforcement, 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 disadvge of our country as well as our workers. so i don't argue that there's a great future in asia but i don't 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 didn't take any questions and basically said, i know

unemployed steelworkers on the south side of chicago, i care. it was not unl george bush's reelection campaign in new hampshire in 1992 and questions about his empathy and questions of i care that didn't 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 ir. what's 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 we've 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 wasn't going to happen without greater u.s. involvement and engagement, and i just don't see that being a

reality either politically or miarily. >> 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. came in. the troops, what 450 advisors will do, their effect, the key thing is we were effectively arrived with sunni backed shias. they're shifting helping some of the sunni tribes. and it's got to be the sunni taking over sunni areas. it does not work to have irony backed shia taking over sunnis.

that's 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, t 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 ar 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. it had popular consent. it had congressional backing by the opposition party. it had u.n. support. >> woodruff: you're saying that's not there now? >> and a known exit strategy. i don't see any of those elements present in anything

since. >> woodruff: well, just to quickly move to presidential campaign because i want to get to hillary clinton's big announcement rally tomorrow david. national security has been a big topic among the republicans but we're 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. >> she's dodging it now. she's introduce herself as a person. all thereports is she's going to talk about her mom and very sad childhood and, you know, a few of the things people don't like about her the big one is honesty and trustworthiness and the second one is does she relate to people like me. she's 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 strictly-defined role which is hopefully not her whole person. >> woodruff: what do you think she needs? >> i agree about the point about heresty. i don't know how you do that. richard nixon tried, i don't compare the two, you can't say i'm honest i'm not a crook. what she has to do is make the campaign about the future.

that's what presidential campaigns are about, and tell ug why she wants to run for president. >> woodruff: you're saying she hasn't done that? >> i don't think she has yet. i think that's what it has to be. it's a tcky position to run to succeed an incumbent executive in our own party whether a mayor, governor or president, because you have to be -- you can't 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 where she stands on the trade act as well. >> woodruff: what does that mean? >> her husband, a big part was

foreign policy, nafta 1993, and staked his presidency on it, worked hard effectively to get it through, and totally dentified with it and so is she. in 2008, she was a little critical, and she and president obama were as candidates in 2008 nafta and whatever it meant. but i think she's 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 there's in the a lot of support there right now. >> woodruff: but you get the sense, david, her campaign has felt they could hold that off that they don't need to talk about trade and other issues just yet, that they don't need to roll it all out. >> that's fair. they don't need to present all the policies at once. there have been accusations she's 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,vid 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, you're 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: >> you're seeing a lot of sequels, reboots, re- imagining's, 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 re-make of an old 80's film, like "poltergeist," a riff on a once- popular tv series, like "entourage." >> next level is coming. >> reporter: sargent calls these "popcorn 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 it's going to be fun. it's not a anything. there's no message there's no exploration of the human condition but you're 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 that's 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 they're 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 suddenly 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 definition of "summer" has changed. >> it used to be that summer movie season officially started on memorial weekend and played through labor day. that's 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 year-old male and now we've seen women are really powering films. >> we're seeing more female- centric big movies, not just "women's 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. >> don't 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 sci-fi franchise. with no other blockbuster 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 "quality" more than box office, and dana stevens reminds us that big doesn't have to mean bad.

>> well i'm hoping "jurassic world" will be on the craft side and it will be sort of true to the spielberg vision of the origin 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 idea of giving it to someone who's not a studio familiar, but someone who's from the indie world and from the outside, makes me think that that one might have some sort of real spirit. >> reporter: and for those who want "smaller," more, well, "human" stories, i asked film critics stevens and sargent for recommendations. >> it's called "results." it's this smallish scale movie that's set in texas. it's directed by a youngish director named andrew bujalski who's 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 don't always. one is a film called "dope,"

which is, it's just amazing it's just a film that reminds you, for me, of why i love and another film called, "me earl and the dying girl." and that's another great film again it's 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 can't really have that experience anywhere else, look we had television come in the late fifties, it didn't happen the home theatre evolution in the 80's and now this on demand the movie theatre continues to be the premier experience. >> reporte 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, i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: late breaking news this evening. state department officials say there have been problems with oversea passport and visa system. a spokesperson offered no explanation on what caus the glitch but were working to correct the problem. the c.i.a. released hundreds of pages of internal investigative findings related to the september 11 attacks. the report found that before 9/11, the c.i.a. was reluctant to seek authority to assassinate osama bin laden. the section of the report about saudi arabia in september 11 was largely redacted. on the newshour online, with the abuse of prescription painkillers a growing problem, especially among seniors, a new

study finds that medicare drug plans are actually cutting back on coverage of name-brand pills designed to deter abuse. read more about the study and the case against generics, on ou. all that and more is on our web site, pbs.org/newshour. and a reminder about some upcoming programs from our pbs colleagues. later tonight on "washington week" a closer look at how iraq, the trade deal, and the supreme court's upcoming decision on health care may affect president obama's legacy. that's later tonight on washington week. on pbs newshour weekend saturday, a look at an ambitious effort in los angeles to find permanent housing and services for all of the city's homeless veterans by the end of this year. on monday on the newshour, cuban evolution, jeffrey brown has a weeklong series of reports from cuba, hari sreenivasan has this preview. >> coming to the the pbs "newshour", sights and sounds, hopes and fears as cuba faces

changes in relations with the u.s. we look at the history and the architecture. >> the infrastructure that's falling apart, what can happen if developers come in. >> the politics of contemporary art. >> one year we'll be able to say, hey, this is us. >> sreenivasan: the yearning to connect to the world and much more in our series of cuba, the cuba evolution, all to come on the pbs "newshour". >> woodruff: that starts monday. >> woodruff: anat's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff, have a great weekend. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> carnegie corporation of new york. supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement

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