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captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: greece puts cash on lock down. on the brink of default, banks and markets close to stop economic collapse. thousands take to the streets in athens to protest further cuts. >> this time tomorrow greece will be in default. and then life will become even more uncertain. >> woodruff: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. gwen ifill is away. also ahead this monday: a historic term for the u.s. supreme court wraps up. justices uphold death by lethal injection and block limits on power plants. plus, the top four teams face off in the women's world cup. the u.s. meets number one germany in the soccer semi- finals.
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>> 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: the financial turmoil in greece sent wall street to its biggest losses of the year today. it was part of a worldwide sell- off after greek bailout talks failed and the greek government shut down banks. the dow jones industrial average plunged 350 points to close below 17,600. the nasdaq fell 120 points, and the s&p 500 slid 44. we'll have a full report from greece, right after the news summary. puerto rico is also drowning in debt, and now, its governor warns the island can't pay. alejandro garcia padilla says he
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hopes to defer payments while re-negotiating $72 billion in red ink. the white house said today it is not considering a federal bailout. the u.s. supreme court has closed out its term with a slap at the environmental protection agency. the justices ruled five to four today against e.p.a.'s limits on mercury emissions from power plants. it said officials should have accounted for the cost of compliance, right from the start. a full examination of the decision follows later in the program. two of the last holdout states gave way today to the high court's decision legalizing gay marriage. louisiana began issuing licenses to same-sex couples, and mississippi authorized clerks of court to do the same. but texas attorney general ken paxton says clerks may refuse to issue licenses on religious grounds. that brought complaints today in austin. >> what's clear is that our work is far from over.
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the theatrics of texas attorney general paxton, who has blatantly encouraged state officials to defy the highest court in the land, is evidence of that very fact. the attorney general is irresponsibly empowering and encouraging obstruction and delay. >> woodruff: meanwhile, several clerks of court in kentucky have responded by refusing to issues licenses to any couples gay or straight. president obama has signed two hard-won trade bills that could clear the way to finish an asian free-trade deal. the signing today, in the white house east room, was a rare, bipartisan occasion. it followed an all-out fight that pitted the president against many of his fellow democrats. as he signed today, he quipped: "this is so much fun we should do it again." negotiators in the iran nuclear talks kept at it today, amid signs they'll continue past tomorrow's deadline. iran's foreign minister returned home from vienna, for consultations. secretary of state john kerry stayed, and met with other officials, but stopped short of signaling progress.
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his spokesman, in washington, defended taking extra time. >> we're still focused on getting the best agreement possible, the most comprehensive agreement possible. and if we have to work a little bit longer to do that, the team in vienna, then they'll do so obviously but nobody is talking about a long-term extension. >> woodruff: iran reached a framework agreement with the u.s. and other world powers in april. now, some western officials accuse tehran of backtracking on that deal. in egypt, the top public prosecutor, hisham barakat, was assassinated in a car bomb attack in cairo. he had led the cases against ousted president mohammed morsi and other leaders of the muslim brotherhood. there was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the islamic state group had urged attacks on egypt's judges. the people of burundi voted today in a parliamentary
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election marked by violent protests against the president's bid for a third term. voters trickled to polling places in the african nation amid reports of gunshots and explosions. the violence has sent some 140,000 people fleeing the country. the opposition boycotted today's vote. hundreds more migrants were brought ashore at italian ports today, after being rescued at sea. the new arrivals were among nearly 3,000 people picked up sunday. they were in 21 small boats that smugglers launched from libya. so far this year, more than 60,000 from africa and the middle east have made it to italy. more than 400 people remain hospitalized in taiwan after a fire ball engulfed partygoers at a water park, on saturday. the injured, many in their early 20's, were treated and rushed to ambulances, some of them with critical burns. one woman died later, and the head of the water park offered an emotional apology today.
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>> ( translated ): we rented it out like you rent a house. you don't expect something like this to happen. how can one know that so many people would get hurt? it really makes me feel sorrow so i am really sorry. >> woodruff: investigators believe the fire started when a cigarette butt or spark ignited flammable powder that was sprayed over the crowd from a stage. back in this country, a rain squall in wenatchee, washington gave brief relief to crews battling a fire that's forced more than 1,000 people to flee. and hundreds of firefighters are trying to corral the sleepy hollow fire that ignited yesterday, 120 miles east of seattle. it's destroyed some 24 homes, fanned by high heat and strong winds. >> it was what we classify as a fire storm coming through. multiple structures were involved when the resources were
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allocated over there and it was an all night long firefight trying to catch the spot fires as they were-- embers were going from one house to another catching the roofs on fire and then spreading that way. >> woodruff: later, the fire burned a fruit warehouse, and ammonia used for cold- storage began to leak. emergency managers urged people in the immediate area to stay indoors. a convicted killer who made a daring prison break in northern new york, had his condition upgraded to serious today. david sweat is now hospitalized in albany. he was shot and recaptured yesterday, less than two miles from the canadian border. fellow escapee richard matt was killed by police on friday. and, there's word the world's jewish population has returned to where it was before the holocaust. an israeli think tank estimates the number is now 16.5 million, about equal to the total in the 1930's. the nazis and their conspirators
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murdered some six million jews. still to come on the newshour: greece on the brink: banks and markets close to prevent an economic collapse. a historic term for the supreme court wraps up with new decisions. the week ahead in politics with tamara keith and stu rothenberg. u.s. soccer one step closer to the goal of a woman's world cup. and, the power of paint for artists who've experienced homelessness. >> woodruff: shock, and anxiety spread across greece today, as banks and the athens stock market began a week-long closure. newshour special correspondent malcolm brabant is on the ground where many are uncertain on what will happen to them, and their country, as tomorrow's default deadline will almost certainly pass without a solution. >> reporter: across athens this morning, people lined up at
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a.t.m.'s, hoping to get at their money. instead, they were limited to withdrawals of just 60 euros, or $67. >> ( translated ): the banks are closed, everything's closed. there's nothing there. i've just got one euro 60 in my pocket. i went to the bank to get some money and there was nothing but fresh air. >> reporter: the bank closure came after weekend talks between greece and its international creditors collapsed in acrimony. greek prime minister alexis tsipras rejected new austerity measures as the price for additional bailout funds. instead, he called a national referendum for this coming sunday. >> ( translated ): greek men and women, the blackmail ultimatum is for us to accept an austere and degrading austerity without end, and without the prospect of ever recovering socially and economically, i invite you to decide in a sovereign and proud manner, as the history of the greeks commands. >> reporter: with that, the european central bank cut off emergency funding to greek banks. so the tsipras government imposed currency curbs to head
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off a full-scale run on the banks. many greeks responded by rushing to gas stations, some of which put up signs saying they wouldn't accept credit cards. the cash crunch also hit pensioners, who'd been due to receive payments today. >> ( translated ): we are waiting for our pensions, the labors that we've been paying for our whole life. and they are fooling us, and we are waiting here like beggars to withdraw our own money. the tv channels are now saying one thing, and in an hour they say something else, they are driving us crazy, everyone. >> reporter: that complaint was echoed at places like this coffee shop, in the middle class athenian suburb of pallini. >> i think it's just uncertainty. people are just uncertain. we don't know what's going to happen next week. so if we knew, if someone would give us an example of what it would be like next week, then people would be more relaxed. but uncertainty fuels fear. so people are scared. will i have a job next week? will the banks open next week? don't know. >> reporter: and it wasn't only greeks themselves affected by
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the crisis. one of the only bright spots in the nation's economy is its tourism industry, but foreign visitors today expressed mixed feelings. >> right now a lot of people in europe they are afraid to come here, let's say to spend some vacation. my advice to the tourists from europe is to come here with their own money in their pocket already so they don't have any problems. >> reporter: in the meantime, the greek government is headed for default tomorrow on a major debt repayment and possibly for an exit from the eurozone. today in brussels, the head of the e.u. commission appealed for clear-thinking ahead of sunday's referendum. >> ( translated ): i very much like the greeks, and i'd say to them you should not commit suicide because you are afraid of death. you should say "yes" whatever the question is. but you should say "yes" because the greek people who are responsible, honorable citizens and proud of themselves and their country should say "yes" to europe. greece is europe, europe is greece. >> reporter: but back in athens, as night fell, thousands of protesters gathered outside greece's parliament to demand the government stand firm
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against any new austerity measures. these are uncharted waters for greece. and despite the surface calm, it may be sinking faster than people realize. a limited number of banks were due to open tomorrow to allow pensioners to cash their monthly checks. but the strain on the banks is so serious, that this has been put back to thursday. there will be considerable anger if the most vulnerable aren't able to get their money. as it stands at the moment there are less than 24 hours left on the bailout deal that is keeping greece afloat, and athens doesn't have the money to pay the $1.8 billion it owes the international monetary fund. so, this time tomorrow greece will be in default. and then life will become even more uncertain. judy? >> woodruff: malcolm brabant reporting from athens. let's look further at the potential consequences for greece and its people, and the concerns about the eurozone and the global economy. greg ip is the chief economics
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commentator for the "wall street journal" and joins me now. , so greg ip, what do people believe is going to happen tomorrow? >> well, the actual default on the i'm ri.m.f. loan is not significant, because the i.m.f. is not about to fail or stop lending to other countries as a consequence. it means greece is in arrears in terms of interpretational obligation and can't get new funds to reopen banks and have the budget function normally until it comes to an agreement with the i.f.m. the bigger question hanging over greece and future with respect to timent f.hm.f. and relations are what happens with the referendum next sunday. how will the greek people vote in?if they reject the agreement the terms, then it's very hard to see what the path is back to some sort of negotiated settlement and hard to see how greece stays in the euro. >> woodruff: so greece in a
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holding pattern until next weekend. what do people expect will happen at that point? >> nobody really nose partly because the referendum question itself is very unclear. greeks are being asked to vote yes or no to a technical 40 page document until recently wasn't available in greek. the greek government has been telling voters this is not a referendum on staying the euro. we're staying the euro no matter what, but the creditors on the other side are saying the opposite. they're saying de facto, if you vote no, you're also saying no to europe. so depending on how greek voters voters interpret the question will determine how the referendum is decided. >> woodruff: so are you saying literally this is completely up in the air at this point? >> it completely is. i wouldn't say greece is in a holding parton which would be positive. i think the longer the uncertainty exists and the banks stay closed the worse it goats.
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the economy is in recession and the only major economy in the eurozone to be shrinking large libecause of the negotiations between the government and the creditor nations. it will only get worse. even if they voted yes in the referendum, there is speculation that would force the reform government to resign. how could they carry out the reform given how greeks opposed them so you would have weeks of uncertainty waiting for the new government to form i. we've seen the effects on the u.s. market, the dow dropping 350 points. what about in europe? what do you see happening? what do people think will happen in europe and the effect on the united states? >> well, the near term effect is probably likely to be much less muted in europe and the rest of the world than four or five years ago when the greek crisis first erupted. the other countries who are vulnerable have places to go.
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europe has a bailer fund and the european central bank made it clear they will lend money to countries who need it provided the countries are agreed to reform reached by the european commission. so it's unlikely you will get money fleeing from banks and the bond market shutting down like three or four years ago. what greece demonstrated is people have a limit to their ability to tolerate pain. while the situation is not as bad in italy, greece and spain, it is still quite that and people do have a breaking point. if the economy gets worse in europe and they have been doing relatively well until recently, that could increase the tolerance of voters for austerity, bring to power movements similar to greece and once again raise questions about the future of the euro i. there are many more questions about greece but we have a few seconds left. i want to ask you about another financial crisis point and that
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is puerto rico. >> yeah. >> woodruff: the governor over the weekend saying his territory is about to move into bankruptcy. what's the story there? how did this happen? >> puerto rico's problems have been developing for many years and are similar to greece's. it's chronically uncompetitive country but because it's locked in a monetary union with the united states it can't revalue its dollar to regain competitiveness. as a result they have a shrinking population and tax base and i think what the governor will say is this debt cannot be repaid, it wantso restructure debts with creditors. how? nobody notes. puerto rico cannot go to bankruptcy court the way a city or county can in the united states, so uncertainty ahead for puerto rico. the parallels to greece only go so far. puerto rico is not about to exit the dollar and no other state that looks like puerto rico is about to follow suit.
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this will be tough for puerto rico. the federal government has a large presence there. the federal government pays for social security, cushioning the hardship that will otherwise fall on the puerto rican people. >> woodruff: wire services are reporting puerto rico's governor saying he'll ask for chapter 9 bankruptcy. we'll be watching and thank you for bringing us up to at a time on both crises. greg ip, thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: the supreme court closed out a dramatic session today with three more high- profile decisions. the latest rulings touched on how the e.p.a. regulates our air, how to map voting lines and how states carry out the death penalty. justices also put on hold a texas law that was set to close a number of clinics that perform abortions in the state this week. and joining me to discuss it all is our hardworking court expert marcia coyle, with the "national
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law journal." they're going out with a bank. >> they certainly are, judy. >> woodruff: let's start with the texas decision. this is a emergency appeal the court granted to block the state of tax from imposing stricter rules on abortion clinics. >> the federal court ruled against the whole women's health clinic and other clinics in texas no challenge to texas law that requires clinics to meet standards of ambulatory surgical facilities which the clinics claim they are not and that their physicians have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of the clinic. this is a temporary delay to allow the clinics to file what we call a petition for search cert, their appeal to have thrower court desismghts four justice is would have allowed the lower court's decision to go into effect immediately. geoff justice and justices
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scalia, thomas and alito. so the deadline, that's when the lower court decision was to take effect. it's now on hold. the appeals by the clinics has not been filed in the supreme court. >> woodruff: so this gives time to those who did not want this to happen. >> exactly. >> woodruff: let's turn to the decisions handed out this morning that we knew might be coming today. starting with the one to uphold the right of oklahoma to use this controversial drug as part of the lethal injection execution. this case we are seeing revealed a sharp divide among the justices about the death penalty itself, and i'm going to ask you about this and i want to first read two of the comments made by the justices in their opinions and the majority justice alito said "because some risk of pain is inherent in any method of execution, we have held that the constitution does not require the avoidance of all risk of pain. after all, while most humans
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wish to die a pinless death, many do not have that good fortune. now, justice stephen breyer bringing a dissent said "mather than trying to patch up the death penalty's regal wounds one at a time, i would ask for a full briefing on a more basic question, whether the death penalty violates the constitution. i believe it is now time to reopen the question ." >> we had two things going on. this was a 5-4 decision in the death penalty, often divides the supreme court. the first thing was the challenge to this drug. it's a sedative, and oklahoma and a few other states turned to it as the first drug in a three-drug protocol that it's supposed to make the inmate who is to be executed unconscious while the next two drugs, one paralyzes tinmate, the third one basically kills him, take effect.
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the death row inmates here from obamacare, there were three, claimed the drug does not work that way, that there were botched executions that we've read about where inmates have gasped, said it's not working and not died for 20 minutes or longer. today justice alito in his lit made two points about the drug. first, he said he did not believe that the inmates had sufficient scientific evidence to move it doesn't work and went with the state's expert witness in this respect. secondly, he said this is what really dooms their claim, under an 2008 supreme court decision involving wreathle injection, he said the inmates were who are going to challenge the method as unconstitutional have to come forward with a myth that is constitutional and said these inmates did not. that was the first part. then we had justice breyer and
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ginsburg writing. justice breyer wrote the dissent that she joined and said he felt there have been 340 years experimentation, studies, reports and the death penalty isn't working andeth time to reexamine it. he pointed out, for example, it's arbitrary and often depends on your race, gender, where you live, whether it's going to be imposed. it's unreliable. he said look at the number of exonerations we've had. he said there is substantial evidence innocent people have been executed. there is a delay. it takes on average 18 years from conviction to sentencing. for all those reasons, he said, the quote should have at least full briefing on the question of its continuing tons tuition that. >> so opening up this bigger question. >> exactly and the death penalty will be on the doctor next term. >> woodruff: there were two major opinions. i want to focus on this ruling
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on the obama administration's environmental regulations, the court saying the e.p.a. made a mistake in 2011 when it said power plants must regulate and limit the amount of mercury and other toxin they emit. >> the problem -- and this was also a 5-4 decision written by justice scalia -- some power plant challenged epiap's regulation of mercury i missions saying e.p.a. failed to consider the costs in determining whether it was -- and this is standard language, appropriate and necessary to regulate. justice scalia said today that was right, the e.p.a. was unreasonable in not considering the cost at the very front end. e.p.a. did consider costs and said it would consider costs when it got to actually formulating a standard that the power plants had to meet. >> woodruff: but they didn't knock down the authority of the
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e.p.a. >> no. >> woodruff: didn't say to power plants they have to do this. >> and left it to tep ap to go back and decide how it was going to handle the cost considerations. >> woodruff: marcia coyle, watching the court for us. >> my pleasure, judy. experts for tips on being more >> woodruff: the court's e.p.a. decision is sending ripples of reaction through both environmental and energy groups. our jeffrey brown has more on what the ruling will mean. >> brown: we start with the white house. after high court victories on the affordable care act and same-sex marriage, today president obama suffered a supreme court setback on his environmental policy. white house spokesman josh earnest spoke to reporters earlier. >> we're still reviewing decision announced earlier, obviously we are disappointed w outcome, and for specific questions about outcome i'd
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refer to e.p.a. i will say based on what we've read so far, no reason this court ruling should have impact on ability of administration to develop the clean power plants. >> brown: and we pick up on the question of the ruling's impact with lynne goldman, dean of the george washington school of public health. and jeff holmstead, an attorney with the firm bracewell and guiliani, who defends companies and business groups in environmental cases. both our guests previously served as assistant administrators at the e.p.a. jeffholmstead, you're on the winning side in this case, how serious a challenge do you see this to e.p.a. regulation in this area. >> there was?e.p.a. suggested a cost of
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$9.6 billion a year and has been the centerpiece of what they've cone, so i think it's a signature loss for the agency. >> brown: has in its ability to do what? >> well, the issue is quite simple, the question is does e.p.a. need to take into account the cost of its regulations before it makes these decisions and the court not surprisingly said, yes, that's an important aspect of any decision like this, you have to consider the cost. so that will -- they established a principle to affect in many other regulations. >> brown: before the larger impact, this particular case you continue see it as so sweeping. >> i don't, actually. i was disappointed in the ruling. i don't think it's a major setback. i think it will force the e.p.a. to go back and incorporate the considerations of costs that they used in the final stage where they actually bit off the standard.
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they didn't incorporate the costs into the initial stage. >> brown: explain the question of cost and benefits, they're out there and the e.p.a. says it has done some of that, what is the court saying they did not do? >> it's also a unique situation with this rule because there were specific provisions in the clean air act with regard to the regulation of mercury that required the court to make a finding whether mercury and related toxins should be regulated and from the standpoint of public health they said, yes, and if so, how. and they did do a very careful examination of the costs in that second stage, but not in the first stage, and i think what the justices said is they should have done it in the first stage and, so, why i don't think it's a setback is they've done the work to analyze the costs and the benefits to public health and they can now go back and incorporate that into the original findings. so i don't see it as being
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sweeping, particularly, because of the specifics around the mercury provisions. but also because i think -- we're at a stage where 70% of the industry is already complying with the rule. >> brown: to be clear, you're not disputing the notion that the e.p.a.'s mandate to regulate in this area has been tampered with by this ruling, right? >> well, it really has been. the reason why e.p.a. didn't consider cost, they didn't take that decision lightly. the problem they had is if they acknowledge the cost at the front end, they would have a hard time justifying this regulation. so it has gone back to e.p.a. we'll see the way they deal with it, but it establishes the principle that unless congress told the agency that it can't consider cost it is unreasonable and unlawful for the agency to make decisions without taking cost into account. >> but this is actually not the case because e.p.a.'s analysis
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said this rule saves 11,000 lives a year. prevents 130,000 asthma attacks a year and, in fact, provides a range between $37 billion and $90 billion every year in savings, so it is simply not true that the regulation isn't worth the benefits, it's just that calculation was done at the back-end, not the outset. >> brown: what about the larger point there is a principle established and will have wider impact on environmental law? >> i don't see that. i think under, you know, successes, administrations, that this performance of cost and benefit analysis, e.p.a. has always had to do that, and it's a procedural issue of where that's incorporated and not whether or not it would result in a ruling --
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>> brown: as an example? i disagree with that. this is the first time the court said clearly -- and it's true it's in the context of a specific issue burks what they said is unless congress told an agency they can't consider cost in making regulatory conditions, they have to do so. >> brown: can you give an example? this summer i think we're expecting more regulations around climate change and greenhouse gases from power panthersplants. would this be in play in terms of what the court can and cannot do? >> i think this case will have significant implications but i think the legal holding is not relevant because, in that case e.p.a. has said it considered the cost. but here's why i think it will be important -- number one, it shows now for the second time in a row that the supreme court is not just going to rubber stamp what e.p.a. wants to do, and
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there's big questions about the power plant rule. as lynne said, most of the plants have already to comply with the rule that the court now said was legally invalid at least in terms of how e.p.a. did it. that means companies have spent tens of billions of dollars and something like 100 power plants shut down because to have the rule that now the court has said will be illegal and that will be something they will look at. >> brown: do you think the e.p.a. will see this as a bump in the road and continue on? >> because the court did not overturn the rule. they sent it back to lower court. court. all e.p.a. mas to do is redo the analysis. if they consider at one stage, they don't have to do it at two. >> brown: thank you both very much. >> thank you.
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>> woodruff: the presidential hopeful list is ready to expand again, and the republican field is divided in its reaction to the supreme court same-sex marriage case. plenty to talk about for politics monday. joining us this week is stu rothenberg of the rothenberg and gonzales political report and tamara keith of npr. thank you both for being here. let's talk first about the supreme court. the court, in not undermining the affordable care act, it upheld it, and we won't get into specifics but all the republicans disagree with what they did. will this be an issue? >> yes. this sets up a general election where there's a choice between preserving the affordable care act or repeal and replace which is the message republicans are saying now. what the supreme ceurt did them a favor on is they won't have to
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get real specific about how they'd replace it because there isn't sort of an imminent crisis of subsidies going away. >> i think we have been talking about the a.c.a. for five years. it's part of the republican dna. they want to talk about it, voters want to hear about it. i think there will be pressure to go into detail that if you get rid of the affordable care act, what are the alternatives? but i think the next few months between now and the nomination i think they will talk about it. i don't think they will quite have the passion in talking abit they once did because you can only have passion for so long. >> woodruff: some republicans are even relieved the court went the way they did because it puts them in a stronger position during the general election. let's turn to the court's other big decision last friday and that, of course was upholding same-sex marriage. it's interesting to see and we're going to show the audience how some of the republicans divide on this. there were a group -- they all
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disagree with the decision, but some are saying we are going to walker, rick santorum, and then the other group says we oppose what the court did but we accept it and they don't seem to be making as big an issue, this is jeb bush, ben carson, interestingly, chris christie, lindsey graham and marcomarco rubio. how do you see this playing out? >> this is a reflection on the republican party not as much as in ideology but tone, tenor, style, how you deal with these things. the republican have a fundamental problem with about half to have the electorate. that is they do fine among non-his hank whites and poorly among everybody else. gay voters included. they have a problem with looking
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intolerant, cold-blooded unwelcoming. that's the best word, unwelcoming. so we have a division in the republican party where half the party wants to be more we we welcoming. we disagree but want to reach out. the other half is doubling down, energizing the republican base and getting the people angry. they're already angry. >> woodruff: what does this mean for the campaign? >> you have a division between those who are betting their primary win on winning evangelicals and need to be really strong on that, and those who would prefer not to talk about gay marriage any more than they absolutely have to because they have their eyes on the general election, and in the general election, 60% approximately of the u.s. population supports gay marriage and approximately that% of republicans support that so the future of the party is already supporting gay marriage on some level. so those are the ones who are
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not as concerned about purity and are more concerned about the general election. >> woodruff: will be interesting to see what happens in the debates. let's talk ability bobby jindal, the governor of louisiana, stu who got in at the end of last week. how does he fit in and what does this mean? >> perfect segue. bobby jindal is now nowhere on the republican radar in terms of polling. he is a person of considerable assets. he is a candidate of color, 44 44, relatively young, brown educated, turned down harvard to become a road road scholar. ran a hospital in his 20's on incredible credentials. how does he get relevant? i think by moving right, talking about cultural and religious issues. bobby jindal knows if he didn't
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didn't -- if he doesn't do well in iowa, he's out of the race. how do you become the darling of social conservatives, do what he's doing now. >> woodruff: how do you see him fitting in? >> last week in iowa calling for the elimination of the supreme court because of the way it ruled. coming out with big, bold statements, positioning himself as far right as you can get saying he will be a principal conservative on any number of things including religious freedom, affordable care act everything. he does say he has a plan for the affordable care act, for replacing it. off. >> woodruff: let's talk about another governor getting in the race tomorrow, i think it will make 15 or 16. we're losing count. but chris christie. he's jumping in. >> yes, and his campaign motto will be "telling it like it is" and he will immediately after his announcement go to new hampshire and do a ton of town haultown hall events like a straight
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talk express that john mccain kid. he doesn't have a ton of money. jeb bush locked up a lot of big donors chris christie would have wanted, but it doesn't take a lot of money to go meet and win over every new hampshire republican you can find. >> i think he's in the same light as jeb bush, and jeb bush got out early and coal coalesced the support of the establishment. it's not about issues, it's about personality and style and his style is appealing to a lot of the republicans. he'll stick it to the teachers and tell them to sit down and shut up if he doesn't like where they are, but you could come aross cross as angry and i think there is risk for governor chris christie. >> woodruff: donald trump separating from nbc over the miss america show and his programming. will this have an impact? >> i think nbc was separating
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from him because of his comments about mexican immigrants. the thing to it seems to me that stands out is hillary clinton is already quoting a republican and not saying it's donald trump. >> donald trump will be donald trump. >> woodruff: thank you both. you're welcome. sure. >> woodruff: the women's world cup is nearing its finish and the u.s. team is very much in the hunt for the championship. three former cup champions-- germany japan and the united states-- are in the semifinals while england is making its first appearance. tomorrow night, the u.s. will face germany. it's the fourth time in the history of the women's cup that these two countries have played each other. in each of the prior matches, the winner has gone on to win the title. jeffrey brown picks up the story from there. >> brown: germany is the number one team in the world with an offense that has speed and size. but the u.s. has the top defense at the moment. the american women haven't allowed a goal in 423 minutes
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the third-longest streak in women's world cup history. their most recent victory came friday night, over china. christine brennan, sports columnist for "usa today" and commentator for abc news, joins me now. so, christine, an american team that keeps winning, keeps facing questions about how good it is, and now they have a real touch. >> this is it. if you wanted to say this could be the final at the world cup, the semifinals, this would be it. germany and the u.s. the two best teams. the u.s. has not looked it because it has been so defensive minded. >> brown: the style of play. it's been a boring style. a lot of fans are saying what's wrong with the team. so far nothing, in the sense they advance and move through. we will see. this will be the test. is the u.s. fine, a strong defensive backbone and occasional goal or two or will germany overwhelm the united states? i think that's the fear at this point after watching that
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france-germany game which looked like a track meet compared to the way the u.s. has looked out so far. >> brown: the standout players, a key player is the goal tender, be uh with a lot of controversy attached. >> absolutely, awaiting hearings on domestic violence charges. this has been going on since last summer. i have written and said they should have suspended her last summer or in the qualifying last fall. the fact she's playing with a domestic violence charge still there, the allegation after ray rice is an embarrassment to u.s. cork, but she plays on, is there, has been the best goal keeper in the world. >> brown: abby wombach, one of the great stars nearing the end of her career. >> absolutely, last world cup, 35 years old, fabulous with kids. she has an uneven world cup and wants this more than anything to have the world cup added to her resume. i wouldn't be spraidz if she's in the game near the end with a
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chance near the header to maybe make a difference. >> brown: is there any player who has surprised you or been a real standout for the americans? >> the defense earlier, julie johnston. unknown. she worked her way on to the team. she has been stellar. she will be tested against germany, for sure. >> brown: what about britain winning? a bit of a surprise. first time in the seemia -- semifinals, and home team canada losing. >> and that hurts attendance. you want to have the home team there for the great draw and the weekend. they don't be that way anymore. for years the sexism of england, they just cared about the men's team. >> brown: they didn't pay attention. >> they didn't. i went to the british open in 1999 and they said what women's team? i said we just won the world cup, why doesn't anyone have a team they cared about?
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they since put money in and england is now a soccer craved nation, finally showing it cares about its women. >> brown: larger scale, looking at the tournament, what does it tell us about the state of the women's soccer game not only compared to the men's side, but just where you might have that it would be, say, 20 years ago. >> certainly in 1999, the thought 16 years later, what will this look like after bran dip chastain, there are more countries playing and more people caring about the women's team but you're saying the same things bubbling. the united states with the title 9, germany, the scandinavian nation, japan, communist nations like china you want to see breakthrough performances. england is breaking through. england is a sooker crazy nation. with title 9, the u.s., it's almost to the point where we're
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just talking about the soccer and not talking about the deeper meaning of the people and that is an achievement. >> brown: christine brennan, thank you so much. >> thank you, jeff. >> woodruff: now, a story of hope. the redline art gallery in denver helps artists who have experienced homelessness and other hardships. here in their own words, the artists talk about how the reach studio program has changed their lives. >> my name's gonzo. i've been doing art for about 10 years. i add a little here and there. right now i'm involved in massive collage works. i started doing art when i was locked up in prison. to me it was a therapeutical escape. and i just really got hooked. >> i'm robin gallite. i'm the education direct at redline. reach studio started because there were two metro university students who wanted to create a
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program for artists who were experiencing homelessness. we offer a space to create for people who would not have space to create traditionally. we offer mentorship. >> my name is jason clark. i'm a mixed media artist and designer. i've currently been with reach for three years now. what it's allowed me to do is basically pull myself off the streets, of getting a safe haven to express myself even in the frustration of seeing the drug use and prostitution and violence. i was able to come in during the week and actually treat it like a full-time job and escape the trenches of street violence. >> i'm caroline pooler. in my 20s i looked at a prestigious local art school here in colorado and determined
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it was something that i couldn't afford. it was a dream i'd kind of set aside about 30 years ago. and then through redline a couple years back, that school got interested in our message about homelessness and street life and they offered a generous gift of a scholarship to some of us reach artists and i was one of the recipients. >> my name is risa murray. i am a student and am going to be an art educator. there's been so many open doors since i've come to reach. i hope to go overseas. i would like to teach for a period of time overseas. that's what i'd like to do with my teaching certificate. >> some of the artists sell their work and that has been wonderful for them. they get 75% and redline takes 25% back into the program itself. >> i've been in about five exhibitions with them. i've sold pieces that are in
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professional office areas. my goal this year is to get bigger and better at this but i ain't in it for the money. (laughs) >> my works of the past two and a half years have been reflective of the experience of the street. the name of this piece is called "whore" and it's really intense. the color red is used. the eyes are distorted-- they're kind of blotted out and the lips are accentuated. there's a piece i did called "the starving artists series" and i basically painted with a plastic fork. it was reflective of that street experience and seeing people digging through trash cans for their meals, standing in sandwich lines. >> success in the program is sometimes hard to document.
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i've noticed throughout reach, a lot of the people that came in that were experiencing homelessness may have transitioned into stable living environments. we can't directly say that's because of us. but i do think the relationships they build with staff members and peers and artists in the community is the most beneficial part. and that's where i see most of the transformation as an individual. >> i have committed a certain body of work to something i call the "concrete chronicles," which does speak directly to street life. i have taken some of my paintings that are of very natural riverscapes and put them on abandoned building doorways where people sleep. and i want them to look at that and think of something tender in their past or something that might draw them to a better future. >> i think my message is hope. i
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want people to feel hopeful about life. i want people to feel joy and that life is worth living. and that's another thing about reach studio artists: they invoke a celebration of life itself. >> if you enter these doors and you see the reach artists working and you know what their situation was and that they're living their dreams out, you know not to give up on that no matter what the circumstances. i would like people to take away a certain amount of hope and strength from what we do. >> woodruff: coming up later this evening on pbs, "the overnighters," a "p.o.v." documentary about the struggles a north dakota town faces as a
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rush of workers flock to the area hoping to land a job in the oil fields. but for some, job prospects and housing options are sparse and one pastor tries to help those in need, converting his church into a makeshift dorm, despite the congregation's objections and neighbors' fears. it's been a long time. i hate to take the role of the antagonist. somebody needs to turn some rocks over and say, so what is community in this place? what are we going to do here? >> we asked for public input. i would speak against the adoption of this ordinance. i believe that we need to take a step that says people arriving on our doorstep are gifts to us and, although there's a burden in receiving them as a gift, to welcome them. i also believe that by the
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ordinance, you risk serve fear, the fear of the people coming at us and the last thing we need to do is to serve our fear. >> our top story, the f.b.i. says it believes it has uncovered the body of missing teacher sherry. >> the multi-state law enforcement discovered a woman's body east of williston north dakota. the 44-year-old teacher went to work but never returned. >> investigators at a sai they know more about the two men who kidnapped her. they may have driven through the popular high school teacher's hometown hoping to find jobs in the booming oil industry. the disappearance is fueling tensions between locals and the frood of out-of-towners. the town is living in fear. >> this made us suspicious in
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ways that i don't think we would have been. it really does intensify the fear. there is a fear of a newcomer. specifically the overnighters are not we welcomed as part of the community. >> woodruff: that's the "p.o.v." documentary "the overnighters," later tonight on most pbs stations. on the newshour online chicago mayor rahm emanuel famously works out seven days a week. and winston churchill famously napped every afternoon. what's their secret for juggling intense jobs with personal time? we talked to time-management experts for tips on being more efficient at work. it's part one in our series on the elusive work/life balance and you can find that on our home page, that's at pbs.org/newshour. tune in later this evening on charlie rose: more on greece at a turning point-- what does it mean for europe and the world? and that's the newshour for tonight.
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on tuesday, we'll sit down with james taylor on his latest hit album, his first with all new songs in more than a decade. i'm judy woodruff, join us online, and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us here at the pbs newshour, thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> 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.
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