captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> ifill: good evening. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: on the newshour tonight, as the justice department releases a transcript of the orlando shooters 9-1-1 call, the senate takes up gun control, and the supreme court upholds assault weapons bans in two states. >> woodruff: also ahead, a report on the ground in fallujah where iraqi government forces are closing in on isis militants holed up in the key city. >> ifill: plus, a big trump campaign staff shakeup, as democrats take a summer lead in polling and fundraising. it's politics monday. >> woodruff: plus, the world's most popular modern art museum, the tate modern, builds upon its pioneering history with a new ten story wing. >> i think that maybe we helped

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in them, omar mateen pledges allegiance to the leader of the islamic state group, and says the u.s. should stop bombing iraq and syria. initially, this morning, officials released partial transcripts, without the references to isis. >> part of the redacting is to not give credence to individuals who have done terrorist acts in the past. we're not going to propagate their violent rhetoric and we see no value in putting those individuals names back out there. we're trying to prevent future acts from happening again and for cowards like this one, people like that influence them, so we're not going to continue to put their names out front. >> woodruff: republicans criticized the decision, and hours later, the justice department put out more complete transcripts. >> ifill: in the presidential campaign, vice president joe biden went after donald trump today over his calls for action against muslims. in a washington speech, the vice president did not directly name the republican nominee-to-be, but his target was clear.

>> wielding the politics of fear and intolerance, like the proposal to ban muslims from entering the united states, profiling muslim americans, slandering entire religious communities as complicit in terrorism, calls into question america's status as the greatest democracy in the history of the world. >> ifill: also today, trump fired his longtime campaign manager, corey lewandowski. the campaign gave no reason, and lewandowski denied reports that he'd alienated members of trump's family. asked on cnn why he was let go, he said: "i don't know the answer to that." we'll dig deeper on "politics monday." >> woodruff: a searing heat wave peaked today in the southwestern u.s., with temperatures expected to hit 120 degrees in some places. the triple-digits are breaking 50-year-old records and at least two deaths in arizona are blamed on the heat. conditions are also making it even tougher to control wildfires across the region.

>> ifill: there will be no federal criminal charges in the case of a georgia teenager, who suffocated inside a rolled-up gym mat. kendrick johnson died at his valdosta high school in january of 2013. local officials ruled he got stuck trying to reach a gym shoe. that prompted rallies and marches, but today, the justice department said there's not enough evidence to prove a crime. >> woodruff: the british parliament convened in special session today, to pay tribute to jo cox. the labor m.p. was shot and stabbed to death last week in her home district. lawmakers recalled cox's life and work, and placed two roses, one white for her home county of yorkshire and one red for the labour party, at her now-vacant seat. >> jo was struck down much too soon, so it now falls on all of our shoulders-- the woman i met in the coffee shop in batley, jo's friends, m.p.', all of us-- to carry on jo's work.

to combat and guard against intolerance, hatred and injustice, to serve others with dignity and with love. and that is the best way that we can remember jo and all that she stood for. >> woodruff: after a three-day halt, campaigning resumed today on whether britain should stay in the european union. the referendum is thursday. >> ifill: wall street surged today, on optimism that britain will vote to stay in the e.u. the dow jones industrial average gained 129 points to close near 17,805. the nasdaq rose almost 37 points, and the s&p 500 added 12. >> woodruff: a record 65 million people were forced from their homes worldwide last year, largely by war. that's roughly equal to the entire population of great britain. the u.n.'s refugee agency reports more than half were fleeing conflicts in syria, afghanistan and somalia. and while millions escaped to other nations, many more are on

the run within their own countries. >> ifill: iran says it has broken up one of the largest terror plots ever on its soil. state tv today reported police arrested several suspects, and seized bombs and ammunition. it suggested the islamic state, or other sunni militants may be to blame. iran is supporting the fight against isis in iraq and syria. >> woodruff: and, china leads the world in supercomputers for the seventh year in a row. an annual ranking out today also finds that, for the first time, china has more machines than the u.s. on the list. one is five times faster than the fastest u.s. supercomputer. still to come on the newshour: the gun debate continues in congress and in court. a humanitarian crisis unveiled as iraqi forces retake fallujah. a major shakeup in the donald trump campaign, and much more.

>> ifill: in the wake of the deadly orlando nightclub shooting, the debate over gun violence faced a series of votes on capitol hill. lisa desjardins reports. >> reporter: from courtrooms, to congress, the often- theoretical debate over guns touched ground today, eight days after the massacre in orlando. in washington: a showdown on the senate floor over four different gun control measures, from background checks to banning sales to those on the no-fly list. it was a classic partisan duel. tried, all the time the cheerleaders of bosses of nra,. >> our colleagues want to make this about gun control, colleagues many ways want to fight the symptoms without

fighting the disease. >> reporter: lots of debate, but no expected changes, when all was said and done. across the street, supreme court justices decided not to hear an appeal of semi-automatic weapons bans in connecticut and new york. that means the bans, enacted after the school shootings in 2012, at newtown, connecticut, stay in place. families of the newtown victims were also watching this courtroom in bridgeport, where a state judge heard arguments about whether they can sue a gun manufacturer. james vogts represents remington arms, which made the semi- automatic rifle used in the newtown shooting: >> it's really not the role of this court, or perhaps a jury, to decide whether civilians, as a broad class of people, are not appropriate to own these class of firearms. >> reporter: joshua koskoff represents the families who are suing. >> it was an ar-15 rifle, a weapon, judge, that was designed to be used in combat by our military to assault and kill enemies of war in the fields of

it was remington's choice to entrust the most notorious american military killing machine to the public. >> reporter: recent polls show americans generally support gun restrictions. in a reuters-ipsos survey last week, about 71% approved of strong or moderate gun restrictions. while about 16% want basic limits and just six percent said firearms should have no or few restrictions. but as debate continues, so does the violence. in chicago yesterday, police reported something rare-- an apparent gang-related shooting using not a handgun, but a semi- automatic assault rifle. >> i mean, when does it stop? what's going to-- how do we get help with this? >> reporter: the chicago victim was 17 years old. >> ifill: for more on the recurring debate over gun laws and gun ownership, we turn now to marcia coyle, newshour regular and chief washington correspondent for the "national law journal." evan osnos, whose extensive report on concealed carry laws

appears in this week's "new yorker" magazine. and newshour correspondent lisa desjardins, who's been following the action on capitol hill. >> as of now this time 6:00 p.m. eastern time tonight do we have -- is there any possibility any of the four gun bills that were up for a vote today might pass? >> realistically, no. we already know one has failed. something feels innocuous. background checking, received 60 votes, republican amendment that did not clear, we do not expect the others to clear there that bar either. >> ifill: public opinion? >> not just americans as a whole gwen supporting things like background checks, moderate restrictions you could say but republicans as a group. recently pew and many other groups find 80% support

background checks but republicans are going the other directions. >> ifill: marcia the court decided not to take up a challenge to assault weapons in new york and connecticut. we know when the court doesn't do something that doesn't necessarily mean a lot. but there's a record here. there's a pattern. >> well there is, the court not wanting to get back into this second amendment arena. the court's had a number of petitions come before them in recent years. even this year there was another assault weapon type ban out of highland park illinois. the challenge came to the supreme court and the supreme court did not want to take it up. it's not unusual for the court to allow certain questions, to percolate in the lower court, after it's made a major ruling. and the major ruling though here came in 2008 in the so-called heller decision involving the district of columbia ya's handgn

ban. you need four to take a case into the supreme court and there just isn't there. despite strong dissent, clarence thomas, samuel alito, and the late scalia. they are about how the lower courts have been dealing the 2008 landmark decision. those three justices have said at various times that they feel the lower courts aren't giving right, recognized 50 second amendment, the due -- by the second amended meament the due it should have. they are alt over the map how they examine restrictions on guns and it's time they feel for the court to step back into this area. >> ifill: okay, evan, let's talk more specifically about the business branch of government as it were. there is a business incentive which has various to did with the laws about -- do with the

laws about why guns continue to be sold. >> this is the thing that is sort of a paradox, at this moment when we look at the effects that guns have had on the country in the last two weeks, the gu gun managers are doing better than ever. smith and wesson stock increased 10% bithe time the market opened after orlando. what's going on? the industry experiences a very unique place in american culture. since the law that was passed in congress in 2005, meaning somebody passes a lawsuit it's very difficult to do it. one of the things we heard in the segment is in connecticut, that lawsuit is enormously important. what it's going to try to do is figure out if the gun industry today which has basically been able to profit in the period that mass shootings have elevated the fear, elevated people's desire to own a gun for self defense, civil case he in

the past have shaped industry behavior, bp with oil or tobacco and how they market, whether in fact they will be shaped by their role in these kinds of national tragedies. >> lisa, we have been talking second effort of gun control in the senate has failed. here is my question, as evan just said, there's a distinct difference between an argument about gun control and self defense. self defense seems something everybody can get behind. is that argument playing out on the floor of the senate or something more arcane? >> it's both. the biggest argument is the argument about the no-fly or terror watch list. i say this that while today's votes do not expect to be meaningful, there is a compromise effort led by susan collins of main, in somehow preventing people on the no fly list from getting guns.

there are talks similar, the difference in is between republicans mistrust of government having a list of americans that it can block from having a gun. the list is not public, you don't know when you're on the list, and republicans say that's a problem. they err on the side of allowing more people the ability to buy guns. democrats say no. let's err on the side of preventing people who we think are dangerous from owning guns. that's what they're working out now. >> ifill: the courts in general, is there a long line of gun debates headed for high court or does it pretty much stop at appeals court? does it pretty much stop further down the line so the court waits for conflict? >> the court will wait for a conflict. and they may get one, involving maryland's ban on assault weapons that right now is in the fourth circuit court of appeals and was argued in may, so a decision could come any day. but there's another factor too,

gwen, that i think comes into place here. that is, the new york case that the supreme court did not take today, was not the major challenge. the federal appellate court that ruled in the connecticut case also had another new york challenge at the same time and uphold new york's ban back in october. in march, the largest gun rights group in new york decided not to go to the supreme court on the advice of their lawyers, for two reasons. one, justice scalia was no longer on the bench, the champion of the second amendment individual right. and two, we now have an eight-justice court and the possibility of a 4-4 split would mean the lower court's opinion upholding both bans would stay in plate. they didn't want that precedent. >> ifill: fascinating. evan, you talk about corch sealed carry laws -- concealed

carry laws, multiple gun ownership, one person can own eight guns and that's happening more and more. >> right, this is the thing we don't often talk about, the biggest thing that's begun on in the culture of guns and the business of guns over the last generation is you can now legally carry them in places you simply can't before. in two decades ago you couldn't leave your house in 22 states, restricted to go outside with a gun. now it's legal in 50 states. this is the beginning or the end of a national political conversation about whether or not we are ready for that. whether or not people accept that and where they accept that. one of the reasons the court has been reluctant to weigh in to what is the next great frontier is, the radical differences in place to place and so far what has happened is that the courts have basically said we're going to leave it to the local governments, state governments

and lower governments, to decide who can carry a gun and why. >> lisa. >> the difference in the american landscape you see as a percentage, fewer gun owners tbutd they are owning more guns. becoming concentrated in very vocal minorities but controlling the eenchts. >> lisa desjardins, evan osnos and marcia coyle, thank you all very much. >> woodruff: now, we turn to iraq. the offensive to retake the city of fallujah, held by isis for more than two years, is proceeding much more quickly than anticipated. but the fighting has forced tens of thousands of its residents into the desert, as temperatures soar, without services, or even water in many cases. we turn to special correspondent jane arraf in baghdad, where she

is on assignment for the "christian science monitor." jane, you were just in fallujah yesterday. and is it the case this operation has been going much faster than expected? >> judy i.t. has been going faster than certain of the previous operations, including the battle for the provincial capital anbar. but fallujah, where i.s.i.s. first came into, where they tried to persuade iraqis that they were a better alternative than the iraqi government. they didn't lay the land mines, they didn't lay the improvised explosives that they did in the other cities. i.t. was faster to actually go through there and fight, having said that, they have not in fact liberated fallujah in the sense that the iraqi government likes to say that they have. now iraqi special forces including the commander who we

spoke with says that they have now cleared 75% of the city. american military sources say they think that's closer to 25%. and they say that the effort is continuing. but as it's continuing, as you pointed out, there is absolute tragedy on the outskirts of fallujah with all the civilians trying to flea. >> woodruff: well tell us about that. what -- who stayed in fallujah when i.s.i.s. had control, and what's happening to those people? >> most did leave at the beginning but then a lot of people stayed for a variety of reasons. and when it got to two years in, essentially, they weren't allowed to leave. so the people that i was speaking with mostly women and children because they were separated from their husbands and brothers as the iraqi security force he try to weed out suspected i.s.i.s. fighters from the since fleeing, were telling us they had been without

real food for weeks on end. now, as the siege of fallujah intensified, i.s.i.s. itself started running out of food and it started giving food only to those tribes, those families, that were loyal to it. groups of women i spoke with said they were living on anything they could afford, dried dates meant for animal feed. they could only leave the city through bribery, they basically stayed judy because they had to stay. it was when i.s.i.s. was driven back and the flood gates opened and up to 80,000 people fled over the past three days, just last week, that things got really dire. some people were actually killed, trying to leave, and i met a man with the remainder of his family being evacuated by iraqi security forces, who lost

three of his daughters and his wife. when they were leaving they were hit by mortar or rocket. he ended up burying two of his daughters at the grounds of the hospital and he couldn't leave without iraqi forces rescuing him. those there are living in dire circumstances, there isn't a consistent water supply, no shelter, i met pregnant women lying on the ground without even a piece of shade and it's double i li puzzling because it was expected this exodus from fallujah. >> woodruff: you're saying a lot of people are there but little or no prowfertions made for those -- provisions made for those needing to get out? >> if you talk to aid organizations, very few of them on ground, that is another problem, they'll tell you up to 80,000 people actually fled over three days. so all of those people are in areas surrounding fallujah.

and it is in places that aren't really equipped to hold large number of people. the other problem is they are essentially trapped between fallujah and the fighting still going on there and on this side, baghdad. baghdad will not let them in because it believes that many of them are i.s.i.s. supporters and it isn't able to screen them. so the most poignant things is just across the bridge that leads from the outkids of baghdad to anbar province, waiting for people to cross, in temperatures that are more than 100° in the shade, scrambling for even a little bit of water, there are no toilets, there are no tents. it is a sign really that the international community as well as the iraqi government has failed them. everyone is scrambling to get aid in there, but there are people suffering and reports coming out that people might actually be dying. >> woodruff: it sounds just

horrible, jane arraf reporting for us right now in baghdad, yesterday you were in fallujah. thank you. >> thank you, judy. >> ifill: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: hard times for the coal industry and its employees. cleveland celebrates its first big sports championship in decades, and an inside look at a major addition to the world's most popular museum of modern art. but first, we turn to today's campaign news, and what the summer solstice shakeup at the trump campaign reveals about the candidate's strategy as he heads into the general election. while at the same time, hillary clinton launches a pre- convention spending spree. it's politics monday, and we turn as always to tamara keith of npr, and amy walter of the "cook political report" who joins us tonight from pittsburgh.

pam, we know that cory lewandowski trump's long term right hand plan, deeivedded cases that he roughed up reporters, that he didn't tell the truth that he had continual fights with other members of the campaign. today he's out. what happened? >> well it depends on who you ask. depending on which trump campaign source you ask and my colleagues at npr have been asking many of them, he was either ousted fired or it was a mutual agreement parting of the ways. he was fired, internal conflict, he came out on the wrong side of the conflict. the trump campaign is in a really weird place. he has been the presumptive nominee for six weeks, and he hasn't really used that time and his campaign hasn't used that time to gain any sort of

advantage. >> ifill: amy, our colleague interviewed lewandowski and said there was absolutely nothing wrong. when donald trump called him and said the words you're fired, as we all remember from the reality tv show he thought i.t. was fine. how unusual is it to have shakeups like this in big campaigns at this stage? >> that's a great answer. so many campaigns have had shakeups. the most recent of course in memory was the john mccain shakeup. both during the primary and the summer of the election year. john kerry had a campaign shakeup, hillary clinton had a campaign shakeup. john kerry as i said, al gore, all of them have one in common, none of them won.

either one you need to assure your donors or political activists or two there's something going on in the campaign where different advisorrers and the candidate have different opinions where the campaign is going to go. the challenge it seems the me for donald trump and the trump campaign is it's not so much about strategy, it is about the fact that the candidate himself doesn't seem to be able to control himself. donald trump can't fire himself and donald trump is the campaign manager and the add person and the pollster and the policy director. he is running the campaign and unless and until he listens to people who are telling him to run a more focused disciplined campaign i don't think anything is going to matter. >> ifill: unreasonable, unconventional measures he says

that's how i'm going to win the general election. let's talk about money. you talked about donors being a little freaked out. donald trump is going places, doing fund raisers, trying to raise money he says for the party. weaver compared here what hillary clinton is pearn apparey going to be spending, key states, $23 million in ads, this is june. let's compare to how much donald trump is spending. nothing, absolutely nothing. in hillary clinton's case we're talking about super-pacs as well as her own campaign money. but how do you not spend any money on ads? >> it seems that it would be a challenge. donald trump's theory here is he can do as he did in the primary, dominate free media, cable will run his stump speeches live and he'll just keep on having big crowds and keep on winning. it's an interesting theory but it's not clear how that's going

to hold up. in 2012, mitt romney didn't spend nearly as much as president obama and his allies spent. he was vastly outspent in june and as a result, the obama campaign and his allies were really able to lock in a narrative that mitt romney was never able to shake. donald trump has essentially ceded the air waves for this month. hillary clinton, her super-pac has already booked $100 million in ad buys through november in eight key states. >> let's talk about how one does that. another conventional measure is having people that agree with you. so i saw a story in the texas tribune this weekend, that donald trump goes to texas to raise money and the guy who introis him a texas banker starts to disagree with him on nafta, immigration and this is the guy writing a check to the campaign. >> right. >> ifill: exaish with hillary

clint we saw joe biden speak and attack trump on her behalf, elizabeth warren, we appear that the democrat democrats are in lp and not the republicans. >> every week the story has been about something dysfunctional going on about donald trump orthe donald trump campaign. another thing i want to point out that i think is really interesting is, where hillary clinton and the super-pac is spending moing, they are all in swing states, yes indeed but this is an offensive, not a defensive strategy. she is not playing and the outside group is not playing ads in this state, pennsylvania which has long gone democratic but a lot of people see as the kind of place where donald trump can break through or wisconsin, another rift belt state and michigan, another state donald

trump says he is going to be able to compete in with his appeal to white middle class voters. just to me they feel more ccht in their defense and now they get to play all offense all the time. remember if hillary clinton holds ery state that john kerry carried, it's over, she doesn't need to win any other state in that map. >> ifill: i have one more question for both of you, there has been talk of a delegate insurgency. find a way to fight trump at the convention. amy? >> i'm keptal, if i've -- skeptical. it's grass roots, this would go over very badly with the grass roots with the base, number 1. number 2, there is no other candidate, i don't see there's an alternative. and if trump gets ousted in a

coup, is he going to make things easy for the republicans? he'll be back on twitter and back on social media making things muz rabble for them. >> ifill: amy? >> what she said. it's like a big bubble, and it bursts and comes back down again. >> ifill: tamera keith amy walker, thank you as always. >> you're welcome. >> you're welcome. >> woodruff: hard times are hitting the energy sector in america's west. oil and gas production are down, and in wyoming's coal industry, three of the state's four largest producers are now in bankruptcy, leading to hundreds of layoffs. from public media's "inside energy," leigh paterson reports from gillette, wyoming on how the state's energy booms and

busts are affecting almost everyone. >> reporter: gail japp's horses have helped her through hard times, like when she was getting divorced. >> when you've had a bad day you just come out and they just make life worth going on. >> reporter: especially this one, named money. >> he's very trusting and he's very loving. >> reporter: recently, things have been tough again. japp was one of the nearly 500 wyoming coal miners laid off recently. to pay her mortgage, she will have to sell a lot of her things, including her beloved horses. >> i have no choice. i've got to downsize. and there's a lot of stuff i'm going to have to sell. >> reporter: japp worked for peabody energy for over a decade, mostly driving large haul trucks. after cutting jobs, including hers, in march, the coal giant declared bankruptcy in april. >> those were so fun. them things were just awesome

>> reporter: she misses it, and is worried about getting a new job. >> yeah, i can't leave gillette. which is really going to make it hard for me to find something because my dad is 90 years old, and then i got two grandkids here in town who try to stay with me as much as they can. so it's just... i don't know. it's been devastating. >> reporter: that's because prices for coal, oil, and gas are all way down, all at the same time. fossil fuels employ around 10% of wyoming's private sector workforce so, an energy bust hits towns like gillette particularly hard because this region is rich in all three- coal, oil, and gas. gillette even calls itself "the energy capital of the nation." but over the past year, unemployment claims in the county have more than doubled. businesses are closing, homes are up for sale, rail traffic is

way down, and people, all of the sudden are in need of basics like food. a line formed at this church-run food bank before the doors even opened. >> you have five kids, wow! this should help out a little bit! >> reporter: volunteers served 110 families that day. dennis rehder is the pastor at project i:61 ministries. after the layoffs at the coal mines, rehder has been expecting to see those workers at the food bank. but he says they've actually been serving a lot of people in other industries, such as oilfield workers and hotel employees who have already been out of work for months. >> what that does is it makes us aware that three months from today those people that are living off savings or they have exhausted all their means of financial help or other community things now they really, really need it. so it's kind of like we're a last resort." >> thanks, babe!

>> reporter: people all over the region are looking ahead to try and figure out what's next, like many at this meeting put on by a coal advocacy group called friends of coal. >> i believe in our great state. if anybody can come through this its gonna be coal miners. >> reporter: but that won't be easy. for decades, gillette has had a strong economy and a low unemployment rate, fueled by energy dollars and plentiful, well-paying jobs. the average coal miner in wyoming, makes around 83,000 dollars a year. the average american worker makes just over half that. >> we can't play pony. >> reporter: stacey moeller has been mining since her 20s. she says coal mining is more than just a job. >> you know you work at something for a long time and it becomes such a part of you. >> reporter: losing that identity is scary. moeller isn't sure anything could replace coal mining in gillette. >> at this time, you just can't. there just isn't anything for them to go to that's comparable. what would it be?

how do we start that? how would we get there? i don't know. >> reporter: everywhere you go in gillette, people are thinking about these kinds of questions. like valerie debeau and barbi hays, the manger and owner of a local bar. >> jake's tavern is a working man's bar. >> its like a neighborhood bar. its like cheers. >> reporter: recently they've cut back on hours and stopped offering insurance to their employees. >> we don't want to have to lay off anybody. so we just continue on. try to cut our costs. >> reporter: debeau and hays have seen slowdowns before, having lived in gillette for almost 40 years. so when i asked what they're hoping for, they went back to what's always happened. >> another boom! we want that boom! >> reporter: but another coal boom is unlikely anytime soon. coal production this year, is expected to drop 16%, which could mean more trouble for

towns like gillette all across the country. for the pbs newshour, i'm leigh paterson in gillette, wyoming. >> ifill: it took more than 50 years of sports misery, in baseball, football and basketball, for the city of cleveland last night to finally break what even loyal fans had come to believe was a curse. but lebron james and the cavaliers broke through last night, making history with the greatest n.b.a. championship series comeback ever. john yang has more. >> it's over! it's over! cleveland is a city of champions once again! the cavaliers are n.b.a. champions! >> reporter: game seven of the n.b.a. finals between the cleveland cavaliers and the golden state warriors was a tense affair from start to finish.

golden state led by as much as eight points. but in the second half, lebron james and guard kyrie irving made huge plays on both ends of the floor. and cleveland knocked off golden state, which had set a regular season record for the most wins. for james, whose jersey was burned by fans six years ago when he left for miami, his performance delivered on a promise he made upon his return. >> i poured my heart, my blood, my sweat, my tears for this game. i'm home. this is what i came back for. it doesn't feel real right now. >> reporter: the fans poured into the streets in cleveland. and greeted the team when it arrived today. >> yang: a moment for ohio fans to savor, and some perspective on all this, from greg swartz. he writes about the cleveland cavaliers for the "bleacher report." and joins us from toledo, ohio.

and kevin blackistone is a sports writer for the "washington post," a regular contributor at espn and teaches sports journalism at the university of maryland. >> greg, kevin thank you both for joining us. greg, start with you, must be a simple question how big a deal is this in cleveland? >> i think this is a bigger deal than anybody could have imagined. you look at you know our history as a sports community. everybody knows it's been 52 years, but really for the cavaliers, 46 seasons. they've own been to the nba finals, this is only the third time. the first time they've won it. this is a big deal not just for cleveland but for akron, northeast ohio, all of ohio just to finally, finally say hey we got one, we're champions. it is not something that's been done for quite a long time and it's a tremendous time in northern ohio.

>> kevin, you've been listening to sports and writing about sports for a long time. how many droughts have been like this, compare it to previous droughts ached which droughts are left for big sports cities? >> obviously for chicago cubs, the boston red sox got over their drought at the turn of the millenium. even if you didn't have the entire history of cleveland, just what lebron james was able to do transformer the cleveland cavaliers franchise into a championship team, what he's done there just in the past two years since arriving is amazing in and of itself. this is amazing just in cleveland but nationally this is an amazing sports story. >> , greg, kevin, six years ago he was the most hated man in cleveland would i planning. can you imagine that happening

now? >> no, no. i'll remember that night forever in 2010. when he made his decision. that was -- man, that was your girlfriend breaking up with you. that was somebody stealing your dog. that was every like bad thing that could happen to you. your heart being ripped out, at that time, nobody could have thought he was going to come back. four years later still in his prime and really did deliver a championship here in year 2. i think it's just phenomenal because you look at it, his last two years in cleveland, they won 66 and 60 games. the four years he was gone they had the worst record in the entire flab. and now the two years that he's back two finals trips, one championship and you can make the argument he's still arguably playing the best basketball of his career after that final performance. so you're not only happy, but

the next couple of years they look pretty good as well. >> kevin let's look at that. two years since he's back he takes them to the title, takes them to the championship series twice, takes them to the title. where does this put lebron james now in the game of basketball against michael jordan, against all the others? >> magic johnson tweeted out last night it puts him in the category of tom five players in the nba of all times. let's forget that he led in every category, points, assists, blocked shots of all the players that are playing. and let's forget that two games he scored 82 games combined to force this game 7. let's look at the fact that he carried a rookie head coach in tyrone lew, and kevin blatt

another rookie head coach to this championship. when he was with miami, he won championships with eric spolstra with a head coach, had been a head coach for a couple of years and vastly unknown. whether he was originally in cleveland, most of the time he had mike brown, and when mike brown was there, was a rookie coach in the nba. that's how dynamic a talent it is that you have in lebron james, not as a player but also as a leader. and you're talking about someone who has developed his leadership skills despite his upbringing. coming up in a single-parent household, as everyone knows the story, socioeconomic problems, shoving them here and there in akron where he grew up. and he's such a mature individual, one of the most mature, well spoken, smartly spoken, athletes that we have in pro-sports today. >> and greg you say it's not

just cleveland, it's the whole region. talk about the region's attachment. his high school games in akron would be on espn. >> he is fully immersed in the region. i attended the university of akron. he was on the campus all the time in the summer. i would go to the rec center he would be working out with his trainer. i'd go past the james e. rhodes reign, he would be talking to chris paul. you just walk by him going to class, he doesn't just talk about akron and cleveland and profess his love in words, he's there, involved, hands-on. he still lives right outside of akron. he still lives the community very, very much. >> greg swartz and kevin blackistone, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you.

>> woodruff: finally tonight: a room with a view, a very large view of modern art. and it just got even bigger. jeffrey brown has our report from london. >> the queen learned some interesting facts about the nation's electricity... >> brown: london, 1962: queen elizabeth ii visits the bankside power station on the south bank of the river thames. 54 years later, the queen just celebrated her 90th birthday. and the former power station, now better known as tate modern, is celebrating its remarkable transformation into the world's most visited modern art museum, with the opening of a new ten- story extension. london mayor sadiq khan spoke at the press conference. >> the tate modern is such a success story. you've continually found new ways of supporting artists and reaching new audiences. >> brown: afterward, i talked to

nicholas serota, the man who helped conceive tate modern and has overseen it since it opened in 2000. >> i think that maybe we helped to open up the idea of what a museum could be, that the experience of visiting a museum should be a learning experience. it should be a personal aesthetic experience. but it should also be a social experience. >> brown: a social experience in a free, public space. tate modern quickly made itself a game-changer for contemporary art in britain and beyond. >> it meant a place where you could literally hang out and meet people and have conversations and debates and discussions and seminars and listen to lectures and genuinely engage with the issues that artists raise. >> brown: works by modern masters, from picasso to warhol, were part of the draw. but even more was the way the re-purposed power station had been turned into large, inviting gallery spaces. most of all the 35,000 square foot "turbine hall"-- the

largest gallery anyone had ever seen. it became the site of enormous exhibitions by leading international artists, including: anish kapoor's 'marsyas' in 2002... olafur eliasson's "weather project" in 2004... ai wei wei's "sunflowers" in 2010... and others that became happenings for locals and tourists alike. a museum that had expected to draw around two million visitors a year instead attracted more than five. "financial times" architecture critic edwin heathcote: >> the turbine hall is the best new public space in an interior, i think, possibly in the world. we're used to interiors now - malls, huge hotel lobbies. we're used to those public spaces being indoors-- airports, stations-- but actually here we have a source of culture in a genuinely public space which is an indoor plaza. >> we hoped for that. but we couldn't know because never before a museum had such a space. sometimes it's a small gap

between something great and something that is a failure. >> brown: the original design was by swiss architects jacques herzog and pierre de mueron, then little-known, now major figures with buildings around the world. and it was they who were given the rare opportunity to come back 16 years later to finish the job by creating a new wing. this time, facing a problem partially of their own making, for tate modern, along with the recreation of shakespeare's globe theater, had helped transform the bankside area of london into a bustling, highly desirable neighborhood of apartment and office buildings. how do you make a building that stands out when there's so much around it now? >> first we had glass. obvious choice for a new museum, but everything is glass today. especially in the neighborhood. so going back to brick, but make this kind of special lattice which is the perforated brick walls which brings light in and

out so it almost breathes was a good decision, i think. it's closer to the original building, but nevertheless different. >> brown: the result, called the "switch house", is a kind of twisted pyramid, and its effect is subtle, not showy. >> sometimes you try to be bigger, bigger, bigger and more, more flashy and iconic. you can't do this endlessly. it's ridiculous. sometimes you have to think of what architecture can do for people, which is not being bigger, bigger, bigger but really for the people and have a central quality also through its physicality. >> brown: inside are angled walls and galleries of concrete and wood, offering curators 60% more exhibition space for art of all kinds, including video, installations, and live performance. on opening day this group re- created' famous works of art-- here matisse's "dance."

tate modern director frances morris says past gaps will be addressed, one in particular: >> the lack of attention to the great work across the world by women now. they're poorly represented in the marketplace. they're poorly represented in exhibition program at institutions in the u.k. and the united states. so we're trying to short-circuit that by creating a sense of visibility and frankly celebration for some of those great voices in art. >> brown: another feature of the new building will no doubt make for one of london's best new public spaces: the tenth floor, 360 degree view of the city. early reviews in london's famously critical newspapers were good. now the public, many marching over the millennium bridge toward the museum, will have its say. from london, i'm jeffrey brown for the pbs newshour.

>> ifill: we have a news update before we go: the senate has failed to pass any of the three gun control measures it has taken up so far tonight. votes have split largely along party lines. all four gun control plans brought to the floor tonight. background checks and barring sales to those on a terror watch list, could break the 60 vote threshold needed to past. turn on later tonight on >> woodruff: tune in later tonight on charlie rose: vice president joe biden on america's role in the world. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. join us online and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> you were born with two stories. one you write every day, and one you inherited that's written in

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