captioning sponsored by newshour productions,lc >> woodruff: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight,en prestrump is set to deliver his first state of the union address, defore a nation ly divided. thenthe trump administration decides not to implement new sanctions against russia, but relealises of rich, influential russian businessmen, sparking anger from the kremlin. and, dreamers in school: how educators are addressing the unique challenges of their immigrant students who came co the u.s. ldren. >> we're still trying to rebuild that trust and let them know that we're not going to work against them and that we're not going to turn them in. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

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>>oodruff: president trum speaks to congress and the nation tonight, on his view of the state of the union. white hse officials say he'll tout economic progress and call for bipartisan agreement on immigration. house majority leader kevin mccarthy sarepublicans hope r a strong message. >> the number e question i want the president to ask tonight to the american people: are you better off today than you were two years ago? because i think that answer could be very strong and probably put partisanship aside and h working with us so we can solve the other problems that are before us. >> woodru: democrats, in turn, say the country is more divided than ever. and, senate minority leader chuck schumer says credit for economic progress shod go to the ast president. >> the president thinks our economic recovery is all thanks to him when reality is he owes a

lot of it to barack obama. two words i don't think we'll ar tonight on the economy: "thanks, obama!" second, we expect the president to talk about bipartisanship but throughout his time in office, he's failed to walk the walk. >> woffodmassachusetts congressman joe kennedy, grandson of the late senator robert f. kennedy, will deliver the official democratic response. and i'm joined now by white house correspondent yamiche alcindor and capitol hill correspondent lisa desjardins, for a look ahead to tonight's speech from both ends of pennsylvania avenue. hello to both of you. yamiche, you are outdoors, what are you hearing about what the president will say? >> a white house official tells me the speech will be about 50 minutes. several people worked on the speech, h.r. mcmaster, the national security adviser, gary

don't, steven miller and vice president mike pence. the theme is supposed to be building a safe, strong, and proud america. he's supposed to talk about several toplus ing immigration, national security, jobs, infrastructure and trade. somee guests the white house is bringing will really bring home that point. they're bringing people that have benefited from the publican tax plan. they're also going to be bringing somebody who adopted a child that was affected by the opioid crisis. >> woodff: and yamiche, you were telling us it's notable what the preside is not expected to talk about. >> the president is not expected to talk about some ofhe mai issues that americans are speaking about, and this is the me too movement. and sexual harassment all across the country. he's also not going to talk about the russia investigation and ert mueller. there have been so many reports out there that he might be trying to fire the special investigator. then he's also not supposed to be talking about the spike in este crim there is a lot of division in the country with race relations and people talking about that all the time, but theresident

id in a luncheon that me and you attended this afternoon that he wants the unify the country. it will be interesting to see whether or not he can do that. he said usually catastrophic ents are wh bring americans together. but he wants to do that without g americans suffer >> woodruff: he also commented at that lunch on what he'd learned as president about having... it's important to have heart as well as being concerned about money, wnich was interesting comment. lisa, to you know. this state the union address comes at a time of i guess you'd have to say some high-stakes cisions that are about to be made in congress. are republicans looking to the presint to help get some legislation they want passed done? >> abs tutely. i thit touches on the sort of strange dynamic i feel tonight. i have covered many state othe union addresses, but this one, the drama is not the speech. the drama are the deadlines that congress faces. to pass an immigration bill in the senate by next week. also to have a budget deal, much less a president who seems to be at war to some degree wit the

f.b.i. over a russia investigation. those things are day-to-day here at thecapitol. this is something that republicans think will not be affected by thepeech. what they want from this president is for him to be moderatntial, to be the things the white house indicates it's doing, but to ons fdegree expecta republicans are low to middle range. they're setting expectations that way so the president can overcome them, but the speech also presents a probleme . they h real divide on immigration. todayhe representative from arizona asked the police to ask for identification every guest tonight and if they find an undocumented immigrant here,b as there wi many guests tonight, he has asked capitol police to removm t and arrest them. that's different from other republicans, including republican carlos carbello, who has invited an undocumented dreamer, someone whoas status, but it shows the divide for republicans in this speech and ilme right now. >> woodruff: itbe interesting to see what happens.

lisa, what about the democrats?f we know many them are not happy with this president. some of them i guess are not planning to attend. some of them are going to wear various colors to show their displeasure. what are they looking for? >> take what yamiche towed you about the things the president is not talking about, the me too movement, for example, and the russia investigation, the russia sanction, those are the deings that thcrats are talking about today. they are the things they are challenging him on. a lot of democrats, especially women, nancy pelosi wearing black to suppt the me too movement. you will see buttons fior r taylor, the woman oprah mwhentioned, was gang raped in the 1940s. this issue of women and minorities are something docrats wi bring up tonight. >> woodruff: both of you wiig be with us t. tnk you boynton.

>> woodruff: in the day's other news, a major health care announcement triggered a major sell-off on wall street. hs ealth insurers, drug makd distributors were all hit hard after amazon, berkshire hathawac and j.p. morghase announced a new venture to provide quality health care at a reasonable cost. the dow jones industrial average plunged 362 points, nearly 1.5%, to close below 26,077. the nasdaq fell 64 points, and the s&p 500 lost 31. house speaker paul ryan is defending an effort by congressional republica to make public a classified memo on the russia probe. tee house intelligence comm voted last night to take that step, over the justice department's objections. some republicans say the memo shows improper surveillance b justice and the f.b.i., and an effort to conspire against president trump. >> there may have been malfeasance at the f.b.i. by certain individuals.

so it is our job in conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to hettom of that. sunshine isest disinfectant. a wnd so whwant is all this info to come out so transparency can reign supreme and accountability can occur. >> woodruff: president trump has inal word on releasing t memo, and he's said he favors doing so. but the white house said today it will ru security review before a final decision. the trump administration will not implement new economic sanctions against russia, for now, for interfering in the 2016 presidential election. the state department said late monday that existing measures are already working. but the treasury department ublished a list of russi officials and wealthy usinessmen who could be targeted. today in scow, president vladimir putin called the list a "hostile step." >> ( translated ):hat's the sense of these actions? i don't understand. but it is, of course, an

uennfy act. it complicates the already difficult situation in russian- american relations, and of course harms the international relations as a ole. it is complete stupidity to reduce our relations to zero. >ke> woodruff: we'll closer look at all of this, later in the program. the united nations children's fund is warning that stepped-up sanctions on north korea could mean nearly 60,000 children will stae. unicef says the penalties are making it harder to ship food, fuel and medicine to the north. the sanctions target the north's nuclear and missile programs. tdehe taliban today ced president trump's rejection of truce talks in afghanistan, and mr. trump had cited a spate of deadly attacks. but in a statement today, the in yemen, there's new trouble for a coalition led by saudi arabia, against shiite re.ls linked to fo'ighters been part of the coalition seized the port city

of aden today, after two g.ys of fight they surrounded the presidential palace and accused e saudi- backed government of corruption. they also want a separate state in southern yemen. tens of thousands of kenyans tdaurned out for the mock- inauguration of opposition leader raila odinga as alternative president. president uhuru kenyatta won october's election after the opposition boycotted. today, odinga supporters swarmed a nairobi park as he took his oath and declared defiance of the government. >> ( translated ): today is a historical day in our country of kya. for the first time, kenyans have taken the decision to remove themselves from a dictatorship t that came through the stealing of votes. >> woodruff: kenya's government cut live transmission of three tv channels airing the event, and branded it treason. police also fired tear gas at demonstrators nearby. tuthere's new falrom larry

nassar's sexual abuse of young athletes. texas will investigate the karyi ranch training center, where some gymnasts say the former sports doctor molested them. michigan state university is expected to name former governor john engler as interiml president amigations that the school ignored nassar's andbuse there. ongress is set to mandate abat athletic groups quickly report claims oe to police. volkswagen suspended a top executive today after disclosures of eresel fume eents using monkeys. initial reports had sald humans wer used, but the executive now says he rejected that idea. iadnsmonkeys breathed in fumes for four hours to test emission controls. this follows the 2015 scandal o emissions tests.g on ainnd, get set for a threne lunar show early tomorrow.

first, a "blue moon"-- the econd full moon in the same month. second, a "supermoon"-- closer than usual, and appearing bigger and brighter. and finally, a total lunar eclipse. it all happens before dawn, merostly ov the western u.s. and asia. s tticome on the newshour: our preview of the state of the union contrginues with g republican senator david perdue a historical look at presidential speeches. plus, why the u.s. govement is publicly naming business people with close ties to vladimir putin, and much more. >> woodruff: as we learn more about president trump's speech, and his plan to strike a bipartisan tone, i spoke with onef his closest allies in congress: republican senator david perdue of georgia, and

asked, what will be the president's main message tonight? >> judy, i think we're going to see an upbt and optimistic president tonight like we saw in davos last week where het s the world a message that america is open for business and america first dmes not necessaril america alone. i think he's going to lay out his agenda from last year and the results that we are seeing, but also very carefully lay out and articulate his priorities for 2018. >> woodruff: we know that he's going to talk about immigration among other things. you have said that the president's proposal hits, i think yoused the word "a sweet spot," th's a middle ground. critics on the left say it's too harsh and n breakg familie apart, that it spends too much on a border wall. then you have criticsn the right saying that it is too -- that it is unacceptable to giv undocumented young immigrants a path to citenship. how do you bring these two sides

together? >> what the president did, judy, is lay out a plain word for our conversation here in congress, so finally once it is in the daca situion, but make sure that we eliminate the causes of the situation in the first place, and this is that we have to deal with what created this t chain or family immigration system that we had since al1965. ac, tom cotton and i put a bill in a year ago, believe it's been that long, but aier ago to move forward what bill clinton wanted and barbara jordan back in the '90s that. is move us more toward a merit-based immiation system that protected the immediate family, and this system is more like what canada and ausavalia been doing for decades. >> woodruff: so you think the two sides are going to come together? because right now they seem prey implaquebly opposed. >> i think any time you have two parties like this opposing iwat ththat have been on the president's framework, it tells me the president did hit the

taeet spot i waing about. we'll find out on both sides, judy, who is serious aboutng solhis problem once and for all. 80% of america wants a secure border d a walln places where it's necessary. two-thirds of america want to solve the daca problem, but only if you end chain migration and iversity lottery and protect the immediate worker's family, at the same providing for border security. >> woodruff: senator, we're told the president will talk about the need for infrastructe'e, building. going to call for a mix of government and private capital to come together to repair roads and bridges and so forth. tet we know that sena democratic leader chuck schumer, other democrats are saying to ely on private developers is going to leave out large chunks of the country, that it's going to lead to tls and taxes in different local jurisdictions. is going to lead to private developers having too much say over infrastructure. how do you respond? >> the truth of the matter, is judy, with our debt, we've lost

that option frankly. the only way chuck schumer is going to get that financing done that way is more taxes, and we know what that does to the enomy. we got examples right now wohere ur u.s. department of state ravested $8 billion and aed $48 billion and is going to bring power to africa over the next decade in a public-private partnership. we have the same opportunities in the united states. what the president is going to do tonight i believe is lay out his priorities, which will be focused on investments that will yield returns by growing the economy. i tn so doing, ink we'll find a way to pay for it. >> woodruff: senatorious a different subject, and tat is russia. thenow that last night state department announced that it is not going to impose sanctions on russia, that congress overwhengly passed in mid-20 17.he tsay the legislation itself is enough of a deterrent. what's your view of >> well, i think we've got to be very serious with not only

russia but north korea, iran, and other nefarious actors round the world today. the world is more dangerous than any time in my lifetime anyway, and at the same time, we have to rebuild our military. we're going to hear that tonight. specifically with regard to russia. they nere to know w serious about messing with our election process. this is a democracy. hat won't be tolerated. republicans and democrats are aligned on that. i'm anxious to get these intelligence committee reports done. i think we need t get past this. get an independent investigation over and done with. we've been doing ts almost a year now. it's time to get these results in and tell the american people where we are and build a difference -- defense against that next activity. >> drew: are you all right with them not imposing ncthe ons on russia? >> i voted for then, sanct but i'm willing to give the president and the secretary of state some latitude because ar's of a bigger equation with north korea and china in prearticular. wlso looking at the iran nuclear deal to see how to hold

that coalition together. there's no question we need more snsious sanctions ag iran, but also north korea. so the calculus here is i belinge, is russia goio help us with north korea? are they going to respond to this act by the president? and we'll see very, very quickly. >> woodruff: nally, senator, i want to ask you about your constituents in georgia. the gallup organizi came out with a poll. they looked at all 50 states and their support for the presidentr he past year on average. in the state of georgia, which you represent, they said average 41% of the people approve of theredent's performance. 53% disapprove. how do u explain that? >> you know, that same poll had me losing by almost neighbor -- nine points, judy. i think i won by over eight points. this president does not fit the mold of the traditional washington establishment president. hs an outsider. he's a business guy. i'm not worried about popularity

p wolls. iried about results. right now his agenda is providingrkesults. the e did on regulation last year, the work we did on energy and taxes isng produ results. 2.5 million new jobs was created ast year. that's not lost on people in my state and across the country. >> woodruff: we'll leave it there, and we certainly are going to be watchinhe president. senator david perdue of georgia. thank you. >> thanks,udy. >> woodruff: ahead of the president's address to congress and the nation night, we spoke o people around the country about how they see the state of the union. to wa us through how these americans are grading president tmpnd what their responses can tell us about this fall's congressional elections, i'm joined by amy walter of the "cook political report." amy, we're going to start with a video from austin erdman-- a

farmer from stockton, california. he told us the president has done a good job in his first year, particularly on the issue of immigration. >> i believe it is unfair to grade the president at this time, because his proposed policies have not yet been fully formed and implemented. i also believe the president is on the right track in pursuing immigration policies that will defend and protect all american citizens anour democracy. i also believe that laws, rules and regulations need to be implemented to secure our borders and to prect our citizens. and we need to implement strategic screening processes to ensure, as best as possible, tinhat law ab productive people enter our country legally snow amy, we know the president is expected the talk about immigration tonight. we know there is a big divide here what are people out in the country saying? >> well, the team here at pbs

talked to about a dozen voters. tihe issue of immigrn came up more than any other. not surprising, americans are as polarized on this issue as we see members of congress. what we saw with someone who supported the president and also supported his position o immigration. we heard, as well, from a woman in southern california named sabrina she too liked the idea of more border security, but like we saw here, she does want to see more than just border security. she said she likes that thet' presid protecting illegal immigrants from taking resources away from american citizens. so it goes beyond just having money for the wall, that the president talked so much about in 2016. but when you heard from people who don't approve of the job the president is doing, particularly vheoters of color,y see what the president is doing, they cite immigration as one of the main reasons they say theye disappr the job he's doing. you talk to a woman named blancf rom houston, she says trump is being unfair to immigrants. another woman, charlita says

it's not right what thes presidenting to kick people out of the country who have been here for years. seio we're ... the reason i think congress is as polarized as it is isar in because voters are, too. >> woodruff: because the country is polarized, too. so one >> woodruff: one of the other themes yoheard was concern about president trump's temperament and some of the controversial comments he's made on twitter. let's hear from someone in cincinnati: sarah warner. she was a reluctant hilla clinton voter who dapproves of he job president trump has done in office, but her concerns are bigr than just the president. >> we are so divided right now because we can't get over him. he's not the problem. he's a symptom of the problem. the problem is that our system is broken. people on either side of the acargument are angry bee they want change. we're not seeing that.

we're looking for it. but we're not seeing it. no one really likes him, like n one, come on. think about it, do you really want that representing your country? no. but it's our complacency that's the problem. so, what are you going to do about it? >> woodruff: so amy, she's clearly not a fan of the president, but what are you hearing about the president's temperament from people who like president trump? >> well, across the board, and judy, we havbeen talking about this pretty consistently from the beginning of his, presidency even people who say they like him, they voted for him, boy, i wish he wou get off twitter, boy, i wish he would sort of dial it back on his rhetoric and his behavior. but for people who dislike him, it's much more about him than just hahis or, but they believe it's dangerous. they believe what he's doing is more than just having a personality issue that they have a problem with.

this woman janet from davenport, iowa, says she thinks he threatens freedom of speech with his attacks on the media she calls him dishonest, an embarrassment, but even those who are happy with him. >> woodruff: right. s we had one interview with man from nevada wd, "i love what he's doing for the courts. i love that he's putting conservatives on, there but he keeps getting in his own way. " he said if he didn't have these self-inflicted wounds he would be as perfect ase could be. >> woodruff: wow. so we know the president tells everybody who will listen that as lg as he can he's going to stick with social media because that's his way of fighting back thgainst the pres he thinks is overwhelmingly against him. so now, one thing, amy, we have talked about this past year is the president thinks the economy is doing beteer and b and that he deserves a lot of the credit for that, low unemployment, tax cuts, just the overall strong economy, how do people se? >> you know, it's interesting, judy, what we saw when talking to voters, for those who

supported the president, they cited the economy as a reason for supporting him. 'sthe truck driver that we talked to, aaron from st. louis, he said, "my 401(k) is going through the roof, and i think these tax cuts will help me because my company that runs this trucking organization, th p abably not going the lay anybody off because they're going to have more money." when you talk to folks who disarove of the president they don't talk about the economy. they talk about the tax cuts that they believe are going to elp corporations and hurt regular people. one woman from iowa said, "ihi t they're just helping corporate farmers, not small farmers." t person that really sums up what 2018 will be, who sums up the tension o f 2018,is man named todd from houston. he thinks the economy is doing well, but he really dislikes the president's behavior and what it has done for the country, errible divisiveness it's sewn in the country. we'll watch throughout 2018 how voters grapple with that. i feel better about the economy, i don't feel good about the president. which one of those things willut win

>> woodruff: so last question: was there anything that you expected people to bring up that they didn't talk about? >> there was notone word about russia. there was not one word about investigations. there wasn't anything about impeachment. it was really focused on the president's behavior almost more than anything elslk we've been g about this forever. it's personalty more than that defines him. the economy we expected. immigration we expected. given the amount time that is given to the russia investigation and,nergy especially in this town, no one... to see that nobody even in passing brought it up was interesting. >> woodruff: you are right.tt it's g an enormous amount of attention in the news media. that is a particularly interesting thing that they didn't bring it up. amy walter, "cook political report," thank you. you'll be with us for the rest of tonight. >> all night. >> woodruff: to talk about the state of the union. thank you. >s.>

>> woodruff: now we step backor for a hial perspective on a.ddresses to the nati it is an uninterrupted opportunity for president trump outline his legislative agenda and priorities. to help us understand the potential significance of tbyonight, i am joine presidential historian, michael beschloss. michael beschloss, welcome ba. to the progr it's good to see you. so a lot of eyes on the president tonight. what sort of opportunity does he state of the union present? >> well, it is most suited if you have a president who has something new, who wants to tell the countr i want to move in a different direction. for instance, 1941, in january, franklin roosevelt talked aboutd the four that he wanted to see around the world. what that told aricans was, this is a president who really is a lot more likely to wt to get involved in world war ii against hitler than wexpted.

lyndon johnson in '64 and i'65 said, want a war on poverty." i want to go for civil rights and voting rights. george w. bush in 2002 talked about the axis of evil, what we srrhould do to about north korea, iran, iraq, look how much that has affected world history ever since then. that's the best orortunity a president in this situation. >> woodruff: so michael, do the words a president speaks anotherta a of the union or other important event, do they actually have the ability to move legislation, to get people behind him for whatever he wants to get done? >> if they give a great speech, for instance, lyndon johnson in 1964, he really felt in his heart about verty, he helped to tell americans, this is a disgrace that in this prospntous c there are so many people who are suffering. that got americans to leaon their members of congress to

move. >> woodruff: well, you also have -- it part of whate're all talking about tonight. you have a non-traditional president in donald t but in a very traditionaletting, making the speech, state of the union, standing before the congress. is there any historical precedent? >> well, the interesting thing, nthere is, and especially because you have a president who basically is proud of the fact, much as it geefs me to say this, judy, he says he's not very interested in htohy and doesn't reads ooks. t very different from most presidents who study how others presideve used this occasion. if you think this is someone who is going to write a speech, stick to it, and not get off the teleprompter, he probably w ol g the teleprompter, and that could be the news of the night. >> woodruff: it's interesting because, as we know, michael, there is so much focus right now on how the president usesocial media, what he says in his

tweets. ci right. >> woodruff: esly. and in his other off-the-cuff remarks some when you weigh a speech versus the off the cuff, you really are looking at a different way of getting a message out. > and this is a reality tv star, and he knows that people are usually more interested in whats eems to be spontaneous than what is on script. and al heamously does not have a lot of self-discipline. he gave a somewhat unifying rather polished speech off the teleprompr to congress last year, was widely praised for itd as you remember, very quickly after that, he did a tweet about baracobama supposedly bugging trump tower that sort of stamped on his message. >d > woodruff: nally, michael, i guess picking up on that, this is a moment wn there is this investigative cloud hanging over the president. is this a moment to shake that loose or how do people see a

president at a moment like this? >> well, donald trump has two historical choices. eforerichard nixon went congress and said, time to end the watergate investigation. he said one year of watergate is enough. 20 ars ago in 1998 bill clinton, ju after the monica lewinsky episode began, went cbefogress, gives this long speech, about 90 minutes, people kept on waiting to hear was going to say about the scandal, he didn't say a word. and as a result, clinton's public approvalating as measured by the gallup poll went up ten points t from 59o 69. so we'll see which course the president chooses. >> woodruff we're hearing tonight the president does not plan to mention the russia envestigation. so we will b watching. michael beschloss, thank you very much. >> thank you so much, judy.

>> woodruff: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: how a community in ohio is responding to the opioid epidemic. hete' efforts to support so- called "dreamers." but first, we return to the trump administration's hadnling of russia john yang has more on that, and a look ahead to the upcoming presidential election there. >> yang: judy, last summer, congress overwhelmingly voted to sanction russia for meddling in the 2016 elections. last night, the trump administration said it is not imposing any of the sanctions bau the threat is enough. the measure also dicted the treasury department to compile a list of russian senior political leaders, heads of state-st controlled ines and oligarchs worth more than a bffillion dollars in ant to "name-and-shame" them. last night the department sent n ongress a list of more t0 names. it includes russian prime minister, and former president,

dmitri medvedev. igor sechin, the chief of rosneft, a russian energy giant; he is p inner circle.t putin's and oleg deripaska, a billionaire aluminum magnate with alleged ties to organized crime. he was a business partner of the now-indicted, former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. joining us now is andrew weiss. he worked for both republican d democratic administrations as a staffer on the national security council, and in the state and defense departments. he's now at the carnegie endowment for international peace. andrew, thanks for beingihere. let's with this list. what's the point of it? the treasuy department was careful to say no one on this list is eing sanctione, so why did congress want to draw it up, and what does being onthat list mean? >> you said a second ago the adre of the sanctions was to tie

the hands of thnistration and to make sure there would be no precipitous effort by the nes admation to basically take the heat off of vladimir putin for what he's donein in uk what he's done in syria, what he did in our election. as an aed attempt to needle this administration to do whatever they could to crea much sort of negativity around russian business and government figures, they said compile a list and show us how dirty these people are. that was not something that the n dministrats enthusiastic about. they have resisted this entire sanctions bill tooth and nail. and then wh the time came to deliver the report to congress, they basically said, here's a list we've cut and pasted out open sources to make the effect as limited as possible. >> yang: you say they fought this sanctions bill tooth and nail. yesterday the state department said thatthe threat of sanctions was deterrent enough against t russians for meddling in the election, but then mike pompeothe see ray director, said they are already

trying to meddle in the 2018 elections. what do you think... what's your response or how do you take that? >> well, dysfunction is now the norm in the trump administration's foreign policy some the basically an administration where no one really trusts him on russia policy. people hear what donald trump says. he talks continuouly, including last week, about the possibility of a new relationship th the russians. he continues to exaggerate their relevance tour foreign policy. and people want to show they're tough and show that russia's behavior willenave consees. you can't combine those two approaches. >> yang: how is this entering interpreted russia? >> right now russia is in a pre-election frenzy.s o for vladimir putin to say, see, the united states is targeting us, theyin want to us back to our low point in the 1990s, putin was speaking on russian television, he said all 146 millio russians are on this list. he's trying to this a classic strategy. he's do this consistently over

the last 18 years in power of saying the west is against us. if you rally behind me, iill keep russia strong. >> yang: so we play into his hands. he's saying this is an example of the united stes trying to meddle in russian elections. >> thathas zero credibility. a former president of estonia said i don't know whethe what'sf unnier, the sanctions being as emmy or you claiming you have an election > yang: is his hope he will have a big turnout so it like mandate? >> that's where the kremlin is nyrried, the lack of political process or drama has put most of the russian body public enter ae mode. there is very little to get them excited enough to return vladimir putin for his fourth and final term with ag turnout or a big boost . so at this point mostly inertia, apathy, and lack of

alternatives. >> yang: is the opposition try get turnout down. >> so on sunday, there were droemonstrations russia convened by the russian opposition leader who is calli for a by cot of election. concernedn is very and is doing whatever it can to push him out of the news. >> yang: andrew weiss at the carnegie endowment for international peace, thanks for helping us understand this. >> thank you. >> woodruff: when a county in southern ohio saw a sharp spike in the number of fatal opioid related overdoses they responded by forming port: the post overdose response team. sther honig of side effects, a public media project, reports oshowcounty, ohio has enlisted local law enforcement, addiction treatment services and

the health department to work together and help curb overdoses. >> reporr: every wednesday morning in chillicothe, ohio, this overdose task force meets. there's a police officer, a sheriff's deputy, and a social worker from a local addiction treatment center. the group sets out to follow up with each person w ross county ho overdosed the week before. their mission: get them into treatment. the program started after a saltring of fverdoses in 2016, and county leaders came together to find a solution >me> out of the meetings decision that we needed some type oteam to go out and speak with people that have overdosed, either their families or both family and the overdose victim. and somebody named it port, which is a post overdose response team r orter: port allows law enforcement to take on the role of a social worker. they talk to residents about addiction and help them find treatment, even if thateans driving them to facilities t of state when there's nothing available in their area.

today, the team follows up with just four overdoses. , they've had as many as 20. >> i'd just like to come in one day and we don't have any. st>> reporter: at their f stop, resident chad lurty is shocked when the port team tells him his friend struggles with addiction. >> i think very highly of him, and my heart's broke. i had no idea he had a problem. >> reporter: recently, port bg egan offeraining on how to use the overdose reversal drug naloxone, also known as narcan. de ave weber, one of puties, said you're in a position to be really helpful in this situation. >.> i'll t i don't want to see anybody die. >> reporter: and you think you might go thtugh the narcan raining? >> i'm going to very seriously consider th> . >porter: here in ross county, the rate of fatal opioid-relateeaoverdoses is y double the national average, and one of the highest in the state. now, port, with a relatively small budget has managed to get people the resources they need in time to hopefully prevent more of these overdoses from happening.

still, not everyone supports what they do. >> we have some people at are upset that we give narcan. you know, they say it was this person's choice to do it, you k- now, but-- we kind o don't buy that. my response to them is, what if it were your son, daughter, wanife, or hulaying on the ground? would you want us to turn around and walk away? >> reporter: you guys need toto o them because these people are not in a situation where they can necessarily seek out help themselves. >> right, yup. when we first get there, they're reluctant to speak with us. we explain what we're there for and we're not going to arrest them. we're not there in a law enforcement capacity. and most of them open up and talk to us. >> porter: jessica lutz overdosed at a store with her daughters. she remembers when the port team came to her door a few days later. w> my doorbell rang, and scared to death, because here comes my mom, like, "there's an o afficer and a womyour front door and they want to talk to you." and i walked out there and the officer said, "i'm not here to

arrest you. i'm just here to make sure she's o she would just like to talk to you." and i met tracy hathaway. >> reporter: the social worker, who was also a recovering addict, convinced jessica that there were resours that would elp her get clean. >> there is hope that people can recover. she was doing it. there was this place of people that were doing it all the time xihat i did not knowed, you know, all these recovery places that we don't heartabout. >> re: port got jessica into outpatient care immediately, and after a month, a bed at a nearby recovery center. >> i like how you landed. that's real cute. > reporter: right now, there are only a few programs like this in ohio, butocal lawmakers recently put aside over a million dollars to be able to replicate pt in cities across the state. and the stakes are higher than er. each day, more than 142 people in the u.s. die from a drug overdose. that's more than the number of people who die from gun violence and car accidents combined. it's something that essica oesn't take for granted. she came from rehab just a few

weeks ago, and creditport with hving saved her life. >> just to have that conrsation after something like that happens, and no matter who you are, that's so scary. we don't want to die. we just don't know w not to use. ay nd to find somebat understands that and knows that we don't want to wake up and do these things every day. tathere's no pleasure in e have to go through each and every day. just to listen to that conversation and know that it really can happen is what cngha everything for me. >> woodruff: the deadline to work out an immigraison agreemen little more than a week away. one of the key dividing lines: wh dat to do aboamers. president trump has said he plans to scrap the deferred

action for childhood arrivals program, known as daca this spring unless a deal can be worked out. in california and other states, tchs are on the front lines and student anxiety is on the rise. we fhave a stom one of our student reporting labs reported by fernando cienfuegos, a junior at northview high school in southern california, for our weekly segment, "making the grade." >> when daca got rescinded i didn't really know where to go. it was just a very numb feeling. >> reporter: paulina garcia is a recent northview high school graduate and daca, deferred action for childhood arrivals, scipient. she attends mou antonio community college. she says her high school teachers were critical in helping her get there. they outlined the steps she had to take as an undocumented student, to get to graduation. >> if i didn't have ms. arellanes, i would not have been as inspiredo continue on my ducation. ape would constantly give me pwork and paperwork about

dream, the dream act, dream financial dreamers' financial a tid at was very, very helpful because i didn't know where else to get that information. jnsust the imamount of belief they had in me, the >> i just barely got my daca this year. >> but you are not going to put it in the statement? >er> repoyemina arellanes teaches economics and provides college advising at northview high school, in covina, california. she is one of a growing number o independently sought training to support undocumented student . >> wtivated me to help undocumented students herat northview was actually seeing the need. they really didn't know where to go. >> reporter: the trump administration's approach towards immigration actually scares some students. >> they've got a deep-seated struggle going on within them, becau as hard as they work an as much as they want to be educated they have this fear inside that perhaps within the nteext few years no mhow educated they are they might be removed from this country.

we're still trying to rebuild that trust and let them know that we're not going to work ad gainst them anat we're not going to turn them in. >> reporter: an estimated 271,000 undocumented students are enrolled in the california k through 12 public school system. the largest number in the country according to the migra in 1982 the u.s. supreme court ruled that undocumented children have the riet to a public cation. immigration advocates stu that thesents are a special needs group, who would benefit rom schools providing counseling, legal advice, and federal immigration policy information to their studen body. claremont graduate university professor william perez, studies social and psychologica development of immigrant students. he says teachers need tools. >> they're in desperate need of information about all the legislation. teachers google things or you know they'll find out about webinars or they'll find outombout

shing that you know where they can go and sort of educate themselves. beiut you know it's done in a very unsystematic way. >> reporter: dr. perez has lnched the nation's first" allies to dreamers" certificate program. the course trains educators how to support undocumented students transitioning to college and into the workforce. >> teachers need to be well equipped to be able to you know be responsive to their students. >> reporter: despite supporting undocumented students, some conservatives, like santa ana school board member cecilia iglesias believe acadthics should bfocus >> we have been underperforming which means failing our kids and n the past 10 years we have been on program improvement. and those are the things we should be talking about. that's why we were elected if we winanted to go to be affe immigration policy. we should go into congress. >> reporter: still, teachers like yemina arellanes say more must be done.

>> i wish that the district ould really work to educate our tsoeachers, perhaps bring i guest speakers of students who hav succeeded, who were undocumented, so that everybody can see that our kids, and other kids that are undocumented, they make it, they make it if they have the support fromhe adults. >> reporter: for the pbs plabs, i am fernando cienfuegos, in covina, california. >> woodruff: now to the newshour bookshelf. oen do you work best? are you a night oan early bird? jeffrey brown explores these questions wh author daniel ink. >> brown: there are plenty of how-to books out there. now comes a when-to, the best time of book the take an exam or

have a medic procedure, and big life decision, getting married, getting divorced, taking a new job. the book is entitled "when: the scientific secrets of perfect timing," and autho joins me now. dan, hello. >> hello, jeff. >> brown: whendid you g interested in this and why? >> i realized i wasaking all kinds of when decisions myself, when in the day should i exercise? when should i abandon a project that's not working? i was making them in haphazard way. i figured in could make them a better way. there is a mountain of research out there across many, many doe mains that allow us to make evidence-based systematically smarter, shrewder decisions about when to do things. >> brown: smarter sharks ruder. that subtitle: ience. >> sure. >> brown: that's the data. >> it's data in the field of economics, social psychology, and also cognitive science, anesthesiology, endochronology,

crono biology. lynn gistics gives us clues. this research is all over the place. in different disciplines, they're asking very, very similar questions. >> brown: all right. so daily routines first. you're asing out some of the patterns of our lives. >> well, what it shows is that both our mood and ourow performance fo fairly regular pattern across a day. so we usually have a peak, a trough, and a rebound. so our peak for most people isth imorning. you have a toff in the early afternoon, and then we have this rebound, recovery period later in the day. now, for people who are night owl they go through it in the reverse order. but what the research tells us is that we should be doing our analytic work, our heads-down, lock-down work during the peak. during the trough, it's not good for very much. we should be avoiding going into the hospital and answering our routine e-mail. and during the recovery, we have an elated mood, but we're less vigilant than during the peak. that makes it a very good time for things like brainstorming and other kinds of creative work. and just moving our work a

little bit can make a big difference. there's research showing that time of day explains about 20% of the variance in human performance on workplace tasks.i sng isn't everything, but it's a big thing. > brown: so the first thing is knowing who you are in a sense, right? >yep. some of us get up early gosh, to sleep early. some peopleave evening type, go to sleep late, wake up late. most of us are in m thedle, what i called third birds. the third birds peak, trough, recovery, fairly predictably. the people who are owls recovery, trough,k. p >> brown: there is so much fun to reading this and then thes ry things like don't have a medical preening in the afternoon. that's not a good idea. >> that is g really not ad idea. it's kind of alarming if you look at some of the research. an -- anesthesia errors three times more problems in the

afternoon. endoscopy less likel to find polyps. nurs re likely to prescribe unnecessary antibiotics. >> brown: so breaking up the day, which leads to the question of naption, everybody is familiar with that. but you're not talking about taking ana half but very specific amounts of time, right? >> the research on naps shows they're good for us. i'm a convert on this in at any time i took a nap, i would wake up feeling groggily and deeply ashamed of myself. for being so lazy. it turns out i wasoing it wrong. the ideal nap --. >> brown: we don't he the siesta idea. >> i have the hyper puritanical and hyper masculine approach, which is a toxic mix. what we know about naps is ten to 20 minutes is actually the ideal time to take a nap. you get all of the benefits of a nap. i think of naps as zambonis for our brains. they smooth out the nicks on our mental life, but without any of what's called sleep inera.

the ideal nap is something called the napachino. you have a cup of coffee first. set your alarm for 25 minutes. take a na by the time you wake up, the caffeine will be hitting your body. >> brown: i read this. >> it works. >> drink the coffee, then take the 20-nute nap. >> brown: now, at the end of every chapter, you t time hacker's handbook, and you are giving people tips.ou yhink it's practical enough that we can change our lives. >> absolutely. i don't think youan c transform your life if you are overweight and lazy, changing your workout time won't convert you, but there is some really amazing science that gives us insit into who we are. but i find that if you can take some of that science and put it into pl your own life, it's meaningful and you understand the sciencebetter. >> brown: have you changedwn yourifer? >> absolutely. i am a b convert onreaks. i always write down twoireaks n the afternoon i'm going to take. i make a break list.

i'm also a convert on good news and bad news. i always gave the good news first because i wanted to be a nice guy, butt w you want to do is give the bad news first and end on that elevation. that's one thing that endings do for us. so i'm a break taker and th king of delivering bad news first. >> brown: the book is "when: the scientific secrets of perfect timing." daniel mink, thanks soh. >> my pleasure. >> woodruff: pass the indicating. i'm getting that book. > r> woodruff: onliht now, read about the famous mississippi prison that became a haunted setting in jesmyn ward's national book award-winning 2017 novel "ng, unburied, sing." plus, tomorrow on the newshour, we'll speak to jesymn ward, as part of our new book club with the "new york times," "now read this." and that's the newshour for now please join us at 9:00 p.m. eastern for special live coverage of president trump's first staa of the union ddress.

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