captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> yang: good evening. i'm john yang. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: senate leaders reach a two-year budget deal. own the numbers and the political headwinds ahead in the house of representatives. then, marching orders. what's behind president trump'su ret for a grand military parade in the nation's capital. plus, as germansrestle with the influx of refugees, a crimea complicates their immigration debate. >> this is a place that has traditionally been tolt. it has welcomed refugees. but what they're saying is that if murder town like kandel, it can happen anywhere else in germany. >> yang: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour.

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saying tonight they have made a "genuine breakthrough" on the budget stale hte. but in tse, leading o wmakers say there's still a big hill to climb,ert a government shutdown tomorrow night. lisa desjardins begins our coverage. >> rorter: from a congress usually frozen in gridlock, came one of the largest bipartisan budget deals in recent history. >> i am pleased to announce thas our bipa, bicameral negotiations on defense spending and other priorities have yielded a significant agreementt >> reporter: srepublican leader mitch mcconnell announced the agreement, which he and democratic leader chuck schumer managed to hammer out in the past three days. >> i believe that we've reached a budget deal that neither side loves, but that both sides canro be of. that's compromise. that's governing. that's wt we should be doing more of in this body. >> reporter: the deal centers around the over-$1 trillion in spending congress controls.

defense and non-defense nearly split that total, and both would have faced budget cuts. this proposal would increase both, boosting defense about $160 billion, and non-defense about $130 billion. that erases budget cuts, and adds more as wellin ll, it's about $300 billion in increased spending over two years.tw abouthirds of that, most of it, is not paid for and woulf add to theit. out those in charge in congress and at the white h praised the mega-deal as well worth it, for granting budget stability and strengthening the ry and the rest of government. fr the house armed service chairman, matt thornberry... >> if you vote yes, you're voting to fix e military. and if you vote no, you're voting against fixing the military. >> reporter: ...to president trump's press secretary sarah sanders: >> this deal achieves our top: priorimuch-needed increase

in funding for our national defense. the bottom line is that, thanks to president trump, we can now have the strgest military we have ever had. >> reporter: and that is just the beginning of the deal. it includes billions to fight the opioid crisis, for community health centersa longer extension of the children's health insurance program, and even a special committee to deal with miners' and others nsions. but it wasn't all cheers. the most conservative members, exiting the meeting where they learned ofhe deal, were openly hostile to it. freedom caucus chairman mark meadows: >> i guess a number of us are just concerned about the fiscal reality of a bill that will come down on our grandkids. obviously, i consider the president a close personal friend, and even if he called mm to ato vote for this, i'm afraid the answer would still be "no." >> reporter: and meanwhile, on the floor of the house: >> i'd like to talk as long as almy leadership minute wilw. >> reporter: the democratic

minority leader, nancy pelosi, held an exceedingly rare sort of filibuster, turning her alloted one-minu of time into hours, all about -called dreamers, those brought to the u.s. illegally as children. she said she could not support a budget deal untithere was a guaranteed path for a bill to protect dreamers in the house.>> hat is a simple request, >> that is a simple request, that house democrats, and in bipartisan way, others, have joined in asking them to bring bill to floor. >> reporter: senate republicans have promised a debate on the dreamers' status. >> speaker ryan sent a statement out urging republicans to vote

for this deal. he stressed this is the way to end this cycle of short-term budget fix we've been in for so long, john. >> sot, lisahe speaker on board, the white house is on board. why ists future in th house still uncertain? >> well, it comes down to the votes. let's think about this, how it works with the republican par right now, a majority in the e use, john, is 216 votes. that's because the some vacancies. republicans have 238 members so, 2they can spar votes. however, the conservative freem caucus has 30-40 votes. if that entire caucus votes no the republicans will come up short of the votes needed to paz this bill. and tonight, we know sotha members of that caucus are "no" votes. we just don't know how many. i also want to stress this is very different than the ctmosphere on the senate side. i was running bk and forth between the two. and the senate wa a oasis of calm consideration, many repuicans not telling where they will land, but telling me

off the records they believe they will be a "yes." >> part of that happening not very far away from you where you're standing right now. in your taped pice, you showed us nancy pelosi, the minority leader, from this morning, she is still up she is still speak, more than seven hours later. the house historiasays it's a record. explain to us, how is she able to expand thiseadership minute into more than seven hours? and what's the significance ofe' what doing? >> i cannot stress how unusual this is. this is something that we've seen on the senate side forde des and decades, this kind sf speaking-- actually, it' gotten kind of out of vogue to take to the floor and do this kind ofong sph she has. she is doing this, i think, for two points, she wants to extract from speaker ryanhat a vote on the deerms will get to a vote on the house floor. on ta other hand, shes something john to prove to her own base, the creche hispanic

caucus, and hispanics in general, those who are big supporters of dreamer protection, are unhappy with her and democratic leadership. they feel that they have not gone far enough, and that they're making a budget deal without getting kind of a promise on the drenoamers. democratic leader says we are trusting the senate process, which will begin next ek. there's an entire different debate on immigration. but nancy pelosi has to show hem a and dedication to this issue. john, her real test will come in the next day when we thing budget deal will come to the house and she is going to have to decide if she will vote yesor o, or if she will have her caucus vote yes or no.es those voay be needed to prevent a shutdown. >> she talked about her vote. she said she's likely to oppose it. but is she likely to bring the er?cus with >> that's the main question. again, vote counting is just under way. it's not clear how many democrats will be needed to prevent aerovent shutdown. so she's being careful in her wording, too, beca clear how many of her members will be needed to walk thes plank,ey say, up here

tonight. there's a in flux. >> let's go back tohe dal struck behind you in the senate. what cels in this bill besides the spendin >> all right, so i want you and everyone at home to maybe look at your watch because i'm goingo to apze. this is going to take a minute. this is an enormous, enormous deal. we only have three pages of a summary. but from reporting and talking to dozens of members and staff who have workon this, sit back. here's what else is in this, deher than a spending agreement. $90 billion disaster aid. f that florida, teixeira the virgin islands, puerto rico. $20 billion for infrastructure, $6 billion for the opioid cries, all of those over two years. and tre's more. the children's health insurance program. that has a 10-year extension. that's four more years than previously. community health centers-- two years of funding. med medicare, there's a part "d" donut hole next year. that is closed in this deal. also a repeaof ipab, an

independent board designed tp cut ding in medicare, some consumers don't like it. that is repealed in this deal. and, john, there's even more-- i feel like some strange game show host. this bill would raise the debt ceiling another year until 2019. that's incredibly significant. and it would also rm a new budget supercommit. that's a word we haven't heard in a while, when the last supercommittee did not complete its mission. the idea here is t try to reform the entire budget process. it's a nonbindingmittee, but there are ways in which whatever they come up with could get a vote. i think the big point, john, here, is inormation haven't really seen this bill yet. they're still working on a summary on the sate side. and we expect a vote potentially within hours, maybe tomorthw morning, osenate side. it's quite a lot that's in here. >> we've got about 30 seconds left, lisa. explain to us the significance of pulling off those budget cap for two yeaich is what the senate deal would do. >> it's incredibly significant. i ran the math on this, john,s and, entially, based on current law, this would be a

double-digit, over 10% increase in government spending, and expansion of the u.s. militany, also, an expansion of much of the rest of government. it would protect the arts, sciences, social programs-- some of them-- that the democrats have been worried about. but it wld also be a big boost to the military. of course, there's a lot of concern about all that red ink as well. >> lisa desjardins. everything you could possibly want to know about the senate thanks a lot. >> my pleasure. >> yang: in the day's other maws, the tumult on wall street eased a bit, as thet spent the day trying to get its bearings the dow jones industrial average dropped 120 points at the open, then rallied back before finally in the end, the dow lost to close at 24,893. the nasdaq fell nearly 64 points, and the s&p 500 slipped 13. a top white house side is ing after his two ex-wives accused him of domestic abuse,g includnching and choking. rob porter is staff secretary,ed

overseeing sing andcu nt flow in the west wing.

>> yang: mr. pence is in the region to lead the u delegation to the opening ceremonies of the winter olympics in south korea. he has not ruled out meeting with north korean officials at the games, but he also said he'll remind the wort north korea is the "most tyrannical and oppressivere me" on earth. in south korea, two days before the opening ceremonies, olympic organizers are scrambling to contain an outbreak of the norovirus. so far, 32 security workerste have been trfor the highly contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarea, and 1,200 guards have been quar 900 troops have been brought in to help secure the olympic

venu until the guards are cleared to return to work. germany's ling conservative party clinched a deal today, ending a political deadlock. they reached agreementthe center-left social democrats on a new coalition government, morf thr months after the election. in berlin, chancellor angela merkel ahailed the new deal "new awakening for europe." he peopleslated ): had two justified demands for us. firstly, do finally form a government, and a stable government.ri secondly, the negotiations, do consider the needs and interests of the people. i am cvinced the coalition contract which we have agreed upon can be exactly that, the foundation of a good and stableo government whi country needs, and which, by the way, many in the world expect from us, too.g: >> yhe deal is subject to approval by the social democrats' party members, a process that could take several weeks. the "los angeles times" is getting a new owne l.a. billionaire physician

patrick soon-shiong will buy the paper from chicago's tronc incorporatedhe paying $500 million for the "times" and several other california p"tlications. thes" has been beset by budget and staffing cuts. and, it now appears the earliest-known britons looked very different from their modern-day descendants. fientists examined d.n.a.m a 10,000-year-old skeleton. a reconstruction based on that data indicates he had dark skin, curly ha and blue eyes. the finding underscores the growing eviden that the lighter skin tone of modern-day europeans is a relatively recent phenomenon. still toome on the newshour: two views from capitol hill on the proposed deal to avoid a government shutdown. the president's plan for a military parade, like the one he saw in france. the fall of a casino mogul amid sexual misconduct allegations.io and the implic for the hospitality industry. and, much more.

>> yang: we return now to the senate budget deal, and a look at its uertain future in the house. we get two views. first, i spoke a short time ago to california democrat pete aguilar. he's a member of the congressional hispanic caucus, and says the deal is incomplet >> you know, we haven't seen the complete deal of what the senate agreed to, but we've heotrd a l of wide reports, obviously, that they're going to change the c.r. that was sent their way, and add al. budget caps d you know, we just think it's incomplete. we think that there needs to be a daca fix inciluded in t or at least the concrete commitment by the speaker that this will b addressed. mitch mcconnell made that commitment to seate republicans and democrats, and we want a similar commitment that we will address this daca issue. we have a bill, a bipartisan,

bicameral bill now, that will put this behind us, and that's what we'd like to sea deees. how specific of a promise do you need from the speak tore get to "yes?" do you need a promise that a specific bill will come to the floor, that a process will be in place in terms of the rule and what will be considered, what amendments will be considered? >> all we want say fair process. if it is a fair process that is open for debate and open for discussion, you know, what we think? we actually think, put all these immigration bills on the house floor, and let us debate these, and let us talkca to the ame people about what's at stake. and we're confident that a goodt strong, bian bill will result, something similar to what understand representative ll herd and i have put together. so put a conservative bill on thfloor, but our bill on the floor, but them all on the floor and let's vote on them and showc the am people that we can solve this issue. >> i know you're active in thes. hispanic cau do you think the caucus is going to take an official position on this, on this bill? >> i do. on the bill or on what the

senate sends? a>> on wht's coming over from the senate? >> sure, i think that they are. i think that the hispanic caucus is going to join a growing course in the democratic caucus that will oppose what the senate is sending ouiway untl we have a solution to daca or a commitment from the speak tor put this on the floor. >> now, i kdinow youstrict in the inland empire east of los angeles, you've got hard hit in the real estate crisis. there are a lot of things in this bill that would help your district: the community health, childhood health insur program. is putting those-- saying no to those things you think worth thh that you're-- you want to have here? >> well, we made a commitment to these dreamers.ad we've got toess this issue. there's a lot in this bill-- as i mentioned, there's a lot in this bill and the budget caps agreement that is goo that is good for our communities, but at the end of the day, it's still incomplete. we need a process that will addrs daca and move past this. but, look, the republicans

control the exphowts senitate. their responsibility to govern and to put a bill that will pass both houses if they want to pass a c.r., which, by the way, is onl py aatchwork that the management leaders and our defense leaders don't want. they wreal solution. this isn't that. so in the meantime, let'sv continue to this discussion. let's continue to focus on daca. while there are many god thingst in this bills still incomplete. >> you're on the house appropriations commit nepdeal that's coming over from the senate, takes off the spending caps for defense and domestic spending for two years. isn't that something that would help things on the appropriations committee? >> well, it would offer certaintiy for the appropriations committee. that's absolutely true. what we don't have are all the categories of spending, and what that deal looks like implementing these b so there's still quite a bit that we don't know about this deal. and while it offers a two-year iy window, there's sta lot that we don't know and a lot

that concerns us. and that's why i think it'an icomplete deal because it doesn't address dak and it doesn't address allof the priorities that we've indicated this important. >> and you're willing to go to a government shutdown, if it comes to it. >> i don't want aovernment shutdown. i either want the caps removed from this or i want a commitment from the speeak they're 'll address this issue. nobody wants a government shutrown. nobody iting for that. all we want is for this daca sue to be addressed, which is what the president has promised the american. but people in mind last year what the president said thiss country ne a good shutdown. earlier thisec week, just yesterday, he said there will be a shutdow enthink the only one root fairg shutdown is prestrump. >> pete aguilar from california, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> yang: for a different perspective, let's turn to alabama congressman mo brooks. he is a member of the conservative freedom caucus. mr. brooks, thanks for joining us. i know earlier in the day you n said you wer just a "no" on this deal from the senate.

you were a "hell no." what are your objections? what don't you like about this? >> well what, i don't like is this legislation eventually will cause the united states of america, one of the greatest nations the world has ever known, to go into insolvency and bankruptcy. that will have a cascading effect that wil cost american lives as they lose health care, as they lose access to puc housing, as they lose access to food supplements that are providedy the federal government. it would be a catastrophic effect on america as we kntow i. and, quite frankly, it would destroy the america that took our ancestors centuries of sacrifice to build. that's the reason to be against this bill is that, yeah, itsp ds a whole lot of money. but you know what? it doesn't pay for it.e what it ds is it bor toes. and that means it's putting the burden-- our kids and grandkids, except our financial circumstans are so dire. we're no longer talking about our kids and granddaughters,ing it people living today who will have to suffer that burden and we simply can't do that to our

country. >> earlier today, the chairman of the armed services committee, said if you vote no you're voting against the military. you've got a lot of military workers at the reondarsenal in your district in huntsville. do you think that slaingz is going to be-- is goito satisfy them? >> absolutely nop not. if we go into insolvency and bankruptcy, what getpaid first under the united states constitution? debt service. national defense is pretty close to the bot if we go into an insolvency and bankkrpt of bantcy, you're looking at a situation where national defense could be zeroed that woue a devastating hout. effect on the national security of the united states of america, and it would alscos 30,000 people pooem in my district jobs mediately. so long term-- and that's what i'm focused on is long term-- this bill is devasting to national defense, and i'm not going to stand for it. >> you say you're looking at the long term, but in the-- is the short-term threat to a government shutdown for the government contractors, for nasa

at huntsville in your district, is tt worth it? >> well, we don't need to shut downtown government. all we need to dosis pas whatever legislation is necessary to properly fund national defense and every other aspect of the federal government. and we on the house side, we have done that on numerous occasions, and we did it all back in september or early. the problem is chuck shiewm expert democrats in the sen te, they want be in this continuous resolution situation. they want to us continually b risking a government shutdown. and wish the they would dcide it's more important to fund national security than toss putinous this ynd of quand on a regular basis with conditioning resolutions. chw, to be fair, it's mit mcconnell and the republicans who have insisted on a 60-vote rule rather than a mere majority that hedas empowhe democrats in the united states senate to be suc w troublemaers it comes to avoiding these government shutdown risk on aba regulais. >> i want to be clear on what you want here. are you objecting to removing the caps, thnd speg caps that the senate is talking about? or do you just want that offset,

that additional spending offset? >> i want us to be financially reonsible where we do no increase the risk ofica going through a debilitating insolvency and bankruptcy.y justive example-- and i'm going to share some data with you-- you remember we had fourye consecutivs of trillion-dollar deficits. that resulted in large parts in republicans capturing the house, and we worked hard to reduce that annual defit to438 billion three years ago. two years ago, it went in the wrong direcon, up t $585 business bl. last year, it went in the wrg direction, $666 billion. with this bill, we're going to push the deficit through the trillion-dollar irk. that's gng to adversely affect credit markets. that's going to drive up interest rates. in turn, that's going to suppress the snarkt, and i think you saw a ottle bitf that today as news started getting out as to how financially irresponsible this legislation is and how much more money the federal government is going to and you look at all the cascading effects of this legislation, and nobody who has any financial sense at all could

possibly be for it. we've already got the congressional budget office, the government accountability office, the comptroller general of the united states, a year aga ing us that our current financial path,aise country, is unsustainab, which in accounting language is really, really bad, meanwhile we're heading towards insolvency and bankruptcy. and now you add to it a spending bill that increases our deficit by at least $200 billion, that collectively with everything else causes us this year to blow through the trillion-dollar mark. wiery single year thereafter being in excess of $1 trillion in additioebt, and you can see that it's e sustainable, and that will collapse in tie government of the united states, when we no longer have the money to pay for the things that ciizens are used to receiving. >> do you think the freedom caucuses a bloc is going stto d up against this? >> well, the freedom caucus, by and large, puts country first. this is a no-brainer. quite frankly, the only folks who should be voting for this are the det nkies, who love unsustainable spending bills.

buif you're going to be financially responsible and you're going to put country first, as much as we love some of the spending aspects of it, we have to vote no in ordeto save the solvency of the united states of america. we pay these financial gurus to give us collective adand they're warning us. they're screamath us. they're putting the warnings in writing. and to ignore it is financial folly. i suggest people lo what's going on in venezuela, where the inflation rate last year was 800%. where 75% of their population over a recent 12-month period had an average weight loss of 19 pounds per person. that's 22 million to 23 million people who can't get enough calories to sustain their body weight. do you really wat america to go through that with an insolvency and bankruptcy of a central government? research venezuela. you'll see how bad it is. look at greece, a country at's been bailed out on three different occasions, and you'll see how bad it is. look apuerto rico, and you'll see how bad it is. we cannot let america go there. >> representative mo brooks of

alabama. sir, thanks for joning us. thank you. >> yang: top white house and pentagon officials confirm that the president wanta military parade in washington, and that plans are being drawn up. as white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports, those marchingrders from mr. trump have some raising eyebrows, while others are rising to salute. >> reporter: it was a show of military might that left a lasting impression. president trump was the guest of honor at france's bastille day parade last july. it was sll on his mind two months later, when he saw french president emanuel macron at the u.n. general assembly. >> it was one of the greatest parades i'veayver seen. weo something like that on july 4th in washgton, downia pennsylvan avenue. >> reporter: in january, mr.

trump gave marching orders to do just that. secretary of defense jim mattis and general joseph dunford, chair of the joint chiefs of staff. last night, the "washington post's" greg jaffe reported on what the president said about a parade. >> he made no secret of the fact that he wanted one. when you say that in front of a room of generals, i think they tend to take it as an order, and i think that's what happened there. >> reporter: now, the pentagon confirms it has begun working on the details. the last large-scale military parade in washington was in 1991. presidengeorge h.w. bush ordered that one to celebratehe the end ofulf war. it featured almost 9,000 troops and attracted 20000 bystanders. the price tag: $8 million-- more than $14 million in today's dollars. tony, democratic senator be cardin of maryland said it would be the wrong way to use taxpayer money. >> first of all, there's a cost issue involved here. secondly, america doesn't have to display its military might--s

the world unnds our strength. >> reporter: at the white house, secretary mattis was asked about the cost. he has been saying the military is short on funds. >> we're all aware of, in this country, of the president'sre affection anect for the military. we've been putting together some options, we'll sending them up to the white house for a decision. >> reporter: greg jaffe says a parade also presents a logistical challenge for the pentagon. equipmentolves takin off-line, so they're not training with it. it's costly. so i think there's not a l of enthusiasm for this idea, especially among the rank and file in the pentagon. >> reporter: but republican senator richard shelby of alabama welcomes the chance to celebrate the military. >> i think that's probably good for the country, always, if weer praise our sol whether it's washiton, d.c. or it's birmingham, alabama or new york city.th we've ha in the past. >> reporter: throughout the cold warthe united states

refrained fropublic displays of military force. d avoided comparisons with soviet soldiers nks routinely parading through moscow. in 2018, a u.s. militaryawarade could omparisons with north korea.ke kim jong-un a show of parading his weapons, as his military did last apribu greg jaffe suggests that, for president trump, breaking with precedent could be part of the appeal. >> other presidents don't holdpa des, and i think trump views himself as a different kind of president. >> repter: indications are that the pentagon could aim to stage the parade around veterans day in november. for the pbs newshour, i'm yamiche alcindor.

>> yang: stay with us. coming up on the newshour: the spike in crime that's being blamed on migrants coming to germany. and, a new book from one of the newshour's own. but first, a billionaire casino magnate from las vegas steps down from his company after multiple allegations of sexual wrongdoing. as william brangham reports, it's not just of one of the titans of las vegas, but also a key player in national republican polits. >> brangham: stephen wynn helped turn las vegas into the multibillion-dollar tourist mecca it is today. as c.e.o. of wynn resorts,bee built the llagio, the mirage, the wynn hotel, emblazoning hisa na image on them, and the city. wynn was also the financerm ch of the republican national committee, and a big g.o.p. don c. but all the crashing down when the "wall street journal"y published a stleging a years-long pattern of harassment and sexual coercion by wynn

against his employees. 7 e "journal" reported that one of them was paid allion settlement. wynn has denied all the allegatis against him, calling them "preposterous." rick velotta has been covering this story forrehe "las vegas ew journal," which we should point out is owned by sheldon adelson, who is also a big g.o.p. donorand a competitor steve wynn's in the casino business, in vegas and elsewhere. rick velotta, welcome to the newshour. inuld you just lay out what the allegations are ag steve wynn? >> well, right now, it's under investigation that e coerced some of his female employees to give him massages, and then to have sex with him in some of t the-- some of the hotel rooms at th wynn las vegas. >> there are some allegations, , take ie was asking waitresses not to lose weight in the past. there are some othe allegations. you can explain those as well? >> yes, this was actually several years ago when there was

some big controversy about how he felt like some of the women employees just did not look as good as they could have looked. so he broug them all to a room, talked to them about the fact that they needed to lose weight, and then he set a standard by which they had only a certain amo pounds that they could gain from the time that they were hired in order to keep their jobs. >> and we should also say, there was a story that your pap admitted recently that it had spiked back in the late 1990st that dl some other gations against wynn. can you tell bus those? >> sure, there are some allegations that he handpicked several employees that he wanted .o have intimate relations with one of those was a grandmother, and one of the things that he saidas he wanted have a grandmother because he didn't know-- he wanted to see what it felt like. >> again, we should reiterate, that steve wynn has said-- flatley denies all of these allegations, past and present. >> exactly. >> for those of us who are not

that familiar with him, can you tell us a little bit about steve wynn and his stature and role in las vegas? >> steve wynn iconsidered to be the mover and shaker of th community. over the-- over a period of time, from the late 80s to the early 200s, las vegas was going through a metamorphosis, and heas leading the way with every property that he built. you mentioned the mirage, whe a volcano erupts every 15 minutes. you mentioned the bellagio, where dancing waters are, you know, a lake in front of the building. all these things were attracting people from all across the country, and the thing was you wanted to see these things. you wanted to come to las vegas just to check them out. so people would come here. so he's considered kind of a hero in terms of building the community that has drawn so many we're now up to 43 million a year. >> with cases like harve weinstein, once the allegations came out, everybody in hollywood said, "yeah, we had known about this for a long period of time." was tnsere a sethat there

were rumors about steve wynn? i mean, did this come as a bol out of the blue? >> no, it wasn't a bolt out ofau the blue b i think that the same types of allegations were being discussed across las vegas in many ways. but mr. wynn, is also a very powerful individual, held on to the fac t that you could fired by him, you know, if you didn't comply with what he wanted. there weo a lot of pee who feared for their jobs. so, therefore, you know, it was one of those things where thijus kept going on and on. and we have documentation that it happened up to thrcades ago. >> as i mentioned before, he was the finance chair of the g.o.p., of the republicanational committee, and a big donor. do you have any sense-- i know there have been a lot of callsth members of the g.o.p. return money that he helped raise for the party. do you havsany sense what thi scandal might do to his standpointure within the party? >> well, it's kind of hard to tell because one of the first

things he defense resgn tha republican position. and he's been active in politics for all s career, on both sides of the aisle, i might add. before he was republican national chair, he was often donating to other causes, depending on which candida best met his needs, as far as his business was concerned. >> he, obviously, has a lot of ongoing projects going. and i'm just curious what your sensaof the fllout is this going to be? i mean, he's got projects in boston. 's got more in vegas. he has interest this china. what's your sense of how those-s are in jeopardy now? >> well, it's kind of hard to say. it's a little bit tro ealy because he's only stepped down less than 24 hours ago, and the wynn board of directors has named a new c.e.o., math eye maddux. the feeling i'm getting is they hope to continubusiness a usual, but it's very difficult to fill the shoes of steve wynno so who everybody has respected over the years who has had that creativity to build what is-- whis today's las

vegas. >> and lastly, just quickly, what areng the oing investigations, and what might they be looking into? >> these are being conducted by three regulatory organizations-- the nevada gaming control bo the massachusetts gaming commission, and the regulatory body in macow. also his own board of directors is conducting its own in-athouse investn. what they want to do is find out exactly what happened, if anybody-- if there were some breakdowns within the company in terms of reporting to h.r. some of the these things that were going on. and it's possible that the regulators, the gamin regulators, could penalize mr. wynn even more. they could revoke his license. they could fine the company a large sum of money, like seen figures. >> all right, rick velotta of the "las vas review journal", thanks very much. >> thanks for having me.

>> yang: as we reported earlier, german chancellor angela merkel announced a deal to form a newit con government. in the last election, she lost seats in parliament to the right-wing "alternative for germany party," or a.f.d. a big issue was her decision to open the borders to more than a million migrants and refugees in 2015.w, noith a.f.d. the main opposition party, merkel is facing demands to step up deportations of young male ongrants. as special corrent malcolm brabant reports, that follows a finding that they are largely responsible for an increase of violent crime in germany. >> reporter: a brutal murder in kandel, southern germany has plored the country's open do immigration policy under intense scrutiny. these marchers demanded protection and security for women and children, after aea 15old local girl, mia valentin, was stabbed to death by a young afghan asylum seeker.

her alleged killer claimed to be 15, but there are suggons that he was older, exploiting a system which forbids the deportation of minors. lawyer martina boeswald: >> ( thtranslated ): i am a of three children, and we are here togetheto protest against the aggressivity of people who are grabbing our children, and who are bringing fear in our country. we want to live in peace. and this is the fault of angela merkel. >> reporter: the demonstration in kandel was nominally organized by a women's alliance, but the anti-immigrant a.f.d., or alternative forermany party, was well represented. myriam kern is a former a.f.d. councillor: >> ( translated ): since germany has been pursuing the policy of open borders-- that is illegal, against our constituon, against our law and order-- we have massive problems, as we do not know who ces into this country.

are not in control. we have lost control. we do not know what identity, what people are coming here. >> reporter: this is a placeas thatraditionally been tolerant. it has welcomed refugees. but what they're sayg is that if murder can happen in a small townnike kandel, it can happe anywhere else in germany. the marchers cnted that merkel must go, along with other slogans decrying germany's multiculturalism. in kandel's main square, they were confronted by anti-racism advocates who accused them of purveying nazi propaganda. >> ( translated ): a girl has beenilled, and that's all. she isn't killed because she's german and someone is a foreigner. she's just been killed, and you mustn't make demstration here against foreigners. >> ( translated ): naturally, one has to do something agnst crime, yes, that is already the nature of the world.

but here, it is not about the crime anymore. here, it is about simply vilifying people that come here seeking he. they want to get rid of them. >> reporter: but a new government-sponsored crime study has generated more gloom for supportersf germany's liberal migration policy. it was conducted in lower saxony, the country's fourthhe largest state, violent crime rose by 10% between 2014 and '16. the impact can be seen at hannover's main station, where large squads of police are on duty. rising crime has been added toan the burden o-terrorist duties. according to the study's author, christian pfeiffer, 92viof the olent crime increase is attributed to young male migrants, especially those from north africa. >> ( translated ): the social opportunities of refugees from war to be able to stay in germany are very good. they were told, no wrong movements, no crimes, and you have a good chance of being able to remain. but the north afrins arrive here and discover that they all

have to go home again anare not wanted here, and so they become frustrated and react aggressively. >> reporter: but pfeiffer adds thasproviso that a foreigner a 44% chance of being reported for a sex offense, whereas for a german, the figure drops to 18%. >> ( translated ): the visibility of violent crime of refugees is way higher than the visibility of rman offenders, which has contributed to the storm about this survey. >> reporter: despite fears about crime, political analystaphael bossong believes most germans support immigration. >> ( translated ): tre is a substantial majority of people who haven't become terrified. however, yes, the political pressure with the right-wing populists is growing, and they use social media in a very sophiscated way, to take isolated incidents and really push them. >> reporter: a case in point is the town of cottbus, near the polish border,here there was a protest this weekend against what's perceived as rising knife crime by syrian refugees. the town has stopped accepting

any more migrants because of growing anxiety, but there was a larger, pro-refugee rally. among the protestors, mohamad al khodor. >> ( translated ): we are sorry that two of our countrymen created problems with knives. of course that is not good. we are here because we want all germans to know that not all foreigners are the same. >> reporter: back in hannover, rdish protesters label turkey's president erdogan a terrorist after he launched military raids io the kurdish region of northern syria. the importation er middle eastn conflicts into germany is another strain on police resources, as they try to prevent citizens with rival ethnicities from harming each other. rainer wendt heads the union representing germany's police officers. he fears that levels of migrant related crime are only going to get worse. >> ( translated ): we hope that this is enough pressure withinar the rulinges to come to a change of politics.

which means, protect the bordert bettn they have, and prevent illegal migration into the country, and indeed, start a naonal offensive to deport more people who simply have no right to be here. and there, the delinquents need to be the first ones that are sent home. >> repter: the changing climate in germany dismays syrian refugee bashar hassoun, who runs a berlin cafe that aims to act as a bridge between people's races. >> ( translated ): i am ashamed, if i hear something on the ns when a refugee has abused, or doneomething bad somewhere, germany or europe. so, honestly, i don't want to hear the news anymore, no matter what happens, the refugees have done this and that and that. i have been hunting for anth apartment foe years, but i get no response because i come from syria. the people are afraid of me and i have done nothing bad. >> reporter: voter dissatisfaction over immigration is the main reason why angela merkel's authority was punctured by the rht-wing alternative for germany. more than four months after the election, rkel has finally

agreed to a coalition with the social democratswho are liberal on immigration. duezen tekkal advised rkel on migration during coalition talks. tekkal is a yazidi, the iraqi minority subjected to genocide i by the so-callslamic state. >> ( translated ): violence is very much a taboo subject to a taut, especially when related to migration. ndt we have to be open and honest about it,e need to talk about the connection that naturally exists. >> reporter: at the berlin state assembly, the alternfor germany relishes being the iuntry's main opposition. latest polls sugges gaining popularity at merkel's expense. regional leader georg pazderski says crime is a contributory factor. >> ( translated ): she does very poorly with this problem, and what i really think is, she's not listening to the people. i think you can only cure e crime rate if you are closing the borders, just to find out who is in germany. and then also to be very strictr as fs crime is concerned.

>> reporter: germany may have a new coalition, but as the demonstrations in kandel and cottbus clearly illustrated, the d.country is deeply divide for the pbs newshour, i'm malcolm brabant in germany. >> yang: now, a story of love and marriage in a society undergoing tremendous change. jeffrey brown has the latest from our "newshour bookshelf," which comes from one o newshour family. >> brown: men and women come together, grow apart, struggle to hold on to love and family. ,'s an old story, of cour but a new book offers an unusually intimate focus, in a place where tradition is colliding with 21st century global culture: mumbai, india.sh "the heart is ting sea" follows three indian couples over more than a decade, and i'm pleased to say its author is one of our own, my newshour

colleague and arts producer, elizabeth flock. nice to talk to you in this way. >> thanks, jeff. >> brown: explaining first how this began. not just india, but love and marriage. >> well, i moved to india about a decade ago, and at the time, for a combination of being homesick and restless and broke, bernded up living with a num of indian families. and there's, perhaps, no better way to's understand wh happening in a marriage than being inside the home. and i got really interested in the indian marriage and in some of the canges -- there's tremendous change happening in inla-- social change, cultu change, political and economic-- and in the ways that that was placing pressure on these marriages. >> brown: u say early on, you have a quote early in the book, "in mumbai, people seem to practice a , imaginative kind of love with an eye towards speccle." >> sur >> brown: what's that mean? >> well, i think there's this idea of over-the-top showy declarations of love. if you wat bollywood films you always see this happen.

one of the people in the book, maya, she sends her lover 13-tier cakes and gift wherever he's goimeng. and f this comes up on the of people's inability to be together. there is, of course, the practice of arranged marriages is very prevalent, andnk i thi the people who cannot be with the people they love sh their love in over the-the-top ways. >> brown: there is this clashof tradition with modernity. the couples you're dealing with are middle-class ouples open to the world, but still so bound by arranged marpariagesental involvement, right? >> uh-huh, yeah.a and i think 's creating a lot of tension for people and for couples. ently saw they consi is one half of the couple might be, you know, conngsuestern culture, changing ways. and the other half mighmobe re tied to previous generations.t often it' woman in the relationships that i followed

because indian women are being educated more, going to wor more. they're, in fact, watching pornography more, maybe having more affairs, and in many cases, you'll see, perhaps in the couples i followed, husbands struggling to deal with that.wo >> brown: thn are all doing that, but, also, i mean, what comes through continually is this continuing struggle for women, right. >>uh-huh. >> brown: they are stilt inequities of marriage. >> absolutely. i mean, arranged marriagis still very prevalent. there are arranged marriages that are hapy. there are some that are deeply unhappy. they're borne out of cruelty. indian women have been making their choices increasingly heard pup look at the #metoo movement in the u.s. india had that movement five years ago after the 2012 gang rape of a student, and at that time, thousands of women cam out into the streets to say that was not okay. >> brown: just use one example

of three couples, maya and viar. i ask you, what surprised you the most in getting to know these couples, if you look at them? >> yeah. outhink it was, with all three couples, that i go back to them-- i would go to spend a reporting trip, live with them, go to rk with them, travel alongside them, and i would feee had a handle on their maecialg. and i would go back a year later and find thingsra werdically different. i might find they were on the verge of divorcend come back and things had changed, which i think is probably true of any rriage. >> brown: in any place. >> in any place. but how radically things had changed. and i think part of that is this ditional pressure on indian marriages because of how rapidly things are changing. >>rown: a lot of what you're detailing are stuff of a marriage anywhere, right? uh-huh. >> brown: getting together, having all kinds of stress. but, clearly, because of the detail here, clearly comes through the ways that indian

culture still impinges on thisde very personal f life. >> yeah, and particularly for the middle class.s all three coup this book are middle class. and there is this idea ofss middle-cla morality anywhere in the world and want idea thatl peopletalk, that even if you feel like you might want to test the boundaries -- and in thesecases the people in couples were-- the neighbors might talk, the wider community might talk, the in-lawso may live in your home, in which case you're going to face repercussions for testing those bowbdries. >> brown: you were just talkinouabout how much time spent with them. and you're going through very stressful, painfuler vulnerable times, right. how did you get people to allow you to do tha >> i think it was a product of time. you know, so often as a reporter, we have to parachute into places. we don't have much time to make sense of thory as fast as we can. and because i started this back infi2008, when st got interested and met these couples informally building that trust was really

important. and, you know, still being around 10 years later, when people are sort of saying, "what are you still doing here?" i think that was really important. >> brown: wmore therements along the way when they said, "off bounds, off limits?" >> a little bit, and i'm sure there were some side donversation in languages where i didn't unerstand what was happening. but for the most part, i thinkth people e forgot i was there, maybe a little bit, but more soth, hopedat i would show the totality of their story.ro >>: an important question, an inevitable question for an outsider tell the story. any of us as journalists go inta placed it's hard to tell about an outside culture but india has been particularly romanticized, right. >> indeed. >.>> brown: in many ways. how did you avoid the cliches? romanticized, idealized. but i think we often hear the salacious tails out of india. that can be frustrating to see only gang rapes or forced

marriages or bollywood love. in this book i tried to show the reality of those things, but also show the bainal and mundane we vuue to deal with withinr marriages and our families which is, you know, very universal. and, also, to acknowledge thoseo cliches, you bollywood romance of lovers along the beach while the rain is coming down under ana, umbreeeting on the beach because that's only way they can have privacy beca e they're not going tget it in their joint family home, so meeting on a public ach is the most private place they can meet. acknowledging that those are cliches but their ubiquitous in india. >> brown: "the heart is a shifting sea," elizabeth flock,u thank you veryh. >> thank you, jeff. >> yang: and you can startre ing a excerpt from "the heart is a shifting sea" on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour. and we hope you will

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