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>> this ram was made possible by the corporation for public and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: a wild ride on wall street today.we it folchina's new tariffs on u.s. pork, wine and other products, and president trump's streats to penalize amazon. the dow jones inal average lost 459 points to close at 23,644. the nasdaq fell 193 points, and the s&p 500 gave up 59. also tonht, the trump administration is rolling back fuel economy standards for the auto industry. obama-era rules would roughly double gas mileage in new vehicles by 2025.

but the environmental protection announced today, that's too much. for more, i'm joined by amy harder of axios.program. so why is the trump administration doing this? >> well, the rkgulatory rollb has been a key part of the trump administration's agenda on the energy and environment front. the president and e.p.a. administrator scott pruitt said repeatedly over the last year they wanted to roll back regulations on auto makers and bring back detroit. so this is one of the regulations consumers and drivers see the most because they see the o stickthe car >> woodruff: how far back are they rolling these arnd? >> we didn't get a lot of details today. today is the very beginning of a long regular process. it might be more than a year before these things are final. there were no actuanumbe about what they think the standards should be. so as of now, that's to be

determined. they're going to do a rulemakine over the nexr that will decide that. >> what is the auto industry saying about this?ge are they ter with the administration in wanting the standards rolled back? >> that's a great question. it's a little murky. th associations that present lawmakers, they say they welcome a redo of the standards, in part because gadroline priceopped and consumers want to have their f-150s, for example. because california is moving more aggressively on these, there is concern there will be a messy patch work of rgulations and drivers won't be able to comply depending on thstate you're driving? >> woodruff: california is going to have stricter standards. will they be affected differently? >> california has had a waiver for years. the e.p.a. said they were not

taking action on that today, t it's goibe something they decide on later, but it's going to be showdown, a legal and regulatory mess, and automakers are caught many middle. they welcome but thy don't want to have a patchwork. w howodruff: we don't kno this is going to affect the ds.ssion stand >> right. we don't. these economy standards were one of the largest and earliest pillars of president obama's climate agenda. we don't know yet how much of ao back the e.p.a. will want to go. i think that will be a big question and they say they're doing an analysiso to shw what consumers want to buy. i think there's concern they go far back and reverse the clock.d auto iustries say they want to ratchet up the standards, not so much as what obama on the table. >> woouff: amy harter, axios. thank you very much. >> thanks for having me.

>> woodruff: in the day's other news, the death toll rose to 18 in friday's violence along the nothersrael border, as palestinian died of wounds. israel denied using excessivefo rce. it said protesters were thwing fire bombs and stones. amateur video purported to show one man being fatally shot wle running away.wa anothes wounded while kneeling in prayer. the israelis disputed the videos. it's been a tense day in indian- controlled kashmir.n fighting therenday pitted soldiers against rebels and killed 20 people, including four civilians. today, protests continued asse ratist leaders called a general strike, and authorities imposed heavy security and aew cu >> we want to give new delhi the message that we will not succum the only way to bring back the peace to the valley, bring back peace to the sub-continent, is to resolve jammu and k hmir dispute through right to self- determination. >> woodruff: the rebels want kashmir made part of pakistan, or made independent. in syria, the largest rebel factio withdrawing today.n

members of the army of islam abandoned eastern ghouta, in a deal with the syrian military. state media showed buses evacuating the rebel fighters and their families. they headed for a town in, northern syriaar the turkish border. voters in costrica have chosen a new president, in a race that became a referendum on same-se marriage. in sunday's runoff, former cabinet minister carlos alvarado defeated a christian evangelical who opposed letting gays marry. alvarado will be sworn in next month. in south africa, winnie madikizela-mandela, the former wife of nelson mandela, is being mourned tonight. she died today at a hospital in johannesburg, after a life oftt ng apartheid, and scandal. p.j. tobia has our report. >> my husband has been fighting for the liberation of the african people, for the working harmoniously of all the racial groups in this country.

>> reporter: she was known to many black south africans as the "mother of the nation." winnie madikizela-mandela came to the anti-apartheid cause early, and married nelson mandela in 1958. when he was sentenced to life in prison for treason in 1963, she carried on the struggle. in 1976, she was arrested and held for five months without trial, and a year later, was exiled to a white township. >> thank you for letting me come here. >> reporter: she became an gnternational symbol of resistance, campg for mandela's release, and the rights of black south africans. she returned to johannesburg in 1985, and endorsed violent tactics, including "necklacing," hanging tires on suspected informers, and setting them on fire. >> we bring up the white man's with our necklaces we shall liberate this country. >> reporter: in february 1990, she finally walked hand in hand wi her husband as he left prison. but they separated in 1992, and divorced in 1996, two years after mr. mandelbecame

president of south africa. in 1991, madikizela-mandela was convicted of kidnaing four teens in the 1980's.gi later, she apod before the country's truth and reconciliation commission. she also served in government, but was convicted of f this evening, though, as mourners danced outside of herh home, soutrican presidentph cyril raa paid tribute. >> she remained throughout her orlife a tireless advocatehe dispossessed and the marginalized. la reporter: winnie madiki mandela was 81 years old. for the pbs newshour, i'm p.j. bia. woodruff: and another passing of note: television writer and boducer steven bochco has died in los angeles afttling cancer. starting in 1981, he created a series of hits, including "hill

street blues," "l.a. law," and "n.y.p.d. blue." along the way, he won 10 p.me- time emm steven bochco was 74 years old. still to come on the newshour: the president's twee about immigration, put in context. teachers in kentucky and oklahoma strike for better pay. a viral video shows how a national conglomerate is shaping local ne, and much more. >> woodruff: president trump capped off his two-day barrage of immigration-related tweets by declaring today, "daca is dead." lisa desjardins puts the president's long-shifting stance on immigration policy in context. >> desjardins: let's start with the latest from psident trump, today at what is usually a non- political event. >> thank you all for being here folks. >> desjardins: ...the annual

keite house easter egg roll. the president was about his tweets on immigration. >> it's a shame and nopeople are really taking advantage of daca. and that's a srdme. >> desjas: this after a weekend flood of similar trump tweets. why now? it may be a response tenfox news segmt. >> a carav of migrants, at least 1,200 strong, marching across mexico toward the united states.s: >> desjardhortly after that aired, mr. trump declared"" border patrol agents areroot allowed torly do their job at the border because of ridiculous liberal (democrat) laws like catch and release. getting more dangerous "caravans" coming." let's dissect that. first, catch and release is the practice of releasing undocumented immigrants while they wait for their hewith an immigration judge. a smaller point here: it is not a law. a larger point: nearly a year ago, then-homeland security secretary john kelly said this. >> we ha ended catch and release. >> desjardins: this weekend's

tweet adds to confusion er whether the program has ended. second, mr. trump mentions" caravans coming." this refers to a group of at least 1200 central american migrants many making their way to the u.s. border-- they reportedly plan to ask for asylum or consider crossingil gally. the group says this has been a regular evenhefor years. antweet and another question." thlbig flows of people are trying to take advantage of pca," trump said. there is a factublem there. hnce president obama created the daca program, been limited to only those whoed entered the untates by the year 2007. bottom le, no child brought to the u.s. illegally now, or in the past few yrs, can qualify for daca. this brings us to litics" daca is dead," the president tweeted this morning, "because democrats didn't care or act." here, the president is ignoring

that 14 republicans, not just democrats, voted against his daca plan in february.ay >> theare 39, the nays are 50. >> desjardins: and of course there is this fact: torney general jeff sessions and the trump administration shut down daca, arguing it is illegal. opinions aside, in the most literal sense, daca is dead because president trump end it. there is truth to one element here: trump is hitting a very real nerve when he blames democrats on daca. >> stop holding these young people hostage, do the will, thank you, stop holding them as your political pawns. >> desjardins: democrats vowed to protect daca recipithts, but the-day government shutdown over the issue infi january bad for them. this failure has angered democrats' base and hispanics. wherdoes this leave daca? there are many tweets. but currently no talks about a

ssible daca deal. there haven't been for over a 0 nth. that has left 800,ca recipients in limbo, looking not to the white house or to congress, but to branch number three-- the courts, which could rule on the program as soon as this year. and th generally don't tweet. for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. >> woodruff: npr correspondent carrie kahn has been keepi track of all of this, including the caravan's progress. kahn covers mexico and central america and joined us a short while ago via skype from the city of monterrey, in northern mexico. she begins with what is driving this latest migration. ere are people that were already in mexico had already made their decision to leave central mark and had been at the border -- southernmost boarder town of chiapas. activists and in new mexico have been trying toe rganem in a group. they weren't inaravans and

cars, they had already decided to leave their country and headed nosorth. hey're traveling in a very large group, about 1200 migrants. the majority from honduras. and the violence that has take enover these countries and sent to america, parlatiy honduras, there are claim gan and incredible violence in the countries. are they all planning to get in the united states or is it known? >> that's a good question. last year, a caravan similar to this one, i met up with a lot of people in mexico city when they were coming through this was may of last year, a few months after president trump had token office, and they decided they didn't wanry to get into the united states, they were fearful they would be detained at the border and not allowed in, so a lot have been asking for political aslum in mexico. the number of refugee asylum

petitions have skyrocketed in mex coavment last year, there were more than 10,000 petitions for refugee and asylum in mexico. they give them intformation abou the difficulties and complexities for applying for asylum in the united states at the border so soe of them will change theirind and some may ask for asylum at the border and not stria to sneak in withon. authorizat >> woodruff: for those who try to cross at the border, how easy is it for them to do that? president trump said these liberal laws like catch and release are keeping t border agents from doing their job. so what's the reality of at? >> well, i can just tell you what apprehension figures are along the border. you can get an idea of how many people are getting through by the apprehension figures when president trump took office, the

apprehension figures plu along the southwest border, and they have been slowlyin incre february and march are historically the times of the year when migrants from central mark do attempt to get through the border, an we have seen a steady increase in the rise of numbers again, so it looks like amore central mannersre coming to the border and are getting through. >> is there uy doubt, i gess, in people's minds, in mexico, who follow this issue that president trump wants emigration from the south to slow down or stop? >> well, there have been times when mexico has crcked down on migration through its country and has had the political wherewithal and also the vsources. it'sry expensive, tens of thousands of central american migrants come through mexyico evyear and are apprehended and deported by the mexican government. nyou remember2014 when large numbers of on accompied minors

were coming through mexico at the borr, mexico cracked down and many of the minors were deported from mix co-. but to susin that depormt was expensive for mexico. they haven't able to sustain the level of enforcement. they don't have to border guards and at the de tension facilities needed, and they don't have theolitical will either to do that. >> woodruff: such a complicated story. it just seems tontinue. the president's comments don't slow down at all. carrie kahn reporting for usfr monterrey, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. t woodruff: thousands of teachers protestay in oklahoma and kentucky. they demanded higher wages and more resources for stu john yanreports on these

latest walk outs. >> alcindor: today, thousands of teachers in oklahomad off their jobs and marched on the statehouse.de they demd an even bigger raise than what legislators passed last week. at the kentucky state capitol the scene, and the issue, was much the same. >> i pray and i hope that our legislators listen and they fully fund our schools. kentucky is ranked 47th in perl punding and in order for our students to be successful they need top dollar. >> yang: so far this year, teachers in four states, each with a republican governor and legislature, have walked out ofs clooms to press for more school spending. it began in west virginia, where a nine-day teachers' strike led to 5% raises. arizona could be next. teachers there rallied last week at the state capitol. they're considering a strike as they seek a 20% raise.

to put this into context, wee joined by liana loewus, from our partner, "education week," where she is assistant managing editor. liana loewus, welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> yang: inom okl they got a raise from the 14r5eu6r79 but are still p what does that tell us? >> the teachers got a $6,100 raise, the legislature passed it last week. they were asking for $10,000 over three years plus $300 million more in education funding. they didn't get what they asked for so they said we're walking out anyways. >> yang: what's the likelihood they will get tha >> it's hard to pass a tax hike in oklahoma. you need three-quarters majority. that hasn't happened since 1990. i think it's pretty slim it will happen again. >> yang: in west virginia they got a pay rase, in arizona it's

money, in kentucky, pe some teachers are describing this as a wildfire. why are all these happening now? >> west virginia, if it's a wildfire, they were definitely the spark. things started there. a loof it happened onsocial media. the union's really been playingt a supg role in most of these states, so teachers have been mobonilizinsocial media. organizing seems to have changed becaae of facebook relly. we've seen thousands and thousands of teachers gather on social media and teachers in ast virginia have been lly sort of bolstering the efforts in oklahoma as wel so that's a lot of it. >> yang: has there been anything like this before is this. >> there was a state-wide strike in west virginia in 2007 and one in 1990.e they auite rare, though. you know, we see smaller strikes, local strikes every year, just a few strikes were just so much more common in the

1960s. >> yang: also theustering of them like this. >> yeah, that is unusual to seee teachersng off each other in other states. again, i think that's because a lot of this is o happeniline. they're bolstering each others' efforts onlin >> yang: you talk about the rank and file organizing this and t unionaders following. in oklahoma today the union leaders actually wanted to do this later in the month. on said they were going to do this april 23, and there was outrage on social media. the rank and file teachers said, we want to do this april second. we know it's closer to test buga don'e, we want this to be effective. they changed the tack. >> yang: teachers want more funding for schools. a lot of the after the rescission in 2008. >> pt of this is the fnding hasn't rebounded after the recession.rs teacn oklahoma will tell you we haven't gotten a raise in ten years andt's very

important. >> yang: is it significant these e states are republican governors and republican' controlled legislators. >> sure, and they're states where education funding has been cut. but as weknow, with mobilizing happening on social media and in new places, i thk this could potentially happen anywhere. >> yang: liana loewus, fromio educweek. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> woodruff: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: e political stakes of a potential trade war with china. ongoing harassment in the marines one year after a scanda involvplicit photos. pand how the public can h atildren with autism. but first, does itr who owns the tv station that delivers your local news? s while polls shows americe increasingly worried about so-

call "fake news"-- they also show that many trust their local news more than other sources. the largest owner of local stations in the country is sinclair broadcasting. a viral video of sinclair news anchors has again raisedco erns about the way in which the company mixes news with paisan political opinion. william brangham updates his story about the broadcasgiant that originally ran last year. >> a train derailment in tennessee. >> some routine road maintenance has lead to a squabble. >> we have breaking news to tell you about. ais is out of bethesda tonight. >> brangham: nigter night, the country's largest owner of local tv stations, the sinclair broadcast group, reaches over a third of homes across the nation. >> a compromise plan for t controversial conseus inn. >> brangham:ost of us think of local news as just that-- local. stations run local stories, produced and reported by local people. but, if last week, you tuned in to, say, wvtv, sinclair's station in milwaukee, you saw

this: >> the sky is blue. does the president have to repeat that? >> brangham: that's boris heshteyn, former member of trump administration, and now chief political analyst for sinclair. and here he was again on wear in pensacola: >> the president stating the fact that the fringes of the left and the right >> brangham: and on ksas in wichita... >> are both capable ofand violence, does not mean he is condoning any of it. >> brangham: and aga and again on every single one of the 173 hesinclair stations across country. eric lipton is a reporter for the "new york times" who's beeno ring sinclair. >> they have what they call ust runs" which include boris epshysten who was a surrogate for trump. on the air talking about conservative issues. while the local news stations largely decide what their local news is going to be, you know, of covering local government crime and local issues, there are these "must runs" that go on their networks across the ited

states which have a decidedly conservative flavor. >> brangham: this partisan tilt has ny free-speech advocates worried because, not only doesuc sinclair owna large chunk of the marketplace already, but sinclair it's hoping to get bigger still if its proposed $4 billion merger with tribune media goes forward, sinclair would now reach threout of four american households. journalism professor lewis friedland. >> it is a real step in a very different direction to begin to say the most trusted news sourcs ofamericans is going to betu allowed to bed into an opinion organization, an opinion machine for a very narrow, narrowly conservative point of view night after night in local communities. >> brangham: television remains the main source of news for many americans. in 2016, 46% of adults said they got their news from local tv stations. and it's information they trust.

41% of registered ters said they trust local news to tell the truth, while just 27% trust national news. sinclair disputes having any nd of a political bent. its executives declined to talk with us on camera for this report. this weekend, the online news site deadspin created this compilation of dozens of sinclair's local newscasters recoing an identical promo accusing the national media ofne spreading "fak." >> the sharing of biased and false news has becomall too common on social media. >> this is extremely dangerous to our democracy. >> this is extremely dangerous to our democracy. >> this is extremely dangerous to our democracy. >> this is extremely dangerous to our democracy. >> brangham: the video spread quickly on social media, againci stirring criti of the broadcast giant. scott livingston, senior vice president of news, responded in a memo saying, "the promos served no political agenda, and

represented nothing more than an effort to differentiate our award-winning news programming from other, less reliable mpurces of information." today, president tefended sinclair, tweeting: "sinclair is enfar superior to cnn and more fake nbc, which is a total joke." meanwhile, sinclair's bid to buy tribune, a thus expand its ach dramatically in local news, is awaiting approval from the justice departnt and the fc for the pbs newshour, i'm william brangham in washington, d.c. >> woodruff: we return now to the politics of immigration and the impact of president trump's series of tweets on so-called dreamers and the wall. for that, i'm here with tamara ith of npr and stuart rothenberg of inside elections.

welcomto you beth. it is "politics monday." tam, we have been talng about immigration, the president's tweets. what is driving this? we know the president feels strongly about this issue, but how do we read this? >> well, there are a lot of different ways to read it.he certainly,ews of the caravan is something that has been bubbling up ands out there, but also this is a core issue for president trump. dating back to his ride down that golden esctrator atump d wer when he declared his candidacy and talout mexico not sending their best people. thsomething he believes works for him. last week i mentioned i was watch ago lot of depositions, well in one of those depositione he tvery openly about how he felt he was really on toal something byking about immigration so much that it was catching fire and that it was working for m. and, so, this is, in some ways, a base play. this is about riling up his base in a mid-term yearnd following

this big omnibus spending bill where the president didn't rely get that much wall funding, and there were a lot of democratic priories in that ll. >> woodruff: so, stu, what effect does it have on voters? >> i would note immigration is both an economic and cultural tsue -- economic because involves jobs but cultural because it involves aiscussion of who we are as a people and a country and where we want to go, and the two parties divide very dramatically along these lines. i think the president has to keep his position becse it does play to his base, to older voters, rural voters, evangelicals, older whites, older white men, and while the democratic party is a party of african-americans, hispanics,l voters of or, younger voters, people who think dntfe. but when you look at the two sides, i just can't believe that most voters, and paticularly most democrats, will think that

the president is on their side, and not the democrats. i justes think that t pass the smell test. >> woodruff: so you're saying it backfires? an his base is too small. he needs to exhis support, not contract it. >> woodruff: surely the white house thinks about this, tam. w >> surely thte house thinks about this, and they did a background call today wih senior administration officials pushing on this immigration issue. here's the larger thing that's going on -- there isn't a clear next big thing at ts moment that the white house is working on. they passed that tax bill, the passed the big spending bill, and now what? so the president gave an infrastructure speech last weaker education week where he barely talked about infrastructure, now he's tweeting about immigration, but there's not really an appetite in congress to take is on now. >> just one final point, judy, i think we've seen from the elections in virginia d the

selection in pa the crucial voter swing group isn subur voters, particularly women, and this issue won't help the esident with them. >> woodruff: speaking o things, whether the next or last thin, the president has been talking a lot about trade, the administration has gotten out of trade deals, they've imposed tariffs now, they sayey e imposed tariffs on china, the chinese are reacting. what's the political calculus there? >> this goes back to exactly what we were talking about before which is it's all about the base, and this is something that he campaigned on. going tough on tade, going tough on china, that was a core part of the president's campaign and part of the way he attracted some of these more conservative white democrats who he was able to draw over because t message on trade resonated with them. w the markets are doing some wild and crazy things and there's been a lot of

instability in the markets. the white house is saying, you know, we look at long-term trends. >> woodruff: so clearly, stu, p thys well with some but not with everybody. >> exactly. it plays well with the industries he's protecting, the c.e.o.s and the workers and those industries he's protecting, steel, aluminum, washing machines and the like but it hurts him everywhere else and in more places and amonger more vthan it helps him. this is going to i spl the republican party because there ds a huge free trade party rural america, that's the president's base. >> woodruff: that's what we thought. >> and china, it's not a big move, $3 billion right in lie with what they think the effect of the steel and aluminum tariffs will be, but it's targeted at things like pork and iowa , and guess wherep president trd really well? iowa. >> woodruff: so, stu, do we

just watch as the trade specifics roll out an y -- >> we don't know how it's going to develop, an that's -- you know, the devil is in the detail here. exactly how does the u.s. respond after theinese? how about western europe? how about u.s. other allies in terms of trade issues? so we don't know, but it is, i think -- this has been one area where the president has been ccessful, the economy, jocks, stock market. you see how talk of trade has rattled the markets >> absolutely. today down 771 points before it settled down. quickly to you both, tam. these teachers strikes, really interesting teachers in state re do youte whoer their pay is so low something has to be done about it, funding is low. how does that pla?y political >> it is a fascinating political dynamic in that teachers unons, among unions are those that have he up.t they areonger than a lot of other unions are at this point, and they tend to be very democratic.

teachers unions are allied with democrats. >> woodruff: not all of these teachers out siking are union members. is that right? >> no. look, this is another one of those cases where you have to kind of look as which swing voters are affected, and teachers tend to be disproposh natalie female, they talk about kids ad families and education and just the sorts of issues that resonate with which voters? suburban voters and suburban moms, in particular, areswi voters. this is another -- i know we -- i feel like a broken record here. >> woodruff: it's oka we like broken records. >> but once again, it's hard to see how republicans benefit from this. the biggest hit may bon state legislators and governors, but to the extent it impac the overall effort, energy, enthusiasm, fairness, our kid that's got to help the democrats. ut woodruff: and when the teachers talk ahat they have been spending out of their own pact to take care of these

kids' in school. >> and you have oklahoma where many schools aren't even inn sessve days a week, they're in session four days a week, it's a pretty stark situation, and, very quickly, ine teachers start talking about tax policies states run by republicans. >> woodruff: yep, well, we are watching that one, too. tamera keith, stu rothenb "politics monday," thank you both. >> thanks, judy. you're welcome. >> woodruff: it was one year ago that the so-called "marines united" scandal broke: hundreds of current and former marines were posting explicit photos of women, including female marines, on a private facebook group. seni leaders in the corps vowed to punish those involved, and to root out a culture of misogyny fther revealed by this scandal. ithliam brangham is back this report about what happened,

and how marine leaders are trying to stop it. and a warning: this report contains some graphic images. >> brangham: it was called" marines united"-- a private facebook group of roughly 30,000 current and former marines. leere and at other social media sites like it, couss photos of women were uploaded-- including explicit, personal photos like these, whie often llowed by a torrent of degrading sexual comments and threats. thomasrennan, who spent ten years in the marines, fighting in iraq and afghanistan, is w a journalist, and he's the one who first broke the story on his investigative news site "the war horse" >> they were crowdsourcing. if you'd slept with this woman before and had photos, they ou to upload that without that person's permission. >> brangham: so these were consensually explicit photos that two people might have shared with each other in the course of their relationship. >> exactly >> brangham: now being put into this very public forum. >> exactly. >> brangham: the discovery of the contents of the marines united facebook page, and many

other sites like it, set off a wide-ranging investigation by ine marine corps. but questions ren whether the marines can police themselves and whetherve actually put a stop to this behavior. >>hey ranged anywhere from calling us sluts and bitches to talking about wanting to sexually assau us and doing all number of sexual things to us, with or without our consent. >> brangham: marine major janine garner flies kc-13, those mid- air refueling planes. she and a number of other officers took a group picture at lunch, and garner posted it online. a couple months later, it appeared on another one of these private group sites, peppered by >> i mean, how can i look to the marine to the right and to theit left of me andhere and wonder, "were you one of the ones who said you wanted to rape me? were you one of the ones who said i it erodes everything that we stand for and it goes completely against our core values. how can the american public trust us?

>> if you're in my unit, and i'm going to post things about you on social media because of your gender, your ethnicity, your sexual preference, no. that's not acceptable. so you own that space. >> brangham: general robert neller is the commandant of the marine corps, its most sofior cer. neller visited marine bases nationwide to address the scandal, which he says isn't just about online behavior, it's about basic respect for women in the corps.e >> and the wayeat them is not acceptable. anuif you think that's, if think that's bull ( bleep ), go ask them! i don't lieve we have in the aggregate valued or respected the contribution or participation of women in our corps. >> brangham: when you first heard about marines united, wer? you surpri >> i wasn't surprised. and i think that's what's really sad. make sure you get up out of your seats and giveim a huge warm welcome.

>> brangham: captain justine elena is in the marine reserves and she works as an audience coordinator at comedy central's "the daily show with trevor noah." s seven years ag was active duty, a lieutenant deployed in afghanistan. she says marines united wasn't a surprise because she knew of many examples of sexual harassment and assault not being taken seriously. and on her first assignment overseas, she says a male rine, one who was junior to her in rank, sexually groped her at a social event, as if it was tally normal. >> i remember that feeling ofos like oh mythis shouldn't be happening but not doing anything and just moving away d pretending like nothin happened. thd in my head thinking like," no, this i is something that i have to just be able to deal with because i decided to join this boy's club." >> brangham: military investigators concluded that 55 members of the marines corps broke the les. seven marines were court martialed, six others were kicked out.ec another 42ved minor punishments. none of them were in a command position.

>> you have to have that imageth your presence online. >> brangham: the corps has now changed its social media policy, and now instructs alnes on appropriate online behavior. >> you got the brief, you got the training. the corps believes its plan t add more womleadership roles will also help, and they've started additional training during boot camp and beyond they've also setup a task force to issue recommendations. >> i admit i was ignorant of all the stuff that was going on. i'm not anymore. >> brangham: do you think enough people have been held responsible for their actions? >> where the evidence was there, those people were held accountable. >> this is about a culxiral rot thats not just in the marines, i might add, but in all the military services. sexual assault in our military, and military academies. >> brangham: congresswoman jackie speier, democrat from ealifornia, has been trying to get the marines towith these problems for years. >> makes a mockery of the stated policy.

>> brangham: so the marine corps back in 2013, says, "we're going to address this." and yet here i atalking to you years later. what does that tell you? >> it tells me what we have happening in the military all the time, which is, "we'll say exactly what they want to hear,d and thnothing." >> brangham: last april, wngresswoman speier held a hearing with marin's photos appeared on marines united. marine veteran erika butner said degrading attitudes about women were taught from the very beginning of her service. >> as a woman marin we were told we get three stereotypes to pick from: a bitch, you're a whore, or you're a lesbian. >> who tells you that? our drill instructors. >> brangham: we heard the same from another marine teran, alexancer mccoy, who sle recruits got the same message. >> it was always in the context of them as sexual objed s that we nee stay away from. that they're gross, and that they're so disgusting that you shouldn't go near them. >> brangham: this is marine drill instructors telling you

about other marine recruits? >> that's right. b ngham: who just happen to be women. >> right. the conversation is always about if you bring women in they'll have sex. it's like a medieval mindset. >> brangham: at that same hearing, lance corporal marisa woytek spoke of hoshe was victimized initially by marines united, but th was abused again when she spoke up.n >> wite past 24 hours alone, i have had former marines harass me online and say and state that they are actively looking for explicit pictures of me. one of the former marines who has been harassing me has gone as far as saying he would even throw an aive duty female marine into a barrel of acid. k brangham: what do you say to those women who that if they stick their neck out and say, "this happened to me," that they'ronly inviting even more abuse? >> you've got to trust theto institutioo the right thing. otherwise, we're not going to change. the things won't change.

so sometimes change requires people to ta a stand, and are there consequences to that? sure. >> brangham: in reonse to this scandal, marine reservist justine elena started heown cebook group called "female marines united"-- it's goal is to raise money for mental health support for service meers who've been victimized. >> they need to know that they're not alone. we already know that some of them are afraid to speak up but pl need to let them know that there's more peoe behind them than there are against them. >> i believe misogyny is a taught behavior. so i believe that it is also a behavior that we can teach away from, that we can undo. >> brangham: to that end, the marines y they're trying to integrate the sexes more in boot camp, and drive out leadership that perpetuates any form of misogyny. >> if people hold those views, then we don't want them to be ill instructors. does that mean everyone's going to comply? , it doesn't. that's why there's accountability. that's why they have uniform code of military j why we have commanders. >> if this has existed in the marine corp for years, and we ven't policed ourselves enough

to get rid of it, then how is this time going to be different' and i gues have to wait to see how it turns out to be different. >> brangham: the marines sayno they'vset up a permanent office to focus on culture and gender issues. the defense department recently issued new guidelines for all the services on reporting and investigating sexual harassment and bullying. but despite all that, it seems this troubling behavior contues. just today it was easy to find numerous otherites online where people are uploading explicit photos of female marines, and posting violent, degrading things about them. for the pbs newshour, i'm william brangham in washington, d.c. >> woodruff: according to the centers for disease control, one in 68 children have spectrum disorder.it a disorder that can effect a persons social, communication and motor skills.

it is diagnosed four times more often in boys than girls. whitney ellenbhas a son with autism and tonight she shares her humble opinion on just who should be helping him. >> imagine a scene. a five-year-old boy holding his mom's hand heads into a packed auditorium to see an elmo show. suddenly and without warning, he breaks into a full-body tantrum, he starts shrieking at high pitch, pounds his head with both fists, and rams his skull into the floor.wa everyone ihing, horrified and afraid, this kid obviously does not want to go int show. and just as they expect them to leave, his mother leaps on top of h full force, pins him to the ground and drags him inch by inch towards the show, obviously against hiwill. this child-- my child-- has autism and an intense fear of unfamiliar places. but he can make it into that

show, and when he does, he will have made a small step toan ng the course of his life. but it will require what i cal"i burdening." the burden begins with me, the parentf the autistic child, to disclose his disability. my child has autism, iking with him to overcome his fears. d notice that i am not apologizing for his autism, simply identifying it. many parents of autistic children will resist this idea"" why should i have to explain anything, my life is already hard enough!" because a tantrum is an opportunity to educate. i believe we advocate best for our children when we put their autistic behaviors in context rather than let others assume the worst. advocate best if our words are not angry or defensive, jus, fac"my child has autism,e i'm doing st i can."

c.t now the burden shifts to you, general pub all you bystanders who don't know what to do when you witness the unthinkable. ce answer is tolerance: you have a duty not ment cruelly, not to insist we leave. a duty to temporarily tolerate the screaming even if it makesbl you uncomfor because if you're uncomfortable for 20 minutes, imagine how itpa feels for thnt who lives with it. given our mbers, public tantrums should be happening daily, hourly. but they are not, because we parents feel so ashamed of tantrums we keep our children locked up at home. in my humble opinion, this has to stop. because there is no substitute for real world exposure. a child with autism cannot engage with the world if hs kept at home. and if he can't engage, he can't overcome his fears and participate. and if we want people with autism to beme productive and

contributing members of society, it must start herean if we reallyinclusion that benefits us all, we must a accept our burden. >> woodruff: tonight is the men's national championship game in the n.c.a.a. but this weekend already provided plenty of thrills in the women's title game, as notre dame won the championship with buzzer beaters in back-tback victorie yamiche alcindor has the story. >> alcindor: notre dame trailed mississipi state for much of the game last night, and in fact, were down by 15 points earlier. tre dame rallied. and the teams were tied with three seconds to go. here's what happened.

ogunbowale, for the win! (cheers and applau) arike ogunbowale win the national championship for notre dame! (cering) >> reporte >> alcindor: it was the second buzzer beater for arike ogunbowaas many games. she sank the powerhouse of women's basketball, uconn, on friday night. ava wallace of the washington post was in columbus, ohio for the game and she joins me now. a the ga, how big of a moment was this for notre dame? >> it was huge. it was the coach's seventeenth national title on the day, the anniversary of her first one. it shows you the longevity of

the one and she mcgraw is one of six coaches who have national titles to their namthe. 're pretty much a strapping team but to get two national ties almost two decades apart from each other is a pretty big cades. >> reporter: you say this was a huge game. notre dame wasn't favored even though top seed. why? >> uconn, all four number one seeds re there in columbus this weekend but uconn was the number one overall seds, they re the best of all of the number ones. notre dame took them down.e they hadn'taten them in seven tries before that game friday and they upset th on friday night in columbus and had to take down mississippi state i which, agaiwas another number one seed, but they were just a little bit of a better number one seed than notre dame. so the fighting irish weren't expected to win this one and they had to do it in the last three seconds. >> reporter: uconn has been a powerhouse for years, they've

dominated. what does it say that uconnfo at least the second year has not been able to get all the way to the title. >> we asked uconn's coach about this a lot over the weekend and aftehe lost and just before he lost with the presence of the teams there and he wfld say there is deinitely a closing gap in women's basketball. you're seating more programs getting to the final four weekend. louisville hasn't been in a while. r. was their third final fou mississippi state, of course, back in the final four for the second time, so it kind of speaks a loto the sport in general, just that they got knocked out in the national searfinals. therteams that are hungry, of course. you always want to deet uconn but the teams now have the talent to do it.ep >>ter: great. thank you so much for joining me, ava. >> thank you. >> woodruff: congratulations the notre dame women. and on the newshour online, were there classic books that you missed out on as a student that you later found enthralling as an adult? we asked newshour staff members to share their favorites. that's on our web site,. pbs.org/newsho

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