captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good eveninuf i'm judy woog, on the newshour tonight, israel's prime minister claims h ir been lying to the world about its nuclear program, violating the nuclear deal. then, north korean leaderng kim n reportedly vows to abandon his nuclear weapons if the u.s. promises not to attack, as more diplomatic progress paves the way ahead of a historic summit. plus, i sit down with former f.b.i. diretor james comey to talk where the russian probe stands today, and revelations b from his nk. >> early , people were seizing on a portion of the book, a paragraph where i describe m first impression of trump andt people took it, distorted it in mygopinion, as if i was tak, shots at the guy, which i h sn't. i was trying to be an author. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

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>> woodruff: decades of tension appear to be easing on the korean peninsula as the north and south concede on points thae have been a sof conflict since the active war ended. john yang reports. >> yang: on the korean peninsulg today of progress fromre both sides. first, from north korea's state news reade pyongyang announced it will re- sync its time zone with south korea's starting saturday; inne 2015 they had set clocks 30 minutes behind seoul.be and, south korea said it will remove the loudspeakers thatan blast propda into the north. this, just days after friday's historic summit between south korean president moon jae-in ann north korea's dic kim jong- un. they met on south korean

zrritory, in the demilita zone that separates the two naons.or( > translated ): we should make this moment an irreversible historical moment for the korea peninsulace and prosperity. but, we have only put forwardr ourst step. ang: the two leaders als agreed to work toward a nuclear -free peninsula.ea south korean officials say kim ulld moon that pyongyang shut down its nuclear testing site. e and offered to scrap clear program entirely if the united states helps negotiate a formald o the korean war, and pledges not to attack the north today, at an afternoon press conference with nigerian leader, kpresident trump said cit's promise to halt ballistic missile tests as a good sign. >> the u.s. has never been closer to potentially having something happen wi respect to the korean peninsula that can get rid of nuclear weapons, can

>> yang: and mr. trump expanded on a morning tweet musing on the korean d.m.z. as his possible preference for a summit location:.z >> you're actually there. if things work out, there's a great celebration to be had on the site, not ia third-party nuntry. >> yang: yesterdaional security adviser john boltonna said the u.s. would insist kimul give up his entire nuclear weapons andallistic missile programs before making anye concessions. bolton cited libya's 2003 disarmament as a mode then-libyan leader moammar gadhafi was overthrown and killed in 2011 by rebels with u.s. backing. >> the libyan program was much smaller. but that was basally theat agreement that we made. and so we'll want to test northn korea in this first meeting for evidence that they have made that strategic decision.

>> yang: bolton went on toat detail how the north had brok its commitments before; but newly coirmed secretary of state mike pomepo, who met with kim in march, struck a morene optimistic >> my goal was to try and identify if there was a real opportunity there. i believe there is. >> yang: last week, defense secretary james mattilast week signaled the possibility of arreducing the u.s. milit presence on the koreanta peninsula. >> well, that's part of the issues that will be discussed in the negotiations with our ales first, and of course with north korea. weso i think for right noust have to go along with the process, have the negotiations and not try to make preconditions, or psumptions >> yang: north korea has long said the u.s. must pull its almost 29,000 troops from south korea under any agreement.ag for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: in the days other news, a syria war monitoring group said an overnight missile strike targevernment military bases in northernrn syria.

the grp said israel likely carried out the assault that killed 26 pro-government fighters, including many iranians. social media video showed the purported attack, which hit anh arms depot near hama. iranian fighters are said to be stationed there, but the iraniav nment denied they were hit.t. deadly attacks also rang out across afghanistan today, froman kabul to kandahar. in all, nearly 40 people were killed, including 11 children. afghan security forces, nato soldiers, and local journalists were the intended targets. but many civilians also losts. njured.ives or were william brangham has our report. >> brangham: the first blast b came during kabul's busy morninh ruour, near the headquarters of afghanistan's intelligence service, nato, and foreign embassies. a suicide bomber arrived on a motorcycle and blew himself up. then, after journalists rushed to the site of the explosion, another suicide bomber, posing

as a reporter, detonated more explosives among the media scrum. >> ( translated ): i was about ten meters away from the site os the first explosion, trying to enter the site when the second blast happened. it was very powerful, and when i was finally at the site, i founh many of my fellow reporters lying on the ground, some of them dead already. >> brangham: afghan journalistse seemed t specificallyha targeted. shah marai, chief photographer for agence-france press in kabulwas among the dead. the lamic state group in afghanistan has claimedil responsity for the attacks. it was the deadliest ak targeting reportersince the fall of the taliban government in 2001, according to a french media organization. in a parate attack in khost province on monday, ahmad shah, an afan bbc reporter was killed.ll in all, 36 media workers have been killed since 2016. meanwhile, in kandahar province, children were killed when a suicide bomer targeted a nato

convoy. soldiers, civilianpoand cemen were also injured in the attack. >> woodruff: a u.s. service member also died today during a combat operation in eastern afghanistan. another americanjsoldier was ed. british prime minister theresa may has tapped sajid javid, a member of parliament, to be the new home secretary. he's the son of pakistani immigrants, and the first ethnic minority politician d the job. the previous home sretary, amber rudd, resigned late sunday, after admitting she misled lawmakers about whether the government had deportationta targets. back in this country, the acting director of u.s. immigration and cusms enforcement, thomas homan, announced today he is retiring. president trump nomihim to lead the agency permanently iny november. but his nomination stalled in the senate.

homan came under fire lasyear after saying undocumented immigrants in the u.s. should be "afraid" under the trump administration. he'll leave the agency in june. a caravan of about 200 asylum seeks from central america were denied entrance into the u.s. for a second day. u.s. authorities said theydad idn't have the space to process asylum applications, so they'll gove to wait on the mexican border with san d the caravan arrived in tijuana sunday seeking refuge. >> ( translated ): they should have a little more awareness and at ast support us in cas that really need support.th we are coming from our countries, not because we want to but because the situation is very bad in our countries. >> woruff: border officials said they weren't sure when that san diego crossing facilitycc would begin pting new asylum sses. adult film actrephanie clifford, known as stormy daniels, is suing present

trump for defamation. clifford claims she had an extramarital affair with mr. trump in 2006. the lawsuit filed in a manhattan court today alleges the president lied, when he tweeted earlr this month that her claims of being threatened for discussing the alleged affair was "a total con job."u. consumer advocacy groups are warning a new merger between sprint and t-mobile could hurt stomers. they fear less competition in the wireless market willikely trigger higher prices.bi the $26.ion announced sunday still must clear several regulatory hurdles. if approved, it would reduce the u.s. weless industry to justst isree major carriers. a midnight deadlinooming on whether president trump will permanently exempt the european union and fe other countries from new u.s. steel and aluminum tariffs. they were imposed last month.se

but the trump administration graed them temporary exemptions set to expire by this day's end. wemeanwhile stocks closed on wall street. the dow jones industrial averagc plunged 148 points to close at 24,163. the nasdaq fell 53 points, and the s&p 500 slipped nearly 22. still to ce on the newshour: one on one th former f.b.i. director james comey. a side effect of the opioid crisis: costly heart surgeries,r plus, much more. >> woodruff: israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu today accused iran's government of "brazenly lyin" about its" past nuclear weapons ambitions. speaking in tel aviv today, netanyahu said recovered documents pre that tehran did

have a secret nuclear weapons eogram, before it signed iran nuclear deal in 2015. he also claimed that iran's togovernment is continuin pursue nuclear weapons development, and urged president trump to pull the u.s. out off the deal before the upcoming may in deadline. >> this is a terrible deal. it never should have beene conclude and in a few days president trump will decide-- will mak his decision about what to do with the nuclear deal.he m sure he'll do the righ thing. the right things for the r.s. thht thing for israel and the right thing for the peace of the world. >> woodruff: minutes later, mr. trump held a joint news conference with nigeria's president. mr. trump, who spoke with netanyahu by phone last night, added that today's presentation only added to his skepticism of

the iran deal.> m not telling you what i'mi' doing but on or before the 12th we'll make a decision. that doesn't mean we won'tre negotiatal agreement. but i think if anything what's happening today and what's happened over the last little while and what we've learned has really shown that i've been 100% right. >> woodruff: iranian officialsni denounced netanyahu, and a state-run news agency in iran said he is "famous for ridiculous shows." for more on this, william brangham is back. >> branam: does israel's presentation today add to our understanding of iran's nuclear ambitions, and what does this mean for the iran darl going fo for that, i'm joined now by physicist and former arms control inspector david albright.lb he's currently president of the institute for science andna internatsecurity. welcome backuro the "news >> good to be here. >> brangham: so that was quite a presentation feet net putew on -- netanyahu put t onday.

the israelis allegedly got into this secret building in tehran and got out tens of thousands of documents and files pertaining to iran'slr nuclear program. first off, do you believe thisai cache they is real and, if so, what does this tell us? how big a deal is this? >> it's hard to know. is it i real? the israelys make it clear the u.s. will vouch for it, the u.s. has the complete set. so i would sta by assuming it is real and the israelis are quite capable of getting into tehran. it's pretty remarkable what they did to get into a warehouse and remove that much information and get it out of iran, so it's quite an intelligence coup. i israelis mak clear, it's a huge amount of information. it surprised them how wide and deep the iranian nucar weapons program, just how many things they didn't know about. i mean, it's aonstant messageme today from the israelis. so they have onlyhe begun

assessment. they've obtained thesecu nts, they said, several weeks ago.we >> brangham: some people have beenin ng out today thatt some of the details netanyahu addressed are not necessarily new. the scientist involved, the namc of the original program, that we knew a lot of this informati, already. bob corkerma today, himsf a critic of iran and the iran nuclear deal, said there isly reothing new here.re do you think there is something new? >> there is a lotth of new information. the israelis revealed several pots of information, one whichhe isrchive itself is of the pre-2003 nuclear weapons program, which included instructions to archive it, write down everything you learned, and write down what you ton't learn and what we nee work on in the future, in a sense, to fill the gaps in. and the isra said, when they looked out in their informationn they saw the program actuallys did exist in iran. they also said that, since the

iran deal was developed or finalized, that iran has moved the archives, it's tending to the archives. it's under a stewardship program. so it's a very valuable collection, ansthe israe would sayll why would they go to that trouble if th don't intend to use it in the future,u at least to maintain an optiont to use it in the future.fu >> brangham: but is simply hoarding documents that pertaina to your older nuclear program in itself a violation of the deal? >> my experience is in the uncovering of otherweuclearot ons programs is the hoarding of documents to the extent wouls entially say to you that they are hiding a nuclear weapons program. >> brangham: saving it footer day. >> and saving them for another day. if we looked at the south african program and they had done such a thing when they got rid of their nuclear weapone or lbya h done the signing thing when they got rid ofntheih

lear weapons program, peoplee would have screamed bloody murder. >> brangham: some people saidi they knew iran had a nuclear program goifore and the whole point of the iranian nuclear deal deal was to curtail the efforts. would this beep to the deal in tact? which is the opposite of what le isr are arkansas do -- arguing. >> you could arguing this a chance to nail iran on the violations of the nuclear proliferation treaty and to gete rihe program and allow long-term monitoring of the facilities and people involved in the program andng hahe nuclear deal in place is good but, on the other hand, because the archive seems to be kept to use in the future, it actually is a little chilling about the sunsets that we face inhe iran nuclear deal.de

they look a little more deadly. >> brangham: this is the parts of the deal that will disappear and relieve iran of some of the strict oversite in cing years. >> that's right. >> brangham: the saming seems important. b about 20 +*e7b days,b president trump has to certify whether the iranians have lived up to the bargain.rl clseems netanyahu would want the president to be swayed by this, who do not agree with the deal.th do you think this will work? >> if the audience was won for netanyahu, i think he's trying to convince iran to walk away om the deal andnd him a more substantive nuclear reasonc to do so. so whether he succeeds in that,i i don't know. eresident trump also said he's open to fix deal and his negotiators are working probably awe speak to fix the deal as he's outlined, and this revelation by israel today does not eliminate the fixes that can be done.e i would argue it couldst

ngthen the ability to fix this deal. bu again, we'll have to see. >> brangham: david albright, d thank youthery much. >k you. >> woodruff: the allegations are striking: president trump is "unethical, untethered to the truth and his time in office is a forest fire daging our cou."ry's norms and tradition they come from james comey. his firing last may by presidenl trud to the appointment of special counsel robert mueller.d as made him the target of mr. trump's criticism for the last year. comey's new book, "a higher bbo loyalty," h a memoir and, in his eyes, a lesson in leadership, eics, and hard decisions. i spoke to james comey a short j wtime ago and began witt he would have done differently.

maybe only onsmall thing. early on, people were seizing on a portion of the book, a i paragraph whe described myde first impressions of president-elect trump and peoplo died my view like i was taking shots at the guy, which i wasn't. i was trying to be an author. it became such a distraction that if i had to do iter again, i would yank that paragraph, dcribe everybodye else in detail but not include that distracting paragraph. >> woodruff: the personal detail. >> people thought ial was takins sh by describing his face and hair and i didn't intend to. my author said bringea theer with you, so i tried to do it when i desibed my high school grocery store boss and president trump but it became a talking point.ta >> woodruff: recent developments. on fridayhe house intelligence committee, the republicanu majority issd its report on findings. they are raising dowtsz abouto one of the key findings of the

intelligence agencies, namely that the russian gornment wanted to help donald trump. they're saying it's more likely they i wanted to sow discord.di is that how you read the information you knew bere you left government? >> no, we read it very differently as did the analysts from the.b.i., c.i.a., nsa andd the director of national intelligence. we reached a giant conclusion and one of the three goals was to help elect donald trump.ld >> woodruff: clear difference. high confidence, ver unusual in a joint intelligence community assessment.co >> woodruff: theic repu majority also said they found no evidence of collusion, mpordination with the trump cam pain you said yesterday that thee report did not reflect the facts you kn before you left the f.b.i. so does that mean you saw facts that did point to collusion? >> i'm not in a position whe i can talk about whate we foundfo during the investigation, and, obviously, i'm notup to date,

since i have been gone almost a year, but that isn't my sens of where the investigation stood when i left. >> woodruff: so there was something specific that you kneu saw that pointed you in that direction? >> well, the f.b.i. was investigating whether there wern americans who had confired with or aidednd abetted the russians. collusion is not a legal term that i'm aware of.of there was a basis forga invesng meaning there wereea facts to support an investigate. the what the conclusions will be, i don't ow, but toaysa there was no evidence is not the case. >> woodruff: the house college committee is faulting the f.b.i. for failing to poperly notify victims of russian hacking. did the f.b.i. drop the ball i sthrveghon't think so. we had a massive task to notify hundreds and hundreds, so i can't sit here and say we did it perfectly every time, butev especially with t prominent victims like the democratic national committee, we did our level best to make t sewery

knew they were being attacked. >> woodruff: do you think the obama administration dropped tht ball in not doing more to get the russianto back off?f >> hard to say because a lot i b was not involved in. very tough decision for president obama. wh do you say before election about the russian interference when one of their goalings is to -- goal is todi upt our process. >> woodruff: oness other report of the house intelligence committee, it says the steele dossier prepared by former british agent christopher steele about president trump and other things, "formed an essentiales rt of thepplication to the f.i.s.a. court to bin electronic surveillance." could there have been a nica warrant withoutthe steele dossier? >> it's note my recollection it was an essential part of any application. i have to choose my words claiferl because i don't know

what's been classified but there was a mosaic of informatio that convince add court that that individual carter page, thereau was probable to believe he was an agent of a foreign power. >> woodruff: but you'repo not saying there had to be a dossies for this to happen? >> in order to get the f.i.s.a. warrant, that's not my recollection. >> woodruff: you've also had a long time to think about what was in thatossier. did you find it credible? >> well, the core allegation ofo the dossier was credible,cr consistent with the otherh intelligence that the t hetelligence community had gathered, that is russianss are engaged in a sophisticated, comprehensive effoed att our election.ou that turned out to be true.r there were ls of spokes in the dossier off the central hub, bur t hub was consistent with other intense. an effort was underway to try towns whether the other spokes could be ruled in, ruled out, and i don't know whetheat ended up. >> woodruff: so the hillary clinton e-mails, you spend a good chunk of this booknd deg your actions the first

time, absolving her of legality, but then going on to say she was "extremely careless," later announcing the investigation was being reopened. you wte you felt you did what you needed to do to t protect agency and how you saw your own role, but secretary clinton, when we interviewed her last fall, said when it came to your july news conference, she saw something very different.g she called it a breech of professional ethics and a rejection of justice department protocols. here's what she said. >> the investigation was getting nowore, there was nothing find, and he was in a position of having to accept the evidenct here was no case.ca i think what he did, againsthe advice of people around him in the f.b.i. and the justiti department, was, in large measure, due to political pressures that he was under from people that he had worked with

before in the f.b.i. and outside the f.b.i. >> woodruff: what about tha that's just not accurate. i hope secretary clinton will get aance if not to read the whole book, read those parts of ou. it was trying to make sure we did all we could to make sure the public the work had beend done in a competent and loons way. it didn't violate t protocols of the can't of justice except in one key respect, i decided to make the announcement separate from e attorney general for variety of reasons but it wasn's about politics, it was abo assuring people we did it in a good, honest, independent way.ep >> woodruff: that's a serious charge of violati of professional ethics.et >> yeah, and i get where that'st coming from, it's just not again, i tread part of secretary clinton's book that was about t the e-mails and i would very much hope, even if she doesn't walk away agreeing, she would have a different perspective if she read a thy part of book.

>> woodruff: have you had phi outreach by her regarding this? >> no. >> woodruff: she said everyone was moving forward after what hutpened if july, then sheh says the proximate cause of her defeat was your october 28th october 28th letter a reopening the investigation after finding those e-mails on anthony weiner's laptop which she says has never been adequately explained or defendee and had f nothingther to do with the finding. here's how donald trump reacted. >> the f.b.i. -->> (cheers and applause) -- has just sent a letter to congress informing them that they have discovered new e-mails per feigning to the formerfo secretary of state hillary clinton's investigation.

i have great respect for the fact that the f.b.i. a thean department of justice are now willing to have theno courage to rig the horrible mistake that th made. (cheers and applause) >> woodruff: sof: president trump, in effect, celebrating secretary clinton saying this was the proximate cause that lost. >> yeah, and it reflects the confusion political people have if trying to figure out whoseo side is the f.b.i. on, when we weren't and it isn't today on anybody's side.an we were trying to make decisions when there wa no good option. there were bad ands were options, and in each case we tried our best to choose bad over worseti, and f that into a partisan lens is impossible, which ishy you have -- i guess donald trump was a fan of the f.b.i. back in that day because he thought we had done something for him. we weren't doing something for

him nor trying to hurt secretary clinton, we were trying to do the right thing.th >> woodruff: how does it feelfe to be the object of this kind of strong language of the two nominees f president? >> it's painful. the whole thing was a nightmare. i wish president clinton had never had a personal email server and anthon wienerrer never had a laptop, but when you're stublg in a situationa like that you know you're stalk and especiallyn a partisan environment, people will be mad at you because they assume u're not on their side. we're trying to be on the country's se. it's painful but, honestly, looking back, doesn't change the way ithink about it.t >> woodruff: another thingot from president trump, he oftenof complains loudly about.b.i. leaks. how much of a problem is that? >> ates problem in any organization. it's not, in my mind, a huge problem in the f.b.i. when it happens, we investigate it if it's classified information, we do a criminal investigation.n if it's not, we n anrnal

investigation. it matters, but it's not the -- the f.b.i. i not a sieve.si it happs because we have 30,000 people. >> woodruff: i ask in part because, two years ago, there we wide-spread reports fueled by rudy giuliani that there were anti-hillary agents in the new york f.b.i. office whod lead stuff about here. giuliani suggested he knew abous some of this aheadti of. did that concern you? >> yes. in fact, rudy giuliani made a statement attend of october he knew something businessng coming -- if that's true, he knew something b was coming before i did. but after we had to reopen the email investigation, i commissioned an investigation to tryo find out was someone giving him non-public information in violation of our rules. the investigation wasn'tio finished before i was fired but i know i ordered it and i'm can confident they followed the order. >> woodruff: i was going to ask you, do you haason to believe he was tipped off? >> i don't. i was very concerned about hisem

stts and wanted to find out. >> woodruff: where does that stand today? r> i don't know. i got may 9th and it wasn't finished by then. >> woodruff: the rest of the interview tomorrow when james t comey has mor say about the hillary clinton e-mails, the role played by t former attorney general loretta lynch and hardaa decisions he the f.b.i. faced in 2016. grmplet >> woodruff: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: the political fallout from the white house correspondents' dinner.fr and the author of "the death and life of the great lakes," thishi month's sele newshour book club.ti while sics about overdose deaths from the opioid epidemic continueto dominate headlines, reher debilitating and costly problems have beening up in the shadows. from pbs station ideastream in cleveland, kay col reports on

an increase in deadly heart infections amo i.v. drug users, a little-known problem with bitime consequences for individual patients and society as a whole. and a warning some of the images and photos you're about to see are graphic. >> reporter: these images capture fallout from the opioid epidemic among people who are homeless in chicago. they're part of a photo essay bd llegrane published by belt magazine in 2017. at times, heroin injected into the veins of users can lead to dangerous infections like the one that killed this 34-year-old woman. almost 350 miles away, cleveland clinic surgeon jose navia is prepping for an operation to keep a similar infection from destroying the heart of a 31- year-old mother. >> so it's a very difficult cas. and hopefully it will go the right way.wa

and we'd like to replace the aortic valve and repair or replace the mitral valve. >> reporter: the human heart ha: four valves, including the aortic and mitral valves. each valve opens and closes with every heart beat to control blood flow in certa directions. clumps of bacteria can attach to the flaps ovalves, forming nodules of pus. >> anso the valve is literall being eaten alive by the ticteria. it eats away thesue around the valve and it is very difficult almost imle to cure with antibiotics.>> w eporter: cleveland clinic's head of cardiovascular medicine, doctor steven nissen, says for people addicted to opioids, the pathway to deadly hearttiy infecs often begins with a dirty needle or polluted drug. >> the heroin itself is not sterile. you know the addicts have learned to they will cook it. they will use a flame to heat it up but that doesn't generallyne sterilize it completely. and so you're repeatedly

injecting bacteria into your bloodstream.je >> reporter: it's not long before doctor navia confronts the full wrath of his patient's infection stemming from i.v.hi drug use.ll y ee flaps of the aortic valve resemble tinpieces of t swiss cheese. >> this is a perforation. it shouldn't be this way. it should be completely closed here. >> reporter: with the aortic valve completely destroyed, doctor navia opts to put in a replacement made from cowti ssue. after running a seri of threads througit, he places it in position. >> this is the new valve. >> reporter: with hands that mimic a keen knitting needle,th gevia secures it in place. the cost of this s can run over $100,000.pa manents come in with lots of complications requiring days or weeks in i.c.u.di st show cases of infective

endocarditis, which is the meaical term for infected h valves, are on the rise among younger adults, mostly due to the opioid epidemic.ge three of the 21 occupied beds in the clinic's cardiac i.c.u. arei currently filled by endocarditis patients suffering from i.v.pa drug use. >> that's very typical. it can be more or less. but that's a pretty good average these days that's what we see. >> reporter: so what does that tell you? >> it tells you that this is an epidemic that is just t of control. >> reporter: the cleveland clinic says in 2014, 10% of its endocarditis patients undergoing surgery were opioid dependent. in the first six months f 2017, that percent was 18.5. research elsewhere shows a similar trend.d. a study at two large boston hospitals found between 2002 a 2014, their percent almostle doubd.bo thon study also found poor long-term results for those patients.ie cleveland clinic infectious disease chair doctor steven gordon says their reseoundou

poor outcomes starting about three months after surgery. >> from 90 days to the six month period the risk of readmission or reoperation is tenfold higher amongst the opioid use disorder patients with endocarditis that were operated on. and we believe that is most likely due to relapse. >> reporter: experts say those suffering from opioid addiction face high rates of relapse, which often means re-infected valves and repeat surgeries. many patients are on medicaid or lack health insurance all together. >> we have seen a fairly tsgnificant number of pati that have had not one, not two, but three or four heart valve replacements related to repeated use. c reporter: bioethicist mark aulisio says repees raise some thorny ethical issues. he and others argue addiction treatment needs to be part oft heart care protocol for such patients. >> there's really got to be comprehensive care for patients

who have thisssue because if there's not you're going to put them through a lot of pain some suffering a difficult road for little and some in some cases maybe no benefit. >> reporter: gordon says the cleveland clinic now includes addiction treatmeront fortr endocarditis patients who use i.v. drugs. >> we want the addiction specialist up front similar to what we would have our other supecialist upfront in the care for this patient. and if it's indicated, medication assisted treatment then with no barriers to getting started in the hospital, whichre itively novel but a lot of hospitals are looking at that. >> reporter: public healthad vocates say these cases also point to the need for more harm reduction programs, like distributing clean needles, as well as devoting more resources to addiction treatnt. again, professor mark aulisio. >> you don't have to care about

ane individual a drug user lick to know that it's in your interest for society to focus on prevention and harm reduction.ap it's a lot c to prevent endocarditis then to do a valvee repment. a >> reporter:ut three hourste after scrubbing in, with the second valve repaired, doctor navia weans his patient off theo heartung machine. >> so the heart is managing on its own and the two valves working fantastic, and the mitral valve also. so the heart is getting a normal function. she's done very well so far. she came off the pump without a oblem. and i'm very happy with the results so far. >> reporter: while this surgery succeeded, big societal questions remain. and according to steven nissen, so does man toll. >> if we don't cure the heroin

addiction then we haven't solve the problem and that's where we stand. the legacy of this is going to go on for decades. effect and it keeps on growing. >> reporter: for the pbs tenewshour, i'm kay colby cleveland. >> woodruff: for some mediate post-game analysis of my interview with james comey andwi the political impact of his continued war of words withnt president trump, i'm joined by our politics monday team. ndat's amy walter of the "cook political report"tuart rothenberg of "inside elections."umcs wl and welcome to you both. "politics monday." so james comey has been ouhe the last two weeks ever since the book came out, he's done many inter hews.an a chance to talk to him, amy, as you heard. yu what think?at >> i think your opinions ofof james comey and what -- how he

answered your questions as well as nyqu others that have been asked these last couple of weeks, your ierpretation is how you feel really about the president in the first place. i think ifon you're to support the president, you'rede likely to say there's nothingo james comey is sayi that is either believable or that actually puts donald trump in a position of committing any sort of actual crime. if you are opposed to theyo president, idon't like the president, you see in james comey a man who is signaling concerns about whether or notab this person is able to be a president in the way we wa see a president as a moral leader. >> woodruff: something forso everybody to dislike, s? >> i think he said that to you. i wrote down "partisans will be angry at you because you think they aren't on your side." he knows and acknowledg that. my question is how about those of us who try not to bean part and try to understand hiski

decision-, i continue to aboutittle uncomfortable the role his political assumptions played in the decisions he made. he in the past grudgingly acknowledged it seeped into his head, but how could it not be a part of his considerations. >> odruff: basically, amy, neu're saying you're already disposed in direction or the other so this book and what he says about the book is not goina toe. >> and "the washington post" ab" news poll on this question showed 30% having a favorable opinion of james comey, 32 an unvorable and 38 havin no opinion. if you looked in terms of partisans, re have anan unfavorable view, d.p. had a favorable view and independents, shockingly, before 30gl favorable, 30 unfavorable, 40% no itch.40 this is a guy that's been everywhere. imagine having no opinion.re i think it's a general con tsion.

>> it' continuing background noise of what does this all mean because there has been no real new ground broken with the book in terms of the facts laid out. there is still a lot of questions about what actuly happened, is there collusion, was the law broken.he 's nothing new in this book about that. >> woodruff: details about what he saw and heard. >> right. >> woodruff: i don't think there's been a poll done abouto it yet. but saturday night in washington, there was a white house correspondents dinner, and ere were there, but strong views about what was said. president trump declined to attend. i was in, washingt michigan, giving a speech at about the same time that the comedian whose name is michele wolf was giving comments that there were derong reactions to.to listen to the pre first and then a little bit ofli her. >> is this better than that phony washington white house

correspondents dinner?co is this more fun?is (cheers and applause) i could be up there tonightke smiling i love when they're hitting you shot after shot. these people they hate your guts, shot -- and then i'm sposed to --to (cheering) and, you know, you've got to smile, and if you don't smile, they'll say, he was terrible, he couldn't take it. and if you do smile, they will say, what was he smiling about? there's no way.e' >> i actually really likera i think she's very resourceful. like, she burns fants and tn she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye. maybe she's born with it, maybe it's lies. it's probably lies. >> woodruff: so, su, some comedians are out there today defending michele wolf but there was a lot of pushback about

whether that was appropriate ann whether she went too far.en >> i wasn't there either. i was sitting on i my couch my living room watching it, and ten secon after she ended, i tweeted out that i thought her material and her delivery -- h material was vulgar and mane-spirited, nasty. i think much of what the president has said over the years is vulgar, mean-spirited and nasty, but what i found is, ifou criticize michele wolf, then critics of the president automatically think that you support -- they that if you criticize wolf, then you -- how do i say this? >> you condone what he's doing. eah. so it's very -- it's awkward. a i think both the president and the comedian can be wrong, but it's hard to hold that position- these da this day and age.. >> and here's the thing. every year, we have the same

controversy. a comedian comes -- been nthappening since bill c. >> woodruff: and eveng before. and probably before that.t hetherdian comes in, saying something about the a president or people around him, or just saying things that are considered crass or politicalco ect, whatever, there's a minor controversy and we move on. the reasone we don't move on is the president has in many ways used the press ashis, you know, place that, as he said in that clip, they're against me all along, and,quiterankly, when you hear a bunch of people in the room laughing, a room filled with journalists laughing at all those jokes, america can say, wellhi i guessis whereis the press is. but if you don't want these controversies, don't have comedians come in. >> right. exiewfnt watched comedy -- if you've watched comedy in the c last ten years, this is how comedians operate. bring in somebody who will tell (knocking)in

tellknock-knock jokes but not a modern >> there is a question about how hollywood, new yorknd comedy washington mix.. things have come up with difficuy inrossing barriers.ba john mccain, he's been treated for a cancer diagnosis. stu, his new book called the restless wave is comut if a few weeks.w excerpts were released today. i'll read a small bid of it. he didn't name president trump but referring to him he said, he's declined to distinguish the two ns of our government the crimes of despotic ones, the appearance of tough necessary oe eality show apersons of toughness seems to matter more than any of our values. he goes on in these excerpts to lament the divisions but he does make it clear where he's coming from about the president. >> one other quick thing, he id i don't remember anotherre time in my life when so many

americans considere someone's party affiliation a test of whether that person was entitled o respect. one thing that struck me is john mccain was known as a maverick, a disruptor, a guy who would stir the pot. this psident is also a maverick, an outsider, disruptor, yet john mccain has so mu dignity and seriousness. he's a hero, he's been a he as a human being. >> woodruff: people been poring over this book. >> they are.o he brings up another point which stu raised as well, he said vote for candidatesst adamant if their assurance that they will never compromise. stu and a i have been watching this for years is the way especially in some of the wave elections and midlermions, incumbents are the most vulnerable who end up losingre the moderates, the people who are willing to work across the aisle. therno incentive because there's no reward to actuallyt try broker any sort of

compromise and until that happens, it not just about president trump, this has been going on quite some time inon ess. >> woodruff: words to continuess to think about and we'll continue looking at them.t amy walter, stu rothenberg,tu "politics monday," thank you.ha >> you're welcome. thanks, judy. w druff: and now, our monthly now read this interview. that's our book club in partnership with the "new york times," that so many of you have joined. jeffrey brown talks his t month's author and announces our may pick. >> brown: it's the epic and troubling story of the threats facing the largest source of freshwater in the world. and what we can do to stop them. the book is "the death and life of the great lakes." and as we do every month we've asked you to send in questions.. author dan egan is here to answer them now and first down. sanks for being part of t for us. >> thanks for having me. >> brown: so dan, start by telling us a little biut what you were after here and what threats you have. >> i was after telling the story

ofhe lake and it is a stor and it's a story of these great grand bodies of water that are t vast they spanusands of square miles. but they were not connected to the outside wod aquatic. so they were their own ecosysteo and it didn't take much for c stuff to staing in and unraveling it and it started with the sea lampreys and it's still going on today with the zebra and quagga mussels. those are the invasive species. invasive species that have completely rewired the way energy flows through this theou world's largest freshwater system. >> brown: we've got a lot of questions about how you came tos this how yourched it. as one reader candace hughes asked: how did you get so many officials to share candidly with you? you're a newspaper guy right.enw you've overing this a long time. >> i am. yeah the book is really the sum total of about a decade's worthp of newspaperting work. and that's how i got people to talk candidly that's just you know kind of what be

newspaper reporter requires. would i have been able write this book in two years if i hadn't done all of the prior research.en not lose. >> brown: a big thing theme here and everybody of course commented on the unintended consequences of trying to open up the great lakes. you tell the history of tryingnd to open it uphen the introduction of invasive species because of it. so a lot of people asked howve much wearned about that experience and about reducing the spread of invasive species. >> that's a great question and i mbeaten back at the laute. but we were going to go backwards and i don't know how much we've learned. i don't think people understand what's happened or what could

still happen. >> brown: were you surprised learning yourself? just fill in a little bit of the like a rachel carson book. one writer one reader edwin lambert of rockville center new york asked if yod were influen wallace stegner. >> yeah that's interesting because i did spend some time out west after college and one of the books that really stuck with me was the hundredth meridian and end and the whole and that's a biograpgely a biography of john wesley powell and how you know we engineered the water dynamics out there in a way that we're kind o recognizing maybe might not have been the best idea for modern socie. but yes. wallace stegner absolutely. >> brown: so barbara wostdn of west c, pennsylvania but she writes but born and raised on lake erie. her bona fides. you gave us hope that nature will do much to restore the great lakes aquatic life in the future after all the man

blunders. do you think we should do less to change the balance of nature the lakes and let nature resolve the balance or have we already done too much damage. >> i don't know if we're never lost. to get back what w and i don't think we're ever going to get complete control of the lakes as we some peop believed we had for a while. i think if we approach theag ment with a little more humility and a little more appreciation for what nature can do on its own in terms of finding some rt of equilibrium we'll be better off. i don't know if we're there yet. >> brown: and one moreion, we have a question from chuck monroe of chicago. he asks: what is the best thing an ordinary citizelike myself can do right now to support the health of the greatakes and availability of fresh water for life on earth? >> it's a big question but there is a deceptively simple answer. i ngink the most important t you can do is to make sure if you have children or if you have younger relatives that they have a relationship with the lake i live about three blocks from lake michigan and i try to g my kids down there swimming as often as possible. i think what happened for a while is a generation or two turn their backs on the lakes

and the lake suffered you know as you would expect.so i think the most significant thing you can do is to just raise the next generation with an appreciation for what we have. so personalize it.kes but >> brown: absolutely. all right. we're going to continue and have more of our conversation on our now read this page. e but before here let me introduce our book club pick for may. it is the book "educated" by tara westover a memoir of growing up in survivalist family in remote idaho. it's been one of the most talkeo a and critically acclaimed books of the year. we hope you will enjoy it and we hope you do continue to read along with us. now read this partnership witti the "new yors." dan egan for now, thanks for being part of this. >> thanks for having me. o >> woodruff:the newshour online right now, we ring out april, which is national poetry

month, with u.s. poet laureate tracy k. smith, who shares some of her favorite poems. that and more is on our webne site, pbs.orhour. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you aee you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> babbel. a language p that teaches eal-life conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more. babbel's 10-15 minute lessons are available as an app, or online. more information on babbel.com. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. sy,porting science, technol and improved economic performance and financial

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