captioning sponsored by wnet for sunday may 6:n this edition the story of the porn star and the president continues to consume washington. adin our signature segmentng work requirements in exchange for government benefits vz back to word and that are incomes increase ed by 114%. this is part of this ideological policy, and only going to create more hardship. the ambitious government program launched today to collect health and genetic data from one million americans. next on pbs newshour weekend. >> "pbs newshour weekend" is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. the cheryl and philip milstein family. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii.

dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. the anderson family fund. salind p. walter barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. b additional support hn provided by: and by the corporation forro publiccasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. t from tch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening ann thank you for g us. talks with north korea, a looming deadline on the iranre nuclear ent, and upcoming primary elections in multiple states that may change control of coness. all of those issues took a backseat to the issues of president donald trump's

payment to adult film actress stephanie clifford who is alsoas knowtormy daniels, and the ongoing investigation into russian meddling in u.s.s electi a who's who of presidential advisors and lawyers weighed in on sunday morning talk shows: the president's newest lawye rudy giuliani, said he can't be certain the president won't invoke the fifth amendment if he is called to testify in the russia invtigation headed by robert mueller. >> how can i ever be confident of that? when i'm facing a situation with the president and all the her lawyers are, in which every lawyer in america thinks he would be a fool to testify, i've got a client who wants to testify, please, don't. he said it yesterday. >> sreenivasan: the president'sl personyer michael cohen paid $130,000 to stormy daniels. mr. giuliani reiterated that the president repaid it, but it was not a campaign finance violation. io number one, it was not a campaign contribbecause it would have been done anyway. this is the kind of thing that i've settled for celebrities ana us people. every lawyer that does that kind of work has.

and number two, even if it wasam considered aign contribution, it was entirely reimbursed out of personal d funds, which't think we'll even get to, because the first one's enough. >> sreenivasan: special counselor to the pre kellyanne conway said after talking to mr. trump yesterday,e she's certaiid not know about the payment at the time it occurred. she spoke with cnn's jake tapper. >> he's saying that he didn't know about the payment when it curred. he didn't find out about it until after the fact. >> sreenivasan: and adding to the allegations, the attorney for stormy daniels, michael aventi, said this morning he thinks there are more payments to other women. >> women have comeorward and contacted our office, george, as i've stated in the past. and we haven't completed vetting those stories but i think at the end of the day, there's going to be evidence of such payments. >> sreenivasan: last night on "saturday night li," stormy daniels herself made a surprise appearance in a skit featuring ec baldwin in his usual role as the president. >> oh come on, we'll always have shark week. i've solved north and south korea. why can't i solve us? >> sorry donald, it's too late

for that. i know you don't believe in climate change, but a storm's a coming baby. ( cheers and applause ) >> sreenivasan: president trump denies having had an affair with daniels, denies any collusion with russia, and said last week o that while he would lovelk to special counsel robert mueller, his lawyers advise agait it. north korea's official news agency is blasting the unitedat for making "misleading" claims about why the country is willing to negotiate an end ea its nuprogram. the president and other u.s. officials have said that washin policies, and long-running economic sanctions are why the north is now wilng to negotiate. today the north korean news agen reported that those statements are a "dangerous attempt" to ruin any future deals. late last month, north korean's leader k jong un and and south korea's president moon jae-in met for the first time. president trump says hnned meeting with kim has a date and place set that he will reveal soon.

arizona senator john mccain,ho is battling brain cancer, is" chatty and walking around," according to his son-in-law. the 81-year-old senator has bee meetth friends and colleagues at his arizona ranch in the past few days. yesterday the "new york times" reported mccain and his family have made planfor his funeral that do not include president trump, asking that only vice president pence attend. nbc news reports that mccain would like former presidents barack obama and george w. bush to give eulogies.e lauea volcano continues to erupt on the big island of hawaii today. yesterday officials ordered the evacuation of 1,700 people, as molten rock and sulfuric dioxidh gaatened neighborhoods in the island's southeastern region. the slow moving lava is now coming from eight active fissures. no injuries are reported but fires have destroyed several homes. >> the prognosis is for this to continue. n we sslowdown in activity. we've got additional outbreaks of lava, just as we anticipated. >> sreenivasan: it's unclear

when residents might be able to return, and scientists say there may be morearthquakes, which could cause additional damage. >> sreenivasan: the national institutesf health held events in seven cities and online today, all to sign up ice million ams who will voluntarily share personal medical information. the project is called "all of us," and it is raising privacy concerns, but among the ambitious goals: to expand the use of precision genetic medicine and to include more minorities and women, traditionally underrepresented groups in medical research. joining me now from washington d.c. is lenny bernstein who is covering the sry for the "washington post." >> give us an idea of how big this project is and what they're trying to accomplish. >> sure. this project is probably the most ambitious effort to compile a repository of medical data

that's ever been understain. they want a million people to give them various forms of information, everything from filling out a survey to allowing them to sequence your entire genome.t and they wople from alls walk life, all over the country, different racial you groups, ethnic groups and they're taking steps to make sure they st it. enivasan: what happens with the information when they get it, what are the applications, uses, hopes that they ask get from ? r the applications are endless. the idea is to fose growth much pre--of precision medicine, preventions and curefully to your particular set of needs. so the idea would be a that we would have this gianrepository of information that various researchers could lve into and examine and use to come up with approaches to all kinds of diseases.

it's most easily understood right now in terms of cancer. but maybe we'll discover something about asthma or maybe we'll discover something about parkinson's didnase that we know without examining this issue. >> what about the facebook issue, and other data breaches, how does the nih protect the information that perhaps a w million peopl give them? >> from the examples that you just gave, we know that nothinga is completel. everything can be hacked. however they have taken extraordinary precautions to protect this, in their reservoirs of data. they also are assuring you thatc never be used in a law enforcement situation. it can never be used in a judicial situation. they -- congress passed a law, heth the eye towards this database of -- andve

included these certificates of confidential. even if thisoes online, law enforcement can't usit. >> sreenivasan: just weeks after the golden state kilsir was caught dna evidence right? >> that is. people will have to make their own decisions. it is a personal comfort situation. some people say to themselves, i iogive qua personal informto facebook every day and what do i get? i get ads and i can be on facebook. if they want my whole genome and give me back information, that may worth it. medical records, we're talking about my genome, my activities, my environment and i'm going to err on the side of caution and not go with it. >> sreenivasan: but what if they don't share it with a third

party or grant instutions that want to have a little peek even at the aggregate sets of data even if it's anonymous? i think the certificates of confidentiality and theti prots put in place by the u.s. congress are supposed to keep that from happening. this is spoached to be nfformation availabl- supposed to be iormation avlable to people who participate. >> sreenivasan: lenny bernstein, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> sreenivasan: the trump administration has signaled that it wants to change my of erica's social safety net programs. one of its main ideas is addingg or expanhe requirement to work in exchange for benefits. eg tonight's signature segment, newshour weekend's thompson went to maine which already has work requirements for some aid programs. it is also at the center of a debate whether these provisions genuinely help those in need. this story is part oour ongoing series about poverty and opportunity in america: "chasing

the dream." >> reporter: in a rural pocket of maine, east of augusta, 50- year-old tim keefe lives in a spartan two-room trailer without a bathroom or even any running water. a navy veteran, he's single and has two grown daughters. >> we don't need too muchio refrigeratthis time of year. >> reporter: his only income is about $200 dollars a month in food stamps. >> you have to kind of figure out what you're going to nfod r each day and what you can get away with. you're not eating like a king,yo bure eating. so that's the important part. >> reporter: but not too long ago, things were even more t fficult for keefe. he was working a manufacturing plant when he suffered a wrist injury that required multiple surgeries. he lost his job, a. then his ho >> in here, this is where i spent last winter. >> reporter: for a time, keefe lived in a small tent, warmed by an electric heater. >> you're basically stuck in the te when it's really cold.

it's just, it's survival. >> reporter: adding to the hardship, keefe had no accmps to food stas. that's because beginning in 2014if you were under 50 and you weren't caring for children, maine started enforcing a three month time limit on food stamps, unless you were working 20 hours a week, volunteering, or in a job training program. keefe could do none of those things with his injured wrist and he was under 50. >> you wake up in the morning you're a caveman you've got to go find food you got to gather you gotta hunt, you know? and i tell you when you're when you haven't eaten in a few days your morals are out the window, you know, hitchhiking to the supermarket and robbing the supermarket for food became an option, a viable option. >> reporter: keefe estimates he 40 pounds during the 10 months he went without food benefits.en thhe turned 50 last may, and became eligible again for food stamps, also known as the

supplemental nutrition assistance program, or snap. >> i've gained it all back. i mean the snap program is a lifeline, it really is.ot >> it isn the best interest of anyone to just simply hand out a check. as>> reporter: mary mayhewhe commissioner of maine's department of health and human services from 2011 to 2017 under reagblican governor paul lep she says the state was ripe for reform when she took over administration of its safety net programs. >> the department had truly lost sight of its core missio the work underway was focused on trying to be all things to all people. success was defined by the number of people comg onto welfare, rather than the number of individuals who were on that pathway to self-sufficiency and independence. >> reporte under mayhew, maine looked at the wage records of nearly 7,000 adults without dependents, people like tim keefe, in the one year after food stamp benefits were cut

off. >> individuals left food stamps went back to work and their incomes increased by over 114%. they were earning more than the federal poverty level. exactly the goal that we certainly hoped for as we incentivized and prioritized work. nd the trump administration has taken notice. citing maine's changes to its snap program, in april, president trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to strengthen and introduce work requirementsn mayhew, ile, has left her position at health and human services to run for governor in the republican primary. she has also consulth the trump administration about maine's experience with work requements. >> i'm incredibly proud that maine is sn as a model. >> maine is not a model, it's a cautionary tale. >> reporter: chris hastedt is the public policy director for maine equal justice partners, an advocacy group representing low

income mainers. >> things are not going in a good direction. and for the for those who argue that these so-called reforms are effective and we're helping to raise families out of poverty and improve their ability to support their families. it's just not happened. >> reporter: hastedt notes that the same study on food stamp changes in maine touted by mayhew and the trump administration, is not all positive. >> twohirds of people that had been terminated still did not have employment. that's about the same thatad didn't have employment at the beginning of the year. but now at the end of the year they had neither wages nor food assistance. >> reporter: she says fo people to work ignores the barriers often faced by many loincome people. jobs aren't available or the hours aren't available or transportation isn't available or childcare isn't availle. but none of those factors are considered in these inflexible policies that say you either work 20 hours doweek or you t get food. >> reporter: hastedt also points

to federal data showthat since 2011, maine has seen foody insecuwhich measures access to food, increase by nanearly 9%, while the nat level has declined by about 11%. >> this is just part of this ideological mah toward a policy that is not gng to be effective and it's only going to create more hardship for pple who are impacted by it. that's what we've seen here in maine and that what we would expect to see from a similar policy in medicaid. >> reporter: medicaid, which provides healthcare for lo income americans, is jointly administered by states and theme federal gove. last year, maine asked the federal government to add work recairements to maine's medi program. ricker hamilton is the state's current commissioner of health and human services, which oversees medaid in maine. he supports adding work requirements to the program, e.which is known as mainec >> we didn't have these tools for the people so they only had

the welfare benefit, they only had mainecare services, so they were kind of stuck. and i think by helping people who are able and want to work, it's enhancing the program and improving the program. >> reporter: the state wants to make mainecare more like its snap program. among other changes, it wants to require able-bodied adults, including those with children over the age of five, to work a0 leasours a week, volunteer, or be in job training. maine is one of seven states with pending requests for similar measures. kentucky, indiana, and arkan hs have alrea work reirements for medicaid approved by the trump administration. hamilton says the stat economy is healthy, and has jobs available. >> this is golden opportunity that hasn't existed in a very long time ani think it's time for us to step bravely as opposed to fret, wring o hands, and shake our heads, and say, "what if?" we need to take that step forward.te >> rep hamilton points to the state's experience with yet another social safety net

program: the original "welfare to work" program promoted by president bill clinton in the 1990's. it's called temporary assistanca for needlies, or tanf. in maine, to qualify for tanf a recipient must have low or no income and be caring for a child. in order to help those ovid only cash j ns, the state assistance, but also subsidized transportation and childcare. as well as personalized support and job search classes. >> i presume everyone in here has a resume. >> reporter: classes like this one near augusta are mandatory for most recipients, and maine limit for receiving tanftime benefits. 28-year-old michelle young received a little less than $30o h in tanf cash assistance, off and on, for almost 14 months before and after giving birth her daughter. >> i hadn't worked in years. so your confidence is down a little bit and it's really it's k embarrassing to have to r help.

it's embarrassing to have to receive tanf. as reporter: young got a job as an administrativstant working with a nonprofit that helps tanf recipients.su she credits thort she received, and the requirement to find employment, with helping her get and keep a job. >> you know the accountability, i needed it. >> reporter: maine is now runching a pilot program 500 households to offer similar work supports to snap recipients. >> it might be good to get you set with a pulmonologist no that you have mainecare. >> reporter: doctor renee fay- leblanc is the chief medical officer at greater portland health, where about 35% of its nearly 11,000 patients are on mainecare. >> mainecare is important for people to be able to get to the ace where they can work, provide for their families. >> reporter: maine estimates that eligibility for mainecare will decline as a result of the new work requirements.dr fay-leblanc says the consequences for losing access

to mainecare can be life and death. >> i had a patient who did not have mainecare. he was having a lot of symptomsn that hadn't xplained yet l diagnosed and yet he refused to go to the hospicause he didn't want to rack up more medical debt. and that patient died last year. and i firmly believe that if he had had access to mainecare d could have gotten his medications and real thorough workup f the symptoms that he was experiencing, he wouldn't have died. >> maine today is considered an absolute national leader. >> reporter: mary mayhew has made the changes she oversaw in maine's social safet programs a pillar of her campaign for governor. she says asking able-bodied recipients of snap benefits or mainecare to work is not about shrinking the programs or punishing those who need help.

>> this is not about saving money or being punitive it is k about recognizing that wd employment restores human dignity. i am far more concerned about the tendency of these programs to cast a wide net and trap people than i am that someone is going to fall through the cracks. >>heeporter: tim keefe says fell through the cracks oncett after geg injured. his wrist is now strong enough for him to work, but has struggled to find a job. s >> what th is you know a lot of open jobs and people really looking for work in this day and age but i pounded the pavement for nine months and i can't get hired. i just-- i'vnever had such a oblem getting hired before in my life. >> reporter: using money from a workman's comp settlement, keefe purchased me land. and he's hoping touild a small house using found timber. and for now, he still gets snap benefi.

but last month, republicans in ngress proposed raising the work requirement and job training age from 49 to 59 for snap recipients as part of t farm bill. meaning keefe, as a 50-year-old could agse access to food aid. >> there has to be some vehicle for poor people to eat. you can't just starve them, you can't do that. >> reporter: the house of representatives is expected to debate and vote on the 2018 farn bill before thof the month. >> sreenivasan: with an aging population, one county in maine is also grappling with the issue of hunger among seniors. hear from those who are affected. visit facebook.com/newshour. >> this is pbs newshour weekend, sunday. >> sreenivasan: president trump is to decide whether or not the united states will stay in the iran nuclear deal in less than

one week. rhetoric from multiple parties with an interest in the decision ratcheted up today.ia irpresident hassan rouhani spoke to supporters at a rally.t >> ( tran ): if the u.s. opts to pull out of the nuclear tdeal, it will soon realit this decision will become a historic regret for them. no change will occur in our lives next week. we have devised plans for any possible decisn that president trump might make and will resist to it. >> sreenivasan: isra's benjamin netanyahu said today the agreement should be "fully fixed or fully nixed." european allies and russia and china are urging the president totay in the deal. president trump has said he will pull out unless "disasous flaws" are fixed. there was another deadly bombing at a voter registration center in afghanistan today. a bomb killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens in a mosque in t eastern province of khost. both the taliban and the islamic state oppose democratic elections. last month an isis suicide bomber killed 60 people at a

registration center in kabul. afghanistan's election is planned for october and it would be the first since 2014. for the first time in nine years lebanon is holding parliamentary elections today. while prime minister saad al- hariri is expected to remainn power, the election could change the country's parliament. following the 2009 election, prime minister hariri, a sunni backed by saudi arabia formed a unity government with hezbollah, which is backed by iran. and join us online and on the broadcast tomorrow on the newshour. we'll report on coal country and oke fight for control of congress with a t what's on the minds of west virginia voters as the midterm elections approach. >> sreenivasan: finally tonight, melania trump will formallyce annohe initiatives she will focus on as first lady in a speech in the white house rose garden tomorrow. her spokesperson says the first lady will make the well-being of children her priity and focus

on several initiatives. duri her husband's 2016 campaign, mrs. trump said she would like to tackle cyber- bullying.nt she has ued to include that iue in her public events and meetings, recently bringing leaders from tech companies to the white house to discuss internet safety d children's use of social media. that's all for this edition of pbs newshour weekend. i'm hari sreenivasan thanks for watching. have a good night. ap oning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possle by: bernard and irene schwartz. the cheryl and philip milstein family. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelo the j.p.b. foundation. the anderson family fund.nd rosa. walter

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