captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff.he onnewshour" tonight, two very different scenes in the middle easti amid celebraons of the u.s. embassy opening in jerusalem,es more than 50 pnian protesters are killed along israel's border with gaza. then, one on one with the health d human services secreta alex azar. we disss what the trump administration is doing to tamp down prescriion drug prices. and putting a face on the anxiety, depression, and other ment health problems million of college students struggle with every day. >> i would just sit ere, wrapped in a blanket, the achievement of the day was i go bed... everything felt like the world was like, like there was a layer of cotton, or fog, or something, wrapped around my brain.

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>> this program was made possible by the corporation for public brocasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: scenes of celebration mixed with carnage today as the united statesop ed its new embassy in jerusalem, israeli security forces shot dead dozens ofns palestinn gaza. health officials there said mor than 2,000 othre wounded. blanket denunciations swept across the arab and muslim world, blasting both the u.s. embassy move and the killings. thousands marched in istanbul decrying what many called "a

massacre," and the turkish government announced it would recall its ambassadors to israel and the united states. for its part, the trump white house said israel has the right to defend itselfsiand said resplity for the killings "rests squarely with hamas," the palestinian militant group that controls gaza. special correspondent jane ferguson reports for us tonight from gaza city.ch ( rs and applause ) >> reporter: cheers erupted as president trump's daughter ivanka and treury secretary steven mnuchin opened the new u.s. embassy in jerusalem, timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the founding of the state of israel. >> on behalf of the president of the united states, we welcome you officially, and for the first time, to the embassy of the united states here in jerusale the capital of israel.

thank you. >> reporter: u.s. ambassador tov israel friedman led the festive ceremony, as the american delegation looked o president trump hailed the move as, "a great day for israel," and, in a taped message from washington, he applauded a .campaign promise fulfill >> f many years we failed to acknowledge the obvious: the plain reality that israel's capital is jerusalem. >> reporter: control of jerusalem has been at the heart of the israeli-arab conflict ever since the united nations drew the boundaries for a jewish state in 1947. the city is sacred to christians, muslims and jews; one-third of its residents are palestinian. they claim east jerusalem as the capital of a future statof their own. mr. trump insisted the u.s. is stenl dedicated to peace bet israelis and palestinians, and iat recognizing jerusalem as >> our greatest hofor peace. the united states remains fully committed to facilitating a

lasting peace agreement. >> reporter: but adding to thegi res strain, a pair of controversial american christian pastors known for theily anti-muslim rhetoric led prayers. john hagee and robert jeffress are vocal supporters of the president. jeffress has decried islam as "heresy from the pit of hell," and has disparaged mormonism and judaism as well. >> i am so proud to be here in jerusalem, the eternal heart of the jewish people. >> reporter: the president's son-in-law jared kushner, who was charged with brokering peace talks, said he's hopeful the move will help bring a solution to the long-running conflict. >> when president trump makes a >> we've shown that the united states of america will do what's >> reporter: finally, israel's prime minester benjamin nyahu declared it a "glorious day." >> thank you president trump for having the courage to keep yours pr. our brave soldiers are

isprotecting the borders oel as we speak today. >> reporter: but on those borders at "protecting" meant deadly violence across theit palestinian teies, and scenes of bloodshed set against the jerusalem celebratio in ga, tens of thousands gathered near the border with israel, trying to make it over the fence. the pastinians are calling for their right of return to the focestral homes they lived in before israel was ded-- an event called "the nakba," or "catastrophe," by palestinians we also want to convey a message that we will never forget our right of return to our villages. >> reporter: from ramallah on the west bank, palestian authority president mahmoud abbas denounced israel and its reaction to the protests

>> we have a new settlement >> reporter: these protests have ekbeen going on for six wes, but today amid the embassy move, anger here reached new levels. the owd that has shown up today is significantly larger than they have seen in r weeks, which they have beenll cag for, but they are as you can see, occasionally rushing the fence. the israelis are not showing any patience for that.th have been firing sniper rounds and we have see ambulances leaving the area with the injured. dozens of protestors have beeno brought just tis one medicalan spotall of them have been shot in the leg. so many people arrived with fgunshot wounds many wereced to lay on the ground outside in agony, waiting to be taken to hospital with another day of protest declared for tomrow, the bloodshed in gaza will go on well after the celebrations in jerusalem. judy, as of now the death toll is at least 55 here... the

deadliest day since the 2014 war. >> they were expectie that. they hen calling on people to come out. we drove around gaza city this morning ahead of the protests. almost every single shop shut down now, there's been a big push to get people out to the protests make sure that the big, today , with the embassy move going on in jerusalem. that said, on sunday, we did hear news that the head of hamas had gonthe to egypt a very last minute to somehow broker a deal to try to prevent what happened today from mapping. >> we've heard an offer was made of perhaps being able to ease the blockade, ease the closing of the border with egypt, the raffa crossing. the offer was not acceptable to hamas and, as a result, today,

we saw the protests go on as expected. >> woodruff: so an indirect attempt to negotiate with israel. jane, 've seen soe reporting, even though the palestinians are saying all this prest is spontaneous, we've also seen reporting saying that, on theo gaza side,d speakers were cecouraging young people to rush the fen what do you know about that? >> well, there's certainly been a big encouragement to get people going to these protests, and all political parties and armed groups are keen to make sure there's a huge turnout, ant ncludes hamas. hamas, of course, very much so nt to be able to use these protests for political leverage. this is something of a new tactic to have unarmed protests of this level this size, so it's certainly an important tactic. they know that so loas these protests are unarmed, they will be all the more potent and all the moreol pitically useful. but we have seen, when we're out

there, thshing the fence are unarmetin the sense tha they're not carrying guns and weapons as such. we've seen young people with stones in hand and homemade sling shots. they burn tires to create smoke to gihve temselves cover. they haven't really been able to get to the fen itself or in any way threaten the israelirs soldhere with being able to really come over it, but every time they approach the fence, they are fired upon. >> woodruff: and, jane, you were telling us you have been -- clearly, there have been a lot of casualties. ldu were telling us you have been to fieospitals there to see the injured, a lot of gunshot wounds, and you werlle g us many of them below the knee? >> absolutely. you know, alonwith those 55 dead today, we've also had a massive number of casualties. thauthorities here say over ple.0 peo most of the people, according to medical sources who have beenre

injuhave received gunshot wounds to the lower leg. now, when i was in a field hospital very, very close to where the protesters were pushing toward the fence with israel, we saw an enorms amount of casualties coming in, and 90% of them had gunshot wounds to the leg mostly below the knee. israeli snipers are shootingl people in thg whenever they get close to the fence and that's causing widespread gunshot wounds that we're seeiny on mamany protesters, and that's why those cualty figures are fairly significant because the gunshot wounds e leading to all sorts of complications li amputations >> woodruff: what a story,so jane fer we thank you so much for following it. >> thank you. >> woodruff: it was also a momentous day in iraq following a weeken parliamentary election that has left a firebrand cleric leading

the vo count. as nick schifrin reports, the u.s.-backed incumbent prime minister, haidar al-abadi, is running third in most districts and a distant fifth inchaghdad. ( rs and applause ) >> reporter: supporters of muqtada al-sadr flooded the streets of the baghdad district named for the shiite cleric's family. they celebrated a man who was once a symbol of sectarianism and resistance, who's transformed himself into a populist leader. iraq's electoral commission has released results from 90% of the country, showing a startling, apparent upset. sadr's nationalist alliance "saeroun" as the front runner, and sadr himself as the likely king-maker. sadr rose to prominence after the u.s.-led overthrow of saddam hussein. in 2004, sadr's mehdi army b fought a brutaloody insurgency against coalition forces, demanding they withdraw from the country. his men also targeted sunni iraqis, helping spark the civil war that ripped through iraq in 2006. cently, he's re-branded himself as a nationalist-- anti-u.s. and anti-iran. he tapped into widespread disappointment that neither country helpedmprove iraqi

ves.pa and he camned against endemic corruption. his allies were communists andcu ser parties, and he wants af governmentchnocrats >> ( translated ): we are ready tomiork and cooperate on for >> reporter: in second place, the iranian-backed hadi al- amiri. and in distant third place, the u.s.-backed current prime minister haider al-aba. in a national address, al-abadi called on iraqis to respect the results:tr >> ( slated ): we are ready to work and cooperate on forming the strongest government for iraq, free of corruption, gnteful confessionalism and un- subjected to a forgenda, a government which is capable of preventing a return of terrorism and keeping the country away from sliding into marginal nflicts. >> reporter: for four years, iraq's been fighting isis, but the vote was remarkably peaceful, and defined by bread and butter issues. iraqi unemployment is soaring. the country needs $80-billion of reconstruction

two-million, mostly sunnis, are displaced.rn but t was low, and skepticism is high. some baghdadesidents are skeptical this political upset can upset a corrupt system. >> ( translated ): nothing will be changed. the same misery to the country. >> reporter: if his bloc is the confirnner, sadr won't become prime minster. but 15 years after the u.s. invaon, the man once describ as the u.s.' top enemy in iraq, will be responsible for shaping iraq's destiny. ckr the pbs newshour, i'm schifrin. >> woodruff: back in thi t countr supreme court has bled that states have the power to legalize sporting. the case came from new jersey, a state that fought for years to legalize sports betssinos and race tracks. henda flanagan of njtv-ne that background. >> my tention, unless somebody stops us, is to be up and running within two weeks.

>> reporter: dennis drazin runs monmouth park-- a racetrack that expanded its bar and lounge to accommodate sports wagering-- betting new jersey would win its decade-long court battle to overturn the federal ban on legalized sports betting in most states. major league sports fought new jersey all the way to the u.s. supreme court, which today ruled that ban is unconstitutional-- a david versus goliath victory for the former legislator who filed jersey's lawsuit. >> fighting every step of the way, having no one believe i could win, and now finally coming home with a victory, and the benefits to the state. it's a sweet, sweet feeling. >> reporter: the high court ruled 6-3 that states could not be forced to regulate sports betting-- at the same time they were barred from legalizing it. vada was the only state that could offer a full slate of sports wagering options under the 1992 federal ban; meanwhile, illegal sports betting flourished. but the supreme court ruling just created a whole new legal

marketplac >> the illegal market: close to $150-blion. vegas last year, whereis legal, had $250-million in revees. we anticipate wh it's up and running in atlantic city to make close to $150-million. >> repter: it's tough to gauge economic impact because individual states must enact their own sports betting statutes. six, including new jery, already have laws on the books. 13 others have introduced legislation. >> the n.f.l.'s still playing defense on this issue, stating"l we intend toon congress again, this time to enact a core regulatory framework for legalized sports betting. we also will work closely withr ubs to ensure that any state efforts that move forward innshe meantime protect our and the integrity of our game.az says that in two weeks,

monmouth park will start taking limited hand bets-- on future wagers, like the super bowl, perhaps, while new jersey enacts a regulatory framework. draftkings is maneuvering to offer a mobile online platform in new jersey. some analysts expect legalized sports bting here by july 4. for the pbs newshour, i'm brendi flann newark, new jersey >> woodruff: in indonesia, the islamistate group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack at a police building. it happened in surabaya, the country's second-biggest city. the attack was carried out by a family of militants, including an eight-year-old. ten officers and civiliansere wounded. indonesia's president pushed for a new anti-terror bill. >> ( translated ): this morning another suide bomb happened in surabaya, this is the act of cowards, undignified and barbaric action. and i want to urge everyone will fight terrorism and we will

eliminatthe root cause of it. >> woodruff: today's attack follows bombings yesterday by another militant family at three churches in the city. at least 13 people were killed. powerful win, dust and rainstorms have swept across northern india, killing at least 43 people. comes less than two weeks after similar weather killed 134 people a injured hundreds more. winds reached about 70 miles per hour in parts sunday. ey uprooted trees, demolished buildings, and overturned vehicles. the world health organization now has permission to use an experimental ebola vaccine in the democratic republic of congo. officials reported 39 ebola cases the country between april 4 and yesterday, includina 19s. still, the w.h.o. says the outbreakoesn't meet the iteria for a "public health event of international co.cern." the w.lso announced today an effort to rid the world of trans fats by 2023. the organization will provide

loidance to countries on removing the hearting additives out of their food supplies. the former head of the u.s. centers for disease control says r the initiative was a mat life and death. he spoke in gene. >> the bottom line here is that this is the benning of the end for industrially produced trans fats. the days of trans fats are numbered. governments of the world now have the tools and the knowledge and the responsibility to protect their people from this toxic chemical by replacing >> woodruff: the w.h.o. estimates that eating trans fats leads to more than 500,000 eraths from heart disease year. the u.s. is now looking to different ways to deal with sanctions violations by a chinese telecom giant. the government banned exports t z.t.e. last moer its dealings with iran and north korea. but president trump now says he wantyto give the company a wa back into business.

in a tweet today he noted z.t.e. a big percentage" of par from u.s. manufacturers. adding, the moveofs, "reflective he larger trade deal we are negotiating with china." commerce secretary wilbur ross spoke in washington. >> z.t.e. did do some inappropriate things, they've admitted to that, the question is are there alternative remedies to one we had originally put forward? and that's the area we'll be exploring very, very promptly. >> woodruff: mr. trump's message, tweeted yesterday, drew condemnation from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. florida republican senator marco rubio said he hoped the president wasn't, "backing down to china." stocks jumped early today on hopes of easing trade tensions between the u.s. and china, but finished mixed. the dow jones industrial average gained 68 points to close at 24,899.

the nasdaq rose eight points. and the s&p added two. one fennel any charge against governor eric greitens for invasion of privacy with a woman he admitted to having an affair with. they plan to refile with a special prosecutor. greiten faces charges rlated to alleged use of nonprofit donor list to solicit campaig donations. the white house says first lady melania trum has been hospitalized after a procedure for a benignney condition. a spokeswoman said therocedure was successful with no complications. late today the president went visit mrs. trump at walter reed hospital, outside washington, where she will likely stay for the rest of the week. former senate majority leader harry reid is rergvering from y for pancreatic cancer. reid's family said doctors

caught the ccer early and that the prognosis for his recovery is good. the retired nevada democrat will now go through chemotherapy. and, fam actress margot kidder has died. the canadian-born star was bes known for playing intrepid reporter lois lane, opposite christopher reeve, in the 1978 film "superman," and its three sequels. kidder had been living in montana in recent years and spent much of her time in political activism. margot kidder was 69-years-old. still to come on the "newshour," the health and human services secretary on the president's plan to reduce prescription drug prices. putting a spotlight on college students' mental health. capitol hill staffers speak out about sexual harassment. and much more.

now to the president's point man on drug costs, and what mr. trump proposed to lower prices.a his pls to: improve competition for drugs, in part by speeding generics to market, give medicare-approved insurance plans more power to negotiaterm with peutical companies over the prices of just some drugs, use trade deals to force other countries to pay more for their drugs with the hope that it would lower costs he, and potentially require dr-makers to disclose their list prices as part of advertising. but the president backed away from what he once called for as a candidate: allowing medicare to use its full power and leverage to negotiate direct with drug-makers. alex azar is the secretary of services andm joins me now. mr. secretary, thank you very much for being with us. >> thanks, judy. >> woodruff: as we just said,

you've outlined a number of things you're doing, but what people are poiing to what the president said as a capt. and president, he said, look, the ggs negotiating power om the federal government itself. it buys more drugs thaanybody else. why not have an overall let medicare negotiate with drmp ies? >> that is completely what the president's plan would do. this has been a great misundstanding or misrepresentation that's happened h out there. what the president has called for is, in the two biggest parts of the medicare program where we pay dr drugs, medicare par which is that retail pharmacy program for senior citizens to increase the power of the drug plans that we have currently negotiating for our seniors, give them the power to better negotiate just like commercial plans do, and then take this whole other segment, part b, which isthe dgs that you'd get that your physician administers when you're in thef physician's e, for the first time in history, negotiate and use the power of meicare to negotiate discounts in part b.

so, actually, this is bigger and broader than anything ever proposed before in medicare using the full power of medicare to negotiate against pharma companies. >> woodruff: you're talking about part b and dnd many in the audience may not understand ehe differences. wouldn't it have n simpler, bigger and more effective to say all of medicare can negotiate with these pharmaceutical companies, that that's where thl lout would be. >> this pretty much includes every drug we pay for in medicare for seniors, the retail drug program you buy at th pharmacy and the drugs you have infused by the doc office, that's part b, that brings full negotiation the poweof the federal government to all those drugs. that's our goal. the only critique has been, frankly, it's a tired chap talking point, has been this idea that i as secretary should do the negotiating dirtly

ther than companies that know how to do this. couple of things, first, this in the same gont that often brings you $400 toilet seats when it comes tour prent so not the best at doing negotiations and procurement. second, peter orzack, head of the congressional budget office and 'sen president obaead of the office of management and budget, he o&b and cbo under the leadership concluded dire negotiations wouldn't bring material savings to the program but what we're doing wll because we're introducing more tools to negotiate and we'reeg bringingiation to this other big segment of those drugs you get that the doctor administers to you for the first time ever. i pay list price right now. isn't at amazing? >> woodruff: you're saying this is the equivalent of doingt he president talked about? >> it's better. it is fulfilling the president's commitment to negotiate and bid better but even more. >> woodruff: let me ask you r elements.ple ot

one of the things you're talking about is requiring pharmaceutical companies to list the price of drugs in their advertising. there are already skeptics sayi, wait a minute, do yo really think this is going to work in what makes you think that will work? >> we fundamentally believe as a citizen when you're watch ago td hat entices you to go to your doctor's office and ask that doctor for a drug that you are owed as part of a fair balance information, how much the drug co, what are they trying to get for the drug. i think it's material to know if the drug you're being pitched is a $100 drug or a $50,000 drug. god help you if a senior citizen watches an ad and par s doctor's appointment to find out it's a $50,000 unaffordable drug he or she couldn't get. i that's fair information to get. today i've called on america's pharma industry to voluntarily disclose list prices in their ads. we're going to work te regulatory protest but they can

start that now. >> woodruff: how many do you think will tae you up on that? >> we'll get there one way or the other so i hope th start now. >> woodruff: out of pockes, cohat does that mean? >> right now, so many people pay so much out of pocket for their medicines, especially as we now have the higher deductible healthcare plans and as insurance cospanies have puhed more of the cost burden on to us. when we walk into theyharm we're asked to pay higher percentage. so we have proposal for the medicare plan toeduce how much senior citizens pay out of pocket. we asked for congre put a hp on the amount of pocket a senior would evve to pay during the year total. we've asked for low-income citins to pay nothing for generic drugs out of pocket and reimburseanged how we our drugs for those pysician administered fusion drugs, we've changed the reimbursement that

pus down the out of pocket for seniors by $320 million a year already. >> woodruff: this all requires congressional approval, right in. >> very litt some changes to benefit design would require congressional approval but the vast, vast majority of what we're doing i .sve the power to implement. the secretary of hhas the shocking amount of power by the stroke of a pen and we intend tr se it. >> woodruff: another element of this, proposing to use tre deals to force foreign ugheyurou.s to pay more for the pharmaceutical companies. some say that's sounds great but how do we know the pharmaceutical companies will actually use the extra money to lower pres in the united states? >> that's a fair question. it's not necessarily to lower, it's t ensure they're paying their fair share. in the u.s. we need to pay less. there's a host of issues we've had to bring better negotiations and lower list prices in the u.s. we have to pay less and they

should pay more of their fair share. we're working on strategies on how to take it t ouring partners who should be paying more and using the ful to have the u.s. government's trade power to make them pay more but the main thing in the u.s. is to bring our prices down. in woodruff: the critics p out you, alex azar, come to this position in government having been the head of the u. operations of e eli lilly, one o the big pharmaceutical companies. if they coupeddent lower price how can you? >> the moplst comprehensivan to address drug pricing and bring them down of any president, democratic or republican, ideas in here conservatives and liberalsave never thought of. how? because we have experts at the table who knows how the system works, know the leavers that hmpact it. i've worked insystem. one of the things i love about

being in the government, i canys change thetem. the rational actors, the pharma companies, eve incentive is toward hiring prices. the system has to change. the president has given me thek mandate to whe change that system. >> woodruff: one final question in brief, healthcare coverage overall. this administration, of course, has been moving to dismantle obamacare, theffordable care act. we learned this week that the rate of working agens ameri without health insurance has rise to 15.5% since 2016 and things aes worse in the st i think 19 states that decided not to expand medicaid. my question is does this suggest that what the trump administration is doing is leading to less health coverage? you're ending up doing the opposite of what you wanted wh healthcare coverage in this country. >> absolutely not.af thrdable care act plans are unaffordable and lacking inf choi individuals and shoving these 28 million forgotten men and women out of e individual market, its pricing them out of that market.

what we're trying to do is bring em low-cost plans tht they can afford, and then work with congress to actually replace the system with a better one, and i want to use all of my administrative authority to tryk to me affordable insurance available for people, but withih contours of the individual market that the obamacare created there, it's pricing people o we had 6.7 million americans pay $3.1 billion in the affordable care act taxes to not buy insurance they couldn't afford. >> woodruff: big subject. we would love to have you back. secretary of health and human services, alex azar. thank you very much. >> thank you, judy. >> woodruff: it is a particularly tense time on college campuses with final exams. many universities are trying to

deal more explicitly with depression and anxie. among studen one school, the massachusetts institute of technology, or m.i.t., found itself in the idmidst of a so-called "su cluster" several years ago that took the lives of six studenme and a faculter. jeffrey brown recently went to m.i.t. to meet a professor and some stunts who have stood out for their own efforts to bring mental health issues out from the shadows. here's part one ofis report. >> reporter: bright, accomplished, ambitious. also at times: anxious, deeply depressed. sometimes, even hopeless. chey are students at m.i.t., in cambridge, massaetts, now part of a project to give a face and voice to a growing mental health crisis. >> it's a global epidemic.wa therthis huge, pervasive l oblem, not just at m.i.t., but, i believe in nds of places like m.i.t. that we needed to address. >> reporter: daniel jais a computer science professor at m.i.t. several years ago he began

seeing a phenomenon on campus that took him out of his area of expertise. >> more and more students wereo coming, usually telling me that they wanted to talk about a problem set or an assignment. and when i sat down with them and talked to them, i would discover that the reat problem was hey had some mental health issue that was holding them back and preventing themfr doing the work. and it was tragic and pervasive. >> reporter: were they saying it?y do ty it to you, or you intuited, or how did that come out? >> well, normally we'd start talkinabout the problem set, and i would ask them a question like, "how much time have you spent on this? why is it proving so difcult?" and then often they'd say something like, "well, actually, i haven't spent any time on it because i can't motivate myself, or i can't get out of bed in the morning, or i don't feel like life is worthwhile." and then the bells would start ringing iny head, and i realized i would need to chaperone them over to mental health and try and help them. >> reporter: m.i.t. is one of the world's most prestigious universities-- tough to get

into, tough to succeed at. but what was happening here was part of something bigger. according to a 2017 study of american colleges, nearly 40% of students said they felt so depressed in the prior year that it was difficult to function. 61% said they'd felt "overwhelming anxiety".an suicide remains the second leading cause of death overall for college-aged people. jackson also felt a deeply personal loss with the suicide of a friend on the faculty. he turned to his outside passion-- photography-- to help bring a stigmatized, private problem into the open. >> it struck me that the people who were suffering from depreson and anxiety were still, as it were, in the dark. we've made great strides in de- stigmatizing depression, but we still really talin terms of numbers. we talked about abstractions of nontal health issues, and we

would say, "this ial, and there are so many people who suffer from it." >> reporter: he put up posters around campus asking people to share their stories, and eventually interviewed photographed some two dozen sudents-- as well as faculty and staff meers. prily tang is now finishing her junior year after sion forced her to take a two year leave of absence. >> i would just sit there, wrapped in a blanket, the achievement of the day was i got thout of bed, and walked t lounge or the kitchen, and i was and you know, i wasn eating, it was like one meal a day, and that was usually like, you know, somebody had bought something and come home, and been like, "eat this, please." everhing felt like the world was like, like there was a layer of cotton, or fog, or something, wrapped around my brain, andyt evng was just so blah. >> reporter: the essays and portraits were first published in the campus newspaper, "the tech." they're now collected in a book, "portraits of resilience." >> i hoped to capture the personality and charisma of th person that i was interviewing. the strength and the vulnerability.

i wanted to make photos that weren't sensationalist, but that captured something of the depth of the individual. >> reporter: the black and white portraits reveal a range ofio em haley cope is a senior in women and gender studies. >> i can look at my experiences through the lens of my faith, and i can look at the experience of depression as a chat i bear. and that gives a completely different view of the experience, that i'm still grapplintewith. >> rep victor morales battled depression as a student and aftegraduating. depression takes away pretty much, you know, whether it's the good or the bad, the happiness or theears, for me my depression was numb. i felt nothing. >> reporter: the essays tell of differt experiences and potential causes: genetic predisposition, traumas in their lives, a chronic health condition. and then there's the stress on today's students. >> i think life is much harder

for students today than itas when i was a student. there's so much pressure to perform. there are so many reductionist, numeric measures of success. this isn't just, this isn't m.i.t.; this is everywhere, whether it's counting the number of facebook likes you have, the number of times you're re- tweeted, your g.p.a., your internship salary. kids now have resumes when they're in high school. measurements of how they're doing. that's right.an maybe failing. >> that's right. well, in fact, it's not possible, i believe, it's not possible to succeed in this because if you're measuring yourself day by day by all these short-term ratings, ally you won't measure up. >> reporter: jackson's answer: focus on the strengths and perseverance of people battling sometimes crippling depression, anthe importance of friendships and loved ones to help them get through. y >> i thought of it as a making a gallery of people who could stand up and say, "this is me, and i'm proud of my experience. not only am i not ashamed by what hapned to me, but i'm

proud to tell my story and to show that it'sossible to struggle with depression or anxiety, whatever other mental heeth condition, and reach light at the end of the tunnel. >> reporter: jackson's book was recently given to all first-year students. for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown on the campus of m.i.t. in cambridge, massachusetts. >> woodruff: since the "me too" movement began last fa, seven members of congress have resigned or retired following sexual harassment allegations. there is near universal agreement that the system on capitol hill is deeply flawed. yet, congress has not addressed its own rules for deobing with the m. our lisa desjardins is covering this story.

if you complain of har open capitol hill you face a 90 day waiting period and a system stacked against victims. the plan to overall it has been frozen in the senate. we talked to three former staffers pushing for change. rebecca, annie, a ali. it was anna's first interview, she's the staffer whose abuse led to the retirement of congresswoman elizabeth este. they told stories starting witht alele. >> yeah, so my experience was when i was an 18-year-old inte and it was my first experience really in a real job, i had heard some rumors about this member who ultimately groped me at the national-- democratic national convention in boston at an evening event. and ally the message that wa sent to me was that this was the cost of doing business. i was a young woman in politics

partly because as i told people about my experience, i learned that this wasn't a surprise to many people, that this behavior generally and from this particular member was somewhat of an open secret. >> reporter: you two are nodding. what do you think? is that similar? t >> yeah,nk for me it's, i think the prevalence of harassment on the hill was definite very much an open secret.ry my s the second year that i worked for concoessman esty, a eague who i dated the year c before became ef of staff, or her chief of staff 4, and that began about 14 months of pretty consistent harassment, whth was sexual harassment; was personal and professional beratement. and kind of explosive screaming fits in the office that once included him punching me in the back in the office.

and a year-- a year after i left the office on may 5, 2016, he called me 53 times in a matter of just a few hours and threatened to find and kill me. and i think that event was still significant to me because it was quite literally what scared me into both coming forward, but also recognizing the extent to which i was abused in the office throughout the entire second year that i'd worked there. >> reporter: so when you had a complaint, anna, did you know where to go right away, what did you do? >> i did nothing both because b of-- i wng threatened by my then-chief of staff from coming forward. i'd worried about the member that i worked for's careerctnd re-en. yo know, we had trainings on things like emical leaks, but

i had never participated in a sexual harassment training, whic strong message to staffers about what is important and what is even worthy of being part of t conversation >>eporter: rebecca? >> my own personal experience was with my own member of congress, a man o i respected. it was the august recess. i had been working on a proposal. i went into his office i said-- i made the proposal, he was open to it, which was great. i was feeling really good about it, and as i got up to leave, he stopped me, and said, "my god, rebecca, you just look amazing today. just really stunning. would you mind twirling for me?" i was stunned by the request, but i didn't really know what to do. i was young and inexperienced and i complied. he's my member of congress and here he is asking me to do something so i just, i did it.ut i felt awful at immediately after. i went and sat down at my desk, tried to regroup, when i get a

phone call from our washington office saying, "hey, gary, my member of congress just called and he said you were to have a bonus immediately. don't know what you did but congratulations." e, i knew exactly what i had done. >> reporter: you felt like an object.fe >> totally, like a prostitute. i mean, here i am getting paidbe nouse of, you know, my professional, you know, m accolades worth, but e of how i looked and ho i made him feel. >> reporter: is there a reason you think congress and the power structure there is dif? >> i think there's a couplesy emic problems with just how the hill functions. and-- as opposed to traditional employers. you had-- especially on the house side where tre's turnover every two years. problem number t is that it is so individualized either by party or by state, region. and so it's-- there's not really again a comprehensive approach to this--

pme- in control of the rules for their office. >> correct. each member of congress is really the employer. it's not-- you're not working for congress, you're working for your member. t >> people cowashington, d.c. because they want to work on the hill, you'll work really hard as we mentioned to get to the next level. so there is a real desire to be there anink a willingness to put up with behavior in general that shouldn't-- shouldn't be accepted. >> reporter: how do you take this idethat even after all these conversations, those who are elected to run this country have not been able to change a system that they all admit is awed in their own offices? >> i was really moved by what the hoe did in january. as a former hill staffer i was a little cynical about congress's ability to quickly get things done. but they did. they responded really quickly to this moment and with a bill that makes a lot of really important changes.

and so it's been dismaying to see it held up in the senate for so lon >> yeah. i think it's-- it's very frustrating that the senate won't act on-- to pass reform on this issue. i think it's been made very clear that thiisn't a republican or democratic issue. this isn't a men's issue or a women's issue. and this isn't a vague or hypothetical issue e this is a very practical issue that affects day-to-day the people-- the safety and well-being of the people who work for these representatives. and i think they have absolutely have a responsibility to act. >> reporter: there are some people who say this conversation has actual gone too far and that now things which are very minor are being considered to be harassment. how do you respond to that?of >> so, in termongress acting on this legislation i don't have a concern that it's gointoo far at all. i think in fact it's simply making changes that are long overdue.

>> i don't think it's gone too far. it's never a bad thing for people to reflect on their own privilege, their own status, their own power and try and seea their inions through a different lens. and i think all these little things-- we're not talking about them individually. you know, an insensitive comment 'rre, you know whatever there. that's not what talking about; it's them together, taken as a whole really en-cage us and inhibit us from going forward and finding our full potential. that's wt we're talking about. >> reporter: are you worried about current staffers on the hill? where would you recommend they go to complain? is it even clear yet that they have a place to go? >> well, i think that that's why it's so important for the senate to act right n, is that it is unclear what the current environment is for women whope enced misconduct on the hill. and if i were a current staffer

going to come at a risk of retaliation >> i think ultimately this is a conversation that should be had and i think it should be had out loud. and i think in order for anything to change either legislativy or culturally, we just need to keep talking about it and having these conversations. >> reporter: ally steele, anna kain, rebecca weir, thank you very much for talking with us. >> thank you for having us. >> woodruff: from the president's announcement the u.s. will reconsider sanctions on a chinese phone company toth opening of the american embassy in jerusalem, there's a lot of news today withnt polly far-reaching political fallout. to discuss it all, i'm joined by amy walter of the "cook political report" and susan pag" of "usa toda "politics monday." welcome to both of you. amy, this festive celebration day in jerusalem, the president promised i'm moving that embassy toerusalem, it's happened, celebrating there, but a few miles away big protests on

the part of the the palestinians. more than 50 dead. what abt the poitical calculus for the white house? >> i think that this was clearly something that the president, like this things he talked about paigne campaign trail, cam promise that he wants to show americans he can keep. this is especially important for a group of voters that have been the most consistently supportive of the president an that the evangelical voters who have seen this decision to move the embassy to jerusalem as really a high point in the president's tenure. we talk a lot about these evangelical voters and how did they find a way to square the president's behavior with his presidency, ani think it really is on things like this, where on the policies, they see somebody that is supporting them and fiting for them in a way they haven't seen in other presents, even reublican presidents who are more

twardly religious. >> woodruff: how do you see the upszeides, down politically? >> it's true other presidents promised to do this or suprted the idea but didn't follow through, but the reason they didn't follow through is they saw the costs involved, the costs involved in the deadly otests in gaza and the costs in being a broker in the middle east, that is gone. i think the palestinians will not be able to see the united states as an honest and reasonable broker in the rest of the p >> woodruff: the president's surprising tweet over the weekend that he wants to negotiate barter deal for this chinese telekom giant called zte. the administration is worried they're losing jobs and want to renegotiate everything. this is the president that talks about america firrsst, america but here he's worried about chinese jobs. >> whenever we talk abo president trump, we try to

talk -- people like us talk about policy and try to put it in this nice little context of what it's going to mean. i think so many votersee president trump through the prism of his personality, not his policies. so foy r plef vote horse supported the president, they said he's a businessman, a negotiate, he's going to figure it out. you give them a little, they give you a little and you come out with a better deal. so they won't see this as you'rw givingy something to the chinese, something far reaching consequences when it comes to security issues? and if you're opposed to the president you say, we told you so, right? this is a guy who sahe was going to be a great negotiate, he doesn't know what he's doing, he's putting more emphasis on chinese jobs and not as concerned about security as he should be. but attend of the day, the policy piece is really filtered through whether you believe at he's going to be able to deliver

on hisse pro >> let me disagree with you which is that i can see a campaign ad in the making,ne saving c jobs, if you can see an ad in a place that did not get manufacturing jobs back the way the president promised when he campaigned there in 2016, and stead protected chinese jobs, and with a very ntroversial way, a company linked to the chinese got that has been identified as posing a cybersecurity threat, their products cannot be sold on u.s.s basis beof fears for how they can be manipulated. so i think this is a perexing step by the president, and i would be, i guess, surprised if he ends up folwing through on it. i would not be surprised if them pull back injor way from what he's trying to do. >> i noticed today hes teeting to clarify. >> that's what we've seen, the tariffs come out, the tariffs have caveats, the decision comes out on twitter, then it gets cleaned up afterwards, i thinkar this has beenof the course, but i think it's going

to take something pretty significant, in other words real bite out of people, whether the tariffs that we heard there's gog to be all this uproar in the heartland because farmers are upset about the tariffs, the people who supported the president, and yet you don't see a real loss om support he president there. when i talked to some of the folks there, the sense is we trust him to d the right thing. now, if that turns out not to be true, then i would agree wit bh yo i think for now there's still a sense that we hired him to odo this ki job, for people who support him. if you don't like him, it doesn't matter what he does, you're never gog to give him credit for anything. >> woodruff: speaking for the theartland, susan, the vers are actually starting to speak. they're starting to see primarys co out there. last week you had west virginia, indiana, ohio, nth carolina, tomorrow, the primary in pennsylvania an and elsewhere. are we seeing patterns here? i know it's early, may, the election in november, but are we

learning anything from ts? >> i think we're seeing a lot of democratic energy both in ths primard the special elections. the special elections, even the ones the democrats,idn't win they perform so much better than they did two years ago. it's given democrats a lot of pope that this is a good year for them. pennsylvania, an important state to look at, they had to change their congressional les because of a gerrymandering case, they've had republicans retire. they've got, i, hi congressional districts and i think maybe five of them according toe "cook political report" might be flippable for democrats. they might pick up five seats just in pennsylvania. they need to pick up 23 to win control of the hou picking up five seats will get you a long way there. >> adding on to that, theat cand who may be the nominees here on the democratic side, they are women in every single one of those districts, so you could see a state that now has zero women in the delegation y tuaving five potentially in the delegation

an s you know, one of thtory lines of this year is the energo amonn voters, the candidates. a lot of these women who were running here are firimst candidates, they've never done anything like this before, they were brought out of the woodwork by the last election. >> woodruff: and a lot of them going up against incumbents who were historically tough to beat. a lot of story lines to be following in the months to come. amy walter, susan page, "politics monday." thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: and that's thor newshouronight. i'm judy woodruff. join us on-line and again here tomorrow evening. t for all of us pbs newshour, thank you and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> babbel.ua a la app that teaches real-life conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more.el babb's 10-15 minute lessons are available as an app, or online. more information on babbel.com. >> consumer cellular.

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