captioning sponsored by ll newshour productions >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff.ho on the "ne" tonight, two very different scenes in the middle east. amid celebrations of the u.s. embassy opening in jerusalem, more than 50 palestinian protesters are killed along israel's border with gaza. then, one on one with the health and human services secretary alex azar. we discuss what the trump administration is doing to tamp down prescription drug prices. and putting a face on th anxiety, depression, and other mental health problems millions of college students struggle with every day. >> i would just sit there, wrapped in a blanket, the achievement of the day was i got out of bed... everything felt like the world was like, like ere was a layer of cotton, or fog, or something, wrapped around my brain.

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>> this m was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: scenes of celebration mixed with carnage today as the united stes opened its new embassy in jerusalem, israeli security forces shot dead dozens of palestinians in gaza. health officials there said more than 2,000 others were wounded. blanket denunciations swept he arab and muslim world, blasting both the u.s. s.bassy move and the killi thousands marched in istanbul decryinghat many called "a

massacre," and the turkish government announced it would recall i ambassadors to israel and the united states.e for its part, ump white house said israel has the right to defend itself, and said responsibility 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. a ( cheersnd applause ) >> reporter: cheers erupted as president trump's daughter ivanka and treasury secretary steven mnuchin opened the new u.s. embassy in jerusale 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 jerusalem, the capital of israel.

thank you. >> reporter: u.s. ambassador to israel david friedman led the festive ceremony, as the american delegation looked on. president trump hailed the move as, "a great day for i" and, in a taped message fromhe washingtonpplauded a campaign promise fulfilled. >> for many years we failed to acknowledge the obvious: the plain reality thca israel's tal 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.ey laim east jerusalem as the capital of a future state of their own. mr. trump insisted the u.s. is still dedicated to peace between israelis and palestinians, and that recognizing jerusalem as >> our greatest hope is for peace. the united states mains fully committed to facilitating a

lasting peace agreement. reporter: but adding to the religious strain, a pair of controversial american christian pastors known for their deeply 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 orusalem, the eternal hea the jewish people. >> reporter: the president's son-in-law jared kushner, who was charged with brokering peace lks, said he's hopeful t move will help bring a solution to the long-running henflict. >> wn president trump makes a >> we've shown that the united states of america will do what's >> reporter: finally, israel's prime ministerahenjamin netadeclared it a "glorious day." >> thank you president trump for having the courage to keep your promises our brave soldiers are ting the borders of isra

as we speak today. >> reporter: but on those borders that "protecting" meant deadly violence across the palestinian territories, and scenes of bloodshed set against the rusalem celebrations in gaza, ts of thousands gathered near the border with israel, trying to make it over the fence. the palestinns are calling for their right of return to the ancestral homes they led in before israel was founded-- 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, palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas denoced israel and its reaction to the protests

>> we have a new settlement >> reporter: these protests have been going on for six weeks, but today amid the embassy move, anger here reached new levels. the crowd th has shown up today is significantly larger than they ve seen in recent weeks, which they have beenr, calling fout they are as you can see, occasionally rushing the fence. the israis are not showing any patience for that.e they haven firing sniper rounds and we have seen ambulances leaving the area with the injure dozens of protestors have been brought just to this oedical spot, and all of them have been shot in the leg. so many people arrived with gunshowounds many were forced to lay on the ground outside in agony, waiting to be taken to hospital. with another day of protest declared for tomorrow,he 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 expecting tha c they have beling 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 to make re that the big, today , with the embassy move going on in jerusalem. that said, on sunday, we did hear news that the head of ha had gone to egypt at the very last minute to srmehowker a deal to try to prevent what ping.ned today from map >> we've heard an offer was made of perhaps being able to ease the blockade, ease the closing of the bordewith egypt, the raffa crossing. the offer was not acceptable to hamas and, as a result, today,

we saw throtests go on as expected. >> woodruff: so an indirect attempt to negotiate with israel. jane, we've seen some reporting, even though thees palnians are saying all this protest is spontaneous, we've also seen reporting saying that, on the gaza side, loud speakers were encouraging young people to rush the fence. what do you know about that? >> well, there's certainly been a big encouragement to getg people go these protests, and all political parties and armed groups are keen to make sure there's age turnout, and that includes hamas. hamas, of course, very much so want to be able to use these protests for poitical leverage. this is something of a new tactic to have unarmed prosts of this level of this size, so it's certainly an important tactic. they know that so long as these protests are unarmed, they will be all th morotent and all the more politically useful. but we hae seen, whn we're out

there, those rushing the fence are unarmed inhe sense thatt they're nocarrying 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 gi thmselves cover. they haven't really been able to get to the fence itself or in any way threaten the israelier soldiers twith being able to really come over it, but every time they approach the fence, they are fired upon. >> woodruff: and, jane, you were teling usyou have been -- clearly, there have been a lot of casualties. you were telling us you have been to field hpitals there to see the injured, a lot of gunshot wounds, and you wereus tellinany of them below the knee? >> absolutely. you know, along with ose 55 dead today, we've also had a massive number of casualties. the autrities here say over 2,700 people. most of the people, according to medical sources who have been r

injured haveceived gunshot wounds to the lower leg. now, when i was in a field hospital very, very close to where the protesters were hushing toward the fence wit israel, we saw an enormous amount of casualties coming in, and 90% of them had gunshot wounds to the leg mostly below e knee. israeli snipers are shooting people in the leg whenever they get close to the fence and that's causing widespread gunshot wounds that we're seeing on many, may protesters, and that's why those casualty figures are fairly significant because the gunshot wounds arein leto all sorts of complications like amutations. >> woodruff: what a story, jane ferguson, we thank you so much for following it. >> thank you. >> woodruff: it was also a momentous day in iraq llowing a weekend parliamentary election that has left a firebrand cleric leading

the vote 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 in baghdad. ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: supporters of muqtada al-sadr flooded the icstreets of the baghdad d 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.ir aq's electoral commission has released results from 90% of the country, showing a startling, u appareet. 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 fought a brutal, blood insurgency against coalition forces, demanding they withdraw from the country. s men also targeted sunn, iraqhelping spark the civil war that ripped through iraq in 2006. recent, he's re-branded himself as a nationalist-- anti-u.s. and anti-iran. he tapped into widesead disappointment that neither country helped improve iraqi

agves. and campaigned nst endemic corruption. his allies were communists andrt secular pas, and he wants a government of technocrats >> ( translated ): we are ready to work d cooperate on forming >> reporter: in second place, the iranian-backed hadi al- amiri. and in distant third place, the u.s.-backed current prime minister haider al-abadi. in a national address, al-abadi called on iraqis to respect the results:ed >> ( transl ): we are ready to work and cooperate on forming the strongest government for iraq, free of corruption, hateful confessionalism and un subjected to a foreign agenda, a government which is capable of preventing a return of terrorism and keeping the country away from sliding into marginal conflis. >> reporter: for four years, iraq's been fighting isis, butas the voteemarkably peaceful, and defined by bread and butter issues.ir i unemployment is soaring. the country needs $80-billion of reconstruction

two-million, mostly sunnis, are displaced.wa but turnoulow, and skepticism is high. some baghdad residts are skeptical this political upset can upset a corrupt system. >> ( translated ): nothing will be changed. the same misery to rhe country. orter: if his bloc is the confirmed winner, sadr won't become prime minster.t bu15 years after the u.s. invasion, e man once described as the u.s.' top enemy in iraq, will be responsiblfor shaping iraq's destiny. for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. >> woodruff: back in this country: the supreme court has ruled that states have the power to legalize sports bet the case came from new jersey, a state that fought for years to nogalize sports bets at ca and race tracks. brendalanagan of njtv-news has that background. >> my intentn, 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. r league sports fought n jersey all the way to the u.s. supreme court, whi today ruled that ban is unconstitutional-- a david versus goliath victory for the former legislator who filed jersey's lawsuit.g >> fightery step of the way, having no one believe i a could wi 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.a neas the only state that could offer a full slate of sports wagering options undeer the 1992 fed ban; meanwhile, illegal sports betting flourished. but the supreme court ruli just created a whole new legal

marketplace. >> the illegal market: close to $150-billion. ves last year, where this legal, had $250-million in revenues. we anticipate when it'up and running in atlantic city to make close to $150-million. >> reporter: it's tough to gauge economic impact because individual states must enact their own sports betting statutes. six, including new jersey, already have laws on the books. 13 others have introduced legislation. >> the n.f.l.'s still playing defense on this issue, stating"" we intend to call on congress again, this time to enact a core latory framework for legalized sports betting. we also will work closely withs our cl ensure that any state efforts that move forward in the mntime protect our fans and the integrity of our game.ay drazinthat in two weeks,

monmouth park will start taking limited hand bets-- on future wagers, like the super bowl,rh aps, while new jersey enacts draftkings is maneuvering to offer a mobile online platformew jersey. some analysts expect legalized sports betting herby july 4. for the pbs newshour, i'm brende neanagan in rk, new jersey >> woodruff: in ina, the islamic state group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack at a pice 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 civilians were wounded. indonesia's president pushed for a new anti-terror bi. >> ( translated ): this morning thother suicide bomb happened in surabaya, this iact of cowards, undignified and barbaric action. and i want to urge everyone will fight terrorism and we will

eliminate the root cause of it. >> woodruff: today's attac follows bombings yesterday by another militant family at three churches in the city. at least 13 people were killed. powerful winds, dust and rainstorms have swept across northern india, killing at least 43 people. it comes less than two weeks after similar weather killed 134 people and injuredundreds more. winds reached about 70 miles per hour in parts sunday. u theyooted trees, demolished buildings, and overturned vehicles. the world health organization now has permission to use an expemental ebola vaccine in the democratic republic of congo. officials reported 39 ebola cases in the country between april 4 and yesterday, including 19 deaths. still, the w.h.o. sayshe outbreak doesn't meet the criteria for a "public health event of international concern." the w.h.o. also announced today an effort to rid the world of trans fats by 2023. the organization will provide

guidce to countries on removing the heart-clogging additives out of their food supplies. the former head of the.s. centers for disease control says the initiative was a matter of life and death. he spoke in geneva. >> the bottom line here is that this is the beginninof 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 rom heart disease every year. the u.s. is now looking into different ways to deal with sanctions violations by a chinese telecom giant. the government banned exports to z.t.e. last month ov dealings with iran and north korea. but president trump now says he wants to give the company a way back into business.

in a tweet today he noted z.t.e. buys "a bi from u.s. manufacturers. adding, the move is, " lflective of tger trade deal we are negotiating with china."ry commerce secreilbur ross spoke in washington. >> z.t.e. did doome 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 onth ides 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.d e s&p added two. one fennel any char 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 related to alleged use of nonprofit donor list to solicit campaign donations. the white house says first lady melania trump has been hospitalized after a procedure for a benign kidney condition. dureokeswoman said the pro was successful with no complications. late today the president went to visit mrs. trump at walter reed hospal, outside washington, where she will likely stay for the rest of the week. former senate majority leader harry reid is recoveringr rom surgery ncreatic cancer. reid's family said doctors

caught the cancer eay and that the prognosis for his recovery is good. the retired nevada democrat will now go through chemotherapy. and, famed actress margot kidder has died. the canadian-born star was best known for playing intrid 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 inac politicavism. 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.to cahill staffers speak out about sexual harassment. and much more. p

now to tsident's point man on drug costs, and what mr. trump proposed to lower pres.to his plan aimimprove competition for drugs, in part by speeding generics to market, give medicare-approved insurance plans more power to negotiateti with pharmacl 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 here, and potentially require drug-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 directly with drug-makers. alex azar is the secretary of health and human services and 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 pointing what the president said as a capt. and president, he said, look, the biggs gotiating power is frm the federal government itself. it buys more drugs thaybn y else. why not have an overall lt medicare negotiate with drug companies? >> that is completely what the president's plan hould do. th been a great misunderstanding or misrepresentation that's happened h out there. what the president has called for , in the two biggest parts of the medicare program where we pay for drgs, medicare part d 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 beter negotiate just like commercial plans do, and then take this whole other segment, part b, which is the drugs that you'd get that your physician fministers when you're in the physician's officr the first time in history, negotiate and use the power of medicare to negotiate discounts in part b.

so, actually, this is bigger and broader than anything everos pr before in medicare using the full power of medicare to negotiate agahinst prma companies. >> woodruff: you're talking about part b and d ad many in the audience may not understand the differences. wouldn't it have been simpler, bigger and more effective to say all of medicare can negotiate with these pharmaceutical companies, that that's where the real cout would be. >> this pretty much includes every drug we pay for in medicare for seneiors, the rtail drug program you buy at the pharmacy and the drugs you have infused by the docoftor in the ce, that's part b, that brings full negotiation the power of alhe fedgovernment to all those drugs. that's our goal. the only critique has been, apankly, it's a tired che talking point, has been this idea that i as secretary shouldt negotiating directly

rather than companies that know how to do this. couple of things, first, this is the same government that often brings you $400 toilet seats when it comes tot procurem not the best at doing negotiations and procurement. second, peter orzack, head of the congressional budget office and then pasident obama's hd of the office of management and budget, he o&b and cbo under the leadership concluded direct negotiations wouldn't bring material savings to the program but what we're doing will because we're introducing more tools to negotiate and we'reti bringing negot to this other big segment of those dgsu you get that the doctor administers to you for the first time ever. i pay list price right now. isn't that amazing? >> woodruff: you're saying this is th ealent of doing what the president talked about? >> it's better it is fulfilling the president's commitment to negotiate and bid better but even more. >> wdruff: let me ask yo about a couple other elements. one of the things you're talking

about is requiring pharmaceutical companies to list the price of drugs in the advertising. there are already skeptics minute, do you 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 tn ad thaices 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 costs, what are they trying to get for the drg. i think it's material to know if the drug yore being pitched is a $100 drug or a $50,000 drug. gohelp you if a senior citizen watches an ad and pays for a doctor's appointment to find out it's a $50,000 unaffordable drug he or she couldn't get. i think that's fair information to gety tove called on america's pharma industry toluntarily disclose list prices in their ads. we're going to work the regulatory protest but they can

start that now. >> woodruff: how many do you think will take you up on that? >> we'll get there one way or the other so i hope they start >> woodruff: out of pocket costs, what does that mean? >> right now, so many people pay so much out of pocket for their medicines, especially as we now have te higher deductible healthcare plans and as insurance companies have pushed more of the cost burden on t us. when we walk into the pharmacy we're asked to pay higher percentage so we have proposal for the medicare plan to reduce how much seni citizens pay out of pocket. we asked for congress to put a cap on theomount of pcket a senior would ever have to pay during the year total. we've asked forow-income citizens to pay nothing for generic drugs out of poket and already changed how we reimburse our drugs for those physician administered fusion drugs, we'vh ged the reimbursement that

pulls down the out of pocket foe ors by $320 million a year already. >> woodruff: this all requires congressional aproval, right in. >> very little does. some changes to benefit design would require congressional approval but the vast, vast majority of what we're doing io have theer to implement. the secretary of h.h.s. has the shocking amount of power by th stroke of a pen and we intend to exercise it. >> woodruff: another element of this, proposing to use trade deals to force foreignnt governto pay more for the drugs they buy from u.s. armaceutical companies. some say that's sounds great but how do we know the pharmaceutical companies will actually use the extra money to lower prices in the united states? >> that's a fair question.'s ot necessarily to lower, it's to ensure they're payingha their fair. in the u.s. we need to pay less. there's a host of issues we've had to bring betnster negotiat and lower list prices in the u.s. we have to pay less and t my

should pre of their fair share. we're working on strategies on how to take it to ouringho partnershould be paying more and using the full weight 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 ouir prces down. >> woodruff: the critics point out you, alex azar, come to thiv position in nment having been the head of the u.s. operations of e eli lilly, one f the big pharmaceuticaco anies. if they coupeddent lower price how can you? >> the most comprehensive plan to address drug pricing an bring them down of any president, democratic or republic, ideas in here conservatives and liberals have never thought of. how? because we have experts at the table who knows how the system works, know the leavers that impact it. i've worked in the system. one of the things i lovabout

being in the government, i can change the system. the rational actors, the pharma companies, every inctive is toward hiring prices. the system has to change. the president has given me the mandate to work te change that system. >> woodruff: one final question in brief, healthcare coverage overall. this administration, of course, has been moving to dismantle obamacare, the affordable care act. we learned this week tat the rate of working age americans without health insurance has risen to 15.5% since 2016 and things are wose in the states, i think 19 states that decided not to expdid meid. my question is does this suggest that what the trump administration is doing is leading to less health coverage? you're ending up ding the opposite of what you wanted with healthcare coverage in th country. >> absolutely not. the affordable care act plans are unaffordable and lacking ind choice foriduals and shoving these 28 million forgotten men and women out of the invidual market, it's pricing them out of that market.

what we're trying to do is bring them lw-cost plans that they can afford, and then work with place theto actually system with a better one, and i want to use all of my administrative authority to try to make affordable insurance available for people, but within the urs of the individual market that the obamacare created there, it's pricing people out. 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, alexu azar. thank ry much. >> thank you, judy. >> woodruff: it is a particularly tense time on college campuses with final exams. many universities are trying toc

deal more exly with depression and anxiety among students. one school, the massachusetts institute of technology, o m.i.t., found itself in the midst cluster" several years ago that took the lives of six students and a faculty member jeffrey brown recently went to m.i.t. to meet a professor and some students whhave stood out for their own efforts to bring mental health issues out from the shadows. here's part one of his report. >> reporter: bright, accomplished, ambitious. also at times: anxious, deeply depressed. sometimes, even hopeless. they are students at m.i.t., in cambridge, massachusetts, now part of a project to give a face and voice to a growing mental health crisis. >> it's a global epidemic.is there was uge, pervasive problem, not just at m.i.t., s but, i believe in all ki places like m.i.t. that we needed to address. >> aeporter: daniel jackson 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 were coming to me, usually telling me that they wanted to talk about a ntproblem set or an assign and when i sat down with them and talked to them, i would discover that the real proy em was that td some mental health issue that was holding them back and preventing themoi from the work. and it was tragic and pervasive. >> reporter: were they saying it?it do they sao you, or you intuited, or how did that come out? >> well, normally we'd start talking abouthe problem set, and i would ask them a question like, "how much time h te you spent s? why is it proving so difficult?" and en 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 in my he, 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".id and suremains the second leading cause of death overall for college-aged people. jackson also felt a deeply person loss with the suicide si a friend on the faculty. he turned to his o passion-- photography-- to help bring a stigmatized, private problem into the open. >> it struck me that the people who were suffering from depression a anxiety were still, as it were, in the dark. we've made great strides in de- stigmatizing depression, but we still really talk in tms of numbers. we talked about abstractions of mental health issues, and we

would say, "this is normal, and there are so many people whoer surom it." >> reporter: he put up posters around campus asking people to share their stories, and evtually interviewed and photographed some two dozen sudents-- as well as faculty and staff members. emily tang is now finishing her onjunior year after depres 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 out of bed, and walked to the lounge or the kitchen, and i was and you know, i wasn't eating, it was like one meal a day, and that was usually like, you know, somebody had bought something and come home, and bees,like, "eat tlease." everythingelt like the world was like, like there was a layer of cotton, or fog, or something, wrapped around my brain, and w everythi 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 the person that i was interviewing. the strength and the vulnerability.

i wanted to make photos that weren't sensationalist, urt that ca something of the depth of the individual. >>teeporter: the black and w portraits reveal a range of emotion. 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 t depression as a cross t bear. and that gives a completely different view of the experien, that i'm still grappling with. >> reporter: victor morales battled depressions a student and after graduating. depression takes away pretty much, you know, whether it's the good or the bad, the happiness or the tearsfor me my depression was numb. i felt nothing. >> reporter: the essays tell of different exriences and potential causes: genetic predisposition, traumas in their lives, a chronic healthit con. and then there's the stress on today's students. >> i think life is much harder

for students today than it was wh i was a student. there's so much pressure to perform. ere are so many reductionist, numeric measures of success. this isn't just, this isn't m.i.t.; this is everywhere,et r 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.yb and failing. >> that's right. well, in fact, it's not possible, i beeve, it's not possible to succeed in this environment. because if you're measuring d yourse by day by all these short-term ratings, eventually you won't measure up. gt reporter: jackson's answer: focus on the str and perseverance of people battling sometimes crippling depression, and the ieportance of ships and loved ones to help them get through. >> ihought of it as a way of 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 happened me, but i'm

proud to tell story and to show that it's possible to struggle with depression or anxiety, whatever other mental health condition, and reach the 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. w druff: since the "me too" movement began last fall, seven members of congress have resigned or retired ing sexual harassment allegations. there is near universalat agreement he system on capitol hill is deeply flawed. yet, congress has not addressed its own rules for dealing with the problem. our lisa desjardins is covering is story.

if you complain of harenassment apitol hill you face a 90 day waiting period and asystem stacked against victims. the plan toll ovet has been frozen in the senate. we talked to three former staffers pushing for change. rebecca, aienn, a ali. it was anna's first interview, she's the staffer whose abuse led to the retirent of congresswoman elizabeth este. they told stories starting with ali steele. >> yeah, so my experience was when i was an 18-year-old intern 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 really the message that wass sent to mehat 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 behaviore rally and from this particular member was somewhat of an open secret. >> reporter: you two are nodding. what do you think? is that similar? >> yeah, i think for me it's, i think the prevalence ofss hant on the hill was definitely very much an open secret.he my story--econd year that i worked for congressmgu esty, a collwho i dated the year before became my chistaff, orer chief of staff in 201 and that began about 14 months of prey consistent harassment, which was sexual harassment; it 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 complain where to go right away, what did you do? hr i did nothing both because of-- i was beingtened by my then-chief of staff from coming forward. i'd worried about the member that i worked for's career and re-election. yo know, we had trainings on things like chemicald eaks, but

i ver participated in a sexual harassment training, which i think sends a very strong message to staffers about what is important and what is even worthy of being part of the conversation. >> reporte rebecca? >> my own personal experience was with my own member of congress, a man who i respected. it was the august recess. i had been working on a proposal. i nt 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 thest, 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. i felt awful about i 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 mber of congress just called and he said you were to have a bonus immediately. don't know whayou did but ngratulations." of course, i knew exactly what i had done. >> reporter: you felt like an ikject. >> totally, i felta prostitute. i mean, here i am getting paide not beca, you know, my rtofessional, you know, accolades or my but because of i made him feel.how >> reporter: is there a reason you think congress andower structure there is different? >> i thi there's a couple systemic problems with just how the hill functions. and-- as opposed to traditional employers. you had-- especially on the house side where there's turnover every two years. problem number two is at it is so individualized either by party or by state, region. and so it's-- there's not really chain a comprehensive appr 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 shur member. >> people come to gton, 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 and i think a willingness to put up with behavior in general that shouldn't-- shouldn't be accepted. >> reporter: how do you take this idea that these conversations, those who are elected to run this country ve not been able to change a system that they all admit ised fln their own offices? >> i was really moved by what the house di ain january. ormer hill staffer i was a gttle cynical about congress's ability to quick things done. but they did. they responded reallkly to this moment and with a bill that makes a lot of really important chges.

and so it's been dismaying to see it held up in the senate for so long. >> 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 ma very clear that this isn't amo republican or atic issue. this isn't a men's issue or a women's issue. and this isn't a vague or hipothetical issue either; 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 actually gone too far and that now things which are very minor are being considered to be harassment. how do you respond to that? >> so, in terms of cs acting on this legislation i don't have a concern that it's r 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 thiop for to reflect on their own privilege, their own status,n their wer and try and see their interactions through a different lens. and i think all these little things-- we're not talking about them individually. i you know, ensitive comment here, you know whatever there. inthat's not what we're ta 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 what we're talking about. >> reporter: are ycu worried abouent 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 tt that's why it's so important for the senate to act right now, is tt it is unclear what the current environment is for women whod experiensconduct on the hill. and if i were a current staffer

going to come at a r 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 ulturally, we or just need to keep talking about it and having these conversations.>> eporter: 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 toen the g of the american embassy in jerusalem, there's a lot of news today withy potentiar-reaching political fallout. to discuss it all, i'm joined by amwalter of the "cook political report" and susan page of "usa today." "politics monday." welcome to both of you. amy, this festive celebration today jerusalem, the president promised i'm moving that embassy to jerusalem, it's happened, celebrating there, but a few miles away big protests on

the part of the thele inians. more than 50 dead. what about the political calculus for the white hose? >> i think that this was clearly something that the president, ke this things he talked about on the campaign trail, camign omise that he wants to show americans he can keep. this is esptaecially imp for a group of voters that have been the most consistently supportive of t president and 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 votersnd how did they find a way to square the president's behavior with hi presidency, and i think it really is on things like this, where on the policies, thesee somebody that is supporting them and fighting for them in a way they haven't seenin other presidents, even republican presidents who are more

outwardly religious. >> woodruff: how do you see the upsides, downsized politically? >> it's true otherntresi promised to do this or supported e e idea but didn't follow through, but thason they didn't follow through is they saw the costs involved, the costs involved in the deadly protests in gaza and the costs in being a broker in the matdle east, s gone. i think the palestinians will not be able to see the united states as an honest and reasonable broker in theresof the presidency. >> 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 ised wor they're losing jobs and want to renegotiate everything. this is the president tht tal about america first, america first, but here he's worri about chinese jobs. >> whenever we talk about president trump, we try to

talk -- pele like us tal about policy and try to put it in this nice little context of what it's going to mean. i think so many voters see president trump through the personality, not his policies. so for plenty of vote horseor sud the president, they said he's a businessman, a negotiate, he's going to figure out. you give them a little, they give you a little and you come out with a better deal. so they wo't see ths as you're giving away something to the chinese, somethingar 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 said he 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 that he's going to be able to deliver

on his promise. >> let me disagree with you which is that can see a bampaign ad in the making, saving chinese j 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 instead protected chinese jobs, and with a very controversial way, a company linked to the chinese got that has been identified as posing a irbersecurity threat, the products cannot be sold on u.s. basis because of fears for how they can be manipulated. so i think this is ag perplex step by the president, and i would be, i guess, surprised if he ends up fol tlowiough on it. i would not be surprised if they pull back in a majoy from what he's trying to do. >> i noticed today he's tweeting s clarify. >> that's what we'n, the tariffs come out, the tariffs have caveats, the decision ttmes out on , then it gets cleaned up afterwards, i think this has been part o course, but i think it's going

to take something pretty significant, in other words a real bite out of people, whether the tariffs that we heard there's going to ball this uproar in the heartland because farmers are upset about theff ta the people who supported the president, and yet you don't see a real loss of support from the president there. when i talked to some of the lks there, the sense is we trust him to do the right thinga now, if turns out not to be true, then i would agree with t you, butink for now there's still a sense that we hired him to do tis kind of job, for people who support him. if you don't like him, itt doestter what he does, you're never going to give him credit for anything. >> woodruff: speaking for the hetland, susan, the voters are actually starting to speak. they're starting to see primaryt contestshere. last week you had west virginia, indiana, ohio, north carolina, tomorrow, the primary in pennsylvania an and elsewhere. are we seeing patterns here? i know it's early, may, the election in novembet are we

learning anything from this? >> i think we're seeing a lot of democratic energy both in the primaries an the special elections. the special elections, even the ones the democrats didn'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 chae their congressional lines because of a gerrymanderinha case, they'vd republicans retire. they've got, i think, 18 congressional districts and i think maybe five of them according to the "cook political report" might be flippable fors. democr they might pick up five seats just in pennsylvania. they need to pick up 23 to win control of the housepi ing up five seats will get you a long way there. >> adding on to that, theho candidatesay be the nominees here on theemocratic 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 actually having fivea potey in the delegation

and, you know, one of the story lines of this year is the energo among womeers, the candidates. a lot of these women who were st-time here are fir candidates, they've never done anything like this before, they were brought out of the woodwk by the last election. >> woodruff: and a lot of them going up againstncumbents who were historically tough to beatf a lotory lines to be following in the months to come. amy walter, susan pa "politics monday." thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us on-line and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> babbel. a language app that teaches nial-life conversations in a new language, like s, french, german, italian, and more. babbel's 10-15 minute lessons are available as an app, or online. more information on babbel.com. >> consumer cellular.

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