captioning sponsored by newshour oductions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. the newshour tonight: president trump comes face to face with the leaders of g7 nations amid escalating trade tensions, and his suggestion that russia be allowed back into the group. then, the deaths of travel host anthony bourdain and designer kate spade raise again the question of how to pvent suicide. plus, part two of our conversation with former president bill clintonnd author james patterson about their new cyber-security novel. >> we were trying to do something that we don't normally do. can you write a legitimate thriller that's really fun to read, and faithful to the way it would unfold? >> woodrf: and, it's friday. ahead of next week's historic summit between presidentrump and north korea's leader kim

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>> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and friends of the newshour. > this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewersanike you. you. >> woodruff: there's a chill in the air tonight at the group of thven summit in quebec, canada-- but it's not froweather. the industrial democracies have nvened in an atmosphere of argument over president trump's trade demands.e whuse correspondent yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. nt>> reporter: the preside o sign of backing off his tough talk on trade-- even before leaving for the g7.

>> we are not going towith the deals the way they are. european union treats us very unfairly. canada, very unfairly. >> reporter: and, amid strained relations with allies, he argued that russia should return to the g7. moscow was evicted from the meriing after it annexed ca in 2014. >> why are we having a meeting without russia in the meeting? they should et russia come back in, because we should have russia at the negotiating table. >> reporter: from ere, it was on to quebec, and a sudden schedule change that reflected the tensions: a planned morning meeting with french president emanuel macron was canceled. they met briefly on th sidelines, after trading barbs in theun-up to the summit. yesterday, macron tweeted, "the neerican president may not mind being isolated, buher do we mind signing a six-country agreement if need be." mr. trump answered with a claim that: "the e.u. trade surplus with the u.s. is $151 billion."

in fact, the e.u.'s trade surplus is $101 billion, when trade in services is included. day, he fired off a new attack on european union members and canada, vowing to end what he cecalls "unfair trade prac against the u.s." the president has repeatedly threatened to terminate "nafta," the "north american free trade agreement," unless it's revised. canadian prime minter justin trudeau insists the trump hard line will only hurt the u.s. even so, they appeared cordial at their first encounter today. and, they met again late this afternoon. >> obviously trade has been a topic of discussion, and will continue to be. >> justin has agreed to cut all tariffs and all trade barriers between canada and the u.s. ( laughs ) so i'm very happy about that. , but we are working on it. it could be that nafta will be a different form, it could be with canada, with mexico, one on one,

much simpler agrment, much easier to do. >> reporter: the president plane to lhe summit tomorrow, before it officially ends, to head to singapore and his meeting with north korean leader kim jong-un. judy. w >> woodrufheard president trump, yamiche, say earlier today that he would like to see russia come back into the g7. what do the other leaders there t?y about tha >> well derricks spite president trump wanting russia back at the negotiating table, most of the members of the g7 today flatly rjected that idea. they say they do not want to seh russia come bae. canada released a statement through a spokesperson saying that country's position has not changed. several european union members also say ey do not want to see russia back here. but italy's new populist prime minister says he agrees with trump and says russia should b back for everyone's interest. russia state media's spokesperson says russia is not coming back to the g7 and are

focused on other forums.f: >> woodrresident trump is arriving late, leaving early on top of ten rlations. how is that playing out at the summit and do you expect a joint communique? >> president trump is definitely keeping this meeting short. he's leaving saturday morning before a meeting on change. he -- climate change. he's sending an age.s reut reporting a joint communique will be released by all seven embers, the united states will be included in that, to be focused on election meddling. all seven members say they will shnformation about social media and the internet toor prevent ign leaders from meddling into elections like russia has been accused of. >> woodruff: yamiche alcindor. thank you. >> thank you.

>> woodruff: in the day's other news, russia's president vladimir putin and china's leader xi jinpg held their own summit, in the face of strainedn relawith the west. they met in beijing, ahead of a regional summit of asian nations. putin said cooperation with china has reached an "unprecedented level." >> ( translated ): our country sincerely values the gssd- neighborlind friendship with china. we are proud of the overall ehievements in politics, economy, science and culture. i look forward to further deepening russia-china strategic cooperation for the sake of ouro countries'erity and well- being. >> woodruff: the two leaders also criticized esident trump's deciion to pull out of the iran nuclear deal, and they pledged to keep that agreement alive. it has been another deadly day of protests along gaza's border with israel. gazan medics say that israeli troops shot and killed at least four people, with hundreds more wounded. at least 120 protesters have been killed since march. israel says thahas militants are using the protests as a cover for attacks. in somalia, a u.s. special

operations soldier was killed today, and four others wered. woun the u.s. military says they got into a firefight with al-shabaab extremists, linked to al-qaeda.ou the has claimed a series of attacks, leaving 150 people dead in the last two months. in austria, the conservative government launched a new crackdown against what they view radical islam. osficials announced that they will close sevenes and expel dozens of imams. thaw are acting under a 2015 that bans foreign funding of religious groups. back in this country, presidentt trump said todt he was seriously considering pardoning the late muhammad ali. but a short time later, the boxing great's lawyer said that it's unnecessary because the u.s. supreme court unanimous vacated ali's conviction for draft evasion in 1971. mr. trump also said that athletes who protest racial

injustice during the national anthem should instead offerfo namepardons. >> and i'm going to ask them to recommend to me people who were unfairly treated, friends of theirs, or people at they know about. and i'm going to take a look at those applications, and if i find, and my committee finds, that they're unfairly treated, then we will pardon them, or at least let them out. >> woodruff: the president said his team is looking at "thousands of names" for possible pardons. the special counsel in the russia investigation added more charges today against paul manafort, the former trump campaign manager. was already accused of money-laundering and illegally lobbying for ukrainian interests. now, manafort and a russian- n associate face charges involving alleged witness tampering. separately, the former security dictor for the u.s. senate intelligence committee is caught up in a leak investigation.

james wolfe was arrested and charged thursday to lyinto the f.b.i. about his contacts with reporters. it allegedly happened as the committee probed the trump campaign's relations with russia. new details tonight on first lady melania trump, who has been dney procedure a month ago.a her office has given out little information, but the president stys, in fact, it was a "big operation" that nearly four hours. he says doctors do not want her flying yet, so she is not attending the g7 meetings. on wall street, stocks ended the week with modest gains. the dow jones industrial average was up 75 points to close at 25,316. the nasdaq rose ten, and the s&p 500 added eight. and, sad news today from charles krauthammer, the syndicated columnist and fox news contributor.

he has been off the air for nearly a year, and in a public letter today, he announced that he has terminal cancer, with only a few weeks to live. krauthammer is 68. is life th no regrets.""i leave we're sorry to hear that. still to come on the newshour: aianthony bourdain's deaths awareness of suicide and how to prevent it. bill clinton and jamess atterson disce thriller they wrote together. mark shields and ramesh ponnuru take on the week's news. and, much more. >> woodruff: and now, some disturbing findings about suicides in this country, and the rate has continued t climb for more than 15 years. a new report highlights some of the reasons behind these patterns, and as amna nawaz reports, it's issued at a moment when two notable deaths have drawn moreattention to the problem. >> reporter: the deaths of che and tv host anthony bourdain and

fashion designer kate spade this week underscored some grim numbers. suicide is the tenth leading d cause th in the united states. in 2016 alone, nearly 45,000 americans died by suicide. cnn announced today that bourdain, who took viewers to locations around the world on his show, died at the age of 61. spade, whose handbags and accessories made her a business mogul and fashion icon, died tuesday at the age of 55. the centers for disease control and prevention's latest report found suicide rates have increased in nearly every state2 in america sin0. in half of all states, the rate rose more than 25%, and some of the la mountain states and the midwest. that includes rural areas wheree incan be stagnant, poverty can be high, and where financial stress can add to pressures in midd and low income american families. experts in the field say there are almost always multiple causes of suicide. and in fact, the c.d.creported

this week that 54% of people who died by suicide over the last two decades did not have a known mental health condition. some insight now about risks, treatment and the scope of the problem. dr. liza gold s spent her career on trying to prevent suicide with proper treatment and interventions. she is a clinical professor of psychiatry at georgetown university school of medicine. dr. gold, welcome to the "newshour". >> thank you for having me. let me ask you, the numbers are striking, 45,000 suicides last year alone. just from a public health perspective, what do we know about why this ishappening? >> well, i don't think we really have a very good handle on why the numbers are going up, but t it's cleat they are going up and, out of the top ten unitedof death in the etates, leading cause of suicide is number ten, f the three in the top ten that's actually going up instead of down. >> the one in three, as you mention, that continue to rise. it worth pointing out a couple of things we know from the

multi-year study, the age group with the highest vulnerability when it comes to suicide, americans 45 to 64ears old. also the gender gap, that n were more likely to take their lives than women, that seems to be shrinking, too. what do we know about that? >> women have always made more attempts than men at suicide. the ratio has been about 3.-something to one, in terms oe attempts, bu have always been more likely to complete a suicide than women ha been. i think the key factor in that shift has been increasing access to firearms, which is a highly lethal method of suicide. about 50% of all suicides are firearms and women are becoming more comfortable over the past years as accessibility and other programs have made women more likely to alo buy firearms. it used to be only men likely --

not only, butri pri men had firearms. ve one of the other things w learned now is every time there is a high profile or celebrity t suicid conversation shifts to mental health very, very quickly, and we know now from this multi-year study that 54%, more than half to have the people wid died by suin that study did not have a mental health diagnosis at the time of their death. so what are we to understand about that number, about that 54%? >> well, i think that probably many of them probably did btu had not sought assessment or treatment. so i think that number is very low. but another way of thinking about it is that suicide is a behavior, not a diagnosis, and it can be associated with lifeis as well as with mental health problems. so when we think about preventing suicide, we have to think about preventing a behaor, whether it's been associated with mental illness or not, with or wihout mental illness, we have to intervene.

it's not just the mental illness that creat c therisis. >> and some of those studies list there are a nber of contributing factors. it's not just about mental health. there are relationship problems, substance abuse, physical health, financial problems. you mentioned treatment what does that entail? a>> well, it depends on the problem is but the most common diagnoses associated with suicide are substance abuse problems and mood disorderrers. we have treatment for both those problems, particularlyor mood disorders. we do a pretty good job these days between cognitive behavioral therapy andti medi in terms of helping people with mood disorders so that one of the two evidence-based interventions that will reuce rates of suicide -- incidents of suicide are mental health treatmentics and people who survive the other one is leal means restriction taking away the things they use

to kill themselves. putting nets on bridges so they can't jump, moving firearms from someone in crisis, someone who has a stash of pills, holding on to those. so what we know about mental health treatment is that it does work, that it does decrease rates of suicide, and that people who have made a suicide attempt and who have survived it and who get into treatment a actually not likely to die by suicide. so they get better. and it's unfortunate that there's so much stigma attached both to mental health diagnoses and treatment and to suicide, still considered a very shameful thing in many places, ma people don't want to talk about it, don't want to acknowledge a family member who's committed suide, et cetera. so in order to get to treatment, you have to, a, increase the mental health resources upstream as far as possible and, b, you have to destigmatize seekingc treatment and eiving treatment. >> for people who are worried about a loved one or someone

that they may know, what are they looking for? >> looking for changes in behavior, really signs that someone might be in crisis.su so u behaviors, isolating themselves, beming uncommunicative, not going in to work, withdrawinfrom relationships, those are sort of warning signs potentially o depression or substance abuse, someone thinilking aboutling themselves. ou when you see or hear those things, what doo and what do you not do or say? >> reach out. that's the most important thing. and if you're really conceed, be persistent, and use the word "suicide" if you're lly that concerned because that gives people permission to talk about something they might be embarrassed or ashamed to bring emthemselves. >> dr. liza gold, thank you for your time. >> thank you fe. having for anyone out there who needs help or who knows someone

who needs help, available 24-r 7 ree, call the national suicide prevention hot line or text 741741 or visit suicide prevention lifenerg. >> woodruff: and now, more of my interview with former president bill clinton and writer james patterson about their political thriller, "the president is missing." i sat down with them yesterday. president bill clinton, james patterson. >> guilty as charged. (laughter) >> woodruff: the book is the president is missing. a former president of the unid states, a fabulously successful writer, who calls the shots whei you're w together on a book? >> well, i think we know who's better at this. one of the world's great

storytellers. but we both wanted to do it, and our lawyer/agent/friend bob barnett said yes we should do it. he said i have been trying to get you to write a thriller for years and you will never do it, he said why don't you done with james patterson? i said, he'd never do that, never. so bob talked to him and we just started. i told him he was ing to have to do a little hand holding in the beginning because i have read thousands of thrillers, igu s by now, but i didn't know how to do it. but we started with an outline, and he said, okay, here's 20 questions you've got to answer of how to make this authe iic. idn't tell him it would be another 20 after that. >> and, so, we started working. then every draft we traded back and forth, sometimes several times. >> when bob came to me, we both grew up in small towns, but my small town nobody came.

but when i was eight or nine years olddepre eisenhower came to town, and i never forgot that. i also tried to never forget where i came from. i never get a big head because ohatever. i don't think anybody should get big heads about anything, but ie really tnot to do that. so when i got the opportunity to write a book with president clinton i jumped at it and to spend a year with him which i fabulous. >> woodruff: this is a book about a president facing empeople. aring, something you know about president clinton. he's also confronting an international terrorist threat that implausibly he decides to deal with himself. he has -- >> not implausible in terms of the book, though, in terms of the story, in terms of why he decides to do that, but, yesau, imble in terms of, like -- i mean, even when we talked about it, the president said,th would be irresponsible, expt under this kind of circumstance. >> woodruff: well, that's what i want to ask you about, because

he has to ditch the secret service, president clinton, in order to go and dos thing on his own. that would never happen, wouldit >> well, it never has happened. in the book, we explained what the law appears to be, which is that anybody except the y thedent who is covered secret service, including members of the president'sfa ly, can sign off the coverage and assume the ris normally, for a very specific purpose and limited time. if you read this book, you will see there's a very specific reason he inks he has to do it, and he acknowledges that it won't be very long, but that is is a cybersecurity novel, so that thinghappen fast, clock is ticking. he has to make a decision, and he thinks 's doing the ht thing. but, in gener, you wouldn't do it. and you see why shouldn't do it

with the consequences that flowe >> ts an incredibly devastating attack launched toward the united states. if something like that happeneis s how it would happen. there's an attack oan presidential motorcade, if it happened, would happen like this, the president goes missing. as inconceivable as that ght normally be, if it happened, this is how it >> woodruff: the theme is around a cyber threat. is it fair to say, president clinton, that you tt ink t now the most serious potential threat this couny aces? >> of course, a nuclear, chemical or biological attack could kill more people more quickly, but i likely that a serious cyberattack could do aassive amount of damage and be sureessful. >> cly, you know, we have a very large defense budget, which is getting larger, but only a very small part of it is designated towardsrcybe defense, and i think we both think that we need to reexamine

that in terms of how big tha piece should be. >> woodruff: and this is one way of educating the public. we're trying to do soething you don't normally do, to write a legitimate thriller that's really fun toread and faithful to the way it would unfold and also mke the point that makes people more interested in the cybeecurity thi because anything electronic can be hacked, and that's the point'r trying to make here. >> it's not just that it goes off temporarily, it can be erased, or your bank records, wall street, all of it, it could be erased. that's what makes it sca. we ty to create a president to remind pestle horessful this job is so when people go out to vote, they would really think abouthis allot, even in med term elections, when they go out, they elect people to congress, governorships, this is likely important stuff.

these people are not silly, they're not villains, they want tojoo an importan and let's be real careful about who we elect. >> woodruff: one of the other points, i guess you could say moments of education comes through in the dysfunction of washington, one of the thin surrounding this fictional president duncan. at the end of the book, he laments, i'm quoting, the downward drift iinto trbalism, extremism and seething resentment, us versus them, a blood sport, the wel of trust runs completely dry. i gue y my question toou, though, with president trump's success, isn't that here to stay for the foreseeable future? >> well, for a while it is, but i think -- you know, i think, in the campaign, for example, i believe that i attacked him less personally than anybody else. i always said, look, this election is about you, here's why you should be for hillary, one, two, three. i think everybodyhould be

trying to recapture that. for example, i think we should be rooting for him succeed negotiations.a i don't like having to brag on the dictatorial proclivities of the north korean leader, but i think the south korean president has been a genius the way he'f kind gotten them together, and i think anything we can do eato reduce that thris a positive thing. >> woodruff: we're watching this summit that looks lke it's going to take place between president trump and the north korean leader. doou believe the north koreans, you've dealt with them, are prepared to complety dismantle their nuclear weapons program? >> maybe, maybe not. but even if thy're not, if they are prepared to have an inspection regime which would give usat gre confidence that the nuclear materia the fissile material and anyte nology would be identified,

monitored and couldn't begiven or sold to anyone else, that wod be worth doing. >> woodruff: you have said -- you've continued to say you believe nafta s theright thing to do, that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. however, your party just has steadily moved inthe dirction of protectionism. so my question is that's thel politiality, isn't it, on trade? >> yeah. people will te to reent any force that is not helping them. so who cares if trade is helping somebody else who cares if technology is helping somebody else, i get that. do i think nafta needs to be upgraded. there is 25 years, all the other technological and other changes, there is plenty of room for both sides to sayve thegotten something done, we need to redo this. we know who will be helped and hurd in the trade agreement. we should get our money on the elont end from now on.

otherwise, i stillieve in trade. >> woodruff: you're going to do another collaboration after this one?ng you're go write a second book? >> we've had a lot of fun doing it. it's been a tremendous experience for both of us. it's been fun doing rvintews and big crowds and very positive crowds. >> i was thrilled, at my age, to start something new. >> he's probably got a tective series started, already. >> spending all these years res,ading thrillit's good to get to write one. >> woodruff: the book, "thesi missing predent," thank you very mh for talking james patterson and president clinton. >> thank you. >> woodru: thank you both. >> woodruff: and you can watch the first part of my interview, including president clinton's comments about monica lewinsky, on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour. now, from the words of a former president, to the newse current president abroad. we get the analysis of shields and ponnuru. that's syndicated columnist mark shields, and ramesh ponnuru of the "national review."

david brooks is away. it's great to see both of you. thank you for being here. i want to ask you about something we just heard from james patterson, the writer, and that is, mark, he was talking about we need to take the people welect to office seriously. there is so much criticism of them, they have been run down by all of the flood of criticism that they gethe. said, when you go to the polls to vote, remember they're not silly, thy're not villains. what do you make of that? >> well, they have been run down in large part y people who have replaced them. that's been a recurring theme. particularly, among conservative insurgents but notsi excly, running against washington, ians.ng against polit i think mr. patterson's exposure to president clinton is probably, in part -- i mean, bill clinton, let it be noted, came to office at the time of the stee dst budgeteficits in the history of the country and courageously raised taxes on the richt 1.4% of americans and

produced an economy that produced 22 million new jobs, after we had the lowest economic growth in 50 years when he came in, then heft at 65% approval, and today he's way below that. so there's a certain lack of appreciation, you should say. >> woodruff: for bill clinton. for bill clinton, and i feel that may be reflected in mr. patterson's exposer to him and certainly expressed in the president's own behavior and speeches. >> woodruff: is it possible to get people to think diferentl about politicians, ramesh? >> i think it will beck tr i think james patterson was getting at the institution of the job or the instuon of the presidency and our fixation on the personality and pageantri of the pncy. the presidency has gotten more and more powerful in american government and we depend much more than we used to on the professionalism and competence of the president fulfilling the job, but, at the same time, the

cultural footprint's gotten biggish, too, and made us moreed interen all to have the drama of presidency. that's what presidents are rewarded these days for playing to. >> woodruff: speaking of presidents and drama and ramesh's point, president trump has kicked up a lot dust going into this g7 summit talking about trade as he was leaving the white house this morning, he said th.s. is essentially being taken to the cleaners by it's allies, by other members of the g7, and cited character andverse on how these other countries are imposing tariffs on the u.s. that are unfair. does he have a point? >> i think h he has a point, judy. men, there's no question tat both -- all countries in trade seek competitive advntage. the united states is not lily pure on this at all, the sugar act, to begin, with for example. eut i think the president, quit frankly, what amazed me today

was the announcement he wanted to invite russia back in to the g7, make g8, that russia has e beenvicted overwhelmingly by the group for its invasion of raine and its annexation of crimea, neither of witch i's apologized for or changed in the ast, and, you know, the deafening silence by republicans with the conspicuous exception of john mccain, rob portman, senator fr ohio, ben sasse from nebraska, i can't imagine if a democratic president suggested rewarding putin and dismembering or disabling nate o's uny by such an act would be unthinkable. >> woodruff: ramesh, how serious do you think this may be a rift over trade and russia is? >> i think we have a number of fronts we've opened up which are tending to isolate the united states around the world. trade is a big part of that, and

sometimes it wor even at odd with our own trade strategies. so, f example, might have been more successful in getting other countries to work with us the problems crted by chinese mercantilism if w weren't simultaneously starting a trade war with allies sharing our interests s-a-vis ch. i think that's something a lot of countries are looking at. it's not just the hostility or the unilateralism from the united states, but the unpredicprbility. ictability can be advantage but also make people think you're not reliable. > woodruff: and the president, mar's leaving this summit early, we understand, to get to sinepore toready for the summit with north korea. >> the books, judy. >> woodruff: we're switching quickly from one part of the world to anther. there's a lot riding on that meeting,e don't know what's going to come out of it. we understand there's dissension inside the admnistration,

inside the white house over what ought to come out of it. are there expectations atthis point? >> i'm sure -- there are expectations, judy.xa i'm not sure tly what they are. i mean, i think, going in, you can say that kim jong unr aldy has a couple of feathers in his own cap, he's got thsummit. we've cut back on our military exercises jointly with south korea, he's recognized as a major national and international global figure, they've talked about invitations to mar-a-lago for hi. so i don't know -- he's keeping his weapons and, after the iranian example -- >> woodruff: keeping his weapons? >> his nuclear weapons. i don't see anybody who this he's going to surrender them. if that's a breakthrough, thenn that would be accomplishment of great zig and would accrue not only to therld's benefit but donald trump's political

benefit.on >> i think anyone would begrudge him that under those t rcumstances. e realistic view of this i think is the pesmistic one. we want north korea to give up a nuclear progaram tht's its lifeblood. its identity is tied up in this nuclear program. when you add to the fact this administration doesn't seem to have negotiated internally what his position is on allf o these issues, it makes it harder for you to get to postive outcome in these talks. >> woodruff: what do we watch m fok? clearly, to see if they reach any kind of agreement and keept talking, what are we looking for? >> i don'tnow anybody who's expecting a major agreement or breakthrough. probably another meeting. you know, we've seen,r aleady, this week, judy, with the chinese on the zte. there was a story, the chinese,

the identification badges they wear there and room keys they're giving. there are crophones which enable them to listen in to establish whereio are you.no so i don'twhat we're going to achieve with the north koreans. 90% of north korean trade is with the chinese. so ifth anybodyinks we're dealing with an independent actor, i think we're delusional. >> that'sright, these are intertwined issues, but all of the struggles we've had with north korea and with china, we still don't have unied positions in this administration. aboutconstantly readi sparring between different members of this administration. it all seems to be an ad hoc process. >> woodruff: national security john bolton is said to be completely against these talks in the first place. all rit ht, bringingck home, a number of primaries this week, mark, in half a dozen or so states.

did each party do what it needed to do? and what are are these results in california, iowa, new jersey, other places, tell us, if ything, about the fall, the midterms? >> well, the republicans had a major achievement. they will havebla repuan candidate for governor of california on the ballot in november. that was in doubt until tuesday night, whether it would be two democrats. so they're hoping that will serve as a get-out-the-vote effort and energize further the republicanis this electiourning out to be just like this administration itself, this presidency, it's all about donald trump, and while voters give him credit for the improving economy and recognize hat, the reality is he drives -- he's driving turnout and he drs irnout on s,th sides, but sadly for the republice's energized more democrats than he has republicans heading fall of 2018.

i would say republicans in new jersey are so fare defensive, having voted for that tax bill,he president's, which increases local and state taxes for every person of any middle or upper income, same thing california. so republicans are very much onn the -- i t on the advantage with the intensity and enthusiasm being on the democratic sid >> woodruff: how do you see it? >> for a few months, now, the polling has been improving po the republicans. president trump's approval rating has been going up. hthe poll question aboutther people prefer a democratic or republican congress has been tightenil . there's st democratic advantage on average in those things. i think the results we saw in primies suggests the polli is picking up something real, that this has become tight race. in a lot of the california districts, republicans who had reasonably good vote tals. of course, they're republican district but there was thought

the would be a democratic wave to sweep away the incumbents. the republican-held seats now looks like the republicans arein hotheir own. plenty of timthe fort to change. >> i couldn't disagree more. a great measurement that "wall street journal" nbc poll used in 2010 and evdterm and that is are you following the election with great intensity and great interest, and with people who do so, nine or ten on the scale, 63% of republicans in 20 so and 47% of democrats, and republicans picked up 63 house seats. right now, it's 63% of democrats bringing passion anintensit and 47% of republicans, a total reversal that, quite frankly, there are more people who want to vote for somebody to check president trump than to support president aump, and it's referendum on him. right now, it's going to be bad for the republicans. >> woodruff: quickly, ramesh,ag do youee this is going to

end up being about donald trump in november? >> i think that trump has managed to make himself the center of every conversation in america, practically speaking, so probably the eleion will be greferendum on him. midterms usual badly for the party in the white house. the question is will they go iadly enough to lose the house and right nohink that is very much in question. >> we have a little bet.dr >> wf: what did you say? e have a wager. >> woodruff: we'll remember that. >> it's not legain new jerse that's right. (laughter) >> woodruff: mark shields, ramesh ponnuru, thank you both. and we will be back shortly. but first, take a mom yt to hear frr local pbs station. it's a chance to offer your suort, which helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> woodruff: for those stations y,aying with us, the tony awards are this sunnd a small

musical is hoping to bring home some big wins. d's visit" is nominated for 11 tony awards, including best musical. and, as jeffreyco brown dred during his visit to broadway y lar, it is based on some unusual source material. ♪ let me tell you a bet hatikva ♪ ♪ such a city everybody loves it >> brown: when the members of the alexandria, egypt ceremonial band arrive in israel for a performance, it's immediatel clear something is wrong. they were expected in the city of petah tikva, wihi a "p." ♪ is bet hatikva with a "b" ♪ >> brown: but through a mistranslation, have come to the sleepy desert town of bet hatikva, with a "b," where dina, owner of the one tiny cafe, lets them know there's not a lot going on. ♪ welcome to nowhere >> brown: the new musical "the band visit," set in 1996, is

about missed opportunities, crossed signals, little and big things, like love, that do and, more often, don't happen. and it's connecting with audiences and critics alike. the "new york times" called it a "musical for grownups." ♪ what is he thinking? what does he wish for? ♪ >> brown: at sardi's restaurant in times square, we talked with meamers of the production including actress katrina lenk, who stars as dina. >> i think it's about loneliness, and our choice to remain lonely, or to not be lonely w opportunity comes around. t 's about taking liisks ond it's also abw music and art are biggerctors than just language aloe . >> brown: ory unfolds in one night, as the hapless band-- lookg, as one character says like sergeant pepper's lonely

heart's club band-- gets stuck in town, and the equally hapless locals take them into their homes and lives. >> my wife has birthday today! >> brown: without a shared language, communication is in e broklish... >> many happy years. >> thank you. >> brown: and beautiful music. ♪ ♪ it's based on a 2007 film, without music, of the same nam that writer itamar moses adapted to the stage. >> absolutely everythit happens is just a very, very gentle, natural outcropping of that very basic situation. and yet, by the end of the movie you feel like something reay portant, and sort of life- changing has happened for these people. so i thought that was reallyrt f profound and interesting, and i thought it would be cool to try to see if you could preserve at in a diffrent form. ♪ i don't know with the girls i don't know... ♪ >> brown: turning the story into a musical-- and deciding when a song is best for cap a

moment-- fell to composer david yazbek. >> you know, a song in a musical can serve a lot of differentif purposes, anou're adapting from a movie, sometimes the song viis like a close-up in a you might close up on someone's face and the picturepeaks a thousand words. muc does the same thing. ♪ friday evening omar shaf ♪ >> a song can also just be a way of going much deeper into a character, or a relationship, you know, and that's the other thing that we were exploring in this. >> brown: the relationship that "could happen" is between dina stand tewfik, thight-laced but deeply humane leader of the egyptian band, played by tony shalhoub. ♪ sunday morning umm kulthum ♪ou ♪ her voice fill our living room ♪ >> brown: in the show's signature ballad, titled

"omar sharif," katrina lenk as dina sings of how much she loved egyptian movies and music as a young israeli girl. >> i'm just overjoyed that i get to sing such a beautiful songth and at people do seem to be responding to it in a way that they love it, maybe, as much as i do. ♪ and the living room becomes a garden ♪ ♪ and the tv set becomes ♪ and the music flows in t garden ♪ ♪ and everything grows ly >> that's a rexciting, special experience to have. >> brown: several cast members and writers visited israel before the production, to see the real town on which the story is based. thnd knew a tale of israelis egyptians comes with plenty of historical and political freight, and decided, as in the film, to focus on e smaller, human scale within the larger

drama. >> i wouldn't say that it's accurate to say that the show is not political. i think it's enormously political. but the argument it's making is about the sort of man-made arbitrariness of politics. and that, in the absence of those imaginary structures, people connect over all kinds of things. >> brown: one of the charms of the production, directed by david cromer, several members of the alexandria ceremonial band are actually in the theatrical band-- they're musicians as well as actors. ♪ ♪ including violinist george abud, who brings something else to the perforabnce. as an armerican from detroit, he hopes the music, t play and his presence in it >>kes a larger statement. rowing up, you don't have much to go with as a young warabic kid, and much to h in seeing yourself represented in the performing arts. that's why a lot of arabic kids

don' they don't think it's something for them, and also their families don't think of it as something for them. so i think if ere were more stories being told, and they were being welcomed more into the theater by their stoes being regularized, or their actors getting to be part of wthese shows, that the kild be like, "oh, that's another option for me." it's just a way to open up the world a little bit. ♪ spelling out the rhythm of love ♪ >> brown: and just another way that makes "the band visit" an unusual and welcome addition to broadway this season. for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrebrown in new york. ♪ ♪ >> woodruff: the washingtonca tals finally won hockey's stanley cup. and as neho senior foreign affairs producer-- and hockey fanatic-- morgan till reports, it was a long time coming.>> reporter: more than 40 years

of hockey futility evaporated i the nevada deslast night. >> and the capitals have won it! the capital of the nation is the capital of the hockey world! >> reporter: at the nal horn, the washington capitals grabbed their first stanley cup title since the franchise be19n playing, i. they beat the las vegas golden knigs four games to one in t best-of-seven series, endion that expansi team's surprising inaugural season. for pitals' captain alex ovechkin, hoisting the storied cup puts the clistone on a da career. he was nearly overcome with emotn: >> this is right now going home to our families, our fans and you know it's just something special. >> reporter: post-game, what happened in gas played all over social media, as ovec and team marched into a sin city club early this morning, the

well-traveled cup held high. back in washington, fans packed the home arena. ( cheers and applause ) outside, pandemonium. >> we waited so long! so many seasons. >> reporter: thousands flooded downtown streets... >> c-a-p-s, caps, caps, caps! >> reporter: spirits were high. >> wooooo!>> reporter: the team's radio spokecer, john walton, for a club and a fan-base that's endured decades of playoff heartbreak. >> it's not a dream! it's not a desert mirage! it's lord stanley, and he is coming to washington! >> reporter: next up: a victory parade, for a city that had not won a major pro sports championship since 1992.ht that dronow, is over. for the pbs newshour, i'm morgan till. >> woodruff: this yelass of 2018 got its fair share of

orvice from politicians, a and industry leaders. they offered wisdom, and some humor, to college graduates around the country. >> congratulations to the class of 2018. i am thrilled for all of you, even the three of you who livedi in michigan an't request your absentee ballots in time. >> i hold you in the light, and wish you curiosity and confidence. and i wish you ethics and enlightenment. i wish you guts. every great decision i've ever made, i trusted my gut. and goodness. i wish you purpose and the passion that goes along with that purpose.ki >> b. be generous. be inclusive. and, use your voices. as virgil said about 2,000 years ago, "let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious." f >> the highem of respect

that we can pay to the people who came before us, the people bo sacrificed for us and gave us everything, is better than them. living up to your heroes is b amazin it's not good enough. the difference between goodnessn and grs is going beyond. you have to push forward and surpass their greatness in order to pay homage to theistruggle. >> always think of the other guy, as my mom used to say. be thoughtful. honor decency. and fellas, be a gentleman. be generous. be fair. be courageous. be yourself. >> failure is not something to be ashamed of, it's something to be powered by. failure is the highest octane ouel your life can run on. you got to learn make failure your fuel. >> there is a price to pay for standing up. but when you do stanup, you go

down in the memory, in the minds of people around you as a hero, as an inspiration. >> if you step up without fear of failure, if you talk and listen to each other without fear of rejection, if you act ewith decency and kindnesn when no one is looking, even if it seems small or o consequential, trust me, the rest will fall iace. w decide whether we tell the truth or benefit from telling lies. we're the es to decide: do i hate or am i filled with love? we're the ones tdecide: do i think only about myself or do i care for others? >> to the class of 2018, i do say strive for excellence, live

for adventure, think big, dream bigger, push further, sail faster, fly higher and ner, ever stop reaching for greatness, never stop reaching for the stars. >> i don't know what your future is, but if you are willing to take the harder waythe more complicated one, the one with more failures at first than successes, the one that's ultimately proven to have more meaning, more victory, more glory, then you will not regret it. >> and if i leave yo anything, i'm going to leave you with these two words. and those two words are: i'm batman. woodruff: lots of good advice.

>> the move follows allegations that surface last year that john lassiter engaged in inappropriate work behavior with female employees. xt week on the "newshour", we're launching our second series from william brangham examining the global fight to end aids. >> the "newshour" travels to russia, a nation with a surgingo h.i.v. pem, driven by drug addiction and a chaotic response. s >> i would, in short, they did it all wrong. >> then we traveled to nigeria where children with still getting the virus from their mothers and dying of aids at an alarming rate. >> i was crying. two weeks i did cry. >> and we traveled toflorida where the tourist meek cay of miami is a hot bed o h.i.v. infection. >> miami is the epicenter of the

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ga ♪ tonight on kqed newsroom, p with tmary election over, a busy summer of campaigning lies ahead as candidates for governor, and others battle it out. key takeaways plus analysis from california politics and government teams. also the "wall street journal" investigative reporter talks about his new boo "bad blood" detailing how the $9 billion company deceived silicon valley and the rest of the country. hello and welcome to kqed newsroom. i'm thuy vu. we begins with politics. tuesday's primary results set the stage for some big races in november. wealthy gop businessman john cox finished second behind gavin newsom in thevernor's race. democrats are sharpening