captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. ghm judy woodruff. on the newshour to the justice department's watchdog finds former "insubordinate," but says there is no evidence of political biat f.b.i.'s investigation into hillary clinton in 2016. then, we continue our series, "the end of aids," in the city with the highest rate of new h.i.v. cases in the u.s.: miami, florida. >> in the absence of ndle exchange, in the absence of comprehensive sexual education, this is what happens! you have a city that has no control over the current h.i.v. epidemic. >> woodruff: and, airing the dirty laundry of one global market. how new tariffs are aimed at reviving the united states'

shrinking washing machin industry. >> i don't think that peop w uld mind paying a little bit more if they knethat american jobs are being created, and hopefully, it was paying somebody's salary. >> woodruff: all that and more, on tonight's pbsewshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> consumer cellular. >> financial services firm raymond james. >> leidos. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> carnegie corporation of new york.

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>> reporter: the clint email investigation-- that some believe influenced a presidential election-- today, officially, became a dark mark over the agency that led it. in a detailed 500-page report, the department of justice inspector general reached mixed conclusions. first: that no political bias affected any of the clinton investigation decisions that the i.g. reviewed. sso in the report, it ref five current or former d.o.j. staffers for potential disciplinary action related to anti-trump bias they declared, rgely in private text messages, during the investigation. and it finds that while then- f.b.i. director james comey did t out of bias, he was "insubordinate" when he did not nttify his bosses before announcing the c findings and then the reopening of the clinton investigation in irtober. in july 2016, thentor

james comey gave a rare public statement on the c iclusions of testigation. >> although we did not find clear eviden that secretary inton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing e handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in thei handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. >> reporter: then, in te october of 2016, a bombshell letter from comey to congres the f.b.i. was reopening the probe after it discovered new emails that "appeared to be pertinent to the investigation." on november 6, comey wrote again to congress saying the f.b.i. "had not changed o conclusions" after examining the emails. donald trump was elected president two days later. he fired james comey in may 2017. today, comey defended his decisions in a "new york times" sp-ed, writing, "i do not agree with all of the tor general's conclusions, but i respect the work of his office." the white house said the report

bears out what president trump a has sa along-- that the f.b.i. conspired against him.re >> tre a lot of things in this report that not only worry those of us in the administration, but should worry a lot of americans, that people played ts political bias. >> reporter: but democrats pushed back, saying the t has wrongly said that the f.b.i. is influencing the current mueller investation into h campaign. >> we know that in days ahead, the president and his allies wi try to twist themselves into pretzels, and try to use this report to undermine sd cial counsel e russia probe. unfortunately for them, nothing in this repo lays a glove on special counsel mueller or the ongoing russia probe. >> woodruff: and late today f.b.i. director christopher wray weighed in at a press conference. asked to s up his feelings on today's report in one word, he said, "disappointed." lisa desjardins is here now help

us fill in the details of the report. so, as you say in the report, n evidence tund of bias in the overall investigation, but there is still mistakes made? >> that's right. let's start at the top with james comey. this report findthat james comey did not operate out of bias. here i'm reading from page 497, they believe his decisions wer based on what he believed were in the f.b.i.'s inte however, they found he was insubordinate because he went ouide of normal procedure, but rt is something that still leaves a cloud o f.b.i. today. they used those words, "a cloud over the f.b.i." >> woodruff: so no evidence of bias in affeing the final investigation conclusion, but some sense of bias orenvid of bias on the part of thinking of individuals involved in that investigation. >> that's correct. there were five people involved in this investigation that they found evidence had an anti-trump

bice. today we saw new texts fro two of the most prominent of those, that is lisa page and author peter strug. peter strug was one of the top officials in this investigation. lisaage wrote to him in august of 2016, "trump's not ever goinm to bpresident, right? right?" and strzok responded to her, "no, no he's not. we'll stop it." those are glaring,ye-popping words for someone running an investigation. strzok says he was talking about something more general, but while he clearly had an anti-trump bias, they look through all of this, and theyd cot find evidence that that bias had an effect on the investigation itself. >> woodruff: theis different question about bias in how they handled the laptop of anthony weiner, who, ocourse, was married to hillary clinton's

former aide. >> this is a real sore point for clint su iporters, when f.b. september 2016 found anthony weiner's laptop with 100,000 e-mails on it. hee question is why did t f.b.i. take one month before actually looking at those e-mails to see if they were pertinent or not? also they concluded they weren't pertinent, there was g, there but it waited until a month after opening that laptop. this report says all of the reasons given for that delay are not plausible. >> woodruff: just quickly, we should note that hillary clinton has retweeted a tweet today about the fact that james comey was using his own peronal e-mail and system of e-mail and she says, "what about my e-mails?" finally, lisa, president trump has repeatedly pointeto the clinton investigation, comey's

handling of this whole thing, saying this is evidence e at ths bias against him. where does the report come down on that?re >> thert is very clear that james comey did not have a bias of any sort a that this was separate from the mueller investigation. really the president is trying to influence the mueller investigation here. as far as this report goes, they are two separate things, and this report could not find conclusive evidence thwa there a bias affecting the clinton revestigation. here biased people, yes, and i'm sure that's something the president will bring up again. >> woodruff: lisa desjardins, thank you very much. and we will get the views of two former justice department officials, after t news summar in the day's other news, the trump administration faced more fallout from the psident's -ungapore summit with north korea's kim jongn. secretary of state mike pompeo sought to disp doubts and answer questions in south korea and china. with smiles and a handake,

secretary pompeo greeted south korea's president moon jae-in. part of the mission: to reassure moon after president trump announced in singapore that he will end u.s.-south korean military exercises. today, south korea's foreign minister insisted seoul will have a say about that. >> ( translated ): the jointut korea-u.s. military exercise is a matter for the south korea-united states alliance. >> woodruff: but in an interview st night, mr. trump said again he means to end the joint exercises. at the same time, he said reducing u.s. troop levels in south korea is not up for negotiation-- yet. >> i'd like to get them home. i would like to.t is not on the table right now. at the appropriate time, it will be. >> woodruff: in washington today, at his confirmationg hear be ambassador to south korea, retired navy admiral harry harris agreed with the president that militarysh exerciseld be delayed.

>> we should give exercises, major exercises, a pto see if kim jong-un, in fact, is serious negotiations.of the >> woodruff: meanwhile, secrety pompeo moved on to beijing, and meetings with president xi jping and china's foreign minister.e pompeo said it's too early to know for sure if north korea is no longer a nuclear threat, despite president trump's declaration yesterday. the secretary urged that china and others keep up sanctions pressure on pyongyang. pompeo also said president trump is approaching north korea with "eyes wide open." mr. trump has raised eyebrows in washington with his fulsome praise of kim, a dictator accused grave human rights abuses. >> he's a very smart guy. he's a great negotiator.k but i th understand each other. >> but he's still done somes. really bad thi >> yeah, but so have a lot of

other people done some really bad things. >> woodruff: all of this, asta north korean tv today released video of the president saluting a north korean general at the summit, with kim looking on.e ite house played down the president's salute, and called attorney general jeff sessions today defended separatingnd childrenarents who enter the u.s. illegally. the policy icrunder growing icism. use speaker paul ryan sa today that he can't support it, and religious groups have also iticized it. but in fort wayne, indiana, sessions pointed to the bible in saying the criticism is unfair. >> persons who violate the law of our nation are subject to prosecution. if youiolate the law, you thbject yourself to prosecution. i would cite you tapostle paul and his clear and wise commanin romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because god has ordained the government for his purposes.

>> woodruff: at a contentious white house briefing, press secretary sarah sanders echoed sessions, saying "it is very biblical to enforce the law." also today, house republican leaders circulated a nearly 300-page immigration bill to members. a copy obtained by the newshour says migrant children must not be separated from parents or guardians. it also grants renewable, legal status to those who are brought here illegally, as children. in yemen, troops loyal to the exiled government battled for a second day to retake the red sea port of hodeida. the government fighters, backedu by arabia, captured a key frwn to the south. vide an arab news channel showed the troops firing on rebels, backed by iran, near hodeida's airport. the port is yemen's main efory ysint for od and aid. turkey's military t has a dedeal now with the u.s. tse

tensions in northern syria. it involves e town of manbij, near the turkish border, where a kurdish-led militia backed by the u.s. iin control. the turks say that the kurds are linked to rebels inside turkey, and demands that they move. under the deal, they are expected to withdraw to the east. china warned again today that it will scrap promises to buy more u.s. soybeans and other exports, if the u.s. slaps 25% tariffs on chinese goods. the trump administration is due to issue a list of the targeted goods tomorrow. in beijing, the ministry of reign affairs counseled caution. >> ( translated ): china-u.s. trade and economic relations is a win-win. china always insists that both sides should resolve relevant issues through dialogue. if the united states takes any trade sanction measures, all the economic and trade achievements that have been made in the consultations will not come intf ct. >> woodruff: in washington, president trump met with his

economic advisers today, ahead of tomorrow's tariffno cement. the u.s. supreme court hasst ck down a minnesota law that bars political hats, t-shirtsns and t the polls. the decision today was seven to aitwo. justicesthe law was too broad, and violates the fiprt amendment'ection of free speech. about ten states have similar laws, but minnesota's broadest. and, on wall street, the dow jones industrial average lost nearly 26 points to close at 25,175. the nasdaq ros65 points, and the s&p 500 added six. still to come on the newshou a deeper look at the f.b.i. inspector general report. "the end of aids:" the state that is home to one of every ten h.i.v. cases in the u.s. new york sues to shut down the trumfoundation. and, much more.

>> woodruff: as we've reported, the report from the justice department's internal watchdog runs all of 500 pages, and goes into detail about how the department and the f.b.i. handled the hillary clinto email investigation. here to dissect its conclusionso ar carlin. he was the chief of staff underm f.b.i. director robert mueller, and the justice partment's top national security official under former attorney general loretta lthch. anas dupree. he served as a justice department official as well, under former attorneneral michael mukasey. gentleman, we welcome you to the program. we've been waiting for this john carlin, to you first. so on the one hand the report says that james comey was insubordinate, he exercised serious error in judgment, but then it goes on to say there was no evidence of bias in what he

did. what are weo make of this in >> i think report is quite clear that after over a yearlong investigation, 500 pages, what the inspector general found was that the justice department, f.b.i., and career prosecutors madeheir decisions for the right reasons. it said quite clearly n evidence that the prosecutors were affected by any bias or anp other impr consideration. that's the most important takenaway when it comes to vital institutions like the justice department. >> woodruff: is that how you see it, thomas dupre that that's the most important thing, even tugh there's a fining of insubordination? >> it's a sad day for f.b. in the sense that a former senior official has been found to have engaged in misconduct. there is also evidence of bias in the lower ranks.bu the inspector general was careful and cautious in saying he found no evidence of that as seeping in to influence investigatory decisions. so at the end of the day, from my perspective, this is a repo

that has a little of something for everyone in it. >> woodruff: let's come back to tt, though. when the report says no evidence that bias influehe final outcome of the investigation, that bias may havexisted, may well have existed in the minds of some of the people involved in the work, how do we square that circle? >> it's a very tough circle to square. and i think what's going on here is that there clearly was evidence that people were involved in this investigation who had very strong political beliefs, that they were not ablm to separate frheir work. what the inspector general seems to have found is that there were other non-biased fireworks who were involved in these decisions, a so in effect they purged the taint that would have emerged from these people's decisions.>> oodruff: on the one hand all this was going on, butte ulti the people doing the work based their final assessment on the facts, the law, and so forth. so it's asking us to believe the

best rather than the worst, isn't it? >> well, i don't think it's asking us. it's showing tt after a thorough investigation that that's what the inspector general found happ ied. s the final conclusion that we're going to have on what happened in this case. and it sits with the people i got to know over the years,in uding working with tom in the prior administration of president bush, which is thent departf justice, f.b.i. agents and career prosecutors are chalk full of people that may think abo politics a little bit on the side, but that's not what gets them up in the morning. whatets them up in the moing is protecting our country against a variety of threats from terrorist, to nation states to crooks. and when push comes to shov they put away those other considerations and they do their job, and that's what the inspector general found among all the career folks making ade sion in this case. >> woodruff: but you still have, omas dupree, hillary clinton, people around her saying, wait a minute, what

happened with that july ns conference in 2016, and then the october announcement by james comey that there is evidence that vweers minde changed. we don't know if it ultimately changed the outcome. they believe it did. >> that's right. i think inspector general's report to some extent vindicates their criticism that this was a deviation from the norm. at's the drum that the clinton supporters have been beaing all this time. clearly comey made a decision to go outside the ordinary chain of command and act as a one-man band as making these announments and deviating from iceical department of ju procedur so i think there is something in the inspector general's report that does vindicate those concerns. i'm not certain the inspector general would say, therefore the election results would have been different, but itainly underscores that comey was really going outside ordinary d.o.j. practice in doing what he did. >> woodruff: john carlin, if a set of circumstances were to

present themselves to the f.b.i. again, what would be done qufferently? >> that's a greastion. it's good the hear the current director address it today, which istom's point, you shouldn't go outside what had been long standing normsen one thing theyk suggest isg those norms rules some number one, as everyone has wat"lhew and order" knows, it's the investigators who investigate the case, and the prosecutors who try them in court. you should not have the investigative agency announcing the results as to whether or not there should be a prosecution. you shouldn't mention a specific recommendation about this. be very careful about mentioning any uncharged conduct. because basically the rule is, if you can't charge them as a prosecutor, your job is done, and at that point you keep your mouth shut, because its not o job to issue opinions about what we think abot behavior, either we can move it in a court of law or we can't. >> woodruff: i heard a part of christopher wray's news conference, ich happened less than an hour ago.

he talked about holding people accountable in the department, ed he said systems will change, something to thaect. should more people be held accountable here in. >> i think theore areple who should be held accountable who have not yet been held mycountable. iiew, the real problem here is that you had at leastme .b.i. officials who clearly were not able to separate their personalca polibeliefs from their job. you can't have that. i think one of the real tragedies of this whole situation is i think it has undercut amerins' faith in the impartiality of law enforcement. in my view, that's a tragedy. john and i botherved in the department of justice, andy certain my behalf, and i suspect john feels the same way, these are host patriots, but i worry many americans in the country are starting to doubt tim partiality of our law enforcement agencies. >> woodruff: how mucowdamage ishe done to the f.b.i., tohe department of justice in reality and in perception?

>> i hope this is the beginning of the healing andot more damage, because what this report shows is that despite judent calls that were wrong, certinnly indsight were wrong in terms of announcements were made, that at the end of the day, prosecutors did what they're supposed to do. they looked at the facts, the law according to this report and passed department justice practice, they applied that, and they reached a conclusion based onhe merits. that's the f.b.i. and justice department we know, and these guidelines should help us get them back in the mix in the future. >> woodruff: quickly, how much damage dite? >> i think significant damage, but i think it can be eare paired. i implore my fellow republicans to have faith in our lat enforcemencies. everyone out there, there are bad apples to be sure, but by in large f.b.i. is an agency of great integrity and it deserves our rpghtd. >> woodruff: thomas dupree, john carlin, we thank you both.

>> woodruff: and now, we continue our series on "the end of aids." tonight, we turn back tohe u.s. and to the epidemic that continues in the south. the ste of florida accounts for 10% of all h.i.v. cases in america, and it is home to four of the top ten cities in the u.s. for new h.i.v. diagnoses. while the state has begun an ambitious plan to tackle the crisis, it has also cut health spending for years andhose not to expand medicaid. william brangham and producer jason kane report from miami, where the problems go deeper still. this series was produced with support from the pulitze center. n >> branghaasha dixon needs help. she's addicted to heroin, and h.i.v. positive, and not being treated for either. she's come to this mobile

needle-exchange van parked unden verpass in downtown miami. if you want stop the spread of h.i.v., a woman like dixon should be a top priority. her untreated h.i.v. means she likely has high levels of virus throughout her body, and sharing needles with others of thhaeasiest ways to spread t virus around. >> i've seen people pick up syringes on the ground to use them, ifhey don't have anything to get high with, so believe it or not, most of the people out here have it, whether they say it or not, you know? so, i mean, everody shares needles around here. >> brangham: but, remarkably this is the on needle exchange program in the entire state of florida. two years ago,his proven h.i.v. prevention tool was illegal in florida. that only changed when this man, dr. hansel tookes, then just a med student, fought for its creation. so, just a few years ago, you could've been arrested for doing this?

>> absolutely. itould've been a third-deg felony for us to give syringes to people who nt to protect their health. >> this is all self-done. >> brangham: tookes says regulations prohibits him from treating dixon's h.i.v. rightre he she has to fill out paperwork, go somewhere else, get another test. he says all these little impediments exacerbate the spread of h.i.v. >> for people like natasha, who indicated to me in the van that she wants to be in h.i.v. care hith me-- somebody who has high- risk drug behavior-risk sexual behavior-- there literally should be a conveyor beve, with a red carpet, to her from the mobile unit into a clinic, with me sitting there,lc smiling, to e her into care. because as long as she remains with these high-riskaviors, the epidemic will not be contained. b ngham: miami, florida, with its miles of beautiful beaches,raws visitors from around the world. but it's also a hotbed of h.i.v. transmission.

nationwide, new h.i.v. cases are declining, but miami's are on noe rise. the rate of new dis in the miami area is three times the national average. it's t highest rate anywhere in the country, far higher here than in new york or san francisco. >> miami is an epicenter, but in fact, the epicenter of the epicenter of h.i.v.-aids ithe united states. >> brangham: mario stevenson is one of the world's lding h.i.v. researchers. he runs the infectious disease division at the iversity of miami's miller school of epdicine. he worked with thetment of health to help miami develop its recent plan to reduce new infections. >> 12 million tourists visit miami everyear. people come here for the nightlife, they come here for sex. they're coming to an area that they're unfamiliar with, they can do whatever they want to do we n reach this vulnerable population. we need to make sure that they understand the risks, because, frankly, they might notde tand the risks. >> brangham: that's partly what happened with this columbian man. w

he asknot show his face. miami is also known for its thriving gay scene. it's whe he believes he became infected. -s says, paradoxically, the availability of liing anti-retroviral drugs mean some in the gay community don't fear h.i.v. the way they used to. >> okay, we have pills, we have the solution. nobody idying from that situation, from that illness, and the peop don't care too much. >> brangham: so you think people haveort of forgotten that h.i.v.-aids is really a problem? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. i think so, that. ua>> brangham: gay and bis men account for over half of new infections here, and florida has been remarkably slow to promote a once-a-day pill-- knn as prep-- that's proven to protect against h.i.v. infection. the state says by the end of this year, they'll be offering it for free in all its 67 health departments. >> florida's just rolling out prep. it's 2018. prep was approved by the f.d.a. in 2012. >> brangham: we reported this series with "science magazine's"

jon cohen-- and we've visited places like san francisco and new york and even kenya that are deploying prep much more aggressively than florida. >> now, to be fair, it's taken everywhere quite a while to get prep up and running. so florida is still re behind, but they're now really aggressively trying to embrace that. brangham: as we saw here at the h.i.v. clinic at jackson memorial hospital, h.i.v. is afflicting all kinds of people. just a few hours, we met people from all walks of life, from all over the world. many patients show up in the late stages of aids. >> we had a karposi sarcoma? >> brangham: dr. michael kolber runs this clinic. ic>> 49% percent of our clre foreign born. and, so, we have lot of poverty etin various areas and, song the message out is always a challenge, going into the right community is a challenge. i mean, we don't have one hispanic group here, we have aer large nuf them! and they're not the same! >> brangham: since 1980, florida's population h doubled, in part, thanks to an

influx of imgrants from latin america and the caribbean, home to many countries where h.i.v. is more prevalent than in the u.s. and where h.i.v. education is lacking. chimens point du jour was part of that migration. he's h.i.v. positive, from haiti, and he spent many, many years infected and untreated. he speaks very little english, and it's an hour bus ride to the nearesclinic. so how do you reach him? ( radio show in spanish ) >> brangham: suzy armas is an h.i.v. specialist in miami's puttle haiti neighborhood, and a regular on this r haitian radio show. >> so get tested. you have to get tested. >> brangham: armas says traditional h.i.v. outreach often misses this population.op >> the haitianulation do notre ad newspapers. or, the majority of them do not read at all.

rethe best way for you to h them is through the radio. >> brangham: armas is careful how she delivers her message, for fear of offending her audience, the influential catholic church. for example, to ta s about condom uses the creole word for "sock." >> if you use your socks, you're d.not going to get infecte so, we'll push about that. >> brangham: even more importantly, armas sends a van, emblazoned with her face on the side, to fetch her patients-- like chimens point du jour-- to bring themo and from the clinic.po t du jour says he was surprised and upset with his agnosis, but now his virus is fully controlled and he never misses an appointment. >> ( translated ): this clinic is like an extension of home, because i'm around my people. >> brangham: spreading this kind of streamlined, easy-to-access h.i.v. care stewide is part of

dr. jeffrey beal's job. he's helping implement florida's new statewide h.i.v./aids plan. they want to expand testing, and then treat as many people as possible, expand the use of ep, and promote better outreach and education. all this, even though the state department has seen yea of cuts. we met up with dr. beal as he was doing a site visit in the keys with a fellow h.i doctor. ny the purpose behind the plan was to eliminatend all barriers that we possibly could so that no one can really lookn mee face in the state of florida and say, "i can't get the medicines i need." we know that everywhere in the state, we can meet the need if people will just come. >> there is an epidemic that goes along with h.i.v. that is called "allergy," and it's an allergy to self-criticism. and we've seen it in russia, we've seen it in nigeria. anywhere and, florida seems to be getting over that allergy.

they seem to be willing to actually look critically at where things are failing, and to say, let's change it. >> brangham: for some on the v.ont lines of miami's epidemic, the state's new h.ids plan is welcome news, but it's late in coming. lo i think, unfortunately, what's happened inda and here in miami is-- in the absence of needle exchange, in the absence ofomprehensive sexual education, in the absence of widespread access to prep, this is what happens! you have a city that has no l over the current h.i.v epidemic. >> brangham: when we left, dr. tookes hoped that natasha dixon would return for her appointmen we checked in with him, and nearly two months later, dixon is still not getting h.i.v. care.ws for the pbs ur, i'm william brangham in miami, florida. >> woodruff: you can see all the stories in this series, "the end of aids: far from over." they are on our website at

www.pbs.org/newshour. woodruff: stay with us. coming up on the newshour: an import tax that aims to make american washing machines more competitive. and, in e midst of the "me too" movement, a "brief but spectacular" take on holding artists accountable. mpt first, a new legal challenge facing president t amna nawaz explores how this time, the focus is on mr. trump's charitable foundation. >> nawaz: the new york state attorney general sued the donald j. trump foundatiothis morning, alleging "persistently illegal conduct" and mismanagement at the president's charity. here to explain it all, i'm joined by david fahrenthold. he's a pulitzer prize-winning reporter with the "washington post," whose initial reporting first launched the state probe looking into the trumpun

tion. david, welcome to the newshour. let's start with the fact that this is a 20-month probe led bye thyork attorney general's office, but your reporting on this goes all the way back to the 2016 camign. few people know this better than you. explain the me in simple term, what is it that t president and his three oldest children are accused of in this investigation? >> what they're accused of basically is running a tax-exempt charitable foundation like a usggy banking it as another checking account for donald trump to buy things for himself, to pay off creditors on his business, in 2016 to sorted of act as a pro to support his presidential campaign. they ran the charitableun tion. they were charged by law with safeguarding its assets, makinge sure thee sent for charitable purpose, and they ignored tse things and spent it on themselves. >> nawaz: there is one allegation that the non-profit charity money was used to settle

legal matters related to the r-profit businesses. you first reported that. there is another allegation of something called self-dealing. what is that exactly?e >> of the most basic laws of non-profit governance is yon' take the money in your charity, if you're the leader of the charity, you can't reach into the charity's coffers and buy things that benefit yourself, even if you're buying them from other non so even though this is called the donald j. trump fouthndatio, money was set aside for independent use for charitable purposes. trump took the opinion nd used it to buy things that helped him. hispent $10,000 out of charity once to buy a large portrait of himself, and that portrait wound up hung on the wall at trump sports ba at the doral golf resort. it's an obvious example. u can't use your charity's money to buy art for the wall of your sports bar.er in anoase he used the money to buy an ad for his hotels in the charity gala in d.c. even though the money went to

the charity, the money was spent on an ad. you can't do that. >> nawaz: aher time the foundation broke irs rules by aiding political campaigns. >> there are two campaign it allegedly helped. ce is theampaign of florida attorney general pam bondi, a trump ally inch 2013 her office was considing whether to join a broader lawsuit against trump university, alleging trumper unty was a fraud. at the same time she solicits a donation. he gives a,0 $25 political donation out of his foundation. so what's interesting is, a,at not what you're supposed to, do b, when the trump foundation fed its tax returns, its report to the i.r.s. at the end of that year, it left off any mention of that illegal donation to a political group, instead listed that $25,000 donation as a to another group in kansas that had sort of a similar name but was totally unrelated. basically it disguising, whether it was on purpose or not, the

fact it made this illegal donation. it didn't come to lying until years later. the other campaign the foundation helped was obviously donald trump's campaign.he ineginning of 2016, trump had this fund-raiser for veterans in iowa,d in his counter-programming to republican debate that he was ycotting because of the feud with megyn kelly of facebook news. so trump used his foundation to collect the money that came in during that veterans fund-raiser and then he used it to give away moneduring his presidential campaign event. what we know now from looking at what thettorney general found was that the president's campaign was not only benefiting fr t sort of the goodwiat came with seeing him giveaway this charity's money, thegn camptself was telling the charity who to give the money to. there are e-mails from trmp campaign's manager saying, give this amount to this charity and this amount to this charity and do it on this day before he has a rally. trump's foundation, supposed to be independent, became a tool of his political campaign. >> nawaz: the president responded on twitter. ued trump foundation also iss

a statement alleging political motivation for the lawsuit. the statement said, "this is politics at its very worst." d it's worth pointing out that the previous sta aorney general, eric schneiderman, resigned amid a sexual scandal, head been a realorn in the president's side. he had gone after trump university, he had launched multiple lawsuits changing the administration. when it comes to the lasuit, could politics have been at play here? >> cetainly er schneiderman, the former new york attorney general, it began this investigation under his watch. c ncludes today with this lawsuit which was launched by a successor who happe not to be a politician. she's an unelected official who got promoted when snder-man resigned. this question was not who ararted it. attorney generalby their nature from one party or the other. the question is what do thesa factand what has trump said tact facts? if you look at the complaint itself, trump has already agreed with many of their conclusions. many of the examples of self-dealing, trump spending money to pay off his business's

debts to make that political donation to pam bondi.tr p has agreed in all those case, yes, i did, that yes, i was wrong. paid back the money and in kome paces paid in excise tax. this lawsuit is ag him to pay back more, alleging more violations that trump hasn't t agreed to. he's saying this is all a political witch-hunt and politically motivated, he's already himself conceded that a loatof the allns brought by that investigation were true. >> woodruff:>> nawaz: david fahf "washington post," thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> woodruff: as we've seen, much of the president's agenda this i yefocused on trade. tomorrow, mr. trump is expected oto announce more changes tariffs he is imposing on china. kie full brunt of these recent moves have yet t in. but there is already fallout with some of these tariffs. take the case of the an-

manufactured washing machine. and see what it has meant for workers, companies and consumers. that is the focus of tonight'sep "making sense"ort, from special correspondent catherine rampell, who is a columnist for the "whington post." >> family's been in clyde, ohio for about four generations. and this bank here on thisat corner, my grerandfather was president of. >> reporter: stephen clapp's great-grandpa may have run the people's banking company, but for the last 70 years, pretty much everyone else in his family has had a different employer: whirlpool. >> the way i got the job in the first place was my dad worked here. >> reporter: that was more than half a century ago, interrupted only by his service in vietnam >> my wife's worked here. two sisters have worked here. two brothers; my daughter. my sonust recently got hired in. if you put in my cousins and uncles and aunts that have worked here, you're looking at probably 300 years of accumuted seniority. >> reporter: wow, 300 years. that is a lot of family devotion to one firm.

>> it is. >> reporter: and a lot of company devotion to one town. whirlpool's clyde plant, about an hour west of cleveland, is the world's largest washing machine factory. and workers here hope to benefit from pre dent trump's recent sweeping tariff aimed to shield them-- at least temporarily-- from foreign competition.st decade ago, whirlpool, which also owns maytag, controlled about half of the domestic washer market sbut then thinrted going downhill. >> ithe early 2010s, there w a very sharp increase in washing machine imrts from two companies, samsung and lg, and they're all coming from soh korea. you are listening to an episode of "trade talks." d reporter: economists an iadcast partners soumaya keynes and chad bown spze in trade. >> and whirlpool, this mega company, essential started claiming that this competition was unfair. >> reporter: what does unfair actually mean in the context of trade? >> unfair can either mean subsidized, so t companies are

getting direct funding from the government that you're not supposed to do under the international rules; or it can mean that the companies are selling their wa,ing machines, in this ca at a price in the u.s. market that's somehow defineds too low. lower than their cost of production, or mbe lower than the prices that they're charging for the same washing machines back at home. >> our washer business was losing money, hundreds of millions of dollars. eporter: aaron spira is whirlpool's chief legal officer. sa so in response to the unlawful actions bung and lg, we're faced with a choice: either don't sell a product because it's unprofitable to do so, thereby losing market share, or sell at a loss. >> reporter: now samsung and lg, whirlpool's main competitors, flat out deny playing dirty. >> we do not dump our washing machines in the united states. >> when it comes to u.s. trade policy and the rules, we comply 100%. >> rorter: instead, say the spokespeople for both samsung and lg, th've been gaining on

whirlpool by making a better, more innovative toduct. >> we' first to use steam technology in washing machines. >> we've come out with machines that can do two loads the same tim >> we're leading the way withec cod appliances. >> we invented add-wash, which seems like a very simple concept. how did no one think of this before? >> so you cod open it and toss in a sock-- >> reporter: like a top secret door? ( laughter ) o >> --whi engineers found did have some utility. >> reporter: were the korean products actually better? we went to the experts at "consumer reports" to find out. every day at their lab in yonker new york, washers are put through the wringer in highly controlled experiments. laundry is weighed; detergt measured to the gram, and added to each load are fabric swatches that test how rough each model is on clothes. >> a particularly aggressive d show a lot of loose threads. >> reporter: and, how well it clea engineer jim nanni: >> we use five different soils that are placed in the loaan then when they are finished,

we dry them and then take are coloing on a laboratory instrument. >> reporter: so i undersa,nd wine, coco blood and carbon,m? but what is se >> think of it as ring around the collar. >> reporter: and how is it produced? how do t iy obtain it? on't want to know. ( laughter ) st reporter: so who's the well, it depends on which kind of machine, says "consumer report editor sara morrow. >> in the front-loader market, fo've seen lg and samsung sort of going back anh with releasing new features and innovating further and further. with top-loaders, we see maytag and whirlpool innovating by getting bigger and bigr and bigger over time. >> reporter: but whirlpool's share of the overall market has been getting smaller and smaller, down from half to jus over a third whirlpool blames unfair competition from samsung and l and u.s. regulators have agreed. repeatedly. in a 2013 decision, they slapped a tariff on washers made in south korea. >> and before the order could go into effect, rather than comply

with the u.s. government orders, lg and samsung movedheir production to china. >> reporter: 2017, another whirlpool complaint, another tariff-- this time against washers made in china. >> and this timethey moved to thailand and vietnam. >> you've got trade in this case being a bit like water.re yorying to plug one leak in one place, and it's just coming up in a different one. f >> reporte their parts, lg and samsung deny that decisions about factory locations were driven by tariffs. but even if they were, says economist chad bown, so what? >> it's very normal andal completely l it may be, in fact, evidence that the company is just selling a product that consumers really, really want to buy and that they are really good at producing it. >> reporter: now, those two rounds of tariffs were under president obama. >> usa! usa! >> reporr: then came donald trump, with his tough-on-trade platform. and the coun where whirlpool's washer plant sits, which had gone for obama twice, went for trump by 23 points. so whirlpool made a bold move. it asked the trump

administration to impose washer tariffs worldwide by invoking a rarely-used piece of trade law. and unlike the earlier complaints, whirlpool would not have to prove that lg and samsung had done anything illegal, or even unfair. >> all you have to show is that the imports coming in from the world are coming in. and they're hurting yourom domesticny. >> reporter: the u.s. international trade commission agreed, and in january, trum announced a big new tax on foreign washers. >> a big industry. a lot bigger than people would understand. >> for this first year, anymp y importing washing machines to the u.s. is hit with a 20% tariff for the first 1.2 million machines that they bring in. now any subsequent washing machines they bring in after that 1.2 million mark are hitth 50% tariff. so it is pretty steep. >> reporter: and sure enough, prices are going up. a lot. ed far this spring, they've spik7%. and it's not just foreign washers that are more expensive

now-- whirlpool has rais prices, too. it blames higher costs, but as soumaya keynes points out: >> the whole point of this tariff is to give the domestic industry relief. so if it works, then whirlpool is supposed to be able to increase their prices and profits.e ole point is that they've been injured by this foreign competition and this is supposed to let them get back toia finastrength. >> reporter: so if prices go up, it's a feature, not a bug, essentially. >> but it means consumers are worse off because ey're now paying more. >> reporter: at abw appliances outside washington, d.c., showroom manager chris hemmingsen says his customers may not mind. >> aft the last ten years of the downturn of not purchasing a lot of things, they really want what they want. and $30 to $50, maybe $100, doesn't really change their opinion on things. i don't think that people would mind paying a little bit more if they knew that american jobs are being created, a hopefully, it was paying somebody's salary. >> reporter: in fact, whirlpool hs already hired 200 new workers in clyde.

plus, samsung has just created 650 new jobs in south carolina, and lg will soon add 600 in essee. >> we're doing exactly what president trump wants to do. we're investinwein america and e creating jobs. >> reporter: by making washers in the u.s., they can avoid those pesky tariffs. they've an lso cashed all the ways that states and counties woo new plants and newy jobs these with generous grants, tax credits, and other goodies. does the clyde plant receive ans similar publsidies? >> the state of ohio has been a great partner for whirlpool for many years, but i don't believe we've received support in the neighborhood of what you were listing fosamsung and lg. >> reporter: which m samsung and lg may enjoy the exact same kind of advantages-- governmente subsidies- in the u.s. that whirlpool accused them of getting back in korea. trump's attempts to helpni american compa and workers through tough trade measures could backfire for other inasons. his steel and al tariffs have sharply raised the cost of

making washers. >> it's a meaningful percentage of the products. we will have to do our best to offset those costs. >> reporter: and other countries are fighting back with a laundry list of american products they plan to slap their own tariffs on. one product that the european union and canada are both targeting? american-made washing machines. so will the president's tariffs actual help or hurt american workers? it could be a wash.ne for the pbs wshour, i'm catherine rampell, reporting from ohio and new york. oo >>uff: next, we turn to ecother installment of our weekly "brief but cular" series. imani davis is a poet and anll undergraduate at the university of pennsylvania. her piece toniart explains why sts need to be held accountable for their work. >> this poem is called

"platinum." it was inspired by the many brave woman and binary folks and men coming forward during the "me too" movement. "howasily we forget that stars are fires, too. someone has burned, and that is what makes them shine. but instead of fearing fhe flame, thes name them kodak black, or r. kelly, eminem, or chris brown, and listen to their hot new narration of the end of a woman's world. if we wanted to, i believe we could trace every explosion back to a man not being sorry for what he has done one day, someone's son hardens into dynamite and an audience gathers around his bright and deadly light. what a way to make music. by building a beat out of the crack of a woman's bones. in the '80s, my aunties listened to secular music in secret, snuck off to detonate into a man's right answer, or a good

flavor of wrong. the lyrics taught them to acceps any cruel at love a man tossed at their feet. iltriarchy is my family tree turning to cinder a man soundtracks the funeral rites. record grief on repeat and i promise it'll be a hit. blood can dry into platinum if you let it, and i am a dull tooth biting back at men who do not know they are dangerous. they listen to the same love songs as their fathers did. call them classics. ignore the blood drying on the piano keys. and in the confessional of a dim riuse party, boys forgive kodak black and forgive brown and forgive their friends who do not ask permission and call this brherhood. at a barbeque, i look to my elders for guidance. but men forgive r. kelly and forgive james brown and rgive the uncles who touch babies and call these the good old days. what is a man but culprit or bystander. lit matcor keeper of matchsticks. on the b side of every 45 is a woman turned to smoke. because generations change more

often than men do. my mother serves as proof. she is a vinyl record waiting for a man to notice the scratches he's left. maybe this is my inheritance. knowing the men behind the music would kill us and watching everyone sing along. it's christmas, and my mother creaks the radio to the news of james brown's death. she mourns, but does not sing." i think that people are drawing too big of a distance between art and the people whoreate it. people are being hurt in the e ocess of making these things that we claimed beautiful and so worth, like, consuming. hurt by people who really believed that their actions don't have anything toth what they produced. and i think those two things are so linked, and we have to be more careful about acknowledging and being attentive to people's identities and people's pain. being someone who make things and writes, i know that, like, my art is ways pulling from my

life and always pulling from things that i've experienced and things that peopleosho i'm very to have experienced. and i feel like it's not doing those stories justice fous to just act like art comes out of nowhere, because it doesn't. my name is imani davis, and this is my "brief but spectacular" take on connecting thet to the art. >> woodruff: and you can watch more "brief but spectacular" videos on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour/brief. on the newshour online, how did the trump administration come to embrace a policy of separatingei children from parents at the u.s. border? we look back with a timeline atn how itfrom proposal to procedure. that's on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour. and that is the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online, and again here tomorrow evening, with mark shields and david brooks.al foof us at the pbs newshour, thank you, and we'll see you soon.

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