captioning sponsored by newsur productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on theewshour tonight: the justice department's watchdog finds former "insubordinate," but says there is no evidence of political bian in the f.b.i.'stigation 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.: f miamrida. >> in the absence of needle exchange, in the absence of comprehensive xual education, is is what happens! you have a city that has no control over theurrent h.i.v. epidemic. >> woodruff: and, airing thedr dirty laof one global market. how new tariffs are aimed at revivi the united states'

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>> reporter: the clinton 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. conclusi first: that no political bias affected any of the clinton investigation decisions that thv i.g.wed. also in the report, it refers five current or former d.o.j. staffers for potential disciplinary action related to anti-trump bias they declared, largely in prite text messages, during the investigation. and it finds that while then- y f.b.i. director james cod not act out of bias, he was "insubordinate" when he did no notify his bosses before announcing the clinton findings and then the reopening of the clinton investigation in tober. in jul2016, then-director

james comey gave a rare public statement on the conclusions of the investigation >> although we did not find clear evidence that secretar c clinton or hleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. >> reporter: then, in late october of 2016, a bombshell letter from comey to congress: 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 our conclusis" after examining the emails. donald trump was elected president two days later.he ired james comey in may 2017. today, comey defended his cisions in a "new york times" op-ed, writing, "i do not agree with a general's conclusions, but i respect the work of his office.h white house said the report

bears out what president trump has said all along--the f b.i. conspired against him. >> there are a lotings in this report that not only t rry those of us in the administration, ould worry a lotf americans, that people played this political bias. >> reporter: but democrats pushed back, saying the president has wronglf.said that thi. is influencing the current mueller investigation into his campaign. >> we ow that in days ahead, the president and his allies will try to twist themselves into pretzels, and try to use this report to undermine special counsel and the russia probe. unfortunately for them, nothing in this report lays a glove on special counsel mueller or the ongoing russia probe. >> woodruff: and late today f.b.i. director weristopher wray hed in at a press conference. asked to sum 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, no evidence they found of bias in the overall investigation, but there is still mistakes made? >> that's right. let's start at top with james comey. this report finds that james mey did not operate out of bias. here i'm reading from page 497, they believe his deci based on what he believed were in the f.b.i.'s interest,he however, found he was insubordinate because he went outside of normal procedure, but it is something that still leaves a cloud over f.b.i. today. they used those wordcls, "a d over the f.b.i." >> woodruff: so no evidence of bias in affecting the final investigation conclusion, but ence sense of bias or evid 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 from two of the most prominent of those, that ie lisa pag and author peter strug. peter strug was one f the top officials in this investigation. lisa page wrote to h in august of 2016, "trump's not ever going to become president,t? right?" and strzok responded to her, "no, no he's not. we'll stop it." those are glaing, eye-popping words for someone running an investigation. strzok says heas talking about something more general, but while he clearly had an anti-trump bias, they lookug thall of this, and they could not find evidence that that bias had an effect on the investigation itself. >> woodruff: there is a different question about bias in how they handled the laptop of anthony weiner, who, of course, was married to hillary clinton's

form aide. >> this is a real sore point for clint supporterswhen f.b.i. in september 2016 found anthony weiner's laptop with 100,000 e-mails on it. the question is why did the t f.b.e 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 nothing, 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 rweeted a tweet today ybout the fact that james come was using his own personal e-mail and system ofma eil and she says, "what about my e-mails?" finally, lisa, president trump has repeatedly pointed to the clinton investigation, comey's

handling of this whole thing, inying this is evidence that there was bias a him. where does the report come down on that? >> the report is very clear that james comey did not have a bias of any sort and that this wasse rate from the mueller investigation. really the president is trying to influence the muelver igation here. as far as this report goes, thew arseparate things, and this report could not find conclusive evidence that there was a bia affecting the clinton pvestigation. were there biasple, yes, and i'm sure that's something the president will bring up again. >> woodruff: lisa desjardins, ank you very much. and we will get the views of two former justice department officials, after the news summary. in the day's other news, the trump administration faced more fallout from the president's singapore summit with north korea'kim jong-un. secretary of state mike pompeo sought to dispel doubts and answer questions in south korea and china. with smiles and a handshake,

secretary pompeo greeted south korea's president moon jae-in. part of the mission: to reassure moon after president trump announced in singapo 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 joint south korea-u.s. military exercise is a matter for the south korea-united states alliance. >> woodruff: but in an interview last night, mr. trump said again he means to end the joint exercises. at the same time, he said ng u.s. troop levels in south korea is not up for negotiation-- yet. >> i'd like to get them home. hewould like to. but it is not onable right now. at the appropriate time, it will be. >> woodruff: in washington today, at his confirma hearing to be ambassador to south korea, retired navy admiral harry harris agridd with the prt that military exercises should be delayed.

>> we should give exercises, major excises, a pause, to see if kim jong-un, in fact, is serious about his partiof the negoti. >> woodruff: meanwhile, secretary pompeo mov on to beijing, and meetings with president xi jinping and chi's foreign minister. polyeo said there it's too e 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 widepen." mr. trump has raised eyebrows in washington with his fulsome praise of kim, a dictator htsused of grave human r abuses. >> he's a very smart guy. he's a great negotiator. but i think we understand each other. >> but he's still done some really bad things. >> yeah, but so have a lot ofle

other peopone some reallyth bad gs. >> woodruff: all of this, as north korean state tv today kleased video of the president saluting a northorean general s at themit, with kim looking ay. the white house down the president's salute, and called it "common courteny." attorneyal jeff sessions today defended separating ntchildren and parents who the u.s. illegally. the policy is under growing criticism. house speaker paul ryan said today that he can't support it, and religious grou have also criticized it. but in forwayne, 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 you violate the lawyou subject yourself to prosecution. i would te you to the apostle paul and his clear and wise command in 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 broughte llegally, as children. in yemen, troops loyal to the exiled government battled for ad seco to retake the red sea port of hodeida. tue government fighters, backed by saudi arabia, cd a key town to the south. video from an arab news channel owed the troops firing o rebels, backed by iran, near hodeida's airport. the port is yemen's main entry point for food and aid. turkey's military says it has a deal now with the u.s. to defuse

.tensions in northern syr it involves the town of manbij, near the turkish border, where a kurdish-led militia backed by the u.s. is in control. the turks say that the kurdsre 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 her 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 foreign affairs counseled caution. >> ( translated ): china-u.s. trade and economic relations is a win-win.ns china alwaysts that both sides should resolve relevant issues through dialogue. if the united states tny trade sanction measures, all the economic and trade achievements that have been me in the nsultations will not come into effect. >> woodruff: in washington,id prt trump met with his

economic advisers today, ahead of tomorrow's tariff announcement. e u.s. supreme court has struck down a minnesota law that rtbars political hats, t-s and pins at the polls. the decision today was to two. justices said the law was too broad, and violates the first amendment's protection of free speech. about ten stes have similar laws, but minnesota's is the broadest. and, on wall street, the dow jones industrial average lost nearly 26 points to close at 25,175. the nasdaq rose 65 points, and the s&p 500 added six. still to come on the newshour: 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 trump foundation. 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 ho department and the f.b.i. handled the hillary clinton email investigation. here to dissect its conclusions ct was the chief of staff under former f.b.i. di robert mueller, and the justiceop department'sational security official under former attorney general loretta lynch. and thomas dupree. he serveas a justice department official as well, under former attorney general michael mukasey. gentleman, we welcome you to the program. we've been waiting for this report forlonths. john c, to you first. so on the one hand the report says that james comey as 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 we to 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 thedejusticartment, f.b.i., and career prosecutors made their decsions for te right reasons. it said quite clearly noev ence that the prosecutors were affected by any bias or any other improper consideration. that's thest important takenaway when it comes to vital institutions like the justice department. >> woodruff: is that how you see it, thomas dupree, that that's the most important thing, even though there's finding of insubordination? >> it's a sad day for f.b. the sense that a former senior official has been found to haven ged in misconduct. there is also evidence of bias in the lower ranks. but the inspector general was careful and cautious saying he found no evidence of that bias seeping in to influencede investigatorisions. so at the end of the day, from my perspective, this is a repor

that hasttle of something for everyone in it. >> woodruff: let's come back to that, though. whenhe report says no edence that bias influenced the final outcomof the investigation, that bias may have existed, may well have existed in the minds some of the people involved in the work, how do we square that circle? >> it's very tough circle to square. and i think what's going on here is that there clearly was evidence that people involved in this investigation who had very strong political liefs, that they were not able to separate from their work. what the inspector gener seems to have found is that there were other non-biased fireworks who were involved in tse decisions, a so in effect they purged the tainvthat would e emerged from these people's decisions. >> woodruff: on the one hand all this was going o but ultimately the people doing the work based their final assessment on the facts, the law, and so forth. so it's asking us to belie the

best rather than the worst, isn't it? >> well, i don't think 's asking us. it's showing that after a thorough investigation that rat's what the inspec general found happened. so it's the final conclusion that we're going to have on what happened in this case. and it sitsle with the pei got to know over the years,in including wowith tom in the prior administration of president bush, which is the department oftice, f.b.i. agents and career prosecutors e chalk full of people that may think about politics a little bit on the side, but that's not what ge them up in the morning. what gets them up in the morning is protecting our country against a variety of threats from terrorist, to nation states to crooks. ve, when push comes to sho 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 ai decision in case. >> woodruff: but you still have, thomas dupree, llary clinton, people around her saying, wait a minute, what

happened with that july news conference in 2016, and then the october announcement by james comey that there is evidence that voters minds were 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.m that's the d that the clinton supporters have been beating all this time. clearly comey made a decision t go outside the ordinary chain of command and act as a one-mang band as makese announcements and deviating from typical department of justice procedure. hink there is something in the inspector general's report that does vindicate those. concer i'm not certain the inspector general would say, therefore the election results would have been different, but it certainly underscores that comey was really goin outside ordinary d.o.j. practice in doing what he did.>> oodruff: john carlin, if a set of circumstances were to

present themselves to the f.b.i. again, what would be done differently? >> thas a great question. it's good the hear the current director address it today, which is to tom's point, you shouldn't go outside what had been long standing normsen one thing they suggest is making those norms rules some number one, as everyone has watched "law and order" knows, it's the investigators who investigate the case, and therosecutors who try them in court. you should not have the investigative agency announcing the results as to whether or not there should be a prosecutio you shouldn't mention a specific recommendation abo c this. be vereful 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 it's not our job to issue opinions about what we think about behavior, either we can move it in a court of law or we cat. >> woodruff: i heard a part of christopher wray's news conference, which happen than an hour ago.

he talked about holding people accountable in the department, and he saidystems will change, something to that effect. should more people be held accountable here in. >> i think there are people who should be held accountable who have not yet been held ccountable. in my view, theal problem here is that you had at leasti some f.b.i. ocials who clearly were not able to fparate their personal political beliefm their job. you can't have that. i think one of the real tragedies of this whole situation is i think it has undercut americans' faith in the impartiality of law enforcw,ent. in my vihat's a tragedy. john and i both served in the department of justice, and certainly on my behalf, and i suspect john feels the same way, these are honest patriots, but a worr americans in the country are starting to doubt tim partiality of our lawem enfot agencies. >> woodruff: how much damage is how the done to the f.i., to the department of justice in reality and in perception?

>> i hope this is the beginning of the horling and note damage, because what this report shows is that despite judgment calls that were wrong, certainle in hindsigh wrong in terms of announcements were made, that at the end of the day,ut pross did what they're supposed to do. they looked at the facts, the law according to this rort and passed department of justice practice, they applied that, and they reached a conclusion based on the merits. that's the f.b.i. and justice department we know, and thes guidelines should help us get them back in the mix in the future. >> woodruff: quickly, how much damage done? n>> i think it's sigificant damage, but i think it can be eare paired. i implore my fell republica to have faith in our law enforcement agencies. 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. dupree,ruff: thoma john carlin, we thank you both.

>> woodruff: and now, we continue our series on he end of aids." tonight, we turn back to the u.s. and to thepidemic that continues in the south. the state of florida accounts for 10% of all h.i.vcases 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 s begun an ambitious plan to tackle the crisis, it has also cut health spending for years and chose 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 pulitzer center. >> brangham: natasha dixon needs help. she's addicted to heroin, and h.i.v. positive, and not being treated for either. she's come to this mobileng

needle-exchae van parked under an overpass in downtown miami. if you want stop the spread of h.i.v., a woman like dixon should be a top priority. sher untreated h.i.v. mea likely has high levels of virus throughout her body, and sharing needles th others is one of the easiest wayso spread that virus around. >> i've seen people pick up syringes on the ground to use them, if they don't ha anything to get high with, so believe it or not, most of the people o they say it or not, you know? so, i mean, everybody shares needles around here. >> brangham: but, remarkably this is the only needle exchange program in the entire state of florida. two years ago, this provenh 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. it would've been a third-degree felony for us to give syringes to people who want to protect their health. >> this is all self-done. >> brangham: tookes says regulations prohibits him from treating dixon's h.i.v. right here. 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 thato she wante in h.i.v. care with me-- somebody who has high- risk d sexual behavior-- there literally should be a conveyor belt, with a redhearpet, to move from the mobile unit into a clinic, with me sitting there, iling, to welcome her in care. because as long as she remains with these hh-risk behaviors, the epidemic will not bed. containe >> brangham: miami, florida, with its miles of beautiful beaches, draws 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 the rise. the ra of new diagnoses in the miami area is three times the national average. it's the highest ratanywhere 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 in the united states. >> brangham: mario stevenson is one of the world's leading h.i.v. researchers. he runs the infectious disease division at the university of miami's miller school of medicine. he word with the department of health to help miami develop its recent plan to reduce new infections. >> 12 million tourists visit miami every year. people come here for thegh nitlife, they come here for they're coming to an area that they're unfamiliar with, they s n do whatever they want to do we need to reach tlnerable population. we need to make sure that they understand the risks, because, frankly, they might notis understand the. >> brangham: that's partly what happened with this columbian man.

he asked we not show his face. miami is also known for its riving gay scene. it's where he believes he became infected. he says, paradoxically, the availa anti-retroviral drugs mean some ea the gay community don't h.i.v. the way they used to. >> okay, we have pills, we have the solution. nobody is dying from tha situation, from that illness, and the people don't care too much. >> brangham: so you think people have sort of forgotten that h.i.v.-aids is really a problem? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. i think so, that. >> brangham: gay and bisexual men account for over half of new infections here, and florida has been remarkably slow to promote a once-a-day pill-- known as prec-- that's proven to prot 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., >> n be fair, it's taken everywhere quite a while to get prep up and running. so florida is still really far behind, but they're now really cegressively trying to emb that. >> brangham: as we saw here at the h.i.v. clinic at jackson memorial hospital, h.i. is afflicting all kinds of people.o in just a few urs, we met people from all walks of life, om all over the world. many patients show up in the late stages of aids. >> we haa karposi sarcoma? >> brangham: dr. michael kolber runs this clinic. >> 49% percent of our clinic are foreign born and, so, we have lot of poverty in various areas and, so getting the message out is always a enallenge, going into the right community is a cha. i mean, we don't have one hispanic group here, we have a large number of them! and they're not the same! >> brangham: since 1980, florida's polation has doubled, in part, thanks to an

influx of immigrants from latin america and the caribbean, home to many cotries 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, fromha iti, and he spent many, many years infected and untreated. he speaks very little english,n and it'sur bus ride to the nearest clinic. so how do you reach him? is( radio show in span ) >> brangham: suzy armas is an h.i.v. specialist in miami'sli le haiti neighborhood, and a regular on this popular haitian radio show. >> so get tested. you have to get tested. >> brangham: armas says traditional h.i.v. outreach often misses this population. >>othe haitian population do read newspap or, the majority of them do not read at all.

the best way for you to reach them is through the radio. >> brangham: armass careful how she delivers her message, for fear of offending her audience, or the influenal caolic church. for example, to talk about condoms, she uses the creole word for "sock." >> if you use your socks, you're not going to get infected. so, we'll push about that. >> brangham: even more importantly, armas sends a van, emblazoned with her ce on the side, to fetch her patients-- like chimens point du jour-- to bring them to and from t clinic. point du jour says he was surprised and upset with his diagnosis, 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 statewide is part of

dr. jeffrey beal's job.'s elping implement florida's new statewide h.i.v./aids plan. they w expand testing, and then treat as many people as possible, expand the use of prep, and promote better h treach and education. all this, even thoe state health department ha cseen years ofs. we met up with dr. beal as he was doing a site visit in the keys with a llow h.i.v. doctor. >> the purpose behind the plan was toliminate any and all barriers that we possibly could so that no one can really look me in the face in the state of florida and say, "i can'get the medicines i need." we know that everywhere in theme state, we can the need if people will just come. >> there is 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 tok actually litically at where things are failing, and to say, let's change . >> brangham: for some on the front lines of miami's epidemic, the stats new h.i.v./aids plan is welcome news, but it's late in coming. >> i think, unfortunately, pened in florida and here in miami is-- in the absence of needle exchange, in the absence of comprehensive sexual education, in the absence of widespread access to prep, this is what happens! you have a city that has no control over the current h.i.v. epidemic. >> brangham: when we left, dr. tookes hoped that natasha dixon woturn for her apheintment. we ccked in with him, and nearly two months later, dixon . still not getting h.i.v care. fothe pbs newshour, i'm william brangham in miami, florida.uf >> woo you can see all the stories in this series, "the end of as: 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 makew americhing machines more competitive. and, in the midst of the "me too" movement, a "brief but spectacular" take on holding artists accountable. but first, a new legal challenge facing president trump. 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 foundation this morning, alleging "persistently illegal conduct" and mismanagement at the president's charity. here to explain it all, i'm joined by david fahrenthold. 's a pulitzer prize-winning reporter with the "washington," pohose initial reporting first launched the state probeto looking he trump

foundation. david, welcome to the newshour. let's start with the fact that this is a 20-month probe led by the new york attorney general's office, but your reporting on this goes all the way bak to the 2016 campaign. few people know this better than you.ai exthe me in simple term, what is it that the president and his three oldest chnild are accused of in this investigation? >> what they're accused of basically is running a tax-exempt charitable foundation like a piggy bank, using it as another checking account for donald trump to buy things fory himself, to ff creditors of his business, and in 2016 to sorted of act as a prop, to support his presidential campaign. they ran the charitable foundation. they were charged by law with safeguarding its assets, making sure they were sent for charitable purpose, and they ignored those things and spent it on the nmselves. az: there is one allegation that the non-profit charity money was used to settl

letters related to the for-profit businesses. you first reported that.e th another allegation of something called self-dealing. what is that exactly? >> one of the most basic laws of non-profit governance is youmo can't take thy in your charity, if you're the leader of the charity, you can't reach t ine charity's coffers and buy things that benefit yingself, even if you're bu them from other non-profits. so even though this is called the donald j. trump foundatios the money wt aside for independent use for charitable purposes. trump took the opinion and useit o buy things that helped him. he spent $10,000 out of hisar y once to buy a large portrait of himself, and that portrait wound up hung on te wall at trump sports bar at the doral golf resort.bv it's an oious example. you can't use your charity's money to buy art for the wall of your sports bar. in another case he uhe money to buy an ad for his hotels in the charity gala in d.c. even though the money went to

the charity, theey monas spent on an ad. you can't do that. >> nawaz: another time the foundation broke irs rules by aiding political campaigns. >> there are two campaign itle dly helped. one is the campaign of florida , torney general pam bona trump ally inch 2013 her office was considering whether t join a broader lawsuit against trump university, alleging trump university was a fud. at the same time she solicits a donation. he gives a $25,000 political donation out of his foundation. so what's interesting is, a, that's not whayou're supposed to, do b, when the trump foundation filed its tax returns, its report to the i.r.s. at the d of that year, it left off any mention of that illegadonation to a political group, instead listed that $25,000 donaon as a gift to another group in kansas that had sort of a similar name but was totally unrelated. basically it disguising,hether it was on purpose or not, the

fact it made this illegal donaiton. didn't come to lying until the other campaign the foundation helped was obviously fonald trump's campaign. in the beginning 2016, trump had this fund-raiser for veterans in iowa, kin hd ofis counter-programming to republican debate that he wasec boycottingse of the feud with megyn kelly of facebook news. so trump used his fndouion to collect the money that came in during that veterans fund-raiser and then he useid it tove away money during his presidential campaign event. what we know now from looking at what the attorney genel found was that the president's campaign was not only benefiting from sort of the goodwill that came with seeing him giveaway teis charity's money, the campaign itself waling the charity who to give the money to. there are e-mails from trump 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 foundati, supposed to be independent, became a tool of his political campaign. >> nawaz: the president tter.nded on twi the trump foundation also issued

a statement alleging political motivation for the lawsuit. the statement said, "this is litics at its very worst." and it's worth pointing out that the previous state attorney general, eric schneiderman, resigned amid a sexual scandal, he had been a real thorn in the resident's side. he had gone aftump university, he had launched multiple lawsuits changing the administration. when it comes to the lawsuit, could politics have been at play here? >> certainly eric schneiderman, the former new york at general, it began this ayvestigation under his watch. it concludes tith this lawsuit which was launched by a successor who happens not to be a politician. she's an unelected official who got promoted when snyder-man resigned. this question was not who started it. attoey generals are by thir nature from one party or the other. we question is what do the facts say andat has trump said tact facts? if you look at the complp nt itself, tras 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.ee trump has agin all those case, yes, i did, that yes, i was wron t he's paid bae money and in some paces paid in excise tax. this lsuit is asking him to pay back more, alleging more violations that trump hasn't yet agreed to. he's saying this is all a political witch-hunt and politically motivated, he's already himself conceded that a lot of the allegations brought by that investigation were true. >> woodruff:>> nawaz: david fah the "washingost," thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> woodruff: as we've seen, much t the president's agenda this year is focused de. tomorrow, mr. trump is expected to announce tare changes to ffs he is imposing on china. the full brunt of these recent movehave yet to kick in. but there is already fallout with some of these tariffs. take the ce of the american-

manufactured washing machine. and see what it has meant for workers, companies and consumers. that is the focus of tonight's "making sense" report, from coecial correspondent catherine rampell, who is mnist for the "washington post." >> family's been in clyde, ohio for about four generions. and this bank here on this cornas, my great-grandfather w 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 re. >> 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 son just recently g hired in. if you put in my cousins and uncles and aunts that have worked here, you're looking at probably 300 years of accumulated seniorit >> 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 president trump's recent sweeping tariff aimed to shield them-- at least temporarily-- fr foreign competition. just a decade ago, whirlpool, which also owns maytag, controlledbout half of the domestic washer market, but then things started going downhill. e in the early 2010s, there was a very sharp incre washing achine imports from two companies, samsu lg, and they're all coming from south korea. you are listening ton episode of "trade talks." >> reporter:conomists and podcast partners soumaya keynes and chad bown specialize in trade. >> and whirlpool, this mega company, essentially started claiming that this competition was unfair. >> reporter: what does unfair actually mean in the context of trade? >> unfair can either mean subsidized, so the 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 washing machines, in this case,i at a prithe u.s. market that's somehow defined as too low. lower than their cost of production, or maybe lower than the prices that they're charging for the same washing machines back at home. >> our washer business was losing money, hundreds ofar millions of do >> reporter: aaron spira is whirlpool's chief legal officero >> so in re to the unlawful actions by samsung and lg, we're faced with a choice: either don't sell a productro because it's utable to do so, thereby losing market share, or sell at a loss. >> reporter: now samsung and lg, ,irlpool's main competito flat out deny playing dirty. >> we do not dump our washing chines in the united states. >> when it comes to u.s. trade policy and the rules, we comply 100%. >> reporter: itead, say the spokespeople for both samsung and lg, they've been gaing on

whirlpool by making a better, more innovative product. >> we're the first tsteam technology in washing machines. >> we've come out with machines that can do two loads at the same time. >> we're leading the way with connected appliances. >> we invented add-wash, which seems like a very simple concept. how did no one think of this before? tosso you could open it an in a sock-- >> reporter: like a top secret door? ( laughter ) >> --which our engineend 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 rs ares, new york, was put through the wringer in highly controlled experiments. laundry is weighed; detergent riasured to the gram, and added to each load are fswatches that test how rough each model is on clothes. >> a particularly aggressive machine would show a lot of loose threads. >> reporter: and, how well it cleans.im engineeranni: >> we use five different soils that are placed in the load.th and then whe are finished,

we dry them and then take a color reading on a lory instrument. >> reporter: so i understand wine, cocoa, blood and carbon, but what is sebum? >> think of it as ring around the coar. >> reporter: and how is it produced? how do they obtain it? >> i don't want to know. ( laughter >> reporter: so who's the best? well, it depends on which kind " of machine, sansumer reports" editor sara morrow. >> ithe front-loader market, we've seen lg and samsung sort ur going back and forth with releasing new feates and innovating further and further. with top-loaders, we seelpaytag and whl innovating by getting bigger and bigger and gger over time. >> reporter: but whirlpool's share of the overall market has been getting smaller and smaller, down from half to just over a third. whirlpool blames unfair competition from samsung and lg. 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 moved their production to china. >> reporter: 2017, another whirlpool complaint, another riff-- this time against washers made in china. >> and this time, they moved to thailand and vietnam. >> you've got trade in this case being a bit like water. you're trying to plug one leak in one place, and it's just coming up in a different one. >> reporter: for 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 an completely legal. it may be, in fact, evidence thng the company is just sel a product that consumers really, really want touy and that they are really good at producing it. >> reporter: now, those two earlier rounds of tariprs were under ident obama. >> usa! usa! >> reporter: then cameonald trump, with his tough-on-trade platform. and the county where whirlpo s's washer plaits, which had gone for obama twice, went for trump by 23 points. so whirlpool made a bold move. it asked the trump

administtion to impose washer tariffs worldwide by invoking a lrely-used piece of tradeaw. 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 your domestic company. >> reporter: the u.s. international trade commission agreed, and in january, trump announced a big new tax on foreign washers. >> a big industry. a lot bigger than people would understand. >> for this first year, any company importing washing machines to the u.s. is hit wit % tariff for the first 1.2 million machines that they bring in. now any subsequent washi machines they bring in after that 1.2 million mark are hit with a 50% tariff. so it is pretty steep. >> reporter: and sure enough, prices are going up. a lot. so far this spring, they've spiked 17%. and it's not just foreign ivshers that are more expe

now-- whirlpool has raised 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 b is supposed toable to increase their prices and profits. the whole point is that they've been injured by this foreign competitn and this is supposed to let them get back to financial strength. >> reporter: so if prices go up, it's aeature, not a bug, essentially. >> but it means consumers are worse off because they're now paying more. >> reporter: at abw appliances outside washington, d.c., showroom manager chris hemmingsen says his customers may not mind. >> after the last ten years of the downturn of not purchasing a lot of this, they really want what they want. and 0 to $50, maybe $100, doesn't really change their opinion on things. i don't think that people would mind paying a littleit more if they knew that american jobs are being created, and hopefully, it ng somebody's salary. >> reporter: in fact, whirlpool hs already hired 200 new workers in clyde.

utus, samsung has just created 650 new jobs in carolina, and lg will soon add 600 in tennessee. >> we're doing exactly what president trump wants to do. we're investing in america and we're creating jobs. >> reporter: by making washers in the u.s., they can avoid those pesky tariffs. they've also cashed in on all the ways that states and counties woo new plants and new jobs these days: with generous gran, tax credits, and other goodies. does the clyde plant receive any similar public subsidies? >> the state of ohio has been a l great partner for whirlpr many years, but i don't believe we've receivedupport in the neighborhood of what you were listing for samsung anlg. >> reporte which means samsung and lg may enjoy the exact same kind of advantages-- government subsidies-- here in the u.s. that whirlpool accused them of getting back in korea. trump's tempts to help american companies and workers through tough trade measures could backfire for other reasons. his stl and aluminum 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 we president's tariffs actually help or hurt american workers? c ld be a wash. for the pbs newshour, i'm catherine rampell, reporting from ohio and new york. e >> woodruff: next,rn to another installment of our weekly " series. spectacular" imani davis is a poet and an undergraduate fellow at the o universipennsylvania. her piece tonight explains why artists need to be helde accountar their work. >> this poem is called

"platinum." it was inspired by the many brave woman and binary folks and n coming forward during the "me too" movement. "how easily we forge that stars are fires, too. someone has burned, and that is what makes them shine. but instead of fearing the flame, their fans 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. 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,sn k off to detonate into ari man't answer, or a good

flavor of wrong. the lyrics taught them to accept ny cruel guess at love a tossed at their feet. patriarchy is my family tree turning to cinder while a man soundtracks the funeral rites. record grief on repeat and i omise 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.te they lto 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 house party, boys forgive kodak black and forgive chris brown and forgive their friends who do not ask permission and call is brotherhood. at a barbeque, i look to my elders for guidance. but men forgive r. kelly and forgive james brown and forgive the uncles who touch babies and call these the good old days. what is a man but culprit or bystander. lit match or 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.kn ing the men behind the music would kill us and watchingev yone 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 who create it. people are being hurt in the process of making these things claimed are so beautiful and so worth, like, consuming. hurt by people who really believed that their actions don't have anything to do with what they produced. and i think the two things are linked, and we have to be more careful about acknowledging and being attentive to people'so identities ande's pain. being someone who make things and writes, i know that, like, my art is always pulling fm my

life and always pulling from things that i've experienced and riings that people who i'm very close to have exced. and i feel like it's not doing those stories justice for us 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 the artist 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 separating dren from their parents the u.s. border? we look back with a timeline at how it went from proto procedure. that's on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour.d at is the newshour for tonight. w i'm judruff. join us online, and again here tomorrow evening, with mark heields and david brooks. for all of us at pbs newshour, thank you, and we'll see you soon.

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