captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> yang: good evening. i'm john yang. judy woodruff is awa on the newshour tonight: questions remain about the fate of minorseparated from their families after the trump administrationeverses its coroversial policy. next, women take the wheel legally for the first time this weekend in saudi arabia, the start of what is still a lon road for women's rights. then, an art museum in northwestern arkansas has brought a world-class collection to a region far from the country's traditional art centers. >> it's not making art-- any art accessible for all. it's making the best of american art available and accessible for all. >> yang: and it's friday. mark shields and david brooks analyze the white house's role in the immigration debate and the week's other political news.

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and friends of the newshour. >> thiprogram was made ssible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> yang: tonight the state of play on immigration tonight is c anything bar. ryrents arrested at the southern border are stillg to re- unite with their children. congress is still searching for an overall solution. and president trump is still talking tough. whe house correspondent yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. >> these are the american citizens permanently separated from their loved ones. >> reporter: the president sought today to shift the focusl

from fs separated at the border to the families of people killed by thosin the country illegally. >> they're not separated for ys or two days, they are permanently separated. because they were killed by criminal illegal aliens. >> reporter: as he has before, he also falsy linked the larger migrant community to those who commit crimes. y hear it's like better people than our own citizens it's not true.ep >>ter: the white house event followed fierce criticism of the president's zero tolerance policy. it's continued even after he ordered a halt to separating children from their parents, more than 2,300 since early may. according to the associated press, 500 of the separated children have since been reunited with a family member. but advocates for the others say they're desperately trying to find children who've been re- located to shelters and foster care across the country. federal officials are said to be organizing a centralized reunification process in south

texas. other reports say the pentagon d preparing to shelter up to 20,000 children-- ssibly parents-- at military bases in texas and arkansas. enbut at the border in mca texas, today efrén olivares-- a lawyer for the texas civil rights have been calling him, frantic to find their children. >> it's the me questions-- "when am i going to see my child again?" >> reporter: olivares says the s governmearated the families with no plan for how to reunite them later. >> so the children end up at a shelter with the office of fugee settlement. the parents are very likely at an ice detention facility, those are o separate systems not designed to communicate with each other so we're having to df on the, trying to locate the parents, trying to locate the children the fst step to get >> reporter: meanwhile, there's word the u.s. attorney'sffice in south texas is dismissing cases against parents who were charged with illegally entering the country and were then separated from their children. at the same time, u.s. customs

idd border protection has it will continue to refer adults who cross the borderllegally, for prosecution. across the country today, democrats, including illois urged president trump today to rescind the zero tolerance policy. i call it a zero humanity policy. >> reporter: and on the floor of the house, democrat ted lieu of california played a recording obtained by "propublica. in it children are heard crying after being separated from their parents. a standoff quickly ensued with re georgia.aren handel of all of ts comes as republicans have pushed off a vote on a compromise immigration bill until next wk. but this morning, on twitter, the president toldepublicans to: "stop wasting time on immigration until after we elect more senators and congn

and women in [the] november [midterms]." he went on to say: "we cannot allow our country to be overrun by illeg immigrants as the democrats tell their phony stories of sadness and grief." that's likely to make it harder for g.o.p. leaders to win the votes they need. the bill was already facing tough opposition from those like representative lou barletta of new jersey. >> people are taking advantage, every time you're talking about a pathway to citizenship or allowing people to come you knoh whpens more people come in. and we are letting this >> reporter: but a fellow immigration hardliner, representative bob goodlatte -- says congress is undeterred by the president's tweets today. he says lawmakers will keep working on a solution. >> yang: yamiche and our capitol hill correspondent lisa desjardins are here to talk about where immigration policy is headed. yamiche, let me start with you. have we gotten any more clarity today about how this executive order is going to be carried out, ho these families are going to be reunited? >> well, federal agencs and families that are trying to be

reunited are facing a labyrinth of government beau rock sivment the's no clear cut way the families will be reunited. e whitesking from th house to the department of health and human services in charge of reunite ago lot of these families, they say they .on't kn it took a while to get the answers today. most wanted to be radio silent on it. we know, in some cases where there aret groups working wih the families separated in the past before president trump became vocal about it, it takes two nths about to from the time you locate child to put the child back in the home because they're assessing whether the home is safe and the child is healthy. i know one case where two young boys know where their mother is, it's beeit months, they're still in foster care. they say there is complications in their case. the kids talk to their mother but can't lie with her. we're looking at a case where the federal govement is in chaos and there are no clear-cut

answers. >> jng yang: a government in chaos. ng hear the pentagon is bei asked to house the families and their lawyers are bei t askedo prosecute the cases. >> yes, we have information tat the secretary of defense has approved sending 21 attorneys familiar withriminal prosecution to help with these border cases. the point is interesting in their response to them to say they will help with the misdpiern and fennel wis,th charhat's because it's not really clear what the policy is now, which way these cases arego g to go. >> yang: and as this plays out, will the vote get the hill any closer to the votes they need? an the republican leadership hopes to but i ell you from my many conversations today, not i don't think the president helped things by saying perhaps we'll just blow the whole thing off until after november elections. we'll see. this weekend be tell us a lot.

what's happening more vigorously now in congress, two things, a series of letters going out to health and human services froms democrtting them out publicly, republicans not, asking what's going on. many of the senators, asking what's going on in their statesa alsopening today, we're see ago lot of republican republicad democrats go to thcilities. we'll see many in the weekend protestest from these members. all of this leading up to what may be the only action we see next week, not, that immigration vote. there's no date set for that. t it's important toort of remind viewers what exactly is involved in that bill. these are the four pillars the president said he wanted. to remind people at the top of the li is the idea of a status for dreamers, those people brought here as children

illegally, money for the border wall, limit to extended family migratioand end to the visa lottery, adding to that dealing with the child sepioarissue, in this bill, john, that may come for a vote or not next week is important money, $7 billion to try and house these kids. if this bill doesn't pass, thei fatet clear, nor is it clear whether resources will come to house them. >> yamiche, these are the pillars, the principles theid president ut earlier. has there been any clear guidance from the white house at the president will accept, what he wants out of a bill, what he will sign? >> i just got off the phone wit ite house who told me the president would support whatever bill the republins passed, if there's a bill that can be passed in the house. she problem is that he' tweeting his frustrations because he doesn't believe any bill can pass the senate. he's frustrated with the republican majority . the sena they want a bill that deals with

federal court restriction that restris how children can be detained, if it doesn't pass. d to saying kids really nee be detained in very humane circumstances. the president wants a law that would change tha today was also important because the president went out and went back to hiss e, went back to his roots of criminazing migrants. he had an event at the white house where he had these family members ho had lost loved ones killed by undocumented immigrants and he was pitting the question, are you on the side of temilies he said is permanently separated from the kids, or on the side ofhe kids who are caged who may be temporarily separated. today was him taking a big step forward and saying are you with these american families or immigrant families. it's a question that's unanswerable for most people. >> yang: yamiche alcindor, lisa desjardins, thank you very much. in the day's other newore than 200 migrants waited on board a rescue ship in the

mediterranean, hoping foa place to dock. italy refused to accept the veel yesterday, the second time that's happened this month. instead, italy insisted malta accept the ship. separately, the united nations reports some 220 migrants drowned off the coast of libya this week. the european union began enforcing tariffs today on $3.4 billion of u.s. goods-- from bourbon to motorcycles.et it'siation for u.s. tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. in turn, president trump nded the e.u. remove its tariffs and trade barriers. otherwise, he warned "we will be placing a 20% tariff on all of their cars coming into the u.s." talks to end south sudan's five-year civil war have faltered, after president salva kiir rejected working wion the oppositieader. the president and former vice president riek machar met in ethopia this week for srst talks since 2016. but kiir's spokesmd today that machar can't be trusted because he once attempted a

coup. >> this is why we are saying as the people of south sudan, not the president alone, but as the people of south sudan, we are saying enough is enough and if he wants to be the president, he shld wait for elections. >> yang: officials said there may be additional talks next week. south sudan's civil war has left thousands of people dead and displaced millions. back in this country: the supreme court ruled today that police generally need a search warrant to track a suspect's movement through cellphone records. the 5-to-4 decision was a limited victory for privacy advocates. the majority said it does not apply to other kinds of records. we'll get the details, later in the program. the police killing of a black teenager has roiled east pittsburgh, pennsylvania. ever since antwon rose was shot tuesday night there've been protests, and last night, demonstrators shut down a highway. they dispersed, peaceably, hours later. police say rose ran from a car that was wanted in an earlier twooting.

they say they founguns in the car and an empty clip in his necket. the family says f that justifies killing the teen. and, on wall street: bips rallied after opec boosted oil production by less than expected. that sent oil prices energy stocks-- higher. the dow jones industrial average gained 119 points to close at 24,580. f the nasdl 20 points, and the s&p 500 added 5. still to come on the newshour: will migrant children be reunited with thr families? the supreme court rules on whether the government can track you through your phone. saudi arabia prepares to lift its ban on women drivers, and much more. >> yang: we return to immigration and the complicated process of reuniting children and parents who have been

forcibly separated at the border.g wendy yo the president of kids in need of defense, which provides legal services toan unaccod and separated migrant children. and our own amna nawaz has just returned from a week reportingon he southwestern border. amna, welcome back. welcome to both of you, wendy amna, terrific reporting on the border and work with frankca sen. from the contact you've made, you've gotten anecdotal evidence that separations are continuing? >> that's right. the best way to expinthis is still a situation in chaos. a woman we pra fileouple of days ago, a grandmother and here granddau a 3-year-old girl, sophie, who turned 4 yesterday, actually, theyle crossed ally pence morning, made the cr essing at thel paso bridge. she is now seeking asylum. the whole family wa fleeing cartel violence in mexico. we got word jusa little while

ago from the grandmother who has goen released frovernment custody that the girl has beetan n from her this morning. they said because you are not her mother, we are taking the girl into custody. we will contact the motshher. clarified the girl's birth mother is in the united states, an asylum case pending. she hasn't been raising the daughter but another baby she crossed with ahile ago. the mother said she got a call her daughter was going into vernment custody, that she wouldn't hear anything about the ahild for the next five days. she was given ae number and a general number to call. that's where these families are right now. >> yang: wendy, how common and uncommon is what amna told us now. >> what we're seeing is a very systematic policy of trying to do this in 100% of the cases in. the executive orderissued yesterday, they said they were going to present this, but as you are reporting, we suspect it

will continue onward.y what te doing is trying to punish these families for coming to t border, to do nothing but what is their legal right which is to seek asylum. and they're also trying to deter other families who may be thinking making the voyage to the united states from coming. >> yang: tell us about the difficulties in locating -- parents locating their children, children locating their parents and communicating. >> difficulty is an understatement. it's nearly important. we're not just talking about parents caught up in one part of the system. if they're criminally prosecuted, its a separate agency, but if they're just detained and moved toivil proceedings, it's a separate part, while children areandled under an entirely different agency and institution. it's the lawyers, the experts in navigating the government system. there is page after page of sontact people just trying to figure out wherethe child of

my client. they might have a medical need. are they getting their medication? they've gone through psychological and motional trauma, are they getny support for that? that's the frustration. they have no idee the kids are, nearly impossible toen locate, and pa are being deported before they've ever made contact with their kids. >> is that common, wendy, in your experience? >> not atl. this was a policy implemented with no thought given of how tot reunite famild allow them to communicate while in detention. the point you are making, those in the nonprofit sector e scrambling with the little information we have at hand to try to make the connections happen. e government really should have been the one doing this from the very beginning. that should have be a bare minimum standard if they were going to separate these families after arrival at the border. >> so when they separated tem, there was no thought of how to reunify them or bring them back together? >> absolutely none.

you have various federal nvolved. you now have the family members on separate legal tracks with different cases. it is extraordinarily difficult to try to figure out what's going on a d to bringe families back which is what they want more than anything. >> yang: wendy, explain that, separate legal tracks. the children and parent aren separate legal tracks? >> yes, the parent is being prosecuted for illegal entryen hough they've exercised their legal right to seek asylum, then will be placento deportation proceedings separately from the children, because the children have been redesignated as being unaccompanied, evethough they arrived together with a family member and, under laws, unaccompanied children are placed in a separate legal track. >> yang: and if the parent isir returned to thome country, the child isn't necessarily reited with thrent? >> that's exactly right. in fact, we have been working with some pares who have been deported back to central america while their ild has remained

in the custody of the office of refugee resettlement. these parents are fr it's been weeks since they've contacted the child and once you're back in the home coitunty even more difficult to establish contact. brown: amna, you were leaving the el paso airport this morning. tell us what you w. >> this speaks to the heart of us as journalists is the transparency, when you request information. frank carlsen and i were at the border leaving and we noticed a group of young men who all had unaccompanied minor bag tags onm nd appeared to be escorted by similarly clothed adults. we approached them and asked the adults with them can you telus about these young guys? tey looked anywhere from 9 or 10 to 17 or 18. we were given no answers, handed a card. the reason we know they were in government custody is because to have the card. the card had contact information

for the department of health and y man services which is the governmental age charge of unaccompanied minors in the united states. messagesd out, le and e-mails, no word back. we talked to the arlines as well and the representative said we have been assured by the government that we will not be transporting any children who have been forcibly separated from their parents since te president's executive order was so these are likely children who arrived unaccompanied and those in government custody for years are often transported this way. the poinis we don't know. we don't get confirmation from the government or response from them. there is not a lot of transparency about the care and well being of the children held now. >> yang: amna nawaz, wendy eed of defense, thank you very much. >> thank you.

>> yang: now more on the supreme court ruling we told you about on how closely the government can keep track of suspects. as jeffrey brown reports, the issue involves location data, typically transmitted by cell phones. >> brown: in late 2010 an armed robbery occurred at a radio shack in detroit. over the next three months,gh more stores in the area were robbed. data obtai from cellphone companies helped lead to arrests and convictions. today the supreme court ruled on an appeal of the case. marcia coyle of "the national law journal" was there to hear the decision. welcome back. >> thanks, jeff. >> brown: it's worth adding one of the ironies of the cases one thing they were stealing were celt'phones. >> tcorrect. >> brown: what kind of data? we're talking about self-site location data. when you lose your cell phone for a call, it pings a cell

tower and your cell phone company keeps a record of where the pings landed. eolice want the cell sit location records because, once they know where the cell tower is, ey have a rsonable idea of where the cell phone was used, and it was tht information that led them to timothy carpenter who was convictim iconvictim. t >> brown: a issue is whether it was an unreasonable s arch. >> thaght, did the police need a warrant. they actually had an order under federal law that makes itasier to access certainty kis of information. the chief justice said the fourth amendment requires law ntforcement to get a warf they want to access the records because you and i have a reasonable expectation oprf acy in that information. >> brown: he was joined byo what we refers the liberal justice system. >> yeah. >> brown: a little unusual

coalition. what was the argument from th other side? >> justice kennedy wrote one of the dissents and he said he felt this type of information was no differenfrom the so-called business record and other information that the cort, back in the '70s, actually said that police don't need a warrant for because, if you voluntarily give business records, bank precords to a thirdarty, you have no expectation that the private.ion will remai it's called the third party doctrine. and the chief justiceaid, wai a minute, these cell site locaon records are not like those records. >> brown: but the chief justice also tri to sa this is limited. >> yes. >> brown: but this is a fast-developing area of law, right, digital and privacy in the digital age. >> awnolutely. >> bwhat are the implication force the rest of us? >> okay, there are some who believe that this design t pass for protection of privacy ind e-mails xt messages.

the chf did ehasize the gnar roughness. he said we're talking abo historical cell site location data, not data collected in reah time by police, and also that there are exceptions to the warrant requirement ifngvidence is go be destroyed, somebody's kidnapped, there's a bomb threat, that alo limits the ruling, he said. but he very much has an o eye the future. he talked about this digital volution that we're undergoing, and the dissenters lt that the principals in this decision will open the door to a lot more litigation and actually endanger certain law enforcement investigations. >> brown: and very briefly, in this case vie conion goes back to a low court? >> it does. basically, the court is sayinge you can't he evidence because you didn't have a warrant. it wilrtbe up to the lower c to see as well as the prosecutors if they want to try this fellow again without that evidence. >> brown: marcia coyle, as elways, thank you.

>> my pleasure,f. >> yang: stay withs. coming up on the newshour: an mark shields and david brooks give their take on the immigration controversy, and bringing art to rural communities. but first, saudi arabia is the only country in the world that forbids women from driving. but this sunday marks a milestone when that prohibition ends. nick schifrin looks at the state of women's rights in the kingdom and the long and winding road to allow females behind the wheel. >> reporter: whenever manal al- sharif drives, she feels free. but in her home in saudi arabia, what looks routine, has represented resistance. >> ( translated ): you'll find woman with a ph.d., a professor at a college, and she doesn't know how to drive. we want change in this country. >> reporter: saudi arabia's banned women from

driving. activists broke barriers and religious custom posting driving vios to youtube. for women, driving is dignity, al-sharif told jeffrey brown last year.ve >> it them sense of liberty and freedom. and that breaks all the things that have been learned, and brainwashed with, that we have to be obedient to these unjust anws, and we're weak, we cnot >> reporter: the protest movement started in the early 1990s. >> ♪ no womano drive no woman no drive >>eporter: and even includ male comedians spoofing bob marley on women being driven. >> ♪ i remember when you used to sit, in the family car but backseat >> reporter: but it's backseat no longer. this month, saudi women learned the rules of the road from a former racecar driver. and a small number of women have already received the drivers

licenses, as seen in this government-produced video.ma drivers means more female workers, says saudi embassy spokesperson fatima baeshen. >> driving was a very tangible barrier for women entering the work force, and so allowing women to drive is really a green light, pun intended, to allow women to come into the work force and commercial economically contribute. >> reporter: the effort's roearheaded by 32-year-old prince mohammad bin-salman. in the last few years,d omen have eare right to vote and run for office in local elections, and attend moves andm sports, part of a larger vision 2030 plan. >> when we talk about vision 2030, and transforming the economy, and developing the society in a way that really pivots the country's trajectory, it allows normalizing women into the public space. >> reporter: but critics say this seemingly modern u.s. ally is stuck in the past. and ing women drivers as a mohammad bin salman p.r. stunt to get western attention and

investment, ys london school economics professor madawi al-rasheed. h needs western capital and western expertise. and therefore, putting a soft, beautiful face behind the wheel may just do it for him. >> reporter: last month, many of the very women whose activism made the change possible were arrested and accused of undermining saudi security, part of a larger crackdown on mohammad bin salman's critics.li >> poets, jours, intellectuals, lawyers, professionals, almost-- even hio owins and his own relatives. they had a taste of his. repressi >> reporter: and what's not changing this weekend: saudi women still need a male guardian's permission to td,vel, get marrven open a bank account. this society is still restrictive and still has no representativeo overnment. >>ink that saudi arabia is going to be reformed without political change is acally a myth.

it's actually not going to happen. women's rightsre part and parcel of a bundle of rights, and these rights are political rights. h reporter: in response f activism, manal al-sharif was jailed, and labeled a prostitute. but she's still working to change saudi society. lifting the dring ban will provide unprecedented autonomy to women, but activists say the road to freedom is still blocked. for the pbs "newshour", i'm nick schifrin. >> yang: it has been quite a week in washington, and here to analyze it all are shields and brooks.at syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" omlumnist david brooks. >> gentlemen, we it has been quite a week.

we saw an unusual coalition of opposition to the president's policy on the border, the president digging in, defending it andhanging course. what if weearned this week? >>haos reigns. usually when you go to the white house and say how does this work, they usually walk you through the deails. seems no one's asking the practical questions, it's just what you have when you have government by tweet. it's infuriating about it is the republican party exist force a few reasons, one of them is to understand that government is at its st abhorrent when it can't see human beings as humane beings, and it treats them as mere data points or somhing in a bureaucratic game, and that's what we've seen this whole policy.ot it'sreating the people as human beings. it's treating them as sort of pawns in some sort of larger protest movement, and that's

what happens when government does that, you 'etr horific pain and suffering and that's what we're seeing. >> yang: mark? every administration is inevitably a mere reflection of the man at the top. sadly, in this case, the publican party has become a reflection of the man at the top. it is a combination of malice and incompetence. it is shameful beyond description. ae idea of separating children, anybody who's bearent or a child or a sibling and knows the pain, the inconsolable pain of home sickness wha child is separated from the mother, even sometimes for a brief period, to do this is a matter of policy in unble. the one bright light to me, quite honestly, in a dark, dark picts been organized religion, speaking up and speaking out. with the exception of some of

the president's most ardent followers in the evangelical community, give credit to the southern baptists, the protestant denominations, the catholic bishops, across the board, the cardil of chicago put it so well, he said this is no american, this is cruel and it is a shame on all of us tha it is done in our name. and i just think that's where it beyond the political, which i think is a disaster for the republicans, for the reasons many of which david has spoken of, is just immeasurable. >> yang: david, the president seems toant the make this th centerpoint of the mid-term election campaign. >> the republicans are having a debate. normally you go with your strength. the republicans have a clear advantage with the economy.

on the normal thing economy, trump says, no, immigration will be ourue iss. and the data that backs him up is if you ask wha mt issue isost on your mind right now it's immigration care second.th he can say, listen, the people care about immigration. i think it's what hispeople care about or what he thinks his people care about. but the broader tend here worth pointing out is, over the las two years and over the past ten years, support for immigration in principle has been rising and not falling. people say immigrants are good for the country, the number has been rising. people say we have fewer immigrants, it's been falling. so this is nt the rise of nativism, it's a rise of donald trump mobilizing support of the electorate, a certain portion. >> yang: congress can't figure out what to do. they punted again a vote on a bill in the house. >> no, it's actually -- david's right, it's 17 years it's been

improving. there's a 6% drop just from last year in the americans who think that we ought cut immigration, down to 29%, which is a low. so the americans really, if anything, are more welcoming, more enlightened, more acknowledging of the value and importance of immrants to our country. but, in congress, it's been a political e'ilure. thbeen no public consensus established on this issue. it's been a failure. president bush tri, president george w. bush tried, president ama tried, they failed. president trump has been like an arsonist in a gasoline station on this issue. the only them who really want action right n, heading in november, are suburban republicans, who are in districts where thecoir tituents are more enlightened, more welcoming, more humane on immigration and

oppose the republican party, and th want to see some action to be able to go bk. but there isn't -- i mean, democrats have been excluded from the process aod they'ret playing and the mainstream republicans really don't giva damn. >> it's really interesting, it's been a failure on three ways, and there's been the ultra hawkish side open the republicai who wants to cut legal and illegal immigration and build a wall on all the ret. there's anllher part we' call oue moderate republicans t may be stretching the term who mostly care about just enforcing the laws and want to give dreamers a path to citizenship, and those two can't get along so you can't get a republican policy. then there is the democrats who say we aren't going to play any of these gam because we can't be getting rid of families, can't be building aall. so we have -- we're going to be -- in three weeks we're goinb exactly where we were

today. so andrew suellivan in new york magazine wrote a piece i have sympathy for who said give the guy his wall. it will do nothing, but build the wall, and they get a normal policy given the wall. somehow there has to be some beution or this problem wi exactly the same in two weeks as it was two weeks ago. >> it will be, john, but i think you have to confront th reality. this man is a racialist. he rlly is. the language he uses, donald trump, three years ago this week he announced his candidacy. you recalle sad mexico doesn't send us their best, they're not our frithend. send rapists and drug carriers. i mean, it's always been. the nigerians don't want to goo backtheir huts. they come from the s-hole countried it's always racial component. he doesn't talk that way ab canada, he doesn't talk at way about france. he talks about waybout people from the southern hemisphere of a differentdigmentation, a i

don't think you can look at any of his statements whetherct ing the country, we're talking about lice and --ti >> inf the country. yeah, i think this is katrina. i think this is a defining moment for this presidency and the american people. i mean, if you could continue to support donald trump on thesee terms, youcepting the fact that he is what he is. >> yeah, i don't agree. analytically, i agree with thera objection, but i expect a lot of people who are not anti-immigrant and anti-nativist support the border and think people will seek asylum if they bringids. i would be surprised if his rating went down more than 3 or 4 percentage points if at off the we'll see in a week. >> yang: mark mentioned katrina. the reason why i think that was so startling for george w. bus

was because the republicans were seen as the people ocompetence who could run things and make things work, and now we have this, asamiche alcindor was describing earlier, total chaos in the government as they try to figure out how to execute the executive order and how toe reunite milies. seems like there wasn't any thought from which he is supporting, when they separate the families how to reunite them. both have to say about the republican party and where they are now. >> you get a weird phenomenon, t every ti government messes up in some major way, donald trump will say, see, i'm draining the swamp, you've got to get rid of this government thing. the more he screws up, the more it helps him. he has been teting that position strongly for the las year and a half. >> yang: i want to note the passing of a colleague ofous, each of us worked with him in "time" magazine in the 1980s,

charles krauthammer, a very thought-provoking and eloquent writer. mau worked with him on inside washington. >> i did. charles and i occupd different philosophical chairs, far more orapolarized than david and i ae charles suffered a terribly disabling injure that left him a paraplegic as a young man. in spite of that, a eat tribute to the human spirit. charles is all you said he was, but hehead a wicked sense of humor. as gordon peterson the long-time washington anchor wrote a beautiful piece on the pbs c web site aborles, was emcee or host of that show, noted charles just had a marvelously devilish sense of humor and oftentimes at the expense of those very conservative icons that he wasei defending policies, while acknowledging their infirmities of character ande prsonality,

but he was -- he was reall i think, generous, it's fair the say.t >> a, super ielligent. there's a test where people read off a number and you have to recite them backwards, the average person could do five,u charles ld do is it while driving down the highway at 70 miles an hour. he could be dry, but at a ball game, he was like a 7-year-old boy, he was joyful. he was a sweet man, especially at a ballpark, around jewish issues he just radiated that sweetness. the final thing, just professionally, he's a man who did the reading. he rea read through and knew his philosophical grounding and everything could grow out of that. so you had -- he had romanticism, could get intent up

in sentimental passions, buit gave a depth to his work that was extraordinary for a newspaper columnist.g: >> y saw him once on fox. there was a reference to you as a covansve columnist and charles said, no, i have to correct you. >> he said who was your favorite liberal columnist and he said me. that was his sense of humor. >> brown: that was his sense of humor. dad brooks, shield mark shields, thank you so much. >> yang: the louvre in paris, the metropolitan museum of art in new york, and one you prably haven't heard of: crystal bridges museum of american art in bentonville, arkansas. et's perhaps an unexpected spot for such a first-r collection. but that's the museum's goal-- and as jeffrey brown reports--as art of our american creators series, it's a mission that's helping to reshape the entire region.

>> brown: it's not uncommon toho see scol groups at a museum, but the crystal bridges museum of american art in bentonville, arkansas, sees part of its very mission as serving young people in this largely rural area who might never otherwise get to a major collection. this class was from pierce city, missouri, a town of about 1,300. it's just 60 miles from he, but the trip was a first for many, including 5th grader lanie skocy. >> it's a small town and most of the time it's like, okay, we're staying here not going to arkansas and coming to something like this. it's cool. there's a lot of cool fun arthe and it is just beautiful. >> in a lot of respects, we are worlds away.te >> rep laura still is skocy's art teacher. >> some of them get to travel t places like rger areas fike kansas city, and a lot of them do go to sprid, but there's quite a few of them.

they just they've got parents tsthat are hardworking parnd don't have a lot of time to take them to places like this. >> reporter: crystal bridges, b designarchitect moshe safdie, was founded by wal-mart heiress alice wapuon, who hased the art and opened the museum in her hometown in 2011. it sits on 120 acres of land in the ozarks, surrounded by more atan three and a half miles of sculpture-dottede trails. admission is free. the collection: highlights from many periods of american art. >> these are iconic objects that are part of an american art 101 class. >> reporter: mindy bee-saw has been a curator here for three and a half years. >> the first and foremost thing we look at when we're thinking about art is, "the best." >> brown: the best? that's a high bar. >> it's a high bar, but that i think goes to the mission of what we're doing. it's not making art-- any art accessible for all.

it's making the be of american art available and accessible for all. >> brown: one example: asher b.s durakindred spirits". walton bought the painting from the new york public library for a reported $35 million, stirrinn controversraditional art centers. it was just part of the skepticism and concern the museum drew early on about walton's deep pockets and where this new colction was being housed. seven years in, the museum continues to make its case, attendance is up-- a total of arly 4 million to date-- and the curators are pushing the reenvelope more than they in the past. the museum recently unveiled a redesign of its early american galleries. >> if access is our mission, then we need to be accessibl and open, maybe even questioning, that established story of american art and making aom for more interpretati more stories. >> brown: to that end, works

from different eras hang side by side in a kind of "conversation:" an iconic george washington, painted by charles wilson peale, next to a fntemporary video "portrait" of a north dakota ocking worker, by susie j. lee. >> this is the kind of subject that would have never been painted in the 19th century. and so here in the 21st century. >> brown: you mean like a common man, a worker. >> a common man, a worker, wouldn't have been given this nandeur, this attention, and so >> brown: wall tex tie older artworks to contemporary issues. for george pettit's 1865 painting of union refugees in ele civil war, a digital l draws a direct connection to today's syrian refugee crisis. another part of the "new" american story being told atre emphasizese american art.

bobby martin, a local artist, professor d member of the muscogee creek tribe, served as an advisor. he pointed to a lonial portrait set next to native moccasins and cradles. e >> for me ands the story s 's not just about a european sensibility of herat people look like in 1600s or whatever. here is also what was going on at the same time. so it brings in a whole anotolr thread, a nother story that is often set apart. >> brown: the museum's contemporary galleries have also expanded, with works by artists like titus kaphar, vanessa german and ruth asawa. earlier this year, the museum hosted the american debut of the exhibition, "soul of a nation," which showsed works by black artists in the 1960s through '80s. lauren haynes is the curator for contemporary art. >> a lot of museums all across the world sometimes

underestimate their audiences oh k they know what people want to see or think they know what people want to engage with.e but the things particularly working in contemporarywart is you're asking people to push boundaries and think a little rifferently. so to me this feelt at home here in bentonville. >> brown: now, bentonvil itself is pushing boundaries. home to the original five-and- dimealton's store-- and eventually wal-mart's headquarters-- bentonville's always been a "company town." it still is. but with crystal bridges-- andve big ments from a younger generation of waltons-- the town has taken on a new looky practicaernight. its downtown is now filled with street art, trendy restaurants t and bike shot feed a burgeoning mountain biking scene. the population here in northwest arkansas is one of the fastest growing in the country. mike abb grew up in bentonville before moving to austin, texas, for more than a decade.

he came back in 2013 and now works for the waltons. >> we had a leadership teaat wal-mart and the corporate offices that were coming from urban cores and they were missing what they had in larger cities. they were missing that cultural momentum that they were getting out of the coasts. a brown: but abb acknowledges the extreme growth its accompanying rising costs-- can cause tensions. >> they're afraid their identities being taken away from them or that they're just holding space for a new future resident. re actively trying to change that mentality. ur brown: as for crystal bridges' next ve- it's turning an old kraft cheese factory into a venue for contemporary exhibitions, musicn theatefilm. the 63,000-square-foot space, called "the momentary", is set to open in 2020. for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrebrown in bentonville arkansas. an

>> in the "#metoo era," there is a artistic question to consider: how do we watch and how do we think about charlie nsse interviews, miramax movies, or "cosby show" re in other words, should we separate the art from the artist? earlier this week rapper xxxtentacion was killed, but what do we make of his music? tonight, "new yorker" music critic amanda petrusich shares her humble opinion on how we should answer those questions. >> for decades if not centuries, art critics have repeated an odd dictum: "always separate the art from the artist." it's a funny rule, because so o muwhat's been canonized as triumphant or profound work is s considercessful in part because it is personal-- in my

experience, if we can't find thh humanity in sog, it means far less to us as a music critic, a huge part of my job consists of contextualizing a soalbum in its cultural moment, and on a creative continuum-- figuring out how it works and what it means in relation to everything around it. but according to the old rules, the artist himself-- who he is, what he does, how he behaves, what he believes-- should remain off-limits. it's become increasingly obvious that this way of thinking is outdated and dangerous. we can't simply cleave a song or record from the consciousness that created it because we like it, or because it's fun to dance t, or because we don't wa reckon with the idea that bad people can make beautiful things.

whose behavior over time indicates some deep moral fissure. the streaming sevice spotify briefly banned music of two artists accused of horrifying physical and sexual violence, r. kelly and xxxcontacion onra d play lists. i'm uncomfortable withm supporting tinancially and even more uncomfortable with tacitly approving or tolerating violence against women. this is different than censorship. this is makicg a choto be explicit about what we as listeners and consumersndns will and will not accept. spotify eventually restored those artists to its play lists saying it didn't want to play judge and jury. these deliberations aren't simple. is it easier to pretend the art and artist who made it are distinct? of course. it's the processf determining who's decent haves who's

monstrous gointo be clean, easy or fun in certainly not. in mi' careeve spoken with dozens of musicians, writers anw filmmake have talked about the creative process as a kind of sense-making exp for many artists, it's simply how they figure out who they are and what they think. o can't pretend son books or television shows just appear fully formed in the world independent of any ideology or intention. thart is the artist. you don't get one without the other. >> yang: on the newshour online right now: what would it take to n rn president trump's vis a "space force" branch of the armed services into reality? we asked experts to weigh in. that analysis and more is on our website: pbs.org/newshour. robert costa is in the studio d ner preparing for "washington week," which airs later tonight. robert, what's on ta

>> reporter: tonight on "washington week" we discuss president trump's abrupt decision to stop separating migrant children from their parents at the u.s.-mexico border. we'll explain what efforts are being made to reunite families and if the administration plans to soften its "zero-tolerance" immigrant policy that's later tonight on "washington week." john? thanks, robert. and we'll be back, right here, on monday. that's the newshour for tonight. i'm john yang. have a great weekend. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> kevin. >> kevin! >> kevin. >> advice for life life well-planned. learn more at raymondjames.com. >> consumer cellular.

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♪ tonight on kqed newsroom, president trump agreed to end the practice that separated thousands of immigrant children from their families at the border. but big questions and legal challenges remain. we get reaction from san jose congresswoman zoe lofgren. she's co-authored a bi protect immigrant families. plus a new documentary reveals the toll factory farming takesnm on the envit and human health. hello and welcome to "kqed newsroom." i'm thuy vu. we begin with immigration. on wednesday president trump signedec an eive order ending the practice of separating immigrant children from thesr famit the border. the new order would allow families to be detained together. in april attorney general jeff sessions announced a, quote, zeroolerance policy to criminally prosecute all illegal