ca inewshour productions, llcf: >> woodruf good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight: an all caps message to iran-- president trump exchanges threats of war with iranian president hassan rouhani. then, newly released court documents shed light on f.b.i. surveillance of a former trump campaign aid and add fuel to the political debate over the russia investigation. and fetal alcohol disorder is more common than previouslygh thou- we explore recent research and how it affects children in the u.s. >> the results of the did not surprise me, unfortunately because i do think that there are a lot of children who are undiagf:sed. >> woodrll tt and more on tonight's "pbs news

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>> this program was made possible by the corporation for blic broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: iran is insisting tonight it won't back down after trading sharply worded warnings with president trump. late today, foreign minister javad zarif tweeted thwords, "color us unimpressed" after mr. trump warned of dire consequences for thrtening the u.s. the president, in turn, was answering an earer warning by iran's president. we'll have a full report after the news summary. in another threatening gesture

here at home, the white house says it's "exploring" the idea of revoking the security clearances for six national security critics. they are: former c.i.a. directors john brennan and michael hayden, former national security adviser susan rice, former director of national ,intelligence james clapp former f.b.i. director james comey and former deputy f.b.i. director andrew mccabe.es secretary sarah sanders charged today they have used their clearances for political and financial gain.g >> makseless accusations of improper conduct with russia or being influenced sia against the president is extremely inappropate. and the fact that people with these security clearances are making these baseless charges provides inappropriate legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence. a spokesperson for andrew mccabe said he lost his security clearance when he was fired in mah. there's been another surge in migrant rescues in the mediterranean sea. on sunda spanish crews picked

up 447 people making the dangerous crossing fm northern africa. they rescued 329 on saturday. the united nations estimates more than 18,0 people have journeyed to spain so far this year-- more than landed in italy. in toronto, police are investigating a shooting attack sunday night that killed two people, including a ten-year-old girl. 13 others were wounded, as the gunman fired into restaurants and cafes along a busy street. authorities say he died later, in a shootout with police. mayor john tory condemned the killings. ul i'm of course i'm angry that someone carry such an attack, which really amounts to an attack on our city itself. there are far too many people carrying guns in our city and our region which should not have them.

woodruff: late today police identified the killer as a 29- year-old man from toronto. japan recorded its highest temperature ever today: 106 degrees. it came during a heat wave that's gripped much of thear country for two weeks. people looked for any way they could to beat the heat today. the stif claimed more than 40 lives in japan-- and ten more in south rea. a european heat wave and gale- force nds triggered a emergency for athens, eece, today. thick smoke gathered above the ancient ruins of the parthenon, as fires burned west and eat of thcity. at least one person was killed. ck in this country, a california fire burned closer to mite national park. the "ferguson fire" has scorched now more than 33,000 acres of land south and west of yosemite in less than two weeks. nearly 3,000 firefighters are battling the blaze, but the flames have forced summer campers to evacuate parts of the park. the same heat that's feeding

wildfires is scorching the southwestern u.s. southern arizona could hit 119 degrees in the next few days. heat warnings extends from west texas all the way to southern california.od in missouri, workers raised the amphibious "duck boat" that s thunderstorm last week, killing 17 people.rs diveocated the boat 80 feet below the surface of "table rock lake."d the team ucrane on a barge to pull it out.of coast guarcials say federal safety investigators will now take over.go >> one of ths-- objectives of the investigation is to evuate if the operational guidance for ride the ducks and for this particular operation was followed. and again, they will be piecing togetherhose witness statements and the condition of the boat and all of that information you have mentioned in an effort to do that. >> woodruff: no one on brd was wearing a life preserver. that's not required under missouri state law. the u.s. senate voted late today

to confirm robert wilkie as secretary of veterans' affairs. wilkie previously served as the department's acting secretary the president fired his predecessor, andrew shulkin, in march. on wall stre, a mixed monday. the dow jones industrial average lost 13 points to close at 25,044. the nasdaq rose 21 points, and the s & p 500 added five. and copenhagen, denmark is getting a taste of christmas in july. more than 150 santa clauses from around the world are in the city. they're attending the 61st "world santa claus congress", that runs for three days. the lookalikes are braving a heat wave in heavy suits and full beards.to still come on the "newshour,"eh what'sd the president's ngeet lashing out at iran. italy's new t- governme aim sp e ti of migrants. a disorder affecting children whose mothers drink while pregnant. and much more.

>> woodruff: the united states and iran ramped up the tough o rhetoric towar another, but where is it all heading? newshour foreign affairs correspondent nick scifirin has the story. >> schifrin: for months, the administration has targeted iran with a campaign of pressure, from pulling out of the ir deal... >> i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. >> schifrin: to re-imposing sanctions to try and cripple's irinances. >> iran will be forced to make a choice: either fight to keep its onomy off life support at home, or keep squandering precious wealth on fights abroad. >> schifrin: but last night president trump took the campaign one step further and threatened war. he tweeted in all caps, "never, ever threaten the united states again, or you will suffer consequences the likes of which

few throughout history have ever suffered before." that was a response to iranian president hasan rouhanith atening the u.s., in an address to iranian diplomats. >> ( translated ): we do not want to go into a war with them. but they must understand wellan that war with s mother of all wars. acey also have to understand it very well, that with iran h mother of all peace. >> schifrin: whise spokeswoman sarah sanders called the president's tweet part of a consistent administration message. >> the president has been, i think, pretty strong since day one in his language toward iran. >> schifrin: that language has included demands for extensive, fundamental shifha in iranian or. the u.s. wants iran to permaneny abandon its nuclear program, end its missile program, and end support of proxy groups such as hezbollah. and the u.s. castigates iran's religious leaders as crupt. >> judging by their vast wealth, they seem more concerned with richeshan religion. these hypocritical holy men have devised all kinds of coked

schemes to become some of the wealthiest men on earth while their people suffer. >> schifrin: yesterday, secretary of state mike pompeo arrived to a clapping crowd at the ronald reagan presidential foundation. he said the u.s. "supports" anti-government protestors who have called for the overthrow of the iranian regime-- just as senior u.s. officialhave, before they joined the administration. >> the proud iranian people are not staying silent about their government's many abuses. and the united states under president trump will not stay sile either. ( applause )st when the unitees sees the shoots of liberty pushing up through rocky soil we pledge our solidarity. >> more than at any time, since, say, the 1980s, the regime is deeply worried about internal politics, about its capacity to survive. >> schifrin: marc gerecht is a former c.i.a. officer and now a senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracies. he says the pressure campaign is woing. companies that invested in iran

such aeuropean aircraft manufacturer airbus,rench oil company total and french automaker puegeot have all pulled out since late last year, the iranian rial has lost half its value. and this year iranians have demonstrated against corruption and economic policies andim demanded rreform. >> its achilles heel is the internal politics. that you have both weakness at the top, internal divisions at the top, and it's obvious that substantial number of people down below have had it with many aspects of the islamic republic. >> schifrin: but iranian protests are common, and there's no obvious protest leader. so the regime will survive, argues former state department official and brookings senior fellow suzanne maloney. >> we know the iranian people have real grievances with the policies their government imposes on them. what we don't yet see is the llapse of the capabilities of the current system. the capability to repress,

capabilities to muddle through and mitigate economic crises. the capabilities to skilmaully ge the diplomatic environment they're in. >> schifrin: and tist means iran xpected to respond to u.s. pressure. it's threatened to disrupt oil shipments, and use its proxies. and with both sides' rhetoric ramping up, that could increase the chances of conflict, and could reduce the chances iran changes its behavior. >> they are pushing as quickly as possible d robustly as possibleo try to get to a position of a change in iranian position, and i think that is unlily to pay off in the sho term. iran has been a 40-year problem for a reason. it's intractable, it's difficult, and fundamentally, an applicatioof maximum pressure isn't going to bring about a short-term change. >> schifrin: today president trump said he had no concernsin about easing tension with iran, and iran called hisre rks psychological warfare. so, in the short-term, the twitter diplomacy, and the sabre-rattling from both sides,

are expected to continue. for the pbs newshournick schifrin. >> woodruff: the release of previously-classified surveillance applications-- or fisa warrants-- by the justice department over the weekend seto off a ned of political fighting over the f.b.i.'s monitoring of former trumpmp gn foreign policy advisor carter page. in a series of tweets, presidenr p said the release confirms that the justice department t misl courts in order to epy on his campaign. democrats and somelicans disagree with the president's tterpretation. one of mr. trump critics in congress, ranking member of the house intelligence committef adam sof california, joins us now. congressman schiff, so much to ask you about, but let's start with that interpretation. the president is saying this filing by the justice department

proves wh he's been saying all along, that this was politically motivated, going after carte page, that it was based on a political -- in his words, a political witch hunt. >> it's quite fitting in the trump administration thadonald trump would come to the defense of someone who has knowledged -- that is carte page -- acknowledged being a former vise tore the kremlin. the f.b.i. had probable cause to believe carte page might be acting as a page to a foreign power, russia. they had ap aplication approved by four different judges, appointed by three different republican presidents, and there was ample evidence warrant the approval of the f.i.s.a. applications. the president is counting on people not to read them. who has timeo to reads hundreds of pages o f.i.s.a. application? lo the president is repeating falsehood after hood. but the fact remains the

f.i.s.a. applications were appropriately put before the court and apppriately approved. >> woodruff: let me quickly play for you, congress mr. , the comments of the chair of the onuse oversight committee trey gowdy yesterdayfox news. >> my take is that carte page is more like inspector gadget than he is jason bourne or james bond. trumanever mitt him or hd a conversation with him. i'm sure he's been on the f.b.i.'s radar for a long time, well before 2016. here's what we'll never know, here's what we'll ner know, bret: we'll never know whether or not the f.b.i. had enough without the dossier, the unvetted d.n.c.-funded dossier because they included it and everyone who reads this fisa application sees the amount of reliance they placed on this product funded by hillary clinton's campaign and the d.n.c. >> woodruff: congressman schiff, the two sides seem to bn looking at thicoming away with completely different interpretation. how with are we ever going to get to the bottom of this?

>> well, you have to look to the independent experts, and e independent experts who have looked at this i think have .i.formly upheld what the f.b did. i know it's easy for mr. gowdy to try to dish carte page, but he was only one of five or donald tr pp's formerolicy advisors during the campaign. the other george papadopoulos, they're trying to say he was just a coffee boy, even though he was involved setting up meetings with headsov state with e trump campaign, and paul manafort, the head of the trump campaign, donald trump tried to diminish and they he was only there for a short time. so this was part of what he does, downplay those havingit interactionsthe russians, shift attention elsewhere, but the reality is theres an extraordinary and worrying and disturbing number of donald trump both high-level and lower-level campaign peple from michael flynn and manafort to the president's own son to

papadopoulos and page meeting with the russians and then later lying about it. >> woodruff: congressman, several other things to ask you about, a lot breaking late today. number one, the president -- the white house press secretary sarah sanders saying the g esident is seriously considering revokcurity clearance for five former high-ranking intelligence and f.b.i. officials. what do you make of that? >> clearly this is an effort to punish and silence the president's critic. now, this is nt somhing you tend to see in the united states of america, not until now. this is what you would see in authoritarian governments. i think it is really app,alli and will certainly put a chille on peoth going into public service but also those w leave office and have deep concerns about the president wil l certainly feel if they speak out they will be punished and their future job prospects will be inminished. i for others who may seek

to tap the talent of people who serv in the intelligence community, it will also inhibit their ability to reach out to people with experience. >> also michael hayden. it's a new enemies list is what it is, and none of us that we would see that again in o life time, but this president determined, i think, to rest resurrect an iny's list and put his first few names on it. >> woodruff: another piece of news is the president's threatening tweet toward iran saying, in response to what he said was a theat from iran to the united states, where do you see threlationship going? you formerly seved ton house foreign affairs committee. >> well, looki think it was a mistake for the. to essentially refigure on america's commitment to thecl r deal. that was something that had caused iran to tear down their

plutonium reactor, export lot of their highly enriched uranium, essentially lengthle the breakout time for iran and to tear that up with nothing in place made a conflict wi iran more likely new york city less likely -- more likely, not less likely. what kerns me is these words by iran which is admittedly a maligne actor is nothing atypical from tehran, so why now is the president provoking this? confrontat it certainly has the character of an effort to distract attention from the disastrous summit in hesinki and everything that followed. one other thing i think we hve to be alarmed by is donald trump repeated by suggested obamad woovoke a conflict with iran when his poll numbers weren suff and i feel donald trump may be trying to do that in at least a rhetorical way. >> woodruff: you mentioned the

helsinki summit wint presi and vladimir putin. there are a number of republicans now saying they may not like the way the president spoke around and with vladim putin, but if his actions turn out to be tough, that, in the end, is going to be what matters the most. >> his actions ha been tough, but they have been tough on our allies. they have been tougon nato, our canadian allies, our british, german, french and australian allies. they have been tough on europe but soft on russia. nhe sanctions were forced upo this administration. they were passed over the obama administrationobama --over the e use and veto-proof margins, so the president gets no credit for that in my review, bu rather what the president has done is essentially green list rusia to intervene in the midterms. sterile message got from that message is as long as he intervenes on donald trump's side he can count on this president never ving the courage or interest in calling him out on it.

>> woodruff: congressmhi adam , ranking democrat on the house select committee on intelligence, we thank you. >> thanks, judy. t woodruff: italy has bor brunt of europe's migration crisis. 200,000 people have landed on the nation's shores after making the perilous crossing from north africa. now a new right wing governmento wants tothe human tide. it has banned nonprofit search and rescue ships from its ports and would like to stop european naval ships from landing refugees on its shores. but organizations are fighting back, accusing the italians of a cold blooded policy of allowing people to drown at sea. from palermo in sicily, special correspondent malcolm brabant reports. ♪ ♪>> rabant: they dance to protest that italy's generosity and tolerance have reached

s eaking point. economic migrantke lamin sawa from gambia are angry that the gateways which allowedp hem to steot in europe are being closed to others following behind. >> ( translated ): the ministry of interior of italy at the moment have decided that no boat is going to ente and that is not fair. they are lives. they are people. they are people who suffered in eir country.ng and tryio come out because of their own human resistance. >> brabant: italian politicsiv student irene aj has sympathy with the migrants, t least because her mother married an albanian who struled to overcome prejudice. >> everybody needs to choose where they want to live. and not lettg them in, letting people die at sea is not an option. sending them back to libya to death camps and slery is not an option. and what we need to do is to get more funds tactually help these people once they come here. brabant: their veis being directed against this man, interior minister matteo

salvini. in office since march, the right wing populist is now the most powerful politician in italy, more influential than the prime minister. salvini wants to establish migrant reception centers southw of libyare applications for asylum in europe can be processed. >> ( translated ): the objective is that not one more single person comes here by boat. >> brabant: the crew of thispa british trol ship has sampled salvini's new tactics. along with another vessel, it had rescued 450 migrants. salvini kept them off shore ford several daysnly allowed them to dock for disembarkation, once some european countries agreed to take them in. germany france and spain promised to accept 50 migrants each. this tough approach impressesll fe party member, fabio cantarella, recely elected as a councillor in the sicilian city of cataa. >> ( translated ): if we are europe, then europe must share ere responsibilities.

previous italian gents have not had the impulse to say we will not let them disembark unless europe shares the burde >> brabant: these harrowing images are being used by salvini's opponents to exemplify the consequences of a fortress italy policy. a spanish team accused libyan coastguards of abandoning a woman and chilto drown after s tercepting a migrant boat. another woman wapulled alive from the flotsam. politics professor flavio valyallo is disturbed by ita right turn. he sees echoes of the country's second world war fascist dictator benito mussolini. >> ( translated ): the european commission reminded salvini that people can't be returned to libya because it's note country. mussolini used to say "i don't care" ansalvini is doing the same. basically he's disregarding international law which governs resc sea, as well as the geneva convention and europeanti conv on human rights.

>> ( translated ): this mparison to mussolini is shameful. salvini doesn't do harm to sohers. salvini is sayinthing that is very honest and full of common sense. he is saying we cannot welcome everyone. >> brabant: according to the u.n.'s intertional organization for migration, nearly 2,400 people drowned trying to cross the mediterranean in 2017. so far this year the figure is 1,500. that means virtually two outf every 100 people who leave north africa by boat die. those figures reinforce the determination of organizations running ships like the "aquarius," to continue search and rescue missions. but in this hostile atmosphere, they face an uncertain future. for two years this harbor in eastern sicily was the home base for the aquarius. since italy closed its ports to such vessels, the "aquarius" has been forced to sail 600 miles away to marseille in france to

re-supply and undertake repairs. that's a long way from the danger zone. the doctors without borders spokesperson on board sent us a statement complaining about the criminalisation and obstructiono anizations involved in r search andcue. in just over a month, more than 600 people have lost their live attemptingoss the aiditerranean. the spokespersonthere has been a cold blooded decision to leave them all to drown. claudilodesani heads the italian chapter of doctors without borders. she's been at town hetings trying to urge people to reject the governnt's policies. lodesani rejects allegations that ships like e e "aquarius" oviding a taxi service for migrants. >> i worked for a year in southern sudan. in one year, i see a lot of people dead because there is a civil war, because there is malaria, because of climate change and climatic problems so the people have malnutrition. so of course the people want to leave.

it's impossible to stop the people >> brabant: "look at the corpses," says roberto ammatuna, a doctor and mayor of pozzallo, a sicilian port town that has welcomed migrants. helping to launch a photographic exhibition on the frontline of europe's all consuming crisis. in 2016 and 17, italy took in 175,000. this year the number has slowed down to 18,000. the mayor opposes returning them to libya. >> ( tanslated ): i think t in italy at the moment there is not a good political climate. there is a wave of intolerance towards minorities and especially towards immigrants, which in my opinion is worrying. we need to temper the minds. we can not say that immigrants are all delinquents and murderers. >> i beg the pope with the god. democracy! we want our freedom. we want to go. >> brabant: nigerian gift richard had a sympatheti audience among demonstrators o

protestiside europe's biggest refugee camp at mineo in the hot, harshountryside of eastern sicily. like many others, she has been here for two yrs. inmates compin of overcrowding, poor food, violence, a lack of funds d an inability to obtain documentation that would enable them to work or move on. >> ( translated oh, i would beg my fellow nigerians not to be confused or to cross that sea to come to italy. if they come to italy, they are slaves, nobody is free. >> brabant: a surge in support for the right wing and their policies can be found at this bargain basent market, where impoverished sicilians feel they are in competition with immigrants. alessandro lo cascio sells four bunches of herbs for just over a dollar. lo cascio hopes salvini, italy's new interior minister can improve his personal finances. >> ( translated ): i hope so. in the end i hope so.

but if he takes away the problem of immigrants he has already done a great favor to italy. already. just that. 18-million italians are going hungry do we have to allow immigrants in? no. b >>rabant: "open the ports, open your hearts, to be bettergs people," sinhis demonstrator. on the moment, that message is largely falling eaf ears, not only in italy, but right acrossurope. for the pbs newshour, i'm malcm brabant in sicily. >> woodruff: it's a disorder that has flown under the radar for decades, sometimes referred to as the "invisiblebi dity". we're talking about fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, which can happen if a mother drinks ring pregnancy. amna nawaz reports from

minnesota on the problem and r receearch that suggests it may be far more common than previously thought. here's the first of her two stories on the subject. >> "that's my feet!" >> nawaz: moses looks and sounds like your average,ealthy five- year-old... but his dad, brandon, noticed moses didn't always act like one. he has trouble with loud noises. he sometimes gets very upset, much more easily and intensely than other children. they're at the university of minnesota masonic children's hospital to try and fi why. w>> where should i listenh my stethoscope? >> nawaz: one possibility: moses might have fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, or f.a.s.d. caused by prenatal a exposure. moses was adopted, and brandon believes his birth mother drank while pregnant. dr. judith eckerle specializes in adoption medicine, and sees lot of familieruggling with f.a.s.d. >> we e kids on the f.a.s.d.

spectrum who have i.q.s above the normal range actuallon some who aredered very smart, but then they're missing certain other areas like the abstract reasoning, or being able to control impulses. then we have other kids the spectrum who have frank intellectual disability, used to be called mental retardation, and those kids really do struggle with kind of the basic learning and may need support lifelong because just cognitively they're not able to process in the same way. >> nawaz: doctors in minneapolis see around 300 kids in the f.a.s.d. clinic, but they say that's just the tip of the iceberg. they estimate across minnesota prenatal alcohol exposure affects more than 7,000 newborns each year. nationally, a recent study shows the numbers are much higher than previously thought, cutting across racial, ethnic and socio- economic lines.er cotive estimates, published in the "journal of the american medical association," show anywhere from 1.1-5% of th. opulation is affected,

momeaning it could be moren even than autism. results of the study did not surpri because i do think that there are a lot of children who are jdiagnosed. >> nawaz: doctoreffrey wozniak says most children with f.a.s.d. n't get diagnosed, eithe because people don't know to look for it, or don't know what ey're looking for. >> the ones that get referred to our dinostic clinics are the ones who are having the most problems and are the ones whoo happenedve been seen by a social worker or a nurse or a pediatrician who knows somhing about f.a.s.d. >> nawaz: complicatingdi noses, only the most severe cases have any outward physical symptoms like smalle, flattening between the nose and mouth and a thinner upper lip. for most kids with f.a.s.d., the differences are on the inside. >> the brain is smaller in the child with f.a.s.d. >> nawaz: wozniak's pioneering work with m.r.i.s offers an unprecedented look at the brain

damage caused by prenatal alcohol exposure. >> you can clearly see this abnormality in the back part of the brain.rt this is the f the brain involved in all sorts of functions, including attention and perception and integration of information, so this is a child we know is going to have a lot of processing difficulties. >> nawaz: doctors say f.a.s.d. look a lot like disorder like a.d.h.d. some symptoms, likeit hyperact short attention spans and impulse control, can overlap. but the causes can be differentr pediatrician e takes a page from a favorite children's book to explain. >> amelia bedeliwas very concrete. she could understand if you said go draw the blinds amelia. she would sit down and draw a scture of blinds instead of closing them becau didn't know there were multiple meanings. and that is kind of an illustration i use sometimes for families. they don't necessarily understand abstract reasoning or abstract concepts as much. >> nawaz: this is a meeting for teenagers with f.a.s.d.

slime making is onway to draw them in, but it's also a chance to meet with adult mentors, talk about the future and work out how to navigate it. >> do you have any final papers or studying? >> studying for tests. >> maybe you could do that? >> nawaz: it's also a chance for kids with f.a.s.d. to hang out together and feel understood, in a world where they often are not. ruth richardson is the director of programs for the minnesota organization on fetal alcohol syndrome, the sponsor of this meeting. >> this can also be a very isolating experience for families, becae if their family members don't understand f.a.s.d. or their overall community doesn't understand the disability, we've seen families who are afraid to take their kids to church because they don't want to deal wite the sh the stigma when people don't understand the disab: ity. >> nawazdave riege adopted ben when he was five-years-old.dy >> everyho is here has

e ildren with the same problems. i mean, it's not lybody looks at him and goes, jeez that's kind of strangey ecause everyb in the same boat, so it works out good. >> naz: lisa joy says the group is good for her son, andrew, and for her as well.en >> p can come together and get to know and connect to find out what they're doing to hea their kids imilar struggles and what they are doing to overcome them. just that support is really important. >> nawaz: even though there is known cure for f.a.s.d. experts say early intervention can help to mitigate the symptoms. moses' dad brandon says he'll makeure his son's future wil be just as bright. >>hee love all of our kids t same, it doesn't change anything. so that's the official diagnosis, that'thing we'll work on, to channel him to the right people. and we'll go from the. but he still lights up the room, he's still the same great kiddo that we see every day. >> nawaz: for adoptive parents,

an f.a.s.d. diagnosis, difficult though it may be, doesn't carryh with it weight of any guilt. for birth mothers, like carol peterson, the process is different.ug peterson strgled with alcohol for years and was drinking before she knew she was pregnant. though she quit cold turkey three months into her pregnancy, the kylene, was done.ter, >> i would take her to these early childhood places. it seemed like the ones that were the same age were more advanced than her. so i started to notice she was a ilittle bit, like, delaye thought. but i wasn't sure. or>> nawaz: what would you about in moments like that? >> i would wonder did my drinkingo this to her. >> nawaz: kylene, now 27, was diagnosed with.a.s.d. at six- years-old. carol opened up to us about the guilt she caied for years, and her hope for her daughter's future. more of their story, tomorrow night. for the pbs newshour, i'm amna nawaz, in northern minnesota.

>> woodruff: as we have reported, president trump's meeting with putin sparked a storm of controversy in washington. new poll numbers now give us a sense of reaction across the country. a perfect time for politics monday with amy walter of the "cook political report" and susan page of "usa today." hello to both of you. " itlitics monday." at least it's been a storm of criticism and controversy, but the president doubles down. we haveew tolls. let's show the audience numbers. among dempocrats the aroval rating for the president is only among 9% among independents, 36 approval of the president and how he handled the russian meeting. among the republicansy high,

88%. voy, what does this tell us about the ters right now? >> yeah, and this is his overall job approval rating, so wht it tell us is kind of what we've seen pretty much for the entirety of this presidency. the overall approval rating of this president doesn't move that much. it blips up and down he bre and thert especially in 2018, it's pretty steady between 39 and 43%. so big things happen, not big things happe the numbers sort of stay the say. but that number you pointed out that republicans united behind the president, thi tis theing people so spend so much time look at. when are theups going to abandon this president? they aren't. this question has been asked since he was candidate trump, since the 2016 elections an afterwards and more so when the media focus is on things that they feel like the med is ganging up on the president. they spend too much time

criticizing him. but the independent number is important, 36% approval rating among independents is low and more important, among their votes i congress democrats had a 20-point lead. that's the number to pay attention to besides just the public support for the presid ht. >> woodruf do you look at this, snoons. >> it's the picture of the electorate. there is nothing n nald trump that will get him support among democrats -- 9% rating? there is virtually nothio he can doost him support of the republicans. what that did does is gives him an incredible political mulls when it comes tdealing with republicans in congress.on one reepublicans in congress are unwilling to challenge him even if the disagree is they look at the number and say if i challenge him, i'll lose the primary. >> it's a nice segue. over the weekend, i hope moderate a senate debate in

virginia between the incumbentat demoim cane, the challenger corey stewart who by the way ran therump campaign in virginia for a while in 2016, but it interesting to see how much donald trump, e esident trump's name came up. i'll play a litt from the debate first with corey stewart. >> he voted against all these liings, not just because he's a left-wing radicaeral but because he opposes everything that president trump does, he's and a automatic no whether it's good for virginia or bad for virginia, he is a president trump acolyte, and he takes the president trump line in calling for the termination of the investigation. that would be a disaster. and if there's anything that demonstrates the difference cobetween us, it'rey stewart standing up here and saying that prupident trump is standin to the russians. president trump is caving to the russns. >> so, amy, it wasn't only about president trump but, as you

could tell, that was a theme we kept hearing over and over again. >> and it's a theme you're going to hear inn every sigle race in the country. the president just looms large over evrything. whether or not candidates mentioned him or not, hes i the issue in this election, more than anything else, how you feel about this president, and it's going to look dient in different places. in virginia, a state hillaryed clinton carand that ralph northam thnae gubrial candidate carried by nine points, it's not good to bee attached to esident. in, i don't know, north dakota e of thevirginia, s red states the democrats are running in, it's better to be nt, and with the presi you will probably see the president, as he's doing now, going out and campaigning for a lot of these red state i doubt he's going to come in to virginia. >> woodruff: so is it a state-by-state thing, snoons. >> well, it is, and we can't stop talking about donald trump every week, csndidateuld not expect to not be able to

talk about donald trump, too. i think there's a case in which tit might not cu red and blue and that would be in cases that get affected in some way especially with damage from donald trump policy. so if you go to aaed stte with a lot of soybean farmers getting hurt by tariffs, that might be b case fing an acolyte of donald trump, doesn't help you the way it would be in a republican area. >> that's right, and that's where the democrats are going to run as i'm not st reflexively against the president, i'll stand with him when he's doing good for my state, but when his policies are bad for mstate,ly check in balance. t does ianslate in who shows up to vote. democrats continue to have an enthusiasm advantage. they say they are more likely to turn out and vote and we've seen it in the special eltions as well. it's only just july. is it still july? >> it is. still a way to go. but soybeans didomup,

join farmers and how they're hurt by the president ans policies came up in this debate. but you're bringing up the red l,ates, a state you know wel kansas, attractive to liberal democrats, bernie sanders joiner by alsan cortez who was the new yornew york city congrel nominee, she won the primary. they brought a pretty progressive message to ae rd state. ihat does that tell us? and all the whle, mainstream democrats are raising flags saying, wait a minute, this is not a message we can win with. >> so they got 4,000 people and, for two very liberal decrs in wichita, kansas, my hometown, that is a big turnout. and, you know you look ata tht, that's a red state, that's a red congressional dtrict, the fourth congressional district, one mike pompeo won by 32

percentage points, newt contest. but in the special election to replace mike pompeo, the republican won only by6 nts. sith the right type of candidate, it's ble the democrats could contest that congressional district but only if they get some republicans to vote with so if you go in with the most liberal agenda, that is a democrat who is not lily to prevail in that district. >> woodruff: mainstream democrats worrieabout this? >> in some case. net's see who won the primaries. they campafor people who haven't gotten through a primary yet. i think this will mar in 2019 and 2020 more than 2018. democrats are cobelescinnd any candidate they have whether more liberal or conservative. when it com down to choosing who democrats want to be asea their standardr for president, their nominee, this is where the fault lines between the moe,re progresshe more moderate are going to be really

important. but e democrats do take that congress, it's because they win in districts that either narrowly went for or against trump, not in places that, you know, are overwhelmingly democratic. >> woodruff: worrying too early, maybe. >> well, i think it's going to be -- it will be a factor in 2020 for sure. >> woodruff: amy walter, susans page, "politnday," thank you. >> you're welcome. >> woodruff: and now, seeing life in "broad brush strokes"-- and second acts. jeffrey brown shares the story of one woman who has embraced both >> brown: among many other things, nell painter is a proud resident of the ironbound neighborhood of newark, new jersey, which, on the day we visited, was celebrating its dirse heritage in the annu portugal day festival. >> the ironbound is the old

and the people in here are either portuguese or portugueser americanretending to be portuguese-americans. >> brown: a block away, in an historic building that once housed a toy factory, ter now lives and works as an artist, one who is both new-- as in, she only recently started this career, and, by her own telling, old-- as in her age. there's an anecdote early on with a young 18-year-old looking at you the first day and saying, >> "how old are you?" okay. >> brown: and your reaction was? >> brown: the story isin a new book titled "old in art school: a memoir of starting over."ho nell irvin painter, a longtime princeton university professor best known for her work in 19th and 20th ceisury southernry became, at age 64, nell painter, a painr, one working in a variety of forms and media including digital art. part of it, she told me-- as she shuttled between her fourth floor apartment and basement art

studio-- was moving away from the confines of historical research. >> what i really liked was stepping away from the tyranny of the archive and being able to move into fiction. visual fiction. so, now when i think about art, i could make things up. >> brown: and you found that personally freeing? >> absolutely. visual art is very freeing because it answers only to the e. >> brown: painter, who's now 75, had the support to make a change.sb her d, glenn shafer, is a noted mathematician and professor at rutgers. her mother, dona, offered herex owple: after retiring from public school teaching at 65, shshe became a writer, pubg several books about aging. and painter's father, frank, was a lab technician anductor at the university of california.

ever the academic, paier went all in: enrolling first as an undergraduate at mason gross school of the arts at rutgers universityand then in a masters program at the prestigious rhode island school of design. >> i also realized that if i wanted to be a serious artist-- and i thought, you know, i was a serious historian,e a serious artist. >> brown: her internal struggle comes out in this passage from the book:r, >> as a pain feared i could never measure up to myself as a historian because i'd never have enough time to learn to manipulate images as well as i had learned to answer the questions on my mind through research and writing. is this a reason to stay in a place where you do what you do better than what you can do anew? does this mean i could never change fields? well, no.

there was no reason on earth w ll painter, painter, had to equal ne irvin painter, storian and author. i didn't always know that.en >> brown: and here was the bigger issue: her age. >> even though people didn't say in so many words "we areng traiou to be a hot, young artist," they were training us to be hot, young artists. e with my 20th century eyes i was not going tohot artist. and then there was no way i can be young. >> brown: because that becomes the defining factor. >> this was a new definiti. i think there's room in our culture for interesting people who are black, and for interestg people who are female and interesting people who are black and female. there's hardly any room to be

interesting if you're old. >> brown: early on you have a professor who says you'll never, you'll ner really be an artist. usd that trope runs through the >> and finally yousay, oh hell. >> brown: you don't worry about it. >> no. i am the artist that i am.in and when i'm mart, it's like when the machine gets going, it just goes. it makes its own art.d , who am i now to second- guess it? just let it make its own art. >> brown: in the midst of all this, painter was flying cross country to help care for her parent- both would die during the writing of this book. and painter publhihed her latest ory book, with the provocative title, "the historyl of white p" it became a surprise bestseller. even as she herself was taking on a newdentity. in fact, "history" does at times

creep into her art work as well, as in a series titd "this is the america i know." >> brown: if we put the art aside for a moment it goes to what we do after we've done that thing in our lives, right, that we devoted our life can we change our lives? >> well i would say yes-- no. ( laughtro ) >>: that not yes and no? that's yes-no. >> that's yes-no. when i got ready to go to art school, i said "okay, i've got everything arranged now. my parents are stabilized-- ha ha ha. my book will come out and it'll get a review but that won't change life-- ha ha ha. and i will be doing something different. i'll be following another of the pleasures of my life. i'm a lucky person that i can pursue another love.we , it turns out that it all comes with you. c it aes with you. >> brown: there's no starting

iner. >> there's a staover, but there's no getting, there's no losing what was with you.id as a friend you don't lay your other lives down, you jt pack them on. >> brown: for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in the ironbound neighborhood in newark, new jersey. >> woodruff: finally tight, writer terese mailhot shares her humble opinion of why it's time to retire the notion of role models. >> i thought my book reached critical mass when i saw emma watson post a selfie with it. i panicked. i wasn't ready for that kind of attention. the book became a "n york times" bestseller shortly after. this is anomalous for an indigenous women writer.

discussion that contemplated if i was a good role model for indigenous people. i didn't want to be the voice of anyone but myself. i didn't want to be looked up , not yet. my book is one of survival. i narrowly survived my circumstances, and that narrow i was a single mother on wentare. i don't eople to emulate my journey or look up to how i evolved away from dysfunction and stic stigma. i reached a semblance of success people wat, but it doesn't mean i should be looked up to. invented by sociologist in the '50s, the term "role model" feels and quaitd, it's a slogan for cereal boxes and self-help gurus who are selling success or reaching goals without compromise, things we know by

now don't exist, not purely. up close, the guru cheats on his wife or worse. the atetwill bys appoint, so will the leaders, the actors and singers. when they fail us, we're either judge and jury or all too forgiving. i've seen women who aspire to be good role models criticized for what they wear, who they marry and how much money they can make because they become too capitalistlike and not feminist enough. a woman wrote that myook was a manifesto for naive american girls. indigenous people are not a monolith and my text is seen as lauded or representative. we don't feed examples for what we aspire to be. we don't need to be unnone dated with -- inundated withs. possibilit we should have natural objectives that reach beyond comparison. i estion the idea of imitation

and its necessity. when i'm the fir to do wt i've done and not having models to emulate gave m room to be. >>f: woodrriter terese marie myatt. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. lijoin us on-ne and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> babbel. a language app that teaches real-life conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more. babbel's 10-15 minute lessons are available as an app, or online. more information on babbel.com. >> consumer cellular. >> financial services firm raymond james. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved econoc

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