captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight,he right to vote-- in the final days before the election, we explore allegations of efforts to keep minority voters away from the polls. then, thousands of google employees walk o of work to protest the company's handling of sexual misconduct claim plus, how best to serve an aging population? the state of maine will vote on a sweeping plan to provide universal home care. >> six in 10 people in maine right now are or have been family caregivers. they are people who every day face this responsibili m of how do iy bills, how do i go to work, and how do i care for an aging loved one. >> woodruff: all that and more

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>> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and individuals. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers likyou. thank you. woodruff: president trump today stepped up his efforts to make migrant caravans a central issue in next week's mid-term elections. in lengthy white house remarks, he said he will issue an executive order next week to deny legal asylum to those who enter without documes. mr. trump dismissed existing federal laws that l who reach u.s. soil may apply for legal asylum.

>> we will not allow our generosity to be abused by those who would break our laws, de our rules, violate our borders, break into our country illegally. we won't allow it. >> woodruff: the president already ordered thousands of regular army troops to the border. today, he said that if migrants throw rocks, the soldiers should regard them as the equivalent of rifles. after his remarks, mr. trump headed out for another pre- election rally-- this one, in missouri. meanwhile, oprah winfrey campaigned in georgia, urging voters to turn out for democrat stacey abrams. she is trying to become the nation's first black female governor. >> we are not powerless every single one of us, everle one of us has the same power at the polls. we cannot be suppressed, cannot be denied as our civil rights, as our predecessors used to say, we shall not be moved.

>> woodruff: the republican gubernatorial nominee is brian kemp, gegia's secretary of state overseeing elections. he has denied tryingppress democratic voter turnout. we'll have a full report on the issue, later in thram. the accused gunman in the pitturgh synagogue massacre pleaded not guilty today, to a 44-cnt federal indictment. the charges against robert bowers range from murder to hate cres. also today, funerals were held for three more of th t11 people shdeath at the "tree of life" synagogue. in indonesia, divers recovered one of the flight recorders from a passenger airlint crashed into the java sea on monday. all 189 people on board the lion air plane were killed. today, indonesian tv showed divers hding over the bright orange device to investigators to analyze. they are still sea for a second recorder.

an international watchdog group reports today that sexual abuse isnt ramn north korea. human rights watch says it interviewed more than 100 north korean defectors. ma south korea today, one who served in the north korean military said female soldiers were routinely attacked. >> ( translated ): women in the north korean military base i was in, were kicked out of the military, after being sexually assaulted by high-leve officers. about 9:30 every night, women were summoned and sexually abused, but then, they were dishonorably discharged on charges of playing around with their superior >> woodruff: human rights watch. warned that the world is ignoring the abuse, as ior focuses on e to make peace the trump administration imposed new econic sanctions on venezuela and cuba today, and plans to add nicaragua as well. in miami, president trump's national security advisojohn bolton branded the three

countries a "troika of tyranny." he said the u.s. will no longer appease those he called "dictators and despots near our shor separately, the u.s. justice department stepped up a campaign against chcorporate espionage. officials day charged a chinese firm with stealing secrets from the u.s. semi- conductor company micron. a firm in taiwan was also charged. some fierce, fall weather battered the u.s. gulf coast states overnight and today. storms moving in a line from east texas into northwest alabama left two pple dead. heavy rain and winds gusting to 60 miles an hour toppled trees and power line at least 110,000 customers lost power across four states. there's word the u.s. coast guard academy is being investigated for racial discmination. the department of homeland securi the coast guard academy was already under congressional

pressure to addresal insensitivity and disparities in discipline. and, on wall street, stocks rose for a third day, as tech shares rebounded. the dow jones industrial average gained nearly 265 points to close at 25,380. the nasdaq rose 128 points, and the s&p 500 added 28. still to come on the newshour: how all could affect the outcome of several close elections. google employees protest their company's handling of sexual misconduct allegations. making sense of a ballot initiative that aims to provide universal home care to senior citizens in the state of maine. the bitter debate over what to do with the body of spain's former military dictator, and ch more.

>> woodruff: amid record- breaking early voting this midterm season, concerns of voter suppression, and who has the right to vote, aree center of some of the country's most contested races. congressional correspondent lisa desjardins reports on what new voting restrictions mean for voters ime key contests. record-breaking early voting has more than doubled compared to nis time in 2014, soaring both democratic and republican strongholds, as the state's hotly contested race for governor is locked in a virtual tie. and a the center of the race, contentious fight for who gets to cast ballots. >> i have an opponent who is a remarkable architect of voter suppression. my mission is to tell folks, he doesn't matter. you do. >> desjardins: former democratic state representative stacey abrams is the first black woman in the country to be nominated for governor by either party.

she's criticized voting policies implemented by her republican opponent, georcurrent secretary of state brian kemp. >> she's encouraging illegals to go out and vote for her and be >> desjardins: kemp, a strong ally of the trump ministration, says that abrams' organizers have encouraged voter fraud and have failed to proply register others. kemp faced backlash, after his office tried to close seven of nine polling places in a predominately poor, black county in s summer.georgia this his office has also canceled over 1.4 million voter registrations since 2012, and recently put on hold some 53,000 voter applicions, citing the state's "exact match" rules. that says an applicaan be invalidated if it does not exactly match information on a person's driver license. georgipopulation is 32% black. the associated press reports that nearly 70% of the applications currentlyn hold

by kemp's office are from black voters. kemp dismisses allegations of voter ppression as "outrageous." >> and this farce about voter suppression and people being held up from being on the rolls and being able to vote is absolutely not te. anyone who is, meets the requirements that's on the pending list, all they have to do is do the same thing that you and i at home have to do go to your polling location, show your government i.d. and you can vote. >> desjardins: at a private event last month, kemp voiced skepticism about the high number absentee ballot requests among democratic voter "rolling stone" magazine, obtained audio of his remarks. hey have just an unprecedented number of that which is something that continues to c us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote which they absolutely can and o il those ballots in, we got to have heavy turnoutfset that. esjardins: abrams says minority voters are bearing the brunt of kemp's policies.

>> because voter suppression isn't only about blocking the vote, it's also about creating an atmosphere of fear making people worried that their votes won't count. >> desjardins: it isate in several election hot spots this year. in north dakota's high pe file u.s. sence, a native american tribe is suing to block a new voter-i.d. l passed by the republican-controlled state house. the spirit lake tribe says the measure disenfranchises vote who live on reservations-- many of whom don't have official addresses on their i.d.'s, or don't haven identification rd at all. meanwhile, in the majority hispanic dodge city, moved the inea's only poplace outside city limits. and in texas, arizona, florida and other es, election officials have closed hundreds of polling sites and enacted er voter-i.d. laws in the past few years. this election, the polls and voting itself, is on the ballot. sar the pbs newshour, i'm desjardins.

oodruff: thousands of employees walked out of google offices in more than 40 locations around the world today, protesting the company's handling of sexual misconduct claims. the "new york times" reported last week thate had paid millions of dollars to departing executives accused of sexual harassment, and never made the allegations public. them: android creator andy rubin, who received $90 million on his way out the door. rubin denies forcing a female google employee into a sexual act, despite the fact that an internal investigatiound the claim credible. employees in new york d a rally after aving their office, and called for a broader cultural shift at the company. >> we demand structural change in the name of transparency,

accountability, and equity. this is not really just for myself it's for everyone here. we also know that e the eyes of many companies looking at us and we've always been a vanguard company, so if we d't lead the way, nobody else will. >> woodruff: katie benner co- wrote the original "new york times" story that disclosed how google handled sexual misconduct clms. she's been following the walkouts today and joins me now. catie bener in, thank you for joining us once again was this a turnout that was feakive today. >> this turnout exceeded pectations by far. we reported we expected about 1500 people. other people thought it would be a few thousand. at this point we have, you know, unverified accounts that clarily a lot of head count going on of up to more than ten percent of the company's overl 94,000 employees has walked out today swz its people tuked-- . >> woodruff: the people you ates them what mot >> there has bng a long

simmering tension within google about the wa women are treated, not just that sexual harassment has gone unaddressed, it is als the fact google has refused to be transparent about whether or not men and women are paid equally, the ready that telephone leaders of the company by having high profile affairs at were obvious, no secret, that they treated the women at the company like their personal dating pool. and what kind of message does that sinned. and then of course the straw p thbably broke the camel's back was the report that andy rubin received $90 million ich is an extraordinary sum after a credible claim of sexualas ult. these things all together send a clear message which is that men are more valued than women. and for company as important asoogle, as high profile where the employees arhl as higy paid, they said it is now the time to stop. >> woodruff: treating women as their own al dating pool, that stood out to me as something you just said. i mean describe the culture there. well, interestingly, the women who accused andy rubin of assaulting her, she was an employee. there were other employees tho

he dated a company. david drum monday the chief local officer, he dated a woman at the company n that case she ended up leaving and you can see that their career trajectories were very different. he has become extraordinaril wealthy and e the most important men in silicon valley if not the united states. and ofrse sergei one of the founder hses a high profile afir, that woman is also n longer at the company losing out on the extraordinary compensation packages that google pays its employees whil he remains unof the largest shareholders with a controlling vote in e company. and it of course no consequences atr him either. >> woodruff: so re the women who walked out today, what do they want? women an men employees at the company. eah, i think it's important to emphasize that it wasn't just women walking out it was people of all gender identities, of all age, of all races and icities walking out in support of a broader movement for more equity at google. pey wanted verycific things. they demanded greater accountability, a trsparency

report around sexual harassment, sexual misconduct around the company.re think wanted aesentative on the board of the company, an employee representative to, who could speak to the board and say this is what t employees want what we're concerned about. they also wanted a pay equity report, they warrant the transparency around whether women are truly being paid less than mennd they also want aid glal unified way to report sexual misconduct that would be safe. s> and what is the company saying about t i saw the company said two employees in terms of this walkout, go ahead, you're welcome to do it but what are they saying about these other points that they're being asked to change? >> i think the company has been very quiet. the leader of the company has been very smart about how he has handled this. he has been supportive of the rallies. supportiv has been of the employees but we don't really understand exactly where he stands until they see whether or not he takes seriously the demands made by the employees. these are noextraordinarily, you know, off the wall, crazy,

extreme demands. in mtey ways they are q reasonable especially for a company in which again sergei aye brennan, larry page control all of the of voting shas and make all the final decisions, these are just a questions, queries and demands saying we a little more accountability in the situation. >> woodruff: how does google, catie brenner in compare to other sul con valley companies in term-- silicon valley companies in terms of transparency, giving women the opportunity to rise in the ranks. >> fla is one of the debates around google and silicon valley companies forever. i think the culture of tenology is that merits all these-- always wins out f you work hard and are you the smartest you will rise am have e seen an industry or reported on an industry that believes that more than the technology industry. google is the leader of that industry and they ly have spoken about that more than any other company. at the end of the day, though, if y look at the number o women who work at the company, and if you look at the lack of transparency around pay data f

you look at incidents like andy rubin, i tnk there say strong case to be made, that is not the case. and so the employees now very data driven, they want to know what the exact are, the numbers and they said they can use that to help create aution. >>atie brenner reporting on this with "the new york times," thank you. >> thank you. >> >> woodruff: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: author kathleen hall jamieson elections in her new book, "cyberwar." the iversity of maryland fir its football coach following investigations into the june death of a player. and emmy-winner bryan cr gives his brief but spectacular take on acting. now a different midterm story. as 10,000 baby boomers reach

retirement age every day, voters in maine will soon consider the country's first universal home care program. but the proposal, and how it would be funded, are proving controversial. our economics correspondent, paul solman, has the story. part of our series, "ma sense" which airs every thursday. >> reporter: 95-year-old hazel cross has been living on her family's farm in rural freedom, maine for 75 years. if she had to move to a nursing home? >> oh, it would be the end. >> reporter: the end? >> of my life. >> reporter: good thing son k to the farmb seven years ago so she could stay put. >> i'll do whatever i can for her to stay here because we can provide the care for her that improves the quality of her life.

she has a purpose and she feels it. i can see. she feels valued. >> reporter: because of her son, who helps his mother cope with dementia and other age-related ailments. he also cares for his 38-year-th old daughter, ine, who has down syndrome. it's more than he can handle by himself. >> i interviewed some agencies but, i couldn't afford them. some of them were $25 an hour for their staff, they have to have overhead and that. and so, i found local people who were willing to work part-time. and that's what we've piecemealed together. >> reporter: crospays a patchwork of providers $10 to $15 an hour. >> thursday. tuesday and tyson is on monday, wednesday, and friday. and paula comes on saturday and part of sunday. and these are the checks that people get paid. >> reporter: in order to pay the checks, the r old episcopal priest, who thought he'd retired, has returned to work. >> i'm working half-time in

brewer, at st. patrick's church. that's where i get the salary to pay the caregivers that make it possible for mom and kathryn, and i, to stay here. if i weren't ablthto work to pay , i don't know what we would do. >> reporter: cross typifies how most home care has been provided in america: by family and friends. but families are shrinking, dispersing. and so, there are fewer to take care of more. >> their families are so spread out, they're all over the place. some of them can't take in an elderly person, or they can't just move here onedo what i've >> reporter: but in maine, he sees some hope. next week, voters will consider question one, which would provide free homecare for people 65 and older and the disabled to be funded by a 3.8% tax on income above $128,400. >> oh great god grant me your grace. >> reporter: many in father cross's community would benefit.

just look at his prayer group! with 20% of mainers 65 or older, this is the oldest state in the country. and, as elsewhere, there aren't enough homecare workers already. ben chin, lobbying for the proposal, blames low pay. >> right now there's about 6,000 hours a week of seniors who aren't getting care and it's just because agencies can't hire workers because they can't pay workers enough to me do this job. >> reporter: maine homecare workers average $11 an hour. question one's tax hike would go to providi care and raises and training to attract more workers. and family caregivers would also get a stipend. in lisbon, maine 79-year-old ed , fallon is cared for by h21- year-old granddaughter, nina dennehy.wi fallon moved i dennehy, a waitress, and her fiancee two years ago. >> hisaker moved away, so i stepped up to the line and became his caretaker.

>> reporter: withoutuys, he'd be-- >>e has no oe else. if he were to become more ill than what he is right now, i obably wouldn't be able take care of him. i wouldn't have the time. i still have to work. i still have to pay rent, pay electricity, pay the oil, grocer take care of everything else. >> reporter: what would happen? what would happen to you? on't know. i could end up in a nursing home, or in a shelter, even. >> reporter: fallon's situation is hardly unique. >> six in 10 people in maine right now are or have been family caregivers. re people who every day face this responsibility of how do i pay my bills, how do i go to work, and how do i care for an aging loved one, or a child with disability. >> reporter: so canvassers are trying to reach them. >> we're just talking to people about question one, about universal in-home care. >> reporter: so that's one side of the story. thr? state economist amanda rector

warns qu one could stop maine's economic expansion dead in its tracks >> we found that the proposal had negative effects on maine's economy across populatio labor force, employment, perg.nal income, d.p. m reporter: rector's take: the new tax will driners away. >> we have eentially raised the cost of doing business and living in maine through this tax increase. and so, the resulting effect is people and businesses ing to either move out or not move in. >> reporter: alec porchus is maine's finance commissioner. >> you're also going to see increased business production costs, so less job creation, fewer wage increases, less capital investment, really all the bread and butter of economic growth, is going to be negatively affected. >> reporter: small wonder most business and healthcare groups fiercely oppose the measure. >> this tax is a hit on nearly every small business in this state.

>> reporr: newell augur is chair of the "no on question one/st scam" campaign. >> we know of a similar tax fight that we had two years ago. hospitals lost the ability to bring a resident because of the asspecter of a 3% tax thatn the ballot and was passed two ago. >> reporter: donna deblois, who runs maine health care at home, is opposed because, she says, patient information would be shared with third-party groups. >> that information would be given to a group of individuals that they don't know and they don't understand why. >> reporter:upporters insist ople's privacy will be protected. but what about tha supposed population exodus, i asked opponent deblois? would you move out of maine? >> no, i wouldn't. no one's goi to leave the state of maine. it's a bad deal for the state of maine, but i don't think they're gonna leave because of it. >> reporr: but shipyard brewing company president bruce forsley does. he says he would csider leaving.

and that other businesses would too. >> we're surrounded by luxury hotels and a couple of significant office complexes. these complexes are going to be staffed with a lot of high earning executives that if they cannot fill, may require a lot of these companies to have their administrative offices off-site in other sd tes. l this would affect our core market. >> reporut ben chin of the maine people's alliance doesn't buy it. >> t zero evidence that anybody is going to leave the state as a result of this policy passing, but what there is evidence every day is that the system right now isn't working for families. >> reporter: and father cross reminds us that maine has her attractions as well. >> people come to maine because of the quality of life that's here, becaushe connection to the environment, because of the low trafayc. my mom asays, when i go to the brewer, "how was the traffic today?" i said, traffic in maine." any you can't put a dollar figure on

those things. >> reporter: but you can put a dollar figure on an come tax hike. so people here disagree about question. there is consensus about one thing, though: most of us want to find some way to place. >> everyone wanttay in their home if they can do that. who wants to go to a nursing home? one of my mentors, who died in a nursinhome himself, said they're wall to wall carpeted vegetable bins. >> reporter: how important is it to hazel cross to be at home with her family? >> oh, how important? >> reporter: for the pbs newshour, this is economics correspondent paul solman, reporting from maine.

>> woodruff: in spain there's a debate about whether to exhume the body of e country's former dictator francisco franco. he's now buried in an ex madrid. mausoleum near the new left wing spanish government wants franco's remains to be removed to help settle grievances thll divide the country, but there's resistance among those who have fond memories of the dictator. special correspondent malcolm brabant has our report. it was produced in partnershze with the pulcenter. >> reporter: the giant cross reminds anyone for mround, that here lies francisco franco, who ruled ain with an iron fist for 36 years until his death in 1975. the mausoleum, an hour's drive est of madrid, is located in a former battlefield of the 1930's spanish civil war. the bones of thousands of fallen fighters are hereabouts, but onlyeneralissimo's tomb is marked, with a temple of gloom. filming is strictly forbidden.

but dictatorships always spawn rebellion. >> ( translated ): for us it is essential not only to exhume franco's bodalso to exhume what franco's dictatorship means both from the valley and our institutions. >> reporter: miguel urban is a member of the european parliament for the popular left wing party podemos, he is angry that 43 years after franco's death, spain has not been able to judge the crimes of the dictatorship, or prosecute so called franquistas, subordinates who enforced his tyranny. >> ( translated ): we are an abnormal democracy in pe because we maintain a regime of imputy. to exhume franco and to exhume franquism om the valley can allow us to initiate a step of justice, recognition and restoration for the victims, an element to endith the impunity that has reigned in our country. >> reporte voted in september to approve the disinterment. but conservative lawmase villegas is skeptical of the motivation of the country's

tically fragile new socialist led administration. >> ( translated ): after 40 years, in my opinionthe exhumation of the remains of franco is not a priority or urgent for the majority of spaniards. as we said, the prime minister does have an urgent matter and that is to launc to cover the embarrassment and the weak points of his government. >> reporter: but the argument of socialist lawmaker adrna lastra won the day. >> ( slated ): can you picture a monument 20 kilometers away from berlin in honor of hitler? or one 20 kilometers away from rome in honor of mussolini? i don't want that for my country beryuse i want to have a cou that is democratically advanced. abwant to put an end to that rmality and so does the prime minister and spanish society. >> this have.best picture we >> reporter: the dictator is lionized in a time capsule not far from the center of madrid. busts of franco are in every room, even on the filing cabinets.if

his was germany, these peop would be prosecuted for glorifying the third reich. but in modern spain the franco foundationle to promote what it regards as his legacy. foundation president juan ortega. >> ( translated ): we are david against goliath. but we are sure we'll win. and we donnk they'll exhume him. because, as long as in spain there is rule of law, the law protects us. >> reporter: ortega believes that thesed exhumation is an act of left wing inspired vengeance. and he bridleshen franco is mpared to hitler and mussolini. >> ( translated ): history can't be changed. it is what it is and w to respect that. for example, we could think of napoleon in paris, lenin in moscow, ataturk in turkey, or cromwell in london and no one intends now to exhume napoleon. history is the one it is and here we have some people that it is not modern thinking is marxist thinking. what they want in a way is to eradicate franco and t system that franco worked for 40

years. >> reporter: franco came to power in 1939, after a three year civil war. up to half a million people were killed during the conflict. during his ensuing dictatorship, tens of thousand his opponents were killed or icprisoned. franco was ideologly aligned with hitler's nazis and provided military and material support to the german led axis, but stayed out of the second world war. historian niolas sanchez albornez, now 92, spent six years in prison with three other students for opposing franco politically. >> ( translated further than expressing opinions and a certain propaganda and it led us to being arrested and to stand before a mitary court.

the valley of the fallen is a monstrosity of the years after the war, it should be turned into a national cemetery and be neutral and respectful to all those buried there. >> reporter: once a week in a central madrid square, history buffs gather to tour significant sites in the fight again franco. the organizers are trying to preserve the memory of his opponents and maintain pressure over the disinterment issue. >> i think it's something made lots of years ago. well, i don't there's a big problem it being there but i think the problem is the symbol. >> ( translated ): it is very important to change the symbols ca a fascist regime like the franquist one e at the end those symbols stay in the culture and ep making the country undemocratic. >> reporter: but although parliament has voted in favor to remove franco's body, some sides

in this debate belisve a stand efooming. we have spoken to benedictine order of monks which leadministers franco's mau and they insist that there will be no exhumation. they sayhat spain's previous king juan carlos trusted their community toare for franco's body and claim that only the present king felipe could take that decision back. not by signing an executive order but by expressing his wish to remove franco's body and starting the process himself. if true, this would present a huge dilemma for the royal palace. the king is supposed to be a neutral figurehead who unites the nation. taking sides in could be perilous for the monarchy, bich, as it happens, was put back on the throfranco as he approached death. so where does spanish law stand on this issue? constitutional lawyer gustavo lopez-munos. >> the parliament is the

representative of alpower of all the people of spain. if the people of spain, which have all the powers, even more than the king, because in spain the king is subject to the onstitution. the parliamespain if it approves the exhumation of the body of the remains of franco to any other place, that is perfectly legal. >> reporter: perhaps anticipating the inevitable, franco's grandchildren have said that if his body is to be exhumed, they would like it reburied in the cryp cof the almudehedral opposite the royal palace in the center of madrid. miguel urban of the podemos left wing party says franco's family shouldn't be allowed to decide where franco's ry ains are finaid to rest. >> ( translated ): this needs to be a government decision. and the government needs to work so that the new emplacemenof franco's body is a place where there cannot be a memorial, where there can't be a fascist pilgrim aage, it can't pace

for the remembrance of franquism and fascism. and that needs to be e through public policy. of course, burying him in the center of madr doesn't meet shese characteristics. >> reporter: flowers adorn ie tomb of franco's daughter carmthe cathedral crypt. if the former dictator was buried nearby, this would become even more hallowed ground for his supporters. with right wing nationalism on the rise across europe, this has tscome an important battle for hend minds. for the pbs newshour, i'm malcolm brabant in madrid. >> woodruff: as we prepare for elections next week, we want to distep back and take a dee in to what russia did to try to sway the ve in 2016. that's the focus of a new book,t "cyberwar," byeen hall jamieson, a noted scholar of

political rhetoric. we began with the key question: did russia influence the last presidential race? >> i believe it's highly probable that they did, not certain but highly probable. >> and what do you base it on? >> three arguments. first the social media intervention which is e russian trolls mawr odding around in cyberspace pretending ey're u.s. citizens had a message aligned with candidate adump. theydentified the right voters they needed to mobilize, demobilize and shift in order to help elect him them had messages that had a lot of viral exposure so they reaches a lot of people tht we're not completely sure, gh they did have the entire democratic play book so they had the means. whether they actually reached the right votedderhe three key states. the case is tent tiff. >> woodruff: you make a point of saying that they zeroed in on the vulnerabilities in our system, the voters who could make a difference.

for example, you write about the voters who could be preswaityedd to gojill stein, the green party candidate, african-americane oters. you ving the russians a lot of credit, aren't snu. >> one doesn't have to be really smart if one of the russians who tn read english and follows the u.s. med see the playbook for a campaign consultant inside our netrtures. i yoat in the book extended passages in u.s. mainstrm media explaining which states donald trump needs to win, hillary clinton needs to win wa, kinds of voters they need to approach, where each is falling short, and there are eve stories to tell you what is the best way to reach them. and they not only have that information, but they also have the complete play book from the diclinton campaign inclu the voter turnout models in key states. hand then the one more advantage. paro advertisers. and as a result they have built ngto them the very means of reache target voter.

and unlike the passed where you had to be really sophisticated as a time buyer, you can use those as a layperson to reach the right people efficiently. >> woodruff: i want to ask you more about the media but firstai want tyou about the language. you talk about trolls, you talk about operativesut you all them russian discourse saboteurs. >> my theory of how the election eutcome was changed is that t discourse climate was changed. so we know from our passedhe research that you change the balance of the messages so you have more negative messages about one candidate than the other, you shift. votes not massive numbers but you shift enou to decide a close election. and what that mean stion if you can get the number of message b out there highly negative compared to where they would have been in social media, that is the trolls, and in mastream and conservative media, that is the hackers, to shift in both cases against secretary clinton, candidate clinton, are you more likely to move votes against her. that is why i call them discourse saboteurs. >> woodruff: it what is so

strike being this book, kathleen hall jaim yeason is about the rush arnes yes but also the way the amican news 34ed ka-- media covers politics. you talk about the tendency, the strong tendency we have in the st many decades to focus more on personalities and on process than we do on polingsee. how did that play into what the russians were doing when the rush arne hackers illegally stole the content and released too it into the media stream they were coming into an environment where our reporters are preoccupyed with getting the real story what the candidates are like and pla to do ver us is what they appear to be lake and say they are goig to do. there was a preses narrative already sitting there 57bd very comfortfully and amplified by that mf to drop the hack content in. hillary clinto helped make that opinion by not releasing her speech text when bernise sand asked for them, once the speech texts are released, they become

y eder for a press narrative alreeset. and what it does is creates a narrative that says she said one thing in publc and another thing in private. unfortunately some of the pressd uses of the nce took the actual hacked content out of coe ext to make the cat that is what she had done when this those instances she actually hadn't. >> your point is if the russians had been doing what they had been doing, but if t media hadn't cooperated, this wouldn't have happened. >> first if the media had said every time's going to say wikileaks instead we will say russian stolen content hacked from democratic accounts illegalle or russian stn content given us by julian a sang who wanted to se hillary clinton defeated because hillary clinton wanted him proseted for his use of national security data, the source and the message would have stayed tiedment by calling it wileaks the press made us assume this was just normal content. and that it came from a news source, a legitimate source, not from the russians.

well, it's exactly what happened. they hacked the material, gave it to wikileaks, came into our media stream and we lost track of the fact that it was russian-sourced. >> woodruff: senior intelligence officials are telling us the russians are still trying to interfere in this election, mid-term year election and they expect the saip thing to happen in 2020. if they continue, what is the likelihood they will be successful again? >> social media platforms have made many changes to try to minimize the likelihood that they will be able to replicate 20 i. this he hareased the likelihood that they will try to catch anybodyllegally buy addses a foreign national, for example. ie place we haven't seeng change sws the press. we haven't heard from our major media outlets but tomorrow somebody hacked our candidate and released the content into the media stream, how would you cover it? wod you cover it the samend would you assume it's accuracy instead of questioning it and finding additional sourcing for it before you release it into the body politics. i with like to know what the press is going to do confronted

with the same situation, again, do i have sense of what the social media platforms will do. >> well, there's some serious work to be done all around. kathleen haul jaimiie yourf pemed a real service, cyberwar how the rush arne trackers and trolls helped elect a president. thank you very much.ha >> you. >> woodruff: now, how a prominent college football program has responded to the tragic death of a player. it's renewed questions yet again about the extent to which athlets can rule above all else on some college campuses. as amna nawaz reports, the university of maryland's string isions in this case have angered many. >> nawaz: it's been a stunning 36 hours. just one dayfter the university of maryland reinstated its suspended football coach, the school's president fired him. coach d.j. durkin had been on

administrative leave following the death of 19-year-old jordan mcnair. mcnair was an offensive lineman who died in june, two weeks after suffering from heat stroke in practice. his death led to an rinvestigation about othe problems in the program and while that investigation led to disturbing fdings, the school's board of regents stopped short of holding durkin responsible for some of those problems. the board reinstated durkin on tuesday. that went against the recommendation of university president wallace loh, leading to a backlash on campus and statewide. loh, in turn, announced he would rere after the current academic yea st night, loh said that he fired durkin. joining me to talk about this is john feinstein, sportswriter, coluist and author. his upcoming book is called "quarterback." welcome back to the news hour. >> good to be here. >> it has been an incredible couple of days to follow all of this. back it up and explain to us how a man who we now know oversaw a pretty toxic culture, in charge

of a program about a 19 year old playeried, how did he get his anb back in the first place? >> the honeser for me is i have no idea. because none of us could believe it when rothe newse that dj durkin was being reinstated by the board ofe regnts on tuesday. but what apparently happened is it became a political battle, in the f a tragedy, it was turned into a mit kal battle between wallace loh the president and james t brady, the chairman of the board of regents. the two of them were sort of avowed enemies over other issues at maryland. urd brady decided that since loh wantedns fired, believed itrkin should be fired for what appened, the death of a player under his watch, that he was going to find a way to keep durkin on the job. and durkin came in and met with the board of regents and apparentlyave a rahrah speech about what he was going to do at

ryland if he was reinstated that was reminiscent of ronald reagan playing nut rock nee in the old 1940 movie, you know,th win one fo gipper. the reg ents i guess bought into it at least temporaly and decided to reinstate dj durkin which i think stunned everybody and it finally got to the point where governor hogan who appointed 13 of the 17 reg ents wrote them a note sang you need to reconsider. and that was a clear message, especiallyix days before an election, that this could not be allowed to te place. >> this reinstatement caught a rise, a lotle by surp of maryland fans, people following the story. the players themselves too, it seemed. rter dj durkin was reinstated there weorts of players tweeting their displeasure, walkinout of the first meeting. >> right. >> what do you know about what happened in the day after he was reinstated. >> you are right, dj durkin went to repeat with his team when he habeen reinstated on tuesday, three players got and walked out of that meeting in protest

of his being allowed to return to his job. many others were clearly set. the student snatd was planning a rally on campus. usually when you have rallies involving students on campus it is to tell the team toin goa big game. this was entirely different. and i think the sense was that the reinstatement in many ways devalued jordan t mcnai young man who had died. he died on dj durkin's watch, dj durkin was on the practice field when he became overheated and when for some reasn the training staff took 45 minutes before 911s with calle and here is where i think wallace loh the president made his biggetake. on august 11th, last triem i was here with you, he held apr s conference and he said quote the university of maryland is responsible morally and legally for the death of jordan mcnair. that is the day he should have fired did j durkin. dj durkin was in charge. >> there say bigger question. obviously football is a big money sport, a lot of going into it not just in maryland but

aroundthe count. >> true. >> how much of a role did that play in all of this decision maki in standing by durkin in the first place and how much of a problem could this shall at other programs? >> it is a problogem at other ms. now they hadn't reached the point of a player dying because of a lack of care. but we all know that the most powerful person at big time college football andsk tball spograms is a successful coach in eithet. they are the highest paid by far. the make well into the millions of dollars. mike-- at duke makes a millon a-- they are also the biggest fundraisers for the school through thr success of the programs. dad i think the headline in yests "washington post" when durkin had i nushally been reinstated sums it all aiup. itd maryland board of regents sides with footbcol h. so in other words, give ena choice between a football coach who had allowed a plo ayer te

under his watch and the president who was saying we can't have this, they chose the football coach because they believe show that he was going to comeea back and them to victory. >> very quickly now, does this trigger other conversations in other programs where players will now feel empowered to speak out about similar problems. >> well, i would hope so. i would also hope what it would do is it would remind other football coaches and trainers and doctors that you got to take good care of your players. you can't allow this to come close to happening. jrd an mcnair didn't have to die. if he had had gotten him in a tub of ice rht away which is standard procedure when a player is overheated, he would not have died. i would hope that all football programs would take steps to make sure that this can never happen again. >> can hope that for sure. john fnnstein, thanks for bg here. >> thanks amna.

>> woodruff: oscar nominated actor bryan anston is best known for his emmy winning role as walter white in "breing bad." but as he explains in toght's "brief but spectacular" episode, it took him some luck to get there. starting next saturday, cranston will be playing the role of howard beale in the broadway production of "network", bas f the famous film. >> tst thing i look for when i read a script is, does the story move me? what i truly love about this, and when i talk to audiences about anything i've done, or about y other movie or stage piece, is that the audience is always right. however you felt, however you reacted to something is always right. that's how you felt and it's

remarkable how you can sit nex ee someone and watch a movie, i ituld beng and they're like, ¡eh like, 'really?' it's like ¡yeah it missed me.' the only failure is ifou move an audience to nothing, to boredom. if they are indifferent about what they just experienced, whether it's a paiing or a recital or a singer, or a dancer, or a play, if they are, i feel nothing throughout, then we failed. then we failed. actors come to town to new york or los angeles or london and they say you know, "i'm going to give it a shot. i'm going to give it a year and see if i can become successful." and to those, i want to say, i can save you a year of your time. if you think that this is something that you can cve out

some arbitrary amount of time to achieve certain things, this is not for you. this is a lifetime. when you first start out as an actor, youanswer to any question is ¡yes.'' do you want to'- ¡yes! i want to do that!' i started out in 1979 doing background work as an extra. angry mob. drunken frat boy, reckss wiver. and thn you first get that break when you actually have a hme, doug or steve, ¡wow i actuale a name! fem steve!' yo like you've progressed to some degree. there's no career that has ever been achieved in entertainment, i truly believe this, without a healthy dose of luck. someone said ¡okay kid, i'll read your script.' or ¡alright, you want to audition? come in. do it right now.'

and then you got to be ready. celebrity is a byproduct of what i do and what i like it's not what i was after. i was a working actor. things we fine. i was paying my bills, leading a very middle class economic life, and then i got a lucky break at age 40. and was cast in "malcolm in the n ddle." at 50 i got an egger break when i was cast as walter white o"breaking bad." so, that was my trajectory. it came en it was supposed to come, and that's the interesting thing about luck, it doesn'tet work on your tle it works on its own. this is bryan cranston, and this is my brief but spectacular take on being an actor. >> woodruff: you can watch additional brief but spectacular episodes on our website, shs.org/newshour/brief. on the nr online right

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