captioning sponsored by nnewshour productio, llc >> woodruff: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, the right to vote-- in the final days beforthe election, we explore allegations of efforts to keep minority voters away fromhe polls. then, thousands of google employees walk out of worko protest the company's handling of sexual misconduct claims. 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 owce this responsibility of how do i pay my bills, do i go to work, and how do i care for an aging loved one. >> woodruff: all that and more tonight's pbs newshour.

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and individuals. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: president trump today stepped his efforts to make migrant caravans a central issue in next week's mid-term elections. in lengthy white house remarks, he said heill issue an executive order next week to deny legal asylum to those who enter without documents. mr. trump dismissed existing federal laws that say all who reach u.s. soil may apply for legal asylum >> we will not allowur

generosity to be abused by those who would break our laws, defy 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 reofrd them as the equivalen 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 bec fe the nationst black female governor. >> we are not powerless every single 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 guorial nominee is brian

kemp, georgia's secretary of state overseeing elections. he has denied trying to suppress democratic voter turnout. we'll have a full report on the ise, later in the program. the accused gunman in the pittsburgh synogue massacre pleaded not guilty today, to a 44-count feder indictment. the charges against robert bowers range fromurder to hate crimes. also today, funerals were held for three more of the 11 people shot to death at the "tree of life" synagogue. in indonesia, divers recovered one of the flight recorders from a crashed into the java sea on monday. all 189 people on board the lion air plane were killed. today, indonesian tv showed divers handing oe bright orange device to investigators to analyze. re still searching for a second recorder. an international watchdog group reports today that sexual abuse is rampant in north korea.

human rights watch says it interviewed more than 100 north korean defectors. in south kor today, one woman 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-level officers. about 9:30 every nht, women were summoned and sexually abus dishonorably discharged on charges of playing around with eir superiors. >> woodruff: human rights watch. warned that the world is ignoring the abuse, as it pfocuses on efforts to mace with pyongya. the trump administration imposed new economic sanctions on venezuela and cuba today, an plans to add nicaragua as well. in miami, president trump's national security advisor john 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 shores." separately, the u.s. justice department stepped up a campaign against chinese corpor espionage. officials today charged a chinese firm with stealing secrets from the u.s. semi- conductor company micron. a firm in taiwan was alsch ged. some fierce, fall weather battered the u.s. gulf coast states overnight and today. storms moving in a line from east texas into northwest a left two people dead. heavy rain and winds gusting to 60 miles an hour toppled trees d power lines. at least 110,000 customers lost poross four states. there's word the u.s. coast guard ademy is being investigated for racial discrimination. th security, confirmed it today. the coast guard academy was already under congressiol pressure to address racial 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 0 added 28. still to come on the newshour: how alleged voter safpression coulct the outcome of several close elections. google employees protest their y's handling of sexual misconduct allegations. making sense of a ballot init 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 much more.

>> woodruff: amid record- breaking early voting this midterm season, concerns of voter suppression, and who has to vote, are at the center of some of the country's most contested races. congressional correspondent lisa desjardins reports o new voting restrictions mean for voters in some key contests. >> desjardins: in georgia, record-breaking early voting has more than doubled compared to this time in 201 soaring in both democratic and republican strongholds, as the state's hotly contested race for governor is locked in a virtual tie. and at the cenr of the race, a 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'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, georgia's current 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 administration, says that abrams' organizeds have encouroter fraud and have failed to properly register others. kemp faced backlash, after his office triedose seven of nine polling places in a predominately poor, black county in southwest georgia this summer. his office has also canceled over 1.4 million voter registrations since 2012, and recently put on hold some 53,000 voter applications, cis ng the state'"exact match" rules. s an application can be invalidated if it does not exactly match information on a person's driver license. georgia's population is 32% black. the as that nearly 70% of the applications currently on hold by kemp's office are from black voters. kemp dismisses allegations of voter suppression as

"outrageous." >> and this farce about voter suppression and people bng held up from being on the rolls and being able to vote is absolutely not true. yone 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 epticism about the high number absentee ballot requests among democratic voters. "rolling stone" magazine, obtained audio of his remarks. >> they hat an unprecedented number of that which is something that especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote which they absolutely can and mail those ballots in, we got to have that.turnout to offset >> desjardins: abrams says minority voters are bearing the unt of kemp's policies.

>> because voter suppression isn't only about blocking the vote, it's also about creating mosphere of fear making people worried that their votes won't count. >> desjardins: it is a debate in several election hot spots this year. in north dakota's high profile u.s. senate race, a native erican tribe is suing to block a new voter-i.d. law passed by the republican-controlled state hous it lake tribe says the measure disenfranchises voters who live on reservations-- many of whom don't have official addresses on their i.d.'s, or don't have an identification card at all. meanwhile, in kansas, officials in the majority hispanic dodge city, moved the area's onlou polling placide city limits. and in texas, arizona, florida and other states, election officials have closed hundreds of polling sites and enacted stricter vot. laws in the past few years. this election, the polls and voting itself, is on the ballot. for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins.

>> woodrufusands 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 that google had paid millionsllars to departing executives accused of sexual harassment, and never made the allegations public. among them: android creator andy rubin, who received $90 million on his way outoor. rubin denies forcing a female google employee into a sexual act, despite the fact that an inteheal investigation found t claim credible. employees in ew york city held a rally after leaving their office, and called for a broader y.ltural shift at the comp >> we demand structul 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 we have the eyes of many companies looking at us and we've always been a vanguard company, so if we don't lead the way, nobody else will. >> woodruff: katie benner co- wrote the original "new york tis" story that disclosed how google handled sexual misconduct claims. she's been following the walkouts today and joins me now. catie bener in, thank you for joining us once again this a turnout that was feakive today. >> this turnout exceededio expect by far. we reported we expected about 1500 people. other people thought it would be a fe thousand. at this point we have, you know, unverified accounts t clarily a lot of head count going on of up to more thanen percent of the company's overall 94,000 employees has walked out today swz its people you- talked- . >> woodruff: the people you talked to what motivates them. >> there has bng a long simmering tension within google about the way wome treated, not just that sexual harassment

sed, it is alsoes the fact google has refused to be transparent about whether oro not men ann are paid equally, the ready that telephone leaders of the company byaving high profile affairs that 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. brd then of course the straw that probable the camel's back was the report that andy llion whichved $90 is an extraordinary sum after a credible claim of sexual assault. these things all together send a clear message which is that men are more vued than women. and for a company as important as google, as high profile where the employees are as highly paid, they said it is now the time to stop. >> woodruff: treating women as their own personal ding pool, that stood out to me as something you just said. i meanescribe the culture there. >> well, interestingly, the women who accuseandy rubin of assaulting her, e was an employee. there were other employees who he dated at the company. david drum mhiday the local officer, he dated a woman

at the company n that case she ended up leaving and you can see their career trajectories were very different. he has become extraordinarily oswealthy and is one the important men in silicon valley if not the united states. and of course sergei one of the founder hses a high profile affair, thatoman is also no longer at the company losing out on the extraordinary compensation packages that google pays its employees while he remains unof the largest shareholders with a controlling vote in the company. and it of course no consequences for him either. woodruff: so what are t women who walked out today, what do they want? wome aan men empt the company. >> yeah, i t it's important to emphasize that itasn't just women walking out it was people of all gender identities, of all age, of all races and ethnicities wapping out in sut of a broader movement for more equity at google. they wanted very specific things. they demanded greater accountability, a transparency report around sexual harassmentu misconduct around the company.

think wanted a representative on the board of the company, an employee representative to, who could speak to the board and say this is what the employees want d about.re concerne they also wanted a pay equity repoey warrant the transparency around whether women are truly being paid lesds than menney also want aid global unified way to report sexual meconduct that would safe. >> and what is the company saying about this? 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 bee very quiet. the leader of the company has been very smart about how heas handled this. he has been supportive of the rallies. he says he has been supportive of the employees but we don't really understand exactly where he stands until they or not he takes seriously the demands made by the employees. these are not extraordinarily, you know, off the wall, crazy, extreme demands. in many ways ty are quite reasonable especially for a company in which again sergei

aye brennan, larry page control all of the of voting shares and make all the final decisions, these are just a questions, queries and sademandng we would like a little more accountability in the situation. >> woodruff: how doegoogle, catie brenner in compare to sther sul con valley companie 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 fo. i think the culture of technology is that merits all these-- always wins out f you work hard and are you the smartest you will rise am have i never seen astry or reported on an industry that believes that more than the chnology industry. google is the leader of that ry and they probably hav spoken about that more than any other company. at the end of the day, though, if you look at the number of 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 think there say strong

case to be made, that is not the case. and so the employees now very data driven, they want to know , at the exacts ae numbers and they said they can use that to help create a solution. >> katie brenner reporting on he 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 university of maland fires its football coach following investigations into the june deatof a player. and emmy-winner bryan cranston 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 progr. but the proposal, and how it would be funded, are proving controversial. our economics correspondent, paul solman, has the story. it's part of our sseies, "making nse" which airs every thursday. >>te rep 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 myrick moved back to the farm seven years ago so she could stay put. >> i'll do whatever i can for her to stay he because we can provide thcare 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 oher son, who helps his mother cope with dementia and other age-related ailments. he also cares for his 38-year- old daughter, katherine, who has it's more than he can handle by himself. >> i interviewe 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 wilo work part-time. and that's what we've piecemealed together. >> reporter: cross pays a patchwork of providers $10 to $15 an hour. >> kate is on tuesday and thursday. tyson is on monday, wednesday, and friday. y and paula comes on saturd part of sunday. and these are the checks that people get paid. >> reporter: in order to pay the checks, the 75-year old copal priest, who thought he'd retired, has returned to work. >> i'm working half-time in brewer, at st. patrihurch. that's where i get the salary to

ndy the caregivers that make it possible for momathryn, and i, to stay here. if i weren't able to work n' pay them, i 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 or do what i' done. >> 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 staten the country. and, as elsewhere, there aren't enough homecarers already. ben chin, lobbying forhe proposal, blames low pay. >> right now there's about 6,000 hours a week of senio aren't getting care and it's just because ancies can't hire rkers because they can't pay workers enough to come do this job. aine homecare workers average $11 an hour. question one'sike would go to providing 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 red for by his, 21- year-old granddaughter, nina dennehy. hyfallon moved in with dena waitress, and her fiancee two years ago. >> his caretaker moved away, so i stepped up to the line and became his caretaker >> reporter: without you guys, he'd be-- >> he has noe else.

if he were to become more ill than what he is right now, i probably wldn't be able to 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, groceries, take care everything else. orter: what would happen what would happen to you? >> i don'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. they are pwho every day face this responsibility of how do i pay my bills, how do i go to work, and how do i re for an aging l ed one, or a child with disability. >> reporter: so canvassers are trying to reach them.e' >> just talking to people about question one, about universal in-home care. >> reporter: so that's one side of the story. the other? state economist amandaector warns question one could stop maine's ecic expansion

dead in its tracks. >> we found that the proposal gative effects on maine' economy across population, labor force, employment, personal income, g.d.p. >> reporter: rector's take: the aw tax will drive mainersy. >> we have essentiallyaised the cost of doing business and living in maine through this tax incrse. and so, the resulting effect is people and businesses are going to either move out or not move in. >> reporter: alec porchus is maine's finance commissioner. >> you're also going to see increased busiroduction 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 a healthcare groups fiercely oppose the measure. >> this tax is a hit on nearly every small business in this state. >> reporter: newell augur is chair of the "no on question

one/stop the scam" campaign. >> we know of specific examples of a similar tax fight that we d two years ago. hospitals lost the ability to bring a resident because of the specter of a 3% tax that was on the ball years ago.assed two >> reporter: donna dnslois, who ruaine health care at home, is opposed because, she says, patient information would be shared with third-party groups. >> that informatn n would be gi a group of individuals that they don't know and they don't unrstand why. >> reporter: supporters insist people's privacy will be protected. but what about that supposed population exodus, i asked opponent deblois? would you move out of maine? >> no, i wouldn't. no one's going to leave the state of maine. it's a bad deal for the stt e of maine, don't think they're gonna leave because of it. >> reporter: but shipyard brewing company president bruce forsley does. he says he would consider 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 officesff-site in other states. and all this would affect our core market. >> reporter: but bn of the maine people's alliance doesn't buy it. >> there's zerence that anybody is going to leave the st a result of this policy passing, but what there is evidence every day is that the system right now isn't working for familiesor >> rr: and father cross reminds us that maine has other attractions as well. >> people come to because of the quality of life that's here, because of the connection to the environment, because of the low traffic. my mom always says, when i go to the brewer, "how was theraffic today?" i said, "mother, there isn't any traffic in maine." you can't put a dollure on those things.

>> reporter: but you can put a dollar figure on an income tax hike. so phere disagree about question 1. there is consensus about one thin though: most of us want to find some way to age in place. >> everyone wants to stay in their home if they can do that. wants to go to a nursing home? one of my mentors, who died in a nursing home 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? it my life! >> 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 the country'former dictator francisco franco. he's now buried in an extravagant mausoleum near madrid. the new leftspanish government wants franco's remains to be removeto help settle grievances that still divide the country, but there'ng resistance ahose who have fond memories of the dictator. special correspondent malcolm brabant has our report. it was produced in partnership with the pulitzer center >> reporter: the giant cross remindanyone for miles around, that here lies francisco franco, who ruled spain with an iron fist for 36 until his death in 1975. the mausoleum, an hour's drive northwest ofd, is located in a former battlefield of the 1930's spanish civil war. nes of thousands of fallen fighters are hereabouts, but only the general's tomb is marked, with a temple of gloom. filming is strictly forbidden. but dictatorships always spawn

rebellion. >): for us it is essential not only to exhume franco's body but also to exhume what franco's dictatorship meah 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 not been able to judge the crimes of the dictatorship, or prosecute so called franatistas, subord who enforced his tyrann >> ( translated ): we are an abnormal democracy in europe because we maintain a regime of impunity. to exhfranco and to exhume franquism from the valley can allow us to initiate a step of justice, recognition and restoration for the victims, an element to end with the imnity that has reigned in our country. >> reporter: spain's parliament voted in september to approve the disinterment. but conservative lawmaker jose villegas is skeptical of thee motivation of untry's politically fragile new socialist led adminiration.

>> ( translated ): after 40 years, in my opinion, the 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 launch a smoke screen to cover the embarrassment and the ak points of his government. >> reporter: but the argument of socialist lawmaker adriana lastra won the day. >> ( translated ): can you picture a monument 20 kilometerl away from in honor of hitler? or one 20 kilometers away from rome in honor of mussolini? i don't hat for my country because i want to have a country that is democratically advanced. i want to put an end to that abnormality and so does the prime minister and spanish society. cture weis the best have >> 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 ling cabinets if this was germany, these

people would be prosecuted for glorifying the teich. but in modern spain the franco foundation is able to promote what it regards as his legacy.de foundation pre juan ortega. >> ( translated ): we are david against goliath. but we are sure we'll win. and we don't think they'll exhume him. because, along as in spain there is rule of law, the law protects us. >> reporter: orta believes that the proposed exhumation is an act of left wing inspired vengeance. and he bridles when franco is compared to hitler and mussolini. >> ( translated ): history can't be changed. it is what it is and we need 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 iis 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 the system that franco worked for 40 years.

>> rep franco came to power in 1939, after a three year civil war. up to half a million people were killed during the conflict. rsduring his ensuing dictap, tens of thousands of his opponents were killed or imoned. franed was ideologically align with hitler's nazis and provided military and material support to the german led axis, but stayed out of the second world war. historian nicholas sanchez albornez, now 92, spen years in prison with three other students for opposing franco politically. >> ( translated ): it did not go further than expssing opinions and a certain propaganda and it led to being arrested and t stand before a military 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, histo buffs gather to tour significant sites in the fight against anco. 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 oblem it being there but think the problem is the symbol. >> ( translated ): it is very important to change the symbols a fascist regime like the e anquist one because at the end thmbols stay in the culture and keep making the country democratic. >> reporter: but although parliament has voted in favor to remove franco's dy, some sides in this debate believe a stand off is looming.

we have spoken to the benedictine order of monks which administers franco's mausoleum and they insist that there will be no exhumation. ngey say that spain's previous uan carlos trusted their community to care 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 wico to remove fr 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 coul perilous for the monarchy, which, as it happens, was put back on the throne by franco as he approached death. so where does spanish law stand ons hiissue? constitutional lawyer gustavo arpez-munos. >> theament is the representative of all the power 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 constitution. ape parliament of spain if it oves the exhumation of the body othe remains of franco to l.y other place, that is perfectly le ne reporter: perhaps anticipating thetable, franco's grandchildren have said ulat if his body is to be exhumed, they like it reburied in the crypt of the almudena cathedral opposite the royal palace in the center of madrid. miguel urban of the podemos left ty says franco's family shouldn't be allowed to decide where franco's remains are finally laid to rest. >> ( translated ): this needs to be a government decision. and the government needs to work so that the new emplacement of franco's body is a place where there cannot be a memorial, where there can't be a fascist pilgrimage, it can't be a space for the remembrance of franquism and fascism.

and that needs to be ensured through public policy. of course, burying him in the center of madrid doesn't meet these characteristics. >> reporter: fresh flowers adorn the tomb of franco's daughter carmen in the cathedral crypt. if the former dictator was buried nearby, this would become even more hallowed ground for ths supporters. ight wing nationalism on the rise across europe, this has dscome an important battle for hearts and m for the pbs newshour, i'm malcolm brabant in madrid. >> woodruff: as we prepare for elections ne week, we want to step back and take a deep dive in to what russia did to try to sway the vote in 2016. that's the focus of a new book, "cyberwar," by kathleen hall jamieson, a noted scholar of political rhetoric. we began with the ke 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 the russian trolls mawr odding around in cyberspace pretending they're u.s. citizens had a message alignaned withdate trump. they had identified the right voters they needed to mobilize, demobilize and shift in order te help him them had messages that had a lot of viral exposure so they reaches a lot of peoplet but we're ompletely sure, although they did have the entire democratic play book so they had t means. whether they actually reached the right votedders in the three key states. 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 lake a difference. for exam you write about the voters who could be preswayeded

to go with jill stein, the green party candidate, african-american voters. you are giving the russians a lot of cret, aren't snu. >> one doesn't have to be really smart if one of the russians can read english and follows the u.s. media to see the playbook for a campaign consultant inside our news structures. i yoat in the bo extended passages in u.s. mainstream media explaining which states donald trump needs to win, hillary clton needs to win wa, kinds of voters they need to approach, where each is falling short, and there are even 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 ok from the clinton campaign including the voter turnout models in key states. and then they have one more advantage. paro advertisers. and as a result they have built into them the very means of reaching the target voter. and unlike the passed whe 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 tosk y more about the media but first i want to ask you about the languute. you talk arolls, you talk about operatives but you call them russian disourse saboteurs. >> my theory of how the election outcome was changed is that the discourse climate was changed. so we know from our passed research that when you change the balance of theessages so you have more negative messages about one cdidate than the other, you shift votes. not massive numbers but you shift enough to decide a close election. and what that mean stion if yotu can he number of messages out there to be highly negative compared to where they would have been in social media, that is the tls, and in mainstream and conservative media, that ish hackers, to shift in both cases against secretary clinton, ndidate 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

utll jaim yeason is about the rush arnes yes b also the way the american news 34ed ka-- media covers politics. thetalk about the tendenc strong tendency we have in the rest many decades to focus mo on personalities and on process than we do on polingsee. how did th play into what the russians were doing when thesh ole hackers illegally the content and released too it into the media stream they were coming into environment where our reporters are preoccupyed with getting the real storyhe what candidates are like and plan to do ver us a what theyear to be lake and say they are going to do. heere was a preses narrative already sittinge 57bd very comfortfully and amplified by that mf to drop cthe hacktent in. hillary clinton helped make that opinion by not releasi her speech text when bernie sanders asked for them, once the speech texts are released, they become toeder for aress narrative already preset. and what it does is creates a

narrative that says she said one thing in public and another ing in private. unfortunately some of the press uses of the evidence took the actual hateed cnt out of context to make the case that that is what she had done when this those instances she actually hadn't. be your point is if the russians ha doing what they had been doing, but if the media hadn't cooperated, this wouldn't have happened. had saidif the medi every time's going to say wikilels instead we w say russian stolen content hacked from democratic counts illegally, or russian stolen content given us by julian a sang who wanted to see hillary clinton defeated becau hillary clinton wanted him prosecuted for his use of national security data, the source and t message would have stayed tiedment by calling it wikileaks the press made us assume this was just normal content. and that it came from a news source, legitimate source, no 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 thatt was russian-sourced. ia woodruff: senior intelligence off are telling us the russians are still trying to interfere in this election, mid-term year election and they expect th saip thing happen in 2020. b they continue, what is the likelihood they wi successful again? >> social media platforms have made many changes to try to minimize the likelihood that a they will le to replicate 2016. this he have increased the likelihood tt they will try to catch anybody illegally buy addses a foreign nional, for example. the place we haven't seen big change sws the press. we haven't heard from our major media outlets but tomorrow somebody hacked our candidates red released the content into the media m, how would you cover it? would you cover it the same and would you assume it's accurac instead of questioning it and finding additional sourcing for it before you relee it into the body politics. i with like to know what the press is gointo doonfronted with the same situation, again, do i have sense of what the social media plforms will do.

>> well, there's some serious work to be done a llaround. kathleen haul jaimiie you performed a real service, cyberwar how the rush arne .rackers and trolls helped elect a preside thank you very much. >> thank 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 athletics can rulebove all else on some college campuses. as amna nawaz reports, the university of maryland's string of decisions in this case have angered many. >> nawaz: it's been a stunning 36 hours. just one day after 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 d to an investigation about other problems in the program and while that investigation led to disturbing findings, the school's board of regents foopped short of holding durkin responsiblsome of those problems. initially, the boardeinstated durkinn tuesday. that went against the recommendation of university president wallace loh, leading st a backlash on campus and ewide. loh, in turn, announced he would retire after t current htademic year. last nloh said that he fired durkin. joining me to talk about this is john feinstein, sportswriter, columnist anduthor. his upcoming book is called "quarterback." welcome back to the news hour. >> good to be here. >>t has been anncredible 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 chargre of agram about a 19 year old

player died, how did he get his job back in the fit place? >> the honest answer for me is i have no idea. because none of us could believe it when the news broke that dj durkin was being reinstated by ate board of regents on tuesday. but apparently happened is it became a political battle, in the wake of a tragedy, it was turned io a mit kal battle between wallace loh the president and james t bry, the chairman of the board of regents. the two of them were sort of avowed enemies over other issues at maryland. and brady decided th since loh wanted durkins fired, believedd durkin sho fired for what it happened, the death of a player under his watch, that he was going to find a way keep durkin on the job. and duin came in and met with the board of regents and apparently gave a rahrah speech abgt what he was goo do at maryland if he was reinstated that was reminiscent of ronald

rekan playing nut r nee in the old 1940 movie, you know, win one for the gipper. the reg ents i guess bought into it at least temporarily and decided to reinstate dj durkin which i think stunned everybody d the state. finally got to the point where governor hogan who appointed 13 of th 17 reg ents wrote them a note saying you need to reconsider. and that was alear message, especially six days before an election, that this could not be allowed to take place. >> this reinstatement caught a lot of people by surprise, a lot of maryland fans, people following the story. the players themselves too, it seemed. after dj durkin was reinstated there were reports of players tweeting their displeasure, walking out of t first meeting. >> right. >> what do you know aut what happened in the day after he was reinstated. >> you are right, dj durkin went to repeat with his team when he had beeneinstated on tuesday, three players got up 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 ray on campus. usually when you have rallies involving students on campus it is to tell the team to go win a big game. this was entirely different. and i think the sense was that the reinstatement in many ways devalued jordan mcnair, the 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 reason the training staff took 45 minutes d.fore 911s with calle and here is where i think wallace loh the president made his biest mistake. on august 11th, last triem i was here with you, he held aer press coce and he said quote the university of maryland is responsible morally and legally for the death of jordan mcnair. thates the day he should h 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 around the untry. >> true. >> how much of a role did that play in all of this decision

making in standing by durkin in the first place and how much of a problem could thi shall at other programs? >> it is a problem at othe 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 and basketball programs is a successful coach in either sport. they are the highest paid by far. the make well into the millions of dollars. mike-- at duke makes a million a-- they are also the biggest fundraisers for the school through the successof their programs. ngd i think the headline in yesterday's "wasn post" when durkin had i nushally been ryinstated sums it all up. it said land board of regents sides with football coach. so in other words, give ena choice between a footcoach who had allowed a player to die under his watch and the president who waaying we can't have this, they chose the

football coach because they believe show that he was going to come backhe and lead 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.>> ell, 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 urlayers. you can't allow this to come close to happening. jrd mcnir didn't have to die. if he had had gotten him in a tub of ice right awayhich is standard procedure when a player is overheated, he would not have ed. 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 feinstein, thanks for being here. >> thanks amna. >> woodruff: oscar nominated n tor bryan cranston is best

knr his emmy winning role as walter white in "breaking bad." but as he explains in tonight's "brief but spectacular" episodme it took him uck to get there. starting next saturday, cranston will be playing the role of howard bealen the broadway production of "network", based on the famous film. >> the first thing i look for when i read a script is, does the story move me? what i tly love about this, and when i talk to audiences about anything i've done, or about any other movie or stage ece, 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 next

to someone and watch a movie, i could be weeping and they're like, ¡eh' it's like, 'really?' it's like ¡yeah it missed me.' the only failure is if you move an audience to nothing, to boredom. if they are indifferent about what they just expienced, whether it's a painting or a recital or a singer, or a dancer, or a play, ithey are, i feel nothing throughout,hen we failed. then we failed. actors come to town to new york or los angeles or london and veey say you know, "i'm going to t a shot. omm going to give it a year and see if i can bsuccessful." and to tse, i want to say, i can save you a year of your time. if you think that this is something that you can carve out

some arbitrary amount of time to achieve certain things, this is not for you. this is a litime. when you first start out as an s.tor, your answer to any question is ¡ 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, reckless driver. and then when you first get that break wh name, doug or steve, ¡wow i actually have a name! i'm steve!' you feel like you've progressed to some gree. there's no carr 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 to do. it's not what i was after. i was a working actor. y ings were fine. i was payinglls, leading a very middle class economic life, and then i got a lucky break at age 40. and was cast in "olm in the middle." at 50 i got an even bigger break when i was cast as walter white on "breaki bad." so, that was my trajectory. it came when it was pposed to come, and that's the interesting thing about luck, it doesn't rkrk on your timetable it on its own. this is bryan cranston, and this is my brief but spectacular take on being an actor. b woodruff: you can watch additionef but spectacular /bisodes on our website, pbs.org/newshoef. on the newshour onliht now, researchers think they're on the path to a new kind of f

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