captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight: a major earthquake shakes alaska, causing heavy damage in anchorage. we have the latest from a reporter on the ground. then, president trump meets with leaders of the world's e rgest economies, amid international trsputes and other flashpoints. plus, another major data breach. marriott hotels is the latest hacking victim, with the personal information of half a billion customers now compromised. and, it's friday. mark shields and david brooks analyze this week in the russia investigation. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour.

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declared a disaster. i spoke with lori townsend of alaska public media by phone, short time ago, about what it was like when the quake hit. >> it was the most violent shaking i've experienced. i have been in alaska for nearly 20 years and v o course, experienced many earthquakes. we had a couple of large ones in the la couple of years but this was very violent and a long shake. >> woodruff: and what do you understand of that damage? >> there has been extensive damage. the sue ward highway is closed because of rock fall at the creek and concern over other aftershocks that could create damage, and, so, that's closed. there's damage on the northbound highway on the glen, it's called there was a partial collapse of a bridge at an intersection of international and minnesota, and

right in anchorage. there's a sinkhole on the new sue ward highway and damage on other parts ofhe highway. it's being assessed by city officials. >> reporter: amazing there were no injuries. we understand the school is closed, the oil pipeline shut down. this is causing maj disruption. >> it is causing major disruption but a lot of this is precautionary a methods. alias cay pipeline says, so far, they have not se fen there is actual damage but they shut e line down as a precaution until they can ensure that. ecausehools have closed b the afternoon badge school district, in an abundance of caution, canceled classes for today, also monday and tuesday, and want parents just to get their kids out of there so they can assess and make sure the buildings are completely safe before children go back to school nexek at some point.

we had a report of a house that actually burned down because of a gas line rupture and caused an explosion and burned. he is somebody who lived through the 1964 earthquake, and, so, lost his home. >> woodruff: the rcot of the try is watching with concern. we wish you the best andrt nly hope there turn out to be no casualties. lori towveend, thank yo much. >> thank you, judy. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, marriott announced that hackers have broken into the data banks of its hotel empire. the breach affects up 500 million guests at hotels once run by starwood, and now it could involve credit card and passport numbers, and other information. we'll discuss the implications, later in the program. ukraine escalated its stanff with russia today, closing its border to all russian men between the ages of 16 and 60 years old. president petro poroshenko said he wants to prevent more

fighters from joining rebels alre this follows sunday's confrontation in the kerch strait, when russian border guards seized three ukrainian naval vessels and 24 sailors. in brussels, street battles broke out today at a protest over rfuel prices and high taxes. hundreds of people rallied, clad in high-visibilityw vests. some threw rocks and torched a police car, and police fired retear gas and high-pressu hoses. officials condemned the violence, but protesters insisted they be heard. >> ( translated ): all the government does create taxes. they are outside the world. they don't know what the price of bread is, towy don't even hat it's like to pay their bills themselves. and the people, here the yelw vest, we are just saying that we're fed up. >> woodruff: the protests were organized to copy from

ongoing demonstrations in france against increased fuel taxes. tens of thousands of farmers marched on india's parliament today aping for better crop prices and debt relief. the crowds carriedanners and signs, and some held human skulls, symbolizing a stunning 300,000 farmer suicides in the last two decades. they demanded action by prime minister narendra modi. >translated ): prime minister modi said he will bring good days. but for us farmers, bad days are here. where are the goodays? what else can we do except protest? we are starving. druff: the protesters say drought, failed crops and extreme debt affect millions of farmer the u.s. is under new pressure to send medical specialists back into northeastern congo to fight an ebola outbreak. it ithe second largest in history, with more than 400 cases and nearly00 deaths since august 1. r medical journals today urged u.s. action, but the state

department has warned health rkers to stay out of the region, after deadly attacks by reoups. thousands of students skipped school in australia today, demanding action on climate change. children rangingm five to 18 years old rallied in 30 cities and towns. they called for 100% renewable energy by 2030. >> because of continual inaction from politicians, we felt the need to leave school, because this is r future. we can't sit idly and watch them not act uponomething that is so critical and encompasses the whole human race. >> woodruff: australian prime minister scott morrison defended his climatrd. and, his resources minister, matt cana should have stayed in school instead of protesting. he said, "you don't learning anything from that." back in this country, a texas grand jury has indicted a white former dallas police officer for murder.

amber guyger fatally shot an unarmed black neighbor in she says she entered the wrong apartment, and thought the man was an intruder. she originally faced a lesser of manslaughter. the pentagon is now expected to extend the deployment of.s. troops at the mexican border through january. the dedepartment received the request today from the department of homeland security. it also calls for cutting the number of deoyed troops from 5,600 to 4,000. and, on wall street, stocks staged a new stable interest rates, and for progress in trade talks with china. the dow jones industrial average gained nrly 200 points, to close at 25,538. the nasdaq rose 57 points, and the s&p 500 added 22. to come on the newshour: president trump face-to-face with leaders of the world's largest economies.

the personal data of hundreds of millions of marriott customers is compromised. michael cohen's guilty plea renews the focus on the president's business dealings in russia. plus, mark shields and david brooks examine a packed week of politics. dr >> wf: leaders of the world's wealthiest industrial nations began two days of meetings today at the g-20 summit in argentina. but, as our nick schifrin reports from the sumt site in buenos airs, it comes at a moment of global uncertainty. >> schifrin: the g-20 leaders' summit is supposed to be the premierevent for global governance. it forces the world's most powerful lders into a single room, where everyone played nice, including euiapean and russn leaders. but in this era of populism, this family isn't united, in

waving or inning. there are major disagreements: over climate change, as turkey over migration, as the u.s. resists language abo the global refugee problem requiring a global response. and steel and trade, where chinese and american diplomats are battling. european dlomats say they feel increasingly alone in fighting for multi-lateralism, but are still pushing, as european council president dold tusk did today: >> as this is a difficult moment for international coopation, i would like to appeal to the leaders to use this summit, cluding the bilateral and informal exchanges, to seriously discuss real issues such as trade wars, the tragic situation in syria and yemen, and the ssian aggression in ukraine. >> schifrin: that's a reference tosian ships ramming and firing on ukrainian boats last sunday, and taining ukrainian sailors paraded on russian tv. despite a busy week in the special counsel's investigation,

president trump reiterated that was the only reason he canceled a planned meeting with russian president vladimir putin. >> hopefully they'll be able to settle it out because we look forward to meeting with president putin. but on the basis of what took place, with respect to the ships and sailors-- at was the sole reason. s ifrin: but u.s.-russia tension extends to nuclear arms control-- the intermediate-range treaty the uis threatening to leave, and the new start treaty that administration officials have questioned. today, president putin bemoane not being able to discuss that. >> ( translated ): a possible withdrawal of the united states from intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty and an ambiguous posion in terms of extension of the strategic offensive arms treaty create risks of an uncontrollable arms race. >> schifrin: this year's ntinian hosts promised to focus on how prosperity can be shared. but, much of today's focus was on blood that's been shed. saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman is here, after being

accused of ordering the death and dismemberment of critical journalist jamal khashoggi. during the family photo, he was in the corner, isolated. but he smiled at president trump. he got a smile from french president emmanuel macron, in a oto released by the saudi foreign ministry. and from putin, during whose tenure there have been high- profile murders of political opponents, turncoat spies, and critical journalists, m.b.s., as he's widely known, got a high five. a few miles from the summit venue, protestors remained peacef capitalism, and complained about argentina's struggling ecot my. presidentrump described the signing of the new u.s.-mexico- canada free trade agreement as a boon to the u.s. economy, but canadian prime minister justin totrudeau used the ceremon push for the end of u.s.- instigated tariffs. >>nd, donald, it's all the more reason why we need to keep working to remove the taris on steel and aluminum between our countries. >> schifrin: on january 1, the u.s. is set to dramatically increase the tariffs on chinese

imports. chinese president xi jng is here, and will hold a high- stakes dinner with president trump tomorrow night. today, mr. trump hinted he was open to a deal. >> we're working very hard. if we could make a deal, that would be good. i think they want to, and i think see.ike to, and, we'll >> woodruff: and nick schifrin joins me now. so, nick, with regard to china, the u.s. is signaling a deal is likely tomor >> yeah, that's certainly what they're saying. the trade representative said he wo "very surprised" if dinner was not successful. he's been a big hak and will be at that dinner tomorrow night. so that's a sign at the very least that the talks between th two sides so fhave gone well and the u.s. goes into this dinner with some confiden now, that doesn't mean that this is the end of what some analysts are calling cold war between the u.s. and china. this is more like a cease fire. why would that look like, perhaps? the u.s. might agree to suspend the tariffs that are suppose to go into effect on january 1, and the chinese would agree to start

buying farm and energy products again from the u.s. but the larger tension, anythinr intellectual property, access to the south china sea can't be solved over dinner tomorrow night. >> woodruff: you mentioned the crown prince mohammed bin salman of saudi arabia, how much ofhe focus there has been on leaders criticized as being authoritarian? >> as one critic of the president put it to me today, basicay a foum that's supposed to be for inclusive leadership has become a forum for authoritarian because of the indelible image of bin salman and president putin. this is about many things. u.s. and china. president trump met with president moon of south korea to about north korea and this document to communicate leaders with still negotiating and still trying to figure out. so no matter how, perhaps, memorable the single image, is

the fact that substantively this summit is not only about that. what is the status of the communique? what do you expect? >> there's a document this morning that the sh sherpas, the diplomats had reviewed it and will go back tonight to talk about the disp the climate change, there has been an agreement according to the diplomats i talked to about the inclusion of the paris clicket accord. they're working on the wording. multi-laterallism, a big dispute between europe and the united states, diplomats say there has been an agreement along lines of mmitment to working multi-laterally on a rules-based order and those words have been a red line for the europeae s. but ig ones, migration, trade and steel still in disput. raina pushing for language about free, the u.s. resisting and inclusion of protecti

all over the world to try to get to an agreement, this document is down to about three pages. last year's was 15 pages. they're ying to be much more vague. judy, just goes to show how difficult csensus is not only here in buenos aires but all over the world. >> woodruff: for sure. nick schifrin reporten og 0 e mmit in argentina. thank you, nick. >> thank you. >> woodruff: the binto the marriott hotel chain's reservation database is one of the biggess in history, second only to the breaches at yahoo that affected three billion accounts. as amna nawaz reports, the hackers-- still unidentified-- accessed the reservations system of marriott's starwood hotel properties as far back as 2014. >> nawaz: the breach affected personal data of half a billion customers in all. for more than 300 million of

the hackers were able to get lots of information, including names, phone numbers, email addressesport numbers, dates of birth, and arrival and departure information. the hack affected starwood n,hotels such as the shera westin, st. regis and w hotels. it's the latest in a series of majobreaches. most significantly, the credit rating agency equifax was hit lastwith a big breach affecting nearly 150 million people. in 2015, hackers were able to get at the records of nearly 80 million customers of the insurance giant, anthem. and one of the more ll-known retail breaches was target, back in 2013. more than 40 million people were affected that year. to help us understand what's at risk in this case and others, we check in with david kennedy, the c.e.o. of trusted sec, a security and consulting firm. david, welcome back to th "newshour". based open the information that was taken, how it t wasen, do

we have any idea who was behind the hack or how tin foe can be used? >>ntly the information hasn't been released. what's particularly about this one is tmahe infion that hasn't been seen on the dark web we would see from an organized crime perspectiv it's a different crew regardinth r motives actually getting access into the infrastructure. we're trying to learn who they e. t they had access to a substantial amount of information including potential loss of credited cards. the marriott making a statement they couldn't determine whether they got access to the encryption keys eed to gt accesso the credit cards which were encrypted. thisould be a mu larger breech in nature, larger than the targbreech, depending if they have access to thacredit card information. >> that password seems to be unique. >> everything about your personal life, your security questions, home address, phone

numbers, passporormation, all these things can be used in order to do additional identities and thike that. the passport itself isn't easy to replicate or clone but just having that information and being able to go to different locations and note thathis is also the loyalties prograte ially impacted by this, so being able to go to hotels for ee and having passports. if you ever travel internationally, they require you to have your passport i.din, so dely could be used from a fraud perspective to use that formation against you a things you can't easily change, f birth.ly your date o >> give me a sense of the hatacks in the past and how information was used. >> some of these require organized crime groups that take information that we call the cartarket to sell them in different batches. usually they lap quickly within usually couple of weekor days within a specific breech and then usually stakes longer to determi where thabreech came from. with things like equifax, for

examplugh, it was rumored that was nation states, or hostile countries against the united states using that information for large collection intelligence purposes not saying that's what's happening here. we don't know at this point in time. but it's definitely peculiar thormation has publicly been posted on the dark web sites for sale to mak profit. so a lot of motives and demographics we've seen in the past with different other breaches. it going to take time to understand if we can attribute it back to a group or adversary like nation states that would be hostile to the united states. >> these breaches are no longer unusual sms are companies getting better at preventing them? e saw the massive breaches in the retail space like homdee t, jim j johns, target. a jolt went ugh the retail sector where they beefed up the security to protect information. but the hospitality, healthcare,

government ones that are not focusing on government secrets are y behind when it comes to security and they are absolutely not doing enough. they have lar amounts of information, 500 million in this case, half a billion records, but most hospital -- hospitality services don't necessarily consider themselves target for hackers. in this case that's obviousld what occurrnd will take more breaches in different industry verticals for these thing to occur. so now the answer is no they're not doing enough to protect your information and most these companies don't belia e they're rget and don't spend enough when it comes tose rity-related efforts. >> if companies aren't doing enough for anyone out there who thinks they're part of the breech, what can individus do to better pret vent this from >> fnd foremost, we don't stppening? know the extent of the breech but it's safe to say passwords were probably compromised. if you had a star account from 2013 up to this point this year,

change the password. if you use t password anywhere else, commonly with large data breaches, hackers have tools toa aucally log into all the different sites to try the passwords with email addresses. you can call te credit bureaus and lock your credit so thingsou can't be taken in advance. that's a good precautionary measure. services like life lock, for $1 milliyou have a insurance policy in case someone takes out your identity and steals your identity and uses it for fraudulent activity, they will fix that credit and give you monitors for things occurring out there. most important steps we see is your financial institutions, social media accounts, things like that have additional setngs you can log into your site with and have two-factor awehenfication, that allow you to get a one-tim

text message to your phone to log in. if a hacker gets access to you password they don't have access to your account because they don't have your phone. that's one to have the best steps to stop the hacker attac attacks. >> david kennedy, thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> woodruff: this was, you might a marquee week for special counsel robert mueller's investigation into president trump's 2016 campaign. lisa desjardins reports on what we are learning about mr. trump's ties to russia. >> desjardins: judy, here are sst some of the developme this week: trump campaign foreign policy sadviser george papadapou reported to prison to serve his sentence for lying to the f.b.i. mueller saidr trump campaign chairman paul manafort broke his plea agreement by lying to investigato. and, mr. trump's personal lawyer michael cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congrest some of the president's business ties to

russia. former personalawyer. for some context, two reporters tracking the business and national security imications. matea gold. she's the enterprise and vestigations editor for the "washington post." and, david sanger. he's a national security correspondent for the "new york times." thanks to boyou. as the president said,, it's not illegal to try to build a hotel in russia, but my question to you david sanger, what do we know about overlaps between businessman donald trump's deals in russia and politician donald trump's policies about russia? >> well, lisa, that's the central question because, from the start of his campaign in 2015, he was taking an unusual position, a muosch softerion on russia than almost any of his republican competitors, and certai than the republican party had in the past. i went to see him with maggie haign, my colleague at the

time, in march 2016 and we did the first sorof lengthy foreign policy interview, and when i asked about russia, the first thing he did v wasr into the question of why the u.s. was continuing sanctions on russia for its annexation of crimea. he argued crimeaom was far us, european countries didn't care about this as much as we did, whyre we doing this? well what do we now know?we ow know that same month march of 2016,ai his s were still negotiating on whether or not they would be getting permission to build a buildi in moscow, and, of course, they were dealing with the kremlin to some degree o this, and he was offering a position that was music to vladimir putin's ears. thathat doesn't mean the two are causally related. we just don't know. >> matea gold, your team has been covering something first reported in buzz feed yet that, in fact, the trump org team trying to work on the trump tower in moscow floated the idea

to russian officials of a million penthouse apartment for vladimir putin. my question to you because you've take an broad look at all, this how long has donald trump amnd the tp organization tried to build a hotel in russia and what do we know how president trump was volved in canada in trying to make that happen. >> the 2016 effort was a capstone on a 30-year quest by donald trump to bring his brand to moscow. he and his tn wife ivana actually traveled to the then soviet union in 1987 to scout out locations for a possible trump tower or development, and over the years heeatedly tried to make adale happen that never was quite done. 2015 and 2016 wvery interesting because, even months after he famously came down the golden escalator and announced his candidacy forde prent in

october 2015, trump signed a letter of intent to continue searching for a deal in russia, and we know that his personal attorney michael cohen made it a mission to make it happen. cohen told congress the effort was dead, essentially, in january of 2016 just as trump's candidacy was getting going and starting to take hold and said his efforts to reach top aides of president putin never got a response. we learned those were false statements that, in fact, he spoke t a fernl assistant, a top putin aide in 2016 for about 20 minutes about securing land for a project and in the next months continued to discuss the project and discussed the project embers of stanley and the president. >> reporter: i want to look at that moment more, that moment where cohen says that, yes, in fact, he did, 2016, have

contact back and forth with the putin lieutenant about this idea of a trump tower in moscow. i want to ask you, sfd sfd, how significant this push with dimitri where it looks like this putin deputy was in fact trying to communicate with trump people as well. >> mr. pet coof is poweful, you hear him speaking for putin, you heard him speaking from gentina on some these issues. here's the critical point -- president trump said yesterday as he was leaving for the summit that he was continuing his buness operations, quite openly, he said, though we didn't know about this gotiation that was ongoing, because he might lose his quest for the presidency and then he would have to back into business and he didn't want to

ese any opportunities. well, that's finept you open yourself up to exactly this kind of heharge, that's a conflict of interest and that foreign nations that are seeking or others who are seeking influence will use their business relationship to try to fluence him or his views might be altered or appear to be altered in order to keep a potential business partner happy, and that's the central question. did he o alter his vif american policy toward russia for that reason? >> reporter: matea, so much of this seems to be centering around the trump organization and mr. trump's businesses and many think the road map to at his business was actually doing was his tax. retur can robert mueller obtain the tax returns and do we know if he's tried? >> we don't have any public confirmation that the special counsel has the president's tax returns, but i would note that that is a pretty basic

investigative technique is to look at someone's finances when you're scrutinizing any sort of color crime or financl iority and he could as a prosecutor obtain those. i thk it's safe the say mueller has substantiall material than in the public iomain assisting him in his investig so we really don't know from tot gide all the pieces he's look at while putting together his case. >> matea gold, david sanger, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: it has been a inmentous week in the mueller stigation. to help us better understand the broader implications, we turn to the analysis of shields and that's syndicated columnist mark shields, and "new york times" cumnist david brooks. he ho to both of you. so as we just heard in lisa's

conversation, we'n watching the story all week, a lot of the information out there, a lot from mr. mueller, a lot reported in the media not confirmed yet. what does it all add up to now, to you? >> i think it adds up to gravity, i thinkt adds up to anxiety, i think it adds up to neousness on the part of the administration, particularly the white house. i think, judy, what we saw is that the president's personal attorney testifying in court with mr. mueller's own ratification of his testimony, that all the way through the nominating process in 2016,gh up to the eve of the convention, by the time donald trump had sold up the - sowed up the nomination that they were actively -- he, mr. cohen and others were actively seeking to establish a property in moscow,

an ambition of donald trump for more than 30 years. itplayed to donald trump's denials to this effect that he said thereothing going on. and i think it becomes serious that he lied to the american people throughout the campaign of 2016, now becomes, i think, a matter of at least public debate if not presumption. >> woodruff: but, david, the president is saying no deal ped, there was no hotel built, so is there really anything here to see? >> there's got to be something. the thing that strikes me about this investigation is 's like million pieces out there. there's like the julian assange piece, the moscow deal piece, the tax piece, the roger stone, whatever he was doing, paying off strippers, there's a mlion pieces in this investigation and we don't nee which will open on any given day. so that tells me this is going to occupy the trump presidency dominate forime and the next little while. the second thing i think what

we're led from michael cohen is trump was probably more volved in a lot of things than we knew before trump seems to be involved in keese calls and things li that. the crucial thing i don't know is when he's accused of something he shifts the goalposts which is to say he renorming. they say, you were lying in the campaign, he says yeah, i was doing that, fine. they say, you may ve been compromised by moscow to get a business deal, he says, yeah, i may have been doing something. he's compltely unashamed. the question becomes, richard nixon was forced to resign over obstruction of justice. supposed there's an obstruction of justice case here. have our norms changed that that is no longer a political death sentence? and at may have happened. >> i think david raises a good

point. there's no question that donald trump is a mt.ut he has no embarrassment gene. >> woodruff: a mutant? he really is. he's aberrational. he's notmbarrassed. mean, richard nixon on tape said we could do this but it woulbe wrong and we know it's wrong. that doesn't -- that's not a construction, a sentence that would pass donald trump's lips. i mean, it isn't ast qn. if it's transactional, to my advantage, to my disadvantage, that's his morality. doest enhance hi does it in any way diminish him, which, of course, is the ormoinal an grievous of all sins. so i do think that our norms, i hope, have not been hopelessly impaired or damaged, and don forget that it was, in fact, th,

obstruction of justice in both the cases of bill clinton's impeachment, attempting to influee witnesses and h they testified, and richard nixon's. so these are serious offenses and there are precedents for pursuing that. >> but it's the hardest thing mufor thl team is there's a lot of prosecutorial discretion involved in these thtgs and a what point do we say this is enough to challenge the president in some fundamental existential way and at what i wt point do they think we have enough to go out in this aggressive way and at wt point do think think, no, this will just turn into a political circumstances. so the political norms of the cultur hwill affew mueller makes that decision. >> so. >> woodruff: so you believe the president may be changing the cultural moral nos of the country? >> that first republican debate, he's talking about things no president ever talked about, inlting other people's

looks -- >> woodruff: yeah. so it's just been a continual process of that. so at some point the norm runs into law but the law has an area ef discretion that will make th case. the thing that's hanging out there is there's just so much. and it's not even about collusion with the russians anymore. there's so much out there that this person has been involved with for the past 20 years and we don't koinow what's to spring up tomorrow. >> while we wait, is the president hobbledt all? how is he impaired? we saw a senate vote this week. republicans, most of whom never stood up, joined in and said, yes, we're going to have debate s.on whether the hould be backing the saudi arabia war in yemen. but is that the beginning of their standing up to the president? >> that may be the beginning and the end of the republican insurgency. i don't think there is a real

republican movement. there are doubts, judy. the presumption of donald trump was he was magic among republicans. he won on issues that republicans had run away from, had disdained and rejected, whether reyoalking about trade, noninterventionist foreign policy, chumminess with russia, he just ran totally ainst what had been the republican dogma. he won the nomination and the electoral college. so they -- and he won an awful lot of whitebl-collar voters in the process that had not been available to other republicans. so he had magic. they sustained, republicans, let this be known, they sustained the biggest defeat in a midrm election suffered by any party in popular vote terms since the last nine presidential elections. ave to go back to ronald reagan in 1984 to see a larger o parties,ween the tw

9 million votes. so the magic is in doubt now. i mean, theemocrats just gie him a pummeling. they lost 40 house seats. there was one ican left in all of southern california. the famo duncan hunter. he's under indictment, facing divorce, he's going to lose his seat and the house, his own house. so that's the republican party s point.ornia at thi that's the republican party in so much of the country so he has lost his magic, but they are still intimided by him because they're scared stiff they will do to them wha he did mark sanford. mitch mcconnell is pleasing donald trump to this day because he's afraid of 20 in kentucky. >> woodruff: david, do you see the republicans in congress more willing to stand up to the president? i think marginaly, as mark described. in the foreign perolicy ma they have been more able to

stand up to him. the republican party hasn't been particularly fond of the russians or saudi arabia. when trumphouse a foreign policy doctri built on authoritarian business partners, vladimir putin and the saudis, and that's ican partythe repu ever has been or probably will be after donald trump. ualthere's an act intellectual difference on these matters and they're more willing to to be much tougher on the saudis and that's been in the last two years. >> we saw thc.i.a. director banned from testifying. >> woodruff: a hush-up. over khashoggi, over the saudi prince's involvement if not ordering f the murder of khashoggi, at which the c.i.a. e, butncluded is the cas donald trump says, no, those are just feelings on the part of the c.i.a. >> woodruff: but the administration is saying we get to see who shows up to talk to congress and who doesn't.

so. >> that's fine. >>toodruff: let's talk ab nancy pelosi. she cemented she's the nominee of the democratic caucus and electike of the sp they're going to vote in january but 32 democrats voted agait her. what does that mean? can she pull it together? and what do you see that's happened among the democrats in the house? >> well, a lot ofeoe, one, there's simply an age issue for a lot of democrat bing nancy pelosi looks pretty impressive and strong now. it's hard lose a football game when there's no other team and she has taghat advae. i don't think she would have much trouble. the one thing she is givingm away, t even sure it's giving away, is the speaker has a tremendous amount ofpower to not bring things to a vote, and it seems she's agreeing to change rules, which is a lobby campaign group called no l which has been on for the last

several years to make -- when yohave a t of bipartisan sponsors, then it has to come to the floor for a vote, and o person, the speaker, can't just sort of were youyitn a closet, and that's a good thing for the house in eneral ad something pelosi is agreeing to. it's may be something that she actually wants to do just because it's a good piece for the house. d >> tocrat from arizona said when the democrats want a firiquad they organize and that's what they've done. they tried to satnatch derom the jaws of victory. they sustained ts rvelous victory led by nancy pelosi. she had 146,500 attack ads run against her, according to the "wall street journal," be w no answer. she doesn't have rallies. te doesn't run positive tv spots, and shehe most effective speaker of my lifetime. i aty that with the gst respect in the world for tip o'neil and for sam rayburn and

for other great speakers. she's the best. >> that's saying sng. it's a long lifetime. i'll say this, the democrats, they d't have anybody else, judy. and the hottest places in hell in a time of moral crisis remain neutral. i know what these are going to do. will they vote for kin mccarthy or will they turn it back in they have toake choice. i respect their integrity, and their interest inng cs and reform and everything else, but it comes down to are you for pelosi or mccarthy? ere's going to be a speaker. who's your choice? >> don't see anyone emerging between now and january. thus spake mark shield and david brooks. thank you both. >> thank you. >> woodruff: and we'll be back shortly, with the story of a new approach to juvenile justi.

but first, take a moment to hear from your local pbs station. it's a chance to offer ur support, which helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> woodruff: for those stations staying with us-- for many students at colleges across the u.s., getting from the first day of school to gran is a struggle. in this encore report, hari sreenivasan looks at how laguardia community college in new york is making sure students get their degrees. >> sreenivasan: at laguardia community colleg new york, administratorsant the first day for new students to feel like a welcome home party. >> students need to feel like this is a home. i'm gail melw, president of e college. >> sreenivasan: president gail mellow is well aware that for

many students, making it from this first day to graduation is a struggle. >> tell me what you're going to study with us? >> sreenivasan: nationally, only 25% of new full-time community college students will earn a degree in six years. >> your entire life pivots around your ability to complete college. and more than that, so does your whole family. >> sreenivasan: mellow says the best way to educate community college students like these is to understand who they are and where they came from. community colleges educate the majority of the nation's low- income students. here at laguardia, 77% of students here come from householing less than $25,000 a year. >> often, they were not well- served by the urban high schools, which are so underfun and so crowded. and so they come to us, really, for that second chance. >> sreenivasan: 26-year-old student diamond stanback says she's grateful for a second ce. >> i didn't make a lot of good decisions in life. i had to start all overn

how to be more self-sufficient. >> srean: a single mother of two, stanback was living in a homeless shelter just two years ago. now, she's earned 33 credits and is working toward an associates degree in business. >> because of my kids. i have to lead by example, basically. i ton't expect them to striv do better if i'm doing the bare minimum in my life, and just collecting welfare checks. >> there's such an enormous gap between who goes to college in the united states, and our very old and stereotyped image. more than half of all american college students, undergraduateso community colleges. more than half of those can't go full time. about a quarter of our students are working more than 30 hours a week to make ends meet. >> sreenivasan: here's diamond stanback's mor >> i wake up around 4:30.

i have dressed, before i wake up the kids. i'm making breakfast. at 5:30, i get isaac dressed, put on his shoes, eat, and everything. >> sreenivasan: each trip to laguardia college can take ral hours. >> we walk. n the bus to go to my daughter's school. after i drop her off, walk, and i drop off isaac. then i get on a train. >> sreenivasan: in fact, the complex lives of community colle students like stanback are often the reason students drop out. nireta seals is vice president of lagua >> not having food, enough money for books, those things can derail you. it really is the simple things. financial aid and per will pay foition, but it is the extra, the additional costs. >> sreenivasan: president mellow says extra costs are mostly overlooked by gher education policy-makers. so what are the consequences of this perception gap between how wtsthink about college stud and then how we fund the education system?

>> the gap between our policies, and the reality, is enormous. what happens when we don't have a good idea of who goes to college, and why they're going to college, iswe don't fund the things that, from my perspective, i wish we would fund. >> sreenivasan: to fill in the gap, laguardia's charitable foundation has raised more than $20 million for student scholarships and emergency funds. administrators hope the money will keep more students on track. laguardia's graduation rate for fulle students is 30%. stanback is enrolled in a program at laguardia called college discovery, which assigns her an advocate to help her navigate both nances and academics. student luis ramos is enrolled in a program laguardia calls the presidential society, which, in addition to supplying extra funds, teaches students soft ills. >> it amazes me, all the things that i didn't know, that i needed to know, to be successful. simple things, like setting out

my calendar, and scheduling everything around school. >> sreenivasan: before entering laguardia, ramos twice dropped out of four-ar universities cause the stress of balancing work and school became overwhelming. >> i couldn't always , like, running to work, running to class, running to work again. >> sreenivasan: at lag, ramos gets free food from the school pantry, and professional clothes. >> they just bought me a suit, which is my first suit that i've ever had. so it's good to know that when i leave here, i can go to a job interview, and i know i already have exactly what i need to wear. >> sreenivasan: but perhaps one of the most crucial extras he receives is a free metrocard. ramos lives with his family in flushing, new york, and takes public transportation one hour each way to classes. >> it's such a relief. if i had to pay $130 metro card every month... it adds up, so it makes a huge difference. >> sreenivasan: and then there's student christian ortiz, 22 years old and a father. ortiz credits his second chance to a group he joined at laguardia called fathe academy.

so, a lot of students have some serious chal, like yourself, about having to take care of a kid, having a job. how does college fit in withatll >> priorities. it's a sacrifice that comes with college. >> sreenivasan: on the day we visited fatherhood academy, sacrifice was the topic of the day. >> once i make this sae, eventually i know my goals, and i know my purpose. >> sacrifice comes before success. >> sreenivasan: on high school dropout, ortiz says he's now convinced he'll earn an associat degree. how long is it going to take you to finish? >> my goal is four semesters. things happen, but i'm resilient, so i'm going to get it regardless. >>ivasan: diamond stanback hopes to get a job in human resources. and, after graduation this june, luis ramos plans to pursue a bachelor's degree. in a recent ranking om stanford university, students like ramos, stanback, and orz have helped place laguardia community college 5th in the nation for moving w-income families into the middle class. for the pbs newshour, i'm hari

sreenivasan in new york. >> woodruff: efforts to fix problems with the nation's criminal justice system, including taking a closer look hat to do about teenagers who commit minor crimes. our "newshour shares" tonight looks at one program in newark, new jersey, which offers anat altee to jail for minors. from our student reporting labs at phicademy charter school, 12-year-old yasmeena sharif reports. >> all rise for e honorable judge. this is case 13018. >> reporter: if this looks like a real-life courtroom, that's because it is. at the newark youth court in new jersey, teenagers are the judge, jury, plaintiff, and defendants. the high school students are really running the s jasmine harden is the program coordinator. into youthudents wal

court, you're seeing your peers, so you're seeing students look just le you. >> reporter: but this court is unique, offering a chance for introspectio for young people who have committed minor, first-time offenses, like truancy, fighting, or vandalism, youth court is an alternative to youth incarceration. >> we're giving the student the opportunity to sit on the stand and talk to us about them. are they remorseful about what happened? what would they do differently? and then the student leaves with some restorative sanctions. so this could be community service, a workshop, jury duty, a letter of ology, or an essay, where it applies. >> reporter: for a young adult who is accused of a minor offense, the police, a school official or a judge in a preliminary hearing can refer the defendant to the youth court for trial. here, a jury of thr peers decides their punishment. shantae was first referred to the youth court for harassing a classmate online. >> i was actually getting bullied in schnd then i

actually turned into a bully trying to react to the person, even though i knew it wasn't the righ nway. but it wother way to defend myself. >> reporter: for her sentence, she was assigned community seyice and a letter of apol to the student she bullied. >> the wholei was at youth court, i never felt like anyone was against me. d you actually feel safe, an environment where you can talk and communicate with people just like you. >> reporter: her pos experience led her to become a memberf the youth court. talethea parker is a volunteer juror. >> when you walk in there, you're not expecting youth to be sitting there on a judge seat, as a bailiff, as a you advocate, as a community advocate. you are expecting adults to there. so i just feel like they are more comfortable telling they story. >> reporter: this model allows young people to resolve conflict outside the justice system, leaving them free of a criminal record. andrea mcchristian is an associate counsel at the new

jersey institute for social stice. >> here in new jersey, we have the worst black/white youth incarceration disparity rate in the entire nation. >> rep mcchristian authored a report that argued that youth incarceration in jersey is costly and ineffective. >> we need to look at the racial disparities, look at how we can keep those kids from not getting system involved in the first place, and that's through diversion programs like youth court. >> reporter: lieutenant elvis >> reporter: that certainly proved true for shantae. >> this experience has definitely changed me, because it's definitely shown me, like, there's another side to this world, and that evy is meant to be heard. even if you don't feel like your opinion matters, everybody's ter.ions m you just never know what you'll bring to the table. it's all up to you. >> reporter: for the pbs newshour's student reporting labs, i'm yasmina sharif in newark, new jersey. >> woodruff: and all nt week, we'll hear from newshour correspondents across the

country for our serihe future of work." >> reporter: i'm here in eastern kentucky, where a community built by coal is now figuring out what's next fos workforce. in our new series, "the future of work," we'll look at evolving job markets across the country. >> woodruff: that's all next week on the pbs newshour. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online, and again here on monday evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and we'll see you soon. have a great weekend. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> financial services firm j raymondes. >> bnsf railway. >> consumellular. >> supporting social entrepreneurs and th solutions to the world's most pressing problems-- sklfoundation.org.

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