captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc g: >> yood evening. i'm john yang. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: as president trump announces his intention to cut aid to three latin american countrie , we continur series of on-the-ground reasrts from hond >> ( translated ): i would never want to get into a gang. because here, to be in a gang means you have to do whatever they say. rob, kill, kidnap, whatever they order you to do. >> yang: then, our "politi monday" roundtable discusses the race for the 2020 democratic presidential nomination. and, we remember nipsey hussle. the los angeles-based rapper and community leader was killed this weekend at the age of 33. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. f

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trump said hwould cut aid to el salvador, guatemala and honduras. he is also threatening to close e border. we'll get the details, after the news summary. rtcomputer glitch during the monday morning airush delayed thousands of travelers today. it involved a flight planning contractor's computer system, and hit southwest airlhe hardest, delaying nearly 1,000 flights. the federaaviation administration said the issue was quickly resolved, but the mage was done. >> yang: british lawmakers tried-- and failed-- again today to chart a path for how to leave the european union. they held non-binding votes on proposals that included a "softer" brexit-- keeping ties to the e.u. on trade, taris and immigration rules. some lamented parliament's inability to agree on what to do. >> we live now in a horribly divided country with entrenched divisions and intransigence on

both sides.la i think wewith fire if we do not recognize the danger, and i don't think there have been enough people seeking to find ways of bringing this aiuntry together again, rather than maing the divisions. >> yang: britain is now scheduled to leave the e.u. on april 12 with no plan if parliament cannot agree on something. u aine, a comic actor with no political experience is the frontrunner heading into a presidential runoff, later this month. volodymyr zelekiy finished first in sunday's preliminary round, with 30% of the vote. incumbent president petr poroshenko was a distant second. zelenskiy campaigned against corruption, and called for direct talks with moscow to end the conflict with russian-backed rebels in eaern ukraine. the opposition in turkey has woo rol of the capital, ankara, and is leading in the mayor's race in istanbul, the country'si larges. sunday's local elections were

seen as a verdict on presint recep tayyip erdogan, amid a serious economic dnturn. erdogan's islamist-rooted a.k. party has promised appeals of the election results.a etnamese woman accused of killing the half-brother of plrth korean leader kim jong-un, guilty today to a reduced charge. doan thi huong entered the plea in malaysia, after a murder charge was dropped. authorities initially said she and an indonesian woman killed kim jong-nam at an airport in 2017, using a nerve agent. huong has ent two years in il, but her attorney says she is now expected to be released in early may.in >> our mairest is to protect the interest of doan, to make sure that she ser sentence here and she can go back home as soon as she can. she's fine, happy and jubilant about this sentence,t nd the fact te can go back home. >> yang: the other suspect was freed wst month. boen maintained they thought they were taking part in a tv show prk.

four north korean suspts fled jean jean mcconn vile the troubles the troubles nierld noiro nierld nn it who who don it a who ne it a who dunn it e north korean suspects fled malaysia after tlling of kim. confirmed cholera cases in mozambique surged today to more than 1,000, with one confirmed death, after last month's tropical cyclone. health workers are rushing to contain the outbre in beira. the port city was left in ruins by the storm. cholera spreads quickly through coaminated water and food. back in this country, the 2020 u.s. census begins one year from today, and president trump has joined the fray over adding a question about citizenship. on twitter today, he said the survey "would be meaningless" nethout asking whether som is a u.s. citizen. opponents of the move say itd woter non-citizens from taking part. the issue is now before the u.s. supreme court. and, on wall street, upbeat data manufacturing got the 2nd quarter off to a strong start. the dow jones industrial average

soared 329 points to close at 26,258. the nasdaq rose 99 points, and the s&p 500 added 32. till to come on the newshour: president threatens to iot aid to honduras, we look at the harsh cond in that country. more controversy over the white house's handling of security clearances the latest campaign moves in the race for 2020. and, much more. >> yang: last week, homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen visited honduras and announced what she called a "historic regional compact" to address the root causeof migration with the three countries known as the northern triangle: el salvador, honduras, and guatemala. but over the weekend, the state department announced it would cut all foreign assistance to all three countries.

e day, congress gave the state department a deadl provide details of the cuts. congressional officials say they have not received any respon. nick schifrin is here to make sense of this. ed states gives these three countries? >> the u.s. has given hundreds of millions of dollars over thse ye try to address thec enderoblems in the countries and the root causes of migration, the reason so many people leave these countries, gd through mexicory to reach the united states. this is the most violent part of the world outside ofar zones, things like endemic corruption, weakusticesystems. at one point in these countries, two to threeov all cases ended in conviction and poverty. these programs try to lift people out of poverty, providing ucation, vocational programs, improving local cevern improving police forces and judicial systems. their defenders say they are the

only way, at lest long term, to reduce all of those people who believe that their home is unsafe and they have to go to the united states. it's not just humanitarian aid organizations who defend the programs. take a listen to mike mccaul, republican of texase most senior member of the house foreign affairs committee. >> i think it's goingo make >>ings tragically worse, not better. nd i talked with a lot of c.e.o.s of aid organization as well includg sam zimmer men, of interaction, an umbrella group, and says the root crisis sse in central america. if we are addreg them at the southern bored, it is too late. the local governments a overwhelmed by the quantity of the problem and we are saying in the u.s., by cutting this aid, they do not have a partner. >> why does the trump administration say they're doing this? >> the president has expressed deep frustration with the number c people leaving the northern triangle, what lls a crisis.

we heard from mick mulvaney over the weekend talking to jake pper about whyhese countries weren't doing enough to address migration. if we're going to gie these countries hundreds of millions of dollars, we would like them to do more. that, jake, i respectfully submit is not an unreasonable position. a we could preveot of what's happen tong southern border by preventing people from moving into mexico in the first place. >> that is exactly what the programs are designed to do, to prevent th from moving through mexico into the united states, but there is a larger debevate thatn defenders -- and they say these governments should be doing morning and as aco ressional official who defends the aid put it to me the u.s. should be telling these national governments of these three countries that they nee id rove all of their own programs and that the u.s. is going to hold them accounta e. that, urse, is different than saying you're not doing enough, we're cutting all thi aid. >> so what details do we know of what aid programs are going to be cut? >> the administration has not

provided any details to either congress the humanitarian organization that do this. as you mentideed, there were lines today. the administration basically ignored them. the state department, though, cannot just cut this aid. what little we know about the this aid sitcoms fro mscal year 2017-2018, meaning it's balready been appropriat the congress and the state department has to work with the appropriation committee, senate foreign relations and house foreign affairs committee to talk about what they want to change. they can't just reprogram it byv them. i talked to half a dozen home who are frustrated ease cheryhe onill with the fact they have not gotten the details. there was a deadline at :00 p.m. foreign affairs staffers tell me they have been asking for briefings and the state department simply isn't ready to give the briefings. i talked to botstate department officials and white house officials who admit that they really weren't prepared for this kind of announcement. so we still see the

administration trying to figure out what to do and frankly come up with the details of the plan that's already been announced. >> thanks, nick schifrin. >> yang: as nick just mentioned, one of the countries threatened with aid cuts is honduras. for years, gang violence and insecurity have forced people te heir homes, most bound for the united states. many are caught, and deported, which can lead to a new set of nightmares. with the support of the pulitzer center, special correspondent marcia biggs and videographer julia galiano-rios went to honduras to find out the fate of some of those sent home. >> reporter: it's a scene that takes place again and again in this airport parking lot in san pedro sula. "i thought i would never see yo again," weis 85-year-old woman. "i told you i would one day," her grandson says. he's home after five years of living illegally in the united states. his family says he was working construction in orlando when he

was picked up for driv without a license, likely by local cops, anthen deported by ice. the family didn't want to speak on camer most of them didn't want to talk to us. "they're laughing us in the united states," one woman told me. around 500 deportees arrive here every week, and underneath the surface of what should be joyful reunions lies the tough reality of why they're coming home and what they now face. >> if you're deported from the united stas, you're sent on a plane. you are handcuffed at your ankles and your feet, with chains. shackled, right? >> reporter: amelia frank vitalo is an anthropost focusing on migration issues, working with the families of deportees. she says most of them are poor and were fleeing gang violence. deported b one of the most dangerous cities in the world, they now have nowhere to go. >> if you have to flee, you can't go another neighborhood controlled by that same group. but you can't go to a neighborhood controlled by any of the rival groups either,

because having come from a neigod known to be controlled by the first group, yo suspected of being a spy or an informant. they'd go back to the sameth situatio they fled. >> reporter: giovanni is one of those people. like so many young men honduras, giovanni says members ocal gang threatened to kill him when he didn't join. he asked us not to use his real name. >> (anslated ): i would never cant to get into a gang. e here, to be in a gang means you have to do whatever they say-- rob, kill, kidnap. whatever they orr you to do. >> reporter: so in the fall of 2017, giovanni and his coun left honduras, intending to cross into the u.s. illegally. he says he tried to make an asylum claim after he was arrested, but had no evidence of the threats on his le, which are necessary to advance a claim. he says he couldn't afford the $10,000 bail, so he sat in detention in arizona while he waited out therocess. after five months, he can't stand it anymore.

he signs a voluntary deportaon order and is sent back to hondas. within a week of his arrival, he says members of the gang kidnapped him and took him to what's known as a "casa loca," spanish for crazy house, one of the many homes abandoned by those fleeing violence, and now stolen by the gangs. >> ( translated y held me for two or three hours. they already had machetes and everything to cut mento pieces. they wanted to kill me at once. they wanted to kill me because i didn't do what they wanted. >> reporter: what did they do to you? >> ( translated ere and here. they were like metal rods. they put a rod through me. is one went in deep. they cuty hands, they burned me. i have several scars on my back where th were hitting me. they had a machete that they were going to use to cut my hands. they wanted to cut off my hands

and kill me slowly >> reporter: what was going through your mind? >> ( translated ): you can't think about anything but how too escapeonvince them not to kill you. >> reporter: at the last moment, police burst in. they'd been called b mother. she's still too frightened to show her fac how did you know that you could trust the police? >> ( translated ): i didn't exactly trust them, but it was my only solution. >> reporter: the family says the wounds were still fresh when giovannvi fled again to the u.s. a ar ago, but that time he says no one even asked him if he wanted asylum, and he was deported. when you left the u.s. the last time, were you worried that something would happen when you come back? >> ( translated ): yes, yes. i did not want to get off th plane. >> reporter: the threats came almost immediately, and giovanni and his family have three times in the last year. they're now in hiding, rarely

leaving this small alleyway. several of their neighbors are making plans to leave on t next caravan, fleeing poverty and extortion by local gangs. but for another family, it's too late. sara espinal is every bit the proud matriarch, shoff the photographs and graduation certificates of her children and grandchildren. "these are my treasures, my most valuable things," she says. "my family is the best thing i have. i am nobody wiout them." but underneath the pride lies the pain of a mothern grief. sa's only been one month since lost her son nelson, gunned down on his own street, in a neighborhoodf tegucigalpa controlled by gangs. >> ( translated ): ianted to die with him that day. i couldn't see my son with all that blood, it's too hard for one person. >> reporter: his family remembers him as a dedicated brother and uncle.a od neighbor, who spent his

last days paving the main road in their village. they say he refused to join aga and was working in construction. he dreamed of someday opening a barbershop with his sister patricia, and was hoping to find work in the u.s. >> ( translated ): he was special.ep >>ter: what did he dream atr his life in the u.s.? >> ( tran ): he alwaysld said that he work hard in the united states. i am going to work as much as i can and i'm going to send money, we're going to start a business. >> reporter: last october, he and a friend from the neighborhood headed noghh, but were cat the u.s. border. unable to make a case for asylum, theyere deported. nelson's story is like so many horrible ones that we've heard. he was deported from the u.see and had onlyn home for one week when his family says he walked out of his housfrom here, down to the corner, where three men approached him and without saying a word, shot and

killed him. >> ( translated ): it was something i can't describe, a horrible pain in my chest. agined that we were going to spend such a short time with him and we would not see him again. >> reporter: all they have left of nelson are photos few of his personal items. they keep his shoes, neatly arranged in a closet. he also left a seven-year-old son, who plays with his cousins on the same street where his father was brutally murdered. >> ( translated ): passing through there generates so much pain, and at the same time, fear because when you pass, you think, so anyone can die how he died. >> reporter: do you think he knew someone was after him? anslated ): i think h knew. he didn't tell us directly, at he always said, "i can't do anything her there is danger." il reporter: like so many relatives of thosed by gangs in honduras, patricia knows who killed nelson. but not only can she not say who did it, it's clear ssn't

even want us to ask. >> ( translated this is an everyday thing, what you experience in these neighborhoods, and in these types of neighborhoods, we've had to adapt. of course, we never thought that it would happen to a family like ours. >> reporter: back in san pedro sula, we got some bad news from giovanni. his family have been receining some threa messages from the gang that was after him.an gi doesn't have a phone, so the messages were sent to his cousin. an ominous voice cackling and taunting him, calling him a dog, threatening to kill him and his family, and claiming t where they are. is there anywhere that you can look for protection? >> ( translated ): only in a different country, not in honduras. y reporter: do you ever remember a time wh didn't live in fear? >> ( translated ): i've always had fear of being here. traveling to another country, facing risk, that i'afraid

or. >> now he's been dd twice, the asylum, an asylum claim would be harder to make.fe his ere is absolutely under threat. sooner or later, they're goingth to k boy. but what option does he atve for alternnal protection, re, at this point. >> reporter: against the odds, giovanni sets off, packing a tiny bag. afraid of being robbed, he's got ast one change of clothes a toothbrush. th has a last meal before a tearful goodbye his adothers and sisters. he's nervous and to leave s family, but says he's confident he won't be sent back, he knows theoute better and won't even bother trying to cross legally. he's gone. speeding off to an unknown hature and hoping he won't have to return to antry can't protect him. for the pbs newshour, i'm marcia biggs in san pedro sula,

honduras. >> and an update to marsha's report, at the end you saw giovanni leaving on duress but he never made it to the united states. the journey proved too difficult and too cold through the late winter andhis fear of being attacked again materialized inno hern mexico causing him to turn back near the bored. last week he returned home to his family. in san pedro >> yang: stay with us. coming up on the newshour: lemembering rapper nipsey huwho was killed over the weekend. ane history of northern ir with author patrick radden keefe on his new book, "say nothing." lid, ashley blaker offers his take on mocking on. in washington, tensions continue

between congress and investigations of thustrump white the house democrats are to issue subpoenas in the coming days as the oversight committee investigates therump administration's security clearance process and the judiciary committee seeks the ll mueller report. congressional correspondent lisi desj joins me at the table. lisa desjardins joins me to explain all. this let's start with what may be the lesser known investigtyion, the secu clearance. what do the democrats in the house oversight committee want? liactually, we've learned le more about this in the past day or. >> so that's exactly right. just this morning, the house democrats from that oversightid committee we are going to start authorizing subenas starting tomorrow, so tuesday. ofis also surrounds, at least the beginnint, a woman named trisha newbald who democrats say is a whistleblower. it's about the security clearances and who has been able to get them at the wte hou. she alleges 25 clearances were give ton oficials against the

recommendations of her and her colleagues. she says theeviews and says there were serious concerns from criminal infuences to foreign influences and said they should have rejected them but they were given. the white house she said stopped doing cr it checks foranyone applying to the white house which is something new and eye popping. republicans and memos say the charges are exaggerated and democrats have cherry picked hem tey and it's behind closed doors so we don't know exactly what she said. jared kushner and ivanka trump are two names. they are reporting jared's clearance was initially rejected and ended up being cleared. there are a lot of keys and the white house won't comment because it is a security issue,t east not yet. >> so that's the house oversight committee. >> yes. the house judiciary committee is also preparing subpoenas of thei.

these over the mueller report.. >> rig this is something we have been talking about for a while. the house judiciary committee said we want the reby april 2, tomorrow, but yet they don't think they will get it. the attorney general said, no, i need more time. i'm not giving it to you yet. so they are saying they will also issue so subpoenas. tht's talk about what they're saying. is chairman jerry nadler of the committee will authorize subpoenas dnesday. what they want, the full mueller report and all of the documents going with it including, john, grand jurytime, which is general something that is never released. they argue and poi to watergate. at that point the special prosecutor in the watergate case est that kind of material released to con republicans say that's a terrible precedent and the release in that case was a mistake. we'll e it play ut strongly in the next couple of days. >> lisa desjardins, thank you

very much. >> yang: sticking with politics, in a minute, lisa desjardins will be back with our regular monday political roundtable.rs but she reports on 2020, the democratic primary race, and roversy swirling around a major party figure who's still contemplating whether to join the contest. >> desjardins: las vegas, 2014: then-vice president joe bideng was campaifor lucy flores, then-running to be lieutenant goveor of nevada. now, flores' account of that event is dominating talk of biden's plans for the 2020 presidential race. >> for me, it's disqualifying. i think it's up to everyone else to make that decision. >> desjardins: in "new york" magazine, flores writes that before they walked on-stage, den placed his hands on her shoulders, smelled her hair, k thsed her head. she says it made her verybl uncomfor and that she had thought about speaking out

ndfore now. biden responded in a statement, saying, in years of public life, he's offe countless hugs and expression of affection for support and mfort, that "never did i believe i acted inappropriately," but that he "will listen respectfully unat is suggested." ony, flores suggested biden had a troubling pattern. >> to me, whether yoeve me or not isn't as important as a takiook at the entire history of his behavior. >> desjardins: and this afternoon, a different woman told the "hartford courant," biden grabbed her and pulled her in uncomfortably in 2009, though he did not try to kiss her. other women are defending bin, like in this blog post published online sunday by stephanie carter. this photo of biden th his hand on her shoulders, whispering in heear, generated a lot of attention. this was at her husband's swearing-in ceremony as secretary of defense in 2014.

on her blog, carter wrote, there was nothing uncomfortable, and biden was a close friend helping someone get through a big day. all of this, of course, getting attention on the cam from massachusetts senator elizabeth warren in iowa on friday: i believe lucy flores, andbi jon needs to give an answer.s: >> desjardchoed by former h.u.d. secretary julian castro, also in iowa this weekend. pe we need to live in a nation wherle can hear her truth. >> desjardins: minnesota senator amy klobachar spoke on abc's this week, sunday. >> i have no reason not to believe her. >> desjardins: klobuchar said biden ll have to address this more if gets into the race. and that brings to "politics monday," with npr's tamara keith, co-host of the fopr podcast," and lisa lerer, politics reportethe "new york times." >> now i get to ask the questions. let's start with jobes. it's interesting because last

week i know you both reported on he had an emotional moment forye him and has another question about how he treats women. it's a large cultural moment but also a politically tricky one. what does this say abon joe bid how important it is for his chances and is there a chce of backlash from conservatives who say there's no knowable standard ymore? so what's it mean, tam? >> right, there's no knowable standard anymore. democrats have taken t position of zero tolerance, but zero tolerance for what? and this is, as with so many of these things, complicated and anced. lucy flores in her description of it is nuanced saying she ldidn't think it was sex harassment or assault but she felt uncomfortable that he put her in an awkward position, and then, when you go to mrs. carter saying, well, in my case, it wasn't, i didn't feel tcomfortable, there is a difference betwe two of them. jo biden wasclose with friends

with the carters. lu flores something he was campaigning with just that moment.er but i've co him out in the wild over the years where i did a story in 2014, it was not anything remarkable at the time, where he kissed a 100-year-old grdma and went in for a hug. aimes are different now. >> what does that n? i think it speaks to the larger really central question facing joe biden should he decide to enter this race, which is a politicafigure who has been in office for 40 years. i mean, he entered thesenate in 1973 before abortion was legal, before the water gate hearings, before people had vcrs, this was a long time ago, and political more rays particularly nn the democratic party have shifted on y issues, busing, abortion andnd sards around gender and consent and this national conversion we'r

having around the topics now. so i think the central question he's facing is can he get on the issues of where the party is now. that's wuat we'll findt in the next couple of weeks. >>hat does this mean for other candidates, kirstjen nielsen and kamala harris who have overseen staff members in the past who had to pay recompense for sexual harassment, what does this matter to voters? >> add bernie sanderhat. his campaign in 2016 had issuesa with sharassment. he has pol apologized for how te things werhandled. not his issue but people he. supervis you know, this is a conversation that didn't happen four years ago in the presidential campaign. though it was a conversation that did get kicked off in a way by president trump. >> and i think we are having this cultural moment surrounding the #metoo, but there is a real

political risk here, that the democratic primary electorate is expected to be majority female. so these topics may resonate more with female voters and that's what all the candidates are playing to and they're cognizant of what happened in the midterms which is women's work powered the campaigns. they were the volunt wrs. the the campaign managers. i went to the rallies and met several p.t.a. moms that were engaged politically, the first time, the trump administration. thd everyone running in democratic field are aware of the new political dynamics. >> it was a big weekend iwe politics, anl start with the man, beto o'rourke, who had his announcement in el paso standing on top of something. it was also another importanten we for mr. o'rourke and all the democrats running be this was the end for the first

quarter for political wfundraising. 't get the total numbers, they're not due till april 15th. i want to ask you all, how important isolitical fundraising for this expanding group of democrats and who's doing well? >> well, it is important. it always has been. but when you're in a field of -- you know, a bus load of people, 's particularly important to be able to show through your fundraising that you hav that ye amount of grassroots support and it's important in terms of getting on stage. peteuttigieg sd i don't have the full numbers but the preliminary number ised $7 million in the first quarter. he got out early on th because presumably there will be other candidates with much bigger numbers to come like mr. o'rourke or bernie sanders who is expected to have a big number. >> i don't want toust up trade secrets here, but these fundraising numbers are really one to have the few actual facts

that we have in this race. are poills at s point measure little more than name recognithon. so a lot o we're measuring who's up, down, who seems to have energy, has been around media coverage or twitter or where they are in the polls that don't measure much. so this is a data point that shows us accurately how much money they're bringing in, how w many small donors they have ands this givesa field. as we learned in 2012 with the republicans this is a race where everyone gets their moment. the queson is do you have a moment at the right time this at least gives everyone watchingra th a sense of where the candidates stand in terms of support. >> being respectful toward o'rourke and bernie sanders seem to be at the toof the ap now. issues. i know you were on the campaign trail and in michigan with the president. >> and in iowa before.

what a voteractually talking about? d.c. is obsessed with the mueller report. what are voters talking about? >> i was struck by two things in new hampshire. the first thing is voters are not talking about the report. they're not asking citdidates abou they're asking about healthcare and climate chge and school shootings and big issues fating the country that resonate t the democratic electorate. the second thing i was struck by is i asked them about i and what i found was that it didn't seem to make a difference what the report actually found, that the democratic priary electorate was convinced that the president had done something wrong, and whateveresults of the investigation were, that really wasn't going to change their minds, which made me think that issue was baked in the cake, at least for the primary. it's a long time away. >> two different groups of voters. >> so it was fascinating out two the trump vors, talking to people waiting to get into the president's rally, all of them said they wanted te mueller

report released because they think it wll be common rating to the president and they were will to talk about the mueller report. the day before, i spent an hour hanging outew interg ten young voters in iowa. they never brought up mueer russia, they never brought up, you know, booting the president out of office. they were very focused on not so much on issues, though climate change is something they ght up, income inequality, criminal justice reform, they talked that, but the most important thing is to them they just want somebody who has the quality they can't quite name thawill allow them to beat the president and go head to head with him on the bate stage. >> the magic political dust, they call it. i was going to attempt an april fools joke i was goingo say, hey, did you hear about the crazy candidate going run? april fools. i couldn't thi of anyone crazy

enough. i then iav thought,you heard congress and the president put aside their differences? (laughter) >> thank you smuch tamera keith, lisa lerer. >> you're welcome. >> yang: nipsey hussle, a grammy-nominated rapper, was shot dead over the weekend in los angeles. his death is being mourned-- not just because the loss his promising talent. n was a blow to the african american communityuth l.a., where he had turned his life around dramatically, and was working to improve opportunity for others. to's the focus of our arts and culture segment ght, "canvas." ♪ ♪ nipsey hussle was riding a career high.bo rn ermias asghedom, the west coast rapper's debut album, "victory lap," won widespread

praise, and a grammy nomination last year for best rap album. as a tee he belonged to a gang called the "rollin' 60s." hi..music drew on that past. ♪ all my lifein grding all my life ♪ i'll be grinding all my life all my life >> yang: ...and how he turned his life around. >> yang: even as his star rose, nipsey hussle became an entrepreneur, to revitalize the crenshaw ns ghborhood of geles where he was born and raised. >> right now, we are on 59th and 3rd avenue. i grew up a couple blocks from here. >> yang: last year, he partnered with the brand puma to renovate kelocal elementary school's playground and ball courts. hussle was deeply involved in "destination crenshaw," an open air public art project in the neighborod that beginson constructi this spring. last year, the rapper opened shared working space, called vector 90, designed to connect young talent in impoverished communities with opportuniti in silicon valley. hussle also owned seral businesses in the neighborhood, where residents mourned his death overnight.

>> what heeant to the community? if you want to look around right now, every single person here was inspired by him in some way. >> yang: hussle was shot in broad daylight outside a clothing store he owned. the shooter is still at large. >> we do understand that we have one male black suspect, no further description at this time. that suspect is not in custody. and currently, we are going to start canvassingtohe area, talk ny witnesses. and also we're going to canvas the local area for any video. >> yang: condolences and a sense of shock reverberated on social media. los angeles mayor eric garcetti said, "our hearts are with the loved ones of nipsey hussle and everyone touched by this awful tragedy. l.a. is hurt deeply each time a young life is lost to senseless gun violence." hussle's death was also mourned in the sports world. stephen curry of therrolden state rs:

>> i got to know him last year and haa great conversation about who he was as a person, what he stoomefor, what his age, how he tried to inspire people, considerinwhere he grew up and how he turned out into something extremely powerful, and represented an entire city. you know, senseless that don't need to happen, especially with a guy who was doing what he was doing. >> yang: hussle was to have met today wi the los angeles police chief and police commissionero talk about ways to stop gang violence. david dennis jr. joins us to discuss hussle's life and legacy. he's a writer for the pop culture website, the undefeated. david, thank you so much for joining us. help us, explain to us hussle's ple in the music instry. >> he is an icon. he revolutionized the industry, you know, over the last ten years. in 2013, while everybody was releasing free music on the internet, he reled albums for $100 apiece, betting and banking on himself. a lot of people thought he was

crazy. jay-z bought in, bought $10,000 worth ocopies of the album and really launched him into a newsp strare and he became as known for his business acumen and comunity service as for his music. >> talk about that, his community service. pas we heard in the tae, he really did a lot to try to revitalize his home neighborhood in los angeles. >> yeah, he was really the dream of what youan wouldt from any celebrity but especially a black thcelebrity in americ was able to transcend the environment he was raised inin the neighborhood he was raised in. he banked on himself and mad a ton money and put back into the community that raised hi. he built vector 90, a workspace in the area, invested in real the place he was shot was outside a store he built and owned in the crenshaw area. he was always doing what he could to pour money and

resources back into that community, which is really what you would wt fromanybody, who you know, rises to that level. >> and, also, hahe rose tot level, but he was sort of against his own fame. he talked about how people ouldn't be following celebrities, they should be following elon musk, they should be following mark zuckerberg and looking at other ways of >> yeah, so he sort of went against the idea that, you know, there's a stereotype that if you're from "the hood" yo need to be a basketball player or d heete or entertainer, felt as though if he could, you know, raise the mindset of people to go beyondth thatat they could maybe be inventors, business people, he did thatot with af what he was trying to built within that community. >> and at the same time didn't shy away from his gang life in the past. >> yeah. you know, he was an inspirational tale and iue g, now, a cautionary tale.

he talked about his gang lifestyle he came up from, but, in his latest album, he spoke about that, but a didot of speak about, you know, how a lot of the things he did were not something to aspire to. whatte felt you could aspire o was be the business person and the community activist that he was.e soused his story to be an inspiration to anybody listening. >> what do you think will ha pen to the majects he started in his neighborhood? >> i would like to think they are ing to kegoing. i think that, through tragedy, you can rays of hope and light and i think that he anspired everybody. i think that weollow his path and i think more people will see what he did hasrought a lot of light to his endeavors and i think maybe n cainspire other celebrities and just common folks, regular people d ke you and me, to go out there y to invest in our own communities and do what we can. i thinkhat, you know, this can be a real galvanizing moment

across the country. >> what do you think will be the bigger legacy that he leaves, his music or his work inunhe coy? >> i think they go hand in hand, actually. i think that you can't talk out the work he did in the community without talking about the music that got him into tha place to be so beneficial to the people around him. i think that theverall man that nipsey hussle was and what he represented will really be his legacy and will really carry us to perpetuating things that he did. >> david dennis, jr. of "the undeseated, remembering the life and legacy of nipsey hussle. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> yang: nearly 50 years ago in belfast, northern ireland, a young mother hears a knock at the door. she's taken away, murdered, and garied on a remote beach-- never to be seen. but a new book about this murder case-- set during the tragic

conflict that engulfed northern ireland from the '60s to the ti0s-- shows that the wounds of the past are very raw. william brangham has the latest installment of the "newshour bookshelf." >> brangham: when reading this book, you have to keep reminding nurself, this is not fiction. "shing: a true story of murder and mystery in northern ireland" begins with the famous 1972 abduction and murder of than mcconville. she was just one o 3,500 killed in whatwn as "the troubles"-- the brutal, decades-long sectarian war over control of northern ireland. but say nothing is much more than a whodnunnit. it's abouthe lingering traumas of political violence, and how the past refuses to ay in the past. patrick radden keefe is a staff writer at "the new yor nr" and joins . welcome. >> thank you. you write in the book how,

when you were growing up and as a young adult, youen wer really that concerned with your own irish history and heritage, so i'm curious, how did you come to this particular story? >> in the course of my day job at "the new yorker," in 13, i read an obituary in the "new york times" of a woman named delores price, who had been a member of the i.r.a., and shed ved this fascinating, dramatic life. she came from an iran republican family so she had the i.r.a. on both sides to have the family back for generations, and she was the first woman to joihe i.r.a. as a really front line soldier in the early 1907s. a she was li radicalized teen. >> very much so and joined r.the when she was just out of her teens along with her sister and led ang bomampaign in london, went to jail, was on hunger strike, went toe to toe with margaret thatcher. very close with jerry adams, the i.r.a. commander who became a politician, and, when he pivoted

to the peeace pr, she fell out with him. so for me, this seemed like an opportunity to look at e troubles through the story of a handful of characters, one isd delores price the other is jean mcconville. >> the jean mcconville case waobviously a famous days in rthern ireland for many years, and the ten children left behind when she was abducted, they are hugely responsible in keeping her story alive, right? >> yes. this is part of what was fascinating me about the case, is you have so many victims to have th to have -- oe troubles i could have written a book for each. but the jean mcconville was so rtark because she was a mothe of ten and a widow. so one squeeze of the trigger tensioned the war and the tragedy plays out through generations. there was a culture of silnce

during the troubles, a culture of fear, t wanting anyone to ask questions or talk. >> that's the title.it e le is "sayng not comes from a line in a sheeny poem that says whatever you say, say nothing, and a feeling he evoked the culture of the time. the mcconnville family defied the culture ilofence. >> i won't give away tending -- the ending of the book, but you have a remarkable moment where it teams like you stumbled upon the identity of the killer. what does that feel like, as a e urnalist, as a writer, to have that happen in urse of your work? >> it was ntense experience. i have never had anything likepe that hin years and years of reporting for "the new yorker." i hadn't even really been looking for the identity of the killer. >> doesn't seem like that's what you set out to do. no, this was an old case.

jean mcconville was killed four years before i was born, and part of what wa shocking to me, i made seven trips to belfast during the four years of reporting this book, and i would go over there and ask questions about the crime that happened nearly a century ago and people wauld slam the door in my face, thera sense it was still very dangerous and alive. i sort of assumed the person who pulled the trigger was anon ous gunman, not someone on e screen and then, quite by accident very l the game, i had been given two difrent clues by two different people, and they fit together in an uncay way, and they pointed at somebody who was already a character in the book, somebody eho i'd been aware of, and th mcconn -- the mcconnvilead

childreneen aware of. >> you write how the peace process left so many people in northern ireland feelinged stravictims felt they weren't getting justice and perpetrators engaged in the war crimes felt like whs this all about? s for people like delores price, hersomebody who did terrible, terrible things. she planted bombs in public places, targeted people for execution, and the whole time, what sr told heself was i'm doing these things because we're going to drive the britishnut of irelandyou will have a united ireland. and that's success for us. >> and that's scess, but it also is the end that will justify all these terrible meane e undertaken. what happened was when jerry adams and others around him ended up crafting the gatrada agreement in which irish .a.ublicans in the i.r essentially said we will tolerate the idea that the british will continue to have dominion over northern ireland,

that felt like, tpeople like delores price and others, like a great betrayal because they felt i did all these things because i would look back and say it was all worth it but you robbed me of the justication. >> the book is "say nothing: a true story of murder and mystery fe northern ireland." patrick radden khank you very much. >> thank you. >> yang: some people call it"ec political coess." others just call it "decency." either and what we can say have recently loomed large in the national conversation. tt not everyone feels they are being treated withhe sameer consion. tonight, comedian ashley blaker shares his "humble opinion" s why there se be one group that can still be openly mocked. >> so, let me just get it out the way: i am jewish. in truth, you probably realized

that, because i look more like an orthodox jew than i do a stand-up comedian. in fact, most people don't believe i'm a comedian, and just assume i'm a rabbi--ot least, my audiences. but it's amazing how quick people are to judge a book-- or in my case, a copy of the oldte ament, by its cover. so, as a result of wearing my religion so op meet thinks i must be an advocate for the state ofis el, and they either berate me with shouts of "free palestine," or tell me that "the land of israel was given to abraham by elokim and you don't give away one inch of that land!" i say to both types that i'm incredibly flattered that they think i'm that influential, but it's really not up to me, either way.se even ws the assumption that anyone who looks like me is basically stuck in the 19thur ce lives by a litany of bizarre practices, and has loads of children. okay, so we do have six children, and it's true that many in my community have a lot more than that. tlin fact, my wife was recat

a wedding, and a woman asked how many children we have. iswhen she replied "six," woman said "ah, did you have fertility issues?" erin this world, we are pr under-achievers. but just because i'm allowed to make jokes about my life, should everyone else? let me answer in a word. no. we'd rather you didn't. it seems to me that in our super politically-correct age, the religious are the last gro of people that it's fair game to mock. that anyone religious is a crazy fantasist who believes in made-up fairy stories to give them comfort. or even worse, uses these fantasies as an excuse to perform the most terrible atrocities. but why are the religious fair ngme? is folloour faith so much worse than having a fanatical interest in your favorite sports team at least if you want to go to church, you don't need to spend loads of money buying a ticket om a scalper. add, god is never going to let you down by g off to the l.a. lakers for an extra $10 million a year. t we live ubling times.

there is so much that's worrying in the world. 's wrong with having a b of faith in something bigger, that someone has a plan and thai it's to work out okay in the end? the non-believers will say thatt s religion that has caused many of the world's biggest problems. but just as they say "don't judge judaism by the jews," don't judge religion b religious. sometimes, we all just need something i believe in. s not for you, that's okay, but please afford us the same respect we give to other minorities. god bless. or just bless. >> yang: on the newshour online right now, tax day is nearly here, and the new tax law may change the refund you've been expecting. we explain why, and what you can do about it. that's on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm john yang. join us online, and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs

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