tonight on kqed newsroom, congressional democrats are demanlding manding resigation impeachment for william bar are. also the u.s. is dealing the worst outbreak of measles in decades. es for eel are hey from a state law make pushing for a crackdown on exemptions from vaccinations. take overreturn on the issues that matter most to high school studen. we begin with growg tensions between house democrats and attorney general william bar

are. nancy pelosi sa he broke a law by lying to congress about the mueller report. he skipped a hearing off of the judiciary committee and ignoed a subpoena deadline to turn over the fl report and evidence. president trumpx along with democratic leads chuck schumer and nancy pelosi annnced an agreement to spend $2 trillion foct infraste upgrades. es for no word on where the money will come frommo how it will be spent. barbara lee sits on the house appropriations committee. some fks in washington this week with atenny generalte william baarifying before the senate. you are among a growinghorus of democrats calling on him to resign. i called on him to resign a couple weeks ago.

this attorney general is the atenny general for the people of the united states, for the damt of justice. for so he should resign. es for the difference is he's are protecting the president. es for he is promoting and putting forth lies. he is not telling the truth. under oath ox yeah. also in many ways he's not reesenting the peoplel of united states by representing the department of justice, w ach is what i supposed to be and he's are taken this as a personal representation of the man in the white house. >> and calls for him to be impeached. the houses ofeesentatives is looking at possibly holding him in contempt for refusing to tetify. are the democrats spinning their wheels because obviously nothing

likepe ichment -- he's are not going to resign. impeachment would never make it to the senate. what's what'ser the point of pushing at? >> no one is spinning wheels. es forria have to hold the atenny general and the president accountable. so, no, we're not spinning our wheels.hs three braf government. we have oversight redonsibility e've got to move forward and do the work the conitution requires us do. >> how much dissension is there within your caucuses? it nancy pelosi says its are not worth it for president trump. and uth people are calling for impeachment. >> i don't think it's dissension. i think we have different points of views. es for and speaker pelosi understands we have got to win in 2020. so she's being strategic and

knows wt she's doing. es for there are many that agree the investigations must go forward. and we have to hold this president accountable. i, for one, believe impeachment should be on the table. we have membersf our own democratic caucus taking about different ways to approach this but i don't consider it si dec and speaker pelosi andory committee chairs are moving forward. >> joe biden doing well in the polls. bernie sanders not too bad. it seems to be etwo schools of thought in the party. one is let's go with someone safe who can win back working class voters. and others saying we need to have a candidate that can bring out women and people of color who sat home in 2016. is one of of tho correct from your perspective? >> i don't think it's either or.

i have endorsed senator kamala harris. and she is a very effective leader. i think that she is demonstrated the fact that she can pull together a coalition of women of people of color. and yes, the white working clas because she cares about jobs, jobs going off shore a bringing back manufacture jobs. it's been people ofh colorer have not had the good family jabs. so we can relate to and she wants to makeis sure t is an inclusive society and everyone benefits from economic growth. not just one pat of our country or one consistency. >> there is a lot of concern about russian inte ference in 20 election. president trump had a nversation with putin today and this issue did not come up. president afterwards called it a witch hunt and the russia investigation a hoax. do you think -- what kind of

signal does that give to those trying to interfere in our election? >> its aery bad signal. we know that in many ways they determine the outcome of the elections. and we know they'rein plato interfere once again in 2020. and the president should acknowledge that. protections in term ozes of our democracy. we're at a fragile p country and throughout the world. they're interfering all over the globe. >> let's talk about appropriations. there was the house appropriations committee released a draft of its funding priority for the next fiscal year. and a big meeting with nancy pelosi and chuck schumerer. they seemed to come to a deal around the infrastructure bill. what would your priorities be for the bay area? >> i have to be optimistic it will happen.

thi think the course is i details. $2 trillion is good in terms of a number to start with. in bay area weave hiej infrastructure needs not to mention ourer roads, bridgs. but we have broadbound that's necessary. that's an infrastructure issue. and we're trying to make sure we include affordable housing. we have a crisis.dous housing we're trying to get housing as part of the bill. so i do this new infrastructure initiative in the broader sense. es forrer it can noton be seen as brick and morts but really enhancing ow ecgomic wth and creating jobs and making sure there's housing and other kinds of infrastructure needs met for everyone. es for.

>> i want to askia about some of these town hall meetings you arer holding. what is the goal ofse town hall meetings? >> and this the anniversary of the fir slave arriving from africa. es for 400 years. a weird commemorating and remming legacy of this horrific crime against humanity, slaver i've been trying to get the country t open opconversation about race and racism and look at where wae've come and how still have to correct the damage that has been repaired. and we're conducting town meetings. y ve had four around the area. our colleagues want to know how do you talk about race? what does it mean? often times people don't

recognizes the decisions their are making and the behavior they're engaged in is negatively impacted african-americans and people with cull. i have a bill i'm going to introduce late this year calling for truce and reconciliation and healing process and transformation process similar to southe africa and undau. thank you. there have been more than 700 cases of measles so far year in nearly two dozen states including california. this weekofcials at ucla and cal state los angeles listed a quarantine on staff members and students possibly expezed. 40 people in california have been infected with measles so far this year and most were not vaccinated. frers last week a b bill state senator targeting doctors who write fraudulent medicalex

mption cleared the first legislative hurdle in sacramento. i'm joined by correspondent and the author of california state senator and pediatrician who joins us via skype from sacramento. welcome to both of you give us the latest. what'sni hap in terms of the public health response in california? >> there are 40 confirmed cases. and there's not a state-wide outbreak. but there ar pockets of outbreaks, possibly three right no now. the most recent cases were from los angeles and orange county. whenever somebody may have come intcontact with a puserson who went to measles,er it trig an incredible effort of investigat to try to track down where those people went,

who the people are that may have been exposed and find out their vaccinations. >> and many students and staff members that have been quarantined. what do theyave to pro they've been vaccinated? >> they have to either prove they've had two doses of the measles vaccine e which is 97% effective or proof they've had measles in the past, which makes you immune. er if they uldn't do either of the thingsx they had to stay home for the remainderf the quarantine. >> do we know how the measle cases, how did they spread? >> most were brought by people who were unvaccinated. es for they went over seas to travel. es for and my people were with unvaccinated tend to hangout wither oth people who were unvaccinated. and if they attend a school with a low vaccinion ratex that's

when it should pick up speed. >> that doesn't exist when you get to the college level.ue >> uc implemented requirements just this fall. >> now yol, bi as i mentioned, that would give a booster shot to an earer piece ll olegislation, which is now law, basi cracking down on the frajialant -- >> this bill is trying toe limi number of pockets o schools that have low vaccination rates. we have raised it overall in the state and some people have credited that law with the fact that we don't have a state-wide outbreak despite the fact we have many cases sl m to

the state of california. er the problem is we have numerous schools with low vaccination rates because there are high perspentage of students with medical exemptions , manyf rly suspect. es for and there are doctors advertising for meds.al exemptio an investigation of the medical exemptions shows one physici wrote almost 1/3 of the medical exemptions. >> and your bill wld giveore oversight to the state health department? >> correct. we need to be sure all children are protected at school. because there are those that need those meptcal exns and they're counting on their class mates to be vaccinated soi they don't ge. >> a and what you hearing?

>> what i'm hearing from parents is plee keep our kids safe. we appreciate what you did with sb 277 and we need go after the bad doctors who are basically making money byt throwin rest of usx our children under the busx putting o children at risk. es for sowe shouldn't allow figsz physicians to modify the licenses? >> what about the ones that want to have the right to say no?is it a small groupo is it still growing? it's a small number that's persistent.ly unfochinahen they cluster together, those schools are at risk. d that become as tinder for a wildfire outbreak of disease er to protect the public and students at school, we need this bill. and in fac thisill is sponsed by the medical association, the

american pediatrics. doctors know we need this bill to keep our patients safe. >> do you get a lot of response? people paying attention or opposed to the billr mandatory vaccinations? >> overall the number of parents opposed is small but they're very vocal. so at tat hearing last week for about two/two and a half hours you had parents lined u their opposition to the bill. >> were there parents on the other sidealso? >> there wir parents on the other side as well but they wir out numbered. there were buses parked outside the capitol, people lined up in the hallways waiting.t

it's just people totally opposed to vaccation, but you have parents who are what you h call vacciitant. they're overwhelmed by the number of vaccines and shots their kids are getting. and so maybe they look at delaying some of them or picking some but not all. >> the department of health in murin sent out letters. thereasent been this outbreak of measles. fre >> there are schools and pockets of the state where the vaccination rate is low. and measles is highly contagious. so if a person is si is unvaccinated, 18 of them will get sick. thers a 90% rate. and see the healthw department ts to prevent an outbreak at these schools and basically warning parents if your child is

unvaccinated, they could be asked to stay hem for 21 days, which could be a big disruption the school year. >> we have more than 2 million or so undocumented immigrants. do you have any concerns aboutt ir access to vax nccinations in light of the harsh rhetoric around illegal immigration? >> interestingly enough, most of those immigrants come from mu countries wit higher vaccination rates. so they're not bringing dho zee torys. it's actually unvaccinatedic amns traveling to where there areother outbreaks and bring that back to the country. wae we've hurbd of cases where they travel, and spread it among other people who are unvaccinated. es for this is why vaccination is so important. i would also mention, by the

way, that children still chooses whether to get vaccinated or not. you go to the doctor. you decide. does your child get vaccinated not? we require vaccir tions to enhools. >> what's the big picture of a longer term stakes in getting this right? >> i think as said before measles is very contagious. 20 years i ago was essentially eradicated from the united states. and what's interesting about what we see in the national cases. in new york there's been a massive threat. wet in california we've contained it quitl. that's why our cases number is so low. >> thank you very much. and state senator and pediatrician in sacramento.k >> thu too.

eqt attending valley high school in concord. the two freshman are worried about climate change. they looked into minimizing the waste that ends up inland fills. they found out items such as paper and aluminum ns wir ending up in the trash. but they're hoping to change that by asking school officia and class mates to step up in the fight against climate change. one ecycled bottle at a time. joining me now are jose dejesuses ochoa. tell us about why you decided to focus on >> it was when i found out most of the classrooms didn't have -- it shocked me because it seemed

like something always inchool. if you want around any classroom, you can't find any recycles. >> right. to?who did you go teacher? principal? >> our teacher was more concernsed with other it issues. then we contacted the school administrator. >> that's a big deal to call up the district. did anybody encourage you to do that or you decided heyx let's goto the top? >> yeah, the top is where we thought we would get the moston informa >> did it seem like you were being taken seriously or were just kind of listening and going through the motions? >> wm,en we call they didn't pick up. so they were gist listening.

were there other people in their class noticing the same thing? >> some did notice the same thing. one said she was upset and how it could harm the earth. >> what have you been doing to the change it? >>ee been talking to the ja janitors and what they can do to bring a repsycholing program to the kwauds. m stly talking? >> mostly taking and getting information and finding out where the school is at. d hoping to get things done. our principal told us he originally talked to a company d they never got back to them. >> your high school, northgate in walnut creek had a history of

recycling but maybe not as well? >> last year i founded the recycling club in our school. it we found out in the classroom .was not recycling anymo because former clubs were taking itut themselves. and so once they ngraduated, one was taking care of it and they tried to work with the administration and set opsystem in place so they could recycle when they were gone, but due to wonflicts, it didn't wh uto. es for >> how was it being soed? >> we have trash cans. es for but we used to have them all arund the school. we have little blue bins for paper and plastic. as for the environmental club, i tried to talk to the principal. frers >> busy with what? >> at the time we hadory school

shting walkout. it seems like he was listening to me and not ready at the time. so the club started an online petigsz and we put that on the neighborhood website. >> like next door? next door. from there and then through that support we were able to meet with the unified school district facity manage. the recycling centerr walnut creek and public services for our area. >> so listen to colin and jose talk about they are get they school to take this seriously e what advice would you have for them? >> don't give up.

we are doing other things. kwlou you had to keep on going and fight for it. they didn't take us seriously. once we met with the district in the recycle sentx th, their are for it. er >> is somebody going to pick up the torch from you? >> so luckily this the custodians take out of it themselves. so it's stim going to be done yearf after year. but we do have some really cool jieniers and sophomores next ye. es for and students and faculty all love it. ril >>i

>>ium are -- i feel like becau you are freshman -- he's got more cred with the school and they take u more seriously. the people above you, jieniers and seniors, do you get more feedback from them? >> definitely outf the students we interviewed, yeah. >> what aboutou, colin? >> my family definitely thinks we should recycle. >> do youfeel like it's kind of up to your generation going down the road here, that you're going to be wleft a lot of inviemtal problems by people my age and oler? do you this is your problem to solve? >> effect businesses, economics. this is a full branch and fuch

we have to face.we ave to start wuking now. >> and your are going to cal, i think, in the fall. has all of this effected the studies. frers. >> right. i'm magingon envental science and hope to major in environmental science. >> is this something re a side thing or can you imagine, as you get old and graduatex orking in an environmental field? >> i definitely see myself doing that because we are -- >> yeah. so youv are been wuking on this for a fewhs mo es for what's your take away?in >> deely the effect it has on the world. so'r w hoping it brings as greater chain reaction. >> so you feel like it makes you feel pow.

>> what about you? >> yeah, just like jose said. for -- it'sts and i lined we have a voice. >> and youan yiez it. es for thank you for being he the great work your are doing. as you can find more of our coverage at kqed.com/newsroom. i'm scott shaf. thank you for joining us. es for

robert: the attorney general doesn't back down a neither does congress. i'm robert costa. welcome to "washington week." the attorney general under fir over his handling of the mueller report. >> it was my decision how and when to make it public, not bob mueller's. robert: democrats want the special council t testify. republicans say enough is enough. >> it's over. if there's any dispute of a conversation then he'll come. but i'm not going to retryhe case. robert: house democrats are furious. >> the aeorney general of united states is not telling the truth to the congress of the united states. that's a crime. robert: the subpoenas fly in the battle between the white house

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