tonight on kqed newsroom, congressional democrats are demanlding manding resignation and even 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 vaccination take over return on the issues that matter most to high school students. we begin with growing tensions between house democrats and attorney general william bar are. nancy pelosi says he broke a law

by lying to congress about the mueller report. he skipped a heari o of the judiciary committee and ignoed a subpoena deadline to turn over the full report and evidence. president trumpx along with democratic leads chuck schumer nd nancy pelosi announced an agreement to spend $ trillion for infrastructure esupgrades. or no word on where the money will come frommo how it will be spent. barbara lee sits on the house appropriations coittee. some fireworks in washington this week with aten general william baare testifying before the senate. you are among a growing chorus of democrats h calling 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 tas, for the damt of justice. es for so he shouldsign. es for the difference is he's are protecting the president. es for ro isting and putting forth lies. he is not telling the truth. under oath ox yeah. also in many ways he's not representing the peoplel of united states by representing the department of juwhice, which is its are supposed to be and he's are taken this as a personal representation of the man in the white house. >> a calls f him to be impeached. the houses of representatives is looking at possibly holding him in contempt for refusing to testify. are themocrats spinning their wheels because obviously nothing like impeachment -- he's are not going to resign.

impeachment would never make it to the senate. what's what'ser the point of pushing that? >> no one is spinningwheels. es forria have to hold the atenny general and the president accountable. so, no, we're not spinning our wheels.ee tranchs of government. we have oversight and we've got to move forward and do the work the constitution 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 cealing for imment. >> i don't think it's dissension. i think we have different points of views. es for and speer pelosi understands we have got to win in 2020. so she's being strategic and ows what she's doing.

es for there are many that agree the investigations must go forward. and we have to hold this present accountable.o i,one, believe impeachment should be on the table. we have membersf our own democratic caucus taking about different ways to approachbu th i don't consider it ecension and speaker pelosi andory committee chairs are ngving forward. >> joe biden dell 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 voter and others saying we need to have a candidate that can bring out women and pople o color who sat home in 2016. is one of of those correct from your erspective? >> i don't think it's either or. i have en harris.nator kamala

and she is a very effective leader. i think that she is demonstrated the fact that she can pull together a coalition of women o. people of co and yes, the white workingse cls beche cares about jobs, jobs going off shore and bringing back manufacture jobs. it's been people of colorer that have not had the good family abs. so we can relate to and she wants to make sure this is an inclusive society and everyone benefits from economic groh. not just one pat of our country or one consistency. >> there is a lot of concern about russian the 2020 election. president trump had a conversation with putin today and this issue dd not come up. president afterwards called it t witch hnd the russia investigation a hoax. do you think -- what kind of signal does that give to those trying to inrfere in our

election? its ar's a very bad signal. we know that in many ways they determine the outcome of the elections. and we know they're planning to interfere once again in 2020. and the president should acknowledge that. we need the teprotections i ozes of our democracy. we're at a fragileur point in 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 os 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 be optimistic it e ll happen. i think the cou in the details.

good in terms of a number to start with. in bay area we have hiej infrastructure needs not to mention ourer road bridges. 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 tremendous housing crisis. we're trying to get housing as part of the bill. so i do this new infrastructure initiative in the broader sense. es forrer itan not only be seen as brick and morts but really enhancing ow growth and creating jobs and making sure there's housing and other kindsofnfrastructure needs met for everyone. es for. >> i wa askia about some of these town hall meetings you

arer holding. what is the goal of these town hall meetings? >> and this the anniversary of the first slave arriving from africa. es for 400 years. a weird commemorating and remming legacy of thi horrific crime against humanity,lavery. i've been trying to get the contry to open opconversation about race and racism and look at where wae've come and howwe still have to correct the damage that has been repaired. and we're conducting town metings. i've had four around the bay 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 makin 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 a truce and and healing process and transformation process similar to southic afrand rue aundau. thank you. there have been more than 700 cases of measles so f this year in nearly two dozen states including cifornia. this ek officials at ucla and cal state l 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 bill by state senator targeting doctors who write fraudulent medical exemption 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's happening in terms of the public health response in california? >> there are 40 confirmed cases. and there's not a state-wide outbreak. but there are pockets of outbreaks, possibly three right no now. the most recent cases were from los angeles and orange county. whenever somebody may have come into contact with a puserson wh went to measles,er it trig a incredible effort of investigates to try to track down where thos people went, who the people are that may have been exposed and find out their

vaccinations. >> and manytudents andtaff members that have been quarantined. what do they have to prove they've been vaccinated? >> they have to either provey' t 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 couldn't do either of the thingsx theyy had to s home for the remainder of the arantine. >> do we know how the measle cases, how did they spread? >> most were brought by people who were unvaccinated. es for they went oer seas to travel. es for and many people were with unvaccinated tend to hangout with otherer people who were unvaccinated. and if they attend a school with a low vaccination ratexhat's

en it should pick up speed. >> that doesn't exist when you get to the college level. >> true. uc implemented requirements just this fall. >> now your bill, as i mentioned, aat would give booster shot to an earlier piece of olegislation, which is now law,asically cracking down on the frajialant -- >> this bill is trying to the number of pockets of schools that have low vaccination rates. we have raised it overall in the state and some people havecr dited that law with the fact that we don't have a state-wide outbreak despite the fact we have many cases of measles to the state of california. er the problem is we have numerous schools with low

vaccination rates because there are highperspentage of students with medical exemptions , many fairly suspect. es for and there are docto advertising for medical exemptions. an investigation of the medical exemptions shows p onesician wrote almost 1/3 of the meds.al exempti >> and yo bill would give more oversight to the state health department? >> correct. we need to be su all children are protected at school. because there are those that need those medical exemptions and they're counting on their class mates to be vaccinateddo thet get sick. >> and what are you hearing? >>hat i'm hearing from parents is please 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 by throwing the rest of u our children under the busx putting our children at risk. es for so we shouldn't allow fig physicians to modify theic ses? >> 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.f hinately when they cluster together, those schools are at risk. and 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 fact this bill is sponsed by the medical association, the american pediatrics.

doctorsnow we need this bill to keep our patients safe. >> do you get a lot of response? people paying attention ord oppo the bill or mandatory vaccinations? >> overall the number of parents opposed is small but they're very vocal. so a that hearing last week for about wo/two and a half hours you had parents ligd up lodg their opposition to the bill. >> were there parents on the other side also? >> there wir parents on the other side as well but they wir out numbered. there were buses parked outside the capitol, people linedlwup i the hs waiting. it's not just people totally posed to vaccination, but you

ve parents who are what you call vaccine hesitant. 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 aotl. >> the department of health in murin sent out letters. there hasent been this outbreak of measles. fre >> there are schools pockets of the state where the vaccination rate is low. and measles is high contagious so if a person is sick is nated, 18 of them will get sick. there's a 90% rate. and see the health department wants to prevent anureak at these schools and basically warning parents if yours child unvaccinated, they could be asked to stay hem for 21 days, which could be a big disruption

in the school year. >> we have more than 2 million or so undocumented immigrants. do you have any concerns about their access to vax nccinations light of the harsh rhetoric around illegal immigration? >> interestingly enough, mo of those immigrants come from countries with much higher vaccination rates. so they're not bringing dg zeez tory shores. it's actually unvaccinated americans traveling to where there are uother outbreaks and bring that back to the count. wae we've hurbd ofer cases w 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.e. you dec does your child get vaccined not? we require vaccinations to enter schools. >> wt's the big picture of a longer rm stakesin getting this right? >> i think as we said before measles is very coagious. 20 years ago it wasssentially eradicated from the united states. and what's interesting aboat e see in the national cases. in new york there's been a massive threat. but in california we've contained it quite well. at's why our cases number is so low. >> thank you very much. and state senator and pediatriciao. in sacramen >> thank you too. eqt attending valley high school

in concord. the two freshman are worried about climate cnge. they looked into minimithng the wast ends up inland fills. they found out items such as paper and aluminum cans wir ending up in the trash. but they're hoping to change that by asking school officials and class mates to step up in the fight against clim change. one recycled bottle at a time. joining me now are jose dejesuses ochoa. tell us about why you decided to focus on recycle ut mostas when i found of the classrooms didn't have -- it shocked me because it seemed like somethinglways in school.

if you want around any classroom, you can't find any recycles. >> right. er who did you go to? 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 go to the top? >> yeah, the top is wheree thought we would get the most information. >> did it seem like you were being taken seriously or they were just kind of listening and going through the motions? >> when we call them, they didn't pick up. st so 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 >> we've been talking to the janitors and what they can do to bring a repsycholing progrs. to the kwa >> mostly talking? >> mostly taking and getting information and finding out where the school is at. and hoping to get things done. our principal told us he ll origi talked to a company and they never got back to them. >> your high school, northgate adin walnut creek a history ofli rec but maybe not as well? >> last year i founded the

ecycling club in our school. it we found out in the classroom was not recycling anymore. because former clubs were taking it out themselves. and so once they graduated, no one was taking care of it and they tried to work with the administration and set opsyst place so they could recycle when they were gone, but due to conflicts, it didn't wuk with uto. es for >> how was it being sorted? >> we have trash bcans. es fo we used to have them all arund the school. we have little blue bins for paper and platic. as for the environmental club, i tried to talk to the principal. frers >> busy with what? >> a the time we hadory school

shooting walkout. it seems like he was listening 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 withhe unified school district facility manage. the recycling center for walnut creek and public services for our area. >> so listen toin and jose talk about they are trying to 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 weet 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 is the custodians take out themselves. so it's g stimng to be done yearf after year. but we doave some really cool jieniers and sophomores next ye. es for and students and faculty all love it. ril >>i >>ium are -- i feel like because

you are freshman -- he got more cred with the school and they take you more seriously. the people above you, jieniers and seniors, do you get more f feedbacm them? >> definitely out of the students weina interviewed, yea. >> what about you, colin? >> my family definitely thinks we should recycle. >> do you feel like it's kind of up your generation going down the road here, that you're going to be wleft a loof inviemtal problems by people my age and older? do feel this is your problem to solve? >> effect businesses, economics. this is a full branch and fuch we have to face. we have to start wuking now.

>> and your are going toi cal, , in the fall. has all of this effecd the studies. frers. >> right. i'm mingnvironmental science and hope to major in environmental science. >> is this sothing more of a side thing or can you imagine, as you get older and graduatex working in an environmental eld? >> i definitely see myself doing that because we are -- >> yeah. so youv are been wuking on this for a few months. es for what's your take away? >>definitely the effect it has on the world. so we're hoping it brings as greater chain reactio >> so you feel like it makes you feel pow. >> what about you? >> yeah, just like jose said.

es for -- it's its and i lined we have a voice. >> and you can yiez it. es for thank you for being he the great work your are doing. as always you can find more of our coverage at kqed.com/newsom. i'm scott shaf. thank you for joining us. es f

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