captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, paying for the pain-- a tentative deal is struck to settle massive lawsuits with one of the biggest manufacturers of opioids. then, closed polls, open future. after a closely watched election in north carolina breaks for the republican, questions abound over what it means for the 2020 presidential race. and, spy games-- new revelations that the u.s. extracted a high- level source inside the russian what did he know ahe kremlin's plot to influence thee 2016ion? plus, art, the internet, and authenticity-- artists grapple with the impact of digital technology on creation andti

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thank you. >> woodruff: this has been a day of remembrance: 18 years since the september 11th attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. in new york, crowds surrounded the memorial pools where the world trade nter towers once stood. flag hung at the pentagon,ican h during ceremonies including president trump. defense secretary mark esper noted that many americans have no memory of the attacks. >> on this 18th anniversary of 9/11, service members who were not even boron that w stand among our ranks. as each year passes details fade. we must ensure the memories of departed do not.f: >> woodrice president pence joined ceremonies outside

shanksville, pennsylvania, where crashed. hijacked planes passengers who foue al-t qaeda hijackers. his decision to fire nationald security adviser john bolton. he cited differences over north korea and venezuela, among other issues. o the president spoke during a meeting in the oval office, and said bolton had made some big mistakes. >> he wantedo do things, not necessarily tougher than me. john's known as a tough guy. he's so tough he got us into iraq. that's tough. but he's somebody that i actually had a very good relationship with, but he wasn't getting along with people in the administration that i consider very imporhant.oo >>uff: the president of iran, hassan rouhani, welcomed the ouster of bolton, who advocated a hard line against tehran. rouhani called for americans to "abandon warmongering." a court in scotland has joinedr

the battle oexit. it ruled today that british prime minister boris johnson illegally suspended parliament this week. clear the way to lve theeaing to european union, with or without a e rmal deal. itish supreme court will have the final say at a hearingt eek. palestinians today condemned any israeli move to annejordan valley. the region is seen as the heart of a future palestinian state. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu pledged tuesday to ecannex it, if he wins re-on next week. the palestinian liberationra organization warned it would be a fatamistake. >> means one thing, means the burying any pospects of peace between palestinians and raelis. why such an administration and such a prime minister is willing to invest everything they have in order for ould chin and

israeli children to continue in conflict for another 100 years? why? >> woodruff: other arab leaders also criticized netanyahu's announcement. back in this country, president trump said his administration will propose a ban on all e- cigarette flavors, excepthe flavor of tobacco itself. it's aimed at curbing under-age vaping. the food and drug administration has had the authority to ban vaping flavors since 2016, but had resisted taking that step. convicted a chinese woman ofs illegally entering the president's mar-a-lago estate. trespassing and lying to secret service agents.d she carrectronic gear, but was not charged with espionage. zhang could get six years in prison. california lawmakers gave final approval today to protectionsid for workers atsharing and on-demand delivery services. uber, lyft and other rely

on contractors, strongly opposed the meure. their workers will have to be treatemore like employees, when it comes to wagesnd benefits. general moto is recalling nearly 3.8 million pickup trucks and s.u.v.'s in the u.s. andft canada reports of faulty brakes. the company says the have been 113 crashes and 13 injuries. the affected vehicles range from model years 2014 through 2018. on wall street, stocks rallied after china exempted some u.s. products from tariffs. rae dow jones industrial a gained 227 points to close at 27,137. the nasdaq rose 85 points, and the s&p 500 added 21. oil tycoon and philanthropist t. boone pickens died today at his home in dallas. business, and then led bids to take over larger companies.sh later, he renewable

energy and donated millions from his fortune. t. boone picke was 91 years old. and, there's hopeful news in the campaign to save a species. scientists in italy have createn embryos of trly extinct northern white rhinoceros.ed they inseminggs from the last two females using frozen sperm collected fromast male before they died. the embryos will be carried by a surrogate mother from another rhino species. still to come on the newshour: d cades of death and billions of dollars-- an opinufacturer pays for the epidemic. what can the special electionain north caroell us about the race for the white house? another challenger appears mark sanford on why he's contesting president trump for the republdean nominat the hurricane is over, but the damage remains-- the difficult path for recovery in the bahamas, and much more.

>> woodruff: the opioid crisis has left a huge toll and permanent scar across america and the lives of many families and individuals. the centers for disease control has estimated that as many as u400,000 people died in t. since the late '90s from prescription and illegal opioids.now, the first comprehee settlement against a keynu cturer appears to have been reached. s more than tes, a more than 2,000 cities and counties, have reportedly reached e deal with purarma, the manufacturer of oxycontin. the case against the company was expect to go to court next month. now as amna nawaz reports, there are some asking whether this settlement is enough. >> nawaz: dy, to be clear, the deal is not yefinalized. but plaintiffs lawye and

purdue pharma have confirmed they are working on a settlement the settlement would reportedly include: a payout of up to $12 billion to states, cities an counties. it includes three billion dollars from the sackler family directly, which owns purdue pharma. the sacklers wou also give up control of purdue pharma, and the company would declare bankruptcy. it would then be converted into a public trust focused on combating the opioid epidemic.s several attornneral said this was a settlement in the best interest of their communities. but others are against inclu ngth william tongconnecticut attorney general. purdue pharma's headquarters are in his state. attorney general tong, thank you for being with us ton let's just begin with the big question-- why are you opposed to this tentati settlement? >> well, thank you for having me here tonight amna. i'm opposed because the scale and the depth of the destructn, the pain, the death

that has been caused by purdue and the saklers far exceeds this purported deal and proposed and let's jus clear-- no one, to my knowledge, has offere$12 billion guranteed in cash or $10 billion, for that tter. the base of this is a3 billion guarantee anom the sacklersd beyond that, we don't know any more. and tht just doesn't c it. the sacklers have a real opportunity here and purdue has an opportunity to make this right and to begin to meet the obligation to fund vital investments in adicon science, treatment, and prevention. because they-- they started this fire, and they pour gasoline on it, and instead of trying to oelp put it out in all of the states, they're ing to start it burn. >> nawaz: le's start with the sackler family. you mentioned there is a $3 billion offer from them. how much more would you like om see them? >> i would like to see them meet

their obligation tod treatment and prevention and to problem.tart to tackle this s, frankly, just a down payment. and there's so much more to be done. and we've been very clearbout our principles and i think our beliefs are shared by a number of states that purdue pharma and the sack lers have to get out of the opioid business completely, that purdue pharma has to get shut down, that it can't continue as a going for-profi company. that just-- st nawaz: sir, let me j point out, as part of the reporting so far, the sackler family would give up control of the purdue pharma, and purdue pharma would go into bankruptcy pup said you wanted the sack her family to meet its obligation. what is the number you are looking for? whenou're in talks with them and negotiations are ongoing, how would they meet their obligations? >> i don't think that's clear under the terms of what has been d ported on. 'm not going to comment on specific negotiations. but it's clear to me that there has not been an agreement to

shut dorm purdue phaand for purdue management and the sacklers to get out of the opioid business completely in the u.s. and abroad, never to return. i don't think that that's been offered, and i don't thk that's been agreed upon. with respect to the dollars, 's just clear to me that sufficient. offered isn and the scale of what is thef largest public health crisis, at least in my lifetime, isn't met by $ billion or something approximating that. and certainly, there's been no offer of something like 0 billion or $12 billion that's been reported by the press. any sugg'stion that then offer of that size in guaranteed, committed dollars tp treatment andrevention is inaccute. >> nawaz: there are several peopleho will say, ook, $3 billion say starting point." you're not being specific with how muchoney you would liketo see. but those same victims and families that you say need ur help, $3 billion would begin to help. and this would not end the path

for accountability. there are stillabeveral otr litigation paths ahead. what do you say to that? >> it would-- iet wouldgin to help, but it doesn't do enough. and e fact is purdue pharma pled guilty to federal criminal charges in 2007, and after that, purdue pharma enable the the sackler family to siphon off billions upon billions of dollars, well north of $3 billion, out of the company to line their own pockets and that prioritized profits and protecting their own wealth over led the way on and helped to create in this country that cost, byhe way, more than 1,000 lives in connecticut just last year, and even more ths year, and billions and billions in damages, not just acr bs the countr in connecticut alone. >> nawaz: attorney generd tong, i shok you as well, even this does not move ahead, there are several other players in this field. t i apologize, we have less than a nute left. there is a federal trial in october, including a number ofio other manufacturers and distributors and farm easy.

in other words, this is not the soonly player. hy not move th what you can now to get the money that could be available now, and then pursue other paths against other players? >>se in our view, based on what we know of the billions of dollars that the sacklers took out of the company, because of the tremendous damage that they have done and the scope ande scale of the death and destruction and the pain that came at their hand, what's been offered so far doesn't even begin to meet whgiat they owe te people of conneicut and the people of this country. and the damage that they have caused far exceeds any offer that i have seen. >> sreenivasan: that is connecticut attorney general william tong joining us tonight. thank you very much. >> thank you.

>> woodruff: nearly a year after the midterm elections and a result that was thrown out because of evidence of g.p. fraud, north carolina's 9thh district finally has a congressman-elect. republican dan bishop won yesterday's special election by less than 4,000 votes in a district psident trump won bynt nearly 12 points. the campaign was seen by bothie paas potentially the first signal about voters' thoughts race and the republican party's strength with suburban voters. steve harrison is political reporter for public radio i station wfcharlotte and has been tracking the race. steve harrison, thank you very much for joining us on the newshour. what has been racksacross e state to dan bishop's win? >> so think that people were a little surprised-- not so muchat an bishop won, but that he won by two percentage points.

now, that doesn't und leak a lot, but in the previous race last fall, the republican candidate wa ahead by 905 votes. so this was a ttle bit bigger margin. i think one of the early reado s it on for i republica president trump came on monday night and held a rallyor bishop in fayetteville, in the far east of the district, and apparently that worked. fayetteville.unty is the home of dan mccready won that last fall. and this time, dan bishop took cumberland county. so, you know, this was a win for the president. as he was leaving to come down to north carolina, he was kind of downplaying his involvement in the race. but then, you know, after dan bishop wonkhe started taing a lot of credit for the win. >> woodrf: which he has done. this is an interesting district. it sprawls a the way from charlottesville toward the western end of the state, all the way to fayetteville in the

east. it's urban, it's suurban, it's rural. what do you see in the results about who voted for whom that tells you why bishop won and why, frankly, mccready came so close? >> so, the district is a gerrymandered distr the republicans drew it to be a safe seat. and really the heart of thet district is a part of charlottesville that is very wealthy, white, college republicans in big margins for decades. that part of charlottesville,h combined wiion county, a suburban county, has about 60% of the vote. it's designed to really carry the district for republicans. but what's happened is that that part of charlottesville has really flipped. dan mccready won it la t ll. he expanded on that margin this time. and that part of cha gottesville ng more blue. but at the same time, dan bishop was able to make in-roads in the more rural parts of thewo districtki class voters. it was a little bit of a replay

of 2016. >> woodruff: and you're saying-- and you'rinting out and reminding us that mccready, the democrat, did better than he did last fall. what are republicans taking aw from this? are they tellingue are you vousnessthere's more ner about how-- what president trump can expect in north carolina next year? >> so, i spoke wit bishop's campaign strategist today, and s view was, "look, we may be losing college-educated voters invi charlotte," but he said, if we can make that up by getting working class vters at's okay.ties, th that's still a winning coalition." he felt like they were in good shape for statewide races and going into 2020. on the democratic side, like you said earlier, president trump wosthis ditrict by 12 percentage points. for the democrat to get witmohin two points is a pretty big shift. and if the democrats can perform like that again in 2020, they have a really good chance of

winning north carolina. >> woodruff: andrat this point, just very quickly on this, steve harrison, any sense which party is better organized going into the presidential election? >> i think that north carolina will again be a highly contested swing state. of course, the republicanal nationvention will be in charlottesville next year. that's going to bring a lot of attention here. but i think that both sides, as they have for the last two ections, are going to bes, spending mindlions of dollars a lots of time in north carolina. >> woodruff: and finally, i want to ask you about what happened in your state capitol, raleigh, today. in a surprise move, the republicans called a vote which, in essence, overturned thecr deic governor's veto of a budget. think the country is dividing from looking at politics in ashington. iteminder it's very divided at the state level. >> right. what happened in raleigh today kindf takes-- takes it to a whole other level.

what happened was the democratic governor of nortcarolina had vetoed the republican budget. the legislature does not haveen gh votes to oveesr-ride the budget. the democrats have been-- it'sbe two months now with this impasse over what's going to happen with the budget. the democrats this morning were under the impression there would be no vote on the budget. they say that the republican relationship leadership had told them that. e republicans say no such thing. and this morning, they had a quorum, and with hardly any democrats in the chamber, they passed an over-ride. and democrats were livid. n woodruff: sounds lia lot of love lost at this point. but, again, a reminder just how deep the partisan divide, even at the statend local level. thank you very much, steve harrison, with wfae. we appreciate it. >> thank you. w

liams: to many, donald trump is reshaping the republican party. but there are a few who are concerned by his leadership and have their own ideas of how to mark sanford is one. the former south carolina congressman and governor is running for the republicanna noon. making him the third in his party to do so. mark sanford, welcome to th se newshour. so why challenge a president who is pollingt 87% favorability in his own party? >> because i thinke need to have a conversation about what ublicans to be a re these days. i think that certain tenets of what the republican party traditionally stood for have en lost of late. and i think that at a grassroots live, there are a lot of people t there that i think still things.in tho take, for instance, this is ae of spendid debt and deficits. they've gone out of control in washington. the president said, "if i get

elected, i will complete d eliminate thbt over the eight years that i might be in office."mb in fact the s have gone in the other direction. i think it's worth asa convon. >> woodruff: and i want to ask you about that. centerpiece.re making that a at least that's what you're talking about this week. but just how far are you y prepared snoog are yoepared to talk about cuts in soial-- the entitlement programs, so-called, soc security, medicare, even tax increases? how far are you prepared to go? >> go all the way in simy ply telling the truth. i thk at, you know, people would acknowledge that we're onn an unsusle path. i think there's a disconnect gather around the family kitchen and the water cooler, and the and meticulously ging throughlly their budgets, at the business or individual levels, and they "you know, theon't awpped,ay t but if nobody else is worried

about it, i guess i'm not worried about it, either." so we've been lulled into this sense of "it will go away on its own," when in fact that's not case. eskin bowls, one othe cochairs of the bowls movieimpson report. said we're walking away from the most p fedictabnancial crise in the history of man. i think we're now at that th ae ti ying point. look at the way we're projected to run deficits the next 10 years,f you look at the spending, we are at a tipping point. so either we go out and confront truth and, ndeed, deal with entitlements and other or we pretend it will higo away,ch it nver does, and as a consequence e financial markets will bring us back to reality and it will be bruising for every one of us.f: >> woodrou think you can get people to care about this, to vote for this, when there's no eviden right now that there's any kind of consensus, even among republicans. it used to be the party of getting spending down. >> yeah.

it was, again, cornerstone, as were many other things. the republican ptrty is no exactly the republican party that i invested a lot of years of my life into. but it is what it is, which makes it that much moreto importanay, sthrks really the direction that we want to go?" i mean, take, for insnce, just the congressional district they used to represent here in south carolina. u> woodruff: and i-- >> i'm sorry, yere about to say something. >> woouff: i was go say there are a couple of other issues i want to ask you about. >> take that district, it went democratic for the first time in 50 years, in p larrt simply because of the president's tone. working men, suburb an wb omen, young millennials turned out in droves. and as a consequence, the district went in a different direction. i think it's time to have a real conversation about where we're going as aarty. >> woodruff: i want to ask you quickly about a few other issues. one is climate change. are you with the president in his skepticism about it? >> i'm not. believe in science.

it is inconceivable to me that you eln say, "i bieve in the miracles of modern medicine and what science can do in hdoling the human body, but i don't believe in science outde of the body as it relates the larger, you know, ecosystem that we live in as hum beings." >> woodruff: immigration. the president's been very tthouh on thsis isue. he wants a border wall. you've said you agree with tha what about the policy of family separation, tighter asylum rules, laws? where are you on that? >> i agree with much ofh tat. i mean, i think that in as much as asylum ibs aused and not for true asylum, we have a problem, and it ought to be tightened up. i don't agree with the idea o parating families, simply beca ce, you know, yo be tough on immigration but also believe in the sheanctity of family unit. >> woodruff: foreign pullicy, you talk to the leader of north korea?

>> you know, i don't think so. i mean, i think he's proven himself an awfully bad actnor the world stage. i was in congress at the time that, you know, thel cinton administration, in essence, struck a deal with north korea, and the net of tht deal was, you know, we sent a lot of money their way, and we got nothing in result. i don't see this movie ending up much differently. i think flls more carefully on the lines of trust but verify that reagan talked about. and they need to do some things that show verification before we step out in trusting them and meeting with them. >> woodruff:nd do you agreeyo with presiden president trump'sn trade towards china, theff ta >> i think that, you know, as late as this last friday, "the wa street journal" had a article talking about how there had been a full percentage poi drop in our growth ingr this uncertainty. result of tra i think the way that he has approached it has been mistaken. i think it is hurting the american consumer you look a about $1,000 cost

per householdhat's calculated now in what's coming our way, and it's going to get worse. and if w don't watch out, we're going to go in the direction of the 193e0s, whre world trade declined by two-thirds. you start a trade war, you don'x knowctly where it ends. i think we're, again, not approaching this in the right direction. >> woodruff: how would your white house, if you're elected, be run differently from this white house under president trump? >> i was a chief executive of a state for eight years of my life. and what i saw in that experience is it's incredibly important at there be predictability from the executive branch. s for you and against you to line up, and there is at least a battle lin drawn where you can have a real debate on where you want to go next as ae state, whu want to go next as a country. what we have more of is sort of chaos theory. one day it's here, the next day it's here, the next day it's here.

and as a consequence, what happens is exactly what we're seeing in trade, whereinss businvestment has been frozen up because people don't know what mes next.go you're notng to invest in that kind of environment. and the same is truof political decisions. they're not made because nobody knows exactly what's going to happen next. am i really going to take a stand as a republican? he may or may not have back. it's important there be predictability out of thee. whie ho >> woodruff: and finally, the president has made some very cutting, personal comments abous you, maranford. he's referred to your leaving the office, how you left the office of governor and a number ngs.ther thi the-- >> well, let's be clear. i didn't-- >> woodruff: go ahead. >> i'm sorry. go ahead, yes, ma'am. >> woodruff: the chairman of the republican party in south calina has called your candidacy a vanity project. you're not getting a lot of support in your home sta. they've canceled the republican primary in your home state of south carolina.- how do yi mean, when your

home folks are not behind you,o how ou have a candidacy? >> there's a big dfefnce between political folks and home folks. and i have had the honor of getting to know all kinds of folks from across south carolinu over my lonmber of years, both in congress and the governorship. and there is a decided difference between the political body and regular people in our state. i think what this should tell us is, wait a minute. somebody in the truza orgaon is looking at the numberes and saying my support is a mile wide but an inch deep. because if you have a chance to pick up supposedly a 90% win in the first-in-the south primary, you take it. instead they canceled that primary in south caa, which is, again, beyond perplexing. anplso, would simply say ig think it bmuch more the question why are they doing it? and begs that much more of a question for the need for a

debate in the republican party on where we go next. >> woodruff: sar mark sanfora pcandidate for the reublican nomination for the president. thank you. >> yes, ma'am. >> woodruff: stay with us,mi co up on theewshour: the art world contends withs questi authenticity as it embraces a digital future.ig and new twists in the case of the c.i.a.'s high level spy in vladimir putin's russia. now, let's get an update on the situation in the bahamas and the very difficult relief efforts. stephanie sy is our new national correspondent at the newshour. she will be based in phoenix, tonight with the se desk here welcom stephanie. >> thank you, judy. it's great to be part of your team. unfortunately, the scope of hurrican dorian's destruction is

the bahamas iill coming into focus. the island of abacos virtually uninhabitable, and there's major the surrounding area on grand bahama. government officials say 250pe le are listed as missing. some of them could be in shelters or still on the islands. earlier this evening i spoke hth christy delafield ofe relief group mercy corps. she joined us via skype from the eastern part of th grand bahama. and i began by aing what it looks like there. >> the destruction on aba really was complete. the homes were flattened. it's in the quite liat here in freeport. the buildings were built a little bit better. they fared a little bit better. but people still don have running water, a lot of windows are blown out, the wind di a tremendous amount of damage on roofs, and the floodwate were devastating. floodwaters of up to maybe eighd feet justroyed people's homes and people's vehicles with salty, contaminae d water. >>ow that those

floodwaters were dangerous asat well, and the government is now saying that there are 2500 people that are still unaccounted for. is that surprising to you, thto hearat number? >> sadly, no. this is something that we were hearing from people all along in ople saingk, that they had loved ones thatt they hadn'heard from or that they didn't really know where-- where people had fled to or how they had fared. so this is-- this is devastating. and we need to-- we need toee learn more information, and th search and rescue needs to continue. >> that doesn't necessarily mean the death toll will go that high. >> no, it's a thing that just we need to get through the confirmation procesma that's, you know, managed through the government, and they are going to work to understand the full picture.t and it jakes time. >> let's talk about the response for groups like mercy corps in week two versus hoyou responded in the days right after the hurricane. what are you focused on now? >> today, the focus is really on connecting with th

organizations locally that understand whose needs hven't been met. we're still reay trying to bring in urgently neededli su, clean water, food, tarps, rope, all those things that, you know, need to be brought in ngreat volume. but at the same time, we understand that there isn't a one-size-fits-all approach. different people enst differ things and need different things. and is is where you start to see maybe pockets of people that are more difficult to get toul that aren't getting help that they need. i think that one of the other things that you might not expect that's really been useful in this situation is mercy corps is bringing in solar lanterns so people have a little bit moitre light, the electricity grid being knocked out. but they also have usb chargers so they can charge theirhones. it's a way to communicate with eople communities, help reach their loved ons and

access emergency services. >> it's september, and sool schoolshould be startingor kids there this month. will they be able to go to school any time soon? >> school was supposed to start we're seeing a lot of peog e, a lot of kids who just before the storm were buying school uniforms, ere buying new othes. they had paid school fees, which is how thatp oerate here in the bahamas. for a lot of families who aren't going to be abe to send their kids back to school. we're also hearing that it might be as much as two months before the electricity gets back up and of ce, local officials are urunning work really quickly and as fast as they can to get that happen for schools and other really essential resources. but it may be some time. >> when it comes to the bahamian economy, what are the longer term ramificationsgehat are becoming evident now? >> so, this is an economy that is really driven by tourism, asf a lot eople who have visited the bahamas know. it's a bea dutifstination.

it's an arc plego being made up of hundreds of islands. th ie two islands aren a position to welcome tourists but the bahian government is concerned they're seeing fewer visitors aner depression alld the economy which could haveif broader raations moving forward and there are a lot of people wondering if they're going to have jobs in the next, yeo years. >> a tough road aheador sure. christy delafield of mercy corps. thank you so much for your bainsights there in granama. >> thank you for having me. >> woodruff: now, how some ine the art world ing technology to help guarantee the authenticity of their work d help ensure artists ar getting the money they deserve. it's a story that's a mix of art d technology. miles o'brien has the story for our latest segment on the "leadingdge" of technology. it's also part of arts coverage,

"canvas." >> reporter: in the capricious world of fine art, there is little that isair and equitable for the artists themselves. if you are at the top, your work can fetch astronomical prices-- this david hockney painting sold for $90 million in 2018. but hockney's cut: zer and, of course, for the vast majority of artists, "zero" is an all too familiar number. they don't call them "starving" for nothing. but technology may be changing the landape, with some bold brush strokes. >> i am a big proponent of what i call, "the new art economy." >> reporter: artist and entrepreneur jackie o'neill is doing her parto create that new economy. edshe started a company cahe" blockchain art collective." she believes helping artists monetize their work begins withe er system for identifying what is real - and what is fake.

for ten dollars, she sells artists a little gadget you might have implanted in your do to keep her from being lost: a radio frequency i.d. chip. >> so, if you try to remove it,a it will fart into a bunch of little pieces, and then the microchip pieces will void once you get to the point of actually removing that if you were to >> repter: a smartphone app can scan the r.f.i.d., which stores information about the piece-- the artist, title, date, medium, area, region and origin. d it has a unique identification number. it's a way to prove it is authentic >> authenticity thsically says at this object, this rare, precious, unique object is what people claim it is, and it's hard to prove that often. so, when people are ing and trying to prove authenticity or provenance, they usually go to the expert. experts usually are art historians. >> reporter: anyone o watchese the "antiques roadshow" knows how that works: authenticity, scarcity and value determined by seasoned experts, sometimes

leading to thrilling moments. >> i would suggest a value of 200,00to 300,000. >> reporter: but as the name of jackie o'neill's startup suggests, much of the work of the middlemen is supplanted by provenance, with blockchain technology. blockchain enables cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum, but it has many more applications. after all, is all aboutab verification and trust. r but instead ying on an accountant, appraiser or an auction house to keep an accurate database of the art'spr enance, blockchain allows the whole world to watch. the chain of these records is copi on thousands of computers, making it virtually impossible for anyone to cook e books. or in this case, forge a piece of art. >> there's way more complexity that can be baked intot now that benefits the artis over time, that automates the gallery

commission, saves time and money, and you don't have toha work so to prove that authenticity and provenance. >> reporter: and it works even if there is no physical object, when the art is purely digital, nothing more than a binary code collection of 1's and 0's. john watkinson is the co-creator of cryptopunks, a groundbreaking xel art sensation. in 2017, he and co creator matt hall produced 10,000 cryptopunk characters. then offered up the rest online, >> there is male, and there's a few rare types. so, you can see there's a zombie, an ape and the most rare is an there's only nine of those. we wanted to make it, so that there was rt of a ope of rarity.epter: each character was assigned a link in the ethereum blockchain, the authenticity, scarcity and ownership of thein punks was all stantly andva globally proe.

nerdy art collectors soon began buying and selling cunks, spurring an active online market. >> we sort of hit a nerve i think in that the audience that was to these currencies, the art appealed to themecnd the colltible aspect appealed to them. it all worketogether, but it also was just an interesting answer to question like, "do you feel like you own these things"" and the aner was yes. average value of t now, the cryptopunks, including the common ones, is abou40 to $50. but the high water mark: one rare alien which sold for $16,000. >> it's a little different than having a painting on your wall. but yeah, i think it's clearly something that's coming because the younger generations are totally comfortable with digital ownership and digital things feel real to them. so, it feels like it's something that will naturally become more prominent. >> reporter: an all digital art market is an empowering pros ct for aspiring artists. that's a big driver behind dada art. it's an online social network

that allows artists to collaborate and communicate with each other through their drawings. >> so, you make a drawing, and somebody from anywhere in the world can reply to you with other drawing. and this creates this spontaneous visual conversations among people all over the world who may not know each other. it's a really pretty magical thing. >> reporter: judy mam is the co- creator of dada. >> the first person who draws t decides on theical theme, colors. but the people who folto our surprise really try to create a very coherent work of art. >> reporter: this dada piece began with a portrait of your humble crespondent. and ended with this depiction of our favoritenchor judy woodruff. >> hola, boris! how aryou? >> hola, hola. >> reporter: judy mam introduced me to the artist boris toledo gutierrez of santiago, chile. he is a frequent dada contributor. boris, it's a great pleasure to meet you.

tell me a little bit about what you find interesting and fun about drawing on dada? >> what is generated by the community and the ct that people make all these works but that they are all shared inco on. >> reporter: when judy mam andou dada art fer beatriz ramos looked at ways to help their artists monetize all this stunning creativity, they tooy, rned to the blockchain. it allows anyone to own an individual drawing or an entire conversation. >> we want to give artist aan gued basic income, we would hope thatt could. make ends meet by being artist.e it's like nover thinks of dentists, "oh, poor dentist are struggling, right?t the denteds to have four gigs in order to survive." it should be."he same with artist. >> reporter: even established brave new art worlling in this in 2018, chrties, with help from blockchain art registry

startup tory, sold a collection whose proe was stored on a blockchain. it was ud to give buyers more confidence, but blockchain could also make it psible for an artist to capture royalties in auctions like this, or wreverns and whenever their work is sold. it's the norm for composerand novelists, so why not artists? >> every time this object gets resold, i can contractually automate, embed securely thatch ubsequent sale of an art on the secondary market for living artists, for artist's estates, they can seek 10% of every single subsequent sale. right now they don't see any of that. >> reporter: no doubt davi hocknewould appreciate the royalty. as it is, some of his work is finding its way onto the chain. a korean company intends to sell fractional ownership of his work, meaning many people cang own a share of a hockney piece. it's a way to please to art fans with shallower pockets. but even though they could

arantee royalties as well,e thesockchain sales will not put anything in hockney's pocket. for the pbs newshour, i'm miles o'brien in new york city. >> woodruff: reports that the u. extracted a high-level russian spy from the krein have dominated the headlines in thatu.s. and russia. the news has reignited a discussion about the ss rces and methed to develop the intelligence community's assessment that vladimir putin himself ordered interference into the election. newshour white house correspondent yamiche or has more. >> alcindor: in 2017, the u.s. intelligence community released an assessment that russian president vladimir putin directed a campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election. the assessment said they made that conclusion "with high confidence"-- a italification reserved for the most solid

intelligence. that led to years of speculation about what, or who, led the intelligence community to that assertion. this week, a series of reports emerged about a high-level russian set whom the c.i.a. recently extricated. the "washington post" reported that the source is living in the washington, d.c. area. to discuss these revelations, i'm joined by andrew weiss who oversees russia research at the carnegie endowment for international peace. thanks so much for joining me, andrew. what do you make of the fact that all of this information about this russian informant has been made so public? >> there's something here thatn' doadd up. first off, it's a problem to see this kind of information being talked about publicly. it goes to the heart of what our intelligence communityh s about, wh protecting the sources and methods they use to gather sensitive infmation. setting that aside, what we see is a lot of swirl right now. is this person high level? is this person the bag carrier? is he the pers whbasically helped run the motor pool for the russian ambassador in so there's a lot nformation

being dumped out there that doesn't fully point in the direction of someone who is high level. what it suggests is it is someone who was in the know and in policy-making circles in the kremlin, and that could have been very valuable for u.s. intelligen: . >> alcindw unusual is it for the u.s. to infiltrate the inner circle of the russian president? and what does it mean that tht asset could have been lost? and how might the u.s.' ability to gather information in russia be impacted by that? >> we don't know about what knd of sources te united states government currently has or has had in theewscast russian ru ang circles. very closed society. putin is a notoriously umspect person. the russians are very good at protecting sensitive information about theiforeign poly activities, including their interference in the 2016 presidential election. what we do know is the message this sends to the world, which is that the ited states doesn't do aood joof protecting information about people who assist us. and so the fact of ths

information coming out i think sends a very negative signal tpo le who might want to work with the united states going it's aave, i think, disruptiveev set ofations, not because it necessarily blinds us in russia, but it just really sort of castaise negative cloud over the u.s. intelligence-collecting apparatus. >> alcindor: president trump has tweeted out an image of believed to be classified.y he haas always shared sensitive information with russianwh official they were visiting the white houre. the c.i.a. is pushing back to say it would be inaccurate toth report anythinpresident has done has impacted their-- possibly take out a source from a foreign country. but that being said, what do you make of the president's actions? an hos? could they have at all impacted the u.s.' ability to protect classified information? >> i should emphasize, the negative cloud is not really on the u.s. intelligence community. it's on president trump. t fre very first meeting he

had with the russian official in the oval office wh the rusian foreign minister, he was basically retailing secrets s he waring information we had gotten from a foreign government-- in this case, israel-- dealing with a threat, isis. he has basically thrown convention out the window. by virtue of his office he is able to declassify nformation basically on a whim. the problem is the president doesn't seem to understand theth consequences o. and day in, day out, president trump basically trashes ourli . he said something in a campaign peernls the other day sayi, our allies are worse than our enemies." and he doesn't understand so much of the information the united states receives from partners comes from our allies and governments around the wld who basically see their interests aligned with us. so what we've got rightnow is ad completely uciplined ancid disruptive presidency, which is going to have lasting consequences for how we cooperate with people the world over. >> alcindor: you served on the national security councils of

past administrations. there are very strict guidelines to safeguard sources. tell bus those guideline 1k3-z why they're put in place. >> well, the protections are inb place for nch of reasons. they're to prevent disclure of sensitive information involving the sourvs and methods for our intelligence collect they're also there to protect, as we were saying a few moments ago, the sources of that information so that they don't face harm or inadvertent discloser. what we normally i think have tried to do inside u.s. government circles is allow the intelligence collectors to doth theig, and the policy makers to do their thing. at times, there's a need for policy makers to have a little bit sense of what might motivate someone to sha re information, what the reasons were or how this information was collected. but, you kno to now, i've never read information like this in the press about, you know, things thtvolve, you know, a very important event in u.s. foreign policy and nash security. it's-- this is really, as i was saying earlier, an unprecedentet

evenhave this level of disexplores this level o disruption. >> alcindor: an unprecedented evt. let's now talk about russia andh response. what do you make of russia's response? and how is it comparing to past responses ere spies have been revealed? >> so, the russian government things, and putin himself tends to speak in a verbly colded and chilling fashion about traders need to be wiped out. traitors need to pate price. in this case, the russian governmentas done something very different. they basically said thiths guy e he had some sort of role here. he certainly wasn't a high-level adviser to president putin. they basically disparaged the press reporting on the subject. but what y've also done at the same time is try to say, "we never did anything anyway, so a this il just a compounding of, you know, unfair and malicious slander a.med at us" that also just doesn't hold a lot of water. but as a reult, what you see is a mockery.

and i thkek the mockery does have a chillg undercurrent to it. there was a cartoon on one of the russian state news agencies last night, and it basically has the mole showg up in the oval office popping up in donald trump's office and saying, "you burned me." basically, "you are the one who ratted me out." so the vernment is sending a message to russian officialdom. we are al waching you very closely. don't make any mistakes. >> alcindor: thank you very much foreing here. these are certainly extraordinary revelations. andrew weiss. >> thank you so much. >> woodruff: finly tonight, we look back 18 years to a moment that forever changed arican history. and a new way to pay tribute to the first responders who faced great risk on 9/11. here's a look at "rescue, recovery & healing: the 9/11 memori glade dedication," a

documentary produced by new york blic media station wnet ta part of its "all arts series." >> i just don't think the general public realizes how many people have gotten sick becau 1 of septemb. the number of people that have died becf ause onjuries of september 11t actually number the people who were murdered on september 11. that people rememe storymportant of the recovery. we actually dedicated a newca component of the 9/11 memorial, known as the "9/11 mee.morial gl and the glade is dedicated to everyone who is suffering from 9/11 illness, and those who have died and those who will di. it's comprised of a pathway that runs fromso thuthwest corner of the plaza towarthe northeast corner. on either side of it are these sculptures, these slabs of

stone, and they're meant to suggest the determination of ose who participated in the recovery. one we the thing heard from the constituents, the former reue-and-recovery workers was that somehow incorporate remnant world trade center steel. and that's what you see is these rough and rugged granite pieces. and insteaethroughout in these cracks is world trade center steel. in a way, it's simply coveying that, you know, we're actuallye stronger at oken places. and there's an element of hope that is cnveyed. >> it was intended to sort of geographical mimic the echo bridge, taking down to bedrock. appreciate it. i really do. it is our space. it is a space dedicated, as it walked.his is where heroes and this is your glade.

>> woodruff: such a powerful tribute. and you can see the full healing: the 9/11 memorial glade dedication," online at allarts.org. and a news update before we go: the supreme court, in an order issued late today, is allowing e trump administration t enforce new nationwide asylum restrictions. the administration first proposed the change in july, but it was quickly blocked by lower federal courts. it nowoes intoffect, forcing many migrants to first seek asylum in any cotry they travel through before they reach the u.s. and that's the newshour for tonight.ni i'm judy woodruff. for l of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> consumer cellular believes that wireless plans should

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