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thank you. >> good evening from newshour west. 'll return to judy woodruff headlines.r the latest esident trump says he does not expect to be impeached by the u.s. o hourepresentatives. but would welcome a trial in the republican-controlled sende. he s today that democrats got nothing from two weeks of congressional hearings. in fact, multiple witness testified that he withheld military aid to try toe press ukraine's leader for personal political gain. but the president had his owthn take a white house. president trump: ink t we had a tremendous week with the great hoax. they call it the impeachment hoax. and that's really worked out incredibly well. and we have tremendous support. reporter: we'll take a closer look on where this stands and where it's headed after the news summary. an internal justice department

report con cluds political bias did not affect the.' f.b campaign and russia.n 2016 trump general makes tha finding in a forthcoming report. he does find that an.b.i. lawyer altered a document on surveillance of a campaign advir. but heays the surveillance still had a solid legal basis.de the pre also said today that vice president mike pence will be his rning mate again next year in a fox news interview, mr. trump refered to the vice president as "my friend, and said, he has done a phenomenal job." a major donor will faceew federa charges including obstruction and failing to register as a foreign agent. court papers say the case against emod zubuery was accused of campaign finance violations and tax evasion in los angeles. he has donated to breh

blicans and democrats. protest in columbia continued de with the pre duke ordering a curfew in bogota.pr estors clashed with riot police. authorities announced that since yesterday tee people have dipe died. the nonsstrations against duke conservativet governm with indigenous rights groups have been largely peaceful. in iraq, four more protestors were killed near a second da of fighting near a key bridge in baghdad. 14 hav i diedn the last 24 hours. security forces opened fire agais protestors burn tires. at least 90 were wounded with live fire and tear gas rounds. back in this country, health officials are warning people to avoid eating any type of romaine lettuce frothe salinas region in central california. the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention said 40

people haveen reported sick with a dangerous type of e. co bacteria. they also warned not to eat the lettuce if the label doe not say where it was grown. a $10 b flion contract cloud computing has gone to coumplet amazon filed suithe contesting pentagon's awarding of the contract to microsoft. amazon has claimed bias in the but defense secretary mike esper weigd in saying the contract process was free and fair. russia iser facing ano possible ban. the agency found evident that russia manipulated data and is recommending the nation be ruled noncompliant. but the outcome is not assure. the international nationare olympicdent would not want russians completely banned. still to comen the newshour with judy woodruff. after two weeks of hearings, what happens next in the

impeachment inquiry into president trump? white house rules on what to do will they reach a deal or will it go up in smokes? mark shield and david brooks break down all thes week's n and much msh of -- and much more. >> t thihe pbs newshour from cronkite schoolf journalism from the arizona state university. >> it has been a week unlike any other in recent years. multiple days of marathon impeachment hearings with administrati officials past and present all in public. but where does the impeachment quiry andhe u.s. house of representatives go from here? lisa desjardins sat through every hour of those hearings and she's here to walk us through what the next few weeks will bring. solisa, it's been a lotf weeks and a lot of hearings, but today

president trump weighed in. >> that's right. the president was paying attention to the hearings. he spoke about vice presidee pencnd while he spoke about impeachmen let's listen to what he said. >> don't forget, there was no due process. you can't have lawyers. we couldn't he anyitnesses. we want to call the whistleblower. but you know who i want a the first witness because frankly i want to -- >> he doesn't thi the house intelligence hearings were fair. he didn't have representations. he wants a trial. if the house ds vote to impeach the president, he will have no choice. we know from senate leader, mitch mcconnell's office that he does plan to go forward with the trial. and there are not enough vot to prevent that in the senate even though republicans have a majority. ey do not have enough who feel that a trial would.e block >> so now, lisa, that these

public hearings steam be behind us, what are the next steps? ell, congress is gone for thanksgiving. so we do not expect any public hearings as you saying for next week. it is possible there could be some closed door depositions. there are a few characters involved that congress has not been able to speak to including rudy giuliani's associate. but there may be that they no activity in front of the scenes. but a federal judge has said that they plan toe r a cation involving president -- the white house former council don mcgann. he was a critical witness in the mueller rept case testifying that what the president -- he said the president asked essentially in his view for robert mule tore be fired. so this is important in impeachment because don mcgan would testify to a different impeachment, obstruction of justice. if a court rules that he mus

testify, that could change time lines,thalculations. could continue to be appealed. but it's something we're going watch next week. >> ifhere were a broadened impeachment inquiry focus. solisa what, about the'sommittee theen in the forefront, the intelligence committee? they still haveto do, don't they? >> congress is out of town, but staff is woing day and night. they're getting ready. they're producing a report. that report will be t evidence as they see it against this president. and it will be a criticalofiece nformation. at the same time, we should expect house of representatives on the intelligence committee led b jim jordan and devin nunes to putting to their own report, their own kin f ofts and their own findings. what's going happen after that, those reporre will bented to the public. then the house judiciary comple take up the iues. and judy, when the house judiciary committee meets, they have t right all public hearings. i'm told that we should expect some. but none of the same witnesses as we saw this week from the

house intelligence committee. they say we feel that those witnesses testimony stand on its own. instead, there is some w questioning other we could see mueller-related witnesses, if the judiciary committee determines that that is also a case they want to mak for articles of impeachment. >> back to the point the that you were making a moment oofplgt severin curious to know because we are coming unon holidays. november, december. what does the calendar look like as far as we know? >> our producer helped put this together. first of all, they're putting together a report now. we expectheeport to go to the judiciary committee the december. o then we expect the hearings. very likely those first two weeks of december and listen, judy, that's not just public hearings. that's also an important event which will be the marking up of the articles of impeachment themselves that will be line f thoserticles. ential amending of after that happens, if they

forward it to the floor, this is th time lin likely the week of december 20th right there.so t could happen very quickly. democrats are on track right now to haveul that house floor vote by the end of december. judy, also in that same week that's when the government funding bill runsu there's a democratic debate that we are hosting that week. it is a vy high profile week. but this is the likely schedule right now. our viewers should be readyor a very busy and intense december. >> not your usual periodun rning up into christmas and new years >> lisa, thank you so much for all your work. >> you're welcome. my honor. ♪ judy: there is growing pressure on president trump to take real action on vaping. their use among young people.

but there's a big debate on what that played out in real-time at the white house in front of the ident today as william reports. this comes asvi more inals have become sickened by vaping -- i should say vaping-associated injuries. 2,300 people have lung injuries and vaping has been associated with at least 47 deaths. >> today'shite house meeting reflected the wider national debate around vaping. government ederal should ban flavored e-cigarettes or set age limits. kids addicted to nicotine.llion and they're getting addicted to nicotine because of flavors. >> excuse me -- the category -- >> the part didn't commit to a specific ban or plan. but at times, he seemed taupe the argument that any kind of ban on flavored cartridges would not be effective.

>> you wat prohibition and alcohol and cigarettes -- if you don't give it to them,t's going come here illegally, ok? they're going to make it. bu instead of legitimat companies making something that's safe, they're going to be selling stuff on the corner that could be horrible. >> the president first pledged federal action back in september when people started getting ill from vaping. >> we can't allow people to get sick. and we can haveur youth be so affected. but since then no signifi hnt acti been taken. several publiced reports said pressures from lobbyists, vaping supporters and political advisors stopped t president from issuing any bans. many parents and public health officials worry that too many young people are still vaping. a recent survey fnd five million kids vaped including 1-4 high schoolers and 11% of middle

school students. too many young adults haveened up in the hospital including a 16-year-old male whoed rece double lung transplant in detroit last week.>> his young patient would have died. d there is noubt about it. >> researchers are trying to understandhe causes behind those injuries. the injuries are believed to be caus by noncommercial black market vaping products laced with chemical agents like t.h.c. or vitamin eacetate. those cause injies similaro chemical burns. >> many states are taking their own steps. california an new york have filed lawsuit against juul labs and several others are passingw thei bans of flavored e-cigarettes. matthew meyers is the president for tobacco-free kids. thanks for being othe newshour." you sat there rightpposite the presdoent.

ou think after seing this conversation unfold that we are any closer to where you would like us toe? >> well, my hope is that we are. one of the things that i thought was remarkable today was that all of the major physician groups in the united states as well as public health groups were in the room. an every one of -- and every one of them said the same thing. if we're going reverse this, we have to get rid of the flavors that have fueled it. >> that's the number one hands down? u we've seen that 97% of kids who use it a flavored product. 70% of them say they use the product precisely because of the flavors. if you have something out there, the kids will want to get, they'll find a way to do i. >> what -- do >> what do you think of the president's argument that if you ban them, the kids love the flaferes, they want -- flavors, they want the sweet. and then you've lost the able to

regulate know what they're purcsing. >> the presence of the flavors is what has led 1.5 million kids addicted. if we stop that on-ramp we will do somhing important. >> is the evidence crystal clear that the flavor that is getting kids? level of nicotine in them that is addicting. it's a 1-2unch. if we get of the flavor, kids will not try these pducts. the second thing that we need to understand is that the tobacco industries always argues any timet e w do anything that counterfeit cigarettes or du counterft ps will undermine. the government response isot to not pass good laws, it's to enforce the laws effectively. i have no doubt that if we eliminate flavors, we will see millions fewer kids become addicted and we'll see many of the kids who are currently

addicted try to quit. >> help me understand where kids today are getting these? what are they smoking? where are they getting >> there are a lot of myths out there. a good number of kids do get them from social sources, older kids who buy it for them. kids arge percentage of who use juul get them from vape shops. >> they're dedicated to selling nothing but e-cigarets. there's an image that kids tores. allowed in those they are. they have a track record toto sellin kids. we have to make sure that the rules apply to all stores. the presidentack in seember came out and said this was in response to those illnesses, which i get it that federal authorities are still trying to figure out what's driving them, but the president said let's ban these flavored piaiup trucks. he a lot of things that we

want him to say. t yet, we haven't seen any action. why do you think -- what's the hiccup? >> the e-cigarette industry which has done everything to avoid responsible regulation has vigorously opposedro hissal as whelm they will claim that he will lose votes on it. they have claimed that it will pact adult tobacco users. 77% of allmericans including conservative republicans support reduce the number of kids in our country who become addicted. the otherritical fact is, the meteoricthise in y use as a result of the flavors has not been accompanied by a increase and adult tse. todahere are fewer adults using these than four years ago. if we get rid of the flavors, we're going to stop the on ramp of kids and we can begin to address what we need is how to help adult smokers quit. >> because that's the iharget thustry and many supporters

argue, which is this a product principally that is supposed to help people who are smoking tobacco cigarettes get off of that. >> unfortunate will, the rhetoric doesn't match the facts. the entire growth in the market over the last four years is kids. 100% increase. we have seen high school use t double i last two years. last two years. e tripled in the we have a million kids who are using these pkup trucks addicted on a daily use. it is really a cry sisms andss un we stop that flurm growing, we're going to pay for this f decades to come. >> matthew meyers of the campaign fac tobco-free kids. thank you very much.s judy: stay with us. . two late night comedy wters give their take on crafting the

perfect joke. and it's a beautiful dayn the neighborhood. tom hanks steps into the iconic role of fred rogers. historic impeachment hearings and another debate for the democrats running for president. it was a very full week. it has been -- is very full week for american politics. sense to help us make of it all as always shields and ks. that's mark shields and david brooks. hello to both of you. t's go straighto impeachment. mark, five days of hearings now. three more this week. a lot of drama. a lot of attention on television. what did you take away from it? >> i took away from it, judy, a quote from oscar h idlin whos the pulitzer prize winner. heaid i thought to write a book on immigrants. and realize immigrants are

american history. it was ambassador ivanovic, colonel vinmin, and fiona hill. thes are people who are americans by choice not like yod t. every one of them was reassuring. i have to say for every cheap political ad that's run against nameless faceless bureaucrats, these are people with names awi faces and who put their careers, their comfort, their peace of minds, their future in to us to power. e line i was humbled to watch them and to listen to them. >> >> yeah, i agree that. it's a good couple ofeeks watching insiders. things a certain way. ed to do ngey understood quickly that this was the w way to go about things. this was unethical. i think donald trump and rudy

giuliani, i don't think it moccurred to t that this was unethical. sondland said t ts was in loop. this is not something they tried to hide. this was something was the way politics gets done. there's no division between personal gain and public service. in these weeks. ake away for me when this started it was trump ramblings on a phone call because we had that transcript if you remember. it's clear that everybody knew. some people reacted with shock and some people this is the crazy stuff we have to tolerate working for donald trump. >> is the case made stronger that theemocrats are trying to make that they say is a slam dunk that the presint tried to get the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son. othewords to do the president a political favor. >> ambassadorhe sondland was least impressing but the most

damaging of all witnesses he was going to go down as david put it in the loop were secretary pompeo and l thep was chief of staff mulvaney and ambassador bolton who interesting enough we're going to find out if he has the same courage of histh convictions same backbone as fiona hill who worked for him did or s $2 million book sale advance bought his silence. interested to see if he's going to come forward and speak us to about power. >> he tweeted thode that he's going speak. >> he has twitter back is what i read today. i'm just reassured by that. i really think that the case -- the cs strong. what i havenderestimated, i think david was right, is the fear that david --d hat don trump exercises over republicans. i mean, people talked about lyndon johnsonng a fearsome political leader. they don't approach. he strikes fear into the heas ofepublicans, up and down the line. me has been -- eye o ning into

its dimensions. so the case -- is the case matter? n david or d >> the case is legally stronger? but it's not politically stronger. we've had now a bunch of polls that nateilr's website has a conglomeration of them and it shows that public support for impeachment has goneown very slightly turnover last couple of weeks. it's now about 45-45. the nation is evenly divided. we don't have a lot of data. but in wiscsin only 40% of voters support impeachment. % impose it. there's a political poll where they asked indotendents who you think. and independent voters don't like it at all. by 61-23 they think that's the thing that's interested to media people than it is to me. i think evebody knows he's guilty. i don't think this is the issue

that affects my life and why are you talk aboutll this stuff. >> the republicans keep saying eabecause we yesterday it was a show trial. the democrats have been out to get trump since day one >> it's an argument, but it's not persuasive argument. it doesn't make sense. there was no question after the mueller reportas botched, however you want to put it with torney general barr stepped on it, donald trump felt liberated, liberated enough to make that phone call. and the reality is that there wasn't d aocrat that not under indictment who was thinking in terms o the impeachment at that point. it wasn't until the news of this came out and it sbime obvious. i mean, not to act was an action itself was that democrats or anybody else in congress or americaould have to answer for. i mean, thisdu is operandi

for an american preside to do this, to extort basically another country that is dependent upon uso get information, unflattering, unhelpful, damaging information onhe president's political opponent and that that is -- that's what ok, acceptable, look the other way. i mean, you've got a lot to answer for if you don't address it. >> yeah, i think it's a strong argument. they had to do thetrong i can't think of a president that has done something as strong as this and didn't get impeached. some of them walked into this sort of knowing that judy: why not? why -- what do you mean? >> it's likely that senat candidates will be sitting in wearbleds, elizabeth warre bernie sanders and the rest that

this is kind of a disadvantage. i think t jus -- think, you know, my conversations with trump supporters in red stateso when i out there, nobody talks about it, it's just not on the subject if you ask, everyone it. i've spoken to, yeah, he did he shouldn't have done it. it's a stupid thing to do. we're in a long political and ultural war. and finally i've got a guy who hits back at the people who hate me. oi i'm not to abandon him. they don't see it as a unique ial. they see it as long political battle we have in the country. and they're going to abandon him. that's been my experience. judy: they debated this week. a lot of them on the stage.ha did you take away, memorable moment? what -- what -- what changes in that contest? >> i don't know what changes, judy. memorable moments? andrew yang showing humanity saying that he missed beto o'rourke that was a human

statement. hest line of night buzz amy klobachar by far when theysked questions that she had suggested that pete buttigi if h were born a woman would not be applauseable candidate. and she said anybody who doesn't think a woman can beat donald trump, nancy pelosi does it every day. and i thought -- you know, i thought -- i didn't think there was a game changer. i thought joe biden had a done an uneven night. and obviously, hismb s on claiming to have the only african-american woman ever elected to the senate as his endorser -- >> when she was standineta few away. >> she's the second african-american who has not endorsed joe biden was a little bit of a stumble. >> i l feele they all did well. i thought donald trump did a little well. there hes a tone -- don't have the same politicians tonew

they're speaking. ometimes you will hear the content.sometimes there's a ton urgency. they all spoke in the same tone. it's not like how normal people talk whe they're over at a dinner table. somebody talk like a human beings. and occasionally pete bumetjedg drew yang would joke aboutwh they would say. but it's the same mono tone. i thinkuttigieg walks out of the week the advancer. no one touched him. and he solidified the case the outsider. as the person who is a little bit more moderat elizabeth warren got stwruck the wealth tax and policy i don't particularlyike. but it's popular among democratic primary voters. so i thoug she did well. i thought biden was the loser, i guess you would have to say he was. >> do ihink that buttigieg was interesting why the dog didn'tk tpwhhe house is why the democrat leaders -- they hav s

non the polls that pete buttigieg had served in new hampshire and was now in the lead in iowa. >> why they didn't go after him -- >> why they didn't go after him. and there's a certain of the democrat speart to be sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, zeno phobic, whatever and i think they walked very gently that he's the first openly gay candidate and reluctant to go after him. number. ng when asked would you be in chief? e with a gay commander 50% of voters said they would. a little eev third said they wouldn't. doou think their neighbor would be? 33% said they neighbor would be ok. almost half said they wouldn't. it's a question of, unmagnanomous. >> move to a new neighborhood

hathen. >>s right. >> i want to ask you one last thing. but david, the president, pardoned or reduced the sentence of three men who accused of war crimes. and what -- what do we take away about this? we know -- i guess the navy is still considering one of his moves. >> yeah, d one't go against your own military, which he seems have done. cond, and i've heard this, and joe crystal and others have been king these points. trump said, well, p theseple are in combat, they're dadged. a lot of people come back. and so they should be forgiven. from combat have said don't ck trees treeth us as damaged goods. we're strengthened goods and we've been through some damages. when we fought, we tried to uphold the honor of the united states while fighting. >> judy, the cleavage, the

division onhis issue has been between those with have been in uniform and those who have not. the most fierce foes of rationalizing torture by americans were john mccain, colin powell, the marine general. pete peterson, a prisoner of war and the ambassador of vietnam. they understood tt what separates us from the other side, from our enemies is who we e andhat we stand for and what we believe. and to me, that's the test donald trump doesn't understandi it and hed it. >> mark shields, david brooks. thank you. ♪ judy: people in hong kong will vote on sunday for members of ou the districtil, that's a body that usually focuses on

local community iues. but because this is the first election since the beginning of protest that have gripped hong kong sce may, sunday's vote support, the demeanor ch demonstrators have by our corresndent is in hong kong and has the story. >> other the past week, some of the most dramatic clashestw ben police and protestors took place at the hong kong university. caded 1,000 people bar themselves in the hong kong poly tech neck universityampus. bricks, molotov cocktails and even bows an arrows pit against tear gas, rubber bullet, rubber cannons and grenades. in the hearte city's financial district an almost daily routine unfolets. mass row testers face off on the streets flanked by lucksrill shops, banks and international

companies just around the corner from the stock exchange. >> despite the escalation in violence, there's still support for the young protestors. for more than aeek now, every lunchtime, office workers swarm the heas of hong kong's financial center bringing the city to a stand still. they chant popular protest slogans and they want to highlight what's perceived as police brutality and the excessive force useby police. >> part of the orage is dueo the fact that beijing is having backtracked to allow the congress hong people to elect their leader. currently, the legislative council and interest groups vote for the chief executive who is then endorsed by the communist party. but this week, hong kongers will be able to express their box. nect at thet ballo local district counselors deal with communi issues and they

but they could impact the miami makeup of the government. the seats in the demea will eventually choose the c ty's leads year, it's seen as a bar rom ter of how much the wider populationupports the prott movement. for the first time ever, each of the 400-plus seats is hotly contested. a record number of people have registed to vote. and there has been a surge in candidates with 20% of themnn g for first time with most of the candidates representing the interest of the protestors or t g hong kongernment. >> wish to represent the city and the protestors. >> it' been a long road for this man. he has been joining the pro-democracy protests sincend 2017 a has taken part of this since june. after a confrontation with d police. they have yet to cha heim. his father has kicked him out of

his home for his activism. now feels t that street free throwses haven't been able to achieve enough. so he's taking a different approach by working within the system. >> we appreciate it to try to broaden the battle line for the resistancele i believe if there is only resistance on the streets we won't be able to win this fight. so i believe only by going through the district counc can we defeat this government. i love hong kong. i don't want it to be like the rest of china. a blais no democracy, no freedom, noulture and no human rights. >> for jason chong working understanding and accepting that hong kong is part of china. the aspiring politician has joined the party. >> some of the answers they misunderstood what freedom and democracy means. if they really tracing for a, you know, strong democratic city, they -- they go and vote.

destroying anything doesn't help at all. destroying the facilities against a government in this way is not the right path. >> theun district l lebs is the only time hong kong people get to directly choose who represents them. it is one man one vote. which is why it is being given so much importance this year. but not everyone is free to run for office. one candidate was fired fro running.cr demoy activist joshua hwang. g e hng election films election officials say he goes against the city's constitution. but the highest ackvists says that this has been influenced by china's communist government. >> beijing, houptiu ignore my voice and expect me to answer the institution. >> 23-year-old joshua hwang

started pushing for democratic heading the movement in 2014. he spent timey in jail o charges related to those protests. he's considered to be one of hong kong's first political prisoners. he has remained at theoforefront he latest protest movement calling for international attention to the situation in hong kong. hwang and a team of democracyac vists have been lobbying the u.s. congress to hold officials in mainland china and hg kong to account for human rights abuses. theisill was passed eek. >> hong kong human rights and democracy act is the acthat was sanctioned who suppress on hong kong's people, human rights, police force and also thelection officers that imply political censorship and withr thei abuse of power. ♪ o'er the land of the free -- and the home of the ♪

>> thousands of people marched to the u.s. cons late to call on deg push the bill through. but a time of confrontation between beijing and washington, but the two sides in the middle of a trade war. nd both beijing the hong kong government denounce the u.s. move. regina epp, the foreman secretary for security of hong kong says the move couldba fire adversely affecting u.s.-china negotiations. >> if they impe sanctions on people iharge, you know, quite unnecessarily, totally unwarrant. we might have to take count measures. >> the a thorities have tri quell the unrest by using a colonial era emergcy measures to ban face maxes which have become a leader. h theh court said it is

unconstitutional according to hong kong's bakes law. bu the chinese government said it was a blatant challenge to a theirhority. and that only they had the right to decide issuesar regng the constitution. so now the courts have reinstated the banev for s days until the hong kong government can appeal the ruling n >>o one will ever believe that our courts inong kong are department. >> we saw the transition from hong kong from a british colony to a special administrative region. she says it's this kind ofce interferhat has angered many people in hong kong. >> this protest movem nt is about overthrowing the s.a.r. governmentr the central government. it is about reminding the central government. you promised hong kong people a high degree ofy. auton and you must stick to these promises. >> the beijing government says it is living up to its mmitment to provide autonomy

to hong kong. while sunday's threxe elections are scene as important. if results are not likely to quell the crisis gripping the chong.e pbs newshour i'm in -- hong kong. judy: tonight's briefud spectacular pulls back the curtain of "late night with seth meyers." andy and jim perform regularly in the long running jokes seth can't tell segment. th writers funny comedians give us a sense of what it's like to gate joke on the air. it's part of ourrts and culture series. >> when you hear a joke that you know is the perfect joke, first of all, usually, that happens to me when it is someone else's joke. i i feel when comedy writer

hears a laugh. when they hear a joke that good, you got it h, yeah, you did >> when iirst started writing late night with seth meyers, i was trying to figure outset's voice. there happened to be an ite on the news that was about lesbians. but i happen to be a lesbian, s i saw that headline. and i was like -- here weo. and i think i submitted about 10 jeeks -- jokes. he said let me know if we can use more lesbian jokes. he said, we can't use them. seth can't bur lesbians. i said why don't we do a segment where we tl jokeshat seth can't tell and amber was like let's figure it out. >> in jokes, seth sets uphe joke. and the minority says the fun part. >> focus speeches has released a trailer about harriet tubman.

>> it tells the unlely story of a black lady which against all odds was the main character in the movie. >> i talk about slavery. it's notig a a birmingham as it is for white people to hear about it which is something i learned each time we do jokes that catch up. i gha oh,s too much of a bummer. and you go, all right, i guess so. >> and like, i had a joke it was something set up about gay weddings. and seth says, what' the diff sence betweenaight wetting and the gay wedding. i said the reason the parents are crying. which to me is very fun. i happened to mention it for a friend of mine and they said, you can't mention that on television. it's too sad. about p.c. culture. versation but there are things to be said about our respective communities that are hard and true. and we're interested in exploring those through jokes. >> are we saying something new

na the audience can hear and then learn and understand and -- in one fell swoop? i don't like can't. when people talk about things you can't joke about, but i think it's important to ask what' your intent? i don't think it's about can't. it's like whato you want do with that time in space and does >> i can imagine living in these times. waking up every morning seeing the news and go, ok. time to go be a dentist. >> some people get up and they cannot talk about it. >> right. you have to go to work and be polite. and keep your feeli here. we get to have all our feelings. >> i'm sorry, if that's your life. >> our life is basically working ou our feelings. and you guys have to hear it. >> thank you. >> i'm jeannie hagel. and i'm amber ruffi but this is our brief sbe but

spectacular take on "ladies of late night."ou >> can watch more on pbsnewshour/brief.fi lly a tribute to an icon. fred rogers hosted almost 900 episodes of mr. rogers neighborhood. over 31 seasonsn public broadcasting station. neighborhood opens today. in the and explores the friendship that rogers forged with a magazine writer. jeffrey brown talked with the stars o the film. tom hanks a i matthew recen new york. it's part of our ongoing arts and culture series "canvas." ♪ it's a beautiful day in this neighborhood a beautiful f a neighbor would you be mine ♪ >> tom hanks has morphed int

many characters in his storied career but in fred rogers, h met his match. the film "a beautiful day in the neighborhood" was directed by mario helle >> mari was ironclad in her discussions of what she's going to do. shelyaid essenti you'll get a wig, a sweater and blue deck shoe i the rest o is up to you. >> do you know what this is? >> they were sent to write a profile of mr. rogers for "esquire" magazine. and it's based on a true encounter in 1998. played by andrew rece. the journalist is confounded by the sincere -- >> wonderful to me. i'm so glad you're here, lord.ok i'm loer forward -- >> as it turns out, so was the welsh actor rece. >> did you know mr. rogers

growing upn wales? >> not a jot. nothing. i dive into youtube.ht and i tho what's going on? i had no idea -- seemed bizarre e that -- has he forgotten his lines. is that why he speaks to slow? what's happening?n what's b incredible is having a 3-year-old son -- >> you have young kid. >> and f t himo be the conduit of what it truly is han been eye-opening and equally ground breaking. >> reese would come to see what millions had. fwred rogers was utterly -- fred rogers was utterly unique. an ordained minister on a mission to, rea teach and help children be themselves. he didn't shy from serious subjects including divorce, death and racism. and every cliled felt he was speaking t directly him or her. >> i asked the two actor about their experience in "mr. roger's neighborhood." for hanks and for many of us, one question lingered, was this

guy for real? >> what is he trying to sell? he wasn't trying to sell anything. as trying to make little kids feel safe. so for me, as an actor, it's like what are -- what are my a ad natural tendencies of human being that are going to have to be whipped into submission so that i'm not falling into that samerand of cynical presentation? there is a d.a. that you sort of have to inject into yourself at the same thyme you put on that version of batman's cape and cowl, except it's a red cardigan sweater a blue deck shoes. there are individual scenes between the two of us thaere exhausting. they were as physically exhausting and physiologically exhausting as any ever played. >> do you consider yourself a hero? >> i don't think of myself as a hero, no, not at all. >> what about mr. rogers?

is he a hero?>> i don't understand the question. >> well, there's you, fred, and then there's the character you play, mr. rogers. >> tinse two men of circle each other with different intentions. but also seemingly the same tactics of waiting and questioning. until one eitroke or opened up. >> reese's character here called set. oigle visits the but he wants to understand him and his struggles. especially h anger at a father who abandoned the family long ago and now seeks reconciliation and forgiveness. >> if i was going to show you, admit to you what the first day ld pointing was -- i w out to you how i'm talking too fast. i'm not bpeng asfic as i need to. i'm not waiting for an --'m not really listening because i'm

petrified. >> take a minute and think about all the people loved us intog. be >> my perspective of you on that day is completely different. you kind of came in with this -- it was like -- it was like what they said about rogers, everything slowedown becau you -- you didn't dictate the temp you actually listened. and that dictates the tempo. there's this moment -- >> my neighbor ♪ >> fred rogers, there's anoth element because the question was, was he acting? me are you acting as fred rogers who is acting as mr. rogers? absolutely. there is a performance that he was giving. - there was there was rules that he was following that were based on his philosophy on how to do this. >> so who was the real fred rogers or who is the real mr. rogers? >> i heard an audiotape -- there was a child psychologist who is

one offer his great mentors that -- that he discussed everything with. and they were talkingbout trying to come up with an opera for children. and this lady had this kind of -- what i think what we could do is this magic element of the chorus here with the frog, could actually lead a fwroig the t pause.me of the first act. pause. pause. pause. pause. and this is mr. rogers, now. if the frog could have a wthry he brings -- and these are just people talking. these are people at work trying to figure out, you know, how to -- how to -- you know, this is like a production meeting that is going o and he still put that brand of thought toifment >> to me, what seemingly the per fop mans element is only to suck sneed a gcaater commuon to

that audience at which it is aimed, fred rogves belin the power of television, right? as a tool for change. a tool for reaching people. television hasn't really work out that way. >> well, he didn't change television on -- as a technology or an artform. but look a what h created for a half hour at a time. w extraordinarye, smart things that made children understand the world a little bit better. if you only a half hour out of that, you know, once a day, i think you're still half hour ahead o the curve. >> what about in the general culture, a fill like this, do you think there's a craving a need for fred rodgesners >> don't you think there's some marketing -- you know what we got here? what we have here is counter programming. you see what i'm saying. we're going to have the guy with puppets. we'll shoot it in pittsburgh. no, i think we can work -- if we hit it! [laughter] >> if we hit the counter programming situations. >> it is like this -- there's an

incredible symphony going on at it's in the pausehe greatest potency is found . i think if we do that for a small number of people for a brief moment, so much so the better. >>♪ mr. rogers neighborhood ended its television run on p in 2001. fred rogers died two years lat at age 74. it's a beautiful day in th neighborhood ♪ >> the new film "a beautiful day in thed" neighborh opens today aren't the cntry. for the pbs newshour i'm jeffrey brown in new york. >> we cou sure use fred rogers right now. can't wait to see this film. online we continue our conversation with tom hanks who explains in detail how he got to character for the role of fred rogers. that's on our website p.org /newshour. we will be back on monday with the shrinking birthrate in

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