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captioning sponsorur by newsroductions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, backlash in iran-- massive public protests are met with violence following the admission that the country shot down a ukrainian passenger jet. then, impeachment is imminent-- as the senate prepares for the trial of president trump, we examine the strategies being deployed by both sides. major league baseball tries to root out cheating in the digital era. and queen elizabeth weighs in on prince harry and meghan markel's declaration of independence. >> woodruff: all that and more
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s program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you.yo than >> woodruff: the government of pressure tonight after admitting its forces shot down an airline. last w protests rocked the islamic republic through the weekend and again today. we begin with this report from foreign affairs correspondentn. nick schifr: >> reporhe iranian regime wanted to unite the country around a general assassinated by the u.s. instead, regime acons led demonstrators to united in tearing him down. for three straight days, iranians in several cities have cell phone videos thent. capital tehran show demonstrators chanting, "shame on the revolutiona guards."
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many of the protestors are students. furious the the revolutionary guards aidentally shot down a passenger jet last week, killing 6, after denying it for three days. at a weekend vigil for the crash victims, a sign read, "the government's lies killed us," and relatives of those killed, blamed the regime. >> ( translated ): we gathered here because of some people's efficiency, because of some people's inadequacy. o >> reportey seven days ago, hundreds of thousands of d anians rallied around the regime, and mourjor general qassam suleimani, killed in a u.s. drone strike in iraq. but this weekend the regime turned their guns on their own people. these cell pne videos show a man reportedly shot in the leg protestors' blood d along a sidewalk. started running for lives. every cough, caused by a tear gas canister fired at protestors
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>> the protests ardiately responding to iran's admorsion of guilthooting down the ukrainian aircraft, but i think ggthese protests are much , and much larger, and much more significant than simply that event. >> reporter: nader hashemi is a pressor at the university denver. he calls these protests a reflection of previous iraan demonstrators-- including in late last year, sparked by increased gas prices, and the 2009 green movement, when protestors called for social freedoms and the reversal of an election considered rigged. >> over the last several decades a new generation of young people have been born and raised in the islamic republic that have a very different vision for the future, than their leaders do. these young people aspire for democracy, to greater freedoms, to greater rights, but they're living in a deeply authoritarian system that is committed to denying them those aspirations.
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>> reporter: president trump encouraged the protests and warned the regime.da on she tweeted, "to the leaders of iran: do not kill your protesters. thousands have already been killed or imprisoned b and the world is watching. more importantly, the u.s.a. is tching." the next day, president trump re-tweeted an image mocking top congressional democrats as tools for iran.dm senioristration officials making clear that the democrats are -- have been parroting iranian talking points and almost taking the side ofor ts. >> reporter: senior administration officials senior administration officials alsotruggled to synchronize their story for why they targeted soleimani, in the days after iranian-backed militias laid siege to the u.s. baghdad embassy. >> i can reveal that it would have been four embassiesand i think baghdad already started... >> reporter: but ocbs "face the nation," secretary esper declined to repeat that.
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>> well, the president didn't say there was a tangible-- he didn't cite a specific piece of evidence. what he says probably-- he believed-- >> are you saying there wasn't one? >> i didn't see one with regard to four embassies. what i'm saying is i share the president's view that probably-- my expectation was they were going to go after our embassies> eporter: trump administration officials tell pbs newshour they believe their maximum pressure camign is working. but critics warned those sameen policies are shening iran's hard liners, and the cycle of confrontation continue the trump administration is feeling emboldened by these and the iranian gont is in no mood for negotiation after the death of soleimani. >> woodruff: and nick schifrin joins me now, so, nick, we're just hring this expert y confrontation between the u.s. and iran liely to continue. so united states interested ne tiating or not? >> that is the stated goal of what the u.s. has been doing in the past, but we se a subtle shift away from emphasis on
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negotiations, and this happened especially in a presidential tweet this weekend. judy, we saw the president responding to a statement by the national security advisors suggesting that the maximum pressure campaign would force iran to negotiate.u e that in the middle right there. the president responded, i couldn't care less if they negotiated. by the way, he laer retweeted that message in farsi. i asked the senior state department official about that and the official said that our priority is getting iran to change its behavior, stop supporting terrorism, give up ballistic missiles and it's nuclear program and there ar multiple ways for us to get iran to do that, so the message from the president and this official is we do want behavior change but we're notecessarily going to emphasize negotiations, and that does the mean the tenswin increase, the u.s. believe the strategies are working and an doesn't want to negotiate under the current circumstances, and under this current very serious threat in iran that we're talking aout here, weot
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only saw the students protesting, we saw the accidental arrest of a british ambassador, we saw high-profile defection, and we even saw criticism from hard-line newspapers demanding resignation. so iradoes have a very serious problem with these protests. >> woouff: in the meantime, nick, you had a continuing discussion over the weekend about how imminent th threat was before general soleimani was killed. where does that all stand? >> the u.s. official tells me that president trump dide authorize rike on soleimani months ago. that means that that was regardless of the cuent threats. but, at the same time, senior administration officials telle that he reauthorized the strike on soleimani in the days before the strike, and, so, that means there are these dal instincts that reflect the duatalking points. the c.i.a. state department areu ing for a larger response from iran in general, and the people in baghdad seeing thff
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u.s.ial die from an iranian-backed militia and wanting to, as they put , reestablish the terms sent irane a strongsage and soleimani was killed. >> woodruff: story doesn't go away. nick schifrin, thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: in the day's othern news, the u.s.e returned to work, waiting to begin the impeachment trial of president trump. house speaker nancy pelosi is hmw expected to transmit the articles of impet this week. she had held out, trying tosu pr senate republicans to call witnesses. senate majority leader mitch acmcconnell dismissed thatc today. >> the senate was never going to pre-committ ourselves to doing e prosecutors homework f them, and we were never going to allow the spker of the house to dictate senate proceengs to senators. >> when leader mcconnell talks about precedent, he's talking about wiesses, plain and simple.
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so the democratic request for four fact witnesses and three specific sets of relevant documents is very much in line with our history. >> woodruff: we'll look ahead to tthe impending trial, aft news summary new jersey senator cory booker announced today he is suspending his campaign for the democratic presidential nomination. he told supporters in an e-mail that he could not raise the funds to continue. his exit narrows the democratic field to a dozen candidates. china is cdemning taiwanese separatists, after pro- independence president tsai ing-wen won a landslide re-election on saturday. today that the separatists will "leave a stink for 10,000 years." china claims taiwan as a maverick province. in australia, wildfire conditions eased somewhat, after a weekend of extreme winds and heat. drone video showed charredsh nd, destroyed homes and
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the empty husks of cars inta victoria. and the wildfire death toll reached 28. a volcano in the philippines began sping lava today, forcing thousands of people from their home the taal volcano is erupting about 40 miles south of manila,a the cal. janeeith of independent television news narrates our report >> reporter: taal is one of the philippines' smallest, but most explosive, volcanoes. it sits on an island in a lake created by a bigger volcano. the ash has risen so high it created its own weather-- including lightening. and this morning the first lava went up, leading scientists to warn there could be an explosive eruption within the next few hours or days. people have been leaving the eight mile danger zone. families, with babies in arms, and bleary eyed children, most
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of them heading for manila, 45 les away. >> ( translated ): we're evacuating. we left all our belongings. >> ( translated ): when the volcano emitted steam we ran, awe road was crowded. thick ash and pebbles were falling. >> reporter: morning revealed ashen countryside, homes blanketed by dust. there are fears of toxic gas d, if there should be an osive mix of magma and water, the volcano could rain down shards of glass. around 16,000 people have been evacuateso far. the president has promised to visit the areaomorrow. the fear is these are the first signs of a violent eruptn, like that in 1965. then, the taal vcano killed hundreds. they died as they slept. this time the authorities want
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to get everyone to a safe distance, from which to watch and wait. >> woodruff: that report from jane deith of independent television news. at least 54 people are dead across afghanistan and pakistan after winter storms brought heavy snow and flash floods. southwestern baluchistan province in pakistan was hardest hit, when snow closed roads and collapsed roofs. cthorities in both countries struggled today ar roads and move people to safety. back in this country: recovery efforts are underway after severe weather swept the midwest and south, killing 11 people. roads, cars and homes inte southern oklahoma were nearly submerged by flooding rain t and powerfulnadoes leveled mes in alabama and south carolina. meanwhile, parts of the east had record january heat. it was 72 degrees in boston on sunday. 21 saudi arabian militarye trainees in s. are being
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sent home after last month's shooting at aavy base in pensacola, florida. another saudi student killed three people before being killed himself. the b.i. reported today that none of the other knew of the attack in advance, but many had contact with child pornograp and jihadist material. u.s. attorney general william barr presented the fdings at a news conference in washington. >> this was an act of terrorism. the evidence shows that the shooter was motivad by jihadist ideology. during the course of the investigation, we learned that the shooter posted a message on september 11 of this year stating, "the countdown has begun." >> woodruff: barr says the saudis cooperated fully with the investigation. major league baseball's houston astros fired their manager and general manager today in a cheating scandal. after the league had already
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suspended th men for all of next season. it found the asttos stole signs pposing pitchers in 2017-- when they won the world series-- and again in 2018.ta we'll get the s, later in the program. in economic news: there's word the united states will stops branding chinacurrency manipulator.mi the trump stration will take that step, ahead of signing a trade deal with china, on wednesday. and, on wall street, the dow jones industrial average gained 83 points to cse at 28,907. the nasdaq rose 95 point and the s&p 500 was up 22. still to come on the "newshour," republicans and democr prepare their strategies ahead of the senate impeachment trial; our politics monday team breaks down a busy weekend the campaign trail; an examination and much more.
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>> from weta in washington >> woodruff: tonight, it is still up in the air exactly when the start date will be for the third impeachment trial ever, of an american t esident. ght now, all signs point to this week, with speaker nancg pelosiling that the articles of impeachment againsti president trum be transmitted to the senate "soon." so what will the road ahead look like? r own lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindor are here toro walk us h all of that. hello to both of you. so mun to followce again. so, lisa, give us the broad outline of what you're looking for this wek? what are we expecting? >> it starts tomorrow when
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speaker pelosi meets with the democratic caucus at the cop tall after they retn to washington. that is when we expect her to say what her plan is and when ings.ants to move th her caucus supports her and pelosi probably already know that theysupport hr and well get a formal announcement. it breaks dowen to a fw procedural things that must happen. they must walk over the articles of impeachment after passing tha rs in the house itself then the senate can begin the trial. it looks like all of that can happen this week, tobably n the substance of the trial, but within the next three days we can see the chief justice of the supreme court as he is called to do, open up the trial and read the oath to the senators. when opening statements could begin, probably next week. >> woodruff: literally walking it ove >> literally walking it over from one side to the capitol to the other, you will see the house managers all walk over to the senate. >> woffodamiche, what do
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we know about what the white house would like this to happen? en and how do they want it to begin? >> well, the president and the white house want this to begin as soon as possible ntcause they t to end as soon as possible and they have been pushing for this senate trial th d on terms favorable for the president. i want to walk you through what the president has bn saying and he's been communicating on his favorite medium, twitter. here's the first tweet from this weekend. he wrote many believe the ate giving credence to a trying based on no evidence, no crime read the transcript, no pressure peach hoax -- a mouthful -- rather than outright dismissal, it gives the partisan dmvic witch hunt credibit otherwise does not have. i agree. judy, that's translation he wants all the charges to be dismissed and doesn't want a trial. he also went after house speaker nancy pelosi and house intelligence chairman adam schiff who he has been targeting in the past, he tweed, why did
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nervous nancy allow corrupt politician shifty schiff to lie before congress in he must be a witness and so should she.si the prnt is saying i want the charges to be dismissed but if we're going to haveitnesses we must have leaders in the democratic to do that. rhe republicans have been pushing for hun bid to come before congress, democrats have been pushing back againsthat. the bottom line is the white house feels as though the president is being treated unfairly and payment they want a trial but sentially says here are all the things the democrat ardoing wrong, let's tal about that and put that on display. these decisions, how does that get done? >> imagine, a question abo decision-making at the capitol. the senate actually has pages and pages of rules about impeachment, some have been in place over 100 years, some scen 1986. what we expect to happen is formally as a jury for this trial, then they will take a vote on the starting procedure. this is what mitch mcconll has been tking about. they will just set up opening
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arguments and they won't go any farther, judy. then after opening arguments, w again, whiexpect next week at this point, after opening arguments, the senate will then cide what to do next. 51 senators can agree on anything tdoxt, including calling of witnesses. we could see round after round of votes, some would fail, votes on hunter biden or not, votes on whather members of the staf the white house should come, anything that gets 51 votes could happen including calling oft witnesses. one other exception, some likel senators clins of maine are trying to work out a deal to avoid this sort of partisan show, a partisan fight that maybe the republicans andat demowould agree on. some witnesses, not others. right now that feels like a long shot and i think we won't kno about witnesses until after opening statements. >> woodruff: trying to o preserer to this but we'll see. >> keep it sort of high-minded.: >> woodramiche, the white house doesn't want this to happen but how are they actually
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preparing to deal with it? >> the president and white house aides have been working throughout the week and throughout the weekend t prepare for the senate impeachment trial. they have been calling senators, they have been also beefing up the president's legal team. what's clear right now is the white house cons going to be the lead lawyer observe the president's impeachment te and his defense but is now going to bring on ja jay jay sekulow, anr congressman trey gowdy, possibly alan dshowitz, these are people the president thinks might defend him in aay he feels will show people he's being treated unflrly. what isar to me is the president is concerned about his legacy and the ct he has been impeached and wants to put on a vigorous defense. i got off the phone with a white house aide working direcy on impeachment strategy and the person told me it was ready
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before christmas to have the senate trial, that they feel that they're good, there's more time to prepare for this but they didn't think they would have much time to prepare for the defense of the president, and that means thewhite house is feeling good about the defense they're about to put on for president. >> woodruff: we'll see because it looks like it's getting started in a few days. yamiche alcindor, lisak desjardins, thu. >> woodruff: with just three oseks until the iowa caucuses, an increasingly race there is exposing new rifts in the democratic field. lisa desjardins has our report. >> when millions stand up and fight back, there iilnothing thatstop us. >> reporter: the democratic presidential field >> reporter: the docratic presidential field--till numbering in the double digits-- narrowing today by one. >> today i am suspending my
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campaign for president. >> reporter: new jersey senator cory booker ended his campaign that had pushed for national unity, just as vermont senator bernie sanrs and massachusetts senator elizabeth warren abandoned their yearlong non-aggression pact. >> i was disappointed to hear that bernie is sending his volunteers out to trash me. i hope bernie reconsiders and turns his campaign in a different direction. >> reporter: that was warren sponding to a leaked sanders campaign script distributed to volunteers, published by olitico." it attacks warren, charging shel aponly to "highly educated, more affluent" voters and that "she's bringing no new bases into the democratic party."re >> elizabeth wis a very good friend of mine. >> reporter: sanders denied a role in the new, offensivera gy and distanced himself from campaign volunteers. gs people sometimes say th that they shouldn't. you have heard me give many speeches. have i ever said one negative
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word about elizabeth warren? >> reporter: the tension comes as new polling shows a razor- thin four way fighin iowa. on friday, sanders took his turn the coveted "des moines register"-cnn iowpoll had sanders in the lead, earning 20% support from likely democratic cauc-goers, with warren statistically tied with him. following close behi, the m formor of south bend pete buttigieg and former vice president joe biden at 15. biden topped today's monmouth university poll with 24%, with sanders, warren and buttigieg tied in a close second. buttigieg also spent the past few days in iowa, touting thers enent of a prominent iowa congressman. but where the candidate also faced some controversy-- >> i think your facts are a little wro, so i'd love for us to talk about this. >> reporter: the former mayor confronted protestors in the crowd challenging his record on race-- including on policing and housing for african american communities.e >> canree that we can talk about this respectfully? >> we've been trying to talk to
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a in south bend! >> reporter: witmber of candidates camping out in iowa, others are putting their marks on the states that follow-- >> hello dover, new hampshire, how are you?re >> reporter: eeneur andrew yang hoping for a surge in new hampshire.ow >> screw ia! haha, kidding!" ( laughter ) >> rorter: biden looking to cement his lead in nevada and court hispanic voters there. >> i can assure you one thing:, my cabin i'm elected, and my administration, will look like america. it will look like america. >> reporter: and former new york city mayor michael bloomberg campaigning with television xarsonality judge judy in bloomberg has staked his nomination chances on the lone star state and others which vote in march. >> judge, i am so honored to have you here. i'd love to tell you that i watch you all day every day, but i have a few other things to do. >> reporter: a dozen candidates still criss-crossing the country, but just six of them
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will face off tomorrow night in the seventh democratic debate in des moines. for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. >> woodruff: to help unpack all of this i'm joined by our politics monday duamy walter public radio's "politics withand amy walter," and tamara keith of npr. she also co-hosts the "npr politics podcast." hello to both of you. it is "politics monday." there's a lorgoing on. wejust, what, 21 days from the iowa caucuses. so, amy, let's start with the polls. friday we had the poll come out the iowa des moines register, a poll with bernie sanders on top, a lot of conversation, elizabeth warren, pete buttigieg, joe biden kind of bunched several points behind him, but the today there's another pol, and we're showing our viewers the monmouth poll that has joe biden on top with 24%, and then
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bunched behind him, bernie sanders, pete buttigieg elizabeth warren. how do we -- what's going on? t >> you know whe best thing is to do at this point is to say one of thoseple could win the nomination and no one should be surpris on election night if one of the four ends up in first place. the real question in my mind is, you know, whohouse the mot to lose or -- who has the most lose or gain by losing. >> right. so if you are elizabeth warren, pete buttigieg and bernie sanders, iowa really is a sort of slingshot for you. they are all hoping th a win in iowa is going to give them needed momentum to overtake the person leading in the natioh l polls whs joe biden and to give them momentum going into hnew hampshire and maybet's enough to undercut joe biden's lead nationally and in some of these states that come afterward. if you're joe biden, you canfo to lose iowa, but youto can't comfar back.
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it's one thing being a close far enoughck, then if joeou're biden flops, who will be able to >> woodruff: tam, as we said, it is 21anays between nod who knows what could happen. >> right. >> woodruff: but ae we seei the shape of this race or not? >> we have pretty consistently seen those four people at the the top. now, there's been a lot of movement in that top tack but pretty consistently they have been the top four, and, you know, the caucuses are this fascinating thing in iowa whereu asoth know very well, they go to gymnasiums, they go to big rooms, and if a candidate isn't viable in that room, then people are persuading their neighbors. so second courthouse matters a lot in iowa and the fact that they are also close and that so
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many voters say they haven't really decided and thecould support other people, it just puts a lot of viloly into this race, and it means that whatever we're talking about for the next three weeks is going to matter, what we're talking abet eek before voting matters a lot. are we talking about impeachment, iran, healthcare? that can fit into one of those various candidates' wheelhouse or something that's more of a problem for them. >> woodruff: one person we're not going to be talking about is cory booker. he showed up, i guess, seventh in the iowa pol, des moines register poll, sixth in the monmouth poll. amy, what do we know isind his decision. >> what he said is behind it sef had a lot of trouble raising the money you need to keep a national campaign going, but i think it really speaks to how difficult it is to break through, even as a well-established, political figure here in washington, into
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a field that has -- was so crowded, but with two really big names. everybodoeknows whoiden, is everybody knows who bernie sanders is and what their brand, is right.ha you knowyou get with jobs and bernie sanders. breaking through wth your own unique message and identity is a lot harder than it looks, and this is whas really remarkable. here we are, three weeks awayha from iowa, we a democratic party that is all about -- andot their ers are -- they're women voters of color, young voters and at top of the polls are three older whilte foks and three white men and only one woman. >> woodruff: being elizabeth warren. >> right. >> woodruff: amy klobuchar is still trying to very hard in iowa. in the meantime,ll of this is going on, tam. you have this, i guess, sniping you could call it that'sen surfacing beternie sanders on the one hand and a little b with joe biden with his iraq war vote, but then new sniping
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between him and elizabeth warren. what does that say to you about bernie? >> well, i mean, there was a seems that the non-aggression pact has been broken, and i think it's not a coincidence that the sniping is happening right ahead of this last debatee re the caucuses. this is a critical moment. you know, they're sniping at each other in relatively nice ways. the caardidates themselves talking about how they're disappointed in the other candidates' campaign and how disappointing this all is, but it does point to the fact that elizabeth wa is a candidate whostands in the way of bernie sanders being able to completel consolidogressive support, and if you look at the field, there's definitely a split. there are progressi candidates and re moderate establisatent cand, and if you add them a, they're about equal numbers. bernie sanders, candidate
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hn the campaign, sees a pat potentially to winning the nomination or at least gaining a whole lot of momentum, and elizabeth warren is someone who, han any other candidate, stands in that path. >> woodruff: if they're goingsh to distinghemselves, amy, they need to do it quickly, don't they? soon. >> yes, and ihink they have distinguished themselves. clearly, people know who they are and what theand for. the challenge is they haven't been able to, as tam pointed out, nobody's been able to really consolidate that sort of progressive wing. and, so, i doubt you're going to see a fight between them on the debas stage. it dn't either of them any good, seeing any pblic fight there. but what you will see going into the caucuses, each of themo tryingt the debate on terms of the debate -- not the actual debate standing on sage, but what the democrats are talking about is wt they're comfortable talkabg about. elh warren wants us to be in a debate about the economy, bernie sanders would love to beb
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talkint healthcare and joe biden, of course, would love to be talk about experience. >> woodruff: one figure who's not going to be on the debate stage is president trump, tam, and he's sweeting like mad and belittling. it's more than sniping. he made fun, basically, of ry booker dropping out. he calls michael bloomberg he's still talking about elizabeth warren pocahontas. can the candidates ignore this? >> they have been. president trump has nickname for everyone. in 2016. nickname forveryone get used to the t he wants to be part of the conversation. he's trying to inject himself in the conversation. we're talking about him right now. also another sign of that, he has announced a rally thee thursday befe caucuses in des moines. >> we saw that. yeah. do we have time for one more
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thing? >> no. you can tweet it. amy walter, tamera keith. k you very much. >> you're welcome. >> woodruff: stay with us. coming up on the "newshour," how the history of race, class and across the u.s. every year, millions of people are forced out of the homes. while these evictions are usually thought of in economic terms-- a probleof housing supply and income-- a growing i body of researshowing that evictions also take an enormous tollople's health. william brangham recently traveled to richmond, virginia, a city with the second highest eviction rate in the nation. ( knocking ) >> reporter: for sergeant larry trotter and deputy juan survellon of the richmond sheriff's office...
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>> hello? >> reporter: this is what a typical morning looks like... >> the average for us would be day.here from 40-50 evictions a >> reporter: crisscrossing the city servictions. >> i get there and people want to curse me out. but i understand that yoe ve got to givem their chance to vent because they're losing their home. >> reporter:t's a scene that unfolds in richmond more often than almost anywheree in the country. and those evictions can stay on a renter's record for at least a decade. >> there are roughly 18,000 yiction lawsuits filed ev year. >> reporter: marty weigbret is an attorney at the central virginia legal aid society, a non-profit that represents and advocates for low-income tenants. he says richmond's eviion rate spiked for many reasons >> we have a shortage of affordable housing.
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we have a poverty rate of 25% in the city. we have gentrification. so it's all of those factors combined. been considered a ndly stateng for landlords, with a host of laws that make it cheap, quick and relatively easy to evict tenants. >> the filing e to file an eviction lawsuit in virginia is $58. comparison, in alabama it's $250. >> reporter: but that ea also exacts a real toll opeople being evicted. litisha lee is a single mother who lives in pubc housing. when you get that knock on the door, what is that lik >> it's scy. like, your heart will drop and you don't know what to do. and like, in my case and most ao of other people cases, they don't have nowhere else to go. like where they're aepis where theyd on to lay their head
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every day. en>> reporter: lee works s days a week as a home health aide-- feeding, bathg andld caring forly clients-- but en so, she says she's constantly afraid she won't have enough to pay her rent. they'll put it on your door and just walk away. and sometimes-- >> reporter: thas the notification on the door that says, "you're being evicted. get out." >> mm-hm they'll give you a certain, like, they'll let you know if you still haven't paid this by this day and then you have to be gone within a matter of this time, that the sheriff would be there, and this and this and that. tand it happened to me liee or four times. >> reporter: lee says she's always been able to come up with enough money to avoid eviction. but she says her family is still living right on the edge. ey had to move recently for a more pressing issue: her last place made her son nhawn's asthma much worse. >> he do the inhalers, he do treatments. he do a flonase and then he has actual medicine he takes.
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>> reporter: it's a lot r a four-year-old. >> yeah. but he done get used to it. he know how to do it all by hielf. my doctors even said we can't be in the apartment. we got to leave because it's a heepth hazard. >>ter: the majority of low-income renting families the u.s. spend over 50% of their income on housing,ccording to princeton's eviction lab. according to kathryn howell and ben theresa of virginia commonwealth university. that often forces families to accept sstandard housing after they've been evicted. >> this is a problem that is disproportionately felt by black people and in particular black women. >> reporter: t pair has spent the last few yrs mapping exactly where evictions are happening in richmond. >> when you look at th preponderance of unsafe and unfit structures, you see a lote ofap in the neighborhoods where we have high eviction rates. we also haveigh numbers of code violations in these buildings. >> it really is where you live
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at may be thmost important part oyour health. >> reporter: dr. megan sandel is a pediatrician at boston medical extensively on the between housing and health. she led a te of researcherswh interviewed more than 20,000 families in five cities.fo >> wd that those families that were homeless and the families that were behind y rent had vmilar adverse to us that homelesis bad,gnaled but behind on rent is just as bad for kids' health and their parents. >> rorter: a 2018 report out of seattle found that mental health was the most commonly cited complaint of those facing eviction-- including varying levels of depression, anxiety and insomnia. and even for families not facing eviction, housing instabilityet can be just asmental. >> i have to continue to make believe that everything is okay. >> reporter: back in richmond,ri carmen candelahas been living paycheck to paycheck for years. she norks two jobs: a
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translator for a local hospital and a hotel banquet server. >> there was mold here and here. >> reporter: she and her daughter have moved four times in the last eight years because she says the homes were all unsafe to live in. a little over a year ago, she moved into this rent subsidized apartment. but almost immediately 12-year-old daughter amidah started having health problems.t >> she had af heart jumping. she had a lot of breathing problems. she had a lot of hives, she had a lot of fever, shortness, outre ofh, which i thought was due to asthma, but we were allergic to the apartment. >> reporter: candelario complained about what she said was fruent mold and dampness in the apartment. but she claims the landlord ignored her. ane believes it's still making her daughter sicsays it's caused a new problem for her. o>> so last year she miss on 27 days of school.
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wither being out 27 times i also calleout 27 times. >> reporter: so thatou could be home with her when she was sick? and taking her to her doctor's appointments and picking her up from school. i'm on my last lifeline, because if i continue to call out due to health issues, i am fired. >> reporter: last fall, richmond's mayor, levar stoney, unveiled a pilot program to help about 500 families avoid eviction over the next year. the program set aside nearly a half million dollars to help tenants pay overdue rent. >> housing to me is the vaccine for porty. if you are able to have a safe quality roof over your head, then that gives you the ability to put food on the table, that's going to help you rise up that economic ladder. >> reporter: meanwhile, latisha lee says she's tired of having to live in places that she says make her son sick... but shet caford anything better right now. does he understand any of this
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stuff that's going on? >> i don't think he does. he just know he tireckof being that's all he could tell me is, s"mommy, i don't want to k no more". >> reporter: for the pbs newshour i'm william brangham in richmond, virgin >> woodruff: the british monarchy is in the midst of one of its mostumultuous times in decades. and today, queen elizabeth said she would be open to a newen arrangthat would allow prince harry and meghan markle pursue a life outside their royal obligations. the statement followin extraordinary meeting today. amna naw >> reporter: judy, t queen's statement was released after meing with her heir, princ charles, and grandsons, princes william and harry. the statement read, "although we would have preferred them to remain full-time working members
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of the royal family, we respect and understand their wish to live a more independent life as a family whileemaining a valued part of my family." joining us now from london to discuss this and what's ahead for meghan and prince harry's future is robert lacey. he is a historian on the royal family and a consultant to the robert lacey, e to therown." "newshour". i want to ask you if you can just start us off with some context here. how big a deal is it that there are members of the royal familye who ntentionally, deliberately trying to take a step back from this institution? >> it is very significant. i think it's a moment to ra with th the disasters in the 1990s with the royal marriages going wrong and the windsor castle burning, perhaps even 1936, because if it doesn't work
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out, prince harry and meghanx haveressed an intention of abdicating so you can say the meeting s a result a certain srt of back mail. b>> reporter: lt's talkt what we do know which is early in stages in terms of how this what do you know based on the people you've talked to about how this kind of arrangent might even work? >> based on the people i've talked, to ihink it got every chance of working. we've heard today confirmation that the sussexs will settle in canada at least for a period of transition while they work out how they are going to do the her thing that's in the statement, they do not want to be reliac on pubnds. that is really a key over here. taxpayers' money is the refrain at gets repeated. every british taxpayer pays about 1 pound-24 or so, -- taxes every year ges to the
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royal family. that may seem a small sum for the fun and pleasure they give the literally billions theym fo bring in in tourist revenue, but this issueas got the country pretty divided. >> reporter: let me ask you the way about the way harry andd meghanpresented this. they said they want to carve out a progressive nerole wit in thstitution. so can the two co-exist, a progressive new rolwithin this institution that traces its roots to medieval times? >> the strength of the roy family is its ability to adapt to change. it's the realization that it's the people that it's supposed to represent. my prediction, based on what i've heard, is that this tricky question of the money, so the british taxpayer doesn't feeli the e, is going to be solved by some sort of huge amican foundation.di
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i will p that the creation of the big sssex roy foundation in america, it will fund all their good activities and their crusading activitieser in north ama and around the world, and this is not the end of the story. they're now, for the next few days, going to haggle over the details, a the the sort ofe details thwill be talking about will be, well, what are you going to crew said for in your new foundation? fine to get involved in community development, racial equality. once you stray into woenm politics and that sort of area, maybe that will be trespassing on the traditional and very important political and social neutrality of the royal family. >> reporter: robert, i would be remiss ifn' i diask u about a lot of the reports and analysis we've seen in the days since the announcement by meghan and harry that what was underlying their decision was
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the disproportionate criticism meghan received and a lot of it is fueled by very real racismin britain. what do you make of that? >> quite true, there was terrible racism on the internetn ocial media, but also the british tabloids subct meghan to the sort of hazing all royal women have to go trough cruelly when they join the royal family. kate went through it and william's wife camella went througit. so that's a real grievance, understandable. from harry's point of view, there's been an existence of a rift we just discovered that has been marring his race relationship with hisrother william for 18 months now, so that's why harry himself was not erse to going and undoubtedly supported his wife in her wish. >> reporter: is this a model for the future? >> my view is that it's a very positive model for the future, just at a time when leaving
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europe and the government is looking acrs the atlantic, here's the royal family actually ahead of them and the britishl romily has, in a way, almost despite itself, reinvented itself. >> reporter: robert lacey, historian of the royal family joining us tonight from london. thank you very much. >> thankyo. >> woodruff: baseball is a game of tradions. but as john yang reports, the major league commissioner made clear today that teams may not use 21st century techniques to carry out on age-old practice: decoding the signs opposing catcrs use to communicate wi pitchers. >> reporter: judy, major leae baseball said today that the houston astros used an elaborate system to tell batters what pitch was coming in 2017-- the season they won the world series. it involved a video camera in
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center field, a monitor near the dugout and banging on a trash can. as a result, commissioner rob manfred suspended general manager jeff luhnow and field manager a.j. hinch for the 2020 season. later team owner jim crane took it even further, and fired them. >> we want to be known as r playing by tes. we broke theules. we accept the rules and we're going to move forward. it's very unfortunate. neither one of those guys implemented this, or pushed it through the system. it really came from the bottom up.it pretty clear in the report how that happened, but neither t one m did anything about it and that's unfortunate, and the consequences are severe. n- reporter: manfred also fined the team $5-millthe most allowed-- and stripped the astros of their top two picks in the 2020 and 2021 drafts. additionally, he handed down a one-year suspension from baseball to an assistant general
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manager for a tirade directed at a group of female sports reporters duri last year's playoffs. dave shenin covers baseball for he wasngton post" and joins us from the "post" newsroom. dave, runners on second have traditionally tried to decode the signals that the catchers were sending their pitchers. as a matter of fact, whenever a runner reached second base, the catchers would always change it up a little bit. so wy is thifferent? i mean, why this big response from the comr?missio >> well, there's a number of things. number one, i think baseballn does not some sort of digital arms race going on in baseball to see which team could come up with the fanciest new equipment to decode signs, but, secondly, it's also created longer games because catchers now have to go through these intricate systems of signs and change them up from inning to inning or dayto day or even
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batter to batter to combat this espionage. so it's created longer games and, you kno--w, it he last thing baseball needs is people to questn the outcome of games, especially world series games, when one team h better digital equipment than the other.r >> lonames, something major league baseball is really trying to fight against.t, in the rephe commissioner said this was largely a player-driveny sstem, that coaches -- other than alex kore, who was be nch coachof astros then, now manager to have the boston red sox -- were notly renvolved. but, at the same time, he said he's not punishing any players. why is that? >> well, a couple of things. first all, i think it's team are going to talk to each other constantly about ement,ering pitchers' mov pitch tipping, if they pick up
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catchegn from the second base, they may bring information back from the duganoud confir with teammates. that's been part of baseball ever. the fact the astros ratcheted it up is a culture of permissiveness within the astans i think that's what bseball is coming down on. if you read the statement, there was a couple of paagrphs that were very pointed criticism about the astros' culture asil ind by the general manager jeffu lhnow and manager a.j. hinch which is where the responsibility for this talks. >> reporter: the commissioner's office is investigating a similar sign-stealing system at the red sox in 2018 when he took overer the commissiaid he hadn't decided the penaltyyet because that investigation isn't over. what do you think we should expect wn that comes down
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against alex cora? >> i think given cora's clear involvement as a participant or even an instigator of the tros-scheme at the evidence that the red sox in 2018 under cora were ing a similar scheme, i would think that the epunishment would have toat least as severe as what was handed down to hinch, which is a one-year suspension, and then 's up to the red sox to decide whether they're going to fire thyr manager in the same the astros did. i think everybody in the game is expecting tat punishment to be at least as severe as hinch's. >> reporter: dave, how much of a black mark against baseball is this? >> well, you know, that's a fascini ing question. an, you know, baseball, like all major sports, is seeing an increase and an influx in gambling, the ogalizatiof gambling throughout the cou pnty
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rt of the -- the equation here because the integrity of the game and the the individual games and the the outcomes has never been moranimpothan it is in the era of legalized gambling. so this is a major ck mark on the sport. i mean, to me, it's the largesth ting scandal in baseball since the bobby tompson 1951 new york giants that won the pennant and their players admitted decades later taf the fact that they had been stealing signs with binoculars and a system of buzzers. this i bigger thaat if not bigger. >> reporter: dave shenin of an"the washington post," you very much. >> thank you. story.druff: fascinating
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