amna: good evening. i'm amna nawaz. judy woodruff is on assignment. on "newshour" tocoght, aining an outbreak. preparing the nation for the is threat of coronavirus, while china mounts a people's war agnst the disease. then, after another bruising democratic primary debate, where do the presidential hopefuls esand with less than a week to go before super y? and not just a headache. a lifelong condition and the lack of a cure. the symptoms and the stigma of migraine disease. >> this isn't the life i imagined for myself. this isn't what i thought i would be doing. but at the end of the day, i'm treat it.rything that i can to amna: all that and more on >> major funding f the pbs

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tephanieling in for sy.pushing back against criticim that he was not doingug e president trump said in a press conference this evening that the country is prepared to dealnt wh any pol spread of coronavirus. he also announced vice president mike pence would oversee the administration's response. meanwhile, senate democrats push for 8.5illion dollars in emergency funding. that's more than three times what the presidentroposed. wmakers from both parties agreed on the need for action. >> i think we need to appropriate some additional resources for certain. i think this is a serious enough issue that the president should be addresse country and reassuring the american people what efforts are underway at thi cdc anin his administration to protect the american people. >> our nation has more resources than any other nation in the world to be ableo address whatever threat coronavirus rses, but it's going uire bipartisan action. this is not a time for rtisanship. pathogens do not respect party lines.

vanessa: and the cdc has confirmed new case in california, but has not pinpointed exactly howhe patient was exposed to the virus. around theda world, wedn for the first time, more new coronavirus cases were reported outside of china than inside. one was a u.s. soldier in south korea. the first case among some 28,000 americans stationed there. u.s. officials tonight said both countries will postpone joint military drills indefinitely. brazil also reported its first case, confirming it, making it the very in latin america. first oneand in italy, infections continue to rise, leading soldiers to blockade some hard-hit northern towns. but back in china,ut theeak is slowing and some restrictions are easing. we will take a closer look the situations in china and discuss the president's response later in the program.

shter attacked workers at the molson coors brewing company in milwaukee today. five people were killed before the shooter took his own life. edhe's identifi as a 51-year-old company employee. police and emergency crews swarmed to the site where more than 1000 people are employed. some texted th they had taken shelter in locked rooms. tfederal appeals court in new york has ruled tmp administration can legally withhold federal funding fro states over immigration enforcement. grants may not be kept fromral so-called sanctuary cities and states that fused to cooperate with immigration authorities. three other appeals courts have issued conflicting rulings. the prime minister of india appealed for calm in new delhi today after the city's worst sectarian violence in decades.h the dell climbed to att le 24 with nearly 200 hurt in the last three days as hindu mobs have attacked muslim homes, businessesand mosques. more of the injured continued

arriving in hospitals today and armed police patrolled the streets amid charred vehicles and burned stores. >> the riots and arson started in the morning and the cars that were parked here were set on fire, so people were not coming out of their houses due to fear. people living the streets were so scared that they didn't even sleep and most of the people are not stepping out of their homes. vanessa: the violence eruptedri president trump's visit to india this week and grew out of protests over a new lawen granting citip for refugees of every major south asian religion except muslims. back in this country, president trump's reelection campaign is suing "the new york times" over published last yeaion column it the piece, written by a former "times" executive itor, alleged russia helped the trump campaign in 2016 in exchange foi foreign po that would benefit russia. in its filing, the campaign said "the times" intentional printed false informatn.

"the times" rejected the allegation. and best-selling adventure novelist clive cussler has died. he passed away monday at his home in scottsdale, arizona. cussler wrote more than 80 books including "night probe!", "cyclops," and "raise the titanic!" many of his novels feature the intrepid explorer dirk pitt. clive cussler was 88 years old still to come on the "newshour." how to fight a global outbreak. the u.s. and china tried to contain the spread of covid-19. key takeaways from last night's democratic debate as voters across the country prepare for super tuesday. a chronic condition and chronically undertreated. an inside look at migraine disease. plus, much more. a nouncer: this is the "pbs newshour" from wudios in washington, and in the west from the walter cnkite school of journalism at arizona state

university. amna: as we reported earlier, the spread of the coronavirus in has stabilized, but chinese activists who first sounded the alarm about the outbreak and the official sponse are still missing. nick schifrin has more on ther battle o information between the chinese people and their government. reporter: when qiushchen traveled to wuhan to expose what risks were medpoal and tical.n >>ont of me is the virus and behind me is the legal and administrative power of china, but as long as i live in this city, i will continue to report. reporter: for two weeks, he documented hospitals that were overwhelmed. a pool of vomit on the waiting room floor, patients on stretchers unattended. in another video, he criticizeda th at a makeshift hospital set up at a convention center.

>> putting everyone into a space like this one where patients aren't completely separated, there will definitely be the possibility of cross infections. this temporary hospital looks a lot like a military fiel hospital or an emergency shelter set up in response to an earthquake or a flood, but it's not great for housing patients with infectious disease. reporter: the world health organization says the disease'sp ad in china has stabilized. and today, some other regions have begun to normalize. but chen documented the beginning of the outbreak, unafraid of consequences. >> i will only report what i see, what i hear. i really want to be blunt, right? go today, i'g to say something blunt. mother--, i'm not even afraid of death. you think i'm afraid of the communist party? an reporter: thatage apparently got chen detained. he hasn't been seen since. his motherook to social media

to ask for help. et i have not been able to in touch with him. i'm here pleading that all people, especially those in wuhan, please help me find my son. help me find out what happened to him. reporter: chen is only one of the critics arrested in the last two months in a battle over information. authorities detained lawyer and human rights activist xu zhing after he accused chinese president xi jinping of trying to cover up the coronavirus outbreak. a wuhan resident tol"pbs newshour" that residents critical of the government's response have suddenly disappeare but activists continued their hork, posting videos of overcrowded wuhaitals, patients lying unattended on the corridor floor. >> the chinese government is not only trying to contai'he virus, there also trying to contain the coverage of this entire story. ao reporter: iang is the editor in chief of the u.s.-based "china digital times,a news site that focuses on content spressed by china's state censors.

he says the chinese government could have decreased the outbreak's size. >> by containing the coverage, by providing the censorhship, gad denial and information withold, and proa, it destroys the public trust very much needed at the time to fighting with the epidemic. porter: the chinese government describes all of its efforts as necessary vigilance. and this is what chinese media highght -- energized health workers fist bumping pients. the formerly sick, cured, flowers in their hands, thanking hospital staff. nurses shaving their heads to incrchse hygiene. ese media called them "beautiful warriors." protecting their fellow workers. there is now a message of cautious optimism from the top. last weekend, president xi jinping congratulated health workers, chinese army commanders, and masses of peopl he calited in a "people's war."

the phrase harkens back to communist party founder mao zedong mobilizing the masses to defeat a common enemy. xi has acknowledged the virus posed a serious threat. mo than 760 million people have had restrictions on when and how often they cve their homes. thousands of neighbo across the country have been on lockdown. visitors to office and residential builngs scan qr codes, and fill in forms about travel history and body temperature. ion world health organiz has praised china's efforts as successfully reducing the viru'' spread. >> those msures on movement restriction have delayed the disseminatn of the outbreak of two or three days within china, and a few weeks, outside china,. two or three w reporter: but inside china, residents know state media poray only the positive. and that has helped fuel social mea videoshat question t government's respect for human rights.

woman arrested for leaving her home without a face mask. another shows a group of people dragged out of their home to be quarantined. and this clip shows officials demolishing a gagr room to stop p gatherings. these tactics create an , -- mistrust and resentmeys qiang. chinese people now reached an understanding that this government failed them. >> this disaster, by large, is manmade, and the authority, thth the local ity and the central authority, bear a big responsibility for what's happening. reporter: fang bin was a wuhan businessman when he picked up his phone and began filming the city. he secretly filmed thivideo outside a wuhan hospital. he posted another video saying government officials could sweep up anyone. >> maybe they won't go after me. it's possible. but i can't stay silent. me after me,t ey will come after you.

reporter: another of fang's videos was just twelve seconds long -- a scroll of paper with the words "all citizens resist, hand power back to the people." e same day, he was arrested and hasn't been seen since. for the "pbs newshour," i'm nick schifrin. >> as we mentioned earli, the presidt is talking about the outbreak of the coronavirus. in fact, he is speakinin the briefi room right now about what the federal government is doing an how its preparing in case the outbreak gets worse. here is some of what he said. >> i have justve recanother briefing from a great group of talented people on the virus that is going world. have, through some very good early decisions, decisions that were actually ridiculed at the beginning, we closed up our

borders to flights coming in from certain areas, areas hit by the coronavirus, and hit pretty hard. we did it pretty early. a lot of people thought we shouldn't have done it pretty gorly and we did and it turned out to be a ver thing. the number one priority from our standpoint is the health and safety of the amican people. i viewed it when i made that decision. he the state of preparations has becomeource of concern and criticism between parties and among some public health officials. as we saw with the president and lawmakers, it's also increasingly a political issue. for more onm all of this, i' joint here in the studio by our white house correspondentch, ya alcindor, and by new york via skype, dr. thomas frieden. he's currently president and ceo of the nonprofit group resolve to save lives. i would love tget your take on what we just heard from the president. he is still talking, buthere

he was hailing the government response saying we did the right thing. what do we know about how he's been hearing about the coronavirus and h he's been communicating about it so far? reporter: t president is really seeking to calm americans. after the cdc came out and said it's not about when, it is if it gets to the united states. there was a lot of panic. on amazon, there are a lot of masks already being sold. the present is trying to calm people and say we are ready at the briefing. our number one priority is health and safety of americans. he's h also saide wants to $.5 democrats today said actually we should do $8.5 billion. the president said from the reading room, if you are offering that money, we will take that money. the president is a lot of people here. he's done some backlash for saying the risk is low to americans because the cdc is saying actually this cou be a pandemic, but that being said i think the prident is trying to

calm people. amna: i want to get your take on what we heard from the president and what yamiche s reporting. president trump was saying the response of her has been a success. that's the word he continues to use. just assess for me what you've se in terms of this administration' response. are they doing everything they should be? >> cursed off, the risk today in the uned states is low. that is corre. the things that have beenone by thedc and others are appropriate. but the big picture is very different. a pandemic is inevitable. that has become clear in the last two days. there have been hundreds of bople to leave china with the virus who have nn diagnosed in countries all over. we have iran, italy, hong kong, korea with lots of cases. this is goi to spread. we are in the calm before the storm. it is going to getorse before

it gets better. thinking we can somehow pull up the drawbridge's and not have anyone in this country get it, at's a dangerous solution. amna: talk to me s aboute of these figures you are hearing in terms of what the government is prepared to spend. we know the president asked for $2.5 billion. democrats are asking for $8.5 billion. based on what the u.s. has t doe past, is this what we should be spending? dr. frieden: it's a fundamental question, for how long? if that's a one-year figure, thing one for ebola, it was essential to have a five-year allocation so we could really address it in a comprehensive way and get to the root of reducing the risk going forward. ebolail was 5.4on dollars supplemental over five years. this is a much bigger risk than ola. i said and others said, there was no chance ebola would spread widely in the u.s. it just was not in the cards, and it didn't happen.

this could definitely spread quite widely in this country. ow how far it will spread. we don't know how severe it will be, whether it will be mild, moderate, or severe. but a pandemic is coming. amna: we know the president has also been communicating about the health and wellness, americans who contracted it, who were moved back to the u.s. after being diagnosed overseas. here's what presirump had to say about them. >> as the disease spreads, if it spreads, as most of you know, the level thate've had in our country is very low and those people are getting bettere, or think in most cases, getting better -- we have a total of 15. we took in some from japan because they are american citizens. they are in quarantine. they are getting better, too. to do that. we had an obligation

amna: we've been hearing from the president things are getting better and the patients are getting better. that stands in contrast to what health officials are saying. yamiche: that's right people are trying to downpla this for his own benefit. he now said vice president pence is going to be coronavirus czar, putting him in charge of hethis, butresident said it will get better in april, that once it gets warm, things will get better. that's usually true when it comes to the flu, but the coronaviruis different. it's a disease people are still learning about. in some ways, the president is getting black lash -- backlash for making claims that are not accurate at this point, and he tried to make it seem as though democrats and other people who are his political opponents are trained to create some sort of hysteria to scareal people and o make him look bad. the president has been someone who has looked at hiswn political benefit even in times of crisis, as presidents often do in these cases. amna: let's talk about that

little bit of news. the appointment of a czar. we know the president was reluctant to do that. he pulled together a task force from various agencies including hhs and dhs. nis that rig the appropriate response? can you tell us specifically at that federal level, what concrete steps should they be taking right now that you don't believe they are? dr. frieden: the first and foremost thing is to t get supplemental through congress at a high enough level that we can protect americans. that means supporting state and local health departments. that means working with hospitals. that means investing in a vaccine even though we aren't sure it will work. crucially, that means reducing the risk around the world. osit about a dollar per person per year to upgrade those early warning systems and rapid sponse systems in countries all around the world int countries t will help tamp down this pandemic and protect us from futu pandemics, but that's a lot of money.

th's billions over multiple years. supplemental is a best chance to get a running starteep americans safer. amna: you said it's going to get rse before it gets better. i think that will worry a lot of people. when you talk about that -- what that will look like,hatan you tell us in turn flow schools or hospitals? in communities, what should people be ready for and what should they be doing? . ieden: first and foremost, we hav' to admit thers a lot we don't know about this virus. it just burst onto our awareness two monthsgo. we are learning more every day, sometimes every hour. what we know is that it's spreading widely. we know many people have left chinaith the infection and not been diagnosed elsewhere. we are going to see ffre countriested. we are going to see more clusters. it is spreading quite readily in health care facilities. its spreading readily in communities, churches. we will see a lot of it. what we are not sure of is how severe it's going to be.

the initial reports of a new pathogen are often, say it's really deadly because you are seeing the most severely ill people. learn more, we might fi it's not so deadly. when the 2009 flu pandemic hit, initially from mexico, it looked very deadly. soon we found it ous quite dangfor younger people, but overall not a terribly bad virus. it was new, but not particularly 'bad. we dont know if this will be mild, moderate or severe, but it will be a pandemic. that means for most people, there are simple things you can do. wash your hands often. cover your mou when you cough sneeze. be sure to not g y others sick are sick. that means staying home. u may want to be careful and have a few months of medicine if you have diabetes origh blood pressure. not in a panic way, but in a sensible way, so if there are supply-chain interruptions, you

are ready. dink about what yif schools have to close. they don't know that will be necessary. it may or may not b in different communities, there may be different approaches. that's a possibility so it's worth thinking about what you amuld do in your life to be ready. : this has moved from the if to the when phase.at s the confidence level like? people will be looking to the president. are they confident they will be able to handle this? yamiche: the president and vice president pence just now are saying they are confident. they say vice president pence, because he was leader in indiana lt, that it's a good h system. he's been praisingum president from the podium. the secretary of hhs says people are ready for this and there's only a few cases, may be one case in the last couple weeks here. but it is still very early so they are still trying to figure out howany cases there are and people are still trying to figure out what's going on here. the president is trying to at

least look confident and assure people they are ready for this and when this hits the united states, that they will have all theesources ready. it seems as though we are seeing bipartisan support. the leaders in th country seem to think this is a moment for people not to be arguing but tof using on how to do this. amna: and that is good news. a lot' we 't know. yamiche alcindor, thank you to you and to thomas reed and in new york, thank you -- tom frieden in new york, thank you for being with u democratic presidential candidates hit the tra south carolina today on the debate.s last night's as lisa dejardins reports, the candidateseft it all on the stage. >> south carolina chooses presidents. reporter: in the palmetto stat today, a 2020 democratic blitz. >> i am ready to fight. >> please bring your friends, your neighbors, your family members. >> i ahere to ask for your vote.

reporter: vermont senator bernie sanders, the leader nationally, is trying to pull off a surprise win here, adding event after event. >> now to defeat trump, you cannot run a conventional same old, same oldt going to do it. reporter: but former vice president joe biden has longed the pack in the state, and for him, south carolina is a must win. today, he scored a coup. the dorsement of south carolina representative jim clyburn, the highest ranking african-american in congress. >> i know joe. we know joe.t st importantly, joe knows us. reporter: if nothing else, it is intense here, as evidenced last night. >> mr. sanders -- mr. steyer -- reporter: when the candidates debated in charleston. >> i think she was talking about my plan. reporter: sanders got the front runner treatment, meaning attacks from all sides. >> as one prominent democrat once said, we should pay

attention to where the voters of this cntry are, bernie. that prominent democrat was barack obama. >> bernie and i agree on a lot of things, but i think i would make a better president than bernie. >> i am not looking forward to a scenario where icomes down to donald trump with his nostalgia for the social order of the 1950's, and bernie sanders with the nostalgia for the evolutionary politics of 1960's. reporter: but sanders was undaunted, using his final statement to push back at the criticism. >> a misconception, and you are hearing it here tonight, is that the ideas i'm talking about are radical. they are not. in one form or another, they exist in countries all over the world. reporter: the candidates also went after the two billionaires on the stana. r elizabeth warren struck mike bloomberg, bringing up a lawsuit alleging he spoke harshly to a pregnant employee, worried about balancing her job and her future cld. >> at least i didn't have a boss

who said to me "kill it" the way ayor bloomberg alleged t have said to one of his pregnant employees. pe-le want a chance to hear people want a chance thear from the women -- >> i never said that. reporter: biden and billionaire tom steyer faced off over steyer's past business with private prisons. >> my good friend at the end of this platform, he in fact bought a system that was a private prison system, after he knew that in fact what happened was hiey hog-tied young men in prison here in tstate. >> i've worked to end the use of private prisons in my own state and we ended it. black ownership of businesses, women ownership of businesses, and latino owners businesses because this financial service industry is prejudiced. i have worked relessly on this and you know i'm right.

reporter: the raucous debate sn't all fighting. senator amy klobuchar of minnesota stressed the need for health care and health workers outside of cities. >> we are going to have a million openings for home health care workers particularly in rural areas that we don't know how to fill. we are going to have over 100,000 openings for nursing assistants. porter: there was also one piece of unity over criticizing the president.am bloomberg d the administration's response to concerns about the coronavus. >> the president fired the pandemic specialists in this country two years ago, so ther's nobody here to fig out what the hell we should be doing. >> elizabeth warren. reporter: what the candidates and some of their high-prockle s are now doing is sprinting. south carolina democrae vote in thys on saturday. " i'm lisabs newshou desjardins. amna: for more politics, head to our website. that's where you can watch judyf woodt today's knight foundation media forum. she led a discussion on democracy in the age of the

internet, featuring teddy goff, digital director of president obama's re-election campaign, t and ory rina chief digital officer for the trump administration.mo plus, tune in ow when judy sits down with michael bloomberg, right here onthe newshour stay with us. coming up a pick from our , bookshelf -- on' whistleblowes account of sexual harassment in silicon valley. plus, french new wave film collides wh the fbi in the new movie "seberg." it's often dismissed as just a headache, but a migraine attack isuch more than that. 15% of americans are affected, but as stephanie sy rerts, the stigma associated withine disease has meant fewer resources for desperate patients. this story is part of our regular series on the leading edge of science, technology, and health.

reporter: for jenn tingwald, playing "go fish" with her family could be a metaphor for the past five years --ng for relief from the pain of chronic migraine. >> we never ought that the sickness would come before the health in our marriage. and so that's that's been really hard. reporter: tingwald had her first migraine attack when she was 31. >> that's really where my journey began. and to some degree, my head pain has not left since that day. so like in my left temple, i always have pain. the intensity changes, but it's always there. >> this is your nightstand. oerwise known as my mini pharmacy. reporter: the once-aspiring nurse now spends hours a day managing her pain. ack has become a near permanent fixture over her left temple. she frequently receives a cocktail of migraine and pain medication administered through an iv.

>> at minimum, i'm here three days a month. 12at max to days a month. 15reporter: tingwald is on these re end of the migraine spectrum. but she's just one of 47 million americans who have the disease,f 75% hom are women. the symptoms can be debilitating. the generations of shirley kessel's family have migraine. >> i have ringing in my ears 24/7. i have light sensitivity. i have sensitivity to sound and smells. when the headache comes, it's just like an explosion in my head. reporter: angie glaser gave up her dream job as a nl park ranger because of migraine. >> my brain kind of feels like it's in a bowl of water, kind of like sloshing around. but sometimes i'll get these waves of vertigo where i'll move my head and the whole room will just flip. eb a striking stabbing pain. so almost like sy has like

a hot sharp icepick, and they're just stabbing it straight through my temple. reporter: doctor amaal starling treats jenn tingwald at the mayo clinic in arizona. for her, the search for an effective treatment is still ongoing. starling says the last few years have seen more options become available, but most work on only 50% of patients. >> stress can be a trigger. a lack of sleep can be a different foods, different allergens. all these things can be potential triggers, but they are not the cause. the cause is it is a genetic neurogic disease. reporter: for mother d daughter deborah and alayna cyb, migraine has been a part of their livesince alayna was in the thd grade. abt % of school-age children have migraine. >>s it're than just a headache. that's why i didn't mention head pain. >> i don't know if you noticed, pebut herh that's that's a , symptom of migraine.

>> yeah. >> like your speech is kind of. can you explain the thing that happens? >> my tongue just feels li' 's like too big for my mouth. >> it's hard for her. >> i can't talk right. reporter: another example of this phenomenon was captured on camera with thispoocal news er, serene branson. >> a very very heavy -- heavy rotation tonight. reporter: starling explains what's happening in the brain to cause these symptoms. >> the trigeminal nerve is the nerve that intervades our entire face as well as the covering of our brain. and that is the nerve that is becoming sensitized during a migraine attack. that's where you'll develop that sensitivity to light and sound and motion as well as what we call the emotional aspect ofin nd the processing of pain. reporter: so pain is not a certain area of the brain, it is sort of a network throughout the brain that's affected? >> correct. again, it is the abnormal

function of that network is what is resulting in migraine. reporter: the mayo clinic here in scottsdale, arizonas one of the largest migraine and headache treatment centers in fre country and people com all over the u.s. because there simply aren't enough migraine specialists to treat the millions of people who have it. one reason leading to the lack of specialists comes down to a word we heard over and over from patients. the stigma. >> yeah. >> the stigma, the burden that comes along is sometimes almost worse than the disease itself and the symptoms. >> very frequently they'll tell me, i was told this was all in my iead. they th's all in my head. >> that it's psychological. >> correct. and i have to tell them, yes it is in your head, because your brain is in your head. >> mommy, mmy, look! >> jimmy please, not n busy. oo control yourself, sure you have a headache. reporter: the stigma is likely says sociologist joanna kempner.

>> they're inevitably discussed maybe a little too caught up in their housework, maybe a little too worried about what their husbands are doing.u ow, i'd like to say we're past the stereotypes, but they still kind of color how we think about women with migraine. famous women are sharing their migraine struggles. tennis great serena williams says she's lost matches because of migraine. cindy mccain spent much of her husband's presidential campaign inxcruciating pain. having kept her symptoms hidden vor years, she's now an adte for more research. round the issue culminates every year in washington, d.c. with an event dubbed "headache on the hill." this yea some 200 activists lobbied congress for more federal funding for research aat a lack of funding is one reason why many migraine patients say there aren't more effective treatments. >> you may be in bed for a day

or a weeor two weeks after this. reporter: katie macdonald leads ncthe effort for the alliafor headache disorders advocacy. >> at the federal level, there are organizations and agencies that make desions to not b support migraiause they don't feel like it's a big deal. so we're trying to change that perception. reverse that and get more attention brought to migraine. reporter: for 2020, the national institutes of health has allocated $27 million dollars for migraineesearch -- a paltry amount, say advocates, for a disease that affects 15% of americans and leads to billions of dollars in lost productivity annually. for comparison, the nih allocated m1lion this year to anthrax, which affects just a handful of people every year. just to attend ts year's advocacy day in washington, the group face triggers, from the rainy weather, to the bright lights and loudechoey halls.

and even the noise of applause which required an adaptation -- waving hands instead of clapping. doctor starling and her patient, tingwald, met with representatives from their home state of arizona, including the leslative director for congressman ruben gallego. >> the are not enough headache specia47sts. illion people in the u.s. with migraine. the are 500 64 byrd cerfied headache specialists. -- 564 byr board certified headache sists. reporter: by lunchtime, tingwald had to put her ice pack and sunglasses back on. n't the life i imagined for myself. this isn't what i thought i would be doing, but at the end of the day, i'm doing everything that i can to treat it. and to find, you kw, if not a cure, the best quality of life that i can. reporter: tingwald and her fellow adv up.s aren't giving in their push for better treatments, more research funding, and more understanding of migraine. for "the pbs newshour," i'm stephanie sy in phoeni arizona.

amna: now the story behind one woman's decision to blow the whistle on a culre of one of the highestgrimination at start-ups in america. william brangham is here with the latest addition to the "newshour" bookshelf. reporter: four years ago, susanr foas excited to start her new job as a software engineer at uber. but she says on her very first day, her manager ppositioned her. that was just the beginning of what followed, a year harassment and retaliation and lies.ft when fowler ber, she wrote a blog post about her experience. it went viral, helping trigger an investigation that eventually led to the departure of uber's cofounder and ceo travis kalanick. susan fowler is now an opinions editor at "the new york times," and she's just published a memoir. " it's callistleblower: my

journey to silicon valley and fight for justice at uber." welcome to the "nehour." >> thank you so much for having me here. reporter: this is really an incredible story of your journey through this company, and your life surrounding that. but i wonder if you could just start by telling us about that first day. that must have been really an unbelievable experience.es >> so i had just gone through orientation and training.ve it was m first day of real work. a was sitting down with my laptop working ow things, and then my brand-new manager started sending me chat messages on company chat. at first we were talking about work. then the subject quickly turns to not work. he starts talking about how he'n n open relationship, he's looking for womethto have sex he's having a difficult time finding women to have sex with. so i started screen shotting everything and took it to hr. reporter: this was your boss. >> yes. reporter: i mean, at any normal company, that kind of behavior gets you kked out the door

right away. >> you would think. [laughter] reporter: but you take this to ed proof.ocume this wasn't he said she said. you have proof in your hand. what does hray? >> hr does an investigation. a they came ba say we investigated, yes, he was propositioning you, yes this was sexual harassment. however, this is his first offense. he's a high performer. we don't feel comfortable puniing him. we've given him a stern talking to. reporter: later, a grouphef women, other women whoee havesimilarly harassed by this guy, along with you, go to hr as a group and still it doesn't change their mind. >> yes. we all meet withhem in a they wouldn't let us all meet together, so they had us do a succession of meetings. i had the last meeting. i get in there and they say, we thought you were happy with how you haled it. i said, no i'm not. you told me it was his first offense. it was not.st you ad meetings with other employees who reminded you.

and the woman from hr told me that the other employees hadn't been there to talk about him, they had been there to complain about me. reporterwhich also was not true. >> which also was not true. [laughter] reporter: when you find out that the people who are meant to be protecting you and looking out for you are turning this arounda on y all the others, what were you thinking? >> i was pretty horrified, tbecause you would thit people in authority are there to at least figure out what's going on and help make sure that thert is some f justice or fairness. that didn't really seem to be their goal i still however continued to report things to hr. i had a number of things that happened after that. as i detail in my book. every time, they would give me the same spiel. they would sayit is this person's first offee" or "they are a high performer, we don't feel comfortable punishing them," even when it was someone who had ju reported for something else a few months fore. but i knew that i had to keep a record. i had to keep documentation.

if i didn't keep everything in writing and didn't keep reporting things thr, they would be able to say she never told us, she never reported this, how coulwe know? i didn't want them to have that excuse.rt re: your book really does document that this was an indictment of anntire corporate culturse what is your sf why became so pervasive within a huge compa? >> there will always be individual instances mistreatment. the will always be people that do the wrong thing. normal companies, there arech usuallks and balances to make sure an individual instance of something like sexual d rassment isn't cove and doesn't become part of the culture. but at uber, it wasn't just an individual instance. they had this scriptthey would read which told me at the time,is thi not just an individual instance problem. there are no checks and balances. this is a cultural, systemic problem throughout the company. it seemed very directly tied to their n values. because at hooverth, when i was

e, i got thi feeling that they valued aggression, disrupthon. the wholg was we disrupt, the rules don't apply to us, the rules are outdated. reporter: when you are in the midst of this, being read to-- u etaliated against, being told what you know is true is not true, how was it? >> it really chipped away at my -bweng. people kept telling me that what i was seeing with my own eyes and what i had documented proof reporter: this is the textbook >> it really is.ghting. itwa chipped at me because here i am being told that nothing i'm experiencing is real, nothing i'm seeing is real, and it just makes you question yourself. reporter: at a certain point, you've had enough. you leave the company and take another job. there's a question you debate, whether you should comeit forwad and that original blog post. you wrote in the book, "based on everything i knew, sharing my

likely ruin my life."uld yet you did decide to come forward and po this publicly. why did you do that? >> it seemed to me that standing up for what's right and speaking the truth about situations in the world and standing up for hing to is the right do.i had to make this choice whe i had to sayhe ei'm going to think about the consequences and the consequences are really bad, knowing what happens to other my career is probably going to be shot. people will try and discredit me. bad things are going to happen. reporter: all of which happened. >> all of which happened, but i take the conces away fromhad to deciding what to do. i realized if i thought aenut the conses, it did not help me make the right dtoision. i haet everything else go and say what do i know for sure? know that speaking up is the right thido so i have to do it. reporter: the blog post that you wrote helped lead to an

investigation that help clear out the then ceo of uber. but we know these problems existed at a lot of other companies. was that your sense that uber back then was just on the extreme end of the things, or was this a more pervasive problem? hink companies exist on spectrum.we on this one anave founrs and hr departments and executives who if they heard about these things, they would be horrified and do everything they could to stop it. at the opposite end of the spectrum, yo have uber at the as we've seen in the last few years with more people telling their stories abt mistreatment in the workplace, schools, and in gover spectrum.e is a giant at the one side, we have uber. reporter: you dedicate your book at the beginning to your young daughter. thatrite, "it's my hope when you are old enough to read this book, the world described within it is completely unrecognizable to you." are youy optimistic that rea

is going to happen? i am. i really am. i have seen a difference even in the past few years about how we start to talk about tse issues. the fact that i'm even sitting eve today and we are talking about these things, it's a huge step forward. the more we talk about these things and shine a light on the bad practices that exist, the better it will be. reporter: the book is "whistleblower: my journey to silicon valley and fight for stice at uber." susan fowler, thank you so much. >> thank you so much. ♪ amna: now, the life of a silver bjscreen star becomes the t of a new movie. jeffrey brown explores the drama behind the camera and how secret fbi survce is brought to ll light. latest in our ongoing canvas series on arts and culture. reporter: american actress jean seaburg was best known for role in the filmth "brss," a

classic of the french new wav cinema. and it, she plays t american girlfriend of a french criminal. the film helped make her a globalstar. now comes the new film "seberg," directed by benedict andrews >>ha w a couple of moments where we copied jean perfectly. the famous ending of "breathless" where she stares down the barrel of the camera. and it's a defining moment of modern cinem porter: kristen stewart -- from the "twilight" saga and more recently "personal shopper" and "charlie's angels" portrays. seberg >> i really only knew her from "breathless." the herald tribune, the t-shirt. but also i was really struck by the performance. i obviously wasn't around when that movie came out, but i don't

think it wasca a very tyway of performing. i think she was so available and present in a way that felt kind of radical. reporter: radical and vocal. traits that ultimately cost seberg her career, possibly her life. e that is thfocus of the new film. >> this country is at war with itself. vietnam, the oppression of black people in america. reporter: fbi director j. edgarv ho started a surveillance program to infiltrate, and undermine groups the fbi considered subversive and a threat to the political order. >> some aress just grabbing free probe elicited. >> she has a h donations to civil rights groups. she's a sympathizer, sir. i think she could be useful. reporter:on in addio martin luther king, anti-vietnam war protestors, and the tion of islam, the bureau also targeted the black panther party. in a chance meeting during a flight in 1967, seberg met the head of the group's los angeles chapter, hakim jamal. and through him became a financial supporter of the party

and the target of the fbi. relationship between the two that never existed in reality. >> our job is to cheapen our image in the eyes of the public. >> you've got to stop. they will destroy you. your reputation. your family. >> s we the same tools that cinema, themake cameras and microphones, turned against her. and that same private space that is so precious in her and so open becomes attacked by the state because of herism and her politics. and i was fascinated by what happened to this woman how did she survive that? someone's truth?e to stroy >> good morning. >> what's your name? >> my name is jean seberg. reporter: aative of iowa seberg got her start by chance . nt. winning a taontest

beating some 18,000 hopefuls and getting cast as joan of arc into reminger's film, "saint joan." that success led columbia pictures to put her under contract, eventually casting her in roles opposite major stars like burt lancaster the film "airport." >> they had been pressuring me about that transscr to san fran reporter: so you're an actress playing another actor. what did you see in her that suggested a kind of openness, a different kindting? >> i think that she was present. when she was in a place and a time, that's where she was. and there was no amount of preparation that would make her a better actor, that would remove the experience of discover dmovieso this beautiful thing where they bring us closer together. i t sense that she, from a reallyys young age, alhampioned the underdog and did it, did it

without any sort of fear. she was reckless. there was something re about her in every aspect, even her performances feel reckless. i feel like you never know what she's going to do because she doesn't know do.she's going to reporter: in the new film, actor jack o'donnell plays fbi agent jack soloman who was assigned to follow seberg. >> jack finds that the what he's involved in is very different from what what he set out to do d that actually he's involved in a very dirty, secret, ugly war. and for me, the intertwining of those lives, the watcher and the watched,e is the glue of th .storytelli for the audience to experience the surveillance thriller in a way by by the fbi story but to see the mechanics of surveillance, and see it turned reporter: like jean seberg, kristen stewarhas experienced life as a young star under constant media attention.

did you feel a connection in that sense with the kind of scrutiny? >> i've been saying like on a very comparatively superficial level, yes, definitely. i've never been so viciously attacked in the way that she was. everyone's impression of you is not necessarily going to be the same and there'a correct one. maybe you can picka urtain magazine you no lies, but people n of salt, maybe peopleith a don't care, whatever because i don't like really care. but to have lies spread about icious.so reporter: "seberg," the film, opens nationwide ofriday. brown.he pbs newshour," 'jeffrey online right now, marcia biggs has been reporting o the

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