captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight: the cost of an outbreak. the toll of coronavirus continues to tick up worldwide, and the global financial system grapples with the fallout. then, the pain of zero tolerance. a damning report chronicles the suffering of migrant children as they sought refuge at the u.s. southern border. plus, the state of the race. as elizabeth warren drops out, the democratic primary winnowso downtwo-man contest. amspeak with the strategist behind barack s historic bid for the presidency. au there's something deeper going on here, b it wasn't just elizabeth warren. we had some other talented iefemale candidates in the who didn't go as far as we would have thought. uff: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour.

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in this country, congress gave final approval today to an emergency funding measure, as the washington state announced an 11th death. william brangham begins our coverage. >> brangham: another cruise ship stuck at sea over the coronavirus. 62 passengers were quarantined inside their cabins off the coast of california today, after a former passenger from a previous voyage on the boat died of the viral illness. and, to the east, the virus was confirmed in another state today: tennessee and nevada. w >> whilee are saddened to learn that the virus has now tsached tennessee, our recent preparedness effthat the governor just mentioned, have positioned us to respond swiftly >> brangham: in the capitol, the senate homeland security committee heard from nadministration officials the federal preparation. o publican chairman senator ron johnson saidsponse is perfect, but the trump administration is doing all it

can. >> the chances of the administration getti it just right, reacting perfectly, is zero. it won't happen. but again, from my own knowledge, my own interaction, what we've seen in terms of the interaction with senate, the house, this is an all-government approach. thhais is all s on deck. >> brangham: vice president mike pence, who is leading the response, echoed that sentiment during a trip to minnesota. >> and we're going to continue to bring the full resources of the federal government to bear to confront the spread of thero covirus. >> brangham: but in a phone interview on fox news last night, president trump made several statements casting some doubt on the latest projections contradicted critical guidance from the world health organization. >> we have thousands-- or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by sitting around, even going to work--th some o go to work.et

>> i think the 3.4eally a false number-- and this is just my hunch-- but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this, and it's very mild. take into account is the people that do not come in contact with medical fality. that's the reason between the difference of 2% to 3% mortality with a big range, if you counted people who are symptomatic. >> brangham: but experts warn, going to work while infected is dangerous. >> it's very clear, from a public health perspective, that if a person had flu-like

symptoms, they should not go to work, they should not go t school. but coming into work would really be really quite unfortunate, because what we s-know about this coronavi and we know it very clearly from other countries and from thent u.s. in king c washington, is that it spreads very rapidly in congregate settings, wherepe le are crowded together. >> i think the psident's tone was to understate the seriousness of covid-19. covid-19, no matter what the fatality rate will be, will be deders of magnitude moredly than the flu. >> brangham: that threat is why so many cities are seeing scho c and workplacse across the globe. in south korea's dgu city, which has born the brunt of tha- country's covi19 cases, usually bustling train stations were empty today. a few brave train riders kept their faces covered with masks

in italy, primary school employees put up signs in me informing students that class was out at least until march 15. back in the u.s., the senate passed an $8 billion emergency spending bill aimed at combating the virus domestically. >> woodruff: economic worries doover the outbreak weighe wall street today, and wiped out most of wednesday's big gains. the dow jones industrial average lost 969 points to close at 26,121. the nasdaq fell 279 points, and the s&p 500 dropped 106 points. the coronavirus outbreak is also increasingly straining the health care systems and economic resources of countries around the world. this week, the international f monetad announced a $50 billion aid package,lp intended to arious governments to buy needed expected slow-downusiness

activity. kristalina georgieva is managing direor of the i.m.f. and joi me now. welcome to the newshour. >> thank you for having me. >> woodruff: first of all, the question is whh countries are ing to get this money. >> the $50 billion is made available to both low-income countries and middle-inco countries that may be severely impact by an economic slowdown as well as the need to respond to this crisis. for the low-income countries, this is a zero-interest loan. for the middle-ntcome coues, the regular conditions of the imf. what i want to stress is that what we want to make sure, judy, is that people don't die just

because of the lack of money and sinesses don't collapse only because of the lack of wmmediately available credit. >> woodruff: so o you do that? what exactly are you expecting countries to do with the money? >> so what you're doing at the moment are two things. we are engaging with tgovernmenting to look e countries that are at higher risk, either because their health systems are weak or because they're commodity pporting countries ances are going down, or they don't have the money to be mre aggressive. and secondly, we are discussing with the world bank how we c collectively support countries the make the right decisions. and what they're teling everybody, number one, invest in your health provision, especially targeted to more

effeunive commies. number two, immediately put in place a plan, even if you don't yet need it,l to hep businesses and to help famies tcope with economic impacts because what we have in fro of us is a rather unusual stock that affects both demands and supply, and that requires a rather unusual celt of polime recations

and then have you is because there's a lot of conversation today about president trump, for example,sp king about the mortality

rate, not actually being as high as it reportedly is. how do you assess leaders are doing their jobs on this? >> there is clear recognition that we do need to workd together, 've had secretary mnuchin, chairn powell, all the leading ministers of finance and cenal bank governors uniting and expecting from us, the international organizaons, to be the platform to bring action. we need to lean forward in this crisis with collective resources. i want to make very important point for our viewers now. we know from previous health crises that onl one part of the cost, the economic cost of th crisis is from direct impt,

people unfortunately dying, not going to wok, production shrinking. two-thirds of the impact is loss of confidence, unctainty. so whave a very important role not only to act but to communicate this action, be together in the face of this uncertainty so we can reduce the suffering and reduche economic burden. >> woodruff: well, the seriousness is certainly coming across with what you were saying. kristalina georgieva, the managing director of the imf, ank you very much. >> thank you. he woodruff: in the day's news, progressive champion elizabeth warren has ended her bid for the decratic presidential campaign. the massachusetts senator had

led the race back in october, but she failed to win a ngle state-- including her own-- on super tuesday. today, she addressed supporters outside her home in cambridge, and acknowledged there was no way forward. >> i will not be running for president in 2020. but i guarantee i will stay in the fight for the hardworking folks across this country who've gott the short end of the stick over and over. that's been the fight of my life and it will continue to be so. >> woodruff: warren did not endorse former vice president joe biden or vermont senator bernie sanders.bi n leads sanders right now 626 to 550 in the associated press delegate count. it takes 1,991 to clinch the democratic nomination. we will return to the campaign, after the news summary. the u.s. senate's top democrat insisted today that he never threatened two supreme court

justices, but he also voiced regret. on wednesday, minority leader chuck schumer had said that conservatives neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh would "pay the price" if they vote to curtail abortion rights. chief justice john roberts condemned the comment, and today, senate majority leader mitch mccoell blasted schumer's statements. the new yorkemocrat responded on the senate floor. >> i'm from brooklyn. we spe in strong language. i shouldn't have ud the words i did, but in no way was i making a threat. i never, never would do such a thing. and leader mcconnellnows that, and republicans who are sy manufacturing outrage over these comments know that too. >> woodruff: schumer said he had meant the justices mht face political, and not physical, consequences. the leaders of turkey and russia agreed today on a ceasefire for northwestern syria. recep tayyip erdogan and it followed clashedlibmoscow.

province between turkish and syrian forces, with two more turkish troops killed today. turkey opposes a syrian offensive, backed by russia, that is driving new refugees to the turkish border. the united states today pressed the taliban to call off attackst in afgha. the militants have stepped up assaults on afghan forces since signing a deal with the u.s. to withdraw troops. secretary of state mike pompeo said today it is time to vtop all of tlence, and get serious about moving forward. >> in no uncertain terms, r violence must uced immediately for the peace process to movforward. we also continue to press all sides to stop posturing, start a practical discussionelbout prisonerses, knuckle down and prepare for the upcoming inter-afghan negotiatis. >> woodruff: pompeo also rejected an investigation into u.s. actions in afghanistan. the international criminal court

the hague agreed today to allow the inquiry. it will probe alletions of enr crimes again the taliban, the afghan goverand u.s. forces. and, the woman who first t inspir world war ii character "rosie the riveter" has died. rosalind p. walter passed away on wednesday at her home in new york. her wartime work on an aircraft assembly line led to a song about "rosie the riveter." several other women also served as models for the character. late walter became a main benefactor of pbs. she was 95 years old. still to come on the newshour: the lay of the campaign trail, now that elizabeth warren has ended her presidential bid. documenting the anguish that migrant children faced at the hands of the u.s. government. the lives of civilians caught in the crossfire as fighting erupts vetween turkey and syria. and, a preacher his "brief but spectacular" take on theology in action.

>> woodruff: with senator warren's decision today to battle to take on entid, the trump this november is largely now a two-man race, beeen former vice president joe bide and vermont senator bernie sanders. david plouffe was barack obama's campaign manager in 2008 and the architect behind the president's successful 2012 re-election bid. his book, "a citizen's guide to beating donald trump," is out this week. and david plouffe joins us now. welcome, david plouffe. congratulations on the book. >> oh, thank you. >> woodruff: so elizabeth warren, let's talk about what went wrong. she said today rat he... she

talked with reporters, she said she thought at the beginning of the campaign there would be a lane between the moderates and the liberals in the democratic party, but she said it turned out there wasn't. how do you see what happened? >> we had two really strong frongrunners in the beinning, biden and sanders who at different times in the campaign may not be able ll it together. they both had a lot of votes. she ran a great campaign.sh was a strong performer, had strong staff, raised good money, and she talked about gender today. i hope there's a lot of study about this by political scientists and academics and people much smarter than i am. there clearly was hangover fro '16 where a lot of people thought clinton lost to trump, we can't nominate a woman again, but there is something deeper going on here, because it wasn't just elizabeth warren. we had other talented female tannted candidates who d't go as far as we would have thought. >> woodruff: so you're saying sexism was parted of it? >> well, i think ism and misogany was definitely part of

'16. i would like to think people in the democratic primary might have been fearful, wrongly i think, that a woman couldn't win the sidency. >> woodruff: now we are down to two men, main cadidates, sanders and -- >> two young men. >> woodruff: two very young men. but with regard to bernie sanders, how do you quantify the depth of the opposition to himth and the breof the opposition to him from the mainstream of the democratic party? >> well,ll say, judy, i worked in democratiucts a long time. i have yet to meet the so-called democratic establishme.. i wound li to i wish we were that original thesed. it's voters and elected officials maowng their decisions. there is no doubt there is some concern that could a demratic socialist win? i'm not in the camp that says he couldn't, but joe biden led all of 201etty significantly nationally. that's kind of where voters we. he stumbled. he perfoed poorly in iowa and new hampshire.the thing i learns is it's easier to get a vote back that you had initially tha

you never had before. so then some other candidates didn't seize the moment to brean african american voters. he wins south carolina. he gets an endorsement from hi rivals. he performs a little bit better. let's not overstate that, andca all this vol back. sanders has never been able to grow his base out of the mid to high 20s. so he got% 43 against hillary clinton. what's clear, about half of that obably, maybe a little bit more, was pro bernie.is the reshe was the only alternative to hillary. who will win more races going forward by landslide margin, which is the only way you get delegates? robably only going to be joe biden because in southern states in particular where youha heavy african american votes, he's going to roll. >> woodruff: so it's probably only going to be joe biden. >> i'm saying bernie won't win stating and that's not how you get delegates. >> woodruff: the endorsements of joe biden are rolling in

every few minutes, and you don't pe that hapening, the democratic party getting behind bernie sanders. i'm trying to understand what it is that he's up against. >> there is no wizard behind the nt.tain is my p a couple things are going on. biden was their default for a he wasn't performing well. he shows he can perform well, they come back. xually, i think there are some pele concerned with bernie nders, even if he could get to 270, would he be good for us and down the ticket. people are concerned about that. don't forget, joe biden is beloved figure. right now he looks like he's going to win. i was part of this in '08. it wasn't carr until we were going to win, super delegates began saying, i'm with you. >> woodruff: what about the hard feelings between the two des. look what happened in 2016. yes, berrer with did endorse hiary clinton, but there wasn't a lot of love between his voters or hers. what's to stop that from happing all over agin in 20 2020? >> that's a critical question. i wrote about this in my book,

which i had to work on last summer and fall, so i'm glad i anent some time. >> woodruff: yoicipated this is going to come? >> i didn't know it would be down to these two, but i went through in in '08. the obama-clinton primary was the principles, in the play,me everybody needs to d the right thing in the end. because trump is looming and he's an existenal threat, i think bernie sanders will do everything he can, as joe biden would do, but the people who support thndidates on the ground, the staff, you have to work at. this you can't just assume we won, now it's time to geon board. you got to host house parties. >> woodruff: whichever side it >>? eah. invite the people. so if biden is the nominee, invite the people who oranized for bernie and listen to them complain. you know what, you guys clear know how to organize young people. we don't know how to do that. we need your help here's what i would say: i don't think it's the top reason we'll lose to trump, but if youdot get this right, your foundation is weak, and whoever our

nominee, is biden or sanders,yo treat this as intensively as they do winning wisconsin for the next couple months. >> woodruff: you titled the book, "a citizen's guide to beating donald trump," and you talk about how tough it is going to be for democrats to do that. the economy, it is right now, we don't know what's going the happen with the coronavirus. >> right. >> woodruff: and the effect it's going to have. right now the ecotomy appear be in the president, moving in the president's favor, somee ing thatn point to. what would it tae for that to be undone, and how should democrats be talking? how should joe biden and bernie sanders be talking about it? should they be dentying that's been something that has helped them? >> i make this point in my book. presidential races, you know, the central argument already always is about the country some first of al donald trump is going to get 46%, 47% of the national vote. so no ne should worry abouany of those people. it's who is really getable? who is a true petrsuadable er?

who is somebody who isn't sure in their vote or someone who is thinkingbout voting for a third party, which is a real part of hillary clinton's los last time. the way, someone who has a job today making $12 an hour doesn't feel great abtheir wages. they're paying more for healthcare. they think donald trump is taking care of the wealthy with his tax cuts. you got to makthat case. 12, when we ran for reelection against romilly romney, the stot was rebounding that. was not a reason to vote for barack obama. most people deciding this election are not invested in the stock market. his trade war in wisconsin, we're technically in a manufacturing recession right now in parts of pennsylvania and wisconsin. healthcare is an economic issue. people paying more for that. and your priva student loan industry, there are so many attacks to make abo this, and at the end of the day, it's whose side are you on. can't believe donald trump won that argue n.2016, but he did. the guy from trump tow in manhattan convinced enough voters he was going to fight for people like them. and i think biden and sanders

both have strong economic message, and i think they relate the people. by the way, barack obama won those voters. the skinny black guy from chicago with strange name, twice. if he can do it, i think biden or sanders can do it. >> woodruff: you are saying they haven't been talking that way until now. >> because they're trying to ge into the finals. these debates are not about making arguments against trump, but an average citizen has a role here, too. let's say your neighbor was hurt by trump's trade. take out your iphone or your samsung, ask them to speak into the camera for 30 secondsut abo why they're not voting for trump this tie and put it on inste ram. we he capture what's happening in the states, which is different than the way the economy is covered in new york and washington. >> woodrf: david plouffe, "a citizen's guide to beating donald trumpu thank ry much for joining us. appreciate it. >> woodruff: we return to our

ongoing coverage of the southern border and immigration.l a new fedevernment watchdog report lays out disturbing findings about how the government handled the separation of grant families following the trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy last year. lisa desjardins tells us, this centers on the agency tasked with caring for the children: the department ofnd healthuman services. >> desjardins: judy, the report outlines a litany of failures within h.h.s. that kept chdren and parents separated for weeks and months longer than nessary. the report depicts a complete breakdown in communications and planning within the agency, as well as with the rest of government, including no warning when the trump administration triggered this situaon. numerous alarms were raised by front-line staff, but ignored by senior officials. all of that led to serious problems in caring for the children. the report comes from the inspector general of the department of health and human services. ann maxwell is the assistant

inspector general, and she joins me now. a lot of work your staff did on this. thank you for talking us to. first of all, your repobt lays out ms almost at every juncture. i want the look at one way you look at this. fit, there were problems in finding the parents, problems in communicating with the parents, and thn proems in transporting the children. how do you see this scope of what went wrong? >> well, it starts with the fac that tpartment wasn't prepared. right, as you said in you opening, the department did not rning.ny advance wa and because of that, there was no planning for this event topp . so as you said, the care seovider facility, where these children were hoand cared for, did not prepare for this spike in separated children. and they, as a result, had all of these challenges that they faced througut every single step of theca reunion process. >> woodruff: let's start with some specics. in particular it seems like one of the longe-lasting proble is just finding the parents, making sure they could establish

your report has this quote from an e-mail to an official writinh from "new york we do not have any linkages from paren to unaccompanied children except for handful. we have a list of parenalien numbers but no way to link them another person also told your staff that it was easier at one point to locate people in rural guatemala than within our own detention system. take us through exactly the difficulty in finding the correct parent for the correct child. >> right. so you bring up two really important issues in our report. both are ied back to the lack of advance planning. the firsis the was no advance plan new york linkage, as you said, between the information and hhs and the information about parents some they weren't even able to identify at the ouwhtsewas actually separated. once they were actually trying to reunify these ldren, they were then trying to find the parents in dhscustody, and as you said, we had some instances

where they called ea and ever day trying to locate parents and were unsuccehaful locating t parent. >> desjardins: that's another amazing moment in your report. i want to read this from page 25. the facility, this is a facility caring for children, one of the facility directors writes, "tat facility called the dhs detention fality center every day seeking the parents of an 11-year-old child. they could not reach anyone atde thention facility and that child cried every day." there was also a block in connecting with ice. because those people trying t assess whether this parent was ready to reunify had to spend a few hours talking to them, but och person in detentioy got ten minutes to talk on the child. they spent it with their is a systematic issue or was this just not making it a priority to make these reunifications happen? >> so it's important to go backe to that pln time in that there was an enormous spike in separated children that wast brou by this "zero tolerance" policy. before that, we heard that

separating children from their families was relatively rare some the system was unprepared for is enormous immediate spike in separated children, and the facilities and the department were working to try and figure out new processes and procedures to care for these children, to make sure they had contact with their parents, and then ultimately to requeen phi them when the court ordered them to do so.le >> woodruff:'s take it through the last step. the children are ready to be reunified. reunification centers. but your report talksbout hw often those kids would be in vans outside of the center for hours, sometimes having to stay in that area for days.ep staffers sg in shifts because they were waiting for their turn to reunify. bigger question: as you talked to hhs officials, what kind of responsibility were they taking with what happened? why is it they were not ready for this? >> well, the answer is probably but it has to do with two main things we talk about in our port. one is that there are a number

of intennragency chas designed specifically to coordinate almigration across the fed government, and those were not used to warrant hhs in advance. so there were not warnings tat hhs was given. they were caught unprepared. but also there warernings coming up from staff, they did not take advantage of, and largely dismissed. and so that's why our recommendation is to make sure that as the department moves forward, that they are centering child porities and interests in all of their decision making, both in their isinternal de making as well as their interagency decision making.in >> desja and hhs has accepted all of your recommendation, but they point out they still have to use manual pcess, taking notes in each case, to connect child and parent. >> that's right. e>> desjardins: does that like it will be sufficient? >> it does not. and we have a recommendation to correct that. so they have made some strides children who are tly beingthe separated. but it is still a multistep,

manual process to make the information clear about whid chs actually been separated. we recommend that they improve that system, automate that system, so we can sure tht we can identified separated children to make sure they get propriate care and then reunite with their parent if appropriate. h> desjardins: so important to keep following t. ann maxwell of the inspector general's office of hhs, thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: today, turkey and russia announced a cease-fire in idlib, syria, the final osronghold of fighters opp to syrian president bashar al assad. turk has been fighting in idlib against syria and its ally, russia. and thatighting has helped push refugees to the syria-turkey border, and separately to the tu-greece

border. as nick schifrin reports, today's cease-fire will likely be temporary, d refugee movement has become a crisis. >> schifrin: for syrian srefugees, europe's shore symbolize sanctuary. but in recent ys, families fleeing turkey treach greece, have been met by aggressive greek military boats, and even n!nfire. >> we have child >> schifrin: and at the greece- turkey land border, refugees are rebuffed by concertina wire, armed greek guards, and sometimes, clouds of tear gas. turkey has allowed-- even encouraged-- these refugee families to head to the greek border. that created hope, and then the border. for blocking >> ( translated ): what we care about is to find a sfoe place our children. where can we go? we no longer have homes. we don't have work. we don't want anything. all we want is safety. >> schifrin: safety from the war that's now being fought between turkey, syria, and russia. in idlib, syria, russian-backed syrian government forces are fighting turkish soldiers and syrian rebels.

syria has killed almost 60 uaturkish soldiers since j. today in moscow, turkish president reccip tayeb erdogan and russian president vladimir putin announced a de-escalation zone ins fire.ia, and a cease- >> ( translated ): i express hope thathese agreements will serve as good ground for a cease-fire in the idlib de-escalation zo, will finally put an end to the suffering of create conditions aceon, and process in the syrian arabic republic. >> ( anslated ): our goal to prevent the worsening of the humanitarian crisis in the region. we will work together to supply aid for all the syans in need, without any precondition and discrimination. >> schifrin: but analysts sa the cease-fire will prove temporary, and civilians now living in camps, will remain caught in the crossfire. hundreds of thousands face an advance by the syrian regime and ssia, and have fled as close to the turkish border as they can. but, turkey refuses to open this rder. syrian children whose country

has been at war all their life,t bare the b the international rescue committee says 6 of parentsth say eir kids cry for no reason. these siblings fled air strikes and were living in a police station. then, they had to flee from there, too. aseel is 14. >> ( translated ): we were hit. the air strikes hit the police a statio a few raids hit beforehand, too. we are leaving our homes so my siblings won't be afraid, and my mother won't be scared. >> schifrin: earlier this week, seor u.s. officials visite idlib and pledged humanitarian aid and ammunition to turkey. but so far, the u.s. declined turkish requests for greater intervention. >> humanitarian aid is only a response. the real answer is an immediate ceasefire, a durable ceasefire. >> schifrin: the european union >> schifrin: but on the greek border, and inside syria, hundredsf thousands of refugees remain displaced, and a cease-fire doesn't replace their st homes. here with me now to discuss syria, the refugee crisis and

more is the united kgdom's defense secretary ben wallace, who's here meeting with u.s. officials. welcome to the newshour. mr. secretary. let's start with syria. does nato have an obligation to assist turkey in its fight against the syrian regime and the russian air force? >> it s an obligation under article 5 to any of its membew should thesh the seek to trigger that. nato also has an obligation the respond to anyrs mem concerns. that's why nato has already had a session at its headquarters to discuss the emeasuringing situation in syria. soink nato is doing what can do. it's being sup portive ofturkey insofar as understanding the challenges it has and recognizing the se situation right on its border. so i thi nato isfulfilling its obligations and will always continue to do so under its charter. >> schifri turkey is a member of nato and had asked for

more, namely patriots, for example, from the united statese we saw prdent erdogan make another deal with prede putin. this is not the first deal turkey has made. ould the u.s. try to help turkey more d in so doing trying to reduce that turkish-russian partnership? >> i think certainly wht turkey is learning the hard way is russia is one of the moster unreliable paryou can have. i think it's not an opportunity ink it's the chick season coming home to rot. if you do a deal with russia, count your fingers when you finish shaking hands. i think what is more imphetant isest, europe, britain, recognize and arey we do sympathetic to turkey's current position. they are already a country full of 3.6 million refugees from that conflict. that'sh@ country to hold. they're a country who faced re consequences of failed syria. what can the u.s. and u.k. do?

well, the first thing we can do is what we're going to do,hich is increase our'd to them. we'll help make sure those refugees are looked after. th we can discuss wi the turkish what it is they think we i'm off to turkey next week to visit. my foreign secretary went at th beginning this week. i think it's really important we engage with turkey, but in a spirit of deescalation. >> schifrin: let's spin aroundc the globe aner some other issues. the united kingdom has agreed to low chinese telecommunications giant huawei into the periphery of th 5g system. before that decision was made, you said, if are going allow countries access to our market, we should expect a code of behavior that is fair play. what assurance to you have that huawei will play fairly in. h >> we donve they assurance, which is why there are two parts to this polic first of all, our policy wasn't allowing them in, and like even

in some counties and parts of the united states, the huawei are already in our commercial that's partly because we in the west have failed to provide alternatives over the last few ars. we felt that having taken technical advice from ourle ing buy agency, the gthq, thet we could mitigat potential threat. we took the view to ban it fromi our al security network. so it's not in our defense network or all those places where weitcommunicateour allies and ourselves. we're going to cap it in the more commercial normal consumer facing parts of the twork to 35%. an we're going to work to cut it out over time there the network and replace it or as the network evolves to make sure it does not become aarea that we're dependent. >> schifrin: you reportedly opposed this decision. why didn't you resign after it was made? >> i will not comment about

media speculation about private conversations. they are classified. i'm part of a government that's collective. i think reality is we think, experts have told me technically in the 5g, we can contain them. i ink the bigger question for all of us in the west is china. how do we change china's behavior. as you said in the quote, you know, if you want access to our markets d our university, which by the way, they're in the unitedstates, they're in walmart, for example, you know, e chinese, all over our country, how do we change that behavior where we see evidence of obviously espionage, i.p. theft, et cetera. >> schifrin: you praised the u.s. taliban agreement just signed because the withdrawl of u.s. troops and nato troops is condition-based. ose conditions are not based on a reduction of violence on nhe ground long term or eve political progress between the afghan government and the taliban.cv thosditions are based strictly on the taliban renouncing al assad. -- al qaeda. are those conditions too narrow?

>> i thiork there are me conditions than just that. many i counterpart, secretary mark esper, said today there are two other parts of the deal. >> schifrin: the u.s.s ha admitted there are two other parts, but they are not going to change the fundamentals of plementation. >> the fundamentals are about the direction of travel to reduce violence. has been part of the condition, and as you saw previously, when those conditions are broken, presi tnt trump sait's . it's done. >> schifrin: the last time that>>e came close. he was very close. he was very clear about that, president trump, and, in fact, only yesterday ik there wasedia an air strike against a threat in afghanistan. you know, people have criticized people for trying. we have toy. young men and women from britain and america and some of our allies died to try to bring peace to afghanistan. if we don't try, then what's it all been for? but i absolutely hear people'sou concern theonditions. you know, it's got to be real. it's got to be deliverable, and it's got to be long last'sg.

thhy the u.k. alongside america will make sure that any drawdown at the moment is in a position that's going to allow us to continue to take the war on terrorism, the other threats, the parts of that area that are direct threats, dles that we make sure we work with the afghan government to ensure they can come for accommodations to the taliban. that's really important. from my point of view as i said in my public stement, they said it was small step. >> schifrin: ben wallis, secretary of state of the united >> thank you very much forch. having me. >> woodruff: and we'll be back shortly with a "brief bu spectacular" take on living out one's faith. but first, te a moment to hear from your local pbs station. it's a chance to offer your support, which helps kp programs like ours on the air.

>> woodruff: now, an inspiring story. william branghamollows top players of whechair tennis, to hear what they are learning, on and off the court. >> brangham: 28-year-old dana mathewson hits hard. she's the number one american women's wheelchair tennis player, competing at the world's top tournaments, including this, her third u.s. open. mathewson started as a soccer player, but at age 10, she contracted a rare neurological disease. in a matter of minutes, shewe from running on the field, to being paralyzed from the waist down. during this difficult time, r mom, who's a doctor, encouraged her to try tennis. >> when i heard about adaptive sports, i didn't think that thea would bething like what you saw today. i didn't think they would be etitive. >> brangham: flash-forward 19 years-- mathewson has represented the u.s. in world cup team tennis nine t. this september, playing for team

u.s.a., she won a gold medal in doubles and a bronze in singles at the pan-american in peru. >> definitely.fier? >> brangham: are you guys just as rough on each other and just as brutal? >> definitely. you have to come bombility or certain hardships, and then to also play a sport, that's a type of really resilient peon. >> brangham: that type of resilience is shown in other adaptivero sports, like wheelchair basketball, wheelchair racing, and skiing, all growing in popularity. >> we really feel like that respect has arrived. you're seeing the very, very best-- skill level, i would equate to the able-bodied side. >> brangham: jason harnett is the u.s. tennis associatios head coach for the paralympic team. he's kwn mathewson since she lerst picked up a racquet. the rus for wheelchair tennis tennis, with one exception:died you t two bounces, if player need the additional time to get

to the ball. here at the u.s. open, the world's top eight men and top eight women were competing, as were the best four quadriplegic players those who have at leasth ree extremities affected by a permanent disability.om they cpete in a separate competition. >> if you think about them using the chair, if i have to moveo my left my right, i actually have to turn the chair and push forward. there is no sidestep out. there is no cross-step. >> it's a big stage. >> brangham: jo wallen directs the wheelchair tournament at the u.s. open, and she says players have to hit the same tough shots, but they also have to quenkly steer their chair, oe- making figureights, so they can track the ball and be ready fothe return shot. >> it's the maneuvering the chair that messes up the able-bodied person.e >> brangham: sg names in able-bodied tennis, like novak djokovic and frances tiafoe, have tried playing from a chair, and discovered just how hard it is. >> i always dreamed to be a professional sports player. it was tennis, what i was meant to do. >> brangham: argentinean gustavo

fernandez is the number one ranked wheelchair tennis player in the world. in 2019, he's won the australian open, the french open and wimbledon. when we caught up with him at the u.s. open, he was going for his final of the grand slams. fernandez has been in a wheelchair since he was a year old, as a result of a >> i love to compete. and competition, it means everything to me. >> brangham: he said he feels a need to not only grow as a competitor, but to gn w this sport,rt to change perceptions. >> sometimes, the ignorance makes you not see what it really is. and ce you learn about it, you will see that it's a professional sport with high- and i think, in th, it will grow by itself. >>chrangham: fernandez's mates are intense.>> nice shot by fernandez. >> bngham: on this day, he blew a tire on the hot court. >> there's the wheelchair repair technician. >> brangham: enter mike zangari.

he's a pioneer who played wheelchair tennis himself for 35 years, and basketball before that. he's ready, courtside, to repair these lightweight, high-end untitanium chairs that can into the thousands of dollars. >> if you take your conventional hospital chair, or the ones you see in the airport or the ones i got my start in, i would relate them to ing a hummer. >> brangham: a hummer? >> big, clunky. now, comparing to these chairs, reat's what you have out t you have lamborghinis. >> brangha wheelchair tennis is slowly gaining traction. there are grassrootsevels up to professional ranks, and the sport is represented at all four grand slam events around the world. but, it's not without its challenges. building a fan base, getting more sponsors, even offering higher prize money-- wheelchair grand slam winners take home just over $33,000, compared toe llions for the able-bodied winners. certain players, like six-time o

u.s.pen singles champion and world number two shingo kunieda of japan, have a literalll owing. after this recent doubles win with gustavo fernandez, fans flocked to him. but they're nowhere near enough to fill the cavernous stadium. officials are also hoping the spitt will gain more popular as top competitors continue their u.s. open with a muchoo largerof players, like here in saint louis. these more intimate veelp build community. the players ate together, pumped up their own tires, heoued each othe and generally celebrated each other's achievements. fernandez and mathewson were part of that, while remaining laser-focused on their own goals. in new york, i asked them, what driveshem? >> the more and more that i get exposed to different things, t more that i realize what i can do with this disability and the things that it's afforded my life, the more i actually feel really grateful for it, which is kind a weird thing to say. a lot of people--

>> brangham: grateful? >> yes, a lot of people wouldn't really look at a disability and say that it's a great thg. i think that's one of the more unfortunate attitude people have about disability, that if someone can't walk, their life must suck. this disability has allowed me to represent my country. i get to travel the world for a i get to play a sport for a living. >> i like really much wh i do, d i respect it and i think i'm quite good at it, because i have been-- i have worked for it. so if there's 10 people, 10,000, one billion people watching it, for me, it will mean the same. >> brangham: tennis' year seemingly never stops. players are now competing in europe, before headithe season-ender in orlando. r the pbs newshour, i'm williabrangham in flushing meadows, new york. >> woodruff: finally tonight, a personal look at faith inac on. the reverend cecil williams

gives us his "brief but spectacular" take on what we can learn from helping the in need. >> i was born-- my god, 90 years ago. when i came in the world, immediately they started calling me "rev." my mother said to me, "you are ing to be a preacher," and that stirred me up, because a preacher represented a way of life that was quite different. it meant that not only would i the church... the church was the place where i stood up and said, "i'm going to beomebody, no matter what anybody said." >> i came to san francisco in i 193, ammediately began to work with a church called glide. glide is located in the

tenderloin, which is the worst conditions of human blight. it was the most dedica looking for something, but they kept looking for that which worked ainst them. i went to glide. oh, my god, it was awful. it was ahurch that closed its doors to all kinds of peop. and of course, when the bishop appointed me there, he said tome "i hope that you'll do something that will upset the people, because they need to be upset." i decided that if we were the church, we would act like it, and we would engage in what i call "dointheology." we're going to go and become a part of a world, which needs to face itself.so it became a church that was standing on the line, saying, ".

love y and we're going to stand with people no matter what their color, no matter what their class. those who are suffering, those who are going through trials and tribulations, through moments of despair." and that's what we've done. called janice miri, anda woman when you run into somebody like that you better get because you got to work on yourself. e took me and helped me humanity.live in my i had to be somebody. i had to be something more than i'd ever been. and so, what we've done through the years is, we have built program after program. we will give you a sense of recovery. we will give you a sense of loving.i me to san francisco in the tenderloin, and i made something

happen. my name is cecil williams. this is my "brf, but spectacular" take on why everybody is somebody. >> woodruff: remarkable. and you can find all our "brief but spectacular" segments online at www.pbs.org/newshour/brief. also on the newshour online right now, nasa announced the name of its new mars rover today: "perseverance," which was hesuggested by alexander m a seventh grade student from burke, virginia. learn why he picked that name on our website, pbs.org/newshour. and that is the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us again here tomorrow for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, and we'll see you so . >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> before we talabout your investments-- what's new? >> well, audrey's expectg... >> twins

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