♪ geoff: good evening. i'm geoff bennett. tonight on "pbs news weekend"... investigating trump. the justice department looks into whether donald trump kept sensitive government documents at any of his other properties beyond mar-a-lago. then... more pain at the pump? will cuts in oil production fuel higher gas prices? well, as a result of the opec decision to cut oil production, i expect that the national average could rise $0.10 to $0.30 a gallon. geoff: and... on our weekend spotlight, the president of a multi-billion dollar defense contractor and a program she championed to support mental health in the workplace, especially among military veterans. all that and more on tonight's "pbs news weekend." ♪

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by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: good evening. it's good to with you. as we come on the air, we are tracking the fallout after an explosion consumed parts of the only bridge linking the occupied crimean peninsula to russia. the bridge collapse disrupted a key supply line for ssian troops fighting in southern ukraine and dealt a major bl to the kremlin. ali rogin has this report. ali: on the kerch bridge, trains carrying fuel caught fire, and a car lane collapsed into the strait below. closed-circuit television caught the moment of impact. russ blamed it on a truck bomb, and said it killed three people. the explosion destroyed just part of the twelve-mile bridge, but it's a major blow to the russian military. the kerch bridge is a critical supply line, the only one of its

kind linking crimea with russia. it spans the kerch strait, which links the black sea with the sea of azov. russian president vladimir putin opened the bridge to great fanfare in 2018, after illegally annexing crimea four years earlier. pres. putin: at different historical times, people dreamed of building this bridge. now finally, thanks to your work, this project, this miracle, turned true. ali: in kyiv, ukrainians greeted the bombing of putin's bridge with joy. by saturday afternoon, a mockup of a new, commemorative stamp featuring a burning bridge stood in a central square. anastasiya: e news is very pleasant. too bad it didn't happen yesterday on putin's birthday. ali: russian investigators have not yet named suspects. for its part, the ukrainian government reacted with sarcasm. its official twitter account tweeted simply, "sick burn." but in southern ukraine, the situation was worsening at the

russian-occupied zaporizhia nuclear plant. officials said shelling had cut the main power line, so that it was now relying on emergency diesel generators. for "pbs news weekend," i'm ali rogin. geoff: in today's other headlines... funerals are underway in thailand for the 36 people who were killed in a massacre at a daycare center on thursday. 24 of the victims were toddlers. mourners gathered at several buddhist temples filled with children's keepsakes, flowers, and photos. some sat with their loved ones overnight, in the buddhist tradition of keeping company for those who died young. a former police sergeant was responsible for the killings -- one of the worst massacres in modern history. the president of indonesia said today that soccer's world governing body will not sanction his country for using tear gas at a soccer match last weekend. police had fired tear gas to disperse an unruly crowd, causing a deadly crush at the exits. 131 people were killed.

fifa advises against the use of tear gas, but it has no authority over how local governments and police control crowds. the indonesian government says it's agreed to work with fifa to improve stadium safety. indonesia is slated to host the fifa u-20 world cup next year. trains across northern germany came to a 3-hour standstill today, in what authorities are calling an act of sabotage. vital cables were severed in several locations, leaving hundreds of rail passengers stuck. the cause of the disruption is under investigation. the incident raised alarm given last month's acts of sabotage on the nord stream gas pipeline in the baltic sea. and, a u.s. army base will be given a new name in the coming months to honor a latino four-star general. fort hood, named after a confederate general who led the army's texas brigade, will now honor decorated army general richard vazos. he was the first hispanic-american to become an army four-star general. the 2021 defense authorization

act directed the removal of all imagery and titles that honor or commemorate the confederacy. still to come on "pbs news weekend"... why gas prices are rising across the country again. and... a corporate business leader encourages discussion of mental health issues in the workplace. >> this is "pbs news weekend" from weta studios in washington, home of the "pbs newshour," weeknights on pbs. geoff: we have new information about the classified documents found at former president trump's mar-a-lago property in florida, and there are new questions about whether all of the sensitive materials taken from the white house have been returned. to discuss the latest developments, i'm joined by neal katyal, former acting u.s. solicitor general. it is good to have you with us. mr. katyal: thank you for having me. geoff: the doj is again asking

trump's lawyers to return all of the sensitive, classified documents, this is after the fbi already retrieved thousands of documents from mar-a-lago in august with their search. would the doj be asking this if they didn't know for sure trump still had classified documents in his possession? mr. katyal: i don't think they need to know for sure, but i think they must have some good indication that donald to this day still is holding very sensitive documents that are either classified or otherwise national defense information. we already know that trump has held onto a whole bunch of highly sensitive documents involving human source information like who our spies are in other governments, perhaps nuclear information. we know it includes other things that aren't classified but are sensitive like donald trump's letters to the north korean leadership and the like. all of this, i used to be a

national security advisor at the justice department, all of this i couldn't even just look at in my office in the justice department. the idea that you could bring it to your house in florida or your club in new jersey or trump tower in manhattan boggles the mind. geoff: given that, why can't the doj indict with what they already have? based on your experience, what could come next? could we be looking at a search of one of his other properties? mr. katyal: yes to all of the above. if this were anyone else there would already be an indictment. the evidence is ovehelming, not just that trump had these documents that he held onto them and told his lawyers he had turned over everything and they were supposed to certify that when it was obviously not true. the search warrant was granted and executed after trump's lawyers certified everything was turned over, and though and

behold, they found hundreds and hundreds of pages of highly sensitive national security information afterwards. so i do think right now the justice department does have overwhelming evidence that would prevent them to indict. i suspect what is going on in their minds is we could do it now, but why don't we get a complete picture before we do the indictment. you can always supersede an indictment with more information later on but i think what they are thinking is let's try to dor out i's and cross our t's first. i don't think this is something merrick garland would look the other way on. anybody else, indictment would be a certainty. geoff: let's talk more about trump's legal team. i know they are deeply divided over how to handle the latest request to turn over documents. some have advocated for cooperation and others want to

take a more adversarial stance. the lawyer who has sort of pushed in favor of cooperati has been increasingly sidelined based on reporting. what does that say to you about the direction the trump team is taking? mr. katyal: i think donald trump has a difficult time hiring a quality lawyers, not just because he doesn't pay them, but because he asks them to do thgs that put them in legal jeopardy. almost every attorney that trump has hired has had to hire their own attorneys, leading to the joke that maga actually stands for "making attorneys get attorneys." we see it in this mar-a-lago investigation with at least a couple of the attorneys trump has hired now having to hire their own counsel because they are targets of a federal, oat least subjects of a federal criminal investigation looking into whether they lied to federal investigators. so there is a very complex

determination that should be made here. i think every attorney i know if they were representing donald trump would say let's fall on our sword and say i, donald trump, made a mistake, i am holding these documents, and basically beg for forgiveness. instead trump rewards what he always rewards, which is adversarial fighters who are fighting for no good reason. here is a really good illustration -- trump orchestrated with his lawyers this whole get a special master appointed to try and stop the criminal investigation. whatappened? he got the special master and the special master told him what he did not want to hear and the u.s. court of appeals, our second-highest court, has flatly rejected all of trump's demands and has said everything in the investigation thus far appears to be in good faith and trump's rights are not being violated. far from stopping the investigation, trumps adversarial tactics have led to now a court of appeals decision

that blesses the investigation into donald trump, and tha decision had two different judges out of the three appointed by none other than donald trump himself. geoff: thank you so much as always for your insights. mr. katyal: thank you. ♪ geoff: major oil-producing countries including saudi arabia and russia have announced they are cutting oil production by 2 million barrels per day. that means americans will soon be feeling the effects of that decision when they fill up their gas tanks. but as ali rogin reports, the impact will depend at least in part on where in the country you live. ali: gas prices are likely to change as a result of the decision from opec plus, that is the group of 23 oil exporting countries that meet regularly to decide how much crude oil will be produced. there are several other factors

contributing to already high prices in certain parts of the country. here to break it down is patrick de haan, head of petroleum analysis at gas buddy. thank you for joining us. in general we've seen gas prices take down through a lot othe country, there are some major exceptions to that, especially with places like california and the great lakes region. those are major population centers. can we first talkbout why prices are taking backup in that part of the country? patrick: the past few weeks, an onslaught of refinery issues in on the west coast and great lakes has pushed gas prices up tremendously in areas of california. some have risen one dollar to $1.50, because of shutdowns that have brought supply on the west coast to the lowest in 10 years.

the great lakes, they are up $.50 to one dollar. ali: we know sometimes refineries have to go off-line for scheduled maintenance but what is happening in these cases? patrick: of a right -- a variety of both of those. with summer behind us, several refiners are going through seasonal maintenance and that's normally not a problem, but in california and the great lakes, it is the unexpected issues that can arise, akin to getting a nail in your tire or a rock on your windshield. these can be minor issues but put together greatly limits the ability for refineries to produce gasoline. it is planned maintenance, but also unexpected outages, four in california alone. ali: you add to that the opec plus news. how will that compound what those parts of the country are feeling in terms of gas prices? patrick: as a result of the opec

decision to cut oil production, expect the national average could rise $.10 to $.30 a gallon. what it will do is probably what some don't expect, the refinery issues have started to improve, surprises in the rate likes and the west coast will start to drop but probably not as much because of the opec decision. i: what about the rest of the country? you mention prices are likely to increase, so how are those regions of the country going to be affected? patrick: we are already seeing some of these regions go up in price and that's because oil prices had expected this opec decision. oil prices are almost $15 a barrel higher than last week. prices are rising in the rockies, the northeast and southeast. i expect the rise to be $.10 to

$.30 a gallon. ali: how much do expect prices to continue to rise given what you just said, that some of these increases have already been baked into what we are seeing? patrick: exactly, some of these areas have gone up maybe five cents or $.10 a gallon. for the areas that haven't seen anything at all, they will bear the brunt of the bigger increases, as much as $.10 to $.30, starting at any moment if not already, and that will last for one or two weeks. i would expect a totality, the average impact to be $.10 to $.30 a gallon coast-to-coast as a result of opec cutting production. ali: those are some of the disparate activities we don't necessarily see around this time every year, what we don't see is fuel demand tends to dip after the summer travel season. will that impact gas prices in the short term at all? patrick: it is likely softening the blow of the impact from

opec's decision to cut oil production. as you mentioned, gasoline demand tends to go down as americans a stay closer to home and cooler weather keeps them inside. if opec had decided this in the midst of the summer driving season, the impact might be double what it otherwise wld be. a fall in demand will generally help limit thempact. by the end of the year we can still see pces lower than today. ali: lastly, is there anything the biden administration can do to bring down prices in the near term? patrick: i think the bided administration has talked a lot about how he doesn't want to rely on the fsil fuel sector and move away from it, but it is also undermining oil companies's desire to invest, knowing the writing might be on the wall. they have gone to other places to ask for additional oil output. i think the president can provide clarity. ali: patrick de haan, thank you

so much for your time. patrick: my pleasure. ♪ geoff: time now for our weekend spotlight -- amy gilliland, president of the multi-billion dollar global defense company, gdit. last summer, amy received a phone call informing her that one of gdit's employees died by suicide. that tragedy drove amy to ensure that no other employee was silently suffering. she created a program to spark company- and industry-wide conversations about mental health issues, especially among military veterans. amy gilliland joins us now. it's so great to have you here. and this campaign you started, it's called "how are you really?" and the name struck me because that question suggests that the first answer you get to a question like that isn't always the real answer. amy: it's either not the real answer, or people don't stick

around to hear what you say. a lot of times it's just perfunctory in passing. and so we wanted people to ask and to listen for the answer. geoff: how do you at a company like the one that you run, $8.5 billion in revenue, 28,000 employees all around the world. how do you scale a program like that to check in with people? amy: whether it's for this or anything else, you want a company to feel connected. and so we have really been focused on building community. and how do you do that? one of the ways we do that, we have employee resource groups, and we've used them for everything from dealing with societal injustices throughout the pandemic and having conversations about that to having conversations about mental health. so as an example, we have a veteran group and just this week we had speakers come in and talk to veterans and anybody else who turned up about suicide. the suicide rate among veterans,

as you may know, is higher than it is in the broader population. and so we have between 25% and 30% of our workforce that are veterans. and so this is an important topic to have. so we try and make a big place feel small. geoff: the world in which you work though, the intelligence, the defense community, there's a fear. there's a concern that if people start talking about mental health issues that could invite scrutiny, that could lead to people losing their security clearances. and many of these jobs, as you well know, without that security clearance, you can't keep the job. how do you navigate those concerns amy: yeah, you're so right. and so the most important thing for people to be feel empowered to come forward and say they're not okay is to remove the stigma of mental health. and this was a huge blockade we saw with all of our cleared employees. and so what we did was we went got the facts, intelligence agencies want the employees that are serving the mission to be well and to be healthy and to be resilient.

and they want them to seek the help that they need. and actually, it is in 0.00001% of instances that people would lose our clearance. so it's fiction, not facts. and so what we have done is try to get the facts out there and to have our leaders and senior leaders talk to employees and even go so far if they want to talk about their own struggles and the fact that they have sought help. it's okay to not be okay even if you have a clearance. geoff: you know, it would have been easy for you to send a companywide email and say, we know that people are having mental health issues during this pandemic. if you need help, here are a number of places where you can go to find it and then you just insert all of the links. i have worked in enough places where i've been on the receiving end of emails like that. why go beyond that and be very proactive about making sure that the people who work for you actually get the help that they need? amy: in the aftermath of the pandemic, the statistics are just stunning, and it is clear that workplaces have to be part

of that safety net. 20% of adults have mental health issue. they just reported recently that there was a 4% increase in suicide rates. 70% of adults are saying that their children are suffering from mental health issues. and so it's not actually even just a workplace. it's a family issue also. and that requires something different than what we did before. we increased our programing. we've had over a hundred sessions. they're all voluntary. people can come. they' anonymous. so people can feel free to to engage and interact and ask questions. and through that, i can't tell you how many times i've had an employee when i go into a work setting, come up and say, thank you, thank you for doing that. i had this situation. or they sent me an email saying, hey, this gave me permission. and so i think we're trying to make a conversation in a secure space, an okay thing to do. and that takes more than an

email. geoff: a question about your background. you are a u.s. navy veteran and you're among the few women to have ever led an entire brigade of midshipmen. and you've come from family, three generations of military service. what were some of the pivot ints in your career and how does that military service inform the work that you do now? amy: i do come from a military family. my great grandfather immigrated to the united states from switzerland and he served his country and he was so proud. i was raised by a single mother and i remember sitting at the breakfast table with him because she worked full time and he imbued such a sense of service. so i went into the military, served on a guided missile destroyer. and i had an incredible experience traveling the world. and when i came back, i came to d.c., served in a variety of missions there, and i made a very difficult decision. point one was getting out of the service and that was a really hard decision for me and it wasn't easy.

and i didn't want to be far away from what was all i'd known my whole career, which was the navy. so a mission was important, came to general dynamics. five years ago i had this incredible opportunity to come out and run this large business. and it has been the greatest challenge and the most incredible opportunity. geoff: i can imagine. we were talking earlier about your bracelet that i noticed . what does that represent? amy: so this bracelet is about rett syndrome. i'm also a mother, which is probably the best job there is. i know you're talking about being a parent also. hard to be the parent of a fifth grer these days, for sure. but my my middle child has rett syndrome. and rett syndrome is a genetic mutation that results in neurological difficulties. it's mostly prevalent in in girls, and it causes them to generally be nonverbal, have no meangful use of their hands. many are not mobile, many are tube fed.

and so this is a reminder to me of what my daughter goes through every day. and the science that is evolving now is so hopeful. it's also a reminder of of the hope. so no matter how bad my day is, ashley is fighting harder and i have to fight for her. geoff: well, our best to ashley and our best to you. thanks so much for coming in and speaking with us. i appreciate it. amy: thanks for making the time. ♪ geoff: and that's our progm for tonight. join us tomorrow evening -- we'll focus on the political landscape in georgia and wisconsin and how those two states could help determine control of the senate and direction of the country. i'm geoff bennett. for all of us at "pbs news weekend," thanks for spending part of your saturday with us. >> major funding for "pbs news weekend" has been provided by -- ♪ and with the ongoing support of

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