john: tonight on "pbs news weekend," new york city tries to uphold its history of welcoming immigrants as it struggles to deal with a flood of asylum seekers. then, at the women's world cup, the defending champion u.s. team makes its earliest exit ever in a suspense-filled shootout. and, bringing a taste of hmong cooking and culture to minnesota's twin cities, one bite at a time. >> our food has always been about people. our cultural dna, it's integrally woven into the foods that we eat. it tells our story. ♪ >> major funding for the "pbs

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john: good evening. i'm john yang. across ukraine, there has been a series of attacks from both sides as the war drags on. in western ukraine, russia launched a barrage of missile and drone strikes in retaliation for ukraine's attack on a russian tanker on the black sea. and in the east, ukraine pressed its counteroffensive with shelling in russan-held territory. in all, officials on both sides said at least six people were killed across the country. this all comes as a two-day ukrainian diplomatic push to build support beyond its core western backers wrapped up in saudi arabia. russia wasn't invited to participate, and derided the talks as a futile, doomed effort. former president donald trump says he never told his vice president, mike pence, to put him above the constitution by overturning the results of the 2020 election. in a social media post, trump also said he never called pence

"too honest," an exchange quoted in last week's indictment against the former president. trump said of pence, "he's delusional, and now wants to show he's a tough guy." on cnn's "state of the union," pence stuck to his version of events. mike pence: with regard to being called too honest, dana, i've been called worse. and, i don't know what was in his heart. i don't know what his intentions were, but i do know what he and his lawyers asked me to do. john: trump's lawyers have until tomorrow afternoon to tell a federal judge why she should deny the justice department's request to limit what trump can say about the case. it was heartbreak down under for the u.s. women's national soccer team and its fans. the u.s. squad is out of the world cup after losing to sweden in a match at melbourne, australia. it's the first time the team has failed to make it even to the quarterfinals. after struggling in earlier matches, the u.s. outshot the

swedes. but they couldn't score in either regulation time or overtime, which ended in a scoreless draw. the winner was determined by penalty kicks. on the deciding kick, it first appeared that the u.s. goalkeeper had batted it away. but a review determined it had barely crossed the goal line, giving sweden the win. sweden now plays japan in the quarterfinals. on a happier note, olympic gold medal gymnast simone biles returned to competition after a two-year hiatus. she won a qualifying event for the national championships. she ended her routine with a vault so difficult, she's the only gymnast to complete it since she introduced it in 2021. it was her first appearance since withdrawing a quarter of the way through the team final at the 2021 tokyo olympics. she said at the time she wanted a break to focus on her mental health. still to come on "pbs news weekend," knocked out, a heartbreaking loss for the u.s. women's soccer team and a chef embraces his heritage and wins diners' taste buds. ♪ >> this is pbs news weekend from

home of the pbs newshour at w eta studios in washington. john: new york city has long been a city of immigrants living up to the words on the statue of liberty in the city's harbor. "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." alone among majou.s. cities, new york has a legal obligation to offer shelter to everyone who wants it. but the current influx of migrants and asylum seekers is putting that to the test. they came from around the world making often dangerous journeys to a city they hoped would offer them better lives. what they've found is a city whose migrant crisis is at a breaking point. an intake center at the historic roosevelt hotel in midtown manhattan has been filled to overflowing. many have been sleeping shoulder to shoulder on concrete sidewalks. mayor eric adams has called for federal assistance. >> we need help. we need help. and it's not going to get any

better. we put busses there for cooling systems, but it's just not sustainable. john: city officials say the shelter system has been overwhelmed by the nearly 100,000 migrants and asylum seekers who have arrived in new york since spring 2022. further complicating things, republican governors like greg abbott of texas have been sending thousands of migrants to new york city and other so-called sanctuary cities. in addition to financial help, adams is asking the federal government to expedite work permits. but some advocates say a longer term solution is needed. >> we need to actually stop doubling and tripling down on broken systems like our emergency shelter system and actually invest in getting people out of emergency shelter and into permanent housing. john: new york's guarantee of housing is the result of a lawsuit from the legal aid society more than 40 years ago. this week, legal aid threatened to take the city back to court. jasmine garsd is a new york based correspondent for npr. her work is focused on immigrant

communities. jasmine, we've seen pictures. we were able to show pictures of what a television camera can see, but it can't see everything. you've been there. you've been to these centers. you've been to the sidewalks around these centers. what have you seen? what are people told you down there? jasmine garsd: what we've seen is that the shelter system is overwhelmed. they have said they're at capacity. en i was at the roosevelt hotel, which served as intake center, there were people who were sleeping outside, had been sleeping outside for four, five, six days during a heat wave, and they were just waiting for intake. john: is this just an issue of volume, or is there another problem going on here? jasmine garsd: well, new york pcity is undergoing a housing crisis. one problem compounding with another. i have spent quite a bit of time with homeless encampments of migrants and asylum seekers, many of whom told me they do not want to be inside of those shelters, that the overcrowding,

the food that sometimes is in bad condition and gets people sick. i've heard widespread accounts of 80 or 90 people having to share one or two bathrooms. it is really, really a bad situation for migrants and asylum seekers here in the city. john: you've spoken to asylum seekers and migrants there. how many of them said that they intended to go to new york from the beginning and how many just ended up there by other means? jasmine garsd: absolutely nobody that i have spoken to chose new york city. everyone i've spoken to told me i just got bussed here. you know, one of the new policies that mayor eric adams has announced, it will hand out fliers at the border urging people to find somewhere else to go that isn't new york. it's unusual. however, every single person that i have spoken to had no idea that new york was at capacity, that theituation in the shelters was as it is, and that they would be having to wait on the streets for days on

end. john: you said most or all of the people you talked to just got bused to new york, and now new york is bussing them upstate. where are they ending up? in what conditions are they seeing when they get there? jasmine garsd: yes. people have been bus to areas upstate. certain places like yonkers and albany have said this is a lot to handle, but we will do it. and there's other areas upstate that have really balked. i mean, there's even been lawsuits. there's been restraining orders. there's parts of upstate new york that have told the city you are a sanctuary city. we are not. we do not want people here. and that has caused a lot of concern among activists and advocates. john: i know you went down to the border on a reporting trip. is there any connection between what you saw at the border and what you're seeing in new york

city? jasmine garsd: yes, absolutely. the biden administration has had a policy of deterrence, saying, you know, do not just cross the border and expect to get asylum. if we catch you crossing the border without papers, you will be deported in an expedited way and there will be a harsher punishment. and it also encouraged people to use the cbp one app, in other words, to apply for asylum online. i met so many migrants that their daily routine of basically wake up at 6:00 a.m. and try to get on that cbp one app so that they can do the asylum process. i did also meet people that were completely desperate, and they didn't want to wait in mexico because their lives were in danger, because they had suffered exploitation or abuse or harassment or worse in mexico, and they were just going to go for it and cross because they felt that their lives were

in danger. john: jasmine garsd of npr. thank you very much. jasmine garsd: thank you. ♪ john: going into the world cup, few would have predicted what has happened to the u.s. women's team, their earliest departure ever from the tournament after today's loss to sweden on penalty kicks in the round of 16. christine brennan is a sports columnist for usa today. what is your biggest take away from the game? >> certainly it's historic john in the sense that the u.s. team as we know if they don't win these tournaments, they are in the final or for sure, the semifinal and this is the first

time. the u.s. will not be in the final four and not only that they're knocked out the round of 16. so that is really the shock. just the momentous nature of this team, which is much more than just a soccer team. i think the u.s. women's team is the most famous team in any sport from any nation in terms of women's sports, and so they've done so much off the field in terms of working for equal pay and putting their hand out to others from other nations to encourage them to start playing soccer, especially some of those nations that did not want to have women playing soccer. so they've been really amazing story over all these years, going all the way back to '91, the first women's world cup. and to see them go out like this is shocking, obviously shows the world has caught up in some ways. nonetheless, i'm going to guess that we won't see this happen again for a long time, and the fact that they've gone out so soon with almost two weeks left in the tournament. john: there has been a lot of criticism about the coaching and attitude of the players. is this a team that failed to live up to its potential, or was

just this just not the squad that was going to win the third consecutive championship? >> i think they failed to live up to their potential. one would think with all of the young women playing soccer in the united states that we could put together kind of any collection of talent, and they should be able to score more than one goal over the last three games and only three against vietnam in the opening game and they should be able to figure it out and work together. i think i'm going to guess that the coach vlatko andonovski will be fired. i have no reporting on that, but that just seems to be what we're hearing. that seems to be the logical step. and it's stunning when you think of the feeder system in the united states and u.s. soccer, where's the failure here? i think there should be a top to bottom. a look at what went wrong. but the fact that for several games they look so disjointed and like they did not even know each other. shocking even though we must say that there were 14 new faces out

of the 23 members of the team, 14 young women who had not eve been in a world cup before, although, again, with the u.s. system, that shouldn't maer, and so something clearly did not go as expected. john: you're talking about the youth of this team. i think a number of the starters and those who got a lot of minute playing time were under 30. younger than 30. should we be optimistic about the team because of that? >> i think so. and a couple of the players who are injured should be back. there is less than a year from now, john, of course, the olympic games and that's a very big tournament for women's soccer and the u.s. should be able to come right back and he a chance. where were the seniors? you know when we think of the great names in u.s. women's soccer from mia hamm, brandy chastain and her penalty kick that was so instrumental back in '99 in the rose bowl and abby wambach and even megan rapinoe even four years ago. this team just didn't have the wherewithal to get the ball in the back of the net.

ey had 11 shots on goal, and the swedish goalkeeper was terrific. but the swedes only had one shot on goal. and the u.s. actually out shot sweden overall 21 to 7, so there was so many opportunities and you wonder, where was that putting down the hammer and just making that final move and even in the penalty kicks, of course, missing three of the last four penalty kicks, that is just unheard of, and so is that a mindset issue, is that nerves, is that too many expectations for this team and some of its young players like sophia smith, who missed one of the penalty kicks, although two veterans with the others. megan rapinoe and kelli o'hara, who also missed? you have to make the goal keeper make the save. so many questions and obviously so few answers right now. john: christine, you mentioned megan rapinoe, who's already announced her retirement, kelley o'hara, other veteran players on this squad, alex morgan, they may have seen their last world

cup game. what legacy do they leave? >> i think 25, 50 years from now what we will be talking about is equal pay. the way they fought to have equal pay with the men, and they won, and that is a legacy that that travels far and wide around the globe and what is still a very misogynistic world of soccer and the thought that those nations that haven't cared , knowing the u.s. is paying them equally other nations have , now had those battles because they looked to the u.s. i think that's it on the field of play, no doubt about it. four world cups for olympic gold medals, there's still the gold standard, even though obviously today they are not, but in terms of history, but i think that off the field, we tked about johnny appleseed, sowing the seeds for the sport around the world fighting for girls and women all over the world, not just the united states to have the opportunities that women have here because of title ix. john: christine brennan of usa today.

thank you so much. >> john, thank you. ♪ john: st. paul, minnesota, is home to the nation's largest populationf hmong, an indigenous, nomadic people from southeast asia. thousands of hmong refugees ended up in the upper midwest after the vietnam war. they've called the area home for nearly 50 years, but their cooking hadn't que found a home there. special correspondent megan thompson tells us about one chef who seems to be changing that. >> so this is the rice in here, this is our big rice steamer. woo. that's hot. to be completely honest, i never wanted to do this. i tried my hardest to get out of it. megan: why? >> i would say in our culture, in the old school way of looking

at it, is like, to be a cook meant like you would just be, you know, sloshing it in the back. you're dirty all the time. megan: yia vang may have failed to avoid cooking for a living. but he's doing much more than getting dirty in the kitchen. the minneapolis chef is at the forefront of introducing the twin cities and the nation to the food of the hmong, an ethnic group from southeast asia. >> we ways say hmong food consists of four elements, a meat, a rice, a vegetable, and a hot sauce. megan: vang's union hmong kitchen started in 2016 as a pop-up, then a food trailer outside a local cidery. now, it's a popular counter inside a trendy food hall. vang also launches new menu concepts every few months at hilltribe, his kitchen and event space. he's been a james beard award finalist or semi-finalist for the last two years. >> here we have our pork belly. we have our hmong sausage. khao seng, which is our noodles. and then we have our purple sticky rice here because if everything is too flavorful, it's too big for you,he purple sticky rice helps balance everything out.

>> i've actually never had hmong food, and this is my first time and it's phenomenal. megan: in the cities with the largest hmong population in the nation, vang is hailed as the first to bring his native food to the masses. in april, he opened a stand at the twins baseball stadium, and last summer, and fans lined up for his booth at minnesota's legendary state fair, the first time hmong food had been served at either place. lee pao xiong is the director of the center for hmong studies at concordia university in st. paul. >> i think what's unique about a yia is the ability to communicate and to connect to younger generations, right? i mean, they've seen the hmong people, but they've never been invited to the kitchen. >> our food has always been about people. our cultural dna, it's integrally woven into the food that we eat. it tells our story. megan: that story begins around 5,000 years ago in china, where the hmong originated. they are thought to be among the

first in the world to cultivate rice and are known for their colorful dress and embroidery. conflict eventually pushed the hmong south into the mountains of burma, thailand, vietnam, and laos. it was in laos during the vietnam war that the cia recruited the hmong for covert missions. >> our task was to rescue american pilots who were shot down, to also engage the north vietnamese in combat. preventing them from going down to the southern part of laos. and then going across to fight the americans in south vietnam. >> they painted the whole mural around this area. megan: the conflict is so central to the hmong story that an expansive mural of long tieng, a secret cia air base in laos, covers a wall of the hmong village market in st. paul. >> and actually long cheng is a place where my father, at a young age, him and his brothers, they joined up with the sgu, the special guerrilla unit, and their missions were launched out of this area. megan: the conflict killed an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 hmong soldiers, about a quarter of all

hmong men and boys in laos. tens of thousands of civilians also died during the war, and after the american forces withdrew. >> so after the united states pulled out in 1975, guess what? the vietnamese came after us. and so we fled to thailand. megan: yia vang's father led a group through the jungle and across the mekong river to safety in thailand. in 1984, vang was born there, inside a refugee camp. many hmong immigrated to minnesota after the war, thanks to an active group of church-based aid organizations. today, the state is home to close to 100,000 hmong. vang's family ended up next door in wisconsin, where food was a way to maintain the hmong culture. >> learning how to cook in a hmong household is not an option. it's not like, hey, do i want to cook? no, you're going to cook. >> we want all our children to learn to work with us, washing dishes, prepping vegetables, chopping meat together, making food together. >> i taught you that when grilling, you need to season the meat very well and don't allow

it to burn. megan: but vang says as a child, he wasn't necessarily proud of his heritage. >> i was always ashamed that my parents couldn't come to school for like career day, because m parents couldn't speak english. and as a kid, i was always very embarrassed. megan: vang worked in restaurants to help pay the bills after college and launched his hmong food truck, but wasn't sure of its future. then, in 2017, his father suffered a head injury. >> my dad, he's a warrior, right? he fought a war. he survived the odds. he got us to this country. if he dies on the bed, his whole legacy goes with him. so it changed for me. it was not about telling the story of our people, it was the solidification of the legacy of mom and dad.

megan: and so today, vang uses his popular eateries to tell his parents' story. >> hmong sausage is something that my dad taught us growing up. it's very aromatic. it's lemongrass, ginger, garlic, shallots, fish sauce, thai chilies. we won an award with this recipe and i told my father about it and he was just like, oh, really? that simple thing? people like that? we've got mama vang's hot sauce, it looks like that dark crimson paste. megan: vang's parents even supply some his ingredients grown on their small farm north of st. paul. >> every time that i taste his food, it's always something different. >> the spicy red sauce that thick paste. you can just dip it on anything. i could picture having it on ice cream and that being good. >> america. >> it's nice to meet you, for sure. megan: but it's not just the food that's brought vang success, it's also his sense of humor and big personality. vang has a podcast about hmong culture. >> manny, i love your tortas.

megan and he hosts two tv shows. :>> feral with yia vang. >> he's kind of like a trailblazer, especially for the hmong people. we don't have a country to call our own. no one really understands our cuisine, and he's been able to introduce it to the world. megan: vang's earned some high-profile fans, too, like peggy flanagan, the lieutenant governor of minnesota, who stopped by a recent event celebrating asian american pacific islander heritage month. >> lieutenant governor. >> this is my mom. peggy flanagan: nice to meet you. congratulations, you have an amazing son. megan vang cooked all the food : with his parents, of course. >> those eggrolls are mom's famous eggrolls. ever since we were little kids, we would do egg roll sales, it came to the point where the health department in our little wisconsin town came out and they were like, what's going on? megan vang's hoping to launch

: his first formal brick-and-mortar restaurant soon, calling it vinai after the refugee camp where he was born and where his parents first met embracing his heritage, no longer ashamed. >> fast forward 30 years. i'm hoping that people would talk to me about my parents. i cannot not talk about them. i've run so far, tried so hard to run from who i am, that it becomes a circle to running to back to who you were meant to be. megan: for pbs news weekend, i'm megan thompson in minneapolis. ♪ john: and that is pbs news weekend for this sunday. i'm john yang. for all of my colleagues, thanks for joining us. have a good week. >> major funding for the "pbs newshour" has been provided by -- >> for 25 years, consumer cellular has worked to get people more of what they like. our customer service team can help you find the plan th fits you.

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