♪w3w3e1 on this edition for sunday, june 29th, the president proposes a $2 billion aid bill to handle the recent surge in illegal immigration. in our signaturexd segment, rap music lyrics playing an increasingly prominent role in qiminal cases across the country. >> i can tell you that it's in the hundreds. >> hundreds of instances? >> hundreds oft+rlp instances w rap lyricsñi are being used at some point in the criminal justice process. >> and what hospitals andt( doctors know about you that you haven't told them. next on pbs news hour weekend. pbs news hour weekend is made possible by -- lewis b. and louise hirshfeldt kalman.ñi judy and josh westin.w3

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have been apprehended after crossing into the u.s. along the texas border with mexico. the president spoke about the issue during an interview that aired this morning on abc. >> we have to house these kids and take carezn of themçó unti machinery underr allows us to send them back. >> the president also is expected to askñr congress to grant the homeland security department new powers toñi fast track theçó screening and deportation of minors entering the country illegally. during that same interview, the president alsoñi talked about h the movement of terrorist sympathizers between europe and i=i threat here. >> we've seene1xd europeans who sympathetic to their cause traveling into syria and now may travel into iraq, getting ! hardened. then they comak back. they've got european passports. they don't need a visa to get into the united states. >> on that same program, new york republican congressman peter king went further.

>> not only are there thousands of europeans who are visas sent to the united states going to syria,qçóq there's also at leas 100-plus americans who are over there in syria right now. so any of these people can go back to the united states and can carry out the type of attack that they're being trained in, in syria. >> inñi iraq today, the government's efforts to recapture northern cities recently seized byi] islamic extremists reportedly has jllñ stalled. iraqi government troops using tanks and helicopters tried to move into tikrit, about 90 miles north of baghdad. but the xdcounteroffensive was halted and government trooped reportedly retreated after what was described as heavylp fighti with militants from thexd islam state of iraq and the levant. the militants placed improvò explosive devices on the roads leading into tikrit to slow the governmentnadvance. this weekend, russia delivered five fighter jets toxd the government in baghdad in an effort to turn back the extremists. uneasiness over iraq has lifted oil prices here ate1 home, and

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planning to place miniw3 radio collars on them. and laste1 week we w3mistak reported george zimmerman used florida's sáund your ground law as the basis for his defense in the shootingw3ko ofçó trayvon . stand your ground was not used by zimmerman's defense. we regretçó the error.çóxd a story published a few days agos7 caught our attention and so what are theyfá buying and w are they buying it from? >> they're buying the same type of data retailers have been using for years to target products at you. what we're talking about here is information that's collectedçóç compj.)qáh(p&led data brokers, whichq can track every

transaction a consumer makes. they can find out how much your home is worth, what type of car you on, even things like your d8hiking or rock climbinge1 bas off public bdatabases. for years, retailers have used this to send you a coupon or figure out who might like to subscribe to a certain list. now hospitals are saying,e1 cane use thi%xyqdata, this informati to try and predict who's going to get sick and end up at the ÷ñ >> why areñi hospitals interest in this kind of information? >> under obamacare, they have an increased incentive to keep patients healthy because the law changes the wayxd they are paid. so under the law, hospitals now get penalized if you come back to the emergency room too frequently and if hospital isn't meeting certain patient quality and health qoutcomes. and insurers are following the same mold too. insurers no longer want to pay for hospitals who are just doing more and more tests and procedures over and over again. they want to be paying for quality.

so hospitals are going to be held accountable if patients are too sick,fá if patients are goi back to the emergency room too frequently. >> what about all ofq this information as a am i opting into this, orñi am opting out of it? if there's something wrong, can i correct the assumption that the hospital is going by? >> so right now hospitals are at the very early stage of usingi] this e1data. butq there's a very large hospital chainfá calledtñcarols health care system. they own over 900 hospitals,çó nursing lphomes, physicians i%aq%=ns, the hospital feels they want to know and should be able to know that. if you don't wthp't the hospita knowing what you're buying at cvs or the grocery store, you can have an option to that. certain things they want to definitely know about you because they're being held accountable for your health. >> and very briefly, they cannot use this to discriminate against a pre-existing condition, even1$

you might have a heart condition, right? >> absoltvely. there's a lot of things tha-ñq e illegal for hospitals to do, and also bound byxd the same a-ñq e privacy rules as anything else is that you would share with your doctor. >> all right. thanks so ñimuch. >> thank you.çóu nowó[ to our signature sto. tonight, we look atxd a controversial new tool in the prosecution of xdcrime. the growing use of rap lyrics to helpñr establish motive or inte or even to findú be interpreted as a xdconfessio. critics say the practice is misguided andxd undermines a defendant's chance to get a fair trial.e1 our news hour correspondent ézáp>> seven years ago, middle the day in newport news, virginia, and someonee1 starts r shooting. >> 911. >> we shot. he shot this boy. >> when local police arrived at the scene,ok they found two you

victims. a 20-year-old was laying near death on the front porch. he died later at thee1 hospital. a 16-year-old was already dead behind the house face down in rass. but police couldn't find any leads. no witnesses, no weapon.jf so a double murder information went nowhere. but four years later, a new detective named carlos nunez was assigned toq the r he got a tip that a local rapper named antwan stewa)a÷, seen her in this voideo, wasi]ñi the sho. and stewart had actually written a rapjf song bragging about the murder. stewart produces what some call gangster rap, his lyrics?; overwhelmingly focused on gang life. one songe1 caught the detective eye. when nuneze1 heard it, he belied stewart was bragging about the murder. listen.ñi ♪ñi

some of the details match. the shooting happened on a porch. no witnesseslp immediately came forward. but others don't. the time of day is wrong. there wasn't a stabbing. caliber of the gun is wrong. and there'3ñf only oneñr victim] mentioned, not two. but more importantly, is this evidence of anything? is it just a song, or is itñi a confession? based largely on that rap anne on the accounts of two witnesses given years after the shooting, the rapper was arrested and iq he's been in jail since the timq of hisarrest. during his initial interrogation, the detectivei] zeroed in on stewart's rap lyrics. >> the rap song you sang way back then said everybody saw me but nobody saw me when i smoked you. >> what doeslp that got to do wh t)]8[ bleep ].that you just

>> you talked about a porch. >> what do thatzv got to do wi anything? >> when i was in interrogation, that's the first thing he threw at me. >> it seemed like the rap lyrics oçm)wvñjxqn3iñir

he's nowe@,he ceo of the association of prosecuting attorneys. >> if it's matching, that would very much be another piece of evidence that we would like to admit in the case because we think it is relevant. >> i can tell you that it's in the hundreds. >> hundreds of instances? >> hundreds of instances where rap lyrics are being used at some point in the criminalfá justice process. >> eric neil son of the university of richmond is a scholar of rap and a=)ñ strong critic of its use in criminal proceedings. he says it too often mistakes the musical art form for evidenceçó of criminal t(behavi. >> i mean, what prosecutors have found is that when they can introduce rap lyrics as

evidence, particularly in situationsxúáhere they don't hae strong evidence otherwise, they are still able to secure convictions. >> no one tracks exactly how often rapr sewlqe convictions in xdcourt, just as no one keeps track of how often they'req used to secue pleañiñir and there are no hard and fast rules about using them in court. a judge has to weigh a lyric's relevance versus its potentialf& to unfairly prejudice the jury. there's somei] cases like denni green's where the connection between a rap and a crime is clear. in 2003, green brutally killed his wife and then rapped specifically about committing the murder. the lyrics were introduced at trial, and he was sentenced to life in prison. but other cases aren't as clear cut. >> three specific words arer prosecutors hope will link -- >> two years ago in louisiana, a rapper namedxd terrence hatch w tried for ñrfirst-degree murder. prosecutors argued that a few

cryptic words of one rap song were, in fact, a confession. not guilty. but one of the most skinner was convicted in 2008 of shooting a fellow drug dealer outside this new jersey house. during his wfñtrial, prosecutor read 13 pagest( of skinner's but his conviction was overturned by an appellate court that ruled the extensive readings unfairly:bqejudiced the jury. the state supreme court is now weighing whether skinner deserves a new trial.ñi to critics, prosecutors rarely, if ever, should use rap as evidence in court. he says it's an+z] art form tha intentionally uses elaborate word play andfá exaggeration.ca1 while itt( may oftenu contain 

that's a reflection of the communities where many young black men live. m are creating characters not writing diaries. >> that is the most important ç"5%mmì(lc& that constantly gets there is an author and a narrator. we seem to be able to grasp tha1 concept with every other art form that uses the first-person narrative. but rappers who go the extra mile to signal that they are inventing a narrator with their use of açó stage name,=cíf we s revert back to this idea that they're the same, that we conflate the two. >> so you don't buy the argument thatjf this is all fiction? you believe if they are rapping about a violate, crime-ridden life, that it does tell you /eñmething about the artist themselves? >> absolutely. you can't have it both ways. you cannot say that i'm rapping about stuff because this is whae every day and then come into court and say everything that i said in that rap is completely ( untrue. >> if that song is just a storyn

a made-up story, why do you write a story like that? why are you tellingçó that stor? >> that's my lane. i'm in the lanefá of hard-core rap. that's just what it is. like i said, i got to keep building my brand until i get to where i want to be.fá i found something that i'm talented at and found a way to make money off of it.xd >> antwan stewart says like it or not,ñi gangster rap is what sells,e1 and theñi violent, gang-ridden streets where he -sq about.e1 >> just every day lifeambujut ia from, itok just goes on. walking down the street, you might seetx needle that was used

sot( i thinkz( prosecutors have very powerful]/> tactic, and onf the things that'sxd most powerf about it isñi that it allows th to play upon butñr unfortunatel also perpetuate those enduring stereotypes. >> what about ther the content of someçóxd kinds op music is so violent that if you put that in front of a ñijury, that if the prosecution says, this guy raps like this and we think he's guilty of "x," that the jury will believe anything. >>4z don't think that matches reality of what happens in a courtroom. we mustko5a get a unanimous j beyond ae1 reasonable doubt. and playing to rap isxlu going to convict çóááát+y if it was, you'd have rap being played every day, and we wouldn't need to worry about producing other fáevidence. >> antwan stewart's double-murder trialé@ with no mention of his lyrics by the prosecution, the case hung on those who eyewitnesses whofá identified him four years after

the fatal shootings. the jury found stewart not guilty ofe1 either murder but guilty on a related weapons charge. he'll be sentencede1 later this month. in the meantime, stewart says his arrest and the publicity around itlp has driven up downloads and youtube views of his song. >> hear from the brother of a man who was brought to trial in part because of rap lyrics he wrote. visit e1newshour.pbs.org. the obama administration has decided to try the man accused of orchestrating the q2012 terrr attackq in benghazbenghazi, lib thelp nation's capital. we're joined now byñr michael s mitt of "the new york times." this is unusual for several fá reasons. let's talk having the venue in d.c. there's already the pushback this is a very expensive proposition. >> okyeah, typically in the pas since 9/11, these terror trials

p8ve been in new york or ine1 alexandria, virginia. there's a real advantage took having them in new york because the jail is actually connected to the courthouse by a tunnel, so you don't have to move the suspect every time in a car that he has to appear in court. we saw that yesterday whenñi th hearing was ñiover. a big motorcade came flying out of the™xcourthouse. the streets were shut down. sirens were blasting. there were men in bullet proof vests and machine guns on the street. so that is something we'll probably see every day that that forth here. >> all right. what about the evidence in the the fbi wasn't able to get to the crime scene, so to speak, forçó weeks. >> yeah, this is an interesting] case. this is not just a murder that happened andi] the police came t and they put up the tape and they went and did their evidence collection and then wentq back and indicted it inñr front of a grand jury. this is something that happened on the other side of the t#/wo.

investigators weren't ablexd to get into the crime scene until several weeks after it kú+11e occurred. that was after members of the media had gone in, after militia members could go back andqlp go through whateverw3 documents we still at the u.s. mission there. so thisçó has notñi been ideal the beginning. on top of that, the case will rely in partxd onym witnesses libya whot( have to come over a testify and will have to stand up to e1cross-examination in th courts here. so this is not your average case. >> so your reporting says that he was cooperative under interrogation on a u.s.r before>(# got here. yet, he has pled not guilty. what do we know about the type of intelligence thatw3 he share? >> well, there's a difference betweenw3 giving up everything about what his role may have wi them about, say, what the security situation in libya is like, what he knows about past or prior planned attacks, or sort of his knowledge of what

ties al qaeda may have to groups in that part off4ur country. so cooperative doesn't necessarily mean that hefá gavep all of this stuff about the attack. it may have been about other roles in the attack. we know he's been cooperative, but beyond that, we don't have a ton. who knows,i] this could be something that goes on for a very long time. he's only been indicted on one count. that's sort of a place holder. the government is expected to indict him on several more going forward as it feels more comfortable with the case.xd this is something thatjf could on for many, many years. >> all right. michael schmitñi of "the new yo times" joining us from washington, thanks so much. >> thanksxd for having me.

>> this isñr pbs newse1 hour wed sunday.t(t(ñe@&h(lc& in england, scientists are exemployering ways to diagnose breast cancer through a routine test resembling a pap smear. e only axd few years lp away. >> judy stewart was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago. she's had a series of treatments.ñr chemotherapy, radiotherapy and a mastectomy.xdñr fortunately, it's now behind her, but she never had anq indication she could be at risk. neither her mother nor her grandmother had breast cancer. >> i started to feel a bit uncomfortable wearing bras under my arm. just after christmas, i got a bit of alp lump. tiny lump.xd but i was ill. i had a cold. i had a cough. a very bad hackingñi cough. i just thought it was a gland. didn't even cross my mind it was cancer. >> most screening has beenñrjf focused on women who have aok family history of breast cancer.

now sign ittists are in theñr early stages of creating a new test, which could be applied to all women. only 10% of women / using blood samples, scient)$7s here at university college dñ&ondone1 identified afá speci fault in white blood cells. this was present in all the women who develop breast cane1 session, regardless of family history. their aim now is to develop the test further,t( and they hope tt within five years an ordinary smear test could also be used to q cancer. it's an exciting development for those who work in cancer research, but with clinical trials yet to rc/sbegin, it's v early days. so in the meantime, women are urged to continue to be cautious as one in eight of us will be

affected.ñrñ+wi]lp some late news, president obama will name bob mcdonald,çó west point graduate and former ceo of proctor and gamble, to take over the department of veteran affairs. the u.s. isxv6qt(r 75 hellfire missiles to iraq to help iraqi government troops toó recapture tikrit. in nigeria, islamic extremists are suspected in attacks that left dozens dead. church go eers were among the target. and an organization of central bankers is warning of an asset bubble, citing what it calls añ puzzling disconnect between risingñi markets and global growth. >> announcer: pbs news hour

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