the newshour's william brangham is just back from a reporting trip to texas. he's here with me now.t exactly did you set out to do? >> we wanted to talk to voters on both sides of the political spectrum. we were in texas, we went to two very different places and i asked people four or five, six questions, identical questions in both places and you will see it's as if voters are living in two completely different worlds. let's take a look. bellville, >> brangham: bellville, texas is a small, rural town an hour's drive from houston. its streets are lined with single family homes and locally- owned shops. but a recently-renamed restaurant in town has become something of an attraction: the trump cafe. so, you changed the name to trump cafÉ two weeks before the election? >> before. yes, sir. >> brangham: what if trump hadn't won the election? >> you know, actually, we pray for god to he wins. i'm so glad he win. i'm so glad, you know. >> brangham: so if hillary clinton had won, would this be clinton cafÉ? >> no, i will move back home. >> brangham: sue hawa owns the place with her husband

i am joined by our own lisa desjardins and william brangham. and we welcome both of you. to have you here at the table. william, i'm going to start with you. we heard john yang reporting earlier with. the administration did today go after financial regulations that were part of -- a feature of the obama administration, including a peace of dodd-frank. tell us about that. >> today is what some people would say is the beginning of an all-out roll back. some would argue dismantling of consumer protections and regulations. this order is all about dodd frank. dad frandodd-frank was to solves of 2008. critics have hated dodd-frank and all its tentacles ever since created and now the president has asked the secretary of the treasury to look at all the different rules, find out which are too costly and burdensome and potentially get rid of them. supporters of dodd-frank would say maybe the law wasn't perfect but something had to be done to constrain wall street since the 2008 crisis so we don't see a repeat and this move go ghost in an opposite direction. >> woodruff: the other t

the newshour's william brangham went to austin, texas for a closer look. >> i, donald j. trump, do solemnly swear... >> brangham: just a few hours after donald trump was sworn in as president, another newly- elected official, sheriff sally hernandez of travis county, texas, posted this video >> i'm sally hernandez, your travis county sheriff. >> brangham: the video laid out her department's policy change limiting cooperation with agents from ice-- immigration and customs enforcement. hernandez doesn't want her deputies to be seen as ice agents. >> we in law enforcement need the cooperation of our communities of color. we need them to be running to us, and not running away from us. >> brangham: travis county, which includes austin, has an estimated 100,000 undocumented immigrants, like felix jimenez. the sheriff says people like jiminez won't trust police if they're constantly afraid of being deported and jimenez agrees: >> ( translated ): we're afraid when we see a police officer. we're hispanic. we could be stopped for any reason. the real fear that keeps me nervous afte

william. thank you. >> brangham: so explain this phenomenon that is these women. how do you explain their dominance? >> well, no one saw this coming. if you consider uconn had won four national championships in a row. >> brangham: amazing in and of itself. >> that's right. and the top three players, the seniors who won all four years all went in the wnba draft first, second and third, so out of all players coming out of college, they were the best three. they left and everyone thought this would be a down year and expected a loss or two early in the season. all of a sudden uconn is playing the best teams and they're winning and winning and here we are with this legendary 100th victory for a team that is synonymous with winning but nothing like this. so i think it's really stunning because this was supposed to be, as you said, the rebuilding year, and they have just reloaded, and, again, it's just a great testament to a program and a coach geno auriemma that is not only just one of the greatest in the history of women's sports and certainly the best in women's bask

william brangham has the story. >> brangham: it's called "the waters of the united states rule," and it has to do with which smaller bodies of water, like streams and wetlands, should be regulated and protected by the federal government under the clean water act. that question has been litigated in court battles for years. for more on what today's move is all about, i'm joined now by juliet eilperin, who's been reporting on this for the "washington post." juliet, welcome back to the news hour. before we get into the rollback, can you tell me what this rule is really about? as i understand it, this is a very big part of obama's environmental legacy. >> this is a 2015 rule, which has been subject to litigation, which tries the clarify what, as you eluded to, has been really a 30-year battle over what jurisdiction the federal government has over these smaller streams, some are intermittent, some wetlands, and essentially what the federal government can tell americans, including farmers, ranchers, home builders, what they can and cannot do, even when it has to do with private property, b

william brangham has our report. >> brangham: at northern california's lake oroville, home to the nation'slest dam, water levels finally receded, which stopped the overflow of water from the dam's emergency spillway. this reduced the risk of the spillway's total collapse, which would've triggered uncontrolled flooding and threatened tens of thousands of homes below. at a press conference, local officials couldn't answer why the system failed. >> we'll i'm not sure anything went wrong. i think that system has been installed since early 1960s, it's been looked, at its been monitored. >> brangham: today, they faced a much tamer scene than on saturday. officials had to open the dam's emergency spillway for the first time in 50 years because of record high water levels caused by recent heavy winter rain and snow. when water was drained from the dam's main spillway, the huge volume eroded chunks of concrete and dug a 30-foot-deep hole at its base. it was then that officials opened the emergency spillway. when that water started eroding the earthen embankment, officials feared the wall would coll

that's the subject of a lengthy article in this week's "new yorker" magazine, and to william branghamrangham: so what is known, and not known, about russia's involvement in our recent election? i'm joined now by evan osnos. he's a staff writer at the "new yorker" and one of the author's of "active measures," a deep look into russia's actions, that's in the latest edition of the magazine. and i'm also joined by john sipher. he spent 28 years in the c.i.a.'s clandestine service, including assignments in russia and eastern europe. he's now at a consulting company called cross-lead. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> brangham: evan osnos, really a wonderful primmer in the new yorker you wrote and several of your colleagues. can you bring us up to speed, what do and don't we know about russia's involvement in the election? >> this was a collaboration and an attempt to say let's clarify what we've learned. than extraordinary moment. we know three things happened. the first thing, as you know, the d.n.c. was hacked. john podesta'sÑi email was hack. that's the one americans know the most a

william brangham has that story. >> brangham: the departments of justice and education are expected toack obama-era guidance that advised schools to let transgender kids use the bathroom that correspondes with their gender identity, not necessarily the gender they were born with. but if that guidance goes away, what does this mean for schools? evie blad from "education week" is back to help us sort it out. so let's do this chrnologically. last year the obama administration put out these guidelines, they said if you schools have transgender students in your schools, let them use the bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity. what's the rationale for that argument? >> well the obama straiks argued the sex discrimination protections in title nine, the federal law, applied to gender identity rather than merely biological sex, and they had heard from many districts and states and some educational groups that there was a lack of clarity at the state and local level, so they put out this federal civil rights guidance to say not only do you have to allow these children access to fac

william brangham has more.and a warning: some of the details here are disturbing. >> brangham: amnesty's report says that somewhere between 5,000 and 13,000 people were tortured and executed at one military prison outside damascus between 2011 and 2015. amnesty alleges that officials at the highest level of the syrian government approved the killings, as did the grand mufti of syria, the highest ranking religious figure in the country. i'm joined now by sunjeev bery. he's amnesty's director of advocacy for the middle east and north africa. >> thank you for having me. >> brangham: very, very troubling reading in the stories of this reported of the people tortured and executed. can you tell me, who were these people? >> there were thousands of civilians as well as some ex-military officers held at the prison in syria. we estimate between 10,000 and 20,000 people are held there now. for years on a weekly basis as many as 50 people have been hanged in mass executions by the syrian government at this prison. >> bran