catherine t. macarthur foundation. (birds chirping) >> narrator: for a year and a half, we followed four people in connecticut as they left prison and were put on parole. >> i've been incarcerated for a little over eight-and-a-half years. the judge gave me ten years, i thought it was the end of the world, and here i am, ten days i'm going to be walking out the door. starting my life over. >> narrator: the state is trying to use parole as part of an effort to reduce its prison population. >> when i get out, you know, hopefully i get out of here and stay out of here. i've been here before, so it's easier said than done. >> narrator: it is now giving parole to more of its prisoners than ever before. >> what are you going to do differently to stay out? >> is abide by all the rules. (laughs) >> always good, all right, good luck. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> narrator: the challenge is how to keep them from returning to prison. >> i'm proud to be graduating the prison drug program today because i did it with all you ge

catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional support is provided by ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide, at fordfoundation.org. the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the john and helen glessner family trust, supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler, and additional support from joseph azrack and abigail congdon. >> (translated): for many years, terrorism was something hypothetical, something that happened elsewhere. but at a certain point, you have to open your eyes. how did we not see this coming? >> narrator: in early 2015, belgian police, with the help of u.s. and french intelligence, were preparing to launch a raid on a terrorist cell thought to be on the verge of an attack. the suspects were hiding out in the town of verviers. (speaking french) >> (translated): they were

catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional support is provided by ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide, at fordfoundation.org. the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the john and helen glessner family trust, supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler, and additional support from scott nathan and laura debonis. major funding for this program is provided by the kendeda fund. >> narrator: this is the story of three seemingly disconnected events beginning at the same time. what they each have in common is a type of infection that is becoming impossible to treat, a type of infection that has triggered deadly outbreaks, even at one of our most prestigious hospitals. it is a crisis that is spreading alarmingly fast, threatening everyone, even the healthy. (siren blaring) >> narrator:

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catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world.ormation at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> glor: welcome to the program. i'm jeff glor filling in for charlie rose. we begin this evening with politics and talk to julie hirschfield-davis of the "new york times" and philip rucker of the "the washington post." >> this is the third week in a row where they've had like a themed week. it was infrastructure weeks then it was technology week, now it's energy week. there is so little talk of the subject at hand. the media is partially responsible for that but the president is getting in the way of his own message with these tweets and the other fights and the focus on an adversarial relationship with the media. it's tough to get the band width to cov

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catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world.e information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: from president trump today, an abrupt announcement: he is re-instating a ban on transgender troops, and re-opening the debate on who gets to serve in the u.s. military. word of the military policy reversal came not from the pentagon, but from the president-- on twitter. he said: "the united states government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u.s. military." and, he went on: "our military must be focused on victory, and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail." candidate trump had promised to protect the rights of transgender people. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was asked about that today. >> he's al

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catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world.nformation at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org welcome to the program. i'm jonathan karl of abc news, filling in for charlie rose. we begin with politics talking to mike allen, megan murphy and yoni applebaum. >> some of the things that are happening, the antics that are happening. this is the personal lawyer of the president of the united states. we talk all the time about the president's tweets and whether they're appropriate or not, whether we're dealing with mika or some of the other things. i do get worried that we are becoming so inured. this is something in the next 24 news cycle, the next event, the next thing we brush off. are we becoming inured as

catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world.e information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: welcome to the program. we begin tonight with breaking news from the white house. a little after 5:00 p.m., president trump tweeted that reince priebus is out as chief of staff and general john kelly former director of homeland security is in as chief of staff. joining me from abc studios in new york is jonathan karl the white house correspondent for abc news. >> he was fired, the president had made it clear even before scaramucci came in, the president made it clear internally he was getting ready to make a change. >> rose: we continue with a conversation with john dickerson, moderator of "face the nation" and chief white house corporate f

catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world.e information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> glor: welcome to the program. i'm jeff glor of cbs news filling in for charlie rose. we begin tonight with a look inside russia with journalist nick schifrin and talk about his forthcoming series on the pbs "newshour" called "inside putin's russia." >> over the last 15 or so years, putin has brought relative stability to russia. anybody old enough to remember the '90s will remember the political and economic chaos of that, so that is the first step. the second step is re-creating russian traditions like the orthodox church, pre-soviet traditions like the kosics into a level of pride in shared religion and traditions, and that's tapped into a coll