captioning sponsored by newshour proedions, llc >> nawaz: good evening. i'm amna nawaz. judy woodruff is away. on t newshour tonight: "urgent concern." a whistleblower sounds the alarm, lding to warnings fro the intelligence community watchdog a sparking a fight between congress and the white house. then: >> i shouldn't have hat. i should've known better, but i didn't, and i'm really sorry. >> nawaz: cism and regret. canadian prime minister justin trudeau apologizes after revelations that he wore blackface on mtiple occasions. plus, between the lines. a conversation with joy harjo, the new poet laureate of the united states, and the first nave american to fill the role. >> you can time travel in a poem. you can get to know people in a poem. and poetry is a place you can come to when you have no words. >> nawaz: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ >> kevin. >> kevin! >> kevin? >> advice for life. life well-planned. learn more at raymondjames.com. >> bnsf railway. >> consumer cellular. >> and by the

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amna nawaz is back. she recently spoke wide author jasorle about his book, "a good provider is one who leaves," tracing three generations of asingle family across the world. deparle begins by telling how he first met the family in the philippines. i was interested in life in shanty town. it's not migration. migration was the farthest thing from my mind, and i wanted to move in with a family and try to see slum life up close, and i found a family to move in with, and actually i went to a nun who lived in this community and asked her to help meind a family to live with. i thought she would go and screen families and take me to meet one, but instead shemealked hrough the shanty town and sort of auctioned me off on the spot first person she approached the woman said, no, no, no. the second one, no, no, no. the third wasto frightened to respond, and that was the one i wound up moving in with. >> reporter: tell me about tat family. >> while i wasn'nking about migration, migration is how the family survived. a

preparing for itsan aftermath. >> nawaz: thanks, judy. with me now is acting secretary of homeland security kevin mcaleenan. mr. secretary, welcome to the nes. hour. >> tha good to be with you, all that. >> nawaz: you have been receiving gular updates on the path of hurricane dorian. what's important for people to know about what we cou seen the coming hours and days. >> sure. i just came over fstrom fem headquartershere the national response coordination setor is fully activeith over 200 professionals monitoring every aspect of this situation with this very powerful storm. and i think the number-one thing to remember heres even if we don't expect it to make landfall now in florida, this is still a ry dangerous storm. it's a triple threat. we've got the wind field even though the wind speed has come down a little bit. we have the storm surge goi be significant all along the coastline, and it's also going to be a prolonged rain event. so we still need people to heed the warnings of emergency manage. professionals at the state and local lev

nk you verying if me, amna. >> nawaz: i want to ask you about the story you lay out in nawaz: when youe up ingin an unfamiliar place and you have no mory of the nighbefore, and a deputy turns to you and says, you're in the hospital and there's reason to believe you have been sexually assaulted. what goes through your mind att? that mom >> i was in complete denial. i think you can't acct immediately that the entire trajectory of your life has just changed. you want the believe that you can retuor to youdinary life that you were on some sort of notrack and that you wil that's what i wanted to believe. >> brangham: at the time, we should clarif you had no idea that the night before, as you said, when you went to a party th your sister, you passed out and had been assaulted. >> uh-huh. >> brangham:. >> nawaz: you don't learn this until days later when you see a news story pop up into your feed. the very first line of that story reads, "a former stanford swimmer has been charged with raping and an intoxicated, unconscious woman in an on-campus attack." you wrote at the time that you knew it

i've seen firsthand with my own eyes what can happen to children. >> nawaz: dr.n shapiro, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you so much for inviting me. >> woodruff: finally tonight, we pay tribute to cokie roberts, a pioneering broadcast journalist and political commentator known millions over the years. for decades nbc and abc news. vanocur participated in the kennedy and nixon deate and the war in vietnam. he died last night in california at 91. cokie roberts passed away today in washington. she was a pioneering journalist and political commentator known to millions over the rs. cokie roberts' career spanned more than 40 years, taking her from the u.s. >> both parties think they can use concern about drugs to play to their own particular strengths. >> woodruff: ...to the floors of nationalolitical conventions. >> we've seen an awful lotf years of the woman. this one could be different, but the economy is so bad and that is something that women carede about a grea. >> woodruff: she was born mary martha corinne morrison claiborne boggs in new orleans, a

amna nawaz sat down earlier today withhanel miller.er she was assaulted in 2015r at stanfd unty, she chose to stay anonymous. but now, miller is talery publicly about the difficult, traumatic road she faced trying to seek justice. >> nawaz: for years after her assault, she was known to thee world as "emily doe." but this wee chanel miller is stepping into the spotlight with her own name, and her own words, in the new memoir, "know my name." in january of 2015, mier was sexually assaulted while unconscious by brock turner, often described then as a star swimmer at stanford university. two graduate students witnessed the attack behind a dumpster, chased turner down when he fled, and pinned him down until police arrived. turner was convicted of three felony counts of sexual assault, facing up to 14 years in prison. but judge aaron persky sentencei to just six months in county jail, saying "a prison sentence would have a severe impact on him."ce the senten sparked outrage, including among cali voters, who recalled theudge ha 2018, the firs

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> nawaz: good evening. i'm amna nawaz. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: ten take the stage. ntat to look for, as the democratic presil hopefuls face off again in tonight's debate. then, on the front lines. the former leader of u.s. central command on the state of america's military conflicts overseas. plus, the pinch of the trade war. how the lobster industry is feeling the heat as chinese tariffs come to maine. >> our rural communities along the coast are dependent upon this fishery. that's what is potentially very scary for us, is thinking about this long-term. >> nawaz: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour.

amna nawaz remembers one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, part of our anvasies. >> you know, you're a hunter. you're hunting for a good picture. >> nawaz: he was best known for vividly capturing america'sa' country's social divisions in everyday le. robert frank was born inze swand to a wealthy european jewish family, but he was decidedly an american, one who managed to maintain an outsider's point of view-- as he himself noted in the 2015 documentary about his career, >> i tried not to talk to them, and i didn't want them to talk to me. >> nawaz: frank emigrated to new york in 1947, and started work at "harpers bazaar," but ny ofon became aware of ark contrasts in america society. that perspective was a driving force behind his most celebrated work, 1957's "the americans." starting in 1955, frank criss- crossed the country, snapping o 28,000 photos in just twars, ultimately culling them down to a collectionf just 83. his work was in sharp contrast to more traditional, optimistic photos of the time. frank reflected on that work in "don't blink:" >> when i loo

now as amna nawaz reports, there are some asking whether this settlement is enough. >> nawaz: dy, toclear, the deal is not yefinalized. but plaintiffs lawye and purdue pharma have confirmed they are working on a settlement the settlement would reportedly include: a payout of up to $12 billion to states, cities an counties. it includes three billion dollars from the sackler family directly, which owns purdue pharma. the sacklers wou also give up control of purdue pharma, and the company would declare bankruptcy. it would then be converted into a public trust focused on combating the opioid epidemic.s several attornneral said this was a settlement in the best interest of their communities. but others are against inclu ngth william tongconnecticut attorney general. purdue pharma's headquarters are in his state. attorney general tong, thank you for being with us ton let's just begin with the big question-- why are you opposed to this tentati settlement? >> well, thank you for having me here tonight amna. i'm opposed because the scale and the depth of the destructn, the pain, the death th

captioning sponsored by newsur productions, llc >> nawaz: good evening. i'm amna nawaz judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: "urgent concern." a whistleblower sounds the alarm, leading to warnings from the intelligence comnity watchdog and sparking a fight between congre and the white house.en >> i shouldn't have done that. i should've known better, but in didn'ti'm really sorry. >> nawaz: racism and regret. canadian prime minister justin trudeau apologizes after revelations that he wore blackface on multiple occasions. plus, between the lines. a conversation with joy harjo, the new poet laureate of the uned states, and the first native american to fill the role. >> you can time travel in a poem. you can get to know people in a poem. and poetry is a plyo

amna nawaz takes a loobeyond today's sentencing of a prominent actress. >> nawaz: this college admissionsndal, which includes felicity ffman and other wealthy parents, has essentially turned into a public indictment of some elite institutions. but, it's also spurred a larger conversation about admissions, access and inequality throughout r system of higher education. paul tough's new book focuses on these very questions. it's called "the years that matter most: how college makes or breaks us." and paul tough joins me now. welcome to the thawrs. tell us, these high profile cases like the one involving gericity huffman, in the lar world of college admissions, are these the exceptions or the rule? >> i think they are the most extreme exprsion of the kind of inequality, the extra advantages people of affen have. certainly felicity huffman andt other afflurents went further but the competition makes a lot of affluent parents behave crazy. >> reporter: the message we get from higher institutions is we're here to reward higher educatiol excellence. >> there's a disconnect between ways that colle

with the support of the pulitzen r, amna nawaz and producer mike fritz recently trekked deen into brazil to w what is driving this deforestation.ofit it is parur ongoingse series, brazil on the brink. i r >> reportes an environmental treasure stretching across more than twoi million square miles, about 60 percent of which is her brazil. but the amazon, the world'sbula largest rnforest, and a vital line of defense in the fightag assault.climate change, is undes >> this was entirely forest, 304 to 40 years ago.>> >> reporter: mike coe scientist at the woods hole research center in mato grosso, brazil.azhe he's been studying and visitingh sae am for 20 years. these trees, hys, arecr cruci not just for how much carbon dioxide they absorb butal cooling the planet.hey play inco >> the thing about these forests is, they're basically a giant air conditioner.es they take out something like ath they are incredibly efficient at taking in sunlightater and putting it back in the atmosphere, and that leads to cooling. >> reporter: since the 1970's, the amazon has been steadily arforested. a t>>th near

amna nawaz sits down with the acting secreta of the department of homeland security following visit to el salvador. plus, on the ground in afghanistan. how a massive bombing in kabul complicates u.s. plans for troop withdrawal. and, grand design. new exhibition of influential artist alexander girard's work t aimsdisplay his ability to meld sleek modernism with folk art.

s cently amna nawaz sat down with singh on her geles set to talk about her newest challenge.in it's the race matters solutions and part of our ongoing arts and cult e series, "cans." the tent sages ofiet grief -- >> reporter: she's one of youtube's biggest success wories ever. t up, its your girl superwoman. >> reporter: lilly singh, a.k.rs superwoman, dipped a toe into internet waters ten years ago with basic video blogs. >> when it comes to a boyfriend, we want tall att wention we ca get, which makes us, okay, sort of needy. eporter: but she quickly dove deeper in, developing her comedic skill. >> no, girl, i'm wearing sla ain't nobody got time for this tonight. >> reporter: and, over the years, upping her production game. (rapping)te >> repor translating both into four million subscribers and over three billionideo views. erapping) she's now going whno youtuber has gone before-- network television. tonigh on nbc as host of "a little late with lilly singh," taking over the late-night time slot for carson d >> welcome to the shode singh he announcement in march, welcomed by her fellow

mna nawaz gets a report f the islands. >> reporter:udy, it's been a week since dorian struck the abacoands and part of the grand bahama. enough food, water and supplies to these places. as m o ildings and structures on the abaclands appear to have been destroyed. areas like marsh harbour, where there were many haitian immigrants, may not be habitable for any real length of time. there's also been difficulties in getting supplies to people in need and there's been talk of possible strains between the local government and somrelief groups today, government officials were asked about why some flights aren't getting to the hard hit islands. priority is given to those entities that made contact with diwnema. it is to cote. we are not preventing persons from gettrsing in, but it has to be phone done in an orderly .e don't want disaster upon disast >> reporter: unicef began delivering water supplies th a weekend, aftlane landed with 1.5 tons of supplies. naqib safi is an emergencyni specialist forf. he was in marsh harbour omsterday. and he joins me assau by skype. naquib safi, welcome to the

i don't talk about him too much in the documentary because it's nawaz shar nauseating. >> but the messageutting you as a point of contrast as to what's going on in the administration. >> yes, but that's what happens in times like these. obviously there are huge cross currents happening. we have an administration trying to roll back women's rights and a movement like the women's march. we have the legalization of cannabis throughout the country, which your brother promised to legalize cannabis this year, what's the problem, where is it? >> he's got to legislatlegislat. >> do you remember me promising to get rid of cannabis? >> me? >> me? >> it's your brother. >> tell your sister to talk to my brother about his -- >> sissy, talk to his brother andrew, right. >> things are complicated. >> it is hard. >> i'll take cannabis. you talk to police chiefs around the state, they're saying we're getting suffocated by these cases. help us pun esh and prish and ps where the punitive value is real, not small bags and small dealers. however, with what you're tackling here is no easy answer. it no the abo

parliament became furious that was it was sometime today and if you think i know how the prime minister nawaz. we're trying. to be. moderate we have to come from the time this. matters worse junction described those concerns about safety as. all in all it was the most angry parliamentary session anyone can remember the government accuses the opposition of running away from an election they say he broke the law over suspending parliament and fear he might do it again to the sense of democracy unraveling the whole thing is a horror show lawrence leigh al-jazeera london. the rebels say their offer to end the hostilities with saudi arabia still stands despite reason. that killed civilians there were these claimed responsibility earlier for attacks on saudi's oil facilities this month. has this report from. the. rubble than what used to be a home. in the town. and southern yemen. it was a horrific airstrike violated all internationally recognized red lines it resulted in the defense of 17 people including 3 women 3 children and a pregnant woman of. the attack hasn't even excluded the risk. as worl