captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> brangha good evening. i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: president trump makes a surprise trip to iraq, his first visit with troops in a war zone. then, the dow jones soars overpo 1,00ts, its biggest daily gain in history, bouncing back from a christmas eve plunge. plus, 50 years since nasa's first flight to the moon. inside the landmark "apollo 8" mission. >> they took a picture of the earth rising over the horizon of the moon. it was the "earth rise" picture, and it was one of the first opportunities for us to see the earth as it really exists in the cosmos. >> brangham: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour.

. >> brangha lastly wknow scott pruitt, former e.p.a.ef, an andrew we wiler w weie act chief do. we see a policy shift at the top. >> you will see the controversial initiatives scott pushed being sidelined under the new administrator, things like doing a public de otever whether climate change is cause bid human activi, or one particularly controversial proposal which had to do with easing pollution controls on diesel freight trks, so a few outlier things. but for the most part, what we're seei from rew wheeler and what you can expect in the coming years is he will pursue many of the same deregulatory initiatives that have been the hallmark of the trump era. >> brangham: juliet eilperin, as always, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> brangham: this month, the united nations announced that 73,000 yemenis are lunder famine conditions, and millions more risk dying from hunger as the country's humanitarian crisis spirals downward. since 2014, yemen has been torn apart by a civil war, pitting rebels who are allied with iran against the yemeni

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> brangha good evening. i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: president trump makes a surprise trip to iraq, his first visit with troops in a war zone. then, the dow jones soars overpo 1,00ts, its biggest daily gain in history, bouncing back from a christmas eve plunge. plus, 50 years since nasa's first flight to the moon. inside the landmark "apollo 8" mission. >> they took a picture of the earth rising over the horizon of the moon. it was the "earth rise" picture, and it was one of the first opportunities for us to see the earth as it really exists in the cosmos. >> brangham: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that ts us. >> consumer cellular. >> financial services firm raymond james.po >> suping social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. >> the lemelson foundation. committed to improving lives through invention, i

was one of the first opportunities for us to see the earth as it really exists in the cosmos a >> brangha that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour.

. >> brangha for someone who is accused of making false statements to come into court and say, "i didn't know i was supposed to be honest with the f.b.i.," or "they now trapped me in this "? is that a credible argument he was making? >> well, it was a little odd in this circumstakne. because we there are likely other charges that the special counsel office could have brought against mhael flynn. they probably could have charged him with additional false statement charges, and they also probably could have charged stm with at lesome violations of the foreign agents registrationr fara, and they didn't. they charged him with one count of making fase statements. and they also were recommending absolutely no jail time. i so, reallyink, all his lawyers needed to do was sayings, we agree with the prosecutors. we appreciate that they appreciate all of the coops ation that he ovided to several different investigations, and here's all the supporting people who e also vouching for his career of public service, and leave it at that. guthink the fact that they made this additional ment, insigneuating

. >> brangha in addition to ose allegations, did the foundation actually do any charitable donations? >> it did the trump foundation was started in 1987. it gave out a lot of money to charities. almost all of its money was given to various charities.nt what'sesting here is the accusation is is not that trump took the mouey and boght a lamborghini or a yacht. he used the money-- he gave e money to other charities, but in the process he was buying things for himself.ru i think inp's mind, as long as the money from his charity ended up in another charity, that was fine. that's n the way the law works. he was using the money to save his business' money, even if it went to another charity. that was, alleged, against the law. >> brangham: you touched on the campaign. i want to read something that barbara underwood wrote: ca you explain a little bit motor unlawful connection, coordination witthe trump campaign? >> sure. one of the sort bedrock principles of charity law is charities can't get involved in politics. they're prohibited fromip parting in or aid anything political campaign. charit

to fail, you need to learn i can fall down, and get rt, and i can get up again, and recover.m: >> branghay says this loss es unstructured play is partly why childhood oby and other health issues are on the rise. >> there are a lot of people who think that adult directed sports would make up for that, or gym classes, or going and, god forbid, working out at a work out, but children are not designedo lift weights, and run track, and swim laps. hiey're designed to chase one another around, la, and screaming, until their sides are splitting. this is how children get exercise, and there'no substitute for that. >> brangham: once the school day starts, "let grow" follows these kids into the classroom, and eventually home. >> i cut a cucumber all by myself. >> brangham: starting in kindergarten, the program also assigns students to try something new once a week, no help from mom and dad. second-grader nathaniel ames recently started venturing into the backyard to feed the family chickens. fourth-grader gia rosello learned to pop her own popcorn. >> i've been thinking about it a >> brangham: conno

. >> we can use some of lenore's language, that the science is tear that outdoor play, >> brangha statef utah, with skenazy's help, recently passed what's called a "free herange parenting" lawterm, to enshrine these same ideas. but skenazy says it's not just about societal judgement.s parethemselves need to learn to let go, and sometimes let their kids go wild. what you're seeing here is called play club, one of skenazy's "let grow" ideas being piloted in the patchogue-medford school dis ict on long island, new york. looks like old-fashione recess, but once a week, schools like eagle elementary are throwing open their ors open an hour early and giving kids the run of the place. adults keep eir distance. the kids can tear through the hallp, shake, send things flying. searchgray is a professor of psychology at boston college. he worked with skenazy on this program. he says restricting kids freedom is partly why anxiety and major depressive disorders are five to ten times higher than they were in the 1950s. and the suicide rate for kids has increased six fold. play, he says, helps them lea

earlier today, william brangha spoke with our science correspondent miles o'brien for a quick review of this remarkableear. it's part of our weekly series on the leading edge of science. >> brangham: miles, i guess we should start with what is arguablythe most ntroversial science story of 2018 and that's e news that, allegedly, two genetically engineered children were born in chna ths past year. you can explain this story and the controversy around it? >> yeah, i think the lead came toes you a little late in the year, william. this is a big science story. it gives me equal doses of skeptici and, frankly, horror. a chinese scientist by took to youtube tannounce he used the crispr ngne ediool, which is essentially-- think of it like microscopic scissors, allowing to you take genes, pull things out of a string of d.n.a., and inserting other genes into it, full-fledged gene editing. he used that on some embryos of twin girls. let's listen to him for a moment >> brangham: so can you tell us a little bit more about what it is actually he allegedly did? >> allegedly he went after theh gene

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