lisa desjardins reports on the c.i.a. director's confirmationar g before the senate foreign relations committee. >> desjardins: after the cameras cleared, one of america's top spies set out to defend his qualifications to be its top diplomat. >> the story is i'm a hawk, i'm a hardliner. >> desjardins: pompeo, a former u.s. congressman and army officer, stressed he believes in diplomacy. >> there's no one like someone who served in uniform, who understands the value of diplomacy and the terror and tragedy that is war like someone who served in uniform. it the last resort.e it must always. the best outcomes are always won at the diplomatic table. >> desjardins: pompeo also pledged to make americas diplomats feel relevan after the stormy tenure of rex tillerson at the state department, fe with vacancies >> desjardins: but pompeo was quickly met with fierce eoiticism from democrats, who say they fear poon't speak up against the president, his close ally. some of those democrats voted t block pompeo fcoming c.i.a. director las

lisa desjardins joins me now. i want the talk first taout environmpolicy, right, which was clearly part of that. lurking in the background is the changen of how much scott pruitt has brought. >> he's brought significant change. he has 22 major deregulatory actions that he'ser en. the waters of the u.s., that's something congress helped roll bae. it was a hiece of kind of water environmental law from the obama presidency, which isow pushed back five years, in addition to clean power plant is something thatwas repealed, i think there are real questions about how long all of theseon acwill last, because they have happened so quickly. many are facing serious court allenges. there are other things like fuel efficiency that he is deciding now. >> brown: he's getting pushed hack all over the place. >>s right. from conservatives he's getting support, but there are real questions in the court. >> brown: u referred in your piece to a proposed rule that he put in requiring scien to turn over raw data too studies. he refers t

and that's a shame. >> desjardins: this after a weekend flood of similar trump tweets. why now?may be a response to fox news segment. >> a caravan of migrants, at least 1,200 strong, marching across mexico toward tted states. >> desjardins: shortly after that aired, mr. trump declared"" border patrol agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the border because of ridiculous liberal (democrat) laws like catch and release. getting more dangerous. "caravans" coming." let's dissect that. first, catch and release is the practice of releasing documented immigrants while they wait for their hearing with an immigration judge. a smaller point here: its not a law.la er point: nearly a year ago, then-homeland security secretary john kelly said this. >> we have ended catch and releas t >> desjardins weekend's tweet adds to confusion over whether e program has ended. second, mr. trump mentions" caravans coming." this refers to a group of at least 1200 central american migrants many making their way to the u.s. border-- they reportedly plan to ask for asylum or consider crossing ille

lisa desjardins has our report. >> desjardins: the french leader walked into the house chamber with clear challenges to thetr p era and nationalist waves wiross the world. >> you can pla fears and angers for a time, but they do not construct anything. >> desjardins: macron warne against going it alone, or turning a blind eye toward world problems. >> we can choose isolationism, withdrawal and nationalism. but closig the door to the world will not stop the evolution of the world. >> desjardins: instead, the french president said now is the itme to stabilize nato and other international inions. he also urged the u.s., again, to remain in the iran nuclear agreement. macron acknowledged th is not perfect. but he advocated keeping it in place and negotiating additional measures. >> but we should not abandon it without hang something substantial and more substantial instead. that's my position. (applause) >> desjardins: mainly democrats applauded. but macron cares most about an audience of one, president trump, who yesterday called the. iran deal "ins to bring mister trump on board, macron sugg

lisa desjardins puts the president's long-shifting stance on immigration policy in context. >> desjardinst's start with the latest from psident trump, today at what is usually a non- political event. >> thank you all for being here folks. >> desjardins: ...the annual keite house easter egg roll. the president was about his tweets on immigration. >> it's a shame and nopeople are really taking advantage of daca. and that's a srdme. >> desjas: this after a weekend flood of similar trump tweets. why now? it may be a response tenfox news segmt. >> a carav of migrants, at least 1,200 strong, marching across mexico toward the united states.s: >> desjardhortly after that aired, mr. trump declared"" border patrol agents areroot allowed torly do their job at the border because of ridiculous liberal (democrat) laws like catch and release. getting more dangerous "caravans" coming." let's dissect that. first, catch and release is the practice of releasing undocumented immigrants while they wait for their hewith an immigration judge. a smaller point here: it is not a law. a larger point: nearly a year

(applause) >> desjardins: mainly democrats applauded. but macron cares most about an audience of one, president trump, who yesterday called the iran deal "insane." to bring mister trump on board, macron suggests a supplementalen agreon iran's ballistic missile program and regional influence similarly, president trump's withdraw from the paris accord on climate change was a targetr cron. >> i am sure that one day, the united states will come back anr join the parisment let us face it: thero planet b. (applause) >> desjardins: another seeming difference with president trump: trade. onth parties clapped as ma denounced tariff and trade wars. >> at the end of the day, it will destroy jobs, increase prices and the middle class will ha to pay for it.in >> desja the address to congress was macron's last major stop on a three-day visit to the u.s. for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. >> woodruff: the preside of iran issd a fresh warning to the u.s. today, not to quit the 2015 nuclear agreement. hassan rouhani insisted his government will n

. >> lisa desjardins with thea dr from the senate foreign relations committee today. our poiltics monday team pick it up with other confirmation battles looming and how vulnerable democratic senators are considering their votes. i'm joined by amy walter of the "cook political report" and eliana johnson of politico, welcome to you boh. >> nawaz: let's talk about the

lisa desjardins begins our coverage. >> reporter: in beijing, china's vice commerce minister declared country is reluctant to do battle-- but ready. >> ( translated ): china does not want a trade war, because there will be no winner in a trade war. if someone insists on starting a trade war, china will fight till the end. >> reporter: with that, the chinese announced plans for 25% tariffs on a list of american goods, includg soybeans, cars and chemicals, totaling $50 billion. it mirrored trump administratioe action houlier-- 25% tariffs on chinese products worth $5ll0 n-- largely on high-tech goods like robotics, machinery and medical devices. both lists are just threats at the moment-- not yet implemend, but a kind of economic stare-down. in washington, president trump'v new economic aor, larry kudlow, sought to soothe fears of an all-out trade wand even suggested the tariffs may never take effect. it's part of the process. i mean, i would take president seriously on this tariff issue. you know, there are carrots and sticks in life, but he is,ulmat. >> reporter: separate tariffs on c

lisa desjardins reports on t day's events. >> we are now going to pause to honor the victims of columbineeporter: the scenes were repeated across the country. moments of silence in placesna like indiapolis... students and teachers in a houston high school, forming a paper chain of names of people slain by gun violence. and everywhere, as ihaven, connecticut, protests and appeals for action to stop mass shootings. >> we as a nation cannot afford routine mass murders. we need action now. we need to remind our politicians that this isous. these are r children who are dying.n >> reporter:shington, students staged a sit-down protest in front of the white house. >> all of these are columbine victims. we stopped saying their names a long time ago, so until the ntd of this mof silence, i will continue to repeat their names so you guys don't forget them. rachel scott, daniel rohrbough, dave sanders, kyle velasquez, >> reporter: from there, they marched to the capitol and demanded action on gun legislation. >> they deserve to live in a place where you don't have to be worried about going to c.v.s.

. >> woodruff: our own lisa desjardins was at today's press conference and joins me now. lisa, you spent the day trying to talk to folks about what the president is talking about here. >> judy, unfortunately wdon't ow what that meeting is that he's talking about. the white house staff has not gotten back to us. we spoke to many communications staffersver there and many sources. the department of defense has ouso not responded yet to our calls. team also reached out to border state governors and members of congress. none of them said they h details of this plan yet. it's interesting. the state of texas did resnd and say that they already are using national guard troops under state direction since 2014. they've had 1,000 state troops at the border. now,hatever this is, the president does have the power to send national guard troops to the border. president obama did it in 2010. but it's intesting, judy, reports after that show that that was very complicated.le it took ast six months or up to six months to even begin that process, sohatever he's doing, if this is plan, it ca

lisa desjardins gins our coverage. >> reporter: an exceedingly rare announcement. >> this will be my last year as a member othe house. >> reporter: speaker of the house paul ryan announced he is voluntarily retiring, leaving on his own terms, after two and a half years in the job. >> you all know i didn't seek this job; i to it reluctantly. but i have given this job everything that i have.ve and i o regrets whatsoever for having accepted this responsibility. what i realize is that if i am here for one more term, my kidse will only haveknown me as a weekend dad. i just can't let that happen. so i will be setting new priorities in my life, but i will also be leaving incredibly proud of what we have accomplished. fe reporter: ryan and his janna have three children, now teenagers. they were inlementary and middle school when he campaigned for the vice presidency in 2012. for republicans, months of rumors about a ryan retirement didn't water down the drama.pr >> i was surised, paul's going to be missed. he's obviously doing it for his family. i wish him well.di >> reporter: aothers. senat

our capitol hill correspondent lisa desjardins is here to explain.a, some drama at the senate foreign relations committee today. what exactly happened? >> reporter: this was a pivotal vote becaere was a question as to whether mike pompeo had the votes to get out of commttee. going into the meeting started 5:00 eastern a no, a republican no. minutes before the meeting, he ndid he flipped his vote said the reason why was a phonel ca from president trump which convinced him he thought mike pompeo would be on his side. here's a tweet from mr. paul.e he wro, i have decided to support his nomination to be our next secretary of state. rand paul is anti-interventionist. he said he was worried mike pompeo would put more troops and not be enough of a diplomat. he said he got guarantees that swayed him the other way. we thought, great, mike pompeo, we know what's going to happen, going to make it tou committee. no. turns out another republican johnny isakson was not in committee today, they needed his vote but he was speaki at a a memorial service. all this, cu

li desjardins begins our coverage. >> reporter: for the social media maverick who's often behind the scenes, aery public lesson in scrutiny, as lawmakers grilled facebook's mark zuckerberg with questions. >> why should we trust facebooke >> i b you have the talent to solve these problems, but dol you have the companies began with an apology. >> reporter: the c.e.o. of ot' of the intermost dominant companies began with an apology. >> we didn't take a ooad enough viour responsibility, and that was a big mistake. and it was my mistake, and i'm sorry. i started facebook, i run it, and i'm responsible for what happens here. >> reporter: this, one week after facebook revealed up to 87 million users' personal information could have been improperly accessed by cambridge analytica, a political consulting firm hired by the trump campaign in 2016. cambridge analytica then used that data to direct trump campaign content toward individual users. facebook admits it knew about this kind of data harvesting for at least two years, but only addrsed it last month. today's rare joint hearing byse thte j

lisa desjardins, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >>roodruff: in the day's ot news, russia moved to forging even closer ties with "nato" member turkey. in ankara, russian president vladimir putin met with turkey's recep tayyip erdogan. they approved plans for russia to build turkey's first nucleare plant. the turks already agreed to buy a long-range missile defense system from moscow. high-speed trains stood still in the united states imposed $25 billion worth of tariffs on chinese goods, part of plan to punish beijing for alleged ft.hnology the the list ranging from aerospace to chemicals to motorcycles. in france, high-speed trains stood still in france today, as a series of strikes began against the national system. workers are protesting president emmanuel mron's plan to trim benefits that date to the 1930's, including guaranteed jobs for life.at in paris, stions were packed this morning, and commuts even spilled on to tracks. many complained of jam-packed >> ( translated ): this is really catastrophic. something needs to be done

as lisa desjardins reports, the military have renewed questionsd about prential war-making powers. >>r: pentagon video>> shows the hail of missilesea stking toward syria on friday s night. their target: three chemical research and production facilities in damascus and homs. satellite pictures displayed satellite pictures displayed the sites hit: here, before the launch-and then after they were leveled by at an unrelated event in florida today, the president described the strike as a success. >> they didn't shoot one, yy now, you heard they shot 40 down, then they shot 15 down, then they, what, then i call, ie say did t and they say, "no, sir, every single one hit its target."y think of it.wa not onshot >> reporter: meanwhie, a fact- finding team from the organization for the prohibition d chemical weapons arrive damascus over the weekend. it's on a mission to determine the chemical used in this month's attack on the suburb of douma that left dozens dead. but as of today, the team saidto syria and russia were blocng them from entering the area. te o.p.c.w. called an emergency meeting a

. >> nawaz: yamiche alcindor, lisa desjardins, thanks. >> nawaz: in other news today, president trump praised north korean leader kim jong un, and said he hopes they'leeting "very soon." he spoke during his summit with the french president, and saidsi ing down with kim could be a "great thing for the world". >> we're having very good discussions. kim jong un, he really has been very open and i think very honorable from everything we're seeing. now, a lot of promises have been made by north korea over the years but they've never been in this position. >> nawaz: that marked a major shift from president trump's past comments about kim jong unm e's often called "little rocket man."od in afghanistan, taliban attacks killed at least 11 more soldiers and police a wave of violence this week. separate attacks hit checkpoints in two provinces in western afghanistan, and one i eastern part of the country. this follows sunday's bo ting in kabul islamic state group that left 60ead. the suspect in the rental van rampage in toronto was charged with 10 counts of muoday. a judge ordered alex minassian

nd nawaz: our correspondents yamiche alcindorisa desjardins join me now. welcome, you guys. lisa, let's start with you. we're talking about these tions that have recent come up that senators are now looking at about ronny jackson. what do you know about the >> well, we know about as much as the senators themselves. i spoke tora sevesenators on the committee who themselves have not seen the direct source of these allegations. the committee chairman and rank member apparently has seen them. also senator sherrod bwn o ohio who told me and other reporters that this involves double-dig numbers ofle who know mr. jackson in our military or are former mility. we know what mr. jackson said to one senator we met with today, anat's senator moran of ksas. senator moran told us that one allegation is refuted or that he denies, that he never had a drink on the job. that's from mr. jackson today, but the rest of it is very murky. i think top of these unknown allegations that we haven't seen yet, there is probably even larger concerns about his leveil of expe. this is a man who has not run