from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. the department of homeland security announced last night it would resume accepting renewals for daca, the obama-era program that protects young immigrants from deportation. this follows tuesday's decision by a federal court blocking the trump administration's plan to put an end the program. this morning, president trump weighed in on twitter calling a bipartisan immigration deal that includes daca, "probably dead because the democrats don't really want it." democratic senator dick durbin responded in a tweet saying" republicans and democrats negotiated in good faith to reach a deal that gives you what you asked for." on thursday, the president rejected a bipartisan proposal, saying the following day in a tweet that the wall was not" properly funded" and he wanted a "merit based" immigration system. but prospects for a deal have been overshadowed by reported derogatory comments the president made about haiti and other countries that were mentioned in the b

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. a massive suicide attack killed at least 95 people in afghanistan's capital today. officials say an ambulance packed with explosives detonated in a busy area in central kabul around lunchtime. at least 158 people were injured and the foreign ministry said the majority of the casualties are civilians. the taliban is claiming responsibility for the blast, which is one of the deadliest since the start of the afghan war. today's bombing comes just a week after an attack on kabul's intercontinental hotel that killed 22 people, including four americans. the taliban also claimed responsibility for that attack. a spokesperson for the u.s. state department condemned today's bombing, calling it" cowardly." in iraq today the u.s.-led coalition accidentally launched a friendly fire air strike on iraqi security forces and civilians. at least seven were killed and a dozen more wounded, according to iraqi government officials. it took place in the town of al- baghdadi a

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. the fallout continues over a new book about the west wing that questions president trump's fitness for office. this morning president trump returned to the white house after a weekend at camp david. he tweeted that "fire and fury" by michael wolff was a "fake book" saying he has dealt with" fake news" since he announced his candidacy. the president also tweeted his support for white house senior policy advisor stephen miller, who defended the president as "" genius" in a contentious interview with cnn's jake tapper. >> the portrayal of the president in the book is so contrary to reality, to the experience of those who work with him. >> sreenivasan: other members of the administration were also out supporting the president's fitness for the job in the wake of allegations. in his first statement in response to "fire and fury", former chief strategist steve bannon told axios that his support for the president is" unwavering" and said in part:" i regret that

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressed optimism today that congress could make an immigration deal in the wake of the white house's four point immigration proposal. they think it can happen before february 8. that's when the latest short term spending bill expires. president trump tweeted last night that he offered "a wonderful deal"-- which proposed a legal pathway for 1.8 million daca or daca-eligible immigrants in exchange for $25 billion in funding for a wall on the mexico border and increased security. in the proposal, mr. trump also called for reducing legal immigration, including an end to family-based immigration beyond spouses and minor children, as well as eliminating the visa lottery. democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia called the proposal "a good starting point." manchin is part of a bipartisan group dubbed the common sense coalition that helped end the government shutdown and plans to meet again this week. >> we have peopl

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. it is day two of the government shutdown. and both sides appear to be at a stalemate, this afternoon a bipartisan group of more than 20 senators met to come up with a deal to fund the government for at least three more weeks and address immigration. but as hundreds of thousands of federal workers from almost every agency wait for word on whether to show up for work tomorrow, at this hour there is still no deal. both the house and the senate were in session today and leaders from both parties say they wanted the shutdown to end, but each continued to direct blame squarely at each other. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell called for an overnight vote, on a three-week budget extension that would happen at 1:00 a.m. >> now the democratic leader could end this today. we can get past this manufactured crisis and get on to a host of serious issues that require thoughtful, serious, bipartisan negotiations. >> so mr. president, i'm willing to seal the deal to si

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. on the one year anniversary of president donald trump's inauguration, the federal government is shut down. all but the most essential functions of government are being halted, but the senate and house of representatives are in session... with no clear end in sight. mail will still be delivered; social security checks will still go out; the military will continue its missions around the world; some national parks do remain open. but if the shutdown continues into monday, nearly 800,000 federal workers will be furloughed, including workers from almost every federal agency. this morning president trump tweeted that, "democrats wanted to give me a nice present" and later said they are, "holding our military hostage over their desire to have unchecked illegal immigration." earlier in the day the president spoke with republican leaders from the white house. the white house legislative director insisted that no negotiations on immigration issues could continue w

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thank you for joining us. there is new fallout from president trump's reported use of vulgar language to describe haiti and some african nations during thursday's immigration meeting with senators. u.s. ambassadors serving in several countries including botswana and haiti were summoned to explain the remarks. at the united nations, ambassadors from african nations issued a statement calling the remarks "racist and xenophobic." in addition, the president of ghana tweeted, "we will not accept such insults, even from a leader of a friendly country." in an open letter obtained exclusively today by the newshour, a group of haitian- american diplomats in the state department expressed their "heartbreak and despair" with the president's reported remarks. president trump denies using the expletive, but senator dick durbin, the only democrat present at the meeting, said yesterday that trump did indeed use that expletive. this controversy comes as haiti marks the eighth anniversary of the

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for the pbs newshour, i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: next, the analysis of shields and brooks.t's syndicated columnist mark shields, and "new york times" columnist david brooks. so, david, the lead of the program tonight is what i guess a lot of people in washington are reading and talking about right now are th russia revelations, what the president did or didn't do in trying to pressure the attorney general to stay involved or not in this investigation. then other stories keep coming out. we talked about it a few minutes ago in the program. but are we really learning more about what president trump did? >> well, we knew that he really wanted to squash this investigation, but i think what we're learning is a lot of the details, a lot of the efforts that he made, the letter he wanted to write, his attitude toward government. to me the most astonishing quote of the whole deal is he's saying where is my roy cohen and roy cohen was joe mccarthy's henchman, more or less, and he's basically an -- and a mentor in donald trump, it should be said, later in life. so he thinks government

hari sreenivasan recently traveled to houston for a seriea of storiut what things are like after therms. we start with a look at what's keeping people from still returning home. "is story was produced in partnership with txas tribune." >> sreenivasan: this is home >> sreenivasan: this hotel room is what jackie white and her husband michael have been staying for the past monthed. they mere from another hotel, and for three months before that slept on their daughter's floor, which given jackie's arthritis, was not easy. >> this is more than enough for anyone to worry with and stress with. >> sreenivasan: their ordeal icbegan in august, when hue harvey swept into houston, then stopped and dumped more than 50o inchrain on the city. at its peak, about a third of the unty was underwater. at least 30,000 of the city's homes were flooded. white's was one of them.da >> mhter came. she and my son in law, they rescued us out of the house because we couldn't get out. >> sreenivasan: days later, white returned to find her home white had worked for an insurance company, but she did not have flood

for some insight, hari sreenivasan spoke with elana beiser, the editorial director of the committee to protect journalists. >> so what is going on, why is it at a record number? >> well it is as you mentioned only slightly higher than last year and that's because the top three jailer countries are exactly the same as last year, turkey, china and egypt. and we think a big part of this is because those three countries are not really paying any price, they are not feeling any pressure. they jailed all these journalists last year. they got away with it and they don't feel any incentive to curb this behavior. >> in turkey there was political upheaval. a near coup attempt. so you can kind of understand why it is happening, that the administration wants to push back against people it doesn't agree with. what about china and egypt? >> well, egypt is experiencing a similar thing in that there has been a lot of political upheaval in the last few years. now sisi has been in power for a few years but many of the journalist there in egypt have been in jail dating back to 2013 when there was that ch

hari sreenivasan gets the latest on what's prompting these worries and what technology companies are. >> sreenivasan: the risks, as it turns out, have been there for some time, but were first discovered last year, then published earlier this week on the web. it involves design flaws in computer processors, including those made by intel, that could allow hackers to potentially access servers and crack secret passwords. all kind of computers could be at risk, including companies like amazon who use cloud computing for customer services. there are fixes in some cases, better known as patches, but they may slow the systems down. with us to explain all this is dmitri alperovitch. he is the founder of the cyber security firm crowdstrike. dmitri, help us understand the flaws. there's more than just one. >> there were three discovered by google last year and are insidious. they're design flaws in the processors that take advantage of the optimizations that the processors rolled out 20 years ago to help run your code faster on these computers and, of course, the processors are the brains of t

hari sreenivasan explores how the spat was sparked by the russia investigation. >> sreenivasan: in excerptsan upcoming book on the trump presidency, steve bannon is quoted as calling a june 2016 meeting that donald trump jr. and other campaign aides held with a group of russians as "treasonous" and "unpatriotic." separately, another focus of the russia investigation returned to the headlines, after two founders of fusion g.p.s., a political research firm that commissioned the so-called steele dossier, wrote an op-ed for the "new york times." we breakdown these latest twists and turns with mark mazzetti, washington investigations editor for the "new york times;" and robert costa, host of "washington week" and national political reporter for the "washington post." robert, we saw the white house come out very strongly against steve bannon today. steve had very little to do with their historic victory, was one of the quotes they put out in the statement. not only did he lose his job, but he also lost his mind. put steve bannon in perspective here on how important or what kind of role he played

hari sreenivasan zeroes in on some of those changes, and how you might be affected. >> sreenivasan: during campaign, president trump pledged to eliminate two existing regulations for every new one. after his first year, he seems to be well past that mark. there are dozens of regulations and rules once on the books that are now revoked, and there are hundreds of others that were set to take effect or were planned that are essentially frozen or withdrawn. in fact, it's far more than we can cover in one segment, but we're going to look at some of the biggest ones, when it comes to energy and environment, eric lipton has covered this extensively for the "new york times," and joins me now. eric, you and your colleagues have focused on the morning and environment, impact of rules or lack thereof. starting with the e.p.a., what are some of the big rule changes americans will feel in? >> one of the things the obama administration was trying too do is reduce emissions from oil and gas operations and groundwater and other effects. there was a rule on methane emissions from oil and gas facilities and