jeffrey brown traveled there as part of our ongoing series, culture at risk.e's an encore look. >> brown: each morning, as the sun rises on this medieval town seemingly plucked from a fairy tale, the narrow lanes of civita di bagnoregio are quiet. by the latest count, there are just seven year-round residents, and who knows how many cats. by mid-morning, though, the scene on this beautiful fall day has changed, as thousands of tourists make the difficult hike up a long, steep footbridge. there's no cars allowed here, drawn by the beauty and peculiarity of this place, where staircases lead off cliffs and windows lead into the clouds. in italian, it's called la citta che muore, the dying city, dying because it's literally crumbling before our eyes. but now a mix a geological engineering and tourism is giving this ancient city new life. >> after we have a collapse, it takes about two, three, ten years to have the next collapse in the same part of the cliff. >> brown: claudio margottini, with italy's geological survey, has worked in civita for several decades. so,

jeffrey brown is back with that. >> what's the plan, captain? need to put a hellfire through that roof right now. >> brown: it's a new kind of warfare: advanced technology that tracks, identifies, and has the power to destroy enemies by remote control from thousands of miles away. but, as the film "eye in the sky" asks, should it be used? if so, when? especially if innocent lives may also be taken? >> harold, this is a very time- sensitive target. do i have authority to strike? >> the rules of engagement you're operating under only allow for a low collateral damage estimate. >> brown: the film follows british military commanders-- including helen mirren as colonel katherine powell, as they debate with cabinet officers and politicians over a strike against al shabob terrorists in nairobi, kenya, who appear to be on the verge of a suicide bombing. >> i told you , they came to witness a capture option. >> we no longer have a capture option. any action on the ground will lead to an armed confrontation which we will not be able to contain. >> brown:

jeffrey brown has our look. >> brown: a horror story told in one minute: that's the idea behind "fadeack", a short film by amer albarzawi, who shows us what's happened in syria through the changing image of farah brisly, an actress from damascus who now lives in istanbul. it's just one of the ways syrian artists have responded to the destruction in their country. in a refugee camp in lebanon, farah's sister, diala, has found another: working with syrian children, designing and painting murals with them to bring some color and joy to their lives. diala spoke to us by skype from her home in beirut. >> most of them, they skip school for two or three years, and they had to work in the farms to help their families. so they have really very, very serious life that doesn't belong to a childhood, you know? >> brown: the work on the murals, she says, begins with a brainstorming session-- as she asks them to imagine what seems impossible-- like flying. >> i tell them, like you can use your imagination, it isn't supposed to be realistic. you can imagine anything. some of them, they think of butt

baldwin is charged with the 2013 killing of her ex-boyfriend, jeffrey brown, who baldwin alleges hadopped and abused her. he had repeatedly threatened baldwin, took her credit cards and money, and assaulted her during visits to see their son. she eventually attained a court order barring threats, harassment's, and assaults during visits, but brown continued to center threatening text messages. according to a police affidavit, brown showed up at her house, climbed through her window, and attacked her, choking her with his belt. baldwin escaped and managed to get inside her car, but so did brown. what happens next is hard for even baldwin to remember. when police arrived, they found baldwin on the ground with a broken leg and brown was dead in front of the car, pinned against the garage wall. baldwin was arrested on murder charges. amy: since the incident, cherelle baldwin has spent three years in jail after a trial in 2015 help -- ended in a hung jury. if convicted, she could spend decades in prison. the case has caught the attention of domestic violence organizations nationwide, who

jeffrey brown has the latest edition to the newshour bookshelf. >> brown: zakia and ali first came to attention in the pages of the "new york times" in 2014. later, the paper would capture their story on video. they had grown up on adjacent potato farms in afghanistan's remote mountain province of bamiyan, playing together as children, and as teenagers, falling in love. >> ( translated ): at first i wasn't aware of my feelings, because i didn't know him. i was very young and didn't understand these things. when i was out in the farm fields, he wrote his cell phone number and gave it to me. then we talked on the phone and said "i love you," and we got to know each other and started to love each other. >> ( translated ): it looked to me that it was not possible for us to get together. >> brown: indeed it was prohibited because of the afghan custom of arranged marriages, and by islamic law. the two were separated by religion and ethnicity: she a sunni and tajik. he a shiite and hazara. when their love became known, the couple, especially zakia, faced condemnation, beatings and, later, th

jeffrey brown has the story. ♪ ♪ >> brown: the song is called "mean what you say."bonist douglas purviance, it's a veritable lesson in big band music. >> it starts out as just a rhythm section, and then it adds and adds and adds until it's really coming at you pretty good. ♪ ♪ >> brown: it's a sound that, every monday night, comes at audiences at the famous village vanguard jazz club. in a dark basement space in lower manhattan, the vanguard is a jazz mecca. all the greats have played here, and some of the most renowned live recordings have been made here. the club was founded in 1935 by max gordon, and 81 years later, it's still a family affair, run now by his daughter, deborah gordon, and still not your average small business. >> i was looking for just a recent payroll sheet or something, and accidentally put my hand on one form 1962, with john coltrane's signature on the bottom. so sometimes you just come across things like that are part of the fabric of the place. >> brown: but you realize how unusual that is, right? i mean not many places... >> i do. i'm not go

jeffrey brown has the exclusive details. >> brown: may 31st, 2014. >> this morning, i called bob andi bergdahl and told them that after nearly five years in captivity, their son, bowe, is coming home. >> brown: army sgt bowe bergdahl's release came after the u.s. agreed to free five taliban leaders being held at guantanamo bay. to some the announcement brought joy and relief. but others, including soldiers who served in his unit, saw something different. >> he's at best a deserter and at worst a traitor. >> brown: five years earlier, bergdahl had served at a remote outpost called mest malak in southeastern afghanistan-- this is one of the post's observation points on the top of a hill. and these are the last known pictures of bergdahl in the days before he walked off the post. he was captured by the taliban the day after he left. >> all's i was seeing was basically leadership failure. >> brown: bergdahl had told the podcast, "serial", that leadership problems were endangering his unit, and that he planned to hike to another post to alert a senior army commander. >> i was fully confid

jeffrey brown has our encore look at the alvin ailey american dance theater. ♪ ♪ >> brown: "revelationsnce set to gospel songs and spirituals: over five decades it's become an american classic. and still the showpiece of the renowned alvin ailey american dance theater. it's opened the eyes and minds of many, including in the 1980s, a teenager living in one of miami's poorest neighborhoods. >> i saw myself. i saw possibility. >> brown: years later, robert battle heads the company that helped change his own life. how did you see your task when you took over the company? >> wow, that's-- just to survive! >> brown: first, survive. >> first survive. >> brown: battle is just the third leader of a company that was founded by alvin ailey in 1958 as a troupe celebrating african-american culture. and then led to even greater international heights by judith jamison, a renowned dancer in the company who was tapped by ailey to take over. five years ago, jamison picked battle to replace her. >> i think she thought that this was right for the company, that i would sort of push the boundaries of what p

jeffrey brown has our newshour bookshelf conversation. >> brown: when the movie "the avengers" came out with a cast of big stars, including samuel l. jackson, "new york times" film critic a.o. scott wrote: "the secret of 'the avengers' is that it is a snappy little dialogue comedy dressed up as something else, that something else being a giant a.t.m. for marvel and its new studio overlords, the walt disney company." >> so the day that review appeared, samuel l. jackson sent out a tweet saying, "avengers fans, we need to find a.o. scott a new job, one he can actually do." >> brown: one he can actually do? >> one he can actually do, yeah. but i thought, "well, what is this job and how do you actually do it?" >> brown: scott's answer comes in the new book "better living through criticism: how to think about art, pleasure, beauty, and truth." he's been reviewing films for the "times" since 2000. but his first love was literature. he never took a film class. and his book goes well beyond film, to all kinds of art forms, to how we see the world, how we make judgments. we talked about it at go

jeffrey brown has a sample. ♪ let me call you sweetheart i'm in love with you ♪ >> brown: it's a triph century, with something for everyone, including plenty of romance, from a 1911 recording by the "columbia quartet" of "let me call you sweetheart" to julie london's version of "cry me a river" in 1955. ♪ cry me a river cry me a river >> brown: a year later came the jazz standard "mack the knife" with this performance by louis armstrong. ♪ ♪ >> brown: and nearly a decade later, the motown hit: "where did our love go" by the supremes-- a song the trio ♪ where did our love go don't you want me initially thought was too simplistic, but helped gained them great fame. >> brown: also among the 25 recordings are important speeches. here is george marshall in 1947 outlining the plan to restore europe after world war two. >> it is logical that the united states should do whatever is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace. >> brown: and then, a bit of basketball history: the only surviving

jeffrey brown reports on a photographer who learned something about himself in the decades-old bookshelves brown: at first glance, you might wonder: what is this? what am i looking at? then it hits you: these are books, fragments of books, in various states of decay. they were photographed where they'd been left: an abandoned schoolhouse in the town of bardieyov, slovakia. yuri dojc, a successful art and commercial photographer who's lived in canada since 1968, returned to his native country after his father's death, to learn more about his own jewish roots. he came upon the schoolhouse almost by accident, when a man he'd met told dojc there was something he must see. >> he takes us across the square. he opened this door. and we were just stunned. >> brown: you were stunned. you had no idea what you were walking into? >> i had no clue. but i was stunned by the beauty of decaying books. i wasn't thinking about history at that moment. it's the visual effect of the old books that was so beautiful. >> brown: beautiful, but horrible at the same time, as the sense of "history" set in. for this w

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jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: jim harrison was a prolific writer of fiction and etry, most often and women in the drama of rural america and the natural world. among his best known works are "legends of the fall," "dalva," and the more recent "brown dog." a new novel, "the ancient minstrel" came out just this month, and a new volume of poetry, "dead man's float," earlier this year. he'd been a hollywood screenwriter, a food writer for "esquire" magazine. a man of many pursuits who lived large and died this weekend at age 78. in 2009 i visited harrison at his home in montana. here's a look back. >> out there fishing and a little bird hunting. >> brown: harrison is a determined outsider in all senses. >> you really get a hang of the country rather than be stuck in what i call the geopiety of the eastern seaboard. >> brown: careful, because that's where i am. >> i know it, but you deserve it, too. but it does happen. (laughter) >> brown: now 71, jim harrison is blind in his left eye from a childhood accident, chain smoking his american spirit cigarettes, part wild man, part cultivat

jeffrey brown has more. >> brown: the winner was something of a surprise: "spotlight," a film about oneown institution, the "boston globe," taking on another, the catholic church. director tom mccarthy: >> we made this film for all the journalists who have and continue to hold the powerful accountable and for the survivors whose courage and will to overcome is really an inspiration to all we have to do to make sure this never happens again. >> the numbers clearly indicate that there were senior clergy involved. >> brown: the film recounts how "globe" reporters and editors tracked down cases of sexual abuse of children by priests, and the cover-up by the church hierarchy that allowed guilty priests to stay in their positions. the paper's "spotlight" team tracked over 900 active and retired priests, finding some 250 had molested children over several decades. >> we need to focus on the institution, not the individual priests. practice and policy. show me this was systemic, that it came form the top down. >> brown: actor liev schreiber played the "globe's" editor, martin baron. >> when tom

jeffrey brown has our story. >> brown: it was baseball with a cuban flair, as the thaw in u.s.-cuban diplomatic relations spilled into the realm of sports, and a game with deep histories in both nations. the crowd cheered when president obama joined cuban president raul castro for a game between the tampa bay rays and the cuban national team. just the second such game in more than 50 years. there was a moment of silence for the victims of the belgium terror attacks. followed by the singing of the national anthems of both countries. the ceremonial first pitches were thrown by luis tiant, cuban native and former major league star, and legendary cuban national team pitcher pedro luis lazo. and the game was on. with a bit more symbolism: rays' lead-off batter, dayron varona is a native cuban who defected to the u.s. three years ago in the hopes of playing ball. one anticipated by-product of the warming u.s.-cuban relations would be a relaxation of the embargo that bans cuban players from playing in the u.s. peter bjarkman has written widely on baseball in cuba. they're not allowed

jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: orca whales have been entertaining audiences at seaworld parks since 1964. once feared-- they're commonly known as 'killer whales'-- they became hugely popular and even beloved. today's announcement, made with the humane society, means the era of public exhibition is coming to an end. >> current orcas under our care will be the last generation at seaworld. we're going to phase out our theatrical shows. >> brown: seaworld is ending its breeding program for the animals, though it's keeping the whales it already has. and the orlando-based company says the shows will gradually give way to what it calls "inspiring natural orca encounters." animal rights activists have long criticized keeping the animals in captivity. >> any of us would be miserable if we had to spend out life living in a bathtub and orcas at seaworld are just as miserable. they spend their lives confined to tiny tanks where they go mad from confinement and boredom. >> brown: the parks came under new scrutiny in 2010 after one of the whales drowned a trainer. that attack was captured o

jeffrey brown has this latest addition to the newshour bookshelf. already hundreds of syrians have been killed. >> brown: her two-hour daily public radio program produced by wmau in washington, d.c. reaches some two and a half million listeners nationwide. in a book entitled "on my own" she's addressing a more personal an raw topic, the death of her husband john after 54 years of marriage. john was dying owed with parkindowns disease in 2005 and moved into assisted living in 2012. two years later in steady decline he decided to end his life. with doctors legally barred from assisting, his only option was to refuse food, liquids and medication. his death came 10 days later. diane lives with her dog max yand lingering anger over >> i so resented that john was having to go through this long ten-day process to die. he had said ten days earlier he was ready to die and it took him that long. it should not have, i believe, taken him that long. >> brown: you even write, "i rage at a system that would not allow john to be helped to his own death." he knew wha

jeffrey brown has our remembrance. >> brown: garry shandling was first a comedy writer and a stand-uprry shandling's show," he'd break character and speak directly to the audience. he'd started in standup, and been a fill-in host for johnny carson-- and in 1992 he created his own mock late night show "the larry sanders show," that subverted the form to find >> brown: he pioneered a kind of "meta" humor. and both featured, and influenced, up-and-coming comedians. earlier this year, sanders joined his friend jerry seinfield on his web-series "comedians in cars getting coffee", where they discussed the impact of "the larry sanders show." >> you ever watch tv, "the office," "modern family," you ever go-- "oh, they're still doing me?" >> and i mean they thought i was crazy. >> brown: among many others, last night conan o'brien recalled sanders' personal kindness. >> but he was also extremely sensitive, he was complicated, and he had a ton of empathy for other people. and i want to make that point-- that is something in the business, in comedy, that is very rare. he really did care about ot

jeffrey brown has our latest interview. >> brown: in our first conversation we talked with neel kashkarient of the federal reserve bank in minneapolis. as a treasury official during the financial crisis he helped oversee the bailout of the banks. he now argues that the system remains in danger and that giant financial firms should be broken up. that's a view being heard on the campaign trail from senator bernie sanders. in his interview with judy yesterday, here's how he described the problem and his plan for it. >> it is important to point out that three out of the four largest banks in this country today are bigger than they were when we bailed them out because they were too big to fail. you have the six largest banks in this country that have assets of 58% of our g.d.p. i happen the believe that when you have a few financial institutions with unbelievable economic power, with unbelievable financial power, that what we should do is reestablish a modern glass seeing the l legislation and what we should do is break them up, not only from a risk perspective of not seeing their greed and i

jeffrey brown recently helped ruth reichl prepare a meal in her new york city kitchen.e's an encore look. >> brown: spicy tuscan kale, pork and tomatillo stew, and, yes, cake that cures everything, just some of the recipes that ruth reichl says saved her life and are now collected in her new book, part cookbook, part memoir, titled "my kitchen year." that year came in 2009, when" gourmet," the nation's oldest food and wine magazine, was suddenly shut down by its publisher, conde nast, and reichl's ten-year reign as editor abruptly ended. she'd been one of the country's most prominent food writers since the 1970s, as a critic at the "los angeles times" and "new york times," and in her bestselling memoirs. now suddenly jobless, what to do? she hunkered down, started whipping up recipes, and tweets about them, and gained a large new following. in her new york apartment recently, we talked about life changes and the simple pleasuren of cooking. so, i'm getting the tuscan kaleg that's what you picked? >> you are-- that's what i picked. you sound like a vegetable guy to me.u

jeffrey brown has that. >> brown: three universities within 25 miles of one another and a rich basketballstory of great rivalries and bitter defeats lansing friendships. three men are at the heart of the tale, dean smith, the hall of fame coach for the university of north carolina for 36 seasons who died last year, jim valvano, the fun-loving, wise-cracking coach who led north carolina state to a surprise national championship in 1983, and died of cancer ten years later, and mike krzyzewski, coach at duke since 1980, winner of five national championships with the most recent coming just last year. their story is told in the new book the legends club. author john feinstein joins me now. welcome, john. why these three? what did they mean to you? >> well, i cut my teeth as a reporter covering for them in the "washington post" in the 1980s. they were all there in the research triangle at the same time. dean smith had been there since the early '60s and was already an iconic figure when mike krzyzewski and jim valvano arrived within nine days of each other at duke and n.c. state. i got to know

jeffrey brown has our look. >> brown: a symbolic "burning of the judas," something of an easter traditionin some catholic countries. effigies of unpopular figures are set ablaze. this year in venezuela those figures were politicians, including president nicholas maduro and a local mayor. but president obama wasn't spared the torch, either, the u.s. has long been a favorite target of venezuelan anger, and venezuelans have much to enrage them: the global price of oil, venezuela's main commodity, has fallen dramatically, crushing the government's bottom line. meanwhile, the venezuelan central bank began printing money at record levels. the result: massive inflation in the socialist country. the cost of consumer goods increased 275% last year, according to the international monetary fund. and that number is expected to double in 2016 long lines and empty shelves have come to define life for many, as well as anger at the maduro government. in elections last year, the opposition party won a majority of seats in the national parliament. earlier this month, after weeks without water, protests eru

. >>> pamela brown is joining us live, also our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. quickly how would you characterize the president's choice of chief judge merrick garland? >> this is an extremely qualified nominee by any standards, someone who has impeccable legal background 18 years on what is widely regarded as the second-most important court in the country unnormal circumstances, he would certainly get a vote and almost certainly get confirmed. these are not normal circumstances, and his chances for confirmation, at least at this point, appear remote. >> at least at this point. pamela you have some insight into the selection process, the reasons judge merrick garland was chosen. what have you learned about that? >> well, we know the white house already had a lineup in place, including merrick garland, because he was a front-runner for past high court seats, and they added to the list. they had people with elected and academics and others. they say the list says included individuals with a diverse range of personal backgrounds, men and women, republicans and demo

brown now. pamela, as jeffrey was just discussing, the political benefits of a merrick garland nomination seemed rather slim compared to all the pressure that was on president obama to pick somebody from a minority group that might rally voters to the polls. president obama in the past, when asked what he's looking for, what qualification he's looking for in the supreme court nominee, talked about empathy. that was not cited as one of the main reasons to pick merrick garland today. >> that's right. a lot of people thought the president would pick someone who can rally the base in an election year, particularly because the thinking is that the person is never going to get con firp fi firmed by the republican-led senate. some groups have already come out and expressed their disappointment with this pick. but what is clear to me, jake, this is not about the election. this is really about president obama's legacy. and the sense i get is that president obama really believes that merrick garland has the best chance of being confirmed compared to some of the other more diverse candidates he was looking

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brown explains their next steps to try and free him. >> in pueblo -- >> they have come together to form a sea of support. for hours, protesters marched through the city of charlotte for immigrants like jeffrey >> it worries me that charlotte will be part of the city where this is happening. >> among the crowd, we met joel marching for his cousin. u.s. immigration officials waited until sorto waited 18, targeted him, and say they arrested him at the bus stop. >> it hurts me, because we are all equal here. you know, we can be different race, culture, but we are all the same from the inside. when you see an 18, 19-year-old being a parent, to me, this is a child in criminal jail. >> organizers tell me their efforts won't stop with these steps, they are on to their next one. jose hernandez is executive director with the latin american coalition and says he is working with members of congress, attorneys, and hopes to petition against sorto's removal. >> this youth were unaccompanied minors. when they went to immigration >> at least for today, they'll march. reporting in south charlotte, dashawn brown, channel 9 eyewitness news. >> an ice spokesman told channel 9 a judge ordered sorto's deportatio

brown, thanks. let's get perspective on both top stories from atlantic media contributor, peter beinart, on the liberal end of the spectrum, gloria borger and senior legal analyst jeffreyoobin. from the right, margaret hoover, jeffrey lord and tara setmeyer and jonathan turley. professor turley, let's start with you. what do you think this says about the nominee and what president obama is trying to do? >> it's a very interesting choice. it's a restrained choice. this would not be a legacy appointee in the sense of changing the court necessarily or necessarily being on the court a long time. he will move the needle to the left just by the fact that scalia was so far to the right. there are things about his background that will not please the left and many that will not please the right. i think there's an end-game strategy here that they hope that the republicans will change their mind with pressure. i think that's unlikely. but there's always the possibility that if hillary clinton is elected, you have that window of opportunity where the republicans can say, all right, well, maybe we'll take the moderate we know, then the liberal we don't and go ahead forward with it

jeffrey documents in his illuminating book rule and ruin, the party had prided itself on the progressive stand on race from abraham lincoln onward. he had opposed to the supreme court's decision to integrate schools in brown verses board of education and the 1964 civil rights act. a hundred years of work would be thrown away. trump marks in many ways a larger break from the bass kin gold water. the modern republican party has been devoted to free markets, free trade, social conservatism and fiscal discipline on entitlements. remember, each launched ronald reagan's political career was an attack on medicare. >> to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. >> on every one of these issues donald trump openly disagrees or has a fast track record of disagreement with conservatives. over the last decades support has already been collapsing. trump's nomination would transit form the party into a blue collar national movement. much like others in the western world. this would be a very different party from ronald reagan's or paul ryans. 2016 might well go down as a critical election. one that scrambles the old order and setting up a new one. in this respect, it looks like 1964. also, an election that