thanks for joining us. >> thank you for the opportunity. >> thank you, john. >> yang: the group that have started is the latino donor corroborative. >> yang: and next: the latest addition to our "newshour bookshelf." it's a personal narrative on the importance that visuals play in making or breaking a political campaign or a white house event. judy woodruff sat down with author josh king to discuss the significance of imagery in the age of optics. >> woodruff: political stage craft has evolved into a high form of art. but that doesn't mean mishaps don't take place along the campaign trail or on the road with the president. we turn now to josh king, he is the author of "off-visit. an advanced man's guide to white house stagecraft, campaign spectacle and political suicide." welcome to the "newshour." >> thanks for having me. >> woodruff: first of all what is an advance man? >> basically a political movie producer. we've roamed america around the world trying to tell political stories by setting up tabloe, is that connect to president or presidential candidate with the places they are o

for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: so far, there's been no claim by any group that it a hand in bringing down the plane. here to help us understand the questions still out there, is our science correspondent and aviation analyst, miles o'brien. miles, first, this automated data that became known this afternoon, what do you make of that? >> well, just a quick bit of background for our viewers. as an aircraft flys, it's live streaming the health of it's system mostly for maintenance so when the plane lands they know what parts to have ready to fix it and get it back in the air. there were a series of faults right before the plane disappeared from radar beginning with problems with the windshield in the cockpit, smoke in the lavatory and avionics bay beneath the cockpit, then failure of the computer systems. literally hundreds of computer systems control the aircraft and have to operate in concert. this is consistent with a catastrophic event, whether a bomb or some major mechanical failure remains to be seen. it also is consistent with that initial left turn reported on

john yang reports. >> reporter: for hillary clinton, this is what a pivot to the general election lookse: looking beyond tomorrow's west virginia primary, the democratic frontrunner was talking family issues in virginia. >> i would like to see us look at universal pre-k in the school system. then we need to take a hard look at how we have a childcare system that does provide quality childcare at an affordable cost. >> reporter: it's not just that rival bernie sanders is favored in west virginia. >> don't tell anyone tell you this campaign is over. >> reporte it's that this bedroom community outside washington, d.c., is likely to be a key battleground in the november election. one challenge for the candidate who wants to be the first woman president: winning the votes of suburban women, like amy fitzgerald of chantilly, vigrinia. she voted for clinton in the primary, but says the former secretary of state doesn't understand the challenges of her life. >> it's like she's a puppet. it's like someone is handing her a piece of paper saying okay, this is what america wants to hear. this is wh

john yang has our report. >> this change will ensure that vietnam has access to the equipment that itds to defend itself and removes a lingering vestige of the cold war. >> reporter: in hanoi, president obama officially ending the more than four-decades old arms embargo. >> at this stage, both sides have established a level of trust and cooperation, including between our militaries, that is reflective of common interests and mutual respect. >> reporter: that "mutual respect" was on full display during the first of mr. obama's three days in vietnam. he was greeted at the presidential palace by a military honor guard. at night, hundreds of people lined the streets to catch a glimpse of the president as he left a noodle shop. the warming extends to commerce, too: american and vietnamese companies signed deals worth $16 billion. lifting the arms embargo reflects growing u.s. concerns about china's military build-up and territorial ambitions in the south china sea. china's efforts to exert more naval control over shipping lanes in the sea is troubling to both the united states and vietnam.

for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: tonight an egyptian air official said that no debris from the missing airplane has been found, correcting an earlier statement. >> sreenivasan: in the day's other news, the senate approved a bipartisan plan to fight the zika virus-- totaling $1.1 billion. it came after republicans in the house passed a separate bill last night that costs $622 million. the white house says president obama can accept the senate compromise, but would veto the house measure because it doesn't provide enough money. >> woodruff: the house of representatives did battle today over gay rights. democrats offered an amendment to protect lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender employees from discrimination by federal contractors. it failed by one vote. the floor erupted with boos and shouts of "shame," as democrats accused republicans of prolonging the process until enough members switched their "yes" votes to "no." >> the changing of those seven votes resulted in this house saying to the president of the united states you cannot tell contractors that they cannot

john yang begins our coverage. >> the folks behind me got us right over the top, from north dakota. >> reporter: the now-certain nominee celebrated his status at a news conference in bismarck, the associated press reports one of them has now given trump the 1,237th vote he'll need at the g.o.p. convention. on the same day that president obama used his own news conference in japan to warn that world leaders are worried about a president trump. >> they're rattled by him and for good reason, because a lot of the proposals that he's made display either ignorance of world affairs or a cavalier attitude, or an interest in getting tweets and headlines >> reporter: trump dismissed the president's criticism, and had >> many of the countries in our world, our beautiful world, have been abusing us and taking advantage of us. if they're rattled in a friendly way, we're going to have friendly relationships with these countries. but if they're rattled, in a friendly way, that's a good thing, john, not a bad thing if he faces nomination, trump faces turmoil. rick wiley is out, just six weeks after h

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> yang: good evening, i'm john yang.n ifill and judy woodruff are away. on the newshour tonight: ( trumpet plays "taps" ) in a memorial day tradition, president obama lays a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier to honor fallen service members. then, the iraqi army, backed by the u.s., battle islamic state forces in the key city of fallujah, trying to take back the iraqi city seized by the terror group two years ago. also ahead, following the twists and turns of the campaign trail, our politics monday team breaks down the most recent developments in the presidential election. plus, pulitzer prize-winning poet peter balakian grapples with his family's dark past as survivors of the armenian genocide.

we begin our coverage with john yang who's covering tonight's trump event in west virginia. >> reporter: for donald trump, tonight's event in charleston isn't about next week's primary, but about winning the fall campaign. he come out, won indiana, secured the nomination and one of the first things that come out of his mouth was we're going to help people in west virginia, we're going to help people in pennsylvania, we're going to get coal back on the market. >> reporter: and in today's "new york times," trump outlined goals for his first 100 days in office. they include: designing the "wall" he says he'll build on the mexican border, banning stopping muslim immigration, auditing the federal reserve, and repealing the affordable care act. the nominee-to-be he also went on cnbc, summing his economic appeal making his economic pitch to voters. >> they have two jobs in some cases, and they're making less money than they made 20 years ago. and that's why you're wondering what's going on and why they're not liking republicans or democrats. i mean, they're not liking either, to be honest with

john yang has our report. >> you are the problem, politician. you are the problem. >> reporter: ted cruz went for broke today, trying to pull off a crucial primary win in indiana. this afternoon he faced off with backers of republican frontrunner donald trump. >> i think anyone that wants to be president owes it to the people of this state to come in front of you and ask for your support. and i'm running to be everyone's president-- those who vote for me and those who don't. >> we don't want you. >> well, you're entitled to your views, sir. and i will respect it... >> do the math. you asked kasich to drop out-- it's your turn. take your own words. >> reporter: but the words "drop out" don't seem to be in cruz's vocabulary-- not yet anyway. >> i am in for the distance as long as we have a viable path to victory. i am competing to the end-- and the reason is simple. listen. this isn't about me. it isn't about donald trump. it isn't about any of the candidates. this is about our country and our future. reporter: an "associated press" analysis has c

john yang has our report. >> reporter: on his first day as the apparent republican nominee, donald trumpd he's confident the party would fall in behind him-- but that some were welcome to leave. >> i don't think it's imperative that the entire party come together. i don't want everybody. i don't even want certain people that were extraordinarily nasty. let them go their own way. >> reporter: trump, who rails against politics as usual, said he's looking for a running mate with a political background to help him navigate washington. he spoke again, late today, on cnn. it took just a little more than 300 days for the outsider to demolish a field of 16 rivals, including current and former officeholders with more than a century of combined government experience. late today the last opponent standing, ohio governor john kasich, made it official: >> as i suspend my campaign today, i have renewed faith, deeper faith that the lord will show me the way forward and fulfill the purpose of my life. >> reporter: ted cruz quit last night after trump routed him in the indiana primary: >> we gave it ever

for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang, on capitol hill. >> sreenivasan: in the day's other news, a federal judge in washington struck down federal spending to subsidize health care for low-income americans. it comes to $175 billion dollars over a decade. house republicans argued the obama administration is spending the money without congressional approval, and the judge agreed. the white house plans an appeal. >> woodruff: islamic state suicide bombers struck again in iraq today, just a day after killing nearly 100 people in baghdad. this time, they blew up two truck bombs in the recently liberated city of ramadi. 17 iraqi solders were killed. back in baghdad, prime minister haider al abadi visited victims of yesterday's attacks. and two more bombings in the city killed five people today. >> sreenivasan: in syria, a cease-fire expired in aleppo, and fighting flared north of the city. government forces battled rebels for control of a district just north of the city. it sits on the supply route to rebel-held portions of aleppo. >> woodruff: the u.s. powered up an $800 million dollar missile

john yang reports. >> this man is a pathological liar. >> reporter: ted cruz-- in indiana this morning-- unleashing a blistering attack on donald trump. the republican frontrunner he cited an unsubstantiated "national enquirer" report that linked cruz's father, rafael, to the man who killed presidentic john f. kennedy. >> his father was with lee harvey oswald prior to oswald's being, you know, shot. and nobody even brings it up; i mean they don't even talk about that. >> reporter: trump also chided cruz over a confrontation with the new york businessman's supporters. >> well, they know he's lying. they've been watching him lie.te and that's what he does. that's why we call him lyin'at ted. >> reporter: hours later, in evansville, cruz branded trump "utterly amoral". and compared likened him to a character in the "back to the future" movies. >> a caricature of a braggadocious, arrogant buffoon, who builds giant casinos withr: giant pictures of him everywhere he looks.nd we are looking, potentially, ats the biff tannen presidency. i >> reporter: this very personal war of words went white

for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: with more on this whirlwind day in politics, we turnsusan page, washington bureau chief for "usa today;" and reid wilson, chief political correspondent of the morning consult. and welcome back to both of you. so let's start, susan, with this state department inspector general report on hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server. how much political damage is this likely to do? >> you know, it don't think it's hugely explosive. people who like hillary clinton will still like her, but i don't think it's helpful, and it lays the groundwork for the bigger report to come, the f.b.i. report, that investigation into her exclusive use of an e-mail server is still going on. >> woodruff: how do you see this? >> there are two sides of the same coin. on the one hand it's a lot better for the clinton campaign that this came out in may rather than october. on the other hand, though, it reinforces one of the fundamental problems hillary clinton faces and has faced in most of her political career which is people don't believe she is honest and tru

john yang begins our coverage. >> this is not entertainment. not a reality show. >> reporter: with that, the president issued an appeal to voters and reporters alike. he called for much more focus on donald trump's record-- and much less on "the spectacle and the circus." >> this is a contest for the presidency of the united states, and what that means is that every candidate, every nominee, needs to be subject to exacting standards and genuine scrutiny. it means that you got to make sure that their budgets add up. >> reporter: the president said republicans will have to decide for themselves if they feel comfortable with trump as their nominee. but senator lindsey graham of south carolina tweeted that he is not. just yesterday, house speaker paul ryan said he's not ready to endorse trump either. >> i was really surprised by it. it's not a good thing. it's something the party should get solved quickly. >> reporter: ryan and other hill republican leaders are to meet trump next thursday. and republican national chairman reince priebus told "polit

john yang has the story. >> reporter: president obama's trip to elkhart, indiana tomorrow marks his fifthisit since he was a candidate in 2008. in 2009, he went there to announce $170 million in federal stimulus money for elkhart county. elkhart is a city of about 50,000 people, known as "the r.v. capital of the world"-- an industry on the rebound since cratering during the recession. at its worst, unemployment was once more than 20%. seven years later, it's now 3.8%. he's been doing as best as he could do, it wasn't perfect when he got in. >> we've come a long way, the economy is fairly good now. when it crashed in '08 it was like a ghost town around here. >> reporter: ed neufeldt knows that firsthand. laid off from his job in the r.v. industry in 2009, he now works four part-time jobs, including cleaning a doctor's office. he's thankful there's enough work for him. >> if you want a job in elkhart county, you can find a job. there's help wanted signs all over-- elkhart's doing great. >> reporter: it's quite a contract to when we last met him in 2009. when his employer of 32 years closed.

for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: we'll talk with supporters on both sides of the democratice, right after the news summary. >> sreenivasan: in the day's other news, the u.s. and other world powers announced they're ready to arm the internationally recognized government of libya. they want an exemption to a u.n. arms embargo, to supply weapons to fight islamic state forces. officials from the u.s. and 20 other countries met in vienna. secretary of state john kerry said they want to help libya fight isis and other militants. >> but there has been no request otherwise at this point in time for some other kind of intervention. we are simply in a mode of trying to help and assist and develop a libyan capacity to be able to respond to the challenge of security within libya. >> sreenivasan: the pentagon confirmed today that small teams of u.s. troops are on the ground, assessing the situation. "the washington post" reported last week that they're special operations forces, deployed at two outposts. >> woodruff: the capital of afghanistan was on lockdown today as tens of thousands o

john yang has that. >> reporter: among the thousands killed at hirosha were 12 american prisoners of-- the crew of three planes shot down. today, president obama noted their deaths, as well as the quiet, diligent and four decades-long effort of one man, shigeaki mori, a survivor of the bombing, to memorialize the 12 americans. mori attended mr. obama's speech and the two men embraced. now, a new film called "paper lanterns" charts mori's quest as he sought permission from two of the families of the 12 p.o.w.'s to register their names for a memorial. here is a clip from the film, where ralph neal of kentucky and susan brissette archinski of massachusetts read the letters mori sent them seven years ago about their uncles. ♪ ♪ >> dear mrs. susan brissette archinski -- >> dear mr. ralp ralph neal. i hope this letter finds you well. my name is shigeaki mori, a 72-year-old b bomb survivor -- a bomb survivor and historian living in hiroshima. for a long time i have been reading about american soldiers killed by the atomic bomb. i have erected a memorial to their death. the 64th anniversary

for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> sreenivasan: we'll have a report from on the ground, in indiana, after the news summary. >> woodruff: in the day's other news: "islamic state" fighters killed a u.s. navy seal in northern iraq. the isis attack-- near the city of mosul-- was the biggest in months by the militants. they broke through kurdish militia forces before being driven off. u.s. officials said the seal was there in an advisory role. >> you had an individual who was not in a combat mission come under withering attack from enemy forces. he was in a combat situation. he was prepared to deal with it, but unfortunately, under a complex attack, he was killed. and it's tragic. >> woodruff: in all, three americans have been killed in combat, since the anti-isis campaign began in 2014. >> sreenivasan: rebel rocket fire rained down on a hospital in aleppo, syria today killing at least four people. the hospital was in a government-controlled part of the city. a health official said more than 30 people were wounded in the bombing-- many of them women and children. separately, the u.n. se

we had hoped to report in the economy but the government is cutting here in john yang's -- p on yang'sere is no proof he is for filling his promise to improve family living status but his policy is to do that as developing nuclear missiles. across town, we were driven to an old armory, reminder of the army's central and consuming role in north korean life. we have been taken to see some military history in pyongyang. hitting economic targets will be hard because the party man i reforms to formalize the market economy. a new middle class has rung up in parts of the city but much of the population remains poor and malnourished. sanctions against north korea are the toughest in 20 years. weak commodity prices have hit with a export and the government continues to rely on china for aid. most will have to wait for the curtain to come down on this piece of political pageantry before we get a clear insight into the future of north korea. alix: that was tom mckenzie. scarlet: coming up, a wildfire across northern alberta causing the biggest evacuation we have an up date from canada. ♪ alix: th

according to the john yang decoration which inclusive basic ideas for achieving the peace northability issues, korea will bear understanding on their issues such as they adoption and missile issues. japan will provide economic cooperation with north korea after that normalization of diplomatic relations. however, a huge gap between the ideas described in the pyongyang agreement and the disparities of the circumstances. the average north korean makes no attempt to take an honest approach to the comprehensive understanding of the program. indeed, based on the pyongyang declaration, the prime minister has repeatedly emphasized that without the resolution of the abduction issues there can be no normalization of diplomatic relations between japan and inappropriated action will result in the paying of heavy price. the risk the resolution of the outstanding issues. north korea cannot look ahead to a bright future. meanwhile regrettably, north korea continued to take action which contradicted the pyongyang declaration. and set of responding to the issues of concern. specific, in the japan summ

yang. i don't think it should be john kasich. should it be rubio?ebody who is more establishment. somebody who shows he has experience. somebody who has experience in government who will say we have an outsider and insider and get this job done and it will spry everybody. >> i think a great pick would be somebody like a bobby jindal. i don't think he should pick scene establishment type. bobby jindal is a strong conservative and reforming governor. i think someone like that would be a great benefit. donald trump is a unique presidential candidate. he many smart to put out potential supreme court picks. he's smart to go out there with who might be advising him on foreign affairs and who will be his chief of staff. he ought to give americans anwood idea of what he will surround himself with. i think he should tease it out and show folk he's going to pick smart people. lou: you don't think people think he will make smart good choices? >> he should start changing his tone and acting more presidential. i agree with you. he should start acting presidentia

yang. some people have said it should be kasich. i don't think it should be johnn. >> i think it should be somebody that's more establishment. marco rubio. somebody that's going to shock everybody. somebody that's got experience with government and that's going to say, we've got an outsider and an insider and we're going to get this job done and together it's going to surprise everybody. >> matt? >> i think a great pick would be somebody like a bobby jindal. >> who? >> i don't think he should -- >> governor jindal. bobby jindal from louisiana would be a great pick. he's a strong conservative. he's been a reforming governor, someone from the southern part of the country, and i think someone like that would be a great benefit. i think donald trump is a unique presidential candidate in the sense that he is smart to put out there a potential supreme court pick. he is smart to go out there with who might be advising him on foreign affairs, who might even be his chief of staff. because he has no political experience, he ought to give conservatives and americans an idea

john cena's suit is, but he won't reveal. >> two bed sheets pressed together. >>> 9:57 on this tuesday, may 10th, 2016. good morning. i'm eun yang lying to fbi agents who were investigating an off the book shadow campaign that spent about $653,000 to help elect gray as mayor. gray was never charged. >>> let's check the fas chuck bell. no good news right now. >> as long as you like clouds and drizzle drops the forecast is filled with good news. temperatures in the upper 50s to around 60. radar shows a little light rain in northern and southern maryland and a few showers across parts of the northern virginia. not going to get any heavy rain today but a brief shower anytime. more of the same for tomorrow. more clouds on thursday, should be mostly dry on thursday, then thunderstorm chances friday and saturday and turning cool and sunny on your sunday. >> coming up on >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today," with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> hello, everybody, it's boozeday tuesday. it's tuesday, may 10. it's also spanky tuesday. >> oh, i forgot. >> and this is "love stick" by ja