. —— john yang.using on air pollution. it is pa rt focusing on air pollution. it is part of the season, so i can breathe. the world health organisation, margaret chan has been talking to the bbc as part of that and external white olivers in whichever concha beuran need to take this issue seriously. our pollution is one of the most pernicious threats to health because it is so pervasive and because you cannot escape it. everybody has to breathe. when breathing becomes deadly, the entire city, it doesn't matter which party and it becomes hazardous to health. that eric and travel for hundreds of kilometres b and a city to endanger health and surrounding areas. this is a big problem. let's concentrate on moves to make london's black cabs more environmentally friendly. the taxes you see here are running diesel engines, but the firm that makes them is introducing an electric model. in a move i didn't anticipate it is testing the taxis in arctic norway. on some of the coldest roads on earth, in some of the

john yang has our report. >> we're not saying its the end of healthcare but we're looking to look foray forward. >> yang: at the white house today, press secretary sean spicer was the public face of the effort to move beyond the humiliating collapse of president trump's attempt to repeal the affordable care act. >> and i think what this event on friday did was frankly draw more people into the process to saying okay, let's figure out if we can actually come together with some consensus ideas to get to 218 whether or not they come from one side of the aisle or the other to pass this bill and >> yang: but much of the day was dominated by mounting questions about the house intelligence committee chairman's revelation that trump transition communications had been intercepted. today, nunes acknowledged he got that information during a meeting with a source, not a white house official, in the old executive office building in the white house complex. today, spicer said he couldn't say with certainty that the white house was not the source of nunes' information. >> what i can tell you through

john yang begins our coverage. >> yang: with coal miners looking on at e.p.a. headquarters, president trump took action to undo most of president obama's climate change legacy. >> perhaps no single regulation threatens our miners energy workers and companies more than this crushing attack on american industry. >> yang: he signed an executive order targetting more than a half-dozen major regulations. the biggest target: the "clean power plan" to restrict greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants-- the centerpiece of obama's global warming policies. >> the idea of setting standards and cutting carbon pollution is not new, its not radical. what is new is that starting today, washington is starting to catch up with the vision of the rest of the country. >> yang: it's been on hold while coal states and the energy industry challenged it in court as an unconstitutional power grab. today's order mandates a review of the "clean power plan." lifts a moratorium on new coal leases on federal lands, starts a review of reducing methane emissions in oil and natural

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> yang: good evening, i'm john yang. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight... >> this executive order, just as the first executive order, is a lawful and proper exercise of presidential authority. >> yang: the trump administration unveils a revised travel ban after the first was blocked by the courts. then, making sense of president trump's wiretapping claim-- what's behind the charge that president obama was listening in on trump tower. and, jeffrey brown sits down with "get out" diretor jordan peele to talk why the hit horror film about race is striking a chord with audiences. >> for me the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. they're coming from the way humans interact. >> yang: 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 connects us. >> and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better

for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, the commandant of the u.s. marine corps faced a grilling today, over a scandal involving nude photos of female members being shared online. general robert neller pledged to fix the problem and culture that led to the scandal. but female senators, in particular, said they'd heard it all before, including new york democrat kirsten gillibrand. >> when you say to us it's got to be different. that rings hollow. i don't know what you mean when you say that. why does it have to be different. because you all of a sudden feel that it has to be different? who has been held accountable? >> i don't have a good answer for you. i'm not going to sit here and duck around this thing. i'm not. i'm responsible. i'm the commandant. i own this. that's a lame answer but ma'am that's the best i can tell you right now. >> woodruff: the general acknowledged the scandal may hurt the marine corps' efforts to recruit women. the european union's highest court ruled today that employers may bar muslim women from wearing headscarves on the j

as long as the five prince becomes are met, he doesn't care what the details are. >> sreenivasan: john yangsa desjardins, thank you both. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, the u.s. economy cranked out more jobs in february. the labor department reports that u.s. employers added a net of 235,000 new positions. the unemployment rate dipped slightly to 4.7% as more people began looking for work. during the campaign, then- candidate trump dismissed the jobs data as "phony." today, a white house spokesman said, "they may have been phony in the past, but they're very real now." >> sreenivasan: it turns out lawyers for former national security advisor michael flynn told the trump transition team-- before the inauguration-- that he might have to register as a foreign agent. that's because flynn had lobbied for the turkish government during the campaign, before he joined the trump administration. white house press secretary sean spicer said today that flynn's lawyers spoke to transition lawyers, and he defended the vetting process. >> he was also the head of the department-- the defense intellig

john yang begins our coverage, at the white house. >> yang: it runs just 53 pages, totals more than $1.1 trillion, and embodies stark changes in federal spending priorities. budget director mick mulvaney: >> we had america first... an america first candidate. we now have an america first president. and it shouldn't surprise anybody that we have an america first budget. >> yang: the big winners in the white house budget request: the pentagon, with a proposed 10% increase $54 billion. the department of homeland security, with a 7% hike, including $4 billion for the mexico border wall. and the department of veteran affairs, proposed to increase by 6%. >> we're $20 trillion in debt. we're going to spend money. we're going to spend a lot of money but we're not going to spend it on programs that cannot show that they actually deliver promises they made to people. >> yang: the biggest losers would include the environmental protection agency with a proposed 31% cut, eliminating funding for international climate-change programs and for cleanup efforts in the chesapeake bay and great lakes. the st

john yang reports. >> i don't think that there was an actual tap of trump tower. >> yang: leaders of house intelligence committee cast fresh doubt today on president trump's claim that then- president obama illegally wiretapped trump tower. >> president obama wouldn't physically go over and wiretap trump tower. so now you have to decide, as i mentioned last week, are you going to take the tweets literally? and if you are, then clearly the president was wrong. but if you're not going to take the tweets literally and there is a concern that the president has about other people, other surveillance activities looking at him or his associates, either appropriately or inappropriately, we want to find that out. >> yang: the committee gave the justice department until last night to produce any evidence to support the president's claim. instead, the department got an extension until next monday-- when f.b.i. director james comey is to testify before the panel. adam schiff is the committee's top democrat: >> i do think it's incumbent that if we get to march 20th and we have the testimony i thi

for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: north korea test- fired another missile today. this time, the u.s. military says it blew up just after launch. hours later, an american b-1-b bomber joined south korean fighter jets in a show of deterrence. less than a month ago, the north had test-fired four ballistic missiles that landed in japanese waters. an urgent new appeal today about famine in four war-torn countries. the international committee of the red cross says it needs $300 million in emergency aid in the next three to four months. otherwise, it says mass starvation looms across yemen, somalia, south sudan, and northeastern nigeria. >> this is not business as usual. 20 million people facing starvation is not something that we are dealing with everyday and therefore, we really need to act now. and if we act now, especially in yemen and in somalia, famine can be averted. >> woodruff: the united nations has also warned of the famine danger. back in this country, the governor of arkansas signed a law allowing concealed handguns at state colleges, other government sites

she's joined by john yang at the white house. lisa, how certain are they that this vote will be tomorrow? >> they're not certain. in fact, the house, the man in charge of scheduling, house majority leader kevin mccarthy is only saying he hopes this vote will happen tomorrow. tonight the full house republican conference will meet, judy. they will have an idea after that roughly of where things stand. >> woodruff: so john, what are they saying at the white house? this afternoon the press secretary sean spicer was sounding confident this vote was coming, that they had the votes. that didn't work out. >> well, judy, they still say they are confident when the vote takes place, what whenever that may be, they will have the votes. but it's clear behind the scenes that they don't. they aren't there yet. the president is working the phones, we're told. he was working the phones until midnight last night. he will meetings today as lisa reported with both conservatives and moderates. they are still working to get the votes to get it through

for that i am joined by correspondents john yang and lisa desjardins.nk you both for being here to do this. lisa, i'm going to start with you. remind us, where did all this come from? what was the origin of russia's interest in our elections? >> let's startith 2011 when hillary clinton then secretary of state spoke out criticizing russian elections. vladimir putin, president of russia, then reacted saying she was interfering and helping protesters and trying to have an impact on the russian election. then we can flash forward to last summer when the f.b.i. became aware of hacking into the democratic national committee, then to october with a conclusion with the director of national intelligence that the russian were in fact trying to interfere with our election, and then this month we heard from f.b.i. director comey about their investigation making this rare public statement. >> the f.b.i., as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential presidential presil election and

. >> it was striking, mark, that -- actually i want to go to john, our john yang, who is at the white house, john, in, in the north lawn of the white house you and i were at the lunch with the president today with other television reporters, and it was striking to me then that russia, he wasn't engaging on the russia question, which has been out there hanging over his administration for the last several weeks. >> well, i think that, i mean, the fact that he didn't talk about it tonight, i think that this was a speech where he was trying not to get bogged down in sort, and sort of reacting to the controversy surrounding him and try to -- try to be a little broader and a little -- as the words we kept airing today, be a little more update, up beat and be a little more optimistic, i think that tone at the end with the closing little cota of trying to pull people together and rise above and try to do new things i think that was the message that they wanted to leave the country with and to leave congress with at the end of this message .. >> woodruff: john, is that the, i don't know is at

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> yang: good evening, i'm john yang. udy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight... >> this executive order, just as the first executive order, is a lawful and proper exercise of presidential authority. >> yang: the trump administration unveils a revised travel ban after the first was blocked by the courts. then, making sense of president trump's wiretapping claim-- what's behind the charge that president obama was listening in on trump tower. and, jeffrey brown sits down with "get out" diretor jordan peele to talk why the hit horror film about race is striking a chord with audiences. >> for me the social thriller is the thriller in which the s,

john yang gets some analysis now. >> yang: and for that, we turn to two experts who watch this all closelyke emmanuel, one of the original architects behind the affordable care act, or obamacare. he's the chair of the department of medical ethics and health policy at the university of pennsylvania. and lanhee chen, a fellow at the hoover institution who advised mitt romney and marco rubio in their presidential campaigns. gentlemen, welcome to you both. dr. emmanuel, the big headline, 24 million fewer with health insurance after a period after this. that is more than who were added to the rolls by obamacare. what's your reaction? >> well, by 2026, one in five americans are going to lack health insurance if this plan goes through according to the cbo, and lest americans think, oh, this is only people on medicaid or people who got obamacare, the cbo estimates 7 million people who have employer insurance today will lose coverage. if you're getting coverage through your employer, it's not guaranteed under this plan. the big positive news for the republicans sounds puny in comparison. all those

john yang picks it up from there. >> yang: to help break down the impact of these proposed changes, i'm joined by two experts who watch healthcare closely. lanhee chen is a fellow at the hoover institution who advised mitt romney and marco rubio in their presidential campaigns; and sabrina corlette is a professor at georgetown university's health policy institute. thank you for joining us to you both. welcome to you both. i think you can both agree as this moves through the legislative process, the details will change, but i think the philosophical changes in direction are clear now. lanhee chen, let me start with you. this shifts-- what we're seeing proposed is to shift from requiring that everyone have insurance to have a series of carrots, really, to get people to buy insurance themselveses will on the open market. why is that the better approach? >> well, one of the issues, frankly, with the affordable care act is that you had situation where's insurance was become unaffordable. in fact, if you look at 2015, as an example, 19.2 million americans either could not afford health insura

john yang has the story. >> reporter: clashes over a north dakota oil pipeline, demonstrations afterinnesota police shooting, the women's march in washington on inauguration weekend. mass protests are playing out on a scale not seen since the 1960s and '70s. some have turned violent. now, in state capitals across the country, republican lawmakers are trying to rein in protests. they say it's a matter of public safety and limiting economic damage. protesters and civil liberties advocates say it's an attack on free speech. in minnesota, pending legislation would increase fines for blocking highways and airports. >> not any of us, the 67 senators at least that i work with here in the minnesota senate, want to squelch any first amendment rights at all. but it goes over the top when public safety-- the potential of public safety is interfered with. >> do you honestly think that you penalize people? >> reporter: last week, north dakota's governor signed four bills aimed at making it easier to control protests like those over the dakota access pipeline. legislation is pending in 17 other st