m john yang. judy woodruff is off. on the "newshour" tonight, a new report painta dire picture of the effect of climate changece over the next ury and pushes back against skeptics. then, the war in yemen has left more than 80,000 childn dead over the last three and a half years and now the country is on the edge of famine. it's friday. david brooks and ruth marcus discuss the president's public spat with the chief justice, the politics of troops on the border and more. and we continue our fall films series with look at the drama "green book"-- a road trip across the racial landscape of the jim crow south. >> when you have two people who are that different and they find themselves in a confed space for a long enough time they can

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mueller. >> yang: some republicans, like louisiana senator john kennedy, say e mueller investigation shouldn't drag on. >> it's been 17 months now and the american people are entitled to know what happened and who if anybody broke the law. >> yang: this week, the senate blocked legislation to protect the mueller investigation. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: to explain what cohen's plea agreement could tell us out the mueller investigation, garrett graff. c he'stributor to "wired magazine" and the author of "th: threat matnside robert mueller's f.b.i. and the war on global terror." garrett graff, welcome back to the program. what does all this add up to, what we learned today from what robert mueller said? >> yeah, this is an incredibly significant developmnd it becomes more significant as the day passes and its true meaning sets in. robert mueller in his investigation has uncovered two separate crimina conspiracies that aided donald trump's ection in 2016, one was run by the russian government involving the hacking attacks on the d.n.c. and information operations on

john yang has the story. >> reporter: from above-- what appears to be a naval battle.close-- russian ships close in on a ukrainian tugboat headed for a nearby pt. the video-- released by russia's government-- then shows one russian ship ramming the tugboat, cutting it off from two ukrainian gunboats.na the ukrainvy said six of its sailors were wounded when russian coast guards later opened fire and then seized all three ships and the ukrainian crews. the ukrainian boats were sailing through the kerch strait off the coast of the crimean peninsula-- which russia annexed in 2014. the aggrsion was a new flashpoint in a nearly five- year-old crisis: ongoing fighting between russian-backed rebels and ukrainian troops in eastern ukraine has claimed some 10,000 lives. today, russia's government said the ukrainians illegally entered the strait, and then ignored warning shots.>> translated ): it is a very dangerous provocation, so it requires special attention and special proceedings. >> reporter: both countries gularly use the strait under a 2003 agreement. ukraine says it gave

i'm john yang. judy woodruff is off. on the "newshour" tonight, a new report paints a dire picture of the effect of climate change over the next century and pushes back against skeptics. then, the war in yemen has left more tn 80,000 children dead over the last three and a half years and now the country is on the edge of famine. it's friday. david brooks and ruth rcus discuss the president's public spat with the chief justice, the politics otroops on the border and more. and we continue our fall fms series with a look at the drama "green book"-- a road trip across the racial landscape of the jim crow south. >> when you have two people who are that different and they find themselves in a confined space for a long enough time they can have a positive and evolving effect on one another. >> yang: all that and more on tonight's "pbs newshour." >> major funding for the pbs wshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> consumer cellular believes that wireless plans shou

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> yang: good evening, i'm john yang. judy woodruff is off. on the newshour tonight, facebook under fire-- ntroversy surrounds the social media giant as company executives reveal they knew more than they first acknowledged. then, how farmers view the trump administration's ongoing trade disputes and agriculture bailouts. plus, the young man who could become the first american to win the world chess championship in more than four decad and, making sense of theic economs of the first tsanksgiving. paul solman visilimoth plantation, for a financial lyrspective on america's e immigrants. o often we think of the pilgrims symbolically, we don't look at their everyday business

undeclared missile bases inside north korea the center for strategic and international studies says john yang has been operating several of the remote sites the report could further complicate diplomatic efforts to end north korea's nuclear program. a wildfire in northern california has now killed more than forty people making it the deadliest blaze ever to hit the u.s. state officials are unsure how many people are missing but it could number in the hundreds firefighters are working to tame the flames of what's been called the camp fire it has reduced the town of paradise to ashes in southern california two major fires are burning near los angeles threatening homes and infrastructure two people are confirmed dead there and thousands more have been forced to evacuate. in the line of fire a blaze has up the hillside in simi valley california. as it means a freeway becomes not it's a moment of life or death for these motorists soon firefighters managed to douse the flames but the speed with which this fire spread shows how combustible southern california is right now i've been doing this job fo

captioning sponsored by newshour produions, llc >> yang: good evening, i'm john yang. judy woodruff is off. on the newshour tonight, facebook under fire-- controversy surrounds the social media giant as company executives reveal they knew more than they first acknowledged. then, how farmers view the trump administration's ongoing trade disputes and agriculture plus, the young man who could become the first american to wi rld chess championship in more than fod, decades. an making sense of the economics of the first thanksgiving n visits plimoth plantation, for a financial perspective on america's early immigrants. >> so often we think of the pilgrims symbolically, we don't look at their everyday business liveand realize that their success enabled later settlement and contributed to the creation of an migrant country. >> yang: all that and more on tonight's pbs wshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: nd by the alfred p. sloa foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st centur

international senior vice president, kim john yang.generals who also has alleged ties to putin. vladimir, i mean, this guy is a vice president of the organize already. what's the concern about a russian heading interpol? >> the concern is a political goon. it is an insult to the concept of international justice or law enforcement. to have the main enforcement foreign body in the world, that serves as the kind of mutual assistant body around the world to be headed by the representative of the regime, that subverted these concepts. telling the justice and law enforcement system into political oppression against kremlin opponents. it is mind-boggling that we are even discussing this. >> right. and you wrote a piece in "the washington post" today, talking about politically motivated desserts. one was arrested, he was released a couple hours later. when russia puts one of these things out, it might be politically motivated. >> interpol constitution has a ban in an organization engaging over political, religious, racial nature. yet putin's k

>> there's another candidate in the running, a south korean named kim john yang.ompeo urged his election. >> we encourage all nations and organizations that are part of interpol and to respect the rule of law to choose a leader with credibility and integrity. >> they have been accused by international human rights organizations of weaponizing an arrest warrant and its last president was arrested in china on corruption charges. the election is tomorrow. >> bret: high expectations tonight in massachusetts for the first store selling legal recreational marijuana. we'll have a report when we come back if you're waiting patiently for a liver transplant, it could cost you your life. it's time to get out of line with upmc. at upmc, living-donor transplants put you first. so you don't die waiting. upmc does more living-donor liver transplants than any other center in the nation. find out more and get out of line today. ♪ >> bret: today is the first day for legal recreational marijuana sales in massachusett massachusetts. that means big business for the states two stores w

john yang begins our coverage. yang: outside, federal court enin new york, michael coh had nothing to say. inside, he told a judge he had lied to congress about his role in negotiations during the 2016 mpaign for then-candidat donald trump to build a trump tower in moscow. leaving the white house about ao ur later, president trumps slammed rmer trusted personal lawyer and fixer. >> he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get ase reduceence. so, he's lying about a project k that everybow about. when i run for president, that doesn't mean i'm not allowed to do business.in >> yang: dthe campaign, mr. trump repeatedly denied having any business ties with russia. >> i have nothing to do with russia, folks. i'll give you a writtenen stat itthing to do. >> yang: cohen ated lying when he told the house age senate intelnce committees that the moscow tower project,ic began in 2015, had ended in january 2016, just before the iowa caucuses. he acknowledged that discussions actually went on until at least june 2016, th

john yang has more on the lessons of the 2018 midterms.yang: judy, were they the blue wave des hoped for? ked will the new majority look he voters that helped elect them? am's time for politics monday witha keith of npr, and stuart rothenberg of inside elections. welcome to you both. tuesday night, the story line quickly developed that this was not the night that democrats had hoped for, that the blue wave, some refer to as a blue ripple. tammics a week out from election edy, we've seen more races casome margins narrow. tha-- what do it look like? >> the initial hot takes are not so hot after a few days and whas it looike is -- and president trump came out and declared victory and is now, well, it's even clearer the democrats picked up a lot of seats. there are still several races that are nlot cd yet still outstanding. at the moment a.p. has it at 32 seats flipped, but there are nany more outstanding, especiallyalifornia, and the important thing to keep in mind is that, yes, election night is a big night, it's a big night onelevision, but

john yang has more. >> yang: judy, tre race between blican senator cindy hyde- smith, who was appointedlier this year to replace thad cochran, who resigned, andti former democcongressman mike espy became a national story because of this social media video. >> if he invited me to a public hanging, i'd be on the front row. >> yang: hyde-smith spok publicly about it for the first time last night in the candidates' only debate. >> you know, for anyone that was offended for my-- by my comments, i certainly apologize. there was no ill will, no intent, whatsoever, in my statements. i also recognize that thisen cowas twisted, and it was prned into a weapon to be used against me--itical weapon, used for nothing but personal and political gain by my opponent. that's the type of politics misssippians are sick and tired of. mr. espy, secretary esp >> well, no one twisted your comments, because the comments were liv you know, it came out of your mouth. and i don't know what's in your heart, but we all know what came out of your mouth. and it went viral,find within tht three minutes around the world.

include postponing elections slated forr next or a declaration of war-- for now.ne for the pbhour, i'm john yang woodruff: after traveling more than 300 million miles over six months, nasa's newest mars lander, the "insight," touched wn on the red planet this afternoon. it may be the eighth time nasa has landed a probe on mars, but that didn't diminish the celebration today. >> touchdowconfirmed. ( cheers ) oodruff: its descent fro the martian atmosphere has been described as "seven minutes of terror," as the spacecraft has tolow from 12,000-plus mil an hour to just five miles an hour. this probe is focused on learning more about the interior and history of the planet. our resident space observer, miles brien, has been preparing for this moment as well and joins me now from boston. miles, welcome back. tell us. terror? just how difficult was this? >> well, jud imagine seven years of work all being distilled down to seven minutes. you know, the people who were in that room when they erupt with joy, kind of like riverboat gamblers of science. they put all the chips on the table, they inv est a lot

john yang has our conversation in a moment. but first, our economics correspondent paul solman starts us off, as part of our series "making sense," which airs every thursday. >> hey, alexa, where should azon locate h.q.-2? >> in frisco, texas. >> reporter: the competition for amazon h.q.-2 began over a year ago. 238 cities and regions were in the running. many made quirky-- some might say desperate-- pitch videos. others offered amazollions of dollars in tax breaks. case in point: former new jersey governor chris christie's newark bid: >> all of the economic incentives put together from the city and the state would realize nt$7 billion in pol credits against amazon state and city taxes. >> reporter: southern arizona promoters sent the company a cactus, while other places touted traits they're not uslly known for. >> las vegas is well positioned lyto be a ca for the most advanced smart city technology in america. >> reporter: in january, amazon narrowed the list of contenders from 238 to 20. now, comes a new twist. the company r

john yang talks with one of those winners. >> yang: judy, yesterday five- term colorado democratic ngressman jared polis became the first openly gay man to bete ela u.s. governor, winning about 52% of the vote. he joi governor-elect, welcome. mr. polis, congrweulations, and ome to the newshour. i want to ask you, first off, it was only about 25 years ago that colorado voters passed anha amendmentt banned state or local protections for gay men and lesbian women. how-- did you reflect on that? and how did it feel lasnight when the same state elected you its chief executive? >> well, you know, i think its important closure for many l.g.b.t. coloradoans and supporters of equality here it's a great step for our colorado brand. that had been a little bit of a tarnish on colorado from a generation ago. and i think people know colorado ou open for business, and regardless of whoare or who you love or your race or anything about youwe would love to have you come to our great state to make our quality of life even better. >> yang: you have always run as an opey gay man. your first race was in 2008,ol

iam is with john yang. i will go to both of you.h >>nk you, judy. ollowing these referendums across the country. john, you have been looking at one inia lou. it's about chopping away at one of the last vestiges of jim crow, right. >> yes. the voters in louisiana have struck down a law rejected a lae allowingony convictions by non unanimous injurie it took ten of guilty to convict someone for murder and send thep rison for life without the possibility of parole. only one other state allows n unanimous jury verdicts and that's oregon. >> i was in uisiana earlier this year for a story on criminal j'rstice reform th doing there. i met these men. older blck men early 70s, 10 went away decades ago on murder charges for no unanimous juries. >> you mayot knw it this was a inthestigation intis last year. a lot of cases the juries are not polled. cases where they're polled the judge often seals the results of the poll. you don't know you were cnvicted by a non unnimous jury. this was established in the 19th century. the law makers were acknowledging they were

john cook and todd bishop of geekwire. an industry leading news site that started covering the tech industry back in 2011. lunch is at revel right down the street from their offices. the chef is rachel yangatiron steak. ♪ kimchi pancakes with braised pork belly, and bean sprouts. marinated short rib rice bowl with house sambal daikon kimchi and egg. and short rib dumplings topped with pickled shallot and scallion salad. ♪ >> anthony: of course i'm hearing from a lot of people who are bemoaning the loss of the old seattle. uh, this invasion of outsiders. >> john: certainly the community is going through a lot of growing pains, and there is an element of the city here that is rebelling against the progress. especially as we talk about a company like amazon that controls massive amounts of the downtown real estate footprint now. and that's what scares a lot of people here, including myself. because i see how the trends of history change, especially in technology. that one day microsoft is hot, the next day apple is hot, now amazon is hot. they go through these cycles and they don't always live through them. and we're left with a city that is totally transformed because of it. >> anthony: wh

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