lisa desjardins, john yang. , you mentioned the west virginia coal miners' issue several times and you've actually done reporting, been to west virginia. tell us more. >> that's right, we just got back from west virginia over the weekend and president trump, as you know, has campaigned on a promise to reverse the fortunes of coal country. that message especially res -- resonated west virginia where he swept every single county in last year's elections and now thousands of miners are in jeopardy of losing their healthcare if congress doesn't act. this and a series in the ongoing "chasing the dream." many stories about mining start here-- a coal yard in appalachia. but this story starts here. in a front yard. after 27 years underground, former miner damon tucker left with a list of health problems and frustrations. >> i told my wife, i said, i will flip hamburgers, i'll draw my pension and flip hamburgers if i have to. i'm not-- i'm coming out of the mines. >> desjardins: flipping hamburgers didn't happen, lawncare

for that i am joined by correspondents john yang and lisa desjardins. k 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 start with 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 an

lisa desjardins has our report. >> the nomination of neil m.such of colorado to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. >> reporter: the final vote was almost anti-climactic, after republicans triggering the so-called "nuclear option" on thursday. that cleared the way for a simple majority to break the democratic filibuster against gorsuch. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell: >> of course i wish that important aspects of this process had played out differently. it didn't have to be this way. but today is a new day. >> reporter: in the end, three democrats: joe manchin, heidi heitkamp and joe donnelly, joined republicans in supporting gorsuch. but most democrats, like dick durbin, lamented how it came to be. >> when the rule was changed, some senators were engaged in high fives, on the other side of aisle. i'm not sure why. i don't think it was a time for any winning celebration. i think it was an unfortunate moment, and the question is, where will we go from here? >> reporter: not all republicans were

for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. >> woodruff: china's president xi jinping arrived in florida today for a high stakes summit with president trump. secretary of state rex tillerson greeted xi and his wife. mr. trump arrived later and went to his mar-a-lago estate, where the meetings will be held. north korea's nuclear effort could top the agenda. mr. trump said today he thinks china "will want to be stepping up" to deal with that. house intelligence chairman devin nunes stepped aside from leading a probe of russian meddling in last year's election. he's now facing ethic complaints of mishandling classified information. in a statement, nunes said: "the charges are entirely false and politically motivated," but that he's acting in the best interests of the committee. house speaker paul ryan met with nunes last night, and said today he agrees with the move. >> i think chairman nunes wants to make sure that this is not a distraction to a very important investigation. so he wants to clear himself while this investigation continues on without any kinds of distractions. >> woodruff: t

correspondent lisa desjardins starts us off. >> reporter: the president was at the capitol this morning for a holocaust remembrance event. >> mr. president, are you going to insist on border funding? >> reporter: --but he ignored shouted questions about a government funding bill. in fact, it's this after numerous reports that mr. trump told conservative journalists last night that he's open to delaying a border wall down payment until september. democrats on capitol hill declared a kind of victory on the issue. >> now, last night we received a bit of good news, not just for democrats, but for the country, that the president is easing off his demands for a border wall in the government funding bill. >> reporter: senate minority leader chuck schumer and other democrats have insisted that border wall money would jeopardize the larger funding bill. and, not all republicans support it, either. >> now, we democrats have been opposed to including the wall in this bill since the beginning of the negotiations. there's no plan to make mexico pay for it, as the president promised it would. there's