peter wehner, mark shields, thank you. >> thanks a lot.. >> woodruff: and we'll be back a shortly wireview of this summer's tv season. but first, take a moo hear from your local pbs station. it's a chance to offer your good giving just one. this is economics correspondent paul solman, reporting from new jersey. >> woodruff: as you head into the weekend, we are told there's plenty of new tv and videobiut there-eworthy and sometimes cringeworthy reveral widely anticipated shows are premiering or ing this week. jeffrey brown has a series of previews over the next couple of weeks about noteworthy arts, culture, and literature for the summer season. he's here tonight to help distill some of this ever- growinsummer tv season. it's part of our regular arts series, "canvas". >> reporter: there was a time when just a few new shows were rolled out in the lazy months of summer, but in the era of digital streaming and cable, mmer seems as busy as the rest of the year with plenty of new fare vying to attract interest this summer season already underway

that's syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york columnist david brooks. hello to both of you. a very, very full week., rk, let's talk about what we are leading with tonight and that is, again, the tense btuation, standoff, whatever you want to call itween the united states and iran, with the latest news being president trump had authorized a military strike -- or alt authorized, and then the last minute pulled it back. what do we make of this? >> well, the president is keeping his word we made durg e campaign to be unpredictable, and i think unpredictable is what this qualifies as, judy. it's a little unsettling, obviously, becausehere is no thrrior like jim mattis in the room, you don'te sense that this has been welthought out, and the idea that the country is preparedthere is no sense of what our objective is and how we will know we've succeeded and how the country ets on board and whether, in fact, we have, as -- for example, george h.w. bush had 39 nations in the coalition in 1991 when hwas responding to the invasion of kuwait, and this is -- we are v

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mark shields, david brooks, we'll be talking about that next friday. thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: and now, a music festival attempting to keethe blues alive in the mississippi delta and revive a struggling town. jeffrey brown reports, as part of our arts and culture series, "canvas," and our look at "american creators." ♪ anthony's big a sha rad is holding course. ♪ ♪ it was just one act in a town-like celebration of the blues that, for 16 years, has been bringing thousands of fans here, rain or shine, ea spring. >> it's wonderful, man. t >> it's wonderful, man. it's lovely. they love the blues, just like i do. e u do, too. >> brown: they camfrom all around the country, and all over the world-- including this contingent from australia. this year, the festival feated more than 100 performances. for the kids, there were racing pigs, and a monkey riding a dog herding goats. the festival takes its name from juke jois: informal bars and music venues once scattered thronhout the african america south as an answer, in part, to whites-only clubs. a ri

coming up on the newshr: mark shields and david brooks on how the first democratic debates affect the race for the white house. and, an inside look at the bestp of conary art. the sexual assault allegations de by writer e. jean carroll against president trump are raising questions again about what women face when they go public. carroll has said the president assaulted her in the 1990s in the dressing room of a new york city department store. her description meets the legal definition of rape. at the time, carroll told friends, but got conflicting advice about whether to speak up and file charges. she says she didn't because she was fearful.st hey, and others, are prompting questions about the choices women make after these incident we look at this with emily bazelon, an author and staff writer for the "new york times" magazine. d soraya chemaly, who's writer and media critic. she's the author of "rage becomes her." and we welcome both of you to the "newshour". emily bazelon, i've interviewed a number of women over the years who have accused other men of sexual assault. what have you

then, it's friday-- mark shields and peter wehner are here to discuss the loomingof possibilitariffs on mexican imports, our new pollon resultbortion, and the 75th anniversary of d-day.r and, long afe flames of a californ wildfire stopped burning, retired residents of a smobile home park are stick in limbo-- prevented from moving back to their homes, and unable to afford alternative housing. >> i want to live in my own place. t i walive my days out with my dog. there's other people who are in the same position. they don't have the money to rent somewhere. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided b >> text night and day. >> catch it on replay. >> burning some fat. >> sharing the latest viral cat! >> you c do the things you like to do with a wireless plan designed for you. with talk, text and data. consumer cellular. learn more at consumercellular.tv >> babbel. a language app that teaches real-life conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and mor >> financial services firm raymond ja

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from his role as foreign office minister after grabbing a climate change activist by the neck mark shields confronted the female protester turns beach at the finance minister in london on thursday fields who has since apologized says. that greenpeace activists janet barker was armed barker says she will not report field to the police but suggested he go to anger management classes . still ahead on the officer in his hour they repeat election for the mayor of istanbul will turkey's voters this time deliver the result the president wants and . i'm weighing heavy reporting from the northeast in thailand where we'll tell you why the people here are using rockets as a way of saying thank you. henceforth the ferrari team gets some bad news ahead of the french crown prince. hello again well cross and states it is going to be stormy here across the central plains over the next few days we have one storm that's exiting the eastern seaboard we're now going to be watching what is happening right here and you can already see the clouds that are already beginning to form now the next few days we have p

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shield. >> obviously, it was -- it scared you. >> d-day marked a turning point in the world and allowed the retaking of europe. of andrew higgins, eisenhower remarked to historian, stephen ambrose, "he's the man who won the war for us." decades later, ambrose established the d-day and later the world war ii museum in new orleans as a monument to andrew higgins' ingenuity and the city's contribution to the war. in the town where each higgins boat was created. >> laura: back now is raymond arroyo. also joining us is craig shirley, presidential historian, biographer. i love that story. i have chills -- i have chills watching it. i get teared up watching it. what was the big takeaway. >> the big takeaway, laura, is the ingenuity of the american worker and the american entrepreneur. here on the ground, at home. and that unity of purpose they all had fighting the war at home on the streets of new orleans, blacks, white, women, underage boys were working around the clock to build the landing craft. and as churchill said, two empires were tied up in some gd things called landing crap, and they were

mark the 50th anniversary of the lgbtq movement. marchers in paris braved a heatwave to show their support, using colourful umbrellas to shield themselveslatable signs and giant puppets thronged the streets. the city has a thriving gay community, but only a handful of regions elsewhere in mexico have so far followed the capital in making same—sex marriage legal. and this was kathmandu in nepal where activists held the country's first ever march to mark pride month. north macedonia has held its first ever gay pride march through the capital skopje. several hundred people, including state officials took to the streets before a rally in a park. lazara marinkovic from the bbc‘s russian service reports. north macedonia just hated the very first pride parade. more than 1000 people marched through the centre of skopje, the country's capital.m you are proud, you feel really great right now and super safe and happy. translation: isolates great, amazing, really good atmosphere, fun. it is cheerful. we are happy protest and angry activists. participants say is successful pride parade as a sign that things are getting better. they have been a lot o

the sure shot wand extends with a protective shield to target weeds precisely and kill them right down to the root. roundup brand. trusted for over 40 years. markhow do you see the future of the country? >> gary situations that exist today. i feel concerned about my grandkids especially and what will happen with them and their families the way things are going now and the values this country was formed on are disappearing and not all of them but we need people to come and who will stick by what the constitution was and keep the values that our founding fathers have so the country can possibly give back to country will be great get because our country has faltered. we lost a lot of respect from the world and we were the greatest country in the world and still are but not like we used to be. it's disturbing to me. mark: why is that? >> because of the leadership we have had in the way these people are pretty things. i don't know where they got these things into their head to try to change what is worth for so many centuries. why do you want to change what's working. i'm happy with what i'm seeing right now and hopefully this will continue that wil