access to the actual d summit site, but the wo watching as newshour foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin reports from singapore. >> reporter: presidenttrump landed in singapore's humidity, hoping to replace the frostiness of the g-7 meeting, aking e of the world's most isolated dictators. jong hours earlier, k un's black, bulletproof limo escorted him through the sh o- down streethis city/state. amid a media frenzy, kim jong un arrived in his downtown siapore hotel with a massi convoy. kim spent some time erseas when he was younger, but he's never traveled this far as north korean leader. and he's never traveile the world was watching. everywhere kim went, the ists, and the cameras, followed. an evening drive through singapore, wita running escort from a phalanx of bodyguards, and a meeting with singapore kiime minister lee hse loon six months ago, had never met a single foreign leader. he's met a handful just in the last few weeks. which is why many believe even before the summit begins, kim has gained his coveted legitimacy. bob menendez is the senior democrat on the senate foreign rel

but as nick schifrin reports, again from singapore, mr. trump has expressed hope that he can solve a problem that has bedeviled four american presidents. >> 25 years ago north korean leader kim jung il, the father, made a critical decision, his country was desperately poor and suffered malnourishment and famine but he built a nuclear program to guarantee his regime security. he threatened to kick out inspectors. and in response president clinton drafted plans for war. >> it is pointless for them to try to develop nuclear weapons because if they ever used them it would be the end of their country. >> the intelligence community tosessed in 1994 that if these re were completed, the north koreans would probably have enough plutonium and enough time to produce about a hundred nuclear weapons. so the idea here was don'tet that happen. >> in 1994 a beardless robert galucci tried to dif it diplomatically by flirting with north koreans who were a little rough around the edges. >> they had ill fitting suits. he would pound the table. >> but after 17

for the pbs news hour, i'm nick schifrin n for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin in singapore. >> woodruff: there's new fallout today from the g-7 gathering in quebec that ended in rancor between president trump and close u.s. allies. lisa desjardins begins our coverage. >> we need to avoid a continued tit-for-tat escalation. >> reporter: an unusually blunt assessment today from british prime minister theresa may after this weekend's tense g-7 summit. >> this was a difficult summit with, at times, some very candid discussions. ( laughs ) but the conclusion i draw is ghthat it's only throntinued dialogue that we can find ways to work together to resolve the wchallengface. >> reporter: topping those chelenges at the moment is split between president trump and his g-7 counterparts over anu.s. tariffs on stee aluminum. some of his harshest words were aimed at justin trudhe canadian prime minister who criticed the u.s. tariffs on saturday, after mr. trump left the summit early to head to singapore. >> it's kind of insulting. it would be wi regret, but it would be with absolute certainty and fir

thathe style of surprise is part of the substance of how the president netiates. >> woodruff: nick schifrinorting for us from singapore. thank you, nick. here in washington, reaction to the summit so far is decidedly mixed. senate majority leader chuck >> woodruff: senate minority beader chuck schumer charged today it may hav "purely a reality show summit." fellow democrat ed markey of massachusetts said it's the weakest agement that north korea has ever signed. aid, senator bob menendez of new jerseykim jong-un is the clear winner. >> we had a lot of sizzle here but not a lot of steak. kim jong-un had a goodt. at the end of the day, he went from international pariah scorned by the world with multilateral sanctions including those at the united tions to f ing seen as an equal, meeting with the presidente united states, the leader of the free world, on an equal footing. >> woodruff: senate republicans said mr. trump sounded upbeat in a phone call to their weekly luncheon, but they also counseled caution. majority leader mitch connell called the summit "a major first step," but not decisive.

for the pbs "newshour", i'm nick schifrin. >> yang: it has been quite a week in washington, and herenalyze it all are shields and brooks.at syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" omlumnist david brooks. >> gentlemen, we it has been quite a week. we saw an unusual coalition of opposition to the president's policy on the border, the president digging in, defending it andhanging course. what if weearned this week? >>haos reigns. usually when you go to the white house and say how does this work, they usually walk you through the deails. seems no one's asking the practical questions, it's just what you have when you have government by tweet. it's infuriating about it is the republican party exist force a few reasons, one of them is to understand that government is at its st abhorrent when it can't see human beings as humane beings, and it treats them as mere data points or somhing in a bureaucratic game, and that's what we've seen this whole policy.ot it'sreating the people as human beings. it's treating them as sort of pawns in some sort of larger protest movement, and th

people will risk is perilous journey to the north only if it is safe for them staying at hme. >> nick schifrin in mexico city for us now, and all this week. ank you, nick. >> thank you. >> woodruff: turkey held its presidential and parliamentary elections yesterday. president recep tayyip erdogan won a new term, and as william brangham reports, erdogan is now armed with sweeping new powers, cementing his status as turkey's preeminent leader. >> reporter: fireworks erupted over the turkish capital ankara as news spread last night of president erdogan's victory. >> ( translated ): t this election is democracy, our nation. the winners of this election are every one of the 81 million citizens. >> reporter: erdogan was first elected president in 2014, after 11 years as prime minister. on sunday, he won just shy of 53 percent of the vote-- enough to avoid a runoff with opposition candidate muhareem ince, who finished a distant second. ince ultimately conceded, but blasted erdogan. >> ( translated ): turkey has cut off its links with democracy. unfortunately it iunderstood that for a while longer we

foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin spoke today with two defectors, to brinhat view from the north. >> schifrin: of the 25 million residents of north korea, re than 30,000 have escaped, and lived to tell their stories. sungju lee and ji seong-ho a two of those defectors. >> my father was a former military officer in north koa. i was born in pyongyang. and my father was working for kim il-sung. he passed away. after he died, kim jong-il, second leader in north korea, tried to clean the house. so that time, my father made a mistake saying, there is no hope in north korea. that's why my family was expelled to countryside. when i was in pyongyang, i was ught that north korea was one of the best countries in thed. wo but on the train cargo to the second hometown, well, theny were so eggars. there were so many, kind of,od kids, begging rom people. i question my father, where are we now? my father told me, son, this is e reality of north korea >> ( translated ): i was always told i should be happy and thankful to our dear leader.as i believed iappy, until i looked around and saw the

nick schifrin looks at the state of women's rights in the kingdom and the long and winding road to rlow females behind the wheel. >> reporter: whenenal al- sharif drives, she feels free. but in her home in saudi arabia, at looks routine, has represented resistance. >> ( translated ): you'll find a woman with a ph.d., a professor at a college, and she doesn't know how to drive.n we want changeis country. >> reporter: since the 1950s saudi arabia's banned women from rsiving. activists broke ba and religious custom posting driving videos to youtube. for women, driving is dignity, al-sharif told jeffrey brown last year. >> it gives them sense of liberty and freedom. and that breaks all the things that have been lnwrned, and brhed with, that we have to be obedient to these unjustwe rows, and we'r, we cannot >> reporter: thest movement started in the early 1990s. >> ♪ no woman no drive no woman no drive >> reporter: and even included male comedians spoofing bob marley on won being driven. >> ♪ i remember when you used to sit, in the family car but backseator >> rr: but it's backseat no lon

nick schifrin joins us along with yamiche alcindor. we heard secretary pompeo said there's been progress. do we know what kind? >> we dont's know for sure but a senior state department official says the u.s. needs to understand what north korea is willing to do or pledge at this summit and that needs to be something north korea has never done before and that means a step toward denuclearization. what does that mean? could be shutting down a nuclear facility, they have done that before. number two, bringing in inspectors to shut down centrifuges, we've never seen that before. three, what the u.s. is hoping, shipping out some kind of nuclear material, we certainly have never seen that before. that's what u.s. is asking for. intelligence analysts said north korea's priority is regime survival and thought nuclear weapons gave them that survival. so the u.s. has to replace the weapons with a fundamentally different political relationship, that means ending the korean war, a peace treaty, a shift in tone, we have no hostile intent toward you

for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. >> woodruff: our series on "the end of aids." last night, we looked at the severe epidemic in the city of miami, florida. but as william branghaand producer jason kane report, the rest of florida is struggling, too.ri in the an south, stigma, poverty and lack of health care drive h.i.v. rates higher than anywhere else in the country. this series was supported by the pulitzer center. >> brangham: h.i.v. thves in places like this. while the florida keys are a tourist mecca, its sprawling madistances and small town it a hard place to contain a virus. some patients, like jason barth, do seek out lifesa, ng h.i.v. caich is now proven to prevent transmission of th virus to others. but dr. jerry jackson says many don't come, and so, new cases keep popping up in the keys. >> we should have zero.d, but instea last year, i think we had 22 in our small little town. >> brangham: locals re joke that heading north in florida takes you straight into the deep south. that includes a place known as america's sweetest town: clewiston, florida, home

from singapore, nick schifrin a takes a lohow both leaders are framing the debate. >> reporter: after a 9,000-mile, 23-hour trip, president trump landed in washington, d.c. and declared success. he tweeted, "there is no longer " nuclear threat from north korea,"nd added, "president obama said that north korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. ko longer-- sleep weight!" norta has not given up a missile program that u.s. intelligence says include an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of hitting the east coastf the u.s., nor has north korea given up what u.s. entelligence estimates is anywhere betweennd 80 nuclear weapons. soo kim is a former c.i.a. north korea analyst. >> north korea absolutely poses a threat to the u.s. it has demonstrated it nuclear capabilies to pose a threat to the continental united capabilities and its ballistic missile program, that allows her to use these weapons programs to threaten the uted states, to have a bargaining chip. >> reporter: but just because harth korea has the capacity, doesn't mean ithe intention to use them, especially now tha

nick schifrin looks at the potential consequences of thiscl move, ing how china may retaliate. >> reporter: for months, the u.s. and china have traded tit- for-tat trade threats, and they've escalated again in the past few days. on friday, president trump authorized tariffs on $50 llion of chinese goods such as industrial machinery. those are set to take effect next month. in response, chinese officialset vowed toiate with $50 billion of its own tariffs on .merican goods such as beef, cars, and soybea that response prompted president trump to threaten andditional $200 billion of tariffs. and he warned the u.s. may imse tariffs on a total of $450 billion of chinese goods. that's 90% of everything china exports to the u.s.-- electronics, clothing, toys, tools, you name it. edward alden watches all this closely for the council on foreign relations and joins me now. edward alden, thank you very much. aie administration says that china is trying toain a permanent and unfair advantage. china protects its companies in many sectors, especially high tech, china forces the u.s. companies to give som

yet as nick schifrin reports, these days, he has increingly found his voice, especially as it pertains to president trump. >> schifrin: john brennan joined c.i.a. in 1980. he was deputy executive director in t george w. bush administration and director in the obama administration. since stepping down in january, 2017, he has become an outspoken critic of president trump. and john brennan joins me now. thank you very much for being here. >> hi,k.ic the singapore summit is just a few days away, and there was a nlot of rhetorical back forth in 2017, but at this point, north korea claims that it wants to denuclearize and frhaozen its nuclear missile test. so is that a sign the prese strategy is working? >> i think it's a sign the teions have come down, thankfully and i think it's important a diplomatic process u derway. i'm not pleased mr. trump decided to go to a summit with little preparation. even today in the oval office he said it didn't need much preparation. this is a highly complex matter. it was very difficult with iran that didn't have a nulear program. with north korea i think i

for the pbs nehour, i'm nick schifrin in mexico city. >> woodruff: and now we turn to the analysis of and brooks. that is syndicated col mark shields, and "new york times" columnist david brooks. gentlemen, welcome. big news, e equivalent of an earthquake, i guess, in washington, political earth wake. what does it mean anthony kennedy is stepping down from the supreme court? what does it mean for the court, the city, the country? >> it's significant. let me say god likbe donald trumuse she has now given him a second appointee to the s supreme courmething that barack obama, in eight years, got two, bill clinton in eight years got two, george w. bush in eight years got two. he's getting two in 18 months. anthony kenne is getting much praise, in large part, judy, two sources. one, he was a gentleman. he was considerate to those around him. there was no personalizing or polarizing to him, and that is welcome and refreshing in this washington. but the second thing is he was a liberal on individual rights and issues. he was not on economic issues. he always came down on the side of corporat

foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin revisits a few of eir stories. >> reporter: the primary reason, women, and children risk such a perilous passage north, is because it is safer than staying at home.op for these , the united states represents the opportunity for a better life. uld the southern border of the u.s. is the diffto-reach destination. many are from the area known as the northern triangle of el salvador, guatemala, and honduras, where civil wars in the 1980s left a legacy of weak governance and economies, and brutal vionce. and as i discovered last year, many of their journeys begin with a little optimism and a lot of faith. >> reporter: on this border, thn of the water is the sound of hope. the suchiate river separates guatemala from the southern mexican state of chiapas. every day, thousands of central americans cross north, dreaming more peaceful and prosperous lives. there's no security and noau orities. the rafts are inner tubes with plywood planks.tr entire familieel together. women bring their children. each crossing costs 50 cents, but many can't afford that, so,

nick schifrin begins our coverage. >> reporter: in a manhattan high-rise, the u.s.' top diplomat and north korea's top envoy began the day with a historic handshake. >> you'll be in singapore on june 12th. and i think it will be a process. it's not... i... i never said it goes in one meeting. i think it's going to be a process. >> that word process a shift. in the past, the administration insisted kim jong-un and the north koreans immediately give up their nuclear program the north koreans step-by-step denuclearization with incentives. president trump used process about ten times today indicating he's okay with staged denuclearization. >> we're not going to go in and sign something on june 12th. we never were. we're going to start a process. is and i told him today, take your time. we can go fast. we can go slowly. >> by only bracing a process, i think the president has basically decided that he cannot resolve a conflict of 70 years in the making overnight. and he also is embracing a pragmatic approach to trust-building on the peace side and dismantling north korea's

nick schifrin reports on how they became a combustible mix. >> reporter: judy, thank yo last year, the u.s. intelligence community concluded that, in 2016, russia launched a campaign odinformation to discredit hillary clinton, and help elect donald trump. ostne of the sharpest ana of russia's so-called active measures, is former u.s. government intellinence analyst watts, who almost one year ago, testified before the senate titelligence committee. for the reason measures have worked in this u.s. election is because the commander-in-chief has used russian active measures at times against his opponents. but until we get a firm bas on fact and fiction in our , own countt some agreement about the facts, whether it be do i support the intelligencce ommunity or a story i read on my twitter feed, we're going to have a big problem. >> reporter: that probl continues today, and watts has advised the senate intelligence committee oits investigation into russian meddling. he's also written a new book, "messing with the enemy. urviving in a social med world of hackers, terrorists, russians, and fak