from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. the trump administration is defending its controversial executive order blocking immigrants and refugees from select muslim countries from entering the u.s. the white house says since the president imposed the 90-day ban on friday, a total of 325- thousand travelers from abroad arrived in the united states yesterday, and only 109 were detained at airports for questioning, because they're citizens of the banned countries. those majority-muslim countries are iran, iraq, libya, syria, somalia, sudan, and yemen, which have a combined population of 219 million people. trump chief of staff reince priebus said today most of the detained travelers were released, though "a couple dozen" remained in custody. >> my suspicion is those people will move on along as long as they're not dangerous, and perhaps a couple of them will be further detained, because it's determined that they're dangerous for this country, so this was a promise that president trump had made and

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thank you for joining us. florida's normally bustling fort lauderdale international airport re-opened today, 16 hours after a mass shooting allegedly carried out by a 26-year-old iraq war veteran caused it to be shut down. thousands of passengers who had been stranded after flights were canceled were able to board flights again. the alleged shooter, esteban santiago, opened fire early yesterday afternoon with a semi- automatic handgun inside a terminal baggage claim area after retrieving the gun from his luggage. in 70 to 80 seconds, he killed five people and wounded six others before police arrested him. victims from iowa, virginia, and georgia were in town on vacation. three of the wounded were still being treated in a hospital intensive care unit today. the f.b.i. says it believes santiago flew from his home in anchorage, alaska, to florida to carry out the attack, but agents don't know why. >> we continue to pursue every >> we have not ruled out anything. we continue to look

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. the men and women who would serve in donald trump's cabinet begin confirmation hearings before u.s. senate committees this week. but the scheduling is in dispute, because the nonpartisan office of government ethics says some nominees, without naming them, haven't submitted all the financial and personal documents needed to finish the vetting for potential conflicts of interests. hearings are planned in the coming days for key members of the president-elect's national security team: exxon-mobil ceo rex tillerson to become secretary of state; general james mattis for defense secretary; general john kelly for homeland security secretary; congressman mike pompeo for cia director; and senator jeff sessions for attorney general. the senate calendar also includes hearings for former labor secretary elaine chao to become transportation secretary; businessman wilbur ross for commerce secretary; reform advocate betsy devos for education secretary; and doctor ben carso

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. a massive manhunt is underway in turkey for what government officials say is the lone gunman who shot his way into a popular, upscale istanbul nightclub and opened fire on hundreds of people celebrating the new year. by the time the indiscriminate shooting was over inside the reina nightclub the attacker had escaped, and at least 39 party- goers, security officers, and club employees were dead. turkey's interior minister said nearly two-thirds of the victims were foreign nationals, including citizens of saudi arabia, lebanon, jordan, morocco, libya, and israel. the minister also said early reports that the attacker wore a santa claus costume were untrue. >> ( translated ): information our friends at the security forces have given us is that the assailant was alone, instead of there being multiple assailants. he entered with a jacket and trousers on, raking gunfire on his way in. and there is information that he tried to leave with a different set of cloth

sincerely your, president obama. >> sreenivasan: for the pbs news hour, hari sreenivasan, waldorf, maryland. >> woodruff: in addition to the president's record on executive clemency, we wanted to take a broader look at his overall record on criminal justice reform. william brangham has that look. >> brangham: president obama often points out that the u.s. is 5% of the world's population, but has over 20% of the world's prisoners. his administration has tried various initiatives to change that reality. but how successful has that effort been? i'm joined now by wesley lowery, he's a reporter for "the washington post," who won a pulitzer prize for his work on policing, and the author of the book, "they can't kill us all;" and i'm joined by bill mccollum, he's a former congressman from florida and former attorney general of the state. he's now a lawyer in private practice. welcome general plen to you both. wesley lowrey, i would like to start with you. one of the things that is one of the most dramatic efforts that the obama administration has made is the department of justice intervening in lo

newshour weekend's hari sreenivasan recently spoke with nelson. >> sreenivasan: first of all, why are people doing it? is it for a story about themselveses? >> those things are related, identities and stories, you know. and i think that people want identities that they can use to tell a rich story air, richer story about theirs lives. and in the case of african americans, part of that story has been lost. so what the attempt to use genetic ancestry testing, to find a nation state, ethnic group, information you department have access to before, before we had new technologies that allowed to us make some best guesses about where people of african descent and the u.s. might be from and then allow you to complete a story. so the identity piece and story people are very much connected. >> sreenivasan: there is also a notion of ownership. >> yes. >> sreenivasan: for a second this is i am opting into it. >> yes. >> sreenivasan: and i own this. and i will take this piece of information i and know i have this to myself. >> that's the critical piece because we know for communities of color, tha

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>> sreenivasan:>> i think it's . i hope... some very smart people like general mattis and others, for a president not to have confidence in, not to be prepared to listen to the intelligence agencies from defense intelligence to the c.i.a., et cetera, is absolutely mindless. it's just mindless. how would you... now, can you disagree? can you ask for more detail? can you question whether or not there is a disagreement among the various intelligence agencies? that's all legitimate. but the idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's like saying i know more about physics than my professor. i didn't read the book, i just know i know more. it's not a... it's worrisome. i'm assuming it will change. >> woodruff: if what the russians did is is serious, should there be me retaliation than what the administration has just announced? >> when the question was would we respond to the hacking, over a month ago i said our time and choosing we would. some of what we did you will know and some you will not know. and we'v

. >> sreenivasan: so not getting involved turns out to be something that's regretted. >> well, i thinkthe way that the situation unfolded is regrettable. >> woodruff: c.i.a. director john brennan. >> woodruff: tune in tomorrow night for part two of our conversation, where we look ahead to the u.s.' relationship with russia in the trump administration. >> stewart: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: the economics and politics behind ford's decision to invest more in michigan. and president obama's enduring mark on the u.s. education system. but first, in turkey, president recep tayyip erdogan is pushing nato allies to return hundreds of officers and soldiers who've sought asylum in other countries following the coup attempt last july. in greece, eight wanted turkish military personnel are fighting extradition. and since the coup, president erdogan has disputed a longstanding border treaty between the two countries. military analysts warn that relations between greece and turkey are at their lowest point in more than twenty years. from greece, malcolm brabant reports. >> reporter: t