from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. there are new reports tonightge that the teeuspect in this week's school shooting in parkland, florida was on the radar ofocal child welfare authorities a year and a half he opened fire and kill 17 people at marjory douglas stoneman high school on wednesday. guo florida newspapers are reporting that in of 2016, nikolas cruz posted a video on the social media network snapchat showing him cutting his arms. when the state investigated, it concluded that cruz had not been mistreated by his mother, was receiving care from a mental health counselor and was attending school. today, students rallied at the federal courthouse in fort lauderdale, demanding stricter gun laws and criticizing elected officials who accept cpaign funds from the gun lobby: >> to every politician who is taking donations from the n.r.a., shame on you! >> he was able to legally purchase that semi-automatic rifle and come into my school and slaughter 17 of my people. because of these gun law

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. conflict in the skies over syria l this evening following the most serious skirmishes between the two countries since 2011. right now, two israeli pilots are being treated for injuries after syria shot down their f-16 while they were striking what israel says are iranian air bases within syria. but today's violence began after israel shot down an iranian drone which entered israeli airspace from syria. an israeli military spokesman warned, "iran is dragging the region int which it doesn't know how it will end." joining me now from beirut is newshour weekend special correspondent jane fergun. jane, let's just clarify. there's been some confusion about theimeline of events. what happened when? >> at the minute, we're looking at a number of events today. the first thing that we heard was that this this israeli fighr jet, an f-16, had been downed. but the israelis have now said that, actually, the initial incident is what they're calling an iranian zone enter

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, ri sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening thanks for joining us. more is being learned about the parkland, florida highchool shooter, while calls for gun reform are growing louder. s the "florida sentinel" newspaper spoke with the family that took nikolas cruz into their home after his mother's death." we had this monster living under our roof and we didn't know," k paper."nead told the we didn't see this side of him."ri just five days to the shooting, kimberly snead had taken cruz to her own therapist. the sneads, gun owners themselves, say they made cruz feput his guns in a insisting they didn't know until the massacre on wednesday that he kept a key. the principal of marjor d stonemglas high school ty thompson posted an emotional video to the school community >> i promise you, i will hug each and every one of you asim many as you need and i will hold you as long as you need me to, for all 3,300 of yom and youries, and we will get through this together. >> sreenivasan: as were laid to rest this weekend some of those student

from the tisch wnet studio cat lincoter in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. the white house is preparing to release a budgetomorrow follwing friday's passage of a bipartisan spending deal. the bisudgerojected to increase spending by nearly $300 billion over two years. it will so increase the deficit to a projected $1.2 trillion in 2019. white house budget director mick mulvaney sd that republicans compromised with democrats on increasing non-defense domestic spending inrder to get an increase in defense spending. >> we want money to defend the nation. we believe, general mattis has made the case to both democrats and republicans and to the public alike, that we need more money to defend the nation against things like threats from the north koreans. >> sreivasan: a small group of republican lawmakers opposed the deal. senator rand paul of kentucky voteagainst deficit spending under president obama and again under president trump. >> i'm still against deficit spending just because republicans are doing it doesn't make it any better. >>

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l sreenivasan: n.r.a. spokeswoman danaoesch responded. >> theiscussion is about banning all semiautomatic firearms. and that's really the discussion. ivasan: turning to the russia investigation, there is new fallout following yesterday's release of the fisa memo b intelligence committee. it rebuts the republican memo w released a fks ago questioning the evidence used to surveil a former trump campaign associate during the 2016 campaign. joining me now from santa barbara, california is newshour weekend special correspondent jeff greenfield. >>> jeff, a couple of weeks ago we had the republican memo that wasse rel now we have the democratic memo. where does this leaveus? >> it leaves us with a partisan decide about the size of the grand canyon. what you are seeingen fundlly, is a continuing pattern on the part of republicans for laying the groundwork for saying the entire mueller investigation is biased, ismes there people with a partisan cast and not to be trusted. >> sreenivasan: this is a bit of a side sh

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hari sreenivasan es the anger, lies and conspiracy theories cropping up online. >> our entire nationpraying for the victims and their families. >> sreenivasan: the imrediate onse to the school shooting in florida was a wave of prayers and condolences from around the country. what quickly followed? a flood of allegations and conspiracy theories about the students calling for gun reform. >> i just know we are being fed something as phony as a three dollar bill. >> sreenivasan: right-wing outlets, like gateway pundit and infowars, and online trolls are promoting the false theory that some of the parkland teens are actually paid actors. the target of many of these attacks is stoneman douglas senior david hogg. he has been called an f.b.i. plant who was coached by his father, and a "crisis actor," after video surfaced of a california cbs story featuring hogg from august. > these people saying this is absolutely disturbing. i am not an actor in any sense, way, shape or form. i was a witness to this. and live through this.ess this e sreenivasan: many of these false accounts com extreme frin

s someone that had to witnis and live through this. >> sreenivasan: many of these false accounts camem extreme fringes of social mediin but are now amplified by better- known voices. conservative writer dinesh wesouza tweeted that one of the students, intervby a british news program, seemed "coached." onand the president's son,d trump junior, has liked some of these conspiracy tweets. but tuesday, florida senato marco rubio tweeted the accusations against the students are: "the work of a disgusting group of idis with no sense of decency." other republicans stayed away from conspiracy theories about the students, instead accusing democrats and gun control vocates of using the students to push their agenda. former georgia congressman, jack kiston: >> their sorrow can very easily be high-jackedy left-wing groups who have an agenda. let's k ourselves, do we really think, and i say thiser siy, do we really think 17 year olds on their own are going to plan a nationwide rally? >> sreeniv tucker carlson:chor >> all of a sudden you're seeing these kids involved in calls for very specific piece

i'm haripbs newshour sreenivasan reporting fromor houston, texas.ang: tomorrow on faceb 1:00 p.m. eastern. we'll host a live discussion with the non-profitews organization the "texas tribune" and answer your questions about hurricanharvey recovery forts. wi >> yang: stay th us, coming upe on wshour, an effort top showcase more femalee playwrights. and the philadelph eagles finally celebrate a super bowl victory. but first, we return to the divide between the white house to talk about the political fallout aret of the current economicndscape is "politics monday" team, amy walter of the "cook political report" and o tamara keit npr. tam, let me start with you. recently, you bore the statee of the union dissected donald trump's speeches.ec he likes to talk about the stock market when it was going up, bu today he had the very awkward situation of being live in cincinnati, giving a speech with the box in the corner on cab television showing the dow dropping, dropping, dropping. r he atsk here? >> till the cable networks cut speechtirely from h and just w

harvey'ss rising waters. >> sreenivasan: what's it l he to see yoouse like this?> it is disturbing. i guess i've gotten used to it.n >> sasan: kathleen and nat pacini lived here, in the meyerland area of houston, onut the city's est side. but on a saturday night in later august, tn began to fall, and didn't stop until it had dropped me than four feet of water on the city. >> i came to the back door and it was rushing up the driveway like a wave fm the bayou. >> sreenivasan: within minutes, the water was insien their hous a neighbor called and told them to get out.a they rushed three houses down to jenna and chad arnols home. they had recently raised 18 inches above ground and it became an island in the riverin that was now their neighborhood. >> honestly we just thought we were going to you know t a ttle rain. little more than usual and didn't realize it would be 50 some odd inches but wly you know we didn't feel like we needed to evacuate. we decided we werelevated. we felt safe. e decided to stay. >> sreenivasan: nolds used a sailboat and kayaks to travel back a

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we need just to build a wheel to get it done. >> sreenivasan: mr. walker, how do you address these different issues in a bipartisan or nrepartisan way, whee see-- in this political climate, we're seeg aetrenchment of party lines getting stronger and thicker? >> well, first ofitll, i think important to not be demoralized by the current ste because, in fact, we saw progress. it's important, beca are some who would say all of these investments were for naught. that is not true. we made tremendous strides in reducing poverty and reducing segregation in this country. today, we need to have people understand wth all, all americans-- black, white andow - are suffering from the same-- the s plague, and that is the plague of inequality. and for us to make progress, we have to show white, black, and brown americans that we are all in this togeeether. wed our leaders to bege builders of br between communities, and to recognize that this tion needs healing, that we need to come together. >>enivasan: fred harris, how do you figure out a wayar fobased on some of

captioning sponsored by wshour productions, llc >> sreenivasan: good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight... t >> we'n our grief into action. we have to have action.re >>ivasan: ...president trump puts for gun reform in the wake of the florida school shooting. then, power grab-- china's g mmunist party moves to abolish term limits, allowesident xi jinping to stay in office for life. and,omalia struggles to its miet-- a surge in u.s. military presence pushes thtant group al-shabab out of the east african nation, but not without complications. >> the u.s. military's involvement in the war here in somalia happens in the shadows. that has some people worried about accountability. >> sreenivasan: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

g>> sreenivasan: for rickates, this day in court was different.was in washington, entering the latest guilty plea-- the fifth so far in the investigation led by speciall counbert mueller. gates is a former trump campaign aide, and a long-time associatef aul manafort, the former trump campaign chairman. today's plea is the result of a deal gates cut with mueller's office. as part of the agreement, he admitted that he lied to investigators earlier this month, and that he conspired with others to conceal, among other things, his and manafort's unregistered foreign lobbying. legal pressure othe two has been mounting of late. gates and manafort were indicted last october on 12 total counts, including a count related to money laundering. but just yesterday, a federal grand jury in virginia piled on a separate indictment againstti the two, l 32 total counts, including charges relating to false income tax returns and bank fraud. that said, none of the charges against gates or manafort, so far, explicitly deal with russia's meddling in the 2016 election. ,

. >> sreenivasan: carrie johnson, the prospect of no jail time certainly seems to be a big lure, butt's in the indictments? >> there's a lot of evidence, hari, from paperwork with respect to bank fraud allegations di.r.s. allegations that boast rick ites and paul manafort led to report more than $70 million foreign ince they funneled through offshore accounts. there are allegations that they misled or doctored reports thatt o accountants and other financial professionals. there are e-mails and there are conversations with others allegedly involved in this scheme. so there was a mounting pile of evidence against both of these men. rick gates faces about eight ars in prison, but prosecutors reserved the right to ask the judge for leniency if hesuper cooperative, and he certainly hopes to be super cooperative against pa manafort and maybe others to come. >> sreenivasan: lisa, th president and the white house have repeatedly said these charges have nothing to do with the campaign, this is maybe money laundering or something that happened before the individuals were involved. >> let's tal

we have to have action. >> sreenivasan: ...president p trump pussure on congress for gun reform in the wake of the florida school shooting. then, power grab-- china's communist party moves to abolish term limits, allowing president xi jinping to stay in office for alfe. and, som struggles to its feet-- a surge in u.s. military presence pushes the militant group al-shabab out of the east african nation, but not without complications. >> the u.s. military's involvement in the war here in somalia happens in the shadows.s thatome people worried about accountability. >> sreenivan: all that and more on tonight's pbnewshour.

>> sreenivasan: nasa probably would have put in bricks fur weight. he put in a tesla roadster with a dummy sitting in the seat with his arm on the within doe, and on the screen of the tesla, it says, "don't panic." david bowieco playing, ose. you have to appreciate the cross marketing, tesla, his company,mb and two, just the good, plain fun of it. >> yang:bsolutely. you covered the space program for a long, long time. what was it like for you t watch this today? >> it caught me by surprise. i wasn't. there i couldn't geret. but just watching it, i really got emotional. i miss that event, seeing the shut lts lach from those launchpads. that launchpad was where apollo 1 launcd from. lots of history there. and there's something very moving and emotional about it i got into covering space becae it's one of the few events that binds us altogether in an uplifting way. a lot of things bring us together and bring our focus together in a negative way, but space has a way of literally and figuratively taking us abe the horizon. >> yang: and the beaches and the

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>> sreenivasan:>> it was compros the kind of compromise we always see.nce our segment started, maybe as burke and payne in the 18th century, they have beenom able to come when it comes to expanding the deficit. that's been nsistently true over the past many years. if every side gets to spend on wh s they want end, that's the way they can compromise. they've never been able to w compromien both partys have to take some pain. that's the kind of compromise theyan't do. at strikes me as stressful about this is everyone is a hypocriticon the def. they're all for cutting red ink when they're in the minority and they're all against it when hey're in the majority. but there is a shi tone in the republican party that seems interesting to me. it used to be a party that talked the language of economics first. its native ge was economics, an economic language, so the budget did matter, and r the budgally mattered and tax cuts mattered. now ecomics is a secondary language for the republican party. immigration is the first language. it's an identity party right now, n