from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you r joining us. president donald trump today attacked the "new york times" afatr it reported yesterday white house counsel donald mcgahn has cooperatedte ively in the investigation of russian interference in the 2016 election. in a series of tweets the president said, "the failing new york times wrote a stot made it seem like the white house counsel had turned on the president, when in fact it is just the opposite" and, " i have nothing to hide." this follows a saturday tweet in which the president wrote, "i alnwed white house counsel mcgahn, and all other requested members of the wte house staff, to fully cooperate with the special counsel." citing a dozen current and former white house officials and others familiar with this case, the times reported that mcgahn shared detailed accounts of pevents and conversations in ath lease voluntary interviews per the past nine months. on nbc's "meet tss" today the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani, said he has a "good sense" of what

>> sreenivasan: yeah. this is very amelia earhart, old school. i'm being fitted with a functional near infrared spectroscopy device-- or fnirs, for short-- at a lab at massachusetts general hospital. >> start from 100 and count backwards by seven. >> sreenivasan: 93. jodi gilm is an assistant ofessor at harvard medical school and a researcher with the hospital's center for addiction medicine. 79. as i count backwards, the nodes on my forehead detect the amount of oxygen in the blood, in my brain-- an hard parts of my brain are working. each node is shown on screen as colo 23.quares. it's harder than it looks because i caht a very early rning flight. nine. two. thank god it's over. but gilman is not running a study oion sleep depriv she's developing a way to determine when drivers are high on marijuana. she's demonstrating this brain imagindevice on me while i'm drug-free, but, in her study, she's looking at the brains of volunteers before and after taking a dose of synthetic cannabis. how do you get from here to whetr or not someone is impaired b

from the tisch wnet studios att lincoln in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. pope francis visited ireland today, the first papal visit to untry in almost 40 years he marked his first visit by acknowledging that church authorities failed in responding to rampant child abuse worldwide. >> the failure of bishops, >> ( translated ): the failure of bisps, religious superiors, priests and others, to adequately address these repugnant crimes has rightly given rise to outrage, and remains a source of pain and shame for the catholic community. i myself share these sentiments. >> sreenivasan: the pope did not offer any new measures on sanctioning church leaders who cover up abuse. ireland's prime minister leo varadkar urged the pope to take action and use his "office and influence" to make sure clergy accused of sex abuse are brought to justice. ireland has been hit particularly hard by revelations of abuse after a series of government inquiries in recentye s. francis is in dublin for the world meeting of families, held once every three years,

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. nobel peace prize winner and former secretary-general of the unit nations, kofi annan, has died. the veteran diplomat was 80 years old and died after a short, unspecified illness, according to his foundation. born in ghana, annan was a career diplomat at the u.n. and e first secretary-general to be refrom within the organization's ranks. annan served two terms as theu. 's leader from 1997 to 2006 and was jointly awaracd a nobel pee prize with the u.n. in 2001. he was the first black african ecretary-general current secretary-general antonio guterres said in a statement that "annan was the united nations" and "was a guiding force for good." annan led global development t he also clashed with the to u.s. over the invasion of iraq in 2003, which was launched without authorization from the u. security council. after leaving the u.n. in 2007, annan remained involved in diplomatic efforts, including serving as an envoy in syria in 2012. the newshour's jeffrey bro

>> sreenivasan: yeah. >> n all of a sudden it feel like, you know, they threw her under the bus. >> sreenivasan: you-- you know, you're tryin' to get-- throughout the film you try to get a response from hank azaria didn't in the film. but he did say something on colbert. >> i really want to see inan, south asian writer, writers in the writing room, not in a token way but genuinely informing the new direction this character may take including how it is voiced or not voiced. i'm perfectly lling and happy to step aside or help transition it into something new, i really hope that's whathe simpsons does. >> sreenivasan: when you saw that, what went through your mind? ve been great if he said that to me in the film. >> sreenivasan: sure. >> but i thought it-- it wasci really gs, and thoughtful, and he definitely had thought about, like, the reason why this is important to us is we wanted to be seen as valid. you also got a sense that hank doesn't make these choices. >> are you se you want a child apu? >> you kno

from the tisch wnet studios lincoln center in new york, odari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: vening and thank you for joining us. senator john mccain, the influential izona republican senator and two-time presidential candidate died yesterday at his home near dona arizona. he was 81 and had an aggressive brain cancer for the past year. crowds lined the route as the hearse bearing his body traveled from his ranch to a phoenix funeral home last night. in washington, d.c. flags were twered to half staff. and in vietnam when navy pilot mccain was captive for more than five years as a prisoner of war, mourners placed flowers on a memorial noring him. as senator his political leadersh was key in normalizing relations between vietnam and the u.s. john sidney mccain the third was rn in 1936 on an america naval base, the son of a naval officer stationed in the panama canal zone. he went on to attend the naval academy in annapolis, ryland, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, who both servemias four-star ls. mccain graduated in 1958 and became a navy pilot two years later. he

ud from the tisch wnet sts at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank u for joining us. in charlottesville, virginia today, on the weekend of the one year anniversary of the "unite the right" rally, there was a heavy police presence, and streets were blocked off as part of are-emptive state of emergency. a year ago, white supremacists and other so-called "alt right"a groupsed with counter- protesters. the events turned deadly when two state troopers were killed in a helicopter crash, and a cal ed into a crowd, killing counter-protester heather heyer. yesterday, heyer's mot visited a memorial at the site. >> i didn't come to this street for a week. first time i drove past here was ndright after the funeral, i screamed, it hit me so hard. >> sreenivasan: last year's rally started with a night-time march, where protesters carried tiki torches and chanted nazi and white supremacist slogans. ( chanting ) >> sreenivasan: the protestsci began after th announced plans to remove a statue of confederate general robert e. lee. lawsuits over the statue co

from the ti ssch wndios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. they called it unit the right 2 but in washington d.c. today it s the counterprotestors and signs that read hate is not welcome here, who far outnumbered the white supremacists and so-called alt-right groups. starting this morning a rsalition of counterprotest he held rallies. >> at a metro station outside washington d.c. police escorted small groups of attendees for what they call a white civil rights rally. the rally's organizer jayson kesler used the train ride tboo atmplain aut what he says as unfair tnt. >> not just about the civil right as beus that happens icin ety in general, to white ral,le or to people in gene but the civil rights abuse happened in charlottesville. >> sreenivasan: inll charlottesvirginia on the one-year anniversary of the deadly white nationalist rally, a group of more than 100 protestors elan antiracism rally and march. >> this is our place. >> a line of police briefly cordoned off the area where 32 , ar old heather haier was kill

that's the whole s >> sreenivasan: yeah. did you-- did you think the bit about the mangos was gonna be as funny for the rest of a as it was, probably, for south asians watching it? >> think that it was reall successful in part because it must seem absurd to people. a frui when i started writing comedy, i always thought, "what is gonna make the majority white audien laugh?" >> sreenivasan: yeah. >> that's what mainstream means, right? >> sreenivasan: yeah. >> and after a whileyou want to expand and be like, well i'm a full person. i have a culture. i have things that shaped me into what i-- alto what i am. how come i'm notng about these things? >> woodruff: on the newshour online right now, a nearly 900- page report on decades of sexual abuse by clergy in pennsylvania includes dozens of testimonies provided by victims. we take a closer look at the allegations and share words from the survivors at our web site, pbs.org/newshour. and that's the newshour for tonigh i'm judy woodruff. join us online and again hereto rrow evening.

hari sreenivasan reports. >> sreenivasan: at laguardia community collegadin new york, ministrators wantthe first day for nestudents to feel like a welcome home party. >> students need to feel like this is a home. i'm gail mellow president of the college. >> sreenasan: president gail mellow is well aware that for many students, making it from this first day to graduation is a strugg. >> tell me what you're going to study? >> sreenivasan: nationally, only 25% of new full-time comnity college students will earn a degree in six years. >> your entire life pivots around your ability to complete, collnd more than that, so does your whole family.: >> sreenivasllow says the best way to educate community college students like these, is to understd who they are and where they came from. community coeges educate the majority of the nation's low- income students.ac in at laguardia, 77% of students here come from households making less than $25,000 a year. >> often they were not well served by the urban public high schools, which are so underfunded, and so crowded. and so they come to us, really for

hari sreenivasan recently spoke with them about their movement, and he began with the da immediately following the tragedy. >> i know for me i never thought i would go through aisthing like, ut those first couple days, you would think it would be so painful, and it was, but if anything it was more my whole community was numb. we were numb. we didn't feel anyanthing. that is almost worse than feeling something, because being numb is awful. i think it's worse than actually hurting, becau you're just so in shock that you don't know why you aren't feeling grief yet. that was the wost part of grieving so far. yo>> sreenivasan said one of the reasons of your response was your inability to help her. >> yeah to, have somebody soou close toike my sister is to me and hear them cry that much to the point they canak even sor days on end, and i can't do anything about it other than just try o prevent

it's the same suffering you can go through if we don't take action to end this. >> sreenivasan: your advocacy has also made you and your entire family targets. you've been called tons of names on the internet, a crisis actor, rt of a operation, coached by liberals. you've maged to laugh some of it off. you've targeted advertisers from very influential critics. what's worked best toet you through this? >> laughing it off really and being arou my family and friends and having their support, knowing that what i'm doing is not trying to take people's gun, because i wouldn't want to do that. on a personal level, i wouldn't like somebody that's trying to do that because i believe in the settlement. i just believe in commonense regulation. for example, you used to be able to smoke anywhere in public, however, people can still smoke, they cn go out and drink if they're not going to drive, you know, it's... there are ways to approach this where people's guns aren't taken away, and lives are saved. it's really mmon sense. >> sreenivasan: david, one of the things you mention in the book is th a

. >> sreenivasan: just the other day the afghan government was saying that they had control of this city but you your reporting showed otherwise. >> they are stiyill g today we have control but our reporter

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a short while later, i spoke to newshour's hari sreenivasan about what happened next. people were calling for medics, othere were bloody peoplen the street, there was someone performing.p.r., a lot of people heaving and crying. 32-year-old heather her was killed in the attack. james alex fields jr., the man behind the wheel, is now awaiting trial for murder, hate crimes and other charges. the city was grieving. much of the nation would join them. following the attack, president trump gave multiple responses. but, it was two days later, in a press conference at trump tower in new york, where he said that the racist groups in charlottesville were "not all bad." >> you had some very bad people y that group, but you also had people that were vne people, on both si you had people in that group that were ere to protest the taking down of a very, veryat roportant st, and the renaming of a pam robert e. lee to another name. >> reporter: he would face bipartisan condemnation for the. remark a state of emergency has been declared in charlottesville throughout this weekend, to pr