tamara keith, amy water.thank you bo >> you're welcome.> woodruff: on friday, y brown brought us a look at a new film, "the old man and the gun" featuring veteran actors sissy spacek and robert redford, who's declared this will be his last role. jeff continues the conversation now with a look at redford's remarkable career, on and off the screen. >> this is a robbery. >> reporter: in what he says will be his final role, robert redford turns back to the kind of character he so wonderfully played in earlier classic films- - the "good d guy."e inold man and the gun", he plays "forrest tucker," a charming, aging bank robber who just cannot quit. >> when you're thinking about leaving, when you're thinking about having the end of a career in terms of acting, you'd like to think that you waout on an upbeat note, you want to out on something that's upbeat and fun. fun to do. >> reporter: redford, now 82, joined us at the torontona internatfilm festival, alongside co-star sissy spacek, to talk about their new film and his decision to call it quits.

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tamara keith is a white house correspondent for npr.d fine is an msnbc analyst and we have a reporter from u.s. news and world report. take the long view. are they better having this pulled next week, sometime, this nomination or getting a guy in with his taint on. >> who's that? >> brett kavanaugh. >> are the republicans better winning dirty or throwing in the towel and saying, obvious, we didn -- okay, we didn't know about this, we'll pull him? >> it's very close. this was cruising along on the theory, well, trump was elected. he seems like an okay guy. you know, we could have done worse. let's just get it over with, the nightmare continues, let's get it over with. as soon as there was a hitch in this thing people began to look at brett kavanaugh in an entirely different light. i'm not just talking about women who are just tired of what seems possibly to be this kind of guy in this kind of situation. they're starting to look at, you know, what was -- how truthful was he or was he not in his testimony? is he kind of too political kind

politics monday with amy walter and tamara keith, anch more.u >> yang: today, e in myanmar sentenced two reuters reporters to seven years in prison. they wercharged with illegal possession of official documents. as nick schifrin reports, they had been reporting on government lld massacres of rohingya ers. >> reporter: this morning, wa lone walked into court as a journalist. he walked out a cocted criminal and told a fay links of his former colleague his conviction overroad his cotry's riewferl. >> they're obviously threatening esr democra and destroying freedom of the prs in our country h >> reporter:and his colleague kyaw soeoo were bundled into the back to have a police van for doing their jobs. >> we believe journalists should be able to practice without intimidation a fear and ths case has very much undermined freedom of the media mirn ma. >> reporter: last year, wa lone and kyaw soe oo began investigating. rohingya have long been targeten by the imum yarr millet. last year p min myanmar military was accused of setting fire with genocidal i

tamara keith and josh gerstein. the president retweeted fema, we have created a rumor control page updated. during disasters, it's critical to avoid spreading false information. i wonder if that's the death toll on puerto rico watch does the npr style book say about an era where we are covering presidents denying death tolls on u.s. territories involving u.s. citizens? >> well, at this time we keep doing fact checks and at this point we check the fact before the statement and after the statement. it is an estimate, but it is an estimate that is the official number now. >> and it matches the number of families and entities that have reported missing loved ones, employees and friends. and josh, someone pointed out that given the pressures of the press coverage, given the wo woodward book and manafort and cohen all piled up on top of each other, president has no travel plans this weekend. weather forecast chance of showers each day. what must we expect over the weekend? >> it's going to be interesting to see if the pre

jonathan swan and tamara keith npr white house correspondent. this plea deal for manafort and the extent of his cooperation surprise you? >> no. he was facing the rest of his life in jail. in my experience as a prosecutor when someone is facing significant time in jail, their willingness to stay firm becomes much less so. i think we don't know the significance this will be ultimately, jon. only bob mueller does. i said right from the beginning, one of the things that made mueller a serious and dangerous prosecutor is he has not let his operation leak. we don't know what -- is paul il manafort cooperating as other lobbyists from the possibly. is he cooperating against people in the trump campaign? it could be both or either. bob mueller won't let us know. >> he pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the united states of america. it has broad implications. i'm no lawyer. that's why i'm sitting next to you. paul manafort said he would not flip. he's flipped. he's cooperating. if he fails to cooperate and give the prosecutor what he wants, we know the

coming up on the "newshour," amy walter and tamara keith break down the latest political news and robertford discusses his gendary film career. with less than 50 days until the midterm elections, democrain are hithe campaign trail, hoping to pick up 23 seats to take control of the house of representatives.ro onblock could be in minnesota, where early voting has already started. the state is home tonly two democratic-held seats rated a toss-up by election analysts. esmary lahammer of twin cibs reports on the case both candidates are making in one of those districts. >> reporter: minnesota's first congressional district is an agricultural area with rich, rolling prairies which produce abundant crops. >> i'm jim hagedorn. >> nice to meet you. running for congress here. >> reporter: politics is always adominent in a state that the nation in voter turnout. this season even more so. with some of the country's most- watched congressional contests near the top of every list is cd-1, the candidates know control of congress could be attermined here. >> more money, morntion. yeah. well, you're here

r a look ahead at the midterms and more fallout from the kavanaugh accusations, i'm here with tamara keithr, and amy walter of "the cook political report." welcome to you both. >> thank you.l sorry such aw day, nothing to talk about. (laughter) i wa to get out ahead of what we knoe w to bue over the course of the week but let's talk about where we are now. tam, remind us about the significance of thisor confirmation judge kavanaugh, kind of a foregone conclusion a couple of days ago, the fact it's delayed and could be derailed, what does that say to you? >> that is really significant. republicans want the seat and want it done quickly. republicans want to be able to go to the midterms, go tthe base voters and say look what we did, we got you two supreme court justices, ad if this gets delayed, stalled, if he drops out or is pushed out, that is going to be a significant problem for republicans. >> what's your take on this, amy? >> yes, we also don't know g whether ts confirmed in this, where the votes are, but also what are the perceptions of judge kavanaug dr. ford and the senators questio

keith of npr and amy walter of the "cook political report." welcome to you both. folks, when folks turn in to watch on pbs the hearings tomorrow, tamaraat can they expect? >> tomorrow, there will bec lot of sps. it is opening statement day. so each senator on the ju committee gets ten minutes. there will also be people introducing brett kavanaugh, and then, finally, at the very end, after thlong day of speeches, brett kavanaugh will himself give an opening statement. that's what he's been working on for the last little while. before that, he'd done sort mock hearings with senators and others to practice to get ready to build the stamina for what is to come on wednesday and thursday, which is 30 minutes per senator asking him questiiss. >> yang: there any drama in this? >> first off, we have to saopy that p who are up for supreme court positions get to these hearingstheir goal is to say as little as humanly possible about how they could possibly rule on anything. that's sort of the lesson, t at's the way this has developed in the luple of decades, and it means these hearings in some ways have gotten kind of boring. and in terms of whet