i'm thuy vu. we begin with aotntial constitutional crisis over the border walrl eaier today president trump issued a national emergency to circumvent congress to fund building a wall at the u.s./mexico border. >> so we're going to be signing today and registering national emergency. and it's a great thing to do because we have reason invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people, and it's unacceptable. >> the declaration opens up roughly $8 billion to wall and divert $4 million. meanwhile in california, governor gavin newsom calls the emergency declaration a, quote, national disgrac and vow the state would sue. also on on tuesday governor newsom delivered his first tate of thestate speech. both legacy projects formed under goveror jerry brown. joining me now to discuss all this are kqed politicsnd government reporter katie or, politic strategist will walsh. welcome to you all. paul, let's begin with you. how is california's congressional delegation responding to the national emergency d

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i'm thuy vu. welcome to a special edition of "kqed newsroom."n this program, we're re-visiting interviews from our archives with game-changing business leaders who are using the web to create and strengthen communities or pioneering new alternatives to staples who are using the web to create in our fridge and pantry.s we also ask them about the difficulties silicon valley has had with diversity, our first conversation is with prakash janakiraman, the co-founder and chief architect of nextdoor. the san francisco company allows neighbors to create private networks online to share resources and information about their communities.pa according to the c,nline more than 180,000 neighborhoods from the us to europe are using nextdoor to share hyperlocal content. and we want to disose that kqed is a media partner of nextdoor, using its service to deliver content to four bay area cities. welcom t -thanks for having my. -so, how did the idet? for nextdoor come ab -so, aboutwhen we firstago,ar d the company, we noticed a trend of social networks becoming mo

i'm thuy vu. thank you for joing us. >> in this divided government, is compromise possible? i'm robert costa. welcome to "washington week." >> flynn, manafort, gates, pap drop loss and dozens of indictments including 13 ssian nationals, three russian s compand roger stone. are you overseeing a witch-hunt? robert: acting attorney general matthew w the latest showdown between the trump administration and congress. >> at no time has the white house asked for nor have i provided any promises or commitments concerning any investigation. robert: democrats are launching new investigations of the president's finances. president trump: it'sal

i'm thuy vu. thank you for joinin captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for sunday, february 10: border wall negotiations break down ahead of the government shutdown deadline. the democratic field in the presidential re widens. and in our signature segment, life after walmart in small town america. next on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. ed sue anr wachenheim iii. seton melvin. the cheryl and philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and

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