william brangham updates his story about the broadcast giant that originally ran last year. >> a trainailment in tennessee.om >>routine road maintenance has lead to a squabble. >> we have breaking news to tell you about. this is out of bethesda tonight. >> brangham: night after night,a the country's est owner of local tv stations, the sinclair broadcast group, reaches over a third of homes acrose nation. >> a compromise plan for the n.controversial conseus in >> brangham: most of us think of local news as just that-- local. stations produced and reported by local yople. but, if last wee tuned in to, say, wvtv, sinclair's station in milwaukee, you saw this: >> the sky is blue. does the president have to repeat that? >> brangham: that's boris epshteyn, former member of the trump administration, and now chief political analyst for sinclair.e and heres again on wear in pensacola: >> the president stating the fact that the fringes of the left and the right.ng >> bm: and on ksas in wichita... >> are both capable of hate and solence, does not mean he condoning any of it. >> brangham: and agai

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kcet los angeles. ns captioning spoored by newshour productions, llc >> brangham: good even i'm william brangham woodruff is away. on the "newshour" tonight... the f.b.i. raids the office of presidt trump's long-time lawyer, seizing many of his legal records. then: >> we're talking about humanity and it can't be allowed toha en. >> brangham: president trump threatenaction in syria after another chemical weapon attack draws condemnation across the globe. then, some facebook users are notifiedhat their information was breached, as c.e.o. mark zuckerberg arrives on capitol hillhead of a hearing on his company's privacy policies. also ahead, training police to understand mental health-- what's changed in missouri after police are given new methods to deal with the mentally ill. >> the idea was to create sort of a no wrong door, particularly

william brangham begins our coverage. >> brangham: the news broke last night just as president trump hosting japanese pri minister shinzo abe at mr. trump's private club in palm beach, florida. this morning, mr. trump confirmed that mike pompeo, c.i.a. director and secretary of state-designate had met secretly weth north korean leader kim jong un over easteend, in north korea. the president tweeted: "the eting went very smoothly and a good relationship was formed. details of summit are beinged workut now." cothat unprecedented summiuld come in may or early june, andth effort to roll back north korea's nuclear program will be topic a. at his confirmation hearing last ulursday, pompeo spoke hop about the upcoming trump-kim atmmit. >> i'm optimistic he united states government can set the conditions for that appropriately so that the president and the north korean leader can have that conversation, will set us down the course of achieving a diplomatic ocome that america so desperately, america and the world so desperatelyeed. >> brangham: the c.i.a. director never mentioned, in public o

. >> woodruff: next, william brangham examines a reporting project delving into the intersection of businesslitics and influence in president trump's washington. f brangham: this is a fir the united states-- a president who also owns a vast business empire. exploring this duality-- commder in chief and "chief executive"-- is the premise behind a new investigative effort called "trump inc." it's a collaborationving the online investigative site propublica and new yk public radio's wnyc. and, they want your help as well. two of the journalists heading this effort are wnyc's andrea bernstein, who is also one of e hosts of "trump inc.," the podcast, and eric umansky. he helps steerropublica's trump inc. coverage online. welcome to you both. most of our viewers are going to remember, when the president weymouth the president, he said, i'm going to back away if there are any profits m going to put them into the treasury. your entire effort seems to untangle the idea of whether or not that's actually what has happened. tell us about that. >> the message was he wasn't going to be involved but that h

it woodruff: and now, william brangham is herethe legal implications of the d.n.c.it. >> brangham: for that analysis,b i'm joinsusan hennessey. she is the executive editor of "lawfare" and a senior fellow at the brooking institution. welcome back to the "newshour". >> thanks for having me. >> reporter: you he aardbout tom perez, the campaign, wikileaks all consped to make hillary clinton look bad. from a legal perspective what do you make of the su? >> the peres notes there is ample yefd. there are quite a few allegations. some grounded, relying on this intelligence media assessment oe russian intnce but a lot relies on things like news reports including a sinsogle ce or anonymously sourced reports. the challenge will be translating the essential news reports into evidence that wills be adble in court. what's relevant right now is not necessarily whether they can dor that but wher not they can survive a motion to dismiss, whether or not they have a well-pleaded complaint on the face. it does seem likely this lawsuit, at least some defendants, s least some cla are li

william brangham takes a deeper look at what's behind these strikes. >> brangham: oklahoma's educators staff wi to school, after the state's largest teachers' union called for an end to their nine-d walkout. teachers and support staff will get raises-- but that legislation was already signed fore the walkouts began. and there will not be additional school funding. instd, the union urged membe to support pro-school-spending candidates in the fall elections. a wave of teacher demonstrations there, as well as kentucky and arizona came after west rginia teachers won raises, following a nine-day walkout there. sarah jaffee is an author and labor journalist, and she joins me now.le s talk a little bit about oklahoma first. what is it that the teachers and staff have now agreed to. >> so the teachers, most of the teachers -- i should say there we still techers at the capitol today who did agree they should not go back to work -- aost of the teachers agreed to bill that was already signed before the strike began that will give them about a $is6,000 that will come up with some $400 million-some

william brangham charts the potentially dangerous road ahead. >> reporter: so, what options are available to the united states and its allies if there is a military response to last weekend's chemical attack? t walk us through the complex battlefield, i'm joined by ambassador douglas lute. he was u.s. ambassador to nato from 2013 to 2017, served on the national security staffs of presidents bush and obama, and is a retired u.s. army lieutenant general. he's now at harvard's kennedy school. doug lute, welcome back to the newshour. welcome back to the newshour. >> it's good to be back. >> first off, let's just address this issue of you can confidently said this chemical attack that happened last weekend was carried out by assad? >> well, i think we have some degree of confidence, largely because of the scale of the attack. this was not an assassination attempt of one or two people, but, rather, dozens of people were involved here. and that suggests a military attack. and, of course, it's the assad military, the syrian military that has this exaiblght. so at least circumstantial, all fingers

today, as william brangham tells us, those two visions collided in a showdown on capitol hill. >> brangham: the actindirector of the c.f.p.b., as it's often called, is mick mulvaney. he's also the president's buet director. the day he took over the agency four months ago, he said it was "an awful example of a poreaucracy gone wrong." since then, he's pd changing its independence from congress, how its funded, and easing its overl approach toward lenders. today, when he testified before the senate banking committee, he delivered a very different kind of hello and took a swipe at the agency's charter. >> i evidently made a lile news yesterday when i reminded everybody at least pointed out the fact thawhile i have to be here by statute i don't think i have to answer your questions. if you take a look at the actual statute that requires me to be core, it says that i shall appear before thittee on banking, housing and urban affairs of the senate and i'm here. i'm happy to do it. i want to t clear i'm going to answer every question i can today. i'm not using this as an excuse to not a but the st

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william brangham reports. >> brangham: anyone who's seen sean hannity's show knows exactly where he standsme fox news host hasen steadfast champion of president trump and his agenda, and a fierce critic cial counsel robert muller's russia investigation.e, for examere's how, last week, hannity reported the news that fedal prosecutors had raided the offices of michael cohen, president trump's pe aonal lawyer: right, tonight we have an explosive new chapter in mueller's partisan witch hunt. now we've entered a dangerous isw phase, and there's no turning back from it's been clear, as i've been warning, mueller iout to get the president, and it appears at any cost. here's what happened. upon referral from special counsel robert mueller-- the f.b.i. has raided the office, the home, and the hotel room of chael cohen, the persona attorney of the president of the united states. this is now officially an all- hands-on-deck effort to totally malign and if possible, impeach, the president of the united states. >> brangham: what hannity didn't say, and what we only learned yesterday, was that he, too,

william brangham talks with the author of a new book that takes a very-bntimate, personal lookt. it's part of our "newshour bookshelf." >> brangham: from the very beginning of the syrian uprising, raniad abouzs been one of the conflicts earliest and closest chroniclers. she witnessed the first days of peaceful civilian protests against bashar al-assad, and then his government's brutal crackdown. she was there for the rise of groups like the ismic state, saw how the intervention of the russians changed the tide of the conflict, and witnessed the transformation of a hopeful revolution into a grinding seven-year war. she's now published a new book called "no turning bac life, loss and hope in wartime syria," and it tells the story of this conflict through the eyes of those who endured it and those who fight in it.id rania abouoins me now. welcome to the news hour. >> thank you very much. >> brangham: so let's start at the very beginning. you open the book withthe story of a young man named suleman who is benefiting fm all the privileges of life in assad's syria. this is in 2011. and

but as william brangham reports, the controversies and ethical questions around him are pilin up. >> brangham: the most receco roversy is about what some are calling a sweetheart real- estate deal.ee last abc news reported that pruitt was occasionalom renting a or $50 a night from the wife of a lobbyist for the energy industry. a that lobbyis his firm, said they weren't lobbying the e.p.a. at the time, and thee e.p.a. said rangement wasn't a conflict. but the "new york times" reported today that a canadian client of that lobbying firm, enbrid, inc., got a sign-off from the e.p.a. during this period of time, to expand a major pipeline. pruitt has also come under scrutiny for first-class travels during his first year in the administration. eric lipton has beeneporting on scott pruitt's tenure at the e.p.a. for the "new york times.a anleen clark teaches government ethics at the university of washington st. louis school of law. welcome to you both. eric lipton, first o t, before we gthe pipeline deal, can you just explain a little bit more about the housing uarrangement that scott t had?

now, as william brangham reports, a younger generation the helm amid re-ignited tensions with the united states. brangham: applause echo throughout cuba's national assembly, as 86-year-old raul castro handed e presidency to his hand-picked successor. after six decades of rule over the island nation,oday marked the end of cuba's castro era, but not its legacy. in his first speech as cuba's new head of state, miguel diaz- canel pledged to carry on e socialist revolution led by his predecessors. >> ( translated ): socialist l nation, we will be faith the exemplary legacy of the commander in chief fidel castro ruz, historic leader of our revolution and also to the t exampl value and teachings of armed force general raul castro ruz. >> brangham: though raul castro will remain head of the communist party, the island's most powerful post, 57-year-old diaz-canel represents a new generation of cuban leaders. its a generation that wasn't even alive during the 1959 cuban revolution, led by fidel castro which ousted the u.s.-backed government of fulgencio batista, and instituted a socialist state of

h william bran our report. >> brangham: the first blast came during kabul's busy morning rush hour, near hearters of afghanistan's intelligence service, nato, and foreign embassies. a suicide bomber arrived on a motorcyc then, after journalists rushed to the site of the explosion, anotr suicide bomber, posing as a reporter, detonated more explosives among the media scrum. >> ( translated ):me was about ters away from the site of the first explosion, trying to enter the site when the second blast happened.rf it was very po, and when i was finally at the site, i found many of my fellow reporters lying on the ground, se of them dead already. >> brangham: afghan journalists seemed to be specifically targeted. shah marai, chief photographer for agence-france press in kabul, was among the dead. the islamic state group in afghanistan has claimed iesponsibility for the attacks. it was the deadl attack targeting reporters since the fall of the taliban government in 2001, according to a french media organization. in a separate attack in khost province on monday, ahmad shah, an afghan bbc reporter