william brangham is here to bring us up to speed. william, so robert mueller what's been happening? rangham: he put out a esse of tweets this morning, again asting robert mueller, io woke up and issued several tweets in anticipaof. this again, as often, he criticized the mueller v said all the prosecutors are conflicted. at he was worried about isent at happened earlier tuesday and today, which was these three major filings detailing crucial detailabout the cooperation that three maavor figurese been providing. let's take a look.fi the t filing was on tuesday, and it concerned michael flynn, who was president trump's short- lived national security advisor. last december, flynn admitted lying to federal agents about talks he had during the transition with russn ambassador sergey kislyak. after pleading guilty, flynn agreed to cooperate with mueller's team, and he's been doing so for a year. this week, mueller's office issued this heavily-redacted sentencing memo asking for no pris time for flynn, citing his "extensive cooperation," including sitting for 19 interviews. among other matt

as william brangham s, there's a budding movement for kieryone to take a deep breath, and let kids bew>> brangham: with just a steps, these little feet, all sipof them, recently kicked a nationwide debate about parenting in america. the two sneaked ones belong to dorothy widen. one afternoon in thithtony suburb n of chicago, eight- year-o dorothy was walking her dog marshmallow. it was one of her regular chores. someone saw them, and lled 9- 1-1. >> the police showed up at the door.u i mean like ow, bullet proof vest, squad car, you know, gun on her hip, and dorothy wa just like, "mom, the police are here!" >> brangham: cory asked if her daughter had done something wrong. >> she said no, there was noot other issur than she was reported to be very young, and alone. >> brangham: child protective l servicesaunched an investigation, and widen was warned her children could be taken away.th case made national headlines. cory and dorothy appeared on morning news shows, and while the investigation went nowhere, widen became part of a growing and outspoken group of parents cho have been invest

i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: president trump makes a surprise trip to iraq, his first visit with troops in a war zone. then, the dow jones soars ov 1,000 points, its biggest daily gain in history, bouncing back from a christmas eve plunge. plus, 50 years since nasa'so first flighte moon. inside the landmark "apollo 8" mission. >> they took a picture of the earth rising over thzon of the moon. it was the "earth rise" picture, and it was one of the first opportunities for us to see the earth as it really exists in the cosmos a >> brangha that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, e engine that connects us. >> consumer cellular. >> financial services firm alymond james. >> supporting soci entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. vi the lemelson foundation. committed to imp lives through invention, in the u.s. and developing countries. th

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i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: tragedy on the border.ld a seven-yearigrant girl dies of dehydration and exhaustion while in u.s. custody. it's friday. mark shields and david brooks analyze what the latest revelations from the mueller investigion mean for the trump presidency. plus, join jeffrey brown on a weird, wonderful trip remote town in texas that's now a haven for the arts. >> you're aware of the p tsage of time sun arching across the sky. you don't get thatesn a lot of pl and i think people who are open to tt experience, settle int it. and they find the inspiration of that. >> brangham: all that and more, on tonight's p newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪mo ng our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> you can do the things you like to do with a wireless plan designed for you. with talk, text and data.um co cellular. learn more at consumercellular.tv >> financial services firm raymond james. wi the ford foundation. working v

i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: president trump makes a surprise trip to iraq, his first visit with troops in a war zone. then, the dow jones soars ov 1,000 points, its biggest daily gain in history, bouncing back from a christmas eve plunge. plus, 50 years since nasa'so first flighte moon. inside the landmark "apollo 8" mission. >> they took a picture of the earth rising over thzon of the moon. it was the "earth rise" picture, and it was one of the first opportunities for us to see the earth as it really exists in the cosmos a >> brangha that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour.

i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is away. the newshour tonight: the trump administration again rolls back envonmental regulations, this time for coal plants. then, the world's worst humanitarian crisis. an on-the-ground report on the famine in yemen. >> in many other crises in the world, those people would be gettinfood assistance in an operation, but in yemen, the scale of the needs is outpacing the capacity and the resrces. >> brangham: plus, it's friday. michael gerson and jonathan capehart analyze the week in litics. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour.

i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour toght: tragedy on the border.en-year-old migrant girl dies of dehydration and exhaustion while in u.s. custody. it's friday. mark shields and david brooks analyze what the latest revelations from the mueller investigation mean forrump presidency. plus, join jeffrey brown on arf weird, won trip to a remote town in texas that's now a haven for the arts. >> you're aware of the passage of time by the sun arching across the s. you don't get that in a lot of places. sed i think people who are open to that experiencele into it. and they find the inspiratioof that. >> brangham: all that and more, on tonight p

as william brangham rerts, the move comes after similar explicit restrictions were blocked from the farm bill tt president trump signed today. >> braham: that's right, judy. republicans and president trump wanted restrictions to the food stamp program to be included in the $867 billion fm bill, but democrats balked and so those specific restrictions weou left but in the farm bill, there wasp additioner given directly to the u.s.d.a.-- that's the agency that oversees the food stamp program. its secretary, sonny perdue, announced today expanded work requirements, and fewer caemptions, for hundreds of thousands of ame who receive this federal help buying their groceries. republicans have long sought these kinds of changes, arguing that too many able-bodied americans are getting help they don't really need. democrats argue these requirements are too harsh a will hurt unemployed and under- employed workers the most. been covering ha this story for the washington post. thank you. >> thanks for having me. so tell us a little bit more. the usda put out these rules today. what specific changes ar

i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: the trump administration again rolls back envonmental regulations, this time for coal plants. then, the world's worst humanitarian crisis. an on-the-ground report on the famine in yemen. >> in many other crises in the world, those people would be gettinfood assistance in an operation, but in yemen, the scale of the needs is outpacing the capacity and the resrces. >> brangham: plus, it's friday. michael gerson and jonathan capehart analyze the week in litics. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> ordering takeout. >> finding the west route. >> talking for hours. >> planning for showers. >> you can do the things you like to do with a wireless plan designed for you. with talk, text and data. consumer cellular. learn more at consumercellular.tv >> financial services firm raymond james. >> the ford foundation. working with

but as william brangham reports, that mission got even tougher yesterday, with a new reportat lobal emissionsxide are in fact rising, reaching the highest levels on record. >> brangham: that's right, amna. a new report by the globalje carbon p says worldwide, emissions grew by 1.6% last year, and are expected to rise another 2.7% this year. caon dioxide is the main g that's driving climate change,s and the dangerse in global temperature. the paris accord hoped to limit that warming to just 2 degrees celsius, or 3.6 degrees farenheit, but this cent report seems to put that goal increasingly out of reach. much of the increase in emissions is being driven by growth in china and india.in is now the world's largest carbon emitter, followed by the u.s. this report is just the latest in a series of very recent, stark warnings about climate change. u.n. secretary general antonio guterres put it this way, "we are in deep trouble. it is hard to overstate the urgency of ourjoituation." i'ed now by david victor, a professor of international rmlations at u.c.-san diego, and author of "global g gridlock,"

i'm william brangham. join us online and again here tomorrow evening.or all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> kevin. >> kevin! >> kevin. >>dvice for life. life well-planned. learn more at raymondjames.com. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ng captioponsored by newshour productions, llc captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ♪ >> hello, everyone, and welcome to "amanpour & co." during the holiday season, we are dipping into the archive ano ing back at some of this year's highlights. so, here's what's coming up -- my in-depth talk with tim cook, the ceo of apple, the world's first trillion-dollar company. in a candid conversation, we talk about his surprising support of privacy laws around the world, the responsibility s d the privilege he feels openly gay leader, and the dang posed by wh

earlier today, william brangham spoke with our science correspondent miles o'brien for a quick review of this remarkable year. it's part of our weekly series on the leading edge of science. >> brangham: miles, i guess we should start with what is arguably the most controversial science story of 2018 and that's the news that, allegedly, two genetically engineered children were born in china this past yearn you can explis story and the controversy around it? >> yeah, i thinthe lead e toes you a little late in the year, william. this is a bigcescistory. it gives me equal doses of skepticism and, frankly, horror. a chinese scientist byto to youtube to announce he used the crispr gene editing tool, whic is essentially-- think of it like m allowing to you take genes, pull things out of a string of d.n.a., and inserting otherto genes t, full-fledged gene editing. he used that on some embryos of twin girls. let's listen to him for a mome s >> branghacan you tell us a little bit more about what it is actually he allegedly didl >> allehe went after the ne that is responsible for a prote that h.

but as william brangham tells us, the president and his team seem to be adding to that anxiety. >> branghaminto day, several of the major stock erdexes were already in bear markettory for the first time in a decade. that includes the nasdaq and the standard & poor's 500. a bear market is when an indexdr s 20% from a recent high. then, over the weekend, there esre new revelations that further unnerved irs. president trump was reportedly considering firing the chairman of the fedal reserve jay iawell. administration offls have since denied the president had any such intention. but the president agnt after the fed today, tweeting: he only problem our econ has is the fed. they don't have a feel for the market." on top of that, yesterday, treasury secretary steven mnuchin issued a puzzlingat ent, saying he'd spoken with the heads of the biggestit u.s. banks to ate the strength of the financial system and nfirm their reserves of cash for lending. to many, this harkened bact to a concern en since the great recession in 2008. annie lowery watches all this for "the atlantic." >> you wrote a columici

william brangham begins our coverage there.>> rangham: that's right judy, a year ago, michael flynn pleaded guilty to lyin ato the f.b.ut his contacts with the russian ambassador. since pleading, he's beenon cooperatint least two ither federal investigations, meeting 19 timeseither robert mueller's office, or other justice department lawyers. prosecutors, and flynn'swy s, had both argued that flynn should get little or no jail time, because of his cooperation. but toda judge emmet sullivan postponed flynn's sentencing, er three-ed the fo star army lieutenant general saying, "arguably you sold your country out." here to help us understand today's dramatic developments is carrie cordero. she's a former justi department official focusing on national security. welcome back to the newshour. >> thank you. >> brangham: so before we get to the delay in the sentencing today, can you remind us what were flynn's lawyers arguing going into today had happened tl theint? >> so, what happened is the prosecutor's office, the spel'al counoffice, had filed a document remmending no jail time for michael flynn

william brangham explains how prosecutors have now implicated the president in a possibl felony crime reporter: on friday, prosecutors added more detail to their case against michael cohen-- who was president trump's longtime lawyer and fixer. they detailed what they say was cohen's violation of federal election law. prosecutors accused cohen of intentionally trying to subvert the 2016 presidential election, writing, "cohen sought to influence the election from the shadows. he did so by orchestrating secret and illegal payments to silence two women who otherwise would have made public their alleged extramarital affairs with individual-1" "individual-1," of course, is president trump, whomor prosecallege directed cohen and knew all about these payments. joining me now is rick hasen, he teaches at u.c. irvine law a school, hecholar of election law and campaign finance,nd writes the election law blog. thanks for being here again on the newshour. could you just start f helping us understand, what is the crime that is being alleged here? how do two possible hush money payments constitute a

but, as william brangham reports, that program instead turned into an economic trap. it's part of our weekly education series, "making the grade." >> brangham: the program is called the "teach grant program," and the idea was simple. teachers get a grant to pay for college orraduate school, and in exchange, they agree to teach for four years in places where'r thneeded. but according to an investigation by national public radio earlier this year, some inflexible rules turned those free gras ernt vsttocoy ly thousands of teachers suddenly found themselves facing potentially ruinous de. one of the npr reporters on that series, ry turner, joins me now with an update to their reporting.y, cohank you so much for being here. before we get to the update, idplain a little bit more what was theea behind the teach grant program? >> sure.me n, when congress passed and created this program, the intentthns were good. point was to try to get more young, talend teachers into schools that need the most, low-income schools. so what the program did was to offer federal grants to asp tea

paptioning sponsored by newshoductions, llc >> brangham: good evening, iam william bran judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight, we break down the political statements president trump made during his visit with troops in iraq. then, a view of life inside syriwhere a cease-fire hasn' stopped the violence as u.s. troops prepare to withdraw. and, saving lives in cincinnati. how one region is using neighborly connections to fight one of the nation's highest infant mortality rates >> these moms live and breathe in their neighborhoods and therefore they're experts when it comes to the place that is influencing their health. and so it's not infrequent, i'd say it's almost daily when i talk to moms that they teach me something that's going to be instrumental for the change that we're trying to make. >> brangham: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

paptioning sponsored by newshoductions, llc >> brangham: good evening, iam william bran judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight, we break down the political statements president trump made during his visit with troops in iraq. then, a view of life inside syriwhere a cease-fire hasn' stopped the violence as u.s. troops prepare to withdraw. and, saving lives in cincinnati. how one region is using neighborly connections to fight one of the nation's highest infant mortality rates >> these moms live and breathe in their neighborhoods and therefore they're experts when it comes to the place that is influencing their health. and so it's not infrequent, i'd say it's almost daily when i talk to moms that they teach me something that's going to be instrumental for the change that we're trying to make. >> brangham: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and b the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved econo ac performan financial literacy in the 21st century. >> carnegie corporation of n