william brangham explains it all. thank you, william. >> you're welcome >> nawaz: d now let's bring cardozo law school professor and former southern district of new york prosecutor jessica roth into the conversation. professor roth, just with th sentencing, last week a different judge in the federal case got flack from a sentencebe that was welow the sentencing guidelines. ction to ther rea sentencing that came down today? >> thesons judge jacksonay proposed tos much more in line with what i expected to see in this case including last week, but the net effect of her sentence today is mafort will serve seven and a half years, more consistent with federal sentencing practicing generally. i think that the sentence reflected her different view of manafort's crimes from how jdge ellis viewed it. as william talked about, she emphasized the extend of the crimes, fraud andmount of money involved in a way that really wasn't present in judge ellis' remarks about his reasons for imposinthe sentence. >> so these new state charges

i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is away. on the "newsur" tonight, tornadoes carve a path of destruction through the southeast, claiming over 20 lives and leveling whole sections of towns in alabama and georgia. then, a conversation with carlos vecchio, the man the u.s. recognizes as the venezuelan ambassador, as opposition leader juan guaido returns to a country in crisis. plus, preserving the past-- a new exhibition highlights the painstaking work of photo conservation. >> the misconception especially for photographs is you can just make another one. you know, we can easily printpr twts that are the same, and they're actually not. there are slight differences that make every single print unique. >> brangham: all that and more on onight'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. >> babbel. a language app that teaches real-life convertions in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more. >> consumer c

william brangham as our report. >> brangham: in peru, nebraska, national guard trucks bring a lifelinettled water. volunteers unload the water after flooding from the missouri river shut dowthe town's water treatment plant. fred knapp of nebraska pbs station net was in peru. n down here, there are about 10 houses that have booded by the missouri river after a levee broke north of here. >> brangham: across the state, roads, livestock and hundreds of homes have been swalby floodwaters. >> it is devastating. it is devastating. ve brangham: flooding began last week after a massiate-winter storm hit. water levels rose through the weekend, hitting those who live along the missouri rhe hardest. >> it's about as bad as it gets, you know we're startin. >> brangham: lisa lemus, from sarpy county, is one of hundreds who had to evacuate when waterso d her home. >> there is no words that canbe descomebody's mental state when all this comes down. >> brangham: rescuers in airboats came to save those who couldn't escape in time. across the midwest, flers brought record river levels to 41 places, inclu

i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is away.e "newsur" tonight, tornadoes carve a path of destruction through the southeast, claiming over 20 lives and leveling whole sections of towns in alabama and georgia. then, a conversation with carlos vecchio, the man the u.s. recognizes as the venezuelan ambassador, as opposition leader juan guaido returns to a country in crisis. plus, preserving the past-- a new exhibition highlights the painstaking work of photo conservation. >> the misconception especially for photographs is you can just make another one. you know, we can easily printpr twts that are the same, and they're actually not. there are slight differences that make every single print unique.

william brangham lks at that criticism, and the multiple connections between fox and the white house.brangham: fox news has long been accused by critics of being a "mouthpiece" for the trump administration, and tentimes, its anchors and guests sound just like the president:ll >> m is not going to produce a neutral report. he's not going to be fair. >> now is the time to talk about the wall and to awaken citizensd >> brangham:n return, president trump makes no secret of his love for fox news >> we got a lot of good people. do we like tucker? i li tucker. how about ainsley, brian? we got a lot of greands. >> brangham: here from the rose garden last month... >> sean hannity has teen a terrificific supporter of what i do. not of me. if i changed my views, he wouldn't be with me. laura's been great, laura ingraham. tucker carlson's been deat. they donide policy. >> brangham: and the president promotes fox news in other ways, as wl. since august 2018, trump tweeted fox news stories to his 58 million twitter followers more than 200 times. , s favorite show seems to be the morning show"fox an

william brangham now has a the head of the n.i.h. joined. >> brangham: for a conversation.s part of our wescience segment "the leading edge." >> reporter: last year's report documented an all-too common story. >> brangham: last year's report documented an all-too-common story: existing anti-harassment policies at scientific institutions simply didn't do enough to stop the problem, anda thertoo little accountability to help those who come forward. now, the director of the n.i.h., dr. francis collins, has issued a frank apology for not doing more. dr. collins ote, "we are sorry that it has taken so long to acknowledge and address the climate and culture that has caseed such harm." al harassment in the sciences, he wrote, is "morally indefensible, it's unacceptable, and it presents a major obstacle that is keeping women from achiev in science."tful place and dr. francis collins joins me now. welcome back to the "newshour". h you,nks, great to be w willia >> reporter: i guess in the uld plague the sciences aso well, buthe numbers judy cited about the number of women in these fi

as william brangham tells us for our weekly education segment, "making the grade," the scheme allegedly included wealthy parents-- among them, well-known actresses-- college coaches, and a dishonest college admissions counseling program. >> brangham: the scheme revolved r large part around a college prep business, ofterred to as "the key." the government said the company's founder, william singer, helped students cheat on standardized tests, and paid roughly $25 million in bribes to thllege athletic coaches s kids could enter college with fake aletic credentials. in some instances, the students didn't even play the sport. to mask the fraud, some students faces were actually photoshopped onto another athlete's body. two well-known actrees-- felicity huffman and lori laughlin-- allegedly paid into the scheme for their children. wamong the schools targete yale, georgetown, stanford, and u.c.l.a. here how andrew lelling, the u.s. attorney in massachusetts, characterized the case: >> this case is about the widening corruption of elite hrough thessions steady application of wealth, combined w

but william brangham talks with the author of an alarming new w boch argues that we're barely acknowledging severity of this crisis. >> brangham: "it is worse, much worse, than you think." that david wallace-wells' terrifying new book about climate change.'s alled "the uninhabitable earth: life after warming."al in it,ce-wells marshalls the latest scientific research which, he argues, points to one un-impeachable fact: that our use of fossil fuels-- which admittedly has powered so much prosperity and growth across the world-- is now the single greatest threat to our survival. one that he says, "has brought us to the brink a never- ending climate catastrophe." david wallace-wells is a fellow at the new america foundation, and a columnist and editor at "new york" magazine. welcome. >> thank you. >> reporter: i have to admit, i haven't been b alarma book as yours. we posted the first chapter of yourook on the web soot. i would encourage people to read oit to get a sen your argument. but help us understand what deem n't appreciate about the severity of this problem. >> the first thing is speed.

as william brangham explains, the latest lawsuit comes as purdue pharma considers filingru for bacy.brangham: the concern is that if purdue pharma ds file for bankruptcy, the ability of all those states and cities to recover damages will be greatly delayed and reduced, by perhaps billions of dollars. in filing her state's lawsuit today, new york attorney general letitia james seemed to target that very issue. the suit itself explicitly seeks to claw back money from members of the sackler family, alleging they fraudulently transferred profits from purdue to themselves. >> this lawsuit contains detailed allegations about the sackler family and their attempts to hide the vast fortunes they collected at the expense of actual lives. in an attempt to shield these fortunes fromo families se loved ones have been killed by their products, we allege that the family has elicitly transferred fundsr fom purdue to personal trusts so that they are potentially outside to have the reach of law enforcement and our efforts to seek resontitur penalties. pa in a >> brangham: in a te development, earlier

that is the focus of our education segment is week, with william brangham. discussing we will b a very disturbing subject with explicit questions. >> brangham: the news from parkland this week has clearly shaken many in the florida community-- and elsewhere-- and it's led to even greater efforth to hele who are struggling.so we should ay from the outset that suicide is preventable. suicidal thoughts have complex roots and often multiple causes. we're going to talk all that in a moment. we also want to let people know that if you or someone you know may be considering suicide, there are aces to call and text where you can get immediate help. we'll post that information on screen during this conversation. i'm joined now by dr. kelly posner gerstenhaber. she's a psychiatrist at columbia university, and director of the lighthouse project there to prevent suicide. and, ryan petty. his 14-year-old daughter, alaina, was murdered in the shooting last year in parkland. he then started the "walk-up foundation" to help reduce school violence and hose at risk. both have

for the pbs newshour, i'm william brangham. >> woodruff: let's look at a number of legal questions theorney general's letter has sparked with neal katyal, he was acting solicitor general in the obama add nistration. ul mcnulty, he served as deputy attorney general in the geor w. bush administration and before that served as spokespersonor attorney general barr during the first bush administratio we thank you both for being with us. i nt to ask you, first, based on what we know, both sides are drawing their own conclusions about this very brief summaryy from the attorneral of the mueller report. what do you make of this, neal katyal? >> well, i think you're right, it's a brief summary but a ver troubling sumplet i think the most important thing and this is what i wrote about intoay's "new york times" is barr's conclusion about obstruction of justice. remember, mueller spent 22 months investigating thihes. idn't reach a conclusion, he laid out in his report the evidence fsim botdes, presumably for congress to evaluate, and th the attorney neral goes in and swoops in, within 48 hours, and

but as william brangham reportso lar podcast shed new light on troubling parts of this case >> brangham: curtis flowers s been tried, not once, but six times for these murders, where four people in winona, mississippi were kil a furniture store. the case against flowers is the subject of intense scrutiny now, especially since it became the subject of an investigative podcast-- season two of american public media's "in tk." host madeleine barron and her rerting team moved to mississippi to investigate this 20 year old case. several key elements of the case against flers-- evidence cited by district attorney, doug evans, began to unravel on closer examination. that included a jailhouse witness recanting. >> by this point i'd already looked at evy other piece of major evidence in the case against curtis flowers: the route, the gun, the other two d itches. none of it had h to scrutiny. now all that was left was this one story, this one confession. and then, from his cell in parchman prison, on a cell phone connection, from underneath his tent, odell holman told samara that story was a lie.

william brangahm explores what miael cohen's testimony ma reveal about the inner workings of the trump business organization. >> brangham: it was the first time the publiheard directly from a key figure in the trump organization about how the family business operated. cohen's testimony touched on a series of threads about how the president and his company operated before, during and after the campaign. two people who have spent an extensive amount of time reporting on the trump business join me now. andrea bernstein is the co-host of the "trump inc." podcast. and david farenthold of "the washington post." welcome to you both. andrea, to you fir, yesterday one to have the pieces of evidence that michael cohen showed was this bg chck tore $35,000 signed by donald trump when he was president. what was that check allegedly for? >> so this had a startling impact, this check. i was in the courtroom with michael cohen wh he described this scheme where he says he was directed by the person we now know to be donald trump to make this payment, to keep some women quiet who had made allegations of having had an affair with then can