from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. after a week in which president trump announced top members of his administration are leaving and court filings revealed allegatis that the president directed hush money payments-- this morning, mr. trump contind his attack on his former f.b.i. director. late yesterday republicans on ary, ande judici government reform and oversight committees released the transcript from form.i. director james comey's closed- door testimony before them on friday in his five-hour testimony the republican-led committees asked pl. comey about the f.b.i.'s decisions in mul investigations when he was director. questions ranilged fromry clinton's emails to russian interference into the 2016 election. on twitter, president trump cited e number of times that mr. comey responded that "he didn't know" and "didn't recal"" as evidence of lying. comey "must have set a record for who lied the most to congress in one day." comeis expected to be called before the house committee again ne

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in w york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. george h.w. bush, the 41st president of the united states, has died at the age of 94 at his home in houston. mr. bush died last night less than eight months after his wife of 73 years, barbara bush, passed away. >> i, george herbert walker bush, do solemnly swear. >> i, george herbert walker bush, do solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> sreenivasan: george herbert walker bush became president in 1989. his inaugural address included the words "kinder" and "gentler," words thad become part of his legacy and tat he also used in his acceptance speech republican convention in 1988. >> i want a kinder and gentler nation. >> sreenivasan: mr. bush was 1 born on ju 1924, in milton, massachusetts. the son of a wealthy family, he grew up in greenwich, connecticut, and spent summers at the family's oceanfront home in kennebunkpor

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. president trump's chief of staff john kelly is leaving the administration. the four-star retired general replaced the president's first chief of staff, reince priebus, in july of 2017. the president told reporters the news as he left the white house this afternoon to go to the army-navy football game in philadelphia. >> john kelly will be leaving. i don't know if i can say "retiring," but, he's a great guy. john kelly will be l at the end of the year. we'll be announcing who will be taking john's place. it might be on an interim sis. i'll be announcing that over the next day or two. but john will leaving at the end of the year. >> sreenivasan: the president also said he thinks the russia investigation headedy robert mueller is "going very nicely."a joining us nowkype is newshour white house correspondent yamiche alcindor. the replacement of the chief of staff. is this expected? >> it wageexpected lar because for days now, we've heard that john kelly andid p

workers at the height of their season. >> sreenivasan: so, laura, how do you make this into. interesting when you do your research, where you try to fig outer where to go >> it was tricky because one of our main characters, harry phillips, had no workers. so what do you film? >> empty bags? >> i basically filled an empty room where there was a table and no people and that wasis story, that he needed those workers in order to make, you know, his business work. >> gl what are-- what are these companies going to do next year? >> so, speaking with a number of the fishermen, they are in a situation where they don't know. they don't know what will happen. maybe they'll get selected in the lottery. maybe they won't. maybe sthael b e able toend some of the visas they had from last season into is season, maybe they won't. it's a really gray area right now. and, unfortunately, they're ht in this perfect storm of politics and economics. >> i can't do it two years in a, o. if we don't get workers another year, we'll shut the doors. either that or we've even considered-- there's crabs in

sreenivasan: some of these kids are coming from difficult neighborhoods. what about their own personal safety and security? what did they do? >> i mean that came up with one of the students that we filmed with you knoher mother had given her a taser as protection. >> she gave it to me to protect myself. i used to go from school straight to work and from work to home and i wasn't getting off until like 11:00/12:00.he >> officers atchool found it and she would have been arrested if she wasn't diverted through this program. so it really is a balance of the schools needing to ensure public safety on the school grounds. but also coming up with a systed thsn't overly punish kids that are in those situations that looks at the context and says how can we address those problems without havng term effects on their lives? you know it could go to record you know to get into college to get a job. ghit could follow them thrt their life. >> sreenivasan: so is it working? >> yeah, i mean, said the data you know even the researcher enat we spoke with in this story said tha

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. federal agencies are preparing for a partial government shutdown at the end of t week, if congress doesn't meet friday's midnight deadline. at issue is paying for a wall on the mexicaborder. pamocratic leaders say there are not enough votes t a bill with president trump's requested $5 billion to waild a wall. , the president claimed during his campaign, mexico was going to pay for. last tuesday, president trump publicly srred with top democrats over the potential shutdown. senate minority leer chuck schumer said they offered to keep funding for border security at $1.3 billionus >> in the or the senate, he is not going to get the wall in any form. even in the house, which is majority republican, they don't have the votes for his $5 billion wall plan. and we should not let a temper tantrum, threats push us in the direction of doing something that everybody, even our republican colleagues, know is wrong.en >> sasan: white house senior advisor stephen miller

ythan from the tisch wnet studios at oln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and th the secretary of the interior, ryan zinke, is leaving the trump ration at the end of the year. president trump announced zinke's exit on twitter this morning. zinke played a significant role in trump's agenda to scale back environmental regulations and to promerote engy development on public lands. the former navy seal and montana congressman was under scrutiny in multiple investigations ove his nearly two-year tenure, including ethical questions into his travel and real estate dealings. zinke was being investigated for a land deal in his hometown involving his family's foundation and the chairman of thoil and gas giant halliburton.th secretary has denied any wrongdoing. thr oer high-ranking officials have left the administration after allegations ransuging from of funds to conflicts of interest led to ethics investigations-- e.p.a. administrator scott pruitt, secretary of veterans affairs david shulkin and health and human services secretary tom price. a coalition of states wi

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. >> sreenivasan: you guys got to go to washington state where i went to high school, but besides that this year you did a couple of interesting pieces. one was a topic that i think that a lot of people are struggling with which is what should be ppening on a campus, what is free speech, what is education? how should ideas bedihallenged? hothat story come about? >> so something that zach and i kept talking about in the field with this was the so-called political correctness culture on colle campuses. i think college campuses and universities are dmoerse than they've ever been. and we've been seeing so many headlines about students shutting down controversial speakers and the presence of confederate flags or statues on college campuses. and the difference between hate speech versus free speec sand whether uld have safe spaces and trigger warnings in classrooms. so i think alof this is sort a reflection of diverse students sort of making administrations at these inss titutiapple with these really tough questions about how do you incorporate diversifying student bodies in institutions tha

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captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for sunday, december 16: a partial government shutdown looms over funding of a border wall. a look at life inside isis from a reporter on the frontlines. and inur signature segment: rising seas and a mass exodus. next on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. sue and edgar wachenheim iii. seton melvin the cheryl and philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundatio rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg.nd corporate g is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual

. ♪ ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for sunday, december 9th: insight into the president's former friends and advisors in light of regscent court fil a diplomatic test at the united nations meeting on climate change. and in our signature segment, scotland navigates a path through brexit for its marine energy industry. next on "pbs newshour wkend." >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. sue and edgar wachenheim iii. seton melvin.yl the chand 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 ameri

. >> sreenivasan: "c.r." being the continuing resolution. >> too much in my head. >.>> woodruff: if this is resolved what, would be in this short-term agreement that they would come together on? >> so they're talki about-- let's look at the calendar here and how this might work. they're talking about february 8, extending funding for these unfunded agencies until february 8. but here's the politics y.volved, jud february 3 is when the democrats are scheduled to take over the house of representatives, and a couple weeks after that, tht's when we expect president trump to announce his state of the union. republicans now-- and this is the other problem tonight-- think this timeline is terrible for them, especially conservatives, mark meadows, the head of the freedom caucus, tweeted out that he thinks this is a valente's day gift to democrats and that this scenario would mean no chance for wall funding, at least for the next two years. so tonight, thoseconrvatives are taking to the house floor and cawrlg foshr at

. >> sreenivasan: "c.r." being the continuing resolution. >> too much in my head. >.>> woodruff: if this is resolved what, would be in thite shor agreement that they would come together on? >> so they're talking about-- let's look at the calendar here anhow this might work. they're talking about february 8, extending funding for these unfunded agencies until february 8. but here's the politics involved, judy. february 3 is when the democrats are scheduled to take over the house of representatives, and a couple wee ks aftat, that's when we expect president trump to announce his state of the union. so some republicans now-- and this is the other problem tonight-- think this timeline is terrible for them, especially conservatives, mark meadows, the head of the freedom caucus, tweeted out that he thinks this is a valentine's da to democrats and that this scenario would mean no chance for wall funding, at least for the next two years. so tonight, those conservatives are taking to the house floor and cawrlg for a s