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william brangham: good evening. i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is away. on the "newshour" tonight: congress reachesa deal to keep the government's lights on through september -- a look at the first bipartisanagreement of the trump administration.
Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute, then, we begin our series on the brutal civilwar in south sudan, how ethnic cleansing and government corruption ravaged the world'syoungest nation. jane ferguson: civilians are fleeing townsand cities across south sudan because of repeated attacks, and they're just turning into ghosttowns.
william brangham: and inside the popular photo-sharingapp instagram. we explore how the young tech company hastaken the world by storm. kevin systrom, co-founder, instagram: youwould post an image, and anyone anywhere in the world could see that image, and understandwhat you were trying to say without speaking your language. william brangham: all that and more on tonight's"pbs newshour." (break) william brangham: in the art of the latestdeal to come out of capitol hill, a number of president trump's top priorities were castaside to get enough democratic votes on board.
lisa desjardins reports. lisa desjardins: the massive trillion-dollar-plusspending deal keeps government funded through the fall and gives this congress its firstbipartisan success. sen. mitch mcconnell (r-ky), majority leader: theseare important priorities for congress and for the president. they reflect a lot of hard work. they promise to positively and meaningfullyimpact the lives of the men and women we represent. chuck schumer (d-ny), minority leader: and,at the end of the day, this is an agreement
that reflects our basic principles, somethingboth democrats and republicans can support. lisa desjardins: president trump told bloombergnews he's -- quote -- "very happy" with the bill. what's in it? first, what was a sticking point, security. in the end, the pentagon got a healthy boostof some $20 billion. and immigration and customs enforcement willsee an increase of 8 percent, much of that for increased detention beds. the bill also funds 10 new immigration judges.
but it provides nothing for a president trumppriority, the border wall. despite that loss, vice president mike pence,speaking on cbs, called the deal a bipartisan win. mike pence, vice president of the united states:it'll avert a government shutdown, but more important than that, there's going to be asignificant increase in military spending. our armed forces have been hollowed out inrecent years by budget cuts. lisa desjardins: outside of defense, and incontrast to president trump's proposals, few agencies face significant cuts. some, like the national institutes of health,will get a big lift, $2 billion.
plus, there is increased funding to help puertorico's financial crisis, to fund pell grants year-round, expand a mental health officeand to fight opioid addiction. also in the billion, $2 billion to extend,permanently, health benefits for a large group of coal miners and their families. house speaker paul ryan said the bill makesamerica -- quote -- "stronger and safer." but contrast that with republican jim jordanof ohio of the conservative freedom caucus. rep. jim jordan (r), ohio: i think you're goingto see a lot of conservatives be against this plan this week.
why did we last fall do a short-term spendingbill, if we weren't going to fight for the things we told voters we were going to fightfor? lisa desjardins: white house spokesman seanspicer acknowledged republicans needed democratic votes. sean spicer, white house press secretary:this is something that required 60 votes in the senate. we couldn't have our entire way on this, butwe're five months away from having a 2018 budget, and i think the president's prioritieswill be reflected much more in that. lisa desjardins: with the latest stopgap fundingmeasure set to expire friday, the legislation
could see a vote in congress as early as tomorrow. two very hot topics, planned parenthood andsanctuary cities, as they are called, were ignored in this bill. both keep their current funding for now, butexpect those fights to heat up again likely as part of other bills, william. william brangham: lisa,the democrats are claimingthis is a pretty big victory for them, the gop, as we saw in your piece, a little bitless so. how do you see this shaking out? lisa desjardins: well, today, the e-mailscame out first from the democrats overnight.
and it took a little bit longer to hear fromthe republicans. but let's look at -- what their broad priorities,what they did here. republicans made one big trade-off. they wanted defense spending to go up. they wanted some more border security spending,but not the border wall. for that, they trade off a slew of issuesthat were important to democrats, as we said, puerto rico. but there is a whole other range of them,including, for example, the national endowment for the arts, which got a slight increasein this as well.
william brangham: in the past, we have hadshutdowns, or we came very, very, very close to having a shutdown. this wasn't the case in this. the gop seemed to think that they were justgoing to get blamed if the government shut down, and that is why they seemed to havebacked off a little bit? lisa desjardins: i think that is exactly right,because there were republicans talking to us privately last week trying to get reportersin the framework of, oh, democrats will be blamed if this shutdown happens. but the very fact that they were bringingthat up, william, you knew that they were
worried that they would catch the blame. part of that is because they were blamed thelast time that happened, because they shut down government over the affordable care actand trying to end that. but i think there's also an issue with republicansthat they are concerned that some of the issues they feel the most strongest about do notyet have majority of approval in polling, like planned parenthood. most americans want that to continue to befunded. so if they are willing to shut down governmentover something that is unpopular, they think that will go blow up against them.
so they didn't take those stances in thisbill. william brangham: you touched on some of thevery broad things that were being cut or being supported. but there are some very specific, real peoplethat are targeted here or benefit here. tell us about those people. lisa desjardins: i get to use more graphics. i'm excited. (laughter) lisa desjardins: let's talk about some ofthe winners here that i found poring through
the bill that you might not hear about otherwise. the top of the list are military personal. they will receive a 2.1 percent pay raise. that's something they have been fighting for. that is not an enormous pay raise, but itmore than they had been getting, 1.6 percent, otherwise. now, the cities of new york and palm beach,they have a lot of residents in common, i think often, in winner and summer. one of those, of course, is president trump.
and he has been costing millions of dollarsto those two cities to try and protect him and protect their residents as he comes. they will receive some $68 million to helppay for that added protection. they are the two largest recipients of thatmoney. and amtrak, people who travel up and downthe east coast in particular, amtrak is getting a big funding boost. now, not everyone did all that well. a couple of things that i noticed that didget some cuts, you might not hear about, the coast guard.
the u.s. coast guard will not be getting asbig of a pay raise as the rest of the military, and they're also getting a cut. and the u.n., listen to this, william. the u.n. will see some $640 million less fromthe united states in this bill that was passed than last year. that is a lot of money. william brangham: indeed, it is. but from the outside, as an observer, thiscertainly seemed like a relatively civil process, with not the usual sort of fighting and recriminations.
is it too much to read into this, or do youthink this actually could be a change in the tone on capitol hill? lisa desjardins: imagine that. i don't think so, actually. i noticed, when senators and congressmen cameback from their easter recess, that there seemed to be less of a personal sense of animositythat we had had up until that point, and that there had been more of a sense of the political. so, i guess to paraphrase "the godfather,"it's not personal, it's political. it had been personal.
i think that's good for civility, that's goodfor conversation. but we still have a very large political problem,especially for republicans. they still don't have all the votes coalescingto get across the bills that they want. william brangham: speaking of those, quickly,the health care bill, what is the likelihood we're going to see something this week? lisa desjardins: yes, i think you will talkto amy and tam coming up. i would like to hear what they say. but i think right now, unlikely, for now. they do not have the votes.
i think, we look ahead, a lot of these things,they are going to kick down the can. i also understand that the white house hasbeen saying tonight that they will bring the border wall back up again later this summer. so i think we're going to be regurgitatingall of these issues again. republicans will have more and more chancesto get their votes. we will see if they do. william brangham: all right, the "newshour"'slisa desjardins, thank you so much. in the day's other news: thousands of demonstratorsacross the country took to the streets in massive may day events, mostly protestingpresident trump's policies.
may 1 is â®mdnmâ¯international workers day,and has become a rallying point for immigration advocates and labor unions. strikes and marches were organized in morethan 200 cities. one protest in new york city denounced thepresident's views on immigration. man: there is fear and there is anxiety. but what gives me hope and gives me resiliencemoving forward is that the community is resisting and saying this is not the way that we shouldoperate in the united states and we have got to stop. and we are going to push back.
and that's what i am excited today. that's why we're here marching and being loudand visible. william brangham: may day demonstrations alsotook place around the world. in france, protests grew violent when activistsinterrupted a peaceful union march in paris by throwing molotov cocktails at police officers. they responded with tear gas and batons. in the u.s., parts of the south and midwestbraced for more severe weather today. this comes on the heels of a line of powerfulweekend storms that killed at least 16 people. that weather system spawned tornadoes andheavy flooding, and inflicted widespread damage.
deaths were reported across five states: texas,missouri, arkansas, mississippi, and tennessee. north korea said it is ramping up its nucleararsenal in the face of growing u.s. and international pressure. this comes two days after north korea conductedanother ballistic missile test, which failed. state television announced the new threattoday, and hinted at more tests to come. man (through translator): now that the u.s.is kicking up a racket overall for sanctions and pressure against us, we will speed upat the maximum pace to bolster our nuclear deterrence. it will be taken in consecutive and successiveways at any moment and any place decided by
our supreme leadership. william brangham: president trump told bloombergnews he's open to meeting with north korean leader kim jong-un, if the circumstances wereright. he said: "if it would be appropriate for meto meet with him, i would absolutely. i would be honored to do it." meanwhile, president trump's reelection campaignunveiled new ads today, hailing accomplishments of his first 100 days. the $1.5 million tv and online ad campaigntouts achievements like the confirmation of supreme court justice neil gorsuch, tax cuts,and the approval of the keystone xl pipeline.
it doesn't mention the failed attempt to repealobamacare or the president's controversial travel ban. fox news co-president bill shine has resignedamid turmoil at the network. shine has worked for fox since 1996. he was tapped as co-president after ceo rogerailes was ousted last summer, following a sexual harassment scandal. shine was named in at least four lawsuitsor allegations involving alleged sexual harassment or racial discrimination. his departure comes just two weeks after anchorbill o'reilly also left the network.
the trump administration today rolled backthe nutrition standards for federally funded school lunches that were put in place underpresident obama. that means schools can now delay implementingstricter requirements on the amount of sodium and whole grains in the food they serve. agriculture secretary sonny perdue signedthe order at a school in virginia, after eating lunch with elementary school students. the supreme court ruled today that citiescan sue banks for discrimination under the fair housing act. but they must prove a direct connection betweenpredatory lending and the city's loss of revenue.
the case involved a lawsuit filed by miamiagainst bank of america and wells fargo, which accused them of targeting minority borrowerswith risky, more expensive loans. and stocks were mixed on wall street today. the dow jones industrial average lost 27 pointsto close at 20913. the nasdaq rose 44 points, and the s&p 500added four points. still to come on the "newshour": trump's controversialwhite house invitation to the philippines' strongman president; inside the civil warravaging the world's newest country; from elementary to high school, an investigationinto thousands of sexual assaults; and much more.
now: the president's weekend phone call withthe president of the philippines and the uproar that has ensued. sean spicer, white house press secretary:there's a lot that the president talks to these leaders in private about. privately talking about them, building a relationshipcan achieve results. william brangham: the white house defendedwhat it said was a very friendly phone call. on the other end of that call, the presidentof the philippines, rodrigo duterte, a man who's presided over a bloody anti-drug crackdownthat's killed thousands of people in his country. also during saturday's conversation was anapparent surprise invitation from president
trump to duterte to visit him in person atthe white house. that prompted an outcry from human rightsadvocates, including the united nations' human rights commissioner. zeid bin ra'ad zeid al-hussein, united nationshigh commissioner for human rights: my hope is that the president of the united stateswill convey this deep sense of alarm about the apparent shirking of the obligations underlaw. william brangham: the scale of the killingin the philippines is enormous. human rights watch found that over 7,000 peoplewere killed in duterte's first six months in office.
duterte has been defiant, and was roundlycondemned for comments like this last fall: rodrigo duterte, philippine president: hitlermassacred three million jews. now, there is three million, what is it, threemillion drug addicts, there are. i would be happy to slaughter them. william brangham: white house officials saidthe overture part of a wider effort to rally asian leaders against north korea and itsmissile program. speaking to a summit of south asian nationsjust before the phone call with president trump, duterte appealed to the u.s. to showrestraint. rodrigo duterte: i will say just, mr. president,please see to it that there is no war, because
my region will suffer immensely. william brangham: poor relations with theobama white house led duterte to threaten a pivot to warmer relations with china. the philippines and china continue to disputeterritory in the south china sea, but, today, duterte welcomed a chinese naval fleet tohis country's shores. as for taking up president trump's invitationto the white house, duterte played coy, saying he was -- quote -- "tied up" with a full schedule. for more on president trump's invitation topresident duterte, as well as his relationships with other authoritarian leaders, we turnto david kramer.
he served as assistant secretary of statefor human rights during the george w. bush administration, and is now with the mccaininstitute for international leadership at arizona state university. welcome. david kramer, former u.s. assistant secretaryof state: thanks. william brangham: your first reaction to theinvitation to president duterte? david kramer: i think it's one thing for thepresident to have a phone call with president duterte. it needs to be done, given the tensions inasia, the problems with north korea, the challenges
with china. it is a different matter, though, to embraceduterte and to invite him here to washington and to visit the white house. i think that's going much too far, given thegross human rights abuses that are occurring in the philippines, with estimates of some7,000 people killed since duterte became president in june, a number of victims of extrajudicialkillings. william brangham: we touched a little bitof this in the setup. how much do you hold duterte responsible forthose killings? david kramer: he certainly is not discouragingthem.
in fact, he is encouraging them. he has taken credit for some killings, includingwhen he was mayor before becoming president. and he is creating an environment in whichthis kind of action is being encouraged, not just condoned. so, i think duterte does deserve a lot ofresponsibility. it is popular in certain segments, in partbecause a lot of the people being killed come from poor, impoverished areas, and they don'thave strong advocates speaking out for them. but there is this concern that it could spinout of control and create all sorts of problems. and it already has.
i mean, 7,000, if that number is right, isan extraordinary number in such a short period of time. william brangham: apparently, president trumpdidn't clear this with the state department before issuing this invitation. is that unusual? david kramer: well, the president of the unitedstates, whether it's donald trump, barack obama, george bush, can basically do whathe wants when it comes to invitations to the white house. but it is a little unusual that this kindof invitation wouldn't have been prepared
ahead of time as part of his talking points. the reports indicate that it came as a surprise,not only to the state department, but to some people on the national security council andthe white house as well. william brangham: do you think of this invitationas an endorsement? you have described this as an open-arms embraceof sorts. is the president endorsing this behavior bybringing this man seemingly with open arms? david kramer: well, in the statement, theredidn't appear to be any reference to human rights concerns in the philippines. and by inviting a leader to the white houseor to the united states to visit with his
american counterpart, it does send a signalthat the president is not attaching much importance to human rights concerns. we have seen the embrace of president sisifrom egypt, the phone call to president erdogan after the very controversial referendum inturkey. we have seen the admiration voiced by candidatetrump and president trump toward vladimir putin. so, there does seem to be this affinity forstrongmen around the world, without an accompanying expression of concern about the human rightsabuses that are occurring in these countries. william brangham: you were in the state department.
you know that presidents often have to dealwith unsavory characters and sometimes that there is a strategic goal in putting yourarm around someone who you may personally feel is a reprehensible human being. couldn't there be a strategic interest? i mean, couldn't this really just be aboutnorth korea? david kramer: well, for sure. those of us in the human rights communityhave never argued that human rights should drown out other interests the united stateshas. we have energy, economic interests with countries,security interests, but we also have democracy,
human rights interests with countries. and our argument is that that last set ofinterests shouldn't be shortchanged in the pursuit of these other interests. william brangham: let's say president trumpdid speak out and somehow condemned what duterte has been doing or been involved in. isn't there a risk, given duterte's personality,that we could jeopardize the philippines as an ally, who are a very crucial ally to us? isn't there a risk that he could sully thatrelationship? david kramer: there is a risk.
and we saw this last year when president obamaindicated he was going to raise human rights issues if he had met with duterte, and duterteresponded with an epithet toward the president, and basically said he was going to turn tochina and russia. i think that's a little more bluff, even thoughtoday there were chinese naval vessels in a port in the philippines that duterte himselfvisited. but, at the end of the day, the philippines-americanrelationship is longstanding. we have very strong ties between our peoples,our countries and our governments. and i think it's important to use those tiesas leverage to insist and press for better treatment of the people of the philippines.
william brangham: last quick question. president trump today also said that he wouldmeet with the north korean leader. how does that sit with you? david kramer: i would hope that that wouldbe a last resort after everything else is tried at lower levels. granting an audience to the worst abuser ofhuman rights, the north korean leader, president kim, is something i would hope we don't seeany time soon. the problem is, obviously, not just nuclearconcerns, nuclear security, but also the treatment of north korean people by its leader.
that is a huge problem. and i hope that would also not get swept underthe rug. william brangham: all right, david kramerof the mccain institute, thank you very much. david kramer: thank you. william brangham: the world's youngest countryis tearing itself apart. south sudan was founded in 2011, but, twoyears later, forces allied to the president and vice president began fighting each other. that civil war has now led to the near collapseof the country. in partnership with the pulitzer center oncrisis reporting, special correspondent jane
ferguson begins a series of three reports. tonight is a look at this brutal war and itstribal roots. and a warning: some images and stories inthis report are disturbing. jane ferguson: this was once a busy markettown. villagers from the countryside would cometo leer to trade goods and catch up on news. now there is no one. all the people have fled into the bush, hidingfrom violent raids by government soldiers. we found some of them a few miles away inrebel-held land. they had crept out of hiding to get help fromaid agencies.
without it, they will starve. their stories of what they have endured arehorrifying. man (through translator): the government iskilling men, women and children, and sometimes they even cook the dead bodies and force usto eat them. my 5-year-old daughter was slaughtered, andthey made me eat her body. jane ferguson: tales of such brutality arecommon in south sudan's civil war. a fallout between president salva kiir andhis vice president, riek machar, began in 2013, tearing the country along tribal lines. kiir is from the dinka tribe, machar fromthe rival nuer tribe.
fighting between the two sides soon involvedother subtribes. battles broke out across the country. murderous raids on civilian communities area favored tactic, according to jonathan pedneault of human rights watch. jonathan pedneault, human rights watch: bothopposition and government fighters see various specific ethnic groups as being supportiveof their -- either of their opponents. and in order to decrease the military capacitiesof their opponents, they decide to target civilians, because, without civilians, thosefighters won't have a place to stay, they won't receive food, they won't receive popularsupport.
so, the aim by targeting civilians is, ineffect, to cut the grass under the feet of those fighters. jane ferguson: this is what ethnic cleansinglooks like. entire populations of specific tribes arebeing forced out of areas in south sudan. malakal town was a mixture of tribes. government and opposition forces have beenfighting over it throughout the war, both committing atrocities. each time the town changed hands, civiliansof a specific tribe were targeted. it's now controlled by dinka government soldiers.
entire neighborhoods, where the nuer and othertribes at risk used to live, lay silent and empty, the grass reclaiming streets that usedto be home for so many. we are not allowed to get out and film inthe town center. there's lots of police and army around, butwhat there aren't are civilians who live here. this was once south sudan's second biggestcity. and the streets and neighborhoods are completelyabandoned now. civilians are fleeing towns and cities acrosssouth sudan because of repeated attacks. and they're just turning into ghost towns. they ran to this camp just outside the town.
it is a dusty, miserable place, where sewageruns between shacks and desperately poor survivors of the violence try to go on living. elizabeth is one of them. a single mother of six, she sells cups oftea in the camp to earn some money. but the memory of what happened in the townis always with her. elizabeth shol rout, south sudan (throughtranslator): i saw many people killed, including my brother. they called my brother to come out of thehouse and shot him in front of me. jane ferguson: the only thing standing betweenher and the government soldiers are u.n. peacekeeping
soldiers. they guard this camp and others like it acrosssouth sudan, trying to stop more massacres. the u.n. said in december in a statement southsudan is on the brink of all-out genocide, similar to what happened in rwanda in 1994. and yet its peacekeepers seem unwilling orunable to stop it. last year, government soldiers forced theirway into the camp, and over several days murdered more than 25 people and injured and rapedmany others. elizabeth shows us where they came in. she remains bitter that the u.n. soldiersdidn't stop them.
elizabeth (through translator): they did nothing. when they saw the soldiers cut the fence andcome into the camp, they just opened the gate to allow the people to escape. jane ferguson: there are over 13,000 u.n.peacekeeping soldiers in south sudan. more than 200,000 civilians have fled to theirbases across the country when targeted by the violence, forcing the u.n. to create guardedcamps in order to protect the people. despite having authority to use force if neededto stop attacks against civilians, the peacekeepers have come under criticism for not doing sowhen attacks have happened in front of them. moustapha soumare, united nations: peacekeeping,and that's all it is.
it's really you keep peace. so, normally, the people who come in peacekeeping,the troops and so on, are really prepared in the spirit of peacekeeping, not reallyentering into direct fight. jane ferguson: despite this, he says the u.n.have now pushed their forces to improve. moustapha soumare: they have been instructedthat, if you see something like that, you make a warning shot. if people are -- really not responded, youcan actually use your firearm on that. jane ferguson: south sudan is the world'syoungest nation, and the international community played a major part in its creation.
after decades of devastating civil war withthe north, south sudan finally won its independence with a referendum in 2011. american church groups and politicians hadcampaigned for the peaceful birth of the nation for years. but it was south sudanese fighters, communityleaders and advocates who sacrificed so much to see this country find its freedom. one of them was alfred taban. a veteran journalist and newspaper editor,he was jailed and tortured repeatedly for years in the northern capital of khartoumfor calling for independence.
alfred taban, journalist: well, i knew wewere going to succeed. i knew we had not -- we had not done anythingbad. we were struggling for our rights as humanbeings. and that's what led me to survive. i knew we will succeed. jane ferguson: after sacrificing so much forhis country, its rapid descent into civil war has broken his heart. alfred taban: the killing of one another started,the nuers being killed, the dinkas being killed and other tribes, then i knew things had reallygone bad.
then i knew that partly we -- or they themselves,they were not only struggling for the people, but they were struggling for themselves tolead or to rule. i became very, very disappointed. jane ferguson: in frustration, he wrote acolumn in the newspaper he runs calling for the leaders of both sides in this war to stepdown. shortly after, the government he sacrificedhis freedom for jailed him for nearly two weeks. alfred taban: they were not struggling fortheir people. they were struggling for themselves.
and this is why really the struggle of thepeople of south sudan has been hijacked from the very beginning. it has become a struggle for position andwealth, not a struggle for the betterment of the lives of the people of south sudan. jane ferguson: yet neither side in this waris backing down. it is spiraling into a frenzy of ethnic-drivenmurder and revenge. the dream of a peaceful south sudan is dyingwith its people. for the "pbs newshour," i'm jane fergusonin juba, south sudan. william brangham: for the record, the southsudanese information minister canceled an
interview with jane ferguson to respond tocharges against the government. tomorrow, jane reports on the famine thatthe war has caused. william brangham: stay with us. coming up on the "newshour": a weekend chockfulof politics kicks off a busy week on capitol hill -- our politics monday duo breaks itall down; and a behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's fastest growing socialmedia networks. but first: a new investigative report findsa disturbing pattern. sexual abuse of students by other studentshappens more frequently in schools than reported, and the consequences for the offenders varyconsiderably.
jeffrey brown has the story. jeffrey brown: a hidden horror educators havelong been warned not to ignore -- that's the description of sexual abuse in schools bythe associated press, which published its story today. ap reporters found that students were seventimes more likely than adults to sexually assault another student. during a four-year period, the ap talliedat least 17,000 cases around the country. these included many cases that were treatedas bullying or hazing instead. emily schmall is a member of the ap team.
she joins me now from dallas. emily, thanks for joining us. one key point you're making is that this happensmore often than we know, right? is it possible to say how pervasive it is? emily schmall, associated press: yes, it'sabsolutely true. it happens far more often, i think, than peoplerealize. to say exactly how pervasive it is, it's difficultthough, because, just like rape and sexual assault perpetrated in other places, rapeand sexual assault in schools is definitely under-reported.
so, while we have been able to tally about17,000 incidents over the four years, experts have told us it's just the tip of the iceberg. jeffrey brown: so, let's establish what weare talking about. really, we're going beyond bullying, beyondhazing. tell us what you are looking at exactly. emily schmall: yes. so, we were very, very deliberate in whatwe counted. and we are looking at sexual assault as definedby the justice department, which means forced intercourse or sodomy, forced oral sex, themost severe forms of sexual assault.
we deliberately didn't include categorieslike sexual harassment or bullying, even though, as you noted, sometimes, sex assaults arereported as these things. jeffrey brown: well, so if you look at therules governing schools, i gather that it really varies from state to state in termsof how much this is tracked and what kind of actions are taken. emily schmall: yes, and even sometimes withinschool districts. there's no federal requirement that says schoolshave to track student-on-student sex assault, even though for a long time schools have beentracking things like free and reduced lunch, guns, drugs on school property.
this is just something that they are not obligatedto track. so, various states do collect some sort ofinformation, but it's inconsistent state to state. and a lot of times, school districts sortof have the discretion over how they report these things. therefore, in a case -- there were plentyof cases we found where they have led to a criminal charge, but the act it itself wascategorized and reported to the state as bullying or as sexual harassment or as a lesser formof sex offense. jeffrey brown: you referred to this a littlebit earlier, emily.
just in terms of why these cases float somuch under the radar, why we know so little, spell that out a little bit. emily schmall: yes, so the experts we spoketo said there's just a real reluctance on the part of not only school administrators,but parents as well, to acknowledge this for what it is. they have a hard time recognizing that kidsat such a young age can be perpetrators or be victimized in this way. so, that's part of it. the other part is that a lot of schools havesaid that they aren't really aware of what
they are supposed to do when an allegationof sexual assault between students surfaces. and then, lastly, some experts have actuallysaid that schools are just looking after their public image more than they are the victims. jeffrey brown: and, of course, in the widerpublic, it's just something hard for all of us to want to even discuss, i assume. emily schmall: i think so. i mean, i think there's still really a stigmaabout sexual violence, not only in the context of k-12 schools, but in our country at large. so it's even more intense at the younger schoollevel.
jeffrey brown: well, so what can or shouldbe done? what -- for parents, for educators? what are the experts telling you? emily schmall: well, the experts are sayingthat, you know, there is a real reluctance among, not only school administrators, butparents as well, to acknowledge, even, that this is happening and that kids of such ayoung age are perpetrating these kinds of offenses. so the experts say that it needs to be recognizedfor what it is. there are a lot of people working in the spaceof how we solve this, how we empower other
kids to report it. it is actually something that we're goingto be taking on later on in the series. our stories are running every monday in may. jeffrey brown: all right, emily schmall ofthe ap, thank you very much. emily schmall: thank you. william brangham: turning back now to thecompromise reached in congress to avoid a government shutdown, the effort to pass ahealth care replacement, and the president's contentious relationship with the press, it'stime for politics monday, with tamara keith of npr and amy walter of the cook politicalreport.
welcome to you both. amy walter, the cook political report: goodto be here. william brangham: amy, i would like to startwith you. so, government didn't get shut down. that's a good thing, right? what happened? amy walter, the cook political report: yes,great, they kept government functioning. amy walter: the most basic thing that congresscan do is to keep the lights on. so, yes, this is a success, but it also isnot the hardest thing that they need to do.
we have big, difficult pieces of legislationthat we have been hearing about. obviously, one of those pieces of legislation,health care, has already been pulled. there's talk that it may be reintroduced thisweek or later on. but the fact that they were able to get onebasic piece of legislating done, which, by the way, is supposed to be the easiest, idon't think means that we're going to suddenly see the floodgates open and now everythingis going to... william brangham: kumbaya. (crosstalk) amy walter: right, everybody is going to worktogether and get the big stuff done.
william brangham: tam, do you think that isright? have we just lowered the bar so low that,when they do basic things like cross kids across the sidewalk to school, that is a hugevictory? tamara keith, national public radio: yes,and if you liked this movie, just wait. the sequel comes in september. amy walter: right. tamara keith: because this was just basicallyfinishing out of the year. the year ends at the end of september. and what the trump administration is sayingis, you know, we didn't try that hard to get
what we wanted this time around because itwas already -- the process was under way. it was a bipartisan effort. but we're going to really fight for what wewant next time around. so, it becomes potentially a bigger battlein september, where you have a president who needs to prove that he can get some of thethings that he wants. and democrats aren't going to be any morewilling to roll over than they were this time around. this -- it is a fascinating thing. basically, democrats and republicans in congresshave been fighting over how to fund the government,
and not very successfully fighting about it,for years and years and years and years. and then you just -- you know, we're on likethe eighth or ninth sequel. it's like "the fast and the furious." william brangham: do you think this is just... amy walter: but without any of the cool... william brangham: right, no car crashes, novin diesel. amy walter: no vin diesel. william brangham: was this just a case wherethe gop was scared that they were going to get the blame?
amy walter: yes, if you control the government,you get all the blame, and you get the credit. and the bottom line is, we have seen now inthese past 100 days that, despite the fact that republicans control all three leversof government, getting stuff done isn't as easy as they thought it was. the president himself has said, boy, thisis a little bit harder doing this governing thing that i thought. and he is rightly pointing to the fact thatrepublicans have never had to govern before. they have been -- most of them have been inthe minority. they have never been with a republican president.
they have never had control of government. so, this is a brand-new experience for them. all the old fights that, by the way, to tam'spoint, have been brewing for years and years and years -- this isn't donald trump's fault. the divisions between republicans on a wholehost of issues have been there, i would argue, going all the way back to the bush administrationon a lot of these issues. they didn't just get cleared away becausethere is a new president. william brangham: on health care, tam, rumblingsthat there might be a piece of legislation. are they going to be able to solve these divisionsthat they -- that the gop discovered last
time they tried to do this? tamara keith: so, these rumblings have beenrumbling basically every week since the health care bill in the house failed to get a vote. they pulled it from the floor without a votebecause it was going to fail. so, these rumblings happen every single week. they are happening again. but until we see house leaders put a billon the floor, the votes aren't there. when they have the votes, they will put itup for a vote. but in the meantime, we will continue to talkabout it.
today, in a bloomberg interview, the presidentsaid, i want this to be good for sick people. it's not in its final form right now. it will be every bit as good on preexistingconditions as obamacare. what he is describing is not the thing thatthey are potentially voting on right now, because advocates from various nonpartisangroups will say that it isn't as good on preexisting conditions. so, does that mean that this is reopened? i guess we will find out. amy walter: yes.
william brangham: right. amy walter: and that's a very difficult placeif you are a republican right now. your choice is, we don't get anything done,and then the base is furious at you, because you have been telling republicans, you havebeen telling the whole country, vote for us, we going to repeal obamacare. william brangham: for seven years. amy walter: for seven years. don't do it, that's a problem. or you do pass something that is not particularlypopular, where you lose the support of your
moderate wing of your party, the folks who,by the way, are in the most vulnerable districts, most likely to lose in a midterm election. they are voting no because they see it asbeing unpopular, whether on preexisting conditions or others. that is a very uncomfortable spot to be. don't pass anything, people are angry withyou. pass something that even a lot of your supportersdon't like, and then you have to defend it coming up in the midterm election. this is a very, very -- you know, it's likebeing in a vice.
not comfortable. william brangham: let's talk about this weekend. let's just say, if i had been rip van winkle,and i woke up, say, sunday morning and looked at the newspaper, and saw president trumphad had that rally and seen clips from that rally, i would think we were still in themiddle of a campaign. tamara keith: it was absolutely a campaignrally. it was put on by his campaign. it included some of the greatest hits fromhis campaign, including the snake poem, song thing that was hugely popular among his supportersthat it is supposed to be a cautionary tale
about immigrants coming... william brangham: there is about -- trumpis saying, if you let the snake into your house, and that snake bites you, who is toblame? you are to blame. tamara keith: exactly. and it's been something -- it's the kind ofthing where he would say, i might talk about the snake at his rallies, and people wouldgo, rah! and this that is exactly what happened atthis rally. he also did the cnn is terrible, the failingnew york times, the whole thing, a lot of
bashing of the media, which is kind of fascinating,because it comes in a week where he has done so many interviews with basically every newsoutlet in america. if the media is the opposition party or whateverhe wants to call it, why does he keep talking to us? amy walter: and his campaign, by the way -- ontop of all of this, not only did he have a campaign-style rally as a president, but hiscampaign is literally running ads right now that look like... how unusual is that? amy walter: it's not that unusual for a presidentout of the time when he is running for president
trying to sow some good feelings. and, definitely, he needs to boost his approvalrating. but it is unusual that the campaign itselfis already spending money trying to talk about a president who is 100 days into his presidency. amy walter: the other thing you noticed was,it wasn't just the media. of course, they had their own special eventwhere they were defending themselves against attacks from donald... william brangham: the correspondents dinner. amy walter: right, which, again, felt likewe were back in 2016.
and then there were rallies around the country,especially here in washington, d.c., on climate change, where you had the so-called resistanceshouting about how much they dislike the president and want to see him go. so, it feels like we are never going to breakout of this... william brangham: that's probably why he wantedto get out of town. amy walter, tamara keith, thank you both somuch. amy walter: you're welcome. tamara keith: you're welcome. william brangham: next: the rapid rise ofone of the world's biggest social media networks,
instagram. it's building up steam, with 700 million peoplenow using it each month, and it just took four months to pick up its latest 100 millionnew accounts. but along the way, the company has faced concernsover how it can be used, and even some criticism for the way it essentially copied ideas fromits rival, snapchat. judy woodruff recently got an inside lookduring her trip to silicon valley. judy woodruff: one of the first things thatgreets you inside instagram is, no surprise, a place to take pictures. the free photo-sharing mobile app was bornin 2010 with its first post, a foot in a flip-flop
alongside a stray dog. turns out it was taken in mexico by co-founderkevin systrom. kevin systrom, co-founder, instagram: it'sa mixture of teams. so, we have got design teams, we have gotpartnership teams, we have got a community team, and then a bunch of engineers. we don't really have an organization. judy woodruff: systrom showed us around instagram'snew offices in menlo park, california, designed to accommodate an ever-expanding staff. you moved here six months ago; is that right?
kevin systrom: yes, six months ago, we movedfrom the original campus. and we designed this entire experience insidehere to be cleaner, and a little bit more instagrammy. so we have got the hip wood walls, and thepolished concrete floors. it's very start-uppy, but it's in an instagramway. judy woodruff: a start-up no longer, instagramwas acquired by facebook in 2012 for a cool billion dollars. then, the company had 13 employees. now it has more than 600 to keep up with arapidly growing user base, 700 million monthly
active users and counting, 80 percent of themoutside the united states. how do you explain the phenomenal, rapid growthof this? kevin systrom: on instagram, very early on,you would post an image, and anyone anywhere in the world could see that image, and understandwhat you were trying to say without speaking so, we like to say that instagram was oneof the first truly international networks in the world. and i think that's what's allowed it to scaleto the hundreds of millions of people that use it every day today. judy woodruff: it still is a pretty extraordinarygrowth rate, isn't it?
kevin systrom: yes. judy woodruff: i mean, even with that rationalexplanation, it's hard for people to understand how it happened. you know, back in the day, if you starteda company, you would have to rent a warehouse, you would have to hire a bunch of employees. but, you know, with very, very few peoplesitting here in this building today, we're able to scale it to hundreds of millions ofpeople around the world, because of the innovations that we are built up upon. and that's the cool thing about running acompany today, is how many people you can
touch how quickly. judy woodruff: for a company founded on images,the walls here are adorned with some of the best, culled from instagram users around theworld. kevin systrom: well, not to invoke the commonsaying, but a picture is worth 1,000 words. and that's kind of like the phrase that thiscompany is built on. it's just something that's unlike traditionaltexts and traditional media. and i think it allows you to see a differentside of people, maybe a more raw and human emotional side of people. judy woodruff: celebrities have embraced theapp.
singer selena gomez has the most followers,more than 118 million. and beyonce has the distinction of havingthe most-liked image in the history of instagram, 10.9 million and climbing, for this photothat announced she's pregnant with twins. for teens, the quest for more and more likesand followers, plus the pressure for perfection as portrayed by some mega-popular users, israising concerns among parents. not only body image, but also bullying havebecome issues for some younger users. and instagram is grappling with how to fostera safe community, free from abusive behavior. so, when you started instagram seven yearsago in 2010, did you have any idea you were going to be spending time, a lot of time now,thinking about protecting the people who use
it? kevin systrom: no, i would say, every dayat instagram is not only the most complicated day of my career, but also the most interesting. judy woodruff: how do you prepare yourselffor this kind of responsibility? i mean, what are you, 32 years old? kevin systrom: thirty-three. judy woodruff: thirty-three. judy woodruff: all of 33. that's a lot of responsibility, isn't it?
and there are a lot of parents here at instagramwho think deeply about a world in which their children are going to grow up online, andwhat kind of product they want to create, and what kind of legacy they want to leave. i don't yet have kids, but in a world wherei do have kids, i want to make sure that the world they grow up in is one that is safeonline, and that instagram led the way to create that world. judy woodruff: but with 95 million uploadsa day, monitoring is a tall order. new guidelines are aimed at blurring out questionablematerial before the user even sees it, with a screen labeled "sensitive content."
there's also a reporting function for contentabout self-harm or suicide. systrom says the company's work is far fromover. kevin systrom: this is a constant process. this is about making sure that we continueto evolve the way we attack the problem. this isn't about getting to an eventual futurewhere it is absolutely gone. that being said, it doesn't mean that we can'tmake real progress on it, and, more importantly, show the leadership that i think our companycan and should, so that other tech companies do as well. judy woodruff: the pressure in silicon valleyto lead, innovate and stay relevant is intense.
and instagram has come under criticism forits outright and successful copying of rival snapchat's video stories feature instagram stories, you have openly said wascopied, in effect, from snapchat. is that what happened? kevin systrom: the way things work in siliconvalley is that companies will think up ideas, and, if they're good, they will stick. and, often, they spread to other companies. and if we can learn from other companies thatdo it really well, we're going to continue to do that.
judy woodruff: advertising on the app is alsogrowing and reaping rewards. there are one million active advertisers,a 400 percent increase from last year. how have you changed your advertising philosophyover time? kevin systrom: yes, there were two major changes,i think, to our advertising philosophy over time. the first was just to have advertising atall. judy woodruff: period. kevin systrom: that was a big one. but we always knew we were going to be a business,and that's how we were going to be a business,
was advertising. the second shift was going from a world wherewe had a small number of advertisers doing very refined ads to now, where we have many,many millions of advertisers on facebook able to buy instagram ads. judy woodruff: we ended where we began, infront of instagram's wall of photo-ops, where systrom shares credit for how far the companyhas come. kevin systrom: it was the right time, it wasthe right idea, and then it was the right team. you need a lot of things to go well to getto this point.
so i feel very lucky. william brangham: the business practices anddecisions made by instagram and, much more broadly, by facebook are increasingly underscrutiny. we will have a closer look at that issue laterthis week. now to our "newshour" shares, something thatcaught our eye that may be of interest to you, too. herbert hoover may be best remembered as arigid republican whose presidency saw the start of the great depression. but newly discovered reels of film reveala softer, more human side of the man and his
family. the "newshour"'s julia griffin explains. julia griffin: herbert clark hoover, engineer,humanitarian, and 31st president of the united states, he's forever imprinted in our historybooks in depression-era black and white -- or maybe not. seven recently unveiled home movies now placehis white house in a colorful new light. lynn smith, herbert hoover presidential library-museum:you get used to seeing the '20 and '30s in black and white only, so, to see them in coloris kind of like going through a time machine. julia griffin: lynn smith is the audio-visualarchivist at herbert hoover presidential library-museum.
in 2014, she discovered the films weren'tblack and white, but rather kodacolor, a short-lived product that requires a special projectionlens to reveal colored hues. lynn smith: it's nice to have old color film,but white house color films, there's only one first, and i think we may have it. julia griffin: the camera belonged to hoover'swife, lou, an early home movie technophile. now restored, the films show unguarded momentsof first family life, a 1929 fishing trip, in which then president-elect hoover catchesa barracuda, or a game of fetch on the white house lawn between first lady lou and firstdogs pat and weejie. one even features alonzo fields, who served20 years as the chief white house butler.
here, he stands in the 1930 rose garden. but the longest clip offers a rare glimpseof the president's favorite physical activity: a morning match of catch the press dubbedhoover ball. lynn smith: it was a 6-pound leather ballthat was filled with stuffing, and they'd have cabinet members, some members of thesupreme court out every morning, six days a week. and they would toss and catch thing. they would score it similar to volleyballor something like that. julia griffin: the videos show the hooverfamily's lighter side.
lynn smith: he wasn't just the dour, stone-facedman that was president during the depression. he did have a heart and soul. julia griffin: smith is busy scouring themuseum's archives for more shots like this. for the "pbs newshour," i'm julia griffin. william brangham: tune in later this evening. "independent lens" presents a film that looksat the secret u.s. drone program through the eyes of three veterans who are now whistle-blowers. "national bird" explores the difficult circumstancesfaced by military personnel in that program. it airs tonight on most pbs stations~.
and that's the "newshour" for tonight. join us online and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the "pbs newshour," thankyou, and we will see you soon.
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