JUDY WOODRUFF: Good evening.
I'm Judy Woodruff.
On the "NewsHour"
tonight: President Trump
is set to deliver his
first State of the Union
address before a
nation deeply divided.
Then: The Trump administration
decides not to implement new
sanctions against Russia,
but releases a list of rich
influential Russian businessmen,
sparking anger from the Kremlin.
And dreamers in school -- how
educators are addressing the
unique challenges of their
immigrant students who came
to the U.S. as children.
YEMINA ARELLANES, Teacher: We're
still trying to rebuild that
trust and let them know that
it's OK to come to us, that
we're not going to work against
them and that we're not going
to turn them in.
JUDY WOODRUFF: All that and more
on tonight's "PBS NewsHour."
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JUDY WOODRUFF: President
Trump speaks to Congress
and the nation tonight
on his view of the
state of the union.
White House officials say
that he will tout economic
progress and call for bipartisan
agreement on immigration.
House Majority Leader Kevin
McCarthy says Republicans
hope for a strong message.
REP.
KEVIN MCCARTHY (R-CA), House
Majority Leader: The number one
question I want the president
to ask tonight to the American
people: Are you better off
today than you were two years
ago?
Because I think that answer
could be very strong and
probably put partisanship aside
and have other people start
working with us, so we can solve
the other problems that are
before us.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Democrats,
in turn, say the country
is more divided than ever.
And Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer says credit for
economic progress should go to
the last president.
SEN.
CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY), Minority
Leader: The president thinks
our economic recovery is
all thanks to him, when
reality is that he owes a
lot of it to Barack Obama.
Two words I don't think we
will hear tonight on the
economy: Thanks, Obama.
Second, we expect the president
to talk about bipartisanship,
but throughout his time in
office, he's failed
to walk the walk.
JUDY WOODRUFF:
Massachusetts Congressman
Joe Kennedy, grandson of
the late Senator Robert
F. Kennedy, will deliver the
official Democratic response.
And I'm joined now by
White House correspondent
Yamiche Alcindor and our
Capitol Hill correspondent,
Lisa Desjardins, for a
look ahead to tonight's
speech from both ends
of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Hello to both of you.
Yamiche, you are outdoors.
I'm going to go to you first.
What are you hearing about what
the president is going to say?
YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Well, a White
House official tells me that
the speech is going to be about
50 minutes and that several
people worked on the speech,
including H.R. McMaster, the
national security adviser,
Gary Cohn, the chief economic
adviser, Stephen Miller, as
well as Vice
President Mike Pence.
The theme is supposed
to be building a safe,
strong, and proud America.
He's supposed to be talking
about several topics, including
immigration, national security,
jobs, infrastructure and trade.
Some of the guests that the
White House is bringing is
really going to bring home that
point.
They're talking --
they're bringing people
that have benefited
from the Republican tax
plan.
They're also going to be
bringing somebody who adopted a
child that was affected by the
opioid crisis.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And, Yamiche,
you were telling us that it's
notable what the president is
not expected to talk about.
YAMICHE ALCINDOR: The president
is not expected to talk about
some of the main issues that
Americans are speaking about,
and this is the MeToo movement
and sexual harassment all
across this country.
He's also not going to
be talking about the
Russia investigation
and Robert Mueller.
Of course, there have been so
many reports out there that
he might be trying to fire
the special investigator.
Then he's also not supposed
to be talking about the
spike in hate crimes.
There is a lot of division in
the country with race relations
and people talking about
that all the time.
But the president said in
a luncheon that me and you
attended this afternoon that he
wants to unify the country.
So, it is going to be
interesting to see whether
or not he can do that.
He said that usually
major events, catastrophic
events, essentially,
are what bring Americans
together.
But he wants to do that without
having Americans suffer.
JUDY WOODRUFF: That's right.
And he also commented at that
lunch on what he'd learned as
president about having -- it's
important to have heart, as
well as being concerned about
money, which was an interesting
comment.
Lisa, to you now.
This State of the Union address
comes at a time of, I guess
you would have to say some
high-stakes decisions that are
about to be made in Congress.
Are Republicans looking to
the president to help get some
legislation they want passed
done?
LISA DESJARDINS: Absolutely.
And I think that touches
on the sort of strange
dynamic I feel tonight.
I have covered many State of the
Union addresses, but this one,
the drama is not the speech.
The drama are the deadlines
that Congress faces, to pass
an immigration bill in the
Senate by next week, also to
have a budget deal, much less
a president who seems to be
at war to some degree with the
FBI over a Russia investigation.
Those things are day-to-day
here at the Capitol.
This is something that
Republicans think will not
be affected by the speech.
What they want from
this president is for
him to presidential, to
be moderate, the things
the White House indicates it's
doing, but to some degree, Judy,
expectations for Republicans
are low to middle range.
They're setting those
expectations that way so that
the president can overcome them.
But the speech also presents a
problem for Republicans, Judy.
They have a real
divide on immigration.
Today, Representative Paul Gosar
of Arizona asked the Capitol
Police to ask for identification
of every guest tonight, and if
they find someone who was an
undocumented immigrant here, as
there will be many guests
tonight, he has asked Capitol
Police to remove them and arrest
them.
That's different from
other Republicans,
including Republican Carlos
Curbelo, who has invited
an undocumented dreamer, someone
who has status, but it shows
the divide here for Republicans
in this speech and
time right now.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, it will be
interesting to see what happens.
And, Lisa, what
about the Democrats?
We know many of them are not
happy with this president.
Some of them, I guess, are
not planning to attend.
Some of them are going
to wear various colors to
show their displeasure.
What are they looking for?
LISA DESJARDINS: Well, take
what Yamiche towed you about
the things the president is not
talking about, the MeToo
movement, for example,
those are things -- and
the Russia investigation,
the Russia sanctions
-- those are the things
that the Democrats are
talking about today.
They are the things they
are challenging him on.
You will see a lot of Democrats,
especially women, Nancy
Pelosi, wearing black tonight
to support the MeToo movement.
You will see red buttons.
Those are for Recy Taylor,
the woman that Oprah
mentioned at the Golden
Globes was gang-raped,
African-American
woman in the 1940s.
Sort of this idea of bringing
up minority and women's
issues is something Democrats
you're going to see
from Democrats tonight.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, both of
you are going to be with us
for the rest of the night.
And we look forward to it.
Thank you, Yamiche and Lisa.
And in the day's other news: A
major health care announcement
triggered a significant
sell-off on Wall Street.
Health insurers, drug makers
and distributors were all hit
hard after Amazon, Berkshire
Hathaway and J.P. Morgan Chase
announced a new venture aimed
at providing quality health
care at a reasonable cost.
The Dow Jones industrial average
plunged 362 points, nearly 1.5
point, to close below 26077.
The Nasdaq fell 64 points,
and the S&P 500 lost 31.
House Speaker Paul
Ryan is defending an
effort by congressional
Republicans to make public
a classified memo
on the Russia probe.
The House Intelligence Committee
voted last night to take
that step, over the Justice
Department's objections.
Some Republicans say the memo
shows improper surveillance
by justice and the FBI and an
effort to conspire
against President Trump.
REP.
PAUL RYAN (R-WI), Speaker
of the House: There may
have been malfeasance
at the FBI by certain
individuals.
So it is our job in conducting
transparent oversight of the
executive branch to get to
bottom of that.
Sunshine is the
best disinfectant.
And so what we want is all
this information to come out,
so that transparency can reign
supreme and
accountability can occur.
JUDY WOODRUFF: President Trump
has the final word on releasing
the memo, and he's said
he favors doing so.
But the White House said today
that it will run a legal and
national security review before
a final decision.
The Trump administration will
not implement new economic
sanctions against Russia, for
now, for interfering in the
2016 presidential election.
The State Department said
late Monday that existing
measures are already working.
But the Treasury Department
published a list of
Russian officials and
wealthy businessmen
who could be targeted.
Today, in Moscow, President
Vladimir Putin called
the list a hostile step.
VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian
President (through
translator): What's the
sense of these actions?
I don't understand.
But it is, of course,
an unfriendly act.
It complicates the already
difficult situation
in Russian-American
relations, and of course,
harms the international
relations as a whole.
It is complete stupidity to
reduce our relations to zero.
JUDY WOODRUFF: We will take a
closer look at all of this a
little later in the program.
The United Nations Children's
Fund is warning that stepped-up
sanctions on North Korea could
mean nearly 60,000
children will starve.
UNICEF says that the penalties
are making it harder to
ship food, fuel and medicine
to the North.
The sanctions target the North's
nuclear and missile programs.
The Taliban today condemned
President Trump's rejection
of truce talks in Afghanistan.
Mr. Trump had cited a
spate of deadly attacks.
In a statement today,
the Taliban said the U.S.
strategy is simply more war.
In Yemen, there's new trouble
for a coalition led by Saudi
Arabia against Shiite rebels
linked to Iran.
Fighters who'd been part of
the coalition seized the port
city of Aden today, after
two days of fighting.
They surrounded the
presidential palace and
accused the Saudi-backed
government of corruption.
They also want a separate
state in Southern Yemen.
Tens of thousands of
Kenyans turned out today
for the mock-inauguration
of opposition leader
Raila Odinga as
alternative president.
President Uhuru Kenyatta
won October's election after
the opposition boycotted.
Today, Odinga supporters swarmed
a Nairobi park as he took his
oath and declared defiance
of the government.
RAILA ODINGA, Opposition Leader
(through translator): Today is a
historical day in our country of
Kenya.
For the first time, Kenyans have
taken the decision to remove
themselves from a dictatorship
government that came through
the stealing of votes.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Kenya's
government cut live
transmission of three
TV channels airing the
event, and branded it treason.
Police also fired tear gas at
demonstrators who were nearby.
There's new fallout from
Larry Nassar's sexual abuse
of young women athletes.
Texas will now investigate the
Karolyi Ranch training center,
where some gymnasts say the
former sports doctor
molested them.
Michigan State University is
expected to name former Governor
John Engler as interim president
amid allegations that the school
ignored Nassar's abuse there.
And Congress is set to mandate
that athletic groups quickly
report claims of abuse to the
police.
Volkswagen has suspended
a top executive today
after disclosures of
diesel fume experiments
using monkeys.
Initial reports had said that
humans were also used, but
the executive now says that
he rejected that idea.
Instead, monkeys breathed
in fumes for four hours
to test emission controls.
This follows the 2015
scandal over V.W.'s
cheating on emissions tests.
And get set for a three-in-one
lunar show early tomorrow.
First, a blue moon, the second
full moon in the same month.
At the same time, it will be a
supermoon closer than usual, and
appearing bigger and brighter.
And, finally, there will be
a total lunar eclipse, but
in only part of the country.
It all happens before dawn
Wednesday, mostly over
the Western U.S. and Asia.
Still to come on the "NewsHour":
our preview of the State of the
Union continues with Georgia
Republican Senator David
Perdue; a historical
look at presidential
speeches; plus, why the
U.S. government is publicly
naming businesspeople with close
ties to Vladimir Putin; and much
more.
As we learn more about President
Trump's speech, and his plan
to strike a bipartisan tone,
I spoke with one of his
closest allies in congress,
Republican Senator David Perdue
of Georgia.
And I started by asking,
what will be the president's
main message tonight?
SEN.
DAVID PERDUE (R), Georgia: Judy,
I think we're going to see an
upbeat and optimistic president
tonight, like we saw in Davos
last week, where he sent the
world a message that America was
open for business and
that America first did not
necessarily mean America alone.
So, I think he's going to lay
out his agenda from last year
and the results that we are
seeing, but also very carefully
lay out and articulate
his priorities for 2018.
JUDY WOODRUFF: We know that
he's going to talk about
immigration, among other things.
You have said that the
president's proposal
hits, I think you used
the words, a sweet
spot, that it's a middle ground.
But, as you know, the critics
on the left say that it's too
harsh in breaking families
apart, that it spends to
much on a border wall.
Then you have critics on the
right saying that it is too
-- that it is unacceptable
to give undocumented
young immigrants a
path to citizenship.
How do you bring these
two sides together?
SEN.
DAVID PERDUE: What the president
did, Judy, is lay out a
framework for our conversation
here in Congress to finally,
once and for all, deal with
the DACA situation, but make
sure that we eliminate the
causes of the situation
in the first place.
And that is that we have to
deal with what created this
chain or the family immigration
system that we had since 1965.
Actually, Tom Cotton and I
put a bill in a year ago --
it's hard to believe it's been
that long, but a year ago
-- to actually move toward
what Bill Clinton wanted and
Barbara Jordan back in the '90s.
And that is move us more toward
a merit-based immigration system
that protected the immediate
family, and this system is more
like what Canada and Australia
have been doing for decades.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So you
think the two sides are
going to come together?
Because, right now, they seem
pretty implacably opposed.
SEN.
DAVID PERDUE: I think any
time you have two parties like
this opposing it the way that
have been on the president's
framework, it tells me that the
president did hit that sweet
spot that I was talking about.
And we're going to find out, on
both sides, Judy, who is serious
about solving this problem
once and for all.
Eighty percent of America wants
a secure border and a wall in
places where it's necessary.
Two-thirds of America wants
to solve the DACA problem, but
only if you end chain migration
and diversity lottery
and protect the immediate
worker's family, at
the same time providing
for border security.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Senator, we're
told the president is also
going to talk about the need
for infrastructure-building.
He's going to call for a mix of
government and private capital
to come together to repair
roads and bridges and so forth.
But we know that Senate
Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer,
other Democrats are saying
to rely on private developers
is going to leave out large
chunks of the country, that
it's going to lead to tolls
and taxes in different
local jurisdictions.
It's going to lead to private
developers having too much
say over infrastructure.
How do you respond?
SEN.
DAVID PERDUE: The truth of
the matter is, Judy, with our
debt, we have lost that option,
frankly.
The only way Chuck Schumer is
going to get that financing
done that way is more taxes.
And we know what that
does to the economy.
We have got examples right
now, like Power Africa, where
our U.S. Department of State
invested $8 billion and
attracted $48 billion,
and is going to bring
power to Africa over
the next decade in a
public-private partnership.
We have the same opportunities
in the United States.
What the president is going
to do tonight, I believe, is
lay out his priorities, which
will be focused on investments
that will yield returns
by growing the economy.
And in so doing, I think we
will find a way to pay for it.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Senator,
different subject,
and that is Russia.
We know that last night
the State Department
announced that it is not
going to impose sanctions
on Russia that
Congress overwhelmingly
passed in mid-2017.
They say the legislation itself
is enough of a deterrent.
What's your view of that?
SEN.
DAVID PERDUE: Well, I think
we have got to be very serious
with not only Russia, but
North Korea, Iran, and
other nefarious actors
around the world today.
The world is more dangerous
than any time in my lifetime
anyway, and at the same time,
we have got to
rebuild our military.
We're going to
hear that tonight.
Specifically, with regard to
Russia, they need to know we're
serious about messing with
our election process.
This is a democracy.
And that won't be tolerated.
And Republicans and Democrats
are aligned on that.
I'm anxious to get these
Intelligence Committees'
reports done, though.
I think we need to get past
this, get this, an independent
investigation, over and done
with.
We have been doing
this almost a year now.
So, it's time to get these
results in and tell the
American people where we are and
build a defense against
that next activity.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, are you all
right with their not imposing
the sanctions now on Russia?
SEN.
DAVID PERDUE: I voted
for these sanctions.
I think they should be employed.
But I think it's part
of a bigger picture.
I'm willing to give
the secretary of state
and the president some
latitude on this, Judy,
only because it's part of a
bigger equation with North Korea
and China particularly right
now.
But also we're looking at the
Iran nuclear deal to see how to
hold that coalition together.
There's no question that we need
more serious sanctions against
Iran, and also North Korea,
and I believe against
Russia, if they don't
help us with North Korea.
So the calculus here is, I
believe, is Russia going to
help us with North Korea?
Are they going to respond to
this act by the president?
And we will see
very, very quickly.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally, Senator,
I want to ask you about your
constituents in Georgia.
The Gallup Organization
came out with a poll.
They have looked at all
50 states at the support
for the president over
the past year on average.
And in the state of Georgia,
which you represent,
they said, on average,
41 percent of the people
approve of the
president's performance,
53 percent disapprove.
How do you explain that?
SEN.
DAVID PERDUE: You know, that
same poll had me losing by
almost nine points, Judy.
I think I won by
over eight points.
I don't put a lot of credit in
that, because this president
doesn't fit the mold of the
traditional Washington
established president.
He's an outsider.
He's a business guy.
I'm not worried about
popularity polls.
I'm worried about
results, like he is.
And right now his agenda
is providing results.
The work that we did on
regulation last year,
the work we did on energy
and taxes is producing
results; 2.5 million new
jobs were created last year.
That is not lost on people in
my state and across the country.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, we're
going to leave it there, and
we are certainly all going to
be watching the president.
Senator David Perdue
of Georgia, thank you.
SEN.
DAVID PERDUE: Thanks, Judy.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Ahead of the
president's address to Congress
and the nation tonight, we spoke
to people around the
country about how they see
the State of the Union.
To walk us through how these
Americans are grading President
Trump and what their responses
can tell us about this fall's
congressional elections, I'm
joined by Amy Walter of The
Cook Political Report, no
stranger to this program.
So, Amy, we're going to
start with a video from a
man named Austin Erdman.
He's a farmer from
Stockton, California.
He told us the president has
done a good job in his first
year, particularly on the issue
of immigration.
AUSTIN ERDMAN, California: I
believe it is unfair to grade
the president at this time,
because his proposed policies
have not yet been fully
formed and implemented.
I also believe that
the president is on the
right track in pursuing
immigration policies
that will defend and
protect all American
citizens and our democracy.
I also believe that laws,
rules and regulations
need to be implemented
to secure our borders
and to protect our citizens.
And we need to implement
strategic screening processes to
ensure that, best as possible,
that our law-abiding,
productive people enter
our country legally.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, Amy, we know
the president is expected the
talk about immigration tonight.
We know there is a big divide
here in Washington about it.
What are people out
in the country saying?
AMY WALTER, The Cook Political
Report: Well, Judy, the team
here at PBS talked to about
a dozen voters.
And the issue of immigration
came up more than any other.
Not surprising, Americans are
as polarized on this issue as
we see members of Congress.
What we saw there was someone
who supported the president
and also supported his position
on immigration.
We heard as well from
a woman in Southern
California named Sabrina.
She too liked the idea of more
border security, but, like we
saw here with Austin, she does
want to see more than
just border security.
She said she likes that
the president's protecting
illegal immigrants from
taking resources away
from American citizens.
So it goes beyond just having
money for the wall that the
president talked so much about
in 2016.
But when you heard from the
people who don't approve of
the job the president is doing,
particularly voters of color,
they see what the president is
doing, they cite immigration
as one of the main reasons
they say that they disapprove
of the job that he's doing.
Talked to a woman named
Blanche (ph) from Houston.
She says that Trump is
being unfair to immigrants.
Another woman, Charlita (ph)
from Cleveland, said it's not
right what the president is
doing to kick people out
of the country that have
been here for years.
So we're seeing the reason I
think Congress is as polarized
as it is, is in part because
voters are, too.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Because the
country is polarized, too.
AMY WALTER: Right.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, now, one of
the other themes you heard about
in talking to voters was this
concern about the president's
temperament and some of the
controversial comments that
he's been making on Twitter.
So, we're going to hear now
from a woman in Cincinnati.
Her name is Sarah Warner.
She was a reluctant supporter
of Hillary Clinton, but now she
says she disapproves of the job
President Trump has done in
office, but her concerns are
bigger than just the president.
SARAH WARNER, Ohio: We are
so divided right now because
we can't get over him.
He's not the problem.
He's a symptom of the problem.
The problem is that
our system is broken.
People on either side of
the argument are angry
because they want change.
We're not seeing that.
We're looking for it.
But we're not seeing it.
No one really likes him.
Like, no one, come on.
Think about it.
Do you really want that
representing your country?
No.
But it's our complacency
that's the problem.
So, what are you
going to do about it?
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, Amy,
she's clearly not a fan
of the president, but
what are you hearing
about the president's
temperament from people
who like President Trump?
AMY WALTER: Well, across the
board -- and, Judy, we have been
talking about this consistently
from the beginning of his
presidency, that even people who
say they like him, they voted
for him, boy, I wish he would
get off Twitter, boy, I wish
he would sort of dial it back
on his rhetoric
and his behavior.
But for people who dislike
him, it's much more -- it's as
much about him than just his
behavior, but that they believe
that it's dangerous, that
what he's doing is more than
just having a personality issue
that they have a problem with.
There's a woman, Janet
from Davenport, Iowa.
She says she thinks he
threatens freedom of speech
with his attacks on the media.
She calls him dishonest,
an embarrassment.
But even those who
are happy with him...
JUDY WOODRUFF: Right.
AMY WALTER: We saw -- we had
one interview with a man from
Nevada who said, I love what
he's doing for the courts.
I love that he's putting
conservative jurists on there,
but he keeps getting in his own
way.
And he said, if he didn't have
that, if he didn't have these
self-inflicted wounds, he
would be as perfect
as he can be.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Wow.
So -- and we know the president
tells everybody who will listen
that if he can -- that as
long as he can he's going to
stick with social media, because
that's his way of fighting
back against the press
that he thinks is
overwhelmingly against him.
So, now, one thing, Amy, we
have talked about this past
year is the president thinks the
economy is doing better and
better and that he deserves
a lot of the credit for that,
low unemployment, tax cuts,
just the overall strong economy.
How do people see that?
AMY WALTER: You know, it's
interesting, Judy, because what
we saw when talking to voters
that, for those who
supported the president,
they cited the economy as
a reason for supporting
him.
There's a truck driver
that we talked to, Aaron
(ph) from Saint Louis.
He said, my 401(k) is
going through the roof,
and you know what?
I think these tax cuts are
going to help me because my
company that runs this trucking
organization, they are probably
not going the lay anybody
off because they're going
to have more money.
When you talk to folks
who disapprove of the
president, they don't
talk about the economy.
What they talk about is the
tax cuts that they believe
are going to help corporations
and hurt regular people.
One woman from Iowa said, I
think they're just helping
corporate farmers, not small
farmers.
But, Judy, I think the person
that really sums up really
what 2018 is going to be, who
sums up the tension
really of 2018, is a man
named Todd from Houston.
He thinks the economy is doing
well, but he really dislikes
the president's behavior and
what it has done for
the country, especially
the divisiveness it's
sown in the country.
And we are going to watch
throughout 2018 how voters
grapple with that: I feel better
about the economy.
I don't feel good
about the president.
Which one of those things
is going to win out?
JUDY WOODRUFF: So,
last question: Was
there anything that you
expected people to bring
up that they didn't talk about?
AMY WALTER: There wasn't
one word about Russia.
There wasn't one word
about investigations.
There wasn't anything
about impeachment.
It was really focused on the
president's behavior almost
more than anything else.
And we have been talking
about this forever.
Right?
JUDY WOODRUFF: Sure.
AMY WALTER: It's his
personality more than his
policy that defines him.
But the economy, we expected.
Immigration,we expected.
But given the amount of
time that is given to
the Russia investigation
and energy, especially
in this town, no one -- to see
that nobody even in passing
brought it up was interesting.
JUDY WOODRUFF:
And you are right.
It's getting an enormous
amount of attention in
the news media right now.
So, that is a particularly
interesting thing, that
they didn't bring it up.
Amy Walter, The Cook
Political Report, thank you.
And you're going to be with
us for the rest of tonight...
AMY WALTER: All night.
JUDY WOODRUFF: ... to talk
about the State of the Union.
Thank you.
And now we step back for a
historical perspective on
addresses to the nation.
The State of the Union is an
uninterrupted opportunity for
President Trump to outline
his legislative agenda
and his priorities.
To help us understand the
potential significance
of tonight, I am joined
by presidential historian
Michael Beschloss.
Michael Beschloss, welcome
back to the program.
It's good to see you.
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS, Presidential
Historian: Thank you.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, a lot of
eyes on the president tonight.
What sort of opportunity does
the State of the Union present?
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS: Well, it is
most suited if you have got a
president who has got something
new, wants to tell the
country, I want to move
in a different direction.
For instance, 1941, in January,
Franklin Roosevelt talked about
the four freedoms that he wanted
to see around the world.
What that told Americans was,
this is a president who really
is a lot more likely to want to
get involved in World War II
against Hitler than we expected.
Lyndon Johnson in '64 and '65
said, I want a war on poverty.
I want to go for civil
rights and voting rights.
George W. Bush in 2002 talked
about the axis of evil, what
we should do to worry about
North Korea, Iran, Iraq.
Look how much that has affected
world history ever since then.
That's the best opportunity for
a president in this situation.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, Michael, do
the words a president speaks
at a State of the Union or
at other important events, do
they actually have the ability
to move legislation, to get
people behind him for
whatever he wants to get done?
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS: If
they give a great speech.
For instance, Lyndon Johnson
in 1964, he really felt in
his heart about poverty.
He helped to tell Americans,
this is a disgrace that, in this
prosperous country, there are
so many people
who are suffering.
That got Americans to
lean on their members
of Congress to move.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, you also
have -- it's part of what
we're all talking about tonight
- - you have a nontraditional
president in Donald Trump...
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS: Indeed.
JUDY WOODRUFF: ... but in a
very traditional setting, making
the speech, State of the Union,
standing before the Congress.
Is there any
historical precedent?
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS: Well, the
interesting thing, there is not,
and especially because you have
got a president who basically
says -- is proud of the fact,
much as it grieves me to say
this, Judy, he says he's not
very interested in history
and doesn't read books.
So, this is very different from
most presidents who study how
other presidents have used this
occasion.
And so if you think, is this
someone who is going to write
a speech, stick to it, and
not get off the teleprompter,
he probably will get off the
teleprompter, and that could
be the news of the night.
JUDY WOODRUFF: It's interesting,
because, as we know, Michael,
there is so much focus
right now on the president
-- how the president
uses social media, what
he says in his tweets...
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS: Right.
JUDY WOODRUFF: ... and in his
-- especially - - and in his
other off-the-cuff remarks.
So, when you weigh a speech vs.
the off the cuff, you really
are looking at a different
way of getting a message out.
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS: That's right.
And this is a reality TV star,
and he knows that people are
usually more interested in
what seems to be spontaneous
than what is on script.
And also he famously doesn't
have a lot of self-discipline.
He gave a somewhat unifying,
rather polished speech off the
teleprompter to Congress last
year, was widely praised for
it and, as you remember, very
quickly after that did a tweet
about Barack Obama supposedly
bugging Trump Tower that sort
of stamped on his message.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And, finally,
Michael, I guess picking up on
that, but this is a moment when
there is this investigative
cloud hanging over
the president.
Is this a moment to shake that
loose, or how do people see
a president at a moment like
this?
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS: Well,
Donald Trump has got
two historical choices.
In 1974, Richard Nixon
went before Congress and
said, time to end the
Watergate investigation.
He said, one year of
Watergate is enough.
Twenty years ago, in 1998, Bill
Clinton, just after the Monica
Lewinsky episode began, went
before Congress, gives this
long speech, about 90 minutes.
People kept on waiting
to hear what he was going
to say about the scandal.
He didn't say a word.
And, as a result,
Clinton's public approval
rating, as measured by
the Gallup poll, went
up 10 points from 59 to 69.
So we will see which course
the president chooses.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And we're hearing
tonight the president doesn't
plan to mention the Russia
investigation.
So, we will be watching.
Michael Beschloss,
thank you very much.
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS:
Thank you so much, Judy.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Stay with us.
Coming up on the "NewsHour":
how a community in
Ohio is responding to
the opioid epidemic;
teachers' efforts to
support so-called dreamers.
But, first, we return to
the Trump administration's
policy toward Russia.
John Yang has more on that and
a look ahead to the upcoming
presidential election there.
JOHN YANG: Judy, last summer,
Congress overwhelmingly
voted to sanction Russia
for meddling in the
2016 U.S. elections.
Last night, the Trump
administration said it
is not imposing any of
the sanctions because
the threat of them is enough.
The measure also directed the
Treasury Department to compile a
list of Russian senior political
leaders, heads of
state-controlled industries
and oligarchs worth more
than a billion dollars
in an effort to
name and shame them.
Last night, the Treasury
Department sent Congress a
list of more than 200 names.
It includes Russian
Prime Minister and
former President Dmitry
Medvedev, Igor Sechin, the
chief of Rosneft, a
Russian energy giant.
He is part of President
Putin's inner circle.
And Oleg Deripaska, a
billionaire aluminum
magnate with alleged ties
to corporate -- sorry
- - to organized crime.
He is also the business partner
-- or was the business partner
of now indicted and former
Trump campaign
chairman Paul Manafort.
Joining us now to talk all
about this is Andrew Weiss.
He worked for both Republican
and Democratic administrations
as a staffer on the National
Security Council and in the
state and Defense Departments.
He's now at the
Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace.
Andrew, thanks for being here.
Let's begin with this list.
What's the point of it?
The Treasury Department was
careful to say no one on this
list is being sanctioned, so
why did Congress want to
draw it up, and what does
being on that list mean?
ANDREW WEISS, Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace: Well,
you said a second ago that the
core of the sanctions bill,
which was approved last summer,
was basically to tie the hands
of the administration and to
make sure that there would be
no precipitous effort by the
new administration to basically
take the heat off of Vladimir
Putin for what he's done in
Ukraine, what he's
doing in Syria, what
he did in our election.
As an added sort of
attempt to kind of needle
this administration to
do whatever they could
to create so much sort of
negative valence around Russia's
business and government figures,
they said compile a
list and show us how
dirty these people are.
That wasn't something
that the administration
was enthusiastic about.
They have resisted this entire
sanctions bill tooth and nail.
And then when the time came to
finally deliver the report to
Congress, they basically said,
here's a list we have cut and
pasted out of - - basically
out of open sources to make the
effect as limited as possible.
JOHN YANG: You say that they
have fought this sanctions
bill tooth and nail.
Yesterday, the State Department
said that the threat of
sanctions was deterrence enough
against the Russians for
meddling in the elections.
But then Mike Pompeo, the CIA
director, said they are already
trying to meddle in the 2018
elections.
So, what do you say --
what's your response or
how do you take that?
ANDREW WEISS: Well, dysfunction
and incoherence are now the norm
in the Trump administration's
foreign policy.
So, the fact that you have
basically an administration
where no one really
trusts them on Russia
policy, people basically
hear what Donald Trump says.
He talks continuously,
including last week, about the
possibility of a new reset with
the Russians.
He continues to exaggerate
Russia's relevance for
our foreign policy agenda.
And then you have people down
below inside the bureaucracy
who want to show that they're
tough and who want to show
that Russia's behavior
will have consequences.
You can't combine
those two approaches.
JOHN YANG: How is this
being interpreted in Russia?
ANDREW WEISS: Well,
right now, Russia is in
a pre-election frenzy.
And so for Vladimir Putin to
be able to say, see, the United
States is targeting us, they
want to bring us back to where
we were at our low point in
the 1990s, today, when Vladimir
Putin was speaking on Russian
television, he said all 146
million Russians are on this
list.
So, what he's trying to do is a
classic strategy - - he's done
this consistently over the last
18 years in power -- of
saying, the West is against us.
And if we rally behind me,
I will keep Russia strong.
So, in many ways, we
play into his hands.
JOHN YANG: The first
round is March 18.
He's saying that this is an
example of the United States
trying to meddle in the Russian
election.
ANDREW WEISS: Right.
And that, to me, has
zero credibility.
And a former president of
Estonia joke today: I don't know
what's funnier, the sanctions
being as empty as they
are or you claiming
you have an election.
JOHN YANG: And, also, what is
going on with the sort of --
is this an effort on Vladimir
Putin to sort of boost the
turnout, to try to really get a
big -- look like a huge mandate
out of this election?
ANDREW WEISS: That's where
the Kremlin is I think
legitimately worried.
The lack of any real competitive
political process, the lack
of any drama about this
election has basically put
most of the Russian body
politic into a snooze mode.
And there is very little
to get them excited
enough to return Vladimir
Putin for his presumably
fourth and final term with a
big turnout or a big boost.
So, at this point, there's
mostly inertia, apathy,
and lack of alternatives
that is cementing
his rule.
JOHN YANG: And is the opposition
trying to get turnout down?
ANDREW WEISS: Yes.
So, on Sunday, there
were demonstrations
across Russia convened
by the Russian opposition
leader, Alexei Navalny,
who is calling for a
boycott of election.
The Kremlin is clearly very
concerned about that and is
doing whatever it can to push
him basically out of the news.
JOHN YANG: Andrew Weiss
at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace,
thanks for helping
us understand this.
ANDREW WEISS: Thank you.
JUDY WOODRUFF: When a county
in Southern Ohio saw a
sharp spike in the number
of fatal opioid-related
overdoses, they responded
by forming PORT, the Post
Overdose Response Team.
Esther Honig of Side Effects,
which is a Public Media project,
reports how Ross County, Ohio,
has enlisted local law
enforcement, addiction
treatment services and
the health department
to work together and
help curb overdoses.
ESTHER HONIG: Every Wednesday,
morning in Chillicothe, Ohio,
this overdose task force
meets.
There's a police officer, a
sheriff's deputy, and a social
worker from a local addiction
treatment center.
The group sets out to follow
up with each person in Ross
County who overdosed the week
before.
Their mission?
Get them into treatment.
The program started after a
string of fatal overdoses in
2016, and county leaders came
together to find a solution.
DAVE WEBER, Ross County Deputy
Sheriff: Out of the meetings
came a decision that we needed
some type of team to go out
and speak with people that have
overdosed, either their families
or both family and
the overdose victim.
And somebody named it
PORT, which is a Post
Overdose Response Team.
ESTHER HONIG: PORT allows
law enforcement to take on
the role of a social worker.
They talk to residents about
addiction and help them find
treatment, even if that means
driving them to facilities out
of state when there's nothing
available in their area.
Today, the team follows up
with just four overdoses.
In the past, they have
had as many as 20.
DAVE WEBER: I would just
like to come in one day,
and we don't have any.
ESTHER HONIG: At their first
stop, resident Chad Lurty is
shocked when the PORT team tells
him his friend struggles
with addiction.
CHAD LURTY, Ohio Resident:
I think very highly of
him, and my heart's broke.
I had no idea he had a problem.
ESTHER HONIG: Recently, PORT
began offering training on how
to use the overdose reversal
drug naloxone, also
known as Narcan.
Dave Weber, one of the
deputies, said that you're in a
position to be really helpful
in this situation.
CHAD LURTY: I will try.
I don't want to see anybody die.
ESTHER HONIG: And you
think you might go through
the Narcan training?
CHAD LURTY: I'm going to
very seriously consider that.
ESTHER HONIG: Here in
Ross County, the rate
of fatal opioid-related
overdoses is nearly
double the national average and
one of the highest in the state.
Now, PORT, with a relatively
small budget, has managed to
get people the resources they
need in time to hopefully
prevent more of these
overdoses from happening.
Still, not everyone
supports what they do.
DAVE WEBER: We have some
people that are upset
that we give them Narcan.
You know, they say that
it was this person's
choice to do it, you know?
But we kind of --
we don't buy that.
My response to them is, what
if it were your son, daughter,
wife, or husband laying on
the ground?
Would you want us to turn
around and walk away?
ESTHER HONIG: You guys need
to go to them because these
people are not in a situation
where they can necessarily
seek out help themselves.
DAVE WEBER: Right, right, yes.
When we first get there, they're
reluctant to speak with us.
We explain what we're
there for, and we're not
going to arrest them.
We're not there in a law
enforcement capacity.
And most of them open
up and talk to us.
ESTHER HONIG: Jessica
Lutz overdosed at a
store with her daughters.
She remembers when the
PORT team came to her
door a few days later.
JESSICA LUTZ, Resident
in Recovery: My doorbell
rang, and I was scared
to death, because here
comes my mom, like, there's
an officer and a woman at your
front door and they want to
talk to you.
And I walked out there, and
the officer said - - he said,
I'm not here to arrest you.
I'm just here to
make sure she's OK.
She would just like
to talk to you.
And I met Tracy Hathaway (ph).
ESTHER HONIG: The social worker,
who was also a recovering
addict, convinced Jessica that
there were resources that
would help her get clean.
JESSICA LUTZ: There is hope
that people can recover.
She was doing it.
There was this place of people
that were doing it all the time
that I didn't know existed,
you know, all these recovery
places that we don't hear about.
ESTHER HONIG: PORT got
Jessica into outpatient
care immediately, and
after a month a bed
at a nearby recovery center.
Right now, there are only a
few programs like this in Ohio,
but local lawmakers recently
put aside over a million dollars
to be able to replicate PORT
in cities across the state.
And the stakes are
higher than ever.
Each day, more than 142
people in the U.S. die
from a drug overdose.
That's more than the number of
people who die from gun violence
and car accidents combined.
It's something that Jessica
doesn't take for granted.
She came from rehab and credits
PORT with having saved her life.
JESSICA LUTZ: Just to have that
conversation after something
like that happens, and no
matter who you are,
that's so scary.
We don't want to die.
We just don't know
how not to use.
And to find somebody that
understands that and knows that
we don't want to wake up and
do these things every day, we
don't -- there's no pleasure
in what we have to go through
each and every day, just to
listen to that conversation and
know that it really can happen
is what changed
everything for me.
For the "PBS NewsHour,"
I'm Esther Honig in
Chillicothe, Ohio.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The deadline
to work out an immigration
agreement is a little more than
a week away.
One of the key dividing lines,
what to do about dreamers.
President Trump has said he
plans to scrap the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals
program, known as DACA,
this spring unless a
deal can be worked out.
In California and other states,
teachers are on the front
lines and student anxiety is
on the rise.
We have a story from one of
our Student Reporting Labs.
It's reported by
Fernando Cienfuegos.
He's a junior at Northview High
School in Southern California.
It's for our weekly
segment Making the Grade.
PAULINA, Student: Northview
When DACA got rescinded, I
didn't really know where to go.
It was just a very numb feeling.
FERNANDO CIENFUEGOS:
Paulina Garcia is a recent
Northview High School
graduate and DACA recipient.
She attends Mount San
Antonio Community College.
She says her high school
teachers were critical
in helping her get there.
They outlined the steps she
had to take as an undocumented
student to get to graduation.
PAULINA: If I didn't have Ms.
Arellanes, I think I wouldn't
have been as inspired to
continue on my education.
She would constantly give me
paperwork and paperwork about
dream, the DREAM Act, dreamers'
financial aid.
And that was very, very helpful,
because I didn't know where
else to get that information.
Just the immense amount
of belief they had in me.
YEMINA ARELLANES, Teacher: Are
you going to mention why you
just began working this year?
PAULINA: I just starting
working this year I barely
got my DACA this year.
So, I'm just...
YEMINA ARELLANES: But
you are not going to
put it in the statement?
FERNANDO CIENFUEGOS: Yemina
Arellanes teaches economics and
provides college advising at
Northview High School
in Covina, California.
She is one of a growing number
of educators who independently
sought training to support
undocumented students.
YEMINA ARELLANES: What motivated
me to help undocumented
students here at Northview was
actually seeing the need.
They really didn't
know where to go.
FERNANDO CIENFUEGOS: The
Trump administration's
approach towards
immigration actually scares
some students.
YEMINA ARELLANES: They have got
a deep-seated struggle going
on within them, because as
hard as they work and as much
as they want to be educated,
they have this fear inside
that perhaps within the next
few years, no matter how
educated they are, they might be
removed from this country.
We're still trying to rebuild
that trust and let them know
that it's OK to come to us,
that we're not going to work
against them and that we're
not going to turn them in.
FERNANDO CIENFUEGOS: An
estimated 271,000 undocumented
students are enrolled in the
California K-12 public school
system, the largest number
in the country, according to
the Migration Policy Institute.
In 1982, the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled that undocumented
children have the right to a
public education.
Immigration advocates say that
these students are a special
needs group who would benefit
from schools providing
counseling, legal advice,
and federal immigration
policy information
to their student body.
Claremont Graduate University
Professor William Perez studies
the social and psychological
development of
immigrant students.
He says teachers need tools.
WILLIAM PEREZ, Claremont
Graduate University:
They're in desperate
need of information about
all the legislation.
Teachers go online and they
will Google things, or they will
find out about Webinars or they
will find out about something
that -- where they can go and
sort of educate themselves.
But being done in a
very unsystematic way.
FERNANDO CIENFUEGOS: Dr. Perez
has launched the nation's first
allies-to-dreamers certificate
program.
The course trains
educators how to support
undocumented students
transitioning to college
and into the work force.
WILLIAM PEREZ: Teachers need to
be well-equipped to be able to
be responsive to their students.
FERNANDO CIENFUEGOS:
Despite supporting
undocumented students, some
conservatives, like Santa Ana
School Board member Cecilia
Iglesias, believe academics
should be the focus.
CECILIA IGLESIAS, Santa Ana
School Board: Santa Ana,
traditionally, historically, we
have been underperforming,
which means failing our kids.
And in the past 10
years, we have been on
program improvement.
And those are the things
we should be talking about.
That's why we were elected.
If we wanted to go into be
affecting immigration policy,
we should go into Congress.
Politics should never come into
it when it comes to education.
FERNANDO CIENFUEGOS: Still,
teachers like Yemina Arellanes
say more must be done.
YEMINA ARELLANES: I wish that
the district would really
work to educate our teachers,
perhaps bring in some guest
speakers of students who have
graduated and have succeeded who
were undocumented, so that
everybody can see that
our kids and other kids
that are undocumented,
they make it, they make
it, if they have the
support from the adults.
FERNANDO CIENFUEGOS:
For the "PBS NewsHour"'s
Student Reporting Labs,
I'm Fernando Cienfuegos
in Covina, California.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Now to
the "NewsHour" Bookshelf.
So, when do you work best?
Are you a night owl
or an early bird?
Jeffrey Brown explores
these questions with
author Daniel Pink.
JEFFREY BROWN: There are plenty
of how-to books out there.
Now comes a when-to, the
best time of book the
take an exam, say, or
have a medical procedure,
and big life decision,
getting married, getting
divorced, quitting a job.
The book is titled "When:
The Scientific Secrets
of Perfect Timing."
And author Daniel
Pink joins me now.
Dan, hello.
DANIEL PINK, Author, "When:
The Scientific Secrets of
Perfect Timing": Hello, Jeff.
JEFFREY BROWN: Let me start
with a when question for you.
When did you get interested
in this, and why?
DANIEL PINK: Well, I realized
that I was making all kinds of
when decisions myself, so things
like, when in the day
should I exercise?
When should I abandon a
project that's not working?
And I was making them in
a pretty haphazard way.
And I figured I could
make them in a better way.
And I started looking
at this research.
And there is a mountain of
research out there across many,
many domains that allow us to
make evidence-based,
systematically smarter,
shrewder decisions
about when to do things.
JEFFREY BROWN:
Smarter, shrewder.
That subtitle, "Science," right?
DANIEL PINK: Sure.
JEFFREY BROWN: So, that's the
data that you're looking at.
DANIEL PINK: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
It's data that comes in
the field of economics,
social psychology, but
also cognitive science,
anesthesiology, endocrinology.
There's a whole field
of chronobiology.
Linguistics gives us some clues.
So, this research is
all over the place.
But in these different
disciplines, they're asking
very, very similar questions.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right,
so daily routines first.
You're teasing out some of
the patterns of our lives.
DANIEL PINK: Well, what it shows
is that both our mood and our
performance follow a fairly
regular pattern across a day.
So we usually have a peak,
a trough, and a rebound.
So our peak for most
people is in the morning.
You have a trough in the early
afternoon, and then we have
this rebound, recovery period
later in the day.
Now, for people who are
night owls, they go through
it in the reverse order.
But what the research tells us
is that we should be doing our
analytic work, our heads-down,
lockdown work during the peak.
During the trough, it's
not good for very much.
We should be doing our
-- we should be avoiding
going to the hospital
and answering our routine
e-mail.
And then, during the recovery,
we have an elevated mood,
but we're less vigilant than
during the peak.
And that makes it a very
good time for things
like brainstorming and
other kinds of creative
work.
And just moving our work
just a little bit can
make a big difference.
There's research showing that
time of day explains about
20 percent of the variance
in human performance
on workplace tasks.
So timing isn't everything,
but it's a big thing.
JEFFREY BROWN: So the important
thing is knowing who you
are, in a sense, right?
DANIEL PINK: Yes.
Some of us have what
are early chronotypes.
We're larks.
Get up early, go to sleep early.
Some people have evening
chronotypes, owls, go to
sleep late, wake up late.
Most of us are kind of
in the middle, what I
called third birds.
But the people who are larks
and third birds peak, trough,
recovery fairly predictably.
The people who are owls,
recovery, trough, peak
fairly predictably.
JEFFREY BROWN: There is so much
fun to reading this, and then
there's the scary things like,
don't go have a medical
preening in the afternoon.
That's not a good idea.
DANIEL PINK: That is
really not a good idea.
It's kind of alarming if you
look at some of the research.
Anesthesia errors, four
times more likely at 3:00
p.m. than at 9:00 a.m.
Endoscopists find half as many
polyps in routine colonoscopies
in afternoon exams vs. morning
exams.
Nurses less likely to wash
their hands, physicians
more likely to prescribe
unnecessary antibiotics
in the afternoon.
JEFFREY BROWN: Yes.
So, speaking of afternoon,
taking breaks is clearly --
breaking up the day, which leads
to the question of naps,
for example, everyone
is familiar with that.
But you're not talking just
about taking a nap, but very
specific amounts of time, right?
DANIEL PINK: Yes.
The research on naps shows that
naps are actually good for us.
I'm a convert on this in that
any time I took a nap myself,
I would always wake up feeling
both groggy and deeply
ashamed of myself.
(LAUGHTER)
JEFFREY BROWN: Right.
DANIEL PINK: So,
for being so lazy.
And it turns out I
was doing it wrong.
The ideal nap...
JEFFREY BROWN: We don't
have the siesta idea.
DANIEL PINK: No, not at all.
No, I have both the
hyper-puritanical and
hyper-masculine approach
to things, which
is a toxic mix.
But what we know about naps
is that 10 to 20 minutes is
actually the ideal time to take
a nap.
You get all of the
benefits of a nap.
I think of naps as
Zambonis for our brains.
They basically smooth out
the nicks on our mental ice.
But without any of what's
called sleep inertia.
And the ideal nap is something
called the nappuccino, where
you have a cup of coffee
first.
Set your alarm for
maybe 25 minutes.
Take a nap.
By the time you wake
up, the caffeine will
be hitting your body.
JEFFREY BROWN: Yes, I read this.
And this one really hit me.
DANIEL PINK: It works.
JEFFREY BROWN: It works.
Drink the coffee, then
take the 20-minute nap.
DANIEL PINK: Right.
JEFFREY BROWN: Now, at
the end of every chapter,
you have what you call the
time hacker's handbook.
And you are really
giving people tips.
You think it's practical enough
that we can change our lives.
DANIEL PINK: Sure.
Absolutely.
I don't think you can
transform your life.
If you are overweight and lazy,
changing your approach your
time isn't convert you in that
way.
But what I'm trying to do here
is that there's some really
amazing science out there that
gives us insights
into who we are.
But I find that if you can
take some of that science and
put it into place in your own
life, it's meaningful and you
understand the science better.
JEFFREY BROWN: Have you changed
your own life, found time?
DANIEL PINK: Oh, absolutely.
So, I am a convert on breaks.
I always write down two
breaks in the afternoon
that I'm going to take.
I make a break list.
I have also been a convert
on good news and bad news.
I always gave the good
news first, because I
wanted to be a nice guy.
But what you really want
to do is give the bad news
first, end on that elevation.
That's one thing that
endings do for us.
So, I have become not only a
break-taker, but the king of
delivering bad news first.
(LAUGHTER)
JEFFREY BROWN: The book
is "When: The Scientific
Secrets of Perfect Timing."
Dan Pink, thanks so much.
DANIEL PINK: My pleasure.
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