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But first, when it comes to providing innovative health care, Pakistan is not a country that

usually comes to mind.

But in Karachi, one public-private partnership is trying to address some of Pakistanis' most

pressing medical needs.

In cooperation with the "Associated Press", special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro has

the latest in our series, "Agents for Change".

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FRED DE SAM LAZARO, PBS NEWSHOUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): On any given day at Karachi's

Jinnah Hospital, some 5,000 patients arrive, many wheeled in on rusty, bare metal gurneys

by family members who wait sometimes for days in the outer corridors.

Inside are long lines-for X-ray scans or appointments with overwhelmed staffers.

There are lots of exhausted children.

Jinnah is one of the oldest, biggest public health care facilities in Pakistan's commercial

capital, a city of 15 million and the hospital hasn't been immune to the violence and terrorism

that has gripped this country, including this bomb blast in 2010 in its own emergency department.

DR.

SEEMIN JAMALI, CEO, JINNAH HOSPITAL: We nearly missed to die.

I was standing right at the gate and very, very injured.

About 18 people lost their lives at that point.

DE SAM LAZARO: Yet hospital CEO Seemin Jamali notes that just 30 seconds after the blast,

staff are back on their feet, tending to the injured.

She says it's a metaphor for a hospital that is transforming itself amid all the chaos,

replacing its decrepit old buildings and bringing some of medicine's most modern equipment and

care to Pakistan's poorest patients who may never otherwise have access.

Six-year-old Noman Azim was brought in after losing his sight when a growing brain tumor

began to affect his optic nerve.

SHEENA AZIM, MOTHER OF NOMAN (through translator): He was scared of everything.

He lost his eyesight for two months.

He was completely blind.

Thank God my son has a new life.

He goes to school, he studies, he plays outside.

DR.

TARIQ MAHMOOD, RADIOLOGY CHIEF: This is pre-treatment images.

And this is post-treatment images.

Look at this, that whiteness has almost completely gone.

DE SAM LAZARO: Radiology chief Dr. Tariq Mahmood (ph) says Noman was treated with some of the

most sophisticated technology anywhere.

He was restored to sight with a $4 million robot like device called a cyberknife.

In the U.S., the price tag for such treatment ranges between $50,000 and $90,000.

Here it is free, true of all services in government hospitals.

Patients can chip in after their care but it's voluntary.

On average, these donations defray about eight percent of the hospital's costs.

All this equipment was donated to the hospital by a non-profit group called the Patient's

Aid Foundation, private citizens who've provided guidance and much of the funding for the hospital's

facelift.

MAHMOOD: From 1984 to 1994, we were doing 200 scans in a year.

Today, we are doing 300 scans, CT scans in a day.

DE SAM LAZARO: This public private partnership began in 1992, when a group of business leaders

were moved by the desperate conditions at the hospital.

Businessman Mushtaq Chhapra says it began with pleas from the hospital to replace broken

refrigerators in the blood bank and parts for medical equipment.

MUSHTAQ CHHAPRA, VICE CHAIRMAN, PATIENT'S AID FOUNDATION: The government didn't have

the budget to do these repairs or renovation.

And this is where my organization stepped in and virtually, these were small things

which were remedied within hours.

DE SAM LAZARO: Those small things have added up quickly; $35 million so far, in donations

from prominent business families in Karachi, for buildings, equipment and some staff at

the hospital.

Chhapra says at first they were skeptical about partnering with a public sector notorious

for inefficiency and corruption.

He says they forged a clear understanding of key roles each side would play.

CHHAPRA: We have not let the government abdicate their responsibility.

The government has 3,000 people working in this hospital, the government is paying salaries

for those people, the government provides the utilities, the medications.

What we do is we bring the ideas, we bring the systems and we bring the much-needed equipment.

DR.

TASNEEM BUTT, VOLUNTEER, PATIENT'S AID FOUNDATION: Doctors, obviously everybody wants to work

in a neat and clean environment.

DE SAM LAZARO: Retired radiologist Tasneem Butt volunteers as a patient advocate at the

Jinnah Hospital.

She says the upgrades have not only improved patient care but also morale among providers.

BUTT: We did not have any mammography machine.

It took like 20 years for us and now as I speak of, we have the latest technology of

mammography machines.

And this is probably the largest radiology center in Asia.

DE SAM LAZARO: It is large and state of the art but ironically, it is perhaps the least

busy section of a very busy hospital, even though the incidence of cancer is growing

in Pakistan, including the highest rate of breast cancer in Asia.

(on camera): A lot of the cancer that occurs in Pakistan goes untreated.

Patients in many cases can't afford therapy, if it's available.

And even in places where it is available, doctors say the vast majority of patients

come in in advanced stages, when it's too late for any effective treatment.

(voice-over): That was the case with this seven-year-old boy, brought here by his father

from Peshawar, a city some 850 miles away near the Afghan border.

His brain tumor had progressed too far to benefit from radiotherapy.

Dr. Tariq Mahmood says only five percent of the cancers seen here are in the early treatable

phases.

MAHMOOD: There is lack of the availability of the proper equipment for the early diagnosis.

And at the same time, there is lack of education.

DE SAM LAZARO: Public education is a big challenge, but Dr. Mahmood says the Jinnah Hospital offers

a model for delivering high quality care to the poor.

A public private partnership is inherently fragile amid Pakistan's volatile politics

but the foundation's Chhapra says he's not deterred.

CHHAPRA: We are pumping in millions and millions of dollars into a hospital which is owned

by the government.

Tomorrow, they may turn around and say enough is enough.

Get out.

We as a group have decided, come what may, we are here to stay.

DE SAM LAZARO: And despite the challenges, the foundation has ambitious plans to expand.

A state of the art, $25 million outpatient department is slated to open early in 2018.

For the PBS NEWSHOUR, I'm Fred De Sam Lazaro in Karachi, Pakistan.

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WOODRUFF: Fred's reporting is part of the Under-Told Stories Project at University of

St. Thomas in Minnesota.

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Shields and Brooks on GOP bid for tax reform, Russia probe indictments - Duration: 11:51.

JUDY WOODRUFF: And now to the analysis of Shields and Brooks.

That's syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks.

Gentlemen, thank you.

MARK SHIELDS: Judy.

JUDY WOODRUFF: So, let's talk about Virginia, Mark.

What does that race look like?

MARK SHIELDS: Well, the race on both sides, people are saying it's a three-, four-, two-point

lead.

The -- one Republican said to me today they are relieved that the president was out of

the country, because he was afraid that, if he got word the race was that close, he would

start tweeting and insert himself back into the race.

But, as we saw in John's piece, the president is very much a part of the piece.

Ed Gillespie, a conventional Republican, a Republican National Committee staffer, became

chair, became counselor to President George W. Bush, is running, has got the lyrics of

Donald Trump's score playbook, but he doesn't have the music.

But the latest period after John's wonderful piece was that they're now running on the

football players kneeling at the national anthem and saying, stand up for America or

Virginia.

I would say this, Judy.

If, in fact, the Democrats lose on Tuesday in Virginia, that it will lead to -- close

to civil war within the Democratic Party.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Whoa.

MARK SHIELDS: It will be -- there will be reprisals between the Bernie -- that Northam

has run a very conventional, sort of cautious campaign, and that will be -- and Bernie Sanders

-- Tom Perriello, the -- his primary opponent on the other side, there will be questions

that he had -- the Democratic Party really didn't stand -- and 2016 all over again.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Close race?

DAVID BROOKS: Yes, it's getting close.

This is sort of bad news for both parties.

MARK SHIELDS: Yes.

DAVID BROOKS: First, Ed Gillespie, as Mark mentioned, is like the core of the center

of the Republican Party.

He's been around this town a lot.

We have all known him.

He's just the conventional Republican.

And where the center of the Republican Party is, that's where Ed Gillespie is at that moment.

And now it's a Trump party.

And he's running on these Trump issues, MS-13, a gang in Northern Virginia that has killed

some people, and so it's violence committed by illegal immigrants, the core Trump issue.

It's a campaign that has some economic opportunity, but a lot of it is about fear of outsiders,

so that core message.

So it's a sign the Republican Party is becoming the Trump party, and that if you want the

run as a Republican, you have got to run as a Trumpian, and you can do well.

He was pretty far back a month ago, 10, 15 points.

And now he's three to five points behind, and so it sort of works.

For the Democrats, as Mark says, this is a state, as John reported, Clinton won by five.

Trump is super unpopular.

And their guy, a pretty conventional, pretty good candidate, can't pull out a big win out

of this?

That would be a sign for Democrats that, even when Trump is super unpopular, they can't

get big turnout, and they can't get big turnout among African-Americans, which is why Eric

Holder and people like that are there.

They can't get big turnout from people who aren't hard-core voters, and that the Democratic

base is not super mobilized to vote.

And that would just be a gigantic warning sign for 2018.

JUDY WOODRUFF: A warning sign for 2018.

At the same time, Mark, in the last couple of days, we have been hearing another sign

of a big fissure, divide inside the Democratic Party, this book by Donna Brazile, a prominent

figure in the Democratic Party, former chair of the party, wrote, in effect, that because

there was this financial deal with the Clinton campaign, which was supporting the Democratic

Party hurting for money, that the primary election last year was rigged in Clinton's

favor.

MARK SHIELDS: She did.

And it's a serious charge made by a serious person, Donna Brazile.

Could not come at a worse time for the Democrats, on the eve of the Virginia, just as David

is talking about, generating interest, enthusiasm and turnout, this is anything -- will do anything

but.

But I will say this, Judy.

It has the ring of authenticity about it.

Donna Brazile was exposed herself for having given questions before a debate when she was

at CNN to Hillary Clinton.

She's a person of enormous talent.

I think, if anything, this is sort of cri de coeur, a statement of what she believes,

and to come clean.

But I will say this, that it's proof, more than anything else, to me of how little Barack

Obama cared about the Democratic Party or about politics.

He was great at getting elected.

He got a national majority twice in a row.

Nobody had done that since Eisenhower.

He was leaving the party $24 million in debt, therefore, vulnerable to Hillary Clinton's

coterie of big givers.

Bernie Sanders didn't have big givers, as we know.

JUDY WOODRUFF: And President Trump now, David, is saying the Democratic Party should be investigated,

the Clinton campaign should be investigated by the Justice Department, the FBI.

DAVID BROOKS: Yes, I don't know about that.

But those of us who are trying to rebut populists like Trump have the disadvantage that our

elites really do stink.

And this is an advantage -- example of that.

It was sort of an open secret that the DNC was on Hillary Clinton's side.

We saw it from the schedule of the debates all through the year.

They didn't want to have them, because they didn't want to give Sanders the platform.

But this goes beyond what even I imagined was the level of collusion.

It's a pretty sleazy economic takeover of a party apparatus, against the bylaws of that

apparatus.

It's just not something a normal campaign that respects institutions and how things

should work should do.

And so they colluded, apparently, according to Donna Brazile, in a pretty major way.

And if you were a Sanders person, you have every right to be completely upset.

MARK SHIELDS: Just make one quick point.

And that is, the reason I say President Obama, any time you have a national party and the

White House, the same party, the White House controls that national party.

The national party was a totally -- extension...

JUDY WOODRUFF: That's typical.

MARK SHIELDS: Typical.

I mean, Donald Trump controls the Republican National Committee today.

That's always the case.

And President Obama just didn't like politics.

He didn't like the company of politicians.

The Democrats lost 979 state legislative seats, 63 House seats, 12 Senate seats.

In 19 states, they lost control of both houses of legislature and the governorship during

his time.

He didn't go out and recruit.

He was great himself, but not much for -- he didn't like the business.

He didn't like the company of politicians.

JUDY WOODRUFF: A different kind of economics, David, and that is taxes.

The Republicans did come out this week, yesterday, with their tax reform, tax cut proposal.

What does it say to you about what the Republicans in Congress and the president want right now?

DAVID BROOKS: Well, they have a vision for what business taxes should be, which is to

lower the rates.

And I think there's a -- our corporate rates are super high.

And to attract capital to this country, it would help to lower the rates.

They have no vision of what individual tax rates should be or how we should tax individuals.

Their bill is sort of a hodgepodge of moving rates the rates around randomly.

They have no vision of how to protect families.

There could have been a much bigger child tax credit.

And then, finally -- and this is what everyone -- the point everyone is making, but it happens

to be true -- they have no vision about the fiscal health of this country in the long

term.

I personally think there are some pieces of this legislation that I like, capping the

mortgage interest deduction.

There are some things I don't like.

I don't think cutting the rates the way that they do is super important.

But it's all dwarfed by the $1.5 trillion hole they're going to blow in the deficit.

And until they can solve that problem, you're not really dealing seriously for this country.

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MARK SHIELDS: I agree completely about the $1.5 trillion deficit, Judy.

And it is going to be financed, as we know, from the Republican votes in the House and

the Senate, by cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, the very constituency that Donald Trump pledged

to be the champion of.

And, no, it's -- I would say it had its biggest day yesterday.

I really do.

I mean, I think it's not something that stands the daylight very well or scrutiny.

It starts with 25 percent approval support in the country.

That's the lowest that any presidential initiative since George W. Bush's ill-fated attempt to

privatize Social Security in 2005, which died after 10 months.

Judy, what these people forget is the 1986 Tax Reform Act began in 1982 with Bill Bradley

and Dick Gephardt and Bradley-Gephardt.

And it includes people of the talent of Jim Baker and Dick Darman at the White House.

Steve Mnuchin and Gary Cohn are not Dick Darman and Jim Baker.

And it had 430 witnesses before the House Ways and Means Committee and 26 days of markups.

These people think they're going to do it on the fly, on the run?

They're absolutely delusional.

JUDY WOODRUFF: So, both of you are saying...

(CROSSTALK)

DAVID BROOKS: Dan Rostenkowski.

There was a lot of serious talent.

MARK SHIELDS: Dan Rostenkowski, Bob Packwood.

DAVID BROOKS: But what's -- it's not going to pass.

Like, they punish people in the blue states.

You're going to get rid of state and local deduction, and that that is going to create

massive opposition.

The realtors, philanthropies, student debt, there's all sorts of things that are politically

mine fields.

The question to me is, does it completely die or do they fall back to some limited tax

cut, just so they can say they passed something?

JUDY WOODRUFF: They passed something.

DAVID BROOKS: And I would bet -- I don't know if I would bet, but I suspect they will try

to fall back to something plausible, maybe just the corporate rates.

I don't know what else.

But they will try to fall back to just simple, smaller tax cut.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Mark, I want to turn us quickly here at the end to Robert Mueller's investigation,

Russia investigation.

They turned out some indictments this week, and not entirely surprising, Paul Manafort,

the former Trump campaign managers, his associate, Rick Gates, and then an interesting plea deal

with a younger, almost unknown person on the Trump campaign.

Was this a significant move coming from the special counsel, or what?

How do you see this?

MARK SHIELDS: I think it's significant, Judy.

This was a man that was the subject of extreme vetting, Paul Manafort, that Donald Trump

applies to everybody.

He was only going to get the best, and he chose him to be the chairman of his presidential

campaign.

So, I mean, that gives you the idea of the extreme vetting that went on.

And I think they are grave and serious charges.

But the key to this whole indictment to me was the Papadopoulos indictment.

Nobody in Washington, and rumored -- maybe David has better rumors than I do -- nobody

ever had mentioned this arrest or this plea.

It came as a big surprise.

And now, you can imagine the nervousness inside.

For the past two-and-a-half months, this is somebody who's already pleaded and may very

well have been in conversation.

So, I think it's a -- you can see it from the president.

He keeps talking about witch-hunts, they are going to get rid of Jeff Sessions.

There is a nervousness and an anxiety that's endemic.

JUDY WOODRUFF: How do you read it?

DAVID BROOKS: Yes, everyone, when the indictments came down, went to DEFCON 9 around here.

I went to DEFCON 2 or 3.

Like, Manafort being a kind of sleazy operator, that is not exactly headline news here.

The Papadopoulos thing is the open door.

And what's on the other side of that door, we don't know.

So, maybe it leads to something.

Maybe it doesn't lead to something.

He wasn't a major player.

To me, the question I always ask, what did Donald Trump do?

Is there something that this is pointing to Donald Trump did something himself?

That is an administration-changing event.

But we haven't gotten anywhere near that so far.

JUDY WOODRUFF: We don't know the answer to that question.

DAVID BROOKS: No.

JUDY WOODRUFF: David Brooks, Mark Shields.

MARK SHIELDS: What did the president not know, and when did he not know it?

JUDY WOODRUFF: When did he not know it?

Thank you both.

MARK SHIELDS: Thank you.

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News Wrap: Trump nominee for USDA chief scientist withdraws - Duration: 4:07.

In the day's other news, President Trump nominated Jerome Powell to be the next chair of the

Federal Reserve.

He's a Republican, and a member of the Fed's board for the past five years.

If confirmed by the Senate, he would replace Janet Yellen, a Democrat who served one term

as chair.

Later in the program, we'll look at what this change means.

Former Trump campaign official Sam Clovis has withdrawn as the nominee for chief scientist

at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

He wrote to the president today, saying the political climate, quote, has made it impossible

to receive balanced and fair consideration.

Clovis faced criticism for a lack of science credentials, and for ties to George Papadopoulos,

who pleaded guilty this week to lying about contacts with Russian intermediaries last

year.

The president's former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, attacked the evidence against him

today in a probe of Russian campaign meddling.

His lawyers said the case is, quote, embellished.

Manafort appeared in federal court in Washington along with his associate Rick Gates.

They face a 12-count indictment including conspiracy and money laundering charges.

The president is pressing for the death penalty for the man behind Tuesday's truck rampage

in New York.

Overnight, and again today, Mr. Trump tweeted that Sayfullo Saipov should get the death

penalty for killing eight people.

But in Manhattan, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he does not believe the attacker should be

executed.

He spoke near the scene of the crime.

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MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO (D), NEW YORK CITY: I'm not clear on all the legalities and I'm not

a lawyer.

I'm not someone who believes in the death penalty in general.

I just don't.

I believe this is an individual who should rot in prison for the rest of his life.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WOODRUFF: Saipov, an Uzbek immigrant, now faces federal terrorism charges.

President Trump initially said he should be sent to Guantanamo Bay.

But today, he reversed himself and said there is, quote, something appropriate about keeping

him in the home of the horrible crime he committed.

A jury in Newark, New Jersey, heard closing arguments today in the federal bribery case

against U.S. Senator Bob Menendez.

Prosecutors called Menendez a, quote, "personal senator" for a wealthy eye doctor, accepting

cash and lavish gifts in exchange for favors.

Defense attorneys have denied the allegations.

In Myanmar, de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited the scene of a crackdown on Rohingya

Muslims.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner had been criticized for not doing anything to stop the violence

by Myanmar's army and Buddhist militants.

Today, she met with local officials amid tight security.

Rohingya activists say she urged them to, quote, live peacefully and not quarrel.

Scientists now say they've discovered a hidden space deep inside Egypt's Great Pyramid of

Giza.

The royal burial monument is 4,500 years old.

This would be the first new discovery inside the pyramid since the 19th century.

The journal "Nature" reports that researchers found the empty space by using cosmic-ray

imaging.

Its purpose remains unclear.

Back in this country, they broke ground today for a memorial to President Dwight Eisenhower

in Washington.

It followed years of disputes over the design.

Final plans call for columns and statues near the National Mall in Washington.

They depict Eisenhower as World War II commander in Europe, and later, as the 34th president,

in the 1950s.

The monument is set to be finished in 2020.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 81 points to close at 23516.

The Nasdaq fell one point, and the S&P 500 added a fraction.

And, the Houston Astros are baseball's world champions, for the first time since their

founding in 1962.

They scored a game seven victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers last night, 5-1.

It was a boost for the city of Houston, still dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

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Millions of Chinese children fend for themselves when parents must follow work far away - Duration: 8:53.

JUDY WOODRUFF: When Chinese President Xi Jinping marked the beginning of a new five-year term

last week, he spoke of a China focused on common prosperity, a nation where no one must

be left behind.

But while reaching that ambitious goal, there are millions of children in China who must

often fend for themselves, as their parents move to China's cities to find work.

In partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Max

Duncan reports from Liangshan, China.

MAX DUNCAN: Deep in the mountains of Southwest China, three children are used to being by

themselves.

Their parents are nowhere in sight, but the siblings are not orphans.

They're among an estimated nine million minors left behind in the Chinese countryside by

parents who work far away in wealthier cities.

They see their parents a couple of times a year.

Twelve-year-old Wang Bing is the most outgoing and loves to read.

WANG BING, 12 Years Old (through translator): I think my sister is very brave.

My brother is quite naughty.

We know how to take care of ourselves here.

MAX DUNCAN: The children stay in their school dormitory during the week.

On weekends and school holidays, they often cook and wash for themselves.

WANG BING (through translator): My parents are working in Guangdong Province.

I don't know what they do.

They don't tell me.

It's boring here, just us three children.

I miss them.

MAX DUNCAN: Most so-called left-behind children rely on grandparents, but not all can provide

the care needed.

These children's maternal grandmother lives a 40-minute walk away along a mountain path.

Sometimes, she comes to help with the farmwork and keep an eye on them, but she has other

fields to tend and younger grandchildren to look after.

In such cases, older girls often take on the role of mother.

Fourteen-year-old Wang Ying resents the burden placed on her, and refuses to speak to her

parents on the phone.

She finds it too upsetting.

WANG YING, 14 Years Old (through translator): I'm the only one who's grown up.

I have to do the farmwork, and I have to study too.

When my brother and sister don't do what I tell them, I miss my mom and dad.

And when the farmwork is too hard for me, I miss my mom and dad.

And, sometimes, the teacher tells me off when I don't know the answer.

Then I really miss my mom and dad.

MAX DUNCAN: The walk to school takes an hour.

The family are from the Yi, one of China's largest ethnic minority groups.

Under China's complex one-child policy, which ended in 2015, rural residents and ethnic

minorities were allowed to have more than one child.

Liangshan, where they live, is one of China's poorest areas.

There's little meaningful work their parents could have done here.

Surveys show that growing up without parents can lead to a raft of developmental problems.

Ron Pouwels is UNICEF China's head of child protection.

RON POUWELS, UNICEF China: It can lead to psychological problems.

It could lead to behavior problems.

We know that children who are left behind do less well in school.

And, yes, all these things have, of course, an impact on the later adult life of children.

MAX DUNCAN: Over 1,000 miles southeast of Liangshan lies Huizhou, a city of almost five

million people in China's manufacturing belt.

And it's where the children's parents work.

They make headphones and cables in a factory with hundreds of other workers from rural

areas.

For an 11-hour day, they earn around 15 U.S. dollars each.

The couple are illiterate and speak little Mandarin, China's official language, so they

are determined that their children will have a better chance than they did.

JIAJIA, Mother (through translator): The two of us understand too well the curse of illiteracy.

So long as the children don't give up, we must support their study.

MAX DUNCAN: China's economic explosion has drawn an estimated 200 million laborers like

them from the countryside.

But with wages rising fast, factories like theirs are now turning to workers from poorer

areas who will still accept low wages.

The children's mother, Jiajia, constantly questions whether leaving was the right decision.

JIAJIA (through translator): I worry the kids will get cold in the wind and rain, or that

a stranger will come to the house.

I heard rumors of people stealing children's organs.

I was so worried, I couldn't sleep.

MAX DUNCAN: The plight of left-behind children has come to the forefront of public debate

in China after several unsupervised children died in another poor region in 2015.

Some blame China's household registration system, which controls population movement

by allowing people free public services like education and health care in the place where

they were born, but not in the cities they move to.

Authorities are reforming the system, but change has been slower in some big cities,

where bringing up children is also more expensive.

Concerned about neglected children, the government is introducing more social workers to rural

areas.

And they are also considering tougher measures.

A new way that the authorities hope to tackle the problem is by punishing absent parents

for neglecting those children.

But many people are asking, until those parents are either allowed to bring their children

with them or can find well-paid work closer to home, what choice do they really have?

Wang Zhenyao is a former official with China's Ministry of Civil Affairs.

He supports a proposed law which would criminally charge parents who leave children without

proper supervision for more than six months.

WANG ZHENYAO, Former Official, Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs (through translator): We

need to put some pressure on young parents, make them legally and socially responsible.

That way, we can first set rules for the care of left-behind children starting at the most

basic family level.

MAX DUNCAN: Back in Southwest China, it's summer holidays, and the children visit their

paternal grandparents, who live in an even more remote area five hours' travel away.

It's also the time for the torch festival, the most important celebration in the Yi minority's

calendar.

At night, the children light torches, traditionally to scare away pests that damage crops.

While their parents' absence is conspicuous, Wang Bing is happy to be with the wider family.

WANG BING (through translator): Mom and dad aren't here, but grandma and grandpa are here,

so I really enjoy it, because grandma and grandpa are just like a mom and dad to me.

They're really great.

MAX DUNCAN: Meanwhile, their mother, who has been worried about them, has decided to come

back to take care of them, leaving her husband to earn money.

To get back, she takes a 36-hour bus with other Yi workers.

It's then a two-hour uphill walk from the road to the grandparents' house.

She finds the children up a hill, where they have been farming.

The sweets go down well with the younger children and their cousins.

But elder sister Wang Ying is reticent, and initially speaks little to her mother.

JIAJIA (through translator): I haven't seen the children in months, and they're very naughty.

They're all bigger, but they're wilder.

Children without parents are different to those with parents at home.

They haven't been keeping clean.

They're very messy.

MAX DUNCAN: Her mother's return means some of the weight is lifted from Wang Ying's shoulders,

and she's happy to slack off.

WANG YING (through translator): Now that mom has come back, I don't have to look after

my brother and sister anymore, and I don't have to do as much farmwork as I used to.

MAX DUNCAN: But the future is far from clear.

The family will struggle to subsist on one income alone.

JIAJIA (through translator): I don't want to leave the children again to live like orphans.

But if we can't afford to live, I would have no choice but to go back out to work.

MAX DUNCAN: At least for the time being, Wang Ying is a little freer to be what she ultimately

still is, a child.

For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Max Duncan in Liangshan, China.

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TRUMP

ATTACKED NOT ONLY THE DIVERSITY VISA BUT DEMOCRATIC SEN.,

CHUCK SCHUMER SPECIFICALLY.

CHUCK SCHUMER RESPONDED BOTH ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE SENATE

FLOOR.

THEN HE WENT ON TO SAY THIS.

I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT IMMIGRATION IS GOOD FOR

AMERICA, I BELIEVE IT TODAY.

PRESIDENT TRUMP INSTEAD OF POLITICIZING AND DIVIDING

AMERICA, WHICH HE ALWAYS SEEMS TO DO AT TIMES OF NATIONAL

TRAGEDY SHOULD BE BRINGING US TOGETHER AND FOCUSING ON THE

REAL SOLUTION, ANTI-TERRORISM FUNDING WHICH SHE PROPOSED

TO CUT IN HIS MOST RECENT BUDGET.

SO I AM CALLING ON THE PRESIDENT TO RESCIND HIS PROPOSED

CUTS TO HIS VITAL ANTITERRORISM FUNDING IMMEDIATELY.

A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THE SORT OF THING THAT FOR WHATEVER

REASON WILL NOT REACH 32% OF THIS COUNTRY.

THAT HE LITERALLY CUT THE FUNDING FOR THESE SORTS OF

ANTITERRORISM INVESTIGATIONS.

IF YOU ASK HIS CAR, THEY WILL SAY HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO

WILL DEFEND US AS HE LITERALLY TAKES THE MONEY AWAY TO

GIVE IT TO BILLIONAIRES.

TOMORROW HE SHOULD GO ON CNN, MSNBC AND SAY IT AGAIN.

AND ON FRIDAY DO IT AGAIN AND ON SUNDAY DO IT AGAIN.

AND HOLD A PIECE OF PAPER THAT SHOWS THAT.

AND SAY IT AGAIN FOR THE NEXT TWO MONTHS SO THEY SAY CHUCK

SCHUMER WOULD STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS ANTITERRORISM THING THAT

DONALD TRUMP KEEPS CUTTING OUT OF HIS BUDGET.

WHAT IS IN IT AGAIN?

THE ANTITERRORISM PROGRAM THAT YOU KEEP CUTTING.

I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO A LOT OF TALK LIVE RADIO LATELY BECAUSE

OF THE BASEBALL WORLD SERIES AND THERE ARE ADS THAT RUN THAT THEY

CONTACT US, JOHN PLUMMER.COM.

MY KIDS ARE IN THE BACKSEAT SAYING WHY IS HE SAYING THIS

100 TIMES?

AND I SAID SO YOU NEVER FORGET IT.

SAME THING, JUST DO IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

THAT MIGHT NOT WORK WITH YOU BECAUSE I'M PRETTY SURE ONE

800 JOHN PLUMMER.COM IS NOT THE RIGHT THING.

IF YOU CAN SET HE IS CUTTING ANTI- TERRORISM FUNDS TO

THAT CARS FOR KIDS SOON, I DON'T THINK YOU WILL GET PAST IT.

YOU MIGHT BE THINKING ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A

MAGA GUY, I THOUGHT WE REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO FIGHT THE

TERRORISTS AND THE BAD GUYS.

AT A MINIMUM TO WE ALL HATE MUSLIMS TOGETHER?

SO WHY ARE

THEY DOING THAT?

AND WHY DO THEY ADDED $70 BILLION TO THE DEFENSE

BUDGET WHICH IS ALREADY GARGANTUAN?

THE DEFENSE BUDGET

GOES TOWARDS DEFENSE CONTRACTORS SO THEY MAKE REALLY EXPENSIVE

PLANES THAT WE OFTEN DON'T USE.

THAT IS CRONY CAPITALISM.

FIGHTING TERRORISM IS EXPENSIVE BUT MAYBE DOESN'T GO TO THE

RIGHT PLACES.

AND WHY DO THEY HAVE TO KEEP CUTTING THE BUDGET?

BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO FINANCE THE TAX CUTS.

TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH ARE A WAY A HIGHER PRIORITY FOR TRUMP

AND HIS ADMINISTRATION THAN FIGHTING TERRORISM.

THAT IS WHAT HE CUT THOSE FUNDS.

HE FIGURES IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT I CUT AND WHAT I

ACTUALLY DO.

I AM JUST GOING TO SAY ON TWITTER HOW WE HAVE TO DO

EXTREME VETTING.

I DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, I JUST HAVE

TO SAY I MY KNUCKLEHEAD GUYS, I THINK THE RED HATS PREVENT

THE NEURONS FROM FIRING INSIDE THE HAT.

I'LL HAVE TO DO IS SCREAM ABOUT IT ON TWITTER

AND IT WILL

BE GOOD ENOUGH.

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John Kelly Lies To Cover For Trump - Duration: 12:50.

WE ARE SEVERAL DAYS INTO THIS INSANE FEUD THAT HAS DEVELOPED

OUT OF THE MILITARY SITUATION IN NIGER A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, IT'S

GONE THROUGH MULTIPLE ITERATIONS AND THE LATEST ONE WE ARE ON IS

THERE'S A CONCERTED EFFORT COMING OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE TO

DISCREDIT THE CONGRESSWOMAN, FREDERICA WILSON, BECAUSE SHE

HAPPENED TO BE PRESENT FOR A PRESIDENTIAL PHONE CALL TO THE

WIDOW OF A SOLDIER SLAIN IN THE FIELD.

AND THE WILLINGNESS TO

PLAY FAST AND LOOSE ABOUT FACTS WITH BEACHES THAT HAVE BEEN

GIVEN COMING NOT JUST FROM DONALD TRUMP WHERE WE WOULD

EXPECT IT BUT OUT OF GENERALS LIKE JOHN KELLY IS CERTAINLY

DISAPPOINTING, SO WE WILL SHOW HOW THE MOST RECENT ATTACK BY

JOHN KELLY DURING HIS EMOTIONAL SPEECH YESTERDAY ABOUT WHAT IT'S

LIKE TO BE A FATHER WHO HAS LOST A SOLDIER IN COMBAT, WE WILL

BREAK DOWN SOME OF THE MISTRUTHS THAT WERE SPREAD.

BUT IN CASE YOU DIDN'T SEE IT HERE IS JOHN KELLY.

>>THE CONGRESSWOMAN STOOD UP, AND IN THE LONG TRADITION OF

EMPTY BARRELS MAKING THE MOST NOISE, SHE TALKED ABOUT HOW SHE

WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN GETTING THE FUNDING FOR THAT BUILDING, AND

HOW SHE CALLED THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HE GAVE HER THE MONEY

TO BUILD THAT BUILDING, AND SHE SAT DOWN.

WE WERE STUNNED,

STUNNED, THAT SHE HAD DONE IT.

EVEN FOR SOMEONE THAT IS THAT

EMPTY A BARREL, WE WERE STUNNED.

BUT NONE OF US WENT TO THE PRESS

AND CRITICIZED.

NONE OF US STOOD UP AND WERE APPALLED.

WE JUST SAID OKAY, FINE.

>> THAT'S A TOTALLY ORGANIC NOT PLANNED NARRATIVE WHEN YOU USE

THE EXPRESSION EMPTY BARREL THREE TIMES IN A MINUTE.

ALSO

SAYING STUNNED SHE WOULD LISTEN IN ON THE CALL.

THERE'S A

COMPLETE LACK OF INTEREST IN ACTUALLY UNDERSTANDING THE

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS CONGRESSWOMAN AND NOT JUST THE

WIDOW BUT THE SOLDIER WHO WAS KILLED, IT WOULD ALLOW YOU TO

UNDERSTAND WHY THIS PLAYED OUT THE WAY IT DID THAT THEN WE WILL

GET TO THE SUBSTANCE, WE WILL PLAY THE SPEECH THAT SHOWS HOW

WRONG HE WAS, BUT THERE IS THIS INABILITY IN THE WHITE HOUSE TO

UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU'VE MADE A LITTLE ERROR AND SIMPLY KILL IT

JUST BY APOLOGIZING, MOVING ON, THEY HAVE TO DOUBLE DOWN AND

DONALD TRUMP'S NEED TO DO THAT DRAWS IN PEOPLE LIKE JOHN KELLY

INTO GIVING A SPEECH LIKE THAT THAT I'M SURE HE HAD NO INTEREST

IN GIVING.

BUT HE SAYS THAT SHE'S AN EMPTY BARREL,

GRANDSTANDING, APPARENTLY THIS RECENT SITUATION IS JUST AN

EXAMPLE BECAUSE YOU CAN GO BACK AND SEE OTHER EXAMPLES LIKE WHEN

SHE TOOK CREDIT FOR THIS FBI BUILDING.

HERE IS THE ACTUAL SPEECH SHE GAVE THAT SHE WAS ALLUDING TO.

>> THE BRAND-NEW FEDERAL BUILDING THAT WILL HOUSE THE FBI

HAS BEEN BUILT, AND THE FBI APPROACHES MY OFFICE.

CONGRESSWOMAN WILSON THE RIBBON-CUTTING IS SCHEDULED IN

FOUR SHORT WEEKS, THE DEDICATION IS ON THE GOVERNMENT'S CALENDAR

AND CANNOT BE CHANGED.

ONE PROBLEM, THE FBI WANTS TO NAME

THIS GORGES EDIFICE AT THE SAME TIME IN FOUR WEEKS.

EVERYONE

SAID THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

IT TAKES AT LEAST EIGHT MONTHS TO A YEAR

TO COMPLETE THE PROCESS THROUGH THE HOUSE, THE SENATE, AND TO

THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE.

I'M A SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, AND I SAID

EXCUSE MY FRENCH, HELL NO, WE ARE GOING TO GET THIS DONE.

IMMEDIATELY I WENT TO ATTACK MODE, I SAID MR.

SPEAKER, I NEED

YOUR HELP, THE FBI NEEDS HER HELP, THE COUNTRY NEEDS HER

HELP, WE HAVE NO TIME TO WASTE.

HE WENT INTO ATTACK MODE, AND IN

TWO DAYS HE PULLED IT OUT OF COMMITTEE, BROUGHT IT TO THE

FLOOR FOR A VOTE, REPRESENTATIVES PRESENTED IT, WE

ALL VOTED AND I DASHED IT OVER TO THE SENATE AND PUT THE

SENATORS ON NOTICE, PUT IT ON YOUR RADAR.

SENATOR NELSON AND

SENATOR RUBIO, WHO I BELIEVE HAVE REPRESENTED OF HERE TODAY,

THEY HOTLINED IT TO THE SENATE FLOOR IN JUST TWO DAYS, AND

GUESS WHAT?

THE PRESIDENT SIGNED THE BILL INTO LAW THIS PAST

TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2015, WITH A BANG, BANG, BANG.

IT'S A MIRACLE

TO SAY THE LEAST, BUT IT SPEAKS TO THE RESPECT THAT OUR CONGRESS

HAS FOR THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, THE MEN AND WOMEN

WHO PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE EVERYTHING A DAY. AND TODAY WE

ARE PROVIDING A BOOST --

>>IT GOES ON LIKE THAT BUT WHAT YOU SEE IS THAT SHE IS TALKING

ABOUT THE PROCESS, AT THIS DEDICATION, OF GETTING SOME

ADDITIONAL FUNDING, AND TO THE EXTENT THAT SHE IS

GRANDSTANDING, SHE'S ALSO GIVING CREDIT TO BASICALLY EVERYONE

ELSE ALONG THE WAY.

>>SHE IS QUITE INCLUSIVE.

>>IT WAS AN ANECDOTE ABOUT FINALIZING SOMETHING FOR THE

BUILDING, AND NOT WHAT GENERAL KELLY SAYS, CLAIMING SHE GOT THE

MONEY TO BUILD THE BUILDING.

YOU COULD SAY SHE'S GIVING A

RAMBLING ANECDOTE, THAT'S WHAT POLITICIANS DO UNFORTUNATELY,

BUT TO SAY THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HER TRYING TO TAKE CREDIT FOR

EVERYTHING AND TRY TO DISCREDIT HER, SAYING YOU CAN'T BELIEVE

SHE REPRESENTS THIS WIDOW WHO HAS COME OUT AND CONFIRMED THAT

TRUMP SAID WHAT HE SAID, TRUMP'S OWN PEOPLE HAVE CONFIRMED HE

SAID IT, AND THEY ARE ATTEMPTING TO MUDDY THE WATERS AND

CONFUSE YOU ABOUT THE WHOLE THING.

>>JUST AS A TESTAMENT TO THE ANECDOTE SHE WAS GIVING, JAMES

COMEY WAS AT THAT CEREMONY AS WELL, AND IN HIS PREPARED

REMARKS HE DISCUSSED THE IMPORTANCE OF IT HAVING A NAME

FOR THE DEDICATION AND HOW QUICKLY THE CONGRESSWOMAN WAS

ABLE TO PROVIDE THE INITIAL BOOST TO GET THAT TO HAPPEN, IT

WAS A BIG DEAL FOR THEM.

IT WASN'T OUT OF LEFT FIELD, IT WAS

PART OF THEIR PREPARED REMARKS.

GOES BACK TO THE FACT THAT THIS

IS A REFLECTION OF, AND I KNOW THIS IS AN EASY GO TO BUT IT'S

ALSO TRUE, OF WHAT TRUMP'S M.O. IS, TO CASH IN ON OTHER PEOPLE

AND MAKE THEM SUBJUGATE THEMSELVES.

AT EVERY EVENT KELLY

SAYS NOT A SINGLE WORD, HE JUST POINTS TO THE PRESIDENT AND

CLAPS AND EVERYONE CHEERS AND HE WALKS AWAY.

HE HAD TO GIVE THIS

SPEECH, JUST LIKE TILLERSON HAD TO DO IT THREE WEEKS AGO, I

DIDN'T SAY HE WAS A MORON.

>>AND THEN EVENTUALLY HE CASTS THEM OFF.

>>HE BURNS THEIR CREDIBILITY DOWN AND MOVES ON, THAT'S

OUR AFFECTION OF HIS OVERALL APPROACH.

>>I WISH THERE HADN'T BEEN THIS WEIRD TENSION IN THE NEWS BUT I

THINK IT'S IMPORTANT ESPECIALLY FOR TRUMP SUPPORTERS TO

UNDERSTAND THAT, FORGET ABOUT THE JOHN KELLY AND THE WILSON

THING, THE DISRESPECT GIVEN ROUTINELY FROM DONALD TRUMP TO

THE GOLDSTAR FAMILIES AND ALL THAT, THAT IS IMPORTANT, I DON'T

KNOW THAT IT WILL PENETRATE AND HIS SUPPORTERS WILL BE AFFECTED

BY IT, HE'S BEEN ROUTINELY DISRESPECTFUL TO THE MILITARY

FOR MANY YEARS AT THIS POINT, BUT HOPEFULLY ONCE THIS HAS BEEN

RESOLVED WE CAN GET BACK TO THE REAL STORY WHICH IS WHAT

ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN AFRICA, HOW WE GOT TO THAT SITUATION.

NOT

JUST WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT, BUT WHY THAT SITUATION

DEVELOPED.

LAST NIGHT I BELIEVE RACHEL MADDOW TALKED ABOUT SOME

OF THE POLICY DECISIONS THAT MIGHT HAVE LED TO THAT, HAVING

TO DO WITH CHAD AND SOME OF THAT, BUT THAT'S AN INTERESTING

SITUATION.

THE REASON WE HAVE THIS TENTED IS BECAUSE TRUMP

REFUSED TO GO ON RECORD ABOUT WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED ON THE

GROUND, AND IT MIGHT WELL BE, I SAW THIS EDITORIAL, DON'T MAKE

THIS SITUATION INTO TRUMP'S BENGHAZI -- BUT I THINK THIS IS

EXACTLY LIKE BENGHAZI.

NOT WHAT BENGHAZI BECAME, BUT WHAT IT

WAS, A MILITARY SITUATION THAT

GOT OUT OF CONTROL, THERE IS NO

HUGE CONSPIRACY, THERE'S JUST IRRESPONSIBILITY AND POOR

DECISION-MAKING.

AND TRUMP MADE IT SO MUCH WORSE BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO BE

FORTHCOMING.

>> WHEN THIS WAS FIRST HAPPENING I THOUGHT, I HOPE THE PRESIDENT

WILL ASK ABOUT WHY OUR TROOPS ARE THERE AND WHAT THE MISSION

WAS ABOUT.

THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED, IT ENDED UP BEING A

WHOLE QUESTION OF HOW COME YOU WAITED SO LONG TO CALL THE

FAMILIES, IT TURNED INTO WHAT WE'VE JUST BEEN TALKING ABOUT.

BUT THE SPECIFICS ALSO OF HOW TRUMP HAS TARNISHED, AND HOW

KELLY AND THIS ADMINISTRATION, HAVE TARNISHED THIS

CONGRESSWOMAN, HOW SHE WAS LISTENING IN ON THE CALL.

THERE'S A SENSE THAT EVERYONE IS SITTING AROUND AND SHE'S

LISTENING IN ON THE EXTENSION --

>>THE

WIDOW PUT IT ON SPEAKERPHONE, SORRY, SHE GETS TO DO THAT.

>> SHE WAS DRIVING TO PICK UP THE CORPSE OF HER DEAD SON, AND

THE CONGRESSWOMAN WAS ACCOMPANYING HER, AND THE CALL

CAME IN AND IT WAS ON THE SPEAKERPHONE, THERE'S NOTHING

DAMNING ABOUT THAT SCENARIO, AND IT EXPLAINS THE RELATIONSHIP

BETWEEN THE CONGRESSWOMAN AND THE FAMILY AND THE FALLEN

SOLDIER.

BUT THE FACT THAT IT HAS BEEN POLITICIZED, TO USE THE

OVERUSED WORD, BUT IT'S APPROPRIATE -- BUT ALSO THAT IT

HAS BEEN USED TO SOMEHOW TARNISH THIS PROUD FAMILY AND THIS

CONGRESSWOMAN, IS ABHORRENT TO ME.

>>THIS WHOLE SITUATION IS IMPORTANT BUT I AGREE, AT SOME

POINT THE REAL STORY, EVEN OUTSIDE OF THIS INCIDENT, IT'S

THE CONTEXTUAL BATTLE GOING ON IN THIS REGION, I BELIEVE TODAY,

I FORGET WHO IT WAS, A SENATOR, MAYBE LINDSEY GRAHAM, TALKING

ABOUT HOW THE WAR HAS SHIFTED TO AFRICA, IT'S COMPLICATED,

MULTIPLE COUNTRIES BORDERING NIGER HAVING TERRORIST GROUPS

THAT ARE ALIGNED WITH ISIS, PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT,

THERE HAS TO BE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE NUMBER OF TROOPS

THERE, HOW DO WE ACCESS IF IT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL, ARE WE

SIMPLY GOING TO LEAVE THEM FOR YEARS ON END?

HOW MANY TROOPS

ARE THERE, IS IT 100 OR 1000, THAT SEEMS IMPORTANT.

AND WE ARE

STILL WAITING FOR INFORMATION TO COME OUT ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR

INCIDENT, IT WILL COME OUT, THERE IS AN INVESTIGATION

ONGOING, BUT IN PARTICULAR THE PRIVATE CONTRACTOR THAT SENT THE

RESCUE, THE HELICOPTER, IF IT WAS THEIR FAULT FOR LEAVING

BEHIND A SOLDIER WE NEED TO KNOW THAT, AND WE HAVE BEEN LONG

OVERDUE FOR A LARGER CONVERSATION ABOUT THE ROLE OF

PRIVATE MILITARY CONTRACTORS IN OUR OPERATIONS, AND MAYBE

THIS COULD LEAD TO THAT.

>>I'M GLAD YOU MENTIONED PRIVATE CONTRACTORS BECAUSE QUICKLY,

THERE IS A BIG MOVE, ERIC PRINCE, THE BLACKWATER HEAD,

THEY ARE THE BIG CONTRACTORS WHO MADE OUT LIKE CRAZY ON THE IRAQ

WAR, HE'S PUSHING FOR THE PRIVATIZATION OF ALL OF THESE

WARS.

THAT WE CONTRACT ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT THINGS OUT.

THAT

NOW IS THE TIME TO PRIVATELY CONTRACT ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT

SKIRMISHES AND WAR THEATERS OUT. AND THIS IS THE MINISTRATION TO

HELP HIM DO IT.

IF EVER THERE WAS A TIME IN THIS COUNTRY WHEN

WE WOULD HAND OVER THE KEYS TO OUR MILITARY TO PRIVATE

CONTRACTORS, IT IS NOW.

SO KEEP YOUR EYE ON THAT BALL IS THIS

ENTIRE DEBATE CONTINUES.

ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE

MILITARY, KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PRIVATE CONTRACTOR PART OF

THAT EQUATION.

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Trump: Due Process Is For White People, Gitmo Is For Muslims - Duration: 3:36.

WE FOUND OUT TODAY HOW THEY ARE GOING TO RESPOND TO THE

ATTACK YESTERDAY.

IT IS NOT JUST GOING AFTER THIS DIVERSITY VISA LOTTERY PROGRAM.

TRUMP ALSO TOLD REPORTERS THIS.

THAT IS GOOD.

THE WHITE HOUSE ALSO SAID THIS.

HE IS A GUY THAT WAS IN NEW YORK.

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT HE IS AN ENEMY COMBATANT?

I WANT YOU TO COME TO GRIPS WITH THE IDEA THAT DONALD TRUMP

GETS TO LABEL PEOPLE ENEMY COMBATANTS NOW.

A WHILE BACK A COUPLE OF RIGHT-WINGERS WENT AND SHOT

A COUPLE OF POLICE OFFICERS IN NEVADA.

THEY SAID THEY WERE DOING IT FOR POLITICAL REASONS AND THEY LAID

THE GATSON FLAG ON THEIR BODIES.

NOW YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD ABOUT THAT STORY OR BARELY BECAUSE IF

IT IS A NON-MUSLIM WE DON'T GO WALL-TO-WALL WITH COVERAGE.

AND TALK ABOUT IT FOR LIKE A DAY.

SO THAT IS BASICALLY HOW THAT STORY WAS TREATED.

SHOULD WE HAVE TAKEN THOSE GUYS AND PUT THEM INTO GITMO AND

TREAT THEM AS ENEMY COMBATANTS?

OF COURSE NOT.

THEY ARE HERE, IT IS ON AMERICAN SOIL AND THEY COMMITTED AN ACT.

UNLIKE DONALD TRUMP I BELIEVE IN OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.

IT HAS A LOT OF ISSUES AND I WANT TO MAKE IT MUCH BETTER.

BUT OVERALL DO I BELIEVE THAT DEFENDANTS SHOULD HAVE RIGHTS?

YES.

HABEAS CORPUS?

YES.

I BELIEVE IN OUR CONSTITUTION AND JUSTICE SYSTEM.

I BELIEVE IT CAN BRING THOSE MONSTERS AND ABOUT THE

JUSTICE AND THIS MONSTER IN NEW YORK TO JUSTICE.

IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM AND YOU DON'T

BELIEVE IN OUR FORMER GOVERNMENT, THEN YOU SHOULD

NOT LEAD IT.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT HIM ANNOUNCING THAT HE THINKS OUR

JUSTICE SYSTEM IS A JOKE AND A LAUGHINGSTOCK?

DO YOU THINK YOU

TALKING ABOUT THOSE WELL REASONED CRITICISM OF SYSTEMIC

RACISM OR HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT WE

REALIZE THIS WEEK THAT THREE OF HIS CAMPAIGN STAFF

INCLUDING HIS FORMER CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN HAVE BEEN ARRESTED?

I'M SURE HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE TWO-TIER JUSTICE SYSTEM

WHERE PEOPLE WITH AFFLUENZA GETTING OFF FOR KILLING PEOPLE.

BUT IF YOU ARE POOR AND YOU SMOKED A JOINT YOU WILL GO

TO PRISON FOR 20 YEARS.

HE'S TALKING ABOUT OVERCROWDED PRISONS AND ñ

HE'S NOT TALKING TO ANY OF THAT, HE'S SAYING I AM

POWERFUL, HOW DARE YOU ARREST THE RICH AND POWERFUL.

AND IN THIS GUY WHO WAS A TERRIBLE HUMAN BEING WHO

SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE IN NEW YORK SAYS I DON'T BELIEVE

IN OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM, I HATE THE AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM.

TRUMP SAID IT WAS A LAUGHINGSTOCK.

HE HATES OUR

SYSTEM AND HE SAYS I DON'T BELIEVE IN IT AND WANTS TO

SEND HIM TO GITMO BECAUSE GITMO IS LAWLESS.

HE BELIEVES IN LAWLESSNESS MORE THAN IN AMERICA AND OUR

CONSTITUTION.

THIS GUY IS NOT FIT TO BE A LEADER BECAUSE HE DOESN'T

EVEN BELIEVE IN THE CONCEPT OF THE COUNTRY.

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WOODRUFF: Republicans in the House of Representatives released their plan for overhauling the U.S.

tax code today, the most sweeping proposal of its kind in more than three decades.

It was embraced quickly by President Trump and lawmakers say they aim to pass it before

the end of the year.

But the bill would bring about big changes, many of which will be the subject of big political

fights.

Lisa Desjardins reports from Capitol Hill.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RYAN: Good morning!

LISA DESJARDINS, PBS NEWSHOUR CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The speaker of the House --

RYAN: Good morning!

DESJARDINS: -- serving as cheerleader in chief.

Paul Ryan and House Republicans unveiled a sweeping plan to affect nearly every American's

taxes and simplify them, they say, down to a postcard-sized form.

RYAN: With this plan we are making pro-growth reforms so that yes, America can compete with

the rest of the world.

But we are also making it so that families like these that are here can have more take

home pay.

DESJARDINS: The 400-page bill is dense.

It would reduce most individual income tax rates, and permanently cut the corporate tax

rate from 35 percent to 20 percent.

The alternative minimum tax for wealthier Americans would end, but so would a slew of

tax breaks, including a deduction for most state and local taxes.

That could hit the wallets of high-tax states and cities, like New York and New Jersey.

To help offset that blow, the GOP bill would still allow deduction of property taxes.

Democrat and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi slammed the proposal.

REP.

NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), MINORITY LEADER: Republicans have unveiled a bill that raises taxes on

millions of middle class families and borrows trillions from the future just to give massive

new tax breaks to the wealthy and especially to their friends, corporate America.

DESJARDINS: So, what does the bill mean for individuals?

Republicans would double the standard deduction for each taxpayer to $12,000.

Next, the House GOP would collapse the seven current tax rates to just four tax rates from

12 percent to nearly 40 percent.

So, who would pay what?

Looking at married couples, filing jointly.

Those earning under $24,000 would pay no taxes due to the new standard deduction.

The largest two groups would be couples making up to $90,000, who would face a 12 percent

rate, and those making between $90,000 and $260,000, they would be taxed at 25 percent.

The GOP plan would keep the highest rate in the tax code, 39.6 percent, but apply that

to fewer people.

So, what's this mean?

It would be a rate decrease for everyone earning up to a million dollars.

And for millionaires, no change.

President Trump, meeting with Republicans after lunch, was enthusiastic, saying the

bill could get to him by Christmas.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We have a great team and it's a team that

loves what they are doing, they love the American people, they love this country and they are

going to get it done.

DESJARDINS: But some other Republicans, like Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, were uncomfortable,

especially with how the tax cuts would add to the deficit.

SEN.

JEFF FLAKE (R), ARIZONA: Rate reductions have to be accompanied by real reform.

We cannot simply rely on rosy economic assumptions, rosy growth rates to fill in the gap.

We've got to make tough decisions.

DESJARDINS: Other highly debated features?

The plan would phase out the estate tax on large-scale, inherited wealth.

Republicans say that tax hits family farms.

Others say ending it is a giveaway to the rich.

And there is also a change to one of the biggest deductions of them all -- the home mortgage

deduction.

That would stay for current homeowners, but for anyone buying a new home, there would

be a $500,000 limit.

And there are dozens of smaller pieces, including like a the concerns of from some small businesses,

that mean however much Republicans want tax cuts.

Passage is not yet certain.

REP.

KEVIN MCCARTHY (R-CA), MAJORITY LEADER: For every member, this could really become the

most significant bill they ever make a decision in their term in Congress.

DESJARDINS: Significant and soon.

A full House vote is expected in the next two weeks.

At the U.S. Capitol, I'm Lisa Desjardins for the PBS NEWSHOUR.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WOODRUFF: There are some other important changes in this bill.

It would create a minimum tax on corporate earnings overseas, but one that may be lower

for some businesses than the U.S. corporate rate here.

We'll talk with the bill's lead author after the news summary.