PBS NewsHour; October 11, 2018 6:00pm-7:00pm PDT

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>> Woodruff: GOOD EVENING, I'M JUDY WOODRUFF. ON THE NEWSHOUR TONIGHT, WIPED OUT: HURRICANE MICHAEL LEAVES A DEADLY PATH OF DESTRUCTION ALONG THE U.S. GULF COAST AND INLAND THROUGH THE SOUTHEAST. THEN, WITH LESS THAN A MONTH UNTIL VOTES ARE COUNTED IN THE MIDTERMS, WE TAKE A LOOK AT ELECTION SECURITY IN THE UNITED STATES. PLUS, THE PLASTIC PROBLEM-- CYCLING'SNSE OF UNCERTAIN FUTURE.

>> IN ORDER TO CHANG SYSTEM, WE NEED TO MAKE A COMMITMENT TO BUY OUR OWN RECYCLABLES AND USE OUR OWN RECYCLABLES IN AMERICAN MANUFACTURING, AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT RELIANT ON EXPORTS.

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>> Woodruff: THE GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA CALLS IT "UNIMAGINABLE DESTRUCTION."LO IT'S THEDA PANHANDLE, 24 HOURS AFTER HURRICANE "MICHAEL" SMASHED ASHORE. THE STORM LEFT AT LEAST SIX DEAD, HUNDREDS UNACCOUNTED FOR, AND SOME ONE MILLION CUSTOMERS WITH NO POWER, ACROSS FOUR STATES. LLIAM BRANGHAM SPENT MUCH OF THIS DAY IN THE PANHANDLE, AND REPORTS FROM QUINCY, FLORI.

>> Brangham: AS HURRICANE MICHAEL CAME ASHORE, RT FLYING.

>> HE SAID, OVE, MOVE, MOVE" AND THE DOOR FLEW OPEN AND THE ROOF BLEW OFF!

>> Brangham: TREES TOPPLED OVER. THE FULL FORCE OF THE STORM, CTH ITS 155 MILE PER HOUR WINDS BORE DOWN ON TSTAL TOWNS OF PANAMA CITY AND MEXICO BEACH ALONG FLORIDA'S PANHANDLE. MANY OF MEXICO BEACH'S BUILDINGS APPEARED TO PULVERIZED BY THE STORM, BEARING THE BRUNT OF THE PACT. AS THE WINDS FINALLY RELENTED, AND DAY BROKE, AN ARMY O UTILITY WORKERS MOBILIZED, FANNING OUT TO RESTORE ELECTRICITY FOR THE NEARLY ONE MILLN CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST. FLORIDA GOVERNOR RICK SCOTT.

>> WE'RE DEPLOYING A MASSIVE WAVE OF RESPONSE AND THOSE EFFORTS ARE ALREADY ON T WAY. HELP IS COMING BY AIR, LAND AND SEA.

>> Brangham: SOME OF THE HARDEST HIT AREAS HERE IN THE PANHANDLE ARE STILL TOO DIFFICULT TO REACH, AND IT'S JUST MILES ANDAT MILES OOK LIKE THIS-- TREES HAVE COME DOWN, TAKEN POWER LINES WITH THEM, LEAVING WHOLE COMMUNITIES STRANDED. LOCAL OFFICIALS SAIDCOPE OF THE DAMAGE WAS OVERWHELMING >>D DEVASTATING. E HAVE A LOT OF DOWNED TREES, A LOT OF BLOCKED ROADS. POWER OUTAGES. ALMOST UBIQUITOUS AT THIS POINT, BUT WE'RE GETTING EVERYBODY UP ONNE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBL IT'S NOT OUR FIRST RODEO, WE'VE DONE IT THE LAST TWO YEARS, GETTING PRETTY GOOD AT IT, MAKING HEADWAY BY THE MINUTE.

>> Brangham: THE STORM SURGE CRASHED PAST TREES AND ONTO THE ROADS NEAR APALACHICOLA NATIAL FOREST. MANY OF THE PINE TREES THAT THE PANHANDLE IS FAMOUS FOR WERE DECIMATED.

>> IT SNAPPED TREES LIKE THEY WERE TOOTHPICKS. THERE WAS NOTHING TO IT. SO, I'M GLAD I AM STILL HERE. I'M GLAD I SURVIVED, I'M GLAD THE CAR MADE IT.

>> I PRAYED A LOT. I WAS IN A BUNKER, ALMOST A BUNKER. AND JUST PRAYERS. AND HOW HALF OF THIS MISSED US, I HAVE NO GODLY IDEA.

>> Brangham: LAST NIGHT, SHEETS OF RAIN AND WIND BUFFETED THE COASTLINE FOR HOURS ON END. SCIENTISTS SAY THESE INCREASINGLY STRONG HURRICANES HAVE BEEN INTENSIFIED BY THE FECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, AS WARMER WATER PROVIDES MORE OF THE ENERGY AND MOISTURE THAT FEEDS THE STORM. PRESIDENT TRUMP PRAISED THE RESPONSE.

>> EVERYBODY'S GOTTEN RAVE REVIEWS. I JUST SPOKE WITH GOVERNOR SCOTT. THEY'RE VERY HAPPY, FOOD IS BEING NOW, FOLLOWING THE HURRANE, BEING BROUGHT IN. WE HAVE UNBELIEVABLE LARGE AMOUNTS OF WATER AND FOOD AND EVERYTHING THAT PEOPLE WANT.

>> Brangham: THIS MORNING, VICE ESIDENT PENCE SAID THE GOVERNMENT WAS ACTIVELY ENGAGED.

>> THE PRESIDENT AND I ARE FOCUSED ON RESPONSE EFFORTS. WE'VE TAKEN DECISIVE ACTION IN THIS COUNTRY IN COORDINATION AS WE SPEAK, FOCUSED ON LIFESAVING MISSION, SEARCH A RESCUE TO ASSIST WITH LIFESAVING IMPACTS OF THIS HURRICANE.

>> Brangham: THE STORM MADE ITS WAY UP THE SOUTHEAST COAST, AND DUMPED MORE RAIN ON ALREADY SATURATED NORTH CAROLINA. GOVERNOR ROY COOPER SAID THE STATE WAS ON HIGH ALERT FOR MORE FLOODING.

>> THE RAIN OVER SIX INCHES IN PARTS OF NORTH CAROLINA. ERTH CAROLINA WAS SPARED VICIOUS BEATING MICHAEL BROUGHT TO FLORIDA AND PARTS OF GEORGIA. THIS STORM WILL NOT GO DOWN THOUT A FIGHT. IS STILL A THREAT AND SHOULD BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY, PARTICULARLY WITH STORM SURGE, HIGH WINDS,ND FLOODING THE THREAT OF TORNADOES.

>> FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA, I'M WLLIAM BRANGHAM.

>> Woodruff: I SPOTH WILLIAM A SHORT TIME AGO FROM QUINCY, FLORIDA. WILLIAM, I UNDERSTU ARE ABOUT 70 MILES FROM THE COAST WHERE THE STORM CAME ASHORE. TELL US WHAT IT IS LIKE WH YOU ARE.

>> WELL, JUDY, IN THE STRETCH WE HAVE SEEN SO FAR, IT IS A STORY OF TREE AFTER TREE AFTER TREE AFTER TREE BEING KNOCKED OVER B HURRICANE MICHAEL. I MEAN, THIS STRETCH OF THE PANHANDLE IS KNOWN FOR ITS LUSH CANOPY, AND NOW THE HIGH WENDZ OF THAT STORM HAVE TURNED ALL THOSE TREES INTO-- INTO THIS COMMUNITY'S NIGHTMARE. POWER LINES HAVE BEEN KNOCKED DOWN. 'S PART OF WHY THERE ARE OVER ONE MILLION PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO POWER. THOSE HIGH WINDS THAT CAME INT LATE LGHT, ALSO HAVE KNOCKED DOWN ALL THE CELL PHONE TOWERS AROUND HERCOE SO UNICATION IS VERY DIFFICULT. WE HEARD ON THE RADIO TODAY ONE LOCAL PUBLIC OFFIAL WHO WAS USING THE RADIO, A RADIO INTERVIEW, TO TRY TO COMMUNICATE WITH ONE OF THEIR OWN EMERGENCY MANAGERS SOMEWHERE THAT THEYUL CO'T FIND THEM, SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T PICK UP A PHONE THAT WOULD ACTUALLY WORK. SO RESTORINPOWER HAS BEEN THE HUGE ISSUE HERE.M YOHT HEAR TRUCKS BEHIND ME. OFAT'S REALLY THE ARMADA UTILITY TRUCKS THAT ARE COMING THROUGH THIS ENTIRE AREA TRYING TO RER.ORE POWE BUT JUST FROM WHAT WE SAW, THE AMOUNT OF POWER LINES WE SAW DUN ON THE GROUND, IT W A LONG TIME FOR THESE COMMUNITIES TO GET THEIR POWER BACK.

>> Woodruff: SEEING THOSEEM ES FROM THE COAST IN MEXICO BEACH AND PANAMA CITY, THECT DESTN SEEMED SO SEVERE.

>> THAT'S RIGHT, JUDY. THE DEVASTATION ALONG THEER ASREALLY ARE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE HOW BAD THAT DAMAGE IS. AND I THINK THAT'S SIMPLY A FUNCTION OF IF YOU HAVE A CATEGORY 4 STORM-- IT WAS VERY INARLY A CATEGORY 5-- COMING IN, 155-MILE-AN-HOUR, THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH YOU CAN DO. IF YOU REMEMBER, HURRICANE ANDREW HIT FLORIDA IN 1992, AND BUILDING CODES ACROSS THE STATE WERE STRENGTHENED. BUT IN THE FACEAVE CATEGORY 4 WITH ALREADY HIGH TIDES AND THAA WALL OR AND THAT AMOUNT OF WIND, THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH YOU CAN RE-ENGINEER AGAINST THAT CIECHED A FORCE. SO REALLY GOING TO BE ONE OF THE ONGOING CHALLE ES HERE ISHOW DO THEY REBUILD KNOWING THIS STORM, THIS KIND OF A STORM COULD CME AGAIN NEXT EK, NEXT MONTH, NEXT YEAR?

>> Woodruff: AND I UNDE RSTAND SODICAL FACILITIES WERE DAMAGED, AND OFFICIALS HAVE HAD TO EVACUE PATIENTS?

>> THAT'S RIGHT, JUDY. IT'S OUR UNDERSTANDING THAT AT LEAST TWO HOSPITALS IN PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA, RIGHT ALONG THE COAST, HAD TO EVATE THEIR PATIENTS. THEY'VE LOST POWER. THEY HAVE NO FRESH WATER COMING IN THERE. WE BELIEVE IT'S ABOUT 300 TIENTS THAT HAD TO BE EVACUATED. BAY MEDICAL, APPARENTLY, WAS ONE OF THE BIGGER HOSPITALS THERE. THEY HAD INTENSE DAMAGE TO THEIE INTENSIVE NIT. THERE WERE WINDOWS KNOCKED OUT. APPARENTLY THERE WAS FLOODING INSIDE THE BUILDING.L SO IF A HOSPIN'T KEEP THE POWER ON REGULARLY, CAN'T GET FRESH WATER TO RUN THE TOILETS AND MP HAVE DRINKING WATER, IT'S SIMPLY SAFER. SO THEY ARE MOVING PATIENTS OUT OF THERE NEARBY HOSPITAL HOSPIO THE EAST AND THE WEST THAT MIGHT HAVE SOME POWER SO WE'LL BE WATCHI THAT CLOSELY.

>> Woodruff: WILLIAM, THANK YOU.

>> THANKS, JUDY.

>> Woodruff: NOW WE EXPLORE THE STORM'S DAMAGE FURTHER WITH FLORIDA'S U.S. SENATOR BILL NELSON. HE JOINS FRUPANAMA CITY BEACH. SENATOR, THANK YOU FOR TALKING WITH US. I KNOW YOU'VE SEEN HURRICANES BEFORE. HOW DOES THIS ONE COMPARE?

>> THIS IS THE LARGEST ONE, THE MOST DIFFICULT ONE, AND CERTAINLY IN MY LIFETIME, TO HIT THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA. I THINK YOU'D HAVE TO COMPARE THE DESTRUCTIVE FORCE TO THAT OF HURRICANE ANDREW AT HIT SOUTH MIAMI-DADE COUNTY BACK IN '92. BUT THIS ONE, FORTUNATELY, DID NOT HIT A POLATED PART OF ITS MOST-DESTRUCTIVE FORCES, WHICH WERE EAST OF PANAMA CITY. AND I INK THE LITTLE TOWN OF MEXICO BEACH, WHEN WE CAN GET IN THERE-- AND IT'S ONLY ACCESSIBLE BY HEL- ICOPTER NOWE'RE GOING TO SEE THE DIECT REULT OF THE WATER AND CATEGORY-4 WIN COMING DIRECTLY OFF OF THE GULF WITHOUT A BARRIER ISLAND OIE TH BREAK IT UP.

>> Woodruff: WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU MIGHT SEE? AND,ENATOR, WHATARE YOU UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE NEED RIGHT NOW THERE?

>> WELL, NOW'S T TIME FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO COME TO EVERYBODY'S ASSISTANCE. THE HURRICANE HAS PASSED. YOU CAN SEE, THE WEATHER IS GREAT, BECAUSE THE HURRICANE IS MOVING SO FAST, ALL OF THE JUNKO AROUND IT IS LGONE. BUT THEY'RE GOING TO NEED A LOT OF HELP AROUND HERE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME. AND YOU SAID WHAT DO I EXPECT IN MEXICO BEACH? I FEAR THE WORST. IF PEOPLE HUNKERED DOWN, I HOPE WE FIND THEM ALIVE.

>> Woodruff: WELL, CEWE AINLY HOPE THAT'S-- WE HOPE AS MANY SURVIVED AS POSSIBLE. SENATOR,O WHEN YOU SAY THE NEED IS GOING TO BE GREAT FOR SOME TIME TO COME, WHAT DO YO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT POWER? ARE YOU TALKING ABO CENSUS THINGS, FOOD, HOUSING, WHAT ELSE? ON THE WAY HERE, I CAME THROUGH PINE FORESTS THAT WERE JUST STICKS, AND, OTHERWISE, THEY WERE ALL SNAPPED IN TWO. WHEN YOU HAVE THAT KIND OFFO DESTRUCTIVE AND YOU APPLY IT TO BUILDINGS-- LIKE THIS ONE BEHIND ME, AND WE ARE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE STORM, SO THIS WASN'T WHERE THE WORST WINDS PEOPLE ARE GOING TO NEED HOUSING, THEY'RE GOING TO NEED FOOD. BE'S GOING TO TAKE SOME TIME TO GET ELECTRICITY UPUSE ELECTRICITY, ALL THE LINES ARE DOWN. THIS PLACE WILL BE COMPLETELY DARK ONCE THE SUN GOES DOWN. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE FACING. WHAT TYPICALLY YOU WOULD FIND IN A HURRICANE AFTER THE HURRICANE HAS PASSED.

>> Woodruff: SO ARE YO CONFIDENT, SENATOR, THAT FEMA, THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO WHAT'S NECESSARY?

>> WELL, IT HAS TO. CERTAINLY, I HOPE IT DOESN'T DO FOR ANHANDLE OF FLORIDA WHAT IT DID IN PUERTO RICO, BECAUSE THEY WERE TREATED AS SECOND-CLASS CITIZE. BUT FEMA, IF IT'S ON THE BALL, IT WON'T DO THE SECOND-CLASS JOB, AND THEY'VE GOTPEOPLE PREPOSITIONED HERE, SUPPLIES PREPOSITIONED. SO THEY SHOULD BE IN A GOOD SHAPE TO GET FOLKS WHAT THEY NEED. BUT IT'S GOING TO BE A SLOW REBUILDING PROCESS.

>> Woodruff: AND, SENATOR, WHAT ABOUT INLAND IN FLORIDA? WE KNOW THE STORM MOVED QUICKLY UP THROUGH THE PANHANDLE AND ON INTO GEORGIA. ARE YOU HEARING-- WHAT ARE YOU UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE E?ST OF THE ST

>> WOMAN, I CAN TELL YOU, SINCE THE INTERSTATE WAS SHUT DOWN, I HAD DIVERTED TO GOTO GEORGIA AND GO AROUND THE DESTRUCTION. , D EVEN UASP INTO GEORGI FAR AS BAINBRIDHE TREES WERE ALL OVER THE ROAD THAT FINALLY WE HAD TO GIVE UP AND TURN AROUND AND COME BACK TO THE INTERSTATE, AND FINAL LIE THE INTERSTATE OPENED UP AN WAS ABLE TO GET INTO PANAMA CITY.

>> Woodruff: WELL, SENCOATOR, OF SE, ALL OF US ARE HOPING FOR THE VERY BEST. NATE OPPONENT IN THE SE RACE, GOVERNOR RICK SCOTT, SAYS N'S GOING TO BE SUSPENDING HIS CAMPAIGNING FOR TXT FEW WEEKS. ARE YOU DOING THE SAME THING?

>> YES MA'AM. WE'VE SUSPENDED OUR COMMERCIALS IN THIS AREA. BY THE WAY, IN OTHER PARTS OORF A, HE HAS NOT. BUT NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT POLITICS. NOW ISTHE TIME TO TAABOUT GETTING PEOPLE MADE WHOLE AGAIN AND GETTING THWHERE THEY CAN LIVE THEIR NORMAL LIVES. AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE HURTING FOR SOME PERIOD OF TIME.

>> Woodruff: SENOR BILL NELSON, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND WISHING EVERYBODY THERE THE VERY BEST WITH THIS RECOVERY.

>> THANKS, JUDY. IN THE DAY'S OTHER NEWS, A STOCO SE RIPPLED AROUND THE GLOBE, AND WALL STREET TOOK HEAVY LOSSES AGAIN. THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE PLUMMETED 546 POINTS TO CLOSE AT 25,052. IT'S DOWN MORE THAN 1,000 POINTS IN THE LAST TWO DAYS, THE BIGGEST PERCENTAGE DROP SINCE FEBRUARY. THE NASDAQ FELL 93 POINTS, AND THE S&P 500 LOST 57. RISING INTEREST RATES ARE HELPING DRIVE THE SELL-OFF. TOY, PRESIDENT TRUMP CHARG AGAIN THAT THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS RAISING RATES TOO QUICKLY.

>> I THINK THE FED IS OUT OF CONTROL. I THINK WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS WRONG. I THINK THE FED IS FAR TOO STRINGENT AND THEY'RE MAKING A STAKE AND IT'S NOT RIGHT, AND DESPITE THAT WE'RE DOING VERY WELL. BUT IT'S NOT NECESSARY IN MYIO OP AND I THINK I KNOW ABOUT IT BETTER THAN THEY DO.

>> Woodruff: AT THE SAME TIME, MR. TRUMP SAID HE DOES NOT INTEND TO FIRE JEROME POWELL, THE FED CHAIRMAN. IN INDONESIA, THE SEARCH FOR EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI VICTIMS HAS NOW BEEN EXTENDED H TOMORROW. RESCUE CREWS ON SULAWESI ARE STILL LOOKING FOR BODIES, WITH THOUSAS OF PEOPLE MISSING. THE CONFIRMED DEATH TOLL HAS REACHED TO 2,073. THE NATIONAL DISTER AGENCY SAID TODAY IT COULD TAKE TWO YEARS FOR THE AREA TO RECOVER. A U.S. ASTRONAUT AND A RUSSIAN COSMONAUT ARE SAFE AFTER THEIR BOOSTER ROCKET FAILED DURING A LAUNCH TODAY. B THSTED OFF FROM KAZAKHSTAN, BOUND FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, BUT MINUTES LATER, THEY WRENCHED EE OF THE MALFUNCTIONING ROCKET. OFFICIALS WITH NASA SAID THE RUSSIAN SPACECRAFT HELPED THE MEN SURVE THE HARROWING FALL.

>> THE SOYUZ IS A ROBUST, REDUNDANT RELIABLE MACHINE THAT HAS LOT OF FLIGHTS UNDER ITS BELT. AND IN THIS CASE, IT HAD AN ASSET ANOMALY. IT HAS A GREAT ABORT SYSTEM THAT BROUGHT OUR CREW BACK TO EARTH

>> Woodruff: IN RESPONSE, THE RUSSIANS SUSPENDED ALL MANNED FLIGHTS WHILE AN INVESTIGATION PROCEEDS. SINCE THE U.S. RETIRED THE SPACE SHUTTLES, RUSSIAN ROCKETS ARE THE ONLY WAY HUMANS CAN REACH THE SPACE STATION. EL AMERICAN GRADUATE STUDENT DETAINED IN ISRAPPEARED IN COURT TODAY. H LARA ALQASEM BEEN HELD SINCE ARRIVING AT BEN GURION AIRPORT LAST WEEK. SHE FACES DEPORTATION FOR ALLEGEDLY BACKING A BOYCOTT OF E RAEL. THE ISRAELIS SAYS FREE TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY. THERE'S NO INDICATION OF WHEN THE COURT WILL RULE ON HER APPEAL. BACK IN THIS COUNTRY, THE WASHINGTON STATE SUPREME COURT UNANIMOUSLY STRUCK DOWN THE STATE DEATH PENALTY LAW. THE COURT RULED THLAW HAS BEEN USED ARBITRARILY AND IN A WAY THAT DISCRIMINATES AGAINST MINORITIES. WASHINGTON HAS HAD A MORATORIUME ONTIONS SINCE 2014.TH IT IS NO20th STATE TO ELIMINATE THE DEATH PENALTY. PROSECUTORS IN NEW YORK TODAYTH DROPPED PART OSEXUAL ASSAULT CASE AGAINST FORMER MOVIE ODUCER HARVEY WEINSTEIN. LUCIA EVANS WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO ACCUSE WEINSTEIN, A YEAR AGO. BUT PROSECUTORS SAY A POLICE DETECTIVE MAY HAVE SUPPRESN D INFORMATIOAT UNDERCUT HER CLAIM. WEINSTEIN HEARD THE ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY IN A MANHATTAN COURT. AFTERWARD, LAWYE HAD DECIDEDLY DIFFERENT TAKES.

>> WE ARE PLEASED WITHHIS DEVELOPMENT, THE CASE IS NOT OVER, BUT I THINK IT IS PERMANENTLY AND IRREPARABLY DAMAGED. WE WILL SEEK TO DISMISS THE INDICTMENT, ALL OF THE COUNTS. T PROSECUTIONS DECISION TO TANDON MY CLIENTS CLAIMS DOES NOT INVALIDATE TTH OF HER CLAIMS. THE CASE AGAINST HARVEY WEINSTEIN IS FAR FROM OVER AND WE EXPECT THE D.A. TO MOVE FORWARD.

>> Woodruff: WEINSTEIN STILL FACES CRIMINAL CHARGES INVOLVING AVO WOMEN. NEARLY 70 OTHERSCOME FORWARD TO MAKE SIMILAR ACCUSATIONS. THE CASE HELPED SPARK THE #METOO MOVEMENT. SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFICIARIES WILL SEE A BOOST IN THEIR ANNUAL USTMENT, ORING A "COLA," NEXT YEAR. THE PROGRAM TODAY ANNOUNCED AN INCREASE OF 2.8% TO KEEP PACE WITH INFLATION.AT ORKS OUT TO ABOUT $39 A MONTH FOR THE AVERAGE RETIRED WORKER.SI AND, PNT TRUMP WELCOMED RAPPER KANYE WEST AND FORMER PRO FOOTBALL GREAT JIM BROWN TO THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY TO DISCUSS EVERYTHING FROM PRISON REFORM TO WELFARE. IN AN OVAL OFFICE SESSION, WEST HEAPED PRAISE ON THE PRESIDENT, AND LAUNCHED INTO FREE-FORM COMMENTARY.

>> PEOPLE EXPECT THAT IF YOU'RE BLACK YOU HAVE TO BE DT. I HAVE A-- I'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS TH BASICALLY SAID THAT WELFARE IS THE REASON WHY A LOT OF BLACK PEOPLE END UP BEING DEMOCRAT. THEY SAY, YOU KNOW FIRSTF ALL IT'S A LIMIT TO THE AMOUNT OF JOBS. SO THE FATHERS LOSE THE JOBS. AND THEY S WE'LL GIVE YOU MORE MONEY FOR HAVING MORE KIDS IN YOUR HOME. IT WAS SOMETHING ABOUT WHEN I PUT THIS HAT ON AND MADE ME FEEL LIKE SUPERMAN. YOU MADE A SUPERMAN. THAT'S MY FAVORITE SUPERHERO. AND YOU MADE A SUPERMAN CAPE FOR ME. WE CAN EMPOWER OUR FACTORIES. WE CAN BRING NOT ONLY ADIDAS SHORE WE COULD BRING FOXCONN TO SET UP A FACTORY. I THINK MINNESOTA MAYB0.

>> WISCONSIN, WISCONSIN.

>> YEAH WISCONSIN, THEY HAVE BS PEOPLE MAKING $53,000 A YEAR. BUT WHEN WE MAKE EVERYTHING IN CHINA AND AMERICA THEN WE'RE CHEATING ON OUR COUNTRY AND WE'RE PUTTING PEOPLE IN POSITIONS THAT HAVE TO DO ILLEGAL THINGS TO END UP IN A CHEAPEST FACTORY EVER: THEIS ON SYSTEM.U

>> I TELL AT, THAT WAS PRETTY IMPRESSIVE. THAT WAS QUITE SOMETHING.

>> IT WAS FROM THE SOUL. I JUST CHANNELED IT.OR

>> Woodruff: FON THIS, OUR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT YAMICHE ALCINDOR JOINS ME NOW. SO, YAMICHE, YOU WERE TELLING ME AFTER KANYE WEST'S COMMENTS, THERE WAS A RONG REACTION, ST OF IT NEGATIVE. WHAT'S BEHIND THAT?

>> WELL, IT WAS REALLY TRULY A BIZARRE MOMENT AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND MAINLIT SHOWED REALLY THE EXTREME CHANGE IN KANYE WEST'S POLITICS. KANYE WEST WAS A RAPPER KNOWN FOR HIS SOCIAL ACTIVISM. HE WAS A RAPPER ALSO KNOWN FOR CALLING OUT PRESIDENT TRUMP. HE FAMOSAUSLY THAT PRESIDENT BUSH DIDN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE SO HE WAS CALLING OUT PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH IN THAT INSTANCE AND HE WAS TALKING ABOUT KATRINA AND THE FACT THERE WERE AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO DIDN'T FEEL AS THOUHE GOVERNMENT CARED ABOUT THEM AFTER THE RESPONSE TO THE HURRICANE. INSTEAD, YOU HAVE KANYE WEST SAYING HE'S NOT ONLY AN TSPOKEN SUPPORTER OF PREDENT TRUMP. IT'S THE FACT THAT HE SAID STUFF LIKE SLAVERY IS A CHOICE. HE'S ALSO TODAY, IN WHAT WAS AUT 10-MMONOLOGUE, HE TALKED ABOUT STEREOTYPES USED AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS THROUGHOUT HISTORY. LE SAID AT SOME POINT, AFRICAN AMERICANS LIKE RE, AND THE FACT THAT THERE ARE NOT FATHERS IN THE HOMES OF AFRICAN THESE ARE THINGS THAT ARE, AGAIN, STEREOTYPES. THEY'RE NOT TRUE. SO A LOT OF PEEOPLE REALLY AR SAYING WHO IS THIS PERSON? THE RAPPER WE KNOW IS SOMEONE WHO WASLIFTING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY. SO NOW PEOPLE ARE REALLY, REALLY QUESTIONING KIND OF WHERE WE GO FROM HERE.

>> Woodruff: WE MENTIONED THIS WAS A MEETING WITH JIM. BRO WHY WAS KANYE WEST THERE?

>> KANYE WEST WAS THERE TO ADVOCA FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM. HIM ALONG WITH WITH HIS WIFE, KIM KARDASHIAN WEST, HAVE TAKEN UP CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM. HIS WIFE, KIM RDASHIAN, APPEALED TO THE PRESIDENT AND L.T A PRISONER RELEASED THROUGH THAT APP HE WAS TALKING ABOUT LARRY HOOVER, AND THE FACT THAT LARRY HOOVER WHO IS REALLY A FOUNDER OR COFOUNDER OF THE GANGSTERS DISCIPLEDISCIPS IN, A STREET GAN CHICAGO, SHOULD BE RELEASED, SOMEONE FACING MORE THAN 100 YEARAUIN PRISON BEC OF MURDER. KANYE WAS BASICALLY SUPPOSED TO BE TALKING ABHAT AND WENT OFF ON A TIRADE ABOUT HIS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES D OTHER THINGS.

>> Woodruff: THE PRESIDENT WAS WELCOMING THIS IN PART BECAUSE IT WAS AN OUTREACH TOER AFRICAN-AN VOTERS TO SUPPORT HIM. WHAT AFFECT DO WE THINK THIS COULD HAVE ON THE PRESIDENT'S DOSUPPORT?

>> WT HAVE ANY POLLING YET, OF COURSE, BUT ESSENTIALLY, THIS IS LIKELY NOT GOING TO HELP IDENT TRUMP OR KANYE WEST, REALLY, APPEAL TO AFRICAN AMERICAN DEMOCRATS OR AFRICANPU AMERICAN ICANS. ON THE ONE HAND, AFRICAN AMERICAN REPUBLICANS WANT TO HAVE AN AUDIENCE WITH THE PRESIDENT. THEY WANT TO BE TALKING ABOUT SME ECONOMY, ABOUT WAGES, MAYBE ABOULL-BUSINESS LOANS FOR THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES ACROSS THIS COUNTRY. BUT THEY'RE NOT GETTING THE ISDIENCE THAT KANYE WEST GETTING. SO THAT'SANGERING BLACK REPUBLICANS. FOR BLACK DEMOCRATS, THEY SEE SOMEBODY WHO I REALLY LASHING OUT AND USING STEREOTYPES ANDAT ALSO, ISN'T GOING TO APPEAL TO AFRICAN AMERICAN VOTERS. THIS WAS ALLY I THINK A WEIRD MOMENT OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY. AND IT WAS REALLY ABOUT T CELEBRITY REALITY TV STARS CHATTING IT UP FOR 10 MINUTES BUT NOT MUCH SUBSTANCE CAME OUT OF THE DISCUSSION.

>> Woodruff: IT WAS CERTAINLY ONE THAT GOTTEN'S ATTENTIONY. TO UNUSUALT VERY LEAST.

>> YEAH.

>> Woodruff: YAMICHE ALCINDOR, THANK YOU.

>> Woodruff: STILL TO COME ON THE NEWSHOUR: THE STATE OF OUR ELECTION CURITY AHEAD OF THE COMI MIDT.SAUDI ARABIA COMES UNDER INCREASED SCRUTINY IN THE WRITER. S FOR THE SOLUTI UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF RECYCLING IN THE UNITED STATES. AND A BRIEF BUT SPECTACULAR TAKE ON WRITING ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES.

>> Woodruff: WITH THE 2018 MIDTERM ELECTIONS LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY, AND EARLY VOTING ALREADY UNDERWAY IN SOME STATES, OFFICIALS IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ARE SOUNDING THE ALARM ABOUT CHINA'S ATTEMPTS TO TFLUENCE THE OUTCOME OF N MONTH'S VOTE. I SPOKE A SHORT TIME AGO WITH CHRISTOPHER KREBS, UNDERSECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY'S NATIONAL PROTECTION AND PROGRAMS DIRECTORATE, ABOUTHESE CONCERNS AND I STARTED BY ASKING HIM HOW HE SEES THE THREAT

>> GIVEN OUR EXPERIENCE OF 2016 AND WHAT WE SAW THE RUSSIANS ATTEMPT TO DO ACROSS THE NATION'S ELECTION EQUIPMENT, ELECTION INFRASTRUCTURE, WE CERTAINLY HAVE A DEGREEOF CONCERN OF WHAT THEIR CAPABILITY AND THEIR CAPABILITY IS D THEIR PRIOR INTENT HAS DEMONSTRATED. SO THAT'S KIND OF BEEN THE PLANNING FACTOR THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING AGAINST, THE FACT WHETHER THEY COME BACK OR NOT--

>> Woodruff: "THEY" BEING?

>> "THEY" BEING THE RUSSIANS, WE HAVEN'T SEEN DEMONSTRATED RUSSIAN ACTIVITY IN A REPEAT OF6 BUT I MENTIONED THE PLANNING ASPECT, HOW WE'RE PLANNING. WE'RE READY. WE'RE PLANNING FOR TH TO COM BACK. AND I THINK IN TERMS OF WHERE WE ARE FOR '16, I MEN BEFORE, BUT I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE THE MOST SECURE ELECTION IN THE MOD ERA BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF WORK WE'VE DONE WITH STATE AND LOCAL ELECTION OFFICIALS WHO ARE, BY THE CONSTITUTION, BY LAW, RESPONSIBLE FOR ADMINISTERING ELECTIONS, FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

>> Woodruff: LL, AS YOU KNOW, THE PRESIDENT, THE VICE PRESIDENT HAVING OUT OF THEIR WAY IN THE LAST FEW DAYS TO TALK ABOUT CHINA, TO SAYC THAT NA HAS BEEN TRYING TO MEDDLE IN OUR ELECTIONS. THE VICE PRESIDENT WENT SO FAR AS TO SAY WHAT T RUSSIANS HAVE DONE PALES INAR COON TO WHAT THE CHINESE ARE DOING. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT THATMEANS, SPELL IT OUT FOR US?

>> I THINK WE NEED TO KEEP IN MIND, GIVEN THE WAY CONNECTED AND THE GIVEN THE WAY WE CONSUME AND USE AND SHARE INFORMATION, THERE'S A BROAD RANGE OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR ANY NATION STATE, WHETHER IT'S RUSSIA OR CHINA, TO TRY TO INFLUENCE THE WAY AMERICANSAN THINTHEY ACT. SO THE RUSSIANS, I THINK, HAVE BEEN HIASTORICALLY-- OR AT LT MOST RECENTLY-- MUCH NOISIER, MUCH MORE T IN FRONT. THEY'VE ATTEMPTED TO GET INTO ELECTION EQUIPMENT AND MANIPULATE THERE.E THEYSO USED SOCIAL MEDIA TO SOW DISCORD AND DIVISIVENESS. THE CHINESE ARE MUCH MORE ITRATEGIC, MUCH MORE UNDER THE RADAR, PERHAPS,A LONGER, MORE STRATEGIC GAME IN PLAY.TH ANR ATTEMPTS HERE ARE TO INFLUENCE THE WAY THE AMERICANS THINK ABOUT POLICYS IES. AND DOWN THE ROAD, WHETHER IT'S THE 18-- BUT ALSO MOREOR THE MIDTERMS-- I'M SORRY, THE 2020RY PRESIDENTIAL--G TO INFLUENCE HOW VOTERS, WHEN THEY GO TO THE POLLS, YOU KNOW, WHAT' BUBBLE T GOING TO FILL IN OR WHAT BUTTON THEY'RE GOING TO PUSH.

>> Woodruff: IT'S INTERESTING YOU SHOULD MENTION THAT. WE'VE SEEN, I GUESS, NEWSPAPER INSERTS, ONE IN PARTICULAR IN IOWA, THE PRESIDENT TETED ABOUT THAT. BUT WE SAW THAT THE EDITOR OF THE "DES MOINES GISTER" THE NEWSPAPER WHERE THIS INSERT WAS, SHE WAS QUOTED AS SAYING, "THIS KIND OF INSERT MEETS OUR STANDARD CRITERIA FOR ADVERTISING," UNLIKE THE KIND OF HIDDEN HING, AS YOUST MENTIONED, THE RUSSIANS WERE DOING. SO IS IT REALLY THAT UNDERHANDED, IUESS, IS MY QUESTION?

>> WELL, IT'S NOT THAT IT'S UNDERHANDED IT'S IN FACT A FOREIGN INFLUENCE OPERATION. WE THINK BACK TO 2016, AND WHAT THE RUSSIANS ATTEMPTED TO DO. THEY USED THEIR STATE-SPONSOREDT MEDIA TS OF SPUTNIK AND RT TO AMPLIFY MESSAGE AND DRIVE FALSE NARRATIVES. CHINA'S DOING THE SAME THING WITH "CHINA DAILY" AND, INSTRUMENTS OF STATE MEDIA. YOU KNOW, THEY'RE CARRYING A MESSAGE ON BEHALF OF BEIJING IN THIS CASE. SO WHILE IT MAY MEET SOME JOURNALISTIC STANDARD, THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH AN OUTCOME AND ACHIEVE THEIR OWN POLICY OBJECTIVES THROUGH THESE EFFORTS.

>> Woodruff: IS IT-- IS IT-- BUT WE THINK OF THE RUSSIANS AS JUST SPREADING DISINFORMATION. THE CHINESE ARVE BASICALLY ING THEIR POINT OF VIEW. IS THERE A DIFFERENCE THERE?

>> WELL, ABSOLUTELY. AND I THINK, AGAIN, WHEN YOU KIND OF LAY IT ALL OUT ON THE TABLE OF WHAT THE INDEPENDENT-- THE VARIS OBJECTIVES OF TH NATION MAY BE, THE RUSSIANS ARE MUCH MORE TACTICAL AND OPERATIONAL AND HERE AND TODAY, YOU KNOW. FOR THEM, A STONG U.S. DOESN'T REALLY BENEFIT THEM IN THE LONG RUN. THE CHINESE, HOWEVER, WE HAVE A RELATIONIP, AND IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THY-- WHILE THEY THINK STRIEJICALLY, AND SO FOR TH, THEY WANT OUR OUTCOMES, OUR POLICY OBJECTIVES TO ALIGN WITH THEIR LONGER TERM GOALS.

>> Woodruff: SO HOW ARE YONG COUNTETHAT IN YOUR JOB, YOU KNOW, WORRYING ABOUT SECURITY OF THE ELECTION?

>> SO I THINK ABOUT THINGS IN TWO DIFFERENT WAYS. ONE IS DEFENDING TODAY, AND THAT'S WORKING WITH STATE AND LOCAL ELECTION OFFICIS TO ENSURE FOR THE MIDTERM 2018 ELECTIONS THAT THEY HAVE AS MUC FORMATION TO SECURE THEIR OWN SYSTEMS, THAT THEY HAVE THE TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND RESOURCES THAT THEY NEED TO DEFEND THE SYSTEMS AND PROTECT THE VOTE. BUT, ALSO, WE'RE SECURING THE FUTURE, AND WH T I MEANBY THAT IS THERE'S STILL EQUIPMENT THAT IS OLD, THAT NEEDS TO BE REPLACED. SO WHEN THEY GO THROUGH A PROCUREMENT PROCESS, DO THEY HAVE THE RIGHT INFORMATION TO MAKE SECURE DECISIONS FOR MORROW'S DEPLOYMENTS?

>> Woodruff:IMENT TO-- I WANT TO QUOTE SOMETHING THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SAID. I GUESS IT WAS IN JUNE, DAN COTES, SAID, "IT'S 2018 AND WE CONTINUE TO SEE RUSSIAN TARGETING OF AMERICAN SOCIETY IN WAYS THAT COULD AFFECT OUR MIDTERM ELECTIONS." WE HAVE HEARD OTHER OFF SAY THERE IS NO WAY TO COMPLETELY PROTECT AGAINST THIS IN 2018.UL WHAT SVOTERS STILL BE WORRIED ABOUT?

>> SO I THINK VOTERS NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT A FEW NGS, BUT FIRST AND FOREMOST, MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO ON ELEIO DAY. VERIFY YOUR REGISTRATION. ENSURE YOU KNOW WHERE TO GO, WHAT PRECINCT YOU'RE REGISTERED AT, BUT ALSO UNDERSTAND YOUR RIGHTS AS A VOTER. IF YOU GET THERE AND SOMETHING GOES WRONG--ET'S BE CLEAR, SOMETHING GOES WRONG, WHETHER IT'S A CYBER ATTACK OR SOMETHING ON ELECTION DAY, EVEY SINGLE TIME IT'S-- TECHNICAL GLITCHES.T KNOW YOUR RAS A VOTER. PROVISIONAL BALLOTS ARE, ASK FOR PROVISIONAL BALLOTS.

>> Woodruff: I THINK IT WAS SECRETARY NEILSEN AND OTHERS HAVE TESTIFIED ORC SAID TLY SO FAR YOU DON'T SEE ANY SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO INTERFERE WITH THENFRASTRUCTURE OF OUR ELECTIONS. IS THAT STILL THE CASE?

>> THAT'S RIGRE. I TEND TO THINGS UP INTO TWO BUCKETS. ONE IS THE PREPARATION BUCKET AND THEN THE SECD IS WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY SEEING. WE'RE-- AGAIN, WE'RE PLANNING AS IF THE RUSSIANS E COMING BACK, JUST LIKE THEY DID IN '16. AND THEN WE'RE ALSO TRYING TO THINK THROUGH WHAT MORE COULD THEY DO? BECAUSE IF WE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE RUSSIAN, THEY GET BETTER, THEY LEARN.Y WHEN TME BACK, THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT TRICKIER THAN THEY WERE THE TIME BEFORE. WHAT DO NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF ENHANCED CAPABILITY? AGAIN, I RIGHT NOW, WE'RE JUST NOT SEEING WHAT WE SAW IN '16.

>> WoodruffERIN TMS OF INFRASTRUCTURE.

>> YES.

>> Woodruff: BUT IN TERMS OF INFLUENCE--

>> IN TERMS OF INFLUENCE, THEY'VE NEVER GONE WAY WA1bA. THEY'VE CONTINUED TO FIND THOSES MEATY SOCIAES THAT DRIVE AMERICANS APART AND THEY REALLY GET ON BOTH SIDES AND THEY AMPLIFY THE MESSAGE. SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE-- THWE REMIND FOLKS THAT, LOOK, WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING ON SOCIAL MEDIA, THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE SEEING, WHO MIGHT BE PRESENTING IT TO YOU.TR TO FIND A VALIDARITY, A THIRD-PARTY NEWS SOURCE THAT VALIDATES THAT BEFORE RETWEETING OR LIKING. BUT, ALSO, KEEP IN MIND THAT THERE ARE STATE-SPONSORED MEDIA OUTLETS, LIKE SPUTNIK, LIKE ARE, T, THAT ARE PUSHING A MESSAGE ON BEHALF OF THE KREMLIN.

>> Woodruff: A WARNING, JUST, WHAT, IS IT LESS THAN FOUR WEKS BEFORE ELECTION DAY.

>> YES, MA'AM

>> UNDER SECRETARY CHRISTOPHER KREBS, THE DEPS OF HOMELAND SECURITY. THANK YOU.

>> THANK YO.

>> Woodruff: WE RETURN TO A STORY THAT HAS BEEN IN THE HEADLINES ALL WEEK: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A SAUDI ARABIAN JOURNALIST IN ISTANBUL, TURKEY. ACCORDING TO REPORTS, IT IS SUSPECTED THAT HE WAS KILLED, DIOPPED TO PIECES AND SMUGGLED OUT OF TURKEY BY SECURITY FORCES. NICK SCHIFRIN HAS THE STORY.

>> Reporter: NINE DAYS AFTER JAMAL KHASHOGGI WALKED INTO THE SAUDI CONSULATE IN ISTANBUL, U.S. AND TURKISH FORS AREEA INNG PRESSURE ON SAUDI ARABIA. CC IMAGES ON STATE-OWNED MEDIA SHOWS HOW TURKEY IS PIECI TOGETHER STEPS TAKEN BY WHAT THEY ARE CALL A SAUDI... THEN FEWER THAN TWO HOURS AFTER KHASHOGGI ARRIVED, THAT SAME BLACK CAR AND A BLACK VAN LEAVE THE CONSULATE FORCO THENSUL GENERAL'S HOUSE. INVESTIGATORS ARE ASKING WHETHER HE WAS IN THAT VAN AN DETHER HE WAS ALIVE. SAUDI OFFICIALS PROMISE TO OPEN THEIR CONSULATE TO INVESTIGATORS AND HAVE AGREED TO A JOINT INVESTIGATION WITH TURKEY. IN THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY, PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLED THE SAUDIS OUT.

>> A THING LIE THAT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN. IT WAS A REPORTER WITH "THE WASHINON POST," AND SOMETHING LIKE THAT SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN.

>> Reporter: MR. TRUMP MADE HIS FIRST FOREIGN VISIT TO SAUDI ARABIA TO ANNOUNCE A MASSIVE ARMS DEAL. HE STRONGLY SUPPORTED SAUDI POLICY AND PU A SAUDI ARAB THE CENTER OF HIS MIDDLE EAST POLICY. BUT DESPITE TODAY'S CRITICISM, HE REJECTED CALLSMSO BLOCK THE DEAL.

>> WE DON'T LIKE IT, AND WE DON'T LIKE IT EVEN A LITTLE BIT. BUT AS TO WHETHER OR NOT WE SHOULD STOP $110 BILLION FROM BEING SPENT IN THIS COUNTRY, KNOWING THEY HAVE FOUR OR FIVE OODERNATIVES-- TWO VERY ALTERNATIVES -- THAT WOULD NOT BE ACCEPMEBLE TO .

>> Reporter: BUT ON CAPITOL HILL, SENATORS ARE SKEPTICAL. TODAY, SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS CHAIRMAN BOB CORKER URGED PRESIDENT TRUMP TO GET MORE AGGRVESI.

>> AS TIME GOES ON ANDWE' REAL CLEAR AS TO WHAT'S HAPPENED, HOPEFULLY THAT TYPE OF TONE AND TENOR WILL CHANGE. >>Eeporter: ACCORDING TO "WASHINGTON POST," THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY DOES KNOW WHAT HAPPENEAND BELIEVES SAUDI CROWNED PRINCE, MOHAMMAD BIN SALMAN, WANTED TO LURE KHASHOGGK O SAUDI ARABIA TO DETAIN HIM AND THE OPERATION MIGHT HAVE BEEN A RENDITION GONE WRONG. EITHER WAY, KHASHOGGI DIDN'T WANT TO GO BACK. THE BBC RELEASED AUDIO OKHF HOGGI SAYING TWO WEEKS AGO IT WOULDN'T BE SAFE FOR HIM TO RETURN TO A COUNTRY THAT TOLERATED NO DISSENT.

>> Reporter: THAT INDEPENDENT MIND MIGHT BE SHARED BY THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY. SLICK PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS ADVERTISE A SAUDI CONFERENCE SCHEDULED FOR NEXT WEEK. IT'S SUPPOSED TO FATURE TREASURY SECRETARY STEVE MNUCHIN AND A LONG LIST OF BUSINESS LEADERS, BUT "THE NEW YORK TIMES" REMOVED ITS SPONSORSHIP, AND OTHERS ARE CONSIDERING THE .SSAME. FORMERENERGY SECRETARY SUSPENDED HIS WORK AS A CONSULTANT TO THE KINGDOM, CITING DEEP CONCERNS OVER KHASHOGGI NINE DAYS AFTER HE WAS LAST SEEN. WE TAKE A DEEPER LOOK NOW AT T MANY ISSUES THIS RAISES FOR U.S. AND SAUDI RELATIONS WITH ROBERT JORDAN. HE SERVED AS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SAUDI ARABIA DURING THE GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION. HE'S NOW DIPLOMAT-IN-RESIDENCE SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY. AMBASSADOR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU'VE BEEN AN ADVOCATE FOR CLOSE U.S.-SAUDLATIONS IN THE PAST, AS IS THIS ADMINISTRAON ATHE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN IN THE PAST AS WELL. BUT DO YOU THINK THIS MOMENT IS DIFFERENT? ARE YOU SUPPORTING CALLS FOR WITHDRAWAL FROM THIS SUMMIT THAT SAUDI ARABIA IS HOSTING NEXT WEEK? AND SOME OF THE BUSINESSES THATF ARE PULLING OUAUDI TODAY.

>> YES, I AM. I'VE ADVOCATED A NUMBER MOF TIES TODAY ON OTHER MEDIA THAT THINK AMERICANS ESPECIALLY WHO PLAN TO GO TO THIS FUTURE INVESTMENT INITIATIVE SHOULD PUT THAT ON HOLD. THIS IS THE WRONG TIME TO GLORIFYING SAUDI ARABIA. IT'S THE WRONG TIME TO BE GIVING THEM THE BENEFIT OF THIS KIND OF PUBLICITY. I THINK WE HAVE TO TAKE THIS VERY SERIOUSLY, AND I'M NOT SURE THAT WE'VE SEEN A SUFFICIENTLY SERIOUS RESPONSE FROM THIS ADMINISTRATION YET, EITHER.

>> DO YOU THINK SECRETARY MNUCHIIPSHOULD CANCEL HIS AND HIS SPEECH?

>> HE SHOULD CANCEL HIS TRIP. THERE ARE MORS THAT DEENA POWELL WAS CONSIDERING GOING. I THINK IT WOULD BE THE EXACT WRONG OPTIC FOR HERSHOW UP AT THIS EVENT, IF SHE'S BEING CONSIDERED FOR UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADOR. CERTAINLY, A NUMBER OF MEDIA FIGURES HAVE CANCELED. ARIANNEY HUFFINGTON AND OTHERS. I THINK THE SPONSORS NEED TO GIVE SERIOUS THOUOT AS T WHETHER THEY WANT TO PUT THEIR NAME NEXT TO THIS EVENT, AND SOME OF THESE SPEAKERS LIKE DAVID PETRAEUS, STEPHEN SCARTZ WAN, JAMI DIMON AND OTHERS TO SET AN EXAMPLE, NOT JUST FOR THEIR COMPANIES BUT ALSO OUR COUNTRY.

>> YOU SAID THIS ADMINISTRATION IS NOT BEING STRONG ENOUGH PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID TODAY HE WOULD DECLINE OR AT LEAST STOP EFFORTS TO CANCEL ARMS SALES TO SAUDI ARABIA. DO YOU THINK THAT THAT SENDS THE WRONG MESSAGE?

>> I THINK IT SEND THE WRONG MESSAGE. I THINK, CERTAINLY, THE SALE-- IF IT REALLY EXISTS-- AND BY THE WAY, THERE'S SOME QUESTION AS HOW REAL THAT SALE IS. BUT IF IT TRULY DOES EXIST, IK TH NEEDS TO BE PUT ON HOLD WERS, WE GET MORE ANS BETTER INFORMATION, AND MORE TRANSPARENCY FROM THE SAUDIS.

>> THERE ARE A LOT OF OFFWOICIAS WHD PUSH BACK ON WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, ESPECIALLY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE,ND THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. THOSE PEOPLE SAY, "LOOK, WE HAV PRIORITIES, THE U.S. HAS PRIORITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST-- COUNTERING IRAN, COUNTERING VIOLT EXTREMISM, TRYING TO FIGURT OUT A PEACE DEAL BETWEEN ISRAEL AND E PALESTINIANS, AND ALL THOSE PRIORITIES NEED SAUDI ASSISTANCE. DOESN'T THE U.S. NEED SAUDI ARABIA'S ASSISTANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST TODAY?

>> WE DO. WE HAVE IA NATONAL INTEREST IN HAVING THEIR ASSISTANCE. I FACHI SOM VERY SIMILAR WHEN I ARRIVED IN SAUDI ARABIA A MONTH AFTER 9/11. I NEEDED TO DEAL WITH EXT SMISM DI ARABIA, BUT WE ALSO NEEDED THE SAUDIS' ASSINSTANCE DEALING WITH TERRORISM AND DEALING WITH AL QAEDA. YOU FIND A WAY TO DO BOTH. YOU MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THERE ARE RED LINES THAT CANNOT BE CROSSED, AND THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES, BUT THERE'S ALSO A RELATIONSHIP THAT HAS TO BE PRESERVED THE BEST IT CAN, AND IN SOME CASES, IT'S AN COMFORTABLE RELATIONSHIP, BUT YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO DO BOTH. YOU CANNOT TAKE THIS SITTING DOWN. YOU CANNOT TURN ANOTHER-- TURN A BLIND EYE TO THIS. YOU HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE CONSEQUENCES REAL FOR THIS KIND OF ROGUE BEHAVIO

>> SO I ASKED U.S. OFFICIALS TODAY HOW TO MAKE THOSE CONSEQUENCES REAL, AND SHORT OF STOPPING ARMS DEALS, SOME OF THEM CITED KICKING DILOMATS OUT, CLOSING DIPLOMATIC POSTS, PEGAPS CHANG MILITARY COOPERATION IN YEMEN, IMPOSING SANCTIONS. WOULD ANY OF THOSE SEND A STRONG ENOUGH SIGNAL?

>> WELL, I THINK SOME OF THE THEM WOULD, AS A PACKAGE, BE USEFUL. CERTAINLY, BACKING OFF FROM OUR SUMMIT OF THIS COSY AND DEVASTATING WAR IN YEMEN IS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING ALL ALONG ANYWWEAY. I THINCERTAINLY HAVE A LIST OF 15 OF THIS HIT SQUAD THAT APPARENTLY CAME TO ISTANBUL. THOSE PEOPLE OUGHT TO IMMEDIATELY SANCTIONED, AS WE HAVE DONE WITH IRANIAN AND RUSSIAN INDIVIDUALS IN THE PAST. I THINK OTHER ECONOMIC SANCTIONS MIGHT FOLLOW. I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO SUSPEND ALL RELATIONS OR PULOUR DIPLOMATS. WE NEED TO CONTINUE DIPLOMACY. THIS IS A TIME FOR DIPLOMACY. BUT IT'S ALSO A TIME TO IMPOSE CONSEQUENCES.

>> LET'S ZOOM OUT A LITTLE BIT AND TALK ABOUT THE MAN AT THE CENTER OF THIS, AT LEAST, IN SAUDI ARABIA, MOHAMMAD BIN SALMAN, THE CROWN PRINCEWIDELY KNOWN ADD M.B.S. HE HAS HIS CRITICS, AND YOU SPECIFICALLY MENONED THE YEMEN WAR. THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF CIVILIAN CASUALTIES, A LOT OF CRITICISM OF SAUDI ARABIA IN HOW IT HAS CONDUCTED THAT WAR. THIS INCIDENT, AS WELL, HE'S BEEN REALLY CENTER AT THAT CRITICISM. UBLE THAT THIS CRITICISM-- DO YOU BELIEVE THIS CRITICISM OF HIM COULD REDUCE HICHANCES OF BECOMING KING?

>> I THINK THERE'S A CHANCE OF THAT. LET'S BEAR IN MIND, ABOUT A YEAR AGO, HE INCBERCERATE A NUOF THE SENIOR ROYALS IN THE RITZ-CARLTON, ALONG WITH ANU ER OF SAUDI OLIGARCHS. SO I THINK THERE IS AN ENTIRE CADRE OF FAMILY THAT IS VIEWING HIM WITH GREATM,SKEPTICF NOT OUTRIGHT RESENTMENT. HE OWNS MANY OF THE POCIES THAT HAVE BEEN PURSUED OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, AND MOST OF HAVE BEEN COLOSSAL FAILURES-- THE WAR IN YEMEN, THE ABDUCTION OF THE LEANESE PRIME MINISTER, THE BOYCOTT OF YOU CAN TAR. YOU GO DOWN THE LIST AND YOUSE DON'MANY SUCCESSES. THE FAILURE OF ARAMCO I.P.O., THE FAILURE OF THEIR SOLAR PROJECTS. I THINK AT SP POINT THE RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE IN SAUDI ARABIA ARE GOING TO BE ASKI QUESTIONS. THEY'RE GOING TO BE ASKING KING SALMAN WHETHER HE REALLY DOES STAND BEHIND TS CROWN PRINCE AT A TIME WHEN HE APPEARS TO BE THUGGI AND RECKLESS.

>> QUICKLY, YOU KNEW JAMAL KHASHOGGI.

>> RIGHT.

>> HE WORKED FOR THE SAUDI GOVERNMENT. HE WAS NOT IN ANY WAY A DISSIDENT-- AT LEAST HE DIDN'T IDENTIFY HIMSELF AS SUCH. HE CRITICIZED THE METHODS THAT S MOHAMMAD BMAN IS USING. WHAT DOES IT SAY THAT HE, OF ALL PEOPLE, HE COULD HAVE BEEN TARGETED?

>> WELL, I THINK REALLY OUTLANDISH. HE WAS A TRUEUDI PATRIOT WHO HAD SOME DIFFERING VIEWS. HE WAS ALSO COMPLIMENTARY OCCASIONALLY OF THE REFORM AGENDA OF THE CROWN PRINCE. SO HCALLED IT AS HE SAW IT, WHICH IS THE SAME JAMAL KHASHOGGI I KNEW 15, 18 YEARS AGO. BACK IN THOSE DAYS, HE WAS FIRED A COUPLE OF TIMES FROM SAUD NEWSPAPERS, AND THEN REHIRED BY PRINCE TURKI, THE SAUDI AMBASSADOR TO THE U.K WORKING R HIM. SO HE'S ACTUALLY HAD SOME REALRE AD WITHIN THE SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY, AND I SUSPECT THATS CONTINND THEY ARE DEVASTATED BY WHAT HAS HAPPENED.

>> ROBERT JORDAN, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SAUDI ARABIA, THANK YOU VENK MUCH.

>> TOU.

>> Woodruff: NOW TO OUR SERIES OF REPORTS ON THE PLASTIC PROBLEM. LAST WEEK ECONOMICSUL CORRESPONDENT OLMAN LOOKED AT THE RECYCLING CRUNCH AMERICA NOW FACES AS CHINA HAS SPPED ACCEPTING MUCH OF OUR WASTE. THIS WEEK HE TRIES TO ANSWER THE QUESTION: SO WHAT DO WE DO NOW? THE STIS PART OF OUR WEEKLY SERIES, MAKING SEN$E, WHICH RUNS HERE EVERY THURSDAY.

>> WE CAN'T PUT THESE IN OUR RECYCLING, CHIPS BAGS, COOKIE WRAPPERS.or

>> Rr: YOU CAN'T?

>> WE CAN'T PUT IT IN THE REGULAR RECYCLING. BUT THERE'S ANOTHER ORGANIZATION. K THEY RECYCLE ADS OF THINGS.

>> Reporter: AH, YOU MIG THINK, IF ONLY EACH OF US DID AS CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS RECYCLING FANATIC MEERA SINGH ES.

>> WHEN I GO TO HEAVEN, WHICH IS WHAT I CALL OUR RECYCLING CENTER. orter: YOU CALL WHAT

>> I CALL IT HEAVEN. EVERYONE SHOULD GO TO HEAVEN.

>> Reporter: TO MEERA SINGH," HEAVEN." TO MOST AMERICANS, NOT EVEN ON THE RADAR. SO, YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. THIS IS HEAVEN?

>> TO SOME OF OUR RESIDENTS, THIS IS HEAVEN.

>> Reporter:ICHAEL ORR RUNS CYCLING FOR CAMBRIDGE, WHERE MORE THAN A FEW HIGHLY MOTIVATED RECYCLERS LIKE SINGH RESIDE. CLASSY BOOK EXCHANGE; CLASSY SOMEWHAT BIGGER TICKET ITEMS.

>> SUCH AS THE CHAIR I'M SITTING ON RIGHT NOW. THIS ISOMETHING THAT A RESIDENT DROPPED OFF AND SAID, "I NO LONGER NEED," AND LATER TODAY, SOMEONE WILL BE TAKING THIS CHAIR HOME.

>> Reporr: WITH CHINA AND OTHER COUNTRIES SUDDENLY REJECTING OUR RECYCLABLES AND TRASH PRICES RISING AS LANDFILLS CLOSE DOWN, ONE RESPON MIGHT BE TO EMULATE CAMBRIDGE'SCY ING CADRE. WHILE DISCIPLINING THE REST OF US. BUBBLE WRAP? IT WOULD BE NICE TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO PUT IN THE BINS. THIS SHOULDN'T GO IN RECYCLING, HUH?

>> BUBBLE WRAP AND PLASTIC BAGSI PLASTIC FILMGENERAL, SHOULD NOT BE GOING IN THE RECYCLING.

>> Reporter: BECAUSE?

>> BECAUSE IT JAMS UP THE MACHINERY. IT'S THE NUMBER ONE CONTAMINANT AND THE NUMBER ONE MOST DAMAGING CONTAMINANT IN THE RECYCLING FACILITIES.

>> Reporter: CAN'T RECYCLE THIS?

>> PAPER PLATES ARE TRICKY ONE. SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR ARE CLEAN PAPER PRODUCTS. OFTEN, PAPER PLATES HAVE FOOD PRODUCT ON IT, OR IT'S COATED IN WAX.

>> Reporter: AND PIZZA BOXES?

>> AS LONG AS THERE'S NO FOOD IN IT, THE GREASE IS OKAY AND THEY CAN RECYCLE IT.

>> Reporter: THE>>REASE IS OKAY? EAH. WE CAN RECYCLE PIZZA BOXES.

>> Reporter: YOU'RE MAKING ME FEEL BETTER. BUT SO MUCH THAT'S PUT IN THE BINS IS NOT KAY. SO CAMBRIDGE TRIES TO TEACH PEOPLE, WITH A LTLE TOUGH LOVE.

>> OUR DRIVER WILL GO PUT A REJECTION STICKER ON IT, NOTE TO TH WHAT THEY DID WRONG, AN THEY'LL HAVE TO CALL US AND CLEAN IT UP, AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK AND PICK IT UP THE NEXT DAY. WHILE, WE HAVE TO KIND OF NUDGE PEOPLE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND CLEAN UP THEIR RECYCLING.

>> Reporter: I'D SAY THAT'S MORE LIKE A SHOVE THAN A NUDGE. THE CITY ALSO HAS AN INSTRUCTIONAL SORTING GAME IN THEIR "CAMBRIDGE RECYCLES" APP, AND VIDEOS POSTED ON THEIR WEBSITE, INCLUDING ONEOR KIDS.

>> TRASH, OR COMPOST.

>> YEAH.

>> Reporter: AS DOES THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, WITH NEARLY 250 COMMUNITIES TAKING PART IN AN EFFORT TO EDUCATE CONSUMERS. BUT THE PROBLEM WITH SINGLE STREAM RECYCLING, WHERE YOU DON'T SORT OUT PLASTICS, PAPER M OR METAL, NS LOTS OF WORK M THE PLANT. THERE IS, HOWEVER,OR GARBAGE STREAM THAT CAN BE ISOLATED FOR RECYCLING: FOOD WASTE, WHICH MAKES UP A QUARTER OF ALL TRASH. MOST OF IT ENDS UP ROTTING IN LANDFILLS, WHERE IT GENERATES METHANE, A GREENHOUSE GAS WAY MORE POTENT THAN CARBON DIOXIDE. SO, WHY NOT COMPOST ORGANIC MATTER? THOUGHT MIKE ORR'S PREDECESSOR, RANDI MAIL, BACK IN 2002.>> T'S SOMETHING THAT MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE NOT REALLY HAVE TO DO ANYTHING OTAN JUST DROP THEIR BANANA PEELS IN A DIFFERENT CONTAINER.T'

>> PERHAPSEXPIRED.

>> Reporter: AND 16 YEARS AFTER SHE HAD THE IDEA, CAMBRIDGE IS TURNING FOOD WASTE IEAN ENERGY, WITH PICKUP CITYWIDE AT A NEW PLANT IN NEARBY CHARLESTOWN. CA SOME OF THIS, I BELIEVE FROM A GROCERY STORE. PERHAPS IT'S EXPIRED PRODUCT.RI

>> Reporter:MYERS RUNS THE FOOD WASTE OPERATION.

>> AND THAT MATERIAL THEY WANT TO RECYCLE IT.UT

>> Reporter: B IT'S BEEN A LOT EASIER TO JUST DP OUTDATED ORANGE JUICE AND YESTERDAY'S WIENERS, DEAD HEADS OF LETTUCE AND BUMMER HMUS. EVEN NO-GOOD NECCO WAFERS, NAMED FOR THE RECENTLY SHUTTERED NEW ENGLAND CANDY COMPANY JUST A FEW MILES AWAY. INSTEAD, THEY'RE N ALL CHURNED INTO WHAT'S CALLED AN" ENGINEERED BIOSLURRY."

>> WE HAVE A BLENDING PROCESS TO MAKE WHAT WE LIKE TO THINK OF KIND OF AS AN ENERGY SUPER SHAKE THAT HAS AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF ENERGY. WE JUST THINK OF IT AS FOOD WASTE BUT IT'S REALLY FATS AND SUGARS AND CARBOHYDRATES AND PROTEINS.

>> Reporter: SO EVERY DAY, SOME 10,0000 GALLONS OF SUPER SHAKE IS PIPED INTO TANKERS AND TRUCKED 30 MILES NORTH, WHERE IT'S TRANSFORMED INTO FUEL, THE SAME WAY WASTEWATER RECOVERY FACILITIES TREAT DIRTY WATER. RIGHT NOW, AT THIS PLANT, THE ENERGY IS BEING USED TO POWER THE WASTEWATER PLANT. BUT IN THE FUTURE?

>> FOR EVERY TON WE RECEIVE HERE, WE CAN GENERATE ENOUGH POWER TO POWER ABOUT NINE HOMES.

>> Reporter: MEANING THAT WHEN THIS PLANT HITS IT'S HANDLING CAPACITY OF 250 TONS A DAY, IT CAN POWER 2400 HOMES. THE U.S. GENERATES SOMETHING LIKE 100,000 TONS OF FOOD WASTE A DAY. BUT BARELY 5% OF IT IS BEING RECYCLED USE IT ALL, AND WE'D BE ABLE TO POWER MORE THAN A MILLION HOMES A DAY. AND THAT'S NOT ALL.

>> IN ADDITION TEXTRACTING ENERGY FROM THE FOOD WASTE, THEY ALSO TAKE THE SOLIDS THAT ARE LEFT OVER THEY PUT THEM THROUGH ANOTHER TESTING PROCESS. AND THEY CREATE A PELLET PRODUCT.

>> Reporter: SO THEY'RE JUST LIKE LITTLE GRAINS?

>> THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S USED FOR FERTILIZATION OF FIELDS AND FARMS, TURF APPLICATIONS.

>> Reporter: IT'S ALSO ABOUT 30 TO 40% CHEAPER TO DISPE OF, PER TON, THAN TRASH. WHICH SAVES CAMBRIDGE MONEY, SAYS MIKE ORR.

>> SINCE THE LAUNCH OF CURBSIDE COMPOST, WE'VE SEEN A 10% DECREASE IN OUR TRASH.

>> Reporter: SO RANDI MAIL'S EARLY VISION IS REALITY, AT LEAST FOR CAMBRIDGE.

>> IN ORDER TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM, WE NEED TO MAKE A COMMITMENT TO BUY OUR RECYCLABLES AND USE OUR OWN RECYCLABLES IN AMERICAN MANUFACTURING, AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT RELIANT ON EXPORTS.

>> Reporter: YOU MEAN STIMULATE RECYCLING INDUSTRY OR INDUSTRIES WHICH USE RECYCLED PRODUCTS HERE IN AMERICA?

>> YEAH, REOPEN PAPER MILLS THAT HAVE CLOSED. REQUIRE PAPER PRODUCTS TO BE MADE WITH HIGHER PERCENTAGES OF RECYCLED CONTENT, AND MAKE A COMMITMENT FROM AN INSTITUTION STANDPOINT TO BUY THESE MATERIALS.

>> Reporter: AND HERE'S WHERE OUR STORY TAKES A SURPRISINGLY,J OR PERHAT WISHFULLY, POSITIVE TURN: THE STATE'S GREG COOPER THINKS THE CHGHA CLAMPDOWN ACTUALLY PROMPT SUCH CHANGES.

>> THESE RECYCBLE MATERIALS ARE COMMODITIES, LIKE SOYBEANS, OR ORANGES, OR COAL, OR ANYTHING ELSE, AND THEY HAVA VALUE. AND NEW INVESTMENTS ARE BECAG MADE DOMESY TO TRY AND MANAGE THAT MATERIAL. WHAT WE ALWAYS SEE IN THE MARKETS IS THE MARKETS ADJT.

>> Reporter: THE MARKET FOR RECYCLED PLASTICS IN THE NORTHEAST IS ONE EXAMPLE. MANY RECYCLING FIRMS, INCLUDING THE ONE SERVICING CAMBRIDGE,ST FUNNEL THEIR PS TO CARPET MANUFACTURERS. THIS PLANT IN VIRGINIA TURNS ABOUT SIX BIION PLASTIC BOTTLES INTO RUGS EVERY YEAR. AND CLOSER TO HOME, A NEW FIRM, PRESERVE, JUST OUTSIDE BOSTON, HAS BEGUN TO TURN LOCAL PLASTICS INTO KIDS' TOOTHBRUSHES AND" HEAVY DUTY CUTLERY,"NG MANY OTHER ITEMS. IN THE END, THOUGH, THIS MIGHT NOT BE SO BAD FOR THE CHINESE Y EITHER. SOME CHINESE FIRMS HAVE NOW ANNOUNCED DEALS TO BUY AMERICAN PAPER MILLS. FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR, THIS IS ONOMICS CORRESPONDENT PAUL SOLMAN REPORTING FROM IN AND AROUND CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

>> Woodruff: NEXT, WR TURN TO ANOTISODE OF OUR WEEKLY SERIES, BRIEF BUT SPECTACULAR. NIGHT, WE HEAR FROM JOURNALIST, PROFESSOR, AND AUTHOR WALTER ISAACSON.OF HIS BIOGRAPHIENFLUENTIAL FIGURES RANGE FROM LEONARDO DA VINCI TODA LOVELACE. ISAACSON BELIEVES THAT THOSE WHO THRIVE AT THE INTEECTION OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ARE THECONES WHO WILLE A PART OF HISTORY.

>> I HAD A MENTOR IN NEW ORLEANS, SORT OF A FAMILY FRIEND, GREAT VELIST, WALKER PERCY AND HE SAID THERE WERE TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE COME OUT OF LOUISIANA, PREACHERS AND STORYTELLERS. HE SAID, FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, BE A STORYTELLER. THE WORLD HAS TOO MANY PREACHERS. I LIKE TO TAKE ON SUBJECTS FOR MY BIOGRAPHY THAT STAND IN THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN THE ARTS AND THE SCIENCES, BECAUSE WHETHER IT WAS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HA STEVE JOBS OR LEONARDO DA VINCI, I THINKS WHAT GIVES CREATIVITY. STEVE JOBS, WHENEVER HE DID A PRODUCT LAUNCH WHICH SHOWS STREET SIGNS, SHOWING THAT INTERSECTION OF THE ARTS A SCIENCES. THAT'S WHAT LEONARDO DA VINCI'S VITRUVIAN MAN'S ALL ABOUT. AND WHEN EINSTEIN WAS LOOKING FOR THE THEORIES OF RELATIVITY, HE PULLED OUT HIS VIOLIN TO PLAY MOZART AND OF COURSE BENJAMIN FRANKLINN FLYING A KITHE RAIN, THOSE OTECTRICITY EXPERIMENTS HELPED HIM UNDERSTAND THEN OF CHECKS, BALANCES, PLUSES, MINUSES THAT WE SEE IN OUR CONSTITUTION. WAS WORKING ON LEONARDO DA VINCI, THE BIGGEST INSIGHTS I HAD WAS GOINPAGE BY PAGE THROUGH THE 7,200 PAGES OF NOTEBOOKS THAT HE HAD LEFT BEHIND AND I REALIZED SINCE I COULDN'T GET STEVE JOB'SOTES IN THE 1990s, BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL ON SOME COMPUTER WHERE THE OPERATING SYSTEM NO LONGER WORKED, HOWONDERFUL OF A TECHNOLOGY FOR THE STORAGE OF INFORMATION PAPER IS. ITS BATTERY NEVER RUNS DOWN. ERATING SYSTEM NEVER GOE OUT OF STYLE AND 500 YEARS LATER, WE JUST SIT THERE AND MARVEL AT LEONARDO'S NOTEBOOKS. LEONARDO DA VINCI NEVER OUTGREW HIS WONDER YEARS. HE EVEN HAD A QUESTION THAT I LOVED WHICH IS DESCRIBE THE TONGUE OF A WOODPECKER. WHO WAKES UP ONE MORNING AND PUTS THAT ON THEIR TO DO L WHETHER I WAS AT THE ASPEN INSTITUTE OR "TIME" MAGAZINE OR CNN, I KNEW A LOT OF SMART PEOPLE. BUT IT SOON OCCURRED TO ME THAT SMART PEOPLE ARE A DIME A DOZEN AND THEY OFTEN DON'T AMOUNT TO MUCH. WHAT MATTERS IS BEING INNOVATIVE, CREATIVE, AND IMAGINATIVE. AND THAT REQUIRES THAT TYPE OF ET OF THE BOX THINKING AND CURIOSITY YOU SEE RYBODY FROM LEONARDO DA VINCI TO STEVE JOBS.EI I LIKE A STORYTELLER AND WHEN I WAS A YOUNG WRITER ATOU "TIME" AND I DO COVER STORIES AND TALK ABOUT A PERSON WHO HAD CHANGED HISTORY, LIKEFF EZOS IN THE 1990s. WE MADE HIM PERSON OF THE YEAR AND YOU THINK, WOW THAT'S INTESTING. THAT'S SATISFYING TO SHOW HOW SOMEBODY'S CHANGING THE COURSE OF HISTORY AND SO TO BE A WRITER WHERE I CAN LOOK AT OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES AND REALIZE IT'S PART OF SOMETHING LAER THAN MYSELF OR OURSELVES, BUT HELP PEOPLE BECOME A PART OF STORY. I'M WALTER ISAACSON, AND TS IS MY BRIEF AND PERHAPS SPECTACULAR TAKE ON WHAT'S IT'S LIKE TO WRITE ABOUT PEOPLE.

>> Woodruff: WALTER HAS WRTEN SOME REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHIES. YOU CAN WATCH ADDITIONAL BRIEF BUT SPECTACULAR EPISODES ON OUR WEBSITE, pbs.org/newshour/brief. ON THE NEWSHOUR ONLINE RIGHT NOW, VACCINE EXEMPTION RATES AMONG INFANTS AND SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN HAVE BEEN QUIETLY RISING, ACCORDING TO NEW DATA FROM THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION. WE EXPLAIN WHAT THAT MEANS FOR THE THREAT OF DISEASE OUTBREAKS AND MORE ON OUR WEB TE, pbs.org/newshour. AND THAT'S THE NEWSHOUR FOR TONIGHT. I'M JUDY WOODRUFF. JOIN US ONLINE AND AGAIN HERE TOMORROW EVENING WHEN SHIELDS AND DAVID BROOKS DISSECT THE WEEK'S POLITICAL NEWS. FOR ALL OF US AT THE PBS NEWSHOUR, THANK YOU AND SEE YOU SOON. NG

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