PBS NewsHour; April 3, 2015 6:00pm-7:01pm PDT

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>> Sreenivasan: A BUMP IN THE ROAD OF RECOVERY. DO WEAKER JOBS NUMBERS POINT TO AN ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN? GOOD EVENING, I'M HARI SREENIVASAN. JUDY WOODRUFF IS AWAY. ALSO AHEAD, FROM WASHINGTON TO TEHRAN, WORLD REACTION TO THE OUTLINED NUCLEAR DEAL WITH IRAN. IT'S FRIDAY, MARK SHIELDS AND DAVID BROOKS ARE HERE, TO ANALYZE THE WEEK'S NEWS. PLUS, AHEAD OF OPENING DAY, HOW ONE OF AMERICA'S PASTIMES IS BECOMING MORE DIVERSE.

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>> Sreenivasan: A TUDOR TAKEOVER, ADAPTING THE STORY OF KING HENRY THE EIGHTH FOR PRINT BROADWAY AND TELEVISION. THE DRAMA, POWER PLAYS AND AN ANTI-HERO RE-IMAGINED.

>> IT IS THE STORY OF A NEW MODERN MAN AT THE START OF A NEW MODERN EUROPE. AND THE WAY IN WHICH EVERYONE REALLY TRIES TO SERVE THE WHIMS OF HENRY THE VIII.

>> Sreenivasan: THOSE ARE SOME OF THE STORIES WE'RE COVERING ON TONIGHT'S "PBS NEWSHOUR."

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>> Sreenivasan: A YEAR-LONG STREAK OF SOLID U.S. JOB GROWTH HAS ENDED. THE LABOR DEPARTMENT REPORTED TODAY THAT IN MARCH, EMPLOYERS ADDED A NET OF JUST 126,000 JOBS. THAT'S THE SMALLEST NUMBER OF NEW POSITIONS CREATED SINCE DECEMBER OF 2013. IT ALSO BREAKS A STRING OF 12 STRAIGHT MONTHS WITH GAINS OF MORE THAN 200,000 JOBS. PRESIDENT OBAMA REACTED TO THE NUMBERS, DURING A VISIT TO UTAH.

>> PARTS OF THE GLOBE HAVE SEEN THEIR ECONOMIES WEAKEN. EUROPE HAS HAD A WEAKER ECONOMY. ASIA HAS BEEN SLOWING DOWN. WE HAVE HAD THE STRONGEST ECONOMY, BUT WE'RE IMPACTED BY WHAT HAPPENS AROUND THE WORLD.

>> Sreenivasan: THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR MARCH REMAINED AT 5.5%. U.S. STOCK MARKETS WILL HAVE THE WEEKEND TO ABSORB THE NEWS. THEY WERE CLOSED TODAY IN OBSERVANCE OF GOOD FRIDAY. BUT WE'LL LOOK MORE CLOSELY AT THE NUMBERS, AFTER THE NEWS SUMMARY. A MAN WHO SPENT NEARLY 30 YEARS ON ALABAMA'S DEATH ROW WALKED OUT TODAY A FREE MAN. RAY HINTON WAS CONVICTED IN TWO 1985 MURDERS. BUT NOW, PROSECUTORS ADMIT THE ONLY PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, THE CRIME SCENE BULLETS, FAILED TO LINK HIM TO THE CRIME. TODAY, HINTON HUGGED HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS AS HE LEFT THE JEFFERSON COUNTY JAIL IN BIRMINGHAM. HE SAID HE HAD BEEN THE VICTIM OF A "MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE."

>> I SHOULDN'T SIT ON DEATH ROW FOR 30 YEARS. ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS TEST THE GUN, BUT WHEN YOU THINK YOU HIGH AND MIGHTY AND YOU ABOVE THE LAW, YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER TO NOBODY. BUT I GOT NEWS FOR THEM. EVERYBODY THAT PLAYED A PART IN SENDING ME TO DEATH ROW, YOU WILL ANSWER TO GOD. HIS HINTON INDEED HAD INADEQUATE REPRESENTATION AT HIS TRIAL,

>> Sreenivasan: KENYA WAS IN SHOCK, AND MOURNING, TODAY AFTER THURSDAY'S SLAUGHTER AT A COLLEGE. ISLAMIST GUNMEN FROM AL-SHABAB, BASED IN SOMALIA, KILLED LEAST 148 PEOPLE. DAN RIVERS OF INDEPENDENT TELEVISION NEWS FILED THIS REPORT.

>> THEY ARE LITERALLY FLOORED WITH GRIEF. THE RELATIVES OF THIS TERRORIST MASSACRE FINALLY GETTING THE CONFIRMATION THEY HAVE BEEN SO DREADING. THE BODIES HAVE BEEN ARRIVING AT THIS MORTUARY IN NAIROBI THROUGHOUT THE DAY. THE LONG KEY TO IDENTIFY THEM THE SIGN OF THE SCALE OF THIS ATROCITY. SURVIVORS DESCRIBED HOW THE AL-SHABAAB HUNTED DOWN STUDENTS WHO COULDN'T RECITE VERSES FROM THE QUR'AN. THIS GIVES A SENSE OF THE CHAOS AND TERROR, A WELL-MINDED ATTACK POSSIBLY MASTER MINDED WITH DETAILED LOCAL KNOWLEDGE. ALREADY WANTED POSTERS ARE CIRCULATED FOR MOHAMED MUHAMAD, HE COMMANDS A NETWORK OF TERRORISTS INSIDE KENYA.

>> THEY HAVE NO REASON TO HAVE COMMITTED THE HEINOUS CRIMES. WE WILL HUNT THEM FOREVER. (SINGING)

>> A SPECIAL SERVICE WAS HELD OUTSIDE THE MORTUARY FOR THE VICTIMS TODAY BUT IN KENYA GOOD FRIDAY HAS BEEN OVERSHADOWED BY EVIL THAT HAS LEFT SO MANY IN MOURNING IN EASTER.

>> Sreenivasan: IN YEMEN TODAY, SAUDI ARABIA STEPPED UP AID TO FORCES BATTLING SHIITE REBELS. IN ADEN, SAUDI WARPLANES AIR- DROPPED SUPPLIES AND WEAPONS TO FIGHTERS LOYAL TO THE PRESIDENT. THEY ALSO CARRIED OUT NEW AIR STRIKES ON THE SHIITES. ADEN IS THE GOVERNMENT'S LAST FOOTHOLD IN YEMEN. MORE CHILLING DETAILS EMERGED TODAY ABOUT THE "GERMAN-WINGS" FLIGHT DISASTER. FRENCH INVESTIGATORS REPORTED THE CO-PILOT, ANDREAS LUBITZ REPEATEDLY AND DELIBERATELY ACCELERATED THE AIRLINER BEFORE IT SLAMMED INTO THE FRENCH ALPS. THE INFORMATION CAME FROM THE "FLIGHT DATA RECORDER", FOUND YESTERDAY, BURIED IN GRAVEL. THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDED DESIGNATING 12.3 MILLION ACRES IN ALASKA AS WILDERNESS, LOCATED IN THE ARCTIC WILDLIFE REFUGE. THE RECOMMENDATION WAS MADE IN A REVISED CONSERVATION PLAN FOR THE

>> Sreenivasan: THIS WAS GOOD FRIDAY FOR CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD. THOUSANDS OF PILGRIMS TRAVELED TO JERUSALEM'S OLD CITY. THEY RETRACED THE ROUTE THAT JESUS IS SAID TO HAVE TAKEN, TO THE SITE WHERE HE WAS CRUCIFIED.

>> I FEEL BLESSED TO HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WALK IN THE SAME FOOTSTEPS AND TO SHARE THIS EXPERIENCE WITH SOME OF THOSE WHO ARE THE MOST CLOSE TO ME. I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY SHOULD DO IF GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO REINVIGORATE THEIR BELIEF IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.

>> Sreenivasan: ELSEWHERE, SOME BELIEVERS WHIPPED THEMSELVES TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR FAITH. AND IN THE PHILIPPINES AGAIN THIS YEAR, AT LEAST SIX MEN HAD THEMSELVES NAILED TO CROSSES. ONE OF THE MEN HAS TAKEN PART IN THE RITUAL FOR THE PAST 29 YEARS. SARAH BRADY WHO SPENT DECADES WORKING FOR GUN CONTROL DIED TODAY. HER FAMILY SAID SHE DEVELOPED PNEUMONIA. BRADY WORKED FOR PRESIDENT REAGAN. SARAH BRADY WAS 737 YEARS OLD.

>> Sreenivasan: STILL TO COME ON THE NEWSHOUR: DISAPPOINTING JOBS NUMBERS; HOW IRAN SEES THE NUCLEAR DEAL; SHIELDS AND BROOKS; AMERICA'S PASTIME GETS MORE DIVERSE; A NEW BIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST LADY; PLUS, THE MANY WIVES AND MANY LIES OF HENRY THE EIGHTH.

>> Sreenivasan: IT'S EASY TO GET TOO CAUGHT UP IN THE EXPECTATIONS HEADING INTO ANY JOBS REPORT, BUT BY MOST MEASURES, THIS MONTH TOOK EXPERTS BY SURPRISE. THE OVERALL NUMBER OF NEW JOBS WAS MUCH LOWER THAN ANYONE PREDICTED, FAR BELOW THE NEARLY 270,000 A MONTH THAT HAD BEEN THE AVERAGE OF THE PAST YEAR AND WITH OTHER SIGNS OF SLUGGISHNESS OF LATE, IT'S TIME TO ASK IF THE ECONOMY IS SLOWING DOWN, AND WHY. DIANE SWONK OF MESIROW FINANCIAL JOINS US AGAIN FROM CHICAGO. SODINE, THOSE LAST FEW MONTHS OF JOBS NUMBERS, WERE THEY THE NORM OR WERE THEY AN OUTLIER?

>> THEY CERTAINLY WERE A DISAPPOINTMENT, IF ANYTHING ELSE. I THINK THEY DO REFLECT THE WEAKNESS THAT WE SAW IN THE ECONOMY IN THE FIRST QUARTER AND WHAT'S DIFFICULT TO TEASE OUT IS HOW MUCH OF A ROLE UNUSUALLY HARSH WINTER WEATHER, STRIKES AND WORK STOPPAGES ON THE WEST COAST PORTS WHICH AFFECTED MANUFACTURING ACTIVITY, HOW MUCH OF IT WERE EXCUSES AND HOW MUCH FUNDAMENTAL WEAKNESSES.

>> Sreenivasan: HOW ABOUT THE DOLLAR AND THE STRENGTH OF THE DOLLAR? THAT'S BEEN A STORY LINE FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS.

>> CERTAINLY THE DOLLAR IS ONE OF THE FACTORS ALONG WITH WEAK GROWTH ABROAD HITTING THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR. THE BULK EFFECT OF THE DOLLAR IS STILL AHEAD OF US. THAT'S WHAT'S DISTURBING ABOUT WHAT WE'VE SEEN TODAY. MUCH TO HAVE THE INTERRUPTIONS IN MANUFACTURING ACTIVITY CAME BECAUSE WE LITERALLY HAD CONTAINERS GET STOPPED AT WEST COAST PORTS AND PARTS COULDN'T MAKE IT TO MANUFACTURERS. THE WEAKNESS IN THE DOLLAR AND THE INABILITY TO PRICE CHEAPLY IN THE WEAK ECONOMIES ABROAD, THAT'S GOING TO BE AFFECTING US AND GROWING IN MOMENTUM A BIGGER HEAD WIND MOVING INTO THE SPRING ONCE WE FINALLY UNLOAD THE CONTAINERS AND GET THE PARTS GOING AT THE MANUFACTURERS AGAIN.

>> Sreenivasan: SHOULDN'T THE DECREASING PRICE OF OIL AND FUEL COMBAT THAT A LITTLE? SHOULDN'T THAT ENCOURAGE ECONOMIC ACTIVITYRE?

>> OPERATIVE WORD "SHOULD." WE'RE SEEING THE DRAG FROM OIL PRICES, CUTS IN MINING AND EMPLOYMENT THREE MONTHS IN A ROW DECLINE IN THE MINING SECTOR AFTER WE SAW JOBS AND MINING SECTOR SLOW TO ALMOST NOTHING IN THE FIRST QUARTER DECLINES IN THE SECOND QUARTER PUNCTUATED BY MARCH. THAT'S THE ACTUAL EFFECT ON OIL PRICES BY ACTIVITY. THE BENEFITS, HIGHER CONSUMER SPENDING CHEAPERRER MANUFACTURING CRORKSZ CHEAPER COSTS ACROSS THE BOARD, WE'VE YET TO SEE THE BENEFITS SO WE DON'T KNOW IF THE CONSUMER IS HIBERNATING WITH THE BAD WEATHER OR IF HIBERNATION WITH TREPIDATION. WE ACTUALLY SAW THE SAVING RATE PICKED UP IN THE RECENT MONTHS AND WE'D LIKE TO SEE THAT SPENT TO GET THE OFFSET FROM POSITIVE NEWS FROM OIL REPORTS AS WELL.

>> Sreenivasan: IN THE REPORTS WERE REVISIONS AND THOSE NUMBERS WERE DOWN TODAY. IS THAT SIGNIFICANT?

>> IT IS IN THE SENSE THAT MUCH OF THE REVISIONS WE WERE SEEING UP TILL NOW WERE TO UP SIDE. THAT MEANT THE ECONOMY SHIFTED MOMENTUM AND WAS ADDING JOBS MORE THAN WE COULD COUNT BY THE TIME WE DID THE INITIAL DATA. SOMETHING TURNED AND WE SAW FUR JOBS THAN INITIALLY THOUGHT. THAT IS NOT SOMETHING WE'D LIKE TO SEE. WE'D LIKE TO SEE IT GOING IN THE OTHER DIRECTION THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY CREATING NEW JOBS AND UNDERESTIMATING WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY SORT OF CHASING THE CURVE RATHER THAN NOW WE LOOK BEHIND THE CURVE.

>> Sreenivasan: ONE OF THE THINGS PEOPLE ARE ALSO PAYING TO IS THE INFORMATION IN THE REPORTS ABOUT WAGES. WHAT WERE THE SIGNALS TODAY?

>> TODAY, YEAR OVER YEAR -- AVERAGE HOURLY EARNINGS 2% RISE FROM A YEAR AGO. A SLIGHT DECELERATION FROM EARLIER IN THE QUARTER, A LITTLE POP FROM SOME STATES ENACTING MINIMUM WAGE LAWS. 29 STATES HAVE MINIMUM WAGE ABOVE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE. THAT SAYING IT'S NOT SHOWING UP IN YOUR OPINION IN TERMS OF OVERALL WAGE GAINS AND THE ONLY WAGES FROM COMBING GROWTH ARE COMING FROM PLUMMETING PRICES AT THE PUMP. WE'VE YET TO SEE THE GOOD NEWS.

>> Sreenivasan: PEOPLE ARE BRACE FOR AN INTEREST RATE HIEFNLGT DO JOB REPORTS LIKE TODAY'S MEAN THAT MIGHT BE DELAYED?

>> I THINK IT'S VALIDATED IN THE CAUTION IN RACING RATES. THE CHAIR OF THE FED WAS VERY VALIDATED THAT THE FED DOESN'T NEED TO BE QUICK TO RAISE RATES. NOT LIKELY TO HAPPEN IN JUNE. EVEN AS THEY DO THEY'LL DO SO EVER SO SLOWLY BECAUSE THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT ALL THE POTHOLES THAT STILL LIE AHEAD IN THE ROAD IN FRONT OF US.

>> Sreenivasan: DIANE SWONK OF MESIROW FINANCIAL. THANKS FOR JOINING US.

>> Sreenivasan: REACTION TO THE NUCLEAR AGREEMENT WITH IRAN POURED IN FROM ALL OVER THE MIDDLE EAST AND ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM IN THE UNITED STATES.

>> Sreenivasan: THEY WERE DANCING IN TEHERAN'S STREETS INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.

>> I HAVEN'T MADE ANY BIG PROGRESS IN TEN YEARS, WE ARE VERY HAPPY THAT WE CAN FINALLY GO FORWARD. IT'S A REAL VICTORY FOR US.

>> Sreenivasan: LATER, AT FRIDAY PRAYERS, WITH IRAN'S CHIEF NUCLEAR OFFICIAL ON HAND, A TOP CLERIC LAUDED THE AGREEMENT.

>> ( translated ): I SHOULD REALLY CONGRATULATE ALL THE GENTLEMEN WHO LED THE NUCLEAR TALKS, GREAT JOB. PRESIDENT OF AMERICA, AND ALL OF YOU WHO ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE: YOU HAVE MADE A DEAL WITH IRAN AND WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THAT AGREEMENT IRAN WILL OBSERVE ALL IT HAS COMMITTED ITSELF TO, AND WILL KEEP ITS END OF THE DEAL.

>> Sreenivasan: THAT WAS A POSSIBLE SIGNAL THAT IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER, AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI, AND HIS HARD-LINE CADRE WILL ULTIMATELY ACCEPT THE DEAL. ESSENTIALLY, THE FRAMEWORK CALLS FOR CURTAILING IRAN'S URANIUM ENRICHMENT CAPACITY FOR UP TO 15 YEARS AND REQUIRING INTENSIVE NEW INSPECTIONS, IN EXCHANGE FOR SANCTIONS BEING LIFTED. IN A TELEVISED ADDRESS, IRAN'S PRESIDENT, HASSAN ROUHANI, SAID HIS GOVERNMENT WILL DO WHAT IT PROMISES, BUT HE REJECTED PRESIDENT OBAMA'S CONTENTION THAT THE SANCTIONS FORCED THE ISSUE.

>> ( translated ): THEY IMPOSED SANCTIONS TO MAKE US SURRENDER. BUT WHEN THEY REALIZED THAT SURRENDERING WAS IMPOSSIBLE, AND FOUND THEMSELVES FACING A UNITED, INTEGRATED AND BRAVE NATION, THEN THEY SAID 'THE SANCTIONS WERE INTENDED FOR NEGOTIATIONS.

>> Sreenivasan: THE IRANIAN LEADER ALSO DECLARED THE WORLD POWERS THAT SIGNED THE DEAL "ACCEPT THAT URANIUM CAN BE ENRICHED IN IRAN." STILL, HE SAID, THE PROGRAM POSES NO THREAT.

>> ( translated ): WE WANT BETTER RELATIONS WITH COUNTRIES THAT WE HAVE COLD RELATIONS WITH. THE ENRICHMENT AND THE TECHNOLOGY WILL NOT BE USED AGAINST ANY COUNTRY, NO REGIONAL COUNTRY OR ANY IN THE WORLD.

>> Sreenivasan: THOSE WORDS DID NOTHING TO MOLLIFY LEADERS IN JERUSALEM.

>> THE DEAL WOULD LEGITIMIZE IRAN'S ILLEGAL NUCLEAR PROGRAM.

>> Sreenivasan: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU HAD SPOKEN WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA OVERNIGHT WHO SOUGHT TO REASSURE HIM, BUT TO LITTLE APPARENT EFFECT.

>> ISRAEL WILL NOT ACCEPT AN AGREEMENT WHICH ALLOWS A COUNTRY THAT VOWS TO ANNIHILATE US TO DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS, PERIOD. IN ADDITION, ISRAEL DEMANDS THAT ANY FINAL AGREEMENT WITH IRAN WILL INCLUDE A CLEAR AND UNAMBIGUOUS IRANIAN COMMITMENT OF ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST.

>> Sreenivasan: THE WHITE HOUSE INSISTED TODAY THE PRESIDENT WOULD NOT ACCEPT AN AGREEMENT THAT THREATENS ISRAEL. AND STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON MARIE HARF SAID MR. OBAMA IS SATISFIED THE ADMINISTRATION DID NOT CONCEDE TOO MUCH.

>> WE NEED TO CUT OFF THE FOUR PATHWAYS FOR IRAN TO GET TO A NUCLEAR WEAPON, AND WE NEED TO GET IRAN FROM CURRENTLY TWO TO THREE MONTHS OF BREAKOUT TIME, UP TO SIX TIMES THAT, TO AT LEAST A YEAR BREAKOUT TIME UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, AND THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE DONE. OUR BOTTOM LINES HERE IN TERMS OF WHAT WE NEEDED TO GET AT THE NEGOTIATING TABLE HAVE NEVER CHANGED.

>> Sreenivasan: OTHER PARTIES TO THE TALKS STRUCK NOTES OF CAUTION. THE FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER LAURENT FABIUS, INSISTED A FINAL AGREEMENT MUST ENSURE THERE IS NO IRANIAN BOMB.

>> ( translated ): IF THIS AGREEMENT IS NOT ENTIRELY SOLID, THAT WOULD MEAN THAT IRAN COULD GET A BOMB. AND THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. AND IF THIS AGREEMENT IS NOT PERCEIVED AS SOLID, THAT MEANS THAT THE COUNTRIES OF THE REGION SUCH AS SAUDI ARABIA, EGYPT, TURKEY, ET CETERA, COULD ALSO START THINKING OF MAKING A BOMB AND THAT WOULD BE A NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION, DANGEROUS FOR ALL.

>> Sreenivasan: THERE IS NO SPECIFIC SCHEDULE ON RESUMPTION OF TALKS, WHICH HAVE A DEADLINE OF JUNE 30.

>> Sreenivasan: AND TO THE ANALYSIS OF SHIELDS AND BROOKS. THAT'S SYNDICATED COLUMNIST MARK SHIELDS AND NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST DAVID BROOKS. DAVID, LET ME START WITH YOU. IF THE HARD LINERS OR SOME HARD LINERS IN IRAN ARE OPPOSED TO THIS AND IF BENJAMIN NETANYAHU IS OPPOSED TO THIS DID THE U.S. OLOGIST THREAD THE NEEDLE AND TRY TO GET THE NEGOTIATIONS THAT THEY WANTED TO?

>> I DON'T THINK SO. I'M SKEPTICAL OF THE DEAL. PARTS OF IT ARE IMPRESSIVE. THE INSPECTION REGIME IS PRETTY GOOD. SO PEOPLE LIKELY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT STAYING FOR TEN YEARS, WE'LL AT LEAST HAVE ACCESS TO LOTS OF DIFFERENT PARTS TO HAVE THE IRANIAN WEAPON SYSTEMS. MAYBE NOT THE GUARD BURKS IT'S A GOOD REGIME. THE FIRST GOAL WAS TO GET RID OF THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM. THAT'S WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID. WE'RE ALONG WAY FROM THAT. SECOND, IN TEN YEARS LOTS OF BAD THINGS CAN HAPPEN. THEY CAN REALLY MOVE QUICKLY. THIRD IT'S A BIG VENT ON THE NATURE OF THE ISLAMIC REGIME. DO THEY WANT TO JOIN THE UNITED NATIONS? I'M EXTREMELY SKEPTICAL. THIS IS A REGIME THAT GENERALLY TALKS ABOUT AND ACTS ON THE BASIS OF THE IDEA THAT IT'S A RADICAL REGIME WITH A CERTAIN MISSION AND HISTORY THAT DOESN'T ONLY TALK ABOUT BUT ACTS ON, FUNDS HEZBOLLAH HAMAS, FUNDS I.E.D.s THAT KILLS AMERICAN TROOPS, IT WANTS A CERTAIN INFLUENCE ON THE REGION THAT'S HOSTILE. SO WHEN PEOPLE LIKE DAVE PETRAEUS SAY IRAN IS NOT THE SOLUTION, IT'S A PROBLEM THEN WE YOU HAVE TO THINK WE'LL END UP ENRICHING A REGIME THAT WILL END UP DOING US HARM. I'M WILLING TO GIVE IT A CHANCE, BUT I'M A SKEPTIC.

>> Sreenivasan: MARK? I THINK THE UNPRECEDENTED UNRESTRICTED INSPECTIONS ARE VERY, VERY POSITIVE. I AM VERY SUPPORTIVE OF WHAT I KNOW ABOUT THE DEAL SO FAR. THE REACTION RIGHT NOW AND THE RESISTANCE WHICH HAS BEEN QUITE OUTSPOKEN IN THIS COUNTRY REMINDS ME OF A SECOND-TERM PRESIDENT WHO NEGOTIATED WITH A BRUTAL REGIME THAT IT INFLAMED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, AND HE HAD AN AGREEMENT TO CUT OUR NUCLEAR BALLISTIC MISSILES BY 50% UNILATERALLY. HE CAME BACK, RONALD REAGAN FROM DEALING WITH MIKHAIL GORBACHEV AND SAID THIS IS THE DAY AMERICA LOST THE COLD WAR. WILLIAM BUCKLEY'S NATIONALVIEW CALLED IT RONALD REAGAN'S SUICIDE PACT. IT WAS ROUNDLY ROASTED. I HAPPENED TO BELIEVE THAT YOU NEGOTIATE WITH YOUR ENEMIES, WITH YOUR ADVERSARIES, AND I THINK FROM EVERYTHING I KNOW AT THIS POINT IT'S POSITIVE. THERE'S GREAT RESISTANCE IN THIS COUNTRY. MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT. REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR 2016 BY EMPHASIZING THEIR OPPOSITION TO PRESIDENT OBAMA ON ANYTHING BUT CERTAINLY ON THIS HELPED THEMSELVES. MARK KIRK,, THE REPUBLICAN SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS HAS ALREADY RETIRED. THE CLASSLESS DEMAGOGUERY AWARD FOR 2015 AND MAYBE 2016 AS WELL WHEN HE SAID WITHOUT HAVING EVEN LOOKED AT THE TERMS THAT CHAMBER LANE GOOD MORE FROM HITLER OUT OF MUNICH THAN WE DID. I AM CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC AND HOPEFUL. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE OPTION IS WHAT THE ALTERNATIVE IS. I THINK TO BRING THEM IN IT'S ALWAYS BETTER TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE THAN TO ISOLATE THEM, AND I DON'T DO IT WITH MY EYES IN ANY WAY CLOSED TO IRAN'S EVIL ACTS.

>> SO THIS IS THE DEAL -- IS THE IRANIAN REGIME STALIN OR GORBACHEV? IF IT'S GORBACHEV WHO IS IDEOLOGICALLY DEAD AND NOT BELIEVING IN THEIR OWN REGIME AND THIS PULLS TOGETHER THE NATIONS THEN HOME RUN. BUT I THINK THEY'RE STALIN AND BELIEVE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ZEAL. IN THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR THEY HAVE LAND MINUS. HOW DO THEY CLEAR LAND MINUS? THEY TOOK KIDS, GAVE THEM A STRING AND HAD THEM WALK ACROSS A FIELD. SO THEY'RE IN A DIFFERENT MENTAL UNIVERSE. THAT WAS AT THE HIGH POINT TO HAVE THE REVOLUTION. BUT THEY'RE NOT SO FAR AWAY. THEY'RE SPENDING ALL THIS MONEY ON HEZBOLLAH BLAH, SOMETIMES IN TACTICAL ALLIANCES WITH AL QUAIDA. THEY ARE A RADICAL REGIME. SO I THINK WITHIN THE FEW SHORT YEARS THEY WILL BE PUMPING OUT OIL, RICHER, THE INFLUENCE ON THE REGION WILL BE GREATER AND THE SAUDIS WILL HAVE TO COUNTER AND I ALREADY THINK THE REGION IS IN THE MIDST TORE THE VERY BEGINNING OF WHAT SOME PEOPLE HAVE CALLED A 30-YEARS RELIGIOUS WAR IN ALLOWING IRAN TO GET RICHER AND POTENTIALLY NUCLEAR IN THE MIDST OF THAT IS RISKY.

>> HALF THE POPULATION OF IRAN IS UNDER AGE 35. TO ME, THAT'S ENCOURAGING AND THAT'S POSITIVE. I THINK THAT THE ACCLAIM AND THE RESPONSE THE POSITIVE RESPONSE TO THIS AGREEMENT THERE IS ENCOURAGING IN ITSELF. AND I DON'T KNOW. I MEAN THE MOST UNEQUIVOCAL VOICES IN OPPOSITION PEOPLE LIKE JOHN BOLTON, HAVE RECOMMENDED AN ATTACK UPON IRAN, TO ATTACK ON ITS NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES. YOU KNOW, THAT IS THE SHORTEST OF SHORT-TERM. THAT STRENGTHENS THE HARD LINERS THAT EMBOLDENS THEIR NUCLEAR PROGRAM, AND TO ME ROILS THE ALREADY TROUBLED WATERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

>> Sreenivasan: HOW DOES THAT IMPACT WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW? GOOD FOR THE PRESIDENT?

>> HE WAS A RANKING MEMBER. SENATOR MENDEZ HAS BEEN A RANKING DEMOCRAT ON FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE AND AN OUTSPOKEN CRITIC ON ANY TREATY WITH IRAN SO TO THAT DEGREE IT PROBABLY HELPS THE PRESIDENT'S POSITION AT THE EDGES.

>> AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE ALL AGAINST. THE DEMOCRATS ARE SORT OF HESITANT. THEY'RE SKEPTICAL, WAITING TO SEE. I SUSPECT, AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE DEMOCRATS WILL SIDE WITH THE PRESIDENT AND FRANKLY I SUSPECT AT THE END OF THE DAY AS MUCH AS REPUBLICANS GENERALLY THINK IT'S A BAD DEAL IT TAKES A LOT OF MOXIE TO THEN -- IT'S NOT JUST US AND THE IRANIANS, IT'S AN INTERNATIONAL DEAL WITH OTHER COUNTRIES, IT TAKES A LOT IN THE COVMENTS EVEN IF YOU'RE SKEPTICAL, YOU HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE IF THE SENATE BASICALLY UNDERCUTS OUR OWN PRESIDENT THERE ARE HUGE COSTS TO THAT IN OUR ABILITY TO NEGOTIATED ANYTHING IN THE FUTURE. SO EVEN AS MANY PEOPLE ARE SKEPTICAL, WHETHER CONGRESS WILL ACTUALLY DESTROY IT, I'M DUBIOUS THAT WILL HAPPEN.

>> Sreenivasan: THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT, WHAT HAPPENED IN INDIANA, ARKANSAS. DAVID, WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT WHERE SOCIETY IS NOW?

>> I'M PRO-GAY MARRIAGE. I HAVE BEEN PRO-GAY MARRIAGE OUT OF THE WOMB. SO I WOULD NOT HAVE SUPPORTED THAT. BUT I DO THINK TWO THINGS -- FIRST THE MINOR THING, THEN THE MAJOR THING. THE MINOR THING IS SUBSTANTIVE. THERE IS GENERAL TENSION BETWEEN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND TOLERANCE AND FULL EL QUALITIES FOR GAYS AND LESBIANS. THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW THAN ME AND SOMEHOW WE HAVE TO GIVE THEM SOME RESPECT AND SPACE. THAT DOES NOT MEAN THEY'RE ALLOWED TO DISCRIMINATE. THAT'S A SUBSTANTIVE TENSION BETWEEN THE TWO THINGS. TO ME THE LARGER ISSUE IS SIMPLY PRAGMATIC. THE GAY RIGHTS AGENDA AND THE CAUSE HAS HAD AN AMAZING COUPLE OF YEARS AND DECADE SWEEPING ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND DOING GREAT IN URBAN AND SUBURBAN AMERICA. BUT PARTS OF AMERICA, RURAL, RELIGIOUS, WHERE IT'S FACING OPPOSITION. AND THE QUESTION BECOMES HOW DO YOU MAKE THOSE AREAS MORE AMENABLE TO CHANGE? AND I KNOW SO MANY CHRISTIANS WHO BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE BUT THEY'RE REALLY WRESTLING WITH THIS. TO ME, MAKING IT VERY POLARIZED AND VERY SULL CHIEWRL WAR SEEMINGLY IS THE WRONG WAY TO MOVE PEOPLE. SOME OF THE REACTION, I THOUGHT WAS OVER THE TOP.

>> THE VELOCITY ON THIS ISSUE IS ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL. I POINT OUT THAT BY THE STANDARDS OF MANY IN THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT TODAY TWO YEARS AGO THE STANCE OF THE PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE BEEN BIGOTED MARRIAGE ONLY BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN. THE ONLY WAY TO COMPARE IT TO ME IS THE ATTITUDE OF INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE. AT THE TIME OF THE AGE OF AQUARIUS IN THIS COUNTRY FLOWER CHILDREN, 75% OF AMERICANS OPPOSED INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE. NOW 90% ENDORSE IT AND 9% OPPOSE IT. THE SAME PATTERN IS IDENTIFIED IN SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.

>> FOR THE REPUBLICANS, IT'S A REAL QUANDARY. IT'S A REAL QUANDARY BECAUSE IT IS AN ISSUE TO REPUBLICANS. REPUBLICANS OPPOSE IT. 70% OF REPUBLICANS OPPOSE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. THREE OUT OF FIVE INDEPENDENTS THE SWING GROUP ARE IN FAVOR OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. REPUBLICANS UNDER THE AGE OF 30, 60% OF THEM SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE, BUT IN A PRIMARY, IT COULD BE INFLUENTIAL. ESPECIALLY IN SOUTH CAROLINA WHERE RICK SANTORUM AND MIKE HUCKABEE HAVE PARODIED IN SOUTH CAROLINA WITH POLITICAL AND CULTURAL CONSERVATIVES. BUT THERE IS THE QUESTION OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY WHICH IS BASIC TO OUR COUNTRY, TRULY WHETHER QUAKERS AND MENNONITES NOT FORCED TO SERVE IN THE MILITARY OR HEAD SCARVES OR GEAR WHETHER MUSLIMS OR JEWISH PEOPLE WE'VE HAD A RESPECT FOR THAT AND IT ENCOURAGES TOLERANCE. I THINK THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT IS IN SUCH DOMINANCE AT THIS POINT -- DOMINANCE MAY BE THE WRONG WORD -- THAT I THINK IT'S TIME TO LOOK FOR CONVERTS RATHER THAN HERATICS. I THINK THE INDIANA STATUTE WENT TOO FAR WHEN IT GAVE THE SAME RIGHTS TO A CORPORATION THAT IT BESTOWS ON AN INDIVIDUAL.

>> Sreenivasan: IS THIS SOMETHING THE MARKET WILL CORRECT FOR OVER TIME? THE SUPPORT MEMORIES PIZZA JOINT THAT DECIDED THEY WOULD ABIDE BY THE LAW IF IT WAS. THEY PUT OUT A GO FUND ME CAMPAIGN. THEY WERE LOOKING FOR 200,000 AND AT LEAST $800,000 AND PRETTY MUCH ONE DAY FROM 27000, 30,000 PEOPLE. SO OVER TIME, IS THIS A MATTER OF A POPULATION SHIFTING, THEIR CUSTOMERS SHIFTING AND SAYING I'M TAKING MY MONEY SOMEWHERE ELSE? IS THAT MORE EFFECTIVE THAN A FEDERAL OR LOCAL STATE LAW?

>> OBVIOUSLY, CHRISTIANS COULD SUPPORT BODE SIDES. THAT WOULD BE MY SOLUTION BASICALLY. A LOT OF THE ISSUE GETS DOWN TO SAY A GAY COUPLE GOES TO A BICK RIOR WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER AND SAYS WOULD YOU WORK OUR MARRIAGE CEREMONY AND THE BAKER AND PHOTOGRAPHER SAYS I'M NOT REALLY COMFORTABLE ABOUT THAT SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT BE FORCING THAT BAKER OR PHOTOGRAPHER TO WORK? SHOULD THEY COARSE THEM INTO WORKING IT? IF IT WAS A BASIC ISSUE OF VOTING RIGHTS OBVIOUSLY YES. TO ME, I WOULD BOYCOTT THAT PHOTOGRAPHER OR BAKER BUT I WOULD NOT FEEL COMFORTABLE THE GOVERNMENT FORCING THEM.

>> Sreenivasan: ABOUT 15 SECONDS.

>> I HAD BEEN AWARE OF THE PIZZA STORY. I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY QUESTION. THERE HAS BEEN, IN MY JUDGMENT, A WAVE THAT IS IRREVERSIBLE, BUT I DO THINK IT'S THE TIME NOT TO TAKE A VICTORY DANCE IN THE END ZONE. I THINK IT'S THE TIME TO REACH OUT AND REACH ACROSS THE DIVIDE AT THIS POINT AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE GOOD WILL OF PEOPLE WHO ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE. THAT'S MISSING IN OUR POLITICS COMPLETELY.

>> Sreenivasan: BUT NOT HERE AT THIS TABLE. MARK MARX DAVIDMARK SHIELDS DAVID BROOKS THANKS SO MUCH.

>> Sreenivasan: OPENING DAY FOR BASEBALL BEGINS THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND. THE FIRST GAME IS SUNDAY NIGHT WHEN THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS TAKE ON THE CHICAGO CUBS. AND THEN ALL OTHERS TEAMS THROW THEIR FIRST PITCH ON MONDAY. WE RECENTLY TOOK NOTE OF HOW THE LEAGUE IS TRYING TO MAKE SOME CHANGES TO THE GAME ON THE FIELD. BUT THERE ARE ALSO SOME CHANGES UNDERWAY BEHIND THE SCENES WHEN IT COMES TO THE MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP OF MAJOR LEAGUE BALLCLUBS. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT JOHN CARLOS FREY HAS THE STORY.

>> Reporter: THESE TEENAGERS ARE SOME OF THE BEST YOUNG BASEBALL PLAYERS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE UNITED STATES. THEY CAME HERE, TO USA BASEBALL HEADQUARTERS IN CARY NORTH CAROLINA, TO SHOW OFF THEIR TALENTS TO PRO SCOUTS WHO MIGHT TURN THEM INTO THE FUTURE FACES OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. CLOSELY TRACKING THEIR DEVELOPMENT IS KIM NG.

>> I RUN OUR SCOUTING DIVISION. THAT'S UNDER MY PURVIEW.

>> Reporter: AS MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL'S SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF BASEBALL OPERATIONS, NG IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST RANKING WOMEN IN ALL OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTS. SHE'S BEEN IN BASEBALL FOR OVER TWO DECADES, STARTING AS AN INTERN WITH THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX. THEN IN 1998, THE YANKEES CALLED WITH A BIG OFFER.

>> BRIAN CASHMAN FROM THE NEW YORK YANKEES HIRED ME AS HIS ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER IN NEW YORK. I WAS THERE FOR FOUR YEARS AND THEN I WENT ON TO BE THE ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER OF THE DODGERS FOR NINE YEARS.

>> Reporter: NG IS ONE OF ONLY THREE WOMEN TO EVER HOLD AN ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER POSITION IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL.

>> I DON'T THINK ANYONE COULD'VE SEEN THIS 20 YEARS AGO.

>> Reporter: DO YOU SEE YOURSELF DURING THAT 20 YEAR CAREER BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS?

>> I DO. THERE ARE CERTAIN POINTS IN TIME WHEN I'M ABLE TO STEP BACK AND LOOK AT IT AND UNDERSTAND THE MAGNITUDE OF WHAT'S HAPPENED.

>> Reporter: YOU HAVE TO WORK HARDER BECAUSE YOU'RE A WOMAN?

>> ABSOLUTELY, SURE. I WALK INTO A ROOM OF 50 GUYS AND THE ONLY PERSON THEY'LL PROBABLY DOUBT IS ME.

>> Reporter: STILL, NG'S ASCENSION TO THE TOP OF BASEBALL'S RANKS MAY REPRESENT THE INEVITABILITY OF A SLOW TREND TOWARDS DIVERSITY IN THE GAME'S MANAGEMENT.

>> IF I'M GOING TO PUT MY GEEK CAP ON, IT'S JUST A STATISTICAL IMPOSSIBILITY THAT THE BEST CANDIDATE FOR EVERY POSITION IN BASEBALL IS A MIDDLE-AGED CAUCASIAN MALE.

>> Reporter: WITH A BACHELORS DEGREE FROM M.I.T. AND A PH.D IN ECONOMICS FROM BERKELEY, FARHAN ZAIDI'S RESUME READS LIKE A BETTER FIT FOR THE WORLD BANK THAN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. BUT AFTER TEN YEARS WITH THE OAKLAND ATHLETICS, ZAIDI IS NOW THE NEW GENERAL MANAGER OF THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS, AND THE FIRST MUSLIM GENERAL MANAGER OF ANY MAJOR AMERICAN SPORTS FRANCHISE.

>> IT'S NOT SOMETHING I WAKE UP EVERY MORNING AND YOU KNOW THINK ABOUT. YOU KNOW, LIKE I'M GOING INTO WORK TODAY AS THE YOU KNOW FIRST MUSLIM-AMERICAN GENERAL MANAGER IN PROFESSIONAL SPORTS. I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY THE FIRST TIME I'VE SAID IT OUT LOUD.

>> Reporter: IT'S A BIG DEAL.

>> YEAH, I'M PROUD OF IT BUT I KNOW I'M SUCH A SMALL PART OF WHAT, YOU KNOW I HOPE HAPPENS IN OUR SPORT AND SPORTS IN GENERAL. WHICH IS, YOU KNOW I DON'T THINK BASEBALL OR ANY SPORT BELONGS TO ANYONE OR ANY ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE.

>> Reporter: WHILE MANY WILL SEE ZAIDI'S ACHIEVEMENT AS A BREAKTHROUGH, FOR HIM IT IS THE FRUITION OF AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM FOR A BOY BORN TO PAKISTANI PARENTS IN CANADA, AND RAISED IN THE PHILIPPINES.

>> IF YOU ASK ME WHAT MY DREAM JOB WAS I WOULD HAVE SAID, "WORKING FOR A BASEBALL TEAM." BUT THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.

>> Reporter: BUT YOU WEREN'T WORKING TOWARDS THAT GOAL?

>> NO I MEAN AND AGAIN JUST BECAUSE I FELT IT'D BE LIKE SAYING, YOU KNOW YOU'RE WORKING TOWARDS WINNING AT THE LOTTERY I MEAN HOW DO YOU DO THAT YOU KNOW?

>> Reporter: THAT ANSWER CAME IN MICHAEL LEWIS' BOOK "MONEYBALL," ABOUT THE RISE OF ANALYTICS, OR DEEP STATISTICAL ANALYSIS IN BASEBALL, CHAMPIONED BY FREE THINKING OAKLAND ATHLETICS GENERAL MANAGER BILLY BEANE.

>> I WAS IN A Ph.D. PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY WHEN I FINALLY READ THE BOOK MONEYBALL. AND I WOULD ACTUALLY SAY THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME WHEN I FELT LIKE SOMEBODY WITH MY BACKGROUND, WITH MY SORT OF LIMITED BASEBALL BACKGROUND AND YOU KNOW MAYBE WITH MY EDUCATION PROFILE COULD CONTRIBUTE TO MAJOR LEAGUE FRONT OFFICE. AND THEN, I CAME UPON THIS POSTING FOR A BASEBALL OPERATIONS, ASSISTANT POSITION WITH THE A'S. AND IT JUST SEEMED LIKE THE PERFECT FIT BECAUSE IT WAS WITH THE A'S, IT WAS WITH BILLY BEANE AND IT WAS A VERY QUANTITATIVE POSITION BY NATURE.

>> Reporter: IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU REALLY WANTED THE JOB.

>> THERE WAS REALLY NO STONE THAT WAS GOING TO LEAVE UNTURNED, SORT OF IN MY PREPARATION PROCESS. I LEARNED THE ORGANIZATION INSIDE OUT, LEARNED THE MINOR LEAGUE SYSTEM, YOU KNOW WHAT PEOPLE IN THE FRONT OFFICE DID. I JUST WANTED TO FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, I WANTED TO WALK OUT OF THAT INTERVIEW SAYING, "I SPENT TOO MUCH TIME PREPARING."

>> YEAH. I WAS LUCKY TO HAVE FARHAN WALK THROUGH THOSE DOORS. I THINK THAT HIGHLY OF HIM. HE'S A GREAT BASEBALL EXECUTIVE AND HE'S A BETTER PERSON. I MAY GET UPSET THINKING ABOUT IT. HE'S REALLY SPECIAL. YEAH I MEAN IT MEANS A LOT TO ME.

>> WHAT'S WITH THE SHIRT?

>> IF IT'S WRINKLED THEY MAKE US GO HOME.

>> Reporter: AFTER A DECADE WORKING TOGETHER IN OAKLAND, THE MENTOR AND HIS PROTEGE MET FOR THE FIRST TIME AS COMPETITORS AT A SPRING TRAINING THIS YEAR WHEN BEANE'S ATHLETICS FACED ZAIDI'S DODGERS.

>> THIS IS A BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY WHERE THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST SHOULD GET THE OPPORTUNITY AND THAT'S THE WAY WE LOOK AT IT WITH FARHAN. I THINK SORTA CHOSE TO BE OR IT'S, IT LOOKS TO BE A VERY WISE DECISION 'CAUSE HERE HE IS RIGHT NOW RUNNING ONE OF THE BIGGEST SPORTS FRANCHISES IN THE GLOBE AND HE DESERVES IT.

>> Reporter: ZAIDI IS PART OF A GENERATION OF POST "MONEYBALL" EXECUTIVES WHO NOW BRING STRONG ANALYTIC BACKGROUNDS BUT LITTLE OR NO ON-FIELD EXPERIENCE TO BASEBALL MANAGEMENT JOBS.

>> WHETHER YOU'RE TRACKING THE SPIN OF THE BALL OR THEY SPEED OF THE FIRST STEP OF THE DEFENSIVE PLAYER IN PURSUING A FLY BALL. THERE ARE SO MANY PIECES OF INFORMATION THAT YOU CAN COLLECT ON A BASEBALL FIELD AND FROM A FRONT OFFICE STANDPOINT, JUST MAKES SENSE TO USE ALL THAT INFORMATION TO YOUR ADVANTAGE.

>> Reporter: IT SOUNDS A LITTLE SURPRISING TO ME, I MEAN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A GAME HERE, WHICH IS BASEBALL. WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT A CURE FOR CANCER.

>> RIGHT, BUT WE ARE ALSO TALKING, I MEAN WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE DODGERS ABOUT A TEAM WITH A $250 MILLION PAYROLL AND IT'S A $2 BILLION COMPANY. SO, YOU KNOW THERE IS AN IMPERATIVE TO NOT LEAVE ANY STONE UNTURNED IN TRYING TO BUILD THE BEST ORGANIZATION POSSIBLE TO TRY TO EVALUATE PERFORMANCE AS ACCURATELY AND PRODUCTIVELY AS POSSIBLE. I MEAN THERE ARE SO MANY MEETINGS THAT I'VE SAT IN, OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS WHERE I'VE THOUGHT, YOU KNOW A GROUP OF PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM IS NOT AT ALL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FACE OF THIS COUNTRY. I DON'T THINK IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT A MUSLIM WITH MY BACKGROUND WAS GOING TO GET INTO BASEBALL. IT WAS JUST ME BEING AT THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME. AND I THINK THAT WILL HAPPEN WITH, YOU KNOW PROMINENT FEMALE IN SPORTS. WHETHER IT'S POSITION AS A COMMISSIONER OR AS A GENERAL MANAGER, THERE IS AN INCREASING NUMBER OF QUALIFIED CANDIDATES AND I THINK IT WILL BE A REMINDER TO US OF HOW BROAD OUR FAN BASE IN BASEBALL REALLY IS. THAT IT CROSSES ALL AGE AND GENDER AND ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS LINES.

>> Reporter: KIM NG STILL HAS MORE WORK TO DO IN BASEBALL. LIKE THOSE PROSPECTS SHE'S TRACKING, SHE'LL WAIT FOR NOW, FOR HER NEXT BIG BREAK IN THE MAJORS.

>> I THINK SEEING A WOMAN GENERAL MANAGER WOULD BE A GREAT THING. I'VE ACTUALLY INTERVIEWED FOR A NUMBER OF JOBS, GENERAL MANAGER- SHIPS, UNFORTUNATELY HAVEN'T GOTTEN ONE YET BUT I THINK HAVE COME CLOSE. SO, HOPEFULLY THAT'S THE ONE ON THE HORIZON, FOR ME OR SOMEBODY ELSE.

>> Reporter: DO YOU THINK THAT A MAN WITH YOUR SAME RESUME AND EXPERIENCE IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL WOULD'VE ALREADY BEEN A GENERAL MANAGER?

>> HARD TO SAY, HARD TO SAY. BUT--

>> Reporter: IT'S LIKELY? SO.

>> I WOULD SAY SO, I WOULD SAY SO.

>> Reporter: SO WHEN THEY COME DOWN TO THE DECISION OF WHETHER TO PICK YOU OR SOMEBODY AS QUALIFIED, GENDER COMES INTO PLAY?

>> I THINK IT DOES. YEAH I THINK IT'S-- I THINK IT'S HARD FOR SOME PEOPLE TO IMAGINE.

>> Reporter: I'M JUST KIND OF CURIOUS AS TO WHY THEY WOULD PICK THE MAN JUST BECAUSE HE IS A MAN, RIGHT?

>> I HAVE NO ANSWER FOR YOU ON THAT ONE.

>> Reporter: YOU WOULD BE THE HIGHEST RANKING WOMEN IN ALL OF MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS, IF YOU WERE GENERAL MANAGER.

>> I BELIEVE SO. IF IT WERE TO HAPPEN, I THINK MY MOTHER WOULD BE VERY PROUD.

>> Reporter: YOUR MOTHER, WHAT ABOUT YOU?

>> I WOULD BE VERY PROUD TOO, THERE IS NO DOUBT.

>> Reporter: AND THAT GLASS CEILING WOULD BE BROKEN FOR GOOD I WOULD IMAGINE.

>> I HOPE SO, I HOPE IT'S NOT A ONETIME DEAL. YOU KNOW IT WILL BECOME MUCH LESS OF A NOVELTY AND HOPEFULLY PEOPLE WILL CONSIDER AND RECOGNIZE AND UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE CAPABLE OF.

>> Reporter: FOR PBS NEWSHOUR I'M JOHN CARLOS FREY IN CARY NORTH CAROLINA

>> Sreenivasan: NOW, TO THE LATEST ADDITION ON THE NEWSHOUR BOOKSHELF. IT'S A NEW BIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST LADY, "MICHELLE OBAMA: A LIFE" BY PETER SLEVIN, A VETERAN POLITICAL REPORTER FORMERLY WITH THE WASHINGTON POST. RECENTLY, HE SAT DOWN WITH GWEN IFILL AT "BUSBOYS AND POETS," A RESTAURANT AND BOOKSTORE CHAIN IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. AREA.

>> Ifill: PETER SLEVIN, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

>> IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE, THANKS.

>> Ifill: NU THIS BOOK, YOU SAY THAT AT ONE POINT MICHELLE OBAMA DESCRIBED HERSELF AS A STATISTICAL ANOMALY. AS YOU WERE PUTTING TOGETHER THIS HISTORY, THE THIS HISTORY, THE STORY OF HER LIFE WHAT DID YOU FIND OUT?

>> WHAT I FOUND IS THAT MICHELE MICHELLE OBAMA CAME FROM A WORKING CLASS FAMILY ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO. SHE LIVED IN A SMALL APARTMENT HAD NOT GONE TO COLLEGE AND THE ODDS WERE STACKED AGAINST HER. SHE FOUND HER WAY TO A MAGNET SCHOOL AND THEN ON UP TO HARVARD.

>> Ifill: SHE HAD SOME ADVANTAGES, BUT PRETTY MIDDLE-CLASS EXISTENCE WITHOUT A LOT OF MONEY.

>> SHE REALLY DID. SHE HAD A STAY-AT-HOME MOTHER, SOMETHING SHE POINTS OUT A LOT. SHE WAS EXTREMELY CLOSE TO HER FATHER WHO WORKED AT THE CITY WATER PLANT. HE DID SHIFT WORK BUT WAS AVAILABLE TO HER. HE WORKED AT THE CITY WATER PLANT ADDS AND WAS THERE FOR MICHELLE AND HER BROTHER CRAIG. SHE HAD A LARGE, EXTENDED FAMILY. THEY WERE VERY CLOSE GEOGRAPHICALLY ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO AND PERSONALLY. SHE HAD ADVICE AND ROLE MODELS IN HER LIFE.

>> ONE STORY IS THE CHILDHOOD OF HER UPBRINGING AND HOW IT CREATED WHO SHE WAS. THE OTHER IS ALL THE WAY FROM BEFORE SHE WAS BORN AND FAMILY LIFE AND CHILDHOOD IN CHICAGO, THROUGH HER TIME AT PRINCETON AND HARVARD AND EVEN AT HER TIME IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

>> SHE WAS BORN IN 1964, THE YEAR THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT WAS PASSED. SHE GREW UP WITH PARENTS WHO HAD NOT GONE TO COLLEGE. FROM GRANDPARENTS WHO WERE IN THE GREAT MIGRATION FROM THE SOUTH TO CHICAGO. BOTH HER GRANDFATHERS EXPERIENCED RACISM. SHE SAID OF HER GRANDFATHER, IF HE HAD BEEN BORN WHITE HE WOULD HAVE BEEN A BANKER. HER OTHER GRANDFATHER COULDN'T GET A GOOD JOB AS CARPENTER IN CHICAGO BECAUSE HE WASN'T ALLOWED TO JOIN A UNION.

>> Ifill: DID IT SCAR HER OR SHAPE HER.

>> THERE WAS AN AN EXPERIENCE IN HER HOUSEHOLD THAT ON THE ONE HAND THE DECK WAS STACKED BUT THE VERY SAME GRANDFATHER WHO DID NOT BECOME A BANK PRESIDENT OR HIS RELATIVES CALLED HIM PROFESSOR, HE WORKED IN THE POST OFFICE, HE SAID, YOU KNOW, MICHELLE, YOUR DESTINY IS NOT DETERMINED ON THE DAY YOU'RE BORN. GET ON WITH IT, GET AN EDUCATION EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE. SHE HEARD THAT FROM HER PARENTS, TOO.

>> Ifill: SHE HOW MUCH HAS SHE SHAPED HERSELF AND HOW MUCH OF IT HAS THE WORLD FORCED ON HER?

>> SHE'S CHOSEN TO PLAY A VERY DYNAMIC ROLE EVEN AT FIRST SHE WAS CAREFUL AND STRATEGIC. SHE FOCUSED OPENED THINGS SHE CARED ABOUT AND THEY WERE PULLED TOGETHER BY SOME OF THE EXPERIENCES SHE HAD GROWING UP AND AS A PROFESSIONAL ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO.

>> Ifill: MANY FIRST LADIES THEIR ROLE IS TO BE A COUNTER PART, A FLIP SIDE OF HER HUSBAND. IN HER CASE HER HUSBAND IS KNOWN AS BEING OPAQUE, SOME PEOPLE SAY COOL, AND SHE IS NOT CONSIDERED TO BE COOL IN THAT WAY. I WONDER IF PART OF HER ROLE IS TO FILL IN THE GAPS FOR BARACK OBAMA.

>> FRIENDS SAY THEIR RELATIONSHIP IS VERY CLOSE IN THAT WAY. SHE'S VERY DIRECT YET, AT THE SAME TIME SHE SAYS YOU KNOW, EVERY NIGHT HE WALKS IN THE DOOR, HE DOESN'T NEED TO HEAR ME TELLING HIM WHAT TO DO. IT'S CLEAR SHE'S A CLOSE ADVISOR TO HIM, A REAL PART PARTNER TO HIM AS WELL.

>> BUT HER TRAJECTORY IS INTERESTING. SHE'S COME TO BE A CHAMPION OF GOOD HEALTH AND EATING AND THAT WAS ALL WELL THOUGHT OUT. THAT DIDN'T JUST EVOLVE.

>> WE THINK OF HER DOING A LOT OF MOM AND APPLE PIE STUFF BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE HEART OF EACH HER ISSUES IF YOU THINK OF HER EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE, IT'S TARGETING DISADVANTAGED KIDS. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT SCHOOL LUNCHES 70% OF KIDS WHO BUY SCHOOL LUNCHES AT PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUY THEM AT REDUCED PRICE. EVEN THE MILITARY FAMILIES INITIATIVE, THE VAST MAJORITY OF SOLDIERS LEAVING THE ARMED FORMS IN FACT ONLY HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION SO SHE'S ALSO SUDDENLY TRYING IN A SMALL WAY TO KIND OF UNSTACK THE DECK, I THINK.

>> Ifill: ANY INDICATION WHAT SHE DOES WITH THIS?

>> EVERYONE SAYS SHE HERSELF IS FIGURING IT OUT. SHE HAS SAID SHE WILL DO SHE SAID SHE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK ON EDUCATION. ONE OF HER ROLES SHE'S TAKEN ON THROUGH HER LIFE HAS BEEN AS A MENTOR, AND I THINK IF YOU LOOK AT THE GROUP SHE'S SPEAKING TO, IT'S OFTEN GIRLS, OFTEN TEENAGERS, TRYING TO SHARE A MESSAGE WITH THEM, AND SHE'S SAID THAT SHE WANTS TO KEEP PUSHING THOSE KIDS IN THE VERY SAME WAY SHE WAS PUSHED HERSELF.

>> Ifill: PETER SLEVIN, AUTHOR OF "MICHELLE OBAMA: A LIFE." THANK YOU SO MUCH.

>> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

>> Sreenivasan: THERE'S A LOT OF BUZZ THIS WEEKEND ABOUT A 'TUDOR TAKEOVER' COMING TO TELEVISION, AS HENRY THE 8TH, HIS MANY WIVES, AND HIS SCHEMING MINISTERS ARE SUDDENLY AS ALIVE AS EVER. A NEW SERIES PREMIERES THIS WEEKEND ON 'MASTERPIECE", ONE THAT ALREADY HAS A STRONG LITERARY FOLLOWING EAGERLY AWAITING THE ADAPTATION. JEFFREY BROWN HAS OUR LOOK.

>> MASTER CROMWELL YOUR REPUTATION IS BAD. YOU DON'T DEFEND YOURSELF?

>> Brown: IT'S ON TELEVISION.

>> YOUR MAJESTY CAN FORM YOUR OWN OPINIONS.

>> Sreenivasan: ON BROADWAY.

>> Sreenivasan: AND IN PRINT, HILARY MANTEL AND HER HISTORIC CHARACTERS ARE SEEMINGLY EVERYWHERE.

>> THE EVER EXPANDING HENRY VIII

>> Brown: LITERALLY.

>> WITH HIS SIX WIVES, NO ONE ELSE HAS A RULER WITH SIX WIVES, WHO CUTS THE HEADS OFF TWO OF THEM. SO YOU'RE OFF TO A FLYING START THERE.

>> Sreenivasan: MANTEL'S NOVELS "WOLF HALL" AND ITS SEQUEL, "BRING UP THE BODIES", HAVE BEEN AN INTERNATIONAL SENSATION, WITH MORE THAN FOUR MILLION BOOKS SOLD IN 37 LANGUAGES. SHE WON THE PRESTIGIOUS MAN BOOKER PRIZE TWICE, A FIRST FOR A WOMAN. IT'S A FAMILIAR STORY IN MANY WAYS: THE MOMENTOUS REIGN IN THE 1500'S OF THE TUDOR KING HENRY PLAYED ON TELEVISION BY DAMIEN LEWIS, BASKING IN POWER BUT NEEDING A MALE HEIR, CUTTING LOOSE ONE WIFE IN FAVOR OF THE YOUNG ANNE BOLEYN, ONLY TO CUT HER HEAD OFF WHEN NO SON IS PRODUCED. BUT MANTEL HAS TOLD THE STORY IN A NEW WAY, GIVING THE LEAD ROLE TO THOMAS CROMWELL, PLAYED BY MARK RYLANCE. CROMWELL HAS LONG BEEN CAST AS THE "HEAVY," A SHADOWY, CRUEL SCHEMER. ESPECIALLY AS COMPARED TO HIS GREAT RIVAL, THOMAS MORE. MANTEL'S CROMWELL IS CERTAINLY CLEVER AND SCHEMING, BUT HE'S ALSO CHARMING AND URBANE.

>> THOMAS CROMWELL, SON OF A BLACKSMITH, WHO ROSE TO BE THE KING'S RIGHT HAND MAN. MY QUESTION IS SIMPLE: HOW DO YOU DO THAT? WHAT KIND OF A MAN IN THAT HIERARCHICAL, STRUCTURED SOCIETY CAN BREAK THROUGH ALL THE SOCIAL LAYERS, ALL THE FACTORS STACKED AGAINST HIM, AND CLIMB SO HIGH? AND WHAT IS THE PRICE?

>> Brown: YOU LOOKED AT THE HISTORY AND YOU SAID, "THIS IS WRONG, THE WAY HE'S BEEN PORTRAYED?"

>> I THOUGHT IT WAS A LOT MORE COMPLICATED AND NUANCED, THAN THE POPULAR PICTURE OF CROMWELL. I WANTED TO PUT THE SPOTLIGHT ON HIM AND I WANTED TO ASK MY READER, OR OUR AUDIENCE, WELL, WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE HIM, JUST WALK A MILE IN HIS SHOES, AND THEN SEE WHAT YOU THINK.

>> Brown: THE SIX-HOUR FROM THE TWO NOVELS, WENT TO TELEVISION PRODUCTION, ADAPTED FROM THE TWO NOVELS, WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS TO GET THE DETAILS RIGHT, INCLUDING SHOOTING ON LOCATIONS WHERE THE HISTORICAL FIGURES ONCE LIVED. FOR THE ACTORS, THERE WERE CHALLENGES AND REWARDS.

>> IT WAS VERY LONG. IT WAS SEVENTEEN WEEKS AND I WAS IN EVERY SCENE. SO IT WAS TIRING, PHYSICALLY TIRING. BUT MOST FILMS ARE NOT SPANNED OVER SIX HOURS. SO THAT WAS QUITE CHALLENGING TO JUMP ABOUT LIKE THAT. TO FILM A SCENE AND THEN GO HAVE MY CLOTHES CHANGED AND HAVE ANOTHER SCENE THAT WAS MAYBE TWENTY YEARS LATER.

>> IT IS THE STORY OF A NEW MODERN MAN AT THE START OF A NEW MODERN EUROPE. EVERYONE REALLY TRIES TO SERVE THE WHIMS OF HENRY THE VIII.

>> Sreenivasan: THE THEATER PRODUCTION ALSO WENT FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY, FROM JEWELRY TO THE ELABORATE COSTUMES, WHICH TOOK TWENTY-FIVE SEAMSTRESSES MORE THAN 8,000 HOURS TO MAKE. MANTEL HAS WORKED CLOSELY WITH BOTH PRODUCTIONS, ESPECIALLY THE PLAY, INCLUDING ATTENDING PREVIEWS ON BROADWAY, OBSERVING ACTOR BEN MILES AS CROMWELL. AND THEN GIVING NOTES AND IDEAS TO THE DIRECTOR AND CAST.

>> Brown: I WAS SITTING TWO ROWS

>> I DON'T THINK OF THE NOVELS WHEN I'M IN THE THEATER, BUT MY MIND IS DIVIDED BECAUSE PART OF ME IS THINKING, "NOW THIS SCENE IS LOOKING INTERESTING TONIGHT, WHAT IS THE KING GOING TO DO NEXT?"

>> Brown: REALLY, YOU'RE THINKING THAT?

>> Brown: NOT EVERYONE HAS ACCEPTED MANTEL'S VERSION OF EVENTS SURROUNDING THIS KEY MOMENT IN ENGLISH HISTORY, WHEN HENRY DEFIED THE POPE IN ROME AND CREATED THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND TWO CATHOLIC BISHOPS CRITICIZED THE SERIES WHEN IT AIRED IN BRITAIN FOR ITS "PERVERSE" AND "ANTI-CATHOLIC" DEPICTION OF THOMAS MORE, WHO'S BEEN CANONIZED BY THE CHURCH. MANTEL, THOUGH, SAYS SHE GROUNDED HER FICTION IN YEARS OF RESEARCH.

>> I THINK THAT AN IMAGINATIVE WRITER, FOR STAGE OR NOVEL, HAS A, STILL HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO THEIR READER, AND THAT RESPONSIBILITY IS TO GET THE HISTORY RIGHT, TO GET THE FACTS RIGHT.

>> Brown: YOU WANT TO DO THAT?

>> ABSOLUTELY, THAT'S THE ABSOLUTE FOUNDATION OF WHAT I DO. I BEGIN TO IMAGINE AT THE POINT WHERE THE FACTS RUN OUT, BUT LIKE A HISTORIAN I'M WORKING ON THE GREAT MARSHY GROUND OF INTERPRETATION.

>> Brown: WHICH HISTORIANS DO, BUT ALSO YOU'RE SAYING NOVELISTS?

>> EXACTLY. WE ALL SHARE THE SAME SOURCES, WE SHARE THE SAME FACTS, THE QUESTION IS WHERE DO WE STAND TO VIEW THEM?

>> Brown: SO ARE YOU PLEASED WITH THE WAY THIS HAS TURNED OUT, BOTH ON TELEVISION AND ON STAGE?

>> I THINK MY BOOKS ARE SO WELL SERVED AND ENHANCED BY BOTH MEDIA. I SOMETIMES THINK BACK, THOUGH TO THE DAY WHEN I BEGAN, BECAUSE IT'S VERY VIVID IN MY MIND. WRITING THE FIRST PARAGRAPH, AND HAVING THAT FEELING BY THE TIME I WAS HALFWAY DOWN THE FIRST PAGE, THIS IS THE BEST THING YOU'VE EVER DONE, I WAS WALKING AROUND WITH A BIG GRIN, "DO YOU WANT TO SEE MY FIRST PAGE?"

>> Brown: AND THERE IS ONE MORE ACT TO COME: MANTEL IS AT WORK ON PART THREE OF HER EPIC TALE. NO SPOILER ALERT IS REQUIRED: HISTORY TELLS US THAT CROMWELL HIMSELF WILL LOSE HIS HEAD. THE PLEASURE FOR MANTEL, THEN IS IN THE TELLING. FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR, I'M JEFFREY BROWN IN NEW YORK.

>> Sreenivasan: FINALLY, TO OUR NEWSHOUR SHARES OF THE DAY SOMETHING THAT CAUGHT OUR EYE THAT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST TO YOU, TOO. JUST IN TIME FOR EASTER, AN ORDER OF MONASTIC NUNS IN RURAL MISSOURI TOPPED BILLBOARD'S CLASSICAL MUSIC CHART, THEIR FOURTH CONSECUTIVE NO. 1 DEBUT SINCE 2012. MONICA FITZGIBBONS, CO-FOUNDER OF DE MONTFORT MUSIC, TELLS US HOW THE SISTERS, WHO SPEND MOST OF THEIR TIME SINGING OR BEING SILENT, MANAGE TO BE CHART TOPPERS. (SINGING)

>> THEY GOT INTO MUSIC BUSINESS BY CHANCE. THEY HAD PRODUCED SOME OF THEIR HOMEGROWN SORT OF C.D.s TRYING TO DRUM UP SOME DONORS. WE FOUND ONE OF THEM AND GOT THE IDEA THAT WE WANTED TO HEAR IF THEY ACTUALLY COULD SING. SPHWHNCHTTHE NUNS SAY WE PROBABLY SING MORE THAN WE SPEAK, AND THEY'RE IN THEIR CHAPEL EIGHT TIMES PER DAY SINGING REALLY PSALMS. THAT'S HOW THEIR LIFE IS ARRANGED. THEY'RE IN SILENT CONTEMPLATION FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE DAY. THE VERY FIRST TIME THEY REACH NUMBER ONE ON BILLBOARD, I COULD NOT GET IN TOUCH WITH THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE OUT HOWING THE FIELDS. IT TOOK A COUPLE OF DAYS FOR THE NEWS TO GET THERE. THEY WERE SORT OF DETACHED FROM HOW THEY WENT ON THE CHARTS. ANYTHING THAT COULD MEAN A PEACEFUL SITUATION THIS HAS SORT OF BECOME THE SOUND TRACK FOR THAT.

>> Sreenivasan: THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT TYPE OF SISTER ACT.

>> Sreenivasan: NOW THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT TYPE OF SISTER ACT. AGAIN, THE MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS OF THE DAY. EMPLOYERS ADDED JUST 126,000 JOBS IN MARCH, IN A NEW LATEST SIGN THAT THE U.S. ECONOMY MAY BE SLOWING DOWN. AND IRAN'S PRESIDENT ROUHANI HAILED A FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT TO CURTAIL HIS COUNTRY'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM. BUT ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU CONDEMNED IT. ON THE NEWSHOUR ONLINE, MOST CHRISTIANS ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE LAST SUPPER, WHEN JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES SHARE A FINAL MEAL BEFORE HIS CRUCIFIXION. WHAT THEY MAY NOT KNOW, IS THAT MEAL WAS LIKELY A PASSOVER ONE. THE JEWISH HOLIDAY BEGINS TONIGHT, AND WE'VE GOT YOUR CHEAT SHEET, PART OF OUR SERIES ON RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS, WHICH ALSO INCLUDES EASTER. AND EVERY YEAR, MILLIONS OF TINY SONGBIRDS GATHER ALONG THE NORTHEASTERN U.S. COASTLINE, GET FAT ON INSECTS AND TAKE TO THE SKIES FOR A TRANS-ATLANTIC JOURNEY. FOR THE FIRST TIME, SCIENTISTS HAVE CONFIRMED THEIR SEVENTEEN- HUNDRED MILE FLIGHT PATH, WITH THE USE OF TINY GEO-LOCATOR BACKPACKS STRAPPED TO THE SPECKLED BIRDS. THOSE STORIES AND MORE, ARE ON OUR HOME PAGE, AT pbs.org/newshour. AND A REMINDER ABOUT SOME UPCOMING PROGRAMS FROM OUR PBS COLLEAGUES. GWEN IFILL IS PREPARING FOR WASHINGTON WEEK, WHICH AIRS LATER THIS EVENING. HERE'S A PREVIEW:

>> Ifill: TONIGHT, WE FOCUS ON THE FINE PRINT. WHAT'S REALLY IN THAT IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL? WHAT DOES THE GOVERNMENT THINK IT HAS ON NEW JERSEY'S SENIOR SENATOR? DOES PROTECTING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AUTOMATICALLY MEAN DISCRIMINATION? AND EXACTLY HOW MUCH MONEY ARE CANDIDATES SECRETLY RAISING? WE'RE GOING TO SQUEEZE ALL THAT IN TONIGHT ON WASHINGTON WEEK. HARI?

>> Sreenivasan: ON PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND SATURDAY, ARE CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS IN JERUSALEM, RETRACING THE LAST HOURS OF JESUS' LIFE, WALKING DOWN THE WRONG PATH? WHAT A NEW ARCHEOLOGICAL EXHIBIT MIGHT REVEAL.

>> THE THEORY THAT THE TRADITIONAL PATH MIGHT GO THE WRONG WAY ISN'T NEW BUT THIS EXHIBIT IS. JUST OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, IT'S GOT PEOPLE TALKING.

>> IF IT'S HERE THE HISTORICAL TRAIL SHOULD START FROM SOMEWHERE AROUND HERE.

>> THAT WILL CHANGE A FEW THINGS.

>> THAT WILL CHANGE A FEW THINGS.

>> I DON'T LIKE THE WORDING. YOU HAVE TO BE VERY SENSITIVE SAYING WE CAN PROVE. WE CANNOT PROVE. WE CAN QUESTION MIGHT THE TRIAL HAVE BEEN HERE EVEN IF TRADITION SAID IT WOULD BE THERE.

>> ARE YOU GETTING MORE GROUPS COMING HERE BECAUSE OF THE STORY THAT JESUS CHRIST'S TRIAL MAY HAVE BEEN HERE?

>> ABSOLUTELY, EVERY DAY. THAT'S TOMORROW NIGHT ON CBS "NewsHour" WEEKEND.

>> Sreenivasan: THAT'S TOMORROW NIGHT ON PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND. AND WE'LL BE BACK, RIGHT HERE, ON MONDAY, WITH A NEW REPORT LOOKING AT WHAT WENT WRONG WITH ROLLING STONE'S REPORTING OF THE U.V.A. RAPE CASE. THAT'S THE NEWSHOUR FOR TONIGHT. I'M HARI SREENIVASAN, HAVE A NICE WEEKEND. THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT.

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>> AND I'M TYLER MATHISEN. IT IS TIME TO PUT WINTER BEHIND US WE HOPE AND FINALLY GEAR UP FOR SPRING. AS THE SEASONS CHANGE WE TAKE A LOOK AT ALL OF THE THINGS INVESTORS SHOULD BE EYEING FROM EMPLOYMENT TO MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE SECOND QUARTER. WE WILL FIND OUT HOW THINGS ARE LOOKING FOR THE CLASS OF 2015.

>> BUT WE BEGIN TONIGHT WITH THE LABOR DEPARTMENT. WALL STREET WAS CLOSED FOR GOOD FRIDAY OBSERVAS BUT THE GOVERNMENT WAS OPEN FOR BUSINESS AND RELEASED THE MARCH JOBS REPORT. NO IT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. SINCE 1980 THERE HAVE BEEN 11 OCCASIONS WHEN THE MARCH JOBS REPORT WAS RELEASED ON GO