PBS NewsHour; October 5, 2018 6:00pm-7:01pm PDT

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>> Woodruff: GOOD EVENING, I'M JUDY WOODRUFF. ON THE NSHOUR TONIGHT, BRETT KAVANAUGH'S CONFIRMATION TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURTT S NOW ALL SURED, WITH A FINAL VOTE SET FOR SATURDAY. THEN, GUILTY: A JURY IN CHICAGO CONVICTS A POLICE OFFICER IN THE MURDER OF A BLACK TEENAGER. PLUS, THE PLASTIC PROBLEM-- A REPORT FROM EASTER ISLAND IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC TO SEE HOW THE WORLD'S OVERUSE OF PLASTIC REACHES THE MOST REMOTE PLACES ON EARTH.

>> THE WORLD IS TRASHING THE OCEAN. ECAND THAT TRASH, WE ARE RVING IT IN OUR COAST IN RAPA NUI. IT'S LIKE SOMEONE PUTTING A GUN TO YOUR HEAD AND TELLING YOU, YOU MUST RECEIVE THAT. Woodruff: AND IT'S FRIDAY... MARK SHIELDS AND DAVID BROOKS CONSIDER THE FALLOUT FROM THENA KAH CONFIRMATION PROCESS. ALL THAT AND MORE ON TONIGHT'S PBS NEWSHOUR.

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>> Woodruff: SUPREME COURT NOMINEE BRETT KAVANAUGH IS TONIGHT ON HIS WAY TO WINNING THE SHOWDOWN OVER HIS CONFIRMATION. HE PICKED UP CRUCIAL SUPPORT IN THE PAST FEW HOURS AFTER A DAY OF HIGH DRAMA INHE UNITED STATES SENATE. CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT LISA DESJARDINS BEGINS OUR COVERAGE.

>> Desjardins: A DRAMATIC SCENE, WITH SENATORS IN THEIR SEATS VOTING ONE BY ONE ON WHETHER TO MOVE FORWARD WITH SUPREME COURT NOMINEE BRETT KAVANAUGH.KO

>> MKI. FOR ALASKA SENATOR LISA MURKOWSKI, IT WAS A QUIET NO.

>> Desjardins: THE LONE REPUBLICAN NO VOTE SAID SHE MADE UP HER MIND AS SHE WALKED ONTO THE SENATE FLOOR.

>> THE TRUTH IS THAT NONE OF THIS HAS BEEN FAIR.. I BELIEVE HE IS A GOOD MAN. IT JUST MAY BE THAT IN MY VIEW HE'S NOT THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE COURT AT THIS TIME.

>> Desjardins: MURKOWSKI WAS ONE OF FOUR KEY QUESTIONABLE VOTES WOEN THE DAY STARTED. REPUBLICANS NEEDEDF THOSE FOUR TO BREAK YES ON THE PROCEDURAL MOTION, AND ENDED UP WITH THREE: REPUBLICANS JEFF FLAKE AND SUSAN COLLINS AND DEMOCRAT JOE MANCN. THAT GOT KAVANAUGH PAST A KEY PROCEDURAL VE.

>> THE YAYS ARE 51-49. MOTION AGREED TO.

>> Desjardins: BUT IT WASN'T CLEAR IF COLLINS WOULD VOTE YES ON HIS CONFIRMATION ITSELF, UNTIL SHE TOOK TO THE FLOOR IN THE AFTERNOON. NO SENATOR HAS UNDER MORE PRESSURE FROM BOTH SIDES-- SHE SPOKE TO MANY ISSUES INCLUDING WHETHER KAVANAUGH WOULD OVERTURN THE ROE V WADE DECISIONZI LEGA ABORTION.

>> PROTECTING THIS RIGHT ISAN IMPOTO ME. TO MY KNOWLEDGE, JUDGE KAVANAUGH IS THE FIRST SUPREME COURTRE NOMINEE TO E THE VIEW THAT PRECEDENT IS NOT MERELY A PRACTICE AND TRADITION, BUT ROOTED IN ARTICLE III OF OUR COTITUTION ITSELF.

>> Desjardins: ON THE ALLEGATIONOF SEXUAL ASSAULT.

>> THE FACTS PRESENTED DO NOT MEAN THAT PROFESSOR FORD WAS NOT SEXUALLY ASSAULTED THAT NIGHT, OR AT SOME OTHER TIME, BUT THEY DO LEAD ME TO CONCLUDE THAT THE ALLEGATIONS FAIL TO MEET THE" "MORE LIKELY THAN NOT"TANDARD.

>> Desjardins: MINUTES AFTER COLLINS SPOKE, DEMOCRAT JOE MANCHIN CONFIRMED HE TOO WAS A FINAL YES. REPUBLICANS WERE HAPPY, WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETING HE WAS "VERY PROUD" OF THE SENATE. JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN CCK GRASSLEY.

>> WE HAD A CAMPAIGN OF DISTRACTION FROM HIS OUTSTANDING QUALIFICATIONS, A CAMPAIGN OF DISTRACTION FROM THIS FINE INDIVIDUAL.

>> WHAT WE HAVE SEEN AND

>> Desjardins: TAC SENATE FLOOR ON CAME AFTER WEEKS OF HEATED HEARINGS AND DEBATE ALONG WITH A RE-OPENED F.B.I. INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT. DEMOCRATS, LIKE DICK DURBIN OF ILLINOIS, WHO VOTED NO TODAY, POINTED TO KAVANAUGH'S TEMPERAMENT AT THE HEARING.

>> IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE HOW A CHMINEE WHO HAS DISPLAYED RAW PARTISANSHIP COULD THEN CLAIM TO SERVE AS A NEUTRAL UMPIRE IN THE SUPREME COURT. JUDGE KAVANAUGH THROUGH HIS OWN TESTIMONY HAS CALLED HIS OWN IMPARTIALITY INTO EXTREME DOUBT.

>> Desjardins: IN A RARE MOVE, KAVANAUGH HIMSELF ADDRESSED HIS EMOTIONAL TESTIMONY IN AN OPL D FOR THE "WREET JOURNAL" LAST NIGHT, WRING: "MY HEARING STIMONY WAS FORCEFUL AND ESSSIONATE.... I MIGHT HAVE BEEN TOO EMOTIONAL AT T NGKNOW THAT MY TONE WAS SHARP, AND I SAID A FEW TI SHOULD NOT HAVE SAID." WHITE HOUSE PRS SECRETARY SARAH SANDERS DEFENDED THE NOMINEE ON FOX NEWS:

>> I THOUGHT HIS TONE IN LAST WEEK'S HEARING WAS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT FROM SOMEBODY GOING THROUGH WHAT BRETT KAVANAUGH AND HIS FAMILY HAVE BEEN THROUGH OVER THE LAST SEVERAWEEKS.

>> YOU'LL HAVE TO TELL YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR GRANDKIDS WHERE YOU STOOD TODAY.

>> Desjardins: AROUND TH CAPITOL, ANTI-KAVANAUGH PROTESTERS GATHERED AGAIN. THOSE CONCERNS WERE SMISSED BY REPUBLICANS INSIDE THE CHAMBER. JOHN CORNYN OF TEXAS APPLAUDED THE VOTE:

>> OUR VOTE TODAY WAS IMPORTANT NOT ONLY BECAUSE IT WILL AOW US TO MOVE FORWARD AND CONCLUDE THIS CONFIRMATION PROCESS, BUT TE WAS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT SHOWED THE U.S. SEILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED. WE WILL NOT BE BULLIED BY THE SCREAMS OF PAID PROT AND NAME CALLING BY THE MOB.

>> Desjardins: DEMOCRATS, LIKE CALIFORNIA'S KAMALA HARRIS,ES STILL ON THE THOROUGHNESS OF THE LATEST F.B.I. INVESTIGATION.

>> THIS WAS NOT A SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH, THIS WAS NOT AN INVESTIGATION. THISAS AN ABDICATION OFSI RESPONBILITY AND DUTY.

>> Desjardins: IF CONFIRMED TOMORROW, KAVANAUGH COULD JOIN THE OTHER EIGHT JUSTICES ON THE SUPREME COURT EARLY NEXT WEEK.

>> Woodruff: LISA JOINS ME NOW, ALONG WITH NEWSHOUR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT YAMICHE ALCINDOR. LISA, AS WE SAID, WHAT A DRAMATIC DAY. TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT IT WAS LIKE. WHEN DID THESE YES VOTES DECIDE AND WHAT FACTORS WENT INTO THE DECISION?

>> AFTER SUCH A DRAMATIC WEEK, JUDY, GOING INTO THIS VOTE, I SPOKE TO SEVERAL REPUBLICANER LEWHO DID NOT KNOW IF THEY HAD THE VOTES GOING IN. TE LAST TIME IT HAPPENED ON HEALTHCARE, THEY LOST. IT WAS A BIG GAMBLE, BUT, IN THE END, AS YOU SAT IN THAT CHAMBER, I SAW LISA MURWSKI WITH HER HEAD DOWN, LOOKING AT HER HANDS. I SAW SUSAN COLLINS NEXT TO HER. THE TWO WEREN'T SPEAKING. THEY WEREN'T COLD TO EACH OTHER, BUT IT SEEMED THEY WERE PROBABLY GOING TO GO DIFFERENT WAYS. SO WHEN MURKHOWSKI ANNOUNCEDAT NO VOTE, IT REALLY SENT SHOCK WAVES THROUGH THE CHAMBERIS HE IN TROUBLE. THEN COLLINS WAS A YES, MANCHIN WAS A YES, ANOTHER SURPRISE VOTE. IT WAS QUA DRAMATIC DAY, AND I THINK THE YES VOTES WERE VERY IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT COLLINS TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE HOMEWORK SHE DID, SHE WENT INTOF A LO SUBSTANCE. BUT MANCHIN, HE WAS REALLY TRUCK BY HIS PERSONAL TIME WITH JUDGE KAVANAUGH, AND, IN THE END, HE FELT JUDGE KAVANAUGH CONVINCED HIM HE WOULD CONSIDER HUMAN BEINGS IN HIS DECISIO. ESSENTIALLY, MANCHIN WAS TRUSTING KAVANAUGH BASED ON THEIR PERSONAL INTERACTION. Woodruff: SO YAMICHE, YOU HAVE BEEN AT THE WHITE HOUSE TALKING TO THEM. TAKE US BEND THE SCNES. WHAT ARE THEY SAYING? WERE THEY WRINGING THEIR HANDS ALATDAY LONG? AS GOING ON THERE?

>> WELL, THE WHITE HOUSE FOUGHT FOR THE NOMINATION AND WO. PRESIDENT TRUMP WATCHED CLOSELY AS ALL THE DRAMA PLAYED OUT ON THE HILL. DON MCGHAN PERSONALLY WENT TO THE HILL TO SHEPHERTHIS VOTE THROUGH. THE WHITE HOUSE WAS VERY, VERY INVOLVED IN BRETT KAVANAUGH'S NOMINATION. THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF WAS CALLING SENATORS, ENGAGING SENATORS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, BUT ALSO TODITAY. THE HOUSE REALLY WAS MAKING THE CASE, LOOK, THIS IS BRETT KAVANAUGH'S CHARNTION HE'S GOING TO BE A GOOD CONSERVATIVE JUDGE, YOU SHOULD TRUSHIM. I YOU SHOULD -- I SHOULD SAY THAT THE WHITE HOUSE COACHED BRETT KAVANAUGH FOR HOURS AND HOURS FIRST ABOUT HIS INITIAL TESTIMONY AND THEN WHEN HE WENT BACK A SECOND TIME. THEY TOLD BRETT KAVANAUGH, YOWRKD BE AGGRESSIVE IN YOUR DEFENSE OF YOURSELF.ED THEY COAIM TO GO ON TO FOX NEWS TO GO AND DEFEND YOURSELFTE AND WRHE OP-ED IN THE "THE WALL STREET JOURNAL" AND SAY, YOU YOW WHAT, I KNOW SAW ME GET EMOTIONAL BUT I CAN BE AN IMPARTIALITY JUDGE. SOME TWEETS SARAH SANDERS PUT OUT SHE SAID, THANK YOU, SENATOR COLLINS FOR STANDINBY YOUR CONVICTIONS AND DOING THE RIGHT THING TO CONFIRM JUDGE KAVANAUGH. DONALD TRUMP, JR. ALSO TWEETING TONIGHT, HE IS ATTACKING JOE MANCHIN THE ONLY DEMOCRAT WHO VOTED TO CLTTEAR BAVANAUGH. WAITED TILL KAVANAUGH HAD ENOUGH TES SECURITY BEFORE HE ANNOUNCED HIS SUPPORT. I BET HE HAD ANOTHER PRESS RELEASE TO GO LI CO WENT THE OTHER WAY. SO YOU SEE THE PRESIDENT GOING AFTER PEOPLE WHO EVEN DEMOCRATS WHO VOT FOR BRETT KAVANAUGH FOR STILL A VERY HIGHLY POLITICAL MOMENT HER

>> Woodruff: INTERESTING GOING AFTER SOMEBODY WHO VOTED FIRST. SO LISA, NAY LOST PROMINENT VOTES. TELL US ABOUT FOLKS WHO WENT THE OTHER WAY.

>> LISA MURKOWSKI HAD A LOT WEIGHING ON HER BUT HAD SOME G NDS BLOWING TOWARD NO, INCLUDE GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF ALASKA WHO BOTH CAME OUT AS NO VOTES. SHE TALKED ABOUT HLTHCARE. SHE WAS A CRITICAL VOTE AGAINST THE HEALTHCARE REPEAL IN PART BECAUSE ALASKA HAS SUCH GREAT HEALTHCARE. ALSO ALASKA HAS ONE TO HAVE THE HIGHEST RATES SEXUAL ASSAULT AGAINST WOMEN IN THIS COUNTRY. SHE ALSO HAS A VRY NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATION THAT DOESN'T TRUST JUDGE KAVANAUGH AND HAS BEEN VOCAL ABOUT IT. ALL THESE FACTORS WEIGH. BUT SHE DECIDE AS SHE WALKED INTO THE CHAMBER, SO IT WAS A CLOSE CALL F.R HER HEIDI HEITKAMP IS INTERESTING BECAUSE POLLS SHW HER LOSG OR BEHIND IN HER RACE, WHERE SHE IS BEHI, VOTERS UNDER 45 AND WITH WOMEN. AS A NO VOE, YOU HAVE TO WONDER IS SHE WONDERING IF THAT HEL HER WITH KEY GROUPS DEMOCRATS WIN.

>> Woodruff: WHAT DOES THE WHITE HOUSE SAY THIS MEANS FORE THEIR A.

>> THIS IS A CAMPAIGN PROMISE FILLED FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP. HE RANN THE NOTION OF EN IF YOU DON'T LIKE ME, I CAN GET YOU CONSERVATIVE JSUSTICES ON THE EME COURT AND, TONIGHT, HE IS ALMOST AT HAV SING TWOREME COURT JUSTICES TO POINT TO AND SAY THIS IS GOING TO BE MY LEGACY. SO YOU HAVE WHITE EVANGELICAL VOTERS I'VE TALKED TO WHO THINK THE PRESIDENT IS SOMEONE THEY DON'T PERSONALLY LIKE, BUT THE IDEA THAT THE PRESIDENT REALLY WON THIS AE IS FELING GREAT ABOUT THIS.

>> Woodruff: WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO LEAVE IT THERE, BUT THANK YOU BOTH FOR GAT REPORTING. LISA DESJARDINS, YAMICHE ALCINDOR, THANK YOU. WE'LL LO AT THE EFFECT OF THE KAVANAUGH DECISION ON THE #METOO MOVEMENT, LATER IN THE BROADCAST. THE STRUGGLE OVER THE SUPREME COURT PLAYED OUT AS THE JURY IN A CHICAGO COURT CONVICTED A WHITE POLICEMAN OF MURDERING A BLACK TEENAGER. JASON VAN DYKE WAS FOUND GUILTY- OF SECGREE MURDER IN THE DEATH OF LAQUAN McDONALD. THE TEEN WAS SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES IN 2014 CONFRONTATION. WE'LL GET THE DETAILS, AND LOCAL REACTION, AFTER THE NEWS SUMMARY. T DAY'S OTHER NEWS, JOB GAINS IN THE U.S. SLOWED IN SEPTEMBER, BUT THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE STILL FELL TO A NEAR-50- YEAR LOW. THE LABOR DEPARTMENT SAYS EMPLOYERS ADDED A NET OF 134,000 JOBS, THE SMALLEST NUMBER IN A YEAR, AND LIKELY AFFECTED BY HURRICANE "FLORENCE". THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE SLIPPED T% THAT IS THE LOWEST IT'S BEENCE SINCE ER OF 1969. THIS YEAR'S NOBEL PEACE PRIZEOP GOES TO TWO WHO HAVE FOUGHT TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE AS A WEAPON OF WAR. NADIA MURAD IS ONE OF 3,000 D YAZIDI WOMEN WHO WERE RAD TORTURED BY ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS IN IRAQ. DENIS MUKWEGE IS A GYNECOLOGICAL SURGEON IN CONGO WHO HAS TREATED THOUSANDS OFE VICTIMS THERE. IN INDONESIA, HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE MOURNED THEIR LOSSES TODAY, FROM LAST WEEK'S EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI. OFFICIALS SAY AT LEAST 1,570 WERE KILLED IN THE DISASTER. MUSLIM WORSHIPERS GATHERED FOR FRIDAY PRARS OUTSIDE DAMAGED MOSQUES ACROSS THE SMASHED CITY OF PALU. MEANWHILE, VOLUNTEERS BURIED MORE OF THE DEAD IN A MASS GRAVE.

>> ( translated ): ONE OF MY SONS WHO WORKS IN A BANK WASLL BY ALLAH. HE WAS BURIED THE DAY AFTER. I HOPE MY DEAD SON HAS GONE TO, HEAVCAUSE HE WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF PRAYING. ALLAH WILLING, HEAVEN FOR HIM. I HAVE FAITH IN THAT.

>> Woodruff: IN ADDITION TO THE DEAD, THOUSANDS WERE INJURED, AND MORE THAN 70,000 ARE LIVING IN SHELTERS AND MAKESHIFT TENTS. QUESTIONS ARE MOUNTING OVER THE FATE OF THE PRESIDENT OF INTERPOL, THE INTERNATIONAL POLICE AGENCY. MENG HONGWEI HAS BEEN MISSINGSI E HE TRAVELED FROM FRANCE TO HIS NATIVE CHINA NEAR THE END OF LAST MONTH. K A HOG NEWSPAPER REPORTS MENG WAS PICKED UP BY CHINESE B AUTHORITIE THE CHINESE HAVE NOT COMMENTED. INDIA SIGNED A $5 BILLION DEAL WITH RUSSIA TODAY, TO BUY ADVANCED AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS.IT OULD LEAD TO U.S. ECONOMIC SANCTIONS FOR DOING BUSINESS WITH RUSSIA'S DEFENSE SECTOR. THAT'S UNDER A LAW AIMED AT PUNISHING MOSCOW FOR ANNEXING CRIMEA, AND MEDDLING IN THE 2016 U.S. ELECTIONS. AND, ON WALL STREET, STOCKS SLUMPED AGAIN ON WORRIES ABOUT RISING BOND YIELDS AND INTEREST RATES. THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE LOST 180 POINTS TO CLOSE A 26,447. THE NASDAQ FELL 91 POINTS, MORE THAN ONE PERCENT, AND THE S&P 500 SLIPPED 16. STILL TO COME ON THE NEWSHOUR:A LICE OFFICER IS CONVICTED IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF A CHICAGO TEEN. THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IS AWARDED FOR EFFORTS TO CURTAIL RAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR.RE ASKING WHE THE ME-TOO MOVEMENT STANDS ONE YEAR LATER, AND MUCH MORE.

>> Woodruff: NOW, WE RETURN TO TODAY'S GUILTY VERDICT IN THE CHICAGO POLICE SHOOTING TRIAL. JOHN YANG HAS OUR REPORT.

>> WE THE JURY FIND JASON VA G DYKELTY.

>> Yang: JURORS DELIBERATEDHO ANOUT 7.S BEFORE CONVICTING JASON DYKE OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND 16 CHARGES OF AGGRAVATEERY, ONE COUNT FOR EACH OF THE SHOTS THE FORMER CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER FIRED INTO 17-YEAR-OLD LAQUAN McDONALD IN FOUR YEARS AGO THIS MONTH. VAN DYKE SAT STONE FACED WHILE THE VERDICT WAS READ, AND A SHORT TIME LATER WAS LED OUT IN HANDCUFFS. OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE ON CHICAGO'S SOUTH SIDE, THERE WAS JUBILATION. JEDIAH BROWN IS A COMMUNITY ACTIVIST.

>> THIS IS THE BEST MOMENT AS A CHICAGOAN I'VE EXPERIENCED IN MY LI. THIS IS MY FIRST EXPERIENCE AS A BLACK MAN, AS A CHICAGOAN, AS AN ILLINOISIAN, AND AS A MAN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WE NEVER GET JUSTICE. TODAY WE GOT JUSTICE, SIR.

>> Yang: THE CASE OF A BLACK TEENAGER KILLED AT THE HANDS OF A WHITE POLICEFFICER GAINED NATIONAL ATTENTION AND INFLAMED LONG-SIMMERING TENSIONBETWEEN CHICAGO POLICE AND THE CITY'S MINORITY RESIDENTS. VAN DYKE'S TRIAL MARKED THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN THREE DECADES A CHICAGO OFFICER FACED MURDER CHARGES FOR A KILLING WHILE ON DUTY. THE PROSECUTION'S CASE CENTEREDG PHIC DASH CAM VIDEO THAT SHOWED McDONALD SEEMINGLY MOVING AWAY FROM OFFICERS AS VAN DYKE OPENED FIRE SECONDS AFTER ARRIVING. VAN DYKE TESTIFIED HE ACTED IN SELF DEFENSE.

>> HE WAVED THE KNIFE FROM HIS WER RIGHT SIDE UPWARDS ACROSS HIS BODY TOWARDS MY LEFT SHLDER.

>> AND WHEN HE DID THAT, WHAT DID YOU , OFFICER?

>> I SHOT HIM.

>> Yang: DEFENSE ATTORNEY DANIEL HERBERT, A FORR CHICAGO COP, CALLED VAN DYKE'S CONVICTION "A SAD DAY FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT."

>> IF POLICE OFFICERS THINK THEY CAN'FIRE AGAINST SOMEONE WHO AS ACTING THE WAY LAQUAN McDONALD DID WHEN THEY ARE 12 FEET AWAY FROM HIM, THEN I THINK WHAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE ISCE POLIFFICERS ARE GOING TO BECOME SECURITY GUARDS.

>> Yang: PROSECUTOR JOSEPH McMAHON PRAISED THE VERDICT.

>> THIS IS A GRATIFYING VERDICT. WE ARE ALL PLEASED WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN OUR PURSUIT OF JUSTICE TO LAQUAN McDONALD.

>> Yang: VAN DYKE COULD FACE DECADES BEHIND BARS WHEN HE IS SENTENCED. FOR MORE ON TODAY'S VERDICT AND THE REACTION TO IT, WE ARE JOINED BY BRANDIS FRIEDMAN, A REPORTER FOR "CHICAGO TONIGHT" ON PBS STATION WTTW. SHE COVERED THE TRIAL. BRANDIS, THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. WHAT'S THE REACTION? WE'VE SEEN IN THE TAPED PIECE, WE'VE SEEN THE SCENE OUTSIDE TE CHERS GOING MAR THROUGH DOWNTOWN CHICAGO, WHAT THE REACTION BEEN?

>> COMMUNITY MEMBERS THINK THIS IS SOME SORT OF JUSTICE FO LaQUAN McDONALD. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE CALLING THESE PROTESTS. THEY'RE MORE LIKE DEMONSTRATION I DON'T THINANY ARE PROTESTING THE VERDICT, THEY' CELEBRATING, MARCHING IN SOLIDARITY, IN REMEMBRAN LaQUAN McDONALD.

>> VAN DYKE WAS ORIGINALLY CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER, THE JURY CONVICTED HIM ON SECOND DEGREE MURDER. I UNDERSTAND THAT SUGGESTED THEY BELIEVED HE DID BELIEVE HIS WIFE WAS IN DANGER BUT THAT BELIEVE WAS UNREASONABLE. I KNOW YOU HEARD SOME OF THE JURORS TALK ABOUT DIEIR VER. WHAT DID THEY SAY THEIR DECISION TURNED ON?

>> WELL, THEY SAY A NUMBER OF THINGS. SO ONE OF THEM WAS THEPTION TO CONVICT ON SECOND DEGREE MURDER INSTEAD FIRST DEGREE MURDER. THE JURORS SAID THEY FELT THAT HASON VAN DYKE ACTUALLY FELT HE WAS IN DANGER,T HE AND THE OFFICERS FACED AN IMMINENT RISAN THAT'S WHAT THEY CONVICTED ON SECOND DEGREE INSTEAD OF FIRST DEGREE. THEY SAY VAN DYKE'S TESTIMONY WASN'T CREDIBLE, SAID HE HAD A HARD TIME RECALLING WHAT HAPPENED THE NIGHT OF THE INCIDENT AND A LOT OF WHAT HE SAID DIDN'T MATCH THE VIDEO, SPECIFICALLY WHEN VAN DYKE TESTIFIED HE SAW LaQUAN McDONALD, FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE, RAISE THAT KNIFE IN HIS DIRECTION, THEY SAY THE VIDEO DOES NOT BEAR THAT OUT. THEN THERE IS THE VIDEO. THEY SAY THEY WATCHED IT, OBVIOUSLY, MANY TIMES IN THE COURTROOM, BUT THEY ALSO WATCHED IT A LOT IN THEIR OWN DELIBERATIONS, AND THAT HAD A GOOD DEAL TO DO WITH IT. THEY ALSO FELBET VAN DYKG AN OFFICER OF ALMOST 20 YEARS THAT HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DEESCALATE THE SITUATION RATHER THAN OPENING FIRE.

>> AND SMUCH WAS MADE IN LEADING UP TO THE TRIAL ABOUT THE MAKEUP OF THAT JUROR. WHAT WAS THE RACIAL MAKEUP OF THE JUROR?

>> SO THE JURY, A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY IT WAS NOT DIVERSE. I CAN'T RECALL THE BREAKDOWN OF MEN AND WOMEN AS FAR AS RACIAL DIVERSITY, BUT THE CASE WAS MADE OUT TO BE A ROT ABOUT RACE ANDER WAS ONLY ONE AFRICAN-AMERICAN JUROR, AND WE DID HEAR FROM HER THIS AFTERNOON AS WELL. BUWHEN WEARD FROM THOSE JURORS, ONE OF THEM SAID RACE CAME UPRY LITTLE IN THEIR DELIBERATIONS, FOR THEM THIS WAS NOT ABOUT RACE. IN FACT, ONE SAID WE WERE HERE FOR JUSTICE.

>> THIS HAS HAD A BIG EFFECT ON THE CITY OF CHI A POLICE COMMISSIONER LOST HIS JOB, THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY FOR THE COUNTY S VOTED OUT. IS THERE SOME SENSE THAT THIS IS A TURNING POINT?OT

>> I THINK AF PEOPLE HOPE THAT THIS IS A TURNING POINT AND, LIKE YOU SAID, A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE THEN. A LOT OF THE PROTESTERE AND SIE VIDEO HAS COME OUT, A LOT HAVE BEEN ASKED FOR MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL'S JOB AND HEUN AND HE'S NOT RUNNING AND THE FORMER POLICE SUPERINTENDENT WHO LOST HIS JOB AT THE TI, HE IS ONE OF THE MANY PEOPLE WHO IS RUNNING TO REPLACE HIM, SO THAT LL BE ANOTHER CHANGE. BUT THE POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY TASK FORCE APPTENTED SHORT RITHE VIDEO WAS RELEASED, IT WAS ONE OF MANY IN SUCCESSION. I THINK ALSO SOME PEOPLE ARE A BIT JADED IN THINKING THIS IS GOING TO BE A TURNING POINT. THE TURNING POINT COULD BE WHEN THE VIDEO WAS RELEASED BECAUS A LOT HA HAPPENED SINCE THEN. THE CITY CAME TO AN AGREEMENT ON CONSENT DECREE WITH THE STATE'S ATTORNEY GENERAL. SO THERE IS HOPE. I THINK THE CITY'S HISTORY OF DISTRUST BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND THE POLE DEPARTMENT IS GENERATIONS OLD SO IT WILL PROBABLY TAKE A LOT MORE THAN THIS VERDICT TP IMLEMENT LOTS OF HEAVY CHANGE.

>> BRANDIS FRIEDMAN OF WTTW CHICAGO TONIGHT, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

>> Woodruff: AS WE REPORTED EARLIER, THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WAS AWARDED THISORNING IN OSLO, NORWAY. WILLIAM BRANGHAM REPORTS ON THE WINNERS, TWO CHAMPIONS OF WOMEN WHO HAVE SURVIVED SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND THE USE OF RAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR. N

>> TWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE

>> Brangham: THE DECISION TO AWARD THE PRIZE TO AN IRAQI SURVIVOR OF WARTIME SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND A CONGOLESE DOCTOR WHO TREATS SUCH SURVIVORS WAS ESPECIALLY SIGNIFICANT GIVEN THE WORLD'S GROWING RECOGNITION OF THE EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE AINST WOMEN. >>FE WANT TO SEND A MESSAGE AWARENESS THAT WOMEN WHO CONSTITUTE HALF OF THE POPULATION IN MOST COMMUNITIES ACTUALLY ARE USED AS A WEAPON OF WAR AND THAT THEY NEEDTI PROT, AND THAT THE PERPETRATORS HAVE TO BE PROSECUTED AND HELD RESPONSIBLE

>> Brangham: PRIZE WINNER NADIA MURAD, A MEMBER OF THE SMALL YAZIDI RELIGIOUS MINORITY IN IRAQESCAPED FROM ENSLAVEMENTTA BY THE ISLAM AND BECAME A FIGHTER FOR THOSE WHO'VE SURVIVED HUMAN TRAFFICKING. MURAD WAS 21 WHEN ISIS MILITANTS CAPTURED, RAPED, AND TORTURED HER BACK IN 2014. DURING THREE MONTHS IN CAPTIVITY, SHE WAS BOUGHT AND SOLD FOR SEX MULTIPLE TIMES. AFTER HER ESCAPE, MURAD SHOWED REMARKABLE CANR IN TELLING HER STORY. SHE QUICKLY BECAME A WELL KNOWN ADVOCATE FOR VICTIMS OF SEX TRAFFICKG, AND FOUGHT TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF REFUGEES IN EUROPE. IN 2016, SHE SPOKE AT THE UNITED NAREONS URGING THE WORLD TO FORCEFULLY CONFRONT ISIS AND DEFEND THE VICTIMS OF ITS CRIMES.

>> ( translated ): ALL THOSE WHO COMMIT THE CRIME OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND GENOCIDE NEED TO BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE SO THAT WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO LIVE ININ PEACYRIA, IRAQ, NIGERIA AND SOMALIA AND EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD, ALL THESE CRIMES MUST BE BROUGHT TO AN END TODAY.

>> Brangham: THAT SAME YEAR, MURAD WAS NAMED THE U.N.'S FIRST AMBASSADOR FOR SURVITRRS OF HUMAN FICKING. NOW, AT THE AGE OF 25, MURAD HAS SAID SHE HOPES TO BE "THE LAST GIRL WITH A STY LIKE MINE." LAST YEAR, NEWSHOUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT JA FERGUSON AVELED TO IRAQ FOR A CLOSER LOOK AT THE PLIGHT OF WOMEN LIKY MURAD IN TIDI COMMUNITY. FERGUSON SPOKE WITH ONE WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN SOLD AS A SLAVE IN NEIGHBORING SYRIA.

>> ( translated ): ISIS FAMILIES WANTED YAZIDI OLD WOMEN TO CLEAN R THEM, BUT NOT IF THEY CAME WITH CHILDREN. THEY PUT MY PICTURE AND MY NAME ON SOCIAL MEDIA AS A FOR SALE, AND SAID I COME WITHOUT CHILDREN. I TOLD THE WOMAN WHO BOUGHT ME THAT I DREAMED OF GOING HOME, AND SHE SAID "YOU WILL NEVER GO HOME. YOU WILL DIE IN MY HOUSE."

>> Brangham: IN 2015, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT MARCIA BIGGS REPORTED FROM NORTHERN IRAQ ON A GROUP OF GIRLS WHO MANAGED TO ESCAPE FROM THE ISLAMIC STATE. B ( translated ): THEY BROUGHT FROM OUR MOTHERS ATING US. THE CHILDREN WERE ALL PUT IN CARS. THEY SAID, "WE'RE GOING TO SELL YOU TO OTHERS AND YOU WILL HAVE SEX WITH TM." THE LAST TIME I SAW MY MOTHER WAS WHEN THEY TOOK ME AWAY.

>> Brangham: MURAD SHARED TODAY'S PRESTIGIOUS PRIZE WITHDE DRS MUKWEGE. THE 63-YEAR-OLD GYNECOLOGICAL SURGEON HAS RISKED HIS LIFE, AND HIS FAMILY'S SAFETY, TO TREAT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FEMALE VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OFONGO MUKWEGE LEARNED OF TODAY'S NEWS JUST AFTER HE'D FINISHED SURGERY AT T HOSPITAL HE HEADS IN EAERN CONGO. THIS LONGTIME ADVOCATE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CELEBRATED THE ACHIEVEMENT WITH HIS COLLEAGUES AND THEIR PATIENTS.

>> ( translated ): I DEDICATE THIS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO THE WOMEN OF ALL THE COUNTRIES OFUN THE WORLD D BY CONFLICT AND CONFRONTED BY VIOLENCE EVERY DAY. DEAR SURVIVORS AROUND THE WORLD. I WANT TO TELL YOU THAT THROUGH RIS PRIZE THE WORLD IS LISTENING TO YOU AUSES INDIFFERENCE. THE WORLD REFUSES TO STAND IMMOBILE BEFORE YOUR SUFFERING. T>> Brangham: IN ADDITION TREATING VICTIMS, MUKWEGE HAS SPOKEN OUT PUBLICLY AGAINST THE CONGOLESE GOVERNWHNT FOR TURNING HE SAYS IS A BLIND EYE TO THE RAMPANT SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN HIS COUNTRY, WHICH HAS FLOURISED AMID CONGO'S DECADES- LONG CONFLICTS. MANY OF HIS PATIENTS WERE BRUTALLY GANG RAPED. SAFI KUNGWA IS ONE OF THEM.

>> ( translated ): MY PROBLEMS STARTED WITH REBELS FROM RWANDA. THEY GRABBED ME WHEN I WAS CARRYING MY TWINS. MY CHILDREN WERE HOLDING ONTO ME AND MY HUSBAND WAS STANDING NEXT TO ME. THE REBELS PROCEEDED TO RAPE ME IN FRONT OF MY CHILDREN, AFTER THEY SHOT MY HUSBAND.

>> Brangham: BACK IN 2011, DR. MUKWEGE DESCRIBED THE HORRIFIC INJURIES HE'S WITNESSED.

>> ( translated ): ALL THE VIIMS HAVE BEEN RAPED WITH UNBELIEVABLE BRUTALITY. THOSE WHO MANAGE TO SURVIVE REACH THE HOSPITAL IN A STATE OF INCREDIBLE PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION.E OFTEN THEY ARRTH THE GENITAL SYSTEM DESTROYED BY BULLETS OR SHARP OBJECTS, AN ACT OF SAVAGERY UNHEARD BEFORE IN THE HIORY OF THE REGION.

>> Brangham: THE DOCTOR SPOKE OF THE PERSONAL CONNECTION HE DEVELOPS WITEACH VICTIM WHEN HE ADDRESSED THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN FRANCE BACK IN 2014.

>> ( translated ): I IDENTIFY EACH VIOLATED WOMAN WITH MY WIFE. I IDENTIFY EACH VIOLATED MOTHER WITH MY MOTHER AND I IDENTIFY EACH VIOTED CHILD WITH MY CHILDREN.

>> Brangham: FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR, I'M WILLIAM BRANGHAM.

>> Woodruff: STAY WITH US, T COMING UP NEWSHOUR: THE ANALYSIS OF MARK SHIELDS AND DAVID BROOKS. TODAY'S CLOTURE VOTE ON JUDGE KAVANAUGH FALLS ONE YEAR TO THE DAY AFTER ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HARVEY WEINSTEIN WERE REPORTED IN THE "NEW YORK TIMES" AND THE THOSE REPORTS SPARKED A GLOBAL CONVERSATION ABOUT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, AND PROMPTED SCORES OF WOMEN, AND SOME MEN, TO SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES OF HARASSMENT AND ABUSE PUBLICLY. THE #METOO MOVEMENT MARKED THE BEGINNING OF ACTION ON A PERSONAL AND POLITICAL LEVEL. TWELVE MONTHS LATER, HOW?AR HAVE WE CO KELLY DITTMAR OF THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN WOMEN IN POLITICS AT URUTGERS UNIVERSITY IS WITO EXAMINE WHETHER TODAY'S VOTE MARKS A MOMENT OF RECKONING IN THE #METOO MOVEMENT. WELCOME BACK, KELLYTMIT. SETTING ASIDE KAVANAUGH AND TODAY AS OF A SHORT WHILE AGO, IF YOU CAN DO THIS, WHERE DOES THE "ME TOO" MOVEMENT STAND? HOW FAR HAD IT COME SINCE TH REVELATIONS OF A YEAR AGO?

>> YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF SUCCESSEIN TEMS OF PROGRESS IN HOLDING INDIVIDUALC PEOPLEOUNTABLE THIS YEAR, AS WELL AS STARTING A NATIONAL DIALOGUEBOUT THIS ISSUE OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, SEXUAL HARASSNT, BUT EVEN MORE BROADLY THE IMBALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN ACROSS OUR INSTITUTIONS -- POLITICAL, CORPORATE, MEDIA, EDUCATIONAL, AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS. SO IN THAT WAY, ERE'S BEEN A LOT OF PROGRESS IN HAVING THAT CONVERSATION, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THT THE CONVERSATION ISN'T HIGHLY CONTENTIOUS AND HASN'T LED TO A LOT OF QUSTIONS ABUT HOW WE ACTUALLY START TO CHANGE THESE INSTITUTIONS IN WAYS THAT NOT ONLY PREVENT THE ABUSE IN THE FIRST PLACE BUT ALSO FIGURE OUT WAE ADJUDICATE AND HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE ABUSE THAT BOTH UPHOLDS DUE PROCESS AS WELL AS ENSURI THE SAFETY AS WELL AS THE HEALTH OF THOSE WHO ARE COMING FORWARD WHOR AE OFTEN AT A POWER DIFFERENTIAL FROM THOSE WHO ARE ACCUSED. SO I THINK WE SEE SOME MOVEMENT BUT WE ALSO SEETH ALL OE CHALLENGES THAT ARE COMING ALONG WITH REALLY THE RECKONING THA HAS BEEN THE #METOO MOVEMENT, AND I SHOULD JUST ADD THAT THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE THIS YEAR ISN'T JUST THIS YAR ALONE. IT'S REALLY BUILDING ON DECADES OF WORK THAT WOMEN HAVE DONE COMING FORWARD AND TAKING THE RISK TO BRING THIS ISSUE FRO THE FOREFRONT, FROM ANITA HILL TO THE WOMEN COMING FORWARD TODAY.

>> Woodruff: YOU'RE DESCRIBING IT AS A WORK IN PROGRESS TODAY. A LOT OF PROGRESBEEN MADE, BUT STILL MORE TO GO. SO HAVING SAID THATHOW DO YOU SEE THIS FIGHT, THIS BRAWL WE'VE WITNESSED OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS OVER JDGE BRETT KAVANAUGH? HOW HAS THAT INTERSECOND WITHE "ME TOO" MOVEMENT, DO YOU THINK?

>> YEAH, I THINK, ON THE ONE HAND, YOU SAW THE EMERGENCY OF THE #METOO MOVEMENT STAND BEHIND DR. FORD AND OTHER WOMEN WHO UGME FORWARD WITH ALLEGATIONS AGAINST JUDGE KAVATO SAY THAT THIS PERSON NEEDS TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY, HER STORY NEEDS TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. BUT, ON THE OTHER HAND, WHAT YOU SAW ST. FACT THAT OUR INSTITUTIONS -- IN THIS CASE THE SENATE AND SENATE JUDICIARY COYITTEE -- ARE STILL PRE ILL EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH THESE TYPES OF ACCUSATIONS. SO NOT HAVING AUL INVESTIGATION, THE POLITICS THAT WERE REALLY SURROUNDING THIS ISSUE DEMONSTRATE THE WEAKNESSES OF O INTITUTIONS TO REALLY LOOK AT THE NUANCE OF ISSUES OF GENDER POWER DIFFERENTIALS A WELL AS THESE TYPES OF PARTICULARLY TRAUMATIC EVENTS THAT ARE AROUND SEXUAL ABUSE, SEXUAL HARASSMENT OR SEXUAL ASSAULT.

>> Woodruff: A S YOU COULD EV THERE WAS A BACKLASH TO WHAT SHE DID BECAUSE THE PUSHBACK NOT ONLY FRO JUDGE KAVANAUGH, DO YOU THINK IT ADDED UP TO A MOMENT THAT WEAKENS THE THE MEET TO MOVEMENT?

>> I THINK IT ENERGIZES THOSE WHO ARE MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD. ONCE THIS STARTED ATHAND YOU SAW WOMEN COMING IN SOLIDARITY BEHIND IT, IT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO SLOW IT DOW EVEN THOUGH THIS WEEK YOU SAW BILL COSBY GOING TO JAIL JUST A COUPLE OF WEEO WHICH I THINK ALSO ENERGIZES THOSE WHO WILL CONTINUE FIGHTING, AT THE SAME POINT WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THIS HAS BECOME A HIGHLY POLITICIZED AND PARTISAN ISSUE. SO THE RECENT POLL FRO HUFFINGTON POST SHOWED, FOR EXAMPLE, AMONG TRUMP SUPPORTERS THE MAJORITY FEEL LIKE THE THE #METOO MOVEMENT HAS GONFAE TOO AND YOU ALSO SEE DIFFERENCES ALONG PARTY LINES AND PERCEPTIONS OF FALSE ALLEGATIONS BEING A BIGGER PROBLEM THAN ACTUAL INSTANCES OF SEXUAL ASSAULT OR SEXUAL HARASSMENT. SO THE POITICIZATION OF THE MOVEMENT DOESN'T MEAN THE MOVEMENT ITSELF STRUGGLING BUT THERE ARE PARTISAN PUSHBACK OND PEOPLE ARE GOING INT PARTISAN CAMPS IN TERMS OF THEIR SUPPORT FOR SOME OF THE WORK TO HAVE THE MOVEMENT WHIANCH IS NG OUR INSTITUTIONS, CHANGING PUBLIC POLICY AND HOLDING INDIVIDUALSCCOUNTABLE.

>> Woodruff: SO, KELLY DITTMAR, TO WRAP UP, WHERE DO YOOISEE THE MOVEMENT FROM HERE? YOU DESCRIBE IT'S BECOME POLITICIZED, PARTISAN. HOW DOES IT GO FOR?WA

>> PART OF IT IS TRYING TO CONTINUE TO PUSH FOR REAL TRUE NUANCED ALOGUE ABOUT WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT IMBALANCES OF POWER AND WHAT THE IMPLICATIONS ARE FOR WOMEN ANDS, VICTND SO, TRYING TO FIND THE SPACES THAT ARE NOT HIGHLY POLITICIZED TO HAVE THE VERSIONs IMPORTANT. ALSO MAKING SURE WE HAVE MORE WOMEN IN POWITIONS OF POER IS KEY. WE SAW IN THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE AND THE MAJOO WOMEN. SO YOU NEED TO HAVE WOMEN WHO CAN UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE EXPERIENCES. UNFORTUNATELY, IN A MUCH MORE INNATE WAY TO BE INVOLVED IN THESE DIALOGUES. WE WROTE A BOOK RECENTLY WHERE WE INTERVIEWED WOMEN IN CONGRE, AND SENATOR GILIBRAND TALKED ABOUT THIS, ABOUT HOW SHE COMES TO THIS ISSUE, KNOWING I WHS LIKE TO BE DISBELIEVED OR VICTIMIZED IN THESE TYPES OF SITUATIONS. WE NEED PEOPLE AT THE TABLE WHO UNDERSTAND THESE ISSUES AND CAN HELP IN TERMS OF MOVG FORWARD WITH THE SOLUTION ACROSS PARTY LINES.

>> KELLY DITTMAR WITH THE RUTGERS CENTER FOR AMERICAN WOMEN INIC POL THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

>> Woodruff: NOW THE ANALYSIS OF SHIELDS AND BROOKS. THAT'S SYNDICATED COLUMNIST MARK SHIELDS AND "NEW YORK TIMES" COLUMNIST DAVID BROOKS. HELLO TO BOTH OF YOU: DAVID, I HEARD SENATOR SUSAN COLTOLINS Y TALK ABOUT HOW THE SUPREME COURT CONFIRMATION PROCESS HAS BEEN ON A STEADY CLINE AND HOPES IT'S HIT ROCK BOTTOM WITH WHAT WECHVE WAT WITH JUDGE KAVANAUGH. HAVE WE?

>> IT'S HARD TO SEE ANY DOWN HERE. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST UNPLEASANT, UNDIG ANY FIDE AND DEPRESSING SPECTACLES I'VE SEEN IN COVERING MY CAREER, AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE WE ESSENTIALLY HAD A VERY COMPLICATED CASE OF TWO DIFFERENT STORIES THROWN BEFORE US. IT W T VERY HARD TO TELL HO SORT THEM OUT, HOW MUCH IMPORTANCE TO GIVE TO HIGH SCHOOL BEHAVIOR. IT REQUIRED AN HONCOEST ERSATION. WHAT I SAW IN THE SENATE AND THE COUNTRY AT LARGE IS ERYBODY RETURNED TO THEIR TRIBAL CORNERS. IF YOU SUPPORT DEMOCRATS YOU MOVE FORWARD. IF YOU BELIEVE REPUBLICANS, YOU BELIEVE KAVANAUGH, AND YOU JUST RETURNO YOUR TRIBAL CORNER. TO ME THE CORE PROBLEM IS THE SUPREMCOURT WHICH USED TO B HELD UP ABOVE POLITICS AS A SERIES OF WISE MEN WOMEN WHO INTERPRET THE CONSTITUTION ARE ON PARTY LINES WHEN IT COMES TO VOTES. WHEN THE SUPREME COURT FALLS ON PARTY LINE VOTES THEN THENATE CONFIRMATION PROCESS FALSE ON PARTY LINE VOTES AND THE AMERICAN PUBLIC FALLS ON PATY LINE VOTES. SO ANY CONVERSATION OR ATTEM TO PERSUADE SEEMED TO PLAY NO ROLE IN THIS PROCESS. IT WAS ABOUT BASE MOBILIZATION AND THE MOBILIZATION OF POWER, AND, SO, TO ME, IT'S A DEPRESSING COMMENTARY.

>> Woodruff: DEPRESSING COMMENTARYMARK?

>> I'M NOT QUITE AS DARK AND BLEAK AS DAVID, BUT, OF COURSE, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN CHEERFUL. I THINK, JUDY, THE REALITY IS OUR POLITICS IS BROKEN, IT'S BROKEN. IN THE CONGRESS, WE CAN ARGUE ABOUT WHY. I THINK THE CENTRAL SOURCE IS MONEY AND GERRYMANDERING, BUT THAT'S FOR ANOTHER DAY TO ARG. T THERE'S NO QUESTION HAT IF YOU'RE GOING TO DEAL WITH PORTANT POLITICAL PUBLIC POLICY QUESTIONS, THE SUPREME COURT IS THE ONLY PLACE IT'S BEEN DONE FOR THE LAST GENERATION. IT'S BECOME THE LEGISLATURE OF LAST RESORT AND IN MANY CASEST FISORT, WHETHER YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE LEGALITY OR ILLEGALITY OF GAY MARRIAGE OR ABORTION, THE BIG QUESTIONS, THE BIG SOC, IETAL QUESTIO ISN'T THE CONGRESS THAT DEALS WITH THEM, THE CONGRESS IS HAPPY --ED THEY'RE LON GRIDLOCK. IT HAS BEEN THE COURT. THE COURT, FOR THE MOST PART, HAVE ACTED AS GROWNUPS, ITHNK PARTICULARLY CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN, ROBEHO I THINK BASICALLY PRESERVED THE COURT AND OUR ELECTORAL PROCESS IN UPHOLDING HTHE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT,T THIS HAD BEEN A POLITICAL DECISION, POLITICALLY MADE, ARRIVED AT, PEOPLE KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING ANDED HE REF TO OVERTURN IT. SO RIGHT NOW, JUDY, WHAT WE HAVE IS A CAMPAIGN, AND DAVID IS YIGHT, IT WAS A BITTER AND UGL CAMPAIGN, BUT KAVANAUGH BECAME THE CANDIDATE, AND THERE WERE MILLIONS SPENT IN HIS BEHALF ONE VISION, MILLIONS SPENT AGAINST HIM. THERE WAS MOBILIZATION TO MAKE HIS CASE. HE WENT ON FO TELEVISION TO PRESENT HIMSELF AS A FAMILY MAN, LOVING FATHER, A DEVOTED HUSBAND, A SOLID CITIZEN, AND A WEEK LATER, UNDER SIEGE, HEOS FOX'S OWN "WALL STREET JOURNAL" EDITORIAL PAGE TO MAKE HIS CASE, AN APOLOGY FOR, ONRHAPS, HIS OVERREACTION. I CAST THIS WITH 1960 WHERE JOHN KENNEDY UNDER -- WAS UNDER SEIZE AND CHOSE TO GO TO THE OWN SILOS AND I THINK THAS WHERE WE ARE.

>> Woodruff: IS THERE ANOTHER WAY WHERE THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOTED? CEOTHER CRITICISM OF SENATOR FEINSTEIN, BUT OHERE WAS THE ACCUSATION OUT THERE THAT THEN UNEASHED THE BACKLASH, THE REACTION FROM JUDGE KAVANAUGH, WAS THERE ANY WAY T A REAL, LEGITIMATE CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS CHARGE AGAINST HIM AND HAVE IT DEALT WITH? S THE AN ARTICLE -- ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE, BUT THERE IS A UNIVERSE THAT SAYS SHE'S C MAKINGARGE AND TAILING VERY PASSIONATE STORY, AND HE'S TELLING -- WHAT IS THE RECORD OF ?EMORY IN THESE CAS HOW WELL DO PEOPLE REMEMBER 36 YEARS AGO, HOW WELL TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN TRAUMATIZED REMEMBER THAT AND GO THRGHHE INFORMATION AND EVALUATE THE EVIDENCE. WHAT'S THE RECORD WITH OTHER CASES LIKE THAT, GO BACK IN HIS PAST. INSTEAD WE'VE HAD MICHAEL AVENATTI AND PEOPLE SAYING HE'S BEEN IN GANG RAPES AND RALLIED REPUBLICANS AND IT BECAME IMMEDIATELY ERYBODY DECIDED. THEN IF YOU AGREED THERE WAS A CORE ISSUE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM 36 YEARS AGO, WELL, HE WAS ABIG DRINKER, THREW RICE AT PEOPLE IN COLLEGE,, AND THAT HAPPENED LEFT AND RIGHT.AL SO BAS, I THINK I LOOK AT WHERE EVERYBODY CAME DOWN, AND IN A RATIONALE WORLD, WE LOOK -- THE STORY WAS NOT AN IDEOLOGICAL STORKS IT WAS TWO PEOPLETELLING DIFFERENT STORIES. IT WAS NOT ABOUT CAPITALISM, IMMIGRATION, ABORTION, THE THINGS WE REALLY DISAGREE ABOUT, IT WAS TWO HUMAN BEINGS, AND WHAT I SAW WAS THE PULLU VEERIZATION OFAN BEINGS FOR IDEOLOGICAL REANS. SO IT WAS THIS PERSON AND THI PERSON, DEAL WITH IT ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, DIDN'T HAPPEN.

>> Woodruff: CHRISTINE BLAY FORD, WAS HER STORY DOOMED FROM THE START? THE MESSAGE IS IFOU HAVE A STORY, SOMETHING YOU BELIEVE IS UE, FORGET IT?

>> WELL, I MEAN, I HOPE NOT. I THINK AT THE SHE HAS WHT SHE HAS GOING FOR HER IS THAT SHE MADE THE CASE LONG BEFORE HE WAS NOMINATED. SHE DIDN'T JON IN SOME PARADE, SHE DIDN'T COME OUT, HE WASRE OBVIOUSLCTANT TO DO SO. SHE HAD REGISTERED HER OWN BELIEF, CONVICTION, MEMORY. THIS IS NOT UNCOMMON THAT A PERSON WHO IS A VICTIM REMEMBERS VIVIDLY THE AFTERSHAVE LOTN WORN BY THE ATTACKER AND CAN'T TELL YOU THE ADDRESS. CONNIE CHUNG HAD AN EXPERIENCE WITH HER FAMILY PHYSICIAN. AT THE SAME TIME, DAVID'S RIGHT, THEY WENT TO THEIR CAM. I THINK THERE WAS A FACILETI RE ON THE PART OF SOME PEOPLE THAT SAID SOMETHING HAPPENED BUT IT WASN'T HIM.

>> THE POLLING THAT SUGGESTEDVE PEOPLE BELHER, THEY WERE UNCOMFORTABLE CONVICTING WITHOUT CORROBORATING EVIDENCE, SOWF 60% OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SAY IF ANOTHER WITNESS SAYS YES, I'LLT, REMEMBER TR SOME PHYSICAL PIECE OF EVIDENCE, YES, BUT WITHOUT THAT, A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO JUST FELT UNC REALLY CHANGING THE TRAJECTORY OF A MAN'S LIFE OVER THIS WITHOUT THAT COBORTING EVIDENCE.

>> JUST ADDING ONE THING, JUDY, HOW IMPORTANT THE COU IS,T'S ONLY 18 YEARS AGO THAT TH SUPREME COURT RESOLVED BUSH V GORE. T THATE CASE WHERE THE VI PRESIDENT OF THE UNITE STATES WON THE POPULAR VOTE AND HIS CHALLENGER WAS SHOWSEN BY A 5-4 VOTE, AND IN GEROSITY OF SPIRIT, AL GORE SEND IT AN CALLED UPON HIS SUPPORTERS TO SEPTEMBER IT. I DON'T KNOW GIVEN TODAY'S CLAIMANT IF AO CURT DECISION WOULD BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT FIGHTING IN THE STREETS. AND I WILL SAY THE CRITICS OF JUDGE KAVANAUGH WHO ARE HOLDING BASICALLY RALLIES IN THE CAPITAL TODAY AND TOMORROW ARE ONLY HURTING THEIR CAUSE. THEY AREN'T HELPING ANYTHING.AR THER ODD PURPOSES OF PROTEST. THERE IS A TIME FOR PROTE ON THIS AND SHRIEKING IS OVE

>> Woodruff: MEANWHILE, YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD IT'S THE BACKLASH, WHAT YOU MENTIONED A MINUTE AGO, THE PRO-KAVANAUGH, THAT HE HA UNLEASHED A POWERFUL FORCE INIS BEHALF THAT'S GOING TO BE OUT THERE.

>> OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, DONALD TRUMS APPROVAL RATING HAS GONE UP EIGHT POINTS. IN THE RED STARETES THE A STRONG TIDE. YOU PLAY A REAL POLITICAL PRICE YOU'RE AGAINST KAVANAUGH NOW. HEIDI HEITKAMP WILL PROBABLY PAY A VERY SEOUS PRICE FOR THE POSITION SHE TOOK. THE POLITICAL WIND AT LEA THE RED STATES IS PRETTY STRONG UBLICANOW AND REP FORTUNES. DEMOCRATS LAST WEEK WERE SUPER ENGAGED. NOW REPUBLICANS E ENGAGED. KAVANAUGH SUPPORT TRACKS TRUMP SUPPORT. IF YOU LIKE TRU YOU LIKE KAVANAUGH. ITES A TRIBAL THING. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL.

>> I DISAGREE.

>> Woodruff: YOU DISAGREE. YEAH, ON THE POINT DAVID MAKES. I THINK, JUDY, IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS OF MIDTERM ELECTION IS ISAN ANALF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, UP OR DOWN ON DONALD TRUMP. MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, WOMDIN WHNOT GO TO COLLEGE, WORKING WOMEN ARE NOW TRENDIN DEMOCRAT. YOU HAVE WOMEN, WHITE WOMEN VONG DEMRATIC, AND THAT'S A NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THIS COUNTRY, AND THAT'S -- YES, IT IS. IT'S A CHANGE. WITHOUT THE COLLEGE EDUCATION. I MEAN, THE GRP DONALD TRUMP CARRIED BY 27 POINTS. I DON'T THINK THERE IS ANY- THIS WILL BE A FACTOR IN THE ELECTION. I DON'T INK BY ANY MEANS IT'S RESOLVED ON WHICH SIDE IT COMES DOWN.

>> Woodruff: WE HAVE PROBABLY ONLY A LITTLE MORE THAN A MINUTE BUT MY LAST QUESTION WAS GTONG E HOW DO WE HEAL FROM THI BUT THERE DOESN'T SOUND LIKE A LOT OF HEALING GOING ON.

>> WHEN YOU SEE HOW FAR WE'VE AILED A LOT OF PEOPLE E-M ME AND SAID HOW DO WE LEARN TO PERSUADE EACH OTH PEOPLE REACT TO BAD THINGS. THEY'RE NOT STUPID. I HOPE DAVID'S RIGHT. I HOPE -- I DON'T THINK WE HAVEW A LEADER WNTS TO HEAL. I MEAN, WE HAVE 3.7% UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE COUNTRY AND, YET, WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT DRIVING OURSELVES INTO THE OTHER CORNERS AND WRITING PEOPLE OFF I THINK IT HAS TO BEGIN AT THE BOTTOM BECAUSE IT'S NOT BEGINNING AT THE TOP.

>> Wdruff: WORDS TO REMEMBER. WE WILL REMEMBER THEM. MARK SHIEL, DAVID BROOKS, THANK YOU BOTH.

>> THANK YOU.

>> Woodruff: FOLLOW OUR COVERAGV OF THEAUGH CONFIRMATION AND THE FINAL VOTE TOMORROW, STREAMING LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE pbs.org/newshour AND ON AIR, ON THE PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND.

>> Woodruff: NEXT, WE CONCLUDE OUR SERIESN THE GROWING PLASTIC PROBLEM. IT'S NOW CONSIDERED ONE OF THE LARGEST ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS TO BOTH HUMANS AND ANIMALS. JEFFREY BROWN TAKES US TO A TINY ISLAND IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC THAT'S INCREASINGLY DEALING WITH MORE AND MORE OF T WORLD'S TRAS:

>> BrownNY PIECES OF PLASTIC IN THE SAND, LARGER PIECES CAUGHT I THE ROCKS, FOR THIS CLEANUP CREW, IT'S A NEVER ENDING FIGHT.

>> THIS IS THE REALITY HERE. THIS IS MICROPLASTIC. THIS IS A ROCK, THIS IS PLASTIC. IF YOU SEE THAT, THAT'S IT.

>> Brown: THAT'S PLASTIC.

>> IT'S PLASTIC.

>> Brown: ANNA MARIA GUTIERREZ , A CIVIL ENGINEER WHO WORKS FOR THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, LES THE EFFORT

>> ( translated ): BECAUSE THE WAVES HIT THE COAST, THE BIGGER PLASTICS GET SMALLER AND SMALLER AND IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO REVE THEM. BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO MOVE VERY BIG ROCKS ALONG THE COAST AND THE TRASH JUST GETS INSERTED IN THEM. AND IT'S BECOMING PART OF NATURE.

>> Brown: PART OF NATURE, PART OF THIS PLACE. BUT WHAT A PLACE! AND WHAT A PLACE TO FIND SO MUCH ASH! FOR WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC, ON EASTER ISLAND, ONE OF THE MOST REMOTE, INHABITED SPOTS ON EARTH, SOME 2200 MILES FROM THE COAST OF CHILE. CALLED "RAPA NUI" IN THE POLYNESIAN LANGUAGE, EASTER ISLAND IS HOME TO ROUGHLY 6,000 RESIDENTS AND SOME OF THE MOST BREATHTAKING SITES IN THE WORLD, INCLUDING MORE THAN A THOUSAND MOANCIENT STATUES, CALLED , THAT DATE BACK TO AS EARLY AS 1100 A.D. IT'S A PLACE OF BEAUTY AND WOER, BUT INCREASINGLY SOMETHING ELSE:

>> THE WORLD ITRASHING THE OCEAN. AND THAT TRASH, WE ARE RECEIVING IT IN OUR COAST IN RAPA NUI. IT'S LIKE SOMEONE PUING A GUN TO YOUR HEAD AND TELLING YOU, YOU MUST RECEIVE THAT.

>> Brown: MAYOR PEDRO EDMUNDS PAOA IS THE LONG-TIMR OF HANGA ROA, THE ISLAND'S ONE TOWN. D SAYS BECAUSE EASTER ISL LOCATED NEAR WHAT'S KNOWN AS A TRASH VORTEX IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN. FLOATING WASTE IS CONSTANTLY WASHING ASHORE

>> IT'S COMING FROM EVERYWHERE. IT'S TOO MUCH. EVERY YEAR IS MORE AND MORE.

>> Brown: ALSO MORE ANMORERE HE: PEOPLE. EASTER ISLAND HAS SEEN TREMENDOUS GROWTH IN THE LAST 20 YEARS, ESPECIALLY FROM TOURISM, WITH PLANES NOW BRINGING MORE THAN 100,000 VISITORS EVERY YEAR. EW JOBS AND MORE MONEY, BUT ALSO ENORMOUS NEW CHALLENGES.

>> THIS PLACE IS LIKE BEING IN BISEUM OF CRYSTAL.

>> Brown: OF CRYSTAL.

>> VERY FRAGILE. SO IF YOU BRING IN VEHICLES, YOU ARE ACCELERATING THE DAMAGE ON THE LAND, ON THE PREMISES, ON WHAT I CALL OUR ANCIENT, SACRED SITES, WHICH IS THE ENTIRE ISLAND.

>> Brown: SO MORE PEOPLE, MORE CARS, MORE TRASH?

>> MORE TRASH.

>> Brown: ON AN ISLAND WHERE VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING CONSUMED IS IMPORTED, LOCAL OFFICIALS NOW ESTIMATE THAT MORE THAN 20 TONS OF TRASH ARE PRODUCED EVERY DAY. GE PROBLEM: SPACE. THERE'S JUST ONEBAGE DUMP ON AN ISLAND THAT'S ROUGHLY 63 SQUARE MILES. CIVIL ENGINEER ANA MARIA GUTIERREZ.

>> ( translated ): WE ONLY HAVE ONE PLACE TO DEPOSIT OUR GARBAGE BECAUSE THE JORITY OF THE TERRITORY IS A NATIONAL PARK AND THE COMMUNY IS GROWING SO FAST, DEMOGRAPHICALLY, THAT THERE IS NO SPACE FOR WASTE TREATMENT OR DISSAL.

>> Brown: THE ISLANDERS ARE TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY. AND EFFORTS ARE UNDERWAY TO ALLEVIATE THE SITUATION, INCLUDING THIS RECYCLING PLA, HOME TO MOUNTAINS OF PLASTIC, BOTTS, ELECTRONICS AND MUCH MORE. HERE WASTE IS CRUSHED, STACKED AND SORTED. SOME OF IT IS THEN SHIPPED OR FLOWN TO MAINLAND CHILE, WHICH GOVERNS THE ISLAND. ALEXANDRA TUQUIVERA RUNS THE PLANT, WHICH OPENED IN 2011.

>> ( translated ): IT'S AN ISSUE DISTINCTLY ABOUT'SHANGING PEOPTTITUDE. IF WE ACHIEVED A CHANGE IN ATTITUDE FROM 20% OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY RECYCLING TODAY, I THINK I CAN ACHIEVE IT AT 100%. BUT IT DEPENDS ON HOW WE CAN CHANGE THOSE ATTITUDES ABOUT THIS ISSUE.

>> Brown: THERE'S ALSO THIS-- A SMALLER BUT WONDERFULLY CREATIVE WAY TOEAL WITH EXCESS WASTE.EA MAHANI GREW UP ON EASTER ISLAND BEFORE LEAVING TO STUDY PIANO D BUILD AN ONGOING INTERNATIONAL CONCERT CAREER. SHE'S NOW BACK,TEACHING CHILDREN. AND HELPING TO BUILD A A MUSIC SCHOOL-- ONE MADE OF GARBAGE. >>HEE THOUGHT, OKAY, WE HAVE WE HAVE THE TEACHERS, WEENAVE THE CHILWE HAVE THE INTEREST. WHAT KIND OF CONSTRUCTION CAN WE DO WHICH IS IN WAY WILL TEACH THE CHILDREN HOW TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR PLACE, WILL NOT GENERATE WILL ATTEND TO THE PROBLEMS WHICH WE HAVE ON THIS ISLAND

>> Brown: DESIGNED BY THE AMERICAN SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTRE MICHAEOLDS, THE RAPA NUI SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS FIRST OPENED ITS DOORS IN 2014.

>> 2,500 TIRES ARE IN THE WALLS. 40,000 GLASS BOTTLES AND ALMOST0 00 CANS ALSO. WE HAVE THE SOLAR PANELS, WHICHH PROVIDELECTRICITY. WE HAVE RAINWATER WATER COLLECTORS WHICH PROVIDE WITH 40,000 LITERS OF WATER.

>> Brown: TODAY, MAHINA SAYS THE SCHOOL TRAINS MORE THAN 100 STUDENTS IN BOTH CLASSICAL AND TRADITIONAL MUSIC, PASSED DOWN FROM RAPA NUI ANCESTOR

>> WE ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF THE PEOPLE WHO BUILT THE STATUES, AND WE ARE A LIVING CULTURE. WE HAVE OUR SAME LANGUAGE WHICH THE ANCESTORS SPOKE BACK THEN. WE HAVE THE CULTURE WHICH WASTE TRAND ORALLY UNTIL TODAY. AND THIS IS A CULTURE WHICH IS DYING OUT BECAUSE OFCA GLOBALIZATION USE WE HAVE NOT KNOWN HOW TO, HOW TO HOLD ON TO THIS. AND THIS IS SUCH A BIG TREASURE WHICH WE HAVE THAT WE HAOF TO TAKE CART NOW BECAUSE IT'S STILL ALIVE.

>> Brown: THAT KIND OF PRIDE, SAYS MAYOR EDMUNDS, IS KEY TO BALANCING RAPID GROWTH WITH PROTECTION OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

>> THERE IS SOMETHING THAT YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT OUR ISND. THE PEOPLE OF THIS ISLAND ARE VERY AWARE OF THE BRAND, OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CULTURE, OF HOW FRAGILE IS THE ISLAND. RAPA NUI TO ME IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE FOR THE WORLD OF HOW YOU CAN DEVELOP AND GET TO A MAXIMUM OF UTILIZING THE RESOURCES, BUT AT THE SAME TIME HOW YOU CAN DESTROY IT.

>> Brown: HERE ON EASTER ISLAND, THE ANCESTORS ARE WATCHING.NE FOR THE PBHOUR, I'M JEFFREY BROWN IN THE REMOTE SOUTH PACIFIC.

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