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More shifting winds at the White House today on whether Russia's President Putin is a friend a foe or something else word came that President Trump wants Putin to visit this fall even as one day summit sparked more questions White House correspondent young Michelle send or begins our coverage. For President Vladimir Putin a warm reception from Russian lawmakers today as he celebrated the healthy summit result and it's a fairly well if I might may finally the full formal meeting to happen which allowed me to talk directly to President Trump and it was successful generally mit useful arrangements. There's been no formal announcement of any deals the leaders may have made Putin said they worked out a range of agreements involving international security but today at an Aspen Institute form the u.s. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said he's not sure what was discussed Well you're right I don't know what happened in that meeting but that is the president's prerogative. He had asked me how that ought to. Be conducted I would have suggested a different way but that's not my role this morning President Trump tweeted saying the summit with Russia was a great success except with the real enemy of the people the fake news media he went on to say he looks forward to a 2nd meeting with Putin so that we can start implementing some of the many things discussed including cyber attacks Ukraine and Middle East peace among others. But the overall u.s. Commander for the Middle East Army General Joseph Otero said he has heard nothing about any changes regarding Syria where both American and Russian forces are involved he spoke to Pentagon reporters on a video link from his headquarters in Tampa we have received no no further direction and we've currently been operating under direct collaboration with the Russian military would need congressional approval there was more to date on the matter that's dogged President Trump Intel thinking Russian cyber hacking in the 2016 u.s. Election the New York Times reported that 2 weeks before his inauguration in January of 2017 he was shown highly classified evidence that Vladimir Putin personally ordered the campaign of cyber attacks and this information. Just 5 days later the then president elect held a news conference today he posted a clip from it but later on in that same news conference he dismissed the intelligence community's conclusion that Putin has been trying to help him win the election do you accept that part of the finding Well if if Newton likes Donald Trump I consider that an asset not a liability because we have a horrible relationship with Russia in Aspen Colorado the president's Homeland Security Secretary Kerry. Said today she's never seen evidence that Russia's election interference with aimed at securing a trump victory seen on the foreign influence side as they were attempting to intervene and cause chaos on both sides on Monday the president seemed to take at face value intelligence director coats quickly challenge that saying Russian interference did happen and it's continuing to happen today said he had had no choice I was just doing my job my thoughts there were that I believed I needed to correct the record for that obviously I wish he had made a different statement but I think that now that his. Clarified jest Yes you're. Mr Trump appeared to dismiss the notion that Russian interference is ongoing is Russia still targeting the u.s. The president. Made his way out no that's because the White House later said Mr Trump had been misunderstood all of this has lawmakers on both sides asking questions and seeking action Republican Senator Bob Corker chairs the Foreign Relations Committee feel sometimes that. The president inflates. Getting away. You know flattery and those kinds of things conflates that were the actual policies in a statement today Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announce he's directed to Senate committees to hold hearings on potentially strengthening u.s. Sanctions against Russia on the House side Democratic Whip Danny boy or a Maryland house for bipartisan legislation to increase funding for election system security and said counter Russian led cyber attacks the flashing red light calls us to action. Surely we can run both pandering to party and to act on behalf of our freedom and our security. The measure alternately failed Republicans voted against it saying there's already ample money available for those purposes. And in the is here with me now along with our foreign affairs correspondent Nick Scheffer and hello to both of you so you mean as you've just been reporting we've seen over the last few days a number of statements the White House has made about the Russian threat about what the Russians did in 2016 then they've turned around and made a clarifying statement or they reversed themselves how does the way the White House is handling this because you've been looking into it compare with the way the rest of the administration has been looking at all this well President inability to definitively say that Vladimir Putin ordered Russian nationals to interfere in the 2016 election has put him at odds often with the u.s. Intelligence community today and ask the director of National Intelligence Dan Coats Well divisibility surprised when N.B.C.'s entry Mitchell told him about Putin's upcoming. The White House has announced on Twitter that Lattimer is coming to the White House in the fall. So that we can. Light a reputed. Yeah. Ok. That's going to be special. Wow I mean that really sums up where the national intelligence director and the president stand right now he's he was completely surprised and he's not alone that the intelligence community is looking at what President Trump is doing and saying and they're really questioning kind of why the president is saying all these things and they don't know what he said to Vladimir Putin in that one on one meeting that went on for 2 hours and Dan Coats isn't the only person in the trumpet ministration that's pushing back on the way that Trump is talking about Russia the director of the f.b.i. Christopher Ray said that Russia is the most aggressive country that's attacked that's trying to attack the u.s. Right now that's really really important and I was talking to sources today there was a former Department of Homeland Security official who was very senior in of passage ministrations he said that the the Homeland Security's the secretary of Homeland Security today saying that she didn't know if Russia was trying to help Donald Trump shows that there are that these administration officials are under a lot of pressure to pick between Donald Trump or the truth so that's really really important in the Senate today voted unanimously to oppose Russia talking to u.s. Officials are u.s. Citizens and basically saying that the you that Russia should not be able to question American citizens so they are over also coming out and saying we are not with the president on this one so Nick you talk to folks in the intelligence community there is some sort of division it appears between what the president's doing and what they know I think it's important to note that they will continue doing their job despite that division but that there is worry concern even do. Comfort with some of what the president is saying and some of the policies that he's exhibiting toward Russia toward Lattimer Putin we have to remember that since January 2017 the intelligence community has fingered Putin personally and said that President Putin ordered the hacking and the dissent from ation campaign in the United States the president was given that information as we learned today from the New York Times with specific intelligence that there was human intelligence about President Vladimir Putin's order and there is just bafflement frankly among some intelligence officials as to why the president will not back them up on that and at least publicly they just don't know why the president isn't backing them up 2 of the things you have me show this whole the White House yesterday saying that the president was considering seriously this idea of swapping interrogation between the u.s. Former u.s. Ambassador to Moscow among others with the u.s. Being able to interview these intelligence folks in Russia who have been indicted by by by the United States so what and then today they said no it's not being considered at all the president doesn't like the idea what's going on there well the White House and the State Department had vastly different answers when it came to the question of whether or not flattery Putin could get his way and NASA and Russian national fishes could sit down and interview American citizens that they see as criminals the u.s. Intelligence community has found that these Americans are not criminals they include the former ambassador to Russia the former u.s. Ambassador Russia then there's this idea that Putin wanted to kind of float that out there and that it was pretty much seen as absurd the State Department came out very forcefully yesterday and said it's absurd to even ask this question where Syria standards kind of page and said well we'll think about it and then it took until today which is a full 24 hours later for the White House to come out to be on the same page as the State Department so again it comes back to that idea that I've been talking to sources about where they say they don't know why the president is doing the things that. He's doing and people are very worried that he made me a deals with President Putin that in that 2 hour meeting they're not sure if maybe he gave them some sort of signal that there might be an insurance there I'm so they're very very much worried and don't know what to think and just very quickly Nick on that point it isn't clear what was said in that meeting how much of a problem it's a big problem because the Russians have a well oiled diplomatic machine and they will put forward their ambassador to the u.s. Who briefed reporters yesterday they put forward President Putin today and they will fill the void where there is no statement from Secretary Pompei o about what was decided there's no statement from national security advisor John Bolton the defense secretary John Maddox was even at the cabinet meeting yesterday whereas the Russians are absolutely organized and so they will fill that void and try and shape the the legacy of this summit and certainly the day to day actions of both countries and in the near future Nick Schifrin we shall send or thank you both . And in the day's other news President Trump criticized the federal reserve for raising interest rates he was interviewed on c n b c and suggested the current policy of gradual rate increases is not helping the economy. I'm not thrilled because you know we go up and every time you go up they want to raise rates again and I don't really I am not happy about it but at the same time I'm letting them do what they feel is best you know I'm just saying the same thing that I would have said as a private citizen so somebody would say Oh maybe you should say that as a president I couldn't care less what they say because my views haven't changed later a White House spokeswoman said the president respects the independence of the Fed chairman Jerome Powell has said he does not expect to face White House pressure he was Mr Trump's choice for the job in Syria today more than 7000 civilians were evacuated from pro-government villages in the north they had been under rebel siege for 3 years their release was in exchange for militants held in government jails buses took the villagers to government held territory in Aleppo it is one of the largest population transfers in the 7 year long conflict Meanwhile in southwest Syria there is word that rebels have agreed to leave the frontier along the Israeli occupied Golan Heights back in this country Kathy Cranage are faced questions about whether she's qualified to lead the Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau She now works at the Office of Management and Budget Democrats at her Senate confirmation hearing criticize her lack of experience in banking and financial services Cranage or said she has other qualifications 20 years of government service working for commonsense solutions across the aisle working with members on both sides to support the best outcome for the American people and that is certainly what I pledge at a separate confirmation hearing Democrats oppose Charles redig to be the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service they said it is a protest against a new i.r.s. Policy that lets business labor and other groups accept donations without disclosing the donors identities the Senate today abandoned. To vote on the nomination of Ryan bound to be a federal appeals judge he granted opposition over his writings as a college student more than 20 years ago criticizing multiculturalism it is the 1st time one of the president's appeals court nominees has failed to advance they spoke c.e.o. Mark Zuckerberg is doing damage control after saying the social media platform will not automatically remove posts denying the Holocaust in an interview he had said he does not think Holocaust deniers intentionally get the facts wrong later he said his intent was not to defend such speech on Wall Street trade worries and the president's criticism of the Federal Reserve helped push stocks lower the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed more than $134.00 points to close at $25064.00 The Nasdaq fell $29.00 and the s. And p. $500.00 slipped 11 the annual s.p. Sports award took a solemn turn last night honoring more than 140 victims of sexual abuse by a sports doctor many were young girls when they were assaulted by Larry Nasser at USA gymnastics and Michigan State University last night they received jointly the Arthur Ashe award for courage but a limping gold medal winning gymnast alley Raisman said they never should have been there. All we needed was one adult to have the integrity to stand between us and Larry Nasser just one. Had to listen to believe and after. The people standing before you on this stage would have never met him. Nasser is now serving prison terms totaling more than 175 years and the one time Air Force d.j. Who inspired the movie Good Morning Vietnam has died Adrian Cronauer passed away at a nursing home in Virginia Cronauer had an armed forces radio show in Vietnam in 1965 and 66 Robin Williams played him in the 1987 film that was loosely based on his story Adrian Cronauer was 79 years old so to come on the news our views on the Russia controversy from former Ambassador Michael McFaul informing acting and former acting CIA director John McLaughlin Israel's controversial law the clearing of the Holy Land of the Jewish people the plan to reunite the remaining separated migrant families and much more. We return now to what President Trump called an incredible offer on Monday when President Putin offered to let the Us question 12 Russians indicted for interfering in the 26 election in exchange for a few u.s. Officials being interrogated by Moscow after 1st saying they were considering this the White House today said they reject the idea just one of us swirl of events around President Trump and Russia in the past few days reaction and analysis I'm joined by former Ambassador Michael McFaul who served as envoy to Moscow from 2. At age 12 to 2014 he was named as one of the American officials wanted by Russia in that potential exchange He's currently at Stanford University and John McLaughlin He served as acting director of the CIA during the George w. Bush administration and is the agency's deputy director he's now at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and gentlemen welcome to both of you let me start with you Ambassador McFaul do you feel you've gotten a reprieve yesterday the White House was saying they were seriously considering this proposal by Vladimir Putin today they said they're not well Judy yes and no I mean one of the people named I guess it's it's nice that they finally have said the obvious but I want to point out that statement was not a definitive statement by the White House and this is their 3rd try they said that the Putin was sincere in this proposal and by saying that they're suggesting that the Americans on that list including me were somehow criminals that needed to be investigated and the fact that the president after 3 different times twice from the podium in the White House and most amazingly in the hell think he could not just say this is outrageous this is crazy absolutely no uncertain terms we're not going to do this and we're not going to accept the false equivalency between a genuine indictment that Mr Moeller released with lots of evidence that these 11 intelligence officers 12 intelligence officers military intelligence officers violated our sovereignty with this cock and made me crazy story that Vladimir Putin spun in that one on one meeting so it is better than the 1st time but it still is not as good as I would like it John McLoughlin was that ever a feasible idea have you ever seen anything like it happen. No that was never a feasible duty and it's alarming that it would even have been considered for a 2nd or that it took 24 hours to get this partial basters right it's really a partial clarification and I think in that statement the last one I saw they also said something to the effect that not only was prudent sincere but perhaps he will actually send these 12 people to the United States to be a question that itself is absurd Putin is never going to do that and just based on my own dealings with Russians over the years. I think it shows a degree of naivete on the part of the president and anyone else who permitted this idea to get into the public realm so no it was never feasible idea and it should have been rejected instantly out of hand and asked in a McFaul we now have the news today that President Trump is asking John Bolton his national security adviser to invite President Putin to Washington this fall what do you make of that given the events of Helsinki. I was quite surprised by that announcement this summit I think was a complete disaster it advance no u.s. National security interests and that's what you're supposed to do in diplomacy you're not supposed to lavish praise on your interlocutor or especially an adversary like Lattimer Putin and maybe there were some secret deals as you were alluding to earlier in your show The only thing we know concretely that was discussed was this crazy swap idea but if you got it bad so bad that time why do you want to tee up another meeting that I think just will not advance America's interest but actually go in reverse and John McLaughlin What about that and you know the White House argument well these are the name of the world's 2 most powerful nations with nuclear weapons pointed. Each other and their leaders need to at least be on a talking basis what about that well I think we can all agree that there is merit in seeking a more constructive relationship with Russia but they're going about it in entirely the wrong way when you go into a meeting with Russians either of the intelligence ferocity or of the diplomatic variety the one thing you can be absolutely sure of is that they will know very spur precisely what they want and they will have a strategy for getting it from you and if you don't go in with a very clear idea of your interests and what you're looking for they'll get what they want from you what surprised me most today I think I'm at the Aspen Security Forum was director Coats is surprised at the announcement of this summit the next one and it made me think this is not a normal government because in any normal government this would have been discussed among principals at a meeting in the White House the director of national intelligence would have been there his advice would have been sought the pros and cons would have been away for example one thing that occurred to me is if Putin were to come in the fall and if we think the Russians are attempting to interfere in our election did anyone ask Did anyone think about whether that could be going on at the same time one way to invite him would be to say you dare touch our elections and this summit is canceled publicly have they done that no one knows it doesn't have a good feel to me there are so many strands to this story Ambassador McFaul The other one of the thing I did definitely want to ask you both about is the report in The New York Times today that when the when u.s. Officials intelligence officials briefed then. President elect Donald Trump in January 27 team they shared with him that they not only knew Vladimir Putin was directing the attempts to interfere. In the election but that they had a human intelligence source it close in to Mr Putin's circle What does that tell you 1st of all that that information is out there and 2nd of all that it was then followed by the president's endless denials that that Russia was behind the interference. Well to me it's shows a couple of things one I think it's important to note what you just said Judy that this is now been leaked out tells you that there are many people in the current government in the Trump administration who are deeply concerned about the way the president talks about his relationship with Russia he's been briefed 100 times about this what happened in 2016 his advisors many of whom I've talked to myself have tried to get this message through he obviously doesn't want to hear the facts when it comes to that the 2nd thing though is also really disturbing something that John said and I just want to underscore it that you have to policies towards Russia right now the entire Trump administration to the best of my knowledge agrees that you need to push back we heard reporters talking to people who are at the summit and who are aware of the summit that there was a plan to push back and by the way summit sometimes are times to push back and not just to praise Russian leaders and yet the president himself seems to disagree with his entire administration's policy towards Russia and that just does not make for good outcomes for American national interests John McLaughlin is someone who comes out of the intelligence community what do you make of the fact that that information was shared with a reporter that there is a human source inside close inside of Lattimer Putin circle that that's now out there. That's a very bad thing. It's a very bad thing if it's true and of course we don't know whether it is literally true. But if it is true it is precisely the kind of information that in the intelligence world you guard it's it's the crown jewels you guard that with your life and the fact that someone would put that out there while I admire the. Work the press has done in bringing many things to light that we would otherwise not know I do regret seeing that particular information in print assuming it is true and I don't know what would. Ever leaked it had to be powerfully motivated by disagreement with the president's policy although sometimes these leaks come about through secondary sources who just heard about it and have no discipline in talking to anyone that you know I find it very distressing you know you're saying if it came from someone in the intelligence community they were expressing their their just a disagreement with the president. I don't know no I would not let me make clear I cannot believe that someone in the intelligence community would leak that that would have to if it is the leak with I'm confident come from someone other than who read the material or saw the material provided by the intelligence community no one in the intelligence community would leak a source like that remember all of those people take polygraphs. So much on pack here gentlemen we thank you both John McLachlan Ambassador Michael McFaul Thank you . A controversial law enacted by the Knesset Israel's parliament has a ganster motions about the identity of the Jewish state and how Israelis think to define themselves and the others who share the land of Israel back within. 3 years Israel's rowdy politics of balance constitutional promises to be Jewish and democratic today lawmakers gave Jews the exclusive right to self-determination and passed a law that supporters called the culmination of Zionism was praised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 0 May go missing this is a historic moment in the history of Zionism and the history of the state of Israel we have made into law the basic principle of our existence Israel is the national state of the Jewish people but what Netanyahu called historic critics called cruel on the Knesset floor Arab lawmakers ripped up the bill at one point parliament member Jamal's aholic was forcibly removed from the debate coalition leader I'm an old day pulled out a black flag and as the parliament speaker objected called the law. He says this evil law like Fly covers over it this is a law that hovers over a black flag Israel has promised the law won't impede by North rights but in mixed towns like Haifa with the World Center up the hill near 100 year old mosque and a nearby church criticised for reducing Arabic to a secondary language. Is a shopkeeper. This new law that this is a Jewish state and not a state for all its citizens this is something that we are ashamed of and we don't accept it but the bill supporters argue they're just acknowledging reality that Israel is 80 percent Jewish guarantees Jewish immigration. And needs to defend its status is the Jewish homeland Amir Ohana is a member of the ruling party in the. Weeds this is not a bi national state this is not a bilingual state this is not a double capital state this is a state of a single nationality of the Jewish people its language is Hebrew and its capital is gruesome basically Israel's move to the right politically because believes that the Palestinians don't want peace and that has created kind of a crowded competition on the right David Makovsky is a distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy he's not in favor of the bill but says lawmakers recently removed some of its most controversial clauses they have excised discriminatory elements of this bill. So there's nothing about segregation or. The parliament can override the court's The law is a basic law akin to a constitutional amendment and that means critics will have a hard time challenging it says use of the executive director of the Us campaign for Palestinian rights this now becomes a tool through which various discriminatory policies can be supported in the legal system in the Us It enshrines in a constitutional way. A constitutional defense for discrimination against non jews in israel that did not exist in this way before Arab Israelis are more than 20 percent of Israeli citizens they often complain of housing education and language discrimination the last critics say that discrimination could get worse a lot of these policies have preexisting this law what will happen now is that they will be of course in shrine into law constitutionally making legal challenges against them far more difficult and thus embolden proponents of those laws to advance those policies in ways and in places that they. Have not done so before the Trump administration has largely given the Israeli government a green light to do what it wants the ruling party was united and the debate was close but Netanyahu said it was a turning point there are people who are trying to destabilize this state so today in stone this is our culture this is our language this is our anthem and this is our way Long live the state of. Israel's debate between being Jewish and democratic isn't over but this government believes it has tipped the balance and promises to move forward embrace in Israel is the Jewish state for the p.b.s. News Hour a mixture from. Stay with us coming up on the News Hour the Special Olympics celebrating 50 years and making sense of the supply and demand for kidneys. Now the latest on the government's plans to reunite migrant families after a court imposed order to do so a federal judge gave the trumpet ministration a deadline of July 26th to reunite approximately $2500.00 children between the ages of 5 and 17 homeland security secretary Kiersten Nielsen said today we will do our best but we will not cut corners are on a vase has been covering all this closely she met with officials from the Department of Health and Human Services today and she joins me now I think so you were given rare access to this place this administration command center where they're coordinating this reunification process what did you see and how did you get this access Well they invited a handful of us who have been repeatedly reporting on this topic to come and get an inside look into how much of a priority it is for the government and how they're addressing reunification So the command center is called the sockets the. Secretary's operations center it's like a lot of other command centers right there's rows and rows of workstations decks kind of stadium seating all facing a large jumbo trons in which they're tracking in real time how many kids are coming into the system how many are going out how many free beds they have and so on they tell us the sock has been up and running for $28.00 days straight it's a 247 operation and it's clear they're treating this like a national emergency this is the same command center they have up and running for natural disasters and for disease outbreaks now why did they let us in well I think they wanted to make clear to us there are very many and in some cases valid concerns about the safe placement of these kids they stress to us they don't want to place kids into unsafe situations with traffickers with people who aren't their parents into abusive situations so they walk just through very carefully step by step what their vetting process is it's also clear to us though that this is a process because of the judge's timeline that was sped up this was not in place 3 weeks ago so meanwhile we know that what out of 103 children who are in custody under the age of 5 they have now reunified what 57 of those with their families now they're working on this larger group of children who are 5 and up what do we know about how that's going so we were told today a significant portion of the parents of those older kids 5 to 17 are already in ice detention it simplifies the process somewhat because it means a lot of those kids will be reunited with parents in detention and they're setting up a handful of reunification sites as primary into cations for them no Generally they say when the families are there they're released into the general public they can have their migration cases adjudicated in due course but we also know as the government lawyer has argued look at the parent already has a deportation order in place they're given a choice you can either leave with your kid or leave without them now the judge had put a stay on those deportations for about a week that was earlier this week we don't know what will happen on the back end of that but on top of that we're getting some indication of what kids go through when they're in government custody. There's a new filing in a federal court in a lawsuit in Los Angeles and I want to read you a couple of excerpts because these are testimonies from the kids themselves who've been in government custody there was one from a 10 year old girl from Guatemala she was talking about overcrowded the syllabi she said I was placed with female girls from 5 to 6 years old to 15 or 16 years old there were large numbers of girls some of whom had to sleep on concrete and sitting up because there wasn't sufficient room in the cell to talk about frozen food a lack of water there was another boy 14 year old from Guatemala he talked about the facilities there he said since I arrived I have not been able to shower or brush my teeth there's no soap in my room no towels I had a toothbrush when I came they took it away no one has allowed me to brush my teeth and no one's told me when I will be allowed to take a shower so there's a lot of concern coming about what happens to kids when they're in custody Ok so just about 40 seconds left you've been tracking the case of this 3 year old girl Sophie separated from her grandmother at the border what's the latest on she's still in government custody her family is still going through the process look this is one case we know it could be an outlier but we know the lot of things we heard from officials this morning about things they do to speed up the process d.n.a. Swabs for example they're not being done in case so we don't have a timeline for when she's going to be unified the officials told us average time in custody right now is about 50 days as of tomorrow so he will have been in custody for one month so important to follow this and I know you've been on it. On a vos Thank you thanks Judy. A look at the impact of the Special Olympics 50 years after it all began what started as a small little notice competition in Chicago is now a global movement it has helped to change society's attitudes toward people with intellectual disabilities and as John Yang reports their goal is inclusion far beyond the playing field. The summer of 1968 a nation in turmoil. Protesters marched against the war in Vietnam urban riots erupted after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. But amid the Tom Ault and event the likes of which the world had never seen. An Olympics for children with intellectual disabilities. It was July 20th Eunice Kennedy Shriver spoke during the opening ceremony at Chicago's Soldier Field just 6 weeks after her brother Robert had been killed in ancient Rome gladiators went into the arena with these words on the. Let me win. But if I cannot get him let me brave the attempt. To day many of you will win. But even more important I know he will be great. Thank you. About 1000 competitors from 26 states and Canada ran swam through balls jumped and showed the world that they could fully participate in the rituals of childhood. The event drew little notice at the time but it sparked a change in societies and store the intellectually disabled. Today millions of math leads train and compete in more than $100000.00 events each year in some $170.00 nations Shriver died in 2009 her son Tim is now Special Olympics chairman he recalls summers at Camp Shriver a forerunner to Special Olympics in the early 1960 s. The family opened their Maryland home to special needs kids I remember the buses arriving school buses yellow school buses they come from institutions I didn't know where they were coming from but all with salute the flag and thing the national anthem together in a circle I remember my backyard becoming an amusement park you know ponies arrive for pony rides and coaches arrive to coach kickball games I remember playing with campers I mostly remember that it was fun. The 1st generation of Special Olympics athletes were born in a time when the intellectually disabled were shunned often hidden in institutions was running out. Down would have been the case for Loretta Claiborne if not for her mother's resistance unable to walk or talk until the age of 4 she went on to become one of Special Olympics most decorated athletes the one Special Olympics I think in prison or 76 feet under Claiborne got involved in Special Olympics as a teenager has taught me about how to respect myself how to have a step that's of myself how to respect someone else and it's Ok to be me so Ok to be different and to put the disability. But the ability of frenemy and that's the Special Olympics taught me on a track like this Claiborne has quite literally been etched into history in a painting of Eunice Shriver at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington also in the artwork Marty sheets another renowned Special Olympics athlete who died in 2050 . I mean his favorite sport was golf we spoke to Marty's father Dave at the sly go create golf course outside Washington which often host Special Olympics events born with Down's Syndrome Marty went to the 1968 Chicago games from North Carolina it was the 1st time he ever been on a plane but he got sick after arriving and couldn't compete he still got a surprise for him Eunice Shriver he walked over to his table and presented Marty with a gold medal for having worked so hard done all the things you need to do to get there with and I participate with them and that gold medal has been. Through things for the Congress for that 1st Special Olympics began with a proposal from a young Chicago parks gym teacher named and McGlone now Illinois State Supreme Court justice and Burke in 1968 she was a college dropout with undiagnosed dyslexia she worked with intellectually disabled children her experience gave her a thought I just said well the regular day camp has a citywide chambray it all in Chicago gets involved in it we should have a chambre down at Soldier Field just like that and we can show everybody that these children have abilities that was the spark of it Burke took her proposal to Shriver she said this is not big enough you can't have just a city it has to be a large track meet for everybody invite everybody around the country but to have this little jewel. Start to have its heart beat in Soldier Field to come into fruition about vulnerable society was under the radar. This week the competition is backward began to highlight is the 1st global Special Olympics soccer tournament of unified teams players both with and without intellectual disability. Cody Zimmer's a 25 year old from Dekalb Illinois he's been diagnosed with mild autism this is his 1st time on a unified team. Athletes from like goals I normally usually have to play against them never with them so good learning experience do you think they're learning something too yeah learning that just because some of us in special effects have disabilities doesn't make us any different from them being normal people. 17 year old Corey Hoekstra plays on the women's team she says she's gained a lot from playing with athletes with disabilities. Parson knows certain things doesn't know certain things you have to adapt and work with them definitely learn patience and being able to help them through it and not getting so frustrated so quickly 50 years after the 1st Special Olympics were held here at Chicago's Soldier Field the organization has an ambitious goal for the next half century Tim Schreiber says he wants people with intellectual disabilities fully integrated into society not just competing alongside those without disabilities but going to school with them working with them living with them he calls it the inclusion revolution revolution a strong language implies a challenge to the status quo it implies an opponent we cannot and we should not tolerate businesses or schools or health care institutions or sporting organisations that say we're open for most but not for you those days must and Shriver hopes no one mistakes the joy of the games. For the seriousness of the mission for the p.b.s. News Hour I'm John Yang in Chicago. Now the demand for a kidney transplant and a controversial idea used elsewhere to increase the odds of getting one the facts can be grim more than 100000 people in the u.s. Are awaiting a kidney transplant and the median wait time is more than 3 and a half years economics correspondent Paul Solman looks at the considerable odds Americans are facing and one very unusual market for obtaining a kidney it's part of his weekly series Making Sense Django I was born with something called palace the kidney disease and around the age of 23 I began to swell up more retain water. At age 32 how do you Acevedo ended up in the emergency room. They said you're Kenyans have totally shut down so for over 7 years now Acevedo's been undergoing kidney dialysis at New York's Westchester Medical Center . Learning to set the procedure up himself in part to relieve the boredom of the 4 hours sessions 3 times a week and the price each treatment it's about $7.00 to $800.00 so that's $100000.00 a year or more spread across them in total nearly a $1000000.00 today and then there's the pain there are days when I wake up and my lower back my kidney area just hurts too much it's on fire not to mention the mental toll some doctors just call it pee in the brain pee in the brain yes pm The brain your mind starts to slow down and even paying attention or concentrating becomes an issue and what's happening now is your blood is being recycled through the machine to get rid of a lot of the waste and the toxins and the liquid. Unable to work he used to be an auditor at an h.m.o. Acevedo survives on disability benefits from Social Security and medical benefits for Medicare which picks up the total dialysis tab for Acevedo and every other such patient in America with some half a 1000000 of us on kidney machines spending on dialysis alone accounts for nearly get this one percent of the entire federal budget more than the outlay for all foreign aid and the cost of dialysis is growing the population's getting older a lot more diabetes hypertension and these all have significant impact on it is these Dr Thomas deflower was the chief of kidney transplant surgery here the cost of that transplant. Cost probably a $120000.00 and at 1st glance a bloody fortune also paid by the government but when you compare it to $100000.00 a year dialysis so if you do a transplant on somebody and the kidney lasts for more than a year and a half then the system actually saves a great deal of money and if you look at how people do after a transplant just from a health point of view they do much much better which means lower medical costs and the possibility of getting back to work and off disability in Medicare entirely stay on dialysis though and then the medical problems and their costs compound this machine does take a toll on your heart last year Acevedo had bypass surgery before that he'd had 18 stents inserted to keep his arteries open in short a kidney transplant would be a colossal called benefit even when but with no living donor someone with a matching blood and tissue type willing to give him one of their 2 kidneys Acevedo's sole option is a waiting list for a deceased donor kidney you have a number the last time I checked that it was about. The 30000. Since I believe 30000 Yeah that was like 2 years ago and after that I decided just to wait out and not look at the number again so is there nothing to be done or losing nearly 10000 people per year because they don't have a family member or they don't have a friend who can go into them well this is a ride which for 30 years has had the world's only legal market for kidneys it grew out of necessity says economist will have after the Iran Iraq war because of sanctions assets frozen the country didn't even go it says so the government made a radical announcement if you donate your kidney to your fellow citizens the government is going to compensate you the equivalent of some $4500.00 u.s. Dollars more than half a year's average household income in Iran today recipients of live kidneys pay most of that cost at a literal market in downtown Tehran the government pays for the actual operation and for those who can't afford to buy it from a living cell or whose kids have the best chance of success could never kidneys are free and relatively plentiful. Poor another say the market has slashed the waiting time for a kidney down to around a year and completely eliminated the need to ask relatives or friends to donate one of their Alice's patient Zora a reason he was confident she'd be transplanted soon even more Still I can't imagine living without the possibility of a kidney donation and all of that having to suffer with this disguise until the very last moment of her life so this is the solution right a free market for kidneys but you knew this was coming even in Iran cash for kidneys is suspect. For one thing. The risk of a major operation to remove a vital organ even if you can live with just one kid. The reason I had to say was that my life would have part. Of his face on camera I would have lost. My kidney to feed my. Transplant. People would have significant and. I'm not sure how you could regulate it as well to make sure that. The donor is taking being taken care of medically and there's at least one more problem with cash and kidneys says Melanie Molo I mean again she was moved to become an alchemist a donor as she watched her husband suffer with end stage kidney disease if there were a market for kidneys would you feel the same way. I don't know chances are she would not says economist Akbar look at the history of paid blood donations in the u.s. And around the world once they a soft that's paying money for donation actually. The donation bank down I mean I was giving my donation for I mean more of the reasons now you're paying me it's not more and any more but he asks with 100000 Americans waiting for a kidney why not give at least some small incentives to encourage donation now in this country if you donate a kidney you cannot even get reimbursed for your travel or lost wages even Dr deflower who opposes legalization says we ought to improve the economic somehow so . Things like universal health insurance for donors paid at the government's expense I think is a very reasonable thing to do with no other way of increasing the number of kidneys for transplant the prognosis is grim for patients like Congo I surveyed they say that for every year that you spend on this machine you lose 5 years of your life expectancy. So if you were to live to 80 years old. If that is the number your time clock. Has lost. About 35 years of that I will do you know I and 39. Hopefully I'll be turning 40 in the summer. But we're rooting for you thank you so am I. The p.b.s. News Hour this is economics correspondent Paul Solman reporting from Westchester New York. A news update before we go in the wake of massive news coverage of attempts by Russia to interfere with u.s. Elections the deputy u.s. Attorney general Rod Rosenstein announced tonight that the Department of Justice plans to alert the public to efforts by foreign countries who are targeting u.s. Democracy it will inform companies organizations and individuals if they are the target of dissent from Asian hacking or other efforts to affect voting behavior and that is the News Hour for tonight I'm Judy Woodruff join us online and again here tomorrow evening with Mark Shields and Rihanna's Salaam for all of us at the p.b.s. News Hour thank you and we'll see you soon. Major funding for the p.b.s. News Hour has been provided by. You know. It's where you know. It's want to. See. It's why we ask the tough questions. Are. Working to improve the. 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