Good morning. Im jane pauley and this is sunday morning. Well start off today in washington with the latest on a political showdown that has been brewing for days now. Make that weeks now. Last night, truly at the 11th hour, Congress Reached agreement to keep the lights on and spare the nation from the consequences of a shutdown, at least for now. Lee cowan has the details just ahead. Then we move from matters of the present to matters of the future. As you know, not that long ago Artificial Intelligence, a. I. , was the stuff of science fiction. No more. These days, a. I. Touches nearly every part of our lives. But cheating on term papers is one thing. Now as ted koppel will tell us, a. I. Is becoming a major factor in a field where the stakes are far higher the battlefield. Reporter Artificial Intelligence has beaten the best in the world at chess, at go, and at texas hold em. But those, after all, are just games. These days a. I. Is being developed and deployed by the most sophisticated militaries in the world, and not a one of them is playing games. Coming up on sunday morning. Back in the 1960s, joan baez was a leading voice of her generation. Both as a folk singer and antiwar activists. Turns out these years later she is still honing her craft as she tells our tracy smith. Reporter 82yearold joan baez has a new film. Reporter and a new voice. Its a whole other voice maybe, which is maybe a blessing . Its a blessing. I have been enjoying it. It aint me you are looking for reporter her songs and secrets later on sunday morning. With Conor Knighton, well have a sunday morning episode of csi where crime seen investigators are looking into solving crimes that are truly something wild. Reporter rebecca is a veterinary forensic pathologist. She is attempting to figure out how this endangered california condor died. Is you enter vet school knowing this job existed . No. Reporter she joined a team of scientist at a oneofakind crime lab. Is there anything like this in the world . Like this facility with the scope that we have, no. Reporter we go inside the National ChristmasTree LightingNational Fish and life friends iksz lab. Rita braver is on broadway with Daniel Radcliffe and the story of the sondheim show, merrily we roll along. Martha teichner visits with Pulitzer Prizewinning author hernan diaz. Robert costa talks power and politics with former Washington Post executive editor marty baron. Plus, commentary from economist robert reich and more. Its the first sunday of the month, october 1, 2023, and well be back in a moment. Wewe made it bmo has ararr. Hello . You sasaid it. Hehello to morore ways to savave money, grow your r wealth, growow your busisiness. Just w what we neeeeded, ananother big g bank. Not so f fast. How manyny banks do o youw that reweward you fofor saving evevery month . . Hes got a a good poi. 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Fish and Wildlife Service and supports the investigations of more than 200 special agents and inspectors in the u. S. And works with more than 150 countries which have signed the u. N. s convention on International Trade in endangered species of wild fauna and there are a treaty. Quite a bit of the work involves illegal products made from animals. Everything from fur coats to purses to ivory sculptures crafted out of elephant tusks. When an agent at a port or shipping facility sees something suspicious, thats sent in. There was a large shipment miami that was seized a few years ago where they were attempting to smuggle these and claiming that it was blue plastic for recycling. In fact, they were painting them to try to disguise the fact that they came from sea turtles and being smuggled. Reporter i could see whey someone may fall for this. They cannot only figure out what something is, but potentially where that protect species came from, which can be helpful when tracking down poachers. Officers out in the field work the cases, but they need their evidence to be analyzed here. Why have so many different varieties of antelope . There are so many animals that are in the wildlife trade that we need representatives to help identify them when they come to us as evidence. Reporter they have a repository of specimens to use as references when they need to make comparisons during active investigations. Theyve got everything from bugs to bison. Drawers of bones and birds. This is my todo list. Reporter johnny french is the human in charge of the collection. In here is all of our donated specimens from zoos. So this big pile right here is a giraffe. Back in the back, there is an orangutan, there is a gorilla. Reporter does anybody accidentally leave their lunch in here . Absolutely not. Reporter there is lunch in here for the flesheating beatles who clean the bones before specimens can be examined or added to the library. There is never a dull moment in the world of wildlife forensics. I always get to learn something every day. You know the old saying, if you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room. I have never been in the wrong room here. If you have a question, you always have a worldrenowned expert that you can go and ask. Reporter in the exam room you will find veterinary forensic pathologist rebecca kagan. Basically, i solve mysteries. There is a dead animal and they want to know how it died and i figure out what happened. Reporter the lab doesnt accept live animals. When wildlife dies under suspicious circumstances, kagan is on the case. Redtailed hawks are significantly larger reporter sometimes teaming up with coworkers. There is the feet. Reporter an animal might have been electrocuted. 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Reporter but to know the real marty baron is to read his new book, collision of power, which takes readers inside what he did after spotlight, editing the Washington Post with billionaire amazon founder jeff bezos as its owner, and with donald trump in the white house. What did that searing experience of covering the Catholic Church in boston do to inform you when it came time to cover trump . Well, it informed me that we always have to confront power, we always have to hold power to account. Reporter whats it like to be back in washington . Its a little strange. Reporter as a former reporter at the post, i worked with baron for years as he dealt with deadlines and challenges. Do you miss being editor of the Washington Post . No. Actually. Reporter catching up at the National Press club, he shared something he long kept secret. A private dinner he, bezos, and posthumously leaders had this with jump in 2017 as trump was growing furious with the papers reporting. What was your impression of trump . He was trying to be charming. I felt it was superficial, he i felt he was leaning on bezos. Reporter trump keeps elbowing you at the table . Yeah, every time i was sitting to his left and every time he said something that was negative about the post, about how we were the worst and way we treated him, he would sort of poke me with his elbow. It was clear that he was trying to send me a message. Reporter baron came a dake aid ago to the poshe post, famoe investigation into watergate. You dont have to. The story is soiled. We are sure of it. Okay. Go with it. Reporter but the post was struggling and a year in one of the crown jewels of journalism was sold to jeff bezos. When bezos buys the paper were you alarmed . I was concerned. I didnt know what influence he would have over our coverage. I was hopeful. The post wasnt going anywhere at that point except down. Reporter he often to swat away conspiracy theories that bezos had a hidden hand in news coverage. Trump insisted to you and many others, he told me once, he truly believed bezos controlled the post. Yeah. Thats what he thought. If bezos were telling me what to do as a journalist, i would have quit. I am not going to do tlachlt was there every a moment you had a bit of skepticism that this guy, this billionaire, really wanted whats best for the country and the paper . I really didnt have a doubt about that. I never saw any evidence that he was using the News Organization for his own personal purposes, his commercial purposes or anything like that. Reporter bezos of course was not the only figure hovering over barons shoulder. The number one enabler of the democrats is the Fake News Media right back there. Re when trump announced in 2015 a lot of people dismissed him. Immediately after that, he commanded the support of about a third of the Republican Party. How could you ignore that . So we needed to treat him seriously as a political candidate, as a political force. We are going to keep winning. Reporter covering trump well meant digging deep, not giving him a platform. I think it was terrible. Running those entire rallies, no commentary in between, no contradiction of the falsehoods and lies that he was saying during those rallies. That was a real m