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Were going to make our infrastructure modernized, and were really way behind schedule. Were way behind other countries. We always led the way for many, many years. Then a number of decades ago it laslowed down, and over th eight years, and 15 years, to be hone, its come to a halt. Woodruff the plan spending cuts are mtly negated by last weeks deal that includes huge spending hikes f this year and next. But democrats, including senate miority leader Chuck Schumer, took aim at the riesidents pres, and the projected deficit of roughly 1 trillion. Just six weeks after slashing taxes on the wgglthiest and t corporations, after creating a massive deficit, who does the president ask to pay for this . Middle class anr americans. He slashes education, environmental protection, and medicare and medicaid. Woodruff well take a closer look at the president s ideas on infrastructure, right after the news summary. In the days other news, wall street followed up fridays rally and regained more of last weeks losses. The Dow Jones Industrial average was up 410 points to close at 24,601. The nasdaq rose 107 points, and the 0 added 36. All three indexes are still dowh roughly 7 frohighs they reached just last month. The u. S. Senatis beginning a rare, openended debate on immigration this eveni President Trumps plan includes a thway to citizenship for those brought to the u. S. Illegally as children. It would also restrict Legal Immigration and fund a border wall. Democrats say the plan is a non starter. In russia, investhgators combed ugh wreckage for clues today, after sundays plane crash near moscow. All 71 people on board were killed. The russian jetliner went down in a field shortly after taking off. Officials say theyve red two black boxes that could shed light on what happened. translated both flight data recorders were o und and sentbe decoded by the interstate aviation committee. Th committee will publish the decoded transcript on its official website later on. We have already found over 700 fragments, you have seen that we have already sent away a plane carrying the first load of 453 fragments of the victims. Woodruff investigators say they dont yet know the cause, but they have ruled out a terror attack. Theres word that south africas ling party is demanding president jacob zuma resign within 48 hour thats according to the state run South African broadcasting corporatio zuma faces a bevy corruption allegations, but hes deni. All wrongdoi an executive committee of the Ruling African National congress met today to decide zumas fate. Power has been restored to parto of puerto rihat lost it sunday night. An explosion and fire at an Electric Substation caused the outage. Officials said the northern part of the island was affected, and crews worked through the night. Th territory is still struggling to restore power everywhere, five monthafter hurricne maria. The National Portrait gallery unveiled two new works today formal images of forme president barack obama and first Lady Michelle obama. The obamas were there for the ceremony in washington, alongside their painters, Kehinde Wiley and amy sherald. Mrs. Obama said she hopes the portraits will speakfuture generations. Im also thinking oall the young people, particularly girls and girls of color, who in yrs ead will come to this place and they will look up and they will see an image of someone who looks like them. T i kn kind of impact that will have on their lives, because i was one of those girls. Ra woodruff wiley and s are the first black artists to receive a president ial Portrait Commission from the national gallery. And, finally, highlights from day three at the Winter Olympics in south korea. More gold on slopes an, and a bit of history. Mirai nagasu became e First American woman to land a triple axel in olympic figure skating. A the ans took the gold in the Team Figure Skating event, while the u. S. Won bronze. And american jamch anderson cl gold in slopestyle snowboarding. Te also won at sochi in 2014. Still to come onhe newshour what it will take to fix the nations infrastructure. The russian tv personality challenging Vladimir Putin for president , and much more. Woodruff as we reported earlier, President Trump today unveiled hisongawaited infrastructure plan and spending priorities. Both were overshadowed by internal struggles at the white house, and questions of how top staff handled Domestic Violence allegations against two aides. It was a major focus of todays White House Briefing with press secretary Sarah Sanders. Si the pnt and the entire administration take Domestic Violence very seriously andal believallegations need to be investigated thoroughly. Above all, the president ms supports vicf Domestic Violence and believes everyone should be treated fairly and with due process. Why havent we heard the president say exactly what you just said right there, that he takes domestic voulence very sey . I spoke with the president , and those are actually directly his words that he gave me earlier today. Hy hasnt he said that . He had the opportunity. Hes been active on twitter. Its my job to speak on behalf of thokpresident. I to him, and he relayed that message directly to me, and im relaying it direly to you. Woodruff our Yamiche Alcindor joins me now for more. Yamiche, what the white house wanted to talk about today was the budget and Something Else and well get to that in manet, but this lingering story is hanging out there, reporters asking how did the president , how did the white house handle this and why is this still going on . This is supposed to be infrastructure week. This is the white houses second try ate infrastructek and each time its been overshadowec by thindal. Were talking about it largely because trump tweeted about it over the weekend. He didnt name rob porter, the other aide who resigned because of Domestic Violencega alons, but said peoples lives were being destroyed and they needed due process. Because nobody knew who, what is hase white house, th been an issue the white house il continuing to ith. John kelly said as soon as he heard about the allegations, 40 minutes later rob porter was out of the job. Sarah sanders said it was actually 24 hours later rob porter resigned or wasrm ated and even that detail is murky. So there is the idea th President Trump likely comes to the defense of men who are allegedly domestically violating people. You have the idea Sarah Sanders said the president dictated a statement to her in support of Domestic Violence vic but the president who has no qualms using his twitter account to say whats on his mind hasu not spoken pblicly in support of the women here. Woodruff and people were pointing to a series of statements over the last several years where hes spoken out in more sympathy for the people accused of abuse. Thyamiche, lets talk abou other things going on at the white house today. The pr sident did rollout they are budget for the coming fiscal year. Just give us the highlights. Some of the h hlights is th a budget thats 4. 4 trillion, 10 more thn republicans wanted to spend in 2017. The other thing thats hani here is theyre asking for 23 billion in Border Security m that includney for the wall. Of course, thats the wall on the bored of mexico. 28 billion, sorry. Then 13 billion for opioid treatment services, a critical ep since President Trump declared a Public Health crisis on this isue in october. And 200 billion for infrastructure structurein 10 years. 716 billion for military spending. The other thi thats happening here is it eliminates 62 agencies including the corporation for public broadcasting. It eliminates a lot of entitlement programs which is something that republicans wanted to get rid of. They said 64 agncies. Sorry about that. Then they have 554 billion cut from medicaid. 215 billion cut from medicaid. 214 billion c from the snap program which used to be known as the food stamp program. The other thing thts being cu is the e. P. A. Its gng to be losing 2. 8 billion. Thats a lot of money. Most of those programs are to eliminate change programs. Thats a big deal because a lot of people are saying this is an administration hostile to Climate Change issues. It adds 984 billion to the deficit in 2018 in 2019, which is a huge, huge change for republicans who have really been wanting to balance the budget. Woodruff its been noted they dont even make a pretense of getting to balan of worrying about deficits. So the last thing, quickly, of course, is infrastructure. This has been long awaited and the white house did nally purr h out their plan. Ou the white pushed out their plan today and its an t sue that the white house should be able to me bipartisan support on. The president , when he talked about infrastructure, it s a very popular thing. Bernie sanders, when i was on the campaign trail with him, also talked about infrase ucture. But y President Trump is talking about the infrastructure plan is essentiallyaying states and local governments are going to be the ones bearing the brunt and paying for the most of it. The federal government would spend something li 200 billion, but thats a small fraction of what they want to spend. Today senator Chuck Schumer came out toey and said there going to be trump tolls all across the country saying for President Trump to get this plan pass its going to have to turn into tolls and all sorts of fees being passed on to different americans. Republicans, on the othehand, some have been saying they praised this program and some of em, of course, have been saying they want more explanation because theyre very wary about the fact theyre adding to the deficit. Woodruff a lot o discussion still about how this is paid for in very early stages. Goinghe alcindor, so much on. Thank you. Thank you. Woodruff as yamiche said, the president s broad infrastructure blueprint relies states and local governments to find much of the money that would be needed for a trillion dollarplus plan. It also would depend on a major infusion of investment from the private sector. E we get saction to this now from the mayor of los angeles,tt eric gar hes also the chair of a taskje force on the s for the u. S. Conference of mayors. Mayor garcetti, thank you very much for joining us. Let me just start out by asking, whats your overall reaction . They are talking about leveraging federal dollars to state and local dollars and the rest of it, Something Like one to five. Good evening, judy, and any day that washington isalking about infrastructure is music to my ears, but, of course, the devil will be in the details. But weve got a yawning 5. 4 trillion gap, and we want to get home to our tam lis quicker, cut traffic, we dont want to be on uns,e bridg and we need the geeks generation of ports and airports to help fuel the next generation of ports and airports to fuel prosperity. Americans have pas 260 billion in infrastructure, this only proposals 200 billior en years. There is more money in his budget for the wall than for the next ten years for all the cities in america to have transit dollars and to fix their roads, to fix the potholes. So were doing our part and we want to see federal government do itsupart and notst take 20 out of our wallet and give it to themselves, give it back to us and say heres your m infrastructuey. We want it to be real money for real jobs and rel infrastructure repair this country so badly needs it was its important for you and other state and local officials around the country, but, at the same time, the federal government b s to be focused on th deficit. We just heard red ink numbers that are pretty scary. Can you expect the federal government to come up with the lions share of tis money thats needed . No, we expect them to do what they have in the past, and think about the erie canal, the work the federal government did to build the highway system or the internet. When we dont take care of our infrastructure we pay trllions and balls bels of dollars in oost competitiveness, millions of hours away the family, companies that dont start in the United States because its too difficult to get through the red tape. So this is monethat helps bring more in and were not expecting them to have the s lionare, but they actually cut existing programs in some cases to pay forthis. We want to work with both anrties. We have democrati republican mayors ready to show how we have been doing and how the federal government can come and lead. We need it to be paid th real dollars, probably the onshoring of overseas profits but we will look for other alternative ways to get in there. Woodruff we know this adminiration is also loong for the private sector to come up with some of these dollars. Whisnt that a good ida . It can be and were doing that here in los angeles. Denver was able to help th privatele sector build a new rail line from downtown to the airport quick around cheaper, but dont expect the private sector to come and to redo water that right now in many cities is polluted or to upgrade our electricity lines to build out our port or airports. Tothose are things we havedo with federal help and American Cities have a loud and clear message for washington. Welwehelp butant federal tax dollars back in our communities, from rural to mot densely populated urban areas to match the dollars and we both can count the dolars if we do it the right way. Woodruff mayor gartt another quick point i wanted to ask about is what the president had to say abomlut string, in effect, the permitting process. He said washington will no longer be a road block to progress, washington is now going to be your patner. We know a number of your fellow mayors say its a good thi theyre talking about streamlining, cutting back on some of the federal regulations. What about that . Bs utely. Any day we cut red tape is also music to the ears of americas may mayors. Thats a great part of proposal. But we need money to match that. We dont wnt projects to take a decade or two to move forward. Weve built some ofthe greatest infrastructure in this country in a war, in a matter of a monther a year or two. We need money tto mach. Money moves project forward and we are stepping up with a quarter of a trion from americas cities in the last year and a half. Sp need the federal government not theace out 200 billion, which is less than that, over a decade. Woodruff mayor garcetti, a question about immigration. The United States senate is beginning a major debate tonighh abou to do with immigration reform. One of the Big Questions discussed in the congress is what to do about these young people who were brought into the country without doncumentas children and whether they should tizenship. Path to c there is Something Like 700,000 daca recipient right now people are asking, are democrats prepared ifre blicans give on that and keep that path to citizenship for these daca young people, are democrats, in turn, prepared to give on things like the visa lottery, on what republicans call chain migration, letting more family members in, parts of legal migraon. We should hold republicans leaders to their words who have said th for the dreamers, independent of other things. Im a son of a dreamer who fled to this country in world war ii and got his citizenship. Ive seen the billiance of young men and women. Paul ryan, the president sai w tht to do something. Do that independent. Then immigration, whetherborder protection, or the type of family reunification. But holding the dreamers hostage after people publicly said and 80 of americans support giving them a pathway to legal status needs to get done riht away. I believe Old Fashioned that people should live to their word. Oodruff well watch the debate unfold this week. Mayor far sety of los angeles, thank you very much. Great to be with you, judy. Woodruff stay with us, coming up on the newshour, the Trump Administration scaling onback the consumer protec bureau. Are republicans becoming more comfortable with spending deficits . De and a former bpatrol agents new book. But first, in just over four weeks russian voters will go the polls to elect a preside. Nt there is no suspense about the outcome it is a safe bet that p vladimin will be re elected to a fourth term, extending his rule into a third decade. As Nick Schifrin reports, putin has a high profile challenger from his own past whos trying to convert celebrity, into votes. Repo