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KQED PBS NewsHour May 10, 2016

Them, and act silly with them. Its good to feel like youre three years old again. Sreenivasan all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the president ial primary season is winding toward a close with two of the final states taking their turns tonight. West virginia has 29 democratic delegates to offer. Overall Hillary Clinton needs just 155 more to lock up the partys nomination. Republicans have races today in both West Virginia and nebraska. Even though the outcomes are now just a for malady. Formality. Reporter it was West Virginians turn to head to the polls today, but the candidates were elsewhere. Donald trump a nearlock to be the republican nominee was in new york, reportedly working to join forces with the Republican National committee on fundraising. But he still faces hurdles winning support from party leaders. House Speaker Paul Ryan has so far refused an endorsement. Hes scheduled to meet with trump on thursday. Ryan spoke this afternoon in an online interview with the wall street journal woodruff trumps former rival ted cruz also declined today to say if hed back the presumptive nominee. The texas senators name is still on the ballot in nebraska, but he played down the chance that a victory there might prompt him to reentered the campaign. We have suspended the campaign because we see no viable path to victory. Of course if that changed we would reconsider things. Listen, we have not going to win nebraska. There should be no mystery, no excitement. Weve withdrawn from the campaign and its in the hands od the voters. If circumstances change we will always assess changed circumstances. Woodruff on the democratic side Hillary Clinton stumped in kentucky next door to West Virginia. She called for paying childcare workers more, while curbing Childcare Costs for families. I dont think any family should have to pay more than 10 of their income for childcare. That ought to be just a rule and you ought to get help if youre getting too close to that or going above that. We need to start thinking about family issues as investment issues, investments into the future, investment into our children. Reporter clintons rival Bernie Sanders pressed ahead with his underdog campaign, in a California City still suffering from the Housing Market meltdown in 2008. When you have this level of grotesque income and wealth inequality, when you have a situation where over the last 25 years, trillions of dollars have left the hands of hard working families and have gone into the top onetenth of one percent, dont tell me we dont have the resources to rebuild stockton, california. Reporter californias delegaterich contest almost at the end of the democrats primary calendar is set for june 7th. Sanders has vowed to take his campaign all the way to the Democratic Convention in philadelphia, in late july. Sreenivasan in the days other news, the people of central and southern oklahoma surveyed the damage and began recovery operations after a barrage of tornado. Two people were killed by separate storms that struck near towns to the south of oklahoma city. Storm chasers captured footage of the twisters one reportedly up to a mile wide. They ripped through homes, tossed cars aside and scattered debris for miles. The fire that swept through fort mcmurray, canada is still burning, but its moved away from the city, and repairs are beginning. Officials and journalists toured the area yesterday, and found some blocks were burned to their foundations, destroying 2,400 buildings. But, about 90 of the town survived intact. Still, it will be weeks before nearly 90,000 evacuees are allowed to return. Meanwhile, oil Sands Companies are trying to resume production, but many staffers and suppliers are displaced. Woodruff president obama will become the first sitting u. S. President to visit hiroshima, japan when he travels to asia later this month. The United States carried out the worlds first atomic bombing on hiroshima in august 1945. Its estimated that 140,000 people were killed. Spokesman josh earnest announced the visit today, but said the president does not plan to offer an apology while hes there. The president intends the visit to send a much more forwardlooking signal about his ambition for realizing the goals of a planet without nuclear weapons. This also is an opportunity for the visit to highlight the remarkable transformation in the relationship between japan and the United States. Woodruff the president s weeklong visit to asia will include a group of seven summit in japan, and a stop in vietnam. Sreenivasan in north korea a mass, tightly choreographed parade capped the first Ruling Party Congress in nearly 40 years. Hundreds of thousands gathered in pyongyangs main square with floats and patriotic banners to pay tribute to the countrys leader kim jong un. After nightfall, torchbearers formed designs and phrases, including one that read the Nuclear Powered state. Woodruff the United States navy staged a new challenge today to chinas sweeping claims in the South China Sea and beijing scrambled fighter jets in response. A u. S. Guided missile destroyer sailed within 12 nautical miles of fiery cross reef, now occupied by the chinese. translated this is out and out a military challenge to the new marine order. The United States has flexed its military muscles by sending warships and military planes close to and even into the related islands and reefs and their surrounding sea and air space for provocation. This is but the biggest threat to the peace and stability and the freedom of navigation and flight on the South China Sea. Woodruff secretary of state john kerry brushed aside the chinese objections, saying again the u. S. Is determined to maintain freedom of navigation. Sreenivasan also today a Chinese Labor panel ruled against a fired worker in the countrys first transgender job bias case. The claimant argued he was let go unfairly, for living as a man when he was born a woman. The Arbitration Panel granted 62 in back wages, but found the employer broke no laws. Woodruff back in this country, the u. S. Justice department has opted not to seek the Death Penalty for the alleged mastermind in the benghazi attacks. Ahmed abu khattala was captured in libya two years ago, and brought to the u. S. Hes charged with murder and supporting terrorists. The u. S. Ambassador and three other americans were killed in the attacks in 2012. Militants stormed a u. S. Compound and c. I. A complex. Sreenivasan a Baltimore Police officer chose today to go before a judge rather than a jury, in the freddie gray case. Edward nero is charged with assault, Reckless Endangerment and misconduct in office. He was involved in arresting gray, who died of injuries in custody, touching off riots. The first case resulting from the arrest ended in a hung jury. Woodruff on wall street stocks had their biggest day since march, boosted in part by chinas efforts to stimulate its economy. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained 222 points to close at 17,928. The nasdaq rose 59 points and the s p 500 added 25. Sreenivasan and another year, another white house visit for the university of connecticut Womens Basketball team. President obama welcomed the huskies today, to celebrate their fourth Straight National title, and the schools 11th overall. The president said uconn has defied the old saying that you cant win all of the time. Sreenivasan still to come on the newshour change in the philippines, voters elect a controversial new president , the educational benefits of pre schoolers interacting with senior citizens, an organization thats training people to talk about race, and much more. Sreenivasan the man who will next lead the philippines was lauded as a nononsense tough guy and derided as a looming dictator throughout a fiery election campaign. Today it became clear after his two closest rivals conceded that whatever the labels, Rodrigo Duterte will soon be called mr. President. With china flexing its muscles in the South China Sea, the United States is looking to deepen its security relationship with manila. While duterte has said his priorities are to lift up the large numbers of filipinos in poverty, and crack down on crime. Rodrigo duterte is known for his tough talk and bombastic style, but he was decidedly more humble on a predawn trip today to his parents tomb in manila. Social media video showed him sobbing as he said help me, mum im just a nobody. That may once have been true, but mondays election has now catapulted duterte to president elect. He won about 40 of the vote, pledging to eliminate poverty, corruption and crime. The outcome delighted supporters in davao city, where hes long been mayor. translated i am happy and feel privileged. The mayor prevailed. Sreenivasan dutertes path to the presidency was anything but conventional featuring crude sex jokes which included making light of the rape and murder of an australian woman and incendiary rhetoric, especially about criminals. translated all of you who are into drugs, you sons of bleep , i will really kill you i have no patience for that. I have no middle ground there. Either you kill me or i will kill you idiots. Sreenivasan that kind of talk has led some to draw comparisons to donald trump, the Presumptive Republican president ial nominee in the u. S. Karen lema is a manila correspondent for reuters, who spoke with us via google hangouts. I think its probably because of their unconventional ways. Their unorthodox ways. Here people tend to look at those that are in the political establishment as weak, inefficient and corrupt. And again, duterte i think has successfully differentiated himself from the pack and thats where his appeal lie. Sreenivasan duterte inherits a philippine economy that grew an average of 6. 2 over the past six years. But with nearly a third of the population still below the poverty line, voters said they were ready for change. translated we need someone who can make the prices of goods go down, so that for us who are poor, we can make a better living. translated i hope whoever becomes the president , they will help the homeless, provide work for our husbands and run the philippines well. Sreenivasan today, a duterte spokesman laid out plans to federalize the government. Karen lema says its a bid to help neglected regions far removed from the countrys power center. He want to devolve functions away from central manila to the provinces. He wanted to empower these provinces and make sure that the wealth is more evenly distributed. And like he said, he wants to benefit those who have been left behind or those what he calls sreenivasan on foreign policy, duterte has said hed talk to china about its expanding claims and military activity in the South China Sea. But, if nothing changed, he says hed sail to one of beijings new artificial islands and plant the philippine flag. Today, Chinas Foreign Ministry voiced hope for progress with the new leader. translated china and the philippines have a traditional friendship. We indeed hope that the new government of the philippines would meet china halfway, taking concrete measures to properly deal with the disputes so as to put the ties of the two countries back on the track of sound development. Sreenivasan duterte has also expressed wariness about closer security ties with the u. S. , but yesterday, he called for talks to include the u. S. , japan and australia. Sreenivasan in washington, a white house spokesman said today we look forward to strengthening and deepening ties with the philippines. But policy questions aside, dutertes hardline approach has sparked concerns that he could be a dictatorinthemaking, in a country with an authoritarian past. In 1972, president Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the philippines, and ruled unchallenged for years. He was ousted in 1986 by Corazon Aquino the widow of a fierce marcos critic and she became president. Now her son, benigno aquino, is leaving office after serving the single, sixyear term allowed under the countrys constitution. He opposed duterte and instead, backed former interior secretary mar roxas. Aquino also campaigned against Ferdinand Marcos junior, who trailed by a narrow margin in the Vice President ial race. In a statement today, aquino said our people have spoken and their verdict is accepted and respected. Woodruff now, back to the president ial campaign. Donald trump may be the Presumptive Republican nominee, still has considerable work to do to bring essential elements of the g. O. P. And the conservative movement on board to support him. To explore, that weve joined by two republicans, Ken Cuccinelli, who until last week served as delegate Operations Director for the ted cruz campaign, and Corey Stewart, Virginia State Campaign Chair for donald trump. And gentlemen, we welcome you both to the program. Ken cuccinelli, let me start with you. You worked your heart out for ted cruz. He dropped out. He is now today saying hes ruling out a thirdparty bid. Where does this leave you . Well, you know, we were 151, but you have to go undefeated to be the nominee, and its disappointing. Sometimes i wonder if im watching my country commit political suicide. But, you know, there is five months until the election, and well see how things go at the convention and well see where things go between now and november. Woodruff well, he didnt entirely today rule out getting back in the race. Do you think thats a possibility . Not realistically, no. I think that was more along the lines of a statement of, if an asteroid hits new york city and donald trump is dead, then ill get back in the race, but short of that, no, this race. Weve hit the point where trump is going to hit the 1,237 mark and get over the majority needed to be the nominee, and so thats what i expect is going to happen. We still have other things to do. Theres always a debate about the platform. On an ideal day, what does it mean to be a republican . And we also want to recover, and i think this is an area where cruz and Trump Delegates may have a lot in common, we want to recover these rules back from the establishment and return them much more to the grassroots than they have been. Woodruff i do want to ask you about that in a moment, but stiewrtd stewart, Corey Stewart, youve been supporting donald trump for months now. What do you say to conservatives who are still struggling with whether or not donald trump is really a conservative, who believe what they do . Well, he is a conservative. We stand by our conservative platform at the convention. If the cruz supporter would like to strengthen it, we would support that. In fact, there are some parts of the platform we would like the make stronger, especially on illegal immigration and i think where there could be some disagreement is perhaps on International Trade. We dont feel that the p. P. P. Or the ttip or some of the past International Trade agreements have been fair to American Workers and american Small Business, but overall i think well have a lot of agreement with other conservatives in the party. Woodruff its interesting you point those things out, because in the last few days there has been a lot of attention on some of mr. Trumps statements. People are saying, well, just how conservative is he because hes come out with positions on trade, on issues like Social Security where theyre really not what people view as part of the conservative orthodoxy. How do you. How are you yourself, how comfortable are you when you hear him say, take positions where arent necessarily where you thought conservatives were . I think there is a question what is conservative . Donald trump is prolife. Hes conservative on the social issues. Hes conservative on taxation. Hes conservative on releasing, you know, on deregulation and making it easier for Small Business people. So i mean, but look, if we attack some of these agreement, ttip and t. P. P. That are howling out hollowing out these International Trade agreements that are really hurting American Workers, and what is. I dont consider that conservative or liberal. Its just common sense. We need to protect our own workers and our own businesses. Woodruff Ken Cuccinelli, how conservative is donald trump . Well, i mean, i appreciate coreys comment, but i dont think its really accurate to characterize him as a conservative. This is someone

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