you wanted to come to las vegas just to check them out. so people would come here. so he's considered kind of a hero in terms of building the community that has drawn so many we're now up to 43 million a year. >> with cases like harve weinstein, once the allegations came out, everybody in hollywood said, "yeah, we had known about this for a long period of time." was tnsere a sethat there were rumors about steve wynn? i mean, did this come as a bol out of the blue? >> no, it wasn't a bolt out ofau the blue b i think that the same types of allegations were being discussed across las vegas in many ways. but mr. wynn, is also a very powerful individual, held on to the fac t that you could fired by him, you know, if you didn't comply with what he wanted. there weo a lot of pee who feared for their jobs. so, therefore, you know, it was one of those things where thijus kept going on and on. and we have documentation that it happened up to thrcades ago. >> as i mentioned before, he was the finance chair of the g.o.p., of the republicanational committee, and a big donor. do

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it's the same model used in last year's las vegas massacre, and in the 26 pulse nightclub shooting. >> woodruff: i spoke to steve wemort a short time ago, aet new information from authories. >> reporter: more details ceming out from law enfnt officials here at a press conference just a short time ago here in prand, florida. we understand that the suspect nikolas cruz did confess to carrying out this shooting rampage at the high school here and he gave law enforcent officials some details during his questioning. one of the things he said th dat was he brought extra ammunition with him to the school so he could carry on the shooting with his ar-15 rifle once he was out of ammunition, he brought more. he stored it in a backpack at the school so he would have access to it. so information there on exactly how he planned to carry out thes attack, d he started shooting people on the ground and inside the school itself. we got a timeline on how things unfolded. apparely he took an uber to the school at about off6 minutes past 2:00 p.m., finally arriving athe school at 2:19 p.m., which is when

announced today that he's asking for regulations to ban devices like the bump stocks used in last october's las vegas massac. the president spoke at an awards ceremo at the white house, nearly a week after the school shooting in parkland, florida, that left 17 people dead. >> we must move past cliches and tired debates, and focus on evidence-based solutions and security measures, that actually work and that make it easier for men and women of law enforcement to protect our children and protect our safety. >> woodruff: mr. trump also said that he is meeting with survivors and local officials this week to discuss school safety. meanwhile, some 100 parkland students are making a 400-mile t bus trthe state capitol in tallahassee. they will lobby lawmakers tomorrow for new gun laws. but today, the florida state house voted not to consider a baon assault rifles, as several parkland survivors looked on. in the day's other news, special counsel rortueller has obtained another guilty plea in l s probe of russian meddling in the 2016 presidentection. attorney alex van der zwaan appeared in federal court

la republican senator jeff of arizona, it's a bad deal and bad direction. l >>e bipartisanship. it seems like the only bipartisan measures we can do now is when we spend obscenely anspread enough money arou where everybody's okay and we just can't do that. we've done that for too long, and it's just too bad. separate hurtles await if bill in the house. >> i'myust telling people wh i'm voting the way i am. >> democratic minority leader nancy pelosi says she won't vote for the bill. today she agalled for house speaker paul ryan to guarantee a vote on protections for daca recipients brought to the u.s. illegally as children. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has already made that promise. senate majority leader mcconnell has already made that promise. the speaker, who likely needs democratic votes to pass the bill, insisted that he is committed to a daca solution. but, he added, the budget must come first.or >> in r to shift our focus and get on to the next big priority, which is a daca solution, we got to get thisme budget agr done, so that we can go and focus on this. i'm co

then came the regional tournament in las vegas, where he represented arizona, new mexico, utah and nevada. another victory meant a bid to the national tournament. >> i remember training so hard for that fight. you know, waking up super early to go run and get my workout in, ing home, getting ready for school. right after school, go to the gym. right after the gym, go to my strength and conditioning. every day, it was like a routine, boom, boom, bm, for like two months. >> reporter: his first m professionalch was in november 2013. and in the four years since, he's undefeated at 9 and 0 withi knockouts. for zazueta, it's his family that keeps him going. the 22-year-old not only has his parents and four siblings, but he's the breadwinner for family of his own. he has an eight-year-old step- a son named dani his girlfriend paola just had their baby boy in november. >> it's making him more responsible because he knows what he's chasing. >> i'm the head of my family. you know, i've got to always find a way to, just like my dad did, find a way to succeed. i've got to do that now my family. >> re

we will come to manbij to deliver the la to its true owners. this is our difference. >> yang: turkey insists the kurdish fighters in syria are allied with kurdish rebels inside turkey. meanwhile, russian and syrian government forces launched heavy new air strikes on a rebel area near dascus. they blasted a string of towns in the eastern ghouta region. activists and a war monitoring p say at least 45 people were killed. a top u.n. investigator said the attaount to "international crimes." the president of poland signed a law today that makes it illegal to blame the polish nation for holocaust crimes. israel and the u.s. argued the law whitewashes polish collaboration with nazi invaders orld war ii. but president andrzej duda joinh far-right nationalist groups, insisting poles were not responsible for what the nazis did. >> ( translated ): this is my k cision. i this is a solution which, on one hand, secures polish interests-- our dignity, historical truth, that we are judged fairly in the world and that we should not be blamed as a >> yang: the m

also says it backs that bill, introduced after 58 people died in the las vegas shooting massacre last october. it aims to ensure federal agencies enter information into databases. iothe president made no meof gun laws friday night, as he visited with first responders in herkland. instead, on saturd cited the f.b.i.'s failure to p investigate a january tioutac the sed gunman, 19-year-old nikolas cruz. he wrote on twitter that the was "spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion with the trump campaign." meanwhile, cruz was backy n court todafor a preliminary hearing. he's been charged with 17 count of premeditarder. this morning, jameand kimberly snead, who took him into their home last november after his mother died, said they had no inkling of what he planned. still can't process it, what he's done because this wasn't the person that we knew. not at all. >> woodruf the sneads say cruz kept the a-r-15 he allegedly used, locked in a gun safe in the house. but they say, unbeknownst to them, he had his own key. for more on the outcry that has grown out of last week's violenc

shaped florida's gun la. china moves to eliminate it's president's te limits. american forces aiding somalia's fight against the militant group al shabaab, and much more. >> sreenivasan: in florida, state legislators are about to begin the final weeks of their legislative session and several proposals on guns anons are on the table. republican governor rick scott has said he now backs raising the age to purchase a firearm erom 18 to 21. state legislators considering a law that would require a new three-day waiting period for the purchase of firearms. but will these changes pass? the n.r. has been a powerful voice in that state. the latest issue of the new yorker foces on the n.r.a.'s past successes in florida, and the lobbyist behind it, marion hammer. she represents the n.r.a. there and is a past nationalresident of the n.r.a. mike sties wrote the piece and he joins me now. mike sties, why ascribe so much power to this one woman? tell us a little about her accomplishments. >> well, she's been around for nearly four decades in the florida legislator or tallahas

the assault weapons n,reich even these -- like even these bump stocks we weren a able to ter the last las vegas shooting. the thing that's so frurating and infuriating is that, even in our political system, even that has been very difficult to do. >> woodruff: what about tht? first of all, there's a long history in this debate. the r.a. did a horible thing by turning to the absolutist position, they started the culture wa and i think there have been a series of attacks pleetimes unheard by the pe making them but deeply heard certainly on my twitter feed by people who they they're out to get us. take, for example, the cnn town hall. was following it on twtter because i didn't have access to a tv. there were two moments when th right side of my twitter feed exploded, the first when marco rubio was accused of being like a mass killer. people thought that was outrageous on the one side. the second is rubio said it's not like we want to take away all the guns, and the crowd applauded at that po int. one of the values is we don't want to take away all the guns, we just don't wat to do th few pr

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. >> woodruff: on la night's program, we heard from two students who took part in wednesday's rallies to push for stronger gun control laws. tonight, we'ned by two students who attended n.r.a. president wayne lapierre's speech at the conservative politicaon conference, or "c-pac," this morning in washington. and ian parish is a sophomore at berty university in lynchburg, virginia. and we welcome both of you to the "newshour". ian, i'm going to start with you. yohow would you sahave been affected by the events of the last week, the shooting at that high school in f and all the reaction to it? >> so at first, like, when i chool heard about the s shooting, i actually started crying, right, because it is a fagedy and it's one the worst tragedies that i think we could see happen. and in the days afterward, i think there's a mixture of emotions i'm normally not someone who i very -- very emotional when it comes to news events or stuff like that, but i saw some hatext messagest some of the students were sending their parents and i was reading them to my moth t, right, at was one of those ins

." >> it was a very transformative speech for some of us la night, because while our expections for greatness and vision of the president are not high, he stooped to a new low. semocrats believe that the american people e better than what president talked about last night. >> woodruff: overseas, japan's government praised mr. trump'sto voeep the pressure on north korea. "ce president also branded iran a rupt dictatorship." but today, the country's foreign minister javad zarif tweeted that president trump "again confirms his ignorance of iran." we will return to the speech, later in the program. the director of the u.s. centers for disease control and preven ongoing financial conflicts of interest. brenda fitzgerald had pledged to resolve those conflicts during her confirtion hearing, but "politico" reports that her obfinancial manager boughtco and drug stocks, one month after she took the c.d.c. job. the stocks were later ld. u.s.a. gymnastics announced today that its remaining directors have resigned. they had been accused of ignoring years of sexual abuse by larry nassar. the former sports

rtthe president made no fuher mention of schiff or the russia probe, during his visit la, r to blue ashohio. the day's dust-up followed friday's release of the nunes memo, written by republicans on the house intelligence committee. it alleges the f.b.i. and justice department "omitted" vital information to obtain a special surveillance warrant for then-trump campaign adviser carter page. today, the house intelligence chairman, devin nunes, defended his handling of the issue: >> we enjoy the criticism. because when you're being criticized like this by all major networks, being attackedhe by teft, we know we're getting closer to the truth. >> reporter: and over the weekend, mr. trump claimed the memo is "vindication" for him in special counsel robert mller's investigation. but on sunday, sever republican lawmakers, including chris stewart of utah and trey gowdy of south carolina, thsagreed. >> i actually don'k it has any impact on the russia probe, >> this memo has frankly nothing at all to do with a special counsel. it would be a mistake for anyone to suggest that the special counsel shouldn

department to work on banning those bump stock devices, like the onessed in last years massacre in las vegas . but the bureau of alcohol, tobao, firearms and explosiv said today it is still reviewing whet can actually regulate bump stocks without congressional approval. meanwhile, republicans in are facing newidressure, as ced by last night's cnn town hall event in florida. senator marco rubio was the only republican lawmaker to take part, and he faced a barrage of questions, with some students pointedly challenging him. >> senator rubio, can you tell ac right now that you will not pt a single donation from the n.r.a. in the future? ( cheers and applause ) >> the answer to the question is that people buy into my agenda. and i do suppoam the second dment. and i also support the right of you and everyone here to be able to go to school and be safe. the influence of these groups comes not from money. the nce comes from the millions of people that agree with the agenda. >> brangham: rubio has long been a vocal advocate for gun rights, but last night he conceded that he's rethinking some of

it means an agricultural forest that provides jobs in coastals la a friendlier work environment. >> reporter: but switching to arw crops requires time and money that smallrs don't have. it's one reason solidaridad's teunissen says change has come slowly in an industry long set ints ways, where a few lar sugar mills get much of theiro raw materialsmall, subsistence farmers. >> a lot of mode business practices are not readily adopted because tradition is so strong in this industr layer on top of that that it's regulated by the governments because it's so important the economy. it's not necessarily pro cessive in evee. >> reporter: meanwhile, boston university has just n a three-year study trying to further unlock the mystery of a condition that has claimed the lives of more than 25,000 central american agricultural workers over the last two decades. for the pbs newshour, i'm fred de sam lazaro in usulutan, el f:lvador. >> woodrred's reporting is a partnership with the under- told stories project at the university of st. thomas in minnesota. >> woodruff: some have suggesteh racial, economic and

. >> sreenivasan: are these like the las vegas shooting or the orlando pulse night club? >> not like that, there havale ys been calls for gun control afterwards. what is the difference is the victims were in high school. they're of age now where they feet comfortable going ond camera, speaking about their feelings about gun control and their fear to go back to school. i thinkwhat we're seeing is the people affected by this school d other schools in tregion and the country speaking out in a way that we really hadn't seen beforet, from a big group of young people. you know, there have been calls for gun control of course after any other mass shooting. but unlike newtown where the victims were so young, i see the people at this school are of a wraij they feel comfortable speaking out and getting politically active. that's the difcerent e-differ. whether it maicts a dins in the long return, we'll have to see. >> sreenivasan: is their momentum different? >> i think come things are still raw so you're still seeing some of that range. but there are plans being made now, to the m

we've been robbed of our power to create ou.r own la >> reporter: that concern has landed progressives like duhamel on the same page as the trump administration. u.s. trade reprentative robert lighthizer worries that america's right to determine its own laws could be undermined by similar suits. he voi td his concer congress last year. >> i am troubled by the sovereignty issue. i'm troubled by the fact that anyone, anyone can overrule the united states congress and the united states when it's passed a law. at is troubling me. >> reporter: canada and mexico don't appear to be as concerned rump administration and they reportedly want to keep and update nafta i.s.d.s. provision. so do more than 100 u.s. business and industry associations. they sent this letter to the trump administration claiming that investor state dispute settlement has been ghly beneficial to the united states. linda dempsey is with e national association of manufacturers. >> what i.s.s. does is ensure that the same basic rules that we have in the united states ar available for our manufacturers. let me give you an exa

you're studying la, legality. you're supposed to uphold the law.an here you are with this secret-- an undocumented status. >> yeah,you know, it-- it's definitely a lot to-- to try to decipher. and ultimately what i-- what i really got out of law school think at the end was that the law's supposed to be fair. >> reporter: and then, in 2012, during cortes romero's third year in law school, an announcement from the white house changed his world. >> effective immediately, th department of homeland security is taking steps to lift thef shadowportation off these erung people. >> reporter: the dd action on childhood arrivals-- or" daca"-- allowed cortes romero-- and almost 800-thousand others like him who had been brought to this country as children-- to apply for work permits without the fear of deportation. >> it's hard to explain the-- the shift that it has on a person to be recognized. when you finally get your identity, it's-- it's-- it's really something that i've never experienced since theven before then. and it