political director lisa desjardins looks at what is driving this. >> right now, and you know it... >> reporter: donald trump is both famous and famously direct. >> we have illegal immigrants that are treated better by far than our veterans. >> reporter: but he has been propelled by what may be the least-known, least-undergroup of voters in the 2016 race. their overall feelings are clear -- anger, fear and distrust. keith harvey is a small business man. you see him here defending donald trump to protesters. he's worried about veterans, and he likes trump's directness. >> the main reason that i find him attractive as far as someone who would represent me is because he says what he wants to say, and the other thing is that i don't think he can be bought. >> reporter: stay-at-home mom of two amanda mancini is worried about her kids' future. >> i'm very concerned about his education. he's in public school, but only because, you know, we can only afford for one child to go the private school. but i see the stuff that he brings home with the common core. it makes no sense. >> reporter: these

for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. now to the analysis of shields and brooks. that's syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. welcome, gentlemen. so please explain what is going on. mark? >> turmoil, chaos, toxic upheaval and those are the friendly terms to describe what's going on in the republican caucus. what you basically have is a group of republicans, one-sixth of the house republicans, who view their election as a mandate to stand up and oppose the democratic president and his overreach, by their judgment, in power, to frustrate him, to oppose him and to repeal what he's done and not accept responsible of the governing party of which they're a member to govern. it's the majority party, so they're essentially holding the entire caucus hostage. >> woodruff: holding the congress, the house. >> holding the house. means the majority cannot operate, the house, speaker boehner after four years said i've had enough, leaving. kevin mccarthy his heir apparent could not get to the 218 -- you have to get a majority of your own c

political director lisa desjardins reports on a busy day in the search for a leader. >> reporter: the could-be speaker laid ouhis demands tuesday night: unified party backing and family time. >> i have shown my colleagues what i think success looks like, what i think it takes to unify and leads and how my family commitments comes first. i've left the decision in their hands. >> reporter: reporters surrounded lawmakers in the conservative house freedom caucus, the rebellious group ryan says must sign on for him to run. but members like alabama's mo brooks were cool to the idea. >> i don't think there is any question that a significant number of members of the republican conference have coerced, cajoled, induced paul ryan to run for speaker of the house when he does not want that job. >> reporter: idaho's raul labrador is another freedom caucus member. >> there's a lot of people who can do it. jason chaffetz would be a very good speaker of the house. >> reporter: while many members avoided questions and sought out the elevators, current speaker john boehner pushed for stability... and r

political director lisa desjardins joins us to explain the tumultuous time and what will be a major decision for the direction of congress. first of all, lisa, i'm sure you will do this throughout the interview but why does this matter? there were recent developments this afternoon. fill us in. >> it's a critical decision. congress has had trouble over the past years in dealing with major issues and dealing especially with fiscal crises. while there are more fiscal crises coming, a debt ceiling in europe about to hit on november 5, government runs out of funding in december, and the highway trust fund is about to run out, all issues that are circulating, all unresolved and without clear leadership from the house, it makes the current problem even more difficult to figure out. >> sreenivasan: okay, what happened late this afternoon? >> okay. we had a group of conservatives known as the house freedom caucus. they're partially responsible for the ousting of house speakerrer boehner. they decided to endorse daniel webster from florida, relatively new. he himself was a house speaker in the florid

for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. the supreme court of the united states is often the sienl say on the major domestic conflicts of the day from voting rights to gay marriage and health care. but when foreign law crosses paths with our legal system, how should the supreme court proceed? justice stephen breyer, who has served on the court for over two decades, examines this in his new book, "the court and the world: american law and the new global realities." and justice breyer joins me now. welcome to the newshour. >> thank you very much. >> woodruff: it's great to have you with us. with so many complicated issues before this supreme court, why did you take the time to focus on how it's affected by what's going on in other countries? >> well, i've noticed that over the coirs of the last 20 years, we have more and more cases, maybe now 15 or 20%, where what goes on beyond our shores is directly relevant to our making a sound decision on the american legal question before us. they range from security problems-- guantanam

lisa desjardins. thank you. we'll explore the political dynamics of what happened today, and what comes next, after the news summary. on another front, members of congress went after volkswagen today over the way it rigged diesel models to cheat on emissions tests. statements at a house hearing ranged from fury, to apology. william brangham has the story. >> brangham: the opening statements were full of indignation from both sides of the aisle. >> v.w. has betrayed a nation, a nation of regulators, loyalists, suppliers and innocent customers. >> the american people, the e.p.a. and their counterparts around the world have been defrauded by volkswagen. >> brangham: michael horn, the auto-maker's top u.s. executive, answered with a corporate mea- culpa. >> on behalf of our company and my colleagues in germany and me personally, i would like to offer a sincere apology, sincere apology for volkswagen's use of a software program that served to defeat the emissions testing regime. >> brangham: horn also said he believe

for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. >> woodruff: stay with us. coming up on the newshour: what a drinking tradition has to do with the greek debt crisis; and why some co-ops under the affordable care act are going bust. but first, there is a new speaker of the u.s. house of representatives, and the political landscape may be shifting in the republican race for the white house. for that and more we turn to the analysis of shields and brooks. that's syndicated columnist mark shields and new york times columnist david brooks. david david, welcome to you gentlemen. friday before halloween. thank you for being here. the lead story, the decision by the administration to send special opens troops into sir. i can't they say there is not a change and they won't be involved in combat, but does this make it clear what the administration's strategy is in syria? >> no. well, taking them at their word, they won't be involved in combat, judy. they obviously are now in harmas way and increases the risk or exposure of capture and all of that and what it could mea

lisa desjardins for the pbs newshour. >> woodruff: we take a closer look now at today's hearing with anne gearan, national correspondent with the "washington post," and yochi dreazen, managing editor of "foreign policy" magazine. i spoke with them a short time ago. and anne gearan, yochi dreazen, thank you both for being here. you both have covered this story, this benghazi story for so long. so yochi, listening to today, what is it that this special committee was trying to do? >> genuinely, i think there was some truth to what kevin mccarthy said, the old joke about how a gaffe in washington is when you actually tell the truth. he lost his speakership, arguably, by saying this chit was trying to damage hillary clinton politically. if you were watching the hearing today, europe not hearing anything new. these questions have been asked again and again. the answers were given again and again. basically what you saw almost from the beginning were democrats and republicans literally yelling at each other. this was not like an august hearing trying to get down to something we didn't know.

to unpack another dramatic day in congress, our political director lisa desjardins has been following the developments and joins us now from capitol hill. so, lisa, they dodged a bullet. they avoided the shutdown, but this was despite the opposition of over 150 republicans in the house. what happened? >> reporter: that's right. you know, this seemed to be a fait accompli as we walked in the door this morning. of course, a shutdown would be averted. that was the expectation but i think there were several surprises today, judy and the biggest note for today was that two-thirds of house republicans voted against the bill to continue funding government. there were a variety of reasons, they said, for that, but at the top of that list, judy, was the fight over planned parenthood. now, it's an interesting contrast, judy, because because while to-thirds of house republicans voted against that funding bill to keep government running, two-thirds of senate republicans voted for it. so what we saw today, judy, was such a great contrast between the senate, which seems to be running on procedure a

we'll see. >> woodruff: lisa desjardines, our political director. i know you'll be there and we'll be talking to you tomorrow all about it. >> yes. >> woodruff: thank you. >> reporter: cinema virunga is just another shell of a building, on another unpaved street in the democratic republic of congo. >> here is where we used to buy our tickets from. >> reporter: oh this is the ticket booth. >> yeah, but now it's the main entry. >> reporter: yet filmmaker petna ndaliko still sees something special behind these rusty gates. he remembers the time he snuck in as a boy. do you remember the first time you came to watch a film? >> oh yeah, i remember. i was still young and i got in illegally. i was not even supposed to be in here to watch that film. >> reporter: what was the movie? >> the film was "black jim le magnifique." it was a film about kung fu. the main character was a black guy and it was so good for me to see a film where a black guy was the main character and it was like-- he was, like, kicking everybody. >> reporter: cinema virunga was a rare sig

. >> ifill: now, he was talking to lisa desjardins, our political director in that interview. he was saying, clearing i can communicate better than this other guy. >> he said "communication" in a letter to his colleagues this weekend talking a lot about if you put me on national television, i won't make these same kind of mistakes. what that benghazi gaffe revealed for the republicans in the house is a divide that was always there and a concern that's always been there that the new team coming in is going to have the same problems as the old team that's going out that cannot figure out how to bring the republicans together and they can't figure out a way for the republicans to push a message that looks like it can bring in a broader group of voters. so, now, we have had a real fight for the speakership. this was supposed to be kevin mccarthy's, was supposed to be very easy and talking to folks on capitol hill today there's a sense that i don't know if anybody can get to 218 votes, which is the votes you need to be speaker. >> ifill: and, tam remarks it's not about who is speak

political director lisa desjardins reports. >> having listened to our members and listened to the american people we have a budget agreement. >> reporter: the outgoing speaker of the house, john boehner, used one of his final news conferences to make the announcement. >> the agreement is not perfect by any means. but the alternative was a clean debt ceiling increase without any additional support for our troops and without any entitlement reforms. >> reporter: the deal would increase spending by $80 billion over the next two years, boosting both defense and domestic programs. it would also lift the federal debt ceiling through the spring of 2017. within the divided house republican conference, the tentative agreement drew backing from boehner supporters. >> like all these things you wish you were negotiating with yourselves, but you're not. i think it will pass. i think it ought to pass. again, it's fair enough to be critical of it. but if you're going to do that, you have to lay out what you would do. >> i'm encouraged by the fact we're doing something that looks like a budget with the bu

also just moments ago in the hallway outside the meeting oom, a tweet from lisa desjardins from pbs, chaffetz thumbs up as he walks to speaker election. he may be number three contender. we'll take you outside the meeting room. this is the longworth office building. the meeting set to get under way in about five minutes or o. >> guys, just make sure to keep this open. >> house republican members continue to arrive for their meeting to select their candidate for speaker. we'll break away here as the house itself is gaveling back in. we expect them to be in shortly for one-minute speeches. gavel back out and then resume legislative business later. we'll be back here live shortly. now live to the house floor on c-span. the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. during these contentious and unsettling days during which an important transition is taking place within the house, we ask your presence in this assembly. imbue each member with confide