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>> and friends of the "new "newshour." this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. stephanie: i'm stephanie sy with "newshour" west. there are signs that high interest rates could be slowing u.s. job growth. the labor department reports that employers added a net of 175,000 jobs in april, that was well below expectations. meanwhile, the unemployment rate inched up .1, to 3.9%. the federal reserve has said it needs to see a cooling of growth and inflation before it can cut interest rates. a sitting member of congress, texas democrat hen ray cuellar,

and his wife were arrested today on federal charges of bribery and conspiracy. they're accused of taking nearly $600,000 in bribes from a mexican bank and an oil company controlled by azerbaijan. in return, cuellar pushed legislation favorable to azerbaijan. the couple denies the charges. in can dark police arrested three people in the murder of a sikh separatist lead for the british columbia last june. the three are indian nationals. prime minister justin trudeau suggested the indian government was involved in the killing. today the royal canadian mounted police say they're looking at that possibility. >> this investigation does not end here. we are aware that others may have played a role in this homicide and we remain dedicated to finding and arresting each one of these individuals. stephanie: india has denied any involvement in the murder.

college cam buses -- campus across he country were quiet today after days of protest against the war in ga czar. more than 2,300 protesters have been arrested so far, including a dozen earlier today at new york university after the raid police stood guard as workers cleaned out the encampment. a larger camp site had been cleared last month. the protest movement has spread to universities in the middle east, europe, and beyond. in australia, pro-palestinian protesters are camped at the university of sydney. today counterprotesters rallied with israeli and australian flags. in paris, french police moved in and cleared out students who had been occupying the prestigious university. >> i am here because the riot police removed me. but i'm here because i want to show solidarity with the palestinian people. i want this movement to spread to all the campuses. >> in gaza a palestinian

hospital reported at least seven people killed in an overnight israeli strike on rafa. daylight revealed what was left of the home that bore the brunt of the attack near the egyptian border. most of the dead were reported to be children. meantime, a group representing israeli hostages confirmed that a 49-year-old man died during the hamas attack on israel in october but is -- but his body has in the been returned. two rocket launches today highlighted trail blazing venture into space. china sent up a robotic craft to bring back samples from the far side of the moon. the first of its kind mission could take two months. and in australia, a german company tested a rocket powered by paraffin, an ingredient in candle without objection. the firm says this fuel could cut satellite launch costs in half. southern brazil is experiencing its worst flooding in more than 80 years. at least 39 people have died and almost 70 are missing since downpours began on monday.

improvised rescues are being done using construction equipment. almost 25,000 people have been displaced. back in this country, parts of southeastern texas have been inundated after nine inches of rain fell in just 24 hours. some highways and schools around houston were closed. a flood warning is in effect for a large area around the city. the rain came on fast and strong, forcing some to abandon their cars. emergency crews had to carry out water rescues and officials warned of worst to -- of worse to come along the san jacinto river. >> it is not your typical river flood. i know that folks who live along the river, they're river people, as we discussed when i was out there the other day. they see this happen. all the time. this is not that. this is not what happened in january. this is much worse. stephanie: forecasters predict the flooding will continue through the weekend. the biden administration will make federally subsidized health care available to migrants brought to the u.s. as children.

the so-called dreamers. under a directive announced today, some 100,000 are expected to enroll for coverage under the affordable care act next year. enrollment opens november 1. still to come, on the news hour, a look at the terrorist threat posed by a resurgent isis in sir yasm david brooks and jonathan capeheart way in on the week's headlines. and neat in a meez americans on the gulf coast shared tributes to home and community. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> one of former president trump's most senior aides took the stand today in his hush money trial in new york. hope hicks served as press secretary in the 2016 campaign and was his white house communications director. on the stand, she detailed how trump and his inner circle

handled the revelations about alleged extra marital affairs and the payments made to bury those stories. andrea bernstein is covering the former president's legal battles for npr and was in the courthouse today and she joins us now. andrea, so nice to see you again. during the prosecution's questioning today, they delved into what happened in the campaign when that infamous access hollywood tape dropped. what did we learn from hope hicks about that today? andrea: she was the first person to hear about that from the washington poats after the comment on the story they were about to run. and she -- there was an email shown that the she had sent to campaign leadership where she suggested deny, deny, deny. as she read that on the stand she sort of laughed because she realized they weren't going to be able to do that. she talked about how she went upstairs, there was the sort of campaign brain trust preparing trump for the debate. he saw all of them, asked what

they were talking about. when he learned about the tape he said that opportunity sound like something that i would say. but obviously it was. william: and that story is being told to jurors because it helps set the template for how the campaign then had to go into panic mode and then stormy daniels' story becomes even more fraught for them. what did we learn from her about that revelation? andrea: so the campaign settles on saying it was locker room talk. trump apologized there a -- there was a video played in the courtroom of him apologizing, it was played twice today. over the next two week, end of the campaign, allegations come up. then it's the friday before the election. "the wall street journal" sends hope hicks an email about a story they planned to run about this agreement we've been hearing about with karen mcdougall the playboy model

about keeping her story quiet. hicks goes to three people involved. david pecker, the former publisher of the "national enquirer," trump, the candidate, and michael cohen. and they all essentially tell her there's nothing to the story. she goes to the walk and see says to them it is absolutely untrue. which of course is not the case. as jurors heard last week from david pecker himself. william: what did she detail about cohen's then subsequent negotiations with stormy daniels? andrea: she didn't know a lot about it. but there was interesting testimony about how when the story actually breaks, trump is in the white house. and michael cohen, "the wall street journal," the same reporters do another story. it's now over a year later. they detail everything regarding stormy daniels. and trump tells her that michael cohen did this on his own out of the goodness of his heart. the prosecution asked, does that

sound like the michael cohen you know? and she basically said no. she did not know him to be a charitable person. and she sort of sniffed out the story. but she left the white house not long after. went to fox news. before actually coming back to work in the white house for trump in 2020. william: and what did the -- what did trump's legal team do? how did they handal witness like her? this is someone very, very close to the former president. andrea: right. her testimony was clear. she seemed to have very good recall of all kinds of events. it was at the very beginning of her cross-examination which was brief and which the defense was trying to suggest that well, it was her job to try to influence the media coverage, that's what campaignsdo. that trump hat at the time was concerned ability me lan yasm she talked about trump telling her to block newspaper delivery at the residence. but at the very beginning of her testimony when she was talking about her early work for the

trump organization she became overwhelmed. she started to cry. she had to take a break. it just seemed a lot for this former aide, extremely loyal, to be testifying at the criminal trial of her former boss. william: andrea, thank you so much as always. andrea: thank you. william: a landmark antitrust trial between the department of justice and google is coming to an end with both parties delivering closing arguments. as stephanie sy explains, google is accused of no knoppalizeing the search market, sidelining competitors and hampling consumers. stephanie: the justice department says google struck illegal deals with companies like apple, paying them billions to be the default search engine

on phones and other devices. google argues it has the best search engine and that's why consumers choose it. the decision on this case may not only change the way google does business, it could lead to a breakup of the company. for more i'm joined by rebecca alens worth who teaches antitrust law at vanderbilt law school. it's great to have you with us. set the stage for us. the justice departments under both former president trump and now president biden have been rying to rein in tech monopolies in various cases brought against these powerful companies. but this was the first to go to trial last fall. what was the most compelling testimony you heard on both sides of this? >> i think on the side of the government, they really made a good case by pointing out microsoft's difficulty in entering this market. microsoft wanted to make bing something that was viable but could not get past the de facto,

exclusive deals that google had with apple and and droid. i think that's strong. i think the best testimony on google's side is the idea that google is a great product. we all sort of prefer it. if we were given a choice we would probably pick it. so what exactly does the government want here? a choice screen where we're all going to click google anyway? those are the strongest arguments i heard on both sides. stephanie: and you had a big tech giant testifying as well as smaller search engine companies that say they're being crowded out. now you have closing arguments. what's stood out to you about the last arguments and what the district judge in the case has said. >> he seemed skeptical of the idea that google is not a monopolist. they have -- the government has to prove two things to prevail in this case. first they have to show that google has monopoly power and they have to show they used bad acts or exclusionary conduct to maintain that power. and i think that as -- my belief at the merits of this case i