damaging information about the president laid out a litany of damning claims in public yesterday. william brangahm explores what miael cohen's testimony ma reveal about the inner workings of the trump business organization. >> brangham: it was the first time the publiheard directly from a key figure in the trump organization about how the family business operated. cohen's testimony touched on a series of threads about how the president and his company operated before, during and after the campaign. two people who have spent an extensive amount of time reporting on the trump business join me now. andrea bernstein is the co-host of the "trump inc." podcast. and david farenthold of "the washington post." welcome to you both. andrea, to you fir, yesterday one to have the pieces of evidence that michael cohen showed was this bg chck tore $35,000 signed by donald trump when he was president. what was that check allegedly for? >> so this had a startling impact, this check. i was in the courtroom with michael cohen wh he described this scheme where he says he was directed by the person we now kno

rivers over vees, submerging farms and whole neighborhoods in several states. william brangham as our report. >> brangham: in peru, nebraska, national guard trucks bring a lifeline: bottled water. volunteers unload the water after flooding from the missouri river shut dowthe town's water treatment plant. fred knapp of nebraska pbs station net was in peru. n down here, there are about 10 houses that have booded by the missouri river after a levee broke north of here. >> brangham: across the state, roads, livestock and hundreds of homes have been swalby floodwaters. >> it is devastating. it is devastating. ve brangham: flooding began last week after a massiate-winter storm hit. water levels rose through the weekend, hitting those who live along the missouri rhe hardest. >> it's about as bad as it gets, you know we're startin. >> brangham: lisa lemus, from sarpy county, is one of hundreds who had to evacuate when waterso d her home. >> there is no words that canbe descomebody's mental state when all this comes down. >> brangham: rescuers in airboats came to save those who couldn't escape

four people in 1996. but as william brangm reports, a popular podcast shed new light on troubling parts of this case >> brangham: curtis flowers has been tried, noonce, but six times for these murders, where four people in winona, mississippi were killed in a furniture store. the case against flowers is the subject of intense scrutiny now, especially since it beme the subject of an investigative podcast-- season two of american public media's "in the dark." host madeleine barron and her reporting team moved to mississippi to investigate this 20 year old case. several key elements of the case against flowers-- evidence cited by district attorney, doug evans, began to unravel upon closer examination. that included a jailhous witness recanting. i >> by this poi already looked at every other piece of major evidence in the casecu againsis flowers: the route, the gun, the other two snitches. none of it had held up to t rutiny. now all that was ls this one story, this one confession. and then, from his cell in parchman prison, on a spotty cell phone connection, from derneath his tent, odell ho

newshour, i'm william brangham. >> woodruff: let's look at a number of legal questions the attorney general's letter has sparked with neal katyal, he was acting solicitor general in theb a administration. and paul mcnulty, he served as deputy attorney general in the george w. bush administration and before that served ases sprson for attorney general barr during the firstis bush admation. we thank you both for being with us. i want to ask you, first, sed on what know, both sides are drawing their own conclusions about this very briefummary from the attorney general of the mueller report. what do you make of this, neal katyal? >> well, i think you're right, it's a brief summary but a very troubling sumplet i think the dmost important thing his is what i wrote about in today's"n york times" is barr's conclusion about obstruction of justice. remember, mueller spent 22 monti investigating s. he didn't reach a conclusion, he laid out in his reidrt the ce from both sides, presumably for congress to, evaluad then the attorney general goes in and swoops in, within 48 hours, and says, oh, i

william brangham. discussing we will b a very disturbing subject with explicit questions. >> brangham: the news from parkland this week has clearly shaken many in the florida community-- and elsewhere-- and it's led to even greater efforth to hele who are struggling.so we should ay from the outset that suicide is preventable. suicidal thoughts have complex roots and often multiple causes. we're going to talk all that in a moment. we also want to let people know that if you or someone you know may be considering suicide, there are aces to call and text where you can get immediate help. we'll post that information on screen during this conversation. i'm joined now by dr. kelly posner gerstenhaber. she's a psychiatrist at columbia university, and director of the lighthouse project there to prevent suicide. and, ryan petty. his 14-year-old daughter, alaina, was murdered in the shooting last year in parkland. he then started the "walk-up foundation" to help reduce school violence and hose at risk. both have been working with the parkland community. i welcome yu both to the news hour. dr. p

ca inewshour productions, llc >> brangham: good evening. i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is away. on the "newshour" tonight, tornadoes carve a path of destruction through the southeast, claiming over 20 lives and levelinghole sections of towns in alabama and georgia. then, a conversation with carlos vecchio, the man the u.s. recognizes as the venezuelan ambassador, as opposition leader juan guaido returns to a country in crisis. plus, preserving the past-- a new exhibition highlights the painstaking work of photo conservation. >> the misconception especially for photographs is you can just make another one. u know, we can easily print two prints that are the same, and they're actually not. there are slight differences that make every single print unique. >> brangham: all that and more on tonight's "pbs newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> babbel. a language app that teaches real-life coersations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more.