JUDY WOODRUFF: From President Trump today, a new demand on the Russia investigation.
He said he wants -- quote -- "total transparency" on whether an FBI informant spied on his campaign.
At the same time, former intelligence chief James Clapper says he now believes Russian
meddling won Mr. Trump the White House.
We will talk to Clapper after the news summary.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted today that the Trump administration will not tolerate
Russian interference in the 2018 elections.
He told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that there will be appropriate countermeasures,
but he gave no details.
MIKE POMPEO, U.S. Secretary of State: We have not been able to achieve deterrence, effective
deterrence, with some of these efforts with the Russians, but this administration has
taken enormous efforts to push back against Russia that haven't been done in an awfully
long time, either here in the United States or, frankly, from our partners who are more
threatened by Russia than we are in Europe and elsewhere.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The Democrats voiced doubts about the Trump team's efforts on election
interference.
New York Congressman Eliot Engel said the administration is -- quote -- "giving Russia
a pass."
A string of Southern and border states held primaries on Tuesday, and voters made some
history.
Lisa Desjardins has our report.
LISA DESJARDINS: In Georgia, a historic primary night.
STACEY ABRAMS (D), Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate: Now let's go get it done.
LISA DESJARDINS: As Democrats picked Stacey Abrams, a former statehouse leader, as the
country's first female African-American nominee for governor from either major party.
STACEY ABRAMS: We are writing the next chapter of Georgia's future.
LISA DESJARDINS: Abrams' strategy, notably, is not about the middle.
It's more about the base, increasing registration and voting among minorities and the poor.
Meanwhile, Georgia Republicans are moving to the right, with a run-off between two candidates
pushing hard on immigration, Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle and Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
NARRATOR: Criminal illegal aliens are spreading across the country.
BRIAN KEMP (R), Georgia Senatorial Candidate: I got a big truck, just in case I need to
round up criminal illegals and take them home myself.
LISA DESJARDINS: Another first last night, in Texas, Lupe Valdez became the first Latina
and first openly gay person to win a party nomination for the state's governor.
Overall, it was another banner night for Democratic women, including two first-time candidates
winning key congressional races in Texas and one pulling off an upset in Kentucky, all
three seen as potentials to take over Republican seats.
The midterms, and his own agenda, were clearly on President Trump's mind as he addressed
abortion rights opponents in Washington last night.
DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: But if Democrats gain power, they will try
to reverse these incredible gains.
These are historic gains.
They will try and reverse many of them.
So your vote in 2018 is every bit as important as your vote in 2016, although I'm not sure
I really believe that, but you know...
LISA DESJARDINS: For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Lisa Desjardins.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And we will talk to one of Tuesday's big winners, Georgia's Stacey Abrams,
a little later in the program.
As the 2018 campaign heats up, President Trump is calling for radical changes in foreign
aid to curb illegal immigration.
In Bethpage, New York, today, he talked of slashing aid to countries whose citizens enter
the U.S. illegally.
He didn't say which nations he had in mind.
There's word that presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner has now obtained a permanent
security clearance.
That was widely reported today.
Kushner is serving as senior adviser on the Middle East, but he was temporarily barred
from access to secrets as his FBI background check dragged on.
The president is promising a decision soon on whether the U.S.-North Korea summit takes
place as planned.
For now, Mr. Trump is set to meet with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, on June 12 in
Singapore.
He suggested yesterday that the summit might be postponed, and he was asked about it again
today.
DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: It could happen, could very well happen, but
whatever it is, we will know next week about Singapore.
And if we go, I think it will be great thing for North Korea.
Someday, a date will happen.
It could very well be June 12.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Meanwhile, foreign journalists headed to North Korea's remote nuclear test
site today.
Pyongyang has invited them to watch as it demolishes the underground facility.
The U.S. State Department says that a diplomatic staffer in China has reported what it calls
abnormal sensations of sound and pressure.
It happened at the U.S. Consulate in the southern city of Guangzhou.
The department says the symptoms were similar to a mild concussion.
The same unexplained ailment affected a number of Americans in Cuba last year.
On the China trade talks, President Trump said today that negotiations are -- quote
-- "moving along nicely."
But he suggested the two sides need a different structure to govern trade relations.
Otherwise, he said, in an early morning tweet: "This will be too hard to get done and to
verify results."
For now, the U.S. and China have suspended plans for new tariffs.
A federal judge in New York ruled today the president violates his critics' free speech
rights when he bars them from his Twitter account.
He was sued last July by seven people who'd been blocked from viewing the site.
The Justice Department said it disagrees with the court's ruling, and is considering an
appeal.
And on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 52 points to close at 24886.
The Nasdaq rose 47 points, and the S&P 500 added eight.
Still to come on the "NewsHour": I sit down with former Director of National Intelligence
James Clapper after the president calls him out; new NFL penalties for kneeling during
the national anthem; why many patients can't get the cure for hepatitis C; and much more.