>> good evening. on the newshour tonight. geoff: donald trump beats nikki haley in new hampshire putting him a step closer to once again securing the republican presidential nomination. amna: the war in gaza sees one of its deadliest days yet for israeli forces as a brutal ground offensive grinds on with civilians caught in the crossfire. we speak to the u.n. top human rights official. >> the central aspect of the tragedy of gaza in my view is the total uncertainty for

civilians about what is going to happen. geoff: the parents of a mass shooting face of manslaughter trial over whether they can be held accountable for their actions and inaction. quick major funding pbs newshour has been provided by. the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. and friends of the newshour including kathy and paul anderson. >> the john s and james l knight foundation fostering informed and engage communities. -- and engaged communities. >> and with the ongoing support of these individuals and

institutions. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the newshour. former president donald trump has won the new hampshire primary meeting nikki haley. amna: the associated press called the race shortly after the last polls close at 8:00 p.m. eastern. you can see the latest results. 54% of the vote so far going to former president donald trump with just 32% of the expected vote in so far.

these numbers could shift as the night goes on but not enough votes out there for nikki haley to close the gap. geoff: on the democratic side joe biden has won his party's primary. mr. biden did not put his name on the new hampshire ballot because the state went against the democratic national committee and held its primary before south carolina. the associated press has determined a write in campaign has still givenr. biden the most votes this evening. amna: lisa desjardins is in the capital city of concord at nikki haley's election night party. not the when they were hoping for but there was x acacian -- there was expectation setting changing today. give us the mood in the room and what nikki haley had to say. reporter: on this chilly new hampshire night supporters have not waited around. she spoke a short time ago. the room has emptied. speaking to supporters, some told me they were disappointed she did not win.

haley when she spoke congratulated donald trump and said she's not done yet. >> you have all heard the chatter among the political class. they are falling all over themselves saying this race is over. >> it's not over! [cheers and applause] >> i have news for all of them. new hampshire is first in the nation. it is not the last in the nation. i am a fighter. and i am scrappy. and now we are the last one standing next to donald trump. reporter: haley also said there are dozens of states left. the next state is south carolina.

she must do well there. there are questions about how much money remains. how long can she keep going? tonight she was projecting the idea she will stay in this well past south carolina. as for her supporters talking about the margin, we have been saying all night that is important. i caught up with one of the voters i talked to a couple nights ago. he said she over performed. >> the incumbent president, it is unprecedented for a new person to arrive on the scene and get the percentage that she does. i think she just proved how weak donald trump is and what trouble he is in for the fall. i think she did an incredible job. she knocked off six different other candidates to get, what, 45%? that is a huge victory. reporter: i did get some response from the trump campaign . the senior advisor to the donald

trump campaign tells me they expect to win by double digits ultimately. we will see how that goes but he also said, despite the record democrats and unaffiliated turnout tonight, donald trump still posts a decisive win that should be a real worry to joe biden. it is important to say that what nikki haley does is very important for joe biden. on this campaign trail, it has been clear to me joe biden stands more to lose, more of his voters would vote for nikki haley than for donald trump. many of them voted for her tonight, some of them telling me they initially voted for nikki haley as a protest vote for donald trump but by the end these democrats told me they would pick her over joe biden. so a trump win might sound strange, in one way might be good for joe biden down the road . strange dynamics in this unusual new hampshire primary. geoff: let's talk about president biden.

he won the democratic contest with a strong write in campaign driven by grassroots democrats who say they are unaffiliated with the official reelection campaign. tell us how they pulled that off. reporter: that's right. this was an extraordinary campaign. you had folks in new hampshire who had been leading democrats, one who had been a gubernatorial nominee gather over zoom late last year, six of them, and decided they were concerned if some other democrat won the new hampshire primary, that would start a snowball effect, a lack of motivation, lack of enthusiasm the media would say, for joe biden. they wanted instead to show that joe biden has grassroots support. over that zoom call they gathered together. the actual campaign ended up raising $100,000. there an affiliated super pac that has more money. it is an extraordinary and rare

effort for any strong democrat especially an incumbent president. one of the organizers says i am told the democratic turnout today is twice what it was in 2012 when an incumbent barack obama was running. the write in biden campaign happy with what they see. they like the strong margins they are getting. at the same time, dean phillips, those in his campaign are telling me they like what they are seeing. they believe he will end the night over 20% and they think that is a strong statement that many democrats, a fifth of democrats in the state reject joe biden. both sides seeing reason to continue this debate in the democratic party over joe biden. geoff: that is lisa desjardins. to break down what we are seeing in new hampshire we are joined now by our panel of political

analysts. amy walter of the cook political report with amy walter. democratic strategist faz shakir, who was the campaign manager for bernie sanders' presidential campaign, and republican strategist kevin madden, who advised mitt romney's presidential campaign. it is great to have you all here. we heard nikki haley say today she's not getting out of the race. she said new hampshire is the first in the nation, not the last. where does she go from here and how? >> she talked about going to south carolina. that is her home, but the polls that have been taken at least in the last week or so suggest this is an even tougher state for her even though she was the governor, even though she still lives there. that this is just an electorate that is more attached to donald trump. unlike a new hampshire or iowa, the political establishment, the governor, the delegation, the congressional delegation all have endorsed donald trump, including congresswoman nancy mase who is nikki haley's own

congresswoman. this is the kind of pressure is going to be much harder and the bar is going to be much higher in south carolina. it is also a month away. that is a long time in politics. when you have a win, you can take that, it is like rocket fuel to raise you money and raise your profile and give you that boost for a month. now she has to try to trudge along, keep making the case that south carolina is going to change. maybe these results will change the numbers in south carolina, but i do not know that we are going to see much movement. >> before we dig into the details, do you agree with amy's assessment? >> i do and i have been in that position. where i have had to explain a second-place finish as a win trying to gain momentum or put a good spin on a campaign

performance. amy's most important point is the next month is going to feel like an eternity for nikki haley's campaign. the reality is the trump campaign is much better positioned for a one-on-one contest than nikki haley's campaign is. all their firepower, their surrogates, their resources, are going to be trained on getting nikki haley out of the race. two weeks from now if we do not see any big change in numbers and the race remains static, a convincing donald trump lead, it is very unlikely we are going to see nikki haley be able to continue on and face the actual voters in south carolina in the end of february. amna: i want to get your take on the results about how people voted on the ground. if we look at moderate voters according to the associated press voter surveys, when you look at her performance here, she did win the moderate vote in new hampshire. that margin, is that what tells

you she did not do as well as she could hear? >> it is a good performance. she has done a good job reaching out to pragmatic conservatives and independents on the issues that matter convincing people she's the right candidate. but donald trump is managing those margins. he is still competitive with moderate voters. people would say this many moderate voters came out, nikki haley has a chance. it is clear a lot of voters who are moderates are now again becoming resigned to the fact donald trump is going to be the nominee. she does not have the contrast or convincing lead amongst those voters and other key demographics inside the party to really continue and soldier on. geoff: we also heard nikki haley say tonight the worst kept secret in politics is how badly the democrats want to run against donald trump. they know he's the only republican in this country joe biden can defeat. is she right? >> i know we also beat her as

well so we would be happy to have her as the nominee. but i do think it's going to be trump. i am not on nikki haley's payroll but when i look at the numbers, she is right that south carolina is a huge slog for her despite it having been estate she governed. -- having been a state she governed. you look at the demographics and turnout of new hampshire, as a moderate state, where can you replicate that? looked on the map. look past south carolina. you have to look to michigan one week later. 16 states on a super tuesday. you have to start projecting that you are putting all your eggs in certain baskets and picking those baskets wisely. otherwise the trump campaign would be happy to suck you into a fight in south carolina and take your money. if you are nikki haley you have to be thinking, where do i want to tell the nation how i'm going to extend this race where i can be donald trump? that is not clear, but i don't think it's going to be south carolina.

geoff: does she have the infrastructure and the funding? >> if she can get grassroots donations off this and super pac support she has had up to this point, will that metastasize? i do not know. it could but you have to give them a strategy. there's a point right now, that is where i think i do not see them wrestling with it because south carolina seems like a dead end zone for them. i'm happy to see this play out as a democrat. i would like to continue. i watch with all those intentions in place. amna: amy, can i get your take on the democrat side as well? lisa mentioned dean phillips performance. joe biden did win but there is this base level of discontent among the democratic electorate that does not seem to go away. >> that was the concern from biden folks. that if he has a really poor showing, the comparisons to 1968

have come up, when lyndon johnson was a write in candidatend only got 48% of the vote. lyndon johnson drops out a month later. it's not going to be that close. for phillips the real question about whether there is some there there would've been -- looking more like either 1968 or 1992 when pat buchanan came in a close second but to an incumbent president holding george h w bush to 53%. that hasn't happened either. he's on the ballot in south carolina. the south carolina democratic party primary is coming up on february 3. this is where we can do an apples to apples comparison. part of the reason new hampshire was upset with joe biden was because they changed the calendar. south carolina is first. let's see what that looks like. joe biden is not going to lose

the vote in south carolina but let's see if the enthusiasm was there. let's see if lisa's source was correct that the turnout on the democratic side ends up being stronger-than-expected. geoff: returning to the ap voter survey there is a question they asked. regardless of who you support, which candidate do you think will win? 68% of those surveyed said donald trump, 28% said nikki haley. this speaks to the point you made about the air of inevitability around donald trump who has the advantages of being the defective incumbent. >> this was the biggest challenge nikki haley faced. a lot of people think she is running a good race. they see the verbatims from voters saying she came from nowhere to compete with an incumbent presidential candidate. and so they are appreciative of

her efforts in new hampshire and what she's brought to the party. but they are resigned to the fact donald trump is going to be the nominee. i think that is something -- that is going to -- something she's going to encounter in south carolina and florida and these other states should she continue. it is a real obstacle in her way. amna: i have to ask about the issues people say are the top issue for them. this surprised me in iowa and again tonight in new hampshire. the number one issue republican primary voters said mattered to them was immigration. followed by the economy and jobs and lower down the list, abortion and health care and so on. what does that say to you about the general election? >> it means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. a majority of republican voters, they think of immigration as a top issue.

they are worried about immigrants driving down wages, whatever you feel about how the issue is playing, they link those together. it is also a national security issue, safety issue. it is a drugs issue. we get a little too sideload in -- siloed in issue boxes. when their communities are ripped by drugs and cost-of-living issues they are finding connections with an immigration issue. amna: not one word means more. >> that is right. >> it is also a competent issue. looking at a president who has a crisis and how does that president address that crisis? a lot of folks including democrats would say not particularly well. it speaks to their feelings about biden. >> my advice to the president is nobody thinks you are going to solve it. it is very hard to solve.

but they want to know are you running away from it or do you see it? do you recognize its importance in our lives and do you want to talk about it? amna: thank you to you all. we are going to see you all back here shortly for our special live coverage on pbs. or online. that is beginning at 11:00 p.m. eastern. >> in the day's other headlines, houthi rebels in yemen again expressed defiance after another round of western air strikes. the iranian-backed militants said they'll go on attacking ships in the red sea in solidarity with palestinians in gaza. the u.s. and britain retaliated with fighter jets and missiles last night, in their second joint strike inside yemen. they hit eight sites, but today, houthi supporters in sanaa brushed aside the attacks.

>> the u.s. airstrikes are like a spray of water for a thirsty person. i swear it will not scare us or turn a hair on our heads. in response to the destruction of gaza and the killing of innocent people, they will see anger, burning fire and flames. geoff: pentagon officials said the strikes have destroyed more than 25 missile launching sites and 20 missiles. and late today, the u.s. military carried out strikes inside iraq on militia fighters backed by iran. it followed attacks on american troops in iraq and syria. waves of russian missiles killed 18 people in ukraine today, and injured more than 130. it was one of the largest one-day death tolls in weeks. more than 40 missiles pounded kharkiv and kyiv. ukrainian president volodomyr zelenskyy said they hit more than 200 sites, including scores of residential buildings. the united nations reports more than 10,000 civilians have been killed in ukraine in nearly two years of war.

negotiators in the u.s. senate said they are inching closer to a deal on military aid for ukraine and changes in u.s. border policy. still there was no timetable for reaching an agreement. democrat chris murphy acknowledged reports ukrainian troops are being forced to conserve ammunition, giving the russians an advantage. >> that is a recipe for disaster. that is a recipe for kyiv to be a russian city sometime soon. the whole world is watching and asking a simple question: does the united states stand up for its friends? geoff: president biden wants $61 billion dollars for ukraine's military. republicans have tied that request to demands for better us southern border security in california, a one-day strike by professors and staff in the state university system is over. they took to the picket lines monday just as the new semester was getting underway. more than 450,000 students on 23 campuses were affected. late last night, the two sides announced an agreement including

salary hikes and longer parental leave with pay. the 2024 academy award nominations are out and oppenheimer leads the pack with 13. christopher nolan's three hour feature about the creation of the atomic bomb is now a runner for best picture. it's also nominated for best director and acting awards. the years biggest moneymaker barbie received eight nominations but greta gerwig was left out of the best director category. on wall street corporate profit reports live did much of the market but not the blue chips. the dow jones industrial average lost 96 points. the nasdaq rose 65 point. the s&p 500 was up 14. award-winning cbs news journalist charles osgood died at his home in new jersey. he anchored the tv network's sunday morning show for years. the osgood file ran on radio for

more than four decades. he became known as the network's poet in residents rendering stories in comical verse. he was 91 years old. the un's top humanitarian official on the growing crisis in gaza. how the rise of artificial intelligence is boosting tech stocks. and a pakistani artist find success painting his personal experience. >> this is the pbs newshour from w eta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> israel's military announced nearly two dozen soldiers were killed yesterday fighting in gaza. the deadliest day for israel since hamas's october 7 terrorist attacks. israel's government vowed to continue the war amid fierce fighting. caught in between, tens of thousands of palestinian civilians. nick schifrin speaks with the

un's humanitarian chief about conditions in gaza but first, his report on this deadly day for israel's defense forces. >> a prayer for the dead. a family grappling with grief. sergeant first class hadar kapeluk was a 23-year-old reservist, killed in gaza yesterday. sergeant major ilay levy was from the same unit. today, his mother said a final goodbye, and his father delivered a message of determination. >> let's show our enemies that we are strong and even in such a difficult situation we do not break. please say with me three times, the people of israel live. reporter: an israeli officer described how 21 reservists died in the destroyed building behind him. the 261st brigade had been preparing to demolish the building with their own explosives, when a palestinian

militant opened fire, said israeli army spokesman rear admiral daniel hagari. >> the first rocket hit one of the buildings in which explosives had been laid out. the hit apparently led to the explosion that caused the collapse of the building and the collapse of the building next to it. reporter: the fighting is most intense in southern gaza on hamas' home turf. literally. hamas video shows a fighter firing from a bedroom window. and hamas fighters shooting from inside blown out buildings. aiming at israeli soldiers, in buildings across the way. israeli military video shows soldiers in close combat, and exposing what israel says is a hamas tunnel next to khan younis schools. today israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowed victory. >> together we will fight, and, god willing, together we will win. reporter: in southern gaza, victims of the war arrive by donkey cart. ahed masmah, in green, bears no relation to the victims.

he was, instead, the bearer of bodies he found near his home. he brought them here, to try and give dignity to the dead. seeing them gives one chills. no matter how hard it was, we would have brought them, even if there was an aircraft above us wanting to target us. others are caught in an endless cycle of displacement, fleeing farther and farther south, into less and less land. >> where do we go? this is the seventeenth time i've left my home. where should i go? reporter: the u.n. says 1.7 million of gaza's 2.2 million residents, are currently displaced. to discuss the humanitarian situation in gaza, but also other humanitarian crises across the world, we turn to martin griffiths, the un's under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator.

there is still risk of famine. how serious is that risk? >> very serious. what is striking about it is how quickly the move to possible famine is going in gaza when you compare other parts of the world. 400,000 people are seriously at risk of famine. moving aid around gaza is in practical terms impossible. getting food to people since october 7 has been difficult. it is very worrying. reporter: the israeli government spokesman said there are, quote, no limitations on humanitarian aid and added this. >> it is lamentable u.n. officials who have been covering up the fact hamas hijacks aid and covering up for the fact it wages war out of hospitals are trying to cover up their own systemic failure by demanding the opening of new entry routes

when there is already adequate and excess capacity at the existing ones. >> what is your response? >> is extremely unfair. it is wrong to suggest that we do not need more entry points. most importantly, if the conditions inside gaza, the operational conditions, do not exist for the distribution of aid, do not blame us for that. they result from conflict and they include safety of movement, they include roads which are not mined. they include assurances places we would deliver aid will not be attacked. they include hospitals are not places of war. they include not taking out of our trucks when they are being screened on the way in. i do not think it is right to blame humanitarian agencies for what is a very difficult

operation. >> you mentioned hospitals. hamas operates near hospitals and test fired rockets near hospitals. the u.s. and israel accuses hamas of using hospitals as command-and-control and in southern gaza we have seen israeli forces surrounding at least two hospitals. what are your concerns for the patient's in those hospitals and the displaced gazans who use the hospitals as a refuge place? >> the hospitals are protected under international humanitarian law and should not ever be used by military forces, from wherever they come. hamas included. as places of refuge or operation on operational basis. to have a situation where the few hospitals that continue to exist where the patients find themselves in a war zone, entry into and exit out of his through

fighting, it is a terrible terrible thing to see. a terrible stain on our humanity. if that is because hamas is sheltering there, they should not do so. the central aspect of the tragedy of gaza in my view is the total uncertainty for civilians about what is going to happen to them next. where will they be? where can they find food? will there be safety? the hospital example if you like of that encapsulates that sense of absolute danger and uncertainty about the future. >> i want to shift to yemen where nine years of war has cost what you and i used to talk about is the world's worst humanitarian crisis. over the last few months houthi rebels have launched attacks on international ships both commercial and warships. the last 10 or so days the u.s.,

the u.k., and an international consortium have launched eight strikes on houthis in yemen. do you fear the violence could derail the progress that has been made toward a political settlement between the houthis and the saudi backed international coalition you were in the middle of for many years? >> i am totally concerned about that, yes. the people of yemen have waited long enough and have glimpsed in the recent weeks the possibility of a cease fire. then this tragic, unnecessary and brutal war. and suddenly to find it at huge risk, possibly taken away, is just too depressing. i think it would be very difficult for the saudi's in there allies to continue -- the saudi's and their allies to continue to ignore who -- ignore houthi aggression into

the red sea. at the moment it is more or less not being allowed to get out of hand if i can put it that way. but i do not see that lasting. the saudi's got to the point with the houthis of a cease fire in some detail. it was close to moving on to the next phase. suddenly to see that snatched away, that is so unjust. >> you recently released a humanitarian appeal for ukraine where some 40% of the population needs a. -- needs aid. you are asking for $3.1 billion. are you getting what you need for the people of ukraine? >> we are not getting what we need for the people anywhere. even ukraine. what is depressing about launching that plan the other day was simply to think that now we are so close to entering the third year of that war, with the

secretary-general of the united nations clearly decided to label a war, and it is a war against the people of ukraine. ukraine is going to be another sad story and the fact of the matter is gaza moves ukraine out of the center of the story. ukraine and gaza have moved sudan out of the story. remember there was a place called afghanistan we used to talk about that has not got resolved yet? >> when we were talking earlier you said a year as depressing as this one. how depressing from your perspective? >> i cannot remember a year which was so full of crisis. and most particularly, a world where leaders often choose war first as an instrument to resolve differences.

we have spent the last 75 years building the new international order, laws, regulations, rules of diplomacy, efforts to keep th peace, efforts to emphasize the need for negotiation first. in the last year or two we have begun to see that disappear, to vanish. that is why i think we call this the age of wars. because it really is. war is the first instrument for many people. and it is a savage one because of the people who suffer, as we were discussing at the top of the piece, are the civilians who have nothing to do with those decisions. >> martin griffiths, the un's under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator. thank you. >> thanks for having me on.

amna: a trial started in michigan today seeking to answer a difficult question: can parents be held responsible when their child commits a mass shooting? in this particular case, the teenage shooter has already been convicted. but as william brangham reports, officials are also seeking to prosecute his parents, in a case that could break new legal ground. >> on november 30th, 2021, tragedy came to snowy oxford high school in michigan. a student opened fire, killing 4 students, injuring seven others. the gunman, then 15-year-old ethan crumbley, received a life sentence last year. but now, his parents, james and jennifer crumbley, face their own charges of involuntary manslaughter. it is a first-of-its-kind effort to hold parents criminally responsible for a school shooting done by their child.

>> this case is unprecedented in oakland county and perhaps the state. reporter: prosecutors say the crumbley's knew ethan was troubled, but acted negligently. james crumbley bought for his son the gun he used to kill his classmates. concerns flagged by the school went unheeded. the day before the shooting, on november 29th, oxford high informed jennifer crumbley that her son was looking up ammunition on his phone. she texted him: lol i'm not mad, you have to learn not to get caught, lol. hours before the shooting began, teachers discovered this worksheet on ethan's desk, covered with violent warning signs. below a drawing of a gun, he wrote: the thoughts won't stop, help me. and blood everywhere, and a drawing of a bullet. when a teacher saw the sheet, he scratched much of it out, including what appears to be a shooting victim, dripping with blood. ethan's parents were called into

school that morning, but officials say they resisted taking him home, and made no mention of any gun. shortly after they left, their son began his rampage. when news of the shooting got out in the community, jennifer crumbley texted her son, writing, ethan, don't do it. but it was too late. karen mcdonald is the oakland county prosecutor. >> the notion that a parent could read those words and also know that their son had access to a deadly weapon that they gave him is unconscionable and i think it's criminal. reporter: the defense claims the crumbleys had no way of knowing how troubled their son really was. both have pleaded not guilty. for more on the case and its broader implications, i'm joined by the thomas m. cooley professor of law at the university of michigan. thank you for being back on the newshour. what do you make of this case?

it is not that common we hold other people accountable for the actions of another. >> that is exactly right. one of the things you learn in criminal law and other fields is that even under some really awful facts, when other people take action, that as we say severs the causal chain. it is not your action. it is a classic example of first-year law school to say if you give someone a gun and they threatened to kill themselves and you give them the gun, you encourage them and they do, you are not responsible. even under odious circumstances you are typically not responsible. that being said, one of the things we do to our law students is push them on how far examples can go. how terrible do i have to make the facts? how odious do i have to make it? how close to the edge before you finally say the law has to give

and the truth is, if i was coming up with an exam question, i couldn't come up with facts that were more upsetting, more 's cutting, and seemingly more disturbing than the ones we have in this case. >> given all of that about the law, what do you think are the biggest challenges facing the prosecution trying to prosecute this case? >> there are two challenges. the one we already spoke about is just the kind of bedrock legal principle and that's something that is deep in our legal culture. that is human beings are responsible for their own actis. and so the prosecution is going to be going up against what every judge, every other lawyer has learned, and what every other defense lawyer has learned, and what they are going to be conveying to the jury as our bedrock principle. but setting aside the legal machinations, there's also just what the law reflects the kind of moral intuition that we aren't responsible when other people do bad things. and that's going to be true even when these facts are heartbreaking, because you're going to have people thinking about, you know, of course, i'm

doing my best to be a great parent. of course, i'm trying to bring my child up to be successful. and flourishing. but what if you have a child who is difficult, problematic, has shoplifted, gets in fights at school? i think quite outside of the dry technical legal language there are going to be people out there who think when 13, 16, 17, 18, when will it be the case i cannot be held responsible no matter the best i do for my child for their of current behavior? -- there abhorrent behavior? >> does the fact that michigan passed a law that in essence makes it a crime for you not to secure a gun and a minor gets access to that, doesn't that imply sort of de facto that what these parents did at the time wasn't against the law? >> well, you're certainly right that in the wake of highly visible events, we often pass laws and and that is by some people going to be taken as a

defense. but of course, sometimes we pass laws to make our legal responsibilities more clear, or to help fill a lacuna. and to be perfectly honest, criminal law scholars know that we often pass laws just to add penalties to things that are already illegal. so for example, i remember when philadelphia passing the anti carjacking statute. it was frankly an opportunity for public officials to say we're doing something about it. but nobody really thinks that before that law was passed, carjacking was legal. so of course, they'll make the argument that this wasn't illegal when it happened. but the prosecutor is going to argue that this was criminally negligent, even under the slew of statutes they had before this specific law was passed. >> this prosecutor has made it very clear that she hopes that this will spur other gun owners basically to do a better job of securing their firearms. and i'm just curious if you think that if this prosecution is successful, this will spur other prosecutors in other states, maybe elsewhere in the country

to to take on similar cases. >> the law lives on pre cedent. and i certainly think it's the case, as we said that, given that we have this kind of deep legal intuition that you're never going to be responsible for somebody else's acts, a successful prosecution in a highly visible and painful case of a school shooting is going to rocket across the country. it's not an accident that it'll be on pbs on all the major news channels. that will give prosecutors one more tool in their in their arsenal. because of the nature of precedent, and because anytime you do something unprecedented, legal actors are going to take notice, there's no question that prosecutors are going to use this as a tool. sadly, we should also admit these cases are incredibly painful and incredibly visible and all too repetitive. and so the fact that there's a successful prosecution in this

case, if there is, there will almost certainly be another. reporter: all right, echo yonka, professor of law at the university of michigan, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you for having me. geoff: rallies have driven both the dow jones industrial average and the much larger s&p 500 to record highs this week. there are several reasons for that, including investors' assessments of the economy right now and where it will be in the months ahead. we're going to break this down with david gura, business correspondent for npr, who's been watching this carefully. how much is the market connected to investor expectations the fed is going to cut rates? >> it is hugely tied to that. we got this indication from the federal reserve they were

looking to make cuts in 2023. there has been recalibration. there is how soon the market thinks the fed is going to do that. but investors are looking around and seeing a bevy of economic indicators that are looking strong. they have this belief the federal reserve despite what looked like small odds at the beginning of last year, the year before, are going to be able to engineer the so-called soft landing. they are going to get inflation under control without triggering a recession. that is certainly buoying the stock market. last year ended up being much stronger for stocks than people expected in light of what i was talking about. we have not had broad-based gains but stocks have not performed much better than wall street expected at the beginning of last year. geoff: there is investor enthusiasm about artificial intelligence. how has the promise of ai reordered the markets and fueled the return of the so-called magnificent seven, the high-performing tech companies

whose stocks typically do well? >> this was a huge turning point last year. the magnificent seven name was coined by an investment strategist that bank of america. he's a fan of the western movie from 1960. which is why he named them. the stocks are alphabet, amazon, metta, microsoft, nvidia, and tesla. these are companies tied to ai or interested in ai. tesla is the exception. nvidia at the other extreme is designing most of the microchips used in the supercomputers powering the technology that allows companies to use ai. they have outperformed the market. last year the s&p 500 was up 24%. those seven stocks rose by more than 100%. they have been carrying a lot of the weight. ai is part of it and it has to do with the fact these are companies that are ingrained i our lives that we use every day.

that they would have staying power if there's going to be economic downturn. finally they have a lot of cash on hand. interest rates are higher than they were for a long time. companies have to borrow money to expand. the have to borrow money at a higher interest rate. these are companies that would not have to do that because they have so much money on hand. >> and yet there are influential voices injecting notes of caution. namely jamie diamond who says there are all sorts of risks on the horizon. here is what he said to cnbc. >> it is a mistake to assume everything is going to be hunky-dory. remember, we have had so much monetary stimulation. i am more on the question side that we are facing a lot of things in 24 or 25. we mentioned ukraine. israel, the red sea, quantitative tightening which i still question if we understand exactly how it works.

>> why isn't the market taking into account a host of geopolitical crises and the shipping challenges that result from it and all the knock on effects to the stock market and the economy? >> it is a good question. these are all things that are worrying to some investors. they are endured to the fact we have been able to -- inured to the fact we have been able to get through crises. jamie diamon stands out as somebody who was more forthright than a lot of investors. you heard him mentioning ukraine. these are topics he returns to time and again because he is looking at history with a broad breadth and fearing this could have a big effect not just on the economy but on the geopolitical system in the world as well. a lot of people listen to jamie diamond because he's running such a large is the duchenne. we have heard -- such a large

institution. we have seen shipping companies pull their ships out of the waterway and send them around africa to avoid conflict. we are beginning to see effects of this tumult. it is something wall street is going to watch. geoff: the stock market is not the economy but you could argue because of a number of factors what happens on wall street is intertwined with what happens on main street. do you see it that way? >> it is important to look at these as discrete things but you are right. what we are seeing is confirmation of the fact the economy is doing pretty well. better than people expected it would be. look at retail sales, those came in stronger-than-expected. another indication on inflation, we have seen the labor market remain resolute. we are seeing the market embrace each of those economic data points. it is confirming the sentiment,

the sense the economy is doing well and as we saw in's survey of consumer sentiment, a lot of people, investors, consumers, the rest of us as well, feeling more confident. amna: pakistani born artist salman toor saw his career take off-ever since he made a sudden shift to painting what he's lived, felt and sometimes even feared. he gave special correspondent jared bowen of g-b-h boston a tour of his ongoing exhbit for our arts and culture series, canvas. >> the paintings of salman toor are about worlds. in these works, often enveloped in an emerald haze, there's even more at play. ecstasy here.

danger there. and in pieces like back lawn, there's a labyrinth of layers. >> there are many novels and movies about houses like this. and i wanted to kind of take the story of the family as the background of another story which was going to be in the foreground which does not usually get told. reporter: front and center here, steps away from what could be a pakistani family like his own, two men are entwined under a tent. >> instead of being like a moment of fear and hiding, it's more like everything else is in the background really. and this is actually the real story. show reporter: call it no ordinary love-the title of this show exhibiting toor's most recent work at brandeis university's rose art museum outside boston. >> maybe about 3 or 4 years ago, i decided to make semi-autobiographical paintings that were about being more out to my painting as a gay man than

i was before. reporter: they're a far cry from growing up in his native pakistan. and from his early work, when toor labored over paintings inspired by 17th and 18th century masters. coming out artistically, meant coming into his own and launching into these largely nocturnal notions of queer life. >> there's something very bold and edgy about the works. drop dead, also painful, but very tender. reporter: gannit ankori is the museum's director and has been watching toor's rise in the art world. especially since his first solo exhibition at new york's whitney museum in 2020. >> he found a visual vocabulary that articulates the life of a queer brown man living between his homeland and diaspora and creating a community and visualizing that community on his own terms.

>> one that mostly unfolds a is world away from pakistan where homosexuality is punished by law. but where toor found safety and camaraderie among queer friends in his high school art room. >> we were all out to each other and in an environment that was pretty harsh otherwise. i think that we were able to create a very magical space. >> that magic dances through his paintings featuring close-knit friends at bars, in cars and hanging at home. their joy swelling in a series he has titled puddles, reappropriating a hate-filled wording to something. >> like a fabulous heap of exhaustion. to me it's fun to kind of fill that hate with objects that are fun to paint for me, a feather boa, or laundry or anything that's really fun like a disco ball or something. reporter: hate and danger creep into toor's work. it's a residue

of the fear he felt as a queer man in pakistan and a reflection of the anti-lgbtq+ violence escalating in the u.s. but rendering it on the canvas, toor says, is therapeutic. >> it's a way to seize control back and to be able to have, to be able to be the master of that narrative. reporter: which is why we also find a lot of comedic relief in his paintings. figures with pinocchio-like noses, cartoonish hair and rubbery limbs. >> i do have a sense of humor as person. i don't take myself that seriously and i do take my work seriously. so it's important to me that the works about any kind of pain or suffering doesn't bet bogged down in any kind of one-dimensional pity or sanctimoniousness of any kind. reporter: pain is often drowned out in this show by love. if toor's paintings are a novel, there is a meaningful chapter on

family. in this work titled the women, we see a boy lingering around the warm, gossipy exchanges of his mother and aunts. toor still owns it and won't let it go he says, because it's too rooted in memory. >> it's someone kind of looking at themselves maybe in a deeper way in the mirror than they do usually. and it's a moment, i feel like in which someone finds themselves beautiful in a mirror. reporter: it's also a portrait of the artist as a young man-on the verge launching into a world all his own. for the pbs newshour, i'm jared bowen in waltham, massachusetts. amna: join us later tonight for more live coverage of the new hampshire primary results beginning at 11:00 p.m. eastern right here on pbs. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm amna nawaz. geoff: and i am geoff bennett. we'll see you later tonight. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by.

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