wow, you get to watch all your favorite stuff. it's to die for. now you won't miss a thing. this is the way. xfinity internet. made for streaming. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy] geoff: i'm geoff bennett. on the "newshour," special counsel files a new indictment against former president trump. israel rescues a hostage from a

tunnel in disbazza but hope for a ceasefire deal remains dim. and american journalist freed from detention shares her experience and how she is adjusting to life back home. >> and the darkest hearings took over sometimes. i knew the whole world was fighting for me. announcer: major funding for the pbs "newshour" has been provided by -- the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions and friends of the ""newshour" and kathy and paul anderson and camilla and george smith. >> and the foundation fostering

informed and engaged communities more at kf. org. announcer: and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions -- this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the "newshour." the fallout from last month's immunity continues. jack smith has filed a new

indictment against former president trump in federal court. the charges remain the same, four counts related to alleged actions he took to stay in power after the 2020 election. to explain what the new indictment means the correspondent. why did jack smith think this revised indictment was necessary. >> the supreme court decision last month cut away a significant part of the special counsel's case against donald trump here in washington, d.c., and the special counsel jack smith told the court that he was responding to the supreme court's directives and tightening his case in important respects against the former president to make it in compliance. geoff: new 36-page indictment. what are the biggest changes between the two? >> the single biggest change is

that the supreme court told the special counsel that the president has a great deal of leeway when it comes to interactions with the justice department. jack smith has removed a bunch of allegations from this indictment that initially charged with trump with leaning on justice department first to go along with bogus claims of voter fraud and convince states to do the same thing. all of that is out of the indictment. as one of the co-conspirators, and jeffrey clark who was elevated by donald trump before the events of january 6, 2021 and was on board about his strategy. all of that is now gone and later in the indictment, there is more language that describes trump as acting as a person seeking office as a candidate as opposed to a candidate as using

the powers of the presidency. geoff: what is next for this case, how might the judge receive this? >> the judge has already asked both sides to condition fer and present her with a plan to go forward on friday. we may have more details later on the week. it doesn't demand that donald trump be in person in court, he can do it through his lawyers. the november election. if trump prevails, he is in line to order the justice department to drop this case and that would be likely be legal that the supreme court has said that the president can do in office. if trump does not win, all the legal wrangling is much more important with one of the questions is how quickly can the trial go forward and will they add more new defendants, some

alleged co-conspirators like rudy and john east man to help trump cling to power. geoff: the special counsel and his team have been busy. yesterday they appealed the ruling tossing out the classified documents case, how does the ruling today fit in the special counsel's work? >> the special counsel team will work through the election and it has been all systems go from jack smith along those lines. the judge in florida who was apoiped to the bench has dismissed that case against him. prosecutors say cannon was wrong about the law. for 150 years the justice department has sleghted special prosecutors in this way or ways like this and that higher courts should reinstate that case against trump.

that is going to putter along through the election. we may find out more and whether it gets revived early next year as well. geoff: thanks to you as always. >> thanks, geoff. >> niem stephanie sy. after 326 days in captivity, a hostage was found in hamas tunnels underneath gaza and brought to safety. qaid farhan alkadi is the eighth hostage to be rescued from gaza but dozens more are wait to be freed. the medical center is the unlikely scene. but a helicopter carrying a rescued hostage had landed

outside and the family of qaid farhan alkadi had no time to waste. >> can't express my feelings. i hope my mother will be happier than us. my mother will be happier. >> he is part of the minority and working in a kibbutz. and he has a large family with two wives and 11 children. >> i can assure that israeli commanders rescued qaid farhan alkadi from an underground tunnel following intelligence. >> israeli intelligence spoke to him over the phone. >> he did a holy work, holy work he did. there are other people waiting. i want you to know we do not forget anyone. we are committed to returning

everyone without exception. >> israeli officials say 108 hostages are still. hostage families are among the many to reach a ceasefire deal. but negotiations have stretched on for months without public progress. meanwhile, israel has continued its ground and air attacks on gaza. the palestinian death total has reached 40,000 over the course of the war. another 18 were killed overnight and today. early this morning a missile killed six in the same family. >> people were sleeping and everyone woke up to the sound of the explosion. i was the first to arrive . father, mother and children, we took them all out of here in body parts. >> eyewitnesses to horror growing in number all while

violence directed at israel loam. iran reeling over the assassination of the hamas leader but officials say it's coming. russia launched a new wave of attacks against ukraine. five people were killed. the latester strikes came after it hit power grid. meantime, ukraine says it has taken 500 square miles of russia's occurs kursk region. and as fighting there intensify and concerns about a potential nuclear incident. the chief of the nuclear watchdog visited the region's power plant which he said is speckled with drone attacks. pointing fingers is something

that i and general must take extremely serious and it is obvious that you cannot separate what we have seen here from the recent military activity that we have seen. >> he warns that the plant is especially vulnerable to attack because it has no protective dome. any such strike, he says, would have serious consequences. vice president harris has been off the trail so far this week and keeping up her presence on the airwaves. >> i know what home ownership means. and sadly right now, it is out of reach. >> in a new ad, the harris campaign highlights her plan to build three million homes to address rising housing prices. at a rally today republican vice presidential nominee took aim at harris' record.

>> americans can't afford groceries because of your leadership or homes because of the policies you have enacted as vice president. >> the trump campaign that robert f. kennedy is joining former president trum's campaign. tulsi gabbard will serve as an honorary co-chair. 200 former republican staffers have signed an open letter endorsing harris over trump. she and tim walz will be sitting down with cnn on thursday. the first rioter to enter the u.s. capitol was sentenced to more than four years in prison. he was described as a police officer as a catalyst to the insurrection. sparks said he was remorseful for what transforward and said it was mired by fraud.

humidity making it feel steam year. 70 million people were under some form of heat alert. people in the midwest and mid-atlantic and in detroit and philadelphia, students were sent home early. the midwest will cool down tomorrow, but the heat will linger on the east coast for several more days. two workers were killed after an explosion at a delta maintenance facility in atlanta early this morning. emergency crews were seen at the atlanta international airport. local media reported that a tire on a plane exploded. delta offered condolences but provided few details about what happened. the airline says it is working with local officials to investigate. health authorities in new hampshire said one person has

died for testing positive for the eastern equine encephalitis virus. the mosquito virus can result in death or physical or mental. and several massachusetts' towns have urged people to stay indoors at night. and the great wait is over. with those words, the british pop group oasis announced a and after the feuding after the two brothers. ♪ songs like wonder wall and don't look back inning anger.

but they shadowed. the band has announced a 14-day tour across u.k. and ireland. still to come, legal fights brew overstates' new voting rules that could influence the outcome of this year's elections. and spouses of u.s. citizens in limbo and extra hurdles that people with disabilities face amid a national housing shortage. >> this is the pbs "newshour" in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism. >> as we wind our way to the november election some key states are battling over election rule changes. some prominent cases these are republican-led and pushed by

former trum. president trump: p himself. >> local officials could launch an investigation after results are in and each local official could demand to examine all documents presumably each ballot. if there is a discrepancy, no vote from such a precinct would count. former president trump announced as fighting for honesty and victory. the national and state democratic parties filed a lawsuit citing that election officials are free to voice concerns but they may not point to the election irregularities as a basis for delaying certification or denying it entirely. i'm joined by jessica huseman.

right there in georgia, a hotly contested state. vice president harris is there. what does georgia election law say about certification and can these rules stand? >> i have a difficult time saying how they could. but i'm not an attorney. local boards shall certify the election by a given date and does not give them any room to do that and accept it as a predetermined conclusion. so i think that the law in georgia is very clear as to what they need to do. and if they behave accordingly, they will do the same thing as last year. >> this comes from a new election board to change this board, no longer sitting on this board is the secretary of state brad raffensberger who was on that phone call with former president trump who wanted him

to find votes and raffensberger and he called out saying it is a mess and saying it is misguided attempt by state election board will delay election results and undermine chain of custody safeguards. we are 69 days away from this election. i know you are saying what the law looks like but can the courts move through this quickly enough or will there be confusion about this on election day? >> there is a possibility they can move quickly. the courts move quickly ahead of elections baugh they don't want to effect anything too close. but the amount of time that courts consider too close is getting shorter, shorter and shorter every year. there could be some confusion here. if it gets into the middle of september, we will see some

antsy feelings on the part of georgia elections. >> if it is allowed to stay in place close to election day, do you think any of these counties are ready to use these kinds of powers, and if exactly for what? >> they are. there are very red counties across the country that have been playing with the idea of refusing to certify election results. but in the past, they have not been successful, anywhere it has been tried. and i don't see why it would be different in georgia. local boards are under pressure to certify from people who live in the community. you can certify your own election and if you don't choose not to certify you prohibit local candidates from taking office. that is what happened when counties have tried to do this and there will be a few counties

in georgia that push their luck here but probably reverse course very quickly. >> do you have a sense of how much of the election board members who haven't spoken out too much outside of their meetings, how much concerns of election security and how much could this from donald trump trying to set up a scenario if there is doubt if he loses? >> it is hard to say. the republican party has gone all in on claims of voter fraud and noncitizen and nonvoter rolls, but because they have thrown themselves in line behind him this is something whether or not they actually believe. at the end of the day i'm not sure it makes a difference. this is a political determination that is going to impact the efficacy of a vote. >> those are questions about

noncitizens voting, the supreme court has ruled in on arizona law and given arizona republicans, the partial vik twris saying they can enforce the arizona election law that people without an i. d. at the ballot box would have to fill out a special form to vote in the presidential election. that is something that republicans are saying that is a victory for them. is that going to make a difference for them? >> it is hard to say. voters to fill out forms that do not suggest that are voters will be dissuade from that. in texas, if you do not have an i. d., that is not a barrier in recent elections. if this is imelemented by local

elections. >> perhaps there are too many people voting. there aren't many instances of voter fraud. on the left there is concerns about too few and encouraging voter rolls. texas said there is a million asport part of their purging voter rolls. is there anything to be concerned about or is that standard procedure? >> removing people from the voter rolls is very well controlled. there are federal laws that dictate when and how when someone can be removed and what kind of notice they have to give to the people they are attempting to remove. none of those things have changed. that federal law has remained the same and we are in the window that those federal laws allow that no one can be removed from the rolls from now until the electric. so if you are on the rolls now,

you are going to stay now through to the end of the election. that will not change. i think it is important for people to know there is a universe of federal law that does apply to this that dictates when someone is inactive and how much notice they need to be given in the mail in order to remove that person from the voter rolls. this is not an overnight process but tightly controlled. >> a close look at some big concerns. we appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. geoff: federal judge in texas has blocked biden administration program that could offer status hole illegal immigrants who are married to u.s. citizens.

so who is behind this lawsuit and how is the biden white house responding to all of this? >> this is a lawsuit not based on merits but a pause as litigation and lawsuit filed by 16 republican-led states, attorneys general led by ken paxton and called this biden's unconstitutional scheme would have awarded one million illegal yaleens for citizenship. and these republican-led states claim that it would el unlawful harms because they would have to education for these undocumented and they were assisted by american first legal by stephen miller whose immigration policies who was a part of this lawsuit. the administration is going to

defend this of keeping families together and president biden said nothing i did changed the requirements to meet to adjust their status. all i did is make it possible for long time residents to file the paperwork here together with their families, meaning they wouldn't have to leave the country for years on end to get the legal status. geoff: what does it mean for the people who would have benefited from this program? >> undocumented spouses married to u.s. citizens who meet clear parameters like living in the united states for more than 10 years and no felonies. they would have qualified for parole in place which is a program offered by the you without having to leave and based on the estimates who would have been eligible, those impacted are going to be 500,000 undocumented spouses of u.s. citizens will be impacted by this court ruling and children

who have a u.s. citizen step parent. i spoke to the president of that pro-immigration rights group and he said that this is going to have a significant impact and whip lash for these families. >> for people who put in an application and paid a fee to a working attorney, that is on hold right now and that is devastating. i talked to someone who came in in the administration and this was her best chance to have more certainty in her life. >> groups like his are going to be fighting this but concerned what it means for undocumented spouses. geoff: can those immigrants, can they still apply? >> they could still apply but could change. the department ofhomeland security said today that when it comes to the application process, they can continue to

accept applications but pending or new applications that have been submitted since this ruling will not be approved. they will be in limbo and then the parole applications that were approved will not be affected. geoff: where does this litigation go next? >> this pause puts the program on hold for 14 days but it could be extended. and right now immigration lawyers and the administration are fighting to try to make sure that this pause is stopped after 14 days and the program can proceed. and the litigation continues. but again, it creates fear, depression and anxiety for undocumented immigrants. i spoke to one who has been in the country for over 20 years. he said he was playing with his one-year-old son and drove his wife to tears and his message is that this isn't just targeting

undocumented immigrants who work in the u.s. but all of his family members who are u.s. citizens, his wife and mother and texas is targeting not just one undocumented immigrant but lawful citizens. geoff: thank you. earlier this month an extraordinary prisoner swap broke three americans home and one of them was alsu occur dr occur mass shava. annette: tear full joyous reunion. and welcome to "newshour".

your homecoming, that embrace after a year being separated, what was that like? >> happiest moments of my life. it was what i was dreaming of months and months. i had the same dream greeting them and hugging them several times. it was exactly the dream coming true. geoff: how has this month reclaiming your life as you knew it? >> it has been extraordinary. my daughter finally opened after more than nine months behind closed doors. i finally see colors. i see trees, plants. i see people, i talk to them. it has been exhausting and the

scale of the campaign that was going on in my behalf. but positive. geoff: exhausting in the best way. pablo, your daughters, how are they doing and how are you doing? >> a little bit more relaxed. after more than a year without alsu who was held in a russian prison cell, we are overjoyed. this is going to be a process and adjusted for living in thel. we are helping her reprogram from a culture of distrust where she can publish and say whatever she wants. she has support of friends and family. geoff: did you have any sense of what your husband was doing to

secure your release? >> i was hoping something like that might be happening, but i didn't have a sense of the scale of the add voa cast i -- advocacy campaign and i'm thankful to my colleagues. they were opening my doors here in d.c. and this is how we work together without me knowing what was happening. and all the efforts brought a happy end. and the tremendous support by the u.s. government and president biden administration and members of congress from republicans and deem -- democrats. the efforts was bipartisan. and everybody united to bring me home as american journalist, because that was clearly why i

was detained and why i was arrested for being an american journalist. geoff: what did you experience while being detained? >> it was endless days of constant humiliation and intimidation and small things. i haven't witnessed physical violence, but pressure and continued humiliation was on the way and people didn't realize that it's not the life to live in. it's overwhelmed fear of each other of your own thoughts of what you hear on tv. the society has been in survival mode. geoff: three colleagues who are still being detained. what is your message?

>> i can't stop thinking about them because i know what they and their families are going through right now. i can sense it. and i want to tell them you are in our thoughts and prayers and we will do everything to release you and to bring that moment to reunite. >> one of was detained in russian occupied crima. and no family should go through this. journalists shouldn't be detained. he hasn't done anything wrong. we won't stop the fight. geoff: those who say it's wonderful you are home but the u.s. can't keep doing these deals where the u.s. exchanges for criminals and dissidents that it encourages the likes of

putin and leads to more unjust detainments and december potic nations, what do you say to that? >> i wanted her back to our family. i think in this trade u.s. government showed that the free world places a higher value even if it means exchanging criminals for innocent americans. i know that's complicated moral dilemma but we in the free world need to have that moral courage to make these efforts. >> the choice and decision made by the western governments and the united states government was a difficult one and i really appreciate that.

geoff: you flu home with evan and paul. did you chair stories and did you talk? >> we did talk and shared stories. and they enjoyed listening to us. >> they picked up prison jargon. i had no idea of those words. >> we were wrongfully detained and unjustly held in prison in russia. our stories were very different. our prisons are very different in russia and all kept in different conditions. it was interesting to share those stories. >> it was interestings to communicate. our communications were quite limited but every opportunity we had we tried to communicate to her that the world stood by her side, by our family.

>> and . >> the news. the release of the new album and i hadn't heard the songs and i heard what they might sound. but i heard them. geoff: you were on this program and spoke to my colleague, you and your daughter were supposed to attend a taylor swift concert. have you rescheduled?

>> what were the odds. something we had planned for a year, july, 2023. and we were hoping and tickets. and taylor swift, is their world. gave them sole ace and comfort. and you know, bracelets for this show. they played taylor's songs and guitars every day. and watched live streams. geoff: we are glad that this story has a happy ending. thanks for being with us.

geoff: a look at how companies are scaling become after conservative backlash. but first to the nation's affordable housing shortage. and for people with disabilities, finding an accessible place they can afford. judy woodruff reports in our series.

[indiscernible] that was affordable and accessible. it was the only way that i could live independently. >> he has spinal muscular at trophy. and used a wheelchair since he was a child. at 15 years old he moved into a nursing home. >> i remember feeling -- [indiscernible] as ateenager. and honestly traumatic.

i felt stripped of my autonomy. >> but his bathroom is tool small to close the door and everything in his kitchen is inaccessible. >> you have to back end. and what about at the sink he says he moved in because there were no other options. he received supplemental security income or s.s. i., a monthly benefit program that many people rely on. he uses the s.s. i. payment and housing voucher to cover his rent but taste it isn't enough to pay for his rent.

[indiscernible] that puts a lot of it to ask for help. it's an issue that has impacted the disability community for a very long time. >> more than four million people who receive s.s. i. can't afford rent. the maximum s.s. i. payment is about $950 a month. the sole source of income for many who receive it and used to pay from everything from housing and food to transportation, even

america's dallas county, missouri rent for a one bedroom would require 64% of a monthly s.s. i. payment. >> millions of people with disabilities can't afford to live. >> a staff attorney at the education and defense fund and represents people in court cases involving housing discrimination. even with people with disabilities do find housing, it can be daunting. >> a person might need home health aid. this could be a violation. there might be some limitation of how many people can be in an apartment and what period of time. and having basic modifications to your home and having bars in the bathroom. it's easier for you to use a schauer or toilet.

>> in 1988 former president reagan signed an extension of the fair housing act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability. but says all too often landlords denny a request for reasonable acome diegos. all housing complaints filed were disability related. that related and the shortage of in home support service services give people no option but to live in nursing homes or other institutions. >> if we can make some changes and provide more support, a person with disability can live independently and can do a lot of things that people without disabilities. >> off a light rail station stop in california, a new apartment

building offers the station is home to people with and without disabilities across income levels. she started it with her cousin and was an advocate. and what makes the building unique is fostering community and monthly meetings led by inclusion who connect residents to services. >> i need a transit pass. i'm in a crisis and i need my case manager to come together and get through this crisis and

i'm looking for a social group. do you have any suggestions? >> people with and without disabilities took part in work shops to design the services including 33-year-old is ak who has autism and showed us around. >> it gives people a place to decompress if they have to go on with the stimulation and show the world that they can connect together and not be separated when it comes to housing. >> 25% of the building's units are reserved for people with disabilities and bathrooms for wheelchair users and dimmable lighting. floors are coded by number, color and symbols. 39-year-old trefer moved to this

area in june and dreams of staring his own cooking show. >> put the butter in and egg in. >> he has downs sin drom -- syndrome. >> having your own room. what does it mean to you? >> more comfortable. i just like it i can get my own privacy. >> the building project was financed with government funding and low-income tax credits and loans. she hopes to expand the housing model but the biggest challenge is funding. >> having that public for that is crucial. because affordability is

critical and having units for folks to have no support and no other funding available and serve people who were middle and high income. >> and attorney says making housing affordable starts with policy. >> and rent control to help keep rent regulated with people with disabilities and funding so people with disabilities and changing the way people look at housing to remove the profit motive. >> generalson said ultimately changing the status quo shifts how others think. [indiscernible]

>> he says he is hopeful he will find a new place that he can call home. for the pbs "newshour," i'm judy woodruff in rochester, new york. >> diversity, equity and inclusion are under attack by conservative lawmakers, from college campuses from corporate

america, the fear of legal liability is leading some to back track or rebrand their diversity initiatives. there are a new number of companies. lowes and harley-davidson and john deare. we are covering this for bloomberg news. let's start with the definition of d. e. i. is. how do those efforts from efforts to diversify and increase the talent pool in the workplace. >> people call them d. e. i. and means to diversify the workplace and what that means is different from companies from company and d. e. i. professional from one

c.e.o. to another and why d. e. i. is very controversial term. >> what is driving the back backlash? >> part of this is woke-antiwoke cultural idea. a lot of these programs were ramped up and not put into place until the murder of george floyd. companies said we want more diverse people in our work force and help diverse communities chiefly people of color. that started to change around the times around one of these buzz words that has to do with investing. so, d. e. i. piece and what has

come under fire since the supreme court ruled in affirmative action. >> l omp ewes and harley-davidson in pairing back. why are these companies scaling back? >> they have been targeted by social media by robbie starbuck. he is not a lawyer but just a guy online who is bringing attention to what he calls woke policies at retailers or at companies that have a lot of consumers interests where consumers don't want the companies to be adopting those policies. if you go out into middle america and rural communities and find a higher number of conservative people that might not be as interested in seeing

transworkers at tractor suppliers being provided health care. impulses of certain groups of people with what their corporate policies are doing and saying there is a disconnect here and been extremely effective. these campaigns have come in the last two months or three months and a lot of movement on the corporate front. and one of the things we have to ask is whether or not these companies are committed to diversity and inclusion efforts as they said they were no matter what the press releases said two years ago. geoff: white men control 60% of the top leadership roles while making 30% of the u.s. work force according to the workplace

data. the concern among these but the question to you are these d. e. i. initiatives working? >> limited movements with respect to people of color and women and senior lp leadership. white women have been the beneficiaries. when we talk about whether or not this is down to all communities of color, women of color perhaps. i think it is harder to see the dramatic movement and the hope was with the policies, actually if we put all our efforts into trying to diversify our work forcees and see more movement, we have seen more movement. @the numbers are small. 9% of senior leadership roles are held by black people where they make 14% of the population.

but it's small. like 7% to 9%. geoff: setting the little aspect, there are people who say you can make a good-byes case for it and having a workplace having a diversity of views makes for a better workplace? >> opponents of d. e. i. say that. there are the really pro d. e. i. folks who are pushing some of these policies, often special programs for people of color or women to help them get ahead in ways. and middle group, i think that says, well, we respect the idea of diversity of our board room and workplace but we don't think those are necessary but a group

of people we are whiteen and we want to hold onto the power we have in this society. frankly no one -- there is cross over to the first two groups and no one is speaking to the intersection and activists are so loud. geoff: equity reporter for bloomberg news. thanks for being here. geoff: a report on how oklahoma schools are incorporating the bible intoor lesson plans because of a mandate. that is pbs. org/"newshour." and i'm geoff bennett. thanks for spending part of your evening with us. announcer: major funding has been provided by.

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