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these individuals and institutions -- ♪ announcer: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thk you. judy:n we benight with sad news. jim lehrer,g our found coanchor, died this morning and we are heartbren here at "newshour." we want to send our love in deepest condolences to kate, his three daughters and their grandchildren. we will look back at jim's life and speak to sharon rockefeller and supreme court justice stephen breyer later in the

program. the program got thstart when jim and robin anchored coverage of the watergate hearings gavel to gavel in this very studio. we know jim what want us to hor him as we continue to do our work and we lead with our coverage of the impeachment trial. nick schifrin has more. >> the proceedings of the trial are approv today. nick on the second day of opening arguments, democrats turned prosecutors lay out their definitionf abuse of power. >> president trump has placed his own interestsab first. e our national security. above our free and fair elections. and above our system of checks and balances. thisot conduct is n america first, it is donald trump first. nick: jerry nadler and a half dozen other democratic congressman focused on the first

article of impeachment. that president trump used his powers of the presid tcy in a mattt compromised the sigurd -- the national security of the united states. >> he withheld support of ukraine. aceven as it fed armed aggrsion. nick: ukraine is the onl country in europe at war. for five years, they have faced russian separatists and at times, russian soldiers. they have fought in farmland a. muddy trench most of ukraine's weapons are american or u.s. funded and its soldiers are u.s. trained. democrats accused the president of extortinghe ukraine government by withholding aid and a white house m with the ukrainian president to pressure uaine to announce vestigations into the 2016 election and democratic

presidential candidate, joe biden. >> since 1979, no president has abused his power in thme way. leay that again. no president has ever used his office to compel a foreign nation to help him cheat in our elections. nick: president trump has largely responded on twitter, it tweeting more than 150 times in criticized the heang.lf, he that was echoed today by new york republican and a member of his impeachment team, at least a . >> which is why there was bipartisan opposition in the house. nick: and white house deputy the president's lawyers present their material, the facts will

be on the preside's side. the democra tried b failed to force new witnesses at the trials beginning. instead, they used video clips including of one of the senators listening, lindsey graham. >> it does n have to be a crime. it is when you start to useour office and are acting and a way that hurts people come you have mmitted a high crime. nick: before the clip was playei in the chambersey graham told reporters he thought deobcrats were doing a good and the president would want toh go ooffense against joe biden and his son, hunter. >> why were you paying hunter biden? you could say they were corrupt but they are not stupid. i love joe biden. i can tell you comif the name was donald trump -- if the name was trump there would be a lot

of questions asked. nick: at one point, they reference to a poll showing biden with the democrat -- as the democrat with the best chance to beat the president. >> there is one reason only -- because he kne it would be damaging to an opponent who was consistently beating him in the polland therefore it could help him get reelected in 2020. president trump had the motive, he had the opportunity, and the means to commit this abuse of power. nick: the jurors are the senate's members. outside, the delaware

representative urged senators t vote to hear ftnesses. t we should be able to hear from the folks tow what happened. president clinton president nixon directed his closest advisers to cooperate in hopes of clearing himself. >> abuse, therial, corruption. -- betrayal, corruion. nick: they saihr thet posed by president trump required this. he poses a continuing threa to our nation and to our democratic order. he must not remain in power when moment longer. nick: democrats are expected to conclude their opening arguments tomorrow. president trump's fense team begins up to three daysf arguinn saturday. judy: we are joined again by jan michelle yamiche alcindor and

lisa desjardins. this is their second full day of arguments. from afar, it might look like ther is a lot of material to absorb that they had a specific strategy. lisa: a refocusing on abuse of power but they wer also laying out how they arrived at that conclusion. specifically, adam schiff said there were 10 points of evidence that proved the president's intent was his own motives. essentially, the first e is that the president basically focused only on the bidens and6 the 2 election. also, adam schiff said he defied their previous u.s. foreign-policy and regarding outside of regular channels toed get things done. he also brought up that the

ukrainian saw what was going on as political. and that donald trump's on is called with the ukrainian president and the white house attempt to bury that call all proof that the president had corrupt intent. what the democrats are doing is trying to lay out and organt ed case in fr the senate. they are using a little bit of humor. a few minutes ago, jefferies made a joke about derek jeter saying he did not get a vote in a hall of fame bid to. judy: that raises the point that the house managers will be bringing their case. they have 24 hours to do that. this is the time when the president's legal team has to sit and listen. how are they using this time?

yamiche:he president's legal team is building their case by paying closeen aon to the way the democrats are explaining their case. the democrats have been very visual with videos and signs of polls. the president's lawyer, jay, said there would he multiple schools of thought on how the democrats lay out their case but it will come down to the fact that the violate the constitution. the president'eypersonal attoaid they will be aggressive in the way they defend the president. that makes sense. democrats were aggressive in the way they brought the case against the president. jerry nadler said the constitution is not a suicide pact. those are the kinds of words thatnt presirump's legal team are honing in on as they get ready to make their case. they say it may not be as visual

as the democrats case but they are going to defend the president's own words. judy: lisa, you are in the chamber for so much of these you have a chance to look at the senators. g it all iey tak lisa: so much o thergument today was not just about charging president trump but about the defense of vice president biden and saying there a possible corrupt for joedea of biden. rs the democrats were ng many republicans wantomething investigated on its own, then he were stofaced. some were laughing to themselves. smiling in a dismissive way and rolling their eyes. dismissing it and even some waving their hands. representative lindsey graham turned his back to the screen as

some of the soundbites were being played on th issue. of his but he wanteds investigated. and senator lindsey grahamth appeared idemocrats' case. the 1999 soundbite of him. he was not in the chamber. i think he may have known it was coming. hard to say if it was a he was not there to see his 1999 south say something different from his 2020 self. judy: tweeting, the president has been tweeting up a storm. it has been reported that he has set a record. what is he saying? yamiche: theresident has been vigorously tweeting out to his 70 million followers all of his ideas regarding the impeachment trial. the firs to you is -- this is all about

rmining the next electio the second tweet said -- the democrats have conceded that president trump has not committed a crime. in that tweet, he was quoting ari fletcher. that point is not something the democrats have conceded. they have been making the case very metdically. e violated the constitution and abused his power and that he is obstructing congress. u see the president using his own words but paying attention to other people on tv. judy:ng pla bit of ping-pong y but back t come in termsf the senators, what about decorum in terms of paying attention? lisa:ar lake, when you look at the chamber at any one moment, the majority of the senate is sitting in its seats. however, about 20-20 -- 20%-20

th5% o time, senators are aving the chamber. many are also taking to standing in the back of the room. some of them stamping, trying to get the blood movier and staying senators seemed far more alert and attentive than any other day. it could be that ey are getting into the routine a getting used to the pacing of this. tnk there are also may be something to be said about going into modernic d withdrawal. as crazy as that sounds. the clinton impeachment trial happened the same nth as the months that e blackberry was launched there were not mobile devices in this and it before. nyre plugged in and at the to their devices and they cannot have tm. they can listen in the chambth. can write. they can read. or they can drink a glass of

water. there is little for th rand paul has an extensive sketch of the capital. another one has a finger fidget device. they're finding better ways to stay at attentive today. .ere are more conversatio it is to some degree like a higm school classn that way. [laughter] honestly. but i do think they are more attentive now. omet that may have s presentation. by the way, none of us would ow anything about withdrawal. [laughter] what more we know about how the president is spending his time as the trial goes on? yamiche: the white house is president is continuing to do the business of the people. i want to put a quick tweet. the president tweeted me.

i tweeted that he was going to be havingw a rally in hampshire a day before the democratic primary there. he tweeted -- tro. i invited him to interview on the "newshour." the white house is making a long schedule for the president. he will be signing the trade pact between the u.s., mexico, anlscanada. theysay he will be welcoming regimen netanyahu to the white house next week. -- benjamin netanyahu to the white house next week. they also say he may go to the campaign rallies in iowa annew hampshire. -- new jersey. we should also be expecting the president to be paying close attention to the tr ol and tweeti about it. judy: paying attention andg staytive publicly. yamiche alcindor and lisa

desjardins, thank you. you can check your local listing for coverage of the impeachment trial and onlinen r website or on youtube. and again tomorrow when the trial resumes ♪ 1:00 eastern. stephanie: good evening i'm the nasa release filling in for stephanie side. we will return to the full program after the heaines. the senate impeachment trial continues into the night. democrats a laying out their case of abuse of power by president trump. tomorrow is the final day of opening arguments by the democrats. and then the president's legal team has 24 hours over three days to present its case. in the day's other news, chinacl ed three cities with a combined population of 18 million people in an unprecedented effort to contain

a deadly virus. wuhan was shutdown. ferry andus services were also halted. medical staff says they are taking extreme precautions to avoid sprding the infection from isolationoards. -- wards. >>re we need tve the protective suits layer by layert aftet, we will come outside to remove the shoe covers, thema cap and ths. disinfect our hands. thene have to get changed into our own clothing to walk into the hygienic area. the nasa: friday -- vanessa:he death toll is now at 25 with more than 800 infections. the international court of of rohingya muslims from acts of

genocide. this comes as myanmar denied carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing. >> i feel that this is very strong. it is a historic results for our community. i have grown up in our state. we have seenes dechat rohingya has been facing genocide. this result gives us much encouragement for our community. vanessa: the courts could take years to rule whether myanmar are ready committed killings, arson, and rape against the community. many have fled to burma and ighboring bangladesh. the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the naziea camp, auschwitz in israel. u.s. vice president mike pence

and vladimir putin were present. benjamin netanyahu warrant that antes -- warned that anti-semitism remains a forest. they will meet with president trump to discuss peace with the palestinians. the president said late today he may release his peace plan before the meetingn tuesday. and now, to australia. an air tanker fighting wildfires three american crewmembersll onboard. an oregon company had sent to the plane to help t in fire efforts. on friday, firefighters held a minute of silence and investigators began to scour the crash site. authorities in new south wales says the accident underscores the risk fire crews are takinghe onround and in the air. >> today is a srk and horrible reminder of the dangerous

conditions that our volunteer and emergency personnel undertake on a daily basis. and again, it allows us to consider just the circumstances vanessa: the overall death toll is at least 32. in this country, the trump administration lifted federal protections for many of the nation's waterways. this will affect many that ied under the clean wate act. the admin is -- the admini stration says this will ease burdens. also happening today, the state department proposed new curbs on birth tourism. instead, they will have to show legitimate medical reasons to visit.

harvey weinstein's accusers began testifyi today at his rape and sexual assault trial. actrs annabella sciorra told jurors that the former movie producer raped her in her apartment more than 20 years ago. and the u.s. surgeon general has issued a new report on smoking. the first in 30 years on getting people to quit. it finds that nearly 40% o smokers are not advised by their doctors to quit. cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death in the u.s. still to come on "newshour" with judy woodruff, remembering the life of jim lehrer. ♪ >> this is the "pbs newshour" in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: there is no way to

quantify jim lehrer's influence on this program, american journalide, presidential tes, and the lives of so many of us. jeffrey brown begins with a look back at his life and the extraordinary stories he told with his unique voice. good evening, i'm jim lehrer. it was another heavy day of news from the middle east. it was not about us.old us that night after night, he showed that being yourself, journalist, writer, family man, and citizen can be a high calling indeed. for 36 years as an anchor of the "newshour" he reported the news. >> people often ask me if there ares guideli there are. jeffrey:e did it with a clear

sense of purpose even as the world of mia changed around him. >> covered, right, and present every story with the care that i would want if the story was about me. as soon there is at least one other side. assume the viewer is as smart and carin and agood a person as i am. assume the same about all people on whom i report. assume personal lives are a private matter until a legitimate turn in the story and -- mandates otherwise. y and cleabel everything. do not use of anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and monumental occasions. should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously. andinally, i am not in the entertainment business. jeffrey: jim lehrer was born in

1934 in wichita, kansas, the son of lois, a bank clerk and harry, sa station manag. he attended victoria college in texas and studied journalism at the university of missouri. his father androther before him and listed in the maris s anjim served three years infantry officer in the late 1950's including me in the pacific. he saw no combat but spoke often about how the experience shaped him. including at a010 parade the corps put on in his honor. >> seldom a day goes by that i know i am doius something beof what i learned at the marine corps. forget all of that civilian stf for the next hour or two and do your best to think of me

only, not as an old man in a dark blue suit with a red tie, but think of me as lehrer, james c., first lieutenant, usmc, serial number, 071278. mos 0302 infantry. executive officer, bravo company, marines, third marine division. thank you, and semper fidelis. jeffre in 1960, jim married his lifetime partner in love, ka staples. he also began his journalism care in earne joining the dallas times herald reporting on local politics. he covered his first history making story, the assassination ofn john f. kennedyllas in

1963. jim and robert mcneil covered the assassination for nbc news and spoke about it on the "newshou in 2014. >> it was just disbeli what i took away and have taken away and still overrides everything i have done in journalism cents. >> what the kennedy assassinatn did for me was for ever to keep me aware of the fragily of everything. that at any given moment somethincould happen. my god, if they could shoot the president -- and when i lat became city editor of the same newspaper, i have a rule that every phone that rang in that newsroom got answered bknause you neve who was on the other line. >> do any of you want to comment on that recommendation? jeffrey: his television career

was also launched in dallas. >> i am jim lehrer and this is newsroom. jeffrey: his move to the national stage withe bs c a correspondent for what was then called the national public affairs centeris for teln. it was there that he first joinedot mcneill to cover r watershed moment. >> impact brings you gaveled t cabell video coverage of today's hearings. jeffrey: in 1973, the new team broadcast the watergate hearings live and then presented the rebroaast with analysis late into the night. some 250 hours in all. >>e unless the tapes made public or some other revelation comes our way, the senators and the rest of us may have to entual make an ultimate choice between believing john de or bob haldeman.

that is what it looks to me at 3:00 in the moing. jeffrey: jim and robinke t with me about it on the 40th anniversary. >> we broadcast it live during the daytime while it happen and then w complete -- and then we repeated it. itas a double hits. a huge commitment for public broadcastingan to make. d the reason they made it was because the premise was the presidency was at stake. jeffrey: some 70,000 letters poured in praising the team and its work. jim and his o words picks up e story of what happened next. >> we began in october, 1975. >> good evening, new york's governor hugh carey said today -- >>e and months later bece mcneil lehrer report. >> it used to be just two basic ways to buy a house --

in those days, we dealt with one story for a half-hour. >> we expanded to a one-hour program. >>ap that transitionned in 1983. >> t soviet union said yes, we shot down the korean airline jeffrey: 12 years later, robin mcneil retired and we becamehe "newshour with jim lehrer." jeffrey: he interviewed margaret thatcher and arafat, and the chine leader in the 1990's. jordan's king abdulla and the afghanistan president in the 2000 he daily examined major turning points. he pressed experts f wm the busineld. the military brass.

on occasion, he turned to the unnventional to explain issues. most notably of coursein, he rviewed american political figures. >> the news of this day is thatn h starr is investigating allegations that youubned perjury by encouraging a 24-year-old woman, a former white house intern, july under a in a civil deposition about her having had aaffair with you. . president, is that true? >> that is not true. i did not ask anyone to tell anything but the truth. there is no improper relationship. i intend to cooperate with the senate inquiry. >> another day of infamy for the united states of america. jeffrey: heas calmomnd careful ints of crisis. >>he president issued an

ultimatum to saddam hussein tonight. jeffrey:ob mcneil said this of his longtime friend and partner. >> jim's intelligence is so laserlike no tter what he is applying it to -- in interviewing, i learned a lot from him because i came out of the school where an interviewer carrying on like the secretary of state in waiting. we know the situation in rush -- with the russians has been in tolerable for a long time. what will you do about it? thor something lik. and jim always cut through all of that and said -- what are you going to do about this? where what does this mean? -- or, what does thisean? i learned a lot from his manner

of breng direct. je perhaps nowhere was this scene better than on the largesstage all. as moderator of 12 presidential debates, more than any other person in u.s. history. the fit in 1988. the last, 2012. and in 1996 and 2000, he moderated all of the presidential debates. the first to do at. >> what will you have to give up in terms of the priorities he would bring as president? jeffrey: for americans, jim would say the debatesre the one chan and americans have to take the candidates side-by-side. one person that usually did know what he would ask w his wife kate who served as his main debate preparation soundboard. in 2012, she shared what that was like. >> as soon as the process gets

underway, i am allisonob -- alice in wonderland going down bbit hole praying to co out the other side. >> it is safe to say this is >> it is very nerve-racking and surreal. jeffrey: the occasion for our talk was his new book. what he called walking down the bladof a knife. >>t not a lot of fun if you get tove the other end, it i exciting. you have made it. when the debate is over that i have moderated, i want people to say -- here are youarave seen the presion the same stage in talking about the same things and you can judge them. do you like th guy? is he telling the truth? you see them there together and

it is a huge test. tocast-iron . my collecting -- jeffrey: it was not all tension and worldly affairs. had in hition he basement was the intercityus number bill yet he collected over the years. a reminder of his father's career and his own early kansas childhood. >> my brother says we have diesel smoke in us. jeffrey: he would still like to >> ladies and gentlemen, this is your last call. [applause] jeffrey: there was also jim blair, the prolific -- jim lehrer, the prolific writer with novels drawing on his interest in history and buses. he also wrote plays and three memoirs.

>> i write a lite bit on my fiction every da >> jim lehrer. jeffrey: he earned dozens of journalism awardgrand honorary s. who has left us a man of lters of professionalism and stability. jeffrey: he was given the national humanities medal b president clinton, and with robert mcneil, inducted into the television halof fame. although he insisted on not being the center of attention when reporting t newt one important juncture, he did tell a deeply personal story. of the major heart attack that almost killed him in 1983. >> you just had a heart attack. jeffrey: the documentary captured how the sca led to a

ifestyle. diet and among other things, he would napme a committed afterno he there was no disturbing jim between 1:00 and 2:00. family.ority never changed, his and kate had three daughters. jamie, lucy, d amanda and three grandchildren -- and six grandchildren. he stepped down in 2011. he closed a speech to managers in this - w >>ea wey are the fortunate ones and the current tumultuous world of journalism rit now. when we wake up in the morning, we only have to decidehat the news is and how we are going to cover it. we neverave to decide who we are and why we are there. at is the way it has been for these nearly 35 years and tt is the way it will be forever.

and for the newshour, there will always be a forever. i am jim lehrer, thank you and good night. judy: on this day he died, we want to take some time for personal memories of jim as a journalist, writer, collaborator, and french. robert robin mcneil is the cofounder of this program with jim. and his longtime friend and coanchor and joins us from new york. sharon per se rockefeller -- percy rockefeller. her work withim and robin goes back to the earliest days when they coverhe the watergate ings. and supreme court justicebr stepheer is a longtime friend of gyms and we welcome we know it is hard this day come hard on all of us and so we especially appreciate you being with us. robin, take us back to th

earliest days. jim came from his newspaper in in text -- newspapering in texas. tell us about that. >> well, it was amazing how quickly, within a day or two, we became friends. then we discovered that we each had a tiny daughter in the same kindergarten in bethesda. that friendship grew so intimately and quickly that it was rather astonishing.it rew to the point at within a year or so, we put it in our t willst if anything happened to either of us, the other would time moved on and we did noten. need to observe that. but jim was just instant our backgrods were so different but they melted a very curious way. i remember very well in his beaten up old volkswagen driving inck from the watergate he every night and each of us

turning to the other and saying --can you believe we are getting paid to do this? anyway, as i said earlier, jim taught me aot. i grew up in a television background where you kind of loaded up your questions with enough iortion on foreign affairs as though you were the secretary of state in waiting. and jim just said -- well, tell me about it. or why does the network? and he was -- or whyoe't it work? judy: whawas it about his journalism? there are younger- there is a younger generation that did not see a lot of him. he a came as i did fr generation where if you were going to be a serious journalist

if n over serious where you paid respect to the facts and respect for the institutions that you were covering whether you disagreed with the way they were being run or not. anespect for the people that gave their lives to government service and the armed service and everything else. that has changed and enormously. i think jim was a kind of personification and the way that he observed these values in his jonalism of so many things that are being mocked or trashed toda in our current political and journalistic suation. he is truly of another generation. judy: it does feel like a different time sharon, you got to know jim and robin in the970's when they were working on the watergate hearings. was it about the team a about jim? >> i was asked to go on the wta

bod of trustees. i lived in west virginia but the founder of wta called me and said -- we need you. come immediately. the watergate hearings were just starting and we had a community board which did not know that much about politics.my dad had d my has been a democrat so they thought i knew something about politics. i did but i didn't know much about presidential impeachment hearings. it was the early days. no.ne knew where it was goi i spoke to jim. we allot to be good friends because we believed in the same mission. we knew this was utterly important. the newspapers were doing a good job but people lere watching sion and they were riveted. they were hooked. as it was unfoing, history was ing made and we did not have a clue what would happen the next

day. we aligned ourselves as a teen. we saw our place in the world of journalism was important and we were going to do it and get it right. what did you see and t bs team from tinning? >> jim loved washington. he knew a lot about washington. we were directly spoken people. i am pretty quick wit was jim. we would get to the play fast. we got along because we believed inhe same values. dy: justice breyer, you knew jim as a friend. tell us about your friendship. >> he was a good friend. i was thinking today, what was it about him? you said he was a marine and he was and you saw that. he was strong and patriotic. he was a builder. he built this organization.

and around a central idea which is so much him. and thcentral idea is -- what other people say, not what the newscaster says. and our job will be to brinout from the what they are thinking. yand he stuck with that a have. he was interested in everything. i mean --id you know that when he was you, he memorized all schedules fro kansas? judy: we would hear him recite some of them. and schedules. >> he was interested in everything and everybody. and he could draw you very easi into a conversation about anything at all. always it was about somethingme. else. it drew him out. and he had a comic side. it was subtle.

when we were in italy one time, visiting friends, and he was very he said, i was caught in bologna riding up and down the escalators. weot didnow -- was that something he made up? he was a kind person. a generous person. joanna, my wife wrote a book about her profession which is working with very sick children. she was going to appear on television. she did not like public speaking. he spent te and rehearsed her and rehearsed her and told her to be herself. judy: you know his humor and you have watched him in action. t grth people. >> starting with his wife kate,

a wonderful novelist. th had a terrific partnership. three daughters. when they were together come you could tell ty were a happy couple devoted to each other. she helped him with his wpeting and he hher. i think. he was a very well-rounded human being. and heus was alless at work. and i don't mean tough or mean but to the point and concise. laconic in a way that let get the jet -- but let us get the job done. the mission is important. do it wi-rout being sehteous way. judy: that was jim. he gave work his all when he was at work but h had a very full life outside of television and the "newshour." >> we talked a lot back and forth from new york and washington. we did not talk about the news

but about the books we were writing or hoping to write. jims i an extraordinarily intelligent man. i think he was the brightest m i have ever worked with. he hady not o penetrating intelligence but also a moral intelligence. he had a o waycutting through to the moral equation in any situation, political, in terms ofridship, the kind of man but yourusted as i trusted him. i could tell him anything and di n things i wou tell other people. he and i -- i don't know what secrets he had from me, but i had very few secrets from him. it was a remarkable thing.nt that moralligence, it goes to the central part of jim which i think is exemplified by the advice that polonius gives the lawyer in hamlet.

to thine own self be true. d if that is not a good motto for today, i don't know and jim embodied that. judy: justice breyer come se was one of teople that could spot a phony a mile away. terms of reading what was right and what was not. we talked about the marines and how that mattered in his life. that probably had something to do with it. what about his kansas roots? jim had a love of buses. >> he wrote a very good crime novel about someone that lived in a train station somewhere in kansas. >> he also wrote a most moving memoir called "we were dreamers." rs his book after the novel -- "we were dreamers" is an

account of his brother and he with their parents running these small bus line and kansas during the second world war that connected with the main trail way stations. it is all jim and it is very honest and very moving. when there is enough money in th ticketox on theth bu would stop at a restaurant and his dad would say -- the sky is the limit. whenever jim sat down with us for dinner, jim would say -- ok, the sky is the limit. [laughter] >> that picks up something. it is hard to communicate how much fun he was to be with. and it is partly because he was so interested everything and did have a great sense of humor. judy: he was surprising in that way. hese would t me having left pbs to go to work for a while

for a onble sta. he would tease that i went to work for the home shopping network.>> he was the best man i was married in 1984. and in his toasty-- sait must be love. who else would marry a 54-year-old man with braces. >>th it is not jusjokes. look at how each of us when we think of him is smiling. and it is a sad day and we arebe smilinuse we are thinking of him and his personality. >> and for all of that fun and humor, he had a very serious responsibility. and they created the half-hour show and then the hour show. wanted that until we convinced them that they needed it.y it was a vportant enterprise to ron, lead, and keep respect for.

whenhe day came that h finally decided to no longer be on the air and he came to see me in my office. i said i would come to you. and he said, no i am coming to you. he said -- sharon, do you want the "newshour." this was a fiveecond transaction but i knew what that was about. you will put your heart and soul into it. you will be an advocate and a defender. you will carry on our legacy. he did not say those words but that is what he meant. hope i'm doing that. judy: it mattered so much to him. and there is the legacy. we are talking about the love of life jim had but he does live a the man that moderated more presidential debates than anyon el debates.

who left a legacy of journalism at indoors and will indoor -- that endures and will endure. >> i hope people watch recordings of those debates and watch how he did it. he contributed a lot. he contributed to his family home he loved. he contributed to his friends andssociates which is obvious. and i think he contributed a eat deal to the united states of america. judy: he cared about this country. maybe that goes back to him being a marine. he would almost get teary when he talked about what it me nt to him to american. >> it took me as a canadia a long time in this country to finally come around to becoming canadians kind of identy themselves as not american but great friends. i think the america i became a

citizen of was one that i knew through jim lehrer. dy: there is no greater compliment than thte. what a tri thank you, all.ns it mo much that u are here. thank you. anthat is the "newshour" for tonight as we honor and pay tribute to jan. we will continue our special cover -- coverage of the impeachment trial of president trump tonight and tomorrow. i'm judy woodruff and for all of us from the "pbs newshour". and as jim finished all of his shows, thank you. >> major funding for the "pbs newshour" has been provided by -- >>k before we tout your

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