"outbreak." after e doctor who first raised the alarm about coronavirus dies from the infection, concerns grow anew over freedom of information in china. then: >> the russians tried out thingn kraine that we know they then used on us. >> woodruff: "speaking out." tting down with the former leading u.s. diplomatic envoy to ukraine, and witness in thehm impet inquiry, william taylor. and, it's friday.ds mark shiel and david brooks are here to analyze the acquittal of president trump, the botched iowa caucuses, and arthe next democratic primy contest, just a few days away.

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>> this program was made possible by the corporation for publ broadcasting. and by contributions to your pb statom viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the government of china is facing heavy criticism nvom its own people tonight, linked to the cous outbreak. a social media storm erupted after the death of a doctor who was punished for his warnings. in all, china has reported nearly 720 deaths, and well ove0 34,0ases. m meanwhile,e americans were om china to a military base outside san antonio today. another flight arrived at a base near san diego. calm.al officials again urged >> it's understandable that amicans are concerned. but again, the immediate risk to the american public is l, and we are vilant in our efforts to confront the challenges that

this new virus prese: s. >> woodrufe'll return to the situation in china, after the news summary. new numbers on the u.s. economy show job growth jumped in january. the labor deemrtment reports oyers added a net of 225,000 positions last month. unemployment ticked up a tenth, to 3.6%, as more people tered the labor market. we'll take a closer look at the numbers, later in the progra seven democratic presidential candidates will debate tonight in new hampshire, ahead of next tuesday's primary. it comes as final iowa caucus results show pete buttigieg ande ie sanders finished in a virtual tie. the iowa state democratic party asked candidates today for any results. of mistakes in the they have until monday to ask for a re-canvas. among republicans, formerss congn joe walsh ended his long-shot campaign for president

today. 'll return to e campai later, with a live report from new hampshire. a key impeachment witnesst against presidump has been removed from his white house his lawyer says arutenant colonel alexander vindman was nafired today from the nat security council staff, along with h twin brother. both were escorted from the building. bu defense secretary mark esper said the pair will be welcomed back to the pentagon. >> we protect all of our service members from rribution or anything like that. we've already addressed that in policy and other means. >> woodruff: vindman had testified that the predent improperly pressed ukraine's president to investigate

potential democratic opponent joe biden. a federal appeals court today killed a lawsuit alleging that the president violated the constitution's emoluments clause. 200 democratic lawmakers charges that his buss have illegally accepted benefits from foreign governments. the court said that theck lawmakers legal standing to sue. the president hailed the ruling, as he left for a speech in norta lina. >> i'll be reading it on the helicopter, but it was a total win.as thisrought by 230 democrats in congress on emoluments. p it was anothny case, and we won it, three-nothing. >> woodruff: otherits over th emoluments issue are still pending in the federal courts. umnew york state sued the administration today, in an escalating fight over immigration. the suit targets a decision to bar new yorkers from passage through airport security. federal offials say they responded to a state law that blocks immigration agents fromer access to drlicense records. a deadly storm system has moved

into the northeastern u.s., with extreme wind ice and snow. it already killed at least five people across the south, andoc d out power to more than 400,000 customers. strong winds uprooted trees and tore though mobile homes from florida to mississippi. in south carolina, downpours left people stranded by flooding. in the pacific northwest, loavy rain and melting snow are causing severe fing and landslides. roads are closed in parts of western washington state. workers have been struggling to clear culverts and drain the rushing water. democrats in the u.s. house of representatives passed $20 billion in emergency aid for puerto rico today. it follows earthquakes that set back the recovery from hurricani the bill has little chance in the republican-controlled, senad the white house has promised a veto, citing d'mismanagement by the isl government. and on wall street, stocks pulled back after a four-day

the dow jones indu average lost 277 points to close at 29,102. the nasdaq fell 51 points, and the s&p 500 slipped 18. still to come on the newshour: outrage and alarm after the doctor who bw the whistle on coronavirus dies. j what today'sobs report says about the health of the onomy under president trump. a conversation with the former top u.s. diplomat to ukraine, william taylor, now that the impeachment trial has come to an end. and, much more. >> woodruff: the outbreak of a new coronavirus has paralyzed parts of china in many ways.

but the past 24 hours have altered the political atmosphere there as well. the death of a doctor who tried to sound the alarm about the virus has triggered a wave ofon anger the chinese public, complete with memorials and online messages. william brangham'ste focus of report. >> brangham: wuhan, china is this city of ten m, now the epicenter of this novel coannavirus outbreak, is on indefinite quarantine. as the death toll rises every day, chine officials are facing a different crisis. public outrage is surging because of the death of dr. li wenliang. he's the local physician who helped sound the alarm about thisirus back in december. he died yesterday from the virus. but back when the 34-year-old first spoke out, police detained him and ordered him to sign a statement saying he'd made false

claims. li was one of eight medical professionals who warned about the virus at the very moment the chinese government wanted to stay silent. three weeks later, china announced the outbreak hadco beme a full-scale national emergency. this young doctor's death-- and his treatment by police-- has triggered a rare public revolt against the chinese govement. to many, li is now a martyr. >> ( translated e left us when we needed him to fight the novel virus and the pneumonia. criticized and unfairly treated because of his report on the virus, so we feel very sad.th government should hear different opinions, and allow different opinions to exist. >> brangham: thoserustrationsin were echoeemi-autonomous mang kong. >> the whole infon about this virus was being suppressed. and when it was suppressed, the chinese peopleo not know what

is hpening, and therefore it actually the regime that is allowing ts virus to spread around. >> brangham: the backlash against chinese president xi jingping and his regime is intensifying, with demands for greater tranarency. taisu zhang is a professor at yale law school, and studi contemporary chinese law and politics. >> this is the most severe threat to the regime'sitical legitimacy in the past two decades. i think it's exposed the regime as inefficient, disorganized, as mismanaging the incentives of e local bureaucrats and medical workers, and basically unable to hale this medical crisis. >> brangham: meanwhile, chinese state media consistently puts out optimistic headlinesou insisting threak is under control. today, a spokeswoman for china's national health commission picture.o paint a similar rosy >> ( translated ): the number of reported, newly-increased confirmed cases has been significantly reduced for two continuous days, which tells us that the prevention and

controlling measures have heeved morpositive results. >> brangham: bututrage over li's death forced china's leaders to say today that it's sending a team to "fully investigate relevant issues raised by the public." the national government has put most of the bl local leaders. >> the central government has been basically micing a very puttempt to highlight the problems with the local governments' mismanagement, sending investigation groups down tthe provincial, local level try to weed out, sort through, the episodes of local governmental mismanandment, abuse,asically promising the public that there will be accountability at sont. >> brangham: but local o thorities have tried to shift the blame back oe central government. >> they're basically saying: given the current lel, current extremely high level of central control over local behavior, given the added levels of monitoring and control that has been, that have been introduced into the chinese systesince 2012, they can't do anything of this magnitude. sey can't make these call

without approval from the center, which means that for them to actually act on the ground, they have to relay their decision up several levels to get approval. >> brangham: for the pbs newshour, i'm william brangham. >> woodruff: today's u.s. jobs report was stronger than many analysts had predicted, and much of it seemed in line with a number of claims president trump made during his state of the union address earlier this week, crediting his administration'sco policies formic growth. but, some of the president's claims may overstate the current strength of the economy. amna nawaz gets a wider view. >> nawaz: judy, many of the president's pots about strong b growth, wage increases and edople returning to the labor market are reflen today's report, but the bigger picture was more meared, with retail and manufacturing losing jobs.

and, the assessmt of the overall economic situation is more nuanced than the president's rhetoric. in fact, in some cases, the president's claims are just wrong. jim tankersley covers economics for the "new york times," and is here to help us sort thrbagh it. welcom to the newshour, jim. >> thank you for having me. >> nawaz: let's lookt this jobs reported now. ade wars, fears o a looming cession could slow things down. the jobs report today, 225,000 jobs added in jnuary. it seems like a good number, right? >> it's definitely a good number. it's always good to have a jobs report that beats expectations, which is what we had here. this is a strong number, enough jobs to keep the pace of job creation going well above whatd we nd keep the economy kind of at this level, which is great. it's particularly good given those fears you mentioned. i don't think we se a recession anywhere on the near hor >> nawaz: was this a slowdown or keeping up with where jobs >> this is a little bit of an acceleration above what the

atrend has been over thet year. there were some revisions in this data for the last year plu, of job and it look like the overall pace of growth in that time was a little less rapid than we thought it was, but this beat that pace by mre than a little bit. >> nawaz: okay. good to understand that. i want to take a look backca e while we have you here, this job report is coming at the end of a week that the president made a lot of clims about th strength of the economy in the state of the union. we want to bak down what the president had to say in the state of the union about jobs and unemployment. >> since my election, we have created seven million new jobs, five million more than government experts projected during the previous administration. the unemployment rate is the lowest in over half a century. >> nawaz: okay, jim, so seven million new jobs, five million more than was expected, and the unemployment rate lowest in half a century. all of those true? >> yeah, let's start from te

last one and move backward. the unemployment is lower than it's been many half a century, absolutely true. also important to note, though, that it started pretty low. he inherited a rate of less than 5%. not a lot of presidents in rate like that.ve inherited a and, you know have been able to continue andand. to the president starts with a he rate and has seen it go even lower. on the job creation front, he's putting a lot of stock there. in a 2016 report by l e congressiodget office which thought that job growth would slow, the expansion kind of petered out maybe or slipped into a low-growth phase, but it tus out the economy has more room to run. wi the tax cuts and spendin increases he's signed into law, there is more fiscal stimulus and more rom to grow. >> nawaz: reled to jobs, a lot of the jos mesaging the president does is on manufacturing, that there will be this blue collar boom. let's sten to what head to say about keeping some of those jobs here, specifically thr tgh

the familiis he says have stayed here in the united states. here's the president. >> after losing 60,000 factories under the previous two administrations, america has now gained 12,000 new factoriesis under my admation, with thousands upon thousands of plants and factories being planned or being built. >> n think when you heard those numbers? >> well, first off, they're a little bit inflated.st the ecent numbers suggest it's just under 11,000 new manufacturing establishmene that have n created under the president's watch. there is a little lag, so it may end up being true, so we don't know yet exaly. but more importantly, those are mostly small businesses. like three-quarters of them have fewer thanive employees. >> nawaz: fewer than five? >> fewer than five. so it's true, they're fatories. they're not the kind of factories the president is talking about. thesare not 12,000 brand-new huge auo planteds coming back. and the previous president had to deal with the great decision,

which killed a lot of factories, so that's big part of i. >> nawaz: here's the other point we hear from the president king aboutch is tal the strength of the stock market. he points specifically t 401(k)s as a sign of the economy's strength. take listen to how he phrased it during the state of the union.e >> all of thllions of people with 401(k)s and pensions are doing far better than they have ever done before with increases of 60%, 70%, 80%, 90% and 100%, and even more. >> the stock market is up under the president. the s&p 500, the dow jones both have about 60% sentence he was elected. that's good. it is not a record. it's not like undiner bill n, for example, there was a similar period of time at had dramacally faster stock owth than trump has seen some he's overstating that. now, it's also true that the

bulk of gains in the stock market don't just help sort of people with average investors. they in general, about half of americans are in the stock market, and the vae of the stop tends to be concentratedon the richest americans, who have the most money to invest. >> nawaz: and st americans, correct me if i'm wrong, don't even have a 401(k). >>t's about half americans who are in the stock market, whether it's thro 4h a01(k) or a pension plan or owning a share or whatever. >> nawaz: got . here's something i want to ask you about, a lot of people's confidence in the economy is about what they believe to be true. pew research t cently t new numbers asking people how they think the president's policies have impacted the economy. it's important to point out that more americans believe he's had a positive impact on the economy. 44% say the economy is better under him. 29% say that it is wse. when you look at those numbers, how do you assess that? are peple's perceptions lining up with reality? >> i think in some funny ways they are and in some fore ways

they're not. one way they're not is the biggest correlation with how you feel tact economy is not how are you doing compared to how you you feel tact president.how it's the number-one predictor of your economic confidence. that said, a very important group, political independents, have seen a big uing in confidence in the last few months, and that probably does reflect, you know, real, hard data or soft data,omething like stock market gains data ofl people g better about things. that's good news for the president as it's a reelection year, and it's reflective of the fact that unemployment is low, wages are growing, not as mhach as the in the past, and there are these job gains every ionth. that's a good . >> nawaz: it's a good thing, and it's a good thing you're here to provide all this nuance for us. jim tankersley of the "new yorko times," thanfor being here. >> thank you so much. >> woodruff: stay with us.

coming uon the newshour: what to expect as democrats face off in tonight's debate, ahead of the new hampshire primary. mark shields and david brooks assess the end of the impeacent trial. and, "designing the future." how humanity may live in the years toome. bill taylor served as the top iserican diplomat in ukraine following the dil of ambassador marie yovanovich. taylor agreed to the post reluctantly, calling thevi nment both in kyev and the u.s. a "snake pit."mb the formersador went on to serve as a key witness in the house impeachment inquiry. he departed his post early this year, and sits down wi. nick schifr >> schifrin: few people had aie more frontlineinto the trump administration's discussions and actions surrounding aid to ukraine than ambassador bill taylor. before his last ur as acting ambassador, taylor also served

as the top u.s. diplomat to ukraine during the george w. bush administration.am ssador taylor, welcome to the newshour. >> thank you, nick. >> schifrin: this afternoon alexander vindman, who testifiee in tmpeachment trial, was escorted from the building. this is what his lawyer said, "he followed orders, he obeyed his oath. he served hi country, even when naing so was fraught with danger and perperil, for that the most powerful man in the world, buoyed by the sient, the pliable and complicit, has decided to enact rvenge." you're a veteran. did vinw an folders, and did the president exact revenge? >> alexa der vindmd follow orders. fessionan a total pro the times i've had the opportunity to deal with alex. focused, professional. he knew ukraine very well obviously, cared about it, cared

about the united states. so this is disappointing that is ended ay. >> schifrin: secretary of state mike pompeo recently questied an npr reporter afte a difficult interview that americans don't care about ukraine. why do you think amcans should care about ukraine? >> i think americans should care about ukraine because ukraine is the front line against russia. russia is attacking us, and they are going through ukraine. so the russians are attacking ukraine. they are attacking europe. and they are attacking the united states. ukine is thfront line. we should support thekrainians when they push back against th russians. that's why we should care. >> schifrin: there is a literal frt line. ukraine is the only country at war against europe, and you for years have been advocating send lethal aid to ukraine, things like anttanks, weapons, anti-sniper systems. the obama administration decided t to send at aid for fear it

would lead to a conflict against russia. the trumadministration decided, auburn you advocated, to actually send that aid. has that aid increased the conflict with russia at all? >> no. believe deterred ther russian i aggression against ukraine. that's the purpose of that aid. those missiles that you describeis anti-tanksiles, those are very capable. the russians know it. the russians know that the ukrainians have these missiles. and the russians are now very loathe to atack. so they have been very useful and effective. >> schifrin: that was the trump administration's policy. that was the policy you enacted in keyv, and yet had rudy giuliani and allies suggesting that aid should be witunhheld l ukrainians announced investigatns into 2016 and in

august you wrote to the secretary of state, pressing your concerns. what did it say as much as you can say, and why did you think pompeo never responded? >> because those are faiy unusua they're very unusual first person. i wanted to be sure tt he got it, and i was assured that he got it. and the process, the system ensures th that kind of cable goes to the secretary, so i know he got it. that's what ind to be sure happened, that si wanted to be sure he understood the importance of security assisance to ukraine and to and to the united states. it's important that we support them for the rasons that i mentioned earlier. and that's what i put in the cable. because i thought that maybe it was a misunderstanding maybe it was not clear to themb s of the cabinet that the importance of this system was to

our benefit. re>> schifrin: if you wo concerned, why not pick up the phone? why not resign in >> i was ready to resign. i did pick up the phone and talked to his immediate confidante. >> schifrin: you have no doubt that the secretary got the message? >> i have no doubt. >> scethifrin: sey pompeo went to kyev. were you told he could not be seen?a >> new york i not told that. i was told thatt would be a good idea to hand over my responsibilities on the 2nd of january to my deputy, and she became the charge d'affaires. >> schifrin: secretary pompeo said he privately resisted rudy giuliani and president trump's desire to fire your pdecessor, ambassador marie yovanovitch, and when he couldn't resist ymore, he turned to you, bill taylor, thinking that you, ambassador taylor, would continue te policy thathey had going.

do you believe pompeo did enough >> we no know because of someof tape lev parnas -- >> schifrin: an associate of rudy giuliani. >> an associate of rudy giuliani, that the president had made it clear d year half ago, so the spring of 2018.n >> schifrin:ct, a year before marie yovanovitch was ultimately fired. >> that suggests me tha someone, and i happen to believe it was secretary pompeo, resisted that i >> schifri the notion is that pompeo might have resisted, that criticism from the president,he other side is marie yovanovitch, her word hearse,she wrote in the ashington post" just yesterday, idea this administration through acts of omission and co-miion has undermined our democratic institutions, making the public question the truth and leaving public servantwithout the support, an example of ehical behavior that they need to do their job and advance u.s

interests." do you agree with that? >> i do. marie is top notch of the diplomatic corps. she deserves all of the spport necessary, all the support that could be provided. i believe she got some support during the lead-up to tt. in the end it was not enough. >> schifrin: in the enthe president and his allys have said the military aid got to ukrae. the picy never actually changed. do you believe that u.s. support for ukraine has been affected by peachment, and also the actions and the statements by this administration over thest ear and a half? >> i believe that ukrainians had reason to be concerned about the strength of u.ssupport. there has been no confirmed u.s. ambassador in kyevnce ambassador yovanovitch left last may. there was this slow down, the pause in the security assistance that they need to defend against

the russians, but even more to have the confidence to negotiate against the russians. that's b and there have been a lot of people leaving this administration whoinnew somethabout and cared a lot about ukraine out of this administration. >> woodruff: >> schifrin: ambassador bill taylor, thank you ve much. >> thank you, nick. >> woodruff: many eyes are on new hampshire tonight, as most of the leading democratic presidential candidates take the debate stage. the stakes are high, as this could be their last opportunity to sway those undecided ahead of new hampshire's imary on tuesday. a few candidates, those on and off tonight's debate stage, were making their cases on the campaign trail today. we'll hear from vermont senator bernie sanders in manchester, new hampshire. he follows former new york city mayor michael bloombg, who spoke to military veterans in

>> most presidential candidates talk about helping veterans who have served, and that's critically important. they don't talk about what makes for a successful leader and an effective decision-maken though those are the most important qualifications for the job. they don't have any experience leading large organizations or making hard decisions, and most of them are legislators, not executives. >> we've got a former mayor of new york city, who has a record-- every reason in the world, he's entitled to run for president, no problem with that, smart guy. but he is spending hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars thereyishsomething wrong with that. >> woodruff: to give us a sense of wt's happening on e ground is our own lisa desjardins. she's joining us from manchester, new hampshire. so lisa, i know you spent the day not only following the candidates but talking to voters.

atat are they saying to you? how much does appened in iowa factor into their thinking? >> judy, in the lat few days here in new hampshire, i can tell you, i'm feeling corrective -- collective shrug to what happened in iowa. nature voters don'tm the care too muh. if you look at the polls, it centers iowa, bernie sanders and pete buttigieg, seem to haveew gone up by a foints here in new hampshire. when you talk to voters, they'ri more tun to what's happening in this state, and a lot is happening. by newshour's count, some 64 candidate events have happened in this state since the iowa caucus, a great deal of attention on them. you know, i went to a pete buttigieg event yesterday and talked to voters as they were coming out. th do seem to havmore enthusiasm than they had a month ago. at the same time, he's not drawing the large arenas yet that we're seeing from bernie sanders some a lot to watch.>> oodruff: sounds like even higher stakes for this debate that's coming up tonight with

the hoandidates. are the campaigns looking at this? >> we'll be heading over there now. seven candidates on stage tonight. the five who received at least one delegate from iowa and then in addition tothat tom steyer and andrew yang, they willll be on stage. judy, the stakes are incredibly high. we say that for every debate, but think about, this ths debate in 2016, the football debate before the new hampshire, primhat was a debate where marco rubio took a rhetorical punching from chris christie, and he didn't recover. jeb bush also was not able to regain footing after this. this is a point in the campaign e where essentially you the semifinal, almost in the finalro d. candidates especially elizabeth warren need to find a way to not be number three but to breakut and the beat her expectations. of course, pete buttigieg and bernie sandeth have a lot at stake, and for joe biden, this is a critical stand. two fourth-place finishes will

raise even moreon quesarks about his campaign >> woodruff: let's talk a little bit more about joe bi. how is his campaign dealing with his coming in fourth in iowa and how do they plan address it? l> his campaign had a phone cal with some political reporters this afternoon. we were on that call. and they sad, they admitted, yes, we took our lumps in iowa, but they said this is candidate in their words who has been down before and knows howov to r. he understands what real setbacks are and can recover from that. judy, they have also been making some interesting moves. senior campaign advisor anita dunn, known by some in therl political especially for her work with president obama and his campaign, she is enlarging her role. what's interesting on this calld judy, the campaign was asked several times, is she going to rub the campaign, what is her title? who is running the biden campaign? the answer by biden campaign officials is simply joe biden runs this campaign. i know anita dunn is moving to

philadelphia to do more, but it's not cleawhat her role is. a lot of question marks over that sort of staffing decision and obviously they ed to have a big... they say they are trying to compete heavily here in new hampshire >> woodruff: so interesting. finally, lisa, i think what we saw from interviews with voters in iowa, they made up the minds. some of them said weeks before the iowa caucuses. do you get the sense in new hampshire people have made up their minds or not? >> no. judy, i have to tell you, rethe seem to be a massive amount of undecided voters. now, if youook at thpolls, you'll see sort of maybe a single digit or a 10% number forren decides here. you have to look deeper.l when you tthe people, you know many people ght say they have a top choice, but they'rerm not fixed to that choice, and, in fact, if as you see in the polls, over half of voters in a recent monmouth poll said they could still change their mind. i heard that firsthand at an

elizabeth warren event in derry. i ran into a student from the university of southern florida. he was volunteering for bernie t nders last week, went, there didn't like whe vibe was and switched as a volunteer to izabeth warren this week. similarly, judy, right? and similarly, andrew yang, at one of his events, he ed people to raise their hands if they are in the yang ga. even though he had a good-sized ground, maybe 10%, 8% of the people there raised their hands. this is a state that's undecided.vo and thesers wat to fall in love with a can dated -- candidate. right now they haven't found the person they're in love witth ye >> woodruff: great reporting lisa desjardins as always. i see you have a coat and hat. i'm bringing my coat and coming up tomorrow. can't wait. see you there.

>> woodruff: and now, for their take on the chaos at the iowa caucuses, tuesday's state of the union address, and wednesday's senate vote to acquit the president on both articles of impeachment, i'm joined by shields and brooks. that's syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. hello to both of you.so let's tt first. the process is finally behind us. the president was acquitted, mark. loback on it, what do you make of the process and the woutcome? l, let me begin by saying, david correctly predicted the outcome, and, so you knw, i have to defer and acknowledge that. judy, it was a reluctance on the part of nancy pelosi an the speaker and the leadership tome approach impea. they did not see it as a political winner, but it was forced upon them by the president and by the revelation that he was shaking down if not extorting an ally to obtainat

unring, libelous information on his principle political opponent. so they were left with no choice. i think that,ou kno several people acquitted themselves i will say that mitt romney restoredome faith the process. we've gone through a great time in american politics where the question is club does your faith inspire your politics or es your politics shape your faith? and i think mitt romney to his credit stood as a witness to his belief and his cnvictions. but donald trump emerges from it emboldened as demonstrated by his remarkably egregious behavior since then, at the prayer breakfast, in the white house, and public utterances and then today's actions >> woodruff: what are we left work david, after this process is over? >> they were forced to do it by

the president'sehavior as mark said, that's a plausible argument, but i do think they paid a political price. >> woodruff: "they" being the democrats? >> the democ when this started, they had 39%% now it's . that's a gigantic leap. the republican party is more popular now since any time sinc. 20 more americans identify with the republican party than the democratic par g now. as thllup, when they announced these numbers, they said this is sort of what ppened when clinton wa impeached. there's something about this process the americapeople don't like some i think there was political cost. it might have been worth the cost to do something right for the country and to enforce the rms of our democracy. in the days since we have seen a moral contrast of a bold sorted. the speech romney gave, he did it in obeyians to his creator,i but he s i have to live under my conscience, and i love that hrase. how mames did we see a

politician recently use that phrase? so hi had to do theght thing. politicians don't like acting alone. they would rather go in a group romny was the loan republican. so maybe in the long term, we will celebrate nancy pelosi for doing it. i wish there had been a wayu where they cld censure or get this done more quickly so we aucould move on, bec the outcome we foreordained. >> woodruff: senator romney has already gotten the censure of theresident. he's turned around and accused him and talked about what a term campaign he ran for president. we are left with what we watched at the state of the union, the president clearly... i mean, he was more restrained that night, but then in his speech yesterday, lashing out at romney, at pelosi, and then on her part, having torn up the speech on live television. the country feels just... we were divided, but now bitterly divided. >> i think you're right, judy.

the president quoted mckarter. mckarter said, "lord, build me a son who is humble in victory and proud in defeat." and donald trump was theti esis of that. he was vengeful. he was vindictive. he was mean spirited and small-minded. and not only his attack on mitt romny, but the attack of hislt h serf, because they are, political or emotional serfs of his, to applaud. i feel sorry for uth, it wa just amazing. the state of the union address in his defense, he did do... he rage had ever doe inthat road acknowledgeling people from the balcony. the president did.th that was..ere wasn't an emotional chord he didn't touch, but as faas a spech and

reporting to the state of the union contrasted with f.d.r.'s four freedoms state of the union in 1941, the eve of world war the work i think as an institution, the statof the union address is probably handicapped if not hobbled. >> i thought ihit was s most effective speech as president. he had some of the stuff he has always had, which are these bogus stories of crimeshat immigrants have committed. but back in 2016, it was an naamerican car campaign, all lle,cra f al h heas turned and i think he's done a little bit of the best he can do with his character morning inmerica, just bragging on the economic success we've had over the last years, which is correct abo. 59% of americans say they're better off this year than last year. that's the ghest number in the history of this question. really well.conomy is doing and if he can run a campaign, hey, you don't have to like me,

t i can deliver a good economy,that's his best campaign. he then follows it up with gracelessness, but if his approval rating stays at 49, s peopem to be willing to tolerate greaselessness. >> a sin sick someone who knows the pricef everything d the value of nothing. america is more than the economy. the democratsd hoknowledge we have the lowest unemployment. there's no question about it, but america stands for a relot han that. and the values of this country have been tarsh and diminished. >> but you can beat a strong economy, you have to have something else. knickson had law ander ordn '68. crisis.f.k. had the missile last time trump had white america. they're doing a big mistake bypo -mouthing the economy. >> i couldn't agree more. no point in poor-mouthing the

economy. >> woodruff: another thing the president was crowing about was the chaose iowa caucuses. mark, we saw a state, first in the nation, all eyes on iowa and we didn't have results, partial final rsults yesterday.upposedly there they be a recanvass. where does this leave the democratic party? >> an absolute abomination. the democratic party of iowa in particular. i mean, iowa had one responsibility. it's been given an enormous opportunities. and thatas to winnow. three tickets out of iowa. now everybody comes out of iowa. there was no winngno a loss of confidence. all of that energy, all of that idealism poured in. but the other thing, judy, you cannot ignore, nly 170,000 people showed up. there were 240,000 in the years

of barack obama. democrats are not energized in turnout numbers. >> woodruff: you say no winnowing and yesterday joe biden's camp seems to be worried. they've reseahuffled dership, as you heard lisa reporting, and pete buttieg and bernie nders seem to have gotten a lift. >> for sure, but i think the resus in iowa guarantees tht we'll have a lng battle that miael bloomberg decided to double his investment. tom steyer released an ad today directly going after buttigieg about to get a lot more brutal. and i do think sanders is now the front-runner. and buttigieg has the advantage of having run a good operadoon. thubts people had about his age, well, campaigns matter. if you run aood campaign, that says, well, maybe he's experienced ough to do this job. biden did not run a go campaign. what's disteshed me about thede campaign is my newspaper did a recrimination story, and a lot of the people, almost all of the people in the biden m8éj

in iowa went on the record. and when they go on the record, that's not a good sign. that means there's real i'm saving myself or whaver it's going to be or they're so fed up with the way the campaign is run. so runni a good campaign means outperforming your expectations. running a n d campaans you underperform. that's what biden did. >> i think ttigieg comes out with considerable momentum. bernie sanders got less than half of the vote that he got four years ago in iowa as a percentage, granted there was a bigger field. but he was one on one at that point. my reports show that it's aall buttigiesanders race in new hampshire. what buttigieg did in iowa was he didn't just go to lie warre and sanders did, to the pockets of democratic energy and enthusiasm and the campuses. he went statewide. so it was a lot broader victory. i think it will be a little tougher to sell i'm the

candidate of the heartland in laconia and manchester and concord, new hampshire than it was in des mois and cear rapids, but i think that he did passes the first test. running for president and being able to run a successful campaign is a pretty good test for somebody in whether they're up to that challenge. i think he's met it right now.hi but i thinkis joe biden's last stand. if he doesn't do it in the debate tonight and somehow turn it around, but every report is the lack of energy and intensity in that campaign. elecbility, judy, and in a poker game. pair of threes they're not a winning hand. >> woodruff: but this is somebody who we are told has voters behind him in southot of carolina, nevada, so we can't

look into crystal balls >> i surely would not write offt joe biden juet, but you have to see, will the african american voters in south carolina go to somebody else?er has been mo evidence that buttigieg appeals to african ererican voters. e's been some evidence that bernie salders does. i do think... i agree with mark, buttigieg is looking very strong, but think you have to say sanders is now the clear front-runner. he's just nationally experienced. he's built an organization. he's competive everywhere. >> woodruff: sanders and buttigieg? re new hampshire. what new hampsays, iowa picks corn, we pick presidents. that's what they sayhoaf fistically. >> woodruff: one note that i'm hearing from ou producer is that one more evidence of ies you call it vin tick -- vin

vindictiveness of the president is the removal of alexander tndman. >> is he goi go after >> woodruff: we'llee where that goes from here. we just learned that news. mark shield, david brooks, thank you both. >> thank you. >> woodruff: what will the future look like? that's the big question posed by a new exhibition at theph philad museum of art. 80 designers from around the world have put their imaginations to work to address both the anxieties and exciteme over the possibilities brought byti innovaon and new technology. jeffrey brown visits the museum as part of our ongoing arts and culture series, "canvas." >> brown: it's usually the stuff of sci-fi films, booksbund cartoonsnow, the future is on display at a new design exhibition at the philadelphia museum of art.

thy hiesinger is co-curator of" designs for different futures." >>he idea of the show is to make us think of, you know, who we relate to each other and to the world around us, and what th means in terms of both design and the future. >> bwn: but why is design a good way to explorthe future? >> design today now encompasses more than making chairs or simple physicaobjects. designers collaborate, as the show demonstrates, with scientists, with anthropologists, with sociologists, with biochemists, across allields. >> brown: divided into 11 innovative ideas, often mixing high tech with the natural world: textiles made of seaweed, artificial organ implants, even a robotic baby feeder. it offers hope, inspires fear,

and asks ethical questions about the choices involved. how will our clothes be made? who will be watcng us? mand, how might we hide f surveillance? how and what will we eat? that was the focus for orkan telhan, an artist and designer at the university of pennsylvania. his display, "breakfast before extinction," offers several t futuristic meat may or may not whet your appetite: 3d-printed pancakes, genetically modified salmon and, strangest of all, steak made from our own blood cells. >> imagine you receive a kit coming to a use, where you can get a littleit, where you can take your cells from your body, your own cells, almost like getting the swab from your cheek, putting them into a little dish where you let them incubate for, you know, six, eight weeks, so that you can have your little meat, which you

can consume by yourself. >> brown: and i'm eating myself. >> you're eating yourself. and so, no animals are harmed. >> brown: why do i want to do that? >> first of all, it's the most sustainable way of making food. i'm not saying it's going to be a replacement for l your protein needs, but making you think about, iou know,s there, do we need to kill an anal to be able to feed us? >> brown: scarcity and diminished resources are comin he says. it's up to us to make some difficult choices. >> this is not about, oh, this is a solution for it. but maybe we can, you know, change certain things, and then maybe avoid this future. >> brown: perhaps the exhibition's top "celebrity" was found in the "jobs" section, where "quori," robot designed simon kim, mimics basic human movement. kim says an enormous amount of thinking goes into the look and feel of the robot, and how that will impact our interactionsth t. >> it is meant to be a gender-

less robot's so therereat pains in the design to maintain the kind of not only malor female traits. >> brown: why is tha >> so, if it's taller than us, t it's bigger than us, if looks aggressive, these are things that, in our, in our perception, turn us away from the robot. whereas the robot is meant to be helpful, we might not engage at all. >> brown: here, quori performs simple gestures, but it can be programmed to do more, including things that could raise fears of the machines' power er us. >> so, it takes more than just smart engineering or smart design, but it's also going to take, you know, somebody who can work psychologicallyo make sure that the rules for which we hope these robots occupy, work with us so that we're not turned off, nor do we tnk so negatively about the robot that we don't assign it any role at all. >> brown: the exhibition includes a "futures therapy lab"

where visitors can digest and contemplate their experience. emily schreiner is a curator for public programs. >> a lot of people come in with their eyes really wide. they've just seen a lot. they've experienced a lot. but this is a space that has people and paper and books, and that has been sort of a hyper-analog counter-point to a very dizzying perspective of the future.ro >>: people gather in the lab to read from the crowd- sourced library, makart, and listen to designers talk about their work. wendy rosenfield felt a range of emotions. >> it actually gave me a little bit of anxiety-- just like, how quickly erything's changing and how much technology and the development of technology even

plays into that. >> brown: curators hoped to inspire visitors to reflect on the human condition, how we can design better solutions, and also recognize our own agency. >> in today's climate, political, environmental, the present seems to be very urgent. and making decisions that will afct the future seem more important now than ever. and in a show like this allows us to think about th i. ope so. and i think there are many projects here that show what can be done or speculate about where we could go in the future. >> brown: "designs for different futures" is here through march 8 before traveling to minneapolis d chicago later this yea for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown at the >> woodruff: wow.um of art.

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