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crisis, there's a massive economic a humanitarian crisis that is emerging because of this lockdown. they're practically facing severe starvation. >> woodruff: and it's friday. mark shields and david brooks break down the divide over reopening too soon and the allegations against biden. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economyor 160 year bnsf, the engine that connects

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>> this program was made possible by the corporation for puic broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: another week ends in the era of covid-19. as of tonight, more than 87,000i people hav nationwide. more than 300,000 have recovered.tr more of the cois reopening, or getting ready to, from the grand canyon to the jersey shore. and more federal relief is moving through the u.s. house of reprentatives. amnaawaz begins our coverage >> nawaz: in the capitol today, fervid debate over the newest coronaviruaid bill. >> we hear members talking about how much they love america, their constituents. put up or shut up. >> this is the sine largest

borrow and spend bill the country has ever seen, and nt includ one republican amendment. >> nawaz: proposed by democrats, the 1,800 page, $3 trillion relief package would send almost $1 trillion dollars to state and local vernments; renew $1,200 in direct cash payments to individuals; and, provide hazart pay to hare workers and others on the front lines.gu democrats more federal support is needed for struggling states and businesses. congssman alcee hastings of florida. >> americans are afraid, not just of how they're going to make ends meet, but whether they're going to make it through this pandemic at all. accused democrats of pushing through a partisan bill. congressman tom cole of oklahoma. >> let's do what we've done fouw times in asit down, work together and craft a bipartisan bill. we've proven we've done it, and can do it again. >> nawaz: senate majority leader, republican mitch mcconnell has dismissed the

hoe proposal as a "totally unserious effort." and the president has threatened toeto it. but today's vote came as the numb of americans in need of help conties to grow. w gures this week reveal a total of 36 million americans have now filed for unemployment in the last two months. departmentmer numbers today showed retail sales in april plunged a record 16%. in an attempt to soothe the financial strain, more than 40 states have already announced plans to re-open or are in the midst of doing so. in frederick, virginia, mike manseld's gastropub began a phased re-opening today. >> we want to do something, everybody wants work. but we want to take every precaution also. it's a little scary, bute're ready. >> nawaz: in parts of new york state, governor cuomo allowed restrictions to ease, while extending stay at home orders r new york city until ju 15th. >> there's no politics to this judgment. there's no arbitrary nature to this judgment. it's all on the numbers.ba

>> nawaz in washington... (horns honking) ...the sounds of protesting truck drivers honking their freights during the pandemic, pierced the president's white house event, promoting thest admition's efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine.to though d birx and fauci of the coronavirus task force woree masks, thedent did not. >> i want to make one thing clear: vaccine or no vaccine, we're back. and, we are starting the proces t in many casey don't have vaccines and a virus or a flu comes and you fight through it. >> nawaz: according to national institutes of health director leancis collins, large sca trials for a possible vaccine ar't expected until july. and now, new questions about a covi19 test made by abbott labs, and used daily at the white house. the food and drug administration said late thursday the test can sometimes give a false negative, clearing the person tested as virus-free, when he or she isn't. and today, a blistering editorial from "thlancet"

medical journal, bashing the national pandemic response as" inconsistentnd incoherent," accusing the trump administration of "marginalising and hobbling" the c.d.c., and calling on americans to vote fo a presido, "will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics." overseas in china, officials said they marked one full month with no new covid deaths. but vulnerable populations, like here in bangladesh, are bracing for a blow.ca in this crowde, home to one million rohingya muslims,th e first coronavirus case was confirmed just today. for the pbs newshour, i'm amna nawaz. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, former vice president joef biden says thalected president, he would not pardon donald trump or his associates of any crimes. instead, he says he would let y investigations play ou the presumptive democratic nominee spoke in a virtual town

hall on msnbc last night, and he accused mr. trump of abusing his power. >> we never saw anything like the prostitution of that office like we see it today it is not something the president is entitled to do, to direct either the prosecution and or to decide to drop a case. that is not the president's role, responsibility, and it's a dereliction of his duty. ed woodruff: biddelsenssniauo accusations by tara reade, one of his former senate staffers. but he said americans who believe her probably shoulnot vote for him. we'll take an in-depth look atle the reade tions, later i the program. the u.s. envoy to afghanistan, zalmay khalilzad, blamed the islamic state group today for an attack that killed 24 people at a maternity hospital. he tweeted that the militant group has "demonstrated a patterfavoring these types of heinous attacks against civilians."

meanwhile, the taliban condemned afghan president ashraf ghani for blaming the attack on them.r a tropical weaystem off the florida coast could become icye. it was blowing over northwestern bahamas today, and downpours to south florida. the 20 atlantic hurricane season does not officially begin until june 1 and, on wall street, stocks eked out gains to end the week, despite sharp drops etails and industrial output. the dow jones industrial average was up 6points to close at 23,685. the nasdaq rose 70 points, and, the s&p 500 added 11. still to come on the newshour: questions remain about a new complication from coronavirus affecting children. e pandemic exacerbates already dire crises in densely-populated bangladesh.

an in-depth report on the sexual assault allegations against joe biden. mark shields and david brooks break down the week's polical news. plus much more. >> woodruff:hile just a small percentage of the children infected with this coronavirus get seriously ill, researchers are now learning about a new potentially dangerous syndrome in young pple that seems to be caused by the virus. inore than 100 cases in ne young people have ped an europe, inflammatory response similar to disease".own as "kawasaki it's led to concerns that we still don't fully unrstand the full impact covid is having on young people.

william brangham gets some answers about what is know >> brangham: for more on this syndrome, i wanted to talk wit someone who is both seeing and treating this syndrome in kids: dr. jane newberg is a pediatric cardiologist at boston children's hospital, and a member of the young hearts council of the american heart association. dr. newberger, thank you very much for being here. i wonder if you could just start off by telling us, what is this syndrome that you're seeing? how does it manifest itself? what is it? >> y. so it strikes individuals who and it's manifested by either an extreme inflammatory response and by at least one organ, oftet two or mort are not functioning properly because of

the inflammatory mil another explanatio yourave recent exposure to movid-19. so yt have either current evidence ocovid-19 from a nasal swab f sars-cov-2 or evidence much more often of a recent infection bause you were antibody positive, or else you need to have been exposedel clto somebody who had covid-19 in the past four weeks. >> brangham: i see. do we know why coronavirus is causing this syndrome? >> we think it's causing this syndrome as a kind of immunologic reaction. in other words, it doesn't seem to be related to an acute infection with covid, with sars- cov-2, but much more related to the body's immune response to having been exposed to that virus.

and so one has a tremendous inflammatory response to the trigger, reay, that is the virus. >> brangham: and what is the outcome, generally speaking, for the kids, r the young people who develop this syndrome? >> well, we think parents can by ptimistic if a child doesth develo syndrome with careful, careful support in the right medication be recovering veryildren seem to a new wave of illness that we still are characterizing. so we dot we don't have big statistics or reliable numbers that we can give pple yet. but very quickly, people are gathering their cases and we're hoping that every child or teen who has this illness is logged into a registry of some sort. so that we can provide very

quantitative information ithe future. >> brangham: can you help us put this in perspective? i mean, my just quick back-of- the-envelope calculation is that this is affecting a relatively small number of thchildren who we believe who have been exposed to sars-cov-2. so help us weigh-- for the parents who might be out there hearing about this, seeing this in the news, worrying a lot about this, how worried should parents be, given how few cases we seem to see of this? or a phenomenon compared to all the children who've been exposed to sars-cov-2. so parents, i wouldn't be extremely worried as a parent. i think you can be reassured v that tt majority of children haven't either no symptoms or very mild symptoms in response to a virus.il so very few en are having this new syndrome.

>> brangham: and given that, let's assume that there are parents who do worry their child might have been exposed to the virus.ms are there sympparticularly this syndrome that they ought to be on the lookout for? >> yes. so if a child s fever and seems inflamed with a rash, red eyes, red lips, any signs of what we call kawasaki disease? and i, if they have g.i. symptoms as well, which seem to be very, very common-- diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain-- they should be in contact with their primary caregiver or their pediatrician. if the child really seems sick, in a sense, the way that a and they don't seem responsive or the color doesn't seem right then they should go to a hospital if they're worried. >> brangham: this is all some very, very helpful advice amst a lot of confusion and nervousness and fright on a lot of parents' part. k dr. jane newburger, thanyou very much for being here.

>> thank you. >> woodruff: we continue our look now at how covid-19 is reverberating acrosslobe., banglade south asia, is about the size of iowa but hass 50 timesny people. that makes containing coronavirus a huge challenge. as does e recent influx of a million refugees from neighboring myanmar. special correspondt fred de sam lazaro reports on efforts by one banglaedshi non-gornmental group trying to tackle the problem. it's part of his series, agents for change. >> reporter: testing is only now ramping up in bangladesh, so the 20,000-odd covid cases and 300 deaths reported so far couldly rise significan the days

ahead.ll that's espectrue in dhaka, a bustling, chock-a-block capital city, home to more than 20 million people like the rest of the country, dhaka has been in lockdown since late march, squeezinople into even less space. the infection control challenge s plain to see. there's so little stancing when or hand-washing when most homesr >> wtrying to plug holes in the public healthcare system to support the government. >> reporter: from my home in minnesota, i reached asif salehi the bangladesh rural advancement committee or brac, government aid grot non- brac plans to set up 600 testing kiosks across the country and is working with the military to expand quarantine facilities. mo urgently it's also supplementing efforts by the government to get food to people.

>> ( translated ): they are distributing rice and dhal lentils and i'm here to pick that up. i am hungry. i've not had anything for four days. >> ( translated ): i'm here ive,tri'us t lyionm rvwio llng u food last you? >> ( translated ): hardly two to three days. they give us eight pounds of rice and there are seven to eight people in my family. this is the kind of pain we face. >> reporter: tens of millions of already struggling bangladeshis, like rickshaw pullers, and laborers, who rely on daily wages have lost their means of survival. >> bond the public health crisis, there's a massive economic andumanitarian crisis that is emerging because of this lockdown. people who don't who are not monthly wage workers, they're so they're there.avings. they're practically facing severe starvation. >> rstorter: 250 miles southea of dhaka lives another particularly vulnerable

population: about one million rohingya refugees who've fled here from what the u.n has called genocidal violence in d ighboring myanmar. the first confirvid case inside the camp was reported yesterday. but there's not mubl testing avaiso no way to know how widely the virus has spread he. what has s across the country, is misinformation and fear. >> they're thinking that, yoin know, i'm gog to die, or i'm going to get taken away or, so we're not going to be able to get food. we need to move out of the lockdown situation and come up with a post lockdown strategy >> reporter: for brac, that means awareness campto spread accurate information, ine spaces, tol communities to train contact tracers for a cruate q possible outbreak. priority has been to get people back to work, especially garment workers like parul begum.

,> ( translated ): we are he tting in the middle of the road because we are hungry. >> reporter: in bangladesh's economy, there is perhaps no more essential employee than the garment worker.ur foillion of them, earning about $100 u.s. a month, work in thousands of factoriand produce 80% of this country'sto l exports earnings. it all ground to an abrupt halt when the government declared ack total lown. garment workers were sent home,t many withoeing paid, and throughout the shutdown, there have been protests in the streets.ee have youpaid for march? >> ( translated ): how can we live? our rent is due and the landlor! is kicking us we have kids, we have school fees. our house is running out of food. >> reporter: they've been impacted not just by the covid lockdown here, but by european erd american clothing reta facing a meltdown in demand, says workers rights advocate kalpona akter.

>> many brands and retailers started canceling their orders by saying that all the shops are closed and consumers are not buyi at this moment, so they cann take the product which, already made, anthose are already in production. >> reporter: several brands reversed course, she says, after a campaign her group conducted with the washington, d.c.-based workers rights consortium. it launched a site tracking which brands are and are not honoring their earlier purchase commitments. still, bangladesh factory owners spokeswoman rubana huq says they're down more than $3 stuck with nearly llionders and dollars worth of fabric. er>> for all the m rawia are very, very sympathetic to all the retailers who are suffering because without them there would be no business. it's just that we want them to y so kindly realize that there's a different realt here., the reality isthere are lots

people who are going to go hungry. >> reporter: we reached out to american companies on that the tracking site onaims went back heir bangladesh commitments, including gap, j.c. penney, and okohl's but have received response.am all the uncertainty and a lockdown, garment factories were allowed to reopen in le april. there are still plenty of pending orders and owners say they¡ve added safeguards to sanitize the workspace and put more distance between workers. workers advocates say it still leaves a lot peoe in still- crowded spaces in a country ill equipped to handle covid outbuts,re tti ong bsn hathneiso anchor its economic recovery. the health of bangladesh's garment industry post covid will depe heavily on how consumers behave in rich countries. will they return to the malls or even online to buy as they used to or will the appetite for fashion have shifted and critically, when might all of

this start to become clear. for the pbs wshour, along with sadan saeed in dhaka, i'm f de sam lazaro outside the still- shuttered mall of america, in minnesota.f: >> woodrred's reporting is a partnership with the undertold stories project at the university of st. thomas ina. minnes >> woodruff: two months ago allegations are accusing former vice president joe biden of sexual assault. tara reade who in 1993 worked in the office of then senator biden, said that he ssed her and inappropriately touched her without consent. biden has categorically denied the allegations. the legations face examinati from the public our own dan bush and lisa desjardins are here to take us through their extensive reporting.

tht join me now to share wh they've learned. hello to both of you. i'm going to turn to you both, but, lisa, to you to begin. take us throught what you did and what you learn in all from talking to all these people. >> yea judy. we reached out to -- tried to biden staffers.me 200 for of that, we were able to have in-depth interviews wit some 74 of them. now 62 former staffers were women and to a person, jud ose women told us they had was uncomfortable withhe former vice president or ever heard of any experience that was uncomfortable or, worse, many of with him alone during work hours and that did they had -- they nted to say most of them didn't want to reflect whether on what tara reade was say

was true or not but they did say that it did not reflect their experiences at all, especially in a workplace tha that dan andi heard from them that they felt empowered wom. >> while a lot of staffers we uncomfortable, they allr felt confirmed what we know about joe biden, which is his history, has been, of reaching out and making physical contact of people he speaks to, touching them. people said at the time this was known about biden, he would rub your shlders, squeeze your shouers, give people hugs and kisses. while the people we spoke to say they themselves di't feel uncomfortable, they did acknowledge former vice preside biden doesn't seem to have a strong social signal in terh of wen that kind of contact is wanted or not. that came up last year on the cam trail and now again here.

>> and, lisa, you also uncovered, frankly, new details that reflect on tara reade's allegation that she says she wat forcedf the office because she complained about being uncomfortable abthe sexual incident. all us exactly what you ed about that and why it matters. >>haell, tara reade sayst she complained about previous scwarmt the office -- sexual harassment in the office and after she complained, she said she was retaliniated aga in a couple of ways and that tha eventually forced her out of the office. we spoke to the man who shared an office with her, ben savage, they worked together on constituent mail. ben savage told us, actually, it waita performance problem tara reade that he himself raised to supervisors. in some cases he said she was throwing out constituent -- important records of constituent mail and that the probwalem s

bad enough that he raised it to supervisors. he believes that's we left. and here's some of the interview i had with him over the phone. >> and of all the people who held that position, she's the only one during that time there who couldn't necessarily keep it or who found it frustrating. >> we, of course, reached out to tara reade. she declineour request for an interview but her attorney gave us detailed responses to ur questions, among them to this exact issue, he said that storys lat wrong. here is what doug winter wrote us in response. he wrote, ms. reade recalls there was a lot of niticking regarding her performance in the office. she was also very nervous at that point and distracd so it's possible, from time to time, there was a mistake made but her performance had noto ng toth her termination. office for about nonths.that >> woodruff: and, dan, you also learned new information from reade's attorney about thea

location tha reade says is where joe biden assaulted her. so tell us about that. >> that's right, judy.re e'so attorney provided us with new information about this assault, this alleged assault, saying that reade claims that it ettook place somewhereen the russell building where biden had an office at the time and the u.s. capitol building. i want to show you what the spaces look like. so this is the halay where biden's office was, it's essentially unchangedo tnow. to get to the capitol, you go eown a flight of stairs andak unthatl takes lawmakers to the capitobuilding. anybody who's been to this part of the capitol knows there are a lot of people movouing thr these spaces, especially when congress is in session - lawmakers, their airedes, rters, a police presence as well. what a lot of the former bidenaf ers told us is, look, these

are public places. if this allegation is true, if it took place, it vewod been extremely brazen, judy, because the likelihood it would have been seen by someone was very high. >> woodruff: and separately from this, lisa, tara reade hasd identither details of what occurred during that time. take uhrough what you learned when you talked to these other staffers about those. >> yes, judy. some of these accounts corroborate what she's saying. let's look at a cof things. first, she saidt that the vice president reaed up her skirt when she wasinging him a gym bag on is path that then describes we know that the vice president or the senator at nyaffs d us tte ogodid tey th g that reade's job is one that example.ve run errand another thing that comes up that is tara reade says that she was asked to serrive dnks at a fundraiser because the then senator liked her legs, liked her looks. staffers told us that, actually, that's conary to their

experience, that, at that time, people who worked there -- and we spoke to about 20 of them -- said junior staff and no staff really was asked to go tois funds that was a campaign function, and, moreoro moreovern staffers around the time reade was there recalled biden had a policy that he asked men to do menial tasks to bring him coffee or drive him specifically because he dit n't women to be seen as serving him. one more thing, judade claimed she was admonished for how she dressed by a supervisor and that that wasart of the retaliation. judy, we can confirm from a staffer who was with reade at the time and din't want to be named that she remembers that denversation. she remembers relling her about the admonishment about her dress. that is something we have confirmed. there are different opinions. we believe there was no cause retaliation and her dress was

normal and professional, but three co-workers said it was not professional. we raise that onlyauc bse iwh retaliation an was going on in the office toward her. >> woodruff: in addition to all this, you both lookeat the culture in 1993, what was going on at the with regard to women, women working, women working on pitol hill. what did you find about that and about how joe biden was seen in that period? lisa? >> yeah. judy, this is not just any time or any senator. joe biden around that time was writing the violence against she was the chairman of the judiciary committee, and in the month just befe when this attack was alleged to have occurred is when he chaired is anita hill on harassment. he is criticized for not allowing witnesses to corroborate here. there are manaby complaintut many female staffers saying menl

felt they put their hands on them, pervasive in offices. senator pack wood who would ntlee under shame because ofpr alon the staffers described a list of senators to y ay awafrom like packwood, and they said those who worked for biden and we talked to some who didt work for biden said biden was not on the hist, he was regarded as someone who had women high in his office, however he was knowo as someone wut his hands on you but not on the list of egregious stay-away-from senators. >> to underscore that, as lisa was sayin thiwas commonplace as a lot of aides told us and gave us speacificdotes of treatment of women that they saw themselves, oters told them they experienced. one woman described a man comin up we was a young staffer, rubbing her shoulders in a way th made her feel very

uncomfortable. anotutr staffer told us abo walking into an office setting 's.re a female deputy chieofti r s itwe spstoke stf o swaomeone elo described signature senator in his elevator with his arm arounm a young ale staffer's waist. so there was the kind of culture in place in the senate around the time that we're talking about. >> woodruff: the story is imso rtant, all these stories very important. you've done some extensive and excellent reporting. dan bush, lisa desjardins, we ank you. >> woodruff: and now we turn to the analysis of shields and brooks. that's syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks.of hello to botou. david, let's go right to what we've just been hearing from lisa and dan bush and their

exnsive reporting, exhaust reporting, talking to 74 former biden staffers and coming away with noone sayg they were aware of any -- anything like what tarreade has alleged. what do you take away from this? >> well, they've taken us as deeply into the biden offi at that time as i think it's i think we go and have a good sense of it. it reveals joe biden is a transparent person. the culture they described is the one covering senator biden and the person iknow him to be and it raises more skepticism about the claims. i would say, in addition, there's a politico report looking into some oftara reade's past allegations in other cases, other parts of her life, and i think the bottom line is, if you were a person who was saying should thi issue be a problem for me in voting for joe biden, i think the arrow has moved into less of aob m. we don't know that it didn't happen, we can't know that, but

certainly the degree of skepticism has to be a little hier because of this report. >> woodruff: and, mark, y're somebody who's coved the city for a long time, you've walked the halls of the senate office buildings, what do you come away with here? is. o well, i come away, fir all, with great admiration for both lisa d dan. 74 people on the receen coupled calls they had to make to get that, and hink it dos confirm what has been so of the emerging consensus among a dog in the fight and that is joe biden was 50 years old in 1993, and that's 27 years ago, and suggesting that this washe one and only time in his entire aultedhat he sexually ass a woman who has reported it, just seemlys increasi unlikely, that's all.

i mean,nd, yes, tara reade at the serves a heang -- deserves a hearing, but i thought joe biden's own statement, if i believed what wacharged for me, i wouldn't vote forould, i t that was a reasonable conclusion. >>oodruff: well, certainly the case is always open. we continue to report as new enformation comes in, w certainly will report that as well. but i want to turn you both now to what we saw this week and ome back to you, david, anthony fauci describes e hill it's a mistake to move too fast. we heard from the whistleblower rick bright who says he was pushed out becse he was trying to get the administration to do more on covid 19.on he other hand, you have president trump saying we're going to move ahead no matter what.who has more credibility os pandemic at this point? >> it's not relly a close race

between faucind donald trump. fauci is one of the heros of am last 20 years, and extmely humble and direct man. i thk he's right. i think he underscores the fact of -- you know, i keep saying th're not winning this. the number of dis just up in the 100,000, 2,000, day after day goes down in new york, but it's rising in other places. but one thing to strike me -- that strikes me, not toti poze it too much, look at behavior, people locked themselves down before politicians took a move and one of the things that's been. interesting to me is you look at the movement based on cell pne tracking, red and blue states have the same amount of movement, the same number ole pebasically, in state after steta as,r there e's no correlation between it's a red and blue state or whether people are doing better or worse. so i think the key decisions are

not being made in the state houses or the whi house, they're being made in living rooms as people decide is it safe, can i go ou? and most people are trying to find a balance, but i'm sort ofo impressed moste are being reasonably cautious rightow. thpresident said it again today, we need to move ahead, whether we're ready or not, on the -- in the direction of opening up., >> yes, he didy, and the president proves, once again, he's not actually strategic or that he engages in. he's visceral. he's instinctive. if you're goiomngeb sody who's weaker than you or less popular. the democrats won fiv consecutive presidential elections running againster hehoover because he was there in the depression and unpopular as aepublican president. d t he picked dr. fauci, david

mentiod been there since reagan years, but not only that, in a presate when al dge h.w. bush was asked tobie cite a contemporary american here o heited dr. anthony fauci. and when his son h a chance to give the medal of freedom in 2008, he gave it to dr. anthony fauci. so no surprising in the poll cbs news did yesterday, who do you trust more on coronavirus information, anthony fauci stood at 62% with the majority ofic repus saying they trusted him. donald trump, at the same time, had a resounding 38% trust, 62% distrust.so as i think tishi v a decters,y, alreho dowant solid and knowledgeable informationfrom somebody without any agenda politically. >> woodruff: as the thr of us are talking nowav, id, the

house of representatives getting pushed by the democrats,re bein rin ng a ts a result ore prettyh uniformly against it. s eve democrats say they the chairman of the federal reserve said this week we need to do more for those -- for people who may endp with businesses that are gone or .sople who have lost theo jiirbs point, of moving ahead with a $3 trillion proposal? >> well, if there's a mistake,'s political ploy, i think it's a mistake to put together a proposal where youd no negotiations with the other side, t'e wheas irlclyti pol poster you're putting up on the wall, i think that's a mistake. at the same time, i think he're going e to spend a lot more money and the heart of this bill is correct, which is aid to

states. statrevenues havchcollaps state fiscal situations are disastrous now unlike any we've seen in this country's history, and if you care about the things states do, schools, universities, or anything else states do, they need mon. this country started, alexander hamilton took on the state debty uilt up in the revolutionary war and he nationalized it and gave them a bailout. that's how this country started, e role of the federal government. so shoveling money out to states is necessary, shoveling more money out to individuals who know where they're going to get their grocery bill is right to. do don't think itseful to do it in a way that's a >> woodruff: so, what's the right approach? >> well, the right, judy is note have not yet felt thrntley of

acting middle east. tht actingimmediately. themed most serious economic crisis the asy unfahc , great depression se world war ii, and he pointed out that 40% of the peple in the itrcohoy,n february, 40% of them lost their jobs in march. and these -- these are real people. these are waiters, waitresses, tel people, taxi drivers, nurses aes, people who bathe people in the hospital and changeressings and tarhey e really desperate and they need help. and that's in this package and, david's right, i disagree with him on the totalli calization of it, you have to start somewhere. tcahe repub say they don't want to do anything. mitch mcconnell says let the states into go into bankruptcy. thatunacceptable. the states provide great

services. we're talking about the people who are at the front of providing, whether it's police, fire, or first responders. so, yes, is ito pliticized? yes, but you have to begin somewhere and you start the ufbate. >> woo in any event, the senate, we are told, won't be taking this up until june. but i want to conclude, in less, right now, with what happened with senator richard br of urrth carolina this week. the f.b.i. came to his hou unannounced and said we're going to take your cell phone. he is suspected of haing traded on inside information on the pandemic and, meanwhile, th georgia and other republican r lesaoeysy she's cooperating h investouators. how seis all this? we've heard a little bit about

it before, but now, when thena r -- senator burr steps down as chair of the senate intelligence committee, it looks like something we'll pay attention to. >> the f.b.i. doesot a raid a united states senator's home and seize his cell phone without real cause of susnsion so i take it seriously as and ethical gmatt if yleou're a chairman er.of see intelligence committee, yo don't do trading, you ve your money in a blind trust. you n't take a moment of crisis and make money off this. it's not what you do as a leaden sort of reflects -- i don't know about the crime butts reflxtremely poorly on the character of the senator. >> woodrf: and, mark, less than 30 seconds.>> leshan 30ecd. if, in fact, anybody made a quick buck off of inside information and it's something that has taken approaching a85,000 american lives, wre talking about blood money.ri

ard burr finds himself friendless in the white house. why? because an ocean of political polarization, the united states senate, his committee, the senate intelligencbecommittee ha an island of pi partisanship and they have agreed and come to the conclusion that, yes, russia did engage a interfere and subvert e of donald tr against hillary clintdon.n so thumpe charges will stand on n, but he will finowr dth himself without the support of the president of the united states who feels he's been let down bsenator burr. >> woodruff: kind of aab rema turn of events here at the end of this another tumultuous week.s, david broark shields, thank you both, please stay safe. >> woodruff: as another

devastating week comes to ao close, we wantke a few minutes to honor just some of the rerkable individuals whon have falctim to covid-19. 50 year old bobby pin was known for his blue hair and infectious energy. tootography and film-makin bobby around the world. he took phot at burning man festivals, and filmed in nepalin and india, makg countless a perfectionist, bobby excelled in more than just art. he was also a scubdiver, completing over 150 dives. last year, he made one special trip to cambodia, where he was born. bobby's family fled the country during the pol pot dictatorship when he was five years old. fashionable, talented and full of curiosity, chianti jackn- harpool lit up every room, from political fundraisers to girls' nights with friends.

a baltimore native, chianti worked as a social worker for the homess before launching her dream business, "chianti's charm city chocolates," inspired by her father's mobile candy truck. she was 51 years old. valentina blackhorse dreamed of born and raised in kayenta,on. arizona, valentina participated in native american pageants,de where shnstrated her deep knowledge and affinity for navajo culture, skills, and language. a quiet, war caring, tulentina was dedicated to passing on her c to younger generations, including heone-year-old daughter. she was just 28 years old. amahmooda shaheen was kno the "universal mother" in her brooklyn community. humble, spiritual, and a great listener, she cad for her neighbors as if they were family.

mahmooda was also an athlete. she coached and playedn, badminetball, and tennis in pakistan, where she grew up. her principals of generosity and activism inspire the work her three children do today. she was 71 years old. don spitko was his pennsylvania neighborhood's "mr. fix-it," always there to offer a helping hand. supervisor loved w withcal plant his hands, from remodeling homes with every project, he taught his five dghters and son the trade.uati high school, eager to serve his country.

>> woodruff: it is that time of year when graduates oflevels are all stage," shaking hands receiving their diplomas. but the look andeneel of these this year is of course quite different-- almost all of them "virtual."f the notionommencement," or the beginning of a new chapter, is tougher for students to imagine. as part of our ongoing arts and culture series, canvas, we hear now from a variety of leads in their fields--ncluding my message to my alma mater-- on how to embrace that ainty. >> it can be difficult to see >> it's vital we learn the peace and comfort of stepping into the unknown. the noise of the world drowns out the sound of you. you have to t still to listen. so can you use this diss order covid 19 has wrought? can you treat it as an uninvited guest th's come into r midst to reorder our way of being? can you the class owf 2020 us not how to put the pieces

back together again but how to create a n and bter more just, kind, beautiful, tender, we need you t do this because the pandemic has illuminated the vast systemic inequities thve efined life for too many too long. >> it can be >> it can be difficult to see rae whole picture when you're still inside the, but i hope you wear these uncommon circumstances as a badge of honor. those who meet times of historical challenge with their eyes and hearts open - forever restless and forever striving - are also those who leave the greatest impact on the lives of others. >> there's no bigger white flagg right that's baved in your face right now than what's going on, the adversity that you face going into yr new situation. so i encourage you to push through.co inue to work hard. continue to believe in yourself. continue to surround yourself with people who willnue to encourage and support you in that journey. congratulations.ay congratulations to you chosen ones. and i am calling you the ¡chosen

ones' because you ve been chosen in many ways. you have not returned to the starting line like all of us generations before you, you' just approaching it now for the very first time. you've just arrived. you are chosen in that way to enter into the comtition of life just when so many have had to recover and refresh and restart and reawaken and to retake up the hard work and unshirkable responsibilities of making the world not only our >> when the sun shgain, the creativity of this class will shine with it.u' go back to relishing relationships, sharing funny stories, cering for all of our duke blue devil athletes.t chapter, it is also a moment nwhen the world desperateds

your skills and your creativity. >> don't deny your potential, never deny your potential. i'm proof of what potential is all about. when i entered duke university,o i had no idea d go into owmedy and acting. i really didn't hat i wanted to do with my life. i didn't know what my passion was. it wasecause of duke drama and hoffenhorn i discovered my love of acting, performance, cody. >> there are going to be bad times in life, like what'spp ing right now, in my life i've been through some incredible highs and some tremendous lows. and the one thing that's orue about bothem is that they pass. so cherish the good times and the bad times, remember they won't last forever, it does get better. wita e fr oho throughout his all too short life knew struggle and pain, uncertainty and strife, yet the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. i interrated, we're tied in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality and whatever

indirectly.directly, affects all years to come in which you will of our great country and our miraculously wonderfullyrl resilient >> you're graduating at a time of separation d uncertainty but i want to say to you that and keg akep ayoinnortur , or n titablo e, keep creating your music, your film, your dance, keep making your art for today, for the fute, and congratulations. >> each generation h a defining moment. my generation had vietnam. then another generation had 9/11. now, is ymer tifortle uncom t.hiou because that's when you find out just how great you can really be. >> because of the rapid progress of information and technology,

your need for education, constant learning, and unrstanding of the wor will be never slowed down or pausedoe with you for the rest of your life. snong, the rest of your life i aca tiveec ptalatoyer, toro makd a better place. >> know your worth, know the sacrifices you made to get today to graduate and you all hr earned, you all deserved it. >> help somebodyut, be great, change the world, that's what we're here for. and that's the newshour for tonight.go, as we watch some e the country start to open up, beit's afo moment to note this terrible time has brought onericans together in a co cause like we haven't seen since world war ii. the ws we report often focus on sad numbers-- of those who've

died or who've lost their jobs, and we don't all agree on when to go back to normal. but by staying at home, we have been and we are saving les. and we are doing it together. i'm judy woodruff. have a great weekend. thank you, please stay safe, and >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >>e,ife isn't a straight lin and sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. fidelity is here to help you work through the unexpected, with fincial planning and advice for today, and tomorrow. >> the william and fdara hewlett foon. for more than 50 years, advancing ideas and supporting institutions to promote a better world. at www.hewlett.org.

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. hello, everyone,elcome to amanpour & compy. here's what's coming up. our window of opportunity is closing. if we fail to improve our response now based on science, i fear the pandemicill get worse and beon prged. ousted u.s. vaccine chief turned whistle-blower telco ress the trump administration had untested drugs and warns without aff coordinatedt the nation will face a dark coronirus winter. former u.s. acting surgeon general joinsme. plus, what happens when ronavirus moves from the most powerful to the poorest parts of our world.it as reached every part of africa now and i asked the