captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: goojuevening. i'm dy woodruff. on the newshour tonight: covid on the rise. the u.s. tops 50,000 new infections for the second straight day, the largestnu ers yet recorded, as many plan to congregate for thewe holidaend. then, crackdown.ti hong kong is reeling from the imposition of a draconian security law by the chinese government. facebook faces advertisingy. boycotts in response to itsha handling o speech. >> for years, they've effeively been in this free speech camp, where almost anything goes. and yes, they have policies and rules against hate speech, but, in particular for liticians and the most powerful people with the most powerful

megaphones, they haven't enforced them. >> woodruff: and, it's friday. david brooks and jonatha capehart examine the week's politics news, amid a dramatic rise in coronavirus infections. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. un >> majorng for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ >> fidelity wealth management. >> for 25 years, consumer cellular's goal has been to provide wireless service that helps people communicate and connect. we offer a variety of no-contract plans, and our u.s.-based customer service team can help find one that fits you. learn more, visit www.consumercellular.tv. >> financial services firms. raymond ja >> johnson & johnson.

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91%. in spite of the country's surge, president trump headed to south dakota today for a fireworks display at mount rushmore. it is expected to draw a crowd 7,500, but attendees won't be required to wear masks or social distance we will talk to local leaders in texas and florida about curbingi the spread in communities, after the news summary. also today, the head of homeland security warned prot against vandalizing or removing statues and monuments this ekend. in an opinion article, chad wolf said his department will "leverage every tool and authority" to protect the landmarks. that comes two days after he announced a new task force to coordinate such a respse. the supreme court last night blocked a lower court ruling that would have allowed curbside voting in alabama during the pandemic.

local officials there planned to offer that option, and loosen absentee ballot restrictions, in three of the state's largest counties, ahead of this month's run-off elections. the high court will now decide whether to hear alabama's appeal. the aurora, colorado police officers who took photos of themselves smiling as th reenacted a chokehold at a memorial site for elijah mcclain have now been fired. one of the four officers had already resigned. last august, officers stopped mcclain, a 23-year-old unarmed black man, on the street for what they deemed was uspicious" behavior. they placed him in a chokehold, sedated him, and he later died. in turkey, a trial in absentia got underway in istanbul for the 20 saudis charged in the slaying of "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi. khashoggi was killed at the saudi consulate there in 2018, while he was trying to get marriage papers with hié fiane.

today, she voiced hope that justice will be served. >> ( tranated ): this has become a respoibility that has been emotionally and at the saudi consulate onlders october 2, 2018. i thank you all, on of jamal. may he rest in peace. we trust in rkish justice. the judiciary process has begun. >> woodruff: none of the accused we in court, since saudi arabia rejected demands for their extradition. a saudi court previously sentenced five people to death and three to jail for the killing last december. but, khashoggi's family later forgave his murderers, effectively granting them clemency under saudi law. hiopia's prime minister, abiy ahmed, called out protesters today for refusing to end a week of deadly unrest. more than 80 people have diedid utrage over the shooting death of a popular singer,

hachalu hundessa. he was a prominent anti- government activist whose music gave a voice to ethiopia's largest ethnic group. the government also shut down internet service during the protests. and, officials in botswana have launched an investigation into the mysterious deaths of some 275 elephants in receks. their bodies were first found in dle northern okavango panh region, where authorities aremi working to det their cause of death. they have ruled out poaching, since the carcass were intact, and now are focusing on other possibilities. >> if this was a disease, or virus, or a bacterial outbreak, that was to spread-- as i lentioned earlier, if a sm less genetically diverse population were fected-- then it uld have devastating consequences for the elephant population. >> woodruff: botswana is home to the world's largest population of elephants, more than 156,000. still to come on the newshou

the u.s. tops 50,000 new infections for the second straight day, as americans gather for the holiday. hong kong continues to reel from the imposition of a draconian security law. facebook faces resistance in response to its handling of hate speech. and, much more. f: >> woodrn the eve of the fourth of july weekend, with coronavirus cases surging in much of the country-- and, in response, many businesses and public spaces once againsh ting down-- we want to assess where we are, and what our prospects might be going forward. to help us explore those questions and more, we turn to ae top elected officials of two major metropolitas.

judge lina hilgado, a democrat, is the head of the governing body of harris county, texas, which includes houston. mayor carlos genez is the republican mayor of miami-dade >> woodruff: and we welcome both of you to theyoewshour. thanso much for joining us. judge, hidalgo to you first, give us an upderate of you stand right now in harris county with covid-19 and your attempts to get it under control >> right now, in harris county, we have crossed beyo our operational bed capacity in our intensive ca units, so our icus are already having to double up on staff ratios, on beds per room and the hospitalization rate is increasing. sometimes faster with each passing day. i have put our community on red

alert as of the week ago we he highest possible threat level, so everybody is on alert. the problem is that per the law in theory, because i no long very the power to enforce a stay ho i order, did earlier on this year, people in theory can right now ttill restaurants. there could be a rockets game, a basketball game, at the toyota center if they wanted to, many things areill open and we are careening toward a disaster , re. >> woodruff: verry tough. and, mayor, mayor gimenez, in miami-dade conty what are you facing there? >> we have had a rise in the percentage of positives here in miami-dade countr the num doesn't approach the real number, the official number is probably undercounted by a factor of 10, maybe even 20 here in miami-dade county, so we have

had an increase in the number of patients and in the hospital an increase in the number of people ic. us and ventilators but we have capacity right now so we have ken a lot of stps. obviously we have a curfew for 10:00 o'clock now county wide.th we clos beaches for the 4th of july weekend. the businesses that we hadome of allowed to be open recently, types of casinos, bowlingeavenue alleys, rs, those are now shut down again so we are takino proactive steptart to attach down this be virus. > woodruff: and, judge hidalgo, you usrong words, you said you are heading toward a disaster. you also mentioned that the governor, greg abbott has overridden your ability, the anti-of other local leaders to impose restrictions. how much difference is that making in your abity do you think to keep this under control? >> it is a huge difference this is our second time in dealing with. this we haa spike back in

march. i issued a stay home ordy,er eaarlier in the viral load than many other communities so we didn't get to the crisis point that other communities ended up in. with we managed to flatten the curve. but befo the curve me down on the other side, there was a reopening. i felt that at the time it was too early, it was too much but i said, i don't know fo. let's see. and i am going to do everything i can to make it wor we built an army of contact tracers, expanded access to testing, we had opportunities for isolation for first responders who came back positive going into nursing homes, homeless shelters, threw everything at the, the problem but the reality, is after those reopenings, theed crease stand a strategy of incrementalism is not working in harris county, right now when we are teetering on the ink of disaster. of the beds, seow close we all can get to having all of the beds full, to ha ving a bedr

everybody to die in, and then trying to take action a, drastic action, so that's what i am very, very concerned about. >> and we hear that certainly fromyour vivid description of what is going on. mayor gimenez, we knowthat earlier in miami and across the state of florida, there was a desire to openup, to open up early. now you are hang to puk.ll bac how much more difficult is t because earlier, frankly, you anothers had felt it was more important to get people out and get businesses open. >> no.ct welly attached down the virus here tamped the virus down sufficiently and the we opened was with the advice of our medical personnel, so we had infectious disease control doctors that were a part of the process. once we n,started to ope lou to open and i have said .. we have had a mask order in place, never have taken it off the problem is that people started thinking th this virus

was really no more. we alr had a num demonstrations here, young people that were gathered together, a lot of them weren't wearing masks and they were f togethr hours and it wasn't a coincidence that about two weeks after thestie demonsts started we started seeing these spikes that probably was the main cause of why this virus went up. >> woodruff: i just quickly want to ask both of you in tme that we have left, how hard is it to get these important messages out now? now that you are facing veryi difficultuation there in houston and in miami, judge hidalgo, how are you getting the message out and how how difficult is it, given what you have beenr though? >> part of what i struggle with is enforceability.a right now in recommend to my community that they stay home. the goals not to go out, issuing fines, having a police officer in every street corner. that's never been the goal. but to have that enforceability

provision shows folks that there is a requirement. what i need right now for my community, 5 million people, houston and 33 other cities, is ran enforceable order people to stay home, consistent meaging at all levels of government and then patience and being smart, not being t canary in the coal mine about what not to do. we need to be able to get thatcu e back down and then open based on the communities that have ucceeded, what hav they done? let's learn from them, the ones that didn't, okaythat's a lesson on maybe what we need to avoid a lot of folks are learning by doing, but when we crisis situation as w are right now, we don't have room for experiments on our own people, and so we need consistent messaging and we neea enfoe orders in order to get that message across. >> woodruff: and finally, just quickly, mayor gimenez, how are you persuading people now that th is serious? you have been saying that people didn't abide by what to the rules were, how do you tell them

now, this is real? >> well, very simp, i mean, obviously by issuing a curfew, that is a very strg indication that this is real. we do have the ability toe enfore and we do enforce. we do now stands of inspectionsu every day o businesses, but it turns out thait wet beyond that and went into the private homes, and people were socializing so the cew is a way to start to limit that socialization. people getting together, having get togethers, partying, et cetera, in order to start tamping that down because you have to be home by 10:00 o'clock now here in miami-dade. mask ords are always in place and so the message is going out, i go out every day and i am on tv telling of the importance of keeping your mask on, keeping social distancing, making sure you wash your hands, making sure you don't touch your ce with your hands.

those things, if we just do that as a community, as a country, we just take those simple steps, we can beat this virus, because our infectious disease contr doctors told us that is what we need to do, and that's what we are going to be doing here in miami-dade county and then we are going to wrait up. >> woodruff: maygior carlos menez and judge lina hidalgo, thank you very much. >> woodruff: the shock wavesin caused from imposing a new national security law earlier this week that restricts freedom of speech in hong kong continued today. nick schifrin spoke today with one of the leaders of the democracy movement who fled. >> schifrin: long before the national security law, the chinese communist party targeted hong kong residents it considered anti-beijing. that included back in 2016 the youngest resident ever elected

to the legislative council-- w.then-23-year-old nathan >> autonomy, democracy and rule of law have always been our core values. >> schifrin: last summer, he and other pro-democracy activists visited washington to push congress to sanction senior chinese communist officials. and, he sat down with me for ani intervie fellow activist y nise ho. >> i promised tonstituency that i will not obey a regime that brutally kills its people. i will keep my promise in my campaign, that i will serve the people instead of the regime. >> schifrin: this week, by video link, he continued to push ngress to act. >> schifrin: but after hong kon policepowered by that new security law, this week arrested activists not just for what they did, buthat they said abou hong kong independence, law resigned from his prominent pro-democracy group, and went to hiding. and nathan lane joins me now, from an undisclosed location.

why did you feel like you had to leave ho kong? >> well, the national security law actually, largely, limios the internl advocacy work in hong kong, because it will basically put everyone in jail for advocating legislations in the other country that-- that hold china accountable. if you ask for sanctions, yo will be indicted and it will be like years of imprisonment. so f me, my goal is to get >> schifrin: the law is very specific, not only about what you just said, about working soth other countries, but the nature of what people can say in hong kong-- that people can be arrested for talking about hong kong independence, more than just any actions that they actually make. how much of a chill does thatla uage have on activism in hong kong? >> the law kills the freedom of expression, or even freedom of thought of hong kong people. the kind of chilling effect or white terror that beijing

government wanted to impose is at the expense of our freedom of expression. so i think while this law will completely change hong kong, people a not free anymore to express their political opinion. and the one-country, two-system is basically dead. >> schifrin: do you e that there's anything people within hong kong can do, tu outside, to ly change beijing's decision about the future of hong kong? >> the future looks, like, very grim or bleak-- but i think the situation is always very dynamic. beijing islways suffering from ne much pressure, no matter domestically or internationally. and they've got a lot of domestic problems. china is not as strong as we predicted ten years ago, and there's a lot of problems. and the international community realizes that. and if you see it in that way, i don't feel like we are entirely hopeless now. there are still possibilities for change.

>> schifrin: there are many bills that the u.s. congress is debating today on what to do to respond to beijing's national. security l one of them that passed yesterday would mandate sanctions on chinese oicials involved in the hong kong crackdown. will that help? >> these kind of sanctions ward officls are very effective, actually. but this is only one side of the coin. the other side is, how we can p help tple on the ground in hong kong that risking years of imprisonment, but aiso fighting t the authoritarian and it lies to how international community could join hands together to form a tited front to fight agai the authoritarian expansion of chinescommunist party. schifrin: over the last few days, i've talked to many hong kong pro-democracy activists, organization that you were in until this week.do ou fear, now that you've left, that you somehow abandoned them? >> for me, doing international advocacy work is what i'm good at, and at i've been doing.

i-- i'm properly the first hong kong protesters to get into the state of the union address, to listen to the atement from the president. i think, from my capacity, that is definitely one of the things that i could contribute the most to the movement.k and i thng kong people will understand that. >> schifrin: you moved to hong kong as a child. you lived there for more than two decades. how difficult was it to make the decision to have tleave? >> yeah, that is dinitely one of the toughest choice that i've ever made in my whole life, fleeing out to work onio internl advocacy work. well, basically means that beijing would target you and yol possibly banned from going back for a long period of time.m and ns that you have left behind your families, your connections, or even the twoha cats that yo. tough choice, but it morely a than a personal choice. i see it as a responsibility and

a duty for me, to hong kong and to the movement. >> schifrin: nathan law, thank you ry much. >> thank you very much. >> woodruff: and now to facebook. the social media company is facing newressure to change how it handles content on its platform. stephanisy reports that major corporations have pledged to temporarily stop buying ads on the social med site for the month of july. with advertising making up 98% of facebook's revee, the company has seen its share value tumble in recent days. but will it effect major change? >> reporter: while protesters were turning out in droves on streets across the united states to demonstrate against the police killing of george floyd, a differt movement was spreading on facebook. >> hello, my facebook family. >> reporter: one where a video by a right-wing activist saying

racily-motivated police brutality is "not a real thing"a racking up 92 million views. and one where like-minded extremists found each other a beforellegedly killing apr federal ective service officer in oakland, california. it is a flood of incidents likeh that have sparked a coordinated effort to pressure facebook to change what it lows on its platform. >> what we hope to do is to expose the fact that extremists, again, have exploited the haven't done enough to combat conspiracy theories, disinfmation, racism, anti-semitism, et cetera. >> reporter:onathan greenblatt is the national director of the anti-defamation league. it is e of the groups behind "stop hate for profit," a campaignalling for companies to pull advertising dollars from facebook. >> so if facebook hasn't listened to civil rights activists and hasn't listened to consumer advocates and hasn't listened to government regulators, we thought maybe

they indeed would listen to their corporate advertisers. >> reporter: hundreds of those advertisers have answered the call for an ad boyco, including big multinationals: starbucks, coca cola, and unilever.g among other ths, the campaign is demanding that facebook remove more hateful content from its platform; reign in the promotion of that content; and refund companies whose ads appear alongside it. i think this is like a watershed moment for social media. reporter: reporter elizabeth dwoskin covers facebook for the "washington post." >> you know, for years, they'vef ctively been in this kind of free speech camp where almost anything goes. and yes, they have policies and rules against hate speech, but,o in particulapoliticians and the most powerful people megaphones, they'veyul haven't enforced them. >> reporter: so when president trump posted, "when the looting starts, the shooting starts," in the midst of the george floyd protests, facebook was criticized for not removing the

post, in ctrast to to twitter, which concealed the post with warning that it violated its rules against "glorifying violence." hundreds of facebook's own employees criticized the comny for its inaction and staged a" virtual walkout." >> i think what's happened is that the criticism of facebook, which has been super inten the past three years, er since the election, has merged with a more general feeling of a need for action in the country large. >> reporter: steven levy is an editor at large for "wired" and author of the book" facebook: the inside story." >> people now feel that they have the power to make changes. the changes must happen. >> reporter: facebook says it removed nearly ten million pieces of content containing hate speech between january and march of this year. and, under pressure, facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerburg announced a policy reversal last friday.

>> if we determine the content may lead to violence or deprive people of their right to vote, we're going to take that content down, no matter who says it. >> for them-- that was a big concession. nobut for the world, that' going to change very much, in terms of what people see. >> rorter: facebook will continue to carve out exceptioni for polis on other content they deem newsworthy, even if it violates their policies. but now, they plan to label it. to se, the changes fall shor facebook change thamental aspects of a system which promotes-- or amplifies, let's say-- the sensational content, the divisive content, that people respond to re than just ordinary posts? that really is the root of the oblem. >> reporter: and the way the newsfeed algorithm generally works is, you get more and more of what facebook thinks you want-- whether it's cats or conspiracies.

>> facebook really is, you know, suffering the consequences of its own decisions. zuckerberg's own decisions,, realat it's made over the past dozen years, to make the really can't change it without making some fundamental changes. >> reporter: but those "fundamental changes" could afct facebook's bottom lin and advertisers have grown to depend on the company that helps them reach more than 2.5 billion users. >> the advertisers who have left oare not a giant percenta facebook's revenues, and they arinfluential and importan but a lot of them are going to come back, because facebook is such an fective advertising tool for them. i think the seous problem for cebook is its own employees-- zuckerberg has to place them. >> reporter: to retain his team and remain the dominant social

media company, zuckerburg is enacting incremental change. but living up to h spoken commitment to make facebook a "forceor good" may take more than that. for the pbs newshour, i'm stephanie sy. >> woodruff: a decades-old controversy over the name of the washington d.c. redskins football team seemed to reach a tipping point today. as amna nawaz reports, afterc years of pubtcry condemning the name as a racial slur aimed at native americans, the team ownership today said it was considering a change.az >> nthat's right, judy. in a statement today, the team review" of their ng a "thorough that came after major corporate publicly for the cpepsi called another sponsor, nike, pulled team merchandise from its website.y'

for more on todecision and what drove it, i'm joined by "washington post" columnist kevin blackiston he's also producing a gcumentary called "imagin the indian," examining the fight against native american mascots in the world of sports. >> welcome back to ter newshour. have been calls for years, we should point out, to change the was'shington teame, let's start with your reaction. what do you make about the decision and stateamnt from the today? >> well, i am glad we are finally at this press precipice once with again and i hope the nickname issue can be shovedov the ledge. i don't make much of the statement today. first of all, i am offended ty would use the name in the statement and underscore it, i am offended that da schneider's include as a group of people to talk to the native americans who are, in fact, offendedby this and have been fighting for a name change for some 50 years w. and i was a little bit disturbed as well by coach rivera's statement which somehow includ

the military as being honored in all of this, which isaffling to me because the only way you bring up the military in terms of native americans is with general side, and the fact that the militias this country back in connecticut and massachusetts, when the colonie were being founded included bounuees or issd bounties for the scalps of native americans being removed frothm eir land and in fact that is what became known asredskins. so it was done deaf to me in a lot of ways. >> you mentioned the statement from team owner dan schneider. want to read to our viewers in fullis quote from that statement. he wrote, the process meaning this process they are now going launch, allows the team to take into account not only the proud adition and lift of th franchise, also input from our alumnae, the organizatspns sors, the nfl and the local community, it is proud to represent on and off the field. kevin, i am old enough toc remember k in 2013 when schneider was asked about a name

change and he said never, all cams we will never change the name. so is that where the ncresis was. >> was it really just schneider? the fan base that he is veryy much made himlf a part of, a fan base which by the way has not liked his leadership with e team in terms of winning games on the field, but maybe around this nickname is the one place where he felt that the fans would support him, and there has been support from fans, but it is not about the fans. this is about humanity. this is about treating other people as equals. this is about no longer denigrating thnative pele of this land, and that is what this movement is all about and i think it is really interting that the shift now has been made by the ck lives matter movement, right? because this started out weeks ago as a protest against police

lethality against black unn in this cy with george floyd's death. and then it became an tack on confederate icon following in this country, and en .. it became an attack on christopher columbus and his true hiry tud we have seen the removal of those sta and christopher is representative when it comes to native american genocide in this country and that relates -- that's the seed of racism in this country which relates all the way back to this nickname. >> way tonight ask you about some of the external pressure beluse we mention sod ony, some of the corporate backers and their actions thiseek, fed ex saying within days we want the name chaed, and nike looks like it took all of its merchandise off the website. >> from the washington redskin perspective was it a moral one saying this is the right move or >> this is absolutely a market move. this is hitting them in t

pocketbook. i would like to be able to say today this was an altruistic move by thisteam, but as you alluded to earlier in this report, this has beenruggle that has been going on for years. we thought thatn 2014 and 2013 that things were going to become nifferent, that that was a opportunity for this team to move a in another direction, gei on tht side of history. dan schneider could have doneu this when hehased a team. you would think that dan schneider, a jewish-american thuld have some particular sensibility abou struggle that has been going on with this team's nickname with naveti americans for so many years but that hasn't happened so this is that are pushing in this country right now, social justice forcec and pararly as it relates to this franchise it is as pocketbook e now with these major sponsors starting to push back. >> kevin, in just a few second

wes have left, there arote her sro leagued that have native american ts, do you think this decision can spur change in those leagues too? >> absolutely. this is the top of this iceberg, an iceberg that bthe way h been eroding beneath the water as high school after high anhool college after high college that have had these sort of nicknames and images and have removed them from their team. >> that is ekevin blackst "washington post" columnist and producer of the upcoming documentary,magining the indian, thank you, kevin. >> thank you very much. >> >> woodruff: now we turn to the analysis of brooks and capehart. that's "new york times columnist david brooks, and jonathan capehart.mnist mark shiel is away. i planned to start out by asking you both about

presidential learship and covid, but listing to that conversation right now between to ask you both quickly, david,e what do you make of the fact thas thengtoredskins are now seriously looking at their name? >> well, i think they should .. i think there is a greater study done in 2016 they asked a native americans are youed offey the name and 90 percent said no, but that is shifting and the most recent study there was a berkeley study that said many more are offended and if people are offend paid irme, especially if it is the own people and it is clear it is wrong to use thamt nae. >> and, jonathanapehart? washington footbal to the change its name. this is a long time in coming. >> woodruff: and we will see what happens, but early forces are -- forces are in motion. so let's come back to the

cod-19. david, two days in a row the most cases in a single day ever. we are setting record after record. president trump has had a controversial set of decisions he has made today, heading tonight heading to mount rushmore. what do we -- what is your assessment at this point of the leadership from very top on this pandemic? >> well, trump has been a failure at it since day one. he denied it, he has crackpot theories about it. he offered n leadership at all but i have to say when you lookt 7 new cases one day and 55,000 the day before, that'ssi not only pnt trump, that wasn't trump who wins the bars in nevada and arizona and texasl and fornia, who opens the bars, that's a country, collective failure, that's a country that just got tired and t tired and decided ah we will

just go out and the result is the sowncial breaknd a humiliation for the country. we have one job as a country this ye, and that was to bend the curve on covid and that's a job that most peek nations, many other nations did, most european neighbors did, and now we are in exponential growth as they were rising in march and that's not all donald trump trump for sure, but that is on a lot of us. it was a collective failure.dr >> woof: jonathan, capehart, where do you see the responsibility lyingelhere? >> , look, iagree with david that the president has been a complete failure when it comes to the covid response. and also and i also agree with david, you know, the president but the people going to the bars, the people going to the beaches, the people going to poolparties and house remember, though, eople look to leadership. leadership and wht we have seen over the last few months is thea el universe that has been

set up where the president happy talks the nation about the virus going away andar disapg in the heat and injecting people with detge and disinfectants and then you have dr. birx and fauci desperately trying to get facts and information out to the american peple and not being able to breakthrough because the presidenof the united states will not model the behavior that would filer down everyone to send a clear signal that this pandemic is serious and here is what i am doing that is part of the effort to slow it down.ha if he had donefrom the hands, put on a mask, not call it a hoax and make up all sorts of raist names for it, but if he had just shown that kind ofmb ic leadership, i doubt we would be in this situation that we are in right now. >> woodruff: what about that, david? i mean, uncertain trump -- we done different things.rs ve we heard from two mairdz a

little earlier in mee program. , the leadership overall has d -- haen setting an example at the same followers ha been deciding what to do. >> well, we have had failures on all sorts of scales, the cdc messed up the first test, the sba department allow private testing, we had institutional failure after institutional failure and i do think we have had social failure. yo know, i had hopes early in this pandemic we would draw together atha people, thats crisis would cause us to come hopes of that anymore. if you look at america, we understand what position ware right now, 71 percent of americans are angry about where the country is. 66 percent are fearful, 82 percent are dissatisfied, i think we all understand this is just anwf aul moment in life, and it is an awfully humil fting mome the country and it starts with trump. i hahopes that, you kno okay our leader we can decentralize and do the right thing, but it

and trying to make individuals individually andot without a leadership class, that is huge on donald trump and huge on a country that has come to disrespect expertise and authority. so i think there is a lot -- this is a bad moment and a loud on lot of blame to go away. >> woodruff: jonathan, what about that, and thun have joe biden saying what he has been sayi, essentially, this sweek accusing the pent of surrendering to the the covid. >> ll, i would say to piggyback on something david just said, look you have a of the like greten whitmer in michigan who is trying to do the right thing, but yet was gettin incoming fe president of the united states hurling insults at her and demanding that -- and supporting the people who were protesting armed on the steps of the capitol in michigan trying to get her to change her mind and in doing the right thing. so that's also a part othe mix. and i think what vice president,

enformer vice president bias has been doing since pandemic happened and especially his remarks this week is setting up a contrast, a very viible and unmistakable contrast from his wearing -- from his strong rds against the president to his wearing of a mask to having thee reporters and ctators socially distance around him. he is sending thesignal he takes this pandemic seriously and hasis actions and the symbolism match the words he is saying, and that is why i think in addition to the ilure that president has shown, that's why i also think there is the yawning gap that appears in the polling between the president and the former vice president enbecause at this momthe, at this time in the country where the nation feels eitr humiliated or down or feel like everything is going off the rails, here is a person who is running to be president of the united states, who at a minimum

is projecting stability. >> woodruff: david, whatis your take on joe biden's message right now? n i think it has been clear, i think it has beod, it has not been loud, but it doesn need to be. biden is running a successful campaign you look atthese things by the polls and he is doing well, but i do think it is mostly anti-trum if you look at where trump's raw pport, first he lost it massively among seniors because of his poor handling of covid anrthen his horible handling of all race relations, anything race related more than horrible, he lost it among many groups, among your your honor young, amg ople who like the way he handles the economy are disgted by his behavior race so he lost another chunk of voters on that and joe biden just has to say hey i belie in science, i believe in the enli high bar he has to pass because of the competition but i think he is clearing it with ease. >> woodruff: well, speaking of losing chunks of voters when it

comes to republicans we have seen lincoln project, they have been around for several months now, jonathan, and then just in the last few days we have been watching alumni of the george w. bush administration, another group of republicans coming together to oppose the president, trying to come up with a message. what is going on here? what what has triggered this? and is it effective, do you think? >> well i do think it is effectiv because what you have happening here is a group of republicans talking to republicans trying to convince those who might still be on the fence to turn away from the president. ke no mistake, the bush 43 alumni who have come stout aga president trump, the lincoln project folks, these are not democrats. they are not switching their party affiliations, i am sure most of them, if not all of them respect former vice president bin as a person, as ath statesman bu are not going

to be changing their party affiliation. what ware seeing is some consistency here. o ose republicans are the ones ve constantly talked about rule of law, respect for the constitution, powers of the executive, there being limitations on it and standing up for the rule of law and democracy. and those are all the things that president trump has been thumbing his nose at for the entire of his presidency and so what i view is happening is a group of stalwart republicans are standing up for the office of the presidency and for the republican and doing everythingo they can communicate to the nation but especially to republicans that what is happening now cannot stand and that the country needs to go in a new direction a and the way to do that is to remove presidentom trump office. >> woodruff: david, can that be effective if it built on back to what you said a moment

ago? it is not a pro biden message mpt an anti-donald tru message. >> yes. i think for a lot of people that's enough r right now. i think people likeden -- right now it seems to be enough. i think i hate lunch with a republican senator a few months ago now and he ran in 2016 an he said what was interesting about my rallies in 2016 he said i didn't know any these people, they were not the republicans i had known in my there was a new group that came in and took over -- it was a hostile takeover of the republan party, and the people in the jefferson project and pele in the bush paigns are conservatives, trump is not a conservative, she an ti-leftist and there is a difference. and so if you are a bush person, say, and a lotf the jefferson project people are mccain people, you served a man of character, you sort of believe in america's expansive role in the world and you believe in immigration, what the ump party offers you is neitherte

char nor good policy and so for a lot of people i am surprised it has taken them thig nd there is a clear choice that they need to change and they are willing to give up on judges and some of the other issues they care about just for the moral health of the country. >> woodruff: well, it is a remarkable turof events, so much to talk to both of you about, we hope you have a great 4th of july weekend in the midst of is terrible time of pandemic and so mucmore. david brooks, jonathan capehart, we thank you both >> woodruff: the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic has upended the daily lives of children across the globe, and parents and caregivers have struggled to explain the changes brought by covid-19. two medical students in california told the pbs newshour that their desire to help bridge

that gap inspired them to write a free children's book called" why we stay home." >> my name is samantha harris. >> hi, my name is devon scott. >> i am a fourth-year medical student. >> i'm a fourth-year medicalt stud loma linda university in southern california. >> one night, you know, i was at home talkingdevon, the other author on the book. and we were just talking about how, as medical students, wed were k overwhelmed by the ever-changing amount of information available about covid. >> i took a step back and said, like, you know, throughout thish ole thing, a population that is kind of being left out of the mix are kids. >> some them could be happy that they're with their moms and is, but do they reeir caregiver understand why we're at home? they hear the word "covid-19," w do they knt that means? so we wanted to kind of make are urce that explained to them, you know, why we've been quarantining, what does social distancing mean? in non-threatening way, th

little kids could enjoy. >> a lot of books that we've seen that are trying to tell hard topics to kids is really from a narrator or parent/child standpoint. but we wanted to switch that up, wanted to make it a little bit more relatable. so in this-- in the story, it's the older sister comforting and talking to her younger sister. >> "'but what is a coronavirus, anyway?' asked suzie. coronavirus is a virus. a virus is a really small germ that you cannot see.e there her kinds of germs too, like bacteria and fungi." even though we woulde explaining it to little be as accurate as possible.k to so there were some keyoncepts: what kinds of populations are we trying to keep safe, wearing a mask, standing six feet apart. we wanted to kind of explain to children so that they not only know what covid is, but why doing.been doing what we're

>> when i was a child, i can recall only a very, very few hory books that i read th somebo that looks like me. and when i did seewahose books, like, super excited because, hey, that little boy looks like me i can rela to that person. >> we wanted young children to kind of look in the book and say, oh,ow, this little girl looks like me. she has an afro, just like me. meher big sister looks lik her mommy and daddy look like my mommy and daddy. >> so it's just about being as relatable as as-- as possible. we wanted to me this book free because we wanted to be very accessible. >> we didn't want socio-economia status to imiting factor when it came to reading it, educating kids about careers and about medicine. >> the response has been absolutely phenomenal. we counted it as a success, if a hundred kids downloaded the book. but so far it's been over 40,000 downloads worldwide. >> i feel like throughout this

whole time, there have been countless stories of human beings just rallying together and just, you know, loving and supporting each other in various ways. i think the main message of the book is actually the end of the book, the very last page, when, you know, suzy is looking up to her big sister, millie, for kins of comfort aport. hed she's like, "is this t way it's going to be forever, from now on?" and mille kind of says, you know r.o, suzy, it will get bet we just have to keep sticking together." >> woodruff: amid the summer surge, covid-19 continues to takehe lives of americans every day. here are just some of the stories of those lives we've lost. postal worker jesus collazos was known for taking the time to greet every neighbor along his

mail route in arlington, virginia. the 67-year-old spent over twdecades with the u.s. postal service, after immigrating from colombia in 1978. jesus and his wife raised his two children in a home he first discovered along his route. dthe proud grandfather lo posting family photos on social media, always with a simple lynika strozier never gave up on as a child, she was diagnosed with a severe learningbi dity, but went on to earn two masters' degrees in biology and science education. she became a researcher of plant d.n.a. at the world-renowned field museum in chicago, and a science professor at malcolm x college. fun-loving and friendly, lynika was ast home in the lab as she was out with friends, or

watching horror movies with her grandmother, sharon, who raised her.ar lynika was 3s old. dr. robert hull cared for thousands of patients nearly 50 years practicing family medicine arkansas. his patients-- some of whose families he treated for generations-- said he was encouraging, had a great sense of humor, and could lift anyone's spirits with a smile and a lollipop. robert-- or "ray"-- and his wife, kathryn, were married for 56 years. ray was always there for dance recitals, sports games and graduations for his four children and ten grandchildren. he was 78. eva konrad hawkins, a holocaust scientist, fled she found refuge in amera, and a home in new york city.a

iversity biology teacher, eva was committed to her work oe algaarch. her family described the 90-mi year-old's as child-like; shy, but her energrd her and research as ferocious. allen y. lew changed the cityscape of washington, d.c. as a city-planning executive. born and raised in new york city, allen moved to washington to spearhead development of the downtown convention center. he went on to build al's baseball park, and rehabilite d.c. public schools. friends described allen as no-nonsense and reliable; loyal and considerate. a husband to suling and father to garrett, allen was 69 years old.

our heart go out to them and to all affected. and, as we start thith of july weekend, from all of us at the newshour to each of you, at is time of great stress and uncertainty, we wish you time with friends and loved ones, ane o reflect on what it means to live in this country-- unded 244 years ago with the idea that all of us are createdq l-- on how well we've telfilled that original idea, and on how fortue are to be able to keep re-interpreting it. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff., please stay sad thank you. >> major funding for the pbs nehour has been provided by: >> when the world gets complicated, a lot goes through your min with fidelity wealth management, a dedicated advisor can tailor your life. recommendations to that's fidelity wealth management. >> consumer cellular

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