captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight:on covihe rise. the u.s. tops 50,000 newor infections fhe second straight day, the largest numbers yet recorded, as many plan to congregate for the holiday weekend. then, crackdown. hong kong is still reeling i from tosition of a draconian security law by the chinese government. plus, socialedia scrutiny. facebook faces advertising boycotts in respon to its handling of hate speech. >> for years, they've effectively been in this free speech camp, where almost anything goes. andyes, they have policies rules against hate speech, but, in particular for politicians and the most powerful people with the most powerful megaphones, they haven't

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in spite of the country's surge, president trump aded to south dakota today for a fireworksy disp mount rushmore. it is expected to aw 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 curbing the read in their communitie after the news summary. also today, the head of homeland security warned protesters against vandizing or removing statues and monuments this ekend. in an opinion article, chad wolf said his department will "leverage every tool and authority" to protect those landmarks. that comes two days after he announced new task force to coordinate such a response. 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 lsenlo

absentee brestrictions, in three of the state's largest counties, ahead of this month's ruelections. the high court will now decide whether to hear alabama's appeal. the aurora, colorado police officers who took photos of themselves smiling as they 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 forde what theed was "suspicious" behavior. hothey placed him in a cho, sedated him, and he later died. in turkey, a trial in rwsentia got un in istanbul for the 20 saudis charged in the slaying st "washington post" colum jamal khashoggi. saudi consulate there in 2018, while he was trying to get marriage paperwith his fiancée. today, she voiced hope that

justice will be served. >> ( translated ):his has become a responsibility that has been emotionally and spiritlly put on our shoulders at the saudi consulate on october 2, 2018. i thank u all, on behalf of jamal. may he rest in peace. we trust in turkish justic the judiciary process has begun. >> woodruff: none of the accused were in court, since exudi arabia rejected demands for theiadition. a saudi court previously sentenced five people to deathd ree to jail for the but, khashoggi's family later forgave his murderers, effectively granting them ethiopia's prime minister, abiy ahmed, called out protesters today for refusing to end a week of deadly unrest.t mon 80 people have died amid outrage over the shooting death of a popular singer, hachalu hundessa.

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 the mysterious deaths of someo their bodies were found ineks. the northern okavango panhandle region, where authorities are woseing to determine their c of death. they have ruled out poaching, since the carcasses were intac and now are focusing on other possibilities. >> if this was a disease, or virus, or a bacterial outbreak, that was to spread-- as i mentioned earlier, if a smaller, less genetically diverse population were affected-- then it could 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 newshour: the u.s. tops 50,000 new

infections for the secondst ight day, as americans gather for the holiday.nt hong kong ues to reel from the imposition of a draconian security law. okfaceaces resistance in response to its handling of hate speech. and, much more. >> woodruff: on 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 aga shutting down-- we want to assess where ware, and what our prospects might be going forward. to help us explore tho questions and more, we tn to the top elected officials of two majometropolitan areas. judge lina hilgado, a democrat,t

head of the governing body of harris county, texas, which includes houston. mayor carlos gimenez is the republican mayor of miamdade >> woodruff: and we welcome thank you so much ininghour. us. judge, hidalgo to you first, give us an update of where you stand right now in harris county with covid-19 and your attempts to get it underontrol. >> right now, in harris county, we have crossed beyond our operationabed capacity in our intensive care units, so our icus are already having to uble up on staff ratios, on beds per room and the hospitalization rate is increasing. sometimes faster with each passing dayha put our community on red alert as of the week o we are

he highest possible threat level, so everydys on aler the problem is that per the law in theory, because i no long very the power to enforce a stay home order, as i did earlier on this year, people in theory can right now still go to restaurants. there could be a rockets game, a basketball game, at the toyota center if they wanted to, many things ar still open and we are careening toward a disaster here. >> woodruff: very, very tough. and, mayor, mayor gimenez, in miami-dade county what areou facing there? >> we have had a rise in the percentage of positives here in miami-dade county, the number doesn't approach the real number, the official number is probabndercounted by a factor of 10, maybe even 20 here in miami-dade county, so we ha had an increase in the number of

patients and in the hospital an increase in the number of people in ic. us and ventilators but we have capacity right now so we have taken a lot of steps. obviously we have a curfew for 10:00 o'clock now county wide. we close the beaches for theul 4th of weekend. we have started to close some of the businesses that we had allowed to b open recently, most of them are the large venue types of casinos, bowling leys, theaters, those are now shut down again so we are taking proaive steps to start attach down this be virus. >> woodruff: and, judge hidalgo, you used strong words, you said you are heading toward a disaster. you also mentioned that the governor, greg bott has overridden your ability, the anti-of other local leaders to impose restrictions. how much difference is that making in yo ability do you think to keep this under control? >> it is a huge difference.is s our second time in dealing with. this we had a spike back in march. i issued a stay home order

early, earlier in the viral load than many oth communities so we didn't get to the crisis point that other mmunities ended up in. with we managed to flatten the curve. but before thee curve camdown on the other side, there was a reopening.i felt that at the tis too early, it was too much but i said, i don'know for sure. let's see. and i am going to do everything i can to make it work. we built an army of contact tracers, expanded access to for isolation for firstties responders who came back positive going into nursing homes, homeless shelters, threw everything at the, everything at the problem but the reality, is after those eopenings, the increase started and a strategy of incrementalism is not worki in harris county, right now when we are teetering on the brink of disaster. the goal is not to fill up all of thebeds, see how ose we can get to having all of the beds full, to having bed for everybody to die in, and then

trying to take action a, drastic action, so that's what i am very, very concerned about. >> and he that certainly from your vivid description of what is going on. earlier in miami and across the state of florida, there was a desire to open up,toopen up early. how much more difficult is it becae earlier, frankly, you and others had felt it was more important to get people out and get businesses open. ed no. we actually attaown the virus here tamped the virus down sufficiente and the way w opened was with the advice of our medical personnel, so we d infectious disease control doctors that were a part of the process. once we stard to open, l to open and i have said .. we have had a mader in place, never have taken it off. the problem is that people started thinking that this virus

was really no more. we alsoad a number of demonstrations here, young people that were gathered together, a lot of them weren't wearing maskand they were together for hours and it wasn't a coincidence that about two weeks after these donstrations 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 the time that we have left, how hard is it to get these important ssages out now? now that you are facing very difficult situation there in hidalgo, how are you getting the message out and how how difficult is it, given what you have been through? >> part of what i struggle wit is enorceability. right now i can recommend to my community that they stay home. the goal is noto 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 rightnow for my community, 5 million people, houston and 33 othtier cies, is an enforceable order for people to stay home, consistent messaging at all levels of government and then patience and being smart, not being the i canathe coal mine about what not to do. we need to be able to get that curve back wn and then open based on the communities that have succeedeh what have t done? let's learn from them, the ones that didn't, okay that'sa lesson on maybe what we need to learning by doing, when we are in a crisis situation as we are right now, we don't have room for experimentour own people, and so we need enforceable ordersder to we need get that message across. >> woodruff: and finally, just quickly, mayor gimenez, how are you persuading people now that this is serious? you have been saying that people didn't abide by what to the rules were, how do you tell thet

nos is real? >> well, very simple, i mean, obviously by issuing a rfew, that is a very strong indication that this is real. enforce here and enforce. we do now stands of inspections ery day on our businesses, but it turns out that it went beyond that and went into the private homes, andpl peowere socializing so the curfew is a way to start to limit that socialization. people getting together, having get toghe, partying, et cetera, in order to start ause youthat down bec have to be home by 10:00 o'clock now here in miami-dade. mask orders are alys in place and so the message is going out, i go out every daynd i am on tv telling of the importance of keeping your mask on, keeping social distancing, making sureh you wash youds, making sure you don't touch your face 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 is virus, because our infectious disease control doctors ld us that is what we need to do, and that's what we are going to be doing here miami-dade county and then we are going to wrap it up. >> woodruff: mayor carlos gimenez and juge lina hidalgo, thank you very much. >> woodruff: the shock waves caused from china imposing a new national security law earlier this week that restr freedom of speech in hong kong continued today. nick schifrin spoke today with one of the leaders of the >> 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-- then-23-year-o nathan law.

>> autonomy, democracy and rule of law have always been our core values. >> schifrin: last summer, he an oto-democracy activists visited washington to push chinese communist officials. and, he sat down with me for an interview with fellow st denise ho. romised to my constituen that i will not obey a regime that brutally kills its people. i will keep my pron my thmpaign, that i will serv people instead of the regime. >> schifrin: this weby video link, he ctinued to push congress to ac >> schifrin: but after hong kong police, empowered by tt new security law, this week arrested activists not just for what they did, but what they said about hong kong independence, law resigned from his prominent pro-democracy group, and went into hiding. and nathan lane joins me now, from an undisclosed location. why did you feel like you had to leave hong kong?

>> well, the national security law actually, largely, limits wthe international advocak 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, u will be indicted a it will be like years of imprisonment. so for me, my goals to get >> schifrin: the law is very specific, not only about what you just said, about working with other couries, but also the nature of what people can say in hong kong-- that people about hong kong independence, more than just any actions that they actually mach. how f a chill does that language 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 orit terror that beijing government wanted to impose is t

expense of our freedom of expression. completely change ong,law will people are not free anymore to express their political opinion. and the one-country, two-system is basically dead. >> schifn: do you believe that there's anything people within hong kong can do, or outside, te actually changing'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 is always suffering from new, much pressure, no matteric domely or internationally. and they've got a lot of domestic problems. china is not as strong as we predicted ten years ago, and ere's a lot of problems. and the international community realizes that. and if you see it in that way, i eln't feel like we are ent 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 law. one of them that passed yesterday would mandate sanctions on chinese officials involved in the hong kong crackdown. will that help? >> these kind of sanctions toward officia are very effective, actually. but this is only one side of the coin. the other side is, how we can help the people on the ground in rshong kong that risking yf imprisonment, but also fighting against the authoritarian country? and it lies to how the international communany could join together to form a united front to fight against the authoritarian expansion of chinese communist party. >> schifrin: over the last few days, i've talked to many hong kong pro-democracy activists, including members of the organization that you were in until this week. do you fear, now that you've them? that you somehow abandoned >> for me, doing international advocacy work is what'm good at, and what i've been doi.

i-- i'm properly the first hong kong protesters to get into the st the union address, to listen to the statement from the present. i think, from my capacity, that is definitely one of the things that i could contribute e most to the movemt. and i think hong kong people will understand that. >> schifrin: you moved t hong kong as a child. you lived there for more than two decades. w difficult was it to make the decision to have to leave? >> yeah, that is definitely one ofvehe toughest choice that ever made in my whole life, fleeing out to work on international advocacy well, basically means that neijing would target you and you could possibly bfrom going back for a long period of time. and it means that yo left behind your families, your connections, or even the two cats that you have. so, mean, it's definitely a tough choice, but i see it more than a personal choice.on i see it as sibility and a duty for me, to hong kong and to the movement. >> schifrin: nathan law, thank

you very much. >> thank you vermuch. >> woodruff: and now to facebook. the social media company is facing new pressure to change how it handles content on its platform. stephanie sy reports that major corporations have pledged to temporarily stop buying ads on the social media site for the month of july. with advertising making up 98% of facebook's revenue, the company has seen its share value tumble in recent days. but will it effect major change? >> reporter: while ptesters were turning out in droves on streets across the united states to demonstrate against the police killing of george floyd, a different movement was spreading on facebook. >> hello, my facebook family. >> reporter: one where a video by a right-wing activist saying brutality is "not a real thing"

was racking up 92 million views. and one where like-minde extremists found each other before allegedly killing a federal protective ser officer in oakland, california. l is a flood of incidentse this that ha sparked a coordinated effort to tessure facebochange what it allows on its platform. >> what we hope to do is to plpose the fact that extremists, again, have ted the platform, and they simply haven't done enough to combat conspiracy theories, disinformation, racism, an-semitism, et cetera. >> reporter: jonathan greenblatt is the national director of the anti-defamion league. it is one of the groups behind "stop hate for profit," a campaign calling 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. h

>> reportedreds of those advertisers have answered the call for an ad boycott, including big multinationals: stbucks, coca cola, and unilever. among other things, the campaign is demanding that facebook remove more hateful content from its platform; reign the promotion of that content; and refund companies whose adspe alongside it. >> i think this is like a watershed moment for social media. >> reporter: reporter elizabeth dwoskin covers facebooin >> you know, for ythey've effectively been in this kind of free speech camp where almost anything goes. and yes,hey have policies and rules against hate speech, but, in particular for politicians and the most powerful peopos with thepowerful megaphones, they've-- they haven't enforc 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 contrast to

to twitter, which concealed the post with a warning that i violated its rules against "glorifying violence." hundreds of facebook's own employees criticized the company for its inaction and staged a" virtual walkout." >> i think what's happened is that the criticism of facebook, which has been super intense the past three years, ever since the election, has merged with a more general feeling of a need for action in the country at 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. anthe s must happen. >> reporter: facebook saysit emoved nearly ten million pieces of content containing hate speech between jaand march of this year. and, under pressure, facebook a policy reversal last friday.ed >> 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. but for the world, that's not going to change very much, i terms of what people see. >> reporter: facebook will continue to carve out exceptions for politicians on othtent they deem newsworthy, even if it violates their policies. but now, they plan to label it. to some, the changes fall short. >> the question is, will facebook change the fundamental aspects of a sysm whic promotes-- or amplifies, let's say-the sensational content, the divisive content, that people respond to more than just ordinary posts? that really is the root of the problem. >> 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 itown decisions. zuckerberg's own decisions, really, that it's made over the past dozen years, to make the platform what it is now, and it really can't change it without making some fundamental changes. >> reporter: but thoseha "fundamentales" could affect facebook's bottom line, and advertisers have grown to depend on the company elps them reach more than 2.5 billion users. >> the advertisers who have left are not a gianfapercentage of book's revenues, and they are influential animportant. but a lot of them are going to co back, because facebook is such an effective advertisingol or them. i think the serious problem for facebook is its own employees-- zuckerberg has to placate them. >> reporter: to retain his team and rema dominant social

media company, zuckerburg is enacting incremental change. but living up to his spoken commitment to make facebook a "force for good" may take more than that. for the pbs newshour, i'm stephanie sy. >> woodruff: a decades-old washington d.c. redskinse of the football team seemed to reach a tipping point today. amna nawaz reports, after years of public outcry condemning the name as a racialr imed at native americans, the team ownership today said it was considering a change. >> nawaz: that's right, judy. in a statement today, the team id it's launing a "thorough review" of their name. that came after major corporatek s fedex and pepsi called publicly for the change. another sponsor, nike, pulled f team merchandim its website. for more on today's decision

and what drove it, i'm joined by "washington post" columnist kevin blackistone.od he's also ing a documentary called "imagining the indian," examining the fight against native ameriscots in the world of sports. al welcome back to the newshour. there have been for years, we should point out, to change the wasngton team's name, let's start with your reaction. what do you make about the decision and statement from the team today? >> well, i am glad we are finally at this press precipice once with again and i hope the nickname issue can be shoved over the ledge. i don't make much of the statement today. first of all, i am offended they would use the name in the statement and underore it, i am offended that dan schneider's statement from him did note incl a group of people to talk to the native americans who are, in fact, offended by ths and have been fighting for a name change for some 50 years now. and i was a little bit disturbed as well by coach rivera's statement which somehow included the military as being hored in

all of this, which is baffling to me because the only way youi bring up theitary in terms of native americans is with general side, and the fact that the militias in this country massachusetts, when the colonies were being founded included bounties or issued bounties for the scalps of native amicans being removed from their land and in fact that is what came known as redskins. so it was done deaf to me in aa lot ofs. >> you mentioned the statement from team owner dan schneider. want to read tour viewers in full his quote from that statement. he wrote, the process meaning this process theare now going launch, allows the team to take into account not on the proud tradition and lift of the franchise, also input fom ou alumnae, the organizations sponsors, the nfl and the local community, it is proud to represent on and off the field. kevin, i am old enough to remember back in 2013 when schneider was asked aut a name change and he said never, all name.we will never change the

so is that where the resistance was. >> was it really just scneider? you know, there was certainly the fan base that heis very much made himself a part of, a fan base ich by the way has not liked his leadership with the team in terms of winning games on the fie mld, butaybe around this nickname is the one place where he felt that the fans would support him, and there has been support from ns, butt is not about the fans. is is about humany. this is about treating other people as equals. this is about no longer denigrating the native people of this land, and that is what this movement is allbout and i think it is really interesting that the shift now has been made by the black lives matter movent, right? because this started out weeks ago as a protest against police lethality against black men in

this country with george floyd's death. and then it became an attack on confederate icon following in this country, and then .. it became an attachck onristopher columbus and his true history and we have seen the removal of those statues and christopher columbus is the one whoea lly is representative when it comes to native american genocide in this count and that relates - that's the seed of racism in h relates allwhic the way back to this nickname. >> way tonight ask you aboute some of ternal pressure because we mention sod only, some of the corporate backers and their actions this week, fed ex sayg within daywe want the name changed, and nike looks like it took all of its merchandise off e website. >> from the washington redskin perspective was it a moral one saying this is the right e or was it a market one? >> this is absolutely a market move. this is hitting them in the pocketbook. i would like to be able to sayto

y this was an altruistic move by this team, but as you alluded to earlier in th report, this has been a struggle that has been going on for years. we thought that in 2014 and 2013 that things were going to come different, that that was an opportunity for this team to move a in another direction, get on the right side of history. dan schneider could have done this when he purchased a team. you would think that dan schneider, a jewish-american would have some particular sensibility about the struggle that has been going on with this team's nickname with native americans for so many years but that hasn't happened so this is strictly a reaction to forces p that ashing in this country right now, social justice forces and particularly as relates to this franchise it is a cketbook issue now th these major sponsors starting to push back. >> kevin, in just a fesecon wes have left, there are other

pro leagued that have native american mascots, do you think this decision can spur change in those leagues too? >> absolutely. is is the top of this iceberg, been eroding beneath the water as high school after high schoof and colleger high college that have had these sort of nicknames and images and have removed them from their team. >> thais kevin blackstone "washington post" columnist and producer of th upcoming documentary, imagining the indian, thank you, kevin. >> thank you very much. >> >> woodruff: now we turn to the analysis of brooks and capehart. that's "new rk times" columnist david brooks, and "washington post" anlumnist jonaapehart. mark shields is away. i asking you both about presidential leadership and covid, but listening to that

conversation right now between amna and kevin blackstone i have to ask u both quickly, david, what do you make of the fact that the washington redskins are now seriously looking at changing their name >>l, i think they should .. i think there is a greater awareness of names, there was ao studne in 2016 they asked native americans are you offended by 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 name, especially if it is theire owle and it is clear it is wrong to use that name. >> and, jonathan capehart? >> long past time for the washingt football team to change its name. this is a long time in coming. >> woodr f: and we wille what happens, but clearly forces are -- forces are ti mo. so let's comback to the

covid-19. david, two days in a row the c moases 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 atis point of the leadership from very top on this pandemic? >> wel, trump has been a failure at it since day one. he denied it, he has crackpot theories about it. heffered no leadership at all but i have to say when you look at 57 new cases one day and 55,000 the daybefore, that's not only president trump, that wasn't trump whowins the bars in nevada and arizona and texas and california, whns the bars, that's a country,ai collectivere, that's country that just got tired andd got tired decided ah we will just go out and the result is the socialreakdown and a

humiliation for the country. we have one job as a country this year, and that was to bend the curve on covidnd that's a job that most peek nations, many her nations did, most european neighbors did, and now we aren 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. >> woodruff: jonatpen, rt, where do you see the responsibility lying here? >> well, look, i agree with t david the president has been a complete failure when it comes to the covid sponse. and also and i also agree with david, you know, it is not justd the prt but the people going to the bars, the people going to the beaches, the people going to pooan partie house parties, but we have to rememberthough, that people look to leadership. they look to the president for leadership and what we have seen over the last few monishs the parallel universe that has been set up where the prepysident h

talks the nation about the virus going away and diappearing in the heat and injecting people with detergent and disinfectants and then you have dr. birx and fauci desperately trying to get facts and information out to the amican people an not being able to breakthrough because the president of the united states will not moel the behavior that would filter down everyone to send a clear siagnal t this pandemic is serious and here is whth i am doin is part of the effort to slow it down. if hhad done that from the very beginning, washed his p hand on a mask, not call it a hoax and make up all sorts of racist names for it, but if he had jus shown that kind of symbolic leadership, i doubt we would be in this we are in right now. >> woodruff: what about that, davi i mean, uncertain trump -- we know different governors havere done dif things. we heard from two mairdz a little earlier in the program.

i mean, the leadership overall has had-- has been setting an example at the same time followers have been deciding what to do. >> well, we have had failures on all sorts of scales, the cdc messedp the first test, the sba department allow private testing, we had institutional failure after institutional failure and i do think we haveso haal failure. yo know, i had hopes early in this pandemic we would draw together as a pele, that this crisis would cause us to come together, i don't really haof hopethat anymore. if you look at america, we understand what position we are in right now, 71 percent of amicans are ang about where the country is. 66 percent are fea aul, 82 percee dissatisfied, i think we all understand this is just an awful ment in life, and it is aawfully humiliating moment for the cound it starts with trump. i had hopes that, you know, okay our leader we can decentralize and do the right thing, but it rned us each epidemiologists

and trying to make individuals individually and not without a leadership class, at is huge on donald trump and huge on a country that has come todi espect 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 then you hve joe biden saying what he has been saying, essentially, this week accusing the president ofo surrenderinge the covid. >> well, i would say to piggyback on something david just said, look you have a of the likgretchen whitmer i michigan who is trying to do the right thing, but yet was getting coming from the president of the united states hurling insults ernding 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 of the mix. and i think what vice president, former vice president biden hass

happened and espe hisemic remarks this week is setting upa a con, a very visible and unmistakable contrast from his wearing -- from his strong words against the president to his wearing of a mask to having the reporters and spectators socially distance around him. he is sending the signal he takes this pandemic seriously and he has his actions and the symbolism match the words that he is saying, and that is why i think in addition to the failure 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 because at this moment the, at this time in the country where the nation feels either 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, what is

your take on joe biden's message right now? >> i think it has been clear, i think it has been good, it has not been loud, butt doesn't need to be. bideis running asuccessful campaign you look at these things by the polls and he is doing well, t i do think it s mostly anti-trump. if you look at whereu tr's raw support,irst he lost it massively among seniors because of his poondling of covid and then his horrible handling of all race relations, anything race rated more than horrible, he lost it among many groups, among your your honor young, amg people who like the way he handles the economy re disgusted by his behavior on race so he lost another chunk of voters on that and joe biden just has to say hey i believe in science, i believe in the enlightenment, this is not a high bar he has to pass because of the mpetition butthink he is clearing it with ease. >> woodruff: well, speaking of losing chunks of voters en it comes to republicans we have

seen lincoln project, thehave been around for several months now, jonathan, and then just in the la few days we have been watching alumni of thege geor. bush administration, another group of republicans coming together to oppose the president, trying to come up what is going on here? what what has triggered this? and is it effective, doou >> well i do think it is effective because what you have happing here is a grouof republicans talking to republicans trying to convince those who might still be on the fence to turn away om the president. make no mistake, the bush 43 alumni who have come out against president trump, the lincoln democrats.lks, these are not they are not switching their party affiliations, i am sure most of hem, if not all of them biden as a person, as asident statesman but they are not going to be changing their part

affiliation. consistency hering is some those republicans are the ones who have constantly talked about rule of law, respect for the constitution, powers of the executive, there being mitations on it and standing up for the rule of law and democracy. and those are all the things that president trump has been umbing his nose at for the entirety of his presidency and so what view is happening is a group of stalwart republicans tried and true republicans who are standing up for the office of t predency and for the republican and doing everything they can to communicate to the nation pbut esecially to republicans that what is happening nocannot stand and that the country needs to go in a new direction a and the way ts do tha to remove president trump from office. >> woodruff: david, n that be effective if it is built on an anttrump message, to get back to what you said a moment

ago?t it i a pro biden messagebu an anti-donald trump message. >> yes. i think for a lot of people that's enough t r rinow. i think people like biden -- right now it seems to be enough. i think i hate lunch h a republican senator a few months ago now and he ran in 2016 andi he swhat was interesting about my rallies in 2016 he said i didn'tknow any of these people, they were not the republicans i had known in my state all of ms life. there new group that came in and took over -- it was a hostile taver of the republican party, and the peoplr in the jen project and people in the bush campaigns are conservatives, trump is not a conservative, she an a anti-lefti there is a difference. and so if you are a bush person, sa anda lot of the jefferson project people are mccain people, you served man of character, you sort of believe in america's expansive rol the world and you belie in immigration, what the trumyo party offeris neither character nor good policy and so for a lot of people i am

surprised it has taken them thi long and there clear choice that they need to change and judges and some of the otheron issues they care about just for the moral health of the country. >> woodruff: well, it is a remarkable turn of eventsso much to talk to both of you about, we hope you have a great july weekend in the midst of this terrible time of pandemic and so much more. david brooks, jonathan capehartu we thankboth >> woodruff: the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic has upended the day lives of children across the globe, and pants 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 medical student at loma linda university in southern california. >> one night, you know, i was at me talking with devon, t other author on the book. and we were just talking about how, as medical students, we were kind of overwhey the ever-changing amount of formation available abou covid. >> i took a step back and said, like, u know, throughout this whole thing, a population that is kind of being left out of the mix are kids. >> some of them could be happy that they're with their moms and dads or whoever thr caregiver is, but do they really understand why we're at home? they hear the word "covid-19," nsdo they know what that m so we wanted to kind of make aex resource thaained to them, you know, why we've been quarantining, what does social distancing mean? in a non-threateng way, that little kids could enjoy.f

>> a lotoks that we've seen that are trying to tell hard topics to kids is reay from a narrator or parent/child standpoint. but we wanted to switch that up, wanted to make it a little bit more relatable. i this-- in the story, it's the older sister comforting and taing to her younger siste >> "'but what is a coronavirus, anyway?' asked suzie. coronavirus is a virus. a virus is a really small germ that you cannot see. there are other kinds ms too, like bacteria and fungi." even though we would beai exng it to little children, we wanted the book toa be as ac as possible.so so there wer key concepts:wh at kinds of populations are we trying to keep safe, wearing a mask, standing six feet apart. t wanted to kind of expla children so that they not only know what cowed is, but why e been doing what we're doing. >> when i was a child, i can

recall only a very, very few story books that i read that had somebody that looks like me. and when i did see those books, i was, like, super excited beuse, hey, that little bo looks like me i can relate to that person. >> we wanted young children to kind of look in the book and say, oh, wow, this little girl looks like me. she has an afro, just ke me. her big sister looks like me. her mommy and daddy look like my mommy and daddy. >> so it's just about being as relatable as-- as-- as possibl we wanted to make this book free because we wanted to be very accessible. >> we didn't want socio-economic status to be a limiting factor 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

beings just rallying together hed just, you know, loving and supporting each in various ways. i think the main message of the book is actually the ethe book, the very last page, when, you know, suzy is looking up to r big sister, millie, for kind of comfort and support. and she's like"is this the way it's going to be forever, from now on?" d mille kind of says, you know we just have to keckingtter. together." >> woodruff: amid the summer surge, covid-19 continues to take the lives of ericans 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 two decades 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. the proud grandfather loved posting family photos on social media, always with a simple caption: "life is good."ka lytrozier never gave up on her dream to become cbiologist. asld, she was diagnosed ntth a severe learning disability, but n to earn two masters' degrees iogy and science education. shntbecame a researcher of p d.a. at the world-renowned field museum in chicago, and aof science sor at malcolm x college. n-loving and friendly, lynika was out with frienthe lab as she watching horror movies with her

grandmother, sron, who raised her. lynika was 35 years old. dr. robert hull cared for thousands ofatients in his nearly 50 years practicing family medicine in arkansas. his patients-- some of whose families he treated for generations-- said he was encouraging, had a great sense 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 survivor and scientist, flun cot hungary in 1956.re she founge in america, and a home in new york city.lo a university b teacher,

eva was committed to her work on algae research. her family described the 90- year-old's smile as child-like; rsonality as quiet and shy, but her energy toward her 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 national's baseball park, and rehabilitate d.c. public schools. iends described allen as no-nonsense and reliable; loyal and considerate. a husband to suling and faer to garrett, allen was 69 years old.

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