captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight: president trump closes out thean republonvention using the white house as a backdrop in a speech filled with attacks on joe biden and the democrats., thrch on washington. thousands gather on the national mall to protest police brutality and demand racial justice in america. >> the's just so many people that are ignorant to the problems that are going on in this country. and i really need to see that change in my lifime. >> woodruff: plus, the recovery is underway. costunities along the gulf c begin clearing the debris strewn in the wake of hurricane laura. and, it's friday.

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new hampshire this evening for a rally. it came jurs after he accepted the republican nomination for a second term, using the white house as a campaign backdrop. amna nawaz begins our coverage. >> nawaz: before a striking white house scene, president trump defined november'sda election i and dire terms: >> this election will decide whether we save the american dream or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny. he iued dystopian warnings about democratic governance-- >> no one will be safe biden's america. >> nawaz: he argued that his rival, former vibi president jon, would dismantle democracy... >> a trojan horse for socialism. >> naz: ...destroy the economy... >> he is the destroyer of america's jobs. >> nawaz: ...and unleash violence and anarchy in american communities. >> most dangerous aspect of the biden platform is the atta on public safety.

>> nawaz: the coronavirus h pandemic-- whi killed more than 180,000 americans-- seemed to be in the rearview mirror. >> the united states has among the lowest fatality rates of any major country anywhere in the world. >> nawaz: president trump misleadingly touted new jobs-- which make up less than half of the 22 million jobs lost since march-- as evidence that the economy is on its way to a full recovery. >> over the past three months, we have gained over nine million jobs, and that's a record in the history of our country. >> nawaz: he said that science has driven his pandemic response.o >>ve as many lives as possible, we are focusing on the science, the facts and the data. >> nawaz: but the spectacle flew in the face of public health guidelines, with the president delivering the speech before more than 1,500 spectators-- f ve masks, very little social distancing. >> the fact is, i am here.at s the name of that

building? but i'll say it differen the fact is, we are here and they are not. >> nawaz: but just outside the white house gates, hundreds gathered to otest his divisive response to the racial justice movement and the pandemic. the 70-minute spee was riddled with misformation and misleading statements, on topics foreign and domestic, including repeated mischaracterizations of biden's positions. on immigration, he exaggerated progress on border wall construction... >> we have alrea built 300 miles of border wall. >> nawaz: most of that wall replaced or repaired existing barriers, and none of it was paid for by mexico, as mr. trump pledged four years ago. on energy, president trump misstated his opponent's position. >> biden has promised to abolish the production of american oil, coal, shale and natural gas. >> nawaz: biden has actually called for a ban on new oil and

gas drilling on public land, asa of an effort to develop clean energy and fight climate change, but he has not called-o for an a fracking ban. on health care, the president repeated this claim:s >> we will alwd very strongly protect patients withdi pre-existing cons. >> nawaz: evenhough his administration is currently inng court figho dismantle the affordable care act, and with it, protections for patients with pre-existing cond. and on race and justice, president trump restated his false claim thatiden supports defunding police departments. >> make no mistake, if you give power to joe biden, the radical left will defund police departments all across america. >> nawaz: but the president's statent followed a series of supportive testimonials like this, from secretary ben carson, the lone black member of mr. trp's cabinet. >> many on the other side love to incite division by claiming that president trump is a racist.

they could not be more wrong. >> nawaz: the president's daughter and senior adviser, ivanka trump, offered a side of arthe president the publicy sees. >> i've been with my father, and i've seen the pain in his eyes lives that have been stolen by this plague. >> nawaz: the night end with president trump echoing his familiar refrain, nearlyl identi his closing words at the convention four years ago. on november 3, we will makesa americr. we will make america stronger. a will make america prouder. and we will makerica greater than ever before.az >> naw: biden pushed back on president trump's apocalyptics view of democr power, writing on twitter, "remember: every example of violenccrdonald trump s has happened on his watch. under his leadership during his presidency." both candidates now ty they will h campaign trail in person in some way to reach

voters nationwide. for president trump, that includes a sll rally tonight in new hampshire, with just 67 days to go before the election. for the pbs newshour, i'm amna nawaz. >> woodruff: for a deeper look at some of the president's statements, specifically on the pandemic, i'm joined by william brangham. william, you have been listening closely to what was said last nigh, the claims made about progress on the pandemic and all week, tell us what you've heard. >> reporter: that's right, judy. as amna was just reorting, the message of the r.n.c. seemed to ae saying the pandemic is behind us, it's in the iew mirror, but by almost any measure it is not in our rearviewrror. 5 million cases, 180,000 americans have already ed. i mean, in just the four days of this convention, we lost moric ams to covid 19 than were lost on 9/11, and uat'st four days of this convention. so the predent likes to tout

the case fatality rate going down, but by most public health experts think that's a very inaccurate metric. i'like to show you this graphic here that gives you a better measure of this. we are still losing mo americans to this virus than this is a coronavirus deaths per million in developed nations. that red line at the top is the u.s.'s rate. all those other little lines a the bottom on the right-hand side are other modern tions similar to us -- canada, australia, european union, australia -- you can see that red line is far above them. we are losing far more americans than these other nations. the fact is those nations don't have better doctors, they don't have more effective medications, they simply mounted a more effective response and, on this chart, you can semothe results, of their citizens are still alive than ours. >> woodruff: so, william, what are some of the differences in

how those nation res sponded compared to how the united states has? >> reporter: testing is a big one. we've talked about this a great deal of times. the president touts e've tested more people than anywhere in the world. if you believe the chineseey e actually tested more people, but that's maybe not the bestweetric. ave test add lot of people, but we know there are still shortages in many pas of the country. many people are waiting days and days and days to get their test results back which virtually makes them useless. many peowhple askedy didn't the president deploy the defense production act to adress the shormtses, to make more chemical equipment, swbs, those things that could have addressed that? those other nations dr e uniform messaging about things li social distancing and mask wearing and the importance of y ke can distance, and we've not seen nsistent messaging from the president here. did the exact same thing, but

what they did was they took it seriously and thertsta at the beginning and have kept it up consistently and we see the results. >.>> woodruff: we also heard the president say we could have a vaccine in just a few months. is that realistic? >> reporter: that's right. he saide e could have the end of the year or even sooner, which would mean in the next couple of months. that's a very aggressive timeline. most predictions are longer. the federal government haspl ed billions of dollars to help vaccine manufacturers try to speed up this process, but we just don't know, there's no immediate knowledge whether that's going to come middle east or take into, say, next year. the caveat i hear at lo is that, ven the president's exaggerations about other coronavirus teatment -- like hydroxychloroquine, which fizzled out, or just this week we saw serious misstatement about the effectiveness of

convalescent plasma -- those things make people think i'm not necessarily sure the president his talking about thesengs to help public health or he's more interested in boosting his ection chances. >> woodruff: finally very quickly, william, you have a very spial project coming u next week every night on the program we're going to feature one of youspecial reports comparing healthcare in the united states with care in oth countries. we're very much looking forward to that. >> reporter: that's right, judy. this is trying to look at how is it that we have such incredible and yet so many millions ofes people dying of preventable diseases. we go to thraee other ntions that cover everybody, they do it cheaper than we do, and were trying to look, what can those nations' experience teach u about making our system better. >> woodruff: as i say, we are m vech looking forward, william brangham, thank you. , reporter: you're welco judy.

>> woodruff: thousands of people washington, d.c. today tomall in commemorate the 1963 march on washington, and to creata new march of their own. today's called for an end to killings of black americans at the hands of police. yamiche alcindor reports. >> we almost ran here when we saw the crowd. i'm feeling inspired. >> alcindor: angela flourney's late mother, helen, witnessed in person dr. martin luther kingli der these iconic words at the lincoln memorial. >> i have a dream.>> lcindor: king's speech was the culmination of the historic march on washington in 1963. itrought together more tha 250,000 people to the nation's capital to demand economic and racial jtice. ( singing ) 57 years later, the middle of a pandemic, the 53-year-old drove her daughter zorand their friend, rebecca phoenix, more than 500 miles from detroit to d.c. she wanted to stand where her own mother had on that

historic day. >> those stories became my stories. i also want to model for my daughter that we have to sthnd up and tha is a struggle you have to participate in.that >> alcindor: i spoke to the group as they toured washington rlier this week. 15-year-old zora flourney says she needed to be here. le there's just so many pe that are ignorant to the problems that are ing on in this country. and i really need to see that change in my lifetime. >> alcindor: today on the naonal mall, the group joined the "get your knee off our necks" rally. it was organized by reverend al sharpton's civil rights group, the national action network. >> black lives matter, ande won't stop until it matters to everybody. >> alcindor: the march was planned in response to the police killings of george floyd, breonna taylor and other african americans. the killings fueled protests around the country throughout the summer. obt this week, video of a police officer shooting blake seven times in the back in

kenosha, wisconsin sparked new outrage. blake survived, but his family says he's paralyzed. until earlier today wen he posted bond. he faces a number of charges include third dege sexual assault charge from july. his torney told "newshour" blake pls to plead not they spoke at the rally. >> we will not be a footstool to oppression. >> alcindor: democratic vice presidential nominee kamala harris also made an appearance in a pre-recorded video. >> if we work together toev challengy instinct our nation has to return to the status quo, and combine the wisdom of long-time warriors for justice with the creative energy of the young leaders today, we ve an opportunity to mak history, right here and right now. >> alcindor: organizers required all attendees to have tickets, wear masks, and get their

temperatures checked. but, despite the potential police brutality.ty againstto c.j. jessup came from minneapolis. he says george floyd was killed a block from his home. w >>ted to come here because i wanted to be a part of-- want to be a part of change. i want to be a part of--esne of the vo >> alcindor: linda roebuck traveled from new york city. o >> i am so tircrying in my bedroom, watching ouhers being killed brepolice. i'm of being afraid. >> alcindor: organizers say they're hoping today's march will helspur new legislation aimed at stopping police violence against african americans, and they point to how both the civil rights act and the voting rights act were passed after the march o washington. >> it's impossible to overemphasize the importance of that moment for everything that's happened since. this is a march that had to happen. >> alcindor: earlier thiweek, i spoke with d.c.'s delegate to

congress, eleanor holmes norton9 back i, as part of the student nonviolent coordinating committee, she helped organi transportation for the march on washington. >> just as in '63, the country sa "we're not going to tak that anymore." there must be equal treatment.re i ink yoearing that same refrain when it comes to poli actions that take the lives of people needlessly. >> we do not want our freedom gradually. we want our freedom now. >> alcindor: on that august day in 1963, the youngest speaker was the late congressman john lewis, who died last month. t ay, we think of john lewis as this iconic, monumental figuch. at the mn washington, he was the young radical. >> alcindor: historian john meachem wrote a biography of lewis, published this week. >> the world view he brought to the racial and economic problems of injustice of his time i think is incredibly relevant to where

we are now. not because it means everybody should wait. quite the opposite. it means freedom now >> alcindor: and 57 years later, that message is still being echoed by young african americans, like zora flounory. the third generation in her family to come to washington and fight for equality-- she was thinking of her grandmother. >> it says a l that i need to come back here. but otherwise, ieel really proud to be able to take on her fight and her struggle, and to hopefully end things in my generation, so we don't have to do this again. j >> alcindot before the family spoke at the march, i had a chance to speak to jacob blake's father.l >> t about how your son is doing, paralyzed, handcuffs, aossibly. >> he's pralyzed from the waste down and he needs support right now. he's not feeling well, he's not doing good. you know how your child tells you, don't feel good, daddy, that's what he told me. daddy, i just don feel god. i said, well, daddy's going to

be here. you kno i don't care how old your children get, they're still your babies. they'll always be your babies. so when he scweeksed my hand and started weeping, i weep right with him, i weep right with him, and i love my son. he's a human being. he was shooting my sone while was pulling my son's shirt to get him closer to him. what is it sese does that make? how do you think a pent would feel, watching his s basically attempted murder on your son by the people that are paid to protect and serve? is that what was it like for you to watch that video, knowing y that wr child? >> when i first watched it, i got a little emotional, then i got mad, then i sat down and got determined, and then i realized i had to do what i had to d

i'll never leave my son's side because he said he never wants to go outside again. >> reporter: what are you grandsons saying right now? >> the day my son was shot, my 8-year-old grandson's birthhoy, so, twrs before he was shot, he was on the phone telling his pop-pop -- that's me wanted, and he was so excited, i could hear his little et. he was telling me what he was going to get and what he wanted his daddy to do. d then two, hours later, this. our father wasere in the first part of d.c., wamped from selma to montgomery, got whipped on the edmund pettus bridge. sometimes you get your whoin directly, sometimes other ways.

we had all planned to come here, and then thihappened so i said, well, i cannot not be here. i don't think we've come far at l, okay. this is 2020, and we're still fighting to vote. it's 2020. >> reporter: what does it mean? >> it means that chattel svery was a powerful thing. it's never gone anyer they've taken the chance off only from around your ankles. our brains e changed you e our wallets are changed, a yo can't even touch the change. but that's diabolical chattel slavery was to us as brown and black people. >> reporter: did you anticipate that this migenht hao your son? what did you tell him? >> as black men, we anticipate it might happen to us any second of any day.

when a policeman pulse me over they're getting r to shoot me, i'm too damn big. so i pull my handicap stier out, hey, look, you will have no problems with me. >> reporter: what do you make of the protests, the n.b.a. boycotting? >> i was on the phone yesterday with the entire buble, that means every team that was in the bubble, and they asked me what i wanted them to do, and i said i couldn't tell them whato do, but the milwaukee bucs showed you the way, and the bucs call me every night, and we were in tears, the whole bucs team and myself cri on the pho together. it's real, and the athletes are, setting precedent. so i'm not going to stop. >f: >> woodr

>> woodruff: the remnants of hurricane laura made their way east today. the weather system wased downgro a tropical storm, but it still was droppingd heavy rains awning tornadoes across the south. at least 14 people have been killed. residents are starting the business of recovery, but it's a daunting road ahead. power could be out for days or weeks for many.ni se producer adam raney is on the ground in louisiana with this report. reporter: the noisy din of generators and chainsaws filled the air across southern louisiana, where the destruction from hurricane laura was all around. from the toppled old southern trees to flattened homes,o residents dn't evacuate started the business of cleaning up.

hundreds of thousands of people who were in the storm's path along the gulf coast are still without power. and one of the worst hit placesa wa charles, louisiana, a city of 78,000 just off the gulf coast. >> i've never run from hurricane. this is probably the worst one i've ever been through. >> reporter: 82-year-old cecil morgan has lived here in lake charles his entire life. his house survived; the barn he built himself did not. >> all i know is, it's going to be a job cleaning it up. i've got to go through it because there's probably a lot of stuff i want to save. >> reporter: not far away, michael dewayne eleawas trying to save what he could from his store, "drips ans." the front and back of it were blown off by the high winds of thstor >> things happen, but we'll get it back on track. we'll get it back on track. >> we don't even have a home to go back to. >> reporter: tara bartie showed us photos of how badly her hometown of lake chaes was damaged. she had to evacuate and stay

a hotel in lafayette. she's a shift manager at a burger king, and was already financially strappedthis is wiping her out. >> we got, like, 12 people in our party. we don't really have any more cash, and we can'teally afford to drive to baton rouge or new orleans. we're in the middle of nowhere, and don't know who or at or where. can someone, red cross, fema, reach out to assist us? >> reporter: bartie was also very concerned about covid-19. e's already lost three family members to the virus. >> i have a senior citizen mother, i have a sick cancer child up here, and we is really in the strict, strict time right now, so everybody that's listening-- red cross, fema, somebody, please give us some type of help, some type of information. after tonight, it will be our

last night, and we'll be stuck on the road wiout any place to go, and right now we can't afford that. >> reporter: we met 71-year-olou carole porteide her apartment complex-- the roof ha blown ofd the power was out. >> thank god we made it through, he blessed us well. >> reporter: she and her neighbors were waiting to be evacuated. the community is mostly retirees and people with disabi. when you're retired, you have to live off a pension, you just can't move anywhere or any way you wanto go, s you just have to hold in there and just pray to god that you make it. >> reporter: speaking a little while ago with carol porheter, says she along with other residents of her housingev projects werc witted from new orleans some two hundred mis from lake charles, th don't know when they will be able to go home. much less used ar shelters like this in alexandria, louisiana, is one run by thed cross.

but louisiana is one of the states hardest hit byv coid 19, and public health officials and evacuees theemselves say t last thing they want to do is gather in these congregate shelters. that means people already stretched then have fewer options as to where to look for shelter. reporting for the "pbs newshou" adam raney in louisiana. >> woodruff: thank you, adam, so important to have that reporting from that part of the country right now. >> in the day's other news, athorities in a,keno wisconsin, defended their actions during protests over tha shooting ob blake on tuesday night, officers were seen thanking civilians who carried long guns. one appeared to be kyle otttenhouse, a white teenager who said he was ting businesses, and who allegedly killed two people. the kenosha sheriff said today he did not want civilians inlved. >> the situation escalated tuesday night because a 17-year-old boy carrying what

appears to be assault rifle s-o has no idea to handle a situation like t i don't care if he had the right intention or not. two people are currently dead, and one almost had his arm blown off. >> woodruff: protests in kenosha went off peacefully overnight. protests also took place in loangeles and sacramento, with reports of scattered vandalism. tional basketball association has announced an agreement for playofgames to resume tomorrow. players had refused to take part in games this week, after the jacob blake killing. now, the league has agreed t create a social justice council, and to turn its aras into polling places for tti november el. on the pandemifront, california governor gavin newsom unveiled a new framework today businesses.ly reopening each county will move through a four-tiered, coloroded system based on numbers of cases andta

perc of positive tests. infections had spiked in july after the state initially eased closings. >> we're going to be more stubborn this time, and have a t mandatory wae between moves. we didn't do that last time, and that is a significant distinction between what we've learned in the past and what we are now advancing in this more stringent, but we believe, more steady approach. >> woodruff: separately, the food and drug administration's chief spokeswoman, and an outside consultant, have been fired. the "new york times" reports that it happened after presint trump and f.d.a. commissioner stephen hahn exaggerated the 9nefits of treating covid with blood plasma. hahn later apologized. in japan, prime minister shinzo abe announced today that he is resigning because a chronic health problem. heanas held the post longer anyone, including a grandfather and great-uncle who were also

prime ministers. foreign affairs nick schifrin reports. family are politicerans,and his but one of his lasting legacies may be an alliance with a. political novi >> i grabbed him and hugged him because that's the way we feel. >> donald, president, you are excellent businessman.ou you havet the uphill struggle, and this is the dynasm of democracy. >> he flattered president trump and, you kw, he understood president trump's personality. the u.s./japan chat georgei is washington university. he says the abe/trump brmance, forged over sumo wrestling, golf selfies, and awkwardak hand, strengthened the bilateral relationship to confront china, and north korea, and outlast trump. >> prime minister abe understood the strategic situation well, that without a strong u.s./japan relationship with japan would not then have the autonomy a

freedom to pursue its own interests in asia. >> schifrin: top of the list, a revitalized military. abe's japan purchased more u.s. weaponry. he failed to revise the country's pacifist constitution, but pushed through changes that allow japanese forces to fight in a crisis. >> schifrin: this opened the way for japan to cooperate with other countries, especially the united states, on a variety of common defense missions. >> abe-nomics. >> schifrin: economically,be "aomics" lowered interest rates, increased spending, and pulled the economy out of deflation, but it achieved only modest success. he did manage end political instability and a rotating door of leaders. >> just to be able to stay in office this long, and toab ize foreign policy, and chip away at some of the economic challenges, you know, that, in itself, i think is a lasting achievement. >> schifrin: abe leaves his

successor with major structural economic conrns, exacerbated covid. and today, in a final press conference, an emotional abe said it "broke his heart," to "leave the job half done." for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. >> woodruff: the u.s. house foreign affairs committee will start contempt proceedings against secretary of state mike pompeo. today's announcement comes after pompeo defied a subpoena in a probe of whether he's used the state department for partisan ends. the department says the allegations are baseless. in economic news, m.g.m. resorts i laying off 18,000 workers-- about a quarter u.s. work force. the company today blamed pandemic losses. and on wall street, the dow jones industrial average gained 161 points to close near

28,654. it is now back in the black for the year. the nasdaq rose 70 points, to a new record close, and the s&p 500 added 23, and is also in record territory. >> woodrf: with the democratic and republican national convenons both behind us now, it's time for the analysis of shields and ooks. that is syndicated columnist mark shields, and "new york times" columnist david brooks. i haven't seen enough of the two of you this week. on this friday night.us so much to talk about. with youk, i'm going to start the republicans had their chance the last four nights. how well did thy make their

>> well, judy, we'll find out in the numbers when they do come out probably next week. but i wou say, to listen to the reblican speakers, which was privileged to do, especially the nominee, was to conclude that the country had been blacked out by the econoprc ipice by the darkest time by the unrivaled leadership of president trump and en to be told in spite of that the country is in chaos, surrounded by lollsne and all theest of it. so what we had to do with the change, an outsir donald trump. i've never seen one run as the incumbent and inurgent at the same time, but it's obvious running as the indurnlgt of 2016 than the incumbent of 2020. >> woodruff: david, how did you ize up what the republicans

did? >> you know what, when you start a big enterprise, you try to have a strategy. you figure out what the year, is what the big issues are and what going to do about it. because they start 2019.credit they said the number one issue is donald trump. the coxuntry isausted, wants a uniter and stuck with that strategy through thick and then. the republicans have no coherent critique of bend, they nave o coherent or sense of what the priority is right now, and they have noneral argument to make. there's no core idea at the center of the thing. they may be on the course of dwrav at a timing toward law and order as their central argument but uldn't say they've got there yet, they're kind of scatter shot. >>roodruff: and, so where does that leave this contest right now? given what the republica said over four nights, where are we

now >> judy, we went in with a 10-point lead for joe biden. in all likelihood, that lead will bearrowed when we come out of the republican convention, and we're lo now a long, brutish, really scorched earth campaign from the white house. make no mistake about it, that's what we're looking forward to. the debates will be influential if not determinate, but we've heard joe biden accused of being feckss and unaccomplished in terrifying threat to theost american republic if elected as a closet socialist despot. so that's jus ot a whiwhat we're looking at, whether we're looking forw it or not is

another question. >> woodruff: david, the republicans did spend a got of tiing after joe biden. does that help them? i mean,rthey've clearlyed to not only draw distinctions, theye painted him in se pretty dark places. >> yeah, i'd say both ways over the last two weeks. i would say the democrats have a better convention, a more creative covention, biden gave a much better speech, obamas say if you measure the mood both in the democratic and republiran camps, dem are more anxious and republicans are a little more confident, so i think that has something to do wi the convention and something about what's happened outside the convention, kenosha and this sense of rising cme and violence, and i to think the democrats have come to understand they've somehow gotten on the wrong side of order, and they got somehowev attached though biden has not attached to it, to the idea of defunding the police, and

they need to somehow make some gesture tohow they understand the insecurity of the american people.tr the cohas been through an anxious time with the pandemic, economic turmoil, there's this great sense of fear and the sense of physical unsafety from an, somehow, they have tong address that. now, a lot of law and order talk is code word for racism, there's no question about that, but a lot of is not, and i think democrats would be making a mistake if they said you're just a bun of crypto racists. i think people have yeslit ma concerns about expressing their concern safely and living safely. i bidens would do well by himself to address this issuey, and o, we're for policing, we want to reform policing, but we wl keep yu e. this is an elemental issue of politics stretching back 3,000 or 4,000 years.ar >> reporter: have the democrats gotten off on the wrong foot when it comes to th

law and order or order argument as david describes it? >> yes, they have, judy. i mean, i think that portland mains a festering boil for democrats, that what went on the seattle habeen reported by the "times" and other news organizations is really just unacceptable in a civilized society, and democrats cannot appear to be indifferent. it's donald trump's opening. i mean, donald trump's going to run on law and orer, he has no -- no question about that. it was interesting that it was so heavily populated with african-american speakers in his behalf at the convention which i think was more than anything a reach out to suburbantiat particularly women voters who have been turned off by the republicans. so race remains the constant inl

americanics but i think david makes a good point. >> woodruff: david, it's interesting you say that because we went intothe conventions saying the pandemic was the overwhelming issue, thing out there ther these candidates e going to have to grapple with, that the president was going to have to answer for. downdz like you're saying the last few weeks that that's been displaced? >> yeah, i wouldn't say displaced. i think in the real wrld, the ndemic is still the number one issue, and if you ask people, tat's number one, andink crime and rise in disorder ishi 45her on the list, higher thot immigration and af things. so i think the pandemic is still the issue, but i will be curious to see the time my newspaper sent out twteo rep to wisconsin after kenosha and interviewed a series ofo peple leaning towards biden and had second thoughts beofcaus sense of rising insecurity. whether that's anecdotal or

data, we'll find out in a few days. i still think it's the mix. but political correctness was a big issue for republicans and for trump in 2016, and the sen that ycan't speak freely, the sense that you look at pictures of rand paul, for example, senator rand paul leaving the white house and getting brutally verbally assaulted, these pictures are not good. most people are not oni twtter and they're not seeing them, but for those on twitter, those seeing them, those in e facebook it's become the dominant story at least in that world. >> woodruff: at the same time, mark, you have this very powerful social movement right now for racial justice. just today, you kw, thousands of americans on the nationals mall, i was ning to some of it, you know, pabnts, silings of black americans who have been killed by police asking for justice.

the plea from do doc rivers, the coach of the clippers, saying i love my country, why doesn't my country love me back? the democrats are hearing that. what's going to happen to that ohile all this is going on, the fear factor, if will? >> well, judy, i mean, theve democrats o be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. i mean, their record and e democrats have a proud record, i about harry truman desegregated the american military, a noble act in the middlof a presidential campaign, while lyndon johnson passing the landmark civil rights act of 1964 and '65, i mean, the democrats really ha a sterling record in defending those laws as wellle,er and donald trump and the republicans really can't compete with it. so those credentials are established, but they have t also establish the fact that wee are here to pr the safety

of ordinary citizens from mobs. i mean, that's what hads happe in a number of places, whether it's destroying small businesses or putting -- threatening peoplt same time. about the coronavirus, i think it's important to remember thile that whe republicans were convening at the white house, the people's house, as ronald reagan called it, when somebody sa, your white house is a no e-no, it's the pople's white house. more americanseied in th coronavirus pandemic than onar 9/11 or hair or. that was central and will define this campaignism david, how do you see the democrats handling what they're hearing from their constituents, many of them, saying what are you going to do time many republicans arehe same yelling, saying to them, hey,r

we're aid. >> yeah, i'm struck by the importance of boundary setting. at happens id.c. was wonderful, what happened in the n.b.a. sus wonderful. i tald about baseball tonight on the show. some of this stuff wasfu wond i think people are proud and hopeful that amdst all the pain that progress is being made, education is being made, that people are mobilizing. but you've got to draw a boundary bet tween thaand all the violence and frankly a lot of the violence i've seen ina washingtonhit young white people who are doing a lot of that stuff, and, but, so, you throw that boundary, and that should be a boundary kamala harris and joe bien could draw. between the republican party an q ano the you have to draw a boundary between what's good and not,

between what's liberal and ruwhat's deive to your movement. the boundary has been drawn by most politicians a most times and i hope the democrats will draw that mean. >> woodruff: we will see. the campaign begins in earnest after these conventions right now. david brooks, mark shields, thank you and thank you for being with us for these last two weeks. >> woodrf: as another difficult week for our country comes to a close, we want to take the time to honor just some of the more than 180,000 people who lo their lives to the coronavirus. nelson henry, jr of philadelphia fought for more than 70 years to get his honorable discharge from the u.s. army. the world war ii veteran was one of many black soldiers

given a less-than-honorable-- and discriminatory--" blue discharge," which made it harder to get certain jobs and g.i. benefits. nelson's son eventually found lawyers to take up the case, and hi 2019, just a year befor death at 96, he was granted an upgrade by the army. he called it "a miracle." education was "huge" for lucille anderson. born in minneapomus, she worked iple jobs to ensure her kids when her son had dabout veplying to harvard, she scolded him: "andersons quit. it's like a race. even if you fall down, you g up and finish the race." lucille followed her son to the east coast, finished her own degree, and became a social worker and a probation officer. she always "emphasized howil important en were to society," her son said.

lucille anderson was 9s old. in 1984, carmen williamson became the first black boxing referee and judge at the olympics. carmen, who spent most of his life in toledo, ohio, was a top amateur boxer in the 1940s and '50s. he would go on to travel the world, teaching the sport to young white trainers would rarely visit.rm 's daughter said the ib-year-old "wanted to grab everything he po could" ver told himself no." 72-year-old liz mar opened kona kitchen"attleurant" 18 years ago, with her daughter and son-in-law. she was a warm face that everyone knew and loved, her daughter said. she made customers feel like part of the family.ey ould call her "auntie" or" grandma." liz came to the u.s. from ji

as a teenager. her daughter described her as d"selfless," and said she anything for her three children and seven grandchildren. lennie leblanc was 45 years old. he was born in worcester, massachusetts with cerebral palsy. lennie could never walk or talk, but his mom said he was always a happy child. l lennie wough-- a deep belly laugh-- sometimes for no reason. he lived most of his life in a nursing home where his caregivers adored him. he loved music and often spent time with his family. >> woodruff: as of tonight the "newshour" marked 100 americans whose lives we've lost 'sto the coronavirus, thust in the last 20 weeks. we want to thank their families our the stories they've shared. our hearts got to them and to all those whve lost loved ones in this pandemic.

>> woodruff: man's best friend has somehow become even more indispensablover the months of the pandemic, and nowhere more so than britain-- people have gone dog mad. but as our own mad dog and englishman malcolm brabant reports, canine care during covid comes with more than a few complexities. contg r humawith the assuredness that dogs rule the world. that's certainly true in britain where, during lockdown, puppy prices have soared. >> i think there's very few winners in the pandemic. but the dog has-- we've all remembered how marvelous dogs are. dogs became the must have, after the toilet roll. >> reporter: beverley cuddy is britain's pre-eminent newshound,

hae canine cronkite, whores someharacteristics with betty. >> well, she doesn't shut up, so i think we've got lot in common. >> reporter: dogs' unconditional love has spawned profiteering, and worse. >> i've never experienced anything quite so mad. people were outbidding eachot r for that last puppy, and people were selling dogs that didn't exist.co >> good girl, me here., >> reporter: bthere's a flip side-- a major spike in dognapping, 65% up on last year. this is honey, stolen two nths ago. the poster sends a clear message to the dognappers: a deal can be done. owner cintia gardner. >> wdon't want to know who you are, or yourame, or anything. please do the right thin you can. >> reporter: going for a simple walk is no longer safe. owners are bei monitored by crooks waiting for a chance to grab mr. four legs. >> it's easy money. we believe there's organed crime. there's a small percentage which is opportunist crime, but we believe they're being stolen to order. >> reporter: wayne may is a

pet detective. working for a non-prit called dog lost, he specializes in reuniting stolen animals with their owners. >> in some cases, we've had to buy the dogs back.le pere paying 5,000 pounds to get their dogs back. >> reporter: but if you are paying to get your dog back, aren't you actually encouraging the crime? because as far as the dognappers are concerned, it proves that crime pays?>> yes, you are. i totally agree. my own personal view is that you should offer a finder's fee rather than a reward, but it is down to the individual dog owner how they wish to proceed. >> reporter: celeste the champion beagle was once taken hostage, and was only released after sally kimber paid abs ntial ransom. >> in a way, i don't agree with it, but when it's your dog and you want it back, what else can you do? >> reporter: the dognoscenti believe canine crime laware toothles beverly cuddy wants tougher legislation with jail time for dognappe. >> because the law in this country sees dogs as just chattel. it was like having your phone

stolen. and nobody cares if hou've had your stolen. but when it's a member of your family? because that's how we dogs now. they've got human names. they used to be called spot and fido, and maybe they lived in the shed. now, they're on the sofa, the bed. >> reporter: ah, bed time. it's a major issue f hallie and her human, paul phillips. for years, hallie always slept alone downairs while phillips slept upstairs. but then? >> since lockdown, she's had me around 24 hours a day, seven days a week. and lately has developed what appears to be this fear of being separated. for week she was up all night showing signs of severe anxiety, pantg, scratching the floor. >> reporter: the solution?ct aburrender. >> in order to get a whole night's sleep, i've had ton give ito her and let her sleep next to me every single night, which my partner is not over tho on about. >> reporter: the condition is known as separation anxiety, as

a result of months of being isolated with their owners. >> we have a real fear that separation anxiety cases are going to explode once we start to come out of lockdown and things go back to normal. >> reporter: sue ketland is a behavior specialist with wood green, a leading animal. non-prof >> the dog is really panicking when left home alone. so it is something to en very seriously. >> reporter: uh-oh. this is loki, our golden retriever, complaining after my wi and i left the house. loki is a typicalockdown puppy. we paid top dollar seven months ago, and haven once left him alone. he had an idyllic lodown.wi but in common so many new owners, we have become his prisoners and need to make some changes. it's late to wean loki off his dependency, but the behaviorist thinks it's possible. >> the sad fact is that if you

have a dog with an established attachment disorder, you have to be at home in order to get through a behavior modification program. y only discover it once you're out for work for eight, nine hours a day, it becomes almost impossible to rectify. >> reporter: but going for a comm conquer some lockdown nerves. jo allen runs canine dip and dive. >> a lot of puppies that have en bought in lockdown haven't been socialized. but now they're beginning to come here, you can see the difference as the session goes >> reporter: but dog spas are rare, and can be pricey.lo so, in this pe covid world of dognappers and canine anxiety, we new puppy parents have no alternative but to be vigilant and to try to undo the psychological problems that we, and lockdown, haveusnadvertently . for the pbs newshour, i't malcolm brab brighton.

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hello, everyone. welcome to "amanpour & co." here's what's coming up. player, i think itt for meormer to support the players and just not be here tonight. >> sports comes to a screeching halt to the racial injustice. major league players unite in unprecedented strike over the police shooting of jacob blake. i speak with sport journalist howard bryant. and at the republican conventionthe grand old party takes a page from richard nixon's divide and rule law and order playbook. i ask the campaign if this is their strategy for november. and will the evangelical base rally behind his message.

i'll ask roberp. jones.