troops as "losers," as joe biden captioning sponsed by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight: campaign controversy. the president denies allegations he referred to fallen u.s. troops as "losers," as joe biden escalates his criticism of t administration. then, ongoing outrage. protests continue in rochester as the suspect in last weekend'a shooting of a protester in portland is killed in a confrontation with police. pandemic.care and the we compare the impact of covid-19 on the american medical system to otherst s around the world. >> leadership's been pretty ntral across the world. when i look at countries across the world, how seriouy leaders have taken the virus, how effeively they've mobilized forces, has had a very

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in august. less than previous months, while the nation's unemployment rate fell to 8.4%. we'll have more on the economy later in the program. but first, the fallout intensified today over an article that alleges that president trump made disparaging marks about u.s. troops. >> it's a fake story, and it's a disgrace tt they're allowed to do it. >> brangham: president trump isi ng back, after a report in" the atlantic" magazine-- and later confirmed by multiple news organizations-- said the president several times called fallen american service member"" erlosers" and "su" in the oval office today, thet presidain flatly denied ever making the comments, and instead todehis administration. >> there's nobody that considers the military, and especially people that have given their lives in the military. to me, they're heroes. >> who the heck does he think he is?

brangham: his democratic opponent, former vice president ue biden, whose own son b served in iraq, called the reported comment"deplorab." >> when my son volunteered and joined the united states litary as the attorney general and went to iraq for a year, won the bronze star and other commendations, he wasn't a sucker. >> brangham: secretary of stat mike pompeo, who was on a 2018 trip to paris when the president allegedly made some of the comments, told fox news he doesn't remember them. >> i've never heard the president use the language that assertively is said in that article. g >> brangham: bng back to his 2016 campaign, mr. trump has had a complicated relationship wi the military. >> amazing people. these are amazing ople.ng >> bm: he's often praised those with military experience, and has had many working with him in the white hou >> i don't like losers. he's questioned their service,s, like his widely-criticized comments about senator john imprisoned for more than five

years during the vietnam war. >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people who weren't captured. p >> branghasident trump overwhelmingly won among veterans in 2016, but since then his approval rating am members of the military has dropped to 38% in a new poll from "military tim with two months until election day, mr. biden has a four-point adntage with these voters. for the pbs newshour, i'm william brangham. >> woodruff: there continue to be protests and outrage over police response in the u.s., and how demonstrators are responding to each other, including a pair of deadly incidents. amna nawaz has an update on what's happening in rochester, new york, and portla, oregon. >> nawaz: new yorkers today awoke to more details, but still many questions, months after the death of another black man,

daniel prude, after an encounter with rochester police. >> hey, hey, which side are you >> nawaz: the rened focus follows more protests, after video emerged wednesday showing prude in police custody in march. police handcuffed prude after h ked into the street. officers say he was spitting, and put a hood on his head asst part of neewide covid-19 safety rules. they then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes. prude died a week later. the county medical examiner ruled his death a homicideia caused by asphon, and listed acute intoxication from the drug p.c.p. as a contributing factor. his family says prude had struggled with mental health issues. >> first and foremos >> nawaz: the head of the rochester police union said today the vio misrepresented what happened, and that officers followed protocol by using the so-called "spit hood" duringhe pandemic. is an officer does not have the ability to go orgard what they're mandated tdo, and what

they're trained to do. >> nawaz: prude's familyths calling foofficers to be fired and charged. >> that was a full-fledged lynching. i dot care what nobody say. >> nawaz: on thursday, the mayor suspended seveofficers involved, with pay, and apologized to the family. >> mr. daniel prude was failed by our police deptment, our mental healthcare system, our society, a he was failed by me. ( protests ) >> nawaz: meanwhile across the country in portland, oregon, ayotests took a deadly turn after the saturd shooting of a man associated with a right-wing group. the shooting suspect, who self-identified as a left-wing anti-fascist, last night was himself shot and killed by law enforcement, who'd tracked him (oprotestsring washington state. protests in portland are expected to continue this 0 ekend, as the nation marks ys since the death of george floyd. amr the pbs newshour, i'm

nawaz. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, authorities in cleveland, ohio are investigating the fatal shooting of a police detective o had just jned the f.b.i.'s violent crime task force. he was killed last night in his during an undercover drugt, operation. officials arrestedanhree people d are looking for more suspects. the u.s. has now recorded more n 187,000 covid-19 deaths.th comes amid fears of a rise in new cases going into the labor y weekend. in geneva, the worldh ornizationarned that vaccines may not be widely available until mid-2021. the agency warned that it would not recommend any until proven safe, and stressed that their distribution must be a global effort. >> the first priority must be to vaccinate some people in all countries, rather than all people in some countries. using vaccines as a global

public good is in the national interest of each and every country. >> woodruff: also today, scientists in russia belatedly published results from early trials of their covid vaccine. its developers said it appeared to be safe and triggered a "sufficient" immune response. the government approved it last month, without undergoing large-scale trials. the department of homeland rmcurity has warned that russia is working to une the american public's trust in voting by mail. a new intelligence bulletin said that the kremlin is spreading false claims that mail-i ballots are vulnerable to fraud and manilation. many of those unfounded claims have been echoed by president trump and his attoey general, william barr. in massachusetts, formerarine jake auchincloss won the primary to be the democratic nos.nee to fill the seat of congressman joe kennedy iii.

sults from tuesday's election were delayed after cities were inundated by nearly a millio mail-in ballots. kennedy decided not to seek re-election so he uld challenge incumbent senator ed markey, but kennedy lost that race on tuesday. crews in beirut spent the day searching for a possible trapped survivor one month afterhe devastating blast. rescue workers painstakingly removed debris after a search d rescue teams detected a pulsing signal from beneath a destroyed building. the massive explosion killed some 190eople and injured 6,000 others. and on wall street today, stocks added to their losses on the heels of yesterday's sell-off. the dow jones industrial average fell 159 points to close at 28,133. the nasdaq lost 145 points, and the s&p 500 shed 28.

still to come on the newshour: americ financial stresses of covid, as the economy struggles to recor. hong kong adjusts to life under a dracian national security law imposed by the chinese government. we compare the impact covid-19 on the american medical system to other stems around the world. and, much more. >> woodruff: the economy is continuing to climb back from the worst depths of the pandemic. today's unemployment report did contain good news about more workers returning to the labor force, but hiring slowed.

the u.s. economy has now recovered about half of the 22 million jobs shed during the plunge. before we look at the latest, let'hear from a few american about the huge struggles they are facing. >> my name is umut bayramoglu. i live in lawrence, kansas. >> my name is michael dorsey.ie i'm in san, california. >> my name is shawn nanney. >> my weekly unemptnnessee. benefits is $317 a week. my rent is $290 a week. wellit doesn't take much mat i made $317, minus $290. that's $27 week. so, that's-- that's it. >> this is the first time in my life that i've applif for any sortsistance at all. i started going to the food bank in march. and that was a difficult adjustment to make. it was a food bank thai actually previouy had volunteered for. >> i was pursuinmy ph.d

we didn't qualify for unemployment insurance. i had to unfortunately make the call last week to sell my house. and i guess i was fortunate enough that it happened pretty quickly. but it was, you know, it was my house. and i had to give that up in order to-- so that i could have health insurance, so that, you know, that i could i could pay my bills. i'm in debt, maxed out my credit cards, and-- not really o of options. >> we are one people, one country. y, if one of us hurt is just like in your famour brothers hurt, you're hurting.u and lp your brother out. >> woodruff: thank you, to each one of you hellions of americans are enduring exactlyort of profound economic hardship we given that, what do today's jobs numbers tell us? die swonk is chief economi with grant thorton.

she's back to help us ome answers. do diane, welcome back to the newshour. so 1.4 million jobs add last month. what does that tell us? >> well, the good news is that we generated over a million jobs in the private sector, but 240,000 of those job gains were temporary census hires that wi go go away at the end of september so we still had a mlion job gains, million job gains in the private sector the problem that is not nearly enough or fast enough to get us out ofis deep hole we are still in, which is more thathn 11 million fro peak we saw in february. that is a huge number compared to the 8.8 million jobs we lost during the great recession, so we really are still sort of chasing a moving target here, and the pace of job grth is slowing, and our ability to pull workers back in from the side lines is starting to diminish,in act, we lost 3.million workers in the labor force sin that peak in february, so if you included those as unemplod, u would have an unemployment

rate closer to ten percent or higher than what we have today, the official rate of also, the ranks o permanently unemployed are rising right now, and that imes ing that we don't want to see happening right now, the people that are on long-term unemployment and have figured out they are not gog to be recalled to their jobs and are e in a still socially distant world is rising. >> woodruff: and as we said, fewer jobs added in august that have been added in june and july. which sectors, diane swonk, are doing well oro busand which ones are struggling?we >>l, there is really no robust sectors out there. the finance sector has lost the fewest number of jobs but every major sector has lost jobs since february. and that is important to remember as we look at this data. of course the leisure and hospite ity sector lost most jobs and has regained the most, jot they there are still 4.4 million down from their peak in f ruary and thatally gives you a sense of even as we

reopen how much it is ae strug for restaurant and bars to be still need to socially distance, the same is true of hotels. that is ally what the moral of the story is, those hardest hit, the low wage jobs hardest hit are the hard toast bring back, and of course there are still many workers working from home or they are at home and being paid, but not worki. those workers, 11.4 percent of the unemployed, those workers are important, of the employed are important because they are the fmost vulnerabl additional layoffs as we go into the fall. and that includes hirghway wok, high wage workers as well, even though low wage workers continue to get get he hit the hardest noand women have sort ot even come back into the labor force. we got a nice uptick in labor force participation but it wasn't by women because of course their kids arestill online and at home, and that makes it harder for them tohe rejoinabor force. that's really compromising many pahousehold's ability tfor

food and rent as you noted in your earlier segment by all of those voices of people that are still struggling. >> woodruff: so quickly, diane swonk, the reason that jobsng respect coack faster than they are, it all goes back to covid? cannot -- the course of covid will determine the course of the economy, a ss virusesge again on the heels of colleges and people pull back and we reallyi have seen a plateau in job growth, a slowdown in the pace of job growth, and a plateau in spending at the place wes need to see job grow most, restaurants, bars and hotels, so what will be a colason andinto an inability to also have outside service at many of these establishments. >> woodruff: so tough hearing this and hearing these stories of real americans, diane swonk, thank you o much, good to see you. y too.

>> woodruff: >>oodruff: a letter releas by u.n. human rights officials today blted a new national security law in hong kong cuposed two months ago by china. and, with its noomary the u.n. to "stop meddling."ling special correspondent divya gopalan tells us now what's changed in hong kong, and what hasot. >> reporter: this is one of the few places where evidence of months of anti-government protests last year is still displayed open. the yau lei fong restaurant is known for its traditional roast meats, and a timeline of the 2019 protest movement.

but look a little closer, and you'll find black tape covering the slogans that became the anthems for the protests restaurant owner jerry chongys sahey've obscured anything which could be defined asbv susive after china's communist party imposed a wide-ranging national security law on july 1. >> ( translated ): not a define what was against the law. what can you say, what can't you say? it's really hard to say how ife , but there's fear in everyone's hearts. >> repter: beijing says the law is necessary to bring stability after months st sometimes violent a government protelast year. it targets crimes of terrorism, ndsubversion and secession collusion with foreign powers. one of the leaders of the democracy movent here, activist joshua wong, says he is in the cross-hairs of the law. he disbanded his pro-democracy political party hours before it

came into effect. >> my life is in risk. and i am not sure if hong kong police will knock on my door at 5:00 a.m., storm into my house and arrest me suddenly. >> reporter: also raising fear: the newly set-up, beijing- controlled security agency, which operates outside of the city's legal system. officers can investigate and extradite suspects to the communist-controlled courts of mainland china. >> there is a particular clause which in very rare circumstances rrll enable a case which occurs here to be trans to the mainland for trial. >> reporter: grenville cross wak hog's longest-serving chief prosecutor, and is now an honorary professor at two of the city's top unives ities. >> nowunderstand it, that will only happen extremelyea rarely and in rly defined circumstances-- circumstances where hong kong itself is not able to handle the case. >> repter: the law marks beijing's full takeover of hong kong, which was promised 50

years of relative autonomy after the british hanover in 1997. in response, the trump administration removede he special trd economic privileges granted to hong kong, saying it's now just like any other part of china. >> ( translated ): we have our independent legal systems. we have our independent currcy. we are using the common law as our legal system, the rule of law. it's still very different from china. >> reporter: pro-beijing legislative councilor felix chung, who represents the textile and garment industry, says the united states is complicit in stripping away the city's highly-regarded international status. >> i don't think hong kong is changed by that law. hong kong is changed by the international conflict especially between the u.s. and china. >> reporter: but according to the american chamber of

commerce, the national security law is affecting the business environment. 40% of u.s. companies surveyed had plans to move capital, assets or operations out of the city. police can raid premises withoan a court warrt, and thecan order internet firms to remove content or senze their equi online media giants like facebook and google sa have stopped responding directly to data requests from the hong kong pole.ac a numbervists, students, and protesto have already been arrested for social media posts. and with no clear wording of what exactly is illega any actity: secessionist, demanding independence, saying that "hong kong is not china," could be prosecutable. at stake is the city's freedom of speech and vibrant media industry, which doesn't exist anywhere else in china. according to the hong kong government, the national security law only targets a

small minority of lawbreakers, but it has triggered widespread unease. we've certainly felt it while putting together this report,um with ar of previously- outspoken figures from both sides of the political divide refusing our interview requests, due to concerns that what they say could potentially be used against them. although it is here, in the local press, where the most chilling effect of the law can the "apple daily" is the city's most-read pro-democracyne paper. on august 11, 200 police stormed the newsroomraid that was edlive-streamed to a shockity. they arrested top executives, including the paper'ne has strong ties in washington. he faces charges of colluding with foreign countries, a charge lahe's told the newshour l month that's open to interpretation. >> ty are very strict about collusion with a foreign power.

even now, accepting your interview could be collusion with foreign power. so, i have to be cautious of what i say, you know? so, this is the fact of life here now. >> reporter: the political landscape is also rapidly changing after a dozen democratic candidates who do not support the law were disqualified from legislative council elections. then, in an unprecedented move, thedseptember vote was postp for a year-- authorities say due to the pandemic, but the opposition says it's to wipe out democratic support. art, culture and academics are also under pressure to become re beijing friendly. public libraries have pulled books by democracy advocates, while many publishers andav bookstoresstarted self- censoring. bookshop owner daniel li says about the protests, and he'lls keep them on the shelves as long as he n. >> the greatest worry is surely that they come in one day and tell me that those books even

that has not been on the book list, are banned from beveg sold, and lready breached the law. b >> reporte on the streets pockets of defiancn as itsill adapting to the law. thlennon walls, named afte singer for their messages of solirity and democracy, were distinct feature of the protests, which disappeared almost oveight when the law came into effect. they are now sprouting again in many places ross the city, this time as a blank mosaic. >> i would say that national security law tried to kill llhong kong, but it can't hong kong people. with the spirit of hong kongers, we will continue to sist and fight back. >> reporter: a message that, while beijing can forcthe city in line with the rest of the country almost overnight, it will take a lot re than a law to changthe people of the city. r the pbs newshour, i'm divya gopalan in hong kong.

>> woodruff: let's turn to our series on universal health care in three different nations, and concerns in our own country. william brangham filmed this series before the pandemic exploded. tonight, he looks at how those countries have responded to covid since then, and what lessons they may provide. >> brangham: we started this series in houston, texas, looking at the u.s. health care system. and then we visited the united kingdom, switzerland,a, and austrasking, how is it uney've managed to do what we haven't-- achieversal health care? but one thing we di address is how those nations dealt with this novel coronavirus.al does a universealth system give inherent advantages when a pandemic occurs? to answer that, i spoke again recently with r collaborator on this series, dr. ashish jha, newly-appointed dean of brown university's school of public health.

how did you help these countries f australia, mosquito hear land and the uk, w did they handle to the pandemic? >> the bottom line is all three of those countries have done a much better >> the bottom line is, i think all three of those countries have done a much better job than we have. there's a lot of variation. they're noall the same. the u.k. probably has handled it the worst of the three.te they had q bad outbreak in the beginning, and a lot of people got sick and a lot of people died. but they're in much better shape now than we are. and the other two countries, both switzerland and australia, i think, have really been emplars of how you handle this pandemic. we saw in switzerland not just really good messaging that led to a pretty substantial lockdown, but then also government eagement in buying protective equipment that helped protect doctors and nurses. australia, i think, has been terrific at building up their testing infrastructure. they are tting widely with of positive tests.ntage

so the strategies look different in each co but each of them did different things really well. brangham: and how much that do you credit to the structure ofheir actual health care systems? >> so i would say, a little. there's no doubt about it that there are features of their health care system ttat gave them c advantages over us, and over ours. but overl, the big difference is really about the public health response, tich has been very differ in each of those three countries compared to the us. >> you touched on this, but how much does a nation's political leadership rely onre how well theond? i'm thinking in particular of people who've talked about the ct that the u.k. has boris johnson and his cabinet, was as influential in the u.k.'s response as compared to having their national health system. >> i would say leadership's be pretty central across the world. when i look at countries across the world, how seriously leaders have taken the virus, how effectively they've mobilized

forces, has had a-- has had a very dramatic effect. and so, even boris johnson, who i think initially did not ke the virus as seriously, really spruggled with what the u.k.'s se should be, eventually got on board with a much morenc scdriven process. of course, he himself ended up getting infected and-- and quite ck, and i suspect that probably helped shape some of his thinking about the seousness of this-- of this virus. but certainly both in switzerland and australia, we fsaw very different types leadership, much more engagement-- less, much less misinformation coming from political leaders. >> brangham: when you look at the u.s. response, are there-- are there aspects of our health care system and the way we structure health care imp america thatted our ability to respond? i mean, there are obviously a lot of strengths of our health care system-- fabulous doctors and nurs, really good hospitals. but some of the payment issues, i think, have really hindered us. there are examples like, in nursing homes, when we wanted

to start testing healthcare workers, we couldn't figure out who was gog to pay for it. and the bigger issue in my mind has been-- even though the policy response has been, "we will pay for covid care," the truth is, americans, especially with high-deductible health plans or people who don't have insurance, are deeply worried about costs. and rightly so. and that has really prevented them from seeking care. and, you know, that kind of fear in the middle of a pandemic really makes it hard for people to do what is necessary. and so i think as we emerge froi this pan we're going to really have to look at our weyment system and ask, do eally want people to act like consumers in the middle of a pandemic? w really need people to feel that extra set of stress, or can weind a better way? >> brangham: at the risk of sounding a little too general,et is there sng about the way those three nations have responded to the pandemic that you think we could learn, if, through this again? to go >> yeah, absolutely. so those three countries have differently, right?e there's a lot of variation among

them. but when you look at consistent themes, there are two or three things that i think really stand out. one is consistent public health messaging. undermine scientifdance.eaders i think that's been really critical. hacond is, all of them hav much more substantial investments in public health. the u.k. has built up this fabulous testing and tracing infrastructure. they don't think it's as fabulous as it could be, and maybe it's not, but it's certainly much better than ours. what you saw with switzerland was this incredible investment in making sure that the health care workers were protected through p.p.e.s. again, the government getting much more engaged. so, strikes me that messaging is really important. investing in the things that are outside of the health care system is important. and then, a central role for government to coordinate all of this, because this is not something the private sector can figure out on its own. is not something a fragmented system can figure out on its own. it requires that kind of

concerted response.>> rangham: dr. ashish jha, dean of the brown school of public health, as always, thank you so much for your time, and thank you for all your help on this ries. >> it was my pleasure.r thank you foincluding me and for being part o. >> woodruff: now it's or the political analysis of brooks and capehart. at's "new york times" columnist david brooks, and "washington post" columnist jonathan capehart. mark shields is away. away so hello to both of you on this friday o ght. i wantart with something both candidates did. they went to a city, david, that anguish over the shooting of ain black man. his name is jacob blake, it is kenosha, wisconsin, we saw both of them go, make statements. what did you make, david, of >> well, they were both very

they have been runn,ission, what especially this year but maybe since the beginning of theirar political rs, donald trump has been running on a sense of menace, the fact there is a lot of dant there in the word and she the one to restore orstr, and so the keye of his visit was the image of him standing in front of a burned out buildings and he wants to convey that message. joe biden has run as a uniter and so he went to speak to the blake family, pleased them ry much with the sensitivity of what they were going through and you have to say the evidence sos fahat the law and order campaign that trump has been not shown much impact on the ha polls. he is still down seven or eight points, if you ask people on a whole range of measures which candidate makeyou fel safe, biden wins on anyway you ask nat question, biden wis, if you ask people is donald trump ?aking it wor 55 percent say donald trump is making it worse. so the law and order mesget

least so far, as expressed through kenosha, not working. >> woodruff: jonathan, how did you see this? >> well, judy, i look at it, at the two trips like. this one was a political -- both were political trips but one wa political, the other wasal presiden president trump's trip was strictly political, id's point, it was all about law and order. it was all about stoking fear, like grievance, white fear, of black people, standingitlaw enforcement, which on its face is not -- is not wrong or ad or problematic, but in a city where a 17-year-old shot -- allegedly shot at three people, killed tw of theand those same police officers rolled right by him, the president has had nothing but good things to say about that person as part of a a millish, i can't right wing

militia, and so the esident goes to kenosha to, you know, joe biden, on the other hand, i think did a presidential trip. he went to the kenosha community to mt with the community, met with the blake family, apparently talked with jacob blake, but the community meeting he did at a local church where he heard from all sorts of folkh from community was him sitting, listening, responding in kind and a young woman, bennett who decided not to readn the list of d from her organization, but instead decided to talk from theart and talk to vice president biden about how, quote, hevily angry she and her community are about not being treated fairly and the way joe biden responded to that i think was sort of a bottom over the, balm over the entire situation because inuations that happen, as have happened in

kenosha, people look tothe president for calm, for leadership, they got that from joe biden, but joe biden isn't th president. >> woodruff: well, we both candidates during this pst week have released tv ads a that protests around the police.ess here is just a short clip from each one. >> rioting is not protesting, looting is >> rioting is not protesting. looting is not protesting. it's lawlessness, plain and simple, and those who do it should be prosuted. fires are burning, and we have a president who fans the flames. he can't stop the violye because for ars he's fomented it. >> lawless criminals terrorize kenosha. joe biden takes a knee. biden and the radical left's weak response has led to chaos and violence, and their calls for defunding police would make it worse. >> woodruff: david, what are these messages teing you?

>> well, biden did something he his party failed to do duringhi the convention was to acknowledge there is disorder in the country, crime really is rising, and there has been rioting and looting, it is not the mainstream of the proteass but iteen an element of the protest, maybe eight percent of the protes rn violent that is still a lot and still on people's minds and so that speech and the ad they cut out of ihe is acknowledging that and he is making it a clear statement which we talked about st week of setting a boundary that rioting and looting are not otesting. and that he is going crack down on that and that was acknowledge ago real flain the democratic approach at the convention where they just didn't see thatd reality i think he helped himself. i mean, his team, the down si of his team is they are really experienced and they have been a part of the democratic party for a long tfe. the upsideis team is they are really experienced and they know how to run a campaign. and so i think they have run a very effective campaign, straight through and it showed w

again thek. >> woodruff: jonathan, does that add help, does thaad hel joe biden? >> i think that ad helps joe biden because he makes a clear line, which is, obvious to folks on the ground that there is -- there is a distinct difrence between the peaceful protesters who are out there wanting their voices heard about what happened to jacob blake being shot in the back seven times by a police officers, that young woman i just med,ntioorsche bennett, she even in her remarks said she was there speakg not for the protest -- not for the rioters and the looters, no, she is there speaking on behalf of the protesters who want equity, and i do think, i agree with david, it is important and good that vice president bin put that ad out there and made it clear that he draws a line and a distinction and i don't tnk he is reacting to president trump as much as he is reflecting the reality on the ground and the

reality as the protesters see it. or the looters either.he rioters >> woodruff: two other quick things i want to ask you bh about, and one, david, has to dh everal announcements from the administration in recent days about rapesid tting for tvid, the president talking about we are goihave a vaccine this fall, maybe in october. is all is likely to be effective in changing the minds of voters who are skeptical about his leadership? or just don't know what to thin >> well, we will have a vaccine -- like a week before theti el, probably not going to work, it is not the way scice works, but t iave to give the administration some credit on the rapid-esting and - comes with a breakthrough that gives you a chance to do testing fast and the administration poured a lot of money toward that 0 to get 150 million of these testsr and l of the flaws of the

administration's covid response they have done aecent job of pouring money toward a vaccine and toward testing so i give them some credit on that, from what i understand this test is not the ultimate solution for a testing, you want to be able to testt home, et cetera, but if we could dapid testing you could test as people go into schools and conferences and buildings, that could beef ctive, that is a step back toward normalcy and i have to credit is due, they butt a lot of money into this.uf >> woo clearly, everybody wants vaccine as soon as possible. jonathan, what about the political effects of this? >> well, what is unfortunate about whathe administration is doing, i mean, great on the rapid tes rng, aack seen coming before the election, not so sure about that, but it see that all of these moves are being made not because of compassion for the sick and for the infected and for those who died, but as a political maneuver to shore up political

problem that the president has. he has not be handling the response to the coronavirus pandemic well at all and i thint he american people have been looking for is where is tha onal plan, what are you doing to safeguardurlth, but by extension, safe guard our livelihoods, because the pandemic has hit us in our health, but it alsos hing us in the pocketbook and ourho lives. >> woodruff: finally to both of you this article that raised a lot of eye eyebrows that has t me out in the atlantic overnight, jeffrey goldbg reporting from anonymous sources but in his words credible sources that the 43 used words like suckers and losers over the course of his presidency talking about people who served in the militarypeople who died in war, he -- the white house completely denies this. do ye something like this

having an effect? >> yes. mean, goldberg, the whole series of scoops coming out of the petagon and the defense department and administration is -- for the case now so he is a high credibility journalist, this story has now been confirmed byeveral other news organizations, including fox news, and so we can fully expec thatd call -- he dishonored the war dead by calling them losers and suckers and it is no so far out of reahh ofhe said in public about john mccain and others so i find completely credit and t idea that a guy who is offende by colin kaepernick taking a knee, he says that dishonors thn country but cathe war dead losers, that is absurdity. and so people are right offended, i mean we get offended by this guy on an hourly basis, but this is a offense tht goes to the core of conservative value system. the military value system. and what has been shocking to me this year is already even before this happens, according to surveys, there are active

military personnel they were already for biden which is extremely rare for the active militaryo be for democrats, and so he was already in trouble with this group and it has got to -- it has got to trouble everybody who is in and out of uniform. woodruff: jonathan, what are you thinking about this? >> i didn't think i could be rlshocked anymore, particu since charlottesville about what the president says or thinks about things or individuals. i was horrified by what i read, attributed the president of the united states where jeffrey sources and the fahat ton four david's point it has been corroborated by other newsza orgaons, including my own, the "washington post", tells you something. and it is shameful, but i think the silenm republicanmeful is

leaders around the nation and from capitol hill. >> woodruff:tough subject, htugh -- tough everything rig now. it is hard to think of something -- something ulifting, but of yk you for being herate, jn capehart, david brooks, thank you. >> woodruff: stay with us, aswe eflect on some othe lives lost due to covid-19. but first, take a moment to he from your local pbstation. it's a chance to oer your support, which helps keep programs like ours on the air.

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lilian was a fighter, her daughter said. born in guatemala, lilianme o the united states at 22 years old. life wast easy. she woke up at 3:00 in the morning to start working, often taking on two or more jobs to support her two children.ea for 20, she worked in a los angeles county middle school cafeteria, beloved by the teachers and students for her cheerfulness. lilian was 54 yearold. 62-year-old james mahoney was described by his sister as supportive father of three and a caring doctor. he went by "charlie," and when his desire tplay professional baseball didn't pan out, he turned to medicine. charlie spent more than three decades rving his students and patients in brooklyn, most recently as a critical care specialist for two hospitals. his sister said charlie was

quiet growing up, but was outgoing with his patients. alex bernard was known as "pastor alex," an outreach pastor in downey, california who preached, fed, and helped others, including mexican a program that saved alex from drug abuse at a young age introduced him to the ministry he served for 30 years. with his wife, he helped others rebuild their lives. the 57-year-old was silly and compassionate,is daughter said. he was a father to eig including four adopted children. dwontreze lovett was a big guy with a bigger heart, his mother said. folling in her footsteps, dwontreze became a barber. he was known for the sound advice a mentoring he gave to anyone in his chair. with his five-ye-old daughter, he striv to be the father he never had. they loved spending ti with

their dogs and going to the local park in hazelwood, missouri. in february, he wed the love of his life in a cereny surrounded by family.on eze was 29 years old. jeff kurtzman was full of alohar ove, his friend said, known for his warm heart and giving nature. the los angeles native moved to honolulu when he turned 18. for more than three decades,or jeffd as a flight attendant for hawaiian airlines. spiritual, an adventurer, and lover of the outdoors, jeff was also an avid photographer. wherever he went, he had his camera with him. jeff was 60 years old. and we thank all of them. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff.

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