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♪ y:judy: j good evening on the newshour tonight, the fire burns on. 10% of oregon under evacuation order amid a rising death as officials look to better weather . then,. vote 2020 president trump holds a rally with thousandsf mostly massless - maskless supporters. plus, 19 years later, children born on september 11, 2001 are w eligible to vote in a country and world forever shaped by the events of that day. it is friday and we consider congress's struggle to pass
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like you. thank you. judy: fire crews in the west are finally getting help this wevening from slowingd and rising humidity. but a wave of wildfires has already claimed up to 25ssives ac oregon, washington and northern californi in oregonlone, half a million people have had to flee and dozens are missing. special correspondent kat wise reports. t: firefighters at a moment of silence for 9/11 and then begin discussing their plan of attk. these firefighterd commanders of thetaff are one many incident management teams that assemble during wildfire season to battle blazes throughout the west. late monday night as wind picked up across the region, a fire
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broke out around their incident command post in the small town of gates, oregon. group of about 3 many stayinghe in tents and campers outside the post, begin the battle to save their own building. >> as i walkedut behind th post behind the building, the huge field behind it wasmp tely engulfed in flame. r t: randall is the public information offir the team. >> the wind was blowing, fir embers were flying, trees were coming down, electrified wires all over the place. roads impassable and firefighters having to take chainsaws and get logs out of the way so we could pass through. everybody was able to work through that in a very dynamic in -- dynamic and difficult situation without injuries. it is amazing. cat: many lo personal belongings and some still wearing the same clothes.or monday nig most signifilontly, the team
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critical gear and equipment. >> inside the command post, we had i.t. equipment, communication equipment, printersug to makemaps so we could have morning briefings. audiovisual equipment for public information staff. all of the information associated with an incident kept on thumb drives and hard drives, all of which were lost. cat: despite the losses, the team managed to reassemble by the next evening at this new command post in salem. john spencer is one of the leaders. he says this is his 36th year fighting fires. >> resources are thin, so to get on theou line and have coverage, we don't. we are setting our prioritiee and meeting fire where it forces our hand in certain communities and trying to engage so we can protect life and. proper having your command center burned to the ground and having to evacuate that area under a ry stressful situation was
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very, for many of us, hanever happened before. andiv then the fire ay we large-scale and over the whole a state of oregon and the northwest is kind of shocking to unl of us that have been a a while. cat: across oregon, about one million acres have been set ablaze and half a million peopl have been orde evacuate. roughly one in 10 residents. the state of portland with a state of emergency as they board down surrounding suburbs. crews around the state have been navigating exceedingly difficult predictions. unpredictable weather patterns change fire lines by the minute. they estimate they need twice as many firefighters on the ground as they have now. at the same time, therere fears some residents are not heating evacuation orders, spurred in part by conspiracy theories and misinformation
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spreading online. mecal police depa had to spread rumors that fires were caused by arsonists on the far left and far rig. meanwhile in california, themp north cox fire, which exploded in size week, has become the state's deadliest of the year. the fire has eaked havoc in small wns across butte county, also th' site of california' deadliest fire ever, the 2018 camp fire, thatlaed 85 lives. >> there are a lot of folks tappeart went throug the camp fires and other fires that lost their place or evd to uate for a month and they are really traumatized from is cat: a small town of about 500 with fires leaving behinlittle but rubble and twisted metal. in places like this means then death will likely go up. back in salem, the team plano take advantage of a change in weather today to finally make
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progress on containing the creek fire. they have six more days before their two week shifts arover and then they are off two days and then back on the fire lines. forecasters say they are hoping for cooler air and moisture in the coming days, which would help firefighters. judy:tl tell us a lmore about the concern about fire crew right now the worry about resources and people power. cat: that's right. randall who was in the piece told us that they are trying to provide a lot of support tn firefightershe lines and team members who went through this difficult firefighting experience we highlighted in the story. many of those team members have fa and friends who are evacuated currently and it is taking a toll on them as they fight the fires. and as you know, covid is aig it is complicating all of these firefighting effortsfi
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normally at camp like this you would have large teams working together in one om. they have broken those teams into smaller rooms to try to prevent the spread of covid-19, bueveryone is trying to dhe best they can during this really difficult time. judy: asf things were not difficult enough, you mentioned in your report that authorities are trying to spread -- to st the spread of rumors about the cause of the fires. what are people telling you? cat: we have talked to several dozen people and some people did tell ushey believed the fires had been set by politically motivated people. one gentleman told me there is no way that all of these fires could haven set by naral causes. what is important to note is that over the last couple of days, national and local authorities have come out strongly and said there is no sis for those claims and they are really trying to get wor out that people should oy trust local officials, state officials for information about these fires. judy: to be dealing with that on
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top of everything else makes it so much more complicated. catnk wise in oregon, t you. this early fire season is historic and devastating in its scope and toll. as cat reported, fires have bsrged and are moving closer to the portland sub portland right now has the worst air quality of any city the the states governor kate brown joins us from rtland. governor brown, thank you very much for joining us. for people who have never experienced fires like this, of us a sense of what your state is dealing with. gov. brown: this has certainly been the perfect firestorm. we have unprecedented wind conditions combined with a 30 year drought on the landscape. we have seen devasting wildfires throughout the state. we have had 40,000 oregonians
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o have needed to evacuat ev500,000 under some of evacuation. firefighters are doing the best they can, but their primaryri focut now is to save lives. that is where we are focused and where i our time and ener focused. judy: right now we understand a number of people areng. gov. brown:es as i said, our focus right now is on saving lives. these fires will need to be investigated over the nt days and weeks. we are still, obviously, focused on evacuating people out of the most serious o circumstances, and we still have fires -- most of the fires are uncontained. if never seen anything like this in the history of oregon judy: it is unimaginable to so many of us. governor, our reporter was stelling us that thete needs
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twice as many firefighters on the ground as you have now. aare you going to e to get that much more support? gowhere is ig to come from? gov. brown: that is a great question. we are very fortunate that we have 300 75 national guardsmen and women who have been pre-trained to fight fires. those units will be deploying today, tomorrow and sunday. we will be training, thanks to the help of ourederal delegation, an additional 300 women.l guardsmen and we have requested assistance from our federal partners. we are hoping for active duty military, trained battalions from the department of defense,e trin firefighting. and hoping that some other states will be able to prove additional national guard resources. but as you know, this is a challenge facing the entirwest coast, and our firefighters are
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spread very in. we are working hard to get the resources as quickly as possible. judy: that is why i was askin if you think you will be able to get everything you need. governor, there are as our reporter was telling us, as wel these rumors and conspiracy theories going around about the cause of theires, leading some people not to heed evacuation orders. obhow much of a m is that and what is going on? gov. brown: as the law enforcement communityas said and reiterated on social media, these rumors are absolutely false. we need folks to stay off of the 911 lines if they are concerned about these rumors. we need folks to be alert anden hang aon to their local county emergency management
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website w abot appropriate actions they can take. all of these fires will be investigated. i am confident our law enforcement community combined with assistance from thef department forestry and national guard resources, that you will see thorough vestigations of the causesf these fires. but as i said, these are historic and unprecedented. coast, we are likely to see more of them with the impacts of climate change happening here in the pacific northwest. judy: governor, wsee the protests that have been ongoing in the city where you are, and portland, for months now, our continuing even through the ate of emergency. how much of a concern is that? gov. brown: it is certainly a concern. i havworked with our community partners, our business community and elected leadership to craft a statement of oregon leaders
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saying thisle ve needs to come to an end. re continuing to have conversations with folks in the community aut how we can tackle the underlying racism issues that are really the underlying cause of this situation. and we are continuing to take action. the legislature has passed six bills in the last two mons addressing police accountability. i am working to re-craft, re-envision how we train law-enforcement in the state, and how we can co-create a new type of public safety that will ensure all of our community members feel saf judy: so in a sentence, how confident are you that there will be an end to the protests in comingays? gov. brown: judy, tt is a
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challenging question. dr. king said it best -- riotse e language of the unheard. arenow that these protests caused by folks who have beenys experiencingmic racism in this state and in this country for decades, for centuries. it wl take time, frankly, to eradicate the racism in our criminal justice system, in our law enforcement system and health care system and educational system. violence does nothing. it answers nothing and solves nothing. but i do think that it is a f distractiom the critically important work we need to do tok the systemic racism in cultures ations, state. judy: governor kate brown of
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oregon dealing with a lot right now, to put it mildly, with regard to the fires and the ongoing unrest in portland. governor, thank you verywnuch. gov. bro: thank you so much, be safe. judy: and you. ♪ stephanie: we will return to judy woodruff and the restra of the prafter these news updates. first updating our top story. this evening, president trump tweeted his thanks to the 28,00d firefightersirst responders battling the western blazes. earlier he authorized federal emergency aid for oregon. inther news, the nation marked 19 years since the september 11 attacks that killed nearly 3000 people. ceremonies unfolded against the backdrop of the esidential campaign. both president trump and
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moat joe biden visited shanksville, pennsylvania, andr biden also app new york. we will have details after the new summary. bahrain has normalized ties with israel. thisir after knotted arab es took the same step. -- united arab emirates took the sa>> step. citizens ofa israel, this i new era of peace. we have invested in peace for many years and now peace will invest in us and lead us to very large investments in raeli economy and that is very important. stephanie: a senior palestinian official called behrain's decision another stab in the back and a turkish official strongly condemned the decision. in greece, mignts protested today after fires gutted of
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camp. thousands demanded they b allowed to leave the area but weak officials refused. instead, they sent tents and supplies for a new camp and a european official promised help. >> we are dealing with the immediate nds which concern commodation and food to guarantee those who were left h without shelte what they need. at the same time ion coopera with government and authorities, we are planning for thew futur, a mp with new standards and better facilities. stephanie: greek officials say some of the migrants.rately set about 8800 unaccompanied childr he been expelled immediately at the u.s. border under a pandemic related policy that took effect in march. the figure was reported for thed first time by a border patrol official. the trump administration has expelled a tal of more than 159,00 migrants and asylum-seekers during the
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pandemic. in other pandemic news, the united states closed in on 100 93,000 deaths from covid-19 today. meanwhile, florida mov these restrictions with bars reopening monday at 50% capacity. last night, e national football league season kicked off in kansas city with a limited audience of 17,000 fans. bothe supe champion chiefs beat the houston texans. neprosecutors in molis urged a judge today to try frr for police officers together for the death of george floyd. defense attorneysrargued for se trials and asked to yd the trials elsewhere, something that 's family opposes. >> the only goal they have in trying to change venues is to get as many jurors as possible who do not look like george floyd. they do not j wantors that look like you. they do not. stephanie: dozens of people
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surrounded the courthouse protesting floyd's death. he died last may when officer derek chauvin penned him by the neck. documents released todayho showd eric and had hewed -- had used the same restraints seven times before. relatives and victims of the las ve closer to a sweeping settlement with mgm resorts international. newly filed court documents say nearly0 4ectives and victims could receive eight hundred million dollars in mgpayouts. resorts owns the hotel where the gunman opened fire, killing 58 people and injuring more than 850. at federal appeals court today barred felons in fort from voting until they pay any outstanding fines and - in florida from voting until they pay any outstanding fines and fees. inthis was aor the republican governor and legislature and could affect the presidential race in a swing state. coming up, the race for the
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white house continues as the president and joe biden sharpen their critiques. children born on 9/11 are now eligible to vote in a world forever shaped by the events of that day. mark shiel and david brooks examine congress's struggle to pass coronavirus relief. plus much more. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from w eta studios in washington and from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state. judy: the presidential race struck a somber note today as both candidates mark the 19th anniversary of the september 11 attacks. president trump and former vice president joe biden visited the same pennsylvania memorial, they did not cross path coverage.ent begins our [bellringing]
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yamiche: inching sch, l, pennsylvanlls tolled for all of the -- in shanksville, pennsylvania, bells tolled for th passengers. cthe planeshed in a rural pennsylvania field, killing everyone aboar president trump spoke at a memorial built on the crash site. he talked directly to family members of those kil pres. trump: every america is wedded to yours. the grief is shared bthe whole nation. yamiche: joe biden also paid his respects at the flight 93 memorial. he later met with famy members of those who died. de democratic presidential nominee began t in new york city, where he attended a ceremony at ground zero of the wod trade center. he stopped to talk to a woman who lost her son in the attacks and spoke about the pain
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losing his own son to cancer. mr. biden: it nemir goes away. e: vice presdent pence was also at the ground zero remembrance. the men acknowledged each other with an elbow bump. at the commemoration, pence and his wife karen read bible passages. as presint pence: -- vice president pence: yea though i fwa through the valley death, i will fear no evil. yamiche: senator kamala harris spoke at the safety headquarters. senator harris: some of the heroes from 19 years ago are still here serving this community and i thank you on behalf of all of us for the to your country.our yamiche' todays solemn tone after a raucous night for the president in michigan, where he
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held a rally. thousands of trump supporters packed together in an airrt hangar. there was little social distancing and few faceasks. came two days after audio conversations with the president revealed president tmp knew about the severity of the pandemic early on. bute sought to play it down judy: for more on all of this, we have daniel busch, who joins us from shanksville, pennsylvania. as we heard, both president biden were there today. what else can you tells about what they had to say? daniel: judy, president trump delivered remarks that were on script. did not stray from his message praising the heroism of the people who died here at this site. joe biden did not deliver official remarks. he didisit the memorial and then with his wife visited a
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local firehouse. this visit by both of the candidates, the backdrop is the election, and we saw do -- we saw two different approaches to being out in the pandemic. president trump and the people around him did not wear masks. tjoe biden a people around him did. joe biden said yesterday he plans to abide by s restrictions -- restrictions and that is what he did. judy: you've been in pennsylvania several days purporting -reporting on how they are preparing for the election and particularly on how theyill be voting and disputes that have come up. tell us about that. daniel:op of mind here is election security. how to get enough poll workers, theris ahortage. how to secure safe polling ates. the main issue iet of lawsuits that will dictate how people can actuamby vote in no. the principal one everyone is watching is a trump campaign lawsuit along with the rnc filed
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against the state to ban drop boxes in november. boxes many statesused a drop while. it allows voters to drop off mail-in ballots in person tolo ng lines and reduce public health risks. the trump campaign is arguing they are illegal and not technically polling places and could lead to voter tampering and fraud. on the ground, county officials tell me something different. i spoke to several republicans who told me they are secure. one told me that during the primaries they were c under 24 hoera surveillance. ey a not concerned about voter fraud. but that is the case playing ouu in thes right now. judy: you are saying even republicans are saying his to daniel: that's right, several republicans told me they don't have concerns about voter fraud, but there are challenges around
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how people can vote. as i mentioned, carrying these off safely, as well as what will officials from both parties told me unless they have or time to gin counting the votes and there is an influx in absentee ballots and mail-in ballots, they will not be able to count the votes on election night. it is so important to all of them to underscore that point. they can expect to have to count some of th votes for days to come after november 3. ljudy: dan busch, so interesting, and i know this is something we want to follow closely between now and the election. thank you so much. ♪ some 13,000 babies were born in the u.s.20 on september 11. today, they turn 19 years old. this fall, for the first time in their lives, they will be able
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to cast a vote in a presidential election. we have more on the political viewssef torn on one of america's darkest days. amma: those young americans lives have been shaped byar, school shootings and now a deadly global pandemic. derek graff recently interviewed several of them for a piece. he is also the author of a best-selling book, "the only plane in the sky." bawelcom to the newshour. it's great to talk to you. it is remarkable to read in your latest piece that these young adults have only ever knwan a nation a one of the young women chloe, said every single day since i was born, we have not been in a timehere we are at peace. that is a remarkable thing to read. what did these young americans tell you about how they view america's wars after 9/11? derek: part of what is so
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has been backgroune.for them, it as you said, they have never known a day of peace in their lives. and so they have very little understanding of the wars in iraq and afghanistan, why we are there, and have learned very little about the ws in school. amma: another thing that me is for so many people before them, 9/11, the day they were born, was the big moment and a defining moment. m. course it was not for t when you ask about big moments, many of them citedoting of some kind. one of them said -- in the back of my mind, i would sit in class and be like, if something hppens, how will i escape, will ie, will i jump out of the window? this is from aiden. i know so many young aricans feel the same way, he has become normalized. was that sentiment true for all
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of them? derek: almost exclusively. every single person i talked to, or many of them, many in this generation, the firs national event they remember is the massacre at sandy hook. udthey we ts alongside marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland after the mass shooting. for many of them, this is a badrop t their daily educational experiences now. please officers -- police officers in school, mass shooters. this is something they think of many days in schools now, which is unfathomable to us from previousmaenerations. as we mentioned, they are now about to vote, and inhe background is the global pandemic. there is also nationwide racial justiceun protestlding. how are they viewing both of n?ose events and the elect derek: one of the thingst t struck me -- again, this is a
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generation born on 9/11, grew up in war, experienced mass shootings, graduating hh school and starting college amid the pandemic and tionwide protests. in many ways, they would have every reason to have given up believing in government and their country. in fact, i saw the opposite. there was a remarkable amount of hope and optimism about them that their generation will be able to change america for the tobetter as they come politics. one big area for them is lgbtq rights, this is something they have grown up with and is widely accepted among their peers. for many of them, gay has been legal for more than half of their lives in many states. this is something that is background noise in a positive way socially for them. amma: one of those quotes that stuck out to me that speaks to that was from a young woman.
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you asked about the chaos and turmoil and she said millennials are more weary, they lived throh 9/11 and lived through the recession. wheas gen z, things can only get better. is that generally the sense around these 9/11 babies, that it can only get better from here? derek: that was my favorite quote in the entire piece because it was the one that was most surprising to m t the idea thy would look ahead and see millennials as the cynical, weary, tired ones and their generation shey having nothing but hope and optimism about e future. i was expting a much more pressing portrait of their view of america. amma: i have to ask you about one quote that struck me. it is their birthday today. it is also a day of national mourning. there was a quote that said she
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was listening to radio stories about kids who loston their parent/11 and realized, that is when ize first reai was born on the worst day. that is a heartbrking thing to read. and you talk to them, briefly, how do they view this day? derek: again, very little memory of it. th something that for many of them, their parents talking about their bir is the only real memory they have. a remarkable example, one had a name that meant a remarkable gift from god. she was named that because she wa born on 9/11, a moment of hope amid national tragedy. amma:t s very nice to see those messages of hope. we suld say happy birthday to all of them from all of us. think you for sharing their stories. thank you for bringing their stories to us. always a pleasure to talk to you. derek: thank you for having me.
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♪ judy: now it is time for the political analysis of shields and brooks, that is mark fields and david brooks. hello to both id you on this night. it is so good to have had the conversation telling us the younger generation turning 19 the future.an optimistic view of isn't that something uplifting for all of us to hr? mark, back to reality right now. that is, even though the pandemic marches on and even though we have millions of americans unemployed, congress again this week it did not come to an agreement on relief, economicelief, to those affected by the pandemic.
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how much does this matter and who is responsible? mark: obviously it does matter a lot to the people, judy v. it is a very unnerving and embarrassing national statistic. the united states has the highest percentage of children living in poverty among veloped nations. children do not buy tickets to fundraising dinners, i don't have soft money and they don't have much clout politically. they are the victimshe and are anything but silent victims but they are powerless victims. it is incumbent upon washington and those in the state capitals and city halls to represent their needs and tend to their problems. i quite honestly think it is a reflection badly both on politically i think the ultimate
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responsibility will be with the white house. that is the president and the i think quite frankly there is enough restlessness in the ranks of both parties of not doing anything that there is sti an outside chance something could be done before the 30th of september. judy: by congress, you are saying. vid, what about the queion of who is more responsle? we democrats acted months ago and republicated and now they are pointing fingers at each other. david: on the larger issue, the thislicans probably had one wrong. they are treating this as a normal physical circumstance where iis important to be fiscally responsible and they point out that hundreds of billions of dollars of the last cares package have not been spent yet. butma these are not n circumstances. most economists, even republican
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rca -- republican economist, say these are extraordinary circumstances. this is th time to spend money just to provide a cushion under people in circumstances they cannot control. i give the lint -- intellectual thought to the republicans and the political fault to the mocrats. tried to get the issue more than solve the problem. even in the final days, the republicansroposed something like $500 billion in the senate and the democrats passed a something for like $3 trillion in the house. ifra i was a dem i would say people are starving, we wil take the $500 billion. it is not what we want and it -- but it could help people and we will do more later. i think at the end of the day they should'veon taken the because americans are suffering. they took the ifue instead o at least a piece of the solution. judy: mark, forhe ordinary
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person, it is hard to understand there is no action.is so great, mark: i agree. i want to correct the record. all re david, he is wrong on this. the democrats'sti i legislation, which they passed, was the $3 trillion.sed nothing, on the stalemate hit,de the crats decided to drop i down to $2 trillion. the republicans had an initial offer at $1 trillion. they cut it down to $630 billion. strictly pro forma andorma -- counterfeit. they cannot talk about the tional debt. it has increased 40% since donald trump took thoath of office and in the best econo o in the histo the country,
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according to donald trump. the national deficit has been met only three times in the lasy 51rs, and all three times was with a democraticnt presi bill clinton. let's not let the republicans talk about deficits and debt. when it comes to taxheuts, are off the boards and off the books. judy: david? david: lot of republicans did not want to dohe anything, thought they had spent $3 trillion and that was enough. they were at the point where tith $1 trilon of additional spending, i thou democrats should have seized on the moment. in the first round, this was months ago, the democrats could have come down andll rmay be worked out something. in the second round, after that round fell apart, the republicans were like we are done. what they proposed was pro forma. on the deficits, i completely this is not a moment to think
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about deficits. in long-term, i think itrts imt, when you pass 100% debt to gdp, you are with historically dangerous territory. but that is a problem for another day and not f judy: such a tough issue. i want to turn, marked, t to story we've been discussing the blockbuster book, another book by bob woodward, "rage." new revelations about what president trump knew about covid-19 and what he said publicly. what is your main take away from this? mark: my main take away is this is not a movie we have seen before. whenever an unflattering or really cat book comes out about a president or white house, they are immediatelyss dis as firedtaers, people not that close and never saw the president, who had a grut.e of
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some s the source and this is the president himself on tape, on the record. you know, all i could think of was that night in august when we alsat together and listened to the young woman from arizo whose father at the age of 65d ed from covid-19 because, as she puthe it, he believed president. he returned to normal activities, a very social animal. he loved people. he went o, contracted covid-19, and died alone, five days on a ventilator all by himself. as she pointed out, his only pr believing donald trump. that was his only pre-existing condition. we live into aricas, the one her father died in, and the one donald tru lives in. that to me is beyond shocking. is is new territory for any
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president. and yet i will predict that in the next poll, next week, he will still have the solid support of 41%-40 3% of e people. judy: david, yo main take and how much do you think it will affect the public view of the president? david: ascending levels of disgust. first, the hubs to think youco d talk to bob woodward and not get hurt by it. he walked into this. two, the extreme cynicism of not only bumbling around in february and march becausekn you did not how bad this was, but the confirmation that you did know and you thought you could talk down a force of t ture and not ught. there is a level of cynicism that has beenle rev more than just incompetence. finally, and to m ie thismost revealing, i guess, the idea
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that iyou had told the erican people the truth, they would have panicked. it betrays a disregard into condescension toward the american people that is ustally ridicu so i think there is new stuff here, as there was last week in the piecebout what he said about the war dead. plthere is a continued d of poor character, and moral character. we have seen it before but it oeems to escalate from time time. as for whether it willur ht, i amith mark. three months ago, joe biden had . 7.5% lead in the average polls a lot has happened and he has a 7.5%ou lead what i like to emphasize is a lot of voters have given up on politics. th are what we call low information voters. you have written off politics and will probably never hear of the bob woodward revelations. we have a race that is locked in
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stasis. the bad thing for donald trump is he only has at few weeks l and this was another week of crisis and scandal that he was not catching up. you don't have too many weeks left and this was a week, as far as his campaign is concerned, is wasted. judy: very quickly, fally to each of you, joe biden's-- messe s it coming through? mark: judy, joe biden i think is coming through as a decent person. there isn old saw in politics for any candidate, tell us what you want to be governor or senator or president without mentioning your opponent once. that would be good for him to go through. americas in the market for compassionate conservative, conservative with a heart,itr a liberal a backbone, a tough liberal. i think joe bidenho could
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more toughness. there are no riots, ere areo burnings of buildings that are acceable. joe biden has to make that cle as he stands, as he has his entire career, for justice racially and economically in the country. that has to come across your judy: -- come across. judy: david? david: i think he has been pretty tough. he called trump despicable. he hops on the weaknesses of the week and hammers them. senior citizens are backing biden and not trump in a reversalf four years ago in part because of covid and beuse biden spent the week hitting him on that solid issue. judy: we will leave it there. we thank you both, david brooks, mark shielu.. thank yo mark: thank you, judy. ♪
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judy: as we remember the thousands of americans who lost their lives on this day 19 years ago, we also remember those who passed awa in the last weeks and months from covid-19. ♪ any friend who needed a home found one with rhonda in her two-bedroom san diego apartment. she raised her two children as well as at least eightneighborhd >> i am thankful for my children e at i grth to end the ones i did not give birth to butte judy: -- birtho. judy: she believed there was always more to give and wenol back to sc at age 50 to become a social worker. she was 60 years old.
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walter cameero america a world war ii as a displaced person. hoping to keep alivehi stories f native ukraine, he founded the new theater in new york city. as an actor, theater directo and set designer, he put on countless plays. some covered somber topics like others were comedies. it was on stage he met his wife, also an actor. together, they raised their two great loves, their daughters. walter was 92. s jimmy natural salesman with a neck for fashion. following in his parent's footsteps, he openedis own rift store in san antonio. he was known for gifting cloth and toys frothe store to families in need. witty, loud and the life of the party, his wife said it was never a dull moment and he w around. he loved movies, traveling and spending time with his four
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childr. jimmy was 40 years old. linda made a friend of everyone. her son said she never met a stranger. a dedicated counselor, she worked with first-time offenders and the formerly incarcerated. she believed in second chances and that a little guidance can go a long way. linda enjoyed spending time with her husband. a lover of literature, she enjoyed reading the peter rabbi bo her sons and later took up writing poetry as a hobby. she passed away in colorado springs at age 74. captain franklin williams arrived an hour early to every shift as a detroit firefighterd after 20 hre than 40 years. dedicated andte tal he excelled in everything he did. his daughters said heas a gifted tradesmen, cook and
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dancer. the former high school athte went on to coach football with the police athletic league for 13 years. in his later years, when he wasn't on the golf course, the 58-year-old spent wife, seven children and four ♪ndchildren. there are times a story behind a chpainting m the beauty of the work itself. sas ocial correspondent reports, there is a hidden history in the rotunda of rotunda is where the gods and goddesses live. they stand in radiant glory, ride chariots s ar on feathered wings.
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they are light and idealized. but they are him. clearly black and was like,was what is going on, who is this man? jared: these murals and figures have hovered over the mfa for. almost a centu they were conceived by painterhn inger sargent in 1916. only now has there been a comprehensive lookt the bl ack model behind the murals. it was all because of an ntal discovery by a curator. >> i opened the wrong cabinet and happen to find portfolio. it was huge and i had never seen jared: that find has led tool boston's , and exhibition examining the between the painter and the model. an artistic relationship lasting eight years. >>ot it was that just anyone could have helped sergeant get
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to this point, it was thomas mckellar specifically that allowed sargent to unlock creative potential that had not been tapped before. jared: sergeant was a celebrity painter, and tired of doing thea portraiturewas his bread-and-butter when he received the mfa commission. inhese sketches he gave to a friend and patron, we find the artist drawing the fine court -- contours of mckellar, aso times contortionist turned stand-in for mythological gods. >> he was a roxbury resident who came from north carolina in the wake of devastating racial violence. jared: little is known about the extent of the relationship between the two men.but considef mckellar. it is sargent's only major new to andy hung prominenin his studio. never intended for public view. >> sergeant in making this work. you can see it in the highlights
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ton the shoulders a chest, you can seehese -- this incredible shadow on the adams apple. was not dashed off in a few strokes. he spent an incred time, effort and love in making this. >> the first thing i saw was all of the drawings together. jared: helga is a visiting curator who directeort form -- film in which the last of mckellar's descendents comes face-to-face with hicy. >> these sketches of my great uncle a is reallyeans of survival for him. jared: what do you see when mu look at thals? >> i see you made apollo, you made these things, and here is the body that inspired it. >> how could we possiblyso forgt body who played so pivotal a role in the production of boston's public art?
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that is a question that revolves around ilind spotsthe discipline of our history, of history, and society in generale they are confronting historyer calling out the erasure of a black man by a white artist a century ago, and whathat looks like today, when there is finally a reclamation. judy: so fascinating. j thank yoed. on the newshour online right now, to many fans, actor chadwick boseman's death was a shock and added to the grief many are already feeling this year. we explore what he and his film roles meant, especially to young people. that i own pbs.org/newshour. that is the newshour for tonight. we hope you have a safe weekend. thank you all and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- >> when the world gets
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