♪ judy: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight. still no concession -- despiteed repe losing court challenges to election results, president trump continues to deny his defeat. then, fired -- the president terminates the leader of the top u.s. cyber security agency owfog his rejection of claims the election was compromised. and the recount continues -- with senate runoffs approaching and political pressure increasing, officials in georgia carry out the painstaking task of re-tabulating the votes.e all that and m tonight's "pbs newshour."

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the full program after the latest headlines. the nation tonight hasasd 250 thousand deaths from the coronavirus and the number is risingy an average of 1100 evy day with roughly 160,000 ctw infections daily. and, president-eoe biden warned today that a potential vaccination campaign is in jeopardy -- because the trump admistration won't star othe transitipower. of things that we on'thole lot have available to us which unless it's made available soon , we are going to be behind by weeks and months, being ablepu o together the whole initiative relating to the epggest promise we have. nie: the wave of covid-19 infections prompted new york city mayor bill de blasio today rg close the nation's t public school system again. effective tomorrow, more than one million students go back t online learning only, and in miesota, this evening governor

tim walz ordered a fourk w ban on indoor bars and canceling indoor sports. president trump mounting still more challenges to his election loss to mr. biden. the trump campaign asked today for recounts in two onunties in win. meanwhile, michigan certified republican canvassers in detroit initially refused to certify. that drew fire today from detroit's democratic mayor.mo >> american acy cracked last night. but it didn't break. we are seeing real threat to everything we believe in. what you are seeing in this country right now is an effort to say we only want to count the votes of the people who agree with us. stephanie: president-elect biden won michigan and wisconsin, plus georgia -- which is due to finish a hanvorecount of its s tonight. we'll return to all of this, after the news summary.

looking into war crimes by elite australian troops has t ened up shockidence. the military found its special forces caredut 39 unlawful killings in afghanistan over an 11 year period. the record details alleged instances where new patrol would shoot prisoners t achieve a first kill, a practice known as blooding. it noted9 1 soldiers being investigated for possible charges. the united state has imposed other round of sanctions on iran. today's announcement targetedll the inteigence minister and a charity that's allegedly a regime slu fund. that came as a un agency reported that centrifuges at iran's natanz nuclear site are now enriching uranium. it's been reported that president trump sought options last week for a military strike on natanz. reavrts of damage and deaths are now coming in from central america, in the wake of hurricane iota. nicaragua today raised its official death toll to 16. homes were left in ruins along

the country's caribbean coast, and downpours triggereavy flooding and landslides therean in honduras. >> the hurricane came, iter knocked y house, my daughter's house, it knocked over five houses in total. so i'm homeless. where am i going to live? i have to take care of so many young men. i don't know where i'm going to live. stephanie: the hurricane smashed ashore monday night in the same area where another category 4 storm hit, two weeks earlier. back in this country, a federal judge in washington ordered the stop deporting mighildreny to who cross the u.s.-mexico border alone. nearly 9,000 unaccompanied children have been expelled since march. the administration has used an emergency measure citing the pandemic as justification. the federal aviation administration has cared

boeing's 737 max jetliners to rerme deliveries and passen flights for u.s. airlines. that ends a 20-month ban after two crashes that killed 346 people. today's order calls atr boeing to ukey software and computers, and for pilots to receive new training. still to come on the "newshour". despite repeatedly losing court es to election results, president trump continues to deny his defeat the leader of . the leader of the top u.s. cyber-security agency is fired following his rejectioof claims the election was compromised. carry out the painstaking task of recounting the votes, andch ore. announcer: this is the "pbs washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: the next present is set

th be sworn in nine weeks from today. gh the associated press and all other news major outlets say that will be joe biden, president trump and his allies continue to contest the results. yamiche alcindor and lisa desjardins are here with the latest.h hello to b you. yamie, to you first. we are now more than two weeks since election day. the president still insists he has not lost. he is continuing to mount these dallenges. wh we know right now? yamiche: the president is estle back the selectionbid to somehow from president-elect joe biden. today, that wrestling back took the form of a partial recount. the trump campaign is ilmanding a $3on partial recount in wisconsin focusing on two specific counties, dane county and milwaukee county.

that's important because critics say these are democratic strongholds that will not art all be overturned even if you recount the votes. the trump campaign coue asked for an $8 million statewide recount, but they are not doing that to save money, but tary want to show the still in the fight. campaign sources say the president feel he still c win the fight but critics say this is nothing more than theatrics as the president is cong to have lawsuits in a number of states including nevada, pennsylvania, and georgia and similar arguments being made that there is massive voter frd. again, no evidence of that. another thing to connected to thosected toic the president. some mixed messages. he said in part on president trump's term, it could be 45 days or four years and 45ays. take that and add that to the trump campgn sources saying

the mood inside the trump campaign is demoralized. people feelingike the president is at this point a sore loser and like it is a a longshot bid almost impossible for him to win this. nsdy: meantime, at the other end of pvania avenue, democrats and the house gathered today gathered today. . what did they lisa: eclipse by all the attention understandably on the presidential race are some really interesting chang. in the hou something that's not changing -- who will be leading house democrats. today house democrats voted by voice acclamation ivan a p meeting that nancy pelosi would retain speakership.18 she still nee votes.e democrats have said she will be the leader. the top three leadership tipos are remaining for now,

but the difference is thell marn e smaller going into the house. here is the fan graphic i love tohow. right now, democrats have 220 seats. one in this year's election -- won in this year's election. the majority is to 18 seats. there are 11 seats still uncalled. republicans lead in about three or four depending on how you could look at it. act, there are som fascinating races in iowa. a 400,000 voter race down to 437 votes. the point is democrats have somethinr to look out xt year. smaller margin.ewer moderates, a pelosi said that agenda won't change forhem because of it, but when you talk find the scenes, you know there is unity on a few things. infrastructure, voting rights for democrats, but the smaller margin can spell problems for

other agenda items like climate and spending. it will belt diffi for democrats in some instances to stay unied, but so far saker pelosi has done it better than anyone. judy: it's natural for them to be focusing on the year, but arey still have time this to get some things done what are they saying abou that? lisa: there is one major priority that musket done -- must get done, keeping government funding.li the de is december 11. it might seem like a few weeks aw, but actually congress is leaving for thanksgivingd break today omorrow and they will not be able to address it in the meantime. when they come back, they will have just two weeks to deal with that deadline. there is some good news. democrats and republicans are getting closer to a deal amongst themselves. but i ve toell you, both parties and both sides of the capitol told me they are worried about president trump.

he needs to sign a extension deal or extension of funding. the last te hans changed power, we had the largest government shut down in history because president trump would not get on board. judy: i we rememb well. lisa desjardins, yamiche to cover. thank you both. the turnover of t people trump administration continues , and again raises troubling questions. the p latessident trump firing the top cybersecurity official at the department of homeland security, christopher krebs. it comes after krebs, whose jobs it was to secure u.s. elections systems, pushed back on falsd. claims of fr >> this new agency will ensuree

thatnfront the full range of threats from nation states,ls cyrcrimind other malicious actors of which there william: in 2018, president trump signed legislation to fund the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agena,, known as cithin the department of homeland security. its goal -- to protect critical infrastructure, includg the nation's election systems. the president named cybersecurity expert christopher krebs to be its director. he had been serving within dhs at the time. last month, just days before the election, krebs ld the "newshour" that cisa had come long way. >> we have just made remarkable progress.po the evidence ss that. the security of these systems has improved. but, most importantly, the resilience of the system has dramatically improved. william: the consensus among election officials and agencies across government is tint, despite onthreats of disinformation, foreign

interference, plus the pandemic , the 2020 election was the most secure in u.s. history. >> director krebs desees an enormous amount of credit for his efforts, for his leadership in the space. william: ben hovland is chairma of the uection assistance commission. he too was nominated by president trump. hovland's commission studies and helps disseminate election system best practices. >> one of the things that makes working on election issues difficult from the nationalve is, is the decentralized nature of our elections. and director krebs, i think, did a great job empowering his team tato recognize that the s each run elections in their own unique way. listen, to hear what their needs were and try to provide that. william: dmitri alperovi is a -founder of the cybersecurity company crowdstrike. he worked with krebs to improve the capabilities of localon elecfficials to detect and with stand cyber attacks.

>> one of the things that chris was very passionate about is getting instrumentation in state hestems and local municipalities that are running election systems so that we would know if they're being attacked by foreign actors or domestic actors and we worked very hard in the private sector to help them gain thatevel of instrumentation. so he would know and tt of the federal government would know if those systems are being attacked and would be able to respond accordingly. william: most republicans on capitol hill chose not t comment on the krebs firing, but a notable few were critical here's gop congressman adam kinzinger of illois, on cnn. >> cis krebs said the election was secure. that's his job to say that, his job is to make sure that they're defending the elections and of course, that is counter to what the president is trying to say , so i think that all feeds into why he's out there and's like a loyalty purge going on in the last month at the white house. william: and texas republicanhn senator ornyn. >> it's the president

's prerogative but i think it , just adds to the confusion and chaos. but we know that there were people who tried to influence the election. the irony is we really did a much better job in 2018 and 2020.wi iam: many believe krebs was fired because of his agency's continuing effort to push back on false claims and rumors surrounding the election, some of which were created or repeated by president trump. to fight the disinformation, cisa ran this website called and lies about things likeyths computer hacking, duplicate ballots, and compromised voter rolls. but it was this joint statement, put out byisa six days ago, that seemed to seal his fate. it read, "the november 3rd t election w most secure in american history" and later, in bold -- directly contradicting s,e president and his lawy it read "there is no evidence , that any voting system delet or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."

last night, the president tweeted, "the recent statement by chris krebs on the security of the 2020 election was highly inaccurate. therefore, effective immediately, chris krebs has been terminated." so now, for a much broader look at this moment, both for the president and the country, i am joinedy a pulitzer prize winning writer and reporter. great to have you back the newshour. you have covere this president since the get go. we have now seen christopher krebs fired, the leadership at the pentagon locked off and replaced. uglp us understand how we to be seeing these events. >> what you are seeing is trump executing his loyalty test that ha been active since around early 2018, where he really realized in a moment oth clarity loyalty was his keyword.

he had lots of officials who would not take an f personal loyalty to him. they took an oath to the constitution. trump accepted them at the beginning and then said i have to get rid of them all. krebs and others are almost the last of that array of officials thatop were onceating different parts of the government that would not take trthis oath of loyalty tp and trump's interests, however he defines them. william: you recently wrote a terrific"t piece i new york times" based on deep reporting with several dozen former and current high-level election administrators. the current thing was what happens after the election and many of the thingsmeeported have o pass like confusion, refusal to concede, allegations of fraud and lawsuits. i know you spoke to those people. what is it that they hope will happen this >> they saw this period between

the election and inauguration is arguably the most dangerous te and what they are specifically fearful of his trump activating his loyalists. remember, he has an enormous armyif you will come of people dely committed to him in a way influenceiticalseen in that is where much of the focused trump has not been back meeting with them since th election. it's almost like lovers he will at some point, no one doubts that. you will see the nature of power he possesses outside of that that therticle to pows of the constitution give h o until the 20 january. that community is iita way g for direction from their deeer for whom they have a bond and love.

william: i let's talk about h might play out. the powers of the presidency, e powers of a devoted base of followers. these are military intelligence, administration people. how does it play out in a way that troubles them? >> think of it like a left-hand and right-hand. with his right hand, the powers of the government, meaning federal forces to quell demonstrations. that means bringing law a order even actating law and order. article two powers. on the other hand, real direction over an enormous array of people who might be at the source of a significant amount of chaos demonstrations, protests, things that may change the landscape. gif trus out, as people are peed, to do stadium shows in the next few weeks, 100,000

people or 50,000 people cheering and whipped into a frenzy who then has the option to say i will cut you loose or tell you to stand by or stand down and stand by, that is an enormous amount of power he retains. william: devils advocate here. i hear all the concern you are expressing and these people ar expressing, but is it possible we are not seeing somethinger laoing on, that it could be the tail end of an administration headed by a man who doesn't want to give up power? he's ring some people and it may nhi be an more than just that? >> i could be. but one thing i think is important to give -- keep focused on is that those folks committed to donald trump, some portion of the 72 million who voted for him, he is taking that with him.no

he igiving them up. weneould be situation where the biden presidency is in a day to day conflict for ratings with a man who i would not fight on a ratings landscape in any day. i would not wish that on my worst enemy. he's master of that terra. that's what i think will be interesting. maybe what is so unsettling about the years ahead of us. what will trump do with the power he has already accrued and is likely not giving up? all those people whoay he is my guy. i don't think anyone necessarily will replace him. he has a special bond and i don't see anybody essentially takingfr tha him. it is his town and use.

how will he use it? that's what we are watching. william: ron suskind, always good to have you. rythank you much. judy: as president trump presses forward with legal challenges election, georgia en the won the center of national attention with its statewide recount. the deadline for finishing the recount is midnight and president-elect biden's advantage and apparent win of the state is holding. miles o'brien reports on the largest hand recount in u.s. reporter: barely more exciting than watching paint dry. >> trump.

trump. reporter: the manual audit of every ballot cast for president in georgia on november 3rd methodically marches forward despite a harsh intramural , political feud. >> emotions are high. the president's going to continue to fight. his supporters continue to fight. reporter: gabe sterling runs elections for georgia secretary of state brad raffensberge both are died in crimson wool republicans fending off an elephant's helng of wrath from president trump and several other party comrades, all ofth questioning the integrity of the contest that made joe biden a whisker in winner here. >> there's a lot of stuff flying around on twitter and facebook that touches fact, but doesn't necessarily have all the facts or the evidence. and that's what we're trying to got to. reporter: it's an arduous path that began with a pre-election plan to conduct a scientificomly randheck of the state's new 106 million dollar voting system. it's called a risk limiting or rla.

>> an rla is designed to determine whether the winner won without any chce of a machine oblem happening. reporter: monica childers this with a nonprofit called voting works hired by the state. we first met her in september in brunswick, georgia as she how to run these audits.s on if there is ample cushion in the margin between candidates, rla's can validate the outcome of an election with great confidence of ballots. only a small sample but no such luck in this race separated by less than a third of a percentage point. >>ti when you do a risk li audit on a race with a very small margin, your sample size is going to expand because the margin is what determines how many balts you have to look at. so our margin in the small, and that'y we'reery, very looking at all the ballots. reporter: nearly 5 million of them. it is the largest hand count of ballots in u.s. history, and it appears to be going pretty

smoothly. the atlanta based carter centern deployed a veteam of observers who earned their spurs watching sketchy elections run by despots all over the world. is their first domestic assignment sad sign of the paige alexander is the ceo. >> i believe that we're in a place where each side led up the other and we're not going to get over it easily without people listening to each other. and so as long as you can share shed a light on it and you can show people how the process works and people are willing to listen, then there's hope. reporter: but listening may be a hyper polarity.s age of partisan first, the state's ss both raffensperger resign citing unspecified failures. congressman doug collins accused raffensperger of caving into democratic pressure. and presidentrump called him

"a so-called republican"ba and then madless claims the state didn't properly verify signatures on mail-in ballots. that issue prompted republican senator lindsay graham of south carolina to call the secretary. on cnn, he was asked exactly graham said. >> well, asked that the ballot m could ched back to the voters, and then i got the sense it implied that then you could throw those out for y. reporter: sator graham denies he asked that votes be tossed. meanwhile, election workers counng ballots found some fu for the fire. in three red counties, theyd fo about five and a half thousand pallets -- $5,500 -- 5500 ballots that had not been scanned or uploaded. it reduced bidens' mgin of victory by about 1200 to just shy of 13,000. >>g we've seen nothinat indicates that there is a high percentage or such a high percentage that it would change the outcome of the vote. our goal is to have the clealest

possib election. reporter: in the enches of this epic ballot count, the assignment to deliver on that promise falls to election directors like kristi royston in gwinnett county , and atlanta exurb. are you exhausted? >> [laughter] you know, i'm tired, but i really think when it ces to this, some sort of adrenaline kicks in. reporter: true to her profession, she is a process loving perfectionist and proud of it. so all this paper going back and forthth, noing gets lost? >> we have really good tracking systems. it's check and recheck and then documented so that we can go back and see where we are. reporter: she doesn't mind scrutiny, but is growing weary of the accusations. reporter: is it rigged? >> i do not belve it's rigged. i have done this for 23 years for what the checks and balances and the security, i trust the system. things are worth questioning.

inth are worth making sure their accuracy in it, but i thinkometimes have to have faith and trust in the assets d running -- process and the people who are running. reporter: so there is more work ahead there and while this audit verifies the outcome, it does not change the legal authority to change the final numbers. e after the strtifies this election on friday, the trump campaign has two business days, tuesday nextqu week, to t a formal recount. that would be a rescan ofs the ballnd that would put those election workers at work going into t thanksgiving holiday because the margin here iso close. dy: just fascining taking us inside that process. one of the many other areas of yourer it and expertise as a i have questions about that.

today we know the faa cleared the boeing 737 max to f again. right now we have one airline saying it might be ready to do that by the d of december and other airlines say it might take more months. what will it take for the airlines to be comfortable flying this plane that has ha problems in the past? e reporter: for rlines and the regulators. there is a fair amount of work. there's a 115 page airworthinese ive which is kind of the law of the land for the faa, which gives a series of changes. there o will be so-called ang attack sensors feeding into the computer system that has a piece of software designed to keep the aircraft from flying to know's high and stalling which was at the root of the crashes.

there will be a lot of maintenance to be done because after the aircraft have sat for 20 months in desert locations, thenre 's an entire training regime each airline has to come up with for pilots and originally, in the original days did not know anything about this system. there's a fair amount oork ahead. american will go first, then united and southwest. judy: meantime, we are hearing from family membersf those who perished in the crashes saying they are concerned and it might be moving too fast. there are complaints that the culture that allowed this to happen might not have changed enough. reporter: it is hard to change culture at huge organizations at any kind and a particurly complex system like with aircraft manufacturing such as boeing.

wbut i did speh one of the attorneys representing these families and the families are very upset thateste the public relations side and what boeing presented to the general public, thettneys are still trying to blame pilots for the crashes, not accepting blame on the pa of the corporation. that might be a good legat position butaves families very upset. they are expressing great concerns about the saf the aircraft. judy: and finally, the faa today saying anything about not grounding the 737 max after the first fatal accident? reporter: this has besn the bi tragedy to me. after the first accident, you knew you had a systemwide problem with catastrophic consequences, a the faa not to ground the aircraft.

today the faa administrator said hehe has flownmproved 737 max. he said in retrospect, they probably should have done that, but he said at the time, they did not have enough information. he made a patch that as time goes on d there are more regulations that require reaming of da from aircraft, we will have the information we more quickly in thre.cisions that is something to push for in the future. judy: miles o'brien on the major stories today. thk you. as we have been reporting, the coronavirus is showilo no signs ofng down or allowing ves to go back to normal, as americans prepare for the holiday season. thanskging is just a week away

and millions will be gathering in new ways. there have been a number of warnings and caveats given aacut how to appthe holiday. amna nawaz is heregho get more inabout what we should keep in mind. amna: judy, health officials have been warning that other holiday gatherings dure pandemic have been followed by spikes in new covid cases. a stilational survey by ohio state found that nearly two in five americans said they will likely attend a thanksgiving gathering with more than 10 people. here with more information on what you should consider before making your plans, is dr. ranit mishori. she's a professor of family mecine at georgetown and senior medical adviser for physicians for human rights. welcome back to the "newshour." thanks for taking the time to answer. people are hearing this 10 number from officials to limit gatherings. some people say we have in

quarantining and some have tested negative. what is wrong with gathering with a bigger group this holiday? what do you say to them? dr. mishori: unfortunately the only way to prevent transmission of the virus is by limiting the number of peoplthyou interact 10 is sort of a random number people came up with, but the smalle part of it is that people are traveling in order to fnk up wiily members, and the travel is a problematic issue. you can bring disease from counties and states where the epidemic is raging. even if you don't have symptoms, a lot of people can be asymptomatic. you bring it to your small household or community, and it is enough to have one person who is infected to infect a whole host of others. the number 10 really is just a proxy to say, limit the number of peopl

10 people in a smallou house be very problematic. don't focus on the number 10. amna: you mentioned travel. what about that? college students want to go home. people eager to see families age be thankful er. an answeore decidingnsider whether to hit the road or just stay in place this year? dr. mishori: think the best advice i canive anybody and everybody, including my only family, is not to travel. we made a tough m decision f daughter not to come home and for us to not see other family members and keep to ourselves. it is a sacrifi, but everyone has to make a sacrificedi so the ase does not spread and chstmas could look much worse. if you decide to travel, and i can't recommend enough not traveling at all, you need to look at the testing protocols in the state you were traveling to

and think about your mode oti transpor. driving is safer than flying or taking a bus where you are cramped with other people. of course, you think about quarantining beforu leaving so n't have exposures yourself and you can develop the disease and infect the people you are visiting. of course, taking all the public health measures, wearing a mask at all times and wearing it oucorrectly over y nose and mouth, washing your hands and keeping at least six feet apart fr anyone else. that's important. the distancing is incredibly important. amna: what about best practices for those gathering? in whatever small number, should they wear a mask when not n orng, increase ventilat space ou how can you make it safer? dr. mishori: the best way is

number one, if you can have your meal outdoors, i know some places will be very cold, do it outdoors. if you have to do it indoors, space yourselves six feet apart from o another. wear our mask indoors with anyone not a member of your household. ask people to bring their own utensils. do not share utensils. don't eat off of a buff style settin try and set apart as much as possible, especially if everybody brings their own plate and meal. ventilate, ventilate. open the windows and the doors. take a break, go outside and go back in. don't stay seated in an unventilated room for a long time. na: a holiday unlike any we have seen but hopefully a safe one for everyone. thank you so much for answering these questions. dr. mishori: thank you so much.

judy: german prosecutors today asked for life imprisonment for a rightwing extremist charged with killing two people last nyear outside a synagogue germany's east. that comes as calls grow to investigate the extent of neo-nazi infiltration of thecu country's ty services. 1400 cases of far rightso extremism amoniers, police officers and intelligence agents have been documented over the past three years, a frightening echo of germany's past. from berlin, special correspondent malcolm brabant reports. reporter: back to the futurin a bleak east berlin suburb. right wingers marked 30 years of german reunification with ara y ripe with 1930s attitudes. up went a chant from a banned neo nazi song, predicting ultimate victory.

this group has sprung from an outlawed extrest party, the third path, that shares ideology with similar european groups.ta its logo cons a nod to hitler's third reich. >> last three to four years have clearly shown that multiculturalism has failed. d it's our job to end it. we have to rely on our own people for our future, for the safety of our children and children. reporter: the command? "advance on berlin." alarm bells are ringing out we faright's surge. these protestorsted tont confro the neo nazis. the police kept them apart as an anti-fascist anthem played. militaristic displays are outlawed in germany. the police ordered them not

march, but t casually".nter these people are s thenored. most extreme neo nazis in germany. and there are many groups like this. t what the authorities a worried about is not these people so much who're out in public it's those neo nazis establishment, in the shadows. this video by the bundeswehr, ese german military, eulog the prowess of an elite special forcesnit called the ksk. but today, it is in disgrace. one company has been disbanded because of a right wing extremist culture, more may follow. a cache of weapons, ammunition and explosives was found buried at the home of one soldier. >> if you're looking for a spovial unit who could take the german chancellory or the s most important ministriewithin berlin, then this was the most important unit to do so. reporter: timo reinfrank's mission is to counter right wing violence.

he heads a foundation named after amadeo antonio, an angolan immigrant murdered by extremists in 1990. reinfrank worries that neo nazis have infiltrated other branches of the german military. >> the problem about the army is that we don't know anything. this is a more or less closed shop that we only here in thro publicm special incidents , but we know that the majority of the right wing sce is full of trained people from the german bundeswehr. rerter: these concerns are shared by germany's highest echelons. last month's celebrations, muted by covid 19, were supposed to toast the 30 year long marriage of east and west germany after the iron curtain disintegrated. t president frank walter steinmeier was compelled to call for vigilance against neo nazis> they want another state, an authoritative state that aggressively excludes y.rts of soci they see themsels as part of a

tradition that this republic doesn't stand for, and that has nothing to do with our democracy. reporter: hours after that speech outside hamrg synagogue, a man in military student with a shoa jewish inflicting grave head injuries. germany's anti semitism tsar felix klein. >> nobody can deny the deadldi nsion of anti semitism and sm in germanytre any more. right wing extremism is a big threat of democracy in gmany. rerter: the german police are not immune either. i confidenthe police was suspended for shartremes were material in online chat rooms that included images of adolf hitler and dfuictions of a e in a gas chamber. heike kleffner leads a non profit that supports victims of right wing violence. she's one of hundreds of people named on right wing death sts

. >>rs we have police offiho supply right wing terror networks with information from enemies.se on political and we have police officers who spread anti-semitic d national cialist propaganda. reporter: ferat kocak, a leftn wing politicth turkish heritage, almost lost his life because of police collusion or negligence. a police inquiry admitted officers knew neo nazire planning an arson attack on kocak, but failed to inform him. >> the fire spread to the house and it was luck that we survived with my family. i get a lot messages with death threats and i'm not the only one. a lot of friends also get these death threats but they always

say "we will wait for the right time to kill you."er report the government insists that 99% of police officers are anchored in the law and only a minority are rotten. a view echd by berlin police spokesman thilo calblitz. >> for us as police officers, it hurtbecause we join this profession with a certain idealism and we stand firmly on the grounds of our liberal, democratic constitution. and if there are people wiin our ranks who call themselves police officers, but who do not share our common understanding and our oath, then this hurts us no end. reporter: despite official admissions of culpability from both the military and the police, activists believe theren enough transparency, up . >>e have a lot of nazis in authorities and it's important start to change this now. >> one thing that absolutely needs to happen is an independent scientific resrch

on the percentage of hard core racists and anti semites within the german police force. reporter: germany's main concern is the neo nazis' ambition to day in the future.prising one our chance to excite people f agai a real alternative to , completely change the system so that the german people can once again live in a country worth living in. reporter: although he doesn't believe the third reich could be resurrected, president steinmeier warned agains complacency. >> the colours of this democratic history are the colors black, red and gold. the colours of unity, justice and freedom. we will not allow them to be driven away, misused or appropriated. reporter: the anniversary

celebrations culminated at the brandenburg gate that once marked the division between east and west beneath its neo nazi cloud, germany is a long way from beinl united. for the "pbs newshour," i'm malcolm brabant in berlin. judy: the american barn is a cultural icon, but one that is disappearing fast. in port austin, michigan, an art project aims to draw attention to these structures and maybe along y, save some of them. jeffrey brown has this report as part of our "american creators" series -- and ongoing arts and culture coverage, canvas. reporter: what looks like a giant ark rises out ou acres of suing soybean fields. >> people who drive by the

initial confusion starts with, that is a weird shaped barn. reporter: a few miles away, what seems a working barn, in reality has a slice cut out of it. >> so from this angle you can stist to see that the slice not just a cut on the face, instead actually turns into a whole space itself. reporter: and on one sidef this barn painting of a pigeon.t , a othera mural styled after the famous "american gothic" by grant wood -- with a twist. they're wearing gas masks. >> i want them to do this to my barn. reporter: on this day passersby steve and dorota coy what it means. >> i was thinking it was the farmers that sold t to big farming companies with the chemicals and sold out the farm. steve: it's multi-layered but yeah that is the point. that is an art project that my wife and i started and so we thought we would critiquee corporlture and society. t's always been

about the people, you know, i love the people here. i love the people of detroit. reporter: and this project, the idea of jim boyle, is a meeting of the two. boyle grewere in port austin, michigan.p of the thumb of he's lived and worked in detroit for decades, but has strong ties to rural life here. >> why are these structures going away? it's really complicated. sometimes they're just, you anymore.ey're not utilitarian and the farm equipment doesn't fit. sometimes it's, you know, more of the smaller farms getting swallowed by larger by larger farms. so what are the economic implications? and detroiters can relate with all of those issues. reporter: the city is 120 miles away and after boyle cobbled together grants and private donations, he with detroit-basedrtists.013 >> a lot of people ask the question, why you're painting an old barn that's going to fall down? barely had an answ for that. [laughter] reporter: dorota and steve coy's work typically focedes on desert urban spaces.

but what's happening in detroit -- even a crumbling factory around the corner from their studio -- s similarities to economic and other changes in rural michigan. >> the parallels are so strong. i mean it's almost like ce same force sing both of those things to happen. and we're not having the broader conversation about why those things are impactingof us. maybe rather we'king at each other to kind of point the finger >> we don't want to just show up inhe community and be like, here's an art piece that we've created for you guys. i think there was a dialogue so between sure that they would be proud and behind what we were putting up. reporter: dairy farmer mark ziel owns the stillperating barn -- and takes real pride in its transformation. >> every once in a while, i will stop in and talk tpeople who take pictures of it and they say , "boy little bit, is there , thats fading little bit, is there anything you can do to

redot? t i can probably drum up cash to auget it done. ter] reporter: and for the local community, these art burns are a potential jumping-off point. the head of economic development for huron county, ca osentoski sees room for a thriving arts scene. t'>> from our perspective's a renewable resource. artists will always be making new art. people will want to either buyt that or view tt. and it's kind of a cycle that can be self-sustaining over time. >> it was very important for me co respect the place. how to keep thatc form of the barn was very important. reporter: catie newell is a detroit-based architect and artist whose work deals with the concepts of light and dark. her barn is an engineering feat -- cutting a slice through it required an enormous amount up shorinn the inside to make it hold. >> i was ierested in figuring out how to, in a way, make sort of a subtraction in the barn. that instead was adding a large opening for the sky. so what was changing in the barn? and in essence, what might be delicate or impermanent in this constantly changing sky, the

seasons, sunsets, very dramatic here.er repo you're doing that by subtracting, as you say, by cutting into it but thth also adds tstructure somehow? >> you're right that the s subtraction t of making a void and a big light well also became an addition of making a new space. and the barn in essence, has literally, lerally been split into two barns at that moment. reporter: detroit sculptor scott hocking did something else with his barn. he tore it down. >>ha taking a barnalready exists that's kind of decaying, dilapidated and rebuilding it as something else just so that as people driving on the road might slow d hn ande a moment of, what the hell is that? what is going on with that barn? reporter: hocking re-used the old boards to make what his large "bad boat". om the inside, there's an entirely different feeling. >> in my mind, there'sos almost thing cathedral-like about it. it's like the light coming through windows.s there'mething very beautiful

when the sun goes down. the sun kind of sets and gleams through these holes. so trying to to create something that i saw in actual old barns by making gaps in between the ards. reporter: the artists -- all friends in detroit -- recently got together here for the rst time. i the hothat more art barns will follow. art from michigan's rural thumb and a creative way to draw attention to these imperilled icons of the amerin landscape. for the "pbs n jeffrey brown. judy: tnk you, jeffrey brown, taking us places we don't get to see very often. that is the "newshour" for tonight. join usin online and aga here tomorrow evening. r all of us here at the "pbs newshour," thank you, please stay safe and see you soon. announcer: major funding for the

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