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♪ judy: first in line. who will get priority access to the vaccine to prevent covid? we explore the critical decisions. and the bide agenda. what the president-elect and his team say about their plan to revive the economy. plus, boomerang. making sense of why the pandemic is forcing millennials to move back home with their parents. >> i am a 36-year-old womang wo is livth her parents, and there is no end in sight. that and more on tonight's pbs "newshour." ♪ ♪
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announcer: and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastingy and contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. m stephanie: iephanie sy with "newshour west." the center for disease control is set to issue new guidance that shortens the amount of time covid-19 exposed people should arantine. instead of a 14-day perd, the guidance will say a person need isolate for only seven days as
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long as they receive a negative test result and are healthy. in the absence of a test, the recommend quarantine time is now 10 days assuming symptoms do not appear. meanwhile, an influential scientific committee recommended the first covid-19 vaccine doses care workers and patients inlth nursing homes. infectious disease expert dr. about side effectsssurances >> we know from decades of experience with vaccines that 30-45 days, 90-plus percent of all adverse events occur. if every health care worker realizes how transparent and independent the process is, they would feel much more comfortable about getting vaccinated. stephanie: the u.s. death toll topped 270,000 today. more on the vaccine after the news summary.
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u.s. attorney general william barr has dealt a fresh blow to president trump's claims of a stolen election. barr told the associated press "we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the meanwhile, theresident sued to disqualify 221,000 ballots in wisconsin, which has already certified a win for president-elect biden. the bidenconomic team was troduced today. leading the list, janet yellen, hinominee for treasury secretary and former chair of the federal reserve. she called for urgent action to address economic damage done by the pandemic. look at this deeper i the program. there were new efforts to get economic relief moving in the current lame-duck congress. aipartisan group of senators pitched a $900 billion proposal, but both majority leader mitch mcconnell and minority leader chuck schumer insisted that the other side give grod. >> we just don't have time to
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waste time. we have a couple weeks left obviously, it does require bipartisan support to get out of ngress, but it requires a presidential signature. >> he knows darn well the house is a democratic majority. he knows darn well he needs because the numbeis peoplenate won't vote for any proposal, yet he continues to negotiate in a partisan way. stephanie: schumer and house speaker nancy pelosi sent a new version ofl their propo macconnell last night. the captain ofcu a diving boat that caught fire and sank off the coast of california last year was indicted on federal manslaughter charges. the grand jury said jerry blan failed to train the crew on emergency procedures. in brazil, a criminal gang carried out a brazen attack on a city overnight. police say at least 30 gunmen
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armed with assault rifles over streets and a bank. the takeover lasted about two hours. there is no word on how much ney was stolen. china has successfully landed an unmanned craft on the moon today. this animationrom china showed of the probe leaving orbit and landing. its supposed to collect rocks .d soil and return to ear only two nations, the u.s. and soviet union, have brought bm k material fe moon. the u.s. soccer federation and th' womens national team reached a settlement on working conditions. it calls for charter flights, hotel accommations, and professional staff support on par withthe men's national anam. ongoing dispute over equaly pawas left to further litigation. still to come on the "newshour wi judy woodruff," breaking down who will get the first covid vaccines. what president-elect biden's
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picks signal about tackle an economic recovery. how the pandemic is forcing millennials to move back in with their parents. and much more. ♪ isannouncer: this he pbs "newshour" from w eta studios in washington and from the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: the recommendations made committee of the center for disease control about whom should get the earliest doses of a covid vaccine kick off a series of crucial decisions in the coming weeks. today's vote is not binding, but it is expected to infl how states make their own decisions distributing the vaccine quthere are many tough estions ahead. reporter: the advisory committee said today that about 24 million
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people, health personnel and olderns ameri in nursing homes, should receive the first doses. evenos distributing early doses will take time. aycdc officialsnitially there will only be enough doses to vaccinate between 2 million to 5 million people per week. to determine who gets priority after that initial wave is even this comes as 37 thousand 19 lastns died of covi mont for more on all of this, i am joined by dr. paul off it. he's the member of an fda advisory committee on vcines. when we look at those 24 million people who he been given the ghest priority, that is a lot of people, and b they cannot vaccinated all at once. with that group, how doou decide who gets it first? >> it's going to be hard.
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inurospital, we are trying to prioritize among health care erwo who are most at risk, for example those in the emergency department who are constantly in contact with children with this virus. winitially, have about 40 million doses that are going to be available, 20 million people, of the 24 million wh are in the first group, and we still have to go to the second group and a third group before we get to the general population. these phase three trials, these large trials by pfizer and moderna, have not been published yet. the cdc needs to approve i think that is all going to happen in the month of december, and then these vaccines will start rolling out. the virus has killed more than 260,000 peoplehis year. these next couple months are going to be awful. you wish you had enough vaccine
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to vaccinate everybody, but you don't. i's going to be a limited vaccine initially. rerter: let's talk about the next gkup. people t about essential workers, anyone classified that way by their state or meanness of polity, and a lot of people don't realize you are talking 87 million qualify. m police and firefighter education workers, food service cuand agure workers, transportation and waste workers. when you look at the next trche of people, 2 million to 5 million doses per week, how long are we talking about that it will tak to get through these highest prioriups? >> the hardest part is making the vaccine, getting it out e, and making sure peopl get a two-dose vaccine. one of thene vac has
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difficult storage and handling and has to be shipped and stored at -70 c centigrade. arthergoing to be a lot of challenges for this. this is a product that can save our liv. you just wish you had all of it at the beginning, and we don't. reporter: you mentioned the challenges, and one of those is trust. in terms of american adults who say they will trust the vaccine, gallup conducted a pol and 58% of those polled said th are willing to get the vaccine. still, 42% of american adults say they would not get the vaccine. that is a significant number. how much of a challenge is that when you talk about getting to the light at the end of the tunnel? >> that poll was conducted in
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october. now we know more of the details of the vaccine. we know it appears to be 95% effective. it fears to be as effective in people over 60. when you ask people the question thathow will they answer these trials, the pfizer trial was a 44,000-person trial -- that is as big as any vaccine ial. the only difference is that the length of time at whicyou are seeing effectiveness is relatively short. you can't say it's going to be highly effective six months,eane year, two later. you aren't going to do one oro- ur trials when a quarter million people are dying a year.
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it's likely goingfeo be highly ive for six months or a year. reporter: before we let you go, how many people are we looking at that need to be vaccinated, need to get th vaccine before safe level of immurselves at a >> i would imagine about two thirds of e american population need to be vaccinated we've stopped the spread.ably reporter: we will follow in the weeks ahead. thank you for your me. judy now to president-elect joec biden's puollout of the team he wants advising him on they come with a new agenda that is intended to make a sharp breakar with the trump
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lisa: the president elect made his way into wilmington's queen theater, wearing a walking boot after he fracturedin his foot plwith his dog over the weekend, but inside he said he is moving full speed ahead on the nation's econic troubles. i know times are tough, but i want you to know help is on the way. >> at the tables around him, economic team and a theme's key repeated by each one, two not st regain a full economy but to tackle inequality and to make it more fair. >> we can build a new american economy that works for all americans, not just some. all. lisa: it's a team of policy heavyw fghts. formeral reserve chair janet yellen to serve as treasuryecretary, neera tanden, the president and ceo of the center for american progress to lead to the office of management and budget, and labor economist cecilia rouse to chair
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the president elect'snc c of economic advisors. >> we will be an institution that wakes up every morning thinking about you. your jobs, your paychecks, your struggles, your hopes, your dignityd, our limitless potential. lisa: if confirmed, neera tanden would be the first woman of color to be omb director. she rlected on being raised by a single mother, an immigrant from india. >> i am here today becrose of socialams. lisa: tandon has become a lightly erotic for summit republicans, including senator tom cotton -- become a lightning rod for some republicans, including senator tom cotton. deanld rouse w be the first
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african-american to lead a council of economic advisors. >> this is a moment of emergency and opportunity. lisa: ang other selections, the deputy treasury secretary. jared bernstein would serve on the council of economic advisers alongside economist heather boucher, the president and ceo of the washington center for equitable gwth. as team biden moves towards governing, president trump continues to fight, suing in sconsin to try to throughout 221,000 ballots. voter fraud.baseless claims this the same day as attorney general william barr said there was novidence to support those claims. judy: lisa joins me now from wilmington delaware while yamiche is in washington.
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now that we have seen the economic team that joe biden wants advising him, what does want to do now and once they are in office? lisa: this is a team that faces unprecedented double crise, and rarely a new president taking over amid them at the same time. however, this team is also was elected has had many plansho in the works for a long time. we know this team is rking on a larger plan, bigger stimulus, bigger covid relief coming next year, in addition to what they hope will be relief coming in the next few months, and i think we see in this team hints of how they hope to get this done. we will see from biden announcements this is a team of experienced people, they are diverse, and they are known for doing the hard work of policy. what i noted today is they a disciplined and coordinated,ma
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down to th. they are alsoed coordn another goal, trying to not just respond to the economic crisis, but to try to solve more than one problem at onc yellen is concerned about the disproportionate impact of the crisis. reducing inequality. biden is being aggressive in signalinger he is cod about inequality in america. he wants whatever plan they climb up with to squa tackle inequality and perhaps climate change, as i'm told by some who are working with him, that that is something we could see as part of his plan. contend with is cs and have to whether any immediate relief will come out. this is a tricky situation.
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to have somike kind of stimulus moving now. i want to add speaker pelosi sent out a statement late today saying that she says there must be some covid relief passed in this lame-duck. that is the next two weeks. they need to do something. judy: we've heard it before. we will see if it is real. as we reported earlier, attorney general, bl barr said today in an interview the department of justice has found no wespread evidence of fraud that would change the election. how is the president responding this? yamiche: attorney general william barr has angered the telling the t that truthply by being the election was not full
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of any sortf voter fraud that would have tipped the scales, thus lding credibility to the idea that president-elect joe biden is the projected winner. i've been talking to ople close to the president all day. they say they think attorney general williabarr is someone who is a total failure. they say it was a complete betrayal on his part talking to the associated press. william barr said some see the department of justice as a fix it all. he was hinting at the fact that there are people who want the courts to overturn thielection for president trump, and rney general william bar has made it clear he's not going to do that. more tense. getting more and we heard a trump campaign lawyer suggest that christopher kreb,
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the former head of cybersecurity that president trump fired, should be shot. christopher kreb sd he is looking at legal action, all as a republican official in georgia is saying someone is going to get killed. we need you to lower down this rhetoric. toanother thin note, as all of this is happening, the president has continued to fundraiser for his election defense fund. he h raised at least $150 million.ui he's cont to get supporters toive money for what is a longshot bid win back the election in some way. judy: so disturbing, those threats and loss-of-life.for yamicha, lisa, we thank you both. ♪
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while president-elect joe bideno a decisive victory, down ballot democts across the country struggled to hold onto seats that they narrowlyon in 2018. representative donna shall layla, a democrat from south florida, was amo those who lost, and she joins me now. congresswoman, thanks for joining us. you were one of a dozen first-term democrats who was defeated. targeting latino voters? rep. shalala: first of all, my district is 70% latino.ub yes, rcans did target latino voters, but not just for this electio they have been doing it for four years. off year election, i wa able to get elected.
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this year with the presidential, with donald trump running so strongly in floridaa, they ha tremendous turnout. they turd out 85% of their voters down here. urwed out 75%. i lost by 2%. of course,hat everyone is talking about, socialist attacks. it's a combination of things. miami is very complex. they keep their ties to their countries. down here, we say hispanics, and thes polite complex, but trump and his administration work to them for four years, so overcoming that took a lot more
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than we had. : is there a lesson then for democrats. it wasn't only the targeting of the latino vote. it was ao the charge th democrats were socialists, even communists. what happened when you had that thrown at you,hi and do you there is a better way to respond? rep. shalala: of course there is a better way to respond, because whatever we did did not work as well ec my first election, i laughed it offse iad created so many jobs in the community. i am a centrist. i fit right into this district. judy: if thats the case, what could democrats be saying to respond to that? re shalala: we can demonstrate r over and oain that we are the party that is going to rebuild the enomy. we passed a $15 an hour
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resolution here in the state, and ousands and billions of people voted for it. fair wages. getting control othe economy. that is what joe biden will be doing the next few months, and we will be able to demonstrate that we are the party of jobs. we are the party of fair jobs. judy: coming up in t 202re is concern about how democrats will do in t house of representatives. what lessons should democrats learn? rep. shalala: that we have to have a ground game, that we have to go back to some old-fashioned cspoli going door to door. we will be back out there building precinct by precinct.
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making sure we dominate social medit and t our messages are very clear, but we will have a record to run on. i believe we will be able to hold the house and regn some of the seats, including my district. were too cautious in avoiding going door to door, meeting people directly asp president trd republicans did? rep. shalala: i can't say that. we were being careful for the people in our community. do i wish we had more of a ground game? yes. but the reason we lost had a lot to do with turnout in our communities, huge turnouts by republicans. energized to vote with donald trump. it was very complex, and every district is different. judy: do you have a sense of how
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hard it is going to be for joe biden to govern with this kind of enthusiasm out there for rep. shalala: it's going to be a difficty, particularly if we don'ten control thee. the senate has stopped working, waiting for donald trump to give a thumbs up before they pass anything. yes, it will be difficult. biden has a world-class economics team. by the w, i'm one of these people who think that people are wrong that think there is going to be a large number of people who won't take up the vaine. business trumps everything, and at the end of the day, people want their jobs back. they are going to get immunized so they can go back to work, and none of this nonsense that there
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are large groups of people who aren't ing to do it. judy: congresswoman dna shalala, thank you for joining us here on the "newshour." rep. shalala: you're welcome. ♪ judy: the pandemic has accelerated a changesi in h in this country that began well befo covid-19 spread. millennials continued to move back home with their parents in significant numbers. for some, it's by choice. but for many, it's a matter of necessitmp catherine l, a columnist for "the washington post," has our report. >> c i was an ugld. people would tell my mom that my sister should be an only child right in front of me. [laughter] >> at the start of 2020,
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comedian nikki glaser was riding high. a netflix speci, tv shows in velop and. then you know what happened. >> everything started shutting down, and i was like, i will just go backsao st. louis. seven months later -- >> 'm a 36-year-old woman living with her parents, and there is no end in sight. >> lite did nikki glaser know that she would be a poster child for her generation'ths responseo pandemic, young adults moving back home with their parents. >> this is the highest it's ever been stretching back to 1900. >> economist richard fry just cowrote a study showing that a majority of young adults are now living with their parents. although the share had been rising for a while. >> many of us expected it was decline after the great recession. that did not occur.
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now, it has sharply accelerated ain. >> millions of millennials have moved back home. many likehe eric rivera lost jobs. >> i got laid off the weekend before shelter-in-place happened. >>yn goodbye, broo hello, rent-free new jersey. >> i'm bedroom. my childhood >> others like whitney hoped to save money on not just rent but child care. she, her husband, and h oliver are back home with her folks. >>y t just sent their last child off to college. they've inherited three more of us. >> management consultant molly d the epicenter of th pandemic for somewhere withm, rm to rer parents' house. >> it's better than my
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apartment. >> john benitez moved back to his childhood home in the quintessential suburb, levittn, new help his parents. >> i was helping with the groceries, any expenditures the family had. >> some jus had more personal reasons. >> there is something about this time that makes you want to be with people you love and people who love you unconditionally. >> evenr this big shad some financial motives. >> there have been a lot of things that have stopped in their tracks. >> meanwhile -- >> i just signed a lease march 1 for an apartment in new york. i've paid full rent for a really expensive place that i'veen nevr et foot in once this whole year. >> marsalis adams never had a chance to sign his lease. except fo' college, he' lived with his parents his whole life. >> i did not want to leave and
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coack and be like, hey, i'm back. >>en recy, he had been saving up, working two jobs, one in a spital emergency room, and the other as an auto mechanic. he found a possible roommate and had been planned to move out -- planning to move out. erthen his hourscut. at 29, he's back at square one. >> it's disappointing. there's no other words. >> milnnials haveeen unusually unlucky, burdened by student loan debt. they have been hit by two major recessions within the first decade of their careers. >> those formative years of entering the jobs markety rea set the trajectory for not only your career but your wealth and income over. >> this is key here because
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homeownership typically is a way of growing wealth. the longer you delay that entry into homeownership, tti less you have to build that wealth. >> the longerai millennials to move out of their parent's homes, the bigger the drag on the economy. hofewer hous being formed means less spending on everything housing-related. housing services pliances andenovating, it's abou 15% to 18% of the economy. 5-10 years out, if we still have people who lost that initial step into adulthood, this is art missing f the economy tha could be felt for years. >> i turned 30 while were still in shelter-in-place. i wanted to live on my own. i wanted to have nice furniture that was not from ikea. i wanted have a senior role in my career. that was just turned upside down.
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e,moving h feel like i could -- i took a couple steps back. co this is why millennials are behind on nomic milestones, like marriage. >> in terms of the share of 23 to 38-year-olds who are married, among the millennialat genion, 44%. gen xt, i was about 53%. >> understandably, it is hard to date when you are with mom and dad. >> some women are understanding, and because they are going thro i believe there is the other side of the coin -- you live with your pents? i don't know if i like you that much. >>o dour parents know about the boyfriend? >> no. >> duringre a pandemic, there other risks to dating, like exposing ylnr parents to s. >> a guy asked me on a date, and i texted him, i'm sorry i can't go. my mom won't let me.
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the last time i told a y that -- i've never texted that because texting did not exist the last time that was an answer. landline stayed. >> other than contagionisk, how do parents feel about having their adult kids back? some are thrilled. >> having them here is fun for us. >> we enjoy it. >> my mother is over the moon having all three of us here. >> yes, both of his brothers are living at home, o. >> i'm 33. >> i'm 26. >> santiago was laid off from a movie theater, mauricio laid off from his job as a chef. >>e wre all grown men. >> molly lee's parents bought a bigger house in to entice her to stick around. but it's not all idyllic. >>le we are in anion year, and we don't necessarily ci to i -- see eye to eye. >> at the glasers, the talks
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are more about hygiene. >> i'm livin hereor free. i will then mow you. she gets so excited. >> their tim together may be winding down, at least accordrg to her fatj. >> i think you're going to get a place in the next month so. >> i just found that out. i thinkir they need to have t space. >> she is still getting used to the idea. >> i think they call them failure to launch. classic millennial. >> she takes comfort in knowing she is not alone. for the pbs "newshour," i am catherine rehm pal. ♪ judy: scores of german cities are urging the berlin government
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to take in more refugees and asylum-seekers who are currently stranded in italy and greece. the proposal has generated controversy inermany whose ancellor angela merkel threw open its borders in 2015 when europe's so-called refugee isis began. critics say that merkel wasre onsible for encouraging millions more to head towards the european uon, provoking a right wing back you lash -- right-wing backlash. five years ago, special correspondent malcolmret began reporting on this movement of people. he reports from east germany. malcolm: for the past fiveur years, theean union has been strengthening its defenses against asylum-seekers, but not everyone is unwelcoming, especially here inhe east german city of pottstown. catherine believes she has a civic duty to boost integration. sympathetic germans help
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migrants with language and other problems. ath working one person at a time to counter the growing influence of the right wg and its anti-immigrant stance. >> i think it is human nature to hold others responsilee for your pr. if people who are right wing or not, or if for example your neighbor who is not an extremist feels cheated because they n place,et a kindergar or has a hard time finding a place to live, it's easy to blamothers for that. malcolm: this man came to germany via greece and managed to reach europe before the greek border with macedonia was sealed in december of 2015. since then, there has been a stalemate, and many refugees have been stuck in greece, unable to progress. >> ic germany as my second home.
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i am free to do whatever i please. there's no one telling me i can't do this, i can't do that. i think if i can work or study, i think i have a future here. beneficiary of chancellor angela merkel's decision toan throw open gey's borders five years ago when fleets of overcrowded rafts began landing on greek island beaches. >> the overall impact is a disaster when it comes to crimes, money. it is something we cannot afford. malcolm: beatre is the deputy leader of the right wing alternative for germany party. its anti-immigrant stance has lured conservative voters away from angela merkel who will step >> i think historianer will regards the chancellor who
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has taken the worst decision ever after the world war which has changed the face and the trcoun. malcolm: at potsdam city hall,ro they of merkel's grand gesture. >> anyone who has seen the conditions here knows that we can't keep waiting any longer, and it's my expectation we will find solutions because we have been talking long enough. malcolm: germany's interior minister is resisting calls from cities like potsdam to accept a more migrants. germany has taken in 1.7 million cefugees s 2015, and the minister says there is norm way y is going to throw open its borders as it did five years when the migration cris began.
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he said to do so would be to aggravate germany's european union partners,an but schuber his growing band of safe haven cities are determined to press ahd. >>e w should distribute people among communities with a capacity for integration. we can tackle this problem together through voluntary commitment by the safe haven cities. then the question will no longer be, how does this compare to five years ago it will be, what are we doing here today and now? >> it is not up to single regions within germany to decide who can or cannot enter the country. malcolm: but the weakness of schubert's position over the safe havens initiative was reinforced ahe staged a web call with a rescue boat in the mediterranean. among those watching were a number of nigians whose asylum claims have been rejected. this man lives in a temporary hostel, and he's afraid immigration authorities will
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soon swoop to implement a deportation order. >> if i go back, it's evene.orse than bef i've been in libya for four years. i passed through the desert. a lot of people died in the desert. malcolm: nigeria is facing a violent insurgency by islamist thtremists, and clashes wi police are common. nigeria i' not on germany'list of safe countries, s there's a chance that rejected asylum-seekers won't be eddepo but that does not calm the fears of this man. >> it's like sending me to hell. it's just a direct way to death. malcolm: fred is keen for integration to succeed and helps migrants to draft cv's so they can improve their job prospects. he believes immigrrion is good
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ermany. >> i think they bring a different kind of thinking. if you have refugees, they open my eyes. th helped to start thinking dierently at the end of th day. the world is changing, and if you don't change, you get change. malcolm: germany remains europe's driving force over immigratio it is urging other eu states to speed up the asylum process and to take in more refugees, but four former communist countries are resisting. they are almost exclusively white and christian and have no desire to change at all. judy: stay with us for the latest edition of t "newshour" book club, but first, take a moment to listen to l yourocal
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conversation. k our november ps "the poet x," aoming-of-age novel written in verse by elizabeth acevedo. >> how do you fix this shipwrecked history of hair? the true meaning of stranded en tresses hooked tight like african cousins in schip bellies -- >>s a a teenager in new york city, elizabeth acevedo found her voice in poetry, first writing it, then performing at and slam competitions in 2014, she won a national title. that became the impetus for her 2018 debut novel "the poet x." >> i was in eighth grade teacher in prince georges county, maryland. i realized i had grown up loving
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poetry, loving performance, and that they didn't have a reference point for that. here's this thing i love eaat i think isy cool. can i figure out how to package this? >> you write a novel in verse at a very specific place and time and age. >> it is a coming-of-age story set in harlem about a young woman who is dinican american and wants to be a poet, but she is a secret poet. there is a fraught situation. >> why a novel inverse? why that form? >> it didn't make sense. it's a really difficult thing to pull o well. you are trying tolod 350 pieces of poetry and see if they can link.
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here's a character who had all of these secreings, and i wanted people to see her. >> there's a passage where s poet and i, in background, body, but i don't feel so different when i listen to her. i feel heard. it seems this is something that happened to you. >> i had an amazing teacher when i was in high school who snuck me to open mic and it was pivotal to me to see real life art and people who were making a living out of art and to believe that it was possible to say certain truths and to be ok, that there was no shame. ki th seeing women of color on a stage in front of audiences just being proud and brave was spiring. >> you have been advocate for greater representation in young adult literature.
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has that world changed? >> i think it's changing. there are a lot more folks coming forward. we have an incredible poet. we have another whose novel "halsey street" won a prize. g we are seerich moment. i am stillng pusnd hoping publishers are considering the second book and career wr ers, not just the debut. >> we are going to continue this for now, our november book pick is "the poet x." thank you very much. judy: some sad news before we go. we learned today that award-winning journalist, attorney, and author tim o'brien died in florida yesterday. he was a continuing correspondent on pbs's religion
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and ws weekly program. previously, tim spentore than 20 years covering the supreme court and law at abc news. tim o'brien was 77 years old. that is the "newshour" for tonight. i am judy woodruff. for all of us, thank you, please stay safe, and we will see you soon. announcer: major funding for the pbs "newshour" has been provided by -- ♪ announcer: consumer cellular. johnson and johnson. bnsf railway. financial servicesym firm d james. carnegie corporation of new york, supporting innovations in democratic engagement and the advancement of national security.
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