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possible by the coion for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ve >> woodruff: we mportant news on three fronts tonight, the pandemic, the electoral college vote for president and the surprise departure of the u.s. attory general. we start with the pandemic. for the first time today americans are etting a covid-19 vaccine and not a moment too soon. the nation passed 300,000 deads today,ccine doses rolled out and sleeves rolled up. r william branghorts. >> brangham: new york, once the epicen the pandec, saw one of the first rays of hope for its d.

where critical care sandrans, lindsay received the first federally-authorized sho >> working on the frontlines alongside my team, i saw a lot of pain, hurt, suffering, death and so i felt a huge sense of relief after i got the vaccine. >> brangham: in washington, health and human services secretary alex azar hailed the start of the largest vaccination campaign in u.istory. >> our war against the virus is not over yet, but this week we're taking a major step toward our eventual victory. >> brangham: on sunday, the federal government, utilizing the military, in part, began distributing the pfizer/biontech vaccine-- 2.9 million doses initially. they will reach 145 sites by the locations total by wednesday, and by next sunday more than 1,200 sites will have the vaccine.

the food and drug administration approved emergency authorizatiof for ther vaccine on friday, marking an unprecedented pace of scientific development, with a vaccine for a virus that was only identified earlier this year.as he first shipments arrived in different states, governors celebrated.e >> we ing to defeat covid and it starts right therut >> brangham:nitial supplies of the vaccine are limited, so frontline healthcare workers are first in the queue. older americs living in long- term care facilities shouldiv begin reg the vaccine next week. how the shots are administered is left up to individual hospitals. >> so what our groups have been doing is really try to prioritize the people that are at the most risk in the workplace. >> brangham: as initial inoculations begin, th department of health and human services plans to spend $250 million on a public education campaign, to encourage people to get the vaccine, and to try to dispel myths and misinformation.

it's unclear when president trump will get the vaccine.hi previous infection likely gave him some immunity. there had been reports that top officials in the white house would receive it this week, but overnight, he tweeted that they would wait until later, and that he looked forward to getting his dr. anthony fauci, the nations". top infectious disease expert, said he'll get his shot, also in public, sometime in the next few weeks. he spoke earlier today. >> a vaccine that is 94, 95 percent effective againstea clinical d and very veryt effective agairious disease, i mean that is a historic, unprecedented achievement.ha >> bra still, as the campaign gears up, the virus is killing more americans than ever before. on several days last week, over 3,000 americans died each day. that's one september 11th happening, day afteray.

the u.s. has one of the worst death rates in the developed world. across the nation, the spreaof cases and deaths remains uneven. the midwest and plains states are trending better, while califoia, texas, and much of the southeast are moving in the wrong direction. and, the virus continues to fall hardest on black and brown communities. they're more likely per capita to get the virus, and to then die from it. right now, blacks and african- americans are dying from covid- 19 at nearly double the rate of whites. the hope now is that vaccines and continued public health measures will finally slow, and perhaps, ultimately, halt the virus' deadly progress. for the pbnewshour, i'm william brangham. >> woodruff: our second major story tonight, the determining vote on who wie the next president is in. despite efforts by the sit president to undermine the results. today the electoral college

members had their say. lisa desjardins repo >> today in historic state capitols like in atlanta. >> raise your rate hand. a and in smll auditoriums like this one in arizona the unique gears of u.s. democracy moved with determination as the electoral college cast a majority of votes for president-elect joe biden. >> the eectorates have u unanimously cast 16 votes for joseph r biden. >> 20 votes for the honorable joseph r biden for president of e united states. and 20 votes for the honorable mala harris for vice president of the united states. ballots.e hold up onl >> it was unlike any vote the college andountry had sen before with some electors like in nevada meeting viually and others imposing social president trump too received a blanket of state electors. >> all 38 votes forsi prent

donald j. trump for president of within the electorate has cast 18 votes for prsident donald j trup for president. >> and in a few biden statesre blican lawmakers held essentially mock ceremonies listing electors who have voted for trump. by hour-by-hour ticked out the undeniable metronome for votes for mr. bied enlocking in a macarity. with ie reflection, sometimes hopeful, georgia a st>>ey abrams. n is not a moment of part san part sanship t is a momentat of priotism. because we came together to do something that has been ne for more than 200 years.rials >> sometimes more pragmatic like arizona secretary of state. >> it is evident that this is not the end of the discussion about the 2020 election, nor how we conduct elections goi forward. this is likely theni begin of

a lengthy debate about how to reclaim space in our democratic institutions. >> in wisconsin governor tony, invest evers presided shortly after the hightet court rejec a trump lawsuit that had thought to disqualify more than 200,000 votes that were cast. but the headline today was not the court battle it was the arcane electoral pross rebeccah green teaches election mary.t the college of william & >> usually the electoral college meeting is a-- low key eventkis this yea unprecedentedded in that we ha a presidential candidatwho refused to cocede and that has kind of complicated the post election period. >>. >> that attention sparked some small protests like this one in michigan as well as threats of escort electors ine state to capitol there. >> i second the nomination of joe biden for the office of the

president of the united states. >> that includes elector robin smitwho spoke to the newshour before casting her vote. >> it has been a challenge fore us becauseave had emails that will come that will be harassing. it h made it really uncomfortable where this should be an eciting time. >> this as president trump on saturday kept up his drum beat of denying the results. >> it's not over. we keep going and we're going to continuego forward. we have numerous local cases within the same day trump supporters marched in washinon, d.c., a protesthat was largely peaceful but erupted into violence at night at two historic black churches members of the crowd tore down banners.ed black lives matter statement the pastor of one of those churches pastor united methodist said for me itwas reminisce ent of cross burning. >> the sharp divide continues but the electoral college is moving on. washington d.c., where congress

will count them january 6th. for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. woodruff: as we mark 300,000 deaths from covid, a deal to provide economic relief still eludes lawmakers. time is time is running out as benefits from the cares act expire the day after christmas. a birtisan group offered up two proposals this afternoon tok break the grid west virginia senator joe manchin is one of the keyec arch and he joins us now from capitol hill. senator manchin, thank you very much for joining us again. tell us why-- thank you, why your proposal is now broken up into two sep tarate bils is not just mine, this is a group of people that started together in a bipartisan wst iarted after the election on november 4th. we made phone calls bacand

forth, those of us who have always worked together and said we've got to do something. lk to sus and, talked to lisa, talked to all my friends, all my democratic friends. we had a dinner at lisa's house, the eight of us there, the gang of eight, i guess. and we now hae a unanimous group of people that have agreed on 748 billion, that takes care of all of the emergency nee that we have that will expire at the end of december, judy.le so peill not go without unemployment checks for $30a week for 16 weeks. they will not go without food assistance we puter $13 billion. and even helping basically food banks and everyone else who is t feeding peopey never fed before because of hard times. we're taking care of cahealth . we're taking care of basically the needs that people have as a lifeline. all the emergencies are taking care of in this bill, unanimous democrat, republican, there is no reason why this wouldn't be passed immediately if they they

put it on the floor. the only thing can i tell everybody is help is on thway. we're not leaving. we will not go home for christmas. will not leave this pla until that bill is passed. th woodruff: and do you have reason to believt you're going to get the support of the both political parties behindf what you are putting forward? ason why there is no re not. we've been working and growing this group of democrats and republicans from dik durbin to rob portman, people well respected witeir political caucus us, democrat and e publican. wetten people all in between. and this is the only game in town. there is nobody else that has done what we have done and stuck with it. nobody thought we would have a bill. e we havbill, 748 billion dollars, close to 600 pages we put together and presented it tonight. it will be on the internet. you can seet. you can look at every piece of it. it is not perfect, i'm sure of that. people are going to say there are things you left out. i remind you, this is an

emergency covid relief bill. only until april 1, joe biden o comes in president in january. he can evaluate the economy, what we need to be doing, and present it where isd. nee this gets us through the difficult, challenging time. >> woodruff: excuse me, senator. i listened to your news w conferenh the other republicans and democrats who were on board with you on th compromise which raises the question, again, where is the leadership and the rest of these two political parties. as we they for the deocrats one of the main sticking points has been aid for state and local governments. that one appears to be in the second proposal as wel as so called liability protection for businesses, hospitals and others. my question on that is why isn't there agreement ther is that still going to hold up agreement on tis, what you put forward? >> that shuld not hold agreement up on this. we wiuld love to have onel. we agreed on 908 billion, 160

llion for state and local need, there are a lot of statese and a lot ofple, basically first responders whether policeman, fireman or whatever, essential services that we needt in everate that are basically reducing the workforce because of lack of revenue. that immediates to be attded to. the other is liability. my republican friends feel very strongly that they shouldn't be able to sue businesses we as democrats brief that too, they break down differences, of how your ability to be able to get in a court, judy. how do yo protect the work place, how do you protect the worker. we've narrowed it down to a period of time, only for two years. one year prior starting december 2019 andnds in the end of 20. >> woodruff: and st my understanding-- i'm sorry to interrupt again, but it is my understanding that you at this point are the only democrat supporting what the republicans want in terms of liability

wotection. but we are heari though from democrats, senator, is that they're reallyorried about people who work in these high vuller in able jobs like at mean paplants where they, where they would be at a huge disadvantage, where they would stand to lose their jobs or rather lose protection and coverage by their employer if they got sick. >> judy, they have workers comp, all the people who are working rr large companies, or wking for any company, have workers' compensation taking care much them in case they get hurt. we know that. we're worried abt people basically, if i go into a sto, and i contract it in your place of business, because your employers weren't safe enough, you didn't sanitize enough, things of that sort. there are a lot ongs we didn't know. i went ahead and signed on to that bill with my republican colleagues in the spirit ofis bipaship because basally everyone has to give and take. time element frome years tohe two years. one year back one year forward,

not one year forward and four years forward, and made some other critical changes. i'm sure it's not good enough r a lot of people. but here's the thing, judy, if for some ason they can't come to an agreement and the senate and the house democrats and grepublicans won't aree, then that state-- tse two are one bill, liability and statend a local health are. the 748 is the emergency bill, judy.that takes care of every n, every plaryn has with their lifeline for housing, rental, basically everything that is needed for you to survive, getst through the wuarter of next year which will be the first quarter. >> woodruff: so as we stand here tonight, senator manchin, how confidenare you thaat pass whether or not there isll agreement on the other isss around liability protection and aid to state and local government. >> judy, i'm as confidentnds i

am stg here talking to you that this is real. this language is done.ll the this is not just a con sevment, two weeks ago we gave basically an outline, that is you how we came to 908.howing we worked it, worked it, and worked it for the lt 30 days, morning, noon and night, our staff have been going around. we have been on zoom calls an phone calls continuously every day. we came, we've come to this after a lot of, lot of discussion, back and for bantering, talking to our caucuses respectively, democrat and republican, and representing them. no one el has done anything like this. if the learship all of a sudden wants to reinvent the wheel, that is what they would be doi. we would hope that they would say thank you all for what you have done because sometimes they hit an impasse. we were able to work past that impasse and we have a bill. i'm confident. for christmas, i will be right with them. >> woodruff: well, we saw theis bianship today. we will see what the leaderships

senator joe manchin of wes virginia, we thank you. >> thank you, judy. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, early voting began in georgia's two u.s. senate run-offs to determine which party controls the chamber. in one race, republican incumbent david perdue faces democratic challenger jon ossoff. another republican senator, kelly loeffler, is up against democrat raphael warnock.e ections are scheduled for january 5th. e trump administration slapped sanctions on nato ally turkey today, for buying a russian-ma air-defense system. u.s. officials say the russian missiles pose a threat to allied security, but turkey has begun d sting the weapons anyway. the turks condeme sanctions. the united states also formally blamed iran today for the

duction and presumed death of robert levinson. the former.b.i. agent disappeared in iran in 2007, ana hily received images of him years later. s. officials believe he died inaptivity. two iranian intelligence officers will face economic sanctions. in india, thousands of farmers called today for a new national strike, the second in a week. the crowds staged a siin on a major new delhi highway, over laws they say will drive dow crop prices. they insisted they won't give up.an >> ( ated ): there's no question,, we have to protest. it's the government's cisponsibility to provide benefits. and if they don't, people will have to come together. >> woodruff: the farmers have blockaded highways leadingo the indian capital for three back in this countfederal judge has denied a trump administrati lease documents on how the

2020 census numbers are processed. government attorneys wanted more o redact confidential information. a panel of magistrates will review any documents deemed sensitive. the united auto workers union reached a settlement today, ending federal probe of bribery and embezzlement. it calls for an independent monitor and staves off a federal takeover. in detroit today, u.a.w. president rory gamble said it's urod for his 400,000 members. >> we're puttingnion back to the way it should be: a strong beacon d voice for working we're not going to let a small group of individuals disturb that. >> woodruff: two former u.a.w. presidents are among those convicted in the five-year investigation. major league baseball's cleveland indians are changing their name after next season. d e franchise owner announ today.

he said, "the name is no longer acceptable in our world." the te will play as the 2 indians 1, while it decides on a new name. on wall street today, the market mostly gave ground, except for tech stocks, as investors waited for congress to act economic relief. the dow jones industrial average lost 184 points. the nasdaq rose 62 points, and, the s&p 500 slid 16 points. and, john le carre, the master of cold war espionage thrillers, is being mourned tonight. pneumonia.aturday from le carre's w spy who came in from the cold" and "tinker, tailor, soldier,. sp he discussed his genre on the macneil lehrer newshr r, a predeces this program, in 1989. >> the spy story was not inveed by the cold war. it will continue after the cold war. it's classical roots are much older. and any form of literature to

survive and to be any good and to give us pleasure, and to give uselevance and to proke us must surely chronicle the changes in its own time. >> woodruff: john le carre was 89 years old. still to come on the newshour: koment, the president thinks that william barr is out as attorn suspected russia is russia is suspected in a major cyber attack against the u.s. tamara keith and amy walter break down the latest political news. plus more. as we reported earlier u.s. attorney general bill barr is out. president trump tweeted lateat today tbrar is resigning just before christmas.

deputy attorney general jeff rosen will become the acting torney general. we look at what this means with our yamiche alcindor, of course, who covers the white house for us, so yamiche, we knew theren were some sions between the two since the attorney general said he didn't know of any evidence that there wh had been widespread fraud in this election. but what more do we make of it? >> it's tough to say because in e regard you have attorney general bill barr leaving office, praising presint trump saying that he was at times the target of an abusive system that sought to tae him down. and you have president trump tweeting that bill barr, they had a great relationship. but when you look under the surface you understand that president trump has been taking aim ne attgeneral bill barr especially after the attorney general came out and said that his officnohad see evidence of wide spread voter frd thth would have tippe scales andhanged the outcome of the election. so yes, it's true that attorney general bill barr says he is

some ways largely expectedin because there are a number of people looking for attorney general bill barr to possibly be again he is not bired right now. but a lot of people were wondering whether or not he was going to bered because president trump was getting more and more angry thaort atty general barr wasn't doing more to change the result of the 2020 election in president trump's favo we should note that attorney general bill barr was seen as a close al.y of the preside he had the president's back time and time again. he took i'm at the mueller investigation saying at times that it was targeting president trump unfairly. there were also the cases where h intervened, in te case of roger stone, another ally of president trump saying he should get a moreenient sentence than what career prosecutors in the departnt of justice were offering. that being said, this is in some ways really telling of the trump administration because this has been a revolving door at the white use, and here again the last few days, weeks of the present's presidency, here another really shocking and surprising ouster of another

person coming from this administration. >> woodruff: so yamiche, i know this news has just broken literally within the hour, but what is it expected that jeff rosen who would move up to be the acting attorney general, what could he do, is it exheectd ould do in the period of time that he would be in charge of the scrus tis department. >> well, he could do what attorney general bill barr would not do and that isblicly say that the election was rigged, publicly say that president trump was the real projected winner of this, i don't expect him in some ways, talking to sources, that that is going to happen. but president trump really wants an attorney general to comout and say that president trump was wronged. ghtfule show is the ri winner of this election. this new attorney general is going to face fierce pressure from president trump to do something like that. we've seen president trump take his case all the way up to the supreme court, go to court aft court losing continuously and of course today we saw the electmes nd vote and officially make president-elect joe bidene just as president-elect.

but the president is going to continue to angrily tal ak about th putting pressure on the attorney general to back him. >> woodruff: all rht, yamiche alcindor, you will bee back a littllater to report on another important story. for now thank you, yamiche. >> woodruff: it is the most significant hack of the u.s. governmentn years. multiple agencies, including the departments of tasury and homeland security, were successfully infiltrated, and the perpetrators appear to be russia. nick schifrin reports. >> schifrin: judy, the victims include the very agency designed to protect the country from cyber attacks. the department of homeland security, as well as treasurymm and ce, were breached in the spring.

but the hacks were only fescovered recently. and over the lasdays government departments, and thousands of companies around the world, have rushed to figure out whether they were victims, as wel u.s. officials tl pbs newshour, they suspect russian intelligence. to discuss this we turn toit alpeerovich, co-founded of silverado policy accelerator, a washington based think tank.we ome back to the newshour, how wide spread is this and how >> nick, this can be one of the most consequential we have seen to today. this is used by hundrs of thousands of organizations globally including some of the most secure agencies in the u.s. government and governments globally, some of the biggest fortune 500 companies and the fact that the russian intelligence may have had access to those organizations over the course of then last nine mths since last march is very troubling. now we believe that fewer thn a

few hundred organizes were ultimately compromised but we may still learn over the next couple of weeks about who they may be. >> they haveo many clients, it seems as if the perpetrators only use their access to steal information from a few important agencies, how significant is that fact? >> i think it's really important of the best in russianwith some .ntelligence here that are likely behind th and what they wanted to do is really have a cherry pick of the best targets, the most exquisite, hard to get targets that they could get through this potential vuller in able. so we may well see some really ground breaking announcemee s in thming days about who may have been hit by there. >> schifrin: and is that will, by the perpetrators, is that why it has taken so long to detect them? >> it is, they were ry stealthy. their operational stagecraft was phenomenal and they waed to make sure they could use this

access through the back door in for as long as possible to remain unetected. >> schifrin: it is believed to be pertrated by fda the equivalent of the cia and not russia mlitary, the gru which was hacked and leaked in 2016, why is thaant impo >> the gru is responsible for a number of destructiva attacks including the most directive attack in history tt compromised companies like fedex, and merck and in 2017. and the fact of the matter is that fdr is not known to do drukive operations they do traditional espionage, they steal data for the purpos of inrming their decision makers in russia. so while this is really bad, we have to be thankful that this wasn't an drukive attack. >> schifrin: just because we know how they got in, doeshat make it easy to get them out? yes, luckily we know the indicators are ou there, the

government has directed all u.s. winds if they have this version that has been compromised untilt a path o. every organization should follows that advise whether you are in the government or nt and using the indicators to determine if they have actually been hit by the attacker the. >> schitifrin: da ry alperovitch, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: wbegin a new series looking at an underreported public health crisisn this country. childhood trauma affects millions of ericans. in our first piece from correspondent cat wise and producer jaywon choe we lay out the problem, and what's at stake. we are calling the series, "invisible scars: america's childhood auma crisis."

>> reporter: this hotel room in oakland, california has been home tiesha james and her sons for four months. it's close quarters for three growing boys, ages 15, 13, and 12. but they'd rather be here than rern to their apartment whe a drive-by shooting in august upended their lives. jeremiah, the oldest, was hit in the leg. >> that was your entry wound.... where your-- >> yeah entry wound right here and it came out up here. >> reporter: malachi, the youngest, was grazed in the ar and hand. >> i heard my youngest screaming d my oldest saying, mom, i've been shot. it seemed unreal, like this isn't can't be happening. >> rorter: jeremiah now gets physical thepy twice a week. while the physical injuries are healing, the family's emotional wounds from the shooting are still with tomm. >> there'sgood days and there's some bad days. it's definitely a lot of p.t.s.d. going on.

>> reporter: iesha's family's story highlights a public health sisis in this country tha often overlooked. those affected are at much aneater risk for short-ter long-term health impacts. and amid a global pandemic the problem is only getting worse. the issue: childhood tuma. t eryone is impacted differently by life events, en we talk about childhood trauma, which is a broad term, we're talking about experiences that take a lasting emotional and/or physical toll. and in the middle of a pandemic, kids today are increasingly vuerable. >> we're seeing increased rates of domestic violence, increase rates of substance use and abuse, increased rates of mental health concerns and mental health disorders. reduction in reports of child maltreatment, which is not a good thing. >> reporter: dr. nadine burke harris is a pediatrician and california's first surgeon

general. >> if we want to be preventingh mental heancerns, if we want to be preventing substance dependence, if we nt to be preventing cardiovascular disease and cancer, we see that adverse childhood experiences is a root cause for all of those things. is largely the res aderstanding landmark study by researchers from kaiser permanente and the c.d.c. in the late '90s. they looked at 17,000 patients' histories of "adrse childhood experiences," or "aces." ten potentially traumatic early life events, including phycal, emotnal and sexual abuse, exposure to domestic violence, d divorce. researchers correlated those" aces" with health isss in adulthood. the findings shook the world of medicine. >> having four or more adverse childhood experiences is associated with more than double the risk of ischemic heart disease, the number one killer in the united states of america.

two and a half times the risk of stroke, triple the risk of chronic lung disease. >> reporter: in fact, having four or more "aces" is associated with significantly increased risks for at least five out of the 10 leading but how exactly can adverse experiences cause these disparate health effects?an ther is in the science of stress. >> so when we experiencere something ful, our body releases stress hormones. prolonged activation of the biological stress re that can lead to long term health prhelems, changes in the way brain structure and function, changes in our immune system,te our hormonal s and even the way our d.n.a. is read and transcribed. >> reporter: in the heart, stress hormones can make things go hwire. >> those cause our heart to beat stronger and faster, so they actually exert more wear and tear on the lining of the inside

of our arteries. >> reporter: and that could show up 20, 30 years down the road. >> reporter: down the road as a heart attack or a stroke. >> repter: and in the brain. >> we see m.r.i. studies that show that for children who are exposed to high doses of adversity, there are structural and functional changes in their brains >> reporter: and the areas that can be affected are respsible for key functions like processing fear, controlling impulses, as well as learning and remembering. all sues iesha james says she's seen in her boys, who experienced considerable trauma even before the shooting. iesha took malachi and mickel in when they were just one and two. >> my maternal cousin jass. while carrying both boys was into prostitution, drugs, alcohol. >> reporter: those ear traumas, and others, had wide- ranging impacts on their daily life. >> abandonment, you know,ty separation anxyou know,

all became a major issue.as mickelt even talking. he was two going into his third year of age was just a very hard time. >> reporter: and when faced wito stressful situ, they struggled with how to respond. >> i did not know. how did... how to speak my emotions. so the only way i knew howas just from crying. >> reporter: later, the kids struggled in school, had behavior issues, and they dealt with physical alth problems too, most notablsevere asthma, which can be associated with trauma. >> we ended up in the e.r. sometimes two and three times every other month. >> reporter: the james family's experience with trauma is, unfortunately, not unique. u.s. have had at lnelts in the adverse childhood experience and 15% have had four or more. women and communities of color are at greater risk of experiencing significant trauma, but everyone can be impacted.

in marin, just north of san francisco, dr. dedalus hyde treats trauma in onef the most affluent counties in the country.'s but lso spent years practicing in low-resourced communities. >> in my experience, these traumatic events in childhood are the memories tt are most imbued with shame. and that makes it incrediblyk difficult to tout these experiences, whether they have resources orteot. >> rep hyde is also >> one of the morenificantuma. traumas of my life, was my parents divorce. they divorced when i was when i was quite young. in the trauma world, we tend to consider divorce as one of the top ten trauma >> reporter: later, in his adolescence, he experienced another trauma: a sexual assau by someone he trusted. >> undoubtedly one of the things that contributes to a child or an individual being vulnerable is previous trauma it did set up for me a need that

the man who came into my life noticed, i believe, and took vantage of. >> reporter: he says having conversations about trauma, as hard as it may be, vital. >> i say to people who haven't shared their stories yet please try to do so. that is where so much healingca occur, is in the telling of our stories. >> this is treatable. >> reporter: for dr. nadine burke harris, that's the key takeaway. >> what the science shows is that it's never too late to actually begin healing from the ly adversity. number twowhat the research too late, early detection andr early intervenon dramatically improves outcomes. >> rorter: with that in mind, tite last year california launched an init to train medical providers on how to screen for "adverse childhood experiences." and those screenings are now covered under "medi-cal,"th

state's medicaid program. iesha james and her family have benefited fromhe growing understanding of aces and their health impact. her sons' pediatrician, dr. dayna long au.c.s.f. benioff children'sospital in oakland. >> it is a piece of information that allows me thelp guide and shape a eatment plan with an understanding that this kid is isexperiencing a lot and i traumatic and it's influencing them on a biologic level so that we can actually get to a place of healing. >> reporter: and they're not just relng on traditional medical interventions. she and a team of colleagues connect families in need with resources, like food, school interventions, and therapy. and they coach them on sess relief techniques like meditation and breathing. >> we can't make the stress go away, but they are able to regulate the stress through techniques and tools. >> reporter: iesha james is working hard to in those tools

into her family's day to day life.ju >> i opened all of us up to a different w of how to deal with things before just geing into them verbally, y combativel know, beating our head up against a brick wall, slamming doors. w >> reporter: ale life isn't perfect, things have gotten better. control. asthma is under they're having fewer issues in school. and they're also able to better kenage their stress. which, in times his, means everything. for the pbs newswiur, i'm cat in california's bay area. >> woodruff: just hours after members of the electoral college cemented his victory, president-elect joe biden is addressing the nation tonight. with that just around the corr we turn to our politics monday

ofo for analysis, that's amy waltehe cook political report and host of public radio's "politics with amy walter."an tamara keith of npr. she also co-hosts the "npr politics podcast." so much happening today in the news but let's start with what ds going on with this electoral college, tam, oe biden. the election was over a month ago butr evence then it has been nothing but turmoil, protests, the president's tweets, losses, one after the other. anfinally today his victory is cemented. but where dos all this leave joe biden. >> well, in his remarks tonight we is some excerpts. he is going to try to convince the american people that it's time to turn the page, to move on. he's going to argue that the american institutions ld despite president trump's efforts to overturn the results of the election. but as you say, president trump has been making a lot of noise.

there have been numb rouse-- numerous lawsuits, all of them have failed. and essentially at this point president trump is moing the goal post saying that he is going to keep fighting onioned the electoral college, even though there was a time when, you know, his campaign aides and others said that the electoral college was the thing that they were waiting for. but, but, it just seems really unlikely that president trump i ever going to concede in any recognizable way. and that he's just going to continue on this path. >> amy, what does this mean in the short term and medium term, if you want, for president-elect biden going into a situation where the preresidentceding him is just nonstop denying that he is lege.itim >> right, to me the issue isn't so much will donald trump concede, will the president concede because it seems as pam said unlikely that he will ever

admit that he lost this race r that his loss was not tied to something nefarious, as s also pointed out has not proven to be true. so to m the bigger question is party, how do republicanstrump's respond to this. we are starting to hear now as reporters are wandering around capitol hill and talking to senators and members of congress sayi okay now, now do yoee biden as the president-elect. llegehat the electoral c has weighed in. and we're starting to hear members of the sena well, you know, given that the threshhold is now completed, the lawsuits are all completed, it looks like biden is now officially the president-elect. where we're really going to see the next challenge, judy, is the sixth of january there is a joint session of congress where these votes are read out in front of congress. it is possible for a member to dispute this.

you need a member of the house and a member of the senate to d. th if you get that, we know that there is at least one or two house members, rublicans who want to dispute the electoral college outcome, they would need someone on the senat then, we would have to go through debate in both houses and anothevote it wouldn't overturn the election but what it would say is there is stillso cache among republicans to dragging this out. and if would suggest that the idea that they want to unify, you know, fix these divisions, that's going to be a bigger challenge than we had thought before and for president-elect biden what made that the corr stone of his incoming presidency, it would suggest that he has got a ways to go. >> woodruff: and that's my question, tomorrow. i mean how is it that after all these members, what is it, 120, 40 house republicans sooned on

to a lawsutit t said essentially the election was conducted illegitimately. it wasot done on constitutional grounds, they'res not going ddenly turn around. these members or even members of the senate who we saying they agreed with the president, there was something fishy about joe den's win. how are they suddenly going to turn around and work with him as if he is legitimate? >> those 126 members sign on to something that they knew would succeed, that they knew had virtually no chance that the stream court was going to throw out results of a free and fair election. a free and fair election that also elected th. so part of that was a loyalty umst, part of that was proving to president tp that -- that they are loyal. in terms of whathis means for joe biden's gov nern-- governing, of course he ran on the idea that he was going to be le to work with congress. and in particular with senators

who he served with for a long time. as amy said, we are starting to see sorepublican senators say yes, joe biden is now the president-elect. senator rob portman from ohio, john cornyn frm texas, sort of dancing around this a little saying you know, there were some isolated instances of fraud or irregularities and states should look into that. but none of this could overturn the results so we need to move there are going t early and often-- early and often for joe biden, with the is senate working, we don't know for surae t will be a republican senate but if it aemocratic senate it will be by the narrowest of mar guns and seeryone acknowledges that if covid relief pain this lame duck session they're going to need to do more once biden becomes president. so there will be many tests. >> yeah. >> well, one test that is coming up. >> go aheadk amy, go ahead. >> that is what-- i think we

might be on the same wavelengtht judy, i doknow. this question about whethers leadership in and of itself is enough to sort of break this polarization. obviously president trump didn't invent polarization, this has been bad for a long, long, long time. the question is whether it is enou to have a president who with the other si but i'm notrk going to fan the flames of division. u've noticed that throughout this whole process of president trumting every single norm, testing every single, you kow, place, constitutional norm.s biden t said much, in other words he hasn't met every tweet with another tweet. he hasn't upped the factor of, you know, punching and punching back harder. that was sort of the trump mantra. so is that enough, do we think

to bring the two sides together? buprobably not. turning down the heat may be enough to apt least give cov to those folks who want to get some stuff done. it unlikely we're going to see big sweeping legislation either way whether democrats have control of the senate or not but at the very least, a leader that says i'm not going to play withn divi i'm not going to continue to divide us. we'll see if that can at least start us into more bipartisanship. >> woodruff: just 30 seconds, amy.ta -- i'm sorry i want to ask you about the prospects for this covid relief bill that talked to senator manchin about earlier. does it look like they can reach agreement at least on part of it, enough to get aid to people who need it? >> what i will say about any sort of deal in congress is that big deals often go along mor easily than small deals. and deals that bump right up on a deadline like getting home for the holidays and not wanting to

go home for the holidays without extending unemployment benefits or the moatorium on evictions, that kind of hard deadline can make magic hapn in congress. >> every time. people-- i know a f people are counting on it i watched that news conference today, both publicans and democrats said we've got to do something by christmas so we will see if it translates into something, into something real. tamara keith, amy walter, thank you both. >> you're welcome. >> woodru: >> woodruff: and now we turn once again to our yamiche alndor who is in wilmington, delaware. delaware, and this time to talk about president-elect joe biden. whatboore are you learning what he might say, signal tonight in his remarks? >> well president-elect joe biden is going to bek taing a bit of a victory lap as well as making an appeal for unity both for people who voted for him, but as well for people who

support president trump. ojust a few short feet m where i am sitting right nowt president-elden will come to the lantern, and do something that president trump didn't do o well. he will pivot away from campaigning and going into governing saying he is a esident for all americans. i want to re to you a bit about what president-elect joe biden is expted to say. he is exeped to say in this battle for theoul of america, democracy prd. we the people voted, faith in our institutions held. the integrity of our elections remains in tact. and so now it is time to turn the page too unite, to heal thark is president-elect biden, not only saying that people need to get togetherof course, to fight this coronavirus pandemic but he also realizes he's going have to convince a large swath of americans that the election was actually done fairly, integrity is still there, of course, bcause president trump is continuing ti say withoutnce that the election was stog enfrom him. >> woodruff: and yamiche, i know are you obviously still covering the whe house, what are we-- what are youearing in the way president trump's

>> president trumpstill lashing out very, very angry at the fact that the results havem been fficially official which of course the electoral college voting today. president trump also just minutes after joe biden clinched the necessary 270 officially to becomehe prsident-elect, we saw him make that announcement that attorney general bill barr was leeding in some way critics saw that as conterrer programming for somebody who understands television and president trump, he was making a big, big statement in the middle of headlines being about gentlemen biden.ot r thing to note is that joe biden and president trump are both talking in some ways about theoronavirus vaccine. so even as all of this is happening, we are hearing joe biden is expected to say that rk aheadll be urgent of him to really deal with the coronavirus pandemic and president trump is also taking a victory la saying that now that the vaccine st much radioing people for the first time in amero a, that he should abe praised for that. so while he is angry about the sults, he also saying a good running i'm doing things well, we don't expect presideto trumoncede so we have to

keep watching that, especially i should say quickly, that republicans are starting to call joe biden president-elect. they hadn't done that before but now we are seeing that shift happening. >> woodruff: we are learing that reporting. yamiche alcindor covering the outgoing and incoming president, thank you, yamiche.an speaking of political transitions, you will want to tune in friday night, when mark shields joins david brooks and i for a final time. rest assured, he will still contribute to the program. but we have a special fawell in the works. n and that's tshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, please stay safe, and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbsur newsho has been provided by:

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