judy: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, power changes hands. a new israeli government coalition of unlikely political partners moves to oust long-time prime minister benjamin netanyahu. then, help wanted. the debate over the efficacy of unemployment benefits intensifies as the u.s. economy recovers and businesses re-open. and haiti in crisis. countrywide calls for the president to step down go unheeded amid rampant violence and corruption. >> he destroyed the police, he is working with the gangs, so the insecurity of the people of haiti as it is today, it is an insecurity driven by the state. judy: all that and more on

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vanessa: we will return to judy woodruff and the full program after these headlines. israel's longest-serving prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been swept from office tonight after two years of political turmoil. opposition groups agreed on a new government with potentially far-reaching implications for israel and all the middle east. much more after the news summary. president biden rolled out new enticements today to get more americans vaccinated against covid-19. they range from free beer to cash giveaways. the president promised today that better days lie ahead if 70% of u.s. adults have a least one shot in the next month. >> americans can do anything when we do it together.

so please do your part. give it your all through july 4. let's reach our 70% bowl. -- goal. let's go into the summer freer and safer. let's celebrate a truly historic independence day. [trt :20] vanessa: 63% of u.s. adults are at least partially immunized. there's word that a ring of venezuelans stole u.s. pandemic economic stimulus checks totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. the miami herald and others report a federal indictment in miami names at least five suspects. they live in south florida and mexico. iran has been hit by twin disasters, on land and at sea. early today, the country's largest warship sank in the gulf of oman after erupting in flames. thick, black smoke could be seen rising from the re-supply and training vessel. iran said 33 sailors were hurt. hours later, smoke billowed over tehran, where an oil refinery caught fire. there was no word on the cause of the incidents.

the white house today announced an expedited review of cyberattacks that demand ransoms. it follows attacks on a critical u.s. pipeline and a major meat processor. former u.s. cyber-security director, christopher krebs, said today the problem is urge. >> they went after our gas and they went after our hot dogs. no one is out of bounds here. everyone is in play. and every single corporate executive needs to be convening their cyber security teams and their business resilience teams today to understand what their continuity plans are. [:16] vanessa: criminal gangs linked to pressure are blamed for the recent attacks. president biden will raise this issue with russia's president vladimir putin at their summit this month. the meat processing giant targeted this week, jbs, was restoring operations today in north america and australia. the company said a vast majority of their plants had returned to work. they are the second-leading producer of beef, chicken and

pork in the u.s.. democrats in the u.s. house of representatives have added to their narrow majority with a special election win in new mexico. melanie stansbury easily took tuesday's vote. she'll succeed deb haaland, who was med interior secretary. the national football league pledged today to stop using race-norming to make a billion dollars in payouts for brain injuries. the medical practice adjusts for race in testing for dementia. retired black players say it assumes they started with lower cognitive functioning than whites, and that makes it harder to win compensation. a federal judge today ruled against south the code of governor kristi noem in her bid to have july 4 fireworks at mount rushmore this year. the national park service originally denied the state a permit, citing crowds and covid-19 concerns that indigenous tribes opposition to the fireworks. last year, then-president trump

traveled to the site to give an independence day speech. still to come on the newshour, the debate over unemployment benefits intensifies as the economy recovers. a state of emergency in colorado for teens' mental health. how storm damage and skepticism complicate efforts to vaccinate rural louisianans. and end of an era, the most winning coach in college basketball announces his exit. plus, much more. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: we return to israel. nick schifrin explores how this coalition government might usher in a new era of political leadership.

nick: it's the unlikeliest of coalitions. the next prime minister, right-wing naftali bennett, who vows there will never be a palestinian state. the next foreign minister, centrist yair lapid, former tv host who believes in the two-state solution. and mansour abbas, leader of an islamist party, who'demanded improved rights for israel's arab minority. along with others, they formed the change coalition, unit only in their opposition to one man. benjamin netanyahu is the country's longest running prime minster, one of israel's most consequential politicians, and today, one of its most divisive. the change coalition's strange bedfellows needed to come together to oust him because of the knesset, or parliament math. a government coalition needs 61 of 120 seats. in the last election, netanyahu's likud got the most, 30 seats, but he couldn't create a coalition. lapid's yesh atid party came in second with 17, so he tried next.

the change coalition adds the centrist blue and white party's 8 seats. bennett's right-wing yamina party's 7 seats. progressive labor's 7 seats. nationalist immigrant party yisrael beiteinu's 7 seats. center-right party new hope's 6 seats. the green party meretz's 6 seats. and abbas' islamist ra'am party's 4 seats. 8 parties, 62 seats, 1 coalition. the power sharing agreement calls for bennett to become prime minister for two years. and lapid to take over after that. bennett will replace the man who was once his mentor. bennett has called for israel to annex the west bank, which would be illegal under international law. >> the new right party is right-wing. period. no but, and not roughly. in favour of greater israel, without compromises. against a palestinian state, period. nick: his ascension, is thend of an era. netanyahu has led the likud party since 1993. he won for the first time in

1996, in part by opposing the oslo accords and their nascent steps toward peace. >> instead of taking care of security, there is gross insecurity, and irresponsibility on theart of of the prime minister. nick: that prime minister was yitzak rabin, assassinated just mohs before the 1996 election. netanyahu won again in 2009. over the last 12 years, he has overseen a rightward shift in israeli politics. strongly opposed the iran nuclear deal. >> it doesn't block iran's path to the bomb, it paves iran's path to the bomb. nick: and more recently, become the first sitting prime minister to go on trial for corruption. the last few months have been one of the country's most tumultuous periods. jewish and arab israelis fighting in the streets. a punishing, 11-day war in gaza on hamas, and a record number of rockets indiscriminately fired into israeli cities. and in the last two years, inconclusive election, after inconclusive election. today's announcement avoids a 5th election. and the change leaders describe

it as a way to save the country. rt-7061-israel-politics-bennett- -- >> we can move to a fifth, sixth, tenth election, to dismantle the walls of the country brick by brick until our house will collapse on us. and it's possible to stop the madness and take responsibility. nick: we get two differing views on this moment from the atlantic council and the foundation for defense of democracies. this still has to be ratified. is this a done deal? guest: it ain't over until it is over when it comes to bibi netanyahu. i would wait and hold excitement until next week when the new government will be sworn in. it is always possible members will defect so much so that the coalition could fall apart. however, i and so many others who are watching this and in israel and in the united states are very optimistic that given

the breadth of the coalition have brought in, including arab parties into the government, that this will hold. but it ain't over until it is over. nick: jonathan, the breadth of it includes two leaders at the top who differ dramatically when it comes to the palestinians. but this coalition says they will focus on domestic issues. will i work? jonathan: it remains to be seen. let's just set -- don't think any of the leading members of this coalition are going to hold back when they differ from one another. if they want this to last they are going to have to reach a compromise. i think that would be a good thing. that said, i think it will be very difficult for thi government to only focus on domestic issues. you have the iran nuclear deal coming up quickly. this is something the bulk of israelis oppose. but front and center. so we have to see exactly how

they move forward in opposition to this deal without theirost vociferous voice, which has been netanyahu. nick: carmiel, you think they can work together, including with what is the first independent arab party, and a promised arab party that will join an israeli coalition since the 1950's? carmiel: i think there is a real opportunity here to focus on domestic issues. things like passing a budget, which the israeli government has not been able to do for several years. economic reform. legal, possibly even judicial reform. i think anything that goes beyond that narrow scope will be very difficult. the arab parties in this context are making very narrow demands relative to what we have seen. things like economic issues or improved policing. on those concerns it will be

quite easy for the israeli government's new configuration to make concessions. anything bigger than that, for example on the palestini issue, will be difficult and something i expect they will avoid. nick: jonathan, as you pointed out before, they will not be able to avoid iran. the biden administration is trying to make a deal or re-editor the iran nuclear deal. despite the differences on the palestinians, is there unanimity on how to handle the bind and -- the biden administration when it comes to this? jonathan: there is not. there is opposition across the board. what we have seen from the netanyahu government is very aggressive opposition to the biden administration and to iran. it is called the war between wars. this is activities that israel has undertaken. sabotage of iranian vessels.

israel could have been responsible for the one reported today. these are things israel has been doing in the past to try and erode the iranian military and their capabilities. and of course they have been strident in their opposition to the biden administration. it is unclear what the policy will be with this new government. nick: we have a couple minutes left and i want to bring it -- bring up bibi netanyahu. he vows to stay in the opposition. perhaps it is too early to describe the other path but i want to give you the chance. what do you think netanyahu's legacy is? carmiel: as you said, netanyahu will stay in the opposition and will continue to try and roil the government, to try and cause instabity and so divisions within this new governing coalition. bibi netanyahu has been the longest-serving ime minister in israel. one who can lay claim to some to making israel a safer place.

on the other hand has failed that he has failed to pursue any long-term strategy for israel as a relates to the palestinians in the region. so i think his legacy will be very mixed. and will likely be book ended by the legal troubles he finds himself in. one of the main reasons he was eager to state and government does that for him as a choice between the prime minister's office and potentially jail. that may very well be the end of the story of netanyahu. nick: a mixed legacy whose book and is a corruption trial. what do you think? jonathan: i am not sure. leaders around the world right now are being judged on how they handled the corona crisis, how they got the country back economically. on both of those fronts then yahoo! has excelled. he has been on the forefront. i think h will get a lot of credit for that. he will get credit for the piece

deals he made last year. he helped israel become a leader in cyber and high-tech. there is a lot of good was he in retrospect as historians write his history. but of course in israel people will have a lot of opinions come as they always do, and his legacy will be debated for a long time. nick: think historians will judge him kindly? carmiel: probably not as kindly as jonathan thinks they will. i think the failure to make progress on israeli-palestinian front will certainly tarnish his internional legacy, although many israelis may view it from lay. i think the corruption, the failure to cultivate future leadership, the incursion ends to institutionsn israel where the new government will now have to rebuild. i think history may not be as kind to netanyahu as jonathan suggests. nick: your response?

jonathan: all i can say is netanyahu was dealt a tough hand , as every israeli leader has had over the years. peace has not been made with any previous prime minister. i would not settle him with that. he has lead israel through some tumultuous times and for that reason, israelis will appreciate him, even if perhaps he exits the political scene. nick: thank you both very much. judy: the economic recovery from the worst of the pandemic continues. but the strength of it is not fully clear. and some businesses are having trouble hiring enough workers to reopen fully. in response, many states are ending pandemic unemployment programs to encourage people to get back to work.

over the next six weeks, half of states will end the extra $300 in weekly unemplment benefits that were set to run through labor day. we talked to unemployed workers and business owners across the country about their economic concerns. >> my name is bill eastwood. i currently reside in columbia, south carolina. i relocated here four years ago for a job. >> my name is roberta monteleone. i'm the managing partner of milan catering and event design. >> i am david jones. i'm the managing partner of blue ridge restaurant group. >> i am lisa smallwood. i was contractor for usda. then in september, no august, they decide that they are going to renew like the top three accountants. >> my name is jason webb from huntington, west virginia. and my business is gd ritzy's.

>> when june 12 come, guess what, you won't get anything unemployment at all. so it's like, ok, now what disaster is going to hit now? >> the unemployment is in florida is $275 a week, that doesn't cover much in the way of bills. >> it's all politics. and i'm so sicand tired of it. everybody's trying to make a point. but guess what? they are actually playing with people's livelihood. >> $300 is, you know, $1200 a month. it makes a difference. and i had to establish a financial runway back in the first quarter of 2020. and it extends that runway by, you know, 25%, 30%. >> we do see that light at the end of the tunnel. and that was a good feeling to have. and then we ran into this hurdle of employees, trying to find employees. we couldn't get anybody. we're like, i couldn't get cousins or nephews or anybody to come in for a job. >> we've tripled the hourly rates. everybody, every restaurant's doing signing bonuses. we're doing all of those things.

and and we are probably 70, 80 employees short right now. we would hire them all right now, if if they showed up on our doorstep. >> i don't have a labor shortage. but i'm also willing to pay people a fair wage and make sure that they're safe and make sure that they know that. >> the biggest thing is going to be the unemployment benefits that they were receiving. it's hard to compete with larger wages. and as a small business owner, that would be quite a challenge for me to pay much more than we do. >> you have so many people say, oh my gosh, so many people make so much more moneyyou know, being off than they are in their regular jobs. and i said, yeah, and so many people that what they're giving them every week is still not enough. it's like telling me, well, you know, forget your degree. you just go work somewhere. really? >> we have specific employees that have told us that we just don't have anybody else to watch my child during the day. we've heard that, well, i can

make as much on unemployment as i can on working as a server. we've supplemented it with much higher hourly rates to make them make them where they used to be. we don't want compensation to be an issue for them not coming back to work. >> if someone's raising their hand and saying a labor shortage, my answer is, are you paying them a fair wage? are you giving them employee health care and benefits? are you taking care of people? i think the models are different now. people don't just show up and work. you need to make sure that you're invested in them. >> financially, i really need to find a job this year, you know, for the money not to start getting critical. so, this isn't about losing my home today. it could be down the road. being unemployed is a is a very nerve racking place to be. >> i call it character building. i have built so much character because it's like the trials that you go through and everything.

you just build nothing but character, it builds something in you to overcome something that's next. that's how i look at it. i told somebody this morning, you know, i have to be willing to be uncomfortable just to be comfortable. judy: some heartfelt statements from the people we were able to talk with. let's look closer at some of those concerns we just heard about, government aid and relief, and where we are in the economic recovery. ben casselman writes about economics and business for the "new york times" and joins me now. you heard a variety of points of view but it is clear these unemployment benefits are making a difference. but there is still a dispute about that. what is your reporting telling you about the difference these additional unemployment benefits are making right now? ben: the first thing to say is it is very clear that unemployment benefits,hese enhanced unemployment benefits the federal government provided made a tremendous difference last year in the lives of

millions and millions of people who lost their jobs. and also played a really important role in supporting the overall economy. last year i think there is very little debate about it. we are now at a very different ment. we are at a moment that we are starting to open back of the economy, where people are vaccinated and able to go back out and we are clearly seeing a ton of people who want to go out and eat at restaurants again, fly on plane again, go to hotels again. we are hearing consistently from employers it is difficult to find workers. i think that part is very real. the question is if it is unemployment benefits that are doing that, and i think what we heard from some of those voices is it is probably a factor for some people, but there are a lot of other factors. these all kind of plaff each other in a variety of complicated ways. judy: it has become a debate and what we are trying to understand is how much of a factor is it. as you say, it is clearly

affecting the thinking of some people as they deci whether it is better to go back to work or not. for others it may be it is childcare, or maybe still worrying about the virus. ben: yeah. what is important to understand is these things are not altogether mutually exclusive. you can imagine somebody who has kids at home and has childcare challenges, who has lingering concerns about the health consequences of going to work in a pandemic. and who, were it not for unemployment benefits, would have to find a way to make it work. but because of the benefits has more flexibility. judy: we did hear employers saying i have raised wages. one employer saying i tripled the hourly wage for my employees. ll us what the larger economic picture looks like, ben? we have seen growth certainly in the last month or so. what does it look like now and going forward?

ben: is a strange moment for the economy in a lot of ways. by some measures we still have a long way to go get back to economic health. we still have something like 8 million fewer jobs than we did before the pandemic began. the unemployment rate is still innovated -- elevated, particularly for some groups. at the same time we are hearing about labor shortages, prices increasing, shortages of goods, which are problems we usually associate with a moment of a strong economy, not economic weakness. so i think it is a strange moment. what most economists will say right now, certainly what the fed will say, what the fed will say, is this is a moment of transition. this is temporary. and as we get through the summer months, as schools reopen, as people are able to get the kids back into childcare and get back to work, as companies are able to restock their shelves, this

period will pass and we can get back to a period of economic health. but that is uncertain. we don't have much in the way of historical precedent for the moment we are living in right now. judy: finally and quickly, the increasing talk, worries about inflation. what do you see on that front? ben: we are seeing price increases, there is no question inflation is up. it is mostly concentrated right now insect is that are directly related to the reopening story. we are seeing hotel prices rise and airfares rise. the concern among economists is could that spread more widely? we have not seen much evidence of that yet but it is something we are all going to be watching extremely closely. judy: ben casselman, thank you very much. ben: thanks for having me.

judy: it has been a difficult year for everyone, not least of all children who saw their lives turned upside down by the pandemic. according to one large hospital system in colorado, the emotional toll on kids has become a state of emergency, with adolescents experiencing high rates of anxiety, depression, and self-harm. william brangham talks with one of the heads of that hospital. william: judy, the number of kids arriving at children's hospital colorado in mental health distress has reached levels officials say they've never seen before. behavioral health visits we up 90% in april compared to last year. it is the top reason for emergency room visits, and suicide is now the leading cause of death for children over the age of 10 in the state. dr. david brumbaugh is the chief medical officer for children's hospital colorado. and he joins me now. this is obviously terrible news for all of you in the hospital

system. can you give me a sense of when you started to see this uptick, and what were you specifically seeing? dr. brumbaugh:hank you. really, towards the end of the winter in february we started to see increased number of kids presenting to our emergency rooms with acute presentations of suicidal ideation, being the most concerning. in march and april we saw spikes, as you mentioned, that were much higher than we had seen in years previous. so much so that our ability to provide the behavioral health resources they needed were quickly overwhelmed. and we had dozens of kids waiting in our emergency department for admission to an acute behavioral health unit. william: i mean, obviously each child and their circumstances are unique, but do you have a sense generally of what is driving this? dr. brumbaugh: i think this has

been a long haul for our kids. in many ways they have been the most dutiful citizens during this pandemic. wearing masks, following the rules. but that has been disrupted from so many of their normal activities. their school, their peer networks, sports and other activities. and i think that has taken a toll over time. and i think it has been a low level trauma over this last 15 months. i think the surprising piece of this is this spike in acute presentations is occurring at a time when we are starting to see some hope and rays of sunshine on the horizon with this pandemic. but it could be we are exiting survival mode. and so we are seeing kids experience really deterioration ofheir mental health. at times they are exiting the trauma reentering into normal life. william: so it is your sense

kids in some way has been clenched for this entire pandemic and now that normal life, whatever that may be, is starting to emerge, is that is a big driver of anxiety for them? dr. brumbaugh: that is our best explanation thus far. what we are seeing is kids who are experiencing normal childhood adversity, disappointments, not making a sports team, may be some difficulties in school who instead of really tapping into their resilience, resources our stead -- are instead contemplating their lives. william: you touched on that your own hospital system is struggling to provide ads or appropriate care for them. what about broader psychiatric care? we have heard and total reports that people have a hard time finding good psychiatric care that they can afford and get into. is that the same issue in colorado? dr. brumbaugh: very much so. in colorado we are actually in

the bottom 10 states in terms of funding for behavioral health services for children. we were an already stretched system before the pandemic. and before this spike of cases. it is certainly reflected in our inability to care for these very sick, acute presentations. as you mentioned, even for kids that need more primary care behavioral health for treatment of depression, anxiety and other problems, it is very difficult to access those resources. for our kids public insurance like medicaid can we -- they can wait weeks to months for an initial appointment. even for folks who have commercial insurance it can be a real struggle to get an appointment with a behavioral health provider. many do not take insurance and just require cash payment. so this is an overstretched system and we are seeing it break in the face of this pandemic. william: in just the last few seconds we have, for kids who

are in distress and for parents of those kids, what would you counsel them to do? dr. brumbaugh: the most important thing is to have a conversation with your kids. especially your teenagers who have been the most disrupted in terms of their ability to have school and peer networks. have a conversation with your son or daughter about how they are doing. ask them how they are doing. over the next few weeks and months, encourage them to get back into their peer network. spend some time with a friend. find ways to make that happen as a parent. our kids have been disrupted for that. it may take encouragement for them to get back into it. ieally think that interpernal connection is wha has been missing over the last year and is what will fundamentally be the way we get out of this current crisis. william: all right. thank you very much for being here. dr. brumbaugh: william, i appreciate our time together and your attention to this topic. william: for more on this important topic, our own student

reporting labs has just put a podcast specially out about the mental health challenges facing teens today. it's called on our minds with noah and zion, and you can find it wherever you find podcasts. judy: as president biden pushes for 70% of americans to receive at least one vaccine dose by independence day, some parts of the country have further to go to meet that goal than others. kara st. cyr of louisiana public broadcasting takes a look at the vaccination effort in one area of the bayou state. kara: d'adrea rushing wasn't afraid to get the vaccine. in fact, it was something she'd been waiting for. >> it's important for everyone. kara: but she was hesitant for one of two reasons. first, she wasn't sure where to go to get it. and reason number two, was all

of this. >> it's a lot of damage. a lot of heartache. kara: rushing's family house is located in region five, in southwest louisiana, which is home to some of the state's most rural parishes. it's also a place picking up the pieces of four major weather events that devastated the population in less than a year. two hurricanes, a historical ice storm, and major flooding. the mayor, nic hunter, says the people are trying their best to recover. >> this community received several punches in the gut over the last 14 months. kara: the destruction is sad, heartbreaking even, for people that lost their homes once, twice, or maybe even three times. but dr. lacey cavanaugh with the office of public health says the weather also devastated the vaccination effort before it even started. >> people are just very tired here and have neglected their health in general here because of all of these disasters. of course the covid vaccine is included in that. but even our mental health numbers, our folks that are

following up and getting annual wellness visits. all of those numbers have likely been impacted. kara: region five, where lake charles is located, is underperforming when it comes to getting people vaccinated. only about 21% of the population is fully protected against the virus, which is the lowest percentage statewide. there are several factors beyond the catastrophic weather events that are keeping those numbers down. >> i know that a lot of people are scared of it. kara: rushing is right. a lot of people are scared to get the vaccine, especially in louisiana's rural communities. in lake charles, lacey cavanaugh says her staff debunks myths at almost every vaccination event. >> women who want to know if there are any proven effects on fertility. there are no studies that say that it impacts fertility. so i mean, that is sort of one of those myths that you hear commonly. of course people want to know about safety and effectiveness. a lot of questions about the process. so if i come here to get my first vaccine, where do i go to

get my second vaccine? they want those instructions. kara: in early april, the louisiana public health institute put out a survey showing that about 70% of people who were hesitant were afraid of the vaccine's side effects and whether it's safe. the third most popular concern was whether the vaccine even works. >> we have hesitancy here the same as there is across the entire state and really across the country. they're waiting to see how their friends and family who receive the vaccine do. kara: jackie white, with the louisiana department of health, says that meeting people where they are is the state's best strategy to change those numbers. >> i think it's just making it more personable and it's just putting faces to a flyer or just an advertisement. it's true people that are getting out there. they're also able to answer questions. kara: going to church events and small neighborhood organizations seem to be showing improvement here, but going door to door and talking face to face is what really helps.

that approach helped d'idra rushing. she got her vaccine by chance when she heard a nurse yell that the vaccine was available in a wal-mart she was shopping at. >> i got laid off in this pandemic, we had two storms, the ice storm and the flood. but you still need to get out there and get your vaccination. kara: for the pbs newshour, i'm kara st. cyr. judy: now, haiti in crisis. political upheaval in the island nation prompted the biden administration to allow haitians in the u.s. to renew their protected immigration status. it reverses the trump administration's efforts to end those protections. but as yamiche alcindor reports, anxiety about the future remains. yamiche: for months, the streets of port-au-prince, haiti, have been filled with protests.

people gather often to demand that president jovenel moise step down. they say he is increasingly acting like a dictator. these men chant, "moise is a thief." his critics say he took office under bad circumstances, but made them much, much worse. >> jovnel doesn't have any respect for the constitution. you are a thief, jovnel moise. you don't have respect for the constitution. yamiche: gangs have come more powerful. kidnappings have skyrocketed and become more brazen, like this one caught on a church live stream. civilian deaths are on the rise. people all over the island nation are terrified. they say even for a country that has long struggled, these past few months have felt like a new rock bottom. even a notorious gang leader, jimmy chereizier, known as barbecue, walks the streets

freely, in his neighborhood, hailed as a hero. critics argue president moise is turning a blind eye to gangs at best, and at worst, colluding wi them. >> he destroyed the police, he is working with the gangs, so the insecurity of the people of haiti it is today, it is an insecurity driven by the state. yamiche: pierre esperance is the executive director of the national human rights defense network. he says the fear sweeping through haiti today is unlike anything he has experienced. >> what we are living through in haiti, we have never experienced it before. even when there was political instability, it was never like this. >> gang members develop strong ties with officials. and you cannot even attack those gangs because if they get in prison, they will be released because of strong connection they have to power. yamiche: emmanuela douyon is a

leader of the youth protest group nou pap domi, which means "we will not sleep." the group wants a transitional government to replace moise and organize the next elections. >> we're not going to have zero corruption, like, tomorrow, but at least we can make sure that those who are involved in corruption really pay for what they are doing. yamiche: moise was elected in 2016, but didn't take office until the following year. he says his five-year term expires in 2022. others, including civil leaders and clergy members, say he should have stepped down in february based on the haitian constitution. >> we are here to tell the president that he has to admit he cannot continue to ruthe country and that his mandate is finished. yamiche: earlier this year, moise dissolved parliament, saying most lawmakers' terms had ended. but he rejects the idea that he is on the same electoral timetable as parliament.

moise also forced three supreme court judges into early retirement, an act criticized intentionally as illegal. the president claimed that the judges were becoming too political. one of them was seen as a potential opposition candidate to replace him. meanwhile, moise also wants to change the constitution by referendum, a move even members of his own party reject. the changes would give the president more power. the new constitution would abolish the prime minister role, seen as a check on presidential power. it would also temporarily protect the sitting president from impeachment or prosecution. and, it would shrink the legislature. moise insists he will not run for a second term next year. >> there is, in my opinion, an assault on democracy right now in haiti. yamiche: haitian native catherine buteau says her family members were victims of moise's power grab. she says her parents, a surgeon and a career bureaucrat, are politically outspoken, but not formally part of the opposition. but in the middle of the night on february 7, presintial

palace guards dragged them from their beds. along with catherine's aunt and 14 others, they were accused of plotting a coup. >> they genuinely thought that they were going to die that day. yamiche: when the newshour spoke to buteau, her parents had been in prison for six weeks. >> my parents, whose only crime, i guess, is to just be concerned citizens, are in prison and peopleho have conducted massacres, who have conducted killings, are freely or are, you know, sort of living freely in haiti with no arrest, nothing. yamiche: buteau's relatives were released on march 26. but she said their arrest was a sign of moise's growing authoritarianism. >> the fact that this happens only sort of reflects the sort of dictatorship that is growing. yamiche: moise's opponents say his actions recall the repression of haiti's past. the nation was ruled by francois duvalier, known as papa doc, and then his son jean-claude, or baby doc, for almost 30 years.

it was a period of human rights abes and corruption. esperance says the situation under moise is actually worse. >> what's the difference between jovnel's regime, he has destroyed all of the institutions. yamiche: the u.s. says it believes the peaceful transfer of power helps strengthen democratic institutions and has sided with moise. but moise's opponents say biden is breaking campaign promises he made to haitian americans when he was courting their votes last year. >> there's clearly no quit in the haitian community. there is none. and i promise you, there will be no quit on my part as your president. yamiche: these protesters were calling for closer alignment with russia, brandishing the russian flag. one was questioned about bid's promises. >> what promise? i'm going to tell you something, as long as the american government has gone up, made changes, gone down, they have always made haiti dozens of

promises yet none have ever been executed. >> the people of haiti and the haitian community in the united states are very disappointed by the biden administration's politics. yamiche: it's an opinion shared by younger haitians like emmanuela douoyon. >> we are afraid that the same thing that happened under the duvalier might happen now, that the u.s. will close their eyes and let jovenel moise do whatever he wants. and years later, they will recognize that they could have acted better in haiti, but it will be too late. yamiche: for the haitian government's perspective, i spoke with haitian ambassador to the u.s., bocchit edmond. what do you say to critics who say that the insecurity in haiti is a direct failure of the haitian government? [5.0s] >> i don't think so. those are results of many years of bad governance. and, you know, unfortunately, e moise administration now,

today, has inherited that. but he has to deal with it. yamiche: you said that president moise inherited this insecurity. but when i talk to people, they say never in their lives has the situation in haiti been this bad. you have gang control in large swaths of the country. what do you make of critics who say this government is allowing gangs to act with impunity and maybe even aligning with some gangs? >> yeah, but that would be, that would be an opinion, because everybody knows that haiti, the gangs, most of them, they have patrons. they have, you know, people behind them. it's not government issues. it's also private sector things, because some private sector members, they do have control over some gangs as well. yamiche: the biggest criticism i think of president moises that he's leading haiti toward a dictatorship. that he's acting like a strongman. what do you say to that? >> there is no dictatorship in

haiti, and those people, they really know what dictatorship means and they are not under dictatorship. because when there was dictatorship in haiti, even the fact, to question or to mention dictatorship would have been a violation. yamiche: president moise, he declared the mandates of the lower houses and senators had ended, but that his term would go five years day to day. i wonder why, some of his critics would say he's counting his days differently than those in parliament. >> let m let me clarify that for you. president moise did not dissolve parliament like some people are ying, are opining, but the parliament terms expired. it is clearly said in the constitution, the president is elected in haiti for five years. and five years started february 7, 2017. yamiche: talk to me about the

arrest on february 7. there are people who say those people are political prisoners. i know that they're also accused, of course, of planning a coup d'etat. what do you make of people who say that they are political prisoners? >> the first thing i will tell them is that they are not political prisoners. they are not. the second thing is, those people, they were involved in the plot. yamiche: why do you think that elections are possible, especially with all this insecurity? there are people who say gangs controlling large swaths of the country are going to make it impossible for the government or candidates to campaign. >> we cannot put the country on a hold, saying that conditions are not met, we cannot have elections, and while the government has a responsibility to hold those elections and to make sure elected officials are being replaced by elected officials, because we need to stop the cycle of transition. yamiche: do you think that it will hurt the democracy of haiti if, after the elections, a large number of people, including civil society, don't see the elections credible? >> listen, that this is what we unfortunately, we have seen for

the last 25 years since we've been -- even more than that, since we started to enter the democratic process. elections in haiti always contested. you will always have people who get 1% of the vote and they say that they stole their votes. judy: a college basketball legend is retiring. duke university coach mike krzyzewski, often called coach k, will end his four-decade-plus coaching career after next season. he is the winner of five national titles and the winningest coach in division one men's basketball history. he's won olympic gold medals for usa basketball. and has been to the ncaa tournament and the final four more than any other coach.

some perspective now from a sportswriter who has interviewed him and covered him for years, john feinstein. he's written multiple books on college hoops and profiled him in his book, "the legends club." john, welcome back. so, what does that mean that mike krzyzewski is going to step back after this next season? john: well, to say it's the end of an era is a vast understatement. as you said at the end of next year he will have coached at duke for 42 years. he's won more games than any division i college coach in history. but he is so much more than that. he has always stood for the right things about the sport. there is so much that is not right about -- about big-time college athletics. but he stood for the right things. he is an incredibly loyal person. i speak first on that subject. the thing many people will not

remember is after three years at duke, when he was 38 and 47, most duke alumni and boosters wanted him fired. and the athletic director who had stood by him, gave him a contract extension the next year , and literally the rest is history. judy: i will be candid, this is one of those stories i cannot profess to be fair about because i went to duke university and i am certainly a fan of him and duke basketball. what is it about coach k? what made him the successful coach that he has been? john: there are several things. first of all, he was always ahead of the curve in terms of figuring out ways to have close relationships with his players. early on in his years at duke when a recruit would visit campus, mikeould get on a plane and fly back home with them, because he wanted to be one-on-one with him after his visit, and to understand how he

felt about duke and also understand how his players felt about the recruit. the ncaa literally changed the rules so as not to allow that after a while. but mike again was ahead of the curve there. the other thing is i do not think i have ever met anyone in sports who learned that her from his mistakes than mike krzyzewski did. remember, he went to west point. when you are up leave at west point you're only allowed three answers when an upperclassman speaks to you. yes sir, no sir, and no excuse or. when his teams failed, it was on him, never anyone else. when duke lost to unlv in the 1990 national championship by 30 points, the largest margin in history, a year later they came back and beat that same unlv team to win his first national championship. he was always looking at failure

as a way to lead to success. i am not sure that many people do that. one other thing i will mention, jay bill as he was the starting center on his first great team in 1986, went on to be an assistant coach for mike while he was in law school. he said when he listened to him talk to hisoaches, planning, preparing, whatever it was, it occurred to him that all the wins were no accident. that this guy was the smartest guy in the room. he never had the need to tell you he was the smartest guy in the room, but he was the smartest guy in the room. judy: as mike krzyzewski steps away after this next season, what is it that college basketball doesn't have any more? john: they don't have the go to guy when it comes to answering questions on important issues, when it comes to guidance for the sport. i am not talking about winning games, i am talking about how can we fix college basketball,

which needs fixing. my kids made a lot of suggestions over the last 10 years. some have been listen to, some have not. he is the first guy people turn to. that is w they call him coach k. i always like to remind him i knew him when he was just mike. there will be a vacuum there regardless of who becomes duke's next coach or how much he win. there is only one mike krzyzewski. unique is a very overused word in sports, but it fits him. judy: john feinstein on a man who is truly a legend, coach krzyzewski stepping down. thank you. john: my pleasure. it's an emotional issue for me, too. i know how you feel. judy: thank you. tough day for all of us duke fans. and that's "the newshour" for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. thank you, please stay safe, and we will see you soon. >> major funding for the "pbs newshour" has been provided by.

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