♪ judy: good evening. i am judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, insurrection aftermath. the senate releases its report on the security failures during the january 6th assault on the capitol by a violent mob of trump supporters. then, the migration message. the vice president discusses the biden administration immigration agenda in central america as the region struggles with rampant corruption. and rethinking college, as calls for free tuition at the nation's community colleges grow louder , the benefits and drawbacks of the idea become more apparent. all that and more on tonigh's pbs newshour.

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intelligence and security failures leading up to an on the day of the attack, as well as a list of recommendations. we will talk with one of the key senators behind the report. but first, lisa desjardins is here with me now to walk us through it. lisa, this report is representing views from both political parties, we know. give us the gist of what it says. lisa: that's important. let's get right to it. this focuses on the security failures of the day. one of the things that it found was that capitol police did have the intelligence they had seen numerous postings online about potential violence including bring a gun, for example. but the police did not share that widely and did not make the correct assessment. also something that i had not seen before, that the pentagon from interviews with the former chief and chairman of joint chiefs of staff, said the pentagon actually wanted to lock down d.c. two days before

january 6 because they were concerned and that idea was rejected. guard, we know the problems with the communication there. the request did not go through and when it did go through, it was delayed. the national guard did not arrive at the us capitol until after the capital itself was secured. one of the 20 recommendations in this report is that the capitol police be able to call upon the national guard on their own. right now police are overseen by what some believe is an antiquated board of three people who are appointed by congress . they are slow to act. and it is notable. something that is not in this report, this report does not recommend any changes to that board structure. and capitol police believe they can't do their job better until that structure changes. something else not in this report is president trump any role he played on that day, and that is because the whole

purview of this report was limited toecurity failures on that day. liz: he is not mentioned. have any of the concerns outlined in this report been addressed so far, and what is thought to be thstate of readiness right now at the capitol? judy: capitol police responded to the report and they said there was actually intelligence. they say they are trying to spread communications better in a way that will help them connect the dots better. otherwise, there is offense still around the capitol buildingut everything else historically is about the same as it was on january 6. national guard has now left. and the fencing and the future of security at the capitol is unknown because lawmakers themselves have not decided how much they want to spend. lawmakers' own indecision is not just symbolic but is a factor in this oversight of the capitol

and the security problems there. one other issue is that it is not well-known. when i talk to capitol police officer's, i know some who have left since january 6 and they say they are not just shortstaffed, but very shortstaffed. even if the capitol could open for health reasons, they say they don't have the personnel to do it. judy: lisa desjardins, thank you for the reporting. we appreciate it. and we hear now from a democratic senator, amy klobuchar of minnesota. she chairs the rules committee which released today's report in a joint effort with the homeland security committee and she joins us now from capitol hill. senator klobuchar, welcome back. what would you say were the main failures outlined in this report. sen. klobuchar: the first was echoed in the haunting words of one of the officers who said over the radio, "does

anybody have a plan? " there was no preparation despite the fact that he had reports on social media people posting maps of the underground tunnels. the number one thing, no preparation, no plan for where the officers were stationed. this is not the fault of the front-line officers, they did their jobs. this is the leadership of the capitol police. you start with the fact that you have the officers, 75% in plainclothes. one of the platoons was not able to access their equipment because it was locked in a bus so they could oy look at it through the window. you have situations where only 10% of them had disturbance training. you had 300 intelligence units within the capitol police and that should the combined. on the outside, fbi reports that were coming in did not get

enough information to the high-level people in the capitol police. as was noted, the department of defense tk quite a while for them to get the national guard over. . all in all, we made 20 recommendations. we have to act on them immediately. it was our job to investigate, yes, enter come up with some recommendations. it was important they be bipartisan. judy: how confident are you that the fixes that need to be made will be made? sen. klobuchar: the ones out of this report, i feel good about that. we need a new police chief. i was listening to lisa's excellt reporting, much more in-depth than other reports i have heard, because she gets the fact that some of these changes just have not been made. you have understaffed department. you need a new police chief. this board has to make a decision about that police chief and we hope that is very soon. two new sergeants at arms have

been installed with vast experience and the others replaced, that is a good beginning. and we have to get equipment and resources to the officers. one thing i will not about the capitol police board, a good first step would suggest which is to give the police chief the authority to be able to call up the national guard without calling three people and desperately trying to reach them in the middle of an insurrection, that is one of the most absurd of many things that happened that should never have occurred. judy: so part of lisa's reporting was that the concern is right now that if there were another attack on the capitol of this magnitude, you might not be ready. the capitol security system might not be ready. is that your take as well? sen. klobuchar: the state of the union, you there saw the excellent security there there. there has been a new hire a maid

who has handled these kinds of events before. but there is more that needs to be done, we know that. our focus was on that security to convince our fellow senators and work with the house to get this data through the appropriations process for funding and also to make some other changes. there could be changes to the capitol police board as lisa has pointed out. they need to put a new chief in place first. judy: you have been in favor of a commission created, and independent outside commission to look at what happened on january 6. do you still think that is necessary after this report? sen. klobuchar: i think it is more necessary. our goal was singularly focused on the security and the failures of intelligence, but there is so much more that must be uncovered -- systematic issues, the rise of white supremacism, what got us to where we are. . that's why i strongly support the commission even before we entered and presented this

report. judy: another major issue you are involved in his voting rights. we saw the announcement over the weekend by your fellow democratic senator joe manchin that he will oppose the big voting rights bill that is in the senate. without his support, the conventional wisdom is that is dead. how do you see it? sen. klobuchar: i have been talking with senator manchin both before his announcement during and afterwards -- well, not during it -- and it has been my impssion that he has said he will give me a list of things, give one to senator schumer, of things he wants to see in a bill. he has voiced support for the john lewis voting rights act, which is very important to pass as well. but my argument is this -- we have seen over 300 bills introduced across the country to limit people's right to vote, take away their freedom to vote and they are not going to stop.

they passed major bills in georgia and florida and in other states. that is the argument that we are making right now and there are many changes that i made to the for the people act that would have moderated the bill in response to some of the issues raised by senator manchin and the west virginia secretary of state. . the manager's amendment was a major amendment making it easier for rural areas. it had the support of mark warner and angus king. unfortunately the republicans voted it down. but it is still there. , along with other changes that we can make. senator manchin will have to put forth his ideas because this is a good bail and i am not going to give up the fight. judy: but without significant changes in that bill, paring it down significantly, the expectation is that there will not be an end to this filibuster rule. so the question is, how do you get this done?

sen. klobuchar: senator manchin has, in the past, indicated that he would look at a standing filibuster. i guess if you look at the piece that he wrote this weekend, you could say that would in his words, i suppose, strengthen the filibuster. my argument is that these guys, if we are not going to abolish the filibuster, which i favor, because i want to get stuff done and i am sick and tired of this and people many plating the process, then at least make them stand and argue that we should not be giving water to voters in line, or that we should not be making it easier for people to vote in the safe way that they want to vote. make them stand and do it. he has still not precluded that. i think that would be one way to go along with working with him, listening to his concerns, and making changes to the bill. like i said, there were significant changes made in the manager's amendment, supported

by all the senators on the committee, including moderate senators, and the independent angus king, that republicans voted that down. that is a good place to start. judy: you are saying you believe right now that there is a chance this can be revived that you can get senator manchin to agree to something that is a different looking bill? sen. klobuchar: of course, i do, or i would not be saying it to you. i believe strongly in voting rights and people stood in line in milwaukee in garbage bags with homemade masks just to exercise their right to vote. people in texas had to deal with one ballot box drop off place in harris county, texas, with 5 million people. these are outrageous stories that went on around the country. yet 8 million more people voted. we have seen a joe biden wing by that many votes. you have seen record turnout in the middle of a pandemic because they cared about voting.

instead of simply changing their policies and reaching out, republicans have said it will make it harder for people to vote. reverend warnock said it best in his maiden speech when he said, "some people don't want some people to vote." ." that is exactly what is going on here and why i will not give up this fight for freedom to vote and put in place things to get the dark money out of our politics and finally get something done on ethics reform. democrats and republicans across the country support provisions in this bill by overwhelming margins including in west virginia and that is the case we will be making. this is a bipartisan bill. democrats and republicans want to see it happen. judy: finally, on the loss of your father. sen. klobuchar: thank you so much. ♪

>> i am stephanie sy a at newshour west. we will return to judy woodruff and the full show after the latest headlines. the biden administration's family unification task force has identified more than 900 children who were separated from your parents at the u.s.-mexico border under the trump administration's zero-tolerance policy. more than 1700 have been reunited with apparent more than 2100 have not. the white house says the lack of data has slowed reunification efforts. >> everybody wants it to go faster, everybody wants these kids to be reunified with family members and with verified family members, that we are working with a challenging issue related to data that we knew would be the case from the beginning. stephanie: the biden administration will review the cases of 1700 children to see if there were also separated under the zero-tolerance policy.

we on president biden's immigration policy later in the program. the results of a 16-country sting operation after criminals planned drug deals and killings on the messaging app secretly run by the fbi. more than 300 gangs used the app. it led to 300 arrests as well as seizures of 32 turns of drugs and more than $148 million. united nations judges upheld a genocide conviction against the former bosnian serb military chief, at 79-year-old who had been convicted of crimes against humanity during the balkan nations' war fro1992-1995. he will spend the rest of his life in prison. colonial pipeline's chief executive today defended his company's response to a ransomware attack last month. he told the panel that

russian-based hackers breached their network through an account of that was only protected by a similar password. he said paying the ransom was the hardest decision of his career, but the right move end fuel shortages. >> it was our understanding that the decision was ours as a private company to make the decision of whether to pay or not to pay. considering the consequences of potentially not bringing the pipeline back on as quickly as i could, i choose the option to make the ransom payment. stephanie: the justice department was able to rover much of the $4.4 million ransom payment after receiving -- seizing a virtual bit quiet used by the hackers. infrastructure talks between president biden and senator r over. the senator said the president broke off negotiations today after being unable to reach a deal over his proposed jobs and

infrastructure package. white house press secretary jen psaki said the president is shifting his strategy by reaching out to a bipartisan group of senators, crafting an alternate proposal. the senate passed sweeping bipartisan legislation to boost the tech industry amidst growing competition from china. the boat was 68-32. the roughly $250 billion bill will invest in semiconductor manufacturing, artificial intelligence research, robotics, and other technologies. president biden hailed its passage and said he is looking forward to signing it into law as soon as possible. the biden administration is also forming a task force to address disruptions in the semiconductor construction, transportation, and agriculture sectors. it aims to boost domestic manufacturing. we will look at this and's the senate big china bill after the

new summary. the u.s. center for disease control and preventn eat restrictions for more than 100 countries and territories today including japan, host of the upcoming olympics. meanwhile, pfizer expanded testing its covid vaccine in children younger than 12, giving them lower doses of the shot. in economic news, the labor department reported a surge in applications. they were more than 338,000 in april. also in april, the u.s. trade deficit narrowed, as stronger economic growth led to more sales of american exports. only two states hold gubernatorial elections this year. in one of them, virginia, longtime democratic terry mcauliffe has won the nomination. he previously served as virginia's governor from 2014-2018, but state law prevented him from seeking a consecutive term.

he will face the republican nominee in the november election. still to come on the newshour, the vice president discusses the administration's immigration agenda in central america. calls for free tuition at the nation's community colleges grow louder. and a songwriter helps workers process the pandemic through music. >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington, and in the west, from the water cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: this evening, the u.s. senate on a rare bipartisan basis, is passing a major piece of legislation designed to counter china and its global influence. the roughly $200 billion measure is also one of the largest eces of industrial legislation ever to make its way through congress, though it still needs

to be reconciled with a house version. stephanie sy has more. stephanie: the senate bill invests billions in innovation and critical technologies, many of which the chinese government has made a top priority for years. earlier, the biden administration announced it was taking steps to ensure the u.s has its own supply of essential products and components, many of which are today manufactured in china. this is aimed at boosting the u.s.'s competiteness with the world's second-largest economy. nick, what steps did the white house take, and how did they fit in with the bill the senate is voting on? nick: this is the white house and congress making a statement saying that in order to take on china, the u.s. must focus on itself. the white house pretty fortune supply chain assessment identified four areas of focus starting with semiconductors, then batteries, as well as critical minerals. think about rare earth's that

end up in cell phones, and pharmaceuticals, as well. these are many of beijing's priorities. the administration is trying to address the vulnerabilities in supply chains, many of which covid exposed, and also strengthened u.s. resilience. then in the senate, the u.s. innovation and competition act, one of the largest industrial bills, invests tens of billions of dollars in a key technology-focused areas, basically reenergizing high-tech research and development. it boosts semiconductor manufacturing and makes diplomatic statements -- a ban on u.s. diplomats going to the beijing 2022 olympics, also another call for a covid origins investigation. the sum of the parts today, once again, and attempt to make the u.s. stronger in order to take china on. stephanie: and the bill is expected to pass the senate tonight with bipartisan approach

but what the critics say about this approach to china? nick: beijing is the top critic, who says thiss evidence the u.s. is trying to contain china. on the hill, senior republicans say thbill was rushed through and therefore, is not as strong as it should be because it contains internal contradictions. in the house, progressive democrats say the bill is to anti-china, and members of the foreign affairs committee are already changing language on taiwan and beijing. we talked to conservative and libertaria groups who say they said it should not be in the business of choosing what research scientist dos that called the bill protectionist. in this polarized moment, this is a bipartisan statement that reflects the administration's arguments that the u.s. cannot only go on defense with china, cannot only call out and

punished chinese behavior, it also needs to go on offense and stay competitive i in its technology and needs to get its house in order. stephanie: and obviously some agreement that the federal government should subsidize some of those technology companies, which is a shift. nick, thank you. nick: thank you. ♪ judy: vice president kamala harris is wrapping up her first trip to mexico. she earlier visited guatemala, and update to stem migration from countries of the so-called northern triangle -- guatemala, honduras, and el salvador. nick schifrin is back with a look at the trip, and the thorny issues she and the administration are trying to manage. nick: in mexico city this morning, a united front, flanked by vice president harris, the

mexican president, the u.s. and mexico agreed to help develop the so-called northern triangle, home to 65% of migrants who try and make it to the u.s.. v.p. harris: the united states and mexico will build a long-standing relationship. nick: mexico and the u.s. don't always agree on tactics but they share the goal of reducing migration. the northern triangle has homicide rates amongst the highest in the world. poverty, the region is among the poorest in the western hemisphere. in guatemala, the country has the world's sixth highest rate of chronic meditation, and so far this year more unaccompanied guatemalans have attempted to enter the u.s. than any other country. >> the president and i also discussed the root causes, in rticular the lack of economic opportunity for many people here in guatemala. nick: harris spent yesterday with the guatemalan president, whom she has -- with the

guatemalan president. whom she is not meeting on this trip reveals another cause. the hundred and president is considered by u.s. law enforcement it keep layer in drug trafficking. and the salvadoran president is considered increasingly authoritarian. in guatemala, harris announced a u.s. anticorruption task force and said better governance can convince families to stay home. >> hope must be coupled with relationships of trust. it must be coupled with tangible outcomes in terms of what we do as leaders. >> the question is no longer what can we do for the hemisphere? it is what can we do with countries in the hemisphere togeth? nick: harris isn't the first vice president to try and tackle root causes. when he was vice president, joe biden presented the u.s. as a partner to tackling the same issues and, many of those issues have become more intractable. on this trip, harris had a more immediate message.

>> i want to be clear to folks who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the u.s.-mexico border -- do not come. do not come. nick: border patrol is detaining more people at the u.s.-mexico border than at any point in 20 years. republicans criticize the biden administration for ending trump-era programs, and criticize harris for not visiting the border, which she tried to deflect today. >> you have not been to the border. >> and i have not been to europe. i don't understand the point you are making. i am not discounting the importance of the border. nick: that biden administration describes its border policy as more humane. today it revealed that from july 1, 2017 to january 20, 2021, 3913 children were separated from their families. 45% have been confirmed reunited. harris admits there will not be

a quick fix to this problem >> we have to look at not only what is actually happening at the border, but what is causing that to happen. nick: for more, i am joined by eduarcdo gamarra, a political science professor and has served as consultant to several heads of government in the americas. welcome to the newshour. this is not a new approach, trying to tackle the root causes of migration. you think there's anything that distinguishes vice president harris's approach from previous attempts? eduardo: i think the fact that the causes are recognized at the beginning is something new and that we are not dealing with a quick wrist wants, trying to get more than anything, a political response to this crisis. addressing the root causes is important as a policy statement. the problem is that the root causes cannot be solved overnight, they can't be solved during one administration. as we know, this goes even as

far back as president reagan. nick: the vice president has talked a bit about the private sector emphasizing that but a the end of the day, this approach requires working with the governments of the northern triangle. are those governments reliable partners? eduardo: well the fact is that democracy in central america is facing some very serious challenges. it has challenges that are both structural and, as we might say in spanish, conjunctoral -- they are crises of the moment, from climate change, problems of violence, low growth, and the pandemic. on top of that you have declining confidence in government. declining confidence in institutions and declining confidence, above all, in the politicians governing those countries. nick: more specifically, she

chose guatemala because basically it was the only government that she could be seen with. are there people in guatemala who will work with her compared to some of the real problems at the very top that we have seen in honduras and el salvador? eduardo: guatemala has a private-sector president who has made some overtures to the united states and who has been at least open enough to aow the vice resident to arrive therend even push the idea that the assistance to guatemala should not be to the government, but to the private sector and to civil society. nick: do you think these leaders, whether guatemala, honduras, or el salvador, are willing to achieve the structural reforms that we know are necessary to tackle the root causes? eduardo: to address those structural reforms, what needs to occur is a long-term

investment by the united states and others. this is not something that those countries have the capacity to do. structural reform means, for example, creating productive economies. to create that, you need investment primarily from the american revit sector or the europeans. that will not occur if the conditions are not right. nick: this discussion that the vice president is focused on is all well and good, but if you will tackle the immediate crisis of migrants at the border now, that biden administration needs to do better to enforce a u.s. law to create a deterrence. you agree? eduardo: i agree, and i think the vice president went down there with that message. don't come to the u.s. because we in fact do not have open borders. yet at the same time we do have a crisis and people keep coming. so there is a need to address those structural issues that are generating this enormous move of

people all the way from venezuela. they are coming up and using central america to arrive in the united states. but, at the same time, we also need to work with those government in those countries and develop better ways to enforce immigration law there and immigration law here. nick: i wonder if there is another approach that the u.s. can also focus on to try and achieve this relationship vice president has talked about, and that is covid vaccines, something that she has discussed with every leader bahati i think this is an opportunity for the united states. the u.shas essentially lost the leadership in latin america the last couple of decades, and i think that covid pandemic gives the united states a unique opportunity to regain leadership , and beginning in central america might be the right place

to do it. nick: thank you very much bahati pleasure. eduardo: pleasure. ♪ judy: now to the debate over providing free tuition in community college. 17 states already do so. existing programs cover tuition for many students. but president biden wants to make that happen nationwide. his plan starts with $109 billion to cover full tuition. states would be asked to match one dollar for every three dollars allocated in federal money. his plan also includes an $85 billion investment in pell grant for students in need at both two-year and four-year colleges.

and there is another $62 billion for resources to help students complete their degree, money for tutoring, for example. we will get different takes over the next two for oureries on rethinking college. to begin, i am joined by the former secretary of education under george w. bush, and the former head of the university of north carolina. she is now president and ceo of to access 2036, a policy group tonight texas successful after its bicentennial. mmargaret spellings, welcome back to the newshour and thank you for joining us. you're looking at something president biden said when making his proposal --, "it is not enough to restore where we were before the pandemic, we need to build a stronger economy that does not leave anyone behind." what about that rationale for this? nick: it makes all the sense in the world, and i commend him for investing in higher education.

we know that most of the jobs of today and certainly the future require higher levels of education. right now we are falling short of having all of our people with the skills needed to really access the economy. at the top line, i really commend that goal. judy: let me go beyond that, then. because what the president has pointed out, that what the people who advocate for this point of, is that the people who benefited from community college are people at the lower end of the income scale. in other words, it is a way to target those individuals who had the least opportunity in the past. there has been an acumen for putting this kind of money into it? nick: and we know that -- margaret: we know that the majority of our students are taking remedial education. levels of basic literacy and math that should have been learned in high school.

sadly, our completion rate toward an associates degree for a meaningful credential are not very encouraging at community colleges. and when students are well matched, they do tter in comprehensive universities, like our minority-serving institutions, hbcus. i am a fan of the pell grant. . one of the great assets of american higher education is the ability for a student to take that purchasing power to a state that suits them. it can be a community college, but is not necessarily. judy: why not go ahead and gave one of these individuals, i looked at the number, something like 94% of the total family income on averageas gone towards education for the most disadvantaged students. why not direct the money to those who need it the most? margaret: because often, they will be better off with a comprehensive university, like

an hbcu. they will be on track to complete and have a trajectory to a livelihood that frankly often does not exist when students are educated in community colleges. to many of our students in community colleges are taking basic education, which is just literacy and math, not that they don't need that, but we need to empower consumers with information and purchasing power to go where they see fit, including cabeza colleges. judy: the administration has shared a number of studies that show this kind of outside financial aid does help students toward completing their two-year degree. so this would be a way for those students can't go, for whatever reason, to historically black college, which you have mentioned, or to another four-your instituti, it gets them off to a solid beginning. margaret: that is why 17 states, have invested in that.

but there is also states who have invested in additional supports for 4-year institutions, technical schools, other types of institutions. in terms of bipartisan support, i think there will be a lot of support for the pell grant. but let's be agnostic about the kinds of places that students might select -- adult learners, those going straight from high school to really chart their own path. what we really need is information for students to understand what are they getting out of those community colleges? are they a ticket to a good job or not? judy: is your argument that it is a waste of money? margaret: not at all. my argument is give students financial support, those who need it the most, throughout pell grant, and allow them to chart a path around their own needs, including community

colleges. but let's not limit it to community colleges. judy: well, as we reported, there is a lively debate around these issues. thank you for joining us. margaret: thank you, judy. judy: tomorrow night, we will hear the case for providing free community college from another former secretary of education, john king, who served under president obama. ♪ as covid cases are dropping in most parts of the u.s., many frontline workers are reckoning with how the pandemic impacted their lives. it turns out that a few medical professionals are collaborating with grammy-nominated singer and songwriter mary goucher, to leave their profound experiences

into song. our special correspondent from gbh boston reports that the artist will release a new book in july. he says the effort to make these caregivers whole could not be more important. the story is part of our ongoing arts and culture coverage, "canvas." reporter: this is a moment to heal the healers. five members of the emergency department at this hospital gather on zoom to write a song. >> michael to do with you today is to get what is going on and find a common thread that we all share. >> they will revisit what they described as the most chaotic and uncertain year of their lives, contending with the virus . walking them through it is national based singer and songwriter mary gauthier.

>> kind of throw some words out or experience out. >> it was a year of a lot of dualities. we were close but we were supposed to be alone. >> remember walking on the hill and thinking, give me the courage to get me through this day. >> a lot of us are in some ways said that the fact that it will never go back to normal. >> that is a good place to start. i resonate with the it ll never be normal again. jared: the effort is called "frontline songs." it has been happening throughout the country as health-care workers process the pandemic through music. >> the process is therapeutic in the sense that people are coming together as a group. jared: a physician specializing in trauma is helping.

>> when they are reflected back to them and there is that validation through a song, it can be powerful. >> i always say that songs are what feelings sound like. jared: after decades of recovery, songwriting and nine studio records mary gauthier is a testamento the healing power of music. >> when dealing with trauma, we can feel removed. jared: what is it music can do to help? >> melody is powerful. it comes into our ears and radiates through our heart and soul. i think it is a matter of feeling seen. jared: back in the songwriting session the memories continue and begin to coalesce. >> because we all experienced the hero is an aspect in the beginning, but then after a certain number of months when everyone got used to it, it we became people who were exposed other time. you wanted to change scraps so that when you left the hospital, people wouldn't say areou

carrying it? >> so they called us heroes, we were looked up to and revered. then we were looked to as contaminated, removed and feared jared: was it therapy? >> it became therapy. jared: we spoke with the chief resident after the session. they sometimes songwriter himself, he says the process was a revelation. >> to really step back and say, oh my gosh, i didn't know you experienced that, in connection to that has made me appreciate how hard it is to wake up every day to be a great human and be a great colleague, but then also have your own personal experiences. jared: that is a refrain gauthier has heard before. she collaborated with war veterans for her 2018 album, stemming from a similarly minded program, songwriting with soldiers. ♪ jared: how did that begin to shape your approach to this and what you really gleaned from

that. >>. >> i think learning how to listen, learning how to not insert myself in the story, i have no more experience as a soldier than i do as an emergency room doctor. jared: does it ever become hard to ask these questions? >>? >> there is a line. i can tell by feeling it out where to be really careful. ♪ >> ♪ and springtime is a parnas ♪ jared: suddenly a tailwind. and anthem emerges as the group steers the song into a hoped-for return to normalcy. ♪ >> i listened to her play the cards and she switched it up and really found the essence of what we were all looking for but did not know. that was her brilliance. jared: in under two hours the group finishes the song.

>> ♪ on the bedside ♪ jared: like other frontline songs, it has been recorded by gauthier to live online for the public, and to be an enduring marker for its collaborators. >> event if i have to try to get through it, it is a way for me to identify and process how i am feeling. ♪ >> wow! >> that was really nice. jared: for the pbs newshour i am jared bowen in boston, massachusetts. judy: we look forward to her book. we will be back shortly with exciting stories to engage with online. but first, take a moment to hear from your local pbs

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