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possible the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. judy: on this, the final day of its term, the u.s. supreme court issued major decisions on some of the most consequential topics, especially as the debate over voting rights continues in congress and in the states. the decisions also put the court's new 6-to-3 conservative majority in the spotlight. john yang reports. john: judy, in one of the most closely watched cases of the court's term, the justices split along ideological lines to narrow the scope of the landmark voting rights act of 1965, just as states are putting new voting restrictions in place. the court upheld two arizona laws that the democratic party says discriminate against minority voters. marcia coyle is chief washington correspondent of the national law journal. tammy patrick of the non-partisan democracy fund was as an arizona elections official

for more than a decade. tammy patrick, what are these arizona laws that were being challenged, and what is the argument that they are discriminatory? >> the first law had to do with provisional ballots being voted out of precinct and that commonly occurs when a voter moves and then returns to their previous voting location, where they don't live any longer. that requires a provisional ballot. some states allow you to cast a provisional ballot and they will count the portion of it you are eligible for. other states throw out the ballot entirely and won't count any of it. part of the challenge is that in arizona there were almost 1500 of those last year and across the country there are tens of thousands of voters who don't have their votes counted for president or statewide offices because they went to the wrong polling place. this disproportionately affects voters who move frequently or those who are i locations where they don't have good addressing,

like tribal registration -- registration -- reservatns. those same voters are impacted by the second law that has to do with ballot collection. this limits the options on how voters can successfully return their ballots. we know the postal service recommends you put your ballot in the mail a week before election day, so if it is three or four days before the election you need to get the ballot in and if you live in a remote or rural location, you may not have a dropbox and you can't mail it back. those voters are impacted negatively because they don't have the ability to turn it over to a trusted source to turn their ballots in for them and have it count. john: marcia, what did the courts say about the challenges to these laws? >> we should say what section two actually is in the voting rights act and that is the section that prohibits any voting procedure that results in

or has the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race. you violate that section based on the totality of circumstances that show racial minorities have less opportunity than other voters to participate in the political process. what the majority did, led by justice alito, was to take that language, the totality of circumstances in section two, and he created a list of factors, five of them. the court should consider when they are faced with section two violations. to give you a couple of those, consider how significant the disparity of voting is. there has to be a significant disparity in order to make out a section two violation. he said the courts have to consider the states' interest in

enacting that voting procedure. he said a state's interest is particularly strong and significant if they are trying to prevent voter fraud. and consider the size othe burden on the racial minority voter. all voting schemes he said put a burden on almost all voters. but consider how big a burden is this? this was the problem that the dye centers, led by justice kagan, had. they said there was nothing in the text, the section two, that lent itself to these factors, these five factors that the majority was creating, and all of these factors according to justice kagan worked against the challenger, predated new burdens for those who want to challenge -- created new burdens for those who want to challenge discriminatory to -- voting. john: what does this say or what

can we infer about future challenges to voting restrictions? >> i think it is generally believed that they will make it much harder to bring section two violations, and that is important because in 2013, the supreme court in a 5-4 decision by the chief justice struck down section four of the voting rights act and that section was a formula for determining which voting practices by states that had a past history of voting discrimination had to have their procedures pre-cleared by a federal court or the department of justice. what was left with section two, basically? now, with this majority opinion, there is a feeling that, or a belief that it is going to put more hurdles in place for those who want to challenge what appear to be racially

discriminating voting practices. john: given the new restrictions that state legislatures around the country are debating, what is the significance of today's ruling? >> the significance is that it can give validation for some of the states that have restrictive laws on the books, those who are looking to implement restrictive laws, and also potential encouragement for other states to rollback more expansive policies. there is a question around doj enforcement of section two and i think to myself and others, it really does further the argument and the stance that we need to have a vibrant voting rights act in order to maintain some semblance of protection for voters across the country. john: marcia, there was another six-three decision today with the six conservatives on one side, and the court struck down a california regulation that requires charities to disclose

their funders, donations, who gives the money. this was brought by two conservative advocacy groups. next year, this fall, the court has said it will hear cases on gun rights and abortion. they have a pending request to hear a case about affirmative action in college admissions. could we be seeing more of this 6-3 division incoming cases? >> i think if the court has on the docket next term abortion, race, and guns, yes, these are areas where they can be very divisive and in which they may have a very difficult time crafting the narrow kinds of decisions that we saw this term that resulted in cross-ideological alignments of the justices. but remember, these are certain types of cases that do divide them, and i think the voting

rights case more than the first amendment case today is that type of a case. otherwise, we just have to wait and see. john: the last day of the court's term, traditional day to watch for retirement announcements, everybody has been watching justice stephen breyer. >> i think justice breyer is well aware of all the debate that is going on and the political considerations that are being talked about, and i just say it is totally up to justice breyer and he will make the decision when he feels he is ready to. john: wise words from marshall -- marcia coyle and tammy patrick. >> thanks, john. ♪ vanessa: i'm vanessa ruiz at newshour west, in for stephanie sy. we'll return to judy woodruff and the full show after the latest headlines. an indictment in new york

charged the trump organization and its finance chief with what prosecutors called sweeping and audacious tax fraud. they quickly pleaded not guilty to paying executives with off-the-books benefits. former president trump himself was not charged. we'll get details after the news summary. attorney general merrick garland has ordered a moratorium on federal executions while the justice department reviews death penalty procedures. in the memo, garland said he had concerns about the death penalty, including "arbitrariness in its application, disparate impact on people of color, and the troubling number of exonerations." after a 17-year hiatus, the trump administration carried out 13 executions in 6 months, more than any president in the last 120 years. rescue crews in surfside, florida, resumed work this evening after a 15-hour halt at a collapsed condominium tower. workers suspended the search for

fear the remaining structure might cave in. they cited growing cracks and movement in a large column. president biden met traveled to -- president biden traveled to florida to meet with first responders and families of t victims. >> the whole nation is mourning with these families. they see it every day on television. they're going through hell, those who survived the collapse as well as those who are missing loved ones. our message today is that we're here for you as one tion. vanessa: this evening, miami-dade county mayor daniella va said officials are in the planning stages of the likley demoliton of the remaining structure. the disaster one week ago has left at least 18 people dead, with 145 others still missing. the heat wave scorching the pacific northwest and western canada has claimed more victims. the death toll in oregon climbed to 79.

many victims were elderly, found alone in homes with no air conditioning or fans. the extreme conditions helped fuel a wildfire that wiped out most of lytton, a small town of 250 people in british columbia. residents fled just ahead of the flames late wednesday. the boy scouts of america have reached an agreement with attorneys representing some 60,000 victims of child sex abuse. the agreement reportedly includes an $850 million settlement, according to two victim groups. attorneys for the boy scouts filed court papers today outlining a bankruptcy restructuring agreement with attorneys representing abuse victims. a new fight is brewing in the u.s. house of representtives over a select committee the january h capitol assault. republican liz cheney agreed today to serve on the democratically convened panel. she is a fierce critic of former president trump, and her appointment sparked a verbal

exchange between party leaders. >> another time, she will say her why and her purpose, but she has spoken very clearly about the committee, and that gives us great confidence that we'll be able to work in a nonpartisan way, for the people. >> it would be shocking to me, for anybody from a party on the other side to come and want to accept a position, democrat, for me, and it would be shokcing to -- shocking to me to have a republican go to speaker pelosi, of all people, to accept a commmittee assignemnt. vanessa: house speaker pelosi also named 7 democrats to the select committee. california's democratic governor, gavin newsom, will face a recall election on september 14th. state officials set the date today. discontent over newsom's handling of the pandemic has fueled the recall drive. in china, the ruling communist party celebrated its 100th anniversary with a military

spectacle and a warning. warplanes put on an aerial show over beijing as thousands sang and waved flags. and president xi jinping used blunt language to put the u.s. and other foreign critics on notice. >> the chinese people will absolutely not allow any foreign force to bully, oppress, or enslave us, and anyone who attempts to do so will face broken heads and bloodshed in front of the iron great wall of the 1.4 billion chinese people. vanessa: hg kong also marked an anniversary, of its return to chinese control in 1997. police deployed in large numbers, enforcing a ban on protests under a national security law that beijing has used to quell dissent. back in this country, the los angeles city council approved bans on homeless people camping on sidewalks, under overpasses,

and near parks. supporters said it's critical to getting 40,000 people off the streets. opponents called it draconian. there's a final vote later this month. the national football league find the washington football team $10 million today over sexual harassment and other issues. the team is not being stripped of draft picks but owner dan snyder will transfer day-to-day operations to his wife for the time being. and in economic news, new claims for unemployment benefits in the u.s. fell to a pandemic-low last week, at 364,000. it is the lowest since the pandemic began. still come on the "newshour," why prosecutors brght criminal charges against a top trump executive. the u.s. special envoy for peace in afghanistan discusses the impending troop withdrawal. we examine the state of the u.s. economy and more with the head of the international monetary

fund. and much more. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour fro wbt a studios in washingtoand in the west, from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: as we reported earlier, former president donald trump's company and its chief financial officer were iicted on fifteen criminal charges today for alleged tax crimes. yamiche alcindor looks at what it means for the company, and for the former president. yamiche: the 25-page indictment against the trump organization and cfo allen weisselberg alleges that since 2005, weisselberg evaded some $900,000 in taxes. it also says he did so with the help of the trump organization and its payroll corporation. to help us break down the charges, i'm joined by adam kaufmann. he formerly served as a prosecutor and chief of the investigative division in the

manhattan da's office, working with the current district attorney cyrus vance. thanks so much for being here. talk to me about the significance of weisselberg being charged today. what does this mean for former president trump and the trump organization? >> what does it mean for the president, the former president in the organization, it is a substantial blow. what we see here is the cfo of the organization being accused of not just receiving benefits, but also orchestrating the payment of tax fraud, orchestrating a tax fraud scheme over more than 10 years, resulting in the nonpayment of $1.7 million in taxes. so when we talked and taught about this earlier today, this indictment is a lot bigger and more severe than i anticipated

seeing today. yamiche: when you look at the 25 charges, it is false accusations, defrauding, it seems like this is calling the trump organization a criminal organization. >> it is certainly calling it a criminal tax fraud organization. that is literally what it has done. it is interesting, if you read the indictment, it really spells out the many different ways that the trump organization and mr. weisselberg organ it -- organize the tax fraud. it is not an unusual indictment. i know the soundbites coming out of the trump camp say this is unheralded, they have never seen such a thing, charging a corporation. the reality is, when i was running the investigation division, i probably authorized dozens or scores of indictments very similar to this one. what i see here that is unusual is almost the scope of the fraud

and the greed it represents. so you have the benefits, the nonpayment, or the payment, rather, of apartments, car and so forth. you have a lot of different ways tax fraud was committed. you have writing checks to employees from different trump organization's and catching -- cashing those and taking cash back. you have payment of year end bonuses. for some employees, declaring it down for other special employees, not declaring it. what is also interesting, and it speaks to the exact intent of tax evasion and tax fraud, is that internally, the trump organization and mr. weisselberg as cfo were keeping very careful track to deduct from mr. weisselberg's salary the value of the goods that he was receiving and the services he was receiving. so internally they are keeping track of it, but externally when

they go to the tax authority, they are not declaring it. so you really see a clear dichotomy because -- between, it is like the classic two sets of books which i think it is interesting. yamiche: president trump is calling this a witchhunt, his lawyers called today political prosecution. his lawyers say he will feel protected as long as he isn't charged. what does this tell us about the possibility of other people being charged, particularly the >> we really can't know the scope of the investigation at this point. there are a few things in the indictment that we can parse out that might give some idea. we see the indictment refers to mr. weisselberg and other executives in the trump organization. that is some indication there were others involved. we see the fact that tuition

payments, where it came from the donald j. trump trust, and it came -- it was signed by the former president himself. those are interesting little pieces. the other thing i noticed, and it is sort of in the weeds but if you look carefully at the indictment, the last three or four charges involve falsifying business records. that is a very common white-collar crime charge that prosecutors bring and it reflects creating some type of false entry in the records of the business. two or three of those charges are false tax records, which you would expect in a tax fraud case, false w-2s, 1099s, things like that. the final count in the indictment says that they destroyed a record, said they destroyed and obliterated a record in the donald trump personal ledger. to me, that charge really sort of stuck out from the rest

because it sort of pointed to something much more on an intimate level, a personal level between mr. trump and mr. weisselberg. so some clues there, but as far as the penn napoli of crimes we heard about, false valuations, stormy daniels, inflated valuations, false losses coming from international companies, there has been a lot out there that we haven't seen yet. the question is whether this investigation will go on to look at those, or of course, if it is done and they have looked at that and decided there was no criminal activity. there is a lot to be seen in the four months we still have to go in this grand jury term. yamiche: in the 10 seconds we have left, talk about where this might go next. i know grand jury investigations are secret but where might this go next? >> i just sort of laid out a bunch of other areas that i'm

sure the district attorney is still looking at, so i would expect them to keep going through the records, keep calling witnesses who might be able to shine some light on the scope of any criminal conduct in the organization, and of course who was involved. yamiche: thank you, adam, former prosecutor, we appreciate you coming on. ♪ judy: over the next few days, the u.s. will complete the withdrawal of most of its troops from afghanistan, after 20 years of war. nick schifrin talks with the man who leads the u.s.' diplomatic efforts in that country. nick: over the last 4 decades, few americans have helped shape afghan policy more than ambassador zalmay khalilzad. he was born in afghanistan, advised in president reagan's state department, was a presidential special envoy and then ambassador to afghanistan during the george w. bush

administration, and has been the special representative for afghan reconciliation, under the trump and biden administrations. ambassador khalilzad, welcome back to the newshour. the taliban across afghanistan has seized dozens of districts. the afghan army is ceding ground and sometimes surrendering. each of those variables existed before the u.s. announced the withdrawal but all of those variables are accelerating. even that, how do you justify the decision to withdraw? >> the withdrawal is based on an agreement that was signed almost two years ago. that agreement, and the timeline for withdrawal as part of a package that included commitments by the taliban not to attack the united states forces after the signing, to cooperate, not to allow the

afghan territory to be used by terrorists threatening the united states or our allies, and the start of inter-afghan negotiations for a new government as well as a cease fire. so the withdrawal was expected. it could have been conditional based on retuning -- reaching an agreement and a cease fire but ultimately, the president decided that it is best to conclude the withdrawal of our forces, and encourage the afghans, support the government to reach a negotiated agreement because we don't see a military solution to the problem. nick: we will talk about political negotiations and a second. that withdrawal is imminent, other than the u.s. troops that will stay at the airport to guard the embassy. yet there is still no finalized plan on how to maintain the

afghan air force, no finalized plan on how to secure the kabul airport, no plan on u.s. military support from neighboring countries. why not? >> well, we are working to address all of those issues. there is progress in securing an agreement with countries such as turkey to secure the airport. we are still there, so that has to be in place before we completely are out of their militarily, which will be in september, based on what the president has announced. two, we are also working with afghans to make sure they have the contracting services that they need to maintain their air force, and we are committed to achieving that before september. so we are dealing with those two

issues, and more. we are reorganizing our counterterrorism posture to have the access and the presence needed to monitor the situation in afghanistan and to be able to strike at terrorist targets, should that be necessary. nick: on the peace agreement, the taliban are winning on the battlefield. is the political process dead until the afghan army can make gains, or frankly, the taliban are at the gates of kabul? >> there are alternative futures. the best outcome would be to start negotiatio now. the talibs have to know, and we have said that to them, that if they take over afghanistan by force, they will forgo what they say they want, which is recognition and support and legitimacy. we also believe that the war will not end with the taliban

advances, because other afghans will resist them. there is the possibility that rather than two organized forces right now, the government and the taliban negotiating, that with the organization of new militias that are taking place, the situation could get more complicated rather than two organized forces negotiating peace. there could be a multiplicity of forces that could emerge as a result, making negotiations that much more difficult, increasing the prospect for a long war and for afghanistan's neighbors to come in on different sides, thus repeating the situation, as was the case in the 1990's, as you know, after the soviet departure. nick: the afghan government says negotiation with the taliban that you mentioned earlier, that called for the original withdrawal of u.s. forces by may 1, 2021, they say that sidelined

the afghan government and gave leverage to the taliban. at the time you were under incredible pressure from president trump to withdraw u.s. forces from afghanistan. in retrospect, didn't the taliban pocket u.s. concessions and never waver from their desire to advance on the battlefield? >> the taliban were not going to negotiate with the government before reaching an agreement with the united states. it would have been better, of course, if they had negotiated with the government, but 18, 19 years have passed and that didn't happen, so our agreement in fact with the taliban opened the door for historic inter-afghan negotiations, meaning the taliban and the government sitting across the table for the first time in years. besides, of course, the talibs agreed in terms of u.s. instrument -- interests not to

attack us. but it was a right to come to the defensive afghan forces, which was extraordinary that they agreed to that, but they did. as our forces had withdrawn, they so far haven't attacked those forces. but both sides need to be realistic. they need to find a solution that works for afghanistan. there is great pessimism that may be afghan won't come to an agreement but i hope that is not the case, because that would be a tragedy if they don't come to an agreement, and the long war becomes even longer and afghanistan's gains that have been made, the opportunities that have been provided by the united states and our allie would be put at risk. nick: ambassador, in the little time i have, a little more personally you have been involved as i mentioned at the top, with u.s.-afghan policy for decades. are you comfortable with what is happening now, and how do you

feel watching the news from afghanistan today? >> i'm not comfortable i'm unhappy that negotiations have not made the kind of progress they should have between the two sides in afghanistan. the continuation of the war is heartbreaking. i feel for the afghan people. i have not forgotten who i am or where i was born. but i am pleased, as a u.s. diplomat, to have the opportunity to assist afghans, achieve a comprehensive and lasting peace. nick: ambassador, thank you very much. >> thank you, nick. good to be with you. ♪ judy: even before the pandemic sent shock waves through the u.s. economy, innovation has always been a key to success in business. economics correspondent paul solman looks at one businessman

whose determination to locate his technology company far from silicon valley led to a new twist on a very old business model, the apprenticeship. it's part of our work shift series. >> my grandmother's not the type of woman you say no to. paul: 9 years ago, tech entrepreneur ankur gopal's 86 year old grandmother asked him for an iphone. >> i said, "grandma, why do you want an iphone? i'm downstairs, you're upstairs. just yell at me whenever you need something." paul: but he obliged. >> and sure enough, i was doomed to be her tech support. but as time went on, she became more comfortable with the technology, and very proud. so proud that when my friends would come over, she would look at them and say, "you have an iphone 3. i have an iphone 4." paul: to gopal, it was an epiphany. he could teach almost anyone to master modern technology. he's spent the years since proving the point, not in silicon valley, but in his

native state, whose economy he's been trying to transform. >> i came to kentucky, where my parents lived in owensboro, kentucky, and worked out of their basement. very cliche. paul: and the big idea? >> that we can solve skilling and growth problems, as well as the equity problem that we face in america, by creating jobs and skills for people that typically were left behind from the tech economy. paul: gopal's firm, which builds mobile apps for major corporations, is based in louisville, a city of 600,000 earnestly trying its own transformation. its main st. hotel, featuring in-your-face contemporary art from facade to front desk, from lobby to basement to bathrooms. just blocks away is interapt, which gopal staffed initially with college grads. >> but as we started seeking people to come move from boulder, colorado, new york, san francisco, to kentucky, we

realized was a hard sell. you know what? i'm just going to have to find people who like living here, and then scale them up. paul: and by people who like living here, he means those who already do. so he offered locals a simple coding test, with instructions. >> we took 50 people35 of them passed. 35 of them are still working the tech economy now. that's five years later. paul: interapt now employs about 300 people, and is expanding to other cities. and that's what makes this a story for the newshour's work shift series on jobs without college, a story that's attracted media from the new york times to the daily show, which sent comedian hasan minhaj -- >> its only brown correspondent. paul: to coal country, where he bonded with early interapt hire alex hughes. >> this is a really long time for a hug. >> it's okay. i'm here now. >> we actually had to do that three or four times -- bro, this is getting weird. but it was hilarious. it was a lot of fun. paul: but where hughes came from wasn't so funny. >> so when the coal industry went down, it had a massive

impact on the entire area. paul: including his business services firm, which went bust. >> so i had been unemployed for six months. paul: when he heard about interapt, looking for applicants. in his forties, hughes applied, and was accepted. didn't you think you might be aged out of coding? >> they were going to have to kick me out. paul: the training at interapt is based on two precepts, says gopal. >> number one, everyone has to pass. so we have to put in the time, hours, to make sure that there's no one left behind, and they all cross the finish line. paul: that's why interapt's program is 2,000 hours, a full year, qualifying it as a u.s. department of labor certified apprenticeship, and not just a coding camp. >> the second thing i said is that we've got to pay people while they learn, and not ask for any of this money back that we're investing in the training. because you can't expect someone to learn something hard, and take time out of life, if they're worried where their daughter's next meal is coming from. >> i'd always been interested in it. but, you know, i couldn't afford to go bk to school, because i had a family.

this control board here is our wifi connector. so that's what connects us to the network. paul: hughes now leads a team designing mobile apps for louisville-based g.e. appliances, a major interapt client. >> the phone talks to the cloud, then the cloud talks to this appliance, and we can make changes. paul: and the interapt apprentices have grown more diverse. >> i came into the program from a homeless shelter. paul: april hickman, raised in foster care, now in an actual apartment with her two youngest daughters, emergency housing arranged by gopal's staff. she had spotted a facebook ad for interapt's apprenticeship program while living in the shelter. >> i just kept googling until i actually found an application. somebody called me right back and said we had to kind of go through a coding test. paul: were you scared? >> i was nervous. i was crazy. paul: but she passed. >> and i was like, yes! and so i was soxcited, you know, like,

i was crying. i was like, yes! >> we started with a very rural population, then we went with 100% african-american population. same metrics, same results. the common thread between two people that you would think were very fundamentally different. they all had the drive. >> this was everything for us. this was our shot. even if we had to sleep in a trunk some daggone where, i was making it through that class. i was not giving up. paul: of all the foster kids you've known, given the same kind of opportunity, same kind of training, what percentage of them could do what you do? >> oh, gosh, a great number. because it's problem solving. and if there's one thing that we're good at, it's problem solving, because we've had to. >> with the ge appliance smart home -- paul: melanie trass, who manages client relations, says the company's openness to hidden talent gives it a distinct edge. >> since we are targeting those communities where people are being left behind, we are highly

diverse within our organizations. so many clients are seeking that. it's part of the texture right now across america, upskilling, reskilling, and giving people a seat at the table where they normally may have not had a pathway. so we help create the path. >> this is one of the first appliances that i got to work on. paul: at g.e. appliances, alex hughes and apprentice corey thomas were meeting with the executives in charge of interapt's contract. >> our relationship with interapt is one of those ways that we find diverse thought and resources right here in our backyard. paul: vp shawn stover first hired interapt to work on the opal icemaker. >> the southern states, we like our ice chewable. paul: chewable. so can i defile this particular drink? but i want to see what this is like. oh yeah, you're not jeopardizing your teeth in any way. >> right. paul: so now a new, more

challenging ms -- challenging assignment, an app for g.e.'s new camera-equipped oven. >> i can use artificial intelligence, object recognition to put something in the oven, press start, and it just cooks it. paul: starting with pizza. >> a lot of different pizzas too, so it's, you know, the vegetarian pizzas versus -- >> i'm curious on how that would work. >> right, right. paul: engineering director irena mcdowell was giving corey thomas his marching orders. >> what does the user want, do they want it less done or do they want a more done pizza and then being able to send that information to the cloud, right? would you like to see the cheese bubbling? paul: oh yeah. cheese bubbling? ironically, corey thomas's last job, before interapt, also involved making pizza, as line cook in a joint near his parents' house. >> it's called tony boombozz. i'd say most of the time i was there was minimum wage. paul: and now you're designing apps for people who would be cooking pizza? >> yeah, i am ecstatic pretty much. paul: pretty good for a kid who hated high school, shunned college, spent three unhappy years in the army.

>> we've taken the the c, d and f student in the back of the high school, and put them in a vocational coding program. and they've been the top performing in the class. paul: to ankur gop, such students are fruit just waiting to be plucked. >> two thirds of the people don't have a colge degree. so to us, that's that's untapped potential. >> this is going to let us flip a switch, see what happens in-app. >> we said, let's go and find the people that could still be very good at a job in the tech field. and that's exactly who we find. paul: find, and train. for the pbs newshour, paul solman. ♪ judy: the fiscal and monetary policies implemented by the u.s. government in the past year, along with the falling numbers of new covid cases, should pave the way for a robust u.s. economic recovery, though real

challenges remain. that was the general cclusion of an annual report released today by the international monetary fund. it projects that the u.s. economy will grow roughly 7% this year, as federal stimulus programs fuel consumer spending. but that growth raises the risk of inflation. the report also emphasizes that the pandemic itself remains the greatest threat to any nation, and urges the u.s. to help other countries cope with the health crisis. kristalina georgieva is managing director of the international monetary fund, and joins me now. director, it is so good to have you with us again. i want to ask you about economic projections, but let's start with covid and the effect it has had on the world. u.n. the imf are calling this week for countries that can afford to do so, to particularly

he the countries on the african continent, sub-saharan africa, with more doses of the covid vaccine. why is this important, and do you expect to get the help you need? >> it is very important for everyone, everywhere. why? because what we are facing in the world is a two-track vaccination path that leads to two-track economic recovery. in the united states, vaccinations have exceeded 50%. in many other advanced economies, they are going up into territory that allows the economies to fully reopen. whereas in many developing countries, especially in low income countries, vaccination rates are extremely low. in africa, less than 1% of the

adult population is fully vaccinated, and yet we see the new delta variant causing a rapidly going up wave of infections in africa. the impact of this is twofold. one, it is holding the recovery of the world economy back, and of course harming people tremendously. we calculate that if we accelerate vaccinations, if we vaccinate the world to 40% this year, 60% by the middle of next year, we will gain $9 trillion in output between now and 2025. and 40% of this gain will be for advanced economies, because of this rapid recovery of the world. and two, because when we don't

vaccinate people, we leave patches as fertile ground for new mutations that are ricocheting back in the developed world. judy: the united states as you know has pledged to give 500 million doses or more to over 100 of the world's poorest countries. how much more are you asking the u.s. to do? whack so far, we have gotten about a billion doses pledged to increase vaccinations in developing countries, but we are still, we are still significantly short. we need 11 billion doses for the world, and we need, next year, to get to the excess production of vaccines. so we vaccinate those who need it, and we secure boosters if

that becomes necessary. so to us, to answer your question, the u.s. is doing a very good job leading the world with offering additional vaccines, but we need more. judy: and it is a subject i know that so many people know is important, and could pursue. i want to talk to you about the economy. and the bounce from the pandemic. as i reported a moment ago, the imf today projecting u.s. economy will grow 7%, a remarkable rate of growth, this year. what does that mean for the world? we know the entire global economy took a big hit from this pandemic. what does this improvement in the united states mean for the whole world? >> let me first recognize two foundations for this strong growth. the stimulus that was put in place to inject money into the

hands of people and support businesses, and the accelerated vaccine push that the u.s. has been pursuing over the last months. they both lead to this remarkable recovery that would deliver the highest growth rate in the united states since 1984, a generation ago. what does it mean for the rest of the world? primarily good news, because higher growth in the united states means that the united states is going to be demanding more goods from other nations, and is in that way exporting some of this growth momentum. this is why our message is very simple. vaccine policy this year. next year, economic policy. let's vaccinate the whole world.

judy: in a few words, director, what should americans, what should the united states be doing in the year, next year, in the next couple years to come, to see the world move forward in total, together, in a positive direction? >> first and foremost, the united states ought to continue to build its competitiveness and the vibrancy of its economy, because as the largest economy in the world, when the u.s. does well, that is good for everybody. and in this sense, we very warmly welcome the two plans, that are now under consideration, the jobs and the families plans. they are going to inject more productivity and higher labor market participation in the u.s. and that would boost, between

2022 and 2024, growth in the u.s. by 5.25%. and it would also take care of people in the united states that have been hit the hardest by this pandemic. we mean black and hispanic communities. that action in the u.s. is beneficial for the world directly and also indirectly, as a leaderships to how tax policy and spending policy and lead to a more vibrant and fair economy in the future. judy: a number of policies of this administration. kristalina georgieva is managing director of the international monetary fund. thank you very much. >> thank you. ♪

judy: alonzo king is a visionary choreographer who is altering the way we look at dance. born in georgia to civil rights activist parents, king found his own form of expression through the language of movement, and ultimately went on to found alonzo king lines ballet, a san francisco based dance company. tonight, he gives his brief but spectacular take on life and movement. it is part of our arts and culture series, canvas. >> i see everything as movement. i think movement and sound is everywhere. if you think of the big bang theory, what came first? motion, vibration, sound. they're the same. ♪ my parents were civil rights leaders in albany. my father was president of the albany movement. he was very close friends with malcolm x. they traveled together. the impact that my parents had

on me was watching people who actually lived what they preached. and that was iimidating and inspiring. as a kid, my father introduced me to yoga. that had a huge impact on me. it is also curious, the idea of the east-west merger and in terms of civil rights, it was, you know, martin luther king and that relationship with gandhi and non-violence, and that power of love was much more powerful than enmity or violence. anso that taught me later about the balancing act that's needed between left brain and right brain. you know, i think all children ha a relationship with movement.

there is something about children catches the whirls, w-h-i-r-l-s, of motion that are happening. you always see children, whether they've even seen one or not, they play airplane. they go on the axis. they go out on the circle, and so there's these currents that exist internally and externally. when you plunge into the heart of movement, the outer world dims, because you're so in the moment and everything else becomes peripheral. when you think about dance often , too often, people think of it as not being a language, but it is a language. music is thought made audible. dance is thought made visible. and so music and movement are sound and vibration. they are the same. my name is alonzo king, and this

is my brief but spectacular take on life and movement. judy: a nice thing to hear at the end of this day. you can see all of our brief but spectacular episodes at pbs.org/newshour/brief. on the newshour online right now, several western states are in the grips of a historic drought that has depleted key water sources to a frightening level. all this now, in the midst of a record breaking heatwave. we look at what's happening on our website, pbs.org/newshour. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online, and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, please stay safe, and see you soon. ♪ >> major funding added by -- >> archict. beekeeper.

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