♪ amna: good evening. i'm amna nawaz. judy woodruff is away. on the "newshour" tonight, biden abroad - the president kicks off an overseas trip, meeting with key world leaders as the fate of his domestic agenda remains uncertain. then, it's friday- david brooks and jonathan capehart break down the democratic battle over the president's spending bill, and growing distrust between some progressives and moderates. and resisting the vaccine - why a vaccination mandate in new york city is generating fierce opposition from its police officers. >> if they were getting shot or stabbed on the streets of america at the rate they're dying of covid, there would be outrage, but instead somehow this issue has become politicized. amna: all that and more on tonight's "pbs newshour." ♪

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president biden and french president emmanuel macron tried to mend a relationship that's been strained since the u.s. excluded france from a deal to provide australia nuclear submarines. today, president biden delivered a mea culpa. pres. biden: what happened was, to use an english phrase, what we did was clumsy. it was not done with a lot of grace. france is an extremely, extremely valued partner. nick: president macron seemed ready to move on. >> for me what's important is that we built during the past weeks some very concrete actions in order to strengthen the partnership. nick: those actions include additional u.s. drones and other military support for french troops fighting militants in western africa. and endorsing increased european military capity and industry. pres. biden: you are the most significant warrior for peace i have ever met. nick: earlier in the day two of the world's most prominent catholics discussed climate change, poverty, and covid.

president biden and pope francis exchanged gifts, including a coin that president biden said his late son beau would have wanted the pope to have. in public, the two emphasize their agreements and avoid discussing the ongoing debate inside the church over abortion. president biden supports abortion rights. the u.s. conferencef catholic bishops says that should exclude the president from receiving communion. after meeting italy's prime minister, president biden claimed the pope provided his blessing. >> mr. president did the issue of abortion come up at all? pres. biden: no we didn't. it came up -- we just talked about the fact that he was happy i was a good catholic and i should keep receiving communion. nick: tomorrow the president begins the first of two major international summits, including on climate change. away from the pleasantries, palm pressing, and photo ops, back home, the president's climate agenda -- and much of his international clout along with it -- hangs in the balance. for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. ♪

amna: -- stephanie: i am stephanie tsai with newshour west, we will return to the full program. the food and drug administration recommended pfizer's covid-19 vaccine for young children. the cdc makes the final decision next week on the lower dose shots for five to 11-year-olds. meanwhile, thousands of new york city's police officers, firefighters and others refused to comply with today's deadline to get vaccinated. they'll be put on unpaid leave starting monday. in illinois, some workers sought a restraining order. u.s. intelligence agencies said in a report released today that they cannot conclude the virus that cause the pandemic leaked in a lab in wuhan, china will

fit spread -- spread from animal to human transmssion. but if it did look from a lab it was an accident and not a bioweapon. prices are up more than 4.5% and wages and salaries jumped in the third quarter as employers competed for workers. protesters turned out around the world ahead of a u.n. climate summit that starts sunday in glasgow, scotland. in london, activists rallied in the financial district to protest fossil fuel investments. demonstrators also gathered in tel aviv, paris and other cities. and, in rome, the u.n. secretary general was pessimistic about the summits -- summit's outcomes. >> there is a serious risk that glasgow will not deliver. several recent climate announcements might leave the impression of a rosier picture. unfortunately, this is an illusion.

we are still careening towards climate catastrophe. stephanie: president biden travels to glasgow on monday. hands cold for cutting u.s. greenhouse gas emotions and half by 2030. the u.s. supreme court agreed to go to do's -- consider whether the government has the authority to curb carbon emissions from power plants. -- on public lands. the biden administration will stop making asylum seekers when in mexico. they said the trump era policy cut border crossings but migrants face major violence in mexican cities. it was reported the justice department is in talks to pay up to $450,000 per person to families separated at the order

during the trump administration. a u.s. military jury today sentenced the first high value detainee being held at guantanamo bay. he got 26 years for murder and terrorism charges but could be released in february because he cooperated with u.s. authorities. he testified thursday about being tortured at secret cia prisons after 9/11. he has been at guantanamo since 2006. the sheriff in albany county, new york says there is overwhelming evidence of a sex crimes complaint against former governor andrew cuomo. the sheriff acknowledged that there was confusion over thursday's filing of the complaint but he said that does not change the facts. >> the way it went down has nothing to do with the case. the case is very solid. we have information that was

attained, we met our burden as fall as -- far as probable cause and we filed. stephanie: cuomo resigned in august after a state attorney general's report accused him of harassing multiple women. today, attorney general letitia james announced she will run for governor. republican congressman adam kinzinger of illinois announced today he won't seek re-election next year. the five term congressman has been a vocal critic of former president trump. he is also one of only two republicans on the committee investigating the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. his announcement came hours after democrats in the illinois legislature approved new congressional districts. they put kinzinger in the same district with a pro-trump republican. federal wildlife officials are proposing new protections for the mexican gray wolf, an endangered species in the southwest. the changes would remove wolf population limits and restrict legal killing if they prey on livestock, elk or deer. environmental groups say the

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weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. amna: it's been two-and-a-half months since the afghan government's collapse, and the taliban's takeover of afghistan. the u.s. withdrew days later, and since, the economy has cratered, and a major humanitarian crisis is underway. the threat of famine looms and the hard afghan winter is on its way. our jane ferguson was in kabul for the chaotic u.s. withdrawal, and she's back there now. she joins us tonight. jane, it is good to see you. i have to ask, this is your first time back in kabul since the fall of the government, what is it like? what do you notice? jane...so -- jane: it has been eerily quiet in the streets. commerce is vastly down, there are usual traffic jams and bustling markets dissapearing.

the first thing i noticed other than truckloads of fighters was the complete lack of women in the street. almost none in public spears -- spears. -- public spears. what was also striking was sense that althought he taliban did control city there isnt sense that they have taken over a government. there doesn't appear to be a robust administration. checkpoints are scattered and haphazard. there's a feeling that the city is occupied by a militia but not necessarily run by one. amna: in the states, there is a new report out from the inspector general detailing the cost of the final months of the war and more details about what equipment was left behind and what was destroyed. did we learn from that? jane: it is a real reminder of

just how expensive this war has been for the united states. it has been over $1 trillion in 20 years. but sigar has been putting out reports for ten years now about the cost. looking at corruption, any issues surrounding accountability. so this most recent one laid out -- report has been laying out things like the fact that aircraft had to be destroyed at kabul airport before could be abandoned to make sure the taliban could not take over. all aircraft and armored vehicles had to be sabotaged on the way out, those that could not be flown out of the country. about 25% of the afghan air force planes themselves were flown out by pilots who were midair ring the takeover of the country, and in a country that is facing famine, you do feel the starkness of where money has been going. amna: there is another detail from that special inspector

general, he had strong words in his speech directed at the permit of defense in the department of state, they said -- he said the honesty of the classify his reports after kabul well. >> but information almost certainly would have benefited congress and the public in assessing whether progress was being made in afghanistan and more importantly, whether we should have ended our efforts there earlier. yet sigar was forced to relegate this information into classified annexes. amna: do we know about what was classfiied an why? jane: one clue would be an end of 2019 washington post report, they had to take sigar to court

to get some of that information verified. show the behind-the-scenes -- they showed what -- how it was going compared to statements being made by the department of defense in the pentagon. the point was that the high the scenes, they were gathering information that showed there was a lot of dissent as to how this world -- war was going. but we have also heard from sigar that they were calling on the state department even after the fall of kabul -- this is an ongoing concern about what should be made public and which are not. amna: you mentioned the famine and the winter, what is needed on the ground? jane: some aid is coming in and being distributed to people but it is complicated and patchy.

don't forget this is a government that is technically seen by the united states and various governments around the world as a terrorist organization. getting aid to civilians and averting giving anything to the government is causing even more difficulty and on top of the dire economic collapse and the complex situation of getting into the country, there is a drought and have dennis on that has impacted agriculture, chum, the harvest for this year is down one third. that will drive up prices and any authorities that exist in afghanistan will be struggling to buy wheat from outside the country because many of the assets, 95 billion internationally, have been frozen. this will main there is going to be a huge shortage of wheat,. that would have been keeping millions alive. now if the wf piece is upwards of 14 million afghans face

starvation if they don't get aid or jobs this winter. amna: that is jane ferguson back on the ground in kabul, please stay safe. jane: thank you. amna: in new york, this afternoon was the deadline for all city workers to get at least one vaccine dose or go on unpaid leave. it could mean several thousand officers may be on leave as early as monday. as john yang reports in new york and other cities around the country, some of the loudest opposition voices belonged to police union officials. carrying signs that read my body, my choice and no vaccine mandate, thousands of people including new york police and firefighters marched across the brooklyn bridge this week to

protest the city's directive. >> today is a day in which we come up the workers of this great city, stand up to unreasonable mandates. >> the mandate is one of the most aggressive in the nation. mayor phil de blasio. >> as a city worker, you need to be vaccinated. we are here to keep you safe so you can keep everyone else safe. we need you to keep everyone around you in the workplace safe. we need to make sure the people you encounter, the residents of the city are safe. >> most new york city municipal workers are getting vaccinated, with the pace picking up as today's deadline neared. today officials said 71% of fire department workers and 80% of police employees have gotten at least one dose. but the city's biggest police union continues to resist and is in court trying to block the mandate, calling it coercive and the threat of unpaid leave for

not complying arbitrary and capricious. it refers to an earlier plan calling for weekly testing. they are making contingency plans for possible staffing shortfalls on monday, theirst day the leave would take effect. in cities like seattle, san diego and los angeles, police unions have urged members to resist vaccine requirements even thou covid has killed about 500 law enforcement officers nationwide since the pandemic began. that is more than all other causes of death combined. >> we have a way to prevent those cops from dying, and it has been tested. >> former boston police official chuck wexler's director of the police executive research forum. >> if they were getting shot or stabbed on the streets of america at the rate they are dying of covid, they would be outraged, but instead somehow this issue has become politicized. >> the clash over vaccine

mandates comes as police are under increasing scrutiny with a nationwide spike in the murder rate and incidents like the death of george floyd. in many big cities, that's led to tense relations between elected leaders and police unions. in few places is it as bitter as it is in chicago, where the mayor and the police union president have long been at odds. in august, mayor lori lightfoot -- elected on a pledge of police reform -- ordered all city workers to report their vaccination status by october 15 or go on unpaid leave. >> we are going to keep fighting this mandate and this dictatorship. >> police union president john catanzara took to social media to urge disobedience. >> do not comply with any direct order to fill out the portal period. it is illegal. they cannot do it. >> by the deadline almost a

third of the city's more than 12,000 officers had not complied. >> for the first time in my 21 year career i disobeyed a direct order. this is very stressful for these officers. for myself. and you know it seems that city doesn't care. >> but as union protestors gathered at city hall this week, the city is giving most of them another chance. only 27 officers have been placed on unpaid leave. the union president warns of the possibility of scores of police off the job. >> i don't know how the mayor in good conscience can force this to go forward and risk sending half the police department home and subjecting the citizens of this city to that. >> what i have concerns about is seeing more officers die needlessly of covid-19. you are all aware, we had four officers who passed away in 2020, every single one of them from covid-19. >> catanzara says the issue

isn't vaccines, it's what job requirements should be determined by negotiations. that puts officers in the middle, says chuck wexler of the police executive research forum. >> labor is saying, wait a second. not so fast. we have collective bargaining agreements. you want us to get vaccinated? fine. let's sit down and bargain for it. >> and some say it could be putting public health in jeopardy. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. ♪ amna: voters in minneapolis will head to the polls next week for the first city election since a police officer killed george floyd, in a race that could be the most expensive in the city's history. and as special correspondent fred de sam lazaro reports, it's dividing the community over the issue of public safety. >> on a recent afternoon in minneapolis, a small but spirited crowd withstood a gusty

fall day to send a message: >> yes on 2! yes on 2! >> 'two' is question 2 on the ballot in the election here. it's an initiative that could dramatically reshape policing and public safety in the city where george floyd was murdered a year and a half ago. the proposal has drawn support from minnesota democrats like state attorney general keith ellison and congresswoman ilhan omar. omar: we're voting yes because there is a vision we can collectively create as city on what public safety should look like for us. >> the plan would amend the minneapolis charter removing the police department and the city's requirement to fund a minimum number of officers. there would instead be a “department of public safety” that takes a “comprehensive public health approach” -- including police officers “if necessary” the department would report not just to the mayor, but also the

city council. and it would likely include social workers, housing experts, and mental health specialists. minneapolis resident mercedes stevenson welcomes the amendment. she's a survivor of domestic violence. >> it's about expanding the public safety. we as a community need more trained individuals to help with the mental health and emotional health crises. i myself suffer from ptsd, and i know that my trauma response wouldn't be the same as anybody else's response. and so having someone trained and knows my language, that would be comforting to me. >> but the amendment is far from universally supported. teto wilson lives and owns a barbershop in the majority black north minneapolis. >> people feel frustrated and they don't feel safe. they feel like if, if, if crime happens and we don't have the proper amount of police to deal with it, what are we going to do?

i don't feel like there's enough about it that has been explained for me to feel comfortable, you know, voting for a department of public safety. >> the north side has borne the brunt of the city's sharp increase in shootings and homicides this year. memorials to children killed by gun violence dot the neighborhood. >> do police, you know, harm us in our communities? they have, they most certainly have. but the number of african-american, you know, men, boys, little girls, you know, women, they get killed in our communities by us by far outweighs what the police do. and so we still need to have a deterrent. people that are employed to keep our communities safe. >> critics say the amendment's language leaves the door open to 'defunding' or 'abolishing' police. the 'yes' campaign insists there

will still be officers -- partially because state law requires them to respond in certain kinds of cases. some -- cases. >> i feel like there's some miscommunication and some misconceptions about the police being taken away from the whole situation. and that's not the truth. we will have these well-trained individuals who will be in the same office as the police. >> even as the city debates its future, the minneapolis police department continues to make headlines almost daily. about 300 officers, a third of the force, have left the department since george floyd's killing. there have been allegations of intentional slow-downs in service. and body-camera video published this month shed light on the department's response to protests after floyd's death. >> you guys are out hunting people now. it's a nice change in tempo. >> yep, agreed.

>> [bleep] these people. >> police chief medaria arradondo defended the department this week. he held a news conference that 'yes' supporters said violated a city policy forbidding employees from engaging in political activity. >> as your chief of police i would not be in favor of this ballot amendment. that does not have to do whether you have an r, or a d, or an i behind your political affiliations. that is based, again, on the realities on the ground that i see, and that our men and women are experiencing every day, including the victims of crime in our city. >> the issue of public safety has dominated an election in which all 13 seats on the city council are up for grabs - as is the mayor's office. the minneapolis mayor's race is getting national attention due to the public safety charter amendment on the ballot. there are 17 candidates on the minneapolis mayoral ballot. >> the incumbent, jacob frey, is voting 'no' on question 2 >> question two has nothing in

it about accountability or reform. it is not responsive to those specific issues that people are experiencing every single day within our department. >> the winner will be picked by ranked choice voting. and some of frey's main opponents support the public safety amendment. are voting yes. >> i've been clear since day one of my campaign that i support a department of public safety and a charter amendment to create it. >> i think right now is the moment for minneapolis to expand the conversation from policing to safety, right? we've been -- we're in a public safety crisis in minneapolis. >> the split on public safety in minneapolis mirrors a political divide in this overwhelmingly democratic city -- says hamline university's david schultz. >> we have this group, which is more progressive, who are behind the police initiative behind an initiative to reform police. at the same time, then we also what we're going to call, let's say, the more centrist democrats. in almost any other city, these uld still be considered to be liberals know, but in minneapolis, they're more they are opposed to changes in police funding, thinking that without changing the charter, some reforms are possible. >> so while omar and ellison say they'll vote for the amendment, fellow minnesota democrats like

governor tim walz and senators amy klobuchar and tina smith oppose it. but the divisions aren't just litical. >> this is an election about fear: fear of police, fear of not having police. it's almost primordial in the sense that people are just worried about, am i going to be safe walking the streets, whether i'm white or person of color? >> according to the most recent polls, white residents of minneapolis -- and they make up a majority -- generally support the public safety amendment. and even though race and policing are at the heart of the debate, most black voters oppose it. teto wilson says the numbers may reflect “white allies” sensitized to the fact that minneapolis has some of the worst racial inequality in the nation. >> they may think you know, 'hey, yeah, we're going to side with african-americans. we're going to say we don't want policing either.' that's not helping us. they're thinking that it's helping us because they witnessed george floyd being murdered the same way we did. they'd be thinking, you know, they may be thinking, 'hey, you know what? let's unguilt ourselves.

>> but the 'yes' campaigners insist they are a multi-racial coalition with strong black leadership. >> we have to make sure this passes. for our children, for our elders. we have to make this step forward so we have something sustainable. critics minneapolis has become in some sense the epicenter for race and policing in america. >> hamline's david schultz says the election will have wider implications. >> if the ballot initiative were to pass this is going to be a , central issue between the democrats and republicans as they fight for control of congress. >> in what normally would be a mundane municipal election, city officials say with several days to go, early voting tallies have already exceeded turnout from four years ago. for the pbs newshour, i'm fred de sam lazaro in minneapol. amna: and fred's reporting is in partnership with the under-told stories project at the university of st. thomas in minnesota. ♪

amna: while the president travels overseas, lawmakers at home consider his 'build back better' framework, and virginians cast their vote for governor. there's a lot to unpack in this week's analysis of brooks & capehart. that's new york times columnist david brooks and jonathan capehart, columnist for the washington post. welcome to you both. this week we got the framework for what is now the white house is $1.75 trillion bill back better plan, i have said that so many times now. for folks at home, here's what we believe to be in the framework, universal pre-k, childcare, and extension of the child tax credit, climate change investment, strengthening the aca, and they are paying for with tax increases on corporations and the wealthiest americans. paid leave is now totally out.

what do you make of how this sugar? -- shook out? david: it's also good. i liked it better when it was 3 trillion. there was health care, vision care for seniors, it was a grab bag and they had to cut it back to make joe manchin happy and instead of saying let's pick out what we really need to do for this country and let's do it well, they cut everything back a little. to meet the problem is there so much stuff that is going to end in a couple of years, the most valuable proposal and there was the child tax credit. it lifts kid out of poverty, but when you're not growing up in poverty do better in school so it's an educational reform. that is extended for a paltry year. the health care subsidies are five years, pre-k six years, so

future congress could get rid of all of this and if that is the case, will be impact. -- there will be no lasting impact. i don't want to downplay, there is still good stuff, but it's not what it was because they cannot pass it if they drop anything so they shrunk it. amna: the president said nobody gets everything they want. jonathan: that's true, but it's not that they shrunk it. you talk about paid family leave went from 12 weeks to four weeks to know weeks. -- no weeks. there are things that were in the bill that are no longer there but i will be the optimist for once. even though it is not 3.5 trillion dollars, it is $1.75 trillion more than has ever been spent on anything in the history of the country. and everything in that framework is something that is beneficial to the american people and beneficial to the country going forward.

i understand your pessimism about the child tax credit only being extended for a year, but we know how washington works. future congresses could wipe it out, but once something is in law, it is harder to take it out then it is to get it in there in the first place. the fact that it survived this framework i think is a good thing. pleasing joe manchin and kyrsten sinema is something i'm so try to figure out how they do it, but if i could be in a room with both of them, i would say it was an to david brooks, past the thing. just take yes for an answer and let's move on. amna: i want to come to them in a moment, paid leave as an example was a signature issue. for it not to be in there at all, what kind of message does it send that the president cannot get that done? jonathan: he compromised. he wants to get something done, something had to go by the wayside, no matter what it was

it would have been really bad. the president is hoping that, let us not forget he is still in your one of a four-year term that maybe they could come back, especially if democrats hold the house and the senate, fingers crossed. they could do it. but that is what compromise is. amna: what about the president overseas? does the fact that he could not get these things done at home, get the casey's making overseas? best case he is making overseas? -- case he is making overseas? david: i don't think so. when we started, bernie sanders was talking about -- joe manchin tough and got criticism but he got the number he wanted. we will see if he likes the guts of it but the back of the progressives said better than nothing or make the case that jonathan just made that there's

a lot of good stuff still in there, that shows me they're not going to walk away at this point after having sort of won. after what has been a depressing few weeks of or how slow it has been, in a month no one will remember. amna: let's talk about the virginia governor's race, it has tightened. when you look at the race, the latest numbers from the washington post poll show 49% for the call, -- this is a state that biden won in 2020. why is it is to write -- as tight as it is? jonathan: this is someone who has been able to embrace trump without embracing donald trump, talking about glenn young can. -- glenn.

people are making a lot about the fact that 10 out of 11 rhetorical races, the person who one was of the opposite party of who is in the white house, the one exception is terry. he won by three points, it was a turnout election and what made that election and anomaly by virginia standards is that they had presidential level turnout in an off year election. and this race has always been a turnout race. if terry is to win, democratic coalition, particularly african-american voters, need to come out at the levels they did last year for joe biden. amna: third -- there is clearly concern in the democratic party, take a look at the statements from president biden and former president obama. >> you don't have to wonder what he's going to be like his

governor because you have seen it. he walked the walk. and talk the talk. amna: the other candidate has been with officials repeating the lie of election fraud and critical race theory which is not being taught in schools. >> when it comes to economy, virginia has a choice. i will save virginians nearly $1500 no one. amna: there has been a lot of early turnout, do you have a production what is happening? >> the early turnout would probably be more on the democrat side. the economy suffered because of the delta variant and because of cultural issues. the swing in the last week can only be cultural issues, school board issues, a case of -- more confirmation -- complicated when

republicans think of a fluid gender guy as a perpetrator in a sexual assault in the bathroom. people from outside, certain teachers and educational schools imposing values we don't agree with on us and on our kids, that has made a lot of people angry and i think that is the issue of the last week that has seized people and how the democrats let themselves get on the wrong side of that issue is a mystery. it is a no brain or that people have diverse views on gender and all of this stuff and you have to show you have room in all kinds of -- for all kinds of views and you are not a tool of the left. amna: if democrats lose, but does that say? >> the first is that you can't defeat every republican by talking about donald trump. if they lose this it would be a panic for them. jonathan: it would fear and anger win the day.

the fact that we are talking about critical race theory which is not taught in schools in virginia, it shows how republicans have decided that picking at white grievance and tap dancing with white supremacy is their way back into power and if glenn wins, democrats should be afraid because fear works. i like to say whiteness is a hell of a drug. going into the midterm elections, we will see how successful it can be. amna: let's broaden it out because last night something called the sammy's, and award from the department of public service honoring government workers and they honored people from the covid response, doctors and help -- health officials who rented testing and vaccine trials, to a team that did foster program work, supporting kids to a jet of the system,

ordinary work done by the government and yet, when you look at the latest numbers, public trust in the government is down to 24%. in a poll from georgetown's institute of public service, 63% of americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction. what is going on? david: i get to sit in off the record on government meetings and i was amazed at the quality of the civil servants and always struck by that. these are people not paying a lot of money, advanced degrees, vastly overqualified for some it was worth they believe it. they are not truly ideological, and housing policy, education, but it's only fair flaming left or right. i just want to do the job. living in the marc veasey, i have come to respect civil servants because i've gotten to know and watch them operate. as for the trust, it is the number one statistic if you want

to understand politics in this country. if you asked people from 194219 67 do you trust the government to do the right thing most of the time, 75% answers yes i do. when vietnam comes along, watergate, and it plummets in the 70's, takes up a little under clinton, a little under reagan, a little under obama but it has been low 20's and jumped down to 19. no one trust the government to do the right thing, it is hard to rally people because they do not trust it. that is if a mental problem with our country which is not universal. in countries all across the west, they do not have the distress that we have. distrust leads people to pull inward, fear, belief conspiracies, not want to get vaccinated. it leads to problem after problem and how we rebuild trust in this country is a major challenge. amna: but you think when you look at these numbers? jonathan: it goes to show that when you ask people generally do you trust the government, for a lot of people the government is a

faceless malevolent blob that is harming their lives in some way or not getting anything done. but if he were to ask those same people their opinion of the folks who did the awards, their approval rating i that would be through the roof. you put a face on government, when you show the people for doing the hard work and david just talked about it, they are bureaucrats, they are overqualified, but they do this because they love their work and could be making more money in the private sector and yet they want to serve their country. they want to do good. i think in the end, that is what the american people trust. it is they do not see enough of it. amna: wonderful work being done and we are grateful. i do not get to ask what your halloween costumes are but i will let people on twitter gas. sound good? always good to see you.

♪ amna: the acclaimed film director, ava duvernay, who's behind projects including “the 13th", “when they see us", and ”selma”, is >> the acclaimed film director who is behind the project including the 13, when they see us and selma is the force behind a powerful new series. available today on netflix. it tells a coming-of-age story of a young colin kaepernick years before he became a quarterback in the nfl and a leader for social justice. i set down with the young star and it talks about what it teaches about kapnick and what it reveals about us as a society. >> since the day i was born, my passion, my love, is being a quarterback. >> it's the story of a young

colin kaepernick in his own words. he went on to quarterback university of nevada team. before he led the 49ers for six seasons and before his historic sideline protests against social injustice. this is played by an 18-year-old actor. >> what you start out as is not necessarily what you become. >> the ideas to focus on his early years. peppered nick told me when we met up at the museum in new york. colin kaepernick says i want to tell my origins story. my story of how i became the person i am today. what did he say to you? >> it was a conversation among people that felt connected with issues we were in agreement with.

social justice and all. he wanted to express himself in a way and go into the story outside of the fear of politics. may be the most innocent entry point is that of young people. i thought that was wise. at the moment i wasn't sure what he was trying to do and i'm not sure i was the right person for. >> he told about his early life, being a biracial kid adopted by two white parents. growing up in a primarily white town and struggling in a place that didn't regard him as black. she decided >> it's spring boarded into larger conversations about race and privilege. >> the unusual blend of documentary and narrative and graphics was her call. >> take the story and scramble with different formats and styles and activate something

new. >> part of that was taking a chance of casting jaden michael, unknown to most of the audience. >> mom said your baseball coach today wants you to cut your hair aired >> what? >> you have to cut your hair if you are going to stay on the team. >> you are joking right? >> it's a team rule. >> truth be told, you look unprofessional. >> why am i supposed to look professional? i'm 14, i'm a kid. >> what was it about him that spoke to you? he could be in every single scene of the series. that's a tall order. a kid. we got this tape from this kid in new york. we were casting for spirit and

gusto. something the kid has that goes beyond a child after that will immerse himself in and care like an adult >> with his mom serving as readers for other characters, he dove into the part. >> i got a call back. i was on my laptop. i screamed into my pillow. oh, he was on my computer. >> michael got the gig and with it the chance to help tell the story of a sports superstar who helped change the conversation about the history and legacy of racism. >> was that intimidating? >> it was for a lot of things. from a creative perspective. if you get him wrong, all of your mistakes will be highlighted aired not only is it a real

person but the real person is sharing the screen with you. polarizing issue is right in the title. i was afraid of what my family, my friends, people might think of me but i realized that's the reason we should make the project so we can have this conversation and make it. if i feel afraid to be who i am around the people arriving around me in my society then i need pickup. >> he rolls on me and jabs me in the back for nothing. >> we're talking about the manager. >> he thought you were a vagrant. >> is out what's bothering you? >> i don't know. sometimes i feel uncomfortable? >> i don't think anyone's trying to make you feel that way. >> do you remember hearing about him processing and what you thought about it at the time? >> i was watching it on tv.

i felt how polarizing it was. i felt the feud amongst people in the industry and people in my family or people around me. there was something powerful about risking your career for someone else that i found deeply respectable and i fell in love with him from that day forward. i had known about his nfl career because my family is huge sports people. it takes bravery to stand up for someone else and use your platform for change. >> one of the final scenes brings young colin to now. >> i was in for a rude awakening. >> back lash is growing against colin kaepernick after the quarterback refused to stand during the national anthem last friday. >> here is my salute to you.

>> not standing up for the star- spangled banner is the wrong way to protest. >> get him off the field right now. he's fired. >> this is an attack on the country. >> he's un-american and he doesn't deserve to be in our country. >> he loves to be a quarterback. he has a few lines. i was born to do this. yet, there is the sport that's not allowing him a place. i guess i wonder if we will ever see him in the nfl again. >> disease, racist institution has blackballed them. the decision rests with them. no other assumptions or conversations. >> the series is dedicated to the "underestimated, overlooked , and the outcast".

>> i couldn't prevail because i didn't know how. but now --. ♪ amna: on monday, we heard from our student reporting labs about >> on monday, we heard from hours didn't reporting lab about the tick tock trend devious lick. people vandalizing school property or bathrooms. a counter tik tok has revealed. here is more from the student reporting. >> some girls are putting inspirational and inspiring quotes on the doors and walls and putting emergency kits in the bathroom. >> scented hand soap's on the sinks in the bathroom or don't put toilet paper, stuff like that can

>> i've seen people going as far as taking couches and tvs and putting campbell candles and soap and money and there. >> they put clorox wipes on úevery sink. they refill the soap and had a table and playing checkers and classical music with candles. >> it makes me feel happy that kids are returning stolen goods. >> i've heard about this thing. i will, of course be here. >> the kids are all right and. on the news hour online, why so many great movie villains have an evil laugh. we breakdown the psychology and the power of the cackle. that's on our website. don't forget to watch washington week tonight. they analyze the latest from capitol hill and discuss

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