judy: on the rise, millions of americans feel a price pinched as inflation in the united states reaches a 30 year high. the tipping point as world leaders struggle to build consensus. the ever worsening climate crisis feels widespread anxiety among younger generations. desperate journey, migrants used as a political weapon as belarus hard-line leader confronts europe. >> this is not a migration crisis. this is the attempt of an authoritarian regine met try to destabilize its democratic neighbors. judy: that and more on pbs

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contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. judy: new numbers show an inflationary wave is building and the u.s. economy. the labor department reports consumer prices jumped 6% in october from a year ago. that was the biggest increase in 31 years. correspondent: across the u.s., signs and sounds of a problem affecting millions of pocketbooks. prices are up. the main sectors leading the search have big impacts, gasoline and food. >> who can afford to fill up 15, 20 gallons of gasoline? i know a lot of people are struggling. that is a heck of a lot of money. >> the prices for the seeds i buy are growing up. that is hurting my business and on top of that, with gas prices, i have a large vehicle. i drive to markets far away.

i used hundred 20 gallons and i'm a small business. it is hard for me to earn enough money. correspondent: the average gallon is now in the three dollar range, up more than one dollar over one year ago 40 to aaa. that is the highest in five years. the pinch is worse in places like california where pumps show prices pushing six dollars a gallon and beyond. energy costs feel the problem. in the past year, as prices are up 50% and heating oil has soared 43%. some people are looking at food and what they can afford it differently, from grocery stores-- >> i don't see anything going down anytime soon but we have to eat so you have to pay. correspondent: two food banks. >> i need food for my family. this tour is very expensive, the food, and my money is going up. correspondent: today, pres.

biden toward the port of baltimore and acknowledged the supply chain backlogs. he pledged $4 billion for construction projects at ports and elsewhere in the next two months and 3.4 billion dollars to upgrade other trade facilities after that. >> we reduce congestion. we are going to address repair and maintenance backlogs, employ state-of-the-art technologie and make ports more efficient. correspondent: kevin mccarthy slammed the president with a blunt statement, writing the joe biden plan for increasing americans' standard of living is a failure. economists and politicians disagree about how far and long the price bites will go. inflation is firmly here. for pbs newshour, i am lisa desjardins. judy: the surge of inflation is already higher and lasting longer than somehow expected. the breakdown more about what is happening in the potential consequences.

catherine rappel, a special's correspondent and a columnist for the washington post, joins me now to the program. it seems prices are rising across the board everywhere you look. what is behind this? catherine: there are number of factors. the most obvious is the pandemic. the economy powered down during the pandemic. it is powering up. there are supply chain problems around the world. labor shortages make it hard to find workers who can make the buds -- good -- goods we buy, put them on discourse -- store shelves. you have shortages dries a stop prices stand on the other side, of the calculation, is the fact that americans have a lot of money in their pockets. they have accumulated savings in the past year. it is difficult or risky i should say, still, to spend on some of the common services consumers used to bite like

travel or going out to eat. consumers are buying more stuff today than they were before the pandemic began. you have more demand for goods at the same time that the pipeline through which those goods must travel is extremely fragile and all of that lead side prices. judy: these affect everything from food to gasoline to furniture. these causes affects everyone of the things people want to buy. catherine: there are shortages and bottlenecks in almost every product people want to buy right now. that is partly because people can spend money and the -- have money to spend in the united states and it is hard to get the things they want to spend money on so the result is shortages and upward pressure on prices for the goods that are available. judy: we know that wages are

rising. they have been rising. are they keeping up with this inflation? catherine:. . unfortunately they are not americans have gotten. big wage increases over the past year. they have been more than entirely by those consumer price increases. year-over-year, adjusted firms elation, wages are down on average. that is not adjusting for the composition of the kinds of jobs that might have been created. if you have lower wage jobs created, that might skew the average. other measures that adjust for the composition of the changing workforce suggest workers have seen their wages fall once you adjust for higher prices. judy: the question on everyone's mind, how long is this going to last? the biden administration economists have been saying it is temporary. others agree with him. others don't. what do youee?

catherine: if i, knew the answer to that question, i would be a wealthy woman. unfortunately, we do not know. there is always uncertainty with any sort of economic prediction, but especially right now, because the answer to that question is contingent on the path of the pandemic, whether various countries around the world can get adequately vaccinated and get people back to work, not just here but in poor countries where they do not have adequate vaccine supply. that is disrupting their economy and their supply chain. heinz of course on consumer expectations. there are real, tangible reasons that might lead to press pressure -- price pressure like there aren't workers available to make the things people want to purchase. there is also sort of a fuzzier, psychological aspect to this. how much do people expect prices will increase? that is the scary part.

as long as everybody believes the price pressures are caused by temporary bottlenecks, that they will be transitory, they can be transitory. at the point everybody looks around and sees prices increasing and says maybe i should preemptively raise prices, that is where it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy -- prophecy and the fed would be much more concerned about that and they keep emphasizing it is transitory and temporary and caused by the pandemic from other kinds of factors and if things get worse, we will step in before those inflation expectations get unanchored. judy: it sounds like some are getting baked in. in terms of connection to the pandemic, can we safely assume that if the pandemic begins to lift, that inflation will get better or not? catherine: it seems that should

alleviate some of the pricing pressures. as long as the economy gets back to where it was in the sense that people have childcare and can get back to work --they're not afraid of going to work because it is unsafe --that should allay some of the price pressures. that. is not the only factor you have a generous set of government transfers that is also poteially giving people purchasing power. there is a psychological aspect that i hope we do not get to the point where everybody assumes inflation will come and therefore it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. that is possible. that is the theory -- there is data the word -- world. it is difficult to rolling that out. getting the pandemic under control would be a positive for all of these trends even if it does not ultimately have the final say on having this

relation entirely. judy: helping us understand this. very tough question about inflation. thank you very much. ♪ vanessa: will will return to the full program after the latest headlines. 10 states filed suit to block of federal covid vaccination requirement for health care workers. mostly republican state officials had sued er similar requirements for large employers. in texas a federal judge wrote it governor abbott's ban mast mandates violates the rights of students with disabilities. school districts will be free to issue their own mandates. meanwhile, the white house reported 900,000 young children have gotten shots in their first

week of being eligible. kyle rittenhouse took the stand in kenosha, wisconsin and denied it doing anything wrong when he shot two men to death and wounded a third. it happened during racial justice protests last year. he insisted he was defending itself in the confrontations. we will take a closer look. at the u.n. climate summit, governments considered phasing out the use of coal but with no timeline. that is in the draft final document. it caused for the cutting of carbon emissions in half by 2030 from 2010 levels. the president of the so-called cop 26 gathering says the summit needs a strong finish. president: i have the intention to close at the end of friday. everyone must come armed with compromised as currency. we know what is at stake and the urgency of our task. vanessa: the u.s. and china

pledged to increase cooperation on climate action. they are the largest carbon and mentors in the world and we will take a look at the climate issue later in the program. up to 300,000 afghans have fled to iran since the taliban takeover last august. the norwegian refugee council gave that estimate today and it warned hundreds of thousands more will follow. the taliban urged former afghan military pilots to stay without fear of reprisal. 140 afghan flyers were evacuated from neighboring gq stand on tuesday to the united arab emirates. in this country, a federal judge approved a settlement of 626 million dollars for those exposed to lead tainted water in flint, michigan. it means every child exposed plus many adults, businesses, and others will receive

payments. the money has mainly come from the state, which ignored the problems for years. still to come, kyle rittenhouse on the stand and his homicide trial, following last year's violent protests. hospitals in colorado struggle with the perpetual overload of covid patients. more subpoenas are issued as the investigation into the capitol insurrection intensifies, plus much more. ♪ ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from w eta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: it was a fiery and emotional day in the courtroom at kenosha, wisconsin. kyle rittenhouse is on trial for the murder of two men and the shooting of a third. john yang has the latest. john: a fiery day indeed.

the defense moved for a mistrial over some of the mouth -- cross-examination following rittenhouse taking that stand in his defense, breaking down as he described the moments before the fatal shooting of jacob rosenbaum, who was unarmed. kyle: i was cornered from in front of me with mr. dominski -- zaminski and there were -- [h yperventilating] --there were people right there. john: he says he was at the protest to offer first-aid. during cross-examination, the prosecutor pressed him on why he was carrying a rifle to do that. prosecutor -- kyle: if i had to protect myself because somebody attacked me -- prosecutor: why would you think anybody do that? you thought it was going to

happen. john: the defense objected to the prosecutor's questions, saying he was trying to get the jury to hear evidence the judge had ruled inadmissible. with the jury out of the courtroom, the judge criticized the prosecutor. prosecutor: my good faith feeling was if you have left the door open a little bit, we had something new and i was going to probe it. judge: there had better not be another incident and i will take the motion. john: the judge said we can rule later on the motion for a mistrial. thank you for joining us, cory. defendants do not have to take the stand and usually don't. what was it the defense seemed to be trying to do with his testimony? cory: i think it was a surprise he took the stand but i believe they put him out there because just having the jury see him and hear him talk, they got to see

how young he is. just his voice and he sounds like a teenager, he looks like a teenager. he is 18 now but they also got to really let him tell his side of the story, which he has not spoken about this before. they got to paint him as this good samaritan. they spent much of the beginning of his testimony talking about all the volunteer work he did, he was a lifeguard, police prep program, volunteered with the emt. they went along way to paint him as this young guy who is just out to help people. even talking about the early part of august 5, 2020 where he went to kenosha. john: it allows the prosecution to cross-examine him. what did they try to do without opportunity?

cory: prosecution wanted to drive home the point that there were thousands of people there and ky rittenhouse is the only person who killed anyone. they wanted to keep reinforcing he had a rifle, a high-powered rifle, and others did not. it was on laufer --unlawful for him to have it because he was 17. they kept talking about the fact that he had this gun. he tried to say h was there to help people. he had a gun. as you heard, in the clips you played, he was out to kill. that was what they were trying to say all afternoon. john: was that the message? the prosecution rested their case yesteay. was that the nub of their case during the first seven days of the trial? cory: that has been there theme throughout.

this guy did come, this young guy came. he was inexperienced and might have been there to protect the business, but he quickly moved into this crowd with a gun and he was quick to pull the trigger. john: there were some drama over this motion for a mistrial. we heard a little bit of the back-and-forth between the judge and the prosecutor. what was that about? cory: there was a lot of drama today. in september, the judge ruled several things kyle rittenhouse had done could not be talked about. the prosecution inched and tried to get that brought up in front of the jury and one of the things was 15 days before the shootings, kyle was heard on video saying he had seen alleged shoplifters at a cvs pharmacy and was hurt on video saying he

wishes he had his rifle. possibly to shoot or kill these people. the prosecution had wanted to bring that into the trial. the judge ruled against it. he started talking about the today. things like this were really on the edge. that's why the defense wanted a mistrial. it just got pretty fiery today. john: as the judge -- has the judge been as tough on the defense as the prosecution? cory: it has not felt that way and certainly, if you're watching social media, a lot of party lines relate. the judge has gotten a lot of pushback. you know, it also -- the judge's role is to protect the person who is on trial and who is accused, so i mean, i think that

is something to consider as well. john: the trial continues tomorrow with the defense continuing its case. . thank it's --thank you very much. ♪ judy: nationwide, hospitalizations and deaths from covid-19 have been dropping around much of the country in recent weeks. cases are now on the rise again. in the midwest and new england. they remain too high and parts of the west. states like colorado have seen spikes that threaten to overwhelm hospitalsco. rrespondent: one in 48 people in the state are infected. there are fewer icu beds available now than in december and yesterday, the state will

give more options to burns out staff -- burned out staff. i am joined by the chief of pulmonary care edison at denver public health. welcome to the newshour. take us inside your hospital. what do you see? dr. douglas: it is a busy time. unfortunately we are dealing with a busy surge of covid-19 and a substantial demand for hospital services for a range of other things. unlike the previous urges, we have had a bit of reserve without the impact of social distancing, masks, and. a low immunization rate we are really at the point -- what i'm seeing is remarkable commitment to care. our teams are doing the utmost and i think what we hear a lot

about burnout, we night not here about resilience and the recognition that there are forces at this for months and everyday. . turnout with long-standing care we are in trouble is the truth. correspondent: we are grateful to them and so many others. tell me about the surge you see. is there an average covid patient profile? mostly unvaccinated, older, younger? dr. douglas: mostly unvaccinated, younger by about 15 years. we see patients who are presenting very sick very quickly. it seems to be different than earlier when patients who would language a little while in the hospital and get sick are now seeing younger people who have no business getting the sick and dramatically ill quickly. correspondent: what does this mean for the patients with other critical needs? dr. douglas: for our patients, they may be utterly opaque. the point of this is crisis standards of care implies not

just specific hairs of covid patients but additional resources --dialysis machines, staff and expertise to bring to the bedside care of all patients. the key about the crisis standards and care is it is done in a layer in fashion that the most important initial phase of this is the crisis standards around staffing. this opens a channel for us at the federal level to leverage additional fema support, additional expertise to do front nine care, supplement services, and most importantly, allows to distribute patients in a more rational balance within the state and not require strict adherence to ratios of certain providers. we have to preserve our workforce. we are committed to the care of every patient but we have lost large numbers of highly expert, rational people. it is true we are tired but we

have to be there for tomorrow's patients. there is no future. we have to do this in an affordable way. correspondent: statewide colorado has a high vaccination rate. tower using the search? -- how are you seeing the surge? dr. douglas: the likely answer has to do with the delta virus and the fact that 70% is not enough for herd immunity. part two, there are pockets of colorado doing phenomenally. we have great pride in what the state has achieved where immunity -- immunization rates are above 7 but there are pockets where it is lower and adherence to mask requirements r0 -- are zero. they represent a tremendous risk to us with an influenza season

on our front porch. the risk of concern that we will have a confluence of unvaccinated people from covid and influenza. correspondent: there are new federal vaccine roles with the vaccine available to more people including younger americans. what impact will dell have -- that have? dr. douglas: we are excited. young people -- the likelihood young people will get severe disease is lower but the benefit is that it protects that community around the holidays, because low likelihood of asymptomatic carriage -- the likelihood they will transmit to grandparents who are vaccinated goes down. this goes down to the level of

personal care we are doing in the hospitals. correspondent: thank you for your time. thank you to your new stuff. ♪ judy: this week, thousands of refugees from across the developing world tried to enter poland by crossing its border with belarus. its neighbor to the east. the european union says this is more than a case of a desperate journey of families fleeing their homes. it is meant to be an attack against the european adversaries of the leader of belarus, the man considered europe's last dictator. nick: along the poland belarus border, a standoff. paula soldiers on an -- one side, refugees on the other.

thousands of families from iraq hope to get to poland and the european union. they tried for weeks through forests, swans, and freezing streams, waters so-called he got frostbite. just a few feet away, a migrant did the two week walk without any shoes. >> there is a shared responsibility on part of poland and belarus for what can only be described as a humanitarian disaster. nick: a researcher for human rights who just left the border. >> these people are unprepared for what is in store for them. they are clearly not aware of the fact that they will spend days, if not weeks, tracking and by the time they get to the border, there being unlawfully pushed back. nick: that is what happened to

mohamed, who said polish soldiers pretend they would help anpushed him back into belarus. >> they lied to us. we go with them. they break our cards. nick:nick: in belarus, the migrants are treated words. >> we can be kept there for days and days and days without food or water, being subject to violence, theft, robbery, extortion, death threats. they were told you have a choice. you die here where you go to poland. that is the choice you have. nick: their desperation is genuine, but their presence on this border is manufactured. much of this footage is released by state tv. european leaders say the crisis was created by belarusian president alexander lukashenko,

using people as political pods to pressure his eu nader's -- neighbors. >> we have reached a very dangerous level of design of attack but it is a very investigated scheme which has the elephants of deniability. nick: arnoldo is the vice minister of lithuania, a belarusian target. 4000 migrants tried to cross in one month compared to 81 in total last year from belarus into lithuania. >> they have been facilitating this new, illegal migrant route. it is the highest level of cynicism to really abuse the victim, the european union and the migrants. nick: he says the operation begins online. authorities team up with middle eastern intermediaries whose facebook pages offer be says to belarus, direct flights --

flights from damascus to, and hotel reservations. another post shows visas inside passports. >> they were in cahoots with travel agencies all across the middle east. that is how they entice peopl to take you to the border and make sure we give you great gps coordinates. leave and you cut the wire --we even help you cut the wire. nick: many migrants are vulnerable. one man's flood -- an iraqi son fled in september. >> we have no other choice. we are worried for our youth. our villages. are besieged. . . i have no money. if i had money, i would go with my children because we are scared. nick: this week, lukashenko denied creating the crisis but admitted made -- admitted he wanted to punish europe. >> you imposed sanctions against belarus.

you went for a hybrid war against belarus and you best or its -- bastards what made to protect you for migrants? nick: it is belarusian's who the european union says it is trying to protect from its government. lukashenko launched a crackdown on pro-democracy activists last year and declared himself the winner of a fraudulent election. the government forced a plane to land in minsk in order to arrest and opposition leader. the eu and u.s. have punished him with multiple rounds of sanctions and at the white house, the european commission president said they planned more sanctions on belarus and airlines carrying migrants. >> this is not a migration crisis. this is the attempt of an authoritarian regime to try to destabilize its democratic neighbors. nick: today, eu and polish officials tried to show a united front. migration has threatened to rip

the union apart for years and today's prices is designed to exacerbate tensions. >> one can create tensions and societies could undermine governments. the only language that probably he would understand its more pressure and more sanctions. nick: so far there is no sign luke a shake of, backed by his main ally vladimir putin, will respond to more sanctions and as the politics play out, refugees are the victims. i am nick schifrin. ♪ judy: in a recent pbs newshour survey, and partnership with the generation lab, children and young adults said they expect climate change to have major implications for how they live, so nearly two thirds said climate change will influence

where they decide to live. have said they will change how and where the travel and a third said it would affect their decision to have children. that is on top of groin research that serves young people are increasingly experiencing climate anxiety. william has this report about young people's lives and how they see their future. william: these young protesters in san francisco are frustrated by what they see as an action on clime change. >> what do we want? >> climate justice. >>? ? when do we run it test one it? -- when do we want it? >>now. >> it is the biggest issue facing our society today. william: sophia is a member of an organization called youth versus apocalypse. it organized today's protest. she says the group's name is no

exaggeration. >> what we are facing right now is an apocalypse. when people think nobody is going to die of climate change, they are already discounting all of the pple who have died and wildfires were in her against or islands -- hurricanes or islands going underwater. william: she says thinking about climate change is overwhelming at times and makes her nauseous and hard to concentrate at school. sophia: it is stressful. last weekend, i had the act but all i could think was impending doom. >> is clear we have passed certain tipping points already that have convinced children that they're in trouble and their futures are in peril. william: lisa van susteren is a member of the climate psychiatry alliance that is training more therapists to recognize and treat this growing anxiety. >> kids have told me they do not want to pursue secondary

education. what is the point? they have said they don't want to have children because they do not want to bring a child into chaos. then there are other kids who just become anxious by themselves and might take all sorts of responses, maybe eating disorders, some people, or just a general feeling of apathy. william: do you share the concern some critics share that we are overly scary to children and the entire youth climate movement is stirring up fears that are terrifying kids inappropriately? dr. van susteren: data common reaction of young people who do not want to face reality. kids are not dreaming that's up. they have seen with their own eyes. it is no longer scientists telling them. for us to sweep this under the rug makes them feel worse.

>> this is billy's peak. william: 25-year-old anna is one of those young people who had seen the effects of climate change first-hand. she grew up in coffee creek, california, population 200, a tightknit community in the wilderness. it is a haven but it is one threatened by wildfires that are in part made worse by climate change. ana: my climate anxiety at its worst, it was not being able to sleep and thinking about different disaster scenarios. it feels like you're are trying to be productive, but it is very painful. william: for years, she worried fire would come to her childhood home where her mom and stepdad lived. then earlier this year, it did. ana: it is hard for me to say out loud but on september 7, 20 21, my family home burned in a

wildfire. it was surreal to realize that what i had feared for years happened, and it was a mix of balancing relief and gratitude that we are physically ok, and then just incredible grief of what happened to my community and the areas around us. william: after taking leave from work, seeing a therapist, she is slowly learning how to cope. ana: what i want now is acknowledgment that my personal tragedy it's happening in the greater context of climate change, because there is still so much that has threaded and so much we can save. i need that acknowledgment so that this didn't happen for nothing. william: there are some groups

popping up to help kids put climate change in perspective and to give them a sense of agency. in this interactive class in oakland, california, elementary students learn how to make tease for the throat and lungs. >> we have problem with air quality issues. william: the goal is to empower kids, like an eight-year-old who is thinking about climate change. >> i am starting to worry about climate change, because every day, all these people fret -- endlessly for 24 hours burn all of the stuff that is bad for the earth. i am getting a little worried. william: the class is run by a network that uses technology and indigenous traditions to empower students. teacher: i had a sense that when the chips are down, there is

betty -- very leveled the government is going to do to empower poor people of cover -- color to survive climate change. william: she thought of this group because she worried how the issue would affect her kids physically and mentally. >> kids as young as second and third grade know when the air is toxic. they may not have the words for it but they know what they are experiencing. when we do not talk about climate change or the effects, young people have a sense of anxiety, hopelessness, disconnect from what they are experiencing and what adults are telling them is one important. william: as young people tried to prepare for this changing future, many light sophia are using their fears to feel climate activism. sophia: hi marge, protest, and take action in that it's the only thing that come me down is knowing i'm doing all i can to

stop climate change but even if i'm doing this or my friends are doing this, it might not be enough for the giant changes around the world we need. william: those changes have to be made by older generations. she says hold young people's faith in their hands. those young people's experiences are absolutely echoed by what we heard from young people in glasgow. there is a young women from kenya whose region is being hit with drought and floods. she is worried whether she can live there when she grows up. i talked to two university students who said coming to cop and learning about the real revolution going on in renewable energy, how that helped blunt their concerns. i met a chemist who brought her two young daughters to cop so they would not be edges about climate change. she said i want them to see there are people from all over the world coming together trying

to address the problem. it is a really diverse and interesting group of young people watching these negotiations closely. i am william brangham. ♪ judy: former president trump was dealt a legal blow last night, this time in his attempt to keep secret white house documents from days leading up to and on january 6. it is a win for the house select committee investigating the attack which seeks trumps materials in the bottom white house which supported the release. walk us through this critic we know former president trump was trying to keep the papers from being accessed by the house committee. tell us why this federal judge load at she did -- ruled as she

did. yamiche: the federal judge in d.c. has ruled former president trump, his request to holdback these documents is denied. that is in fact a win for the house select committee trying to seek these documents related to january 6. what is important to understand is this is a judge that issued a 39-page decision. i want to read you what she wrote. she wrote president trump is not present -- she said he retains the right to assert his records are privileged but the incoming president is not constitutionally obliged to honor that assertion. there you have it. this is a judge taking the idea about pres. biden,, who has said he would waive executive privilege because thessues related to january 6 are extraordinary. the former president.

. asserts executive privilege. this is a large number of documents being requested by the house select committee. when you look at the documents, they are looking for communications,, videos, photographs related to his actions january 6. also the planning and preparation. but also the white house communications call logs. they're looking for the white house's response to what was happening during the violence on the capitol and i have to read part of this because it is extraordinary. all communications from april 1, 2020, to january 20, 2021, a large breath of documents that lawmakers say are needed. judy: what legal recourse does the former president have? yamiche: if there is not a

decision reached by friday, they will release the lawmakers friday. there is a time crunch. this is the first time a federal judge weighs in on competed executive privilege and from a former president against our current president. former president trump has already appealed. there is already an appeals process happening. one thing that happens when an appeals court decision is the loser, whoever is not happy, they will likely appeal to the supreme court. the supreme court will decide whether to hear the case. if they decide to grant that request, it could be days to hear from the supreme court, or it could take longer, but it will be a long process happening because former president trump had said he will continue to pursue this and democrats, including the chair of the house select committee, has said he believes lawmakers have the law on their side. judy: speaking of chair

thompson, we know they are seeking other information beyond what they are asking from president trump this week. they let it be known there -- have issued -- they have issued subpoenas for senior officials who work in the white house. where does that stand? yamiche: in the last two days, the house select committee investigated the capital attack doubled the number of subpoena requests. i want to read to you some of the people on the requests. they include michael flynn, the former national security advisor, a campaign manager for this from 2020 reelection campaign, kayleigh mcenany, the former white house secretary, stephen miller, a former senior advisor who worked on immigration, jason miller, a senior advisor to the campaign and a spokesman for the president, and john eastman, a conservative lawyer who worked

on a dubious memo that was trying to convince mike pence to subvert the constitution. is anyone's guess how they will respond. the former president is pushing people not to respond or cooperate with the select committee, there have been people engaging so we will have to see what had. judy: thank you. ♪ judy: mexican artist freda kahlo has become almost as famous for how she looked as. how. she painted. that look was entirely by hearn design --her own design. sharing the story behind the story for her arts and culture

series canvas. jared: it was a years long cultivation. this young girl casting the camera in her spell before growing into one of the most recognizable figures of the 20th century. she is freda kahlo, whose dress, hair, and eyebrows were methodically considered and constructed. >> she had so many mayors around the house, indoors, outdoors. they were a tool for her to pose. she was composing her identities. jared: the director of the rose art museum presents freda kahlo: pose, which she co-curated, tracing the path to an icon. how mindful was she there was an audience for most of her photographs? >> i think that she was very beautiful and she used to give her photographs, autograph them and give them to people and tell

them don't forget me. never forget me. jared: the unforgettable face was captured by her father guillermo, an architectural photographer who charted her transition from a cheerful toddler to a young woman disabled after about with polio, then severe injuries resulting from an accident that left her at pains to emerge as somebody new. >> what is special about her is that she took all of that and not only survived but thrived and created something that is so impactful. jared: she adopted in her 20's her signature style while others took their fashion cues from europe and hollywood. she wore the death -- dress of indigenous women. >> she dressed from a very early age. jared: a longtime kahlo scholar

says why her dress was inspired by the women wearing the style. it disguised her disabilities. >> this dress composed by a headpiece and a long skirt. all the adornment is concentrated from the torso up, distracting the real work from her wounded legs and broken body. jared: the focus accentuated her hallmark mustache and monobrow. >> it informs her gender identity because her choice of dress and her construction of identity is not only by her ethnicity and disability. it is also by her queer identity. jared: among her identities, a masculine one. >> she was posing as a man at 19. this was a time when gender fluidity, there was no name for

that, but she was performing that in front of her father's camera. jared: without inhibitions, as kahlo would demonstrate in photographs that document the clothes -- close and sexual relationship she had with women and men. >> she teaches us a lot about ourselves. she was way ahead of our time -- her time in many ways that relate to identity, disability, ethnic identity, and being who you are. jared: which was an artist who never received fame in her lifetime, not that it deterred her. deposed she maintained with a direct gaze to the viewer and a slight turn of the head was the same she carried into her paintings, expansions of the photographs. >> paintings allow her to add symbolism. she shows herself to think about herself within the cosmos,

within broader contexts, so this is also, i think, a unique aspect of her contribution. jared: she was 47 when she died in 1954. bedridden and with one leg amputated, she had become, as she described it, the disintegration, although neither her work nor her local wavered. even on her deathbed where she painted this final self-portrait. >> she is almost disintegrating into becoming a flower and she is still wearing a tijuana dress. you can see the deterioration of her body and her capacity to hold the paintbrush. this shows her resilience. yes, it was the waiting of her life -- waning of her life, but she continued to insist on posing. jared: paul to leave a legacy that makes her a legend.

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