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and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the united states house of representatives has taken the rare step of rebuking one of its own. majority democrats voted today to censure republican paul gosar of arizona. he had tweeted an animated video of himself striking new york democrat alexandria ocasio- cortez with a sword. only two republicans voted for censure. we will return to this, after the news summary. attorneys for kyle rittenhouse demanded a mistrial today in kenosha, wisconsin. they complained about the quality of a key video that the jury wants to see again, as it deliberates. rittenhouse is charged with murdering two men and wounding a third during racial justice protests. and, in brunswick, georgia, the man who killed ahmaud arbery took the stand to testify that he feared for his life.

travis mcmichael and two other white men face murder charges. we will return to this case, later in the program. the white house today announced plans to invest billions of dollars to generate more covid vaccine doses. officials said producing another one billion doses could have benefits both global and domestic. >> the first application is likely to be used to produce more covid-19 vaccines for the world, and then we have this ability for any future threat to produce mrna vaccines to counter that. >> woodruff: also today, new numbers showed that covid is pushing drug overdose deaths to record highs. the c.d.c. estimates there were more than 100,000 in the 12 months ending last april. health officials say the pandemic cut off drug users from treatment. they also blame fentanyl, a highly lethal opioid. two men convicted of assassinating civil rights activist malcolm x in new york

in 1965 will have their names cleared. the district attorney for manhattan said today he wants a court to void the convictions of muhammad aziz and khalil islam. a new investigation has found that authorities withheld evidence in their cases. the men were released from prison in the 1980s. one has since died. state officials in louisiana today granted parole to 75-year-old henry montgomery, who was convicted of murder when he was 17. his case was pivotal to u.s. supreme court decisions that said mandatory life sentences for juveniles were cruel and unusual punishment. but, he had failed to win parole until now. parts of the u.s. pacific northwest are still reeling tonight from record rain that touched off flooding and mudslides. and, canadian officials have declared an emergency in british columbia. john yang has our report. >> yang: days of heavy rain have transformed parts of washington

state into marshland. the small town of sumas was submerged. local officials estimate that about three-quarters of the homes have water damage. hundreds of people were evacuated. sumas mayor kyle christensen. >> we're very thankful we haven't had any injuries or loss of life. that always was our biggest concern. >> yang: in the northern city of everson, a father is missing, after his car was swept away on monday. at the time, his son was on the phone with him. >> the last words i heard my dad say is "come take me out, come take me out please." he was pleading me to jump in there and take him out. >> yang: after work crews cleared many roads, the washington transportation department said today, "there are still several state highways closed due to flooding." in some parts of the state, like in mount vernon, north of seattle, waters have begun to recede, but many have lost power and suffered property damage. on monday, washington governor jay inslee declared a severe

weather state of emergency for 14 counties in the western part of the state. the effects are also being felt across the border, in canada's british columbia province. the canadian government said today it's marshaling its air force to assist the province with evacuations and to support supply lines. days of downpours in british columbia triggered floods and mudslides that shut down critical highways and railways to vancouver, cutting off its major port. at least one person was killed by the mudslides. helicopter teams had to rescue drivers. some residents in the city of abbotsford used what they had available, riding jet skis to mount cattle rescue operations. >> the farmers are very adaptive to dealing with the situations and figuring out how to do things, but we need to get some more help here from our province. >> yang: several towns in

western canada have been isolated by the storms, which have cut off transportation and choked supply lines. at least one town is reporting a shortage of food. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: an arizona man at the center of the u.s. capitol assault now faces 41 months in federal prison. jacob chansley was wearing a horned fur hat and face paint during the january riot. he was sentenced today in washington for obstructing an official proceeding of congress. he told the judge he had no excuse. former president trump's longtime ally steve bannon has pleaded not guilty to charges of contempt of congress. he defied a subpoena related to the capitol attack. the charges are misdemeanors, punishable by up to a year in prison. in india, severe air pollution forced schools in new delhi to close today-- indefinitely. several coal-based power plants were also shuttered. as smog blanketed the capital city, india's highest court

weighed imposing a lockdown to reduce pollution. but, business owners said that could damage the economy. >> ( translated ): we are already suffering losses for the past one to two years because of the pandemic lockdown, and now shutting work and businesses in the name of pollution. as it is, there is hardly any work. >> woodruff: the pollution emergency comes days after india successfully lobbied the u.n. climate summit to water down language on ending coal usage. back in this country, rap star "young dolph" was shot and killed today in memphis, his hometown. police said it happened at a cookie store. they were searching for the shooter. young dolph, born adolph thornton jr, had had three albums reach the top 10. he was 36 years old. and, a down day on wall street. the dow jones industrial average lost 211 points to close at 35,931.

the nasdaq fell 52 points. the s&p 500 slipped 12. still to come on the newshour: one of the alleged killers of ahmaud arbery takes the stand in georgia. why the "build back better" legislation could have a large effect on prescription drug prices. a chinese tennis star appears to accuse a top government official of sexual assault. plus, much more. >> woodruff: it was the first time the u.s. house of reprentatives censured one of its own in more than a decade. and as we reported, when it took that step today against republican representative paul gosar of arizona, it was divided-- nearly along party lines. lisa desjardins has been

following this all day, and she joins me now. so, lisa, hello. tell us more about what was in this video that he posted and why did d.m.s feel he should be censured? >> reporter: this video was presented by paul gosar and stayed up three dames we're not going to show this video. it depicts violence. we want people to understand what we're talking about. we'll show images to help people understand what this is. first of all, this video had a series of frenzied, fast-pacing flashes of images like this one, animated japanese characters and photos of migrants on the border, but the one getting attention is this one. alexandria ocasio-cortez, her face imposed on a titan which is a bad guy in this animated world. in front of her is a depiction of representative gosar, carrying a sword, attacking her.

she is not the only high ranking official to be depicted this way. fee end of the video is the image of a character with knives and swords attack ago president biden himself. some say this has gone too far. this is violence against public officials and members of congress and all democrats and two republicans voted he needed to be censured which means he had to face house of representatives and has been stripped of his committee positions. >> woodruff: we see only two republicans voted with the democrats on the anime, congresswoman cheney, congressman ken singer. how is paul gosar defending himself? >> reporter: from the house floor, we had two looks of what is happening. alexandria ocasio-cortez said this on the house floor today. >> it's pretty cut and dry.

do you find-- does anyone in this chamber find this behavior acceptable? would you allow depictions of violence, against women, against colleagues-- would you allow that in your home? do you think this should happen on a school board? in a city council? in a church? and if it's not acceptable there, why should it be accepted here? >> reporter: gosar said he was trying to be metaphorical and going against biden administration policies and immigration. i want to look at what he said he was doing today on the floor and what republicans said in response including leader kevin mccarthy. >> i voluntarily took the

cartoon down. not because it was itself a threat, but because some thought it was. out of compassion for those who generally felt offense, i self-censored. >> for democrats, this vote isn't about a video; it's about control. that's the one and only thing democrats are interested in. >> reporter: and republicans by and large supported osar. they don't support him behind the scenes. they know he's a controversial figure. they have problems with his associations with white nationalists in the past. they say democrats went too far and sort of jumped the process in this situation. >> woodruff: lisa, you were on the hill all the time. what does this mean for how things are going to work up there? >> reporter: i want to say republicans and democrats alike by and large behind the sees see representative gosar sometimes as a joke. a republican told me today they see him as a whack job, somebody they don't respect. this is a serious video and democrats are all concerned about messages and violence and in the last ten years alone we've had two members of congress shot, gabrielle giffords and steve scalise,

because of an atmosphere in this country, politics becoming violent. there's a real concern we're back in that place, we were after january 6th, a lot of tension and concern tonight the congress. >> woodruff: very worrying. lisa desjardins, thank you very much. >> reporter: you're welcome. >> woodruff: and for more on today's events and this political environment, i'm joined by representative nicole malliotakis of new york. she is one of the 13 republicans who voted to pass the infrastructure bill. congresswoman malliotakis, welcome back to the "newshour". as we said, you voted for infrastructure but against the anime of your -- the censure of your colleague. does that mean you condone what he did? >> the animation is bad to post. the way nancy pelosi played politics, she refused to go after her members who had done inappropriate things. look at animon, her commence,

ferc swalwell who had an affair with a spy and sits on the intel committee. maxine waters who cited civil unrest. we're tired of nancy pelosi picking on our members but not going after her own members misdeeds. with regard to the bipartisan infrastructure bill, it's a good bill for the people of my district, the people of new york. over 10% of the money will be coming to my state. i don't know how many people to have the state of new york could vote against it. this is so critical with nearly half the money going to roads, bridges and highways and the remaining 550 billion in new spending going to transit systems, ferry systems, coastal resiliency projects like the seawall so critical to my district after hurricane san didevastated my community and expandinged the sewer infrastructure which was so important, as you saw after ida. >> woodruff: two questions

about the vote today, are you saying this kind of an mated video congressman gosar put forward is a good representation of what the republican party stands for? he talked about it for younger voters. >> reporter: absolutely not. the content was inappropriate. again, we're tired of nancy pelosi playing politics and not going after her own members when they do inappropriate things. i think you should be asking nancy pelosi why is she only picking on republicans, why is she not going after members within her own party who have done very bad things as well in terms of inciting civil unrest, in terms of potentially sharing information, that is secret information as a member of the intel committee, with somebody with maybe a chinese spy, none of these things have been brought up and i think the double standard is what this vote was about more than anything just as leader mccarthy indicated earlier today. >> woodruff: you're saying by the things you just listed that democrats have done that that's

equivalent to portraying the killing by one member of congress of another one? >> the animation was inappropriate, as i've said. >> woodruff: i'm asking because the american people look at this and they wonder what has happened to the ability of congress to wrk together. i mean, as lisa desjardins was just reporting, there's real concern now that the ability of members of congress to work together, the vitriol is off the charts. >> well, i agree that there is lot of polarization in congress now. look at the way that i have been treated by some simply because i voted for a bipartisan infrastructure bill that is good for my district, and i think that's what representative democracy is about, being able to go to congress and vote for a particular measure i believe is a good investment for the future of this country and those that i represent, particularly a community like new york city with aging infrastructure. we look for opportunities to work in a bipartisan fashion,

certainly, but right now when you see democrats trying to move this country in a direction of socialism, that has created a lot of polarization in congress, and it makes it very difficult to get things done. >> woodruff: let me ask you about your vote for the infrastructure bill because, as you know and you mentioned it yourself, a number of those who voted for it on the republican side have been subjected to very strong language from american voters, and this after former president trump said that you and others who voter for it should be "ashamed of yourselves." you were in the audience when he said that. what was your reaction? >> reporter: look, i respect president trump, as you know. i've supported him, he also endorsed me. i had a very good conversation with him the day following that dinner in which we shared our views on this particular bill. i'm happy to still have his support, and we're moving forward united as a party to push back against

president biden's build back better agenda. most to have the angry phone calls for people outside of new york is because they believe i voted for a bill that contained the i.r.s. agents doubling to target americans. they don't want to pay for the extra 87,000i.r.s. agents, amnesty, expanding welfare without work requirements or any other social programs, that is why people are extraordinarily upset and why the republican party is united and we hope moderates will be cranes to stand up against those who want to fundamentally change our country. >> woodruff: you said you had a conversation with president trump but it was his criticism of your vote and the vote of other republicans that it appears has generated much of what americans are saying to republicans. i want to quickly play an excerpt of what your republican colleague fred upton released to the public. this is what he was left in a phone message from an american

voter. >> (bleep) traitor. that's what you are. you're a piece of (bleep) traitor. i hope you die. i hope everybody in your (bleep) family dies. you piece of (bleep), (bleep). >> woodruff: to what degree do you hold president trump for generating this type of reaction? >> i don't think he's responsible at all. this is an individual who made the decision to make the phone call which i think is incredibly inappropriate but why would the former president be blamed for that? at doesn't make sense. the information surrounding the infrastructure bill, 100% cover to cover real infrastructure, critical to my district and across the country. what most people are upset about is the bind's build back better bill, the reconciliation bill we are currently fighting in washington. we don't want to see more government control and intrusion

in our lives, more taxing and man dates, the doubling of i.r.s. agents looking into every bank transaction you and your family make, we don't want to see illegal immigrants getting benefits american citizens aren't currently getting. this is exactly why american people are so upset and i think that certainly is inappropriate that people are calling reacted officials making those -- elected officials making those types of comments. i've gotten my own share of very disturbing phone calls as well from people outside my district. it's very important that we do not try to mischaracterize these pieces ofegislation because that is where this anger is coming from and, unfortunately, that's what has occurred here and that's why i'm doing as many interviews as possible to explain to people these are two separate bis. the infrastructure is cover to cover infrastructure that we've desperately needed for decades in our country and that local and national leaders didn't put forward the investment that was

needed. we're united against the socialist spending bill, the build back better bill and we're going to fight back to defeat it. >> congresswoman nicole malliotakis. thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> woodruff: one of three men on trial for fatally shooting ahmaud arbery-- who was black-- took the stand today in his own defense. travis mcmichael, who is white, testified a day after the prosecution rested, in a murder trial that is racially charged and being closely watched around the country. william brangham has the latest. >> brangham: mcmichael is being charged with murder and other crimes, along with two other men. the accused say they were attempting a citizen's arrest on arbery, suspecting him of robbing a nearby house. prosecutors allege the men illegally chased down and killed

arbery. on the stand today, mcmichael described the moment he shot arbery, claiming it was done in self-defense: >> i shot him. >> why? >> he had my gun. he struck me. it was obvious that he was it was obvious he was-- it was obvious that he was attacking me. that if he got the shotgun from me, then it was a life-or-death situation, and i'm going to have to stop him from doing this, so i shot. >> brangham: we should say the prosecution has disputed that characterization of the events. joining me now is margaret coker. she's editor-in-chief of“ the current,” a non-profit, non-partisan news organization in southeastern georgia. she has been covering the trial in brunswick since it started last month. margaret coker, great to have you on the "newshour". so we just heard there from travis mcmichael. can you tell us a little bit more about what he is claiming on the witness stand that happened in this fatal moment? >> yeah, travis mcmichael is, of course, the younger of the

two mcmichaels. he and his father are the codefendants along with neighbor william roddie bryan. the actions that they took that day are now under the microscope. travis mcmichael has always within straightforward saying he killed arbery. the jury will decide. mcmichael tried to put things in his own context, what was going through his mind when he decided to grab his gun with his father and chase arbery through the neighborhood in bucs in southeast georgia. what travis is trying to do is make himself more human. he is a prson who has been characterized by the special agents who decided to arrest him and his father and their codefendants. he's been him picketed as a white racist, a white supremacist, someone who had

a:fed rat flag vanity license plate. someone who might have used the n word after he stood over arbery after he shot them. this is depictions he and his family say are nonsense and he's been trying to put a human face on that tragic day, february 3, 2020. >> reporter: the defense argued they moved for a mistrial and said all the charges should be dropped. what is the basis on which they're making at argument? >> they say, clearly, that nothing illel happened that day. they have always put forward their clients have done nothing wrong, that they acted both within georgia law, which, at that time, allowed for a citizens arrest, and also they acted in self-defense. they say the prosecution hasn't hit that bar even to show that those crimes were committed. the judge, of course, has denied all of those motions and, so, here we have the defendants finally taking the stand.

>> reporter: the prosecution rested its case earlier this week. what do you make of the case? have they, in your judgment, hit the bar for a murder conviction? >> georgia has a different rder statute. it's felony murder, malice murder or manslaughter, so the prosecution doesn't have to prove intent, she doesn't have to prove someone was a racis when they chased arbery down the street. she only has to prove in the heat of the moment that there were bad assumptions made, that there were two different sets of opinions happening on the street that day, and they willfully killed someone. the citizens arrest law that's been repealed, you know, there's very clear language that people trying to detain a person had to have seen a felony happen or have reasonable suspension that that happened. both the happen myels and bryan said they didn't see what

happened, they chased arbery for bad assumptions. >> reporter: margaret coker, editor-in-chief of "the current," thank you so much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: even while president biden is promoting the new infrastructure package, he and democrats are trying to win approval of a social spending and climate bill, called "build back better." part of that bill is aimed at lowering prescription drug prices for older americans. amna nawaz has the details, as part of our look at what's at stake in this bill. >> nawaz: judy, one of the most debated pieces of the bill is an agreement that would allow the government-- through medicare-- to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies on certain drugs starting in 2025. it would also cap out-of-pocket costs for seniors at $2,000 a year, starting in 2024. for diabetic patients, out-of- pocket costs for insulin would

be capped at $35 for a 30-day supply, starting in 2023. to help us understand more about the impact of this-- and its limits-- i'm joined by stacie dusetzina, associate professor of health policy at vanderbilt university school of medicine. professor, welcome to the "newshour". thank you for making the time. that key provision in this proposal, the ability to negotiate for prescription drug prices, we know some democrats wand medicare to have the power to do that with many more drugs, up to 250 drugs, that was significantly scaled back in this bill. tell me about that and the impact you through that will have. >> so it is a major scaleback from the original proposal, but i think it is still a very important change. so, to date, medicare hasn't been able to negotiate for any drug prices. so the ability to negotiate for drug prices, even though it only starts with ten drugs and drugs that have been on the market for a long time for about nine to 13 years, it is a major step

forward, and i think it will result in savings overall, but it is very different than the original plan. >> reporter: obviously, as you mentioned, this doesn't apply to new drugs. i guess from the farm tool company's per specific, if you're looking to maintain or increase profits, how do you know they won't do things like just boost the prices of the drugs that aren't under negotiation to make up for some of that? >> we don't know that. that is something we're going to be watching. i think that another important part of this bill is it does reduce the ability of companies to raise their prices above inflation in the medicare part d program and in medicare part b, so it is trying to address some of these potential concerns about price increases. but certainly new drugs may come out with higher prices. it's yet unclear. i do think t price, you know, te ability to negotiate for some drugs, again, is completely different than the status quo, so being able to open up the door to drug price negotiations is an important first step.

>> reporter: what about the benefit for people with private insurance? is it the same? >> so for private insurance, they will not have nearly as many impacts from this bill. the large tropical storm one is rearl the imvision around -- is really around the provisi for insulin coverage to be offered around $35. so it is scaled back when it comes to how the bill would affect the private insurance market. but the provisions also provide a huge amount of benefits and fix a lot of known problems with both medicare and medicaid. >> reporter: obvioly another important provision, capping those out of pocket annual costs at $2,000 a year for people 65 and older. how many people is that likely to impact? >> estimates from 2019 suggest that over 1.5 million medicare beneficiaries had spending of over $2,000 on the benefit, so we know that that's a pretty good estimate of how many people may be affected. we also know a lot of people don't fill their prescriptions

because of cost-related concerns, so the benefit could extend to more people. separately, even if you don't think you're going to hit this $2,000 maximum, it provides financial security for you in case you need expensive medications. so i think the benefit is for everyone in the medicare part d program. >> reporter: w know bringing down prescription drug prices has been a battle for years, decads even. given the pushback we've seen from pharmaceutical companies, do you think this is the best proposal for lawmakers to negotiate drug prices or an opening for future generations down the line? >> i think it's an opening and it recognizes some of the concerns between thraves in lower prices and innovations because the evidence for the tradeoff isn't well established. this can give us thaws on price negotiation and how to spend our

dollars more wisely and opens the door to future discussions. >> reporter: quickly, i'll ask you, like a lot of things on capitol hill, mixed reviews, so conservative groups attack this as a socialist scheme, lumbers say it's a water sexually harassed. how do you view it as a policy expert? >> a real wn for consumers and medicare beneficiaries. i spend a lot of time thinking about access to cancer drugs on the medicare benefit and i think the benefits are large for the consumer. i think they may open up concerns about how the set truck prices initially and other places where we might need some intervention, but i think it's a very important first step. >> reporter: professor stacie dusetzina, associate professor of health policy at vanderbilt university, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you.

>> woodruff: as we reported, the biden administration is ramping up plans for vaccine manufacturing for the coming year. but, developing nations have been struggling with delays and shortages for months. moderna reportedly will supply 56 million more doseto the global vaccine initiative known as covax, but far more is still needed. william brangham is back with that story. >> brangham: while the u.s. and the european union have gotten doses to roughly 70% of their populations, the rest of the world lags far behind. across the african continent, just over 6% have been vaccinated. in developing nations, it's even lower. just around 4% of people have received their first shot. joining me now is someone whose job is dedicated to righting that imbalance. dr. seth berkley is the c.e.o. of the gavi vaccine alliance, one of the key partners in covax. dr. berkley, great to have you back on the newshour. broadly speaking, help us understand why this imbalance

exists. i mean, you've gotten hundreds of millions of doses out the door to nations, but it's still less than you had hoped thus far. why is that? >> well, it's a really interesting question. when a pandemic occurs, of course, there's a number of things you need to have happen. first, you have to figure out whether you have a counter- measure-- in this case, vaccines. and we're really lucky. we have vaccines. most of them have worked. we saw the first vaccine 327 days after it started, in terms of it being made available. so that was the good news. the challenge was, wealthy countries, of course, bought up all of the doses at the beginning. and when we started covax, of course, we had no money for purchasing these doses and had no staff, so we had to build those efforts as well as set up things like the no-fault compensation schemes, the-- the regulatory approvals for countries. but of course, right now, it is really picking up.

we've delivered more than a half a billion doses, and by the end of the year, we expect to have a little around a billion doses that are in delivery. >> brangham: there is some reporting that moderna is about to have another announcement that they will get several millions of doses out the door. broadly speaking also, what-- what role do you place on pharmaceutical companies to do their part, getting doses free or low cost to the developing world? >> well, what's critical is we expect that companies will honor their commitments. and sometimes that hasn't been the case. now, when you scale from nothing-- if we look at the world, the world normally produces between 3.5 and five billion doses. and this year, maybe 12 billion doses of covid vaccine. so it's been an incredible scale-up, and that means there have been many manufacturing problems. the critical issue for us is if you promise to make doses for covax, if you are not able to do that, are you sharing that

problem with your other paying customers? or are you specifically not providing doses for low-income countries, while you're continuing to provide doses for your high-income customers? and that's the type of transparency we need. >> brangham: do you think, going forward-- god forbid we have another one of these pandemics, but it's likely that we will-- then when governments make contracts with these companies, especially when taxpayer money is involved, that it ought to have tighter restrictions? to say, if this vaccine is successful, you must give x% to the developing world, you must share your intellectual property to help other nations build and distribute these vaccines as well? should we do a better job of that? >> well, first of all, it is evolutionarily certain we will have other outbreaks. whether they'll be vaccine preventable or not, is of course unknown. but i think the critical thing here is not that the companies have to give-- we made a decision that, you know, we would work with for-profit companies to develop our products.

but what we want to make sure is there's access. and that's what happened at the beginning-- there was no access whatsoever. of course, since we didn't know which vaccines would work, every country wanted to buy-- not one vaccine if they could, and that's why we ended up with countries with lots of excess doses. and when we didn't have any doses, we called on those countries to say, please, if you have excess doses, make them available now. >> brangham: given all of these issues, going forward, what does 2022 look like for the developing world? are we still talking about a very small minority of people getting the doses that they so desperately need now? >> it's quite the opposite. i believe by the end of this year, 2021, we should get close to the goal that we had originally had, which was to cover not only all the high-risk people-- so, healthcare workers, elderly, those with co- morbidities, something around 20% of the population. but, you know, the goal that president biden put on the table was to try to get to 70% of the global population by the u.n.

general assembly next year. now, that's a very tough goal. i'm not going to say we're going to hit it everywhere, but we are planning towards it. we actually have visibility towards 4.5 billion doses, which is what it would take to get us there. we'll need some more money. we'll need some more help on delivery. but it is plausible to get to a situation very soon where countries have the doses they want. the challenge is going to be, will they want to take it all the way up? and how do we deal with vaccine hesitancy and demand-related issues, which is an important challenge. >> brangham: dr. seth berkley, c.e.o. of the gavi vaccine alliance, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> woodruff: more than 70 million americans have some sort of criminal or arrest record. and for many, that can prevent them from passing a background check and getting a job.

amna nawaz is back to profile one woman's fight to overcome her past, and to prove herself, at one of the biggest tech companies in the world. it's part of our “searching for justice” series, looking at the challenges after incarceration. >> nawaz: from days spent working from home, in sales for microsoft, to evening strolls with her husband and dog, shelley winner's life here in california's bay area today is one she could've never imagined just a few years ago. >> if someone wod have told me, you know, when i was sitting back in my prison cell five or six years ago, that one day i'd be working at microsoft, i would have laughed in their face. >> nawaz: her path to that prison cell, she says, began early. winner grew up in sacramento. her mother, she says, was often absent. her stepfather was in and out of prison. >> he told me the rule of the house was, if i wanted to do any hard drugs, that i had to bring them home and share them

with him. and he was using and selling meth out of our home. i didn't know what a hangover was, but looking back now, i was definitely hungover at 11 years old. >> nawaz: as a teen, she began using crystal meth. in her 20s, her addiction eventually eclipsed everything else. >> i couldn't keep a regular job working eight hours. drugs was more important to me. lived that life for well over a decade. started selling drugs, and eventually i got caught by the federal government. and right after my arrest, that's when i found out i was pregnant. >> nawaz: pregnant, fighting addiction, and facing a ten-year sentence, winner decided to change. she entered rehab, got clean, and two months after giving birth to her son, reported to prison. she served a year and a half of a four-year sentence, and says that time was transformational, thanks to a number of programs available inside.

when she got out in 2016, she was ready for a new life, and knew exactly what she wanted to do. >> well, it's funny. when i was running and gunning, my favorite thing to do when i got high was build and fix computers. >> nawaz: is that right? >> yeah. >> nawaz: just a few months free, staying in a halfway house, she landed an interview for a retail position in a microsoft store. >> here i was, fresh out of prison, and now i'm interviewing with one of the biggest tech companies in the world. and i knew if i could get my foot in the door, this company, that my life would drastically change. >> nawaz: and do you get the job after the interview? >> she hired me right on the spot. >> nawaz: winner knew her record would show up in a background check. so, she decided to be up-front, and lay her cards on the table. >> all of the certificates of rehabilitative classes that i took in prison.

because i wanted them to see that i wasn't lying. unfortunately, they came back and said, we are not going to move forward with your hire. >> nawaz: so to go from that, to having that offer-- >> yep. >> nawaz: to that chance taken away-- >> yeah. >> nawaz: what did that feel like? >> it was devastating. i felt like i was forever going to be punished for my criminal record for the rest of my life, that i was going to be wearing these invisible handcuffs for the rest of my life. and although i had paid my debt to society, it wasn't enough. >> nawaz: shelley winner had just run into the same barrier as millions of other formerly- incarcerated people. but because this job was in san francisco, shelley had access to something most don't: a law that gave her the legal grounds to fight for that job. in 2014, san francisco's mayor signed the fair chance ordinance, requiring employers

to consider mitigating circumstances and evidence of rehabilitation for any job applicant with a criminal record. it also requires employers to prove that criminal record is relevant to the job before turning down the applicant. on those grounds, winner challenged microsoft's denial in 2017. she was invited to re-interview, and this time, got the job. >> i was so excited. all of that devastation and that hurt and that sadness, gone. i mean, i was-- i was just ecstatic. and i remember the recruiter, she says, wow, you know, i've never had a response like this before. i say, girl, i have gone through it. >> nawaz: so, if this law wasn't on the books, and shelley hadn't called you, what would have been her recourse? >> she wouldn't have had any direct recourse. >> nawaz: patrick mulligan leads

san francisco's office of labor standards enforcement, which implements that fair chance ordinance. >> there's 70 million americs, adult americans, that have some sort of arrest or conviction history. that's nearly a third of the employment is regarded as probably the number-one issue regarding recidivism in this country. so, i think it's a societal and issues that affect a third of the adult population, i think are important for everybody. >> nawaz: across the country, 37 states and more than 150 cities and counties have “ban the box” rules that prevent public sector employers from asking about incarceration on a job application. but, only 15 states and 22 localities require the same for private employers. and even fewer states, cities, and counties include laws for private employers that are as strong as san francisco's. there will be people who say, shouldn't employers be allowed to say who gets to work for their companies and who doesn't? >> they do. but there are some restrictions on that. you know, we already have laws

in place around various types of racial bias, discriminatory practices, and this really just falls among those, you know, >> the systems are there to help vet and qualified candates quickly, and get you the right people, which is the right thing to do. the challengis, is the system looking for people that can help your company change? >> nawaz: jason ford is a microsoft executive who met winner while she worked in the retail job. >> what if you were only known for the worst thing you'd ever done? >> nawaz: he saw a tedx presentation she gave in 2019, advocating for other formerly incarcerated people, and says he was immediately impressed. ford wanted to promote her from retail, to his corporate team. this time, when her background check raised concerns, ford pushed back. >> we are really focused on trying to be very thoughtful and inclusive. sometimes you have to push the

systems to catch up to it, but sometimes the systems don't know that these communities are areas that we can tap into for talent. and so it just takes, i think, a forceful perspective for people to lean in. >> nawaz: and that includes formerly incarcerated people. >> formerly-incarcerated people are a huge population, and they have to be contributing members of society. so maybe not all of them are going to be capable of doing some of the things that we're asking, or maybe not all of them bring the diversity that we would need, but there's no way that none of them do. >> nawaz: earlier this year, microsoft joined the second chance business coalition-- a group of major corporations pledging to expand hiring and advancement of people with criminal records. winner's now 2.5 years into her corporate job-- working in surface tablet sales to other businesses. her latest fight is for full custody of her son, who's been with other family since she went to prison. still, winner says, she's grateful for her second chances, and knows there are many more people out there who need them, too. >> as formerly-incarcerated, we

tend to get beat down by society stigmas and beliefs about us, and we tend to buy into those beliefs. i wasn't going to do that. i was going to show society that i am a worthy person, that i deserve to have an amazing job. i deserve to be a productive member of society. this whole process, i've had a lot of fear, and there were times where i almost gave up, but i'm so glad i didn't. >> nawaz: for the pbs newshour, i'm amna nawaz in vallejo, california. >> woodruff: one of china's biggest sports stars appeared recently to publicly accuse a former top governmenofficial of sexual assault. as stephanie sy explains, there are now new questions about what happened, and the broader issue of "me too" in china. >> sy: judy, this month, chinese tennis star peng shuai

seemed to accuse a former top chinese government official, zhang gaoli, of forcing her to have sex, making zhang the highest-ranking chinese official called out by china's fledgling #metoo movement. she posted to a chinese social media site, which promptly deleted it. high-profile players voiced their support, amid fears she went missing. naomi osaka tweeted, "censorship is never okay at any cost; i hope peng shuai and her family are safe and okay." but today, chinese state tv tweeted a copy of an email peng allegedly sent to the women's tennis association: "the allegation of sexual assault is not true,” she wrot“" i'm not missing, nor am i unsafe." for more on this, i'm joined by jane mcmanus, a sports reporter and director of the center for sports communication at marist college. jane, this has all gotten very complicated in the last few

hours. today peng shuai supposedly sent this email to the wta denying her original claim and saying she was not sexually assaulted. but this afternoon the chair of the wta puts out a statement saying i have a hard time believing that peng shuai actually wrote the email or believes what is being attributed to her. he says her safety still needs to be received. what -- verified. what do you make of this? >> the wta has been trying different avenues to make contact with pandemic peng and they have not been able to do it, so to have an email which says curious things like i am safe and resting at home, which seems to be not the case, you know, i think it raises questions for them about the veracity of this email, how it was written, under what circumstances somebody might have written the email. >> reporter: china is an enormously important market for u.s.-based sports leads. were you surprised to see the

chair of the wta steve simon double down on an investigation on behalf of one of its players. >> actually the wta has made the strongest statement sense in reaction to something china's done. we haven't seen this from the n.b.a. or premiere league which also have had players who was spoken out against alleged abuses china's had. the wta is really risking a lot in its relationship with china. it has at least ten tournaments in a normal covid year in china, top tier, and major sponsors who are chinese companies, so risking millions if not more when risking this relationship. i think the wta and certainly simon's statement says that the wta values some of these underlying values of the league a little bit more than it's going to value the money. >> reporter: could we see the wta boycott china? >> simon has threatened to remove tournents from china if

the situation isn't resolved to his satisfaction and the safety of peng shuai isn't assured. so i think we could see something like that. so many times the negotiations between companies and human rights abusers takes place behind doors, there is diplomacy that takes place around a crisis like this, so to make a public statement and challenges china's version of what happened here is a risky play for the wta. i don't know what the end will be but there's potential for real damage here in this relationship. >> reporter: i want to talk about this in the larger contest of the #metoo movement in china. peng's post was deleted by censors in china. they're good about that. given the stature of this sports star, as well as the governor official who is allied with the president xi jinping, --

>> it's an optics problem for china. they will be hosting the olympics in a few weeks. the idea of china and the the sports is very much in the forefront of a lot of people's thinking now. you have a lot of governments questioning how involved they should be in this olympics, you know, with the human rights allegations against china, and, so, obviously, this is -- you know, this is something that really stands. the way they've cracked down not just on peng shuai's social media, all mentions of tennis in some cases. i think the "new york times" had a report where certain key words like that were no longer searchable in china. but this has happened, you know, with the larger #metoo movement as well where it's related to feminism or sexual assault allegations or #metoo have also been censored, key phrases. this is part of the thing that sparks the critique that it has to try and censor. >> reporter: sports reporter jane mcmanus, thank you for joining us the "newshour".

>> appreciate it. thank you for having me. >> woodruff: and we will continue to follow that story. and on the newshour online, a look inside detroit's japanese american community, which has built a legacy intertwined with the city's history, the history of the automobile, and american history, all while telling its own story. that's on www.pbs.org/newshour. and that is 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 we'll see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> the rules of business are being reinvented, with a more flexible workforce, by embracing innovation, by looking not only at current opportunities, but ahead to future ones. >> people who know, know b.d.o. >> for 25 years, consumer cellular's goal has been to provide wireless serce that helps people communicate and connect. we offer a variety of

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