>> good evening and welcome. on the newshour tonight, guns in america. a damming new report on the law enforcement response to the uvalde school massacre that shows failure on multipleronts as more mass shootings take place across the u.s. then, europe struggles with major wildfires and energy uncertainty amid a massive continent wide heatwave. and a call to arms. how increasingly by that rhetoric is becoming a dangerous feature of republican campaigns and party messaging. >> you have a bipartisan system in which one of those two parties has left democracy to

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amna: police in indianapolis are looking for answers after the latest mass shooting. a man armed with two rifles killed three people in a mall food court last night. investigators say a bystander legally armed with a handgun shot and killed the gunman. a heatwave is scorching the central u.s. with temperatures at dangerous levels. extreme heat warnings were issued across the west, midwest, and south. ratings range from 100 degrees in fargo to 110 in dallas. officials in texas born power use could break records as customers crank up the air conditioning. a separate seat -- a separate heatwave moved north into britain today. temperatures top 100 degrees, closing schools and train lines and closing some airports after runways melted.

the heat has fueled wildfires in france and spain. heat related deaths are in the 100s. we will return to all this later. russia continued its campaign of heavy shelling, killing even more civilians. rescuers scoured a residential building after a missile strike killed at least six people. in moscow, president putin remained defiant over western sanctions. he insisted russia will not let itself be cut off. >> [translated] we cannot develop in isolation from the rest of the world. you cannot put up a huge fence around yourself. amna: he plans to travel to iran tomorrow. u.s. officials have warned to run plans to supply the russians with more drones. the acting president of sri lanka declared a state of emergency, giving himself broad power as protesters demand his resignation. he warned protesters may face a

tougher response going forward. >> [translated] in this country today there is a campaign to violate the law. we have to oppose this and protect law and order. destroy the country's law and order. i will accept peaceful protesters. kaomi: members of trade unions protested outside the main roadway terminal in the capital city. they insisted they will not back down. the former president fled the country last week and resigned amid economic collapse and political unrest. several large chinese cities are building out new mass testing and limited lockdowns as covid-19 infections are on the rise. that comes as new subvariants are pushing cases higher around the world. the new york times reports average daily cases in the u.s.

are up 15% in the last two weeks. wall street lost ground after early gains faded. the dow jones lost 230 points. the nasdaq fell 92 points. the s&p 500 slipped 32. still to come, former trump advisor steve bannon faces trial for contempt of congress. our politics monday team breaks down the latest headlines. a new book makes the case for rickey henderson as one of baseball's all-time greats. plus much more. >> this is the pbs newshour from w eta news studios in washington and in the last from walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. amna: let's return to our top story, the continuing epidemic of shootings and gun-related deaths in america. from indiana to texas to florida and many other places, communities, families and individuals are coping today with the aftermath of violence

that remains all too routine. gun violence in america shows no sign of slowing, as the nation faced another weekend of mass shootings. sunday evening at an indianapolis mall, an alleged gunman, identified as 20-year-old jonathan sapirman, shot and killed three people and injured two more. police say an armed civilian then shot and killed the gunman. >> many more people would've died last night if not for a responsible, armed citizen that took action very quickly within the first two minutes of this shooting. amna: the gun violence archive reports 15 mass shootings this weekend in which four or more people were shot. they count more than 350 so far this year. on sunday, new details from uvalde, texas revealed "systemic failures" in response to the shooting at robb elementary school. the 77-page report from a texas house committee found nearly 400 local, state, and federal

officers were on scene, but with no clear leadership, they, quote, "failed to prioritize saving the lives of innocent victims over their own safety." >> the training and standards we set for officers is if you know there's active shooting, active killing going on or if somebody is dying, the standard is you have to continue to do something to stop that killing or stop that dieting. that day, several officers in the hallway or in that buildg knew or should have known there was dying in that classroom, and they should have done more, acted with urgency. amna: little solace for the grieving families in uvalde. sergio garcia's 9-year-old son uziyah was one of the 19 children killed. >> whatever i see in this report is not going to bring my son back, but we need to prevent it so somebody else won't lose their son or their daughter or their kids. this needs to be the last time this happens to a school. amna: meanwhile, the ripple effects of gun violence continue

across other american communities. in florida today, opening statements in the death penalty trial of the gunman in the 2018 parkland high school shooting. the prosecution began to make its case. >> the murders, all 17, were heinous, atrocious and cruel. all 17 were cold, calculated and premeditated. amna: also today, in buffalo, new york, the gunman who allegedly killed 10 black people at a grocery store was arraigned on federal hate crime charges. in highland park, illinois today -- today, the final funeral for the july for parade shooting. just one of many communities still in mourning and waiting for justice to be served. this afternoon the texas state police announced it would do its own review after the uvalde report laid out systemic failures and detailed, quote, "egregiously poor decision making" by law enforcement. it's out 376 officers responded

-- it found 376 officers responded that day, representing 20 different agencies. yet there was lack of effective incident command, and it was unclear who was in charge. the report also outlines how school staff developed a sense of complacency with safety protocols, leaving doors unlocked or propped open for convenience. i'm joined now by tony plohetski. he's an investigative reporter for the austin american-statesman who has closely covered the robb elementary shooting and its fallout since that tragic day. welcome back. thank you for joining us. you have covered this from the beginning so what stands out to you from this report? tony: this report is filled with so many wrenching revelations and it does paint the most complete picture of what happened that horrible day. over the past 7.5 weeks, we have gotten information in drips and drives and so much of that information has proven to be false and authorities have found

themselves having to amend statements, correct, or throw them out altogether. the fact we now have a written report based on the testimony of dozens of people, including many law enforcement officials, it really does paint the scene. tragically, the more information we learn from going through this report, it is renewing so much pain and loss for the families of uvalde and it does show just such an epic failure of law enforcement in responding to everytng. amna: when you think back to those early days, i remember so much focus from state officials pointing the blame at uvalde police, specifically the district police chief, pet arredondo. this report shows there were multiple failures by multiple officers from multiple agencies. we need to stress officials have known about this for weeks so why are we learning about it now?

tony: certainly there has been a narrative that frankly has been nurtured, which is that the responding officers were from a small town. they were out of their depth. they truly were the ones who did not respond appropriately. but to yooint, now know from this report that there were law enforcement agencies at the state as well as the federal level, including the texas department of public safety. the border patrol wa also on the ground. this report makes it clear that the majority of the police officers who responded to the school were state and federal law enforcement. the idea that this was a small town problem really does get thrown out when you consider the number of officers who were there and from all the different agencies. i think today as we continue to make sense of all this, it only

serves to deepen the question about law enforcement training and response for active shooter situations like this one. amna: i'm sure this is small comfort for the families who had to bury children, barry loved ones, many of them forever traumatized even if they survived. we know they are raising concerns about a potential cover-up. how has this report fed any of those narratives and how are they responding to the latest revelations? >> certainly among those 21 families and the people of uvalde, there is no real uniform response from this information. i can tell you many people within that town are very angry. they are heartbroken. this has renewed their grief. at the same time, many of them are also taking some solace, if that is even possible, in knowing the facts, as difficult as they are to comprehend and

make sense of. many of them are taking some comfort in knowing what happened that terrible day and not having all the unanswered questions. amna: briefly, what about accountability? the school district police chief has been put on leave. the mayor has put the acting police chief for the city on leave. do we know what happens next? tony: that's a question we have been asking today. the texas department of public safety has created an internal committee to look at the response of its officers but we are in the process of pulling all the agencies to see if they will do an internal review of officers' action. amna: tony has been following the massacre at robb elementary school. thank you for joining us.

scorching heat, buckling roads, raging fires, and hundreds dead already. an intense heat wave has gripped much of europe. today in the town of nantes, france, a reading of 107.6 fahrenheit. temperatures touched 100 in the u.k. paris, london and rome inched closer to 100. madrid was 102. year and as special correspondent malcolm brabant reports, most of europe cannot cope. malcolm: it is sunday afternoon just off dover. before we got on, the temperature was a pleasant 75 degrees fahrenheit. we are racing ahead of a north african weather system which is going to send temperatures in britain to a record-breaking 104 degrees fahrenheit. normally in britain people like sunshine, but this sort of

temperature could kill people. the british reputation for keeping cool and carrying on. trafalgar square became a spa for the day. >> you walk from shadow to shadow. anywhere you have to stay in the sun for a long time is off-limits. sticking in place like we are now as opposed to walking next to the thames. malcolm: though the mercury did not reach predicted heights, it was brutal enough. infrastructure wilted. >> it is hot. amna: the runways -- malcolm: the runways at a military base melted and flights were suspended. beneath their bare skins, ceremonial soldiers maintained the composure expected. on the european mainland close to the mediterranean, wildfires raged, causing thousands to flee their homes.

the situation has been dire in spain and portugal, but more than 1000 people have died from the summer heat, not the flames. a firefighter -- >> [translated] we are scared. there is a tomato plantation there. if the wind changes this way, it burns down my parents house. if it changes this way, it burns down my wife's work, what we live on. malcolm: as the french headed to beaches, experts were warning of the heat apocalypse. several hundred people have died in france. fears about fatalities across the border to germany. >> it is just after lunchtime, heading for a ferry to take me to denmark. the temperature for most of the day has been about 77 degrees fahrenheit but tomorrow there is a heat warning for this region of germany. the big news is at a climate conference, scientists have

warned the world is facing catastrophe because it's not going to meet the targets to keep temperature rise down to 1.5 centigrade. they are predicting three degrees centigrade. at the conference, the u.n. secretary general had this morning -- >> half of humanity is in the danger zone from floods, droughts, extreme storms, and wildfires. no nation is immune. yet we continue to feed our fossil fuel addiction. malcolm: germany's foreign minister warned russia's invasion of ukraine was exacerbating the climate crisis. >> russia's war of aggression against ukraine is exacerbating a global energy and food crisis that is pushing millions into poverty, hunger, and starvation. while we are still grappling with the fallout of the pandemic , the impacts of climate change are becoming even more dangerous across the world.

north on the ferry to denmark, the temperatures cooled. the ship had a hybrid power system using electric batteries to reduce reliance on traditional diesel engines. it's an effort to curb climate change but is not enough. amna: as high as temperatures have been in recent days, forecasters are expecting even hotter days in some parts of europe tomorrow. stephanie sy gets the perspective of a climate scientist in europe watching all of this. stephanie: let's focus on the underlying reasons behind this extreme heat wave and the risks. joining us now is emily schuckburgh, the director of cambridge zero, the university of cambridge's climate change initiative. thank you so much for joining the newshour. you have had several heat waves over the years, but does this summer feel different, more worrisome? >> the mood really is different.

think that we've now seen in the u.k. and across europe, summer after summer with heat waves that are causing real human hardship, whether that's in terms of the number of people who have died or just even the disruption to daily life. there are terrifying wildfires that are impacting communities, but we've also seen across europe, the devastation caused by flooding events as well. i was in southern france a few weeks ago, and devastating floods in southern france from two years ago, you can still see the immense damage that's occurred as a consequence of that. so it's very much the case in the u.k. and throughout europe that everyone knows somebody who's been affected by the impacts of climate change. and i think that has changed the mood and people really are starting to realize that climate

change isn't any longer a problem of tomorrow. it's a problem that's affecting people economically and affecting people in terms of human lives today. stephanie: here in phoenix, arizona to have a triple digit day is the norm but most people have air conditioners. our people having to adopt the infrastructure of hotter summers there because you are starting to see extreme heat waves more often? >> that's exactly the of course, point. there are many parts of the united states that experience hotter temperatures, you know, on a daily basis throughout the summer months, but you have air conditioning and your infrastructure is adapted to that. in the u.k., very few homes have air conditioning and to adapt to change our infrastructure entirely to cope with these high er temperatures, the cost would be prohibitive. and so it's a real challenge as to how we cope with the climate change that we're already seeing today. stephanie: one of the topics

that's come up in the climate change discussion here is how inflation and high energy prices is changing the conversation away from greener, renewable energies. toward let's lower gas prices. how do you combat that change in high energy prices? >> well, again, it's very difficult coming from the u.k. to really identify with that position. very much the narrative here in the u.k. is that the current cost of living crisis, which is very real, is at heart an energy crisis, as you describe, but it's a fossil fuel driven energy crisis. if we can move our economy away from that dependency on fossil fuels, embracing renewable energy technologies, reducing our reliance on energy, and in the u.k., large amounts of our energy is used to heat our homes in winter. if we better insulate our homes, then we would have less reliance on the need for energy in the

first place. so across the range of measures to reduce our reliance on the volatile fossil fuel, fossil fuel ecomy and embrace a new economy with gater energy security, it's very much the way that we're looking at this . again, thinking of the opportunities that we can embrace. stephanie: i know you have met with members of parliament in britain. you were at a press conference alongside the chief scientist in the country recently. do you feel that the government is responsive to your message? >> in the u.k. we have a target of reaching net zero emissions by 2050. the government responded last year with a detailed plan as to how to do that across all sectors of the economy. there's still further progress that needs to be made in critical sectors. i mentioned the challenge of heating our homes and switching that heating from fossil fuel driven to renewable sources. that's a major shift of our infrastructure. there's also challenges in terms

of looking at agriculture and land-use. but there are other areas where progress is really already being made, particularly in the transport sector where electric vehicles are taking f. and the uptake is i think, exceeding all possible expectations in terms of the growth of electric vehicles, so there are signs of progress. the key difference between the u.k. and many other countries, including the united states, is that we have a strategy as to how to do this transition. it might not be complete enough start, and if other countries could adopt a similar approach to putting together a detailed plan, a detailed strategy, and embracing the economic opportunities that are associated with a net transition, then we might as a zero global society be able to respond to climate change with the scale and urgency required. stephanie: emily schuckburgh,

the director of cambridge zero. thank you for joining the news hour. >> thank you. amna: jury selection began today in the trial of former trump advisor steve bannon, who faces criminal contempt of congress charges after refusing to comply with the january 6 select committee. john yang has more on the trial and the role it plays in the broader investigation. john: vanden is the first member of trump's inner circle to go on trial for defying a committee subpoena. jury selection moved slowly today, with bannon's attorney asking potential jurors how much of the hearings they've watched and whether they have opinions about the committee and its work. devlin barrett covers the justice department for the washington post. people may be confused here because the headline last week was bannon said he was willing to testify before the committee, and yet this contempt trial is

underway. how do people understand what's going on here? >> a lot of what you saw bannon doing last week and the week before, you have to see in context of him trying to delay his trial. he did make the offer to testify before the committee, but it was such a last minute thing. the events that led to this trial all came last year. what prosecutors and the judge have said to bannon's last-minute offers is it is too late. you refused to cooperate with the committee, allegedly, and now there is a trial over how that happened. john: is a possible outcome that he will cooperate and comply with the subpoena? >> one of the ironies of

charging someone with contempt of congress is it's really just a punishment. if anything, it's less likely he will end up testifying to the committee because there is now a potential conviction or appeal of legal issues, all of which would make it harder for him to testify, not easier. this is the stick of punishment now for someone they decided was not going to deal with that. john: he has been arguing he doesn't have to testify because he is covered with executive privilege. is that something the judge has said he can argue in his defense? >> the judge has left open the idea he may be able to argue to the jury that he was still willing to cooperate or had some willingness, a newfound interest to cooperate. the executive privilege argument i think has been misunderstood or mischaracterized because the

judge also said we don't even know that the president invoked executive privilege. we are taking that from the defendant's lawyers. one of the core, simple issues is, did steve bannon or did he not get a subpoena from the committee with a certain date by which he was supposed to testify and give documents, and did he give them any of those things, or explain why he wasn't going to, or have some back and forth about it? the prosecution argument is he didn't, he said and did nothing of value and that led to the charge. john: this is a very narrow set of facts they are trying. >> extremely narrow. so narrow that jury selection may take one or two days. it's possible this is a rare case when the trial could be shorter than the jury selection.

that's how narrow the law and the facts are. you can't know for sure until you see what the defense decisions are. john: aside from this issue of contempt of congress or allegedly not complying or ignoring the subpoena of the january 6 committee, is it possible steve bannon could be part of a broader justice department investigation into january 6? >> we have seen that the january 6 investigation is incredibly broad and encompasses hundreds of people and a lot of different conduct and certainly is one of the public mouthpieces and boosters of january 6. steve bannon is in the mix in a lot of that activity. separate from this case, which is about the narrow question of contempt, it is reasonable that steve bannon is in the justice

department's field of vision as they look at the events leading up to january 6. john: what's the possible penalty for these contempt charges? >> he faces two charges. each carries a minimum jail term of a month or a maximum of a deal -- a year. to be honest, the case history, no one has gone to jail for this as long as anyone has been alive. this is in some ways making an example of steve bannon. a lot of the trial is not about steve bannon, it is about sending a message to the other people subpoenaed by the committee. john: thank you very much. >> thank you. amna: the house select committee investigating the attack on the u.s. capital has presented new

evidence in recent hearings on how former president donald trump stoked violence leading up to and on january 6. and this week, the committee will focus on trump's actions during those 187 minutes of the insurrection itself. but as laura barron-lopez reports, the escalation and normalization of violent rhetoric has extended beyond trump, becoming a dangerous feature of republican campaign and party messaging. we begin with last week's hearing. laura: a direct line from former president donald trump's words to violence -- >> i was hanging on every word he was saying. everything he was putting out, i was following it. laura: stephen ayres was following trump's lies that he won the 2020 presidential election. he followed trump's tweet to "be there" on january 6. and he followed the call to march from the white house to the united states capitol. >> why did you decide to march to the capital? >> we were following what he

said. laura: the committee charges that the violent attack was the culmination of weeks of escalatory rhetoric of trump, that when all legal avenues to challenge the election failed, january 6 was a last stand, where trump was willing to accept violence to stay in power. but ruth ben-ghiat, a history professor at new york university who studies authoritarian governments, says the seeds of january 6 go back even further to trump's wise. -- trump's rise. when you look back at the past six years, what do you see as the watershed moment? >> the campaign of 2016 was a watershed in terms of the beginning of a systematic attempt by trump and people around him to shift our political culture from a democracy to an authoritarian one. what that meant was he was speaking about violence as something positive. president trump: i would like to

punch him in the face, i'll tell you that. >> he had an emotional kind of an emotional retraining of americans to say, you know, violence against your neighbor doesn't always have to be bad. laura: in 2015, that meant rallies that ended with fistfights and assault charges. in 2017, neo-nazis felt emboldened to march on charlottesville pres. trump: very fine people on both sides. laura: in 2021, a deadly assault on the nation's capital. ahead of this year's midterm elections, trump's style and message are still as popular as ever, spawning a rise in the use of violent language and imagery in republican campaign ads. >> we are going rhino hunting. >> this rifle is the only thing standing between your family and a dozen angry democrats in klan hoods, you just might need that semi-automatic. >> to get ahead in the gop now, you need to be espousing this

kind of violent rhetoric. people who are candidates, like mehmet oz, who is running for senate in pennsylvania, who used to be for gun reform, but you can't do that now because the party has radicalized. so instead, he showed himself shooting a gun and parroting this very common propaganda point, that the second amendment is no longer about hunting or recreation, it's to use as to overthrow a tyrannical government. >> our second amendment is not just about hunting. it's about our constitutional right to protect ourselves from intruders or an overly intrusive government. laura: in washington, republicans have been slow to condemn the violent rhetoric or have remained silent. responding to eric greitens' ad targeting republicans in name only, known as "rhinos," senate minority leader mcconnell said it was up to individuals to decide what they will accept. sen. mcconnell: i think this is something that voters in the missouri republican primary need

to take a look at. laura: and in the house, members of gop leadership have themselves amplified the same racist conspiracies espoused by mass shooters. in may, a mass shooter killed 10 people in a buffalo, new york grocery store. his online posts showed he was inspired by the racist and anti-semitic, quote, "great replacement conspiracy," writing that "mass immigration will disenfranchise us, subvert our nations, and destroy our communities." experts saw echoes of that ideology in a facebook ad posted last year by the third ranking republican in the house, representative elise stefanik, of new york. the ad accused democrats of planning a permanent election insurrection through a plan to grant illegal amnesty -- grant amnesty to 11 million illegal immigrants, who would overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in washington. stefanik's spokesperson called criticism that she was amplifying the great replacement theory "a disgusting blow for the left."

republicans have sought to label democrats as equal actors in encouraging violence by pointing to some black lives matter protests that devolved into looting and damaged property. republicans also tried to censure a democratic congresswoman for urging protestors to get confrontational. >> democratic politicians, they may use heated words, but they do not pose in their campaign ads or as sitting lawmaks with assault weapons, saying that these are assault weapons you can use them to overthrow the government. they do not espouse those oath keepers and other extremists. and so it's not that you can never criticize the democrats, but it is false equivalency. and january 6 is proof of that. laura: more than a year after the attack, trump refers to the rioters who stormed the capitol as patriots who deserve pardons. pres. trump: if i run and if i win, we will treat those people from january 6 fairly.

we will treat them fairly. and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. ben-ghiat diagnoses trump's message and the republicans who stand by him as modern authoritarianism. >> trump presented himself as a victim of a whole democratic system that was out to get him, and the only way to right this wrong was through violence, and that violence would be purifying , it would be patriotic. laura: she doesn't see a clear exit ramp. >> there hasn't been a moment like this with a strict parallel where you have a bipartisan system in which one of those two parties has left democracy to the point of fomenting a coup attempt, and they are unrepentant. and the leader and beneficiary of that coup attempt, which failed, is still in good standing. the other wildcard is the

availability of guns. we are in uncharted terrain. >> i want to take a moment to speak directly to my fellow republicans. laura: republican adam kinzinger, one of just two republicans on the january 6 committee, released disturbing voicemails his office has recently received. >> i guess i can't say a whole lot more other than i hope you naturally die q as [ beep] possible. laura: what remains unclear, how to reverse the course of escalating violent rhetoric, an embrace of violence within the gop, and a belief among nearly a third of republican voters that a civil war may be justified. for the pbs newshour, i'm laura barron-lopez. amna: democratic lawmakers on capitol hill are working to pass a much narrower version of the once ambitious build back better bill, while the white house

continues to navigate how best to secure abortion protections after the fall of roe. to discuss the political stakes of all this, i am joined by tamara keith of npr and annie linskey of the washington post. amy walter is away. welcome to you both. i think it is fair to say that was a very sobering report. tamera, you have covered individual moments like that for years. when you see it together, what does it say to you about this moment? tamara: there is a rising fear in many corners of the country that the country is cracking and right for even worse political -- even worse political violence. the qanon conspiracy theory is full of violent imagery, fantasies of assassinations of political enemies. a long list of political enemies

taken off to guantanamo. that imagery is very much part of qanon, which is very much part of the political dialogue in america on the right, and it can't be ignored. amna: you say on the right because that's a key point. we just heard mitch mcconnell say it's up to the voters to decide if this is acceptable or not. it is clear the republican party houses these kinds of conspiracy theorists, extremist ideas, authoritarian ideas. do you see anything in leadership or the electoral landscape that would change that? annie: that was so powerful. hearing mitch mcconnell's response, essentially let the voters decide, is a unique response on the republican side. i think tam is absolutely right that the qanon theory does have this imagery. we have all been to political rallies where emotions run high.

i have been at democratic events where people in the audience say violent things. the difference is the leadership on the democratic side will tend to turn the volume down rather than stepping aside, which is what mcconnell is doing, or what other candidates are doing, which is fostering and normalizing the kind of extreme violence we are not used to in modern politics. amna: you think it has become normalized on that side? annie: you see so many of those ads and you are not seeing the response from the leadership. the silence and even the gentle nudging that direction, that is the path to normalization. amna: we have seen democrats condemn it. the president has condemned it. he also has an eye on this quickly closing legislative

window. when we talk about build back better, this is not the ambitious plan they once put forward. what does it mean when you look at the fact this was brought down by a member of their own party, senator joe manchin? tamara: as president biden has said many times, in a 50-50 senate, every senator is president. every senator including but especially joe manchin has an outsize boat. -- vote. the white house is seemingly willing to bag any win they can get, so they have pivoted from not wanting to talk about defeat on the climate measures that were being discussed and sort of holding out hope to talking about what joe manchin will support and what pres. biden: will take, which without congressional action there is

going to be a huge spike in obamacare premiums that will hit millions of families as they are dealing with higher prices on so many things, right before people vote in the midterms. that will be a political nightmare. this legislation, very pared back, would take care of the obamacare cliff and allow medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices. details still to be worked out. problems could still arise. these are two things that affect americans and our something democrats could campaign on as long as they leave back -- leave out theact that the build back better went away. amna: what's your take on this? annie: it's very fashionable right now among certain people to talk about what a terrible job joe biden is doing. his approval rating is awful and

this is a much smaller package than he had conceived of and people had talked about. that said, for this to pass, a cap on prescription drugs, it would be a big win. even though it is not a giant win, it is still a win and is one that democrats and republicans have diabetes. they both pay for high costs of insulin and this legislation could help around the edges and perhaps more in the midterms. amna: what about the white house response after the fall of roe? they faced criticism for not having something ready sooner to secure some protections. tamara: it seems as though this white house -- the fall of roe was just the latest example -- this white house is unwilling to flaunt their executive authority.

other presidents do executive actions that amount to glorified press releases, but they treat it like a big deal. there is some criticism they may be weighted too long on the executive actions to respond to the supreme court decisions. instead of trumpeting it, pres. biden: and his team emphasized that their powers are limited. there is only so much they can do. it seems like they are headed down that path on climate change related administrative actions as well. amna: we see the democrats taking what action they can. they want to show they are trying even if it doesn't go anywhere in the senate. the most coherent message seems to be, if you want these rights protected, show up in november and vote. annie: that is coming from the top of the party. it is not enough for voters.

you are seeing legislators pointing the finger at washington and even president biden himself and saying this is not enough, do better. one lawmaker in texas said, we need a little bit less washington playing nice from joe biden and a little more texas, more of a rough edge. they want to see a fighter. this was not a surprise by any means. for biden to take so long to put out an executive order that surely had been prepared well in advance is mind-boggling. he is an imperfect messenger on this issue and has left a lot of democrats wanting more. amna: we should point out a leaked draft of that ruling came out in early may. annie: even when the court said they were going to take the case , arguably there was a year to

prepare, and certainly ever since the leaked decision came out, that was a good signal where the court was going. >> during those weeks pres. biden was on an overseas trip and this last week he was on another foreign trip, so he has had a busy travel schedule, but this is a white house who says they can walk and chew gum at the same time. amna: are we likely to see any other action on this front? >> i don't think so. i think they have emptied the arsenal. if there is anything the white house has responded to, it is a big push from the party. >> it may not be a signed executive order, it could be actions taken at the agency level that don't get as much attention unless they were to tout it. amna: we will follow it all.

it is certainly very important. thanks to you both. baseball's all-star game is tomorrow night. a showcase for the best in the game. that gives us a moment to look back at one of the sport's all-time greats, but one who is hardly a household name these days. over two decades, ricky henderson was arguably the greatest leadoff hitter in history and is the leader in stolen bases with more than 1400. 3000 hits, 2000 runs, 2000 walks. a new book by sportswriter howard bryant makes the case for rickey henderson as an underappreciated historical great. i spoke with bryant recently about his latest work.

welcome back to the newshour. rickey henderson played his last game in 2003. what made you want to tell his story now? [00:07:58][436.0] >> the biggest reason is because he is underappreciated. if it's possible to steal 1400 bases and be underappreciated and to really obliterate the record book like he did, i felt like there are not as many people as we think who can really carry a full biography, especially one that is n completely tainted by drugs. when you write about baseball these days, it feels like it's steroids, steroids and more steroids. and i wanted to get back in to write a story about somebody who really was a giant in the game and was really going to allow me to dig into some of the issues that really built this last sort of half of the sport where money sort of dominates and where you're looking at a certn type of player that really in a lot of ways doesn't exist anymore. they don't steal bases in

baseball anymore. it's a totally different game. he was one of thmost exciting, electric, unique players, and i really felt like it was, as he would say as a player, i thought it was rickey's time. amna: did he want his story told? did you have to convince him? >> a lot of convincing. not really sure he wanted his story told. and what i tried to appeal to him is the stories that get told are not always the best people. the stories that get told are not always the most important. the stories we remember are the ones that get repeated. and to be remembered is to have your story repeated over and over again, to make sure people don't forget your greatness. and he's one of the top ten, 15 players who ever played the game. they've been playing baseball since the end of the civil war, and to be in the top dozen, it's pretty good company. amna: let me ask you about his story. he grew up in oakland, right? his family moved there from arkansas in 1969. he was just 10 years old.

he thought he would be a raider. he wanted to play pro football. how and why did he end up in baseball instead? >> he ended up playing baseball because his mother thought he was too small to play football. she was afraid he was going to get hurt and that baseball was the faster path to the major-league's. and it was also the fact that he was just physically gifted, that there are so many people who make the big leagues and small percentage of them from any given place. but he comes from a spot where there were so many great players. the legacy of oakland sports bill russell, frank robinson and curt flood and vader and so many great players. i asked rickey once, when did you believe you had world clas ability? when did you think you could play in the major-league's? and he said, oh, i don't know, sixth grade. so he was 12 years old. and so he just had this unbelievable confidence that he was destined to be a great, great player and really saw himself in the muhammad ali mold of it ain't bragging, if you can do it. amna: well, he went on to do it. he became the greatest base stealer of all time. rod carew actually shared a

funny story last year. i saw when he said right before he stole, rickey would always say out loud, "rickey's got to go," and then take off. and that that was just it. so he didn't lack confidence. but, you know, howard, a lot of people said he came off as standoffish or egotistical. he referred to himself in the third person. what did he say about that? >> i think that if you ask ricky himself, he'll tell you that he came to win. he came to beat the other guy. and one of the reasons why i wanted to write this book is because it is one of those american stories where he was not a popular player despite his greatness, despite everything he did. this really is a story of a of a player who was one of the more disliked players in the early 1980's. back in the 1980's, there was so much fighting between the players association and the league strikes and lockouts fighting over money. it's fascinating to me that back then people were so angry that these players that ricky was actually asking for the princely sum of $500,000 in his contract. and now you look at the nba and the nfl and baseball, and you get a guy like russell westbrook today who just opted into a

$47.1 million contract. and people were calling rickey greedy back then because he wanted half a million. but this story arc really is of a guy who wasn't that popular. but by the end, as he goes on, as he grew on us, as he obliterated the record book that now people want to tell stories about him, and now he's beloved and they treat him like he's this combination of satchel paige and yogi berra, where everybody has a rickey story, just like rod carew. and i wanted to tell that arc of what happens when your greatness sort of wins the public over. amna: how much of that personality narrative do you think, looking back on that was attributed to a mostly white sportswriting core and any underlying racism? looking at a black player who was among the first to really publicly advocate for himself? >> well, it's a huge piece of it, because who tells your story is as important as the story itself. it's also important to remember once more that when rickey first came in in 1979, free agency was only five years old. the public wasn't used to that.

and they certainly were not used to having these african-american players be the public face of your franchise. and people view thems greedy and selfish, and we all say we want capitalism, but then when you see how much players are actually able to make, then the public didn't love that so much. amna: howard, the game is different today than when rickey was playing. the art of the mattered so much more back then. do you think we'll ever see the likes of rickey henderson play the game again? >> 3000 hits, 2000 runs, 2000 walks, 1400 stolen bases. you're never going to see it again. they don't steal bases anymore. people have said to me during this book tour, what is rickey's legacy? and sometimes i think he doesn't have a legacy. he is a unicorn. no one is ever going to do what he did because the game is so totally different. rickey's work started when he got on first base, so it would be nice to see that again. but that's not how baseball is played anymore. amna: the book is rickey: the

life and legend of an american original. howard, always good to have you here. >> thank you. i love your baseball. this is great. amna: that is the newshour for tonight. i am on nano laws. join us online and again tomorrow evening. thank you for joining us. we will see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- >> for 25 years, consumer cellular's goal has been provide wireless service that helps people communicate. we offer no contract plans and our u.s.-based customer service team can help find one that fits you. visit consumercellular.tv. the kendeda fund. committed to investments in transformative leaders and ideas. supported by the john d. and

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