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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. judy: residents in southwestern florida continue to struggle today with recovery efforts and in some cases getting basic needs. power is still out to more than half a million homes and businesses in the state, and more than 90 people in flori died in the wake of hurricane ian. at the same time, president biden visited puerto rico to survey damage from hurricane fiona.

william brangham continues with this report. william: days after one of the strongest ones in u.s. history made landfall, look every efforts are in full force. in a coastal hub northeast of fort myers, loca residents are pitching in. >> we've had people wondering in the streets, and we were able to get them rescued. william: over 570,000 homes and businesses in florida remain without power, a substantial recovery from the 2.6 million who were in the dark days earlier. in fort myers where more than 40 have died, residents have collected what was -- is left of their homes. >> the kitchen is going to come out. it is a complete redo. william: the enormity of their losses, starting to sink in. >> i was just devastated seeing what has happened to the property and my neighbors place downstairs, and it was hard to

comprehend. william: for some in lee county, questions remain about why local evacuation orders were not given until tuesday. the national hurricane center's earlier forecasts found that lee county was outside of thmore direct path of the storm but projected the area could face dangerous storm surges as high as six feet. local officials have defended their decision. >> i am confident in our county manager, our leaders, our governor, all of us in law enforcement that we got the message out at the right time. whether people listen to it, we can't force people out of their homes. william: florida governor ron desantis gave an update on recovery efforts. william: there are more urban search-and-rescue teams in florida now than at any place in american history since september 11. there have been massive events that have happened september 11.

willia beyon florida, ian's wrath continued to the carolinas and virginia that saw some of the worst flooding in over a decade. president biden plans to visit florida on wednesday, but the president first spent the afternoon in puerto rico surveying damage in the southern part of the island blasted by another hurricane, category one storm fiona. it touched down on's september 18 -- touched down on september 18 and is projected to have caused $3 billion in damage. the president reiterated he would stand behind the island as it rebuilds. >> we know the climate crisis will continue to hit this island in the united states overall, and as we rebuild the, we have to make sure we build it to last. i want to make sure the people of puerto rico know that my administration is committed to standing with you every step of the way as long as it takes. william: power has been restored

to 90% of the island, but over 60,000 remain without power. the white house said aid will go towards strengthening flood walls and creating a warning system to ensure the island is better prepared or future storms -- for future storms. joining me now is pam james, and executive producer at wgcu in fort myers, florida. could you give us a sense of how things are in southwest florida? pam: right now, it is really overwhelming the amount of damage we are seeing along the coastline. it has been described as a bomb going off in certain parts of fort myers bchan or this small artistic village that just does not exist anymore. there is so much devastation,

but there is this inconsistency because we have the other half of the broadcast area that was less impacted. there was some wind and water, but there was not as much damage , just a loss of electricity and water. william: we know that some of the poorest residents of your area suffered the worst damages and are most likely to not have flood insurance. how are those residents in particular faring? pam: we have had residents on st. james island and other communities hit hardest, and a lot of these people live in trailers. a lot of these people don't have rental insurance. it will be a challenge, especially down in fort myers where we are number one when it comes to real estate prices that have been outrageously racked up.

this is going to be a huge issue for the next year at least. william: i know there is an issue brewing on pine island. residents are complaining that they were not getting enough relief, and local officials say it is so difficult to get there. can you tell us what is happening? pam: pine island is like sanibel , which is a barrier island to the southwest coast, and the only way to get on the island is by bridge. hurricane ian took out both of those bridges. these people are stranded on their islands unless they have boats. the challenge is that electricity is out. water is out.

government officials are trying to get recovery efforts to them on the island, but it has been challenging because a lot of residents don't want to leave. pine island is a blue-collar, agricultural island, so these people were independent-minded and didn't want to leave the island when it was time to go. there are people who just want to stay cover their livelihoods. william:william: we help those cut off come -- william: we hope those cut off communities make it through ok. thanks for being here. pam: thanks for having me. william: hurricane ian h also impacted health care facilities across the state, making it difficult for medically vulnerable people to get the care they need. for more, i am joined by tom carter, executive director of

health care ready, a nonprofit that coordinates public, private and government responses to disasters. he joins me from outside of fort myers. thank you for being here. i know there is a lot of meat amongst a lot of people now. could you give us a sense of what are the most acute needs? tom: right now, people are trying to rebuild their homes. people with hypertension still have hypertension. people with dialysis still need to go to dialysis, and making sure that supply chain and access to health care is still available for people who needed the most is our number one objective, and that is complicated by the effective hurricane ian on the infrastructure around here, power and water. tom: what is it, that people

can't -- william: what is it, that people can't get to the facilities when the facilities themselves were damage? what is the hangup? tom: right now, all of the pharmacies and health care centers are looking hard to open back up, but it is tough few do not have grid electricity, and you need to run a generator. there is a lot there. the roads and infrastructure for travel are relatively ok give or take, but the biggest challenge right now is just having these companies that are trying to get back up and running, it's tough without support from the grid or the water. it is doubly so for hospitals and other clinics because they rely on water to provide health care services. william: with regards to what your organization does, what kinds of help are you providing

there? tom: right now, we are talking with private sector businesses that are helping businesses get up and running. even staffing is an issue because people's area who work at cvs, walgreens, provide nursing care, they were impacted by this storm, too. in addition to that, working with the ngos in the area, a international, project hope, americare is, hoping we match resources with need william: do you have a sense of when those issues will start to get resolved? tom: they are being resolved very quickly in the surrounding areas of lee county. i drove through naples, florida where i was shocked to see pharmacies open, gas availability looked good, but in

the hardest hit places, that is where we are concerned, pine island, sanibel island. there are people out there who need health care who have become recently homeless, and that is a challenge on two it felt to make sure we can provide stability for their health and well-being. william: tom caught her to, thank you for being here. thank you for your work down there. ♪ judy: in the day's other news, wall street notched its best day for july as bond yields tumbled on weak economic data. major stock indexes rose more than 2.5%. the dow jones sword more than 765 points to close at 29,491. the nasdaq climbed, and the s&p

500 added 93. an indonesian police chief and nine other lead officers were removed from their post for their role in a stampede at a soccer match that left at least 125 dead in milan. 18 other officers are under investigation. panic erupted as police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd after the home team lost. the team's head coach called it unacceptable. >> we just hope that this incident will be a starting point for global football. stop all of this. the result of a match is not worth paying for with people's lives. judy: it was one of the deadliest stadium disasters in the world. matches have been suspended until the investigation is

complete. ukrainian forces gained more ground in the south and east of the country, ramping up the pressure on russians. the russian military acknowledged ukraine's advances in curse on, which president putin illegally annexed last week. in moscow, russia's lower house rubberstamped an -- a resolution to annex that and three other regions. a report was commissioned after several players came forward with their own claims. the report named several high-ranking officials who failed to take action at. it calls for better vetting of coaches and timely investigations. opening statements began today in the trial of ypres's founder stewart rhodes and for other people for their roles in the

capital insurrection act. prosecutors accused rhodes of plotting an armed rebellion to stop the transfer of presidential power. brazil is preparing for a runoff election later this month. former president lula da silva came in first place. he will face off against incumbent bolsonaro who 143%, far better than polls predict. the british government reversed course and decided to scrap an intel -- income tax cut plan for the rich. the proposal because the british pound to plunge to record lows. the government has vowed to move forward on the taxcutting

stimulus package. this year's nobel prize in medicine went to a swedish scientist for his discoveries in human evolution. the work gave key insights into the human you mean and what makes it unique compared to neanderthals. he celebrated his win with colleagues today and spoke of the moment he heard the news. >> i initially thought it was a joke. i thought my research group made a joke, but it sounded too convincing. it was hard to digest. judy: he is the son of another nobel prize winner in medicine. it's the eighth time that the child of a nobel laureate has won a pride. native american activist sasheen little feather stood in for

molly brando in declining an oscar for the movie "the godfather" in 1973. she wore a dress to protest hollywood's portrayal of native americans, drawing booze from the audience. the academy in august apologized for her mistreatment. little feather was 75 years old. still to come on "the newshour," the supreme court faces questions about its legitimacy as it faces a new question. how mckinsey has influenced governments behind the scenes for decades. amy walter and tamra keith discuss the most heated political campaigns one month ahead of the midterms, and much more. announcer: this is the " pbs newshour," in the west from the walter cronkite school junior newsom at arizona state

university. judy: four more weeks of a bruising campaign began in brazil aft none of the candidates won 50% of the vote in sunday's first round of the presidential election. current president bolsonaro outperformed the polls that showed him losing badly to his leftist trial, lula da silva. in partnership with the pulitzer center, jane ferguson reports from sao paulo. jane: as the results came in, supporters of the former president lula da silva were jubilant. in the end, lula got the most opposed, but not over 50% needed to win outright. brazilians will head to the polls at the end of this month for a runoff. >> it was really close, but we believe in turning votes. we believe in lula. we believe it is possible to win.

jane: lula was president from 2003 to 2011. >> i never wanted election in the first round. i have won all of them in the second round. what is important is the chance to think thoroughly on what you propose for society. jane: current president jarablus in our continued his -- president bolsonaro argued he is the last defense against socialism in the region. >> what worries me is brazil following steps to the left the same path of venezuela, colombia, she lay, and nicaragua. the first victim is the freedom of the people. jane: bolsonaro supporters were more subdued but say he will remain in office. >> it will be the truth against the lies, god against corruption, the freedom of

bolsonaro against the censorship of lula. jane: this has turned into a street party, but it is important to remember this was not an outright area. bolsonaro is still in this race. more so than predicted by the polls, some of which placed bolsonaro behind lula by as much as 14%. in the end, it was a much tighter race. >> we realized the brazilian population is much more conservative than we all imagined. jane: bolsonaro's party won the greatest share of seats in congress. >> if bolsonaro gets elected, will be unstoppable. we've seen this with leaders in other countries that get reelected. congress will be highly

supportive of him. jane: the current president has refused to say if he would accept the results if he loses. for months, he has called of the system corrupted against him. a narrow loss may make it easier for him not to contest results. -- for him to contest results. >> this is going to be a very difficult institutional shock. they believe this narrative. if he ends up losing in the second round after showing all the polls were wrong, it is going to be hard to convince people the elections were clean. jane: brazilians have faced months of divisive campaigning unprecedented in their democratic history. sunday's election results proved how narrowly split the country

is politically and opened the door for one more month. judy: jane joins me from sao paulo. bolsonaro beat the projections. he had more followers than expected. jane: his appeal appears to be holding beyond many of the projections and predictions. he has had a message from the start that is appealing to the evangelicals across the country. gun ownership, land rights, nationalism, and that is holding here. it is worth noting that his communication has been sophisticated. he has bypassed a lot of social media and bypassed social media to reach his audience.

that hasn't been clearly helpful to the pollsters in terms of trying to gauge his support. it seems the support is holding stronger than anyone predicted. judy: we know there were other candidates in the race, the runoff here their support will fall away. that is 10% of the vote. what is the sense of where their support is going to go? jane: about 10% of the vote is being divided amongst other candidates. one candidate is considered center-right. it's not clear where her ves will go. gomez is considered more leftist. neither of those candidates have said who they are going to back, but they are in a particularly powerful position. they could influence the end results.

we will see which wayhey decide to run in the next month as the campaigning continues ahead of the october 30 runoff. judy: i know we will be watching this in the weeks to come, jane ferguson reporting on brazil's election. thank you, jane. ♪ fort kicked off first day of term with fresh arguments and a new face. two on today, return -- to unpack today, we turn to migratory. and josh gerstein. welcomto you both. so much to ask you about, but let's start with the new person

on the court, could tonja brown jackson. it is the first case she is hearing. we have an audio excerpt of her questioning as justices heard the arguments. we are going to listen to that. >> i understood that you could tell part of it was wetland by looking at it, so -- >> i believe mr. fletcher was referring to when the initial work had been done, and the pictures show water was on the property. >> but you keep talkg about fair notice and the property owners not being able to tell or know about this issue. judy: marcia, not being shy. she is right in there with questions. how did she do? >> she did well. she had a tendency at points to dominate the questioning, and that is a function of the new.

until you get a sense of your colleagues and how and when they like to ask questions, there are two general approaches new justices take at their first oral argument. they ask a question or two or jumped in full throated. she reminded me of justice sonia sotomayor when she joined court. she had complete command of the record in the case, which reflects her being a trial judge, and also the legislative history. judy: what was your take? josh: she was certainly very vocal. i think she may have questioned more than any other justice during that first section of the arguments. she reminded me of her

predecessor, justin breyer, in this question she brought up about congressional purpose or intent. judy: she was not holding back. let's talk about what the case was. it was about the clean water act. what is the significance? >> it is significant because how the justices decide what kind of testing use to determine if wetlands are part of the united states can affect how broadly the clean water act can be used to ensure water quality in a lot of different types of water body there are a lot of questions about what federal court costs test was.

i thought the justices at the end were struggling with some sort of middle ground between what the sackett family was arguing and what the government wants to do. judy: this is the first day of the term. it's been anticipated not just because it's the first day, but because we have seen tensions and trust of the court at historically low levels. josh: normally in the summertime, justices take time off, go to their vacation home some teach in europe, but we have seen this unusual back-and-forth develop, chiefly led by justice elena kagan, who has come out in public speaking

and said the justices have looked in a political way towards producing an outcome. the chief justice seemed unhappy earlier in the month about this exchange and about elena kagan's criticism without directly going after her. judy: she's been speaking out without going after a justice, but making your he is not comfortable. all of this happens as we are headed into a term with a long list of contentious and controversial cases. name a few of the ones who are watching. >> if you define last term by the abortion ruling, this will

decided -- this term will be decided by cases involving race. i'm watching two cases in which the court is being asked to overrule a 20-year-old precedent that allows higher education institutions to consider race as one factor in policies. there is an important voting rights case that will be argued tomorrow morning, and that comes out of alabama and involves the only part of the voting rights act that is left because the supreme court gutted another important part of the voting rights act. voting rights advocates are concerned about what the court will do to that section of the case, which involves alabama's 2021 congressional map in which a lower court found it violated

the voting rights app because it diluted the votes of black alabamians. judy: it has the potential to play into this perception out there that the court is more political than it has ever been. josh: we are looking at a 6-3 conservative with three justices appointed by president term. they keep turning to these cases such as the abortion case, such as last term. there is another case involving state legislatures and how much power they should have, potentially unchecked power over voting rights issues, and these are issues conservatives are preparing to show their muscle. >> i think it is important to

note that for the most art, the court has almost no discretion in choosing the cases they will hear. it only takes four votes to grant review, but you only need five for a majority we have a conservative majority with six in it. the court has reached for these cases where there is no conflict in the lower courts. the affirtive-action is a good case that has been quiet for years judy: it appears the court is looking to make waves with the decisions that are coming. josh that's right. we see justices in opinions and other cases suggesting that litigants come forward and bring some of these controversial cases to the court. judy: do you see from any direction and effort from the court other than remarks by the chief justice to try to head off russian -- head off that

impression that the court is headed in a political direction. >> only way we can tell is by the way they decide the cases this term. whether they will go big or try to find marrow rulings. i don't know that i can say now. we should listen for the opinions that will come and the dissents to give us a sense about what is happening inside of the court. judy: marcia coyle, josh gerstein, thank you both. ♪

judy: a new book attempts to shed light on in winchell but little understood organization -- an influential but little understood organization, the mckinsey company. all none of oz got an exclusive look. amna: when tiffany was around 16 years old, she had her cement all cigarette. -- first menthol cigarette. >> made it to taste. it mask to the harshness. amna: she now looks back and remembers learning about the menthols in ubiquitous black magazines. >> those magazines were full of ads, and the people in the ads looked like they were having the time of their lives. amna: the images were in stark contrast to what glover saw in real life. when she was a teenager, her

mother died from lung cancer at the age of 48 after decades of smoking. >> she went from being a vibrant teacher in the prime of her career, she couldn't even get out of bed. i just wish that earlier we could have been honest about the dangers of smoking because maybe that would have prevented my mother from smoking. >> there is a definite health hazard associated with cigarette smoke. amna: it was back in 1964 that the u.s. surgeon general concluded in a report to congress that cigarettes caused cancer and other diseases, but it was not until decades later in 2006 that cigarette companies were found guilty in federal court of misleading the public about the dangers of smoking, and until recently, the tobacco industry marketed its products with the help of consulting firm mckinsey.

>> they have been helping all of the major cigarette companies sell more cigarettes when 480,000 people are dying every year. >> after smoking had been banished from restaurants, and up until last year, mckinsey was working for these companies. amna: in there new book "when mckinsey comes to town," new york times reporters take a rare look into the cloistered company that for 96 years has advised world's most powerful firms and governments, making recommendations on things like maintenance schedules, salaries, regulations and more. for the most part, it has remained out of the public view. we stopped by mckinsey's headquarters at three world trade center in lower manhattan such a powerful company, but you would never know they were here. not a sign here. why is that? >> they want everything done in

secret, and if that includes where they work, so be it. >> that is a cultural reason, corporate cultural reason. they always put the client first, which is their mantra, and they take a step back and work behind the scenes. they let the client take credit when things go well. amna: amna: for years, the reporters have reported on mckinsey's work behind the scenes, examining its contract with immigration enforcement during president trump's family separation policy, its work for the oil and gas industry, its guidance to adversarial governments in saudi arabia and ukraine, and to state-owned firms in russia and china. and the conflicts of interest along the way, advising both u.s. regulators like the fda and the companies it regulated what

pattern you see over those years that said to you, this needs to be pulled together in a book? what is the common thread? >> secrecy, power, unaccountability. that draws investigative reporters everywhere. >> finding out about the reach of the company around the world, some of the harm they have done to people around the world, in the united states and elsewhere through their work, it was very compelling. amna:amna: over a century of work, mckenzie has been instrumental in shaping parts of american society, from marshaling to ceo compensation. >> one issue that is troubling in this country is inequality. mckinsey has contributed to that.

going back to 1950 when one of their consultants decided to look at how much executives were making purses workers, and he concluded that, well, the workers are catching up, so corporations ought to figure out a way to pay leaders more. every year they built on that more and more, and the gap between what the leaders were making of corporations and workers kept growing and growing. amna: overseas, the reporting found that some of mckinsey's work is at odds with -- was at odds with u.s. government instances. -- interests. >> they were working for a company that helped build artificial islands in the south china sea that china is militarizing and making the south china sea what could be a chinese leg. this is a problem for u.s. foreign policy, the u.s. navy,

but mckinsey has been doing consulting workor the pentagon and u.s. navy. amna: the private firm, which takes in an annual $10 billion annually, has been a pipeline for prestige and power. among its alumni are transportation secretary pete buttigieg, arkansas senator tom cotton, outgoing facebook executive sheryl sandberg and many more at the highest levels of the private and public sectors u.s. and globally, as well as their children. mckinsey recruits heavily from the ivy league, promising not only lucrative careers but the chance to make a difference. >> were teamed with an exceptional client to take on some of the toughest challenges. >> this is attractive to idealistic young students. if they don't want to work for goldman sachs, morgan stanley where it is about money, here is a chance for them to work for a prestigious organization that

they can do some good in that is the pitch. when a lot of these students get hired by mckinsey and start working there, they are disabused of that and working for things that have nothing to do with these lofty goals. amna: in a statement, mckinsey says the book fundamentally represents their -- misrepresents their firm and their work. point to their work helping to scale up global ventilator production and covid vaccines, and carbon removal investments, supporting refugees and rebuilding in ukraine, and they note among their past clients is the author of's own employer, "the new york times are there more times that they

live up to their values than they don't? are the stories you are reporting the exception or the rule? >> they are the exception but an important exception. when the planes crash, that is an exception because most planes are safe, but the -- but it behooves us to look into incidents when people are harmed. we are not saying that mckinsey is responsible for evils in the world. they do good things. they work for nonprofit groups, but that is the side they want people to know about. we thought it was our responsibility to bring accountability to this incredibly powerful company. amna: how do you hold a firm like mckinsey accountable? they don't make cigarettes. they don't manufacture the weights. how do you hold them accountable? >> for us as journalists how we would hold them accountable is to tell the world what they do, and that is what we've been doing for years.

i hope this book allows more people to read about them. >> we want people to know how this company affects their lives, their children, how it affects them and their future. and how it impacts one of the worst problems in america today, which is inequality, which is a probm eating at the soul of this country. >> the billy joel song goes, "we didn't start the fire," but mckinsey flat -- fanned the flames in so many issues important to americans today, whether it is off shoring, the securitization of assets that led to the global financial crisis, increasing health care costs, the opioid epidemic, tobacco. if you understand the story of mckinsey, you understand the story more of america in the recent 70 years or so. amna: that is a story that they

will continue to tell. for the "pbs newshour,", i am amna navazn new york. ♪ judy: it is shaping up to be a busy week in politics as midterm races intensify and president biden travels to survey hurricane damage. >> after visiting puerto rico, president biden plans to travel to more hurricane-damaged communities in florida this week. lawmakers have left the capital and are launching their final midterm messages in campaign ads to talk about the implications of all of this, i am joined by amy walter of the cook political report. thank you for joining us. president biden was in point rico, is going to florida later,

and florida is poised to receive billions of dollars for disaster relief. both florida senators voted against the same disaster relief when hurricane sandy hit. is this hurting voter perceptions in florida? >> in this moment in time in the immediate aftermath of this hurricane any clean that needed afterward in which voters are looking to governor desantis and their senators, it is the amount of help ey can get them. they are focused almost exclusively on what they can do to help or losing their focus on what is immediately in front of them. the question of whether these sorts of issues, this hypocrisy,

voting against giving money to one part of the country while asking taxpayers to give money to you, what you hear republicans like marco rubio saying is, i will vote. i voted plenty of times to give money to communities hit by natural disasters, but these bills have to be clean. one persons added on -- one person's add on doesn't look that way to someone in a different part of the country. that is the challenge when facing these challenges. >> we don't know if governor desantis or president biden will appear together when the resident goes to florida, but looking at the midterm after democrats are hammering the abortion rights issue across the country, and incumbent democrat abigail spanberger launched an ad rape victim.

>> at the age of 17, i was raped. it was devastating. leslie vega us said women can't get pregnant from a rape. that made me sick. >> this is about define the odds of history for democrats because typically the party in charge of the white house loses the midterms. is the abortion rights issue giving them a chance? >> it is certainly something they are putting their money behind. a way to know whether a politician or party thinks their message is working is to look where the money is flowing, and in the last couple of months since the dobbs decision, and it has grown, democrats are putting more money into ads with this abortion messaging. many of their negative campaign ads about republican opponents in particular focus on abortion rights, and they have tried to expand it to sayhat this is

about freedomnd a bad ideals and broaden it beyond the abortion issue. young voters, female voters, there are a lot of voters disturbed by the dobbs decision, so democratic campaigns are investing. they saw a couple of special elections that led them to believe that this is an issue that will work for them. is it enough? i don't know if it is enough to recover from the other fundamental challenges democrats face, including economic concerns and the fundamentals of the midterm when the president is in power and not popular, but an analysis says 20% of all spending right now is on abortion related ads. >> speaking of the economy, that was the issue republican seemed to be running full steam ahead

on. they are focusing in wisconsin and pennsylvania on crime and immigration, but in pennsylvania, men met oz has a new ad out on drugs and crime. >> john fetterman supports decriminalizing drugs like sentinel and harrowing, and fetterman supports creating heroin injection sites. >> his ideas are radical, deadly and wrong. >> stoking fear among the base is what republicans did in the past in 2018, and it didn't, but do you think this time around will? >> the challenge in a place like pennsylvania for both candidates , they are having to define themselves. these are two people who are not sitting incumbent. for dr. oz, his challenge, a lot

of it was in the primary. a lot of conservative voters did not really trust him. simply moved from new jersey, and he seemed like somebody because of what his past profession was, hanging out with people like oprah, maybe he wasn't there kind of conservative. what he needs to do now is pitted to the general election and bring in swing voters. john fetterman has done a great job of defining himself as not your typical democrat or politician. you can see he has the cargo pants and tattoos. his record while he has been in office has been much more liberal than the state itself, and it gives republicans the opportunity to cast him as out of step. throwing out the term abortion

or crime is not going to work in every race. not every candidate is going to be able to be easily labeled as out of step or to the extreme or out of the mainstream on those ises, but some candidates like we saw in the abortion ad have said things that put them outside of the mainstream. some candidates, and fetterman is one of them, have called in the past for a decriminalization of some small amounts of drugs, or he was on the pardon board as lieutenant governor. he has a record on those issues. that may play better in a place like pennsylvania than it would bringing this issue up against another candidate who may not have a track record or any relationship with these issues. >> fetterman supports decriminalizing drugs, which is different from legalization.

i want to get to former president donald trump and something he did on friday, which is on "newshour," we've covered the violent reddick among the -- rhetoric among the republic party. on friday, former president trump in a post untrue social said, macconnell "has a death wish and must immediately seek help and advice from his china loving wife coco chow." the vast majority of republicans have not condemned this. what does the silence among the gop say about the party today? >> this is pretty classic silence. now he puts it out on truth social. he goes up to the line and says

things that put republicans in a terrible position,nd they say, i haven't seen the tweet. it is a standard pattern of trying to wish it away where the republican party knows that is a powerful figure. he is a republican front runner until someone challenges him in 2024. he is outdoing rallies, and yet he is a very difficult problem for republicans in terms of wanting to lead or being able to say, we have moved on. >> final thoughts? >> totally agree, and i think find that the more donald trump is in the news, the better democrats feel. >> amy walter, tamera keith, thank you for your time. judy: that is "the newshour" for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online and tomorrow evening. for all of us at the "pbs newshour," please stay safe. an answer: major funding for the

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