♪ >> good evening i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, canceling debt. a federal judge and a u.s. supreme court deny attempts to block president biden's plan to erase millions of american student lone debt. then desperate measures, lebanon's dire financial crisis leaves some citizens to rob banks to access their own money. >> from now on, drastic measures are going to be taken. i'll forcefully take what's rightfully mine. up even if it costs my life. david brooks and ruth marcus weighs on on the top issue that is could -- tops the mid terms.

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subpoena to testify before the january 6 committee. the panel asked for documents and testimony by november 14th about the attack on the u.s. capital. committee lears said there is overwhelming evidence that mr. trump orchestrated efforts to overturn the 2020 election and on truck the transition of power. also, south carolina senator, lindsey graham appealed to the u.s. supreme court asking not to testify about efforts to change georgia's 2020 results. long-time trump ally steve bannon was then inned to four months in prison. he cited executive privilege even though he was fired from the white house in 2017. after today's hearing in washington, bannon argued that he corporated with other investigations and was not flouting the law. >> i had lawyers that were engaged. they worked through the i issues of privilege. at that time i wept and

testified. and this thing about i'm above the law is an total lie. vanessa: he will remain free pending his appeal. in ukraine, government forces are ramping up pressure on russian forces in the south. overnight, ukrainian artillery hit resupply routes in the occupied area including a crucial bridge. meanwhile in the east, russia shell and missile fire contin. a missile damaged homes and injuring scores of people. the u.n. security counsel voted unanimously today to demand an end to violence in hate -- hati. the gang has block add key fuel terminal. the resolution did not mention sending an international security force. and the contest to become britain's next prime minister has become in earnest. top figures in the conservative

part jockey for support of fellow lawmakers. we have the report from brightton, england. >> >> four senior conservatives are angling to become the next leader of a country in dire need of stability. the race is on to replace the hapless liz truss who will go down in history as the shortest serving prime minister. the governing conservatives promise to have a new prime minister in a week the third premier this year. the top contenders include former treasury chief who is promising to revive the country's economy which is being destabilized. penny morton is the tory grassroots favorite and announced formerly her run. and even if former disgraced

boris johnson is considering a comeback months after being forced out by a string of scandals but it's unclear if he can muster enough supports. each candidate needs the back of 100 conservative lawmakers are he's proven to be a liar and a cheat with a moral vacuum. >> defense secretary ben wallace a potential unifying figure ruled himself out and says he favors johnson. >> i'm in brighton. people here are hoping that britain's political chaos is going to lead to a general election. but they may be out of luck. because legally the conservatives can stay in office until 2024 as long as they have a parliamentary majority. the last thing the conservatives want is a general election because that would be like turkey's voting for thanksgiving. in london, frustration over the country's political turmoil is mounting. >> they just changed the person. five of them in the last seven

years and have not changed one thing in this country. the rich get richer. the poor get poorer. the middle-class like me get squeezed. >> nominations for the next prime minister officially closed monday afternoon. for pbs "newshour" hard martin bravent, in brighton, england. vanessa: georgia meloni will lead italy. she faces soaring energy price and divisions for support for ukraine. pakistan's commission disqualified former prime minister emron khan for holding public office for five years. it found that he illegally sold state gifts and concealed assets. supporters angry that he will lose his st forced entry into the commission building. he said he will challenge today's ruling. back in the country, the federal deficit total nearly $1.4

trillion in the fiscal year that just ended down by half from the year before. at the same time, the red ink rose sharply in september reflecting the cost of forgiving student lones. we'll return to the studentebt plan after the surgery. a judge in corado ruled that a man charged with killing 10 people at a boulder supermarket is still incompetent to stand trial. court proceedings have been paused since december and will remain on hold while he is treated at the state mental hospital. he could face life in prison without parole. still to come on "the newshour." refugees flee conflicts sparked by violence in africa and we discuss the world's best

soccer players as the world cup approaches. >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and from the walter cronkite school of journalism at the arizona state university. judy: courts have handed a pair of victories to psident biden and his plan to erase student lones for millions of americans. the application process for the debt relief program has opened on line john yang has the latest. jonathan: judy, a number of taxpayer group and republican-led states have gone to court to try to block the debt forgiveness program, but so far that's without success. today at the historically black delaware state university, president biden hit back at republican critics of the plan. >> let's talk about who's against helping the millions of you who need the help, make sure you have a shot. republican members of congress

and governors are doing everything they can to deny this relief even to their own constituents. as soon as i announced my administration's plan, they started attacking it saying all kinds of things. they're outrage is wrong and it's hypocritical. >> 45 mill americans carry federal student lone debt but not all are eligible for relief. danielle covers the economics for "the washington post" and she joins us now. danielle, thanks so much for joining us. so who is eligible for this program? danielle: so anyone with undergraduate lones, graduate lones and parent plus lone that is are held by education department as long as they are individually making less than $125,000 a year or if they're a married couple, $250 --,000 -- under $250,000 to be eligible. there are some borrowers who technically have federal lones, yet they're not eligible because

their lones are still held by private lenders. until recently, those folks could consolidate their lones into a direct lone program to make themselves eligible for this relief program. however, around september 29th, the department of education said those people would no longer be able to participate in the program. >> folks who are eligible, is there a timeline? is there a time they have to apply by? do some of them get this automatically and what sort of things do you need to apply? >> certainly. so you need to apply before the end of 2023. so december 31st, 2023 is the cut-off date. we've seen about 12 million people apply since the department of education opened the application last friday for to a beta test and officially launched this monday. as far as the people who can automatically see relief, there are about eight million people for whom the department of education have their information

on file. these are people who recently filled out the financial federal aid form or who are in this program that's tied to their income. those people are being notified right now. many received the e-mail from the department saying you are eligible for automatic relief. that means you don't need to apply. however, if you'd like to receive the relief earlier than the people who are in the kind of auto camp will receive theirs feel free to submit an application. now, the department is certainly collecting applications but it's a little uncertain when they will start discharging the debt. >> and you talked about the lone consolidation. people who have federally backed loans or cut out of this. how many people are there like this? and also one of the federal judge in missouri who dismissed a challenge to this program from six republican-led states talked about that provision as one of the reasons why he threw the case out. can you explain that to us? >> certainly, there are roughly

770,000 people who fall into this category of having federally backed loan that is are held by private lenders or state agencies. now, a couple of state agencies including one in missouri and arkansas were kind of at the center of this lawsuit that you mentioned. they didn't themselves block the program but their state a.g.'s ditched and in that instance they said the state would be robbed of revenue if the department's program would allow to continue because it would entice people to consolidate their loans. however, the department in making deaddition to cut out a lot of the people who could consolidate from this program kind of under undermeaned -- under mined that argument, that's that's what the judge said in yesterday's ruling. now, he dismissed that case because none of the people who brought it in his estimation had the standing to do so mean meaning they couldn't really prove any actual harm. now, the case is certainly being appealed right now. it's heading to the eighth

circuit. so we're waiting to see what the panel of three judges decide. >> standing was also an issue brought by a taxpayer group in wisconsin. the appeals court agree that the group did not have standing. supreme court justice amy coney barrett yup held those rulings. are there are other challenges in the pipeline that could threat then program? >> oh, certainly. they keep coming. i think we now have seven lawsuits, active lawsuits that are in some stage. a number of them have been dismissed for standing but people are appealing those decisions and still trying to fight for relief. i think the next one we would be wise to watch especially if you're a borrower eligible for release. is a case coming it of texas filed by two boar roarers one who has the federally backed loans who is claiming they're not going to be able to take advantage of the program so they're suing. and the other borror in that

case is not eligible for the full $20,000 of relief that's provided to people who had federal pell grants and undergrad, this particular type of grant for low income students. and these two borrowers said it's an arbitrary kind of guideline that the education department is using in order to decide who is eligible and who is not. and as a result they're suing amid oth reasons such as the president doesn't have the authority to do that which is at the heart of pretty much all all of these lawsuits challenging whether that the president can have the authority to do this without congressional action, harkening back to what we saw with the e.p.a. case that came before the supreme court. so i think a lot of people are really interested to see whether any of these cases get past the issue of standing and if judges actually do look at the merits of their argument will they say that yes, the president's authority does hold up or that no, congress needs to be

involved in in a decision of this magnitude. >> danielle, douglas gabriel, "the washington post." thank you very much. >> thanks for having me ♪ judy: lebanon's deep financial crisis is affecting every aspect of life there. there is no consistent electricity. most poor go hungry. job lessness i at record levels and with its currency nearly worthless, most lebanese keep their savings in u.s. dollars. but even those savings are now hard to retrieve from banks in a moment nick shiffrin will speak with special correspondent leyla allen who is in beirut. but first, she has a look t the depth of despair driving lebanese to extraordinary measures. >> this woman is rob ago bank, but the money she's demanding is

from her own account. for three years, lebanese have watched help less as the value of their life savings plummeted, denying access to their money as lebanon's economy tanked. now, increasing numbers are stormingbacks to demand it back. some take weapons. others threaten to hurt themselves. all of them say they're desperate. >> i went to the bank many times. trying to withdrawal my money and explaining that i lost my job and i needed to live. i demanded my do deposit so many times tonight be refused claiming that do not have my money. >> and this man armed with a shotgun forcing them to hand over $35,000 from his savings account. he says he'll do it again if he has to to get the rest. >> what's happened has happened. but what comes next will be much mercy veer. from now on where drastic measures are going to be taken, i'll forcibly take what's rightfully mine even if it costs me my life.

even if i have to kill them all at the bank. >> banks were shut down for weeks in response. but watching the countrymen take the law into their own hands has lit a fire. they demand justice. they say it's not them, but the government who are thieves. >> many lebanese refuse to believe their money is gone for good. and they're not entirely long. those who cou wait for the economy to improve may get a lot oh their savings back. but with prices going through the roof, this is the rainy day they've been saving for. and for those in the most desperate situations weight isn't an option. >> earlier this week, they got the devastating news that their 2 year-old daughter martin has kearns. but while dealing with a mother mother's worst nightmare, she is dealing with the stress of being unable to pay for martin's treatment. >> we spend what little savings we had trying to get her into a

hospital. but they weren't enough. >> before the crisis, they were a typical middle-class familiar limit after the economy plummeted. at the exchange rate the bank is offering their hard-earned $45,000 in savings is worthless than $10,000. the bank has limited the family 's withdrawals to only $100 a month. what are can $100 a month do for us? that won't pay for a one-night stay at the hospital. that doesn't include things like test or infections. the bank is with holding what's rightfully ours. >> martin's leukemia has a 90% survival right if treated quickly. her chances will plummet if there's a delate her father is doing everything he can to raise help. if they have to stop, they will lose her. >> plenty of people are resorting to illicit measures.

when it comes to the health of one's child, a person will do anything. my husband wreaked havoc at the bank. who knows? >> as they wait nervously, praying they'll find a way to access their money and continue the treatment they know she'll need for years. clara and rami do what they can to distract their daughter from the stress and fear enveloping their home. >> while i'm facing these challenges, she's suffering all this pain and is so afraid. she holds my hand and asks me over and over again, why mama? and for that, i have no answer. >> and layla joins us from beirut. how did this situation unfold? >> lebanon's economy has been plummeting forhree years. every time they thought they reached the lost, it's gone farther. lebanon's banks started to notice that the exchange rate started slipping. so as the exchange rate started

to slip, the banks worried there would be a run in the banks meaning that everybody could would come and get their money. so they started imposing capital controls. that meant they stopped people from take their money out and they started to close. so people started to watch their savings disappear even as the exchange rate went down and down and down. now they said 1500 to the dollar. three years ago. it's now hit $40,000 lebanese lir-a people have lost 90% of their savings in the bank. the bank is saying that they can take their money out at a rate of 8,000 little bit neoknees lira to the dollar. so they would lose about 75% to 80% of their savings. >> it's just extraordinary. what are the economic prospects? any chances of fundamental reforms that it needs? >> at the moment it doesn't seem so. the country has used a lot of what it had in foreign exchange

reserves to lift the value of the lira. le it goes up for a couple of weeks. and plummets back down everyone further. >> give us a sense what, are the day-to-day conditions that people are having to endure today? >> people are starving now. many who haven't lost their jobs, they lost their savings. they can't feed their children. their donations are running out too people who used to donate are living off charty hospitals are barely functioning. and people can't afford the services or medicine and we were just talking about the government. there is no electricity in this country we're currently getting about one hour per week. everyone else runs for 10 to 120 hours a day and those bills go up every month. there are pretty much just getting through the day is becoming impossible for people and that's if you have the mon to afford what it is you need.

thanks, nick. judy: the climate crisis is a reality all over the world. but it is especially apparent in the averaged landscapes of northern africa with conflict follows close blind. in our last part of our series, dylan marks looks at just how dire this crisis has become. dylan: far from home but safe for know, this refugee camp house as community from another, cameroon. among those living here is our allie beta. >> what actually changed is that during our grand parent's time the harvest was good. you know when you overexploit the land, the land's fertility

is depleted. >> the family had raised and grazed quality. but there was a completely new challenge. >> there's not enough rain -- not enough rain and the cattle cannot survive without water. the cattle had to move further away to get water. and that's where they settled. >> began competing for another local group for access to water and how those disputes soon turned deadly. >> men started killing each other. villages and houses were burned. people were killed and burned. people were decapitated. >> women and children were killed. >> over three days of fighting last december, she estimates more than 150 people died. >> theyurned our houses. they burned our food.

they burned our cows and sheep. they left nothing at all. >> she fled with family memrs across cameroon's border to chad where she currently survives on forging, barter and handouts. >> of course, there are difficulties, when you leave your own home and come as a guest to your own place, you should expect things to be different. you obviously have to accept whatever you were given. authorities built this refugee camp of 3500 after cameroonians flooded late last year. the cause climate change because a lack of water create add very violent conflict between two different communities. >> can you believe that because of water, people areilling each other? >> yes. because of water. >> water is what many people were killed for.

brahim sa akim. he was once a medical student. >> what scared me right frothe start was the fighting. without warning fighting erupted in my town. we saw some of the neighborhoods. one called madagascar and others burned down right in front of our eyes. >> his parents push the 22 year-old live afraid he would would be killed if he stays in cameron. >> now, for the first time he's proud about what little he has. showing off his hard work and dinner preparations. >> do you have more food or less food here? >> less than cameroon in cameroon, we eat three times per day. but here, two times. >> right now in chad, the u.n. estimates there were half a

million from several neighboring nations except for cameroon. >> >> it's not a reason to ground to the refugee statues. we still notice that there is growing and growing situation where climate change is the root cause of the clashes between community. >> you have the band -- the u.n.'s refugee responsible for it. >> people are moving because of the conflict. but we have people moving within the country because they have lack of water, they can no longer crop in the area they use ed to crop because actually there's a conflict forced them to move or because the reality of it forted them to not use the small one to crop their own.

>> in chance, western lack reason, quarter is eligible as we cross a landscape of driedout lakes. >> fresh paint assigned that little here challenges besides the date. food assistance remains urgent. >> these people have always lived in chad but were forced without boca harran. >> several members were killed in the attack just 12 miles away and two days before our visit. >> one of the dead was a cousin of goled madram sported to take mat weaving for food. they have run dry since the year she arrived here. leafy leaving her with few other options. >> here, there is no lake other river to fish. we don't have an interrogation system for agriculture. >> under a ruth of u.s. applied cardboard scraps, she will not

return home. >> you you have to we were killed. i would still prefer to stay here. >> you have to good choices, then? >> here, that's, we live in piece. we don't get killed by boca hard ran. >> they're built out of twins. what they call enterly displaced people. they start looking for food. they often struggle. and then move on. >> climate change is causing displacement across the region south of the saharra dessert. >> but in villages wes dents are encouraged to stay. they had a resilient food production. transformed in five years from dry, cracked land like this to a garden of plenty.

30 years ago. this valley was abandoned by local people because sand was encroaching. and what they did a few years ago to try to remedy that was to add animal droppings along with organic matter from plants like this. make it all together to create this kind of soil that's incredibly conducive to agriculture. >> supported by a charity called adell. he spends five days each we've week returning home every weekend. mad yeah, the wife of the village head is one of many workers helping us out. this time of year is anyone as the sleep season. it's another six weeks until this corn can be harvested. so the villages stopped or running low. >> it's this time of year that's more difficult than the other periods because the production is still in progress. and now, food purchases are more

expensive. this time of year really is the most difficult. >> solo pad just drives one. the rest rely on diesel and prices have skyrocketed thanks to russia's invasion of ukraine. but salas says he hopes the work here will mean people will not in future suffer similar food insecurity and shortages. this year's a bit better than before. which each year, the defensive reduces and especially as there is an increase in production. food incorporate has fallen r. farmers here in chad like many in the reason forceed to adapt by force far beyond their control. for the pbs newshour, i'm bila marks. >> you can watch billa marks' two other stories for the security threats in chad. there's online at

pbs.org/newshour. judy: with election night two and a half weeks away, candidates are doubling down on crime and the committee. and across the pond british leaders are facing the consequences of a tumultuous political and commit moment. for more on all of this, we tern turn to the analysis of brooks and marcus. that's "new york times" columnist david brooks and "washington post" columnist ruth marcus. jonathan capehart is away. hello to both of you. the mid terms, i looked them up, they're 17 days away. the winds seem to be blowing favorably in the direction of the republicans. we don't know if that's going last. but what we see in your newspaper had a poll showing

that republicans were behind by one point. they had 40. you can see it here. well, it's actually two points. 45%. but this month -- well, we had -- i'm describing it differently. this month, republicans have picked up three pnts is the yup shot here in where they stand when voters are asked what party do you support when it comes to -- when you think about the congressional vote. what is going on? >> yeah, i would say just looking at at the poll, you think it's a little shift. but it's a pretty big shift. the generic ballot when you get a four-point lead that's a big shift. there are some shocking numbers in the polls. democrats think they would have an advantage with women. but the gender gap which used to benefit the democrats completely gone. some numbers are unbelievable. >> women voters who call themselves independent not just independent women. [laughter]

they were plus 14 for the democrats. now, plus 18 for republicans. republicans are leading by 10. and so this is just a big shift. and it's showing up in the races. we talked last week how democrats are starting to defend seats that should be safe. if you look at all the political and the cook pple when they look a lot of the race that is are toss-up races, these are in districts that joe biden won by 11 points, 14 points. and then as if you look at the governors, they're doing extremely well in the senate races, adam lakczal. at the moment it's a wave. judy: the data doesn't look good. what do you see? >> well, i think there is a shift, i'm not sure i would call it a wave. there's definitely been a change since the summer when it looked like democrats were talking. though, i thought it was

delusional then and it certainly looks delusional now about being able to keep the house that is not going to happen. they have a very serious prospect of losings the snail. the governor's races are -- are up for grabs. but i think the question is compares to what? i would say that in some wayses they're certainly looking less good than they did a month ago. it's almost surprising given the external force that is democrats are doing as well as they are. for one thing it's surprising because of history. as we know, president presidents in midterms in their parties get shellacked. you lose 63 seats if you're barack obama. i don't think anyone thinks the democrats are going the lose anything like 63 seats in the house. and so that's not going to be as bad as it was. also president biden that the very time is dealing with something that no president has ever dealt with since jimmy carter which is the incredible

drag of inflation on him and his party. so given where we thought we were going to be, i think at the start of this cycle where it looked like there could be a huge red wave, that it would be a disaster for democrats, i think this is going to be a disappointing election night for democrats but not a disaster. judy: so david you have the historical trend, the economy and crime and public safety which republicans are run ago lot of ads about lately in the last month. and it's showing up in a number of senate races in particular in pennsylvania and in wisconsin. and here are just two samples that republicans are running. >> sanctuary cities, weak prosecute ors, crime skyrockets, failed liberal policies making us less say jet john forgetman says -- >> sanctuary city is what w are. >> they want to abolish ice and

open our borders. and release felons without bail. mandela barnes. dangerously liberal on crime. >> we are told david republicans spending close to 40 million on crime. that's more than triple what they spent the month before. >> the fundamentals are not good for democrats. but i do think there are some questions that are exposed in the political strategy. republicans have about a 10-point advantage. seconds, it's very hard to win if you're not going to try to sit . and crime has been -- violent crime has been up a lot two years ago. it sort of flattened now. but robbery, carjacking. i've been having about crime who think more crime is a real.

bill clinton worked really hard to give them credibility. democrats said it was way too much incarceration. but they have not found another way to replace it. so they have some credibility to though the democratic mayors to keep it save. right now, so that's going to be a priority one. and then the final issue is counting the republicans is homelessness. and homelessness ram pent on the streets. those are issues about public order. that republicans have a sort of national advantage of. >> it will -- we want to have streets that are safe. we don't want something -- somebody's sun and daughter living in a tent, you know, addicted to drugs? how can we live with this? >> how are democrats able to respond? >> i'm at an economic point. it's very hard for democrats to

have a coherent narrative when they're facing the inflation and the threat of a a recession. and you can see it in the way, way they talk about it we understand that prices are high. but you can't then say well, but i've created 10 million jobs. and nobody's going buy that. but it's also true that that leaves them without being able to run on the economy, whether it's fair or not because largely inflation is outside the president's control. and his party's control though he may have some pieces to-place blame. that leads them to concentrate on issue that is could be motivating but that are going to be subsidiary. we have a third of the country, less than a less and that's confident about the track we're on. you can't win on abortion with a headwind like that at the same time i would point out also that

republicans have given the democrats some winds. they have some candidates who have the quality problems that mitch mcconnell talked about. and you know, well -- they -- on the crime there been being -- i think they're taking a very classic republican issue and they're exploiting injuries that democrats have inflicted on themselves with talk about defund the police and things like that. judy: so pushing on something -- or having a hard time pushing backn something that republicans traditionally have done well on. so now that we figured out what's going on in our country, let's look across across across the atlantic. >> ocean. what's going on with britain and the conservatives. liz truss going down to the conservatives. what do you see is going on

there and here? >> i think they rime. regan. thater, tony blare, donald trump, boris johnson. i would list truss. she apparently thought it was 1981 and she put out a tax plan that was ronald regan 1991 so she -- it was a tax plan that is wrong for the country and in a moment right now ashe financial markets said loud and clear -- it's also a tax plan that's wrong for the tori party. has become a working class party. they don't need a tax plan for venture capitalizes. and somehow she didn't get this and it's mystifying for this. >> the republican parties are shifting. and so that's one way it rimes. the second way it rimes is just confidence. they've been in office a long

time. and they've really worn down their talent. people are just sick of looking at them on tv. and so, you though, the way she proposed it, this policy, chancellor, the way she withdraw it. the way she y turn turn -- u-turned. none it was handled with sea level conflict. they're just livid at how humiliated they were at nursery school level. judy: and it happened so fast. it was, you know, six weeks. >> 45 days. not even four scaramuccis. [laughter] do we take some lessons from this? do we sort of look from across the the pond. >> it is pleasant to see dysfunction elsewhere. because it's important for us and for europe to have a capable

and functioning uk but ebbly now with ukraine. i think the lessons are similar. it's the wrong text plan, period. and i wish i was his confidence as you are that the republicans have turned themselves into a working glass party because the tax plans have been working god's tax plan. some serious fear about proposing and implementing any kind of trim down economics. they don't pay for themselves and the bond markets will come and get you. >> and the second thing is that i think your rimes were very well taken. i hope we don't have a representation of the rime in the next stanza. because i hope that we do not see boris johnson back in office. been there, done that their buffoon is smarter than our ba

fan. >> we needs someone that boris johnson back in office in britain would encourage someone closer to home. >> just quickly, david, do you think republican in this country look at what is going on in britain. and -- >> you know, i i've spent a lot of with each watching carey lake speeches. very strong, political talent. and really moving the party away, you know, paul ryan. chessels seems to be more of the future than -- than reaganomics. >> well, i don't know -- >> i'm not saying -- i'm just saying it's a rebound. >> we're going check our history bookses. thank you both. >> thank you.

judy: we are less than one month away from the 2022 men's world cup that will tan fix soccer fans around the world. we have a look ahead at the tournament >> the world cup considered be many to be the biggest sporting event in the world presented by qatar. there's lots of anticipation around the games. but the venue has sparked criticism including the outline of lgbty rights. rogers bennett has been watching all of this. he's the most of the soccer podcast men in bladessers. and the pantheon of the hundred greatest soccer players which taken a look at the careers of top players in sports history.

rem back bob bennett. even you admit it's an act of followy how do you do it? what are the four criteria. >> i would say, but you need to acknowledge to try to create a definitive list that the hundred greatest. it is an act of volley only undertaken by those who love the third real in life. everody sees the game differently it's completely subjective. as a manager, juergen cloth who says the football is the world's less important thing. i think that's what makes watching sports so compelling. guiel with this book. was to drop off 100. we're prepared to defend them with the heat of a thousands as you understand. i know id a number of players

from perhaps one of the greatest teams of all time. featured in the book. it's not just about achievements on the field and careers stats that you talk a lot about the imfact more broadly on the game and society around them like in the game game game game -- breanna stewart. when they can coach alongside them, that's what makes the world cubs. it's a scintillating experience for the world to witness. and so greatest can be defined in many ways. there's a lot of -- the mia habsst hams and the alex morgan. football is a mirror to humidity. and the book is also by empathy, loyalty, connection to the collective, about dreams and most importantly tenacity and braille is one of the most republican football i've ever met. the only money. i el team from the youngest

youth level all the way to winning the women's team. and when you speak to the young afternoon players who flourish on this championship team. they "baseball tonight" to her as a path finder. it's a very lonely journey. but now, she can look at everything that she says with a sense of wonder. >> my personal favorite, i should mention zenadine zadan. he's in the book. thank you very much. do you have a favorite player a flavor story? there's so many. >> her father was a general in the afghan army. he was hunted down and killed by the taliban. the family fled to denmark. she found football. realize he could asell at that thing. rose to become a complete football player all while mastering seven languages and

become ago reinstructive doctor of medical surgery. it makes a mockery and adage that you should just stick to school. >> we will be seeing at the top world credited by qatar. this is a tournament hosted in the summer months. it's now being played in november and december. tell us why >> it's for reasons honestly break my part. for million of people around the world, five million human beings are expected to tune in it's been compared to an eclipse, the hits for an entire month. and the organization body. fifa who were meant to honor the good in football. a tiny golden state small irthan kentucky in a puck cast that we just made world corrupt. we understanded a spokesperson

for the department of justice who was there for the -- when the awart went down. they gave the 2018 world cup to putis russia. he wanted it almost to change the way the scene from a state that's pedro fuels. lgbt question concerned. six and a half thousands human beings working on the roads. i -- it really is a world cup that's soaked in blood. for fans like me who wait for the world cup every four years, that's it's the greatest create or of collective memories. we all have to shape up and find our own moral position r. how do you and soccer lovers around the world square at that circle? as you mentioned, fiefa's 0 in

corruption standards. >> does it impact that? >> it's so difficult because it forces you to take sports that we adore and geo politics and don't tease the two. it's incredibly complicated. and every single fan will come to the room condition. it's the feature of the sporting world. saudi arabia. the af-1 circuit who was stopping in the golf. it really is about the future of sports and how we disen entangle it. in the future sense, the questions really are number one what would lead fifa to take this decision. number two, why would qatar win this. they're currently rushing to get their infrastructure ready for 1.5 million tourists to arrive. and right now with the reports coming out. so it is prediction ti a sun

of question time. how will the cust team do this year? what are their chase going forwards. and who else is are you watching? >> i ride with team america. becoming an american citizen is the greatest joy of my life. and i say that because our young american team, a very rural inincredibly dynamic we'll face november 25th. england one of the powerhouses of europe. it's a right of america. a rule cast of character es. >> the world cup is coming back to the united states in 2026 and i believe whatever happens on the field for the american team, they will be all the better off for it when they play before a home crowd there in a tournament will start over the top. the two teams who are levels above brazil in that golden jersey. i know argentina, always a force

with leo messi that time due minute active. -- he looks like he just gout out of super cuts. he's like a he's announced his loss. his fifth. he's always wilted as if the weight of representings the nature, the very shirt drags him down. the closest he's got has been to the final once. he often departs in tears. i can always hear parent sys this is what it sounds like when doves cry when lionel messi has been come -- the team around him a chan sen dan. and what a way to go out. >> that is roger bennett host of the "men in blazers" podcast. always good to see you. >> thank you. >> the one and only roger bennett. we have some late breaking news. an appeals courtas blocked the biden administration from

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