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by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> close key races in the u.s. house of representatives and in the senate remain uncalled tonight as election workers continue their count through the veterans day holiday. we have an update on where things stand. >> we are relying on the associated press to make those calls before we report them. we have had more filled in over the last day. let's take a look at where the balance of power stands in the house of representatives. >> 211 seats are going to republicans. 194 for democrats. i'm still watching about 23 seats. there's only been three or four called. it is slow. half of them are in two states, california and nevada. >> let's take a look at the key races that could fill in the

rest of the balance of power. >> this is one of our weather checks in nevada. the democrat getting more points. she is doing better in las vegas. quad county still has progress. in california, this is a seat john duarte is up ahead. against democrat adam craig, whose family runs a dairy farm supply business. it is a battle of farmers. republicans just a little bit ahead. another race i want to look at in california. a republican incumbent. right now, it looks like he is just ahead by 1100 points. this is where lez is from. it is only 53% of the vote. if the democrat, former prosecutor who said he's running because of january 6th, if he's able to make up the distance, it is a race that allows democrats the remote possibility of taking -- keeping control of the house.

the race would have to flip, republican winning. one more race to look at where democrats are doing well. washington state. jamie herrera butler, she was beat out in the primary by joe kent. he's a former army ranger, his wife was killed by an isi terrorists bomb. he's blamed the establishment. he's run a platform of denying the election and january 6. perez is an auto body shop mechanic and owner. she is winning. a surprise for a lot of democrats. >> a ways to go in a few key statewidraces. where are those ballots being counted? >> clark county, nevada. 50,000 mail-in ballots still out. los angeles county, 800,083 ballots left. mostly mail ballots. maricopa county, arizona. 400,000 ballots.

how much of an update will we get? we don't know. will we know the fate of the house of representatives? we don't know, it could be a few more days. >> the counting continues. this is the process. patience is key. thank you so much. in the day's other news, president biden called on world leaders to take decisive steps against the climate crisis in his opening address at the cop 27 conference in egypt. he also pledged the u.s., one of the biggest polluters, would meet its target for reducing emissions by 2030. more on this after the news summary. ukrainian forces swept into the southern city of kherson, dealing a major blow to moscow's war effort. it came after russia completed its retreat from the region.

in the city center, crowds cheered and waved flags as they greeted the incoming ukrainian troops after months of russian occupation. >> i am just excited. we knew this day would come, that our boys would liberate us. we are grateful to them. these were nine months of horror. >> ukraine's president called the day historic and said his first focus was to demine the region. tropical storm nicole has weakened to a depression, dumping heavy rain from georgia on into southern canada. the storm claimed at least three lives in florida after making landfall yesterday near vero beach. dozens of hotels and condos ford to evacuate after being named unsafe. some communities in the storm's path were still recovering from hurricane ian. >> this was not an area that has ever even flooded. it was a trifecta. then a tide, and nicole.

we did not have a chance to recover. it compromise their receipt. >> the national hurricane center also warned the blue ridge mountains could see as much as eight inches of rainfall from the storm. also a chance of flash flooding as far north as new england. the head of u.s. customs and border protection is being pressured to resign over his handling of the influx of migrants at the u.s.-mexico border. he told the los angeles times homeland security secretary alejandra mayorkas asked him to step down or be fired. he's refused to resign. sources familiar with the homeland security department's discussions confirm the demand to the pbs newshour. he told us there has been dissatisfaction with leadership in theost, that he has held for less than a year, particularly in the role of law enforcement and border protection. the biden administration stopped

taking applications for student loan forgiveness a day after a federal judge in texas blocked the president's debt relief program. the justice department has filed an appeal against the ruling. the program was already on hold. a federal appeals court reviews a separate lawsuit filed by six states. the world's third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, ftx, filed for bankruptcy today. the ceo and founder also resigned. earlier this week, they agreed to sell itself to rival by nance to avoid collapse, but they backed out of the deal. all of this comes as several federal regulators have launched probes over its business practices. on wall street, stocks extended their gains to close out a strong week of trading. the dow jones industrial average rose 32 points to cle at 33,740 eight. the nasdaq climbed 209 points. the s&p 500 added 36.

the nation honored its military veterans today. parades, celebrations, and solemn ceremonies paid tribute to the men and women who served our country. at arlington national cemetery, vice president kamala harris laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. and spoke of the sacrifices in generations of veterans have made. >> american service members have sworn an oath. not to a person, not to a party, but to the constitution of the united states. to support and defend e principles of liberty, equality, and justice. to preserve and protect our democracy. >> this also marks the first veterans day since president biden signed legislation expanding health care for service members exposed to toxic

burn pits. the white house is more than 137,000 claims have already been filed. still to come. more lgbtq candidates win office than ever before in the midterm elections. the departure of twitter executives exacerbates worries over the company's future. younger generations push to preserve a disappearing indigenous language in rural alaska. plus, much more. >> this is the pbs nshour, from weta studios in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> as we reported, president biden is at the so-called cop 27 u.n. climate talks in egypt. the president pledged new money for renewable energy projects aroundhe world. and a greater push to cut emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane. he also is hearing a plea from

the developing nations that are suffering the worst damage from climate change. >> this is the image industrialized nations want the world to see. hundreds of world leaders thering to discuss critical action to head off the worst potential future of a warming planet. >> we see our mission to over climate catastrophe and sees a new clean energy economy. not only as an imperative for our present and future, but through the eyes of history. >> but developing nations want the world to focus on a different picture. a picture of devastation happening here and now. like tropical cyclones in bangladesh. sending alrea rising sea levels rushing into communities and ongoing deluge that could force tens of millions of people to move. or this in pakistan earlier this year. a long, deadly heat wave of drought that farmers are

desperate for water. in a brutaln. where rains flooded roughly a third of the country and killed at least 1700 people. roads and bridges were lost. farms submerged. over 2 million homes gone. the price tag estimated at $30 billion. these countries and many others say they did little to cause the pollution that has exasperated the disasters, and they are owed compensation for the destruction. but this year's conference, the united nations secretary-general echoed this plea for what is called loss and damage. >> loss and damage can no longer be swept under the rug. it is a moral imperative, a fundamental question of international solidarity and climate justice. those who contributed least to the climate crisis are reaping

the sound by others. >> developing countries have suffered from the impact of climate change and feel the developed world in particular has not done enough to reduce emissions, paid the money they promised, and provide additional funding for the impacts happening. >> a veteran of these climate meetings, the director of the international center for climate change and development in bangladesh. >> in the past, the argument was it is going to happen, we need to prepare for it. we did not do enough. now it is already happening. it has become an emergency. whether we like it or not. people are losing their lives. they are losing their homes. >> it is an argument that has been made all this week in egypt. small and large countries. >> the addition of a and damage

in the agenda is a significant achievement we have been fighting for for many years. i'm asking what is it worth to you. two climate refugees from turning into tens of millions. putting pressure on borders and security and political systems across the world. >> we became a victim of something with which we had nothing to do, and of course, it was a man-made disaster. >> pakistan's prime minister argued drought and floods in his country are made worse because of a pollution his country barely emits. pakistan contributes under 1% of global carbon emissions and is now one of the nations leading the call for loss and damage compensation. >> it is now or never for us.

there is indeed. >> at last year's meeting, establishing a fund for loss and damage. but for the first time ever, leaders have formally agreed to discuss the issue. america's convoy has been hesitant about the idea saying it could interfere with others. several european nations did pledge for the first time ever tens of millions of dollars for a fledgling fund to compensate nations for past damages and loss. but those totals pale in comparison to the need. studies estimated the developing world is facing climate-related damages in the hundreds of billions of dollars. a total that could rise to one trillion or more by 2050. >> the price tag is many orders of magnitude bigger than what is being offered. what was being offered

yesterday, was zero. what was being offered a few tens of millions. we can up the ante in terms of reaching the requirements in the many billions. >> this gathering must be the moment to recommit our future and our shared capacity to write a better story for the world. >> president biden in his comments stressed again the need to cut emissions and boost renewable energy projects going forward. but he made only passing mention of compensation and climate change's present impacts. >> the brief rain so far of billionaire elon musk of twitter

has been to motionless. -- tumultuous, reversals leading the social media giant facing an uncertain future, and have many worried about growing risks of misinformation. >> chaotic may be a mild description of his run of twitter. in the last week, the company laid off half of its 7500 employees, key privacy and compliance officers quit, and musk reportedly told employees bankruptcy is not out of the question. just today, twitter put its eight dollars subscription for a blue verified check mark on hold as fake accounts using the badge mushroomed. mike isaak is a tech reporter for the new york times covering all of this. thank you for joining us. elon musk started buying twitter stock in january, announced his bid in april. it was not an impulse buy.

did he have a plan going in and he just collided with reality, or is he making it up as he goes along? >> i think a little bit of both, to be honest. to be honest, in between the april to the closing deal, he did try backing out of it. i think it was because unforeseen economic conditions and how it would hammer his tesla stock over time. i think he is a person who has a lot of ideas out how to change the service he enjoyed using, and spend a t of time on, but did not seem to have a real action plan the first days he got in there and is relying on a handful of close advisors he trusts while cutting out a lot of people who have been at twitter for years and have really studied how people use the product. >> for better or worse, twitter has become a key part of the global -- global news cycle.

this chaos, this roiling of the waters at twitter, are there repercussions for people who are not on twitter? >> 100%. like you say, twitter is small in terms of its social use by everyday people, it is only 200 million compared to facebook and instagram's multiple billion people. but the news hitting on twitter trickles down to other networks. it flies out to facebook, hits on news networks, we talk about tweets and things, and he has implemented systems that make it more difficult to immediately understand whether or not tweets or accounts are actually real, verified people. eli lilly stocks started bouncing around when a fake account said they would be giving away insulin for free.

so they had to do damage control quickly. >> also, there is a little whiplash with this policy saying the subscription is going away. people can't buy that check mark anymore. >> i think elon did a tweet about this. continuing to do a lot of dumb things at twitter as we experiment and figure out our ideas. i think that is the way he runs company, very experimental and entrepreneurial. any folks would call it a pro rather than a con and why they find him such an innovator. this is a very different company than tesla, space x, or any other things he has done, and has wide-ranging repercussions for how we consume media on a daily basis. >> twitter is operating under a consent decree from the federal trade commission over security issues.

a spokesman said it is watching developmts with deep concern. could the ftstep in? >> i think it is absolutely the right question to be asking. elon has had run-ins withhe sec in the past, and different government agencies keep a close eye on his businesses. they particularly raised their eyebrows when a few of twitter's top lawyers and compliance officers quit and posted an internal message saying don't cross any red lines do anything illegal. that definitely got the ftc's attention. twitter pushed back saying it would comply with everything, but they are under the spotlight right now. >> twitter was already financially struggling before musk took over. now advertisers are staying away, they are losing

advertising revenue. is the company's future in danger? >> i think they are really hemorrhaging cash and ad commitments faster than i would have suspected. most would have suspected -- twitter is an advertising business and has been for a long time. not a gat business, it has been unprofitable eight out of the last 10 years as a public company, but it has been run by ads. elon is trying to rapidly shift it to an eight dollars subscription business. but he's doing it very quickly and bleeding money, which turns off advertisers, which is dangerous in the long term. >> you talked about his reputation for innovation at tesla and space x. he took a lot of risks that have been paying often those companies. but you say twitter is a very different animal. is it unlikely he's going to do the same thing, that these risks are going to payoff at twitter? >> this is the thing.

the reason you have at least some people still at twitter right now, and at his other companies, people who meet or are in elon's orbit believe in the guy,hey are inspired by him, and appreciate the entrepreneurial spirit silicon valley celebrates and doles out venture capital to new startup founders and things like that. so i think there are still a lot of peoe out here in the valley that believe he can do it. his first two weeks, if we are grading -- we are not exactly grading our curb, it is having very high profile stumbles. we will see if he learns quickly from this sort of very difficult beginnings he's had. >> mike isaac of the new york times on elon musk's learning curve at twitter. thank you very much.

>> the results of the 2022 midterm elections continue to come in. one trend is clear. it was an historic year for lgbtq candidates vying for state and federal office. our correspondent has a report. >> it has been dubbed the rainbow wave. >> i want to thank my family, especially my wife, amy. >> tina kotek, one of a record number of lgbtq candidates winning up and down the ballot. more than 400 30, accordingo the lgbtq victory fund, an organization working to elect these candidates. they will be the first two lesbian governors in history. shattering the so-called lavender ceiling. >> tonight, i want to say something. to every little girl and every

young lgbtq person out there -- [applause] i hope tonight shows you that you can be whatever, whoever you want to be. >> we fight for our freedoms. >> with their reelection of jerry polis in colorado, restates will be led by lgbtq chief executives. the highest number ever. >> a colorado for all where there is room and a place for everybody to be themselves. >> and another milestone, 2022 marked the first time their work on the ballot in all 50 states. it features two gay cdidates in a head-to-head race. republican george santos to fetid robert zimmerman. the first openly gay republican elected to a first term in congress. there are at least four new

lgbtq representatives heading to washington. including backup balance, a democrat. the first woman to represent the state. >> i will work for our most vulnerable neighbors everything will day. -- every single day. >> robert garcia of california will be the first gay immigrant in congress. erik sorenson, the first openly gay person to represent illinois. it was also a history making election for transgender candidates running for state legislatures. >> the first thing that came to mind when i saw this legislation was the direct impact it would have on me. >> including zoe's effort in montana, who testified anti-trans legislation and will be able to vote against it. in minnesota, leaf inky will be the first trans person in the state. james rosener became the first trans man elected to u.s. statehouse. it all comes as anti-lgbt legislation remains on the rise

in states. with more than 100 50 anti-trans bills introduced this year alone. and there is no sign of it slowing down. celebrating his own reeleion on tuesday, florida governor ron desantis was cheered as he defended his record in office, including signing the so-called don't say gay bill earlier this year. >> we will never surrender to the woke mob. florida is where woke goes to die. >> but for now, lgbtq candidates are celebrating their wins and preparing to get to work when new legislative sessions begin early next year. one of those newly elected state lawmakers joins me now, congratulations on your win. you testified in 2021 before the montana senate judiciary committee against a bill that blocked trans girls and women from playing in sports the bill was passed and signed into law, but was ultimately

blocked in the courts this fall. did it push you to run for office? >> absolutely. watching and testifying about an issue dear to become a meeting with the governor's office for trs teenagers who wanted to play sports, and watching several anti-lgbtq bills pass by one vote in the legislature was the impetus for me. we had to have trans voices in the room to change what kind of bills montana was passing. >> speaking of anti-trans legislation, you have been elected for the new legislative session that starts in january. there are already some prefiled anti-trans bills, one in particular that would restrict transgender surgery on minors. what is your message to your new colleagues about legislation like that? >> my message is simple. we see all of the elections across the country where lgbtq

people have been elected, with trans people being elected. when you take away e larger media narrative, and get down to my local communities, trans people are accepted, we are loved, and cared about. you are never far away from someone who cares deeply about us and pushing anti-trans issues is not what my community wants, is not what montana wants. >> we have seen a number of those anti-trans messages on the campaign trail this cycle. in particular, a number of republican candidates who have falsely accused lgbtq teachers of "trying to groom students," as well as the new hampshire republican candidate who lost but said falsely that teachers were trying to put litter boxes in classes so students can identify as cats, and also accusing democrats of trying to put drag queens in every classroom. what is your response to this

growing lgbtq sentiment on the right? >> my response would be that hate can only stoke fear for so long. the people who know trans people in their lives know that we are just like anyone else, worthy of love and we bring a ton of joy into the world. and if the right continues to push these kinds of anti-lgbtq attacks we are seeing prefiled or ready in 2022 looking forward, what's going to happen is ultimately they are going to continue to lose. because our community has the backing of our neighbors, friends, and when we get to the legislature, we will fight like hell to make sure they know that. >> are there any protections for lgbtq or for transgender people you are hoping to proposing your new position? >> i would like to see a ban on conversion therapy, an end to

the gay trans panic laws, since there has not been a federal ban for that. obviously, i'm looking towards the courts in montana to strike it down the anti-lgbtq laws that went through in the 2021 session. if they are not struck down, ultimately repealing those on the docket. >> as we mentioned, it has been an historic year for lgbtq candidates. the most every elected with 436 who have won so far. all levels from neighborhood advisory council all the way to governors. what does that representation mean to you? >> it is less about what it means for me, and more so means when these attacks are being made in the legislature, they will have to be made next to lgbtq people. when the states that have lgbtq governors are facing attacks,

there will be someone in the community to stop it. representation matters not theoretically, but it is the best defense we have against hate. >> you made history in your election in montana. but to reach parity, the lgbtq victory institutes has some 35,000 more lgbtq people would have to be elected. what do you say to others who might be thinking about running, and what are your future ambitions? >> to others who are interested in running, i would say the first step is to ground yourself in your community. do work in your community and you will find that they love you and support you. and if you do that work, look for it and try to get into the rooms you think you can make a difference. it is all about finding the spaces where your voice can have impact. as for my future ambitions, all i want is to be in the rooms where i can do the most good. and right now, the fights are at

the state level, that is where i want to be. it is why i moved from working on drafting legislation behind the scenes at the city level to stepping forward to the state level. this is the room where the laws, the biggest attacks are happening, and where we need representation. >> representative elect zoe's effort, thank you for joining us >> i has been a long week in politics. after a historic midterm election night. dive into what we can glean so far from voter choices. we turn to the analysis of brooks and capehart. new york times columnist david brooks and jonathan capehart, columnist with the washington post. hello to both of you. i guess you can call it an historic week. but they are still counting. we don't know the numbers.

one tng we know is president biden did better than any president in terms of midterm vote in the last 20 years. how do you explain it? what do you trying to say? >> simple message. voters were trying to say we can walk and chew gum at the same time. we are more nuance than you give us credit for. the economy is bad, we are not happy about it, but we are also not happy about the potential financial abortion ban, the threats to democracy. i think that american elector it chose democracy. the candidates who ran in their respective races ran the races they needed to run in order to be successful. in order to be successful, they had to pay attention to the people they wanted to represent. >> over the last 10 years, we have seen a rise of global

populism. both across europe, in the form of vladimir putin, this country in the form of donald trump. what we saw tuesday night was the emergence of an antiauthoritarian populism majority. 60% of voters, roughly 60% said they had a low opinion of donald trump, 58% think maga is awe nol still be that maga movement, but the electorate has built a wall around them. one hopes in the effect of making sure they will never get the kind of power they enjoyed under donald trump in the white house. certainly also, this is related, the performative populism where everything was a show, which trump embodies, those candidates did poorly. the kind of candidates who did really well are just people who get stuff done. mike dewine in ohio did well, josh shapiro.

the quote of the evening was from the reelected governor of wisconsin. he said boring wins. boring has not been winning much in american politics. but i'm happy to see boring winning. >> the voters surprised us once again? >> they certainly surprised me. but in a good way. in this business, we have been talking because history shows the party in power, the president loses seats in the midterm elections. everything was going that way. every week when a new poll came out, i always went to the generic ballot. the generic ballot seesawed 1.2 the demoats or republicans. who you want to have in control. and for that to be so consistent for two years gave me the sense it might not be the midterm election we think it is. what we ended up finding out is

it most certainly wasn't. on the american people are sayi we can walk and chew gum at the same time, and those who do this for a living, including the armchair pundits, need some humility. >> that is always the case for some of us. were you surprised? >> i think i was. what had happened was two weeks before the race, or three weeks, the generic ballot did not move in favor of republicans, there was a moment where if it would continue to move, republicans will have a good night. in the last two weeks, it flatned as republicans did not continue to make gains on that thing. i think it was voters saying we don't like democrats, but it was a good summary. they preferred a party that was out of touch to a party that was out of their minds. [laughter] so i was surprised because historically, when the presence

was low, the party loses. but this was exceptional circumstances. >> talking about republicans, it now looks as if they are all but certain to take control of the house. not by a big margin, but at least a few seats. we don't know about the senate. that is right on the edge. what sort of mandate do republicans have? >> i'm not sure. if they do get the majority, it could be as small as two seats. then how does the republican leader govern? i'm wondering what is their mandate exactly to do? make permanent the trump tax cuts? national abortion ban? there is one more thing -- take a hammer to social security, which is what democrats are hammering th with in the closing weeks of the campaign. if that is what their mandate is, is it really what the country wants? i don't think given the results

that is what the country is looking for. >> how do you see what the republicans ha been told by the voters? >> i think mandates went out the window some decades ago. nancy pelosi had a five seat majority. did she try any less hard? she's the speaker, so she gets to be the speaker. if kevin mccarthy is a speaker, he gets to be. i think they want to do something on immigration. it would not be crazy for democrats to find some to pass to take the issue off the table for them. not the investigations which everyone is talking about. i think it would be utterly crazy to have investigations first. one thing is accountability, what is happening on the board, what they should be doing. but if they will just go after hunter biden, if there is one thing we have learned, the american people are just sick of everything turning into scandal investigation. if donald trump is not laid low much, nobody is going to get laid low. i think that is going to be a

catastrophic state. >> immigration? >> you reminded me, immigration would be a great thing if republicans and democrats could come together and do something about it. the problem would be, and it centers -- let's assume republicans regain the majority. the real contest would be who is that leader? if it is current house minority leader kevin mccarthy, in order to get the gavel, what concessions will he give to the house freedom caucus in order to secure enoh votes? in the house freedom caucus, it is way out there. they're the ones who want to do these investigations. will kevin mccarthy say yes to investigations in order to get the gavel? that will tell us what the priorities are for a republican led house if he becomes speaker. >> some of it is tied to the fortunes of donald trump. if he is seeing -- some say he

was hurt by these results, and a lot of his candidates did not win. where do you see that going? >> i've had many conversations over the last three days about trump and ron desantis, if republicans will finally break with trump, if they see ron desantis as a brighter object. i still think donald trump will get the nomination for this reason, if there are five other competitors, he only needs 3% of the primaries and he will win. what i think is the most likely outcome. his decision this week to take on -- ron desantis, it worked. i think that is very foolish of trump. he's elevating ron desantis. the final thing i say, we have the 2016 model in our mind if there is a republican, they get crushed by trump. normally republicans did way better than the performative republicans. why should we always assume

moderate normal republican has no shot at beating donald trump? i hope one of them gets into test the proposition. >> or virginia governor ralph northam. he's someone who will most likely run something because he cannot run for reelection. >> you mean glenn youngkin. >> you said ralph northam. >> my apologies. governor youngkin is one of those normally republicans who will most likely run. might be a better candidate than governor desantis. >> we're using the word normally, this is a favorite brooks word. >> i did not invent this. two generations below me. >> if we still think donald trump will run, what about joe biden after this election? >> he's totally running. i was convinced he was going to run before the midterms, but if you are the president of the

united states who is coming out of midterms with this result, with your party in this strong of a position, why wouldn't you run? >> i agree, he expressed this a couple of weeks ago. he was taking more blame this week, where we want to run. i can expect joe biden to run. >> was linked -- was sounding confident at the press conference. i want to bring up the election deniers. they did well. but not everywhere. we did see many losing candidates in both parties be gracious in their concession. i want to point both of you to -- this was notably ohio, republican steve shaaban, who has served many terms in congress. defeated by a democrat. and also in ohio, tim ryan, congressman running for senator. he lost to the republican. here's what both of them said. >> i have the privilege to

concede this race to j.d. vance. because the way this country operates is when you lose an election, you concede. you respect the will of the people. we can have a system where if you win, it is a legitimate election, and if you lose, someone stole it. >> i'm just really very honored to have been able to serve this community as long as i did. it was the toughest republican held seat in the entire country outside of california. there were three tough receipts in california. the other 49 states, i thought we could overcome that, and we almost did. he won fair and square. >> that tells us something about maybe we are headed in a good direction? >> return to normalcy, people being gracious and patriotic.

one of the big things about this election was it made it much less likely we will have an electoral crisis in 2024. i saw a release from the election reformers network where all of the secretaries of state with notable exception of arizona, where we don't know, it seems like the people running the next elections will not be election deniers in almost every state. of the swing states, marginal states. that is super important. emigrants did well in a lot of those midwestern states. that could also be swing. the elections look a lot safer. >> after listening to those speeches, especially coming out of 20, what does it say? >> i feel relieved. it has returned to normalcy, but also a return to decency. to hear ngressman ryan saying it is a privilege to be able to concede, i ran, i lost, congratulations to the victor. that makes me happy. i want to add one more.

governor youngkin sent a handwritten note to speaker pelosi apologizing to her for what he said on the campaign trai in the closing days of the midterm elections after the attack on her husband. who writes handwritten notes anymore? i do, but it is a sign that -- another sign to me that decency is making a comeback. and i hope more people who are in an elected life followed those three examples. >> what we have been talking about at this table, there were not as many election deniers elected as one, but some are going to be serving in office. if you are right, and former president trump is running, where does this -- >> a lot really matters for them in arizona. arizona is a state where the governor has tremendous power over elections.

she would be the epicenter of trouble if there was trouble in 2024. >> we are watching arizona, nevada, and we will be in early december watching georgia. thank you both. after this wild week. jonathan capehart and david brooks. half of the people whose first language is kodiak diluted have died over the last few years. fewer than 20 remain. that is not sopping new speakers from learning and passing along a distinct culture and worldview to the next generation. reports from kodiak alaska,

where arts and culture series canvas. >> if you don't speak it, you won't get the jokes at the language house. it is a place where everything has a lesson. catching up on gossip, watching the dishes, or making a grocery list. kodiak is known for bears and fish. but it is also the home of a powerful movement to bring the language back into daily use. for about 100 years, american schools taught english only, and punished children for speaking alutiiq. now, the last people who remember it as the language of use are almost gone. stevie works for the try. and a language mentor. >> it is so important, like my language, i have to do everything i can. >> the tribe estimates therere

about 17 elders that are fluent alutiiq speakers left. the stakes are high, but the rewards are immense. threats and the others are building them to teach the next generation of alutiiq speakers. a dozen preschoolers are enrolled -- popular kid songs. there probably won't be any people who spoke the language but the language movement is working to ensure they have teachers. they have 18 people through the intensive program over the course of his 15 year grant. he's the alutiiq language and director at the museum, as well as mentor at the language house.

he leads a session with apprentice speakers and elders. >> the most rewarding moments for me are what i can have conversations with elders and first language speakers. he has been recording some new learners and descendants can hear their story. florist did not grow up speaking alutiiq, even though people in her village did. her parents encouraged her to speak english. >> in the past, people were ashamed. >> she understood the language and began to speak in the first wave of language revitalization. for the last couple of decades, she's been an active speaker and teacher. >> i love speaking my language. i feel complete. >> she answers her cell phone in alutiiq and speaks with her husband. that is the vision of the language movement. have the language be in use.

at home, in the grocery store, on the street, and carry the values in the words. >> we never say goodbye. there is no goodbye in alutiiq. you say -- i will see you later. i like that. >> i'm claire scramble in kodiak. >> so glad we can do this kind of reporting. at the end of this very newsy week, i have news of my own to share. after a decade as anchor of this extraordinary program, i've decided the end of 2022 is the right time to turn this incredibly important job over to someone else. i'm then going to undertake a very exciting new project with the newshour for the next couple of years. one we are calling america at a crossroads. being the anchor has been the honor of a lifetime every single day. to follow in the footsteps of two iconic journalists, robert

mcneil and jim layer, and to have sat alongside the incomparable gwen eiffel. i mean it when i say they cannot pay me to do this work that i absolutely love. on december 30, i will say thank you, then i will transition to a new role as a correspondent taking on a big new project to try and understand america at this very divided moment in our country. i will travel around, talk with ordinary americans, maybe some of you who are watching, and put together a series of reports we hope will add to a better understanding of what the american people want and especially, how do we repair this deep divide? reports will show up regularly on the newshour and we will have more on that later. and more to come soon on who will be sitting at this desk after i step away. but for now, i have a heart full of things to each of you who watch and follow the newshour. you are the reason we do what we

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