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♪ pbs ♪ >> this progm was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and for contribution to your pbs station fr viewers like you. thank you. judy: back from the thanksgiving holiday, the democratic-controlled congress is up against a ticking clock. there are just five weeks until republicans take over the majority in the house of representatives. and there is a long list of

priorities that lawmakers are trying to pass before the end of the year. our congressional correspondent is here to walk us through it all. hello, a lot to be watching right now. we know tonight, potentially historic movement on an important issue, telus where we are. >> they are talking about same-sex marriage and let's go to the senate floor with the senate is in the midst of passing a bill that would essentially codify same-sex marriages that are recognized by any state. i want to talk about this bill, it is expected to get 60 votes in the coming minutes. let's talk about with the bill does and does not do. this would mean that every state must recognize same-sex and interracial marriages that are recognized in anytate. any statehat licenses such a marriage must be licensed -- recognize anywhere. it does not mean there would be a national right to same-sex marriage. it would be the same effect as the dobbs decision for abortion.

however, we know same-sex marriage has been found constitutional, it's a constitutional right under current supreme court law. but, it is not clear, some are worried that the supreme court may change that and rivers that right as it did with roe v. wade. the ideal for this bill is to protect same-sex marriages in states where that is recognized. i will say, when that decision was made in same-sex marriage was deemed a national right, 35 states have laws on the books that same-sex marriage was not allowed there. so this is something that is concerning for a large amount of americans in congress is moving on it tonight. judy: we called it the lame-duck session, but it's actually very busy, a jam packed time including some big deadlines, including that railway strike issue. tell us where we are with that. >>his is an incredibly juicy time. there are very high-stakes issues here. we are just over one week i --

one week away from a potential deadline that could cause a national railway strike. today, president biden called the four top leaders of white -- of the white house to talk about the issues. there they were, all of them had very serious faces. all of them left saying that they are serious about passing something to either extend the deadline for the strike, for negotiators, or to force negotiators into a deal -- a beginning deal that they set earlier. here's what we heard from president biden about that. president biden: there is a lot to do, the train strike and what we're are doing now, and congress i think has to act to prevent it, it's not an easy call, but we have to do it. >> the leadership is there, but this will be very heavy lifting in the senate where this kind of deal would need 60 votes and would need it by next week. senator bernie sanders, among others, is someone who's thanks

workers should get a better deal, he's pulling out for a vote that he has. also some moderate republicans who are needed, like senator susan collins, she's not sure that she thinks congress should have to get involved, she thinks the white house made a mistake. we are looking to do that carefully. judy: the last thing i want to ask about is something that matters a lot, funding the government, that's money that's running out on the clock is ticking. >> they have a whole two and a half weeks to try to fund government. usually that's a lot of time, but in this case, lawmakers haven't even agreed yet on basics like how much the government spends. so they have a lot to do in just a couple of weeks, and there are a lot of decisions to be made, in particular about other to have another short-term deal for maybe a week or so were couple months if they go to january, or jew they try to finish the whole year's funding? here is the current house republican leader, kevin

mccarthy, who hopes to be house speaker in january, talking about that perhaps he doesn't want a full deal right now. here's what he said today. >> i'm not going to step back and let some ill pass in the middle of the night, i won't let them continue to do runaway spending were continue to ignore the challenges that we have in america when it comes our energy policy, our border policy. >> these dynamics are complicated, he doesn't run the house yet but he has a lot of votes there and he has sway with republicans in the senate, so all of these groups have to agree on a arch appropriations bill or a short-term deal very quickly. on top of all of that, let's just look at the calendar, everything ahead of us coming up. one of the deadlines i mentioned december 9 is the deadline to avoid a railway strike. just one week after that, december 16 is the deadline for the government funding bill that needs to be passed by then. decemb 15, the day right before that, that's the last day the house is supposed to meet for the year. they don't have any time after

that on the schedule, and as mentioned, just a couple weeks after that, january 3 is when a new congress is set to begin. i hav't even talked about eltoral count reform. there's a landfill, some folks are talking about immigration. this is a very wild lame-duck session ahead of us that we will be talking about a lot. judy: nobody's better equipped to cover it. thank you. and our other major story is a federal grand jury has convicted the founder of the oath keepers militia, stuart rose, of seditious conspiracy in the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. a second defendant was also filmed -- found guilty. three others were acquitted. this is the director of the institute for constitutional advocacy and protection. she is also a former justice department -- she monitored the trial in washington, d.c. entrance is now. before ask about this, remind us who steward rhodes is, what are

the oath keepers? >> steward rhodes is this self-proclaimed leader of an unlawful private militia organization known as the oath keepers. this organization has been around since about 2009. stewart and others who were part of the organization attended other standoffs against the federal government, such as the standoff and bunker hill, nevada back in 2015 or 2014. in other standoffs out west. stewart particularly in the last several years has been very vocal and wanting to come to the defense of president trump, initially, should he have been impeach and remove from office, he pleaded about the president that he called up the oath keepers and ensure that he was not removed from office. he continued with that type of rhetoric and planning throughout 2020 and 2021 as the stop the steal movement gained momentum,

and as we now know, the jury has agreed that he was involved in a seditious conspiracy with other oath keepers to actually use force or violence to prevent the execution of laws in the united states, and that lobbying the counting of the electoral college votes. judy: that's not something we hear about very often, what's the significance? >> it's very significant because it is not charge particularly often and it's not always been successful in the past, and that sometimes because it's been charged where what was cspired to happen never actually happened. i think one of the tngs that made this an easier case for the jury was not just that there was overwhelming evidence of the planning to do exactly what ended up happening to use force and violence to prevent the counting of the electoral college votes, but it also actually happened. they didn't -- they did use force and violence to hinder a

delay and prevent the counting of the electoral college votes. it was not ultimately successful in overturning the results of the election, but delayed by a number of hours so a jury has to wonder with a really made good on the conspiracy. the jury could see it with their own eyes, hear it with their own ears that steward rhodes and other members did make good on that conspiracy. judy: we know other defendants coming up to trial, disses have significance for those cases? >> it absolutely will. with all of these cases coming out of january 6, i think charge defendants have looked to see how other fares -- others fared at trial. those who have gone to trial have been found guilty. not every member of this last trial, not all of the five who were charged and tried together were found guilty of seditious conspiracy, but all five were found guilty of some offenses. all five were found guilty of

obstructing an official proceeding, which carries the same penty as seditious conspiracy, up to 20 years in prison. very serious charges, very important verdict, and it will put the writing on the wall for others who face this charge. judy: mary analyzing for us, this verdict in the case of steward rhodes, mary, thank you so much. stephanie: i'm stephanie with newshour west. we will return to the full program after the latest headlines. this evening the senate did pass the marriage equality act. it ensures protections for same-sex and interracial marriage. the final vote was 61-36. the legislation is expected to pass quickly in the use of representatives. universities in beijing and other chinese cities sent students home after weekend

protests against covert restrictions in the country's communist leaders. that move came as beijing police were out in force trying to track down demonstrators and to stop any new protests. the foreign ministry defended those actions. >> china is a country governed by the rule of law and the various legal rights and freedoms and joined by chinese citizens are fully guaranteed. at the same time, many rights and freedoms must be exercised in the framework of the law. >> the protests were china's largest since the 1980 nine pro-democracy demonstrations in tiananmen square. a new pentagon report ech iap bs ea arsenal in closing the gap with the u.s. the report says beijing has more than 400 nuclear warheads and could nearly quadruple that number by 2035. the u.s. currently has more than 3700 warheads. a tense call in ukraine's

capital city as people embrace for a new russian missile barrage and more blackouts. air raid sirens sounded in kyiv but it turned out to be a false alarm. meeting in romania, nato foreign ministers pledged blankets, generators and other a to ukraine. they said it's crucial to combat moscow's strategy. >> russia is using missile attacks to leave ukraine cold and dark this winter. president putin is trying to weaponize winter. this force ukrainians to freeze or flee. >> is really palestinian violence urged today with five palestinians killed across the occupied west bank. in one case, isrli forces shine dead in man who rammed his car into a soldier. clashes have escalated with 100

41 palestinians and 31 israelis killed. the u.s. won a politically charged match with iran. 1-0 to advance to the next round. prident biden reacted with glee. president biden: usa, usa. that's a big game. when i spoke to the coach of the players i said, you can do this, they went -- they did it. >> we will get more on the game later in the program. the city of houston lifted a boil water notice for more than 2 million residents. officials say testing shows the water is safe to drink after a power outage shutdown a treatment plan earlier this week. a passing of note, democratic congressman donald of virginia has died. after a decade-long battle with cancer. he had been reelected to a fourth term earlier this month. donald was 61 years old. still to come on the newshour, arizona certification of election results is delayed because of baseless claims of fraud. a deeper look at the united

states world cup win over iran that comes amid international tensions. announcer: this is the pbs newshour from w eta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: the supreme court heard a case today that could have broad implications for how the nation's immigration laws are enforced. our correspondent is here with more on the days argument. >> to states, texas and louisiana, are challenging the bite administration's guidelines on who of the 11 million people in the country illegally, should be prioritized for deportation, here's our western resident supreme court watcher, the creek -- cheap washington correspondent who is in the courtroom today, and she is the managing director for immigration and cross-border policy at the bipartisan policy center. teresa, what is the difference

that texas and the louisiana are complaining about? the difference between both the immigration law and what the biden say? >> president biden when he came in as the secretary to review the prioritization of who immigration officials shouldo after for arrest for deportation in the united states. president obama had to have similar guidelines, president trump withdrew them in president biden instituted new ones. they issued a memorandum that is the exit -- decision of execution prosecutorial. we don't have the resource to arrest everybody who's documented in the u.s. and deport them so we want to figure out how to tell our people to prioritize. texas and arizona said the immigration law doesn't give you that authority. it says if someone is undocumented you shall take them into custody and put them into removal proceedings. some of the debate says does shall mean xiao or does shall mean might?

>> there's a difference between the immigration law, the words in the immigration law, in reality. here's chief justice john roberts. >> assuming we think it would be, if not, impossible, surprising and very difficult for the executive to comply, isn't that a consideration we should take into account and try to figure out if shall mean shao? there are cases where we said shall means may. >> the court has said that. i think the broader context here is really about the dcretion that federal agencies have in order to go after violations. not just immigration, but any federal agency that is enforcing a law tries to prioritized who it will go after based on the reurces they have, the seriousness of the violation. this case is being watched closely, not only for immigration, but for what the

court may say about that type of discretion. >> one of the constraints. why it wouldn't be in the words of the chief justice bs of possible, surprising and very difficult for the administration to actually carry out the letter of immigration law? >> the estimates of 11 million undocumented people in the united states. in the system we know there are 2 million people waiting to be decided if they should be deported. ice, the agency charged with arresting people, only has a few debt -- a few thousand agents for the entire country, so it's impossible for them to find and arrest 11 million people. or even put them in detention because congress has not allocated sufficient resources to detain them until they can decide whether or not they could go to proceedings. >> and other issue that came up with the arguments is whether or not texas and louisiana have a right to bring this case what's called, standing. they are arguing that the

administration's guidelines may require them to spend more on things like education, law enforcement, social services, but justice elena kagan question that. >> is just not enough that you are coming in here with a set of speculative possibilities about your costs. you have to do more than that, given the backdrop of what has become, i think, a system that nobody ever thought would occur. >> the significance of this not only in this case, but in the broader outlook? >> i think she was telegraphing that she doesn't think the states he or have standing because the cost that they say they are incurring or would incur are just too speculative.

as she pointed out in the clip later, that it would only take a dollar with some judges, before they were just knocked on a government policy. any state could come in on any policy at any time with speculative c.ostsabout what ha. it's not just republican-led states, it's democratic led states as well. when they don't like a government policy, they will go into port and they -- court and they will offer these costs in order to get standing to bring their lawsuits. and then she said they'd find a judge that might be sympathetic because they know where to file these cases. in that judge, on the basis of a dollar a cause, would bring a government policy to a dead halt. and that's something that i think she and others on the court are very concerned about. >> what about that argument, what are the burdens are the burdens or the costs on the states of this binding

guideline? >> the problem is there's not a differentiation between the overall costs in the implementation that the guidelines might make. immigrants in a state that are undocumented may be working and paying taxes on their kids may be in school and they may have health care costs that those states have to bear. that's the state with any case -- thus the case with any state that has immigrants. ever trying to differentiatehe particular policy, you are trying to guest -- gss how many additional immigrants or in any given state, and that's hard to do. >> there's also discussion about what this judge in texas did. he wiped out the guidelines entirely. >> when jges are faced with cases like this, they might issue an injunction, which basically blocks it, may be a nationwide injunction but still allows the case to go forward on

appeal even if the government can't continue to implement it. but this particular judge you something called vacatur. which means that he vacated the whole policy, it di't exist. in the government, united states says, you can't do that. that's not the kind of remedy that the law allow there was a lot of discussion about the law that we've talked about before, the ministry of procedure act, which is the rules of the road for federal agencies when they enact new policies or change them and whether that act allows federal judges to wipe out a government policy instead of just blocking it pending an appeal. with the court will do with that, i don't know. i know the chief justice called it a radical argument because judges are used to using vacatur. but i think the government has given them some food for thought. >> national law journal he and the bipartisan policy center, thank you very much. >> my pleasure.

♪ judy: arizona has been a hotbed for election to nihilism since 2020. misinformation is now disrupting what is typically a routine election procedure. one of the states 15 counties failed to meet yesterday's deadline to certify this year's midterm election results. here are the details. >> that's right, it was the republican dominated board of supervisors who voted not to certify the election results by last night's deadline. in response, arizona's highest election official, secretary of state, katie hobbs filed a lawsuit. she is a docrat and will be the next governor of arizona after she beat a trump-endorsed opponent kari lake and the midterms. lake has since filed a lawsuit against maricopa county for its

handling of the election. all those lawsuits underlie the anger among some arizonans who spoke out at a public session with maricopa county's board of supervisors this week. >> this is a war between good and evil, and you represent people. >> you are vote traffickers, you are vote traffickers. criminal. so curse upon you, a curse upon all of you, you smug, smug people. >> i will just say this, voting -- >> your time is up. >> those who make peaceful revolution possible, make the violent revolution necessary. >> right there in the middle of that panel of election officials, the man who joins us now, the chairman of maricopa county's board of supervisors. bill glick -- build gaetz, a self-described republican. it's good to have you back on the newshour here.

describe the acrimony you felt at that meeting last night, and did the truth about the midterm election come out in the end? >> thanks for having me, look, my colleagues and i agree that it was very important to have public comments, to have people come and speak about their concerns about this election. it's an important part of the process. we were looking at some of our statistics on last nights meeting, it was the most people we've ever had watch one of our meetings from looking at youtube, so there's a lot of interest in it. there were some strong words, no question about that, but that's everyone's right to say those things. unfortunately, a lot of those people who had a lot of bad things to say about maricopa county, once they spoke, they left, so they didn't stick around to hear the explanation of the election by our two codirectors elections, in which they respond to a lot of those questions and issues that

were raised. but at the end, this is the important thing for everyone to understand, everyone who wanted to vote have the opportunity to vote. their vote was counted, if they were an eligible voter. that's why my colleagues and i voted yesterday to certify the canvas of the election. >> we should say that four out of the five on your board and maricopa cnty are republicans like yourself. but you did have printer problems on election day at 70 of the more than 200 voting locations. do you think that the printer issues provided a pretext for unleashing misinformation? and do you have any regrets about not staying more on top of the equipment? >> we stayed on top of the equipment, we tested them in advance, and we were obviously surprised by these issues with the printers, but i give great crit to our team who went in

and they determined with the issue was on election day and were able to get those printers back online and to get the tabulator's excepting the balance. and here's the important thing for people to understand. even if those voters who showed up on election day were unable to run the ballot through the tabulator, they had another option. they could put the ballot in a secure ballot box. in fact, in the majority of counties in arizona, that's exactly how it's done on election day. they don't have a tabulator on site. instead they put their ballot into a ballot box and it's counted back at central count. >> i understand that, but were you concerned about the perception? you knew that this needed to be an airtight process. you already had a election done nihilists at the top of the ticket for the republican party. you have thousands of arizona he and sue -- many of whom i've

interviewed, questioning the integrity of the election. you knew it had to be airtight. >> no question about that. disappointed that this happened. i said yesterday during the meeting, there's no such thing as a perfect election and it certainly was not a perfect election on election day. but what people need to understand is that redundancies in place so it was a technical issue that created inconvenience for people. people had the opportunity to cast their vote. in maricopa county we have a hybrid system so you can vote by mail and we have hundreds of thousands of people able to choose that option. for 27 days people could vote in person and then finally election day was that final option. in addition to the people who did show up on election day -- >> i just want to move on to the issue. i want to move on to the issue of cochise county. that is the one county that has

not certify the election results, and they know you have a background in election law. so i want to ask you, how did cochise county officials, have they committed a felony by not fulfilling this duty in do you think it's possible that votes from cochise could be left out of the final state tally? >> i'm not sure whether they committed a felony, but i can tell you this, is e statutory responsibility of the boards of supervisors, all 15 of them for the 15 counties in arizona, to certify the canvas by yesterday. you have 20 days from election day. so by choosing not to, we are now into uncharted territory. we haven't seen this before. that's one of the reasons why there have been two lawsuits that have been wrought against the board of supervisors down and cochise county. my understanding is they have a hearing scheduled for this thursday at 1:00 p.m. in the court will rule -- the reality

is, this probably ends up going up to the appeals court and up to the supreme court to make a decision. under arizona law, the canvas must be certified at the state level by the end of next week. >> bill gates, the chairman of the maricopa county board of supervisors, thank you so much for joining the newshour. >> thank you. judy: the world health organization has decided that the virus formerly known as monkeypox will now be designated mpox. however one refers to it, the virus spread earlier globally this year. bringing fears of another pandemic. many western countries fought off the outbreak with treatments and vaccines but in the democratic republic of the congo or drc, the virus rename --

remains endemic. front-line workers are trying to prevent it from going global. our special correspondent and video journalist sent us this report from the drc's capital. >> in may, monkeypox spread across the globe, eventually reaching 75 countries, including to europe and the u.s. today after widespread use of antiviral medicine in a preventative vaccine, numbers are dramatically down. but here in the democratic republic of the congo, the virus remains a threat. in this clinic on the outirts of the city, three young children are suspected of being infected. one of them is the two-year-old. she has a fever and is vomiting. painful sores cer her body. this doctor is treating her. >> the children showed up here

with complaints of fever, vomiting and rashes. we checked on them, but already with symptoms like these, we suspect it's monkeypox. >> here, far from western capitals, there are no antivirals and no preventative vaccines available to patients. >> the only thing we could do was treat the fever and the skin rash. as for the rest, we need help from specialized doctors to know what to do in order to better help these kids. >> the democratic republic of e congo is the country most affected by monkeypox and it has continually reported cases over the past five decades. for the past few years it has seen a surge in cases. despite the surge, the country has few tools at its disposal to fight the virus. this antiviral used widely as a treatment is authorized for use in the european union and in the u.s., but not in the congo or anywhere in africa. and not a single dose of the

smallpox vaccine proven to be effective against monkeypox is available on the african continent. it's a phenomenon some are calling medical racism. >> there is no profit in it and that's where racism comes in. >> this doctor is an assistant professor of medicine at emory university. >> that's this in freshman to the people who do not necessarily have allowed for us to advocate these things come in. there is a certain aspect of people still being very much stuck in the mindset of what is in it and why do we need to invest in malaria, and tb and hiv and monkeypox if it's happening on the others of the planet. >> document or coal spends much of her life encouraging the world to care. -- care. . she is an american researcher at

ucla and has been studying monkeypox in the drc for more than a decade. >> we see cases all over the country at the moment. recently, the largest outbreak that we've seen has been in this province, but we've seen a number of cases up north, closer to -- and in this area. >> because monkeypox almost never cause an infection outside of africa, it usually remained a distant threat. that meant no money for research. >> there has been almost no funding, especially in drc for the monkeypox. the cases of monkeypox have really stems from here, so i think to really understand what's going on with the transmission, what's going on with the virus in mutations, what's going on for the future of monkeypox, this is your base. >> after years of neglect, western donors are now china play catch up in the $3 million

research project funded in part by the u.s. department of defense hopes to improve virus surveillance. that starts here, congo's national laboratory. it's the only lab in the country that tests for monkeypox but samples take weeks to arrive here. the size of western europe with poor infrastructure. by the time results are in, patients have either recovered or in about 10% of cases, have died. this doctor is the assistant director of the national institute for biomedical research. >> the delay between the start of symptoms and when we receive a lab sample is averaging 21 days. i'm talking about three weeks, and the disease itself usually last for four to five weeks. >> by improving surveillance here, donors hope to stop the virus in its tracks and prevented from once again going

global. peter is the director of the centers for disease control and prevention in the drc. >> by building this systems, we believe in containing them here is the best strategy of preventing propagation and transmission on the continent. this is the best way of preventing spread, as well as internationally. >> but the drc still won't have widespread access to the antiviral boards of the vaccine. the children are back at their orphanage. there symptoms of slightly improved. because of the months long delay at the national laboratory, dr. still didn't know if it was monkeypox or something more common like the measles. >> you see it's an orphanage and where the virus came from, no one knows, where they contracted it from, no one knows. we have to take charge of the

situation so it cannot spread any further. >> with so many questions unanswered, taking charge of this situation and preventing the virus from spreading may remain a difficult task. pbs newshour, i'm benedict from the democratic republic of the congo. judy: as we reported early, it was a big moment of the u.s. soccer program as the men's team won a nailbiter to advance to the knockout round of the world cup. it is just the third time the u.s. men have advanced with a round of 16, and it is an important victory as the team failed to qualify for the last world cup. here is a look at the drama behind today's game. >> by any measure, this was a high-stakes match. in a must win game, the u.s. held on to win 1-0 and stay

alive in the world cup. that tension was matched only by tensions off the field. two geopolitical foes facing off in iran's team, under a whe-hot spotlight, as antiregime's protests in the name of mahsa amini continue home. for more on the game, cup and politics of it all, i'm joined by the cohost of the soccer podcast, caught offside. jj, well, thank you for being with us. i want to ask about that game, that glorious heart stopping, hard-fought game. the u.s. did pull out a win in the end, what stood out to you from the match? >> i thought the dominance of the first half of the performance, i thought the u.s. midfield were going to be listing those names like the founding fathers by the end of the tournament. they were fantastic and are the heartbeat of the team. we got the goal, he put himself on the line. and then the second half that was needlessly tough for the u.s., and iran almost getting that nearly end.

>> at second have had me screaming at e television quite a bit. when you look at this team, is the u.s. men's national team that failed to qualify for the world cup in 2018. how big a moment is this win for them? >> it's a huge moment. when you take yourself back to that moment when we didn't qualify for russia in 2018, the u.s. program was in turmoil. now it's a completely young team, there's only one member of the team that remains. so the youth of the team, for them to get over the group with their first attempt is very important. >> as you well know, befe a single minute was even played, the politics were part of this match. protests in iran are in their 10th wee the iranian players and their veryirst match did not sing along to their national anthem. the u.s. soccer team briefly posted an altered image of iran's flag without the emblem

of the -- image and they stood in support of iranian women in games are being played in a vacuum, are they usually this politically charged? >> not really. i think this tournament has really highlighted ella tics and sport. it was always happening, maybe we were paying attention, with social media we weren't so aware. from the minute the spotlight has been on the tar as hosts, their human rights effort, their attitude towards lgbtq+ people. there was a spotlight already on the tournament and it was heightened when the iranian protests continue to really fect the team on the field, and then the action that was taken by the u.s. soccer federation. the team were unaware of the social media stance that the u.s. was able to take. and it caught them and they were in the press conference in the distance the team from that decision. but there's a lot going at the world cup. even serbia and albania involved

in heightening that talk about that regional dispute, serbians pulling a flag in their locker room before the brazil game with the ag of serbia and possible superimposed over. this is been a tournament that has highlighted geopolitical issues and they've come to the fore. >> he mentioned that press conference, that was fiery and iranian journalists put really tough questions to the host. tyler adams was asked by one journalist if he is ok playing for a country in which there is so much discrimination against lack people. adams said this in response. he said there's discrimination erywhere you go. one thing i've learned since living abroad is having to fit in different cultures and assimilate into different cultures. the u.s. were continuing to make progress every single day as

long as you see progress, that is the most important thing. you flush a lot of these pre-match press conferences, what'd you make watching that one? >> i thought it was extremely agessive and not usually the kind of topic that comes up in a prs conference, a soccer press nference. in the aggressive one was from the start. adams was attacked in terms of his -- the way he pronounced iran. and then taken to task over the injustice issues in the united states. he was asked about uf's naval fleets in the persian gulf. this is really just -- i think it was inflamed by the u.s. social media posts and there seem to be some kind of backlash from iranian journalists. but you don't see that regularly. it's never usually like that. >> we have many more games to

go. u.s. men's national team will face the netherlands and the next round, the knockout rounds, can they win? and never their linens have been pulled up any trees, they did qualify with them out of the group. they haven't quite been the team that we expected, they are vulnerable in the u.s. have proven that they can control the ball and control the game, can they score enough? >> host of the soccer podcast, caught offside, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. judy: we will be back shortly, but first, take a moment to hear from your local pbs station, judn

attorney and climate justice leader born and raised in new york city. executive director, brooklyn's oldest latino community based organization, she's leading change and sustainable development, environmental justice, and community led adaptation. tonight she shares a spectacular take on community resiliency. >> my father died of an asthma attack when he was in his early 50's. my mom had lung cancer and passed away recently. i had a bilateral pulmonary embolism that almost took me out. and what we all have in my family is that we were all born and raised in what we call an environment still -- environmental justice community. this problem of envirmental racism is personal. you grow up in a family that has asthma, upper respiratory disease, living in the midst of spaces where there are brownfields like paint and the

kinds of omissions that harm our community it's descendants of colonialism, extraction and enslavement, we are asked -- susceptible to toxic exposure. i think it was around 1996 when a woman in the community told me she would get up in the middle of the night to see if her children were still breathing. they lived under the kiwanis expressway, and i realize that if we could not breathe, we cannot fight for justice, that there wasn't anything more fundamental than the right to breathe. that's my entry into the environmental justice movement. environmental justice is -- of environmental burdens and low income communities and communities of color. all we need to do is look at hurricane katrina, hurricane maria, hurricane andrew, and you will know who is impacted most. literally the people least responsible for creating climate change, black, indigenous people, people of color, people who have historically lived throughout this, those of the community's devastated and

impacted by climate change. i think if our ancestors had thought that everything was hopeless when they were in shackles, when they were being brutally beaten, we would not be here right now. so i tell young people to get lessons from their ancestors and remember that we are supposed to be fighting, building beyond this moment of crisis right now. when you do this work, the people that you love that have been living under the worst circumstances for generations, aren't at the tables that we are at, so we bring that narrative with us. we bring that personal story with us. we can't separate that personal narrative from policy, from science, from research and data collection, from decision-making. everything that we do is shaped by the concerned to ensure that future generations are not impacted like our families have been. my name is elizabeth jan p your and this is my brief but spectacular take on climate

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