geoff: good evening. i'm geoff bennett. amna: and i'm amna nawaz. on the "newshour" tonight. the republican divide leaves the house of representatives leaderless for a third day after kevin mccarthy once again fails to garner the votes to become speaker. geoff: president biden announces ans to both rapidly expel more migrants entering the u.s. illegally and allow more people to apply for asylum under an expanded humanitarian program. amna: and. two years after trump supporte attacked the u.s. capitol, a network of intelligence gathering centers comes under scrunity. >> the problem is there's so much collection that it's hard to discern which threats are real and which ones aren't, and particularly when there's so much disinformation. ♪

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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station fromiewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the newshour. it's another storic night on capitol hill. geoff: after three days and hundreds of votes cast, the house has still not elected a speaker. there is no sign that kevin mccarthy has broken his gop opposition, leaving the republican party divided and congress paralyzed. lisa desjardins has the latest on where things stand. >> outside the usual speaker's office, a watch and wait as a line of journalists and pressure grow around republican kevin mccarthy and his allies. where do things stand right now, congressman, what do you think? >> still talking. lisa: today, one new thing, next

to mccarthy was opponent paul gosar. a flurry of closed door meetings with hold-outs showed promise last night, but then today key opponent scott perry tweeted that confidences were betrayed by a leak and it is now even more difficult to trust mccarthy on the house floor -- >> i advanced the name of kevin mccarthy very proudly as the next speaker of the house. >> i rise denonate kevin mccarthy. [applause] lisa: almost no change. he gained no votes, though his allies pitched a plea for unity. >> the american people have told us, by putting a republican majority here, that they want republicans to lead and they want a government that works and doesn't embarrass them. and we are failing on both missions. that must change today. lisa: there was something different. florida part matt gaetz added a new name for speaker. >> donald john trump.

lisa: the former president received that one vote. but that was more than mccarthy gained. the stalemate is rare but not unprecedented. in the lead up to the civil war, the house twice had so much trouble choosing a speaker it , lowered the threshold to a mere plurality, not a majority. the most recent speaker stalemate was in 1923 - when it took nine ballots. >> our situation is most anogous to 1923 when you really just have two parties and it's a dispute within one party. lisa: georgetown university's met glassman bristles at the suggestion that a yet-to-be-formed congress represents a constitutional crisis. >> and if they need to work through it for days or weeks, that may not be the greatest policy outcomes, but it's certainly reasonable for us as a republic. the way out of this is a political way. i would not expect mccarthy to

get through early next week and still have all 203 of his votes voting for him multiple times a day. [applause] lisa: house democrats have shown a united front. there is a concern about what this means. >>not organize our district offices get our new , members doing that critical work of our constituent services, helping serve the people who sent us here on their behalf. lisa: the house, divided, still has not managed to stand behind one speaker. and right now, the 10thallot for speaker again shows kevin mccarthy coming up short and no speaker elected. that means this congress has surpassed the congress in 1923. geoff: kevin mccarthy's allies help this yields progress with

his detractors, but that is not reflected yet another house floor. bring us up to speed. lisa: i just jogged up the stairs from the closed door meeting happening. this is a tale of two sessions. session number one behind closed doors. i can report tha that is actually seeming to look better and better for kevin mccarthy. i spoke to one of his closest allies. he said he is as optimistic as he has ever been. they are putting pen to paper to layout rules changes they think will bring on board may be six, maybe even a dozen of the holdouts. some of those holdouts are meeting with them and indicate they want to get there. that is the situation behind closed doors. the other session is the one on the house floor and the basic math tells you they need far more than those holdouts they think they can get with the potential deal tonight. it is not clear they can get them. there are more never kevin's

then there were before. congress is terrible at math and we don't quite see the endgame. there are some outside factors at play. groups like the club for growth, a conservative fiscal group, they made a deal last night with a conservative pac associated with kevin mccarthy. they wrote, we have a key agreement in support of kevin mccarthy. they help to get elected some of the members of the house. that deal is that mccarthy aligned super pac would stay out of some house republican races. that would helthe more conservative groups. one other thing i'm hearing that is interesting, conservative mccarthy allies say they are getting calls from constituents that tell them they don't want kevin mccarthy. geoff: that's interesting. as the stalemate persists, the

work of the congress is on hold at least in the lower chamber. members can't be sworn in, they can't do the work of the people. what options are left for the house moving forward? lisa: there are very few. one is this idea that somehow kevin mccarthy flips and of votes. the other is that maybe he a deal with democrats, that's not going to work for the republican base. another is switch to plurality. some viewers pointed out i got that wrong last night. that has been done in the past. that is not politically feasible. it is either flip those votes or he has to drop out. he probably needs to make that happen in the next couple of days. geoff: lisa, thank you. lisa: you're welcome. ♪ stephanie: i'm stephanie sy with newshour west, here are the latest headlines. updating our top story, kevin mccarthy lost an 11th vote this evening in his bid to be elected speaker ofhe house.

the house then voted to adjourn until noon friday. the latest in a series of extreme storms blasted california and claimed at least 2 lives. howling winds and heavy rain struck the state after years of severe dry weather. drought-stricken california has been drenched with torrential rains. creeks like this one in santa barbara county are overflowing, sending gushing water into nearby areas. gale force winds have toppled trees and taken down power lines. this afternoon, about 150,000 customers across the state were still without electricity. victoria james' apartment in oakland was damaged by a fallen tree. she and her children escaped with nothing but the clothes on their backs. >> there's big holes in the ceiling, like in my bedroom, the living room, in the kitchen for sure i saw. tree trunks came into the apartment. so it's flooded in there right now, it's finitely flooded.

stephanie: it is the third so-called atmospheric river storm the state has seen in the la week caused by vast amounts of water vapor moving quickly through the air. nds in the northern part of the state gusted to 85 miles per hour blowing over the canopy of this gas station. many of those same areas were still reeling from a powerful new year's weekend storm. with the ground already saturated, flooding risk goes up. mandatory evacuation orders were issued for some low-lying communies. the golden state's many fire-scarred hillsides are also more vulnerable to mudslides. governor gavin newsom declared a state of emergency yesterday to help expedite relief and recovery efforts. the downpours across california are expected to taper off later today. there is strongly encouraging news tonight on pro football player damar hamlin. doctors now say that all signs indicate his neurological state is intact.

the buffalo bills safety's heart stopped during a monday night game in cincinnati, and he'd been kept under sedation at the university of cincinnati medical center until last night. his doctors held a virtual news conference today. >> we are in the situation where we wanted to allow him to gradually wake up as the rest of his body was healing and last night he was able to emerge and follow commands and even ask who had won the game. stephanie: hamlin remains in critical condition, on a ventilator, but is able to communicate through writing. we will talk to hamlin's high school coach later in the program. tragedy engulfed a small town in southern utah today -- a murder-suicide that claimed 8 lives. investigators said a 42-year-old man shot and killed his wife, mother-in-law and 5 children -- then killed himself. police found the bodies late wednesday in the town of enoch.

court records show the gunman's wife had filed for divorce last month. the man accused of fatally stabbing 4 university of idaho students has made his first court appearance bryan kohberger is facing murder and burglary charges. he did not enter a plea today and was ordered held without bail. newly unsealed court documents indicate that police found his dna on a knife sheath at the crime scene. in the war in ukraine -- russian president vladimir putin declared a unilateral, 36-hour cease-fire starting at midday tomorrow for the orthodox christmas holiday. a senior ukrainian official quickly rejected it as a cynical trap and ukrainians in kyiv agreed. >> i think this is utter hypocrisy. on the 31st of december there was no peace. we were under such bombing for new year's ev just hypocrisy on putin's side. >> this is just a pretty candy wrapper which russia uses to present itself as a country that

wants to end the conflict without actually doing anything. stephanie: meantime, the biden administration announced it will send several dozen bradley fighting vehicles to ukraine germany and france will supply armored personnel carriers and light tanks. the late pope emeritus benedict has been laid to rest beneath st. peter's basilica at the vatican. pope francis joined tens of thousands of the faithful today at a requiem mass in st. peter's square. it was a rare instance of a living pope presiding over the funeral of a predecessor. china insisted today it is fully sharing data on a rapidly spreading covid outbreak. the foreign ministry rejected criticism from the world health organization and it said the situation is under control. but in beijing, patients were sleeping on cots in hospital hallways -- with no beds available. it was the latest sign that infections have overwhelmed chinese health care facilities. back in this country --

the south carolina supreme court struck down a ban on abortions after about 6 weeks of pregnancy when cardiac activity begins in the fetus. the 3-2 decision found the law violates the right to privacy under the state constitution. south carolina will still bar most abortions at 20 weeks under a previous law. michigan democratic senator debbie stabenow says she will not run for a fifth term in 2024. her surprise announcement today opens a senate seat in a battleground state. stabenow is 72. she said she wants to pass the torch to a new generation of leaders. still to come on the newshour. the controversial legacy left behind by pope emeritus benedict the sixteenth the federal trade commission proposes a ban on non-compete clauses. damar hamlin's high school coach explains what makes the nfl player so well-loved. and much more. ♪

>> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. amna: the white house today unveiled a new immigration plan that will increase expulsions at the u.s.-mexico border. the plan cracks down on those who enter the country illelly but also allows 30,000 migrants , from cuba, venezuela and nicaragua and haiti to enter the country each month as part of a humanitarian parole program. the president and his homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas announced the n actions today. >> the actions we're announcing today will make things better will make things better, but , will not fix the border problem completely. there's more that has to be done. >> if individuals from these countries attempt to cross the u.s. border without authorization or the mexico or panama borders after today they , will not be eligible for this

new legal pathway. so the message is clear. individuals should stay where they are and apply for these processes from there. geoff: the announcement comes ahead of biden's plans to travel to the border city of el paso on sunday. joining me now is chris o'meara vignarajah, president and ceo of the lutheran immigration and refugee service. welcome back. thanks for joining us. as you well know the biden administration is grappling with record numbers at the u.s. southern border. you heard president biden say these actions will make it better. do you agree? >> it's a mixed bag. expanding pathways at a time of unprecedented global need is certainly a worthwhile effort. so we're grateful to see the expanded use of humanitarian parole, but we can crack when a door -- crack open a window while we are slamming the door. that is what it feels like they are doing. because, yes, the administration is allowing a very limited number of nicaraguans, haitians, and cubans to apply for humanitarian parole. but it's

also as the white house expands the use of the trump era title 42 and migrants from these three countries would face immediate expulsion. >> title 42 is something they have been trying to end right but they have been forced to keep it in place under a supreme court ruling. what do you suggest they do? they can't defy the supreme court. >> that's right, but it does feel disjointed. whether you compare what president biden said as a candidate versus what he's done as president or even the fact that at the time when the administration is fighting title 42's use in court, they are also expanding it. we saw the announcement with venezuelans. then in today's announcement. our point is, look, we have a refugee resettlement system. humanitarian parole is a temporary band-aid. these are both under the president's power and he should be implementing them but we , can't see a purported public health rule that the administraon doesn't back

being expanded. that is what they did today. >> if you step back from these specific actions, and even just looking at it through the lens of what happens at the border, immigration more broadly, this was the president's really first big speech on this major topic and when you mentioned some of the promises he made as a candidate -- when you look at what's been done so far by the administration, how well is the administration lived up to some of those promises? >> we have been really grateful for the administration's global humanitarian leadership when it has come to resettling afghans, the ukrainian refugee crisis, but the truth is in terms of actually meeting their pledge, i think there's still room for improvement. even in this announcement, you you know, first the administration had a message of don't come to migrants. this seems like the 2.0 version, which is the carrot and strict -- stick approach. but that approach really only works when people have a choice to choose the carrot before they face the stick. and i think that there were some parts of the announcement today

-- in reality, we're talking about migrants who are fleeing for their lives. and the idea of having an orderly process yes, of course, there are immigration organizations like us that stand by the need to create pathways, but we can't create systems that no one can access and that is my fear. >> everyone agrees, chris, that the immigration system is antiquated and it is broken and it will require congressional action to really fix it in a aningful way. so from the administration's perspective, i guess when when you look at what president biden could do immediately given his own power, what could they do? >> you know, there's announcements and there's execution. so today's announcement, for example, the white house indicated that they will increase the ceiling of refugees that can be admitted to 20,000. but both this year and last year, the white house has only been able to resettle a maximum of 2500. so that's just an example of does the administration prioritize the rebuilding or the building of the infrastrucre? do they want to work to create

pathways that are permanent instead of the temporary band-aids which have been humanitarian parole? and do we want to have a system that doesn't just privilege certain nationalities or privilege people who have a u.s. sponsor? or do we privilege those who are fleeing fotheir lives because of war, violence, persecution, have access to asylum which is protected under u.s. and international law? and so our point is that yes, we need to create these pathways. we alshave to allow for people who are fleeing for their lives. we're talking about women, families, children who are coming to our border, they can't be summarily expelled and so we believe that america is a nation great enough that we can walk into them. >> immigration is certainly something we're gonna be hearing a lot more about, especially as the president makes a trip there this weekend. that is chris omar vignarajah, president and ceo of the lutheran immigration and refugee service. thank you. >> thanks for having me.

geoff: this week marks two years since the attack on the u.s. capitol. among the intelligence networks that identified the threat of violence that day -- so-called fusion centers -- state and locally-run intelligence hubs created to gather and disseminate information across multiple jurisdictions. but as william brangham reports, the centers are coming under increased criticism for undermining civil ghts. william: as rioters overwhelmed police barricades near the capitol on january 6th, eventually breaking into the building itself, it was clear that law enforcement did not anticipate the scale, or the violence, of the crowd. >> stop the steal! stop the steal! william: but that didn't mean there weren't warnings. >> prior to a number of analysts january 6, around the country were identifying individuals that were talking about

potentially bringing weapons to the u.s. capitol. william: mike sena is director of a fusion center in northern california, and president of the natial fusion center association. >> we held a national call with about 300 participants around the country talking about the threat, talking about what we believed may happen and the potential that of what could happen. william: the head of the d.c. fusion center later told the january 6 committee that he saw information suggesting that some very, very violent individuals were organizing to come to d.c. as the nation watched, it was just one of the many warnings that went unheeded that day. fusion centers were created after the intelligence failures leading up to 9/11. designed to be a national network that could more effectively share information between federal, state and local law enforcement. today, there are 80 fusion centers and their each run by the state or locality where they operate.

>> one of the roles that we play is trying to identify threats in advance and to do that a lot of it deals with looking on online threats, dealing with tips and leads that are reported and our job is to triage all that information and try to give that to those folks in law enforcement and public safety, so that they can make the best educated decisions that they can. >> what showed to me is that january 6 this this intelligce network they built was entirely ineffective. william: michael german is a retired fbi special agent who focused on domestic terrorism. >> the problem is there's so much collection that it's hard to discern which threats are real and which ones aren't, and particularly when there's so much disinformation and misinformation being pushed through this network of fusion centers. so it just dulls the response that you're constantly hearing this alarm go off. >> it's a boy who cried wolf

situation. >> exactly. william: german is now a fellow at the brennan center for justice and the co-author of a new report titled ending fusion center abuses. he argues the centers have been ineffective in assisting in counterterrorism efforts, they lack effective oversight, and the broad collection and sharing of intelligence that is not connect it to any specific crime has led some fusion centers to abuse civil liberties. >> for almost 20 years now, these institutions have improperly collected information about people exercising their first amendment rights. william: for example, in 2020, german says hacked, leaked data vealed that fusion centers in at least minnesota, maine, texas, and california surveilled and then hyped the threat posed by black lives matter protesters. environmental activists have also been targeted. >> a fusion nter is this orewellian black hole. william: lauren regan represents

two local climate groups that are suing oregon's department of justice which operates the , state's fusion center, alleging they were being surveilled despite not being suspected of committing any crimes. >> oregon, through its fusion center, is spying on lawful political organizations and act this. -- activists. primarily using digital means, merely because they were advocating, in this case, in opposition to the jordan cove lng pipeline. william: the oregon doj declined to comment, citing the pending litigation. regan says what her clients allege happened to them in oregon is not an isolated incident, with similar tactics seen during the protests against the dakota access pipeline. >> we hope that this case will basically ensure that the government and the state are checked in their overstep of using these types of fusion

centers as sort of black holes of spying and intelligence gathering where the public doesn't get to know what is being done or why. william: one of the criticisms that's been leveled against fusion centers is that in looking for illegal activity, sometimes people who are engaging in lawful, constitutionally protected activity like tests have been targeted. what do you make of that? >> well, when you look at the role that fusion centers play in first amendment protected events, we have multiple standards on the information that we can collect, as well as what is suspicious behavior. now, when we look at first amendment protect activities, the role of fusion centers is to protect those events, and when you look back at charlottesville and the attack that happened there with the vehicle ramming -- that for me was a turning point and why fusion centers have to have a stronger role in trying to identify threats before they happen. people who

may be planning to go to an event with weapons, people who may be planning on doing violence or doing some criminal acts when people are trying to express their freedom of speech or their other protected rights. our role is to protect those people, their physical safety, but also to protect privacy, civil rights and civil liberties. william: to ensure that balance is met, the brennan center's michael german argues independent federal oversight is needed as a watchdog on fusion centers. >> when they were created, i worried that the federal government was promoting them as a way to keep their hands clean, let the state and locals run these centers that way when they get in trouble, we will say, not us. william: it's a bad apple over there. >> exactly. and what they don't seem to understand is that if you're operating in a network, the network is only as good as its worst actor. and if the worst actor is putting misinformation into the network, all of the information

then becomes questionable. william: twenty years sinc 9/11, the january 6th attack showed that the collection of intelligence, and acting smartly on it, remains an ongoing challenge for law enforcement in the united states. for the pbs newshour, i'm william brangham. geoff: in the first general election after the attack on the capitol many of the most , high-profile election deniers lost their races. but threats to democracy remain. laura barron-lopez has more. >>xtremist political factions remain emboldened. former president donald trump's third bid for the white house is built on lies about u.s. elections, and cities are reporting record number of hate crimes. here to discuss is cynthia miller iiss, the director of american university's polarization and extremism research innovation lab. and kim lane scheppele, a constitutional scholar at princeton university. thank you for joining the newshour.

one of the biggest takeaways after the midterms is that a lot of election deniers running in state right way says -- statewide races lost. but you said the fever still has not broken. >> i think people want to think the fever has broken and that is understandable and we should acknowledge and celebrate the fact that not all of the election deniers won their races, but many did and we are seeing action in the republican party election deniers holding up the democratic process in a way that is making us laughable to the rest of the world. there are many ways democracy can be chipped away at and eroded and we are continuing to see the repercussions of election denial even today. laura: spreading beyond the midterms. congress recently passed reforms to the 1987 electoral reform act , but are there legal threats to

democracy still out there or do you think are there other ways to harden the laws to prevent a future january 6? >> it was good that congress fixed some of the problems with this rickety law that trump and his associates were trying to ban by making january 6 an event where the results of the election might have been overturned. that particular threat has been in their minds. we have a constitution that puts running federal elections in the hands of state are still seeing them enacting laws that restrict voting. the most recent ones might put the selection of presidential electors in the hands of state legislatures instead of in the hands of voters. in the hands of state legislatures when the voting is unclear.

voting can be made unclear after the fact even when it wasn't read there are still some very serious dangers out there. laura: i should say that that was the electoral count of 1887, i think i said 1987. we are at the two-year anniversary maram january 6. what has the u.s. done to crackdown on domestic extremist groups? >> to be honest, we have seen a lot of movement on the prevention side that really has to be acknowledged. we have several states, washington state cannot with a major report on couering and combating domestic terrorism and domestic violent extremism. that is a model for the nation. it sees this as a much more upstream problem. we had president biden hold a first summit on hate fueled

violence in september and lay out a suite of option including department of education and health and human services. there has been a lot of on the prevention side. but we obviously haven't solved it. we have been caught up in issues of accountability and seeing this through a law enforcement lens. i think we should celebrate some of the winds we have seen. laura: i spoke to a former fbi agent who said they thought there should be a domestic terrorism statute to define what that is. >> we have a definition of domestic terrorism, but we don't have a way to independently charge actors with a federal crime that is independent of other crimes. you have a lot of work arounds. it is sloppy and it makes it confusing to the public and to everyone if you are seeing someone charged with weapons offenses or child pornography instead of domestic terrorism because that is what is easier

to charge them with and carry a heavier sentence. i don't like to see the prosecution and accountability lens distract from the prevention lens. ultimately, it is a band-aid and does not solve the problem. it just tries to address it once criminal acts haveccurred. laura: when we talk about the political movement inspired by january 6 or added january 6 by the form president, there were at least two incoming freshman that were at the stop the steal rally on january 6. wisconsin's van orden and new york's george santos. do you think this political movement will survive beyond the former president? >> think one thing we have seen is that it existed before the former president and it is existing even as his hold on the republican party is slipping. the worry is that what this has done is that a new standard for

what counts as not outrageous enough to not hold office behavior. we are seeing a lot of people running for office who have a lot of unusual views and who don't have very many qualifications for holding office. the worry is that this is not just about one person or one day, but that it is something that really has become part of a culture of a whole political party in the united states. in a two party sysm, you can't exactly do without one party. what we really need are two parties that actually honor the constitution, forswear violence, and are in favor of free and fair elections. as long as we aren't certain about that, democracy is in danger. laura: on forswear and violence, a former washington dc police officer was speaking to a crowd outside the capitol today a here is what he had to sav a january 6.

>> the new speaker of the house, whoever the hell that ends up being, and other gop house leaders, here is my message to you, you have this job because you promised to represent the people. we, the people, are calling on you to condemn political violence. as you take on your new roles, i will be watching and waiting for public statements from each and everyone of you to do just that. laura: what role do you think the republican party has in combating this political violence? >> i think there are two things going on in what he said. one is the absolute need to have unequivocal condemnation of political violence. we need to hear that from every elected official and we are not hearing that in strong enough terms or at all sometimes,

sometimes there are terms that encourage it. that is dangerous for democracy and public safety. you also hear some of the frustration we are seeing citizens increasingly feel about what is happening this week and the lack of trust and increasing frustration people feel watching people who are supposed to be doing their jobs of democracy having infighting and childish tactics that prevent the work of democracy from getting on. i think we are seeing many different ways that democracy gets eroded and i think some of it is happening right from within. laura: many of it we will be tracking as we head toward 2024. thank you so much for joining the newshour. >> thank you. geoff: pope emeritus benedict the was celebrated today at 16th a funeral mass in st. peter's square -- with his

successor, pope francis, presiding. though retired for nearly a decade, benedict was a leading light for conservatives in the catholic church. others look at his mixed record on child sexual abuse in the church as a failure. nick schifrin looks at his legacy, and a historic funeral. ♪ nick: in st. peter's square, a solemn service that hasn't taken place for more than 200 years. a living pope, francis, led the funeral of a former pope, benedict xvi. francis called benedict devoted to god, and summed up his life with christ final words on the cross. >> together, we want to say, father, into your hands we commend his spirit. benedict, faithful friend of the bridegroom, may your joy be complete as you he his voice, now and forever. nick: the ceremony ended with

holy communion and one final, intimate moment for two popes. before benedict entered his eternal resting place under the basilica. pope benedict i was born joseph ratzinger in 1927. he was ordained a priest in became archbishop of munich in 1951, the late 1970's, led the vatican's chief doctrine and discipline office, the congregation for the doctrine of the faith starting in the early 1980's, until he became pope in 2005. >> catholics will say that joseph ratzinger, benedict the 16th, is the greatest theologian to occupy the chair of peter here in rome in at least 1600 years. nick: father roger landry is a priest of the diocese of fall rive massachusetts, and columbia universities catholic chaplain. he says in a benedict's lasting legacies will be what he called the reconciliation of faith and reason. >> on the one hand you've got , exaggerated faith, separated from reason that can lead to irrationality. and on the other hd, you have an exaggerated secularism that thinks that faith is a danger.

what pope benedict tried to do in his time before the papacy and during the papacy is unite the two. nick: benedict is often labeled a conservative. he reinforced the churches stances against birth control and married priests. but the label is too simple for a man who as a young priest was progressive, says landry. >> while he remained the same about the ideas he was trying to push, he thought culture went in a much more progressive direction and for that reason, he who started out as a progressive was eventually labeled as a conservative. nick: what do you believe pope benedict's lasting legacy will be? >> he fell short of his obligations to the vulnerable children within the flock of the roman catholic church. nick: shaun dougherty is the board president of the survivors network of those abused by priests. starting at the age of 10, he was molested, and later raped, by his parish priest.

he argues benedict's is a legacy of failure on church abuse, and shielding abusers. >> pope benedict will take, you know, the legacy questions as to why he fell short and why he shielded people with him to the grave. the organization as a whole until they get ahead of it and , quit shielding these abusing priests, this will be part of their entire legacy from this point moving forward. [31.3] nick: in early 2022, an independent report commissioned by the german church found archbishop ratzinger guilty of mishandling four cases of sexual abuse. in a written letter benedict asked for forgiveness, but denied wronging. >> we will try to make this the lee stock what possible. nick: on cbs evening news dougherty and another victim had , the rare opportunity to confront their abuser, george koharchik, with a cbs news hidden camera.

and validate their story. >> i'm certainly sorry for the harm i've caused and ashamed of anything i did back then. nick: koharchik was removed from ministry, but never arrested. >> i'm angry, but i have forgiven you a long, long, long time ago for this. but the part that i cannot forgive is the cover. that crushed me. nick: when daugherty was 24, he tried to kill himself. >> part of their legacy is that is the trail of broken survivors that they have left behind them. and they are really not doing anything for us at all. we are left on our own to survive this. nick: benedict's supporters argue he forced the church to confront abuse, and threw out hundreds of priests. >> i think it's unfair characterization to say that he said that he did anything other than trying to root out what should never exist in the priesthood. nick: critics would also say

that the church itself, under cardinal ratzinger and under pope benedict, at times shielded some of the people who were committing these crimes. >> that's unfortunately absolutely true. and it will always be a shame of the church. that reeducation that has to take place, not to mention the norms and the application of church law to every circumstance, that is not something unfortunately that can happen overnight. nick: what did change the church overnight, perhaps benedict's lasting legacy, his most radical act -- as the first pope in 598 years to resign. >> he was the tip of the spear there, exercising a lot of the courage that he displayed in other parts of his life. nick: until his death, benedict remained the church's pre-eminent tradionalist thinker. francis has remade the church. but benedict's lecy is likely to linger even as it is debated after his death.

r the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. amna: the federal trade commission issued a proposal banning noncompete clauses that prevent workers from switching employers or starting a new business. one in five americans, 30 million people, are affected by these policies. the ftc will accept public comments for 60 days before it can finalize the rule. welcome. >> thank you. amna: most people think of noncompetes and associate them with high-paying jobs, tech workers, and so on. what are some of the industries we don't usually associate with them? >> people think of folks in the boardroom who might be impacted by these, but 30 million americans are covered by noncompetes. everybody from minimum-wage

workers, security guards, folks flipping burgers, two middle-aged workers journalists, all kinds of folks amna: about hf of all states already have some rolls on the books limiting their use or banning them. why is a federarule necessary? >> one part is that there are states that fully been noncompetes already. one of the interesting and disturbing pieces of evidence we have is that in states that band noncompetes, you see them and just as many contracts in states that don't. that means workers don't know what their rights are and workers may be chilled from trying to find another job, getting a better paying job even when those clauses are unenforceable. a clear federal rule would go a long way to making sure people can switch jobs, find better pay, and better working conditions. amna: what do you estimate could be the potential impact? >> pretty big. this is a proposal, but we find

that there could be an increase in wages of $250 billion to $300 billion for workers who can find better wages and working conditions and where employers would have to compete for those workers. amna: you look at where workers are now moving through the pandemic, we have seen unusually high rates of quitting and job switching. numbers from november 2021 suggest 4.5 million workers voluntarily left their jobs. that seems to suggest that noncompete's are not an issue to worker mobility. what kind of immediate impact could this have? >> we have seen unprecedented switching in the wake of the pandemic. we are talking about long-term effect. we are hoping that this is good long-term one workers can match with a job that they are best suited to. again, this means that as we have seen in this moment,

employers will have to compete raised on wages and benefits for their workers. amna: in this market, it is a tight job market, workers have a lot of leverage, if you don't want to take a job with there is a noncompete, can't you not take that job? >> that is the ideal. some research suggests workers don't even know they are signing a noncompete clause. you get a stack of hr paperwork, you may not know what is in it. some workers are asked to sign a noncompete after they start. this is a problem even for well-educated employees. they don't know what they are signing up for until they try to get another job and find out that they can't. amna: states that restrict non-competes to see higher wages, according to some research. other research says that they lead firms to want to invest in the people that they hire so they don't go somewhere else. >> that is totally right.

we acknowledge in our proposal that there are some good reasons employers might want to use noncompetes. employers of alternatives. there are nondisclosure agreements if they are worried about information or trade secrets. there is trade secret law. and then the other is obviously if workers are not restricted, employers can say, i will offer you more, i can offer you better because this investment is worth it. amna: it is a proposal, some suggest it is vague and could face legal challenges. >> we think we have clear authority to promulgate this kind of rule. congre gave us this authority and we feel fairly obligated to make sure that we prevent unfair methods of competition like this, and a place that is appropriate like economy wide arm, that we should use it. amna: elizabeth wilkins, thank you for joining us. >> thanks so much. ♪

geoff: one of damar hamlin's first thoughts after he woke up in the icu last night was to ask in writing, who won the game where the bills safety went into cardiac arrest? which is doctors say, you have won the game of life. william brangham is back with a conversation for someone who knows him well. william: so for a better understanding of damar hamlin and his connection to his hometown of pittsburgh, i'm joined now by his former high school football coach, terry totten. just retired after nearly four decades in and around football. for the last 21 years, he was the head coach at central catholic high school in pittsburgh, where hamlin attended and played. coach totten, thank you so much for talking to us. i know this has got to be a pretty rough stretch for you all. could you just take us back to monday night when you saw what

was happening in the game? can you just tell us how what was that like for you? >> just like everybody else, his parents, his teammates. it was horror unfolding on the football field. anybody who watches a lot of football knows that that was not a standard injury. you could see in the faces of his teammates the concern, the , tears, the drama of the medical people getting out there as quickly as they can. everybody associated with this game, that's the last thing they want to see. it is a kick in the gut. it is a horror movie unfolding in front of your eyes. william: you were his coach all through high school. can you just give us a sense -- what was he like as a teenager? >> he was an incredible person. very, very quiet, very steady, very even demeanor no matter what. when he was at the height of things or going through some of the adversities. he was hurt for a couple games one year. it was all the same standard. it was all the same level of of commitment, loyalty to the team.

he never wavered. he didn't go up and down like a lot of teenagers do. emotionally, he was steady. i've said that word 2000 times in the last four days, and that was his trademark, that he was and even killed guy, mature beyond his years. even at the age of, you know, when i got him here at 14, he just seemed to be level headed and steady as she goes. william: and now to see him and the prowess he has shown on the field. did it make sense to you that he seemed destined for the nfl back then? [00:04:35][80.6] >> will i know it was a dream of his. it is now coming to light. it sort of came to light the last couple of years for me that he had coinciding driving goals. one was to play in the national football league and one wants to use that platform to return to his community. this community here, his geographic community, his hometown, and to the people who

had helped him to get there. he was going to use his platform to to help people come back through the same system he did. he avails his time over here at central catholic. he returns to our youth camp often, often taking pictures with the kids or throwing the ball around. he financially supports his charitable organization in mckees rocks. presents for toys for kids and just he's one of those guys. this is a diverse community over here at central catholic, and he embraced that. he reached across all lines to help a lesser student, to help a lesser athlete. william: i mean, as far as we know, what happened to him was a pretty freak accident. but as you, and everyone else well knows, there are a lot of other injuries that nfl players can suffer. some of them are life threatening. do you think that this event in any way makes young people think twice about football and a

professional career? or does their love of the game and the desire to reach the nfl just trump all of that? >> these guys know the risk they take every time they take the field. now, this is very, very unusual. and i does -- hope it doesn't have a bad effect on the game of football itself. but that will be remain to be seen by a personal choice of each individual. but that risk is there and it showed up on monday night. william: you've been through four decades of football. have you seen the game evolve? i mean, these guys do seem to be bigger and faster and hitting with more impact. have you seen that evolution of the game yourself? >> absolutely, you hit the nail on the head. they are year-round training. they are bigger, stronger, faster. they are hitting each other much, much harder than even even 10 years ago, let alone 20 years ago.

it is the physical, it is a tough game. it is an impact game. and i guess there are parts of the human body that aren't made for it. but, you know, it's a great game and hopefully it carries on. and they they are trying to find safer methods. and i'm sure they will explore this one as well. but you are absolutely correct about the size and force of these people. william: we understand his condition is improving and we hope that that continues on that trajectory. i mean, as his former coach, if you could say something to him now, what would you tell them? >> oh keep fighting, brother. you've got so much left to give. and he does. and he will just keep fighting, brother. you're getting the best care you can get. you know, let it stick its course and hopefully there's a full recovery. just keep fighting. william: former coach terry totten, so good to talk to you.

>> thank you so much. geoff: keep fighting, no better message than that. everybody who knows damar hamlin speaks so highly of him, even his code from a decade ago. amna: sounds like a remarkable man. meanwhile, that is the newshour for tonight. there is a lot more on line at pbs.org/newshour. geoff: and join us again here tomorrow night, where we'll look at where prosecutions of the capitol rioters stand two years after the january 6th insurrection. i'm geoff bennett. amna: i'm mom none of vase. on behalf of the entire newshour team, thank you for joining us. >> majorunding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- >> for 25 years, consumer cellular has been offering no contract wireless plans to help people do more of what they like. our custome service team can help find a plan that fits you. >> the landscape has changed.

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