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republican switch their votes, a handful of hard right members refused to back down. kevin mccarthy is hopeful he will be able to convince some holdouts to back his bid for speaker. >> after four days of counting votes, dealmaking on the floor, and behind closed doors, there is still no speaker of the house. but there was some big momentum for kevin mccarthy. a total of 15 members who previously voted against him changed their votes. but he still did not receive enough support to get the gavel. he agreed to back some demands that would weaken the power of the speaker. >> minority rights have been

stepped over. too few people are making too many decisions for the american people. that undermines the health of this institution, the country, and the american people. >> mccarthy himself says the battle could be resolved as early as tonight. >> i think you so we made some very good progress. we will come back tonight and maybe by then we will have the votes. >> some republicans frustrated by the handful of now blocking them. they walked off the floor. >> mr. mccarthy does not have the votes today. he will not have the votes tomorrow. he will not have the votes next week, month, or year. >> will the remaining hardliners keep it up or well enough of them reverse themselves? without a speaker, congressional business has been halted on several fronts. members are still not sworn in,

so some constituent services were left on pause. they cannot receive national curity briefings. >> this is a once in 100 year earthquake. >> he is the president of the nonprofit congressional management foundation. he says the house cannot fully function until there is a speaker. >> congress nee two functioning political parties. the founders gave ustem that requires both parties to be functioning.ys s a dysfunctional republican party is not just bad for the republican party, it is bad for the democrats and it is bad for america. >> house democrats continue to remain a united front. >> these days have tested house republicans ability to govern and they have failed. >> the house took a few hours break but they are coming back late tonight. >> what is expected to happen at 10:00 p.m. eastern? >> 7:00 p.m. on the west coast,

everybody get your popcorn. tonight the expectations are that republicans will select a speaker and it will be kevin mccarthy. the plan right now is to elect the speaker, swearing-in all the rest of the members of the house , and pass the rules package before they go home for the weekend. >> let's talk more about the rules package. mccarthy started turning the tides in his favor after he agreed to concessions. tell us more about the ones that would limit the authority of the house bigger? >> -- speaker. >> we will be talking about this for the next couple of years. mr. mccarthy has agreed to allow every member of the conference to call a motion to challenge his speakership. that is something suggested before.

he has also agreed to allow more freedom caucus members on key committees. like the rules committee. he has agreed to bring more votes to the floor. he wants an open process. more amendments and chances for house membe to put something out there that may win or lose. that is a strain on a speakers power. one of his authorities is to determine what has the muster to pass the house. here he is saying he will let many more ideas come in. >> tell us about these rules changes that would change the way the house handles spending. >> you know i am a spending nerd. this is important. it will matter a great deal to how our government operates. first on the top of the list is allowing open amendments. that means we will have some

very long spending debates in the house. the debt ceiling increase, which will need to happen sometime this spring, must be a company by some kind of budget reform. there are no firm details on what that means yet. they are requiring that the house ssed spending caps with a budget. that could affect defense spending. no omnibus or giant appropriation bills. i think what we will see here is a very rigorous house floor debate once they try to get together with the democratic led senate on these funding ideas. in the fall, we will have some real issues. >> thanks so much. ♪ >> today marks two years since

the january 6 insurrection at the u.s. capitol building. an anniversary that was marked today by ceremonies in front of the building itself and at the white house. >> almost exactly two years to the moment that rioters breached the u.s. capitol building, president biden gave a metal to 14 americans involved in resisting efforts to overturn the 2020 election. or in physically defending the building. >> our democracy held. because we the people did not flinch. we honor a remarkable group of americans. >> this is the second highest civilian award. given to those who performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or flow citizens. the parents of a dead officer accepted his metal.

he suffered of multiple strokes after the riot. another officer was also honored. he single-handedly lured writers away from the entrance to the senate chamber as lawmakers were evacuated. a police officer suffered injuries after he was pinned against a revolving door and beaten with his own baton. the president recognized election officials and poll workers who rejected lies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. the former arizona speaker of the house resisted efforts from fellow republicans to overturn the election results. he lost his seat in the statehouse to a republican challenger. they both worked as election workers in fulton county, geora. they described emotional testimony to the generally six committee about how they faced

harassment and threats after former president trump targeted them with false accusations of fraud. >> it turned my life upside down. i did not want to go anywhere. i second-guessed everything. it affected my le in a major way. in every way. all because of lies. for me doing my job. the same thing i have been doing forever. >> the white house calling the honorees heroes and defenders of democracy who demonstrated courage in a national moment of peril. congressional democrats held a moment of silence on the steps of the u.s. capitol building. >> we are gathered here to honor their memory and acknowledged the gratitude and tremendous bravery of hundreds of officers who defended us at this citadel

of democracy that fateful day. >> the moment of silence lasting 140 seconds. one second for each officer injured in the attack. >> in other headlines, the jobs report for 2022 shows the u.s. economy cooled so what -- somewhat in december. 223,000 jobs added was the lowest in two years. the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%. average hourly pay rose 4.6%. wall street took heart from the latest jobs report. major stock indices shot up on hopes that with inflation cooling, the federal reserve will throttle back on interest rates. the dow jones gained. the nasdaq rose 264 points.

a buffalo bills player is breathing on his own and able to talk after doctors removed his breathing to. it marks the latest progress in his recovery. at a news conference, the coach of the team said teammates spoke to him today for the first time in a videoconference. >> he gave them a thumbs up. somewhere in the midst of that, it was a little bit hard to hear , he said i love you. >> he is still listed in critical condition at the university of cincinnati medical center. silent speakers -- seekers from cuba. the policy change sends him back

to mexico if they cross illegally. mexican authorities are working to restore order in the northern city of culiacan after it was turned into a war zone. done and burned vehicles to set up roadblocks. at least 29 people were killed. northern california caught a break in the weather today as the second powerful storm this week subsided. oceanfront homes were hit by hurricane force winds on wednesday and thursday. people in santa cruz were flooded and wondering about recovery. >> we don't have a lot of resources for something like that. it will take weeks if not

months. there is a house down at the end of that private neighborhood that completely lifted off of its foundation. it is in the middle of the street. >> the storm was blamed for two deaths and major power outages. this week's third storm is expected to roll in tonight. people ventured into the streets to run errands. officials and citizens voiced steep -- deep skepticism about the truce. the supreme court of idaho has ruled that the state constitution does not implicitly endorse the right to abortion. the court rejected efforts by planned parenthood to block enforcement of a series of new laws.

they include a statute that criminalizes most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. the epa is proposing tougher standards on soot from smokestacks and wildfires. lowering levels could prevent thousands of premature death each year. some say the proposal does not go far enough. still to come, a journalist and critic of the indian government faces spurious charges designed to silence her. where prosecutions of the trump supporte that attacked the capital stand. a new project spotlights the work of indigenous american artists. plus much more. >> this is the pbs newshour from our studios in washington and from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> today's jobs reports signal good news for people worried

about recession and inflation. it cap to very strong year on the jobs market overall. it suggests that there is still difficulty fighting workers for some jobs. >> this year's economy may be ok ter all. >> there is nothing to complain about. >> she says on top of thousands of new jobs and rock-bottom unemployment, the report highlights a key metric that will make the fed happy. >> wage growth moderated. that is with the federal reserve once deceived. >> it reduces the danger of continued inflation. >> yes.

needing to throw too much cold water on the economy. >> last year turned out to be just right. >> it was a goldilocks year. 2020 was much too cold with millions of jobs lost. 2021 was too hot. surging inflation. this year saw 4.5 million jobs added. but not so large that it caused inflation. inflation and wage growth moderated. >> even with an employment report this strong, the labor market remains spandex tight. >> before the pandemic already, there is a downward trend mostly driven by the fact that we have

a rapidly aging population. >> this is true in canada and europe as well. but there is something peculiar to america. >> there is a decline among working age men that is not seen in other countries. working age women are rather sluggish and flat. they are growing rapidly and other countries. the rates of crime and incarceration are barriers to unemployment. another is the increasing use of drugs like opioids and fentanyl which are keeping pple out of work. >> the plateauing of women is not happening in euro and canada. >> they have better policies like paid family leave. >> i have been hearing a couple of other reasons. the slowdown within working age immigrants and young people just

are n interested in so many of the jobs out there. >> you can schedule someone for an interview and they don't even come for the interview. >> i heard a harsher charge from numerousmployees over the years. today's young americans just do not have the work ethic of the past. >> i have work ethic for the things i want to work on that i feel will better myself and be good for my health. >> she calls herself an apartment wife. would she take a frontline job? >> i would do that if i knew that my labor would be valued. that my personhood would be valued. that i would not be another cog in this machine that keeps endlessly grinding us down. >> what was the stress like

working at starbucks? >> unbearable. nonstop. if we were paid enough to survive, then i could probably handle it. but that was only some of the times. >> he says the options are go back to school. >> or i could go to unskilled jobs. i would not have enough to afford living outside of my parents home. >> is this some evidence of the entitlement charge? >> you can find theame argume. >> it may still be fine good -- hard to find good help.

today's jobs report is being viewed as something of a story begin the for the year. ♪ >> an indian journalist, one of the main critics of the prime minister, has long been a target of trumped up charges. she is headed back to india to face trial. it is last attempt of the government to silence her. thank you for joining us. your returning to india to face

these charges. they said you mishandled money you raised. i know the legal case is ongoing. what can you tell us about these charges? >> this is not the first on the allegations against me have been level. they have accused me of misusing funds. which they have not been able to prove. i'm not the only one. this is the latest tool for the indian government to level against us. just when he was about to be freed by the courts, there were money laundering charges against him. >> we should note that the

committee to protect journalists and the united nations has called this judicial harassment when it comes to the charges against you. why do you think the government has set its sights on you? >> i have been critical of the government. the fact that he has not taken a single press conference in eight years. i have been calling him out. i am not the only one. i'm privileged because i'm able to speak to you. they are not allowed to leave the country. that is where we are. the journalists in this country have become the enemies of the

state. >> you have had your bank account frozen. you have been prevented from traveling. you mentioned you're not just the only one. this is not just about what government officials have lodged against you. there has been an online campaign. how bad is it? >> sometimes i feel like deleting my twitter account. i've started self censoring. the moment i've tweet a word, the replies i get are nauseating. my phone number has been circulated on social media. my address has been out there. burned copies of my book have been sent to my residence. a journalist was shot dead. we do not know who killed her. i remember two days before she was shot dead, she called me and was telling me about the online hate against her.

she was shot dead. i feel like this is relentless. it is to silence us into submission. >> you are scheduled to go back to india. what do you worry will happen when you return. >> i feel like a lot of people say do not go there. there are so many sham charges against you. this is my truth. this is the story i want to report. the people who are doing this don't want me to return to india. they don't want me to do the stories that i do. but it is my responsibility. that is why i am going. i will see what happens from here.

my truce will not sp. my journalism will not stop. my quest for justice will not stop. >> thank you. >> thank you. ♪ >> two years on from the deadly january 6 attack on e u.s. capitol,ustice department officials continued to work to hold those responsible to account. our congressional correspondent is back with a report on where those prosecutions stand. >> an attack on the u.s. capitol. now simply known by the date it happen. exactly o years ago today, thousands of supporterof president trump encouraged by his words violently disrupted the counting of electoral votes

for the first time in our nations history. >> protesters have now broken into the building. >> it would take six hours for law enforcement to secure the building and grounds and another nine hours for congress to stop -- finish certifying the election results. a senate report found that at least seven people, iluding three police, lost their lives in connection with the attack. since that report, two more officers have died by suicide. at least 15 people were arrested in the capital. most writers someday return home -- rioters simply return home. >> it was really an enormous undertaking. >> she heads the institute for constitutional efficacy and

protection at georgewn university. more than 950 people have been charged with crimes related to january 6. >> the scope of the charges coming out of the attack is very brd. we have everything from misdemeanors such as trespassing on federal property all the way up to federal offenses that have a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. >> i don't really know how i feel about everything right now. >> this was him that day. livestreaming on the capitol steps. he entered the capitol capital with the crowd. he has stated guilty to felony civil disorder. he sees that charge as grossly harsh because he committed no violence. some tensions remain. he still defends the people who were there. >> i think it was a group of

patriotic americans who were frustrated with what has been happening in this country. >> do you understand that being part of that mob, that was a threat to democracy. >> i was not part of a mob. i was part of a group of patriotic americans. >> some might say you sound on repentance. is that right? >> that would not be accurate. i'm not going to regret my actions on that day. i do regret that i was part of a crowd that has now been labeled as people who were violent. even though i did not do those things. >> not everyone was violent, but the crowd overall was very violent. nearly 200 people have been arrested for assaulting police officers. riders -- rioters have been

arrested in 48 states. about a third of them have connections to extremists groups. they were found guilty of seditious conspiracy in november. it was the first condition on that charge in nearly three decades. >> it is nearly never brought in the u.s.. it is a conspiracy to violently hinder or delay the execution of u.s. law. >> more than 500 people have been convicted of various crimes. the vast majority of them pleaded guilty. the fbi is still seeking tips from the public about hundreds of other people involved. coding the person who planted a couple of pipe bombs the night before. hovering over it often questions and charges related to former president trump.

a week after, the house of representatives voted to impeach the president. >> the senate will come to order. >>'s team defended him. >> president trump did not inside the terrible riots. >> a majority found him guilty. >> he summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. >> they group launched what would be an 18 month investigation into january 6. focused on former president trump. after interviewing more than a thousand witnesses, the committee aired testimony in 10 public hearings. >> he said something to the effect of i am the president. take me out to the building now. >> and those who bore the brunt of the violence.

>> never in my wildest dreams did i think that as a police officer i would find myself in the middle of the battle. >> the committee referred mr. trump on criminal charges. , including aiding or comforting those involved in insurrection. trump and his allies have defended themselves. he has decried accusations against him. he says he is a potical victim. he continues to lie about the election.

>> what they have done to torment people and go after people like never before. i don't think anything like this has ever happens. >> despite the mayhem and bloodshed, the danger of january 6 lingers. it is a powerful political device. he is now running for congress. he says the actions that got him prison time help with many voters. >> the biggest response i get is thank you. thank you for having enough courage to do what so many people wanted to do. >> trump kicked off another presidential campaign. days later, the attorney general appointed a special counsel. >> i have concluded that it is in the public interest to

appoint a special counsel. >> earlier this week as trials and investigations continued, the peopl's house once again opened its doors to visitors. >> on this anniversary, our correspondence took a look at the domestic and international consequences of that day. >> has a change the way the u.s. is perceived around the world? >> it is no question that it was a shock to the system. >> we can look at the fact that our system worked. >> it was for sure a propaganda gift to authoritarian adversaries. they want to weaken us internally.

and calls us to further divide ourselves. are you concerned about voter suppression or gerrymandering when it comes to where u.s. democracy stands? >> i worry about the state of our politics. but i am more optimistic about the ability of americans to sustain this complicated democracy. >> you can find those interviews at our website. ♪ >> at the end of this chaotic but also reflective week on capitol hill, we turn to the analysis of brooks and capehart.

good to see you both. it took four days and over one dozen rounds of votes for kevin mccarthy to break the logjam to try to work toward becoming speaker. he has not done it yet. let's talk about the holdouts. are they just against him? >> i think there are two schools. some people do want to change the rules. in my view it is wrong to call them very conservative. these people are nihilists. they came here to burn the place down. we normally think those who go into political life that you have some positive agenda.

you want to do something good for the country. that is absent in these people. i think it is a posture of rejection. a posture of negativity. they want to be negative, oppositional. this is a form of nihilism that is in the republican party. it is certainly in the conservative media. tucker carlsen is on their side. it is something that is harmful to the health of the house. >> there is nothing to add to what you said. the fact that there is going to be a another vote maybe tonight. maybe he breaks the logjam and gets the votes he needs. but nihilists do not care about that schedule.

they wants to blow stuff up. what better way to do it then to destroy the dreams of kevin mccarthy. >> whether it is mccarthy or someone else, can anyone govern this caucus? >> no. the rules package they just released, ever the next speaker is will be the holder to the freedom caucus. >> if you have a number of these members it will be really easy to get rid of the speaker. what does that mean the next few years? >> the rules committee is the one that really strikes me. it is easy for them to block things. it could be nothing will happen in this congress. because they have the ability to block. what we have to do is raise the

debt ceiling. they will want to attach all kinds of things to that. >> that is a remarkable thing to say. >> there was a fight about it. but sanity prevailed. we are no longer sure saint -- sanity is going to prevail. >> had anything the sins -- this ends? >> hope springs eternal. i think mccarthy will be get out. but what will it mean? he will be speaker in name only. living under threat of being

removed every moment of his life the moment he gets the gavel. my biggest fear is the debt ceiling. our hope is that he would have the guts and fortitude to say i need to vote for raising the debt limit and we can take care of this. if he does that, he is done. >> i think the main threat for any nation is the 20 on the right. the threat is not a bunch of moderate democrats. i would just go to 40 democrats and say what do you want. it seems unrealistic but there are a bunch of states that are dog that. they have cut deals.

>> there is a bipartisan model. president biden and mitch mcconnell. that is a really dramatic contrast. >> that is the threshold that needs to be drawn. they are professionals. they have a sense of basic honesty and decency. we are not seeing that. we have sunk below that threshold. >> we should note as we did earlier, a different kind of chaos two years ago. i am curious, the further away we get from that day how you view it. >> i still view it with trepidation.

two years ago today we saw thousands of people instigated by the then president of the u.s. who stormed the capital and tried to overturn collections. exactly two years later, we are still seeing chaos in the house of representatives when the party of that president, a lot of whom voted not to certify the 2020 election, new folks who came in running on the big live. they are going after kevin mccarthy and not voting for him. this is the ongoing insurrection. what happened is still happening. to set up a contrast, the split screen moment we are in in this country. you have a president working with the senate majority leader on bipartisan infrastructure. that shows what governance can

look like when opposing parties come together for the good of the country. but then you also he 14 ballots without a speaker. it is an ongoing insurrection. when the party gets out of it or we as a nation get out of it. >> among republicans, that election lie that drove supporters is still very potent. >> they still say it was a live. there is a lack of loyalty to the truth. now we have a longer timeframe. there has been a lot of ugliness in american history. but over the course of my

lifetime and my one-time alliance with the republican party, there was a lot of doors they walked through that created a loss of moral knowledge. the standards of acceptable behavior went down and down. the number of threats to members of congress has gone up tenfold since donald trump was elected. that is just in the air. that is not attached to one person. ideas have consequences. >> i would add that in all the examples that you use, what we have not seen up until donald trump was a sitting president of

the u.s. who stirred that pot. and then who continue to stir the pot of our nation's subterranean demons. bring them out in the open. that has a power that we are still reckoning with. a leader of thisountry was using that platform, that bully pulpit, to actually bully people. specific people in this country. that is why you have seen threats against members of congress. if the president of the u.s. can do it, why can't i? >> it has been a remarkable two years. so much has happened. it took a long time to get here. it will take a long time to unravel. thank you so much. ♪

>> once overlooked but no more. art by indigenous erican artists is getting more attention these days. >> on a hilltop in the hudson valley, artwork created by contemporary indigenous artists. >> it is a bit of an activist

collection. >> an activist collection? >> that means it has a single purpose. the purpose is to support the work of living artists. >> some of the activism is making sure gets out >> in the world. we try to reduce that. >> she is now executive director of the project. it has a clear mission. they lend those works to museums and other art institutions. it is part of what she sees as a growing movement. >> people are recognizing that

one of the missing narratives in american art history ithe narrative of the development of native art. and the influence native art has had on how we understand this country. >> the location of the land itself is important. >> it is about indigenous place making. >> it is not just about the art. >> it is about these places where we live. >> this was home to the hudson river school of art. landscapes that captured the beauty and drama but not the original inhabitants who were killed or displaced. >> to talk about what that original desire was.

the longer history of these lands. >> there are works by 48 artists. it represents a shift of when she was just starting out. >> there were so many good native artists working in contemporary art. but they were not getting in the big shows. they were at the beginnings of a conversation that had been coming since the 60's. what they needed were allies in these institutions. >> bias? racism? hostility? what is it? >> i think there was definite bias. most of the people who were in positions of power had no

knowledge of this work. they did not take the time to know it. that is a reason that underpins a lot of institutions. they kept a lot of us out. ♪ >> they also offer residencies to native artists of all kinds. this has been heard and seen in performing arts venues and museum exhibitions. they are making a difference. >> i was missing those.

that loneliness and isolation is disappearing. we are making spaces for ourselves. taking care of our own communities. making sure we are not silenced anymore. it is incredible. i love it. >> also expanding the subject and style of indigenous art. some contemporary artists are using older materials such as beads. others find new paths. >> one of the definitions of native art is that we do not have boundaries between our personal lives, political lives, and artistic lives. they are all intertwined. weo not have that privilege. >> exhibitions at leading museums in recent years offer signs of change.

more chances to build on that momentum. >> we have support from institutions and collectors. there needs to be critical writing about that word. for needs to be an art market. >> if you are successful, then you wouldn't be needed anymore. >> that is right. >> you would go out of business. >> that would be success. >> that they remains far off. for now, collecting and lending continues. >> it is striking to see how the richness and significance of the art extends to the land itself. >> i like how the executive director talked about how this project helps native artists create their own spaces. >> be sure to joins here later tonight. tune into pbs news weekend.

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