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looking for survivors and victims after tornadoes tore through the region last night. at least nine people died. seven of them in alabama. >> the storm knocked out power to tens of thousands of people. the damage begin coming into sharper focus after daybreak. >> in selma alabama evidence of a tornadoes power on vivid display. the twister ripped away parts of the selma country club. >> class going everywhere. >> social media showed the storm carving a ragged path of destruction etched into america's civil-rights history. it hurled aside cars and erect buildings. selma's mayor said the damage uld in even worse. >> we were blessed.

just want to remind folks that selma is just one of the communities that was hit by a storm. >> the hardest hit of those communities live 40 miles to the northeast. authorities say around 50 homes have been destroyed. that number is only expected to rise as the full scale of the damage is assessed. doris hills business is among the wreckage. >> their house is gone. >> the federal emergency management agency estimated that tornadoes may have touched down at least 35 times across several southern states. on the others are to the country , californians continue cleaning up from days of storms as another system moves in from the pacific. local officials are watching the

salinas river at risk for overflowing. communities are under evacuation orders. some residents are often to wait it out -- opting to wait it out. so far more than half of california's 58 counties have been declared disaster areas and property damage could top $1 billion. >> despite the amount of rainfall, the drought that has gripped the western u.s. is far from over. i'm joined by jeffrey mount at california's water policy center, a nonpartisan think tank focused on innovative water management solutions. california has been enduring a devastating multiyear drought. many people will see the downpours over the last several days and think shortly drought is over. is that the case?

>> drought is in the eye of the beholder. this is something important that is missed in the news. if you are in san francisco and you rely on reservoirs for your water supply, the drought is over for you. if you rely on groundwater anywhere in the state, it takes years to rebuild the losses in groundwater we have had over the last three years, really over the last 10 years. if you are a fish, this is great, but you are not going to rebound. it's going to take years to recover from 10 years of dry conditions. >> does any of the relentless rain hp that problem at all? >> let me be clear. we are pointed in the right direction. we just haven't arrived yet. it would take years. we had a spell of five consecutive wet yea. that really helps a lot. one year is not get us out of

drought completely. >> is the rain being stored in a way that can make a difference towards the future? >> absolutely. there's more than 1500 dams in california. our largest reservoirs are a long way from being full which is kind of a silver lining from the drought. they are taking all the water in and reducing flood risk downstream as they fill those reservoirs. we are storing aot in our surface areas and recharging groundwater which is important. >> when you take a broader view of rainstorms, do you see this as a blip or is this the new normal for you? >> one of the issues that has come up about climate change, it's no longer an existential future threat. it's here.

we are seeing drier dry years and wetter wet years. you can't attribute what's happening right now to climate change but it is consistent with what we are seeing. these atmospheric rivers get juiced up by the warm air out in the pacific. this is what the future probably looks like and in fact i would argue the future is here now. >> we have seen the storms having an enormous impact on the ground. you live in california. what does all this mean for how people in your community live? >> first of all, as you know we have the most variable climate in all of north america when it comes to precipitation. most people don't appreciate that. people run around like it's some exotic event when it rains. but it does rain like this once every 10 years. what happens is we get very excited, we worry about it and

we forget abouit by the time the summer comes around. this year enough flood damage has occurred that i'm hoping we will tackle that issue. we have to do them side-by-side. you have to handle the wet years better while handling the dry years better. to our credit as a state, we are working in that direction. >> does that mean you are seeing the right institutional policy changes in place to meet the changes? >> we make recommendations on policy. there a lot more we can do. we are pointed in the right direction on our policy changes. we still have a lot of work ahead of us. >> jeffrey mount, thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure.

>> treasury secretary janet yellen warned congress that the federal government will hit its debt limit next thursday. after that date, the treasury will take what she called extraordinary measures to shift funds around and prevent a national default. >> there has been a bipartisan cooperation when it comes to lifting the debt ceiling and that's how it should be. it should not be a political foot wall. this is not political gamesmanship. this should be done without conditions. >> congress is in recess through next week and the new house republican leaders have said they will demand concessions on spending in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. yellen estimated that the treasury can avoid a default until early june.

russia's defense ministry issued a new claim that a small town in eastern ukraine has fallen after weeks of fierce fighting. the capture of soledar would mark moscow's biggest victory since last july. ukraine insists tt the battle is not over. tv footage showed heavy fighting around the town on thursday. a top epidemiologist in china is warning that rampant covid-19 infections may not subside for two to three months. instead the virus will spread from cities into the countryside has millions of people travel home for lunar new year celebrations. that raises new fears since many of china's rural communities cannot cope with major medical emergencies. police and south korea are seeking manslaughter and negligence charges against 23 officials following the deadly crowd surge last october. nearly 160 people died in the crash at a halloween party.

officials expected more than 100,000 revelers but assigned fewer than 150 officers to the event. the man accused of assassinating former japanese prime minister shinzo abe has been formally charged with murder. police say he acted because of abe's apparent ties to a controversial cult, the unification church. >> free and fair elections are the base of democracy and it's absolutely unforgivable to perform an act of such violence during election campaign. >> the suspect was charged after a six-month mental evaluation found him fit to stand trial. in this country there is word that officials at a virginia elementary school knew that his six-year-old might have a gun before a teacher was shot and wounded last week. the superintendent in newport news says at least one administrator was notified and had the boys back pack searched

but did not find the handgun. e revelation came during an online mting with parents last night a new york judge ordered the trump organization to pay $1.6 million for crimes including tax fraud. the company was convicted of schemes to let top executives avoid taxes on lavish benefits like luxury cars, apartments and tuition fees. former president trump denied knowing anything about it. wall street stocks finished the week on the upside. the dow judgments gained 112 points. the nasdaq rose 78 points and the s&p 500 added 16. still to come, cancer deaths dropped significantly. more late stage prostate cancer diagnoses spark concerns. a small town store owner gives her brief but spectacular take

on helping people. >> this is the pbs newshour. >> cancer deaths in the united stes have dropped 33% the last three decades. among the reports highlights cervical cancer rates dropped 65% for women in their early 20's in part thanks to the hpv vaccine. but there are troubling signs as well. advanced prostate cancer diagnoses have risen roughly 4.5% annually since 2011. i'm joined by the ceof the american cancer society. let's start with the good news. the 33 percent drop in cancer deaths since 1990 one translates

to an estimated 3.8 million deaths averted. >> 1991 was a high watermark for this country when we peaked in cancer deaths. the investments in cancer research has really borne fruit in giving us new strategies for cancer prevention, for early detection which we know is critical for improved outcome as well as new treatments and cure r the 200 disease that we call cancer. >> there's better screening and fewer smokers. i want to highlight that 65% drop in cervical cancer rates for women in their early 20's. we know that cancer kills some 4000 women every year. how much of that decline do you attribute just to that vaccine? >> we see a signifint relationship between that vaccine and that decline because

it is specific to that group of women. those women ages 20 to 24 would be the first to have received vaccination against the human papilloma virus. this is the first real world evidence that we have to to show that hpv vaccination does as predicted reduce cancer rates and mortality from cervical cancer. we believe this also portends that in outliningears -- outlining years, we will see the same decline in those vaccinated for other hpv induced cancers including a suite of head and neck cancers that affect both men and women. >> there is some worrying news. we should highlight a 4.5% increase annually in advanced prostateancer diagnoses. what should we understand about that? >> this is a call to arms for

men and their clinical providers to think differently about prostate cancer. it's the most frequently diagnosed malignancy of men in this country, accounting for almost one third of all new mail counselor -- mail cancer deaths. unfortunately prostate cancer although highly survivable if detected early is clearly being detected too late. we can see this in the shift of diagnosis to men with more advanced disease. prostate cancer is much more difficult to treat if not impossible and it is therefore no surprise that prostate cancer is now perched as the second leading cause of death for men in this country, accounting for 34,000 anticipated deaths this year. we are anxious for these cancers to be caught earlier and for men and their clinical providers to determine the best screening plan for them for prostate cancer.

>> t highest incidence in mortality is among black men. why the racial disparity and how do we close it? >> so much to unpack there. black men have a 70% increased risk of prostate cancer and a two to four fold increase compared to any group in the united states. screenings amongst black men and white men are practically identical so we cannot ascribe this to differences in screening. screening is low for all men across this cntry. that needs to change. so what's causing disproportionate burden on black men? we know very little about genetics of risk overall but especially for blacken, that's an area where research needs to come into play. certainly access to quality care and screening may also come into

play. we also know that black men are vastly underrepresented in clinical trial for prostat cancer, which we know is the most advanced form of care. many levers that we can potentially pull to bring about more equity in outcomes for prostate cancer. for men overall, wneed to do better. >> cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the united states behind heart disease. 600,000 deaths expected this year alone. it's a mixed picture. i'm curious on your big picture take. where aree in the fight against cancer? >> we are in a period of hope. each of those 200 diseases we call cancer tells a different story. there are areas like cervical cancer where these wins infuse additional prevention strategies. and others like prostate where we need to understand much more or early onset colorectal cancer where we truly don't understand

why it is that this is on the rise. we simply need to invest more into cancer research. we have shown that gives a precipitous decline in cancer death. we have much more to learn and implement so that we can reverse these trends and cancer as we know it for everyone. >> ceo of the american cancer society, thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> new york city mayor eric adams took office a year ago with a focus on driving down crime. his first year in city hall was marked by challenges from the covid pandemic to a homelessness crisis and an economic downturn. the mayor has just released a new $103 billion budget proposal for the city. it's a reflection of his priorities including housing and public safety as he shapes his second year in office.

they joins us now from new york. welcome to the newshour. >> thank you very much. >> i want to start with the request you issued to new york state to help with the influx of migrants. asylum-seekers who have found their way to your city. re than 800 asylum-seekers have arrived in your city. how has this effect the city's social safety net? >> it is a major impact not only to our safety net but also our recovery coming after the pandemic and making sure we can provide the basic services for everay new yorkers. 36,000 people showed up on our doorsteps and we provided for them not only housing, a place for them to sleep with food, health care. we educated a substantial number

of children and we are also providing the necessary mental health support that is needed. but we need help and that is why we are calling on the national government to not put this burden on our cities. el paso should not be going through this. washington, houston, new york. none of our small or large cities should be experiencing this. >> new york city has always been a city of immigrants. you have said that you want new york to remain a sanctuary city. how has that perspective changed if at all in the number of governors from red states and even from colorado who have lost migrants to new york trying to make political point? >> we should be clear that prior to this current crisis, new york state was already receiving a large number of migrants and asylum-seekers. this has always been the gateway for those who want to experience the american dream.

that dream should not turn into a nightmare when you are placed on buses without necessary care, new covid testing, lack of proper food and just rest to take care of your basic hun need. that is not who we are as americans and i was extremely disappnted when the governor of colorado joined the red states and sent buses here to new york. we had a conversation with him and he has agreed to work with us and coordinate to make sure we add our voices to the national government, solving this problem in a real way. a decompression strategy that the entire country could absorb this influx. >> let's talk about crime. he focused your attention most intently on public safety your first year in office. new york saw a major drop in shootings and homicide but robberies and burglaries drove a 22% increase in major crime in new york city. >> in february, we were looking

at a 40% increase. we were moving in the wrong direction from the time of the end of 2021 and we knew we had to turn it around and we did a series of things including putting in place an antique gun unit, going after our subway safety plan to mak sure people were actually safe and feeling safe, and then going after some of those drivers of crimes and we saw a different direction in the last six months of the year. we saw crime start to take down. we removed 7000 guns off our street of a 27 year high in gun arrests. we went after ghost guns. we also looked at how to do preventive measures because police can't do it alone. that is why we put in place real initiatives to prevent people from going down the pathways of crime. we are going to continue to that. i cannot take my hat off enough

for commissioner keyshawn soon. she put together a well-thought-out plan. >> you announced an effort to remove people with severe untreated mental illness from streets and subways by directing police and first responders to hospitalize people deemed to mentally ill to care for themselves even when they pose no threats to other people. help us understand how you see this issue. do you see it as a public health issue or a policing issue? if there are advocates who point out that the city really needs to approach this issue from a health and housing standpoint, not a policing standpoint. >> we cannot be so idealistic that we are not realistic. of course you need a short-term, midterm, long-term. far too many people took that announcement that we put in place as stated anyone with a mental health illness would be automatically compelled to go to

a medical facility and that was just untrue. i'm so glad you laid out the plan exactly the way we did it. if you are an individual that you cannot take care of your basic needs and you are a danger to yourself, that is an obligation and a humane obligati for us to take care of these individuals. i spend january and february visiting many people on the streets living in camps and encampments, living in their own human waste, drug paraphernalia, schizophrenic, bipolar. how can i walk past them? the status quo is stating we should do something inhumane and this is not a police led initiative. this is led by out reach workers and mental health professionals. people want to paint it as though we are telling police to do it and we are not. we are stating if we come together and combine our forces and give clarity on what our outreach workers can do, we can

start saving the lives of individuals. >> what do you say to medical professionals who say they aren't enough beds for psychiatric patients and police who worry that it puts them in a precarious situation if they are not trained on how to deal with someone in these encounters? >> i say they are right. i think my health professionals are right. there are not enough beds. that's why the governor announced during the state of the state and allocation of a thousand more beds. that's why we are speaking with our private hospitals. we need you also to step up in this task. even when i ran for office, our nurses stated that we need to get the beds back on line that we took off line after the covid pandemic. if we send you out there without the proper training, we are doing something unjust to you. we are training our police officers exactly what to look

for. we are also utilizing technologies such as what we do with telemedicine so that those mental health professionals can see and give some good information to take someone in for an observation and this is the right thing to do. new yorkers know that. we can't continue to watch people all over our country, not only new york, live on streets when we know they can't make the right medical decisions for themselves. >> new york city mayor eric adams, thanks for your time. >> take care. >> today at the white house, president welcome to the prime minister of japan as he ended her tour of top industrial and military allies. japan, like many nations in asia and beyond is wary of arise in muscular china.

the leaders pledged to work closely together on military matters including the remaking of a fabled american military branch in the pacific. >> in the air above japan this week, japanese paratroopers trained for an airborne assault. for years they have been called the self-defense forces. but now they are jumping into a new future. and with the u.s. transforming their military to prepare long for war with china. japan promises to double defense spending by 2027. and purchased missiles that can strike deep into other countries. >> i think it's historic. japan has never put this much resources all at once into building its military power. >> sheila smith is a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. she says 77 years of history.

since imperial japan surrendered and accepted a pacifist constitution is at a watershed. >> in japan, you have a certain amount of public hesitancy to invest in military power. that has dissipated. with the japanese are recognizing is the need to be ready in case they have to fight. ck: japan says north korea's missile and nuclear program present a more graven imminent threat than ever before. russia's invasion of ukraine shakes the very foundation of international order. and china's threats of military expansion pose japan's greatest strategic challenge. >> the behavior of china has made many japanese feel like they are behind the eight ball, so to speak, and the need to be part of a coalition response to that more assertive china. nick: so, the japanese prim minister launched a western tour, including signing

japan's first agreement with the european country, culminating at the whithouse today. president biden said the two countries have never been closer and praise to japan's shifts on defense. >> this new policy was set forth by japan and i believe will be beneficial for the deterrence and response capabilities of the alliance. nick: and the u.s. is expanding its commitments. the u.s. promises any attack in space would trigger an mutual defense provision. they will increase training on s japan's southwest violence, some of which are 100 miles from taiwan's capital. the marines will repurpose their presence in japan into what they call a regiment. it is designed to be more mobile, better conducting reconnaissance, and fight from remote islands. they will be equipped with antiship and antiaircraft

missiles. the marines portray themselves as the best of the best, capable of responding quickly anywhere on the planet. including for the last 20 years fighting land-based counterinsurgencys. to focus on china and maritime campaigns, this is what a current commander called a revolution. >> from the hill fights of vietnam to the global war on terrorism, marines have adapted its mission, structure, structure. with threats evolving, it is time to adapt again. nick: the goal is to upper within what is known as the first island chain inside the area vulnerable to chinese missiles, as some other u.s. military weapons, such as ship and aircraft, stay at a distance. the korean core commandant -- t he marine corps commandant. >> you are their shoulder to shoulder with the allies the u.s. has.

you are not leaving them. nick: this week, secretary of defense lloyd austin offered his most public support. >> these actions will both are deterrence in the region and allow us to defend japan and its people more effectively. nick: a senior administration official told me the marines' moves represents a significant posture change and japan's agreeing to the change reflects a major development in the alliance. for more on the marine corps plan, we turn to retired lieutenant general paul van riper. welcome to the program. we spoke to a half-dozen three and four star retired marine generals like yourself who voice concerns about the marines' plans. you have been public in your criticism. what is your worries about the vulnerability, sustainability and access for these marines being deployed? lt. gen. van riper: the marines have always been an offensive

organization. the few times we have been on defense, it is not gone well. in the second world war, the marines had a defense battalion. they were not able to resupply to provide any support. of course, the island fell with tremendous casualties. what we are talking about now is putting marines on islands in the first island chain on the western pacific. there is no ability logistically, and even the marine corps would admit this now, to support them. you would not be able to get casualties out. nick: i spoke to the current marine commanders on okinawa and they acknowledge your concerns, but they point out they don't have to do everything themselves. that they will be supported by the navy and air force. will that be possible? lt. gen. van riper: no. there have been articles written where the numbers have been done and it is over 900 metric tons a day.

even with the marines and the joint force, they cannot keep them supplied. nick: let's talk about the overall stregy when it comes to china. defense officials i speak to say they support these changes because they need the marines and the army to operate within the first island chain, and make chinese targeting much more complicated since the chinese are trying to keep the navy and air force out. doesn't that make sense? lt. gen. van riper: no. the marine corps in their initial documents said this would be a low observable unit. i have looked at all the equipment. there's not one item that has any stealth or low observer capabilities. now the marine corps is saying, we will tell people where tho units are as the deterrent for the chinese. which is it going to b no unit has stuff like capabilities. the chinese will target these.

nick: marine leaders say they do acknowledge some of the concerns you are raising. but if the marines will play a major part in what the defense department calls the pacing challenge, they would have to make bold changes and they are working to solve some of the vulnerabilities. what is your response? lt. gen. van riper: the mistake is the vesting yourself of current capabilities. the marines have gotten rid den of kanaancannon artillery, squadrons. why would you cut these things? we will have a vulnerability gap of anywhere of eight to 10 years for an unproven capability. nick: a senior administration told me that the items that have been cut are more relevant to invading afghanistan again rather than taking on china, which again, the defense

department identifies as the future threat. lt. gen. van riper: all i can say is look at ukraine. what do we need? they are crying for artillery. fixed-wing close support aircraft. they want helicopters. those are the kinds of things the marine corps has cut or well on the way of cutting. the marine corps in the western pacific would be a missile force. it would have no infantry on the ground. what people think of the marine corps will not exist. they are rapidly cutting it. instead of being a force that is able to deploy worldwide contingencies will be sitting on islands in the defen. it is an untested concept. we are actually making the structure cuts, cutting the weapons before we have this capability that i don't think even exists. nick: was there a way for the marines to become more relht ing

lo sponsetohe glo capacity? lt. gen. van riper: what the marine corps has always done, that has been a global response force. it has been able to respond globally becauset has amphibious ships, it was on scene. all of those capabilities are being cut for a promise in the future that those of us who are resisting this or arguing against it don't think it will come to fruition. nick: general, thank you very much. lt. gen. van riper: appreciate it. ♪ amna: questions swirl around president biden's handling of classified documents. house gop leadership provides cover for a disgraced new york congressman, as his colleagues back home demand his resignation. and the world reckons with an attempted coup in brazil. to analyze this week's news, we turn to brooks and capehart. that's "new york times"

columnist david brooks, and jonathan capehart, associate editor for "the washinon post." it is good to see you both. jonathan, let's start with this news. democrats found themselves in a tough spot in trying to handle the rev -- revelations tt president biden mishandled classified documents. the latest reporting is there's roughly 20 documents found across his private home in delaware and his private office in washington. some marked top-secret. he is now facing arguably the worst political crisis of his presidency. jonathan: could we put this into perspective? we are talking about this as the worst political crisis because of his predecessor come up former president trump and his classified documents problem. hureds of classified documents at the highest classified markings and we are talking about 20 documents, classified documents from when joe biden was vice president of the united states.

this is apples and basketballs. those two objects are spherical in nature and that is all they have in common. i know politics does not do nuance and most people do not do nuance, but we have to do nuance in this case. this happens more frequently than we realize or even want to appreciate. plenty of national security lawyers or experts have gone on the record to say this happens more often than not. the biggest difference here and why i downplay this notion this is a big political crisis for the president, and that is the sitting president, his people found the documents, alerted the archives. the archives alerted the justice department. they then do another search and bring forth more documents. they have been cooperating. they have been transparent. we talk about the former president, the reason why we

even know there were all these documents there was because he kept defying the national archives' request to return the documents. and the doj, because the archives had been in touch with them, conducted a search. people call it a raid. it was a search. the fbi just does not show up and search someone's home without cause. that is not what happened here. the former president is accused of obstruction of justice. that is not what is happening with president biden. >> understanding the key differences, both in terms of how these documents came to light, the volume and the point jonathan makes, very different responses of both men. what did y see as the political fallout because this is a huge opening for house republicans who are feverishly focused on investigations right now? david: i would say not as bad as trump is the moral standard.

it's not as bad as trump. it is not in the same ballpark. apples and grapes or something. but it is bad. people who have had clearances say it is very clear, if you have classified documents, you go to a separate room. you have an entirely different computer system. they make it very clear where you cannot take them, which is out. a lot of people get their careers ruined when they are sloppy with this stuff. what joe biden or somebodyn his office did, we don't know, was sloppy and pretty irresponsible. we know some of the documents had to be moved twice because the officer in d.c. was not open. they move around in a way they should not have been. should we prosecute? i don't know. the standard for hillary clinton was unless you behave in a way that seems unpatriotic or malicious, we will not

prosecute. it should bother us that we now have three top government officials, clinton, trump and biden, who seemed to have done this. that is not how government is supposed to work. >> the question about the timeline because the white house press secretary has said when president biden's lawyers realized these documents were there, they turned them over to the archives, they did the right thing. according to reporting, the documents were found before the midterm elections. should this have been made publicly known immediately? by the white house? jonathan: and then have the white use be accused of affecting the w midterm elections? as a journalist, absolutely, they should have. did they? no. did the justice department? no. but does the justice department tell us everything they are doing in real-time? no, they do not.

we could quile over the timeline and wag our fingers at the ite house for not being forthcoming in terms of when they told the justice department about the documents or wag our fingers at them for not telling the american people sooner. but we are talking about it not because they are being transparent and forthright. cbs broke the story but they have been forthcoming ever since then. i think we should hold them accountable. keep telling us what you know. politically, it might not be wise for them to tell us everything they know in real time because facts change. >> that same point. has the way the white house handle this undercut them? david: they told other people and they got the documents back. and the elections a few days

later, it kind of seems fishy to me. we will find out. it would not be implausible that they said this will mess up the election, we will take the heat. maybe they did that, i don't know. whether it will have some broad effect on biden's reputation or administration, i tend to think not. to me, as presidential scandals go, it is pretty small. but, it does make it harder to prosecute donald trump. >> last friday, the two of you were sitting here talking about the second anniversary of january 6. two days later, we saw an attempted coup in brazil mounted by supporters of jair bolsonaro. what does this suggest about the future of democracy around the globe? jonathan: it says that democracy is under assault. this gets back to what president biden had been saying during the campaign, but also in america's support for ukraine.

that this is a battle between democracy and autocracy, and democracy has to win. it is not just under attack in ukraine. it is under attack everywhere. the fact that followers of bolsonaro who was an ally of former president trump and the big lie, the fact they acted out on their own version of the big lie should be troubling. it should be something that worries us because of what it means for democracy. but also, it should remind americans about the power of the president of the united states to impact not just people around the world, but leaders around the world. i wonder, if followers of bolsonaro would have done what they did, if bolsonaro did not have an ally in donald trump, who attacked the press, coddled dictators rather than other democracies around the world,

talking down to people in his own country. a rhetoric of hatred, in some cases, violence. when that is coming from the oval office of the white house, that sends a message not just to the american people, but the people around the world and other leaders who will see, oh, if the u.s. is going to move away from small democratic ideals, why shouldn't i? >> what parallels do you see? david: several years ago, i had a meeting with steveannon. and it was like meeting with trotsky in 1905. he was talking to all these places. he was going all around the world finding these trump like figures. he was speaking at their rallies, they were trading information. he saw this as a global movement of radical authoritarian populism. he wouldn't put it that way but it is. it floats from the similar sources of resentment against elites and some legitimate inequalities.

but the method and has chosen as a global movement is authoritarian. a large percentage of the people in brazil would support a coup right now. the thing that should make us feel a little better about ourselves and our own system is on january 6, our law enforcement people, they bravely and confidently were against the outrage. that did not happen in brazil. that shows a weakness in their law enforcement system that there seems to be a lot of sympathizers. >> the other story dominating the headlines was george santos who faced scrutiny after admitting he fabricated key parts of his background and his resume. state and local republicans have called for him to step down. house republican leaders in washington have not done that. we have a couple of in its left. what does that say about the future of the republican party? jonathan: the republican party is broken. i'm old enough to remember when

it reflected the life of david brooks. people who had values that they stop by, that they lived by, and they led by. in the old days, a george santos would have been driven away from his seat, out of the party because those leaders would have said, you do not represent our party, our caucus. you are an affront to your constituents and you should resign. that person would have the moral fortitude and courage to say i resign. because of the slim majority that kevin mccarthy has, there's no way he's going to come even close to saying what i just said. it also speaks to in some ways the political utility of shamelessness. david: that was the exact word i was going to say. i would say to kevin mccarthy, shamelessness is contagious. this guy is shameless. it will rot out your party from

the inside in a way that will be politically disadvantaged because your moral arms will slip. i think it is in their practical benefit to expel him. >> great to see you. ♪ amna: rose rustman has been the manager at arrow hardware and paint in st. peter, minnesota for 30 years. she has become a community observer and leader in this town of 11,000. tonight, rustman shares her brief but spectacular take on life as a hardware store clerk. >> we had a little old man once come to the counter and his faucet was dripping. i said, all you need is this little 39 cent washer. no, i don't. i go, yeah, that's really all you need. it's 39 cents. no way. so i took a penny out of my pocket, slapped it on the

counter and said, bet you a penny that i'm right. and he goes, oh, big bettor. took another penny out, slammed it, double or nothing? next day came in, slapped four pennies on the counter and said, i'll never argue with you again. i am the store manager of arrow hardware and paint in st. peter, minnesota. my mothewas in retail and my dad was an auto mechanic, and so i didn't go to daycare, i either went to the auto repair garage or i went to lewis eastgate, my mom's place of work. i was raised if you're smart enough to take it apart, you better darn well be smart enough to put it back together. every day is about the same, but every day is different. so you come to work, you open the door, people come and go. you teach people how to fix things. you help fix their problems. being at the hardware store entails more than just selling products. it's being a good person,

listening to people. our customers become our friends. we've seen people with their first pets, their first children, and they all come to the counter and they share their stories with us. when i was hired, there was about 15 employees and two females. i was in charge of clothin gifts, and housewares. and then over time, i like to learn, and so i started learning more about the guys' departments. i never felt that i had to prove myself to my coworkers. it was never a competition. we were always a great team working together, learning off each other. so in 1998, the store manager left, and then my coworkers wrote the owner a letter that said, do not overlook rose just because she's female. you should give her a shot. and 30 years later, here i am. it's empowering to be able to help other people with things that they're unsure of.

i have no plans on retiring as long as i like what i do. i love the customers. it's home actually. my name is rose rustman and this is my brief but spectacular take on life as a hardware store clerk. >> she has some words to live by. if you are smart enough to put it apart, you better be smart enough to put it together. >> everyone has a story to tell. thank you, rose, for sharing yours with us. you can watch more brief but spectacular videos online at pbs.org/newshour/brief. >> that is "the newshour." remember there is much more online, and be sure to join our colleague laura barron lopez who is guest hosting "washington week" later tonight. she and the panel will have analysis of republican kevin mccarthy's first week as speaker of the house. >> and watch pbs news weekend tomorrow for a look at the health and financial costs of looming price hikes of the covid

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