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making its way across the central part of the u.s. >> and job growth surged last month, shaking off fears of a hiring slowdown. employers added 517,000 jobs last month. a hiring boom far stronger than anyone had expected. the jobless rate dropped to 3.4%, e lowest level in 53 years. the latest jobs report also underscores the challenges facing federal reserve officials who are focused on slowing inflation. and we learned it fuels more questions about a labor market that is feeling more resilient now. >> big surprise. >> labor economist julia pollock on today's jobs report. >> investments have been slow. consumer spending has also been relatively sluggish, and yet, against that backdrop, job growth is exploding. >> the latest jobs report found widespread hiring, particularly

strong in hospitlity, leisure, and health care. the latest revisions also found job growth was stronger than first reported in two months, but the pace of wage growth slowed in january, t something the federal reserve needs to see more of before it starts slowing interest rates. >> at a time of rapidly rising interest rates, to have both falling inflation and falling unemployment is almost unheard of. it is almost as though we are in a world with three dollar bills on the sidewalk and free lunches. >> president biden did not go that far this morning but did take credit for a surge in hiring since he took office. >> we have created more jobs in two years than any presidential term in two years. that's the strongest two years of job growth in history by a longshot. >> and yet, employers still need more workers. a reported two job openings for every officially uneloyed

person in america. that's why the fed may be concerned about the hiring boom announced this morning. the slowdown it wanted to see has not happened yet, but a major puzzle remains. the cost of living is up substantially, and yet, the labor force participation rate is even lower than it was before the pandemic, which helps explain why there are millions of jobs unfilled. so why the shortfall? >> the main reason is a huge decline in participation among older workers, and part of that driven by long covid. we have seen an increase in the number of people working with disabilities, especially cognitive disabilities. >> one familiar explanation -- >> the u.s. economy has experienced high wage jobs with stronger retirement benefits thatsed to be common among men without college degrees. now software has eaten many of those jobs, so non-college age

men have seen their working prospects fall. >> i do have lots of friends who just stopped working. they are not even trying. they have fallen off the workforce. >> 54-year-old john lilly, recently laid off and looking for work, has a few friends without degrees who have just given up, but how can they afford it? >> i think they're just couch surfing at 50 years old, waiting for people to die and that sort of thing. it is a really bizarre situation. >> some of his peers simply balk at confirming two new norms. >> something like the pronouns seem stupid to a middle-age person, but it's not stupid if you want to get a job. with work culture, you have to keep up in -- keep up with culture in general. >> but it seems a stretch to an economist who published "men without work" in 2016.

>> the received wisdom is that economic and structural change is responsible for the decline in workforce participation among men. less demand for less skilled work, outsourcing. all of that is fine as far as it goes, but it is really only part of the story, and i don't think it is even most of the story. >> and was the story is? >> disability payments, dropouts , unintended consequences of our social welfare guarantees, and the invisible ex-con population, which is now maybe 25 million people in the united states. >> you mean formerly convicted, not necessarily formerly incarcerated? >> only one in 10 persons who has a felony conviction in their background is currently serving in prison. it is an order of magnitude bigger than our incarceration

circumstance. >> and some was impossible to get a job that pays a living ge. >> mike is such an american, though he did serve time on a bank robbery conviction. he has had six actual job offers rescinded because of his felony conviction. >> i get it, you don't work -- want me working in a bank if i robbed a bait -- a bank. i get you don't want me working around money if i have had issues with money in the past, but i cannot clean a bus? quite hollowed out economy, government benefits, long covid, a long list, but even that is not all. >> childcare is very expensive and hard to acquire right now. >> this 33-year-old or dad offers another reason. >> financially, it turned out to where childcare was basically an entire paycheck, so i chose to become a stay-at-home parent. >> his wife, a veterinarian,

supports the family on her salary. no surprise as women keep outpacing men in college degrees and thus, in earning potential. >> in our case, it made financial case and good professional sense. >> has he noticed more men his age becoming house husbands? >> yes. >> how does he respond when asked why he is not working? >> i'm currently working. i'm just working as a parent at home. i'm very proud to be a stay-at-home parent, very proud to be a father. >> the moral of this story seems pretty clear, prime-age men have dropped out for lots of reasons, contributing mightily to the curious case of a high cost of living economy with not enough workers to go around. >> turning now to our other lead story tonight, secretary blinken decided to postpone a high-profile trip to beijing this weekend in response to what the u.s. calls a chinese spy balloon currently floating

eastward across the country. >> it is about 5:30 on wednesday, february 1, 2023. >> it was first spotted over montana. >> i have no idea what this thing is. i hope it is in focus. >> this morning, spotted 1000 miles to the southeast above st. joseph, missouri, the u.s. calls it a spy balloon. beijing called it a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological purposes that deviated from its planned course. the chinese side regrets the unintended injury into u.s. airspace it due to uncontrolled forces, but senior u.s. officials say it is maneuverable, designed for surveillance, and beijing was trying to fly the balloon over sensitive sites. montana is home to one of the u.s.'s three intercontinental ballistic missile silos. yesterday, the u.s. mobilized

f-22 jets. an administration official says president biden took his military advisor's advice and decided not to shoot the balloon down because of theisk to people on the ground. >> we do recognize that any potential debris field would be significant and potentially cause civilian injuries or deaths or significant property damage. >> today, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken canceled what would have been the most senior trip of the biden administration to china. >> what this has done is created the conditions that undermine th purpose of the trip, including ongoing efforts to build a floor under the relationship and to address a broad range of issues that are of concern to the american people, i believe to the chinese people, and certainly, to people around the world. >> u.s. officials say china has sent spy balloon's over the u.s. before but never for this period of time and never before a secretary of state visit. >> the most important thing

right now at the moment is to see that this asset gets out of our airspace. >> but the house foreign affairs committee representative says the u.s. should have shut it down earlier. this balloon should have never been allowed to enter u.s. airspace and it poses a direct and ongoing security threat to u.s. homeland. >> it is certainly not a standard weather balloon, that's a given. >> the owner of came on consolidated industries, the largest american provider of your logical balloons to the u.s. government, including the military. >>e can see that there's solar arrays to supply power to maybe a camera, maybe a heat source. the fact that they don't want us to bring a balloon down in our territory and have us go grab it is kind of saying that they don't want anybody to get their hands on this balloon. quickly got this weird thing above us. >> the current trajectory shows the balloon will flow toward the atlantic ocean. u.s. officials will not reveal their plans other than to say

they are monitoring. >> i'm stephanie sy with "newshour west." the memphis police department hired a sixth officer in their investigation into the death of tyre nichols. on spotty camera footage from the initial traffic stop, officer pressman hemphill is heard saying he used a stun gun on nichols and encouraged others to beat him. the tennessee emergency medical services board voted unanimously to suspend two emt's licenses. footage was presented that showed them doing nothing to aid nichols for 19 minutes. a jury has cleared tesla ceo elon musk of wrongdoing for sending out a tweet about a possible tesla buyout that never happened. investors say they suffered billions in losses. must claimed he did not mean to

deceive them and that he did have the financing for the deal. some of the coldest weather in decades descended on the northeast and new england. wind chills could reach 50 below this weekend. many communities open warnings -- warming centers and close schools today. in texas, 1000 customers are still without power after an ice storm earlier this week. the u.s. has announced another big military package for ukraine worth more than 2 billion dollars on including longer-range rockets. they can fly nearly twice as far as the rockets provided so far. meantime in kyiv today, european union leaders pledged their continued support. ukrainian president a lot of your zelenskyy says the war has reached a pivotal point. >> we are preparing. i believe -- we believe, intelligence and military -- russia will increase pressure in the country's east. our task, to prevent this from

happening, and i believe we have a chance. >> zelenskyy about his forces would resist an ongoing assault on bakhmut in eastern ukraine for as long as possible. while burn across chile have -- wildfires burning across chile have been blamed for at least 13 deaths. pope francis arrived in sout sudan today, urging the country's leaders to make peace after years of war. he was welcomed by the presint and thousands of well-wishers. later, he warned that history will judge those who worked to end fighting and those who did not. the pope was joined by anglican and scottish presbyterian leaders. back in this country, police in dallas have arrested a man accused of taking two ever a time or and monkeys -- emperor tamarind monkeys from the city

zoo. the suspect is also charged with allegedly letting a small leopard escape. it was later found. the sudden and unexpected death of a giant panda at the memphis zoo was announced today. she died wednesday of a still unknown cause. as he was on -- as he was on loan from china, experts from the u.s. and china will complete the postmortem exam. still to come, abortion providers resort to mobile centers to meet women's health care needs. david brooks and jonathan capehart weigh in on the week's political headlines. a global music festival helps international musicians reach larger audiences. >> this is the "pbs newshour," from weta studios in washington and in the west from walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> beyond today's headlines

about a surveillance balloon and secretary blinken's canceled trip to beijing life concerns about the relationship between the two largest economies. >> to better focus the u.s. government's efforts to confront china, the new congress created a new panel to examine the relationship. the select committee on the strategic relationship between the united states and chinese communist party. with me now are the new committee's two leaders, republican chairman mike gallagher of wisconsin, and democratic ranking member of illinois, for their first joint interview. thank you very much. welcome. defense officials told congressional staffers today that the balloon entered continental u.s. airspace on january 31. do you believe they could have and should have shot this balloon down safely at that?

>> yes, i do, particularly if we were tracking it as it transited over the aleutian islands in alaska. i don't think there's any serious concern about debris in that area. furthermore, i don't know why we did not have the same abily to shoot it down over sparsely populated areas over canada in partnership with our allies in canada or even montana. if the pentagon is telling us that they don't have this capability, then that is a capability we absolutely need to develop going forward, and we need to be using our defense budget in order to develop that capability. >> chairman millie told congressional officials that dod needed a 20 mile by 20 mile box to safely bring this down, and it was not safe to bring it down for fear of some kind of civilian casualties on the ground. do you agree with that? >> i think we should defer to the military leaders as well as the head of the northern command.

they also pointed out that this particular balloon is no longer collecting intelligence, perhaps because of countermeasures, and at the end of the day, there's the risk of the debris field injuring somebody or causing property damage, but we also in my opinion want to preserve the tech. both mike and i are members of the intelligence committee as well. we want to be able to know exactly whathe technological capabities are of the chinese communist party, so preserving that technology and being able to learn more about it is invaluable as well. >> let me make sure i understand -- you believe they could have brought the balloon down safely and preserved the tech? >> if they can do that, i think they will probably do everything they can to make that happen. perhaps it will lose altitude in a sparsely populated area of the country and they will be able to

recover it, and then we can examine it, and i'm sure the chinese will want it back and we will, say, return it upon determining that it is proper for weather purposes at the appropriate time. >> u.s. officials tell me they were concerned about sending secretary blinken to beijing while the balloon was over u.s. airspace. do you believe they made the right decision in postponing this trip? >> i do. i called for it this morning. i think he should just cancel the trip as opposed to a postponement, but maybe that is just semantics. maybe the next time we meet, chinese officials could come to america, and i think we deserve an apology for this violation of u.s. sovereignty. i think it tells us something fundamental about the regime we are dealing wh, and remember the way china's officials acted the first -- during the first meeting with antony blinken, parading them about the u.s.

human rights record. it is definitely in their playbook to do something like this in order to embarrass diplomats. the optics would have looked bizarre so soon after this incident, so they made the right call and i think it gets to the core mission we have on the select committee on china. we believe our foreign policy is stronger when republicans and democrats are working together. it is why i'm so thrilled and could not be more thrilled to be working with raj. we have a long history. i know we have a shared understanding of the ideological, economic, and military threat posed by the chinese communist party, so we are really excited to be working together on the preeminent foreign-policy challenge of our lifetime. >> the administration says it wants to keep dialogue open with beijing, so why not send secretary blinken to read them the riot act, sure, during every meeting, but also discussed some of the issues your committee will also be discussing?

>> first of all, i want to thank mike for those kind words. i echo those sentiments about working with him, even though he is a green bay packers fan, but setting that aside for the moment, i have to say that with regard to secretary blinken go into china or the people's republic of china, that would be a bad move because what they did was they violated american airspace and our sovereignty, and that basically undermines their diplomatic overtures and causes us to question the sincerity of those overtures. i think it is appropriate for secretary blinken to postpone the trip. i'm sure they are communicating in other ways right now, and i hope they make it very clear that this is completely unacceptable going forward, especially if we want to, as secretary blinken said, set a floor for our relationship because it has not been improving the way it should be over the last couple of years.

>> let me ask you both about taiwan. yesterday, cia director bill burns says as a matter of intelligence, the united states believes it ordered xi jinping to order his military to be prepared to invade taiwan. do you think the u.s. is willing to g to war over taiwan, the american people are prepared to suffer the massive casualties that the military believes might happen? >> i'm concerned that we are doing things counterproductive to the defense of taiwan, such as trying to cut the size of the u.s. navy. the biden administration's defense plan that they submitted last year would have had the navy bottom out in 2027 at the worst possible point. we are talking about our priority force in the priority theater, so i have been concerned at the lack of urgency. i believe we have entered the window of maximum danger. we had a memo recently by the air force general saying things

could get risky in 2025. i'm worried about 2024. we need to be moving heaven and earth to restore our deterrent posture in the indo pacific. that being said, i salute the administration's recent announcement of enhanced basing agreements with japan and the philippines. that is a massive step forward. what we are seeing the japanese do on their own is a massive help to our efforts. we just need to be moving with a greater sense of urgency. >> obviously, we hear a lot about the military not moving fast enough, despite some of the moves chairman gallagher just mentioned, but i also talked to some experts who fear the opposite, who say that alongside the steps the u.s. is taking in the pacific, alongside the assurance given to allies, there needs to be more reassurance to beijing, and that without that reassurance, being could feel backed into a corner, leading to the very war the u.s. is trying to deter.

>> i think that we should provide clear messages about redlines, and i think the biden administration has been communicating those just as president biden did recently with chairman xi, but at the end of the day, the chinese communist party is throwing its elbows in its neighborhood, if it's in the south china sea hour with regard to taiwan or with others who desperately seek an international rules-based order in that region of the world. that's why we have to work with partners, friends, and allies in the region to help supply defensive needs and work with them for our collective mual defense to deter aggression. at the end of the day, we do not want a colwar. we don't want a hot war. we don't want open hostilities, but the only way to do that is to prepare our mutual defense to

discourage and deter aggression and then hopefully work with beijing on common long-term challenges, if it's fighting climate change or even bring an end to the war in ukraine, but right now, you know, with this balloon situation, it obviously explosives that the threat is real from the chinese communist party. >> thank you very much to you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> this was a major week in the battle out west over water use. seven states along the colorado river basin were supposed to have reached a collective agreement on how to use less water from an ever shrinking river, but they nailed to do so. six states reached a modest agreement, but it would have required major cuts in water use

by california, which is the largest user. california, for its part, submitted its own proposal, but the stalemate may force the government to make difficult cuts instead. >> the central issue here is that the amount of water flowing down the colorado river is shrinking, while the demand for that water by those states is growing. a mega drought compounded by climate change is directly at odds with the thirsty city -- cities and farms of the american west. the water is collected in the country's two biggest reservoirs, lake read and lake powell, and those lakes are now three quarters empty. the biden administration asked those seven states to cut their collective withdrawal from the colorado by about 1/3, but we are a long way from getting there. for more about this, i'm joined by a water rights professor at arizona state university. so good to have you on "the

newshour." could you elaborate a little bit? i laid out what seems to be the initial issue here. what you add to that? >> what we are going through right now is a little bit like a bankruptcy proceeding. it is like the river declaring bankruptcy. from the beginning of the way -- from the beginning, the way states have shared the river, we have made assumptions about how much the river could pay out any given year. those assumptions made now a century ago were wrong and we are paying the price for those incorrect assumptions. they were wrong both because the data was bad 100 years ago it also because the population has obviously changed a lot, and wrong because the climate has changed quite a bit. even though we are getting around 90% of our normal snowpack and pcipitation, our winters are so short and hot that a lot of the water just is not reaching the river, so this combination of factors has caused something like a bankruptcy proceeding where you have lots of people who have a claim to a common resource, and

the resource just cannot pay out to everyone who has a claim to it. >> those seven states were supposed to come up with a plan. six of them did, not including california. the six states that the bit -- that did submit a plan relied on the issue of evaporation in their argument. can you singly explain what they were arguing? >> sure. you mention having too many straws in the river, too many users. there is a user we have never really accounted for, and that user is the atmosphere. the atmosphere takes away about 1.4 million acre-feet from the colorado river every year, but we don't treat that as if it is being taken out of the river, so part of the proposal is let's treat that 1.5 million acre-feet like it is a user taking that amount of water out, and we will spread those out amongst everyone using the river. the way to do that is complicated, but the people who

should read part of it are the people who take the biggest cut because they are moving it through canals, moving it through the open air and losing the most to evaporation. >> california is the biggest user by far, principally california agriculture, and it is the longest owner of those rights. what are they arguing? >> we have been through a series of negotiations in the last several years about how to share in shortage, but for decades, california has had what is senior priority, so in the western united states, we operate under a prior appropriation regime, first in time, first in right. california, for a host of reasons, sits at or near the front of the line, so california's argument is we have senior priority. we are the first user with legal rights, so we should not have to take cuts first. >> amidst all of this haggling

-- a shrinking river, and there's this issue of what is called deadpool. can you explain what deadpool is and what would happen if we hit that point? >> a deadpool is the point at which reservoir levels have sunk so low that we cannot take water out of the reservoir anymore. effectively we are no longer regulating the river with the dam. it just becomes a run of the river. the river is just lowing and there's no storage. when you talk about california's power, political power, economic power, legal power, you might ask why they would ever make a compromise. part of that is the risk of deadpool is so real and so minute within the next couple of years, and deadpool would affect all of us, that it is in everyone's best interest to come up with a solution because deadpool is a legitimate risk within the next couple of years if we don't act soon. >> thank you so much.

>> my pleasure. thank you. >> in some parts of the country, access to abortion care depends on how far a person can travel. missouri has banned t procedure, but in neighboring illinois, abortion remains legal, and providers will soon be working along the state border to be able to reach more patients. communities correspondent gabrielle hayes jns us with more on the abortion landscape in the midwest. it is good to see you. abortion outlawed in missouri for more than six months now. no exceptions for rape or incest, limited exceptions for medical emergencies, we should say. in that time, what have you seen in terms of how many people are seeking abortion access and how providers are meeting that need? >> absolutely. the first thing is 100 days

after roe fell, providers -- planned parenthood made an announcement they would be launching a clinic at the southern illinois border. that is the first time they have ever done anything like that. providers there tell me that is in response not only to a stark rise in people looking for care but also it serves as a symbol of their act of defiance in a post-roe era is what i was told, so that is set to launch in the coming months and will start with medication abortions before transitioning into procedural abortions, but again, we are talking about a state and where people are traveling all over the states and across our western border. we also know kansas has telemedicine abortions, and providers there tell me they look at their parking lot and they are seeing license plates

from all over the country because people are coming there to utilize their resources, but it's also important to know those things come with stipulations, so you have to be in kansas in order to utilize the telemedicine abortions, so although it is not legal in the state of missouri, the states around us are trying to figure out a way to provide those resources to people who are looking for care. >> in missouri, we are talking about abortion being outlawed, right? but what about access to other kinds of reproductive care? >> absolutely. it is a good question because the one thing providers have stressed to me is we are not only looking at a heightened sense of trying to figure out where people can find access to abortion, but access to health care period, and there's an emphasis on rural areas. in the state of missouri, according to the state's own data, we are looking at 33% of people in our state living in a rural county.

2 million people looking for access to all kinds of care, so planned parenthood recently took over a clinic in missouri, and that's where the are hoping to provide access to other types of reproductive care. i'm told they are hoping moving forward to be able to span -- two expand to other types of care in the area. >> in about a minute or so we have left, we know the abortion ban in missouri is being challenged. where do those challenges stand? >> days before the anniversary of roe v. wade, we had team clergy members from 16 different faith backgrounds who filed a lawsuit challenging the abortion ban. they are arguing that it is unconstitutional bause it takes one religious doctrine and imposes it on everybody else, so we will be following that lawsuit closely, but that is the latest challenge here in missouri.

>> thank you so much. yo can read more about gaby's reporting on abortion access online at pbs.org/newshour. >> democrats map new path to the white house. the previous president's third run gets off to a sluggish start. and a balloon raises tensions between world superpowers. for analysis of the week's news, brooks and capehart. great to see you both. let's start with the race for the white house. donald trump's thir presidential campaign appears to be off to a slow start. his fundraising call is less than what he certainly expected. his support among a k part of his base, white evangelicals, has splintered. still, he was a known quantity.

his base of support larger than his perspective gop rivals. >> i think right now he is sinking. polls are all over the place, but higher-quality polls show significant slippage. if you listen to talk radio, i have friends who might listen more to conservative talk radio that id, dachshund and i do, say there's hostility. he's running a much more conventional campaign. in 2016, he was sort of the witty outsider. now we are seeing a normal campaign where he is trying to woo the republican establishment. his opponents are better informed about what the party really wants. overall, he could be saved by the fact that republicans have winner take all primaries to a quite high degree. if he gets 28%, he could get 100% of the delegates in some states.

>> nikki haley is expected to announce her bed, her presidential run on february 15. former vice president mike pence is said to be givg consideration to a 2020 forbid. how do potential trump challengers thread this needle of building a coalition without alienating trump supporters? >> that means getting into their heads. that i don't know. we are about to find out. nikki haley is going to be the canary in the coal mine. mike pence could be the next one. ron desantis certainly will be the next one. to add on to something david was talking about, the republican electorate was better informed, but i think these people who were considering jumping into the race against donald trump are better informed about who he is, how he at. the only thing we do not know is -- how will they react when they get punched in the face rhetorically by donald trump? how do they react when the big

negative stories come out about them, and then he attacks them? i think right now, they have more to fear about their own abilities to run the race than they do about anything donald trump will do to them as an opponent. >> republicans who say they want to turn the page away from the trump era know the gop needs to keep the field from being too crowded. that's what happened in 2016 that led to the emergence of donald trump the nominee. might that happen again? >> if you go back and look at the polls for this time where we were in 2016, there were a lot of people with nine or 10 points. chris christie, rubio, ted cruz, and now there's trump and dissent's and everybody else is, like, two. if it gets down to trump and three others, i think the pressure on those three others to drop out will be enormous.

>> but i'm curious about is -- will the electorate split into two wings? will there be a trump wing and then a regular republican wing, which could include people like larry hogan, the former governor of maryland, and glenn youngkin, the former governor of virginia? it could be trump and dissenters are fighting over some of the same voters. i'm not sure the party will split that easily, but it could. >> let's talk about ron desantis because the florida republican governor widely expected to run for president. the college board this past week changed the course offering for their ap african-american studies course following criticism from ron desantis and other republicans. we spoke to the ceo this past week who said the changes made to the courts have nothing to do with public discussion and the criticism that the college board taste. quest -- >> revisions were complete by the end of december far before this public discussion and the revisions

were based only on two sources, the feedback from professors and students and teachers in a pilot course, and returning to principles that are true of every single ap course. >> do you buy with the college board is saying? >> i do. we are talking about academics, not politicians. these sorts of things happen in academia all the time. just because you write a book, just because you teach a course, just because you have written an important article that was big in the social discussion does not automatically mean that it needs to be taught in a classroom, and i know i'm going to get in trouble with a lot of people, but i want to pull the aperture back here. what ron desantis is doing is deeply insulting. what he's basically saying to the nation is african-americans -- and to african-americans in particular is that your role in the building of this country,

the maintenance of this country means nothing, that without you we could have gotten along just fine, and that is what is -- it is insulting. it is hurtful, and think about this -- the fact that you and i are sitting here right now, you in an anchor chair, me as a guest onelevision, could that have happene50 years ago, 100 years ago, 1619? no, it could not have. one thing i like to remind people, particularly young people, history is not really history when you're talking about african-americans in this country. my cousins and i are the first generation in my family to not have to pick cotton. we are the first generation that did not have to live under jim crow. i'm 55 years old. that's how long this has been a democracy. governor desantis, if you want americans to truly understand how great this country is, you cannot understand how great this

country is without filling in those gaps and holes with the history offrican-americans in this country. >> i've known david coleman a bit over the past several years, and he's always struck me as a remarkable he upstanding guy, a guy who is very fair. i take him at his word, and i think they have documents showing when they made the changes. i would have told him after the dissenters thing to wait a month . there's questions people have, but i take them at their word. the big change was they realized high school students like primary documents. >> i could have told them that. i know heisel students. >> i agree with jonathan on desantis that any time in american history.

i would ask ron desantis to go to the african-american history museum. it is a very fair trail of american history and a very moving -- clarence thomas is in that museum. susan rice is in the museum, condoleezza rice, so they expand the history of black history, so you can do that, and i trust that at the end of the day, this curriculum will end up doing that. >> in the time that remains, l's talk about what democrats will be doing this weekend. they are going to vote on this new primary calendar proposed by president biden that would do a number of things. it would remove iowa from its primary position. it would push south carolina forward in the calendar, and then primaries in georgia and michigan. what is your assessment of this new strategy? >> those states are more representative of our country the democrats tried to

rectify the situation by adding nevada and then south carolina, but look this country is changing quickly. and if we are going to have a country -- if we are going to have an electorate that looks like the country voting for the president we have to change the system and i think the way that works the only question is one week after the other that's the thing that gives me a little pause, not the states. >> what about that? we expect president biden to make his intentions known after the state of the union address. >> long-term when i look at a calendar i want three things. one, i want for early stage to be diverse.

there is a. i think biden used to make this point that candidates would drop out and that seems wrong. second i wanted to be a small state because i don't want a big state it takes so much money to run. i figure if you are not an insider candidate you can't compete in pennsylvania and michigan so you want south carolina. third and most important i want the city state to be bias. south carolina is an older state. it's a military state and so it tends to select a more moderate so if i'm bernie sanders i'm probably not happy, but a moderate democrat will probably tend to favor them. >> david brooks and jonathan capehart. in queue thank you. ♪ >> the sounds of the♪ and the sounds of the world

brought to new york for one night. and from there perhaps to a club or a concert hall or festival near you. jeffrey brown reports on the phenomenon called global fast for our arts and culture series : canvas. >> reporter: this is the mexican man band which created a distinctive land blend of cumbia and punk. >> to come here and play and be seen by different people from

all over the world is something unique. >> translator: for a street began to arrive in these places is something good. especially in mexico where it's difficult to get support. >> international musicians being seen and supported to tour in the u.s.. it's what the annual global fast gathering is about. the audience is a mix of the general public and crucially more than 1000 representative of -- around the country. eagled to learn about new acts. >> is a unique place because you have an audience that's mixed with arts professionals and the general public and you don't know who's who you don't know who you are sitting in next to but they might be booking a major festival. >> isabel coe find a global fast with bill break in and

shocked at nick. she's also chief artistic officer here at lincoln center which is now given global fast new home of the festival. it begins after 9/11 amid fears of isolation. a way to ensure more americans are exposed to global culture. >> we know that music plays a key role in people's understanding of the world and we take that serious we want to challenge audiences and preventers and to think more critically about where these people are from. >> reporter: this year chosen from 100 hundreds of submissions they chose from countries including morocco. the ecstatic the and singing of the woman group joined by algerian american dancer -- out of the spain singer maria jose

-- and they represented varying styles of music like that of the new york orchestra. the event spreads across three stages with overlapping performances. allowing the audience to move around here all 10 acts and professional arts presenters to do some serious business. for everyone is a director of the fine arts center at the university of massachusetts -- >> i think that to be able to fly to marrakesh and france and mexico city is a bit outside of my budget range

>> to not only experience their music but the impact of their music on a western audience is invaluable. >> reporter: global fast is actually a satellite testable held at the same time as a much larger annual convention, the association of performing arts professionals or apap. here jamilla dario survey the current music, dance, and art worlds and meet managers to set up performances and tors . part of the country's performance are arts ecosystem. they also the other presenters who can band together in the case of bringing global acts to this country to defray the often large cost of travel, visas, and other touring expenses. >> you can go talk to the presenter in east tennessee or

in maine and they can be standing alongside you and say hey, do you love this guy? i love this guy. let's bring him to our region. >> and that makes it work economically? >> the cost of bringing a group from across the world is not for the faint of heart. >> reporter: there's always at least one act at global fast that doesn't have to travel so far. an american musician and group, the festival curators believe is redder for a bigger audience. this year it was the legendary ingrahmettes. this is a group that has been singing in one form or another for some six decades some getting a new kind of attention. >> we didn't realize how many people had been watching what we do. we are still homegrown folks.

richmond's first family of gospel. >> church of their gospel roots miller says ingramettes is about service typically singing in churches, community centers or schools . >> there's going to be hundreds or a few thousand presenters. >> oh my goodness. >> reporter: and you know that? does that make you a little nervous? >> we come to have a good time and share who we are and to share the music that we bring. >> if you don't mind tonight -- >> reporter: onstage a short time later a legendary ingramette was singing to a happy crowd. she may be on a stage near you someday soon.

i'm jeffrey brown at lincoln center in new york. >> and there is much more online including our interviews with several of the musicians up for grammy awards this sunday. and be sure to join yamish elson later on her panel on washington week and on police reform efforts. >> and watch pbs news week and with john yang tomorrow for a look at the political and humanitarian crisis in haiti. that is the newshour for tonight. >> i'm jeff bennett. their mac

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