geoff: good evening. i'm geoff bennett. amna: and i'm amna nawaz. on the "newshour" tonight, government investigators arrest a member of the air national guard suspected of leaking highly classified documents online. geoff: a federal appeals court allows an abortion pill to stay on the market for now with some restrictions. how abortion providers are navigating the swiftly-changing legal landscape. amna: and the united nations agrees to outline what countries are legally obligated to do about climate change. we meet the young pacific islanders who made that possible. >> if we were to go down in the history books, the countries that float in the middle of nowhere, let us not go down without a fight.

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>> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: good evening and welcome to the newshour. the man suspected of leaking highly-classified military documents has been found. amna: the 21-year-old massachussets air national guard member was taken into custody earlier today. jack teixeira, that's him in the red shorts, was arrested at his home in southern massachusetts by heavily armed fbi agents. he's alleged to have posted hundreds of classified documents to an online gaming platform

that detail secrets about the war in ukraine, russian capabilities, even secrets about u.s. allies collected by american intelligence. attorney general merrick garland announced the arrest in washington. >> fbi agents took teixeira into custody earlier this afternoon without incident. he will have an initial appearance at the us district court for the district of massachusetts. amna: teixeira was taken to boston where he will make an initial court appearance tomorrow. nick schifrin is following the story. and joins me here. good to see you. 21-year-old jack teixeira/what do we know about him? nick: 21 years old, served in the massachusetts air national guard at the otis nanette -- otis air national guard base. his rank was airman first class, very junior, and his job title, cyber transport systems journeyman. what does that mean? he was responsible for protecting the computer network. he was essentially an i.t.

specialist who was supposed to be safeguarding sensitive information from external attacks. very entry-level, that journeyman tag that is one level above apprentice. at the same time, he was on this -- you led this small group on discord, that is an online platform popular among gamers, where he posted hundreds of documents. the investigative organization and other journalists discovered he posted that in order to impress his friends on the platform, many of whom were teenagers he had access to's -- declassified information. one of them spoke to the washington post about who he was. >> he did have sort of a bossy attitude at some points, but it was more of a fatherly bossy. he did see himself as the leader of this group and ultimately he was the leader of this group and he wanted us all to be sort of super soldiers to some degree . informed, fit with god, well armed, stuff like that. nick: he initially gave all of this information to his buddies.

but then the documents were reposted to a public channel, and that started a chain reaction for it to be spread. millions of people read it and real military diplomatic low back -- blowback among u.s. allies. teixeira will be charged under the espionage act makes it a crime to remove or transmit classified national defenses. amna: stunning details. this guy is a junior air class. how did he have access to this kind of information? nick: it is extraordinary he had access because he was not an intelligence analyst who would need this access. multiple people i spoke with compared him to edward snowden, the former national security agency contractor who leaked hundreds of documents a very damaging classified information who was a computer administrator. teixeira had access to these documents, not because he needed them for his day job, but because they were on the computer network he was supposed to secure. despite all of that, the defense

department spokesman spoke earlier today right before garland's announcement and he claimed the classified information was in the right hands. >> the important thing to understand about classified information, it is not just, i want to have access to it because i have a clearance. it is all based on need to know. do you have a need to know that information? that typically will grant you access if you have the appropriate things. nick: other officials admit that they are in the process of restricting the number of people who have access to these documents. amna: what else have you learned about how authorities identified and caught him? nick: we don't know exactly. there are two important factors that led to this being solved quickly. one, discord, the gaming platform i mentioned, has said it publicly cooperated with law enforcement. the reason that is vital is because it likely meant investigators had the names of those people on that small group on discord, so they could

cross-reference those names with the people who have access to this information. two, the u.s. has controls over the networks where the classified information live. an -- and investigators are able to track who and when they access classified documents. every time someone prints out classified document. if you recall, the original leaks were photographs of printouts. snowden, as an i.t. specialist, was able to manipulate the logs and try to hide what he did. it is possible teixeira did the same. a former counterintelligence official tells me the u.s. has taken steps to try to mitigate that risk and make sure people's digital footprints inside these networks are bit -- are visible. it will spark a lot of questions about why he had this access and why so many people have access to this information. amna: i know you have been reporting on the fallout on the leak. what else have you learned? nick: we talked about the leaks on the front about ukraine,

spying on allies like israel and south korea. we know more about the infighting inside the russian military. russian intelligence accused the russian defense ministry of ops few skating the number of casualties. the head of the wobbler group who fought publicly with the defense ministry was called in to meet president putin and the defense ministry. it turns out theead of the military and russia did cut off the ammunition to the group. but then changed his nine. amna: fascinating details. nick schifrin, thank you for your reporting. ♪ amna: in the day's other headlines, the biden administration announced it's expanding health coverage to hundreds of thousands of people brought to the u.s. illegally, as children. so-called daca recipients will be eligible to apply for medicaid and health insurance exchanges under the affordable care act. the change is set to take effect

by the end of the month. president biden played up the shared history and shared values of ireland and the united states today. it was the second day of a three-day visit. the president addressed the irish parliament and paid tribute to american and irish unity on key issues including aid for ukraine against russian aggression. pres. biden: ireland remembers what it means to have to flee home, leaving everything behind to begin again on foreign shores. the irish people have generously opened their hearts, their homes and you have welcomed, as you have said to me, nearly 80,000 ukrainian refugees. amna: mr. biden winds up his trip tomorrow. former president trump gave a second deposition today in a lawsuit over his business practices in new york state. trump raised his fist in the air as he left his manhattan apartment, heading to the appointment. the state attorney general alleges his family misrepresented the value of company assets. mr. trump refused to answer most

questions at an earlier deposition, citing his right against self-incrimination. the s. senate will be asked next week to replace california democrat dianne feinstein, temporarily, on the judiciary committee. she made the request wednesday, amid calls for her resignation. feinstein, who is 89, has been ill and has not voted since mid-february. replacing her on the closely divided judiciary panel would let action resume on federal judge nominees. north korea has fired another long-range missile, but this one may be something new. the u.s., japan and south korea say the weapon may have been solid-fueled, making it more mobile and harder to detect. the launch drew sharp criticism from japan, where officials initially ordered some people to take shelter. >> this launch is an outrageous act that escalates the provocation against the entire international community. north korea's series of actions,

including repeated launches of ballistic missiles, threatens peace and security. it is absolutely unacceptable. amna: the missile flew 600 miles and landed in the ocean between the korean peninsula and japan. in france, protesters staged a 12th round of strikes over plans to raise the retirement age to 64. today's rallies drew smaller turnouts than in weeks past. in paris, some in the crowds clashed with police, who fired tear gas and charged at demonstrators. tomorrow, france's constitutional council is to decide whether the retirement legislation passes legal muster. back in this country, inflation at the wholesale level eased sharply in march, falling to an annual rate of 2.7%. that's down from 4.7% in february and the lowest in more than two years. on wall street, the inflation news boosted hopes that the federal reserve will dial back interest rate hikes. the dow jones industrial average gained

383 points, 1% to close at 34,029. the nasdaq rose 2%. the s&p 500 was up 1.3%. visionary fashion designer mary quant, sometimes called the mother of e mini-skirt, has died at her home in surrey, england. her mini-skirts, hot pants and other bold styles defined britain's swinging sixties era. some compared her influence on fashion to the beatles impact on pop music. mary quant was 93 years old. still to come on the newshour, supreme court justice clarence thomas, under renewed scrutiny for a real estate deal with a republican donor. false alarms of school shootings put teachers, students, and parents on edge. fox news goes on trial in the defamation case brought by dominion voting systems. a music organization takes on the challenge of diversifying classical music nationwide, plus

much more. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. geoff: biden administration is asking the supreme court to intervene and guarantee expanded access to an abortion pill. so long as a woman sees a doctor in person. the appellate court also limited its distribution staying it could no longer be delivered through the mail. it can only be used through the seventh week of pregnancy. the battle over abortion is playing out intensely at the state level. the florida legislature approved banning abortions there after just six weeks, before someone realize -- some women realize they are pregnant. governor desantis says he will sign it.

there are some exceptions including for rape and incest, but it will make florida one of the most restrictive states in the country. for more on what this means for providers and patients, we are joined by president and ceo of physicians for reproductive health. thank you for being with us. setting aside the question of availability of mifepristone, what is the impact of these obstacles to access? >> the direct impact is elimination of access wholesale. what we are seeing now is justice biogeography. folks who live in states and communities that have abortion providers and have fewer restrictions get one type of medical care, and folks that florida, for example that just passed their six week ban, get another typ of care. there is not equity built in the system. it is designed to be fragmented and to make it difficult for people to access abortion care, period. geoff: this evening, we learned

the washington state district george -- judge it doubled, down on his ruling saying the fda cannot rollback access to abortion pills in the 17 states in the district of columbia that sued. the pace of these lings, the conflicting nature of them, it is confusing. how are you when your colleagues advising women who may find themselves in need or in a moment of crisis? >> the unfortunate outcome here is that it is requiring health care providers, physicians, nurses, midwives, like me, to instead of caring for our community, the work that we have been morally called to do, we are spending an inordinate amount of time talking to lawyers and policy folks, because we have an entire group of people who, have no medical training, no medical background, no education in scientific research or understanding the literature, attempting to legislate care, legislate

medicine. geoff: right now, more than half of all abortions in the u.s. are medication abortions. tell me more about how providers across the country, your colleagues, folks you represent in your capacity as president of your organization, how they are preparing for the possibility of providing care without access to mifepristone, which is one of the two pills commonly used for medication abortions. >> we have more than 500 doctors in our network who are on the ground providing care in their communities day in and day out. this has caused a huge amount of confusion. it is a terrible burden, both for patients and providers. certainly, we are attempting to be flexible and to be iterative, to follow the medicine and the science, and to take good care of people. but it is not easy. it is sapping resources in already under resourced medical systems. we are still coming out of the

ashes of the covid-19 pandemic. and you have health care providers that are scrambling to be able to care for themselves and other people. and this is making it much more difficult. and we will -- and it will continue to be harmful for our communities. geoff: how are providers in states that have abortion bans, how are they caring for patients who may have high risk pregnancies, who may have suffered miscarriages, how are they doing that while also worrying about their own potential legal exposure? >> i'm so glad you asked that. what this has really done is pitted patients against providers. when you go to see your doctor, what you want is someone who is going to prioritize your health and well-being. and what we are being asked to do now, because of these rulings, is to center ourselves. to think about what is best for me as a doctor in this moment, and not what is best for the patients in front of me. 10 is no way to practice medicine. it is no way to provide care to folks that you are charged, that

we are charged with caring for, and for whom we deeply care about and our communities. it is tough. i think a lot of people believe as long as it was just about abortion, than it was not an issue. but you rightly point out that it impacts all areas of reproductive health, including pregnancy care for those with high-risk pregnancies, management of pregnancy loss, induction of labor. this is gointo have far-reaching consequences way beyond what folks think about when they hear the word abortion. geoff: you are president and ceo of physicians for reproductive health, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. ♪ supreme court justice clarence thomas is facing questions about his failure to disclose transactions with a republan mega donor.

a new report by pro-public details it when he 14 real estate deal in which harlan crow's company paid $133,000 to thomas and his family to buy the home where the justice's mother lived. like the luxury vacations uncovered by pro-public last week, the sale went unreported on justice thomas's financial disclosure forms. gabe roth is the executive director affixed the court, a group that advocates for court reforms and joins us now. this 133 thousand dollars transaction between justice thomas and harlan crow, which justice thomas did not disclose as the law requires, this marks the first known instance of payments between the two men. what are the implications? gabe: it appears, from what we know so far, and i think there is more information that will be coming out in terms of how the 133 thousand dollars was billion aided or divided -- was delineated or divided among the properties.

. but the federal law is clear. it says to follow the financial disclosure law that was passed in 1978 after watergate, filers including supreme court justices, have to provide a brief description, a date, and the value of any purchase, sale, or exchange of real estate that exceeds $1000. this is more than $1000, even if you divide the property's effort -- in several ways. this is a viation of that statute. there should be repercussions. geoff: if justice thomas had reported it, with that have put him in the clear, or do you see other potentially deeper ethical transgressions in this close relationship between justice thomas and harlan crow, given mr. crow has been a republican mega donor for years? gabe: love the leading question. yes, i think that is pretty clear. that there is more than just the statutory violation on the real estate. the $500,000 valued trip via private plane and yacht to

indonesia, and the trips to new zealand, and east texas, upstate new york, there is nothing like this on the supreme court, at least since scalia passed away, where you have a single individual reaping such largess from another individual. the latter being the one giving the gifts having a clear political bent, and wanting the court to do certain things, even if you might have not had any cases. i thinwe should be expecting more ethically from our justices. it is a real shame that what we have shown over the course of several weeks, is tt our justices are thumbing their nose to whatever ethical, very weak, but whatever ethical rules exist. we are not in a good ace when that is happening. geoff: should say the supreme court did not immediately respond to our request for comment, but mr. crow told pro-public that he bought the property because his intention is to create a public museum at the thomas home, dedicated to telling the story of our nation's second life supreme

court justice. to mr. crow -- do mr. crow's inteions take away from justice thomas's obligations to report the sale? gabe: i don't think so. i don't care how generous harlan crow thinks he is in being this philanthropists. he also put up money for a library wing in savannah named after thomas. he turned the cannery where thomas's family worked into museum outside of savannah where he was born. it does not interest me that he is using his wealth to be "philanthropic" with regard to thomas' story. the fact that a single individual is spending hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, helping out a guy on the supreme court, just that sentence, forget all of the other details. someone is spending millions of dollars to assist somebody on the supreme court with something. that in and of itself is enough to raise a ton of questions. i really think we might be

scratching the surface. i would expect more details to be coming out about not only thomas, but some of the other justices. i think there is a cottage industry of individuals who are looking into the justices. remember, there are 2500 lower court justices too. the justices and judges cast in their disclosures to see if our top legal officials, at a time when the courts have outsized power, to see if these officials are being fully honest and ethical and following the letter of the disclosure and ethics laws. geoff: at the start of our conversation, you said there should be repercussions. there is no way to enforce supreme court justices to comply with disclosure laws. short of impeachment, there is no penalty applicable to them. what is the remedy? gabe: honestly, i think we have reached the point where the attorney general should appoint a special counsel. there is within the financial disclosure law the ability for the head of the judicial conference, which depending on how you read it is either a

judge out in oklahoma or chief justice roberts himself, or the head of the department of justice to bring an investigation, to refer this issue for an investigation. that could lead up to a $50,000 fine, which again, probably not going to happen, or even to a year in prison for falsifying records willfully. i don't know if this is willful or not. i assume justice thomas is willfully doing it. but i think we need to have an investigation. i know we have special counsel fatigue in this country now. but i don't see anyone ee, not merrick garland, who was almost on the supreme court, not members of the judicial conference who don't want to pits off their fellow justices, i think you will have to have some neutral third-party investigate this. we really don't know the extent of this. at the very least, everyone who is talking about it realizes it is a major problem, and it is impugning the integrity of our top court at a time when the

court, especially after the leak and all of these opinions, can least afford to fall lower in the public's estate. geoff: gabe roth, executive director of fixed accord. ♪ amna: for the first time in history, the world's top court, the u.n.'s international court of justice, has been tasked with determining what countries are ligated to do to fight climate change. william brangham reports on the young people who were instrumental in bringing this issue to the hague. william: 27-year-old cynthia houniuhi lives in sydney, australia. more than a thousand miles from her home in the solomon islands. but she says just being at the beach reminds her of the ocean's importance in her early life. >> i was in the sea after school. i had to cross the sea to go to school.

and during lunch time we usually fished for our own lunch, so we would catch about maybe one if we're lucky, sometimes when we're very lucky we get four. william: but because of warming waters and rising sea levels, that ocean, which once gave so much to her and millions of other pacific islanders, is now threatening to take it all away . >> this feeling, when the sand is slipping between your fingers, that's what it feels like for us. when we're trying to hold onto our languages, our cultural practices, our land and it's slipping between our fingers like that, because of the adverse effects of climate change. william: the island nations in the south pacific are responsible for less than a third of 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. but these low-lying islands are among the world's most vulnerable to the impacts of that pollution. as the planet warms, extreme

becong more intense here. entire villages, like this one on the island nation of fiji, have been abandoned made unlivable because of rising seas . in 2019, frustrated by the chasm between global promises of action, and any meaningful change, houniuhi along with other pacific islander law students, decided to try and take the industrialized world to court. >> if we were to go down in the history books that the countries that float in the middle of nowhere let us not go down without a fight. even if we can't protect ourselves and we can protect people around the world who are also going through the same hardship as us. william: solomon yeo is also from the solomon islands, and one of houniuhi's partners. their idea was to get the issue of climate change in front of the world's highest court the united nations's international court of justice, or icj.

>> we said, whnot we take on this this initiave? let's choose the most ambitious one. we have governments in the pacific. they're open to climate solutions. why not pitch it to them? gabe: -- william: their pitch convinced the tiny island nation of vanuatu with just over 300,00 citizens to take this issue to the u.n. vanuatu has felt the impacts of climate change head-on. just last month, two category-four cyclones swept through the island, forcing 10 percent of its people to flee to evacuation shelters. vanuatu's diplomatic efforts led to this moment on the floor of the u.n. general assembly two weeks ago. >> it is so decided. [applause] william: passage of a resolution rmally asking the icj to specify what states legal obligations are to address climate change. and what the consequences should be for those who fail to act. michael gerrard is a law professor at columbia university.

>> a decision from the international court of justice would be the most definitive, authoritative statement to date about what international law and human rights law havto say about climate change. william: it's the first time the international court of justice will consider climate change. vanuatu's prime minister alatoi ishmael kalsakau hailed the historic resolution. >> this is not a silver bullet, but it can make an important contribution to climate change, climate action, including by catalyzing much higher ambition under the paris agreement. william: an opinion from the international court would not be binding or enforceable. still, experts say it will set an important precedent. >> they have a strong influence on the decisions of domestic cour which do issue enforceable opinions. we've seen several of these domestic courts issue decisions telling their governments that they have to act and those governments have acted.

william: the measu passed by consensus, meaning none of the human's -- the u.n.'s 193 member states including the biggest emitters like china and the u.s. objected to the resolution. there's much greater public consciousness of the problem. in the politics of the u.s. have shifted. climate change was a winning issue for the democrats in 2020. and i think the biden administration saw that they didn't want to stand in the way. it made a huge difference in getting the necessary votes. william: solomon yeo now lives in new york and was in the u.n. general assembly hall to watch the resolution passed. >> my phone is buzzing with messages. it's like 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 a.m. in the morning in the pacific. but people are still waking up and seing in messages and saying how grateful they were. william: countries will be able to file submissions to the icj about how they have been impacted by climate change. and experts say it is likely to take at least a year for the court to issue its advisory

opinion. houniuhi says while there is still a long way to go, the effort is well worth it to protect future generations. >> i can imagine in the future having a conversation with my child and looking at them in the eyes, if they ask, did you do your part? i want to be able to look into, if i'm lucky, my child's eye and say, we did try, you know, we did try. william: for the pbs newshour, i am william brangham. ♪ amna: as america continues to grapple with mass shootings, another trend has authorities on high alert. across the country, school districts and universities are experiencing an increase in false reports of school shootings and campus threats. stephanie sy has our report on the growing problem, and what can be done about it.

stephanie: it's known as swatting. false threats called into police and 911 that in an age of mass shootings triggers a cascade of responses. just today, multiple colleges in texas were targeted with these calls. and yesterday, illinois state police said 21 schools had fake threats reported. the spike in these incidents is taking a toll on students and school communities. we spoke to three people who have experienced this firsthand. >> i'm gabby hollenbeck. i go to the university of pittsburgh, and my majors are environmental studies and urban studies i got the text that the school was under lockdown. and so i immediately ran basically right to my dorm and headed up. and all my friends were in my room already, and i just sat on the floor and i basically started crying >> my name is ananya vinay, i'm from fresno, california, and i'm a seni at clovis north high school.

we were in our our english class and there was an announcement on the loudspeaker that said that we're going on lockdown and no one knew what was going on, not even the teachers. >> my name is matilda larson. i live in canton, new york, and i am the mom of a 14-year-old boy in the eighth grade and a 16 year old boy in 11th grade. from my cubicle i heard another mom who also has children in the same grade as my youngest son say, my daughter just texted me. she said the school is in lockdown. >> then the fire alarms on campus started saying that we were under lockdown and that we should stay inside. and i remember just like feeling so scared in that moment. then we started hearing that they couldn't find any shooter in the school or anything. so all our minds go to, oh, like they're out in the open and we could be like in like next.

>> i received a text from my youngest son who was using a friend's phone to say, mom, we're in lockdown. and so i wrote back and said, make sure you stay hidden. make sure that the phone that you're using is on silent. i then texted my other son and said, are you in lockdown? and he wrote, yes. and i said the same thing. and this overwhelming sense of despair and alarm. it just washed over me. >> once it was declared a hoax, the text went out that everything was okay. it went on like any normal day, and barely anybody talked about it. it was just kind of like, okay, like, whatever. and i think that's what made me like the most angry out of everything that happened, is just going back and being like, oh, everything's okay. everything's normal.

but like, in reality, like it's really not. >> you think it won't happen to you, but then you get but then you get a five minute lockdown and it may just be a false alarm. but the false alarm showed you that it could really happen. >> this is the second time this school year that they had gone into a lockdown. earlier in the year during the winter months. so being that it happened to be a second lockdown situation, you think, how could it be that another event could come out so well where no one is hurt and that it's a situation that gets resolved very fast? so the second time you just think, is this the one? stephanie: you heard a range of reactions there. now i want to bring in amy klinger, co-founder of the educator's school safety network for a closer look at these swatting calls and their impacts. thank you so much for joining the newshour. some of us will remember bomb

hoaxes and such being called in when we were in school, but these calls are on a different scale. what is going on? amy: we still have bomb hoaxes going on as well. now you have added another dimension. our worst fears of an active shooter being weaponized against us, and causing an incredible level of trauma and disruption and incredible consumption of resources. and the people you just spoke with really encapsulated in all. the fear, anxiety, uncertainty, the unknowing what is actually happening. all of that comes together along with this incredibly rapid law enforcement response. and the need for something to be done very rapidly while you are still unsure what is happening. stephanie: these are not necessarily individuals affiliated with the school. again, i have read reports that

this is computer-generated calls in some cases, that technology is being leveraged, leveraging that fear of mass shootings. amy: absolutely. and it is really not about some individual or a disgruntled kid saying something. these are attacks. these are coordinated attacks that tend to occur in clusters. they tend to happen regionally. by an actor or entity that is outside of the school that is being targeted. they really are attacks designed to undermine, create chaos, fear, anxiety, all of the things that we see are happening. and that is why they continue. because they are working. stephanie: i want to talk about the response that schools have to have in response to these threats, given mass shootings do happen in this country. schools regularly send out text messages to the studts and parents when there are threats of an active shooter and a lockdown. almost all of us have gotten a text like that.

it sounds like that alone can be very stressful for some of the people we just heard from. are there clear best practices for how schools should respond to these threats? the vast majority of which we know will end up being hoaxes? amy: i think we have to guard against a couple of things. number one, we have to be proactive. we have to start talking about that. talking about what is our protocol? when are we going to do? what is helpful, not helpful? however we going to communicate as much information as we can? we have to have that proactive approach. we also have to guard against the complacency, the boy that cried wolf, where we go, it is another one of those. we have to really brush up on and really coordinate the training on the front end of things, so that people are aware of what to do, what it could be like, what we are going to do. because you have got to also build back up that trust and help people to put it in the proper perspective, that while

these are front of mind, these horrific events and they are totally unacceptable, they also are statistically rare. but that does not mean that we should not prepare for the the swatting just adds another complicating layer for schools to have to deal with. stephanie: i read a lot of these hoax calls are considered misdemeanors in places. what can be done to stop them from a law enforcement perspective? i know senator chuck schumer of new york, where they have had hundreds of these threats at schools, has called on the fbi to form a sk force. he wants to launch a federal investigation into where the calls are coming from. . is that what is needed? amy: i think we have to shift our thinking from -- we use the word hoax because it was not true, but we have to shift our thinking from these as being, it is just a bad joke, or a threat, to being, these are attacks. they truly are attacks. and we need to treat them as such in terms of our

investigation, and in terms of our consequences. because they have a really significant impact on kids and schools. we have to treat them as the serious problem that they truly are. stephanie: what is your biggest concern if this trend continues amy: i think it is eclipsing the significant work that needs to be done in school safety, that needs to be all hazards, that needs to be about training and about mental health and about violence prevention and relationship building. this really complex array of things that need to happen to keep kids safe in schools. it has been boiled down to a singular discussion of swatting organs or anti-gun or pro-gun, whatever it is, and we miss this larger picture of what we should be doing to keep kids safe. and kind of the school safety movement has been hijacked by

this incredible increase in these false events. stephanie: amy klinger, thank you for joining us. amy: thank you. ♪ geoff: jury selection started ynin ving systems $1.6 billion defamation suit against fox news. the voting technology company is suing the right wing network for airing debunked conspiracy theories that its voting machines were rigged against donald trump in the 2020 election. npr's media correspondent, david folkenflik, is following the case and joins us now. thank you for being with us. as the case goes to trial, the judge has rejected several of the first amendment defenses that fox hoped to invoke. and he also took the extraordinary step of admonishing and sanctning the fox defense team.

help us understand why and what it might mean for the case? david: we have heard in recent days that the judge is increasing frustration with the increase in of incidents in which he has concluded that fox has been less than forthcoming with the court. what does that mean? take an instance where, for example, there had been numerous representations per the judges account that rupert murdoch, the founder of fox news, the guy at the top of the pyramid, did not have a formal official role at fox news itself. he may have been weighing in as we have learned from these texts and emails that have emerged. early this week, lawyers for fox acknowledge that he held the title of executive chairman of fox news, which sounds like an honorific, and that is what fox is going to argue. in the judge's assessment, it suggests that rupert murdoch has agency ended over how this network operates in following the election. geoff: this case has been

notable for its unprecedented window into the inter-workings of fox news. emails, text messages introduced as evidence show fox personalities privately insulting former president donald trump. there were all sorts of private skepticism among some of the fox anchors and executives about the election fraud claims that were showing up on air. given that and there's an exposure, why hasn't fox tried to settle the case? amy: neither side will talk publicly. certainly on the front end of this trial, they did not intend to settle this case. certainly wanted to take this to trial. why? the payment threshold increases at every point along the way as it turns out. it is not just embarrassing what we have learned about fox, it is damming. there are two separate stories that someo like me is covering. there is the actual litigation, the trial itself, on the legal merits that the jury gets to

weigh in on, andel timidly decide on. unless it is settled before then. but there is also the forensic, archaeological look that we are getting at fox in real time, and a complete 360 nature from the most junior producers to the stars, the executives, corporate chieftains in boston's above. all of them weighing in on this moment of crisis. triggered by fox not only presenting his viewership and audiences with the unwanted news that it was projecting that challenger joe biden would win arizona and not donald trump on election night. but actually fox being the first tvtation in the country to do so. that was not news the audience wanted and it was not news they wanted from fox. you saw this desperate chase of anything that might appease the viewers, and it turned out that lying about dominion was one of those things. geoff: what are the potential long-term consequences for fox news? in the short term, their ratings

are up, the stock price has remained stable, advertisers have stuck around. . and this past week, donald trump was on tucker carlsen's program, despite tucker carlsen saying about him in private, calling him a demonic force. david: a purely transactional relationship. and one that is consistent with these strong currents of cynicism coursing through the communications we have been able to examine from inside fox ws. fox could win this case. it could win its case in legal merits, on an appeal to first amendment principles, saying basically, the first amendment and free speech needs running room. even if we did not do this the way you would want, even have -- there was something inexact about what we said as well as what our guests said. they can appear -- appeal to the jury and try to get them on this. if you have one or two jurors are pro-trump, you can create scenarios in which they win.

the legal ramifications could be huge to the bottom line if they lose and media and lawyers and scholars tell me this is this -- says this is the most amassing of evidence to suggest a plaintiff has met this tough bar of malice they have ever seen. you could also have all the ramifications. inside the fox bubble, in the way you have described, it may not hurt fox. inside, the hardest maggot elements of the republican party and his viewership they may stand by fox. outside fox, you have seen an extraordinary reputational hit. it is difficult to sit by and listen to people talk about fox as a news organization that happens to have some conservative opinion hosts, when we seen the way in which journalis and news imperatives and the ideas of presenting people with the facts as an imperative be belittled, diminished, and attacked by people inside fox, from the very

bottom to the very top of the pyramid. geoff: npr media correspondent, david folkenflik. thank you for your time. david: you bet. ♪ amna: like a number of institutions, classical music has been under recent pressure to diversify its ranks. but one group in detroit has been at it for a long time, and its reach now stretches across the nation. jeffrey brown reports on the sphinx organization for our arts and culture series, canvas. ♪ jeffrey: an after-school violin class at the cesar chavez academy, a public charter school in detroit. >> 1, 2, ready. go. jeffrey: among the songs, the traditional folk tune "de col ores." among the students, nine-year-old taniel hernadez

who loves to play at home for his mother while she is cooking. >> i also play de colores to her since that is my favorite. jeffrey: it's your favorite, why is that? >> because it is a lile bit challenging, but i still can do it. jeffrey: that he can do it,th oe thvi as llthe an inplay he has at home, is vital for his mother, elizabeth cruz, who struggled to find and pay for music lessons for her son. >> they need that more here in soutest. because if he didn't do that, he wouldn't be able to play the violin now. he wouldn't be able to know what he knows now. he has only been in here for two years and it is only twice a week. definitely we need that. the kids need it. jeffrey: the class as part of the overture program run by the sphinxrganization, founded 25 years ago by aaron dworkin to diversify the world of classical music. >> when we were looking at the

idea of founding sphinx and beginning this work in this field, which didn't really exist, it was, how can we bring about systemic impact? how can we change the way that our orchestras are comprised? and of course, how can we make sure that high level, high quality music instruction is happening at all of our schools and not just those with the most resources? jeffrey: dworkin had been adopted as an infant and raised in new york city, with access to music and violin lessons beginning at age five. but he routinely found himself the only black person onstage or in the audience, and never even knew there were black composers until he was in college and conservatory. it was at the university of michigan, where he still teaches, that he started sphinx. it's also where he met his wife

afa, also a finalist -- also a violinist, who had come to the u.s. from azerbaijan as a teenager, and who now heads sphinx. the biggest early barrier, the dworkins say: overcoming biases surrounding the idea of excellence. >> it was presumed that if we are talking about inclusivity, representation and diversity, there should be this presumed compromise relative to artistic integrity. jeffrey: meaning, the quality would go down. >> go down. it is a myth that is so misfortunate. and it has stalled progress for our industry and sector. >> i would have meetings with major orchestras and leadership would sit and say to me, you know, it's nice, but we don't need to do this. we are x orchestra. we are excellent. and this would invade that excellence. thankfully, we don't hear that much anymore. jeffrey: but that had to be a painful thing to hear. >> my approach to things is not worrying about how painful

things are and how, you know, unjust things are, but focus on the work. jeffrey: years later, sphinx now runs high level intensive training programs. fields its own touring company, the sphinx virtuosi, 18 accomplished black and latino musicians. partners with more than 100 orchestras to promote diverse rosters and repertory. and now has a network of more than 1000 alumni, many holding positions throughout the industry. its annual competition, held in detroit, continues to expand, giving young string players of color a chance to perform with the sphinx symphony orchestra, seasoned musicians from around the country who gather for thi event. and to compete for prize money and touring opportunities with leading orchestras. 23-year-old njioma grevious won

thisear's senior competition. >> it was, i mean, life-changing. it showed me that even through all the struggles, that just keeping on believing was able to make this all possible for all of us on stage and for me, too. just the feeng of having that support, people who have shared in this experience that i have gone through, this journey, was very special and meaningful to me. jeffrey: grevious began playing the violin at age 4 and credits boston-based project step, another organization seeking to diversify classical music, with helping her with lessons, mentoring, and financial support. she is a graduate of the prestigious juilliard school, where we talked. at this level, she said, she met only a few other black musicians. >> specifically in terms of black female violinists, i was the only one for quite some time while i was in my undergrad

here. so it definitely has been a journey, a challenging journey in many ways. i've had a lot of support along e way, but it is sort of hard to ignore the lack thereof of us on the classical music stage. jeffrey: and that's the continuing issue for sphinx. the dworkins see enormous progress, but also a long way to go with very high stakes for the classical field, and the arts in general. >> the pitch to the orchestras is that it is existentially important. if orchestras wish to envision themsees as thriving today and five and ten years from now, they ought to think about their audiences and they ought to think about who comprises the artistic collective that performs on the stage, and why it is important for that artistic collectivto, in fact, reflect the community and be relevant to the community. >> all of this work, the reality

is it requires resources. and the resource allocation in the non-profit world in general, and especially in the arts world, has inherent disparies that are not just limiting, they literally can be destructive. jeffrey: this is still a problem you see. >> it is a massive problem. it absolutely continues. and until that dynamic shifts, then we will see an ongoing continuing struggle as it relates to diversity in the arts. reporter: at cesar chavez academy, the focus is on access as much as excellence. and already, young taniel hernandez has decided he wants a life as a professional musician. >> music is my life. and i love it as i'm -- and i love it as much as i do my mom. jeffrey: music is your life and you love it as much as you love

your mom? >> yeah. jeffrey: for the pbs newshour, i am jeffrey brown in detroit. geoff: i can't wait to watch him perform on the big stage. that is the newshour for toght. amna: i'm on the vase. on behalf of the entire team, thank you for joining us. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- >> for 25 years, consumer cellular has been offering plans to help people do more of what they like. our u.s.-based customer service team can help find one that fits you. to learn more, visit consumercellular.tv. >> the ford foundation. working with visionaries on the frontlines lines of social change worldwide. and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. and friends of the newshour, including leonard and norma core

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