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all of them relate to handling classified documents. >> mr. trump and his supporters have lambasted the indictment -- and the biden justice department. that has officials in miami bracing for potential trouble at the federal courthouse. lisa desjardins reports. >> in miami today, security tape is going up and of precaution are going out ahead of tomorrow's court appearance. the mayor said she is ready for up to 50,000 protesters. >> we hope that tomorrow will be peaceful. we encourage people to be peaceful and we're going to have the forces necessy to >> ensure that. >>1000 miles away mr. trump ordered a plan. he will face county held onto documents including top military

secrets. boxes sprawled out throughout the floor. >> this is the final battle. >> in an interview, he called for supporters to go to miami and peaceful protest. >> at rallies, he urged resolve. >> we don't. we want to drain the swamp and i'm the only one going to do it. we know the competition. these are sick people. >> this is the most political thing i've ever seen. >> rivals have kept a drumbeat

with some like ron desantis choosing not to proclaim trump innocent so much as to do now the justice department as corrupt. >> our founding fathers would have predicted the weaponization's we have seen because when you don't have constitutional responsibility, human nature is such. >> nikki haley told fox news that while she's thinks doj has lost all credibility. >> if this indictment is true, if what it says is the case, president trump was reckless with our national security. >> his own attorney general spoke about the charges. bill barr told fox news he had no right to keep such sensitive records.

>> i stood up and called out the politicized to child. this is simply not true. this episode, the government acted responsibly. >> that is not how most republican voters see it. a cbs news poll found 76% of likely primary voters said they thought the indictment was only politically motivated. the press secretary declined to respond. >> this is a president who respects the rule of law and wants to make sure and has proven that to be actions to make sure the department of justice is independent. >> the attention centers around

the courthouse in miami. >> and lisa joins us now with more about how republicans are reacting to the indictment. good to see you. tell us. what have we been seeing? >> before we saw the details, there was a torrent of responses. you had many pushing back like mike collins of georgia saying he wanted to abolish the fbi and justice department. lisa mclean of michigan wrote the doj has become nothing more than a political weapon. there are others who said it's hypocritical for the biden administration and double standard. one senator wrote there is a two tiered justices on full display.

this is something going on separately where some house lawmakers are able to see nfp arbor that accuses the biden family of biden -- bribery. we know the fbi is investigating biden in terms of documents that's ongoing. >> this is what we have seen publicly. >> many sources are not saying on t record what they are seeing privitely. far fewer republicans have not responded at all. mitch mcconnell did not talk about the indictment at all.

some others. richard hudson, member of house leadership. >> is there a sense of how republicans see this? will they help this or hurt them? >> i talked to a strategist who says this could be the thing, they are not sure it's enough to derail supporters. it does seem like they are helping with fundraising and energizing supporters. >> we will see what happens tomorrow. good to see you. thank you.

>> thousands of drivers have contacted details. that was in both directions. officials wonder could take several months. >> it's a densely populated area . >> the pennsylvania state police said authorities are working to identify a body recovered from the wreckage.

a jury found pacificorp responsible for devastating wildfires in 2020. it killed nine people and destroyed more than 5000 homes and structures. owners accuse the utility of failing to shut off power during a windstorm, despite warnings. the company is ordered to pay almost $75 million dollars to homeowners. the mother of a six-year-old boy who shot his teacher pleaded guilty to federal gun charges. she was accused of lying about her marijuana use when buying the firearm used in the shooting. attorneys agreed to a prison sentence. in ukraine, government forces reported more small gains as a counteroffensive ramps up. the military says it has recaptured a village and said six other villages have been retaken. military video showed soldiers

unfolding the radiant lag amid russian tracks. the progress was being closely watched in washington. >> the success would do two things. it would strengthen of causing potent to finally focus on negotiating an end to the war he started. >> the boastful italian billionaire died today. his career sharply divided italy. on the tv network where he built his own empire, italian newscasters fought to hold back tears as they delivered the news. silvio berlusconi, italy's longest-serving prime minister and a powerful media mogul was dead. in his nearly three decades in

politics, he polarized the country but became one of italy's most influential leaders. >> silvio berlusconi was most of all a fighter, he was a man who never feared to defend his beliefs. >> berlusconi made his name as a business tycoon. he built a real estate and media empire in the 1970s and 1980s and to use that wealth and importance to take power with his center-right alliance, he was first elected as prime minister in 1994 and again in 2001 and 2008. he was forced to resign in 2011 after losing a parliamentary majority, and as italy's debt soared. in 2012, he was convicted of tax fraud, and banned from public office for several years. beyond politics, he made

headlines for his private life, epitomized by his notorious "bunga bunga" parties, and several sex scandals, including claims of unlawful sex with a minor. berlusconi denied wrongdoing, but crassly admitted his pursuit of young women. >> i have always worked with no interruption and if i sometimes see a beautiful girl, i say, better to like girls than to be gay. >> last year he brought his party back to power by siding with far-right brothers of italy, led by prime minister giorgia meloni. he also cultivated relationships with other controversial leaders, including with russian president vladimir putin, a friendship that put him at odds with meloni. he died in a milan hospital this morning, where he was being treated for chronic leukemia. >> the u.s. was once the biggest

funder of an agency but withdrew protesting palestine's admission. american officials say rejoining will help counter china's influence. the musical comedy 15 awards last night including best musical. the semiautobiographical work took the prize for best play. non-binary actors one tony's for the first time. still to come on the newshour. the head of nato discusses the ukrainian counteroffensive against the russian invasion. increasingly severe weather causes insurance providers to pull coverage in california. a playwright gives a brief but spectacular tape on writing from the inside out.

>> this is the pbs newshour. from washington and the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> in the days after the indictment of president trump, violent rhetoric has been escalating. this, coupled with heating -- messaging has extremism washers on high alert. following this closely is jeff, a professor at dartmouth college in his new book chronicles the rise of right-wing extremism over the last decade. welcome back to the newshour. want to ask for some of your help translating some of the response after the indictment from president trump. this from clay higgins. he said this.

president trump says he has been summoned to appear at the federal house on tuesday at 3:00 p.m., this is a probe from the oppressor. what is he talking about? >> it's such a specific call to prepare for battle. a perimeter probe says the oppressors, qanon terms, testing the strength of the real people. he believes trump is the real president. 150 k, i had to do some research. the scale of military grade

mats. know your bridges. militias speak for understand the points of attack, literally. wiser concerning to see this, how surprising is it to see this kind of language from a sitting member of congress? >> he has both militia credibility and is being elevated by his party for the border security subcommittee and homeland security. it identifies himself as a militia member by the 3% is. consent has been doubling down, he has appeared with the oath keepers whose leader is serving 18 years and since that tweet he said there are 3% solutions to the indictments.

>> is not alone in using this. andy biggs tweeted we have reached a war phase. if you want to get there, most of us are card-carrying members of the nra. when you listen to this, there is a threat of more political violence around the indictment. >> my guess is there will not be an event like that tomorrow because so many militia members have been arrested, they are afraid of infiltration and the fbi. the other risk is the way this language insights those who we think of as lone wolves, the mass shooters.

>> tell me more. doesn't seem like it takes elaborate planning, as you mentioned it's often an individual with a set of grievances who is motivated by language like this. is that what we're seeing? >> when you look at the manifestoes, they oftentimes cut and paste and refer to the previous, they say it's part of a long struggle. they see themselves as soldiers in a war. you have people like mike flynn who in the mainstream world is considered ridiculous but hold status as a national security advisor calling for open war. >> what does it take to stamp out this rhetoric?

if he were to come out and say there is no room for political violence in this country, with that ended? >> no. after seven years, are we expecting that to happen? i don't think it would. the movement is bigger than trump. trump is the avatar and martyr of the movement, but the movement in the minds of those who see trump as soft for not going into open combat is larger. the anger. trump says either they destroy us or we destroyhem. i don't thi he is speaking metaphorically. >> what is the appropriate way to handle these calls for political violence? we risk amplifying it?

>> pretending they're not there is not going to work. it's a big part of the american landscape. we can't fact check a myth that we can interpret it and say this is what happening. the other thing we can do is support the rule of law. but happening tomorrow is the most important part of this work. those of us in the press pay attention, interpret and callout what it is. we have to get away from saying this is not conservative rhetoric. this is fascist rhetoric, this is violent rick. >> author of the book the undertow joining us tonight. thank you for your time.

>> president biden will meet with outgoing nato secretary-general jens stoltenberg tomorrow. they are expected to discuss russia's ongoing invasion of ukraine, and efforts to persuade fellow nato member turkey to back off blocking sweden from joining the alliance. stoltenberg's tenure as nato leader ends in september, and a number of countries are competing for who will replace him. joining us now is jens stoltenberg. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> loaded mere zelenskyy has been imploring nato leaders to put ukraine on a path to membership. he said he would not appear next month without a clear signal. since there is no consensus among member nations, what are you prepared to give ukraine? what promise or commitment?

>> first and foremost, the most important thing is nato allies will expressed strong support to ukraine because i'm certain nato allies will make new announcements of significant military support to ukraine to promise and sustain support ukraine for as long as it takes. then on the issue of membership, it's too early but allies agree on a lot. we agree that nato is open for new members. we know ukraine will become a new member. it has been stated many times

and thirdly, we agree it's on ukraine to decide when the time is right, it's not russia. i'm confident that there will be a strong message on ukraine because we need to stand by ukraine. >> when you said you are confident, how do you respond to what president zelenskyy told the wall street journal? >> ion to stand his pushing for a clear timetable for nato membership. the same time, i believe it's not possible to give precise dates when we are in the midst of war and i think alice express

that the most urgent task is to ensure ukraine perseveres as an independt nation because then there would be no membership to be discussed at all. only a democratic republic of an can become a nato member. i also think we will have a program for how to ensure that there are modern nato standards to enjoy and move them closer to membership. >> the counteroffensive is underway. in nato's view, what does that look like? >> the aim is to liberate

ukrainian land and send a message to moscow that they will not win, russia will not achieve its goals and russia needs to negotiate lasting peace for ukraine. encouraging to see the ukrainians are making august but wars are unpredictable so it's not possible now to say when and how the war will end. >> ukraine says success is taking back the donbas. his nato prepared to support you earned that far? >> we support you in and we need to remember this is a war of aggression. russia has invited another

country by sending in hundreds of thousands of soldiers, armor and missiles in europe. the right of self-defense is enshrined in the charter and we support ukraine in withholding that right. that doesn't make nato a party to the conflict and we will support you in for as long as it takes area >> china has remained was to russia as this war has progressed. how is the alliance priming to confront the challenges posed by beijing? >> demonstrates that it's not mutual anymore what happens in europe matters for asia and what happens in asia matters for europe. this region faces global threats

batting lose the fact that china is investing more and more in weapons and trying to threaten neighbors around the world. then, the fact that china and russia are closer and closer, they just conducted a big nato exercise -- naval exercise. it's makes it more important that the alliance addresses challenges to our security posed by china and that way we stand together. >> to your point about the region, what about sweden? butter the prospects for will turkey allow sweden to be a member of nato by next month?

>> i'm confidence. and will become a member and it's possible that can happen next month but i cannot guarantee that. what i can say is we had a very good meeting and we need to convene what we all the permanent mechanism between finland, finland and turkey. they are meeting this week to address the differences that still exist. sweden has come a long way. obtain the status to grading more and more what we need for

ratification we are working hard to make that happen as soon as possible. >> we should note you have led nato 2014. if you are asked to extend your term yet again, will you? >> i'm confident this alliance will be able to find a great successor in my focus is on the alliance until my 10 ends. i'm confident the allies will find a successor. >> i heard you are confident but i do not hear a no. >> i have no plans than to end my tenure. -- extend my tenure. i have been there for nine

years. i think it's a good thing for everyone to have another person at the helm of the alliance, my focus is on being here, leading the alliance until there is a new person in place. >> thank you for your time this evening. >> the smoky air that shut down so much outdoor activity last we reminder of the sobering impact of wildfires and climate change. there has been a difficult impact in california as well. william focuses on that part of the story and what it could mean for insurance. >> for years, state farm has

been the largest provider of homeowners insurance but recently announced it will no longer sell new houses in the state, it said the move was driven by the high cost construction and growing risks of catastrophes like wildfires. the move was a similar move like all strack -- allstate. what does this mean for homeowners and other businesses in a state with increasing risks for wildfire and other extreme events? michael is a lawyer at the woods institute for the environment at stanford university. thank you for being here. can you tell us more about what is driving this move by the insurance companies? they cited these two risks. fires burning structures and the cost of tilting or rebuilding those structures.

what else is there? >> what is driving a lot of this has to do with rapidly changing risk of wildfire, interacting with a regular system which by designhanges slowly and allows price increases very slowly. we have a lag. the challenge on top of that has been increasing inflation, and in california, increasing costs for construction. the insurers are stuck between increasing risk and slowly increasing insurance pricing. >> if the insurers were really treating this as the cost of doing business, they might increase rates more rapidly than the state allows by law? >> that's right. many insurers have been

increasing rates since fires in 2017 and 2018. it reset division of what kinds of catastrophes were possible in the state of california. that increased risk needs to be priced into rates. the regulatory system allows for very slow adjustment in races and does not allow currently for insurers to price in the risk of climate change as it is today, prices are set by looking backwards at the risk as it has been. that means a slower pace of adjustment and that is leading to real problems. >> what does this mean for homeowners? >> for the last several years,

it is getting harder and harder to find a standard insurance product. it is made in order to buy and sell. people that have policies have mostly been able to keep the but a small amount have lost coverage and had to go to the insurer of last resort. having to be insured implies higher costs and it can also have some of the largest insurers to decide that they don't want to sell new policies, not just two people live in high risk areas anyone in california. they are trying to reduce the overall exposure as a whole and that's a major change. >> i have long heard

environmentalists and other modelers state insurance can be a useful tool for trying to get people to live in safer areas and to give policy issues to focus on the risk of climate change. is that what is happening here? >> california has been a leader in investing in wildfire risk reduction over the last several years. they deserve credit for that. we still have much more to do. i don't think we're at the point where anyone would ask people to leave homes, but the reality is getting more expensive to live in riskier places in california. at the margin it may induce some people to lee those places. it may make the homes less valuable. there is some developing

evidence that is occurring in california. i think we are far from a place where you would say walk away from it unity. there is a lot more to do to reduce risk in and around communities. >> what do you see as the trajectory going forward this to mark q think costs will keep going up? we're still adjusting to the emergence the insurance system is not fully adjusted. we should expect prices to increase. it's important to understand insurance costs are relatively low. that's because of the tight

regulatory framework we have. we're going to need prices to adjust and away but does not cause shocks for homeowners and household budget but does reflect the growing risks we face in the state. >> thank you so much for being here. >> thank you for having me on. >> earlier this month, texas joined other states --

>> mee she's a 12 year old who likes to t plleay soccer an.d skateboarde lives in the austin, texas, area with her parents, john and mary. we aren't showing their faces - and have changed their names for this story - because families like theirs are increasingly under threat. leah is a trans girl. she started coming out to her family two years ago, first as a gay boy. >> she was very mu starting to talk more and more about how she was feeling and how she just didn't feel like she was in the right body. we were seeing it start to take its toll on her mental health. there was just one night where everything just kind of came pouring out of her and she was just saying, i don't know. i don't know why i'm feeling like this. i don't know what else to do. we were sitting on the floor in her room and she was just sobbing in my lap. what if i said you could wake up tomorrow and beagle you are?

>> that moment, tears in her eyes, frowning. she realized that she could. her grin went from year-to-year. >> they took her to walmart to pick out new clothes. >> for so long, i was not being me. and when i was able to just go through and get what i really wanted, wearing what i wanted, it just felt like i was so much more free. >> as leah began to socially transition -- wearing dresses and using her new name -- her family became acutely aware of the world around them. >> if politics were out, wouldn't even be an issue. we were just living our life. but politics, laws, ignorance has brought has created the environment that we're in and that we have to worry about all this stuff wherever we go. >> gender insanity being pushed on our children is an act of child abuse. >> transgenderism must be eradicated from public life

entirely. >> we're going to kick the biological men out of women's sports. >> leah's played soccer since she was three. it is her favorite sport. but after her transition, she was dropped from the co-ed team. she wanted to play with girls, but worried it would be too much of a fight. and leah just wanted to play. so she joined a boys team. she struggled, hearing the wrong pronouns at every practice. >> i have always loved soccer. now, it feels like i'm trying to escape from that. >> in the months after leah's social transition, she and her family started thinking about the medical treatments that could help make her body match her gender identity. since doctors say those treatments shouldn't begin before puberty, leah would have to wait. but her parents agreed to move forward when the time was right. >> we had our own fears of what he transition was like.

we would sit here day after day with questions and research, the last two years, if you asked me if her as a 12-year-old could understand and wrap her head around was going on, dam right she does because she has put more work in the last two years than most adults do in her a lifetime. >> just being able to be me is really important to me. >> gender affirming care is endorsed by every major american medical association and they say this treatment is safe and can be life-saving. roughly 1.4 percent of u.s. youth, some identify as 300,000 transgender. each can take a slightly different path in their medical treatment, or none at all. guidelines say it begins with a mental health evaluation. from there, a young person can

take reversible medication to pause puberty. it gives the person time to consider the next step: either continue with puberty in their gender assigned at birth or , receive hormones to make their body match their gender identity. those lead to some more permanent changes - like a lower voice or facial hair in transgender boys, and breast development in transgender girls. and finally, there's surgery, which is rare for minors. >> this medicine that we practice is incredibly individualized and nuanced. >> doctor jason rafferty is a pediatrician and child psychiatrist who wrote the american academy of pediatrics' policy statement supporting gender-affirming care. >> it can decrease and normalized rates of depression and suicidality. we know that if we you know, in terms of medical interventions that using puberty blockers appropriately and even when using gender affirming hormones appropriately, that similarly it can decrease negative mental health outcomes.

>> despite that, republican politicians with an eye toward 2024, continue to question rights for trans youth. >> how are we supposed to get used to the fact that boys are in their locker rooms and then we wonder why one third of teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide? >> is no evidence to support that assertion and in fact it is transgender you who attempt suicide. republicans have vilified doctors for providing care. >> they will say it's health care to cut off the private parts. that's thought health care, it's mutilation. >> how common is it? >> not, at all. it's rare.

still, the issue has animated republicans in states like texas who ordered child abuse investigations and made out larin it a priority. the aclu tracked more than 50 bills targeting the rights of lgbt people in texas. perhaps no villager is much backlash -- despite trans advocates adding the halls and chambers of the texas capitol for weeks, to protest the bill sb-14. governor greg abbott signed the bill into law on june 2nd. it revokes the licenses of doctors who provide gender-affirming medical care to minors and requires anyone currently on treatment to be weaned off. republican representative tom oliverson -- an anesthesiologist who ushered the bill through the texas house -- rejects the medical establishment's consensus on gender affirming care. >> there are some estimated

30,000 kids in texas between the age of 13 and 17 who identify as transgender. what is your message to them? >> my message to them is that we e at age 30. at age 11. >> a doctor leads this in new york. >> when people wonder why they

do not treat this as a mental health condition, the short answer is the medical establishment already thought that and spent decades thinking that and acting that. and that's what has not worked, which is -- >> if i had a 10-year-old or eight-year-old who told me your your hurt, i would say you are eight or 10. i would say it doesn't matter if your hormones, you respect kids as individuals. >> one of the kids we have spoken to was in such pain watching what was hpening. they set i don't get why they hate me, they don't know me. >> what do you say to that? >> i want that kid to get mental health treatments.

>> that is the appropriate treatment for mental health conditions. >> i think in childhood it can be tough sometimes. i remember being an adolescent. it's a tough time to figure out who you are. >> leah is now in puberty. since the law takes into effect, her family has been forced to consider drastic steps. >> we were feeling rushed. we were like ok. if we do this, we have to go back in august so maybe she can get the puberty blocker. it was anxiety. if you don't do this now, what are we going to do? >> they are now looking at providers in new mexico. >> it feels like we're are being pushed out of our home. out of our jobs, our state.

i do want to feel like we are counseling on the run. i do not want to feel like refugees. >> the thought of leaving is what ways heaviest. >> we have our whole life here. >> last week, i asked president ayden about her family -- president biden about her emily -- family. >> what do you say to girls about the ones i spoke to were contemplating leaving the country? >> first of all, all, when we're finished please give me the number of that family. >> hearing that was like, finally. with all of the negative hate speech we are hearing, we are actually hearing something positive. >> despite the reassurance, leah's family still must grapple

with what's happening in texas - >> once as a parent you have been in a place where you have heard your child say they do not want to live, seeing the things we have seen her do to herself. we will do anything to never be back there. i don't see how that can be considered child abuse. we are saving her life area. >> for the pbs newshour, i am in texas. >> michael r jackson is a playwright composer. tonight, he shares his --

>> when i sit down to write, my goal is to find the truth and figure out how to harness that in a way that the audience will be able to perceive. it began as a monologue that i started writing after i graduated from undergrad. this is around 2002, 2003. i had not found my voice, i was in the process of discovery. i was trying to figure out where my place in the world would be personally and artistically. i started writing a personal monologue. the protagonist is writing a musical.

my experience is aligned with usher in basic ways and that i am a fat, black gay man. i was ories are different in that usher is eternally 25 result. have gotten older. from the start of the monologue to broadway was 18 years. my perspective changed a lot over the years because as i evolved, evolved. for some people it's a window because there are those who watch the story and see themselves in it. for other people, they are not fat or gay in any of the things

he is on theinteallythey feel a. in both of those experiences they feed each other. my hopes for the space are people are looking more injured. more rigous. i hope we get to a point where it is celebrated and come into place. this is my brief but spectacular take on writing from the inside out area >> that is the newshour for tonight. >> have a good evening. >> major funding has been provided by >> a proud to order

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