♪ >> good evening. on the newshour tonight, irs whistleblowers testify before congress claiming the justice department slow walked an investigation into hunter biden. new reporting shows donald trump's plans to expand executive power and limit judicial independence if reelected. judy woodruff hears from a panel of iowa voters on the role of politics in their lives and their hopes and overcoming division. >> the less people talk to each other, the less we have a really good frame of reference for how somebody might actually think. ♪

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world. more information at mac found.org. and with the ongoing support of these institutions. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and from contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> welcome to the newshour. tens of millions of americans have spent another day other heat watches, warnings, or advisories in this long, hot summer. the low temperature in phoenix today was 97. that followed 19 straight days of highs of 110 degrees. filberts around the city -- billboards around the city displayed the brutally high temperatures. people adjust their schedules to

escape the dangerous conditions. >> we drink a lot of water. when the sun goes down, we are out walking and going to the park. i guess we have to be vampires in this type of weather. >> heat overseas plate firefighters in greece as they battled wildfires. streets in italy were deserted as temperatures narrowed 108 degrees. a federal judge in new york is up held a jury award against donald trump. they found he sexually abused a writer in 1996 and the fainter in his denial. the judge set the reward was reasonable. it did not deviate materially from reasonable compensation so as to make it excessive. a separate federal judge refused to take over a state court case involving mr. trump's alleged hush money payments to an adult film star. in southern ukraine, heavy russian air raids pounded places

overnight. ukrainian officials say dozens of missiles and drones hit odessa for a second straight night. they destroyed 60,000 tons of grain. russia had suspended a deal allowing black see grain -- black sea grain shipments. the president of israel knowledge criticism of the far right government area's office is nonpartisan but his appearance was boycotted by a handful of progressive democrats over israel's treatment of palestinians. >> i respect criticism, especially from friends, although one does not always need to accept it. but criticism of israel may not cross the line indication of the state of israel's right to exist. >> over the weekend, the leading house progressive democrat branded israel a racist state. she later apologized come up on

tuesday, the house overwhelmingly passed a resolution reaffirming u.s. support for israel. the white house proposed new guidelines for corporate mergers today. it also called for action against junk fees caused by landlords and i scalping in the food industry. the president met his competition council at the white house to discuss the proposal. they are subject to public comment and revision before taking place. on wall street today, stocks edged higher after a series of profit reports for major banks. the dow jones industrial average gained 109 points. the nasdaq rose four points. the s&p 500 added 10. major league baseball has done something it had not done in 129 years. on tuesday, 12 team scored in double figures. the chicago cubs led the list, routing the washington nationals 17-3. the only date with more offense was july 4, 1894, when 13 team

scored in double digit. still to come, jurors way the fate of the pittsburgh synagogue shooter. an author talks about her new book on life lessons learned in sports. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour, from our studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> irs whistleblowers testify today between -- before the house ov ddliermmt sicoe n the initvestib into hunter biden. he reached an agreement to plead guilty to federal misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his taxes. he also agreed to abide by a set of conditions to avoid a separate felony gun possession charge. the whistleblowers say those charges and this case are out of line with the norm.

democrats dispute th what did these whistleblowers allege where the problems with the investigations? >> this was a longing for the most part substantive and serious hearing from both sides. these are not just any irs agent. they are investigators who were the chief investigators in the hunter biden case. they gave a list of things they said were out of the norm, unprecedented obstacles and changes in the way that this is work. among the few of those they listed was they said there -- they were not allowed to search joe biden's home, where hunter biden was living. they were blocked from interviewing grandchildren who may have given testimony about hunter biden's tax returns. they did not see the felony tax charges that they recommended. and they said other prosecutors early in the case also agreed with. they also said they saw outside limit on the u.s. attorney in

delaware who is overseeing the prosecution and this plea deal. one of these irs whistleblowers was talking in public for the first time today. he said he is a gated at -- gay democrat. he said this is not political. he said he saw signs that there was something stifling that prosecutor. >> it appeared to me that the u.s. attorney in delaware was hamstrung, limited, and marginalized by doj officials as well as other u.s. attorneys. i still think that a special counsel is necessary for this investigation. >> there is no reason to believe that there will be a special counsel. he said throughout the investigation they became scared to ask russians that would lead to the biden family or biden and his campaign. >> white house officials say there are often internal

disputes between investigators and prosecutors. a white house spokesperson today said that house republicans were staging partisan stunts to try to damage president biden politically. have a democrats on the committee seated? >> democrats see this completely differently. one thing unique in this hearing was emma kratz did not question the credibility of these witnesses. they said these are career professionals where they said they think they got some things wrong. these were investigators versus prosecutors and there is often a difference in opinion and how they should be charged. they pointed specifically to a letter from the u.s. attorney in this case that came out in the last few weeks where he was very fair saying he followed the process and he was never denied the ready to bring charges in any jurisdiction area the whistleblowers are saying that he told them otherwise. there is a difference here over what he's dead. that prosecutor says he was never denied any authority that he needed.

they say these plea deals often indicate charges that are graded down because hunter biden has pleaded guilty. they say joe biden was not president or vice president for some of this investigation. the head of a crowd on this committee said overall while hunter biden has admitd to doing wrong and there is a lot to say about him, but republican shown has led anywhere near joe biden. >> one thing you will not here today is any evidence of wrongdoing by president joe biden or his administration. like every other tried by our colleagues to concoct a scandal about president biden, this one is a complete and total bust. >> democrats also point out that the prosecutor is a trump appointee. >> based on your reporting, where does this had next? >> there will be more hearings. moreover words from republicans,

especially on the house side. republicans are trying to tie this to the attorney general in this case. his past testimony about how this was handled i asked speaker mccarthy about this today and he brought up the attorney general saying perhaps this would lead down the road to russian strong enough to impeach him area they are not going there yet but they are raising that idea. hunter biden himself, that plea deal in the hearing in that case is next week. the judge has to approve the deal. >> thanks as always. >> you are welcome. ♪ >> donald trump and his allies are preparing for a second term in office that would massively expand the power of the presidency, centralizing control within the oval office. we explain. >> strip tens of thousands of

career civil servants of protections and replace them with political hires. exert political influence over the justice system. these are some of the agenda items under discussion among them are his allies he takes office in 2024 according to recent reports by the new york times and the economist. for more on what this would mean to our democracy and the power of the executive branch, i am joined by a history professor at new york university and an expert on authoritarianism. thank you so much for joining us. the new york times and the economist spoke to a number of current and former advisers about this effort to radically expand the executive. one of them, the former omdb executive said we are trying to identify the pockets of independence. you have said there is a term for this. what does it mean? >> in studies of

authoritarianism, that is called autocratic capture. what this trump advisor has described is that. when you remake government and remake civil service, you encourage people who will not be loyal to you. loyalty becomes a requirement, not expertise. you re-staff government with people who would do your bidding. usually centralizing and increasing presidential power. i was also struck by his language, looking for pockets of independence and seizing them. this also negates the idea of an independent civil service. independent institutions. this is a bedrock of democracy. this is not the language of the craddick reform. this is the language of authoritarian takeover. >> trump as we know is facing

potentially a third indictment in a number of days for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. much of his campaign has been centered on his plans to go after the justice department. >> i will totally obliterate the deep state. we will find the globe roots -- globalist warmongers and bureaucrats who have weaponized our justice system and we will escort them from federal buildings. >> his campaign may be the most explicit in their plans for the justice department but the american first policy institute and conservative heritage foundation have really crafted blueprints for any republican who may win the presidency in 2024. what is the end game? >> strongmen and authoritarians are not good at politicians. many of them are under

investigation when they run for office. that was true with berlusconi in italy, putin, trump in 2016 and now he has his legal woes. netanyahu. the purpose of getting into power becomes to capture the judicial system and make yourself untouchable. we have an example in israel now with netanyahu facing corruption charges. he is very focused on judicial reform. this is why there are enormous protests against him. these are things that autocrats do routinely. it is interesting to me that trump is able to capitalize on his pre-existing discourse of the deep state that republicans had pedaled for many years. now he has personalized it because he has so many legal woes so he needs to get into office and realize the dream of becoming untouchable. >> that former trump advisor who

i mentioned has said this plan is now republican doctrine. we have seen other candidates like flora governor ron desantis, who is the leading challenger to trump, talk about plans like this abolishing certain agencies and taking more control. >> you will see the justice department turned inside out. for far too long, this bureaucracy has imosed its will on us. it is about time we impose our will on it. >> is that also a classic example of autocratic capture? >> it is. federal bureaucracy, you take an oath to the constitution. you are serving the public as well as the administration. the santos saying -- desantis saying he will impose his will is an exertion of executive our -- power beyond what is proper

for an independent and democratic political system. it is the same with trump. he is not saying he will fire inefficient people. he will get rid of big government because it does not work area he is saying he will purge the sick political class that hates our country. political attributes are at stake here. that is what the criteria is. that is what is disturbing in terms of the health of our democracy. >> thank you so much. >> a pleasure. ♪ >> throughout this year, judy woodruff has been examining divisions across the country. for her latest story, she listened in on focus groups in iowa with trump voters as they talked about how they feel about the state of the nation, the devices and is stacy, and who they feel is responsible.

we have chosen not to conclude their full names after some received harassing calls after an earlier story. this was produced with ourfriest of her ongoing series. >> i definitely think the country is headed in the wrong direction. unfortunately i think we are on that downhill slide. i am not sure it can be turned around. >> that was a common feeling among the 16 trump voters we gathered recently at the studio of iowa pbs for a focus group led by a republican strategist and pollster. >> in iowa we have a great governor, great leadership. when you look at the country as a whole, it seems like everybody is going down the tubes. >> i agree with all of the different economics and all of that but we are so polarized

that we cannot come to common ground. >> is almost feels a little bit like a civil war. >> i sat down with her, who conducts focus groups with democrats and republicans to talk through what we heard. >> namely the things that we hear all the time from republicans is they really feel like the country is going the wrong direction. they want a republican back in power very badly. >> in terms of these republican voters and their view of how divided the country is, what came across to you the most? >> everybody does think we are divided. that is clear. the focus group we did tonight and we do all the time, people talk about something like a national divorce or a civil war. they feel like we are at each other's throats. raise your hand if you think we are extremely divided country. whose fault do you think it is that we are subdivided? >> media. >> for sure. >> they perpetuate the eight.

-- hate. they have an agenda, and it is to divide area that is what they seek. that is how they get ratings and how they get money. that is where the money is. >> where are you getting your information? what are you watching, reading, listening to? >> i watch fox news. i have truth social. i am oliver twitter. -- all over twitter. i watched channel 13 all of the time. i like to know what is going on. >> they are good. these guys look into things they know things. sean hannity is really good. >> i am smart enough to understand when i am being manipulated. all i have to say is i read everything, i listen to everything. what goes in, what goes out.

i make up my of decisions. >> i will blame the media and also social media. i think back like 10 years ago, 15 years ago, we not seem so divided. it has driven me to seek out different news sources. to get my news so i can compare. >> social media is a huge thing. they do not have a personal relationship with the people online. somebody would be completely different on what i might say on social media. >> it seems like you guys blame social media for the division. how do you feel about democrats in general. >> any time there is a fight between two people, there is not one side that is 100%. i will never feel like this site is completely right and decide is completely wrong. >> do you have friends and

family are democrats? >> yes. >> how do you deal with that? can you talk to each other? >> recently i spent some time with relatives who are democrat. you really cannot talk about tromp or republicans in that house. you have to tread lightly. >> my inner circle is like-minded. outside of that, i try to avoid conversations. they are never productive. >> i did hear them say that they blame the media. i also have them say they were reluctant to bring their views with people who disagree with them for fear that they would be criticized. >> i hear people feeling like they cannot talk about their support for president trump or

cannot say that they will do that without being shot down. i think members of both parties feel like it is really hot out there. when you wear your politics on your sleeve, it is inviting a kind of combative experience. i think they feel a real difference from how people were able to agree to disagree 10 or 15 years ago. >> another key division was over questions of faith and what it means for people's politics. >> do you believe it is possible to be very liberal and progressive and be of deep faith -- christian faith? >> no. >> tell me more. >> life is very important. if you are a liberal, you are pro-choice. you believe it is ok to kill a baby.

i don't believe you can believe that and be a real christian. >> what you think? >> technically i guess you could be. but that would not be allowing god's love to be in you as much. >> i don't think the democrats, and i hate to say it like that, i hate to segregate the party, they have too many what ifs. i don't feel like a girl. so whatever god made me a boy but i don't feel like a boy. so i am going to change that. it is messing with creation. it is messing with the absolute. >> joe biden is a catholic. do you think he is not catholic? >> god is a god of right and

wrong, truth, righteousness. you cannot be liberal and be far left on beliefs and then say i am a christian. you can say it, that is the worst thing. >> there were strong views expressed on whether it is also bold to be a democrat and liberal and have a strong christian faith. it is almost a barrier. >> people can be very paradoxical. they can express one thing and express the complete opposite. if they are thinking about something else in a different frame. you he -- your people saying we should really get along more and have shared values and conversations. but you also hear them say i don't think you can be a real russian nba progressive.

they did not think those things were compatible. >> when it came to their idea of their children marrying someone of the opposite party, feelings were made. >> would any or all of you be ok if your child married a democrat? >> my child did marry a democrat. a democratic lawyer. it did not go well. >> is it still not going with? >> no. they are estranged. >> i'm sorry to hear that. >> my daughters are both very liberal, which pains me that i work them in their beliefs. i try to have conversations with them about what i believe and why i believe that way. i do not try to change them. i let them know how i believe and why i believe that way. if they choose to marry a democrat, i will wear them. >> there was even some pushback to our framing of some of these

russians along artisan lines. >> we are all valued by the creator. why are we dividing democrat and republican? my mom is a liberal democrat. i believe something to be different. we have the most loving relationship. i don't identify our relationship based on democrat or republican. i think that is the problem of the country. >> one of the things about doing the focus groups across the political spectrum every week now four years is oftentimes americans are those are on a number of things then you might think. people tend to overestimate how different the other side is from them or how mad they would be. this comes down to the fact that we are now geographic very segregated as a country. we tend to have lures cities --bluer cities and redder rural

areas. oftentimes people are a little more tolerant. they want us to get along. they expressed the fact that they don't want to be this divided. they talk in terms of wanting america to be a race where you can talk about your disagreements and not feel like it is going to be so fraught. >> and so a mixed picture from these trump voters in iowa. some wish for less division and blame the news media, especially social media. and yet they have personally strong views about democrats. they are divided about having one in the family and question aggressive all of the -- progressive politics and christianity can coexist. ♪ >> the 2018 massacre at the tree

of life synagogue in pittsburgh that killed 11 people is considered to be the deadliest attack on jews in u.s. history. a federal jury convicted the gunman of 63 charges, 11 counts of hate crimes. the same jury is now deciding whether to recommend the death penalty. >> this phase of the trial is really with the case has been all about raid defense lawyers readily acknowledge that the gunmen planned and carried out the attack or the jury is now the third day of hearing from victim families and friends. later the defense make its case for life in prison. this is expected to take at least a week. our guest is an advisor to the healing partnership, helping the victims, survivors, and communities dealing with the shooting and its aftermath. to get to this phase, we had to

go through a phase where we determined that the shooter was eligible for the death penalty area now they are deciding whether or not to recommend the death penalty. does the law say anything about what factors they should be concerned with making this incision? -- decision? >> it does. it is clear that in the penalty days, the jury is to consider evidence of aggravating factors and mitigating factors. aggravating factors are things that would push the jury toward a sentence of death. they can be things like a killing that is equally heinous. victims who are particularly vulnerable to multiple victims. all of this felt out in the law. the statutes that covered the death penalty and also like org decision. there is also mitigating factors coming from the defense.

they could be things like brain trauma, mental illness, adverse childhood event. all of that would be balanced by the jury. that will make the determination of whether this defendant is sentenced to death or life without parole. >> what the prosecution is doing now with victim impact statements, we have heard widows talk about losing their husbands. grandchildren about losing their grandmother. even the girlfriend of one of the police officers who was wounded. talking about what that wound has done to his life. is this all trying to convince the jury that it is worth the death penalty? >> yes. this is the prosecution's aggravating evidence. nothing is more powerful than testimony from people who were victimized to or whose loved ones were murdered.

the supreme court allows this kind of victim impact evidence at this stage to show the jury a slice of life. why has it meant that this victim has been lost? what has admitted to families and workplace and community at large? the court says the jury can weigh this as part of the aggravating factors. it is typically very compelling. >>d in the guilt phase of this trial and a phase to determine whether he was eligible, what we expect the defense of a mitigating factors do we expect them to present? >> they have traded -- treated the case as a preview of its mitigating evidence area we never did much what they're going to bring a what we will hear about is the fact that they say the defendant has a series of mental illnesses area perhaps he has schizophrenia, epilepsy,

he had some terrible things happen during his childhood. they said do not add more death to this punishment. >> i know you live fairly close to the synagogue where the shooting took place. it is a very tight community. i know there is an array of opinions about whether this man should get life or the death penalty. what do you hear from your neighbors and your fellow congregants to illustrate this? >> is the most common question i get asked as a person who taught classes to help the community come to grips with the trial. there are a mixed group of opinions just like americans are

on the death of the area there are many people who say this is not a death penalty case. if anybody ever deserved the death penalty, this guy does. others are just as oppose to the definitely under any circumstances, even these. there is not a unanimous opinion on this. what we are is united in our determination to try to support the victims to see the process through directly. to see that justice is done. we don't always get what we want out of the legal obsessed. what we will get here is we will know that this case was carried out distantly with our values as a community. our values as a jewish community, american community, the community of its per -- pittsburgh. that is what we have here from a city and community coming to grips with the worst thing that

can happen in a solid way that seeks justice. >> thank you very much. >> my pleasure. ♪ >> the german economy has been the envy of your decades, but no longer are the country is officially in recession. it's people are losing confidence. much of the current troubles have been caused by the war in ukraine, with germany turning his back on russia, its former trading partner. our special correspondent reports from berlin. >> this is the face of the new four in germany. out of embarrassment, she does not give a surname. >> i never, ever thought it

would come to this. i worked in this country and raised three children. i bought my own house. i would've never seen myself in this situation. >> she is a hairdresser. from one of the provinces in eastern ukraine occupied by russian forces. over a million ukrainian refugees have taken shelter in germany since the war began. >> food is very expensive here. i can buy meat. >> in this country of 88 million , nearly 2 million germans are run -- depended on food banks. >> at the beginning of this year , we had up to a hundred 20 households. it can be one person or a family with two adults and four or five

children area the ukraine war has virtually doubled that. we are now at 200 households. >> i am ashamed to be here. this is the bottom layer of society. without -- but now there are some the middle-class people here including me. >> food banks like this one are real indication of poverty and one of the richest countries in the world. there are 14 million people considered to be in poverty area that is one in six of the population. >> german citizens are in a state of shock or the expectation was that after the endemic we would return to maximum employment and strong wages. high competitiveness with other economies worldwide. now people realize it will never be that way again. >> he is one of germany's most respected economists. he says the nations economy is

now at a tipping weight. >> people worried about jobs, what they achieved in the past. the first sign of that is high in ration. most people are increasing -- experiencing a massive cut in their purchasing power. >> i shop more consciously. i always make a plan at the beginning of the week about what i'm going to end and then i go shopping. otherwise there are impulse purposes in between. i avoid those now. >> this is a costly reminder that the source of their problems are the monuments commemorating the red army that help the nazis in world war ii. outside the russian embassy, ukrainian folk music plays as a protest against an invasion that has increased inflation and stripped germany of its

defensive capacity. politicians insist that germany is resolute in its support for ukraine. but some beg to differ. >> they are saying that things are getting more expensive. that is the main way. they would gladly give ukraine to the russians. they certainly do not want to give more money than they are already giving. >> he has lived in berlin for decades. he has written nearly a thousand books in german. >> they want a certain amount of prosperity. if you threaten to take it away, that is when you turn away the people. migrants came in and they were really afraid of losing prosperity. that is when all the morals went out the window. >> today the brandenburg gate is symbolic of the country's current divisions. >> germans are rather frayed

because remembering the second world war still very present in the collective memory. >> propaganda pictures with which determines hope to prove themselves unbeatable. >> everyone had a grandfather who was in the war. >> we have now stabbed into the territory of our ally. we are far from achieving the object, the destruction of the red army. >> this is something germans are aware of. they are really of way that this could happen again. >> of course the soviets of law -- lost tanks, hundreds of them. >> he is one of germany's leading defense analyst. he says the nation is alarmed at how support for ukraine has

eroded capabilities. >> officially and beneficially, the german forces are not in position to fight a real war at the moment. >> how long could germany defend itself if there was a hot or? >> -- war? >> germany would have a real problem with having that ammunition. certain types of ammunition. this would mean that germany would have to rely on allies. >> despite defense, germany's most pressing concern is energy. the nuclear power stations are being shut down. >> in the long-term, nuclear power is not the technology of which are. but it would've been good to rely on it now. >> germany is now importing higher-priced natural gas.

the green energy resources are not sufficient to fill the gap. >> what we need to do is be courageous and innovative. we need to save energy and we need to invest in renewables. >> companies might not survive the next five years. >> despite boosts in carbon footprint, the chemical giant will relocate part of its production to china. >> we are building offshore wind farm, the biggest in the world area >> german prosperity has rooted in the power of its manufacturing. but that is no longer the case. >> car companies and other companies are losing out in global competition.

the economic future of germany might look very difficult. but germany has a lot of strength. this is essential for germany to manage big transitions. ♪ >> while germany is not as badly off as other nations in the world, it has lost some economic power. ♪ >> delete athletes 10 to hold a special place in the american imagination. it is almost as if such sports stars are mythical figures who are great when the stakes are

high. but a new book debunks that. we recently spoke to an author about her new book. >> welcome back to the newshour. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> most of us it would be fair to say are nothing like elite athletes and coaches you feature in this book. you right there are lessons in their process for all of us. >> absolutely. i feel one of the things i have heard it all of these years is that they are just as rare as the rest of us are they just a better job of mitigating that and finding their weaknesses and facing them and hearing them. >> you identify seven key elements in the book or anybody who once to act well in the face of extraordinary pressure. they are conditioning, practice, discipline, candor or culture,

and intention. let's start with practice. that might seem obvious to many people. but you say there is a lot of bad practice out there. >> there is a lot of purposeless, meaningless activity area with no manageable in movement read all the people i spoke to, whether it was peyton manning or steve kerr, they work with a purpose. they diagnose weakness and then they attack. peyton manning early in his career had some unstable feet under pressure. one of the things his coaches did with him was throwing heavy ac to t eta aittle bit more stable under pressure. nozick has a regular things that athletes do to work on things that are marginable weaknesses. >> knowing and studying

weaknesses seems to be a big part of competing in an elite level. how does that apply to the rest of us? >> we also have unconscious incompetency's. peyton manning does not really know his feet are an issue until a coach gets a hold of him and says, you may have been a top draft pick at a future hall of famer but right now you are not a great quarterback. and you are leading the league in interceptions, despite all of your talent read let's go fix that. the rest of us do the same thing we have incompetency's we are not aware of. it takes and evaluate if i had a certain amount of courage to say, where am i not great? >> in the chapter on candor, you talk about language, the difference between lame and pretty. you say don't just tell someone what you did wrong. you tell them how to do it right area who is a good example of that? >> pat summit was the greatest

example i was ever around. that is why first got that insight. i worked with her on some books around her grandma at the university of tennessee observing. it was really striking. she was known as a very demanding coach. very disciplined coach and fierce. but i never heard her criticize a player without offering up six -- a fix. she could yell at players because a new choosing to offer the solution in your next breath. >> there is a powerful live from her that really resonated with me. she said no one cares how much you know until they know how much you care. how did that show up in her leadership? >> turns out that teams have a lot more power than the coaches to be leaders. this encounter seems take the coaches down. by rebelling quietly. quite mutiny in the locker room is something use the a lot for.

you know it when you see it. pat riley has a really good description for how this happened. they don't trust the intentions of their leaders. they start doing what he called gearing down their efforts and enrolling others in their own cycles of disappointment. >> you read a lot about organizational culture and success area thern be thrme pgloa tour partnering with a saudi funded tour. should that the have happened? >> it is an essay in some of the worst leadership i have ever seen. the hallmarks of really bad shape our secrecy, loss of transparency. all this think the pga tour was guilty of they did not consult anybody on the board of directors or any of their layers. their constituency has rebelled.

there is fallout after fallout after fallout. they violated seven feet a sick principles of good organization. >> i have to ask you about an credibly powerful piece you wrote recently, a joint profile of a couple of tennis great. not only the fiercest of rivals but the closest of friends for decades. both ended up battling cancer at the same time. >> we went through pretty much the same things in life. we are going through this together. we are in the trenches together. we have been in the trenches together our entire life. >> this was a sports story but it really was not a buddy think it resonated so much with so many people? >> the reconciliation between the two of them after this epic rivalry is very touching.

there's something moving about the fact that you can be the greatest opponents in the world but somehow emerge from that as friends. there is a craving for this kind of relationship in the world right now. cancer is such a common experience for americans. a lot of people grew up with these women. they were really revolutionaries. they established the right of women and the permission for women to compete all out. they resonate with people in different fascinating ways area and all of that came together in this story about their friendship. >> it strikes me that natalie could with that but you. you've covered them for so long you would all the greats in your book for so long. what is it like to look back at that on your seat in sports history. >> that is partly why i wrote the book.

it is a letter of appreciation to people like them who i started covering when i was a very young writer. they were just such great examples of how to go about your business, how to strive to be really great. i was lucky to be exposed to them early. i have been lucky to have a front row seat and have taken note. this is my offering for my notebook. >> greatest you. thank you. >> thank you so much. ♪ >> she is a los angeles-based artist, designer, and activist who grew up as a binational citizen of the u.s. and mexico. much of her work is centered on

her identity. she shares her brief but spectacular take as part of our arts and culture series. >> i would go with my dad early the morning. the border crossing was that long. i would take a trolley to a train. and then take a bus from there. and then take a bus to school. the majority of us who live in the borderlands on the mexican side know that crossing the border and getting a job on the u.s. side is very be able to survive. it is such a stigmatizing experience. most of us don't really talk about it.

most of us are paying taxes. we do not express our needs. i would like people to check in on me. i started this organization. the project came out of me wanting to check in on people. i wanted to come back to the border. one of the biggest projects is this project. i came up with using this as a way to record things. we gave people these postcards. with her thoughts were when they cross the border. we asked them to make an emotional not.

these would make us able to see ourselves. we would understand we are not alone in this. i hope and people see my work, they feel like there is space within the work to see themselves mirrored in it. have a fine some type of home in it. this is my brief but spectacular take on using raft to push back our injustice area >> you can watch more videos online at our website. that is the newshour for tonight. there's a lot more online including a story about the longtime financial and emotional to rest folks in missouri a year after catastrophic letting in st. louis.

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