♪ >> good evening. tonight, the economic warning signs. rising unemployment of more and pressure on the federal reserve to cut interest rates.

americans who were detained in russia arrive home. we speak with the family of one of those released. >> my sister and i are so happy. jeff: the harris campaign pivots from labeling donald trump a threat to democracy and leans into calling him weird. >> what we are seeing here is a way to talk about things that is on message and on theme. but there is some joy and. ♪ >> the ongoing support of these individuals in institution and friends. the kovlar foundation, upholding

freedom by strengthening democracies at home and abroad. >> the knight foundation, fostering engaged communities. >> and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. and friends. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions from viewers like you. thank you. jeff: the u.s. labor market slow down notably last month and

looked weaker than expected, creating just over 100,000 jobs. that is down significantly. the unemployment rate ticked up again to 4.3%. that is the highest since late 2021. the reaction to today's report is raising questions about whether the federal reserve has waited too long to cut interest rates. an economist is among those who have been very vocal about this. he is the chief economic advisor at allianz. thank you for joining us. first a question about this jobs report. what does this tell us about where the economy is right now? >> the economy is weakening. at a faster rate than most people expected. including the federal reserve. jeff: is this the direct result

of the fed strategy of keeping interest rates high to fight in laois and? >> it is. it was meant to slow the economy. the question is do you get a normalization where you get something worse? to use economic language, do you get a soft landing where you sacrifice some growth but it is worth it? or do you get a recession where you damage american well-being even more after having hits them with high price increases. the set of data we have had recently suggests that this is beyond normalization. you have a couple of concerns right now. you see this in the marketplace. one is about a growth scare. and the other is about another policy mistake by the fed. jeff: does this raise the rate of a -- specter of a recession? >> my probability is about 35%.

this would be particularly problematic for low income households. they are already suffering. they have run down all of their savings. hiring is slowing down. their credit is maxed out. the one thing you want to do is unduly damage some eight -- labor market. that is the only source of hope. jeff: was the fed late in recognizing the slowdown? >> yes, and it is the second big policy mistake since the pandemic. they called inflation transitory when it was something much worse than that. now i fear that they are slowly

moving against economic interest. if they are not careful, they will end up making both mistakes. they only have some time. now suddenly the market has priced in a 70% probability of a cut by half a percentage point. normally the fed cuts by a quarter of a percentage point. it starts with half a percentage point, that is quite a signal. my gut feeling is they will not do that. they will cut by a quarter of a percentage point. 70% of the marketplace believes it will be more than that. jeff: something in particular in this jobs report struck us. those unemployed for 27 weeks or

more are now over one million people. this is the most since february of 2022. 10 people hope for a uptick in hiring if the fed starts making this interest rate cuts? are they connected? >> it will take time. one of the excepted elements of monetary policy is whether you raise or cut interest rates, this asks with -- acts with long and variable lags. we're still feeling the consequences of what was in a norma's increase in interest rates. those had to be done very quickly. it was time to feel the impact of the cut. i'm glad you focus on this. the longer you are unemployed, the less employable you become. that is a real social, economic,

and political issue. it is important that we avoid long-term unemployment. jeff: always a pleasure to speak with you. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. ♪ jeff: rarely has an airport seen such joy after very long delays. but last night was no ordinary night at joint base andrews. three americans returned by russia were returned to a presidential welcome. reporter: perhaps even more important to the hugs and handshakes from the president and vice president was the joy and relief of the families. as they greeted their loved ones after months and even years apart. first she had to shake the commander-in-chief sand.

but then evan gershkovich got to hug his mother. she wrote him every week and worked tirelessly to secure his safety. >> what about that show of support? >> it is amazing. it is overwhelming. reporter: his reunion with his sister took over five years. he previously criticized president biden. she held her daughters and husband tight. they had been separated for nearly a year. three american families are whole again. just hours earlier, her daughter said all of her family members.

on the phone. >> she is back. she knows this office better than i do. >> it is incredible. reporter: there was one more call to make. he was sent to five -- sentenced for treason. his work was continued by his wife, who he thought he would never see again. >> i don't believe what is happening. reporter: he has a green card but traveled to germany with the other dissidents and valves to continue their work. >> i know for sure that i will deftly return to russia. the day will come when russia will become a free, normal, civilized european country.

>> he was convicted for spreading false information. he demanded not to be freed because it would only empower putin. >> 16 innocent people were released. this is a difficult dilemma. reporter: as for the americans, they said they felt relief. >> there was a kid homecoming. i'm looking forward to seeing my family. after days of absolute nonsense by the russian government. jeff: to talk about this, i am

joined by her husband and older daughter. thank you so much. welcome back. we had yuan in the studio just about 10 days ago. you told us this. >> no matter what we say, it does not describe the pain that we go through every day. we wake up thinking about her. what other humiliation she has been subjected to by the russian government. we see the empty chair. we go to bed thinking of her. we dream of our reunion. reporter: 10 days later, how does it feel to have that dream fulfilled? >> this is clearly a more happier occasion for us. it was an unbelievable day. we are so happy to embrace her again. to welcome her back, >> my

sister and i are so over the moon to have her back. it is unbelievable how much we missed her. reporter:? ? how is she doing >> this unjust imprisonment has taken an emotional toll on her. she is now receiving medical treatment that she was not receiving for more than nine months. i think she is doing ok, at least emotionally. she was excited to see us. she is in good spirits. now this new chapter begins of reintegrating into the free world after more than nine months of wrongful detainment. reporter: how are you doing? >> i am still processing what happened yesterday. it was unreal being in the oval office. we were not quite prepared for that phone call. it was a surprise. mr. biden took us to his desk

and we were able to hear her voice. i was overcome with emotion. i did not believe it until i actually saw it. the situation is so fragile. so many unconfirmed single source reports. when we were on the tarmac, i think i finally realized that we will be able to see her once again. reporter: how are you feeling? >> i'm so overwhelmed. it is so amazing hearing from everyone congratulating us on her return. we are just so very happy and we did not expect this day to come so soon. it has been the craziest 48 hours of my life. reporter: you described how surprised you were by the phone call in the overall this -- oval.

how surprise have you been in the last week or so? we were tracking it from here but how much did you know about what was going on? >> over the past several months we have learned to keep our expectations and our emotions in check. we had some knowledge. it was not something we could discuss. i was disheartened by various leaks and unconfirmed reports. there was so much uncertainty about the situation. we received a phone call inviting us to the white house. we had to keep it under wraps. it was interesting to be on the

other side of the story. not being able to share some information with journalists. but it all worked out. it just so happened that the visit almost coincided with our tickets to a taylor swift show. we were a little bit conflicted. not quite sure what we were going to do. hopefully we will make it one day. reporter: i have a feeling that if we publicize this interview and you said you missed that show, someone might reach out to you with a little help. >> we hope so. i think we have a new campaign underway right now. reporter: one other question, you know how important your wife's work was in russia. do you think she would ever be willing to go back? >> we will have to wait and see.

she is in a fragile state right now. she needs some recuperation and adjustment. we are assisting in that process. reporter: what kind of state do you get the sense she was in? >> is apparent that she has lost some weight. she needs to get some nutrition advice. get back into her exercise routine. we are a family of runners. we are there to support her. she knows that. her friends and her family are here to support her every step of the way. reporter: she definitely feels that support and hopefully she feels the world support as we all cover her homecoming and your reunion. thank you so much. we really appreciate it. >> thank you for having us.

♪ jeff: new information about the assassination attempt on donald trump starts the days other headlines. the acting secret service director said today that his agents were not on the same radio system as local law enforcement on the day of the shooting. that cost valuable time when local police warned that there was an armed assailant on the roof of a building. this afternoon, he told reporters that his agency takes full responsibility. this is after he partially blamed law enforcement during congressional testimony earlier this week. >> this was a secret service failure. there should not be blamed. there was someone who radio doubts that they saw the individual with a weapon. what i can tell you is that he said information, by no fault of

anyone, it did not make it over. jeff: he said he will consider having secret service inside what is called the unified command post, which is operated by local authorities at all times going forward to ensure better communication. turning to the venezuelan disputed election. the biden administration has recognized the challenger to maduro as the winner. other countries including argentina, ecuador, and costa rica, have done the same. this comes as another opposition leader she was rated. maduro said he would arrest his political rivals. he is yet to produce evidence of his claim to victory. mourners held a funeral for a slain hamas leader today days

after he was assassinated. attendees prayed over his coffin at the national mosque in qatar. palestinians in jerusalem also mourned his death. he was a main negotiator. last night, the president said the assassination was not helpful in negotiations. he urged benjamin netanyahu to act quickly. >> i am very concerned about this. i want to have a direct meeting with the prime minister. we have the basis for a cease-fire. we should move on that now. jeff: hezbollah resumed rocket and artillery fire against israel today. it ended a pause in these cross-border strikes following israel's killing of a top hezbollah commander in beirut this week.

the leading global authority on food security has declared a famine in darfur. more than half a million people have fled from the spiraling violence of that war. we have this report from inside sudan. reporter: i am in the government wartime capital. after khartoum was seized last year by a militia. after weeks of dire warning, the world food program says it has found evidence of famine in north darfur. an immediate risk of famine and 15 other areas of sudan. if nothing is done by september, millions of people in sudan could be facing famine. this would be the greatest famine of recent decades. the sudanese armed forces and the government say there is no famine anywhere in sudan and they deny claims that they have

been stopping aid crossing into the territory. jeff: today, but the u.n. and usaid led renewed calls for a cease-fire so that humanitarian assistance to get through. aid workers have not been able to get supplies to the destitute camps in darfur since april. in the u.s., the justice department and federal trade commission have sued tiktok and its parent company bytedance. they say the social media violates online privacy by failing to seek parental consent before collecting data on children. tiktok says it offers age-appropriate experiences with stringent safeguards. on wall street, the poor jobs number sent stocks into a freefall. the dow jones plummeted over 600 points. the nasdaq dropped by over 2% and the s&p 500 lost 100 points.

a spoiler alert, we have the latest from today's action in the paris olympics. one of the star sprinters for team usa made her first olympic strides today, breezing through her opening heat of the 100 meters. americans also secured a spot in the final for the four by 400 mixed relay, breaking the world record along the way. in the pool, a french swimmer extended his dominant streak with a fourth gold in front of a home crowd. but it is team usa that leads the medal count at the end of the first week with 43 metals overall. still our guests analyze the busy week of news at home and abroad. a new book looks at the fascinating true story of a formerly enslaved man who was crucial in creating jack daniels whiskey. and poetry comes to national parks. ♪ >> this is the news hour from

our studios in washington and from the west the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. jeff: the democratic national committee announced today that vice president harris has secured the number of delegates in a virtual rollcall to win the party's nomination, which will be made official after voting ends on monday. while on the campaign trail, the vice president is trying some new language on for size, like calling her opponent weird. our white house correspondent has more. reporter: on a fast-track campaign for the white house, vice president harris is trying something new. to call it as she sees it. >> they seem to have a lot to say about me. don't you find some of their stuff to just be plain weird? reporter: it is a notable change from when president biden was in the race. >> do we really want to go back

to the chaos of donald trump as president? reporter: much of his language focused on donald trump is an existential threat to the country. >> it is about freedom and democracy. reporter: now, campaign press releases call him old and quite weird. democrats across the board are leading into this blunt approach. from possible vice presidential picks commenting on his behavior. >> have you ever seen the guy laugh? it is at someone, not with someone. reporter: and more clips of j.d. vance. >> every day it comes out that he has done something more extreme and weird and radical. reporter: branding the republicans as creepy has caught on fast. in an ad released by a pac featured on young voters, project 2025 is personified as people desperate to control your personal life.

>> if you freeze 12 eggs, you should be required to have 12 babies. reporter: this shift in language is a strategy that could prove to be effective. >> the serious messaging around donald trump that this is a threat to democracy if we take him seriously and literally, that is important but is also a bomber. -- bummer. this is a way to talk about this that is still on message. but there is some joy to it. reporter: republicans are trying to find a response. vivek ramaswamy said that democrats are being dumb and juvenile. donald trump try to use her words against her. >> she is weird. she is a weird person.

look at her past. reporter: but for a republican strategist in pennsylvania, donald trump should stay focused on attacking her record. >> stay off of the personal stuff and talk about how she mismanaged the border crisis. i don't think anyone is sitting there saying we enjoy paying twice as much for our groceries. those of the real issues here. i would ignore the weird comments and all of that. i think that will backfire on democrats as being too childish. reporter: donald trump is no stranger to name-calling. he said harris is dumb as a rock in demonized her on the campaign trail. >> she has no clue. she is evil. reporter: and even mocking her biracial heritage. >> all of a sudden she made a turn and became a black person. reporter: his reactions are another sign that the weird attack is landing. >> part of the reason we know

this is working well is not just that it is on our minds, but it has opponents stuttering in response. saying it is not fair. when you have your opponent reacting in the ways like that, you keep on doing that. >> when we fight, we went! reporter: that may no longer be the democratic northstar. but it is a choice that could use her underdog campaign. jeff: on the major political stories shaking the week, we turn to the analysis of our guest. the associate editor for the washington post and the editor-in-chief of the washington free beacon. david brooks is away this evening. harris has passed that threshold to clinch the nomination in this virtual boat.

this is the same day that the campaign says it read --aised over $300 billion in july. more than double what the trump campaign raised in the same month. but it was far from a guarantee that democrats would remain as united and energized as they have an since harris emerged atop the ticket. what do you make of this launch of hers and this historic fundraising call? >> the launch is pretty spectacular. our members sitting here and saying, if joe biden is not on top of the ticket and it is not harris, democrats are going to lose. i said that because there were people talking to leapfrog over the sitting vice president for someone else. that did not happen. the way the vice president comported herself the role of this spoke well of her and the team around her and her commitment to the president.

once the president endorsed her, which is very important, the level of enthusiasm went from zero to 1000 in a nanosecond. millions of dollars raised in the month of july. the bulk of it in the last 10 days. that says something. the democratic party is energized and thrilled and her campaign speeches and events show that it is not just that we have a new candidate. there is some passion behind her. jeff: donald trump is now facing criticism for faulting -- falsely claiming that she led -- misled voters about her race. j.d. vance is being scrutinized for past comments he made about childless women.

donald trump keeps reverting to these race and gender based attacks. why are he and his campaign struggling to find a line of attack that sticks? >> in terms of uniting the party and getting people excited, it helps to have a primary. trump is veering off into bizarre spaces. what the campaign needs to do is be more disciplined. he is not disciplined. i don't think anyone is surprised to see this. they need to settle on one message in one line of attack against terrorists. whether if it is she a san francisco liberal whose views are out of touch and to the left of those of the average american or that she has flip-flopped and changed every position that she ran on in 2019. if they do that, they can say

she does not believe in anything. she is willing to say anything to be elected. pick one and hammer it home every day. i'm sure that is what his campaign managers are telling him to do. but he is the same candidate he has always been. jeff: democrats say they learned their lesson from 2016. they try to respond aggressively to his attacks to reemphasize their own message. are we seeing more of that? >> we are. here's the thing about the vice president and her campaign responses to the racism and misogyny coming from donald trump. she gives it maybe one line in any of her campaign speeches and she moves on to talking about the biden-harris record and what a harris administration would do if she is entrusted with the presidency. they are not getting it undo

oxygen to keep it going. they are doing what they need to do. on the social media side, they are all over it. so many memes and little videos that the young people can share. where the campaign is responding to the ridiculousness. especially with donald trump saying she turned black. that can set off a whole meme on its own. jeff: we suspect she will name her running mate by tuesday. i'm told that she is narrowing down her list of finalists to andy beshear, pete buttigieg, mark kelly, mark ■pritzker and pennsylvania governor josh shapiro.

the conventional wisdom has always been that a vice president that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. is that different in this election cycle? >> i think it could be. harris has a more difficult road to go in the electoral college. if i were her, i would pick someone who can help me win. some of these can help her in competitive states. mark kelly had a very testy divorce. i think those are the front runners. my money woulde on schapiro. >> i have no special insight. we always say the vice presidential picked does not matter. but tell that to john mccain. sarah palin looked great. i was in the hall when she gave

the hockey mom speech and i thought obama will have some issues here. within a couple of weeks, it completely imploded. the vice presidential picked does have an impact. >> i don't agree with that. i think sarah palin actually helped the ticket. in retrospect people think she was bad. but i think he got more votes with her on the ticket. she excited women at the time. >> initially, but, on a couple of interviews, she did not know anything. jeff: as we end our conversation i want to talk about the fact that the wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich and a former u.s. marine were among the two dozen detainees released as part of the biggest prisoner exchange since the cold war. one of the lasting takeaways? president biden said it was a feat of diplomacy. >> not bad for an 82-year-old

man who everybody said had cognitive decline and they were questioning his mental acuity. when you read about what happened, that man was all over it. this was a huge diplomatic feet and also a huge victory for the u.s. and the american people to bring those americans home. that is something that should be universally celebrated. jeff: the detail that he was on the phone with his slovenian counterpart negotiating the deal, how does that strike you? >> that example is something that, i have interviewed the president twice. in both interviews i came away with a distinct impression that he loves that job. the fact that he has all of this stuff going on but he is on the phone trying to make a deal, that is why he loves the job. it is about getting something done.

>> it is wonderful they are home. however we need to stop doing deals where we trade terrorists and assassins for reporters and dissidents. what dictator would not take more hostages to make that deal? in order to do that, we have to impose serious consequences on the hostagetaking nations. i've not seen that from the biden administration. we will find more americans behind bars. ♪ jeff: jack daniels is a famous american whiskey brand recognized all over the world. but he did not create a

particular method for distilling tennessee whiskey. he learned it from a formerly enslaved man. the first known african-american master distiller. she was traveling abroad with her husband when she read a new york times article about him. that article set her on a mission to learn more about him. she would go on to create a premium whiskey to honor and preserve his legacy. seven years after launching, she now owns the most successful black-owned liquor empire. worth more than $1 billion. led by an all-female executive team. she shares this story and her own journey in her new book. i recently sat down with her. welcome. >> thank you for having me. jeff: the story of this man is

one of the most remarkable and until recently little known american stories. when did you first encounter it and why did it resonate with you so greatly? >> you have this photo on the cover of the new york times. i knew would check daniel look like. i think we all knew what he looked like. there was a black man seated to his right. the headline was that jack daniels embraces a hidden ingredient. i think every back person in this country was fascinated by that because we have known we have been at the beginning of so many brands and trademarks we could not trademark and patents we could not patent. as a group of people we are still very curious about, what were the things that we were involved with in the beginning that we had at least one type of assist with. or what did we invent and we did not know?

i think that is important that we are all learning that. jeff: that picture which is on the cover of the book, this is his son. this picture became the basis of a false narrative. that jack daniel owned slaves and stole the recipe. and claimed all of the credit. it became part of your mission ultimately and correcting the story. >> cleaning it up. the amount of time we spent calling newscasters and saying, you got the story wrong. can you take that down. we will give you the true story. the reason i thought that was important is you have this white man who by all accounts may have been our first ally. he was absolutely being torn apart in the press. and he was one of the people who actually stood up for us. i said we cannot let this happen. finally we have a story that comes forward and is a good american story and both people

involved, black and white, were incredible people. i cannot allow one of them to be torn down. jeff: uncle nearest was actually a mentor to him. >> absolutely. jeff: one thing that resonated with me deeply was you and your husband were living in los angeles at the time and you strip -- this trip to lynchburg, tennessee. you found a farm and you decided to bite it. and you move from los angeles. that is what all the doors started opening. >> absolutely. we did not find the farm. it was one of his descendants, is now eldest living descendant, who said to me, you know the farm you read about in the book, most of it takes place on that farm. that is where we know the original distillery was birthed.

that is where it was. that is where he grew up. he said you realize it is for sale. this is all happening in a matter of hours of us showing up in lynchburg. that is where it all began. when we decided we would buy this farm and now we have this task of restoring the home where jack grew up and where the original stream was that led to the distillery and excavating the grounds to find all the historical elements and then putting it on the historical registry. that four days turned into a lifetime. jeff: fast forward with the support of his descendants you launch this company less than 10 years later it now has a billion-dollar valuation. the best-selling black-owned spirits brand in the world. led by an all-female executive team.

a huge success. in the beginning, how did the parent company of jack daniels respond to the research you were doing and it planned to launch a company around uncle nearest? >> it was very interesting. you had people who saw immediately, we have a problem. everybody now thinks that our namesake was a slaveowner who stole the recipe. we cannot clean this up. this woman has done all of this research. gathered thousands of documents and done over 100 interviews and she can actually clean this up. on the one side you had half of the company that said, let her do what she is doing because it benefits us. then you have the other half of the company that could not get out of their way. they could not wrap their heads around that they were allowing who they considered to be a competitor to emerge. that was tied so closely to their brand.

this went on for years. jeff: i know you get asked all the time how you as a black woman confront the challenges you face in a spirits industry dominated by white men. i want to flip that question on its head. how do you being the exception use that different perspective and different entry point and point of view and approach to benefit your business? >> i love that you switched it because that would've have been my answer. i have been in this industry for seven years. i have seen more white males failed in any other race or gender. coming in as a person of color, a black woman, i looked at that as an advantage. it is the same advantage of being an american. when i walked through a room full of billionaires, it is majority white male.

who do you think they remember at the end of the time in that room? i have always seen being a black woman in america as being an advantage. it is all a matter of mindset. how do you positi it. are you uncomfortable to be in that room because nobody looks like you. if i walk into a room and nobody looks like me that means everybody is looking at me. that means i have the greatest advantage. jeff: there is this ubiquitous american brand down all around the world and yet there was a black man at the very beginning of the. and you are the steward of his namesake. what does that feel like? >> i want it to feel like a burden. it is such a blessing. such an honor. but it comes with enormous responsibility. every place we have gone on this bookstore, sold-out events, the lines are superlong, i cannot even count the number of people who come up to me with tears in

their eyes because of what i represent to them. if i can do this in this industry where before me there was no one who was not a white male, if i can do that in that industry they can do it intact, investment, banking. they can see themselves doing it. that is a huge responsibility because my success gives me believe and hope that they can do it as well. jeff: thank you so much for speaking with us. i appreciated. >> thank you so much for having me. ♪ jeff: there is a new year-long project by the nations poet laureate bringing poetry and the national world into focus.

and what is at stake because of climate change. we explore the intersection of art and democracy. reporter: it was a walk in the park with poetry. a ranger leading the way and then reading the poetry of mary oliver. >> the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars. reporter: she was known for her love of nature. this was one of her favorite walks around the black water pond on the cape cod national seashore in massachusetts. taking the walk today was the poet laureate. launching a project that she calls, you are here. >> poetry and nature works so beautifully together to bring us a sense of all and wonder. i feel that poetry opens that up

to a deeper experience with nature. >> please 20 and welcoming our 24th united states poet laureate. [applause] reporter: one part of this is poetry the parks. bringing poetry into the natural world itself. [applause] she chose to kickoff this campaign here in cape cod. a place for all who come here to read and contemplated perhaps to write something of their own. >> i'm in to offer a moment of reflection and deeper in tension in the parks. poetry ignites a place in you that is receptive to a deeper kind of attention. a poem, sitting and reading a poem, even a very short one, can

allow you to receive the world in a different way. reporter: that was certainly the impact of mary oliver, one of the countries best-loved poets. she was eager to honor her here. >> she famously used to hide pencils in the forest so that if she had a good idea and was without a pin, she could find one and make sure she could write it down. reporter: that is interesting. poetic littering. >> to live in this world, you must be able to do three things. reporter: poetry and the parks, a collaboration with the poetry society of america and the national park service, is also about our impact on the world around us. the destructive forces of climate change. >> when we think about our

national parks, we see those impacts of climate change. we see that directly within our parks. a project like this is another way to approach communication about what is happening to the natural world. connecting that through another means. that allows visitors to immerse themselves in find themselves in these landscapes and think about how they have a connection to the natural world. >> this is another deer poet and poem. reporter: she read them at a fine arts work center. >> the valley, and fight. reporter: and a poem by lucille clifton. >> the earth is a living thing.

a black, shambling bear. they emerge in colors of blue. reporter: the other piece of the project requires no visits to the great outdoors. she commissioned new work for an anthology from contemporary poets addressing our lives as part of nature. her goal is a new kind of nature poetry. >> when we write about nature, there is something connected to it. there is sadness and worry and anxiety. reporter: what is that? >> is being nostalgic for a place you are in the moment. it is shifting and changing.

i am not quite sure how clear i'd our poetry can be if we are not making room for our whole selves. those parts of us that are grieving and furious. those parts of us that are trying to figure out how to make impactful change. reporter: this project includes a call to action. sharing their poetic responses to the prompts. and building a community of concerned citizens. this refers to the idea of democracy for all. and the role of storytelling in the parks. >> our programming is audience first. we are providing those stories to make them think. reporter: in an unusual partnership, she collaborated with government climate

scientists. there is the ultimate believed in the power of her artform to impact lives, even at a time like this. >> it feels to me like we can get very myopic. and feel like we are the only person going through whatever we are going through. in reality, all of us need to recognize that what happens in this world happens to all of us. reporter: after our time together, she took a project to mount rainier national park. her park visits continue through the fall. jeff: she will send some of her

poetry into outer space. it will go to jupiter's smallest moon. the so-called message in a bottle ■project signed people on ♪ as always, there is a lot more online. including a story about a backlog in missouri holding up state subsidies for childcare providers.

be sure to join us later for a look at the historic prisoner exchange. and donald trump's comments on vice president harris's race. and look at the history of identity and its role in american politics. that is it for tonight. for all of us here, thank you for joining us and have a great weekend. >> major funding has been provided by -- ♪ and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. and friends including these people -- the walton family foundation, working for solutions to protect water during climate change so people and nature can thrive together. the hewlett foundation,

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