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kamala harris are on opposite ends of the country today. geoff: harris is focusing on speaking to pennsylvania voters tonight while donald trump spoke to reporters at his golf club on the california coast where he attacked -- where he escalated has attacks on haitians in ohio. reporter: outside of los angeles today former president rob railed against california governor gavin newsom and claimed president biden hates kamala harris and attacked abc for fact checking him at the debate. >> the fbi did not report them. you will see the kind of numbers we are talking about. they went up at record levels. reporter: and he continued to target the haitian immigrant community in springfield, ohio. >> 20,000 illegal haitian migrants have dissented on a town of 58,000 people.

reporter: the republican nominee for president has repeatedly attacked haitians this week lying about them eating pets. >> the recording of 911 calls report residents -- they are taking the geese. the geese are in the park in the lake. and even walking off with their pets. my dog has been taken. this can only happen -- these people are the worst. i'm telling you. reporter: yesterday a bomb threat prompted the springfield city hall to evacuate and today two elementary schools and a middle school faced the same threats. city officials have denied any critical reports of pets being harmed by immigrants. most of the haitian migrants in springfield are there legally and many are there under temper a protected status.

but still donald trump doubled down with jd vance adjusting the haitian immigrants were bringing diseases to springfield. today president biden condemned the attacks on the haitians in springfield. >> there is no place in america -- this has to stop. reporter: though much of donald trump's speech last night repeated baseless claims about migrants he also made a new promise. >> i am announcing that as part of our tax cuts, we will end all taxes on overtime. you know what that means? think about it. reporter: at a campaign rally in michigan, governor tim walz dismissed donald trump's baseless claims on haitian immigrants. >> he said a lot of weird stuff. an telme you had this on your bingo card -- and they are eating cats. reporter: and in north carolina

last night the vice president took aim at donald trump's debate performance highlighting his promise to get rid of the affordable care act. >> and as he said in the debate, he made clear he has no plan to replace it. do you remember? [laughter] do you remember? he has "concepts" of a plan. reporter: harris made a stop at a small business in johnstown before heading to a rally tonight in books very. >> i have to earn every vote. that is why i am here. geoff: lara is here in studio alongside lisa desjardins. when the president -- when the vice president says they have to earn every vote, what does that look like? >> they are in a more aggressive phase of the campaign since the

debate launching three new ads since the debate highlighting exchanges in the debate including ones on abortion and harris saying she wants to represent all americans. and they are doing more targeted interviews. harris day one today in -- with a local pennsylvania anchor and she will join a livestream next week what oprah winfrey with a lot of grassroots groups including some targeting latino voters and others and her campaign is trying to make available in the battleground states. she is expected to potentially sit down with the national association of black journalists as early as next week. she is still trying to reach undecided voters, but she is trying to close the enthusiasm gap that president biden had with key elements of her base. geoff: i want to ask you about a far right activist that has been traveling with donald trump.

reporter: she is well known to us at the news hour as well as to politicians and reporters across the board. she is a far-right activist who ran unsuccessfully for congress. she is an online conspiracy theorist who describes herself as a proud his llama phone. she spread lies about haitian immigrants eating pets in ohio and she made racist comments about kamala harris on social media. she said if kamala harris wins, the white house will smell like curry and white house speeches will be facilitated with a call center and the american people can only convey their feedback through a customer satisfaction survey at the end of the call and no one will understand. that has received a lot of backlash from republicans and democrats. it matters because she traveled with the president to the debate as well as on september 11. and she is a known 9/11

truth-er. former president trump was asked about her today and he did not condemn her comments. saying she is a supporter of his. geoff: how are republicans responding to all of this? reporter: even donald trump republicans are responding quickly. they see the danger politically for this association including some that have themselves made extreme speech. i looked at a post from marjorie taylor greene -- this does not represent donald trump. this behavior should not be tolerated. it is not just that side of the trump spectrum, thom tillis, a more moderate supported her saying she is a crazy conspiracists. the fact remains that donald trump has not disassociated

himself from her. i want to talk about voters that support donald trump. most talk about his characteristics. a significant group at every rally i attend raise conspiracy theories with me. the woman that thought joe biden was dead. another woman in new hampshire told me she was sure that mother teresa was a man and father of anthony fauci. these are widespread. i talked to someone that studies conspiracy theory today about when the sun -- about when these kinds of things can take hold. >> they are more likely to form before threatening and dangerous events. if there is an event that is threatening, say you think the other political candidate is going to destroy your way of life, if they win you will believe conspiracy theorists about that. reporter: she raised the idea

that donald trump has said that if he is not elected u.s. democracy will end and he himself has put conspiracy theories out there. geoff: we also heard in the report donald trump rail against fbi crime statistics. what have you found? reporter: we will get into this more deeply but this is a chance to set the table. donald trump is pointing to fbi statistics saying they are not the best ones. the fbi uses uniform crime reports -- data from local law enforcement around the country. it comes 95% from crime statistics. he says we should pay attention to a survey of 170 thousand people getting their opinions sometimes reported or unreported crimes. when you talk to x-rays they see the decrease in crime upheld by

fbi stats is upheld by other stats. when trump shows the other survey data is showing more crime, he is not saying it is relative to 2020. the data he is talking about also shows a decrease in the last year. geoff: lisa desjardins, lara broner lopez, thank you both. ♪ amna: in the days other headlines, more than 30,000 factory workers at boeing went on strike today all but shutting down production of several of their top-selling planes including the 737 max. they hit the picket lines before sunrise in washington state, home to boeing's largest workforce. union members overwhelmingly rejected a contract that would have increased wages by putting

5%, short of the 40% they want to. >> this is about respect, about addressing the past and about fighting for our future. boeing has to stop breaking the law and bargain in good faith. we will be back to the table whenever we can get there. amna: it is unclear how long the stoppage will last adding to boeing's troubles this year. in january a door panel on a passenger jet blue out during a flight and two astor announce are still stuck at the international space station. in california firefighters say they have made progress battling three blazes in the los angeles area things to cooler temperatures. the largest is the bridge fire which has destroyed 33 homes. some residents have been able to return to their communities only

to see their homes and belongings reduced to ash. >> we lost a lot of our holiday stuff, christmas decorations. we lost kid stuff, tools. this one came so fast i don't think anyone was prepared to move as fast as it had come. amna: over 85 thousand people across louisiana remain without power after hurricane francine. remnants of the storm are forecast to bring more rain and flooding to the south this weekend. in rare remarks to reporters about the u.s. presidential election, pope francis was critical of vice president harris' abortion rights stands and donald trump's xenophobia towards migrants. he did not refer to harris or donald trump i name but referenced the difficult choice for u.s. voters. >> generally, it is said that

not voting is ugly and not good. you must vote and choose the lesser evil. who is the lesser evil? i don't know. everyone in conchas think about this. amna: it was not the first time that he weighed in on a u.s. election. in 2016 he said donald trump's plan to build a wall along the u.s.-mexican border was not christian. north korea david a rare glimpse into a secret facility. the undated photograph shows the countries leader touring rows of centrifuges at the undisclosed facility. state media reported that kim stressed the need to exponentially increase the country's nuclear supply. the white house says it continues to monitor north korea's nuclear ambition including its ballistic missile technology. the state department slapped new

sanctions against russia's state media accusing the outlet of working with the russian military and raising funds for weapons and equipment going beyond past sanctions for spreading propaganda. i debriefing in washington antony blinken warned of rt's influence around the world. >> rt once its new covert intelligence capabilities to remain hidden. our most powerful antidote to russia's lies is the truth. it is shining a bright light on what the kremlin is trying to do under the cover of darkness. amna: the sanctions include rt's parent company and other russian state run media. three u.s. citizens were sentenced to death by a military court in congo today. they are among 37 defendants convicted for their role in a failed coup in may. two leader's son was one of the

americans sentenced. he said it was his first time in congo and said his father threatened to kill him if he did not participate. his former high school football teammate was also sentenced along with benjamin who reportedly knew the elder man through a gold mining company. the defendants have five days to appeal. to the fallout from the war in gaza, another top israeli commander has resigned over the military's failure to stop or prevent hamas' october attack. he is the second top intelligence official to step down this year. but the prime minister says any hindsight into the failures of that day should wait until after the war. the world health organization has approved the use of a vaccine to combat mpox and adults paving the way for some of the most vulnerable people in the world's poorest countries to get protection from the virus

good supplies are limited. bavarian nordic is the only manufacturer of the vaccine so the w.h.o. said it will create a mechanism to fairly distribute those. it also said people under 18 may use the vaccine in an outbreak where the benefits outweigh the potential risks. wall street closed out it's best week of the year as investors look forward to the federal reserve's decision on rate cuts next week. the dow jones came close to its all-time high the nasdaq tacked on over 100 points. the s&p was up 30 points. and mail trucks in america are getting a much-needed makeover, sort of. the u.s. postal service has rolled out its nexgen delivery vehicles for now just in athens, georgia. they are taller and box your than ever before -- and boxier than ever before but despite

their distinct shape, drivers are happy to ditch them. >> at first glance, it is different, however it is designed in a way that somebody -- you could tell they did not have appearance in mind but safety and the way we maneuver. amna: most of the trucks are electric and finely equipped with air conditioning which is critical for hot summer roots. the fleet will expand to 60,000 vehicles. still to come on the news hour, the push to restore uk's military might. jonathan capehart weighs in on the week's political headlines. and a designer makes his mark on the art world one button that a time. ♪ announcer: this is the pbs news hour from wep a studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of

journalism at arizona state university. geoff: today the leaders of ukraine's two most important allies are meeting in washington. president biden and the prime minister, keira starmer are paying particular attention on coordinating support for ukraine and allowing kyiv to use american and british long-range missiles to hit targets deep in russia. nick schifrin is here following that story. how are they trying to coordinate their strategy? reporter: ukraine and his partners have a strategic goal -- to convince vladimir putin that ukraine and its soldiers can outlast russia and with the help of western weapons inflict massive casualties and today in the white house president biden said the u.s. and the u.k. were working together to ensure vladimir putin doesn't win. to do that officials tell me they are discussing a few topics

including guaranteeing ukraine's long-term funding including web russian sovereign assets. building ukraine's and europe's defense industrial base to complement the america's defense industrial base and international coordination including ukraine's entrance into the eu and of course, battlefield successes which ukraine hopes will be enabled with the ability to use long-range western weapons. geoff: what did they say about those long-range weapons? reporter: nothing publicly. senior u.s. officials incest that president biden has not made any decision on whether to restrict ukraine's ability to use these weapons. some senior u.s. officials continue to argue that the targets ukraine wants to head is beyond a range and the few weapons they have would be

better used in occupied crimea and an ongoing concern about what russia might do in response if the policy is changed. the british government does allow its british weapons to be fired anywhere that ukraine wants but it has not allowed its longest range weapon to be fired by ukraine deep into russia because the storm shadow has american parts and relies on american gps and american mapping. western official tells me that the british government wants the u.s. to be comfortable with the use of storm shadow to be fired deep into russia. that is what the prime minister and president are talking about. the logistics and the political understanding of whether britain can give ukraine that authorization. if there is an agreement, do not expected to be announced publicly. a western official says the first announcement of the policy will land when the first missile lands in russia. as for the u.s. concerned about

escalation, vladimir putin threatened that in comments yesterday. >> if this decision is made, it will meet -- mean nothing less than the direct participation of nato countries in the war in ukraine. this significantly changes the essence and nature of the conflict. we will make appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be created for us. reporter: one last u.s. and u.k. concern is both countries produce fewer long-range weapons -- far fewer than what ukraine wants and needs. ukraine argues, give us whatever you can. putin's threats are empty. the use of the weapons fits into the longer -- larger strategy. geoff: and on that point of shortages, the u.k. has problems of its own with its defense posture amidst written's budget

problems. it could lose its next conflict unless it increases its fighting power. but as our special correspondent reports, military leaders are steeling themselves for more cuts from keira starmer's government. reporter: when it comes to ceremonial duties, british forces are arguably the best in the world. ♪ but in these volatile times, britain is a shadow of its former glorious literary self. >> if we fight using the old ideas that charters us, we lose. reporter: the new head of britain's army which has not been this small for over two centuries. britain's top soldier says it is time to wake up and revolutionize. >> we have got to poll the

future of fighting power into the present. reporter: could we last for days or weeks? >> not very long is the honest answer. it is simply not long enough to fight any kind of protracted conflict. reporter: britain's youngest general -->> the british army equipment is in a poor state. it is getting better. i was using equipment that my father had used and some of that is still in service today. reporter: his father was killed leading a charge of the parachute regiment during the falklands war. he was posthumously awarded written's highest medal for valor. since then britain's fighting prowess has not diminished but

its ability to wage war has. >> our war fighting equipment is not fit for purpose. reporter: that is terrifying. >> it is. and this government is getting a pretty rude shock. >> many have argued now is the time to take a fresh look. reporter: britain's new defense secretary wants a comprehensive review of the nation's military. >> to reset our priorities and make sure that we assess the threats we face and the capabilities we need to better defend written and britain can become a better ally. -- we need to better defend britain and britain can become a better ally. reporter: he says if donald trump wins the election he will bomb britain to raise its military budget to 2.5% of gdp. >> as soon as we get to that

level in the u.k., the more secure their free world will be. reporter: but britain's labor market says it has inherited a black hole in the country's coffers. because the party has a tradition of prioritizing social issues over defense, military leaders are bracing themselves for more cuts. >> especially as the prime minister has avoided his predecessors commitment to hit the two point 5% target by 2030. >> there is a budget coming in october. it is going to be painful. we have no other choice given the situation we are in, things will get worse before they get better. reporter: defense experts morning the ax may fall on the stealth fighter that britain is developing with japan and italy. it is due to enter service in

2035. if it is grounded it will be in part because of the cost of tanks and other weaponry to ukraine. this is russian video of the challenger being attacked by a drone. >> a crash of high tech militaries has taught all of us a great deal about how to fight in the future. reporter: and perhaps how to save money. boosted by artificial intelligence, swarms of drones like these recently underwent what the british government trumpeted successful trials with american and australia partners striking multiple targets. while britain's normally secretive large red tory -- laboratory has posted this video. >> we are here to carry out trials with the system and its capabilities. we hav a radar surveillance system which provides soldiers with a feed of different targets

in different locations. drones are now becoming very popular. they are cheap and easy to deploy. you don't want to use an expensive weapon to take down a drone. reporter: earlier this year britain's dragon flyer system --. dragon fire is due to be deployed on british warships in three years. western scientists try to stay one step ahead of adversaries. defense spending accounts for 7% of russia's annual budget. britain's army is hamstrung by ammunition shortages and antiquated armor. it's top general says the army must double its fighting power within three years by which time the nation must be prepared for war. >> if we can double and then triple our fighting power, any british land force will be able to destroy an enemy force at

least three times its size and keep on doing that. and that way we will have every confidence in being ready and able to fight anyone and win. reporter: do you think people are sleepwalking into the next war? >> i am no believer in inevitability. i think it is right that experts keep us honest warming -- warning us of the threats we face. reporter: all the indications are that the government will override -- despite warnings that political short termism is a gamble. ♪ amna: as college students head

back to campus for the new academic year, universities are rolling out new rules as they prepare for more protests over the is euro-hamas war. jeffrey brown has our look at how college leaders and some students are navigating the moment. reporter: at columbia university in new york one flashpoint for last springs campus turmoil along lines formed outside the gates as classes began. students and staff had to provide an id before they enter and access was limited to a handful of entry points. isabella ramirez is editor-in-chief of the columbia spectator. >> it is an interesting atmosphere to enter campus with gates locked and screenings. reporter: at least 200 people

were arrested amid protests last spring and in august the president resigned following months of pressure and criticism from congress as well as jewish and pro-palestinian student groups and factory -- and faculty. dr. armstrong is seeking to quiet the waters and rebuild trust and husband visible on campus meeting with different constituent groups. >> she has the ability to do something very new depending on how she handles this and how she balances the many voices that are demanding different things from her. i'm curious how students well-received armstrong. reporter: it is a dynamic and play around the country. in the spring more than 3000 people were arrested on campuses. including students and protesters not affiliated with universities. many charges were never filed or have since been dropped though not all.

some students have brought lawsuits in response to punishments handed down. so far this semester, relative calm. at the university of michigan, four were arrested for trying to disrupt a student event. and as classes began at cornell, 150 pro-palestinian's protested. colleges have implemented a variety of policies including tighter security, limiting the area and duration of protests and banding encampments. >> encampments on campus are not allowed. erecting structures that have not been permitted is not allowed. reporter: rich lines implement the policy as the new head of uc berkeley. >> this is completely supported free speech. when you go into this category,

it is sometimes unlawful and sometimes against our rules. we need to manage that more effectively than we did last year. reporter: meaning a better understanding of the rules? more compliance with the roles? >> better understanding is part of it. do our students understand the difference between civil disobedience and free speech? have you crossed a line? historically people think of civil disobedience as -- i simply disobeyed and i'm facing the consequences. reporter: he and others stressed the need for better communication and more consistency while making room for free debate. in washington, d.c., the american university president is in the process of updating campus policies. no final decision has been made on encampments. >> we wanted to wait until our

students and faculty were back on campus so they could have the opportunity to share their thoughts and ideas. we have had a transparent process. we have shared our policies publicly to get feedback and insights from the university community. reporter: at harvard which saw the resignation of the president in january, new university rules include stricter limits on unapproved signs, writing on university property and noise levels. >> harvard has retaliated with draconian measures. reporter: an organizer with harvard's out of occupy palestine's coalition says protests will continue. >> you will see strategic measures for one to escalate to a measure that is appropriate and to a measure that has the most effectiveness on campus. but also to escalate to make

sure that our community is safe. reporter: jewish students are seeking new ways to organize. a software started a student supporting israel chapter and is heavily involved in jewish life on campus. >> we held a music festival on campus last week. after the event, a lot of the feedback we received was -- we knew what happened but we didn't realize the atrocities and the damage done in israel on october 7. i think this year our strategy is engage in those conversations. reporter: as students navigate how to use their voices, some institutions like washington university in st. louis which saw roughly 100 people arrested in april are sticking to rules already in place. the chancellor -- >> we were one of the few universities in the country that said early on in the spring that

there would be no encampments on our campus. and when folks started is when we chose to use our police force to make sure they were not set up on our campus. if someone were to try to do something today, we would respond in the singh fashion. we really haven't changed our policy approach. reporter: hoping to make this a teaching moment, one that goes to the heart of what colleges are for. >> our goal is not to make ideas safer for students but to make students safe for ideas. we are platforms for difficult ideas to match up with each other. we need to manage those things. i think universities across the country got better over the last year at that. >> we are obligated to protect students from discrimination and facing a hostile environment.

there are some limitations associated with that. having said that, free expression is a bedrock of american higher education and we know we have got to underscore the importance of that even when it is difficult. reporter: a goal and ideal will be further tested as specially as the anniversary of the october 7 attack our approaches in the war continues. for the pbs news hour, i'm jeffrey brown. ♪ amna: the presidential debate marks a major moment in the race for the white house and donald trump comes under scrutiny for conspiracy theories. on that and more of the week's news we turn to the analysis of capehart, jonathan capehart, associate editor of the washington post and the editor for national review. david brooks is away.

great to have you with us. three days after the debate between harris and trump, only one pole conducted in the days after that gives us a limited view of the impacts. we see the vice president with 47% to donald trump's 42% nationally. it is hard to say just yet what the impact of the debate will be. we hope there will be more poles but the harris campaign feels good about what happened. did she do enough in the debate to answer questions that voters have? >> if we are being honest, yes and no. the harris campaign should be excited about where things are. they went into the debate with momentum at their back. her performance arguably was superb. she answered questions that people had because donald trump and republicans spent a lot of

time degrading her and questioning her intelligence and abilities and her accomplishments. downplaying the fact that she has run for elected office citywide in san francisco, statewide in california, state wide for ag and senate and nationwide as vice president. and she showed up on that stage and she showed out. she showed she was able to more than handle the debate, the man across from her and to run the country. and this is the fault of debates these days, anyone expecting a deep dive into policy at the debate had their expectations -- they had the wrong expectations. in 2016 hillary clinton was criticized for having too many plans and policies. and now people are criticizing kamala harris for not having enough plans. if you watch her rallies, she

said in the debate but it is an opportunity economy but people say she did not say what that was but she has been talking about it on the campaign trail. amna: we knew she was going to try to goad donald trump into reacting and she did. that worried a lot of republicans. >> i think that it worried a lot of the people around donald trump. he was on notice that that was going to happen but he appears to be congenitally incapable of resisting taking the bait. i suspect one of the reason some of the people around him are all right with the idea he won't do another one is that he would follow the same pattern if he had the debate again. she had flaws as a debater but he had something more like a meltdown. it may not show up in the polls

because i think it will be a tight race all the way through but there is no question about who did better. amna: do you think the debate will have any impact on his support? >> i think anything that happens in this race is going to have a small effect on the overall numbers but that could still be a big affect entrance of the percentage of undecided voters because this is trench warfare. and i think it will stay that way. amna: do you agree? do you think they should debate again? >> yes, i want them to debate again. as an american i would like that and i would like the next bait to be focused on policy. but donald trump is incapable of not dealing in grievance. and one of the great things that harris did on the debate stage was she throughout the bait and he took it and he threw some stuff back.

she pivoted and talked about what she wanted to do. i would like another debate between them so we can talk about things like -- you both say you don't want to tax tips but how would that work. today he's talking about no more taxes on overtime. really? have her explain more about the opportunity economy and how you will pay for it but it ain't going to happen. amna: the other big story -- mr. trump and mr. variance's repeated remarks about the haitian immigration -- immigrant population in springfield, ohio. that has led to threats against the people in that community. and paired with his association with a woman who traffics in racism like this online recently tweeting that the white house will smell like curry if kamala harris is elected and echoing

messages of white supremacists talking about the replacement theory. this is not a secret meeting that mr. trump is having with someone, she is traveling with him. what is the message? >> it is an ugly message. i want to take folks back to 2008 when barack obama was going to announce his candidacy for the presidency. and tapes came out from sermons of his pastor. it pushed him to give one of the best political speeches in american history and the best speech on race in history to save his campaign. he was being roundly criticized. here we are in 2024 and a former president current presidential nominee is flying around with a conspiracy theorist. can you imagine if jeremiah wright had gotten off barack

obama's plane days after the sermons came out? who cannot imagine it because it would not have happened. it is shameful that republicans are not demanding of donald trump what quite frankly the nation demanded a barack obama in 2008. donald trump should be held accountable, he should be held to account for associating himself with this person. and if he doesn't want to come if he wants to rhetorically embrace her, do that. but republicans need to condemn him for what he is doing. it is harmful for his party but more damaging for the country. >> she has come under severe criticism from even marjorie taylor greene. and she said that she does not speak for donald trump or for

the republican party. if donald trump believes that, he can say that but he hasn't. he has said that he disagreed with her statement presumably the racist one about curry which smells great, by the way. and what he didn't say was -- this is disgusting. he doesn't care about that. as long as she supports him, that makes her a good person in his eyes. amna: we heard that marjorie taylor greene says this does not represent the party but he is their presidential nominee and we have not heard a lot of outcry from other republicans. >> if republicans did her, -- denounce her, she is obviously not the problem. the problem is that candidate. as long as she supports him, she

thinks -- he thinks it is fine. amna: 18 points between the candidates by one measure which is larger than it was in 2020 or 2016. we know women vote in larger numbers than men in presidential elections. on top of the taylor swift endorsement. is there anything you see that would close the gap? >> i wonder how much the fear mongering that donald trump is engaging in will poll some of these women back. i want to be clear -- there has always been a gender gap but a lot of it is driven by african-american women have been solidly in the camp of democrats. the fact of the gender gap widening says to me that white women are moving in the harris direction. whether they stay there is another thing. and a data point to remember, no

democrat running for president has won the majority of the white vote since 1964. >> young hispanic men and african-american men have shown some signs of being more open to donald trump which is also expanding the gender gap. and also watch married women and men versus single men and women. there is the marriage gap. with married women in 2020 they narrowly went for donald trump. will that happen again? amna: do you see anything coming from donald trump that speaks to the demographic? >> i think it is very hard to ascertain what donald trump's strategy is at the moment. the thing he needed to do at the debate was to define her but he was too busy talking about himself to do that. amna: great to have you both. thank you so much. and we will have much more

coverage of the presidential race online including a conversation with two linguists about what donald trump and harris' respective speaking styles say about the candidates. >> every speech in the cycle she seems to be a more traditional politician. she is very rehearsed and under control. she is moving her style towards something that is more legibly presidential. for donald trump, his speaking style was honed through his experience in reality television. he learned from working on the apprentice how to build a moment and he learned comedic timing through his rallies. he has learned how to interact with the crowd. he spends a lot of time cultivating his style. amna: you can find the full conversation on our youtube page. ♪ who geoff: artist and designer

bo maccoll has made his mark on the art world one but not a time. our special correspondent takes us through the first ever retrospective covering his near forty-year career. it is part of our arts and culture series, canvas. reporter: going back to his childhood, artist and designer bo maccoll has been both sodded with buttons. >> my mom had a maxwell house jar of buttons in the basement of the house. i tell people that it was like me and the jar had a dialogue. reporter h whatever the jar said resonated deeply. as we find at the fuller craft museum in brockton, massachusetts, he has crafted vests, dresses, shoes, jewelry and a bathtub. >> most of the things i learned

i learned at home in our apartment in public housing and the crafts i learned at day camp after school. and three sewing stitches from my mom that i learned. reporter: often assembled from thrift stores, rummage sales and even the trash. it was up cycling bo porter of cycling was a thing he says which was the impetus for him to see a creative bounty and buttons. >> a button to me is precious. i use the buttons as a language, i use them to help me tell stories within the work. reporter: the stories had a sharper focus after a pivotal trip to johannesburg, south africa where his artistic scope was expanded. >> i was inspired by the young

creative's that were there and i was blown away by the craftsmanship and the visions they had as far as fashion and art. when i got back i was inspired to do this piece that i titled "motherland one." reporter: and there is this -- a do rag fit for a red carpet. >> it glistens like a waterfall. i was attracted to the way it sparkled. and then i have buttons commissioned about haircare. afro comb, an afro silhouette. different variations on how black folks wear their hair. reporter: he often wears his creations but the headdress was designed for the curator of the show. >> it makes you want to stand upright and it gives you a sense of empowerment and beauty and

courage. reporter: those are descriptors that could be used to describe him who moved to new york in the 1980's. buttons helped him emerge as a designer and darling of the harlem institute of fashion all lead a time when he used his work to bolster and document a lgbtq community marginalized by the aids crisis. he designed disco wear and assembled collages of his friends frolicking. >> you see how his friends lived in those periods of their lives helping them get through social challenges. >> i see it does a love story between him and the button and material. reporter: beth mcglocklin is the artistic director of the fuller art museum. she is drawn to his skill in elevating the otherwise humble button. >> contemporary craft -- our

whole field is about making these materials that we touch every day and transforming them into works of art. reporter: a significant percentage of the buttons have been entrusted to him over the years. some are specially sorest, the best ones he says have a telltale sign of their rich history. they smell like mildew. >> most of the time they have sat in somebody's basement or in a jar somewhere or in a blue cookie tin or the old cigar box. and they have probably been around for years. those were buttons when people focused on the creativity of the button itself. that gets me excited. reporter: for the pbs news hour, i'm jerry bowen in brockton, massachusetts. ♪ amna: be sure to tune into

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