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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> welcome to the news hour. tonight, florida is bracing for a direct hit from hurricane helene, a powerful storm that strengthened to a category 3 with winds up to 120 miles an hour. >> helene is expected to make landfall tonight and a matter of hours. but many across florida had been feeling its effects all day and preparing for the worst. as early as this morning the outer bands of helene were already lashing tampa to the

keys, with high winds and swamping streets with heavy rain. governor ron desantis today stress the effects of the massive 400 miles storm will be felt far and wide. >> just because you are outside the cone and i think a lot of on the west coast of florida probably outside the cone, that does not mean you will not see significant impacts. >> strengthening today to a category 3 major hurricane with 120 mile an hour winds, helene can even reach category 4 by the time it makes landfall on florida's northern gulf coast in hours. the director of fema speaking at the white house today with this plea for people. >> take the storm seriously. people in hurricane helene's path, you need to listen to your local officials. if they tell you to evacuate, please do so. >> more than 40 million people in florida, georgia, and south carolina are under hurricane and tropical storm warnings.

mandatory evacuations have been ordered for at least 20 florida counties. an army of thousands of utility workers have been staged across the state ready to restore power. tallahassee mayor john daly whose city is in the projected path gave a dire warning. >> our community remains central in helene's path, we will see him present, damage like nothing we have ever experienced before as a community. >> fluid in's moved quickly across the state, filling sandbags and shattering up their homes and businesses. >> i got a bad feeling about this one. we have never taken a direct hit. >> other families are not hunkering down. they are getting out, pets and a ll. some of them and florida's big bend are still reeling from hurricane idalia that struck last year. >> they are saying this one will be worse than that one. we are looking at there's probably not going to be muc har

mark on the yucatan peninsula, bringing more than a half foot over rain flooding much of cancún. and the storm forced hundreds to evacuate in western cuba and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of people. signs of what could be coming for so many across florida. >> and for the latest on the hurricane, we are joined by michael brendan, the director of the national hurricane center in miami. thank you for being with us. the fema administrator said that the storm is set to hit tallahassee dead on. what is the expectation for when the storm makes landfall? >> we are looking at the center of helene crossing the coast somewhere in the big bend area this evening. it is moving very quickly now to the north northeast at 23 miles an hour. it will be moving even faster. right now it is just about 130 west of tampa. and that fast motion will bring those hazardous conditions to much of the north central florida including tallahassee and then in land up into georgia and the carolinas overnight tonight and into friday. >> looking at the storm's center

of circulation, how far out will the impact be felt? >> helene is a huge storm. winds extend 300 miles, to the east side of the center you can see the cloud shield, the showers and thunderstorms, extending well north and northeast over portions of the carolinas. there has been heavy flooding in georgia and western north carolina and south carolina already today. you can see the core of helene will bring devastating him backs -- impacts where we expecting to see storm surge up to 20 feet this evening and overnight and that will be a catastrophic impact to this portion of the florida coastline. and then because helene is moving so quickly to the north after it makes landfall, it will bring the threat of hurricane conditions all the way into southwestern georgia, almost to the atlanta area for places like macon, tallahassee, florida as we were talking about earlier will see the potential for widespread wind damage, power

outages. everywhere you see in blue, can see tropical storm force winds and hurricane wind gust especially in places like atlanta and along the higher mountain areas. >> folk in the storm's path who have received evacuation orders, should heed them. is that right? >> you're really almost running out of time at this point and that evacuation zone along the florida coastline will receive the water levels rising very quickly. if you still have time to get out safely, please do so. you do not want to be caught in this environment especially from -- where we can see 10 to 20 feet of inundation that will create an un-survivable environment, wav actione and routes cut off very quickly when the water starts to rise. do not wait until the last minute. you may only have to drive 10 or 20 miles to get to a shelter outside of the storm surge evacuation zone and somewhere safe. >> michael brendan with the national hurricane center in miami. thanks for being with us. >> thanks.

>> we start the day of their headlines with a look at gun violence in america. president biden rolled out new executive actions today aimed at improving active shooter drills and high schools. officials say the new order will maximize the effectiveness of drills while also making them less traumatic for students. it also establishes a task force to investigate new technologies like machine conversion devices and 3d printing guns. vice president kamala harris appeared beside mr. biden today. biden criticized statements made by trump and his running mate. >> trump talked about reducing crime and violence you need to talk about guns in america. i'm going to be very blunt. secretary vance has called the shootings facts of life. who the hell do these people

think they are? >> an associated press tally that says as of yesterday there have been 31 mass killings and so far this year. the vast majority of them involving guns. the fbi defines a mass killing is one that involves the death of at least four people. oklahoma has executed a man for his role in the 1990 two shooting death of a convenience store owner after the state's governor rejected a parole board recommendation to spare his life. emmanuel littlejohn received a lethal injection at the oklahoma state penitentiary this morning. the 52-year-old acknowledged his role in the robbery but had long maintained he did not kill the store owner. littlejohn's death comes days after missouri executed 55-year-old marcella's williams despite prosecutors and the victims family asking that he be spared. human rights groups and press freedom advocates have condemned the sentencing of a former news editor to nearly two years in

hong kong in jail for publishing articles deemed ". seditious." it is the first time a journalist has been convicted under a colonial era law since the colony was handed back to china in 1997. chung ran stand news before it was shot three years ago. a second editor patrick lam, was also sentenced but was allowed to go free on health grounds. after the ruling, the former colleague of the two criticized the decision. >> cate a very good platform that, for our staff, including me have a high degree of freedom of press. i feel veryb sorry that him and patrick have to bear our -- and they have to pay for their freedom. >> the stand news case was seen as a barometer for the state of press freedom in hong kong, a city once known as a rare bright

spot for free press in the region. voting machine maker's mark maddock has reached a settlement in its defamation case against broadcaster newsmax. the deal came as jury selection began for a trial in delaware. they argue that newsmax hosts and guests made false and defamatory claims that the company played a role in stealing the election from donald trump. newsmax said it was reported in allegations being made by trump. the terms of the deal have not been disclosed. that comes after fox news agreed to pay $787 million last year to settle a similar defamation case brought by dominion voting systems. the post master general says the u.s. postal service is ready to successfully deliver all 2024 election ballots on time. it comes after a group of election officials raised concerns earlier this month about the service's readiness. at a subcommittee hearing today,

louis dejoy said that nearly 99.9% of the ballots were delivered within seven days during the 2020 election. he said the service is even better prepared this time around. >> we, uh, are overwhelmingly enhancing our training across all aspects of our operation. that is the fundamental thing we need to do for these extra efforts that we put in an election to actually work. >> he urged voters to mail their ballots one week ahead of those states respected deadline, november 5 or otherwise. the u.s. economy is showing signs of stability. the commerce department confirmed today that gdp grew at 3% from april to june, compared to the same time last year. that is a jump from the 1.6% in e first quarter and due to strong consumer spending. claims for new unemployment benefits dropped to the four-month low last week and a sign that the labor market

remains strong. that positive economic data gave wall street a boost today. the dow jones industrial average gained 260 points to close back above the 42,000 point level. the nasdaq added more than 100 points and the s&p 500 closed at a new record high. and it is the end of an era in oakland. today, the city's major league baseball team, played their final game there. the a's will spend the next three seasons playing in west sacramento before settling at their new home in las vegas in 2028. that means that after day oakland will no longer have a major professional sports team. the nfl's oakland raiders left for las vegas in 2020, the nba's golden state warriors moved across the bay to san francisco. the a's began playing in oakland in 1968 and leave behind decades of memories. they won four championships at the coliseum, the city's rundown yet beloved stadium. still to come, new york city

mayor eric adams indicted on federal bribery charges. we hear from a top lawmaker on the committee investigating recent secret service failures. and hillary clinton on what kamala harris needs to do to defeat donald trump. >> this is "pbs newshour." from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> today, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowed to keep attackingiran back hezbollah with phil for, hours after the u.s., france and middle eastern allies called on both sides to accept a three week cease-fire proposal. what do we know about the proposal, and how has netanyahu responded? >> the proposal is for a 21 day

cease-fire between israel and hezbollah when a senior administration official called a breakthrough. but, as you said, netanyahu landed in new york this afternoon and said the military campaign would continue. >> my policy, our policy is clear cash we are continuing to hit hezbollah with full force, and we will not stop until we achieve all of our goals. first and foremost, returning the residents of the north safely to their homes. >> indeed today, israel struck beirut and israel also released a video of troops practicing for an invasion of lebanon. we asked john kirby, the national security spokesman whether netanyahu has backtracked. he reiterated that israel "was fully informed and aware of every word of the cease-fire proposal before they released it and the u.s. would not have released it unless they understood that israel supported

it." kirby did not say whether netanyahu had backtracked but we obviously have a very different public and private message from netanyahu. and that is nothing new for netanyahu, says the center for strategic and international studies. >> netanyahu has a history of trying to play both sides, where he will at times appear to give concessions to he was officials and backtrack in the face of domestic politics. some of what the u.s. is looking for was relatively vague, would people agree in principal to x? but it requires both sides to make concessions and netanyahu may be reluctant to publicly agree until he knows that his concessions are in the bag. >> it is not clear whether hezbollah is willing to make the concession the u.s. and israel is demanding, moving back from the israeli border. intense pressures both from the politicians and the public. after this hit, the israeli

overnight, members of netanyahu 's right-wing coalition said they would bring down the government if he agreed to this cease-fire. we also heard politicians from the left also say that they opposed it. we've also heard from residents who have been displaced from northern israel since october 8 and they said that and netanyahu was not doing enough and they, or some of them, many of them are in favor of some kind of invasion. so this tough talk from netanyahu is popular, even if at the same time, netanyahu is very vulnerable. >> netanyahu right now, although he sounds very robust, is a very weak leader. vis-à-vis his own coalition and also very weak with regard to his own public. there is a very large part of the public that does not believe netanyahu. and is concerned even when it supports this campaign in the north, is always concerned that netanyahu has ulterior motives.

>> all eyes on netanyahu tomorrow when he will speak to the the u.n. general assembly. >> what kind of pressures are the hezbollah leaders under? >> israel impairs the group with the attacks and decimated his military leadership, so hezbollah feels like it has to respond in order in part to try to avoid some kind of invasion by israeli forces but it is also under pressure from lebanese to avoid a war that would destroy much of the southern part of the country. that is a war that iran also wants hezbollah to avoid. >> on one hand it feels that there is a need to escalate if only to establish or reestablish deterrents vis-à-vis israel peer however, it also had to take into consideration the fact that iran right now is his primary sponsor and backer is not itching to broaden this war. iran sees hezbollah as a first line of defense should israel

decide to strike at its nuclear facilities. >> u.s. officials know that every day that passes there can be an incident that can lead either side to escalate and so that is why tonight they are continuing to press for this 21 day cease-fire regardless of what netanyahu said in public today. >> nick schifrin, thank you as always for your reporting. >> thank you. >> on a crucial visit to washington today, ukrainian president zelenskyy met with president biden in the oval office and vice president kamala harris for in person request for more military and economic aid as part of what he calls a victory plan. >> president biden announced $8 billion in military aid to ukraine, much of which is for already authorized weapons. but certain key features of the new aid include another patriot missile defense battery, decision guided glide bombs with a range of 81 miles, more f-16

pilot training, and american investments to help ukraine's defense industry. what did not come out of today's meeting? u.s. permission to fire american weapons deep inside russia. >> today we have in you strong support package as you said, and we have, and few on the things that need to be done. we have to keep pressure on russia to stop the war and to make truly lasting and just peace. >> there are some of my country who would instead force ukraine to give up large parts of its sovereign territory. who would demand that ukraine except neutrality-- accept neutrality and require ukraine to forgo security relationship with other nations. these proposals are the same of those of putin. >> zelenskyy will meet with former president trump tomorrow. but far from the political grappling here, there is a

battle for air superiority that is crucial along the front lines in eastern ukraine. russian glide bombs launched from aircraft lay waste you to ukrainian positions and to the towns nearby. in a herring game of cat and mouse being played with kamikaze drones. up close, personal and terrifying. >> the drones are consumer drones with deadly explosive accessories that create havoc and instill terror among the forces along the front lines. our special correspondent traveled recently to witness this deadly facebook and a warning, images in this report may disturb some viewers. >> we're following a drone unit into the town. 1.2 miles from the russian line. you can hear outgoing five from this position. nothing in coming but you can tell from the noise how close we are to the front. >> drones have made the front so

lethal that we must move by night. even then, some of cameras that see in the dark. suddenly we hear a noise, soldiers have come to fear. shh. wait. for a moment we freeze. we're lucky. these are the ukrainian teams drones returning home. we mov safelye. first person view drones now s talk infantry, not just high-value targets. the way war is waged has been transform, there are so many in the sky, that individual soldiers are now hunted. like these russian infantrymen caught in open ground. a dystopian videogame with real-world kills. at dawn, the unit emerges into the light. we have been taped up green to indicate we are not russian soldiers.

right now these guys are preparing a drone for a mission to target a russian position. you can see detaching -- attaching explosive charges to the drone. shortly after they will launch it. >> the drone is armed now. don't worry. it is our artillery you can hear. >> this team alone and tends to fly more than 50 sorties every day. the pilot shows us a clip of his team killing russian infantry dropping explosives wrapped with shrapnel. modern warfare is as detached and remote as it is brutal. when you drop these on russia's, what do you think? >> i'm thinking about how to help my friends, the interfering -- the infantry and defending what is mine and my territory. so i do not feel anything at all. >> ukraine's drone teams punch above their weight, but they

cannot compete with conventional russian airpower, particular glide bombs. carrying up to 1.2 tons of explosives, and launched from far behind the russian line, they glide onto their targets, devastating ukraine's defensive positions and obliterating towns. >> the russians currently have an advantage in the air. they completely destroy the area they want to take over with guided air bombs. we cannot stand against the amount of airpower directed at us. we just physically cannot do it. >> it's time to go. it's safer to not stay in one place too long. the drone team move to a new basement every few days. we have to be quick. in broad daylight and with clear skies we are visible and exposed. once a town of 30,000, no a ruin

-- now a ruin. look at the destruction. >> there is not a lot left in the city. >> we're leaving at serious pace beca we are still within range of potentially being hit by a russian drone. this vehicle has got jammers, but we are taking no chances. jammers scramble frequencies but they changed daily. you can still be hit. it's a nerve shredding gauntlet that soldiers run daily. at a stabilization .12 miles away, the new arrivals bear the wounds of an army stretched to the limit. flesh punctured and torn, pressure superior numbers, ammunition and airpower are taking away their control on ukraine's troops. -- a withering toll on ukraine's

true. every day there is more, since this medical group commander. >> most of the wounds are from shrapnel. this is the largest percentage among all injuries. the percentage of bullet wounds is less now because there are fewer such assaultsn ow. we attacked the russians more with drones than with bullets. >> the endless trauma is exhausting, and polls show more ukrainians are starting to consider the possibility of negotiating peace. but, despite all of this, the majority still want no concessions, they want to fight on. dennis has no time for those with more fatigue. >> here you can be angry and tired to the bone, you can be exhausted and aggressive. you can hate everything but not fatigued. you see when it is a matter of survival, you have no right to allow yourself to get fatigued. we can only allow ourselves that

feeling when we are at home and at peace. >> outmanned and out gunned, the town may soon fall. but for now, ukraine battles on, seemingly through bloody minded determination all over. for the pbs news hour, i am jack hewson in ukraine. ♪ >> an historic first for the new york city mayor's office -- federal prosecutors have laid out a five count indictment against mayor adams charging him with the bribery, conspiracy and wire fraud over the past decade. adams is accused of taking illegal gifts and foreign campaign contributions, but says he will continue to run this city as his lawyers handle the case. >> year after year after year, he kept the public in the dark.

>> the u.s. attorney for new york made the case against new york city mayor eric adams. >> he told the public he received no gifts, even though he was secretly being showered with them. >> the unsealed indictment says for nearly a decade, adams accepted in proper valuable benefits such as luxury international travel, including from well thing for business people, and at least one turkish government official seeking to gain influence over him. >> public office is a privilege. we allege that mayor adams abused that provision broke the law. >> the prosecutor said adams received more than $100,000 of illegal gifts and the illegal activity started well before he was elected mayor. >> federal law clearly prohibits foreign donations. yet adams directed his staff to pursue this illegal money to support his campaign for mayor. >> outside of gracie mansion, adams was defined. >> my day-to-day will not

change. i will continue to do the job for 8.3 million new yorkers that i was elected to do. >> flanked by faith leaders and supporters, he asked for patience. >> the story will come from the federal prosecutors, and i asked to wait and hear our side to this narrative. >> but the crowd was not entirely supportive. >> you are an embarrassment! >> adams has faced growing public pressure to step down. alexandria or custer protest became the highest profile official to call for his resignation with a social media post wednesday afternoon. early this morning, federal agents search the mayor's residence and seized his phone. the new york governor kathy hochul says she is monitoring the situation. she does have the power to remove adams from office. the adams administration has seen a swirl of investigations, subpoenas and resignations in the past year. the police chief, the head of the city school system and the mayor's legal counsel have all

left. last november, fbi agents search the home of one of adams fundraisers -- adams himself had his cell phone an ipad seized before being subpoenaed this past summer. as the headlines hit newsstands across the city, new yorkers took it in strike. >> it is a lot of cronyism. i really do hope that the city gets better and we identify a proper and suitable and a well fit candidate to run for the mayor. >> we're joined by wnyc reporter bridget bergen following this story. great to have you here. federal prosecutors allege that over nearly a decade, dating back to when eric adam served as the brooklyn borough president, he accepted improper gifts. to what end allegedly? >> in the indictment and is kind of astounding. we are talking about plane tickets, opulent hotel rooms, food, high end meals and in exchange, he was receiving

illegal foreign campaign contributions and then trying to mask that he both receive the gifts and the contributions by using a straw donor, funding -- finally that money to people who were not donated. in addition he was trading favors. once he was in office by allowing some of these people who were seeking influence to ask for favors from the government. in particular there was one turkish official who had showered the mayor with gifts, but then made very clear that he was looking for help and specifically regarding a high rise building, the turkish consulate, a 36 story building that was having issues with its fire inspection system. they needed to expedite that. they wanted to open the building in time for the visit from the turkish president. and the mayor understood and then did help expedite it according to the indictment. >> also he is accused of

exploiting new york city's unusually generous public matching funds program. tell us more about that. >> the campaign-finance board offers a generous matching program. candidates are eligible for an eight to one match for the first $250 of a contribution from somebody as a resident of the city of new york. in order to come up with money that was not coming from new yorkers, they used the straw donor scheme to the tune of $10 million in public funds and to be clear, that is public money. that is money that is paid for by new york city taxpayers. so, part of the crime that u.s. attorney williams really underscored was this is a violation of the public trust. this is a program that is intended to help people who might not otherwise be able to participate or seek public office, to have a foothold. it is not intended to be exploited to the benefit of someone like the way the mayor has done.

>> leading up to this, the city's first deputy mayor, the school chancellor, the deputy mayor for public safety, the police commissioner all had their homes searched. what is the connection between all of that and the indictment that was unsealed today? >> that is still a little bit unclear at this point. as you said, it has been a wild of in new york city politics, and critically surrounding people who are involved with the adams administration. just since the first week in september, those investigations have kicked off. and this is after really about a year of investigations into the administration. a lot of things seem to kick into a higher gear this month. at this point, it is not totally clear what connection those investigations have to this indictment but one of the points that the u.s. attorney made very clear as that this investigation is not over. there is an ongoing investigation, and so there may be more charges.

there may be more individuals, and there may be more to the story then we learn -- that we learn in the days ahead. >> meantime the mayor saying he will not step down here he says he will stay in office and fight for the people of new york. based on your reporting, can he really do that with this indictment hanging over his head? >> the mayor has said he's not going anywhere, he was elected by new yorkers and plans to serve new yorkers. and at this point, one of the people who would have the most power to remove him from office, governor kathy hochul, has sort of said she is observing the situation, she is monitoring the news, but she has not released any sort of statement indicating that she would be calling for his resignation or seeking to remove him from office at this point. but remember, this is a mayor who is up for reelection next year. there are already several primary challengers who announced their campaign or are preparing to announce their campaign. this is certainly fodder for all of them to talk about how the

city needs to go in a different direction. and this is a time when normally the mayor would be focusing on that reelection, while continuing to try to run the city. and now that you add to that fighting a criminal indictment, he has got a lot on his plate. it will be a lot to juggle and i think that is why we are hearing so many more people call for his resignation. >> bridget bergen, thanks so much for sharing your reporting and insights with us. >> thanks. >> a congressional task force sharply criticized the secret service today at its first hearing on the july assassination attempt against former president donald trump. law makers zeroed in on the apparent failures that allowed the assailant to have a direct line of fire at trump. >> in the days leading up to the rally, it was not a single mistake that allowed -- to

outmaneuver one of the country's most elite group of perfect -- security professionals. there were security failures on multiple fronts. >> lisa desjardins has more. lisa: the hearing comes one day after the senate homeland security committee released its interim report on the assassination attempt in butler, pennsylvania. that report found a host of failures but was especially critical of the secret service. the report says the secret service's failures and planning, communications, security and allocation of resources for the butler rally were foreseeable, and preventable and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day. today was the first hearing for the house bipartisan task force on this. and its ranking member, jason crow of colorado, joins me know. congressman, we saw a repeated theme in today's hearing about the logistical problems and the proximity of the shooter. i want to remind viewers of the layout in butler, pennsylvania.

you can see mr. trump's location where the stage was and the agr companies complex where the shooter got onto the roof unimpeded. it was outside the security perimeter. what have you surmised about the biggest issues that led to him being able to get on that rooftop? >> well, lisa, there was not just one failure but it was a cascading series of failures, of things that we would normally expect would go into planning security for a large event like this. it was everything from a lack of unity of command, so command, so command-and-control that was uncertain and disjointed. to lack of interoperable communications between units that were on site. to a security plan that had a perimeter that was too small and not overall secured. then lack of guidance given to local law enforcement. we heard that today during our hearing, where we had local law enforcement officers, the swat team members, snipers, who were trying to do their job, but they

were not actually told what they had to do. nobody really gave them the guidance on that day. so it was a series of things that went wrong. that raises larger questions about culture, about organization of the secret service, but also resourcing as well. lisa: on that resource question, the secret service is now protecting more people than ever and by all accounts they have a resource issue. today our former secret service agent patrick sullivan told this to the committee. >> agents are exhausted. the campaign really really takes a lot out of them. and i think they don't have enough personal resources to give people the breaks that they need. lisa: congress just appropriated more funds, but how profound is the resource disconnect here, and is it a problem for this campaign season? >> there is no doubt is a problem. and i want to paint a picture for folks about what we are dealing with here. first off, the nature of campaigning is different print so candidates do a lot more events, the events are much

larger. the candidates are out, on the stump for a longer time, so our campaign season is longer. so what that means is the secret service is stretched thin and away they have not ever been before. in addition to that, the secret service really has not increased significantly in size, its training and its pipeline of agents. so what you have is a high threat environment and an environment with more threats like, for example, members of congress face four times as many threats then we face a couple years ago. a high threat environment and you have a campaign environment that is more robust, long-term, and more transparent than before and you have a secret service that has not changed. acting director rowe came into our task force two weeks ago and painted a picture of what the service looks like and he says his agents are redlined, they are working 80 and 90 hour weeks, they are deployed three weeks out of the month. they are not doing their training, not doing their recertification's because they are out there all the time.

you cannot ask people to do that in perpetuity without a break relief. we had to provide that relief. the last point, lisa, is the near-term issue. we are not going to create more secret service agents between now and november 5. it takes six or seven years to actually create a personal security detail level agent. but we have to -- what we have to do is we have to resource the ability to dod at other federal agencies to cover down and to surge resources to assist them. >> you paid a lot of attention to political rhetoric. you were there and january 6, coaching or members around your to defend themselves. where do you think we are? how worried are you about this next month before the election? >> tensions are very high, political rhetoric and discourse i think it is broken and so many ways. i do not have to tell americans that. they see it is broken. that is why it is really important we condemned political violence. what we have to do is make it very clear that we are in a

campaign season. we will have tough, really sometimes fierce debates, but in america we solve our political issues with debate and with discourse and with voting. it is never ok to resort to political violence. and that is a message that we have on a bipartisan way, have been unanimous on this task force that this is what this is about -- condemning the violence, a republican or democrat or unaffiliated, you should know that your candidate or officials are secure. and we take it very seriously. to restore trust. lisa: is there one big question you really have not gotten any answers to yet about the assassination attempt? >> well, we're looking at both attempts, butler pennsylvania and florida as well. and one of the things i really wanted to know is what is going to be the direct accountability by the secret service? you get change when you get accountability. so we are going to be pushing to make sure that if people did not do what they were supposed to, those people are no longer in those positions and those are things that the secret service has to do.

>> congressman jason crow. thank you for your time and work on this. >> thank you. >> former secretary of state, senator, first lady, and presidential nominee, hillary clinton's career in politics and public service spans more than 50 years. in her new book, "something lost, something gained, reflections on life, love and liberty," she looks back on track for moments in the white house, life since the 2016 election, and america's role on the world stage. she joins me now. secretary clinton, thank you for joining us. good to see you. >> it is great to be with you, too. >> so, this is your fifth book since the 2016 election. you open by quoting one of the greatest songs "boths -- both sides now."

what is it that you wanted to convey in this book you have not written about yet? >> i have let both privately and publicly but this is a book about family and friends and faith, and of course politics, because as the songs says, i've looked at life and love from both sides now in the title is as you know, taken from the song, something lost, something gained. >> you write very intimately about what you call the old wounds of 2016 and the election when you won the popular vote by thrill me in votes and ended up losing the election to donald trump. . and i wonder this summer, as democrats were weighing what to do, did any part of you think, i could get back into this, i can do this? >> well, i thought i could do it but i was not going to get back into it. i was very impressed by president biden's literally

selfless, patriotic decision to withdraw. and once he endorsed the vice president, my husband and i quickly did as well. i am incredibly excited about kamala harris as our next president. i think her campaign has been flawless. she has not only introduced herself to the country again in a way that really connects with people, but she's been drawing a sharp contrast between her and her opponent. so, i wrote an audio epilogue because of course the book was done before all of this happened, that i recorded. and i said, honestly, i was not sure to myself what i would feel when another woman would be so close to finally, finally breaking that big hard glass ceiling, and i found myself absolutely exhilarated. so, i'm doing everything i can

to help get her elected. >> so, what do you think? is america ready to elect a woman president today and 2024 and a ways it seems they were not in 2016? >> i think we have learned a lot in the last eight years. and i think many people, upon reflection about 20, understood that - about 2016, understood we had to break through the double standard as well as the glass ceiling and from what i'm seeing around the country, the people i'm talking to, meeting with on behalf of the campaign, there is an enthusiasm and an urgency because it is not only about electing someone who i think would be a terrific president on the merits, but stopping someone who could literally undermine our democracy for decades to come. so, there was a really strong, positive case to get behind kamala harris to be part of electing our first woman

president. she is our first woman vice president. i mean, think of all of the things that were accomplished by the biden-here administration that we take for granted. and we have to stop what is a very dangerous alternative. so i think people are ready and i hope everyone turns out and demonstrates that by voting for harris and walz. >> can i ask you about some of those challenges she is facing, just to get your take? vice president harris has seen a little bit of softening up support among young men of color, young black and latino men. there was one recent poll that found one in four black men under 50 said they planned to vote for donald trump. another found 40% of latino men said they would vote for him. what to you explains those numbers? >> well, as you know so well, there is a big gender divide in our country. when it comes to politics. that has been true now for many election seasons. and the fact is that men of all

backgrounds tend to favor the republican nominee and women tend to favor the democratic nominee. but i also have seen many polls talking about the overwhelming support she has among young men, younger than that, younger than 30, who are enthusiastic as well about her candidacy. but i think it is also important to help draw the contrast, because this is a competition between two people with very very different ideas about our future. and i still think we have some work to do to make sure that voters, men, women, everyone, know what the stakes are. i think they have got to understand that one choice will give us options for our future and one choice literally could end our democracy and i don't say that in any, you know, way

of satisfaction. i don't even think i'm exaggerating. just listen to what he has said. >> and you do right about that in detail in your book, your concerns for our country and for our democracy and for the world if donald trump were to win again. but what if you lose this? what are your concerns? do you worry there could be another event like january 6? >> no, because he is not in the white house. there is no doubt that he in many ways instigated what happened on january 6. he and his government was reluctant to intervene, to protect the people in the u.s. capital including members of congress in the house and senate. he stood by and watched on television, as law enforcement members, the capitol police and others were beaten. thankfully, we have joe biden in the white house. thankfully i believe that what we saw on january 6 cannot be

happening again. there may be other sorts of disturbances. there will be lots of challenges made to the outcomes of the votes in various states because trump and his enablers want to seize power whether they win legitimately or not. but this time around, he is not in the white house. so i think, we don't have to fear a repeat of what we saw but we have to be ready for whatever other shenanigans they pull to try to prevent the counting of the ballots. >> whoever wins the election is going to inherit a world that seems to many people like it said on -- it's on fire. you write about teaching students at columbia university, as students where processing the horrific attacks on october 7 in israel and the brutal israeli response that followed into gaza. as we're speaking that conflict

in the middle east seems to grow. i wonder how you're looking at that with the airstrikes in lebanon targeting hezbollah, does that make it harder to reach a cease-fire in gaza? >> it does make it harder, and that is why i'm encouraged that other nations are joining with the united states to push hard for the end of the conflict, both between israel and hamas and now israel and hezbollah. this is a very dangerous situation. that could tragically get out of control, spark a regional conflict. i think that everyone who has any influence with any of the party and that is not just israel, hamas and hezbollah, it is also iran, which is the patron for both its neighbors in the region, everyone needs to exert the maximum diplomatic pressure to see if we can get

cease-fires in both conflicts and try to turn our attention to rebuilding gaza, creating security for the people, securing israel's borders so that they don't live in fear of another october 7. there is a lot of hard work to be done but it cannot start until the war stops. >> secretary clinton, you write in the book about how you are reflecting differently at this chapter of your life on the decades of service and work behind you. i see you wearing that necklace with their grandchildren's names, reflecting part of this new chapter as well. i want to ask you about a moment from this summer at the democratic national committee when you took the stage. because there was this sense in the arena of first of all, just a thunderous standing ovation and a real sense of gratitude from the women i spoke to, many of whom were crying as you came

out to see them there. there was a sense that if not for you, that there would be no candidate harris today. i wonder how you reflected on that moment, what it meant to you, and how you look at what's next. >> i was literally looking at faces of people who had supported me, who had stood with me, who were there for me, and i was so emotional in making a connection with them i had to practice that speech seven times because i got really emotional whenever i delivered it in preparation for walking out there. but i felt so strongly that this was a moment that needed to unite, as many americans as possible in these divided times to lift people's sights, to think about what is possible, to try to get everyone who has a daughter or granddaughter or

sister, a mother ,an aunt to think about the unfinished business of the 21st-century. and i dedicated my book to my grandchildren. with the hope that they and their generation will inherit that better world that i am so determined to try to help bring into being. >> the book is " something lost, something gained, reflections on life, love and liberty." the author is secretary hillary rodham clinton. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you so much. i really always enjoy talking to you. >> and be sure to stay updated on hurricane helene making landfall this evening on florida's coast. now as a category 4 storm. you can read about the latest developments and track its real-time path on our website, pbs.org/news hour. >> that is the news for tonight.

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