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the program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> welcome to the news hour. the labor department today issued one of the last jobs reports before the presidential election, and the numbers are strong. 254,000 jobs were added in september - beating expectations. the unemployment rate fell from four-point-two to four-point-one -- 4.2% to four .1 percent. wages were up averaging a gain of 4% compared to a year ago. overall, the report paints a picture of a robust american economy - which, for most voters, remains their top issue this election year. for more, let's turn now to deputy secretary of the treasury, wally adeyemowelcome back to the newshour. thank you for joining us.

>> it's great to be here. >> it is an overall strong report. there is a lingering consent around manufacturing, the only sector where they lost jobs. what explains that? >> you are right that it's a very storm -- stronger jobs report and not only the report this time, but the backward revisions that showed that we've created more jobs over the summer than people had known then demonstrates the progress we've made in the economy. and when it comes to manufacturing, one of the things the president, the vice president been very focused on is the strategy of making sure that we build a manufacturing sector here in the united states. one of the key drivers of this jobs report and jobs reports over the course of this year has been construction jobs. and those construction jobs are largely tied to building manufacturing facilities based on three laws, the president and vice president have gotten past the infrastructure law that was passed on a bipartisan basis.

the chips and science act and also the inflation reduction act, all of which are helping to build up manufacturing plants that will ultimately employ americans to do something that we need to do in this country, which is build things for america. >> we also did see the average duration of unemployment tick up slightly. that's now at 22.6 weeks. it's a new high since 2022. is that a sign to you that people who need jobs are having a tougher time finding them? >> the view when you look at the economy now is that people who want jobs have been able to find jobs in this economy. but in addition to the 16 million jobs that have been created during the biden-harris administration, we've seen a number of americans decide to start their own businesses at a record number. over the course of the last four years, we've seen 19 million americans start businesses. and the job growth that we've seen, 70% of that job growth has come from small businesses. so what -- and we are seeing a record number of americans make the choice to either work full-time or part-time to start a new business. >> we've also seen inflation

continue to tick down. it's been on a real journey over the biden administration. it is now down to 2.5%, way down from that high of 9.1% we saw back in 2022. it's fair to say there is some uncertainty on the horizon, though, correct? i mean, you saw crude oil prices spike yesterday around uncertainty in the middle east, for example. so i'm curious, what are you tracking most closely that you think could cause price increases and maybe cause inflation to go up again? >> the things i'm tracking right now are data that are showing that prices are coming down throughout the economy. and you mentioned crude oil. today, the price of gas around the country averages $3.18. at the beginning of the year, it was closer to $4. we're also seeing prices at stores come down for select goods as well. ultimately, one of the things we have to do is continue to make that progress by working to help to make sure that supply chains stay robust. and we're able to do that in the end of the strike yesterday by

dock workers to ensure that goods can not only get to consumers, but important goods can get to those americans who are suffering because of the hurricane that happened. >> is there any uncertainty that you're tracking that gives you concern about inflation turning around, though? >> we want to be frank that while we've made a great deal of progress since the pandemic, prices for americans in certain areas remain too high. that's why we're focused on trying to reduce the cost of health care through what we've done in terms of reducing the cost of insulin to $35 and also reducing the cost of medication for americans. taking steps to do those things are going to be important to making sure that we continue to make the progress we've made and not just bringing down inflation, but bringing down the prices of things for americans. one of the things that gives me confidence that we can do these things is the fact that we're seeing wages grow faster than inflation today. and as long as we continue that progress in terms of prices come down, coming down and wages going up, i feel very confident about the american economy.

>> can i just put to you what we found from our latest pbs news poll as well, because the economy is the top issue for americans right now. some 68% of those polled said that they think the economic conditions in america right now are fair or poor. only about 32% said that the nation's economy is excellent or good. what, in your view, is behind that pessimism right now? and what will it take for that to shift? adeyemo: as i mentioned earlier, if you look back just four years ago, the american economy was in a far different place. we were in a place where we had almost 15% unemployment. just over four years ago, where we had 2.5 million construction and manufacturing workers out of work because of a global pandemic. we're still in the midst of recovering from that pandemic. we've made a great deal of progress in terms of creating 16 million jobs in 19 million small businesses. but there's more that we need to do. and we've got to continue to make that progress in order for the american people to see what the rest of the world sees, that the american economy is growing

faster than any major economy in the world, and that we're making progress towards making sure that people have the ability to build opportunity not only for themselves, but also for their children. amna: that is the deputy secretary of the treasury, wally adeyemo, joining us tonight. mr. deputy secretary, thank you for your time. good to speak with you. adeyemo: thank you for having me. take care. we start the day's other headlines at the supreme court the justices have agreed to leave in place two e-p-a rules aimed at reducing the oil and gas industry's emissions of methane gas, and mercury. republican-led states and industry groups had asked the high court to pause the rules, arguing the standards are "impossible to meet." but, the

justices will consider a challenge to mexico's $10 billion lawsuit against u.s. gun makers, when they officially begin their next term on monday. the case centers on allegations that the companies' sales practices contribute to the trafficking of illegal weapons to drug cartels. and, the high court will weigh in on who gets to say where nuclear waste is stored - in particular, the granting of a license to a private company in west texas. the death toll of a gang raid in central haiti has risen to at least 70 people, including women and children. the attack took place in the town of pont-sondé, roughly 60 miles north of the capital, port-au-prince. video captured near the scene showed hoards of people frantically running away from the attack. witnesses say they saw bodies with gunshot wounds strewn in the streets. the attack was attributed to the "gran grif" gang,ne of the

-- one of the nation's most brutal groups. but the motive remains unclear. police clashed with anti-government demonstrators in islamabad today, who were calling for the release of former prime minister imran khan from prison. authorities had tried to lock the city down, by blocking roads with shipping containers and cutting cell phone service. but dozens of khan's supporters managed to get through. they were met with tear gas, but remained defiant. >> we have finally reached here. there were lots of obstacles on the way. the authorities have been defeated. you can place more containers in our way, but this love for imran khan will never end. >>khan has been in prison for more than a year in connection with over 150 criminal cases. his supporters say the charges are politically motivated. severe rainstorms slammed bosnia overnight, killing at least 16 people. the rains caused flooding and landslides across several towns in the central and southern parts of the country. surging waters rushed into homes as people slept, and entire neighborhoods were swamped. today residents began to think about picking up the pieces.

>>the situation is catastrophic. the water entered people's homes, it took away everything. the water recedes, the mud remains, i don't know, we'll see when the water recedes what's left behind all this.” >> the heavy rains also affected neighboring croatia, where several roads were closed and the capital zagreb braced for potential flooding. back here in the u.s., country -- the dow jones industrial average jumped more than 300 points deposed at an all-time high and the nasdaq added more than 200 points. the s&p 500 ended the day higher. still to come on the "newshour", kamala harris and donald trump continue campaigning through critical swing states david brooks and jonathan capehart weigh in on the week's political headlines and pioneering musician laurie anderson discusses her new album inspired by amelia earhart

. >> this is the pbs news hour from the david rubenstein's studio in washington and the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> president biden answered questions from reporters at the white house today including about israel's response to the missile attack and whether benjamin netanyahu is trying to influence the u.s. election. >> the israelis have not concluded what they will do in terms of a strike. in their shoes i would think about other alternatives. no administrations has helped israel more that i have, none, none, none. i think benjamin netanyahu should remember that. whether he is trying to influence the election, i don't

know. >> the israeli bombing campaign and ground invasion of lebanon continues, with fully one-quarter of the country's population displaced, most in just the last two weeks. leila molana-allen reports now from saida, on lebanon's southern coast, as exhausted and fearful residents continue to seek shelter, . >> exhausted and traumatised. lebanon's streets are filled with a sudden wave of homeless and hungry souls. school's out indefinitely; they're all needed to house the more than 1.2m already displaced from their homes by the violence. on every available surface, mattresses to sleep on; trees repurposed for laundry. those unlucky enough to find the shelters full are ending up on the street, in the baking heat and pouring rain. >> everything is destroyed back home, it's an all-out war. we fled under constant airstrikes. >> khaled and his five young kids fled north a few days ago. they've nowhere else to go.

>> here it's safer, but it's a disaster for the children and women. it's so bad. look at where they change their clothes, and there are no toilets. >>over the past few days, tens of thousands of people have flooded up this coastal highway, escaping the ever-expanding list of towns and villages that -- villages in the south of lebanon that israel says it may strike. as that evacuation zone grows, so too does uncertainty about if and when they'll be able to go home again. >>this is what they're running from. air bombardment and shelling across southern lebanon. and increasingly, in and around the capital beirut too. lebanese fear soon, nowhere will be safe. last night, residents cowered in terror as israel's war planes spread a line of explosive fire through beirut's southern suburbs, on the hunt for assassinated hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah's presumed

successor, hashem safieddine. today in tehran, a rare appearance by supreme leader ayatollah khamenei to praise nasrallah, amidst rumours of his burial in secret. all while iran awaits retaliation for it's massive missile strike on israel last week; prime minister binyamin netanyahu vows iran will pay. lebanese fear they're already paying the price for this regional conflict. as leaders grandstand, every day lives here fall apart. >> this restaurant is making daily free meals for thousands of displaced people in saida. 29-year-old noor has thrown herself into the relief effort >> sometimes they're crying, asking for food, for clothes, sometimes they're asking for shelter, where to sleep. sometimes it is somebody from

your old school, your friend, your neighbor. when you hear somebody is dead or injured and you can help them, it is so sad. >> just down the road in ein el delb, the community answered the call to action too. they thought they were safe here; they never imagined they'd be victims themselves. >> julia and her mother were among those buried in a mass funeral days later, coffin after coffin, a family in morning. julia had been volunteering, making food for displaced families. she'd come home from her student accomodation in beirut after the suburbs were badly bombed, thinking it safer. >> when she called she said - and i didn't think it was important at the time - but she said if i have to die i want to die next to you.

>> on sunday, having delivered sandwiches to those seeking shelter, the family came home to rest. then ashraf smelled smoke. two missiles smashed into the building. julia's brother ashraf was buried under the rubble for hours awaiting rescue. he was still there when his friends, calling to him, told him his mother was dead. >> i thought maybe she had died of fear. but i thought julia would make it out because she's strong. they found julia at midnight. she had suffocated. when i saw my mother and sister's bodies at the hospital they didn't have a single scar. but not being able to breathe under the rubble killed them. >> having lost lost the sister he calls his closest confidante, ashraf is struggling to keep going. and to forgive. >> all you western governments who claim to support lebanon should stop providing israel with weapons. how did she threaten israel's security and peace? >> i was texting her a few

minutes ago. >> you still send text messages thinking about her? >> yes. i told her i will come in a little bit. do you see how much people are talking about you? how much you are a hero? she is my hero. >> just one of many shattered families here. civilians say they're caught up - and dying in - a war they didn't start and don't want to fight. they fear no one is listening. for the pbs newshour i'm leila molana-allen in saida, lebanon. >> monday marks one year since the october seventh hamas terror attacks on israel. over thes last year, the israeli bombing and invasion of gaza has exacted a terrible price on gaza's

people - with an estimation that one out of every 20 people has been killed or wounded. newshour videographer shams odeh worked with producer zeba warsi and nick schifrin to bring us this report, on a year in hell. >> to this day, mohammed mahdi abu al-qumsan cannot fathom his incomprehensible loss. >> he walks us into his threadbare home, and life a donated canvas shelter, with sorrowful reminders the doll that will never be held, the clothes that will never be worn. >>i don't even have one photo of me and my children. i had only left the house to get their birth certificates. i ended up getting their death certificate too. in august, horror.

his wife of 1 year, her body under the shroud, her name in pen: dr. jumana arfa. and 3-day-old asser and aysel. the family says all killed, in an israeli airstrike. in gaza today, death can arrive as life begins. and photos of births, are the only photos, he'll ever have. >> i was excited to leave the hospital to go and show my wife the birth certificates because she chose their names. only five minutes later, i started the process to get their death certificates. >> arfa was a pharmacist at a private clinic. the twins were their first born. and like everyone here, in the last year the family fled from multiple homesfirst from gaza city, then to rafah, and then back to deir al balah, in search of unobtainable safety. on facebook, arfa used to write about the war's victims, until she became one. >> i need a court of law to find how a woman who was living in a safe home, who had recently given birth, was killed in this way.

children are not at fault. we're merely civilians, we're not involved in other activities. don't we deserve to live in peace? without fear? >> but gaza is stalked by fear, and dominated by death. the abed kids hala, ghazal, mohammad, and salma are among tens of thousands of orphans, adopted by their uncle after his brother, their father majdy, was killed last october. >>majdy was my brother, my friend, my everything i was devastated. >> the siblings survived by chancetheir mother unknowingly saved them. >>we were at home and then my mom asked us to go get her something from the store. when we came back we found the entire area destroyed. >> they're grateful to have a place to live. but what she really wants to have, is her parents back.

we ask, do you miss them? this war started one year ago, when hamas gunmen took over swaths of southern israel, and killed 812 civilians, and more than 400 security personnel . israel has pursued what it calls “absolute victory” over hamas. with a punishing air,and ground campaign to eradicate hamas and return the hostages. it blames civilian deaths, on hamas. >>hamas places its weapons, its terrorists in hospitals, schools, mosques and throughout civilian areas. they do this in order to win immunity and to maxmize civilian casualties. >> gaza's health ministry, which answers to hamas, says

140,000 or more than 5% of the gaza strip, have been killed or wounded. 900 families wiped off entirely from the civil registry, and in more than 1300 cases, only one family member survived, creating the macabre label "wounded child no surviving family." but all the numbers, may yet prove an undercount >> there are 8 to 10 thousand martyrs missing since the beginning of these attacks. >> dr khalil al-daqran works at central gaza's al aqsa hospital, one of the few hospitals still functioning. he helps the health ministry publish its daily death toll 90% of whose names have been confirmed. it's a painstaking effort because many of gaza's more than 2 million displaced, don't have ids. >> in the case of those martyred who are not identified in hospitals, we take several steps like asking questions of the families. many times people who come to the hospital have no identification since occupation

forces destroyed their homes and whatever was in it. >> and destruction breeds despair. 4 year old raghad ismail al khouly holds her father tight, hoping he can heal her. >> but ismail al khouly feels helpless because he can only provide comfort. no cure. raghad al khouly has cancer. tumors under both eyes, that cause severe pain. >> i feel like my heart is being ripped apart. i wish i can do something for her. i swear i cannot. i swear i can't do a thing. >> like any sick child, cartoons distract until her eyes feel strained. her best chance for treatment is outside. but the outside world is almost completely inaccessible.

>> consider her like one of your daughters. if we delay her treatment anymore, it could lead to her blindness..// 15:26 she was a smart girl, she'd run and play but ever since getting the tumor, she's completely, completely changed. >> one year later, gazans' infrastructure, and lives, are unrecognizable. they've lived through multiple wars. but after this one, nobody, will be the same. for the pbs news hour, i'm nick schifrin . >> on monday, nick will speak with families of israeli hostages and with a released hostage looking back on this traumatic year - in her own words. turning now to the presidential race. vice president kamala harris is campaigning across michigan, ile former president donald trump touched down in georgia a state still reeling from hurricane helene.

all this, as president biden weighed in on election security, in his first-ever appearance in the white house briefing room. lisa desjardins reports. >> at the white house - among the questions for the departing president politics' monday's tamara keith asked mister biden about the upcoming election and whether it will be free, fair, and peaceful. >> two separate questions. i am confident it will be free and pair -- fair. i don't know if it will be peaceful. the things that trump has said and the things he said last time out when he didn't like the outcome of the election, were very dangerous. >> in georgia, the former president responded >> i don't know anything about what he said. i only can hope that it's going to be free and fair, and i think in this state it will be, and i hope in every state it will be, and i think we're going to do very well, but right now we're focused on this. we're not focused on the election. >> trump was on the ground in evans, georgia - meeting members

of the national guard. shaking hands alongside an old foe, georgia's republican governor brian kemp. while trump has raised millions for recovery through a go fund me - the dual appearance raised the specter of 2020 - kemp took months to endorse trump. and it trump attacked him for years, when he refused to question georgia's 2020 results. and just this week. >> the federal government is not being responsive. >> trump falsely claimed that kemp couldn't get a hold of president biden, in the hurricane's aftermath. kemp said explicitly that he did connect and was grateful to biden. in his remarks today, kemp focused on his recovering state. >> what we're all going through is a living nightmare. and we're going to continue to pull together as we go through this together. >> by the end - at this first meeting of the two in years he and trump appeared congenial. trump's running mate ohio senator jd vance was also in the peachtree state today looking , ahead in lindale. >> we are focused on the future.

in this election and in this campaign, if you look at what president trump says, what i say, we are focused on the future every single day. >> but the ripple effects of 2020 - and trump's lies about it - continue. yesterday, a colorado judge sentenced tina peters the former mesa county clerk to 9 years in prison. once a hero to election deniers, she was found guilty of a security breach involving the county's voting machines in 2020. >> if he wins again it will be more of the same. >> focused on 2024, vice president kamala harris took her campaign to a firehouse in detroit, michigan today. >> donald trump is a man who tried to cut funding for our first responders, including safer grants for firefighters. as we stand here in a house of labor, we will not be fooled. we will not be gaslighted. donald trump's track record is a disaster for working people.

>> both harris and trump have upcoming stops in north carolina another state reshaped by helene. roughly half of the more than 215 known deaths from the storm occurred there. and rescuers are still searching for victims, one week on. for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. >> a week after hurricane helene devastated parts of the southeast, residents in some states are still trying to get the very basics they need: water, food, power. hundreds of people remain unaccounted for, and so far more than 200 have died. that makes it the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland u.s. since katrina back in 2005. we spoke with residents in some of the hardest hit areas -- around asheville and the surrounding towns in western north carolina and eastern tennessee about what life looks like now.

>> for the past week tens of thousands of people like emily bigelow have had to learn how to live without modern plumbing. forced to rely on creek water she carries it by hand back to her how to -- house to make her toilet run. >> a full bucket is about two flashes. they are saying probably weeks before we can get water again. which, you take for granted, being able to flush a toilet. >> for three years, bigelow and her partner have shared this home in asheville, north carolina in the quiet foothills of the blue ridge mountains. last friday morning they woke up to a community transformed overnight. in three days, hurricane helene dumped over 17 inches of rain onto the surrounding area, part

of the trillions of gallons of water helene released. in north carolina it triggered catastrophic floods. more than 500 miles away from florida where helene came ashore. >> i do not know of anyone in the community, in asheville or the surrounding areas that were ready for this. >> over 70 people have been confirmed dead in the county alone. the death toll is expected to rise. because search and rescue teams are still looking for hundreds of missing people are looking for hundreds of missing people here and in neighboring communities. >> for the first days i felt paralyzed. i have not work -- walked over to look at the bad areas of the city because i do not think i can handle it.

bigelow is doing what many other residents here are, helping others like 82-year-old resident maud adams. >> trauma brings people together. >> this came loose. it tore up the roof. >> adams has lived here more than 40 years. but she hasn't left in a week since the storm knocked this massive tree onto her front porch. adams has been through floods before, but nothing like this. >> it's never been as bad as it is now. and i have been here since 1981. >> like so many across the region she has no power, no water, no access to the outside world, except a transistor radio. her sister died this year. she says that isolation coupled with devastation has been tough.

>> [sobbing]. >> you are ok. >> like so many she is thinking of others. >> you think of a lot people off a lot worse is that i am. at least i have my home. >> across the border in east tennessee reverend brooks ramsey has been collecting donations to send it to hard-hit towns nearby like newport and del rio. >> this is the first truck of the day. and there are more packages. >> right before i came on with you the newport rescue squad backed up a 16 foot trailer to our driveway and we loaded them up with everything from soup to feminine hygiene products, toilet paper, baby formula. you name it, we have it. >> he is determined to not let the nation forget what is unfolding here. >> these people are easily forgotten. it's easy to forget us.

and there is everything going on in the world too. there are all of these distractions and people just get lost in the shuffle. >> among those lost in the shuffle says ramsey is his family friend is sabrina barnett that was working in erwin, tennessee when floodwaters swept through the town. >> she was loaded up onto a flatbed. with an indeterminate number of people. it was swept away by the water ran sabrina is still missing. >> earlier this week president biden toured the devastation by air ordering 1000 active-duty troops from nearby for liberty to assist in the recovery efforts. he called the storm, that intensified rapidly the moment it hit the unseasonably warm gulf waters a clear warning about climate change. >> nobody can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore. they must be brain-dead if they do. >> back in asheville residents

like emily bigelow agree. >> this is definitely a huge wake-up call. climate change is real. this kind of devastation really sends things home on where we are now. how fast. things are changing. and how different life will look. >> look how big that thing is out yonder where it come across the fence. >> for now there are no easy answers. just communities relying on each other as they start on the very long path to rebuilding. for the pbs news hour. >> a major endorsement at the center of the race for the white house this week. that and the latest on the trump

election interference case. we turn to the analysis of brooks and capehart. let's look at the state of the race showing harris up by two points, within the margin of error. this week a number of republicans fact are notably liz cheney and other women that worked in the trump white house. jonathan, her focus seems to be pulling in republicans, independents. there is concern among progressive democratic circles that she is not trying to shore up her base. >> you are trying to trigger me aren't you. i say this to my progressive

friends with love, calm down. the vice president has been talking to them, presenting some things they like for months now, for weeks now. in a race that will be decided on the margins, where it will come down to a few thousand votes in a few states, she is doing what she is doing what she needs to do. there are people that don't want to vote for donald trump that feel like they have nowhere else to go. when you have liz cheney, dick cheney, alberto gonzales the former attorney, cassidy hutchinson, hundreds of republicans saying that donald trump should not be president again, the vice president is saying to those people, there is a place for you. liz cheney is a hard c conservatives.

it signals to those that are squishy, i can't vote for trump, but i'm not keen on her, they don't agree on much of anything but they do agree on reverence for the constitution and rolled -- rule of law. if that is good enough for liz cheney to say she will vote for kamala harris that should be good enough for them. that is the signal being sent and i think the vice president is right to go for those votes. >> what you think of that david? >> her main problem is people think she is too liberal. anything she can do to show something to the center, win over more republicans makes her more mainstream and acceptable to people that will actually decide the election. it is the most mind-boggling campaign i have covered because it started out tight and got closer. so i don't know who is winning. usually you have a sense of who has momentum and who does not, but now i could tell a story where trump wins.

among independence, trump is more popular or at least has higher approval than kamala harris. if you have a 60% approval among independence that's not a great sign. there is the hidden trump voter that the polls are picking up. she is not doing as well among hispanic voters and as long as you can tell that story trump looks good. on the other hand, his voters are low commitment voters. they could easily not show up. and, furthermore, it is ground game, from everything i'm hearing, is pretty pathetic. in a swing state, and i think the democrats had a good ground game in the swing states getting people off to vote, he has some random consultants that his campaign has hired or his super pac has hired. that doesn't work. people come out to vote if a friend or neighbor tells them to. this could give the democrats, three quarters, a point. and in pennsylvania, wisconsin,

that can make a big difference. i did tell plausible stories on both side. another hidden vote is the hidden pro-harris vote. people that don't want to tell pollsters or their neighbors, i'm going to vote for her. they will do it on at ballot box. that is where i am putting a lot of my hope, that there is a hidden harris vote. >> in the world of things that could make a difference at this point in the race we have seen a combination of liz cheney stumping for harris and the unsealing of the court filing brought by special counsel jack smith putting january 6 back front and center again in the headlines. liz cheney had this to say stumping with paris yesterday. >> donald trump was willing to sacrifice our capital to allow law enforcement officers to be beaten and brutalized in his name and to violate the law and the constitution in order to seize power for himself. >> david, when you look at this,

will it be a persuasive argument for people who have not made up their minds? >> i don't think so. all honor to liz cheney, a woman of great integrity. but i think the economy is what they should talk about 100% of the time. >> people tell us preserving democracy is important for the election. >> it is for some democrats but a lot of republicans think democracy is under assault. i have been on the road the last three or four weeks. i noticed that people don't want to talk about the election. they are like, let's not go there. but when they do, it smaller -- it is more about their own personal lives, how am i doing? and they say this every four years. i want to see more substantive policy. maybe they don't really believe that but they want a sense of something deliberate to latch onto. >> in terms of january 6, still a central part of the campaign.

talking about it again after the court filing. there were details about donald trump's actions up to and on the day itself. >> let's put the new jack smith filing into context. it came out a day or two after the vice presidential debate where governor walz asked senator vance flat out, did president biden win the 2020 election? he wouldn't answer the question. it led to a lot of conversation about the 2020 election and january 6. then the jack smith filing comes out and we get to read a lot of things we already knew and we got to read things we did not know because of direct testimony from someone like former vice president mike pence. he went under a subpoena and talk to the special counsel. i think that by having this back out as part of the national conversation and political discussion, it might have the same impact the january 6

hearings had. that is, the immediate aftermath may not look like it had any impact. but you see what happens in the 2020 midterm election where the red wave was blunted. people said that preserving democracy, threats to democracy was a big issue. the number one or two issue for what motivated them to go to the polls. soy think that what we have learned from the jack smith filing might end up having that kind of impact again. >> let's pull all this together now. you have the jack smith filing. as you mentioned we have senator vance not saying trump lost the last election, refusing to do that and you have president biden in the briefing room today asked about the upcoming election and whether it would be fair and peaceful. he said he was confident it would be fair but he wasn't sure it would be peaceful. that is quite a statement. >> he is right, of course, none of us know if it will be

peaceful. but i draw some comfort from the jack smith report. one, we learned there was really a much bigger effort. every time we learn more about the case we are and it was a bigger effort than we thought. two, and a jack smith said this, it was more a personal effort on trump's part than an official effort. he does not want community here. he is out there calling steve bannon. it's just a random collection. maybe we should do something. it is a genuine conspiracy to steal an election, do not get me wrong. but the ineffectiveness of the conspiracy, one of the arguments my colleague ross dow that has always made is he is proto-authoritarian but not effective enough to be an actual authoritarian and i got a little bit of that from the jack smith. >> hey, kids, let's put on a show. the reason it was effective was that it didn't work.

if we keep seeing this conspiracy is bigger than we thought before. it tells me the effort was more sophisticated than i think we are willing or comfortable to give credit to. >> david, do you think in some of the arguments you are hearing from senator vance and trump that they are laying the groundwork to challenge election results if they lose? >> they are filing a lawsuit in state after state laying the groundwork for sure. >> david brooks, jonathan capehart, thank you, always good to end our weekend with you. online, it see our countdown to election day, each day highlighting a new fact about this year's election. see that on our tiktok channel.

for some five decades, artist and musician laurie anderson has been redefining cultural boundaries. in a new album, she's now exploring the story of an earlier woman who reached for the heights. senior arts correspondent jeffrey brown reports for our arts and culture series, so this is where a lot of stuff happens. it happens. some of this stuff happens here. and this is mostly laurie anderson in her downtown

the audio world. laurie anderson in her downtown new york studio: altering the the sound of her voice. >> this is a standard vocoder. creating musical players with her electronic file appeared is it bright enough? is it crazy enough? is it sweet enough? beautiful enough? is it complicated enough? is it communicating enough? now she's turned her attention to a fascinating pioneer of another time and talent: amelia earhart, and her 1937 attempt to circle the globe, a flight that ended in mystery and tragedy. >> this modern world of science and invention is of particular interest to women. >> anderson uses earhart's own voice, logs and letters, layered into narration and music, >> lift me up. >> to produce a twenty-two track evocative mix of classical and electronic strings, effects, sounds and percussion.

>> all of it composed and performed by anderson joined by other singers and an orchestra to imagine her way into earhart's cockpit. >> the instruments quiver. >> i tried to think, to imagine what it would be like for a pilot to be in a little plane like that, with the motor going like achhhhh, you know for days and days! it's really not, there's no ac in this little cockpit. she's just what does that feel like? >> she also loved and connected with earhart's deep interest in the latest technology of her time. >> she was not white gloves at all. she was down in the engine and seeing what's going on and working with her mechanics and her designers. and i really admire that. >> that does sound a little like you. >> i identified with her, of course. >> you did? from the beginning? >> yeah, yeah. i just there aren't many models for women in this country for women (laugh) to do stuff. i just gravitated over to her. she's a

midwesterner also, like me. and so i kind of thought, well, why would she want to do that? >> “o superman” >> anderson has been known for asking herself and us pointed, sometimes unexpected questions since her 1981 song “o superman”, >> i said, ok, who is this really? a mix of electronic music, words and movement that became an unlikely pop hit. it was a breakthrough into the larger culture after years as an avant-garde artist. one of her early signature pieces “duets on ice”, for violin and tape recorder, " performed on streets wearing skates frozen into a block of ice. when the ice melted, the music stopped. the ethos of the 1970s new york art and music worlds she was a big part of: experiment. >> we didn't know what we were doing. we didn't but we wanted to make things so we all had

pickup trucks. we were all like diy people. we helped each other. this was, this is so key. we never thought we'd make a living doing this stuff music and dance and theater. we just wanted to experiment, make something that wasn't there. >> but somehow you did. laurie: we did. and, and it was exhilarating. over the years, in addition to her 13 albums and performances all over the world, anderson has made films, like “heart of a dog,”. written a multimedia performance based on herman melville's “moby dick”. helped create the opening ceremony for the 2004 athens olympics. and created solo exhibits of her paintings and drawings, including “the weather,” shown at the hirshhorn museum in washington dc in 2021. and even produced a series of

-- appeared in 1992 she met another downtown star, rock 'n roll legend lou reed. they were together for the next 21 years, marrying in 2008, before his death in 2013. it was a loving partnership that encompassed buddhism and tai chi as well as music, and, she says, constant artistic 'seeking and questioning' >> i talked to lou a lot about 'why' why would, why do anything? >> why do anything? >> why write this song? why do this show? what are you here, what are you doing this for? and you know the answer really is that you just look for the brightest light possible and go that way. and i talked, we had many conversations about what we were doing as artists and why we were doing it. and it was really about trying to go there (she -- trying to go there. to that. >> now 77 she is still going to new places with technology, including the world of ai. she's working with a machine learning institute in australia, which

has inputted everything she and reed wrote or recorded into a supercomputer. >> and how does that sound? >> this is not like a ouija board and i'm talking to my dead husband. really. i'm not actually crazy. but people have styles and they are real things. i am not afraid of, you know, machines taking over at all. i'm afraid of people becoming machines and you know, not not even seeing things for themselves or thinking for themselves. that is what i am afraid of. >> she's also become something of a tik tok sensation as “o superman” has been taken up and restyled by a new generation, especially her lines: “you don't know me. but i know you.” >> i was thrilled because i want to be useful. i want to have people use this for something. as i learn more and more about what stories are, i realize this is a constant, making up of new

stories,//you know, the stories you tell yourself about who you are and what you want, those are stories to help you live. and if you don't have those suddenly, it's terrifying. i mean, you'll keep living, you'll keep eating. but it's the story that keeps you going. after finishing work on 'amelia', laurie anderson has turned to an even more ambitious work about nothing less than climate change and the possible end or saving of the world. she calls it "bark -- "ark". for the pbs news hour i'm jeffrey brown with, >> with laurie anderson (laugh) been wonderful. >> be sure to tune into washington week with the atlantic tonight. moderator jeffrey goldberg and his panel discuss rising tensions in the middle east and how it could affect the u.s.

presidential election. tomorrow on pbs news weekend how hundreds of california police officers were able to keep past misconduct off their records. that's the news hour tonight. i'm amna nawaz. thank you for joining us. >> major funding for the pbs news hour provided by. and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions and friends of the newshour including kathy and paul anderson and miller and george smith. the walton family foundation working for solutions to protect during climate change so people and nature can thrive together. the william and flora hewlett foundation for more than 50 years advancing ideas and promoting institutions to -- to support a better world at hewlett.org. with the ongoing support of

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hello, everyone, and welcome to "amanpour & co." here's what's coming up. the latest from the middle east as the wider war escalates and israeli bombs pound beirut, the lebanese capital. then -- >> i know from the bottom of my soul that we will not be able to heal if the hostages don't come back. >> nearly a year since october 7th, i'm joined by o