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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and from contributions to your pbs news station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the "newshour." the labor department today issued one of the last jobs reports before the presidential election. and the numbers are strong. 254,000 jobs are added in september beating expectations. the unemployment rate fell from 4.2 to 4.1% and wages were up averaging a gain of about 4% compared to a year ago. overall the report paints a picture of a robust american economy which for most voters remain their top issue this election year. for more, let's turn to wally adeyemo. welcome back to the "newshour." >> thank you for having me it's great to be here. amna: overall, sit a very strong report. if there are any weak spots,

there's a lingering concern around manufacture. it's the only sector that lost jobs. what explains that? >> you're right. it's a very strong jobs report. and not only the report this time, but the back revisions that showed that we created more jobs over the summer than people had known that demonstrates the progress we've made in the economy. when it comes to manufacturing, what the president has been focused on is the strategy that we build the manufacturing sector here in the united states. one of the key drivers of this job reports and over the course of this year have been construction jobs. and those construction jobs have largely tied to building manufacturing facilities based on three laws the president and vice president have gotten passed. the infrom structure law, 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 do in this country which is build things for america. >> we also did see the average duration of unemployment take 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 of the economy 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 happened during the bind -- biden-harris administration we've seen people be able to start new businesses, 19 million start businesses. and the job growth that we've seen, 70% of that job growth has come from small businesses. we've seen a record number of americans to make that choice to either work full-time, to work part-time. amna: we've seen inflation continue to tick down. it's been on a real journey over the biden administration when you look at all of those years.

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? you saw crude oil prices spike around uncertainty in the middle east for example. 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 is data that are showing that prices are coming down throughout the economy. you mentioned crude oil. today, the price of gas around the country averages $3.18. at the beginning would be closer to $4. we're seeing prices at stores come down for select goods as well. ultimately, one of the things that we have to do is continue to make that progress. but working to help to make sure the supply chains stay robust and we're able to do that in the end of the strike yesterday by

dockworkers will insure that not only goods to get to consumers but to americans who are suffering because of the hurricane. >> 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 made a great deal of progress since the panic, price first americans remain too high. that's why we're focused on trying to reduce the cost of healthcare through what we've done reducing the price ofiness din to $35. reducing the cost of medications 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, not just bringing down inflation but bringing down the prices of things for americans. but 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. 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.

amna: can i quote you the latest poll because the economy is the top issue for americans. 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 pesimism right now? and what will it take for that to shift? >> 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 and 19 million small businesses. but there's more that we need to do. 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 working faster than any other economy in the world and we're making sure that people have the opportunity to build opportunity for themselves but also for their children. amna: that's wally adeyemo joining us today. mr. deputy secretary, good to speak with you. >> thank you for having me. take care. ♪ vanessa: i'm vanessa ruiz with "newshour" west. here are the latest headlines. the u.s. supreme court has agreed to leave in place two e.p.a. rules aimed at reduing the oil and gas industries emissions of methane gas and america rim republican-led states and industry groups had asked the high court to pause the rules arguing the standards are impossible to moment 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 allegation that is the economy sales practices contribute to the trafficking of illegal weapons to drug car tells and the high court will weigh in on who gets to gets to say where nuclear waste is stored. the human rights office says the death toll of a gang in central haiti has risen to 70 people including women and children. the attack took place in the town of ponsanday. hords of people ran away from the attack. witnesses say they saw bodies with gunshot wounds strewn in the streets. the u.n. migration agency said that nearly 6300 people were displaced. the gang, one of the nation's most brutal groups claimed responsibility. that the gang's leader said it was attack for retaliation for

civilians remaining passive while vigilante groups killed his soldiers. >> police clashed in islamabad who were call starting for the release of former prime minister imran khan they tried to block the roads with cutting cell phone service. they were met with tear gas but >> we finally reached here. there were lots of obstacles on the way. the authorities have been defeated. you can place more containers on this way but this love for imran khan will never go away. >> he's been in frizz for a we're -- with 150 cases. -- prison for 150 cases.

amna: surging waters rush into homes as people slept. an entire neighborhoods were swamped. today, residents began to think about picking up the piece. >> the situation is catastrophic. the water entered people's homes. took way 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 department of homeland security announced today lit not renew a humanitarian parole program that aloud certain migrants from venezuela, cuba, haiti to come to the united states of the past two years. the change will impact hundreds of thousands of people who were cleared to arrive at u.s. airplanes as long as they passed background checks and had a financial sponsor in the u.s. parols will expire later this month. parols for people in the other countries will expire in january 2025. 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 albumin expired by amelia areahart. >> from the david m. rubinstein studio in weta, washington, and from arizona state university. amna: president biden answered questions from reporters at the white house including about israel's response to the iranian missile attack and whether benjamin netanyahu is trying to threw influence the u.s. selection. >> the israelis have not concluded what they're going to do in terms of a strike. if i were in their shoes, i would be thinking about other

alternatives than striking oils fields. no administration has helped israel more than i have. none, none, none. none. and i think bibi should remember. that and whether he's trying to influence election, i don't know. but i'm not counting on. that amna: the israeli ground invasion of lebanon continues with fully one quarter of the population displaced most in just the last two weeks. layla reports now from sidno on lebanon's southern coast as exhausted and fearful residents continue to seek shelter. >> exhausted and traumatized, lebanon streets are filled with a sudden wave of homeless and hungry souls. school is out indefinitely. they're all needed to house the more than 1.2 million display placed by their homes from the violence. on every available surface, mattresses to sleep on. those unlucky enough to find the

shelter full are ending up on the street in the baking heat and pouring rain. >> everything is destroyed back home. it's and all-out war. we fled under constant air strikes. >> he and his five young kids fled. they have 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 two taste days, techs of thousands of people have flood up this coastal highway escaping the growing lists of towns and villages that israel say it may strike. uncertainty over when and if they will be able to go home. >> >> this is what they're running from, air bombardment and shell across southern lebanon and increasingly in and around

beirut too. lebanese fear nowhere will be safe. >> last night, residents cow warred -- coward in terror as israel bombed. today in teheran, a rare appearance by the supreme leader to blame nizorala amid rumors of burial in secret. netanyahu vows iran will pay. lebanon voice it has already paid as leaders grandstand every day les here fall apart. this restaurant is headache daily free meals for thousands of displaced people inside here. 29 year-old nor has throne herself into the relief effort. >> sometimes people kind.

sometimes are asking for food. sometimes people are asking for clothes or shelter to -- where to sleep. sometimes it's someone you know or your friend at school, at the old school, we're neighbors. so when you hear that someone is dead or someone is injured and you can't help them, this is so sad. >> just down the road, community answer the call to action too. they fought they were safe here. they never imagined they would be victims themselves. julia ramadna and her mother with your among those buried in a mass funeral days later. coffin after coffin, a community in mourning. julia had been volunteering making food for displaced families. she had come home from her student accommodation in beirut thinking it's 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. >> last sunday, after delivering sandwiches to those seek shelter, the family came home to rest. then two missiles smashed into the building. julia's brother was buried under the rubble. he was still there when his friends calling to him told him his mother was dead. >> i thought maybe she 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 his sister he calls his hardest confidant,

ashra is struggling to keep going and to forgive. >> all your 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 with her a few minutes ago. >> you still send her text messages? >> yes. >> i told her i will come in a little bit. she see how much people are talking about you. how much are you a hero. she's my hero. >> just one of many shattered families here. civilians say they were caught up in a war they don't want to

fight they fear no one is listening. for the pbs news00 i'm layla milana allen, inside lebanon. amna: monday marks one year since the terror attacks in israel. the israeli bombing and invasion of has exacted a terrible price on gaza's people with an estimation that 1-20 people has been killed or wounded. "newshour" videographer worked with producers to bring us this report on a year in hell. >> to this day, mohammed madi amkunsna cannot fathom his incomprehensible loss. he walks us through his home. a donated canvas shelter with sorrowful reminders. the doll that will never be held, the clothe that is 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 certificates too. >> in august, horror, his wife of one year, her body under the shroud. her name in pen. the doctor and three-day old asar the family said all killed in an israeli air strike. in gaza today, death can arrive as death 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 bitsiers because she chose their names. only five minutes later, i started the process to get their death certificates. >> he was a pharmacist at a private cling. their twins were their first born. and like everyone here the family fled from multiple homes. first from gaza city to rafa and

back to darabala in search of safety. on facebook, she used to talk about the victims until she became one. >> how is a woman living in a safe zone who recently gave birth is living under 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 stopped by by fear and dominated by death. the abed kids are among tense of thousands of orphans adopted by their uncle after his brother, their father magdi was killed last october. , are magdi was my brother, my friend, my everything. i was devastated. the sibling survived by chance,

their 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. their grate to feel 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 israel and killed 812 civilians and more than 400 security personnel. israel says it has absolute victory over hamas, with the punishing air and ground campaign to eradicate hamas and return the hostages. they blame civilian deaths on

hamas. >> hamas places their weapons in school, mosques. they do this in order to win immunity and to maximize civilian casualties. gaza's health ministry which answers to hamas says that more than 5% of the gaza strip has been killed or wounded. 900 families wiped out entirely from the civil registry and in more than 1300 cases only one family member survived creating the macabre labeled wound child, no surviving family. but all the numbers may prove an undercount. >> there are 8,000, 10,000 martyrs missing since the beginning of these attacks. >> this doctor works at the hospital one of the few hospitals still functioning. he helps the health ministry public the daily death tolls. it's a pain staking effort

because many of gaza's more than 2 million displaced don't have id's. >> 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 dom the hospital have no identification since october passion forces destroyed their homes an whatever was in it. and destruction breeds despair. 4 year-old ragad holds her father tight hoping he can heal her. but ismael feels hopeless. he can only provide comfort, no cure. ragadal huli has cancer, hugh or thes under both eyes that cause severe pain. >> i feel like my heart is being ripped apart. i wish i could 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. so 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 your treatment, it could lead to her blindness. she was a smart girl. she could run and play. but ever since getting the tumors, she's completely changed. one year later, gazan's infrastructure and lives are unrecognizable. they've lived through multiple wars, but after this one, nobody will be the same. for the pbs newshour i'm nick shiffrin. amna: on monday, nick will speak with families of israeli hostages and with a released hostage looking back on this tray traumatic year in their own words.

turning now to the presidential race. vice president kamala harris is campaigning across michigan while 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. lisa: among the question first the departing president, politics monday tamara keith asked mr. biden about the upcoming election and whether it will be free, fair and peaceful. >> two separate questions. i'm confident it will be free and pair. i don't know whether it will be peaceful. the things that trump has said and the things that 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. i think we're going to do very well but right now we're focused on. this we're not focused on the selection. >> trump was on the ground in evans, georgia, meeting members of the national guard, shake hands meeting an old foe in brian kemp. the duel appearance raised the spector of 2020. kemp took months to endorse trump and trump attacked him for years when he refused to question georgia's 2020 results. and just t this week, >> the federal government is not being responsive. >> trump falsely claimed that trump couldn't get ahold of president biden in the hurricane aftermath. kemp said that he did connect and was grateful to biden in his remarks today he focused on the recovery in state. >> what they're going through, what we're going through is a living nightmare. we're going to continue to pull

together as we go through this together. >> by tend at this first meeting of the two, he and trump appeared congenial. trump's running mate ohio senator j.d. vance was in the peach state looking ahead in lindell. >> we're focused on the future in this election and 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 nine years in prison. once a hero to election deny jers, she was found guilty of a security breach involving the county's voting machine. >> 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

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 that storm occurred there. and rescuers are still searching for victims one week on. for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. ♪ amna: a week after hurricane helene devastated parts of the south east coast residents in some states are still trying to get the very basics nay they need, water, foo food and 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 resident in some of the hardest hit areas around asheville and in western north carolina and eastern tennessee about what life looks like now. >> if the past week, tens of thousands of people like emily big delow have learned how to live without modern plumbing. now forced to rely on creek water, she carries it by hand back to her house to make her toilet run. >> so a full bucket gets about two flushes. >> they're saying probably weeks before we can get water again. again, which you take for granted being able to flush a toilet. >> for three years, big delower and her partner have shared this home in asheville, north

carolina in the quiet foothills of the blue ridge mountain. but last friday morning they woke up to a community transformed overnight. in just three days, hurricane helene dumped over 17 inches of rain on to this surrounding area. part of the trillions of galls of water that helene released. in north carolina, it triggered catastrophic floods, more than 500 miles away from florida where helene came ashore. >> i don't know of anyone in the community in asheville or the surrounding area that is were ready for this -- areas that were ready for. this >> over 70 supreme been confirmed dead. it's a death toll that is expected to rise because search undereats cue teams from around the nation are still looking for hundreds of missing people here and in neighboring communities. >> for the first couple of days, i just kind of felt paralyzed.

i haven't walked over to look at the bad areas of the city because i just don't think i can handle it. >> bigelow is coping by doing what so many other residents are doing, helping others like maude adams. >> it's help med to just be able to help people. trauma really brings people together. >>er to off the end. the -- tore off the end. the roof. >> adams has lived here for more than 40 years. but she hasn't left in a week since the storm knocked this massive tree on to her front porch. adam says she's been through floods before, but nothing like this. >> this time, i've never seen it as bad as it is now. and i've been in this one place since 1981 >> like so many in this region,

she has no power, no water, no access to the outside world except the transistor radio. >> her sister died this year. she says the isolation has been tough. >> you want a hug? >> but like so many, she's thinking of others. >> you just think about other people. they have a lot worse than i have. at least i've got my home yet. >> just across the border in eastern tennessee, reverend brooks rahm say has been collecting donations to send out to the hard-hit towns nearby like new port and del rio. >> this is the first truck of the day. and there are many more packages. >> right before i came home with you, the new port 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. if you name it, we had it. he's determined not to let the nation forget what's unfolding here. >> these people are easily forgotten. it's very easy to forget us. and then there's everything going on in the world too. so there are all these distraction and people just get lost in the shuffle. >> among those lost in the shuffle is her family friend sabrina who was working in irwin, tennessee when floodwaters swept through the town. >> she was loaded up on a flat bed. and with an indeterminate number of people it got swept away by the water. and sabrina is still missing. >> earlier this week, president biden toured the devastation by air ordering 1,000 active duty troops from nearby fort liberty to assist in the recovery effort. he called the storm which

intensify rapidly the moment it hit the warm water as clear warning about climate clang. >> nobody can deny the impact of climate crisis. they must be brain dead if they do. >> back in asheville, residents like emily agree. >> this is definitely a huge wake-up call. climate change is real. this kind of devastation really sends things home on -- on where we're at now, how fast things are changing and how different life is going to look. >> look how big that is out yonder writ comes across the fence. >> but 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 newshour, i'm

william brangham. >> a major endorsement is at the center for the race of the white house this week. that and the latest trump election interference case. we turn to the analysis of brooks and capehart that's david brooks and jonathan capehart associate editor for "the washington post." it's great to see you both here. we've missed have you both together. it's a nice reunion let's stewart the state race, shall we? let's start with the marist poll which shows in the national head-to-head. harris is up within two points within the margin of error. there was another rollout of republicans backing her. liz chainy but a number of other women who had worked in the white house including cassidy hutchison. in these crucial final weeks, the focus seems on pulling in

conservative, independents, former nikki haley voters. there's some consternation that she's not doing enough to shore up her base. >> you're trying to trigger me, aren't you? look, and i say this to my progressive friends, you know with love. calm down. the vice president has been talking to them, presenting, you know, some things that they like for months now -- for weeks now. in a race that's going to be decided on the margins where it's going to come down a few thousand votes in a few states. she is doing what she needs to do. there are people who don't want to vote for donald trump who feel like they don't have anywhere else to go. and when you have a liz cheney, dick cheney, alberto gonzales, the former attorney general, alyssa fara, cassidy hutchinson, hundreds of republicans saying

donald trump should not be president again -- the vice president is out there saying to those people, there is a place for you. and when liz cheney -- i mean, she is a conservative, hard c conservative. so that signals to those squishy can't vote for trump and i'm not keen on her, signals to them they don't agree on much of anything. but they do agree on their reverence to the conitution and the rule of law. and that if -- if that is good enough for liz cheney to say she's going to do vote for kamala harris, then that should be good enough for them. it's good to ask for those votes. >> if progressives were happy she would be 20 points now. her main problem is people think she's too liberal. anything she can do to show something for the senator, win over for republicans. that makes her seem more main stream and more accept to be the people who are going to decide

the election. this is the most mind boggling campaign. it started out tied and it got closer. i don't know who's winning. usually you have a sense of who has the momentum and who doesn't? doesn't. i could tell where trump wins. among independents, trump is more popular, at least has higher aproves. if you have a 60% negative approves, that's not a good sign. that's where trump wins. and then the hidden trump voters the polls are not picking up. she's not doing well among hispanic voters. you can tell that trump is actually looking good. on the other hand, his voters are low -- low commitment voters. and so they could easily not show up. on the other end -- and following further more, his ground game from everything i'm hearing is pretty pathetic. and so if swing state -- if one side, i think democrats had a really good ground game in the swing states getting people out to vote and he has some random

consultants who his campaign has hired or his pack has hired, that just doesn't work. people come out to vote if a friend or neighbor tells them to vote. that could give the democrat as vote. that could make a big difference. i could tell plausible stories on both sides. >> and i would add another potential hidden vote. and that's the hidden pro-harris vote. people who don't want to tell their neighbors that i'm actually going to vote for her. and they'll do -- they'll do it in the ballot box. that is -- firstly, that's where i'm putting a lot of my hope that there is a hidden harris vote in that regard. amna: in the world of what could make a difference in this race, we've seen liz cheney stumping for harris and the sealing of this court filing that was brought by jack smith put january 6 back front and center in the headlines. and cheney had this to say with harris 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. amna: so david, when you look at that, is this going two a% sway active argument for people who haven't made up their minds? >> i don't think so. she's a woman of great integrity. but you know, i just think the economy is what they should be talking about 100% of the time. amna: even though people tell us preserving democracy is important. >> it is for some people, democrats. but remember a lot of republicans think democracy is under assault. i've been on the road. i've been missing you but i've been on the road for the last three or four weeks. and the first thing i noticed is that people don't want to talk about the election. they're just like -- let's not go there. >> really? >> but when they do, it's more about their own personal lives, like how am i doing? i think getting down -- and then

they -- they say this every four years. i want to see more meat from her and substance and policy maybe they don't believe that. but they want to see something deliverable that they can attach to her. >> what do you think? >> which part? >> we're talk about the campaign and that court filing there are some new details about specially donald trump's action leading up to. it came out either a day or two where governor walz asked vance did president biden win the 2020 election and he didn't answer the question. jack smith filing comes out and then be we get to read a lot oh things that we already knew. but then we got to read things that we didn't know and that is because of direct testimony from

someone like former vice president mike pence who went under subpoena and talked to the special council. and so i think by having this back out as part of the -- the national conversation, political discussion, i think it might have the same impact that the january 6 hearings had which is in the immediate aftermath might not look like it had any kind of impact but you look and saw what happened in the 2022 midterm elections where the r wave was blunted and people said i think it was preserving democracy or threats to democracy was a big issue. number one or number two issue for what motivated them to go to the polls. and so i think what we've learned from the jack smith filing might end up having that kind of impact again. amna: let's pull all this together now because you have the jack smith filing. you've got as you mentioned senator vance not saying that trump lost the last election refusing to do.

that then you had president biden in the briefing room today when he was asked for the upcoming election and asked whether it would be fair or peaceful. said he was confident it would be fair but he wasn't sure it would be peaceful. and david that is quite a statement coming at this point. david: he's right. none of us know whether it's going to be peaceful. i can draw some comfort from the jack smith report in that one, we learned that there really was a much bigger effort. every time we learn from this case, we learned it was a bigger effort than we thought. and two, jack smith said this it was a personal effort than official effort on part of the presidency as president. he's trying to get -- he doesn't want there to be immunity here. he's out there calling steve bannon. he's calling some other mope. it's just a random collection of maybe we should do something. and so the -- it's a general win conspiracy to steal the election but the ineffectiveness of the conspiracy -- one of i it's

arguments my colleague made is he's proto-authoritarian. i got that vibe from the jack smith report. >> hey, kids let's put on a show. the only reason why it wasn't effective is because it didn't work. the fact that we keep seeing that this conspiracy was much bigger than we thought before tells me that it -- that effort was a whole lot more sophisticated than i think we're willing or comfortable to give -- give credit to. amna: david, do you think in some of the arguments we're hearing from senator vance and trump they're laying groundwork to challenge the election results if they lose? >> oh, for sure. they're filing a zillion lawsuits in state after states to try to under mine that. they're laying that predicate for that challenge. amna: david brooks, jonathan capehart. always good to see you here and end our week here. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> and online, you can see our own lisa desjardins countdown to

election day. each day, they will highlight a new fact about this year's election. you can see that on our tiktok channel. ♪ amna: for some five decades, artists and musician laurie anderson has been redefining cultural boundaries. she's been telling the story of a woman who has been reaching the arts. >> it is where a lot of stuff happens. >> it happens. some of this stuff happens here. and this is -- this is mostly the audio world. >> laurie anderson and her downtown new york studio altering the sound of her voice. >> this is a standard vote coder. >> if you sound different, you're a different person. >> so this, you can make more

sy mphonic. >> creating musical layers with her viola. for 50 years she's been a pioneer of story-telling a happy uncategorize cal artist of all time. >> there are ways of making things that it doesn't matter what the material is in a way if i'm playing the violin or if i'm eight, i'm using the same arm. i'm asking myself the exact same questions. is it great enough? it is crazy enough? is it sweet enough in 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. >> take off. may 20th. >> amelia earhart and her 1937 attempt to circle the globe, a flight ended in mystery and tragedy. >> this modern world of science and invention is of particular against to women. >> anderson uses her own voice,

and letters layered into for that vacation and music. to produce a 22-track evoke active mix of classical and electronic strings, effects, sounds and percussion. >> all of it composed and for formed by anderson joined by singers and an orchestra to imagine her way into her cockpit. >> so i try to imagine what it would be like for a pilot to be in a little plane like that with the motor going like ah, days and days. it's really hot. >> what did it feel like? >> she also loved and connected with her deep interest in the latest technology of her time. >> she was not white gloves at all. she was down in the engine and seeing, you know, 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, i just -- there aren't many models for women in this country to do stuff. i just gravitated over to her. she's midwestern like me. so i kind of thought, why would she want to do that? >> anderson has been known for asking herself and her pointing to unexpected questions since her 1981 song named "superman." ♪ a mix of electric music, words and movement that became an unlikely pop hit. it was a breakthrough into the larger culture as years as an avanguard artist. duets on ice for violin and tapered per formed on streets

wearing skates frozen into a block of ice. when the ice melted the music stopped. the ethos of the new york art and music world 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. d.i.y. we helped each other. this is so key. we never thought we would maybe a living doing this stuff. music and dance and theater. we were just -- wanted to experiment. make something that wasn't there. >> but somehow, you did. >> and it was exhilarating. >> over the years in addition to her 13 albums and performances all over the world, i'm going to tell you a story -- >> anderson has made films like "heart of a dog." written a multi-media performance based on moby-dick.

helped with the 2004 athens olympics and created paintings and drawings including weather shown at the museum in washington, d.c. in 2021. in 1992, she met another downtown star rock 'n' roll legend lou reid. they were together for the next 21 years, marring 2008 before his death in 2013. it was a loving partnership that encompassed buddhism and tai c chi. and she said constant questioning. >> i talk to lou a lot about why do anything? why do anything? why write this song? why do this show? you know, what do you hear -- here doing this for? >> and the answer is that you look for the brightest light possible and go that way.

we have many conversation about what we were doing as artist and why were doing it. -- artists and why we were doing it and it was really about going there to that. >> now 77, anderson is still going to new places with technology including the world of a.i. she's working with a machine learning institute in australia which is inputted everything she and reid wrote or recorded into a super computer. >> and how does that sound? >> this is not like a wee gee board. i'm not actually crazy. but people have styles. they are real things. i'm not afraid of machines take over. i'm afraid of people being machines. that's what i'm afraid of. >> she's become something of a tiktok sensation as "o superman" has been 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 -- is a constant. the stories you tell yourself about who you are and what you want, those are stories to help you live. if you don't have those suddenly, it's terrifying. i mean you'll keep living and eating but it's the story that keeps you going. >> after finishing working on amelia, she's turned to a more ambitious work about nothing less than climate change and the possible end or saving of the world. she calls it ark. for the pbs newshour -- >> i'm jeffery brown with laurie anderson.

>> and be sure to tune into "washington week" with the atlantic. moderator jeffery goldberg and his panel discuss the rising tensions in the u.s. and you how it could affect the u.s. presidential election. and tomorrow, how hundreds of california police officers were @able to keep past misconduct of their records. and that is the "newshour" for tonight. i'm amna nawaz, on behalf of the entire "newshour" team, thank you for joining us. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- ♪ >> and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions and friends of the "newshour" including kathy and paul anderson and camilla and george smith. the walton family foundation, working for solutions to protect water during climate change, so

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