we need to know how many tesd, we nhat the capacity is, what the supply chain is, so we can build up to that and make sure we have it. they're not transparent about that. and they're not rl about it. >> woodruff: so when the admiral, the assistant secretary at h.h.s. was saying in the hearing that there wld be 40 to 50 million tes being done in the month pof setember, are you saying that doesn't sound like enough? goal is, but i will also tell you that i have heard them throw tiose numbers out time anme and time again nowing since the middle ofd february, never having reached them. so the answer that you really need is how many will we need in september, and how are you going to produce them? and that's what we don't se no transparency into that. >> woodruff: we heard fromve. senator cassidy just now. he sai "i'm more concerned about testing protocols than i am about the sheer number ofat ? >> well, i think it's close. i think we need the knowledge. what testing is it really gives yoe the knowledge to make decision you need if you're just saw if it'sy and you want to your elderly mot

and then you have-- you take people out of nhat system.'ve got sort of a broken ship, and now you've got fewer sailors to steer the ship. so we just know it wasn't good. >> brangham: all right, david mcswane of propublica,reat reporting. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> woodruff: now, to help us break down the week in politics, we turn to the analysis of ooks and marcus. that's "new york times" columnist david brooks, and "washington post" coluis ruth marcus o >> not a ljoy on this new years day but we're really, really glad to see both of you. thank you for being here. let's start david for looking back i'm sorry at 20 and lessons learned. i think we all agree it's been a terrible year thanks to the pandemic but whatre you taking away from it? >> brooks: yes i wish i could come up with sometng goodknbut, yo, this wa a year we sort of lost faith in ourselves. we were failedy our institutions including the cridz and the tifda bime. we were failed each other, americans alsay indivitic, but in a social body in a crisis the

nhat does that mean for the people who live in of these 22 states or anywhere, for that matter?t should they do to protect themselves? >> two things. one, wheyou get cases, they need to be isolated and keep people segregated away from the ople who clearly have measles, but getting back to the firstes order of busis to make sure that you're up to date on your vaccinations, and at's the message we really want to get out to people. if you have good documentation of your vaccination, you're fine. if you have been born before 1957 or an olndividual, it is likely that you were infected with measles, you're okay. if you're not sure of what your vaccination status, is thenewhat yo to do is a couple of things, if you're an adult, get vacs united for the measles, single shot, because there is no harm in doing that, or you can go to a physician and find ou if you're immune. but the bottom line of all of this, judy,s to make surthat we vaccinate our children and, if you're an adult, tcheck and see if you've had the full component of te vacinations. >> woodruff: and i was reading, for some p

nhat is it like there? >> well, i tell you, i am here at the base camp, and the hosest active fire from us here is about severurs away by car. and it is veroy sm even here. my cameramen and i were out about half an hour away today in a rural area, ad it was so smoky that we could hardly be mooutside our vehicle fo than a couple minutes. we were wearing our m-95 recommended mask, but it was really tough out there. regionally, the smoke has been hovering over much of northern california fothe past ten days. stretching all the way fm the sierra nevada mountains down to the bay are i spoke a little while ago to an official from the sacramento metro air qualy district, and he said that they have been monsterring really unhlthy air levels for -- since last friday. what that means is that individuals who don't have underlying health conditions could be suspectable to healthst impacts even jgoing outside for a few minutes, and especially pregnant women, oler adults, and young children, sta inside until tomorrow whe

is going to hugely advance child pr and cause the boy scouts of america other and organizations to nhat only ve to disclose the secrets and the identities of hee offenders and those that chose to protect but be held accountable in a way theyad never have to because they have been able to hide behind the statutof limitations an use that as a sword and a shield. the removal of that statute of limitations in new york and elsewhere is now gog to advance child protection and going to require these institutions to comean and speak truth. >> yang: the boy scouts say they continue to evaluate their financial situation. are you concerned-- or what would a bankruptcy by the scouts do to plaintiffs like the ones you represent? o well, lok, if the boy scouts go ginto reorganization, weyhat call chapter 11, what they really do is stop litigation in its tracks, and keep us and the survivors from disclosing and discouraging all this information to protect kids. i expect they may do that. and they mayclaim that they don't have the ability to pay these claims. but the real reali is that they and a lot o

nhat's what we expected but she's taking an o shot to ronald reagan, who most of america admire, butvegres think many of his policies lead to what we have now. but asou and erica said, the issue is this giant field, there are almost as many ways to slicet as people in it. let's talk about the declared presidential candidates. three democrats have rec themself. john delaney of maryland, registeredregistered ojetta, frm west virginia. dwight from west virginia, a bronze star, anndd w yang and he's a nonprofit exec and someone who worked in the obama administration. all three of those running, done, they're out there. who's exploring the concept? now we have these two, julian castro was the first big name to announce, we knewn november he was going to be an exploratory committee, and elizabeth warren today. julian castro sad h wold announce in november. prepare yourselv, this ist 20 photos, and i went to one of yours. i knowhe more people out there, we're probably going to get e-mails about ias other people v. i like this group because this shows you a little bit of the contours of those

more securing their doors, making sure things were safe before leaving work this evening just to see nhatpens as evening falls here. >> ifill: we've seen in your report and others lots of conversation about the people who are speaking out in support of michael brown, who are very unhappy about what they anticipate this decision will be. do you hear at all from people who are in support of darren wilson or in support of law enforcement in this? >> you know, we did. it's easy for us to go and film a protest. it's a little harder because a lot of the folks we spoke to didn't want to appear on camera or give us their names. i spoke to one woman today who organized an online community that does support darren wilson and says he deserves due process, he is indent until proven guilty. they feel he has been unfairly treated in the public and by protesters alike. so there's a lot of folks out here who seem very far apart in their feelings on this, but they all feel the same degree of anxiety, i think. >> ifill: the alderman said people should be angry but also patient. is that message resonating?

t politics is nhat complicated. people do things that, if they get somesort of reward for it.f voters said, you know watt?k i thcompromise is the most important asset somebody can bring to the table and i'm only going to vote for them who show bipartisanship and compromise, we would likely get a different congress. but unss or until primary voters decide that's an important value, the values that we have now, the zero-sum politics, that's going to continue. >> the hilarious thing is, the public, everybody says, i just yont congress to get things done. know, i want them to work with each other. then they're like, but i hate the other rty, they're the worst. >> but don't work with that agreen, and don't ever with so and so. >> yang: amy walter, tamera keith, thank you very much. >> you're welcom >> yang: president trump marked s bor day today by attacking the head of americggest labor union. the president said a.f.l.-c.i.o. chief richard trumka spoke "so ainst the working men and esmen of our country and the suof the u.s. itself that it is easy to see why unions are riing so poo

nhat said, it still doesn't mea she's not going to be able to strip the provisions out of the bill or at least one stripped out of the bill before it arrives on governor scott's desk. >> svasan: we reached out to marijuan marion hammer and st coopere in the profile. mike sties, thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> sreenasan: china's ruling communist party proposed sunday to remove term limits on the fice of president. that means xi jinping, who heads the party and the military, may never have to leave office. as william brangham tells us now, it sets xi up to be t most powerful leader of china since mao zedong. >> brangham: the surprise proposal to amend china's constitution would eliminate the current limit of two-terms for china's presidents. that limit was designed to avoid a cult of personaly developing, similar what grew around mao zedong, the founder of the modern chinese state. with us now to unpack what this mes for china, the u.s., a the wider world is christopher johnson. he served as a top china analyst at the c.i.a., and he's now the freeman chair in

flexibility, but for senators, including inhofe, they say acting actually erhodesth ity in the military and nhat no act secretary is see overseas as someone in charge. we've now been without a full secretary for more than six months. they say that is a problem. >> woodruff: lisa desjardins, yamiche alcindor,thank you both. >> wdruff: and in the day's other news, u.s.-iran tensions are still running high, amid new milita are playing down a possible confrontation. iran president hassan rouhan insisted today that his nation will not wage war. u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo said that sending 1,000 mo troops to the region is esterrent, not an escalation. foreign affairs condent nick schifrin takes it from >> schifrin: in washington today, the u.s. and european top diplomats presented a unite front, but te sharply divided on iran.ei e.u. forgn affairs chief federica mogherini's visit came less than 24 hours after that ikoop announcement, which secretary of statepompeo described as strictly defensive. >> president trump does not want war, and we will continue to whcommunicate that messagee doing t