david brooks and e.j. dionne consider what looks to be a major deal on infrastructure, the politics in reaction to the new c.d.c. guidelines, and the investigation into the january 6 capitol riot. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> fidelity wealth management. >> bnsf railway. >> consumer cellular. >> johnson & johnson. >> financial services firm raymond james. >> the john s. and james l. knight foundation. fostering informed and engaged communities. more at kf.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and friends of the newshour. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: this was a day of sobering and surprising news about how covid-19 is again accelerating in the u.s. and around the world. the world health organization said that infections are up 80% globally just in the past month, overwhelmi

david brooks, karen tumulty, thanks so much.great to have you here. >> thank you. >> woodruff: finally tonight, we couldn't finish this week without recognizing history made at the national spelling bee last night-- and the impressive young teen who won it. lisa desjardins is back with her story. >> the word is "murraya." >> desjardins: a genus of trees. that was the word that sealed her victory last night. >> m-u-r-r-a-y-a. >> that is correct! >> desjardins: 14-year-old zaila avant-garde, from harvey, louisiana, became the first african american to win the scripps national spelling bee. >> i've been, like, working on it for like, two years, and then to finally have it, like, the best possible outcome is really good. >> desjardins: the only previous black champion was an international student from jamaica: jody-anne maxwell, in 1998. >> i'm hoping that in a few years, i'll see a whole lot more african american females, and males, too, doing well in the scripps spelling bee, because it's like a really good thing, kind of a good g

. >> woodruff: and it's friday, david brooks and jonathan capehart break down the supreme court's ruling on voting rights and the criminal charges for former president trump's business. all that and more on tonight's "pbs newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> consumer cellar. >> johnson & johnson. >> financial services firm raymond james. >> the john s. and james l. knight foundation. fostering informed and engaged communities. more at kf.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the death toll rose to 22 in the collapse of that condominium tower in surfside, florida. the number of missing dropped from 145 to 126 as some turned up safe, and officials removed duplicate names. crews kept working today, after recovering two more victims overnight. the mayor said one was the seven-year-old daughter of a miami firefighter, a discove

david brooks and karen tumulty consider the u.s.stan and the new york city mayor's race. and can you spell history? the remarkable new orleans teen who won the national spelling bee. extreme heat and drought are baking the western united states and canada again this week, following hundreds of heat-related deaths in the pacific northwest last week. record-breaking temperatures are expected to return to california this coming weekend, including in the san joaquin valley, which is where william brangham is currently reporting. he joins me now from the city of visalia. you were telling us it is something like 109 degrees, another heat wave coming. tell us what it is like, and our officials there prepared? william: the technical term is it is unbelievably hot. the national weather service issued a warning that starting today through the weekend, there is an extreme heat alert and they are basically advising people that if you don't have to be outside, don't, and if you do, stay in the shade. be inside if you can and drink plenty of wate

david brooks and jonathan capehart consider the politics of the january 6 investigation, and the shifting guidance from elected leaders over vaccines. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> fidelity wealth management. >> bnsf railway. >> consumer cellular. >> johnson & johnson. >> financialervices firm raymond james. >> the john s. and james l. knight foundation. fostering informed and engaged communities. more at kf.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and friends of the newshour. >> this program was made possible by the corporation fo public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: theiden white house is keeping up the pressure tonight for more americans to get vaccinated against covid-19. infections have been surging in parts of the country-- mainly in states with low vaccination rates. but, the presint's press secretary, jen psaki, pointed today to potentially encouraging numbers from this week. >> the five states with the highest ca

david brooks and jonathan capehart analyze the massive budget blueprint in congress, and the potentially game- changing new child tax credit. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> fidelity wealth management. >> bnsf railway. >> consumer cellular. >> johnson & johnson. >> financial services firm raymond james. >> the john s. and james l. knight foundation. fostering informed and engaged communities. more at kf.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and friends of the newshour. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the biden administration sounded the alarm today about a surge of covid cases in some states, and the direct connection with low vaccination rates. the centers for disease control reported about 33,000 new covid cases in the u.s. yesterday. that is a rise in new cases of about 70%, compared with a week ago. by 36%, and the average death toll of the past week has

that is new york times colonist david brooks and jonathan capehart.th of you on this friday. it is always so good to see you. let's start with a fireworks this week. how speaker pelosi surprise a lot of people by saying i'm not going to accept two of the five republicans appointed tohis january 6 select committee. in turn, you had kevin mccarthy saying if you do that, i will pull the whole group. what did you make of this? does it move the process forward? >> it is around 947 of those in congress. we had this commission. in normal life, in a normal country, the parties would get together, leaders would get togeer, it is important to understand, we have the basic kind of person we want, one trusted by both sides, and we put honorable, trustworthy people, and we get to the answer. none of that oains, pelosi and mccarthy never get together. a few people trusted. taking the extraordinary step of appointing jim jordan a jim banks, two people exposed to the commission and would clearly undermine it. he could have picked anyone of dozens of others who would

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david brooks and jonathan capehart break down the supreme court's ruling on voting rights and the criminal charges filed against former president trump's business. all that and more on tonight's "pbs newshour." ♪ >> major funding for the newshour has been provided by -- ♪ bnsf railway. consumer cellular. johnson & johnson. financial services firm raymond james. >> more at kf.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions. and friends of the newshour. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> i'm finesse early's in for stephanie sy. we will return to judy woodruff and the full program after the latest headlines. the city of north miami beach has ordered the evacuationf a condo building after a review found it to be structurally and electrically unsafe. an audit of the 156 unit crestview tower, which is nearly 50 years old, was promed by the collapse of champ lane tower south, where the confirmed death toll has risen to 20 zero. the number of missing dropped from 145 to 1

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here to make sense of it, we have a new york times columnist, david brooks, and jonathan capehart, columnistton post. welcom i want to start with what we heard earlier in the program from the secretary of the interior, this hundred year plus long system in the united states of taking native american children from their families and putting them into boarding schools, many never sent back home, what is your sense of the process, the biden administration set up to investigate, and who should be held accountable? jonathan: i think it is terrific that secretary haaland will be leading this effort. as secretary of the interior, the first native american in a position to do that. a pueblo woman. also someone for whom this is not distant history. this is in her family. we have to investigate, we have to know our history and we have to know our history to atone for our history. we need to do that in order to be better. to be better people, to be better americans, to be a better nation. just hearing the word, boardin school, for a lot of americans, you hear boarding school and you think, you know, th

he would actually go and see us david brooks said, well, this is going to happen or this one's gonna win the election and he actually followed up and said well, how often are they correct? and he found that they were correct less than chance. yeah. wow the experts the pundits are you know, you want to be careful about that. but so what he said is well are there people that can do that that can actually forecast out a year a year and a half on complex events on politics and war and trends and marketplace and so he with langley with the cia built a website. it's called the good judgment project. i think it's called if you go to it you can see it. and they basically allowed people to make forecasts whoever engaged and then they studied the people that were actually really good at that and one of the key things they found. is that these people are are have of relationships around them? where there's a lot of disagreement, right? they have friends who will say that's a that's a ridiculous idea. you know that where they can agree to disagree respectfully, but stay in relationship and those

david wessel is the director of the hutchins center on fiscal and monetary policy at the brookings institutionoins us now. david wessel, welcome back to the "newshour". so fill us in a little more on what is driving these price increases and how significant are they? >> well, it's hard to argue that they're insignificant when you see 5% jump in prices in one year. what's driving them, in part, is that the economy has recovered faster than a lot of producers expected, so you've got demand going up and supply is not able to meet it, and that is leading to price increases, and there are also are some unusual bottlenecks -- the fact that rental car companies didn't buy a lot of cars so they're not selling a lot of cars on used car lots, is partly responsible for driving up the price of used cars. similarly, we have a chip shortage that's leading lots of things that use computer championships which is almost everything to suffer increases in prize because supply is restrained. was the federal reserve and the biden administration caught offford on this? >> yes. i think one of the things chairman pow