yang: congrats.o we are in the midst of this winner take all economy, and the question is how to we balance it or turn it around? bernie and elizabeth champion a wealth tax, which i understand and even agree with in spirit, but i am a facts and figures guy, and when they rolled out a wealth tax in germany, france, sweden, denmark, and half a dozen other countries, it did work and they repealed it in all of those places. so to me, if we do not learn from the experience of other developed countries who tried something, do we think the wealthy in america are somehow more excited about participating in a wealth tax than the wealthy in germany, sweden, france, and denmark? they are probably worse if anything, right? that would be the argument you make, it is going to work better here because -- why? because we are somehow different than their wealthy? the question is, how do you turn that around and balance the economy in a meaningful way? the way i would do it is through this value added tax that falls m

andrew yang. ♪ mr. yang: how are you? it is phenomenal to be here. love campaigning here in iowa every day, because you are among the most powerful, influential people in our country. i know it doesn't feel like it, just checking out the presidential candidates, but i have done the math. do you know how many californians each iowa caucus-goers is worth? 1000 californians each. look around this cafe. how many of us are here together? i will give a trumpian estimate. there are 900 people here. [laughter] the biggest crowd anyone has ever seen. i think there are 50 people, but 50 audio when caucus-goers is ane equivalent of -- iow caucus-goers is the equivalent of a football stadium of californians. if you have seen any of the tv ads, raise your hand. that is good, because we spent a lot of money on those ads. you will know i am not a career politician. i am running in large part to address a challenge, a question we have been struggling with for the last three plus years. that challenge is this. why is donald trump our president today? how did he win i

what we find in the yang gang is that we have another term for yang curious.it is soon to be yang gang. that is synonymous. somebody shout out for me, if you are yang curious, what has drawn you here today that might not have drawn you here a month or two ago? >> our granddaughter likes him. "our granddaughter likes them." how old is your granddaughter? >> almost 18. she is mr. marchand: when does she turn 18? [laughter] mr. marchand: hold on, folks, i need to know this answer. march. i like that. the number of people -- i do not mean to offend. i have been bald for a long time. at one point, this was a choice. not anymore. it was, until a few months ago, the reality was that most of the folks that were showing up in a room like this were pretty young and quite male. while i am a relatively young and quite male person, we had to the reality is that we had to diversify in order to grow our coalition. and what i see here are folks that are now saying, it is my kids, it is my grandkids, they are the ones who got turned on me turned on to at least take a look at a

yang: i love you too. chants of "andrew yang!" mr. yang: thank you so much, new hampshire. love you, too. this is not an easy decision. endings are hard. i always have the intention to stay in this phrase until the very end. i have been persuaded that the message of this campaign will not be strengthened by staying in any longer. this is not an ending. this is a beginning. [cheering] this is just the starting line. this campaign has awakened something fundamental in our country and and ourselves. this movement has outlasted over a dozen senators governors, and members of congress to become the most exciting force in the race. we have fundamentally shifted the politics of this country. and we are only beginning to grow. i would like to thank my incredible staff and people who left their lives and jobs to build this campaign. many people join this campaign because they thought it would be a good career move. thank you. thank you to my team. michael when i first started running was to serve the problems -- solve the problems that got donald trump elected. i will support whoeve

yang yang! the great things, if i didn't want to attend an event and he went-- ( cheers and applause ) ( laughter ) ( piano riff ) >> stephen: cnbc wouldn't know the difference. >> they clearly wouldn't know. >> stephen: okay, here's this big news-- i mean, this is damn big news. so the yang gang just got one man bigger. this is you thanking dave chappelle, and "welcome to the yang gang, do this for our kids." ( cheers and applause ) that's a huge get. that is one of the coolest celebrity endorsements i've ever seen. how did this come about? >> oh, dave's people reached out to my people, we got together for an hour-plus and just really connected. he's a parent, i'm a parent, we both are really concerned about the way the country is going, and we want to be able to do better and say to our kids we did everything we could to actually leave a country we're proud of for them. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: good luck with the campaign-- good luck with the campaign. 12 months ago, you were random

what we find in the yang gang is that we have another term for yang curious. it is soon-to-be yang gang. somebody shout out for me, if you are yang curious, what has drawn you here today that might not have drawn you here in month or two ago? >> our granddaughter likes him. >> our granddaughter likes them. may i ask how old is your , granddaughter? >> almost 18. >> when does she turn 18? [laughter] hold on, folks. i need to hear this answer. march. that is great for the general. thate as much about that, andrew yang is going to be our nominee, folks. the number of people -- i do not mean to offend, and i have been bald for a long time. at one point, this was a choice. not anymore. it was, until a few months ago, the reality was that most of the folks showing up in a room like this were pretty young and quite male. and while i am a relatively young and quite male person, we had to diversify in order to grow our coalition. and what i see here are folks who are now saying, it is my kids, grandkids, they are the ones who got turned on to take a look at andrew yang

yang: 1000 californians each. [cheers] mr. yang: look around the stadium tonight.are here together? i will give a trumpian estimate. 80,000 people here tonight. [cheers] mr. yang: the biggest crowd anyone has ever seen. [cheers] mr. yang: there are legitimately 7000 people here tonight. that is like 7 million californians and voting power. that is the power you all have to move our country forward and address a challenge, a problem we have been struggling with for the last several years. that problem, that challenges this. why is donald trump our president? [cheers] mr. yang: if you turn on cable news, you would think he was our president because of a combination of russia, racism, facebook, the fbi, the electoral college, on and on. but we know different. i'm a numbers guy, new hampshire. i was well educated here. the numbers tell a very clear and direct story as to why donald trump is our president today. he's a president because we eliminated 4 million manufacturing jobs in this country in michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin, missouri, iowa, and it happened

evel evel evel evelyn yang is breaking her silence.d accused the same doctor of something similar. it's a secret that yang kept for years even from members of her own family. she is now sharing her story for the first time exclusively with dana bash, and i should warn you, parts of her story are tough to listen to. >> evelyn yang has a story so secret she never even shared it with most of her own family. but spending time with her husband, presidential candidate andrew yang on the campaign trail and hearing so much gratitude from voters for talking about son christopher's autism made her feel newly empowered. >> meeting people and seeing the difference that we've been making already has moved me to share my own story about it, about sexual assault. >> it was 2012, she was pregnant with her first baby and found an ob/gyn who had a good rep takes, dr. robert hadden. initially she says her visits were routine, but after a few months, things changed. >> it started with inappropriate questions around how intimate i was with my husband, sexu

yang, we told you. mr. yang: i am a data-driven guy.ng $40 billion plus into the hands of black and brown communities every month is going to be a major positive. and if we learn things that we can make even better, i am all for it. but i am talking about the wholesale eradication of poverty in our society, which we should have done decades ago. to get worse.ng median african-american household net worth is projected to go to zero by 2053 if we don't do anything about it. why is that? because we are in the midst of an economic transformation. and we know who suffers the most when you have a tidal wave come in it is black and brown , communities who have low resources to respond to it. so we have to start rewriting the rules of our economy to work for us, for you, to work for your families. we can talk about the way in which we calibrate the tens of millions of dollars we put into people's hands right now, and i am going to be all for it as president. first, we eradicate poverty then start building a beautiful structure on top of it. >>

what we find in the yang gang is that we have another term for yang curious.t is soon to be yang gang. somebody shout out for me, if you are yang curious, what has drawn you here today that might not have drawn you here in month or two ago? >> our granddaughter likes him. >> our granddaughter likes them. how old is your granddaughter? >> almost 18. turn 18?oes she >> [inaudible] >> march. i like that. the number of people -- i do not mean to offend. i have been bald for a long time. at one point, this was a choice. not anymore. ago, theew months reality was that most of the folks showing up in a room like this were pretty young and quite male. relatively young and quite male person, we had to diversify in order to grow our coalition. i see folks now saying, it is my kids, grandkids, they are the ones who got turned on to take a look at andrew yang. indeed, the way that we win the election is by pulling and people that maybe were not too excited in 2016 or were not eligible to vote in 2016. get them excited for a generation. when you get young people excited to

>>> also tonight, evelyn yang, the wife of andrew yang, speaking out publicly, revealing painful allegations of being assaulted by her doctor. >>> he was arrested in his office, and he was let back to work. that's what's very painful is knowing that actually what happened to me could have been prevented. >> you're going to hear her unbelievable story, evelyn yang's story later on in this hour, stay tuned. >>> i want to get to today's historic news, the impeachment trial of president trump officially under way right now, joining me is pamela brown, amanda carpenter as well and frank bruni. frank, the seriousness and gravity of this moment, do you think it's sinking in for senators? they're going to have to sit in silence for six days a week. >> i think it is, i hope it is, it's hard to believe it wouldn't when they took an oath and the chief justice of the supreme court is over there administering an oath. >> powerful moment. >> it was extremely powerful, but it was also really, really sad. they all said they were going to administer impartial justice and we know at the end of this the forego

. >>> evelyn yang, the wife of 2020 presidential candidate andrew yang, is revealing something tonight she kept secret for years. something that she didn't even tell her husband about for months. it is a cnn exclusive interview. let's go "outfront." >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the breaking news. the fate of trump's presidency now in the hands of the senate. >> all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment while the house of representatives is exhibiting to the senate of the united states articles of impeachment against donald john trump, president of the united states. >> and with that proclamation by the sergeant at arms, the historic impeachment trial of president trump is now under way. the chief justice, john roberts, and 99 senators, swearing in this afternoon. >> will all senators now stand and remain standing and raise their right hand. do you solemnly swear that in all things april pertaining to the trial of the impeachment of donald john trump, president of the united states, now pending, you will do impartial justice according to

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ensure max protein. >>> evelyn yang, the wife of 2020 presidential candidate andrew yang, is revealing something that she kept secret for years. even from her husband. for first time yang is speaking out about being a survivor of sexual assault. she is sharing hercl exclusively with dana bash. her story is graphic and may be disturbing. >> reporter: evelyn yang has a story so secret, she never even shared it with most of her own family. but spending time with her husband, presidential candidate andrew yang on the campaign trail, and hearing so much gratitude from voters for talking about son christopher's autism made her feel newley empowered. >> meeting people and seeing the difference that we have been making already has moved me to share my own story about it, about sexual assault. >> reporter: it was 2012, she was pregnant with her first baby, and found an obgyn with a good reputation, dr. robert hadden. nr initially her visits were routine. after a few months, things changed. >> it started with inappropriate questions around how intimate i was with my husband, sexual activity, jus

breaking her silence, evelyn yang, wife of presidential candidate andrew yang, is revealing somethingcret for years, even from her husband. >> for the first time, she's talking about being a survivor of sexual assault. she's sharing her story exclusively with dana bash. as you watch, i want you to be aware -- i know that it's early morning, but it's a graphic story. i wanted to give you that heads-up. let's listen to evelyn yang here. >> reporter: evelyn yang has a story so secret, she never even shared it with most of her own family. spending time with her husband, presidential candidate andrew yang, on the campaign trail and hearing so much gratitude from voters for talking about son christopher's autism made her feel newly empowered. >> meeting people and seeing the difference that we've been making already has proved me to share my own story about it, about sexual assault. >> reporter: it was 2012, she was pregnant with her first baby and found an ob-gyn who had a good reputation. dr. robert haddon. initially she says her visits were routine. after a few months, things changed. >>

visit legacybox.com today, and get 40% off. >> evelyn yang the wife of andrew yang is revealing something she kept for years and did not tell her husband for a long time. she is speaking out about being a survivor of sexual assault. i should warn you, her story is graphic and it may be disturbing to some viewers. >> evelyn yang has a story so secret she never shared it with most of her own family. but spending time with her husband andrew yang on the campaign trail and hearing gratitude made her feel empowered. >> seeing people and feeling the difference we made already led me to share my own story about it, sexual assault. >> it was 2012, she was pregnant and found an obgyn with a good reputation. initially visits were routine but after a few months things changed. >> started with inappropriate questions around how intimate that i was with my husband, sexual activity. just very inappropriate probing questions that were unrelated to my health. the examinations became longer and more frequent. and i learned that they were unnecessary. most of the time. most women do not know what you are s

for a long, long time. >> yang: trying convalescent plasma is not a new idea. it was used with success in the 1918 influenza epidemic... >> asian influenza spreads rapidly. >> yang: ...in more recent flu outbreaks, and against infections like polio before vaccines were available. but, it failed during the 2014 ebola crisis. around the world, researchers believe it's worthwhile to try. >> i think you have to be objective and, again, kind of balance between being a hopeful physician and a cautious scientist. >> yang: experts at johns hopkins hospital in baltimore recently launched a clinical trial design to introduce plasma to those at high-risk of exposure-- like frontline health care workers-- to see if it helps prevent infection. dr. evan bloch of the johns hopkins school of medicine. >> it would offer a-- you know, an intervention, which is readily available and set and scalable. i think, you know, in some ways, you know, the idea of prevention being better than the cure is what-- what really comes to the fore. >> yang: the process of giving plasma, called pl

john yang explor what is behind the latest trends. >> yang: khalilah corey's 19 year old son wanya dreamedof coming a journalist. in his free time, he loved playing basketball in theirea milis neighborhood. >> all the time, every weekend, neighborhood coming over and neighborhood got to know us. i was the mother, the single mother of five and the boys outside playing basketball. >> yang: on october 11th, corey got a text from wanyng he was heading home after playing at a nearby court.id >> it was mye child's birthday. he was turning 12. and he was at his aunt's house and then later on at day we were going tcelebrate at home like we do with cake and ice cream. so when we got home, we weg waitr wayna to come. and, when he didn't come back, it was devastating. >> yang: wanya had been killed in a drive-by shoong. minneapolis, still reeling from this summer's police killing of george floyd, has had 80 murders so far this year, a level not seen since the 1990s. despite the uptick, the minneapolis city council voted unanimously earlier this month to shift nearly eight million dollars from next ye

we have another name for yang curiosity. soon to be yang gang. placeseople who get to on time arriving, which means i bet the main show is in the building. yes? good. you have heard enough from me. listen to the next president of the united states, and after you hear him, i think you are going to give him a milford, new hampshire vote. the next president, andrew yang. [applause] >> hello, milford. how are you? it is tremendous to be back here in new hampshire with you all. you all are going to make an historic vote on february 11, and you know what is equally exciting? we are going to know what that is on february 11. [applause] >> it is a thrill to be back. i graduated from high school right here in new hampshire. how many of you knew that? i graduated in 1992. they had be back to speak last year and i said to them i had not been back since graduation because i did not enjoy my time there that much. the student body erected in applause. i was like, oh no. that was not the intended reaction. i went to law school in new york city and became an unh

and evelyn yang told me she was going through letters that supporters sent her husband andrew yang andte that he said something about empowering female entrepreneurs and it inspired her, this woman, to sue one of her business investors for sexual assault. and evelyn yang said she read that and she thought to herself, i feel you. i have a story too. she said that and other experiences like it promoted her to go public. evelyn yang has a story so secret, she never even shared it with most of her own family. but spending time with her husband presidential candidate andrew yang on the campaign trail and hearing so much gratitude for voters for talking about son christopher's autism made people feel empowered. >> seeing the difference we've made already has led me to share my own story about it, about sexual assault. >> reporter: it was 2012. she was pregnant with her first baby and found an obgyn who had a good reputation. after a few months, things changed. >> it started with inappropriate questions around how intimate i was with my husband, sexual activity. just very inappropriate, probi

he yang: and there could be consequences forourt itself. >> there's a very real possibility that the general public mig view this decision n-4political, if i i 5 vofa p that's why i also think john roberts very much is a critical player here, and how he can try to find a resolution to this case that will be hopefully bipartisan of sorts. >> yang: a decision ll likely come by june, just in time for the presidential campaign. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: the trump administration has made no secret of its desire to depo venezuela's president nicholas maduro, as his country spirals further into economic and humanitarian catastrophe. but, earlier this month, an operation to invade and kidnap maduro shocked everyone, it seemed, but maduro himself. nick schifrin reports on a bizarre, botched invasion attempt, and the implications for a country in collapse. >> schifrin: the first sign the secret mission wasn't e secret? nezuelan military helicopter. as soon as operation gn came ashore, it ran aground. more than a dozen captured, eight killed and amg the detained? >> secu

if you do not wear them .properly, we will kill y ( laughter ) if this pandemic doesn't. >> yang: at the american shakespeare center, nestled in , rginia's shenandoah vall rare sight: live theater,do s, with a live audience, alternating performances of "othello" and "twelfth night" through october 18. >> some of the very large organizations, i think they can hills. to kind of run for the wait for the wave to break and then come back, reopen. >> yang: artistic rector ethan >> the small- and mid-sized like us, i guess our solution was to y surf the wave and hopefuay afloat. >> yang: mcsweeny led an appropriately distance-ytour of the r-old company's theater. >> that you don't expect this when youome into the small town of staunton, rginia, and you walk into our sort o unprepossessing, rather ordinary lobby, and then you're in here in this incredible, world's only recreation of shakespeare's indoor theater. the blackfriars playhouse. >> yang: like shakespeare's 17th-century blafriars, there is minimal scenery, no sound amplification, and "universal lighting,"lluminating both d'dience an

makeiallyr >> yang: u.s.intelligence agencies now also believe that false text messages sent last month to many americans about a nation-wide lockdown were pushed by chinese operatives aiming to sow discord. protests ) an there's the recent nationwide protests of stay-at-p home orders thsident trump has, at times, encouraged. the seemingly-organic movementor was in facnized and driven by far-right facebook groups that have become a hotbed for conspiracy theories. social media giants, including facebook, twitter and youtube, have all faced growing criticism about their role in the spread of misinformation. facebook, which is a funder of the newshour, now alerts users whenhey interact with false coronavirus content. on another popular platform, reddit, users have long policed each other, to varying degrees of success. >> especially as a scientist, the way that i have to verify >> yang: emerson ailidh boggs, a virologist by training, moderates reddit's coronavirus page, which has more than twoll n subscribers. >

. >>> hundreds of people turned out tonight for a campaign event for andrew yang in san francisco. just yet, the democrat named the bay area lawmaker to cochair his national campaign. jana katsuyama was there with more on what yang had to say tonight to supporters. >> reporter: even though his poll numbers are still just in the single digits, they are gaining momentum. $16.5 million raised last year. a 65% increase over the previous quarter. and now he's brought on assembly member evan lowe from the south bay to ramp up the campaign here in california. >> reporter: the yang gang gave their favorite candidate a big bay area welcome. >> i'm here to win the whole thing! >> reporter: the fundraising event south of marketed this night comes as yang continues to hang in the race. even as other high-profile candidates such as cory booker and kamala harris have dropped out. >> this race is very much up in the air. anyone who's looked at it knows that no one's decided who they're gonna support down the stretch. and growing faster than any other campaign. so we're really excited about the ne

but as john yang reports, some local governments are providing young people other options. >> yang: ins summer of the pandemica new breed of summer jobs-- like working at this drive-through covid-19 testing site in the parking garage of a montgomery county, maryland, community center in suburban washington, d.c. 18-year-old shaun fayson is on summer break from college. >> right now, i'm doing traffic control and just running samples back and forth. yesterday i was doing intake, so helping people with their regiration and things like that. >> yang: is this what you expected to be doing this summer? >> not at all. >> yang: they are part of covid corps, a summer jobs program created by the county to support its pandemic response. about a hundred ople, ages 16 to 23, are paid $14 an hour-- the county's minimum wage-- to do things like distribute food to vulnerable families, disinfect county pools, put up signs to raise awareness about covid-19, and, like at this testing site, help track the virus itself. >> in a way, it's a civics building exercise. >> yang: marc elrich is montgomery count

u nailed it. >> yang: playing fair, thinking three moves ahead, and playing to win. pbs newshour, n yang. >> woodruff: night we take a look at the challenges many formerly incarceted men and women are facing as they reenter society. the coronavirus pandemic has upended the lives of all americans, but it's been esly hard on individuals known as returning citizens. of one man in washington, d.c. who is trying to beat the odds. >> brangham: after 23 years behind bars, this was the moment when michael plummer became a free man. >> i got released on february 10th of this year, and it was amazing. you know, it's like stepping into a different world. you step into a different world. >> brangham: plummer is now 40, he was locked up in 1997 for a murder he committed when he wa 16. growing up in a violent ighborhood in washinon d.c., plummer says his story was say, pretty common. >> a lot of my friends and family members was killed. ad nd in those who nt to jail, you know, they did 10 year they did 15, 20 years. and some of them still serving life sentences. my mother, she fel

you got yanged, that means we got somebody in the yang. yanging and hanging which is what we're doing right now. >> this is the first place that really embraces the campaign. >> how or that it for you? are you looking for votes here? >> california has a unique opportunity. you can vote as early as any other state and you can choose who the next president will be. so it will be an enormous priority for us. >> when i saw you there, people were so excited to see you. >> it is a thrill and certainly i'm excited to be growing when other candidates have been dropping out. >> an abc news poll shows that he is now running a 7%, in fifth place right behind bloomberg and just ahead of buttigieg. now, despite the surge, he still lags behind in name recognition. it is the job of yang gang to try to change that. so you're kind of a #king at this point. nell what you do. >> for me, my main goal is to focus on the positivity. i have my own twitter called yang gang hangs together. caucuses together. >> automation is something that is undeniably taking job

hi there, mini-yang. >> good afternoon, mr. yang. the yang gang -- >> oh, my god. >> texting you, hey, mr. yang, i came on here to say in a it was really fun campaigning for you and i hope we can do it again. >> well, i think you might have just celebrated a birthday recently mini-yang and happy birthday. keep listening to your mom and dad. they know what's best and love you very, very much. >> nick ham mond's nine-year-old and has been following andrew yang. andrew, if you wanted to follow in your footsteps, what would it be, 2040, maybe would be when he would make his run? >> it would. [ inaudible ] to become 35 because that's the real age for which you can run for president. so 2046. nick hammond in 2046. >> get that butchmper sticker m. good luck on the campaign trail. >> thank you. get out there and vote. let's go! joe and kamala. >> 24! >> you've got that down. all right. thank you both. all right, folks. when we return we'll take a look at the new covid-19 compliance unit. what exactly is it? we're . >>> welcome back. starting

in court filings, hadden's lawyer denied yang's allegations and meanwhile yang and 31 other former patients are suing hadden and the hospital system for failing to protect them. stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. >>> delta airlines is facing a new lawsuit after one of its planes dumped fuel during an emergency above several los angeles schools this week. four teachers say they were among some 60 people injured including children when the fuel was released at low altitude. >> i started yelling for my students to come back inside the building i didn't know where the smell was coming from. i thought oh my god, it must be a terrorist attack. >> reporter: the faa is investigating and says the pilots didn't clear the dump with the air traffic control. >>> a new alert on the flu it's wide spread in 48 states, 13 million cases have been confirmed this season with roughly 120,000 hospitalizations and 6600 deaths. children are being hit especially hard this season. >>> up next, why right now may be the best time to save big money on your home >>> finally as we head into the weekend, the business whe

. >> andrew yang's wife, she's been in the news lately. evelyn yang joined the women's march.e recently came forward with her story of being sexually assaulted by her doctor while she was pregnant. speaking at the march mrs. yang said her goal is to empower other survivors. >> the theme of this march, to rise and to roar, it's very personal. as terrifying as it was to share my story on a national stage, i had to believe that coming forward would help me reclaim my voice and help others reclaim theirs. >> joining us now, nbc campaign julia jester in manchester, new hampshire, this morning. good morning, julia. happy to have you in. i want to jump right in here. hearing her interview, it really was quite moving. it had to be very difficult for evelyn yang to come forward with her story. her message being well received at the women's march on saturday. how's it resonating with voters on the campaign trail? >> reporter: well, the campaign trail is what actually partly inspired evelyn yang to come forward with her own story. she just recently started going out on the trail with her

but i don't know if that will make a difference because yang, great to say yang yang and hashtag all day long but it is about who comes to the polls and he did not have a good showing in iowa or new hampshire but there seems to be commonality. we will see if it makes a difference. it did not matter with castro supporting warren. it is not just something he can bank on. >> maybe bernie sanders can start crowd surfing and that could make a difference. thanks. great having you with us. donald trump celebrated a record-breaking victory ident running for reelection ie for the past 40 years. todd pyro is here to break that down for us. had a feeling this might happen. some people predicted. >> the results of the republican primary, never really in doubt. donald trump with more than 85% of primary votes, bill wells, 13,000 votes. trump 2020 campaign manager's statement reading and part, quote, his vote percentage will also show historic strength when the numbers are final, likely beating the last three incumbent presidents, clinton, bush and obama who were successfully reelected. donald tru

yang: hello, new hampshire. it is an honor to be here with you. thank you, yang gang. i love campaigning in new hampshire for so many reasons. i do not know how many of you knew this. i went high school -- i went to high school in this state. in 1992.ed it is a thrill to be campaigning here because you are among the most powerful and influential people in our country today. i know it may not feel like it, but i did the math. do you know how many californians each of you is worth? 1000 californians each. around the stadium tonight. how many of together? i would give an estimate. there are 80,000 people tonight. [applause] mr. yang: it is the biggest crowd anyone has ever seen. legitimately 7000 people here tonight. like 7 million californians in voting power. the power you have to move our country forward and address a problem we have been struggling with for years, and that challenges this. why is donald trump our president? i want you to turn on cable news, you would think he is our president because of some combination of russia, racism, facebook, the fbi, the electo

yang: that is closer to the truth. when i dug into the numbers, we millionomated away 4 manufacturing jobs. where were those jobs? ohio, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, iowa. all of the swing states that donald trump needed to win and did win. if you doubt this -- if you go through the voter district data, you see there is a straight line up between the adoption of industrial automation in a voting district and a movement toward trump. this happened in new hampshire, but it happened earlier. you all lost over 12,000 many -- manufacturing jobs in the northern part of the state. when you go to those towns, you see that many of those towns have never recovered. after the factory or the plant closed, and the shopping district closed and the population shrank. when i was in detroit, cleveland and st. louis, we saw a lot of the same things. we are in the midst of the greatest economic transformation in the history of our country. because what happened to the manufacturing jobs is not stopping there. it is now heading to r

john yang reporthis hidden crisis during the pandemic. >> yang: lraine ensor spent her career as a librarian in springfield, massachusetts, watchingenerations of readers grow up. >> little kids come ingrew up, got married, had kids of their own. it's been an interesting life. >> yang: a few years ago, at age 82, she finally retired. late last year, she noticed a problem with her right eye. >> i turned on the tv to listen to the weather and there was a black spot. it was like a small brick. and i thought that was strange. >> yang: her doctor, retina surgeon and ophthalmologist andrew lam, diagnosed her with macular degenerationthe leading cause of blindness in patients over 65. he explains there are two versions of the disease: the slower-moving "dry" kind, and the faster-moving "wet" kind -- ich is what lorraine has. >> it's very serious when people have the wet macular degeneration. luckily, we have medicines that den halt the progression of wet maculaneration and often improve vision. but the medicines wear off. so they're often repeated every fourx or eight weeks, depending each individua

citizens. >> yang: like vanessa solomon, the texas nurse. >> i have paid my taxes.t a life here. and i feel as though i have contributed towards society. >> yang: earlier this month, she got good news: she became a citizen on september8, in plenty of time to register to vote. >> that oath of citizenship means that after all of these years of working hard to prove myself to this city and to the system, that i am eligible for rights. >> yang: but for valle and hundreds of thousands of other applicants like him, the wait continues. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: president trump today said he was breaking off talks and would no longer try to negotiate a deal on a covid relief bill until after the election. but, for millions of americans, the economic pressure is not letting up. nearly half of the 22 million jobs lost during the pandemic have not yet been recovered. hunger, food insecurity and need remain a constant. stephanie sy has the latest. >> sy: judy, the most recent survey by the census bureau found that more than 18 million american adults sai

i love it. >> yang: before, hawkins was unemployed. because her job went away, but because she had to quit to take care of her two-year-old son, terrell jr., when his daycare closed because of the pandemic. >> it is amazing actually being able to work at home and still be able to teach him and just, you know, watch him just expand and just grow. >> yang: while her coding class is temporary, hawkins hopes the skills she's learning and the connections she's making will help her find a permanent job. and, working on the app makes her feel like she's making a difference. >> i always wanted to come up with a solution to help my community and help the world, make the world a little bit better. >> yang: in maryland, shaun fayson has that same satisfaction. >> i'm benefiting from being able to say that i am helping keep our community safe and secure, you know, giving back in whatever way i can. >> yang: a sense of purpose in the midst of a most challenging summer. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang in silver spring, maryland. >> woodruff: it

john yang begins our coverage. >> the hearing to confirm judge amy barrett to the supreme court will now begin. >> yang: in an appropriately distanced senate hearing room, supreme court nominee amy coney barrett appeared before a divided senate judiciary committee and a divided nation. wearing a mask, barrett was backed by her husband and six of their seven children. in her first public rerks since being nominated, she told senators her judicial philosophy was inspired by her mentor: the late justice antonin scalia, for whom she was a clerk. >> it was the content of justice scalia's reasoning that shaped me. his judicial philosophy was straightforward: a judge must apply the law as written, not as the judge wishes it were. >> yang: she said making policy belongs to lawmakers, not judges. >> courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life. the policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches elected by and accountable to the people. the public should not expect courts to do so, and courts should not try. >