amy walter, tamera keith, thank you both.back shortly with a conversation with secretary of the interior deb haaland. but first, take a moment to hear from your local pbs station. ♪ ndent nonprofit newsroom, kicks off its annual weeklong summit starting today. newshour is its streaming partner. our own lisa desjardins interviewed the secretary of interior deb haaland as part of 19th represents event. here's a sneak peak of some of that conversation. >> this country has had 580 cabinet agency heads. you are the first one, of all of those people to be native american, and the president of your tribe, when you were confirmed called it a defining moment not just for indigenous people in this country, but indigenous people across the world. can you talk about what you think this means for real change and then also what is it like to , be you both have blessings of being in a historic moment and if there are other moments, -- moments that that is a burden? >> well, of course, i feel there is always a weight that is on your shoulder

tamara keith and amy walter break downhe impact of the fall of the afghan government.sit down with secretary of interior deb haaland. >> woodruff: as we reported earlier, an earthquake has brought new devastation to haiti. landslides have made major roads impassable for aid groups. now, hospitals in southern haiti are overwhelmed and forced to turn people away. all a tropical storm bears down on the nation. william brangham has the latest. >> brangham: judy, saturday's earthquake occurred on the very same fault lines as the 2010 earthquake that killed 300,000 people and destroyed much of haiti's capital port au prince. today thousands are sheltering in the streets or on soccer fields, with the few belongings they could salvage from their homes. haitian authorities are still going door to door searching for survivors. the suffering could get worse later today, because tropical depression grace is expected to dump roughly 10 inches of rain on the country, which could trigger flash flood flooding and landslides. akim kikonda is the haiti country representative for catholi

, the newly-named publisher and editor-in-chief of the "cook political report with amy walter." tamara keith, white house correspondent for npr. we are very proud of you, miss walter. >> thank you very much, judy. >> very excited about it. she's the boss now. >> yes, the buck stops with me. >> woodruff: we are so happy four. all right, so let's talk infrastructure. we reported on it earlier from lisa, learned about what is in there. but amy, what does it mean that they have this deal and does one side or the other get crezzity here. >> this is one of those rare things in politics in this day where everybody gets something tht they are happy about. infrastructure is one of those deals that everybody loves, no matter where you are on the ideological spectrum because it is something you can go home and say to your constituents look t i did something while i was in washington. there is something tangible that i am bringing back. everybody who is in pom particulars love to talk about bringing home the bacon. so it is one of the easier vehicles for bipartisanship. the question as you p

the asian population, amy walters just talked about.ere's the challenge for republicans, if you're trump and run on the politics of white grievance, you ramp it up. you talk about the border, your communities changing. if you're republicans and you want to have a ten or 20 year plan, you better compete with those voters. who will win? >> yeah, that's especially going to test republicans in a place like texas where we've seen the latino population really explosively grow, but i think the most salient point i have heard today is that one senior democratic aide told me that they viewed the census as a calling card for getting voting rights done. that is what republicans are doing. these opposing forces taking place right now. you see in places like arizona, georgia, exactly where this demographic growth is happening. these fights, these are ground zero, and democrats are going to be more emboldened by these numbers that they're seeing, i think, to push at a federal level for something like for the people act to get done to prevent partisan

joining me is amy walter.erman, co-founder of the punchbowl news website, former white house political director during the george w. bush era. and sara fagen, and former congresswoman donna edwards. welcome to you all. i want to get to the como story. i want to get to covid politics here, amy. let's frame the discussion, biden, desantis. here is the back-and-forth. >> some governors aren't willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic, then they should allow businesses and university who want to do the right thing to be able to do it. >> joe biden has taken to himself to try to single out florida over covid. this is a guy who ran for president saying he was going to, quote, shut down the virus. and what has he done? he's imported more virus from around the world by having a wide-open southern border. >> by the way, both of them have some shakier poll numbers today than they did a month ago when we weren't at 100,000-plus cases. why are we seeing finger pointing? >> it's interesting, chuck. looking from a

influence of former president trump and the republican party, it is time for politics monday with amy walternewly named publisher and editor and in chief of -- editor in chief of the cook political report, amy walter. the white house correspondent for npr. >> she is the boss now. >> i can set everything. the book stops with me. >> we are so happy for you. let's talk infrastructure. we reported on the earlier. learned about what is in it. what does it mean that they have this deal and does one side or another get right here? >> this is one of those very things in politics where everybody gets something they are happy about. infrastructure is one of those deals that everybody loves a better where you are in the ideological spectrum because it is something you can go home and say to your constituents, i did something while i was in washington. there is something tangible i am bringing you back. everybody who is in politics loves to talk about bringing home the bacon. it is one of the easier vehicles for bipartisanship. the question as you pointed out, the question next is what happens to the re

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. >> bring in our panel former education secretary bill bennett, amy walter publisher and editor in chiefn columnist for the "wall street journal." let's start there, amy, a lot of folks in the media, listen, it feels like a pattern we saw them so amped up over michael avenatti and enall thered by governor cuomo they have difficult news to digest. >> well, right, the contrast is what i think many folks were looking at especially from the clips that you showed there was the contrast that they wanted to have between the difficulty on messaging and being focused on covid versus what looked like at the time new york doing it well. of course, we came to find out that new york actually wasn't doing it particularly well, especially when it came to nursing homes and that seemed to be sort of the tip of the iceberg here or maybe where i will mix metaphors where the dam broke to speak. once that investigation started and then you started to hear these allegations about shower. it all sort of snowballed at once, and i do think that the uberous was a big piece of what made this more challenging for c

amy walter and tamara keith are away.h of you, as we've been hearing, we've been discussing covid, afghanistan, enormous issues confronting this white house. and right now, errin, the president is facing criticism -- some support, but a lot of criticism, not just from republicans, but from members of his own party. how is that different, what the democrats are saying, many calling for investigations, and does it suggest in some way that the president is gog to be able to get through this or not? >> well, i think it is still early days, judy. we're a week into this afghanistan exit, and certainly the handling of this is something that folks are wanting accountability for. you have the president telling george stepanopoulos in that interview, even in his months ahead of what we have seen unfold in the last week, that he knew there was going to be a chaotic process. obviously that is exactly what is unfolding, and, yes, you absolutely have some folks even within the democratic party who are really being very critical of the

they are amy walter, editor and chief of the political report, and tamara keith, a white house correspondent. thank you both for being here. america's longest war is finally over, and it is by a deadline that president biden set himself. what do you make of this historic moment, given there is some heartbreak about the people we left behind, but also a sense of accomplish. on the biden administration. >> i think that's a good way to phrase it, you have the success of the air lift, but most of what we've seen for the past two weeks is chaos and carnage. and that, i think, is what is really driving, at least for americans, the way that they're interpreting this moment. now, how we're going to interpret afghanistan a year from now, 10 years from now, really unclear. but i do think that for this moment in time, watching all of these scenes, watching the reporting by jane, what you see is a country that is still in the midst of chaos, but also just the way in which the planning for this operation did not go, shall we say swimmingly. the execution of it -- and when you hear these stories of indivi