studios in washington, and in the west, from the water cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university evening, the u.s. senate on a rare bipartisan basis, is passing a major piece of legislation designed to counter china and its global influence. the roughly $200 billion measure is also one of the largest eces of industrial legislation ever to make its way through congress, though it still needs to be reconciled with a house version. stephanie sy has more. stephanie: the senate bill invests billions in innovation and critical technologies, many of which the chinese government has made a top priority for years. earlier, the biden administration announced it was taking steps to ensure the u.s has its own supply of essential products and components, many of which are today manufactured in china. this is aimed at boosting the u.s.'s competiteness with the world's second-largest economy. nick, what steps did the white house take, and how did they fit in with the bill the senate is voting on? nick: this is the white house and congress making a statement saying that in order to take on china

eta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> the u.s. is in a far better place this summer than in many other countries witnessing new covid cases. the delta variant of covid is expected to become the dominant strain in the u.s.. william begins our coverage with this rort. >> across the world, a wave of new lockdowns being implemented as nations scramble to get ahead of the coronavirus strain known as the delta variant. >> the risk is real. >> they are imposing stay-at-home orders. >> they will be entering a four-day lockdown. >> in several asian nations, indonesia and malaysia, the variant has threatened to overrun hospitals, travelers in hong kong hustled to get on the last flights to the united kingdom before a travel ban into place. >> it is killing people by the thousands. >> across africa, the virus is hitting hard. the president issued a stark warning. >> we are in the grip of a devastating wave. >> this variant is highly contagious. much more so than the original coronavirus. it is on track to become the dominant glo

weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universitydy: since the presidential election, a wave of new state measures to tighten voting laws has raised questions about access and integrity. across the country, laws that expand access to the ballot box have passed in at least 14 states, shown on this map in green. at the same time, the states in 14 yellow have passed laws restricting access. all have republican-controlled state legislatures. the restrictive laws have sparked outrage from voting rights groups and from two men who served as general counsels for competing presidential campaigns. democrat bob bauer worked for president obama in 2008 and 2012 and advised the biden campaign in 2020. ben ginsberg, his years as a republican election lawyer include work on the landmark bush v. gore dispute in 2000. they both joined me now. welcome back to the "newshour," to both of you. let me start with you, bob bauer. it isn't often these days that we see a republican and a democrat, prominent republicans and democrats, coming together on issue

weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityjudy: the fda costs -- the fda's approval of a new alzheimer's drug today followed months of debate within the medical community about the ency's procedures, which, as amna nawaz reports, the announcement has done little to quiet. amna: that's right, judy. the approval was based on two clinical trials. one showed some improvement in patients who'd been given the drug aducanumab, but the other found no benefit. a number of practitioners said that was not good enough and fell short of fda's usual standards for approval. in an outside advisory board november recommended that fda not approve the drug. but other medical professionals said the need was so great that any medication that offered promise was worth trying. the last treatment for alzheimer's came on the market some 18 years ago. pam belluck is a health reporter for the new york times. she has been following these developments closely and joins me now. welcome back to the "newshour." let's start with the approval today, even with

. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington, and arizona state university. at the white house, president biden met with afghanistan's leaders, just weeks before the u.s. completes withdrawing almost all of its forces. there was a lot on the agenda -- finalizing plans on how many u.s. troops to keep in the country, how to continue training afghan troops, and how to safely evacuate afghans who worked for the u.s. nick schifrin reports. nick: today at the white house, president biden vowed to keep fighting america's longest war -- just without u.s. troops. president biden: the partnership between afghanistan and the united states is not ending, it's going to be sustained. nick: flanked by afghan president ashraf ghani, and high council for national reconciliation chairman dr. abdullah abdullah, president biden promised to confront afghanistan's third covid wave, by donating 3 million doses of johnson & johnson vaccine, and badly needed oxygen. and he pledged support for afghanistan's government, but with what an administration official called “tough love.” pres

. ♪ announcer: this is the "pbs newshour"," from weta studios and in the west from arizona state universityt biden meets in brussels tomorrow with european union leaders, many of the same men and women whom he met with today at nato headquarters. after the fractious relationship between former president trump and many of those same leaders, mr. biden has been hailed as a fresh start by many of them. but issues remain between the u.s. and europe. nick schifrin explores this moment. nick: judy, that's right. and now we get two views on the state of relations between the united states and europe. jana puglierin is head of the berlin office at the european council on foreign relations. and heather conley heads the europe program at the center for strategic and international studies and was a state department official focused on europe, during the george w. bush administration. thank you very much. welcome to you both to the "newshour." let me start with you. does western europe believe that the united states will remain a reliable partner? >> terribly relieved to have joe biden as the american

weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university: we return to israel. nick schifrin explores how this coalition government might usher in a new era of political leadership. nick: it's the unlikeliest of coalitions. the next prime minister, right-wing naftali bennett, who vows there will never be a palestinian state. the next foreign minister, centrist yair lapid, former tv host who believes in the two-state solution. and mansour abbas, leader of an islamist party, who'demanded improved rights for israel's arab minority. along with others, they formed the change coalition, unit only in their opposition to one man. benjamin netanyahu is the country's longest running prime minster, one of israel's most consequential politicians, and today, one of its most divisive. the change coalition's strange bedfellows needed to come together to oust him because of the knesset, or parliament math. a government coalition needs 61 of 120 seats. in the last election, netanyahu's likud got the most, 30 seats, but he couldn't create a coalition. lapid'

weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universitydy: now to tulsa, a century after a storm of racial killing engulfed the city. the president's visit today came as the nation is reassessing race relations, past, present, and future. white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports. yamiche: 100 years after the tulsa race massacre, president biden came to mark one of the darkest chapters in american history. >> for much too long, the history of what took place here was told in silence, cloaked in darkness. but just because history is silent, it doesn't mean that it did not take place. and while darkness can hide much, it erases nothing. yamiche: he's the first u.s. president to travel to tulsa to do so. he acknowledged the scars seared onto the nation's conscience. >> private planes dropping explosives, the first and on domestic aerial assault of its kind on an american city, here in tulsa. eight of greenwood's arly two dozen churches burned like mou zion. my fellow americans, this was not a riot, this was a massacre. yamiche: mr. b

studios in washington and from our bureau at the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityas been seven years since the islamic state declared its so-called "caliphate" from a mosque in mosul, iraq's second largest city. a punishing iraqi and american military campaign routed isis from there in 2017, while leveling large swathes of the city. now, special correspondent leila molana-allen and videographer adrian hartrick look at the slow and agonizing task of rebuilding mosul. >> centuries of history, annihilated in a few short months. it was from this spot in mosul's 12th century al-nuri mosque that isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi announced the group's self-proclaimed caliphate seven years ago. their reign of terror here and the fight to defeat them claimed thousands of lives and would leave the ancient city pounded into dust. four yea aftrs the battle to retake the city, much of west mosul remains in ruins, an unknown number of bodies beneath the rubble, exactly how many people died in the assault here is still unclear. part of the city is starting to get back on its feet,

david 100 la, they are necessary. professor, arizona state university. thanks so much for sharing insights and expertise with us . and i was there you know, thank you. while selah have you here on al jazeera, i fooling fighters continue to attack, villages and mozambique, of thousands of children left behind. struggle with the effect of the violence and losing their parents. as china ruling communist policy celebrates its contemporary well here, how it's new outlook on foreign policy is seen as a hello there. let's start in north america and that historic life threatening heat wave continues to break records across western parts of the u. s. and west in canada, this was the scene along canada's west coast. now people here are not used to this kind of heat. the temperatures here are higher than they are in some of the middle eastern countries at the moment. and for a 2nd day in a row, we had an all high record set for canada in a little village in british columbia. the temperature nearing 50 degrees celsius and this heat is going to continue over the next

david handler is an associate professor at the arizona state university. he joins us now live by scott from tempe, arizona, thanks for your time. hey, ways haven't done bay and they happened to this part of the world. but why is this one so concerning? yeah, thanks for having me. we have a perfect recipe for a dangerous heat event this weekend and into early next week in the western us a combination of an unusual meter article pattern called a blocking event. and that signal is on top of long scale climate change and for cities, this urban is ation effect that raise the temperatures there as well. so what's a blocking event? then you can imagine that the normal flow, the normal way that winds are circulating around the planet has been disrupted. and a particular pocket of high pressure has been cut off from that normal flow around the planet. and unfortunately, we're going to see that high pressure, which leads to high temperatures shit over the pacific northwest for at least a few days. okay. how has the pandemic here or will depend in mac lightly impact

didn't monahan, al jazeera less so today that 100 la, he's an associate professor at arizona state university, and he says places that are unused to these high temperatures. don't have very long to update the infrastructure they're facing, whether that's even extreme by our standards here in the hottest large city in this and or in desert in the us. we're seeing happening with the atmosphere is very unusual pattern where there's been intense, high pressure cut off from the global circulation pattern. high pressure leads to thinking air and thinking air warms up, and we have this feature that's been cut off from the the circulation for a few days. that's the recipe for these dangerously high temperatures. if anybody's ever put their head or their hands near their oven after it's been off from baking some food for just a few minutes, that's not too dissimilar from, from what they're experiencing right now. i think there's a lot of urgency about this question on infrastructure, particularly in places that aren't used to the heat. there is a short time window. we believe when we can adapt some of

this is from w eta studios in washington andr cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityst legislative session in texas focused on keyfrom restricting abortion to addressing transgender rights. the lone star state is now focused on a voting bill that would tighten election laws afte mate last month. in with our political reporter dan busch he is iau n busch endedslative session and as we have said, ty have loo conservative priorities. tting the most attention. dan: the big issue was voting rights, or republicans have legislation that would do a number of things.imit drop boxes fhough by mail, and it would also allow partisan poll watcher is to monitor poll places around the state and in addition, it would restrict voting for some hours on the republicans argue that all of these measures are necessary electio in order to increase transparen reduce voter this is essentially voter suppression, so let's hear from one stat>> it is jim crow 2.0. i cannot say it any plainer tha that. it is voter suppression and that is targeting harrisare. i think because we broke a lot of recor

leadership program in school of historical philosophical and religious religious studies, arizona state university. right next to my hometown in scottsdale, arizona, so it's a great pleasure to have both in and adrian here today and if you would please start us off. just tell us a little bit about your book. basic information for those who haven't had a chance to read it yet. thank you in absolutely. thanks to the now center for having us today and thanks to the virginia book festival for including us. i'm looking forward to a great event. so my book looks at international influences on the creation of the confederacy. as the civil war opened and the spring of 1861 the newly declared confederate states of america, of course had to fight against the north against the united states, but much of their attention was also perhaps unexpectedly abroad. so i have one example the editors of the richmond daily dispatch wrote in may of 1861 using an international context to explain to their audience the meaning of the impending struggle and as they put it the struggle for nationality is the identical struggl

i cannot thank you enough on behalf of the entire mccain institute, and arizona state university. until we meet again, hopefully next year in sedona. sen. shaheen: it has been an honor and what a wonderful way to remember senator john mccain. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> coming up today fbi director christopher wray is before house judiciary committee for oversight hearing, that's live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. in the afternoon our live coverage continues with president biden holding a news conference in cornwall, england ahead of g7 summit being held this weekend. on c-span2, the senate returns at 10:30 a.m. eastern to consider judicial nominations for the district of new jersey and the dc circuit court of appeals. on c-span 3 at 9:30 a.m. defense secretary lloyd austin testifies in front of senate armed services committee. at 2:00 p.m. house homeland security committee examines the federal response to unaccompanied children at the u.s. southern border. on the website officials from the irs and treasury department testify on ways to reduce the u.s. tax gap, that's streaming live at noon eas

and, catherine zuckert, the visiting at arizona state university.he american imagination, philosophy and novel form. she has written many important articles from politics and literature, and political theory, including machiavelli's politics and neil strauss and the problem of political philosophy. it is such an honor to welcome our panelist. i'm excited about the discussion, i will jump right in , the -- you have a wonderful article about the lawyers library. and many of the greatest founders including jefferson and joseph story and john marshall believe that reading literature and novels was crucial to the cultivation of virtue and teaching us how to live. and, you note that thomas jefferson, in response to a request by his prospective brother-in-law, drafted a list of 148 recommended reading titles, which he broke out into a bunch of groups, including in the fine arts category, 75 titles including plays, the poetry of homer and virgil. and several works of fiction including donna -- including don t gotay, -- don quixote. tell us more about thomas

studios in washington and from the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universitye pacific northwest is getting hit for a third straight day with record-setting triple digit temperatures. the heat wave is straining the capacity in the region and forcing people to find relief wherever they can. stephanie sy reports from oregon. stephanie: another day, another record-breaking high across the pacific northwest. in portland, oregon, temperatures hit 108 degrees on saturday, then 112 on sunday. today, highs were expected to reach 115. in ashland, oregon, people and their pets took shelter at a cooling center, offering air conditioning and cold water. >> i think it's a public health emergency. stephanie mayor julie akins : warned, the heat can be deadly. the most vulnerable in this heat wave are the most vulnerable all the time and of the heatwave exacerbates that. we are talking unhoused people, people below the poverty line, people who don't have air conditioning in their homes or cannot afford the high-power bills. stephanie: excessive heat warnings are in effect acro

in a road is the fastest-growing place in the united states and coupled with that, labor, arizona state universityrs coupled with community college, it is about labor for the high-value enterprise. >> reporter: this is a brand-new facility down the road from arizona state university which is where you can find skilled workers. >> we are in the heart of metro phoenix and you are surrounded by advanced industries. over the last 2 years, the policy that supports companies as they try to expand growth in the united states and our focus is to make it as easy as possible to do business and governor doocy has led the charge. >> reporter: you going to keep going? >> we we one of the top places in the united states to do business and put in modern infrastructure and key transportation systems. >> reporter: those 100,000 jobs you mentioned across five states in the southwest, that represented 30% of manufacturing jobs growth in the united states so it is not the midwest and the southeast anymore that has become the manufacturing hub. it is in the southwest. stuart: it is certainly not new jersey or new york

arizona bridge is also the chief of staff at the academy. she was a councilmember from 2,822,016 and earned her b.a. through the university of michigan and an m.a. room arizona state university. the city of tempe has a multilevel approach to transit helping to improve the quality of the residence. like many city centers on and across the country they face challenges seeking ideas and bringing them to life. the federal government needs to be a reliable capable partner to help cities and towns across arizona thrived. i'm committed to ensuring the infrastructure needs of local areas are needed now and into the future. thank you mr. chairman and will welcome mayor woods. >> thank you senators sinema. >> he's service pic county commission since 2015 previous is serving as the clerk of courts and prosecutor in the district attorney's office and officer in the army. brian riedl focuses on budget tax and economic technology and served as chief economist to one of our colleagues and my colleague senator rob portman and as a lead research fellow in spending policy from 2001 to 2011. welcome commissioner parsons and mr. riedl. you are now recognized for five minutes. >> good

from arizona state university's mary lieu fulton college of education. the city of tempe has prioritized a multiple mobile atroech to transit helping the city be more livable and walkable and improving the quality of life for residents. like many cities in arizona and across country they face challenges taking good ideas like the vita car bringing them to life. the federal government needs to continue to be a reliable capable partner that helps cities and towns across arizona grow and thrive. i am so pleased to have an arizona witness in today's hearing. i am committed to ensuring that the infrastructure needs ofs as communities are met now and into the future. thank you mr. chairman, and welcome mayor woods. >> thank you serta sinema. i will introduce the next two witnesses. commissioner josh lumbar sons from lancaster county, pennsylvania. he served on the county commission since 2015, previously serving as the clerk of courts, a prosecutor and infantry officer in the army. brian riedl. he previously served as chief economist to one of our colleagues,

professor and deputy director at the school of the for the future of innovation in society at arizona state university. a research focuses on socio-technical assessments of biosecurity threats the work has also studied knowledge production and weapons assessments in us intelligence and collaboration between academia and the intelligence community. previously she served as a william c foster fellow and as a jefferson science fellow at the us department of state and we at the wilson center are very proud to call her an alumna. she was with us as a fellow in 2011-2012. she holds a phd in biophysical chemistry from princeton university her publications or many publications include phantom menace or looming danger a new framework for assessing by a weapon threats published by johns hopkins in 2013 and several articles including into disciplinary cross sector collaboration in the us intelligence community lessons learned from past and present efforts published in intelligence and national security in 2019. bringing the national security agency into the classroom. ethical reflections on academia intelligence

state of arizona, ok? so in arizona, you have the three main instate schools, university of arizona, arizona state. they all have women's soccer team but they don't have a guy's team. that needs if you're a gifted guy, you had to go out of state. do you play on this soccer team. so, and a lot of ways there's lopsided this. okay, so the question is about contacts sports. yeah, that's hashed out later. the big problem is you are directed to creating women's team that a parallel to the men's. usually, you can get an out of alcohol women's wrestling team or what have you. women's football team and then you wouldn't have and have women from other schools to be your opponent. all of this, you know, is part of the sort of piecemeal effect and we see that everywhere in america. the same with gay rights law. each state has a different approach or different time line and it's exhausting. >> it's not necessarily a story but i thought it was interesting in jersey for instance, there is a girl's volleyball team but there is no boys a volleyball team. but on the west coast, it's really popular and i met a kid wh

she was a student at arizona state university and before going to bed unbeknownst to us she reached outrence: that is heartbreaking story. all these stories. part of what people don't realize these are not just drugs. it is fentanyl that laces these drugs. obviously the drugs are already dangerous but they're being laced. >> well, they're not being laced. basically what they are is, what we call fentapills they're produced south of the border by criminal organizations. what they do, they make them look exactly like a pharmaceutical grade oxycodone or percocet or xanax. in reality a counterfeit opioid. pressed south of the border, sold through snapchat to unsuspecting children who think they're buying a pharmaceutical grade pill. what they're receive something a counterfeit pill. 1/3 of all the bills interdicted by the dea are lethal. that is exactly what took my son's life as well. lawrence: jamie, what you're saying, these are not laced pills. these are pills they have evil intent to begin with? they know these are fake pills? >> they know they are fake pills. you have to understand fe

university of iowa. you see a lay anderson, school of business in arizona state. did that look, there's been an explosion of micro businesses online at people kind of doing their own thing. and i kind of applauded that i sort of think it, wow, that's a sign of health and breaking away from the traditional, you know, long term service at one company. do you have any insights into how that evolution is going and what sped up and what you're worried about it that yeah, it's a great question and i think what disruption is messy. but ultimately, if you look at the history of american economy, it's been very good, right? moments where you had to have something new happen. i mean, i'm one of these we're studying now is we're looking at the last session to try and understand who, what were the cities that spared well, and what were the cities that struggle than what, what made them shut them apart. and one of the things we're seeing because we look at immigration, is at the cities that were more welcoming towards immigrants were actually the hardest in the last session af

university press and is widely published. and colleen is director of graduate studies at the arizona state school of civic and economic thought and leadership. she is the author of a marvelous book, the mind of james madison, the legacy of classical republicanism, and james madison and the spirit of republican government. she is a great friend of the constitution center and was a contributor to the center's madisonian constitution for all initiative. thank you for joining, richard, jonathan and colleen. i will begin with you, colleen, because in your book on james madison, you discuss the intellectual sources of madison 's notes on government and say that as he was writing them, he set out to distill his -- the wisdom of the ancient and enlightenment thinkers, heavily laden with citations to classical authors. he deeply engages montesquieu, whose spirit of the laws was one of the most cited books in the founding era. according to a pathbreaking study, it was the most cited book during the foundation error, but at the same time, madison took issue with aspects of montesquieu, particularly based on his reading of a book by john

researchers at the university of arizona conducted tests that cleared gaetan dugas as " patients zero ". the particular strain of hiv that he carried was introduced to the united statesas early as 1970 when he was a little boy and that never ever existed united states before. so he was not the person who had brought it to america. it had been in america prior to that time. and we know now, of course, there are many types of hiv strains, so it's rather absurd to think that we can connect a pandemic on the continent of two or 300 million people down to one person. it's just not possible to do. and so this is where shilts's -- the posthumous review of shilts's work has been most critical. there are books and a documentary coming about patient " patient zero " at the problematic creation of that character, how dugas was set up as being somehow different from many other gay people in that era or really any person in their twenties who was interested in expressing themselves sexually and otherwise, meeting new people, and exploring life. and dugas had not lived life necessarily a whole lot different than anyone else, he had just been a lot more cooperative with investigato

university department of medicine. her eis assignment was with the state of arizona.el has been organized to include alumni from different decades, professional categories, eis positions and other elements to reflect the broad diversity of our officers. our panel includes dr. ken castro, a former division director at the cdc, and he also serves as an advisor for usaid. next is dr. sue chu, a senior epidemiologist. sue was at the division of reproductive health. dr. jennifer mcquiston is a veterinarian. and currently serving as the deputy manager for cdc's response. and dr. lynn paxton it is a physician and has held multiple leadership positions at the cdc until retirement. she is currently the fulton county district health director. and representative sara rodriguez is a nurse and currently serving as the wisconsin state representative. after eis, she served in multiple roles, including as the health director at the state of colorado. she served in oklahoma for eis. we hope you enjoy this panel of alumni. dr. yasmin: thank you so much for that lovely introduction and

university department of medicine. seema's eis assignment was with the state of arizona.ude alumni from different decades, professional categories, eis positions and other elements to reflect the broad diversity of our eis officers. our panel includes dr. ken castro, a physician and former division director at cdc and formerly my supervisor. ken is now a professor at the rolland school of public health. he also serves as an advisor for usaid. ken was an eis officer with the division of hiv/aids. next is dr. sue chu. she is a director with the department of health. dr. lynn paxton -- dr. jennifer mcquiston served with the leadership branch. dr. lynn paxton held a position with the cdc until her temporary retirement in 2017. she is currently the county health director. lynn was an eis officer with the malaria branch. representative sara rodriguez is a nurse and currently serving wisconsin state representative. after eis, sara served in multiple leadership roles, including being chronic health director in the state of colorado. sara was assigned to the state of oklahoma for