c. chapel hill board of trustees. this story blue. this is one of the biggest academic stories in the united states right now. if you're watching around the world, i want you to understand it's huge, it's controversial and then the board had to react pretty quickly. they did a press conference, and this is a little snippet of what they had to say. look in general is trustee. we take seriously responsibility for a prison tenure. we're talking about a lifetime position here, so they're not into lightly. and so it's not unusual for member of the board or the case or the chair of the committee. i have questions for clarification about background, particularly, candice that don't come from a traditional academic type background. on this case. i'm sure to ask for a little bit of time to be able to do that. martha is doing there, martha? i am, i am. you know, universities are operate by what i recall, shared governance, and the recognition that within a sprawling university like the university of north carolina, an excellent university like

in the recent hiring of new york times reporter nicole hannah jones by the chapel hill journalism school, has no right into the national spotlight once again printed this time, the discussion of who we are as americans. when a country represents, and the principles on which our country founded and of course the roll of the faculty in board of trustees when it comes to the issue of hiring people and tenure. we've got a great panel lined up for you and hope to be able to clear up misconceptions for you and also putting perspective this very important debate going on in our country rated 20 yesterday as the ceo of the john locke foundation and been with us several times and for none of the many of you up had to meet with her in north carolina. amy cook is with us tonight under here. and jenna robinson is the president of the james center for academic renewal and there following higher education issues north carolina in their right in the center of this whole discussion in trying to clear up a false narrative about the hiring of hannah jones. and also is matthew spalding, the college buys pr

here is patterson shan, a student at usa chapel hill. the word republican on campus is synonymous with racist. do you think the school will have the you know what to cancel the idea of tenure or revisit tenure with hannah jones given her demand? >> thanks for having me, thank you for your interest. i do think that the issue to the conversation which is that and that is something troubling students and the university as a country that we don't lose our traditions of freedom of expression. laura: what is really sad to me is your parents pay a lot of money for tuition at unc. you spend a lot of time and effort to do well in school, really hard to get into unc, an incredible institution of higher education and then you get there and you find out the whole idea of the free exchange of ideas is kind of a farce. you really cannot be honest about your views on campus and not expect to get called every name in the book. is that right? you come out and say a few where a maga have on campus what happens? >> i don't know what happens but i will say

up here -- >> reporter: dante pittman's hometown is the last place he thought he'd be after unc chapel hillney general in raleigh. >> most of the folks i polled said i should stay where i was. thank goodness for good family who said, i you need to come back home. >> reporter: he did, to work for the city of wilson, thanks to lead for america, a nonprofit that provides college grads with two-year fellowships in their hometowns. >> i felt like every day i had the opportunity to change someone's life for the better in the work that i'm doing. >> forget about that shiny big city. >> first time i went to new york i saw a 10-pound rat. it's not that shiny. >> it teaches you how to run a business -- >> reporter: 25-year-old benya kraus helped create lead for america. her family's been in small-town minnesota for six generations. what is the impact of the brain drain that happens when people go off to college and don't come back? >> there's a material cost to what happens when there's brain drain. schools unable to find teachers. i think that also sends this feeling that there's not much hope that

here now is patterson sheehan, a student at unc chapel hill. hey, patterson.us is basically synonymous with racist. so do you think the school will have the dash, you know what, the canceled -- the idea of tenure or revisit tenure with hannah jones given her demands? >> first of all, thank you so much for having me, it's great to be here tonight. thank you for your interest in [indiscernible]. [indiscernible] but i do think that the issue points back to this larger conversation that [indiscernible] and i think that that's [indiscernible] with the students of something i hope the university [indiscernible] is a country that we don't lose our daily freedom of thought and [indiscernible]. >> laura: well, what's really sad to me is that your parents pay a lot of money for tuition at unc. you spend a lot of time and effort and energy to try to do well in school, really hard to get into unc. it's an incredible institution of higher education. and then you get there and you find out this whole idea of a free exchange of ideas is kind of a farce. i mean, you really ca

the patent was coming in from usc-chapel hill. -- unc-chapel hill? why is he denying this?s for having me on. i think the evidence is clear from 2015 when a paper was published in one of the most prominent, well-read journals in the world, "nature," that the nih funded research that combined two different types of coronavirus to make one that had never existed. that's gain of function research are. we also know that since 2015 there's been a whole excel spread sheet full of grants funding bat coronavirus research. now, weco don't know what kind f research they did. that's why the congress needs to investigate, to determine exactly what they said they were going to do, what they did and what the accountability and controls for the nih were. the final thing i want to say, and it's not been pointed out enough, is gain of function research goes through an internal, this ih review to determine whether it's worthwhile or not. that is not public. we don't know who reviews it. we we don't know who are on the review panels. all this really needs to be investigated by congress and ha

it began in north carolina, in chapel hill, with the funding . nih and worldwide genocide has been the consequence. host: to follow-up on antony file cheese emails, -- anthony fauci's emails, they safe out you must testify about published origins, covid-19 origins. they say it is imperative he testify before congressional committees and provide information related to the origins of covid-19. steve scalise, who serves as the top republican on the house, selects a subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis. and ranking member -- the ranking member sent a letter to democrats on the committee saying, "it is imperative ouchi appears before the committees." he wrote ouchi's emails, which were released through a freedom of information act filing this week, "debunked many democrats claims -- sean from stockton, california, independent line. caller: hi, how are you doing? i hear everybody calling in and saying we are divided as a country. i am calling in with a solution. all we have to do is reregister as independents with no party preference so that the poli

it's all over chapel hill. some people who've managed to read the book. i asked them their impressions and they usually have two questions. first is how did i not know about this? and the second is how could this happen in the united states of america? the only thing i can tell him is that this is a forgotten chapter of american history not just north carolina history, but american history that was covered up or mischaracterized for more than a century. i think most of you know the basic story. i'll go through it quickly in 1898 white supremacists overthrew the multi-racial government in wilmington. they killed up to 60 black men, and they wounded dozens more. they burned down the black daily newspaper. and the evicted city leaders at gunpoint. they appointed the mob leaders as mayor police chief sheriff in city alderman. and they banished black and white political leaders. they marched them with militiamen at gunpoint to the train station. they put them on the train and said if you ever come back to wilmington, will shoot you on site. not one of them eve

at the end of a long work that she found her way from greensboro to chapel hill where she spent two hours with students. i was in all of this lady. she was so graceful, so well spoken, and dressed to the nines. when she spoke to her you knew you had her undivided attention. and oh, i wanted to be just like her. little did i know at that time she was the first african-american woman to graduate from columbia law school. as a matter fact recently shehe was honored by the law school. when you have some time, please go and look up judge all rita alexander. continuing with her story, she ran for chief justice of the supreme court of north carolina. she sought the republican nomination for chief justice. she was defeated by a salesman of products for fire- department. that was because north carolina that time did not require judges to have a lot license. as a result been defeated by him in the republican primary judge l rita alexander. submit thank you all for highlighting those individuals. were out there on his battlefield preparing for this pallet came across a poem entitled. [inaudible] it

caller: yes, i am in the chapel hill area and i was in chicago and i have been in chapel hill for 10 in this town is very heavily supportive of the athletes. all the businesses did not perk up until the students came back and sports times comes around and michael jordan was here in chicago. so, they are generating revenue for the community because it is like it here. -- it is like dead. i think people like michael jordan -- should take place are the corruption of the situation will not happen. their ability to play and reward for your talent is there, but not overdoing it where people just do all kinds of things to have this benefit, we want to keep it clean. competitive and athletic. and physically healthy. and things like that. that is my comment. host: this was an antitrust case, a 9-0 decision, part of the decision, the writing of brett kavanaugh who said in his decision, nowhere else in america can businesses get away with agreeing not to pay their workers a fair market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a bar market rate. under ordinary

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barrett from the university of chapel hills on this research. dr. has been lawyerly in his answers to the questions. in our letters we are just asking the basic questions. on what evidence did he base his initial assessment on. what caused his opinion to shift? we want specific answers to specific questions. but he has a lot of explaining to do. judge jeanine: i think the cover-up, that term is just the beginning. it's about time the american people understood what's going on. thank you for everybody you have done. you are truly to be admired. thank you for being with us tonight. >> you keep up the good work, too. take care. >> thank you. arizona's attorney general mark brnovich. did dr. fauci lie to congress? congressman jim jordan is next. >> you don't think americans' liberties have been threatened this last year. they have been assaulted. >> i don't look at this as a liberty thing. >> that's obvious. judge jeanine: that was an explosive exchange back in april. now new emails and information continues to be uncoughed and exposed, we can't help bu

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tar heel and by the well all tar heels a rabbit just so you you know and we have mack brown in chapel hillnd so we follow a lot of sports and a lot of basketball from december to march. it revolves around the next game. so we go to a lot of games. nba had a team from jenny and typical african kid a big smile a lot of fun played hard jumped over the back toward and turned into real player. he didn't play much the first two years that tony brought them along and he got better and better and he turned into a phenomenal player. he was an all-conference but he got last spring by the box and he is now on the main roster in milwaukee. he's getting better and better and we love to watch them play and watch his antics on the court. he was an inspiration so finally what triggered it all was last march i was in a sports bar and a couple of buddies talking about the number one seed and practicing worried about covid but it was early march and some of it said on tv march madness canceled. that's illegal. you can't cancel march madness and suddenly we had no basketball and we had no baseball and you kno

i went to chapel hill for my undergrad and i worked in politics during the early part of my career and then decide i had enough of politicians. i was in business school and nda worked in the private sector for a few years and my heart just called me back to the policies. so i started doing policy work advocacy in my return to the private sector around 2010 in this work it was a lame-duck session of congress became clear president obama was a real interest said the bush were in over million dollars and it infuriated me. your both american political parties working together bridges tax burden on millionaires. so i got a few they crafted a letter essentially said that the country raise my taxes and tit absolutely blew up in the beginning we don't now organization a few hundred members. 75 countries and we met with countless lawmakers to talk to themabout what is going on in this country . those was my friend partner an author morris pearl. >> thank you erica. i grew up a long ways away in a little town in upstate new york near the canadian border . my parents all i can see the tallest bui

robert baer rick from unc chapel hill.s denying this they had nothing to do with gain of function? >> so thanks for having me on, it was clear from 2015 when a paper was published in one of the most prominent journals of the world, nature, that the nih funded research to combine two coronaviruses with chimeric virus, to make a one. that is gain ever function research. they were funding bat coronavirus research. we don't know what kind of research they did. that is why the congress needs to investigate to determine exactly what what they said they were going to do, what they did and the accountability and controls for the nih were. one final thing i want to say, gain of function research goes through an internal nih review to determine whether that worthwhile or not. that is not public. we don't know who reviews it. we don't know who is on the review panels. all this needs to be investigated by congress and have special reviews, even if we do it in the united states. we should never do it in places like china. >> well we've

and pressure is growing on the university of north carolina at chapel hill to grant tenure to pulitzer prize-winning journalist nikole hannah-jones. she is best known for producing the 1619 project with "the new york times," an interactive project that reexamines the legacy of slavery. her work became the target of right-wing attacks last year after the trump administration threatened to pull federal funding from schools that use the 1619 project in their curriculum. last friday, a major funding partner of the university joined calls to grant hannah-jones tenure. and university of maryland chemistry professor lisa jones declined a job offer by unc over its refusal to change hannah-jones' title. in a solidarity statement, dr. jones said -- "hearing of the delay of nikole hannah-jones' tenure decision led me to reconsider whether the environment at the university of north carolina would be conducive to the achievement of my academic aspirations, which include promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion." in related news, texas republican governor greg abbott signed into law the 1836 proje

journalist nikole hannah-jones says she will not join the faculty of the university of north carolina at chapel hillnext month without tenure. hannah-jones, creator of the 1619 project, says political interference and influence led to the school board's decision to deny her tenure, which drew protest and sharp criticism from faculty, students, fellow academics, and some funders. -- some donors. and new yorkers voted in highly dissipative primary election tuesday. in the heated mayoral race, brooklyn borough president and former new york police officer eric adams is leading with over 31% of the vote, but it will likely take several weeks to announce a winner with the new ranked choice voting system. civil rights attorney maya wiley is currently in second place with 22% of the vote, followed closely by former sanitation commissioner kathryn garcia. 2020 presidential candidate andrew yang has conceded after receiving less than 12% of the tallied vote. journalist ross barkan, who has written critically about adams, said he and other reporters were barred from adams' election night party. talk show host

supreme court sending shockwaves of its own today for places luke tuscaloosa and south bend and chapel hill a major victory for college athletes that could reshape college athletics forever. the court ruling that stutd athletes in the ncaa division can receive payments for education-related expenses. supreme court justice brett kavanaugh writing, nowhere else in america can businesses get away with agreeing not to pay their workers a fair-market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a fair-market rate. under ordinary principles of anti-trust law, it is not evident why college sports should be any different. the ncaa is not above the law, unquote. cnn's jessica schneider joins us now. jessica, do we know how much athletes will be able to make? >> jake, this certainly does pave the way for college athletes to get paid. but this does not permit for direct cash payments. now, under this unanimous decision from the supreme court, the ncaa can not limit education-related payments. that includes money for things like computers or maybe scholarships for post-g

professor, i want to ask you about the backlash growing after the university of north carolina chapel hillnearby you at duke, denied tenure to the pulitzer prize-winning journalist nicole hannah jones, best known for producing the 1619 project with "the new york times," which re-examines a legacy of slavery. can you talk about what this means, the denial of tenure and why you care so much about this issue? >> i would like to cast this in the context of a wider attempt to censor the development and advancement of an accurate story of america's history with respect to racial injustice. race is so heavily infused in america's story that to remove race and racism from the conversation, as many, many legislators around the country are attempting to do in this moment, i would suggest that is actually deep tragedy and a consequence of the failure of the country to do something that istin llen and i refer to as deconfederatize. we think of the aftermath of world war ii in germany, there are many complaints we can raise about what the german population did. but one thing they did not do is create a

need to understand is that gain of function research was being carried out at north carolina's chapel hilllong before it was farmed out to the wuhan lab, right? that happened because it was deemed so dangerous that that's why it was banned by congress and that's why fauci pushed it abroad to the chinese. so the chinese know that their best defense is to point a finger at the u.s. because the u.s. does have their hands dirty. and what fauci has done is spin a web of lies and cover-ups. cover-up over cover-up over cover-up. like peeling back an onion. is he counting we will pull back the first layer and find the first cover-up and everyone will give up. okay well we proved that china was involved. actually, what he is hiding is that he was involved long before this. and there is a much deeper cover-up at play here. >> almost reminds me of whether we found out about the economy collapsing, we didn't really know what wall street was up to. we are now finding what science was up to but go ahead. >> exactly. and i think lara is exactly right. to further add to her point. the thing we need to zer

. >> woodruff: a news update before we go: the university of north carolina-chapel hill's board of trusteeso accept tenure for journalist nikole hannah-jones, author of the "new york times" 1619 project. the board's initial rejection sparked intense criticism. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, please stay safe, and we'll see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: we offer a variety of no- contract wireless plans for people who use their phone a little, a lot, or anything in between. to learn more, go to consumercellular.tv >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org [upbeat music] - hello, everyone and welcome to amanpour & co. here's what's coming up. - there are a number of areas where we are fundamentally at o

a study from the university of north carolina at chapel hill found first-year students reported significantly higher levels of depression and anxiety in the wake of the pandemic. what's more to in five students report experiencing food insecurities and almost have reported experiencing housing insecurities and one and six report experiencing homelessness. we know this pain has not been filled equally. >> hardest on his darkly underresourced institutions like hbcus other minority serving institutionsvi and community colleges. it's been a partisan students of color families with low income students with disabilities lgbtq students rural students veterans and first-generation college students and students who have always experienced inequities in our educational system to that's why was so important congress take action and while we have more work to do to see everyone through this crisis we have been able to make student loan forgiveness tax-free and provide more than $76 billion in higher education emergency relief funds including nearly $40 billion as part of the american rescue plan. i've he

times higher than what it was before the pandemic amount of study from the north of north carolina chapel hill found first-year students reported significantly higher levels of depression and anxiety in the wake of the pandemic. what's more, two in five students report experiencing food insecurity. almost half report experiencing housing insecurity. and one in six report experiencing homelessness. and we know this pain has not been felt equally. it has been hardist on historically underresourced ins stgss like hbcus, other minority serving institutions and communities of color, families of low income, students with disability, lgbtq opportunities, rural students, veterans and first generation students, students who always experienced inequities in our education system. that's why it is so important that congress take action. we have been able to make student loan forgiveness tax free, full stop and provide higher education emergency relief funds including nearly $40 billion we passed as part of the american rescue plan. i have heard from so many people back in my state what a lifeline those fu

a study from the university of north carolina chapel hill found first-year students reported significantly higher levels of depression and anxiety in the wake of the pandemic. what is more, two in five students report experiencing food insecurity. most have reported experiencing housing insecurity, and one in six report experiencing homelessness. no this pain has not been felt equally. it has been hardest on historically under resourced institutions like hbcus, other minority institutions, and community colleges. it has been hardest on students of color, families with no income, students with disabilities, veterans, and first-generation college students. students who have always experienced in equities. that is why it is so important congress take action, and while we have more work to do, have been able to make student loan forgiveness, tax-free, full stop. and provide more than $76 billion in emergency relief, including nearly $40 billion we passed as part of the american rescue plan. i have heard so many people in my state, with a lifeline those funds have been for schools and students.

and the last place he thought he'd be after going to unc chapel hill and working as the state attorney thank goodness for good family who said you need to come on back home. >> reporter: he did to work for the city of wilson, thanks to lead for america, a nonprofit that provides college grads with two-year fellowships in their hometowns. >> i feel like every day i have the opportunity to change someone's life. our generation wants to have a tremendous impact on our communities. in my opinion, the best way to do that is to go back to where you started. >> reporter: forget about that shiny big city. >> yeah. you know, first time i went to new york i saw a ten-pound rat. it's than shiny. >> reporter: 25-year-old benya krauss -- >> all right. see you soon. >> reporter: helped create lead for america so that hometowns everywhere could hold on to home-grown talent. >> that's amazing. >> reporter: her family's been in small town waseka, minnesota, for six generations. what is the impact of the brain drain that happens when, you know, people go off to college and then they don't come back? >>

they built the buildings, the chapel we talked about in 1930. 1937 is because the big american legion of delegation came over that helped as well especially at hillyou know the general came to the dedication? both he came to the dedication here at the cemetery and also at the monument hill 204 it's interesting to americans because here the advance of the enemy towards paris in may 1919 were stopped by the second and third american division the second at belleau wood and the third at chÂteau thierry >> belleau wood and aisne-marne campaign are significant for world war i in american participation. how did the individual divisions or regiments commemorates that continuing today? >> each of the individual divisions even the regimental sized, it is cited a different way to commemorate as far as building monuments or putting plaques in different places that can trace the path of where they advanced or perhaps were they trained before combat examples here would be the second division boulders there is over 30 throughout france you can trace with the second division at with the marines were a half. you can trace their footsteps through france at differe

chapel we talked about in 1930. but again, 1937 is because the big american legion delegation came over. and that helped as well. especially at the hillument. >> do you know if general pershing came to the dedication? >> he came to both. general pershing came to the dedication here at the cemetery and also at the monument hill 204. >> this region is particularly interesting to americans. because here the first and the final advance of the enemy towards paris, made in may 1918, was stopped by the 2nd and 3rd american division. the 2nd at belleau wood and the 3rd at chateau-thierry. >> belleau wood and the aigne-marne campaign are significant for world war i and the american participation. how did the individual divisions or regiments commemorate that continuing today? >> a little bit differently. each of the individual we'll say divisions, sometimes even a regimental size, they decide a different way to commemorate, as far as building monuments or putting plaques, to trace the path of where they advanced or perhaps where they trained before combat. a couple of examples here is the 2nd division boulders. there's just over 30 throughout