geoff: d.c.n and miami-raised, jackson stood out early, excelling in high school as class president and on the debate team. even then her goal was clear. she's quoted in her senior yearbook, saying: "i want to go into law and eventually have a judicial appointment." her teenage years were key to achieving that, as she put it in 2017. >> it was my high school perience as a competitive speaker that taught me how to lean in, despite the obstacles. geoff: with honors degrees from harvard and harvard law, jackson scored three federal clerkships, including one under the justice she may now replace. >> justice breyer plucked me from obscurity and gave me the opportunity of a lifetime. >> and i will say she is adored among the breyer clerk family. geoff: she made a lasting impression, said fellow breyer clerk and former acting solicitor general neal katyal. >> she is fearless. and, also, she's a real person. and, sometimes, that's not always true with supreme court justices, who live in an elite, rarefie

geoff: what will you be watching for as this case unfolds?: well, like any trial, it's going to have a lot of ups and downs. and the plaintiff will come. and she's got a story to tell, and she's going to try to show that the news organization came to this editorial with a preconceived idea of what it was going to say. and the new york times will defend itself by saying all of that is contrary to what happened, that the evidence shows that the journalists at the paper did their level best to get everything right, that there was a pressing news cycle that day, and a sitting member of congress had been shot on a baseball field. and, at the end of a long day, an honest mistake was made, and they promptly corrected it. and i would say that it's important to note that the vast majority of plaintiffs who are able to overcome this daunting bar of actual malice at trial and prevail with a judgment find that, on appeal, their cases are overturned. and so, while we're beginning the trial phase right now, there could be a long road ahead still for this c

geoff: what accounts for that lack of progress on vaccination? dr. nuzzo: sure.i think, in some places, people still do have a hard time getting vaccinated, in part because maybe they work hours that are not conducive to going to get vaccines. but i think we also have not done enough of an effort to emphasize the benefits of vaccines, the fact that they prevent you from severe illness and death. many people, i think, are probably focusing on the fact that they know somebody who've gotten vaccinated and they still got covid. but the fact of the matter is, if you're vaccinated against covid, the likelihood that you will wind up in the hospital is very, very low, comparedo people who are not vaccinated. so we alsoave an information environment where people are trying to do their research on vaccines. and, for many people, it's much easier to find lies about the vaccines than the truth and to find information about the benefits of these vaccines. so, we really need to do more. and we also need to make sure that we protect the people who are most likely to suffer the

is this. >> it might, but here's why i don't think it will in the end make a difference, geoff.sident of the united states, any president, is the primary consumer of intelligence information. he is the ultimate customer. he also has the authority to classify and teclassify documents. so even if documents were found that are classified, it would be very difficult, exceedingly difficult for a federal prosecutor to prove that mr. trump or any oth president didn't just wave their hand over the documents and say, "i now declassify you." in order to prove a criminal case of mishandling or retaining classified information, you would also have to essentially prove a negative, that that didn't happen, that the documents were properly classified, and that president trump took the documents in a classified condition, he mishandled them and retained them. that's a very difficult criminal case, given that the president has ultimate classification and declassification authority. >> this isn't the first time the former president's handling of official records has come under scrutiny. politico

geoff, i want to get your take on another big development. maybe even a minor miracle when we talk bipartisanship. the u.s. postal service getting a huge financial bailout from congress nearly 3:1 vote, how did they do it? >> and i'd call it a big miracle in part because it will legislation was 15 years in the making. as you mentioned, it was a landslide bipartisan vote. and so this legislation relieves billions of dollars of liabilities that the postal service agency leaders had pointed to and they said this is why we can't provide on-time and efficient service. so that is gone. the house also removed this requirement that existed since 2006 that says that the postal service had to pre-fund health benefits and retirement benefits for postal service employees 75 years into the future. so that meant that the postal service was paying into a fund for potential employees who weren't even born yet. so that is now gone. so this is a big deal. senator schumer, leader schumer in the senate, has said that he expects the upper chamber to take this up

and geoff shepard was standing in the back of the east room, and he was not happy. after hearing the smoking gun tape people leave like many the president nixon was hiding the truth and had been for several years. and then jeff started digging. and he dug and he dug and he dug for 15 years. through the documents and through files that were once sealed. and jeff soon found out that what he was led to believe about watergate and indeed what the nation was led to believe was well. let's just say that there's more to the story. and i'll let him get into that this evening. jeff is the author of the nixon conspiracy watergate and the plot to remove the president. you can purchase your copy in the nixon library's gift shop and jeff will sign it this evening after tonight's program this morning in the washington examiner paul bedard wrote that jeff shepherds quote credibility is hard to challenge. you can see jeff talking more about the nixon conspiracy on newsmax this wednesday morning, and he will appear on the hugh hewitt show on tuesday, november 30th at 8:05. am easter

chief washington correspondent geoff bennett has the story. >> bennett: over the last two years, the so-called “friendly skies” have often been anything but. >> if we don't stand up, it's only going to get worse. >> reporter: rowdy air travelers berating flight attendants. and pulled off planes by police. this year alone, the f.a.a. reports that there have been 499 incidents of unruly passenrs, 324 of which have been mask- related. 80 cases have been referred to the f.b.i. for criminal review. earlier this month, on an american airlines flight from l.a. to washington, a man tried to open the plane door in mid- flight. court documents say a flight attendant hit him in the head with a coffee pot to subdue him. other passengers held the man down until they could make an emergency landg in kansas city, missouri. police have now charged 50-year- old juan remberto rivas with interfering with a flight attendant. the pilot recounted the ordeal to passenger mouaz moustafa. >> did he try to get at the cockpit door or was he just trying to open the door? >> he was trying to but he couldn't get

joining us now, leann caldwell on capitol hill, shannon pettypiece covers the white house, and geoff is chief washington correspondent for the pbs news hour. good morning to all of you, do we know why president biden took this action now, and are there any legal challenges left for former president trump left on this. >> we will see if the former president tries to continue fighting this, but the white house saying very clearly today as they have in past efforts by the former president to block release of records that the former president has no grounds to assert executive privilege now that he is out of office and the current president, the current administration, which the courts have clearly stated is the one who gets to decide which presidential documents are released. they have made the determination that there's a compelling reason for congress to get these documents and the white house top lawyer wrote in a letter today being very clear about how they feel about this, they said constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield from congress or the

and we geoff them unman -- and we give them unmanned aerial vehicles. those will start to make up for the shortfalls of their air force being diminished and degraded. and those u.a.d.'s could strike deep targets, which is where russia is going to go next. i am not talking about strategic targets. not talking about moscow. i am talking about militarily operational targets. those are the cruise missiles, bases close to the ukrainian border. strike those targets and let's end this war. [applause] reporter: [indiscernible] russian missiles? ret. lt. col. vindman: unfortunately, israel has very deep interest with russia and there's a large jewish population and the russians are holding israel over a barrel. so we've -- the israelis are our closest allies, amongst our closest allies, certainly. and they are taking a much more cooperative position than would seem they were taking initially. they were reluctant to condemn russia's actions but they moved off of that one. we just need to lead. the u.s. needs to lead. through u.s. leadership, i think we can really

geoff bennett is back for an analysis of russia's political actions. >> president biden reacted swiftlyir putin declaring he would recognize the independence of two breakaway regions in eastern ukraine. possibly music -- possibly using the move as a pretext for invasion the u.s. had warned was lily coming. as president biden focuses on the ukraine crisis, he is faced with a looming political crisis at home -- to maintain their power and it washington. here to discuss that and more, am joined by a walter and tamra keith -- and tamara keith. national security advisor jake sullivan warned russia could be preparing for a conflict even more brutal than some estimates. by the start of this crisis, the biden administration has been transparent in declassify intelligence and sharing it with the american people. trying to telegraph putin's next steps. what is behind that strategy? >> it is not just the biden administration. allies in europe have been releasing intelligence about what they say putin is up to. part of this was to make it more difficult on vladimir putin so that he could not get aw

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but mostly it is new worries, geoff.s issue of inflation wasn't even mentioned in april of 2021. it is now the top concern, rising costs for groceries, for filling up ur car, for rent. and the challenge i think we will soon find out is whether the president can come back from many americans who once thought he was handling the problems that america was facing quite well, and now, even on covid, opinions of his handling of that have dropped. >> and, tam, in the couple of minutes we have left, let's return to the issue we started with, and that was, namely, ukraine. i want to talk about how republicans are handling this. because republicans have been generally united for blaming president biden for his handling of this crisis in eastern europe. but former president trump's comments have composed a decision in the g.o.p. he has repeatedly defended putin, just a couple of days ago calling him smart. take a look at this. >> predent trump: the problem is not that putin is smart, which, of course, he is smart, but the real prob

for the pbs newshour, i'm geoff bennett. >> woodruff: it is a landmark moment for black women acrosst american history, have made up less than 2% of the federal bench. lisa desjardins has more on the historical significance, and how judge jackson could reshape the nation's highest court. >> desjardins: joining me now to discuss this nomination is professor margaret m. russell from santa clara university law school, and newshour regular, marcia coyle of the national law journal. >> marcia let me start with you, what do you think this means? how would judge jackson fit in with or maybe change current court? >> well i think, lisa, first we have to realize that she will not change the did logical divide on the court. it will still be a 6-3 conservative majority. but that doesn't mean she can't be influential in several ways. first of all, she is the only one on the court who has been a federal public defender. she is seen a side of the criminal justice system that none of the other justices have experienced. so when they go into their private conferences she can bring that to the table i

geoff bennett has more. >> reporter: judy, the ruling from a divided supreme court allows alabama to a congressional map that a lower court said likely denied black voters in that state an additional member in the u.s. house of representatives. republican lawmakers in alabama drew congressional districts following the 2020 census to give black voters control of one in seven of the state's congressional seats. as you can see, the new map has just one majority-black district in a state where more than a quarter of the population is african american. now, a three-judge federal panel ruled last month that the arrangement likely violated the voting rights act. the supreme court with its ruling further whittling away at that landmark 1965 law. joining us now is janai nelson, associate director-counsel of the n.a.a.c.p. legal defense and educational fund. it's good to have you with us. and put, if you can, this decision into context for us. the supreme court vote was 5 to 4 with chief just john roberts, as you know, joining the court's three liberals in dissent. >> that's right. this case i

geoff bennett has our report. >> reporter: it's a title leondra kruger already knows well: justice.le she'd be the first black woman to join the court, being "the first" is a position she knows well, too. kruger grew up in the suburbs of los angeles. both parents, doctors. her mother immigrated from jamaica. her father, the son of european jewish immigrants. she attended an elite prep school, where she played the llo and was editor of the school paper. that led to undergrad at harvard and then yale law school, where she became the first black woman to serve as editor in chief of the "yale law journal." >> at the time, i didn't even understand what a trailblazing selection she was. >> reporter: renato mariotti is a former federal prosecutor who went to law school with kruger. >> i cannot imagine herding a more difficult set of cats than herding the editors in the "yale law journal." it really speaks well to her ability to work well with others and build a consensus. >> reporter: even as she was breaking barriers, mariotti says the effects of racism were still very clear. >> there's a

geoff bennett has this report on how she got here. >> i'm even handedly applying the law in every caserown jackson has a resume seemingly tailor-fit for the moment. harvard grad, supreme court clerk, and a federal judge with a deep history in public service. >> there is a direct line from my defender service to what i do on the bench. >> reporter: d.c. born and miami raised, jackson stood out early, excelling in high school as class president and on the debate team. even then her goal was clear: she's quoted in her senior yearbook saying, “i want to go into law and eventually have a judicial appointment.” her teenage years were key to achieving that, as she put it in 2017: >> i have no doubt that of all the various things i've done it was my high school experience as a competitive speaker that taught me how to lean in despite the obstacles. >> reporter: with honors degrees from harvard and harvard law, jackson scored three federal clerkships including one under the justice she may now replace: >> justice breyer plucked me from obscurity and gave me the opportunity of a lifetime. >> rep

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i want to bring in ali vitali, and geoff bennett, chief national correspondent for the pbs news hour, contributor here on nbc. talk about the way the committee is building its case. we're going to see stewart rhodes, he's going to get all of this attention. he's most like not going to say anything. on the other hand, mike pence's top aides have been speaking to them. what's going on? >> yeah, and the question is how much of a proxy are the former vice president's top aides for the former vice president himself and will the committee ever take the step toward inviting the vice president or even subpoenaing him for his own testimony, but the committee, steph, is trying to paint this narrative of what led up to the violent attack on the capitol on january 6th, and what came after it that this conspiracy to undermine or completely overturn the election did not happen in a vacuum, did not just happen on january 6th, that there was a well coordinated effort that existed before it, and that continues in some ways to this present moment, and so with stewart rhodes, he has already been charged

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geoff barton, thank you very much- — the plans announced today are for england only.the scottish parliament tomorrow. she said there will be some optimism as we move to a new phase in the pandemic, but ahead of that, she said that anyone who tests positive with covid should self—isolate. she also disagrees with any sudden change to testing arrangements. she would prefer a slower move to a more targeted approach. here in scotland, you must wear a face covering in indoor public places and also vaccine passports are required in places like nightclubs and other large gatherings. in wales, the rules on self—isolation remain. there is a review due next month, but for now, if you test positive, here, you have to self—isolate for at least five days. that may now cause confusion for people who have to cross the border with england for work. masks remain mandatory in shops abd on public transport and in health care until the end of this month, but the welsh government's biggest concern is that change on testing. they say bringing it to an end is premature and reckless. they had

they are on track right now to take control again in 2022 if the rest of america doesn't wake up and geoff their ass and get out and vote. >> yeah, i mean, steve vbannon s the vice president of the republican party, and so this is all on the same day, molly, that the republican party voted to censure adam kinzinger and liz cheney, and this is all in the democratic-led legitimate discourse of which chene responded of the rioters that this is january 6th, and this is not legitimate political discourse, and the rnc is saying that not people involved in violence, but they didn't get it right the first time, and it is sounding like cleanup on aisle 6, and it is pathetic. >> yeah. i mean, they really made the wrong choice, but continuously for the last 13 months, they have made the wrong choice, and protected donald trump, and refused to disavow political violence which is an easy one, and it is hard to watch, and you can see ultimately that the base has moved further to the right, and further against democracy, too. it is just really a sort of unbelievable thing to watch. and 13 months ago if t

. >> evelyn farkas, geoff bennett, yes, sir. >> uncle, grandson, nephew and to the rest of your family mother's love and i am sorry i broke your heart. my heart is broken for all of you. earlier when you said that i didn't look at you during the trial, i don't believe i had a right to. i didn't even have a right to be in the same room with you. i am so sorry that i hurt you so badly. my heart is broken, devastated for all of you. i pray for dante and all of you many, many times a day. he is not more than one thought away from my heart and i have no right for that, for him to be in my heart. and i do pray that one day you can find forgiveness only because hatred is so destructive to all of us and that i pray peace will always be with you and your family. again, i am so sorry. and to the community of brooklyn center, i do owe you an apology, too. i loved working for you and i am sorry what has happened to our community since the death of dante. and the men and women who work for you still are good honorable people and will work hard for you. thank you, your honor. >> thank you, miss pott

joining me is geoff bennett, msnbc political contributor, and chief washington correspondent for pbsn the account, according to "the washington post," one person said i'm waiting to get a better offer and i'm out. this work is not sustainable, and myself for minimal successes. >> wow. >> as a former nbc news congressional correspondent, were you aware that staffers felt this way? >> i was. look, this is a decades-long -- a generations-long problem, and for hill staffers, who might have legitimate grievances, alex, there's really nowhere to turn. there is no congressional hr office. every office operates as its own little feifdom so if a boss, a member of congress is being verbally harassing a junior staffer, there's really nowhere for that staffer to turn. he or she could talk to the chief of staff or maybe have a conversation with that member, him or herself, but that's the extent of it. and so that's one of the reasons why now there's this big push, coming at a time when workers across the board are pushing for better pay and better working conditions. the same thing is happening o

geoff bennett has our report. >> what am i trying to accomplish?. >> bennett: sarah palin versus the "new york times." a court case more than four years in the making. it started in june 2017, the day a gunman opened fire on congressional republicans practicing for a charity baseball game. four people were shot, including then-majority whip steve scalise, who was critically injured. it mirrored the scene in tucson arizona years earlier when man attacked a crowd in a grocery store parking lot, killing six and injuring more than a dozen others, including former democratic congresswoman gabrielle giffords. the day scalise was shot, the "new york times" published an editorial about the connection between rising gun violence and politics.“ the link to political incitement was clear,” the times wrote, tying the actions othe tucson shooter to a facebook post by palin. in it, a map showed 20 congressional districts, all represented by democrats, underneath stylized crosshairs. they were 20 seats that palin's political action committee hoped to win back in

geoff bennett looks at why the u.s. is struggling, compared to much of the world. >> reporter: judy, those troubling statistics have been persistent since covid first spread, and today, an analysis by the "new york times" underscores just how deep these problems are. it compared the u.s. death rate for covid to other wealthy industrialized countries. america had the highest rates. and as you can see on this simplified chart of the "times's" data, the u.s. rate was higher than britain, germany, canada, and japan-- to name a few. why are we continuing to struggle? we dig into that with jennifer nuzzo, who studies epidemiology and global health at the johns hopkins center for health. it's good to have you with us. we'll start there. what accounts for this high death rate the u.s. as compared to its peer nations. >> first of all we have to acknowledge it's a complete and utter tragedy because the vast majority of the deaths have been preventable because most have occurred since the development of the covid 19 vaccinings. wh

geoff bennett has more. >> reporter: judy, the "new york times" is reporting that six weeks after the, former president donald trump directed his attorney, rudy guiliani, to ask the department of homeland security if it could take possession of voting machines in key swing states. now, this is just the latest in a string of revelations about the former president's aggressive efforts to overturn the election he lost. it is also at the heart of what the january 6 committee is investigating, says democratic congressman jamie raskin: >> this president clearly tried to overthrow a presidential election. he's the first president in american history to do it. so, our committee is charged with telling america the truth, and we're going to get that truth out there in very vivid and fine-grained detail, so america understands exactly what happened. >> reporter: to walk us through all of this, i'm joined by one of the "new york times" reporters who broke the story. luke broadwater, "new york times" congressional correspondent. luke, it's great to have you with us. help us understand how this new

so, geoff duncan, i will start with you and ask you about about all right. we have not seen any push back in our state, in support of the effort. crime is a bipartisan problem and this is a bipartisan solution. >> now, this is exciting. senator halpern, just two years ago it seems americans were divided over the issue of policing. here georgia is leading the way. there are a lot of mayors trying to figure out how they can make their towns and cities safer. there are a lot of state legislators debating back and forth, coming from two different sides. i guess my question is how did georgia come together with the bipartisan bill? >> well, i think that, you know, again, crime is definitely not something that is partisan. so where we've been seeing increases in crime in cities throughout and towns throughout our state, everybody wants to do something to address it. so the question really is what do you do and how do you come up with an innovative solution, and this l-e-s-s crime act is an innovative solution. when i first read the bill i thought about it from the

and the next slide, geoff. the total enforcement -- the code enforcement department has been busy with the pandemic's impact. as a reminder t code enforcement process typically starts with the complaint to inspect the code violation and issue a notice of violation through the achieved compliance. if the violation is not corrected, we may issue a second nov and if we cannot achieve clines, and we need to hold the director's hearing. and that goes on the properties and put the lien on the property and is severe at that point. that can that recorded from the date of the property. and criteria for prioritizing the enforcement actions and number one will be projects that pretty much planned for at all. and number two with the no inspection history and number three with the application and under the permit process. and number four is the projects that have expired and over 12 months ago and maybe special inspections and were not submitted to the dbi. the code enforcement division's goal is for all cases that have an

my name is geoff cooper and i am president and of the renewable fuels association. we're the leading trade association for america's ethanol industry. thank you for convening this timely and important hearing today and i appreciate the opportunity to share our industries and unique perspective. the of electric vehicles and the push to decarbonized transportation could have important implications for farm country and we commend the committee for thinking carefully about those issues. as you know the massive increase in public and private investment in electric vehicles is being driven by the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve economy wide carbon neutrality by 2050. transportation is the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the u.s. accounting for nearly one-third of our nation's total emissions. thus, any started to achieve net-zero emissions by midcentury must include measures of rapidly decarbonized the transportation sector. we agreed that electric vehicles will be an important part of that strategy but given the time needed to transition