wes bellamy, p.j. tobia, mar mccord, thank you. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> brangham: now, we turn to the analysis of brooks and marcus. that's "new york times" columnist david brooks, and "washington post" deputy editorial page editor ruth marcus. mark shields is yay. welcome both. so as we were just hearing, this weekend is the one-year anniversary of the spasm of racism that we saw in charlottesville. david,'m curious, the esident, we saw what his reaction was a year ago.e' since thencontinued a steady stream of raciallych ged rhetoric, criticizing immigrants, linking them with crime and s.-13, criticizing n.f.l. players. y in this par, is it your sense that anything has changed t that regard? >> not with donamp. white identity politics has been his calling card for a long, long time, maybe stretching back generations for the trump family. the institute of family studies asked how many people actually hampathize with what the alt right stood for,the people in charlottesville stood for. they identified thr

they spill a lot of digital ink online about this stuff. >> woodruff: p.j. tobia who has been following anwill continue to follow it. thank you, p.j. >> thank you, judy. >> woodruff: in the navajo nation, many residents still live off the grid, making it challenging to live their day- to-day lives. speciacorrespondent fred de sam lazaro recently traveled to the sprawling reservation, which is spread across parts of new, mexiizona and utah. it's part of our weekly segment on the leading edge of science and technology. >> reporter: neighbors and visitors are few and far between in much of the navajo nation in noheastern arizona. so grace white was eecially happy to get a recent visit from melissa parrish, who works for the navajo electric utility.it 75-year-old whsurvives and even speaks much like heror ancedid, living in a mud hogan, with neither electricity nor running water >> ( translated ): i use kerosene for lighting and wood to heat my home. fresh food doesn't last more than a day or two. so for meat, i dry it in the sum e jerky. >> reporter: for more than 60

the newshour's p.j. tobia has more. >> reporter: for more than 20 years, jones has screamed... >> what is hitler? what is stalin? at is mao? >> reporter: and shouted... >> you'll never, never defeat the human spirit! you'll never defeat god! you'll never win! >> reporter: ...on the way toil winning over mlions of fans to his nationally syndicated radio program, online video broadcasts and "infowars" w ssite. with hgan, "there's a war on for your mind," jones specializes inonspiracy theories. perhaps his most infamous claim: that the school shooting in c sandy honecticut was a hoax perpetrated by the government. >> sandy hook is synthetic,te comp fake, with actors, in my view manufactured. >> reporter: victis families have sued jones for defamation. he's long supported president trump, who appeared on his radio program in december of 2015. >> your reputation is g. i will not let you down. you'll be very, very impressed, i hope. and i think we'll be speaking a lot. >> reporter: jones' media operation is funded i

newshour producer p.j. tobia now has more on that attack, and why many venezuens are also running from their homeland, and what they're leaving behind. >> reporter: this is venezuela's border with brazil. every day, hundreds cross, fleeing an economy that will soon hit one million% inflation. >> ( translated ): we really don't hneave a future in ela and the salary one earns is not enough at all. the bolivar is worthless. >> reporter: the poorest make the crossing on foot. some can't even feed their children, and rely on this catholic-run shelter for a hot meal. venezuela is in crisis. oil production, thr country's maurce of cash, has plummeted. armed guards stand sentry at super market entrances, where lines snake down the block. when shoppers are allowed in, it's a desperate frenzy to get basic commodities. >> so the situation venezuela is really dire because you have a country that is in the midst of an economic crisis with hyperinflation. >> reporter: mariano de alba was born and studied law in venezuela. he's