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thank you. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. a fifth night of protests swept through the streets of cities across the country last night. protests spread well beyond minnesota where george floyd, a black man, died on monday after derek chauvin, a white minneapolis police officer, pressed his knee into floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes. the national guard said as of this morning about 5,000 soldiers and airmen were activated in 15 states and washington, d.c., with "another 2,000 prepared to activate if needed." in new york city, peaceful marches during the day yesterday turned violent as police clashed with demonstrators around the city. in widely shared videos, an n.y.p.d. officer accelerated an s.u.v. into a crowd of protestors in brooklyn. ( screaming ) new york city mayor bill deblio defended the police today and said the vast majority showed restraint, and that there would be an independent review of police actions. mayor deblasio said he wasn't considering a curfew in new york, but across the country dozens of cities ins

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. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thank you for joining us. the coronavirus pandemic reached a teronrible miletoday-- more than ten million people are now infected worldwide. johns u hopkiversity's tracking project shows the united states with the most confirmed cases, more than 2.5 million, with brazil, russia and india following. the united states also has the most deaths from the disease the virus causes. avre than 125,000 american died of covid-19. across the country, states are pausing and reversing reopenings asoronavirus cases spike again. in an interview broadca today, vice president mike pence defended president trump's lack of support for wearing face masks, saying the white house wants to defer to governors and local officials. e president wore a mask when he attended a texas church event today, and heas canceled campaign rallies in florida and arizona planned for next week. y, dallas county, where the church event was held, reported its highest single-day total of coronavirus cases since the pandemic started.or thisng, secretary of

but then he has to pay the political price for it being on his shoulders. >> sreenivasan: now, mr. berman's position is-- is, "i'm going to stick around until you guys officially get a replacement, so you can have an inteim person in the position," if he is fired by the president. but really, the vacancy that has to be filled has to go through the senate. >> so that's the part that's a littlbimore complex, and it's unsettled what the law wouldut say aho gets to replace mr. berman if he's firedan. what's remarkable is that the office of legal counsel opinions, that differ with each other. but the one opinion that says that the attorney general cannot pick mr. berman's replacement. it would have to be the senate or the district court, again, is actually written by justice samueo l alen he was at the justice department in the mid- 1980s. >> sreenivasan: mr. berman is in a court-appointed position. let's go backwards in this sort of history of this here. this spot hasn't had a senate- confirmed appointee in a number of years. >> that's right. and so it's almost like a spot that's remai

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captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for saturday, june 13: president trump addresses west jint's graduating class. demonstrations ftice continue across the globe. and, a surge in nesecoronavirus as cautious reopenings begin. next, on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. sue and edgar wachenheim iii. the cheryl and philip milstein family. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. charles rosenblum. try to live in thmoment to not miss what's right in front of us. mutual of america, we believe taking care of tomorrow can help you make the most of toy. mutual of america financial ent services and investments. di onal support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, private corporation funded by the american people. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >n:> sreenivaood evening, and thanks for joining us. s protests, marches and rallies continue across the nation calng for racial justice and police reform, president trump addressed the graduating c

. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. president donald trump restarted his on-the-road re-election campaign last night, to a l-fess-thl arena in tulsa, oklahoma. mr. trump gave a sprawling one hour and 41-minute speech at his first rally in more than three months. h re usedist term to describe the covid-19 virus, and repeated the false cim that increased testing is responsible for the large number of covid-19 cases in the u.s. >> when you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people. you're goingo find more cases. so i said to my people, "slow the testing down, plevae." >> sreen: a white house official said today that the president was being "tongue in cheek" about testing being slowed. we'll have more on increases in covid-19 infections in many parts of the country, in our news summary. despite promises by the trump campaign of record crowds, by the time president trump took the stage last night at the 19,000 seat b.o.k. ara, thousands of seats were ety. ostutside, e set up for overflow attendees was disma

sense that we know would be a little safer than the no rights i know what i book next professor sreenivasan from the department of computer science with you this is of west florida thank you so much for your time. ok ereka time for your questions now over to our science correspondent derrick williams. when we have a vaccine how can we provide enough shots to inoculate everyone is there a plan to coordinate efforts around the globe. there are now over $120.00 different covert 19 vaccine candidates in studies going around the world and based on a range of technologies some developers are so confident of success that they're they're already making plans for large scale production the most likely scenario is that we'll need more than one successful vaccine to meet global demand and it could well be that different demographics like like children or the elderly respond better or worse to particular vaccines so so this shotgun approach is actually being viewed as a positive thing. is there a difference between p.c.r. tests and denies the tests. the p.c.r. or polymerase chain reaction test is a met

captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for sunday, may 31: chaos and clashes acrosshe country as demonstrations for george floyd continue. next on "pbs newshour weekend." >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. sue and edgar wachenheim iii. the cheryl and philip milstein family. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. charles rosenblum. we try to live in the moment, to not miss what's right in front of us. at mutual of a

. >> sreenivasan: darren walker let me stawith you. why do you think what happenedto eorge floyd and the reaction to it has the hold on us that io seemave, these massive protests that go on day osafter day a this country? >> judy, i think the moment of reckoning for this country on race has co. george floyd has captured our hearts, our broken hearts. because for african americans, his murder was but an extension and a long list of names over many, many years. we actually as a communityre not surprised. i think for white america, white america was deeply wounded and shocked by the visual of his murder over eight and a half minutes. and i think for white america, deniability of racism in our policing and in our nation is longer an option. and that is why it hs gripped us and resonates so deeply in the american psyche. >> ava duvernay, is it sometng that is repeat of what we've seen over and over again or is it something ditfferent of w happened to him in this moment? >> certainly, the act of black death is not new. that's, you know-- i t