kristen: theo baker, we can't wait to see what you will report on next.hank you so much for joining us. coming up about record-setting heat from coast-to-coast. and that's not just here in the u.s., with temperatures soaring around the globe, what's driving it, how can we adapt, and what changes need to be made? kristen: a historic heatwave is gripping the globe. the star and conditions right now. north america, europe, and asia. we've been telling out the triple digit hea across the countrtering previous records and now the u.s.al envoy for climate change is calling the situationa that to all hum." you can see why looking at those temperatures. 117 degrees in phoenix today, las vegas, 109. joining us to discuss the dangers of climate change is a professor of global health and environmental and occupational health and sciences at the university of washington. thanks for your time. >> thanks for covering this important issue. kristen: we can't not cover it. it is all around us. we will pull that map back up so people can see what we are talking ab that is

theo baker, thanks so much for your time. we appreciate it. theo: thank you.of the big names in women's soccer are notably absent from the international competition because of knee injuries, namely acl tears. that includes u.s. soccer's catarina macario and christen press, england's leah williamson and beth mead, and netherlands striker vivianne miedema, and many more. as amna nawaz reports from los angeles, it's part of what some are calling an epidemic among female athletes from the professional level all the way down to youth sports. cassidy: soccer was my love, and it was my passion. amna: in high school, cassidy tshimbalanga's dreams were on track. she was a star forward on her team with plans to play in college and then hopefully the pros. but that all changed in a single moment. cassidy: it was a high school game against our rivals, monte vista. and i was playing forward at the time. and the ball bounced in front of my head. amna: she was sandwiched between the goalie and a defender. cassidy: i have no clue what's going on. i just know i'm in excruciati

amy: theo baker became the first ever college student to win a george polk award for his reporting onase. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. coming up, "while we watched," extending new documentary capturing what happened when one of india's most prominent primetime tv journalists ravish kumar reported critically on prime minister narendra modi. he joins us today, along with the film's director vinay shukla . stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman, joined by my democracy now! co-host nermeen shaikh. hi, nermeen. nermeen: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: we begin today's show looking at press freedom in india, often referred to as the world's most populous democracy, under indian prime minister narendra modi. modi is head of the hindu nationalist bjp party. he was once banned for nearly a decade from the united states on charges he did not intervene in a massacre agai

theo baker, the volume two 63 spotlight investigations editor at the stanford daily. st ever recipient of the prestigious george polk award. theo, this is truly extraordinary. you are what, 18, 19 years old? >> yes, i am 18 now. and i really appreciate, thanks for having me on. >> walk us through this. you start your freshman year at stanford, walk us through this reporting, where it began and how you ended up here. or how the president ended up not here. >> well, to me one of the most interesting parts of the story is that it actually started seven years ago. if people had been willing to look into it, the way that i did. it would have found exactly what i found in mid 2022. back in 2015. that is there were rumors online about allegedly photoshopped images in neuro scientific papers that had been published by stanford's now former president. what i did is i found those rumors, i took them to forensic image analysts. i looked into them further and started out with a good old-fashioned open source investigative project. that has since snowballed into a series of investi

theo baker first broke news of the alleged research misconduct last year. >> research misconduct is somethinghat is often shrouded in mystery. it's a conversation that really needs to be brought to the fore more. i think there's a lot that people who were in my position a year ago would not necessarily have context to understand. my understanding is that i do not believe that a number of these issues had been raised with stanford at the time he was selected. reporter: highlighting the power of student journalism. >> as a freshman, holding power to account and the most basic and straightforward way should be commended. i think that part of the conversation is really important here. the daily has done a lot of work to hold stanford university, its own parent university, to account. dan: you details tonight in the trial of a man charged with attacking nancy pelosi's husband at the co's n francisco home last year. today a federal judge den motion to move the trial to the city of eureka near the oregon bord. depap's public says media attention has tainted the durable but the judge disagrees. he ha

that student, theo baker, joins us live this morning. thanks for being with us, theo. hi there.hanks so much for having me. of course, you've been working on this story for months. how does it feel for it to have this result? well, you know, i think the thing that's most gratifying for me being in my position as a student journalist is the idea that we've been able to contribute to the correction of the scientific record on these papers that are really widely cited and high impact ones that, you know, i think as this report has proven, that they would not have been corrected or retracted without our reporting. so the fact that we were able to ask questions and to contribute to something as important as the validity of the scientific record, i think that's really an important thing to do as a student journalist and a stark contrast to that idea of i helping journalists do their work that we talked about here just about 15 minutes ago. let's talk about your work. you spent more than 1000 hours starting in the fall of last year interviewing people, examining research. at what point

student reporter theo baker who authored the article just sat down with nbc's scott budman. >> i wanted to start by heading back to the beginning. after all, this has been around for more than a year. you broke this story in the first place. tell me how it all got rolling? >> it involves papers that were published. i think the earliest one is published six years before i was born. and, you know, we first noticed that there were some allegations floating around in some pretty obscure technical scientific forms. one is called pub peer. there were rumors floating around about images that looked like they had been potentially photo shopped in papers co-authored by marc tessier-lavigne. obviously, if that was true, that would be a big story. it's worth looking into. so we went to a forensic imagist. we put out our first investigation in november of 2022. within a day, the board opened an investigation. that investigation just concluded today and ended with his resignation. >> we've seen this kind of thing in movies. how does it feel to really break a story and become it come big on the other

joining me now is theo baker. campus daily starting in november of last year. >> anchor: theo, thank you so much for being with us. we're gonna go through what happened here. but first ÃÃwhat tipped you off to looking into this story? >> well, thank you so much for having me. what's interesting about this story is actually if you need knew the right place to look à Ãa lot of it ÃÃyou were already able to figure it out around since 2015. which is when a rumor started popping up on an anonymous form called pub here. a lot of folks focused on allegations of manipulation. places where it looked like something had been photoshopped and photoshopped out to make results look like something that they weren't. obviously, there have been a lot more things that have come out since then. since we started asking questions. but it all started from things that if you had tried to access them in 2015, you could've found exactly what we found. >> anchor: so explain to us these flaws and how culpable tessa levine was. these are test

freshman theo baker broke the story. and so it's really gratifying to know that we have committed some reporting that has assisted in the correction and the cleaning of the scientific record for months, a scientific panel has led a review finding. while tsai levine did not know or personally engaged in research misconduct, he did fail to correct mistakes happening at several labs and institutions. he'll now retract three widely cited papers he authored and correct two others as a group leader or professor or or the corresponding author of scientific papers. you are responsible for the work. elizabeth big is a science consultant who worked at stanford for 15 years. she says the president is getting let off the hook. and i felt that as a supervisor and mentor of these graduate students and postdocs, he he should be held accountable. and responsible for his role in that. and i feel that part is a bit lacki in the response. tessier levine said wednesday. stanford is greaterhan any one of us. it needs a presidentho leadership

peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times, you know him as theo's dad. katie benner, pulitzer prize -winning justice department reporter, also with the new york times. former new york prosecutors civil rights attorney charles coleman, and former u.s. attorney joyce vance, who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. and that is not all. we needed frank for losing tonight, former fbi assistant director for counter intelligence. i want to go around the horn, but joyce, let's start with you. these charges were not necessarily what we were expecting today. what sticks out to you as the most important? >> so i think two things stick out. first off is this 32nd count of document retention, because unlike the other retention charges, where documents were found in boxes in bar rooms and bathrooms, these are documents of the former president took out, cavalierly showed around in a room full of people, who didn't possess security clearances. what do the involved? the involved highly confidential military plans. so when prosecutors try to ask a jury to convict on th