in that chair and walter cronkite on that couch. and you see exactly what you see right now. the president was alive for about a year and a half when this library was built. it was inaugurated in may of 1910 when, as i mentioned he died in january of 1973. so he had a very limited time during which he was part of this libraries life, a very important time. lady bird johnson continue to make it an important part of her life when she died in 2007. and this library this is as much as about lady bird johnson, as is her husband. throughout the room there are some wonderful artifacts. that the johnson's collected while they were in the white house. some come from heads of state, others come from friends of theirs, who gave them gifts for the presidential library. or for the white house. that they brought to the space. one such item, is this painting by diego rivera. one of 15 of his paintings, that he did during the course of his career. it was given to president johnson, from the president of mexico during his state visit there. during t

so if we had only walter cronkite this is what barack obama wants we wouldn't be able to have that varietyinformation and debates. >> tammy: that's the whole point. >> it is that's exactly what the sovereign of this country which is us, which we require, we will have it but it's our opinions that apparently are so irritating, right? so many different points of view. it is totalitarian to suggest that one single individual or there be a state media exclusively it's remarkable. and, yet, this is not the only remarkable thing i want your opinion on. what's been making appropriately some news is a "new york times" staffer mara gay made some remarks about her being disturbed by how many american flags she viewed on long island. let's listen to this. >> i was on long island this weekend visiting a really dear friend and i was really disturbed. i saw, you know, dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with, you know, explicative against joe biden on the back of them. >> yep. >> trump flags. and some cases just dozens of american flags which, you know, is also just disturbing because essentially the mes

. >> this is the pbs newshour from w eta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> the u.s. is in a far better place this summer than in many other countries witnessing new covid cases. the delta variant of covid is expected to become the dominant strain in the u.s.. william begins our coverage with this rort. >> across the world, a wave of new lockdowns being implemented as nations scramble to get ahead of the coronavirus strain known as the delta variant. >> the risk is real. >> they are imposing stay-at-home orders. >> they will be entering a four-day lockdown. >> in several asian nations, indonesia and malaysia, the variant has threatened to overrun hospitals, travelers in hong kong hustled to get on the last flights to the united kingdom before a travel ban into place. >> it is killing people by the thousands. >> across africa, the virus is hitting hard. the president issued a stark warning. >> we are in the grip of a devastating wave. >> this variant is highly contagious. much more so than the original coron

. >> this is the "pbs newshour," from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkiteool of journalism at arizona state university. judy: since the presidential election, a wave of new state measures to tighten voting laws has raised questions about access and integrity. across the country, laws that expand access to the ballot box have passed in at least 14 states, shown on this map in green. at the same time, the states in 14 yellow have passed laws restricting access. all have republican-controlled state legislatures. the restrictive laws have sparked outrage from voting rights groups and from two men who served as general counsels for competing presidential campaigns. democrat bob bauer worked for president obama in 2008 and 2012 and advised the biden campaign in 2020. ben ginsberg, his years as a republican election lawyer include work on the landmark bush v. gore dispute in 2000. they both joined me now. welcome back to the "newshour," to both of you. let me start with you, bob bauer. it isn't often these days that we see a republican and a democrat, prominent re

. >> this is pbs newshour west from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkiteool of journalism at arizona state university. ♪ judy: the fda costs -- the fda's approval of a new alzheimer's drug today followed months of debate within the medical community about the ency's procedures, which, as amna nawaz reports, the announcement has done little to quiet. amna: that's right, judy. the approval was based on two clinical trials. one showed some improvement in patients who'd been given the drug aducanumab, but the other found no benefit. a number of practitioners said that was not good enough and fell short of fda's usual standards for approval. in an outside advisory board november recommended that fda not approve the drug. but other medical professionals said the need was so great that any medication that offered promise was worth trying. the last treatment for alzheimer's came on the market some 18 years ago. pam belluck is a health reporter for the new york times. she has been following these developments closely and joins me now. welcome back to the "newshour.

. >> host: two professional colleagues, walter cronkite and bill small. >> guest: walter cronkite was the greatest an forman i ever worked with. he -- anchorman i every worked with. he sort of just knew when you ought to do a story and how to lead into the story, his kindness, i thought cronkite was outstanding. bill small was the bureau cleave for cbs in washington. one of the toughest guys i've ever had to deal with and one of the fairest, most decent men i've ever had to work with. bill small did more to bring women into the industry than any big shot i know. he was the one who introduced people like leslie stahl and connie chung goo the top ranks of cbs, diane sawyer. yeah. >> host: there's a poetic irony in the book. your beginnings were mr.ow's conclusions and you in some many ways became his legacy at cbs news. the last correspondent personally hired by murrow in 1957, and you were a newcomer what turned out -- in what turned out to be his final broadcast, the year-end aroundup of 1960 called years of crises. her invite outside join him when he became director of usia in the ke

" ♪ >> this is the "pbs newshour," from weta studios in washington and from the west from the walter cronkite journalism at arizona state university. amna: the pacific northwest is getting hit for a third straight day with record-setting triple digit temperatures. the heat wave is straining the capacity in the region and forcing people to find relief wherever they can. stephanie sy reports from oregon. stephanie: another day, another record-breaking high across the pacific northwest. in portland, oregon, temperatures hit 108 degrees on saturday, then 112 on sunday. today, highs were expected to reach 115. in ashland, oregon, people and their pets took shelter at a cooling center, offering air conditioning and cold water. >> i think it's a public health emergency. stephanie mayor julie akins : warned, the heat can be deadly. the most vulnerable in this heat wave are the most vulnerable all the time and of the heatwave exacerbates that. we are talking unhoused people, people below the poverty line, people who don't have air conditioning in their homes or cannot afford the high-power bills. step

. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkiteool of journalism at arizona state university. judy: now to tulsa, a century after a storm of racial killing engulfed the city. the president's visit today came as the nation is reassessing race relations, past, present, and future. white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports. yamiche: 100 years after the tulsa race massacre, president biden came to mark one of the darkest chapters in american history. >> for much too long, the history of what took place here was told in silence, cloaked in darkness. but just because history is silent, it doesn't mean that it did not take place. and while darkness can hide much, it erases nothing. yamiche: he's the first u.s. president to travel to tulsa to do so. he acknowledged the scars seared onto the nation's conscience. >> private planes dropping explosives, the first and on domestic aerial assault of its kind on an american city, here in tulsa. eight of greenwood's arly two dozen churches burned like mou zion. my fellow americans, this wa

from weta studios in washington and from our bureau at the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizonarsity. judy: it has been seven years since the islamic state declared its so-called "caliphate" from a mosque in mosul, iraq's second largest city. a punishing iraqi and american military campaign routed isis from there in 2017, while leveling large swathes of the city. now, special correspondent leila molana-allen and videographer adrian hartrick look at the slow and agonizing task of rebuilding mosul. >> centuries of history, annihilated in a few short months. it was from this spot in mosul's 12th century al-nuri mosque that isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi announced the group's self-proclaimed caliphate seven years ago. their reign of terror here and the fight to defeat them claimed thousands of lives and would leave the ancient city pounded into dust. four yea aftrs the battle to retake the city, much of west mosul remains in ruins, an unknown number of bodies beneath the rubble, exactly how many people died in the assault here is still unclear. part of the city is starting to get

. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkitel of journalism at arizona state university. judy: we return to israel. nick schifrin explores how this coalition government might usher in a new era of political leadership. nick: it's the unlikeliest of coalitions. the next prime minister, right-wing naftali bennett, who vows there will never be a palestinian state. the next foreign minister, centrist yair lapid, former tv host who believes in the two-state solution. and mansour abbas, leader of an islamist party, who'demanded improved rights for israel's arab minority. along with others, they formed the change coalition, unit only in their opposition to one man. benjamin netanyahu is the country's longest running prime minster, one of israel's most consequential politicians, and today, one of its most divisive. the change coalition's strange bedfellows needed to come together to oust him because of the knesset, or parliament math. a government coalition needs 61 of 120 seats. in the last election, netanyahu's likud got the most, 30

like the gay raiders out of philadelphia who actually got themselves into cbs evening news with walter cronkite. they got onto the stage and had a protest that appeared as americans watched their evening newscast. protesters said that cronkite took time after the newscast to talk to them about whether issue as. were the actually change the way that cbs covered in the game movement at that time. and here is more on the rise of these incredible publications. when various groups and nationalities, their stories not being told by mainstream press. they frequently start their own newspapers and magazines and here you see gay activists. you see the lesbians -- many other publications rose up out of the stone wall arrow and you see this incredible flag that is now iconic as a symbol of the lgbtq rights movement. they call themselves the gay betsy ross -- when he was encouraged to come up with a flag that would symbolize the movement. you'll notice that it has two more stripes than the flag does now. the reason for that was, two of the colors were too hard to reproduce at that time. so they, cut them d

the bad thing is there's no more walter cronkite. what should be the most objective sources just don't carry news. there is nothing on there about the hunter biden situation. what he's been accused of. they just don't cover it. so i have a friend who does not have cable. all she watches is regular news and lipbs. she is a very intelligent masters person. i'll bring stuff up to her she's never heard of. theg major networks don't cove it at all. soso what's going on? is it the producers? somebody is picking and choosing and omitting a lot of big news. the last thing i want to bring up briefly is this censorship business. especially with facebook. they're posting all the time now. they even censored a c-span hearingh that was covered on t senate. inconsistent with their policy. how can that be? it wasd an actual senate heari. and you're seeinghi it more and more often and i think that's a big problem. . which hearing was this in >> caller: i don't recall which hearing it was. but it was i believe one that the senate, a senate hearing wi

. >> it makes north korea like walter cronkite, they are forming jim acosta, sara carter is here to tell us. >> so embarrassing it's so obvious and so embarrassing and anyone with common sense can read right through this that he is nothing more than a tool for the biden of administration he came awfully close to the chris matthews when i heard the obama moment it was quite disgusting, i know a lot of people even your producer said they would have nightmares tonight about biden being a top gunman or thinking about a song in their head highway to the danger zone but all joking aside highway to the danger zone is exactly where were at as far as our media they failed to ask the question, they play the american public like we are idiots which we are not, they refuse to ask serious questions of biden and think what jim acosta has done he went as far as saying the inspector general's report on lafayette square was a whitewash, it cannot be true that president trump had to been responsible for all of these people out in lafayette square and the reasoning behind pushing all these innocent people

walter cronkite and bill small.ronkite was the greatest i worked with and he just sort of do and how to lead into the story and his kindness i thought that cronkite was outstanding one of the toughest guys that i've ever had to deal with. he did more than any bigshot i know. he's the one that introduced leslie stolley and connie chung. >> there's a poetic irony in the books and you in so many ways became the legacy of cbs news. news. you were the last correspondent and what turned out to be the final broadcast the year-end roundup of 1960 called years of crisis. he invited you to join and to carry on the work in journalism so you did and in fact the book begins and ends. have you felt this sense of irony being hand-picked and hand selected. from the current vantage point i will answer now because i'm able to look back at the time it was happening i knew he was special and for me was an idol. or perhaps there ever was. at the time it was happening, i was not able to fully appreciate the impact that it would have on m

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you combine that with racial stratification and the siloing of the media so you don't have just walter cronkite delivering the news, but you have 1,000 different venues. all that has contributed to that sense that we don't have anything in common. and so, so much of our work is going to have to involve not just policy, but it's also how do we create institutions and occasions in which we can come together and have a conversation? >> in "promised land," you write, our democracy seems to be teetering on the brink of a crisis. since you wrote that, there was the attack on the capitol. you've got the big lie being pushed continually by not only the former president but republicans in congress. >> right. >> are we still just teetering on the brink, or are we in crisis? >> well, i think we have to worry when one of our major political parties is willing to embrace a way of thinking about our democracy that would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago. when you look at some of the laws that are being passed at the state legislative level, where legislators are basically

this is pbs news are west, from weta studios in washington, and the walter cronkite school of journalismty. ♪ >> how to live the hero code this week on "firing line." >> changing the world can happen anywhere and anyone can do it. >> a four-star admiral who rose to command u.s. special operations, willia >>> a four star admiral who rose to man u.s. operations. he is a real-life operation who oversaw the raid that took out osama bin laden. >> the admiral did not hesitate to take on president trump publicly. and faced incoming fire. >> it would have been nice if we got osama bin laden a lot earlier. >> but with a new administration in the white house, a hard line on iran, what does admiral mc raven say

now, we have more economic stratification and you have the media, not just walter cronkite but 1,000ifferent venues. that contributed to the sense that we don't have anything in common so so much work is going to have to involve not just policy but it's also how do we create institutions and occasions in which we can come together and have a conversation? >> in "promise land" you say democracy seems to be teetering. the big lie pushed by not only the former president but republicans in congress. are we still just teetering on the brink or in crisis? >> well, i think we have to worry when one of our major political parties is willing to embrace a way of thinking about our democracy that would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago. when you look at some of the laws that are being passed at the state legislative level where legislators are basically saying we're going to take away the certification of election processes from civil servants, secretaries of state, people counting ballots and put it in the hands of partisan legislators who may or may not de

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there's no more walter cronkite.bc, nbc and cbs, which were the most objective sources of news just don't care. there's nothing that's ever on their about the hunter biden situation, what he's been accused of. they just don't cover it. i have a friend who does not have cable. all she watches his regular news and pbs. she's a very intelligent, masters degree person. i bring stuff up to her she's never heard of and it's big news because major networks don't cover it all. it's like what is going on there, is it producers, somebody is picking and choosing and omitting -- the last thing i want to bring up. with facebook they are posting all the time now, they even censored a c-span hearing that was covered on the senate. inconsistent with their policies. how can that be? it was a federal hearing. you are seeing it more and more often. host: which hearing was this? caller: i don't recall which hearing it was. i believe a senate hearing with regard to dr. fauci testifying. host: what led you to determine that facebook censo

so with walter cronkite in 1952 after the complete getting of the inside of the white house and the refurbishing of its infrastructure because it was literally falling apart and collapsing. and needed updating and ensuring up but this was mrs. kennedy in 1962 taking the american people and it turns out taking more than just the american people on a tour. we think about three out of four americans. watch this tour on valentine's day, february 1962, but it was also sent abroad by the us information service. and so now we get into my thoughts about the cold war messaging and it was even sent behind the iron curtain. so even more to the point about sending our messages out as we've talked about in our most recent panel about communications. here's mrs. kennedy sending out a message about the white house in its history not just to americans but all over the world and then i point to jfk's cameo appearance. he comes in at the end of the tour and he sits down with mrs. kennedy and cbs is charles collingwood who had been the host for the evening and president. kennedy makes a very important statement in

my newsman was walter cronkite.ta rivera. >> they came out and said we've written a new dance number for chita. dick doesn't have anything to do in the first act, let him have it. it was "put on a happy face." can you believe that? ♪ put on a happy face it's not your style ♪ >> reporter: he would sing it again in the film version. ♪ >> reporter: bye bye birdie really what opened up everything for you? >> oh, yes, absolutely. because carl reiner saw me in that. >> reporter: yeah. >> that's how i got into the van dyke show. >> the dick van dyke show starring dick van dyke. >> reporter: and then you ended up with mary tyler moore as a cast mate. >> yeah. it didn't take her two episodes to become laura. it was amazing. how fast she picked it up. >> reporter: in the middle of the dick van dyke's show five season run on cbs, walt disney offered him the defining role of his career. as bert, the chimney sweep in mary poppins. ♪ >> walt was there every day watching over it. there was a spirit about it. everybody was having s