. ♪ >> this is the "pbs newshour," from w eta studios from the walter cronkite school of journalism atst -- arizona state university. >> we return now to our top story as the taliban struggles to rule amid protests and dissent in kabul and across the country. we explore the collapse of the country's government, which was built and supported by the u.s. and its allies for 20 years. >> that's right. for deeper perspective on how we got here, i'm joined by someone who has had years-long involvement in afghanistan. she covered the fall of the taliban after 9/11 or npr and started and ran several ngo's in the country. she served as an advisor to several senior u.s. military commanders in afghanistan and then to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. she is the author of several books. the most recent is "on corruption in america and what is at stake." she joins us now from paris. it is great to have you back. you recently published an essay called "th ides of august," and you laid out several factors that you argue helped get us to where we are today. the first element was corruption th

. >> when you put buckley and teddy white and phil potter, and walter cronkite and all those people in guess they are going to be a little difficult. but we'll deal with it. >> saturday, february 19th in hawaii. we got into some domestic questions on the strike. we went over the schedule for next week and we discussed some of his tactics for him in the meetings and the techniques he's going to use. henry is urging him to do it his way which the president is not inclined to do. henry is urging him to start in the plenary session with a reading of a written statement, which the president is also not inclined to do and intends to follow his own technique on this rather than his advice. he feels that he'll do much better that way. i think he's absolutely right. [ cheers and applause ] >> this is not a time for a long speech. i would not want this opportunity to pass without saying just a word with regard to the significance of this moment. some of you may recall that it was 2 1/2 years ago that right here in guam i announced a new direction for american foreign policy. based on the princip

. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkitealism at arizona state university. judy: the delta variant continues its spread, now accounting for more than 98% of new infections in the u.s. states, particularly those with low vaccination rates, are scrambling to care for an influx of sick patients in their intensive care wards. as william brangham reports, more texas hospitals are reporting a shortage of icu beds than at any point in the last 18 months. william: that's right, judy. texas is experiencing its fourth covid surge. right now, less than half of the people in texas are fully vaccinated. 96% of icu beds are full, leaving just over 300 available across the entire state. the state's health department has had to recruit personnel from out of state to address staffing shortages, and to request additional mortuary trailers from fema, in anticipation of more lives lost. dr. joseph chang is chief medical officer for parkland health and hospital system in dallas, texas. very good to have you on the “newshour.” thank you. i wonder

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. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkitel of journalism at arizona ate university. judy: tomorrow, the biden administration is expected to recommend coronavirus booster vaccinations for americans starting eight months after they received their second shot. william brangham joins me to explain who is affected. hello, william. what we're told is that the government is going to say that everybody who had the pfizer or the moderna vaccine, and that is over 100 million americans, are going to recommend that they have this booster. what is behind this? william: the rationale is twofold. one is the delta variant we all know so well, which is this incredibly contagious strain which is sickening people and filling hospitals, sickening largely unvaccinated people. the second is a small number of studies that are showing that these two mnra vaccines are slightly waning in their efficacy is, going from something like 90%-plus down to 50%, 40%. the waning of efficacy is about your ability to get infection. these are still very good in pr

. >> this is the pbs newshour from w eta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkiteool of journalism at arizona state university. florida is experiencing one of the worst covid outbreaks in of the country at the moment. over the weekend, the state reported more than 21,000 cases in single day. its highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic. a quarter of the nations hospitalized covid patients are in flooded. the cdc and a number of public health officials say schools should require masking when they reopen. the miami-dade school district is considering requiring students and staff to do so. on friday, florida governor ron desantis who is opposed to any masking requirements said parents and students should have the option to mask and that he would block any effort to require masking. >> we have a lot of push from the cdc and others to make every single person, kids, staff, have to wear masks l day regardless of -- masks all day regardless of the immune status, regardless of the effect it has on their educational experience that would be a huge mistake. >> l

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you put buckley and teddy white and mac sprinkle and bill potter and, and john chancellor and walter cronkitethose people in one room, it is going to be difficult. >> saturday, february 19th, in hawaii. the president had me over at 10 am this morning. we got into some domestic questions about the bill, the back strike, we win over the schedule for next week. he discussed some of his tactics for the meetings and techniques he is going to use. he's gonna use that henry's way, to go into the long historical drawn out discussion. the discussions, which the president is not inclined to do. henry is urging him to start in the plenary session reading a written statement, which the president is also not inclined to do. and he intends to follow his own technique on this rather than henry's advice. he feels he will do much better that way and i think that is absolutely right. >> this is not a time for a long speech, i would not want this opportunity to pass without saying just a word with regard to the significance of this moment. some of you may recall that it was two and a half years ago that right h

. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washgton and from the west at the walter cronkiternalism. judy: we've all seen the images of people scrambling to escape afghanistan, but not seeing nearly as much, a herculean effort by former u.s. service members, diplomats and private citizens to help afghans, especially leave the country. jane ferguson is back with an inside look at who was at work and why. jane: the scenes of total disarray at kabul's airport last week shocked the world, as promises made to get america's allies out of afghanistan seemed increasingly impossible. >> we waited for 24 hours outside the gate. i swear, i saw kids, a woman who was stamped, people who run them over. i don't know if they are alive or not but i saw those things. people pushed to get closer to the gate. by the time i reached the u.s. forces, i kept asking them that i am going to die here because of the heat and lots of oxygen. >> u.s. passport. jane: as the crowds of people desperately try to get through the gates and onto planes, any working system that sort those with a valid case disapp

. >> this is the pbs newshour, from w eta studios in washington , and in the west from the walter cronkiteournalism at arizona state university. amna: now, to the u.s. southern border. the supreme court ruled against the biden administration in its attempt to end the trump-era "remain in mexico" policy that forced migrants to stay in mexico while seeking asylum. while its future is unknown, another policy to rapidly expel migrants during the pandemic remains in place. we check in now with robert moore, founder of the non-profit news organization, el paso matters. welcome back to the newshour. thanks for making the time. just explain to us the supreme court move. what does this operationally change at the border? how does it change the way things are being processed right now? >> in the short-term, it doesn't change anything really. title 42 is the main method both administrations have used the last year and a half to keep people from crossing the border. longer term, it could have implications if mexico agrees to receive more mpp recipients and if the biden administration puts the court's

but like walter cronkite said, "that's the way it is." >>> welcome to "options action." i am brian sullivan in for melissa lee tonight, and here's what's on tap. >> if you can't build it, they won't come carter worth explains what lowe's is lacking, going into earnings next week then, charge decline tony zang has his eye on amex, and is arranging another form of payment for you. plus, professor koh is highlighting institutional only moves. but then he and the rest of the team will show you how to follow suit with a suitable alternative for individual portfolios, it's time to risk less and make more. "options action" starts right now. >>> all right, welcome, everybody, big box retailers of all stripes, out with their quarterly numbers and their guidance next week the rates or reopening pause, all are facing fresh head winds, and carter worth thinks that one may be destined for a new low. so to speak, i guess, carter. >> well, that's right, we're going to talk about l.o.w., the ticker, the name is lowe's, and let's get right to the charts. to the first of two comparative c

including churchill's and walter cronkite and president eisenhower crewman and also more fellows and we are very pleased to welcome you into that honorary society today and congratulations and thank you again. >> did you know that all of these man's american history programs are available to watch online. for the cspan.org/history and type in your topic of interest in the search box, thousands of programs looking at the people of places achieved our nation, all available online at cspan.org. /history. this week were looking back to this date in history. >> we think that when we lose an election, we think that when we suffer and a defeat that paul has ended. we think as tr said, that the light had left his life forever. that is not true. it is only a beginning always. the young must know it, the old must know it, and must always sustain us. because the greatness comes not when things go always good for you with greatness comes when you are really tested and when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you

including churchill's and walter cronkite and president eisenhower crewman and also more fellows and we are very pleased to welcome you into that former member of congress, most notably he is the chair and president of the national archives foundation. welcoming remarks will introduce our moderator please welcome governor jim blanchard. >> thank you patrick. and i welcome of you one and all. for the celebration of the annual black caucus. i am chair of the national archives foundation more importantly for my point of

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you know, i, we all missed authority figures like walter cronkite or people like that. you know, who we seem to at least if not smarter at least wiser or as wise. and we are, you know, the problem is, this is really taking away a lot of space from those of us who are trying to exaggerate for a living in order to make a humorous point. because, you know, they're pushing the needle to 11. and where are we supposed to go from there? exactly. you know wrong, but you know, tony carson, you know, when i was coming up johnny carson, he was genuinely funny. but he was a unifier. he. he kind of poked fun, it gently and everyone, he didn't take, make any preferences. but now humor is always at someone's expense, maybe at the expense of tens of millions of people. they used to have some kind of unifying thing and a critique of our culture. we laughed at ourselves. our strengths or weaknesses are oddities. i don't see any of that now. run. yeah. you know, it's kind of weird. like, what's permissible, especially in the corporate space. i be particular here in the united states, you

another well-known media myth is the notion walter cronkite in an on-air assessment of the war in vietnam declared the united states military to be mired in stalemate in 1968, an assessment that supposedly swung public opinion in the united states against the war. another example of a media myth revolves around the famous photograph of the napalm girl, taken in vietnam what then was south vietnam by an associated press fotog fr in june 1972. the image showed the effects on civilians particularly young children of an errant napalm bombing on a village of what was then south vietnam. the photograph supposedly was so powerful and so vivid that it helped hasten an end to the vietnam war. and of course the media myth today, the media myth de jure, now this is an important anecdote. this is an important media myth to address and debunk because if this tale is true, if this is accurate it suggests and points to powerful effects by the news media. so powerful that they can bring about a war that the country otherwise wouldn't have fought. that is the implication here of this tale, of this anecdot

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people, when people tune into cnn they look at chris cuomo, they will not think there is the next walter cronkiteill think that is the guy who advised his brother how to beat sexual harassment allegations. the caricature has been set. i don't know how cnn at this point continues with chris cuomo on the apps the first thought many people have is i'm not looking at a news anchor, i'm looking at an activist. how they dig themselves out of this hole, you have to get rid of chris cuomo. you can't let him on the air anymore. that is not going to happen because he has been on the this week. you think they would have pulled him off the air and put a real journalist on to talk about the andrew cuomo story which is the story this week but they continue to allow him to go on so that tells you the president of the network and the other executives. todd: cbs which cnn and cbs are tied corporately to some degree they didn't talk about cuomo. >> anderson cooper on 60 minutes, we can't talk about that. todd: msnbc host formerly a republican goes off on florida governor ron desantis, joe scarborough. >> you wants

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i did not ever think that walter cronkite was giving us an opinion.t was just telling us what happened that day. i would never characterize the cbs news under walter cronkite as left or right. it was news. we had things like the fairness doctrine back them and equal time standards. we have to get back to democracy where we receive information not based on too left or too right but based on this is what is happening today. make your opinion. host: just a couple minutes ago from the bureau of labor statistics, the first friday of the month, new jobs numbers. the total nonfarm payroll employment rose 943,000 in july. the unemployment rate declined to 5.4%. that is the latest numbers. your thoughts on those numbers? guest: that is a little bit better than most of the economic projections. they are especially better if you are in that 900,000 cohort. if you are not, it is meaningless to you. it goes back to where we started. if these trends continue and if people are getting jobs and seeing their unemployed kids and neighbors getting jobs and the restauran

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. ♪ >> this is "pbs newshour west" from weta studios in washington and from our bureau at the walter cronkiteournalism at arizona state university. judy: as we have been reporting an earthquake has brought new , devastation to haiti. landslides have made major roads impassable for aid groups. now, hospitals in southern haiti are overwhelmed and forced to turn people away. all as a tropical storm bears down on the nation. william brangham has the latest. lisa: saturdays --william: saturdays earthquake occurred on the very same fault lines as the 2010 earthquake that killed 300,000 people and destroyed much of haiti's capital port au , prince. today thousands are sheltering in the streets or on soccer fields, with the few belongings they could salvage from their homes. haitian authorities are still going door to door searching for survivors. the suffering could get worse later today, because tropical depression grace is expected to dump roughly 10 inches of rain on the country, which could trigger flash flooding and landslides. akim kikonda is the haiti country representative for catholic relie

cbs the former home of walter cronkite. considering are t resources they have at their fingertips.erage would increase as border crossings increase. in this case to the tune of what was it in july 210,000 migrants crossing illegally over the border? a 21 year high? 210,000 you could fill madison square gardens 21 times. 1.4 million people have crossed the border illegally since the beginning of this year. that's more than the population of 10 u.s. states. do you think that's a story? meanwhile joe biden has yet to visit the u.s. border despite a crisis of his own making and his own dhs being caught on tape saying the situation is unsustainable. meanwhile the vice president put in charge of this months ago has yet to hold one press conference on this. where is she? on the back of a milk carton? you can't find her. we have an absentee president and vice president when it comes to this border and afghanistan and there will be hell to pay in 2022 if they keep hiding from the press and pretending there is not a problem. >> harris: you and i both know if a bright enough spotlight. rememb

. ♪ announcer: this is the "pbs newshour" from washington and the walter cronkite school o journalismstate university. ♪ judy: as we reported today, the jobs report shows the u.s. economy is continuing to make a strong comeback. wages are up, and the unemployment rate is down. it is at its lowest level since the pandemic began in march of last year. concerns remain about the highly contagious delta variant, and how it could affect the economy's recovery jerry bernste is a member of president biden's council of economic advisors and joins us now. welcome back to the newshour. some good news to report today. tell us as you look at these mbers, what gives you confidce about this employment picture, and what do you see that concerns you? >> i think one of the main confidence-building factors is not just what i saw in this report, it is what i have seen in the last few reports. 933,000 jobs, that's a big important number, but that is part of a trend. we never tried to over emphasize one month, beuse you get variations in this high frequency data. over the past three months, we have been ad

. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour, from w eta studios in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkite journalism. amna: the supreme court has ended the biden administration's ban on evictions, siding with landlords who said the eviction moratorium puts them at risk of irreparable harm. congress authorized $46 billion in rental assistance in separate release -- relief packages. but only a fraction has been riveted and now many renters may be in trouble. >> just about 11% of that federal aid actually has been distributed by state and local governments months after congress approved it. and people need that aid. as many as 1.2 million households say they are very likely to face eviction in the next two months. overall, more than 8 million people say they are behind on their rent. kristin randall has a first-hand view of all of this as a court mandated officer tasked with enforcing evictions in tucson, arizona. thank you for joining the newshour. i understand that soon after the supreme court decision, you started getting calls immediately from landlords. tell us about that and how you re

.] >> this is pbs newshour west, from w eta studios in washington and our bureau at the walter cronkitem at arizona state university. ♪ (music plays) previously on a chef's life. today is the day that i have been waiting for, for like six mths. we have been planning for this huge lunch for the southern foodways alliance symposium in oxford, mississippi. four hundred people. food writers, chefs. what everybody is kind of waiting to try is a tom thumb. i can't believe i'm doing this, serving this organy thing. (music plays) the theme of the symposium is women, work, and food. so for the topic of my lunch i have chosen to honor all the women in my life. the women who have made me the woman that i am. some of these casings are definitely going to split and when that happens we can't freak out. i invited a friend named jason vincent from chicago

including a young walter cronkite. the end 300 children dead, one-third of the town's population. it would be the reason the federal government would mandate for natural gas. again, this is life in the new oil patch of east texas. for many the calamitys generated new end time thinking and encouraged them to appreciate life's surprising burst of health and wealth in an otherwise difficult slide towards cataclysmic end and pray to being that take -- their accepted the hellacious reversal of apocalyptic mode. rather than dwell on despair, urged citizens to renew their faith to use what prosperity they had to prepare for his return. surely god is beginning a revival that is destine to sweep america they charge in the wake of the new london disaster. even so, come, lord jesus. fourth dimension of this, this is where we will focus on for the remaining minutes, that is only the political side of this. the spirit of rebellion that is generated in east texas. amid the ferment oil patch citizens absorb the truth ma they alone had the courage to stare down end time darkness with uncompromisi

. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkiteournalism at arizona state university. amna: following the full fda approval of a covid-19 vaccine, an increasing number of cities and states are now mandating employees roll up their sleeves to get vaccinated or submit to weekly testing. but as william brangham reports, there's been some intense pushba from law enforcement and first responders across the country. william: that's right, amna. in chicago, responding to that city's october vaccine mandate, the head of the police union said his members won't comply. this has literally lit a bomb underneath the membership. he said, we're in america, g-damn it. we don't want to be forced to do anything. period. this ain't nazi f-ing germany. similarly, in los angeles, a city fire department captain went online and blasted the imminent vaccine mandate for all city employees. >> this is not a political issue. this is not left-right. this is not democrat-republican. this is not vax-unvax. this is a fight for freedom of choice. free will. this

workers coming from safety workers coming from dallas, media as well including a young walter cronkite. the end was 300 children dead, one-third of the town's average population. it would be the reason why the federal government would mandate natural gas. this is life in the new oil patch of east texas. for many east texans the calamities generated new end times thinking. there was a mentality that defied confidence in the gradual betterment of humanity and accepted the reversals of an apocalyptic mode. local pastors urged citizens to renew their faith in a christ who expected them to use what prosperity they had in their passing moment to prepare for his return. surely god is beginning a revival here that is destined to sweep america. we can go back taking about the fight against standard at the federal level. really the 1930s spark this rebellion in full. we already know that it's at the new deal where kind of the rise of the post war conservatism takes root, largely in reaction to franklin d. roosevelt's policies on labor, for instance. i argue in the book we need to also understand

but like walter cronkite said, "that's the way it is." see you tomorrow news with shepard smith starts right now. >>> a planet if you can keep it i'm shepard smith. this is "the news" on cnbc >>> climate change irreversible and getting worse fast the dire u.n. report and why scientists warn we've now reached a point of no return >>> the fight to control afghanistan intensified. violence and fears surge as the taliban gains ground seizing control of several large cities. >> they will not just kill me, they will kill my kids, too, you know >>> one on one with the transportation secretary pete buttigieg. his thoughts on infrastructure >> frankly, everything needs more work. >> the roadblocks ahead and what he says is the most exciting part of the bipartisan bill. >>> the crush of covid some hospitals where delta is spiking now filling up with sick kids. >> there is no virtual optimism at this time >> are our children safe as they head back to school. >>> a timetable on the formal impeachment inquiry. >>> the army of insects helping vets deal

there was media as well including a young walter cronkite. the end of this was 300 children dead, one third of the towns average population. incidentally, it would be the reason why the federal government would mandate [inaudible] for natural gas. but again, this is life in the new oil patch in east texas. for many east texans, the calamities generated new thinking. they're existence encourage them to appreciate life's surprising bursts of health and wealth as a miraculous interlude in an otherwise difficult slide towards cataclysmic and. and pray to an all powerful being who gives and takes away suddenly, but who is always there. there's was a mentality that defied post millennial confidence in the gradual betterment of humanity. they accepted the hellacious reversals of an apocalyptic mode. but rather than dwell on despair, local pastors urged citizens to renew their faith in a christ who expected them to use what's prosperity they had in the passing moment to prepare for his return. surely god is beginning the revival here that is destined

. >> jack nicholson comes in and plays the walter cronkite figure. >> they were having massive layoffsnd he goes it's just horrible they go, well, we could put a couple million off your salary and we wouldn't have to have those layoffs, bill. and he -- >> and nicholson doesn't even say anything to that. >> no, he just looked at the guy and the guy running the place goes, bad joke, i swear i didn't mean that. really good. >> who is running these networks, joe? is it the talent or is it the suits, man >> rachel did pretty well. no, it's the suits it's the suits it's the suits. >> these people are genius they're geniuses with wisdom that you can't even imagine. >> now we are going to move on that did it. okay thank you. >> that was a scary move on. i heard it in my ear and i wasn't even talking. >> they are not telling me that. >> you should check out "the godfather. this is a mother about the mafia and i think you would really like it. check it out >> i appreciateyour recommendations. i'm going to -- i'm going to look into that i actually read the book the book is great. >> you can rent