our family, walter cronkite, only a half hour news every walter cronkite said. he ended by saying and that's way it is. now, you might not like the facts. you heard and there was certainly racial bias those days and but most people believe that's way w now, we don't have any agreement on how how it is and people believe these lies. and as say websites and conspiracy theories and qanon and a networks that are deliberately lying and there are very few places where people can of different political persuasions can find agreement. and that's the way it is. that's the way it cold. cronkite is a real real danger right now for immigrants, immigrant families, for black pastors who call me and they're afraid of the policing of their children and young people, their youth group. and so let's and i've learned over the years what changes people is proximity, ideologies. and so we have been separated from each other. and when when white evangelicals get to know immigrant families, refugees, and they take them in, it's, you know, so do we create places, environments where we

and, you know,did was walter cronkite. so walter cronkite was, of course, the leading anchor of the day and a figure of unquestioned authority. and someone who viewed barbara walters with a little bit of skepticism about whether she was a ret. and they were both trying to cover the groundbreaking things that were middle east, a groundbreaking trip of anwar sadat of it was barbara walters and her ability to cultivate relations with world leaders months earlier in 1977 enabled her to get the with both the egyptian president and the israeli prime minister and this was the interview that not only s comeback from her experience as as a co-ancho also walter cronkite, whi both of them knew. yeah. and that interview spl it was not only a moment for journalism, it changed foreign policy and middle east policy at a really, really d time. so how did barbara walters make that leap not only from from nbc's today show, but very high profile and then into the anchor chair and then intinterviewing a mega operation? did she do it all by he

. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> one of former president trump's most senior aides took the stand today in his hush money trial in new york. hope hicks served as press secretary in the 2016 campaign and was his white house communications director. on the stand, she detailed how trump and his inner circle handled the revelations about alleged extra marital affairs and the payments made to bury those stories. andrea bernstein is covering the former president's legal battles for npr and was in the courthouse today and she joins us now. andrea, so nice to see you again. during the prosecution's questioning today, they delved into what happened in the campaign when that infamous access hollywood tape dropped. what did we learn from hope hicks about that today? andrea: she was the first person to hear about that from the washington poats after the comment on the story they were about to run. and she -- there was an email shown that the she had sent to campaign leadership

in part i am not nostalgic for walter cronkite telling us how it is that that isn't very often how it works. i do think it is important to recognize that control of the flow of information shouldn't be too tightly constricted and there are a lot of ways and nostalgia for which is essentially the theme of our politics in the last 25 years. actually we had a lot of problems. there are ways in which some of their vices were the opposite of ours so we missed that. they had too much constitution -- confidence in these and they were to constricted and solidified a society where we are too fragmented and degenerative and there are things we can learn from the ways in which the society did things to be coming out of two world wars and a depression, america in the middle of the 20th century was cohesive and consolidated. we are not that. i think we have to think about that, where we are now to a more functional version of a free society in a way that is relatively free in the 20th century and as much as that can teach us. i think instead we have to think about those foundational questions and

i'm not so nostalgic for walter cronkite telling us how it is. that just wasn't very often how it really was. i think it is important for us to recognize that control of the flow of information shouldn't be too tightly constricted. there are a lot of ways in which the america in the middle of the 20th century nostalgia for which is essential if the theme of our politics in the last 25 years actually had a lot of problems and there are ways in which some of their vices were the opposite of power so we missed that time but they had too much confidence in elitist institutions. they were to constricted and solidified of a society where we are too fragmented and degenerative. there are things we can learn from the ways in which that society looks at things differently but coming out of two world wars and depression the america in the middle of the 20th century was intensely cohesive and consolidated and we are not that. i think we have to think about how to get from where we are to a more functional version of the free society, in a way that is relati

. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington, and in the west, from the walter cronkiteof journalism at arizona state university. amna: more than 100 hostages are still held captive by hamas. among them, eight americans, including the bodies of three americans confirmed dead, and five believed to still be alive. israeli-american keith siegel was kidnapped from his home in southern israel during the hamas attack on october 7th. i spoke with his niece, hanna siegel, earlier today about the status of hostage negotiations and her family's relentless work to bring her uncle home. hannah, welcome to the newshour. thank you for being here. >> thank you so much for having me. amna: so your uncle keith siegel was one of the hostages in a video that hamas released last week. you're wearing the number 208 to represent the number of days that he has now been held. as a policy, we don't show those videos, but i just wanted to ask what you thought when you saw him and when you heard his >> yeah. it was it was surreal. i mean, it's it's the first time that we've seen him or heard his v

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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 state diversity. >> i a historic first, the ncaa and nation's power five conferences have reached a deal to pay their athletes. they accepted the general terms of a settlement that will see the ncaa pay nearly $2.8 billion in damages over 10 years to nearly 14,000 athletes dating from 2016 to now. it also creates a new system that allows schools to use up to $21 million a year to pay student athletes in any sport starting in 2025. the agreement was proposed to resolve a series of lawsuits challenging the ncaa, which may have had to pay billions more. it still needs to be accepted by a judge, and many details need to be worked out, including how schools will pay athletes, if payment will be equitable by gender, and what it means for different sports. for more on this landmark deal, we are joined by the senior writer for "sports illustrated." it's great to have you here. i think it is safe to say the days of the amateur student athlete, college athlete, are ove

. >> this is "the pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkiteournalism at arizona state university. amna: another u.s. government official announced today she has resigned to protest the biden administration's policy toward israel. at least half a dozen officials in the state, defense, education, and interior departments have done so since the war in gaza began, following hamas' october 7 attack. the latest official is stacy gilbert, leaving the state department after a 20-year career. nick schifrin is back now with the story. nick: the officials who help shape america's national security policy often disagree on key decisions, sometimes publicly. but the war in gaza has created more internal dissent and public resignations than perhaps any recent u.s. policy challenge. and today, stacy gilbert, former senior civil military advisor in the state department's bureau of population, refugees, and migration wrote, quote, i cannot continue working for a government that denies and enables israel's deliberate carnage in gaza. and stacy gilbert joins me

our family, walter cronkite, only a half hour news every walter cronkite said. and he ended by saying and that's way it is. now, you might not like the facts. you heard and there was certainly racial bias those days and black events didn't get covered much but most people believe that's way it was now, we don't have any agreement on how how it is and people believe these lies. and as say websites and conspiracy theories and qanon and a networks that are deliberately lying and there are very few places where people can of different political persuasions can find agreement. and that's the way it is. that's the way it is to cold. cronkite is a real real danger right now for immigrants, immigrant families, for black pastors who call me and they're afraid of the policing of their children and young people, their youth group. and so let's and i've learned over the years what changes people is proximity, ideologies. and so we have been separated from each other. and when when white evangelicals get to know immigrant families, refugees, and they take them in, it's, you

. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour, from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkitealism at arizona state university. ♪ geoff: one person is dead, and roughly 70 others injured, after a singapore airlines flight headed from london to singapore hit severe turbulence yesterday. the boeing flight with 211 passengers and 18 crew on board descended 6000 feet in the span of three minutes over the indian ocean, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in bangkok, where rescue crews were on the tarmac ready to assist the injured. in a statement today, singapore airlines offered condolences for the deceased, and said, "we deeply apologize for the traumatic experience that our passengers and crew members suffered on this flight." our aviation correspondent miles o'brien joins me now. pilots in air traffic control can often detect and avoid turbulence. what seems to have happened here? miles: in some cases, they can. exactly. if you see some storm systems ahead, towering cumulus clouds which generate thunderstorms and perhaps worse, prudent pilots and air traffic control

. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington, and in the west, from the walter cronkitel of journalism at arizona state university. amna: stormy daniels, the adult film actress at the center of the criminal hush money trial against former president donald trump, took the stand in new york city today. william brangham has more on the volatile day in court. william: that's right, amna. in sometimes graphic detail, stormy daniels described the one sexual encounter she alleges she had with trump and the six-figure payment she received from trump's lawyer to buy her silence before the 2016 election. trump denies any sexual relationship with her. daniels was forcefully cross-examined by trump's legal team, who questioned her financial motives and her shifting stories about her encounter with the former president. andrea bernstein is covering the trial for npr, and she joins us again now. andrea, what did we learn from stormy daniels today? andrea: so it was quite a scene, because this is a trial where we have heard now testimony from david pecker, the former publisher of "the

. >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkiteool of journalism at arizona state university. geoff: u.s. supreme court justice samuel alito told lawmakers today he would not recuse himself from cases involving the 2020 presidential election or the january 6 capital riot despite concerns about two flags associated with far right causes that have flown over his properties. responding to demands from democrats that he disqualify himself, he said in two letters that his wife was responsible for flying the flags. "my wife is an independently minded private citizen." the justice wrote, "she makes her own decisions, and i honor her right to do so." kathleen clark is with us, a law professor at washington university in st. louis and specializes in government ethics. thanks for being with us especially as you are traveling. kathleen: thank you. geoff: the new york times reported there was this upside down american flag displayed at alito's virginia home in the days before president biden's inauguration and in the letter that he issued toda

. >> this is "the pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkiteism at arizona state university. amna: more now on the biden administration's decision to suspend some weapons deliveries to israel, to pressure it against a large-scale invasion of the gazan city of rafah. nick schifrin is back here in studio. nick, as you've been reporting, president biden wants the netanyahu government to do more to limit civilian deaths in rafah, where more than a million people are now sheltering. nick? nick: amna, the decision pauses the delivery of 3500 bombs, about half of them 2000 pound bombs that the u.s. believes have caused the most civilian casualties in gaza. president biden also warned more weapons deliveries could be paused, if israel launches that full invasion of rafah. so, will the decision have the desired effect? for that, we get two views. ambassador dennis ross played leading roles in the middle east peace process for more than 12 years. he is now a counselor and a distinguished fellow at the washington institute for near east policy, a washingt

from weta studios in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizonaversity. amna: the united nations says more than 360,000 gazans who have fled to rafah have now been forced to flee again, as israeli troops attack sectors of the city in a bid to rout hamas. also in rafah today, the first foreign u.n. staffer was killed by israeli troops. more than 100 palestinian u.n. staff have been killed since october 7. nick schifrin has our report. nick: a city teeming with the displaced is now slowly being deserted. a quarter of the 1.3 one million gazans who fled here are packing everything their cars or bikes can carry and fleeing again. this woman is among the last to leave. >> i don't have a choice, like everyone else. everyone left, so i am doing the same. what should i do, stay alone? i am scared to. they alone. nick: many have been displaced to what is essentially the beach, piling their lives on a pile of sand. meet this family. this is their third home since the war began. their children have kept their smile, but their mother has vanished. >> i can't

. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite journalism at arizona state university. william: on the stand today in new york city were two former employees of the trump organization. they were involved in the payments that are at the center of the charges filed against the former president in his hush money trial. jeffrey mcconney and deborah tarasoff helped reimburse mr. trump's former attorney, michael cohen, for the payments cohen made to adult film actress stormy daniels during the final days of the 2016 campaign. the former president also received another fine and a tough warning from the judge in this case, who again said if trump continues to violate the court's gag order, he could face jail time. ximena bustillo is covering the trial for npr, and joins us now. so nice to see you again. today we heard from these two former financial officers of the trump organization who were part of paying and accounting of these payments to michael cohen. what did we learn today from their testimony? ximena: the former and current emplo

. ♪ >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkiternalism at arizona state university. >> president biden today used executive privilege to deny house republicans access to audio recordings from his interview with special counsel robert hurt. the october 20 23 interview centered on the president's handling of classified documents. the report described the president as a sympathetic well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. house republicans, including representatives of jim jordan and james comer requested the audio and planned to hold merrick garland -- garland and contempt of congress for failing to provide a. earlier today garland address the matter. >> there have been a series of unprecedented and frankly unfounded attacks on the justice department. this request, this effort to use contempt as a method of obtaining our sensitive law enforcement files is just the most recent. >> following it all is carrie johnson who joins us now. house republicans already have transcripts of the interviews provided by the white house. what is t

. >> this is the pbs newshour from w eta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkitechool of journalism at arizona state university. amna: iranian president ebrahim raisi and the country's foreign minister were found and confirmed dead today, hours after their helicopter crashed in fog, leaving the islamic republic without two key leaders as extraordinary tensions grip the wider middle east. supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei, who has the final say in the shiite theocracy, quickly named a little-known vice president as caretaker until a new election and insisted the government was in control. but the deaths mark yet another blow to a country beset by pressures at home and abroad. special correspondent reza sayah in tehran has the latest. reza: it was a crash felt across the middle east. in iran's mountainous northwest, a dense fog thinned out this morning, revealing the helicopters mangled tail and shardsf debris wedged'neath the trees. after an hours long search, rescue teams found no survivors. among the eight people on board, iran's hard-line president ebrahim r

. >> this is "the pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkiteool of journalism at arizona state university. geoff: this has been a big week for the stock market. not only did the dow jones close above the 40,000 mark for the first time today but the broader s&p 500 and nasdaq reached record highs this week. the markets have rallied back from the recent lows of 2022 and the dow is about 40 percent higher than when the pandemic started. roben farzad joins us. he's the host of public radio's full disclosure podcast. always great to see you. how significant is it that the dow hit the 40,000 mark? the dow doesn't tell us as much about the economy as the s&p 500 does. roben: it's a great talking point everything is feeling pricey now. then again, at the turn-of-the-century, there was an infamous book called dow 36,000. it took forever for the doubt to even visit 20,000 much less 40,000. another school of thought says the dow should be far higher if it was more rationally planned. for example if apple or amazon , was added or there were other component

. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkiteournalism at arizona state university. ♪ geoff: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu pushed back today against criticism of his gaza strategy from within his own government. israel's defense minister accused netanyahu of "indecision" and leading israel down a, quote, "dangerous course." the public infighting comes as the biden administration this week said israel did not have a political plan for what's next in gaza. nick schifrin has been following this, and is here with me now. what happened today in israel? it looks like the private infighting has burst into public view. nick: for months the israeli military has been pushing netanyahu to look beyond individual military operations and lay out a political plan for the future of gaza, lay out the goals the military operations that he has ordered are designed to achieve. today, the defense minister said since october, he and military commanders have been pushing for a plan to have governance in gaza led by palestinians with interna

. >> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington, and in the west, from the walter cronkitealism at arizona state university. geoff: the department of justice want the courts to break up live nation, the parent company of ticketmaster and the biggest concert promoter in the u.s.. it has long face intense scrutiny over prices for concerts by major artists. one of the most notable cases recently, tickets for taylor swift's eras tour, when ticketmaster's web site crashed during a presale and led to a widespread outcry. the company blamed high demand. but swifties suspected foul play, as tickets quickly vanished, only to reappear on resale sites at much higher prices. u.s. attorney general merrick garland laid out his case today. merrick garland, u.s. attorney general: our complaint makes clear what happens when a monopolist dedicates its resources to entrenching its monopoly power and insulating itself from competition, rather than investing in better products and services. we allege that live nation has illegally monopolized markets across the live concert industry in the unit

walter cronkite and billy graham. reverend graham was blessed with a gift that brings us all together. you can remember it. in the crusades, we all came together. we divided americans. he lefted them up. he understand how to change the hearts and inspire us to live up to the highest ideals. i hope when members of congress walk by his statute, they reflect on the standards of faith, ethics, and decency that he exemplify throughout his life. we find efforts around what makes the nation great. there's no north carolinian more deserving of this honor. i wanted to thank the many people who played a role in getting the statute here. i see one of those people, my friends, former colleagues, charlie jeter in the audience. he lead the charge to get the state law passed in 2015. started the whole process. chase feigen, charlotte hardin, what a wonderful job you did with the statute. i also have to thank the graham family. franklin and all of you. thank you for sharing such a wonderful treasure with rest of this world. our natio

to quote walter cronkite, a longtime sag-aftra member, freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy. while sag-aftra core responsibility is to negotiate, and diminish in force collective-bargaining agreement which our members work, the union is also charged with advocating on behalf of of our members for legislation that directly impacts their work and their profession. sag-aftra's work as recently focus on artificial intelligence, protecting intellectual property, and restricting noncompete clauses in employment contracts, all of which are important, important initiative. and for decades of the union has enthusiastically supported the passage of a federal reporter shield law. we thank the house judiciary committee for its leadership on this issue, and it's bipartisan unanimous passage of the press act at the cuny level. we also thank the entire united states house of representatives for each unanimous passage of this vital legislation in january of 2024. and calling upon the united states senate to expeditiously pass this legislation and send it to presid

we read in pope francis' new book, a whole chapter about watching walter cronkite's cbs news coveragee all understood instinctively that the world would now be different somehow. progress is fundamental. we have to keep moving, but it must be in harmony with humankind's ability to manage it." that section of the memoir inspired our gift to the holy father. a vinyl of the 1969 special report. your holiness. i read in your book that when you were growing up in the seminary that you watched neil armstrong land on the moon, and it was on cbs, translated. this is -- >> pope francis: si. >> norah: a record of that moment. >> pope francis: oh! >> norah: this is from then. then, of course, on the back, "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." thank you. >> pope francis: very kind of you. thank you very much. >> norah: yes. >> pope francis: pray for me. don't forget. in favor, not against. >> norah: [laughs] yes, yes. >> pope francis: thank you very much. >> norah: translated from the original latin, the word pontiff means bridge-builder. francis, the first ever pope from the amer

walter cronkite and billy graham. rev. graham was blessed with a gift that brings us all together, and erases the differencesbetween us. you remember in the crusades we all came together. the united americans. he lifted them up. he understood how god worked to change hearts and inspired us to live up to our highest ideals . i hope when members of congress walk by his statue they reflect on the standards of faith , ethics and decency that he exemplified throughout his extraordinary life. i believe that his presence in the capital can help us find opportunities to unite around what makes our nation great. there is no north carolinians more deserving of this honor . i want to thank the many ypeople who played a role in getting his statue here. i see one of those people, my friend, former colleague charlie jeter in the audience. he led the charge to get the state law passed in 2015 that started this whole process. chase fagan, charlotte artist, any one what awonderful job you did with this statue . [applause] >> also i have to

. ♪ >> this is the newshour, from our studios in washington and from the west at the walter cronkiteournalism at arizona state university. >> india is one of the hottest places on the planet. much of this last month has been brutal. it is only made but temperatures are abnormally high in some parts of the u.s., mexico, and elsewhere. we have the latest. >> new delhi reached122 degrees fahrenheit this week. it is driving reports of heat related deaths and illnesses across the country. at night, temperatures are still well over 90 degrees. new delhi is also dealing with a water shortage. >> i keep myself hydrated. i protect my head with a piece of cloth. otherwise it is too hot out here. our conditions have gone from bad to worse. there is no relief. i have to drink six liters of water every day in the afternoon. >> in mexico, monkeys have been dying off in 100 degree plus heat. miami just recorded its hottest may on record. they are expecting triple digits in phoenix this weekend. to help us understand more of what is driving this, we are joined by the director of climate science. tha

. >> this is the pbs newshour from w eta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite journalism at arizona state university. >> israel kept up its operations in rafa in southern gaza. that is despite global outrage over an airstrike sunday that killed displaced gazans sheltering in tents. nick schifrin reports on the investigation into the incident and speaks to a senior state department advisor on the middle east as the violence continues. >> in southern gaza, another makeshift home to which gazans had led -- fled now ruined and riddled with bullets. in the shadow of a u.n. office with constant israeli drones overhead, survivors are exhausted and hopeless. little protection long ago pierced. >> i went into the tent and found the woman was bleeding and the children were bleeding. all of the children in the tent were wounded. not one came out in one piece. >> a few miles north in what israel labeled a safer zone, the living felt outnumbered by the dead. gazan officials say this violence hit israel's humanitarian area north of rafa city. an israeli official told pbs new

. >> this is the pbs newshour, from weta studios in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkiteool of journalism at arizona state university. geoff: in congress, the top democrats on two committees are asking the department of justice to launch a sweeping investigation of big oil corporations. they allege that the companies have deceived the public for decades about their complicity in climate change and willingness to address it. lisa desjardins has more. lisa: senate budget chairman sheldon whitehouse and congressman jamie raskin, the top democrat on the house oversight committee are asking for the kind of action that doj brought against tobacco companies about 20 years ago. but against big oil. this comes weeks after the two released a joint staff report laying out their findings from a three-year investigation of major oil companies. and congressman raskin joins me now from capitol hill. you are talking about evidence that more than 50 years ago big oil companies knew about fossil fuels' connection to climate change and you are talking about more modern evidence they have be

. >> this is "the pbs newshour," from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkitechool of journalism at arizona state university. geoff: donald trump was out of the courtroom and back on the campaign trail today in wisconsin, but the -- with a familiar refrain about undocumented immigrants. >> we are going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country. geoff: it was the latest example of policies he would like to implement if elected, and it follows a wide-ranging interview with "time" magazine that sparked headlines about what he would do in a second term. lisa desjardins joins us now. there's an luck in this interview, but let's start with how donald trump would staff his administration in what sounds like a litmus test. lisa: "time" magazine said this was someone who plans to ramp up and intensified, not soften what he is doing, and that's where we get to 2020. he again reputed the idea that the -- repeated the idea that the election was stolen from him. though there is plenty of evidence that goes the other way, that the 2020 election was one of

announcer: this is a pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkitesm at arizona state university. amna: we return now to the is -- israeli airstrike in rafa yesterday which killed scores of civilians. what we know about what happened and the wider significance. we have two views. the associate professor at rutgers university and a human rights lawyer. thank you for joining us. we reported that the prime minister netanyahu said it was a tragic mistake and israeli officials will investigate. what questions do you want to see answered from that investigation? do you think you will get those? >> what we saw yesterday was the burning to death of civilians by the plastic tents meant to shelter them which means they died in agony. not only have they been put through a genocide but even in death they are put through indescribable pain and suffering. at this point we need to be asking questions about the systematic nature of israel's campaign which the icj has said is plausibly genocide. it is the duty to prevent genocide, not to punish it. after the third ic