yamiche: good evening and welcome to "washington week." this week matched one year since president biden took the oath of office. challenges abound. covid is surging. inflation is at a 40 year high. his approval rail test rating is sliding he held the longest presidential press conference in history. one hour and 51 minutes. he touted progress on fighting covid, but admitted that more could have been done. >> should we have done more testing earlier? yes. but we a doing more now. yamiche: he called out republicans for former president trump's continued grip on the gop. >> did you ever think one man out of office could intimidate an entire party? where they are unwilling to take any vote contrary to what he thinks should be taken? fear being defeated in a primary. yamiche: a day later, republicans blasted the president. >> we have an economy that is damaged, cities and streets that are dangerous. we have adversaries who feel emboldened. yamiche: joining me tonight to discuss the president'a some ultra's year and what is to come , the white

yamiche: president biden gets a supreme court pick. president biden: the person i will nominate will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. yamiche: justice steven breyer announces his retirement. and president biden vows his replacement will make history. >> i'm going to give the president nominee whoever that may be a fair look. yamiche: setting the stage for a nate debate ahead of the midterms. plus -- >> we're acting with equal focus and force to bolster ukraine's defenses and prepare a swift united response to further russian aggression. yamiche: tensions over russia and ukraine intensify. next. announcer: this is "washington week." corporate funding is provided b. additional funding is provided by the estate of arnold adams, koo and patricia yuen through the yuen foundation committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities, sardinha and carl delay-magnuson, rose hirschel and andy shreeves. robert and sues be rosen palm. the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions t

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yamiche: it is an unusually dangerous time. you immediately began reporting about how rioters broke in. what have we learned about the possible role of lawmakers or president trump in this attack? >> i immediately began getting leads from my law enforcement sources. i really had no idea. what we have learned is so important. there was great investigative work. things that the january 6 committee is now corroborating. they are making it admissible evidence. so is the fbi. donald trump was sitting on his hands for more than 2.5 hours watching gleefully as his supporters broke through a police line. as they took bear spray inta radios and other weapons and began attacking police. his only concern came when he found out things had gotten violent. and someone had been shot. she was breaking through the glass into speak -- speaker pelosi's lobby. that is when president trump became concerned that this did not look so good. now lawmakers say it was just a tourist holiday. it was a calm group of people who wanted to support the preside

judy: hello to the three of you, to amna, to lisa, to yamiche. we don't get many opportunities to have a conversation like this one, but what a week it has been. i wanted to hear from each one of you about what it was like as we experienced this day that is going to be in the history books. um, and-and lisa, let's start with you. um, you were inside the capitol covering what was supposed to be a relatively routine, although this one was going to be a little different, set of procedures for counting the electoral votes, but that's not the way it turned out. lisa: that's right. i walked in there, judy, thinking it was going to be a historic day, but maybe a pretty long and boring one. i didn't really, i thought all the drama was what you know would be speeches. and um instead, you know, shortly after that electoral session began, you know we got notification that one of the house office buildings had been breached by... at that time we called them protesters, but they clearly became rioters. and then a second house office building had been breached

yamiche: a racial reckoning. you had better respect my choice. yamiche: an ongoing pandemic. >> first inflation, then gas prices, and shipping. yamiche: 2021 was a historic year that further divided th nation and tested those managing newsrooms across the country. coming up, leaders from some of the top news organizations discuss writing a first draft of history for a fractured nation,. --, next.

yamiche: president biden gets a supreme court pick. president biden: the person i will nominate will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. yamiche: justice steven breyer announces his retirement. and president biden vows his replacement will make history. >> i'm going to give the president nominee whoever that may be a fair look. yamiche: setting the stage for a nate debate ahead of the midterms. plus -- >> we're acting with equal focus and force to bolster ukraine's defenses and prepare a swift united response to further russian aggression. yamiche: tensions over russia and ukraine intensify. next. announcer: this is "washington week." corporate funding is provided br

and yamiche alcindor, who was at the white house. the four of us spoke last year in the days following the insurrection for our podcast "america, interrupted," and when we sat down again earlier this week, we talked about how the country hachanged in the year since. lisa, let me start with you. you were inside the capitol, i remember it vividly, as the rioters broke through the glass in those doors. you were eyewitness to the worst attack on the u.s. capitol in 200 years. from a-- from a political standpoint, sa, it looks like a much more partisan even place what does it feel like from the inside? >> desjardins: i didn't think that the capitol could get more partisan than after the 2020 election ended, in 2020, but it has, and-- and i also have to say, a year ago, we all felt these palpable, very raw emotions from lawmakers right after january 6. and i knew they would continue. i thought they would continue february, march, april. democrats just seething with anger. democrats who don't usually express this kind of anger, were saying

moderator yamiche alcindor and her panel will discuss president biden's challenging first year, and what's next for some of his stalled priorities, including voting rights. that's tonight on pbs. and tomorrow on pbs newshour weekend, mississippi is the only state in the nation that does not have a law requiring equal pay for men and women who do equal work. but, that could soon change. what a new legislative effort could mean for workers who experience discrimination. and that is the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online, and again here on monday evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, please stay safe, and have a good weekend. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> fidelity wealth management. >> consumer cellular. >> johnson & johnson. >> financial services firm raymond james. >> the william and flora hewlett foundation. for more than 50 years, advancing ideas and supporting institutions to promote a better world. at www.hewlett.org. >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing problems-- skoll