judy: the widely discredited election review in arizona is over. but more than 10 months after the 2020 election, there is growing alarm about other efforts, launched with no credible justification, to sow doubt about elections past, present, and future. william brangham explains. william: it was republicans in the arizona state senate who commissioned this review of ballots in maricopa county, even though election officials in the state said there was no large-scale fraud in the 2020 election. but a partisan group called "cyber ninjas" undertook a controversial review of the vote, and they affirmed that joe biden won maricopa county and arizona. and here with us to look at the larger context is nate persily a scholar of election law at stanford university law school. great to see you back on the newshour. i hesitate to call this an actual audit, what this organization did in arizona, but they affirmed what we already knew, that joe biden won maricopa county and arizona. what do you see when you look at this process? nate: you are right to hesitate

we already knew, that joe biden won maricopa county and heon arizona. but what do you make of this when you look at this process? >> you're right to hesitate in calling it an audit. audits are good things. we know how to do election audits. every state should audit its elections but this is not what this was. this was part of a coordinated disinformation campaign to undermine a legitimate election and we should not put too fine a point on it, that the whole goal many month after the effect, almost a year after the election, was to cast doubt on the machinery of this election. as we've seen in the public reception of this draft report, the fact that cyber ninjas did not find that it affected the outcome hasn't sort of decreased speculation or this lack of confidence that the whole audit process has generated. >> reporter: for people who haven't been following this rather circuitous process they took, this was a very bizarre process, they had no experience in election law, they were looking for counterfeit chinese ballots, the whole process seems bizarre

. >> who won the election in arizona? donald trump or joe biden? >> we don't know. >> nawaz: that false claim from arizona republican congressman andy biggs was shot down by a slate of state officials and election security experts, confirming joe biden won both arizona and the nationwide count. >> the 2020 election in maricopa county the general election was the best election we've ever run in maricopa county. >> nawaz: that's jack sellers and bill gates, the republican chair and vice-chair of the maricopa county board of supervisors. >> was there any fraud or corruption materially affecting the outcome of the election in arizona in 2020? >> no. >> nawaz: still, republicans on the committee called for more investigations... >> there are still problems. there are inconsistencies. there remain question marks with the arizona results. >> nawaz: ...and accused democrats of sweeping concerns under the rug. >> why do democrats hate audits? >> you'd have to ask a democrat. i don't know why they hate audits. >> nawaz: former republican secretary of state k

in tuscon, arizona, a synagogue was vandalized. the adl also reported thousands of tweets or rewteets that -- or retweets that seemed to echoed the phrase, "hitler was right" last week, five jewish organizations, including the adl, wrote a letter to president biden about their concerns over the seeming rise in these hateful attacks, asking him to speak out more forcefully against them. for more on all of this, we turn to jonathan greenblatt, the ceo of the anti-defamation league. great to see you. in the past your organization has or documented that when there is violence between israelites and palestinians that anti-semitic attacks in the u.s. go up. compare now to then pin are we seeing more now? >> yes. it's certainly true that in the past conflagrations in the middle east and israel and the palestinians or its neighbors have created an uptick of anti-semitism in america, but what we are seeing now is more drastic and frankly more what we are seeing now is more drastic. the adl tracks between the two weeks of the conflicts and t

stephanie sy visited one of those communities in phoenix, arizona. stephanie: it is a busy saturday morning at the mountain park health center in the maryvale neighborhood of phoenix. a few dozen parents have flocked to the vaccine clinic to get jobs for their children. some made it look easy. others were understandably nervous, especially the youngest ones, which included five-year-old gustavo, he is a cancer survivor who is currently in remission. his mom wanted to be there on day one to get him vaccinated. the pandemic upended her life. she quit her job, worried about bringing the virus home. >> you never left. he was in the house unless it was absolutely necessary to leave. stephanie: this 10-year-old with asthma came with her two younger brothers and mom. >> my grandpa is the one who got covid. stephanie: her grandpa was not vaccinated and died earlier this year. >> that is why i came and brought them, so they could get the vaccine. i got it because of what happened to my dad. at first, i did not want to get it because i was scared and everythin

from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: daily covid vaccinations in the u.s. have been dropping in recent weeks. it comes as more than half of all adults in the country have received at least one shot. willliam brangham explores the complexities behind this decrease in demand, and what it will take to get more americans vaccinated. william: we know that all adults in the u.s. are now eligible for the vaccine, but the pace of vaccinations has dropped and we are now at 2.5 million shots each today. some jurisdictions are declining vaccine shipments because they say they have too much on hand and not enough arms to put this in. is it hesitancy, opposition, or more of a wait-and-see approach? dr. philip keiser is one of the many public health officials trying to figure that out. he runs the local health authority in galveston, texas. very good to have you on the newshour, thank you for being here. my understanding is that you are at about 40% of adults fully vaccinated, which is pretty good in yr county, it is better than

what about the repubcans in the state of arizona? how are they talking about, what are they saying about what their expectations are of elected republicans in washington and president trump? yvonne wingett sanchez: well, it depends on who you talk to. i mean, just as tim has described, the rift here within the republican party is deeper than it has ever been. and it has been deep for some time. this is the state republican party that censured former senator john mccain. they doubled down on their tactic to go after thoseho were not completely with trump just a few weeks ago, when they reelected kelli ward as their party chair. she has been one of the most outspoken, loyal activists trying to help trump spread his message, the stop the steal message. and we have freedom caucus members, andy biggs, paul gosar, two congressmen who also have been very active in the stop the steal movement. and we have the mccain family and governor doug ducey on the other side, very conservative, sort of traditional-style republicans who are on the outs

arizona is now out of reach. here comes rudy giuliani to tell the president, we are going to keep fighting. he wants all these mega lawsuits that have questionable basis but they float these conspiracy theories about democratic deep state of malfeasance. the president's own lawyers who, by the way, have pushed in some cases the limit of the law, have hit their own limit and they say, don't go with these arguments that mr. giuliani is making. it will be a disaster for you at the courts. the president shoves them aside because rudy giuliani is telling the president when he wants to hear. from there, it is off to the races for what becomes a wilder storyline the president pursues. amna: we know that those election result challenges continue even though court after court throws out the challenges or sets them aside, there is another challenge in pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin taken up by the attorney general in texasken paxton. what else did you learn from your reporting about how bad the conflict got? >> that

california, arizona, wisconsin, illinois, michigan, new york, new jersey, south carolina, florida. acts of harassment and vandalism and violence. so number one, the span is much breat greater than what we have seen, but secondly the tone, the brazenness, the audacity of these assaults in broad daylight, you know. wee seen people basically say you know, if you are wearing a jewish star you must be a zionist and you should be killed. we have seen people hurling botd els and objects at homes with mizote on the door that were identififully jewish, we have seen people driving cars or mawr odding through jewish neighborhoods and yelling we're going to rape your women or yelling things like aluakabar and wrecking physical violence on people, one of the things captured was in broad daylight in time square, a group of people beatg and bloodying a jewish man whose only crime was he was wearing a kipa to the point where he was left unconscious in the street while people kicked him, you know, bloodied him with like crutches. it was really quite disgusting and to think this is happening in amer

i live in arizona and i'm a project specialist. i was able to pay down a lot of my son's hospital bill from his self harm and attempted suicide during covid. he is 16 and was out of school due to covid and he had actually three attempts at committing suicide and had to be hospitalized and put into a mental hospital. in those three attempts. we have over $10,000 worth of bills and that's with insurance. >> my name is dr. perreault and i'm a journalism professor in tennessee at east tennessee state university. i have four children. the oldest is 9 and the youngest is 2. that made doing my job very challenging. i think financially what's really helped me with the pandem actuall is the student loan payments being deferred because we were having to make decisions about how much childcare we were able to use and pay on our student loans from graduate school. >> my personal thing in this relief bill is wasted money. our biggest struggle is employees, hiring new employees. our labor force is very slim right now. they're now incentivized no

our other states loing at arizona to follow -- are other states looking at arizona to follow the playbook? tammy: we have seen in the last couple days issues percolating around the country with grassroots organizations now calling into question the outcome and the legitimacy of the elections in their own state, whether it was individuals in new hampshire or california or elsewhere, where they are now saying ey too want a forensic audit like maricopa county. it is critical to understand this is not about individuals and election officials not wanting to be transparent about our elections. that is the core of a healthy democracy. it is about wanting the election certified and validated, and then moving on and moving forward and not continuing to relitigate and rehash literally the elections. the other challenge here is that the public have not been told the truth. they have not been told the truth that last year was the most secure, most observed, most transparent, most audited election in u.s. history with the most number of voters. that is the truth. it had integrity and we should have co

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javier is is a political scientist at the university of arizona. he says there's little evidence the wall has stopped drugs or migrants from reaching the u.s. >> walls have never worked since the middle ages, right. i mean, there are always ways to breach, to go around, to break the walls. so these physical barriers are actually not creating an important deterrent on all migration patterns into the u.s. why? because there's always a supply and demand othese human crossings. amna: those crossings, osorio says, continue. they've just been pushed into emptier, deadlier stretches, something mayor huish has seen. >> because the supply hasn't changed, what you're really doing when you build a wall is you're pushing them out into more dangerous positions, and further endangering their lives and maybe even the lives of those on the border who are trying to enforce it. do you worry about that at all? >> i do. and you're absolutely correct. and that's why i'm saying that the immigration laws need to change somehow. they need to be better set up, that we can

daniel's, the sheriff of cochise county, arizona, located in the southeast corner of the state of arizona. >> my name is karla. i'm currently undocumented, but i recently applied for daca for the first time in december. >> my name is rodolpho karisch , i go by rudy, i retired from the u.s. border patrol in december of 2019 after spending more than three decades in the organization. >> my me is haya. i am 20 years old and i'm a first generation american. so my family and my sister is syrian. i am currently living in canada. we sought refuge here because of the muslim ban. >> when president biden announced that he was going to strengthen daca, it was really a sense of relief, to be honest, it pretty much gave me a little bit of relief that i was going to be able to stay in the country and keep doing what i'm doing, keep taking care of my patients and everything. jose when i started with the dream act movement, it was like 10 years ago. i'm still a dreamer and i still have a daca. so 10 years ve passed and there's still no solution. >> when i saw that president biden halted border issues to

john: the decision could affect more than just the arizona laws. it is the first case since the court struck down a key provision of the voting rights act in 2013. >> the supreme court is giving guidance to lower courts. section two of the voting rights act is sort of the last tool standing. the supreme court could make it easier to challenge laws that are potentially discriminatory. it could make it harder, or somewhere in between. it was hard to tell today. john: legislatures are working on election laws that could be challenged in court. >> at this point, we can look at any state in the nation and find examples either in the courtroom or the state house where election reforms and policies are being taken into consideration. john: attorney carvin answered judge coney barrett's question about what is at stake. >> what is the interest of the arizona rnc in keeping out of precinct voter disqualification rules on the books? >> it puts us at a competitive disadvantage.politics john: decision is expected by summer. i am john yang. ♪ judy: the u.s. se

we were concerned thathat would be a violation of arizona law. in february, the arizona senate, despite the fact that our lawsuit was pending in court at that time, the arizona senate was only one vote away from holding us in contempt and throwing us in jail because of our failure to turn over these ballots. finally, we are getting accused again of criminal acts. our employees are being accused of criminal acts. quite frankly, it has been six months of us standinup for the rule of law, standing up for facts and evidence. i have no problem doing it. if you didn't run for office to do what was right, to stand up for democracy, why did you run for office in the first place? anchor: vice chair of the maricopa county board of supervisors, thanks for joining the newshour. >> thank you. ♪ >> a new movement has sprung up on the island nati of trinidad. demanding an end to what is being called a plague of violence against women. the government of that when island state just off the coast of venezuela has been accused of ignoring a major studies recommen

arizona's youth suicide rate has been consistently above the national average for years. as coronavirus cases have surged up and down, schools have bounced between opening and closing. last wk, arizona governor doug ducey ordered most schools to reopen to in-person learning by march 15th. but throughout the pandemic, hoffman says she's been forced to thread a needle between containing covid and addressing the needs of students, that's been made even harder by policies that prioritize businesses over scols. >> experts have said that we should close bars and nightclubs before we closed schools. and that's not the decision that has been made here in arizona. >> sy: psychologist lisa horowitz says regardless of when schools re-open, children and parents can learn how to help prevent suicide. >> we teach them to read and to write and to do math and to do science. but when do we teach them what to do when you can't bear a disappointment or you feel so alone and isolated that you can't stand it anymore? >> sy: i think it'so taboo and a lot of parents don't even want to say the w

they call tucson, arizona the best 23 miles of mexican food in the u.s. sounds to me like a great place to start. this plate is making me so happy right now. (pati laughs)

still to come on the newshour: the arizona g.o.p. continues an election audit despite zero evidence of fraud. a wide-ranging discussion with former secretary of defense and c.i.a. director robert gates we examine the logistical challenges of sharing vaccines with countries in need. and much more. >> woodruff: now to a leadership shake-up in the g.o.p. and a critical moment for republicans. internal divides over last year's election and the future of the party have again come to a head, as house republicans seem to be moving to replace their number three leader. lisa desjardins has our report. >> desjardins: a party leader, but for how long? house republicans seem to have had enough of their conference chair-- wyoming congresswoman liz cheney, and within days are expected to oust her from g.o.p. leadership. it's a stunning turn of events in just three months... >> the number one thing that happened in this conference was unity. >> desjardins: ...when republican leader kevin mccarthy and cheney together resoundly defeated another attem

>> yang: last november, arizona was a battleground in the presidential race. >> count the legal votes! >> yang: its narrow backing of president biden was the first time the state had gone democratic in 24 years. today, it was again a battleground, as the supreme court heard a challenge to two arizona election laws. last year, a federal appeals court struck down both of them as violating the voting rights act by discriminating against minority voters. one provision throws out ballots cast in the wrong precinct. >> or it's often been referred to as the right church, wrong pew. >> yang: tammy patrick of the nonpartisan democracy fund was an election official in arizona's maricopa county, the largest in the state. >> you'll have multiple precincts in a school gymnasium. if you get in the wrong line, you're not going to be on the rolls, you're going to get a different ballot than potentially the one that you would have received in your home precinct. >> yang: patrick found that in the 2012 election, a higher percentage of maricopa county voters affected by the law were hispanic. the other

f in arizona and partse south, a stark difference. this slow and irregular pace means that the gap between delivery of vaccines and injections continues to grow in ohio, governor to wine asked hospitals to speed up the job and limit turnaround to 24 hours. today in new york, democratic governor andrew cuomo announced fines for hospitals that don't e vaccines within a week of receiving them. >> i don't want the vaccine in a freezer. i want them in someone's arm. >>th skepticism is a problem dewine said about 60 percent of nursing home staff iinthe state de to get the vaccine. in all, only 4 and a half million americans have received the first of the two doses. these backlogsave led some ading public health voices to suggest delaying that second shot and using them instead to americans. dose to m but over the weekend, the top u.s. infectious disease expert, y fauci, warned against that. >> we don't know whether or not that's going to be good enough. we know wh the science tls us. let's do it the way the clinical trials have instructed u

first, in arizona. >> sreenivasan: theater course 133 at the university of arizona in tucson is a workout. throw a mask on while shuffling and sliding, and it can be even harder. but sophomores like brach drew and sophia scarsi say it's no problem, if it means getting back in the swing of college. >> i heard someone say that we're, like, also the freshmen, or the second freshmen, because this is our first, more normal experience of college. and for some people, it's their first time coming to campus. >> sreenivasan: and do you feel safe on campus, covid-wise? >> definitely. we still wear masks in my classes, and it's been great. i mean, anything to be in- person, i would do. >> sreenivasan: for the first time since the pandemic began, college campuses are starting to look and sound once again like college campuses. the football games. the big lectures. the spontaneous hangouts. it's just as president robert robbins imagined it a few months ago, too. well... almost. >> we thought we were heading into last summer with no problems coming in, and then delta happened. so, that's a real concern

there was the governor of arizona, doug ducey, who's republican. there were republican state legislators in wisconsin, in pennsylvania. there were republican judges on the third circuit and elsewhere who rejected trump's claims. the problem is that those republican heroes of the last time around who would not bend or break the law to try to overturn the results of the election, many of those people are being replaced. raffensperger is being primary by jody hice, who was featured in the report just before i came on. hice has parroted the claim that the election was stolen. if he's the chief election officer in georgia, how are we going to know that the election is going to be fairly done? what's going to happen if trump leans on him next time, there's another narrow loss, to claim that there was fraud and provide the predicate for the state legislature to go forward and claim that there should be a different slate of electors that could en be accepted by a kevin mccarthy if he is the speaker of the house, and he's in charge of running the house and

the arizona border recon. the group calls themselves an intelligence gathering operation. they are armed. their ader is this man. >> we love our country. we've taken an oath. most of us are in military and law enforcement. we took an oath to defend the country. it doesn't end when you get out. it's a lifelong oath. reporter: he traveled to the capital on january 6. fully didn't enter the building but says he doesn't think the violence wasnitiated by trump supporters. >> we were there. i would say, 45 minutes before trump ended his speech, there werenstigators already there. harassing the police and tear gas was already being shot. i got cast five times that day. reporter: this training is preparing the members for a hypothetical attack by smugglers illegally crossing into the u.s.. do you train with live ammo? >> no. it's a safety thing. we carry around with us and we have sidearms. reporter: he finances his militia through space -- speaking engagements. they conduct arms put -- armed patrols. on one of the ro

she reminds me of my political hero in this state and that is john mccain. >> john mccain was arizona senator for more than three decades. there are signs senator cinema has taking cues from the man known as a maverick. last march, she voted no to increasing the mid mom wage to $15 an hour in covid stimulus bill. giving a thumbs down, echoing mccain's game changing vote against repealing the affordable care act. but for chanel, her performance that day was a stab in the heart. >> i cut goosebumps. -- i got goosebumps. again, these are the same families from the organizers who have been knocking on doors and making phone calls and persuading voters to vote for her to say she was going to be our champion. >> this sentiment may put sinema at risk if she faces a democratic primary challenger in 2024. but david wells says her shift to the middle reflects her pragmatic side and her view toward the long game. >> republicans are going to have a hard time running anybody of note against her. >> an unlikely duo. kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, two critical votes deciding the democratic agenda i

-mexico border, in arizona. again, with the support of the pulitzer center, special correspondent monicaillamizar and producer zach fannin report. monica: a tall stretch of border wall separates no goess, arizona from its sister city, nogales, mexico. despe the heavy security measures this area is a main smuggling route for fentanyl and other illicit drugs both above, and below ground. rder patrol agent kevin hecht gave us a rare peek at subterranean tunnels designed a century ago to catch water runoff from mexico. in recent years, the tunnels have also been used by drug smugglers. >> they can tunnel through the floor in here or tunnel through the wall and dig into a house or dig into a drainage pipe in the u.s. and then they come out of the pipe and they might go into a car, they might have another short tunnel to the bottom of a car. where the reflective yellow is, that's the border fence. monica: hecht also showeus this more cramped, training tunnel, where his agents learn how to navigate the land below nogal

this is from w eta studios in washington andr cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. the past legislative session in texas focused on keyfrom restricting abortion to addressing transgender rights. the lone star state is now focused on a voting bill that would tighten election laws afte mate last month. in with our political reporter dan busch he is iau n busch endedslative session and as we have said, ty have loo conservative priorities. tting the most attention. dan: the big issue was voting rights, or republicans have legislation that would do a number of things.imit drop boxes fhough by mail, and it would also allow partisan poll watcher is to monitor poll places around the state and in addition, it would restrict voting for some hours on the republicans argue that all of these measures are necessary electio in order to increase transparen reduce voter this is essentially voter suppression, so let's hear from one stat>> it is jim crow 2.0. i cannot say it any plainer tha that. it is voter suppression and that is targeting harrisare. i think because we broke a lot

born in mexico, noah move to arizona in 2001. she worked mainly as a housing specialist in phoenix, helping low income residents find places to live. a single working mom, she also drove for over one nights and weekends, and in her free time, she loved hiking and taking pictures of the sunrise, but more than anything, she cherished spending time with her sons. noah was 41. 77-year-old thomas was a self-described nerd always up for a good laugh. he moved to madison, wisconsin for college and later worked as a lawyer for the wisconsin state government. he loved reading stories of sherlock holmes and biographies of presidents he felt history have forgotten, especially millard fillmore. he also frequently wrote to world leaders and collected responses from several, including the pope, the dalai lama, and the queen of england. born i mississippi, don brooks grew up in a sharecropping family and met his future wife as a teenager, and the pair became inseparable for more than six decades. he was a pretty cool dude, his wife told us, and

by the arizona border recon. the group calls themselves an intelligence-gathering operation, but they're armed to interdict and capture. their leader is this man, tim foley. >> we love our country. we've taken an oath. most of us were in the military or law enforcement, and we took an oath to defend the country. and it doesn't end when you get out. it's a lifelong oath. >> reporter: tim foley traveled to the capitol on january 6th. foley didn't enter the building but says he doesn't think the violence was initiated by trump supporters. >> we were there, i would say 45 minutes before trump even ended his speech. and there were instigators already there, harassing the police and tear gas was already being shot. and i got gassed five times that day. >> reporter: this training is preparing recon members for a hypothetical attack by smugglers illegally crosng into the u.s. do you guys train with live ammo? >> no. it's a safety thing we do-- carry rounds with us and we do have sidearms that are loaded just in case. >>

the supreme court upholds arizona's controversial voting restrictions, highlighting the court's ideological divide. then, incted. a top official in the trump organization surrenders to authorities, as the first charges are filed in the investigation of the former president's business. plus, leaving afghanistan. we discuss the many implications of the impending troop withdrawal with the u.s. special envoy for reconciliation in the country. and, work shift. a son of immigrants brings the tech industry to the often floundering economies of middle america through apprenticeships. >> we can solve skilling and growth problems, as well as the equity problem that we face in america by creating jobs and skills for people that typically were left behind from the tech economy. judy: all that and more on tonight's "pbs newshour." ♪ >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- >> before we talk about your investments, what's new? >> audrey is expecting twins. >> changing plans. >> at fidelity, a change in plans is always part of the plan. >> johnson & johnson. bnsf railway. consumer c

i lived in fear of making a mistake that would somehow humiliate my husband or the state of arizona. you know, these were all certainly important things. but it was also this was undue pressure i put on myself. so as the years went on and i made my harsh mistakes along the way, i began to understand myself a little more and realize that it's okay to make mistakes. and it is okay to certainly learn from are them, and move on. nobody's perfect. and that was something i really had to 11. -- to learn. >> woodruff: you encountered snide comments from the wives of other politicians, including first lady nancy reagan, ugly remarks about your daughter bridget. >> yes. >> woodruff: it was pretty tough. >> well, it was -- yes it was. in the case of my daughter bridget, john and i always knew that he and i were fair game in any of these races, especially the presidential ones. but for a campaign to take out against my daughter bridget mccain was just unconscionable. and they did. and some years later when she googled herself on the internet found out what had happened and came to me crying aski

moments after republican lawmakers began challenging the vote in arizona. it was a vient take over the mob broke in, passed capitol police. sadly we know at least one woman s shot and killed in the hallsth are meant to symbol lize our democracy, lisa desrdins has been there all day. lisa we've ben wate ching debate resume in the united states tonight over whether or not the electoral votes should be counted from the state of d izona but much of the discussion turck photo the event of this day, several use e of faying they will no longer object to the formal counting of the votes, allowing the certification to go forward because of what happened toda >> that's right. senator kelly loeffler, who had really the worst political day of her career, her short career, in the u.s. congress. had perhaps one of her most notable moments, when she sa she will no longer object to the georgia recount or the georgia counting because of what happened today. and i think the entire tone this debate, which this is the debate about the presidency and the electoral count, ths is

first, in arizona. >> the records 133 at the university of arizona in tucson is a workout. throw a mask on while shuffling and sliding and it can be even harder. but sophomores say it is no problem if it means getting back in the swing of college. >> i hear someone say we are like the second freshman because this is our first more normal experience of college. for some people, it is their first time coming to campus. >> do you feel safe on campus? >>? a we still wear masks in my classes. anything to be in person. >> for the first time since the pandemic began, college campuses are certain to look and sound once again like college campuses. the football games. >> touchdown. >> the big lectures. the spontaneous hangouts. it is just as the president imagined it a few months ago. almost. >> we thought we were heading into last summer with no problems coming in. and then delta happened. that is a real concern for us. this year, the difference is we at least even though we are walking a tight wire, we have a safety net, which is the vaccine. >> he estimates more than 70% of the s

arizona, for months we have seen this republican effort to recount, re-audit or whatever election results from 2020. they have concluded that joe biden did win after all this time. people are still not accepting that. not only that, you have republican legislatures around the country looking at ways they can question voting in their ste. is this going to have a material effect? >> it absolutely is. it is a very jarring situation we have. this is not just about somebody having a theory of the case where they just are not likely the outcome of an election. this is after the state has certified and many of the states , the republican governor signed off on this, the republican attorney general signed off on the final vote count, these are rogue elements. the goal of these recounts is to undermine the faith in the electoral system itself. that is the scarier part, because it does not reassure people who believe that this election was stolen. it takes people who do believe that their vote counted, it tells them, i don't know, maybe the next te you vote this is going to look different. judy: pe

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. ♪ announcer: this is the "pbs newshour"," from weta studios and in the west from arizona state university. judy: president biden meets in brussels tomorrow with european union leaders, many of the same men and women whom he met with today at nato headquarters. after the fractious relationship between former president trump and many of those same leaders, mr. biden has been hailed as a fresh start by many of them. but issues remain between the u.s. and europe. nick schifrin explores this moment. nick: judy, that's right. and now we get two views on the state of relations between the united states and europe. jana puglierin is head of the berlin office at the european council on foreign relations. and heather conley heads the europe program at the center for strategic and international studies and was a state department official focused on europe, during the george w. bush administration. thank you very much. welcome to you both to the "newshour." let me start with you. does western europe believe that the united states will remain a reliable partner? >> terribly relieved to have joe biden

from weta studios in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: returning now to one of our top stories, the unprecedented show of military force to defend the peaceful transfer of power and it's not just hear in washington. nick schiff religion has more. >> the f.b.i. says there are threats to all 50 state capitols this weekend when federal authorities warn there could be armed protests. in pennsylvania there will be 450 national guard protecting the capitol in harrisburg. the lieutenant governor is john feferan a he joins me -- me now. welcome to the program. what's the threat that pennsylvania failingses and what are you doing to protect your capitol? >> the threat isn't necessarily a specific one and the governor happened taken the preemptive steps to close the capitol complex all next week so if they do have a protest -- as long as it's peaceful, that's, of course, their constitutionally protected rights to do so and in the event that it does get out of hand, which i don't expect that it would, there is a robust presen

arizona, for months we have seen this republican effort to recou. and they have concluded after all this time joe biden did win. the maricopa county, he won in the state of arizona. people are still not accepting that. not only that, you have republican legislatures around the country looking at ways they can question voting in their states. is this going to have a material effect on what happens? >> it absolutely is. it is a very jarring situation that we have here. this isn't just about somebody having a theory of the case that, you know -- ot like the outcome of an election. this is after the state has certified -- and many of these states, including arizona, the republican governor signed off on this. the republican attorney general signed off on the final vote count. these are rogue elements. and with the goal of ese recounts is to undermine the faith in the electoral system itself. and that is the scarier part because it does not resure people who believe that this ection s stolen, and it takes people who do believe their vote counted, they do

they defeated arizona last night. 54-53. in the game's final moments, arizona missed a long shot before the buzzer to hand stan ford the third national title. still the come, the minneapolis police chief desk -- testifies against derek chauvin. hospital struggle encode infections. dravidian prince planning a coup against the king. and much more. >> this is the pbs newshour and from the west from arizona state university. anchor: life is not back to normal. we are taking small steps to see what works. i am so grateful to our staff for working both here and from home. and for doing all we can to stay safe. we appreciate you staying with us for the news. in the derek chauvin trial today, the prosecution examined the former police officers use of kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes violated protocol. special correspondent fred reports and a note. this report contains disturbing images from mr. ford's death there were showed during testimony. -- floyd. reporter: prosecutors called the police chief to the stand. >> up

in farmington, west virginia, i'm lisa desjardins. >> sy: i'm stephanie sy front of the arizona state capitol in phoenix, where senator kyrsten sinema started her career. unlike senator joe manchin, sinema was not always the centrist willing to reach across the aisle. in fact, in her activist days she would attend protests on this very lawn. her early reputation was as an anti-war liberal flamethrower. her shift to the center has confounded and angered progressive democrats. kyrsten sinema used to lead protests. now, the tables have turned. since the summer, she's been the target of anger by activists in the democratic party-- from the civil rights leader jesse jackn... to workers rights leader dolores huerta, who last week melted an ice sculpture of senator sinema in effigy. channel powe, an educational and political consultant in phoenix says she's canvassed or volunteered for sinema for over a decade. >> i looked up to kirstyn, you i would cling to her every word and she would talk about, you know, having the proper education and, you know, knowing how to interact with, you know, o

. >> woodruff: now to arizona, where people are feeling the impact of president biden's order to halt border wall construction. while the wall's presence has already had a profound impact on border communities, its enduring legacy under a new president remains unclear. amna nawaz has our report. >> nawaz: for 125 years, john ladd's family has raised cattle in this corner of arizona. 10 miles of his ranch run along the u.s.-mexico border. for years, ladd says his work was made harder by the steady stream of migrants and smugglers he says regularly crossed here. >> they just cut all my fences, they cut my water lines, they chase cattle around. so there's an economic impact right there. i spend about 50% of my time checking fences and water lines. >> nawaz: which is why, he says, he welcomed president trump's wall construction, and is worried by president biden's order to halt it. >> if biden carries through with what he's proping. if the law enforcement is going to be under the gun. border patrol is already outmanned. it's going to be a real serious security issue. >> nawaz: looming, gl

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yesterday, as i went into the chamber a little after 1:00 in the afternoon and the arguments began around arizona, i stood there almost with my hand overin my mouth, hetheir arguments that were so false,w and they k. they were willingly spewing untruths, stoking fear, stoking ignorance, smearing others. all i can say -- i stood next to my colleague dean phillips, an i said, shame we said sham that's before the insurrection, before the attempted coup. i do not understand my colleagues. one thing i read about was marget chase smith. if you remember, she was an impornt figure, a republican congresswoman, who stood up she called upon -- i will paraphrase this -- she called about her republican colleagueso and saidcan't search for victory, political victory, by riding the four horsemen of calumny. she called them fear and ignonce and bigotry and smea you can't want to ride to ctory on that four horsemen. that's what i say to my republican colleagues. are you willing to do that? are you willing to sell your soul for political victory? i call upon them to reject that judy: representative madeleinenn dea

studios in washington and in the west at our bureau at the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: as we mentioned earlier, one year ago today the covid-19 outbreak has been declared a pandemic. this was the week last year when shutdowns rapidly escalated. large public gatherings began coming to an end, and the country faced the prospect of a very different time ahead. amna nawaz is here with personal recollections of how life in the u.s. was transformed and the challenges of this past year. >> covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. amna: in the year since that ominous announcement, on march 11 of 2020, life in america has changed drastically. the u.s. has seen more than 525,000 deaths from covid-19 and upwards of 29 million confirmed cases. there have been lockdowns, school closures, an economic collapse. inequality has gotten worse. our hospitals have been overwhelmed. it has been a year of pain, disruption and incredible stress. >> thank you for making the time. it is a lot to cover. amna: in recent weeks, we have spoken to more than a dozen america

and we so appreciate hearing from both of you in arizona and in michigan. we thank you, yvonne sanchez, tim alberta thank you. >> thanks, judy. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, president biden announced the federal government has bought another 200 million doses of covid-19 vaccines. but, he acknowledged his administration is still playing catch-up. the president spoke at the national institutes of health outside washington. and, he blamed president trump for doing little to lay the groundwork. >> he didn't order enough vaccines. he didn't mobilize enough people to administer the shots. he didn't set up a federal vaccine centers where eligible people could come and get their shots. when i became president three weeks ago, american had no plan to vaccinate most of the country. it was a big mess. it's going to take time to fix, to be blunt with you. >> woodruff: the president said he now hopes to have enough vaccine to cover 300 million americans by the end of july. meanwhile, schools in chicago began returning to in-person learning today. mayor lori lig

majority democrats voted today to censure republican paul gosar of arizona. he had tweeted an animated video of himself striking new york democrat alexandria ocasio-cortez with a sword. only 2 republicans voted for censure. we'll return to this, after the news summary. attorneys for kyle rittenhouse demanded a mistrial today in kenosha, wisconsin. they complained about the quality of a key video that the jury wants to see again, as it deliberates. rittenhouse is charged with murdering 2 men and wounding a ird during racial justice protests. and, in brunswick, georgia, the man who killed ahmaud arbery took the stand to testify that he feared for his life. travis mcmichael and 2 other white men face murder charges. we will return to this case later on in the program. the white house today announced plans to invest billions of dollars to generate more "covid" vaccine doses. officials said producing another 1 billion doses could have benefits both global and domestic. >> the first application is likely to be used produce more covid-19 vaccines for the world , and

senator joe manchin and senator sinema of arizona. without those two senators that has no chance. right now they are both hard no's. this is the opening salvo in a long conversation. judy: a long conversation, for sure. lisa from the capitol. thank you both. we turn now to two senators on either side of this debate. i spoke with them earlier this evening before the vote. and i began with senator john thune of south dakota. he is the second highest ranking republican in the senate. thank you very much for joining us. what is your view of this new compromise voting rights measure, with so much input from senator joe manchin of west virginia, who's been working relentlessly to come up with something that republicans can support? senator thune: i give joe credit, judy. he is trying his best but it starts with a very difficult premise for republicans and that is that it requires the federal government essentially to take over elections from the states. and republicans i think, as you know, are very supportive of state sovereignty. elections have been conducted by the states since our c