so the senate remains republican majority until joe biden becomes president. so any sena tte trial andhe time of it would be governed and determined by mitch mcconnell. >> woof: tricky, just in-- >> reporter:i i guess i should sum up, there are so many questions, we just don't know. >> woodruff: we're glad you're following it every day between w and when it becomes clear. now to you, yamiche, we also heard these calls in john's mostly democrats for theing from 25th amendment to the constitution to be invoked. what is the real likelihood of that happening? and, frankly, how muchesupport does president have inside his own administration? >> reporter: in the aftermath of the violent mob scenes that we saw on capitol hill and the presidenting aing his supports on, tensions at the white house are as high as they have ev been with people inside the white house, allies of president trump, people who work for the president, openly talking about the 25thanmendment of course others streaming out of the white house, resigning by the dozens, or talking about resigning by

do you consider joe biden legitimately elected as president? >> joe biden had more electoral votes than just arizona and pennsylvania, and with the certification that took place that day and with the swearing in today, he is the legitimate president, and we must do the best to find common grounds to work together. i do believe, though, that there are certain irregularities that existed in our election system. we need to make sure that we solidify the integrity of this system. as you know, in the last couple of weeks alone, there have bee arrests in texas and louisiana for election fraud, and there are tens of millions of americans who are concerned about the integrity of the system. so, you know, i'm a proud co-sponsor of a new bill, the state of democracy act, that will look to further solidify the integrity of our system, make sure that we do have voter i.d. laws, making sure that we don't allow for automatic voter registration with a foreign document, as is going to happen in the state of new york unless the person opts out when applying for

s judy: senator chons, from delaware, is one ofes ent-elt joe biden's closest allies on the hill. and he joins us now. thank you so much for being with us. at this point, what do y tnk the chances are of president trump being removed from office before january 20? sen. coons: there has to be accountabilityor this unprecedented act by a sitting u.s. president, to spin up a crowd, to incite them to riot, and then send them off tthe capitol building where they stormed the capitol, where they were chanting things like "hang mike pence"wa in the ha, and they did a lot of physical damage, and globally on the world stage, an enormous amount of damage to our reputation. as you were just saying in the last segment, there has been tragic loss-of-life of two capitol police officers, suffering line of duty deaths. i think als of a nation need to stop and reflect on this. i think what president trump do is resign. that would remove him as quickly as possible. ilg that, vice president mike pence and a majority of the cabinet should do what only they can do, exercise the 25th amendment to remove

but is that the way joe biden administration?his >> well, you know, president-elect biden was in no small part eleedecause he ran on bringing our country together, on moving us forward,t he divisive presidency of donald trump. and in this moment when the pandemic is raging out of leadership that joe biden can provide to our country. we have two pandemics. one that is cvid-19 public health crisis but also a pandemic of division and distrust. so the senate gets to set the rules that it will follow for impeachment, the constitution doesn't provide exactly how we will carry out a trial. we could separate our days andin begihe morning doing the work of confirming some of the very capable and seasoned leaders that joe biden has nominated to form his cabinet. and the afternoon conducting an impeachment trial. a number of my republican colleagues have reached out to me sayg that peachment is the wrong path. that it won't bring reconciliation. repentance is required before reconciliation. we need to hear and see some actions by president

president of the joe biden won. there is no path for this to sueed which is why mitch mcconnell, for instance, didn't want to go through the exercise. and why meone like mitt romney saying that it is bad f democracy. to he this public show that leads to nothing but continues to raise doubts about an election that was free and faish. -- fair, but you have potential sides of this didait.n different i think you are going to see these people lining up on different ses of the debate and all sort of frozen until president trump determines what president trump is going to do. >> woodruff: frozen in a number of ways. and amy, ie n ttle bit of time left, the senators who re standing up to their leader, mitch mcconnell who had pleaded with them not to raise objections on wednesday. >> right. much course my of-- of course many of them are look beyond theiend and ruing in 2024 for maybe a different job. so to tam's int, when you think about really how long this rift continu, it's not just maybe until we get to the 2024 election

theem senatens republican majority until joe biden becomes president. any senate trial and the timing of it would be governed and determined by mitch mcconnell. judy: lisa: there are so many questions, we just don't know. judy: we are glad you are following it every dayetween now and w.n it becomes cle yamiche,th we also heare calls in john's report coming from mostly democrats for the 25th amendment to the constitutiono be invoked. what is the re likelihood of that happening and how much support does the president have inside his own administration? yamiche: in the aftermat of the violb scenes we saw on capitol hill and the president tensions the white house are as high as they have ever been with allies of the president openly talking about the 25th endment, and others resigning by the dozens, or talking about it. we have seen eight resignations at least. each of tse people are saying what they saw yesterday is motivating theadto leave this nistration. the president's actions troubled them enough to break with the president. some say they are leaving

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joe biden in his inaugural address said to have some unity. we'll see if that happens. judy: no question. it's all about how they work out the majority, whether it's 51 or 60. big question to be resolved. dan bush, thanks so much. stephanie: i'm stephanie sy with "newshour" west. we'll return to judy woodruff and the rest of the "newshour" after these headlines. president biden has invoked the defense production act to ramp up the nation's supply of covid-19 vaccines, amid shortages as the centers for disease control and prevention quietly changed its vaccination guidance to allow patients to mix vaccine brands for their first and second doses, in exceptional situations. it also said that the second dose of the vaccine could be administered up to six weeks after first dose if necessary. meanwhile, in geneva, the world health organization hailed a new deal with pfizer to supply up to 40 million doses to help inoculate people who live in poor countries. dir. ghebreyesus: vaccines are giving us all hope of ending the pandemic and getting the global economy on the try to do

a couple of th enough to undo joe biden's sen. klobuchar: the point is joe biden got more than enough electoral votes and that is what will prevail. i know that these people, two of whom we know are running in 2024, josh harley and ted cruz, have garnered a lot of attention. bu look at the comments from other republican leaders, from mitt romney, the party's candidate for president. from ben sasse, people like susan collins and la murkowski, and john thune, the majority whip. remember that. we know this is high-stakes. by the way, i note with the time here, voters in georgia or people who know people in georgia, you have 20 minutes left, little more than that to get to the polls. if you are in line by 7:00, you can still vote. we know what is at stake here. tomorrow, this isn't just going to be a partisan fight. this is going to be a fight between those who are standing up for democracy and those who are literally seeking to undermine the votes of the people of this country. judy: president trump is sayin i'm quoting him, last nig

t joe biden will restore sense of liberal democracy, of republican values to the country.we till have a sitting president who has yet to admit that he just lost the election. moste world is staring att. us with amazem i think you'll see more continuity than change is hecontinued pull back from middle east because democrats and republicans alike agree it's time to end the forever wars, standing up tohina, as rebecca was saying, particularly on the trade front. and i also think you're going to trying to make the case that american foreign policy works for average americans. that probably needs oney on things like cyber, on things like global health, on things like climate change, probably less on defense spending and also more investment in amica's middle class, maki sure that our trade agreements atrk not just for big corpns, but also for working americans. >> woodruff: and sue gordon, you touched on some of these things in your remarks a moment ago. but bring us finally back to this question of america's role in the world and to what extent does joe biden have a fixed idea in his own

>> reporter: well, at the end of his first week as president, joe biden, it's clear, has a lot to juggle, and the top priority for him remains covid 19. it is true that he only has a few cabinet officials confirmed. he has two, avril haines the director of national intelligence and lloyd austin who is the first black man to hold the position of defense secretary. he expects antony blinken to be confirmed today and alejandro ma mayorkis as head of the montgomery county. covid is his priority. he talked about immigration. he put plans on racial justice, criminal justice. the other thing to know is all of this is happening, joe biden pushing his agenda and plans as that impeachment trial is looming and the biden administration doesn't want to talk about how they think president trump, the former president, should held accountable for his role in the january 6 capitol attack. instead, they're saying leave that up to the congress. but they are doing something interesting which is they're overhauling, for the most part, the way that this country deals with domestic terrorism. today as we laid

i'm thinking -- i'm wondering what is it that joe biden is inheriting here? as he steps into the presidency next wednesday? >> our newshour friend mike wrote george w. bush's inauguration speech in 2001 and that was a bitterly battled election in 2000. mike said i look back on that speech and it seems so naive now so it's a bitterly divided country but the first thing joe biden needs to do is need to show physically, materially, he cares about people who think he depieses. so he has this $1.9 trillion covid relief. it's got unemployment insurance, a $2,000 check. a child care tax credit. all these physical manifestations of government saying this is a hard time, i care about you, i'm helping you. i think if those programs went out to red america, they would see that joe biden is not the doom of america but there's actually someone who can help you and i do think that's the beginning of turning around -- they're not going to listen, attach to reality until they care that somebody cares and see and hears them. and has to be done physically, not just with words.

biden. >> not the way joe biden has performed, i couldn't vote for joe biden. the failure in av ban stand, 6 percent inflation. you know, failures on crime. all of these things that have happened so far. and huge, enormous spending. you know, we can go through a whole list, judy. i don't think that is really productive. but the fact of the matter is that elections are choices. and in 2024 i will make whatever choice is available to me and i will choose, but i will certainly not going to predict that in 2021, that is just a trap people like to give you and play polt particulars with it. >> governor crist chris-- chris cristie, thank you very much, the bo is republican rescue saving the party from truth de niers, conspiracy theorists and the dangerous policies of joe biden. governor, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me, judy, appreciate it. >> woodruff: last week started with a major bipartisan victory and ended with inflamed political divisions on issues like race and gun control. amna nawaz brings us analysis on what to expect this week. >> nawaz: judy

joe biden. judy: the questiontis, how long-l is this split going to be? it is such an interesting divide to see conservative republicans divided over this. tamara: i am not convinced that this rift over the future of the republican party or what it stands for, i am not this gets resolved before there is a 2024 nomin, especially with president trump at least on some level o danglin the idea that he could be a candidate. you have all the senators and governors, people who would be candidates in 2024, some are on different sides about what to do to this policy thing. justo be clear, there is no way this ends with donald trump being the next president of the united states. nthere ispath for this to succeed. which is why mitch mcconnell for instance did n want to go through the exercise. which is why someone like mitt romney is saying it is bad for democracy to have this public show r to continue se doubts. so, you had potential candidates fo 2024 on different sides of the debate and t ink you will see these people lining up on different sides o various debate

joe biden has to pass that legislation. we had a horrifying report on covid ten minutes ago, that was horrifying. so we need to solve that problem. we need to pass this piece of legislation, $1.9 trillion, a very complicated piece of legislation. i think it's got a lot of things a lot of republicans can support, a lot of things joe manchin from west virginia can support. so i think that bill can be supported and we can get $1.9 trillion out the door to the american people, but it's not going to be an easy lift. maybe in senate trail, a, takes up a lot of time, b, will stoke all the flames. the republican party will find it easy to go into opposition mode. i would love to think we can at least have a couple of month of action before they go into opposition mode and i'm afraid the trial will do that. >> woodruff: jonathan, what about that? is a trial necessary? >> yes, it is necessary, and this is my first time disagreeing with my friend david. it is necessary, for the reason i said before, because to have the message it woul

i think i can predict joe biden will not be thanking donald j. trump on january 20. >> sreenivasan: jeff greenfield, thanks so much. >> okay. >> sreenivasan: newshour will have live coverage of wednesday's inauguration of president joe biden and vice president kamala harris beginning at 10:30 a.m. eastern time. you can watch online or on your local pbs station. that's all for this edition of“ pbs newshour weekend.” for the latest news updates visit pbs.org/newshour. i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for watching. stay healthy and have a good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: sue and edgar wachenheim iii. the anderson family fund. bernard and denise schwartz. the cheryl and philip milstein family. barbara hope zuckerberg. the leonard and norma klorfine foundation. we try to live in the moment, to not miss what's right in front of us. at mutual of america, we believe taking care of tomorrow can help you make the most of today. mutual of america fin

econom damage, those are the two immediate challenges for joe biden. but nothing is greater than he has to move as quickly as pos.ble to do what is possib there isn't a lot he can do, but he has to do what he can to bring us back together to identify those things that unite us, work on those things. listen to the opposition. people who didn't vote fohim and hope we can pull ourselves together is a tremendous challenge for him and for the country. >> senivasan: and one of your recent tweets, you said, we must cultivate hope while demanding justice. how do we do that? in coming days about to find out administering justice, first of all, i do thinwe have to keep our hopes alive and realize that we are a very resilient people. we can do this. we can do this, but we've got to get ourselves together to do it. and at the sa time, we can't st brush over what has happened, for example, at the capitol. that'sust one example, perhaps the worst example. and we do have to demand justice, etr that's the passing of new arhmcles of impet against president trump or mov

it is joe biden. and don't start talking like a republican about asking whether or not is he president. >> you think joe manchin say problem. >> and it is joe biden, and i'm vice president and my name is kamala harris. >> so you see there, really, the vice president getting very, very testy and very, very defensive of president biden. but it really gets to the bottomline which ask that only a couple, i would say monthses ago, president biden said during a cnn townhall when are you a president, you have a 50-50 senate every senator is senate so it it sums you up the president is in a tough spot. woodruff: so given all of this, lisa, for democrats, what now? >> well, there is a lot of hopefulness today that there wasn't there yesterday. let me go through really quickly what's going to happen now. as we reported senator schumer has a plan, he's going to bring build back better before the full senate t is expected to fail as it stands right now but he plans to do that early next year. he will keep trying,

joe biden has a lot of tasks before him. figuring out how to put that back together seems to be high on the list. judy: looking back and ahead, thank you. peter: thanks for having me. ♪ judy: day's events at the nation's capitol concluded with a ceremony to recognize the human toll of the pandemic. president-elect biden and vice president-elect harris spoke at the national mall to honor the lives lost from the pandemic. it featured music, remarks and lights around the reflecting poolth ae >> twilight hou ar,ist th our beloved nation reverently pauses in supplication to remember and pray for the many thousands of people who have died from the coronavirus during this past year. we pray for those who have died and the families and loved ones they have left behind. may it be a resounding gesture of gratitude for all those who have cared v t fmsiche otif tthheir loved ones. our sorrow unites us to one another as a single people with compassionate hearts. >> though we may be physically separated, we the american people are unite

>> not the way biden has performed, i could not vote for joe biden. the failure in afghanistan. 6% inflation. failures on crime. all of these things that have happened so far. huge, enormous spending. we could go through a whole list. i don't think that is really productive, but the fact of the matter is elections or choices and in 2024, i will make whatever choices available to me , but i'm certainly not going to predict that in 2021 and that is a trap people like to give you an play politics with. judy: governor chris christie, thank you very much. the book is "republican rescue." governor, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me, judy. appreciate it. judy: last week started with a major bipartisan victory and ended with inflamed political divisions on issues like race and gun control. amna nawaz brings us analysis on what to expect this week. amna: that's right. major advancements for the biden agenda on covid and the economy were almost eclipsed by a controversial verdict in wisconsin on friday. where does that put the president and his white h

a couple of those, pennsylvania and georgia, that wld be enough to undo joe biden's eltoral majority. >> the point is, is that joe biden got more thanenough electoral votes, and that is what will pre kil. and w that these people who we know are running for president in 2024-- josh hawley and ted cruz-- have garnered a lot of attention. another but look a the comments from other republican leaders, from mitt romney, who is the party candidate for president. fr ben sasse. from people like susan collins and lisa merkoswki, and john thune, who is the majority whip. so remember th. and we know this is high stakes. and, by the way, i just note georgia or people who know in people in georgia, you have about 20 minutes left, a little more tat, to get to the polls. if you are in line by 7:00, you can still vote. so we know what is at stake but tomorrow, this isn't just going to be a partisan fight. this is going to fe aht between those who are standing up for democracy and those who are literally seeking to undermine the votes of the people of this country. >> woodruff: president trump is sayi

i certainly believe that, when joe biden says he wants to bring this country together, that he means it. the issue becomes that there is

anne applebaum: so, the instinct of the many millions who voted for joe biden is to say, why don't they try and adjust to us? why don't why don't their news stations send reporters to interview yoga instructors in brooklyn and ask them why they voted for joe biden? why don't they send people to interview black women in atlanta and ask them, why did they vote for joe biden? so, why don't they try to understand us? but if they don't try to understand us, they nevertheless, as i say, remain our problem. and so, therefore, we will have to find a way to reach out to them, a way to include them in some kind of conversation, even if only with the aim of avoiding further violence. you know, the feeling that they are excluded, that the state has been taken over by people who are alien to them, whose values are alien, that there is nothing they can do, that there is no path left to them except violence is the instinct that caused the insurrection at the capitol on january the 6th. so, finding some path for people like that to feel part of a national conversation of any kind about anything is real

so the 35,000-foot level, and shows that joe biden, it's the last line in the column, joe biden hasn't changed, it's just that he's gone bigger. the price tags on these things that he's pushing have gone bigger than what he pushed for when he was in the gnat for 36 years. the polls is is that he championed when he was vice president with -- yes, with president obama, so i don't know if it's right to call president biden incmentalist. i think he is incrementalist when it suits his purposes to get something doneright away but i think when you look at everything he's trying to do, he's going big, and he's going big because the problems facing the country are large but, as, he views it through the international prism, which i think david puts in his column because of his time on the senate foreign relations committee, that the problems that america is facing, they are impacting not just america at home but america's standing abroad. >> nawaz: for anyone wondering why david brooks isn't weighing in on his own column, we just lost his connection. we'll try to bring them back into the convers

truth is that president elect joe biden won the election, president trump lost. i've had that experience myself, it's no fun. . >>> attorney general state election officials both republican and democrat reached that unequivocal decision. in light of today's circumstances i asked my colleague do weigh our own political fortun more heavily than the strength of our republicanic, the strength of dmrokz and freedom. what's the weight of personal acclaim compared to the weight of conscience, mcconnell said to the votay was the mischiefost important in his 36 years of service. he said that as th vote revealed not sometng about the election it's because the vote reveals something about us. i urge my coleagues to move forward with completing the electoral count to rfrain from e fuobjections and to unanimously affirm the legitimacy of the presidential elu,tion. thank r. president. >> judy woodruff: senator romney who has been on of the very first republicans to renounce what president trump insisting the election was rigged and that he was robbed of the election that he ac

it is what joe biden wants it's , what the american people expect. and i think it is what will make us stronger on the world stage, if we're able to move forward with bipartisan legislation across a wide range of areas. judy: senator chris coons of delaware, we thank you. sen. coons: thank you, judy. ♪ >> in the day's other news, the u.s. house of representatives opened a drive for the first major gun control measures in 20 years. democrats passed bills calling for background checks on all gun sales and an expanded ten-day review preiod. -- period. similar bills died when republicans had control, but they will hold votes. >> hr8 will be on the floor of the senate and we will see where everybody stands. no more hopes and prayers, thoughts and prayers. a vote is what we need, a vote, not thoughts and prayers. >> the senate is split 50-50 between the two parties and the gun control bills would need 60 votes to pass. the people of japan marked 100 years since the nuclear meltdown in fukushima. the country fell silent, marking the moment the earthquake

biden, it is the last line in the column, joe biden has not changed, it is just that he's gone bigger. the price tag is gone bigger than what he pushed for when he was in the senate for 36 years, the policies that he champions when he was vice president with president obama, so i don't know if it is right to call president biden incrementalist. i think he is incrementalist when it suits his purposes to get something done right away. but he is going big and he is going big because the problems facing the country are large, but also, he views it through the international prism, which i think david puts in his column because of his time on the senate foreign relations committee, that the problems that america is cing, they are impacting not just america at home, but america standing abroad. amna: for anybody wondering why david brooks is not to weighing in on his own column, we just lost connection with them and we are trying to bring him back. i want to talk about this vote on the potential commission to look into the january 6 capitol attack. there was also that came before the house,

that prompted racial epithets, one woman yelled, you hear that, this [beep] voted for joe biden. people in the crowd screamed to brew. -- boo. nobody had ever called me a [beep] while wearing a uniform. >> the writers called me traitor, a disgrace, and shouted that i, an army veteran and police officer, should be executed. but for the first time, i was more afraid to work at the capital that my entire deployment to iraq. >> they warned us of capital needs to be fortified. >> one of the scariest things about january 6 is the people there, to this day think that they were right. they think that they were right and that makes for a scary recipe for the future of this country. >> all expressed frustration and even anger at members of congss who have questioned the seriousness of the day. >> i feel like i went to hell and back to protect them and the people in this room, but too many are now telling me that hell doesn't exist or that hell, actually wasn't that bad. >> i need you guys to address if anyone in power had a role in this. if anyone in power coordinated, or aided or abetted,

but, senator da, even if joe biden tries to work with still going to haumably you're president trump out there, the advocating for something else and still insisting the election was stolen. >> well, that's right, judy. i think they're going to have a decision they're going to have to make. the republican par look likedoes going forward? it could be the party of a tren lou know, a constructive party with conservative values that has an important role to play in this country, or ith could bee destructive approach that president trump has reflected now for four years. that's going to be a choice every republican has to make. how e we defe party going forward? i'm just hopeful there are ough people that wilfollow the model that trent has so exemplified in all of his public life and take that approach. this is a critil moment. they've got a decision to make, and i would hope they put their country first. >> woodruff: andenator lott, very quickly, you thi the big divide in the republican party can be healed?>> ell, it can be, and i know right now people are angry and upset and a lot of ac

president joe biden called gun violence in the u.s. a“ international embarrassment” when he announced new executive orders ten days ago. if we accept the gun violence archive projt's definition of a mass shooting as one that kills or injures at least four people, here's what has happened in just the past four days: on thursday there were mass shootings in illinois, florida, washington, d.c., and indiana. on friday in michigan. yesterday in ohio, and early today in wisconsin. at a bar in kenosha, wisconsin, early this morning, three people were shot and killed and two were seriously wounded. as of this afternoon, the suspect remained at large, but authorities said it appears to be a “targeted and isolated incident.” the kenosha shooting is one of 150 mass shootings so far this year, according to the gun violence archive. today, after talking about the covid pandemic, dr, anthony fauci was asked if mass shootings are also a public health emergency. >> myself, as a public health person, i think you can't run away from that. when y

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joe biden has to do the same thing. he must respect the deal. >> reporter: that deal promises every last american and nato soldier will be out of afghanistan by may 1st, in exchange for the taliban agreeing to break ties with al qaeda and negotiate a peace deal with the kabul government, led by president ashraf ghani. in reality, they have been peace talks only in name, with the taliban increasing its attacks on government forces since signing with trump's team one year ago. these men don't seem to be taking those negotiations seriously. >> ( translated ): we all know ashraf ghani and his whole government were brought here by the americans and they follow the orders of the americans. after the americans leave they cannot do anything, they cannot carry on. our leaders have already said there will be no more fighting, and they will bring in an islamic system of government. >> reporter: the taliban insist on calling any future government of afghanistan, the islamic emirate, the same name as the rÉgime they led here in the

using a lot of language tht joe biden use deas, hamiltonian nationalist language. i think the whig party did a lot of good for this country and that's why i have faith in what biden is doing. >> woodruff: jonathan. >> capehart: judy i think the first wheuj days have been a success, the next 50 to 100 days could be a second. but whether the rest of the term is a success really depends on the republicans and how much they want to actually work with president biden to actually solve problems. there's too much of a competition mindset here in washington that, to do something to allow president biden to actually sign legislation into law is a victory for him and a loss for us. meaning republicans. as opposed to a victory for the country. the other thing is, what will determine whether president biden is a success is whether republicans decide to come to the table with real ideas. actual ideas that they can debate and discuss with the president, and compromise with the president to actually get something done. >> woodruff: zero sum game or something where the o sides can

>> greenfield: joe biden came to the presidency with two arguments. i can make the government work in this age of polarization, and i can deliver programs that will make life better for poor and middle class people. that's the essence of what i, joe biden, think the democratic party is.bohis session awith nothing, the implications for the midterms next year are enormous. but it ought to be said that because the democrats know this, we should not assume that this dumpster fire, whatever anogy you like, is the end of the story. they've got a month to negotiate this and the fear of a midterm disaster and the fear of a resurgent trump possible new presidency is probably going to be the greatest impetus to get these democrats to figure out what the compromise is. all right. it won't be three and a half trillion. maybe it'll be two trillion. maybe we can expand child care as much as we want, but we'll expand it as much as the political realitiewill let us. that's what's at stake in the coming weeks. >> sreenivasan: jeff greenfield joining us from santa barb

he doesn't mention president-elect joe biden becoming the next president. he also doesn't mention impeachment. people that i have talked to say this is really too little, too late. one person i talked to, a former trump campaign adviser, said that he was harassed at an airport for telling someone that vice president pence did the right thing by not pulling back on the election count. that person said that this is really too little, too late, because there are millions of americans whose minds are poisoned by the idea, the false idea, that the election was stolen, judy. >> sreenivasan: and no acknowledgment of any role in what happened, yamiche. is that right? >> reporter: no. no acknowledgment. he doesn't take any responsibility or express any sort of regret or saying that he is sorry to the american people, despite all that we have experienced. >> woodruff: yamiche alcindor, thank you very much. and... on the newshour online right now, a hand full of on the newshour online right now, a handful of republicans voted tompeach the president, and we've collecte

specifically the approval ratings of joe biden. if you go back and you think about where democrats were, where the white house was not that long ago, in early june, the assumption was covert is going to be gone, the economy is gog to be good, i'm going to keep my approval ratings in the 50's, we have this legislation moving its way down the tracks, this is going to be great, i will bring my momentum to the legislation. except part one did not turn out so well. covid has not gone away. optimism is down. pessimism is up. then there w afghanistan. the president is not bringing momentum into this process. he needs his own party to give him momentum. it's a very different environment than they thought they were getting. judy: the party also needs this. the democrats are connected to the president. what is driving this? >> the margins are incredibly narrow and at this point, there hasn't been, though this week we will get a taste of it, there hasn't been anything to force people to move off their positions. there hasn't been a heated neg

it's part of who joe biden has always been and how he hopes to bring us together. but frankly the support that this bill is so supported by the american people on a strong bipartisan basis i any shows that he is making progress on things that are a priority for the american people, even if on this first big bill he wasn't able to get any republicans to come across the aisle and join him in the capitol. >> woodruff: senator, finally very quickly because i know you talk to republicans probably more than most other democrats do. do you get the sense that there will be republicansupport for the infrastructure bill, or for the bill with regard to racial justice coming along? >> i literally had a conversation on the floor of the senate this afternoon. on one of the most senior and central republicans for infrastructure. who was asking me whether i think there will be time for us to work together on some bipartisan initiatives around infrastructure. and i'm optimistic that there will be. i spoke with another republican last night about a bipartisan effort that senator sch

but in this circumstance, i responded: "well, i voted for joe biden. does my vote not count? am i nobody?" that prompted a torrent of racial epithets. one woman in a pink maga shirt yelled, “you hear that, guys? this ( bleep ) voted for joe biden." and the crowd, perhaps 20 people, joined in screaming,“ boooo! ( bleep ) ( bleep )!” no one had ever, ever called me a ( bleep ) while wearing the uniform of a capitol police officer. >> desjardins: each has been trying to understand. sergeant aquilano gonnell of the capitol police: >> the rioters called me a traitor, a disgrace, and shouted that i--i, an army veteran and police officer, should be executed. on january 6th, for the first time, i was more afraid to work at the capitol than in my entire deployment to iraq. >> desjardins: the officers said their experience tells them the same danger still exists, and the capitol needs to be better fortified. >> one of the scariest things about january 6th is that the people that were there, even to this day, think that they were right. they think that they were right and that mak

joe biden, right before the pandemic hit, we had the best economy that we've had certainly in my lifetime as a result of republican tax cuts, regulatory relief, u.s. energy dominance as opposed to right now where joe biden is goingo hat in hand to saudi arabia and russia saying please produce more oil because i've shut it off in the united states and prices are going up and my poll numbers are going own. >> woodruff: senator john barrasso, wyoming, thank you, senator. >> thank you, judy. >> woodruff: over the past two decades, tens of thousands of afghans rose to the occasion and took jobs in the public sector to help their country and their livelihoods. now that the u.s. has pulled out, many say they feel abandoned. one particular group who say they feel let down and now appear to be targeted by the taliban is former police women. we have this report by lindsey hilsum of independent television news. >> reporr: all over this city women are in hiding, concealed behind dark windows and walls. th did what western countries wanted: worked for government, aid agencies, the security sector. the

>> president joe biden is the right man for this moment vice president kamala harris is reflective of so much progress that we've made. and i think as a team, they are going to lead a renewal of our democracy. but we cannot forget that the very people who attempted to overthrow our government just aç few weeks ago, that they're still out there. and, unfortunately, some of their sympathizers remain in the state-- in the-- in our congressional legislative body, but as well, in our state legislative bodies. so our work has to be to leverage this extraordinary opportunity for good leadership to ensure that both in d.c. and in our state legislatures that we do not see■ç a rescission of the advances we've beenable to make in voting rights and voting access. >> woodruff: and how much difference do you think the work of your organization, "fair fight," and others like it did, to make a difference in the fact that joe biden and kamala harris were time win? >> we believe that the work fighting against voter suppression, not only in georgia, but in places like wisconsin and pennsylvania and

david joe biden ran on : bipartisanship and unity. he had a chance when the 10 republicans put forth their $618 billion proposal to say, ok, let's try for a week. i'm not going to give you more than a week. we will see if we can get you over $1 trillion. the republicans have already voted for roughly $4 trillion in aid. i think they could ha gotten a fifth. aside from joe biden, i don't think there's any taste for bipartisansh in the democratic party, sometimes with justified reason. they just lived through the horror of the trump presidency. they just lived through january 6. they don't have much respect or trust for the republican party. and so they don't want to do bipartisanship. i think those 10 republicans do. there are another 10 or 15 in the senate who would prefer it. they're not going to go as big as biden wants to go, but i think they would like it. but you can't tell people to trust people they don't trust. trust takes time and it is not there for bipartisanship in this congress. the evidence of this week is, we are not go

. >> we began the journey 4 years ago, and the journey is far from >> sreenivasan: president joe biden is spending two nights at his home in wilmington, delaware this weekend. he had no public events today, but did go to church this morning. for the latest national and international news, visit pbs.org/newshour. >> sreenivasan: as investigations into the january 6 insurrection at the capitol continue, we're learning more about how misinformation, lies and conspiracyheories online helped to incite the violence. an investigation by the associated press delved into the public and private social media accounts of nearly 1,000 elected and appointed republican officials at the state and local level nationwide. many had voiced support for the insurrection, demanding that the 2020 presidential election be overturned. i recently spoke with garance burke, global investigative journalist for the associated press, out their investigation. >> and so, what we did is, we reviewed the archive of the right wing aligned social media network parler, and got a sense of exactly the kinds of lies and misinf

. >> sreenivasan: president joe biden will be in glasgow tomorrow. this afternoon he took questions from reporters. cop 26, the subsidization of coal. we made commitments here from across the board all of us, in terms of what we're going to bring to the g-26 and i think, you know, as an old saying goes, the proof of the putting will be in eating. we've made significant progress. >> sreenivasan: for more on what was accomplished on climate issues at the g20 and what's ahead at the u.n. conference, i spoke with somini sengupta, international climate reporter glasgow today.rk times," who is so, somini, what does it mean if the leaders of the g-20 say they are working towards this kind of 1.5-degree target, even though we kind of know we're past that the way that we're polluting today? >> it's an admission by the 20 biggest economies that the science points us to 1.5 degrees. as you point out, their own climate targets, they are what are called nationally determined contributions under the paris agreement, taken together, all countries around the world t

biden's win. rep. kinzinger: it is one thing to be concerned about voter issues, it is another what is being said by these folks. every video put out, it debunked all these conspiracy theories. it is imperative and essential for the future of the republic and the republican party we tell the truth. we take the tough position and do not avoid the temporary pain of telling people what they want to hear, and avoid the long term pain of things like insurrection. does impeachment feel rushed? sure. the president only has seven days left. the bottom line is, this is the right move. i think for every day that goes by, there'll be more to push ahead to. judy: congressman adam kinzinger of illinois, who cast a very big vote today. thank you for joining us. ♪ judy: i am joined by a democratic congressman from the state of texas, joaquin castro, one of the managers of this impeachment proceeding. welcome back to the newshour. we appreciate you joining us. you voted yes, along with every ever -- other democ

., as president joe biden gets started on his agenda. senate majority leader chuck schumer outlined a three-week schedule that starts with the house of representatives sending the article of impeachment of former president donald trump to the senate tomorrow, with the trial set to begin on february 8. >> everyone wants to put this awful chapter of american history behind us, but sweeping it under the rug will not bring healing. the only way to bring healing is to actually have real accountability, which this trial >> sreenivasan: earlier in the day, utah senator mitt romney indicated that he believes former president trump's role in the january 6 capitol attack warrants conviction by the senate. >> i believe that what is being alleged d what we saw which is incitement to insurrection is an impeachable offense. if not, what is? >> sreenivasan: preparations for the trial will be happening as president biden works to pass a $1.9-trillion covid-relief package. the legislation is widely supported within the democratically controlled house and

from their results, they suggested joe biden actually increased his vote totals through their audit than what was found on election day. but the fact that it confirmed the results should not be any solace to those that worry about the lack of confidence that this process has engendered among the mass public. william: as you say, if this were just arizona, we might be able to put this behind us, but this is going on in multiple other states. nate: this is now a playbook for other states. if you are a disgruntled politician or trying to make a name for yourself, whether it's in pennsylvania or other states, georgia, this is the pathway they have chosen. recounts and audits are part of the process. we want to encourage that a month or so after the election. but a year after an election, all this is trying to dois undermine confidence in the result. william: it sounds like on some level that perpetual argument is having an effect. there was a monmouth university poll that showed 1/3 of americans believed president biden was elected only because of fraud and that donald trump should have prop

president joe biden, who projected himself as a centrist elder statesman to unite the country after a period of destructive polarization. do you see yourself in that role? >> i was very humbled when i saw joe biden's statement about the amount of money he's going to invest to help the poor people in the u.s., so i was very happy with biden's speech, very hpy with his announcement, happy that his representatives came to discuss with the brazilian people, so sincerely, i believe biden is doing a good job f the u.s. i believe he has to open a little bit more towards latin amica and south america because u.s. presidents forget about latin america. in the past, they were much more concerned with russia, and then they were much more concerned with the terrorists, and now they are much more concerned with china. it is necessary to remind that there are much more people than china in the world and there's a lot more people that are not terrorists. the u.s. has to learn that good international policy is built on the basis of partnership. the u.s. has to be a partner of their allies to help. ec