PBS NewsHour; Thursday, August 18, 2022, 3:00pm-4:00pm PDT

♪ JUDY: GOOD EVENING. I'M JUDY WOODRUFF. ON THE NEWSHOUR TONIGHT, UNDER INVESTIGATION. THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION'S CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER PLEADS GUILTY TO TAX FRAUD AS OTHER LEGAL CASES ROUND THE FORMAL PRESIDENT. AND THE INVASIONS IMPACT. GRAINED SHIPMENTS SLOWLY INCREASE OUT OF UKRAINE POTENTIALLY ALLEVIATING HIGH GLOBAL FOOD PRICES. AND A HELP WANTED. DESPITE AN INFLUX OF FEDERAL FUNDING, MERRICK AND CITIES CANNOT FIND ENOUGH WORKERS LEAVING MANY ESSENTIAL JOBS UNFILLED. >> YOU HAVE TO SUPPORT YOUR FAMILY. THE RISING COST OF EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW. TO DO THE SAME JOB IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND GET PAID MORE, IT IS THAT DECISION. JUDY: ALL OF THAT IN MORE ON

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INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY AT CARNEGIE.ORG. AND WITH THE ONGOING SUPPORT OF THESE INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> THIS PROGRAM WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING AND BY CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUR PBS STATION FROM VIEWERS LIKE YOU. THANK YOU. JUDY: THERE IS NEW TROUBLE TONIGHT FOR FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S BUSINESS EMPIRE. ALLEN WEISSELBERG, THE LONGTIME CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER OF THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION PLEADED GUILTY TO 15 CHARGES INVOLVING TAX FRAUD. HE SAID NOTHING AFTER TODAY'S HEARING IN NEW YORK BUT HIS PLEA

DEAL REQUIRES HIM TO TESTIFY AT THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION'S OWN TRIAL IN OCTOBER. HE WILL BE SENTENCED LATER. A FEDERAL MAGISTRATE IN FLORIDA SAYS HE IS INCLINED TO RELEASE SOME OF THE AFFIDAVIT BEHIND THE SEARCH OF THE TRUMP ESTATE AT MAR-A-LAGO. TODAY HE GAVE THE U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT A WEEK TO DECIDE WHICH SECTIONS IT WANTED TO KEEP SECRET. THE SEARCH TURNED UP CLASSIFIED WHITE HOUSE MATERIAL. WE WILL RETURN TO THE TRUMP INVESTIGATION AFTER THE SUMMARY. THE U.N. CALLED FOR DEMILITARIZED THE AREA AROUND EUROPE'S LARGEST NUCLEAR PLANT APPEARED KEY AVENUE AND MOSCOW BLAME EACH OTHER FOR SHELLING AT A NUCLEAR PLANT IN AN AREA NOW CONTROLLED I RUSH OUT. THE U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL MET WITH PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY IN WESTERN UKRAINE BUT RUSSIA HAS ALREADY REFUSED TO WITHDRAW FROM THE NUCLEAR SITE. >> HE HAVE HAS REPEATEDLY DEMONSTRATED ITS ABILITY TO SHOW PROVOCATIONS.

THIS IS THE SAME REASON WHY THE PROPOSALS TO DEMILITARIZED THE ZONE AROUND THE NUCLEAR PLANT ARE UNACCEPTABLE. JUDY: THE RUSSIANS DID NOT SAY IF THEY WOULD ALLOW INTERNATIONAL INSPECTORS INTO THE PLANT. TODAY'S TALKS ALSO INCLUDED THE PRESIDENT OF TURKEY AND FOCUSED ON GREEN SHIPMENTS STALLED DUE TO THE WORD. WE WILL RETURN TO THAT STORY. THE DEATH TOLL IN AFGHANISTAN HAS REACHED AT LEAST 21 AFTER A MOSQUE IN KABUL WAS BOMBED LAST NIGHT. TALIBAN SECURITY FORCES CORDONED OFF THE MOSQUE TODAY. THE EXPLOSION KILLED A PROMINENT CLERIC AMONG OTHERS AND WOUNDED DOZENS MORE. THERE HAS BEEN NO CLAIM OF RESPONSIBILI. I CAN THIS COUNTRY, THE MAN ACCUSED OF HAVING SALMAN RUSHDIE WAS DENIED BAIL IN WESTERN NEW YORK STATE TODAY. HE APPEARED IN COURT AFTER A GRAND JURY INDICTED HIM. HE PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO ATTACKING THE AUTHOR AT A LITERARY EVENT THIS MONTH. SALMAN RUSHDIE REMAINS HOSPITALIZED IN PENNSYLVANIA.

CLEVELAND BROWNS QUARTERBACK DESHAUN WATSON HAS AGREED TO AN 11 GAME SUSPENSION AND A $5 MILLION FINE FOR ALLEGED SEXUAL MISCONDUCT. THE NFL ANNOUNCED IT TODAY. TWO DOZEN WOMEN HAD ACCUSED WATSON OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND HARASSMENT WHEN HE PLAYED FOR THE HOUSTON TEXANS. TWO GRAND JURIES DECLINED TO INDICT HIM AND HE INSISTED THAT HE WAS INNOCENT. >> JUST BECAUSE SETTLEMENTS HAPPENED DOES NOT MEAN A PERSON IS GUILTY FOR ANYTHING. I FEEL LIKE A PERSON HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO STAND ON HIS INNOCENCE. WE PROVED THAT ON THE LEGAL SIDE. JUDY: WATSON RECENTLY SETTLED 23 OF 24 LAWSUITS INVOLVING THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM. U.S. HEALTH OFFICIALS ANNOUNCED TODAY THEY ARE SETTING IDE ANOTHER 50,000 DOSES OF MONKEYPOX VACCINE FOR GAY PRIDE EVENTS. THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 13,000 CASES REPORTED IN THE U.S. SO FAR.

NEARLY ALL OF THEM INVOLVING SEX BETWEEN MEN. THE EXTRA VACCINE WILL GO TO AT LEAST A DOZEN EVENTS SCHEDULED IN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS. ON WALL STREET, STOCKS MANAGED SMALL GAINS IN CHOPPY TRADING TODAY. THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE WAS UP 18 POINTS. THE NASDAQ ROSE 27 POINTS. THE S&P 500 ADDED NINE. FORMER FIRST LADY ROSALYNN CARTER LIBERATED HER 95TH BIRTHDAY TODAY. -- CELEBRATED HER 95TH BIRTHDAY TODAY. MISS IS CARTER'S HUSBAND, JIMMY, IS THE OLDEST LIVING PRESIDENT. HE WIL TURN 98 ON OCTOBER 1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MISSES CARTER. STILL TO COME, OR MOP PREPARES TO ALEXIS -- ELECT ITS FIRST FEMALE REPRESENTATIVE TO CONGRESS. DEMOCRACY ADVOCATES RAISE THE ALARM. SINGER BONNIE RATE DISCUSSES HER NEW ALBUM AND DYNAMIC CAREER PLUS MUCH MORE.

>> THIS IS THE PBS "NEWSHOUR" FROM WETA STUDIOS IN WASHINGTON AND IN THE WEST FROM THE WALTER CRONKITE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA. JUDY: AS WE REPORTED, FORMER TRUMP ORGANIZATION'S CFO PLEADED GUILTY TODAY TO TAX FRAUD AND AS PART OF THE PLEA DEAL HE IS EXPECTED TO TESTIFY AGAINST THE COMPANY LATER THIS YEAR. TO DISCUSS WHAT THIS MEANS FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT I AM JOINED BY ANDREA BERNSTEIN WHO COVERS DONALD TRUMP'S LEGAL ISSUES FOR NPR. WELCOME BACK TO THE "NEWSHOUR." WE KNOW THE FORMER PRESIDENT HIMSELF IS NOT CHARGED BUT HOW UNUSUAL IS IT FOR THE COMPANY OF A FORMER PRESIDENT TO BE INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL CHARGES LIKE THIS? REPORTER: I THINK THIS IS THE ONLY TIME IT IS EVER HAPPENED. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A POST-PRESIDENCY LIKE TRUMP'S.

WHAT WAS SO EXTRAORDINARY ABOUT THE PLEA DEAL WAS HERE YOU HAD A MAN WHO WAS SORT OF THE CLOSEST THING YOU COULD COME TO A PHYSICAL EMBODIMENT OF DONALD TRUMP'S BUSINESS SAYING, YES, YOUR HONOR, I COMMITTED THESE CRIMES 15 TIMES. JUDY: AND WHAT EXACTLY, REMIND US OF WHAT EXACTLY DID HE PLEAD ILL D2? REPORTER: JUST OVER A YEAR AGO, THE MANHATTAN DISTRICTTTORNEY CHARGED HIM WITH 15 FELONIES. THE SCHEME WHICH LASTED OVER 15 YEARS WAS FOR HIM TO LIE ABOUT HIS INCOME AND SAY IT WAS LOWER THAN IT WAS BY TAKING HIS INCOME IN THINGS LIKE A LUXURY APARTMENT, MERCEDES-BENZS FOR HE AND HIS WIFE AND PRIVATE SCHOOL TUITION FOR HIS CHILDREN AVOIDING TAXES ON MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. WHAT HE PLEADED GUILTY TO WAS EVERYTHING FROM SCHEME TO A FRAUD.

A SCHEME HE ADMITTED LASTED TODAY UNTIL -- FROM 2005 UNTIL 2021 DURING THE ENTIRE TIME WHEN HIS BOSS WAS PRESIDENT AND OF COURSE DONALD TRUMP NEVER DO VESTED FROHIS BUSINESS -- DIVESTED FROM HIS BUSINESS. JUDY: FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOT NAMED HERE BUT THIS TOTAL PLACE OVER 16 YEARS. IS IT CONCEIVABLE THE FORMER PRESIDENT DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON? REPORTER: WELL, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY, THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY WAS PREPARING AND INDICTMEN AGAINSTT -- AN INDICTMENT AGAINST MR. TRUMP HIMSELF. EVERYBODY I KNOW THAT HAS EVER WORKED FOR TRUMP AND WE SAW THIS IN THE JANUARY 6 HEARINGS, EVERYONE THAT WORKS FOR HIM MAKES IT CLEAR HE HAS A VERY SHARP EYE ON WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND HIM.

THAT SAID, HE WAS NOT CHARGED AND HIS COMPANY HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY AND THERE HAS BEEN NO EVIDENCE INTRODUCED OF HIS PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE EXCEPT THAT WE DID HERE TODAY IN ONE OF THE COUNTS THAT DONALD TRUMP PAID SOME OF THE BENEFITS COME OF THE PRIVATE SCHOOL TUITION FROM HIS OWN PERSONAL ACCOUNT AND KEPT A RECORD OF SOME OF THESE PAYMENTS AS TO WHETHER HE KNEW IT WAS ILLEGAL IS A QUESTION THAT REMAINS UNANSWERED AT THIS POINT. JUDY: HE SIGNED HIS NAME TO SOME OF THE CHECKS BUT IT IS NOT CLEAR THAT HE KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON. IS THAT IT? REPORTER: THAT IS RIGHT. AND LET US NOT LOSE THE SIGNIFICANCE THAT HIS BUSINESS, THE BUSINESS NAMED TRUMP IS CHARGED WITH A CRIME WHICH HAS NEVER HAPPENED IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. UNDER NEW YORK LAW, WHEN A TOP EXECUTIVE SAYS -- I COMMITTED A CRIME, IT IS A SHORT ROAD FROM THEY ARE TO CONVICTING THE COMPANY.

THE COMPANY HAS NOT PLEADED GUILTY AND THE COMPANY IS SLATED TO GO TO TRIAL IN OCTOBER BUT NOW WITH THE GUARANTEED TESTIMONY OF THE CFO WHO WILL SAY, IDEA FRAUD OF THE TAXPAYERS OF THE MONEY THEY DESERVED TO GET, SO I COULD BENEFIT, THERE IS NO CLEAR WAY PROSECUTORS THAT THE COMPANY CAN GET OUT OF THAT. JUDY: CAN YOU GIVE US A SENSE, DO WE KNOW THE QUESTIONS HE WILL BESKED THOSE OF FALL AT THE TRIAL? REPORTER: THERE IS NO INDICATION HE WILL SAY -- DONALD TRUMP KNEW ANY OF THESE THINGS THAT I DID. BUT WHAT HE HAS PROMISED TO DO UNDER PENALTY OF GETTING A MORE SEVERE SENTENCE IS TO ANSWER QUESTIONS TRUTHFULLY. THIS WILL BE A SENTENCE FOR -- THIS WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THE PUBLIC AND THE JURY TO SEE HOW THE SCHEME WORKED, WHICH OTHER EXECUTIVES WERE INVOLVED. THIS IS A VERY EMBARRASSING DETAILED LOOK AT A PRESIDENT THAT WAS SO SECRETIVE HE WENT TO

THE U.S. MARINE CORPS TWICE TO KEEP HIS PRESENCE -- U.S. SUPREME COURT TWICE TO KEEP AS RECORDS PRIVATE. THIS COULD BE VERY EMBARRASSING PARTICULARLY SINCE MR. TRUMP IS CONSIDERING ANOTHER RUN FOR PRESIDENT. JUDY: WHILE ALL OF THIS IS GOING ON IN NEW YORK, IN FLORIDA, HAVING TO DO WITH THE FBI SEARCH OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S ESTATE AT MAR-A-LAGO, A JUDGE RULED THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT NEEDS TO REDACT ANY LANGUAGE IT DOES NOT WANT MADE PUBLIC IN THE AFFIDAVIT THAT WAS USED SEEKING THE SEARCH WARRANT. HOW DOES THAT PLAY INTO ANY OTHER LEGAL WORRIES THE FORMER HAS? REPORTER: IT DOES SEEM LIKE IT IS A BIG WORRY. YOU HAVE U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATING YOU. THIS HAS MANY STEPS TO GO THROUGH.

THE JUDGE HAS ASKED THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO COME BACK. IT CAN BE APPEALED. WE SEE A PATTERN. THE PRESIDENT HIDING THINGS. THE PRESIDENT NOT REVEALING THINGS. AND A PRESIDENT BEING INVESTIGATED FROM EVERYTHING -- AND A PRESIDENT BEING INVESTIGATED FOR HIS COMPANY TO WHETHER HE MISHANDLED CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. THAT IS QUITE A ROSTER FOR A FORMER PRESIDENT. JUDY: ANDREA BERNSTEIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ♪ JUDY: WITH MOST OF THE NATION'S PRIMARY ELECTIONS BEHIND US NOW, WE ARE STARTING TO GET A CLEARER LOOK OF NOVEMBER RACES. THE ONLY STATE THAT HAS NEVER SENT A WOMAN TO CONGRESS IS POISED TO ELECT ITS FIRST. AS OUR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT EXPLAINS, THAT

EXPECTED MILESTONE COMES AS WOMEN STILL STRUGGLE TO BE ELECTED IN EQUAL NUMBERS AS MEN. REPORTER: TO DATE, 399 WOMEN HAVE WALKED THE HALLS OF POWER IN CONGRESS AS REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS AND THEY HAVE COME FROM 49 STATES. >> AND NOW, PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING MY WIFE. REPORTER: BECCA VALLEN IS POISED TO MAKE VERMONT THE 50TH STATE, THE LAST TO SEND A WOMAN TO CONGRESS AFTER SHE WON THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY THIS MONTH. >> IT IS SINKING IN LITTLE BY LITTLE. IT IS VERY EXCITING AND A LITTLE DAUNTING. BEING THE FIRST OF ANYTHING IS A CHALLENGE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO DO RIGHT BY EVERYBODY. YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU REPRESENT THE STATE WELL. REPORTER: WOMEN WIELD SUBSTANTIAL POWER IN VERMONT. ONE OF THE FIRST STATES TO ELECT A FEMALE GOVERNOR. THREE OF THE LAST FOUR STATES OF

HOUSE HAVE BEEN WOMEN. BUT EVEN AMONG SUPPORTERS, QUESTIONS SOMETIMES WENT PAST HER QUALIFICATIONS INTO FEAR OF PREJUDICE. >> THERE WAS A SENSE THAT MAYBE VERMONT IS NOT READY FOR A WOMAN IN THIS ROLE AND SECOND IS NOT READY FOR A GAY WOMAN. REPORTER: WHAT HAS TAKEN VERMONT SO LONG TO ELECT A CONGRESSWOMAN? MICHELLE TEACHES ABOUT WOMEN IN POLITICS AT GEORGETOWN WRITING SEVERAL BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT STAYING IN VERMONT AND ELSEWHERE IT IS A QUESTION OF OPPORTUNITY. >> SOME OF WHAT YOU SEE GOING ON IS THAT IT IS HARDER FOR WOMEN AS NON-INCUMBENTS RUNNING AS CHALLENGERS IN OPEN SEAT RACES TO GET ELECTED. REPORTER: VERMONT IS A SMALL STATE WITH A SMALL DELEGATION IN CONGRESS AND SEATS RARELY OPEN AND INCUMBENTS HAVE WON EVERY TIME THEY HAVE RUN SINCE 1990. THE STATES LOAN HOUSE SEAT INDIRECTLY OPENED UP AFTER SENATOR PATRICK LAHEY ANNOUNCED

HIS RETIREMENT AFTER NEARLY 50 YEARS. >> WHEN YOU ARE WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO RETIRE FOR THAT LONG, IT IS A PRETTY LONG WAIT TO GET INTO CONGRESS. REPORTER: WOMEN ACCOUNT FOR SLIGHTLY MORE THAN 50% OF THE U.S. POPULATION BUT ARE NOT EVEN 30% OF THE U.S. HOUSE AND EVEN LESS OF THE U.S. SENATE. WHY? THERE ARE SEVERAL FACTORS. >> THERE IS A LOT OF RESEARCH THAT SHOWS WOMEN NEED TO BE ASKED MORE AND THEY ARE MORE RELUCTANT TO THROW THEIR HAT INTO THE RING. REPORTER: THERE ARE FEWER OF THEM IN STATE AND LOCAL OFFICES THAT FEED CGRESSIONAL PRIMARIES AND BIG DONORS ARE LESS LIKELY TO WRITE THEM BIG CHECKS. >> FOR MANY PEOPLE IF THEY SEE A WOMAN'S NAME ON THE BALLOT, THAT PERSON WOULD HAVE TO CLEAR A MUCH HIGHER BAR THAN SOMEONE WITH A TRADITIONALLY MALE NAME. REPORTER: CHARLES ROBBINS RUNS STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR CHANGING SYSTEMS OF POWER AND HE SAYS GENDER BIAS CAN BE UNCONSCIOUS -- SUBCONSCIOUS AND

LEACH DOWN FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR MANY TO PICTURE A WOMAN IN CHARGE. >> THE PATRIARCHY AND THE MALE-DOMINATED SYSTEM HAS INFLUENCED EVERY PART OF OUR CULTURE, EVERY PART OF OUR SOCIETY AND NO PLACE IS THAT TRUE OR THEN IN GOVERNMENT AND IN POLITICS. REPORTER: THERE IS AN ADDITIONAL GENDER DIVIDE BETWEEN THE TWO BIGGEST PARTIES. IN THE HOUSE, JUST 16% OF REPUBLICANS ARE WOMEN BUT THE FIGURE IS 41% FOR HOUSE DEMOCRATS. JENNIFER CARROLL, REPUBLICAN AND FORMER LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA WANTS TO SEE CONSERVATIVES CHECK OUT. >> THE PARTY HAS NOT PUT A CONCERTED EFFORT IN TO SAY WE ARE GOING TO GO OUT AND RECRUIT VIABLE FEMALES TO RUN FOR OFFICE. THE DEMOCRATS HAVE. REPORTER: SHE IS A NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON FOR MAGGIE'S LIST. IT IS A POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE.

>> MR. CHAIRMAN -- REPORTER: SHE SAYS A LACK OF VOCABULARY IN THE -- IN THE GOP DOES NOT HELP. >> THE GUYS SAY I AM A STRONG GUY. REPORTER: IN 2020, REPUBLICAN WOMEN HAD THEIR BEST SHOWING EVER IN THE HOUSE AND HAVE MORE THAN DOUBLED THEIR PREVIOUS NUMBER FROM 15 TO 35. >> WE SELL WE NEEDED TO GET OUR CONSERVATIVE FEMALE CANDIDATES -- WE SAW WE NEEDE TO GET OUR CONSERVATIVE FEMALE CANDIDATES OVER THE LINE. REPORTER: THIS, ONE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER MONTANA ELECTED THE FIRST COUNTRIES -- AS VERMONT IS POISED FOR ITS FIRST. >> I HOPE I'M MAKING IT EASIER FOR THE NEXT PERSON TO COME UP. REPORTER: WOMEN'S GAINS IN CONGRESS ARE NOT MATCHED AT THE HIGHEST RUNS.

>> WHEN IT COMES TO GOVERNORS, PEOPLE SEEM TO TRUST WOMEN MORE AS LEGISLATORS. EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP IS HARDER. REPORTER: 19 STATES STILL HAVE NOT ELECTED A WOMAN AS GOVERNOR. NANCY PELOSI REMAINS THE ONLY WOMAN ELECTED TO THE LEADER OF EITHER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE -- CHAMBER OF CONGRESS. ♪ JUDY: THIS MIDTERM ELECTION CYCLE, CANDIDATES ARE VYING FOR A STATE OFFICE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR RUNNING AND CERTIFYING ELECTIONS. SEVERAL AMONG THESE CANDIDATES CONTINUED TO DENY THE RESULTS OF THE 2020 ELECTION. WE HAVE MORE ON WHAT IS AT STAKE. REPORTER: ELECTION DENIERS ARE WINNING REPUBLICAN PRIMARY RACES IN CRITICAL BATTLEGROUND STATES.

THEIR VICTORIES HAVE RAISED THE STAKES FOR THE NOVEMBER MIDTERMS AS A POWER OVERSEA ELECTIONS COULD BE GRANTED TO THE SAME PEOPLE WHO FALSELY CLAIM THE LAST ONE WAS FRAUDULENT. FOLLOWING ALL OF THIS CLOSELY IS AMY GARDNER FROM THE WASHINGTON POST. WELCOME BACK. YOU DID A DEEP DIVE INTO A NUMBER OF THINGS. LOOKING SPECIFICALLY AT SIX STATES THAT WERE KEY TO THE 2020 ELECTION INCLUDING ARIZONA, GEORGIA, MICHIGAN, NEVADA, PENNSYLVANIA AND WISCONSIN. YOU LOOKED AT THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEES FOR CERTAIN OFFICES. PEOPLE YOU CALL ELECTION DENIERS. WHICH OFFICES DID YOU ZERO IN ON? >> WE WANTED TO LOOK AT THE OFFICE THAT HAVE SAY-SO OVER ELECTION ADMINISTRATION AND CERTIFICATION. WE LOOK AT STATEWIDE OFFICES THAT HAVE THOSE POWERS. GOVERNORS WHO CERTIFY THE ELECTORS. TECRA TARRIES OF STATE -- SECRETARIES OF STATE IN MANY STATES.

AND FEDERAL OFFICE. THAT IS WHAT WE LOOKED AT. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THOSE SIX STATES IS THOSE WERE THE ONES THAT DONALD TRUMP CONTESTED AND THEY ALSO DECIDED THE OUTCOME FOR BIDEN. IF YOU LOOK AT THE RESULTS OF OUR SURVEY OF THESE OFFICES, YOU CAN SEE THAT IN JUST THREE OF THE SIX, ELECTION DENIERS WON WHO SAY THEY WOULD NOT OF CERTIFY THE RESULTS IN 2020. THOSE THREE STATES HAD TO ON ENOUGH ELECTORAL VOTES OR DID YOU HAVE DENIED JOE BIDEN 270 VOTES. THAT SHOWS YOU WHAT IS AT STAKE. WE HAVE A CONTESTED ELECTION IN -- IF WE HAD A CONTESTED ELECTION IN 2024. REPORTER: YOU MENTIONED SOME OF THESE FOLKS AND ONE OF THEM WAS THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN

GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE, KARI LAKE WHO SAID IF I WERE IN OFFICE IN 2020, I WOULD NOT HAVE CERTIFIED THE RESULTS. >> SHE HAS SAID THOSE THAT DID CERTIFY THE RESULT IN ARIZONA SHOULD BE IN PRISON. REPORTER: WHAT DO EXPERTS YOU TALK TO SAY ABOUT THIS? ASSUMING SHE WINS AND OF THE SAME THING HAPPENED IN 2024, WHAT PREVENTS SOMEONE LIKE KARI LAKE DISENFRANCHISING VOTERS? >> WE DON'T KNOW WHAT CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLARS OR ELECTION LAWYERS TOLD ME IS THAT CERTAINLY DEMOCRATS AND VOTING ADVOCACY GROUPS WOULD SUE IMMEDIATELY IF SOMEONE LIKE KARI LAKE DECLINED TO CERTIFY A POPULAR RESULT IN HER STATE BUT WOULD EVERY JUDGE IN THIS COUNTRY UPHOLD THAT NORM? NORMS ARE ONLY NORMS UNTIL THEY ARE BROKEN. A LOT OF EXPERTS I SPOKE TO SAY

THEY ARE ALARMED THE PROSPECTS OF FEWER GUARDRAILS BEING IN PLACE IN 2024 AND LOOK AT THE CHAOS WE HAD IN 2020. REPORTER: WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT PEOPLE ARE SUPPORTING -- CANDIDATES ARE REPEATING THE LIE. ANOTHER PART OF YOUR ANALYSIS WAS WHEN YOU LOOKED AT PEOPLE REPEATING THIS LIE WINNING COME ACROSS 41 STATES, OUT OF 469 CONTEST SO FAR, MORE THAN HALF REPUBLICAN WINNERS HAVE REPEATED THE ELECTION LIE OR ELECT -- OR ARE ELECTION DENIERS. THERE IS AN EXPECTATION THEY WILL FIGHT EVEN IF THE NEXT ELECTION IS DEFINITIVE, IS THERE AN EXPECTATION THEY WILL FIGHT? >> I THINK THAT THE ANSWER IS YES. I THINK DENYING THE 2020 ELECTION HAS BECOME A PRICE OF ADMISSION IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND IT HAS GONE BEYOND FEALTY TO TRUMP BUT IT IS GONE TO THE FEALTY TO THOSE FALSE

STATEMENTS. REPORTER: AND WE SHOULD ALSO SAY THIS IS NOT A HYPOTHETICAL. ALREADY, A NUMBER OF STATES, 19 SO FAR HAVE PASSED VOTING LAWS THAT CRITICS SAY RESTRICT VOTING JUSTIFIED IN PART BY THE ELECTION LAW. WHEN YOU TALKED REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS, WHAT DO THEY TELL YOU ABOUT WHY THEY ARE PUSHING THIS? >> I'VE SPOKEN TO A NUMBER OF ELECTION -- LAWMAKERS IN GEORGIA FOR EXAMPLE. THEY SAY, NOT FOR ATTRIBUTION BUT THEY ADMIT OFF THE RECORD THAT THEY HAD TO THROW THIS BONE TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN AND THEY HAD TO DO SOMETHING TO SHOW THEY WERE SUPPORTIVE OF THAT. IT IS A SOLUTION IN SEARCH OF A PROBLEM. REPORTER: WHAT DOES THIS TELL YOU ABOUT THE POTENCY OF DENYING ELECTIONS IN THE REPUBLICAN

PARTY? >> IT IS EVERYWHERE. RON DESANTIS ANNOUNCED THE PROSECUTION OF 20 PEOPLE WHO ALLEGEDLY VOTED FRAUDULENTLY IN THAT STATE AND IT WAS A HUGE TELEVISED PRESS CONFERENCE. HE HAS COMING TO PENNSYLVANIA TOMORROW TO CAMPAIGN WITH DOUG MASTERY ON A -- DOUG MASTRIANO, ANOTHER ELECTION DENIER. GOING TO PENNSYLVANIA IS A GREAT CLUE THAT RON DESANTIS IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. THE DAY BEFORE HE GOES ON A PRESIDENTIAL JAG, HE IS MAKING A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD. REPORTER: FAIR TO SAY THAT 20 VOTES WOULD NOT CHANGE AN ELECTION ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. AMY GARDNER, WE WILL BE FOLLOWING YOUR WORK. THANK YOU. ♪ JUDY: IN WESTERN UKRAINE TODAY PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY HOSTED TURKEY'S PRESIDENT AND THE U.N.

SECRETARY GENERAL, BOTH ARCHITECTS OF A DEAL LAST MONTH THAT ALLOWS UKRAINE TO EXPORT FOOD AMID THE WAR AND A GLOBAL FOOD SHORTAGE. BUT HAS THAT U.N. BROKERED DEAL BEEN EFFECTIVE IN ACHIEVING ITS GOALS SO FAR? NICK SCHIFRIN HAS THE STORY. REPORTER: THE U.N. CALLED IT A BEACON OF HOPE, ONE OF THE WORLDS BREAD BASKETS ONCE AGAIN ABLE TO EXPORT. FOR THREE WEEKS UKRAINIAN SHIPS HAVE LEFT UKRAINIAN PORTS THROUGH A RUSSIAN BLOCKADE. TODAY, THREE OF THE GUARANTORS OF THE DEAL MET IN UKRAINE'S WEST TO ASSESS HOWAR THEY HAVE COME AND HOW FAR THEY STILL HAD TO GO. >> THERE IS A GLOBAL NEED FOR MORE SHIPS THAT CAN EXPORT UKRAINIAN PRODUCE IN A SECURE WAY. OUR COUNTRY WILL BE A GUARANTOR FOR GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY. REPORTER: FOR YEARS, UKRAINE HELPED PROVIDE THAT GUARANTEE. WITH RUSSIA, IT EXPORTED ONE QUARTER OF THE WORLD WHEAT BUT

THE WAR COMBINED WITH A DROUGHT IN THE HORN OF AFRICA AND COVID CREATED A GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS. THE U.N. BROKERED DEAL IS DESIGNED TO ALLOW UKRAINE EXPORT 22 MILLION TONS OF GRAIN. THE FIRST AFRICA BOUND SHIP LEFT YESTERDAY. THE BRAVE COMMANDER CARRIED HIS CARGO DESTINED FOR ETHIOPIA. 23 METRIC TONS OF WHAT WE'D WILL GO TO A NATION WITH 20 MILLION PEOPLE FACING HUNGER. SO FAR MOST EXPORTS ARE NOT GOING TO THOSE WITH THE MOST NEAT. OF 25 SHIPS, MORE THAN A QUARTER HAVE GONE TO TURKEY, SOUTH KOREA AND IRAN. NEXT ON THE LIST, CHINA, IRELAND, AND ITALY. THE EXPORTS ARE A FRACTION OF WHAT IS NEEDED. 700,000 TONS OF GRAIN HAVE LEFT THE SHORES. >> LET US HAVE NO ILLUSIONS. THERE IS A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE THIS WILL BE TRANSLATED INTO THE LIVES OF PEOPLE AT THEIR LOCAL

BAKERY AND MARKETS. SUPPLY CHAINS ARE STILL DISRUPTED AND ENERGY AND TRANSPORTATION COSTS REMAIN UNACCEPTABLY HIGH. REPORTER: AND SOME OF THE EXPORTS ARE NOT ARRIVING AT THEIR INTENDED DESTINATIONS. THE FIRST SHIP THAT LEFT UKRAINE ARRIVED NOT AT LEBANON BUT IN SYRIA. SYRIA ALSO RECEIVED STOLEN UKRAINIAN GREEN ON A RUSSIAN SHIP THAT ARRIVED TODAY. FOR MORE ON FOOD EXPORTS FROM UKRAINE WE TRYING TO JOE, RESECH SENIOR FELLOW AT THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE. HE PREVIOUSLY SERVED AS THE CHIEF ECONOMIST AT THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. THANK YOU AND WELCOME. HOW MUCH OF AN IMPACT RIGHT NOW IS THIS DEAL HAVING? >> IT IS SMALL BUT HOPEFULLY WILL GET BIGGER. RIGHT NOW, ROUGHLY 700,000 TONS HAVE MOVED, ABOUT A 10TH OF WHAT UKRAINE DOES ON A MONTHLY BASIS DURING THEIR PEAK SEASON AND THIS IS THEIR PEAK SEASON AS WE

COME INTO WHEAT HARVEST. THEY WANT TO BE SHIPPING THAT OUT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD. REPORTER: 700,000, THE GOAL IS FOR 20 MILLION TONS TO BE EXPORTED. IS THAT EVEN REALISTIC? >> I THINK THEY HAVE SERIOUS STORAGE PROBLEMS. THEY HAVE A CROP FROM LAST YEAR THAT HAS BEEN TRAPPED IN UKRAINE AND THEY ARE HARVESTING A WEED CROP AND IN THE FALL THEY WILL HAVE A CORN CROP AND A BARLEY CROP AND OTHERS. WHAT THAT HAS PUT STRESS ON IS THERE STORAGE CAPACITY. EVEN WITH THIS POTENTIAL OF EXPORTING A LITTLE MORE OUT OF THE BLACK SEAPORTS. REPORTER: ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS WE HAVE SEEN SO FAR IS THAT PRICES HAVE COME DOWN FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD. THE FAO SAYS THE FOOD PRICE INDEX FELL BY 9% IN JULY, THE LARGEST CLIENT SINCE 2008. IS THAT -- LARGEST DECLINE SINCE 2008. >> RUSSIA HAS EXPORTED MORE THAN

WHAT WAS INITIALLY THOUGHT. WE HAVE A GOOD CROP COMING OUT OF CANADA. NO QUESTION, THE FACT THAT WE CAN GET GREEN OUT OF UKRAINE WHO THE BLACK SEAPORTS IS A POSITIVE FOR WORLD PRICES. REPORTER: THESE SHIPS HAVE GONE TO TURKEY, SOUTH KOREA, AND EVEN IRELAND AND ITALY. ONLY ONE TO THE HORN OF AFRICA SO FAR. WHY? >> A LOT OF THE GRAIN THAT LEFT UKRAINE IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS THROUGH THIS CORRIDOR, WERE SHIPS THAT WERE DOCKED IN UKRAINE PORTS BEFORE THE WAR SO THEY WERE TARGETED FOR THOSE BUYERS. THAT INCLUDED A LOT OF CORN GOING TO EUROPE. IT INCLUDED A LITTLE GOING TO THE MIDDLE EAST. AND SOME WHEAT GOING TO THE HORN OF AFRICA. I THINK THE SHIFT WILL CHANGE AS WE SEE MORE WHEAT COMING OUT OF UKRAINE.

REPORTER: THE JOINT COORDINATION CENTER THAT THE U.N. RUNS, A BODY THAT IS CORN THIS IN ISTANBUL SAID THAT THERE HAVE BEEN 25 SHIPS THAT LEFT UKRAINE 20 ARE ARRIVING IN UKRAINE NOW. IS THAT A SIGN OF WHAT YOU WERE JUST ADJUSTING -- THE FOOD WILL NOW GO TO MORE PLACES? >> I THINK WE WILL SEE A MIX. IF YOU LOOK AT WHO UKRAINE WOULD SHIP TO IS A LOT IN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST. FOR CORN, AND THEY SHIP A LOT OF CORN, A LOT OF THAT GOES TO CHINA AND EUROPE. SOME OF IT GOES TO THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM AND OTHERS THAT HELP ALLEVIATE HUNGER. REPORTER: BEYOND THIS DEAL, DO YOU BELIEVE ENOUGH IS BEING DONE TO EASE A GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS? >> THE REAL ISSUE FOR UKRAINE IS ENDING THE WAR AND BRINGING BACK THEIR AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM TO

SOME SORT OF NORMALCY. I THINK WITH UKRAINE HAMPERED BY A WAR GOING ON AND THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT SHIPPING AS MUCH AS HE COULD SHIP NORMALLY, THAT MEANS LOWER PRICES FOR PRODUCERS , THAT MEANS LESS PRODUCTION. AND BECAUSE OF THE IMPORTANT ROLE THAT UKRAINE PLAYS IN GLOBAL MARKETS, THAT MEANS CONTINUED TIGHT SUPPLIES. GLOBAL STOCK LEVELS CONTINUED TO BELOW ICH MEANS ANY KIND OF DISRUPTION COULD REALLY CAUSE PRICE SPIKES. THAT IS THE REAL CONCERN LONGER RUN AS WE MOVE FORWARD OVER THE NEXT YEAR. REPORTER: HOW IMPORTANT IS IT TO SOLVE SOME OF THESE PROBLEMS GIVEN HOW ACUTE THIS GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS IS? >> IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO AT LEAST GET THIS CORRIDOR UP AND RUNNING AND MAKE SURE WE CAN GET EXPORTS BACK TO SOME SORT OF

LEVEL THAT IS CLOSER TO WHAT THEY NORMALLY WOULD BE SHIPPING. THE REAL GOAL IS TO GET AN END TO THE WAR. REPORTER: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> THANK YOU. ♪ ♪ JUDY: THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS FILING FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS FELL TO 250,000 LAST WEEK, SIGNED THAT DEMAND FOR WORKERS REMAINS HIGH. THE STRONG OVERALL LABOR MARKET HAS MADE IT DIFFICULT FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO FIND ENOUGH WORKERS AFFECTING ALMOST EVERY SERVICE THEY PROVIDE FROM TRASH PICKUP TO POLICING. PESCHEL CORRESPONDENT AND WASHINGTON POST COLUMNIST CATHERINE HAS THE STORY. >> I AM AFRAID TO ASK WHAT IS FLOATING ON TOP? >> GREECE IS ONE OF OUR -- GREASE IS ONE OF OUR BIGGEST PROBLEMS.

PORTER: BILL DAVIS SHOWED US AROUND A WAS -- A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS. THAT IS WHAT YOU THINK IT IS. >> WASTEWATER IS TYPICALLY A LIGHT BROWN COLOR. REPORTER: YOU HAVE HAD SOME TIME TO ACCLIMATE TO THE SMELL. >> IT IS JUST POOPY WATER. REPORTER: PUBLIC SERVICE IS NOBLE WORK BUT NOT FOR EVERYONE. IT CAN BE SMELLY. STRESSFUL. AND OFTEN NOT SUPER LUCRATIVE. IN RICHLAND COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, NEARLY A QUARTER OF GOVERNMENT JOBS ARE VACANT UP FROM 13% BEFORE THE PANDEMIC. AND IT IS NOT THE ONLY PLACE STRUGGLING TO HIRE SAYS JOSHUA. >> STATE AND LOCAL EMPLOYMENT IS STILL BELOW ITS PEAK FROM THE FEBRUARY 2020 TIMEFRAME. REPORTER: NATIONWIDE PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS HAVE RECOVERED WITH MORE JOBS TODAY THAN PRE-COVID BUT STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE STILL WAY BEHIND DESPITE A LOT OF COVID RELIEF MONEY FROM THE FEDS.

PARTLY THIS IS ABOUT RETIREMENTS. >> 3-5 YEARS OLDER ON AVERAGE RELATIVE TO THEIR PRIVATE SECTOR PEERS. REPORTER: AND THOSE NOT RETIREMENT AGE ARE DEMANDING MORE PAY. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYERS ARE OFTEN SLOW TO ADJUST. >> ONE OF THE THINGS WE WERE CHALLENGED WITH IS IF YOU HAVE $15 AN HOUR AND YOU ARE GOING TO GO TO AMAZON AND MAKE $18 AN HOUR TO DRIVE A FORKLIFT AND PICKED UP BOXES AND LISTENED YOUR AIRPODS ALL DAY, DO YOU WANT TO DO THAT OR PLAY IN THE POOPY WATER OR DO YOU WANT TO MAKE 25% MORE AND WORK AT AMAZON? REPORTER: IT IS ESPECIALLY HARD FOR GOVERNMENTS TO MATCH PAY FOR JOBS WHERE PRIVATE EMPLOYERS ARE RAPIDLY RAISING WAGES LIKE TRUCK DRIVING AND CONSTRUCTION. WHAT WOULD HELP THE SITUATION? >> MONEY. REPORTER: BRIAN NIGHT AND WILL SAID THEY WERE SHORT 36 OUT OF 190 POSITIONS. WHEN PEOPLE ARE LEAVING, BUT DO

THEY TELL YOU ABOUT WHY THEY ARE LEAVING? >> THE MAJORITY WE HEAR IS PAY. YOU HAVE TO SUPPORT YOUR FAMILY. THE RISING COSTS OF FOOD AND FUEL. EVERYTHING GOING ON RIGHT NOW. TO DO THE SAME JOB IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND GET PAID MORE, IT IS THAT DECISION AT THE END OF THE DAY. REPORTER: WORKER SHORTAGES ALONGSIDE HIGHER MATERIAL COSTS ARE CAUSING PROBLEMS ALL YEAR ROUND. IN THE SUMMER, POTHOLES ARE NOT GETTIN FILLED. IN THE WINTER, ROADS ARE NOT BEING PLOWED. >> IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE PERSONNEL TO DO IT, WE CANNOT COMPLETE THE PROJECTS. >> OUR ROAD NETWORK IS DETERIORATING QUICKER THAN EVER AND WE HAVE MORE CARS ON THE ROAD AND PEOPLE IN THE AREA. WITH THE STAFFING, WE ARE FALLING FURTHER BEHIND. REPORTER: CONSTITUENTS NOTICE. A JEFFERSON COUNTY MANAGER SAYS >> THE CITIZENS KNOW THEY PAY TAXES AND THEY EXPECT THE SERVICES TO BE DONE AND THEY

DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS UNLIMITED EXPECTATIONS AGAINST LIMITED RESOURCES. REPOER: IN RICHLAND COUNTY THAT SOMETIMES MEANS GARBAGE PICKUP PROBLEMS. >> WE HAVE HAD SOME OTHER ISSUES WITH MISSED COLLECTIONS AND THOSE WERE DUE TO A LACK OF WORKFORCE, REPLACEMENT WORKFORCE THAT WAS NOT TRAINED PROPERLY AND ALSO THE EQUIPMENT. REPORTER: TRUCKS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT HAVE HIT SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES BUT THE KEY CONCERN IS STILL LABOR. >> THERE HAS BEEN A LOW POOL OF DRIVERS INTERESTED IN THE CHALLENGE. REPORTER: JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF JEFF SCHRADER SAYS IT IS NOT ONLY ABOUT THE MONEY. SOME JOBS HAVE BECOME LESS ATTRACTIVE FOR OTHER REASONS. >> THROUGH 2020 WE SAW A LOT OF PEOPLE GETTING OUT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT. THEY WERE -- PEOPLE HIRED INTO LAW ENFORCEMENT ARE NOT MY AGE, THEY ARE YOUNGER PEOPLE. THEIR SOCIAL GROUPS WERE PROBABLY QUESTIONING BASED ON THE DIALOGUE GOING ON THE ROLE

OF POLICE AND ITS LEGITIMACY. REPORTER: THE WORK HAS ALWAYS BEEN STRESSFUL AND POLARIZING BUT TODAY IT IS EVEN HARDER TO RECRUIT APPLICANTS. >> FROM 2019 PRE-PANDEMIC, PRE-GEORGE FLOYD UNTIL 2021, WE SAW A 39% DECREASE IN THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS FOR DEPUTY SHERIFFS. REPORTER: HE ARGUES THE STAKES ARE HIGH. >> IF PUBLIC SAFETY -- IF THERE IS NOT STAFF TO PUT FIRST RESPONDERS OUT ON THE STREET OR WE ARE NOT ABLE TO BRING PEOPLE TO JAIL THAT NEED TO BE IN JAIL BECAUSE OF STAFFING CONCERNS, ULTIMATELY THE PUBLIC IS AT RISK. REPORTER: BETWEEN HIGHER CRIME, THE PANDEMIC AND DANGEROUS HEATWAVE'S, FIRST RESPONDERS ARE STRETCHED THIN. >> BECAUSE OF THE INCREASED DEMAND FOR SERVICES, THAT MEANS AN INCREASE IN WORKLOAD FOR THAT PARTICULAR CREW FOR THAT PARAMEDIC AND THE EMT WORKING ON THE AMBULANCE.

REPORTER: CAPTAIN ADAMS SAYS BURNOUT IS WORK -- IS WORSENING. >> THEY ARE NORMALLY GETTING A 911 CALL RIGHT OFF THE BAT. THEY WILL RUN THE CALL, GET TO THE HOSPITAL AND GET ANOTHER 911 CALL. RUN THAT CALL, GET TO THE HOSPITAL AND GET ANOTHER CALL. IT IS HARD TO FIND TIME TO TAKE A BREAK TO EAT OR TO JUST BE ABLE TO USE THE FACILITIES. REPORTER: THEY ARE RECRUITING AGGRESSIVELY TO FIND NEW STAFF AND RECENTLY OPENED A TRAINING BOOT CAMP. >> OUR JOB IS TO SAVE LIVES. IF WE DON'T HAVE ADEQUATE STAFF TO RUN THE CALLS AND GET TO THE PATIENTS, THEN WE ARE NOT ABLE TO DO OUR JOB WHICH IS SAVING LIVES. REPORTER: GOVERNMENT MANAGERS ARE TRYING TO INCREASE PAYS THOUGH VOTERS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE NOT ALWAYS KEEN TO HAND MORE TAX DOLLARS TO WORKERS. >> THERE IS A COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENT THAT WILL GO INTO EFFECT FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.

REPORTER: EVEN THOUGH INFLATION IS HIGHER THAN 4%? >> ABSOLUTELY. AND WE CANNOT COMPETE WITH INFLATION. REPORTER: GOVERNMENTS ARE ALSO RECRUITING BY SINGING THE VIRTUES OF PUBLIC SERVICE. >> GOVERNMENT GETS A BAD RAP. REPORTER: BUT SAYS DAVIS -- >> I WAS IN THE MARINE CORPS FOR 27 YEARS AND PEOPLE THAT WORK AT LOCAL GOVERNMENT, THEY ARE AS PATRIOTIC AS ANY MARINE OR SOLDIER THAT I HAVE EVER LEAD IN 30 YEARS. THEY WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. REPORTER: IT ONLY GOES SO FAR. >> THE CHALLENGES WHEN YOU ARE ASKING EMPLOYEES TO GIVE MORE BUT THEY STILL HAVE BILLS TO PAY, THAT MAKES IT MORE DIFFICULT IN THE LONG RUN. CANNOT PAY THEM WHAT IS COMPETITIVE IN THE MARKET. REPORTER: AS IT TURNS OUT, EVEN DAVIS HIMSELF HAS BEEN POACHED BY ANOTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENT. HE SWITCHED JOBS SHORTLY AFTER THIS INTERVIEW. ♪

JUDY: WE WILL BE BACK SHORTLY WITH AN INTERVIEW WITH SINGER BONNIE RAITT. TAKE A MOMENT TO HEAR FROM YOUR LOCAL PBS STATION. IT IS A CHANCE TO OFFER YOUR SUPPORT WHICH HELPS KEEP PROGRAMS LIKE OURS ON THE AIR. ♪ ♪ JUDY: FOR THOSE STATIONS STAYING WITH US, WHILE SOME EMPLOYERS ARE STRUGGLING TO FIND WORKERS, AMERICANS WILL HAVE RETIRED FROM THE LABOR FORCE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT ANOTHER PROBLEM, HOUSING COSTS. WE TAKE ANOTHER LOOK WITH PAUL WHO MET UP WITH SOME BABY MOVE -- BABY BOOMERS WHO HAVE TAKEN A ROOMTE TO EASE THEIR FINANCIAL BURDEN. >> WE NEED SOME SUNFLOWER SEEDS.

REPORTER: FOR YEARS, BECKY MILLER, 72, HAD ONLY ONE COMPANION. MAXIE. >> THAT IS A MOMMIES TAXI BIRD. REPORTER: BUT MAUMEE -- MAXI DOES NOT PAY RENT. >> I WAS SINGLE SO I WAS NOT ABLE TO PUT A LOT IN MY IRA SO I DEPLETED IT. MY MORTGAGE AND MY HOA FEES WERE OVER HALF OF MY INCOME. I DECIDED FOR FINANCIAL REASONS TO GET A ROOMMATE. REPORTER: 64-YEAR-OLD DIVORCE MARLENE MOVED INTO THE COLORADO HOME A YEAR AND A HALF AGO. >> I LIKE SAVING MONEY. I LIKE HAVING ANOTHER PERSON TO TALK TO, TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH. IT IS NICE TO HAVE COMPANIONSHIP WHEN YOU ARE AT HOME. REPORTER: THEY FOUND EACH OTHER ON SILVER NEST, AND INTERNET PLATFORM THAT MATCHES OLDER

HOMEOWNERS WITH HOUSEMATES. >> THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE POPULATION GOING INTO THEIR MID 60'S WITH 20,000 OR $30,000 IN THEIR 401(K)S OR NOTHINSAVED. REPORTER: SO SENIORS FEEL A NEED TO HOME SHARE. >> SINCE THE START OF 2022 WITH INFLATION RISING, PEOPLE UNDER SO MUCH MORE FINANCIAL PRESSURE, THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR WE HAVE SEEN MORE ACTIVITY. PROBABLY 2-3 TIMES THE ACTIVITY WE HAVE SEEN IN PREVIOUS YEARS. REPORTER: IT IS PART OF A LONGER TERM TREND. >> WE OFTEN HEAR ABOUT THE GOLDEN GIRLS. A TELEVISION SHOW. >> I HAVE AN INCREDIBLE SUITE TOOTH. >> THIS COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP. REPORTER: IT TURNS OUT THAT DOROTHY, ROSE, BLANCHE AND SOPHIA WERE A HARBINGER. >> 20 YEARS AGO IT WAS ABOUT 1%. TODAY, IT IS OVER A MILLION OLDER ADULTS.

MORE THAN DOUBLE THE NUMBER. PEOPLE START CUTTING BACK ON OTHER NECESSITIES LIKE FOOD AND OUT-OF-POCKET MEDICAL CARE WHICH AFFECTS YOUR OVERALL WELL-BEING. REPORTER: BRENDA ACHESON'S HOUSE IN BOSTON HAS BEEN IN HER FAMILY SINCE 1946. AFTER A CAREER IN I.T. AND EDUCATION ENDED, SHE STRUGGLED TO MAINTAIN THE PLACE. >> I RETIRED PREMATURELY AND REALIZED I HAD A BIG HOUSE THAT NEEDED TO BE HEEDED AND NEEDED REPAIRS. AND I WAS OLDER. I WAS GOING TO HAVE A FIXED INCOME. HOW ARE WE GOING TO WORK THIS OUT? REPORTER: SHE WORKED IT OUT BY RENTING A ROOM TO A YOUNG GRADUATE STUDENT. THE STUDENT LIVING UPSTAIRS NOW IS ROOMMATE NUMBER SIX. >> I SPEND MOST OF MY TIME HERE. REPORTER: A RWANDA DOCTOR IS STUDYING PUBLIC HEALTH AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY.

>> SHE IS VERY ORGANIZED AND SHE LIKES THE PLACE TO BE CLEAN AND THAT WAS NOT NEW TO ME BECAUSE MY MOM WAS LIKE THAT. REPORTER: DOES SHE REMIND YOU OF YOUR MOM? >> YES. [LAUGHTER] SO WHEN I FORGET TO TAKE THE TRASH OUT -- REPORTER: SHE REMINDS YOU. [LAUGHTER] AND SHE IS SINGLE SO SHE LIKES HAVING SOMEONE AROUND. >> TO CONNECT WITH SOMEONE OUTSIDE OF MY SPHERE, CHRISTIAN IS NOT MY HERE. CONNECTION IS KEY AND SOCIAL ISOLATION FOR THE ELDERLY IS LINKED TO A HIGHER RISK FOR DEMENTIA AND A PREMATURE DEATH. BECKY MILLER WAS NOT SURE SHE WANTED SOMEONE TO SHARE HER SPACE WITH EITHER. >> I THOUGHT, SOMEONE IS GOING TO COME IN AND USE MY KITCHEN. [LAUGHTER] AND SHE DID. REPORTER: BUT THAT TURNED INTO THE PROVERBIAL BLESSING IN DISGUISE. >> I DON'T HAVE TO COOK SUPPER EVERY NIGHT. REPORTER: BUT TAKING IN AN

UNKNOWN ROOMMATE IS NOT FOR EVERYONE. >> I DON'T WANT STRANGERS AND MY HOUSE. REPORTER: THAT IS MY COUSIN. EVERY WEEK I ZOOM WITH HER AND OTHER RELATIVES. >> I DON'T CARE HOW NICE THEY ARE, I DON'T WANT THEM MESSING WITH MY STUFF. I JUST LOVE BEING ABLE TO EAT IF I WANT TO, NOT EAT IF I DON'T WANT TO, NOT HAVING TO PUT CLOTHING ON IF I DON'T WANT TO AND JUST FEELING, I THINK THE WORD IS -- FREE. REPORTER: DOES THIS RESONATE FOR YOU, ROSEMARY? >> YES. I WOULD RATHER CUT DOWN ON OTHER THINGS THEN HAVE A PAYING ROOMMATE. REPORTER: BY CONTRAST, MY SISTER, RONNIE A WIDOW STARTED RENTING OUT HER SPARE ROOM. HOW MUCH OF THE MOTIVATION WAS FINANCIAL? >> I WOULD SAY MOST OF IT BUT I FOUND IT WAS REWARDING TO HAVE ANOTHER HUMAN ON THE PROPERTY

ALSO. A SENSE OF COMPANY. REPORTER: AS MORE BOOMERS RETIRE AND IF THE COST OF LIVING KEEPS CLIMBING, HOME SHARING MAY BECOME A COMMONPLACE SENSE -- SAYS RILEY GIBBS SAM QUERREY >> WE WILL HAVE -- SAYS RILEY GIBBS ON. REPORTER: BRENDA ACHESON IS GLAD SHE DID. >> BEING HOUSED AND SECURE -- BEING ON HOUSED IN INSECURE IS NOT COMFORTABLE. REPORTER: SHE SAYS IT IS-- >> IT IS THE SOCIAL THAT MEANS MORE TO ME THAN THE FINANCIAL. REPORTER: BECKY MILLER AGREES. >> I HAVE A FEELING OF PEACE. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BY MYSELF AND I DISCOVERED THAT I HAVE ROOM IN MY HEART FOR ANOTHER PERSON. REPORTER: RELATIONSHIPS BORN OF NECESSITY THAT HAVE GROWN INTO

SOMETHING A LOT LESS TRANSACTIONAL. ♪ JUDY: ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME R BONNIE RAITT IS TOURING THE COUNTRY. JEFF SAT DOWN WITH HER WHEN SHE WAS IN TOWN FOR OUR WEEKEND NEWS PROGRAM TO DISCUSS HER DYNAMIC CAREER AND WHAT SHE HAS LEARNED ABOUT HERSELF ALONG THE WAY. REPORTER: LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS NEW ALBUM THAT IS DOING INCREDIBLY WELL. MOST OF THE ALBUM'S COVERS. HOW DO YOU DO THAT CREATIVELY? BONNIE: IT IS SOMETHING I HAVE ALWAYS DONE. I GREW UP LOVING ARETHA FRANKLIN, FRANK SINATRA, RAY CHARLES AND THEY ALWAYS PUT THEIR OWN SPIN ON THE SONGS THEY PICKED.

I LOVE TAKING AN OLDER SONG -- I DID A GERRY RAFFERTY PITCH AND TURNED IT INTO A REGGAE SONG. IT IS REALLY FUN FOR ME -- A LOT OF TIMES THEY ARE BY GUYS AND THEN I PUT THEM IN MY KEY. REPORTER: I WANT TO TALK ABOUT ONE OF THE SONGS YOU WROTE CALLED -- DOWN THE HALL. >> ♪ I ASKED THE NURSE WHERE HE WAS GOING SHE SAID HOSPICE DOWN THE HALL ♪ REPORTER: IT WAS INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY. WHAT DREW YOU TO THAT STORY? BONNIE: I READ IT IN THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE AND I SAW A PHOTO ESSAY WITH THAT AND THE ARTICLE INTERVIEWING THESE GUYS FOR NO BENEFITS. THEY DON'T MAKE MONEY. THEY HAVE JUST BEEN IN THERE. I PUT MYSELF IN THE PLACE OF A GUY THAT HAD COMPASSION FOR THE

GUYS WHO AT THE END OF THEIR LIFE HAVE NO ONE TO HANG OUT WITH IN THEIR LAST MOMENTS. THE FACT THAT THERE ARE 75 PROGRAMS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY WHERE PRISONERS CAN VOLUNTEER AND GET TRAINED TO HELP CARE AND BE A PAL AND BE THERE AT THE END. I WAS SO MOVED. REPORTER: AND LIVING FOR THE ONES. THAT I GATHER WAS A SONG ABOUT PERSONAL LOSS YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED. WHEN I FIRST HEARD IT I THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT THE EPIDEMIC. BONNIE: IT IS ABOUT EVERYONE WE LOST. ♪ ♪ JUST KEEP THEM IN MIND ♪ WHAT I DID OR STARTED DOING WHEN MY BROTHER PASSED FROM BRAIN CANCER IN 2009 IS I AM LIVING EVERY DAY FOR THE LIFE HE DID NOT GET TO HAVE AND THAT IS IN THE LYRICS OF LIVING FOR THE ONES.

HOW DO YOU GET THROUGH? I'M LIVING FOR THE ONES THAT DID NOT MAKE IT. I WILL FACE THE SUN AND LOOK OUT THE WINDOW AND TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND THAT IS THE LIFE THEY DID NOT GET TO HAVE. REPORTER: SO MANY OF YOUR SONGS ESPECIALLY ON THIS ALBUM FOCUS ON GRACE AND REDEMPTION. HOW HAS THAT MANIFESTED IN YOUR LIFE? BONNIE: IN 35 YEARS OF RECOVERY, HAVE HEARD INCREDIBLE STORIES IN MEETINGS FROM PEOPLE THAT HAVE LOST EVERYTHING WHO THOUGHT THEY COULD NEVER RECONCILE WITH THEIR FAMILY OR GET A JOB. AND PEOPLE FIND A WAY TO REACH OUT TO EACH OTHER AND BRING REDEMPTION, GRACE, FORGIVENESS THAT IS A UNIVERSAL AND TIMELESS STORY. I HAD NO IDEA OF THE PANDEMIC WAS GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN I WROTE THE SONGS BUT IT IS RESONATING FOR ME ON THE AUDIENCE. THE AUDIENCE IS STRIKING A CHORD. ♪ DON'T PATRONIZE ME ♪ REPORTER: YOU ARE AT AN INTERESTING POINT IN YOUR

CAREER. YOU ARE GETTING ALL OF THESE ACCOLADES AND YET YOU ARE STILL IN YOUR PRIME. WHAT DOES THAT FEEL LIKE TO BE SO PROLIFIC AND STILL BE PRODUCING MUSIC AND ON THE OTHER HAND BEING HERALDED AS THE LEGEND YOU ARE? BONNIE: IT IS A BAY SURPRISE TO GET THESE REWARDS NOW BUT I AM GRATEFUL THAT PEOPLE FEEL THAT WAY ABOUT ME. I WAS JOKING --I SAID, WHAT DO YOU KNOW? AM I SICK? [LAUGHTER] THERE IS NOT THAT MANY PEOPLE THAT LAST 50 YEARS IN THE BUSINESS. BECAUSE OF MY ACTIVISM AND ROLE MODEL AS A LEADER AND GUITAR PLAYER, I DO A LOT OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF MUSIC AND I THINK IT IS WONDERFUL TO BE RECOGNIZED FOR WHO I AM IN THE WORLD AND NOT JUST THE WAY THAT I SING. BUT I WAS SURPRISED AND PLEASANTLY SURPRISED AS I AM WITH THE RECEPTION TO THIS RECORD. I WAS JUST PUTTING OUT ANOTHER RECORD.

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