PBS NewsHour; Friday, July 8, 2022, 6:00pm-7:00pm PDT

♪ JUDY: GOOD EVENING. I'M JUDY WOODRUFF. ON THE "NEWSHOUR" TONIGHT... AN ASSASSINATION -- JAPAN'S FORMER PRIME MINISTER SHINZO ABE IS FATALLY SHOT AT A CAMPAIGN EVENT, ROCKING A NATION THAT RARELY EXPERIENCES GUN VIOLENCE. THEN... EMPLOYMENT GAINS -- A STRONG JOBS REPORT STAVES OFF RECESSION FEARS FOR NOW, EVEN AS CONCERNS ABOUT RISING PRICES LINGER. PLUS... PROTECTING ABORTION -- PRESIDENT BIDEN SIGNS AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TO ENSURE ABORTION ACCESS BUT STOPS SHORT OF BROADER MEASURES SOME ACTIVISTS WERE HOPING FOR. AND IT'S FRIDAY... DAVID BROOKS AND JONATHAN CAPEHART REFLECT ON THE STATE OF OUR NATION AFTER THE JULY FOURTH HOLIDAY IS MARRED BY YET ANOTHER MASS SHOOTING. ALL THAT AND MORE ON TONIGHT'S "PBS NEWSHOUR." ♪

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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: FORMER JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER SHINZO ABE WAS GUNNED DOWN TODAY DURING A STUMP SPEECH FOR A LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATE HE WAS SUPPORTING. ABE WAS JAPAN'S PRIME MINISTER TWO SEPARATE TIMES, WITH HIS SECOND STINT LASTING FROM 2012 UNTIL 2020, WHEN HE RESIGNED. HIS MURDER SENT SHOCK WAVES NOT JUST THROUGH JAPAN, BUT ACROSS THE WORLD, AS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PHOEBE AMOROSO IN TOKYO REPORTS. PHEOBE: WHAT BEGAN AS A SLEEPY CAMPAIGN EVENT BECAME THE SITE OF HORROR, CHAOS, AND THE MURDER OF JAPAN'S LONGEST SERVING LEADER -- FELLED BY AN ASSASSIN IN THE STREET. [GUNSHOTS] SHINZO ABE'S DEATH COMES AS A

SHOCK IN A COUNTRY WHERE GUN VIOLENCE, MUCH LESS POLITICAL VIOLENCE, IS EXCEEDINGLY RARE. GUNS ARE TIGHTLY RESTRICTED. THE GUNMAN -- NOW IN POLICE CUSTODY -- TOOK AIM AT ABE FROM BEHIND. JAPANESE MEDIA SAY HE USED A HOMEMADE WEAPON. VIDEO FROM THE SCENE SHOWS HIM BEING PINNED DOWN BY SECURITY. THE 41-YEAR-OLD MAN -- A FORMER MEMBER OF JAPAN'S NAVY -- TOLD POLICE HE WAS DISSATISFIED WITH ABE AND WANTED TO KILL HIM. SIMILAR WEAPONS WERE FOUND IN HIS ONE-BEDROOM APARTMENT. CURRENT PRIME MINISTER FUMIO KISHIDA AND HIS CABINET MINISTERS RETURNED TO TOKYO FROM CAMPAIGN EVENTS AFTER THE SHOOTING. KISHIDA PLEDGED ELECTIONS FOR JAPAN'S UPPER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WILL STILL MOVE FORWARD AS PLANNED, WHILE HE CONDEMNED THE MURDER THROUGH TEARS. PM KISHIDA: THIS IS A DASTARDLY AND BARBARIC ACT THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE MIDST OF AN ELECTION, WHICH IS THE BASIS OF DEMOCRACY. PHEOBE: ABE WAS THE YOUNGEST-EVER PRIME MINISTER TO TAKE OFFICE, IN 2006 -- A SHORT

STINT THAT ENDED AFTER A YEAR DUE TO HIS HEALTH. BUT HE RETURNED IN 2012 WITH AMBITIONS OF REVITALIZG THE COUNTRY'S SUFFERING ECONOMY. HIS RUN CAME TO ITS END WHEN HE RESIGNED IN 2020, CITING A RECURRENCE OF ULCERATIVE COLITIS HE HAD SINCE HE WAS A TEENAGER. MR. ABE: AMID MY ILLNESS AND MEDICAL TREATMENT, AND THE DISTRESS OF NOT BEING IN FULL PHYSICAL CONDITION, THERE MUST NOT BE ANY MISTAKES MADE ON IMPORTANT POLITICAL DECISIONS. PHEOBE: HE IS REMEMBERED IN PART AS AN NATIONALIST, WITH AN UNREALIZED GOAL OF REVISING JAPAN'S POST-WORLD WAR II CONSTITUTION THAT RENOUNCES WAR. HIS RHETORIC PRIORITIZED MAKING JAPAN A "NORMAL" AND "BEAUTIFUL" NATION WITH A STRONGER MILITARY AND A BIGGER ROLE IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. TRIBUTES FROM WORLD LEADERS POURED IN -- PRESIDENT BIDEN SPOKE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. PRES. BIDEN: THIS HASN'T HAPPENED IN JAPAN IN DECADES AND DECADES, I'M TOLD, ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE LATE THIRTIES OR THE MID-THIRTIES. PHEOBE: AND BEYOND THE U.S.,

FROM SOUTH KOREA'S FOREIGN MINISTER -- PARK JIN: THE KOREAN GOVERNMENT STRONGLY CONDEMNS THIS SHOOTING INCIDENT AS A VIOLENT CRIME THAT SHOULD NOT BE TOLERATED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. PHEOBE: AND INDONESIA'S TOP DIPLOMAT. RETNO MARSUDI: HIS DEDICATION TO SERVING HIS COUNTRY AND PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AS A PRIME EXAMPLE FOR ALL. PHEOBE: GUN VIOLENCE IS RARE IN JAPAN, WHERE THERE WERE ONLY 10 GUN-RELATED CRIMINAL CASES LAST YEAR, AND JUST ONE GUN HOMICIDE. JAPANESE PEOPLE GATHERED AS THEY PROCESSED THE LOSS -- PAYING RESPECTS TO A LEADER BOTH DIVISIVE AND UNIFYING DEPENDING ON WHO YOU ASK. >> NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT HIS POLITICS, THE FACT THAT A MAN WHO TOOK SUCH GREAT RESPONSIBILITY AND DID SO MUCH HAS DIED IN THIS WAY IS A TRAGEDY. PHEOBE: FOR "THE PBS NEWSHOUR," I'M PHOEBE AMOROSO IN TOKYO. JUDY: NOW, STEANIE SY HAS A MORE IN DEPTH LOOK AT THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF SHINZO ABE. STEPHANIE: THANKS, JUDY. I WANT TO BRING IN PROFESSOR

MIKE MOCHIZUKI WHO IS THE U.S./JAPAN CHAIR AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE NEWSHOUR. WATCHING THAT ASTONISHING VIDEO OF SHINZO ABE BEING ASSASSINATED, A LONG SERVING WORLD LEADER TAKEN DOWN BY A COUPLE OF SHOTS FROM A HOMEMADE GUN IN A COUNTRY THAT HAS ALMOST ELIMINATED GUN VIOLEE. WHAT IS YOUR REACTION AND WHAT ARE THE REPERCUSSIONS? PROF. MOCHIZUKI: FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO EXPRESS MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO PRIME MINISTER ABE'S FAMILY, FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES, AND THE ENTIRE JAPANESE NATION. THIS IS INDEED A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. A SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT FOR THE COUNTRY THAT DOES NOT EXPERIENCE THIS KIND OF VIOLENCE. THIS WILL BE FOREVER ETCHED IN THE MEMORY OF THE JAPANESE. I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE MUCH IN TERMS OF GUN VIOLENCE BECAUSE HANDGUNS ARE

COMPLETELY BANNED. AT THE SAME TIME, OVER THE LAST FEW DECADES, ATTACKS ON JAPANESE POLITICIANS HAVE NOT BEEN THAT RARE. SO, THIS WILL CAUSE THE JAPANESE, I THINK, TO BECOME MUCH MORE VIGILANT ABOUT PROVIDING SAFETY FOR POLITICIANS. WITHOUT QUESTION, PRIME MINISTER ABE IS PERHAPS THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL PRIME MINISTER JAPAN HAS HAD SINCE THE END OF WORLD WAR II. STEPHANIE: LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT MR. ABE'S LEGACY, FIRST ON THE WORLD. WHAT WAS HIS GREATEST IMPACTS? HE WAS PRIME MINISTER FROM 2012 TO 2020. YOU'VE GOT XI JINPING FROM CHINA CONSOLIDATING POWER. YOU'VE GOT NUCLEAR TESTING OUT OF NORTH KOREA. A TRANSITION IN THE U.S. BETWEEN PRESIDENT OBAMA AND PRESIDENT TRUMP. WHAT REALLY STANDS OUT TO YOU

AND HIS LEGACY ON THE WORLD STAGE? PROF. MOCHIZUKI: YES, WELL, HE PROMOTED WHAT HE CALLED PROACTIVE PEACE DIPLOMACY. I THINK HE WILL BE REMEMBERED MOST FOR HIS VISION OF A FREE AND OPEN INDO PACIFIC, AND HIS EFFORTS TO PROMOTE SECURITY AND COOPERATION WITH JAPAN, UNITED STATES, AND AUSTRALIA. AND INDIA. WHAT IS NOW CALLED THE QUAD, SHORTHAND FOR THE QUADRILATERAL SECURITY DIALOGUE. HE ALSO STRENGTHENED THE U.S.-JAPAN ALLIANCE BY RELAXING SOME OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON DEFENSE POLICY, PUSHING FOR MAJOR LEGISLATIVE CHANGES REGARDING JAPAN SECURITY ROLE. HE WAS ESPECIALLY SKILLFUL IN MANAGING RELATIONS WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP, TO PREVENT TRUMP FROM WEAKENING THE BILATERAL SECURITY ALLIANCE. I THINK HE WAS ALSO INSTMENTAL IN CONCLUDING THE MEGA FREE TRADE DEAL KNOWN AS THE TRANSPACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH THE REMAINING 11

COUNTRIES AFTER THE UNITED STATES PULLED OUT DURING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. STEPHANIE: DOMESTICALLY, MR. ABE WANTED A STRONG JAPAN, OR AT LEAST WHAT HE CALLED A NORL STATUS AWAY FROM THE POST-WORLD WAR II PACIFIST CONSTITUTION. A RESTORATION TO SOME DEGREE OF MILITARY CAPABILITIES. HE WAS CLEARLY STILL VERY ACTIVE IN POLITICS ON THIS DAY HE DIED. WHAT WILL HIS LASTING IMPACT BE ON JAPAN'S POLITICS? PROF. MOCHIZUKI: HE HAS DEFINED WHAT I WOULD CALL A REALISTIC AND NATIONALISTIC FOREIGN POLICY OUTLOOK. DESPITE THIS TERRIBLE ASSASSINATION, I THINK THERE WILL BE MANY WITHIN THE POLITICAL CLASS IN JAPAN THAT WILL CONTINUE TO PROMOTE HIS AGENDA FOR MAKING JAPAN HAVE A MUCH MORE STRONG DEFENSE CAPABILITY AND A MUCH MORE

PROACTIVE SECURITY POLICY. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT WHILE ABE WAS PRIME MINISTER, HE CONTRIBUTED TO STABILIZING RELATIONS WITH CHINA. BEFORE THE COVID PANDEMIC IN 2020, CHINA-JAPAN RELATIONS HAD IMPROVED TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT CHINESE PRESIDENT XI WAS SLATED TO MAKE A STATEMENT IN JAPAN. THE PANDEMIC DERAILED THAT PLAN AND CHINA-JAPAN RELATIONS HAVE DETERIORATED AGAIN. IN SOME SENSE, PRIMARILY BECAUSE IN SOME SENSE, PRECISELY BECAUSE PRIME MINISTER ABE WAS A NATIONALIST, IT PROVIDED THE KIND OF POLITICAL SPACE FOR JAPAN TO TRY TO STABILIZE RELATIONS WITH CHINA FROM A POSITION OF STRENGTH. STEPHANIE: SUCH A LARGE IMPACT ON THE WORLD STAGE, WHICH IS WHY WE ARE SEEING CONDOLENCES FROM LEADERS AROUND THE WORLD,

INCLUDING THE FOREIGN MINISTRY IN CHINA. SHINZO ABE DEAD AT THE AGE OF 67 BY AN ASSASSIN IN JAPAN TODAY. A TRAGIC DAY. MIKE MOCHIZUKI, CHAIR OF U.S./JAPAN RELATIONS AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THANKS FOR JOINING "THE NEWSHOUR." PROF. MOCHIZUKI: THANK YOU. ♪ STEPHANIE: IN OTHER NEWS, THE U.S. JOBS REPORT FOR JUNE MANAGED TO CRUSH EXPECTATIONS -- DESPITE CONTINUING HIGH INFLATION AND SLOWING ECONOMIC GROWTH. THE LABOR DEPARTMENT REPORTED EMPLOYERS ADDED 372,000 JOBS LAST MONTH. MEANWHILE, THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE REMAINED AT 3.6 PERCENT FOR THE FOURTH STRAIGHT MONTH. WAGES ALSO GREW, WITH THE AVERAGE HOURLY PAY RISING 5.1 PERCENT. WE'LL TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THIS RIGHT AFTER THE NEWS SUMMARY. PRESIDENT BIDEN SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TODAY TO PROTECT ACCESS TO ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

IT WAS IN RESPONSE TO LAST MONTH'S SUPREME COURT DECISION TO OVERTURN ROE V. WADE -- A MOVE HE CALLED AN "EXERCISE IN RAW POLITICAL POWER." THE PRESIDENT SIGNED THE ORDER AND URGED THE COUNTRY TO ELECT LAWMAKERS TO CODIFY ABORTION RIGHTS INTO LAW. PRES. BIDEN: THE CHALLENGE FROM THE COURT TO THE AMERICAN WOMEN AND MEN -- THIS IS A NATION, THE CHALLENGE IS, GO OUT AND VOTE. FOR GOD'S SAKE, THERE'S AN ELECTION IN NOVEMBER -- VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE. CONSIDER THE CHALLENGE ACCEPTED, COURT. STEPHANIE: WE'LL BREAK DOWN THE PRESIDENT'S EXECUTIVE ORDER LATER IN THE PROGRAM. MEANWHILE, A RULING TODAY IN LOUISIANA HAS ALLOWED THAT STATE'S NEAR-TOTAL ABORTION BAN TO PROCEED. IT WAS ONE OF THE LATEST IN A STRING OF COURT CHALLENGES TO STATE ABORTION LAWS. FUNERALS AND MEMORIAL SERVICES BEGAN TODAY FOR THREE OF THE SEVEN VICTIMS KILLED IN THE JULY 4TH SHOOTING RAMPAGE IN HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS.

MOURNERS VISITED A MEMORIAL FOR THE VICTIMS TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS AS THE COMMUNITY GRIEVES. POLICE ARE STILL INVESTIGATING THE ACCUSED GUNMAN'S MOTIVE. WISCONSIN'S SUPREME COURT TOOK TWO STEPS TO RESTRICT VOTER ACCESS TODAY, RULING THAT ABSENTEE BALLOT DROP BOXES MAY ONLY BE PLACED IN ELECTION OFFICES. AND THAT ONLY THE VOTER CAN RETURN THEIR BALLOT IN PERSON. BUT THE COURT DID NOT DECIDE WHETHER SOMEONE OTHER THAN THE VOTER CAN SUBMIT A BALLOT BY MAIL. FOUR EMPLOYEES OF U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PATROL HAVE BEEN REFERRED FOR DISCIPLINE FOR THEIR TREATMENT OF HAIAN MIGRANTS LATE LAST SUMMER. THE OFFICERS WERE ON HORSEBACK WHEN THEY TRIED TO PREVENT MIGRANTS FROM CROSSING THE RIO GRANDE RIVER AT THE TEXAS BORDER WITH MEXICO. ONE OFFICER SWUNG A WHIP-LIKE ROPE AT A MIGRANT, BUT MISSED, ACCORDING TO A REPORT RELEASED TODAY. IT SAID THE AGENTS USED UNNECESSARY FORCE. A WILDFIRE IN CALIFORNIA IS RAGING OUT OF CONTROL NEAR A GROVE OF FAMED GIANT SEQUOIA

TREES IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK. FIREFIGHTERS ARE WORKING TO CONTAIN THE FLAMES THAT THREATEN THE MARIPOSA GROVE, HOME TO 500 OF THE OLDEST AND LARGEST TREES. A PORTION OF THE PARK REMAINS CLOSED AFTER THE FIRE QUINTUPLED IN SIZE. SO FAR, THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF DAMAGE TO THE SEQUOIAS. BUSINESS MAGNATE ELON MUSK HAS NOTIFIED TWITTER'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS THAT HE WANTS TO TERMINATE HIS $44 BILLION BID TO BUY THE COMPANY. HE CITED A LACK OF INFORMATION ABOUT FAKE ACCOUNTS. TWITTER RESPONDED THAT IT WILL NOW SUE MUSK TO COMPLETE THE MERGER. TWITTER STOCK FELL 5 PERCENT ON THE NEWS, AND IT FELL ANOTHER 5 PERCENT IN AFTER-MARKET TRADING. THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT SAYS RUSSIAN SHELLING KILLED 12 CIVILIANS AND WOUNDED 30 MORE OVER THE LAST 24 HOURS -- MOSTLY IN THE EASTERN DONETSK REGION. OS THAT AREA BY TRAIN, AS RUSSIAN ARTILLERY CONTINUES TO POUND RESIDENTIAL AREAS. ONE UKRAINIAN WOMAN DESCRIBED THE HORRIBLE CHOICES SHE HAS HAD

TO MAKE, AS SHE BOARDED AN EVACUATION TRAIN WITH HER CHILDREN. NATALIIA: CAN YOU IMAGINE, I SLEEP AT NIGHT WITH ONLY ONE THOUGHT, THAT I SHOULD COVER MY CHILD WITH MY BODY, BECAUSE IN CASE OF SHELLING ONLY I WOULD BE INJURED BY DEBRIS. BUT I HAVE THREE CHILDREN AND I CAN'T PROTECT ALL OF THEM. STEPHANIE: MEANWHILE, A REGIONAL OFFICIAL WARNED LIVING CONDITIONS HAVE DETERIORATED IN RUSSIAN-CONTROLLED SIEVIERO-DONETSK. HE SAID RESIDENTS ARE WITHOUT WATER, POWER, AND A WORKING SEWAGE SYSTEM, AS DEAD BODIES DECOMPOSE IN APARTMENT BUILDINGS. AND, THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL TODAY FAILED TO EXTEND AID DELIVERIES FROM TURKEY TO NORTHWEST SYRIA. RUSSIA VETOED A RESOLUTION FOR A YEAR-LONG EXTENSION AND COULD NOT GET ENOUGH SUPPORT FOR THEIR SIX MONTH PROPOSAL EITHER. THE UN MANDATE DELIVERS AID TO MORE THAN FOUR MLION SYRIANS IN REBEL-HELD AREAS. IT'S SET TO EXPIRE SUNDAY. STILL TO COME ON "THE NEWSHOUR"... HOW PRESIDENT BIDEN'S EXECUTIVE

ORDER TODAY COULD ENSURE ABORTION ACCESS AND WHERE ACTIVISTS SAY IT FALLS SHORT. FLORIDA MOVES TO RESTRICT WHAT SCHOOLS CAN TEACH ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM. A PULITZER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR DELVES INTO THE UNTOLD STORY OF A RACEHORSE AND ITS CARETAKER. AND MUCH MORE. ♪ >> THIS IS "THE PBS NEWSHOUR" FROM WETA STUDIOS IN WASHINGTON, AND IN THE WEST FROM THE WALTER CRONKITE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY. JUDY: DESPITE WORRIES EXPRESSED ABOUT WHETHER THE U.S. IS SLIDING INTO A RECESSION, TODAY'S SURPRISINGLY STRONG JOBS REPORT SUGGESTS OTHERWISE. THE U. ADDED NEARLY 375,000 JOBS PER MONTH FOR THE LAST THREE MONTHS AND PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYMENT HAS RETURNED TO WHERE IT WAS DURING THE PANDEMIC. BUT THERE ARE REAL CONCERNS AND WARNING SIGNS.

INFLATION, FOR ONE. WAGES CONTINUE TO CLIMB, BUT CONSUMER SPENDING AND CONFIDENCE ARE DOWN. IN THE OVERHEATED -- THE OVERHEATED HOUSING MARKET IS STARTING TO COOL. I'M JOINED BY CATHERINE RAMP L, FROM THE WASHINGTON POST. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. SHOULD WE BELIEVE OUR EYES, IS THIS JOBS REPORT AS STRONG AS IT LOOKS? . >> IT LOOKS PRETTY GOOD. WE'VE HAD SEVERAL MONTHS OF STRONG JOB GROWTH AND WAGES CONTINUE TO GO UP. A LITTLE SLOWER PACE THAN THE PAST THAT IT MIGHT NOT BE A BAD THING. IT LOOKS LIKE UNEMPLOYMENT HAS ALSO REMAINED RELATIVELY LOW. THERE ARE HOWEVER SOME WEAKER SIGNALS WITHIN THIS REPORT, INCLUDING THE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATE CLIMBED AND OF COURSE THE JOBS MARKET IS NOT THE ONLY SET OF INDICATORS WE LOOK AT RIGHT NOW, AS YOU

POINTED OUT. THERE ARE A LOT OF MIXED SIGNALS FROM ELSEWHERE IN THE ECONOMY, ON INFLATION, OUTPUT, HOUSING AND OTHER SECTORS. JUDY: LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT THE STRONG PART OF THIS FIRST, THAT IS THE JOBS. WHY ARE WE SEEING THIS HIKE IN HIRING CONTINUING MONTH AFTER MONTH? CATHERINE: WELL, EMPLOYERS ARE EAGER TO HIRE. THEY ARE HAVING DIFFICULTY FINDING ENOUGH PEOPLE TO PUT ONTO THEIR PAYROLLS. IN THE MOST RECENTLY AVAILABLE DATA ON VACANCIES, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE ARE ABOUT TWICE AS MANY JOB OPENINGS TODAY, OR AS OF A COUPLE MONTHS AGO, AS THERE ARE UNEMPLOYED WORKERS AVAILABLE TO FILL THOSE OPENINGS. THERE IS STILL VERY STRONG DEMAND FOR WORKERS BECAUSE THE ECONOMY IS STILL RECOVERING. AGAIN, DESPITE THOSE CONCERNS ABOUT RECESSION, AND IT MAY STILL BE IMMINENT, I DON'T WANT TO DOWNPLAY THAT. FOR NOW, IT STILL LOOKS LIKE EMPLOYERS ARE VERY EAGER TO GET

MORE PEOPLE ONTO THEIR PAYROLLS. JUDY: AS YOU MENTIONED, WAGES ARE CONTINUING TO RISE, BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT -- YOU MENTIONED THE WEAKER SIGNALS HERE. WHAT WOULD CONCERN YOU THE MOST? WHAT SHOULD CONCERN US THE MOST? CATHERINE: WE DON'T HAVE THE INFLATION DATA, THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX DATA YET FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE. THE REAL WORRY IS THAT ONCE AGAIN, WHEN THOSE NUMBERS COME IN, WE WILL SEE IN REAL TERMS, INFLATION-ADJUSTED TERMS, WORKERS' WAGES WENT DOWN. AT IS, WORKERS ARE SEEING MORE DOLLARS IN THEIR PAYCHECKS, BUT THOSE DOLLARS ARE NOT STRETCHING AS FAR. AS A RESULT, THEIR STANDARDS OF LIVING ARE DETERIORATING. ON THE ONE HAND, IT IS NICE TO SEE, I'M SURE, THAT WAGES ARE RISING AT LEAST IN NOMINAL TERMS. IF THAT CASE OF WAGE GROWTH DOES NOT KEEP UP WITH INFLATION, THEN IT DOES NOT MEAN ALL THAT MUCH TO THE TYPICAL AMERICAN. NOW, THE FACT THAT WAGE GROWTH IS SLOWING AT LEAST IN NOMINAL

TERMS MAY NOT BE THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD IF YOU ARE WORRIED THAT THE ECONOMY IS OVERHEATING. THERE IS THIS FEAR THAT MEMBERS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE, FOR EXAMPLE, AND OTHER ECONOMISTS HAVE THAT YOU COULD END UP IN THIS WAGE PRICE SPIRAL. WHERE BASICALLY, WORKERS ARE DEMANDING HIGHER WAGES TO KEEP UP WITH THE COST OF LIVING, SO COMPANIES RAISE PRICES TO BE ABLE TO PAY THEIR WORKERS MORE, AND IT FEEDS ON ITSELF. YOU DON'T WANT TO END UP IN THAT STATE. IF YOU DO SEE WAGE GROWTH COOLING A LITTLE BIT, THEN MAYBE THAT SHOULD ALLAY SOME OF THOSE CONCERNS ABOUT AN OVERHEATING JOB MARKET OR ECONOMY. JUDY: IN TERMS OF A RECESSION, THAT CONVERSATION HAS BEEN OUT THERE. YOU ARE SAYING IT'S NOT HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, BUT YOU ARE SAYING IT IS STILL A VERY REAL POSSIBILITY? CATHERINE: YES, I THINK THE RISKS OF A RECESSION, EVEN IF IT IS NOT RIGHT NOW, HAVE RISEN QUITE A BIT IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS.

THAT IS BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN HIT BY A NUMBER OF UNLUCKY SHOCKS. THINGS LIKE A WAR THAT HAS MORE TRAGIC, SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES, BUT THAT HAS INCREASED THE COST OF OIL, FOOD, OTHER KINDS OF COMMODITIES. AN AVIAN FLU. THE LOCKDOWNS IN CHINA THAT ARE FINALLY ABATING. AS WELL AS OTHER RISKS ON THE HORIZON. THINGS LIKE LABOR NEGOTIATIONS AT WEST COAST PORTS. HISTORICALLY, THOSE HAVE LED TO SOME DISRUPTIONS, WHETHER AN OUTRIGHT STRIKE OR SLOW DOWN. IF THAT GOES SOUTH, THAT COULD ALSO DISRUPT FRAGILE SUPPLY CHAINS AND DRIVE INFLATION HIGHER. ALL OF THOSE KINDS OF FACTORS WOULD RAISE PRICE GROWTH AND CAUSE THE FED TO TRY TO STOMP ON THE BRAKES A LITTLE MORE AGGRESSIVELY. THAT IS THE REAL RISK. THAT IF THE FED NEEDS TO SLAM ON THE BRAKES, THEY MAY NOT JUST DAMPEN DEMAND, THEY MAY ACCIDENTALLY TIP US INTO RECESSION. THAT IS OBVIOUSLY AN OUTCOME NO ONE WANTS.

JUDY: CLEARLY WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS THIS COMPLICATES THE JOB OF THE FED. IT IS ALREADY TRICKY. IT GETS EVEN TRICKIER. CATHERINE RAMPELL JOINING US ON THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THANK YOU. CATHERINE: THANK YOU. ♪ JUDY: AS WE REPORTED EARLIER, PRESIDENT BIDEN ISSUED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TODAY TO SAFEGUARD ACCESS TO ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION. THE MOVE COMES AMID HEIGHTENED PRESSURE ON THE WHITE HOUSE SINCE THE SUPREME COURT REVERSED ROE V. WADE. TO HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT THE PRESIDENT'S ORDER DOES AND DOES NOT DO, I'M JOINED BY OUR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ. HELLO, LAURA. I KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN REPORTING ON THIS FOR A NUMBER OF DAYS NOW BUT LOOKING AT THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER, TELL US WHAT IT DOES. LAURA: THE EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT THE PRESIDENT SIGNED TODAY

FORMALIZED THE STEPS HE DIRECTED HIS AGENCIES TO TAKE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SUPREME COURT DECISION. THE EXECUTIVE ORDER, WHAT IT DOES IS IT WORKS TO PROTECT MEDICATION ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION ACCESS, ENCOURAGES FREE LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR DOCTORS AND PATIENTS, INSURERS INTERSTATE TRAVEL FOR ABORTION AND ENSURES PRIVACY FOR HEALTH DATA. A LOT OF THIS IS SIMPLY TELLING DEPARTMENTS LIKE THE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT TO PUT TOGETHER A PLAN. THEY HAVE 30 DAYS TO DO THAT. THESE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THINGS THAT ARE NEW IN TERMS OF EXPANDING ABORTION ACCESS. IT IS ABOUT ENFORCING CURRENT LAW. JUDY: WE KNOW THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN UNDER A LOT OF PRESSURE IN RECENT DAYS FROM ADVOCACY GROUPS, DEMOCRATS URGING HIM TO DO MORE. TELL US WHAT WERE THE POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS HERE AS HE WORKED HIS WAY THROUGH THIS? LAURA: HE'S BEEN FACING IMMENSE PRESSURE FROM WITHIN HIS PARTY. ONE OF THE THINGS POLITICALLY THAT THE PRESIDENT IS TRYING TO DO IS TO DRAW THIS CONTRAST. IN THE SPEECH TODAY, WE HEARD

HIM SAY OVER AND OVER TO GO VOTE. THAT ULTIMATELY THESE EXECUTIVE ACTIONS WILL NOT REVERSE THE SUPREME COURT DECISION. SO, IT IS ALL ABOUT THE NOVEMBER ELECTION. HE DID TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT REPUBLICANS, IF THEY GAINED POWER, COULD POTENTIALLY ISSUE A NATIONAL BAN. THAT IS SOTHING WE HEARD FROM A FEW REPUBLICANS ACROSS THE STATES. AND TRYING TO ALSO DRAW ATTENTION TO WHAT DIFFERENT RED LEANING STATES ARE DOING BECAUSE HE IS HOPING, AS WELL AS HIS ENTIRE WHITE HOUSE IS HOPING, THAT ULTIMATELY THAT COULD HELP DEMOCRATS. JUDY: IT HAS ONLY BEEN A COUPLE WEEKS SINCE THE SUPREME COURT ISSUED, TWO WEEKS, IS IT YOUR REPORT WE WILL SEE MORE FROM THE PRESIDENT ON THIS? LAURA: A LOT OF WHAT DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN ASKING PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN FOR WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS EXECUTIVE ACTION. THE BIGGEST WISH LIST ITEMS WERE NOT IN THIS. THE WHITE HOUSE SAID TODAY THAT ONE OF THE PRESIDENT'S COCHAIRS

SAID THEY HAVE NOT RULED OUT A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY DECLARATION. ALTHOUGH, THEY ARE VERY SKEPTICAL ABOUT THE ACTUAL IMPACT IT WOULD HAVE AND THE RESOURCES AND FUNDS. THEY ALSO SO FAR HAVE NOT RULED OUT THE IDEA OF USING MEDICAID TO FUND TRAVEL FOR ABORTIONS. WE ARE GOING TO KEEP A LOOKOUT TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT THOSE BIGGER ASKS ON EXECUTIVE ACTIONS COME DOWN. JUDY: THIS IS MAY BE JUST THE BEGINNING. WE WILL SEE. LAURA, THANK YOU. LAURA: THANK YOU. ♪ JUDY: A NEW LAW IN FLORIDA IS RESTRICTING HOW SCHOOLS AND BUSINESSES CAN ADDRESS THE SUBJECT OF RACE. LISA DESJARDINS HAS MORE ON THE CULTURAL BATTLES PLAYING OUT IN THE SUNSHINE STATE. LISA: FLORIDA IS AGAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF CULTURAL AND POLITICAL DEBATE AS A LAW WENT INTO EFFECT IN THE LAST WEEK GOVERNING SOME DIVERSITY TRAINING ON THE

JOB AND TEACHING ABOUT RACE AT SCHOOLS. JOINING ME TO TALK ABOUT THIS AND REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS' OVERALL APPROACH IS ANA CEBALLOS, WHO COVERS STATE POLITICS FOR "THE MIAMI HERALD." FIRST, LET ME COVER WHAT THIS LAW DOES. IT IS CALLED THE "STOP WOKE" ACT. IT CODIFIES A BAN ON TEACHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, INCLUDING THE CONCEPT OF WHITE PRIVILEGE IN K-12 SCHOOLS. IT WOULD BLOCK BUSINESSES FROM REQUIRING INCLUSION TRAINING. IT WOULD ENFORCE THAT BY USING LAWSUITS OR PENALTIES UP TO $10,000. ANA, WHAT IS THE PRACTICAL EFFECT? WHAT DOES EACH SIDE SAY THIS LAW WILL ACTUALLY DO? ANA: THE PRACTICAL EFFECT HAS YET TO BE SEEN BECAUSE WE HAVE JUST SEEN THIS LAW GO INTO EFFECT JULY 1. WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF CONCERN REALLY ABOUT HOW IT WILL BE ENFORCED. THIS LAW IS GIVING A LOT OF POWER BACK TO PARENTS IN REGARDS TO THE PERMISSIONS IN SCHOOLS. IF A PARENT FEELS THEIR CHILD

HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED TO FEEL ANGUISH OR DISCOMFORT ABOUT A CONVERSATION RELATED TO THEIR RACE OR NATIONAL ORIGIN IN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT SOMEONE ELSE DID IN THE PAST, THAT COULD POTENTIALLY TRIGGER LAWSUITS. AN IMPACT CHANGE THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. LISA: IT SOUNDS LIKE EDUCATORS DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PARAMETERS ARE, IS THAT RIGHT? ANA: THAT IS RIGHT. THE LAW IS THE LAW. YOU CAN READ THE SPECIFIC LANGUAGE THAT WAS APPROVED BY LAWMAKERS AND SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR. WITHIN THAT, THERE ARE PRETTY BROAD PARAMETERS AND GUIDELINES AS TO WHAT IS NOT ALLOWED. A LOT OF IT HAS CONCERNED TEACHERS BECAUSE A LOT OF IT HAS TO DO WITH FEELINGS. HOW DO YOU REGULATE AND DETERMINE IF A TEACHER INSTRUCTED A KID OR STUDENT TO FEEL GUILT OR DISCOMFORT? HOW THAT IS ENFORCED IS YET TO BE DETERMINED AND HAS YET TO PLAY OUT IN COURT, WHETHER THERE'S GOING TO BE ANY LAWSUITS. THAT IS CURRENTLY WHAT TEACHERS

ARE EYEING IN TERMS OF WHAT COULD BE IN STORE FOR THEM. LISA: GOVERNOR DESANTIS HAS BEEN SAYING HE'S RESPONDING TO OTHER CONCERNS, CONCERNS FROM PARENTS. THIS IS PART OF A SERIES OF PROPOSALS HE HAS LAID OUT ABOUT WHAT KIDS SHOULD KNOW OR ACCESS, INCLUDING TRANSGENDER CARE AND THE GAY COUNITY. RESTRICTIONS HE HAS THOUGHT SHOULD BE PUT IN PLACE. WHAT ARE THE POLITICS OF ALL THIS? WHAT EXACTLY DO VOTERS IN FLORIDA THINK OF WHAT HE'S DOING? ANA: ONE THING TO KNOW ABOUT DESANTIS IS THAT SINCE THE PANDEMIC, HE HAS REALLY PAID A LOT OF ATTENTION TO EDUCATION AND HE HAS REALLY FOCUSED ON THE SO-CALLED CULTURE WARS AND HOW THOSE HAVE CONCERNED PARENTS SPECIFICALLY. THAT HAS REALLY CAUSED HIM TO BE A NATIONAL STAR WITHIN THE POLITICAL RIGHT. HE HAS REALLY TAPPED INTO THE EMOTIONS OF THESE PARENTS THAT ARE MORE RECEPTIVE TO CONSERVATIVE CULTU WARS IN A

WAY. WHAT WE ARE HEARING IS HE'S REMAINING STEADFAST IN MAINTAINING AN APPROACH OF BEING THE MAIN FIGHTER OF THE WOKE CULTURE AND WHETHER IT IS HIGHER ED OR K-12. WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF THAT FROM THE MEASUR HE IS BACKING AND SOME OF THE NOISE HE'S MAKING IN PRESS CONFERENCES. HOW HE'S ADVOCATING AND CAUSING A WAVE AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL BECAUSE HE'S BECOMING SUCH A PROMINENT FIGURE IN REPUBLICAN POLITICS. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE FOLLOWING HIS LEAD. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER WITH DESANTIS, IS A VERY STRATEGIC GOVERNOR. HE'S AMBITIOUS. HE'S LISTENING TO THE BASE IN TERMS OF WHAT HE'S TRYING TO EMBRACE. A LOT OF WHAT WE ARE SEEING RIGHT NOW IS, I THINK, THAT. LISA: IN THE LAST 30 SECONDS OR SO, DO YOU HAVE A SENSE OF WHAT

VOTERS THINK? ANA: WITH ANYTHING, IT DEPENDS ON WHAT VOTERS ARE TALKING TO. FLORIDA IS A PRETTY DIVERSE STATE. IT IS TRENDING RIGHT SINCE THE 2020 ELECTION. IT IS A VERY -- WHEN IT COMES TO DIVISIVE CONCEPTS, SPECIFICALLY IN EDUCATION, A LOT OF IT HAS TO DO WITH PARENTS WHO MIGHT BE SINGLE ISSUE VOTERS BECAUSE THEY CARE SO MUCH ABOUT WHAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE EXPERIENCING FIRSTHAND. IT JUST DEPENDS ON SPECIFIC ISSUES. LISA: FASCINATING REPORTING. ANA, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. ANA: THANK YOU. ♪ JUDY: GUNS AND ABORTION RIGHTS WERE ONCE AGAIN VERY MUCH IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK. TO EXPLORE THAT AND MORE, LET'S TURN TO THE ANALYSIS OF BROOKS AND CAPEHART.

THAT'S "NEW YORK TIMES" COLUMNIST DAVID BROOKS, AND JONATHAN CAPEHART, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR "THE WASHINGTON POST." HELLO TO BOTH OF YOU ON THIS FRIDAY NIGHT. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. I WISH THE NEWS WERE MORE UPLIFTING AS WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT. DAVID, WITH THE ASSASSINATION TODAY OF THE FORMER JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER SHINZO ABE IN A COUNTRY WHERE THERE ARE SO FEW, ALMOST VANISHINGLY FEW INSTANCES OF GUN VIOLENCE, AND THEN THE CONTRAST TO OUR COUNTRY, WHERE I LOOKED IT UP AGAIN, OVER 300 MASS SHOOTINGS ALREADY THIS YEAR IN THE UNITED STATES, AND THEN PUNCTUATED BY THE JULY 4 MASSACRE OF SEVEN PEOPLE AND MANY MORE WOUNDED IN THAT CHICAGO SUBURB. IT REMINDS US WHERE WE ARE AS A COUNTRY, DOESN'T IT? DAVID: I SPENT THE WEEK RESEARCHING THE QUESTION, WHY DO WE SEEM TO HAVE AN ENDLESS

SUPPLY OF YOUNG MEN WHO THINK IT IS HEROIC TO SHOOT INNOCENT PEOPLE? ONE, A LOT OF US THINK IT IS MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS BUT THAT IS KIND OF MISLEADING BECAUSE THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE YOUNG MEN WHO DO THIS DO NOT HAVE MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. IT IS THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES, NOT ILLNESS. THEY SHARE FREQUENTLY SOME ABUSE IN THEIR PAST. TH OFTEN SHARE THE IDEA THAT THEY WERE INVISIBLE AT SCHOOL. NO ONE KNEW THEM. THEY FELT LIKE THEY HAD NO FRIENDS, EXTREME SOCIAL ISOLATION, EXTREME INWARDNESS. AND THEN THEY GO THROUGH SUICIDAL. I'M STRUCK BY HOW THE EXPERTS SAY THIS MASS KILLING IS IN A WEIRD WAY AKIN TO SUICIDE. THEY WANT TO END THEIR LIVES BUT WANT TO DO IT IN A WAY THAT WILL GET THEM RECOGNIZED. GUNS PLAYS A ROLE IN PSYCHOLOGY. THE ACT OF BEING PHOTOGRAPHED WITH GUNS, THEY FEEL LIKE THEY ARE POWERFUL. THEY FEEL THEY HAVE SET A PLAN IN MOTION. THEY TELL THEMSELVES A AEROBIC STORY ABOUT THEMSELVES, THEY ARE DEFENDING SOMETHING. THE MOST POIGNANT THING I LEARNED WAS FROM A FINE ARTICLE IN THE MAGAZINE ESQUIRE IN 2014. HE INTERVIEWED A GUY WHO WAS SET

OUT TO KILL ON A MASS SCALE AND WAS CAUGHT. YEARS LATER, HE TOLD HIM EVEN AS I WAS DOING IT, I DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT. IF SOMEBODY JUST PULLED ME ASIDE AND SAID YOU ARE ACCEPTED, I WOULD HAVE BROKEN DOWN AND GIVEN IT UP. WITH THESE YOUNG SHOOTERS, THEY OFTEN PUT OUT A CRY FOR HELP. IT IS JUST A PSYCHOSIS THAT SEEMS TO PRODUCE A LOT OF THESE GUYS THAT COMMIT THESE EVIL ACTS. JUDY: WHAT DOES ALL OF THIS SAY ABOUT US? JONATHAN: IN SOME WAYS, I THINK IT SAYS WE ARE BROKEN. IT ALSO SAYS WE HAVE WAY TOO MANY GUNS. MORE THAN 400 MILLION GUNS. THAT'S A GUN OR MORE PER AMERICAN. IF WE DIDN'T HAVE THE ACCESS TO GUNS THAT WE HAVE, WOULD WE BE SEEING THESE MASS SHOOTINGS? WOULD THESE DISAFFECTED YOUNG MEN BE TAKING THESE DRASTIC ACTIONS? I SOMETIMES WORRY WHETHER WE WILL GROW NUMB TO THE FACT THAT SEEMINGLY EVERY WEEK, WE WILL SEE A MASS SHOOTING.

MASS SHOOTING DEFINED AS THREE KILLED IN THE INCIDENT. I WORRY THAT AS WE GROW NUMB TO THESE MASS SHOOTINGS, WE GROW EVEN MORE NUMB TO THE DAILY GUN VIOLENCE THAT HAPPENS IN OTHER PLACES. IN CHICAGO PROPER THAT SAME WEEKEND, MORE PEOPLE WERE KILLED DURING JULY 4 THAN IN HIGHLAND PARK ALONE. ONE THING YOU SAID, DAVID, I WAS SO GLAD TO HEAR YOU SAY THIS. YOU CANNOT JUST PIN IT ON MENTAL ILLNESS. I THINK THAT HAS BECOME A CRUTCH. NOT EVERYONE WHO SLAUGHTERS PEOPLE IS SUFFERING FROM A MENTAL ILLNESS. SOME ARE DOING IT FOR THE REASONS THAT DAVID SAID. BUT WE HAVE TO COME TO TERMS WITH THE FACT THAT ACTUALLY THERE ARE EVIL PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO ARE BENT ON DESTRUCTION. AND WE CAN'T EXCUSE EVERYTHING AS THE SENATE MINORITY LEADER DID AFTER HIGHLAND PARK SAYING

IT IS MENTAL ILLNESS. JUDY: WE'VE HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE ON THIS PROGRAM, DAVID, ASKED ABOUT THIS, SAYING THERE ARE OTHER COUNTRIES WITH YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL PROBLEMS BUT THEY DON'T HAVE AS MANY GUNS AS WE HAVE. DAVID: THE GUNS ARE CLEAR PART OF IT. IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE GS, THEY WOULDN'T BE DOING IT. THAT IS FOR SURE. I DO THINK IT IS ALSO TRUE OTHER COUNTRIES DON'T HAVE AS MANY PEOPLE CAUGHT IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES THESE YOUNG MEN FIND THEMSELVES IN WE'VE HAD A FRAYING SOCIAL FABRIC, FRAYING SOCIAL CAPITAL 54% OF PEOPLE SAY NO ONE KNOWS , THEM WELL. THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY DON'T HAVE CLOSE FRIENDS HAS QUADRUPLED IN THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES. THERE IS SOMETHING GOING ON IN THE SOCIETY WHICH IS A RELATIONAL BREAKDOWN. I DON'T WANT TO MINIMIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING 400 MILLION GUNS IN THIS COUNTRY, BUT I DON'T WANT TO MINIMIZE THE FACT THAT AT SOME DEEP LEVEL, WE HAVE A SOCIETY THAT IS EXTREMELY CRUEL ON YOUNG PEOPLE. THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF MENTAL HEALTH HAD A STUDY ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO. THEY SAID TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, DO YOU FEEL

PERSISTENTLY HOPELESS AND DEPRESSED? IT WAS 26% 20 YEARS AGO. IT WAS 36% BEFORE COVID. IT IS 45% NOW. DEPRESSED PEOPLE DO NOT GO OUT AND SHOOT PEOPLE BY AND LARGE, BUT IT IS A SIGN OF SOME SORT OF RELATIONAL BREAKDOWN THAT I CONFESS I DON'T UNDERSTAND. SOCIAL MEDIA PLAYS A ROLE AND SOCIAL MEDIA IS NOT THE MAIN THING GOING ON. SOMETHING ELSE IS GOING US THAT MAKES US PRODUCE A LOT OF, NOT EVEN DISAFFECTED YOUNG MEN, PEOPLE WHO FEEL THE WORLD IS ATTACKING THEM. JUDY: I FEEL WE ARE HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS OVER AND OVER AGAIN, TRYING TO GET AT WHATEVER IT IS. CONGRESS PASSED, PRESIDENT SIGNED A BILL. CONGRESS DID PASS A BILL RELATED TO GUNS. JUST A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, IT WAS SIGNED. YOU LOOK AT IT, WOULDN'T HAVE HAD ANY BEARING APPARENTLY ON WHAT HAPPENED IN ILLINOIS. JONATHAN: THAT IS BECAUSE CONGRESS PICKS THE LOW HANGING FRUIT. THE HARD STUFF, THEY WON'T DO BECAUSE THERE AREN'T VOTES. THE PRESIDENT IS DOING AN EVENT

ON MONDAY, A MORE FORMAL CEREMONY ACKNOWLEDGING HIS SIGNATURE OF THAT GUN LAW. BUT WE -- MORE SERIOUS ACTION NEEDS TO BE TAKEN, BUT IT WON'T BE TAKEN UNTIL CONGRESS IS IN A POSITION WHERE THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DO SOMETHING. I'M SPECIFICALLY THINKING OF AN ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN AND SOME OTHER STRONGER THINGS THAT CAN BE DONE. THE CURRENT CONFIGURATION OF CONGRESS, THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. I THINK WHEN IT COMES TO GUNS, GIVEN THE SUPREME COURT DECISION WITH NEW YORK THAT COMPLETY ANNIHILATED NEW YORK'S GUN LICENSING LAW, THE ACTION NOW IS IN THE STATES. IT IS NOW WITH GOVERNORS WHO NOW -- THE ONUS IS ON THEM TO DO SOMETHING TO PROTECT THEIR CITIZENS. WHETHER IT IS WITH GUNS OR WHETHER IT IS ABORTION-RIGHTS, ABORTION ACCESS BECAUSE OF WHAT

THE COURT DID. JUDY: THE LIKELIHOOD OF THERE BEING MORE FEDERAL ACTION ON GUNS IS VERY UNLIKELY. DAVID: IT SEEMS REMOTE. I HAVE NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY AN AUSTRALIAN STYLE GUN BUYBACK IS AN AFFRONT TO ANYBODY. IT IS OPEN CHOICE. YOU CAN SELL YOUR GUN OR NOT. BUT IF WE ARE GOING TO ERASE 400 MILLION GUNS, IT WILL TAKE SOMETHING LIKE THAT, NOT JUST BANNING FUTURE PURCHASES. WE HAVE 400 MILLION. JUDY: YOU MENTIONED ABORTION ACCESS. PRESIDENT BIDEN DID SIGN THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER TODAY. WE HAD LAURA REPORTING ON THAT. IS THIS THE KIND OF THING THAT IS GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, FRANKLY? JONATHAN: NO. I SAY THAT NOT DENIGRATING WHAT THE PRESIDENT AND THE ADMINISTRATION DID TODAY. IN ORDER TO BLUNT THE IMPACT OF WHAT THE SUPREME COURT DID, YOU NEED A FEDERAL LAW. THAT IS WHY I THINK THE PRESIDENT WAS SO EMPHATIC TODAY, WAS SO EMPHATIC THE DAY THE COURT DECISION CAME DOWN.

WAS EMPHATIC WHEN HE WAS AT THE G7 ON FOREIGN SOIL TALK ING ABOUT HOW EXTREME THE SUPREME COURT DECISION IS. WHY VOTING IS SO IMPERATIVE. IF YOU WANT TO CODIFY ROE, THE ONLY WAY THAT WILL HAPPEN IS IF DEMOCRATS MAINTAIN CONTROL IN THE HOUSE AND DEMOCRATS TAKE CONTROL IN THE SENATE WITH TWO MORE SEATS IN ORDER FOR SOMETHING TO GET PASSED AND TO GET ON HIS DESK. AND A LOT OF THE IDEAS THAT THE ACTIVISTS ARE SAYING THAT ARE WILDLY IMPRACTICAL, YOU CODIFY ROE, YOU SOLVE THAT PROBLEM. BUT THE IMMEDIATE THING IS THIS IS NOT EASY. ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU THERE IS A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO THIS, PROTECTING REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, IS NOT BEING HONEST WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND IS NOT CERTAINLY BEING HONEST WITH THEMSELVES. JUDY: BECAUSE THE SUPREME COURT HAS SPOKEN. DAVID, FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THIS IS NOW SOMETHING THAT THE STATES -- IN THE HANDS OF THE

STATES, DOES THAT MEAN THAT WASHINGTON PRETTY MUCH DS NOT HAVE A SIGNIFICANT ROLE THAT IT MPLAINT? -- SIGNIFICANT ROLE THAT IT CAN PLAY? DAVID: THE COURTS WANT IT SETTLED IN THE LEGISLATURE. SETTLE IT LEGISLATIVELY. I'VE HAD AN INTERESTING CIRCUMSTANCES THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS WHERE I ASKED A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THE PRO-CHOICE AND PRO-LIFE SIDE. THE QUESTION IS, WOULD YOU TAKE EUROPE? WOULD YOU ALLOW EUROPEAN-STYLE ABORTION LAWS TO EXIST HERE? THEY TEND TO BE, THEY MAKE ABORTION LEGAL BETWEEN 12 AND 18 WEEKS. BUT THEN THEY SURROUND THE MOMS AND THE FAMILIES WITH ALL SORTS OF SOCIAL SUPPORTS. I HAVE BEEN STRUCK BY HOW MANY PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT AND LEFT, NOT EVERYBODY, YEAH, LET'S SETTLE ON THAT. THAT STRIKES ME THE WAY FRANCE DOES IT, THE WAY GERMANY DOES IT, A LITTLE MORE CONSERVATIVE, THE WAY SWEDEN DOES IT, A LITTLE LOOSER. IS LIKE A CONSENSUS OF WHERE

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WOULD BE, BUT WE CANNOT ACTUALLY GET THERE BECAUSE NO POLITICIAN COULD BE IN THE MIDDLE ON THIS ISSUE BECAUSE ACTIVISTS ON EITHER SIDE WILL GO AFTER THEM. IT IS YET ANOTHER ISSUE WHERE THERE IS A POTENTIAL MIDDLE GROUND, BUT BECAUSE OF THE WAY OUR LITICS IS STRUCTURED, WE CAN'T GET TO. JUDY: IMPOSSIBLE TO DEAL WITH THIS. WAITING FOR THE STATE, WAITING FOR THE ELECTION IN NOVEMBER. JONATHAN: THANKFULLY, THE ELECTION IS IN NOVEMBER, JUST A FEW MONTHS AWAY. THATS WHY I WROTE THE COLUMN THAT I WROTE, "VOTE DANGIT." THIS IS YOUR ONE SUPERPOWER IN OUR DEMOCRACY, TO VOTE. IF YOU WANT TO CODIFY ROE, IF YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT GUN SAFETY, IF YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT VOTING RIGHTS, THEN YOU MUST GO INTO THE VOTING BOOTH AND MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD. AND GIVEN THE WAY MIDTERM ELECTIONS WORK, DEMOCRATIC VOTERS STAY HOME MORE OFTEN THAN REPUBLICAN VOTERS. IF DEMOCRATIC VOTERS COME OUT AT PRESIDENTIAL VOTING LEVELS, THEY

WILL WIN. JUST DEMOCRATIC VOTERS NEED TO SHOW UP. DAVID: I'M A LITTLE DUBIOUS. [LAUGHTER] I THINK THIS WILL BE AN ECONOMIC S ELECTION. UNLESS SUDDENLY INFLATION GOES DOWN AND THE JOBS STAY, THEN SOCIAL ISSUES. I AM A LITTLE SKEPTICAL. JUDY: MEANWHILE WE ALL WATCH TO SEE ABOUT VOTER ACCESS WHICH IS ANOTHER ISSUE. DAVID BROOKS, JONATHAN CAPEHART, THANK YOU BOTH. ♪ A HISTORY-MAKING RACEHORSE AND THE PEOPLE AROUND IT ARE RE-IMAGINED IN A NEW WORK OF FICTION DEALING WITH OBSESSION AND JUSTICE. JEFFREY BROWN TALKS TO PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR GERALDINE BROOKS ABOUT HER LATEST NOVEL FOR OUR ARTS AND CULTURE SERIES, CANVAS. JEFFREY: GERALDINE BROOKS TOOK TO WRITING ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO AND SHE QUICKLY BECAME IN HER

WORDS HORSE CRAZED. ,GERALDINE: YOU ARE SUDDENLY INTERESTED IN LEARNING ABOUT HORSES ACQUIRING A HORSE, CARING , FOR A HORSE, THINKING ABOUT THE HORSE. THINK ABOUT HOW TO BETTER CARE FOR THE HORSE. IT IS A CONSUMING INTEREST. AREN'T YOU BEAUTIFUL? JEFFREY: THE 66-YEAR-OLD AUSTRALIAN BORN WRITER BEGAN HER PROFESSIONAL CAREER AS A JOURNALIST. GERALDINE: MY FIRST JOB IN JOURNALISM AFTER HAVING A DOUBLE MAJOR IN GOVERNMENT AND FINE ARTS, THEY SENT ME TO THE SPORTS DEPARTMENT TO COVER THE RACES. JEFFREY: SHE WOULD MAKE HER NAME FIRST AS A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT AND THEN BUILD A SECOND CAREER AS A WRITER OF BEST-SELLING HISTORICAL FICTION, KNOWN FOR HER RIGOROUS RESEARCH. CLUDING THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING "MARCH." IN HER NEW NOVEL, "HORSE," SHE'S AGAIN LOOKING TO THE PAST, THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH. SHE JOINED US RECENTLY AT HOLLY HILL'S SHOW STABLE IN MASSACHUSETTS. GERALDINE: I LIKE TO FIND

SOMETHING ON THE HISTORICAL RECORD THAT IS EXTRAORDINARY. IF YOU MADE IT UP, IT WOULD BE IMPLAUSIBLE. IT NEEDS TO BE A STORY WHERE YOU IT NEEDS TO BE A STORY WHERE YOU CAN FIND OUT EVERYTHING. I AM LOOKING FOR THE VOIDS THAT THE IMAGINATION HAS TO BE DEPLOYED TO FILL. >> WHAT YOU THINK IT WOULD BE IMPLAUSIBLE? IT'S >> FICTION IS OBLIGED TO STICK TO POSSIBILITIES BUT TRUTH IS NOT. TRUCK THIS TIME IT IS CENTERED ON LEXINGTON. A RESOURCE BORN IN LEXINGTON KENTUCKY IN 1890. CELEBRATED FOR HIS VICTORIES ON THE TRACK AS WELL AS FOR SIRING NUMEROUS OTHER CHAMPIONSHIP HORSES. >> IT WAS NOT JUST IN THE SOUTH PARK IT WAS A NATIONAL

OBSESSION. THE ONLY THING I CAN COMPARE IT TO IS IT IS LIKE THE NFL AND EVERYBODY OR WAS ONE GENERATION AWAY FROM HAVING A COURSE. >> SO SHE WAS A CELEBRITY? >> YES. >> Reporter: HER IMAGINATION WAS FUELED BY A REFERENCE IN WHICH LEXINGTON IS, "LED BY BLACK JARRETT, HIS GROOM." OTHER FIGURES AROUND THE HORSE BECAME CHARACTERS IN THE NOVEL. I HAVE NOT BEEN AT ALL AWARE THAT THE THOROUGH BID INDUSTRY IN THOROUGHBRED INDUSTRY IN THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON THE SKILLS OF THE LABOR OF THESE BLACK HORSEMEN, MANY OF WHOM WERE ENSLAVED. AND THIS IS ONLY NOW GETTING A LOT OF ATTENTION FROM

HISTORIANS AND IT IS REMARKABLE NICHE. THIS WAS A CLASS OF MEN, AND THEY WERE ALL MEN. BUT THEY HAD AN EXPERTISE THAT WAS SO WIDELY VALUED THAT IT GAVE THEM A SPECIAL STATUS BUT YET, THEY ARE STILL IN THIS BRUTALIZING SYSTEM. WHERE THEY DON'T HAVE AGENCY. AND, THEY CAN BE RIPPED AWAY FROM THEIR OCCUPATION. THEY CAN BE SENT TO ANOTHER THOROUGHBRED OWNER. THEY CAN HAVE THEIR FAMILIES TORN APART. SO, IT IS COMPLETE WITH THE TRAGEDY AND INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM. THE BONES OF LEXINGTON WERE STORED AND LONG FORGOTTEN IN THE SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. THE SKELETON HAS BEEN RESTORED

AND SENT TO THE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE HORSE IN KENTUCKY. BROOKS CREATED FICTIONAL CHARACTERS AROUND THESE FACTS, INCLUDING A GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LACK ART HISTORIAN WHOSE STORY WEAVES INTO THE RACIAL TENSIONS TODAY. >> IT IS A BRAVE NARRATIVE. I WANTED TO WRITE ABOUT THE SCIENCE AROUND THE SKELETON OF THE HORSE OF THE SMITHSONIAN BECAUSE IT REALLY IS FASCINATING AND SUCH AN EXTRAORDINARY PLACE TO GO BEHIND THE SCENES AND SEE THE RESEARCH GOING ON THERE. ONCE I KNEW THAT THE STORY WAS COMING INTO THE PRESENT TIME, I COULD NOT LEAVE IT BACK IN THE 1850S. BECAUSE, IT SO CLEARLY IS NOT DONE. >> YOU RIGHT IN THE AFTERWARDS OF THIS NOVEL THAT IT BECAME CLEAR THAT THIS NOVEL COULD NOT BE JUST ABOUT A RESOURCE BUT ALSO ABOUT RACE. >> I AM WRITING THIS AT A TIME WHEN THERE IS A LOT OF DISCUSSION AND DIALOGUE ABOUT WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO TELL THE STORY.

SO, I AM VERY AWARE OF THAT DISCOURSE AND OF THE RESPONSIBILITIES INHERENT IN THAT. I COULD HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT THE HORSE AND THE WHITE OWNERS BUT TO ME, THAT WOULD BE AN UNCONSCIONABLE ERASURE OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE BLACK HORSEMEN. SO, I KNEW I WAS GOING TO HAVE TO GO THERE. >> IN THIS TIME WE ARE VERY MUCH INTO CULTURAL APPROPRIATION. YOU USE THE WORD RESPONSIBILITY THAT YOU FELT. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? >> IT MEANT DOING THE WORK AS BEST I COULD TO GET IT RIGHT. I CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IT WAS BETTER TO MAKE THE HONEST ATTEMPT THEN TO LEAVE THE STORY UNTOLD. AND I FEEL LIKE ANY ATTEMPT AT EMPATHY, NO MATTER HOW IMPERFECT IT MIGHT BE, SHOULD NOT BE DESPISED. WE NEED MORE ATTEMPTS AT EMPATHY. >> Reporter: THE STORY OF LEXINGTON AND THOSE AROUND HIM

ARE REIMAGINED BY GERALDINE BROKE HIS IN THE NOVEL "HORSE." FOR THE PBS NEWS HOUR I AM JEFFREY BROWN FROM HANOVER, MASSACHUSETTS. JUDY: SHARON FONS >>> SHARON FONTAINE THIERRY IS THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OF GENETIC ALLIANCE. IT IS A NONPROFIT THAT ADVOCATES FOR GENOMIC RESEARCH. TONIGHT SHE SHARES HER TAKE ON REVOLUTIONIZING RESEARCH. >> WHEN MY CHILDREN WERE DIAGNOSED WITH A RARE DISEASE IT FELT DEVASTATING. I REMEMBER FEELING THROWN INTO A WORLD THAT I DID NOT CHOOSE AND I WAS TERRIFIED. I COULD NOT IMAGINE HAVING TWO LITTLE KIDS BE SUBJECTED TO ALL OF THE SUFFERING THAT MIGHT COME FOR THEM AND FOR THE LOSS THAT WE ARE ALL GOING TO FEEL. WHEN MY CHILDREN WERE FIVE AND

SEVEN YEARS OLD THEY WORD DIAGNOSED WITH PXE. IT THEY WERE DIAGNOSED TWO DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND BY TWO DAYS AFTER CHRISTMAS, A RESEARCH GROUP CAME AND TOOK THEIR BLOOD AND THEN ANOTHER RESEARCH GROUP CALLED US AND SAID THEY WANT TO COME AND TAKE OUR BLOOD AND A SAID THIS FIRST GROUP CAME AND SAID, WE DON'T SHARE AND WE ARE IN COMPETITION WITH THAT GROUP AND WE REALIZED, REALLY QUICKLY, THAT THERE WAS NO SHARING GOING ON IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH. I THOUGHT THERE MUST BE BETTER WAYS TO DO THIS SOME WAY THAT WE COULD FIGURE OUT HOW SHARING COULD HAPPEN. BUT I HAVE A MASTERS IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES SO I FIND MYSELF THRUST INTO A WORLD I DID NOT UNDERSTAND OR KNOW. FORTUNATELY WE HAD REALLY GOOD PEOPLE AROUND US WHO TAUGHT US

HOW TO LOOK FOR A GENE SO THAT WE COULD EVENTUALLY FIND THAT JEAN. IN THE LATE 90s AND EARLY 2000S I JOIN GENETIC ALLIANCE AND BECAME THE CEO SHORTLY THEREAFTER. I STARTED TO EXPAND, SCALE, AND BUILD TO ALL OF THE TOOLS I HAD BUILT FROM PXE. GENETIC ALLIANCE IS A COALITION OF ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS THAT CARE ABOUT HEALTH AND DISEASE THAT WORK TOGETHER TO TRY TO ACCELERATE RESEARCH. WHEN IT CAME TO DATA THAT SHOULD BE AVAILABLE AND EASY TO SHARE, I STARTED TO SEE THAT THIS DATA WAS COVETED IN ONE INSTITUTION WOULD NOT SHARE IT WITH ANOO, FINDING WAYS TO CHANGE THE CULTURE OF THESE INSTITUTIONS TO ALLOW THAT THEY SHOULD BE SHARING ALL OF THIS DATA HAS BEEN QUITE REMARKABLE. TO SEE THIS SOMEWHAT I SATIRIC IDEAL OF SHARING DATA BECOMING MORE POPULAR. PEOPLE NEED TO BE IN CONTROL OF THEIR DATA BECAUSE IT IS

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