PBS NewsHour; Monday, February 21, 2022, 6:00pm-7:00pm PST

♪ >> GOOD EVENING. I'M JUDY WOODRUFF. TONIGHT, THE EDGE OF WAR. RUSSIA'S LEADER VLADIMIR PUTIN ORDERS TROOPS TO EASTERN UKRAINE AFTER RECOGNIZING TWO SEPARATIST REGIONS AS INDEPENDENT. FURTHER INFLAMING TENSIONS AND PROMPTING WESTERN NATIONS TO IMPOSE NEW SANCTIONS. TROUBLE IN THE AIR. AS AIRLINES GRAPPLE WITH ONGOING PANDEMIC DISRUPTIONS, WORKERS MUST CONTEND WITH ANOTHER PROBLEM, UNRULY PASSENGERS. >> FLIGHT ATTENDANTS ARE EVERY SINGLE DAY GOING TO WORK AND UNDERSTANDING IT IS LIKELY THEY ARE GOING TO EXPERIENCE THIS CONFLICT AND MAY BE UP TO AND INCLUDING A PHYSICAL ASSAULT. JUDY: AND AN OLD STORY WITH A FRESH TAKE. A JOURNALIST DELVES INTO NEWLY

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STATION FROM VIEWERS LIKE YOU. THANK YOU. JUDY: RUSSIA'S PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN RECOGNIZED AS INDEPENDENT TWO SEPARATIST REGIONS OF UKRAINE TODAY. AND HOURS LATER, ORDERED RUSSIAN TROOPS TO CONDUCT WHAT THE KREMLIN CALLED A PEACEKEEPING OPERATION. AFTER PUTIN'S EARLIER MOVES, THE U.S., THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE EUROPEAN UNION ANNOUNCED TARGETED SANCTIONS. >> WITH THE STROKE OF A PEN, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN CLAIM TO REDRAW THE MAP OF EUROPE. HE RECOGNIZED THE SELF DECLARED PUBLIX THAT FOR NEARLY EIT YEARS HAVE BEEN PARTIALLY CONTROLLED BY RUSSIAN BACKED SEPARATISTS. TONIGHT, PRO-RUSSIAN UKRAINIAN'S FLAGS AFTER PUTIN CALLED UKRAINE A PAUL -- A COLONY WITH A PUPPET REGIME. >> WE DEMAND THOSE WHO TOOK OVER AND REPAYING -- AND RETAIN THE POWER IN KIEV TO STOP COMBAT ACTIVITY.

THE BLOODSHED WILL LAY ON THE SHOULDERS OF THE UKRAINIAN REGIME SHOULD >> THERE IS WORRY THAT BLOODSHED IS ALREADY BEGINNING. PUTIN ORDERED A PEACEKEEPING MISSION. PRESIDENT BIDEN ORDERED SANCTIONS ON ANYONE DOING BUSINESS IN REBEL HELD AREAS. INSIDE WILL HELD TERRITORY WITH LOCAL CAMERAMEN FILMING, AUTHORITIES HAVE EVACUATED 30,000 MOSTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND CALLED UP MEN YOUNG AND OLD TO BE READY TO FIGHT UKRAINE. RUSSIAN FORCES ARE BACKING THEM UP. U.S. OFFICIALS TELL PBS NEWSHOUR ONE THIRD OF RUSSIA'S 150 THOUSAND PLUS TROOPS ON THE BORDER HAVE LEFT THEIR STAGING AREAS AND MOVED TO ATTACK POSITIONS. THAT IS DOCUMENTED BY SATELLITE IMAGES OF NEW DEPLOYMENTS OF ARMORED EQUIPMENT AND TROOPS WEAVING TO THE BORDER INCLUDING LUNG TWO LOCATIONS IN UKRAINE EAST. RESEARCHERS SAY RUSSIAN TROOPS

AROUND UKRAINE IN THE EAST AND SOH AND NORTH IN BELARUS. WHERE EXERCISES THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO END YESTERDAY HAVE BEEN EXTENDED. THESE TRIPS REPRESENT AN EXTENSIONAL THREAT TO UKRAINE. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR JAKE SULLIVAN SAID ON TODAY. >> WE BELIEVE ANY MILITARY OPERATION OF THIS SKIES, SCOPE AND MAGNITUDE WILL BE EXTREMELY VIOLENT. >> THE U.S. SENT A LETTER TO THE U.N. THAT RUSSIA WAS CREATING LISTS OF IDENTIFIED UKRAINIANS TO BE KILLED OR SENT TO CAMPS FOLLOWING A MILITARY OCCUPATION. >> WE HAVE INTELLIGENCE TO SUGGEST THERE WILL BE AN EVEN GREATER FORM OF BRUTALITY BECAUSE THIS WILL NOT BE SOME CONVENTIONAL WAR BETWEEN TWO ARMIES. IT WILL BE A WAR WAGED A PRESSURE ON THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE. ON SUNDAY IN ODESSA, THOSE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE WRAPPED THEMSELVES AND OF THE UKRAINIAN FLAG AND CHANTED IN RUSSIAN RUSSIANS GO HOME. A NEWSHOUR PRODUCER WAS ON SCENE. >> THIS PREDOMINATELY

RUSSIAN-SPEAKINGITY BACK IN 2014 STILL HAD A STRONG PRO-RUSSIAN ELEMENT. NOW EIGHT YEARS LATER, AND WITH THE RUSSIAN AGGRESSION LOOMING AROUND THE CORNER, THEY SAY THAT THIS CHOICE OF THE CITY IS VERY CLEAR. IT IS UKRAINE. >> A MEMBER OF THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT FAVORS UKRAINIAN UNITY. >> IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO SHOW PUTIN ODESSA IS UKRAINE. ODESSA IS THE SOUTHERN CAPITAL OF UKRAINE AND NOBODY WAITS FOR HIM HERE. WE NEED MORE SANCTIONS NOW. WHEN HE DARED TEENS OF SECURITY FOR UKRAINE NOW. -- WE NEED GUARANTEES OF SECURITY FOR UKRAINE APPEARED >> WOULD YOU SAY IN THOSE FIVE YEARS YOU HAVE BEEN LIVING HERE YOU SEE A CHANGE? >> YEAH. A LOT OF CHANGE AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE START TO SPEAK UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE. START TO BELIEVE IN UKRAINE. STT TO READ UKRAINIAN HISTORY. THEY BELIEVE ODESSA IS UKRAINE

FOREVER. JUDY: NICK JOINS ME FOR MORE. A FAST DEVELOPING STORY TODAY. WHAT MORE DO WE KNOW ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE GROUND? >> RUSSIAN MEDIA ARE REPORTING THEIR ARMORED COLUMNS OF RUSSIAN FORCES MOVING FROM RUSSIA INTO DONETSKY AND LUHANSK. THERE IS NO CONFIRMATION RIGHT NOW THAT -- BY THE UNIT IT STATES THOSE FORCES ARE MOVING INTO DONESTSK AND LUHANSK. THE AGREEMENT PUTIN SIGNED DOES ALLOW FOR RUSSIAN BASES. IT DOES -- IT ALLOWS FOR RUSSIAN MILITARY INFRASTRUCTURE IN THOSE SEPARATIST AREAS AND IT ALLOWS FOR JOINT PROTECTION OF THE BORDER, WHICH MEANS PUTIN IS STILL MAINTAINING A LITTLE AMBIGUITY. HE HAS LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR

WAR HAS NOT ACTUALLY DECLARED WAR. HE LAID THE FOUNDATIONS AND FORMAL MILITARY PRESENCE BUT HAS NOT DEFINED IT. WE STILL DID NOT KNOW HIS FINAL MOVE. >> I KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN TALKING TO ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS. WHAT IS KNOWN AT THIS POINT ABOUT WHAT THE U.S. IS GOING TO DO? >> AS I REPORTED, THE EXECUTIVE ORDER PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS RELEASED BANDS ALL PERSONS -- FROM WORKING OR OPERATING IN THE SELF-DECLARED PUBLIX -- DECLARED REPUBLICS AND GIVES THE U.S. TO SANCTION ANYONE WHO IS WORKING THERE. A SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL LEFT IT AMBIGUOUS WHETHER THE MOVEMENT OF RUSSIAN FORCES FROM RUSSIA INTO OCCUPIED DONETSK AND LUHANSK WOULD TRIGGER THE MASSIVE GROUP OF SANCTIONS THE U.S. AND ALLIES HAVE BEEN THREATENING. A SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL SAID RUSSIAN FORCES MOVING INTO DONE BEST WOULD NOT BE --

THE OFFICIAL DID SAY THERE WILL BE FURTHER MOVES TOMORROW. THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO WATCH WHAT RUSSIA DOES. THOSE MOVES COULD INCLUDMORE SANCTIONS. JUDY: NICK SHIFRIN FOLLOWING THE STORY THROUGHOUT. TODAY'S MOVES BY RUSSIA'S PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN COULD HAVE FAR-REACHING CONSEQUENCES. FOR WHAT THOSE RAMIFICATIONS MIGHT BE, WE GET TWO VIEWS. DAVID KRAMER IS THE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL POLICY AT THE GEORGE W. BUSH INSTITUTE. HE SERVED AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION. ANGELA STENT WORKED IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT DURING THE CLINTON AND SERVED AS A TOP U.S. INTELLIGENCE OFFICER ON RUSSIA DURING THE GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION. COME TO BOTH OF YOU. DAVID KRAMER, TO YOU FIRST. TAKING TODAY'S DEVELOPMENTS TOGETHER, THE STATEMENT BY

VLADIMIR PUTIN THAT RUSSIA WILL NOW RECOGNIZE THE INDEPENDENCE OF THESE TWO BREAKAWAY REGIONS AND WHAT IS REPORTED TO BE THE MOVEMENT OF RUSSIAN TROOPS INTO THAT EASTERN REGION, WHAT DOES IT ALL AMOUNT TO? >> I THINK TODAY MAY HAVE BEEN A FATAL DAY FOR DIPLOMACY. MR. PUTIN SEEMS TO HAVE GONE COMPLETELY HAYWIRE IN THE PAST 24 HOURS SPIRIT HE INITIALLY OFFERED A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT TO FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON ON A MEETING WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN. THAT NOW SEEMS VERY UNLIKELY. EVEN A MEETING SCHEDULED FOR THIS THURSDAY WITH THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND SECRETARY OF STATE BLINKEN VERY UNLIKELY. PUTIN ALL OF A SUDDEN HAS HIT THE ACCELERATOR AND I THINK HAS TURNED THIS INTO A CRITICAL POINT. JUDY: ANGELA, DO YOU ALSO SEE THIS AS A FATAL DAY FOR DIPLOMACY? >> I DO. WE HAD AN UNUSUALLY AGGRESSIVE SPEECH BY PUTIN.

HE EXPRESSED ALL THE GRIEVANCES HE HAS BEEN EXPRESSING FOR THE PAST 15 TO 20 YEARS. AND BY RECOGNIZING THESE SO-CALLED REPUBLICS AS INDEPENDENT ENTITIES, BY SENDING RUSSIAN TROOPS, HE HAS RAISED THE STAKES, THE LIKELIHOOD OF AN ACTUAL WAR WITH UKRAINE. HE WAS UNRELENTING IN HIS CRITICISM OF UKRAINE. IN HIS SPEECH, DENIGRATED THEM. WE HAVE NOT QUITE SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS. THIS WAS MUCH DIFFERENT THAN THE MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE IN 2015 AND IT DOES NOT BODE WELL FOR THE FUTURE. JUDY: EXPLAIN THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PUTIN TODAY SAYING RUSSIA NOW RECOGNIZES THE INDEPENDENCE OF THESE TWO REGIONS. FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T FOLLOW EXACTLY WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD. >> PUTIN IS FOLLOWING A PLAN HE FOLLOWED IN GEORGIA IN 2008 WITH RECOGNIZING SEPARATIST REGIONS IN THAT AREA.

RUSSIA OCCUPIES 20% OF GEORGIAN TERRITORY TO THIS DAY. NOW HAS DONE WHAT HE DID IN 2014 WITH THE ILLEGAL ANNEXATION OF CRIMEA. EXCEPT IN THIS TIME IN THE CASE OF THE REPUBLICS, HE HAS RECOGNIZED THEM AS INDEPENDENT STATES. THAT MEANS THE MINSK PROCESS, WHICH WAS SIGNED UNDER DURESS BY UKRAINE AND RUSSIA DURING 2014 AND AGAIN IN 2015 IS DEAD AND THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE POSSIBLE ROADMAP FOR A NEGOTIATED SOLUTION TO THIS. PUTIN BY RECOGNIZING DONETSK AND LUHANSK REPUBLICS HAS KILLED THE MINSK PROCESS AND THAT IS GOING TO MAKE FINDING A DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION MUCH MORE COMPLICATED. JUDY: ANGELA STENT, PICK UP ON THAT IF YOU WILL BECAUSE THE REACTION WE ARE HEARING NOT JUST FROM THE UNITED STATES BUT THE COUNTRIES WHO BELONG TO NATO IS THIS IS GOING TO TRIGGER DRAWING REACTIONS FROM EACH ONE OF THEM. THEY ARE LOOKING AT SANCTIONS AS WELL. WHY IS IT SANCTION WORTHY WHAT HE HAS DONE? >> BECAUSE THIS COULD BE THE

PRELUDE TO A LARGER CONFLICT. THIS AS THE SECOND TIME IF WE LOOK AT GEORGIA BUT THERE WERE OTHER CONFLICTS. RUSSIA HAS FLOUTED INTERNATIONAL LAW, INTERNATIONAL NORMS. CENTRALLY MARCHING INTO ANOTHER COUNTRY AGAIN AND DECLARING PART OF UKRAINE INDEPENDENT ENTITIES. I'M GLAD THEY'RE GOING TO MEET AND TALK ABOUT THIS IN THE UNIT OF NATIONS. THIS IS NOT ONLY A PROBLEM FOR EUROPE. IT IS A BROADER GLOBAL PROBLEM. THIS IS WHY PEOPLE ARE ALREADY TALKING ABOUT IMPOSING SANCTIONS FOR THIS VIOLATION. YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THAT THE RUSSIAN PROXIES WHO RUN THESE TWO ENTITIES DON'T CONTROL ALL THE TERRITORY. THAT COULD BE AN EXCUSE FOR THE RUSSIANS IF THERE IS MORE FIGHTING THERE TO MARCH FURTHER INTO UKRAINE. THIS REALLY DOES HAVE SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF EUROPE. JUDY: DAVID KRAMER, THERE IS NO

WAY TO KNOW WHAT VLADIMIR PUTIN'S NE MOVES ARE, BUT BASED ON THIS, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SANCTIONS THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE IS TALKING ABOUT TODAY AS WE HEARD NICK SHIFRIN REPORTING SPECIFICALLY SANCTIONS THAT AFFECT INDIVIDUALS IN THOSE REGIONS, IS THAT LIKELY TO HAVE ANY DETERRENT EFFECT ON MR. PUTIN? >> NOT AT ALL. THE U.S. AND OUR EUROPEAN ALLIES AND OTHERS NEED TO GO SIGNIFICANTLY FURTHER. THAT ACTION WILL GET NO ONE'S ATTENTION. IF WE WANT TO TRY TO STOP MR. PUTIN WHERE HE IS NOW RECOGNIZING HE HAS ALREADY FURTHER INVADED UKRAINE THROUGH THIS MOVE, I THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK AT HITTING HIS CIRCLE, THE IMMEDIATE CIRCLE AROUND HIM. WE HAVE TO START LOOKING AT THE RUSSIAN FINANCIAL AND ENERGY SECTORS AND OTHER MEASURES. THE SANCTIONS ON PUTIN AND HIS CIRCLE I THINK ARE THE ONES WHO FEARS THE MOST. ALL HE HAS NOT LAUNCHED A FULL-SCALE INVASION, THIS LOOKS

LIKE HE IS ON THE VERGE OF DOING SO OR AT LEAST PUTTING DIPLOMACY TO THE SIDE AND RESORTING TO FORCE AND WAR. IN THAT CASE, I THINK WE NEED TO MOVE NOW TO PREEMPT ANY FURTHER ACTION AND GIVE MR. PUTIN A TASTE OF WHAT COULD COME IF HE GOES EVEN FURTHER. JUDY: FOLLOWING ON THAT, THE STATEMENT OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY DID SAY THESE SANCTIONS WE ARE ANNOUNCING NOW ARE SEPARATE FROM WHAT WE HAVE IN MIND AND WHAT WE WOULD IMPOSE IF THERE IS A FURTHER MILITARY MOVE ON UKRAINE. ARE THOSE NEXT SET OF SANCTIONS LIKELY TO HAVE A DETERRENT EFFECT ON PUTIN? >> I AM NOT SURE THEY ARE LIKELY TO HAVE A DETERRENT EFFECT. I THINK PRUDENT AND THE PEOPLE AROUND THEM HAVE DISCOUNTED THAT. THEY REALLY WANT TO MOVE AHEAD AND RESTORE RUSSIA AS THE GREAT POWER IN EUROPE. I'M NOT SURE AND LESS THERE IS A FULL INVASION OF UKRAINE, AN ATTACK ON KIEV WHETHER MOST OF OUR ALLIES WOULD GO ALONG WITH FINANCIAL SANCTIONS, SANCTIONS

ON INDIVIDUALS DAVID KRAMER HAS ALREADY TALKED ABOUT AND EXPORT CONTROLS. THERE IS STILL A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT. THERE IS NOT FULL CONSENSUS ON THAT. THIS MAY NOT DETER PUTIN. JUDY: THAT IS RAISING AN INTERESTING QUESTION. IF THE RUSSIANS GO IN TO THIS DISPUTED REGION IN EASTERN UKRAINE AND THEY DON'T GO FURTHER -- FARTHER IN FOR THE TIME BEING, WILL NATO BE UNITED IN WHAT IT IS PREPARED TO DO WHETHER IT CHANGES PUTIN BEHAVIOR OR NOT? >> I THINK NATO IS UNITED IN TERMS OF BOOSTING MILITARY PRESENCE AND A COUNTRIES LIKE POLAND, ROMANIA AND BALTIC STATES. THE EUROPEAN UNION COULD WIND UP WITH SOME DISAGREEMENTS ON WHAT STEPS WARRANT SANCTIONS BY THE E.U.. THE E.U. NEEDS AGREEMENT AMONG ALL MEMBER STATES. MAYBE FACING A SITUATION WHERE

THE UNITED STATES WILL HAVE TO ACT UNILATERALLY. WE SHOULD NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE IMPACT U.S. SANCTIONS HAVE. THEIR EXTRATERRITORIAL AND THEY COULD HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT. ANGELA MAY BE RIGHT THEY WILL NOT DETER PUTIN. HE SEEMS TO HAVE MADE UP HIS MIND. I THINK THE UNITED STATES SHOULD WORK WITH THE E. TO THE EXTENT WE CAN BUT NOT SETTLE FOR THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR. JUDY: WHAT DO YOU THINK IT WOULD TAKE TO CHANGE -TO REDIRECT WHAT MR. PUTIN HAS IN MIND? WILL ANYTHING HAVE AN EFFECT ON HIS THINKING? >> UNFORTUNATELY, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE MANY MORE CARDS TO PLAY. THERE IS THE DIPLOMATIC CARD I AGREE AT THIS POINT, DOES IT MAKEENSE FOR SECRETARY BLINKEN OR FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN TO MEET WITH MR. LAVROV AND RESIDENT PUTIN? IF PUTIN'S MIND IS MADE UP, WHICH INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES SEEM TO THINK IT IS, IT WOULD BE VERY

HARD TO DETER HIM. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE WHAT DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION COULD GET HIM TO CLIMB DOWN FROM A PROCESS HE HAS NOW INITIATED AND WHOSE END WE DON'T UNDERSTAND. JUDY: A GRIM TURN OF EVENTS TODAY FOR SURE. WE THANK YOU BOTH. ♪ STEPHANIE: I'M STEPHANIE 5 -- I'M STEPHANIE SITE NEWSHOUR WEST. AN UPDATE TO OUR TOP STORY PIT AT THIS HOUR, THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL IS HOLDING AN EMERGENCY MEETING OVER THE RUSSIA UKRAINE CRISIS. ANY ACTION PROPOSED AT THE COUNCIL COULD BE VETOED BY RUSSIA. THE NEWSHOUR HAS CONFIRMED TONIGHT U.S. DIPLOMATS HAVE LEFT UKRAINE AND ARE RELOCATING TO POLAND AS THE CRISIS ESCALATES. CRANEY AND PRESIDENT ZELENSKY SPOKE OVERNIGHT IN UKRAINE AND

SET ABOUT HIS COUNTRY WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING OR ANYONE. IN OTHER NEWS, IRAN'S FOREIGN MINISTER REPORTED NEGOTIATORS ARE MAKING TALKS TO REVIVE THE NUCLEAR DEAL. THEN PRESIDENT TRUMP ABANDONED THE DEAL IN 2018 AND I RAN HAS EXCEEDED KEY LIMITS ON NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT. TODAY IN TEHRAN, A FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN ACKNOWLEDGED TOUGH -- >> THE TALKS HAVE HAD CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS ENDED THE BREADTH AND NUMBER OF TOPICS HAS DECREASED DRAMATICALLY BUT THE MATTERS THAT REMAIN ARE THAT HARDEST MOST ESSENTIAL AND MOST SERIOUS MATTERS PIT STEPHANIE: IRAN'S PRESIDENT DEMANDED TODAY THE U.S. COMMIT TO LIFTING MAJOR SANCTIONS AND THAT IT PROMISES TO STICK WITH ANY NEW AGREEMENT SHOULD ON THE PANDEMIC, NEW NUMBERS UNDERSCORE THE RAPID RETREAT OF THE OMICRON VARIANT IN THE U.S. AVERAGE DAILY INFECTIONS FELL TO ABOUT 100,000 OVER THE WEEKEND.

DOWN FROM 800,000 IN MID-JANUARY. BRITAIN'S PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON ANNOUNCED THE LAST VIRUS RESTRICTIONS ARE COMING DOWN IN ENGLAND. THE REST OF THE UNITY KINGDOM IS OPENING MORE SLOWLY. THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA WILL KEEP EMERGENCY POWERS IN FORCE AFTER WEEKS OF PROTEST EVER PANDEMIC RESTRICTIONS. POLICE HAVE ENDED A TRUCKERS BLOCKADE OF CENTL OTTAWA AND OTHER ACTIONS ELSEWHERE. IN PARLIAMENT, PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU WHERE THERE MAY BE MORE PROTESTS. >> CROSS ORDER -- EVEN THOUGH THE BLOCKADES HAVE BEEN LIFTED, EVEN THOUGH THINGS SEEM TO BE RESOLVING WELL IN OTTAWA, THIS STATE EMERGENCY IS NOT OVER STEPHANIE:. CANADIAN POLICE HAVE ARRESTED MORE THAN 190 PROTESTERS AND ISSUED 300 AND NINE CHARGES IN CONNECTION WITH THE SO-CALLED FREEDOM CONVOY. AN EXPLOSION NEAR A GOLD-MINING SITE IN BURKINA FASO HAS KILLED 59 AND INJURED MORE THAN 100

OTHERS. WITNESSES SAID THEY HEARD SEVERAL BLASTS. CHEMICALS USED TO PROCES GOLD ARE SUSPECTED TO BE THE CAUSE. FOR KINO IS THE FASTEST GOING -- FASTEST GROWING GOLD PRODUCER IN AFRICA. NORTHERN EUROPE IS STRUGGLING THROUGH THE AFTERMATH OF ITS THIRD MAJOR STORM IN FIVE DAYS. EVERY RAIN AND HIGH WINDS SWEPT IN. THE STORMS HAVE LEFT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WITHOUT POWER. IN BRAZIL, THE DEATH TOLL ROSE TO 176 TODAY FROM LAST WEEK'S MUDSLIDES AND FLOODING DISASTER. MORE THAN 110 PEOPLE ARE STILL MISSING IN PATROL US WHERE 10 INCHES OFAIN FELL ON TUESDAY. OVER THE WE CAN, RESCUE CREWS CONTINUED SEARCHING FOR SURVIVORS AND BRINGING RELIEF SUPPLIES TO THE SITE. THEY APPEALED FOR HELP. >> THE SEARCH AND RESCUE MAY LAST ANOTHER 15 DAYS BUT IT IS NOT CERTAIN DEPENDING ON THE WEATHER. SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO CALL IT OFF WHEN IT RAINS HEAVILY.

ALL LIKE TO ASK ANYONE WHO CAN LEND A HAND. ANY KIND OF HELP IS WELCOME TO STEPHANIE: THE DOWNPOUR WAS THE WORST SINCE 1932. THE FEDERAL HATE CRIMES TRIAL FOR THE KILLERS OF AHMAUD ARBERY WENT TO A JURY IN BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA. IN CLOSING ARGUMENTS, PROSECUTORS ALLEGE THE THREE WHITE DEFENDANTS HAD USED RACIAL SLURS AND TARGETED ARBERY BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK. THE DEFENSE ARGUED THEY THOUGHT HEAS A THIEF. THE THREE HAVE ALREADY BEEN CONVICTED. THE DEFENSE HAS RESTED FOR THREE FORMER MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICERS ACCUSED OF VIOLATING GEORGE FLOYD CIVIL RIGHTS. THE LAST OF THEM TESTIFIED TODAY HE CALLED FOR AN AMBULANCE BUT HE SAID HE DID NOT REALIZE FLOYD WAS IN DANGER OF DYING AS HE LAY PINNED BY THE NECK. CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE TOMORROW. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NEW SOCIAL MEDIA APP LAUNCHED TODAY. ITS DEBUT CAME A YEAR AFTER MR. TRUMP WAS BANNED FROM TWITTER, FACEBOOK AND YOUTUBE.

IT QUICKLY BECAME THE TOP FREE APP IN THE COUNTRY BUT NO USERS WAITED HOURS TO GAIN ACCESS. THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HAS SUSPENDED MEN'S BASKETBALL COACH JUWAN HOWARD FOR THE REMAINING FIVE GAMES OF THE SEASON. HOWARD THREW A PUNCH AT A WISCONSIN COACH. WISCONSIN COACH GREG GARD WAS FINED $10,000 BUT NOT SUSPENDED. LAST YEAR'S KENTUCKY DERBY WINNER MEDINA SPIRIT WAS DISQUALIFIED TODAY BY THE STATE RACING COMMISSION OVER A POSITIVE DRUG TEST. THE SECOND-PLACE FINISHER WAS DECLARED THE OFFICIAL WINNER BY CHURCHILL DOWNS. MEDINA SPIRIT HAD DIED OF A HET ATTACK IN DECEMBER. STILL TO COME ON THE NEWS HOUR, AMY WALTER AND TAMRA KEITH DISCUSSED THE POLITICAL FALLOUT FROM THE UAINE CRISIS. EXPLORING THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE THROUGH THE EYES OF THE FIRST CHILDREN. WE REMEMBER A GIANT IN THE GLOBAL HEALTHCARE WORLD. THE LATE PAUL FARMER AND MUCH

MORE. >> THIS IS THE PBS NEWSHOUR FROM W ETA STUDIOS IN WASHINGTON AND IN THE WEST FROM THE WALTER CRONKITE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY. JUDY:JUDY: THE NUMBER OF UNRULY PASSENGERS ON AIRPLANES IS SURGING. THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION HAS REPORTED NEARLY 500 INCIDENTS SO FAR JUST THIS YEAR. NOW, SOME AIRLINES ARE CALLING ON THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FOR HELP. OUR CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT HAS THE STORY. >> OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, THE SO-CALLED FRIENDLY SKIES HAVE OFTEN BEEN ANYTHING BUT. ROWDY AIR TRAVELERS ARE RAIDING FLIGHT ATTENDANTS AND PULLED OFF PLANES BY POLICE. THIS YEAR ALONE, THE FAA REPORTS THERE HAVE AND 499 INCIDENTS OF UNRULY PASSENGERS. 324 OF WHICH HAVE BEEN MASK RELATED. 80 CASES HAVE BEEN RERRED TO

THE FBI FOR CRIMINAL REVIEW. EARLIER THIS MONTH ON AN AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT FROM L.A. TO WASHINGTON, MN TRIED TO OPEN THE PLANE DOOR IN MIDFLIGHT. COURT DOCUMENTS SAY A FLIGHT ATTENDANT HIT HIM IN THE HEAD WITH A COFFEE POT TO SUBDUE HIM. OTHER PASSENGERS HELD THE MAN DOWN BEFORE THEY COULD MAKE AN EMERGENCY LANDING IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. POLICE HAVE CHARGED 50-YEAR-OLD JUAN REMBERTO RIVAS. >> WAS HE TRYING TO OPEN THE DOOR? >> HE WAS TRYING TO BUT HE COULD NOT GET TO IT. HE ACTUALLY TRIED TO OPEN -- >> THE PLANE DOOR AND THE COCKPIT DOOR? >> YEAH. >> T INCREASED CONSTANT THREAT FROM PASSENGERS IS WEARING ON FLIGHT ATTENDANTS. >> YOU ARE SEEING A DIRECT RESULT ON THAT MORALE. >> SARAH NELSON IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF FLIGHT ATTENDANTS UNION. SHE SAYS WHAT IS HAPPENING IS

UNPRECEDENTED AND PINS IT ON PANDEMIC STRESS AND CONFUSION OVER COVERT PROTOLS ON PLANES. HOW DOES THIS STACK UP AGAINST AT HAPPENED BEFORE COVID? >> THESE WERE EVENTS THAT WOULD HAPPEN ON OUR PLANES THAT WERE A RELY BAD DAY AT WORK. YOU MIGHT EXPERIENCE IT ONCE OR TWICE IN THE COURSE OF YOUR CAREER. NOW FLIGHT ATTENDANTS ARE EVERY SINGLE DAY GOING TO WORK AND UNDERSTANDING IT IS LIKELY THEY ARE GOING TO EXPERIENCE THIS CONFLICT AND MAY BE UP TO AND INCLUDING A PHYSICAL ASSAULT. >> AIRLINES NOW ASKING THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO KEEP UNRULY PASSENGERS FROM BOARDING FLIGHTS AND AT THE FIRST PLACE. THE DELTA CEO SENT A LETTER TO MERRICK GARLAND ASKING FOR A NATIONAL NO-FLY LIST THAT WOULD BAR THAT PERSON FROM TRAVELING ON ANY COMMERCIAL AIR CARRIER IF CONVICTED OF AN ONBOARD DISRUPTION. THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS IT IS REVIEWING THE LETTER AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRIOTIZE INVESTIGATIONS AND PROSECUTIONS OF THOSE INVOLVED IN AIRPLANE MISCDUCT.

SARAH NELSON SAYS A NATIONAL NO-FLY LIST IS LONG OVERDUE. >> A BAND FLYER LIST HAVE THAT HAS THIS PROCESS IN PLACE AND HAS A COMMUNICATION VEHICLE SO ON THE DAY OF THE INCIDENT EVERY AIRLINE CAN GET NOTIFIED IF THERE HAS BEEN AN EGREGIOUS EVENT ON BOARD ONE FLIGHT AND WE CAN AVOID BOARDING SOMEONE ONTO ANOTHER FLIGHT TO CREATE ANOTHER PROBLEM ON THAT AIRLINE. >> A MOVE EIGHT REPUBLICAN SENATORS SAY SHOULD BE UP TO CONGRESS TO DECIDE. IN OR, THEY CLAIM MOST UNRULY PASSENGER INCIDENTS ARE RELATED TO THE FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION MASK MANDATES. WRITING CREATING A FEDERAL NO-FLY LIST FOR UNRULY PASSENGERS WHO ARE SKEPTICAL OF THIS MANDATE WOULD SEEMINGLY EQUATE THEM TO TERRORISTS WHO SEEK TO ACTIVELY TAKE THE LIVES OF AMERICANS AND PERPETRATE ATTACKS ON THE HOMELAND. SARAH NELSON SAYS THE WORST IN-FLIGHT INCIDENTS OFTEN HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MASK MANDATE. >> THE REAL PROBLEMS ON THE PLANES, THE ONES WHERE PEOPLE ARE REALLY VIOLATING THE LAW AND MAY END UP SERVING TIME IN JAIL WHEN DOJ GETS THROUGH THE

PROCESS OF PROSECUTING THEM, THOSE OFTENTIMES HAVE NOT STARTED WITH A MASK ISSUE AT ALL. I WANT TO BE REALLY CLEAR THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD LOVE TO ADD THIS TO THE POLITICIZATION OF THIS PANDEMIC. AND TRY TO SAY THIS IS ALL OVER MASK AND IT IS JUST NOT TRUE. >> ALLISON SEITER WRITES ABOUT AIRLINES AND TRAVEL FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. >> IT IS TURNING OUT TO BE COMPLICATED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO HANDLE THESE INCIDENCES THAT VOLVE UNRULY PASSENGERS. THERE IS A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT IF THERE IS A NO-FLY LIST, WHO SHOULD BE ON THAT? AND I THINK IT IS TURNING OUT TO BE COMPLICATED. >> WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR AN AIRLINE INDUSTRY THAT IS TRYING TO REBOUND FROM THE PANDEMIC? >> AIRLINES WANT PEOPLE TO GET BACK OUT THERE ESPECIALLY AS THE OMICRON VARIANT SEEMS TO BE RECEDING, BUT AS FLIGHTS GET MORE CROWDED, THIS IS ANOTHER THING AIRLINES AND FLIGHT ATTENDANTS HAVE TO DEAL WITH AND AIRPORT EMPLOYEES. IT MAKES THEIR JOBS A LOT HARDER

AS THEY ARE DEALING WITH THESE INCREASED PASSENGER NUMBERS. EVEN A SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE COMING BACK TO TRAVEL ARE CAUSING THESE DISRUPTIONS. >> FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR, I'M JEFF BENNETT. -- I AM GEOFF BENNETT. ♪ JUDY: FEW PRESIDENTIAL SCANDALS OCCUPY A PLACE IN AMERICA'S CULTURE LIKE WATERGATE. THIS SUMMER, IT WILL BE 50 YEARS SINCE FIVE BURGLARS CROAK INTO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE HEADQUARTERS SETTING OFF A SERIES OF INVESTIGATIONS THAT ULTIMATELY LED TO THE RESIGNATION OF THEN-PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON. AS HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR GARRETT GRAFF TOLD ME RECENTLY, THE SCANDAL WE ALL THOUGHT WE KNEW WAS ACTUALLY A SERIES OF EVENTS. THAT IS THE FOCUS OF HIS LATEST BOOK, WATERGATE: A NEW HISTORY. WELCOME TO THE NEWSHOUR. CONGRATULATIONS ON THE BOOK. IT HAS BEEN 50 YEARS.

A LOT OF BOOKS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN. WHY DID YOU THINK IT IS TIME FOR ANOTHER ONE AND ANOTHER ONE THAT IS 800 PAGES LONG? >> AS MUCH AS WATERGATE HAS BEEN SLICED AND DICED OVER THE YEARS, IT HAS BEEN A QUARTER-CENTURY SINCE ANYONE ACTUALLY TRIED TO LAY OUT THE FULL STORY START TO FINISH. DURING THAT TIME, WE HAVE HAD AN ENORMOUS NUMBER OF NEW REVELATIONS THAT DRAMATICALLY CHANGE THE ARK OF THE STORY THAT WE THOUGHT WE KNEW. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME ANYONE HAS TRIED TO WRITE A HISTORY OF WATERGATE KNOWING THE IDENTITY OF DEEP THROAT, FORMER FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR MARK FELT OUTED AS THAT FAMOUS SOURCE FOR WOODWARD AND BERNSTEIN TO THE NIXON TAPES HAVE COME OUT. NEW FBI FILES HAVE BEEN DECLASSIFIED. WE HAVE LEARNED ALL SORTS OF THINGS ABOUT SOME OF THE ASSOCIATED SCANDALS WITH WATERGATE ITSELF. I FOUND IN RESEARCHING THIS IS THE WATERGATE STORY WE THOUGHT WE KNEW IT IS NOT WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.

JUDY: IN CONNECTION WITH THAT, YOU WRITE THAT IT IS MORE THAN ONE EVENT. IT IS NOT JUST A BURGLARY. IT IS A NUMBER OF THINGS. A LOT OF IT HAD TO DO WITH THE WAR IN VIETNAM. HE WENT ON TO SAY I WAS AN ENTIRE MINDSET -- YOU WENT ON TO SAY IT WAS AN ENTIRE MINDSET. DARKER THE THING WE SHORTHAND AS WATERGATE, THE MOMENT WHEN THE FIVE BURGLARS ARE CAUGHT IN THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE OFFICES AT THE WATERGATE OFFICE COMPLEX IN D.C. IN JUNE 1972 IS ONE TINY SLICE OF THE CRIME AND CRIMINALITY AND ABUSES OF POWER BY THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION THAT UNFOLDED OVER THE COURSE OF HIS PRESIDENCY ACROSS WHAT ENDED UP BEING A DOZEN VAGUELY RELATED SCANDALS WITH SOME OF THE SAME PLAYERS. THE TIME THAT BURGLARY GETS TO THE IMPEACHMENT PROCESS IN THE SPRING OF 1974, WATERGATE MORPHS INTO THIS MUCH BIGGER UMBRELLA THAT ENCOMPASSES ALL OF THESE

DIFFERENT SCANDALS AND ALL OF THESE SHADOWY WEIRD IS ZANY PLAYERS. JUDY: I WAS STRUCK BY THIS LINE. YOU SAID IT IS THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD ABOUT POWER IN D.C. THE DRIVE TO PROTECT IT. HOW IT IS CHALLENGED. HOW IT FLOWS. THE BEST AND THE WORST OF THIS CAPITAL CITY. >> THAT IS PART OF WHAT MADE ME SO FASCINATED WITH WATERGATE AT THIS MOMENT IN OUR POLITICS. WHAT YOU SEE IS THIS MOMENT FROM 1972 TO 1974 WHEN WASHINGTON WORKS. WHAT IS SO FASCINATING ABOUT THE POWER AS IT UNFOLDS IN THE CITY BACK THEN IS UC ALL OF THE DIFFERENT INSTITUTIONS COME TOGETHER TO FORCE NIXON FROM OFFICE, TO INVESTIGATE HIM, TO PROSECUTE HIS TEAM IN A WAY THAT NONE OF THEM COULD DO ON THEIR OWN. IT BECOMES HIS INCREDIBLE STORY ABOUT THE AMERICAN SYSTEM.

HOW ARTICLE ONE OF THE CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE TWO, ARTICLE THREE INTERLOCK AND PLAY WITH THINGS LIKE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND THE REPORTERS WHO COVERED THAT STORY. TO DO SOMETHING THAT NO ONE OF THEM COULD DO ON THEIR OWN. JUDY: YOU ALSO NOTE HOW WATERGATE WAS A DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN OLD WASHINGTON AND NEW WASHINGTON. EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT. >> WATERGATE IN MANY WAYS AS THE TURNING POINT, THE CENTRAL HINGE THE 20TH CENTURY IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. YOU HAVE THIS MOMENT WHERE YOU HAVE THIS NEW GENERATION OF LEADERS USHERED IN TO WASHINGTON. THIS IS A GENERATION THAT RESHAPES THE CAPITAL. RESHAPES WASHINGTON. MANY OF THE PARTS OF THE INVESTIGATIVE PRESS WE ARE NOW USED TO, THE WASHINGTON PRESS CORPS, YOU SEE FIRST COME TO THE INVESTIGATIVE MINDSET IN THE MIDST OF WATERGATE. SO MUCH OF THE REFORMS, THE PROTECTIONS AROUND ABUSES OF

POWER, PRIVACY, CIVIL LIBERTIES IN AMERICA GROW UP OUT OF THE WORST OF WATERGATE. JUDY: HOW MUCH NEW WAS THERE TO FIND OUT? >> ONE OF THE GREAT MAXIMUMS -- GREAT MAXIMS I FEEL LIKE A WHOLE COUNTRY ADOPTED AFTER WATERGATE WAS THIS IDEA THAT THE COVER-UP WAS WORSE THAN THE CRIME. WHAT WE LEARN ACTUALLY WITH ALL THE ACCUMULATED KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAST 50 YEARS IS THAT IS PROBABLY NOT TRUE WITH WATERGATE, WITH THE NEXT IN YEARS. IN MANY WAYS, THE CRIMES WERE TERRIBLE. THERE WERE MANY MORE OF THEM THAN WE KNEW AT THE TIME. THERE WERE REASONS TO BELIEVE NIXON EVEN WALKED RIGHT UP TO THE LINE OF OUT RAT TREASON IN TRYING TO ENCOURAGE THE COLLAPSE OF THE PARIS PEACE TALKS THAT WOULD END THE VIETNAM WAR TO KEEP THE VIETNAM WAR GOING FOR HIS OWN POLITICAL BENEFIT IN THE FALL OF 1968 AS HE WAS RUNNING

FOR PRESIDENT TO MANY OF THESE DETAILS HAVE ONLY COME OUT IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. JUDY: YOU MENTIONED THE CRIMINALITY OF RICHARD NIXON. I WAS STRUCK BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN YOU SAY AFTER ALL THIS TIME YOU SPENT STUDYING NIXON THAT YOU WERE TAKEN BY THE SIMILARITIES AND THE CONTRAST WITH FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> AS WE RECKON WITH THE ABUSES OF THE NIXON YEARS, THE SCANDALS OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND OF COURSE THE TWO IMPEACHMENTS THAT DONALD TRUMP WENT THROUGH AS PRESIDENT AND JUST AFTER HIS PRESIDENCY. IN MANY WAYS, THE THINGS THAT WORK IN 1972, 1973, 1974 DID NOT WORK DURING THE TRUMP YEARS. IT IS WORTH THINKING ABOUT WHY THAT HAPPENED AND THERE IS A LOT WE CAN LEARN ABOUT HOW WASHINGTON DOES NOT WORK TODAY BUT GOING BACK AND LOOKING AT THE NIXON YEARS.

JUDY: IT IS QUITE AN UNDERTAKING. QUITE A BOOK. WATERGATE: A NEW HISTORY ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WATERGATE BREAK IN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> IT IS ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO TALK TO YOU. ♪ JUDY: IN UKRAINE, PRESIDENT BIDEN IS CONFRONTING THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FOREIGN-POLICY CHALLENGE SINCE THE WITHDRAWAL OF AFGHANISTAN LAST SUMMER. GEOFF BENNETT IS BACK FOR AN ANALYSIS OF RUSSIA'S POLITICAL ACTIONS. >> PRESIDENT BIDEN REACTED SWIFTLY TO VLADIMIR PUTIN DECLARING HE WOULD RECOGNIZE THE INDEPENDENCE OF TWO BREAKAWAY REGIONS IN EASTERN UKRAINE. POSSIBLY MUSIC -- POSSIBLY USING THE MOVE AS A PRETEXT FOR INVASION THE U.S. HAD WARNED WAS LILY COMING. AS PRESIDENT BIDEN FOCUSES ON

THE UKRAINE CRISIS, HE IS FACED WITH A LOOMING POLITICAL CRISIS AT HOME -- TO MAINTAIN THEIR POWER AND IT WASHINGTON. HERE TO DISCUSS THAT AND MORE, AM JOINED BY A WALTER AND TAMRA KEITH -- AND TAMARA KEITH. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR JAKE SULLIVAN WARNED RUSSIA COULD BE PREPARING FOR A CONFLICT EVEN MORE BRUTAL THAN SOME ESTIMATES. BY THE START OF THIS CRISIS, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN TRANSPARENT IN DECLASSIFY INTELLIGENCE AND SHARING IT WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. TRYING TO TELEGRAPH PUTIN'S NEXT STEPS. WHAT IS BEHIND THAT STRATEGY? >> IT IS NOT JUST THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. ALLIES IN EUROPE HAVE BEEN RELEASING INTELLIGENCE ABOUT WHAT THEY SAY PUTIN IS UP TO. PART OF THIS WAS TO MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT ON VLADIMIR PUTIN SO THAT HE COULD NOT GET AWAY WITH FOR INSTANCE A FALSE FLAG

OPERATION. THE KEPT COMING OUT WITH INTELLIGENCE SAYING WE THANK PUTIN IS PLANNING THIS. WE THINK THEY MIGHT DO IT THIS WAY AS A WAY OF SIGNALING NOW, YOU SHOULD NOT DO THIS. I WILLAY SENATOR TED CRUZ IS OUT WITH A STATEMENT CRITICIZING THAT STRATEGY SAYING IT DID NOT WORK. AND CLEARLY THIS IS ESCALATING IN UKRAINE RIGHT NOW. >> A QUESTION ABOUT THE DOMESTIC -- POTENTIAL DOMESTIC POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES. I TALKED TO WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS. THEY SAY -- THEY ARE KEENLY AWARE OF HOW PRESIDENT BIDEN'S POLITICAL OPPONENTS ARE LOOKING TO LEVERAGE WHATEVER MOVE HE MAKES HERE. WHAT ARE THE DOMESTIC POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES HE IS FACING AS YOU SEE IT? >> IT IS A GOOD QUESTION. THIS PRESIDENT NOW COMES INTO THIS CRISIS IN A VERY DIFFERENT POLITICAL SHAPE THAN HE CAME INTO THE AFGHANISTAN SITUATION,

THE WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS FROM AFGHISTAN. WHEN HE CAME INTO OFFICE, HE HAD A PLURALITY OF AMERICANS WHO SAID THEY THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO BE A GOOD COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. THEY TRUSTED THE WAY HE WOULD DEAL WITH A CRISIS. ONCE WE GOT POST AFGHANISTAN, THOSE NUMBERS DROPPED NOW YOU HAVE PLURALITIES AND EVEN A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SAYING THEY DON'T THINK HE WILL BE ABLE TO HANDLE A CRISIS. THEY DON'T THINK HE IS DOING WELL AS A COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. HE DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME DEPTH, THE SAME WELL OF GOODWILL TO DRAW FROM THAT HE DID EARLIER. THINK THAT IS AN IMPORTANT THING TO UNDERSTAND. THE OTHER PIECE OF THIS IS THERE COULD BE A DOMESTIC IMPACT. NORMALLY THINGS HAVE HAPPENED OVERSEAS. THEY DON'T HAVE AN IMMEDIATE IMPACT ON OUR DOMESTIC LIVES. IN THIS CASE, THE COST OF ORIOLE IS GOING TO POTENTIALLY BE

SIGNIFICANT. -- COST OF OIL IS GOING TO POTENTIALLY BE SIGNIFICANT. THE PRESIDENT HAS WARNED AMERICANS WE COULDEE AN INCREASE IN ENERGY PRICES. THIS IS COMING AT A PERILOUS TIME FOR THE PRESIDENT AND CONSUMERS WHO ARE ALREADY SPENDING A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY ON GASOLINE. SO IT COULD HAVE AND OTHER PINCH FOR AMERICANS WHO ARE FEELING THAT INFLATIONARY PRESSURE IN THEIR EVERYDAY PURCHASES. >> LET'S SHIFT OUR FOCUS TO COVID AND THIS NEXT IS OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH BECAUSE YOU HAVE AT LEAST 11 DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS AND THE MAYOR OF WASHINGTON, D.C., THEY HAVE STARTED LIFTING MASK MANDATES IN SCHOOLS AND OTHER SETTINGS WHILE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS FOLLOWING THE CDC GUIDANCE, WHICH RECOMMENDS INDOOR MASKING IN ALL SETTINGS. THE CDC IS EXPECTED TO REVISE THAT AS EARLY AS THIS WEEK BUT WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE

WIDENING GAP BETWEEN STATE AND FEDERAL POLICY AND STATE AND CDC POLICY? WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT THE POLITICS OF COVID RIGHT NOW? >> THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY CHALLENGING TIME IN THE PANDEMIC AND POLITICS BECAUSE THE NUMBERS ARE FALLING REALLY FAST. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, THE WHITE HOUSE PETER LEE MADE IT CLEAR IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TO ME THAT THEY ARE STICKING WITH THE CDC GUIDANCE. WHATEVER THE CDC DOES, THE WHITE HOUSE WILL BE FOLLOWING THEIR LEAD. AT THE CDC DOES NOT MOVE AT THE SPEED OF POLITICS. SO YOU HAVE SOMEONE LIKE GOVERNOR MURPHY WHO I SPOKE WITH IN NEW JERSEY AND ONE IMPORTANT THING TO POINT OUT IS GOVERNOR MURPHY SAID HE WAS LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS PICK HE SAID HE IS SICK OF COVID. EVERYONE ISICK OF COVID. DON'T NEED A FOCUS GROUP TO TELL YOU PEOPLE ARE DONE BUT HE SAID HIS DECISION WAS NOT BASED ON THOSE POLITICS BUT RATHER BASED ON THE SHEER NUMBERS.

THAT THE CASES ARE FALLING EVERY SINGLE DAY IN HIS STATE. THEY WERE HIT EARLY WITH OMICRON. THOSE CASES HAVE BEEN FALLING FOR MORE THAN A MONTH NOW. WHAT HE DID AND WHAT MANY OF THESE GOVERNORS HAVE DONE IS THEY HAVE SET A DATE THAT IS A LITTLE WAYS OFF. IN NEW JERSEY, IT IS EARLY MARCH. IT IS NOT IMMEDIATE. THEY'RE WAITING FOR THE NUMBERS TO FALL FURTHER. THEY HAVE SET A DATE. THEY IDENTIFIED AN OFFRAMP. IT IS POSSIBLE TO CDC GUIDANCE WILL AUALLY CATCH UP WITH ESE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS BY THE TIME THEIR POLICIES GO INTO EFFECT. THE EXPERTS I TALKED TO SAY THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS FIGURING OUT AND PROJECTING FORWARD WHAT THE ON-RAMP WOULD BE IF UNFORTUNATELY THERE IS AN OTHER VARIANT THAT CAUSES CONCERN OR IF THE BOOSTERS WANE IN THEIR EFFECTIVENESS. THE POLITICIANS WERE NOT SO GREAT A YEAR AGO SAYING THINGS

MAY CHANGE AND THIS TIME AROUND THEY NEED TO BE CLEAR WITH THE PUBLIC THAT EVEN THOUGH WE MAY BE MOVING INTO SOMETHING THAT FEELS LIKE A NICE PHASE, THAT MAY NOT BE THE END OF THE STORY. >> IN THE COUPLE OF MINUTES WE HAVE LEFT, DEMOCRATS SAY THEY ARE FOLLOWING PUBLIC-HEALTH GUIDANCE AND MAKING THESE RECOMMENDATIONS, BUT IT IS HELPFUL POLITICALLY. IMMIGRANTS LEARNED THAT LESSON AFTER THEY LOST THE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION IN VIRGINIA IN PART OVER COVID PROTOCOLS AND MASKING IN SCHOOLS AND NOT NECESSARILY THE SUBSTANCE OF THE POLICY BUT THE WAY THEYALKED ABOUT. >> THAT IS RIGHT. THE BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOVERNORS AND THE PRESIDENT IS MOST OF THESE GOVERNORS ARE UP FOR REELECTION THIS YEAR. OBVIOUSLY THE PRESIDENT IS NOT. I THINK THERE ALSO IS A REASON FOR THE ADMINISTRATION TO FEEL A LITTLE SNAKE BIT ABOUT CALLING FOR THE END OF MASK MAATES.

WE ALL REMEMBER JULY OF 2021 WHEN THE PRESIDENT WENT OUT ON THE LAWN OF THE WHITE HOUSE SAYING WE HAVE INDEPENDENCE NOW FROM COVID. WE ARE MOVING FORWARD. I WENT BACK AND LOOKED AT SOME OF THE CONTENT OF THAT SPEECH AND IT WAS MUCH LIKE WE ARE PAST THIS NOW. WE ARE GOING TO LIVE OUR LIVES. KIDS ARE GOING TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL. OBVIOUSLY THAT DID NOT HAPPEN THAT WAY. IF YOU ARE GOING TO GET AHEAD OF THE CDC, THE ADMINISTRATION HAS TO BE THINKING, WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO BACKTRACK AGAIN MUCH LIKE WE DID IN JULY. >> IT IS A GOOD POINT. THREE YEARS INTO THIS PANDEMIC, POLITICIANS HAVE LEARNED NOT TO PREDICT WHERE THINGS WILL HEAD NEXT. THANK YOU BOTH. ♪ JUDY: ON THIS PRESIDENTS' DAY,

WE TAKE A DIFFERENT LOOK AT THE WHITE HOUSE DURING THE KENNEDY YEARS. A NEW EXHIBITION, FIRST CHILDREN AT THE JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY IN BOSTON SHOWS HOW THE YOUNG RESIDENTS NAVIGATED THEIR NEW HOME AND HELP MOTHER AND FIRST LADY JACQUELINE KENNEDY TRIED TO PROTECT THEM FROM A PRESS AND A PUBLIC ANXIOUS TO SEE THEM. JERROD BOWEN FROM GBH BOSTON TAKES US THERE. >> I CALL UPON TO ABANDON THIS COURSE OF GLOBAL DOMINATION. >> IN THE EARLY 1960'S WHEN THE PRIDENT FOUND HIMSELF ON THE PRECIPICE OF NUCLEAR WAR, THERE WAS ALWAYS HOPE IN THE WHITE HOUS EMANATING DIRECTLY FROM ITS YOUNGEST AND MOST CHERUBIC RESIDENCE. >> TO SEE THE CHILDREN, IT IS HUMANIZING OF THE PRESIDENCY ADMINISTRATION. IT REASSURES PEOPLE THAT WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS, THAT OUR CHILDREN MATTER IN THE END. >> THAT ACCORDING TO JFK LIBRARY

AND MUSEUM DIRECTOR ALAN PRICE IS ONE OF MYRIAD REASONS THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE CAPTIVATED THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. >> WHAT HAS BEEN MOST STRIKING TO YOU SEEING THIS COLLECTION OF THE CHILDREN? >> IT IS SO EXCITING TO BRING OUT A PIECE OF OUR COLLECTION WE DO NOT ORDINARILY GET TO BRING OUT. >> IN ITS NEWEST EXHIBITION, THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM HAS FOCUSED ON THE FIRST CHILDREN. CAROLYN KENNEDY WAS THREE WHEN HER FATHER TOOK OFFICE AND JOHN JR. WAS ALL OF TWO MONTHS. A PERFECT COMPLEMENT TO THEIR PARENTS OWN YOUTHFUL ALLURE. >> AMERICA WAS OBSESSED WITH THEM. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER LONG BEFORE INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK, THERE WERE MAGAZINES AND AMERICA LOVED TO HAVE MAGAZINES IN THEIR HOME AND THESE CHILDREN WERE ON THE COVERS. >> BECAUSE SAYS THE CURATOR, A SIZABLE PORTION OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SUDDENLY HAD A WHITE HOUSE TO WHICH THEY COULD CONNECT. >> 40% OF THE ELIGIBLE VOTERS WERE PEOPLE UNDER 40. THESE PEOPLE WERE WORLD WAR II

VETERANS AS WAS PRESIDENT KENNEDY. THEY HAD YOUNG FAMILIES. THEY CLOSELY IDENTIFIED WITH THE KENNEDY FAMILY. >> THEY FLOODED THE WHITE HOUSE WITH GIFTS, ROCKING CHAIRS FROM A SHOP IN NORTCAROLINA. SPARKLING PIGGY BANKS FROM CALIFORNIA MAKERS. DOLES FROM WORLD LEADERS. >> THESE GIFTS GOT OUT OF CONTROL. THE WHITE HOUSE REQUESTED A BAN ON SENDING PETS BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE SENT PETS. SOMETIMES THROUGH THE MAIL. >> THEN CAME THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF THE CHILDREN. PAPER DOLLS AND COMIC BOOKS. SOMETHING THAT ARE IN THE INDIGNATION OF FIRST LADY JACQUELINE KENNEDY, COMIC VON MILLER'S GRAMMY-WINNING PARITY OF THE FAMILY. >> I SHOULD LIKE TO ASK A QUESTION. >> WOULD YOU IDENTIFY YOURSELF PLEASE? ? I AM YOUR MILD. -- I AM YOUR WIFE. DARKER IT IS MILD FOR TODAY'S STANDARDS BUT FOR THE TIME, IT WAS CONSIDERED GOING A STEP TOO FAR.

DARK FOR THE PUBLIC'S APPETITE FOR ALL THINGS KENNEDY GREW SO VORACIOUS, JACKIE KENNEDY BEGAN TO SHED A DUMP SHOULD HEATING ELEANOR ROOSEVELT'S PERSONAL WARNING THAT A LIFE INSIDE THE QUOTE UNQUOTE FISHBOWL COULD BE DIFFICULT. SO KENNEDY ALLOWED THE RELEASE ONLY OF BASIC INFORMATION LIKE THE CHILDREN'S HEIGHTS BUT NOT MUCH MORE. >> AT ONE POINT SHE SAYS TO THE PRESIDENT PRESS SECRETARY, NO MORE INFORMATION. IF THE MEDIA ASKS WHAT ARE THEY WANT FOR THEIR BIRTHDAYS, WHETHER THEY WANT FOR CHRISTMAS, TELL THEM IS AS KENNEDY DOES NOT WANT TO GIVE OUT THAT INFORMATION. >> SHE DEFIED MORE PUBLIC SENTIMENT WHEN SHE ASSEMBLED A SCHOOL WITHIN THE WHITE HOUSE FOR CAROLINE AND THE CHILDREN OF STAFF MEMBERS. AS THE BATTLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND DESEGREGATION RAGED ACROSS THE COUNTRY, JACKIE KENNEDY SETTLED THE MATTER AT LEAST ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. >> THE WHITE HOUSE SCHOOL DID INTEGRATE AND THAT CHILD WAS AVERY HATCHER WHO WAS THE SON OF ANDREW HATCHER, ASSISTANT PRESS SECRETARY WHO WAS THE HIGHEST RANKING AFRICAN-AMERICAN IN THE

KENNEDY CABINET. A LOT OF THE CHILDREN DROVE PRESIDENT KENNEDY AS THEY KNEW HIM. IT IS PRESIDENT KENNEDY WALKING TO THE POOL FOR A SWIM OR AVERY HATCHER SHOWS A PRESS CONFERENCE. HIS FATHER IS LIKE A STICK FIGURE NEXT TO THE LECTERN. DARKER AS CHALLENGING AS THE WHITE HOUSE COULD BE, PROVIDED ROUTINE AND TOGETHERNESS. A PLACE WHERE THE PRESIDENT COULD ALWAYS FINGER PAINT WITH HIS SON AND HAVE BREAKFAST WITH HIS DAUGHTER. DARKER JACQUELINE KENNEDY DID STATE AFTER THE ASSASSINATION THAT THIS WAS A POINT IN THEIR LIVES WHEN SHE FELT THEY WERE VERY CLOSE BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL TOGETHER IN THE SAME PLACE AS A FAMILY. SHE KIND OF REFLECTED ON THESE AS BEING SOME OF THEIR BEST YEARS. >> FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR, I'M JARED BOWEN IN BOSTON. ♪ JUDY: FINALLY TONIGHT,

REMEMBERING A GIANT IN THE WORLD OF PUBLIC HEALTH. DR. PAUL FARMER, A PHYSICIAN, ANTHROPOLOGIST AND FOUNDER OF A LEADING GLOBAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION DIED TODAY. HE WAS KNOWN WORLDWIDE FOR IMPROVING HEALTH CARE ACCESS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. THE GROUP HE COFOUNDED, PARTNERS IN HEALTH, SAID FARMER DIED IN HIS SLEEP. HER SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT HAS THIS REMEMBRANCE. >> FROM PROMINENT VOICES IN GLOBAL HEALTH TODAY, SHOCKED REACTION TO THE PASSING OF AN ICONIC FIGURE. PAUL FARMER WAS BRILLIANT, PASSIONATE, KIND AND HUMBLE FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON SAID. HE TOUCHED MILLIONS OF LIVES, ADVANCE GLOBAL HEALTH EQUITY AND FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED THE WAY HEALTH CARE IS DELIVERED IN THE MOST IMPOVERISHED PLACES ON EARTH. FARMER CAME TO PROMINENCE IN THE EARLY 2000 WORKING IN HAITI'S REMOTE CENTRAL REGION COULD HEAR

COULD PATIENTS DESERVE THE SAME EXPENSIVE RETROVIRAL -- SAME EXPENSIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUGS AVAILABLE IN WHICH COUNTRIES. >> ONE OF THE BIGGEST SET OF MYTHS WE ARE DEALING ABOUT OUR ABOUT THERAPY FOR HIV. IT CANNOT BE DONE IN A PLACE LIKE THIS. PEOPLE DON'T HAVE A CONCEPT OF ME TO THEY DON'T HAVE WRISTWATCHES. MEDICATION HAS TO BE REFRIGERATED. IT IS NOT COST-EFFECTIVE. ANYTHING YOU COULD EVER INITIATE IN A POOR COUNTRY. >> HIS ADVOCACY IS CREDITED WITH HELPING SHIFT THAT PERCEPTION. IN 2000 THREE, THE GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION CREATED A PROGRAM THAT BROUGHT THE LIFESAVING DRUGS TO MILLIONS OF PATIENTS IN DEVELOPING NATIONS. TODAY, THE NONPROFIT HEAT COFOUNDED AS ONE OF THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD. IN THE LAST YEAR, IT PROVIDED OVER 2 MILLION WOMEN'S HEALTH

CHECKUPS AND NEARLY 3 MILLION OUTPATIENT MINUTES -- OUTPATIENT VISITS. DURKHEIM SURE YOU ALREADY ARE PEACE AND A THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL LAST YEAR. NO ONE WOULD EVER MISS THAT. >> A PROLIFIC WRITER AND AUTHOR, FORMER WAS NEVER AFRAID OF CRITICIZING COLLEAGUES OR THE SYSTEMS IN WHICH THEY WORKED. >> INSTEAD OF COLLABORATION, THERE WAS COMPETITION WHERE WAS NOT WARRANTED. PUBLIC HEALTH IS FULL OF IT. >>'S WORK INSPIRED COUNTLESS DOCTORS AROUND THE GLOBE INCLUDING CELINE COUNTER, AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST AT THE NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE COULD SHE IS A SENIOR FELLOW AND EDITOR AT KAISER HEALTH NEWS. >> HE VIEWED HEALTH HOLISTICALLY AND A LENS OF JUSTICE. I THINK WHAT MAKES PAUL LOSS IN THIS MOMENT SO DEVASTATING TO MANY OF US IS HE IS PRECISELY THE KIND OF LEADER WE NEED IN PUBLIC HEALTH AT THIS MOMENT. AND I REALLY HELP THAT SO MANY OF US WHO WERE TOUCHED BY HIM

AND HIS MENTORSHIP AND HIS TEACHINGS WILL BRING HIS LIFE, HIS SPIRIT TO OUR WORK IN THE YEARS TO COME AS WE CONTINUE TO FIGHT THIS PANDEMIC. >> IN RECENT MONTHS, FORMER CONNECTED HIS DECADES OF WORK ON HEALTH INEQUITIES TO THE PANDEMIC. HE SPOKE TO JEFFREY BROWN LAST YEAR. >> THERE IS THIS CONFUSION THAT HAPPENS AT THE BEGINNING OF MANY EPIDEMICS. THE IDEA THAT IF IT IS A NOVEL PATHOGEN AND NO ONE IS IMMUNE THAT IT IS GOING TO BE SOME SORT OF GREAT LEVELER. THERE REALLY ARE ALMOST NO EXAMPLES IN WHICH THAT IS THE CASE. THESE DISEASES ARE NEVER BUBBLERS IN THAT SENSE. THEY ALWAYS LOOK FOR WEAKNESSES IN SOCIETY. THEY INVADE THESE CRACKAND FISSURES. >> PAUL FARMER IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN. HE WAS 62. JUDY: THAT IS THE NEWSHOUR FOR TONIGHT. I'M JUDY WOODRUFF TO JOIN US ONLINE AND AGAIN HERE TOMORROW EVENING.

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