PBS NewsHour; Friday, February 11, 2022, 6:00pm-7:00pm PST

♪ JUDY: GOOD EVENING. I AM JUDY WOODRUFF. TONIGHT, IS A RUSSIAN INVASION IMMINENT? THE U.S. ISSUEITS STARKEST WARNING YET AND URGES AMERICANS TO LEAVE AND HE EIGHT HOURS. -- IN 48 HOURS. THEN, ONGOING TRUCKER BLOCKADES AT THE CANADIAN BORDER HAMSTRING THE AUTO INDUSTRY AND SEND RIPPLES THROUGH CADA AND THE U.S. ECONOMIES. >> PEOPLE ARE NOT AWARE OF THE POWER OF THESE CHOCK -- CHOKEPOINTS PRIOR TO THESE RECENT EVENTS. JUDY: IT IS FRIDAY. BROOKS AND CAPEHART WAS UKRAINE, THE WHITING DIVIDE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY -- A WIDENING DIVIDE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY,

AND MASK MANDATES. ALL THAT AND MORE ON TONIGHT'S "PBS NEWSHOUR." ♪ JUDY: -- ANNOUNCER: MAJOR FUNDING HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY. ♪ BEING OUR ECONOMY FOR 160 YEARS, BNSF, THE ENGINE THAT CONNECTS US. ♪ ♪ CONSUMER CELLULAR.

♪ >> THE JOHN S AND JAMES ALL NIGHT FOUNDATION, FOSTERING INFORMED AND ENGAGED COMMUNITIES. MORE ONLINE. ♪ ANNOUNCER: AND WITH THE ONGOING SUPPORT OF THESE INSTITUTIONS. AND, FRIENDS OF THE NEWSHOUR. ♪ 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: THE DAY, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ISSUED ITS MOST URGENT WARNING YET THAT RUSSIA COULD LAUNCH A WAR IN UKRAINE AT ANY TIME. MORE THAN 100,000 RUSSIAN TROOPS

SURROUND UKRAINE ON THREE SIDES, AND THE PRESIDENT'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR JAKE SULLIVAN URGED AMERICANS TO LEAVE BY THE END OF THE WEEKEND. U.S. OFFICIALS TELL US THEY FEAR THE WAR COULD START NEXT WEEK. HE JOINS ME NOW. WHAT IS IT THAT HAS LED TO THIS MORE STARK LANGUAGE FROM THE ADMINISTRATION? CORRESPONDENT: YEAH, AS YOU SAID, RUSSIA HAS DEPLOYED ONE OF THE LARGEST FORCES EUROPE HAS SEEN IN 50 YEARS. WESTERN AND U.S. OFFICIALS TELL ME IN RECENT DAYS, THE U.S. SAW THOSE FORCES INCREASE THE READINESS FOR A POSSIBLE INVASION. AND THE U.S. OFFICIALS BECAME CONVINCED THAT THE TIMELINE IS BEING ACCELERATEDNTO NEXT WEEK. SO THOSE FACTS COMBINED LED U.S. AND MILITARY OFFICIALS TO BRIEF THEIR NATO ALLIES, AND THREE WESTERN AND U.S. OFFICIALS TOLD ME THAT PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN HAD MADE THE DECISION TO INVADE. NOW, JAKE SULLIVAN WAS ASKED

ABOUT MY REPORTING BY MY COLLEAGUE, ANNE SULLIVAN SAID THAT PUTIN HAD NOT MADE THE CALL JUST YET. >> WE ARE NOT SAYING A DECISION HAS BEEN TAKEN, A FINAL DECISION TAKEN BY PRESIDENT PUTIN. WHAT WE ARE SAYING IS THAT WE HAVE A SUFFICIENT LEVEL OF CONCERN BASED ON WHAT WE ARE SEEING ON THE GROUND AND WHAT OUR ANALYSTS HAVE PICKED UP THAT WE ARE SENDING THIS CLEAR MESSAGE. CORRESPONDENT: THAT CONCERN COMES FROM THREE DISTINCT ASPECTS. FIRST, THE QUANTITY OF FORCES. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS MAP FROM THE SOUTH IN CRIMEA, TO THE SOUTHEAST, WHERE RUSSIA HAS INVADED IN THE PAST, TO THE NORTHEAST, NORTH, NORTHWEST, AND THE BELARUSIAN BORDER. IN BELARUS, WE HAVE SEEN 30,000 RUSSIAN TROOPS EXERCISING. U.S. OFFICIALS ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE CAPABILITIES OF THOSE FORCES. SENIOR OFFICIALS SAY RUSSIA HAS MOVED ADVANCED MISSILES IN ADVANCE TO DEVICES THAT CAN TARGET UKRAINIAN TELECOMMUTE

OCCASIONS. THE THIRD ASPECT IS RUSSIAN INTENT. U.S. OFFICIALS FEAR RUSSIAN FORCES COULD ASSAULT KIEV, LIKE YOU ARE SEEING ON THAT MAP TO DEPOSE THE GOVERNMENT. LAST NIGHT, PRESIDENT BIDEN SAID "ANY INVASION, THINGS COULD GO CRAZY QUICKLY." SULLIVAN LAID IT OUT SPECIFICALLY TODAY. >> IF A RUSSIAN ATTACK ON UKRAINE PROCEEDS, IT IS LIKELY TO BEGIN WITH A AERIAL BOMBING AND MISSILE ATTACKS THAT COULD KILL CIVILIANS WITHOUT REGARD TO THEIR NATIONALITY. A SUBSEQUENT GROUND INVASION WOULD INVOLVE THE ONSLAUGHT OF A MASSIVE FORCE. WITH VIRTUALLY NO NOTICE, COMMUNICATIONS TO OTHERS COULD BE SEVERED AND TRANSPORTATION HALTED. CORRESPONDENT: THAT MEANS CELL PHONES, INTERNET, GPS, AND THAT IS WHY THE U.S. IS WARNING AMERICANS TO GET OUT THIS WEEKEND. JUDY: IS THERE ANYTHING GOING ON AT THIS MOMENT ON THE DEPAUL MEDIC FRONT? CORRESPONDENT: THERE ARE TWO ITEMS ON THE CALENDAR. PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL TALK TO

PUTIN TOMORROW MORNING. PUTIN HAD WANTED TO SPEAK THIS COMING MONDAY, BUT THE U.S. PROPOSED TOMORROW, AND THE CRIMINAL AND ACCEPTED, ACCORDING TO ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL. THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR OLAF SCHOLZ IS STILL SCHEDULED TO TRAVEL TO KYIV AND MOSCOW TO MEET WITH UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN OFFICIALS. THE ADMINISTRATION IS TRYING TO MAINTAIN ANY POSSIBLE OFFRAMP, DESPITE FRANKLY THE DIRE PREDICTIONS. JUDY: MEANTIME, A MILITARY MOVE ANNOUNCED TODAY BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION? CORRESPONDENT: THE PENTAGON ANNOUNCED AN ADDITIONAL 1300 TROOPS FROM 82ND AIRBORNE FROM FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA WOULD DEPLOY TO POLAND, BRINGING THE TOTAL DEPLOYED FROM THE U.S. IN THE LAST MONTH TO 3000 SOLDIERS, IN ADDITION TO AN ADDITIONAL 1000 AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO ARRIVED TODAY IN ROMANIA FROM THEIR DEPLOYMENT IN GERMANY, DOUBLING THE U.S. FORCES THERE. I SHOULD MENTION THAT THIS

EVENING, THE RUSSIANS PUT OUT A STATEMENT SAYING ALL OF THESE AMERICAN INCREASE WARNINGS OF "WORK A COORDINATED INFORMATION ATTACK AIMED AT DISCREDITING RUSSIA'S DEMANDS." OFFICIALS SAY IT IS RUSSIA PLANNING AND INFORMATION ATTACK AHEAD OF AN INVASION. JUDY: THANK YOU FOR REPORTING ON THESE FAST-MOVING EVENTS. I KNOW YOU WILL CONTINUE FOLLOW IT AS THE WEEK AND GOES FORWARD. THANK YOU. CORRESPONDENT: THANK YOU. ♪ STEPHANIE: I AM STEPHANIE SY WITH NEWSHOUR WEST. WE WILL RETURN TO THE PROGRAM AFTER THE HEADLINES. A NEW DELAY APPROVING PFIZER'S COVID-19 VACCINE FOR CHILDREN UNDER FIVE. THE FDA ONCE MORE DATA ON WHETHER TO AUTHORIZE THREE LOW-DOSE SHOTS INSTEAD OF TWO SHOTS FOR CHILDREN.

PFIZER SAID IT COULD BE APRIL BEFORE THE DATA IS READY. AND, THE CDC REPORTED ON FINDINGS THAT BOOSTER SHOTS AS LOSE POTENCY AFTER FOUR MONTHS, MEANING SOME NEED A FOURTH INOCULATION. A COURT IN ONTARIO, CANADA ORDERED TRUCKERS TO END THEIR BLOCKADE OF THE KEY BRIDGE. THE PROTESTS AGAINST COVID VACCINE MANDATES HAS CLOGGED THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE BETWEEN TARIO AND DETROIT, DISRUPTING SUPPLIES TO U.S. AUTO PLANTS. THE COURT ORDER CAME AFTER ONTARIO'S PREMIER DECLARED AN EMERGENCY AND THREATEN FINES AND JAIL TIME FOR THE PROTESTERS. >> THIS IS CRITICAL TO OUR ECONOMY, AND I WILL TELL YOU IT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. IN SAYING THAT, I WANT EVERYONE TO WORK TOGETHER AND I WANT THIS TO BE PEACEFUL, AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THE GOODS TO THE FACILITIES. STEPHANIE: WE WILL FOCUS ON THIS IN DETAIL AFTER THE NEWS SUMMARY.

PRESIDENT BIDEN ORDERED THE RELEASE OF $7 BILLION IN FROZEN ASSETS THAT HAD BELONGED TO AFGHANISTAN. THOSE FUNDS ARE NEEDED NOW IN AFGHANISTAN. THE REST WILL COMPENSATE 9/11 VICTIMS IN THE U.S., PENDING ONGOING LITIGATION. THE TALAN SAID THE MOVE AMOUNTS TO STEALING. PENTAGON OFFICIALS SAID MORE CIVILIANS MAY HAVE DIED IN FIRST REPORTED IN A RAID THAT KILLED THE ISLAMIC STATE LEADER IN SYRIA. A BOMB COLLAPSED HIS HIDEOUT LAST WEEK. OFFICIALS SAY THE RUBBLE MAY HAVE HIDDEN SOME VICTIMS. RESCUE WORKERS SAY UP TO 13 PEOPLE WERE KILLED. THE U.S. OFFICIAL SAYS THEY BELIEVE THAT ISIS LEADER TRIGGERED THE BOMB, BUT CANNOT BE CERTAIN. IN MADAGASCAR ARE, THE DEATH TOLL FROM THE TROPICAL CYCLONE LESS WEEKEND HAS REACHED 120. THE STORM BROUGHT EXTREME WIND AND DOWNPOURS TO THE ISLAND NATION'S SOUTHEASTERN COAST AND FLATTEN ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOODS IN ITS PATH. BACK IN THIS COUNTRY, A FORMER U.S. AIR FORCE SERGEANT WITH ALLEGED TIES TO THE BOOGALOO MOVEMENT HAS PLED GUILTY TO THE

FATAL SHOOTING OF A FEDERAL SECURITY OFFICER IN MAY 2020. STEPHEN CARRILLO CHANGED HIS PLEA TO GUILTY IN THE MURDER OF DAVID PATRICK UNDERWOOD AND TO THE ATTEMPT AND MURDER OF UNDERWOOD'S COLLEAGUE AFTER PROSECUTORS AGREED NOT TO SEEK THE DEATH PENALTY. THE BOOGALOO MOVEMENT IS A CONCEPT EMBRACED BY A LOOSE NETWORK OF GUN ENTHUSIAST AND MILITIA-STYLE EXTREMIST. HE WAS SHOT WHILE STANDING OUTSIDE AN OPEN FEDERAL BUILDING AMID LARGE PROTESTS OVER THE POLICE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD. A MILWAUKEE MAN PLEADED NOT GUILTY TODAY TO DRIVING INTO CHRISTMAS PARADE MARCHERS IN WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN, KILLING SIX AND INJURING SRES MORE. DARRELL BROOKS IS FACING 77 CHARGES, INCLUDING HOMICIDE AND RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT. HE REMAINS JAILED ON $5 MILLION BAIL. AT THE WINTER OLYMPICS, A DOPING SCANDAL ERECTED ON NEWS A RUSSIAN FIGURE SKATER TESTED POSITIVE FOR A BANNED MEDICATION.

SHE FAILED THE TEST LAST DECEMBER, BUT IS COMPETING IN BEIJING. IF SHE IS BANNED, THE RUSSIANS MIGHT LOSE HER GOLD MEDAL IN TEAM FIGURE SKATING. OLYMPIC OFFICIAL SAID THERE WATCHING FOR A DECISION BY SPORTS ARBITRATION COURT. >> WE ARE 100% AGAINST DOPING. WE WILL PURSUE ALL CASES TO THE END, BUT CLEARLY, IN THIS SPECIFIC CASE, A VERY ACTIVE CASE, AND WE ARE WAITING FOR IT TO BE FULLY SEEN TO THAT END. JUDY: STEPHANIE: IN THE DAYS -- STEPHANIE: IN THE DAYS COMPETITION, SHAUN WHITE PLACED FOURTH IN THE HALFPIPE, THE FINAL OLYMPIC COMPETITION FOR THE THREE-TIME GOLD MEDALIST BEFORE HE RETIRES. STILL TO COME, A JURY WEIGHS THE EVIDENCE IN SARAH PALIN'S DEFAMATION TRIAL AGAINST THE NEW YORK TIMES. WE EXAMINE THE CAREER OF A FEDERAL JUDGE ON THE PRESIDENT'S SUPREME COURT SHORTLIST. APOLLO OHNO TALKS ABOUT TEAM USA'S PERFORMANCE AT THE OLYMPICS COME UP LESS MUCH MORE.

-- OLYMPICS. PLUS MUCH MORE. ANNOUNCER: THIIS THE PBS NEWSHOUR --THIS IS PBS NEWSHOUR WEST, FROM OUR STUDIOS IN WASHINGTON AND FROM OUR BUREAU AT THE WALTER CRONKITE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY. JUDY: AS WE REPORTED, TRUCKERS AND PROTESTERS BLOCKED A KEY BORDER CROSSING BETWEEN THE U.S. AND CANADA FOR A FIFTH STRAIGHT DAY. A COURT-INJUNCTION ISSUED ORDERED AND INTO THAT BLOCKADE, AND PRESIDENT BIDEN AND PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU ALSO SPOKE ABOUT TRYING TO STOP THE DISRUPTIONS. BUT FOR NOW AND THE TRUCKS ARE BLOCKING THREE BORDER CROSSINGS IN MONTANA, NORTH DAKOTA, AND MICHIGAN, INCLUDING MOST OF THE CRUCIAL BRIDGE BETWEEN DETROIT AND WINS HER, ONTARIO. IT HAS LED TO SHUTDOWNS OF AUTO PLANTS AND PRODUCTION CUTS IN MICHIGAN, WEST VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY, ALABAMA, AND CANADA. WE HAVE A LOOK AT THE LATEST. [HORN HONKING] CORRESPONDENT: A NORMAL FREE-FLOWING ARTERY.

>> WE WANT FREEDOM. CORRESPONDENT: CHOKED TO A STANDSTILL BY THOSE CALLING THEMSELVES A FREEDOM CONVOY. IT BEGAN IN JANUARY IN RESPONSE TO A RULE IMPOSED BY BOTH COUNTRIES THE TRUCKERS BE FULLY VACCINATED TO CROSS THE BORDER. IT IS DAY FIVE OF PROTESTS AT THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE. THE KEY TRANSIT POINT CONNECTS WINS OR -- WINDSOR CASTLE ONTARIO TO DETROIT. TRUCKERS HAVE SHUT DOWN THE ROAD. >> WE WANT FREEDOM FROM ALL MANDATES. THAT'S WHAT WERE FIGHTING FOR. WE ARE CANADIANS AND WE WANT TO BE FREE CANADIANS. CORRESPONDENT: CANADA IS OUR BIGGEST TRADING PARTNER, BIGGER THAN CHINA, AND THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE IS THE BIGGEST BORDER CROSSING, 25% OF ALL TRADE FLOWING ACROSS HIS BRIDGE. IT IS A KEY ECONOMIC PROBLEM, AUTO PARTS DELIVERY STALLED, MANUFACTURES, FORD, TOYOTA, GM SCALING DOWN PRODUCTION OR ENTIRELY SHUTTG DOWN PLANTS.

>> THIS IS SIGNIFICANT. FOR ONE, IT COMES AT A TERRIBLE TIME. WE ARE ALREADY SHORT ON NEW VEHICLE INVENTORY BECAUSE OF GLOBAL COMPUTER CHIP SHORTAGE LAST YEAR. WE HAD A LOT OF PLANT SHUTDOWN AND NOT PRODUCING VEHICLES, SO VERY LITTLE INVENTORY TO BUY, SO CONSUMERS MAY HAVE TO WAIT LONGER FOR THE VEHICLES THEY ORDERED. FOR AUTOMAKERS, IT HAS SHUT DOWN THEIR PRODUCTION. CORRESPONDENT: WHAT BEGAN AS DEFIANCE OF A SPECIFIC COVID TRUCKING RULE HAS MORPHED INTO A LARGER PROTESTS INTO HOW JUSTIN TRUDEAU'S GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN HANDLING THE VIRUS. >> WE WANT TO DEFUSE THE SITUATION BY OPENING GOOD COMMUNICATION AND DROPPING THESE MANDATES AND RESETTING LIFE BACK TO NORMAL. CORRESPONDENT: IT GOT SO BAD THAT LOCAL OFFICIALS SUCCESSFULLY OBTAINED A COURT ORDER TO STOP THE PROTESTS. ITS IMMEDIATE IMPACT IS UNCLEAR, BUT IT IS SET TO TAKE EFFECT TONIGHT.

TODAY, PER MINISTER TRUDEAU JOHN: 4 -- CALLED OR A PEACEFUL RESOLUTION. >> THE BORDER CANNOT AND WILL NOT REMAIN CLOSED. CORRESPONDENT: THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS ASKED CANDIDATE INTERVENE, USING FEDERAL POWERS. BY CONTRAST, THE HEART RATE IN THE U.S. HAS CHEER THE MOVEMENT, WORDS OF SUPPORT FROM TUCKER CARLSEN AND SEAN HANNITY, FOUR THE GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS, AND TEXAS SENATOR TED CRUZ. >> I THINK THE CANADIAN TRUCKERS ARE STANDING UP FOR FREEDOM. I THINK IT IS POWERFUL TO WATCH. IT IS AN INCREDIBLE GROUNDSWELL. CORRESPONDENT: A GROUNDSWELL HAPPENING IN THE U.S. TOO, IT SEEMS. THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SET A CONVOY COULD BEGIN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AS EARLY AS THIS WEEKEND AND DISRUPT SUPER BOWL TRAFFIC. TRUCKERS ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD HAVE BEEN TRIGGER TO START PROTESTS OF THEIR OWN. YESTERDAY IN NEW ZEALAND, PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF WELLINGTON, WHILE POLICE IN PARIS ARE DEPLOYING THOUSANDS

OFFICERS THIS WEEKEND TO KEEP A GROWING CONVOY OUT OF THAT CITY. NOW OF CRSE, PEOPLE HAVE USED ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS FOR POLITICAL ENDS GOING BACK CENTURIES. SO WHAT IS DIFFERENT IS. >> WHAT IS DIFFERENT IS THE WILLINGNESS TO DO THIS TO A MAJOR CHOKEPOINT. CORRESPONDENT: THE PRESIDENT OF THE PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS SAYS A TRADITIONAL BOYCOTT IS A DIFFERENT ANIMAL FROM THIS ONE. >> IT IS ABOUT COMMERCIAL POWER AND CHOICE, NOT ABOUT PHYSICAL POWER WHERE YOU CANNOT GET ACCESS TO SUPPLIES. THAT IS A DIFFERENT LEVEL. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE SEEING HERE. CORRESPONDENT: HE ALSO SEES A CONNECTION TO THE RECENT SUPPLY CHAIN BREAKDOWNS, LIKE THOSE THAT BLOCKED THE SUEZ CANAL, OR THE COVID PARALYSIS. >> PEOPLE WERE NOT AWARE OF THE POWER OF THESE CHOKEPOINTS PRIOR TO RECENT EVENTS, OR THEY WERE NOT THINKING ABOUT IT AS A POLITICAL WEAPON. CORRESPONDENT: SHOULD THIS

PROTEST WORRY US? IT SHOWS HOW VULNERABLE WE ACTUALLY ARE. >> POLITICALLY, THIS IS AN AGGRESSIVE FORM OF PROTEST. IT IS A WEAPONIZATION OF PROTEST THAT IS EVENTUALLY MORE DAMAGING, AND I THINK THE POLICE AND MILITARY IN OUR GOVERNMENTS HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO RESPOND TO THESE THREATS. ♪ JUDY: BOUNDARIES OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION AND FREEDOM OF PRESS ARE BEING DELIBERATED IN MANHATTAN, AS A JURY CONSIDERS THE LIBEL CASE AGAINST THE NEWER TIMES BY SARAH PALIN. WE HAVE MORE ON THE TRIALS KEY MOMENTS IN WHAT IS AT STAKE. CORRESPONDENT: IN THIS CASE, IT CENTERS ON A 2017 NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL ABOUT DANGEROUS RHETORIC AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE, WRITTEN THE DAY A GUNMAN OPENED FIRE ON CONGRESSIONAL

REPUBLICANS DURING A BASEBALL PRACTICE AND CRITICALLY INJURING REPRESENTATIVE STEVE SCALISE. THE EDITORIAL DREW A FALSE LINK BETWEEN ANOTHER SHOOTING, A 2011 ATTACK ON THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMAN GABRIELLE GIFFORDS AND OTHERS, AND A MAP THAT INCLUDES HER DISTRICT MARKED WITH WHAT SEEMED TO BGUN CROSSHAIRS. THE MAP WAS PUBLISHED BY SARAH PALIN'S POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE AND THE EDITORIAL SAID "THE LINK TO POLITICAL INCITEMENT WAS CLEAR." WAS THE TIMES REALIZED ITS MISTAKE, IT ISSUED A CORRECTION THE VERY NEXT DAY, BUT IN COURT THIS WEEK, SARAH PALIN TOOK TO THE STAND TO MAKE THE CASE THAT THE MAIN AUTHOR OF THAT PIECE, FORMER OPINION EDITOR JAMES BENNETT, HAD POLITICAL MOTIVATIONS TO HARM HER AND KNEW THE CLAIM WAS WRONG AND THAT HE PUBLISHED IT ANYWAY. THE TIMES COUNTERS HE MADE AN HONEST MISTAKE AND QUICKLY CORRECTED IT. AT STAKE HERE ARE THE FREE SPEECH PROTECTIONS FOR REPORTERS AND THEIR NEWS ORGANIZATIONS. DEANNA PAUL OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WAS IN THE COURTROOM FOR

THIS TRIAL AND IS ALSO A FORMER PROSECUTOR HERSELF, AND SHE JOINS ME NOW. VERY GOOD TO HAVE YOU ON THE NEWSHOUR. SARAH PALIN SAYS SHE WAS DEFAMED AND LIBELED BY THIS EDITORIAL, AND SHE HAS TO PROVE THE LEGAL TERM OF ACTUAL MALICE BY THE TIMES TOWARDS HER. WHAT IS THAT AND WHAT IS THE EVIDENCEHAT HER TEAM CITED IN THE CASE? >> SO, THE STANDARD OF ACTUAL MALICE COMES OUT OF A SUPREME COURT CASE FROM DECADES AGO, AND IT IS A VERY HIGH BAR FOR PUBLIC FIGURES LIKE SARAH PALIN TO PROVE. SHE HAS TO PROVE THAT MR. BENNET IN THE NEW YORK TIMES EITHER KNEW THE STATEMENT THEY WERE PUBLISHING WAS FALSE, OR RECKLESSLY DISREGARDED THE TRUTH IN PUBLISHING IT. AND THE TIMES OF THEIR LAWYERS ARGUED TODAY DURING CLOSING ARGUMENT THAT, AS YOU SAID, IT WAS AN HONEST MISTAKE AND AS SOON THEY WERE MADE AWARE OF IT COME THEY ISSUED A CORRECTION AND REVISE THE EDITORIAL, AND

THEY ACTUALLY TWEETED AN APOLOGY, WHICH MR. BENNET SAID WAS AGAINST COMPANY POLICY, SO THEY WENT TO GREAT EFFORTS TO CORRECTED. MS. PALIN STILL SUED. SHE SAID SHE WAS MORTIFIED BY THE EDITORIAL AND SHE SUFFERED EMOTIONAL DAMAGE AS A RESULT OF IT. CORRESPONDENT: I KNOW THAT SHE ALSO HAD TO PROVE THAT SHE SUFFERED SOME TANGIBLE HARM FROM THIS EDITORIAL. WHAT EVIDENCE DID THEY CITE IN THAT REGARD THAT SHE WAS HARMED BY THIS? >> WHAT HER LAWYERS SAID TODAY IN CLOSING ARGUMENTS FROM AND THEY WERE ASKING FOR DAMAGES FOR THE EMOTIONAL SUFFERING SHE WENT THROUGH, AND SHE TALKED ABOUT HOW SHE WOULD HAVE TO GO FOR RUNS TO CLEAR HER HEAD. THEY WERE NOT ASKING FOR FINANCIAL HARM COME UP BUT SHE SAID HER REPUTATION SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF THIS. CORRESPONDENT: I UNDERSTAND SHE WAS ALSO ASKING FOR PUNITIVE DAMAGES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, BUT THE JUDGE DID NOT ALLOW THAT. EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED THERE. >> THIS HAPPENED YESTERDAY ON THURSDAY.

AFTER THE JURY LEFT FOR THE DAY, HE RULED THE JURY WOULD NOT BE PERMITTED TO CONSIDER PUNITIVE DAMAGES AND SAID THE EVIDENCE OF ILL WILL ON THE PART OF MR. BENNET, I THINK HIS WORDS WERE "QUITE MODEST," SO HE DID NOT THINK THAT SHOULD GO TO THE JURY. I'M SORRY. CORRESPONDENT: I'M SORRY. SARAH PALIN, AS MANY PEOPLE KNOW , SHE WAS ONE OF THE LEADING LIGHTS OF THE GOP, CONSIDERED A POSSIBLE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. HOW DID SHE DO? THIS CASE REVOLVES LARGELY AROUND HER AND HER BEING ATTACKED BY THIS EDITORIAL. HOW DID SHE DO ON THE STAND? CORRESPONDENT: THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION AND SOMETHING THE JURY WILL BE TALKING ABOUT DURING DELIBERATIONS. AS YOU KNOW, CREDIBILITY OF THE WITNESSES IS VERY IMPORTANT, SOMETHING HER ATTORNEYS BROUGHT UP AS IT RELATES TO JAMES BENNETT TODAY BUT SHE WAS ON THE STAND FOR A FULL DAY AND

TESTIFIED AT LENGTH ABOUT THE WAY IT IMPACTED HER, HOW SHE RESPONDED TO IT, AND THE DAMAGE AND HARM SHE SAYS SHE SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF IT. CORRESPONDENT: SO THE TIMES' D EFENSE WAS THIS WAS NOT INTENTIONAL, THAT WHEN THEY RECOGNIZE THE MISTAKE, THAT THE SHOOTER IN THE GIFFORD CASE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF THIS MAP PUT OUT BY SARAH PALIN'S PAC, BUT THEY WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS TO PUT FORWARD EVIDENCE TO PROVE THIS WAS NOT A CONSPIRACY. WHAT KIND OF THINGS DID THEY CITE? >> IN THE SUMMATION, THEY TALKED ABOUT THIS IDEA THAT AS SOON AS THEY REALIZE THERE WAS AN ERROR, THEY WENT TO GREAT LINKSO CORRECTED. IF THIS WAS A CSPIRACY OR IF THIS REALLY WAS A POLITICAL VENDETTA AGAINST CONSERVATIVES, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT RIGHT AWA AND THE FACT THEY CORRECTED IT BEFORE MS. PALIN SAID SHE WAS GOING TO SUE, THAT

REALLY WAS THEIR ARGUMENT, THAT THEY TOOK ALL OF THESE STEPS. MR. BENNET SAID THIS IS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE HE HAS REGRETTED EVERY DAY SINCE, A THEY DID EVERYTHING THEY COD DO IN THEIR POWER TO GET THE CORRECTION OUT TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE. THAT THEY DID THAT. CORRESPONDENT: CAN YOU REMIND US ABOUT SOME OF THE BROADER CONTEXT HERE? THIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT SARAH PALIN VERSUS THE NEW YORK TIMES. THIS IS A MORE FUNDAMENTAL FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUE WITH REGARDS TO THE PRESS. >> SO THIS IS ONE OF THE RARE DEFINITION CASES AGAINST THE MAJOR MEDIA OUTLET THAT HAS GONE TO TRIAL. WE HAVE NOT SEEN WHEN IN SEVERAL YEARS. AGAIN, IT GOES TO THIS IDEA OF ACTUAL MALICE, A STANDARD SET FORTH IN ANOTHER CASE, AND IT MAKES IT HARD FOR PUBLIC FIGURES TO PREVAIL IN DEFAMATION SUITS AGAINST MAJOR NEWS ORGANIZATIONS. AT THIS POINT THERE HAD BEEN TWO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES WHO HAVE SAID THEY ARE OPEN TO

CONSIDERING THE STANDARD, AND WE HAVE SEEN IT HAS ALSO BEEN A TARGET FOR REPUBLICANS FOR SOME TIME. IF MS. PALIN DOES PREVAIL, IT COULD VERY MUCH CHANGE THE MEDIA LANDSCAPE AND MAKE IT EASIER FOR OTHER POLITICIANS TO SUE AGAINST OTHER NEWS ORGANIZATIONS. POLICE THINK YOU FOR JOINING US --CORRESPONDENT: THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. ♪ JUDY: AS PRESIDENT BIDEN CONSIDERS WHO HE WOULD CHOOSE TO SUCCEED JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER ON THE SUPREME COURT, WE TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO SOME OF THE POTENTIAL NOMINEES REPORTEDLY ON THE SHORTLIST. IT LOOKS LIKE A BIPARTISAN STAMP OF APPROVAL MAKES A SOUTH CAROLINA FEDERAL JUDGE ONE OF THE TOP CONTENDERS. WE START OUR SERIES BY ANSWERING THE QUESTION, WHO IS J MICHELLE CHILDS?

CORRESPONDENT: ON TOP OF HER LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS, MICHELLE CHILDS UNIQUELY HAS THIS, DISPLAYED AT A 2010 FEDERAL BENCH CONFIRMATION HEARING, OPEN, BIPARTISAN SUPPORT. >> SHE HAS DEMONSTRATED DEDICATION TO THE JOB IN A WORK ETHIC UNMATCHED BY OTHERS. >> YOU WOULD DO A GREAT JOB FOR THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. POLICE A NOD --CRESPONDENT: A NOD LINDSEY GRAHAM REPEATED LAST MONTH. >> SHE IS ONE OF THE MOST DECENT PEOPLE I MET. CORRESPONDENT: BORN IN DETROIT, SHE MOVED TO SOUTH CARINA AFTER THE DEATH OF HER FATHER, WHO WAS A POLICE OFFICER. SHE EXCELLED IN HIGH SCHOOL, AND A LINK THE ENTRY REFCTED HER ACCOLADES AND EVEN THREE YEARS OF PERFECT ATTENDANCE. >> SHE HAS BEEN A PERSON WHO HAS A WORK ETHIC AND THEY DRIVE THAT IS UNMATCHED. CORRESPONDENT: AN ATTORNEY AND FORMAL COUNSELING HAS KNOWN HER SINCE SHE WAS A STUDENT, WHEN SHE WON.

FOR UNDERGRAD TO THE INNARDS OF SOUTHPORT UP, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA LAW SCHOOL. >> SHE IS DIFFERENT FROM MANY CANDIDATES WHO TRADITIONALLY HAVE AN IVY LEAGUE BACKGROUND. CORRESPONDENT: FROM THEY ARE, SHE JOINED A PRIVATE LAW FORM. >> SHE IS UNFLAPPABLE. YOU CAN'T GET HER WORK APPEARED POLICE HE WORKED ■WITH--HE WORK. CORRESPONDENT: HE WORKED WITH HER, WHERE SHE WAS PROMOTED TO PARTNER. >> I DID NOT GROW UP IN THE SOUTH. I THOUGHT IT WAS A PRETTY BIG DEAL. YOU KNOW, SHE JUST MADE PARTNER LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. CORRESPONDENT: IN THIS 2020 VIRTUAL FORM, SHE SAID SHE DID NOT REALIZE WHAT SHE HAD DONE. >> AT THE TIME I BECAME PARTNER, I DID NOT KNOW I WAS THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA THAT HAD MADE PARTNER AT A MAJOR LAW FIRM. POLICE THEN, SOMETHING ELSE UNUSUAL, SHE LEFT THE FIRM TO TAKE HIGH-RANKING JOBS AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, THEN THE WORKER'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION. IN 2006, SHE BECAME A STATE JUDGE, WHICH REQUIRES ELECTION

BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE. >> FOR THE AVERAGE PERSON, THAT WAS AN ARDUOUS, DISTASTEFUL PROCESS. PREJUDGE CHILDS, IT WAS THE EASIEST THING IN THE WORLD. SHE IS JUST A PEOPLE PERSON. CORRESPONDENT: SHE HANDLED SOME HIGH-PROFILE CASES, INCLUDING A 2007 ARMORED CAR HEIST SHE MADE HEADLINES FOR SENTENCING SOME OF THE YOUNG MEN INVOLVED A 25 YEARS IN PRISON. IN 2010, SHE AND A FAMILY THAT SUPPORT CAME TO WASHINGTON. >> I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY FAMILY. CORRESPONDENT: THE SENATE UNANIMOUSLY CONFIRMED HER AS A FEDERAL JUDGE. >> IS THERE AN OBJECTION? WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. CORRESPONDENT: FROM HER CAME A FEW BIG DECISIONS. AND 214, SHE RULED IN FAVOR OF TWWOMEN SEEKING TO HAVE THEIR MARRIAGE RECOGNIZED, SAYING THE REFUSAL WAS A VIOLATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. THAT WAS THE YEAR BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT UPHELD THE SAME-SEX MARRIAGES. AND AMID THE 2020 ELECTION AND THE CORONAVIRUS MACHINE RULED IN

FAVOR OF EASIER VOTER ACCESS TO ABSENTEE BALLOTS AND AGAINST A REPUBLICAN WITNESS REQUIREMENT. SHE SAYS WHAT SHE WANTS IS TO BE FAIR. >> I WANT PEOPLE TO FEEL LIKE WHEN THEY COME BEFORE ME THAT THEY DON'T FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE BEEN PREJUDGED. OF COURSE I WANT TO BE WELL PREPARED, BUT I WANT THEM TO FEEL THEY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT THEIR ADVOCACY TO ME. >> IT WILL AFFECT PEOPLE'S RIGHTS, THEIR LIVES. CORRESPONDENT: SHE CLERKED FOR HER FROM 2018 TO 2019. WE TALKED ABOUT SOME DOUBTS ON THE LEFT, INCLUDING THE STORY FROM THE AMERICAN PROSPECT WAS CHARGING THAT SHE IS TO PUNITIVE AND SENTENCING, OR THIS FROM THE YOUNG TURKS. THEY FEAR SHE IS TOO CLOSE TO LARGE BUSINESSES. >> SHE HAS A HISTORY OF REPRESENTING EMPLOYERS OVER THE BEST INTEREST OF EMPLOYEES. CORRESPONDENT: SHE SAYS THOSE CONCERNS ARE UNFOUNDED. >> SHE DID NEVER WEIGH ONE SIDE MORE THAN THE OTHER. IT WAS HERE ARE THE IMPACTS OF

THESE DECISIONS THAT IMPACT THEM AND THEIR FAMILY AND THE IMPACTS ON THE VICTIM AND THEIR FAMILY AND THE IMPACTS ON THE COMMUNITY GENERALLY. CORRESPONDENT: SHE IS THINKING OF THE SUPREME COURT AND HER MENTOR. >> SHE IS A BLACK FEMALE, A MOTHER, ALL OF WHICH INSPIRES ME ON A PERSONAL LEVEL. THERE IS A LOT OF DEBATE ABOUT HOW WOMEN CAN PERFORM IN THE WORKFORCE AT A HIGH LEVEL, AND I THINK SHE HAS DONE THAT WILL, RAISING A FAMILY, BEING A WIFE, MOTHER, SO THOSE ASPECTSRE SUPER INSPIRING TO ME. CORRESPONDENT: SHE ALSO LIKES TO ENGAGE ON DIVERSITY AND AS SHE DID WITH HUMOR GIVING FEEDBACK DURING A DO COLOSSAL COMPETITION. >> ONE CRITIQUE. ONE TIME I ASK YOU A QUESTION AND YOU SAID YES, SIR. [LAUGHTER] I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME WOMEN ON THE BENCH. [LAUGHTER] CORRESPONDENT: THAT IS THE FIAL PITCH FOR SUPPORTERS, THAT SHE WOULD RESHAPE THE BENCH THE MOST. JIM CLYBURN. >> I JUST THINK IT IS TIME TO DIVERSIFY THE COURT, NOT JUST AS IT RELATES TO GENDER, BUT AS IT

RELATES TO COLOR AS WELL. AND, AS IT RELATES TO BACKGROUNDS AND EXPERIENCES. CORRESPONDENT: IN ANY CASE, JUDGE CHILDS SHOULD BE READY FOR A PROMOTION. SHE WAS NOMINATED TO THE COURT OF APPEALS LAST YEAR. CONFIRMATION IS EXPECTED, IF SHE IS NOT NOMINATED TO THE SUPREME COURT INSTEAD. JUDY: AND, SHE JOINS US NOW. YOU HAVE DONE SOME MORE REPORTING TODAY ON JUDGE CHILDS AND HER WORK HISTORY. WHAT DID YOU LEARN? CORRESPONDENT: SHE IS UNIQUE IN THIS ASPECT THAT SHE IS RECEIVING OPEN CRITICISM FROM SOME PROGRESSIVES, QUESTIONING HER TIME WORKING AS A PRIVATE ATTORNEY FOR BUSINESS CLIENTS, AND ALSO WHEN SHE WAS A DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE STATE LABOR DEPARTMENT. I SPOKE TODAY TO THE WOMAN WHO HEADED THE LABOR DEPARTMENT AT THE TIME, RITA MCKINNEY, AND SHE TOLD ME IN HER EXPENSE OVER TWO YEARS WITH JUDGE CHILDS THAT

JUDGE CHILDS WAS RELENTLESSLY OPEN MINDED EVERY CASE SHE HEARD, AND THE FACT THAT WORKPLACE SITUATIONS APPROVED UNDER HER IN THE AREA SHE MANAGED DURING THAT TIME. WE DID OUR RESEARCH. IT IS TRUE THAT IN THE TWO YEARS SHE WAS IN THAT JOB BUT THE NUMBER OF WORK IS INJURIES AND DISEASES REPORTED DID GO DOWN FOR WORKERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, AND IN FACT, SHE ALSO DID DO SOME GROUNDBREAKING WORK REACHING OUT TO MIGRANT WORKERS WITH THE TASK FORCE FOR NON-ENGLISH SPEAKERS AND OFFERING HOUSING, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. AGAIN, THOSE WHO SUPPORTER SAY SHE IS OPEN-MINDED AND SEES BOTH SIDES. PROGRESSIVES WANT SOMEONE WHO LEANS CLEARLY LEFT. JUDGE CHILDS IS AN EXAMPLE OF SOME AND WHO HAS CLEARLY RULED ON EACH CASE ON ITS OWN. JUDY: SOME REALLY IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIAL NOMINEE. LISA, THANK YOU. NEXT WEEK, WE WILL BE LEARNING MORE ABOUT TWO OTHER POTENTIAL NOMINEES WHO M BE ON THE PRESIDENT SHORTLIST.

-- PRESIDENT'S SHORTLIST. ♪ AND NOW TO THE ANALYSIS OF BROOKS AND CAPEHART. THAT IS NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST DAVID BROOKS AND JONATHAN CAPEHART, COLUMNIST WITH THE WASHINGTON POST. GOOD TO SEE BOTH OF YOU ON THIS FRIDAY EVENING, ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE NEWS TODAY IS IRLY GRIM. DAVID, I WILL START WITH YOU. OUR COLLEAGUE REPORTING TONIGHT THAT U.S. OFFICIALS ARE SAYING A RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE COULD COME AT ANY TIME. YOU WERE TELLING US THAT YOU HAVE BEEN TALKING TO ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS TODAY YOURSELF. DAVID: YES. IN THE COURSE OF MY CAREER, I HAVE BEEN IN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF BRIEFINGS. I'M NOT SURE I HAVE BEEN IN ONE AS SOBERING AS TODAY. OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS,

THERE HAS BEEN AN ACCUMULATION OF CONCERN, AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS, THAT HAS ACCELERATED. THEY CAN'T TELL US WHAT EXACTLY THEY LEARNED OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS, BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT HAS CAUSED THEM ALARM, SO THERE IS NOTHE POSSIBILITY, AND I TOLD -- AND TOLD A RELATIVE HIGH PROBABILITY THAT WE WILL SEE SOME ST OF INCURSION INTO UKRAINE, AND THAT WOULD BE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT MILITARY ACTION ON THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT SINCE 1945. IT WOULD TEST THE NATO ALLIANCE, AND IT WOULD TEST THE LIBERAL ORDER THAT EXISTED IN 1945. I HAD ALWAYS SUBSUMED -- ASSUME THAT THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO PUSH NATO BACK AND MAKE SURE NATO PROMISES NEVER TO INCLUDE UKRAINE AS A MEMBER, NEVER PUTS U.S. TROOPS ARE WESTERN TROOPS ON UKRAINIAN SOIL, BUT IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE THAT THE OBJECTIVES ARE MORE AMBITIOUS, TO DISRUPT NATO, TO TAKE BACK UKRAINE, WHICH A LOT OF RUSSIANS THINK HAS ALWAYS BEEN PART OF

RUSSIA AND WAS STOLEN FROM RUSSIA, TO CREATE A BUFFER IN CASE THERE IS AN INCURSION FROM THE WEST, SO IT IS SCARY. THAT IS ALL I CAN SAY. JUDY: JONATHAN, WHAT YOU MAKE OF WHAT IS GOING ON, WHAT WE ARE LEARNING, WHAT WE ARE HEARING? JONATHAN: I HAVE TO SAY THAT WHAT DAVID JUST SAID, AND ALSO HIS DEMEANOR, HAS TAKEN ME FROM CAUTIOUS TO NOW ALSO FEELING VERY, VERY CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. I WAS AT AN EMBASSY DINNER SUNDAY WHERE UKRAINE WAS PART OF THE TABLE CONVERSATION, AND LOTS OF EXPERTS AROUND THE TABLE ALL SAYING THE SAME THING, THEY DID NOT KNOW WHAT VLADIMIR PUTIN WANTED TO DO. USUALLY ITHESE SITUATIONS, THE WRITING IS CLEAR, THE OBJECTIVES OF SOMEONE. SOMEONE SAID THAT NO MATTER WHAT PRESIDENT PUTIN DOES, HE WINS. BUT LISTENING TO DAVID, BUT ALSO LISTENING TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR TODAY, JAKE

SULLIVAN, WHO IS A VERY SOBER PERSON, TO SEE HIM AND LISTEN TO HIM FROM THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS BRIEFING ROOM DELIVER SUCH STARK NEWS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUTHE INTENTIONS, WHAT THEY ARE SEEING IN TERMS OF THE INTELLIGENCE, ABOUT WHAT RUSSIA IS ABOUT TO DO BUT THE WARNING TO AMERICANS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE TO LEAVE WITHIN THE NEXT 24 TO 48 HOURS SAYS TO ME, AND I WAS NOT IN THAT BRIEFING THAT DAVID WAS IN, BUT THEY HEAR THAT COMING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY SHOULD CONCERN MANY AMERICANS ABOUT WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN ON THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT. JUDY: DAVID, I HEAR SOME PEOPLE ASKING ME WHETHER THE POSITION THE WEST HAS TAKEN, THEY U.S. HAS TAKEN, IN EFFECT DRAWING A LINE HERE, IS TRULY IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE U.S. I POINT OUT THAT UKRAINE IS RIGHT NEXT TO RUSSIA, THAT IT USED TO BE PART OF THE SOVIET UNION. THEY ARE STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY THIS IS A FIGHT THAT THE U.S. SHOULD BE IN.

>> WE WILL NOT HAVE TROOPS, WE WILL NOT HAVE DIRECT INTERVENTION. THE QUESTION IS HOW CAN WE RALLY THE WEST TO MAKE SURE RUSSIA FACES SERIOUS PENALTIES FOR THIS. I SAY THIS, FROM 1915 TO 1945, WE HAD A CULTURE AND THE REGIME IN EUROPE WHICH WAS THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE, THE STRONG NATIONS GET TO CONQUER THE LITTLE ONES. IN 1945, AFTER 150 MILLION DEATHS AND TWO WOR WARS, WE SET UP A RES-BASED ORDER WERE STRONG NATIONS DO NOT GET TO TAKE OVER LITTLE ONES, THAT WE HAVE SOME SORT OF GLOBAL INTERNATIONAL ORDER WITH NATO OF THE UNITED NATIONS, ALL SORTS OF ORGANIZATIONS MAKING IT A PEACEFUL PLACE, AND WE HAVE ENJOYED THAT PIECE. -- PEACE. IF RUSSIA TAKES UKRAINE, THAT WOULD SHRED THAT ORDER. IN 1991, I WAS IN UKRAINE CORING THE UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT. I THINK THE UKRAINIANS THEN AND

NOW FEEL THEY ARE A SEPARATE NATION. THEY ARE NOT RUSSIA. THEY ARE UKRAINE. THEY VOTED THAT WAY IN 1991. THEY HAVE BEEN CONDUCTING THEMSELVES THAT WAY. THEY WILL BE FIGHTING TO PRESERVE THEIR SOVEREIGNTY AND INDEPENDENCE IF THIS HAPPENS. OUR INTEREST IS NOT TO GO TO WAR WITH RUSSIA, BUT OUR INTEREST IS TO PRESERVE A WORLD WHERE RULES ARE FOLLOWED, AND IS NOT THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE. JUDY: JONATHAN, IS IT YOUR SENSE THAT MOST AMERICANS UNDERSTAND THAT, THAT THAT IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT? JONATHAN: I AM NOT SURE. THE AMERICAN POP THIS WRIT LARGE DOES NOT PAY THAT MUCH ATTENTION TO WHAT'S HAPPENING OUTSIDE OUR BORDERS, OUTSIDE OUR NATIONAL CONCERNS, BUT THEY SHOULD BE, BECAUSE OF WHAT DAVID JUST TALKED ABOUT. THAT LIBER SMALL D DEMOCRATIC ORDER THAT GREW OUT OF WORLD WAR II, THE UNITED NATIONS, NATO, SO ON AND SO FORTH, WAS CREATED BY THE U.S. AND MAINTAINED BY THE

U.S. AND THE WEST, AND UP UNTIL THE PRESIDENCY OF DONALD TRUMP, THAT ALLIANCE WAS SOLID, BUT SOMETIMES PART OF ME WONDERS WHETHER VLADIMIR PUTIN FELT IT WAS PERFECTLY FINE TO SURROUND UKRAINE ON THREE SIDES, NORTH, EAST, AND SOUTH, WITH THOUSANDS OF TROOPS BECAUSE HE THOUGHT THE NATO ALLIANCE WOULD NOT IN THE WESTERN ALLIANCE WOULD NOT STAND UP TO HIM, AND IF ANYTNG WE HAVE SEEN OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS IS THAT IT APPEARS THAT THE NATO ALLIANCE WITH THE WESTERN ALLIAN IS PRETTY SOLID AGAINST WHAT VLADIMIR PUTIN APPEARS TO BE PLANNING FOR UKRAINE. JUDY: AS WE WATCH THAT SITUATION ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, DAVID, I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT THE GROWING DIVIDE HERE AT HOME BETWEEN VIEWS OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS DEALING WITH MASK MANDATES DEALING WITH COVID, AND

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND SCIENTIST SAYING, WAIT A MINUTE, IT IS TOO SOON TO BE LIFTING THESE MANDATES. HOW DO YOU SEE THE PRESSURES ON THESE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS, AND CONVERSE, ON WASHINGTON? DAVID: I UNDERSTAND WHERE THE CDC AND SCIENTISTS ARE COMING FROM. THEIR IMARY RESPONSIBILITIES ARE TO GUARD THE NATION'S HEALTH , AND THEY SEE 2500 PEOPLE DYING EVERY DAY, HIGH HOUSE POSITION RATES, AND THEY SAY IT IS TOO SOON. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE GOVERNORS HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PRESERVE HEALTH, BUT THE OVERALL FLOURISHING OF THEIR COMMUNITIES. WHAT IS STRIKING LOOKING AT THE POLLING DATA IS HOW MUCH DELTA AND OMICRON HAVE DEALT A PSYCHIC BLOW TO PEOPLE. PEOPLE ARE EXHAUSTED. THEY ARE CONVINCED IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY AND WE WILL HAVE TO LIVE WITH COVID. THEY WANT SOME VERSION OF THEIR OLD LIFE BACK. A NUMBER OF PEOPLE THINK IT WILL NEVER COME BACK, BUT IN MY VIEW, AND IT SHOULD BE LOCAL BY LOCAL, BUT I'M SITTING HERE IN

WASHINGTON, D.C. IN THE WASHINGTON AREA AND WE HAVE SEEN OMICRON UP IN OMICRON WAY DOWN. IN COMMUNITIES WITH THAT KIND OF SITUATION, IT IS WORTH IT TO TAKE SOME OF THE PSYCHIC PRESSURE OFF AND LOOSEN SOME OF THE MASK RESTRICTIONS. JUDY: JONATHAN, HOW DO YOU READ THIS DIVIDE THAT SEEMED TO GROW WIDER THIS PAST WEEK? JONATHAN: ESPECIALLY WITH THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS IN THE NORTHEAST. I AGREE WITH DAVID 100%. WHEN I LOOKED AT WHAT WAS HAPPENING, I SAW A MEDICAL RESPONSE IN A POLITICAL RESPONSE. THE POLITICAL RESPONSE COMING FROM THE GOVERNORS OF NEW YORK, CONNECTICUT, NEW JERSEY, MASSACHUSETTS, ALL SAYING WE WILL EASE UP ON THE MASK MANDATES. WE WILL TRY TO GET BACK TO NORMAL, AND TO ECHO DAVID, THEY ARE RESPONDING TO A WEARY POPULACE, A POPULACE THAT HAS BEEN ON LOCKDOWN IN ONE FORM OR THE OTHER FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS. THEY JUST WANT TO GET BACK TO SOME SEMBLANCE OF THEIR OLD LIFE, BUT YOU HAVE THE WHITE HOUSE, WHICH HAS THE MEDICAL RESPONSE, AND A VERY CAUTIOUS RESPONSE FOR THE REASONS DAVID

SAID. THEY ARE FOLLOWING THE SIGNS AND LOOKING AT THE HIGH HOSPITALIZATION RATES, THE INCREASING DEATH RATES. THEY ARE NOT NEARLY AS BAD AS THEY WERE DURING THE BIG PEAKS OF THE PANDEMIC EARLIER. BUT THE PRESIDENT AND THE ADMISTRATION, THEY DO NOT WANT TO SAY LIFT OFF THE MASK MANDATES. EVERYONE GO BACK TO YOUR LIVES AS THEY WERE BEFORE, BECAUSE THEY TRIED THAT LAST YEAR, AND THEN HAD TO TELL EVERYONE TO PUT THEIR MASKS BACK ON BECAUSE OMICRON CAME AROUND, SO THE CAUTION, I THINK, IS, IS WORTH IT, BUT I ALSO WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF A MONTH OR TWO DOWN THE ROAD THAT THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE WHITE HOUSE FOLLOWS THE LEAD OF THE GOVERNORS, SIMPLY BECAUSE THE SCIENCE AND THE RAGING OF THE PANDEMIC WILL HAVE ABATED. JUDY: SPEAKING OF POLITICS, ANOTHER QUESTION I WANT TO RAISE WITH BOTH OF YOU, THE MOVE BY

THE RNC LAST WEEKEND, DAVID, TO CENSURE TWO OF ITS OWN, CONGRESSWOMAN LIZ CHENEY, CONGRESSMAN ADAM KINZINGER BECAUSE OF THE ROLE ON THE JANIE REED SIX INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE, AND THEIR STATEMENT THAT WHAT HAPPENED, THE ASSAULT ON THE U.S. CAPITOL JANIE REED SIX WAS NORMAL POLITICAL DISCOURSE. WE SAW SERIES PUSHBACK FROM MITCH MCCONNELL AND OTHER PROMINENT REPUBLICANS. WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? DAVID: I LIKE TO THINK THERE WHAT JONATHAN I DO IS NORMAL POLITICAL DISCOURSE, BUT I MIGHT BE LIVING IN A DIFFERENT CENTURY. WHAT STRUCK ME ABOUT THAT IS INSTITUTIONAL DECAY. THE ART IN C IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE INSTITUTIONAL BASIS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, SO IF YOU ARE A BUILDER FOR A PARTY, YOU WANT TO UNIFY YOUR PARTY AND KEEP IT TOGETHER AND BE THE CENTER OF GRAVITY, AND INSTEAD, THE RNC PICKED AND EMISSARY FIGHT TO DIVIDE ITS OWN PARTY WAS SO THAT SHOWS ME THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS A LOT OF PEOPLE NOT ABOUT THE

PARTY, NOT INSTITUTIONAL, THEY WANT THE FIGHT. THIS COMES AT A TIME, IT SHOULD BE SAID, WOULD IT USED TO BE MOSER PUBLICANS WOULD SAY I AM LOYAL TO DONALD TRUMP ANOTHER PARTY, NOW MOST ARE LOYAL TO THE PARTY AND NOT DONALD TRUMP, THAT THERE IS SOME WEAKENING THERE, T THAT ARE IS NOT PART OF THAT -- BUT THAT ARE IN C IS NOT PART OF THAT. JUDY: WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO YOU, JONATHAN? JONATHAN: WOW. THAT IS ALL I CAN SAY. IT TOLD ME THAT THAT ARE IN C -- RNC LOST ITS MIND AND THE FACT YOU HAD MITCH MCCONNELL AND OTHER REPUBLICAN STEPPING FORWARD AND SAYING, NO, NO, NO, THIS DOES NOT SPEAK FOR ME. THIS IS NOT WHO WE ARE AS A PARTY, GOES AGAINST WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IN THE PAST, THE USAGE OF PRETENDING LIKE IT DID NOT HAPPEN. I DO NOT SEE ANYTHING HAPPENING OVER THERE IN THE TRUMP WING OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, BUT THE FACT THEY CAME OUT PUBLICLY AND

SLAMMED IT IS TERRIFIC, BUT ANOTHER THING I WANT TO BRING UP QUICKLY IS ABOUT THE STRANGLEHOLD OF TRUMP ON REPUBLICANS. FUNDRAISING NUMBERS WERE RELEASED, AND THE SEVEN REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED FOR DONALD TRUMP'S LIKE AN IMPEACHMENT, WHO HAS GONE AFTER TO GET THEM OUT OF CONGRESS WITH HIS OWN CANDIDATES, THEY RAISED, THEY OUTRACE THEIR >>> THEY TRIED TO GET THEM OUT OF CONGRESS WITH HIS OWN CANDIDATES THEY RAISED -- TODAY OUTRAISED THEIR TRUMP BACK HER PRIMARY CHALLENGERS. CONGRESSWOMEN LIZ CHENEY WHO IS THE NUMBER ONE TARGET FOR DONALD TRUMP SHE RAISED $2 MILLION IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2021. SHE HAS $4.7 MILLION IN THE BANK. THE PERSON SHE IS RUNNING AGAINST SHE RAISED $443,000 AND HAS $380,000 IN THE BANK. IT LOOKS LIKE THE ESTABLISHMENT WAITING ON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS BEING HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR.

>> WE WILL GO OFF AND COUNT OUR MONEY RIGHT NOW. >> THANK YOU BOTH. THIS FRIDAY NIGHT JONATHAN AND DAVID BROOKS. WE APPRECIATE IT. ARE JUST ABOUF THE WINTER OLYMPICS, AND THEYOUF HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL AND MORE CONTROVERSIAL GAMES, GIVEN COVID AND CHINA'S >>> WE ARE JUST ABOUT AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE WINTER OYMPICS. THEY HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL AND MORE CONTROVERSIAL GAMES GIVEN COVID AND CHINA'S RECORD ON HUMAN RIGHTS. EVEN SO ATHLETES TRYING TO COMPETE UNDER ENORMOUS PRESSURE AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS. WE GET THE PERSPECTIVE OF AN OLYMPIC GREAT. >> JUDY THIS FIRST WEEK HAS SEEN ITS SHARE OF DISAPPOINTMENTS FOR THE AMERICANS BUT THE HAVE BEEN ELECTRIC MOMENTS AS WELL FEATURING: KIM, NATHAN CHAN AND LINDSAY JACOB ELLIS TO NAME A FEW. THERE ARE US THERE IS ALSO A

LOT OF ATTENTION ON EILEEN WHO WAS BORN IN THE U.S. BUT COMPETING FOR CHINA, HER MOTHER'S HOME COUNTRY. FOR MORE ON THE GAMES FROM AN ATHLETES PERSPECTIVE I AM JOINED BY APOLLO ONO. HE IS THE MOST DECORATED WINTER ONLY BE IN IN U.S. HISTORY WITH EIGHT METALS INCLUDING TWO GOLD. WELCOME TO THE NEWS HOUR. úTHANK YOU FOR MAKING THE TIME. >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. >> HOW DOES THE MOST DECORATED AMERICAN WINTER OLYMPIAN OF ALL TIME WATCH THE OLYMPICS? CAN YOU KICK BACK AND WATCH HER ARE YOU SCREAMING AT THE TV THE WHOLE TIME? >> I WATCH THEM THE SAME WAY EVERYONE ELSE WATCHES THEM. WHEN I AM IN TRANSIT, WHEN I AM FLYING WHEN I HAVE ACCESS TO CONSUME THIS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. I WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT SOMETIMES TO WATCH THESE EVENTS LIVE AND I CHAIR AND SCREAM AND CRY AND SMILE AND SHOUT AT THE SCREEN LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. THE DIFFERENCE NOW IS I AM NO LONGER ON THE FIELD OF PLAY I AM ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE SO I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE WHEN THEY ARE ABOUT TO GO DOWN A SLOPE OR DO SOMETHING.

IT IS PRETTY SPECTACULAR. I GET INVOLVED JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE. A LOT OF THIS HAPPENS WHEN I AM ALONE AND I FIND MYSELF SCREAMING AT THE TELEVISION WHICH IS REALLY FUN. >> JUST LIKE THE REST OF US. WHO HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING? WHAT HAVE BEEN SOME OF THE STANDOUT MOMENTS TO YOU SO FAR? >> I WATCHED EVERYTHING SO FAR. I HAVE WATCHED THE SPEEDSKATING, THE SNOWBOARDING, THE SKIING. OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE OF MY BIAS WITH EACH HACK SPEEDSKATING IN ESSENCE IT IS WHAT I LOVE TO SEE. TO ME THESE GAMES ARE UNPRECEDENTED. THEY ARE UNLIKE ANYTHING THESE ATHLETES HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED BEFORE AND THE PAST TWO YEARS HAVE BEEN UNPRECEDENTED. THIS IS A DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT OLYMPICS. OBVIOUSLY YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I DO THE GEOPOLITICAL TENSION THAT EXISTS THERE. A LOT OF DIFFERENT

CONVERSATIONS HAPPENING AROUND WHAT CAN AND CANNOT BE SAID WHEN ON THE PODIUM OR EVEN INSIDE A FOREIGN COUNTRY BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE THESE ATHLETES STILL WANTS TO PERFORM THEIR BEST. THEY ARE HAVING MORE OPEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW THEY FEEL HOW THEY ARE PERFORMING, THE STRESS AND THE PRESSURES ASSOCIATED AND HOW THEY CAN RISE TO BE THE BEST VERSION OF THEMSELVES. >> I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT ANOTHER UNPRECEDENTED MOMENT WHICH IS JUST THIS ASIAN AMERICAN EXCELLENCE WE ARE WITNESSING. NATHAN CHAN, CHLOE KIM AND EILEEN. WHY DO YOU THINK IT TOOK UNTIL THIS MOMENT TO HAVE THAT KIND OF REPRESENTATION THESE GAMES? >> THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION. HOPEFULLY MAYBE I HAD SOME SEMBLANCE OF ARE A FRACTION OF A PERCENTAGE TO DO WITH THAT WHEN ATHLETES WERE LOOKING AT SOMEONE WHO WAS BIRACIAL OR LOOKS LIKE THEM OR HAD A SINGLE PARENT HOUSEHOLD. AT THE END OF THE DAY THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS A LONG TIME COMING. REPRESENTATIONAL MATTER WHERE YOU'RE FROM WHERE YOU LOOK LIKE AND WHO YOU IDENTIFY AS IS A

REALLY IMPORTANT ASPECT OF MAKING SURE THESE ATHLETES ARE GOING THERE TO BE THEIR BEST. IT TAKES A FEW CYCLES OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES FOR EXAMPLE WHEN I COMPETED IN MY FIRST TWO GAMES IN 2002, EIGHT YEARS LATER IN 2010 THERE WERE KIDS WHO WERE ON MY OLYMPIC TEAM STARTED SKATING BECAUSE THEY WATCHED THE 2002 OLYMPIC GAMES. THIS PHENOMENON AND DREAM IS VERY REAL. THEY HAVE SOME KIND OF BACKGROUND AND STORY THAT RESONATES WITH US OR THEY UNDERSTAND THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT IS PRETTY SPECTACULAR. IT IS IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN TERMS OF THE ASIAN AMERICAN REPRESENTATION BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, THESE ATHLETES ARE REPRESENTING THAT LEADS TO BE THE BEST AVERSIONS OF THEMSELVES. WE ARE ALSO HAVING A CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH. CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE AFTER THE TOKYO GAMES AND WHAT SIMONE BILES WENT THERE AND TALKED

ABOUT OPENLY AND BRAVELY IT IS VERY MUCH A PART OF THESE BEIJING GAMES AS WELL. I AM CURIOUS IF YOU CAN TELL US WHAT DO YOU THINK MOST PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE UNIQUE PRESSURE FACED BY OLYMPIANS? >> I THINK IT IS CHALLENGING TO SEE HER UNDERSTAND WHY SOMEONE WOULD DEDICATE FIVE YEARS, 10 YEARS, 15 YEARS OF THEIR LIFE FOR A RACE THAT LASTS 40 SECONDS LONG. IN THAT RACE AT PARTICULAR OLYMPIC GAMES THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FIRST PACE,, GETTING TO COMMERCIAL ATTRIBUTES, BEING CELEBRATED AND RECOGNIZED EFFECTIVELY YOUR RECOGNITION BEING CHANGED OVERNIGHT TO BEING IN FOURTH PLACE JUST OFF OF THE PODIUM NO ONE KNOWS REMEMBERS EVEN A FEW DAYS AFTER OLYMPIC GAMES ARE FINISHED. THAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOLD AND OFF THE PODIUM IS TO CLAPS. THE ENTIRE PRESSURE ON THESE ATHLETES GOING TO THE GAMES EVERYTHING IS RIGHT ON THIS ONE MOMENT AND BEING SO MARRIED TO THE OUTCOME AND THE RESULT IS

CHALLENGING. I THINK IT IS A DIFFERENT TIME. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH, THE ASSOCIATED CHALLENGES WITH MICRO-TRAUMA AND TRAUMA THAT EXISTS THROUGHOUT HUMAN IS IMPORTANT AND IT IS GOOD AND WE SHOULD BE BE HAVING THESE OPEN CONVERSATIONS. MORE IMPORTANTLY TO ME HOW WILL WE IDENTIFY WITH THE WORD STRENGTH AND CHAMPION AND WHAT THAT MEANS TO US. WHEN I GREW UP THE CONDITIONING I HAD WAS IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW YOU FEEL, IT DOESN'T MATTER YOUR EMOTION, YOUR JOB IS TO CHURN METALS AND PERFORM UNDER THE HIGHEST AMOUNT OF PRESSURE POSSIBLE. THAT IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO. YOU HAVE TO DO THAT AT ALL COSTS EVEN IF IT COMES AROUND TO YOUR OWN INTERNAL UNHAPPINESS. NOW WE ARE MOVING TO A SOCIETY THAT SAYS I CAN BE STRONG. I CAN BE EXTREMELY PERFORMANCE. I CAN WIN MEDALS AND ALSO BE VULNERABLE, SHOW EMPATHY AND SHOW I AM HUMAN AND I HAVE THE SAME INSECURITIES AND SELF-DOUBT AND MAYBE MRS. STEPS EVERYONE ELSE DOES WHO WAS WATCHING.

>> DID YOU EVER LOOK BACK AND SAY MAN, I WISH I HAD THAT SUPPORT OR ABILITY TO TALK ABOUT ALL THIS STUFF WHEN I WAS COMING UP? >> IT IS EASY TO SAY YES TO THAT TYPE OF A QUESTION. I THINK LIFE HAS BEEN A GIFT TO ME IN EVERY ESSENCE. GOOD BAD OR RIGHT OR WRONG I ALWAYS STAND BACK UP. I DO MY BEST TO DUST MYSELF OFF AND RECALIBRATE IN LIFE IS HARD. ONE OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES OF ALL TIME GOOD TIMBER DOES NOT GROW WITH EASE. THE STRONGER WIND OF THE STRONGER THE STRONGER TREES. EVERYONE CARRIES THEIR OWN PAIN AND EXPERIENCES THROUGH LIFE BUT THOSE ARE MERE CHAPTERS IN THE WAY YOU RESPOND AND REACT TO THEM ARE IMPORTANT. DO I WISH I HAD AN OUTLET TO SPEAK ABOUT? I DON'T KNOW IF I WOULD HAVE. I KNOW IF I WAS COMFORTABLE IN MY OWN SKIN TO LET PEOPLE INTO MY MIND. IT IS EASY TO SAY YES BUT I TAKE EVERYTHING I HAVE HAD WITH IMMENSE GRATITUDE AND I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE CHALLENGES I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SHOULDER. AS I GROW MAYBE WE CAN DELIVER THESE INSIGHTS TO THE NEXT GENERATION SO THEY CAN BE

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CHALLENGE. WE WILL TALK WITH THE CHAIR OF THE REPARATIONS TAX COURSE ERIN McDONALD AND LOOK INTO THE GROUNDBREAKING WORK HAPPENING AT THE STATE LEVEL. WHILE SOME ST