PBS NewsHour; Thursday, December 29, 2022, 3:00pm-4:00pm PST

♪ ♪ JUDY: GOOD EVENING, I'M JUDY WOODRUFF. AFTER THE STORM. HARD-HIT AREAS OF THE UNITED STATES DIG THEIR WAY OUT OF THE SNOW. AND SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CANCELS MORE FLIGHTS PROMISES A RETURN TO NORMAL. AND A POWER SHIFT. BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ONCE AGAIN BECOMES ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER AFTER FORMING THE FOLK -- THE MOST FAR RIGHT GOVERNMENT IN THAT COUNTRY'S HISTORY. LEAVING CONGRESS. PATRICK LAHEY REFLECTS ON HIS NEARLY 50 YEARS IN THE CHAMBER AND HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED. >> I LOOK BACK AND I HAVE SEEN SO MUCH WAS GOOD IN THE SENATE AND THAT WAS LOST. JUDY: REMEMBERING A LEGEND, WE EXAMINE THE LEGACY OF SOCCER GREAT PELÉ WHO DIED TODAY AFTER BATTLING SOCK -- AFTER BATTLING

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BROADCASTING AND BY CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUR PBS STATION FROM VIEWERS LIKE YOU. THANK YOU. JUDY: THE TOLL OF THE BLIZZARD THAT HIT THE U.S. AT CHRISTMAS AND LIVES LOST IS STILL RISING TONIGHT AT OFFICIALS REPORT AT LEAST 40 DEATHS IN AND AROUND BUFFALO, NEW YORK. AS THE FRIGID WEATHER EASES RECOVERY EFFORTS ARE SLOWLY MAKING HEADWAY. STEPHANIE SY BEGINS OUR COVERAGE. REPORTER: BUFFALO IS THAWING OUT AFTER DAYS OF BEING SNOWED IN. THE CITY LIFTED A DRIVING BAN JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT BUT THE GOVERNOR VISITED THE AREA TODAY AND SAID ROADS ARE STILL A LONG WAY FROM NORMAL. >> THE VEHICLES ALONG THE SIDES OF THE ROADS ARE SHOCKING. IT IS LITERALLY SNOW, MAJOR SIZED RECOVERY VEHICLES AND UTILITY VEHICLES AND TOW TRUCKS. WE HAVE A REAL CHALLENGE RIGHT NOW WHERE WE HAOA RDSVELOCK BROY

EMERGEY VEHICLES. REPORTER: YURI COUNTY EXECUTIVE APOLOGIZES A DAY AFTER CRITICIZING THE CITY OF BUFFALO'S EMERGENCY RESPONSE. >> BE CRITICAL OF OTHERS AND I NEED TO BE CRITICAL OF MYSELF. WHAT I SAID YESTERDAY WAS INAPPROPRIATE. REPORTER: THERE WERE ALSO QUESTIONS ABOUT ALLEGED DISPARITIES BETWEEN CLEARING STREETS IN LOWER INCOME AREAS VERSUS WEALTHIER WHITE COMMUNITIES. OVER HALF OF THOSE THAT DIED IN THE CITY WERE PEOPLE OF COLOR. >> 18 WERE WHITE THAT WERE DECEASED, 20 WERE BLACK AND ONE WAS HISPANIC. REPORTER: THE CITY MAY ALSO HAVE TO CONTEND WITH FLOODING AS TEMPERATURES REACH 50 DEGREES TOMORROW AND ALL OF THE SNOW MELTS. THE BUFFALO NIAGARA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HAS REOPENED BUT FLIGHT CANCELLATIONS PERSIST NATIONWIDE. NEARLY ALL OF THEM BY SOUTHWEST AIRLINES.

THE CARRIER SCRAPPED ABOUT 60% OF ITS FLIGHTS TODAY. SOUTHWEST HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT OUTDATED I.T. SYSTEMS STRANDED ITS PILOTS AND FLIGHT ATTENDANTS. BAGS ARE PILING UP AT AIRPORTS WITHOUT THEIR OWNERS ARE TO CLAIM THAT WHILE OTHERS ARE GETTING LOST EN ROUTE TO THEIR DESTINATION. MIA FINALLY MADE IT BACK HOME TO DALLAS BUT SHE IS STILL WAITING FOR HER BAGS. >> I WAS TOLD MY LUGGAGE WOULD ARRIVE ON THE NEXT AVAILABLE FLIGHT BUT SO FAR NO LUGGAGE. REPORTER: RYAN GREENE, THE SOUTHWEST CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER OFFERED HIS APOLOGIES. >> AFTER MANY PLANS CHANGED AND EXPERIENCES FELL SHORT OF YOUR EXPECTATIONS OF US, WE CONTINUE TO WORK TO MAKE IT UP TO YOU. REPORTER: SOUTHWEST SAYS IT PLANS TO RETURN TO NORMAL OPERATIONS TOMORROW. IT HAS NOW CREATED A WEBSITE FOR TRAVELERS THAT REMAIN STUCK AND FOR REIMBURSEMENT REQUESTS BUT THOUSANDS REMAIN UNABLE TO REACH THE AIRLINE FOR ASSISTANCE. FOR MORE, I AM JOINED BY ALLISON CIDER, A WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTER.

SHE JOINS US FROM CHICAGO. THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. WHAT IS THE LATEST YOU ARE HEARING? DOESN'T LOOK LIKE SOUTHWEST WILL BE ABLE TO GET OPERATIONS BACK TO NORMAL BY TOMORROW? >> THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE SAYING. THEY SAID THEY SPEND THIS WEEK WITH A SMALLER SCHEDULE INTENSELY FOCUSED ON GETTING THEIR PEOPLE AND THEIR PLANES READY AND WHERE THEY NEED TO BE. THEY SAY THEY ARE PREPARED TO DO THAT. THEY HAVE CANCELED ONLY 39 FLIGHTS FOR TOMORROW. REPORTER: I UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE TALKING UPWARDS OF A MILLION TRAVELERS THAT HAVE BEEN AFFECTED AND THEY SAY THEY ARE GOING TO REIMBURSE TRAVELERS' EXPENSES. I WONDER HOW MUCH CONFIDENCE CONSUMERS SHOULD HAVE THAT THEY WILL BE COMPENSATED FOR THE AMOUNT COMMENSURATE WITH THE MISERY AND EXPENSE CAUSED IN THE LAST WEEK. >> THERE IS GOING TO BE A LOT OF SCRUTINY AND FOCUS ON THEM AS THEY DO THIS. SOUTHWEST HAS SAID THEY A COMMITTED TO REIMBURSING PEOPLE FOR THE EXPSES INCURRED. I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE PAYING ATTENTION WHETHER THEY

LIVE UP TO THOSE COMMITMENTS. IN THAT SENSE, TO TUMORS -- THAT ULD BE HELPFUL FOR CONSUMERS. REPORTER: I KNOW THE TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY JUST TODAY SENT ANOTHER LETTER TO THE CEO OF SOUTHWEST AND IN THIS CASE HE SAID THE DEPARTMENT WOULD USE THE FULLEST EXTENT OF ITS INVESTIGATIVE POWERS TO HOLD SOUTHWEST RESPONSIBLE IF IT FAILS TO REIMBURSE PASSENGERS. MY QUESTION IS, WHAT ENFORCEMENT POWERS DO THEY HAVE TO ENSURE CONSUMERS ARE REIMBURSED? >> AIRLINES -- AT THE DEPARTMENTS URGING, AIRLINES HAVE PUT THESE PMISES TO CONSUMERS IN THEIR PLANS -- WHAT THEY WOULD DO TO PEOPLE -- FOR PEOPLE IF FLIGHTS ARE CANCELED WITHIN -- THE DEPARTMENT HAS SAID THEY BELIEVE THEYFAIL TO LE PROMISES. I EXPECT THAT IS SOMETHING THEY WOULD PURSUE.

REPORTER: THE EXECUTIVES OF SOUTHWEST HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED TO SOME DEGREE, ACTUALLY PRETTY OVERMATCHED.T THEIR SYSTEMS WERE THAT WAS THE WORD USED BY THE CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER. THEY COULD NOT MATCH THE SCALE OF THE STORM. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN WITH ONE OF THE NATION'S LARGEST AIR CARRIERS? >> WHAT THE COMPANY HAS SAID IS THEY HAVE A SOFTWARE SYSTEM THEY FELT HAD SERVED THEM WELL EVEN FOR PREVIOUS DISRUPTIONS TO GAY HURRICANE OR A SNOWSTORM. AND THAT THIS STORM WAS SO SEVERE AND THE DISRUPTION IT CAUSED WAS SO SIGNIFICANT THAT THE SYEM IT USES TO MATCH PILOTS AND FLIGHT ATTENDANTS WITH PLANES DURING REGULAR EVENTS LIKE THIS COULD NOT KEEP UP WITH THE SHEER NUMBER OF CHANGES. THAT SAID, THE COMPANY HAS BEEN AWARE FOR A LONG TIME THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDED WORK

AND IT SAID IT HAD MADE SOME IMPROVEMENTS IN THE LAST YEAR BUT IT DID NOT COME QUICKLY ENOUGH. REPORTER: THERE WAS THE PROBLEM WITH THE CREWS NOT BEING MATCHED BY THE SOFTWARE THEY USE AND YOU ALSO HAVE A GREAT DESCRIPTION FOR ANOTHER DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOUTHWEST AND OTHER AIRLINES WHICH IS THAT SOUTHWEST PLANES HOP FROM ONE CITY TO ANOTHER RATHER THAN ORBITING A MAJOR HUB. HOW MUCH OF THAT MODEL IS TO BLAME? IS THAT SOMETHING THE COMPANY CAN SOLVE ANYTIME SOON? >> SOUTHWEST NETWORK IS A HUGE PART OF ITS BUSINESS MODEL AND A KEY TO ITS GROWTH AND HOW IT HAS EXPANDED TO SO MANY DIFFERENT MARKETS AROUND THE COUNTRY. AND IT IS SOMETHING THEY ARE REALLY PROUD OF. THAT SAID, IT IS POTENTIALLY SOMETHING THAT HAS MADE IT HARDER FOR THEM TO RECOVER WHEN THINGS HAVE GONE WRONG. THEY DON'T HAVE HUGE HUBS WHERE SPARE PLANES AND SPARE STAFF ARE CONCENTRATED AND WAITING.

IT MAKES IT MAKES IT HARDER FOR THEM TO ISOLATE OR CONTAIN A OBLEM TO ONE AREA OF THE COUNTRY BECAUSE THEIR PLANES ARE HOPS TOUCHING FROM ONCITY TO ANOTHER. REPORTER: IT MAKES YOU WONDER WHETHER THEY WILL HAVE TO RETHINK THAT BUSINESS MODEL. I KNOW SHARES ARE DOWN. HOW BIG A HIT TO THE BUSINESSS FORECAST? DO THEY EXPECT CUSTOMERS WILL BE SCARED AWAY? >> I THINK THEY ARE UNSURE WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH BOOKINGS GOING FORWARD. ANALYSTS HAVE ESTIMATED THE IMPACT TO THE FOURTH QUARTER. THEY -- SOUTHWEST HAS NOT PUT A NUMBER ON HOW MUCH THIS WILL COST THEM. THEY HAD ANOTHER DISRUPTION, MUCH SMALLER IN SCALE RELEVANT TO -- RELATIVE TO THIS AND THAT COST THEM ABOUT $75 MILLION. WE ARE TALKING IN ORDER OF GNITUDE BIGGER THAN THAT. REPORTER: ALLISON CIDER OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

♪ JUDY: IN THE DAYS OTHER NEWS, UKRAINE WAS HIT WITH THE BIGGEST WAVE OF RUSSIAN MISSILES IN WEEKS. OFFICIALS SAID 54 OF THE 69 MISSILES WERE SHOT DOWN BUT IN KYIV HOMES WERE LEFT IN SHAMBLES AND RESCUERS SEARCHED THROUGH THE DAMAGE AND ONE ELDERLY MAN LOST HIS HOUSE CONDEMNED VLADIMIR PUTIN. >> I HAVE NO WORDS FOR IT. AS THEY SAY, WAR IS WAR AND THINGS HAPPEN BUT THIS IS NOT WAR. IT IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. THIS IS A CRIME BEING COMMITTED BY -- I DON'T EVEN WANT TO CALL HIM A HUMAN BEING. JUDY: LAL OFFICIALS REPORTED TO DEAD IN UKRAINE'S SECOND LARGEST CITY. SOUTH KOREA RAN LARGE-SCALE MILITARY DRILLS. THE DRILL SIMULATED SHOOTING DOWN INCOMING DRONES WITH

ANTIAIRCRAFT GUNS AND JETS. RETIRED POPE BENEDICT THE 16TH WAS REPORTED TO BE LUCID, CONSCIOUS AND STABLE TODAY BUT STILL IN SERIOUS CONDITION. THE VATICAN SAID THE FRAIL POPE EMERITUS RESTED WELL OVERNIGHT. WEDNESDAY OFFICIALS SAID HIS HEALTH HAD DETERIORATED. BACK IN THIS COUNTRY, THE CONGRESSIONAL JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE HAS WITHDRAWN ITS SUBPOENA OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. IN A LETTER TO A TRUMP LAWYER, BENNIE THOMPSON SAID TIME HAS RUN OUT AND THE COMMITTEE RESULTS WE -- WHEN THE CURRENT CONGRESS ENDS. IN MANDATORY RECOUNT IN ARIZONA CONFIRMED TODAY THAT DEMOCRAT CHRIS MAYS NARROWLY WON THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S RACE FEEDING REPUBLICAN ABRAHAM BY 280 VOTES. AFTER 2.5 MILLION WERE CAST IN THE ELECTION. DEMOCRATS SWEPT ARIZONA'S TOP

RACES OVER PRO-TRUMP REPUBLICANS. ON WALL STREET, STOCKSALLIED ON NEWS THAT UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS ROSE THAT -- LASTDICANG THAT FEE EFFORTS TO SLOW THE ECONOMY ARE WORKING. THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE GAINED 345 POINTS, 1%. THE NASDAQ ROSE ALMOST 265 POINTS. 2.5 PERCENT. THE AS MP 500 WAS UP 1.7%. STILL TO COME ON THE NEWSHOUR, WE EXAMINE THE LEGISLATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE OUTGOING CONGRESS AND WHERE IT FELL SHORT. A LOOK BACK ON THE LEGENDARY CAREER OF SOCCER GREAT PELE, PHOTOJOURNALISTS DISCUSSED HIS EXPERIENCE OF DOCUMENTING THE EVENTS OF 2022 PLUS MUCH MORE. ♪ >> THIS IS THE PBS NEWSHOUR FROM WETA STUDIOS IN WASHINGTON AND INHE WEST FROM THE WALTER CRONKITE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AT

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY. JUDY: BENJAMIN NETANYAHU WAS SWORN IN AS PRIME MINISTER TODAY IN ISRAEL BUT HIS CABINET AND HIS GOVERNMENT'S ARE CONTROVERSIAL. DON YOUNG HAS THE STORY. REPORTER: INSIDE THE ISRAELI KNESSET TODAY BENJAMIN NETANYAHU CELEBRATED HIS RETURN AS PRIME MINISTER. >> THIS IS THE SIXTH TIME I AM PRESENTING A GOVERNMENT HEADED BY ME FOR THE PARLIAMENTS APPROVAL AND I AM A EXCITED AS THE FIRST TIME. -- AND I AM AS EXCITED AS THE FIRST TIME. REPORTER: HUNDREDS OF DEMONSTRATORS PROTESTED IT. >> WE ARE HERE TO DEMONSTRATE AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT ABOUT TO RISE UP IN ISRAEL. A HORRIBLE GOVERNMENT WITH A LOT OF CRIMINALS SITTING THERE. REPORTER: AFTER TWO MONTHS OF INTENSIVE NEGOTIATIONS, BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ASSEMBLED ISRAEL'S

MOST FAR RIGHT ULTRANATIONALIST GOVERNMENT EVER. ONE OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL COALITION FIGURES, AN INDIVIDUAL PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED OF INCITING RACISM. HE HAS BEEN APPOINTED MINISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY OVERSEEING THE NATIONAL POLICE. A HARD-LINE TILT OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT WORRIES SOME ISRAELIS. >> OUR BIGGEST FEAR IS THAT THE IS REALLY'S ARE FOLLOWING RUSSIA , POLAND AND HUNGARY. REPORTER: AMONG THE POLICIES AT THE COALITION PARTNERS AGREED TO, GIVING LAWMAKERS VETO POWER OVER SUPREME COURT DECISIONS ALLOWING BUSINESSES INCLUDING PHYSICIANS TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST SERVING LGBTQ PEOPLE BASED ON RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND PERPS THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL, DECLARING THE JEWISH PEOPLE'S EXCLUSIVE AND INALIENABLE RIGHT TO ALL PARTS OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL INCLUDING THE WEST BANK. CHECHAN -- TENCENT IS ALREADY RUNNING HIGH AND PALESTINE

OFFICIALS ANTICIPATE THE MOST CHALLENGING PERIOD EVER IN ARAB --BETWEEN ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENTS. >> THIS GOVERNMENT IS THE MOST THREATENING AND EXTREMIST. I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WILL NOT DEAL WITH MANY MEMBERS OF THIS GOVERNMENT. TO US, WE ARE AGAINST ALL OF THE GOVERNMENTS THAT PRACTICE KILLING AND OPPRESSION ON OUR PEOPLE. REPORTER: AS A NEW CHAPTER IN ISRAEL BEGINS WITH NETANYAHU EXTENDING HIS RECORD AS A LONGEST-SERVING PRIME MINISTER. THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS OF THIS NEW ISRAELI GOVERNMENT WITHIN ISRAELI POLITICS, SOCIETY AND BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS. DAVID MCCLOSKEY IS A LONG TIME IS REALLY WATER AND IS DIRECTOR ON THE PROJECT OF ARAB ISRAELI RELATIONS. WELCOME. HOW DIFFERENT IS THIS COALITION GOVERNMENT FROM THE OTHER COALITIONS THAT NETANYAHU

FORMED? >>'S WINNING STRATEGY AND THE REASON HE HAS WON FIVE TERMS UNTIL NOW IS HE HAS IDENTIFIED -- HE IS IDENTIFIED AS A STABILIZER BRINGING ECONOMIC PROSPERITY. ISRAEL'S HIGH-TECH INDUSTRY HAS HELPED TO POWER ISRAEL AS ITS GDP IS AHEAD OF GERMANY. TOUGH ON THE PALESTINIAN ISSUE BUT AT THE SAME TIME BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO BE AN ADVENTUROUS AND NOT GETTING PEOPLE KILLED IN ISRAEL. AND BE VILANT ON THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM AND TRY TO KEEP GOOD TIES WITH THE UNITED STATES. THAT HAS BEEN HIS WINNING FORMULA. HE HAS THROWN HIS PLAYBOOK OUT THE WINDOW. INSTEAD OF GOING WITH A CENTER-RIGHT INDEPENDENCE, HE HAS MOVED TO A MORE POPULOUS, EVEN MORE RADICAL RIGHT. ANHIS BELIEF THAT, WHAT CAN I DO, THE CENTERLEFT BOY CUTS ME BECAUSE THEY SAY I AM ON TRIAL

FOR CORRUPTION, THESE ARE MY ONLY PARTNERS SO I HAVE TO COME TO THE DANCE WITH THE ONES I BROUGHT. REPORTER: A LOT OF ATTENTION GIVEN TO THE COALITIONS STATED POLITICS ON THE WEST BANK. WE HAVE A MAP SHOWING IN PURPLE THE ESTABLISHED SETTLEMENTS, THE AUTHORIZED SETTLEMENTS. IN GREEN ARE THE OUTPOSTS, THE UNAUTHORIZED OUTPOST. TALK US THROUGH THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS FOR ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN RELATIONS. >> THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION AND THE GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OF WHICH I WAS PART OF THE NEGOTIATING TEAM WAS BASED ON THE IDEA THAT MOST OF THE SELLERS LIVE NEAR IS REALLY CITIES, THE GREEN LINE. AND THOSE, THE CLUSTERS OR BLOCK SETTLEMENTS, 80 5% OF THE ISRAELI SETTLERS OVER THE LINE LIVE LARGELY ADJACENT TO THAT LINE BUT MOST OF THE WEST BANK, ABOUT 92% WOULD GO TO THE PALESTINIANS.

EITHER SIDE OF WHAT WE CALL THE SECURITY BARRIER. IN AN ANTICIPATED TWO STATE SOLUTION. WHAT HAPPENED WAS THE FIRST ITERATION WAS THE TRUMP PEACE PLAN OF 2020 WHICH SAID EVERY SETTLEMENT WILL BE CALLED FOR ISRAEL. ONE OF NETANYAHU'S JUNIOR COALITION PARTNERS ON STICK TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL STAYING THE ARE UNAUTHORIZED OUTPOST THAT ARE WILDCAT SETTLEMENTS THAT THE CABINET HAS NEVER VOTED ON. LET'S LEGALIZE THEM. IF YOU ADD 78 SETTLEMENTS ON THE PALESTINIAN SIDE AND NOW ANOTHER 70 PLUS SETTLEMENTS, ABOUT 150 SETTLEMENTS, THERE IS NOT ROOM FOR A TWO STATE SOLUTION. REPORTER: PRESIDENT BIDEN CONGRATULATED NETANYAHU WITH BOILERPLATE LANGUAGE BUT HE ALSO SAID THAT THE UNITED STATES WOULD CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE TWO STATE SOLUTION AND OOSE POLICIES THAT ENDANGER ITS

VIABILITY OR CONTRADICTS OUR MUTUAL INTERESTS. SIGNS OF A ROCKY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND JERUSALEM? >> I THINK IT WAS AN OPENING SALVO BUT FOR THE MOST PART BIDENS STYLE IS TO VIEW FOREIGN POLICY AS RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LEADERS. I DON'T EXPECT TO HAVE A SLUG MATCH BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM. I THINK HE WILL SEND SULLIVAN OR ANTONY BLINKEN TO PREPARE A WHITE HOUSE MEETING AND I THINK THE PRINCE OF ALL IS WE WANT TO HOLD THE PRIME MINISTER TO A SET OF PRINCIPLES THAT UNDERGIRD, NOT JUST OUR SHARED INTEREST BUT ALSO OUR SHARED VALUES AND THAT MEANS NO CHANGE IN THE STATUS QUO ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT WHI IS IN THE COALITION GUIDELINES, NO UNIVERSAL ANNEXATION OF THE WEST BANK OR MASS LEGALIZATION OF OUTPOSTS. AND THERE ARE MORE OF THESE -- MAKE SURE THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY DOES NOT COLLAPSE IN THE WEST BANK.

REPORTER: YOU MENTIONED EARLIER THAT NETANYAHU IS ON TRIAL FOR CORRUPTION CHARGES. HOW WILL THAT AFFECT HOW HE GOVERNS? >> WHEN THE CENTER AND THE LEFT SAID WE WILL NOT GO WITH YOU ON THE HARD RIGHT SAYS, WE WILL GO WITH Y, HE SEES THAT THEY WILL EXTRICATE HIM FROM HIS TRIAL. THEY DON'T TRUST HIM BECAUSE THEY DON'T THINK HE IS HARD RIGHT. BUT AFTER YOU HAVE DELIVERED FOR US THEN WE WOULD PASS SOME LEGISLATION. THE QUESTION IS, HOW BEHOLDEN IS HE AND HOW EMBITTERED IS HE? HE BELIEVES IT IS AN ELITE JUDICIAROUT TO GET HIM. SOME SAY HE USES IT POLITICALLY WHILE OTHERS SAY IT HAS EMBITTERED HIM AND HE WILL GO WITH A HARD RIGHT ALL THE WAY BECAUSE THEY ARE LIKE HIS GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD. REPORTER: THE COALITION IS ALSO CALLING FOR CHANGES IN SOCIETY SAYING PEOPLE CANNOT SERVE OR DISCRIMINATE BASED ON RELIGIOUS

BELIEFS. NOT JUST LGBTQ BUT ALSO SEPARATE EVENTS FOR GENDERS. >> LGBTQ IS VERY POPULAR IN ISRAEL. FOR THE FIRST TIME ISRAEL'S KNESSET SPEAKER IS IN OPENLY GAY LIKUD RIGHT WING GUY. BUT YET HE PUT IT IN THE COALITION AGREEMENTS FOR RELIGIOUS PARTIES THAT SAY, WE DON'T WANT TO TREAT SOMEONE AND HE SAYS, THAT IS NOT OUR WAY. TO SUMMARIZE -- THE SUCCESS OF ISRAEL IS FINDING THE EQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN A LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTION AND ALSO BEING A HOMELAND AS A JEWISH STATE. AND THAT IT WILL LABRUM HAS NOT ALWAYS -- AND THE EQUILIBRIUM HAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN PERFECT BUT THEY HAVE STRIVED FOR BALANCE BUT NOW WE HAVE A COALITION OF PEOPLE THAT WANT TO MOVE ISRAEL AWAY FROM ITS BEARINGS OF A LIBERAL DEMOCRACY. THEY WANT TO RECALIBRATE THINGS WHETHER IT IS THE COURTS, THEY

WANT TO THROW OUT A PROFESSIONAL , ATTORNEY GENERAL AND BRING IN AN IN-HOUSE LAWYER. THEY WANT TO OVERRIDE THE SUPREME COURT LAWS WITH A BARE MAJORITY OR THEY WANT TO CHANGE THE PERSONNEL IN THE MILITARY. THE MILITARY HAS BEEN SACROSANCT BUT THEY WANT TO CHANGE IT BECAUSE THEY FEEL THEY HAVE BEEN CURBED ON BORDER ISSUES. REPORTER: DAVID MCCLOSKEY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> DELIGHTED TO BE WITH YOU. ♪ JUDY: THE 117TH CONGRESS IS COMING TO END END END WITH THAT ENDS THE DEMOCRATS WHOLE CONTROL OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT. AS IT TURNS OUT, DESPITE THE NARROW MARGINS OF THE LAST TWO YEARS, LAWMAKERS USHERED THROUGH HISTORIC LEGISLATION LIKE A BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE ACT

BRINGING UNPRECEDENTED INVESTMENTS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS. THE BILL WILL IMPACT THE LIVES OF COUNTLESS COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. ONE STATE IN PARTICULAR IS ALASKA WHERE INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY IS SET TO HELP TRIBAL COMMUNITIES WITHSTAND THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. SA DESJARDINS HAS MORE. REPORTER: NEARLY 4000 MILES FROM THE U.S., THE TRIBAL VILLAGE IN ALASKA IS DROWNING. THE COMMUNITY HAS LIVED HERE BY THE WINDING RIVER FOR CENTURIES BUT THE RISING WATERS FROM CLIMATE CHANGE HAS EATEN THE GROUND OUT FROM UNDER THEM. >> ALL OF THE LITTLE HILLS ARE GONE. IT IS GETTING MARSHY. AND THE EROSION IS GETTING FASTER. REPORTER: CAROLYN GEORGE IS A NATIVE. TO SURVIVE, HER VILLAGE IS RELOCATING NIN MILES AWAY BUT THAT SITE CAN ONLY HOUSE HALF OF THE POPULATION NOW LEAVING OTHERS LIKE GEORGE AND HER KIDS WAITING WHERE EROSION ALREADY HAS DESTROYED SEWAGE AND WATER

SYSTEMS. >> AND THE HOMES ARE MOLDY TOO. THEY DO NOT HAVE RUNNING WATER. IT IS REALLY HARD. REPORTER: NOW, THEY ARE POISED TO GET HELP FROM CONGRESS. 25 MILLION DOLLARS FROM A BREAKTHROUGH BILL PASSED LAST YEAR. >> THE BILL AS AMENDED IS PASSED. REPORTER: SENATORS FROM BOTH PARTIES INCLUDING LISA MURKOWSKI CAME TOGETHER TO WRITE T TRILLION DOLLAR INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT. >> INFRASTRUCTURE IS ABOUT BRINGING AMERICA TOGETHER AGAIN. REPORTER: IT WILL FUND THOUSANDS OF PROJECTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY INCLUDING SOME RELOCATION OF THIS VILLAGE. >> GETTING MORE GOVERNMENT FUNDING MEANS THE REST OF US CAN GET HOMES AND GET MOVED OVER. >> THE COMMUNITY IS ONE STORM AWAY FROM THE SCHOOL GOING INTO THE RIVER. REPORTER: JACKIE SHAVER IS A CLIMATE SPECIALIST WORKING FOR THE COMMUNITY AND THEY SAY -- AND SHE SAYS THERE IS GREAT NEED FOR THE MONEY FROM CONGRESS BUT

ALSO GREAT URGENCY BECAUSE THE VILLAGE IS SPLIT. >> THAT MEANS YOU HAVE SEPARATED FAMILIES, FRIENDS, YOU ARE RUNNING ONE GOVERNMENT FROM TWO COMMUNITIES AND IT IS VERY CHALLENGING. THE SOONER THE BETTER THAT WE IMPLEMENT ANY FUNDING THAT COMES TO THE COMMUNITY AND THE TRIBAL COUNCIL. >> I FEEL LIKE WE ARE BEING ROBBED. I FEEL LIKE I HAVE BEEN ROBBED, ME AND MY KIDS. MY PARENTS ARE NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER. THEY NEED ME THE MOST RIGHT NOW. REPORTER: LEADERS PLAN TO MEET WITH FEDERAL OFFICIALS NOT MONTH TO LAY OUT WHERE THE MONEY CAN GO AND HOW QUICKLY. THAT IS ONE PROJECT. THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILLS OVERALL AMOUNT IS 40,000 TIMES LARGER. THIS IS THE LARGEST SINGLE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL IN U.S. HISTORY. JUDY: IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO SEE HOW THAT BILL MAY MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THAT COMMUNITY. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE LARGER

PICTURE. TO PUT IT MILDLY THIS WAS A SESSION OF CONGRESS THAT WAS DRAMATIC STARTING WITH THE ASSAULT ON THE CAPITAL, THE POLITICAL DIVIDE IN THE COUNTRY BUT THEY WERE STILL ABLE TO PASS MAJOR LEGISLATION, SOME OF IT BIPARTISAN. >> THIS CONGRESS WAS THREE DAYS OLD WHEN JANUARY 6 HAPPENED. IS IS WHAT THIS LOOKED LIKE TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. THEY SAW A HOUSE CHAMBER UNDER SIEGE. THEY HEARD THE SCREAMS AND SHOUTS FROM PROTESTERS AND THE POUNDING OF WRITERS. AFTER JANUARY 6 ENDED THE NATIONAL GUARD WAS INSIDE THE CAPITOL BUILDING SOMETIMES A LIVING AND SLEEPING IN THE BUILDING FOR FIVE MONTHS WITH THE PERIMETER FENCE THAT STOOD SIX MONTHS. THERE WAS AN ATMOSPHERE INCLUDING AROUND IMPEACHMENT THAT WAS VERY RAW. IT WAS WHEN MEMBERS WERE GETTING THREATS AND IT WAS SOME OF THE MOST PERSONAL ANIMOSITY I HAVE SEEN. I SAW MEMBERS GETTING CLOSE TO FISTFIGHTS WITH EACH OTHER. AT THE SAME TIME THOUGH, THEY WERE ABLE TO PASS AN EXTRAORDINARY ARRAY OF

BIPARTISAN BILLS. LAURA GOT INTO SOME OF THE DETAILS LAST NIGHT BUT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF BILLS. LET'S LOOK AT THE LIST. MAJOR TOPICS PAST. SOME DON'T GET A LOT OF ATTENTION LIKE THE HATE CRIMES ACT PASSED. JUNETEENTH, THE NATIONAL HOLIDAY. THESE WERE ALL TOPICS THAT WERE NOT PASSED FOR DECADES OR A CENTURY BUT THAT THIS CONGRESS GOT THROUGH. HOW DID THEY DO IT? IT WAS NOTABLE THAT THEY FOUND A DIFFERENT WAY. BIPARTISAN GROUPS, NOT LEADERSHIP, WHO WERE SERIOUS ABOUT TRYING TO GET THINGS DONE MET IN PRIVATE, WITH SENATORS OFTEN WORKING FOR MONTHS TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THEY COULD FIND COMMON GROUND AND THE LEADERSHIP GAVE THEM ROOM TO DO THAT. I SPOKE TO SENATOR JOHN WHO WAS INVOLVED IN SOME OF THIS LEGISLATION HE GAVE AN EXAMPLE. THIS IS HOW THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL WORKED. >> IN THE END, IF YOU HAD WALKED INTO THAT ROOM AND NOT KNOWN ANY OF US, YOU WOULD NOT KNOW WHO WAS REPUBLICAN AND WHO WAS DEMOCRAT.

THIS IS HOW IT WORKED AND HOW WE -- AND THIS IS HOW NEGOTIATIONS SHOULD WORK. WE HAD ONE ANOTHER'S BACKS AND WE COMPROMISED. REPORTER: AWAY FROM THE CAMERAS THEY LET GO OF THEIR PARTISANSHIP TO GET THINGS DONE. AND THE LAWMAKERS WERE TEXTING EACH OTHER ON LONG, EXTENSIVE TEXT CHAINS AND NOT THE STAFF. JUDY: WE TALKED ALSO WITH LAURA LOPEZ LAST NIGHT ABOUT HOW DEMOCRATS WERE ABLE TO GET SOME THINGS DONE PURELY ON PARTY LINE THOUGH THEY DID NOT GET SUPPORT FROM THE OTHER PARTY. REPORTER: THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR, THE REDUCTION ACT ON CLIMATE AND HEALTH CARE. SOME REPUBLICANS STILL SEE THOSE AS A MODERN MIRACLE PULLED OFF BY CHUCK SCHUMER AND NANCY PELOSI. BOTH OF THEM SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH A BIG AGENDA AND ENDED UP JUST NARROWING IT DOWN TO WHAT THEY COULD PASS. THERE WAS NOT DISAPPOINTMENT. THE REASON THEY COULD NOT DO

MORE, TO SENATORS, DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AT THE TIME, KSTEN SINEMA AND JOE MANCHIN. THEY WERE THE ONES WHO BLOCKED SOME THINGS LIKE CODIFYING ABORTION. VOTING RIGHTS. THE FILIBUSTER STANCE. CHILD TAX CREDITS. NO UNIVERSAL PRE-K. BIG DEMOCRATIC ITEMS THAT WENT BY THE WAYSIDE. ANOTHER THING I WANT TO MENTION ABOUT DEMOCRATS AS THEY SPENT A LOT OF MONEY. FROM THIS CONGRESS, THIS HAS BEEN THE GREATEST INFLUX OF CASH TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. HOWEVER, ALSO A TSUNAMI OF RED INK. NEARLY $5 TRILLION IN ADDED DEBT FROM THIS CONGRESS. JUDY: WHAT DOES THIS ALL TELL US ABOUT THE NEXT CONGRESS, 20 23 STARTS IN A FEW DAYS? REPORTER: I HAVE SPENT A LOT OF TIME THINKING ABOUT THIS -- WHERE ARE WE?

WHAT DID WE GET FROM THIS CONGRESS TO THE NEXT? KEVIN MCCARTHY, HOPING TO BE THE LEADER OF HOUSE REPUBLICANS, HE HAS A NARROW MARGIN AND A DIVIDED CONFERENCE. AND IT IS NOT JUST DIVIDED. THIS IS LIKE CLASS 6 RAPIDS HE IS TRYING TO NEGOTIATE INSIDE HIS CONFERENCE. I THINK WHAT WE WILL HAVE IS THESE RELATIONSHIPS THAT WERE FORGED. CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS THAT GOT HARD THINGS DONE. THIS NEXT CONGRESS WILL BE A TEST OF THE STRENGTH OF THOSE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ESPECIALLY IN THE SENATE VERSUS UNMAPPED PASSIONS ESPECIALLY IN THE HOUSE AND UNTESTED TACTICS WE WILL SEE FROM SOME OF THOSE REBELLIOUS, ESPECIALLY HOUSE REPUBLICANS, IT IS A QUESTION OF THOSE RELATIONSHIPS, SOBER AND GET THINGS DONE -- I DON'T THINK ANYONE EXPECTS MAJOR LEGISLATION FROM THIS CONGRESS. THE QUESTION IS HOW WILL THEY

NAVIGATE CRISIS ESPECIALLY THE DEBT CEILING WHICH WILL COME DUE IN EARLY TO MID NEXT YEAR AND CAN THOSE RELATIONSHIPS GET THE COUNTRY THROUGH THAT WITHOUT ALARM? JUDY: SOUNDS LIKE A LOT IS HANGING IN THE BANCE. LISA DESJARDINS LOOKING AT THE WHOLE YEAR. THANK YOU. REPORTER: YOU ARE WELCOME. ♪ JUDY: WHEN HE READ TIRES IN JANUARY, VERMONT SENATOR PATRICK LAHEY WILL LEAVE THE PRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSION AND THE SEAT HE HAS CALLED HOME FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY. BEFORE HE STEPS DOWN HE TOOK A MOMENT YESTERDAY TO SIT DOWN WITH ME REFLECTING ON A CAREER FEW IN OUR NATIONS HISTORY CAN MATCH. SENATOR LAKEY, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. AFTER ALL OF THESE YEARS IN THE UNITED STATES CENTERS, YOU -- SENATE, YOU ARE TAKING YOUR LEAVE. I HAVE TO SAY I WAS STRUCK IN THE INTRODUCTION OF THE BOOK

WHEN YOU SPEAK HOW YOU STILL HAVE A GREAT AWE OF WHAT THE GOVERNMENT DOES FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND YOU HOLD THAT SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT, FRUSTRATION. HOW DOES THAT WORK? >> I HAVE KEPT NOTES DURING ALL EN THEEN IRS I I WAS THINKING HOW EXCITED I WAS WHEN I GOT THERE, I REALIZED IT WAS NOT PERFECTION. I LOOK BACK AND I HAVE SEEN SO MUCH OF THE GOODNESS THAT HAS BEEN LOST. AND AFTER JANUARY 6, THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS BEING RIVETED AND TORN APART. AND I SAID, I WILL WRITE THIS TO SHOW HOW IT COULD BE, HOW IT SHOULD BE AND LEAVE SOME HOPE THAT IT MAY BE AGAIN. JUDY: YOU CAME INTO CONGRESS ON THE HEELS OF THIS CONSTITUTIONAL

CRISIS IN OUR COUNTRY, WATERGATE. PRESIDENT NIXON RESIGNED. AS YOU LEAVE OFFICE, A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK WE ARE ON THE EDGE OF ANOTHER CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. >> I BELIEVE WE ARE. WHEN YOU LOOK BACK TO THE NIXON ERA, MEMBERS OF BOTH PARTIES CAME TOGETHER WONDERING WHAT WE SHOULD DO ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION. I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS LIKE BARRY GOLDWATER AND OTHERS WHO TOLD ME THEY TOOK NO PLEASURE GOING DOWN AND TELLING RICHARD NIXON HE HAD TO LEAVE. BUT THEY FELT THAT WAS THEIR DUTY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. NOT TO THEIR PARTY OR THEIR OWN POLITICAL FUTURE BUT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. NOW YOU SEE SENATORS WHO WILL TELL YO, WE DON'T LIKE WHAT DONALD TRUMP DID BUT WE WORRY ABOUT OUR OWN POLITICAL FUTURE IF WE SAY ANYTHING. IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE ONE OF 100 U.S. SENATORS, STAND UP AND SAY WHAT YOU THINK.

JUDY: WHAT ARE YOU SAYING ABOUT REPUBLICAN SENATORS THAT SAY THAT TO YOU? ARE THEY SERVING THE COUNTRY? >> THEY ARE NOT IN THAT REGARD. I POINT OUT THE NUMBER THAT ARE HERE NOW THAT DO SPEAK OUT BUT I ALSO TELL STORIES ABOUT DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WHO SPOKE OUT ON DIFFERENTHINGS THAT MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN POPULAR IN THEIR PARTY BUT IT WAS THE RIGHT THING FOR THE COUNTRY. JUDY: YOU WORKED CLOSELY WITH REPUBLICANS OVER THE YEARS. IT WAS PART OF HOW YOU SAW YOUR JOB. BUT THAT STOPPED AT SOME POINT FOR THE MOST PART. >> AND I DON'T MEAN TO SAY IT WAS WONDERFUL IN THE PAST. THERE WERE UPS AND DOWNS BUT WHEN I CAME IN I WAS THE ONLY DEMOCRAT EVER ELECTED IN THE RAMAN HISTORY AND THE YOUNGEST. POP -- BOB SAFFORD WAS THE SENIOR SENATOR AND HE TOOK ME UNDER HIS WING FROM HE AND HIS WIFE BECAME THE DEAREST OF FRIENDS. AND HE URGED ME TO MEET

DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS. AND HE TAUGHT ME THE SAME THING THE LEADER OF MANSFIELD DEAD, ALWAYS KEEP YOUR WORD. THAT WAS SAFFORD -- THAT WAS SACROSANCT. NOW, PEOPLE CHANGE THEIR MINDS OVERNIGHT AND NOT TELL ANYONE. AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE START TO LOSE CONFIDENCE. JUDY: YOU SERVED FOR SO MANY YEARS ON THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. I BELIEVE YOU VOTED ON EVERY MEMBER OF THE SITTING SUPREME COURT. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT THAT PROCESS AND WHERE WE ARE WITH THE COURTS? >> I RESPECTED THE PROCESS BECAUSE IT WAS ALWAYS ABOVE POLITICS. IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, IT HAS BECOME VERY POLITICAL. DONALD TRUMP SAYING, I MUST HAVE JUDGES THAT WILL VOTE MY WAY. I HAVE ARGUED CASES IN PELLA COURTS AND TRIAL CASES AND I ALWAYS ASSUMED THE JUDGE WILL

LOOK AT WHAT THE LAW IS AND NOT WHAT MY POLITICAL PARTY MIGHT BE . THE REASON WE HAVE SEEN SUCH A DIMINISHING OF RESPECT FOR THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, FOR EXAMPLE, BECAUSE THEY SEE IT AS BEING POLITICAL. COURTS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE POLITICAL. JUDY: I ALSO WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT THE WORK YOU HAVE DONE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL ISSUES I THINK ABOUT IS LANDMINES. WHAT REMAINS TO BE DONE? >> I THINK A LOT HAS BEEN DONE. I WROTE THE FIRST LAW IN THE WORLD TO BAN THE EXPORT OF LANDMINES FROM THE U.S. A NUMBER OF OTHER COUNTRIES FOLLOWED THAT. BUT WE -- WHAT WE ARE SEEING IN UKRAINE, THE INDISCRIMINATE USE OF LANDMINES BY THE PUTIN FORCES , THEY ARE AIMED 95% AT INDIVIDUAL NONCOMBATANTS, CIVILIANS, CHILDREN.

THEY ARE INDISCRIMINATE WEAPONS OF TERROR AND THEY SHOULD BE BANNED EVERYWHERE. I HAVE TAKEN TRIPS TO PLACES WHERE THE VICTIMS ARE AND I HAVE ALWAYS INVITED BOTH DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN SENATORS AND WHEN THEY SEE THE DAMAGE AND THE EFFECT THEY HAVE HAD, HAVE COME BACK AND WORKED WITH ME. JUDY: WHEN YOU THINK OF ALL OF THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE DONE IN THE PRESIDENTS YOU I'VE WORKED WITH AND THE LEGISLATION ON THE COLLEAGUES, IS THERE ONE THING YOU ARE PROUD OF? >> MY VERMONT VALUES -- I QUOTE EDWARD BURKE, YOU OWE YOUR DUTY TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS TO AND TO HELP THEM IN ANY WAY BUT YOU KEEP YOUR CONSCIENCE TO YOURSELF. I HAVE CAST VOTES THAT I WAS TOLD WOULD BE VERY UNPOPULAR AT THE TIME BUT MY CONSCIENCE TOLD

ME WAS RIGHT. JUDY: YOU ARE 82 YEARS OLD. A NUMBER OF YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE OLDER THAN YOU AND ARE STAYING. THERE HAS BEEN DEBATE IN THIS COUNTRY ABOUT CONGRESS, THE PRESIDENCY, THE SUPREME COURT -- SHOULD THERE BE AGE LIMITS ON THESE POSITIONS? >> IN ONE SENSE YOU HAVE ELECTIONS. I HAVE SERVED WITH 20% OF THE SENATORS IN THIS NATION'S HISTORY. I DON'T BELIEVE IN AGE LIMITS. I BELIEVE IN A VERY CLOSE WATCH BY CONSTITUENTS. JUDY: IS THERE A PIECE OF ADVICE OR PIECES OF ADVICE YOU WOULD SHARE WITH OTHERS WHO ARE STARTING TO SERVE IN CONGRESS RIGHT NOW? >> ELECTIONS COME AND GO. YOUR CONSCIENCE IS THERE ONL ONCE. DO NOT VIOLATE YOUR CONSCIENCE. IF YOU DO, WHETHER YOU GOT REELECTED OR NOT, YOU WILL NOT

BE HAPPY. JUDY: SENATOR PATRICK LAHEY, STEPPING AWAY FROM THE U.S. SENATE AND WRITING A BOOK, THE ROAD TAKEN, A. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE APPRECIATE IT. ♪ SOCCER FANS AROUND THE WORLD ARE IN MOURNING TONIGHT OVER THE NEWS THAT THE BRAZILIAN SOCCER LEGEND, PELÉ, DIED TODAY. HE WAS THE FACE OF THE GLOBAL GAME FOR DECADES AND HELPED TO SHAPE SOCCER INTO WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE BEAUTIFUL GAME. WE HAVE A LOOK BACK AT HIS LEGACY. REPORTER: THE UNPARALLELED ATHLETE AND ONLY PLAYER TO HAVE EVER WON THREE WORLD CUPS DIED AT A HOSPITAL IN SÃO PAULO WITH HIS FAMILY BY HIS SIDE. HIS DAUGHTER RECENTLY SHARED THIS IMAGE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND CAPTION, ANOTHER NIGHT TOGETHER. HOLDING ONTO PRECIOUS LAST

MOMENTS WITH HER FATHER. HE HAD BEEN HOSPITALIZED SINCE THE END OF NOVEMBER RECEIVING CARE FOR COLON CANCER. AS WELL AS A RESPIRATORY INFECTION THAT STEMMED FROM COVID-19. IN ADDITION TO THE WORLD CUPS HE WILL BE REMEMBERED AS THE MOST PROLIFIC SCORER THE GAME HAS EVER KNOWN. HE BOASTS TWO GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS INCLUDING FOR HIS NEARLY 1300 CAREER GOALS. DEVENEY SEVEN GOALS IN 90 INTERNATIONAL MATCHES IS AN INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT. ABOVE ALL, HE WILL REMAIN AN INDELIBLE ICON AND PERHAPS THE GREATEST ABBASID OR FOR THE SPORT. -- GREATEST AMBASSADOR FOR THE SPORT. OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL AND IN THE STREETS SUPPORTERS HAVE GATHERED TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS AND AT THE LATEST WORLD CUP, MANY SPOKE OF WHAT HE MEANT TO BRAZIL, THE GAME, AND THE WORLD. >> PELÉ REPRESENTS WHO WE ARE

AND WHERE WE CAME FROM. PELÉ IS OUR ROOTS. REPORTER: HE WAS 82 YEARS OLD. SOME FURTHER PERSPECTIVE ON PEÉE AND HIS IMPACT. JJ DEVENEY IS THE COHOST OF A PODCAST CALLED CAUGHT OFFSIDE. HE ISFOCONTEMPO KRANORY FANS, TY NOT ALWAYS KNOW HIS IMPACT ON THIS BOARD. HOW CAN THEY SEE HIS LEGACY AND SOME OF HIS SIGNATURE MOVES ON THE FIELD TODAY? >> IT IS FUNNY THAT YOU MENTIONED THAT. I WAS WATCHING A TIKTOK TODAY THAT COMPARED HIS SIGNATURE MOVES AND HOW HE DID A LOT OF WHAT THE MODERN PLAYERS ARE DOING RIGHT NOW WAY BEFORE THEY EVEN DID IT. HE WAS ANNI I THACTCO BROUGHT THOSE BEAUTIFUL GAME TO THE MASSES PARTICULARLY IN THE 1970 WORLD CUP, THE FIRST WORLD CUP WITH A BIG TELEVISION SCOPE ACROSS THE GLOBE.

YOU ASK ANYONE TODAY WHO IS A SOCCER FAN THAT THEY WILL STILL KNOW WHO PELÉ IS EVEN IF THEY NEVER SAW HIM PLAY. REPORTER: HE WON THREE WORLD CUPS AND NO OTHER PLAYER HAS OWNET. T ORRADOAYCT THEN BUT YOU SAY IT S ROUGHER. ALL OF THAT TAKEN TOGETHER, DOES THAT ELEVATE HIM TO BE ONE OF THE GREATEST IN THE WORLD? >> IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO COMPARE ERAS AND IT IS ALMOST UNFAIR BUT IN TERMS OF SKILL AND THE ABILITY AND THE ATTACKING PROWESS HE HAD, HE COULD'VE PLAYED IN ANY ERA AND IN THE MODERN ERA HE WOULD'VE HAD THE BENEFITS OF TOUGHER REFEREES, A LESS BRUTALAME. I DON'T THINK IT IS FAIR TO COMPARE ER BUT IF YOU LOOK AT HIS SKILL DURING THOSE ICONIC MATCHES, HIS GOAL AGAINST SWEDEN AS A 17-YEAR-OLD IN HIS FIRST WORLD CUP IN 1958 WAS STUNNING IN THE FINAL WHEN HE FLICKS IT OVER A PLAYER AND GOES ROUND AND SCORES ON THE FAR SIDE. THOSE ARE TIMELESS MOVES AND SOMETHING THAT INSPIRED

GENERATIONS AFTERWARDS. REPORTER: OFF THE FIELD HE WAS SEEN AS A GLOBAL AMBASSADOR OF THE GAME. SOMETHING HE DID FOR DECADES. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT HIS APPEAL AND HOW HE HELPED SPREAD SOCCER IN THE U.S. AND ELSEWHERE? >> I INTERVIEWED HIM IN 2016 AND HE TOLD ME ABOUT HOW HE HAD RETIRED FROM THE GAME AND SPOKEN TO HENRY COUSINS ARE IN BRAZIL WHO PERSUADED HIM -- HENRY KISSINGER IN BRAZIL WHO PERSUADED HIM TO COME AND SPEAK TO THE NEW YORK COSMOS. THAT INSPIRED PEOPLE WHO SAW HIM THROUGHOUT HIS TIME IN THE U.S. AND HE BECAME ALMOST A GLOBAL AMBASSADOR FOR THE GAME. WHENEVER THERE WAS A WORLD CUP OR A BIG GAME HE WAS A PROMOTER. AND HE WAS A REGULAR VISITOR TO THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER SEVERAL ADMINISTRATION AND HE WAS TRE PROMOTING CHARITIES AND SOCCER.

EAMECYNONYMOUS BHE WITH A LITTLE OR A LOT ABOUT THE GAME, PELÉ WAS THE FACE OF THE WORLD CUP AND OF SOCCER, AND NOT JUST BRAZILIAN SOCCER. REPORTER: AND ONE UNIQUE THING ABOUT HIS CAREER WAS HE DID NOT GO ON TO PLAY IN EUROPEAN CLUBS FOR MORE MONEY AND HE TOURED WITH THE BRAZILIAN TEAM AND EXHIBITION MATCHES. WHY DID HE DO THAT? DID IT COME DOWN TO THAT HE WAS CONNECTED DEEPLY WITH BRAZIL? >> THAT WAS PART OF IT BUT ALSO THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT IN THE EARLY 1960'S SEEING WHAT AN AMAZING PLAYER THEY HAD DECIDED THEY WOULD PUT A NATIONAL TREASURE ORDER ON HIM MEANING HE COULD NOT BE TAKEN ABROAD BY OTHER CLUBS. HE TOURED WITH SANTOS FOR YEARS AND PLAYED A LOT OF GAMES IN EXHIBITION MATCHES. THAT SPREAD HIS PROFILE. WHEN I SPOKE TO HIM IN WHEN HE 16 HE SAID THERE WAS A LOT OF

INTEREST FROM REAL MADRID AND OTHERS BUT HE COULD NOT LEAVE BECAUSE THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT DID NOT WANT HIM TO BUT ALSO BECAUSE HE DID NOT WANT TO. REPORTER: WHEN YOU INTERVIEWED HIM, WAS THERE SOMETHING THAT STOOD OUT TO YOU ABOUT HIS PERSONALITY? . HIS WARMTH. HE TOOK MY HAND AT THE START OF THE INTERVIEW BECAUSE HE KNEW I WAS A LITTLE AWED BY HIS PRESENCE. HE HAD A DEEP AND WARM VOICE. HE HAD A CHARISMA. HE WAS A GRANDDAD FIGURE BUT HE STILL HAD A PRESENCE ABOUT HIM. AND AS HUMBLE AS HE WAS, HE KNEW HE WAS GREAT AND THAT STRUCK ME. REPORTER: CAN YOU ALSO TELL US ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BRAZILIAN PLAYERS AND IN PARTICULAR, A PLAYER WHO -- HOW DID THEY BOND? >> IF YOU JUST LOOK AT CONTEMRARY PLAYERS ABOUT THE

WONDERFUL TRIBUTES THEY PAID, THEY RECOGNIZED PELÉ AS THE FIRST GLOBAL SOCCER STAR. I THINK HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BRAZILIAN SOCCER PLAYERS, IF HE SAID SOMETHING, IT WAS LISTENED TO AND CARRIED GREAT WEIGHT. HE SAID THERE WERE MAY BE ONLY TWO OR THREE GREAT PLAYERS IN THE WORLD WHEREAS WHEN HE PLAYED HE FELT THERE WERE MANY MORE. HE HAD A HIGH REGARD FOR NEYMAR. I THINK HE LIKED TO CONSIDER HIMSELF THE BEST OF THE BEST AND NO BRAZILIAN PLAYERS SINCE HE PLAYED CAME CLOSE. REPORTER: HIS CAREER WAS TRULY TRANSCENDENT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. ♪ >> GOOD TO BE WITH YOU. JUDY: WE LOOK BACK NOW ON 2020 TWO THROUGH THE LENSES OF

PHOTOJOURNALISTS. IT WAS A YEAR MARKED BY THE YEAR IN UKRAINE, DEVASTATING NATURAL DISASTERS, AMERICAN GUN VIOLENCE AND DEEP POLITICAL DIVISIONS. FOUR PHOTOGRAPHERS SPOKE WITH US ABOUT THEVENTS THEY WITNESSED AND HOW THEY CAPTURED THEM AND A WARNING, SOME OF THE IMAGES IN THE STORY ARE GRAPHIC. IT IS ALL PT OF OUR ARTS AND CULTURE SERIES CALLED CANVAS. REPORTER: THIS YEAR I COVERED THE KOREAN WAR. -- THE UKRAINE WAR. >> I'M BASED IN MIAMI, FLORIDA. I AM FROM VENEZUELA. THE STORIES I WORKED THIS YEAR WAS THE SCHOOL SHOOTING IN UVALDE AND THE HURRICANE SEASON. >> I MAKE GETTY IMAGES STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER BASED IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AND THIS YEAR I COVERED THE OVERTURNING OF ROE V. WADE. >> I'M A PHOTOGRAPHER FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CURRENTLY COVERING THE WAR IN UKRAINE AND

I AM IN KYIV RIGHT NOW. I THINK WE ARE VERY SURPRISED ABOUT HOW QUICKLY EVERYTHING ESCALATED. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR, IT WAS IMPRESSIVE SEEING THE CIVILIANS FLEEING. EVERY DAY WE WITNESSED THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS GOING THROUGH A BRIDGE THAT WAS DESTROYED JUST DURING THE ADVANCE OF RUSSIAN FORCES. ONE DAY I EMBEDDED IN A DRONE UNION -- UNIT. THE BUILDING WAS BARELY STANDING. I SAW HORRIFIC THINGS AND I TRIED TO SHOW THEM AS RESPECTFULLY AS I CAN BUT ALSO NOT TO HIDE THE REALITY OF WHAT IS HAPPENING. BUT OF COURSE, IT TAKES A TOLL ON YOU AND AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS, IT GETS TO YOU AND ESPECIALLY WHEN I GET HOME AND REST A LITTLE BIT, IT TAKES A WHILE TO REGENERATE. >> I HAVE BEEN A PHOTOJOURNALIST IN D.C. SINCE I GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE IN 2018.

NO WEEK IS THE SAME. THE LEAK CAME INMATE SO THEY PUT BARRIERS AROUND THE COURT AND FENCING. THE DAY THE DECISION WAS ANNOUNCED, IT FELT DIFFERENT. SOME WERE STARTING TO CRY AND OTHERS TO SHOUT OR THEY WERE JUST STUNNED. GETTING THOSE PICTURES I FOUND WAS REALLY IMRTANT. SOMEONE ONCE TOLD ME THAT D.C. IS A CITY OF INCHES. ONE INCH AWAY YOU COULD GET ANOTHER PICTURE. I FEEL LIKE I AM BEING A WITNESS TO THE FIRST DRAFT OF HISTORY BEING WRITTEN. THAT IS THE WHOLE REASON I GOT INTO PHOTOGRAPHY AND COVERING POLITICS. I THINK IT WAS AN IMPORTANT YEAR AS ANY YEAR IS TO BE PRESENT AND KEEP OUR EYES OPEN AND COVER EVERY SIDE OF THE STORY WHICH I THINK WE HAVE ALL DONE. >> I WAS COVERING THE BORDER. ONE OF MY EDITORS CALLED ME AND TOLD ME, THERE IS SOMETHING

WEIRD HAPPENING IN A TOWN CALLED UVALDE. I WAS SUPER LUCKY BECAUSE I WAS ALMOST THE FIRST ONE AT THE SCENE. SO I TOOK A FEW PHOTOS OF THE KIDS GETTING ON THE BUS. I STARTED TO HEAR PEOPLE TALKING AND CRYING AND I THOUGHT SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED BUT I DID NOT KNOW UNTIL A FEW HOURS LATER THAT THEY WERE EAGER TO HAVE PICTURES OF THE WHOLE SITUATION. I HAVE A 10-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER SO I CAN RELATE TO THE TRAGEDY AND THE PARENTS. YOU HAVE TO CONNECT WITH THE PEOPLE. THAT IS WHAT I DON'T -- THAT IS WHY I DON'T LIKE LONG LENSES, THERE IS TOO MUCH DISTANCE. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO TALK. JUST I CONTACT. I LET THEM KNOW HOW BAD I FEEL. WITH THE HURRICANES, EVERYTHING IS CHANGING AT THE HURRICANE

APPROACHES. I WAS IN FORT MEYER BEACH LESS THAN 12 HOURS BEFORE THE HURRICANE HIT AND THE NEXT TIME I SAW THAT, MY BEACH WAS ALMOST ERASED. HOW POWERFUL IS THE NATURE TO CREATE THIS GRE DESTRUCTION. >> IT IS ABOUT LOOKING FOR IMAGES THAT WILL HELP PEOPLE RELATE TO THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE. A MAJOR PART OF THE STORY HAS BEEN IN EVACUATION'S ANDHETHER OR NOT PEOPLE WILL LEAVE THESE HOMES. I SAW AN ELDERLY WOMAN AND I LOVED THE REFLECTIONS OF THE TOWN IN THE WINDOW, PROBABLY ALL SHE HAS KNOWN AND SHE IS LEAVING. AND SOME OF THE CHILDREN THAT MADE QUICK FRIENDS ON THE BUS, IT WAS IMPRESSIVE TO SEE HOW DEFIANT THE PEOPLE ARE IN UKRAINE UNDER THE CONDITIONS THEY ARE LIVING. I HAVE SEEN DAILY FUNERALS FOR ERD Y DOING, EITHER PUTONFLICT THEIR HANDS ACROSS THEIR HEART

OR IN SOME CASES KNEELED ON THE GROUND AS THE CASKET IS PASSING AND IT IS A VERY MOVING AND EMOTIONAL SCENE. I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR AMERICAN PHOTOJOURNALISTS, MYSELF IN PARTICULAR, TO COVER THE COUNTRIES WHERE THE U.S. IS INVOLVED AND THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IS HIGHLY INVOLVED IN THIS WORK SO WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE. I'VE ALREADY HEARD THAT PEOPLE ARE GETTING EXHAUSTED FROM THE WAR AND IT BECOMES BACK PAGE NEWS. AND IT SHOULD NOT BE PURE THE POINT OF THESE IMAGES IS TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT THIS IS STILL GOING ON AND PEOPLE ARE STILL SUFFERING FROM THIS AND THEIR STORIES DESERVE TO BE HEARD. JUDY: THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THESE FOUR PHOTOJOURNALISTS FOR SHARING THEIR THOUGHTS WITH US. SO POWERFUL, THESE IMAGES. ON THE NEWSHOUR ONLINE RIGHT NOW WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN, THE STUDENT DEBT RELIEF PLAN HEADING TO THE SUPREME COURT. WHAT IS NEXT FOR BORROWERS?

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