PBS NewsHour; Monday, March 21, 2022, 3:00pm-4:00pm PDT

Captioning sponsored by NEWSHOUR PRODUCTIONS, LLC >> Woodruff: GOOD EVENING. I'M JUDY WOODRUFF. ON THE "NEWSHOUR" TONIGHT, THE INVASION INTENSIFIES-- UKRAINIAN FORCES REJECT DEMANDS FOR A SURRENDER IN MARIUPOL AS CIVILIANS CONTINUE TO SUFFER THE WORST OF RUSSIAN BOMBARDMENT OF CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. >> ( translated ): WHEN YOUR HOME IS HIT BY A FRAGMENT OF SOMETHING, WHEN YOUR WINDOWS ARE BLOWN OUT, YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO GO ON LIVING, YOU DON'T KNOW WHETHER TO STAY HERE OR FLEE. >> Woodruff: THEN, DESPERATE JOURNEY-- MILLIONS OF UKRAINIANS FLEE THE WORSENING WAR IN THEIR HOMELAND. WE DISCUSS THE REFUGEE SITUATION WITH THE POLISH AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES. AND THE CONFIRMATION HEARINGS-- PRESIDENT BIDEN'S SUPREME COURT NOMINEE JUDGE KETANJI BROWN

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AND BY CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUR PBS STATION FROM VIEWERS LIKE YOU. THANK YOU. >> Woodruff: RUSSIAN FORCES ARE STALLED IN MANY REGIONS OF UKRAINE, AND ARE RESORTING TO AN EVER MORE PUNISHING CAMPAIGN OF BOMBARDMENT AGAINST SEVERAL MAJOR CITIES. ALL THIS, AS A KREMLIN SPOKESMAN SAID THE PROSPECTS FOR A PEACEFUL RESOLUTION GREW DIMMER. MEANTIME, AROUND TEN MILLION UKRAINIANS HAVE NOW BEEN DISPLACED, EITHER WITHIN THEIR COUNTRY OR SEEKING REFUGE OUTSIDE IT. IN WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT BIDEN ISSUED A STARK WARNING FOR AMERICAN COMPANIES, UTILITIES, AND OTHER CONCERNS TO WATCH FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF AN INCREASED THREAT OF CYBER ATTACK BY RUSSIA. FROM ODESSA, IN SOUTHWESTERN UKRAINE, JANE FERGUSON AGAIN LEADS OUR COVERAGE. >> Reporter: THIS IS ALL THAT REMAINS OF THE NORMALLY BUSTLING SHOPPING CENTER IN KYIV, HOURS AFTER RUSSIAN FORCES SHELLED IT. MANGLED STEEL, PILES OF DEBRIS,

AND THE BURNED OUT SHELLS OF VEHICLES. THE BODIES OF THE DEAD LIE COVERED. >> ( translated ): IT IS HARD FOR ME TO SPEAK BECAUSE MY CHILD USED TO WORK HERE. SHE WAS AT WORK JUST YESTERDAY. >> Reporter: DRONE FOOTAGE CAPTURED THE SCALE OF THE DESTRUCTION. >> WE DON'T >> ( translated ): WE DON'T HAVE ANY STRATEGIC MILITARY OBJECTS HERE AS RUSSIANS SAY. >> Reporter: RUSSIAN TROOPS HAVE BEEN SHELLING KYIV FOR ALMOST FOUR WEEKS NOW AS THEY TRY TO SURROUND THE CAPITAL CITY. ONE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING AFTER ANOTHER DESTROYED, LEAVING WNDOWS AND PEOPLES' HOMES SHATTERED. >> ( translated ): WHEN YOUR HOME IS HIT BY A FRAGMENT OF SOMETHING, WHEN YOUR WINDOWS ARE BLOWN OUT, YOU ARE LEFT WITHOUT A PLACE TO LIVE, YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO GO ON LIVING, YOU DON'T KNOW WHETHER TO STAY HERE OR FLEE. >> Reporter: KYIV'S MAYOR IMPOSED A NEW DAY-AND-A-HALF LONG CURFEW BEGINNING TONIGHT IN ANTICIPATION OF MORE SHELLING. FARTHER EAST, RUSSIAN FORCES ATTACKED A CHEMICAL PLANT ON THE

OUTSKIRTS OF SUMY, TRIGGERING AN AMMONIA LEAK THAT TOOK HOURS TO CONTAIN. RESIDENTS NEARBY WERE ORDERED TO SHELTER IN PLACE TO AVOID EXPOSURE. IN UKRAINE'S SOUTH, RUSSIAN FORCES ALSO CONTINUE TO STRIKE ALL THEY CAN. FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY, THE KEY PORT CITY OF ODESSA CAME UNDER ATTACK. THESE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS ON THE OUTSKIRTS COMPLETELY GUTTED. AND IN MYKOLAIV, WHERE DOZENS WERE KILLED THIS WEEKEND AFTER RUSSIA BOMBED A MILITARY BASE, RESIDENTS AND EMERGENCY WORKERS CLEARED THE RUBBLE OF THE FIRST STRIKE IN THE CITY CENTER SINCE THE INVASION BEGAN. AS RUSSIA'S STRATEGY OF TRYING TO TAKE CONTROL OF UKRAINIAN WHICH IS WHY MOST OF THE FIGHTING IN THIS COUNTRY IS HAPPENING ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF MAJOR ( EXPLOSION ) IN THE OCCUPIED CITY OF KHERSON, HUNDREDS RAN FOR COVER AS RUSSIAN SOLDIERS FIRED AT PROTESTERS. IMAGES OF THE INJURED EMERGED ON SOCIAL MEDIA. A SENIOR U.S. DEFENSE OFFICIAL SAID TODAY THE INCREASE IN

RUSSIAN SHELLING MAY COME FROM NEW SHIPS DEPLOYED TO THE BLACK SEA. RUSSIAN FORCES HAVE NOT YET CAPTURED MAJOR POPULATION CENTERS, BUT THE U.S. BELIEVES THEY STILL OCCUPY KHERSON, MELITOPOL AND BERDYANSK. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY PLAYED NOW WELL FAMILIAR SOUND OF AIR RAID SIRENS DURING HIS ADDRESS TODAY, REMINDING THE WORLD WHAT IT'S LIKE FOR MILLIONS OF UKRAINIANS EVERY DAY. >> ( translated ): THIS WAS JUST 20 SECONDS OF SIRENS, WHILE WE ARE LISTENING TO IT FOR HOURS, DAYS AND WEEKS. UKRAINIANS ARE LIVING WITH THE SOUND OF THIS SIREN, WORKING, GOING TO SLEEP, TREATING INJURED, GIVING BIRTH AND DYING. >> Reporter: THE UNITED NATIONS' MIGRATION AGENCYOW ESTIMATES MORE THAN 3.5 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE FLED THE COUNTRY, AND NEARLY 6.5 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DISPLACED WITHIN UKRAINE. COMBINED, THAT IS ONE-FOURTH OF THE COUNTRY'S POPULATION. HUMANITARIAN GROUPS ARSTILL UNABLE TO REACH MANY HEAVILY-

BOMBARDED AREAS WHERE THE MOST DESPERATE ARE. BOTH SIDES HINTED LAST WEEK AT PROGRESS IN DIPLOMATIC TALKS, BUT AFTER ANOTHER ROUND TODAY, KREMLIN SPOKESMAN DMITRY PESKOV DASHED HOPES FOR A SOLUTION ANYTIME SOON. >> ( translated ): THE DEGREE OF PROGRESS AT THE TALKS IS PROBABLY NOT AS HIGH AS WE WOULD WANT TO SEE IT. IN ORDER TO TALK ABOUT A MEETING OF THE TWO PRESIDENTS, FIRST IT'S NECESSARY TO DO THE HOMEWORK. SO FAR, SIGNIFICANT MOVEMENT HAS NOT BEEN ACHIEVED. >> Reporter: THIS WAS ALSO A GRIM DAY FOR THE FUTURE OF RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS. AFTER PRESIDENT BIDEN LAST WEEK CALLED PRESIDENT PUTIN A "WAR CRIMINAL," THE KREMLIN SUMMONED U.S. AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA JOHN SULLIVAN, WARNING THE COMMENTS HAVE PUSHED BILATERAL RELATIONS TO THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE. FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR, I'M JANE FERGUSON IN MYKOLAIV, UKRAINE. >> Woodruff: THANK YOU JANE. AND THE NEWSHOUR'S COVERAGE FROM UKRAINE OF THIS WAR IS SUPPORTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PULITZER CENTER.

THE EUROPEAN UNION'S FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF DECLARED RUSSIA'S SIEGE OF MARIUPOL "A MASSIVE WAR CRIME." UKRAINE REFUSED AGAIN TO SURRENDER THE INDUSTRIAL PORT CITY, AS RUSSIA OFFERED SAFE PASSAGE FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS WHO'VE BEEN TRAPPED FOR WEEKS WITHOUT FOOD, WATER, OR POWER. NICK SCHIFRIN REPORTS ON THAT BRUTAL SIEGE, THE EPICENTER NOW OF THIS WAR'S SUFFERING. >> Reporter: THE WAR HAS RENDERED MAR PAL DISTUTE, AND ITS RESIDENTS DESPERATE AND DEPRIVED. THERE IS NO WATER, SHE SAYS. WHAT USED TO BE BEDROOM WALLS, NOW WINDOWS INTO LIVES LOST. APARTMENT BUILDINGS NOW BLACKENED AND ABANDONED, AND FROM HOMES THAT TOOK DIRECT HITS, SURVIVORS SAVED ONLY WHAT THEY COULD CARRY AND THEMSELVES, FOR THE DEAD HAVE LOST THEIR DIGNITY. THEY ARE NOW BURIED BY THE ROADSIDE. THE SEIZE OF MARIUPOL WAS DESIGNED TO BREAK THIS PORT CITY'S SPIRIT AND

FORCE FAMILIES TO FLEE OR HIDE UNDERGROUND. ARANA IS THE LOCAL LIBRARIAN. >> WE HAVE BEEN IN A BASEMENT FOR 11 DAYS. WE HOPE FOR THE BEST, TO LIVE AS HUMANS. >> Reporter: IN MARIUPOL, THAT IS ALL THEY CAN HOPE FOR, TO HOLD ON TO THEIR HUMANITY. THE STORY OF THIS WAR IS THE STORY OF MARIUPOL, WHERE 80% OF THE STRUCTURES ARE DESTROYED, WHERE RUSSIA WARNS ANYONE STILL IN THE CITY WILL FACE, QUOTE, "MILITARY TRIBUNAL." AND THOUSANDS SHELTERING IN A BASEMENT WITH THE WORD "CHILDREN" WRITTEN ON BOTH SIDES WAS BOMBED IN A DIRECT HIT. STREET TO TREAT BATTLES PREVENT AUTHORITIES FROM KNOWING THEIR FATE. >> IT IS CLOSE TO WHAT NAZI GERMANY DID. >> Reporter: HE COMPARES MARIUPOL TO HISTORY'S HORRORS, STALENGRAD, ALEPPO. >> RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT HIT, AND DESTROYED THE EIGHTH AND THE NINTH FLOOR.

AND WE WOKE UP, AND THERE WERE CRIES FROM THOSE FLOORS, HELP US, HELP US. WE COULD NOT IMMEDIATELY GET OUT JUST BECAUSE THE DOOR WAS BLOCKED BY THIS HIT, YOU KNOW. BUT TWO PEOPLE -- WE COULD NOT FIND THE BODIES OF TWO PEOPLE. >> Reporter: HE LEADS A NON-PRIT THAT CELEBRATES MARIUPOL'S PHOTOGRAPHY AND CULTURE. HE USED TO HEAD THE BOARD OF INTERNATIONAL UKRAINE. HE HID THAT WORK FROM RUSSIAN SOLDIERS WHO DETAINED HIM AROUND THE CORNER FROM HIS HOUSE. >> TWO OR THREE HOURS, I WAS SPENDING THERE, AND THEY WERE DECIDING WHAT TO DO WITH ME. THEN MILITARY POLICE -- RUSSIAN MILITARY POLICE CAME AND TOLD THE SOLDIERS IT IS OK, LET'S SHOOT HIM. THEY ALREADY SHOT TWO CIVILIANS BECAUSE THEY WERE KIND OF SPIES, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. IN THE NIGHT, I WAS BROUGHT TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE, ACTUALLY, I HAVE BEEN CURED AS A CHILD. AND THEY WERE LOOKING INTO

MY CHEST. AND I WAS STANDING THERE AND THINKING, OKA IT WOULD BE BETTER IF HE WOULD SHOOT JUST ME IN THE HEART, YOU KNOW, NOT IN THE OTHER PARTS, JUST NOT TO SUFFER. >> Reporter: THEY LET HIM GO, AND HE JOINED THE THOUSANDS OF MARIUPOL RESIDENTS WHO FLED THE CITY. HE HAD NO CAR, SO HE WALKED. MOTIVATED TO LIVE TO SEE HIS SON. YOU HAD TO LEVE YOUR PARENTS BEHIND. >>> DO YOU KNOW HOW THEE ARE? >> MY PARENTS ARE 80 YEARS OLD. THE MAIN REASON TO LEAVE THEM ALONE WAS, OKAY, BECAUSE I REALIZED, I WILL BE (indiscernable) WHAT WOULD BE THE USE. AND, AGAIN, I WAS REALLY DREAMING ABOUT MY SON. >> Reporter: SOME EVACUEES WERE PARADED ON RUSSIAN-STATE TV, BEFORE THEY WERE TAKEN INTO RUSSIA, REPOEDLY TO BE HELD IN CAMPS. OR THEY WERE FORCED TO A SCHOOL SEPARATIST HELD TERRITORY.

THEY ADMITTED ON FRIDAY THAT KYIV COULD NOT RECAPTURE MARIUPOL. >> THERE IS CURRENTLY NO MILITARY SOLUTION TO MARIUPOL. YOU CAN BLAME ME, THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE, THE PRESIDENT PERSONALLY, AND SO ON, BUT THERE IS NO SOLUTION. >> I STILL DO BELIEVE THAT IT REMAINS UKRAINIAN. I'M READY TO GET BACK. BUT IF WE SEE THAT THE SITUATION IS WORSENING, THAT THEY KEEP LOCATING THE -- THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL, I MEAN, ALL OF THE RESIDENTS. >> Reporter: IN THIS WAR'S EPICENTER, RESIDENTS STILL TRAPPED ARE BEING FORCED TO STARVE OR SUBMIT. FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR, I'M NICK SCHIFRIN. >> Woodruff: IN THE DAY'S OTHER NEWS, U.S. SUPREME COURT NOMINEE

KETANJI BROWN JACKSON OPENED HER SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARINGS WITH A PLEDGE TO ACT WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR. THE FEDERAL APPEALS JUDGE WOULD BE THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN ON THE HIGH COURT. DEMOCRATS PRAISED HER IN OPENING STATEMENTS. REPUBLICANS PROMISED TOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT HER VIEWS. WE'LL GET ALL THE DETAILS LATER IN THE PROGRAM SUPREME COURT JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS REMAINS HOSPITALIZED IN WASHINGTON TONIGHT WITH AN INFECTION. THE COURT SAYS HE WAS ADMITTED FRIDAY WITH FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS, BUT DOES NOT HAVE COVID. IT ALSO SAYS HIS SYMPTOMARE EASING. THOMAS IS 73 YEARS OLD. IN SOUTHERN CHINA, SEARCH TEAMS WORKED INTO THE NIGHT AFTER A DOMESTIC FLIGHT CRASHED WITH 132 PEOPLE ON BOARD, AND NO SIGNS OF SURVIVORS. THE BOEING 737-800 WAS FLYING FROM KUNMING TO GUANGZHOU, WHEN IT DOVE TO EARTH IN 96 SECONDS. HUNDREDS OF RESCUERS WERE SENT TO A SCENE OF WIDELY SCATTERED WRECKAGE.

IT WAS CHINA'S DEADLIEST AVIATION DISASTER IN NEARLY A DECADE. WE'LL RETURN TO THIS, LATER IN THE PROGRAM. CHINA'S SHANGHAI DISNEYLAND TEMPORARILY CLOSED TODAY, AS A COVID OUTBREAK GROWS. THE HUGE PORT IN THE CITY OF 24 MILLION PEOPLE REMAINED OPEN. MEANWHILE, HONG KONG AND THE FINANCAND TECH CENTER OF SHENZEN BEGAN EASING PANDEMIC RESTRICTIONS THE UNITED STATES HAS DECLARED THAT ATROCITIES AGAINST ROHINGYA MUSLIMS IN BUDDHIST MYANMAR ARE GENOCIDE. MORE THAN 700,000 ROHINGYA HAVE FLED TO BANGLADESH SINCE 2017. SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN MADE TODAY'S ANNOUNCEMENT AT THE U.S. HOLOCAUST MUSEUM >> THE PATH IS A FAMILIAR ONE, MIRRORING IN SO MANY WAYS THE PATH TO THE HOLOCAUST AND OTHER GENOCIDES. WE SEE PARALLELS IN THE DEHUMANIZING HATE SPEECH. ROHINGYA WERE COMPARED TO FLEAS, TO THORNS, TO AN INVASIVE SPECIES, JUST AS TUTSIS WERE COMPARED TO COCKROACHES, AND JEWS TO RATS AND PARASITES.

>> Woodruff: THE U.S. MOVE COULD PROMPT OTHER NATIONS TO PRESSURE MYANMAR'S MILITARY GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATORS IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS ARE WORKING TO SOLVE A MASS SHOOTING THAT LEFT ONE MAN DEAD AND 27 WOUNDED. IT HAPPENED SATURDAY WHEN A GUNFIGHT ERUPTED AT A CAR SHOW IN DUMAS, 90 MILES OUTSIDE LITTLE ROCK. ONE PERSON WAS BEING QUESTIONED. AND IN TEXAS, WEEKEND MASS SHOOTINGS KILLED ONE PERSON AND WOUNDED 17. MORE THAN 3,000 CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD WORKERS WERE ON STRIKE TODAY AFTER A CONTRACT DEADLINE EXPIRED. THE WALKOUT THREATENED ECONOMIC DISRUPTIONS IN THE U.S. MIDWEST. CANADIAN PACIFIC IS A MAJOR SHIPPER OF FERTILIZER INTO THE REGION. IT ALSO CARRIES AMERICAN GRAIN INTO CANADA. FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIR JEROME POWELL HAS ISSUED FRESH WARNINGS THAT THE CENTRAL BANK WILL ACT FORCEFULLY TO TAME INFLATION. HE SAID TODAY THAT INTEREST RATE HIKECOULD BE HALF A POINT, INSTEAD OF THE USUAL QUARTER

POINT. WALL STREET GAVE GROUND AFTER POWELL'S REMARKS. THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE LOST 202 POINTS TO CLOSE AT 34,553. THE NASDAQ FELL 55 POINTS. THE S&P 500 SLIPPED TWO. AND, THE LONGEST-SERVING REPUBLICAN-- EVER-- IN THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WILL LIE IN STATE AT THE U.S. CAPITOL TOMORROW. ALASKA CONGRESSMAN DON YOUNG DIED FRIDAY AFTER SERVING FOR 49 YEARS. HE STEERED MAJOR FEDERAL SPENDING TO ALASKA, BUT ALSO FACED SEVERAL INVESTIGATIONS. DON YOUNG WAS 88-YEARS-OLD. STILL TO COME ON THE "NEWSHOUR," QUESTIONS REMAIN AFTER A CHINESE AIRLINER CRASHES WITH OVER A HUNDRED ON BOARD; OUR POLITICS MONDAY TEAM BREAKS DOWN THE SUPREME COURT CONFIRMATION HEARINGS; AN ARTIST GIVES HIS BRIEF, BUT SPECTACULAR, TAKE ON COMBATING POVERTY THROUGH CREATIVITY; PLUS MUCH MORE. >> Woodruff: ONE NEIGHBORING COUNTRY THAT SHARES A 300-MILE

BORDER WITH UKRAINE IS POLAND. MORE THAN TWO MILLION UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HAVE SOUGHT SAFE HAVEN IN POLAND OVER JUST THE PAST 3+ WEEKS. POLAND IS ALSO PROVIDING MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO UKRAINE. SO HOW DOES THIS FRONTLINE COUNTRY FEEL ABOUT THE WAR NEXT DOOR? FOR THAT WE TURN TO MAREK MAGIEROWSKI, POLAND'S AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES. >> AMBASSADOR MAR GERE, WELCOME TO THE NIEWMP. >> PRESIDENT BIDEN IS GOING TO BRUSSEL AND THEN TO YOUR COUNTRY. WHAT DO YOU HOPE WILL COME OUT OF THOSE MEETINGS? >> I'M EXPECTING A REASSERTION OF OUR STEADFAST ALLIANCE. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER. I BELIEVE WITHIN NATO, IT IS HARD TO FIND TWO COUNTRIES WHICH WOULD BE COOPERATING SO CLOSELY, ESPECIALLY IN RECENT

WEEKS. I BELIEVE BOTH PRESIDENTS, PPRESIDENT BIDEN AND PRESIDENT DUDDA, WILL REAFFIRM THIS IRON-CLAD RELATIONSHIP. >> Woodruff: WHAT DOES THAT ALLIANCE MEAN? YOUR GOVERNMENT IS PROVIDING MILITARY SUPPORT, WEAPONS ARE FLOWING FROM POLAND INTO UKRAINE. AT WHAT POINT DOES YOUR GOVERNMENT WORRY, DO YOU WORRY, THAT IT IS GOOD TOB HELPING YOUR NBA, BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO PROVOKE VLADIMIR PUTIN TO COME AFTER POLAND. >> WE HAVE BEEN RIGHT ABOUT CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA AND PUTIN'S INTENTIONS ALL ALONG, AND NOBODY LISTENED. NOW WE'RE FULLY VINDICATED, ALONGSIDE OUR NEIGHBORS, ROMANIA, AND CZECH REPUBLIC, WHO HAVE ALWAYS BEEN WARNING AGAINST RUSSIA'S GROWING AGGRESSIVENESS AND IMPERIAL AMBITIONS. NOW

WE CAN SEE IN PLAIN VIEW THOSE BARBARIC ACTS OF TERRORISM IN UKRAINE. BY THE WAY, A NEW INSTITUTION WAS ESTABLISHED IN POLAND, NAMED AFTER A FAMOUS POLISH LAWYER AND DIPLOMAT, WHO COINED THE TERM "GENOCIDE," AND THAT INSTITUTION IS GATHERING EVIDENCE OF WAR CRIMES COMMITTED BY RUSSIAN TROOPS IN UKRAINE. >> Woodruff: HOW MUCH MORE CAN YOUR GOVERNMENT POSSIBLY DO FOR UKRAINE AND NOT PROVOKE VLADIMIR PUTIN, OR HOW MUCH OF A CONCERN IS IT? >> THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT BECAUSE WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAUTIOUS. I CAN ONLY ECHO THE WORDS OF, FOR EXAMPLE, NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL, AND MANY OTHER WESTERN POLITICAL LEADERS WHO ARE WARNING AGAINST A HYPOTHETICAL POTENTIAL ESCALATION IN LIGHT OF THE RUSSIAN AGGRESSION AGAINST UKRAINE. YOU SHOULD KEEP DELIVERING STATE-OF-THE-ART WEAPONRY TO UKRAINE. THE AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION IS NOW TALKING ABOUT TRANSFERING LONG-RANGE DEFENSE SYSTEMS

TO UKRAINE, WHICH IS A GOOD SIGN AND A VERY POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT. POLAND IS ASSISTING,ALSO, UKRAINE, IN THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, ALTHOUGH POLAND IS NOW OUR REACTION, WHICH IS REALLY EXCEPTIONAL, WITH SOLIDARITY AND SYMPATHY TOWARDS UKRAINIANS, WHICH IS REALLY REMARKABLE. BUT POLAND IS FILLING UP. SO WE ARE NOW -- MANY MAYORS ARE NOW IN TALKS WITH THEIR COUNTERPARTS IN EUROPE ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF RELOCATION OF THOSE REFUGEES. BUT WE ARE DOING OUR UTMOST. WE ARE DOING WHAT WE REALLY CAN TO EASE UP THE TENSION AND TO PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO ALL OF THOSE, AS YOU RIGHTLY NOTED, MORE THAN TWO MILLION REFUGEES WHO HAVE ALREADY ARRIVED IN POLAND. >> Woodruff: I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT THAT, BUT I ALSO WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT YOUR PRIME MINISTER HAS PROPOSED A NATO PEACEKEEPING MISSION INTO UKRAINE. BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT NATO PLEDGED BACK IN THE LATE

1990s AND 1997, THAT IT WOULD NOT BASE PERMANENT TROOPS IN EASTERN EUROPE. SO ARE YOU ADVOCATING FOR EUROPE TO CHANGE THAT POLICY? >> YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT RUSSIA ACTS, WHICH HAS BEEN VIOLATED BY RUSSIA, AND NOT NATO. AND WE CAN ARGUE ABOUT THE DEFINITION OF THE SUBSTANTIAL TRIPS ON THE TERRITORY OF THE SO-CALLED NEW NATO MEMBER STATES. I WOULD LIKE TO STRESS VERY CLEARLY, WE ARE NOT NEW NATO MEMBER STATES. WE'RE JUST NATO MEMBER STATES. ACCORDING TO THE ARTICLE 5 OF THE WASHINGTON TREATY, WE ARE OBBLICHED, GERMANY, AND FRANCE AND ALL OF THE MEMBER STATES, TO DEFEND EACH OTHER. IF WE SEE THAT AGGRESSION ON THE PART OF ONE OF OUR NEIGHBORS BECAUSE RUSSIA IS ONE OF POLAND'S NEIGHBORS, WE HAVE TO BE PREPARED FOR AN ESCALATION FOR EVERY PLAUSIBLE SCENARIO. >> Woodruff: JUST

QUICKLY, DO YOU HAVE ANYMORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NATURE OF A PEACEKEEPING FORCE. >> IT IS A VERY COLID IDEA. I BELIEVE IT COULD BE ONE OF THE TOPICS THAT THE EUROPEAN LEADERS AND NATO LEADERS WILL DISCUSS DURING THE UPCOMING SUMMIT IN BRUSSELS. >> Woodruff: SOMETHING ELSE I QUICKLY WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT, AND THAT IS THE REPORTING THAT EVERYONE KNEW A FEW DAYS AGO POLAND WAS PREPARED TO SEND MIGS TO U.S. NATO BASE IN GERMANY THAT WOULD THEN BE TRANSFERRED TO UKRAINE. THE U.S. VETOED THAT. WHY DIDN'T POLAND BRING IT UP FIRST WITH THE UNITED STATES BEFORE ANNOUNCING IT? >> WE CAME UP WITH A VERY SPECIFIC PROPOSAL BECAUSE WE WERE UNDER IMMENSE PRESSURE UNDER THE PART OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION. BUT YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER ONE THING: THIS IS ONE-THIRD OF OUR ARSENAL OF AIRCRAFT, AND WE COULD NOT JUST DEPLETE THIS ARSENAL UNILATERALLY, ESPECIALLY IN THIS TROUBLING SITUATION. >> Woodruff: IS THAT DEAL COMPLETELY DEAD NOW? >> THE AMERICAN

ADMINISTRATION HAS REJECTED THIS PROPOSAL. I THINK WE CAN MOVE ON AND NOW DO EVERYTHING WE CAN DO IN ORDER TO KEEP DELIVERING WEAPONS TO UKRAINE AND TO HELP THE UKRAINIANS DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST THIS UNPROVOKED INVASION. WANTS TO KNOW HOW THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. QUICKLY TO THE IMPORTANT SUBJECT OF REFUGEES, YOUR COUNTRY HAS TAKEN IN MORE THAN TWO MILLION UKRAINIANS. HOW LONG CAN POLAND SUSTAIN THIS? >> I THINK IT REQUIRES A COMMON EFFORT TO RESETTLE AND RELOCATE THOSE REFUGEES ACROSS EUROPE. WE ARE WILLING AND READY TO ABSORB EVEN MORE WAVES OF REFUGEES. BY THE WAY, THERE IS GROUND FOR THE ABSORPTION OF UKRAINIAN IMAGES BECAUSE BEFORE THE WAR, WE HAD ROUGHLY 1.4 MILLION MIGRANTS WHO WERE INTEGRATING INTO THE POLISH SOCIETY SMOOTHLY. I BELIEVE THAT IS WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. OF COURSE WE WOULD LIKE THEM TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMES, AS THEY WOU LIKE

TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMELAND AFTER THE WAR. WWWWAR.>> Woodruff: AND COUNTRY EXPECTS YOU CAN SUSTAIN THIS FOR AS LONG AS YOU NEED TO? >> WE ARE READY TO ABSORB THEM AND TO ADMIT THEM. AND ALSO IN POLISH HOMES, SO FAR THERE HAVE BEEN NO REFUGEE CAMPS IN POLAND. AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THOSE FAMILIES WHO HAVE FLED UKRAINE HAVE BEEN HOSTED BY POLISH FAMILIES IN THEIR HOMES. >> Woodruff: ONE OTHER THING I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT, MR. AMBASSADOR, YOU SAID POLAND IS ON THE FRONT LINE IN STANDING UP TO RUSSIA. BUT IT IS ALSO KNOWN YOUR GOVERNMENT, IN RECENT YEARS, SEEMED TO WANT TO STAY ON GOOD WORKING TERMS WITH VLADIMIR PUTIN, WAS OPPOSING MANY ELEMENTS OF EUROPEAN UNITY. DOES THIS WAR IN UKRAINE CHANGE THAT? CAN POLAND EVER DO BUSINESS AS USUAL WITH RUSSIA? >> IT HAS NOT CHANGED OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS RUSSIA, BUT I BELIEVE IT HAS CHANGED THE ATTITUDES OF

MANY OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES, LIKE GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, TOWARDS RUSSIA. I DON'T THINK THERE IS A SHRED OF A POSSIBILITY OF RETURNING TO BUSINESS AS USUAL WITH RUSSIA AFTER THIS WAR. >> Woodruff: MR. AMBASSADOR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE APPRECIATE IT. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MAREK MAGIEROWSKI. >> Woodruff: IT WAS AN HISTORIC DAY ON CAPITOL HILL AS SUPREME COURT NOMINEE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON STEPPED INTO THE SPOTLIGHT FOR THE FIRST OF SEVERAL DAYS OF CONFIRMATION HEARINGS. JOHN YANG REPORTS ON THE ROUND OF OPENING STATEMENTS. >> THE HEARING OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY WILL COME TO ORDER. >> Reporter: FEDERAL JUDGE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON MADE THE CASE FOR HER NOMINATION TO BECOME THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN ON THE SUPREME COURT. >> I HAVE BEEN A JUDGE FOR NEARLY A DECADE, AND I TAKE THAT RESPONSIBILITY AND MY DUTY TO BE

INDEPENDENT VERY SERIOUSLY. I DECIDE CASES FROM NEUTRAL POSTURE, I EVALUATE THE FACTS AND I INTERPRET AND APPLY THE LAW TO THE FACTS OF THE CASE BEFORE ME, WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR, CONSISTENT WITH JUDICIAL OATH. DURING THIS HEARING, I HOPE THAT YOU WILL SEE HOW MUCH I LOVE OUR COUNTRY, AND THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE RIGHTS THAT MAKE US FREE. >> Reporter: REPUBLICANS ON THE PANEL SIGNALED THE QUESTIONS AHEAD. >> WHEN IT IS ABOUT PHILOSOPHY, WHEN IT'S SOMEBODY OF COLOR ON OUR SIDE IT'S ABOUT WE'RE ALL RACIST WN WE ASK HARD QUESTIONS, THAT'S NOT GONNA FLY WITH US. WE ARE USED TO IT BY NOW, AT LEAST I AM, SO IT'S NOT GOING TO MATTER A BIT TO ANY OF US WE'RE GOING TO ASK YOU WHAT WE THINK YOU NEED TO BE ASKED. >> I'M A BIT TROUBLED BY SOME OF

THE POSITIONS YOU'VE TAKEN AND ARGUMENTS THAT YOU'VE MADE, REPRESENTING PEOPLE WHO HAVE COMMITTED TERRORIST ACTS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER DANGEROUS CRIMINALS. AS SOMEONE WHO H DEEP RESPECT I UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF ZEALOUS ADVOCACY, BUT IT APPEARS THAT SOMETIMES THIS ZEALOUS ADVOCACY HAS GONE BEYOND THE PALE. >> WILL YOU FOLLOW THE LAW, WHAT DOES YOUR RECORD INDICATE, WILL YOU PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN REGARDLESS OF RACE, REGARDLESS OF PARTIES, REGARDLESS OF VIEWS, THAT'S WHAT THE FOCUS OF THIS HEARING SHOULD BE. >> Reporter: REPUBLICAN SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY OF MISSOURI RAISED CKSON'S SENTENCING DECISIONS AS A TRIAL JUDGE IN CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CASES. >> WHAT CONCERNS ME, AND I'VE BEEN VERY CANDID ABOUT THIS, IS IN EVERY CASE, IN EACH OF THESE SEVEN, JUDGE JACKSON HANDED DOWN A LENIENT SENTENCE THAT WAS BELOW WHAT THE FEDERAL GUIDELINES RECOMMENDED, AND BELOW WHAT PROSECUTORS REQUESTED. >> Reporter: SENATOR MARSHA >> COMMITTEE DEMOCRATS

DEFENDED HER AGAINST CRITICISMS. >> AS YOU'VE >> AS YOU'VE SEEN, WE'RE LIKELY TO HEAR MORE THAN A FEW STRAW MEN TODAY, WORN TALKING POINTS, IMAGINED GRIEVANCES, BUT THIS HEARING REALLY SHOULD BE ABOUT YOU, NOT ABOUT US. >> JUDGE JACKSON IS NO JUDICIAL ACTIVIST. SHE IS NOT A PUPPET OF THE SO- CALLED “RADICAL LEFT.” SHE HAS BEEN PRAISED BY REPUBLICAN-APPOINTED JUDGES FOR HER JURISPRUDENCE. JUDGE JACKSON IS NOT “ANTI-LAW ENFORCEMENT.” SHE HAILS FROM A LAW ENFORCEMENT FAMILY. SHE HAS ALSO WON THE SUPPORT OF PREEMINENT, NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING THE NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE. AND NO, SHE'S NOT-- JUDGE JACKSOIS NOT, “SOFT ON CRIME.” HER BACKGROUND AS A FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER WOULD BRING AN INFORMED PERSPECTIVE OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM TO THE SUPREME COURT. >> YOU HAVE THE EXPERIENCE AND RECORD OF A JURIST WHO IS

DEDICATED TO THE FAIR APPLICATION OF THE LAW, COMMITTED TO CONSENSUS, AND DETERMINED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COURT AND THE CONSTITUTION WORK FOR THE PEOPLE OF TODAY. >> Reporter: TOMORROW, JACKSON BEGINS TWO DAYS OF SCHEDULED QUESTIONING. FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR, I'M JOHN YANG. >> Woodruff: FOR MORE ON ALL THIS, I'M JOINED BY OUR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT, LISA DEJSARDINS, AND MARCIA COYLE OF THE "NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL." >> Woodruff: HELLO TO BOTH OF YOU. YOU WERE LISTENING VERY CAREFULLY. IN YOUR CASE, LISA, YOU WERE IN THE HEARING ROOM FOR SO MUCH OF THIS DAY. YOU KNOW, WE'RE ACCUSTOMED FROM SENATORS FROM DIFFERENT PARTIES COMING AT THESE NOMINEES FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, BUT THIS WAS ESPECIALLY PRONOUNCED TODAY, WASN'T IT? >> I HAVE TO SAY, I THINK, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE LAST TWO SETS OF HEARINGS WE HAD, JUSTIC KAVANAUGH AND AMY CONEY BARRETT, THIS WAS A MUCH MORE CALM HEARING ROOM. THERE WAS NOT THE KIND OF TENSION THAT YOU ACTUALLY FELT IN YOUR BODY, THAT I FELT IN THE LAST TWO

HEARINGS. THERE WAS NOT THE KIND OF ANIMOSITY BETWEEN THE SENATORS THAT I HAD SEEN BEFORE. I DO THINK WE WILL SEE, AND WE'RE PREVIEWING THE PREVIEWS TODAY, AS JOHN REPORTED, SOME VERY SERIOUS AND POINTED CHARGES AT JUDGE JACKSON, INCLUDING ON HER SENTENCING ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHERS. AND I THINK THAT THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS THEY'RE READY FOR THAT. SO SHE WILL GET HER CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT THAT TOMORROW, WHY SHE MADE THOSE DECISIONS. WHAT IS NOTABLE, HOW DID SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY MAKE THOSE CHARGES. HE COMPLIMENTED HER AND SAID, I WANT TO HEAR YOUR SIDE OF THE STORY. EVEN THAT WAS LESS POINTED THAT WE'VE SEEN BEFORE. MAYBE THIS IS A GOOD TIME TO MENTION, WE HAVE NO LESS THAN SIX SENATORS WHO HAVE OR ARE THINKING ABOUT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, SO ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN. >> Woodruff: DO YOU THINK THAT COULD INFLUENCE WHAT HAPPENED? >> I THINK. >> Woodruff: AND THE SENATOR CALLED HER STOIC FOR SITTING THROUGH THE HEARING. MARSHA, IT IS THE CASE SHE

HAS ONLY BEEN ON THE APPELLATE COURT FOR LESS THAN A YEAR, BUT SHE HAS A LOT IN HER RECORD FOR THIS COMMITTEE TO POUR OVER. AND THEY INDICATED THEY'RE GOING TO BRING IT UP FROM HER, YES, APPELLATE RECORD, AND YEARS OF BEING A FELLOW DISTRICT JUDGE, HER TIME PRIVATE PRACTICE, AS A PUBLIC DEFENDER, WHAT IS SHE EXPECTING TO FACE HERE? >> IN TERMS OF HER APPELLATE CAREER, AS YOU MENTIONED, SHE HAS NOT BEEN ON THE BENCH THAT LONG, AND SHE HAS ONLY WRITTEN TWO MAJORITY OPINIONS. WHERE THE FOCUS WILL BE IS ON HER DISTRICT COURT OPINIONS, AND THERE THEY RANGE ALL THROUGH DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE LAW. SHE HAS WRITTEN OVER 500 OF THOSE OPINIONS. IT IS A TREASURE TROVE FOR THE SENATORS TO PLUM FOR WHATEVER THEY'RE LOOKING FOR. SO THE DISTRICT COURT OPINIú÷m THE SENTENCING COMMISSION, WHEN SHE WAS A VICE COMMISSIONER THERE, AND ALSO HER WORK AS A PUBLIC DEFENDER. WE SAW SOME OF THAT IN SOME OF THE COMMENTS HE JUST RAN, QUESTIONS ABOUT

HER REPRESENTATION OF GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEES, ON HER SENTENCING AS A DISTRICT COURT JUDGE, THE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. REALLY, JUDY, THE REPUBLICANS FLAGGED WHERE THEY WERE HEADED WEEKS AGO. SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY'S CONCERNS ABOUT HER PORN SENTENCING, HE DID THAT IN A VERY LONG TWEET ON TWITTER AT LEAST A WEEK AGO. I THINK WE HEARD WHERE THEY'RE AIMING TO TRY TO MAKE SOME POINTS ON HER NOMINATION. >> Woodruff: IT IS -- IT CATCHES YOUR EAR WHEN YOU HEAR CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND SOFT ON PORN. >> ABSOLUTELY. >> Woodruff: WITH REGARD TO THE LIGHT SENTENCES, BEING SOFT ON PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED IN ENGAGING IN CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, WHAT DO WE LOOK TO COME FROM THIS? >> I THINK WE HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE. I THINK THEY'RE PREPARING THEIR ANSWER. I THINK THEY WILL TALK

ABOUT HOW OTHER JUDGES AT THE TIME HANDLED THAT KIND OF SENTENCING, AND SAY SHE WAS NOT OUT OF THE NORM. I THINK JUDGE JACKSON WILL HAVE TO SPEAK PERSONALLY TO HOW SHE HANDLES SENTENCING. THAT IS THE ACCUSATION, WERE YOU TOO SOFT ON CRIME? HER ANSWER TO THAT HAS BEEN NO, THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM, I HOLD EVERYONE ACCOUNTABLE, BUT WE NEED TO HAVE BOTH DEFENSE ATTORNEYS AND PROSECUTORS ALIKE, AND TOMORROW WILL BE HER CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT THAT. >> Woodruff: MARSHA, HAVING WATCHED AS MANY SUPREME COURT CONFIRMATIONS AS YOU HAVE, FOUR IN THE LAST FEW YEARS -- >> I WON'T SAY WHEN I STARTED. >> Woodruff: IT WAS JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. >> YES. >> Woodruff: WHAT IS THE LINE SHE NEEDS TO BE CAREFUL TO WALK AS SHE ANSWERS THESE QUESTIONS AND IS FORTHCOMING, BUT ISN'T SO FORTHCOMING THAT SHE IS GETTING INTO THE REALM OF WHAT MAY GET HER IN TROUBLE LATER? >> WELL, I THINK THE LINE FOR HER AND FOR AL NOMINEES PRIOR TO HER,

HAVE BEEN DON'T ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT ISSUES THAT MIGHT COME BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT, OR THAT ARE ALREADY BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT. BUT IN TERMS OF HER OWN WORK, I MEAN, I FULLY EXPECT THAT SHE WILL TALK ABOUT THE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY SENTENCES. AND I THINK SHE WILL HAVE ROOM TO GIVE THE CONTEXT. NOW, THESE SENATORS HAVE 30 MINUTES -- EACH SENATOR HAS 30 MINUTES FOR QUESTIONING, SO SHE SHOULD BE GIVEN THE TIME TO EXPLAIN WHAT WAS HAPPENING WITH SENTENCING AND CHILD PORNOGRAPHY THAT LED TO MORE LENIENT SENTENCES, AS MOST OTHER FEDERAL JUDGES WERE DOING, BECAUSE AT THE TIME THOSE SENTENCES WERE PERCEIVED AS TOO TOUGH AND A MESS, AND THE SENTENCING COMMISSION WAS STRUGGLING AT THE TIME WITH TRYING TO WORK ALL THAT OUT. SO SHE WAS NOT OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM. BUT SHE IS GOING TO HAVE TO PROVIDE CONTEXT SO THAT NOT ONLY THE SENATORS' QUESTIONS OR ANSWERED, BUT THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE WAS DOING AS A JUDGE IN THOSE CASES, THAT AS YOU SAID REALLY SORT OF GRAB YOU. >> Woodruff: THAT CERTAINLY DO GRAB YOU. I KNOW YOU'RE BOTH GOING TO BE WATCHING TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AS THIS HEARING CONTINUES. MAMARCIA COYLE AND LISA DESJARDINS, THANK YOU. WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO TUNE TOMORROW AT 9:00 A.M., WHEN JUDGE JACKSON WILL BEGIN TO TAKE QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMITTEE. >> Woodruff: LET'S RETURN TO THE JET CRASH IN SOUTHERN CHINA. MORE THAN 130 PEOPLE APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN KILLED. WILLIAM BRANGHAM LOOKS AT THE MANY QUESTIONS AROUND WHAT HAPPENED. >> Brangham: FLIGHT 5735 TOOK OFF NORMALLY. BUT ABOUT AN HOUR INTO THE FLIGHT, ONCE IT REACHED CRUISING

ALTITUDE, THE PLANE SUDDENLY PLUNGED DOWN, DROPPING OVER 20,000 FEET IN ABOUT A MINUTE. AT ABOUT 8,000 FEET, THERE WAS A BRIEF CHANGE IN TRAJECTORY, BUT THEN IT PLUNGED AGAIN. THIS VIDEO SHARED BY THE CHINA AVIATION REVIEW SEEMS TO SHOW THE NEAR-VERTICAL DESCENT OF THE JET JUST BEFORE IMPACT. JOINING ME NOW IS OUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT, MILES O'BRIEN, WHO IS ALSO A PILOT. >> AND HE IS ALSO A PILOT. MILES, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. I MEAN, THIS IS SUCH -- WHAT IT SEEMS TO BE IS AN AWFUL EVENT. I CAN'T IMAGINE FOR THOSE 130 SOMETHING PEOPLE TO HAVE BEEN ON THAT PLANE AT SUCH A DEEP DESCENT BEFORE IT CRASHED. CAN YOU WALK US THROUGH THE THINGS THAT THE INVESTIGATORS ARE NOW GOING TO BE LOOKING THROUGH TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENED? >> SURE, WILLIAM. THERE ARE THREE MAJOR CATEGORIES THAT INVESTIGATORS FOCUS ON AS THEY APPROACH AN ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION LIKE THIS: THAT'S THE MACHINE ITSELF, THE AIRCRAFT, THE FLIGHT CREW, AND THE WEATHER.

LET'S TALK ABOUT THE AIRCRAFT FOR JUST A MOMENT. IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO SAY AT THE OUTSET, THIS IS NOT A 737 MAX. THE PLANE NOW NOTORIOUS FOR TWO FATAL CRASHES IN 2018 AND 2019. ULTIMATELY, THAT WAS A REDESIGN OF THE AIRCRAFT THAT LED TO SOME BAD SOFTED THAT LED TO THOSE CRASHES. THIS IS A PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE 737, SO WE'LL TAKE THAT WHOLE ISSUE OFF THE PLATE. THE CREW ITSELF, WE DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THAT COCKPIT. THERE IS NO INDICATION OF ANY SORT OF RADIO CALL, ANY ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THERE WAS A MAY DAY SCENARIO. THE WEATHER DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE A FACTOR. THE CRASH SITE ITSELF IS VERY CONTAINED, WHICH INDICATES THAT THE AIRCRAFT WAS NOT BREAKING APART IN PIECES IN FLIGHT. THE WRECKAGE IS PRETTY MUCH IN ONE SPOT. SO THAT LEAVES INVESTIGATORS SCRATCHING THEIR HEADS AND LOOKING FOR THE CLUES. ONE THING TO POINT OUT HERE: AT THAT RATE OF

SPEED, 350 TO 400 MILES AN HOUR STRAIGHT INTO THE GROUND, THERE IS A HIGH LIKELIHOOD WE WON'T GET ANY DATA OUT OF THE COCKPIT VOICE RECORDER OR THE FLIGHT RECORDER, WHICH WOULD BE VERY UNFORTUNATE, OF COURSE. >> Brangham: THAT DESCENT IS LIKE A NEAR VERTICAL DROP INTO THE GROUND -- IS THAT SOMETHING THE PLANE COULD HAVE DONE OR WOULD HAVE DONE ON ITS OWN? >> NO. PLANES ARE INHERENTLY STABLE, WILLIAM. THAT, WHAT YOU SAW, WOULD TAKE REALLY AN AWFUL LOT OF EFFORT. LET'S GO BACK TO 1997, THE 737 CRASH, SILK AIR, OUT OF JAKARTA, INDONESIA. ALMOST AN IDENTICAL PLUNGE. MANY YEARS LATER THE NTSB CAME TO THE CONCLUSION, BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THERE WAS A MECHANICAL PROBLEM WITH THE 737 RUDDER, WHICH CAUSED PROBLEMS PREVIOUSLY, AND THEY

LOOKED AT IT AND THEY COULD NOT COME UP WITH A SCENARIO WHERE THEY COULD MAKE THAT KIND OF FALL WITHOUT HUMAN INTERVENTION. IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU LED GO OF THE CONTROLS, THE PLANE WOULD HAVE RETURNED TO A MORE STABLE FLIGHT. >> Brangham: WE KNOW THAT BOEING AND THE NTSB BOARD HAVE OFFERED ASSISTANCE, AND IT IS UNCLEAR IF THAT OFFER WILL BE ACCEPTED, BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING, DO WE KNOW -- WHAT KIND OF TRACK RECORD DO THE CHINESE HAVE WHEN IT COMES TO AVIATION SECURITY? >> MUCH IMPROVED. IN THE 1990s, YOU MAY RECALL, WILLIAM, CHINESE AVIATION WAS OT GOOD, IT HAD NOT A GOOD TRACK RECORD. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE HAD DIED IN THAT TIMEFRAME IN A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS. THE CHINESE TURNED TO THE UNITED STATES AND THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION AND THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD, TO ASK THOSE OFFICIALS HOW TO IMPROVE

THEIR SYSTEM. AND THEY EMBRACED THAT, BY ALL ACCOUNTS, AND ADOPTED A VERY METICULOUS SAFETY PROGRAM, WHICH MATCHED THE NTSB APPROACH. AND THEY MODERNNIZED THEIR FLEET. THE CRASH YESTERDAY WAS ONLY SIX YEARS OLD. SO CHINA AVIATION GENERALLY IS A SAFE ENTERPRISE. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW FORTHCOMING AND HOW WELCOMING THE CHINESE OFFICIALS MIGHT BE TO REPRESENTATIVES OF BOEING, FOR EXAMPLE, AND THE F.A.A., AND THE NTSB, WHICH ARE INVITED INTO THESE INVESTIGATIONS BECAUSE THAT IS, AFTER ALL, WHERE THE AIRCRAFT WAS PRODUCED. >> Brangham: AND IT SEEMS, ALSO, THAT THIS IS A CHINESE-MADE MANUFACTURER, AND THERE IS A CERTAIN CONFLICT OF INTEREST THERE IN THE INVESTIGATION GOING FORWARD? >> YEAH. IT'S VERY MUCH A GRAY AREA, HOW THIS IS GOING TO

GO FORWARD. AND HERE IS THE IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER: CHINA OWNS THE AIRLINE AND THE INVESTIGATION WILL BE LED BY THE GOVERNMENT. SO THERE IS AN INHERENT CONFLICT OF INTEREST HERE. >> Brangham: ALL RIGHT. MILES O'BRIEN, THANKS FOR GETTING US THROUGH ALL OF THIS. >> YOU'RE WELCOME, WILLIAM. >> Woodruff: AS THE SENATE JUDICIARY LAUNCHES THE CONFIRMATION HEARINGS FOR JUDGE KENTANJI BROWN JACKSON TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, PRESIDENT BIDEN IS FOCUSED ON UNITING ALLIES ON A STRATEGY TO MITIGATE THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE. HERE TO BREAK DOWN WHAT'S AT STAKE IS TAMARA KEITH OF NPR AND LAURA BARRON LOPEZ OF "POLITICO." >> AMY WALTER IS AWAY, AND WE'RE PARTICULARLY GLAD TO HAVE YOU, LAURA. SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT IN THE NEWS, AS WE ARE JUST SUGGESTING, AND I KNOW YOU HEARD TAM EARLIER, THE CONVERSATION WITH THE

AMBASSADOR FOR POLAND, AND PRESIDENT BIDEN HEADI TO EUROPE THIS WEEK, MEETING WITH NATO AND THEN GOING TO POLAND. WHAT ARE WHITE HOUSE EXPECTATIONS FOR THIS TRIP? >> TY ARE EXPECTING THAT THERE WILL BE DELIVERABLES. WHEN A PRESIDENT MAKES A TRIP, THERE IS A LOT OF GROUND WORK LAID OUT IN ADVANCE. THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE IS ALREADY THERE AT NATO. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT IN THE WORKS ALREADY, SO THAT WHEN PRESIDENT BIDEN GOES, WHEN THESE MEETINGS BETWEEN THE LEADERS TAKE PLACE, WHEN IT IS OVER, THEY WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO ANNOUNCE. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS YET, BUT THEY'LL HAVE SOMETHING TO ANNOUNCE. THE EXPERTS I TALKED TO SAY JUST THE SHEAR ACT OF PRESIDENT BIDEN GOING TO EUROPE, YOU KNOW, BRUSSELS IS A 17-HOUR DRIVE FROM THE BORDER WITH UKRAINE. THE PRESIDENT GOING TO WARSAW, POLAND, GOING TO POLAND, WHICH IS RIGHT THERE ON THE BORDER, WHERE ALL OF THESE REFUGEES ARE, TO MAKE A STATEMENT -- HE MAKES A STATEMENT SIMPLY BY BEING THERE. >> Woodruff: RIGHT. AND IT ALSO RAISES EXPECTATIONS ABOUT HIS

BEING THERE, LAURA, DOESN'T IT? >> IT DOES. A NUMBER OF REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT I HAVE BEEN EAKING TO HAVE SAID THEY REALLY HOPE THAT SOME OF THE DELIVERABLES ARE SAID AND MADE PUBLIC WHEN HE IS THERE IN POLAND, SUCH AS EXPEDITING THE REFUGEE PROCESS FOR UKRAINIANS WHO HAVE FAMILY HERE, AND FAMILY REUNIFICATION, AND POTENTIALLY NON-UKRAINIANS WHO FLED FIRST TO UKRAINE AND NOW HAVE TO FLEE AGAIN GIVEN THE CRISIS. THEY'RE LOOKING TO SEE THE ADMINISTRATION, WHICH HE CAN DO WITHOUT CONGRESS, USE THE REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT ACT TO OPEN THE U.S. TO A LOT OF REFUGEES. RIGHT NOW THEY'RE DISAPPOINTED IT HASN'T BEEN DONE SO FAR, BUT THEY'RE HOPING THAT THIS TRIP STARTS TO MOVE THE ADMINISTRATION IN THAT PROCESS. >> Woodruff: JUST AS KIND OF A FOOTNOTE TO THIS, THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN THE RECIPIENT OF CRITICISM FROM REPUBLICANS, YES, UNITED IN THAT THE UN UNITED STATES IS SUPPORTING "CBS EVENING UKRAE SAYING IT COULD HAVE BEEN BEEN SOONER AND HOW MUCH

IS NOISE AND HOW MUCH DOES THE WHITE HOUSE WORRY ABOUT THAT? >> AND THERE ARE DEMOCRATS WHO SAID IT COULD HAVE BEEN MORE AND SOONER. THERE ARE REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ALIKE WHO SAID THEY WANTED THE ADMINISTRATION TO PUT FORWARD SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA BEFORE RUSSIA DID ANYTHING, WHEN RUSSIA WAS BUILDING UP TROOPS ALONG THE UKRAINIAN BORDER. BUT, ULTIMATELY, PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS MADE THIS CHOICE, AND THIS TRIP IS ALL ABOUT HIGHLIGHTING THAT CHOICE. THIS CHOICE IS MOVING IN LOCK STEP WITH THE ALLIES, WITH NATO, WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION. EVEN AT TIMES WHEN THAT MAKES HIM SEEM LIKE HE IS BEHIND THE CURVE, WHEN IT MAKES HIM SEEN, BASED ON AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION AND CERTAINLY CONGRESSIONAL OPINION, THAT HE IS A LITTLE BIT BEHIND. >> Woodruff: I WANT TO TURN TO THE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON SUPREME COURT HEARINGS, LAURA. IT WAS ONLY OPENING STATEMENTS TODAY. WE HAVEN'T HEARD THE SENATORS PRESS HER ON SOME OF THE QUESTIONS. WE DID HEAR THEM RAISED BUT WE DIDN'T HEAR THEM PRESSED. WHAT IS IT THAT WE EXPECT TO COME FROM THIS POLITICALLY FOR THE WHITE HOUSE?

HOW MUCH DOES IT MATTER TO THEM THAT THESE HEARINGS GO WELL? IT IS EXPECTED SHE IS GOING TO WIN CONFIRMATION. >> IT IS, WHICH SHE CAN WITH JUST DEMOCRATIC REPORT, BUT THE ADMINISTRATION WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME REPUBLICANS VOTE TO CONFIRM HER. IT LOOKS LIKE SUSAN COLLINS IS SOMEONE WHO COULD VERY WELL DO THAT. THE WHITE HOUSE, AHEAD OF THESE HEARINGS, HAS TRIED TO GET AHEAD OF THE ATTACK FROM REPUBLICANS THAT SHE IS SOFT ON CRIME BY STATING HER PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, MEMBERS OF HER FAMILY THAT ARE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT. SHE IS ENDORSED BY THE LARGEST ORGANIZATION THAT RECIPIENTS SOME 30,000 CHIEFS OF POLICE. THEY HAVE ENDORSED HER. AND WHAT IS IMPORTANT ABOUT THE CONTEXT OF HER RECORD, AND PARTICULARLY PUBLIC DEFENDER, NO ONE ON THE SUPREME COURT HAS EVER BEEN A PUBLIC DEFENDER. THE CLOSEST WAY THURGOOD MARSHALL, WHO HAD SOME EXPERIENCE AS A CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER, BUT OTHER THAN THAT, SHE WOULD BE THE FIRST. AND ONE THING I'VE SEEN, EVEN LIBERTARIAN THINK-TANK CATINSTITUTE

MENTION, THEY THINK THAT DIVERSITY ON THE COURT COULD BE IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF THE CONTINUED EROSION OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT. MORE AND MORE IN THE MODERN JUDICIAL SYSTEM, PEOPLE ARE NOT GETTING JURY TRIALS. THAT HAS DISAPPEARED A LOT IN THE MODERN JUDICIAL SYSTEM, AND SOMEONE LIKE HER MAY SEEK TO BALANCE OUT THOSE CHANGES. >> Woodruff: HOW MUCH DOES IT MATTER, TAM, THAT THEY GET SOME BIPARTISAN SUPPORT HERE? >> I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH IT REALLY MATTERS. IN TERMS OF -- I MEAN, IT MATTERS TO THE WHITE HOUSE BECAUSE THE WHITE HOUSE LIKES TO TELL THIS STORY OF HOW BIPARTISAN IS POSSIBLE, AND THE PRESIDENT TELLS THAT STORY WHENEVER HE POSSIBLY CAN, HE TALKS ABOUT IT. IN TERMS OF HER CONFIRMATION, IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE BIPARTISAN. IN TERMS OF THE MODERN AGE OF THE CONFIRMATION PROCESS, WHERE THEY WENT NUCLEAR A FEW YEARS AGO, AND EVER SINCE THEN IT HAS BEEN PRETTY DARN PARTISAN. AND THE AGE OF A JUDICIAL NOMINEE GETTING 60 OR 70 VOTES, OR EVEN MORE, IT

JUST -- IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS OVER. THAT THERE HAS BECOME THIS REAL IDEOLOGICAL DIVIDE OVER THE COURTS. AND WHERE THE SENATE HAS ESSENTIALLY DECIDED THAT THE PRESIDENT DOESN'T REALLY GET HIS PREROGATIVE, OR THAT THEY AREN'T GOING TO PUT A RUBBER STAMP ON IT. >> Woodruff: IT IS A PROCESS. AND WE BEGIN TO FEEL LIKE WE'VE SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE WHEN WE WATCH THESE CONFIRMATION HEARINGS. >> IT IS. AND TO TAMARA'SOINT, SHE CAN BE CONFIRMED WITHOUT REPUBLICANS. OF COURSE, PRESIDENT BIDEN IS STILL TRYING TO HAVE A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS WITH REPUBLICANS. HE HAS CALLED SUSAN COLLINS AT LEAST THREE TIMES SINCE JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER SAID HE WAS GOING TO RETIRE. SO THE WHITE HOUSE IS MAKING AN EFFORT FOR THAT, BUT THE LIKELIHOOD OF HER GETTING MORE THAN ONE REPUBLICAN VOTE IS REALLY SLIM. >> Woodruff: ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO ASK YOU BOTH ABOUT IS WE LOST THE LONGEST SERVING REPUBLICAN

MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OVER THE WEEKEND. LAURA, YOU TOLD US HE COVERED HIM ON CAPITOL HILL. DON YOUNG, A LONG-TIME SERVING MEMBER FROM NEBRASKA. >> CONGRESSMAN YOUNG WAS THE DEAN OF THE HOUSE, ONE OF THE OLDEST ACROSS BOTH CHAMBERS TO SERVE THAT LONG. HE WAS KNOWN AS THIS CHAIR MANSHIP, ON THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, AND ONE THING THAT BIDEN AND OTHERS HAVE HIGHLIGHTED IN HIS PASSING, IS HIM FIGHTING AGGRESSIVELY FOR ALASKA IN TERMS OF EARMARKS, WHICH, YOU KNOW, WERE A THING EARLIER ON IN HIS CAREER, AND THEN THEY WENT AWAY FOR DECADES AND THEY RETURNED AGAIN RECENTLY. SO MOST RECENTLY VOTING FOR BIDEN'S BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE PACKAGE, HE WAS ONLY ONE OF 13 REPUBLICANS TO DO THAT. >> Woodruff: THE BRIDGE NOWHERE WAS ONE OF THE NAMES ONES. WELL, MAY HE REST IN

PEACE, DON YOUNG. THANK YOU BOTH, LAURA BARRON BARN AND TAMARA KEITH. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. >> Woodruff: BORN AND RAISED IN ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, SHAWN DUNWOODY IS A LOCAL ARTIST AND ACTIVIST. EARLY IN HIS CAREER, HE FOUND TRADITIONAL SUCCESS IN GALLERIES AND UNIVERSITIES, BUT NOW FOCUSES ON HIS OWN NEIGHBORHOOD, HOPING TO IGNITE CONVERSATIONS THROUGH ART, AND TO CREATE TANGIBLE CHANGES WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. TONIGHT, SHAWN SHARES HIS BRIEF, BUT SPECTACULAR, TAKE ON BRIDGING COMMUNITIES WITH ART. >> ACTIVISM INFORMS ART, AND ART AFFECTS ACTIVISM. THEY GO HAND IN HAND. WHEN YOU TAKE THAT BRUSH TO THE WALL OR TO THE CANVAS OR YOU'RE, OR YOU'RE, YOU'RE MOLDING THAT CLAY, YOU'RE CREATING SOME SORT OF MOVEMENT. YOU, YOU, YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOME SORT OF CHANGE. AND I REALIZE THAT ART CAN ACTUALLY BE A, A FUEL TO KICK THAT CHANGE OFF IN A MAJOR WAY.

YOU KNOW, GROWING UP IN ROCHESTER NEW YORK, I SPENT A LOT OF TIME ALONE, BECAUSE MOM'S GOTTA WORK TWO JOBS. AND I STARTED TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN DRAWING AND COLORING AND COMIC BOOKS, AND I WANTED TO BE A SUPERHERO AND HELP SHAPE THE WORLD. AND I SAW THAT THERE WERE WAYS TO ACTUALLY DO THIS WITH ART AND BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER. I BEGAN SHOWING IN GALLERIES AND AT UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES, AND I WAS LECTURING AND TALKING ABOUT WHAT, SOME OF THE ISSUES ARE THAT I'M DEALING WITH HERE BEING A, A BLACK MAN HERE IN AMERICA. AND I FELT IT WAS GREAT. I'M LIKE, OH, YEAH, LOOK AT THIS. PEOPLE ARE PAYING ATTENTION TO ME AND IT'S GONNA BE GREAT. AND I GOT A CHANCE TO HANG MY ARTWORK. BUT I HAD A, A MOMENT WHERE I WAS ADDRESSING AN AUDIENCE AND THE AUDIENCE LOOKED NOTHING LIKE ME, AND, UM, I SAID, "DO THEY REALLY CARE WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? AND ONCE I LEAVE THIS ROOM, WILL THEY ACTUALLY TRY TO CREATE SOME CHANGE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD?" AND I SAID, "I NEED TO BE BACK IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.

I WANT TO BE WHAT I WANTED TO SEE WHEN I WAS 15-YEARS-OLD." MY PARTNER AND I, SUZANNE MAYER, WE STARTED HINGE NEIGHBORS. AND WHAT THAT WAS REALLY ABOUT WAS ABOUT THERE'S A HIGHWAY THAT RUNS IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR CITY. THERE ARE TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT SOCIAL ECONOMIC GROUPS ON EITHER SIDE. AND SO, WE WANTED TO BE ABLE TO WORK TOGETHER TO AMPLIFY THE VOICES OF THOSE PEOPLE. FIRST OFF, WE CREATED AN ART PROJECT, SO THEY CANCTUALLY BEAUTIFY THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD TOGETHER. WHEN I'M WKING ON A, A COMMUNITY BASED PROJECT OR POLITICAL PROJECT, WHATEVER THAT MAY BE, I WANT TO INFUSE SOME SORT OF CREATIVITY IN THERE. WE'RE ALL MAKING THINGS HAPPEN TOGETHER, AND WE'RE LISTENING TO MUSIC ALL WHILE WE'RE LEARNING ABOT THE MISSION THAT WE HAVE TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. ALL WHILE GATHERING NAMES OF FOLKS WHO MIGHT NOT OTHERWISE BE COME OUT TO SEE OR DO ANYTHING IF I SAID, “I WANT TO FIND OUT HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT YOUR COMMUNITY OR YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD”" NO, BUT IF THEY SEE SOMETHING THAT DRAWS THEIR EYE, MAKES THEM THINK ABOUT THEMSELVES DIFFERENTLY IN THE ENVIRONMENT, MAKES THEM FEEL A BIT HAPPY AND CONNECTED AND SAY, “HEY, I ACTUALLY DID THIS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.”

NOW THEY'VE ACTUALLY COMMITTED THEMSELVES PHYSICALLY TO A PROJECT AND MENTALLY THEY'RE COMMITTED TO MOVING AND SHAPING THIS COMMUNITY. SO, THAT'S HOW I USE ART AS SORT OF THIS, IT'S THE SORT OF HOOK WAY, I KIND OF HOOK M IN THERE AND SAY, HEY, COME ON. THIS IS COOL. COME IN, JOIN ME. YOU'LL LIKE THIS. AND WHAT I'VE SEEN IS THAT PEOPLE WILL REALLY TALK TO EACH OTHER AND ENGAGE IN CONVERSATION. AND WHEN WE LISTEN, WHEN WE TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHEN WE REACH OUT AND WE ASK AND WE GIVE AND WE ASK AND WE GIVE, WE WILL FIND OUT THERE ARE AMAZING THINGS THAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED TOGETHER WHEN WE CONNECT. MY NAME IS SHAWN DUNWOODY, AND THIS IS MY BRIEF, BUT SPECTACULAR, TAKE ON BRIDGING COMMUNITIES WITH ART. >> Woodruff: AND YOU CAN WATCH MORE BRIEF BUT SPECTACULAR VIDEOS ONLINE AT pbs.org/newshour/brief. TWO WEEKS AFTER GOING VIRAL SINGING FROZEN'S "LET IT GO" FROM A KYIV BOMB SHELTER, SEVEN- YEAR-OLD AMELLIA ANISOVYCH, NOW SAFELY IN POLAND, PERFORMED THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM BEFORE

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