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  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Good evening.

  • I'm Judy Woodruff.

  • On the "NewsHour" tonight: The counting continues.

  • Poll workers tally away, as critical House and Senate races that will decide control

  • of Congress remain undecided.

  • Then: the climate crisis.

  • At a gathering of world leaders, President Biden announces new efforts to cut methane

  • emissions, as vulnerable low-income nations demand more aid.

  • SALEEMUL HUQ, Director, International Center For Climate Change and Development: The developing

  • countries have really been suffering from the impacts of climate change and feel that

  • the developed world, in particular, has not been doing enough to reduce their emissions.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: And it's Friday.

  • David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart weigh in on the red wave that failed to materialize

  • and what it portends for former President Trump's role in the Republican Party.

  • All that and more on tonight's "PBS NewsHour."

  • (BREAK)

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Close key races in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the Senate

  • remain uncalled tonight, as election workers continue their count through the Veterans

  • Day holiday today.

  • Lisa Desjardins and Amna Nawaz have our update on where things stand.

  • AMNA NAWAZ: That's right, Judy.

  • We here at "NewsHour" are relying on the Associated Press to make those calls before we report

  • them.

  • But we have had a few more filled in over the last day.

  • LISA DESJARDINS: Right.

  • AMNA NAWAZ: Let's take a look at where the balance of power stands in the House of Representatives.

  • LISA DESJARDINS: Here we are; 211 of the seats called are going to Republicans at this time,

  • 194 for Democrats.

  • And here's everybody in between.

  • Amna, I'm still watching about 23 seats.

  • I will say, just in the last day, there's only been three or four races that have been

  • called.

  • It is slow.

  • And half of those races, Amna, are in two states, California and Nevada.

  • AMNA NAWAZ: Let's take a closer look at some of those key races that could help fill in

  • the rest of that balance of power.

  • Let's go to Nevada first.

  • LISA DESJARDINS: This is sort of one of our weather checks here in Nevada.

  • Susie Lee is gaining more points.

  • This is a Democrat here.

  • And it looks like she's doing better there in Las Vegas, but Clark County still has some

  • ballots remaining.

  • Let's move on to the next race, some races we haven't talked about as much.

  • Here we go in California, House District 13.

  • This is a seat Republican John Duarte is up ahead.

  • He is a pistachio and almond farmer up against Democrat Adam Gray, whose family runs a dairy

  • farm supply business.

  • This is a battle of farmers right now, the Republican just a little bit ahead.

  • Another race I want to look at here in California, this is a Republican incumbent, Ken Calvert.

  • Right now, it looks like he is just ahead by 1,100 points.

  • This is Laura Barron-Lopez territory.

  • This is where she is from.

  • But, look, it's only 53 percent of the vote.

  • If the Democrat, Will Rollins, former prosecutor who said he's running because of January 6,

  • by the way, if he's able to make up this distance, this is one of those races that allows the

  • Democrats still the remote possibility of taking -- keeping control of the House.

  • It's a long shot.

  • This race would have to flip, right now, the Republican winning.

  • One more race to look at where Democrats are doing well, this is Washington state.

  • This is Jaime Herrera Beutler, the Republican's former seat.

  • She was beat out in the primary by Joe Kent.

  • He is someone who is an election generic.

  • He's a former Army Ranger.

  • His wife was killed by an ISIS terrorism bomb.

  • He has blamed the establishment for that.

  • But he has run on a platform of denying the election and January 6 itself.

  • This is Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.

  • She's an auto body shop mechanic and owner.

  • She's winning.

  • This is a surprise for a lot of Democrats, but we still have 30 percent of the vote left

  • in that race to go there.

  • AMNA NAWAZ: Still a ways to go there.

  • Also, we should note, a ways to go in a few key statewide races in a few states you have

  • been keeping track of.

  • Where are those ballots that are still being counted?

  • LISA DESJARDINS: Let's run through these key states.

  • Clark County, Nevada, 50,000 mail ballots still out.

  • We expect an update tonight.

  • Los Angeles County, California, oh, just 800,083 ballots left.

  • AMNA NAWAZ: That's it?

  • LISA DESJARDINS: Mostly mail ballots there.

  • Maricopa County, Arizona, 400,000 ballots, an update expected tonight.

  • Now, how much of an update will we get with these races?

  • We don't know.

  • Will we know the fate of the House of Representatives tonight, tomorrow, Sunday?

  • We don't know.

  • It could be a few more days still.

  • Or we will see.

  • AMNA NAWAZ: The counting continues.

  • This is the process.

  • Patience is key.

  • LISA DESJARDINS: Yes.

  • Patience, everyone.

  • AMNA NAWAZ: Lisa Desjardins, thank you so much.

  • LISA DESJARDINS: You're welcome.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's other news: President Biden called on world leaders to take decisive

  • steps against the climate crisis in his opening address at the COP 27 conference in Sharm

  • el-Sheikh, Egypt.

  • He also pledged that the U.S., one of the world's biggest polluters, would meet its

  • target for reducing emissions by 2030.

  • We will have more on this after the new summary.

  • Ukrainian forces swept into the southern city of Kherson today, dealing a major blow to

  • Moscow's war effort.

  • The liberation came after Russia completed its retreat from the region.

  • In the city center, crowds cheered and waved flags as they greeted the incoming Ukrainian

  • troops after months of Russian occupation.

  • YURII NEVOLCHUK, Kherson Resident (through translator): I'm just excited, excited.

  • We knew this day would come that our boys would liberate us.

  • We're very grateful to them.

  • These were nine months of horror.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the day historic and said

  • that his first focus was to de-mine the region.

  • Tropical Storm Nicole has now weakened to a depression, dumping heavy rain from Georgia

  • on up to Southern Canada.

  • The storm claimed at least three lives in Florida after making landfall yesterday near

  • Vero Beach.

  • Dozens of hotels and condos northeast of Orlando were forced to evacuate after being deemed

  • unsafe.

  • Some communities in the storm's path were still recovering from Hurricane Ian.

  • KENDRA DOWLING GOODRICH, Property Manager: This was not an area that has ever even flooded.

  • It was a trifecta of Ian, and then a king tide, and then Nicole.

  • And we just didn't have a chance to recover.

  • The tide never relaxed.

  • And so it just compromised every seawall, every dune.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: The National Hurricane Center also warned that the Blue Ridge Mountains

  • Could see as much as eight inches of rainfall from the storm.

  • There's also a chance of flash flooding as far north as New England.

  • The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection is being pressured to resign over his handling

  • of the influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

  • Chris Magnus told The Los Angeles Times that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

  • asked him to step down or be fired.

  • He has refused to resign.

  • Sources familiar with the Homeland Security Department's discussions confirmed the demand

  • to the "PBS NewsHour."

  • They told us that there has been dissatisfaction with Magnus' leadership in the post that he

  • has held for less than a year, particularly in the role of law enforcement and border

  • protection.

  • The Biden administration has stopped taking applications for student loan forgiveness

  • a day after a federal judge in Texas blocked the president's debt relief program.

  • The Justice Department has filed an appeal against the ruling.

  • The program was already on hold while a federal appeals court reviews a separate lawsuit filed

  • by six states.

  • The world's third largest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, filed for bankruptcy today.

  • Its CEO and founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, also resigned.

  • Earlier this week, FTX agreed to sell itself to rival Binance to avoid collapse, but Binance

  • backed out of the deal.

  • All this comes as several federal regulators have reportedly launched probes into FTX over

  • its business practices.

  • On Wall Street today, stocks extended their gains to close out a strong week of trading.

  • The Dow Jones industrial average rose 32 points to close at 33748.

  • The Nasdaq climbed 209 points, and the S&P 500 added 36.

  • And the nation honored its military veterans today.

  • Parades, celebrations and solemn ceremonies paid tribute to the men and women who have

  • served our country.

  • At Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, Vice President Kamala Harris laid a wreath

  • at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and spoke of the sacrifices that generations of veterans

  • have made.

  • KAMALA HARRIS, Vice President of the United States: American service members have sworn

  • an oath not to a person, not to a party, but to the Constitution of the United States to

  • support and defend the principles of liberty, equality, and justice, to preserve and protect

  • our democracy.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: This also marks the first Veterans Day since President Biden signed legislation

  • expanding health care for service members exposed to toxic burn pits.

  • The White House says more than 137,000 claims have already been filed.

  • Still to come on the "NewsHour": more LGBTQ candidates win office than ever before in

  • the midterm elections; the departure of Twitter executives exacerbate worries over the company's

  • future; younger generations push to preserve a disappearing indigenous language in rural

  • Alaska; plus much more.

  • As we reported, President Biden is at the so-called COP 27 U.N. climate talks in Egypt

  • today.

  • The president pledged new money for renewable energy projects around the world and a greater

  • push to cut emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane.

  • But he also is hearing a plea from the developing nations that are suffering the worst damage

  • from climate change.

  • William Brangham has the latest.

  • WILLIAM BRANGHAM: This is the image industrialized nations want the world to see, hundreds of

  • world leaders gathering to discuss critical action to head off the worst potential future

  • of a warming planet.

  • JOE BIDEN, President of the United States: We see our mission to avert climate catastrophe

  • and seize a new clean energy economy not only as an imperative for our present and future,

  • but through the eyes of history.

  • WILLIAM BRANGHAM: But developing nations want the world to focus on a different picture,

  • a picture of devastation happening here and now, like tropical cyclones in Bangladesh,

  • sending already rising sea levels rushing into communities, an ongoing deluge that could

  • force tens of millions of people to move, or this in Pakistan earlier this year, a long

  • deadly heat wave and drought that left farmers desperate for water.

  • But then, in a brutal turn, came a catastrophic monsoon season, where rains flooded roughly

  • a third of the country and killed at least 1,700 people.

  • Roads and bridges were lost, farms submerged, over two million homes gone, the price tag

  • estimated at $30 billion.

  • These countries and many others say they did little to cause the pollution that's exacerbating

  • these disasters and they are owed some compensation for this destruction.

  • At this year's COP 27 conference, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres echoed

  • this plea for what's called loss and damage.

  • ANTONIO GUTERRES, United Nations Secretary-General: Loss and damage can no longer be swept under

  • the rug.

  • It is a moral imperative.

  • It is a fundamental question of international solidarity and climate justice.

  • Those who contributed least to the climate crisis are reaping the whirlwind sown by others.

  • SALEEMUL HUQ, Director, International Center For Climate Change and Development: The developing

  • countries have really been suffering from the impacts of climate change and feel that

  • the developed world, in particular, has not been doing enough to reduce their emissions,

  • pay the money that they promised and now provide additional funding for the impacts that are

  • now happening.

  • WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Saleemul Huq, a veteran of these U.N. climate meetings, is the director

  • of the International Center for Climate Change and Development in Bangladesh.

  • SALEEMUL HUQ: In the past, the argument was, it's going to happen.

  • We need to prepare for it.

  • And, to some extent, we did, but we didn't do enough.

  • Now it's already happened, so it's become an emergency.

  • We have to deal with it, whether we like it or not.

  • People are losing their lives.

  • They're losing their livelihoods.

  • They're losing their homes.

  • They need to be compensated.

  • WILLIAM BRANGHAM: It's an argument that's been made all this week in Egypt from leaders

  • of small and large countries.

  • MIA MOTTLEY, Prime Minister of Barbados: The addition of loss and damage on the agenda

  • is a significant achievement and one that we have been fighting for, for many years.

  • PHILIP DAVIS, Prime Minister of the Bahamas: I'm asking, what is it worth to you to prevent

  • millions of climate refugees from turning into tens of millions, and then hundreds of

  • millions, putting pressure on borders and security and political systems across the

  • world?

  • SHEHBAZ SHARIF, Pakistani Prime Minister: We became a victim of something with which

  • we had nothing to do.

  • And, of course, it was a manmade disaster.

  • WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif argued the drought and floods

  • in his country are made worse because of pollution that his country barely emits.

  • Pakistan contributes under 1 percent of global carbon emissions, and is now one of the nation's

  • leading the call for loss and damage compensation.

  • SHEHBAZ SHARIF: It is now or never.

  • For us, there is indeed no planet B.

  • WILLIAM BRANGHAM: At last year's U.N. meeting in Glasgow, establishing a fund for loss and

  • damage was rejected by world leaders.

  • But this week, for the first time ever, leaders have formally agreed to discuss the issue.

  • America's climate envoy, John Kerry, has been hesitant about the idea, saying it could interfere

  • with other vital climate action.

  • But, this week, several European nations did pledge for the first time ever tens of millions

  • of dollars for a fledgling fund to compensate nations for past damages and losses.

  • But those totals pale in comparison to the need.

  • Studies have estimated that the developing world is facing climate-related damages in

  • the hundreds of billions of dollars now, a total that could rise to a trillion or more

  • by 2050.

  • SALEEMUL HUQ: The price tag is many orders of magnitude bigger than what is being offered.

  • But what was being offered yesterday was zero.

  • What is being offered today is a few tens of millions, which is a hell of a lot better

  • than zero.

  • Then we can argue about how much we can up the ante in terms of reaching the requirements

  • that are in the many billions.

  • JOE BIDEN: This gathering must be the moment to recommit our future and our shared capacity

  • to write a better story for the world.

  • (APPLAUSE)

  • WILLIAM BRANGHAM: President Biden, in his comments today, stressed again the need to

  • cut emissions and boost renewable energy projects going forward.

  • But he made only passing mention of compensation for climate change's present-day impacts.

  • For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm William Brangham.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: The brief reign so far of billionaire Elon Musk at Twitter has unleashed a wave

  • of tumult throughout the company.

  • As John Yang reports, firing, resignations and policy reversals leave the social media

  • giant facing an uncertain future and have many worried about growing risks of misinformation.

  • JOHN YANG: Judy, chaotic may be a mild description of Elon Musk's first week as CEO of Twitter.

  • In just the last week, the company laid off half its 7,500 employees, key privacy and

  • compliance officers quit, and Musk reportedly told employees that bankruptcy isn't out of

  • the question.

  • Just today, Twitter put its $8 subscription for a blue verified check mark on hold, as

  • fake accounts using that badge mushroomed.

  • Mike Isaac is a tech reporter for The New York Times.

  • He's been covering all of this.

  • Mike, thanks for joining us.

  • This -- Elon Musk started buying Twitter stock in January.

  • He announced his bid in April.

  • This was not an impulse buy.

  • Did he have a plan going in, and he just collided with reality, or is he making this up as he

  • goes along?

  • (LAUGHTER)

  • MIKE ISAAC, The New York Times: I think a little bit of both, to be honest.

  • For a while, in between that April to the close of the deal, he did try to back out

  • of it.

  • And I think that was because unforeseen economic conditions and sort of how it would hammer

  • his Tesla stock over time.

  • But, basically, he -- I think he's a person who has a lot of ideas about how to change

  • the service that he really enjoyed using and spent a lot of his time on, but didn't -- didn't

  • seem to have a real action plan the first days he got in there, and is now relying on

  • a handful of really close advisers who he trusts, while cutting out a lot of people

  • who have been at Twitter for years and have really studied how people use the product.

  • JOHN YANG: For better or worse, Twitter has become a key part of the -- sort of the global

  • news cycle.

  • Are the -- this chaos, this sort of roiling of the waters at Twitter, are there repercussions

  • for people who aren't on Twitter?

  • MIKE ISAAC: Yes, 100 percent.

  • I think Twitter is -- like you say, it's small in terms of its social use by, let's say,

  • everyday people.

  • It's only 200 million, compared to Facebook and Instagram's multiple billion people.

  • But all the news that hits on Twitter trickles down to other networks.

  • It flies out to Facebook.

  • It hits on news networks.

  • We talk about tweets and things in the newspaper and on TV all the time.

  • And now he's implemented systems that make it more difficult to really immediately understand

  • whether or not tweets or accounts are actually real, verified people.

  • For instance, Eli Lilly's stock started bouncing around when a fake account said that they

  • would now be giving away insulin for free, basically, so they had to do damage control

  • really quickly.

  • JOHN YANG: And also, he sort of -- there's a little whiplash with this policy of now

  • was saying that the subscription is going away.

  • People can't buy that check mark anymore.

  • MIKE ISAAC: Yes, I think -- I think it's -- Elon -- Elon did a tweet about this, actually.

  • He said, we will continue to do a lot of dumb things at Twitter as we experiment and try

  • to figure out our ideas.

  • And, look, I think that's the way he runs companies.

  • He's very experimental and entrepreneurial in some ways.

  • And many folks in Silicon Valley would call that a pro, rather than a con, and why they

  • find him such an innovator.

  • But it's also -- this is a very different company than Tesla or SpaceX or any of the

  • other things he's done.

  • And it has a really wide-ranging repercussions for how you and I just consume media on a

  • daily basis.

  • JOHN YANG: Twitter's operating under a consent decree from the Federal Trade Commission over

  • security issues.

  • And, this week, an agency spokesman said that it's watching developments with deep concern.

  • Could the FTC step in?

  • MIKE ISAAC: I think it's absolutely the right question to be asking.

  • Elon has had run-ins with the SEC in the past.

  • And different government agencies like the FTC keep a pretty close eye on his businesses.

  • They particularly raised their eyebrows when a few of Twitter's top lawyers and sort of

  • compliance officers quit and posted an internal sort of message to folks saying, don't cross

  • any red lines and do anything illegal.

  • And that definitely got the FTC's attention.

  • So I think they're going to be watching very closely.

  • Twitter pushed back saying, of course, it would comply with everything, but they are

  • under the spotlight right now.

  • JOHN YANG: Twitter was already sort of financially struggling before Musk took over.

  • And now advertisers are staying away.

  • They have lost -- they're losing advertising revenue.

  • Is the company's future in danger?

  • MIKE ISAAC: I think they're really hemorrhaging cash and ad commitments much faster than I

  • would have suspected, I think, than most industry watchers would have suspected.

  • Twitter is an advertising business and has been for a long time.

  • It's not been a great business.

  • It's been unprofitable for eight out of the past 10 years as a public company, but it

  • has been run by ads.

  • And Elon is trying to rapidly shift it to a -- as you said, a -- pay for -- an $8 subscription

  • business.

  • But he's doing it very quickly and bleeding money as he turns off advertisers, which I

  • think is very dangerous in the long term.

  • JOHN YANG: You talked about his reputation for innovation at Tesla, at SpaceX.

  • He took a lot of risks that so far have been paying off in those companies.

  • But you say that Twitter is a very different animal.

  • Is it unlikely that he's going to be doing the same thing, that these risks are going

  • to pay off at Twitter?

  • MIKE ISAAC: See, here's the thing.

  • I think the reason you have at least some people still at Twitter right now and at his

  • other companies is that people who meets or are in Elon's orbit really do believe in the

  • guy.

  • They really are inspired by him and appreciate that entrepreneurial spirit that Silicon Valley

  • celebrates and doles out venture capital to new start-up founders and things like that.

  • And so I think there are still a lot of people out here in the Valley that believe he can

  • do it.

  • But his first two weeks, if we're grading -- we're not exactly grading on a curve, and

  • he's having some very high-profile stumbles.

  • So, we will see if he starts learning quickly from those sort of very difficult beginnings

  • that he's had.

  • JOHN YANG: Mike Isaac of The New York Times on Elon Musk's learning curve at Twitter,

  • thank you very much.

  • MIKE ISAAC: Thank you for having me.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: As results of the 2022 midterm elections continue to come in, one trend is

  • clear.

  • It was an historic year for LGBTQ candidates vying for state and federal office.

  • Laura Barron-Lopez has our report.

  • LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: It's been dubbed the rainbow wave.

  • TINA KOTEK (D), Oregon Gubernatorial Candidate: I want to thank my family, especially my wife,

  • Aimee.

  • LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Oregon governor elect Tina Kotek one of a record number of LGBTQ

  • candidates winning up and down the ballot this year, more than 430, according to the

  • LGBTQ Victory Fund, an organization working to elect these candidates.

  • Kotek and Maura Healey in Massachusetts will be the first two lesbian governors in history,

  • shattering the so-called lavender ceiling.

  • MAURA HEALEY (D), Massachusetts Governor-Elect: Tonight, I want to say something to every

  • little girl and every young LGBTQ person out there.

  • (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

  • MAURA HEALEY: I hope, I hope tonight shows you that you can be whatever, whoever you

  • want to be.

  • (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

  • GOV.

  • JARED POLIS (D-CO): When we fight for our freedoms...

  • LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: With the reelection of Jared Polis in Colorado, three states will

  • be led by LGBTQ chief executives, the highest number ever.

  • GOV.

  • JARED POLIS: A Colorado for all, where there is room and a place for everybody to be themselves.

  • LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: And another milestone, 2022 marked the first time there were queer

  • candidates on the ballot in all 50 states, including in New York's Third District, which

  • featured two gay candidates in a head-to-head race.

  • Republican George Santos defeated Robert Zimmerman and will be the first openly gay Republican

  • elected to a first term in Congress.

  • BECCA BALINT (D), Vermont Congresswoman-Elect: I will not back down from hard fights.

  • LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: There are at least four new LGBTQ representatives heading to Washington,

  • including Vermont's Becca Balint, a Democrat, who is the first woman elected to represent

  • the state.

  • BECCA BALINT: And I will work for our most vulnerable neighbors every single day.

  • (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

  • LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Plus, Democrat Robert Garcia of California, who will be the first

  • gay immigrant in Congress, and Eric Sorensen, the first openly gay person to represent Illinois.

  • ZOOEY ZEPHYR (D), Montana State Representative-Elect: My name is Zooey Zephyr.

  • LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: It was also a history-making election for transgender candidates running

  • for state legislatures.

  • ZOOEY ZEPHYR: The first thing that came to mind when I saw this legislation was the direct

  • impact it would have on me.

  • LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Including Zooey Zephyr in Montana, who once testified against anti-trans

  • legislation, and will now be able to vote against it.

  • In Minnesota, Leigh Finke will be the first trans person in the state legislature.

  • And, in New Hampshire, James Roesener became the first trans man elected to a us statehouse.

  • It all comes is anti-LGBTQ legislation remains on the rise in states, with more than 150

  • anti-trans bills introduced this year alone, according to the ACLU.

  • And there's no sign of it slowing down.

  • Celebrating his own reelection Tuesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was cheered as he defended

  • his record in office, including signing the so-called don't say gay bill earlier this

  • year.

  • GOV.

  • RON DESANTIS (R-FL): We will never, ever surrender to the woke mob.

  • Florida is where woke goes to die!

  • LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: But, for now, LGBTQ candidates are celebrating their wins and preparing to

  • get to work when new legislative sessions begin early next year.

  • And one of those newly elected state lawmakers, Zooey Zephyr of Montana, joins me now.

  • Representative-elect Zephyr, congratulations on your win.

  • You testified in 2021 before the Montana Senate Judiciary Committee against a bill that blocked

  • trans girls and women from playing in sports.

  • That bill was passed and signed into law, but was ultimately blocked in the court's

  • this fall.

  • Did that push you to run for office?

  • ZOOEY ZEPHYR: Absolutely.

  • Watching and testifying so emotionally about an issue dear to me, meeting with the governor's

  • office, with trans teenagers who just wanted to play sports,and then watching several of

  • the anti-LGBTQ bills pass by one vote in the legislature was the impetus for me.

  • I said, we have to have trans voices in these rooms if we're going to change what kind of

  • bills Montana's passing.

  • LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Speaking of anti-trans legislation, you have been elected for the

  • new legislative session that starts in January.

  • And there are already some pre-filed anti-trans bills, one in particular that would restrict

  • transgender surgery on minors.

  • What's your message to your new colleagues about legislation like that?

  • ZOOEY ZEPHYR: My message is simple.

  • We see all of the elections across the country where LGBTQ people have been elected, a wave

  • of trans people being elected.

  • When you take away the larger media narrative that the right is pushing and you get down

  • to my, like, local communities like mine here in Missoula, trans people are accepted, we

  • are loved and we are cared about.

  • And you're never far away from someone who cares deeply about us.

  • And pushing anti-trans issues isn't what my community wants, isn't what Montana wants.

  • LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: We have seen a number of those anti-trans messages on the campaign

  • trail this cycle, in particular, a number of Republican candidates that have falsely

  • accused LGBTQ teachers of -- quote -- "trying to groom students," as well as there was a

  • New Hampshire Republican candidate that lost, but said falsely that teachers were trying

  • to put litter boxes in classes, so students could identify as cats, and also accusing

  • Democrats of trying to put drag queens in every classroom.

  • What's your response to this growing anti-LGBTQ sentiment on the right?

  • ZOOEY ZEPHYR: My response would be that hate can only stoke fear for so long.

  • And the people who know trans people in their lives know that we are just like anyone else,

  • worthy of love, and we bring a ton of joy into the world.

  • And if the right continues to push these kinds of anti-LGBTQ attacks that we're seeing, as

  • you say, pre-filed already here in '22, looking forward, what's going to happen is, ultimately,

  • they're going to continue to lose, because our community has the backing of the people,

  • of our neighbors, our friends.

  • And when we get to the legislature, we will fight like hell to make sure that they know

  • that.

  • LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Are there any protections for LGBTQ or for transgender people that you're

  • hoping to propose in your new position?

  • ZOOEY ZEPHYR: I would like to see a ban on conversion therapy.

  • I would like to see an end to the gay trans panic laws that there -- since there has not

  • yet been a federal ban for that.

  • And, obviously, I am looking towards the court's in Montana to strike down the anti-LGBTQ laws

  • that went through in the 2021 session.

  • And if those are not struck down, ultimately, repealing those would be on the docket as

  • well.

  • LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: And, as we mentioned, this has been a historic year for LGBTQ candidates,

  • the most ever elected, with 436 who have won so far.

  • They're at all levels, from neighborhood advisory council all the way up to governors.

  • And what does that representation mean to you?

  • ZOOEY ZEPHYR: You know, it's less about what it means for me.

  • And it more so means that, when these attacks are being made in the legislature, they will

  • have to be made next to LGBTQ people.

  • When the states that have LGBTQ governors are facing attacks, there will be someone

  • in the community to stop it.

  • There -- representation matters, not theoretically, but it is the best defense we have against

  • hate.

  • LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: You made history in your election in Montana, but to reach parity,

  • the LGBTQ Victory Institute says that some 35,000 more LGBTQ people would have to be

  • elected.

  • What do you say to others who might be thinking about running?

  • And what are your future ambitions?

  • ZOOEY ZEPHYR: To others who are interested in running, I would say the first step is

  • to ground yourself in your community.

  • Do work in your community, and you will find that they love you and support you.

  • And if you do that work, then look forward and try to get into the rooms where you think

  • you can make a difference.

  • It is all about finding the spaces where your voice can have impact.

  • As for my future ambitions, all I want is to be in the rooms where I can do the most

  • good.

  • And, right now, the fights are at state level.

  • And that's where I want to be.

  • It's why I moved from working on drafting legislation behind the scenes at the city

  • level to stepping forward to the state level, because this is the room where the laws -- where

  • the biggest attacks are happening and where we need representation the most.

  • LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Representative-elect Zooey Zephyr of Montana, thank you for joining the

  • "NewsHour."

  • ZOOEY ZEPHYR: Thank you so much for having me.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: It's been a long week in politics after a historic midterm election night.

  • To dive into what we can glean so far from voters' choices, we turn to the analysis of

  • Brooks and Capehart.

  • That's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart, columnist for The Washington

  • Post.

  • Hello to both of you.

  • I guess you could call it an historic week, but they are still counting.

  • We don't know all the numbers.

  • But I -- one thing we do know, Jonathan, is, President Biden did better than any president

  • in terms of midterm vote in the last 20 years.

  • How do you explain it?

  • What do you think voters were trying to say?

  • JONATHAN CAPEHART: Simple message.

  • Voters are trying to say, we can walk and chew gum at the same time.

  • We are more nuanced than you give us credit for.

  • Yes, the economy is bad.

  • We're not happy about it.

  • But we're also not happy about the potential of a national abortion ban.

  • We're not happy about the threats to democracy.

  • I think that the American electorate chose democracy in this election.

  • And I think the candidates who ran in their respective races ran the races that they needed

  • to run in order to be successful.

  • And in order for them to be successful, they had to pay attention to the people they wanted

  • to represent.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: What do you think the voters were saying?

  • DAVID BROOKS: Yes, and I -- over the last, I don't know how long, 10 years, we have seen

  • a rise of global populism, both across Europe, I think in the form of Vladimir Putin and

  • maybe Xi Jinping, and in this country in the form of Donald Trump.

  • And I think what we have saw Tuesday night was the emergence of an anti-authoritarian

  • populism majority; 60 percent of voters, roughly 60 percent said they have a low opinion of

  • Donald Trump; 58 percent said they think MAGA is a threat to democracy.

  • And so we now have a group.

  • There's still going to be that MAGA movement.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Right.

  • DAVID BROOKS: But, in my view, the electorate has built a wall around them, and one hopes

  • in the -- and with effect of making sure they will never get the kind of power they enjoyed

  • under Donald Trump when he was in the White House.

  • What struck me also -- and this is related -- was that performative populism, where everything

  • is just a show, which Trump embodies, those kinds of candidates did poorly.

  • And the kinds of candidates who did really well are just people who get stuff done.

  • So, Mike DeWine in Ohio did very well, Josh Shapiro, Democrat.

  • For me, the quote of the evening was from the guy who was elected -- reelected governor

  • of Wisconsin, Tony Evers.

  • I think he said, boring wins.

  • (LAUGHTER)

  • DAVID BROOKS: And boring has not been winning much in American politics.

  • But I'm happy to see, personally, boring winning.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Voters -- did the voters surprises once again, Jonathan?

  • JONATHAN CAPEHART: Oh, they certainly surprised me, but in a good way.

  • I mean, in this business, we have been talking, because history shows that the party -- the

  • party in power of the president loses seats in the midterm elections.

  • Everything was going that way.

  • But every week, when there's a new poll came out, the one -- and we talked about it around

  • this table.

  • I always went to the generic ballot.

  • And that generic ballot seesawed one point to the Democrats or one point to the Republicans.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: This is, are you likely to vote for a Democrat or a Republican?

  • JONATHAN CAPEHART: Right.

  • Who do you want to have it -- who do you want to have in control?

  • And for that to be so consistent for two years gave me the sense that this might not be the

  • midterm election that we think it is.

  • And what we ended up finding out, that it most certainly wasn't, and that, again, the

  • American people are saying, we can walk and chew gum at the same time, and that those

  • of us who do this for a living and including those armchair pundits out there, need to

  • show some humility.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Yes.

  • That's always the case for some of us.

  • (LAUGHTER)

  • JONATHAN CAPEHART: Yes.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: But, David, were you surprised, when it came down to it?

  • DAVID BROOKS: I think I was.

  • Well, what had happened was, two weeks before the race, or three weeks, the generic ballot

  • really did move in favor of the Republicans.

  • And there was a moment when it looked like, if that was going to continue to move, then

  • Republicans will have a good night.

  • But then, in the last two weeks, it just sort of -- as Jonathan said, it just flatlined.

  • And so the Republicans did not continue to make gains on that thing.

  • And I think that was voters saying, we don't like the Democrats, but we -- there was a

  • good summary.

  • They preferred a party that was sort of out of touch to a party that was out of their

  • minds.

  • (LAUGHTER)

  • DAVID BROOKS: And so I was surprised, because, historically, when the when the president's

  • approval is low, the party loses.

  • But these were exceptional circumstances because of this authoritarian threat.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: So, Jonathan, I mean, talking about Republicans, they now -- it now looks

  • as if they're all but certain to take control of the House, not by a big margin, but by

  • at least a few seats.

  • We still don't know about the Senate.

  • That's right on the edge.

  • What sort of a mandate the Republicans have in the House?

  • JONATHAN CAPEHART: I'm not sure.

  • If they do get the majority, it could be as small as two seats.

  • And then how does the Republican leader govern?

  • And I'm wondering, what is their mandate exactly to do?

  • Make permanent the Trump tax cuts?

  • A national abortion ban?

  • Any number -- let's see.

  • There's one more thing.

  • Oh, take a hammer to Social Security, which is what Democrats were hammering them with

  • in the closing weeks of the campaign.

  • If that's what they -- what their mandate, is that really what the country wants?

  • And I don't think that, given the results we have seen, that that's what the country

  • is looking for.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: What do you -- how do you see what the Republicans have been told by the

  • voters?

  • DAVID BROOKS: Yes.

  • I sort of think mandates went out the window some decades ago.

  • Nancy Pelosi had a five-seat majority.

  • Did she try any less hard than if she had had a 100-seat majority?

  • No.

  • She's the speaker.

  • So she gets to be the speaker.

  • And if Kevin McCarthy is the speaker, he gets to be the speaker.

  • What can they do and how will they behave?

  • I think they want to do something on immigration.

  • And it wouldn't be crazy for Democrats, if they can find something to pass, to take -- that

  • issue off the table a bit for them.

  • Other than that, the investigations, which everyone is talking about, I think they'd

  • be utterly crazy to have investigations first.

  • There's one thing which is accountability.

  • That's fine.

  • What's happening on the border?

  • What can HHS, should they be doing?

  • But if they're just going to go after Hunter Biden, if there's one thing we have learned

  • over the last 10 years, the American people are just sick of everything turning into scandal

  • investigation.

  • If Donald Trump is not laid low by scandal, then nobody's going to get laid low.

  • And so I think that would just be a catastrophic mistake.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Immigration?

  • Were you going to say...

  • JONATHAN CAPEHART: No, I -- you reminded me.

  • Immigration would be a great thing, if Republicans and Democrats could come together and do something

  • about it.

  • But the problem will be -- and this all centers on who -- let's say -- let's just assume,

  • just for this conversation, that Republicans regain the majority.

  • The real contest will be, well, who's that leader?

  • If it is -- if it is current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, in order to get the

  • gavel, what concessions will he give to the House Freedom Caucus in order to secure enough

  • votes?

  • And the House Freedom Caucus is way out there.

  • They're the ones who want to do these investigations.

  • And so will Kevin McCarthy say yes to investigations in order to get the gavel?

  • And that -- that will tell us what the priorities are for a Republican-led House if he becomes

  • the speaker.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: And some of that's tied to the fortunes of Donald Trump, former President

  • Trump, because, if he is seen -- and some are saying he was hurt by these results, that

  • a lot of his candidates didn't win.

  • DAVID BROOKS: Yes.

  • I have had...

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: So, where do you see that going?

  • DAVID BROOKS: ... many, many conversations over the last three days about Trump and DeSantis

  • with Republicans.

  • Will Republicans finally break with Trump?

  • Do they see DeSantis as a brighter object?

  • I still think Donald Trump is going to get the nomination, for this reason.

  • If there are five other competitors, he only needs to get 33 percent in the primaries,

  • and he will win it, which I think is -- that's the most likely outcome.

  • But you do -- his decision this week to really take on DeSanct -- calling him sanctimonious

  • already -- DeSantis.

  • (LAUGHTER)

  • JONATHAN CAPEHART: It worked.

  • DAVID BROOKS: Yes.

  • No.

  • (LAUGHTER)

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Yes.

  • DAVID BROOKS: I think that's just very foolish of Trump, because he's just elevating DeSantis.

  • The final thing I will say is, we have the 2016 model in our mind that, if there's a

  • normie Republican, they get crushed by Donald Trump.

  • Why should a Mike DeWine, not that he's going to run, but why -- normie Republicans did

  • way better than the performative Republicans.

  • So why should we always assume that a moderate, normal Republican has no shot at beating Donald

  • Trump?

  • I hope one of them gets in and tests this proposition.

  • JONATHAN CAPEHART: And speaking of normie Republicans, or Virginia Governor Ralph Northam,

  • he's someone who could will most likely run, simply because he can't run for reelection

  • to governor...

  • (CROSSTALK)

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: You mean Glenn Youngkin.

  • Glenn Youngkin.

  • (CROSSTALK)

  • DAVID BROOKS: Glenn Youngkin.

  • JONATHAN CAPEHART: Glenn Youngkin.

  • Who did I say?

  • DAVID BROOKS: The last governor.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: The last governor.

  • (LAUGHTER)

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Ralph Northam.

  • It's OK.

  • (CROSSTALK)

  • JONATHAN CAPEHART: My apologies, Governor Youngkin.

  • But Governor Youngkin is one of those normie Republicans who will most likely run and,

  • to my mind, might be a better candidate than Governor DeSantis.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: So, I just want to be clear.

  • We're using the word normie, as in -- this is a David Brooks word, right?

  • (LAUGHTER)

  • DAVID BROOKS: No, this -- I did not invent this.

  • I think two generations below me invented that word.

  • (LAUGHTER)

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: So, just quickly, if we still think Donald Trump's going to run, what about

  • Joe Biden, after these elections?

  • JONATHAN CAPEHART: Oh, he's totally running.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: OK.

  • JONATHAN CAPEHART: I was convinced that he was going to run before the midterms.

  • But if you're the president of the United States who is coming out of midterms with

  • this result, with your party in this strong a opposition, why wouldn't you run again?

  • DAVID BROOKS: Yes, I agree.

  • He sort of expressed this to you a couple of weeks ago.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Yes.

  • DAVID BROOKS: And then he was even more blatant, I think, this week, where he said, we want

  • to run, and we -- me and Jill want to run.

  • So, yes, I can expect Joe Biden to run.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: He was sounding pretty confident at that news conference on Wednesday.

  • So, just last thing.

  • I want to bring up the election deniers.

  • They did well -- I think we have -- you have talked about this -- in some parts of the

  • country, but not everywhere.

  • But we did see many losing candidates in both parties be gracious in their concession remarks.

  • And I want to point both of you to -- this was, notably, Ohio.

  • This is Republican Steve Chabot, who has served many terms in Congress, defeated by a Democrat.

  • And also in Ohio, Tim Ryan, the congressman who was running for senator, he lost to the

  • Republican.

  • But here's what both of them said.

  • REP.

  • TIM RYAN (D-OH), Senatorial Candidate: I have the privilege I have to concede this race

  • to J.D.

  • Vance, because the way this country operates is that, when you lose an election, you concede.

  • (APPLAUSE)

  • REP.

  • TIM RYAN: You respect the will of the people, right?

  • We can't have a system where, if you win, it's a legitimate election, and, if you lose,

  • someone stole it.

  • REP.

  • STEVE CHABOT (R-OH): I'm just really very honored to have been able to serve this community

  • as long as I did.

  • It was the toughest Republican-held seat in the entire country outside of California.

  • There were three tougher seats in California, but the other 49 states, this was the toughest.

  • I thought we could overcome that.

  • And we almost did.

  • But we didn't.

  • Mr. Landsman won fair and square.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: David, that tells us something about maybe we're headed in a good direction.

  • DAVID BROOKS: Yes, a return to normalcy, people being gracious and patriotic.

  • I would say one of the big things about this election was, it really made it much less

  • likely we will have electoral crisis in 2024.

  • The -- I saw a release from the Election Reformers Network of all the secretaries of state.

  • And they're -- with the notable exception of Arizona, where we don't know, it seems

  • likely that people running the next elections will not be election deniers in almost every

  • state -- of the swing states, of the marginal states.

  • That's just super important.

  • And then Democrats did well in a lot of the -- those Midwestern states in the state legislatures

  • that could also be swing.

  • So the elections look a lot safer right now.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: How do you -- I mean, after listening to those speeches, especially coming

  • out of 2020, what does it say to you it?

  • JONATHAN CAPEHART: It -- I feel relieved.

  • It is a return to normalcy, but it's also a return to decency, and to hear Congressman

  • Ryan say, it's a privilege to be able to concede.

  • I ran.

  • I lost.

  • Congratulations to the victor.

  • So that makes me happy.

  • But I want to add one more, and I'm going to get it right this time.

  • Governor Youngkin sent a handwritten note to Speaker Pelosi apologizing to her for what

  • he said on the campaign trail in the closing days of the midterm elections after the attack

  • on her husband.

  • Who writes handwritten notes anymore?

  • (LAUGHTER)

  • JONATHAN CAPEHART: I do.

  • But it is a sign that -- again, another sign to me that decency is making a comeback.

  • And I hope more people who are in elective life follow those three examples.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: So, when -- so, what we have been talking about here at this table, there

  • weren't as many election deniers elected as won, but some of them are going to be serving

  • in office, David.

  • And you -- if you are right, and former President Trump's running for president the next time,

  • then where does this...

  • (CROSSTALK)

  • DAVID BROOKS: Well, a lot of really matters whether Kari Lake wins in Arizona, because

  • Arizona is a state where the governor has tremendous power over elections.

  • And so she would be the epicenter of trouble if there was going to be trouble in 2024.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, we are watching Arizona.

  • We're watching Nevada.

  • And we will be, in early December, watching the state of Georgia.

  • Thank you both, after this wild week.

  • (LAUGHTER)

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Jonathan Capehart, David Brooks, thank you.

  • DAVID BROOKS: Thank you.

  • JONATHAN CAPEHART: Thanks, Judy.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Half of the people whose first language is Kodiak Alutiiq have died over

  • the last few years.

  • The Alaska Native Sun'aq Tribe estimates fewer than 20 members remain.

  • But that is not stopping new speakers from learning the endangered language and passing

  • along a distinct culture and world view to the next generations.

  • KTOO Public Media's Claire Stremple reports from Kodiak, Alaska, for our arts and culture

  • series, Canvas.

  • CLAIRE STREMPLE: If you don't speak Alutiiq, you won't get the jokes that the language

  • house.

  • It's a place where everything is a lesson, catching up on gossip, washing the dishes

  • or making a grocery list.

  • Kodiak is known for bears and fish.

  • But it's also the home of a powerful movement to bring the Alutiiq language back into daily

  • use.

  • For about 100 years, American schools taught English only and punished children for speaking

  • Alutiiq.

  • Now the last people who remember it as the language of use are almost gone.

  • Stevi Frets works for the tribe and as a language mentor at the house.

  • STEVI ANI FRETS, Alutiiq Language Mentor: Heritage languages are so important.

  • And you're like, oh, my gosh, my language, I have to save it.

  • I have to do everything I can.

  • CLAIRE STREMPLE: The tribe has estimates there are now only about 17 elders who are fluent

  • Alutiiq speakers left.

  • It's a turning point.

  • The stakes are high, but the rewards are immense.

  • Frets and the others are building fluency to be able to teach the next generation of

  • Alutiiq speakers.

  • WOMAN: I would like you to pull one of your Alutiiq (INAUDIBLE).

  • Turn your little Alutiiq ears up.

  • Turn your Alutiiq voices up.

  • CLAIRE STREMPLE: About a dozen preschoolers are enrolled in the Alutiingcut Child Care

  • Center.

  • They learn numbers in Alutiiq and Alutiiq versions of popular kids songs.

  • There probably won't be any people who spoke the language from birth left by the time these

  • kids are older.

  • But the language movement is working to ensure they will have teachers.

  • The tribe hopes to put 18 people through the intensive program over the course of its three-year

  • grant.

  • Dehrich Chya is the Alutiiq language and living culture director at the Alutiiq Museum, as

  • well as a mentor at the language house.

  • DEHRICH ISUWIQ CHYA, Language and Living Culture director, Alutiiq Museum: And then can you

  • say (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

  • CLAIRE STREMPLE: He leads a session with apprentice speakers and elders.

  • DEHRICH ISUWIQ CHYA: The most rewarding moments for me are when I can have conversations with

  • elders and first language speakers.

  • CLAIRE STREMPLE: And he's been recording, so new learners and descendants can hear their

  • stories.

  • Florence Pestrikoff didn't grow up speaking Alutiiq, even though most people in her village

  • did.

  • Her parents encouraged her to speak English instead.

  • FLORENCE PESTRIKOFF, Elder and Alutiiq Language Mentor: In the past, it was, people were ashamed

  • of the language.

  • CLAIRE STREMPLE: She understood the language and began to speak in the first wave of language

  • revitalization.

  • In the last couple of decades, she has been an active speaker and teacher.

  • FLORENCE PESTRIKOFF: Oh, I love speaking my language.

  • I really do.

  • I feel complete.

  • CLAIRE STREMPLE: She answers her cell phone in Alutiiq and speaks it with their husband.

  • And that's the vision of the language movement, to have the language be in use, at home, in

  • the grocery store, on the street, and to carry the values that are embedded in the words.

  • FLORENCE PESTRIKOFF: We never say goodbye.

  • There is no goodbye in Alutiiq.

  • You say thanks (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE).

  • I will see you (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE) later.

  • I like that.

  • CLAIRE STREMPLE: For "PBS NewsHour," I'm Claire Stremple in Kodiak.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: I'm so glad we can do this kind of reporting.

  • And at the end of this very newsy week, I have some news of my own to share.

  • After a decade as anchor of this extraordinary program, I have decided that the end of 2022

  • is the right time to turn this incredibly important job over to someone else.

  • I am then going to undertake a very exciting new project with the "NewsHour" for the next

  • couple of years, one we are calling America at a Crossroads.

  • Being the anchor has been the honor of a lifetime every single day, to follow in the footsteps

  • of two iconic journalists, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, and you have sat alongside

  • the incomparable Gwen Ifill.

  • I mean it when I say I cannot believe they pay me to do this work that I absolutely love.

  • But, on December 30, I will say thank you, and then I will transition to a new role at

  • the "NewsHour" as a correspondent taking on a big new project to try to understand America

  • at this very divided moment in our country.

  • I will travel around, talk with ordinary Americans, maybe some of you who are watching, and put

  • together a series of reports that we hope will add up to a better understanding of what

  • the American people want and especially, how do we repair this deep divide?

  • Reports will show up regularly on the "NewsHour."

  • And we will have more on that later.

  • And more to come soon on who will be sitting at this desk after I step away.

  • But, for now, I have a heart full of thanks to each of you who watch and follow the "NewsHour."

  • You are the reason we do what we do, and always to the utterly amazing "NewsHour" staff.

  • And that is the "NewsHour" for tonight.

  • I'm Judy Woodruff.

  • Don't forget to tune in to "Washington Week" later tonight and to "PBS News Weekend" tomorrow.

  • From all of us at the "PBS NewsHour," thank you, please stay safe, and we'll see you soon.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Good evening.

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