amna: good evening. i'm amna nawaz. geoff: and i'm geoff bennett. on the newshour tonight. as campaigns to become the next republican presidential nominee ramp up, we speak to a current and former governor about the direction of the gop. geoff: fox news uses selective clips of capitol security footage provided by house speaker kevin mccarthy to spread misinformation about what happened on january 6th. geoff: and. a ruling by a texas judge on birth control threatens a nationwide program that provides contraception to minors without requiring their parents' permission. >> i think we're seeing a movement that maybe began with a religious exemption and we're moving toward an agenda that says, let me structure all of health care according to my morals. ♪

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more and larger interest rate hikes may be coming and may last longer than expected. at a senate hearing today, fed chair jero powell cited stubbornly high inflation and a robust economy. but democrats -- including elizabeth warren of massachusetts -- complained rate hikes could bring on recession and hurt workers. >> if you could speak directly to the 2 million people hardworking people who have decent jobs today who you're planning to get fired over the next year, what would you say to them? how would you explain your view that they need to lose their jobs? >> i would explain to people more broadly that inflation is extremely high and it's hurting the working people of this country badly, all of them, not just 2 million, are suffering, under high inflation. and we're taking the only measures we have. stephanie: the fed holds its next meeting on interest rates in 2 weeks. mexican officials confirmed today that two of four kidnapped americans have been found dead.

the four crossed friday into matamoros -- across from brownsville, texas -- so that one of them could have cosmetic surgery. they were caught in a gun fight between rival drug cartels, and then abducted. the two survivors were found today in a rural area, and driven back to texas for medical treatment. israeli troops have killed at least 6 palestinians in a gun battle in the occupied west bank. smoke rose above jenin today as soldiers tried to arrest a man in the killing of 2 israeli brothers. militants opened fire and the israelis fired missiles. the suspect was killed. more than 60 palestinians and 14 israelis have died in violence this year. in ukraine, russian attackers and ukrainian defenders fought on in the ruined city of bock moot with heavy new casualties. 1600 russians were claimed to have been killed in the past 24 hours. russia insisted its forces are

steadily closing rank. china's foreign minister a stern warning -- sounded a stern new warning. he talked tough about u.s. policy toward china. >> if the u.s. does not hit the brake, but continues to speed down the wrong path, no amount of guardrails can prevent derailing, and there will surely be conflicts and confrontation. such a competition is a reckless gamble with the fundamental interests of the two peoples and the future of humanity. stephanie: in turn, white house national security spokesman john kirby said the u.s. does not seek conflict on taiwan or any other issue. the national transportation safety board will open a special investigation into norfolk southern railroad. today's announcement follows a derailment involving toxic material in east palestine, ohio and 4 other significant

accidents since december of 2021. the ntsb says it wants a broad look at the railroad's safety culture. president biden today proposed raising medicare taxes on those making more than $400,000 a year. the white house said it would keep the program solvent for an extra 25 years. but it drew a sharply partisan response from republican and democratic leaders in the senate. >> thank goodness the house is republican. massive tax increases, more spending all of which the , american people can thank the republican house for it will not see the light day. >> i anticipate the president's budget will address what america cares most about -- extending medicare solvency by 25 years, beyond 2050, without costing a penny in benefits. that is great. stephanie: federal officials project that without some kind of action, medicare benefits might be cut, starting in 2028. the president is also considering a return to detaining migrant families who enter the u.s. illegally.

the newshour confirmed that today with multiple sources. it comes as officials expect a new surge of crossings when covid restrictions end in may. the justice department has filed suit to block jetblue airways from buying spirit airlines. the suit charges the merger would cut competition and raise prices. doj lawyers say a buy-out of spirit would eliminate about half of all low-cost airline seats. jetblue ceo robin hayes vowed to fight the lawsuit today. still to come on the newshour. how a lawsuit is putting a nationwide birth control program for minors at risk. a renowned architect reconsiders his industry's impact as he receives the prestigious pritzker prize. an iraqi-american photojournalist gives his brief but spectacular take on refugees. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronki school of journalism at

arizona state university. amna: as the 2024 presidential race takes shape, we're getting perspectives tonight from two republicans. geoff: first up, new hampshire governor chris sununu. he's considering a run for the gop's presidential nomination, and i spoke with him earlier today about that and the future of the republican party. thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me, this is great. geoff: you have said donald trump will not be the republican party in 2024. how can you be so sure? he ain't going up. with the former president, thank you for your service, but we are moving on as a country. he is in no commodity. there are very few americans on the fence about whether they would be with him or against him. he's coming to have a tough time going up in the polls. there are other good, viable, next-generation candidates that are going to step forward. the race hasn't even really

started. we are in the mix. the average american family isn't thinking about this yet. they are just getting over the hangover of november 2022, glad they are not inundated with campaign ads, and folks are taking a breath. may be around this fall, people will start paying attention and you will see these other candidates rise to the top. i don't see it going up. it is not in our dna to go backward, that would be going backward. geoff: taking your point that there is a way to go, the design of the republican party's winner take all democrat -- delegate system benefits someone like donald trump whose base of support seems stock around than level to get him and nomination. >> if there were 6, 7, 8 nominees in the race. i think the republican party learned their lesson in 2016 and i don't mind who gets into a race, but i think we all

understand the discipline of getting out. if it is not going to happen, get out early and galvanized behind a single candidate, likely someone not named donald trump, and we will move forward as a party. i'm incredibly optimistic about it. geoff: the january 6 attack could have been the republican party's breaking point with donald trump and for a few days after it seemed like it might have been, but now none of the republicans running against him want to talk about it. why not? >> i don't know. everybody saw what happened. the one i would s positive aspect over the last two years is we have seen everything, we have new tapes coming out as early as even yesterday. we know what happened. people understand it. i think america has to learn that lesson and understand where extremism can go, but i think we have.

my other candidates might not talk about it, i don't know. it is nothing you can step over and ignore. it is part of our history unfortunately. you have to really kind of let those pains grow in and understand how did we get there, what pushed that. there's a large part of the population that surprises me that they are ok with it. they didn't see what a lot of us saw as an insurrection event on the u.s. capitol and that is a very dangerous thing for our democracy and where we go as a country. geoff: florida governor ron desantis has departed from gop orthodoxy in his own way in support of free-market capitalism, using his executive power to target private companies like disney. you are an old-school republican if i can use that phrase. >> i'm not old. [laughter] geoff: is that something that sits well with you? >> there is nothing old-school about being a principled free-market conservative.

at its fundamentals, that is what republican is all about, it is about limit government, local control, individual responsibility and valuing that the voter knows better than we do. the voter is smarter than i am because they know what their school needs, what roads need to be paved. i need to create as many doors of opportunity for them to be successful rather than take vengeance out. i would say i think ron is a good guy and we definitely differ in that approach. he is talking a lot about the woke-ism, which i cannot stand, the cancel culture which is a parasite running its rate -- way through the united states and we have to talk about that, but you can't only be about theight. you've got to be able to have the fight, but at the end of the day it is about a free market and appreciating the value of the individual over the government. geoff: it strikes me that what the trump base wants is the fight. >> there is a lot of anger.

why did donald trump get elected in 2016? he connected with folks with their anger. he gave a voice that. there was a lot of validity to that. when folks get frustrated, they want to find someone they can empathetically connect with with their frustrations and where they think things can go. i think we get a little blinded that government can solve the problems. our job is to create doors of opportunity for you or your family or your business or your school and then you decide what door you best fit in your path. geoff: you launched a national political fundraising group, a significant sign that you are serious about running for president. what will it take for you to make the decision? >> we don't have to make the decision now. kind of trying to look to see where a lot of this plays out. i want to make sure that we are making the party bigger.

we are talking to independents, we need them back on the team. we are talking with him or inspirational voice. no one gets inspired by getting yelled at all the time. i try to be more positive in my approach. i want to talk to the next generation. the next generation of potential republican and republican voters are probably further away from us than we ever have been. but we have a great product. i think they are little disenfranchised with some of the messaging, i don't like using the word branding, but some of the messaging. but we've got this great thing of limited government, local control, you are smarter than the government and that is the great thing the republicans need to rally around. if that leads to something bigger to get people excited, then so be it. but this organization is about charging forward and growing the party and ensuring a november win. geoff: that sounds like an elevator pitch for a sooner candidacy. >> does it?

i think most candidates will have to figure out by the summer. i would love to get into the debate. do love debating. but it has to be right for me and the family and the country. it would be a huge sacrifice, so you have to make sure you can give it 120%. i'm amazed with people that look miserable in their jobs. my peers especially look so miserable sometimes, they are yelling at everybody, but if you look unhappy in your job is the public going to believe you will give 120% to it? i love what i do as governor, i really do. four term governor, we have gotten extraordinary results. but i think with a very everyday approach. geoff: new hampshire governor chris sununu. amna: former maryland governor larry r out a idenal earers we. an hogi spoke with him about his decision. welcome back to the newshour. >> thank you for having me.

amna: you decided not to run over concerns that a crowded primary would once again benefit donald trump. governor sununu said it doesn't matter how many people get in, as long as they get out early. do you agree with that? >> i don't necessarily disagree. one of the many reasons i put a lot more thought into it. i didn't want to have a crowded primary and have what happened in 2016 happen. but i don't disagree with governor sununu. i think if you are not seriously contending and if you don't have a shot to win, you probably should not get in the race in the first place, if you are trying to be a cabinet secretary or if you are auditioning to be vice president or if you want to get a book deal. but if you think you can compete and have a chance to win, everybody ought to make that decision. but if the campaign is not going well, they ought to get out earlier.

the problem in 2016 was people refusing to get out of the rac that donald trump was able to capture the nomination. amna: governor sununu said he doesn't think donald trump could be the nominee. you still seem concerned. >> i've been the leading voice for years about moving in a different direction and i'm pleased more and more people are speaking out. i think we are moving in that direction, but it is a long way from over. it is a battle for the heart and soul of the republican party and i would not take them lightly. he is still the 800 pound gorilla. amna: you have called governor desantis, you have said he's trying to be the younger version of donald trump. would you back him if he was the nominee? >> i don't think he's trying to be, i think he is the younger, may be smarter version of donald trump, but he is fishing for the same exact, fighting for the

same maggot base and trying to appeal to them -- maga base and trying to appeal to them. i'm anxious to see how governor desantis performs and how he does. i'm hoping we can get a strong nominee that i can support. amna: you are open to supporting him? there is a lot of daylight between the two of you. >> we are completely different in many respects in tone and style and substance, but we will have to see how the campaign plays out. amna: but you are open to supporting him? he has many of the same policies and approaches that donald trump had. >> i've committed to not supporting donald trump and i'm hoping he's not the nominee. ron dantis would not be my favorite pic at this point in time, but we will see how it plays out. amna: i would love to ask you about what is going on in the republican party right now. there was just a mainstage speaker at a major republican conference who openly and publicly called for the

eradication of transgender is some -- transgenderism. how is it that that kind of rhetoric has found a home in your party? >> it is not the mainstream thought in the party, but there are people focused on these kinds of issues. we were talking about playing to the maga base that president and desantis are fighting for, but it is not what the average american is thinking or talking about or the average republican. they are concerned about the economy, crime, education. some of these issues need to be addressed. parents are concerned about teaching very young children about sex in the first grade is a legitimate issue. but the over-the-top rhetoric and some of the things that we are hearing out there just are not mainstream ideas that are going to have any kind of ability to win votes and win an election. amna: but the two potential candidates leading all the polls at this time are not necessarily

talking about the economy and those kinds of issues. why do you think that is? >> i think they are all playing to the maga base and to santos is trying to be trump with the trump base and they are not focused on the election and swing voters and i think it is a mistake. it's not going to help us win back the white house. i think we've got to find a more hopeful, positive vision that appeals to a broader group of voters. that's wh i've done in my state of maryland, the bluest state in the country where i been elected and reelected in leaving with strong support among independents and democrats. amna: when do you think you will see that change? all the polls show ron desantis and donald trump far out ahead of everybody else. >> i think the polls a year out mean absolutely nothing. one year out from 2016, jeb bush was that 30% and donald trump was less than 1%.

they were talking about scott walker was going to be president. if you go all the way back, almost anyone they said he year out has never been the next person. i think we have a whole lot of daylight between now and the first primary a year from now. a year is an eternity in politics. i think the polls now are almost meaningless. amna: since you announced your not running, have you spoken to any other potential candidates? >> i've talked to a number of them and called them ahead of time before the annncement and had some pretty detailed discussions with a few of my friends that may potentially be in the race. amna: did you give them any advice? >> i told them what my thinking was and let several of them know that if i could be of any help in anyway as they are weighing their decisions that i was available. amna: i'm sure we will be following all of their tracks in the weeks and months ahead. governor larry hogan, always good to have you here. >> thank you very much.

geoff: this week's fox personality tucker carlsen is releasing security video from the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol using footage provided exclusively to him by speaker kevin mccarthy in an effort to portray the day is a peaceful gathering. >> it was neither an insurrection nor deadly. the january 6th committee knew perfectly well that sicknick was walking normally through the capitol after he was supposedly murdered by trump supporters. to prove that josh hawley was a coward, the committee released video of him loping out of the building the afternoon of january 6 with a police escort. but in fact the footage we reviewed showed that famous clip was a sham, edited deceptively by the committee. the january 6th committee lied. geoff: north carolina republican senator thom tillis today

responded to that this way. >> i think it's -- if you were just a tourist you should have probably wind up at the visitor center and come in on an orderly basis. geoff: u.s. capitol police in an internal message to officers today said -- the program conveniently cherry-picked from the calmer moments of our 41,000 hours of video. the commentary fails to provide context about the chaos and the violence that happened before or during these less tense moments. james sasso served as senior investigative counsel for the jan. 6th committee, and he joins us now. thanks for being here. you spent a year investigating the capital attacks, specifically the people who planned and attended the riot and the domestic extremist groups responsible for most of the violence. how does it strike you to hear tucker carlsen say that the insurrection wasn't an insurrection and that the january 6 committee lied. >> it is just objectively not

true. we watched thousands of hours of violence that happened on january 6 between rioters and police, rioters and rioters sometimes. they were pretty explicit about what they were doing there. they were there at president trump's backend call to keep them in power by all means necessary. some mentioned going to civil war or revolutionary war. many of them like ryan nichols mentioned dragging members of congress although he used more colorful language, through the streets. he mentioned the same about vice president pence. nicholas dempsey stood in front of gallows and said members of congress should all hang. a lot of people there were

explicitly there to commit violence. even though a vast majority of the people who were part of the violence that day did not engage in hand-to-hand violence or did not destroy the capitol or do any active violence, the truth is that those who committed those horrible acts would not have succeeded without the numbers of people there to stop the peaceful transfer of power. that is an insurrection. the footage tucker carlsen showed was very selectively chosen. geoff: on that point, people will say the january 6 committee selectively chose footage and interviews to stitch together its own narrative. that they are both in the storytelling business. how would you respond? >> i would respond that we picked footage that showed the facts of the matter and what actually happened that day. there is nothing to hide in the

footage with the interviews we have of defendants. we put up transcripts. we did have a story we were telling the american public but it was a story backed up by thousands and thousands of hours of investigation and fact checking. it wasn't as if we were just like the narrative we want and go for it. it is what actually happened and you can see that based on the extensive evidence we put forward and is in our report and all of the public documents as well. geoff: you interviewed about 30 of the january 6 defendants about their motives and you wrote an opinion piece for the new york times where you said, with the legitimacy of democracy so degraded, revolution appeared logical to these people. what is the impact of this effort, this coordinated effort to whitewash january 6 and rewrite that histo? >> it's dangerous.

it legitimizes those feelings people are already expressing a january 6 and ahead of january. it wasn't as if magically people were like, it is time to go to war and overthrow the government. people have been dissatisfied for a long time with the way american political institutions are working. people have a lot of racial resentment building for 50 years and president trump give them legitimacy. now that we have an effort to whitewash what actually happened by not showing the violence that happened inside the capitol, two officers who were getting swarmed, and oath keepers confronted and threatened officers saying this is my -- capitol, by not showing what truly happened we are telling those people who want to commit more political violence that it is ok and that is a very big problem in america and a problem

for democracy to survive. we can't have people out there thinking it is ok to battle each other and battle people who disagree with them. geoff: thanks for coming in. >> thank you for having me. it's been great. ♪ amna: today on the steps of the texas state capitol, a group of women said they are suing the state after they were denied abortions, a ban that in some cases presented grave risks to their lives. texas's near total abortion ban is just one of many ways reproductive health care has been restricted in the lone star state in recent years. in a separate case, a texas federal judge has also limited young people's access to birth control. kaiser health news correspondent sarah varney reports on the impact of that ruling in a story co-produced with kaiser health news.

>> victoria and richard robledo's days are filled with work and looking after their two son. it is a far different life from when the couple first started dating in high school, a decade ago, in corpus christi, texas. >> i was 14 and he was 15. we were in the same rotc program together. >> who went after who? >> she went after me. [laughter] >> when they started having sex, victoria, now 24, decided to get on birth control. but she couldn't turn to her mother, a devout catholic, for advice. >> we were, i guess, a typical, like, hispanic household. and so usually in households like mine, they don't want to talk about boyfriends or sex or anything like that. >> you couldn't talk to her about it. >> i couldn't talk to her. i couldn't talk to her about boys. i couldn't talk to her about becoming sexually active. >> under state law, teenage girls in texas have long needed

there -- their parents permission to get prescription contraception. but online, victoria found a special federal program that did provide contraception without parental consent. known as title 10, it w established in 1970 with broad bipartisan support to provide family planning services to low-income people, including minors. with the goal of reducing teen pregnancy. the clinic victoria found was less than a mile away from her high school. >> i would take the bus home and so i skipped the bus that day and i walked over to the clinic. and then i was able to get like my birth control for free. >> in the vast texas panhandle, patients often drive for hours to reach haven health in amarillo. it is one of 3,200 title ten clinics around the country. they come here for birth control, pregnancy and std testing, and cervical cancer screening in english and spanish. but, in a federal court case in decembera judge ruled that

these clinics violate texas state law and federal constitutional rights to direct the upbringing of one's children. >> now we can't even provide contraception for a gynecological issue. >> carolena cogdill is the head of haven health . the ruling applies to the national title x regulations but for now is only being followed in texas. >> just recently we had a young lady come in who had abnormal bleeding and we waed to prescribe contraception to help control that bleeding. and we couldn't do it because she was 16. >> she was unable to have that conversation with her parents. >> exactly. i think she was fearful that her mom wouldn't understand if she was going to get on birth if she's going to get on birth control, then she's going to go control, because control, then she's going to go out and have sex and she just didn't want to go there. >> the case was brought by a conservative christian father, alex deanda, who lives here in amarillo, texas. he said just the possibility that his daughters might access prescription contraception without his permission violates the tenants of his christian faith.

neither mr. deanda nor his attorney responded to our interview requests. elizabeth sepper is a law professor at the university of texas at austin. >> we've seen religious arguments that increasingly, i think, come into the courts dressed up as legal arguments. >> in his opinion, u.s. district judge matthew kacsmaryk wrote -- the use of contraption just like abortion violates traditional tenets of many faiths, including the christian faith plaintiff practices. he references catholic caddis systems and fourth century religious texts. sepper says the decision marks the rising influence of conservative christian theology in the courts. >> i think we are seeing in movement that maybe began with a religious exemption, saying , let me structure my health care to suit my morals and were

moving toward an agenda that says let me structure all of health care according to my morals. that federal family planning programs need to reflect conservative christian beliefs. >> christi covington livesn round rock, texas, an austin suburb. raised in a large evangelical family, she is passing those teachings o to her three children. how does your faith influence how you're raising your family? >> it's everything. because i believe we're all made by god. he is the one who created the order in nature itself. >> covington says leaving aside religious objections to birth control, the family unit should be respected. >> god designed the world for there to be parents and then we have our offspring and that the parents care for those children and that is design. and we do see that reflected in nature. i have to give consent all over the place for my children's other medical care. why would we decide that this one area is exempt?

>> at haven health in amarillo, we put this question to dr. stephen griffin, an assistant professor at texas tech university and a practicing ob-gyn. why is access to birth control different in your mind? >> it's a safety issue. it also, unlike a cold or aches and pains, does have lifetime consequences attached to the other side of it. >> half of teenage mothers receive a high school diploma, compared to 90% of teenage girls who do not give birth. and teen births often lead to poor outcomes for the next generation. children of teenage mothers are more likely to drop out of high school and end up in jail or prison during adolescence. griffin says parents underestimate their teenagers' sexual activity. >> we know that people who identify as regular church attenders are more likely to underestimate their child's riskaking behavior in terms of sex.

we know that parents who feel they have open lines of communication with their children also are more likely to underestimate that risk. >> decades of research show that teens are more likely to seek sexual health care if they can do so confidentially. rebecca gudeman at the national center for youth law, says a majority of teens involve their parents inecisions around contraception. >> and they do that not because the law requires them to do that, but that they do that because that's what they want to do. >> but, she says, some young people simply can't involve their parents or guardians. >> this isn't just about voluntary sexual activity. almost 40% of young people who are homeless will say that they've been sexually abused either before they left home or when they are on the street. almost 50% of young people in foster care will be sexually assaulted either before care or while they're in care. >> evangelical mother, christi

covington believes the law should not make exceptions even in the hardest cases. >> everybody would want their child to feel that they could come to them. but what do you do about the many, many children who just don't have that situation? >> absolutely. but there's other social ills within family units. but we don't just totally erode the family unit to fix this problem. it feels like a band-aid. it feels like a band-aid. let's give them let's give them birth control and then we don't have to deal with what is happening in our society where these teens are getting pregnant so quickly. >> texas has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the nation and the highest rate of repeat teen pregnancy. experts say the court decision banning access to contraception is likely to increase those numbers and it follows other restrictions on reproductive health care in the state. >> abortion is illegal in texas. kids aren't getting comprehensive sexual education in schools.

we have a very large population of folks that are uninsured and not eligible for any other programs. >> stephanie lebleu is the acting director of every body texas the administrator of the , state's more than 150 title x clinics. the biden administration appealed the texas decision in february, but in the meantime, she says there is no safety net left ear for teenagers. >> what we don't know is not having their control over their lives and their bodies, what impact that will have over them in the long haul. >> victoa and richard robledo now live across the texas border in clovis, new mexico. had you not been able to get birth control when you were teenagers, would you have not had sex? [laughter] >> absolutely not. [laughter] >> victoria says being able to protect herself from pregnancy when they were teenagers changed the course of both of their lives. >> you know, we both were able to go out and live our own

lives. you know, he was able to join the military and i was able to go to college. it gave us the confidence that we needed to make the right decisions for our reproductive health. >> it was very important for us to say, you know, we want kid now, we are comfortable to have a kid now. >> on our terms. >> yeah. >> victoria wonders what teenage girls in texas will do now. for the pbs newshour and kaiser health news, i'm sarah varney in clovis, new mexico. ♪ geoff: david chipper field is one of the world's most prolific architects with buildings all around the world and today he was awarded his profession's most distinguished honor, the priter prize. jeffrey brown spoke to him for our arts and culture series, canvas. >> he has designed museums, in

addition to the st. louis art museum, the turner contemporary in the u.k., the james simon gallery in berlin. civic buildings, retail stores, apartment houses. more than 100 build works over four decades and an espresso maker. he is less known for a signature look or style then for work that responds to specific places and needs. >> i would hope there is a certain consistency of approach and process and ethos in our work, but i am very concerned that buildings are of their location and not of their author. it is important to make it for mexico city or des moines or berlin. it shouldn't be an obsessive idea that it is a recognizable signature building. that is reducing architecture to becoming a soda product, and

object. >> you said, as i get older, i'm much less interested in architecture per se, i'm more interested in the societal issues of architecture. at does that mean? > i spoke very bluntly. as architects, we are very concerned of course with our products, the buildings that we make. we can see them as sculptures in a way. we can see them for their physical and creative qualities. but we also should be seeing them for their societal work and puose. there is a lot of mismatching in that. i'm increasingly concerned with what architecture is for and in what ways we build our cities and how useful or useless architecture is for the general public. >> one unusual aspect of his work, transforming older

buildings, preserving what holds history and beauty while adapting them for today. among these in berlin, the 19th century noyce museum left devastated during world war ii, given new life in 2009. and completely different, the refurbishment of what is considered a 20th century masterwork, the new national gallery. in venice, a recent restoration of a building that dates to the 16th century. it is a challenge he believes his profession must embrace, rather than focusing so much on the new. >> from a sustainability perspective and a resource perspective, we will be working much more with existing buildings. not just monumental ones and not just the obviously significant ones, but i think we're going to change our attitude toward the reuse and the refurbishment and

the refitting of more ordinary buildings. i think this will be a big shift in the next 10 years. >> does that require a shift in thinking among architects? >> i think it makes a big shift. i think it is challenging, but i believe quite rewarding. there is something very collaborative about restoration projects. i believe that that is very important for the profession to embrace. i think it is a way back for my profession to become slightly more useful to society, where we are sort of seem to be artistic at the best and commercial at the worst. we haven't quite made up our minds whether we are profiteers or artists. i believe that architects, we have all been trained to believe that we can help build bett

cities, better places, and that that is the basis of quality of life. >> what do you think is most important for the health of our cities today and what architects can bring to it? >> the most obvious is environmental crisis, global warming, andhe fact that we will have to be more clever out how we use resources. the construction industry contributes under norma's amount of damage to our environment. we have to think about how we might mitigate that, limit that, and address that. the second existential crisis is social inequality. cities and where we live contribute or compensate for any quality. they exaggerate or the level out to some degree. so again, as architects, we should be provoking and encouraging politicians and our society at large to take more

care about the cities we live in, not just the rich bits in the glamorous bits, but where people live. i believe the reflection that we have all been able to make or force to make over the last couple years with covid, being in our locality much more, being with their families much more, has reminded us of these simple facts. >> he is now working on what could be his biggest project, and the northwest of spain, where he has created a foundation to help plan and develop the region's long-term economy and environmental sustainability. for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown. ♪ amna: and we'll be back shortly. but first take a moment to hear from your local pbs station. geoff: it's a chance to offer your support, which helps keep

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california. geoff: artist and photographer wesaam al-badry's family fled his home country of iraq -- at the start of the gulf war. that experience has shaped much of his work, which focuses on capturing human struggle with dignity and love. tonight, he shares his brief but spectacular take. >> i always wanted to make people as beautiful as possible. if you google anything about arabs, it is always with a gun, being violent, or being abusive. we could never look beautiful. to me, that did not sit well. i was born in iraq in 1984. i remember as a child, like i was sitting outside their house and you hear the, you know, the jets flying over, bombing the iraqi military. then you hear a few minutes later the iraqi military bombing the civilians, my grandmother screaming at my mom, you need to get your kids out of the city. you need to get

your kids out of the city. there was blood all over the streets. like that was my first introduction to people dying and death is that i thought they're going to sleep. my sister, she was about two weeks old. you know, she was born and we had to flee, and i had to carry my other brother on my back. and, you know, my other brother carried the other one and my mom had to carry my newborn sister and my other sibling. and, you know, we, we worked for four days in the rain, you know, mud and rain to get to safety. we were living in the middle of a desert with nothing. there was no tents. there was no water. then after that, we got to move in and then inland over time. we stayed for two and a half years. our name was picked in a lottery and we ended up moving to the midwest in the united states, lincoln, nebraska. and that's where i grew up. when we first moved here in 1994, i s about to start sixth grade, and we lived in this w income housing unit. and but to me, it was beautiful. i can't not explain it to you when you

have a good night's sleep. you know, there's something people don't understand, like having running water and good night sleep. like it just changes a lot. i picked up a camera in a refugee camp. that was my first introduction to a camera. for the longest time, i didn't have film, but people, like, entertained the idea of this little kid trying to escape this reality. we really don't talk about our experience. like when we sit around, we joke, we laugh, we fight, but we don't talk about that time in our life like. as as if it never existed. i think we feel ashamed of it. i'm not a unique case. i'm one who gets a camera and got a mic to speak out about it. like my whole belief is. like, if i went through it, why can't i help other people? my main two personal projects have to deal with two things. one is my family history and who we arend how did we get here? and going from that is i'm doing my arabs in america. like, what does it mean to be an arab in america. and basically is like everybody's included, right? trans and queer arab

communities. i want to tell these stories. i want to show up to places and work with people and meet people where they're at. seeing yourself as beautiful, like, it can start the healing process. and that's what i want to strive to do in my work. my name is wesaam al-bad. this is my brief but spectacular take on how refugees are beautiful. geoff: as always, you can watch more brief but spectacular videos online at pbs.org/newshour/brief. amna: that's the newshour for tonight. join us tomorrow for judy woodruff's latest report in her america at a crossroads series. she'll examine how politics and social identity have become so intertwined. i'm amna nawaz. geoff: and i'm geoff bennett. thanks for spending part of your evening with us. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- ♪ >> carnegie corporation of new york, supporting innovations in

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