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amna: is our tonight, claudia sheinbaum becomes the first woman to win mexico's presidential election. >> a jury is selected in delaware and the federal gun trial of president biden's son hunter. >> and dr. anthony fauci is grilled ov the origins of and his response to covid-19. >> i don't think the concept of there being a lab leak is inherently a conspiracy theory. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. and friends of the newshour, including leonard and norma clore vine and the judy and peter bloom kovalova foundation. >> two retired executives turned

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station from viewers like you. thank you. stephanie: here are the latest headlines. israel has confirmed the death of four more hostages that were taken by hamas on october 7. israel's military says the men were killed in the gaza city of khan yunis while its forces were operating there earlier this year. they have been identified as cooper, metzger, and pop well. three had appeared in a hostage video last december pleading for release. the causes of death are still under investigation. mediators wait for word from hamas on a three-phase cease-fire proposal announced by president biden on friday. state department spokesperson matthew miller said today the ball is in hamas' court. >> if you look at the major elements of this proposal, they are nearly identical to the major elements of the proposal that hamas submitted several

weeks ago. this is a serious enough proposal that hamas should just accept it, but if there need to be further negotiations we think those are all imminently bridgeable. if, and this is the if, if hamas wants a deal. stephanie: meantime in central gaza, families mourned the deaths of 11 people who were killed overnight in two separate israeli airstrikes on refugee camps. three children were reportedly among the dead. ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy made a surprise visit to the philippines today, as part of a rare trip to asia. he is trying to drum up support for an upcoming peace conference on the war in ukraine, scheduled for mid june in switzerland. philippine president ferdinand marcos, jr. rolled out the red carpet for zelenskyy, and pledged to join the summit. zelenskyy announced that ukraine would open an embassy in manila, deepening ties between the countries. >> we are very thankful to be in your country, which supports ukraine, our territorial integrity and sovereignty. thank you so much for your big word and clear position about us,

about this russian occupation of our territories. stephanie: president biden is expected to issue an executive order tomorrow that would significantly limit the entry of migrants at the u.s.-mexico border. the newshour has learned the order would shut down asylum requests when the number of daily encounters between ports of entry reaches 2,500. the border would then reopen only when that number falls to 1500. this effectively means that the border would be closed immediately, as current levels are above 2500. biden is expected to announce the measure at the white house on tuesday. new georgia appeals court has said october 4 is the tentative date for a hearing on efforts to remove fani willis from donald trump's georgia election case. the fulton county district attorney was allowed to stay on the case in march, after admitting to a romantic relationship with a special

prosecutor she had hired. trump lawyers have appealed that decision. the timing of the hearing means trump won't face trial in georgia before the november election. congresswoman sheila jackson lee has announced that she has pancreatic ccer. the texas democrat acknowledged in a statement that the "road ahead will not be easy." but she added "i confident that am my doctors have developed the best possible plan to target my specific disease." you 74-year-old says she may miss some time in congress while getting treatment, but aims to be present for votes. jackson lee is seeking a 16th term in congress. firefighters in california are reining in the state's largest wildfire so far this year. the blaze is 75% contained. over the weekend, the corral fire burned more than 22 square miles between san francisco bay and the central valley. thousands were ordered to evacuate, though they have since been allowed to return home. one house was destroyed and two firefighters were injured. firefighters hope to make more

progress before an expected heatwave tomorrow. electric utility pacific power has agreed to a $178 million settlement over deadly 20 wildfires in oregon. last june a jury found the company liable for failing to cut power despite warnings from fire officials. nine people were killed and thousands of homes destroyed. more than 400 plaintiffs will share the settlement. toyotas chairman has apologized for widespread cheating on vehicle certification tests. an internal investigation ordered by japan's government found the company manipulated data in collision tests, airbag inflation tests, and more. the automaker is suspending production of three of the affected models, the corolla fielder, corolla axio and yaris cross. the company says the findings do not affect the safety of vehicles already on the road. at a press conference today, toyota's chairman acknowledged

that the correct certification process had not been followed. >> [translated] as the person responsible for the toyota group, i would like to sincerely apologise to our customers, car enthusiasts and all stakeholders for the problems that have occurred within the group. i am truly sorry. stephanie: toyota's rival mazda reported similar irregularities with its testing today, and suspended production of two of its models. ceos of the largest publicly traded companies in the u.s. saw a healthy bump in pay raise last year, according to data analyzed for the associated press. the results found the median pay package for ceos rose to $16.3 million in 2023. that's a 12.6% gain from the year before. and it is far more than the average private sector worker who saw a 4.1% bump. of the 341 ceos surveyed, only 25 were women. the long abandoned michigan central train station in detriot has been given a new life.

the building fell into disrepair after the last train pulled out in 1988. many saw it as symbol of the motor city's decline. today, it has been reborn thanks to a six-year multimillion-dollar renovation. but instead of trains, the building will be a center for technology, as part of ford motor's new mobility innovation district. still to come on the newshour, tamara keith and amy walter break down the latest political headlines. a new exhibit chronicles the prolific career of artist michael lindsay-hogg. and a first-of-its-kind medical school for native american doctors graduates its inaugural class. >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. geoff: mexico made history yesterday, electing its first

female president and first president of jewish heritage. claudia sheinbaum won in a landslide, with more than 58% of the vote. she will face many challenges, including security, organized crime, immigration, and the continuing, at times tense, relationship with the u.s. pamela starr is a professor at the university of southern california, and a senior advisor at monarch global strategies, a business consultancy focused on mexico and latin america. thanks so much for being with us. prof. starr: it is a pleasure to be with you this evening. geoff: how do you view the significance of this moment, mexico electing its first female president? prof. starr: i think it is enormously significant, especially for young women of mexican heritage or living in mexico. it is extraordinarily important to see someone in position of importance of the same gender as you. at the same time, i don't suspect claudia scheinbaum will be a feminist president, although she does self identify as a feminist. she is a traditional leftist. by that i mean she focuses on

lifting up all of those who are on the lower socioeconomic strata and not focusing on individual minorities in society, or in this case, women who are the largest majority in mexico, the largest segment of the population. i do think she will put more attention into violence against women, which lopez obrador did not, the former president did not give much attention to, and potentially to things like daycare and such and such. geoff: as we said, she won with a sweeping mandate, more than 58% of the vote. why was she so successful? what was it about her, her background, her approach that seemed to resonate with the mexican voting public? prof. starr: it's what she stands for. she was chosen by lopez obrador, handpicked to be his successor. the campaign was run as a continuation of lopez obrador's presidency. she says she will build the second level of the transformation of mexico that lopez obrador initiated.

it was not so much a vote for claudia sheinbaum as it was a vote for continuity in mexican politics. geoff: let's return to the issue of violence. these elections in mexico have been historic for another reason. they have been the most violent. in the run-up to the elections, more than 30 candidates were assassinated. mexico has one of the highest homicide rates in the world. what is she aiming to do to address it? prof. starr: her proposal is to try to adapt the strategies she implemented in mexico city, which did significantly reduce reduce crime and violence in the city, to a national situation. in mexico city, she increased the wages and working conditions for the police. she used greater intelligence and police activities. and she carefully collaborated or guaranteed collaboration between law enforcement and the attorney general's office. she will try to do something similar at the federal level. that said, she is not going to return to civilian policing with

regard to federal criminal problems, like organized crime. she will rely on the militarized national guard, although she is going to try to expand its size, increase working conditions and wages and increase their use of intelligence and collaboration with the attorney general's office. geoff: what about immigration, a major issue in this election? how does she plan to coordinate with the u.s. and has she articulated a plan for how to deal with the migrants who make their way to mexico toward the u.s.? prof. starr: she did not talk much about foreign policy in the campaign. indeed, there was a debate segment focused on foreign policy, and really none of the candidates spoke a great deal about foreign policy. in terms of migration, i suspect she will continue lopez obrador's strategy of trying to cooperate with the united states, while protecting mexican sovereignty. knowing that cooperating with the united states generates the goodwill of the u.s.

administration, and gets mexico more freedom of action on areas of greater importance to mexico like domestic politics. geoff: pamela starr, thank you for being with us. prof. starr: it was my pleasure. amna: for the first time in u.s. history, the child of a sitting president is on trial. president biden's son, hunter biden, is facing federal charges related to his purchase and possession of a gun. separately, hunter biden faces several charges that he allegedly dodged more than $1.4 million in taxes. the president did not attend court, where jury selection began today, but did issue this statement. saying "i am the president, but i am also a dad. jill and i love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today. hunter's resilience in the face of adversity and the strength he has brought to his recovery are inspiring to us." npr justice correspondent ryan lucas was in the wilmington,

delaware courtroom today, and joins us now. it is good to see you. let's remind folks about the charges. anyone using drugs or struggling with addiction is barred from buying or owning a gun. hunter biden denied he was a, quote, "unlawful user or addict" on his application to buy a gun in 2018. but he has been open about his addiction struggles at that time. is this an open and shut case? ryan: certainly the government thinks it is an open and shut case. they say hunter biden, when he went to purchase a gun in october 2018, was addicted to crack cocaine and alcohol and that he lied about that on standard background check forms then you have to fill out when you purchase a gun. in the government's perspective, this is very much an open and shut case. hunter's attorneys feel it is not an open and shut case. for them, they say this is more complicated. they have said in filings that

hunter had completed an 11 day rehab program around the time this all went down. they say it is logical, from his perspective, that perhaps he did not understand what a drug addict or drug user meant on the form and he could think he was not using drugs at that time. judge maryellen noreika has kind of boxed that argument in to a degree by saying federal prosecutors don't need to prove that hunter biden was actively using drugs when he was purchasing the gun. but again, this is something that is going to be up to the jury to decide, based on the evidence that the government presents in the case. amna: jury selection began and ended today. tell us what we should know about that jury and what stood out to you about the selection process. ryan: the process moved very quickly. it was actually less than a full day. the judge was able to impanel this jury of 12 jurors, four alternates. it is an even mix. six men, six women. it is a majority black jury.

what was really interesting over the course of the jury selection process was one that several of the potential jurors said that wilmington and delaware generally is a small place. there were several folks who had known the biden family, whether it be joe biden or jill biden, or hunter himself, or his late brother. there was also the issue of a lot of potential jurors had family or friends who had struggled with addiction. there was one potential juror who said they had a friend who died of a heroin overdose. this is some of the issues that are very much central to this case, are things that people in the community know and have experienced. that said, the judge and both sides were able to whittle this jury pool down, and all of the jurors who ended up being in the panel where individuals who said they could set aside their personal experiences and their knowledge of the case. and judge it based on the facts

and evidence as they are presented in the courtroom. amna: walk us through the timeline ahead. what do we expect to happen next and what possible penalty could hunter biden face if convicted? ryan: we will have opening statements tomorrow morning from both sides. then i believe that the government will call its first witness, expected to be an fbi agent who worked on this investigation into hunter biden. as for penalties, in theory, up to 25 years is the maximum sentence for hunter biden. there are two charges that carry a maximum of 10 years, and one that carries a five-year maximum sentence. that said, hunter biden has no known criminal history, he is a first-time offender. that maximum sentence is most likely not what he would end up being seeing. the sentencing guidelines would be much lower. ultimately it will be up to the judge to decide, if he is convicted, what the sentence would be. amna: in the 30 seconds or so i have left, do we expect hunter

biden himself or any biden to take the stand? ryan: there is no word on whether hunter biden himself would testify. prosecutors have said they do expect to call hunter biden's ex-wife, kathryn buhl, as well as beau's widow, hallie biden, who hunter biden was involved with romantically when this all went down in 2015. this is a case that will dig up some dark parts of hunter biden's life, his struggles with addiction, and how that affected the biden family. amna: that is npr's justice correspondent ryan lucas joining us from delaware. thank you. good to see you. ryan: thank you. ♪ geoff: the 2024 presidential election is in unknown territory with donald trump the first former american president and

first major-party presumptive nominee found guilty of a felony. our lisa desjardins takes a closer look at the reaction in recent days. lisa: the visuals certainly were clear. saturday in new jersey, former president donald trump strode into a match for the ultimate fighting championship, watching mixed martial arts, a combat sport known for muscle and bloodshed. this was his first public appearance after being found guilty of nearly three dozen felonies. the crowd whooped it up, but from trump the signal was serious and provocative. then, in a weekend interview with fox and friends -- mr. trump: my revenge will be success. and i mean that. but it is awfully hard when you see what they have done. these people are so evil. lisa: he lit another match over his upcoming sentencing. >> a judge could decide to say, hey, house arrest or even jail. how do you face what that could be? mr. trump: i'm ok with that. lisa: but he warned -- mr. trump: i think it would be

tough for the public to take. you know, at a certain point, there's a breaking point. lisa: it was not his only warning shot. trump also said this about top pentagon generals. mr. trump: they want there to be woke, but these guys aren't meant for woke. i would fire them. you can't have a woke military. lisa: as trump takes swings, his supporters are showering him with big dollars, $70 million fundraised in the 48 hours after last week's verdict, according to the republican national committee. republicans in congress now, or who hope to be, also seem eager to show allegiance and win base points for themselves. in a letter, eight senate republicans vowed to block major bills and president biden's nominees, saying "we are unwilling to aid and abet this white house in its project to tear this country apart." in montana -- >> it is lawfare. a state-sponsored political persecution led by joe biden and the radical left. they want to throw trump in jail. lisa: in a key u.s. senate race, the first ad about the conviction from republican hopeful tim sheehy, who repeated

trump's charges lack of direct proof that his conviction was unfair. but the question is still about donald trump. with events in phoenix and las biggest later this week, and which punches he throws next. geoff: for analysis of the political fallout to the trump verdict and more, we're joined by our politics monday duo. that's tamara keith of npr and amy walter of the cook political report with amy walter. great to see you both as always. we have seen the republican strategy for dealing with donald trump's guilty conviction, discredit the process, discredit the outcome. there seems to be something of a tactical disagreement among democrats over how much to lean in, and how much to use this as a political cudgel. take us inside the thinking among the party. tamara: i have spoken to people on the biden campaign. they are in the camp of don't lean in to far. as an -- in, this is not their whole campaign. donald trump, convicted felon, is not going to solve all of their problems.

they still need to run a campaign. the way they see it is this is one of the proof points in the case that they intend to make, why biden should be elected and trump should not be. but they don't see it as the key to their case. i think based on very early polling and everything else, there is a reason it should not be the key to the case. and they know that they have a lot of work. this is going to be a very close campaign. it turns out that having a conviction is not a game changer. geoff: amy, here is how one democrat, congressman adam schiff, who served as an impeachment manager, a house impeachment manager, here is how he sees the potential impact although all of this. rep. schiff: this is another dangerous appeal to violence. and it is yet another reason why americans will decide they don't want a convicted felon in the oval office. they don't want someone that has so little respect for the system of justice, or our criminal laws, that they are a convicted felon and attack the system as a result. geoff: with the caveat that it is still early days, how do you

see this conviction shaking the dynamic, if at all, of the 2024 raise? amy: i am with tam that the polls are not telling us much now, in part because they were taken immediately afterward. i think folks still had not really processed that yet. but also because the election is not in may. it is in november. i think if you look at who the undecided voters are in this election, many of them are people who dislike both of these candidates equally. they are going to make their choice about whether to vote at all, or which candidate to vote for, probably as we get into september and october. and where the focus and spotlight is in september and october is going to matter more. we also have other cases that have yet to be delivered. obviously the supreme court's decision on whether president trump can claim presidential immunity. i think that could have an

impact as well. any day now we could see that case coming down. fundamentally, what democrats do believe is that the focus, less on may be the case and the confected -- convicted felon piece, more on this idea that trump is going to come back looking for retribution, looking to foment violence, connecting it to a lot of the things that were helpful to democrats in 2022, especially when they talked about january 6, and people who were election deniers or who said that if the election does not go the way we want, we will overturn them. geoff: the level of support for donald trump is so intense among republicans right now that larry hogan, the former maryland governor who is running for the open senate seat, said the american people should respect the verdict. and that was enough for fellow republicans to jump all over him, including lara trump, the

president's daughter-in-law, who is a cochair of the rnc. here is what she said when asked about it. >> you want to win as a party, but that is a shame and i think he should have thought long and hard before he said that. he does not deserve respect from anyone in the republican party, at this point, or quite frankly anyone in america. geoff: the cochair of the rnc saying senate candidate larry hogan does not deserve the respect of anybody in this country? tamara: one of their prime recruits, their best hope to win in a blue state, and now the chairman of the former president's campaign is saying his campaign has ended because he said, respect the process. it turns out saying respect the process is the same as betraying trump. because the republicans very quickly, and basically before the verdict even came in, settled on the narrative. the narrative is that the process was not fair. that this was a political railroading. and because they settled on the process is not fair, if someone comes out and says, respect the process, then you are saying

that maybe trump deserved to be convicted. amy: i would argue that might be an unkind contribution to the larry hogan campaign. if i were him, i would run that ad. he is running in maryland, a state that trump lost by more than 30 points. he has been outspoken in his time as governor as a voice against donald trump. this is the kind of messaging that actually helps him, though it also, to tam's point, is anybody else running in any state, whether it is purple or red, you have got to stick with trump or suffer the consequences. tamara: that is the signal. you have to stay in line. geoff: while we are talking about senate races, amy, you wrote a piece for cook political report where the senate tells it all. senate democrats are running strong. why are senate democrats running strong as biden is struggling? we know that 2024 senate map favors republicans. why are democrats outperforming

the president? amy: they are doing better not just in their overall approval ratings, which look stronger than biden's, but they are leading their republican opponents. some of that is name identification because these are incumbents and nobody knows the republican challengers as well. some of it too is they are getting a lot of those democratic voters that biden has yet to solidify behind him, but also they are not getting dragged down by frustrations about the economy in the same way biden is. when i talk to a republican strategist about this, his point was, that's right. just making the case, as many republicans would like to do, that senate democrat x, you should fire them because they are part of the biden economy. that right now is not sticking. it may as we move forward, but the argument of this strategist was you have to make a case for yourselves, how republicans will make the economy better. they have been able to get some distance from biden on the economy. publicans have not been able to get distance from donald trump

with swing voters on some of his liabilities, especially issues like abortion. geoff: we have latebreaking news in that senate democrat bob menendez, who is under indictment for corruption, he filed paperwork to run in new jersey for the u.s. senate as an independent. tell us more about that and the potential impact. tamara: he was not going to win a democratic primary. there's that. being a declared candidate allows you to continue fundraising for your campaign and your campaign fundraising could potentially help your other problems. that said, he doesn't appear to have a lot of staff. the bigger challenge for senate democrats is that he is in a courtroom, not in the senate taking votes. their numbers are so narrow that that does create some challenges. geoff: the local paper the new jersey globe reported that menendez is managing his own race and has no campaign staff, which suggests he is doing this based on name ideal alone.

-- name id alone. amy: name id and also to keep being able to fund raise while he is on trial. geoff: what does that mean for our politics? amy: right. and what do people hear when they see that we have a member of the united states senate who is in court, by the way for a second time, on charges related to this bribery issue? i think for so many, and i'm hoping this isn't the case, but i think a lot of people have this belief that the system is so corrupt, this is how most politicians act. it's just a matter of time. and that there was a time when the department of justice or the fbi looked at a member of congress and said, we put you under the microscope, that the american public would say, we are going to stick with those in the establishment. we are going to believe them instead even the establishment institutions are not trusted.

geoff: amy walters and tamara keith, thank you as always. >> you're welcome. ♪ amna: today, a special house subcommittee looking into the origins of the covid-19 pandemic pressed the man who helped lead the nation's response. dr. anthony fauci, the former head of the national institute for allergies and infectious disease. william brangham looks at some of the key criticisms leveled at found cheetos leadership during the pandemic and how he responded today. dr. fauci: thank you for this opportunity to testify. william: the man who was the face of covid's response, dr. anthony fauci, returned to capitol hill to publicly answer a barrage of accusations. first, that he used his influence as the head of one of the american government's biggest grant giving organizations to dictate what researchers said publicly about how the pandemic began. about whether it jumped into humans from a wild animal being

sold at a chinese food market in wuhan, or whether it came from an accidental leak out of the chinese run wuhan institute of virology, which was researching coronaviruses. dr. fauci: the accusation being circulated that i influenced scientists to change their minds by bribing them with millions of dollars in grant money is absolutely false and simply preposterous. william: he also faced questions about whether the nih paste grants to a virus researcher who is president of the eco-health alliance, who is supporting research in china about how to make coronaviruses more contagious and virulent. representative ronnie jackson, republican of texas, accused fauci of funding the creation of the pandemic. rep. jackson: it was obvious to everyone that you and your

organization, the nih, had a lot to lose if the american people were to discover that covid-19 was most likely leaked from a lab in wuhan, china, and that the alliance and peter actually funded this research. william: during supportive questioning from democrats, including the positive role louise -- including representative raul luis of california, fauci said nih did not fund that kind of risky research. instead, that the virus's was studying could not have been responsible for what became sars-cov-2. dr. fauci: those viruses were phylogenetically so far removed from sars-cov-2 that it is molecularly impossible for those viruses to have evolved or made into sars-cov-2. it is just a virological fact. william: two weeks ago under pressure from house republicans, the biden administration announced it would suspend grants to peter's organization, alleging it had failed to adequately monitor and report on

its work in wuhan. later in the day, fauci did acknowledge, under repeated pressure from lawmakers like representative james comber of kentucky, that one of his senior advisers, david lorincz, violated numerous policies by using private email and altering documents. representative jackson also pointed to an email where l orincs said that dr. fauci, referred to here as tony, used private emails to skirt disclosure laws. >> he wrote in april 2021 "ps, i forgot to say, there is no worry about foia. i can send stuff to tony or hand it to him at work or at his house. he is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble." william: dr. fauci said he did not know why he wrote that, and said he never discussed covid policy using his private email. at other times, dr. fauci faced criticism for promoting various public health measures. republican brad wenstrup of ohio

is chairman of the committee. rep. wenstrup: dr. fauci, you oversaw one of the most invasive regimes of domestic policy the u.s. has ever seen, including mask mandates, school closures, coerced vaccinations, social distancing of six feet and more. william: in previous testimony, fauci said the cdc's initial guidance on maintaining six feet of distance was not "based in science, but based on earlier understanding" of how far viral droplets could travel through the air. he tried to clarify that statement today. dr. fauci: when i say it was not based in science, i meant a prospective clinical trial to determine whether six feet was better than three, was better than 10. >> once we realized the virus was not spread by droplets and was aerosolized, did you feel an indication to go back to the cdc and say, let space -- let's base this on science? >> children all over america were forced to wear masks.

william: fauci also faced a fierce attack from georgia republican marjorie taylor greene. she chairman. was later admonished by the chairman. rep. taylor: green we should be writing a criminal referral because you should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. you belong in prison, dr. fauci. william: earlier in the hearing, fauci seemed to get choked up, describing how those kinds of accusations often lead to violent threats. dr. fauci: it is very troublesome to me. it much more troublesome because they have involved my wife and my three daughters. >> at these moments, how do you feel? dr. fauci: terrible. >> do you continue to receive threats today? dr. fauci: yes, i do. every time someone gets up and says i am responsible for the death of people throughout the world, the death threats go up. william: next week, former cdc director rochelle walensky will testify before the same committee. for the pbs newshour, i am william brangham.

♪ geoff: an art show in hudson, new york called talking pictures plays off the previous prolific career of michael lindsay-hogg. he was at the creation of some of the biggest music moments of the 1960's and 1970's, and now famed film director peter jackson has remastered lindsay-hogg's original "let it be," for release on disney plus. special correspondent christopher booker takes a look at his multi-media career for our arts and culture series, canvas. >> but she is uneasy. which is the state a lot of people are in. which is to be uneasy. christopher: well he would not call it a rule or a guide, michael lindsay hogg's paintings follow a theme. >> i only pained people. i will paint a circle, the circle will turn into a face. a couple of lines will turn into a net. in some of my paintings, there might be some kind of issue between them which is not resolved.

christopher: in this instance, the interaction is happening on a canvas. but 84-year-old lindsay hogg has spent a great deal of his creative time working to understand what happens between people. >> ♪ 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ♪ christopher: at 24, he was a young music director in england, part of the groundbreaking music television show ready, steady, go! >> and here are the animals. christopher: from 1963 to 1966, the friday evening broadcast was the destination for the new breed of rock 'n' roll. >> you know, how lucky can you be that then when you turn up and you're starting to direct music television and subsequently videos, that you are in the same generation as the who, the rolling stones, the beatles, the yardbirds, the kinks. ♪ christopher: but it wasn't just luck. his directorial abilities captured the attention of those leading this burgeoning social and musical revolution. in 1966, the beatles hired him

to direct videos for their songs rain and paperback writer. followed shortly thereafter by the rolling stones. >> when i first met them, there were no videos. the music shows, certainly in england, in america sort of controlled who was going to be on the show. and they wanted the performers on their show. in england, only the beatles and the rolling stones had the power to be able to say it's too much of a hassle for us to show up and also they wanted the control of the images. so we are going to give you videos. christopher: in the fall of 1968, he would help conceive and direct the rolling stones rock 'n' roll circus. just a month after the circus, he was hired by the beatles to document the writing and recording of a new album. the sessions that would produce "let it be." >> i remember it was christmas and i was going with my girlfriend and i was thinking, how lucky can you be? i just finished shooting the rolling stones rock and roll circus in mid-december '68, and

in early 1969, i start working on a concert film with the beatles. how lucky can you be? christopher: while lindsay-hogg credits luck and circ*mstance for putting him in this position, both of these projects would fall victim to events outside of his control. release of the rock 'n' roll circus was delayed, and the tapes later lost, the film not seeing the light of day until 1996. "let it be" was another story entirely. >> rehearsing, recording, wrapping, relaxing. >> it was part of the collateral damage. people thought it was the breakup movie. it was released one month after the beatles broke up. christopher: the film let it be received brutal reviews and has largely been shelved since the early 1980s, and lindsay-hogg says his reputation took a hit. >> my stock got lower after it came out. and the beatles kind of shunned it. so i began to remake my career and then gradually started to do better work.

christopher: creatively, how did you weather that? >> well, i know it's kind of like the airplane, which gets bumpy for a while, you know, you just hope it lands at an airplane that you can get off at and start and do something else. reporter: lindsay hogg's something else included more music videos, concert films, television, theater, movies, and later, a memoir. and for the past three decades, there has also been painting. but history has been in the midst of a revision in the way it considers his work with the beatles. particularly with the help of peter jackson. the new zealand director behind the oscar winning lord of rings franchise, who spent nearly four years sifting through 57 hours of lindsay-hogg's original beatles footage to release the three-part, six-hour film get back.

>> when we first met, he said, tell me the story of let it be. why do i have all this footage? and then i told him about what had happened. and he said, so if you weren't involved, let it be would really have been an orphan. and i'd never heard of anyone use that word for this movie because it was an orphan. i had always been trying to protect it. it's very, very affectionate picture. it's basically a story about four men who loved each other and have loved each other since they were in their teens, who has had the most extraordinary early youth together when the world blew up and showered them with all the glories of the world, but who now were aiming toward their 30's and had different expectations, different ambitions, and it was about how they were making that transition. which is what i hope people will see when it comes out again. christopher: but revisiting this past work is for later. right now, his focus is on painting. >> i know there is a

conversation going on like in this one. one of the things i think is interesting about painting is you're trying to create order because life is disordered, life is chaotic. and you do your best to deal with all of that. therefore you are trying to create with color and design some kind of order and completion to it. and it's not random. christopher: i know it wasn't this way, but the chronology seems clean and clear. >> i'm lucky because i've always been able to do what i would interest me. i mean, there have been bad moments of course, and failure and disaster and humiliation and everything. but i just think, you know, let it all go pit this is what makes me who i am for good or bad. and then you have to accept who you are, for good or bad. christopher: through the spring, the hudson hall will host his latest collection entitled talking pictures. for the pbs newshour, i'm christopher booker in hudson,

new york. ♪ amna: and we'll be back shortly with a look at a first-of-its-kind medical school for native american doctors. but first, take a moment to hear from your local pbs station. geoff: it's a chance to offer your support, which helps to keep programs like ours on the air. ♪ amna: for those stations staying with us, our conversation with comedian atsuko okatsuka. who taps into her tumultuous life story for laughs. born in taiwan to japanese and taiwanese parents, she eventually moved to the u.s. and lived undocumented for seven years. in this encore report, i sat down with okatsuka to talk about

about the growing audience for her unique brand of comedy. the conversation was part of our arts and culture series, canvas. ♪ her comedy is physical. >> did you eat? no? eat, please. eat, eat, eat. eat, eat, eat. amna: her style, eccentric. >> it's the weird one. she is weird and crazy. amna: and she knows how to hook her audience. ♪ okatsuka is an internet sensation with followers who watch as she marries her husband for the second time. and dances with her grandmother. who now has a separate fan base of her own. okatsuka rocketed to viral fame with the creation of her own drop challenge to a beyoncé

song. a million people watched her, creating their own videos, including tennis star serena williams and actor mandy moore. >> my husband and i had an intruder come to our house. amna: and she shines in her first hbo comedy special "the intruder." >> the guy kind of watches us, freaks out, and starts to run away. amna: her quirky observational humor has struck a chord. >> truly, there is a corner in my house that i sometimes take the time to stand in, because i pay rent. this is like $30 right here. why don't i ever stand here? you pay for it. at least feel it. amna: she sat down with me recently and talked about discovering comedy in an unlikely place. >> when i first watched standup comedy, it was through margaret cho. it was this dvd that was handed to me during a really boring sermon at church. one of my friends passed it to me.

she was like, this is stand-up comedy. it was someone who looked like me. it would not be until years later that a boyfriend told me i was funny and i should try doing standup. yes, my fellow basic person -- amna: it also took years to get her own hbo comedy special. okatsuka is just the second asian american woman ever to get her own hbo comedy special. the first was margaret cho, over two decades ago. >> i never saw asian people on television or in movies. my dreams were somewhat limited. i would dream, maybe someday, i could be an extra on mash. >> i think people are afraid of things not working. people are afraid of things that they are not used to seeing. that have to trust the audience. the audience has been asking for it. that's what i mean by social media and standup comedians can post their own clips online.

then they gain their own followers. and go on tour, and the audience is there and they prove people do want to see this. then the industry usually listens. amna: you have a story a lot of people can relate to about coming here, learning how to fit in, making a new life in a new country. and your comedy special is called "the intruder." is there another meaning behind that title? >> yeah, and i'm glad you saw it, because it's not so over the head. the double entendre is that as a formally undocumented immigrant, i often felt i was intruding on everyone else. amna: what do you mean by that? >> i'm coming to someone else's country, i'm coming to someone else's culture. being without papers means, you are not really supposed to be here. anybody who has ever felt like an outsider, just because you talk differently or look

differently or dress differently than other people, then the norm. i think that you may have felt like an intruder as well. i am a product of divorced parents. amna: what about your family and how you came to live in the u.s.? >> my mom and grandma and i came to the u.s. when i was eight. but at the time, i didn't know i was moving here. my grandma, she is so sweet, unassuming looking, this old asian woman. but she was a liar. she told me we were coming to the states for a two month vacation. then she had us overstay our tourist visas, we were living in my uncle's garage. that is how she got me to move to a -- two l.a. my dad is on his third divorce. at a certain point, when i look at my family and be like, guys, if you wanted me to do comedy, you could have just told me, you know what i mean? amna: you have talked about your

mother's own mental illness. why do you think it is important to weave those details into your work? >> as a kid, i was always able to make sad things funny. not just for me, but for my family. it is just part of how i communicate with people. i go, okay, this is difficult to talk about subject, mental illness, no worries, let's talk about it. but i will make you laugh while i am doing it. that way we both feel better. amna: okatsuka continues to tour across the country, bringing her comedy and building connections wherever she goes. what do you love about this work? what is it like when you are up on stage and you can make an entire room laugh? >> gosh, it's finding community. and my fans are fellow weirdos. you are a fellow weirdo for even connecting with me. amna: thank you for that. >> watching my comedy, even

laughing at it. sorry, you are not normal. and that is what i love, that we can all find each other and be like, yes. we are not alone. all the times we may have felt that way. that is why i love it. ♪ geoff: a first of its kind middle school -- the first of its kind medical school located in the cherokee nation recently graduated its inaugural class. our oklahoma communities correspondent adam kemp shares how the program was started and why the need for these doctors is so great. adam: a ceremony celebrating a historic first. in the days leading up to graduation, representatives from five different native american tribes in oklahoma honored its newest generation of doctors. >> it matters to you whether we've got graduates like the ones we are celebrating today. if you're native american or a

tribal leader or a tribal citizen, it's of particular importance to you. adam: the students are part of oklahoma state university's college of osteopathic medicine at the cherokee nation, the first ever physician training program on a native american reservation. the curriculum offers students firsthand experience serving native communities and understanding their specific healthcare needs. >> once i actually got to see and work with patients, from my tribe, i really just fell in love with it. these last few years being at a native medical school, the first in the country, it's been amazing. adam: graduate caitlin cosby is a citizen of the choctaw nation. she is among the 1/5 of native american students that make up the inaugural class. >> the cherokee nation campus was a really big deal for me. i've always wanted to be able to serve my people ever since i was able to actually live in the area where a lot of the culture is. adam: for mackenzee thompson, another graduate and member of the choctaw nation, the program not only provided a medical

education, but also brought her closer to her own heritage. >> i wasn't really raised, traditionally choctaw, some of those, like, traditions were kind of lost in my family lineage. and so coming here, i've been able to connect with other choctaw students and learn, about our heritage, but then also just learn so much about the cherokee nation and their culture. adam: osu partnered with the cherokee nation to open the school in 2020 to help erase the shortage of indigenous doctors nationwide, who, according to the association of american medical colleges, make up only .3% of physicians. >> people want to see someone that looks like them and is from their culture. and to me, that's really important for representation. adam: students also specialize in treating rural communities, which, like native ones, face higher than average provider shortages and worse overall health outcomes. as future doctors of osteopathic medicine, osu graduates receive

similar training as traditional medical doctors, but with a focus on holistic health and prevention. >> having that holistic kind of mindset when we approach medicine is something that i feel like pairs really well with the native american philosophies of medicine. adam: next up for graduates is residency. thompson herself will continue serving the indigenous community in the cherokee nation's capitol of tahlequah. >> it just makes me super excited, to go to a tribal residency and just get to continue to learn more about my native culture and how to take care of my people best. and yeah, and give back for the rest of my career. >> i hope that my journey will be able to inspire other young native, you know, kids to be able to do this. because i think it's important to see someone do it because, you know you can do it. and i would love to see more. and i'm really proud to be

choctaw. and i'm really proud to be from the osu cherokee nation campus. adam: these graduates are the first in what osu hopes to be a new wave of doctors closing health care gaps for native communities. for the pbs newshour, i am adam kemp. ♪ geoff: and join us again here tomorrow night, for a look at why some universities are returning to using standardized testing in their admissions process. that is the newshour for tonight. i'm geoff bennett. amna: and i'm amna nawaz. on behalf of the entire newshour team, thank you for joining us. >> major funding for the "pbs newshour" has been provided by -- >> cunard is a proud supporter of public television.

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