Transcripts For KQED PBS NewsHour 20141101

Next tuesdays midterm elections. nr shake it off shake it off woodruff close to a million fans buy taylor swifts new album in its debut week. Why some pop stars still sell despite huge changes in the Music Industry. Those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the space industry suffered a new catastrophe today. A Virgin Galactic Space Tourism rocket crashed during a test flight in southern california. The copilot was killed, and tho pilot was badly injured. The wreckage of spaceship two landed in the mojave desert. Witnesses described an explosion after the rocket was released from a plane that carries it to a high altitude. On tuesday, a rocket owned by another private company, orbital sciences, blew up just afterni lifting off from a launch site on Virginias Atlantic coast. Woodruff people across northeastern pennsylvania were finally able to relax today, with news that a sevenweek manhunt is over. The suspect in a shooting that terrorized the region was captured last night and appeared in court this morning. Eric, are you sorry . Are you sorry . Woodruff shouts from the crowd went unanswered as a batteredlooking eric frein stood waiting after his hearing at the pike county courthouse. District attorney raymond tonkin. Today, we find some comfort as a community that we are taking these next steps towards justice. Woodruff frein is accused in the sniperambush of a State Police Barracks in blooming grove, pennsylvania, on september 12th. The attack left Corporal Bryon Dickson dead, critically wounded trooper Alex Douglass and it triggered a grueling, 48day manhunt across the pocono mountains for frein, an expert marksman and survivalist. The search took law officers through woods, caves and vacation homes, closed schools, canceled football games, and hurt area businesses. He was able to get into cabins, into other unoccupied structures, find food. In other cases, he had things hidden, but he was able to get shelter, get in, out of the weather much as we suspected was occurring. Woodruff finally, last night, frein surrendered peacefully to u. S. Marshals, who came upon him in an abandoned airport hangar, about 30 miles from the State Police Barracks. He entered no plea at todays hearing but faces first degree murder and other charges and anr possible death penalty. For area residents, its the end to a nightmarish time. I cant even explain what im feeling right now. This is awesome. We are so proud of our Pennsylvania State police, their hard work. Thereve been many, many sleepless nights. Woodruff and with freins capture, local officials announced that neighborhood trickortreating is back on tonights schedule. Woodruff in florida, a former college band member was convicted today in the death of a drum major at florida aandm university. Dante martin was found guilty of manslaughter and felony hazing. The victim, robert champion, died after running a gauntlet of fists, drumsticks and mallets. Afterward, the schools nationally known band was suspended for more than a year. Woodruff theres word today that more than a thousand foreign fighters are flowing into syria each month, despite american air strikes. Thats according to a report today in the Washington Post, citing unnamed u. S. Intelligence and counterterrorism officials. The account says its estimated the total number of foreign fighters inside syria now exceeds 16,000. Israel reopened a contested holy site in jerusalem today. Thered been clashes a day earlier, when Police Killed a palestinian suspected of shooting a jewish activist. Today, entrance to the site known as temple mount to jews, and noble sanctuary to muslims, was watched closely by an extra one thousand security personnel. Israeli authorities continued to deny access to muslim men under the age of 50. Japans central bank made a surprise move today to jump start its economy by expanding stimulus efforts. The head of the central bank said theres a risk of deflation that will hurt wages and stock values. If the real inflation rate continues to be sluggish, theres a possibility toward a turn around toward a deflationary mindset. Our nations economy is at a critical moment, a process of escaping deflation. Our decision to go ahead with easing is based on such reasoning. Japan has been plagued by de flation and anemic growth for much of the past 20 years. Also today, Russias Central Bank boosted its key Interest Rate to 9. 5 , hoping to stop the rubles decline in value. The russian currency has been hurt by western sanctions over ukraine, and by falling oil prices. Wall street shot higher on the moves to stimulate japans economy. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained 195 points to close at 17,390, a new record. The sandp 500 added 23, to finish at 2018, also a record. And the nasdaq rose 64, to 4630. For the week. The dow and the nasdaq gained more than 3 . The sandp rose more than 2. 5 . Woodruff still to come on the newshour how u. S. Hospitals build up to handle more possible ebola cases. After twentyseven years, Burkina Fasos president steps down amid massive protests. Whats delayed making public a report on c. I. A. Interrogations . Updating the 42 Mexican College students gone missing. Mark shields and david brooks preview next weeks elections. And, what taylor swifts latest album sales say about todays music business. Woodruff now, how hospitals are preparing for ebola cases in this country. A judge in maine ruled today against state officials who sought to quarantine nurse kaci hickox who returned from west africa after working with ebola patients. Hickox has no symptoms and has refused to observe a voluntary quarantine. But the judge did say she must u . ]irpfonitored for symptoms and must coordinate any travel with state officials. The debate over that case comes as hospitals are scrambling to prepare for any future ebola patients. In new york state, governorni andrew cuomo designated eight hospitals that need to be ready. The newshours megan thompsonco visited one of those hospitals in manhattan. Reporter on wednesday afternoon, staff was buzzing at the mount sinai hospital on manhattans upper east side. In a special ward doctors, nurses and security were prepping at top speed for a dreaded scenario someone with ebola walking through their doors. Dr. David reich is the hospitals president. So, youve been at this hospital for 30 years. Have you seen anything like this before . Reporter theres really nothing like this thats ever been dealt with at this hospital before. And in fact, id say that of all the hospitals in new york city, theres really never been anything quite like this. Reporter new yorks first case of ebola last week, at nearby bellevue hospital, only added to the pressure. Mount sinai is a topnotch hospital, but ebola represents a whole new challenge. The first thing that greets you when you walk in the door big new signs in thirteen languages. They say, if you have symptoms and have traveled, tell us immediately. So, this is an isolation room in part of the emergency department. Reporter possible ebola cases can be isolated here. Luckily the only patient today is a mannequin used for training. So far, there have only been a handful of false alarms in the entire mount sinai system. But until now, this hospital didnt really have another place outside of the e. R. To provide longterm care for an ebola patient. Last week, this section of the hospital was part of the cardiac Critical Care unit. But in just a matter of days, mount sinai has transformed it into a brand new unit to care for possible ebola patients. Theyre still finishing it up, but they say that if somebody walks into the hospital today who might have ebola, theyre ready for them. And weve completely walled it off. Reporter the new unit is sealed off. And while ebola is not an airborne disease, a negative pressure system and heavyduty air filters are in place as extreme precautions. Special protocols are followed to get rid of all waste. And this new Communications System will allow staff to monitor and talk to patients without having to get close. The facility is in some ways only the smallest part of this. Creating a team that is competent and confident in their skills to care for a patient with this deadly disease that provides extreme risk to healthcare workers, that is the real challenge for us. Reporter so mount sinaico conducts training regularly to make sure the staff is prepared. An expert from the cdc is here to consult. One of the most important, and new, procedures to learn is how to put on the protective personal equipment. Im going to read out the safe work practices. Reporter nurses train with a coach and a checklist. There are special coveralls and thighhigh plastic booties. A respirator, hoods, goggles. A second gown, two sets of rubber gloves, and a face shield. Every detail is rehearsed, down to the type of knot securing the smock. We have to make sure were hydrated before we suit up, if you need to use the bathroom, because, its going to take time for us to do that again. Reporter plus, its just hard to work draped in all that plastic and rubber. We did a simulation last thursday with the cdc watching us. After about 45 minutes, they were exhausted, they were soaked in sweat. Its very clear that anything we take for granted in terms of normal functions in an intensive care setting, is so much more difficult. Reporter so staff practice maneuvering around in the gear. Spray everything with bleach. Keep everything nice and calm and stable. Reporter and during simulations, they troubleshoot to find holes in their systems. Here a doctor pretends to be an ebola patient who accidentally tore off the nurses gown. The team must figure out how to react. The patient needs to understand that he cannot pull on you. Reporter and then theres taking off the protective gear. What might seem like a simple act could actually be the most dangerous. Because this is when exhausted nurses and doctors could accidentally contaminate themselves. The hospital is constructing another Isolation Unit outside that will be the primary ebola care center. But all in, the new units will only be able to handle about three patients at a time. And that could pose a problem if the outbreak grows dramatically worse. Hospital officials wouldnt provide specific numbers, but its clear the costs for all this will be considerable. Dr. Kenneth davis heads the entire mount sinai system. This is expensive. The drill, the drilling, the equipment, the construction, its all not been budgeted. And in hospitals like ours, which have a very large percentage of patients who are largely medicare or medicaid, the margins are very narrow. So, were ultimately going to be looking for federal, state, local help. Reporter but while all of this might look like something out of a scifi movie, dr. Davis says, Everyone Needs to remember to stay calm. What separates this from anything else weve ever seen is the degree of anxiety, almost hysteria thats in the population about this. Lets remember, there is one case in new york. There are less than a handful of cases in the united states. And the cases are, by and large, Health Care Workers. Reporter for weeks to come, mount sinais Health Care Workers will continue to practice the new procedures. Procedures they hope they will never have to use. Woodruff there was a major shift in power today in the west african nation of burkina faso as that countrys strongman leader, a u. S. Ally who had bee3 in power almost three decades, fled the country. Jeffrey brown has the story. Brown there was cheering on the streets of Burkina Fasos capital. After president Blaise Compaore agreed to step down, 27 years after he seized power in a coup. In a written statement, he called for free and Transparent Elections within three months. Then, he left the city, apparently heading toward neighboring ghana. Mass demonstrations had erupted in recent days, against compaores attempt to seek another term. Yesterday, mobs stormed the Parliament Building and set it aflame, leaving windows shattered, and burned out cars. With word of the resignation today, the head of the military announced he would assume power, for now. translated people of burkina faso, today, october 31, 2014, the armed forces have noted the resignation of the head of state. It has been decided that i will take on the responsibilities as head of state. We expect to hold without delay consultations with all the vital forces and the components of the nation with a view to return to normal constitutional life. Reporter the turmoil is being closely watched in washington because burkina faso holds a strategic place in a turbulent region. Its been a u. S. Military ally hosting a base used by American Drones to track insurgents. To the north lies mali, a hub for alqaedalinked militants and to the east, nigeria, where the islamist boko haram is creating havoc. Reporter the ultimate outcome in burkina faso may also raise questions about the durability of other long standing rulers in africa. Brown for more on this im joined now by nii akuetteh, of the african immigrant caucus, an organization aimed at increasing political influence of the african diaspora. His career has focused on fostering relationships between the u. S. And african nations. Well come welcome to you. Thank you. Brown how important is this to the people of burkina faso and why . It is very important. They have been pushing for this for years. The president who departed is very agile. I was not sure he would be able to ride this out as well. So they have removed him. I think the military just came in to stabilize the situation. This is the peoples revolution and its really important. Brown weve seen a number of countries in libya and elsewhere, where a strong man goes but there isnt the infrastructure and Civil Society in place and sur mile ensues. Are there comparisons to be made here in. I think a little bit. I seriously doubt it will get as bad as libya, for one thing because of the influence of the african yiewn and the regional organization. They say if you come to power by unconstitutional means, you are out of the club but we will help you hold elections. And then the military, they have the examples of mali and other places to look at and ghana. I expect they hold their elections. Brown this has been an ally of the u. S. What now . I think the u. S. Is watching the situation carefully. When mr. Compaore decided to withdraw the bill, the u. S. Was not happy. So i think they are trying to handle a situation in which theyve lost an ally but want to have more democratic processes to deal with whoever comes. Burkina is indeed strategically placed in a turbulent region so i think the u. S. Will try to work with those. Brown this is a region that does not get a lot of attention for the most part. What does Something Like this tell us about the potential for change in other countries in the region, ifco anything at all . I think what it does, many african countries want the power to throw out their leaders if they dont like them. Usually these are leaders of powerful countries outside. So other countries such as rwanda, uganda, they bear watching because you never know when the people will gain the upper hand. Brown and do you see people in a lot of these countries gaining a new voice . I think they do but i think what will happen is the president s in those countries are holding on to power, so it would not surprise me if the suppressed news of whats happening in burkina faso, if theyre putting Security Forces out there to hold more tightly to power. Brown where there are countries with islamist groups, in burkina faso and elsewhere in this region, are there groups potentially there to step in . Yes, there are. So i think it has to be watched carefully. Nigeria has done a good job on its own. Its not out of the woods. Nigeria is powerful and has been competent but they have boko haram. So there are things to watch out for and be concerned about in west africa. Brown have a great day. Thank you very much. Pleasure. Brown we turn now to a battle over making public a Senate Report on the c. I. A. s interrogation tactics. In 2009 the Intelligence Committee launched its investigation three years later, the 5,000 classified report was finalized. The cia disputed some of the conclusions. Earlier this year, senators learned the c. I. A. Searched Senate Computers without notifying the committee. And, in april, the committee voted to release a summary of the report. But the c. I. A. Has insisted on more redactions to protect Agency Assets and secrets. We will hear from a former cia official in a moment. But we begin with a member of the senate Intelligence Committee, senator ron wyden of oregon. Senator, welcome to the program. Thank you, judy. Woodruff why is it you want this report released . Usedy, the c. I. A. Leadership maintained for years that torturing prisoners was essential to obtaining information, that we werent able to get the information we needed to protect our country without torture. What this report shows is that a number of the claims that the c. I. A. Leadership made about the value of enhanced interrogation simply was untrue and a, regrettably, it looks like the culture of misinformation at the c. I. A. Leadership is still going strong. Woodruff isnt the reluctance to release it, doesnt that have to do with making public the identity of agents, methods, operations that the c. I. A. And others believe needs to be secret . Judy, i dont take a back seat to anybody in terms of protecting our agents who are undercover. In fact, a number of years ago, i wrote legislation with senator bond on a bipartisan basis to increase the penalties for outing one of our agents. What the c. I. A. Is doing here is trying to obscure key facts and trying to keep the real story from coming out. Of course, i would be in favor of redacting any specific identifying information about our very valuable undercover agents. Reporter well, one of the key facts, give us a sense of the key fact that you think must come out that c. I. A. And the administration, whoever is making this decision, is saying no . Well, this report is about misdeeds, mistakes and other falsehoods. And the reality is the c. I. A. Is asking for something that is unprecedented. For 40 years, since the days of the church committee, we have used pseudonyms in order to protect our undercover agents. But if you dont allow pseudonyms, for example, you cant even tell whether were talking about different people or the same people, and youre obscuring what the narrative and what the Public Accounting is really all about. Woodruff well, its my understanding one of the concerns expressed is even using pseudonyms could be traced to particular individuals and places. I dont believe that stripping out the specific identifying information will cause a problem. Judy, the reality is, for 40 years, we have never seen a demand like the c. I. A. Is making now. The c. I. A. Is asking that all pseudonyms, all of them be stripped out. That wasnt done with the church committee, iran contra or abu ghraib. What c. I. A. Is asking for is unprecedented and whats clear is theyre interested in obscuring the facts and covering up a really accurate narrative. Woodruff senator ron wyden, member of the senate Intelligence Committee, thank you. Thank you. Woodruff for perspective from the c. I. A. Side, joining us now is john rizzo, who spent thirtyfour years in the agencys office of general counsel. Hes also the author of the book company man about his time in the c. I. A. So, john rozzi, you heard what senator wyden was saying. He said this is unprecedented what the c. I. A. Is asking for. First of all, i should make clear i have not seen the report, not for a lack of trying. Several weeks ago, i and former c. I. A. Officials who were deeply involved in the program asked for an opportunity to at least read it before its released to the world. So i have no idea, as we sit here today, anything about the content of the report. As for the use of pseudonyms, again, its all context. Woodruff and we should clarify again were talking about substituting pseudonyms, other names for the names of actual people who provided information. Thats correct. And i should make clear that were not talking about deleting the names of senior people like myself who are public figures. I mean, all of us, i assume, are going to be named by naming the report, and thats fine. What were talking about here is the names of undercover operatives. Many of whom im still operating in secret around the world in a dangerous assignment. Woodruff as you heard senator wyden say, in all the years, in a modern era, he said going back to the church report, back in the 1970s, this is not something the c. I. A. Has insisted on. Why is it so important to keep this report back until this name issue gets resolved . Again, its all context, but i can certainly foresee a situation this report is 600 pages long. If the same pseudonym for the same person appears at various parts of the report describing the circumstances, what he or she was doing and what country he or she was in, those who are willing to take the time and believe me, there are people out there willing to take the time can piece together the two identities, or at least theres a possibility, and theres even a possibility of that, i honestly dont see i mean, this report is about the program. The agency ran the program. The people who carried it out in the trenches, you know, why should their safety be potentially compromised . Woodruff last question, do you think a compromise is possible here . This has been going on for months. Look, i and my colleagues would like to see this report come out. Its been hanging for a long time and dripping with leaks. We all want to see it come out. I hope an arrangement can be made. I would hope finally its not the c. I. A. Thats driving this process, its the white house, the administration, the president s chief of staff. So to characterize this, this is ani c. I. A. , to uphold the report is not fair and doesnt reflect reality. Woodruff john jorntion former general counsel for the c. I. A. Thank you for talking with us. Thank you. Woodruff we turn now to mexico, for a disturbing story of dozens of College Students gone missing and the hunt to find what happened to them. Hari sreenivasan reports. Sreenivasan its become an increasingly common sight across guerrero province, in southern Mexico Police searching for the possible mass grave of 43 College Students who vanished more than a month ago. Their case has grabbed nationwide attention, but so far has yielded more questions than answers. Mexican attorney general Jesus Murillo karam. translated weve been very careful about giving precise information, to not speculate, to work with facts and not imagination, and this is why the information that we give is exactly at the stage that its at and the conditions that its at. Sreenivasan what is known is that the students were last seen in the town of iguala roughly 80 miles south of mexico city. Theyd been raising money to protest funding cuts at their teachers college, when they disappeared on the night of september 26th. Investigators say local police opened fire on the group, at the mayors orders. Then, they allegedly handed over the students to a drug gang with ties to the mayor, who has now gone into hiding. The gangs leader and several members have since been arrested, but the case remains unsolved and the fate of the students, unknown. The lack of results has sparked public outrage and increasingly violent protests. Just last week, demonstrators in iguala set fire to the town hall. Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto insisted wednesday that he shares the outrage, as he met with the students families for the first time. translated the president of the republic is also indignant before these incidents and i also became very impatient. The ongoing investigations will soon allow us to determine the whereabouts and broaden the search to find the missing students. Sreenivasan pena nieto pledged to improve communication, starting with a panel to act as liaison between investigators and the families. Sreenivasan we turn to Dudley Althaus in mexico city. We over heard of a number of arrests. Whats the latest . Theyre up to about 57, according to officials. Most of them are local police fromi iguala and a nearby town and local officials of the gang. The latest today is the internal minister of mexico announce they didre still looking for the students alive. That was a demand from the parents of the students two days ago when they met with president pena nieto. Today in iguala, theres a banner that appeared near the army base near Police Headquarters saying the students were indeed still alive and that the entire investigation has been a sham. Sreenivasan Human Rights Watch estimates there have been 20,000 disappearances in the last night years. Why are these particular kidnappings of the students resonating across mexico . For one, the sheer numbers and, besides, these kids had a reputation for kind of trouble making, political agitation. But theyre basically innocent, theyre apart there the dug wars, as far as anyone knows. For the past years, president pena nieto has been assuring the country that the worst of the violence is behind it and theyre basically moving on. Hes been trying to moment a message of economic development, investment and stability. This kind of shook everybody up. Sreenivasan weve heard the mayor of the town and his wife are on the run, that they may be in on this. What does this say about how difficult it is to root out the corruption that might be inside these small towns and also working with the cartels . Really thats the most important back story of all of this. The government, past and current, has been really trying to take down major drug lords, the head of the cartel was just arrearsed. But whats happening is a lot of smaller groups are all throughout the bad areas of mexico and they have been lying low and really dominating local towns. It doesnt take much to dominate a small city or a small town in areas there, even up along the u. S. Mexican border. So thats been kind of ignored in the past two years and i think this underscores the fact that these are very dangerous situations in a lot of parts of mexico. Sreenivasan this has escalating into a national situation, so whats next for the federal government . Whats the mexican president likely to do . Its been five weeks since the students disappeared. Somethings got to give, or it starts working badly against the government. I think theyll redouble their efforts. I think theyre trying to, as far as it goes. But, you know, they have 57 people in custody, its a relatively small area, though it is a big state. Most of mexico thinks it cant be hard to find these students. The government has to come up with something very quickly. Its losing credibility every day, i think. Sreenivasan the wall street journals Dudley Althaus in mexico city, thanks so much. Thank you. Woodruff and to politics now and the final stretch of campaigning with election day just four days away. Plenty of heavy hitters were on the trail this week. From former president bill clinton in kentucky, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton in iowa, mitt romney in kansas, jeb bush in colorado, and lots of others. So what should we be watching heading into this final weekend . Joining us now are shields and brooks. Thats syndicated columnist mark shields and New York Times columnist david brooks. We cant wait. Were almost there. Mark, were heading into the last few days. What does your gut say. co dont tell me. Can we have anotherco week . Woodruff what are your sources and what is your gut . My gut, and when my gut speaks, i listen to it. Id say republicans have to feel better than democrats do heading into tuesday. Woodruff senate races. Senate races. The governors races stand on partisan grounds and more man mano mano, if i can use the sexist terms. ni but the senate, its not only the terrain, the republicans have a big advantage i politically, but its the mood for the reps against the democrat. Woodruff whats your instinct . My gut isco what mark says. I have the same feeling. All the models say the republicans are likely to take over the senate. A couple of things one, ticket splitting. There used to be a lot of people ticket splitting. That just happens less. One of the reasons is the electorates were more educated. Educated. Theyre more ideological. Obamas a drag. We look at his numbers, hes come down a lot, so its just a big drag. There are a lot of undecided voters out there. Today, suggesting early voting, good signs for democrats, but its not a lot. When the countrys unhappy, president is in the sixth year, its not brain surgery and the party will do okay. Woodruff what are you watching for . The first coming in New Hampshire and north carolina, jeanne shaheen, New Hampshire, kay hagan north carolina. Obama carried New Hampshire twice. Jeanne shaheen has been found to have nor road the race. Its a toss up. Id say if gene shaheen and kay hagan win, the democrats in the two states, then the republican sweep is nonexistent in 2014. But beyond that i have to look at the states where the president did carry where democrats are running. Colorado, if the democrats lose those, i think thats significant and will indicate that the republicans are having a very good evening. Woodruff is that what youre seeing . Yeah, you know, the republicans will do well in the red states, arkansas, places like that, West Virginia, probably louisiana, but winning over your own people is good but not a huge victor. So they could do that and even still win the senate, but if they can get in the purple states, then theyre showing theyre breaking out of their pattern, and the pattern has been over the last four years is theyre toxic. Evenni some traditional republicans are unhappy with the Republican Party. But has the Republican Party detox fide themselves . Have they returned from a tea party that scares people and announce ago Business Party that will get the economy going . If they start winning the purple states, the north carolinas of the world, or even if scott walker wins in wisconsin in the governors race there, then you begin to think theyve improved their image with some of the swing voters. Woodruff mark, i want to turn on its head. A lot of talk about how much trouble the democrats are in. As both of you pointed out, they are fighting on territory that is red. Mitt romney wonnr them in double digits, 23, 27 points in West Virginia a couple of years ago. So if you turn the question on its head, we could say why arent republicans running away with some of these races . The state . Thats a good question. And my only answer would beni is the first time was in capital a hill, an old timer took me aside and was looking at some kind of down at the heels congressman. And they say, see that guy . They say, he knows more about pork belly futures than anybody in this state. And everybody thats in this body, house and senate, has something going for them and its up to you to figure out what it is. Because at least 1,000 or maybe 5,000 people in the state have ability and ambition who would like to have that seat. So the democrats were holding those seats. A gifted political operatives. Theyve survived in hostile territory, Mary Landrieu and mark pryor. Theyve managed to do it. The fact that the time and trends are running against them makes it even tougher for them. But, i mean, youve got to acknowledge these are skilled, able people who have performed satisfactory in those states. It might be too uphill. I would say the other thing and heres a substantive point, republicans dont have a growth agenda, democrats dont have either. If you look at polling issue by issue, people still think the democrats are more like them. They do like the republican positions on spending, on obamacare, but the number one issue is who can create jobs and growth. You cannot say the republicans have come forward with an agenda to do that. Im not sure democrats have either. But without the positive agenda, its hard to get a big wave going. Woodruff were looking at an economy, what they put out in gdp numbers is its grown 3. 5 , the unemployment rates are lowest, the markets higher than years. The wages are showing life, theyre coming up, consumer confidence, yet none of this is translating into good news for the party in power. No. The stock market just take the dow jones, up 10,000 points since barack obama has been in the white house. Youre right, the last six months have been the best six months of growth in the past eleven years. So it really is good news. The problem is, judy, thats big picture, and people dont feel it. The the medium Family Income has been down every year since 2006. It is lower now than it was in 2000. The share of wealth that goes to the top, 1 in the country, has doubled. So theres a sense that the rising tide has lifted it out but hasnt lifted our boats. Thats really what it is. Its not a knock on the overall big economy. Its what my life is, where my own chances of success and providing for my children and my family and, if anything, more threatened than they were. Woodruff twothirds of the voters are saying they dont like the direction the country is heading in. The growth rate has to be growing in august, september, july for people to notice. You have to have a period where confidence is going up. Second, do people feel they can leave their jobs theyre unhappy with and other opportunities will be around. They dont feel that. Until that, they will feel bad. Third, a feeling were weak abroad. Theres more Foreign Policy in this election than recent elections, and theres a lot going on in the world that we are not controlling. Finally the president in this speech and that doesnt seem to be shaping agendas. Maybe its an unrealistic expectation, but the obama drag really is the core thing here. People are seeing the president , 338 approval on economy and Foreign Policy, thats the core thing, disappointment. Its more of an economic election than a National Security election. I agree theres a doubt that has increased in the white house. But the basic concern is that of the economy. Thats the irony is the big, good numbers youve cited dont translate into support for the president. 10 million more people have healthcare than had it a year and a half ago. The legacy you can make, a great statement by transformation of presidency, but its not much of a help if youre a democrat running in any kind of hostile area. Woodruff do statistics lie . Do they just not mean anything for people . The ones i disagree with lie laughter no, a lot of it is everything is pros and cons, but there is an overall feel and maybe the country is wrong, maybe they should be more cheered up. I could easily make the case, you compare it to the 30s, 40s, 70s, theres a general feeling its not working. Woodruff weve talked about how telling negative the campaign is. The ads are negative, mud slinging about everywhere, in the contested states. My last question about the viewers, what do you see thats uplifting and makes you feel better about the country, mark, as we go into this mid term election . Judy, thats a good question and i wish i had a good answer for it. Im not charged up or encouraged by what ive seen. The negative commercials which were careful now are uncoordinated between the independent groups and candidates where i view through the Independents Group and talk about my feelings in my own campaign connsen contributions. The final cost ofo negative commercials is it depresses turnout. It says there is nothing you can do to change. It erodes confidence in our Public Institutions and ourselves and i really think that the consequences are enormous. So there was one Bumper Sticker i saw in harrisburg no woodruff nothing uplifting . I cant see governor of colorado, the fact hes not running any negative commercials, if he wins, then maybe that will be an encouragement. Politics is a derivative business and if somebody wins not running negative commercials, thats a positive. Its positive, neck and neck. Tv station owners are getting rich, but the governors races are better than the senate races. We are polarized in the country but there are still so many states where you have close governors races florida, wisconsin, illinois is even kind of close. So that shows there is still political competition, as mark said. Georgia. These are races fought on Foreign Policy more than the national races. Woodruff its always uplifting having you two here friday nights. Mark shields, david brooks, thank you. Anand a reminder, tune in tuesdy fight for election coverage. It will include a special report at 11 00 p. M. Eastern. Woodruff finally tonight, how to achieve platinum status in the everchanging music business and at a time when the album as we once knew it, no longer sells. Pop superstar taylor swift and her team have found a successful formula. But can it be duplicated . And what does it say about the industry and how we consume music now . Once again we turn to jeffrey brown, who has the story. Got nothing in my brain thats what people say brown this week taylor swift is back on top. Her new album, 1989, named for the year she was born, debuted monday and is on track to sell a million copies in its first week. But i keep cruisin wont stop wont stop movin brown its not just the only record to do so this year, but its triple the mark of the second bestselling album, by the band coldplay. And the million sales in the first week is a feat not accomplished since swifts last platinum album, 2012s red. For the Music Industry as a whole, which has seen a 14 drop in album sales just from last year, its a shot in the arm heading into the big holiday season. Zack Omalley Greenburg covers the industry for forbes. You know, hits like 1989 brown swift has always held crossover appeal, but 1989 marks her official move from national pop queen. A move that has its own risks, says Washington Post music critic chris richards. This came as a big declaration that she was now going to be a pop artist with a capital p. I think its shrewd as a business position to try to appeal to that larger audience but part of what made her such a superstar is that she was both a massive pop star and someone people thought they could relate to personally. And the haters gonna hate hate hate im just gonna shake shake shake brown and while she has vocal critics, and addresses them head on, few dispute swifts mastery of todays music and marketing. She first teased this new albums release during a yahoo live event in august, appeared on Rolling Stone magazines september cover and this week has shown up all over t. V. And online, at all hours, for interviews and Live Performances for huge crowds. Shes also spurned music streaming sites like spotify and instead partnered with retail giant target to distribute the c. D. Theres only one place to get more taylor. I think the strategy and her team are using by not releasing the album onto streaming sites yet is one that weve seen other superstar acts use before. Which is to make sure they get every opportunity to get actual unit sales instead of, you know, kind of fractions of pennies per stream brown in many ways its a very traditional marketing campaign, contrasting the more recent trend of releasing albums without any advanced promotion. You can see artists like beyonce and u2 within the past year both used really bold, sort of stuntlike album release tactics. Taylor swift used a totally Old School Music biz, Old Fashioned promotion, publicity cycle to promote this new album and its working. And i think its working because of the intimacy that shes formed with her fans over the years. Brown very new school, though, is swifts use of social media in all its various platforms engaging with her fans on a personal level via her own website, facebook page, tumblr and instagram. As well as her twitter feed, replete with photos of fans who have bought the new album. Shes enlisted other popular young stars to help her promote it. With musician lorde and actor, writer and producer lena dunham both tweeting their endorsements to their many followers. But swifts success comes amid enormous and continuing upheaval for the Music Industry as a whole, with a continuing move away from album sales, to downloads and now to streaming Services Like spotify and others, where musicians and labels say they earn far less. Zack omalleys forbes article suggested that 1989 could be the last platinum album ever. And as long as platinum is measured, as sort of the total actual albums sold as opposed to streamed. Brown until the platinum designation takes streaming into account and compensation for those plays rises, other artists may have a difficult time breaking through. If youre not a taylor swift, life is very, very difficult. But at the same time, im a believer in the access to the internet. And in a lot of ways its amazing. Anyone can put that music online, it can be heard around the world. Its getting attention that is the issue now. And access is unprecedented but how musicians can sort of corral attention is the great mystery of our time. Brown the official designation of 1989 as platinum would come from the Industry Sales tracker Nielsen Soundscan by the middle of next week. Woodruff again, the major developments of the day. A Virgin Galactic Space Tourism rocket crashed during a test flight in southern california. The copilot was killed, and the pilot was badly injured. And wall street zoomed to record highs on word of new efforts to stimulate japans economy. The dow gained nearly 200 points. On the newshour online right now, many of you will be hosting scores of little ghosts and goblins asking for candy at your front doors tonight. But do you know where the tradition of trickortreating came from . Or how this day turned into such a party event for adults . Read our eight things you didnt know about halloween, on the homepage. All that and more is on our web site, pbs. Org newshour. And a reminder about some upcoming programs from our pbs colleagues. Gwen ifill is preparing for Washington Week which airs later this evening. Heres a preview ifill now that youve heard what shields and brooks think, tune in for more from reporters on the politics beat. They join me for tales from the campaign trail and i look forward toe Election Night coming up on washington woodruff and, Hari Sreenivasan will bring you the latest news saturday and sunday night on p. B. S newshour weekend. Heres a sneak peak. 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