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JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's other news:
The former police officer who fatally shot

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Daunte Wright outside Minneapolis was
charged with second-degree manslaughter.

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Kim Potter resigned yesterday
and was arrested this morning.

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The Wright family's attorney
reacted in New York.

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BENJAMIN CRUMP, Attorney For Family
of Daunte Wright: In less than a week,

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the district attorney made the
decision that we will charge
this officer, and the family

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of Daunte Wright will get to
have their day in court. So, we
say justice for Daunte Wright.

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Potter's former boss has
said she grabbed her gun by mistake.

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And the charge against her
involves negligence, not intent.
She could get 10 years in prison.

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Meanwhile, the trial of former Minneapolis
officer Derek Chauvin continues

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in the murder of George Floyd. We will
have that story later in the program.

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The U.S. Capitol Police officer
who shot and killed a woman
during the January assault

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on the Capitol will not be
charged. Federal prosecutors cited
insufficient evidence today.

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The woman, Ashli Babbitt of San
Diego, was part of a pro-Trump mob.

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A scathing new report blames
the leadership of Capitol
Police for a raft of failures

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before January 6. In widely
reported findings, the force's
inspector general cites equipment

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shortages and expired weapons,
riot shields that shattered upon
impact as police battled hundreds

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of rioters, and a lack of
intelligence tracking and training
that left officers unprepared.

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An advisory panel to the CDC made
no decision today on resuming the

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use of Johnson & Johnson's COVID
vaccine. The group asked for
more data on rare blood clots

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and will reconvene in a week
or 10 days. At the same time,

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public health leaders insisted there's
plenty of other vaccine to go around.

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JEFF ZIENTS, White House COVID-19 Response
Coordinator: We have more than enough

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supply of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to
continue the current pace of vaccinations,

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meet the president's goal of 200 million
shots by his 100th day in office,

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and continue to reach every adult who
wants to be vaccinated by the end of May.

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Also today,
new federal data showed drug
overdose deaths began rising

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again before the pandemic, and accelerated
once it hit. The CDC said that more than

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87,000 Americans died in the
year ending in September 2020,

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mostly from opioids and methamphetamine.
That's up 30 percent from a year earlier.

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The Biden administration has
proposed ending a Trump era ban

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on federally funded clinics
referring women for abortions.

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Planned Parenthood and others argued that
the ban obstructs access to birth control

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for low-income women. The Trump
rule stays in effect until the
new regulation is finalized.

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Texas Republican Congressman Kevin Brady
announced today he's retiring after next

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year. He's served 25 years and
once chaired the House Ways
and Means Committee. So far,

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four House Republicans and two
Democrats are not seeking reelection.

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The U.S. Senate today confirmed
Gary Gensler to chair the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission.

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He's expected to push tougher
regulations for Wall Street.

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And most Republicans
opposed his nomination.

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On Wall Street today, the Dow
Jones industrial average gained
53 points to close near 33731.

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But the Nasdaq fell 138 points,
and the S&P 500 lost 17.

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The digital currency exchange Coinbase

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made its trading debut. It closed with
a market valuation of $86 billion.

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And Bernie Madoff, who organized
the largest fraud in Wall Street's
history, died early today.

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Stephanie Sy has our report.

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STEPHANIE SY: The scope of
the scam shocked the world.

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WOMAN: This is one of the
biggest fraud schemes ever.

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STEPHANIE SY: The victims numbered
in the tens of thousands. Their
losses were recently estimated

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at between $17 billion and $20
billion. The man behind the
con, financier Bernie Madoff.

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He rose through the ranks of
Wall Street riding the image
of a self-made financial guru,

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eventually becoming the chairman
of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.

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The ruse was in full swing in
the 1990s, made off fabricated
profits, attracting new investors,

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while paying bigger returns to old
ones, the biggest Ponzi scheme ever.

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He swindled major charities,

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universities, and celebrities. As of last
year, about three-quarters of the cash,

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some $14 billion, had been
recovered by a court-appointed
trustee and returned to victims.

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Journalist Diana Henriques,
author of "Wizard of Lies," told
"NewsHour"'s Jeffrey Brown in 2011

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how Madoff pulled off such massive deceit.

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DIANA HENRIQUES, Author, "The
Wizard of Lies": So you would
never doubt your judgment

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about trusting Madoff, because Madoff
made you feel like you were a genius,

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too. He had that magic.
It really is amazing.

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STEPHANIE SY: But in 2008, his magic
was revealed for what it really was,

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one big lie. His own sons turned him in.

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QUESTION: What do you
have to say to the public?

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STEPHANIE SY: In March 2009,
he pleaded guilty to securities
fraud and other charges

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and was sentenced to 150 years
in prison. Bernie Madoff died
today in prison in Butner,

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North Carolina. He'd been battling
the final stages of kidney disease.

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For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Stephanie Sy.

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Bernie
Madoff was 82 years old.

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Still to come on the "NewsHour": the
Biden administration announces an

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unconditional withdrawal of
U.S. troops from Afghanistan;
Secretary of Education Miguel

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Cardona discusses the nationwide
return to in person classes;
we talk about Republican

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resistance to the jobs and
infrastructure bill with Senator
Shelley Moore Capito; plus much more.