>> Coming up in the next hour ons as horizon, the impact of the January 6th committee hearings on independent voters in Arizona.

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That's ahead in the next hour on Arizona firefighter PBS.

Good evening and welcome to Arizona horizon.

Governor Doug Ducey tested positive for Covid and that's according to to the governor's office which said the governor is asymptomatic and feeling well and the positive result kept him from receiving meeting with Mike Pence.

Fire officials say the pipeline fire is at five thousand acres and counting and there is concern that over two thousand homes could be impacted if the fire continues to spread.

A 57-year-old man was arrested yesterday with the fire and that's all officials are saying, that the fire is under investigation.

Day two by the house select committee investigating the ride at the capitol and it included attorney general William Barr saying Donald Trump claimed there was election fraud, quote, right out of a box on election night and, quote, increasingly detached from reality in the days after elections.

Barr used the words idiotic and spirconspiracy third.

>> It was over a number of days and like playing wham whack whack-a-mole.

I didn't consider the quality of claims to give me any, you know, feeling there was substance here.

>> Also at today's hearing, the digital editor talked about calling this race early on election night, a move that infuriated trump and his supporters.

>> We knew it would be a consequential call because it was one of five states.

We knew it would be significant to call any one of the five, but we knew that trump's chances were very small and getting smaller based on what we had scene.

We were able to make the call early and we able to beat the competition.

We looked around the room and everybody says yay and on we go.

>> And making that accurate on-air call cost him his job at fox.

One more note on today's hear, a former senior adviser to trump said during deposition trump was taking direction on election night not from senior advisers but from a quote, inebriated Juliani and everything was fraudulent.

>> So what is the impact of the January 6th hearings on Arizona voters who are now hearing from Donald Trump's inner-circle about a coordinated plan to overturn the 2020 election and will such details change the minds of voters and we asked the president of high ground and good to see you.

First of all, your thoughts on these hearings?

>> It was an interesting day to hear the testimony.

It's a great thing to set the record straight and I think a lot of people hear so much and it's all just, like, coming at you so quickly, that to break it down in the manner they did.

I think it was helpful to hear bill Barr say those things and to hear election folks talk about what they were doing in Pennsylvania and other places.

I think it helps people understand better the enormity of what took place.

>> Words like attempted coupe, the long form of BS and is that making a difference and making waves?

>> I don't think so.

I don't think so on the larger picture.

The surest way to lose this election is to run the last election for anybody, right.

And so being caught in that narrative of the last election, which trump wants to continue to talk about for fundraising purposes.

We heard today he raised over $250 million on this narrative line.

That's what he's been doing, raising money and using this as a talking point for himself, but, you know, with inflation the way it is, with Ukraine, and with all of the instability in the world right now, I think people want to talk about what's happening right now.

And I think, quite frankly, even a lot of republicans are done with trump.

>> Interesting you say that, Liz Cheney knew Biden, but coordinated a seven part plan to overtornado the election.

For being paying attention and for people for this was a big deal, but for the general public, big deal?

>> It's a big deal to have a president of the United States commit saditious acts.

It's a big deal to understand that.

Will we do something about that?

Will the justice department act.

Remember Nixon and Ford.

Ford pardoned him and nixon went to California and we never heard from him until he talked to frost.

But it was a simpler time and now the narratives, the 24-hour news cycles, the Twitter and Facebook and all of the noise that gets created, this is a part of that.

But I look at it as a closing chapter on the '20 election as we move now fully into the '22 election.

>> Let's move into the '22 election and we know how Democrats feel about trump.

That's clear.

But when you see trump throwing his daughter, anyone and everyone under the nearest bus, can you still be a candidate running around, endorsed by trump, mentioning his name and dropping his name every five seconds?

>> You can.

There's a strong base of the republican party.

You know, when we did data on this last year, it was 75% of republicans agreed that the election was fraudulent.

I would get it's not greater than that.

I'm guessing it's less.

And un-affiliated voters don't vote in primaries.

I see Steven Richard trying to encourage people to vote and it's a party affair right now in the republican primary.

>> Let's talk about the republican primary for governor and for U.S. senate.

Kari lake and mark Brnovich, have attitudes shifted listening to the trump campaign and trump and Giuliani.

Kari lake and Brnovich, what do they do?

>> Brnovich tried to have both sides of the equation.

I thought he called the election and said it's fine.

Nobody has presented me with my evidence and then he's veered off from that trail several times now.

I think that his detriment.

In a very competitive race with two highly pro-trump candidates running.

I think there's a lane he could conceivably go in.

You don't pick a fight with trump.

You don't say no evidence was presented to me and then conduct your election.

Lake doubled down.

She has trump on her side.

And she is a completely branded trump candidate and I don't know if the republican party is going to elect that this time because I think, again, there's a segment of the party and unaffiliated voters who would participate here that are dissatisfied with that.

And don't see that -- he lost.

So are we going to do this again and is that the best way to run the next election is to rerun the last election?

No, you lost.

>> Do they say January 6th as an attempt through violence to overturn an election?

Is that seen by the average republican voter, especially those who have fonds fond feelings for Donald Trump?

>> I don't think so.

I feel that way, but what I gathered from most republicans no, that's made up or it's not really true.

But when you see it, it's been presented today and unquestionably true.

He's trying to raise money to overthrow the election and create instability in the government from the time that this happened.

And so, I don't see -- I see people again looking forward, not looking backward and this is a choreographed event.

We've seen hearings before and watergate and Iran Cantra they've hired a producer.

>> Prime time.

>> And so, you know, it's a highly crow choreographed experience.

You have to shame, do you, sir, in the McCarthy hearing.

It's laying down the historical record, the narrative, so we can move on from this.

>> One could argue the bombshell happened on January 6th.

Other things did not have an insurrection like what we saw on this day.

Didn't we saw that at the time and people have digested that in their political terms what they see it as and then have moved on from it.

And there's very few people that are focused on this issue, I think.

What you're getting it, it's like a debate and everybody watching debates made up their minds and they made up their mind, already, what they think about it and it's informative from a narrative perspective.

>> Chuck, always a pleasure and thank you.

>> And up next on Arizona horizon, details on a Juneteenth community events scheduled to be held in Tempe.

>> JuneteenthJuneteenth is a national holiday declared last year and the Arizona hourly society and they will mark the day and here to talk about this about this is the history society and good to have you here and thank you for joining us.

Gives us a better definition of Juneteenth.

>> Well, Juneteenth, the emancipation proclamation took place in 1863, but the message that in slaved people were free did not get all the way to Texas until 1865, which is the date that's normally used to identify when slavery ended.

So this is a celebration that highlights that emancipation.

>> We'll have an event in Tempe.

>> This was an ask from the Arizona historical society and, in general, we wanted to make we were documenting all black lives and that we were a part of this event and having it held at the Arizona historical society is a part of that and we're happy to partner with the Arizona historical society.

>> Juneteenth, toss about talk about that.

>> This is the purpose of the Juneteenth celebration moving forward is that we are telling those stories and having folks know black people have lived in Arizona for a long time and that, you know, the stories of migrations of families, we tell the story his are which is very important.

>> We all come from somewhere and this has to be fascinating and how long has your group been around?

>> Our groupPeople were interested in researching, but you have to know how.

For African-Americans, particularly, when you get below that 1870 census or prior to, if your family members were enslaved, they aren't in the census.

They are in property records and that whole intricacy has to be understood as you're researching.

And so if you have ancestors who were free people or free people of color as the term was used, they're in the census and if they were enslaved, they have to look in the property records of others, of plantation owners.

So that can be hard, but it is the reality if you're looking for your family.

>> Those archives are out there and is there a way to find more over time or a tough slog?

>> It depends.

Here in Arizona, we're working towards trying to have those particular records available, but it's going to take time and effort.

Around the country, there are a lot of different places who are doing this work and doing it well, especially very centered African-American collections at Emory -- at here in Arizona, we're trying to get to that.

>> Genealogy attracts older folks.

>> It's true because when you're older, you may have time.

When you're in your 20s and 30s, you're getting your undergraduate degree and that kind of thing, but what we found during the pandemic was that everyone was accessing their computer.

It's something that doesn't cost anyone anything to research K you don't.

>> Again, just basically recording people.

Just getting their words down, whether electronically or otherwise.

>> It's very important and as I was saying earlier, that just take your Smart Phone, get one of those little inexpensive tripods and visiting family members, have your elders sit down and ask them a few questions and let them talk and that's what you can't get back when they're gone.

>> Odds they will talk, too.

>> They will.

June 19th, what's on tap.

>> We have educational tables.

We have great entertainment.

We have some keynote speakers, who will be at this event and looking to have -- if you want to drop in, that would be great and awesome barbecue that will be there, as well.

It's going to be -- it's from 2:30 to 5:30 at the Arizona heritage center at 1300 north college avenue in Tempe and indoors and so if you would like to come, it will be indoors and a lot of people there and to celebrate Juneteeth and hopefully be an annual event moving forward.

>> The society is north of curry, correct in.

>> Correct?

>> Where can people get more people.

>> BFGHS.org is our website and there's plenty of information there.

>> Very good and just as simple as that.

>> Just as simple as that.

>> Thank you for joining us and we appreciate your time.

>> Thank you.

[ ♪♪♪ ] >> ASU is offering summer camps for kids ranging from engineering from forensic science and here to tell us more is theis Vanessa.

>> We put these on every year and this is one of the great things we offer at access ASU our outreach and a part of the outreach and student services.

So we focus on the students before they make it officially to ASU and K through 12.

This has been an incredible opportunities for students and families to engage with ASU well before they become official studentses and in a variety of different ways.

>> This doesn't sound like baby-sitting, forensic science, huh?

>> That's correct.

We have all different kinds of topics and cybersecurity, stem and leadership institutes and specialized programs, for example, leadership institute, the rise leadership institute and really, you name it, indigenous and native American focus programs, as well.

We have a great spectrum of programs that are tailor-made.

>> Who is doing the instruction?

>> E have facultyFaculty members, trained individuals, keynote speakers, specialists and experts and I will tell you, Ted, as you well know, the past two years have been challenging for many students and families and in Arizona, no exception and the last few years, they were fully online.

And this is the full time we're back in 2022 and it's fully immersive and they're on campus, all across ASU's four campuses and housing, meals, programming and runs the gamut from academics, et cetera.

>> I noticed they were daily classes and others were that studentses canstudents can city on campus.

>> They are with us 24 hours and three days, four days, five days and one that is two weeks long and that serves our population of youth who are in foster care system and truly special and unique to see the kinds of students who come to our doors and what they take away.

>> What do they take away other than being prepared for college?

>> College readiness and preparedness.

That's the theme and we want to make we're drilling into them.

That if you want to go to college and if that's a goal and barriers or challenges to getting to college, that's where we come in and provide those support systems and resources to get you there.

But soft-skill development, community, friendship, network and they get to be taught by ASU faculty members and not too many eighth and ninth graders have those opportunitieses and a opportunities and a way for us to welcome them.

They see themselves on campus and visualize in the future that I can do that and come here.

>> The past couple of years, Covid, as you mentioned, but how long has this been going on?

>> Our summer programs have been going on now for over ten years.

>> Now thereUs alone, there are 15.

>> Where can parents find out more.

>> Summer programs, you can debt all of the information, but you have to invite us back.

In the spring of 2023, when applications are open, most are fully paid for and there are a lot of scholarship opportunities and if the student qualifies, it's paid for.

>> It costs $155 a week and for a lot of kids, don't worry about that, huh?

>> We've kicked it off and through midJuly and the excitement, not just in the student but in the families, as well, two summers, couped up and watching TV or staring at the computer, they're excited to be on campus and we're excited to have them.

>> Did I see swim classes are available in.

>> I may?

>> I may have to check on that one.

>> That sounds like a summer camp.

I'm glad things are back up.

>> And that is it for now and I'm Ted Simons and thank you for joining us and you have a grade evening.

a great evening.

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