AMNA NAWAZ: Good evening.

I'm Amna Naw GEOFF BENNET On the "News Trump in New Hampshire, where Republicans are deciding which candidate should be their party's presidential nominee.

AMNA NAWAZ: The war in Gaza a brutal ground offensive grinds on with civilians caught in the crossfire.

We speak to the United Nations' top human rights official.

MARTIN GRIFFITHS, U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator: The for civilians about what's going to happen to them next.

GEOFF BENNETT: And the parents of a mass shooter face a manslaughte can be held accountable for their actions and inactions.

(BREAK) GEOFF BENNETT: Welcome to the "NewsHour."

Voting in the New Hampshire primary is in its final hours tonight.

AMNA NAWAZ: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will secure them virtual holds for their respective parties' 2024 nominations and foreshadow a 2020 rematch this November.

Lisa Desjardins is in Concord, New Hampshire' of Trump's sole remaining challenger.

That is former U.S.

Ambassador and South So, Lisa, tell us about the turnout so far.

What's it looking like?

And what does LISA DESJARDINS: You know, a re cord turnout for Republicans.

So far, what we ha He adjusted his estimate today to say he thinks it will still be strong.

What does this mean?

It depends o Heavy Democratic turnout, Ha ley.

Heavy turnou someone like Dean Phillips.

We have run In the end, all of these campaigns have been scrambling today to get out their voters.

In the Granite State, a decision day that will shape the presidential race.

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley needs to show she can compete with former President Donald Trump, and her message both echoes and rejects him.

NIKKI HALEY (R), Presidential Candidate: I know you love America too, and I know you want a new, generational leader.

MAN: And a vote for Nikki Hale LISA DESJARDINS: For her, an auspic Just after midnight, all six voters i for Haley.

Her strength relies in new leaders.

DAN DALPHONS voted for a Republican for president, for a very long time.

LISA DESJARDINS: Why?

DAN DALPHONS LISA DESJARDINS: Trump too was at the polls today, and, of course, Haley ca DONALD TRUMP, Former President of the United States (R) and Current U.S. Presiden I don't care if she stays in.

Let her do w It doesn't m There's neve country.

LISA DESJARD DYLAN QUATTRUCCI, Donald Trump Su double digits today and inspires Nikki Haley to drop out of t will all unite behind President Trump.

LISA DESJARDINS: That's Trump' with three other former competitors at a rally last night.

DONALD TRUMP: Now is the time for the Republic We have to unify.

LISA DESJARD DONALD TRUMP: Sadly, not everyone is willing to put our country first.

Here in New Hampshire, Nikki Haley has made an unholy alliance with RINOs, never- Americans for no prosperity.

LISA DESJARDINS: At her closing NIKKI HALEY: You have got one who's got the entire political elite all around him.

It's all of Congress.

It's all these legislative people.

He's got the media elite around him.

LISA DESJARDINS: For the Democr explaining how to write in his name.

President Biden is not on the ballot because of a dispute over the da Those writing him in are expressing loyalty.

DAVE PLOURDE, Joe Biden Supporter: President He has gotten no recognition for it whatsoever.

LISA DESJARDINS: For some, it's all symbolic.

DEBBY BUTLER, Joe Biden Supporter: It's probably We 're a tiny little state.

We have four little vo But I think, for democracy and the campaign, I think it'd him a good send-off.

LISA DESJARD Dean Phillips, who rallied scores of people last night in Manchester, and author Marianne Williamson, who has campaigned on higher minimum wage, declaring a climate emergency and tackling poverty.

JUDI LINDSEY she doesn't have the big money So that's the clincher.

But if, today, peo So I think her chances are awesome because her message is awesome.

LISA DESJARDINS: And Williamson has been here, unlike Biden, who today wa on an issue that Democrats hope will be big for them this year, abortion.

JOE BIDEN, President of the United States: I believe Roe v. Wade got it right.

And so do a majority of Americans.

LISA DESJARDINS: But the political spotlight remain New Hampshire and how voters see the current and former presidents.

There are a few ways to look at this unusual primary, but, in the end, for Nikki Haley tonight, the Live Free or Die State is truly a do-or-die for her campaign.

AMNA NAWAZ: So, Lisa, when you talk to the Haley campaign, what do they tell you about what they need and what they expect tonight?

LISA DESJARDINS: You won't be surprised.

Every campaign on Election Day expresses confidence.

They feel like their voters will come out.

That said, their campaign manager did send out a memo that wa In that memo, they were trying to express that they are not going to cede the race tonight.

We will see what decisions she makes, but they were laying out a path through South Carolina, through Super Tuesday, stressing which states, including primaries in which voters of other parties can vote in the Republican primary.

They know that those are the voters that they have.

And I will tell you that her one-on-one is re They want Haley to spend more time one-on-one in other states.

I talked to one voter who was undecided until she met Haley yesterda brought herself and two friends to vote for at the polls in New Hampshire.

GEOFF BENNETT: So, Lisa, we know, by 8:00 p.m. Eastern, all of the polls will close.

When should we expect results?

LISA DESJARDINS: That's righ And this was a conversation our produc office.

That's right Some polls c That's the first time that the Associated Press would actually giv although we don't know exactly when.

But we do expect results to come in relatively office says they should have most results in by 10:00 Eastern tonight.

GEOFF BENNETT: Lisa Desjardins at Haley headquarters in Concord, New Hampshire, for us Lisa, thank you.

To break down political analysts.

That's Amy Walter of The Shakir, who was on the campaign.

He was the campaign manage And Republican strategist Kevin Madden, who advised Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.

Thank you all for being here.

Amy, the Haley campaign is tr AMY WALTER, The Cook Political Report: Right.

GEOFF BENNET AMY WALTER: So the expectations have been weeks.

I mean, the He's up an average of about 14 points in the state.

Now, the polling has been wrong in New Hampshire before.

For those of us who around in 2008, the polls going into that that Barack Obama was going to win by eight to 10 points.

Obviously, he didn't.

Hillary Clin What makes the state so unique is that, yes, indepe And this is what she's counting on, is a surge of voters who maybe they do traditionally -- they're registered as independents, but they traditionally vote for Democrats, and maybe would never think to turn out and vote for a Republican, but they like what Nikki Haley is doing.

But what would that tell us about her future going fo She argues in that campaign memo that Lisa outlined, her campaign argues that t independent voters all over the country.

But these are a very d And, in fact, the group of voters I'm going to be looking at are a describe themselves as somewhat conservative.

They are the voters that really tend to determin And, right now, we don't know where they're going, but they are probably a better predictor than whether or not you can open your primary to folks who identify or register as independent.

AMNA NAWAZ: So, Kevin, pick up where Amy left off there.

If Haley doesn't win tonight, and we know there's been some expectatio Sununu even saying, second place is fine.

But what does she do?

Does she conti I mean, does she just amass delegates in case the Trump campaign doesn't continue a point?

KEVIN MADDEN really has to show It's one thing to say, hey, we feel You can do all the expectation-settings with memos, but, at the end has to demonstrate that they -- that the one-on-one race that they have said that they wanted is now crystallizing the debate for Republican voters, and that those voters are starting to trend towards Nikki Haley into a real race.

So we're going to need to see something within -- if she do in the single digits, because after a double-digit loss in Iowa, you have to show that the line is working in your direction.

Now, whether or not she can yo u will still have the -- like we always say, you don't really run out of reasons to run for president.

You run out AMNA NAWAZ: KEVIN MADDEN think she will continue on.

But, at some point, we really have to to really provide that actual momentum that is going to bring her onto the bigger delegate contests that come in March.

GEOFF BENNETT: And, Faiz, me President Biden, Vice President Harris, and their spouses held their first joint campaign event in Northern Virginia focused on abortion rights, trying to draw attention to what has been a political liability for Republicans ever since Roe was overturned.

What do you make of that strategy?

FAIZ SHAKIR, D alone.

I mean, I th decision.

It's won eve You look at been a propellant of voters turning out for Democrats.

So this is huge.

Now, it also d So it's not only a supermajority issue, winning It's an enthusiasm driver.

And for Joe Biden, we kn This issue does it for him.

When he's at his best, Pres He's a parliamentarian-style president.

He's managing a coalition.

A big part of that coa campaign.

And so I thi him.

GEOFF BENNET on policy and less of a referendum on Joe Biden?

FAIZ SHAKIR: Well, in addition to that.

So, yes, there's multiple thin So, choice is certainly one of And then you have got the democracy Those two, I think, are obvious and clear, essentially on the table An d then the question is, now what do the small sliver people who haven't yet made up their mind or moved back and forth, very small numbers here, what moves them?

And I'm not sure that those two issues are it.

So now I think you have got to mo to speak to people who haven't already made up their mind on Biden and Trump.

AMNA NAWAZ: Amy, bring us back to New Hampshire now as we're going to start to co ming in soon.

And tell us wher We know some of those more densely popu that's where Haley has to do particularly well.

AMY WALTER: That's right.

AMNA NAWAZ: AMY WALTER: And I really just how big the pool of independent voters versus voters who are Republican are.

We have seen polls that have it anywhere from 35 percent to 47 percent.

And, obviously, how well Haley does in those polls is driven in part by how well -- how big the independent voters are there.

And curious to see how people think about Donald Trump.

AMNA NAWAZ: Right.

AMY WALTER: yes, I'd be satisfied with him.

Many of them, most of them though They didn't think that the January 6 and some of the legal challenges against Donald Trump were going to be a problem for him.

So I'm very curious to see just th But the other thing that's happening, as we have been watching for these last couple of days, the walls sort of closing in around Nikki Haley, in that the Trump campaign getti everybody on board.

We saw in Lisa's report the him, now leaders in Congress, including many from swing districts coming out and endorsing Donald Trump.

AMNA NAWAZ: AMY WALTER: This thing's all bit over.

You might as w GEOFF BENNETT: And, Kevin, we What are you going to be watching for as th KEVIN MADDEN: Well, like Amy, I'm going to tend to fall.

I mean, I th our first glimpse into what could potentially el ection, which is a toxic profile with those moderate swing voters.

And even Republican-leaning independents voting for Nikki Haley could signal a greater resistance for voters like that around the country.

And, again, this is going to b It's going to come down to a lo the country.

And if the p where the general election battle -- battlegrounds could be.

AMNA NAWAZ: I can't believe we're talking about (LAUGHTER) (CROSSTALK) KEVIN MADDEN AMNA NAWAZ: as some predicted could be, we have a very lo Does that change the Biden campaign's reelection strategy at all?

FAIZ SHAKIR: I mean, it has to.

I mean, so o spending a ton of it, has not been staffing up in a major way.

And what we know is that there are a few battlegrounds that are g And it's going to have to be heavily organized in those states, because the sliver of voters who haven't yet made up their mind is so small.

And so if you're talking to everyone who is going to kno county by county and find your 500 people who haven't yet made up their mi Biden versus Donald Trump, which I know is hard to believe.

And those are the people.

And you're going to have to wh at are their preferences, what are their attitudes, what are their beliefs.

My sense is, a lot of these are working-class vo under $100,000 a year.

They're living with the cost of living And so you hit them with a sense of, what has Joe Biden done?

What is he trying to do?

Because I th people understand what it is he's been fighting for.

And it can be done, but it needs to be invested in.

GEOFF BENNETT: And, Amy, you could ma while we're doing that... (LAUGHTER) AMY WALTER: GEOFF BENNET general election candidate against Joe Biden than Donald Tr AMY WALTER: Yes, that's been her message throughout.

GEOFF BENNETT: AMY WALTER: strongest candidate that matched up against Biden.

He looks like the strongest one, stronger than Nikki Haley does.

And this idea about needing to win over swing voters, that's not very sexy to primary voters.

We have always talked about in politics one of the hardest cells in a primary is to tell primary voters, I'm the most electable candidate in the fall.

I'm the person that's going to win over people that don't believe e Now, it worked in 2020 for Joe Biden, in part because that election wasn't about Joe Biden, even for Democrats.

It was about Donal That's not what the case is here.

This is still Donald Trump And those voters want to see him get one more shot at it.

AMNA NAWAZ: Amy Walter, Faiz Shakir, Kevin Madden, I know you're all sticking We're going to have a lot more to talk about.

We will see you all back here shortly for It 's right here on PBS or online.

And that is beginning at 11:00 p.m. Eastern.

GEOFF BENNETT: In the day's other headlines: Houthi rebels in Yemen again expressed defiance after another round of Western airstrikes.

The Iranian-backed militants said they will go on attacking ship with Palestinians in Gaza.

The U.S. and Britain retaliated with fight joint strike inside Yemen.

They hit eight sites, but, today, Houthi su MURAD MOHAMMED ALI MUBARAK, Yemen Resident (through translator): The U.S. airstrikes are like a spray of water for a thirsty person.

I swear it will not scare us or turn a hair on our heads In response to the destruction of Gaza and the killing of innocent people, they will see anger, burning fire and flames.

GEOFF BENNETT: Pentagon officials said the strikes ha sites and 20 missiles.

And late today, the U.S. military car backed by Iran.

It followed attacks on America Waves of Russian missiles killed 18 people in Ukraine today and injured more than 130.

It was one of the largest one-day death tolls in weeks.

More than 40 missiles pounded Kharkiv and Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said they hit more than 200 sites, in of residential buildings.

The United Nations repor two years of war.

Negotiators in the U.S. Senate sa aid for Ukraine and changes in U.S. border policy.

Still, there was no timetable for reaching an agreement.

One negotiator, Democrat Chris Murphy, acknowledged reports that Ukrainian to conserve ammunition, giving the Russians an advantage.

SEN. CHRIS MURPHY That is a recipe for Kyiv to be a Russia The whole world is watching and asking a simple question.

Does the United States stand up for its friends?

GEOFF BENNETT: President Biden won $61 billion for Republicans have tied that request to demands for better U.S.-southern border security.

In California, a one-day strike by professors and staff in the state university system is over.

They took to More than 450,000 students on 23 campuses were affected.

Late last night, the two sides announced a deal, including salary hikes and longer parental leave with pay.

The 2024 Academy Awa Christopher Nolan's three-hour feature about the creation of the atomic bomb is now a front-runner for best picture.

It's also nominated for best The year's biggest moneymaker, "Barbie," received eight nominations, but Greta ou t of the best director category.

On Wall Street, corporate profit reports lifted much of The Dow Jones industrial average lost 96 points to close at 37905.

The Nasdaq rose 65 points.

The S&P 500 was up 14.

And award-winning CBS News journalist Charles Osgood died today at his home He anchored the TV network's Sunday morning show for 22 years, and his daily segment, "The Osgood File," ran on radio for more than four decades.

Along the way, he became known as the network's poet in residence, rendering stories in verse.

Charles Osgo Still to come on the "NewsHour": the U.N.'s top in Gaza; how the rise of artificial intelligence is boosting tech stocks; and a Pakistani artist finds success painting his personal experience.

AMNA NAWAZ: Israel's military announced today that nearly two dozen soldiers were killed yesterday fighting in Gaza, the deadliest day for Israel since Hamas' October 7 terrorist attacks.

Israel's gov Caught in between, tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians.

In a moment, Nick Schifrin speaks with the U.N.'s humanitarian chief about conditions in Gaza, but first his report on this deadly day for Israel's defense forces.

NICK SCHIFRIN: A prayer for the dead, a family grappling with grief.

Sergeant 1st Class Hadar Kapeluk was a 23-year-old reservist killed in Gaza yesterday.

Sergeant Major Ilay Levy was from the same unit.

Today, his mother said a final goodbye, and his father delivered a message of determination.

MAN (through translator): Let's show our enemies that we are strong and even in such a difficult situation we do not break.

Please say with me three times, the people of Israe NICK SCHIFRIN: An Israeli officer described how 21 reservists died in the destroyed building behind him.

The 261st Brigade was preparing to demolish the building a Palestinian militant opened fire, said Israeli army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari.

REAR ADM. DANIEL HAGAR hit one of t The hit apparently led to the explosion that caused the collapse of the co llapse of the building next to it.

NICK SCHIFRIN: The fighting is most intense Hamas' video shows a fighter firing from a bedroom window and Hamas fighters shooting from inside blown-out buildings, aiming at Israeli soldiers in buildings across the way.

Israeli military video shows soldiers in close combat and exposing what Israel says is a Hamas tunnel next to Khan Yunis schools.

Today Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed victory.

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, Israeli Prime Minister (through translator): Toge and, God willing, together, we wi NICK SCHIFRIN: In Southern Gaza, victims of the war arrived by donkey cart.

Ahmed Masmah in green bears no relation to the victims.

He was, instead, the bearer of bodies he found near his home.

He brought them here to try and give dignity to the dead.

AHMED MASMAH, Displaced Palestinian (through translator): Seein No matter how hard it was, we would have brought us wanting to target us.

NICK SCHIFRIN: Others are farther south into less and less land.

AHMAD SHURRAB, Displaced Palestinian (through transl This is the 17th time I have left my home.

Where should I go?

NICK SCHIFRIN: The U.N. displaced.

To discuss t the world, we turn to Martin Griffiths, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator.

Martin Griffiths, thanks very much.

Welcome back to the "NewsHour."

Let's start in Gaza.

The WFP said today that very and that there is still a risk of famine.

How serious is that risk?

MARTIN GRIFF Coordinator: And what's quite in Gaza if you compare it to other parts of the world.

We estimate maybe 400,000 people are seriously at risk of f Moving aid around in Gaza is, in all practical terms, impossible.

Getting food to these people since up October the 7th has been very, very difficult.

It's a very, very rapid decline and it's very worrying.

NICK SCHIFRIN: Today, the Israeli government spokesman Ey -- "no limitations on humanitarian aid," and he added this: EYLON LEVY, Israeli Government Spokesman: It is lamentable that U.N. official also been covering up for the fact that Hamas hijacks aid it wages war out of hospitals are trying to cover up their own systemic failure by demanding the opening of new entry routes, when there is already adequate and excess capacity at the existing ones.

NICK SCHIFRIN: W MARTIN GRIFFITHS: I think it's ex I think it's wrong to suggest that we don't need more entry points.

But, most importantly, if the conditions inside Gaza, the operational conditions, don't exist for the distribution of aid, don't blame us for that.

They result from the conflict.

And they include safety of movement.

They include roads which are not mined.

They include assurances that places that we will deliver aid to won't be Th ey include hospitals that are not places of war.

They include not taking out of our trucks when they're being screened on the way in.

So I don't think it's right to blame humanitarian agencies for what is a very, very, very difficult operation.

NICK SCHIFRI Hamas operates near hospitals and has fired rock The U.S. and Israel accuses Hamas of using hospitals as command-and-control.

And, in Southern Gaza, just in the last few days, we have seen Israeli forces surrounding at least two hospitals.

What are your concerns for the who use the hospitals as a refuge place?

MARTIN GRIFFITHS: The hospitals are protected unde not ever be used by military forces from wherever they come from whichever party, Hamas included, as places of refuge or operation, of operational basis.

So to have a situation where the few hospitals that still continue to exist, where the patients find themselves in the middle of a war zone, where entry into an exit out of is through fighting, is, of course, a terrible, terrible thing to see and a terrible stain on our humanity.

And if that is because Hamas is sheltering there, then they should not do so.

The central aspect of the tragedy of Gaza, in my view, is the total uncertainty for civilians about what's going to happen to them next.

Where will they be?

Where can they fin Will there be safety?

Where can that be fo And the hospital example, and uncertainty about the future.

NICK SCHIFRIN: I want to shift to Yemen, where nine years I used to talk about as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

Over the last few months, Houthi rebels have launched more than 30 attacks sh ips, both commercial and warships.

And in the last 10 or so days, the U.S., U.K. and an international con eight strikes on Houthis in Yemen.

Do you fear the violence could derail the progress that has been made se ttlement between the Houthis and, on the other side, the Saudi-backed international coalition that you were right in the middle of for many years?

MARTIN GRIFFITHS: I am totally, totally concerned about that, yes, Nick.

The people of Yemen have waited long enough and have glimpsed in the recent weeks the possibility of a cease-fire and an end to this tragic, unnecessary and brutal war.

And suddenly to find it at huge risk and possibly taken away is just too, too depressing.

I think it would be very difficult for the Saudis and their allies to continue to ignore Houthi aggression into the Red Sea.

At the moment, it's still kind of more or less not being allowed to get out of hand, if I could put it that way.

But I don't see that lasting.

The Saudis got to the point with t some detail with some associated advantages for the people of Yemen.

It was close to moving on to the next phase.

Suddenly, to see that snatched away, that's just so unjust.

NICK SCHIFRIN: You recently released the humanitarian appeal for Ukraine, where some 40 percent of the population needs aid.

That's 14.6 million people.

And you're asking for $3.1 billion.

Are you getting what you need for the people of Ukraine?

MARTIN GRIFFITHS: Well, we're not getting what w as it were, even in Ukraine.

What was depressing about launching that plan the other day was simply we're so close to entering the third year of that war, what the secretary-general of the United Nations clearly decided to label a war, and it is a war, against the people of Ukraine.

Now, I think Ukr And the fact of the matter is that Gaza, it had moved Ukraine out of the ce story.

Ukraine and And do you remember there was a place called Afghanistan we used to talk about that hasn't got resolved yet?

NICK SCHIFRI You used the phrase a year as depres How depressing, from your perspective?

MARTIN GRIFFITHS: I cannot reme particularly, a world where leaders often choose war first as an instrument to resolve differences.

We have spent the la rules of diplomacy, efforts to keep the peace, efforts to emphasize the need for negotiation first.

And, in this l And that's why I think we call this the age of wars, because it really is, war is the first instrument for many people.

And it's a savage one, because of people who suffer, as w the piece, of the civilians who have had nothing to do with those decisions.

NICK SCHIFRIN: Martin Griffiths, the undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, thank you very much.

MARTIN GRIFFITHS: Thank you so Th anks for having me on.

AMNA NAWAZ: A trial started in Michigan today seeking to answer a difficult question: Can parents be held responsible when their child commits a mass shooting?

In this particular case, the teenage shooter has already been convicted.

But, as William Brangham reports, officials are also seeking to prosecute hi in a case that could break new legal ground.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: On November 30, 2021, tragedy came to snowy Ox A student opened fire, killing four students, injuring seven others.

The gunman, then 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley, received a life sentence last year.

But now his parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, face their own charges of involuntary manslaughter.

It is a first-of-its-kind effort to hold parents criminally responsible for a school shooting done by their child.

WOMAN: This WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Prosecutors say the Crumbleys new Ethan was troubled, but acted negligently.

James Crumbley bought for his son the gun he used to kill his classmates.

Concerns flagged by the school went unheeded.

The day before the shooting, on November 29, Oxford High info her son was looking up ammunition on his phone.

She texted him: "LOL.

I'm not mad.

You have to le Hours before the shooting began, teachers discovered thi covered with violent warning signs.

Below a drawing of a gun, he wrote: "The thoughts won't stop.

Help me" and "Blood everywhere" and a drawing of a bullet.

When a teacher saw the sheet, he scratched much of it out, including what appears to be a shooting victim dripping with blood.

Ethan's parents were called into school that morning, b him home and made no mention of any gun.

Shortly after they left, their son began his rampage.

When news of the shooting got out in the community, Jennifer Crumbley texted her son, writing "Ethan, don't do it."

But it was too late.

Karen McDonald is the Oakland county prosecutor.

KAREN MCDONALD, Oakland County, Michigan, read those words and also know that their son had access to a deadly weapon that gave him is unconscionable, and I think it's criminal.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: The defense claims the Crumbley had no way of knowing how really was.

Both have pleaded not guilty.

For more on this case and its broader implications, I'm joined He's the Thomas M. Cooley professor of law at the University of Michigan.

Professor Yankah, thank you so much for being back on the "NewsHour."

I mean, as a scholar of the law, what do you make of this case?

I mean, it is not that common that we hold other people responsible for another.

EKOW YANKAH, In fact, one of th fields is that, even under some really awful facts, when other people take action, that, as we say, severs the causal chain.

It makes it not your action.

It's a classic example in first-year law school they threaten to kill themselves, and you give them the gun, you encourage them to kill themselves, and they do, you're not responsible.

So, even under odious circumstances, you're typically no That being said, one of the things we do to our law students is push them on how far these examples can go.

How terrible do I have to make Ho w odious do I have to make it?

How close to the edge before you finally say And the truth is, if I was coming up with an exam question, I couldn't come up with facts that were more upsetting, more cutting, and seemingly more disturbing than the ones we have in this case.

WILLIAM BRAN challenges facing the prosecution trying to prosecute this case?

EKOW YANKAH: So, I think there are two challenges.

The one we already spoke about is just And that's something that is deep in our legal culture.

That is, human beings are responsible for their own actions.

And so the prosecution here is going to be going up against what every judge, what every other lawyer has learned, what every defense lawyer has learned, and what they're going to be conveying to the jury as our bedrock principle.

But setting aside the legal machinations, there's also just what the law reflects, the kind of moral intuition that we aren't responsible when other people do bad things.

And that's going to be true even when these facts are heartbreaking, because you're going to have people thinking about, of course, I'm doing my best to be a great parent.

Of course, I'm trying to bring my child up to be successful and flourishing.

But what if you have a child who's difficult, problematic, has shoplifted, gets i at school?

I think, qui of people out there who just think, when, 13, 16, 17, 18, when will it be the case I can't be held responsible, no matter the best I do for my child, for their abhorrent behavior?

WILLIAM BRAN for you not to secure a gun and a minor gets access to that, doesn't that imply sort of de facto that what these parents did at the time wasn't against the law?

EKOW YANKAH: Well, you're certainly right that, in the wake of the of highly visible events, we often pass laws.

And that is by some people going to be taken But, of course, sometimes we pass laws to make our legal responsibilities more clear or to help fill a lacuna.

And to be perfectly honest, criminal law to things that are already illegal.

So, for example, I remember wh It was, frankly, an opportunity for public officials to say we're doing something about it.

But nobody r So, of course, they will make the argument that this wasn't illegal when it happened, but the prosecutor's going to argue that this was criminally negligent, even under th of statues they had before this specific law was passed.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: I mean, this prosecutor has made it very clear that she th is will spur other gun owners basically to do a better job of securing their firearms.

And I'm just curious if you think that, if this prosecution is successful, that this will spur other prosecutors in other states maybe elsewhere in the country to take on similar cases.

EKOW YANKAH: Loo And I certainly think it's the case, as you said, th deep legal intuition that you're never going to be responsible for somebody else's acts, a successful prosecution in a highly visible and painful case of a school shooting is going to rocket across the country.

It's not an accident that it'll An d that will give prosecutors one more tool in their arsenal.

Because of the nature of precedent, and because any time you do something unprecedented, legal actors are going to take notice, I think there's no question that prosecutors are going to use this as a tool.

Sadly, we should also admit th and all too repetitive.

And so the fact that there's a successful prosecution in t a successful prosecution in this case, there will almost certainly be another.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: All right, Ekow Yankah, professor of law at the th ank you so much for being here.

EKOW YANKAH: Thank you for having me.

GEOFF BENNETT: Rallies have driven both the Dow Jones industrial average and the much larger S&P 500 to record highs this week.

There are several reasons for that, including investors' assessments of the no w and where it will be in the months ahead.

We're going to break this all down now with wh o's been watching all of this carefully.

David, it's great to have you So how much is the market rally connec going to cut rates pretty soon?

DAVID GURA, NPR Busi And we got this indication last year from the Federal Reserve that they to make cuts in 2023.

There's been some recalibration IN recen the Fed is going to actually do that, lower those rates.

But they're looking around, investors are looking around and seeing a indicators that are looking pretty strong.

And they have this belief that the Fede at the beginning of last year, the year before, are going to be able to engineer this soft landing, that they're going to get high inflation under control without triggering a recession.

And that's c Now, I should say the gains haven't be They certainly weren't last year, which ended I think a lot of people expected, in light of what I was just talking about, that being this fear that we could hit a recession.

So we haven't had broad-based gains, b Wall Street expected at the beginning of last year.

GEOFF BENNETT: And there's als How has the promise of A.I.

reordered the markets and really fueled the returns These are the high-performing tech companies whose stocks typically do really well.

DAVID GURA: Yes, Geoff, this was a huge turning point last year.

So you mentioned the Magnificent Seven.

This is a name that was coin Bank of America.

He allowed t Wallach, which is why he named them.

But the seven stocks are Alphabet, Amazon, An d as you say, these are tech companies, most of which are tied to A.I.

or interested in A.I.

or doing work on A.I.

I guess Tesla is kind Nvidia, at the other extreme, this is a compan are used in the supercomputers that are powering the technology that allows companies to use A.I.

So they have Last year, the S&P 500 was up 24 percent.

Those seven stocks, they rose by more than 100 percent last year.

So they have been carrying a lot of the weight here.

And there are a number of reasons for that.

A.I.

is part of it.

Another just our lives, that we use every day, that they would have staying power if to be some sort of economic downturn.

And, finally, they have a lot We 're at a point where interest rates are higher than th A lot of companies, if they want to expand, have to borrow money.

They'd have to borrow money at a higher interest rate.

These are seven companies that wouldn't have to on hand, Geoff.

GEOFF BENNET J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who says, look, there are all sorts of financial and geopolitical risks on the horizon.

Here's what he said JAMIE DIMON, Chairman, J.P. hu nky-dory.

And when sto Like, it's just great.

But, remember, we have So I'm a little more on the question side, that we are facing a lot of or '25.

And we mentioned Ukraine, the te which I still question if we understand exactly how that works.

I don't think we do.

GEOFF BENNET Why isn't the market apparen the shipping challenges that result from it and all of the knock-on effects to the stock market and the economy, potentially?

DAVID GURA: It And I think that these are all things that are worrying I think they're kind of inured to the fact that of tumult and crises in recent months.

But Jamie Dimon stands out as the head of the la who is more frank and forthright about the prospect of these risks than I think a lot of executives are.

You heard hi These are topics that he returns to time and time again, because he is sort at history with a really broad breath and fearing that this could have not just on the economy, but on sort of the geopolitical system in the world as well.

So he's raising alarm about this.

I think a lot of people listen Bu t so far, we have seen markets kind of shrug that off.

You look at what's happening in the Red Sea.

We have seen shipping companies pull their sh 10-day journey around Africa to avoid that conflict there.

We're beginning to see effects of this tumult.

And I think it's something that, of course, Wall S here in the days and weeks to come.

GEOFF BENNETT: And we shou The stock market is no But you could argue that, because of really intertwined with what happens on Main Street.

Do you see it that way?

DAVID GURA: right.

What we're s is doing pretty well, again, better than I think a lot of people expected it So you look at the data points that we have gotten recently, look at retail sale Those came in stronger than expected.

We're going to get s inflation.

We have seen What we're seeing is the market really embrace each of It's kind of confirming this sentiment, this sense that the economy is doing well.

And as we saw in a big survey of consumer sentiment last week, a lot of people, yes, investors, but consumers, the rest of us as well, are feeling more confident in the direction of the U.S. economy.

GEOFF BENNET David, always great Thanks for being with us DAVID GURA: Geoff, thanks.

AMNA NAWAZ: Pakistani born artist Salman Toor saw his career take off, ever since he made a sudden shift to painting what he's lived, felt, and sometimes even feared.

He gave special correspondent Jared Bowen of GBH Boston a tour of his ongoing exhibit.

It's for our arts and culture series, Canvas.

JARED BOWEN: The paintings of Salman Toor are ab out on the town, and of family.

But, in these works, often envelopes in emerald he re, some danger there and in pieces like Back Lawn, there's a labyrinth of layers.

SALMAN TOOR, Artist: There are many novels and movies about houses like this.

And I wanted to kind of take the story of the family as the background of anot which was going to be in the foreground of, which doesn't usually get told.

JARED BOWEN: Front and center here, steps away from what could be a li ke his own, two men are entwined under a tent.

SALMAN TOOR: Instead of being like a moment of fear and hiding, it's more like eve else is in the background, really, and this is actually the real story.

JARED BOWEN: Call it No Ordinary Love, the title of this show exhibiting Toor's m recent work at Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum outside Boston.

SALMAN TOOR: Maybe about three or four years ago, I decided to make semi-autobiographical paintings that were about being more out as a gay man through my paintings than I was before.

JARED BOWEN: work, when Toor labored over paintings inspired by 17th and 18th century masters.

Coming out artistically meant coming into his own and launching into these largely nocturnal notions of queer life.

GANNIT ANKORI, Rose Art beautiful, also painful, but very tender.

JARED BOWEN: Gannit Ankori is the museum's director and has been watching Toor's rise in the art world,especially since his first solo exhibition at New York's Whitney Museum in 2020.

GANNIT ANKOR man living between his homeland and diaspora and creating a community and visualizing that community on his own terms.

JARED BOWEN: One that mostly unfolds a world away from Pakistan, where homosexu punished by law, but where Toor found safety and camaraderie among queer friends in his high school art room.

SALMAN TOOR: We We were all out to e And in an environment that was pretty h a very magical space.

JARED BOWEN: That magic bars, in cars, and hanging at home, their joy swelling in a series he has titled Fag Puddles reappropriating a hate-filled word into something: SALMAN TOOR: Like a fabulous heap of, like, exhaustion.

And to me, it's fun to kind of fill it, that hate with objects that are fun to paint for me.

I am thinkin a disco ball or something.

JARED BOWEN: Hate and danger It 's a residue of the fear he felt as a queer man in Pakistan and a reflec violence escalating here in the U.S.

But rendering it on the canvas, Toor SALMAN TOOR: It's a way to seize control back and to be able to be the master of t JARED BOWEN: Which is why we also find a lot of comedic relief in his paintings, figures with Pinocchio-like noses, cartoonish hair and rubbery limbs.

SALMAN TOOR: I do have a sense of humor as a person.

I'm not -- I don't take myself that seriously.

And I do take my work seriously.

So it's important to me that the works about any kind of pain or suffering bo gged down in any kind of one-dimensional pity or sanctimoniousness of any kind.

JARED BOWEN: Pain is often drowned out in this show by love.

If Toor's paintings are a novel, there is a meaningful chapter on family.

In this work titled The Women, we see a boy lingering around the warm, gossipy exchanges of his mother and aunts.

Toor still owns it and won't let it go, SALMAN TOOR: It's someone kind of looking at themselves maybe in a deeper way in the mirror at that moment than they do usually.

And it's a moment, I feel like, in which someone finds themselv JARED BOWEN: It's also a portrait of the artist as a young man on the verge of launching into a world all his own.

For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Jared Bowen in Waltham, Massach AMNA NAWAZ: And join us later tonight for more live coverage of the New Hampshire primary results.

That's begin And that is the "NewsHour" for tonight.

I'm Amna Nawaz.

GEOFF BENNET We will see