GEOFF BENNETT: Good evening.

I'm Geoff Bennett.

AMNA NAWAZ: And I'm Amna Nawaz in Tel Aviv On the "NewsHour" tonight: Israel conducts raids in Gaza to search for hostages and orders more than a million people to evacuate ahead of a larger potential ground incursion.

ROLANDO GOMEZ, United Nations Spokesperson: The United Nations considers it impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences.

GEOFF BENNETT: House Republicans nominate a new candidate for speaker, but the road to the gavel is still uncertain.

And a Colorado police officer is convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the police killing of an unarmed Black man, while another officer is acquitted.

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

The Israeli military has told more than one million Gaza residents to leave their homes in advance of further airstrikes and an expected ground operation in retaliation for last Saturday's Hamas terror attacks in Israel.

Amna in Tel Aviv tonight -- Amna.

AMNA NAWAZ: Barrages of rockets are still flying from Gaza here into Israel.

And, this evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is striking Hamas with -- quote -- "unprecedented might" and that this Israeli campaign was -- quote -- "only the beginning."

The death toll continues to climb, mostly now in Gaza, with more than 3,100 people killed on both sides in seven days of fighting.

Leila Molana-Allen again begins our coverage tonight.

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: In the Northern Gaza Strip, the beginning of a mass exodus, the streets filled with confusion after Israel's military gave residents 24 hours to leave and relocate south.

Hopeless and homeless, Gazans have nowhere to go.

WOMAN (through translator): The Israeli army kicked us out of our homes.

We couldn't find water or food or anything.

Nobody's looking our way or helping us.

We are lost.

WOMAN (through translator): Where do they want to throw us?

In the streets?

There are children and women.

This is collective punishment.

Where are the other nations and the free world?

Why this silence in the face of all this suffering?

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: Families leave by car, others on foot, carrying entire lives with them in a few small bags.

"NewsHour" producer Shams Odeh watched as they left.

SHAMS ODEH: After the announcement of the Israelis is that the Gazan people, the Palestinians, more than one million people must leave Gaza City and go to the south, now, if you look into the streets here in Gaza, some people are leaving, and now it's an empty city.

If you go there, there is people, they cannot find cars even to live in to the south.

There is no transportation that they can use.

Now Gaza streets empty.

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: For nearly a week, Israel has pounded Gaza with airstrikes, reducing its streets to rubble.

What's left, an empty wasteland.

And the Israeli siege has blocked essential supplies from entering the territory.

A United Nations spokesman today warned the consequences from the evacuation could be calamitous.

ROLANDO GOMEZ, United Nations Spokesperson: The United Nations considers it impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences.

The United Nations strongly appeals for any such order to be rescinded.

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: But Israel is preparing for a ground assault of Gaza, in retribution for her masses terror attack and said it conducted raids today targeting militants inside.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the evacuation was necessary.

YOAV GALLANT, Israeli Defense Minister (through translator): We are asking all the civilians in Gaza City to go south of Gaza.

And the reason is that because we don't want to harm them.

We are going to destroy Hamas infrastructures, Hamas headquarters, Hamas military establishment, and take this phenomena out of Gaza.

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: Standing by him, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who reaffirmed unwavering American support.

LLOYD AUSTIN, U.S. Secretary of Defense: The United States will make sure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself.

And Israel has a right to protect its people.

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: Multiple shipments of U.S. military aid have arrived in Israel, with more expected today.

Meantime, Secretary of State Antony Blinken embarked on a tour of Arab countries.

This morning in Jordan, he met with King Abdullah the second and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Later, in Qatar, he spoke with leaders about the hostages taken by Hamas in Saturday's attacks.

President Biden spoke today with families of the American hostages, which he addressed this afternoon.

JOE BIDEN, President of the United States: They're going through agony not knowing what the status of their sons, daughters, husbands, wives, children.

It's gut-wrenching.

I assured them my personal commitment to do everything possible, everything possible to return every missing American to the families.

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: Around the world, Jewish institutions are on high alert, after a former Hamas leader called for a day of rage against Israel.

In Beijing, an Israeli Embassy employee was stabbed in broad daylight.

But across the Muslim world, massive protests, from Turkey, to Iran, and Yemen.

Residents took to the streets in support of Palestinians and to condemn the Israeli state.

But at the very heart of this conflict in Jerusalem, the city expected to see some of the fiercest violence during Friday prayers today, it was almost business as usual.

The young Palestinian men who often clash with security forces here were nowhere to be seen.

Here in Jerusalem's Old City, the authorities have put a ban on young Palestinian men entering the contentious Al-Aqsa compound today.

Many still tried and were turned away.

And clashes have broken out with security forces where one group tried to force their way in; 35-year-old Jerusalem bus driver Taher Gibran, determined to pray at the mosque he attends every Friday, decided to come and try.

TAHER GIBRAN, Israeli Bus Driver: I tried to get in.

And they asked me for my I.D.

He say he sees I'm from here, and he says: "You can't get in."

I ask him why.

He said, "I said nicely, you can't get in.

One more time, I will take you next to the law."

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: He says, since Saturday's horrific Hamas attacks, suspicion is on the rise in the city.

TAHER GIBRAN: It was scary, the tension, so much tension.

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: The Al-Aqsa compound, one of the holiest sites in Islam and set amid some of the holiest Jewish sites, has been a flash point for conflict in recent years, and retaliation for the Israel Defense Forces' repeated violent incursions into the site while Muslim worshipers pray is one of the stated goals of Hamas.

There were altercations, and tear gas was fired by Israeli security forces today as worshipers left the mosque.

But with only very young and elderly men inside, the expected clashes were avoided.

But just outside, in the Arab Wadi Joz neighborhood, clashes did break out, as some young men refused to accept the ban.

Jerusalem police shut off the neighborhood, firing tear gas and foul-smelling skunk water into residential streets as those residents watched on, unable to get home.

A few hours later, calm was restored.

But on the winding roads into the occupied West Bank, the fires of rage have been burning since morning.

Major reinforcements to IDF checkpoints were brought in, with security forces on high alert and Palestinian towns and villages locked down, with no way in or out.

By mid-afternoon, that rage had exploded.

Protests have broken out in Palestinian towns across the West Bank today.

We're in front of the city of Ramallah.

We can hear behind us tear gas going off, smell the smoke in the air.

We can hear sirens, people screaming.

Inside, people are protesting.

And this is where the Israeli Defense Forces have set up a barricade to stop Palestinians leaving the town.

As we drive back to Jerusalem, smoke rises from almost every Palestinian town and village, tensions erupting behind locked doors.

Later in the day, the violence follows us.

Two teenage boys were killed in clashes with security forces this evening in the East Jerusalem village of Issawiya.

Across this harrowed country, as rockets fall and guns fire, the drums of all-out war sound closer by the minute.

AMNA NAWAZ: And Leila joins me once again here in Tel Aviv.

Leila, good to see you.

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: Hi, Amna.

AMNA NAWAZ: Let's start with what you didn't see in your reporting today.

Many people here were bracing for much higher levels of violence than we saw here today.

What did you hear from people you talked to about why we didn't see that violence here?

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: Well, we were in Jerusalem, where everyone expected the flash point of that violence to be around the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

And what happened was that the security forces just imposed a ban on any men between 18 and 40.

Some people even over 40 were banned from coming out.

And we saw that.

And that worked.

There was a small group who tried to rush security forces, and they were pushed back.

But other than that, people did back away.

And that meant there wasn't very much violence.

It's a sign that reflects on what I have been saying all week, which is that people are really scared in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

They have seen what's happening in Gaza.

They don't want that to happen to them.

And it feeds into Israel's campaign, because, if they can separate Palestinians in Gaza and in Jerusalem and the West Bank from each other, then that helps them hugely, because they're fighting on two different groups of people, and they can perhaps convince people in the West Bank to remain calm.

We will see how that goes, because, of course, later in the day, we did start to see more violence, people getting very angry as they were locked in those towns and villages.

And this evening, we have had a lot of violence.

You saw in the package there two young boys.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has just confirmed with me, so far, 14 Palestinians have died today and 300 injured in those clashes.

AMNA NAWAZ: It's not a peaceful day, by any stretch.

In the meantime, we also saw news today of Israeli officials ordering the evacuation of over a million people in Gaza, we assume ahead of some kind of potential ground incursion.

How do a million people move?

What's the latest on this issue?

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: They try, but they don't, and certainly not in that amount of time.

And the IDF did themselves acknowledge that.

They said later, we understand this takes time.

We didn't mean it had to be done within 24 hours.

We're just trying to give a warning.

And, of course, firstly, they're trying to protect themselves and say, we are trying to get civilians out.

But the other thing that is a potential interesting possibility is, the solution here possibly is Egypt.

There is this crossing where you could come out of Gaza into Egypt.

Now, it has been bombed, but they could facilitate an evacuation through there.

It's two million people.

The population of Egypt is about 110 million.

They could take these people.

Politically, they don't want to.

They don't want to take on the Palestinian cause right now.

But if Israel is able to push down two million civilians onto that border, it would be incredibly difficult for Egypt refused to take any of them, if they are running from war, there are wounded women and children desperate on this border.

So that's possibly a strategic calculation for the Israelis as well, that they're trying to create a flash point that Egypt cannot say no to and that receives a huge amount of international pressure.

In the meantime, absolutely horrific scenes, roads bombed everywhere.

How will people drive down them?

They don't have fuel because of the siege that's happening.

Nothing can go in or out.

The hospitals already can't cope.

The electricity is out across Gaza.

They don't have generators to run their equipment.

They're dealing with so many wounded people.

If they have to evacuate the hospitals from half of the country -- from half the Gaza Strip, and everyone has to go to the other area, that hospital is already overwhelmed, can't take any more.

I have been getting desperate calls and messages from people all day: What do we do?

My children, how can I get them out?

How can we get there?

Can anyone take us?

Messages rocketing around everybody, just trying to find a way to evacuate, and they haven't got the support inside.

AMNA NAWAZ: Leila Molana-Allen reporting again tonight, joining us here in Tel Aviv.

Leila, thank you so much -- Geoff, back to you.

GEOFF BENNETT: Amna, thank you.

As we saw in Leila's report, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a quick day trip to Israel today from NATO meetings in Brussels, the second U.S.

Cabinet official in as many days to visit.

Our Nick Schifrin traveled on this whirlwind journey today with Austin and spoke with Israeli officials too.

He's back in Brussels tonight.

So, Nick, what did Secretary Austin want to convey in person with his trip to Israel?

NICK SCHIFRIN: He certainly wanted to show U.S. support to Israel, as you said, one day after Blinken did the same.

And he got an operational update on what appears to be the imminent ground invasion by Israel into Gaza.

And you can only get that in person.

We got down into the basement of the Ministry of Defense, where he received that update.

He certainly pledged his support, Geoff, but he also voiced a note of caution that was first made by President Biden.

And he said that Israel, unlike Hamas, needed to consider Gaza casual -- Gaza civilians.

LLOYD AUSTIN, U.S. Secretary of Defense: And the president also underscored that democracies like ours are stronger and more secure when we uphold the laws of war.

Terrorists like Hamas deliberately target civilians, but democracies don't.

This is a time for resolve, and not revenge, for purpose, and not panic, and for security, and not surrender.

NICK SCHIFRIN: Resolve, not revenge, a clear message to Israelis, who, when they speak to us, are using that exact word, desiring their Israeli government to -- in order to achieve that word in Gaza over the coming days.

Austin also brought up his time as the commander of the counter-ISIS mission in Iraq and Syria.

And he pointed out that, despite heavy fighting, despite ISIS fighters embedding into the civilian population, his troops were able to create humanitarian corridors for civilians.

And that is exactly what the U.S. wants to see Israel do, Geoff, in Gaza.

GEOFF BENNETT: As we mentioned, Nick, I know you spoke with Israeli officials during the course of your reporting today.

What did they tell you?

NICK SCHIFRIN: The primary thing they told us is how grateful they were for Austin's visit, for President Biden's full-throated support of Israel, and for the largest U.S. aircraft carrier in the world, the USS Ford, which is parked off of Israel right now.

They see that as an incredibly important and effective deterrent against Lebanese Hezbollah, against Iran, helping Israel avoid having to fight on two separate fronts.

The senior official told me that the common ground invasion of Gaza would not be the same as previous ground invasions.

He said -- quote -- "This is going to be something different, something out of the box," but of course, he would give no details.

But in 2014, I was reporting inside Gaza and saw how Israel really struggled to achieve its goals in what was a limited incursion back then, and the incursion expected in the coming days is going to have much greater goals than what they have done in the past, of course.

As for that evacuation order, the senior official said there was no 24-hour deadline, as the U.N. reported, but he was dismissive of any humanitarian concerns that Leila was reporting on in relation to that movement of 1.1 million Gazans to the south.

He said -- quote -- "That's Hamas' problem.

We're at war."

GEOFF BENNETT: And, Nick, you also visited a military base in Southern Israel where the U.S. is right now flying in weapons.

What did you see there?

NICK SCHIFRIN: Yes, this is the Nevatim Air Base that Secretary Austin visited a few hours ago.

It's about 40 miles east of Gaza in Israel's southern desert.

Austin walked with the deputy minister of defense.

He met with U.S. troops, and he saw the second aircraft of U.S. weapons that have arrived in Israel.

That aircraft arrived earlier today.

In total, the U.S. is sending a series of weapons, most notably, Iron Dome munitions, expecting those Hamas rockets to continue, small-diameter bombs, which are bombs designed to be more precise, and therefore cause fewer civilian casualties, what are known as the Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAM, kits.

Those turn older dumb bombs, so to speak, into precision-guided munitions, and -- quote - - "critical ammunition" that Israeli soldiers use.

That senior Israeli official actually told me that most of that weapons systems that are arriving are for in case a second front is opened.

And that is really the U.S. and Israeli focus right now, to try and prevent that second front from opening and trying to contain the conflict to Israel and Hamas, because U.S. officials describe a kind of nightmare scenario, not only Israel fighting on multiple fronts, but violence spilling into other countries across the region.

And that would threaten us goals, normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia and keeping the region calm.

At this point, Geoff, U.S. officials are just trying to make sure the fire doesn't spread.

GEOFF BENNETT: Nick Schifrin reporting for us tonight from Brussels.

Nick, thank you.

In the day's other headlines: Health care unions reached a tentative agreement with medical giant Kaiser Permanente after a strike over wages and staffing.

Last week, 75,000 workers walked out for three days across multiple states.

A coalition of unions had warned that a weeklong strike might be coming in early November.

Nearly 13 million Americans use Kaiser's hospitals and clinics.

The ongoing auto industry strike will head into a new phase.

That's the message today from the United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain.

He says the union will start expanding the strike to new factories on short notice, instead of every Friday.

In a video appearance today, Fain said the companies have been waiting until Fridays to make any moves in contract talks.

SHAWN FAIN, President, United Auto Workers: They thought they had figured out the so-called rules of the game.

So we changed the rules.

And now there's only one rule: Pony up.

We're at a point in this process where we are looking for one thing only, a deal, a tentative agreement.

GEOFF BENNETT: The strike started a month ago at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis plants.

So far, nearly 34,000 workers have walked off the job.

The United States charged today that there's evidence of North Korea supplying Russia with weapons for its war in Ukraine.

The White House released images that purportedly show containers of equipment and munitions loaded onto a Russian-flagged ship last month.

A spokesman said more than 1,000 containers have been delivered.

Today marks the final day of campaigning in Australia on changing the Constitution to create an indigenous committee that would advise the government.

Both sides held rallies and made their final case before tomorrow's referendum.

If approved, it would be the first time the country's Constitution will be amended since 1977.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, Australian Prime Minister: Kindness costs nothing.

Thinking of others cost nothing.

This is a time when Australians have that opportunity to show the generosity of spirit that I see in the Australian character, where, at the worst of times, we always see the best of the Australian character.

PETER DUTTON, Australian Opposition Leader: I hope it's a no-vote on the weekend, because it hasn't been properly explained.

It's divisive.

It's permanent once it goes into the Constitution.

And I just don't think in the millions Australians are going to support it, in fact, quite the opposite.

And I think they're angry because the detail hasn't been provided.

GEOFF BENNETT: Indigenous Australians comprise just under 4 percent of the country's population.

Pre-election polls suggest the amendment will be rejected.

Microsoft has finally closed its deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard for $69 billion.

Today's announcement follows nearly 22 months of regulatory review in the U.S. and Europe over concerns the deal would hurt competition.

Activision makes the popular games "Call of Duty" and "Overwatch," among others.

NASA fired a new asteroid mission into space today, chasing a rare space rock that's believed to be largely metal.

The Psyche spacecraft wrote a SpaceX rocket into the sky above Cape Canaveral.

It'll take six years to reach an orbit the asteroid it's named for, one that could hold secrets about the origins of Earth.

On Wall Street today, worries about the war in the Middle East stoked fears on the stock market.

The Dow Jones industrial average managed a slight gain of 39 points to close at 33670.

But the Nasdaq fell 167 points, more than 1 percent.

The S&P 500 lost 21 points.

And a Minnesota man pleaded guilty today to stealing a pair of the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz."

Terry Jon Martin is now 76.

He admitted taking the shoes from the Garland Museum in her hometown, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, in 2005.

He said he thought the rubies were real.

The FBI recovered the slippers in 2018.

They're one of four pairs known to exist.

Still to come on the "NewsHour": David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart weigh in on the week's political headlines; and legendary actor Patrick Stewart reflects on his long life and career in a new memoir.

House Republicans have a new nominee for speaker 10 days after Kevin McCarthy was ousted and less than 24 hours after their last pick stepped aside.

Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan got enough votes in the behind-closed-doors meeting of the GOP Conference, but it's still unclear if he can get the 217 votes necessary to win on the House floor.

"NewsHour" congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins joins us from the Capitol with the latest.

So, Lisa, what happened?

What happened now that Jim Jordan is the nominee, when, just a couple of days ago, it was Steve Scalise who beat Jim Jordan for the Republican nomination?

LISA DESJARDINS: Geoff, you are forgiven, so are all of our viewers, if this feels like deja vu.

This is where we're at.

A candidate collapsed last night -- candidacy collapsed on that perilous hill that is the Republican Party.

And now another has risen to attempt to climb that hill.

It's Jim Jordan of Ohio.

Now, a lot of viewers are familiar with him.

Jordan is known especially as someone who is a fighter, pugilistic in style.

He is the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, in fact, leading some of the efforts to investigate President Joe Biden.

He's also someone who's a former champion wrestler.

But what's important about him is, he's someone who's very popular with the base.

He is an ally of Donald Trump.

Now, what was surprising today, Geoff, is that he did have a challenger, someone that no one expected, including the challenger himself.

That was Austin Scott of Georgia.

His name may not be familiar to everyone.

He has been here since 2011.

He says he woke up this morning and didn't think he would run for speaker.

But, as a McCarthy ally, he wanted to give others an option.

His exact strategy is still a little bit confusing.

But I want to talk about the math here, because the real point is, can Jim Jordan become speaker?

Let's look at how these votes went down today.

First, Jim Jordan versus Austin Scott.

There you go.

Jim Jordan got 124 votes.

Austin Scott got somewhere in the -- 81.

So, you could see Austin Scott hadn't even announced until today, able to get 81 votes.

Then there was a second ballot.

Question was, will you support Jim Jordan, yes or no, on a floor vote?

His number went up to 152.

But look at this.

A stunning 55 Republicans said, no, I will not support Jim Jordan on the floor.

And a reminder, of course, you need somewhere around 217 votes to become speaker.

So, Jim Jordan has a very big hill to climb yet again.

The math for him is very tough.

GEOFF BENNETT: I know that you have been talking to Republican members of Congress all day.

What are they saying about this?

LISA DESJARDINS: Right.

This was a conference that's looking for direction.

But, if you heard from them this morning, you can see they're going all different directions.

REP. ANDY BARR (R-KY): I think Jim should be given a shot.

He -- there were two candidates that self-identified, Steve and Jim Jordan, and they both stepped forward.

If he can get to 217, he should be given the opportunity to try to get there.

REP. JOHN RUTHERFORD (R-FL): I'm back with Kevin McCarthy -- since he, out of all of the folks that have thrown their hat in the ring, he is head and shoulders above the rest in the majority that he's able to put together.

REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): Just like never-Trump, never-Kevin, never-anyone just -- just isn't a good way to go.

So I'm for working out those issues and seeing if we can move forward.

REP. MIKE GARCIA (R-CA): If someone gets the majority of the votes, my expectation would be everyone in the party should realize that there's a national security imperative here to fill the seat, put aside your political and personal differences and get on board for the big win.

LISA DESJARDINS: And with that, House Republicans went home for the weekend.

Jim Jordan has to make calls to make up that gap.

He does have a long way to go.

A vote for speaker could happen on the House floor on Monday.

And the theory is, his team wants to try out a vote on the floor to see what happens.

Why did they leave?

We asked -- Speaker Pro Tem Patrick McHenry was asked about it.

And he just only said one thing: "It's been a long two weeks."

GEOFF BENNETT: All right, we will check back with you on Monday, Lisa Desjardins from Capitol Hill tonight.

Lisa, thank you.

LISA DESJARDINS: You're welcome.

GEOFF BENNETT: Jurors have convicted one white Colorado police officer and acquitted another in the first of three trials stemming from the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man.

McClain was unarmed while walking home in Aurora, Colorado.

He was wearing a face mask because of a blood disorder that made him feel cold.

After a driver called police saying he was acting suspiciously, officers arrived and forcefully restrained him.

The use of force set other events into motion, leading to McClain's death.

William Brangham has a look at this case, which became a national focal point on policing and racial justice.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Geoff, almost immediately after arriving on scene, officers put McClain in a choke hold that caused him to lose consciousness.

Nearly 20 minutes later, paramedics injected him with a sedative known as ketamine.

McClain's heart stopped, and he died in a hospital several days later.

Yesterday, in the first of three trials, officer Randy Roedema was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault.

A second former officer, Jason Rosenblatt, was acquitted.

Last night, McClain's mother exited the courtroom, later telling reporters that Roedema's sole conviction was not adequate justice.

Julia Cardi is a reporter for The Denver Gazette who has been covering this trial.

Julia, thank you so much for being here.

You were in the courtroom when this mixed verdict came down.

Can you give us a sense of what was the reaction?

How did people respond to this?

JULIA CARDI, The Denver Gazette: Sure.

There was a lot of emotion both sides of the aisle, if you will.

As you already mentioned, Elijah McClain's mom was really dismayed by the verdict.

I heard a couple of gasps from, I believe, a supporter of his mother when the acquittal was read out.

Both the officer who was acquitted, Jason Rosenblatt, and one of his attorneys teared up when the verdict was read out.

And there was also a lot of emotion from people who appeared to be family members of the defendants in the courtroom as well.

And the judge had asked people to refrain from any outbursts, knowing that it was just a really emotionally charged case, but there was definitely a lot of palpable emotion from both sides.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Can you tell us a little bit more about the state's case here?

How did they argue that these two officers were complicit in his death?

JULIA CARDI: Really, the crux of their argument was that the officers chose to use force at really every stage of the encounter, rather than de-escalate the situation.

They argued that the officers ignored Elijah McClain's repeated cries that he couldn't breathe, that they didn't monitor his pulse or breathing, that they did not tell the paramedics called to the scene that Elijah McClain was struggling to breathe, that he had been vomiting, and instead told the paramedics things like he was acting crazy, he was showing really extreme strength.

And the prosecutors, also, they really brought in experts who said that the struggle with police led to this cycle of health complications for Elijah McClain that ultimately made him more vulnerable to the ketamine injection.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Yes, tell me a little bit more about that, because the defense did not choose to bring any witnesses, and they really argued that it was the injection of that sedative, ketamine, that was the principal reason for his death.

JULIA CARDI: That's right.

And something else that the defense attorneys latched on to as the prosecutors presented their case was that the medical experts brought by the attorney general's office really were mixed in how definitive their opinions were on whether they felt the actions of the officers actually contributed to Elijah McClain's death.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: And it is worth noting the timing here.

We are talking about a young man who died almost four years ago.

Why is it that it took so long?

What was it that finally brought this case to trial?

JULIA CARDI: Well, I think really, in the wake of everything we saw in 2020, the governor of Colorado asked the state attorney general, Phil Weiser, to take a look at the case.

And so Attorney General Weiser convened a grand jury statewide, who ultimately brought back an indictment of these three police officers and two paramedics in late 2021, so about two years after Elijah McClain's death and about a little over two years ago now.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: And we know jury selection is under way now for the -- for the trial of the third officer in this case.

Who is that and what is that officer being accused of?

JULIA CARDI: His name is Nathan Woodyard.

And he is accused of being the first officer to actually stop Elijah McClain.

And he is also accused of being the officer who used the carotid hold or neck hold on Elijah McClain that caused him to briefly lose consciousness.

He faces a charge of reckless manslaughter and of criminally negligent homicide.

And jury selection began today in his case, and his trial is expected to last a couple of weeks as well.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: All right, that is Julia Cardi of The Denver Gazette.

Thank you so much for your time.

JULIA CARDI: Thank you so much.

Thanks for having me.

GEOFF BENNETT: The war between Israel and Hamas is at the forefront of American politics this week, as President Biden pledges to provide aid and support to Israel.

For more, we turn to the analysis of Brooks and Capehart.

That's New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Jonathan Capehart, associate editor for The Washington Post.

It's good, as always, to see you both.

JONATHAN CAPEHART: Thank you, Geoff.

DAVID BROOKS: Good to see you.

GEOFF BENNETT: So, President Biden's deep emotional reaction to the Hamas terror attacks has really translated into a forceful American response and defense of Israel.

And, David, he seems to be navigating this line of saying that he understands the necessity of Israel's overwhelming retaliation, but he's also saying that he sees the importance of sparing the lives of civilians and making sure that Israel adheres to the rules of law - - rules of war.

(CROSSTALK) DAVID BROOKS: Yes, I thought this was one of Joe Biden's best weeks as president.

He was a voice of moral clarity.

He was one of the early voices to remind everybody that what Hamas has become looks like ISIS, sort of a death cult.

He did in the face of divisions on the left.

There are a lot of mainstream liberals who are appalled by what happened.

There are more progressive voices, many who think this is a legitimate part of decolonization.

And yet Joe Biden knows Israeli history.

He knows the Palestinians.

He's been doing this for a long time.

And he knows that this is a case of someone who wants to -- of a group that wants to destroy Israel and push the Jews into the sea.

And so he said that.

I think he's also making the case, which I think Zelenskyy's a little ahead of him on, that Ukraine and Israel, the war against Hamas and against Putin are joined.

They're wars against barbarism.

And I think he sees that clearly.

And so I just think it was just a marvelous display of moral clarity and real storytelling for a guy who -- for whom grand narrative storytelling and rhetoric is not always the great gift, but I just thought a magnificent week.

GEOFF BENNETT: Moral clarity and grand storytelling.

What's your assessment of the administration's response?

JONATHAN CAPEHART: I agree with David 100 percent.

And it's not just the president.

It's the secretary of state, who spoke from the heart next to Prime Minister Netanyahu.

It's Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin being there earlier in the day today also showing solidarity.

But I -- what happened a week ago tonight or tomorrow is really -- it's beyond disturbing.

And I just feel compelled -- as an African American, I understand the ancestral pain and terror felt by my Jewish friends and Jews around the world by what happened.

This was not -- what Hamas did was not the usual Middle East back-and-forth.

This was barbaric.

And so I understand and feel that pain.

And that carnage and barbarism needs to be addressed.

I also grieve for the innocent Palestinians who are being -- who have been used and are being used as human shields by Hamas, people, terrorists who are living among them, putting munitions in residential areas, who couldn't care less about their lives, couldn't care less about the rules of war.

And their leadership -- their leadership, living in Gaza right now, do they even care that the people who've been told to evacuate have nowhere to go?

And so we are in a completely different time now when we're talking about conflicts in the Middle East.

And it's -- what we're about to see in the coming days is going to be unlike anything we have ever seen.

And it's going to tear our hearts out.

GEOFF BENNETT: And there are, no doubt, far-reaching foreign policy consequences here too.

President Biden's effort to shepherd a normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia that could really revamp the geopolitics of the entire Middle East, that seems to be stalled, at best.

How might this Israel-Hamas war resonate beyond its borders?

DAVID BROOKS: Well, first I want to appreciate Jonathan's comments.

The history of Judaism is the history of hiding in homes while people come and kill -- try to kill you and try to burn you down.

And so that goes back to the exiles thousands of years ago.

It goes back to the pogroms, when my ancestors left Central Europe.

It goes back to the Holocaust.

And so the whole point of the state of Israel was, that would not happen again.

You would not have young girls hiding under dead bodies, so she -- they can live.

And so it happened, and it touches something very deep in the Jewish consciousness.

And I understand why the Israelis are so outraged, up in arms, traumatized, whatever word you want to use, and why they want to be so aggressive at Hamas.

I have to say, one of the things Joe Biden can tell the Israelis, as a friend and as someone who's offered unconditional love, is that, well, we had our 9/11, and we did not react intelligently.

And so you have to think carefully about what you're walking into.

I supported the war in Iraq.

At that time, I saw five or six different ways it could benefit the United States or benefit the Iraqis, benefit the Middle East.

I confess, I look at this thing in Gaza, I don't really see a positive exit strategy.

I see urban warfare, like, Mosul times 10.

I don't -- is Israel really going to stay there forever?

You can't withdraw once you have destroyed Hamas.

You have to stay there.

How is that going to work in this world?

And so I'm hoping the Biden administration will say, do what you need to do to Hamas, but let's not overreach here.

And let's remember that the reason, one of the reasons Hamas did this was to prevent Saudi-Israeli alliance.

So, let's put that first.

Let's have a revenge by having a Saudi-Israeli alliance and really hit Hamas where they live.

GEOFF BENNETT: As we talk about the Biden administration's response, his predecessor, Donald Trump, drew wide criticism and condemnation this past week for faulting Netanyahu, for calling Hezbollah very smart in his remarks.

DONALD TRUMP, Former President of the United States (R) and Current U.S. Presidential Candidate: I will never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down.

That was a very terrible thing.

I will say that.

And they said, gee, I hope Hezbollah doesn't attack from the north, because that's the most vulnerable spot.

I said, wait a minute, Hezbollah is very smart.

They are all very smart.

The press doesn't like when I say that.

GEOFF BENNETT: And we can contrast that to what Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley had to say.

GOV.

RON DESANTIS (R-FL), Presidential Candidate: Israel has a right to defend itself, and that means do that to the hilt.

You have to uproot the terrorist infrastructure, these networks, and Hamas needs to be no more.

NIKKI HALEY (R), Presidential Candidate: This is sick, and we have to treat sick people the way they deserve to be treated and eliminate them.

GEOFF BENNETT: Your response to what Donald Trump had to say?

JONATHAN CAPEHART: The clip you showed is exhibit number whatever it is of why he should never, ever again be entrusted with the power and responsibility that comes with sitting in the Oval Office.

I am happy to be wrong about the reaction from the Republican presidential field.

I thought they would follow form and not criticize Trump at all, for fear of engendering the rage of their base.

But Governor Haley, Governor DeSantis, Governor Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence, most of them criticized Trump, and I applaud them for that for that.

But there's no way that guy should be president of the United States again by that clip alone.

GEOFF BENNETT: It's also a reminder of how Donald Trump's isolationist views have really realigned the Republicans' approach to foreign policy.

DAVID BROOKS: It's stunning.

I mean, well, first, that Donald Trump clip, everything's about Donald Trump.

Look, 1,000 people get murdered, and it's all about Donald Trump.

And so the party has -- it was the party of anti-communism.

It was the party of an American-led world order.

It was the party of containment against Russia, against the Soviet Union.

And now it's very much the opposite.

And as I look at the Republican Party, I just want to make sure they're going to fund Ukraine.

I just want to make fund -- I think they should link Ukraine aid to Israel aid and maybe the Southern border aid and say, we are just going to fund things that will create a stable world order.

But it is a party that -- and just about Nikki Haley and Governor DeSantis, in my heart, I agree with their sentiments.

And I -- Hamas has been a genocidal group from the start.

But you have got to be effective.

And I have talked on this program a few times that my son served in the IDF.

He's home now, fortunately.

But his unit, they got hammered on Saturday morning, lost a lot of people, because of intelligence failures on the Israeli side, because they didn't know what Hamas was doing, because the stupid security fence was a high-tech mess.

And so you -- as we think about going in, it's easy to say, let's go take out Hamas.

How does that exactly work?

And so a little loose talk from Nikki Haley and Governor DeSantis, maybe it's loose talk for the week, but sometime down the road, we're going to figure out how this is actually going to work.

GEOFF BENNETT: In the time that remains, let's talk about the House speaker race, because Steve Scalise won the party nomination on Wednesday, beating Jim Jordan.

By Thursday, Steve Scalise had dropped out of the election entirely.

And now, today, Jim Jordan has won the nomination, but has no path to 217 votes.

What is happening within the Republican Conference, Jonathan, so much that anyone would know?

JONATHAN CAPEHART: It's chaos.

It's mayhem.

It's also pathetic.

We -- the speaker of the House isn't just some person.

It's a constitutional officer.

It's a third in line to the presidency.

There will be no aid to Ukraine, there will be no aid to Israel, there will be no border anything here in the United States unless and until there is a speaker of the House.

And Jim Jordan is the guy who got less votes than Steve Scalise, who got less votes than Kevin McCarthy got when he ran for speaker.

So I don't know who the next speaker of the House is going to be, unless Republicans turn to the Democrats and say, OK, Hakeem Jeffries, we will give you the votes, and you become speaker, because we have got to start governing.

GEOFF BENNETT: Well, on that point, we spoke with the Democratic leader on this program yesterday, and he made an overture to what he called traditional Republicans, offering something of a coalition government.

REP. HAKEEM JEFFRIES (D-NY): There is a real path and a real opportunity to be serious, to be substantive, to be sober in meeting the needs of the American people and our allies like Israel and Ukraine across the world.

But we just need traditional Republicans to break from their extremist wing and join us in a bipartisan coalition.

GEOFF BENNETT: So far, it doesn't appear he has any takers.

Should that change?

DAVID BROOKS: I doubt it'll change.

I think the more likely thing, Patrick McHenry, the current sitting speaker, has been approached by some moderate Democrats, who will say, we will support you, give you more powers, so we can pass the serious stuff, but you have to give us some concessions on stuff we can bring to the floor for a vote.

That seems to me, if there's going to be a reasonable solution, that strikes me more likely.

GEOFF BENNETT: How do you think it'll go?

JONATHAN CAPEHART: It'll be a long time before we get to that moment.

(LAUGHTER) DAVID BROOKS: Give me my moment of hope.

Come on.

(LAUGHTER) JONATHAN CAPEHART: They're in recess right now.

(LAUGHTER) GEOFF BENNETT: Jonathan Capehart and David Brooks, thanks so much.

Appreciate it.

JONATHAN CAPEHART: Thanks, Geoff.

GEOFF BENNETT: Patrick Stewart cut his acting teeth in the theater, taking on numerous roles in Shakespeare and other classics.

For his second act, he became known to millions as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the revival of the "Star Trek" television and film franchises, as well as Charles Xavier in the popular superhero X-Men films.

Now he tells his own story in a new memoir, and sat down with Jeffrey Brown recently for our arts and culture series, Canvas.

PATRICK STEWART, Actor: Glamis hath murder'd sleep.

Therefore, Cawdor shall sleep no more.

JEFFREY BROWN: He would become one of the world's best-known actors, and everyone has to start somewhere.

And, for Patrick Stewart, that was the day a teacher handed his class the text of William Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice."

PATRICK STEWART: He said: "All right, Act 4, Scene 1.

Your all cast.

All right, start reading."

And, of course, we all went -- and he yelled at us: "Not to yourselves, you idiots!"

And then he said: "This is a play.

It's people.

It's real life.

It's not just being on a stage.

You have got to invite people into it."

JEFFREY BROWN: Some seven decades later, at age 83, Stewart invites us into his own life drama in a memoir titled "Making It So."

PATRICK STEWART: There was something about having those words, even though I was mispronouncing them, in my mouth that felt good, felt I was in control.

JEFFREY BROWN: It gave you a voice.

It gave you a self.

It gave you a confidence.

PATRICK STEWART: Yes, exactly.

What it gave me was that I could drop the Patrick Stewart.

JEFFREY BROWN: What does that mean?

PATRICK STEWART: It means that I didn't really like who I was.

And I felt much more comfortable when I was somebody else.

Actually, the first time I walked onto a stage and breathed in, because I was nervous, I realized suddenly I felt safer than I had felt in any of my childhood years.

I mean literally safe.

Nothing bad can happen to me on the stage.

JEFFREY BROWN: As he writes, the future captain of the Starship Enterprise grew up in a tough blue-collar town in the North of England without hot water or an indoor toilet.

His first years alone with his mother and older brother were good ones.

But his father's return from World War II changed everything.

His father, described as a weakened alcoholic, would beat his mother, and young Patrick could not protect her.

So, there is this mix of wound and strength, I think, that runs through your whole life story.

Do you feel that?

PATRICK STEWART: I do.

I feel it in my work.

I feel it in important relationships.

And I have benefited from it and also from, oh, 30 years ago, when someone I knew quite well said to me: "Have you ever thought of therapy, Patrick, psychological therapy?"

And I said: "No, no.

Why would I do that?"

"Give it a shot."

And, thoom, I was hooked right away.

And that has been one of the ways that I helped to understand my life, my childhood, my father, understanding, because he just made me angry and fearful when he was around.

And he's one of the people I miss now, because I'd like him to read book.

JEFFREY BROWN: Stewart would work his way up as an actor from local productions to studies in Bristol, eventually to the heights, the Royal Shakespeare Company.

He writes of lessons along the way, including how great actors develop -- quote -- "an invisible cloak of truth that elevates their performances."

The actor is both pretending and not pretending?

PATRICK STEWART: I don't like the word pretending, although, in a sense, pretense is partly what we're activated to do when we're acting.

But the people that you have mentioned, their performance, their work lives inside them.

JEFFREY BROWN: A lesson he learned when a director convinced him to take on one of Shakespeare's vilest monsters, Polixenes in "The Winter's Tale."

PATRICK STEWART: And he said: "I think you're fearful, Patrick, but what you must understand is that this character already lives inside you."

And I was kind of outraged at that.

And he said: "But you're an actor.

All you have to do is let it out."

JEFFREY BROWN: A whole other level of fame would come in his late 40s.

While the actors strike continued, Stewart asked us not to use clips from his work on "Star Trek" or "X-Men," where, by the way, he co-starred with Ian McKellen.

But fans well know how he, yes, commanded those roles with his voice and presence.

In fact, though, Stewart himself knew nothing of this new world when he first came to it.

You were not "Star Trek"-literate, huh?

PATRICK STEWART: Not remotely.

I wasn't even a fan.

I wasn't a fan of sci-fi at all.

(LAUGHTER) PATRICK STEWART: And I still struggle just a little bit.

JEFFREY BROWN: But you're saying that, in these characters for television and film, you were able to find the same way in that you found to Shakespeare on the stage?

PATRICK STEWART: Exactly the same.

JEFFREY BROWN: The complexity?

PATRICK STEWART: Yes, and making sure that, if the complexity was inside him, when I released it, it would make sense.

It would be understandable.

And I think... JEFFREY BROWN: To yourself, as well as the audience?

PATRICK STEWART: Always to myself, yes, but, hopefully, as often to the audience.

And that was always my objective.

I wanted to bring the audience into our world.

I was never that interested in thrusting it out, but just inviting people to come in and share what we were experiencing.

Say I am happy!

IAN MCKELLEN, Actor: I am happy.

PATRICK STEWART: In 2013, he took to the stage, again working with McKellen, in Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot."

IAN MCKELLEN: What do we do now, now that we're happy?

(LAUGHTER) PATRICK STEWART: It requires connection.

And that connection isn't made by yelling and acting.

There's a wonderful American comic whose name I now can't remember who was asked once: "What is acting?"

And he said: "Acting, acting is yelling!"

(LAUGHTER) JEFFREY BROWN: But not for you?

PATRICK STEWART: No, not for me.

JEFFREY BROWN: There is one big role Stewart still wants to take on, King Lear.

But, he says: PATRICK STEWART: Somebody, actually, the other day said: "You know, you're a bit too old for King Lear."

(LAUGHTER) PATRICK STEWART: Can't -- can't get it right.

So, I feel that, even though I may be too old to play Lear, I could give it a shot.

(LAUGHTER) JEFFREY BROWN: All right, we will look for your King Lear.

Patrick Stewart.

The book is "Making It so."

Thank you very much.

PATRICK STEWART: Thank you.

GEOFF BENNETT: Be sure to stay with us this evening.

Online right now, we have additional livestreamed coverage of the Israel-Hamas war and related issues this past week.

That's followed by "Washington Week with The Atlantic," both on our Web site and right here on PBS.

Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg will have a special panel of guests devoted to this topic as well.

AMNA NAWAZ: And, immediately after that, join me and Geoff once again for "War in the Holy Land: A PBS News Special Report."

That's at 8:30 p.m. Eastern.

Check your local listings.

And that is the "NewsHour" for tonight.

I'm Amna Nawaz.

GEOFF BENNETT: And I'm Geoff Bennett.

We will see you again soon.