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"I'm Dave Freeman. Good morning. It's 5 35. It's morning edition from NPR NEWS. I'm Noel King in Washington, D. C and Martinez in Culver City, California. How do you go about implementing a federal rule that calls for companies to require their employees to get vaccinated or submit to weekly testing? That's the proposal of the Biden administration. Now, under the plan, businesses with more than 100 employees will be forced to do so or face fines this morning we had the perspective of the FDA is former commissioner Scott Gottlieb. He served from 2017 to 2019, and we should note. That Dr Gottlieb is a member of fighters board doctor. You've argued that President Biden's Covid 19 action plan could backfire and actually delay more people from getting their vaccines explain that for us Well, look, I think the administration has done a very good job rolling out this vaccine, and we now have 75% of adults over the age of 18, who've had at least one shot of the covid vaccine. Most of them will complete the series. Thank administration is well within their purview to mandate vaccinations for federal employees for members of military people who fall within The scope of federal employment. I think when it comes to small businesses, those businesses with 100 more employees what you mentioned the outset, it gets a little bit more challenging. They're going to try to apply this mandate on businesses through OSHA through the Labor Department. It's going to take time to get that rulemaking in place. Then we're going to have to issue guidance on how businesses should implement that and give them a grace period to actually implement this provision. I think in the interim period, a lot of businesses that might have been contemplating imposing mandates on their employees requiring to get vaccinated might now wait and see what these new rules are going to look like. And the inevitably I think it could delay a lot of businesses that might have made a decision to mandate vaccination for their employees from going forward and doing that. The doctor, why couldn't it be argued that these companies if they haven't gone forward, like, say, Cisco, a Citigroup, Google or Delta that they were going to wait anyway? And they were waiting for cover from the federal government to go ahead and do this, right? I think I think businesses have a lot of cover. Now. I think the fact that the federal government's requiring vaccination for federal employees gives them a lot of cover. I think the risk is that you take something that has been furtively political Which is the decision around Mandating vaccination and getting vaccinated, and now you make it objectively political. This is going to be more of a political discussion, and I think some of the fault lines that we've seen evolving in society and now going to be hardened. And the question is, Are you going to achieve a lot more vaccination with a mandate like this? And I think it's an open question we're going to be. We've got 75% of the adult population with at least one dose. We were going to get to 80% on our normal course I think with some added measures we could have gotten perhaps to 85% most childhood vaccinations, which are mandated We don't get above 90 92%. So we're not going to get to that kind of a level with this vaccine. So the question is, Where do we think we're going to end up? We may end up around 80 85%. Will you pick up a couple of extra percentage points with this kind of a mandate? Perhaps. But now I think you're going to take something that has been sort of, uh, at quietly political discussion. It becomes more objectively political. I don't think it's been political for a long time, Doctor. Yesterday I spoke with Jeff Freeman. He's the president of the Consumer Brands Association Trade group that represents more than two million workers. He's in support of vaccines, but has unanswered questions about this new proposal. Let's listen to what he said. We certainly hope answer your coming soon. They are aware of our concerns. Unfortunately, our experience throughout the pandemic going back 19 months is that too often We're waiting weeks or even months to get answers. This is not going to work in this environment. So, Doctor what needs to happen in your view to answer these industry questions and concerns? While the administration is going to have to put out guidance now to implement this new this new mandate this new regulation, which isn't written yet, by the way, I think this could be a multi month process and it's going to get litigated. My personal view is I don't believe Governor should be preventing businesses from imposing mandates. I dont think the federal government should be forcing them to. I think this is something that should happen at a community level, with local communities implementing mandates around schools. Around businesses. People have to make objective decisions about how they best protect their workplace, their school environment, their local community. In many cases, that's going to be with vaccine mandates. I would do everything possible to support them in those decisions to give them guidance and how to implement those decisions. But let those decisions happen as local as possible, so this doesn't become a national political debate over vaccination, which I think in the end Is going to discourage hardened certain positions of people who don't want to get vaccinated. Unfortunately and doctor quickly while I have you here, you sit on fighters board. The FDA meets this Friday to discuss fighters request to authorize a booster shot. How soon are you expecting a decision? A decision could come right away, depending on what the outcome of that meeting is there going to review new evidence, including the evidence from Israel, which is going to be presented in an open forum at that meeting? Dr. Scott Gottlieb is the author of Uncontrolled Spread. Covid 19 crushed us and how we Can defeat the next pandemic, Doctor. Thanks. Thanks a lot. For the first time ever. Voters in Boston are on the verge of electing a mayor who is not a white man in today's preliminary vote. There are five leading candidates and all of them are people of color. Here's W B. U. R S Anthony Brooks. For more than 200 years. Boston voters if only elected white men to lead their city, The last one Marty Walsh left town earlier this year to become president Joe Biden's Labor secretary and City Council president Kim Janey, a black woman became into Rome mayor and made history. Today is a new day I stand before you as the first woman and the first black mayor of Boston, the city that I love. Now. Jamie is one of five candidates for women. One man, all of them people of color, not a white man among them today, Boston voters will send two of them to the general election in the fall. Polls suggest the front runner is city Councillor Michelle Wu, a Taiwanese American who promises to embrace equity in a series of progressive policies now the moment to knock on doors so that we deliver a green new deal in Boston. Universal, pre K and.
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"I'm Dave Freeman. And the time is 5 30 Live from KQED News. I'm Brian White. Today is the last day to vote in the election on whether to recall Governor Newsom from office. While many Californians will vote in the coming hours, A large number of state residents have already cast their ballots by mail in voting or by voting early in person. The polls close at eight PM Shortly afterward, election officials expect to report a large number of returns, especially in counties where many voters have already cast their ballots. Solano County Supervisors today will decide whether to reinstate an indoor mask mandate. KQED Sarah Hussaini reports the resolutions. Author supervisor Aaron Hannigan is digging through her email to find recent stats on Covid and Solano County. Which is seeing a significant number of covid hospitalizations. But her inbox is full. Yeah, I'm loaded up with opposition to the mask. Whether few rays of sunshine Solano was the only Bay Area County not to reinstate an indoor mask mandate as Delta infections surged. Folks want to cry my body my choice. When this is actually a virus that you can share with others who may not survive. But Hannigan says the county is full of contrasts. Benita and Vallejo created their own city wide mandates last month. The board is also considering mandatory vaccines for county employees and contractors. I'm Sarah Jose Knee Kick you eat in a zoo, a new Stanford study suggests a severe case of Covid 19 could trigger an auto immune disease down the road, KQED Health reporter left, McClurg explains. If someone lands in the hospital after catching Covid 19, the virus may wreak havoc on their body long after they go home. Stanford scientists took blood samples and a few 100 patients who battled a severe case of Covid. They saw an increase in self attacking antibodies in 60% of patients. This can be an early indicator of an autoimmune disease, and our concern is that these patients may later on go on to develop. The full blown disease. Dr P. J is the lead author. He says the data is preliminary. But it adds to a growing body of evidence. Autoimmune diseases are not diseases that you want. You don't want to have to take steroids and chemotherapy in some cases and be disabled. Many people end up being disabled for life during the course of his research. It's also looked at whether the vaccine was triggering an autoimmune response. He did not find any indication of that. He says the vaccine is safe and the best protection against Covid. I'm growing more and more concerned over time. Not just about the auto immune diseases that we could see down the road, but patients who are having long term damage to multiple organs, their lungs, their heart, their kidneys and symptoms from long covid like joint pain and rain fog. But says the more we learn about the virus. The more we learn about the dangers of the long term consequences..
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"I'm Dave Freeman at 7 35. It's morning edition from NPR News. I mean, Martinez and I'm Noel King. Good morning. Senators are back from their summer recess today with a long list of things to get done. At the top of that list is the $3.5 Trillion spending bill, which is a big priority for the White House. Democrats will need to quickly suss out details on policies like expanded health care, universal pre K and programs to fight climate change. NPR's Deirdre Walsh, who covers Congress is following this one. Good morning to you to Good morning, Noel. What is the status of the spending bill at this moment? It's actually not even written yet. Democratic leaders have said this week as their own deadline to try to put all the details together of these major policy initiatives. But one Senate moderate West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin, has repeatedly said he can't support that much new federal spending. He's raising concerns about inflation and some of the tax changes that Democrats want to use to pay for the spending bill Here's mansion on CNN's state of the union, pushing for a pause. What's the urgency that we have is not the same urgency we have at the American rescue plan. We got that out the door quick. Now it was about $2 Billion leaders aren't going to take that cause they're working full steam ahead. Their plan is to move this broader spending package using a process that avoids a Republican filibuster, and they're trying to do that by the end of this month. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is holding off vote on the separate bipartisan $1 trillion Infrastructure bill until September 27th. She wants to advance both of those bills to try to keep all of her members together. Okay, So they're saying we're going to move full steam ahead. But Joe Manchin is saying No. What does Joe mansions opposition mean for this Bill's chances? It likely means this bill is going to get smaller mansion suggests he thinks it should be more in the 1 to $1.5 trillion range. That's a big change and progressives are not happy about it. They don't want anything less than $3.5 Trillion, saying they've already compromised. Here's Senate Budget Committee chairman Bernie Sanders, reacting to mansions demands to scale it back. It's absolutely not acceptable to me. I don't think it's acceptable to the president to the American people Order the overwhelming majority of the people in the Democratic caucus. The reality and the 50 50 Senate is that anyone Democrat with concerns has real leverage. And Manchester not the only one Arizona Democratic senator. Christmas Cinema also wants a smaller bill. And there's a group of moderates in the house who real have some real heartburn over this $3.5 trillion price tag. AIDS I spoke to in both the moderate and progressive camps say they think these differences can be sorted out. But the process is going to be really messy. In terms of what could get scaled back or maybe even dropped altogether. It's going to go on for weeks. And then in addition to that, there's a lot of other things that Congress needs to get done this month. Yeah. Right. I mean, as if a $3.5 trillion spending package isn't enough. There's some big ticket items they need to fund the government to avoid a shutdown by the end of the month. Congress also has to raise the debt ceiling. This is the authority of the Treasury Department needs to borrow money or risk a default by the middle of October. Negotiators are still working to figure all this out. But they're trying to package these into one big bill. It would fund federal agencies through early December. It's also going to add probably the $30 billion in emergency money the administration wants for Hurricane Ida an Afghan refugee programs. And then they would also try to raise the debt ceiling as part of this one package, But they need Republican votes in the Senate, and that's a tough girl. They don't have a lot of time to get all these things done. NPR's Deirdre Walsh. Thank you, Deirdre. Thank you. Today's the first day back at school for about one million New York City kids, the nation's largest district has been mostly remote during the pandemic, but now they're returning to the classroom. NPR's rosemary, Miss Dairy has been speaking of teachers, parents and public health experts, and they've been bracing themselves at a time when infection rates continue to rise among Children. American history usually begins with the Enlightenment for Gregory Montes, Brooklyn High school students, But this year I've chosen an activity that our school developed about. Where students names originate. What is the ethnic and cultural significance of it and then get those students to talk about what's on their mind and what makes them comfortable or uncomfortable When returning to school, he inspected summer classes for Covid safety. It was the dry run for the upcoming school year. And he tells parents who fear the worst to have faith, having reviewed a lot of high schools in Brooklyn during the summer, visiting summer school sites and seeing The efforts that our school system is already making to ensure a safe, sanitary learning environment. I'd say we're off to a great start. The New York City Department of Education's reopening plan includes required vaccinations for staff, three ft of distance and a strict mask mandate. Pediatrician and public health expert, Dr Ayman El Mohandes, cause it robust and comprehensive, but says kids are kids plans our plans, But implementation is where the rubber hits the road is what happens in the school environment, how it is supervised. How the Children are monitored, not being sure that the Children actually will be wearing masks correctly. Is where potential for spread occurs. We're going to have the little bottle of hand sanitizers for each one pack of wipes. Yeah, extra mask, maybe two masked with them. Just in case. This is what James Lopez is packing into school bags for each of his sons, a kindergartner 1/4 grader and a high school sophomore in Staten Island, where winning it right now. Might as well prepare for the worse. He wants his kids back in school. But after the whole family was sick with Covid last winner, he's worried. Oh, man, I hate to be negative, but I'm bracing to have them come back home again. I'm expecting them to have school. Maybe the first couple weeks of September and then I'm expecting a dreaded call of. Hey, we got a couple cases here. Schools closed for the next week. And to be honest, the minute they tell me Hey, you have an option of sending them remote or Sentences school. I might keep them home again, You know they come first. Dr El Mohandes says fears that infections will rise among Children are well founded. There's no question that that is a very realistic possibility, and we have to follow that very, very carefully. Especially amongst the age cohort, where vaccines are, in fact not licensed, which makes the absence of a remote learning option this year, a big concern for parents like James Lopez. It's almost like a smack in the face of the parent where it's like, we're smart enough. We watched the news. We see the data we see the trends. We know something's happening. You not having a backup plan for it. It's kind of kind of ludicrous. Despite recent weeks of the sharpest rises and child cases coinciding with school openings across the country, educators and medical experts are adamant that the healthiest place for Children to learn is in the classroom together with their.
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"FM San Francisco 89.3 FM in Sacramento. I'm Dave Freeman. Good morning. It's now a 35. It's morning edition from NPR News. I'm Leila Fadel in Culver City, California and I'm Steve Inskeep in Washington, D. C. House Democrats try again to pass a budget framework. Today It's $3.5 Trillion it contains within its provisions, a large part of President Biden's agenda, and it is a special bill because under the rules, it is one of the few bills the Democrats can get through the Senate. Without any Republican support. Trouble is that Democrats face a divide among themselves in the House. NPR congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell has been covering this story, Calc. Good morning. Good morning, You know, I had assumed the problem would be in the Senate that there would easily pass the house where the majority party is usually pretty unified. What happened instead? Well, Democrats in the House really just have a very slim majority, and some moderates have taken advantage of that moment. To try to get some concessions from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Basically, she is trying to satisfy demands from two very different ways of her party. Progressives want to get moving on that $3.5 trillion budget framework because it could help them pass a lot of their major priorities. Like you mentioned Things like addressing climate change are paid family leave or childcare programs, but the moderate wing was pushing for an immediate vote on the Senate passed $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure Bill. They say that those priorities just need to move forward. Now they can't wait for further negotiations on this bigger budget framework. So Pelosi strategy had since June, has been to tie the fate of both of these things together. She's essentially saying that you know the infrastructure Bill and the budget bill have to move together or nothing moves at all. As you mentioned they reached an impasse. And after a lot of haggling and arguing, they kind of came around this idea that they would use a procedural workaround to pass the budget resolution without ever having to actually vote on it, just on the idea of moving it forward, you know, that might sound crazy, but it is an unprecedented and it's within the rules. And it would allow the House and Senate to actually get to work writing the spending plan, because right now they haven't even done that part yet. This is just conceptual. Okay, So if that is the plan, how do they move forward now? You know they have to work out these last details with moderates, and if they can get onto the bills, I would expect a lot more public fighting about the details. Democrats won their majority by pitching themselves as a big party. You know, a big tent party, which meant that they accepted moderates and centrists, so they wind up in situations like this. They have to find a concession consensus, not just on. You know the concept of $3.5 Trillion, but on what the actual policies are, how they actually do it. Plus along the way they need to increase the debt limit and passed basic government funding to keep the government operating past the end of September. So this is not an easy road and it's really not confined just to this budget fight. Council. As you know very well the other job. Congress has his oversight of whatever any administration is doing. They're extremely interested right now, in the evacuation of Americans and others from Afghanistan, How are they responding Well last night there was a briefing, and House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff said that it's possible but unlikely that the evacuations in Afghanistan will be complete. At the end of this month as planned, You know, there has been bipartisan criticism. Republicans have been certainly more vocal about the criticism. But Democrats are also worried about the manner of the withdrawal and the way it was handled. They say it was chaotic and months of this should have predicted, but ultimately many of them support the goal of leaving Afghanistan. Some of the criticism has been a little bit quieter in recent days since evacuation stepped up, but there will be briefings this week, and that may raise more questions from lawmakers. You know, ultimately, we don't know how long this will be an issue for voters, and therefore we don't know how closely Congress will be talking about this. So that's something that we're gonna be watching in the coming days to see you know just how much they focus on Afghanistan versus the domestic policies that they're also trying to advance. Kelsey always appreciate your insights. Thanks so much. Thanks for having me NPR congressional correspondent Kelsey Snow. The U. S military has ramped up evacuation efforts out of Kabul. More than 16,000 people have been flown out within 24 hours. But Democratic chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff says that may not be enough to get every American and Afghan allies of the US out by the August 31st withdrawal deadline. I think it's possible, but I think it's very unlikely. President Biden is facing pressure to extend the deadline and he's meeting with G seven leaders today to discuss the withdrawal. Meanwhile, Afghans who have made the harrowing journey out of Kabul are being taken to transit centers and military bases around the world before moving on to a third country. One of those places is a U. S air base in Qatar. Joining us now is Germany. Shayan. He's a senior correspondent with Al Jazeera in Doha Hakata and recently visited that base. Good morning, Jamal. Thanks for joining us morning. How are you guys? So you were at the L RD Airbase walk us through who's being housed there now? So it's a mix of there's two kind of operations that are taking place in conjunction simultaneously. One is being led by the Qataris themselves. So Cuttery Air Force planes that are going and bringing in mainly students, women and family. From Afghanistan. Those who want to leave and they're coming in Qatar's processing those number in the hundreds close to 1000. Maybe. And then there's another operation that the Americans are doing in the American military is doing but being also facilitated or helped by the batteries, and that's bringing in people in the thousands. And those are mainly translators. Those who worked for either the U. S military there or the embassy and Other collaborators or those who who worked with them in different fields. I say it's being facilitated by the Qataris because on the ground in Kabul, for example, the Qatari ambassador is ensuring through negotiations with the Taliban safe passage for those people to reach Kabul airport and then when the plane comes here, the American base, although it's a US military base, obviously it's being hosted by the Qatari. So in terms of Certain equipment and other things like that. That's something that the countries are assisting with two. So you're talking about thousands of people on this base. So what are the conditions? Well, initially, there were a lot worse than they are now. That's based on both testimony of those who first came in, as well as the military personnel and officials that we spoke to when we were at the base and simply that is because it's a military base is not equipped to house. Thousands of civilians. Certainly not in huge droves coming within the space of hours, if not just a couple of days. So initially, what was happening was, you know, hundreds of Refugees were being put into these airplane hungers, which weren't equipped, not we're not equipped with toilets not equipped with beds not equipped with air conditioning. The temperature and Catherine this summer month is probably the highest it is. Throughout the year. But swiftly the Americans have tried to bring about some sort of assistance in this, so they were portable toilets. They've housed them now and maybe holes gathering calls, but still, it's nowhere near ideal. There wasn't really warm food and stuff like that. Sounds like a A scramble to deal with incoming people does the U. S person that does US personnel have enough staff to process everyone they don't And that's that's by their own admission. Um, I think a big part of that is because even you know, from the president all the way down to the generals and those on the ground. Nobody expected things to develop a swiftly as they did, and therefore The winds equipped the one equipped either from the basics that I explained in terms of living services or what, Nor were they equipped from a security perspective in terms of processing these visas, So we are told that the people at the base here and a lot of eight are hoping that there are six a staff and other immigration officials and security stuff that are meant to be flying in from the United States here to help process These thousands of refugees. Germany shale with Al Jazeera reporting from the Hakata. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. We should note here that Al Jazeera is funded by the government of Qatar. This is NPR news back to Joe on KQED with another look at the Richmond San Rafael Bridge..
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"The listeners and members of KQED. I'm Dave Freeman. Now it's 6 35. This is morning edition from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Noel King. Good morning. The US Latin American countries and the United Nations all say they are deeply concerned about what's happening in Nicaragua. An election is to be held there in November, and President Daniel Ortega is detaining leading political rivals who plan to run against him. He's also having journalists and activists who are critical of his government. Arrested In a remarkable twist, Ortega of former Sandinista revolutionary is persecuting some of the Same friends and allies who helped him overthrow a dictator in 1979. Yesterday, I talked to Bianca Jagger. She grew up in Nicaragua, and she is the founder of a human rights foundation that bears her name. I believe that then you know, take a will never participated in an election that he could lose. That's why Daniel Ortega has changed the Constitution so that he can be president for life. That's why the Neil Ortega has dismantle all the legal institution so he has total power in the country. And now, even with all of that, he feels that he probably cannot win the election, so he has already put in prison or put in the House of arrests. Presidential candidates. We tried to reach many people in Nicaragua before we reached out to you in the UK, and no one would speak to us. On the record. People are obviously very scared. What is the thing that they are so afraid of Reprisals, the brutal and relentless persecution. We cannot forget that in Nicaragua, then you'll Ortega has killed at least 350 people in 2000 and 18 among those many students and others. There have been many poor farmers or campesinos, as we call it in Nicaragua that had been killed and probably are not part of that number that I'm saying, and we have Incredible organization that have concluded that then you will take and his regime have committed crimes against humanity. Why are people so frightened Because everyone is in the list of the next one that Daniel Ortega would go after. The thing that makes this quite remarkable is that Daniel Ortega has undergone an evolution since he became a leader in Nicaragua. In 1979, he and some of his friends colleagues took part in the Nicaraguan revolution. This group of people called themselves the Sandinistas, and they staged a rebellion against a dictator. What was that rebellion about the Sunday needs to revolution was supposed to have brought democracy. Justice. I'm freedom for the people of Nicaragua. And, of course, many young people, not only Nicaragua, but through how the world believe that that was the answer to this terrible dynasty of this Monza, but unfortunately, Daniel Ortega has become a traitor. Of that revolution who has not only betrayed all the promises and all the aspirations of the people of Nicaragua. But who today among those people that he has recently kidnapped arrest and to a certain degree may disappear. Two of those are iconic figures of the Sandinista revolution, which is Dora Maria Tellez. Yes, on the former general Google Torres, who Between the two of them. They were instrumental in between Daniel Ortega, who was a prisoner because he had robbed a bank, a prisoner of samosa. So this is really important for those people on the left who continue to think of Daniel Ortega at this revolutionary leader to understand that this is not an issue of left and right. This is an issue of right and wrong. Who in Nicaragua supports Daniel Ortega, who are his allies who are his constituents. Who might vote for him in an election in November. I don't know anymore, and I think that he probably agree with me, and that's why he's doing what he's doing. So the question is how many people really support today? Daniel Ortega must be many people who supported the revolution who are thinking when is my turn If he puts in jail, Dora Maria Tellez in general, you got Tories who saved his life. Who's next? The United States has a history of intervening in Nicaragua to suit its own interests at the expense of Nicaraguan civilians. And so I gather a lot of people There are very wary of US intervention in many senses. Should the United States do something here specifically? Or should the United States stay out of this entirely? Or should the United States only work with other countries to do something about Ortega's dictatorship? Tell you the truth. Nicaragua has very little to offer to the United States. And although there will be many people in Nicaragua, who will be questioning the motive of the United States, many people in Nicaragua sink The efforts of the United States so far because what they have done the United States has targeted those criminals are members of the Ortega and real regime, including in many of his Children. So I will say as a human right defender that I wouldn't be involved with any country that will want to intervene in Nicaragua. And I was an opponent to the Contra war because I don't believe in Conventions from other countries. So what I'm saying is that I'm happy to see that at last the international community is leasing pleads for help or pleads for help us. Okay. Please put in sanctions on the regime of Daniel Ortega. When you look back over the past 40 plus years of political upheaval in Nicaragua, when you consider the fact that we are reaching you outside of the country because no one inside of the country would or could speak to us on the record because they were too afraid. Where do you find hope for the country's future. I have to believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel. I know what the people in Nicaragua are going through. I admire all of this political leaders. They knew that will be arrested. I have some of my friends who knew there will be torture and that they left behind statements that were red afterwards. That are so inspiring to sing that people are prepared to sacrifice their life. Daniel Ortega has managed to bring together the opposition people from different political faction who now are working together to unseat this criminal and brutal despot. Bianca Jagger, founder of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation. She grew up in Managua, Nicaragua. Thank.
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"I'm Dave Freeman at 7 46. This is morning edition from NPR News. I'm Leila Haldin and I'm Steve Inskeep. Additional evidence shows just how hard ex President Trump tried to overturn democracy. After his election defeat last year, the House Oversight Committee released documents showing that Trump tried to involve law enforcement in his scheme. Carolyn Maloney is the committee chair. President Trump repeatedly pressured the Department of Justice to overturn the election he had lost. The defeated president pushed the Justice Department to engage in schemes that were so baseless that his own appointees refused. NPR congressional reporter Claudia Gonzalez is here. Good morning. Good morning, Steve. What documents reveal and confirm what we just said. Yes, it was quite a packet of documents, 232 pages of emails in others showing Trump and his allies pushing the Justice Department to look at the various sham allegations of voter fraud. In one email uncovered by the House Oversight Committee, Trump asked Justice official Jeffrey Rosen to probe certain claims. Just minutes before Trump announced Rosen would take over the top jobs. Acting Attorney general and some of these were pretty out there. For example, former Trump Chief of staff Mark Meadows pushed justice officials to probe the conspiracy theory that voter fraud was caused by Italian satellite Oh yes, and rose and shared one conspiracy theory with another DOJ official, who called it quote pure insanity. But we saw Trump's own appointees rejecting these claims. That said all of this pressure Democrats say culminated in the January six attack. They just found no legal basis to join a lawsuit before the Supreme Court on this or take any other kinds of steps in order to try to effectively take over the government and democracy. Um, this House oversight committee was also hearing testimony on the insurrection. The attack on Congress January 6th as they were certifying the election. What do we learn there? Yes, FBI Director Christopher Wray, along with two Defense Department officials testified. They testified for the first time. This is General Charles Flynn and Lieutenant General Walter Pyatt. They all defended their response that day. Now we should note. Flynn is the brother of former embattled Trump advisor Michael Flynn. He and Pyatt said military officials were delayed sending the National Guard because they needed time to develop a plan. Let's take a listen Now when people's lives on the line to two minutes is too long. We were not position to respond to that urgent request we had to re prepare so we would send them in prepared for this new mission. So again, we hear Pyatt. They're defending their role that day. Democrats also focused on what they said were contradictions in the testimony of how the day unfolded, and they say this fuels the a call for an outside commission a probe January six, But that plan is currently stalled. Okay, so many aspects here and so many revelations we've heard about President Trump ex President Trump's effort to overturn his election defeat. We've heard about problems during the time of the insurrection, and then there are efforts to track violent extremists which continue now. What did you hear there? Right. New York Democrat Alexandria, Ocasio. Cortez asked Ray to detail what contributed to the insurrection failures, and he admitted their hands are tied. When it comes to tracking these threats on Social media, Let's take a listen I think what this shows is the challenge of getting sufficient information about what is out there on social media to be able to have, uh, the ability to distinguish between what we're calling sort of aspirational versus the intention. And so, he said, This could be one of the more important lessons learned out of the attack. That is, if policies could be changed to address social media tracking.
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"I'm Dave Freeman. Good morning on Wednesday morning edition continues at 7 35. This is morning edition from NPR News. I'm Leila Falled in I'm Steve Inskeep. And I'm Rachel Martin. It was December 2017 CIA officer Mark Polly Murat Polis was in Moscow. He woke up in his hotel room with a horrible case of vertigo. This is the scariest moment of my life in the room is spinning. I can't stand up. I'm falling over. I feel physically sick. My tonight is which is ringing in my ears. So you know something really unusual and terrible to happen to me. What did you think was happening? So, Rachel, The first thing I thought of was that it might have been food poisoning. It wasn't that And then, really, as the symptoms continued, and got worse when I got back to the states in early 2018, That's when it really kind of dawn on myself and others that something really unusual had happened. Mark Pollen. Murat Polis was one of the first Americans to report experiencing symptoms of the so called Havana syndrome outside of Havana. This is the mysterious illness that the New York Times reports has afflicted more than 130, U. S government personnel and their families in Cuba, China, Russia and elsewhere. The New Yorker has reported that Americans working at the White House have recently come down with the illness as well while working on site But back in 2018 marks symptoms confounded government doctors, So when I got back, and I eventually made my way Who are CIA's office of medical Services, You know, they put me through kind of a rudimentary protocol that they had developed, which had to do with just some very basic walking in a straight line and almost filling out of sheet and the brief talk with a doctor, and they concluded rather quickly that this was not consistent with what they had seen amongst the victims in Cuba. And that really started a pretty long battle with our office of Medical services, which lasted for years, because you know the CIA senior medical staff didn't believe me, but Mark is convinced he was the victim of something called a direct energy attack. There's not a lot of public information about who exactly has the technology to carry something like this out. Ultimately, there was questions was this kind of signals intelligence system designed to kind of collect on our cell phones was turned up too high, Or was it an offensive weapon? We should just explain these attacks would happen because of some nefarious entity would be trying to extract data from a computer or a cell phone. And if there's a human being close to those devices, then these physical effects start happening. I think that that was an initial theory think it's moved to more of an offensive weapon. This is not really novel technology. It's just a question of whether you ethically use it against another human. And so I think that's where we are now. And you know the good note and this is important point to make is that I think we're past The notion of this is psychosomatic that the victims are making this up. It just happened too much. So something is happening. And those were the allegations that were coming towards you. I mean, for more than three years, you were trying to get people to pay attention. And you couldn't even get treatment. I mean, what was that? Like? What was that experience Tremendous moral injuries. We talk about the physical injury of my headaches. I've had a headache for three years. I still have it. Today, and it's been, you know, that's that's pretty debilitating. I can I can talk to you now. I mean, I I wrote a book on leadership that just came out so I was able to I'm able to function for two or three hours a day and concentrating. But that's about it. We should say you retired because of this retired because of this. I retired at age 50. I was in the senior Intelligence service as one of the most highly decorated officers had a lot of less left in the tank. You know if I could have gone to work You know, you know whether whether you know people inside approve of what I did in going public or not. I don't think there's any doubt that I was considered one of the, you know, find a fine officer at CIA. And so so ultimately, there was more to go. I mean, you know you don't retire at 50, but I did so because I couldn't go to work. Have a splitting headache every day. And so, you know, that's really unfortunate and compounded on top of that was the anxiety that I developed. So when I eventually got to Walter Reed, there were just as concerned about my mental health. Status as as the chronic pain that I was suffering and, you know on a good note. Walter Reed really helped me work through the mental health aspect. Yeah, so that's important. A few months ago, you finally did get treatment at Walter Reed Medical Center, and that's helped. It was. It's been extraordinary. So all they want to do is make you feel better. And and boy did. I need that. And it changed. It saved my life. So not only does it give me you know tools on how to deal with my chronic pain, but it also gave me a hope, and they frankly diagnosed me with a traumatic brain injury. We do something called art therapy. And in that you're creating mass. You're creating art to express yourselves and a colleague of mine, a servant CIA officer and the senior senior ranks who has been hit by this Painted something he called called it the gunshot. It's a black canvas and painted it. Black me threw red paint on it, and that would really resonated with a lot of us because that was what we wish it happened to us. I rather would have been shot. Have a visible wounds that CIA could have believed me as I really struggled for those three years..
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"I'm Dave Freeman at 8 30. Live from NPR news. I'm Janine Herbst resident. Biden is in Geneva for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin tomorrow. Earlier, he wrapped up his work in Belgium, where he and EU leaders worked on trade issues. NPR's Franco Ordonez has more from Brussels. Biden and the European leaders are going to launch a new trade and Technology council. The idea is to address issues together like regulation for technology platforms and how to reform the World Trade Organization and trade has been a point of tension. For example, there are still some U. S tariffs on European exports of steel and aluminum. These were put in place by former President Donald Trump, and they really offend some European allies. NPR's Franco Ordonez reporting California is said to fully reopen its economy. Today, more than a year after lockdown. Some restrictions were put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports daily Infections have plummeted and vaccination rates are up significantly. California imposed the first statewide shut down in March of last year and is among the last to fully reopened. Starting today, fully vaccinated people will not be required to wear facial coverings and most settings. The state is also rolling back capacity limits and social distancing guidelines. To date, more than 70% of Californians have received at least one dose of the vaccine for Covid 19. NPR's Windsor Johnston. Wall Street trading lower at this hour. You're listening to NPR news Live from KQED News. I'm Brian what the West.
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"I'm Dave Freeman Morning Edition, and the California report all ahead next. It's morning edition from NPR News. I'm Sarah McCammon and I'm Steve Inskeep. Good morning. The United States and the European Union have reached the truths on a long running and costly trade dispute involving two big aircraft makers Boeing in the United States. An Airbus in Europe. The US and EU say they're doing this to focus on a common competitor, China. This is the latest in a theme during President Biden's trip through Europe and NPR's Frank Langfitt has been covering it all. Hey there, Frank. Hey, Good morning, Steve. And I want people to remember you're in Europe. Now. You've covered China in the past, so you're well positioned to cover this story. What was this dispute about? Well, it's it's quite a story. This goes back like 17 years is quite a saga. The US accused the EU of illegally subsidizing the aircraft maker Airbus. They won tariffs at the WTO, the World Trade Organization than the EU also made similar accusations and they got tariffs. So all together like I think it's 11.5 billion, they were able to hit each other's exports with With tariffs. You're talking everything staying from tractors to wine to cheese. I even went up to a Scottish whiskey maker and under the rules, the W T. W T O. If you win these tariffs, you can hit all kinds of products. And so there's basically been the stalemate and really a cause of friction between these two enormous economies, the European Union and the number one economy in the world, the United States, so it's touched many things beyond aircraft makers then and why. Why would they end the dispute now? China. I mean, it's the answer to a lot of questions these days. If you remember you go back to the eighties and the nineties, China was the workshop of the world made toys made T shirts. China has been climbing the value chain over the last 25 years there working on AI Internet. They want to build Brig. World brands and one of those is they want to get into airline airplane manufacturing. They have a company based in Shanghai when I was there back in 2000, you know, 56 years ago called the Commercial Aircraft Corporation or Komac, and what the Americans are saying is that it's on track to become a legit, legitimate rival of these two other companies. And it surprised me a little bit because I remember covering Komac and back Then a number of years ago, people in the airline industry thought, uh, you know, it's so complicated. The Chinese are not going to be able to do this that quickly but apparently from the EU and US perspective. The Chinese are really coming along. And this is what Catherine tie I should say she is the the U. S Trade representative. This is what she said to reporters in Brussels just moments ago. Instead of fighting with one of our closest allies, we are finally coming together against a common threat. We agreed to work together to challenge and counter China's non market practices in the sector in specific ways that reflect our standards for fair competition, Frank I certainly didn't know they were going to take this step. But you can sort of see it coming at the beginning of the Biden administration when you heard people close to the administration indicate The President Biden wanted to confront China in coordination with US allies and especially U. S allies in Europe. Absolutely. And I think what's interesting is that he so far the trip is going at least rhetorically pretty well for him, and that he's gotten supported the G seven to call out China on human rights in NATO What we saw just yesterday, calling China challenge of the international system and so what we're seeing is more of it now, basically people putting down their trade weapons and saying We're really going to focus on what we think is the real challenge economically. China Frank. Thanks for your insight, as always. Great to talk. Steve NPR's Frank Langfitt is in London. It's morning edition from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep, and I'm Sarah McCammon..
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"I'm Dave Freeman at 7 30. Live from NPR news in Washington. I'm Dave Mattingly, Covid 19 Vaccines, trade and Climate change are among the issues expected to dominate this week's G seven summit. President Biden is on his way to Europe for the talks in Cornwall, England. Afterwards, Biden is to attend meetings of NATO and the European Union in Brussels. His eight day trip concludes next week in Geneva, Switzerland, where he will hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Scientific research is getting a boost in Congress. NPR's Giles Snyder says A bill passed in the Senate seeks to prevent the US from falling behind countries such as China. Supporters say the bill represents the biggest investment in scientific research in the US since the Apollo space program. After weeks of debate, the Senate voted 68 to 32 overwhelmingly passing the legislation and bipartisan fashion. Would authorize some $50 billion for semiconductor development and manufacturing, but also calls for tens of billions to be invested in the development of artificial intelligence and other technologies in an effort to ensure US competitiveness on the global stage. Senate passage came after the White House announces creating a task force to address supply chain issues. U. S automakers have been affected by chip shortages this year. President Biden says he's looking forward to working with the House on the package and to signing it into law as soon as possible. Oil Snyder NPR NEWS This is NPR news Live from KQED News. I'm Brian White. San Mateo County supervisors voted Tuesday to require gun dealers on parts of the peninsula to get a county license to sell firearms and ammunition. California law already requires state licenses. The board voted five to nothing to force gun dealers in unincorporated parts of San Mateo to get county permits and abide by a new set of regulations. Supervisor Dave Pine Co authored the proposal. Important to comprehensively regulate these firearm dealers to ensure everyone's safety and to ensure that guns are not ended up in the wrong hands. The measure requires gun sales to take.
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"And a new problem for the North Bay, one of one South bound north of Petaluma Boulevard North Crash car into the Guard rail. Right lane. Joe McConnell for cake You Betty Jo McConnell's traffic support today comes from Lucky and Lucky, California. I'm Dave Freeman with a KQED perspective. Now at 8 43 this morning, the pandemic has taken a terrible toll on the small businesses that often defined the character of a neighborhood. One of those is Chinatown. Here is Larry Gen. Lee, one of the indelible stars of the strong A pandemic will certainly be the devastating impact on the businesses in the wonderfully iconic neighborhoods. Of our beautiful city. I grew up on the border of China town in North Beach, and I've witnessed both neighborhoods undergo multiple transitions. Nona's drastic is this On a recent trip to Chinatown, I was stunned to see how covert it decimated so many businesses. Recall how subdued businesses were after the Loma Prieta earthquake, but this pales in comparison. So many boarded up storefronts, empty outdoor dining Parkins. Ever familiar scenes of roast duck and pork are scarce. Busting dim sum partners have closed their doors. What has happened to the Chinatown I've known Have long since moved away from Chinatown. But as okay she goes, You can't take the Chinatown out of the boy. However, I realized we lose more than just stores as we see a longstanding businesses disappear from China town's landscape. This is where my great grandfather and grandfather lived when they first arrived to this country because they were forced to stay within his boundaries. Recent immigrants. Chinatown still serves as a center of their lives, a refuge from the rest of the city, which is more difficult for them to navigate. I feel the loss of the comforting memories of familiar scenes and anchor me to the past. There's a bakery where my parents bought my favorite coffee crunch cake and custard tarts for birthdays. Restaurant where we get the best fried chicken wings. The story I purchased my first walk. These memories of Chinatown around me and my Children generation a sense of continuity and connection to the journey of their forebears. The power of his history binds us together. Although I'm not ready to write Chinatowns obituary, I know some businesses one recover from this. Nonetheless, I have faith in the resilience of Chinese Americans. We're starting a lot. Not unaccustomed to catastrophe and during Angel Island and the exclusion Act. With the advent of the new year of the Ox, comes a renewed hope for harmony and prosperity. I'm sure the neighborhood will rise again. With the perspective I'm Larry. Generally. Larry Gen. Lee is psychotherapist in San Francisco. And you can share your thoughts on his commentary online at kqed dot org's slash perspectives where support for perspectives this morning comes from Comcast..
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"I'm Dave Freeman Morning Edition continues its 6 35. It's morning edition from NPR News. I'm Sarah McCammon and I'm Rachel Martin. Good morning. On Tuesday, 45 out of 50, Senate Republicans voted to try to stop the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Democrats still one out with a handful of Republicans on board, but that vote could signal how GOP lawmakers intend to go in a post trump political world. Jonah Goldberg is a conservative columnist editor in chief of the dispatch. Regular guest on this very program. Good morning, Jonah. Morning, Rachel. Okay, so a handful of familiar Republican names across party lines to support impeachment. The trial at least Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Ben Sasse, Pat Toomey. I named them because those are the same people who've been critical of Donald Trump several other times. So even though we heard Mitch McConnell placed blame for the January 6th riots squarely at the feet of President Trump It seems to have changed nothing when it comes to the party's loyalty to him. I know that it's changed nothing. It just hasn't changed enough. Um, the dilemma that the Republican Party faces for a long time. Whether or not Donald Trump remains this outside influence six months or a year from now. He is, he is currently is just simply that Donald Trump has now become a wedge issue for the Republican Party. He divides the Republican Party. Obviously the majority significant and for my case, depressing majority of Republicans don't want to publicly get crosswise with him. But the problem is, is that as it stands right now, demographically at least across the country and in the sort of tipping point swing states like Arizona and Georgia. Um The Republican Party is it needs every conceivable Republican voter to stay for to keep from being a minority party, a permanent minority party and you shave off a 10 to 15% of Republicans who just are sick of the The trump stuff. You're not going to make up for that with rural voters and others who on Lee turnout when Trump is on the ticket anyway, so the Republican Party's got a huge problem here. And it's a very depressing one because it's leading to the Republican Party making allowances for crazies. I mean, forget the racist arguments. Just absolute crazy people. Um Because they think they need them in their coalition. The idea that Liz Cheney, the number three ranking house Republican, Is getting more pressure and more attacks from fellow Republicans than Marjorie Taylor Greene. This absolutely loony bird. Scary Cuban on type just tells you a lot about where the GOP is right now. I mean, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Jen Psaki at the podium in the White House the other day, was asked about her, said she don't wanna talk about Marjorie Taylor Greene in the briefing room, but Republicans sort of have to talk about her because she does as you note Represents something very real, very real energy, even though you say it's a crazy and damaging energy. Absolutely. Look. I mean, this is a huge argument I've been having with fellow conservatives for awhile. Now there is a real sort of victim culture. Sort of right wing snowflake is, um, taking over big chunks of the right. Not allowed to criticize our crazy people, you know, want to criticize Donald Trump. You're not allowed to criticize, um us for thinking that the election was stolen. You know, that's like now, like an identity politics argument like you're supposed to, like respect people's beliefs that they You know the Venezuelans and the North Koreans stole the election kind of thing. And the problem with this is that If you want to take a fence of being lumped in with insurrectionists and races and white supremacists and Cuban on conspiracy, people think stuff. You can't just take a fence when people lump you in with that you actually have to denounce those people, too. You have the drug clear bright lines. That's the best way to send. The signal that you don't want to be lumped in with those people is by not letting yourself be lumped in with those people, but the future. They want to close ranks. The future of your party doesn't look to be doing that. I mean, when you think about someone like Nikki Haley, former U S Ambassador TO the U N govern South Carolina. I mean, she she has been incredibly reticent to criticize President Trump for his role in the January 6th riot, and she hasn't explicitly condemned Someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene. Yeah, I think it's shameful. I'm friends with Nikki. My wife used to work for But you know a tous point. The political calculation for a lot of these people, particularly people looking at 2024 is They can't win without trump voters. Trump is now this cultural war culture war symbol. You're either a defender of him or you're not. And that goes for His strongest and biggest defenders to and that's what people like Martin Taylor Greene or like the you know as long as as long as you're heroically on the front lines defending Trump You can't criticize those people, either. It's hugely dysfunctional. Jonah Goldberg of the Dispatch columnist for the L A times. Thanks as always, Jonah. Great to be here. Thank you. Viral Inauguration day image of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, wearing those wool mittens is still going strong. Besides the means getting millions of likes, it's turned into a fund raiser. Charities will split $1.8 million. The Vermont senator talked to morning edition about it. We're just gratified. I mean, this money is coming from the sale of T shirts and sweatshirts and stickers. And we just appreciate folks all over the country getting involved in this process. People wanting a piece of that comedic moment but merchandise featuring his viral image through Sanders website they sold out in five days. Now, those proceeds are going to a least eight charities and organizations in the senator's home state. Well, the money is going to go to organizations in the state of Vermont that served seniors and that is the meals on Wheels program and some senior centers as well. It's going to go to organizations that are serving low income people. In terms of rental assistance on getting food to people who need it. And those are our community action centers, and it's also going to go. I think to try to improve dental care in the state of Vermont for lower income people. Meanwhile, Senator Sanders is still getting a kick out of the means. Some of them are so funny that it's unbelievable, so I just I am amazed by the creativity of people all over the country, and no, he does not have a favorite. No favorites, but I've enjoyed him off. The mittens were made by Gen. Ellis, an elementary school teacher in Vermont. In the days after the inauguration, Ellis made a few more pears and auction them off over social media. Some of her mittens are selling for as much as $4000. Proceeds will also go to organizations in Vermont, with some set aside for her daughter's college fund last week, Ellis told NPR. Despite the popularity, she will not be quitting her day job. I'm still a public school teacher and a very dedicated to that job. I'm not going to stop doing this job that I love. That brings me great joy to pursue this other thing as a business So, in between classes, she'll work on a few new pieces. She just announced he'll be working with the Vermont Sock company,.
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"I'm Dave Freeman 7 35. This is morning edition from NPR News. I'm Tanya, mostly in Los Angeles, and I'm Rachel Martin in Washington, D C two counts of willful neglect of duty those of the charges against former Michigan governor Rick Snyder and former Flint, Michigan Public Works director Howard Croft. For their role in the Flint water crisis. The misdemeanor charges carry a punishment of up to $1000 and up to one year in jail. They come almost seven years after the city of Flint began taking in water from the Flint River in an attempt to save money. The water wasn't properly treated. It corroded the city's aging pipes, causing lead to leach. Into the drinking water more than 100,000 Flint residents were exposed unsafe levels of lead. Latricia Adams does community activism in Flint, and this was her reaction to the charges against Snyder and Croft. It doesn't feel good. Adam's heads black millennials for Flint, which advocates the rights of Flint residents still dealing with the effects of the water crisis. Accountability is great, but even with accountability, even if Rick Snyder was behind bars for a significant amount of time That still doesn't compensate for the generations of irreversible damage. That is and will continue to happen with Flint residents. Years ago, Sometime after the city of Flint switched to Flint River water pediatrician Mona Hanna, a Tisha started seeing something troubling. She treated a lot of Children in Flint in her patients were showing twice the normal amount of lead in their blood since the change in the water supply. She called a press conference in September of 2015 and warned residents, especially kids to stop drinking the water. More than five years later, Dr. Mona Hanna, a teacher is now the director of Flint's Pediatric Public Health Initiative. And she joins us this morning. Thanks for being here. Rachel. It's great to be with you. Can I ask you to take us back to that moment when you started to realize something was wrong? What was going through your mind? Uh um, I remember the exact moment it was thesis, A of 2015. I was actually with a high school girlfriend, who of all things had become a drinking water expert, and she told me in my house at a Last minute barbecue that Mona the water isn't being treated properly and Flint and because of that, there's probably lead in the water, and that's the moment that my life changed. When I heard the word lead. It was ah. Call to action. I respect the science of what led? Does I understand that the potent irreversible neurotoxin and and I also understand that lets a form of environmental racism it's The last thing our kids in Flint needed. That's the moment I stopped sleeping. I stopped him saying I lost about £30 and I began this quest to find out if if that lead was getting into the bodies of our Children, which itwas I mean, so now here we are. Seven years later, it's hard to believe these charges now against the former governor. And another top official. What? What do you make of it? It's a bit of disbelief. It's been so long on Dfars. So many people in Flint this justice Delayed really felt like justice, deny that there was never going to be this level of accountability on Daz, a physician in Flint. I never used to really kind of respond to these questions of accountability and justice. There was these criminal cases and civil cases. And as they began, Tonto, practice more in Flint and interact with the families and Flynn. I began to understand how critical and foundational the concept of accountability and justice really is to health and healing. Because without that to happen, it Z almost like a wound that never closes and it stays open and open open and it's been open for about seven years on Dad. Having some level of justice is like a solve. It helps those wounds finally close and it helps the city and the people move on and recover. You've written a book and in it, you talk about the villains in this crisis as being more than a single person, Maurer than one individual. Can you explain how you see that? Absolutely. S o, You know, so many people ask me like, who do you want in jail or who should go to jail? And there's there's not one villain. There's not 10 villains. There's there's many villains on Dis is what I say in my book. I say There are lots of villains in this story. A disaster of this scale does not happen completely by accident. Many people stopped caring about Flint in Flint's kids. Many people looked the other way. People in power make tragic and terrible choices, then collectively and ineptly tried to cover up their mistakes. While charges have been brought against some of the individuals who are culpable. The real villains are harder to see, because the real villains live underneath the behavior and drive it. The real villains are the ongoing effects of racism inequality. Read anti intellectualism and even laws. A fair Neil liberal capitalism and these are the villains that we don't usually notice and don't want to. And these are the villains that poison Flint with policy. And I hope one day we can go after these systemic villains and and bring forth Judge Justice. What is what could that possibly look like now? I mean, even as you nod to the positive of fact of these charges, where do you begin that larger level of healing and reconciliation to try to address some of those huge issues? Yeah, And that has been my work since since day one from the moment of recognizing come of this widespread lead contamination, this population level trauma and this broken trust. Our work has been in a very holistic way to mitigate the impact of the crisis and bring forth healing and recovery. You can think of what happened in Flint as a as a case of signs, denial and our science help bring speak.
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"I'm Dave Freeman. Good morning. The time now, 6 35. This is morning edition from NPR News. I'm Tanya, mostly in Los Angeles, and I'm Rachel Martin in Washington, D. C. The acting U. S Attorney for D. C. Says the scope of the investigation into last week's insurrection. Is quote unprecedented. Over the weekend, Federal prosecutors charged more people, adding to a list of defendants that's expected to grow into the hundreds. So what more do we know about the capital Ryan and who was involved? NPR's Greg Marie will have the latest on the arrest in a few minutes, but first NPR's Martin cost reports on how much support the rioters got from police. Investigators are still pouring over the online imagery in compiling lists of potential suspects and the acting U S Attorney for D. C. Michael Sherwin fully expects that some may turn out to be cops. There were thousands of people here and whether they were bakers, Candlestick makers, law enforcement firefighters. Yeah, I think we're going to see a wide variety of people that participated. And unfortunately, some of those people I think are gonna be law enforcement officers, which that's troubling, Sherwin says. If there's evidence that officers broke the law, they will face charges. If they were peaceful. Then it becomes a question of whether they broke their agency's rules. Police departments around the country are now investigating reports of their officers spotted in Washington, Andrew Meyer Berg runs the Office of Police Accountability in Seattle, where two officers are under scrutiny. I do think that officers like anyone else should be allowed to win are allowed to attend rallies. The question with the rally here, though, is was the participation of the officers didn't go over the line of just being at a political rally to supporting Insurrection or supporting violation of the U. S Constitution or the laws of the jurisdiction. Complicating matters is the fact that American policing has become closely associated with the cause, motivating that crowd at the Capitol. The Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Trump twice and the thin blue line flags were fixtures at his rallies that made it all the more shocking for many cops to see scenes like this on Wednesday..
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"Here's Joe McConnell. All roads ahead are problem free. Just one hazard reported moments ago in San Matteo won one south of Poplar reported an orange cone and in the middle of the off ramp, and that is about it A Zafar his issues 0 to 80, south of Alpine, a traffic hazard. Not saying what it is, but something's in the middle of the road. Joe McConnell for KQED, the mystery. Thank you, Joe. Time Now, For a perspective on KQED. I'm Dave Freeman and 8 43, immigrant families, bland traditions and habits of their birth country with those of their new American home. For Selena gang. That memory resides in a box of birthday candles. Birthdays have always represented a contradiction for my family as Cambodian refugees who fled the killing fields of the Camaro Rouge regime. We, like many other Cambodians found a living in California's nascent donut shop industry back in the 19 eighties. However, birthday is like the donuts. My family sold the quintessential American traditions that didn't exist in our lives prior to my parents coming to the United States. My earliest birthday memories consist of a frothy strawberry cake from the local Asian bakery topped with eight spiral striped walls and candles. I had carefully selected them from the 24 Count box. The cashier had talked my mother into buying despite her misgivings about the additional cost. After lighting the candles, my family saying and off key rendition of the Birthday song while I stood awkwardly at the head of the table, uncomfortable with all the attention I was relieved when it was all over and I could escape. I don't remember anything about what the cake tasted, like, or if I even got any presents, But I do remember my mother, carefully pulling the pastel candles with their slightly burnt wicks from the cream diligently, wiping the frosting before taking them to the sink to rinse them off. The next time I saw them they had been dried and put back into their original box with the other 16 on use candles and every year like clockwork, my mother would reuse the same tapers and add just one new one for me. We're no longer struggling just to get by. But the ingrained frugality of our immigrant background. The gratitude for escape from genocide and war and the incorporation of traditions that embody American ideals is a constant reminder of how lucky we are. I have a three year old daughter now who will never grow up like I did the stories her grandparent's will tell her. We'll see miss foreign as the Cambodian language they speak. But as her fourth birthday approaches, and I prepare for families first ever collected video call in a year where she has only heard their voices, I pull out her own set of burnt candles and get ready to write a new one for her. With the perspective. I'm Selena King. Selena King works in the tech sector and is a writer and you can share your thoughts on her commentary online..
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"dave freeman" Discussed on KQED Radio
"I'm Dave Freeman on KQED. Good morning now, 7 30. Live from NPR news in Washington. I'm Dave Mattingly. Democrats have flipped at least one of Georgia's two Senate seats. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Leffler and one Senate runoff. The other involving Republican incumbent David Perdue and Democratic challenger John A. Sof remains too close to call. Though Assad is claiming victory, NPR's Barbra's front says the results of the produce off race will determine which party controls the Senate has President elect Joe Biden prepares to take office in taped remarks also have pledged to make ending the Corona virus pandemic and boosting economic aid his top priorities. This campaign has been about health and jobs and justice for the People of this state for all the people of this state. And they will be my guiding principles as I served this state in the U. S. Senate. Purdue has not conceded the race if elected. 33 year old Ausaf would be the youngest member of the Senate in decades, and also victory would give Democrats an even 50 50 split in the Senate Vice president elect comma Harris could break any tie as president of the chamber. Barbara Spread. NPR News Members of Congress are gathering today to accept the electoral college vote from the 2020 election and affirmed Joe Biden's victory later this morning. President Trump is expected to address supporters gathered on the Ellipse near the White House. This is NPR news from Washington. Live from KQED News. I'm Brian what in Oakland County health departments in the Bay Area are working to expand Cove. It 19 testing. That's because getting the general public vaccinated is expected to take months. KQED is Polly striker explains. As the state experiences its worst surge. County health officials aren't letting up on testing. Here's Dr Sundering Mace, Cinema County's health officer, updating the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. And now we're conducting over 3000 test per day with an average of 676 tests for 100,000 residents per day, which is about double what we were doing prior to our increased testing strategy. In San Francisco officials say they conduct more than 8000 tests a day at places like transit hubs frequented by essential workers. Contra Costa County health officer Dr Chris Varna Tanno says they have 14 sites and average 7 to 8000 tests a day. Because vaccine rollout will take months, he says. Testing still matters. You don't know you have covert. You don't know to stay away from others and stop passing it on to other people. But health officials acknowledge isolating convene time away from family. It can also mean lost wages. Solano County Health officer, Dr Bela Ma. Josh estimates the county runs at least 1200 tests a day and I suspect that the demand will diminish greatly come spring when vaccine is available for the general population. But for now, testing is one of the best tools we have to manage this search. I'm Polly striker. KQED news and I'm Brian what There's more baby area and California coverage at kqed dot orc and more morning edition ahead on KQED has thousands of supporters of President Trump are gathering again in Washington, D. C. To reject the election results based on debunked Claims of fraud. Congress is expected to certify the results. The update. Coming up a valuable painting by Kandinsky isn't a Dutch museum. It was once part of a collection owned by a Jewish family. They say they were forced to sell it during the Nazi occupation. No Jewish person in their right mind would take on our collection to a knock Shin House that is complicity with the Nazis. Question is now who should only art? Ah, passionate debate on the world..
Morning Edition
Supreme Court nominee steers clear of Trump criticism
"Live from NPR news in Washington. I'm Dave Mattingly. Employers in the US added two hundred one thousand jobs last month as the nation's jobless rate held steady unemployment remained at three point nine percent. That's near an eighteen year, low hourly wages rose and are two point nine percent higher than this time a year ago. Wells Fargo senior economist Sarah house says that's significant wages are rising at the fastest pace. We've we've seen this expansion. And so I think that's a straight of of the fact that the labor market is in fact, tightening and workers are getting a little bit more and their take home pay. The job gains were spread across many industries.
Morning Edition
Ebola outbreak in large city 'very concerning'
"In washington i'm dave mattingly the world health organization says there's now a high risk of bola spreading regionally from the democratic republic of congo npr's ava peralta says there are fourteen confirmed cases of the virus in the country including one case in a major city outbreaks of ebola in drc are usually easily contained because they happen in rural areas the chief of the world health organization says a confirmed case in the city of more than one million is concerning but he says the global community now has more tools to deal with any poll outb break a vaccine for example is already being deployed in congo more than four thousand doses of the new experimental ebola vaccine arrived in the country this week a house committee will be questioning the justice department's point person on civil rights this morning he is expected to be pressed about a citizenship question added to the twenty two thousand census npr's hansie lo wong reports the government says the question will help enforce the voting rights act many democratic lawmakers are skeptical of that reasoning and they're worried that this question will discourage non citizens from participating in the upcoming national headcount that's why they went to question the acting director of the justice department civil rights division john gore he was invited to testify last week at a hearing but he didn't show up and now he has agreed to attend a foul appearing with the house oversight committee i'm dave mattingly in washington and i'm dave freeman in san francisco on kiki we at five forty three coming up on morning edition in a few moments us wine exports to greater china which includes taiwan were two hundred ten million dollars up ten percent last year and four hundred fifty percent in the past decade but chinese tariffs have fifteen percent put into place after trump put tariffs on steel imports are threatening the export market the export market growth the story on american wine and much more ahead you run an american company you use imported steel and aluminum yellen we had ships on the water with material so we are paying the tariffs but as far as going forward we're kind of in a pause i'm kai ryssdal yes please we would like an exemption trade of a global nature next time on marketplace the financial story of the day in the week on marketplace today at four pm on k q public radio i'm judy woodruff on the next news hour ahead.
South Korea foreign minister to visit U.S. as planned despite Tillerson dismissal
"To examine ways to prevent school shootings its recommendations are expected within one year the man accused of carrying out the school attack in florida is due in court today south korea's foreign minister says president trump's decision to fire secretary of state rex tillerson does not change his plans to travel to washington to coordinate policy on north korea npr's elise hugh reports from seoul south korea and the us will continue to meet as planned to pave away forward on potential north korea talks south korea has gone young was set to meet with rex tillerson but will now sit down with deputy secretary of state john sullivan instead trump abruptly removed tillerson as the chief diplomat of the us following a series of public riffs president trump is nominating c i a director mike pompeo to replace tillerson i'm dave mattingly in washington good morning i'm dave freeman in san francisco on key we d another day of rain when she'll wipers and such so if you're starting your driving.
SportsCenter AllNight
Kobe Bryant honored by Los Angeles Lakers in jersey retirement ceremony
"At eighty one point game last performances 60point gave five nba titles won mvp two finals mvp eighteen allstar appearances the lakers retiring kobe bryant to number's eight and twenty four both jerseys in the raptors that the staples