Damian all things considered our 3 at the next. President approved is extremely strong and powerful in his denial today President Trump appears to side with Russia over his own intelligence agencies on Russian election interference It is Monday July 16th and this is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. I'm Ari Shapiro in Washington and I'm Mary Louise Kelly in Helsinki this hour a former u.s. Intelligence chief responds to the extraordinary meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin We'll also hear from people in Finland about their fears of Russian aggression. Even. Says we're not like a part of NATO. I'm really later a film competition celebrates a historic transition in Zimbabwe any time soon a society is a route to reclaim one of its rights it's not a baby step at all it's a huge achievement now the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jack Speer reaction has been coming in fast and furious to President Donald Trump's news conference in Helsinki Finland following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin today a lot of it negative student largely sidestepped questions about Russian interference in the 26000 elections Trump appeared to counter his own intelligence agency's president saying he asked Putin about election hacking and Putin denied it 45 minute news conference drawing condemnation even from Republicans House Speaker Paul Ryan said there's no question Russia interfered in the election former CIA Director John Brennan on Twitter called the president's behavior quote treasonous one of the things that President Trump and Putin appeared to agree on in Helsinki is the need for arms control talks between the world's 2 majors nuclear powers but as N.P.R.'s David Wong explains it's not clear what the follow up will be Putin said his people gave a list of suggestions to Trump's people for holding arms talks including the extension of the new start nuclear arms control treaty that expires in 2021 whole goal of care of the Center for Strategic and International Studies says traditionally it's been Washington that's pushed Moscow to hold arms control talks the secret of it is that enables you to constrain your own defense industry and you know avoid spending vast quantities of taxpayer dollars and rubles on things that aren't necessary and instead make better use of that money but all of her says without even a joint statement on arms control coming out of the Helsinki summit the status quo is not likely to change anytime soon David Wolman n.p.r. News Washington for the 1st time in California history undocumented immigrants in San Francisco can register to vote in upcoming school board elections member station k.q.e.d. Chloe Veltman has more San Francisco values his approves noncitizen vising back in November 26th in San Francisco supervisors Sunder feel I can't tell if the registration drive outside city hall. She says it is critical for the voices of all parents to be heard in school board elections many Republicans go there always had come to the us for opportunities like a free public education it is only right that they would have a say in the would be governing the education of their children the city joins one of the few around the u.s. To grant undocumented immigrants limited voting rights even as the practices forbid in both state and federal levels but registering comes with risks City officials say voters personal information could be obtained by other agencies including the federal government for n.p.r. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Ari Shapiro in Washington and I'm Mary Louise Kelly in Helsinki where I sat 40 feet or so away from 2 world leaders today President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier today they met one on one for more than 2 hours only their interpreters were present over a working lunch the group grew and President Trump gave the talks up to that point good reviews I think it's a good start very very good stuff for everybody the day concluded with a remarkable press conference. With a handshake and an uncharacteristically soft spoken thank you very much to President Putin President Trump opened the press conference during the session he returned to his election victory and he questioned what happened to Hillary Clinton's e-mails 30 $3000.00 e-mails gone just gone I think in Russia they wouldn't be gone so easily I think it's a disgrace that we can get Hillary Clinton's $33000.00 e-mails when a reporter asked whether President Putin wanted candidate Donald Trump to win the election Putin had this to say value for those who believe yes I did I wanted him to win and said and most remarkably President Trump refused to support u.s. Intelligence agencies led by Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats in their unanimous conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election people came to me Dan Coats came to me and some others they said they think it's Russia I have President Putin he just said it's not Russian I will say this I don't see any reason why it would be I don't see any reason why it would be well I want to hear Michael Hayden's reaction to that he used to run the CIA before that he ran the National Security Agency and he is on the line now General Hayden Welcome thank you very much Marilyn. Can you. See a reason why the President Trump should be persuaded that Russia did try to interfere with u.s. Elections actually absolutely I was I was following along that press conference as actually taking notes at home you know I was fearful of the summit I thought Putin was ahead on points so to speak but you know nothing really bad had been happening until we got to the last 10 or 15 percent of the conference and then all hell broke loose in response to that very pointed question that was aimed at both presidents and President Trump began to answer by quitting the view of American intelligence and law enforcement with that move of lot of Putin and then clearly sided with the view of Putin to be fair he has never given a ringing endorsement of the u.s. Intelligence consensus that Russia messed with American elections he's expressed doubt and skepticism going way back to the campaign so wasn't that huge a surprise what made today different it was a surprise because the president from time to time in his surrogates more often have actually kind of backed themselves into the visit that the president knew what the Russians did he's concerned about it and we're taking measures so you can't take credit for that and then do with the president did today that beyond that Mary Louise it's one thing to say that at a rally in Montana it's quite another thing to say in Helsinki a few feet away from the president of the of the Russian Federation and that's exactly what the president did today I want to I want people listening to know along with your CIA and n.s.a. Post. You are a retired 4 star Air Force general coming at it from that direction what are the implications for for defense for the military of an American president who for whatever reason does not seem inclined to take a hard line with Russia you know it's beyond just the hardline with Russia and that's that's that's really important but you know I had my complaints about the Obama administration being late and light is the way I would put it with regard to a lot of things the Russians were doing it's more in line with American values who we are as a people I'm I've taken to saying recently Mary who is that we need to remember we are a cradle a nation defined by what we believe truth inclusion acceptance free speech free press and so on not by blood soil or even shared history and if you look at the president's entire tour there was an attack at each stop on one or another or many of those principles so if you're an American military officer and frankly I've actually had mid-range officers come and asked me what do I tell my people and that's a really really telling question what do I tell my people about about the images they're their words that are coming out of the president's mouth that's what you say about that about that about about their responsibility to serve Look let me talk about espionage because it's a little bit easier to express here Ok espionage is an edgy enterprise we do things that if anyone else did the more illegal it only gets its legitimacy if it's done for a higher moral purpose and if your core folks don't believe that they're operating on behalf of a higher moral purpose or individuals who have higher moral purpose is the core. The core of the vocation begins to evaporate last thing and real quick General Hayden anything you liked that you heard at today's press conference I mean that the president was trying to be careful and I get that he wants to establish a relationship I I don't think he had to do it with a commitment of unrequited love or you know unconditional love but I get the broader purposes so I was quite willing to comment on the press conference something along the lines of could have been a lot worse until we got to the end that's former CIA director General Michael Hayden General thank you thank you the New Yorkers Susan Glasser has been talking to current and former u.s. Officials about the summit she tweeted that one American official in Europe wrote to her today quote It is a dark day for any patriotic American Susan Glasser is here in Helsinki and here beside me now Sue Nice to see you thank you so much for having me so that quote a dark day for any patriotic American what do you make of that comment. Look I think we're all hearing those of us who have covered Russia for a long time things along a similar vein what I'm struck by having watched led me Putin for the last 18 years now is how much he's managed to unite Russia watchers who are often a fractious and feuding group you know but when I've talked with Democrats Republicans they are extremely united on this hawks they feel that this is a summit without precedent in American history whether with a Soviet leader or a Russian leader and I think in some ways the reaction just is telling is that email I received from a very senior u.s. Official here in Europe was their reaction the public reaction of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov You know what he said he said it was better than super Well I was going to ask and you mentioned that you have covered Russia for a long time you were a Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post as for him or Putin came to power. Is Love Rove's opinion is that is that the way this is likely to play this was a good day for Russia Well that's the way that it's playing in Russia and you know as you've noted there's a lot of pushback even from many Republicans now you didn't hear the same voices before the summit publicly saying that it should be held but I think it's important to note that it was actually Donald Trump's own insistence that this summit take place he's the one who invited land near Putin to have a meeting in the famous now famous do not congratulate phone call back in March when he did congratulate than mere Putin his own advisers obviously were cautious about this they were ordered by President Trump flush in what appeared to be his his triumph in Singapore he came back and he said Now I want to have this summit and here we are just a couple weeks afterwards I can't stress enough how unusual that is this was a hastily prepared summit there was no agreed upon substantive agenda there were. None of the normal deliverables that normally would be negotiated well in advance of a high level meeting like this and so you had Trump really in control of this thing so he said it's on some level exactly what he wanted to say today to us obviously there's a lot we don't know about his particular work outside in this one on one meeting between Trump and Putin but from where you sit to the u.s. Getting thing out of this was that was this a success on an any level by your read. I think it was a success for Vladimir Putin I think that's the only way to look at him on the other hand some of the fears that had been raised by people who did not want the president to hold this summit or wanted it to be more carefully planned out you know he didn't make a grand bargain on Syria he didn't recognize the annexation of Crimea at least that we know of you but he didn't threaten to pull out of NATO or other wise sabotage NATO none of that came true well I think that's an important point is we don't know yet obviously what was discussed at that more than 2 hour private meeting again I would note that was requested by President Trump not by President Putin the private one on one meeting with no other American officials present so we don't know what happened in that but I think you're right that there was a lot of bracing for the worst among the sort of Russia policy wonks that I talked to in and out of the government in that they President Trump has in the past publicly appeared to be sympathetic to the Russian argument about why they took over Crimea he has voiced in the past as you know publicly saying Russia should be allowed back in to the g 7 as recently as a month ago even last week in his tour of Europe he also said maybe we should consider ending exercise in the Baltic he didn't do any of that today so what you hear from Trump allies is a little bit of pushback saying it wasn't the president language that we should pay attention to but the policy right now right that is the New Yorker's Susan Glasser here with me and Helsinki thank you thank you. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Mary Louise Kelly and I'm Ari Shapiro in most countries a conversation with the director of a film festival would not be a revolutionary act in Zimbabwe I recently spoke with Nigel money he directs the Zimbabwe International Film Festival trust and he told me we could not have done this interview a year ago that's one of the major transformations that is already taken place yeah I couldn't be talking like this with you because. You know worrying about what would happen after you leave. You know the freedom of speech is become one of the major attainments of our coup that wasn't a coup. Our crude It wasn't a coup you hear that phrase a lot in Zimbabwe these days he's talking about last November the military forced out Robert Mugabe the man who led an oppressive government for decades and they put Mugabe's former deputy in charge a man named Emerson non-God He says the country is open for business and that elections at the end of this month will be free and fair i went to Zimbabwe to see what has changed and what hasn't during this historic transition we're going to hear those stories all this week about what happens when a country begins to loosen the handcuffs that its people have been in for decades we met at the Film Festivals office in the capital Harare it's in a brightly painted inviting old house set in a shady garden an old reel to reel projector sits in the corner of a hallway with a few from oh I couldn't tell you from from the fifty's how the film festival happens every year but in this new moment of openness and Zimbabwe when he wanted to try something new a competition for young people to make short films on their smartphones the theme asking young Zimbabweans to tell us what they think being Zimbabwean means you know that is and to be a great great a child and it turns out of people grow up in fear that speaking out could get them arrested it might take some. Time to turn that ship around at 1st responses to the contest were slow he had to extend the deadline for submissions I think. Tentative about taking advantage of that freedom of speech if you think they're afraid to answer the question or do you think that because they've never been asked the question they are not yet able to answer it I think it's more than that it's something that they have never had to do before and it's not something that just automatically you know comes into one's mind eventually 46 young people gave it a try They're from all over and their films are wildly diverse one young woman did stop motion animation with dolls. This is. Another young man created a kind of zombie heist film sprinkled with deadpan jokes about Zimbabwe's economic crisis I had to keep my patience and kicked down the door with. Cash like this assume there's no cash so I met the creator of one film called hustle. The streets these days are the joys are to mislead and working on my movie trying to get that it's true that almost everyone in Zimbabwe has a hustle the informal economy is full of car washers fruit vendors money changers the director and star of this film Kingsley told me the story comes from his personal experience at one time I used to umbrellas which was actually quite good because it had time to raining so people interested in buying He found a place to buy the umbrellas cheap then sold them on busy street corners for a small profit Kingsley is a full time student studying development many of his friends have been through something like this working every minute of the day trying to squeeze out enough to buy food or pay for school in the film the main character spends so many hours trying to make a dollar that when he finally has time to call his girlfriend she's given up on him I just hope that you understand I love them. I'm afraid this is not an uplifting film and that's part of what's so striking about this moment filmmakers can answer the question what does it mean to be Zimbabwe and by saying it's unpleasant before they might have only whispered that in private to get some perspective on this I talked to an established filmmaker Priscilla who makes documentaries and she's one of the judges of this competition has been arrested twice she told me about one incident in 2014 she was filming a women's March and police handcuffed her the police officer that is that me last night saying there was less saving information outside the country and how different is it today and today analysts are free but not free is an intense if you get it prison it is putting yourself through that to give yourself freedom she's not ready to trust that these changes are permanent and for older people especially She says the habits of suspicion and self-censorship can be hard to let go of that's why Nigel money gets so excited about these films from young people who have lived their entire lives under Robert Mugabe as a nation we've been a very said state for the longest time Fortunately though I think it's something that's about to come to an end does the fact we're able to do this without interference from security services feel like a baby step like a revolution how does it feel it's a revolution basically any time in societies to reclaim one of its rights it's not a big step at all it's a huge achievement and the key is to ensure that we don't lose that again ever are you afraid that this window might close after the elections you know I don't think so I'm very confident that regardless of the outcome of the elections this country will never be the same after the death of today that's one of the most optimistic views we heard during our reporting in Zimbabwe tomorrow. Well meet people who are less hopeful cash and Zimbabwe is so scarce people sleep outside of bank a.t.m. So hoping to get some precious paper currency in the morning is not. Very painful to have to wait for your money is basically if it's money that you've worked for and if you think we keep getting pulled back when we should be moving forward. News now about neckties 1st a medical study from Germany about ties then a California mayor who took that study very seriously N.P.R.'s Art Silverman reports the study published in The Journal neuro Radiology says it appears men who wear ties get less blood to their brains may or are Rex Paris of the city Alang caster wears ties but he doesn't like to I voiced irritated by the idea that people can force you to wear a tie so after reading about the study he proposed the city forbid businesses from requiring employees to wear ties I think it's going to pass the question is how do you enforce it I might do it with a civil penalty the study was conducted at the University Hospital of Kiel Dr Yana Gert McMullin says her team divided 30 young men into 3 groups one without the next time one or the next had one and all of them both with open collars the 3rd group was more constricted than necktie than the color of the men had m.r. Eyes the scan showed blood flow to the brains of that last group with a tight collar and tie it went down by an average of 7.5 percent it's not clear from the study how that affected their brains if at all now the compelling reason for this research they had of it popping up were a yellow g 7 like to wear neckties very much the head of the department another necktie hater. I definitely think that there's some bias in the study that's men's style consultant and You Tube fashion expert. Anne Marino he is not buying the studies conclusion if you have a necktie that is actually cutting off the circulation of blood this is not a function of the necktie it's your collars too small keep it loose and think twice before wearing a necktie in an m.r.i. Art Silverman n.p.r. News and this is n.p.r. News. What did Russian President Vladimir Putin have to gain from his meeting with President Trump and he wanted to be able. To travel a great power and. How we can get on with the business around the world the latest analysis on the relationship between the u.s. And Russia tomorrow on Morning Edition. It's All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Ari Shapiro and Mary Louise Kelly Coming up reaction to President Trump's response when asked who he believes when it comes to Russian interference I honestly did not expect even with the bar so low that President Trump would just stand next to Vladimir Putin and take his word over our intelligence agencies now the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Culver City California I'm to Wayne Brown President Trump is facing bipartisan criticism over his refusal to publicly acknowledge Russian election meddling during his meeting today with Vladimir Putin instead Trump said there's no reason why Russia would interfere in u.s. Elections reaction was swift on Capitol Hill Here's g.o.p. Senator John Cornyn of Texas trying to clarify Trump's remarks the president was trying to maintain some rapport with him but clearly I disagree. With Mr Putin and I agree with confidence measures that they do attempt to meddle in the election House speaker Paul Ryan says there's no question Russia interfered in the u.s. Election and continues to try to undermine democracy in the u.s. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says Trump's weakness in front of Putin proves the Russians have damaging information on him the New York Police Department says it's moving ahead with disciplinary proceedings against a white police officer accused in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man N.P.R.'s Joel Rose reports it comes nearly 4 years after Eric garners death a lawyer for the n.y.p.d. And form the Department of Justice in a letter that it will no longer wait for federal authorities to decide whether to charge officer Daniel Panta Layo in connection with the death of Eric Garner garners mother Gwen Carr says the move is long overdue been for painful years but we're still fighting Indians and no justice the letter says the n.y.p.d. Will go ahead with its own disciplinary hearing promptly in September if the Justice Department hasn't announced criminal charges by then the d.o.j. Declined to comment Eric Garner died after being placed in a choke hold by police in 2014 his dying words I can't breathe became a rallying cry for the black lives matter movement toll rose n.p.r. News New York stocks finish mixed or mostly lower on Wall Street following a drop in oil prices the Dow rose 44 points this is n.p.r. . Then a unanimous ruling from the state supreme court judges in Massachusetts may jail someone on probation if that person does not remain drug free from member station w.b. You are Deborah Becker reports attorneys for Julie Eldridge who was sent to jail after failing a drug test argued that it's unconstitutional to incarcerate someone for a relapse because that's a symptom of the disease of addiction today's ruling says jail is a tool that judges can use that would encourage recovery and promote public safety but Eldridge's lawyer Lisa Newman Polk says this ruling doesn't do either if we really want to improve public safety we need to be treating people who suffer from substance addiction humanely and further punishing and hurting a person is not what they need the ruling says judges have the discretion to individualize probation conditions and modify treatment if needed for n.p.r. 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And I'm Mary Louise Kelly in Helsinki right out the back door of the presidential palace where the press conference with the 2 presidents unfolded today I've just crossed the street I'm now in Senate Square because I asked Michael McFaul to meet me here he was the u.s. Ambassador to Moscow under the Obama administration and he's been in the room when President Obama sat down with several times welcome good to have you invest or if I asked you to describe in a word today's press conference what would that word be shocking if I honest I participated in many of these obviously in the Obama administration I've witnessed and written about these kind of meetings for decades I honestly did not expect even with the bar so low that President Trump would just stand next to Vladimir Putin and take his word over intelligence agencies our intelligence community and his intelligence his director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and more generally he just you're talking about the moment when he was asked point blank who do you believe u.s. Intelligence agencies or right there and he seemed to tip toward the latter any waver back and forth and then he said Putin's convincing I just could not believe that to be honest although you heard it was a forceful denial from vitamin Putin saying we didn't do it is someone who's been in that room and knows Putin is not going to back down in the argument the White House makes is it's time to look forward where else is this conversation going to go well what I would have said and what I would have vies the president to have said when Putin said show us some facts President Trump should have said Well actually Mr Miller just released a bunch of facts on Friday you want to fax look at those facts and then when President Putin said well let's have a trial let's have you know he's made that gesture right we shouldn't decide this let's have the courts decide it he should have said that's a great idea let's have a trial why don't you some of the intelligence officers the United States but. Clear that President Trump wanted to get along with Latimer Putin and there was nothing that anybody was going to say in that press conference and I suspect behind closed doors that was going to get him off that path Sergey Lavrov who I know well I used to work with him a lot the Russian foreign minister Russian foreign minister he just said to his press corps it was better than super the proceedings that means in my book it was complete capitulation on our side. But clearly played well in the Kremlin I'm going to I want to play for you and want to honor him from the Kremlin's point of view one of the many extraordinary moments from this press conference it came when a.p. Associated Press reporter John Longmire put a question to Vladimir Putin President Putin did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that. But then was going to go on then what is it that he's going to the Constitution yes I did want him to be elected because he talked about bringing the u.s. Russia relationship back to normal so Ambassador McFaul He kind of dodged the 2nd half of that question did you direct any of your officials to how but remarkable saying for the 1st time on the record yes I want to try to win Yes Well many of us have been saying that for a long time sometimes ridiculed by our opponents but that he said it so bluntly and so forcefully I thought was extraordinary and again wanting to signal to trump that I want to get along with you and when he says normalize relations remember what he means by that he means let's forget about my annexation of Crimea let's forget about my support of what I can who I consider to be the worst dictator in the world today Mr Assad and let's forget about what I did in your 2016 presidential elections that's what normalization means for him and President Trump never push back on that definition. So big takeaway for the u.s. What will the impact going forward be on u.s. Relations. I think it's been a pretty bad week because on the one hand we had our president beating up on our allies sowing division between NATO calling the European Union our photo and then today we saw him lavishing praise on Vladimir Putin this is not about his personal relationships with leaders it is about advancing America's national interests and I can't think of one thing that we're better off today than we were yesterday did we get a new start treaty today reducing nuclear weapons no did we get an agreement for Iran to leave Syria no did we get Lattimer Putin's endorsement and support for our negotiations with the North Koreans No what we got was a lot of platitudes a lot of happy talk about how we should cooperate but tangible concrete objectives I didn't hear one come out of the summit so in your view not a successful summit worse than that I think it's a setback I think we're worse off today than we were yesterday and I hope we don't have too many more summits to be honest I'm not sure what tangible benefit there are for the United States of America Ambassador McFaul Thank you thanks for having me that's Michael McFaul former u.s. Ambassador to Moscow now a Stanford professor. Now to Chicago where a fatal police shooting over the weekend is inflamed tensions between police and some people who live in mostly black and Latino neighborhoods of the city over the last few years Chicago police have made a number of reforms that the city says has made it have made a difference activists say the fatal encounters show otherwise N.P.R.'s Cheryl Corley reports. It didn't take long for angry residents to peer into the streets to confront Chicago police after the Sheraton killed a neighborhood burned for 37 year old who Retha Gustus on Saturday night 30 said officers approached Augustus because they thought he knew. They have a gun the anger the protest and the death mirrored another tragic incident that prompted widespread protests to few years ago that's when the city released a videotape showing officers fatally shooting 17 year old like Juan McDonald but this time instead of it taking a court order for the release of the tape police superintendent Eddie Johnson did it within 24 hours a Chicago 1st because the community needs some answers and they need him now University of Chicago Law Professor Craig fundament tracks the department's reforms and says releasing the video quickly is smart that what police departments and what the Chicago police ought to do and every situation Chicago's decision to do so was years in the making and follows a u.s. Department of Justice investigation they castigated police after the look on MacDonald shooting the report found them poorly trained and often using excessive force especially in communities of color Marvin Hunter look Wommack Donal's great uncle says he's heard all the talk about reform at the police department but he doesn't believe it he says the video which does show Augustus had a holster to gun indicates the city's police training isn't that effective if you're a man with black he had is why when his hand he was actually talking to me police. To he's the house is approaching in a way to chase police say Augustus is a registered gun owner but didn't disclose whether he had a license to carry a concealed weapon Chicago Police Department is on the road to reform in a video police Superintendent Johnson says the department has made sweeping changes and he points to the use of body cams and the expanded use of Tasers Craig fundament says there's been a backlash and resistance by the police union and others he suspects a 2 tier system of policing in Chicago where police have a different set of practices in black and white communities we still have a long way to go and there is the reality still today is that there are still ongoing hadn't and practices of civil rights violations positive cargo police that's why the city and the Illinois attorney general. Are also negotiating a consent decree that mandate more police reforms Cheryl Corley n.p.r. News Chicago. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are facing staggering levels of income inequality in the u.s. That's according to a recent report by the Pew Research Center in fact people of Asian descent have displaced black people as the most economically divided racial or ethnic group in the u.s. N.P.R.'s Hansi Lo Wang reports on a food pantry in New York City that is seeing the growing needs among some Asian Americans firsthand a small store front office in Flushing Queens is home to the only food pantry New York City specializing in South Asian ingredients we have a days. It's a week to plow it and today on this very good suit. Start this food pantry at the South Asian Council for social services in 2016 bag then her staff used to distribute hand packed bags of rice and spices coriander powder and red chili powder to about 50 families a week just to do the looking for a 2nd yes. But now they serve more than $300.00 families each Friday and assembly line workers has taken over the offices basement bags of sweet potatoes in Shanghai bok choy are piled on the floor next to some New York bagels and one thing on but after that the family and many in line speak Mandarin or other Chinese dialects and little or no English. Remembers the programmes early days or staff found a man who had started waiting on the sidewalk almost 6 hours before the food pantry opened Sharia says he wanted to make sure he would get enough to eat you can imagine if that to see how they feel. That the forborne be there didn't need to say the vague some people may be surprised to hear that there is a great need in an Asian community I know until you know you always talk to Martin minority that's really not true there are people who don't have jobs there are people who do you get employed to find a trade my name is John reply. Are born in Trinidad west and my ancestors India. Over 50 years ago and I work in a hospital facility Kamar stop by the South Asian food pantry during her lunch break wearing her light blue scrubs the food she picks up here helps cut down on grocery costs for her mother and her own home where she lives with her retired husband adult son and grandchild I don't buy rice anymore. You save my money there's so many other bills and you think about all your bills and pay you can cover all your bills sometimes you back to back on a base around the country more Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are feeling that financial pressure a gap between those at the top of the income ladder and those at the bottom has almost doubled since 1970 s. According to rock ash culture I'm senior researcher at the Pew Research Center he says this income gap is largely driven by immigration patterns that began in the 1970 s. When the share of immigrants from Asia working in high skilled jobs started to drop because more newcomers with lower education levels were coming some are refugees and many have come for family reunification reasons says many of them are facing different outcomes in the us than those who came mainly for economic reasons for example an Indian who came to study and graduate school and then went on to work and technology or health care or somebody like me and the research says focusing on top earning Asian Americans and high skilled jobs of secures the need she sees every week in Flushing Queens at present we need to take care of the 1st Bush suffering 40 and a New York south Asian food pantry I means helping to make sure everyone in line has enough to eat on the long n.p.r. News New York. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. 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Elections of course Putin is also playing to a Russian audience and to find out how this is playing there we are joined by N.P.R.'s Kim who is in Helsinki Hey Ari you've been monitoring reaction back in Russia to people there see this summit as a big victory for their President Putin Well Putin's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov already gave a response he said this summit was great better than super and you have state media really playing this up as a big international event that has captured the world's attention and of course you're right only and Russia this is you know about Putin standing firm not bowing down and here you have the American president eating humble pie about the foolishness and stupidity of past u.s. Administrations so I asked Alexander good boy if he's with the Carnegie Moscow Center if they're cracking open the champagne in the Kremlin and this is what he had to say I think that the Kremlin can be pretty positive short term because the public image of this summit is that. You're putting in a very densely you have self-control it's a play and and. Collide but also it's all the Americans back so good with actually went on to say that in the long term Russians could feel kind of hangover since both leaders today failed to agree on any big strategic issues and there could be negative fallout as you mentioned in the u.s. About the summit as to trolling what he meant was Putin suggestion that Russia could help the Moeller investigation of course that's not going to happen but this is really kind of the standard classic Putin reply to any accusation against the Kremlin whether this is the poisoning of a former double agent in Britain or doping. During the Olympics or shooting down a Malaysian passenger plane the answer is always we want to help investigate but nobody wants our help right this is the proposal that President Trump seem to react positively to that intelligence agents from both sides cooperate with each other on this investigation so you characterize President Trump as being seen as eating humble pie is that the way the Russian media are portraying this as well Oh certainly I mean they're actually quite gleeful about this actually one of the statements that Trump made at the beginning of the summit was that he would look forward to an extraordinary relationship in the future with Putin and Aleksei Pushkov a senator in the Russian parliament tweeted that exactly that's the nightmare of Trump's opponents back in the u.s. And in Europe and this is exactly the reason why they were so against holding this summit some commentators in the u.s. Have been talking about the events leading up to this press conference President Putin showing up an hour late President Trump whispering thank you to him before their remarks began Is this something that Russians are discussing as well well they're very much used to seeing their own president sort of in control now as far as coming an hour late What's funny is that actually that's not very late for by Putin standards he often turns up much later than that so this was actually if you're going to interpret it is a sign that he was quite eager for this and so what do you expect this all means for the future of the Trump Putin relationship the analyst Alexander to believe that I talked to was actually very cautious he said there are still unresolved issues like a new nuclear arms deal Syria Ukraine and they were really papered over today he says what we need to look for is the mid-term elections in the United States if Trump comes out with a strong result and looks confident that they can think about a 2nd big meeting that's n.p.r. Moscow correspondent Lucien Kim speaking with us from Helsinki Thanks thank you well the city of Helsinki has hosted these kinds of summits before. For so Finns were ready for the traffic and the media circus Sorry guys they were as for ready with messages for both President Trump and President Putin I hit the streets of Helsinki to find out what Finns were saying. Welcome to Finland President Trump I'm reading from a sign that is Clark stirred across the front windows of Finlayson department store they sell bedding and towels that type thing they've got a big sign blocking the front windows the sign says Welcome to Finland President Trump we are slightly worried the goal of politics is to make the world as good as possible for everyone please make good decisions so polite but worried that's one window into how Finns a few of this historic day that's unfolded in their capital. Down the block we wandered into one of the many bars in Helsinki that is selling out of a limited edition summit beer can we have a beer at the bar perfect. We like this so and let's settle this like adults dry hop to lager picture Pruden and Trump. Making lager great again. Already. On the label the 2 presidents are facing each other fist a fist playing rock paper scissors those suggestions be soused good a way as any to settle diplomatic differences the bartender here out roster your told us he's half Finnish half Russian are you getting a lot of business from the summit and I don't like kind of like yesterday. One person just bought like he wanted to follow him into hitting anyone here not everyone here is so mellow about the visit of these 2 particular presidents as final preparations were being made yesterday for the high stakes diplomacy and side the presidential palace we came upon this scene where. We're about to wade our way into this rally that is gathering on the steps of Senate Square is right in the middle of Helsinki we're told this is an empty Trump also an empty Putin rally so let's go we can meet there were about a 1000 people gathered protesters dressed as characters from The Handmaid's Tale Signs written in English Finnish and Russian Finns of all ages one of them peña Lummi she's 18 from Helsinki in her 1st year university hair and makeup that's edging towards golf I definitely don't like Trump and I like well I hate him with a passion but I'm mostly here to resist Putin and Russia piñas sign reads Putin is a tyrant her big message is about Crimea that President Trump absolutely must not recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea why I'm afraid of that is that if he does it it gives Russia the sign that they get to do anything they want in Europe they could even occupy Finland says we're not like a part of NATO Well I'm really afraid because you know he'll give you a sign that the u.s. Doesn't care a reporter did ask Putin about Crimea at the press conference today Putin said that Trump believes the annexation of Crimea and 2014 was an illegal action but the topic quickly changed to whether or not Russia had compromising material on Trump Meanwhile peña has a message for people her age who are not paying attention to today's summit not paying attention to everything going on in the world today Wake up wake up these are not things that are not your business because it's everyone's business what happens in the world so please pay attention. One of the many people watching closely as the president of the United States. And of Russia sat down today to talk . And with Mary Louise Kelly in Helsinki I'm Ari Shapiro in Washington you're listening to n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from c 3 i.o.t. Providing a software platform that enables organizations to deploy artificial intelligence predictive analytics and Io t. 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