25 years after the release of Jurassic Park the paleontologist who advised the film says we've learned a lot about dinosaurs since 1903 you know we did a pretty good job of making the dinosaurs back in 93 looked like we thought they should look now we know you know that actually they're quite different coming up here and. Use this 1st. Ly from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi saying the United States and North Korean delegations are holding talks in the final hours leading up to the historic summit with President Trump a North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and in Singapore Kim reportedly spending some free time taking in the sites including gardens by the bay for his part President Trump is reported to be upbeat secretary of state Mike when Peo maintains that the u.s. Remains firm in its goal to achieve the de nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula N.P.R.'s Anthony Kuhn is in Singapore he says the administration's messages on expectations for today have been mixed at times the u.s. Has said the talks are going to be flexible they're going to be spontaneous President Trump has also said he will know in his gut in a matter of minutes if it's going to go well and a deal can be reset not but today Pompei it was said that this could be just the start of much longer negotiations That's N.P.R.'s Anthony Kuhn a ceasefire between the government and the Taliban is due to take effect this week but as Jennifer glass reports from Kabul there has been violence a suicide bomber in the Afghan capital killed at least 12 people and wounded 30 others a suicide bomber blew up as employees of the ministry of rural rehabilitation and development in Kabul were boarding a government minibus to take them home hours earlier there was another attack on the Education Department in the eastern city of Jalalabad the attackers were killed and a number of civilians injured suicide bombings and assaults on government offices and military and police checkpoints are becoming almost commonplace with dozens killed in the past week alone a week long government ceasefire with the Afghan Taliban is scheduled to start tomorrow or Wednesday but it is only for the Taliban fighting other anti-government groups will continue the Taleban announced their own 3 day ceasefire for the IED holiday which will likely begin Friday it only applies to Afghan forces not u.s. 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News in San Diego. President Trump's attitude towards North Korea has changed a lot in the last year little Rocket Man is a sick puppy they will be met with fire and fury now they will be met at a summit in Singapore and our reporters will be there to cover it I'm Ari Shapiro the u.s. North Korea summit this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. From 332631 Cape p.b.s. Where news matters from n.p.r. And I'm Robyn Yeah I'm Jeremy Hobson It's here and now we are just hours away from the meeting in Singapore between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong un but the hangover from the last summit Trump attended continues after harsh words from Trump administration officials for one of America's closest allies Canada joining us now is n.p.r. National political correspondent Mara Liasson Hi Mark hi jammy So the president is set to meet Kim Jong un at 9 pm Eastern tonight he is going to be giving a press conference at 4 am Eastern time tomorrow just in time for the morning shows is it fair to say that this is calculated for a u.s. Audience. Well absolutely and the fact that Donald Trump and Kim are going to meet with out any advisers or specialists they're just going to have translators that shows you not only that the president really believes he can make a personal reporter with Kim but also this is about theater and it's not really about the nitty gritty details of denuclearization and you know the president has been saying this is really a get to know you session. If there's there probably will have to be many more meetings what's at stake for the president politically with the summit so much is at stake 1st of all he has been even though he's been downplaying expectations for the summit in one way he's been raising them and he raised them by getting out of the Iran deal that means that he has to strike a better deal with North Korea than the one that he said was absolutely horrible that he got out of with Iran what does that mean the Iran deal got 97 percent of Iran's nuclear fuel out of the country if the president can't do better than that with North Korea he's failed his own test he also has a problem because this is the only diplomatic effort he's got going he had 2 summits with China nothing came of them yet he otherwise has been pulling out of international agreements and sanctioning countries he hasn't actually made any kind of a diplomatic effort that's turned out to be successful and of course he left the g 7 right in a real Huff Well let's talk about that and the harsh words from the top administration about Canada here's the director of trade policy Peter Navarro speaking on Fox News Sunday there's a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald Trump and then tries to stab them in the back on the way out the door he's talking there about the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and this is Trump's top economic adviser Larry Kudlow who had similar words on c.n.n. It really kind of stabbed in the back he really. Actually you know what he did a great disservice to the whole she 7 now Marra true don't didn't actually say anything in that press conference that he hadn't said publicly before basically that Canada was insulted by u.s. Tariffs on steel and aluminum that were based on national security concerns why is the White House getting so angry with him. Well the president got angry with him and then his advisors have to try to rationalize why he was but Larry Kudlow is a very honest guy and he's usually pretty open and he went on to say that President United States is not going to let a Canadian prime minister push him around on the eve of the North Korea summit he is not going to permit any show of weakness on the trip to negotiate with North Korea Kim must not see American weakness so for Donald Trump which the strength is his brand he didn't like it that another foreign leader would stand up and say we're I'm going to stand up for my own country's interests Canada is going to put tariffs on the United States in response to the tariffs that Donald Trump put on Canada and the president didn't like it and Senator John McCain didn't like what the president did he wrote over the weekend that American stand with us allies even if our president doesn't something we're not hearing from other Republicans so far well in general Republicans bite their tongues when it comes to things that Donald Trump does or says that they disagree with however the tariffs and trade is the one issue where Republicans have pushback against Trump there's actually legislation in the works to give Congress a kind of veto over Donald Trump putting tariffs on other countries and using national security as a reason I don't know if it will go anywhere Republicans are very very loath to cross the president between now and the November elections but there are little rumblings of pushback it's n.p.r. National political correspondent Mara Liasson Mara thank you thank you well as the clock ticks down to that historic meeting in Singapore Let's bring in someone who's been face to face with North Korea if not came John Joel Wit is a former State Department official who oversaw one of the last agreements the u.s. Had with North Korea in the 1990 s. It also was to denuclearize the country but it was to get the North to stop producing nuclear bomb material the country didn't have the weapons yet. A few years later there was also a moratorium on testing long range missiles both deals fell apart Joel Wit is now with the Stimson Center and founder of the website $38.00 north which tracks North Korea Jill we'll we've been hearing there will be a deal agreed to at this summit between Trump and Kim and later with their aides What do you think has to happen at this meeting while I think what has to happen is President needs to walk away from the meeting with some sort of document a statement issued by himself and Kim Jong un and that document has to include the words denuclearization I don't think they can walk away without a document and they can't walk away saying that they've got to know each other and they're going to meet again they have to have some substance well and give us a sense of what might be happening there I'm looking at William Perry a former secretary of defense who went to Pyongyang 3 times he was involved in talks in the late ninety's and early 2000 and he said there's a weirdness when he was going to his meeting the government there had hundreds of forced laborers shovel snow and 60 miles of highway to get into the meeting and everyone considered the Kim family to be gods so when you're sitting in a room with aides who think their leader is a God How does that affect the meeting it doesn't affect the meeting at all because we're not there to talk about their political system we're not there to talk about their leader we're there to focus on substance and if you do that thing you can negotiate with them. And so I understand yes we're supposed to avoid that topic but if you know that ahead of time then talking to them isn't that difficult Well President Trump has said that attitude is the most important ingredient and he's prepared for this his whole life he'll know in one minute whether things are going well you've negotiated with the North Koreans have. Does that strike you. Well that strikes me as public posturing I mean how many presidents have gone into meetings with dictators and come out and said they read them within a minute I mean a lot have George Bush said he read Putin in a minute and so in know that I think that's public posturing and the point is when you sit down you're not going to know within a minute whether you have some sort of connection to the other guy but I think what President Trump will know ahead of time is what is the shape of the deal because it will have been worked out ahead of time yeah and we've been hearing this from our reporter Anthony Kuhn in Singapore that they will probably come out with a deal that says denuclearization at requires that North Korea do that and on the other side there will be security promises secretary state my compares said today the u.s. Is prepared to provide security assurances that are different and unique the North wants u.s. Troops out they want sanctions dropped what do you think is going to be on that side of the equation. This is North Korea why no one those of us who have talked to the North Koreans understand what they want they say they want u.s. Hostile policy lifted that means recognizing them as a country of means diplomatic relations it means dealing with their security concerns and that means ending the Korean War with a peace treaty and it means lifting the economic sanctions and other restrictions on them so all of those things are in what the North Koreans want from us and I think a summit document will have to talk about how the u.s. Has agreed to and its hostile policy and move forward on those different fronts do you think Joel Wit that things have changed in North Korea as you said you know we're not there to change their political system and you've been quoted as saying there are certain subjects you stay away from because you're not going to affect them at all but do you think there's a possibility that several generations down from Kim Il Sung the current Kim's late grandfather that there's a possibility that things have changed on that level. Well you know this is one of the misconceptions about North Korea that it's hermit kingdom that been static for the past 3040 years and the fact is if Kim Il Sung was alive today and looked around North Korea he wouldn't recognize a lot of it particularly the economy which has changed from a tightly directed socialist economy to one that is now a lot a mix of socialism and capitalism the social system has not changed as much and the political system of course is still tightly controlled and do you trust any promises any agreements the North Koreans make this time around. Well you know I wouldn't trust what they say and I don't think anyone would trust what they say or trust anyone who's been an adversary for as long as they haven't I don't think there's been one us government has been that has been that diet naive in dealing with the North Koreans so of course this gets to the issue of verifying whatever's agreed to when that goes without saying we are going to have to verify all the agreements we reach with them that's Joel Wit founder of 38 north website they track North Korea he also was involved in past talks negotiations thank you so much thank you. And keep listening to the station will be following the summit right through to the end it's here now. Briefs are supported by the San Diego museum Council and the team I want to as to where e presenting some are happening offering weekly tours in junior rangers programme at Southern California's largest coastal wetland Wednesday through Sunday information a t r in our dot org You're listening to k. 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Our Boston and college find advising high school families on where to apply to college based on their chances of getting accepted then their mentors guide students through each step of the college admissions process college Vine dot com This is here and now 25 years ago today the world was introduced to this close. To Jurassic. Steven Spielberg's film Jurassic Park captured the attention of millions when it was released in 1903 it earned 3 Academy Awards and pulled in almost $915000000.00 worldwide making it the highest grossing film ever at the time in case you've been living in amber for the last 25 years the film followed paleontologist Dr Alan Grant and paleobotanist Dr Ellie Sattler were brought to a theme park where the theme is living dinosaurs resurrected by 65000000 year old d.n.a. Cloned and edited by a team of scientists everything is great at Jurassic Park until it is. In. The movie helped redefine popular conceptions of dinosaurs and that's thanks in part to our next guest paleontologist Jack Horner He served as an advisor to the film series and also partly inspired the Dr Grant character he joins us from Bozeman Montana Jack Warner Welcome thank you oh can you believe it's been 25 years not camp. Well you know you helped bring these dinosaurs to the big screen and before this movie came out the 1st one a lot of people thought of dinosaurs as these slow moving cold blooded crocodile like beasts What was your role in shaping the dinosaurs we saw in the movie. Well you know the times were changing the movie came out in 93 and the change you know sort of the new look and the new ideas about dinosaurs had started back in the late sixty's and and really sort of got going in the late seventy's and by the 1980 s. We did have a pretty good idea that dinosaurs were you know pretty special animals and and we knew then that birds were their descendants so the movie then you know we were able to flush the model a little better but there course there were some constraints with you know technologies that didn't allow us to actually make them exactly the way we wanted to and that changed over the years obviously when you when you watch Jurassic World the dinosaurs I mean I will say even watching Jurassic Park in 1903 the dinosaurs looked pretty realistic but now you compare the 2 and it's very different they were very realistic and in fact you know we did a pretty good job of making the dinosaurs back in 93 looked like we thought they should look according to what we had now in the 1993 now we know you know that actually they're quite different they would have you know we know now that most of the mediating dinosaurs were feathered and and they are probably more much more colorful than we see them in the movies but unfortunately the story line House to continue and so we can't really change them you movie stars this we can't change the dinosaurs really because you already made them going to stores right right you know ready made them so well and so you're not going to have feathered dinosaurs in the upcoming drastic dark movie. Well you know he's not allowed to see . What was there anything else that you've learned about dinosaurs since 1903 that you would have had you had the opportunity to do it again in 93 that you would have changed with the dinosaurs Oh absolutely Well I mean I you know Stephen and I had quite a few arguments about what the dinosaurs should look like Steven Spielberg and we can tell you that Steven Spielberg Yes. You know my job was to make sure the dinosaurs looked as accurate as they could based on the science that we had and we already knew that philosopher Raptor and some of those kinds of little theropod dinosaurs were feathered and we also knew that they could have been very colorful and Stephen really you didn't think Technicolor dinosaurs would be very scary but there was also just you know technological constraints. Trying to render feathers at that point in time when computer graphics were just coming to be so and feathers I guess also are not as scary as scales right so Technicolor feathered dinosaurs they would not be as scary as what we ended up with well the other thing is that velociraptors which are big and the original derisive park they're taller than humans in reality they're more like a foot and a half. Yeah. Well. There are dinosaurs very closely related to velociraptor that such as Dinah like us that comes from Montana that is a much larger on the wall and then there's Utah Raptor that is actually bigger than the velociraptors in the movie so you know these raptor like dinosaurs basically come in all sizes. What about the T.-Rex. There's a question about whether it was actually a hunter or a scavenger did you have that debate with the creators of the film Well I doubt I been one of the people let has pushed the whole scavenger business and of course you know it wouldn't have played such a big role in the drastic Park movies as a scavenger but it is shown kind of as a scavenger interested part 3 but I would you know even now I would argue that the T.-Rex wasn't at least an opportunist and it wasn't a top predator. What did you think when you were approached to be an advisor to the film that it would become the icon that it is now know that in fact Steven and I had a long discussion about you know whether the movie was even going to be popular it seemed like it would have been the dinosaurs are really cool and the sets were great but you know Stephen asked me twice I remember twice on Sat him asking whether whether I thought that kids were going to like it and whether adults were going to like it and you know I as my answer always was kids are always going to like it because kids love dinosaur age but you know I don't know how you you know get adults to like dinosaurs and yet you know the movie did it did it yeah. I want to ask you about d.n.a. Which is you know a big part of the story that they're able to use dinosaur d.n.a. To recreate these dinosaurs in modern times do you think that it would be actually possible to do that someday. Not likely. One of my former doctoral students Mary Schweitzer. She and I actually had a grant from the National Science Foundation to attempt to extract d.n.a. From a dinosaur and that was after we knew that we that it wasn't going to come out of Amber and quite frankly over the years there's been several attempts to to extract d.n.a. And it's never been found. There's a good chance that it will be found but the pieces are going to be so tiny that we probably won't be able to do very much with it so my answer to that is birds are dinosaurs maybe we can retro engineer one and that brings us to the chicken a saurus right which you know you've worked with a group to put together what tell us about that well we don't seem to be able to find d.n.a. Least preserved. And if we want to make a dinosaur like animals. Probably the only way to do it is to attempt to find what we call out of mystic genes genes that are sort of ancestral genes that are quiet or are turned off during evolution turn them back on and see if we can't resurrect some of the dinosaur characteristics that birds have lost. What about a William manage something that's more well preserved Well they have found woolly mammoth d.n.a. I don't know how much I don't I I doubt very much if they have found a lot I'm guessing that when they attempt to make a woolly mammoth that they're going to have to use. Quite a bit of d.n.a. From modern elephants but they'll get some kind of an elephant that is different than a modern day elephant probably a. Little bit hairier but they'll have to find an island that is farther away from you know people just in case oh you know that's that's that's you know that's the thing about movies right you can give your animals you know whatever demeanor you want them so in in drastic part movies all the animals want to eat people but as we all know we can go to we can go out on the Serengeti Plain and as long as you keep your windows rolled up nobody's going to eat you right unless the electric fence goes down and then you're in trouble well. And I don't think they had of their guns going to be a problem. If you could build a Jurassic Park would you absolutely So you you don't think there's any sort of moral problem with that idea I mean the movie definitely all brings up some issues with it well I you know we make sure was out of walls so I don't see that you know making a dinosaur out of a diner or chicken is going to be you know any less of a moral dilemma. So I'm getting from you that dinosaurs may have been nicer than we see them in the movie is there a dinosaur that still scares you today. I would rather be in a room with 4 lie ends in a tiger than one Velociraptor. Simply because I'm I'm pretty sure that the Lions and the tiger will kill me before they eat me whore as a velociraptor I think is just going to. Just going to jump on and start eating. When you look back at all the Jurassic Park movies that you've been involved in which one is your favorite Well the 1st one is always you know 1st one is great and . That's Jack Horner who is a paleontologist and advised the Jurassic Park series of movies Jack Horner thank you for helping bring us Teresi park and thank you for joining us today you're very welcome. And the new one comes out later this summer so what are your memories of dressing park 25 years ago I remember walking to the movie theater to see it with my dad let us know at here and now dot org. 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And I'm Jeremy Hobson President Trump railed against trade imbalances several times last night on Twitter saying other countries make massive trade surpluses while American workers pay such a big an unfair price he's been focusing on trade imbalances a lot since taking office it is the largest deficit of any country in the history of our world it's out of control when you add them all together we actually have a 70000000000 dollars deficit with Canada we lost over the last number of years 800000000000 dollars a year not not a half a $1000000.00 not $0.12 we lost $800000000000.00 a year on trade not going to happen we've got to get it back let's bring in Jill Schlesinger for a little explainer she's business analyst with c.b.s. News and host of Jill on money her podcast is better off hi Jill hello So let's start with what is a trade deficit so this is just a measure of imports versus exports so let's look at 2017 the u.s. Imported $2.00 trillion dollars worth of goods and services it export it 2.3 trillion or so it amounted to a trade deficit of $566000000000.00 in goods and services goods and services so you're talking also about things like maybe legal services that would be counted in that number Yes absolutely so is it necessarily a bad thing to have a trade deficit you know I know that there's a lot of confusion around this Wilbur Ross who's the commerce secretary said that trade deficits he said weak in our economy those are the exact words he used and now economists that I speak to they say look that's just not the case imports really don't have an effect on g.d.p. Either positive or negative and they push back on the Trump administrations and the says that trade deficits mean that you know the u.s. Loses and so. Pluses mean that the u.s. Wins and they say that President Trump too often focuses on the trade of the deficit in goods and disregards the services and I think that's how he comes up with those numbers that don't quite jibe with the overall who we have the biggest trade deficit with around the world well China is on the top of the list in 2017 the value of Chinese goods imported into the u.s. Exceeded the American goods that we export it by about $375000000000.00 Now meanwhile this same period the u.s. Actually ran a $38.00 and a half $1000000000.00 surplus on services trade with China so overall goods and services sevenths it was 36336000000000 So that's number one next largest is all of the European Union we can break it down country by country but let's throw it into one basket the European Union 101000000000 and then Mexico at 69000000000 and where we have the biggest trade surplus Well you know a lot of trading partners and we actually have a surplus with 6 of our 15 largest trading partners as of 2017 largest trade surplus is with Hong Kong which is actually isolated as one then Brazil So Hong Kong sorry 35000000000 Brazil 28000000000 Singapore in the u.k. By the way despite the president's insistence that the u.s. Runs a deficit with Canada that was actually not the case last year the u.s. Actually ran a surplus with our neighbor to the north so is it I mean just in the few seconds we have as scary as it sounds when he says we've got a huge trade deficit you know it is not and just to be 100 percent clear when we think about this know that a lot of economists economists believe that trade enhanced is us productivity and makes the economy stronger it's just less and your business analyst with c.b.s. News and host of John Money Joe Thanks take care you're listening to here in. Yes visual arts briefs are supported by Spanish village art center and ball park and there are 37 working artist studios and galleries and the front porch gallery presenting the 2nd act featuring pieces by artists from a variety of previous lines of work more out front porch gallery dot org k. P.b.s. Visual arts briefs are also supported by the front porch retirement communities of Carlsbad by the sea Casa De Mint Yana Frederica Manor and Wesley palms thank you for listening to k.p. B.s. F.m. 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Lead political editor Dominica much narrows here Dominica this is being seen as a big win for Republicans remind us why that is while there was a Republican government certainly in Ohio the name of the case that bears the name of the Ohio secretary of state John Hughes dead the vote being secure is the Republicans focus here throughout the country when it comes to you know trying to eliminate what they see as potential voter fraud of course a lot of studies have not found broad evidence for voter fraud but you saw same Alito who wrote the opinion here actually cited a Pew study at the very beginning talking about how there were some 2 and a half 1000000 or more people who were registered in 2 different states over cleaning up voter rolls he said was important because they move for instance and so they're forget to unregister and one in there in another if they're not voting that's a way to find them but federal law doesn't allow voters to be purged from voting lists just for not voting so right how did the court decide that this Ohio law doesn't violate that federal law well this was not just about voting it's about notification you know Justice Alito talked about that a reasonable the Congress had made a reasonable judgment that a person you know who is interested in voting wouldn't ignore something like a card that goes to the house that says that if you don't verify or address way you know you could be purged from the rolls because you haven't voted in 2 consecutive federal elections you know for the dissenters here that was what they felt a misinterpretation of the federal law and but the. 5 Republican appointed justices disagreed you know and it was just as Stephen Bryan who wrote the 18 page dissent this case came about after the Republican Ohio Secretary of State John Eustice who you mentioned was sued by civil rights groups representing people who say they were purged give us some examples of then well the person who sued in this case essentially felt wronged by the fact that he had been purged from the rolls inappropriately he felt because he lived there and he just ignored the the statement the card that went home because you know we all get a lot of junk mail in the mail and sometimes people don't sift through all of it in fact only about 20 percent of these cards got returned to the to the phone to the secretary of state's office so that was an argument that the minority tried to make and that the that the that the person who sued in this case tried to tried to make that case as well so you know that was a big part of what a lot of people were thinking could be the thing that tipped the balance here but they were some very fierce oral arguments when they were in this case was 1st going through a known was quite sure where it was going to go you know we should note that it's a big about face for the Justice Department because the state of Ohio was essentially ready to settle with this man and Joe was during the Obama administration and then you know President Trump one and the just department changed positions decided to file a brief on behalf of of the state and Ohio decided to withdraw its potential settlement and went through with this and now one will look a handful of states have similar ways of purging voter rolls but Ohio is is considered the most aggressive in going after it but do you think with this decision we're going to see more states do this. Most likely you're going to start to see a lot of secretaries of state who are Republican and governors in those states try to make a push. To try to you know get to a place where they have more aggressive voter purge laws not sure of what is in the works with a lot of places but this is going to signal for them that to start the ball get to get that ball rolling downhill to start on getting something through legislatures to try to clean up these voter rolls and look we should say this Pew study that Justice Alito mentioned it did note that the voting systems need to be upgraded that there are a lot of people on these roles that probably don't belong there but what civil rights activists will say is or advocates will say is that you know at what cost you know how many millions of people might be disenfranchised by you know a missing misinterpretation of trying to you know purge somebody from the voter rolls well at the very least pay a lot more attention to the all that mail that comes because right it may be something important about I mean one of the I guess the gentleman who sued he hadn't voted 2 years in a row went to vote and they said no you can't and so be thinking about that if you haven't voted 2 years in a row now it's not 2 years ago it's 2 electoral lection cycles are that's right yeah to medical not narrow n.p.r. Lead political editor thank you you're welcome. Last night the 2800 Tony Awards were handed out at Radio City Music Hall and after a record breaking season in terms of attendance and box office 2 epic plays but 2 small musicals came up big Jeff Lunden reports. The best musical category was filled with large commercial franchises Tina Fey's adaptation of her popular film Mean Girls and live action versions of frozen in Sponge Bob Square Pants but it turned out that in an intimate chamber musical based on an independent film was the biggest winner of the night the night. That. The Band's Visit to 10 of the 11 awards for which it was nominated including Best Musical it tells the story of an Egyptian police been stranded in a tiny Israeli town but instead of bringing up the conflicts in the Middle East it focuses on what the characters from the 2 different cultures have in common they're . Going. To train a length and Tony shall Lubow won Best Actor in a musical honors for their roles in the show and Ariel Stachel who won best supporting actor gave an impassioned speech acknowledging both his Yemeni Israeli heritage and to his parents in the audience I have avoided so many things with them because for so many years of my life I pretended that I was not a Middle Eastern person. And after $911.00 it was very very difficult for me and so I concealed and I miss so many special events with. Me right now and I can't believe it Stachel says he's proud of the stoop for coming up for you about Arabs and Israelis getting along at a time when we need that more than ever another story that resonated with Tony voters was this small scale revival of once on this island. It shows a community in the Caribbean dealing with the aftermath of a hurricane by telling a fable what. They were. There that. It captured the Tony for best musical revival over the more heavily favored and much more lavish productions of Carousel and My Fair Lady but it wasn't just small shows which won awards one of the most recognizable brands came up a big winner Harry Potter and the curse child an epic 2 part 5 and a half hour sequel to j.k. Rowling's books took 6 Tonys including Best Play best revival of a play went to this 7 and a half hour Angels in America written by Tony Kushner the Revival also led to top honors for Andrew Garfield in Nathan Lane I want to thank Tony Kushner for being such an adorable genius even his emails are Pulitzer worthy I am standing here because Tony wrote one of the greatest plays of the 20th century and it is still speaking to us as powerfully as Avatar in the midst of such political insanity the current political moment was personified by Robert De Niro whose profanity laced comments about the president were bleeped out of the broadcast but the highlight of the $2800.00 Tony award ceremony for many people was an appearance by a teacher and students from the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida melody Hertzfeld the drama teacher who helped save 65 students during the school shooting won the Tony for Excellence in theater Education Award members of her drama club took the stage to sing Seasons of Love from ren 17600 a. 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This is here and now Republicans in the House are facing a deadline tomorrow over immigration a number of moderate Republicans say if leadership can't present a bill on docket by then they'll force a vote on the issue De Marco is the Republican mayor of El Paso Texas on the u.s. Border with Mexico mayor Margot Welcome thank you well 1st of all what do you want to see out of Congress on immigration Well 1st of all you've got to deal with the Dock a situation that is critical I think the problem is that most of them do not understand the border you know where the largest u.s. City on the Mexican border who are a regional population of 2700000 would like to say we're 3 states Chihuahua New Mexico and Texas 2 countries the Mexico Mexico and the United States in one region of 2700000 people you cannot tell the difference between El Paso and haughtiness as you fly over the contiguous who are there if you can see the river you can see a difference but otherwise you can't so what do you want them to understand that they don't well we going going back and forth we've got over 400 years of history and culture where families live on both sides of the border the original home for El Paso was on the south side of the border of South Side of the river people understand that even in Texas there's still a misunderstanding of Commerce is critical NAFTA is especially critical to us do you think it's going to go away I hope not I'm optimistic that they'll resolve there may be some tweaking that has to be done regarding settlement issues and things like that but we have 50000 jobs in El Paso tied to the Makita manufacturing operation in Juarez and then we have 70 of the Fortune 100 companies manufacturing in Juarez Mexico and do you think that the u.s. Is getting a good deal out of NAFTA because President Trump has been saying that it's not Oh I think it's been a good deal all the way around for Canada the u.s. And Mexico Texas has a pot. Trade surplus with Mexico to over 97000000000 so from our standpoint has been significant I want to ask you about another issue involving immigration that's gotten a lot of attention the Trump administration announced in May that it would prosecute anyone crossing the border illegally in any a company children would be taken from their parents and put in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services Here's the attorney general Jeff Sessions defending the policy last week in an interview with a conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt if people don't want to be separated from their children they should not thank And listen you will be prosecuted if you train if you come illegally and if your bank children you'll still be prophecies there Margot Have you seen any impact so far of this policy not personally not up front close I mean we need to deal with immigration once and for all we wouldn't have all these. Symptomatic problems as we're not dealing with root cause we've got to deal with that and the root cause is what we don't have a rational program for immigration we're live trying to limit the those coming in we need more we need to do something about the 12000000 that are here especially on the dock a side that's ridiculous not to be able to take care of that those are usually productive citizens in Texas we provide in-state tuition for Mexican nationals it's not a gift it's not a scholarship it's it they pay tuition but we allow it to be in-state. Is it possible that some of these children who are being separated from their families are going to be housed in El Paso they've talked about that they've talked about the detention centers there I read last week I haven't been poorly contacted by Homeland Security if they did contact you what would you say how do you feel about that as long as they're properly maintained and you know there's nothing I can do about the fact that they're here and I do have a great deal of mixed feelings related to separation of the families but I also want. Stand what they're trying to do and send a message but we've been so happy as it over the years and not just this president but even under the preceding president to the perception was we're open doors and we we do need it while Paso is the safest city in the United States we don't have issues on immigration per se or or of violence of any time you know we do need we need to protect our borders what's the wall like in El Paso we don't really have a wall at all we have a fence that was put up during the Bush administration and it's Frommer design was to stop criminal activity and was and had been having to with immigration had to do with criminal activity of theft and car theft and things like that and it's been beneficial to to stop that and it seems to work I I really dislike the phrase ology the wall it reminds me a burly man and I don't think that's conducive to our relationship with Mexico but yes we do need to protect our borders I want to ask you one more thing you're a Republican and I noticed in an article recently that you haven't endorsed in the Senate race in Texas between Ted Cruz and beto Roark Oh I've been staying out of that but I've supported beto in the past so I mean it was a Democrat Yeah he's a Democrat he grew up a block away from my family my kids carpooled with my mom Beto and his family for years and the great people but I chose not to publicly get involved in any of the races where they'd be congressional were Senate you think a Democrat could win statewide in Texas right now I don't know I think it's going to be tough still but beto I think is a formidable candidate that's how Paso Mayor De Margot thank you so much for joining us thank you and by the way Mayor Marco says his city pays Customs and Border Patrol $2000000.00 a year to open extra lanes for cars coming into our Paso from Mexico here as a production of n.p.r. 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We like to piggy bank that everybody is robbing and that ends Canadians were polite or reasonable but we also will not be pushed there is a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith the president Donald Trump he gave up a chance for our allies to express support for our position on North Korea by not signing the the g 7 declaration the president turns against allies in a twitter tirade on his way to Singapore for a summit with Kim Jong un the peace and security of Northeast Asia depend in part on the outcome of the.