People to direct their energy towards voting and toward civic engagement and voter participation that includes a push for younger voters she says hundreds of young activists from the associations college division will lead workshops on encouraging other young people to energize voters in their own communities the convention runs through Wednesday for n.p.r. News I'm Joy plus ios in San Antonio this is n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include Jones Day and integrated partnership collaboratively providing legal services for more than a century 43 offices 5 continents serving clients as one firm worldwide learn more at Jones Day dot com. For k. P.b.s. News in San Diego I'm Maya trouble see nearly 1000 homeless youth struggle to find a place to stay on any given night in San Diego Ok p.b.s. 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Of San Diego youth services he says most homeless youth have trouble navigating the complex system of homeless resources he says the grant will help provide outreach housing and security to the vulnerable population allows us to find out what are those gaps in housing or those gaps in services that will help is a huge issue for young people substance abuse is usually issue for young people just being connected to resources San Diego is among the 11 communities across the nation to be awarded the Housing and Urban Development Grant Susan Murphy k p b s news a San Diego Association of governments report released yesterday suggests marijuana is narrowly the most common substance tried by those in the juvenile justice system 91 percent of individuals interviewed from detention facilities last year reported trying marijuana compared with 90 percent for alcohol and 74 percent for tobacco overall 92 percent of use had reported trying some kind of substance less humidity over the weekend but temperatures will still be warm with highs just above normal for this time of year old be cooler on Sunday and Monday find more Sandiego stories online at k. 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News Scott Simon is away I'm Renee Montagne the Justice Department says it has identified the culprits who hacked into Democrats' e-mails in 2016 a grand jury has charged 12 members of the Russian intelligence service with conspiracy and other crimes deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein announced the indictment unison gaged an active cyber operations to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Here to share more details from Friday's announcement and the ongoing is n.p.r. Justice correspondent Carrie Johnson Good morning I'm Renee the details from these indictments are impressive and fascinating actually how were authorities here in the u.s. Able to find the individual Russians who allegedly carried out these hacked the court papers don't go into sources and methods but in other cases the Justice Department in the f.b.i. Have gotten pretty sophisticated about tracing hacks to specific computers and specific people at the keyboards even if they're overseas that's what happened here the Justice Department named 12 people in the Russian Intelligence Directorate they're accused of conspiracy to steal information from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign and then sharing it online the charges say they tricked people into sharing their passwords to break into computers or installed software to capture keystrokes they created phony names and accounts to share the information and the Justice Department says the goal was to tamper with the presidential election and they timed their releases to do maximum damage and all the people charged in his cage so are these this group of charges are in Russia what about the Americans who may have received some of these. They deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein says there is no allegation in these charges that people in the u.s. Knew they were communicating with Russians the court papers do describe an unnamed congressional candidate who asked for some stolen e-mails and the indictment also mentions a person close to members of Donald Trump's campaign that's Roger Stone he's acknowledged corresponding with hackers but he says those contacts were benign grenade there was really one big jarring detail in these documents they say the Russians allegedly tried to break into computer servers tied to Hillary Clinton in July 2016 the same day that candidate Donald Trump said Russia if you're listening I hope you can find those 30000 missing Hillary Clinton e-mails so of course could be. A coincidence but this is a touchy subject President Trump is preparing to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday what's the White House saying about this indictment sure President Trump tweeted this morning that this hacking happened during the Obama presidency why didn't he do anything about it has a point. And earlier a White House spokesman pointed out that there are no allegations these hacking. This hacking this behavior change the results of the 2016 election now President terms personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani also took to Twitter he said this is good news the Russians have been nailed this means it's time to wrap up this special counsel investigation Well that investigation is continuing for now no sense of when or if it might and any time soon from your reporting Carrie is there a message the Justice Department and the intelligence community want to deliver that goes beyond this indictment I mean there seems to be right with the in the way it was announced what are they saying you know this was so interesting the deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein who's kind of a just the facts guy took a moment at the press conference yesterday to say people need to set aside their partisanship set aside their Democrat or Republican identities come together to face this adversary that's attacking American elections in American democracy and the director of National Intelligence Dan Coats was even stronger yesterday in a remark at a think tank Dan Coats said Russia has been targeting the u.s. With cyber attacks for a long time he says the warning lights are blinking red he says it's time for Americans to harden their defenses to cyber attacks right now before it's too late n.p.r. Justice correspondent Carrie Johnson thanks very much my pleasure and we're joined now by phone with John Podesta he was one of the targets of the Russian hack it happened when he was Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta thanks you for joining us good morning it has taken many months to get to to this point where the u.s. Government has come for. Well enough to say not just that Russians flooded social media to influence the 2016 election but that Russian officials sought to directly hack American organizations and people these would be intelligence military intelligence including you as one of those targets what have you been feeling over this past 24 hours Well you know obviously this is has been a painful experience not just for me but for our country but I think that. While Kerry noted there's an incredible amount of detail in the indictment the heart of the Moeller investigation has always been that there were crimes committed against individuals like myself and crimes committed against the American direct democracy we've known for a long time because of intelligence sources that those crimes were directed by President Putin they were intended to help Donald Trump and to hurt Hillary Clinton and I think what this indictment has shown some put some new information out there as Kerry noted but really it is a remarkable statement and a remarkable. Sense of how far the f.b.i. Could go to nail down exactly who did this committing conspiracy Computer Fraud and Abuse money wandering etc And yet the president still kind of wants to blow it off and I think that Mr Rosenstein for appeal for nonpartisanship I would subscribe to except that we also need a president who's going to stand up to President Putin and stop the Russians from continuing to interfere in elections in the u.s. And abroad Well let me ask you something we have you learned from these indictments is something that's new to you. Well I think set. It in terms of individual cases involving maybe the answer to that is no but it's Kerry noted of course we did not know that the very. A day that Donald Trump on the campaign trail asked the Russians to hack Hillary Clinton computers that's the 1st day they actually went went ahead and looked at her personal domain and tried to attack her personal computers that was a brand new fact that happened on July 27th 2016 and you know that indicates I guess that the Russians were actually listening to Donald Trump when he was when people thought he was just. Using some of his usual antics on the stage they were listening to him they responded to him they carried out a broad based attack on our democracy to include the hacking obviously there was an earlier indictment by Mr Moller that said that they were using bots trolls and others to spread fake news across the campaign particularly in the last couple of ways. So. Now we know as a result I think of Muller's diligence and and quiet pursuit of just a fact that there are more than 80 contacts between members of the Trump campaign and and Russian agents there were there have been developed more than 20 meetings between people in his orbit and Russian agents his national security advisers pled guilty is campaign chairman is on trial as deputy campaign chairman is on trial and yet he continues to call this a witch hunt and you know I can't help but thinking that the hunters have caught them which is here. And for you being a target of this investigation what else are you waiting to find out from the investigation. Well I'd like to I'd like to see the you know obviously is going to be a difficult case to bring to trial in the United States these are 12 foreign. Agents military intelligence agents who undertook this operation is laid out in great detail and in India Dykeman I'd like to see him brought to justice I can't. Wait for President Trump to ask President Putin on Monday whether he do agree to extradite them to face the bar justice and I'd like to be in the court if they if they were here I'm not holding my breath either for the fact that prompt will do that or that Putin would agree but ultimately you know I don't think those agents have probably be vacationing in Western Europe John Podesta thank you very much for joining us John Podesta is the former chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign thanks much thanks for. And now a drought in the u.k. Has a silver lining for archaeologists Toby driver is an aerial archaeologist for the World Commission on the ancient and historical monuments of Wales he spends his time in a small aircraft flying over the country searching for evidence of ancient structures and the heat has made his job a little bit easier here's what he sees you have a shimmering sort of multicolored fields as well across all right playing evenly yellows referrals and oranges coming up in the fields and from some distance out you can see big dark green circles but dull green squares appear in the fields those dark green shapes hold valuable archaeological information ancient structures were often surrounded by trenches for protection and drainage even after the structures are gone the trenches retain moisture so in a heat wave when the rest of the crops turn brown the areas on top of the structures stay green it's a bit like an x. Right here the field is or failed to be driver and his colleagues search for these markings every year but this year is showing more structures than they've seen in decades including some new discoveries that paint a picture of a countryside that was much more settled and developed than previously thought but the archaeologists have to work quickly thunderstorms are forecast for next week the minute they destroy fields got a touch of running all the crop start growing again the monks disappear and the fire saying this may not come up again for 20 or 30 years or may never be saying Toby driver and his colleagues are mapping the sites and hoping that someday they can be excavated it's one unexpected side effect of more extreme weather due to manmade climate change and discoveries like this will become more common and if you want to see Toby driver's photos of the new crop marks just do what I did go on line. This is n.p.r. News. For k. P.b.s. 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Is a media sponsor and the 2 day San Diego Pride Festival kicks off today with performances by artists across 4 stages more than 40000 people are expected to attend the annual bellboy Park festival you're listening to see k p b s news in San Diego I'm nor wrong with these headlines some Democratic lawmakers are calling on President Trump to cancel Monday's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki This follows the indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers charged with interfering in the 2016 presidential election President Trump said in a tweet this morning that the actions in yesterday's indictments happened during the Obama administration which should have done something about it and Thailand's health minister said today the 12 boys and their soccer coach who were trapped in a flooded cave for more than 2 weeks are recovering well and will be allowed to go home from the hospital next week I'm sure rom n.p.r. News in Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from the Alliance for lifetime income a nonprofit composed of financial services organizations working to educate Americans about options for securing protected lifetime income in retirement more at Alliance for lifetime income dot org And from the law firm Cooley l.l.p. With offices in the u.s. Europe and China Cooley advises entrepreneurs investors financial institutions and established companies around the world where innovation meets the law. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Renee Montagne the president is spending the weekend at a trump golf course in Scotland a place he often says is one of his favorites his mother was born in Scotland and he praises the landscape and the people calls them beautiful for some Scots the feeling is not mutual and has not been for a long time as N.P.R.'s Alice Fordham reports. As Trump landed in Scotland yesterday protesters against him filled Glasgow's George Square last game in raw sunshine one Matisse mean he was wearing a sombrero in solidarity with Mexico and said he considers Trump part of a worrying trend we're kind of scared of a fascism both in America and always across Europe so what's going on in Italy and Poland and so really grim sort of like the thirty's again we start things that we felt we had to go right over kind of coming back and forth he was born in Sudan said she'd been personally impacted by the immigration policies implemented on the trunk if you remember Lo said last year there was like a band I would be in 7 Muslim countries so I got my sister for instance you couldn't go to the u.s. Because of the life she had a scholarship or a course in diplomacy and she couldn't go so I can go like I remember like trying to speak to the American embassy and they wouldn't pick up the moved to Scotland recently and as it happens she's the only person who isn't white and the only Muslim in her new job in insurance she says everyone is respectful and warm kind of the opposite of the experience her sister had it's jarring for her to hit Trump say he loves the Scots I mean if he lost he should love also like the cultural cauldron and Scottish people are really welcoming so it's us that doesn't feel right of course not everyone in Scotland dislikes trump the Glasgow protest was life way about with an enormous Will they were Another one is happening today and I timber and some Scottish politicians welcome but. The head of the Scottish Parliament Nicolas sturgeon criticizes him often and because of those golf courses Trump has a long and pretty controversial history here give this man a job issues it is my job the right job then it gives him a 3 day visit because not a job here that I'm going to drop I want a job that's Michael Forbes a farmer being asked about his 1st meeting with Trump in the 2011 documentary you've been trumped it told the story of people who refused to move off lands Trump wanted for a golf course or to take him up on his office of work Trump said at the time that Forbes is Haim was an eyesore It's almost like in fact it is like a school condition for people to have to look at this virtual slum is a disgrace Mr Forbes is not a man that people in Scotland shouldn't Forbes was named top a Scot of 2012 in an unscientific poll run by the whisky brand Glenfiddich the man who made that documentary Antony Baxter says that today he's horrified by treatment of migrants in the us the way he treated the residents in Scotland was a person that. Asked them just before the demo I spoke with comedian Janie Godly a prominent Trump critic who said many Scots admire those locals who took on Trump has that thing where you know it's the art of the deal it's me it's gonna throw money your house is a tap get it built and the people I am not risk I don't you can't dollars over I'm not going to do it go at least at the Scottish people had grit to them and did not care to be bullied Alice Fordham n.p.r. News. And those protests in Scotland came of course after a week in which President Trump disparaged America's NATO allies made a vague threat to pull out of the alliance and sparred openly with European leaders he's preparing now to have a private meeting next week with Russian President Vladimir Putin NATO was formed to counter aggression from the Soviet Union net and this morning we're going to get a history lesson on Nato's origins and why it's seen as such an important underpinning to the global world order the story begins after World War 2 when the shadow of the Soviet Union loomed over Europe Warsaw based columnists and historian an apple bomb picks it up from there the war time allies ended the war expecting to be at peace with the Soviet Union expecting to create a new world order based on the United Nations that sailed almost immediately and by $949.00 mere 4 years after the war ended the Allies were afraid of a new form of Soviet aggression symbols of Czechoslovakia as neighbor to the east Russia are reminders of the Soviet severing pitching domination and so they swarmed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which included Canada Western Europe Norway Denmark Italy and the United States as a wave to tearing the Soviet Union leaders of the communist way to meet in Warsaw to sign the treaty which is that and certainly time the Warsaw Pact defines the enemy camp so it was the Soviet Union and the countries of the communist bloc on the one hand and the Western democracies on the other hand and the central piece of NATO was Article 5 of the NATO treaty which stated that in fact against one would be an attack against. NATO was on the one hand military alliance it was an umbrella under which NATO armies practiced together they planned together it was an organization that was meant to fight back. If there was a Soviet attack on one of its members on the other hand it also had a kind of ideological function it was a statement that these are the nations of the West these are the liberal democracies and they will push back against to tell a Tarion is I'm against communism of the kind that came from the Soviet Union just a short while ago astonishing news from East Germany where the East German authorities have said you know essence of the Berlin wall doesn't mean anything anymore it was initially somewhat disoriented by the collapse of the Soviet Union and there was some talk even of it to spending but it was too valuable as an institution and the leaders of NATO began to see that it could have another function which is as a kind of spearhead of Western style liberal democracy in Central and Eastern Europe so ironically Nato's 1st military engagement was not with the Soviet Union but was in the Balkans NATO jets continued their systematic attack on both positions throughout the day 1st it was guarded his words I defend Bosnia and then it became part of a war on the side of caution go against Serbia so it was part of really a u.s. Led attempt to create peace in the Balkans by establishing some kind of military rule over the region the full horror of what is happening to the United States today is now becoming clear of the September 11th attack and the aftermath represented the 1st time that NATO members invoked Article 5 of the NATO treaty the commitment to collective self-defense was 1st entered into in circumstances very different from those that exist no but it remains no less valid and no less essential today in a world subject to the scourge of international terrorism the declaration of Article 5 led to a pullout NATO involvement in Afghanistan the civilized world is rallying to America. They understand that if this turns. Unpunished their own cities their own citizens may be next the 1st way 50 tomahawk cruise missiles like bees fired from u.s. And British ships and submarines many NATO members contributed in for some it was an important experience in some cases for the 1st time of combat since the 2nd World War It was a very important turning point for NATO into a recognition that Europeans were willing to do something for the United States and something that had real costs. Dozens of pro Russian forces seized control of the international airport and military airport in Ukraine's Crimea region Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014 broke a very important precedent in post-war Europe namely it was an invasion of one country by another and it also involved a change of borders by force in response to that the European countries decided not to respond militarily at least not at 1st but both to respond by sanctions and also to reinforce NATO his presence in Central New Stern Europe NATO fighter jets training Tuesday a show of solidarity against Russia and really one u.s. President after the next understood NATO added other countries to the strength of the United States it gave the u.s. a Bigger voice in world affairs there was never a questioning of the basis of the alliance itself or really of its value to the United States president Trump's view of NATO has been radically different the 28 countries of NATO many of them aren't paying their fair share seen as NATO not as advantaged as the extension of American power he sees in a set is a drain on the United States and he talks about it exclusively as an American problem this is been brought up by other presidents but of the president said today about it paradoxically NATO has never been I mean certainly not since the 1990 s. New. Who has never been more active more cooperative on the we have agreed to be committed to the pledge increasing the funds Benita 2 percent. Let's talk without a bad case scenario is that President Trump does real damage so that President Trump undermines confidence in the promise that NATO members will protect one another and that that leads to some kind of Russian provocation and so the worst case scenario is that trumps disregard for NATO his decision to turn the NATO summit into a kind of circus where he becomes the center of attention that that leads to some real tragedy and that was an apple bomb a historian and columnist for The Washington Post. States around the country have been struggling to acquire drugs for lethal injections as the state supplies of run out many pharmaceutical companies have boxed it having their products used for executions the state of Nevada this week was forced to postpone the execution of convicted murderer Scott Dozier That's because the manufacturer of Madame as a lamb one of the drugs in a lethal cocktail sued the state and a judge disallowed its use what stands out about this postponed execution is that Nevada had hoped to become the 1st state to use the opioid fentanyl in a lethal injection Robert Denham is with the Death Penalty Information Center which takes on the issue of how the death penalty is administered thank you for joining us good morning what do you make of Nevada's attempt to add Fentanyl to its drug cocktail. Well I think Fentanyl is not really the drug of choice I think it's an accidental drug if you will the drugs that states previously had relied upon have become increasingly difficult for them to obtain and once they couldn't obtain them they started looking elsewhere that's how they came across a panel but of course this is the drug many of us have heard of because it's at the heart of the opiate crisis in this country and that's one of the ironies about this because the whole constitutional issue in there in lethal injection is whether the method of executing somebody is cruel and unusual and that comes down to whether it has a substantial risk of on the society pain and it's somewhat ironic that at the same time that the Justice Department and states are talking about how dangerous Fentanyl is the states are now turning to it as as a supposedly safe way of killing prisoners yet well and again it is never been used in an execution so far is there a sense of protocol a states must follow before they introduce a new drug to the cocktail there's a requirement that each state has a protocol but what that protocol is is a matter of state law so states can choose whatever drugs they that they want to Solong as they pass constitutional scrutiny Well what about these lawsuits ultimately could that mean the end of lethal injection as a form of capital punishment that's a good question and I think that what we're seeing is that states are looking for different alternatives some states have looked to change the drugs that they're using others have gone from a multiple drug protocol to a single drug protocol and other states have looked for different methods altogether so you have Utah that's adopted as a backup the firing squad and you have Oklahoma and Alabama and Mississippi who've adopted as a backup nitrogen gas Tennessee has gone for the electric chair as a backup so states are looking at all the different options some have also said well if we're not going to be able to carry it out through a method that we think is the most humane way we're going to do away with. Death penalty altogether and that's been part of the debate when it comes to the executions for example in Utah even after they adopted the firing squad as a back up the next year they introduced a bill that would abolish the death penalty and although it hasn't been enacted that's something that the states are seriously considering So everything is on the table and I think that we're going to see different states reacting differently and that's in part because some states are more conservative than others some states are are much more concerned about ensuring that the executions are done as painlessly as possible and other states regrettably have indicated a willingness to reach contracts in mislead drug St Peters in order to improperly obtain drugs Robert Dunham is executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center thanks for joining us this morning my pleasure. You're listening to Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News. It is no secret that Republicans are not fans of the Affordable Care Act last year they tried and failed to repeal the health care law and ever since they've been carving away at it piece by piece last December Congress eliminated the penalty for not having health insurance effectively getting rid of the mandate that many Republicans despised and in the spring President Trump issued new rules making it easier for people to buy cheaper insurance that covers fewer health care services and now this month the administration has gone even further here to tell us all about it is N.P.R.'s Allison Kojak Good morning I'm Renee what did the president do this month exactly so he took 2 action the administration the Department of Health and Human Services cut the funding for these nonprofit groups that are known as navigators that help people choose their health insurance plans and then secondly they suspended what's known as the risk adjustment program which is a pretty wonky program but it helps to smooth the bumps in the market for insurance companies Ok let's start with those navigators you spoke of now in what way have they been considered quite necessary so the navigators give people in person one on one help to help choose the health plan and to sign up and you know health insurance is very confusing there is deductibles there the premiums are co-payments So it's really hard to know what services you're going to get and what it's really going to cost but it just says after several years they aren't really necessary anymore because now people understand insurance better so they don't need that kind of intensive hell navigator defenders though don't agree because they say now their role is to get to those people who still after all these years haven't gotten insurance you know ones that in a way are most confused and hide really hard to reach Ok so they cut dramatically this navigator budget and then the administration also froze risk adjustment payments to insurance companies tell us about that what the risk adjustment program is is some insurance companies have a lot of healthy people on their plans and they don't have to spend a lot on. And health care or other companies might have way more sick people and have a lot more health care costs so some companies pay em and that money goes to the companies that have to spend a lot on health care to smooth out the program the term administration just decided not to make those payments and these insurance companies really plan ahead they depend on getting those payments when they determine what their policy prices are going to be so this action is likely to lead to higher prices so what's the big picture here Alison I mean what does it mean to have fewer navigators and no mandate and to allow cheaper plans even with all these changes the markets really aren't likely to collapse and that's because of the federal subsidies insurance companies they're going to raise their premiums on their policies but low and middle income people who get those subsidies to help pay their premiums they're going to be protected and they'll likely stay in the market because when premiums go up the subsidies go up so insurance companies are also protected because they're still going to get that money from the federal government but the people who are likely to get hurt are the people who make more money don't qualify for those subsidies those could be people with middle income down a little bit higher and people who run small businesses and have to buy their own insurance because they don't get it from their employer the ironic thing is a lot of those people are the ones who don't like Obamacare and likely voted Republican in the 1st place and they're the ones that all these actions are going to affect the most overall though Alison are these changes doing well because people are signing up yet people are still signing up or at least last year's been Rollman was just a strong as the year before and people who get subsidies are likely to want to keep that insurance and they can afford it so they'll probably keep signing up N.P.R.'s Allison Kojak thanks very much thank you Renee. This is n.p.r. News. For k. P.b.s. News I'm Maya trouble say after more than 50 years an iconic San Diego store is closing its doors for good the Adams Avenue bookstore won't be open after today at its peak the iconic store had over 60000 books on hundreds of different subjects but now many of its shelves sit empty Brian Lucas has owned the bookstore for 32 of its 53 year history and he says it hasn't always been about making money in a low books. To do this and to be silly enough to do with this long but you know I love people more the saddest thing for me is I'm going to miss a lot of those friendships those are great people the store officially closes today any remaining books will be donated to local schools Lucas does own the building but he plans to sell it within the next couple of months less humidity over the weekend but temperatures will still be warm with highs just above normal for this time of year you're listening to k.p. B.s. In San Diego I'm sure I'm with these headlines officials say at least 11 Afghan soldiers were killed when insurgents attacked a checkpoint in the western part of the country at least 4 soldiers were wounded officials blame Taliban fighters who are active in the region former Pakistani prime minister now was Sharif and his daughter are in custody after arriving back in Pakistan yesterday they have both been convicted in their absence on corruption charges they've returned during a violent election campaign yesterday a suicide bombing killed at least $128.00 people and President Trump isn't Turnberry Scotland visiting one of his 2 golf courses in that country he leaves tomorrow for Helsinki for Monday's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin I'm sure Rahm n.p.r. News in Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Babble a language app that teaches real life conversations in a new language including Spanish French and German battles 10 to 15 minute lessons are available in the app store or online at Babble b a b b e l dot com and from pro Quest partners with the u.s.c. Show a foundation to enable access to the visual history archive for helping students and researchers understand the impact of genocide through video interviews with survivors learn more at Pro Quest dot com. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Renee Montagne tech workers from sales force Microsoft Amazon and Google are putting pressure on their C.E.O.'s to cut ties and in contracts with some u.s. Government agencies it's rare for employees to tell their bosses to turn away business but as N.P.R.'s Laura Sydell reports there's a growing concern among tech workers that the cutting edge who'll they create can be used in immoral ways there's always been a string of idealism at the major tech companies Google started with the motto Don't be evil Facebook's mission statement says it's committed to bringing the world closer together the c.e.o. Of sales force which builds software for businesses loves to tout its values here's Marc Benioff at the company's annual conference we fart together whether it's for l g b t Q a quality across the country that's been so important for us or fighting for women and gender equality and gender pay equity for women now the outspoken c.e.o. Is caught up in the nation's debate about immigration earlier this week a handful of protestors outside of the sales force tower in downtown San Francisco called on the company to live up to its values. The protesters are here to support the more than $650.00 sales force employees who signed a petition asking c.e.o. Benioff to end sales forces software contract with the u.s. Customs and Border Protection or c.b.p. They're upset over its role in the treatment of migrant families and their children so far sales force is keeping the contract to supply software to manage human resources in a tweet c.e.o. Benioff said the company doesn't work with c.b.p. To separate families he agrees separating families is wrong but that's not enough for tech workers like Kevin Ortiz sales force has the obligation both morally and ethically to actually stop all practice with c.b.p. Regardless of what their own. A ship is in order to cripple the c.b.d. Whether sales force has a moral obligation may be debatable to some but tech employees say they are proud of the values these companies promote In fact the demonstrators came from a variety of tech companies and while they are speaking out many like this program or at a large company didn't want to use their names because their employers might retaliate this month oh yeah we actually deeply listen and care about employees it's finally starting to crumble the people are seeing the industry for what it really is which is just like any other industry that's focused on making money and enriching their shareholders and seeing the sales force protest is part of a growing movement among tech workers employees at Google successfully pushed for an end to a contract with the Pentagon which was going to use its technology for more targeted drone strikes Amazon employees want the company to cancel contracts with law enforcement for facial recognition technology and Microsoft some programmers have threatened to quit rather than build software for ice Jennifer Chapman a professor at Haas cool of Business University of California Berkeley says it's almost unheard of for workers to ask their employer to stop doing business with a particular client but she thinks is a reason this is happening a tech companies the organizations encourage responsibility by having generally flatter hierarchies they encourage people to challenge and debate they encourage people to test the status quo Todd Gitlin a professor of sociology and communications at Columbia University says there is a precedent for scientists and engineers refusing to work with the government on technology after the Us used the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki many of the scientists who worked on it were horrified and one of them was Robert Oppenheimer who actually was deprived of his security clearance because he didn't work on the hydrogen bomb Oppenheimer is known as the father of the atomic bomb and while. Most big tech companies aren't in the business of building bombs many like this anonymous programmer do see how the technologies they build are a double edged sword social media can connect people and it can spread fake news facial recognition can catch criminals or be used by authoritarians to track their citizens we have the power to stand up and say we want to do that that's not the future that we want to see we want to show that there's a different future possible where tech you can use for human rights and these workers who did this is the beginning of employees speaking up to their bosses about how the technology they build gets used Laura Sydell n.p.r. News San Francisco and we should note sales force is a financial supporter of n.p.r. . We're spending a lot of time these days thinking about Russia and its relationship to the us the big news yesterday was that indictments against 12 Russian intelligence officers have been brought for conspiring among other things to influence the $26000.00 election and there will be more news Monday when President Trump sits down with lead Amir Putin so it's fortuitous that Keith Gessen said his new novel in Russia he was born there and describes a place we can't divine from the headlines it's set a decade ago in the middle of the global financial crisis and protests in Moscow under a Kaplan brought to America as a boy has spent his entire life studying Russian history and literature and now in the novel he can't find a job so Andrei decamps to Moscow to look after his 89 year old grandmother frail and living alone in what she calls a terrible country he has this fantasy that if he goes over to Moscow and starts interviewing her she will produce all these stories about Stalinist Russia which he can then sort of repackage into an academic article and make his career take off and of course once he gets there he's disappointed to find that his grandmother hardly remembers who he is much less various details about Stalinist Russia he gets there and what does he find because it's been a while since he had visited Moscow. As an American or a Russian American who's interested in Russia here he read the news about Russia a lot and he really expects when he gets there to find this place that is under a terrible dictatorship people are oppressed you know he thinks he's going to show up and possibly get arrested at the airport and instead he finds that the country has become quite rich everybody's walking around talking on sleek little cell phones they also seem to be driving fancy German cars it's not what he expected there's a passage where you you write about this this this shock the shock of the change why don't you read just a little bit of that sure and the set up to this is his grandmother who can't remember anything she remains very curious about what's happening in Russia. So she's constantly asking Andre What's the situation what's the situation in the country and then he thinks this what was the situation the country it was true I didn't know but it wasn't sure that I had no idea everyone in Moscow seemed to drive a black Audi and there are websites where you could order a prostitute after reading all her customer reviews every time I walked into the coffee grinder and bought the cheapest item on the menu I was amazed at all the other customers where do they come from in this traumatized and wounded country some of them are walking over from the k.g.b. Building across the street but not all of them and anyway this was the cheapest cafe in my grandmother's neighborhood these people were buying a couple of double espressos and pastries and sandwiches and being charged $30.00. The worst part was they didn't even argue you'd have thought some of them at least would have said what none of them said it they handed over the money they didn't even blink. Their ears a way in which money money is practically a character in this novel lot of people have it others like you the grandmother Andre's grandmother barely getting by. And you know Andre leaves this country where he found himself measured all the time by whether or not he had money that is to say the United States. And he shows up in Russia to find that it's the exact same thing that Russians have very much adapted these values of thinking that the amount of money you have is a sign of your success and your virtue and that those people who weren't able to make money in the post Soviet period and who are suffering or are barely getting by that they deserve to suffer. Although his grandmother is quite poignant because she she's old school I mean and she will walk to 5 stores to get the best price you can possibly get. Yeah I mean the. One of the things that has happened in the Moscow that Andre discovers is that it has gone through radical gentrification and most of the kind of old school Soviet people a lot of whom were elderly who were living in the center of the city have basically been priced out some of them quite violently there are a lot of scams in the ninety's where 10 elderly people who had prime real estate in Moscow had bad things happen to them. So his grandmother is one of the few kind of holdovers in this part of the city who is from the old days who has very little cash is basically living off her pension and she has this kind of Soviet geography that she keeps to where she knows which store has the cheapest cheese. Which store has the cheapest butter. Which store has the cheapest cucumbers and Andre finds this very frustrating because to go on a shopping trip with her takes you know these 3 times as long as it has to. The book is funny laugh out loud sometimes and yet there's a darkness there. Is that capturing something that that is russian out so you know for me it's this or I go over there I have the same reaction as I describe Andre having in the book which is I spend all this time reading about what's going on over there and a lot of it is really bad and then I get there and people are sitting in coffee shops. And you know you think are are are all these people just kind of living in allusion or. Or you know do they have to just go about their lives. And and the answer is kind of kind of both right I mean you can't. Live with a constant sense of how bad things are politically. You do have to go out and get coffee Keith Gessen His new novel set in Russia is called a terrible country thank you very much for joining us thank you so much it's Emmy season the Television Academy announced the nominations for the 70th annual Emmy Awards this week and here to give us the rundown is Linda Holmes N.P.R.'s pop culture blogger and television enthusiastic she joins us now hi hi Renee Well 1st this was a great year for new comedies that's right there are 8 nominees for outstanding comedy series and 3 of them were in their 1st year of eligibility one is glow on Netflix which is about women wrestlers one is the marvelous Mrs May's own which is on Amazon period piece in the fifty's and another one is Barry a hit man very dark comedy on h.b.o. Of the 3 of those you have a favorite I do I really love Barry it's very dark and creepy but Bill Hader is the star of that a lot of people know him from Saturday Night Live he's wonderful wonderful and it sounds like a tough tough competition there and not as many shakeups in the drama category Yeah that's right there are a lot of the typical The ones that have been nominated last couple years are repeating you got your Game of Thrones and Handmaid's Tale the Americans a lot of the same shows that have been nominated the last few years are nominated again you're a great person to ask this of Did anything surprise you or disappoint you there are some really wonderful comedies that were left out it's such a crowded category the good place is a show I Love on n.b.c. One day at a time on Netflix is one that I love it's just a really crowded field in comedy right now I want to talk also about Sandra Oh you know she's the 1st Asian woman to be nominated as an outstanding actress in a drama for her work in killing I believe there is a female assassin operating internationally and she's targeted a number of influential people. She simply has style and I don't know who is behind her but I don't think she's slowing down and I just interested. Yes but also apparently makes me expand to sis and a crap on it completely on my own and health I think anymore she's outsmarting the smartest of us so that she deserves to do or kill whoever the she wants me to tell me then frankly it's not my job to carry more Sandra was on Grey's Anatomy for a very long time she was a lot of people loved her and that she's in killing Eve which is on b.b.c. America and she is a Canadian woman whose parents were Korean immigrants and she's the 1st woman of Asian descent to be nominated in this category lead actress in a Drama Series and John Legend he's now just an Emmy away from I Love His That's right that's Emmy Grammy Oscar and Tony for Jesus Christ Superstar live in concert . Sorry. To. Not you know the. Phrase. That's right n.b.c. Broadcast production of Jesus Christ Superstar John Legend played Jesus and he's nominated and he would close that for some of of big awards that very few people a handful of people have ever won it's tough competition but you know if he wins it he will you got one thing that also stuck out this year is the prominence of streaming networks Netflix overtook h.b.o. This year that never happens that's right Netflix took over from h.b.o. As the biggest nominee getter and that had been h.b.o. For many many years and it's partly just because Netflix makes so much stuff but they did get the most nominations in total you know and if you compare them you know h.b.o. Makes really a relative handful of shows compared to Netflix but but yet Netflix finally pulled ahead and sheer numbers and one last fun item Megan Amrit. Please. Meghan am Ram is a writer for the good place which I mentioned earlier on n.b.c. Action Hi My name is mag an air but a fictionalized version of myself for this web series I was watching the Emmys last year and there was a category called. Outstanding Actress in a short form comedy or drama series and I thought to myself wow I could win. So she made a web series called an Emmy for Meghan that was only designed to get her this Emmy nomination so in it she a motes and it's all emotive about wanting an Emmy nomination so it's kind of a show within a concept of a show it was very very funny and much to not my surprise she did get her Emmy nomination and I don't know if she's going to win or not but if she did boy that would be a great moment when. Linda Holmes writes N.P.R.'s pop culture blog Monkey See thanks very much Thanks Renee. And you're listening to Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Renee Montagne support for n.p.r. 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I'm Renee Montagne the indictments of 12 Russian military intelligence officers will not President Trump from meeting with Vladimir Putin next week the news broke just as Trump arrived at Windsor Palace for tea with the queen we'll hear from a member of parliament on why a hard is the best way to break from the e.u. Also how tariffs are hurting Maine's lobster industry and how a spice grown in Afghanistan is coming to America there was really just a crazy audacious idea that started with 10 farmers. And now we're about to be distributed by Whole Foods the story a roomie spice 1st our newscast it's Saturday July 14th 2018 live from n.p.r. News in Washington and Barbara Kline President Trump is blaming former president Obama for not doing enough to stop Russian hackers from interfering in the 2016 election Trump tweeted the accusation today from his golf resort in Scotland is only public statement after yesterday's indictment.