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News I'm Jeff to be airing in Raleigh North Carolina President Donald Trump is out with a warning to conservative Republicans today in a message on Twitter the president saying a fight may be coming if they don't quote get on the team and fast drop making reference to House Republicans recent inability to come together on a measure that would have repealed and replaced President Obama's health care law House speaker Paul Ryan in response says it's a small group the block the bill I understand the president's frustration I share frustration about 90 percent of our conference is for this bill to repeal and replace Obamacare and about 10 percent are not. And that's not enough to pass a bill we're close what I'm encouraging members are do is keep talking with each other until we can get the consensus to pass this bill is directed at the so-called Freedom caucus and its conservative members the caucus Meanwhile defended its opposition the White House announced dates invited the Republican and Democratic leaders of congressional intelligence committees investigating Russia's election meddling to view classified material pertaining to surveillance of Donald Trump's associates the invitation follows a New York Times report that 2 White House staffers helped House Intelligence Committee chaired have a new nest view the classified information the commercial spaceflight company Space x. Has successfully reused one of its rockets for the 1st time ever N.P.R.'s Jon Hamilton reports on the historic flight the Falcon 9 rocket took off from Kennedy Space Center carrying a communications satellite. For. 60 . 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Ari Shapiro Congress is investigating Russia's attempted meddling in the presidential election and politics is getting in the way today the New York Times reported that White House staffers gave information to House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunez newness told the press and the president about that information before sharing it with his own committee notice also suggested that it validates president Trump's unfounded allegations that President Obama had him wiretapped the White House is not commenting on that story but it says there is similar information that it wants to share with Democrats and Republicans while all of this back and forth has paused the House investigation the Senate Intelligence Committee is trying to show that it can handle questions about Russia without drama they held their 1st open hearing in this investigation today here's N.P.R.'s Scott Petro like call the Syrian border at the beginning of today's hearing Republican Richard Burr said Yeah it's kind of rare for a committee to talk so openly about something it's investigating However the vice chairman and I understand the gravity of the issues that we're here reviewing and I've decided that it's crucial that we take the rare staff of discussing publicly an ongoing intelligence question the vice chair is Democrat Mark Warner he was just as serious when he made his opening statement we simply must and we will get this right the Senate investigation the 2 men are heading is ramping up at a time when its House counterpart is falling apart when Birhan Warner met reporters yesterday several questions boiled down to this can you 2 work together in can you keep your own politics out of it he usually knows my sources before I do and he's let me assure you I've also got his cell phone pictures and he hears me more than he sometimes like the body act underscored a broader point at this point in time Burr and Warner trust each other of course the House Intelligence Committee investigation began this way to Democrat Adam Schiff and Republican Devin Nunez never appeared this chummy but they made frequent joint appearances to get. There and took pains not to undercut each other now Democratic committee member Jim Hynes says the committee's work has been frozen you know our intelligence community is out there doing things that need oversight let's just put it that way and we have in the police shut down this week we're not even doing our regular hearings things deteriorated quickly after a public hearing where f.b.i. Director James Comey revealed an active investigation into both Russian action and possible coordination with the Trump campaign 2 days later Nunez made that surprising announcement about trumpet his staff being picked up over the course of routine legal surveillance shift eventually called a new nest to recuse himself from the committee's investigation I suppose the last straw was the revelation that he had obtained whatever material he had obtained at the White House and then gone back to the White House to present the material House speaker Paul Ryan is sticking with Nunez But today acknowledged the committee's work has had a major roadblock I think you're right this is gotten a little political let's take a pause and let's just get all the evidence all the documents and find out what happened meanwhile as the Senate Intelligence Committee held its hearing the focus was on the big picture expert witnesses testified instead of government officials at the heart of the probe Clint Watts is a senior fellow at George Washington University Center for cyber and homeland security he told lawmakers how Russia works to sow distrust for institutions in other governments and how it uses trolls and fake accounts on social media networks to spread false information wot says the campaign has become much more effective because President Trump spreads false information to a denies the intel from the United States about Russia he claims that the election could be rigged that was the number one theme pushed by or a tease by big news white outlets all the way off until the election. Made claims of voter fraud that President Obama is not a citizen the lawmakers on the Senate committee are all taking the threat of Russian action seriously no one seemed to question the basic premise that Russia worked to hack Democrat. Accounts and meddle in the election that's a promise that trump rejected for months and still lashes out against on Twitter Scott Petro n.p.r. News the Capitol on the other side of Capitol Hill President Trump has reignited a fire in his own party not surprisingly he did that with a tweet this morning which read The Freedom caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team and fast we must fight them and Dems in 2018 the president blames the house freedom caucus for the failure of the health care bill so to sort through what this means for Republicans and the president is n.p.r. Political editor to medical mountain I hate America and there aren't there is a lot of focus on the divide within the Republican Party when President Obama was in the White House now that the Republican party controls everything Congress and the White House why are the mainstream Republicans still fighting with the right flank the freedom caucus Well you know look I've been saying for a while that President Trump is not really a traditional Republican he's more what I would liken to a right wing nationalist the kind that you've seen coming to prominence in Europe for example that's presented Republicans like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell with a potential problem here and it's been something of a marriage of convenience for Trump and Ryan and McConnell as long as Trump could get through the traditional conservative Republican agenda they were all going to get along but there was always the potential that if he went the other way that they wouldn't is the freedom caucus feeling much pressure Look they know that they have to try to work with Trump and they know how popular he is in their districts for example he won them by an average of 26 points but look these are the kinds of people that are just going to wilt and just today just an image of the Freedom caucus from Michigan congressman he came out and tweeted that it didn't take long for the swamp to drain Trump Ouch a reference to trump saying that he'd go to Washington and drain the swamp and roll Labrador said that the freedom caucus stood with you and others ran remember who your real friends are there is another option here which is a president from could try to work with Democrats. How likely is that you know here's what's funny about this Trump himself has seemed to flirt with this idea Friday right after the bill was pulled he said that he thinks he could get something done with Democrats and just 2 nights ago before a bipartisan group of senators at the White House he said this I know that we're all going to make a deal on health care that's such an easy one so I have no doubt that that's going to happen very quickly I think it will actually I think it's going to happen of course it's not easy the problem here is that Republicans have been waiting for this moment for a decade to control Congress and the presidency again they aren't about to give that up so easily and quickly in fact this morning on c.b.s. House speaker Paul Ryan knocked down the idea of working across the aisle on health care if we don't do this then he'll just go work with Democrats to try and change Obamacare and that's not going to it's hardly a conservative thing if President Trump is declaring war on the freedom caucus and Paul Ryan is saying he won't work with Democrats is there any path for anything to get done here obviously something has to give if the house freedom caucus is going to stick to their guns and Paul Ryan is and again he's not going to work with Democrats almost nothing can get done especially looking forward to something as difficult as the tax overhaul that they'd like to accomplish N.P.R.'s Tamara come on tomorrow thanks thank you it's time for your evening sugar rush mixed with a little business and politics Mars Chocolate North America announced a 70000000 dollar investment today in u.s. Factories adding some 250 new jobs that's the company behind sneakers Skittles Twix and lots of other candies and it's not the only one Harley Bo the German Gummy Bear Company recently said it will open its 1st u.s. Plant in Wisconsin it plans to hire 400 people over the next few years both companies say they have had these plans in the works for a long time domestic job announcements have always made President Trump happy and investigative reporters for The Washington Post find that can be makers are trying to appeal to the trumpet ministration in lots of other ways to Amy Britain is a reporter with The Washington Post and joins us now hi there how are you good so what is the. And the industry hoping to accomplish under President Trump It was unable to do under President Obama so the key issue for the candy industry is that they are looking for big reforms in the sugar industry in the United States and one of the things that people may not realize is that candy makers and sugar growers are not on the same team when it comes to this fight so candy makers believe that there are artificial market caps that have been in place boosting and supporting sugar growers and they believe that if they kind of overhaul and reform this industry then they can make their candy for a lot cheaper and what have you found that the candy industry is doing to try to woo the trumpet ministration. Well they have actually booked a number of events at Trump properties across the country so they have scheduled different conferences at the Trump National Drought resort which is outside of Miami and Florida and they have booked a total of 3 conferences at the brand new Trump International Hotel in d.c. Now it's key to note that they did make these bookings before Trump was elected president but you can't deny the fact now that they're in a little bit of a sticky situation when it comes to lobbying the administration at the same time that they are also engaged in big business with Trump properties just could not avoid the candy pong coach I. Am sorry. As you said the sugar industry in the candy industry are not on the same page so what are the sugar folks think about the candy folks spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on events at Top properties you know we did called The sugar group for comment and all they would say is that they would not put anything past the candy makers and it's funny because you know for years the sugar growers people have referred to them with disdain as big sugar but now the sugar growers are turning around and pointing to the candy makers and they're saying look at what big candy is doing you know. Big Candy will stop at nothing to get favorable action from the Trump administration and it is interesting to look at how many different issues you know different arms of the trumpet ministration could possibly affect when it comes to the candy makers so you talk about the f.d.a. You talk about the snap program formally known as the food stamp program you know there have been certain regulations in different states that restrict the ability of the use nat funds to actually purchase Candy so there are potentially a number of different arms of the administration that can affect the bottom line for candy makers Amy Britain is a reporter with The Washington Post investigative team thanks thanks Aria appreciate it. This is Bill Kaymer longtime member of k p c c I've given a challenge grant during this pledge drive because I believe the k p c c is our most important source of information to cover the issues that affect those of us in Southern California so that we can learn about all of the diverse communities that affect us on a daily basis so please give your support and go to keep a c c dot org To do so or call 866-888-5722. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Ari Shapiro every recent president has promised to innovate the way government works and this week the trumpet ministration announced its plan to do that it's opening the White House Office of American innovation Jared cushion or the president's son in law and senior advisers in charge it's staffed mostly by business executives we want to explore the challenges of innovating in government so we invited Jennifer Paul cut into our studios She is founder of Code for America a group that places tech fellows in local government She also worked in the Obama White House I asked her about how innovating in government differs from doing the same in the private sector government is fundamentally different from business in the sense that businesses choose their customers government must serve everyone or at least in certain cases they must serve a certain population many government services do have to work for every person in America seniors who are not well literate people in rural America other folks might have different levels of access or fluency exactly and in different languages all sorts of different things and so we think technology can really help that but we have to understand people have different levels of access to technology as well so when Jared questioner and his father in law Donald Trump say they want government to run like an efficient well run business is that an appropriate or achievable goal I think I'm most concerned about what comes out of these efforts regardless of how they frame them I think that there's a lot that can be done building on what's happened in really the last 6 years both in the federal government and with states and musicality is around the country that shows that a lot of these techniques for these practices these principles and we summarize them as iterative user centered and data driven these practices can make services better and better technology generally cost less than what we're spending today not more iterative user centered and data driven so you do it in small increments you see what people actually want and you figure out what works and do more of that is that basically what that means. Yes you're hired. That's right is there something you can point to that worked really badly a few years ago the now is more efficient and effective and better serves the American taxpayers who are paying for it there's an amazing team that's been working on this for quite some time my friend Rena Martin is the c.t.o. Of the v.a. And one of the things she could observe is that the application for health benefits didn't work on most computers you had to have a specific combination of Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader to open the application and because you know the box had been checked it looked like it worked per the contracting requirements it wasn't in the queue to be fixed and the team at the that ends administration Digital Service showed folks at the v.a. Homeless veterans trying to access the service on a computer and realized it didn't work and they got it and fixed it and now it's a super streamlined very clear web app that works on any browser Veterans Affairs is one of the areas that your question or says he wants to focus on with this initiative clearly still some distance to go there is certainly a long way to go and one of the things that we've learned to code for America over the 6 years of our existence is that if you follow users the people who are trying to use your system and actually watch what's going on there and use data to explain to others where the system is jammed up you find that the people in government are very very eager to fix those problems it's just that they couldn't see them you wrote a blog post the day after the election saying that the work of remaking government is not partisan doesn't belong to any political party or one administration do you worry that people with talent and skills who disagree with the politics of this president will choose to stay away from the project I think people need to know how heroic the work that gets done in government both by people from the technology industry who come in and by the civil servants who are there today is and how enormous the impact. That work is on people who need help in this country it's not so much about what President you're working for it's the Who in the American public are you working for and I think that we can still really honor that work even when many of us including myself are worried about some of the policies that the administration might be providing Jennifer Palka is founder and executive director of Code for America thanks for coming to the studio thanks so much for having me some big city restaurants can't find enough kitchen staff restaurant owners say that's because of low wages and a gap in pay between employees who get tips and those that don't to bridge that gap and raise wages some restaurants are experimenting with pay structure Cmon Rios of member station takes us to a Jewish deli in Cambridge Massachusetts. And the lunchtime rushes over at Mama Liz delicatessen but the place is still buzzing customers Nahshon commissions pastrami unlocks then there's the chopped liver being made by line cooks like Marvin Munyon or you rightly he came here 3 years ago from Honduras so. If you want to have a good close just try our mass of old stuff you also can get our butts around in the house lots that you will love and loves his job but there's a but on average at mandalas those who work in the front of the house and earn tips make twice as much as people in the kitchen if we get busy oh where's love we're made to sandbag for these people up front because they got busy they can learn many of them and then you can really do the hard like the back each leg with the resin they were like making the whole foot restaurant owners say the wage gap is at the root of a shortage of kitchen workers to address the problem mom Liz Deli is one of at least a dozen restaurants in the Boston area to adopt what they call revenue sharing it varies from restaurant to restaurant but the mechanics of revenue sharing are simple take up. Centage of sales and funnel it to kitchen workers at Keith Harman's 3 Boston restaurants the 3 percent fee on all sales goes directly to the kitchen and what you're doing is you're converting the idea that the busier the restaurant is the better it is for everyone who's working and back of house Harmon says that before revenue sharing tipped employees earned about 2 and a half times as much as back of the house staff now the gap has been cut by about a 3rd. The reason it's a feat is because simply raising prices would also increase tips and perpetuate the wage gap and Harmon wanted a way to close the wage gap without eliminating tipping entirely We didn't want to alienate the tip staff to take care of the non tip staffing so we kind of came up with just pennies on the dollar approach revenue sharing has already taken off in California a spokesperson for the California Restaurant Association calls revenue sharing the emerging new norm but it seems to be confined to a handful of wealthy cities on the east and west coast at mandalas deli in Cambridge they're experimenting with raising prices and dedicating 5 percent of food sales to kitchen staff Dan Myers is a regular at the Jewish deli and he says hard work should pay well I'm having a big percentage don't really I mean it's a great image shows that the people running the place and owning the place it's not just lip service they care about their people mandalas deli also cares about keeping its kitchen staffed the restaurant is constantly hiring and they hope revenue sharing will reduce turnover the only thing line cook Marvin turning over are the potato lot cuts he's beaming at the idea that his pay will go up as much as $3.00 an hour we all happy about that we have people there like maybe they want looking for a job and they would like maybe while it's a good place the war is one of the best in my life and then there are other fringe benefits all the matzah balls chopped liver and Laca a line cook could want. 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Led security alliance that has largely kept peace in Europe for decades earlier this month it appeared that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson would skip a NATO foreign ministers meeting under criticism he is heading to Brussels tomorrow there he'll tell most NATO countries they need to spend more on their defense faster and P.R.'s Frank Langfitt reports from Brussels people in Brussels hear different messages from Washington these days from President Trump it's been mostly negative during the campaign he called NATO obsolete and Brussels which is suffer terrorist attacks hellhole he even encouraged the United Kingdom to leave the European Union all of this angers a lot of people in Brussels including e.u. Boss John Claude younger who threatened today to turn the tables on the Exodus let's just. As. If he goes on like that I'm going to promote the independence of Ohio and Austin Texas younger said after meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel this month President Trump softened his tone at least towards NATO I reiterated to Chancellor Merkel my strong support. Good for NATO as well as the need for our NATO allies to pay their fair share for the cost of defense many nations over vast sums of money from past years and it is very unfair to the United States NATO countries of underspend on defense in recent years but they don't owe any money Trump has left it to people like Vice President Mike Pence to play good cop as pence did speaking in February in Brussels whatever our differences are 2 continents share the same heritage the same values and above all the same purpose to promote peace and prosperity through freedom democracy and the rule of law and to those objectors we will remain committed Annamarie cause a build like what you heard from pence She's a member of the European Parliament where she represents Sweden it was very welcome and the next tweet and that's the problem here in Brussels people aren't quite certain whom to believe in Washington there is another amount of unpredictability and uncertainty now in transatlantic relationship that is very much on the mining at the credibility of it the rhetorical whiplash leaves people in NATO and the European Union with a mix of anxiety and defiance towards a country that has until recently always been a steadfast supporter people are concerned that is gloom and doom at the same time there's a very strong resolve not to let external factors meet putting Trump Breck's it to divide us or to does unite us the u.s. Has the world's largest economy and military Paul often says that means what the u.s. Thinks matters especially among allies in Europe Huffines is president of the Lisbon Council an independent think tank in Brussels the United States president in the United States in general are really important and there's a lot of people who think that we're friendly he's fine says that's wrong the regions have much more in common. And dividing them we were the world's largest industrial democracies that last were particularly important were democracy rule the rule of law we have a lot of things in common to support and defend President Trump is scheduled to come to Brussels at the end of May for a NATO summit Huffines hopes that is the president gets to know Europe he'll have a greater appreciation of the value of NATO and the European Union Frank Langfitt n.p.r. News Brussels. 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