Led by retail and tech stocks the downed s. And p. Rose 5 percent the Nasdaq surged almost 5 and 7 eighth's percent for n.p.r. News I'm Steve Bucknor Wall Street futures are sharply lower this morning Dow futures are off more than 300 points President Trump is on his way back from Iraq where he made an unannounced visit to u.s. Troops Yesterday N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith is traveling with the president while at al Assad Air Base President Trump defended his decision to pull all u.s. Troops out of Syria saying the ISIS caliphate is nearly eliminated and friend said he has no plans to withdraw the troops currently stationed in Iraq expect we could use this is a base if we want to do something in Syria I will say this if. If you take ISIS and if we see something happening with my sister we don't like we can get this show fast and so hard during that visit Trump met with senior military leaders and came out saying together they developed a great plan for victory that victory would be over is a clear and Trump declined to give any further details about the plan Cherokee from n.p.r. News on Air Force One defense secretary Jim Matheson ounce t. Was resigning a day after Trump said he was withdrawing u.s. Troops from Syria there's still no end in sight to the partial shutdown of the federal government the Senate reconvenes today but no breakthroughs on the budget impasse are expected President Trump has said the partial shutdown will continue until he gets money for a wall along the Us Mexico border the House passed a spending plan that includes the $5000000000.00 The president wants for a border wall the Senate adjourned before Christmas without passing anything Indonesia is expanding the area that's off limits to people near a volcano following a deadly tsunami more than 400 people were killed when a volcanic eruption sparked the giant wave it crashed into the coastlines of southern Sumatra and Western Java This is n.p.r. News from Washington. 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Food. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm David Greene and I'm Noel King good morning President made his 1st trip to an active combat zone yesterday that's nearly 2 years into his presidency that's right the president visited u.s. Troops in Iraq and his message there sounded well a lot like his message back home we will honor your service by doing everything in our power to defend our homeland. And just stop terrorists from entering American shores and that includes strengthening of our borders I don't know of you folks are aware of what's happening we want to have strong borders in the United States that Democrats don't want to let us have strong borders only to one reason you know why because I want to All right N.P.R.'s White House correspondent Scott Hart with Horsley is with us now good morning Scott good morning to you so this trip was a closely guarded secret because there are plenty of security risks that's pretty normal Do you have a sense of why President Trump went to Iraq now well this was in the works for some time if you think back the president was getting some criticism around Thanksgiving for not having gone to a combat zone during his 1st couple years in office both his predecessors Barack Obama and George w. Bush made multiple trips to Afghanistan and Iraq so this was an opportunity for the commander in chief to wish those serving far from home a Merry Christmas and to thank them for their service it was also a dramatic gesture for the president in the midst of this partial government shutdown and of course it comes just days after Trump's own defense secretary had quit in protest of the president's decision to pull u.s. Troops out of neighboring Syria yet he President Trump has made these choices recently that have led to the resignation of a Secretary of Defense and the head of the team that's charged with countering ISIS did he did he address that at all he did in his remarks to the u.s. Troops the president gave sort of a reiteration of his America 1st approach to foreign policy he defended those decisions to pull troops out of Syria and about half the u.s. Forces out of Afghanistan he said the u.s. Wouldn't quote be a sucker anymore defending other countries without getting much in return to his way of thinking he also did tell reporters including our own Tamara Keith who's on this trip. That he's not planning to withdraw any of the 5200 troops who are now serving in Iraq take a listen no plans have off practical effect we could use this is a base that we wanted to use up they consider it in that sense he is acknowledging that while ISIS has been driven from most of its territory in Syria and Iraq the group has not been wiped out of existence and has the potential to regroup I should say Oh well the president also falsely claim to the service members he was addressing that he'd given them their 1st pay raise in 10 years in fact the military's gotten a pay raise every year that's a claim the present has made before and that has been widely deployed Scott while the president was there obviously he met with u.s. Troops he took selfies he in the 1st lady did he meet at all with Iraq e officials because that seems like it would have been sort of a key move not in person and the White House press secretary Sara Sanders blame that on logistics as you mentioned the exact timing of this trip had been a closely guarded secret and when it took place the White House says there simply wasn't time for the Iraqi prime minister to make it to the al Assad military base out there and on bar province where the president was visiting now Iraqi sources say they would have preferred to see the president come to Baghdad to meet the president the way that other foreign leaders have done in any case though the top and the prime minister did speak by telephone and the president invited the Prime Minister to visit him in Washington Ok N.P.R.'s White House correspondent Scott Horsley thanks Scott good to be with you. U.s. Lawmakers are calling for better medical care for migrant kids in u.s. Custody yet this comes of course after the death of a 2nd migrant child who was in the custody of u.s. Immigration authorities these deaths have prompted u.s. Customs and Border Protection to do new medical screenings for every child in its care and it's looking for help from other federal agencies N.P.R.'s Joel Rose has been following the story good morning Joel I know well so 1st of all I want to ask you what else we've learned about this little boy who died in custody this week. He's been identified as Philippe Alonzo Gomez who was 8 years old from Guatemala he was apprehended after crossing the border illegally with his father outside of El Paso Texas on December 18th they were held in multiple processing facilities near the border facilities run by Customs and Border Protection they're moved eventually to a remote highway checkpoint north and in New Mexico that is where Alonzo Gomez got sick and died on Monday on Christmas Eve Why was this child held for so long in these facilities what was happening there well that's one of the big unanswered questions that we have about this right c.b.p. Is supposed to get children out of these processing centers as quickly as possible ideally in less than 72 hours but Alonzo Gomez was held for much longer than that he was shuffled through multiple facilities in quick succession and authorities haven't really said why but they have said that c.b.p. Facilities in the region are at or near capacity so they haven't exactly said what was going on in the case of this little boy but what if they said more broadly immigration authorities because they're under a lot of pressure right now after the deaths of 2 children in less than a month right and you know they've they've there's been a reaction you know they've called this death a tragedy they're investigating the cause until this month they said there hadn't been a death of a child in c.v. Custody and in over a decade. They say they've completed new medical screenings for children in their care especially for almost all of the children in their care especially those who are under 10 and they're looking for help from other federal agencies including the Centers for Disease Control. But Immigration authorities say that they're facing a crisis because of record numbers of families and unaccompanied children who are showing up at the border and that Customs and Border Protection facilities just were not designed for this year's c.b.p. Spokesman and Romijn many of our facilities were built 2030 years ago they were meant to handle it. Single adults mostly males they were not designed to deal with this huge increase in families treads Ok That's interesting because they're essentially saying this is a logistical problem and we haven't figured out a way to fix it yet what are members of Congress saying about all this members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus got a tour of some c.b.p. Facilities in New Mexico last week after the death of another migrant child also from Guatemala and they were not happy about what they saw Raul release is a Democratic lawmaker from California who resists also a doctor and he says he's going to write legislation to establish some basic standards for care for migrant children that he says what they saw in New Mexico as it was inhumane and substandard and Democratic Representative calling for hearings on this they want the Department of Homeland Security to ask for more money to improve the medical care there. N.P.R.'s Joel Rose Joel thank you so much. All right this is what the past week has sounded like across Sudan which is a massive country in northeast Africa. No. Protesters in Sudan have taken to the streets by the thousands there demanding the ouster of an almost 3 decade old regime and the government as we hear has responded with violence human rights groups say at least 37 people have been killed N.P.R.'s inner Prata has been following the story and he's with us now from the Kenyan capital Nairobi Good morning atr Good morning Noah All right so why have people taken to the streets of the capital Khartoum and in fact other cities across Sudan which is very large country yet so it started over the precipice the government decided to end subsidies in the price of bread tripled but this really speaks to the huge economic problems that Sudan is facing the country you know has been facing huge inflation people can't get money they make hours worth of lines for $20.00 and then they get to the stores and the shelves are bare but look today I was speaking to while a protester who only wanted his 1st name used because he fears the government and here's what he told me it's not about economics it's about they are most going to improve their country it's I am 25 years old I cannot see my my and my future here inside this country so life is hard is what he's saying but he feels like the government has the resources in there just misusing it they are just looking out for themselves he says so President Omar al Bashir has to go I mean this is so interesting you talk to a 25 year old man who says he has no faith in the future of his country his president has been in power longer than he's been alive be here is a strong man ruler he's a tough guy is this starting at all to look like a threat to his regime or is this crackdown all timidly likely to prove you know just just another crackdown in a country with a with a strong leader who's determined to hang on to power let me play you something that will explain a lot yeah. That is what people across today are chanting and it translates roughly to the people demand the fall of the regime if you remember that was a yet a popular chant during the Arab Spring and the Sudanese took to the streets back then too and since 2011 they've taken to the streets many times and every single time the security forces have managed to tamp those protests down and the list I've spoken to say this feels a little different there's a lot more people on the streets and this is a in bold and movement across the country we've seen reports that protesters have attacked the government buildings and one thing to remember is that popular protest movements have brought down 2 governments in Sudan once in 1964 and again in 1985 has the government said anything I mean it they've sent troops into the streets but have they said anything in response to this particularly anything on how they might improve the economy make people's lives better No I mean President Omar Bashir just delivered a speech a few days ago and he just plain those protests on agents mercenaries and infiltrators one thing that we are watching as we've seen reports that some of the troops that have been sent to deal with protesters have instead sided with them but in public they issued a statement the military said that they were 100 percent with President Bashir N.P.R.'s inner Prata in Nairobi watching this developing story in Sudan atr thanks so much thank you know well. 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News I'm David Greene and I'm Noel King good morning 2018 was a big year for political nonfiction exposé from prominent journalists and tell alls from former administration officials many of them had dramatic titles like fear fire and fury and unhinged I'm joined now by N.P.R.'s senior editor correspondent Ron Elving and political reporter Daniel Kurtz Liebman Hey guys you know with you it was a year in which it felt like there was a lot of political nonfiction but not just that that everybody was reading it and starting with Michael Wolff fire and fury all the way back in January was this year unusual or did it just seem that way I would say it was unusual and mostly because there are so many people leaving the White House so quickly so that just within the 1st 2 years a record number of people have left from the president's inner circle from the cabinet from the advisers at the highest level in the White House and several of them have written books and I would add here it might be a quantity vs quality thing also I mean if you look back yes there were some books already out in 2012 years into the Obama administration talking about analyzing Obama's rise to the presidency so it's not unusual for books to be out now analyzing a presidency but the tone of these books you had books that with these apocalyptic looking covers you know Trump against a red background with titles like fired fury and fear and also not only that but idea books about authoritarianism books like how democracies die the people versus democracy I mean the tone was very scary and a lot of these books let's go through some of the highlights one of the big ones this year was higher loyalty by former f.b.i. Director James Comey Ron you reported on that book you reviewed that book friend p.r. What stood out to you some of the comparisons that he makes it to the earlier parts of his career when he prosecuted mafia family and the code of silence that they had and the sort of generalized family based criminal enterprise that's a shocking come. Harrison to make in the spring of 2018 Now it may not seem quite as shocking at this stage but at the time that he was using that kind of language that really stood out there were also a significant number of tells from people close to the president some former White House staffers published notable books run which one was your favorite which was the most notable Oh Michael was not really a staffer but he was really a fly on the wall reporter who was allowed to hang out in the White House inexplicably for a long period of time and write a book and that really set the tone for the book because it came out fast he knew exactly what he was doing and got it out really quickly so that when a morose amount of Gauld who had also had a brief period on staff in the White House came out with a similar book it didn't have nearly the same sort of impact but I think really the book that made the biggest difference in reporting on the inside of the White House was not written by a White House insider but by someone to whom many of those insiders had spoken and that was Bob Woodward tell us about fear Bob Woodward had already had 18 other books many of which were number one New York Times bestsellers but the one that everybody remembers is all the president's men and that was about Watergate back in the 1970 s. People have studied it in school and he's still doing it in much the same way he was doing then giving people anonyma t. Getting people to really download the stuff that they know and he has apparently done that with most of the important people who have already left the White House and killing at least one chief of staff and strategic advisor and a lot of other people with very high titles and we don't know for certain who said exactly what because that's not Bob Woodward style he writes the book as though he knows everything and you have to divine who told him what but but this book has perhaps more impact than any he has written since Watergate because he takes on the president so directly and the things that he says about him would really have to be described as a form of indictment. Danielle you reviewed Michelle Obama's memoir becoming There were some things that really stood out to you in that book right so it's not a bull. Where the point is getting juicy tidbits this is not a tell all in the sense of Michelle Obama coming out of the White House and giving you the hot gossip of everything that was happening in the Obama White House at all it's about Michelle Obama's life starting as a child growing up on the South Side of Chicago and going up through adulthood through her marriage to Barack Obama and beyond one thing that I learned from you in an interview that you did on Morning Edition about this book is that the Obama's went to marriage counseling I had not been aware of that that was a real jaw dropper for me yeah they go to couples counseling they go through I.V.'s to conceive their 2 daughters and it's not that the book is super explicit about all of the troubles they had in their marriage but you get a sense of this is this marriage that we all watched in the White House and the lot of people in mired was certainly not without its problems run Ken Starr also had a book published this year it didn't make a big splash you pretty much have to explain to people now who can star was or is Ken Starr was the president of Baylor most recently but before that he also was the prosecutor the independent counsel if you will who went after Bill Clinton in the middle ninety's and produced a report that resulted in Clinton's impeachment can start more or less maintained his silence ever since and now that Hillary Clinton's campaign is over and apparently the Clintons are no longer politically viable he felt it was Ok to come out with his book it's called contempt and that's his way of referring to the way that the Clintons handled many things including the law in his view it could also be a title for his own feelings towards the Clintons which are extremely hostile particularly towards Hillary Clinton of all the political books you read this year which one was the best written I've been telling my friends at one of the best books I read in 2018 is the 1st half of Michelle Obama's book which is not which is not to denigrate the 2nd half exactly the 1st half of it when she was talking about her childhood when she's talking about growing up when you talk about meeting Barack Obama there are some beautifully written deeply felt deeply thought out. Passages in there about marriage about growing up of ballots eventually becoming a mother that absolutely struck me as just gorgeous when she gets into the White House with her husband the shields kind of go up it comes a little bit more of a political book but that 1st part of the book absolutely had some incredible sections on it from what do you think probably the best written book that I've read in the past year is John McCain's last entry in his long series of memoir so this one's called the restless way and it was written with Mark Salter who was a long time collaborator with John McCain wrote a number of speeches for him collaborated with him on his books and Salter is particularly a poetic writer more of a literary writer than I suspect the senator would be on his own and probably more than any of the people who wrote books under their own name this year N.P.R.'s Ron Elving and Daniel Kurtzer even Thanks you guys thank you thank you. This is n.p.r. News. 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News from Washington. The Senate reconvenes today but no breakthroughs are expected to end the partial shutdown of the federal government President Trump says the shutdown will continue until he gets money for a wall along the Us Mexico border before Christmas the House passed a spending bill that included the $5000000000.00 The president is asking for for a wall the Senate adjourned before Christmas without approving a spending bill to keep the federal government fully open health experts say 2018 has been a record year for outbreaks of Ebola the disease began spreading in the eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo during the summer months the number of confirmed cases in that country now tops $500.00 N.P.R.'s ises Eisenman has more this outbreak was the 1st ever to erupt in a conflict zone it's in a part of the d.r. 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Protesters have been on the streets by the thousands demanding the ouster of an almost 3 decade old regime and the government has responded with violence human rights groups say at least 37 people have been killed N.P.R.'s atr Prata has been following the story from his post in Nairobi Haider Hey David So let's start with why people are in the streets in Sudan this has to do with food right it does it started over the price of bread the government decided to end subsidies and the price of bread tripled overnight but this really speaks to the huge economic problems faced by Sudan this is a country that is still reeling from the loss of most of its oil revenue when South Sudan became independent so the country has seen inflation go through the roof people can't get cash they make hours worth of lines for $20.00 and then they get to the stores and the shelves are bare but look today I was talking to one who's a protester in the capital Khartoum who only wanted his 1st name used because he's afraid of the government and here's what he told me it's not about economics it's about they are not going to improve their country it's I am 25 years old I cannot see my my and my future here inside this country so life is hard is what he's saying but he feels like the government does have the resources and they're just misusing it they're looking out for themselves he says so President Omar al Bashir has to go I just listen to that I mean it's a young voice we have heard from so many countries and in the world someone demanding more of their government and you have Omar al Bashir in power for as we said some 30 years a strongman I mean could this be the end of his rule there let me let me play you something that will explain a lot. So that's what people across Dan are chanting and it translates roughly to the people demand the fall of the regime and if you remember that was a hugely popular chant during the Arab Spring the Sudanese they took to the streets back then too and since 2011 people have taken to the streets and every single time the security forces have managed to tamp these protests down analysts I've spoken to say this is a bit different there's a lot more people on the streets and this seems like an emboldened protest movement across the country we've seen reports that protesters have attacked government buildings and one more thing that's good to remember is that popular protest movements have brought down 2 governments in Sudan once in 1964 and again in 1985 but it are beside sending police out on the streets and causing people to die and be injured as the government actually said anything about trying to improve people's lives so President tomorrow Bashir delivered a speech a few days ago but he blamed everyone else he said that the protests were part of agents of mercenaries and infiltrators who are just trying to exploit these economic hardships we've also seen some reports that the troops who have been sent to deal with protesters have instead sided with them so that's something really important to watch but the military has officially issued a statement that they are 100 percent with President Calderon share a thanks a lot thank you David That's N.P.R.'s atr Peralta in Nairobi. All right now a story about the science and the politics of climate change the planet has been warming for decades 2018 is on track to be one of the hottest years on records this year we also saw a bunch of new and more precise predictions from scientists about what climate change is doing to the weather the Trump administrate administration questions that science N.P.R.'s Christopher Joyce has the story so are we stuck with climate change you could ask the president as reporters from x. Ios on h.b.o. Did is near climate change will it go back like this I mean will it change back probably that's what I think you could ask the senator about climate change as a reporter did to Republican Ted Cruz from Texas when he was campaigning this fall well listen of course the climate is changing the climate has been changing from the dawn of time the climate will change as long as we're as we have a planet earth or you could ask actual climate scientists what they think like Martin hurling who was attending the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December we're not seeing cycles we're not seeing things that are going to revert back what about that idea that the climate is always changing Here's climate scientists Stephanie herring the current change that we're experiencing now is particularly alarming and that is because in the history of human civilization the climate has never changed this rapidly hurling and Herring worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration it was a big year for no other federal agencies that do science the government issued a national climate assessment it said climate change is real humans are causing it and it's worse than ever earlier this year the highly regarded Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came to a similar conclusion if the earth warms up another half a degree Fahrenheit which is very likely the world's weather will change drastically in fact it's already changing there was yet another study about extreme weather in 2017 lots of huge rain storms around the. World for example and some very wet hurricanes Martin hurling says it's all about warmer oceans to have more water vapor near simply delivering heavier rain when it rains the physics of what's driving heavier rains even when it's not a hurricane are virtually the same in many locations the physics isn't complicated just heat water in a pot on your stove and watch as it evaporates and rises it will come back down again just ask people who lived through hurricanes in Houston Florida or proto Rico the last 2 years have seen abnormally strong hurricane seasons in the Atlantic the extreme weather report comes annually from the American Meteorological Society scientists again politicians it's all about so-called after abuse and science determining when a big storm or fire or heat wave is normal or pumped up by a warmer climate Erling says the science has improved and if through dealing just what a warmer world means with 7 years of these reports we're seeing more and more evidence building that heat waves are not only happening more often magnitudes is off the charts scientists have also attributed bigger fires to climate change physics again hotter drier air turns vegetation into tender the stronger link between climate and weather makes it harder to question that the climate is changing and it has people worried that they may be held liable if they don't plan for that attorney Lynn Dean Patton's clients for example people who build things you need to go in as a practicing architect or engineer and plan for a different environment especially for long lived assets things like roads buildings homes that's where this type of information that Activision science is generating is informing decision taking so that you won't get sued for failing to build for a warmer world patent who's with the firm earth and water Law Group is also getting calls about climate liability from another group of worried people politicians Christopher Joyce n.p.r. 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News good morning I'm David Greene and I'm Noel King walk around the campus of the University of Southern Indiana and you may notice a very small house it's part of an experiment to create houses of 600 square feet that can be built in days these little homes could offer housing alternatives for elderly people Isaiah Seibert of member station and I am in Evansville has a story the small $600.00 square foot modular house is called Minka the name is derived from a simple and functional style of Japanese home built Thomas is a geriatrician by training but today he's overseeing the construction of one of the 1st men get prototypes on this university campus in southwestern Indiana with his elderly patients in mind this is the make a revolution. Workers hammer away putting the final touches on the foundation no one will live in this prototype house it's being built for research but housing officials from Loveland Colorado a town about 50 miles north of Denver have different plans for make the houses I'm really interested in observing the actual construction method because it is different than what we're used to dirty McClure is director of real estate development with the Loveland housing authority its projects are normally stick built with everything constructed on site but meet the houses or modular parts of the house like floor boxes and wall panels are built in a factory and shipped to the site asked for construction think Lego's next summer Loveland will break ground on its own make it houses there initially Building 9 to house senior citizens the fact they want to do this type of housing is here to build is all it will yes because that's the need right now Valerie Jarrett Henry is a North Carolina based housing consultant who works with builders to construct accessible homes and is a big fan of modular houses while the idea of modular homes for the elderly isn't unique its use for a whole community is intriguing each house costs about $75000.00 to build and they're constructed quickly. Very quickly while stick built homes can take months to construct you can build a house in just a few days Henry thinks this project can help raise awareness about alternatives to the single family home she notice of your lack of knowledge about housing options in this country people often choose houses for themselves based on what they've grown up in but what people know and what people actually need can be very different and that's part of the idea behind a house if you have a small. Compact. House and you have good. You can maintain your independence. Thomas sees them as an alternative to assisted living or nursing homes for millions of seniors. That works for the elderly can also be perfect for a young 20 something and that's why one of the 1st is on a university campus. The attention of students who. Talks with the University of community of these houses near campus he wants to create a small neighborhood students who want an alternative to living next door to. Community. 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I meant in San Francisco recently and it involved some food taster I said this is Jeff Cranston reaction as a little bit of cultured butter and sea salt your grandmother's recipe I was making about the brioche is actually the one unifying item across all 3 restaurants so it's a grand bargain and it's America all of those restaurants are owned by Dominic trend who wasn't surprised at all when I told her how good that bread Morris. When it sank 2nd and it's. Still and it's so. That was a luxury a show that connected to depression that make the bread I was chatting with the French born chef shortly after she got some news her restaurant I'll tell you a crown was given 3 stars by the Michelin Guides that is seen by some as the highest honor in the colony world and what's more of all the chefs in the u.s. To get 3 stars from Michelin domany Cram is the 1st woman we were not seeking it we don't seek the thing is why do we do with that matters you know doesn't mean that we have better than others but she does think this gives her a better platform now to inspire women in an industry largely dominated by men dummy Krenz says she has seen slow progress making kitchens more diverse and building respect for women there she's made her own way up in the San Francisco restaurant scene since moving here from France in her twenty's when the shots to work in a kitchen there's not a lot of women that were walking and I didn't try to pack tension to that but I knew there was something that I had to work harder and others and that was a big On some time but I'm a very strong person nobody touch me and picked on like. Did you face people who thought you were moving quickly because your own. Use one guy I remember. Him was very short. I couldn't that. Was a fellow a fellow a cook in the yeah what did you tell him you know I've never been aggressive to anyone but I looked at him and in his eyes and I said listen you can think anything of me but what I'm going to show you is what I can do and if you're not happy than I don't really care I think the chef is happy so that's what drives me here I need to piece my shift but I'm also kissing myself and that's it you have to talk like this you call him like engage in like violence setting they want you to like fight . A fight with words given all of this work you've been doing in trying to use this platform I want to read you something that I know you've heard before and it just it just caught my eye I had to read it a few times that it was Michael Bowers the longtime restaurant critic for the same school Chronicle he said about you she has been successful because she does have talent and she has worked hard but let's be honest also because she has enormous charisma she's beautiful and has that French accent. Yeah I remember I think about that I didn't like it but I have to tell you. By our Jim to me and he told me that what was said in the new Specter was taking out of context and I did listen to it and what I realized at that moment which I think he should have never said that is who you know I think sometimes you have to be very careful when you used the word as a Jew and it's because you see I was saying that about me it seemed to be degrading duties in the eyes of the beyond are but that should not be a factor on anything. And yes I mean Kerry smile would discourage mice like I'm trying to be genuine every time I speak there and maybe you credit card my but this is who I am. I mean he also said about you she cooks the way men are cooking right there yes I did explain what was taken out of context Well I think what he was trying to say you know what I mean to feel that I'm in and also understand of the restaurant that I'm doing to show he was actually crying is really to be different than a casual restaurant and he was perhaps you want to dish to be a compliment but I'm not saying what he say was right I'm just trying to like be not gray Sheaffer about it like I think what I want to say from this is that warts matters and the consequences can be hurtful to others the fact that we're even talking about this but so these words and the you know what does that say about that we just read this moment we still have a lot of work to be done and your platform in this moment like the me too movement and a lot of things that women have been through do you feel like whatever role you can play has become even more important. Absurdly you know I thing I mean I am just deleted fishing to see you know but I do understand that everything that I do could have a little impact I mean that I had shewn men. Men chefs that send me. E-mails and they actually said to me you know we have never met but that to tell you that have I'm not proud about the way that been treating people not just women but a lot of people in my life and you have inspired me to be a better person I hope you can give me some advice these are I was male chefs who I was Who can I write in my industry who might give me some advice and that's that's powerful I truly believe that some people go to life and they've been taught not the right way but that conscious I mean there have been chefs in this country who have been accused of having a culture of harassment in their kitchens and women who have worked for them who have said they've been abused and. I just wonder like when those accusations come out. I mean you seem to have a level of patience in an open door I mean there's some people say Get that guy out of the industry like I don't know not everyone Yeah so some I would not give them the pass. I'm giving the pass to people that haven't you know done any violent species which widens they have no place to be in an industry where you supposed to bring people together so who gets the 2nd Chance who decide. For me it's or it's people and perhaps that work in that of your own man and understand that they were perhaps follower but he realized he should have to speak up. Because when you look at the world. That. Dominate cran is chef owner of cran and other restaurants in San Francisco she recently got 3 stars from the prestigious Michelin Guide This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm David Greene and I'm Noel King. Prisca Nealy in l.a. County black babies are 3 times more likely to die in their 1st year of life than white babies but there's very little awareness even among black women I had any of this information I would have done so many things differently and I would have to chose or not to join me in my guest as we dig into the role of racism in reproduction and learn ways black women can empower themselves Thursday January 24th in West Adams r.s.v.p. At t.p.c. C dot org slash in person. You are listening to Southern California Public Radio 89.3 k. P.c.c. Pasadena a community service of Pasadena City College 90.3 a.v.l. a Coachella Palm Springs 8905 k j I o high and 89 point one k. You are Redlands a community service of the University of Redlands with more resources online i k p c c dot org. Good morning President Trump and 1st lady Maloney a Trump made a surprise visit to Iraq yesterday the president said he has no plans to withdraw or draw down u.s. Troops there that's coming up on Morning Edition from n.p.r. News. The president plans to pull all u.s. Troops from Syria and some from Afghanistan so what makes Iraq different I'm David Greene and I'm Noel King 2 migrant children have died this month while in the custody of u.s. Customs and Border Protection now all kids in the agency's custody are getting medical screening and New York City Honors musicians including 2 native New Yorkers icon aiming streets after the artists maybe not who you'd expect it is Thursday December 27th today in 1032 Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City am and the news is next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Janine Herb's President Trump is back in Washington this morning after a trip to Iraq yesterday to visit u.s. Troops Trump defended his decision to pull u.s. Troops from Syria and he didn't meet with Iraqi officials while in Iraq but he did speak by phone with the prime minister as the partial government shutdown goes into its 6th day immigration judges are warning that thousands of cases a day will have to be rescheduled for member station w s h u Charles Lane reports that while federal regulators regular federal courts rather have enough money to last until January 11th immigration courts don't most immigration judges are being told not to show up to work a judge actually tablet or is president of the National Association of Immigration Judges she says defendants in petitioners with cases on the docket now will likely have to go to the back of the line 2 years long she may have cases of of the. Who have carried us from an excess of a government official and having that is all our hands are going to talk who have family members waiting for them and not a country and they're waiting for their client according to the Justice Department's contingency plan immigrants who have been detained will have their cases processed as of last month there were more than 800000 cases pending in the country $65.00 immigration courts for n.p.r. News and Charles Lane storms in the nation's midsection are slowing down holiday travel N.P.R.'s Jim Hawke reports the severe weather includes blizzards tornadoes and heavy rain a powerful storm is spreading heavy snow and gusty winds across much of the central and northern plains winter storm warnings cover an area from eastern Colorado to Minnesota a blizzard warning is posted for parts of North and South Dakota through Friday morning a huge storm system is also impacting travel in the south with flash flood watches posted from Mississippi to southwestern Virginia and Forecasters calling for 2 to 3 inches of rain in some areas severe storms also had Texas with tornado watches and warnings popping up one lightning storm even led to the cancellation of a college bowl game in Dallas gym Mark n.p.r. News the number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty this year is rising the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund president Craig Floyd says there's a 7 percent increase in the number of deaths that's compared to last year and the main cause guns over the last 20 years we've seen more officers killed in traffic related incidents than killed by gunfire but in 2018 it was firearms related deaths that were the number one cause he says one officer is killed somewhere in the u.s. Every 58 hours and there are around $100000.00 officers injured in the line of duty here Florida had the most in the line of duty deaths in 2807 officer fatalities followed by New York North Carolina and California you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington. 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