Population officials in the state of Baja California sewer are quick to say that the $350.00 charge is not a terrorist tax and will not be mandatory they're hoping that travelers arriving at last couple as international airport at the tip of the Baja Peninsula will voluntarily pay the fee will be available at the airport as well as a web site launching to accept the donations according to the governor of Baja California soar the new fee is expected to bring in more than $25000000.00 in its 1st year the money will fund projects targeted helping the region sustainability including local schools health care and housing the state government has yet to provide specifics of where the money will go the population of the Los Cabos region has grown more than 86 percent in the past decade Carrie Kahn n.p.r. News Mexico City and this is n.p.r. News security forces are on alert in India following a ruling by the country's supreme court the court ruled today in a land dispute that's been a flashpoint between Hindus and Muslims for more than a century the court awarded the land to Hindus paving the way for the construction of a temple on a site where a 16th century mosque once stood a mosque was destroyed by Hindu activists in 1992 sparking religious violence that left some 2000 people dead Roberts Freeman who photographed the Beatles early album covers has died 50 Farkle reports from London. Robert Freeman was a photographer for The Sunday Times of London in 1963 Beatles manager Brian Epstein spot at the photos he taken of jazz musicians Freeman would go on to create the covers of 4 Beatles albums including help and Rubber Soul one Beatles biographer alleges that Freeman's then wife had an affair with John Lennon at one point inspiring the song Norwegian Wood Paul McCartney has tweeted asides being a great professional Freeman was imaginative and a true original thinker no cause of death was given but Freeman suffered a severe stroke 5 years ago he was 82 for n.p.r. News I'm Vicki Barker in London authorities in Australia say 3 people have died and several are missing amid the wildfires that are raging across eastern Australia they gave an update today saying more than $150.00 homes have been destroyed officials say more than 70 fires are burning in New South Wales Australia's most populous state. N.p.r. News from Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. 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News I'm Scott Simon we're about to enter a new phase in impeachment inquiries public hearings this past week transcripts of testimonies given by officials behind closed doors were released and there were some insights into what those officials thought of the call between President Trump and the Ukrainian president even those people who were no shows like Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney gave the public a lot to talk about n.p.r. Reporter Tim Mack has been studying those transcripts in detail and joins us Jim thanks for being with us head there Jim let's begin with Fiona Hill former White House policy adviser of course what did she say well he suggested in her testimony that the u.s. Ambassador to the e.u. Cordon someone was running an unofficial kind of rogue diplomatic channel with the White House chief of staff seeming consent so essentially Ukrainian officials they're trying to attain a meeting with President Trump and there's a lot of resistance from the official channel national security advisor John Bolton he's saying we shouldn't do that yet or we shouldn't commit to that but Sunderland kind of blurts out in a meeting with Ukrainian officials Hey there's already a deal with the White House chief of staff that they will have a meeting between these 2 presidents in the Ukrainian government launches investigations into the cranium energy sector and as we know now that that was kind of a reference to these investigations that the White House wanted it to the Bidens and what do they hear from Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Ukraine expert at the White House was he had been on that July 25th phone call and he kind of felt like something wrong had actually occurred on that call and it kind of speaks to the heart of whether there was an effort to leverage u.s. Foreign policy for an investigation by the Ukrainians So the transcript I'm reading from that now Congressman Peter Welch. Says And was there any doubt in your mind as to what the president our president was asking for as a deliverable and then replies there was no doubt as we mentioned the Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney didn't show up but he was sure the topic of a lot of conversation was you have saluted I mean it. Really showed that Mick Mulvaney was really at the center of a lot of these discussions it shows I mean Vin Min said in his testimony that Mulvaney office was behind the hold in military aid to Ukraine and of course as I mentioned before there seemed to be some deal that you know organized by Mulvaney or at least approved by Mulvaney that the Ukrainian government would launch investigations and in exchange for that they could have a meeting with the president curtain goes up next week public hearings Democrats have chosen their 1st witnesses very carefully haven't yet while they're building their case block by block and what they're trying to do is they're trying to present some of these u.s. Diplomats these career professionals who they think will project credibility and who support their general narrative right which is that the president did do something wrong that he did try to leverage u.s. Foreign policy for political advantage those witnesses give us some insight into how the Democrats are going to try and present their strategy how will Republicans fight back what they're saying they're essentially questioning the motives of various witnesses they're objecting to the process and how the inquiry has been handled they're also saying there's no quid pro quo that the president did not do anything wrong because he did not make a specific ask for a specific deliverable N.P.R.'s to mac thanks so much they slot their senators governors congresspeople business people on a spiritual leader running for the Democratic nomination for president and one mayor so far. I sat down with near Pete of South Bend Indiana at a local diner this week for off script N.P.R.'s series that brings undecided voters to the table with presidential candidates to judge has raised a lot of money and is getting a lot of attention for the mayor of a medium sized town United States is a country was more than $300000000.00 people that has a budget of hundreds of trillions of dollars with respect to your service to your country in the reserve and service to the city here is Mayor you have been mayor of a city of about 100000 people. Do you have the experience to be president of the United States yes my experience is being on the ground dealing with the kinds of issues that you deal with an executive leadership and government look I get the daunting nature of the office there's also the case that none of the candidates for the presidency right now has been president except one Donald Trump who I think is actually the least qualified of all you know something to be said for longevity by I also think there's something to be said for being newer on the scene and not having spent too much time in Washington you know I sometimes wonder if I'd be getting that question if I were a member of Congress or the Senate even at my age I probably would be less likely to get it and yet the trick was I would ask a 1st term marathoner of Congress but here's the thing could also be a very tenured member of Congress you could be a very senior senator in the United States and have never in your life been responsible for more than 100 people depending on what you're doing before you know the experience of members of legislators is to vote on legislation very important but also very different from running a city of any size which I would argue in America perhaps especially in a relatively not not one of the biggest cities and certainly not one of the wealthiest cities gives you a sense of the challenges that are confronting Americans on the ground what about foreign policy you speak to one degree or another several foreign languages and you've served overseas in the u.s. Military but foreign policy wouldn't seem to be an area where you have a lot of direct experience I'd say one of the reasons that I have weighed in more extensively on foreign policy and have built I think the strongest foreign policy team of any Gannett is that I care deeply about these issues and I have seen firsthand through international experience what's at stake in our international relationships and as somebody who experienced foreign policy in the form of being sent into a war but also somebody who experiences it as someone responsible for a city that is impacted by these choices I want there to be a foreign policy that makes sense as a kind of foreign policy for places like South Bend which if we're getting it right on trade it for getting it right on security for getting it right on our values if we're getting it right on immigration then that benefits our communities that's the perspective I bring to it. Matter another question. You were married to a real social media celebrity. Has been Chester's really taken off but. I have to raise a question with you because I was hoping not to ask anything about orientation but as you know there's some polling information recently reported by The New York Times that says that the fact that you're a man married to another man might be causing some reservations and misgivings specifically among African-American voters in South Carolina the quote that came back in the Times was a marriage should be between Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve Wonder what you would say to voters who have that reservation Well I think that that perspective it's so simplifying and I think not fair to diversity of views among African-Americans and among a lot of people who are Democrats who may have come up in a socially conservative background but are also on a journey as as the country is you know right here in South Bend we didn't know what would happen when when I came out we knew it was a fairly democratic city but also a socially conservative city and just does ready and it was time and we did it in a reelection year and I want to getting 80 percent of the vote better at that time than I did the 1st time around I think the question that voters are asking is how is my life going to be different if you're president and in order to earn votes My job is to go out there and answer that question and I think a lot of the other stuff falls away if and only a few have a good answer to that question. Democratic candidate for president and we should note the York the New York Times reports that information came from an internal voter Jack cam footage campaign memo on focus groups it held with 2 dozen uncommitted black voters you can hear more of our conversation elsewhere in the show and you can watch online at npr dot org slash off script. Tensions between Native Americans and white Americans often Everett's in tragedies of the past this week a descendant of a u.s. Army commander at the 890 Wounded Knee massacre went to South Dakota to apologize for his ancestors role in the killing of hundreds of unarmed Lakota tribe members Jim Kent reports in a small white wooden church on the Shan River Reservation Brad Upton asked forgiveness from lot of people for his great great grandfather's actions Colonel James Forsyth is my great great grandfather when I was 16 my great uncle who was a West Point career Army officer sent me pictures of the Lakota corpses a Wounded Knee and he was proud of it and I felt immediate. Shame and sadness on December 29th 1900 members of foresight 7th Cavalry unit fired on an on black hole to men women and children on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota more than 300 died in a tragedy that still causes cultural and psychological trauma among the La Cota the federal government made matters worse by warning 20 minutes of Honor to u.s. Army troopers who took part in the massacre Upton supports legislation that's currently in Congress to rescind those medals and hopes his answers would have backed the legislation as well or hoping that the remove the stain act will be passed and supported and we're working to do you know what Loki is a descendent of ghost horse who was killed at Wounded Knee I think our kids have to know our grandchildren it was a massacre but still cannot be going on with anger because it happened you know we need to forgive in you from all that that way you know in this nation whites and Michael if we can all be together have a better world for our grandchildren that's what we think about as our grandchild it's. To amend the historical narrative of the u.s. Army's role in European settling in the West often face strong opposition South Dakota's congressional delegation has been mostly silent on the bill to rescind the medals of honor but Dean I'm a low key and members of the $890.00 heartbeat at Wounded Knee society are hopeful the remove the stain act will eventually be passed by Congress for n.p.r. News I'm Jim can't on the shining river reservation. And you're listening to n.p.r. News. On the frame weekend Mark Russell of stars in and produces the new film dark waters about toxic chemicals he wants to make films that say something and are still compelling activism can be scary to people and India logically people. But storytelling never ends and I think just the power of storytelling will heal. On the frame we can to on 89.3 p.c.c. . He says produce include United Way of greater l.a. 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With these headlines House investigators are preparing to open up impeachment proceedings next week after releasing 2 more transcripts of testimony from the closed door portion of the investigation that a few on a hill a former White House Russia advisor and Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander vent about the top Ukraine expert who was on the phone call with Ukraine's president Ukrainian government military forces and Russian backed separatist rebels are taking a step today that could lead to a peace summit both sides say they have begun pulling back forces any Quitman from a village in the dumbass region and Germans are marking a historic day the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall leaders from Germany and other European countries are in Berlin for the commemorations. N.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. 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News I'm Scott Simon Virginia was a big win for Democrats in this week's elections both chambers of the General Assembly flip to Democratic control the governor of Virginia is also a Democrat so that's a trifecta not seen in Virginia for a generation tramway and helped shape that winning coalition She's co-director of the nonpartisan group new Virginia majority she believes their tactics may have drawn a road map for Democrats across the country tram one joins us in our studios thanks so much for being with us thank you for having me what's your explanation of why you were able to succeed Well I think it was a combination of campaign infrastructure and progressive infrastructure that has been built over frankly the last decade our approach is year round we talk to voters every day about issues that they face every day we go to communities where they have been forgotten by mainstream candidates mainstream campaigns and so the conditions were ripe for a a wave of folks to be engaged who were paying attention to the elections in a different way and to have a reason to vote the results were noteworthy but the totals were still pretty close in most races yet the totals were still pretty close but if you compare the turnout levels this year to previous elections it was phenomenal and that's because there's an intensity level and an enthusiasm level that went into this election cycle that we've never seen before our organizations identity right has been to really focus on people of color and immigrants and new Americans and young people folks that have been traditionally left on the sidelines we're not trying to persuade them or convince them to come towards our ideology because everybody already has a sense of their ideology in a sense of their values we are trying to say take your values into the ballot box and vote because that is currency you describe yourself as nonpartisan group but would it be fair to say that. You do find yourself aligned with Democrats we have a host of issues that our communities deeply care about right criminal justice reform you know making sure that everybody has access to quality health care and in this current environment I mean frankly yes there are more Democrats that are aligned with our values than Republicans but we have worked with both parties and we're also not afraid to hold any politician no matter what party that they come from accountable Yeah. People have been noting for 25 years that the demographic characteristics of Virginia are changing. That's not true of every state right well you know I speak for Virginia and Virginia as my home but yes the demographic changes have been significant but I would argue that demographics isn't destiny and if we want to engage this changing demographic in this expanded electorate we have to be very intentional about it and so for both parties frankly and for any anybody in the political space you have to think about ways to engage this growing diversity in an authentic way what do you believe you've learned in Virginia that might transfer to whether I know Virginia is a common wells but might transfer to other states. I think the work was built over time year after year. Elections are never our finish line people vote because they want politicians and their elected officials to fix things to fix things for their lives and if politicians don't follow through with it then again if our vote is our currency we can use our vote to vote them out of office politicians work for us and I think if organizations across the country recognize that if we want to during power and enduring opportunities to pass a progressive agenda then we have to invest all the time and invest in places where you thought might not be winnable right people need a political home and we created that for them time when she co-directs the nonpartisan political organizing group new Virginia majority thank you so much for being with us thank you for having me. Consumers are flock to buy d.n.a. Kits from popular sites like 23 and Me and Manchester dot com The idea is to send in your saliva and receive data on your ethnic heritage or even get connected with long lost cousins most companies have guaranteed that they'll protect their users genetic information but experts say a recent case in Florida makes it clear this is not so certain Aaron Murphy is a professor at New York University's Law School she focuses on forensic evidence in the criminal justice system Professor thanks for joining us thank you for having me so what happened in Florida well law enforcement in Florida petition to court for a warrant to conduct a search or continue or geological search in a database known as Jag match and listeners may remember that name because that was the same database that was used when the Golden State killer case broke the 1st investigative genetic genealogy kind of law enforcement investigation and the difference in this case is that that database was about at the time of the Golden State killer case was about 1200000 users who had voluntarily uploaded their genetic information and they had agreed to make it kind of publicly available they had kind of put it out for the world to see when there was a sort of backlash against the law enforcement use in that case ultimately Judge Matsch decided to kind of put everybody back into a pool of you know kind of protected users so overnight this database went from 1200000 open samples to 0 so the difference in this case is that law enforcement didn't have access to an open platform that any ordinary person could use instead they had to go to a court and say let us do this geological work in a database where users have is you know sort of specifically not opted back in or have failed to opt back in to law enforcement access. So this changes everything doesn't have potentially I think it does although I also think it was an obvious next step I mean the reality is these searches are more efficient the bigger the database and studies have shown that if you have a 3000000 person database you have effect of genetic transparency for everyone in that population you know the example given is usually people of European descent because that's the primary consumers in the United States of these services if 3000000 people of European descent offer their genetic information to a database you have essentially a universal genetic database for the American population of European descent so what this changes I think is the plausible you know claim that this is just about people who've chosen to share now it's clear law enforcement's position is if genetic information exists we should be able to go to a court and get it and it really has a I think a downstream set of consequences for databases that we may really worry about people stopping contributing to like research databases or other kind of medical or clinical databases that are really important what about the argument or gather some people in law enforcement have made have made is that this could help them solve hundreds thousands of cases you know that's obviously always a compelling argument and I think it has to be taken seriously one response I would give is if that is the case let people decide whether they think that's valuable in one way for them to make that decision is to say law enforcement you can use my genomic data the 2nd thing I would say is right now law enforcement says oh you know this is for serial killers and rapes these are for these really compelling cases of a great strong public interest where there's broad consensus but there is no regulatory requirement that be the case it's completely out law enforcement discretion to only look for murderers or rapist and if they're going to do that kind of sensitive testing you know I think there should be more regulatory restrictions and right now it's really all at their discretion there's not a set of rules that law enforcement has signed on to much less been compelled to follow what if somebody was. To protect their d.n.a. Information doesn't doesn't want to share it with government sources Well I think there are a few answers to that I mean I think the most important thing is call your legislator and tell them I want to be able to make this choice I don't want to have to choose between you know doing this kind of recreational or maybe even clinical testing that I'm interested and becoming completely transparent to anybody anywhere 2nd I would say if you know you've already participated in almost all the major platforms or all of the major platforms allow you to delete information so you can take down your information if you're worried about it being accessed and the last thing I should say quickly is just you know the companies can make promises about their protections of privacy but you also have to be a careful and discriminate consumer and realize they may break those promises so family tree d.n.a. Swab you know signed on to a privacy statement that said we're not going to share information and they had a very prominent privacy promise on their website and then it came out they had been secretly cooperating with the f.b.i. Forgive me for putting it this bluntly but as the battle already over done consumers make decisions on the side of convenience all the time over privacy I hope not and I don't think so and I think that there's something different about this kind of information because it has such profound you know future implications and broad implications and I think one interesting thing about genomic data is that this is a kind of information where one person in a multigrain 1000 person family tree can expose the genetic information of every other person without their consent or even knowledge because how many of us know our 3rd 4th cousins Erinn Murphy professor at n.y.u. Law School thanks so much for being with us it's my pleasure thank you know what gets me through the week triumph or sports. Going to be a debate should coaches bend their ship or stars so they can take around and the whole legal. 40 Niners are undefeated. And the Bruins are cruiser and we're joined by Howard Bryant of e.s.p.n. Howard thanks so much for being with us Scott the derisive way in which you said rest do you really mean well all right no. Question for you you know when and perhaps better stated where the n.b.a. Find the l.a. Clippers $50000.00 coach Doc Rivers said Co while Leonard he didn't start the league said he was injured. Coach Doc said you know actually it was fine. He was Ok he was great in fact now. Should should superstars be binge particularly early in the season because a coach maybe only meaning to be conscientious wants to save them for important games further on of the season in the playoffs yeah I understand the perspective the n.b.a. Season is a grind it's a very very long season you're starting out in October you get to the playoffs and no late April and then the playoffs last 2 months of the regular at the postseason doesn't even end until almost July so I understand the in the the impulse I also understand when you're a coach your attitude is look you're paying me to win important games you're paying me to win championships especially when you're the Los Angeles Clippers where you get Ko I learned from Toronto you winching who just won a championship a few months ago and the end goal for the Clippers is to be hosting the trophy a few months from now I also understand from a consumer standpoint which is where if you're going to pay $150.00 a ticket to go see the best players play then for that one game that you're going to you want to see Coe I learned against us and to cope which is which was the match up you had the Milwaukee Bucks team that is supposed to go to the n.b.a. Finals against the Clippers team that is supposed to go to the n.b.a. Finals and so if you're the paying customer you show up at the that the arena and that matchups not going to happen that's that's a bitter pill that's the reason why you paid all the all that money yeah I mean the n.b.a. Shell. Itself is entertainment and you know great entertainers show up show up when the curtain goes up Well exactly and the bottom line on that is if you're Doc Rivers if you're the coach you're thinking to yourself Ok what are you going to remember more you're going to remember me not playing Co I learned in November or are you going to remember Co I learned not being healthy and ready to go when the big games start when the playoffs begin. N.f.l. Season is halfway over the San Francisco 49 er's were 4 in Provo last year and now 8 and 0 they've got a big Monday night game against the Seahawks are they as good as they know well they're good they're really good and we're going to find out how good they are because the Seahawks are 7 and 2 and that's a rivalry game and we know how big that is you haven't had that kind of excitement in San Francisco for a really long time haven't won a Super Bowl since 1905 haven't been to the Super Bowl since common Capek took them there back in 2011 against the Ravens and so when you are looking at this team. You're going to cited you're excited and I think that grapple is a great great quarterback they're doing it with defense their defenses is as almost as good as the Patriots so it may be better and you've got George kittle you've got a nice tight end there and so they run the ball they catch it they do everything you're supposed to do to win and they turn the ball over as well down so they get turnover so they're doing all the things that championship teams have to do but it's halfway there it's going to be a big game Monday night. N.h.l. The Bruins of course last game 7 of the Stanley Cup but they're back with a vengeance can they keep it up. Well once again a long season you go out and you lose a Stanley Cup at home and you want to go on a revenge tour but you've got to play along with the Bruins have lost 2 in a row now and a lot of good teams out there St Louis is still a good team I think that what they have to do is you've got to maintain that emotion but at the same time realize it's a marathon but they're really good to watch Howard Bryant of e.s.p.n. Thanks so much for being with us my friend. You're listening to Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News. Germany today celebrates the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall N.P.R.'s Berlin correspondent Rob Schmitz brings us this story and what's left of where the wall once stood. The Berlin wall stretched 100 miles now all that remain are a few tiny sections less than one percent of the original you can seize a truck too long you can seize a desk strip you can see one Watchtower. Project Manager for the Berlin Wall Memorial points in the last piece of the wall preserved as it once stood on better now Stross on central Berlin after the Wall fell the city trying to figure out what to do with the nearly 1000 acres of land it stood on May jog to take over a major investor as he came to Britain and the have an idea. While developers scheme to Shusha recalls a moment of freedom before the wall was dismantled pop musicians perform the Pink Floyd album The long one section what was once one of the most dangerous in restricted zones on Earth suddenly became a playground of potential. That ended when the former armed troops of the g.d.r. Who once patrolled the wall were ordered to tear it down by the end of 99090 percent of the wall was dismantled the sections returned to the city were used to reconnect old neighborhoods and other parts were sold to developers who she says demanded the city immediately allow them to build shopping malls in new housing. And only a few cases this is city resistant to that pressure and I think it would be more intelligent to save a few areas and say we keep to the side no no let's think about it in 10 years again the impulse to pave over history has a free. In German It's called Federal angle and the wall wasn't the 1st time the city of Berlin used it to make painful reminders of history disappear so actually Yeah. This is n.p.r. News. I'm Scott Simon we've got the latest news for you on Weekend Edition but keep your radio on after the show too because at 10 on k.p.c. C weekend it's the New Yorker radio while trying to make sense of the news at 11 it's Wait Wait Don't Tell me making fun of the news at noon on film with Larry mantel and credits review the week's new movies your escape from the news keep the radio on all day and 89.3 k.p.c. . K.p.c. Supporters include Center Theater group presenting Mike Birbiglia as the new ones from executive producer Ira Glass and the creator and star of Sleepwalk with Me The new one tells the story of Mike Birbiglia his reluctance to become a father and the revelations he experienced on the other side of parenthood Vogue magazine called it a light affirming piece of work for fathers mothers and all of us who have them direct from Broadway the new one now playing through November 24th tickets at Amundsen theater dot org Joyal Snyder with these headlines security forces are on alert in India today following a ruling by the country's supreme court the courts ruled in a land dispute that's been a flashpoint between Hindus and Mosul means a quarter ward of the land to Hindus paving the way for the construction of a temple on a site where 16th century mosque once stood the 30s in Australia say 3 people have died and several are missing amid the wildfires that are raging across eastern Australia they gave an update today saying more than 150 homes have been destroyed and President Trump is due in Tuscaloosa the center news to watch Alabama take on Alice you in a match up with the 2 highest ranked college football teams on trial Snider n.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from stars presenting the original series Dublin murders based on the novels in the woods and the likeness by Tana French Dublin murders premieres tomorrow at 8 pm on stars from Capital One committed to reimagining banking offering savings and checking accounts that can be opened from anywhere Capital One what's in your wallet Capital One and a and from the John d. And Catherine team MacArthur Foundation at mac found dot org. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Scott Simon with some good news I guess. Blues Clues his back oh a clue. For the blues clueless it's a kids' t.v. Show on Nickelodeon with an animated blue dog and her companion who rely on viewers to help them solve mysteries started in 1906 that companion was Steve Joe followed was never be judged later minarets or theme music but there were no new episodes for 12 years well that wrong will be righted Monday blue returns with new puzzles for preschoolers and with a new human and nice guy named Josh Dela Cruz who joins us now from New York thanks so much for being with us thanks for having me Scott this new version I gather of the show is called Blue's Clues and you and besides you what else is new. Well since it is 2001000 and it's been years since a new episode has been released We've updated a lot of things starting with blue and magenta Traditionally they were 2 d. Animation and now they will be 3 d. They'll be furry and fluffy and so huggable and I guess the most notable is the handy dandy notebook it'll still have the classic yellow pages and will still draw on it with the crayon but now on the other side it's a smartphone so that opens up an entire world of possibilities and it's really exciting. You will add one Broadway Yeah I was with the show for about 5 years and I was originally an understudy and I understudy Aladdin and Jago and then I took over for 3 months which was which was a dream yeah what's it like to go from being on Broadway to playing to a green screen and the most notable difference is the silence. You know there's always an audience there with you when you're. On stage after I finish to take a leisurely turn to something like do we get it was it was was that funny because I have not. Let's advise all youngsters to turn away from the radio for just a moment we'll ask you this next question. They add blue later right yes oh my god she's the biggest diva she's never there for any of my you know. She's like Marlon Brando was during the words run. Right yeah right. Oh my word yes she's usually a piece of green tape or if I'm lucky if I'm lucky it's got a green tennis ball well it's a tribute to your acting ability that that doesn't throw you off do you watch the shows as a youngster I did I did you know I was about 7 at the time and I was watching with my little sister and that was my 1st brush with the show and I have to note you're a Filipino American which we haven't seen a lot of Filipino Americans front and center children shows have way you know not a not a children's television you know it's really feel honored that I've been given this opportunity to be in a role where it didn't require somebody that was Filipino American he you know where I could just be myself and they didn't cast me because they needed to cast a Filipino American I think that's what the powerful part is for me and hopefully for other generations to come was that you growing up I never saw anybody that looked like me or that I could identify with that was in a caricature of a stereotype or somebody that didn't resort to violence or was a foreigner so it's really an amazing thing to be in a children's show where I'm being silly and and the comedy has nothing to do with my nationality or my ethnicity or whatever I identify with and my most favorite thing that I've heard so far comes from friends or friends of friends from their kids saying that they point at the t.v. Screen or the computer screen and they go hey he looks like me and I think that's the coolest part Blue's Clues and you was just filler grooves rumors Monday 1 pm Eastern on Nickelodeon thanks so much for being with us thank you so much. Bernadino every stows novel girl woman other has just been published in the United States after sharing Britain's Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood's The testaments it follows 12 characters whose lives touch each other or come closer sometimes nowhere near and gives flesh and blood portraits of people who are often introduced with hyphens like I'ma a socialist lesbian playwright and Meghan Morgan who is non-binary and winsome her baby an angle immigrant an unhappy wife. Bernard you know every stroke a great writer who's Anglo Nigeria joins us from London thanks so much for being with us you're welcome it's good to be here to help set the scene of the unfolding shared stories force Yes So basically it's a novel about 12 primarily black British women their age 19 to $93.00 the youngest Yaz is a university student and the oldest Hatty is a farmer in the north of England and I have women of every generation in between they have different occupations different cultural backgrounds which very much reflects black British presence and history so some of them have roots in Africa some of them have roots in the Caribbean they are different sexualities and then the book opens with Emma who is about lesbian theatre director and she has a show opening at the National Theatre in London she has spent nearly 40 years working theatre as a director and writer and very much on the margins feeling overlooked very radical in her politics and suddenly she's got this big break and then the story kind of goes off into all these other stories and not the end of the novel we see the show opening and the sort of gathering together of lots of characters in the book you've said in interviews I want to put presents in the absence. Well there are very few black British novels getting published that's the truth of it so when I decided to write this novel I wanted to put as many black British women into it as possible to show the sort of heterogeneity of who we are in this society and to explore us as fully realised complex for old individuals whose stories are as worthy as telling as anyone else's I want to get you to read a section it centers on a young woman Yash was ambers daughter her mother's players are about to open your . While has been a lot of it I know you call it fusion fiction if you could read that section for yes. Yaz sits on the seat chosen by mum in the middle of the stalls one of the best in the house well those you draw the be hidden away at the back in case the play is another embarrassment she's tied to her amazingly wild energetic strong and voluminous afro back because people sitting behind her in venue's complain they can't see the stage when Afro compact areas accuse people of racism or micro aggressions for this very reason yes I asked them how they'd feel if an unruly topiary hedge blocked their view of the stage at a concert. They go taster of Yaz love that structure and also wired mire of every British novelist using the phrase topiary it just doesn't happen in this country so most right Ok yes his mother is revolutionary figure in British drama and culture but yes considers her just a little empty doesn't she one of the things that I do with the book is that there are 4 mother daughter relationships and that is always very fertile territory for fiction so yes Yaz is 19 she comes from you know very black middle class family she is actually quite intitled young woman she's very ambitious you know she says that she wants to be a journalist with her own column because it's about time the whole world heard what she had to say and I think when young people are coming into themselves and coming of age often they do disparage the person who gave birth to them or their parents and a mother is a feminist and you know and she raised as to be a strong feminist daughter she describes her as her countercultural experiment but of course that backfires because her daughter is very articulate and takes aim at her mother all the time and for example. Daughter is very much engaged with issues of gender non-binary issues and so on and she says to her mother look being a woman is so passe she says I'm you know I'm a humanist that's who I am now I loved her and I found myself sometimes shouted Come on Yaz give your money is. Going to show yeah it is irresistible to note your novel opens with a play for which I'm a finally received due recognition. Just as your novel went to the. Who knew that this one would break through in the way that it has and in a sense I think it could have only have broken through this time because I think we're living in a time in the u.k. Where there are couple of movements all moments which have slightly I think change people's perceptions of who we are in this society one of them is the me too movement and the other is black lives matter and they came about I think 3 or 4 years ago and since then there has been this shift in consciousness in terms of how black out and black women's art is being received in this country and definitely winning the book has opened my work up to the world at large and that has been the most incredible thing and I'm still pinching myself really because it's only been sort of just over 3 weeks and every so often I get into a bit of a mood and I think start feeling a bit snarly and then I went and you wonder because Shut up you won the book you have no reason to be disgruntled about anything anymore because your work is out there so if that latte from raise a little flat do you say be quiet about it you know on the like I will complain about my coffee coffee is extremely important I've got my priorities rights you referred to. The stuff surrounding our identities is cladding I think in my introduction I said hyphenated. And I felt. I felt a little squeamish when writing that introduction because by the end of the novel I had gotten to know people characters as people but of course to introduce them I had to put all those hyphens in earlier are you ever concerned that we're just checking off boxes of literature or judging people by Have No I don't think so I think it's important to name us according to how we experience the world so we black women for example black people are we are spirits in the world as people who are racialized right we experience the world as people who are considered female role you know if our sexuality is home as actual whatever so I think it's important for us to name the thing that we do so I am not at all squeamish actually about identify myself as a black British woman writer and identifying this book is about black British women primarily because most of them are because that's what I'm doing and just is that you know white male writers for example I would say most of them are writing from that perspective and often with white male protagonists they don't need to need to label themselves as such because they are the accepted norm they are the default right I'm not the default You know what I'm doing is different what we're doing women of color is different and I think it's very important to identify that for ourselves and for the reader breaded in every store her Booker Prize winning novel girl woman other has just been published in the United States thank you so much for being with us thank you very much. This Veteran's Day weekend we hear from Story Corps Military Voices Initiative courting the stories of people who served and their families. And he was growing up Michael menta looked up to his Uncle Sally because he was a Marine who would eventually follow in his footsteps enlisted in the Navy during his senior year of high school but earlier this year Michael found himself at his uncle's bedside cell who is now 66 had fallen gravely ill from cancer is one of the thousands of service members who were exposed to toxic water while stationed at North Carolina's Camp. I recently sat down together for Story Corps I think the fact that you were the Marines I was in the Navy we understood each other you know nobody knows if they have cigarettes in a sea ration or Chiclet gums in an m.r.e. With a roll of toilet paper we spoke the same language and definitely looked up to like my older brother how did you learn. You were sick I had been very active I was out in a back yard cleaning roof yeah and then all of a sudden I started getting dizzy and I thought I had a cold soon as I found out about that letter the Marine Corps sent you about the potential exposure you had to the camp lagoon contaminated water I basically drag you to the v.a. After some time he gave me chemo which really destroyed me when I 1st got down to Florida and I saw you in a bad. Looked like you were not get any results and they said not much more we can do for you. And then they asked you what do you want to do. And you said I want to go back to Connecticut that night we were on a road coming on you know you came in just in the nick of time like a knight in shining armor and I'm grateful to you'll for getting me up here yeah I felt I was. Not only helping you as my uncle but I felt there was hope that a fellow soldier part of me wants to still serve but I can't fool you too so that was my mission is to get you home dead or alive and we did that I was dead you scared me on the road a couple times a couple times I had a nudge to see if you were breathing. Dying I never. Think about it I look at it one day at a time oh I could lose Yes through the next night I'm still alive it's a great day you. Take away your courage in everything you do. You've got to save the date with the grim reaper and you're still having fun you're a good Marine you still are a good Marie Yeah I am intensely proud to have. You know a lot of people say I'm an ex I'm a former. I'm not a next I'm not a former. With his nephew Michael mentor. In West Hartford Connecticut their full interview will be archived in the American Folklife Center at the u.s. Library of Congress. Major support for Story Corps comes from. 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News in Washington on trial Snyder following the release of 2 more transcripts of testimony given behind closed doors House Democrats are preparing for the public stage of their impeachment investigation next week N.P.R.'s to max as 3 key witnesses from the State Department are expected to testify as part of the inquiry they're building their case block by block and what they're trying to do is they're trying to present some of these u.s. Diplomats these career professionals who they think will project credibility and who support their general narrative right which is that the president did do something wrong that he did try to leverage u.s. Foreign policy for political advantage of the witnesses include u.s. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor George Kent a career State Department official Emory Ivana vets the former u.s. 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