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News I'm Audie Cornish and I'm Ari Shapiro it's hard to imagine Washington more sharply divided than it is today at 9 am House Democrats announced they'd vote on impeaching President Trump based on 2 articles Judiciary Committee Chairman Kerry nowther described the 1st start abuse of power that is exactly what President Trump did when he solicited and pressured Ukraine to interfere in our 2020 presidential election thus damaging our national security undermining the integrity of the next election and violating his oath to the American people He then described the 2nd charge of struction of Congress and when he was caught when the house investigated in the open impeachment inquiry president tried to engage in unprecedented categorical and indiscriminate defiance of the impeachment inquiry the president tweeted his response in all caps which hunt minutes later a different picture of Washington emerged House Democrats handed Tromp a big legislative win Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her party would support a trade deal to trumpet ministration ago she added with Mexico and Canada we are so proud of the distance that we have come from where we started with the administration on this legislation. It's a dead tree for America's workers it's one that we take great pride in advancing So 2 very different images of Congress in just about an hour to make sense of it we're joined by N.P.R.'s Sue Davis on Capitol Hill hi there Sue me Audie and Mara Liasson here in the studio welcome back Hi there I want to start with you Sue Democrats 1st announcer going to impeach the president and then pretty shortly after announced this policy as it's being described victory what is the thinking behind this you know it anyone who knows Nancy Pelosi today does not come as a surprise she has a long record of working with a Republican president she doesn't agree with and with Republicans across the aisle she doesn't agree with she not as there is some politician the idea that if Trump is winning Democrats are losing doesn't sell with her and I think of course there are some Democrats who think it's politically insane to give Trump a policy victory that could help him win reelection Buffalo's you know a lot of Democrats I talked today say that if it's good for the country and voters like it'll be good for Democrats to especially in the place where the House majority will be won or lost are we know the White House has long wanted this update or replacement of NAFTA How did they react to it as essentially a political win the White House is pretty happy about this they kind of did a dance in the end zone the big statement came from Vice President Mike Pence who's been traveling to battleground states talking up the stray deal he didn't celebrate it as a win win or a bipartisan victory instead he said that the Democrats have finally acquiesced to accept this trade deal and even Nancy Pelosi went on to say quote We ate his lunch meaning you know he she got the better of the president in these negotiations so voters a year ago sent divided government to Washington they wanted checks and balances but they also one of the 2 parties to work together and finally a year later they got it so we've also heard from voters that they worry Congress isn't getting anything done so are Democrats with the timing in this trade deal essentially it looks like they're sensitive to that criticism Oh for sure I mean if you think about the timing of this not just along. With the impeachment in the politics about that it's coming to the end of the 1st year of the Democratic majority and there was a lot of anxiety among Democrats especially the freshmen in swing seats about what their majority has accomplished what are they going to go home and tell their constituents so u.s.m.c. Is a huge victory for that most of them supported overwhelmingly And here's one of them Iowa freshman Zinni actually this is what she had to say I couldn't go anywhere without it being said to me we've got to pass u.s.m.c. Day so I'm very glad that today came because this is the most important thing for our state at this moment and lowering the cost of prescription drugs so this is a great couple of weeks we've got going here they have the 2 big issues that Iowans are facing but what does this say about maybe where the power is within the Democratic Party at this point Well it's certainly not what the liberal wing despite what Trump and other Republicans so often say you know u.s. M.c.a. And the fact that the articles of impeachment are really rather narrow they don't include things like the Miller report in it which more liberal lawmakers would like are our wins for the moderate wing of the party and the liberal wing gets that I talked to New York congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio cartel's today and here's what she said about the dynamic personally I guess I am not thrilled with how this has developed but I understand that there are more conservative members of the party that they want to communicate to their constituents that we are that quote unquote doing something wrong impeachment is happening so even in a grudging way a o.c. Seems to acknowledge that maybe flipping a red district blue is as important or maybe even more important than having a 1000000 Twitter followers you know the same thing kind of the the resurgence of the moderates is also happening on the Democratic primary campaign trail I also want to ask you about the White House reaction to the articles and piece of impeachment I mean obviously I mentioned the tweets but what else are you hearing Well we've heard we heard from the White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham she talked about how these. Nickels of impeachment are they slip she expects the president to be fully exonerated in the Senate here's what she said on Fox News today perhaps Speaker Pelosi had to make a deal with her Dems I think a lot of her her and her party is having problems in their own districts and that now they just have the 2 that they went with one of them is obstruction of Congress which is code for he didn't play nice with us you guys didn't participate in Congress so now we're going to go ahead and hit you with obstruction of Congress absolutely Well that's the White House spin but there were 2 very different articles with 2 very different messages one the Democrats hope people understand which is Americans didn't get to decide the America the election by themselves without foreign influence with which the president invited and the other one which they do feel is much more important and Stephanie Grisham referred to that they felt constitutionally compelled to pursue this obstruction charge because as you heard Representative Nablus say the president in an unprecedented categorical indiscriminate way defied congressional oversight refused to turn over witnesses and documents and they feel in the long run that's what could have the most profound consequences if they don't assert their article one oversight authority over the president and the executive branch That's N.P.R.'s Mara Liasson thank you thank you and n.p.r. Studios up on Capitol Hill thank you for your reporting you're so welcome a lawsuit filed today against the University of California system seeks to eliminate s.a.t. And a.c.t tests or requirements from admission n.p.r. 1st reported this complaint which argues that these tests are biased and provide no meaningful information about a student's ability to succeed in school and are therefore illegal and P.R.'s Alyson at work he reports the case affecting so many schools could have far reaching implications if you applied to college you know how important these tests can they're essentially gatekeepers every make future is at stake that you Martinez is a senior in Los Angeles and she knows there's a lot riding on her s.c.t. School or. The score that I will receive will determine where colleges I can get into including private and u.c. Schools with limited time it's hard to answer all the questions correctly that's right no I just saw a high school senior from Santa Ana California she gets super anxious before tests . But she doesn't test super well but her high school grades are great and she's already taking classes at a community college I think the exam results may not represent my potential and college readiness as a student plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed today agree they argue that these tests are far more likely to predict family income then if you're ready for college the evidence that we are basing the lawsuit on is not in dispute that's attorney Mark Rosenblum of the pro bono firm Public Counsel there representing students and a collection of advocacy groups in this lawsuit with the s.a.t. In the a.c.t are doing our exacerbating inequities in the public school system and keeping out so he sent tens of thousands of deserving students every admissions cycle the testing companies behind the a.c.t.a. On the s.a.t. Maintain the tests aren't biased but nevertheless more and more schools are going test optional just this year about 50 colleges announced the tests would be required in admissions the University of California has long debated this issue nearly 50 years ago they played a crucial role in the expansion of the s.a.t. As a national standard but even back then there were concerns about limiting access and just last year the president of the u.c. System Janet Napolitano ordered a faculty taskforce to study the use of standardized tests in admissions leaders within the u.c. System have come out in favor of dropping the tests Here's Carol Crist the chancellor at u.c. Berkeley speaking at an event last month I'm very much in favor of doing away with the S.H.E.'s requirement for application Chris comments don't signify policy and a spokesperson for an Apollo Tano said the u.c. System doesn't plan to make any decisions until their faculty task force issues a report but the u.c. System serves more than 250000 students so its size makes whatever it does important for the rest of the country if the University of California were to go ahead and drop the testing requirements it would have profound and widespread effect in the college. Admissions arena that's Bob Schieffer director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing an advocacy organization that's long been critical of standardized testing but going s.a.t. Or a c.t. Optional may not eliminate the power of the tests if you have a good score and it's optional that can still help you there probably is no playing field last level then the journey to college and higher education Rosenbaum said there are so many other issues in the college process stemming from inequities in k. Through 12 so if you drop the s.c.t. You still gotta figure out other metrics for college admissions actually be tricky high school grades are often a good predictor of success a grade inflation 'd varies widely my hope is that this case down play some part in terms of really having a thoughtful meaningful honest dialogue about who benefits from higher education in this country well the lawsuit be enough to push the University of California system to drop the tests these you class course investigating that question it's expected sometime next bring Let's not morning n.p.r. News. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Support for n.p.r. 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News I'm Audie Cornish and I'm Ari Shapiro a judge has found Exxon Mobil not liable in a landmark climate change lawsuit the case was a defeat for New York's attorney general who accused the oil giant of defrauding shareholders downplaying the risks that future climate regulation could pose to its investments N.P.R.'s Laura Walmsley has been following the case and she's here in the studio Hi Laurel Iare Why did the judge decide in favor of Exxon Mobil Well this case was about securities fraud and for one thing the judge said that New York's attorney general had failed to produce any shareholders who would say they were actually most let Ok so no fraud found Tell us more about this case in our came from well it's a little thorny So stick with me here in this case all the parties involved agreed that Exxon had used different methods to account for the potential impact of future climate change regulate regulation on its investments and so Exxon employees testified during the case that they used one method to estimate the cost of carbon in the future like in the years 2030 and 2040 assuming that the countries of the world will take certain steps to limit greenhouse gas emissions but internally for specific projects like the oil sands in the future carbon Cottle's office argued that using these dad the judge said the attorney general is from Wells Fargo he testified said during this time Exxon stock has a lot of people watching this case judges ruled one of the 2 parties saying Well education baseless and said that 1000000 a big blow to New York's attorney but how Exxon had made materially false has will continue to fight for this is the leaving it in the others pending against cases Well we're going to have to see a lawsuit really but if you don't pursue securities fraud charge suit against Exxon and I'll swear cities and states are there look they're looking at public nuisance change and the idea there is to find different communities or stop climate change rather than about accounts the attorney general brought in after are able to pay off down the line now time. You may go down in history as the dance contests even minted to. Washington in Silicon Valley the video sharing app went for empty threat to shine a welcome that well it's kind of crazy it's not even the ones so that means something. And teenagers and sure that's what they're called people are doing something that I did 21 year old student just this summer moms were in Stranger things you're going to walk a coming home I need you to go watch a little piece of news on tech doc and so by now has more of her life she has fans so what you're describing are late and some pop songs have even been launched there it all seems and well what's got the attention of lawmakers that's actually the head of tech concerns this week and he's probably going to get questions about censoring content that my good American user who made a video has in reinstated the video some company handles the data America here's Republican Senate Amber a company compromise those what they look share with each other to talk says it stores all American user data in the u.s. And Singapore not in China and I'm not sure that many tech Poppy users in the u.s. Are particularly worried about this yet but political pressure on the company might dances ownership of tick tock are from companies there yet the most to seize on tech talk as a foil news versus tech stock as a company there are a flood of resumes like what's up are you due to strong encryption in pride and mentions that these same protests are we want but you know the interesting is tools that allow people to make 10 people but the bigger picture is social media companies but they've all been in globally and that scares Facebook Janet thank you thanks for having me so 43 dot a software enables organizations to previous Leo unsolvable business problems learn more at c 3 got a I. Think. This is n.p.r. News and in the United Kingdom last year is growing over the last year since exciting is quite amazing how consider the world's climate crisis on the next. Religious devotion the people who would pray regularly people who have a Corolla who have ties overseas or relatives who are studying overseas I'm Michael Moore That's coming up on the daily from the New York Times. The daily is reported by Fidelity Investments taking a personalized approach to helping clients grow preserve and manage their wealth learn more at fidelity dot com slash wealth. Services l.l.c. And by c 3 a I addressing the world's most challenging problems at the convergence of artificial intelligence I ot elastic cloud computing learn more at c 3 a I. The. a secret trove of government documents offers an unprecedented look inside China is highly organized a crackdown on illegal Muslims. In one of China's president orders his subordinates to quote absolutely. It's Tuesday December. Well now the New York Times is a Chinese government documents as revealed about the crackdown on Muslim week in the region including Paul Moser Tell me about how these legal documents from inside the Chinese government of classified documents reportedly leaked from within China's Communist Party 'd 'd. Sue the thing you have to understand is China is one of most powerful countries in the world but we know very little about the top politics and how the country works in so many ways it's a great secret you have the Chinese Communist Party which kind of rules over the country but doesn't really let anybody get behind the curtain to understand what's going on and so this leak 403 pages of documents about the concentration camps there you just don't see this kind of thing happen so somebody took a tremendous risk in making these documents available to the times yes untold risks not just to themselves to their family to their friends. And beyond the unusualness of the scale of this leak what is significant about the fact that this is coming directly from the government. Prior to this the best truth we had of what was happening was mostly anecdotal so you would talk to relatives of people who had been imprisoned like for instance ferric and maybe be able to talk to somebody like his mother who had been through the system but you have no real hard proof and Beijing used that to its benefit to basically come up with a very different version of reality one in which this was an attempt to. Very gently teach readers Chinese and to guide them away from extremism and that this was sort of a beneficial act by the government to raise up a minority that you know was sort of lost in poverty and radical Islam and with these documents in these 403 pages we see that even as the government is saying this internally they have a completely different calculus and it's one of punishment and it's one of indoctrination to bring an entire ethnic minority to heel Ok So take us through how all these documents lay all that out. So there's basically 3 major takeaways from these documents and the 1st and probably the most important is that the architecture and the ideas behind this crackdown come from the very top and they come from Chinese President Xi Jinping himself. Long before any camps had opened in the region in 2014 Xi Jinping goes to job and in the documents what we see is in secret speeches and in truth internal discussions he lays the groundwork for a truly ferocious crackdown and what would be the instigation for that cracked what would be the rational now in 2040. Deadly attacks recently. Separatists told me from Beijing to 2014 is a particularly bloody year in what has been just a long time conflict between leaders and Han Chinese 43 people killed when a bomb detonated in the markets in the regional capital just weeks before she Jinping is makes this trip to China thank Media reports 27 people are dead after a nasty stabbings at a train station there is a weaker militant attack at a train station in southern China where weaker is going with knives and stab a 150 people and then on the last day of she's visit. It's the 2nd time this thanks since being targeted there's a car bomb that goes off at the train station in a room she in the capital of the region. Blames the violence on the mainly Muslim weekend minority. So you have these attacks and they're getting larger in scale and so as a leader he's watching this happen and trying to figure out how to deal with that. And so he does something that I think would be surprising to a lot of people but what happens a lot within. And its leadership he looks to the United States he says that Cheney's official should study the American response to the September 11th attacks and I think you know this sort of gives you a sense of the sense of crisis he felt even though in comparison the $911.00 attacks are so much of a larger scale than what's happening in China at that moment and so what he says is basically we are going to have an all out war against terrorism infiltration and separatism and he says this very kind of chilling thing he says we must use the organs of dictatorship and show absolutely no mercy and how we fight back against this. He likens Islamic extremism to a virus and a contagion and and one of the quotes goes basically people were captured by religious extremism have their consciences destroyed they lose their humanity and murder without blinking an eye and he calls for treating the contagion with a period of painful intervention every treatment so effectively this is you know a doctor or a surgeon going in and cutting something out that is a problem. Being is making the intellectual case basically for camps for detention for active repression right and within months receive indoctrination sites start to open these whole dozens or maybe a couple 100 people and they have classes which basically teach people to disavow Islam or you know profess their gratitude for the Chinese Communist Party. Which brings us to the 2nd big take away from these documents which is how these small camps evolve into this tremendously complex and large scale system of concentration camps and prisons that we see scattered across the region today and how is one of the documents show they show a trajectory that is led by a single man Chun trim off. This official. Is known as a hard liner and he's been in Tibet for about 5 years and during this period he installs police stations across the major cities and across the region to gain really strong control over the ethnic minority Tibet population there so he's seen as a guy who had a solution to a problem in another part of China that has a similar issue with an ethnic minority that resents Chinese rule and the idea is he could do it once maybe he can do it again in August of 2016 this official is transferred from his post in Tibet to take over in Shin John and he calls for local officials to carry out in a blade a rating offensive and one of his orders I think is very telling and also very chilling He says round up everyone who should be rounded up. Any kind of sign of religious devotion becomes something that you can be rounded up for so you know issues like people who would pray regularly people who have a Koran home men who grow long beards or who advised against smoking or drinking people who study Arabic and also importantly people who have ties overseas or relatives who are studying overseas so that's the plan but it doesn't go all that smoothly as these sort of orders come down lower level officials aren't implementing them the way Wall wants in some cases they are helping shelter and letting them out of camps in some cases they're not putting as many in the camps as it wants and so there's a real resistance in some ways to the severity in strictness of what's coming from the top and so how does this new leader in the region respond to all this resistance he punishes the officials that aren't seen to be carrying out his orders many are sent to jail and they're made to sign. Before they go and then he takes those confessions and he spreads those around to the officials as a sort of warning you know saying these guys they didn't listen to my orders and now they're in jail and it's sort of breathtaking the level of fear not just in the weaker population but in the population of officials who are having to enact it because even if they don't want to and acted they no longer have a choice they're stuck so now with all of this opposition and essentially wiped away what happens to the camp system engine it begins to grow utterly unimpeded room. So you started with sort of small camps in cities maybe schools that were repurposed to hold people now you see large concentration camps going up outside of cities where you have you know maybe a dozen buildings each possibly holding thousands of people and we see sort of new locks that are then filled in again and again to the point where you just have probably more than a 1000 of these camps around the region. The prison system is well starts to fill up and so the prison system is expanded and there's overcrowding there we see hundreds of thousands of convictions with people being thrown into prisons and ultimately the last phase of this is the labor camp so either a factory goes in or a fence in a road is built to a factory and we start to see people being sort of siphoned out into these factories and this is kind of the idea of how you would graduate from one of these campuses you would eventually return not to your home town but you a factory town where you work in a factory in compulsive labor and so all of this together 2018 is just taking a tremendous toll on the entire region when you go there the streets are empty people are clearly scared businesses are shut down box are all locked up nobody dares go near them they're closed anyway people are being taken away at night and ultimately a 1000000 to 3000000 people have been swept up into the system. I mean it's staggering about that number is that even in a country as biggest China it's hard to fathom more than a 1000000 people suddenly disappearing from their homes and their streets what is the story that China tells to explain Yeah and that leads us to the 3rd major takeaway from the documents which is how the Chinese government methodically tried to hide that all of this was happening. Or very far the daily is supported by one drop a new way to manage diabetes with supplies delivered to your door and personal health coaching one drop can help a lot of legit isn't just one month at Wal-Mart Apple stores and the good ones you have to come. Go deeper into the day's most pressing stories with the New York Times journalists trusted sources and the people affected the daily from the New York Times hosted by Michael Barbaro and distributed by American Public Media a.p.m. Produces and distributes programs that inform and inspire entertain and engage audiences everywhere. In. The movie. I mean. Everybody. RINGBACK 'd I spoke with my colleague Palmer about secret documents from inside the Chinese government that show our highly organized crackdown on weaker Muslims. So Paul what do these secret documents show us about how the Chinese government somehow hides this all from its own people one of the biggest things they're worried about is actually students so a large number of weaker students go out from each year to go to college all over China and so within the documents they're specifically worried about those children returning home for the summer seeing their home just transformed in their relatives missing and then spreading news about it across apps like We Chat and other social media and talking about the problem and so what they do is they come up with this incredibly bureaucratic guy it's basically a manual for how to deal with these kids who have a lot of questions about the missing relatives in the empty streets and the locked mosques and what does the manual say so be done I want to you Can we. Yes. It's called Tactics for answering questions asked by the children of concentrated education and training school students and the 1st question is a very simple one where are my family members and the answer goes there in a training school set up by the government to undergo collective systematic training study and instruction they have very good conditions for studying and living there and you have nothing to worry about tuition for their period of study is free and so are food and living costs and the standards are quite high our officials accompany them at study every day offering counseling and assistance and they eat the same food and live in the same dormitories So you have absolutely no need to worry about how they're doing if you want to see them we can arrange for you to have a live video meeting. Wow that's positively Orwellian. Yeah so in this telling these reeducation camps there come a gift to the people and their life is good the food is wonderful the tuition is free right everything is great there's nothing to worry about this is a school and things are good and so then as you go down the list it intice a piece people pushing a little bit so you know Question number 4 is since it's just training why can't they come home and the answer is it seems that you're still misunderstanding how concentrated education is run usually you would return home for winter or summer vacation without any problem but if you were careless and caught an infectious virus like SARS you'd have to undergo inclosed isolated treatment because it's an infectious illness if you weren't thoroughly cured as soon as you returned home you would infect your family with the virus and your whole family would fall ill the party in government would not be so irresponsible that they would let a member of your family go home before their illness was cured and thinking thoroughly transformed a situation in which they would do harm to others and again we come back to that language of illness the idea that this is infectious and that people have to be isolated and the problem with them eradicated and then as you kind of go down it starts to deal with well if the students are pushing harder if they seem like their suspect something's up then you start sort of moving more towards threats and you know that becomes apparent in in one of the questions went to my family member graduate and leave school and the answer says that the family members must be diligent in their studies abide by the school rules and do outstandingly in morning exercises chores dining study and so on and family members including you must abide by the state's laws and rules and not believe or spread rumors and take an active part in collective life. Only then can you add points for your family member and after a period of assessment they can leave the school if they meet course completion standards and what are these points that this passage refers to so another really important thing that comes from the documents it lays out how there is a point system for getting through the camps and that if you act out or if there are problems you lose points and if your family members act out you can also lose points and if you go below a certain threshold then one year of study quote unquote study turns into 2 or turns into 3. So the concept here is complain too loudly about your missing relative and your missing relative may be missing for even longer you have the power to make us better or you have the power to make this worse for them exactly and this is why their cat is so unique because he goes the opposite way he speaks out and continues to speak out and many people in his community in the United States are afraid to speak out and they're not afraid for themselves you know they're in the United States they're afraid for their family members and they're afraid the punishments that will come down on them or that other family members could be thrown into camps for what they're saying and doing and fair counts point in all this is that this whole system is bogus that you should not sit back and hope that silence will secure a release for your family members because it won't this is just an intimidation tactic and all along the kind of punitive measures are going to be worked out anyway so you might as well go out and talk right because this system hinges on silence on people's belief and their fear that unless they are anything other than silent it will all get worse Exactly and that's why I think you know Fairclough told us that once he had no more fears he felt he had power because. That was when he could speak up and speak out and say this is what's happening and it needs to stop Paul what has happened since the Times published these 400 or so pages of internal documents what has been the response from the international community that has consumed everything that you've just described not a lot you get some condemnations from some quarters but you know the rest of the world is basically quiet about this because China is such an important global player and they fear the consequences. And so I talked to Farah cared about that but we have been speaking the same thing for years but when your family is still trust the Chinese barman even though there is a really strong bad route I think for him it's just like baffling and infuriating because you know he's fighting this propaganda war where the Chinese government keeps saying these things don't exist or aren't as we've described them and now you have the proof you have it and then the 1st feeling I had is just bring that document and then step on the face of country leaders and then tell them Look this is the problem you need it. He wanted to take this pile of documents and basically use it to slack the faces of the leaders who continue to do nothing about this across the globe but it is a crime that you have to you know he said What more does the world need but what. They want to feel like. The body is a problem of them are bigger than you but I'm more like what are you bringing. To do they need a pile of bodies in front of them in order to. What are they waiting for. Thank you very much. Thanks Michael Ray. Almost is the Times correspondent based in Shanghai and. The daily is supported by Bayard more than investment professionals for 100 years beard has partnered with individuals businesses institutions and communities working together toward their financial goals more information is available at Baird 100 that com and evaded Emerson and skillfully investigated the daily with Michael Barbaro brings listeners today's stories as only the New York Times can report them for more on today's episode go to n.y.c. Times dot com slash the daily. The daily is powered by the journalism of the New York Times and is distributed by a.p.i. American Public Media You can go deeper into the stories you hear on the page at n.y.u. Times dot com slash. And. That's it for the day I'm Michael Farfan signore. Thank you for listening to point 3. Your source for n.p.r. 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Afghanistan papers if it seems to you like the United States had no idea what it was doing in Afghanistan turns out you were right all along documents obtained by The Washington Post show the government knew it was lying to us about progress being made or at best stretching the truth do we send our loved ones into harm's way for nothing what else don't we know about America's longest war and who will be held accountable if anyone we'd love to hear from you if you have ever served in Afghanistan or if you are Afghan comment on our Facebook page or tweet us at 1 am. Washington I'm Jack Speer House Democrats are bringing 2 articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump abuse of power.