That was promised under the deal Geoff Brumfiel n.p.r. News Washington at least 5 people are dead in northwest Iran after an earthquake that had a magnitude of $5.00 N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon has more Iranian officials say the earthquake shook an area some 250 miles northwest of the capital Tehran in the early hours of the morning emergency officials said many of the injuries occurred when people fled in panic Iranian state t.v. Reports at least 30 homes near the epicenter were destroyed rescue crews were dispatched to the scene N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon reporting this is n.p.r. News from Washington. A student who fell off a parking garage during protests in Hong Kong over the weekend died today it's not clear why the 22 year old man fell but demonstrators are blaming police for using tear gas and pepper spray against them the protests began in June with activists demanding democratic reforms and an end to police brutality the u.s. Women's National Soccer Team defeated Sweden in the team's 1st match since head coach Jill Ellis retired following consecutive World Cup titles Greg I can reports from Columbus Ohio early in the international friendly match the u.s. Women appeared to be in World Cup championship form while on their way to a 32 win over Sweden the Americans jumped out to a 3 nothing lead in the opening half and when they finally closed out the lead goal and drops he says his team seemed determined to win one for their new coach they were excited for me I mean genuinely happy for the for the win the only thing that we said in the huddle we got to fix the 2 goals I mean people don't know me I'm not happy when when they get scored on the women's national team will close out the 200-1000 calendar with another friendly match on Sunday in Jacksonville qualifying for the 2020 a limb picks begins in late January for n.p.r. News I'm Greg Clinton in Columbus Ohio opera singer placid Oh Domingo won't perform at a prelim picks event next spring after all he had planned to take part in a fusion of opera and kabuki theater a statement said he decided not to take part because of the complexity of the project earlier this year several women accused the singer of sexual harassment I'm Norah rom n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from I drive providing cloud backup full system back up and on site I drive appliance to protect P.C.'s Macs and servers from data loss due to crashes and ransomware at I drive dot com slash n.p.r. And Americans for the Arts. The u.s. And China are moving toward the 1st phase of a trade deal business leaders are cautiously optimistic just ahead on Morning Edition we'll learn more from White House trade advisor Peter Navarro that's in a few minutes here on k.q.e.d. With N.P.R.'s Noel King later on in this half hour we'll hear from Mayor Pete Democratic presidential hopeful Pete explains his health care overhaul plan coming up a conversation with Mayor Pete the mayor of South Bend Indiana of course the fog has returned this morning some people call him Caro watch more dense fog in some spots and affecting our bridges right now too including the Golden Gate the cemetery bridge dense fog to reported along the interstate 80 corridor in Solano County areas of morning clouds and dense fog then partly to mostly sunny skies the balance of the day highs sixty's around the bay to the upper seventy's inland today it's 7 after for we all know California sort of quaint country the j.p.l. Scientists have found new evidence of seismic activity on Mars as well and the for quarter what it sounds like. What I'm hearing is a signal that's traveled through the planet and I know that inside that rubble is in coded a lot of the secrets of the deep interior of the planet studying Martian quakes that and other stories from around the Golden State I'm Sol can solve this that's coming up on the California report. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm now will King good morning President Trump went on Twitter yesterday to note a record high in the stock market a new record The president wrote enjoy exclamation point the market rose after reports that the u.s. And China had to had agreed to roll back some tariffs between the 2 countries now an important thing to note is those reports came from China's commerce ministry there has been no official announcement on this yet from u.s. Negotiators but white White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham told Fox News that negotiations are moving in the right direction I cannot get ahead of the talks with China but we are very very optimistic that we'll reach a deal soon and hopefully have some good news to report all right that was White House Secretary White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham we now have a different White House official trade advisor Peter Navarro on the line Good morning Mr Navarro is saying our youth today Very well thanks so China came out and said there is phase one of the deal we're going to agree to lift some tariffs on each other the u.s. And China the u.s. Has not confirmed that yet can you confirm is there a deal is there a phase one deal I can confirm that there is no agreement to remove any of the existing terror as a condition of signing or face one deal and the only person who really can make that decision is President Trump if you don't hear it from the investor Robert light hisor u.s. Trade representative. That's not real and if you don't hear from President Trump that they'd come right out of the Ministry of Propaganda as it were in China was widely misreported in the press talk about that if there's no deal to roll back tariffs Why is China saying there is you reference propaganda What do you think is going on here well some companies go to me as a real retired or started to have a handset is what what we had in October. Basically they're trying. Renegotiate to retrieve the October deal and I don't fault them for that's kind of what they do but the reality is. What is on the table is there's a tariff coming in December December 15th we would be willing think again it's up to the president to postpone those terrorists but let's remember that December 15th one but not roll back any existing tariff that's the fine distinction here the terrorists are really unnecessary defense against China's economic aggression against the United States they are also the only insurance policy we have that China will come to the negotiating table on our faith and if you give away any of the existing tariffs you run the very real risk that you'll never get the Phase 2 or 3 and I think your listeners need to understand that there's 7 things we're trying to get done and phase one only gets about 2 of them. I want to ask you about the the possibility that the u.s. Would back off on the tariff that are scheduled for December 15th Now that's $160000000000.00 of tariffs on Chinese products mostly on consumer electronics you're saying maybe the u.s. Would would would not to do that would not to terrify some of those products why why is that. Well we have on existing products. Dish and tariffs that we would be put in place are as you would be a goodwill gesture to get us to phase 2 or 3 again the idea would be to maybe wait a little while but you know my place here to negotiate in public which is what the Chinese were doing yesterday I think what's important American people understand is is that China is actively engaged in the progression of combat what I call the 7 deadly sins it's the course technology we don't have time for all 7 I'm so sorry to sort of interview although I do know the American people understand we are getting hammered by China and I think they do that has really brought forth from the American people on President Trump a tough stand on China bipartisan support on Capitol Hill that's richer than they know it is there is a wrinkle here though for the president we have had in this country 3 straight months of manufacturing contraction that is unusual we've had job losses in maque manufacturing in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin these are states that the president wants to win manufacturers openly blame the trade war the president must have people telling him time to move on right I would assume don't. Go all of what you're saying basically all what I'm saying is the numbers just yes you know. They're on their head and Biden years they lost 200000 manufacturing jobs sure but I tell you that's when you want the numbers 500000 and you factor in jobs the unemployment rate is the lowest says it's been since a man walked on the moon wages are rising life life's good for America it's better . Than it was during the previous administration I myself will work every single day trying to create good manufacturing jobs for the real mobility is concrete people who are. For their hands President Trump doing a great job in that I can take you through your marinate Wisconsin Wisconsin Ohio York Pennsylvania Greenville South Carolina I'll take you there we'll go on a tour I'll show you all the good manufacturing we are taking on that Mr Navarro. And p.r. Those manufacturing tools All right White House state advisor Well you know thank you so much for taking the time we really need it. All right I want to turn now to N.P.R.'s chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley he's been listening in to the interview Good morning Scott good morning to you all right so what did you hear from Mr Navarro there that stood out to you Well Peter Navarro is one of the hawkish hardliners within the administration he speaks for the most protectionist wing of the administration and that is certainly an important viewpoint it's one the president himself I think largely shares but there's no question there are others within the administration who are more eager to cut a deal with China they they see the slowing economic growth that you were just talking about below 2 percent in the 3rd quarter it's slower still in some of the important farm states that have been hurt badly by the trade war they see those manufacturing job losses in critical electrical electoral battlegrounds like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania so the tug of war here is going to be between the president's protectionist instincts and his instincts for political survival and Scott It does feel a little bit like we've been here before right negotiators will say they've had constructive talks right as we get near the deadline for a new tariffs you know and then something changes is there something specific this time that is different you know you're absolutely right this has been the pattern for more than a year now as this trade war has has dragged on we've had both saber rattling and then false dawns we lose if there was a deal close at hand last spring then China backed away then we had President Trump threatening to impose really draconian tariffs in August he backed away from some of those in order to preserve the Christmas shopping season and keep the economy from going into reverse button but now we're in this position where is there going to be a deal are they going to have a face saving agreement or are they going to go with another round of tariffs so it was interesting to hear Mr Navarro say that there is that he thinks there's a possibility of not implementing those December tariffs. I wonder if. If China and the u.s. Don't sign an agreement before the end of this year what does that mean for the next phase of the trade war and if you don't mind what does that mean for Christmas shopping this year for holiday shopping this year well the next phase of the terrorists which is set to kick in December 15th and as you mentioned hits a lot of electronics like cell phones and laptops consumer items was deliberately scheduled for December 15th to really put it after the Christmas shopping season so that was that was to preserve that we did have a round of tariff that went into effect on Sept in September that is taking a little bit of a toll on the Christmas shopping season right now you have the stock market basically banking on there being a deal so if there is no deal you're probably going to see some pullback from these these record highs in the stock market that the president's been posting about and you will see higher cost for consumers on a lot of consumer items starting in the early part of 2020 N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley Scott thanks so much didn't you know. The 9 people killed in ambushes in Mexico earlier this week have now been buried under high security family and friends laid to rest their loved ones in the northern Mexican desert Kendall Blessed was there and reports from Mexico. And friends came from as far away as North Dakota to sing and mourn at the home of one of the victims then laid to rest the 6 children and 3 women in cemeteries here in one neighboring state of Chihuahua Amelia Sedgwick was preparing to bury her loved ones my daughter my daughter Christina says Rick he's lived in a more direct tucked in an idealist river valley between soaring c.-r. Much repeats for almost 4 decades part of a community that identifies as Mormon although the Utah based church doesn't recognize these descendants of the 19th century settlers as members she said life before the massacre was simple and described her home as a paradise. Normal gardening school taking care of things lots of family Christmas everybody home life has been beautiful but the tragedy has changed all of that she says it's scary now. We believe between a mafia the cartels actually get worse at this point a lot of. Some of her family wants her to come and stay I'm not sure what I'm going to do I haven't decided. If they could. Get. On like Cedric he lost his daughter along with 4 of her children his grand kids he was the 1st to the scene of the burnt out Chevy Tahoe with their 5 bodies inside. He said. You know rule for his difficult but he was doing it to help his family and because he's not going to leave his. So they rendered to the to that that evilness he says staying is a way to honor and remember his daughter's memory but somehow the community needs to be made safe again this is the point if the government does not give us the Texel then we might have to protect yourself that he says is their very last resort for n.p.r. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm know well King good morning Chicago is looking for a new leader for its troubled police department superintendent Eddie Johnson is retiring Johnson leaves behind a mixed legacy and a big job for whoever replaces him Patrick Smith of member station easy has a story in emotional Johnson announced his retirement yesterday at police headquarters with his family and Mayor Lori Lightfoot at his side it's time for someone else to pin these 4 stars. Initial years life and Johnson insists this retirement is Johnson's call alone but the mayor has been noncommittal about the superintendent's future since she took office in May and she actually used the presence of Johnson's family yesterday to try and prevent questions about it this is a day for celebration and it's a day from remember and I'm mindful of fact that the superintendent's young son is here Johnson spent 3 and a half years as Chicago's top cop and more than 3 decades with the department he took over as superintendent during one of the most to multi his times in Chicago policing history with the city in the middle of a historic spike in gun violence and reeling from the release of dash cam video showing the police killing of 19 year old Kuan McDonald Chicago alderman Walter Burnett says Johnson should be remembered for holding the police department together when it was in danger of falling apart a lot of police did not want to work right. Because they felt like everyone was against them but it's not just officers who need their faith restored She lives in Northwestern Law professor says the next superintendent needs to do more to restore community trust in police it will be critical that the next leader I has some experience with turning around the culture of police departments if we are going to get a handle on police violence and racism Burnett says most important is finding a superintendent with fresh ideas on combating gun violence he says in parts of Chicago people are still living in fear in their own homes for n.p.r. News I'm Patrick Smith in Chicago. What questions do voters out for the 2020 presidential candidates South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete bootie judge sat down this week with n.p.r. Host Scott Simon and 2 undecided voters for off script it's our series of conversations with presidential candidates they all met at a South Bend restaurant called pegs voter Michael Logan a retired police detective sergeant started with a timely question What's your favorite sport and why are. Football. I grew up going to games with my dad and you know I mean when you're in South Bend I think you're either a football fan or you're contrary and so that existential question being settled the conversation went on to cover a wide range of topics the most pressing for voter Jackie stall was health care given her son's medical bills Personally my son has a condition where his medication costs up to $35000.00 a month stall works in the health care industry as a marketing director she pressed mayor booted it on his plan which he calls Medicare for all who want it stall wanted to know how it would make health care more affordable and less complicated my c.e.o. And I were joking because we work in health care yet it's so difficult to navigate health care and we're in it you know so many times we see patients that do the right steps to make sure that they're in network and that everything is covered by their insurance but yet they have a surprise bill of $300.00 or thousands of dollars that has to stop how do how do we get that to stop Well another thing we're proposing is to end surprise billing so we would set 200 percent of Medicare would be the highest that even an out of network therapy could could cost when you have a hospitalization or something like that because now you know some of this is also the responsibility of hospitals and health care providers that this can't just be handled on the insurance side we want hospitals to grow and we want you know providers to do well and we can do that in a way that also manages these costs but it sure will help I think if we can take steps like what I'm proposing with Medicare for all who wanted to make sure everybody's covered no one's falling through the cracks because I'm Or more likely to see an evening out of the radically different prices that can be attached to the same procedure or the same bit of medication depending where you are in our current patchwork of coverage. Masker question Mr Merrett a follow up there are lots of ambitious health care plans that have been proposed in this campaign alone can you get yours passed because that's kind of the acid test as it is. The reality is all these beautiful proposals we all put forward their impact is kind of multiplied by 0 if you can actually get it through Congress and it's one of the reasons why I do favor the approach that I have what we call Medicare for all who want to and we create a public plan Medicare type plan for every American but and we make sure that everybody can afford it but we don't require you to take it and partly I think that's just the right policy because I think people should be able to choose it's also really important that that's a policy that commands the support of most Americans which by the way is a big deal because this would be the biggest innovation the biggest move forward in health care in about 50 years but we have a moment where we can get something that big done and most Americans want it done that's not true some of the other ideas out there which would make it much harder to actually achieve them no matter how good they sound in campaign season. Or another question you're married to a real social media celebrity. Has been cast has really taken off but. I think I have to raise a question with you because I was hoping not to ask anything about orientation but as you know there is some information recently reported by The New York Times that says the 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 wonder what you would say to voters who have that reservation Well I think that the 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 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 I think a lot of the other stuff falls away if and only a few have a good answer to that question. That information came from an internal campaign focus groups that held that included 2 dozen uncommitted. We'll hear more of people who are stationed with Weekend Edition host. Undecided voters across n.p.r. Today. And you can watch a video of the conversation with other presidential candidates at. This is n.p.r. News 30 years after the. Persistent influx of refugees from the Middle East. We check in with. Things Considered from n.p.r. News. From 5 pm to 6 30 pm this afternoon also from 30. 1 am tonight into tomorrow morning it's all thanks considered. More of Morning Edition ahead Happy Friday morning to you we can just about here coming up in the next segment the University of California is 187 details that history the program by Michael state your k.q.e.d. Public Radio time is $430.00. News headlines. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is not expected to appear on Capitol Hill today as part of the House impeachment inquiry of President Trump N.P.R.'s Winsor Johnston says that's just my to subpoena from all they need to testify House investigators have summoned Mulvaney for testimony citing evidence that he may have been directly involved in President Trump's efforts to use military aid as leverage to press Ukraine to investigate a political rival Mulvaney has emerged as a central figure in the Democrats' investigation because of his proximity to trump it's unlikely Mulvaney will comply with the request so far this week 10 Trungpa ministration officials had been no shows the White House is not cooperating with the inquiry the un General Assembly is on record again supporting an end to the decades long u.s. Embargo on Cuba lived up to sumo says the u.s. Israel and Brazil voted against the resolution yesterday it's the 28th year missed the General Assembly has condemned the u.s. Embargo against Cuba and calls for its lifting in a non-binding resolution u.s. Ambassador Kelly craft meanwhile said that the u.s. Like all nations has the right to select which countries it trades with and announce Cuba's human rights record and then its foreign minister criticized the u.s. Saying it was escalating implementation of the m Barca this is n.p.r. News. A Colorado man who allegedly planned to bomb a synagogue in Pueblo is due back in federal court today a judge in Denver is to review the evidence against 27 year old Richard Holzer and decide whether he should be released on bail the f.b.i. Says Holzer plotted to bomb Temple Emanuel earlier this month a death row inmate in Tennessee says he wants to die by electrocution that his December 5th execution Lee Hall is the 4th condemned prisoner in the state in the last year to opt out of lethal injection researchers say boys and girls generate the same brain activity patterns when doing math N.P.R.'s Jon Hamilton reports on the findings of a new study published in the journal Science of Learning scientists used to brain scanner to monitor more than 100 children while they did basic math tasks like counting and addition Jessica Cantillon of Carnegie Mellon University says then the team compared the brain activity patterns of boys and girls they are indistinguishable and you can't tell one group from the other Callen says the finding challenges the idea that male brains are inherently better at math than female brains what we're showing here is at least very early in development they don't start out that way yet as girls grow older they are less likely to pursue subjects like math and computer science Kandel and says that may reflect societal pressure or reluctance to enter male dominated fields Jon Hamilton n.p.r. 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News I'm Noel King and I'm Rachel Martin good morning it's looking like another no show today in the House impeachment inquiry House Democrats issued a late night subpoena to compel Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to appear but the White House has instructed officials including Mulvaney not to comply House investigators want the acting chief of staff to fill in some of the blanks still remaining about what President Trump may have demanded from Ukraine the public has a better picture of that after this week and the release of several transcripts from key testimony the latest from a senior State Department official named George Kent n.p.r. Senior political editor Dominica joins us now he's been poring through all the testimony this week hey there Rachel you've been hard at work out of pages a lot of reading Can you just tell us what is new in what George Kent had to say well so can who's a top State Department. Official described what he called a campaign of lies and a campaign of slander that was orchestrated by Rudy Giuliani the president's personal attorney when he was targeting Marie Ivana this the former u.s. Ambassador to Ukraine he detailed his own disagreement with the pressure campaign he likened it to what other corrupt countries do he said that politically related prosecutions undermine the rule of law can clearly look he's a guy who has a deep well of institutional knowledge on what u.s. Foreign policy toward Ukraine has been since the fall of the Soviet Union he was really articulate in describing that and it's really clear why Democrats then want to hear from him out in the public out in the open next week right so on this Friday I mean as we look back there were all these transcripts of key testimony that were released what do we need to understand from what are the big takeaways from all this testimony I am ever so many pages right I mean and I think that there were 3 takeaways that that really sort of stood out to me one we talked about Giuliani and really all roads in this. Ukraine affair keep coming back to him he won't go forward to talk with Congress but you wonder with the Southern District of New York investigating and already ensnaring 2 of his associates what that could mean for him to Republicans keep talking about wanting to hear from the whistleblower but you know a lot of what the whistleblowers complaint was has now already largely been corroborated the one exception is Bill Barr the attorney general we didn't learn much about that about his role and if he played one at all in the Ukraine affair and 3rd perhaps the biggest development of the week was a tucked away amendment in the testimony of cordons Sanyal and he's the European Union and vaster he reversed his testimony after several people contradicted him he admitted to telling an aide to Ukraine's president that military aid was unlikely to come unless the president went forward with a public statement committing to investigations of 2 conspiracy theories one about the 2016 election one about former Vice President Biden son Hunter multiple witnesses testified that there were there was a repeated and concerted effort to dig up dirt on the Bidens in order to benefit Trump's 2020 reelection campaign I want to go back to Mick Mulvaney if he doesn't show up I mean what's what recourse does Do House Democrats have Yeah I mean legal action is unlikely I mean they could go to court but lots of witnesses have come forward to say that they're not going to talk and Democrats don't want this to drag on much further especially with the presidential election taking place in the primary taking place now so they're instead going to likely just use this as further evidence of obstruction of Congress for a potential article of impeachment if they go that route n.p.r. Senior political editor Dominican want to know thanks as always you're welcome 25 years ago today California voters passed a ballot measure that was designed to save taxpayer dollars by denying public benefits to immigrants who were in the country illegally it was called Proposition 187 and it led to the political awakening of Latinos in the golden. State Libby danglin of member station k.p.c. C. Has the story it was the fall of 1904 on t.v. In California in between episodes of Murphy Brown and the x. Files ads for Republican Governor Pete Wilson's re-election showed grainy video of people running across the border from Mexico they keep coming 2000000 illegal immigrants in California Wilson was embracing the issue of illegal immigration in his campaign and endorsed the controversial Proposition 187 that would deny public education health care and other state services for people without legal status Wendy Korea was then a 14 year old high school freshman in Los Angeles she and her family had fled civil war in El Salvador Korea took Prop 27 personally this law 100 percent targets me and my family Korean her classmates became part of the largest coordinated school walkout in l.a. Since the city's Chicano activism of the 19 $160.00 s. She made the announcement on the school's p.a. System and one day I was like we're going to have a rally at 11 am for the sophomore class and then I said and we're also going to walk out of this. It was the start of a political career today Korea represents her old neighborhood as a member of the California State Assembly I think that was an awakening for a lot of people to say we can and we should do more for some folks you know war Watergate Nixon was there political wakening for me this was it was Proposition 187 Kevin Daley own was a teacher and protest organizer back in 94 he later became an assemblyman then a state senator and eventually rose to be the leader of the California State Senate he's now running for city council in l.a. And I can tell you this if it wasn't for one of the 7 I would never have even thought about running for political office after Prop $187.00 passed applications for naturalization soared in California Latino is now hold close to a quarter of partisan elected offices in the state up from just 11 percent in. 1904 former Republican Governor Pete Wilson says supporters of the measure were unfairly maligned It was not racist I challenge anyone to find one word in that campaign that could be construed as race for all of its fall out prop $187.00 never fully took effect it was mostly blocked in court Wilson says that's too bad because voters wanted the federal government to pay attention to the cost of unauthorized immigration in California what happened was that the people of the state a state taxpayers were tired of being stuck by the federal government now in the former stomping grounds of Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon just 20 percent of partisan elected offices are held by Republicans some argue a larger factor in the party's decline was the disappearance of the state's aerospace and defense jobs which triggered an exodus of white working class voters despite the old political wisdom that socially conservative Latino's are persuadable for Republican candidates secretary of state Alex p. Dia says the 187 campaign drove a permanent wedge between most California Latino's and the g.o.p. For all the fs is our family values Roger partnership or anything else it's really hard for a Latino to accept that if what you hear much more loudly is we don't want to hear that's what you hear from the Republican Party today not a single statewide office is held by a member of the g.o.p. And more voters are registered no party preference than Republican in California for n.p.r. News I'm Libby tank and in Los Angeles. This is n.p.r. News coming up a story about how Russia's state media is covering are covering the impeachment in . Besta geisha in Washington d.c. Against President Donald Trump more on the story just ahead on k.q.e.d. Public Radio It's $43.00 and support for k.q.e.d. 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Next time on the world 3 East Germans remember what life was like just before the Berlin Wall fell a fiery protester who was demanding freedom and change a young woman longing to leave to be with her American husband and a government filmmaker drawn to the protests he captured the final days on film the Berlin wall from the inside it's on the world. Brain drain is a global phenomenon take Germany for instance where the economy is still integrating decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall the bass just moved. To an immobile people. And went to the west and made their living there. Germany's invisible economic law market. Listen this afternoon beginning at 4. 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It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Noel King and I'm Rachel Martin good morning the Kremlin never really tried to hide its preference for Donald Trump in the 26000 presidential race even as it rigorously denied trying to influence that election now the impeachment inquiry into President Trump is focusing on relations between the u.s. And Russia's worst enemy Ukraine Here's N.P.R.'s losing can from Moscow for the moment President Trump's opponents in Washington may have turned their attention away from Russia but that doesn't mean Russia's leaders aren't watching the impeachment inquiry with intense interest and a certain amount of enjoyment Russian state television which dominates the airwaves here provides a direct channel into the Kremlin's thinking. Last Sunday on state t.v. Says flagship show News of the week the impeachment inquiry got ample airtime is laid upon the table British airport on my feet to the mature consider the offer an unrelenting critic of the Us described the congressional investigation as the greatest witch hunt in American history the market out there was more finished he said House Democrats are using every chance to pick a fight with Trump even of the Senate is unlikely to convict him he quoted Trump calling the inquiry a lynching which he so we have said was a sad American tradition the segment that followed name the person right wing media in the u.s. Have identified as the original whistleblower was complaining about Trump's phone call with Ukraine's president set off the impeachment inquiry President Vladimir Putin for his part has spoken at length about the investigation that is sure of. Last month he said Russia doesn't interfere in American politics but is also not indifferent to what's happening in the world's only superpower whereas President Richard Nixon had spied on his political opponents Putin said in this case the whistleblower was the one spying on Trump if there was to was name you know she knew. And your company theater critic said he couldn't see anything wrong with the July phone call in which Trump after Ukrainian counterpart investigate former Vice President Joe Biden of basic that I'd be on the move up the stairs be killed we're going to do this for the he said any leader is obligated to determine whether its predecessors were engaged in corrupt schemes so Trump really had no choice but to ask Putin's robust defense of the Us president sounded very much like Republican talking points but ironically Trump hasn't exactly been doing the Kremlin's bidding he made a good guy because he says nice things about with him but policy wise I cannot see help Russia can benefit from Trump in the White House that's Marsha Lipman a political analyst in Moscow Russia still on the fiction Trump on the Trump Russia would be better off without the sanctions no question about that but there is no chance all the sanctions being eased the lifted go sanctions were imposed as punishment for Russia's invasion of Ukraine 5 years ago Britain says the impeachment process is welcomed by Putin like any political turmoil in Western democracies whenever there is a division the Kremlin tries to his rather wish whenever there is a weakness the Kremlin tries to take advantage of it he's teaching proceedings in the u.s. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Noel King good morning all this week we have been looking back at 40 years of Morning Edition through the lens of among other things politics science and culture today we're taking a look at race and identity and how conversations about those things haven't have not changed over the last 40 years I'm joined by Maria you know who said the host of Latino USA Hi Maria Hey there and Gene Demby who's the coast of N.P.R.'s Code Switch part cast Well all right so you guys question to you both 40 years of race and culture there is a lot to talk about there where do you want to start I mean is it about the world or any number of stories to tell about race you know flash points around policing these tectonic cultural shift like the rise of hip hop we should probably just 0 in on a few things that are making headlines and I think have been on that we're still sort of grappling with today like back when Morning Edition was starting you know cities and counties all over the country were still trying to figure out how to do school integration there were these big fights over bussing and they say that the integration forces effectively won that fight I mean today in 2900 Merican schools by most measures are more segregated now than they were in the sixty's so there's something else that that was going on in 1900 the United States was about 83 percent white today it's estimated about 72 percent white you know some people call it the browning of America people who are part of that Browning I don't know if they like that term but that has been a central part of what's happened over these couple of decades so 40 years ago in 1909 Americans were getting ready to vote for president how was race playing out at that point in that race well as Maria pointed out the electorate was obviously much wider than it is today and Ronald Reagan was courting a much wider mainstream he famously or infamously Did anyone you ask give a speech defending state's rights at the Mitchell But County Fair in Mississippi Shelby County was about 7 miles from where of 3 civil rights activists were killed in Mississippi to suppress us. This is just sort of the Dallas assess that it's a little fuzzy there but he was talking about states' rights and states' rights of course was a code word for segregationist and he was speaking to a t. Integration sentiment in the South you know I think a lot of people forget that President Ronald Reagan put in place a blanket amnesty for undocumented immigrants way back in 1986 I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back very they may have entered illegally Maria that sounds extraordinary when you think about it today well this is a really fascinating conversation because you know if you think about the Republican Party now it has one on an anti immigrant build the wall you know immigrants and refugees are dangerous people the Republican party of Ronald Reagan and of George h.w. Bush was really a party that was saying we think we could lock up the Latino vote and one of the ways to do that was to be very open on immigration George h.w. Bush father when he comes in he actually ups the number of refugees the opposite of what the Republican Party is doing now and interestingly then Bill Clinton comes in and he was actually very anti immigrant he there's this commercial where he comes out saying you know like I'm going to take care of these illegal immigrants I'm going to cut you know I'm going to come down hard President Clinton double border agents 160000 illegal immigrants and criminals deported record Bill Clinton in many ways was running to the right of President George h.w. Bush that's absolutely true but you know something happens that really shift the conversation on immigration and that September 11th you know it would have been that George w. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox were about to sign this massive immigration legislation that would have a gun legalized so many people it would have probably locked in the Latino vote for the Republican Party. Except that September 11th happened and to we move forward couple of years and we have this massive massive massive massive thing happened because this country Alexi a black president and then everything's Ok. I'm saying if only. Things don't magically get better for people of color just because we have a black president in fact Obama's election in some ways might have elevated the sense of frustration for some people of color especially black people so a historian told me about this theory in social science is called the revolution of rising expectations so in the 160 s. You get intense uprisings in inner cities in the years following landmark civil rights bills like the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act and you flash forward to 2014 when a white police officer in Ferguson Missouri shoots an unarmed African-American 18 year old and the protests that erupted after that were incredibly powerful and this all happened when we had a black president which probably was an important part of the context of those protests in places like Ferguson and in New York after the death of Eric Garner because it was a sense that things were supposed to be different and they want different many Linux people were frustrated as well because Obama became known as the deporter in chief as undocumented immigrants were deported in record numbers right Obama ends up taking Bill Clinton's enforcement policy on steroids again kind of having to say I'm not going to take the label of being weak on these issues of let's say crime or or immigration and again that legacy leads to where we are now but no well it wasn't all bad news I think same sex couples should be able to get more you probably remember that when Obama 1st got elected he supported civil unions but not same sex marriage and in his 2nd term his decision had quote evolved. And the Supreme Court goes on to uphold same sex marriage in fact the Pew Research Center found that among gens ears which is the generation that comes after millennial about a 3rd of them say they know someone who uses a general. To identify themselves right really the last 40 years in terms of the Q community has been like an explosion from Again total kind of invisibility to now you know legalization of gay marriage and immigrants are actually taking cues from the struggle insane we're coming out of the closet We're same where undocumented and we're unafraid that has happened over the last 40 years it really is extraordinary in a while was striking to me is just how many of these conversations that Americans were having in 979 we are still having today I mean we still have not figured out how we make schools equitable right across races we're still deciding basic questions like who gets to be American Yeah and so in 4 years we're going to be grappling with what that looks like in a country in which most of the people most of the gens ears are not white we could say we could very much have a country that is majority Brown with most of the country's wealth living with white people we we could still be wrestling with the same inequality even if numerically looks a lot different so I hope in 40 years we've at least made progress in resolving some of these questions that have been doubled us like since the beginning of the Republic Gene Demby is the co-host of N.P.R.'s Code Switch podcast and Maria you know who say is host of The Latino USA podcast Thank you guys both so much we really appreciate it thank you Noel appreciate your. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News our theme song was inspired by b.j. Lederman I know well King and I'm Rachel Martin one more commute to endure before the weekend begins Here's Ted Anthony will make our drive back over to Hayward It's a car that hit the right shoulder sound wall northbound 80 past a street built c.h.p. a Tow truck out there keep in mind west of Santa Rosa westbound 12 is closed and Fulton road was a major injury crash before the road turned off a head on collision blocking the westbound lane so we're hearing maybe in a couple minutes when they have the roadway reopened but more than likely still seen some delays again westbound 12 west of Santa Rosa remains closed at Fulton due to an early. Major injury accident dented and thing for key committee have a good one Ted good weekend Joe McConnell will be keeping you updated on traffic through the morning hours with Sandy Althouse here on k.q.e.d. 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Campaign launches an effort to attract African-American voters and Germans prepare to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with David Hasselhoff the American Baywatch actor is a wildly popular singer in Germany It's Friday November.