Structural here here's this opportunity the Senate needs to vote on the bill tonight but its passage isn't certain the current short term funding bill expires at midnight Facebook is rolling out another major change to its news feed while users will see less news overall the news they will see will come from more high quality sources N.P.R.'s Arthur Shaunie reports c.e.o. 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The Justice Department says it will retry Senator Bob Menendez in a bribery scheme where Menendez allegedly traded political favors for gifts and campaign donations the Democrats' 1st trial ended in a hung jury last November his defense lawyers say the gifts were just that and not bribes and as was also charged with making false statements on his Senate financial disclosure forms officials from North and South Korea met meeting Saturday to discuss details of North Korea's participation in next month's Olympic Games and beyond Chang'e South Korea N.P.R.'s Tom Goldman reports North Korea's decision this month to take part in the games was significant considering the rising tensions due to the North's recent nuclear weapons testing now Olympic officials from the 2 countries will meet at International Olympic Committee headquarters in Switzerland to figure out among other things the number and names of North Korean athletes who compete in pealing Chong qualification deadlines have passed but an i.o.c. 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Attorneys at Law providing legal assistance to listeners throughout the front range and central and southern Colorado commercial and residential real estate transactions and water law more at Andersen dash use Law dot com This is All Things Considered I'm Kelly McEvers in Culver City California and I'm Mary Louise Kelly in Washington where time is running out just hours to go now until a partial shutdown of the federal government the House passed a bill last night to keep the government funded for 4 weeks but over in the Senate Democrats who are looking for protections for young emigrants say no can do fat unless there is a broader deal that could mean a shutdown starts at midnight Eastern Time this afternoon Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer went to meet with President Trump at the White House but when he returned to the Capitol it was clear there was still a lot of daylight between the 2 men we had a long and detailed meeting we made some progress but we still have a good number of discipline discussions with him let's go to Capitol Hill now where n.p.r. Congressional correspondent Scott d'être is monitoring things hey there's got to be a has it gone better than her hand I think so I hate to give you a countdown clock but we are now just shy of 6 hours till this deadline where things stand well things stand out standing is the key word because there's a law. Of standing around in the hallway right now in the Capitol as a handful of important people meet behind closed doors White House legislative director Mark short arrived a short while ago and went in to meet with the House speaker Paul Ryan the biggest meeting so far today was that one of the White House between President Trump and Senator Schumer we heard Schumer just a moment ago earlier this evening President Trump tweeted about the meeting he called it an excellent preliminary meeting he said they're making progress so that's where things stand right now but again no resolution and no timeline as of now as to when there's going to be a vote now the way Republicans have been framing this today all week is saying this comes down to Democrats that Democrats have full control over whether or not there's a government shutdown because if they don't want there to be a shutdown they could just vote for the Republican plan I'm guessing Democrats see things differently if they do I mean it is true that Republicans control the House and Senate and White House but in the Senate Democrats can block the funding measure from coming to a final vote and right now they do have the votes to do that a couple of Democrats have said they will vote for the funding bill Joe Donnelly of Indiana Joe Manchin of West Virginia they have 2 things in common they're both on the ballot this year and they're both on the ballot in states where President Trump won by large margins in 2016 but Republicans need 9 Democrats to vote with them and they do not have that right now now the Democratic argument is that they're tired of waiting on a deal for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program they feel like President Trump and Republican leaders keep backing out of their promises on Dhaka So most of the Democrats have said they're just not voting for any funding measure until DACA is dealt with I mean both parties playing such a high stakes game here are such big political risks how are they both how do they both see those rest how are they explaining them well we've seen the Republican approach today they're trying to pin this all on the Democrats they were trying to brand the phrase The Schumer shutdown because it comes down to Senate Democrats they also included a 6 year extent. The Children's Health Insurance Program as some incentive to get Democrats to vote for this did not work in the House doesn't seem to be working in the Senate either the Democrats' response is again you're the ones in charge of all of both chambers in the White House and they say that President from Mitch McConnell Paul Ryan have all said they want to come to an agreement on Dhaka Democrats are arguing we're just asking you to follow through on that. I hate to say it again but with under 6 hours to go even if they can reach a deal it's I mean or is it getting so close that it's hard to see how this is going to avoid a shutdown at this point it's going to be very close there was some brinksmanship on the House side they passed the funding bill yesterday initially seemed like the house was leaving town to force the Senate to vote it up or down but since then House Republican leaders have walked that back a little telling members to stay in town and be ready to vote on short notice but at this point in the evening it could be very short notice that's n.p.r. Scott to true I have the feeling I'll be talking to you again from Capitol Hill tonight thanks so much got to talk to you in a few hours and we're going to stay right here right on the same topic for our Friday politics discussion here in the studio with me columnist David Brooks of The New York Times and Matthew Yglesias co-founder of Vox Welcome to you both too I guess we'll call it the special Shutdown edition of the week at 6 start with this and David I'm going to throw this one to you 1st. If the government shuts down at midnight if it will mark the 1st time ever that that has happened when one party controls the Senate the House and the White House so David Brooks persuade me if we see a shutdown how is this not all republicans fault 1st one that said don't actually agree with me and I know you're Republican social but I think that the strongest argument they'll make to voters is that listen we tried to prevent you present you with a government that was functioning for American citizens that had defense spending for American citizens that had a new this health care program for American citizens and Democrats want to block it on behalf of the league. Immigrants and so who's really in favor of Americans Us or them serve them all right Matthew let me let you come back to that we just heard there the Republican argument which David doesn't actually agree with but he's laid out neatly for us there arguing that this is Democrats shutting down the government to help illegal immigrants how are Democrats not completely to blame if the government shuts down tonight I think the underlying issue here is that President Trump has really not been clear on what it is he's trying to do if when he had canceled the Dhaka program if he had said look I want to get these illegal immigrants deported that's why I'm canceling it I have irreconcilable on this I think Democrats might have to accept it I mean exactly what David laid out would be the case but instead he keeps saying he wants a deal he says he wants a deal of love but then every time there is a deal he scuttles it and that's how we've gotten to this point what Leader McConnell outlined where he just took a very hard line against the doctor recipients that in its way makes more sense than what the president said I'm struck by one point in all of this on which there appears to be a 100 percent agreement Republicans Democrats the president everybody seems to think this is a lousy way to run a government a lousy way to run a budget people you know people come to Congress because they actually do want to pass things and it's hard to get here and so there's a great a great deal of upset about these 30 day extension and all the gimmickry I think that's genuinely true on both sides I think that and there's the other thing that served true on both sides is neither can quite figure out who's going to lose here and I think I hear a lot of uncertainty about that my own view is that the short term Republicans probably lose because they are do control the government the medium term the Democrats probably lose because this is really about people in red states where the Democrats hope to defend or can't pick up some some Senate seats and it'll probably play pretty well for Republicans in the medium term in the long term of course it's ruinous for Republicans because they have really as Matthew says Mitch McConnell has labeled the whole party not just part of the party a whole party. As the into immigrant party and that of course is ruinous in a country that's growing increasingly diverse Matthew if we were God forbid to put politics to the side for a moment and just discuss the substance of what is on the table I mean on immigration and Dhaka and Chip. Insurance program for children how far apart are all of the involved parties on the actual substance of trying well I'm trying to get to I mean that's part of what's interesting here I mean there is a bipartisan agreement with some more public in support that is I think quite generous to the dock recipients but then in exchange make some real real serious investments in border security but then you've had Tom Cotton and some factions of the White House Republican Senator Tom Cotton Yes from Arkansas way off essential demanding a wholesale vision of how immigration to the United States works that's obviously not going to happen in this kind of pressure cooker contest and it's not totally clear to me if he really means that I mean you know he could get some concessions on immigration policy but instead he's holding out for a complete transformation a 50 percent cut in illegal immigration and I mean everybody knows Democrats want to greet it that I think it's interesting the way the Republicans have shifted where Lindsey Graham was that sort of was the Republican if not the total unanimated But center of gravity is where George w. Bush was John McCain was and this Gramm Durban deal would be acceptable to a lot of rank and file Republicans 74 percent of the country supports DACA but we're Tom Cotton is wanting to cut illegal immigration legal immigration by 50 percent that has suddenly become the orthodoxy the Republican Party so we've seen this shift for the over the restriction aside in a relatively quick period of time and I think we're all trying to catch up to it and that way this this shutdown really is about something real it's about the basic demographic shift in the country and how the 2 parties are reacting to it and also about not wanting to keep doing this every month so that we're not back here a month from now having. Yet another shutdown edition of The Week in Politics Chad let me put this to you each of you to what extent is the president part of the problem we heard just a few moments ago even Senator McConnell meant majority leader Senator McConnell saying we don't know where the president stands David Well he's not the clearest or most tell from the Go sheet or he sends out a tweet that blows up the strategy but I actually think this is deeper than trump the party was moving in this restrictionist direction well before Trump Trump has accelerated the move the party has decided to be this party they've decided this on 2 grounds from what I hear you know from conversations 1st that if they allow a lot of immigrants to become citizens are all going to vote Democratic and the party will be sunk in the long term and secondly I think that has been effect of the break Partridge constant drumbeat of headlines about immigrant crime and that has affected the electorate and hence the party you know Trump has mostly let congressional Republicans take the lead on policy matters and the difference here is that on immigration he really has been a major actor this is an issue in which he has very strong feelings in a way that Mitch McConnell maybe doesn't intend has personally invested political capital exactly so some of these erratic qualities that have made less of a practical difference on other issues do matter a lot right here I mean I think you can tell that that Mitch McConnell that others are a little bit unsure where they stand because Trump's personal views matter a lot but he's not a very sophisticated political actor even a year into his presidency well in a word in the few seconds we have left are we going to see a deal tonight or are we going to see a shutdown David I really don't know but I think I usually assume they're going to fudge things out but I both sides are pretty ready for this thing you know what are you going to sit down it I think the most congress thing possible that would be 2 or 3 more days and then we do this all over again boy I will be back on Monday Well thanks to you both as Matthew Yglesias of Vioxx and David Brooks of The New York Times until the next time thank you. Listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News 50 years ago abortion was illegal in most of the u.s. So group of Chicago women banded together and started performing abortions themselves we felt it was the right thing to do but that doesn't mean anything when the police are actually at your door coming up at 435 more on the history of the so called Jane collective programming on 91.5 k. Or c. C. Is supported by the antlers a Windom Grand Hotel featuring 3 new restaurants including the Piccadilly bar with 50 beers on tap sports primo sports bar and a duke a Neapolitan pizza featuring wood fired pizzas antlers dot com. I'm Michel Martin a year ago stood in front of the Capitol and took the oath of office. Since that much has happened and much has changed that's why we're going to devote the hour to reflections on President Trump's 1st year in the White House on the anniversary of his inauguration next time on a special edition. From n.p.r. News. 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Their little house in a rural part of western border to go sit on a hillside from their porch they look down on the town of Santa bus theone that I barely get but it puts them at every ending when there is no electricity going on says it looks really beautiful at sunset but he adds that his power has slowly been the story of the town below it's looked even more beautiful young you know but you have a yellow I do. With that again and I tell him Look there's light down there his wife says it's getting closer to us this morning they work up inside the crew and requested the downed utility pole in front of their house but one says he literally jumped on to get what they getting Yeah yeah yeah what Joy He said It's our chairs the men working up front we're not with the utility company or the Army Corps of Engineers or any of the official government crews working to restore the island's power. They were sent to us fans police chief and the retired employee of the utility company and a bunch of other men from this municipality volunteering to restore power to their own town. Center west and city hall is on a picture perfect closet with a fountain in the church in his office there mayor he Minutes says that back in November after nearly 2 months of waiting for the power authority to start grid repairs in his town he couldn't take it anymore nobody will be all he said. Ok moved all in with Roy people the 1st thing I did he says was find out which of our employees were electrician was a humanist said he then put out a call for help from linemen and other people used to work for the power authority but we're now retired it will become example of a little Yamaha law and so we started these brigades he said look at you Mark they even gave themselves a name that would be not your a cucumber power authority that p.p.a. After the town's full name sent us the the last of a goes a bit been they designed the logo slapped it on their helmet and utility trucks the bit been a power authority started fixing electrical lines in the center of town and has been working its way out to the hills they have met resistance the island electric utility accuse human is of circumventing its authority he admits he did but the mayor objects to another accusation that what he's doing is unsafe on the government for people well known to be miracles I can see more one of the 1st things we did he ministers was establish a safety protocol and we even brought in a government inspector across but that he got mayors still waiting for repair crews to arrive and their municipalities had started pressuring the governor to allow them to legally restore their own power so this week the legislature announced a bill that could allow cities to hire their own contractors and living out their. Incentive s.v.n. The $150.00 Power Authority has already restored service to about $2500.00 homes parking producer volunteer says the goal is to restore 100 percent of sanity by still homes before the end of January the n.t.n. Dog if we don't come are going to yesterday we did between 60 and 80 could last as well and today will be the sentiment that's on one of those is the little hillside home of a grocer who is in Louise Kelly Pickler alone and watching the progress from their porch all day I want to donate. Every time they worked in the pit the no power authority are ready to turn the power back on to a new home they get giddy with excitement. As the police chief turned electrician and. Races up to the house switches on the breaker and then flips the switch for the porch light between time. To ask if he could ask thank you tells the workers we are so blessed. And news sent to us. We're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. It was the largest single day demonstration in u.s. History a year ago this Sunday liberal women flocked to Washington d.c. By the hundreds of thousands to express outrage the day after President Donald Trump's inauguration similar protests happening throughout the country throughout the world this weekend people will take to the streets again but unlike last year the marquee event is a rally in Las Vegas N.P.R.'s Leila Fadel some this report while Las Vegas us it's a far cry from the Capitol where over a 1000000 marchers came together last year. And that's why national organizers like Bob Bland a founder of the original March chose it for the anniversary it was more important for us to create. Somewhere strategic reflected the work that needed to be done in 2018 Nevada is an example of a battleground state that went for Hillary Clinton and went blue for the 1st time in 2016 but you know that also elected the 1st Latina Senator And with midterm elections coming up Lynn says she and her 3 co-founders want to highlight that work and go to a battleground state where women are running for local state and national offices they're going to register and mobilize voters and after this Sunday they'll head to 10 other swing states for rallies around the country we are the leaders we've been waiting for there's no better time than now organizers say they're using the anniversary to harness the momentum of the past year into voter power they call themselves the resistance the resistance to this administration and so many conservative women say they don't feel welcome at these marches and rallies one of the big criticisms was the March in d.c. Was mostly white liberal women this year organizers say they are reaching out to local partners after a year of grassroots work to try to access a cross-section of America from minorities to the disenfranchised to women in. Low income communities I'm going to put a quality in there at the Las Vegas Indian Center indigenous women are making signs for the rally I see the words rise equality protect our lands written in colorful marker and adorned with illustrations many here didn't March last year this is my oldest that's perceived as Crouse a local organizer in the Indigenous community and she's helping mobilize people for the rally and to vote but she's also determined to vocalize issues that concern Native American women all of us are going to be wearing red in solidarity with our missing and murdered indigenous women she refers to the disproportionate violence against indigenous women that often goes unnoticed according to the Center for Disease Control murder rates are highest among non Hispanic black women and indigenous women Cross says she wants to highlight her community on the national stage and I've been going nationwide to conferences and meetings spaces where we're talking about diversity but even in those spaces most of the time if I don't speak up and mention our community they're not among those recognized across town I mean Bethany cut of the colony or union the union is a strong force in this town I represent some $57000.00 hospitality workers and more than half of its members are Latino this year they're a partner in organizing the rally chosen because of their strong track record of community organizing were fighting to protect dreamers we're fighting to protect workers who have temporary protected status and I think about it as a really good example for how everyday organizing in the communities that we care about and live in make a difference since the women's March in 2017 Anneliese list an organization that trains progressive women to run for office says more than 26000 have signed up to run Leila Fadel n.p.r. News Los Vegas. This is n.p.r. News. Violence still makes headlines but Patrick Sharkey says American cities are safer living in poverty used to mean living with the constant threat of violence there are certain cities that are still intense and very violent but it's no longer true in most of the country the drop in violence comes with new problems that story and all the latest news Saturday on Weekend Edition from n.p.r. And. Join us for Saturday's weekend edition starting at 6 am tomorrow and here's a sneak peek at what's coming up on Sunday last year millions joined women's marches and many left inspired to make political change time the 3 recruiting candidates run for office I no longer am getting them right you probably feeling that you're not alone and we are making marching on and a look back at President Trump's 1st year Sunday on Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News it's. Saturday and Sunday weekend edition both start at 6 am here this weekend on Southern Colorado's n.p.r. 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This year's C.E.O.'s trade show in Las Vegas included a major focus on digital health from devices to apps that monitor diagnose or even help you pay for some health care and all kinds of consumer tech companies are getting into the business in fact Amazon put up a job posting this week looking for an expert in health privacy regulations and the f.d.a. Made moves in 2017 to make it easier for companies to enter the digital health space so to wrap it all up it's time for quality assurance the segment where we take a look at the big picture around a big tech story Christina far as a technology and health reporter for c.n.n. Dot com Christina let's start with the f.d.a. What are they doing it's almost like that t.s.a. Pre-check at the airport so if you're a medical device or new drug you have to go through that traditional approval process which is like standing in that really long line and having to take your shoes off at the airport and that whole nightmare but if you're a digital health company the f.d.a. Has basically said we do you lower risk if you're not making claims around disease you're not claiming to diagnose or or prevent and said you're making more generalized I'm claims they run around wellness in that case they basically said you know is there is there a shorter line that we can put you on where you can get approved more quickly and. That and they've brought on companies like Apple Samsung and Fitbit and said you know we want to work with you please advise us I feel like once you bring at Apple and Samsung and Google and to talk about those standards those standards are likely to fall in favor of the manufacturers right which might be fine but worth noting Yes Absolutely even some of the things that we see Apple during For instance the apple Heart Study a month ago where they said you know is there a way for us to use our Apple Watch to detect heart rhythm disorders and specifically arrhythmias but even that carries with it some risk because they could tell Apple could notify someone that you know they're actually fine when in fact they really need to get to the e.r. Immediately and having a heart attack and then in terms of regulation didn't start regulating devices until 1976 and then there are some devices or even tech not underlying technology that's essentially grandfathered in what does that mean for people as they are trying this stuff out yeah that's a great question and a lot of this is because the f.d.a. Has been around for decades and when they decided what they would regulate you know back in the eighty's and ninety's certain categories within medicine were not that complicated and now we have artificial intelligence and we have medical apps it's been a sort of a challenge in this industry because there isn't really a watchdog the f.d.a. Was never really designed to be that sort of police for the industry and say you know this that this one needs to be regulated why haven't you gone through an approval process it's more about you know the companies submit themselves and the f.d.a. Works with them to get them approved That's Christina far technology and health reporter for c.n.n. Dot com and there's a lot of money in this space to a report out Thursday from consulting group Capital says venture capital funding in digital health was up 42 percent in 2017 to a total of $7200000000.00 I'm Molly Wood and that's Marketplace tax this is a.p.i. . And this is Southern Colorado's n.p.r. Station the Sundance Film Festival is underway in Park City Utah this year's slate of films reflect a vast cultural shifts across the country and the world will hear more about that in just about 15 minutes 62 degrees Meanwhile in downtown Colorado Springs at 435. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Log Me and makers of Go To Meeting a collaborative meeting platform committed to helping get work done in today's modern workforce learn more it go to meeting dot com From move offering businesses of all sizes premium business cards with options like gold foil thick paper stocks and rounded corners plus postcards stickers and notebooks learn more at mu dot com . And from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at our w j f dot org. From n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered I'm Kelly McEvers And I'm Mary Louise Kelly good evening tonight the subject of abortion illegal terminations of pregnancy has reached epidemic proportions and the scope of. The conflict between the law and reality has resulted in a national dilemma abortion will be Monday marks the 45th anniversary of Roe versus Wade January 22nd 1973 before the Supreme Court's decision abortion was against the law in most of the country women who sought out the procedure took risks in the 1960 s. And underground network of women in Chicago took a different risk to try to give women seeking abortions a safer alternative the group was known as Jane and at 1st they connected women with doctors who were willing to break the law and perform the procedure and eventually women in the collective trained to perform abortions themselves we're going to hear firsthand accounts of what they did and why these accounts include some graphic descriptions that listeners may find disturbing Radio Diaries brings us the story of the group My name is one that Willis when I was 23 years old I was a single mom and I became pregnant. It terrified me the thought of having another kid but myself and I think I was kind of desperate actually. I remember being on an Al on a trying platform and seeing a sign and the sign say a pregnant woman has a question mark I don't want to be a question mark called Jane and a phone number so I called. My name's Heather booth I started Jane in 1965 when a friend of mine was looking for a doctor to perform an abortion I made the arrangements then someone else called well by the 3rd call I realized I couldn't manage it on my own I thought I better set up a system My name is Martha Scott I joined the group in 1969 I had 4 children under the age of 5 many of us were a stay at home moms a bunch of housewives and Jean Galatz or Levy I was a member of Jane I was 20 years old I hadn't had so much as a speeding ticket but abortion really was the front line it was where women are dying that was all kinds of stories out there you know people who had used a hanger to stick it in themselves to account to stimulate abortions but I wasn't going to do that so that's why I want to Gerry women would call an answering machine if were asked to give their phone number their name and their data their last period we met someone before they were going to do this we gave them a chance to talk about it and we told them what was going to happen there were lots of points along the way where they could have said no change my mind because you do think about it alive but I don't think anyone chooses to have an abortion lightly I remember the day off took public transportation to this apartment in Hyde Park there was like 7 or 8 people in there and we wait it. At the appointed time we were put into a car and we were taken to a 2nd location where the abortion was performed if so very underground you know I remember looking at the people who performed the surgery and I felt relief. That somebody was going to help me. But maybe the facts are astonishing hundreds of thousands of pregnant women online full of what might happen to them secret abortions but there is a wide gulf between what the law is and what they feel they must do. My name is Ted O'Connor I was a young homicide detective on the South Side of Chicago this is a Catholic city abortion wasn't even discussed and I knew nothing about the whole operation it was totally under our reader Jane was very organized and very clandestine and secretive My name is Leslie Rican I'm a professor of history and author of the book when abortion was a crime the thing that ultimately made Jane so unique was they took the practice of abortion into their own hands they decided to learn and perform abortions for themselves and that was a stunning decision we told them upfront we were not doctors you know doctors charged $500.00 a pop so we would say we charge $100.00 but we will take which you can pay. We were doing 4 days a week and we were typically doing 10 women a day we would rent apartments all over the city we set up into bedrooms and put linens on the bed and sterilized our instruments so the person who was having the abortion would you know stretch out and the person who was assisting would sit with them while it was happening you know hold hands and you know and then I would insert the speculum administer the anesthesia that was delivered by 4 shots to the cervix and then the cervix would be dilated and then the instrument would be inserted into the uterus to remove the material so that was the procedure we gave every woman a little pill box with a trait to help prevent bleeding and touch cycling which is an antibiotic by and large we were dealing with healthy women pregnancies I mean we were not qualified to deal with somebody with real medical problems I probably did hundreds of abortions I mean the fact is abortion is a pretty easy procedure but still you messing around inside somebody else's body it's not necessarily given that you want to harm there were problems there were people who ended up in the emergency room you know it's wasn't always perfect by any means you know we felt it was the right thing to do but that doesn't mean anything when the police are actually at your door. It was spring of 1972 and $2.00 female a spandex walked into the police station and they told us that their sister in law was going to have an abortion of course these women were Catholic and to them one it was a sin and 2 they didn't want to a child killed that's how they felt and so was too on Mark's Waqar 3 minutes to follow our target drove into the South Shore neighborhood pulled up in front of one of the apartment buildings rode up on the elevator and we saw a young woman late twenty's extremely well dressed and she stopped momentarily and braced herself she was pale looked like the blood had drained out of her face and my partner took her by the arm and a very stern voice said Did you just have an abortion she said he s. And he said where and she led us to the door. I really didn't know what to expect when I walked in there the living room was filled with young women waiting for an abortion and was I was shocked to see it. And of course they were very surprised when we came in. They were such Chicago cops you know they were they were burly they spoke with Southside accents they came in and looked around and said Where's the doctor looking for the guy but there wasn't any guy you know there was just us I remember one of the women asked me. What I thought these women were supposed to do if they could get an abortion you know what I think was the right thing. And I told her Listen I don't have any opinions about what they should do but you're breaking the law that's all I know and that's why I'm here. So we are rested everybody I remember being handcuffed to somebody and we were all taken down to women's lockup we were charged with 11 counts of abortion and conspiracy to commit abortion. I remember thinking at the time I can see both sides of this it's a tough issue in on my side is I don't want to see a life destroyed that life is helpless it has no choice in this and that's that angers me on the other hand I've never been pregnant. This is the c.b.s. Evening News with longer Cronkite Good evening and a landmark ruling in the Supreme Court today legalized abortion the majority in cases 6 months after the arrests the Supreme Court decided Roe versus Wade in 1st 3 months and ultimately the charges that have been brought against Jane Doe are dropped anti-abortion laws of $46.00 states were rendered unconstitutional more overweight and and to change it because now there were legal providers but the controversy didn't just disappear perhaps more than any other issue in American life today Barry should encourage didn't is noted with the emotional arguments and death and the reality not the kinds of issues that court can finally. Roe v Wade made such an enormous difference it was a very important victory at that point we all kind of scattered went on to other things. I mean we really thought the fact that it was legal would change things that this wouldn't be as political anymore that it would fade a lot as any kind of a social issue but we were wrong. We were wrong. Jane performed approximately 11001st and 2nd trimester abortions before Roe versus Wade No deaths of women were ever reported in connection with the service. This story was produced by Nelly Gillis with Joe Richmond and Sarah Kay Kramer it was edited by Deborah George and bench bureau a special thank you to Laura Kaplan author of the story of Jane you can hear this story and more on the Radio Diaries podcast. And elsewhere in the show we will hear more about the current debate around abortion thousands of anti-abortion rights activists came to Washington today for the annual March for Life it's been held every year since the Supreme Court's decision in 1973 President Trump delivered a speech to the crowd on video some protesters held signs that said Make America pro-life again. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Kelly McEvers And I'm Mary Louise Kelly The Wall Street Journal is out with new details on money reportedly paid by the president's lawyer to a private company in Delaware the money that was then channeled to an adult film actress the actress is Stephanie Clifford she acts under the name Stormy Daniels the payment was for $130000.00 and according to the journal it was hush money to stop Clifford from talking about an alleged affair with Trump before he was president Michael Rothfield is one of the reporters who broke this story and he joins me now from the Wall Street Journal newsroom Hi Michael hi how are you hi I want to establish a couple points up 1st one both Daniels and the White House deny there ever was a relationship and we will return to that but the 2nd thing just to get out upfront is the timing here the alleged affair occurred in 2006 the payment according to your reporting was in October 2016 so in other words right before the election correct that's right and what details have you learned about how that payment was made well what we've learned is that the president's personal lawyer Michael Cohen created a Delaware limited liability company and that he opened a bank account for that company and put funds in there and then sent those funds to the bank account in Los Angeles Stormy Daniels or her real name is Stephanie Clifford her attorney and he then transferred money to her. Is it unusual to establish an l.l.c. In a situation like this it's not unusual it's not really necessary unless you perhaps want to distance yourself from the legal settlement it's something that people do to maintain privacy or secrecy and because you know the bank account is not in the name of the person who is sending the money so the bank will not know that I. Dentity who is sending the money and anyone else who has records of the transaction isn't going to know that the only way that we found out is by pulling the papers for that Elsie's and we can see Michael Cohen's name on it does Michael Cohen deny the payment does the White House more generally neither of them have denied or confirmed that there was a settlement payment they have both denied the affair as you mentioned which presents an unusual situation for you as a reporter reporting on an alleged affair that as we mentioned both parties to this alleged affair have denied How sure are you that it happened. Well we're quite sure that there was a settlement payment however as far as what happened between Stephanie Clifford and Donald Trump only the 2 of them now however despite her denial she has told several people that we've spoken to that there was such an affair and since we reported this last week 45 media outlets have said that she approached them in 2016 when there was a lot of news about women coming forward and making allegations about inappropriate sexual behavior by Donald Trump and she wanted to tell her story then at the same time she was negotiating with Trump's lawyer for this nondisclosure agreement this affair if it occurred was a between 2 consenting adults and b. Took place a decade before Donald Trump was elected president and took public office why is it newsworthy Well what we're interested in isn't so much the affair if it took place what we're interested in is the hush money basically the idea that there was information about Trump that might have come out before the election at a time when it was revealed that he had made remarks on tape to Access Hollywood that were never aired but were later revealed about groping women and that there. Or is this additional information about his relationship an extramarital relationship allegedly with a porn star and that someone very close to him paid to keep that from the public just weeks before the election that says it's not the you know the issue itself it's the cover up basically Michael felt thank you thank you Michael Rothfield of the Wall Street Journal. At the Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah people cannot get away from the issue of sexual harassment it's the 1st festival post Harvey Weinstein and Sundance founder Robert Redford kicked off this year's event by acknowledging the elephant in the room Well I think RB Weinstein was like a moment in time and I think that we're going to move past that I don't think he's going to stop the show N.P.R.'s Mandalit del Barco is at Sundance and she's with us now to talk about what's going on here there hey Kelly Robert Redford's usually a pretty you know measured tactful person I mean just what we're hearing what we just heard sounds like pretty strong words how has the festival dealt with the Harvey Weinstein issue especially given that one of the more horrifying allegations against him is that he raped Rose McGowan at that festival you know the 1st question at the press conference the opening the festival was if Sundance somehow enabled Harvey Weinstein and Carrie Putnam who heads the Sundance Institute she said they weren't aware at the time of what happened in she said they're sickened by the allegations that that was her words and you know they announced that Utah's attorney general's office now has a 24 hour hotline for people to report sexual misconduct and Sundance has has created a code of conduct that says that they can revoke credentials or access to any event to anybody who harasses discriminates threatens or you know engages in somehow disrespectful behavior and I'm thinking about the films too of course we should talk about the films right right last year the ones that broke out are you know big . Films now the Big 6 call me by your name get out so what are the big ones this year well you know Sundance is known for its strong documentaries and one of them is about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and N.P.R.'s own Nina Totenberg will be interviewing her here at a small venue and that's a really hot ticket and I says There are also other there are also other documentaries about Joan Jett and rapper m.i.a. And Jane Fonda and civil rights attorney Gloria all read who's been representing many of those women who accused Harvey Weinstein comedian Bill Cosby and Roy Moore of sexual harassment and rape and on Saturday all read and Fonda are scheduled to speak at a rally on the anniversary of the women's March it's also the anniversary of Trump's inauguration and there's one film called our new president which is the story of the last election told through the eyes of Russian media propaganda and people who live there another documentary is called Dark money it's about the impact of contributions by citizens united on Montana's politics and also I heard that there's a 7 minute film that's footage of a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in 1039 that's supposed to have very eerie parallels to today wow I mean Nazis and coverage of the election it sounds like a lot of documentaries related to the news what are some of the you know feature films that people are getting into you know last night I went to a premiere of blind spotting which is a movie set in my hometown Oakland California right was co-written and it stars do every day eggs from Hamilton there's another movie about Oakland from musician boots Riley and people are talking about a documentary about Mr Rogers there are 2 films about skateboarding and a film from Gus Van Sant called Don't worry he won't get far on foot with Joaquin Phoenix and Jonah Hill n.p.r. 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