You thought you'd seen everything and then it got to be a global economy when you ask me today to compete against John on these price basis that's just it's not a fair comparison at all I'm Guy Raz Dell American manufacturing part. Marketplace marketplace following all things considered today at 630 and 91.5 here c.c. And coming up in 20 minutes congressional Republicans are divided on immigration and some are willing to work with Democrats we think that there's a bill there we think that we can get something done but if you just walk away then we can't again that report at 620 that's one California Republican who has defied party leaders and the president for immigration that report coming to us at 620 programming on 91.5 k. Or c. C. 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News 8 in Washington I'm Jack Speer top North Korean official is expected to dine with Secretary of State Mike Pompei Oh in New York this evening they're getting down to work and meetings tomorrow to lay the groundwork for a summit that appears to be back on for now as N.P.R.'s Michele Kelemen reports Secretary Bombay was meeting with Kim Young as part of a flurry of diplomacy to pave the way for the u.s. North Korea summit White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders says there are also talks going on in the demilitarized zone between the north and south and in Singapore where this summit is slated to take place so far the readout from these meetings has been positive and will continue to move forward and that's a big change from last week when White House officials said their North Korean counterparts stood them up and weren't returning phone calls Sanders says the administration is still aiming for June 12th but suggested the date could slip Michele Kelemen n.p.r. News Washington President Trump has had plenty of unkind things to say about his attorney general it appears to be continuing to nurse some resentments Jeff Sessions after accepting the job announced he would recuse himself from the ongoing Russia investigation citing a potential conflict of interest sessions an early Trump backer said he had 2 interactions during the campaign with the Russian ambassador trumpet a message on Twitter today again said he wished he had picked a different leader for the Justice Department Representative Trey Gowdy apparently sparked the tweet with remarks he made on this morning on c.b.s. This morning which he said Trump could have picked someone else prosecutors are released 3 cell phone videos recorded by Nicholas Cruz in which he described his plans for the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parklane Florida N.P.R.'s Greg Allen reports some of videos which are disturbing appear to been recorded on the day of the shooting in one of the videos Cruz says this is the day the day that it all begins in another he lays out plans for the school shooting and then is neck and going to be the next school year of $2800.00. My goal is our least 20 people I think they are 15 and couple tracer rounds that I think. Prosecutors are likely to present the videos at trial as evidence showing crews decision to attack the school and murder 17 people was premeditated the state attorney says he'll seek the death penalty against Cruz Greg Allen n.p.r. 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Ukrainian officials now say they staged the murder of the Russian journalist whose reported death this week made headlines that claim they were actually trying to uncover an alleged plot to kill our colleague Bob Django a vocal critic of the Russian government N.P.R.'s Lucene camera ports from Moscow the journalist showed up at a press conference today alive and well. 136 press there surprised. That up at a press conference at the head of Ukraine security service some 24 hours earlier news broke at the Kremlin critic had been murdered at his Kiev apartment by said he had agreed to cooperate with Ukrainian officials who were trying to expose a plot on his life and catch the plotters redhanded the sting operation was so secret that not even those wife knew and he apologized to her to have in Moscow been embroiled in conflicts since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 a spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry said she was happy but Czech was alive but they had been used to create a propaganda effect Listen Kim n.p.r. 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You know what makes a great conversation it's not because. It's because. We are committed to having. All the time but we can only keep doing this. From n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered I'm Audie Cornish and I'm Mary Louise Kelly and let's catch up on some new developments today involving legal matters involving President Trump for one thing the president says he regrets hiring the top legal officer in the u.s. That would be Attorney General Jeff Sessions also Trump's long time personal lawyer Michael Cohen was back in federal court in Manhattan today n.p.r. Justice reporter Ryan Lucas is also in New York and he's on the line now to fill us all and he Ryan either Hi So start with Michael Cohen you were in court today for his hearing I was indeed Cohen was there he was wearing a dark suit blue tie looked pretty somber throughout the hour long hearing chatted a couple times with his lawyers now this hearing stems from the f.b.i. Raids early last month targeting Cohen's home his hotel and his office that's when authorities took a bunch of electronic devices boxes of documents the raids were part of an investigation by the u.s. Attorney's office in Manhattan into Cohen's business dealings and right now what's happening now is a court appointed officials deciding which of the C's materials are protected by attorney client privilege and which are not those that are not the government can use to build its case against Cohen Cohen at this point hasn't been charged it's important to remember that now the judge presiding over the over the case today said a June 15th deadline for Cohen's legal team to review what remains of their around 3750000 files that were seized the judge said that after that date any files that haven't been reviewed will be handed over to a clean team of government attorneys to make that determination the judge said it's important to keep this investigation moving along the June 15th deadline or so we'll see how that unschool zoë for the next couple of weeks meanwhile worth just reminding this koan investigation is separate from Robert Muller and the whole Russia probe So remind us just what is at stake here for Michael Cohen Well Cohen matters because he worked for years as a personal lawyer for Trump but he also worked as a sort of fixer form both of those roles give him significant Nala. Into Trump's business matters into his personal matters as well so this case in New York has put Cohen under really a lot of legal pressure there's speculation that if that pressure continues to build say he gets charged faces potential serious time in prison he might decide to flip he might decide to cooperate with prosecutors including those investigating Russian interference in the $26.00 election of course it depends on what information Cohen has and whether that's of use or it will let me let me formally pivot you to the Russia investigation now at what is the latest Ryan on the allegation from the president that the f.b.i. Placed a spy in his campaign I guess I'm wondering is he getting buy in from that from other other Republicans other members members of Congress for example well remember that the way White House brokered this meeting last week between senior intelligence law enforcement officials and top lawmakers because 2 House Republicans wanted more information surrounding this confidential source who met with from campaign aides one of those House Republicans who wanted more information was Trey Gowdy now Goudie attended last week's briefing he now says the f.b.i. Didn't do anything wrong here's a clip of him last night on Fox they did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got and that has nothing to do with Donald Trump now go to has seen as much of the original investigatory material on this question as anybody not directly involved he's a Republican he's a trump ally and here he is saying the f.b.i. Did what it was supposed to do the trick out he walking a fine line there and then briefly before we let you go Ryan I mentioned the president seems to have be having real and articulated 2nd thoughts about his attorney general yes Trump went after sessions again on Twitter today this has been a frequent refrain from from from the president he's publicly and privately castigated sessions for months now because of sessions or accused of from the Russian investigation Trump believes the attorney general should protect the president he wants an attorney general who control the Russian vest occasion which of course Trump himself has said is a witch hunt a witch hunt That's N.P.R.'s Ryan Luke. Reporting from New York thank you Ron thank you in the last few weeks the trumpet ministration has been doubling down on its official policy of separating some parents in children at the Us Mexico border as these cases become more common we wanted a better understanding of what happens to families in these situations Denise Gilman represents a mother currently separated from her 4 year old and 10 year old sons they had illegally cross into the u.s. Gilman is the director of the immigration clinic at the University of Texas School of Law Welcome to the program. Thank you so let's start at the beginning your client is from El Salvador who is she and how did she come to make the decision to come to the u.s. So Jessica decided that she had to come to the United States for safety for herself and her 2 young boys when she was receiving very grave threats from the m s 13 gang and in fact had been beaten up by gang members who were associated with her husband who is also an m s 13 gang member she had sought protection from the Salvadoran authorities in the specific legal process and had not received any protection and so felt that her life and the lives of her children were risks so that she had to leave when and where did she come to the border what do you know about that moment so she crossed across the river in South Texas in March of this year and presented herself to the border officials that she encountered with her children on the u.s. Side of the border she had made the conscious decision not to present herself at an official bridge or port of entry she thought that she would not be listened to if she presented herself officially to abridge And that's actually supported by a lot of evidence that suggests that border officials sometimes do turn away valid asylum seekers at the border so she made the decision to go ahead and cross into the United States to seek protection but that was always her intention so how did they get separated when she was apprehended after crossing into the United States she was taken with her 2 boys to a processing station a border patrol station and at some point the immigration officials told her that she would be separated from her 2 boys and then she was sent to an adult detention center and Laredo and the boys were sent into a shelter that is used for unaccompanied children under the Office of Refugee Resettlement within Health and Human Services at one point the brothers were actually separated from one another. Her input into 2 separate foster family homes but were eventually reunited and never now been released a family on the East Coast and as we said earlier she has a 4 year old son and a 10 year old son we've been hearing so much about these new policies over the last few weeks but at the time it was happening I have to assume that Jessica was shocked Jessica was absolutely shocked and she asked for an explanation as to why it was happening and nobody could tell or what's happened to her children since so her children are together and with family but they are suffering they really need their mom the older boy is in school and has already been referred for mental health treatment because he's just not doing well as a result of the trauma that he experienced in his home country and then losing his mother or who he came with was another traumatic reality that has really caused him great harm right now this means that there are 3 separate cases right a lawyer for each of the people in this story well I mean none of the 3 has a lawyer in their asylum claim at this point in time I'm working hard to try to get the kids a lawyer out on the East Coast for their separate cases I am not going to be able to represent Jessica on the merits of her asylum claim from 4 hours away it's just not possible to do that effectively but it is important to note that the kids even though they're 4 in 10 years old have no right to have a lawyer appointed to them and at least that might have made some sense if they came with their mother and their mother was able to help them and to speak for them and to explain the facts that are relevant to their case but here the government took that one support away from them and then didn't provide them an attorney so how does a 4 year old make the case for asylum. It's Are you under current law and procedure of 4 year old has to make the case for us. In this case mom could have at least helped to speak for him. And could've of course also helped to find him a lawyer but that was taken away from the little boy that's Denise Gilman She's the director of the immigration clinic at the University of Texas School of Law Thank you for speaking with us thank you we're going to turn now to N.P.R.'s John Burnett He's been covering the trial the administration's policy of separating parents and children and John it is the case that Denise Gilman described happening with more frequency up and down the border I mean is this the new normal absolutely we're seeing a surge of these cases in federal court rooms all up and down the border hundreds of defendants marched into these courtrooms 405060 at a time mainly from Central America in many of these cases they're charged with a misdemeanor illegal entry or a felony illegal reentry but by this time their kids have already been taken away from them by strangers in a strange land and you can imagine what those scenes look like there's an immigration attorney with the a.c.l.u. Who described kids clinging to their mothers having to be physically separated and parents telling the older ones Be brave be brave but I should note Audie that some of these immigrants are bringing their kids on this long arduous dangerous journey from Mexico because they were told back in Guatemala or El Salvador if you bring your kids you'll be released from federal custody and nowadays under this new policy they're sadly mistaken and like Jessica who Denise Gilman describes she was completely surprised when they took her boys away from her and I understand there is some outrage growing about this practice in fact protests are scheduled for this week right these family separations of really stirred people up there's this growing grassroots outrage I understand there are dozens of protests planned around the country on Friday of this week they call it the National Day of Action for Children and they're calling on the trumpet ministration to stop removing kids from their parents at the border and how is the administration responding well the Trump administration actually calls the parents smugglers and says they're exploiting u.s. Government policy. Yes The government claims it's overwhelmed having to transport all these unaccompanied children to shelters provide for their wellbeing print average of 56 days and then find a sponsor for them Health and Human Services says in terms of its juvenile shelter beds they're at a 95 percent capacity and so now they're having to look for more military bases or convert government buildings as a way to find places for these thousands of new kids who are being separated at the border and remember these are families asking for asylum for protection from violence in their own home countries the Trump administration says the great majority of these asylum seekers are rejected by immigration judges and so they shouldn't be coming here in the 1st place that's N.P.R.'s John Burnett in Austin John thank you you bet Audie. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News and this is Southern Colorado's n.p.r. Station 91.5 k. Or c.c. 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Leaders worry a public debate on the issue could boost Democrats' chances of winning the House in November N.P.R.'s reports from California on one Republican who says define President Trump and his own party leaders on immigration is good politics back home California Republican Steve Knight is tired of waiting for House Republican leaders to figure out where their party should stand on immigration he says voters in his district north of Los Angeles have been clear they want Congress to act now people have said that consistently if I just don't listen then I'm not listening to the people in my district until recently Knight was pretty anonymous in Washington but that was before he decided to defy party leaders and President Trump on immigration now he's one of almost 2 dozen Republicans who decided to team up with Democrats to force the House to vote on immigration proposals proposals that include a pathway to citizenship that many in his party hate he's willing to risk angering party leaders in part because he represents one of the 23 districts that voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 but voted for a Republican for Congress Democrats believe Republicans are unpopular across the country and in particular here in part because of issues like immigration but Trump is leaning into the same tough immigration line that was his signature in 2016 he told a crowd in Tennessee last night that Republicans need to be tough on immigration if they want to win and you can say what you want but I think border security and security general is a great issue for the Republican Party I think it's a great it's right up there the moderates and Democrats a majority of Americans oppose the border all a recent a.b.c. News Washington Post poll showed that 86 percent of voters support the Dhaka program it protects immigrants who came to the country. As children and are now here illegally here in California the issue is even more personal because the state is home to nearly 30 percent of those dock recipients but Democrats here can't figure out the right way to campaign against a Republican like night Ranko for you is the most progressive of the Democrats running here and he says Knights of rogue move signing the immigration petition won't be enough to set him apart that's a huge issue and I have frankly I don't think it's even it's doing anything on this before you know knocked on doors this weekend in a heavily Hispanic area of the high desert city of Palm Dale he's hoping that his personal touch and progressive politics like a pathway to citizenship without compromises will help bring Democrats to the polls his opponent Kitty Hill takes a much more moderate approach she's in line with party leaders in Washington who want to trade some border security money for DACA protections and she argues it's the right way to win votes in moderate suburban districts like this we're going to have to make sure that we've got the best possible chance at defeating him in the fall but Knight says he isn't worried about facing either one of them in November night knows immigration is a tough issue for Republicans but he said it's not for him plus he says voters here have a lot more on their minds than just immigration we got into Congress to work on the military veterans and small business that's what we've done they know that the veterans know that. We speak up their work I think we're Briones a Democrat here Crees he says he respects that night took his own route on immigration plus he likes night's work on local issues Briones knows that Democrats need to defeat Republicans like night to win control of the house but he trusts his congressman and he's claimed to vote for him in November I like that you'll stay with the Democrats his base you know but if I see someone as you know ideas that would favor you know my way of thinking then yeah I would sway towards that night split on immigration may infuriate Republican leaders but it could be the key to helping the g.o.p. Keep the majority Kelsey's now n.p.r. News Santa Clarita California. Tonight in Las Vegas game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final is the main event apparently the elaborate pre-game show for the Vegas Golden Knights is a close 2nd billing now most n.h.l. Teams keep their pre-game shows pretty straightforward but the arena goes quiet maybe the lights turn off the Jumbotron shows a highlight video of the players skate out onto the ice and the game begins but this is Las Vegas and straight forward just doesn't cut. The west so it is nice to say yes they are shooting up out of a castle neon robots a sword fight on the ice all culminating in the actual Golden Knights themselves skating out of a giant knight's helmet which of course is billowing with red smoke and all of this is set to the right of the Dolphin this. Guy responsible for all this is Johnny Greco He is vice president of entertainment production for the Golden Knights before that he was a live events director for pro wrestling Oh I caught up with him today as he was prepping for the show at t. Mobile or Rena and I asked him given this is the Golden Knights 1st ever season they were starting from scratch what kind of debate was there about just how Vegas to take this thing we threw everything on the wall like how do we want to go do we want to go traditional which is great and it is no frills and or do we want to go to Vegas because we also talked about going over Vegas right is Elvis you're host you have shows on stage like you and we kind of try it out a happy medium you know you got the slot machine the minute the dice roll it's it makes some noise and you know we try to balance all of that there but it we definitely talked about going the route of the whole gauntlet of traditional to so like I said Elvis is a p.a. Dowser host so you landed on Vegas whole lot of Vegas but not quite full over Vegas yet to give people a little bit more of a sense of what is actually unfolding here big Golden Knights you know in your pregame show they come out as the. Season has unfolded you have had them shooting down a fighter jet this was when yelping the Winnipeg Jets. Had them eating a piece of shark this was when playing with yet sharks What's been your personal favorite you know I'm a little partial to cutting an airplane fast because the juxtaposition of a medieval knight a warrior with a sword skating on ice in Las Vegas slicing a s. 18 and a half just kind of sounds so crazy or like that's not going to work and it did I should just mention you didn't actually bring a jet on to the ice sisters that this was a projection right very good point yeah a lot of our elements because you don't know who you're going to play you know sometimes you have a couple of days to prepare for this elaborate you know event so we were either going to play the Nashville Predators which is a saber tooth tiger or you're going to play the Winnipeg Jets so those opens couldn't have been any different as far as an experience goes so we're really talking about a live tiger on the ice or you know potentially slicing a jet in half and ice projection allows you to suspend disbelief a little bit more versus practical elements but before I move on from the tiger did you ever heard any point to actually contemplate the live tiger Oh it's absolutely over really this this group oh yeah you know this group here we especially when you're brainstorming like you've got to kind of go real big and just plan and we're like Ok So was there a diaper on the Tiger so the I. Threw everything out on the on the wall and you know usually we go real but thank God you played Guy cheaply. For the whole world especially with Winnipeg one in that case I guess the number one thing that we're doing is creating home ice advantage we want to create an atmosphere that gives our boys on the ice a little extra a little extra volume a little extra cheering from the fans they can pick up on that energy and it helps them just go a little harder like that's kind of incredible journey Greco thank you so much it is my pleasure it is my honor and I'm super excited about what can happen and I was super excited to talk to you Mary Lou thank you. It has been our pleasure that's Johnny Greco vice president of entertainment production for the Vegas Golden Knights talking to us from the arena where they will be facing off against the Washington Capitals Game 2 tonight. Going. This is n.p.r. News. 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Global market intelligence know what matters so here's the deal we do still make stuff in this economy you know lots of stuff American manufacturing part 2 on the program today from American Public Media this is Marketplace. Marketplace is supported by vantage partners a consulting and training firm helping companies advance by aligning transformational strategies with the power of collaboration and Vantage partners dot com And by c 3 I o t addressing the world's most challenging problems at the convergence of artificial intelligence io team and the last to cloud computing more at c 3 io Ai and high personal capital you can download the personal capital app to help you plan for retirement and see all your financial accounts in one place. In Los Angeles I'm Carl Rochelle Wednesday May the 30th good as always to have you along everybody we begin today filming figurative only through a report the Federal Reserve puts out 8 times a year a regional survey of the American economy best known by the color of its cover it's called the Beige Book and it's usually got all kinds of quirky anecdotal economic tidbits and it by pure happenstance today though for our purposes the Beige Book headline is that the economy is doing just fine driven mostly this spring by American manufacturing as it happens this is day 2 for us of a series looking at what manufacturing is in this economy right now it is 12 and a half 1000000 jobs about 11 and a half percent of the economy so what we make and how we make it matters yesterday we did textiles a guy named muddy gull Braith running a denim. Actory in Columbus Georgia and how he is trying to make the changes that the global economy is telling him he has got to make you know that ship sailed a long time ago you know going back and trying to rebuild NAFTA into the what it was before then I mean nobody is say that I'm certainly not saying today same city a product that could not be more different than a company that's kind of liking where trade policy is going My name is George Jr the vice president we're told is foundry machine company and we're in our Columbus Georgia facility our foundry machine shop business business is good we're very busy right Goldens makes cast iron parts for things like heavy duty trucks farm equipment and tractors mining and oil and gas equipment road and bridge construction Well they've got a direct to consumer division to making cast iron barbecue grills and fire pits but mostly it's big heavy stuff this is going to sound really stupid but this is heavy industry and this is. Big heavy stuff they have been making in this same building since 1900 lots of old brick walls it's dark you can basically get dirty doing nothing more than standing there there is stuff seemingly thrown everywhere it looks for all the world that there's just random stuff lying around but I mean I know in some inventory control system you guys know everything's going but it's all in a does a good spot for sure that's a Boy George's brother he runs operations the 2 of them are 5th generation owners and managers of this company and they're feeling pretty good right now we've had a little all of the business and it's come back pretty strong was the new work that we've got to go on the cookers that we make are starting to get done a bit of total is cast iron drill and then just the industrial economies begin to come we get tend to think that it's some of the things that are happening up in Washington right you're seeing that you guys are feeling that here we are a little Tell me more I mean coming out of the great recession we didn't see business. Go away so much as during the Great Recession we saw were stopped and so remember we're making products for our customers fraud. And so they're not selling their products they stop buying our They're coming out of the great recession we had a tremendous upsurge as all that pent up demand kind of got pushed back into everybody's inventory right after that we went into a 3 year low where order books flattened out and your people talk about the more gradual recovery we were saying but now over the last 18 months it's revved up considerably are you thinking now is guys running a company are you putting that on the tax bill are you putting it on regulatory changes that is making the president or are you putting it on. Something less tangible like mood I guess you know about I think it's a little bit of everything that certainly is having more confidence that the administration is more business friendly and you can fill a lot more assured if you're going to go out and invest in a piece of equipment you'll have the opportunity for the business to support it back is that what you're hearing from your customers No you absolutely. And you know in terms of the impact of the tax bill we think that's going to be a bill this year and in the following year but I think mostly it has been it's going to believe this administration is moving things in the direction of bringing manufacturing back here making this a place to continue to build just to get this out of the way are you bothered by that chaos or do you guys just want to look at the bottom line and forget all the tweets and all the other stuff. All in all the direction the country goes like it said right now is one we agree with. I would I would do without Twitter for him in a heartbeat if we could but the noise doesn't affect the day to day and look we've had a consensus for the last 20 years in Washington and it's been a consensus that is pretty steadily move manufacturing out of our country. It's a little tale to interrupt that kind of consensus will take it that's overdue Yes let's see what else we're going to see interestingly enough either a that nor George were supposed to be here before the recession George was a lawyer and Boyd was a banker but even though their father didn't really want him to come back or so he says Any way back they came not without challenges of course understanding the cycles of the global economy for one thing what trade policy means for this foundry stretched along the railroad tracks not far from downtown Columbus also chemistry and metallurgy when people talk about iron or steel I mean are news on the periodic table right as if the. The steel the way we talk about it is that if the was just a little bit of carbon and we take them out and we had significantly more carbon and silicon into the mix and some other elements are now ways to produce the cast iron business 10 years after the financial crisis is going pretty well there are 200 people in this building they're looking to hire another 40 or so and the boy brothers have some pretty clear thoughts on what they think American manufacturing please or ought to be right you know it's funny there it's. There aren't as many people as I thought there would be but at the same time there has to be a certain number of people there to get this done out of my point is that if you can't automate all of this right you can't there's certainly more automation that we're going to than we could apply but you're going to always have to have a tenet site to monitor the automation and one of the things that drives us crazy is when we hear people talk about the reason you don't have as many people in manufacturing today is all because of automation it's not because the jobs that low Goldens makes things that go into things if that makes any sense raw materials again intermediate products you'll do be careful because there will be high. Oh you could feel it from here and you can see it go away yeah go and. Come and have a think it's kind of easy to forget standing in front of that furnace with the noise in the heat and the grit that from this corner of southwest Georgia Ed and Georgia boy they are trying to hang on in a global economy with Recently a little bit of help. Just because I'm thinking of it now and I don't want to forget what with the economy out that you guys make steel right I mean I'm a guy right where are you on the steel tariffs and all of that that's going on now between us and the Chinese and the Europeans and the Canadians and Mexicans so the impact of that is to pull the immediate impact of it is still is our primary employer Right right so our to whatever degree those tariffs moved to move the prices deal we're going to feel are you feeling it yet we're seeing a little moat and it's hard to quantify that hard to know if it's impacted by that directly but we're seeing a little increase our last month this Ok. But it's about time that we start doing something to protect our domestic industry globally and so if you don't have the ability to make steel here you're losing it for industry that we need in our country we'd like to see those protections spread in a way that we've got a balance they are trading platform with other countries you talk trade policy 2018 you're going to get some politics that's just the nature of the beast and the boy brothers are counting on the politics of this moment to help them compete in a global economy that has changed around them and around their slice of American manufacturing tomorrow episode 3 of manufacturing in America 20180 wait I know what those are those are those little markers that you peel back the string in the wrapper and you peel off like the paper sort of coating or whatever it is right after I did that it's like a grease pencil or something that's exactly what it is. Yeah I'm quick that way right if somehow you missed episode one yesterday subscribe to our podcast Well you can listen to it there on Wall Street today what I think the Italian phrase here if you remember back to the angst of yesterday today it's about and then have I been there we'll have the details when we do the numbers. There is as we mentioned yesterday and have been really for the past couple of months as well a lot to keep track of in the troubled ministrations ongoing trade disagreement shall we say with China steel and aluminum terrace retaliatory Tanner's retaliatory retaliatory tariffs fight over intellectual property which gets us to today a plan being reported by The Associated Press to reduce the chances of American intellectual property leaving the country by restricting. Visas for Chinese graduates in stem fields who want to come into this country marketplace Kimberly Adams explains what that's going to mean even the possibility of changes like this can be anough to change the way businesses operate the vet teaches engineering at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley campus he says about a 3rd of his students are from China businesses are going to be afraid of hiring Chinese and in every student because they worry about the obstacles of the governmental class there's also concern that if Chinese students think they can't stay and work at American companies after graduate school they just won't come Kevin She researches labor and migration at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute it's going to create uncertainty for students who are applying here for universities who are trying to attract talented credits and the administration's argument for being more cautious about issuing these visas is the risk of intellectual property theft which has happened Daniel Golden wrote a book about it called Spy schools but what's often left out of the discussion is that the vast majority of Chinese students who come here and get doctorates end up staying here for at least 5 years often coming up with inventions or intellectual property that benefit the u.s. Which is why says Golden China has made a big push to reverse that brain drain in recent years China might not be all that upset to see more of its best scientific mind staying home rather than going to the u.s. So while the threat of stealing secrets or research is real Golden says this kind of move might end up helping China more than the us in Washington I'm Kimberly Adams for Marketplace. Coming up our choices our choices around food have an impassioned I think people are increasingly aware of the high profile business of high end food but 1st to the numbers. But the band they believe is Italian for the down Delta is up $360.00 points today one and 210 percent 24667 picked up 65.910 percent 74 and $62.00 the s. 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This is Marketplace on Kyra's dollar couple of stories now about corporate mergers and acquisitions why they happen and what they mean item one big ag big agriculture a $66000000000.00 deal just got the go ahead from antitrust regulators the German conglomerate buyer has been cleared to acquire St Louis based Monsanto which as you might know has profited for years from the success of its herbicide round up and from seeds that are designed to be tolerant of it now though adaptive biology being what it is the company is having to bet on its next generation products from the Sustainability Desk Marketplace's Scott Tong as well Monsanto has been a pioneer in high tech herbicides in seeds the last 2 decades farmers plant Monsanto's genetically altered seeds say corn soy con spray round up and voila only the weeds die it adds up to an estimated $10000000000.00 in sales every year but nature has struck back through super weeds that a Roundup resistant Mike Bolger a teaches agricultural economics and business at Purdue we do develop resistance so some weeds more rapidly than others do some chemicals but it's a natural phenomena so now Monsanto is betting on a generation to herbicide a new chemical called dye Kamba but it gets blown away by the wind and can kill crops next door that aren't tolerant of Die Kamba big crop damage in 10 states last year join us oxcart is analyst at Bernstein Research Ramadan it doesn't really address you put it on the field it stays in the ground and that's what they can do it has a high level look at Lety it evaporates from the field and it can be blown away he says there's a wrist dye kamma could get pulled off the market and Monsanto faces broader criticism from environmental groups unhappy about Gene altered foods and the toxicity of its chemicals still a lot of farmers in the world use these products as analyst Chris Perella at Bloomberg intelligence I would say almost all if not all of the corn and soybean produced in the us and in Brazil in Argentina. There's resistance herbicide it's at least one form of herbicide at this point which is a big reason buyer is buying Monsanto the final regulatory approvals for the deal could come in a couple months I'm Scott Tong for Marketplace item 2 in the corporate roundup involves an international conglomerate that's perhaps not as widely known as it ought to be j a b is a holding company run a Luxemburg by a secretive German family apparently worth billions of dollars food is what it does a lot of it and looking for more back in January j.b. Paid $26000000000.00 for Dr Pepper Snapple now it's added to its roster by grabbing the British sandwich chain Pret the Mon j. Which is French I know but the company's British $2000000000.00 was a price tag there Marketplace's Aaron Schrank took a look at what the company is doing and here's a hint it's about coffee you're a j.b. Customer when you drink your morning coffee from Petes when you grab lunch from Pinera bread even when buying cups for your Keurig Michael Schaffer is with market research firm euro monitor international anywhere consumers are paying more for a good cup of coffee in any form j. B. Seems to be looking to have a piece of that j.b. Has spent about $50000000000.00 in recent years buying up mostly coffee and coffee adjacent brands like credit I think they're looking 5 to 10 years down the road in a space that is changing pretty rapidly all over the world consumers are paying more for coffee rob a bank analyst Jim Watson says in trying to become the king of coffee j.b. Is looking at beer they viewed it the way beer was maybe 2030 years ago which is this very fragmented industry but one that has a great growth outlook the beer industry is now quite consolidated and so Watson says j a b wants to do the same thing with coffee and prepared food but there's another global coffee brand standing in the way j b over the last 5 years has. Really risen up to be kind of a direct competitor to nestle Nestle is making moves of its own it bought a majority stake in the coffee brand blue bottle last year and this month nationally grabbed Starbucks packaged coffee business for more than $7000000000.00 I'm Aaron shrank from Marketplace. If you follow what's going on in the world of food and restaurants and cookbooks and food journalism you will know of the James Beard Awards the Oscars of the food world they're sometimes called of no this year for having more women and people of color among the winners than ever before and that's after months of stories about some high profile chefs who are abusive in their kitchens and who are accused of assaulting women who work for them as it happens the group it gives out those awards the James Beard Foundation has a new c.e.o. She started just earlier this year Claire Reichenbach is her name and she is today's conversation from the corner office clerks Nice to speak with you good to meet you and thank you I do want to talk about the awards here in a bit because they're important and they're and they're relevant but I want to talk for a 2nd about you just to sort of frame it you don't come from food as it were you come from from television and media I come from the media Well yes I don't have from the Connery well to say. It's more in terms of business strategy and business business transformation which of stay has has a place ability but I'm a very authentic food lover and home cook hot so it's an area of deep passion of mine but as you say I'm not the usual suspects in terms of stepping into this room was the James Beard Foundation then in need of strategy and a little bit of guidance I guess. Well I'm lucky to be stepping into the foundation at a time when it is in the greatest strength it's ever being is a phenomenal Teamhair and the evolution over the last few decades has really brought it to the position it's at now but I think the air of the I really want to to bolster and shine a greater light on we've got some very powerful initiatives one is around sustainable seafood which is a national ratings system whereby we work with chefs and restaurants in terms of looking at how they can change their supplies to more sustainable supply Another example would be efforts towards food waste reduction again in critically important areas so there's a couple of examples of what we're doing terms of the impact side side of the house as it were so let's start by the awards for 2nd one of the reasons other than the fact that they are the James Beard awards that they got a lot of press this year was that for the 1st time there was a substantial coterie of people of color and women winning which is greed My question for you though is how do you keep that up next year. And that is the question and I think it's worth saying that diversity has been a cool component of our mission at the foundation for years at the beginning of the nomination process we we introduced a new yardstick in terms of character and conduct and you could really see that coming to bear this year so I think it's about saying progress has been has been made let's not rest on our laurels let's make sure that we build on this but fundamentally it's about saying what is the role for the foundation in terms of driving that systemic change to ensure that the economy community and the restaurant industry is at its heart more inclusive and diverse and not just that the awards are reflective of that but it's actually materially shifting you have to that question of systemic problems in the world you keep using which is conduct the restaurant industry large has been and is still a very very difficult place for women to work it's there are outstanding examples. And I use that not in the good sense of horrible incidents. What is your role and what can you do as one of the leaders of of the culture I suppose to make the restaurant industry more receptive and open for women. I think there are a number of things that again that the foundation is already doing but it's I'm deeply impassioned about ready putting our shoulder against this and driving a scale impact what we do but one is shining a light on the exemplars that we can start kind of build a playbook around what good looks like the 2nd piece is around really equipping women in a very pragmatic way so we think that actually women open is so as well as in a chef but really restaurant owner as that is where a lot of the systemic and institutional change will be driven from so that is an area that is a key priority for us when you go out to eat at a restaurant what are you looking for when I mean seriously when you are you looking at the Coryell going to food you are going to service what are you looking for. I think I'm no different from I think it's the whole experience on the beyond what I think people and I include is taking a deep in terms of where we are electing to spend our money because our choices our choices around food have an impassioned I think people are increasingly aware of. Their i can about she is the c.e.o. Of the James Beard Foundation thanks a lot many thanks indeed. There is more as there always is this conversation specifically with about her plans for the James Beard Foundation and its future you can hear that on our corner office. This final note today which it is quite possible you've heard about already but which I believe it's important to get on the record Santa Fe event is the maker of Ambien came out with a statement this morning given the news yesterday in relevant part it reads While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects racism is not a known side effect of any sanity medication so I got. 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