Huge travel weekend the region's 1st winter storm of the season will stretch into early Tuesday with some areas set to see more than a foot of snow total Ted kitchen's is director of Manchester Boston Regional Airport in southern New Hampshire and he says the storm means the year's biggest travel weekend will end with some delayed or cancelled flights out of the northeast and then by the lobby but having watched the beginning of Thanksgiving and now it's impacting us here the end of Thanksgiving kitchen says travelers should be sure to check their flight status before braving snowy roads to head to the airport for n.p.r. News I'm Annie rupie And you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington. Today on World Aids Day and activists are making both progress and shortfalls in the global fight against HIV N.P.R.'s Jason Beaubien reports a key target set by the United Nations to get 90 percent of people diagnosed with HIV on to treatment by 2020 isn't going to be met HIV remains of the most deadly communicable disease in the world claiming nearly 800000 lives last year globally 38000000 people a majority of them in Africa are living with HIV And each year another $1700000.00 people get infected with the virus 5 years ago un aids set an ambitious goal known as $9990.00 the aim was to get 90 percent of people living with HIV to know their status then to get 90 percent of them on the anti-AIDS drugs treatment and of those people to suppress the virus 90 percent so that it's almost impossible to pass it on there's been tremendous progress towards those goals but last year less than 80 percent of people living with HIV worldwide knew they have it and less than 80 percent of them or on treatment Jason Beaubien n.p.r. News of the weekend box office Disney's Frozen 2 took the top spot for a 2nd week setting a Thanksgiving record with a 5000000 dollars and its estimated ticket sales one reason the original frozen open on Thanksgiving Day in 2013 but the sequel opened a week before Thanksgiving that like kids out of school for the holidays see it multiple times in 2nd place the innovative whodunit movie knives out debuted with 27000000 dollars and a 3rd place Ford versus Ferrari with $13000000.00 I'm Janine Herbst And you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include the pajama gram company creators of mashing holiday pajamas for the whole family including dogs and cats with Charlie Brown Star Wars and Grange games in its fleece and flannel available at pajama gram dot com. Good evening and thanks for listening to N.P.R.'s Weekend All Things Considered on k.s. U.t. Capital support for Casey tees future home has been provided by spine Colorado regional spine health care for over 20 years with 9 providers including orthopedic spine surgeons applying the most advanced treatment methods including minimally invasive and motion preservation techniques details are at spine Colorado dot com You're listening to k s u t. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Don Gonyea in for Michel Martin we're going to begin today with the election campaign not the one here in the u.s. But in the u.k. Britain has a general election scheduled for December 12th recall that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked for this vote after his push for the u.k. To exit the European Union by the end of October was turned back by lawmakers in parliament so the debate over Bracks it is at the heart of this election N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt has been covering the campaign and joins us now from London Frank welcome Heda 1st of all a lot of the campaign so far has been about Bracks it but last week stabbing attack on London Bridge has also put terrorism on the agenda How's that impacted the campaign for well it's immediately become a political football the attacker the guy who did the stabbings a was named Lismore and con he was out on early release from a terror conviction and so Prime Minister Johnson he was basically blaming the Labor Party the opposition Labor Party saying that he was released under policies that were created when Labor was in charge the problem with that argument is Johnson's Conservative Party has been in power for nearly a decade so trying to blame Labor for that is probably not going to be very successful the latest polls show Prime Minister Johnson's conservative party ahead of the main opposition Labor Party but what's the trend here good or bad for Johnson and his party it's not good actually if they had been way ahead all along and there's been talk of of Johnson's Conservative Party just basically clobbering labor but there's been some polls recently that shows that lead is shrinking and it's getting a bit tighter Johnson has this clear message get Rex it done but he stumbled in the last couple of weeks I'll just give you one example Johnson as you probably know has a reputation as a womanizer. He's had a child out of wedlock recently he was asked in interviews how many children do you have and he wouldn't even answer that again this is the prime minister of the country and that sort of feeds into a sense that certainly many of his critics have that he's kind of a rogue and he's not very straightforward with the public Ok as far as Bracks it is concerned you've been reporting lately from 2 places that have some unique perspectives on Bracks it Scotland and Northern Ireland let's start with Northern Ireland What impact is Bracks had having there Don I would have to say it's profound and I would say that from my most recent trip it it's very visibly straining the ties that are holding the country together that's not an exaggeration remember Northern Ireland they voted against Bracks and Boris Johnson his solution to this trouble that we've talked about a lot about the border across the island of Ireland was to actually create a customs border between northern Ireland in the rest of the u.k. But that was a way to avoid potentially some violence and certainly a lot of friction along the border on the island but that has made a lot of people in Northern Ireland who are very devoted to the United Kingdom feel like they've been sold out by Boris Johnson and there has actually spurred more talk of actually eventually reunifying with the Republic of Ireland to the South I was talking to a politician named Naomi Long She leads the alliance party in Northern Ireland and this is what she told me I think that Northern Ireland future within the u.k. Is less certain than it has ever been and certainly in my lifetime. I would not really light a scenario whereby life and think your opinion in the United Kingdom say cystic c'est now I've been going to Northern Ireland since the bricks at both Dawn This is the 1st time I've heard a lot of people saying that Bracks it could actually end up backfiring and breaking up the u.k. And it does feel to me like there's a a change and a turning point in public mood there and maybe for the future of this country Ok now let's bounce over to Scotland you were just there last week listeners may remember there's long been a debate about another pushed. For independence from the u.k. Because of Bracks it what are you hearing from voters kind of something quite similar you remember Scotland voted against Bracks and politicians there are using Brecht's it as a rallying cry to say let's have a 2nd independence referendum the English who are the vast majority of voters in this country voted for Bracks a Scottish feel like they being outvoted of the things that they care the most about and Nicholas sturgeon she's head of the Scottish National Party she is trying to use this to galvanize people to push for a 2nd referendum I met a voter last week named Lyn coming to him and she says Bracks it is just one more reason why Scotland should go its own way I think the reason that breaks it has got more impetus behind independents is because if we cannot be lessened this pride to do on such an important something we then obviously need to look at independence because if a place cannot be heard within the union and it's time to do think about it even that you know Frank I hear that but how seriously really should we take this talk of a fraying of the ties that unite the u.k. Honestly Don I actually I'm a skeptic Generally I take these seriously but nothing's going to happen for quite some time a Scottish referendum I think is a number of years in the future Boris Johnson said he's certainly not going to approve one while he's in charge and the other thing is this would be very costly say in the in the case of Northern Ireland joining the Republican the south through the economy is all is much weaker and this will cost taxpayers in Ireland a lot of money to try to continue to support the north so I think it is years off but I don't think we should be surprised if we see 10 years from now that the United Kingdom looks different That's N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt talking with us from London Frank thank you you're very welcome Don we're going to turn now to an important case at the Supreme Court tomorrow the justices will hear arguments in a gun rights case out of New York and that's a big deal because it's the 1st time in nearly a decade that the high court. Take on the right to bear arms here to tell us more is Joseph bloke or he's a professor at Duke University Law School where he co-directs the Duke center for firearms law Welcome Professor blocker thank you so much for having me Tell us a bit about this case it involves a New York gun restriction law that's not even on the books anymore so what's at issue here there's a few things to no one is that the court could potentially still declare the case moot they've asked the parties to talk about that issue at oral argument but the other thing is that this could potentially portend a change in the way that courts going forward evaluate the constitutionality of gun regulations and it's been about 10 years since the Supreme Court's blockbuster decision in District of Columbia versus Heller declared that the 2nd Amendment protects the private right to possess guns at least in the home and at least for self-defense and we've really over that in your span seen a lot of litigation about which kinds of regulations are constitutional and which ones aren't and courts have agreed on really one central framework for how to ask that question but especially with the new makeup of the Supreme Court we might get a new test so arguments are slated for tomorrow and I'm sure we'll get all kinds of analysis about how they went but what specifically will you be paying extra close attention to well I think one thing to pay attention to in addition to this question of mootness is really how the new justices weigh in on the question of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms When Heller was decided Justice Scalia was still on the court he wrote the majority opinion for the court but he was of course replaced by Justice course it's Justice Kennedy it's since been replaced by Justice Cavanagh the new justices Gorsuch in Kavanaugh have a much more originalist his story as this traditionalist approach to constitutional interpretation than Justice Kennedy did so we might see a lot more of a push of a turn towards what was then just Cavanagh called in a prior decision the test of Texas history and traditions I'll be looking to see how much of that comes up at the oral arguments on this particular case. Lots of advocacy groups have filed briefs and they're on both sides there is the n.r.a. And March for our lives there are police unions and teacher unions and there will certainly be lots of demonstrators outside the court tomorrow does any of that play in here really in terms of the justices decision making it's always hard to say you know there were a lot of briefs filed in the District of Columbia versus Heller case as well there's certainly examples of cases in which the Amakosa briefs that is the friend of court brief filed by interest groups are cited or seem to make a difference to the justices understanding's you know a lot of the things that he said in those briefs are things that the justices have seen before in that won't be anything new to them but some of it will be you know the March for our lives brief is a really extraordinary document which was not the kind of thing that was before the court in 2008 in the Heller case and there you have young people essentially arguing for among other things a chance to have their voices heard in politics when it comes to pushing for gun regulations that a decision from the court might simply take off the books and take out of the sort of democratic process and to the degree to which that resonates with the justices I think it could influence at least at the margins what the justices decide so assuming this all goes forward as currently scheduled a decision would be expected sometime by June how could a ruling in this case ripple across the country especially given how many states have passed or are considering new gun regulations a lot of them in response to tragedy in a mass shootings Well it really depends which way the Supreme Court wants to go with its decisions so if the court simply says this New York regulation was unconstitutional then literally nothing changes in the legal landscape because even this regulation which was unique to begin with has already been repealed so that wouldn't change much that would be the kind of minimalist decision that the justices sometimes they prefer if the court endorses a brand new method for evaluating the constitutionality of gun laws in the nick. Could potentially call into question the constitutionality of laws like those imposing good cause restrictions on public carrying or for example prohibiting or limiting the sales of high capacity magazines and assault weapons I don't expect that any decision to the Supreme Court would call into question the range of gun regulations that we have on the books but any change from the current consensus certainly would have ripple effects across the country and what would it take for us to consider this case this ruling a blockbuster I think indorsement of a new kind of test for evaluating the constitutionality of gun laws you know whether there are votes for that I'm not sure maybe learn a little bit more at oral argument but if the court decides to disrupt the consensus in the federal courts that's developed over the past 10 years that would certainly be a blockbuster in the world of 2nd Amendment law all right we'll be watching closely that's Joseph bloke are professor of law at Duke University and co-director of the Center for firearms law Thank you Professor thank you for having me. 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This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Don Gonyea the holiday season comes with lots of airport travel and lots of time waiting at airports so naturally worn out travelers look for distractions while they wait out that massive layover you might want to plug in your favorite show on the i Pad but unfortunately the batteries dead in you need to charge if you're lucky there are some u.s.b. Ports around but but hold on you might not be as lucky as you think some hackers could be using those free public u.s.b. Ports to steal your data and a process experts are calling juice jacking perfect topic for our recurring troll Watch segment. Joining us now to talk about this trend is Luke S'saxham He's a deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County and a cyber crimes prosecutor thanks for joining us thanks for having me Don what exactly is juice jacking How does it work just jacking is a way for a criminal to get your personal information out of your phone through your power port. It can work a variety of different ways but the end result is that by plugging into a u.s.b. Socket somewhere a criminal has either downloaded your information or actually uploaded malware into your phone that will then send it to him or her wherever they are and it isn't always the same way but it's the same result which is they have your information and you've been compromised so give give us some examples of of how they might actually get access to the information on my phone or my i Pad or whatever I'm sitting there and there's the u.s.b. Port just asking me to use it well the simplest way to think about it is when you plug your let's say i Phone into your computer you'll get the little warning or a little question box it says Do you want to trust this computer and if you press yes you can see your photos and other things on your computer screen that are actually on your phone they can build in a version of that that allows them to do the same thing they don't really care about the photos what they want to credit card numbers that are saved Apple pay accounts even things like your address or your Social Security number if they've been entered into a web page or some other app that potentially had the chance to get those is it that the actual u.s.b. Port has been compromised in some way or is it a question of them say plugging in a handy u.s.b. Cable there that you just think is there for you to use no it's not the cable it's the port itself and really what it is what's behind the port for all intents and purposes it's a little computer it's got a little data socket a u.s.b. Socket and it's got software installed in it and there's a variety of ways it was to all that software a variety of things you can do to your phone is there a visual thing we should notice as we look at a port just to see if it is perhaps been compromised or should we should we just stay away from them completely it's like anything else the less reputable it looks at. Usually a good sign that it's a problem what we tell everybody though is that again it's not common but because it is possible if you can avoid using just a u.s.b. Socket for power and find an actual wall outlet you're far better off so the wall outlet Oh Ok probably Ok so the wall outlet is going to be Ok for sure because the wall outlet only transmits power do airports regularly check these forts to see if they've been compromised I don't know and obviously within airports each airport is different but I don't know that airport staff would necessarily even know what to look for and the toughest part about this issue is that people don't know they've been victimized so it's part of the reason why it's hard for us to catch scammers or hackers in the act and it's part of the reason why it's hard for airports or anywhere else to know because no one's complaining oh a guy out there just took my purse that's easy but people may be in Omaha Nebraska or Alaska or wherever by the time they realize they got their information taken and they have no idea where it happened so let's close by having you off or just York your quick advice to people what I do is I bring a charger with me that covers you most of the time in the event that there is no wall charger I usually especially when I travel have a battery pack with me that way I know where the power is coming from I know what I'm plugged into but the biggest thing is to just be aware of what you're plugging into and that there is a potential risk there and it's specially if your phone or tablet says Do you want to trust this computer the answer is pretty much always know unless you're at your home I will never look at a u.s.b. Port the same way again and that's really the only point because it is not the most common thing but it's just like you know just so you know that it's out there and just be aware how was looks Isac deputy da for l.a. County and a cyber crimes prosecutor look thanks much thanks Dan Happy Thanksgiving. Jazz spoke for Thanksgiving I broke away from my desk at n.p.r. Headquarters and headed to a new restaurant here in Washington that's been getting some attention lately mainly for its name and location. We are one block from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue it's right over there the restaurant behind me is called Immigrant food it's a place that celebrates the thousands of immigrants who've helped make d.c. This city it is with flavors from Ethiopia El Salvador China Iran India that's just to name a few so we wanted to find out more about this restaurant that refers to itself as cause casual So we've come to chat with 2 of the co-owners Let's go in. We want to create a restaurant that war pride of immigration and immigrants right on that sleeve right on its name you know a celebration of the food in the gastronomy is that immigrants brought to America throughout the centuries it's like combining 20 restaurants in just one place that's award winning chef Enrique Lamar Tao he's created the menu at immigrant food we heard 1st from another co owner Peter Schecter he's a long time political advisor and global policy expert there's a 3rd co owner as well as a kid l. Vasquez Garr all 3 owners come from immigrant backgrounds they opened the restaurant in part because of the rise of anti immigrant rhetoric we now live in a country we're at least a portion of the country feels that so. We were going to be closed to immigrants and so we thought that it would be a wonderful thing to create a restaurant in part because people united around food or hash tag is united at the table the name is so simple it is almost generic it is generic immigrant food yeah it's immigrant food it's nothing more to say that is exactly what we are doing here so when Peterborough they'd. Just falling off because an immigrant from an it's well I just left my gone 3 because Alyse to ations you know makes and I came to America because this is a land of opportunity as. You know them Mary can dream and all of that so I just fell in love with a Dia but we were sitting here as we said. The White House is only a block away immigration has become one of those issues that people argue about it it seems the volume is so high do you try to stay clear of the politics are you embracing it are you taking another path we want very much that this restaurant to be all about values we're trying to espouse a fundamental value because we believe that America's story is the story of immigrants and so we want to push those values forward because we believe that immigrants are fundamental not only to the past to the to the lore of what America is but to the future of what America will be Americans continued to be the life blood the you know of energy the you know variation if you look at the Nobels science prizes that America America has received 40 percent of them have gone to people who were not born in America and immigrated to America if you look at the C.E.O.'s of some of the companies that we love whether it's Tesla or Amazon these are people who are either immigrants or whose parents were immigrants the restaurant is described as cause casual in part because it also acts as an educational space the owners donate meeting space within the restaurant to nonprofits dedicated to immigrant services to space for sitting in right now the upstairs of the restaurant is the thing that we will donate to the organizations for English classes or systems of classes or board of director meetings whatever they need customers are also given the option to donate to these groups at the end of the day though this is a restaurant with an award winning chef running the kitchen and he makes sure the food is also part of the conversation so I've been in describing this place to people I've been saying you can get Ethiopian you can get Salvadoran you can get a. Iranian food but but I'm not I'm not correct in saying that you can get those things but they may not be in the form that youth Yeah one of the things that I always say that we don't want people just to our dad today the that he's a very Try the show now from Ethiopia for example or. By the know now my no need to know we want the people just remind those flavor and reminds de the of for me Valley or from Greece of from China or from Vietnam and they're going to expect something very. Powerful because the mixture of those cold tourists is very strong and is a celebration in the Pali enjoys explosion in the Bali and Li Marto says this fusion of flavors works it's laid chemistry I just with these challenge and these concepts I just realize in this point of my career that you Confucian almost everything if you use the right amount it is going to be delicious chef and wreak a limb Ardo and Peter Schechter of immigrant food a new restaurant just steps from the White House here in Washington d.c. And we've got a couple of minutes now to tell you about a brand new Apple product won with a multimillion dollar marketing campaign and it's predicted to fly off the shelves this holiday season but this one you can only find in your supermarkets produce. The cosmic Chris is an actual apple a cross between the enterprise and Honeycrisp varieties cause pain in my mouth. When you release an apple you have to get the name out because you think Apple's by name Kate Evans helped create it she runs the apple breeding program at Washington State University because Microsoft. A extremely crisp and juicy apple and that's really what hits you when you 1st bite into it a good combination of sweetness and tartness And now after more than 2 decades of development the cosmic Crisp is finally on its way to consumers as an attractive Apple sort of shred with the yellow background that its name because of the why led to sales on the surface that looked a little bit like stasis in the cosmos and also when you slice it Oh bite into it it's very slow to Brown So that's kind of nice if it keeps its color the cosmic Crisp is the result of time consuming traditional plant breeding Gregor Mendel I'm show would absolutely recognise what we're doing it's very very similar I mean we're talking about genetics and segregation it's exactly the same it took 2 decades to go from the initial crust selection in 1907 until saplings were planted commercially in 2017 Washington State University owns the patent and Evan says the school has a vested interest in the Apple's success there is a tree royalty and also a production roti some funding comes back into the university from every tree that is sold but also every book's afraid to this sound as well and that funding helps Evans and her team continue their work it is ongoing we're always looking for that next new Apple So when you crunch into your 1st cosmic Chris. Thank horticulture Professor Kate Evans and her apple breeding program at Washington State University. You're listening to n.p.r. News. When officials in Charlottesville Virginia voted to remove Confederate statues like those of generals Robert e. Lee and Stonewall Jackson the city came under attack by white supremacists in fact those Civil War Memorials are protected by state law so they remain in city parks but as Sandy Hausman with member station w v t f reports another work by the same artist may soon be taken down. The intersection of Main Street and Macintyre is a busy one marked by a statue erected in 1919 it depicts native sons Merryweather Lewis and 1000000 Clark viewing the Pacific Ocean for the 1st time crouching behind them in a position some view as cowardly as the Native American woman 2nd. It depicts our ancestor as if she was a dog going along on the trip the scene Abramson came here from Idaho with her sister and mother a great great great niece of Sacajawea they recently told city council the teenage guide who traveled with Lewis and Clark knew the edible and medicinal plants that could keep them strong when one of their boats capsized she dove into the river to save their priceless journals and Willow Abramson said Sacajawea has linguistic and cultural knowledge may have saved lives that would have been viewed as a war party a group of men if it wasn't for Saka dzong showing Lewis and Clark how to communicate with these other tribes in a diplomatic way I do not think they would have made it her Aunt Emma George knows the statue installed in 1919 reflects the attitudes of its time but 100 years later it's still painful and this morning. I went out there to look at that statue it did not make me feel good at all it's not likely sculptor Charles cack meant to insult socket your Weah in fact he was the one who suggested including her but the man who commissioned the statue wanted to glorify locals Lewis and Clark Ball State University historian Doug c. Felt reads what kak had to say on the subject the guides the cargo is at their side a little to the rear so that she shall not compete too much in the composition with Lewis and Clark by making her look down I have tried to suggest that they were on a high prominence and she was more interested in the immediate surroundings and not aware of what was in the minds of the Explorers Seefeld things that would be a mistake to scrap the sculpture it's a very valuable piece of our cultural history that gives us a great lesson about what people thought in 1900 about a Native American woman for example but he likes the idea of putting it in a place where people can study it and learn its history and her Alexandria Searle's who runs a small museum called the Lewis and Clark exploratory center she would welcome the statue and the chance to tell visitors just how brave and inquisitive 2nd year we are Was she took initiative she wanted to see the world certainly the expression on her face is not fearful the expression is one of curiosity to me after months of bitter fights about civil war monuments City Council quickly agreed to take this statue down and is now looking at cost to move and replace it Charlottesville is African-American mayor said she would prefer to leave Lewis and Clark out of a new monument since both came from slave holding families instead it could focus on sac a job and perhaps an enslaved man named York who was also part of the expedition for n.p.r. 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I'm Jenny and Herbst with these headlines the Iraqi parliament has approved the resignation of the country's prime minister after 2 months of anti-government protests but his resignation marks the start of what is likely to be a long process in coming up with a new government in Hong Kong thousands of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets again today in a new wave of demonstrations but police fired tear gas after some activists hurled bricks sent smoke bombs these protests have been going on for 6 months now. And a g secretary Rick Perry is stepping down today after 3 years on the job but he does leave under a cloud he's one of the people whose intervention in Ukraine's energy politics led to the House impeachment probe of President Trump I'm joining her post n.p.r. News in Washington. Support for n.p.r. 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But a new book takes a step back from such headlines and provides more contacts about the country and its leader its called the hermit kingdom the dangerous game of Kim Jong loon it's by Chong min Lee's South Korea's former ambassador for national security affairs and an expert on Korean affairs he began our conversation by urging me to think visually to help me understand how the dictatorship works North Korea can be best I think Imagine if you have 5 concentric circles in the middle you have the Kin dynasty and Kim Jong Il his grandfather Kimmel's on phone the d.p. R. K. Back in 1048 his father read it until he died in 2011 and so the most important goal of the state is not the North Korean people or the army it is the survival of the conversion and to do that you need a vast army 1200000 forces you need nuclear weapons you need hard currency making machines you need gulags and a police surveillance state all of that is the message into Kim Jong un and he was only born in 1903 so he's a very young leader and although he really wants to emulate them shopping or maybe even Park Chung hee of South Korea in the sixty's and seventy's he cannot because he is constrained by the very system that created it and a lot of people see him as kind of a cartoon character a very dangerous one but use stress that he is not deranged which is one word that's often used to describe him that that in reality it's quite the opposite . You're absolutely right I think the worst characterization is to have or to make Kim Jong un look like a buffoon he may have a funny haircut and he doesn't fit the bill of a normal dictator but he is savvy he is smart and he's ruthless and he has shown this by killing his uncle by assassinating his older half brother he has purged hundreds of generals and other intelligence officials in the party and in the in the government and he has basically ruled North Korea with an iron fist since the summer of 2011 so this guy's a very smart guy so you provide this history and this context but you also write about something much more current the relationship between President Trump and Kim Jong un it's really an unprecedented relationship between leaders of these 2 countries they've met at the d.m.z. President Trump set foot in North Korea in the process the 1st u.s. President to do so but you also write and this is a quote Kim has no intention of giving up his nuclear weapons but he's tempting Trump with d. Nuclear ization playing to Trump's ego and his desire for political victories ultimately Kim knows that time is on his side president I think has a penchant for autocratic leaders whether it's law to mirror Putin the Saudi crown prince or North Korea's Kim Jong un and part of the reason is because he is fascinated Trump is fascinated by absolute power which he doesn't have in a democracy and so what he did with Kim Jong un on the positive side is he did break the ice he was the 1st sitting u.s. President to meet with a North Korean leader and yet. Trump's romance with Kim Jong un is not going to lead towards denuclearization why because what the North Koreans say about denuclearization is fundamentally different from what the Americans want the Americans want the North Koreans to abolish and dismantle all nuclear weapons and the North Koreans they basically know why because they look to Libya's Gadhafi and Iraq Saddam Hussein and their argument is if those 2 dictators had nuclear weapons America NATO would have never attacked those countries so as long as Condoleezza live my my point is he will never give up nuclear weapons what do you want people to take away from this your story about North Korea the fight for freedom on the Korean Peninsula continues there's a very famous satellite picture of the Korean peninsula where the northern half is totally dark and the southern half is a blazing light. That signals what South Korea has done together with our American ally for the last 6070 years the 30000 Americans who died in the Korean War and many thousands of who were wounded or missing in action did not die in vain they really did die for for defending freedom in South Korea but look what has what we have done together for the last 70 years the world's 11 forest economy Asia's most vibrant democracy and despite Mr Trump a very very strong alliance between South Korea in the United States and I think this is the lesson that I think most Americans simply don't understand that they are a force for good that they have transformed South Korea and I hope God willing with America's help we will be able to have a free Korea throughout the Korean Peninsula that's Changmin Lee His book The Hermit King the dangerous game of Kim Jong un is out now thanks for talking with us today thank you very much. He is in a class of musicians who need only their 1st name as a calling card Ok we'll make a slight exception by including his middle initial I'm talking about Booker t. As a performer or session musician or producer decades of iconic songs have his name on them and you know. When you see these. Is not. Now Booker t. Jones has written a memoir it's called Time is Tight my life note by note in it he revisits his days at Stax Records in Memphis and the tensions that came from being in an inner. Greatest group during the height of jim crow bar on that you know a minute when Booker t. Jones stopped by our studio I began our discussion in Indiana and his days in the Indiana University marching band he explained how that time influenced his later music the structures that I started to learn and in and the musical rigor started to show up I think in my musical choices on the studio started to learn the European contrapuntal rules and I started to learn how to write music and write for different instruments and those tendencies and leaning started to show up in the music at Stax and the studio you became a much more sophisticated musician when necessary when necessary Ok explain that well Stax was by choice different from other music that we were hearing minimalist and evoking all a large amount of emotion in the music so the music was as basic as it could be so let's let's go back to Memphis can you tell us about the 1st time for you actually working on a real recording session I understand you were still just a high school kid at the time I was in an algebra class that I probably should have been paying more attention to and I noticed that my friend David Porter knows this face at the door there was a little one though there at the bow of the classroom class and we just started and he entered the room run down the bathroom and get a saxophone about on sites on the I want to take you over to satellite records and that was something that I wanted to do for years with the walk into the door at satellite studios I'd been out in the in the lobby listening to records and but I had no way of getting it I knew they were making music in the back and he led me through that door going curtain actually and it was actually my dream come true there that morning unexpectedly I'd like to do something with you now we're going to play one. Those songs that has you on keyboards as you on the Hammond b 3 organ time is tight which was one of your big hits and in the 1960 s. 968 I believe it in a moment That's correct we're just going to play it in your headphones and I'd like you to tell us what you hear and what we should be here. Well I was floating then you know I was I had had the best drummer in the world the best possible trauma keeping time over there to my way and I was this flying up in the clouds playing the melody and the long flowing melody that kind of gave me a sense of peacefulness to be honest with you that organ sound is just so just thinking and are we building to the ending here come it will go no ending and on this record is an ending however it didn't end for me the song continued for me as a composer and I wrote a coder for a few coders on the movers and I played a cold on stage like that you know you if you think you're finished and you know finished so I want to ask you about a couple of key moments during your time at Stax both of which are covered powerfully in this memoir you work closely with Otis Redding who you say you 1st met when he showed up at the studios as the driver for another band and that's where you met him yeah he was a big he was strong so he carried the luggage and when I saw him he was loading drums and instruments out onto the sidewalk at 26 Malcolm one from the stacks so you eventually went on the road with Otis Redding he's becoming a big national star and there was this moment at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 fair to say he and you and your band The m. G.'s brought the house down that day we did we played in the rain played on. The brain doing the whole thing we were soaking wet when we walked off stage but it was like it was a great experience one of the most famous moments from that particular performance is when and you guys perform the song tenderness but secure some of that everything might be. A little bit sentimental. Then. You as anybody ever sung that song so well not to my knowledge it's not my knowledge your eyes kind of close a little as you're listening to it today yeah so yes I had a lot of thoughts going through listening to the. What we heard was a result of changes we made as a result of the touring our previous tour we played that song on the tour and their original was quite different quite a bit slower at that point and I remember us raising the temple of the song quite a bit from the original because he wanted to have more excitement on stage. After all just writing his death a new single came out you played keyboards on it and sitting on the dock of the bay . And. It's amazing to me that I'm sitting here 50 years later. Listening to the fall I never had any idea that it was some of this length of time and so gratified and it sounds as fresh in terms of its sound and its meaning the other is a lot and the song that I didn't know then that I realized now and that Otis is molding and he wrote the song and it's the truth about how he was feeling inside it's tough for me because he was my friend we had we had spent many times together sitting alone in a moment there were many things that he told me that there are also many things that he just didn't tell me and one was that. His as the start of grew he started to feel he was along he felt most felt lonely and I'm realizing that it was in the ways that stardom took away some of his life access to people so then just months later literally the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr is killed in Memphis and it happens at the Lorraine Motel which was a place that was kind of Us Home. Away from the office for all of you at Stax well done if we'd had a kitchen at Stax we didn't have a kitchen we didn't have a conference room we didn't have a restaurant we didn't have any recreational facilities so we always went in the middle of the day for recreation to a little way and that's where we had all launches they had a swimming pool and I remember Steve Cropper netted Floyd had the room down within the hall I think those 2 all 6 books all the time I can't remember any hit song that they wrote that they didn't write a little ring it was a home away from home for us so if Dr King had been sought and I could sing that's that's It would have the bends the same do you get what I'm sorry yeah yeah in the same Yeah and what about within your your we all rolled at Stax and he and even within your band was there a sense that maybe we don't really understand each other well you know what the I think the largest indicator of that is the fact that we never before has discussed it not ever wants so that really was a tragedy just that in the book and I it's something that is so sensitive because we had we did have a family we did have love between us and we did have a wonderful relationship for many years between the blacks and whites it was just understood and that was familial it was we were a family and we loved one another but to say that we are family that gives the freedom to say the dysfunctional aspects you don't have any family with love without love that isn't in some way dysfunctional same with stacks and same property in the indies that would have been the case had we been all white or all black we will make the family though what has working on this memoir and recording some of these old songs revisiting them done for you at this point in your life is going to Pleasant undertaking revisiting the music makes me realize how fortunate I have been and how much fun I've had and how much fun as still can have. Well things keep going. All the music this is great Look I'm so very privileged life Booker t. Jones Booker t. Thank you for joining us here in the studio thank you thank you have a Man Booker t. Jones his memoir time is titled My Life No I know is out now thanks thanks good talking to you buddy. And for Sunday that's All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Don Gonyea Michel Martin returns next week thank you for listening have a great. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from little passports their new science junior subscription for kids ams to inspire curiosity designed to bring projects to life while utilizing new science concepts more at little passports dot com from Capital One committed to reimagining banking offering savings and checking accounts that can be opened from anywhere Capital One what's in your wallet Capital One and a. And from listeners like you who donate to this n.p.r. Station thanks for listening to All Things Considered on k s he t. 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