And plea this is a spin on out collective conscience and it drew us one simple for any of us to simply look at the auto We and pretend that it is not our business because it is our business Gambia seeking to get the court to approve so-called provisional measures against me and Mark to keep it from carrying out further violence against the roving go well the core considers the broader case Myanmar's de facto leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi will lead her country's defense on Wednesday for n.p.r. News I'm Michael Sullivan in Bangkok You're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington. The Trump administration is refusing to approve members of the World Trade Organization and the appellate body is losing its power 6 of the 7 seats on the decision making body are vacant because of term limits now the Trump administration is blocking the appointment of replacements the u.s. Trade representative says the u.s. Has had enough of an organization that they lose to deal with countries that pose trade challenges such as China the number of laws that criminalize homelessness is on the rise and d.r.s. Pam Fessler reports that's according to a new study from the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty the National Law Center says over the past 3 years cities have enacted dozens of new laws targeting homeless individuals the statutes prohibit activities such as public camping begging loitering living in vehicles public urination even the sharing of free food and Violators face steep fines displacement and jail time the laws reflect growing frustration in some communities where the number of people living outside has reached record highs homeless advocates say such laws are counterproductive and that more housing is the answer the Trump administration has signaled that it wants to take a tougher approach to homelessness but it has yet to come out with a plan Pam Fessler n.p.r. 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Public Radio and N.P.R.'s Morning Edition on this Tuesday December 10th as always glad to have you along we got a mostly sunny day in store with Afternoon highs ranging across the low to mid forty's for most of the region well because the springs will rise into the upper thirty's so virgin will only top out in the low thirty's nights lows under partly cloudy skies will range from the low double digits in Silverton and goes to the mid and upper teens across the rest of Southwest Colorado on all of us New Mexico will settle into the low twenty's Wednesday's temperature ranges maybe a degree or 2 warmer more clouds entering the region there is in Friday will see a mix of sun and clouds to mature is remaining relatively static and the extended forecast is calling for another winter weather system to arrive across the higher elevations on Friday and become more widespread on Saturday and Sunday at this point it does not look like a major impact to the k g t listening area. N.P.R.'s Morning Edition continues and support is provided by the payroll department the local solution for over 24 years 7 Durango and the 4 corners region with payroll time in attendance background screening and Human Resource Services and more information is available online at payroll d.e.p.t. Dot be i.z. . It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News Good Morning I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin the f.b.i. Had every right to open its investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia that's the main conclusion from a report by the Justice Department's internal watchdog Inspector General Michael Horowitz and that this conclusion directly contradicts president Trump's false claim that the investigation was politically motivated but Horowitz also found serious shortcomings in how the bureau handled its surveillance of a former top campaign adviser President Trump lashed out at f.b.i. Director Christopher Ray this morning he said Ray will quote never be able to fix the f.b.i. Which is badly broken but it was James Comey who led the f.b.i. In the early stages of the investigation into the truck campaign yesterday N.P.R.'s Ari Shapiro asked Comey how those mistakes happened I'm not sure I've read the report I think the inspector general found something like 17 separate mistakes and that is really unfortunate and really important that he found them so they can be fixed and that's a worthwhile part of any inspector general report and so I don't want to run one step away from that but I want to underscore nothing was done with political bias or with improper motivation so many errors entered into their surveillance petitions around quarter page if the f.b.i. Had this many mistakes even on a high profile politically sensitive case do you think there's a broader problem with f.b.i. Agents taking a cavalier attitude to eavesdropping on Americans. I don't I think there is a problem with human beings working hard and making assumptions and not realizing the other people are making different assumptions they make mistakes but they're good people well overseen and checked right for more on the implications of the Horowitz report written by n.p.r. Justice correspondent Ryan Lucas thanks for coming in Ron thank you there was a lot of buildup to this report a lot of people looking for their own a vindication from this explain more about what the inspector general said here so this is a $400.00 plus page report so there's a lot in it some good for the f.b.i. Some bad but 2 of the big takeaways are that the f.b.i. Had sufficient evidence to open its investigation into possible ties between the top campaign and Russia and the inspector general found no evidence of political bias in the in the decision to launch that investigation and those 2 findings are a big deal they contradict as you said the allegation from some conservatives that the investigation was driven by political hostility against Trump but there were also some very serious problems with the F.B.I.'s investigation as we heard in that clip from from Ari and Komi at the top that relates to the f.b.i. Surveillance of former top campaign foreign policy adviser Carter page the inspector general documents 17 significant inaccuracies or omissions in the F.B.I.'s applications to get court approval for surveillance on page leaving that information out according to the inspector general made the case for surveillance look stronger than it actually was so here we are in the middle of an impeachment inquiry the House is expected to lay out their articles of impeachment today it's a highly polarized time I mean that's like the End statement of the year so how did how did Democrats were and Republicans respond to this report so on the political front the sides very much just retreated to the wrist respective corners the president described the findings as being far worse than he thought possible he said the investigation amounted to essentially a coup and surprisingly the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee during Adler had a very different interpretation of this report he said that it debunks deep state conspiracy theories internally within the Justice Department the response to the report has varied f.b.i. Director. Chris Ray said the bureau excepts the inspector general's findings he says he's ordered steps to be taken to address the report's recommendations that includes changes to the f.b.i. Surveillance practices Attorney General William Barr on the other hand released a pretty scathing statement that in many ways pushes back against some of the report central conclusions he called bar called the F.B.I.'s investigation intrusive and he said that it was based on quote the thinnest of suspicions and in his view he said those suspicions were insufficient to justify the steps that were taken so now I mean Attorney General Bart not only has he released the statement under oath calling into question the id's conclusions he's actually launched his own investigation he asked that u.s. Attorney John Durham launch an investigation into this very thing how is this different than what the Horowitz report was looking at so Durham is investigating similar issues to Horowitz but is understood to be understood to be looking at u.s. Spy agencies and foreign intelligence services as well he's been traveling internationally to meet with foreign intelligence officials he and the attorney general have enlisted the president's help try to open doors for durable overseas during released his own statement yesterday and that's a rarity because he's known for being very tight lipped and what Durham said was that based on the evidence that he's collected so far in his investigation he disagrees with some of the Inspector General's conclusions particularly about how the f.b.i. Opened its investigation even though he's not even done with his own investigation it's still on so it's pretty exceptional to have release that n.p.r. Justice correspondent Ryan Lucas thank you we appreciate it thank you. Long before she was a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was a Republican when did that change while she taught law at the University of Texas and it was there that Warren's political identity emerged the ideas that she stresses now about a shrinking middle class and a government that benefits the wealthy came from her academic research N.P.R.'s as Muhammad has the story in the fall of 1901 Calvin Johnson used to walk a block and a half from his house to hitch a ride to work with Elizabeth Warren They were both teaching at the University of Texas Law School in Austin and would debate public policy during the commutes we would go in and we would argue all the way and then we would take a temporary response to teach our course do research and then we'd argue all the way back Johnson who has long considered himself a liberal Democrat remembers thinking that Warren's opinions were strange sure he was quite consistent way pro-business and the I'm sure she would not like to be called and I can sure but he did think she was anti-consumer He remembers one particularly fierce debate about public utility accounting it's wanky Johnson says at the time utility companies were raking in huge profits and abusing the rate payers she came out strongly in favor of business industry the utility Warren was not overtly partisan at the time but she was guided by a law in economics movement that was sweeping through universities critics say this movement was trying to proselytize professors into believing a conservative pro market worldview and Warren was a believer according to some of her colleagues around this time she also became increasingly interested in bankruptcy and when she talks about her attitude from the time she sounds kind of Reagan esque here she is reading from her memoir a fighting chance I might not have said so at the time but I think I was on the lookout for cheaters and deadbeats as a way to explain who was filing for bankruptcy. In 1908 Congress had passed a new bankruptcy code there was an enormous amount of contention over the new car and that's Warren's longtime research collaborator Jay Westbrook he still teaches law at the University of Texas the creditors were saying Oh oh people are just getting away with murder they're not paying their debts or getting an easy discharge and we wanted to know if that was true or not so Westbrook in Warren helped lead a massive multi-state study to figure out who was filing for bankruptcy and why here is one of Warren's former research assistants Kimberly Winick who helped to go through a lot of the files and this is back when it was all paper and we'd show up with a portable copying machine and you know it rolled like a suitcase and you get it there with reams of paper and start copying it would then sift through the paper files Catherine Nicholson another one of Warren's research assistants says they were looking for answers to specific questions was the debtor employed or their medical bills Well I mean what kind of does today have was an unsecured debt that they've run up everything on credit cards had there been a divorce in the family recently that's just imperil data that's Warren's other research assistant Kimberly Winick again that is how she works ask a question that's a clean question and get Mansur we need took 3 classes with Warren and she says that one thing she admires about her old professor is that when the facts became irrefutable or in was willing to reexamine her own opinions when it doesn't remember talking politics with Warren but she had a hunch her old teacher thought people filing for bankruptcy were gaming the system the research ended up illustrating a different story years Warren's co-author Jay Westbrook again he saw more of the very difficult side of life of the people who go through the bankruptcy process she saw their struggles and she saw a righty of ways in which the credit industry manipulates things in. In order to get them ever deeper into debt the end result of their research was unprecedented essentially the 1st independent data driven analysis on bankruptcy in the country it resulted in 2 books and drove almost everything Warren has done since she became known as a bankruptcy expert she worked as a legal consultant for some big corporations like Dow Chemical and for consumers and a major class action lawsuit against Sears recently warns campaign disclosed that she made barely $2000000.00 through her corporate legal work then in the 1990 s. Warren also joined the National big review commission but this is the kind of person that when she sees somebody doing something that she thinks really is going to screw things up she's not going to be quiet about it so Westbrook says Warren started speaking up loudly and political circles about financial issues it's just that none of it was in the context of being partisan until it was Warren's work on the bankruptcy commission made it clear Republicans in Congress were not her ally old colleagues insist all these years of studying bankruptcy changed Warren It's why they believe she eventually registered as a Democrat in 1906 The thing is this bankruptcy research did not just affect Warren It left a deep impression on how people who collaborated with Warren see her people like Katherine Nicholson who worked as a research assistant for 3 years I know with one forever she cares about families and their struggles. So. Next year it'll be a hard choice for me in the ballot box it'll be a hard choice because Nicholson and now lives near Omaha Nebraska describes herself as a conservative Catholic Well Paul Ryan sort of Republican she voted for Donald Trump in 2016 However I believe in Elizabeth Warren too in the time since Nicholson met her Warren has evolved from being described as an economic conservative to arguably one of the fiercest liberal consumer advocates in the country some of Warren's progressive critics say this evolution makes her inauthentic is known her argue it's why voters should believe her a small college and p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News on the next fresh air Peter Bergen national security analyst for c.n.n. 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Health correspondent Rob Stein is in our studios to talk about the latest news about experimental genetic treatments for sickle cell disease Hi Rob Good morning Rachel so just to start off by reminding us about the effects of sickle cell disease who gets it how common it is yes or it's Rachel's a really awful disease that affects the red blood cells you know these are the cells to carry oxygen in our body and the genetic defect causes these red blood cells to become defective sickle shaped cells and the really bad a carrying oxygen they get stuck inside blood vessels they cause harm both acts of pain organ damage heart attacks strokes it affects millions of people around the world including about 100000 in this country so has there been any way to treat sickle cell so in this country sickle cell mostly affects African-Americans and many people say it's been and the collected disease in this country some people can get bone marrow transplants but the really expensive and the risky and this country most sickle cell patients they don't make it past middle age that seems to finally have started to change there are 2 new drugs that are helpful were recently approved for sickle cell but there's really still no cure for most sickle cell patients but there are there are some encouraging possibilities on the horizon right yes so rich as you know we've been following one sickle cell patient named Victoria grey closely this year she's the 1st person in the United States to get treated for a genetic disorder with a revolutionary kind of genetic engineering called crisper scientists infused billions of her own cells that have been genetically modified with crisper into a body this summer to try to help or and just recently doctors reported the 1st hints said it looks promising now it's super early so we're not even close to really knowing or worse but so far so good cream so there there's. Other similar research out there too yes yes so scientists have been working for years really to try to use what's called gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease now Gene therapy is the 1st strategy scientist developed to try to treat diseases at the genetic level it usually involves using harmless viruses to ferry new genes or genetic information into the body gene therapy cause some disasters early on but it's finally started to work and several experimental gene therapy is are showing promise for sickle cell disease now how so what specifically can you tell us about how this is big scientific meeting that's just wrapping up today in Florida where scientists are reporting more encouraging results now one approach involves giving sickle cell patients cells a new gene to compensate for the defective one to make their bodies produce a healthy version of a protein called hemoglobin and that's what red set blood cells need to carry oxygen in the body Another strategy is sort of similar to the crisper Gene editing approach that Victoria got it involves using gene therapy to make cells produce a different kind of hemoglobin called fetal hemoglobin to make up for that defective hemoglobin Ok so this is working I mean what do we know about health Yeah well again so far so good for example there are doctors in at Boston Children's Hospital trying to make fetal he will go home and and they say it's looking good for the 1st handful of patients that they've treated so far and a company called Blue Bird bio is even further along there reporting promising results from 17 patients who got the most advanced version of that approach that uses gene therapy to add a new gene to make up for the defective hemoglobin gene and it looks like it's working it's producing healthy hemoglobin in healthy red blood cells and it even looks like it might be alleviating suffering for sickle cell patients treated so far now you know with all the stuff I have to say there's to hold the hallway to go a lot more patients will have to be treated and followed for years to make sure it's safe to really know how well it works and how long it might keep working but it looks like there's at least pope for. Finally on the horizon for sickle cell patients if it does work the next big question is how to pay for these new therapies are coming with really have to be price tags n.p.r. Health correspondent Rob Stein Rob thank you sure thing Rachel an executive order from the trumpet ministration seeks to give local officials the authority to reject refugees in their communities barely County North Dakota considered whether to become the 1st in the nation to do that but after emotional testimony county commissioners rejected that motion just barely Dave Thompson of Prairie Public has this report Burley County includes the state capital Bismarck North Dakota Governor Doug Brigham had already agreed to accept refugees in the state and with the governor's indorsement it fell to the county commission to accept refugee resettlement to North Dakota counties Grand Forks and Cass have already agreed to take refugees with them and social services manages the resettlement program and overflow crowd estimated at 200 or more came to a local middle school to hear the discussion and sound off on the proposal. Was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo he came to America at age 16 and is now in college pursuing a degree while working at a local restaurant we're not in this country just to take your government money in fact we're here to work and be successful and live just like everyone else here Geraldine on Bay as a refugee from Cameroon she asked commissioners to consider what refugees mean to the county I'm going to stop here by challenging everybody when you leave you go to Wal-Mart and see how many of them are stocking your shelves at Wal-Mart Why is sleep. David you were not what we're talking about thank you opponents say they were concerned about the cost of bringing refugees to the area and what impact it might have on local schools. Is from Bismarck but I'd like to see before we bring in more people if we're spending money taxpayer dollars to bring these people in can we spend the money to help the people that are already here 1st when it came time to take a vote the commission approved it through to Commissioner journey would Cox was a yes vote with the stipulation that Burley County accept only up to 25 refugees in the next year when you see the success of the refugees that have been here for 20 years and it's been a long term program has done an excellent job and I was convinced that that was the what we were going to be doing Commission Chairman Brian Bittner voted no saying he did not have enough information I need to know what this costs I mean all together because it seems to me we kind of give a boy check because as American citizens to refugee resettlement you know I'd like to know more about what it actually costs if the decision has to be renewed every year for n.p.r. 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To help line some of our top global stories this hour the International Court of Justice in The Hague is today hearing arguments accusing me and Maher of genocide against its Muslim reading of minority me in my eyes de facto leader the Nobel Peace Prize winner song Suchi is in court in the Netherlands to lead the defense Simon Atkins campaigns to prevent mass atrocities it does represent her final transition from Nobel Peace Prize winner to genocide nihilist she will literally be defending me and most military in a court of law and denying the crimes that the whole world has seen take place and a man in the Czech Republic has shot dead 6 people and injured 3 others at a hospital in the northeastern city of us Staffa Police say the suspect fled the scene by calm before turning the gun on himself they've identified him as a 42 year old man who opened fire with a 9 millimeter pistol questions will inevitably be raised not only about the motive but also over gun ownership in a country where mass shootings are rare but many do possess gun licenses for their own protection Rod Cameron in Prague and Kenya's Wildlife Service is searching for a lion which killed and partially ate him after straying from a game park on the outskirts of the capital Nairobi in 2016 to Lyon spent the day wondering through a city slum before returning to the park in London I'm in line at the b.b.c. N.P.R.'s Morning Edition continues on k shooty Public Radio is n.p.r. News. More than a half dozen people are still missing on New Zealand's White Island following yesterday's volcanic eruption at least 6 people were killed the deputy police commissioner says Search teams don't expect to find anyone else alive conditions near the volcano remain dangerous crews have been limited to searches by air some of those who survived the scalding ash and steam say they ran into the ocean to save themselves many suffered serious burns those unaccounted for were on an excursion from Royal Caribbean's ovation of the Seas cruise ship one of she lays military cargo planes is missing with 38 people aboard and p.r.s. Philip Reeves says the c. 130 was heading to a base in Antarctica when radar contact was lost their force says it lost contact with the plane just over an hour after it took off from Put the anus in the countries found south it says the c $130.00 was carrying a team of people to a base in Antarctica to conduct a just a quirk that officials say just under half those on board with crew the authorities fear the aircraft crashed and have launched a search and rescue mission by air and sea in the area where the plane was last heard from severe weather is common in that part of today but officials reportedly say conditions were good when the plane set off this instance adding to the pressure on Chile's President Sebastian Pinera who's been struggling to cope with a wave of anti-government protests Philip Reeves n.p.r. News I'm David Mattingly n.p.r. News in Washington. Support for n.p.r. 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Is just people walking in that small space around and around her husband the man who was hopelessly circling the courtyard is the American who was freed by Iran last weekend he spent 3 years in prison on murky charges of aiding a foreign power after being traded for an Iranian prison or she won climbed onto a plane for a flight to Europe and there he met a u.s. Diplomat Brian Hook who is the State Department's point person on Iran and who is here to talk over the u.s. Confrontation with Iran Mr Hooke welcome to program Morning Steve I have to say congratulations to you where did you meet she way why exactly and what shape was in I met him in Zurich in the context of the prisoner exchange and so I had brought over on my plane the Iranian and then we are the Swiss who have been great partners who are able to effect the exchange you know they they they are the u.s. Intermediaries were there you know we don't have diplomatic ties with the regime and it's been that way for 40 years now and so the Swiss are known as our protecting power and the Swiss ambassador to Iran had been seeing in a regular basis and so over the last few weeks I've been working with him to negotiate the deal that would then bring back a one and you meet him face to face and he'd been in prison for 3 years what shape was in he was it was it was a very emotional and powerful moment he'd been in to Iranian prisons for over 3 years. In a windowless cell and it was he was just so excited and so grateful and very proud to be an American he is a very brave an amazing man and I'm pleased to report that he has now reunited with his wife and son they they flew over in the last 24 hours or so and met with him yes sir many where he is now yes military base Yes in Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany after we met with long in Zurich which is where the exchange occurred in an airport hangar at the airport we then boarded our plane and then flew up to Ramstein in Germany and he's receiving excellent medical care there and then we were able to get a visa for his wife and son to come to Germany and they're reunited Ok you used to spend a number of hours with him did he just seem to be together and in good shape Yeah he is in excellent condition and he's tough I really admire his bravery so we had dinner that night for about 3 hours and talked about the entire ordeal he's been working steadily on his doctoral dissertation his of Princeton graduate student and so he kept up with his studies he learned a couple of new languages he's very disciplined well you've got time in prison so why not he's now fluent in Farsi and French amazing I do have to ask though Iran's foreign minister after after this exchange has said in public quote Iran is fully ready for comprehensive prisoner exchange because there are more Americans there around eons in American prisons can you trade more prisoners without encouraging Iran to just take more prisoners it's a great question I think this exchange proves that we can make a deal together and the talks went smoothly and so did the logistics so we hope that this represents a 1st step for talks between the u.s. And Iran that will secure the release of all the Americans who are still detained in Iran there. All innocent and they all should be released immediately this the Iranian regime has been condemned repeatedly by the un human rights council for detaining people like she away Wang So we're hopeful and we're going to get people out of the u.s. Justice system to give to Iran to trade is that the right way to do this we think what we've been able to do in this case is we were able to bring home an American with no money no sanctions relief and no change in policy. I'm going to ask for a consular dialogue with the Iranians so that we can get the remaining Americans out it's a question for the Iranians really we are ready to get going and we're hopeful if you can find things to give them that seem fair you will do that I want to ask about the continuing protests in Iran they've been deadly but we should note that lots of governments face protests so in an interview that aired on this program yesterday we asked Robert O'Brian president trumps national security adviser what exactly these protests mean let's listen is this an inconvenience or something that could seriously threaten their stability it's hard to know because you know for one of them they did was they shut down the Internet so that word of the protests could not get out word of the killings of their own citizens couldn't get out so it's hard to follow I mean I remember the Berlin Wall came down if you would have asked me 2 weeks before the wall came down I would have told you that the Berlin Wall was going to come down in 2 weeks so you just never know with these things Brian hook is there really a chance of a Berlin Wall moment here. It's very hard to predict how these things go but there are a couple things we do know this is the deadliest political crisis in the history of the Islamic Republic and what we've seen is that the regime keeps losing constituencies in its revolutionary base 1st it was the students and then you had the middle class in the merchants and now you're seeing the working class and even many of the clergy in these protests there were 9 seminaries that were burned this is the core of the regime support and so at this point the regime is. Maintaining its grip on power by brute force we expect they're going to have to increase mortgage gas prices and keep rationing things and so the people are very unhappy and it was a gas price increase that seems to have triggered this now you said in a press conference last week there were about 1000 dead in Iran some people were surprised human rights organizations have had lower different numbers can you name your source for the 1000 and we have a number of sources or public reports eyewitness accounts we opened the tip line for people to send information with photos videos and also just messages we received 38000 and and you described a video actually an excruciating video of Revolutionary Guard soldiers surrounding people and shooting them with Mr Machine guns are you able to release that video I have seen some of those videos that have been publicly available we have other videos but this is in the town of the shower and in that massacre alone there could have been over we think there were over 100 people who were killed that exceeds the total number of people killed in the 2009 green revolution that the regime violently suppressed this is the worst crisis they faced Will you release this video. I will make the request to see if we can is it a us government product then rather than something that just came over the over the transom through that tip line it did come through our tip line but there were many videos that we saw from that Ok Brian Hawk thanks very much really appreciate your time thanks to fledge you could come in again this morning Brian hook is the United States Special Representative for Iran. This is n.p.r. News. I'm Robin Young a new chapter in the impeachment inquiry unfolds this week as Democrats begin drafting articles of impeachment with people historian Julian Zelizer How does this inquiry compared to others in u.s. History next time here now. 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Has obtained a draft of the complaint in this suit to be filed today it points to research that shows the tests are biased against low income and non white students and the lawsuit demands that the University of California system stop using the tests in admissions N.P.R.'s Allison nad Warney covers higher education and is in our studios Good morning Steve what are the details of this lawsuit civil lawsuits being filed by the pro bono law firm public counsel on behalf of students and a number of advocacy organizations the complaint draws heavily on research that the test scores are more strongly connected to your family income than how well you'll do in college and it claims that by requiring these tests the onus is the admissions process is basically legally discriminating against applicants on the basis of race and wealth and therefore it's not treating all students equally under the California Constitution Ok so that's what the complaint is and we've heard those kinds of things about standardized tests before and colleges keep using them could this suit really forced the University of California system which is huge yet to get rid of them so what's interesting about you know city of California system is it was one of the 1st schools to adopt the s.a.t. Almost 50 years ago and back then the companies behind the s.a.t. Lobbied them pretty hard to make this a reality when they did adopt the test kind of set a national precedent so it's potentially that if they drop it again could could be a national president again thing yeah I mean the university even back then was debating whether or not they should use this just last year the president of the u.c. System ordered a faculty taskforce to study the use of standardized tests they say they're waiting for that task force to decide what to do I guess if they do abandon the tests they wouldn't be the 1st right because some colleges that haven't been so. Just gotten rid of considering the testing missions Yeah so the test optional movement has been gaining steam just in 200-1000 alone there were more than 50 schools that dropped the from requirements in admissions the u.c. System has huge you know multiple campuses more than 250000 students so that would be a really big deal you know I'm just thinking through what the value of these tests are I mean we've just heard about the disadvantages and entirely aside from things like race and income it's just like your anxiety level people test in different different ways but the argument for the test was here is a standardized fair way to valuate students who came from different high schools different levels of education what do colleges do when they get rid of the s.a.t. Well that's the big question I mean grades have shown to be correlated with how well you can do in in college but grades are subject to inflation I mean here's the issue with the college admissions process is the whole thing is you know rife with inequities so and this stems from k. Through 12 so we know that nonwhite schools are more likely to be underfunded they're more likely to have less access to advanced courses like a.p.s. So this whole system is really sad up to to kind of give more power to to the wealthy students is there anybody other than the people who make the essay tear the a.c.t.a. Who is saying oh I love this test we've got to say we've got to preserve the history of the test you know surprisingly there are some access organizations that say rather than a limb and ate the test because the test has so much power we should really be giving students material which we helping them study for this test was kind of interesting take our take on this whole this whole debate Ok Alyssa thanks for your reporting and we'll continue paying attention is that lawsuit goes forward Thanks Dave N.P.R.'s Allison Nat morning. And this is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin. 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And Canadian officials are reportedly headed to Mexico today to work on some late changes Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genzer is following this from Washington hey David there are reports that the u.s. Trade representative Robert laid hisor in senior White House advisor chaired Christian are scheduled to fly to Mexico today Last night House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said a deal is within range and President Trump told reporters yesterday that a lot of strides have been made in the last 24 hours and one of these last minute changes we're hearing about any idea well congressional Democrats are concerned about enforcement especially a provisions that say 40 to 45 percent of a vehicles content has to be made by workers earning at least 16 dollars an hour they'd wanted u.s. Inspections of Mexican factories Mexico rejected that but appears to be open to a compromise that would settle labor disputes through arbitration in touch. I Ming for this thing I there are some reports there will be a ceremony this afternoon in Mexico City to announce these compromises and some senior Democrats are quoted as saying Congress could vote on the new NAFTA later this month Nancy thank you The Wall Street Journal just now reported American and Chinese trade negotiators are planning for a delay of a new set of tariffs that have been set for this coming Sunday note that President Trump hasn't signed off on this yet so this report is by no means definitive it is pushing up markets let's do the numbers footsie in London is down 4 tenths resent but here Daoism pianistic futures which had been in negative towards your territory are now up in the $23.00 tenths of a percent range a new report from the Center for Talent Innovation with the title being black in corporate America just 8 percent of people with corporate jobs are black and that African-American millennial have a high rate of dropping out of the corporate world altogether Marketplace's Andy ular has more only 4 Fortune $500.00 companies have a black chief executive down from 7 less than 10 years ago Julia Taylor Kennedy helped write the report she says young African-Americans are more likely to contemplate leaving their current job just to get out on their own 25 percent of black professionals are planning to start their own venture that's a pretty high number one in 4 and it's much higher than white professionals and she says it's not for a lack of ambition the study found that black professionals are more likely than their white counterparts to aspire to a top job Andre Perry is a fellow at the Brookings Institution he says the problem for business isn't just losing out on talented black professionals corporations are missing out on not only their brilliance in intelligence and and creativity of black workers you're losing the perspective of the customer he says black millennial is have more leverage than those that came before them to ask for more workplace advancement opportunities and to leave if they don't get. 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Game right afterwards it'll be read Koski and the 4 employees at his digital marketing start up in Milwaukee we have a company policy of no forced team building or company that wee hours or anything like that but everyone said they wanted to sell will be down on the floor there will be free drinks throughout the game which could be trouble but those tickets don't come cheap We'll get to that free drinks could be trouble issue in a minute but 1st why the Celebrate Tory surge this year and the challenger at Challenger Gray and Christmas says companies are confident they're searching for employees they spend a lot on their holiday parties to retain and attract really talented people a party is not going to keep people Jen Maxwell Muir runs a p.r. Firm in Portland Oregon this year she'll be taking her 30 employees out for a fancy holiday brunch and handing out gift cards but she's skeptical goodies like that retain employees good work good managers fair policies that's what's going to keep people the fine. Community that results from a party is definitely an added bonus a party can also be a liability Jay read Koski saw plenty of holiday party trouble at the big marketing firms he used to work at actual fistfights that had to be broken up people had to be sent home scary close calls like having to roll people over that passed out so pretty over the top mixing work and booze also raises concerns for a company h.r. Staff about the potential for sexual harassment and assault as the me too movement gained momentum in 20172018 some companies canceled their parties but this year companies are issuing fewer warnings to employees about potential bad behavior according to the challenger survey Brody Zucker at Mammoth h.r. Thinks that's in part because the me too message has sunk in employers have the expectation that employees are more comfortable reporting bad behavior and employees themselves hopefully and likely have less fear of retaliation Zucker suggests companies hire professional bartenders to cut people off and provide party goers with free rides home Mitchell Hartman for Marketplace And speaking of folks whose job it is to take away the punch bowl before the party gets too rowdy the guardians of interest rates at the Federal Reserve begin a 2 day meeting in a she just about an hour of probably leave interest rates alone this time the benchmark 10 year interest rate is down 1.82 percent our producer Rose Conlon Victoria Kreg Meredith Gerritsen Candace Moore just read and Daniel shin and David Brancaccio Marketplace Morning Report from a.p.m. American Public Media. Support for the Marketplace Morning Report has been provided by Frederick zinc and Associates where c.p.a. 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Trump House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the chairs of the committees investigating the president will hold a news conference shortly we will broadcast that live when they come to the podium they are expected to explain which articles of impeachment they will pursue N.P.R.'s national political correspondent Mara Liasson and White House correspondent I know are with us in studio this morning we also have N.P.R.'s Kelsey Snell joining us on the line from Capitol Hill welcome to you all. Kelsey I'm going to start with you you've been talking to your sources on the Hill what have you been able to glean about what the substance of the articles will be what we are expecting to hear is that there will be 2 articles of impeachment and from what I'm hearing it looks like they have. If they have the settled on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress now what the details are of the additional charges within those articles has yet to be revealed I think it's really important to look at what that will include though because that'll tell us a little bit about who they expect to vote for these different articles the articles themselves are kind of an overarching umbrella and they can contain a bunch of additional charges and they can also contain the additional evidence so we could see part of the crane investigation and one but as some members were telling us even as early as last week there was pressure to try to put a pattern of behavior and establish that by discussing things that were put in the Muller report so we'll be eager to see how they establish their their case for the 2 charges that they are going to put forward today but Mark is it wasn't there a risk of including the report in this like people out there saying if you make this too broad if you go back to the whole report then that's going to make it harder to sell one of the debates the Democrats have been having among themselves is whether that's a good idea or not.