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Crane's Lou the elected leader to announce an investigation into his political rival former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden now anticipation is mounting over the upcoming testimony of u.s. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sohn Lund such will appear Wednesday he's the former top inauguration donor who advised his initial closed door testimony saying he had initially pieced together the implications of the president's u.k. New strategy someone has said he can't recall some of the episodes past witnesses some recounted Iran has reportedly exceeded another limit set out of the 2015 nuclear agreement N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon says the breach was reported by the International Atomic Energy Agency the i.a.e.a. Report says Iran stockpile of heavy water used in its Eric reactor has edged past the 130 metric ton cap agreed to in the deal under the deal Iran agreed to render the reactor in operable this breach is seen as less significant than earlier violations that accelerated Iran's enrichment of uranium another nuclear fuel but Tehran has vowed to keep suspending its commitments under the deal as long as American nuclear sanctions remain in place despite the withdrawal of the us from the deal and Iran subsequent moves to abandon some of its commitments inspectors are still able to verify key aspects of Iran's nuclear program Peter Kenyon n.p.r. News Istanbul the Czech government appears to be following the lead of a number of other countries and levying a tax on big tax firms government announcing it's approved a 7 percent annual tax on giant tech companies like Google Amazon Facebook and Apple types would be imposed on the digital business revenues produced in the country by the companies could reportedly bring in more than $200000000.00 u.s. Dollars a year starting next year stocks hold on to their record gains to end the 1st trading day of the week the Dow up 31 points this is n.p.r. . Well the t.v. Star Kylie Jenner is selling a stake in her beauty business to cover girl owner Cody in a deal worth $600000000.00 go to United States buying 51 percent of Kylie cosmetics and will launch new products of its own in more countries around the world Jenner parlayed her place in the family reality show Keeping up with a car dash into a modeling career then form the company in 2015 using social media to promote the brand the products I'm told last year were sold only online but Cali cosmetics are now available at $1100.00 all to stores it's official over and lift are about to have less competition in one of their biggest markets the wide handling app Juno which operates in New York City and has struggled to gain ground it says to bigger rivals says it will discontinue service areas Rafi on has more on the troubled apps to mind as the c.e.o. Of ride sharing company get which bought the struggling Juno brand 2 years ago blame for the company's troubles on New York's new minimum wage rules which he says benefit the biggest players in the industry you know initially build itself as the driver friendly alternative to brand lift but has since faced legal challenges from drivers who accuse the company of fraud and breach of contract as he's bought Juno's 1st driver in New York and a steward with the Independent Drivers Guild says that he's sad to see drivers left with fewer options but that ultimately the company broke its promises. And abuse. Darrius Raffi on n.p.r. News Washington crude oil futures prices fell $0.67 a barrel to end the session at $57.00 o 5 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange I'm Jack Speer n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. 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News it's All Things Considered I'm Audie Cornish and I'm Ari Shapiro President Trump has made good on a pledge to army officers accused or convicted of war crimes have been fully pardoned and a 3rd has had his rank restored ex Army Captain Clint Lawrence who had been convicted of murder received one of the pardons on Friday Lawrence appeared on Fox news this morning and thanked the president for clemency I'm so happy to be an American or part of this you know amazing country and it's got such great you know impassioned leadership these pardons had been anticipated and debated by service members and veterans N.P.R.'s Quil Lawrence covers veterans and joins us now Quil tell us the details of these 3 very different cases Laurent who you just heard from was convicted of 2nd degree murder for ordering his men to shoot down civilians in Afghanistan it's a pretty clear cut case he was sent it's in 1000 years you serve 6 Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher was accused of killing civilians as well and even killing an ISIS prisoner with his hunting knife but he was acquitted of everything but posing the crime of posing for a photo with a dead insurgent and then Army Major Matt Gholston had admitted killing an alleged Taliban top bomb maker and then hiding the body and he hadn't even been court martialed yet now some conservative media outlets had been urging a pardon for these men more broadly how is it playing out in the military among veterans well that drones are not a monolith so you can get a range of opinions on this earlier this year the organization Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America actually polled their membership about the pardons because these had been talked about for quite a while now and they came with with a split 50 something percent saying that they were against pardoning these alleged war criminals and 37 to 40 percent saying that they were in favor of the pardons I called up a Marine I know who served in the same operation is Major Matt ghost in Helmand province he said he said. Port's president trumps decision you can listen to Wesley Hillis He's a 3 time Afghanistan that war well it's a darn good people and make them do things that a person that just sitting in America well being is scarier barbaric or savage but not so much when you're in theater and you're dealing with those emotions and what's been happening to you in your unit and you see you know the brutal side of it so some veteran support of these pardons but you said others are not including combat vets Army vet Matt Gallagher no relation to any Gallagher served in Iraq during the surge for he told me that the whole point for him is that American troops in the heat of battle are supposed to keep their heads and not cross these lines and in particular he spoke about the case of Lieutenant Lawrence who had been command in command very long when he ordered his troops to do this listen to him anybody who want to broad to Iraq or Afghanistan were in murky situations this isn't that though this was a murder to have a new lieutenant you know on day 3 to give that order and then to have 9 of his own platoon members testify against him that to me is very telling Di I found myself thinking a lot about the soldiers that I knew that I served with that held that line that maintained their honor under very dire circumstances I've seen some criticism today that these pardons undermine the military justice system or you're hearing that from veterans you're talking to yes some are pointing out that the presidential pardon is part of our justice system these cases are sort of hit that from different angles Lawrence was convicted he's now pardon but he was pardoned of murder and Gallagher was accused of serious war crimes and acquitted in a trial where almost everyone agrees the prosecution was pretty incompetent Gholston wasn't even tried yet that the only thing they have in common really is that they were in cold blood there was no heat of battle with any of these 3 I spoke with retired Lieutenant Colonel Gary Solis who taught law at West Point in Georgetown for many years and he said he was screaming mad about these pardons he was as concerned about moral issues as. Legal ones it puts us on a far with the enemy and we can't we can't allow that in the future those who witness war crimes are going to be less apt to report them because they've seen what happens and so this is interesting because he was a Marine lawyer a Jag but before that he was a line officer in Vietnam so he's seen combat this is not an armchair declaration for him N.P.R.'s Quil Lawrence thank you thanks Ari the stage has been set for another week of violence in Hong Kong. Protesters and police clashed over the weekend one side hurled Molotov cocktails and arrows the other responded with tear gas and water cannons. As the stakes increase in nearly 6 months of demonstrations it's become harder and harder for Hong Kong families and businesses to go about their daily routines We're joined now by N.P.R.'s Julie McCarthy in Hong Kong and Julie let's just begin with the role of universities in these protests because I understand it's essentially centered on college campuses at this point well it is you know the police started raiding campuses to make arrests and that led the more radical of the protesters to start battling with them to stop those arrests and up until very recently the universities were really regarded as off limits they were they were havens where the student life was protected the students were considered protected it was their cocoon and they would protest on the weekends and dedicate the week to sleep in studying and try to get a job and that changed as their tactics changed and now they began to make havoc on the weekdays that is new and they had more time and they used it to protest and it escalated so before before long the campuses were convulsed and that's part of what you see tell me about the tension between Hong Kong residents and the Chinese military because I understand the military has been out on the streets helping clean up to. What are the concerns about their role Well there are many Hong Kong ors were taken aback by that and they quote the basic law to you on how the Pioli the People's Liberation Army is supposed to stay in their barracks and not become entangled in the local affairs but they have come up before most recently to clean up in the aftermath of a huge typhoon so there's precedent for that but an act of God is a world away from these highly charged highly political issue gripping Hong Kong right now and people said to me well they think the Pilate may be testing the waters as in the waters for a possible crackdown by Beijing it's a very live issue here in the minds of a lot of people for months the residents of Hong Kong I'm worried about the deployment of the Chinese army to shut down these protests and memories of tenement Square are very vivid here and that's the specter that their appearance really evokes but to most people sympathize with the protesters at this point or is there starting to be a backlash wanting them to stop Well you know that's an interesting question is kind of remark a remarkable similarity today how much people are against the police you know there's not much of this rebellion if you want to call it that that's not on social media and so episodes of be police beating protestors or abusing their powers something that millions of people see and it's hardened their opinions it's hardened their faith in the police by the same token the attitudes toward the violence being perpetrated by protesters is also evolving and suddenly you're hearing it slip people are grumbling about the inconveniences to their commute but they are generally horrified at the idea of protesters fighting other citizens I think you know many people are just afraid that violence is becoming the norm and they simply don't want that Julie the backdrop to this is there is supposed to be local elections coming up is that still going to happen well they may have been. Thrown in doubt the government said the events of this weekend could reduce the chance of holding that district council election next Sunday the government says that it still wants to go ahead but it's not promising they will go ahead and so like many things right now it's part of the uncertainty that's hanging over Hong Kong That's N.P.R.'s Julie McCarthy speaking to us from Hong Kong thank you for your reporting thank you we're going way up north for our next story to a ship in the middle of the Arctic Ocean the scientists aboard are there to do field work which is easier said than done as revetted Canuck reports if you spend your days on Arctic ice one of the big challenges you could face comes in the form of a neighbor. Holding on the deck of a ship moving through the frozen landscape everyone runs to the side to see a polar bear padding along in the distance this vessel is here helping set up an experiment to study the changing Arctic it's called mosaic or the multi-disciplinary drifting observatory for the Study of Arctic climate and this isn't the last time that the Mosaic team will encounter polar bears I've never had a problem with large cuddly mammals before until they started disrupting my work David Chu works for the u.s. Department of Energy and came out here to set up some atmospheric monitoring equipment we had a mama bear and that was quite frequently come visit us polar bear guard stand watch and if a bear comes into sight they alert everyone and in some situations make noise to scare it away Truda Hola is one of those guards flagons is very efficient all of us has to have a good voice we can use that raise that try to be bigger than the barracks but they also carry guns for protection but that's only as an absolute last resort another obvious challenge to working in the Arctic is the cold temperatures in this area can get as low as negative 50 degrees Fahrenheit but working even in the single digits for hours at a time can take a toll it's not just unpleasant it can affect your thinking we could. As everybody gets it you just you're. Right. In the Arctic for decades he says you do as much prep work as you can before you go out but you can't escape having to use your brain on the ice you still have to think through some things that often takes like 3 times longer than it would be in the cozy office then there's the fact that if anything goes wrong and something always does you can just run to a hardware store the scientist pack loads of extra tools and spare parts that they can prepare for everything you cannot predict what's going to get you right it's going to be something you didn't anticipate Chris Cox is an atmospheric scientist and out in the field his team had to deal with a finicky panel that was supposed to help get power to their equipment he just found a way to rewire around it in an environment like this it's almost easier to come up with those solutions and I think the reason is that you don't have choices when I asked these researchers what got them through the challenges of an arctic workday 3 big themes emerged one prepare to don't panic and 3 Stay Positive really good advice for any job on or off the ice for n.p.r. 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And from c. 3 dot a i c 3 dot AI's software enables organizations to use artificial intelligence at enterprise scale solving previously unsolvable business problems learn more at c 3 dot a I this is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish a disaster is unfolding in Venice the centuries old city built atop small islands and laced with canals is flooded 3 record high tides coming in short order have submerged St Mark's Square and damaged churches homes and businesses N.P.R.'s Sylvia Poggioli reports now Italy is rallying to say Venice and volunteers are arriving to help come clean with a pool of water as we approach the book store. There which is appropriately named high water this eccentric bookstore is a Venice landmark because of the constant danger of floods its books have always been displayed inside bathtubs plastic bins and even full sized. But last Tuesday the books were not high enough for the worst tide in more than 50 years reaching 6 feet one inch the shop's fire escape opens onto a canal where a gondola now floats above the height of the store's pavement which is still under several inches of water older Diana has been assessing the damage and trying to salvage what she can but he was ready for that but at the end the situation I think we all. Pretty lacking because a lot of people came here and then take care of and they helped them out a lot the Italian Culture Ministry has sent experts to assess the damage in the flooded crypt of St Mark's Basilica where mosaic pavements and frescoes were submerged by salt water but in many of the cities less known cultural institutes it's volunteers who are doing the salvage work. The. Foundation is located in 800 centuries Venetian So an elegant room with no glass chandelier is now a rescue center for precious books from the foundations seriously damaged library Anna Dumas is an American Ph d. Student doing research here on 1000 then 20th century textiles today she's one of several volunteers taking books that are with salt water and we are page by page putting paper towels in between of agents to soak up the water and hopefully safer but it's working at the next table is Venetian. I'm actually a criminal lawyer I should be a war criminal but I haven't that was this place you and I came here to study for a long time I felt like I had to do but given his profession I asked Bill de about Moses' the huge engineering project of movable floodgates to hold back the tide from flooding Venice most it's still unfinished after 16 years and $5500000000.00 in public funds. Goes Public opinion that believes that incompetence foul play and or criminal activity are behind the delays now it's time for people to actually invest in the city and save what's left unfinished spots of conflict but eventually will what else is needed to say for the most beautiful city we have been is used to high water a century ago tides occurred 7 times a year but today it's closer to 100 with sea levels rising the latest word from the Moses engineers they hope the project can be completed by the end of 2021 Sylvia Poggioli n.p.r. News Venice. Who is spying on us and how we're trying to answer those questions and this month's All Tech Considered. It's well known that China screens its citizens social media accounts and personal messages people outside China say the same thing is happening to them N.P.R.'s Emily Fang reports activist. Was a student leader in the 1989 pro-democracy protests and teachings tenements where when the protests were crushed Joe went to prison and political rhetoric Asian before moving to the u.s. In 1905 today he lives in a quiet Puerto Rican New Jersey neighborhood and China's most popular social media app we chat is his main link back to China he's in constant communication with hundreds of people in China advocating for political prisoners so many groups. 100 for more than 50 but in January he noticed something strange people weren't responding to as we chat messages. Because. It was then he realized his messages were being censored so no one ever saw them trying to routinely uses we try to censor Chinese Internet users but now people outside China are also getting caught up Dutch cyber researcher Victor hay VORs thinks he knows why he's giving Internet vulnerabilities and sometimes he finds odd things shocking things like a Chinese database containing 3700000000 recheck conversations collected on the thing day some 19000000 of the messages were sent by people outside of China some messages then were censored other bits of the database made wonder exactly what was going on why are persons identified or were are you number why is this database. Why are these messages being flagged Here's how it worked Here's one anyone using the chat this insensitive phrases would have their entire conversation straight into this public security database no matter where they were in the world phrases like to. And then cheating ping if the user is in China the database automatically alerts the nearest Chinese police station 10 cent owner declined to comment and the database was completely unprotected meaning anyone online could change its contents pavers is still trying to figure out why we chat archived these specific messages who builds a Master Vane system that is open to the Internet and you can answer it without any username and password and change a horrible 3 years cyber security outfit citizen lab at the University of Toronto has tracked how we tracked users keyword algorithms to automatically identify sensitive phrases the app and sensors has Jeffrey Nakul a post-doctoral fellow at the lab. Was. Using I mean his phone number This means that even if you move to another country and switch counts phone number to the very country censorship. But Chinese tech companies like 10 said We Chat owners now have millions of international users expanding who China can surveil Sarah Cook is an analyst at nonprofit Freedom House she points out we've had is used abroad not just by Chinese tourists but also politicians in democracies communicating with Chinese constituents and distance or maybe they're communicating with somebody else who's outside of China who has reached that but they're still for the most part operating under the rules that are inside China and those rules are leaving American We Chat users confused and scared about why they were blocked although I was able to do the other people a message or post on my message and nobody can see it but I'm not there that's David a doctor who has lived in the us for almost 3 decades he doesn't want to use his full name because his family still lives in China like Joe films his we chat group messaging was blocked as well and reinstated when he says he stopped sharing political articles he self censors Now censorship affect me psychologically and all my behavior both back in New Jersey the activist Joe film saw a. Is not giving up on me he says his activist work depends too much on the app to use it I just have to though. Even if you. Can be very dangerous. N.p.r. News. For All Tech Considered comes from ultimate software dedicated to putting people 1st with solutions for a role in talent management learn more at ultimate Software dot com ultimate software people 1st and from c 3. C. 3 dot a I's software enables organizations to use artificial intelligence at enterprise scale solving previously unsolvable business problems learn more it see 3. 100. Shot and killed one of 6 teenagers who police say were trying to steal his car. Charged with felony murder if you're going to be involved in a serious crime you have to accept that. You didn't actually. Juvenile Justice groups want the laws changed on the next Morning Edition from n.p.r. News. 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News in Culver City California I'm to Wayne Brown House lawmakers are rushing to approve a short term spending measure to fund the government past a critical deadline this week a vote could come as early as tomorrow as N.P.R.'s Claudio Salis tells us the legislation needs to win congressional approval by Thursday or the government will shut down the 4 week funding measure would keep the government afloat until December 20th the proposal also provide some additional funding for the 2020 census count and a pay raise for the military if the House approves the measure will be up to the Senate to pass the plan in time the government is already operating officer a term funding measure signed into law in September lawmakers have failed to reach a deal on permanent spending for the 2020 fiscal year which began October 1 Republicans and Democrats still remain far apart on border war funding and other controversial issues clouding the Seles n.p.r. News Washington as a public impeachment inquiry enters a 2nd week President Trump is signaling he might be willing to testify in writing before the Democratic led House Intelligence Committee as N.P.R.'s ones are Johnston tells us Trump says he's strongly considering the matter to defend himself against allegations he leveraged Congressionally approved military aid to get Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son in a tweet champ reiterated that he did nothing wrong but likes the idea of testifying in order to get Congress focused again and will quote strongly consider it trumps comments on Twitter come a day after speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called on him to testify in the investigation into his dealings with Ukraine and whether he used military aid as leverage to press his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate a political rival N.P.R.'s winter Johnston stocks finish modestly higher on Wall Street as computer chip makers offset losses in other sectors including energy you're listening to n.p.r. News. With Valley Public Radio News I'm Jason Scott but 1st our county sheriff's office has identified the 4 victims killed in Sunday night's mass shooting at a family party in southeast for us now as a family now is Carrie Klein reports but the Southeast Asian community isn't mourning the 4 men killed on Sunday night are believed to be of mom descent ranging from 23 to 40 years old one lived at the home where the shooting occurred and another was a prominent local singer 6 more men are recovering blong as young Fresno's 1st model city council member and current executive director of the Asian business institute and Resource Center says the monk community is struggling to make sense of this tragedy just trying to. Find an answer here is and right now I'm not sure there has been a press conference Monday morning Fresno police chief in the hall announced the formation of an easing gang task force after reportedly seeing an uptick in gang related crime in Southeast Fresno he stopped short of calling the shooting gang related and said there is no evidence the victims were tied up in gangs obviously a tude c.e.o. Of the greater Fresno Health Organization and a congressional candidate says he hasn't seen any evidence this tragedy was related to gang violence I haven't seen an uptick myself or heard of an uptick in this type of violence I do know though however there is a stereotype of that how they control that he says he hopes his community can heal as Hmong New Year celebrations approached next month with valley Public Radio News I'm Kerry Klein local funding for f.e.m.a. The 9 provided by valley children's hospital with a level 4 neonatal i.c.u. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Audie Cornish and I'm Ari Shapiro Britain's Prince Andrew is under scrutiny over his association with the late convicted sex offender Geoffrey Epstein the prince has been dogged for years by allegations that Epstein forced a teenage girl to have sex with the royal in 2001 in an interview with the b.b.c. On Saturday Prince Andrew denied those claims it's an unusual move for royal sitting down for an interview in a time of crisis and many Britons are skeptical of the prince's explanations or even ridiculing him online for more we turn to N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt in London Hi Frank begin by telling us about that b.b.c. Interview how did it unfold Well the idea behind the interview Ari was to put these accusations to rest and it's done the opposite it's only raise more questions now lawyers for some of Epstein's alleged victims in the United States say the prince should talk to the f.b.i. About what he knows and there's even calls again does this happen before for the princes stepped down as chancellor of the University up in the north of England which that school has rejected but the bottom line Henri is instead of bearing these accusations the princes only seemed more interested in them what specifically was that he said that rile people up so much there were a number of things but I'll just give you want to example what he said is he couldn't remember ever meeting his accuser her name was at the time Virginia Robert she was 17 but the prince can't explain this picture of him with his arm around her apparently in London in 2001 now the B.B.C.'s Emily mate Liz She asked the prince on Saturday night on t.v. Or where he was the night Robert says she was forced to have sex with them and this was the prince's alibi I was at home I was with the children one taken bitches to. A Pizza Express been working for a policy at a bar for 5 mill to remember them so specifically why would you remember up a Pizza Express both because going to peace or expressing one thing is an unusual thing for me to do. It's a very unusual thing for me to do and he says something that he would remember even if he does not remember having met this 17 year old Frank for listeners who don't know London explain why going to a Pizza Express in Woking would be something the prince would remember well this is something that actually resonated with lots of people in the United Kingdom Pizza Express is a very well known sort of mid-range pizza brand and a dad taking his daughter to a Pizza Express in Woking it's a nondescript London commuter town is sort of the most middle class thing to do and what Prince Andrew seems to be saying is you know remember I'm a royal I don't do these things that's why I would remember this but a much bigger problem for him I think is that he remembers this Pizza Express but he doesn't remember being photographed with an American teenager in a private home and while this is all blowing up something else came out tell us about the other probably yeah this is now facing unrelated to this this just happened this afternoon Ari The former advisor to the Prime Minister David Cameron his name is row one Silva he wrote about an alleged incident in London's Evening Standard and what Silva said is after he saw this interview on the t.v. It reminded him of the incident now he says he met with the prince in Buckingham Palace a number of years back in the Prince was serving I think is a trade and way at the time and some of us said he asked him like how can we improve the Department of International Trade and he said the prince referred to the department as quote The n word in the woodpile but he used the real word now this of course is a racial slur referring to something hidden problems goes back I think to the days of Certainly I think of slavery in the United States Sylvia his parents are from Sri Lanka He says he regrets not confronting the prince at the time Buckingham Palace is denying this claim say that he and the prince never used this language in the meeting you know if this were an elected public official we would be talking about whether and when he would resign royals don't resign so what impact is this having on British perception of the royal family it doesn't help the image certainly I mean the image that you got on the television was a royal who to some seemed arrogant and out of touch and that's the thing that the royal family needs to fight against because there are people here. Who don't believe in the monarchy and would like them there are some people who would like blanket all their N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt in London thank you happy to do it are many of the key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump are members of what Trump has called the quote deep state the public hearings have so far featured longtime government employees State Department officials who have worked for Democratic and Republican administrations alike N.P.R.'s Brian Naylor looks at how the inquiry is putting the conflict between Trump and the civil service into focus in the public impeachment hearings last week Americans got a good look at 3 career civil servants who for the most part work behind the scenes to implement u.s. Foreign policy there was State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary George can't I have served proudly as a nonpartisan career foreign service officer for more than 27 years under 5 presidents 3 Republican and 2 Democrat the acting ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor told a similar story a West Point graduate who fought on the front lines in Vietnam and served in various government positions for more than 50 years and there was former u.s. Ambassador Marino Vonnegut who summed up her idea of public service we are professionals we are public servants who by vocation and truth pursue the policies of the president regardless of who holds out office or what party they fill you with but that idea of public service has been dismissed by President Trump who do righted the 3 witnesses as political falsely accusing them of being never Trumper his son Donald Jr tweeted that America hired Donald Trump to fire people like the 1st 3 witnesses we've seen career government bureaucrats and nothing more here's the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee Devon newness of California at the start of the hearings all conclude by noting the immense damage has politicized your. Prosy has done to Americans faith and government elements of the civil service have decided that they not the president are really in charge it's a hostile message to lying government officers and employees who deliver a good deal of what Americans want from government like Social Security checks Medicare coverage and so forth it's destructive Professor Paul Light of n.y.u. Teaches about public service he says the repeated attacks by the Trump administration are hurting the federal bureaucracy and discourage people from wanting to work for the government this rhetoric about hidden bureaucrats sleepers within agencies and conspirators undermines future interest in public service careers at the federal level it's very damaging there are some 2000000 federal government workers most of whom live and work outside of Washington d.c. And it's an aging workforce some 25 percent are over the age of $55.00 and on a path to retirement according to the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service some $1200.00 senior level public employees left government in the 1st year and a half of the trumpet ministration a 45 percent increase from their 1st 18 months of the Obama administration of course many of those people were replaced and this is not the 1st time the career civil service and in particular State Department employees have come under fire in fact says retired embassador Ronald Neumann president of the American Academy of Diplomacy things have been worse it is not a crisis period where people were hired even after being indicated and look what will keep exams for Suppose they had connections to the comments it is not the period where people were purged from the Department for suspected homosexuals. So it's not good but broadly brass Newman says the idea of a deep sigh. Wait working against the president's interests is silly Still it's an attack the president has returned to repeatedly what he believes rallies his base against the Washington swamp Brian Naylor n.p.r. News Washington. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News what happens when a law that is meant to help mentally ill defendants and putting more of them on the street Oregon Public Broadcasting's Conrad Wilson reports from Portland. Court had been in session for close to an hour before it was Mr Wilson's turn he walked into court room to at the moment no Macone Justice Center in downtown Portland a corrections officer stood directly behind her as she was greeted by Malema County Circuit Court Judge Nan wall. Are you dare to go through it all if you are a white jail jumpsuit she opened and closed her mouth that time she stuck out her tongue were not using her full name because of the sensitive nature of mental illness in the criminal justice system according to court records she was charged with misdemeanors after a physical dispute with her mom this hearing was to determine whether Nielsen understood the charges against her or if she needed mental health treatment before continuing with her case I mean this is I mean this isn't. Just for Judge Waller ruled Nielsen's mental state prevented her case from going forward a few months ago there's a good chance of finding like that would have sent Nielsen to the Oregon State Hospital to get her well enough to continue with her case but that was before Oregon lawmakers passed Senate Bill $24.00 the summer that law gave priority to defendants charged with serious crimes for those like Nielsen facing misdemeanors it's become harder to get care there if it's not the criminal justice system and we should have something developed to address the needs of people who are clearly having great difficulty Judge Waller says the new law requires misdemeanor defendants to have both a qualifying mental illness and to be found dangerous in order to go to the state hospital Michel Gaiden is a Portland based psychologist who frequently evaluates defendants mental health and jails he says finding someone dangerous is entirely subjective we felt uncomfortable with how dangerousness was defined and felt overbroad in Nielsen's case she was determined to have a mental illness but was not considered dangerous and much of Oregon there aren't services to meet those needs so Judge Waller released her to the. It's Wyler says there should be appropriate community based services releasing somebody who really needs inpatient treatment is difficult and until 24 does time changes hands Stacey reading is Nielsen's attorney she asked Judge Waller to release Nielsen because being in jail wasn't a therapeutic care and you also needed writing says the new laws exposed how little mental health care there is I'm here to offer criminals to France and they need a lot more help when I can get them and our state is not providing states across the country have struggled with how to treat people with mental illness who are in jails Oregon Health Authority director Patrick Allen acknowledges there are gaps in the system and we've been spending $30000000.00 a biennium on community based kinds of services for a while now and so these resources do exist in the community what we're talking about is adding to them and improving their effectiveness not trying to start stuff up from scratch but for those working in the community new services are what's needed lawmakers could take up changes when they meet early next year but for now that leaves people like Nielsen with little support the charges in our case have been dropped and the day after she was released from jail she was on the street outside the Justice Center in downtown Portland carrying her belongings and talking to herself for n.p.r. 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News I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish Typically when I ask a comedian about how they figured out they were funny it ends in a story about making someone laugh but actress and writer Jenny Slate said it was her father who helped his fidgety frustrated daughter understand how she fit in the world Jenny Slate told me that story earlier this month before a live audience here in Washington d.c. As much as I did not I was not a class clown they couldn't pay attention in school I think that I felt like I wasn't smart because I couldn't listen traditionally and people were mad at me for it and my dad brought in these tapes of Gilda Radner and was sort of like no no no you're just like you're like this which is great. When that tape 1st went in. Recognition or did you say no it was it was a huge honor and then it was just like how can I get there there's a sketch that. I think it's called the Judy Miller Show. 2 Girl Scout she's a Brownie and she's like jumping up and down on her bed in her room and just like playing she's playing and. This woman they gave her the whole stage these freaks. And she's exhausted and she's out of breath and it's like. And I remember seeing that thinking like oh I don't want to be a ballerina I want to be a funny. Thing like this after college slate became a funny thing like that she did stand up in New York and eventually she did land a spot on the same show as her hero Gilda Radner in 2009 but Slade barely lasted a year and became a household name when she accidentally cursed live on the show Jenny talked a lot about how she thought sexism played in the way her story was talked about but at the time she was at a loss about what to do next. I think that feeling dressed down feeling shamed feeling like you shouldn't have tried. Those are all. Pressure is that are like encouraged in an environment where there is not an openness there's not a sense that power can present in a way that represents like plurality that there is a many many different ways to access power. And different people can hold it. You have talked in the past about not being renewed. I'm actually interested in what happened after I mean if you're the little girl who whose dad brought home v.h.s. Tapes of this program and then you have this very short lived is very talked about this kind of public conversation around. What was the 1st instinct what did you do . I mean 1st it just felt really really embarrassed and terrible but it also feels a lot like what it must feel like to get. I mean hardly anyone gets kicked out of a cult because I guess they want you to stay. Like they're never like you're bad leave they're like you're bad get in the bad closet. You have to make the salad dressing for everybody but really. But I just couldn't imagine anything worse than getting fired and then I just felt like I have to keep going and no one can ever take away the dream but it's also the same as like thinking you really met your soul mate and going on like the 4th day and being like did they just say library. I actually don't think I like I can. This is just like just like get over it it's not a match what I did end up being a match took people by surprise it was a stop motion animated series my show on no that's not the 1st time and my name is Mike. And partially. So Marcel the shell with shoes on it is exactly what it sounds like a talking Sea Show with shoes and a face doing stuff my one me life is that never have a dog. Piece of lint and I did. And you know people liked it it went viral this was an unexpected place to hear your voice and to see your comedy again and I know for a lot of people is like what is this creature. How did this kind of work help you reorient yourself 1st of all it allowed me to piece weed and melancholy out once and to. Understands one of the things that is essential in my belief as a performer which is that sorrow is not the same as pessimism and that you can feel sadness and still be an optimist and not be worried that that's being rung out and also like doing Marcel for me was like you know I can still be really strong at comedy but I don't really want to compromise on sweetness I just don't think it's for wimps I actually think it's for the strong and a decade after s n l you could say she's stronger than ever Slade has done voices for animated hits like topia and Bob's Burgers she's acted in Indy films such as obvious child and after many years in comedy she just released her 1st special airing on Netflix it's called Stage fright and Jenny Slate The daughter of a poet has also published a book a collection of essays called little weird it's funny and strange and full of moments of reckoning with laws I ask her about what that mix has allowed her to do do you feel like you have found your voice so to speak do you feel like you know who you are in your comedy. You know who you are as a creative person. Yes I do feel like that I do oh yeah thank you it was an unexpected pass in a way if it is it is an unexpected path and there's like the stops are one is not like the other and writing this book you know 1st I kind of mentor write something else and then I started to write things to suit myself and I started to like to read my reading to myself and I was feeling like I want to tell the truth and the truth about me is not that I'm really volatile and I'm on stable but that like I'm really vibrant and my the color of my sorrow is just as bright as the stripes of my delight and I started to really like find words that I loved and now they won't go away. That's writer and comedian Jenny Slate East spoke to her about her new book little weird for n.p.r. Presents at the George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium. I. Am I am I I. I i i i i i i i i i You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Support for n.p.r. 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Unfolding people in Fresno now news. Live from n.p.r. News 8 in Washington I'm Jack Speer President Trump is suggesting he will testify in the Democratic led impeachment inquiry and N.P.R.'s ones or Johnson reports the president took to Twitter today they again blast the investigation which is now in the 2nd week of public hearings in a tweet Trump reiterated that he did nothing wrong but likes the idea of testifying in order to get Congress focused again and that he will quote strongly considerate comments on Twitter comment day after speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi invited him to testify the House Intelligence Committee is set to resume public hearings into Trump's dealings with Ukraine on Tuesday lawmakers are scheduled to hear testimony from 4 witnesses including Jennifer Williams a top aide to Vice President Mike Pence and Kurt Volker a former u.s. Special envoy to Ukraine both were on the July 25th phone call between Trump and the leader of Ukraine which is at the heart of the investigation Windsor Johnston n.p.r. News Washington Supreme Court Justice John Roberts is ordering an indefinite the lay of the house demand for president trumps financial records the house of represent.

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