Find out on the season finale of masterpieces Victoria Sunday night at 9 on w g b h 2 I'm Joe Mathieu anchor of. Morning Edition and this is 897. H.d. One Boston. News. Boston's local n.p.r. . Federal judge says drafting only men into the military is unconstitutional and now a commission must determine whether women should also register for the draft it is the number one charge that was given to us by Congress but where we will be on that answer is yet to be determined this is All Things Considered. With Mary Louise Kelly and Ari Shapiro I'm Barbara Howard Also ahead Chicago is the latest city to overhaul its police force under the watch of the Department of Justice a police official says that that city is ready for a change as a matter of fact. We say bring it down we're going to look at how other cities have a police reform plan Colombia to the United States talks about the crisis that's ongoing in Venezuela and we're expecting some snow over the weekend we'll have that full forecast coming up it's a for a while 1st the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lori London the Trump administration is keeping up the pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to cede power N.P.R.'s Michele Kelemen tells us the u.s. Is imposing more sanctions and revoking the visas of officials close to the embattled leader the latest sanctions target security officials who helped Nicolas Maduro block u.s. Assistance u.s. Envoy Elliott Abrams says the State Department is also revoking visas for dozens of supporters and their family members continue. It. Associates close associates of girls. Who with their families have visited the United States this is an ongoing process the u.s. Backs National Assembly president won by Doa and is urging more countries to recognize him as interim president Abrams says he's concerned about ability to return to Venezuela from his current trip through the region Michele Kelemen n.p.r. News the State Department the ride hailing service Lyft has released its financial details about the company as it prepares to begin selling its stock to the public N.P.R.'s Camille Dhamma Nasca reports as part of lift i.p.o. Some shares will be made available for purchase by drivers and lift is also offering its most prolific drivers a one time cash bonus as high as 10 $1000.00 the new documents reveal Lyft has more than $10000000.00 active writers and revenue increased 6 fold over the last 3 years the company says it sees significantly more growth and its future however lift is not making a profit in fact it's losing money year after year and the company of knowledge as it faces intense competition most notably from its larger rival Uber is also preparing to go public but it hasn't yet filed the paperwork lift just submitted Camille a domino n.p.r. 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Boston is much better than this Korea was last seen outside a club in Boston's theater district early on Sunday her body later found in Delaware in the trunk of Coleman's Car officials say Korea's body remains in Delaware where it's in the custody of that state's medical examiner meantime a Boston man charged with kidnapping a separate 23 year old woman is now facing rape charges in that case Victor Penya pleaded not guilty today to 3 counts of aggravated rape a dangerousness hearing is scheduled for March 15th and he was arrested in late January in the kidnapping of a Livia Ambrose Ambrose was last seen leaving a bar in downtown Boston she was found safe at Penn his apartment in Charlestown days later the state's top securities regulators says that he is forming a working group to engage with the financial technology sector Massachusetts secretary of state Bill Galvin says that Fin Tech working group will support businesses in the industry and solicited Vyse from them Galvin's move to create a working group on finance. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Ari Shapiro and I'm Mary Louise Kelly 2 years and nearly 2 months into Donald Trump's tenure as president this week proved once again his ability both to dominate a news cycle and to be buffeted by it the president landed just after 8 o'clock last night fresh from Vietnam and a summit that yielded no wins he stepped back into the night air of a capital city consumed by investigations riveted by testimony from a man who once promised to take a bullet for him who now calls the president a racist a con man and a cheat Here's a taste of the week the president and all of us just live through. That you are great publicity is bad but I was there just voted to reject the president from speculation about dinosaurs and it was my goal Oh I am you're under oath to correct the record would cooperate more collude with the foreign going to prison for lying to Congress and he's the star witness we have got to get back the gold and Trump pulls the plug on his son with him John not a really bad things happened. Really really bad then why are you what he tells you tells me that he did know about it and I will take him at his work with me in the studio for our Friday we can politics conversation are Susan Glasser of The New Yorker and David Brooks of The New York Times Welcome back both of you to do here don't let me start with that tape and the president being asked if he had pushed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un about the death of American college student auto warm beer Trump said he did push that Kim denied knowing about it and that he takes him at his word David I'm going to start with you because this speaks to the one on one relationship that the president prides himself on forging with other leaders a one on one relationship but is it fair to say we did not yield results this week well the warmer part is it appalling it's basically walking away for idea our ideals who we are as a country for the sake of some we all politic gambit but I have to say on the whole in the North Korea deal I I take sort of a sunny side 2 years ago we were in a very scary. With North Korea now we're in a sort of rotten place but not totally scary so if you've got a horrible regime at least we're talking to them at least the administration is pressuring the more reactionary parts of the regime versus the less reactionary there are some parts of the regime that apparently want to make some sort of deal so at least we're kicking the can down the road at least Georgia being better than war war and so I think Trump is ready to engage and frankly he was right to walk away and so I can't give him to blow marks on this I think it's better than where we were Susan Trump did seem to manage the seemingly impossible bipartisan consensus that a this summit flopped and b. That might not be about thing right that sound of relief here in the beltway was palpable and it really was pretty bipartisan I think relief that no bad deal was correct that it you know deal is better than then bad deal that being said I do think that analytically we're capable of walking into income at the same time and just because President Trump didn't make a bad deal with North Korea just because I think most people in in both parties do agree that talking even fruitlessly is better than threatening nuclear war that doesn't mean that this was an enormous embarrassment for the Trump evisceration and I think for the United States the president has reinterpreted. To mean humbling the United States before. Young dictator who by the way ordered the killing of his uncle and his half brother and to hear the president of United States speak in such terms such glowing personal indorsement terms about one of the world's worst violators of the rights of all kinds I just don't I don't see that as a win for the United States let me turn you both to Michael Cohen and the testimony that really dominated the agenda here in Washington this week Susan years from now will we remember this testimony as as a footnote or the moment that wins shifted or is neither of the above you know it's interesting I started out the morning of the Cohen testimony re reading the coverage. Of the John Dean testimony in 1983 and a couple thoughts one that testimony was in many ways is correctly remembered as the beginning of the end for Richard Nixon However it took a really long time between June of 1903 and August of 1974 when Nixon left Number 2 there was a memorable single moment associated with this. Testimony the cancer on the presidency I don't see any one particular moment associated with it however because there were so many Well sadly that's the thing it's like 5 administrations worth of scheme tools all in 17 hour period of testimony in the overall portrait portrayed of life inside Donald Trump's world by someone who spent the last 10 years at his side is so toxic it's so filled with lies and scandals and coverups David you came at the testimony this week you're you're writing in The Times about it from a moral perspective and you had some harsh words for House Republicans who were doing the questioning Yeah I mean if there's no legal cancer there's certainly a moral cancer the whole the Trump administration represents and I just would have loved to been a fly on the wall the Republican strategy meeting where they said to how to handle this meeting and they apparently decided we're going to be completely in curious about the fact that our leader our party leader our national leader could be a moral cretin and we just you know with the skin off Michael Cohn and to me that's a perfect example how moral numbing happens if you're defending the Trump administration you have to morally distance every single day and not have a moral reaction to shut down any spiritual or moral sense that you have within yourself and eventually you just get numb to everything and even North Korea Trump is morally numb about North Korea Republicans are morally know about Donald Trump and this is the way Norm shift this is the way cultures corrode Alija Cummings the congressman a Democrat who was chairing the big hearing on Wednesday is not morally Gnome whatever else you want to say about him in the minute or so we have left I just want to get reaction from both of you to a comment with which he closed at the hearing he said we have got to get back to normal we just heard a little bit of that tape at the very top David Berg. What does normal even look like $21000.00 are we ever going to get back to the moral atmosphere is something we all share whether we're red or blue or been a rural it's something we all create together and we all live in together and with every action we take we either weave that that atmosphere or we rip at it and every time you stereotype someone you're ripping at it every time you make someone feel deeply known and listen to them you're weaving it and so we all do this together and at the top of our society we have a lot of written says the last word you know Mary Louise when we lived in Russia for 4 years the beginning of the reputed presidency the aspiration of Russians was often expressed in the simplest of terms that always struck me they said to rethink Russia could finally become a new civilized normal country and I never thought that the United States we would hear this this lament you know we were almost the definition of normalcy and yet I'll tell you every single week in my New Yorker column there's someone who I'm tempted to quote saying this is not normal this is not normal words to close the week from The New Yorker Susan Glasser and the New York Times David Brooks thanks to both of you thanks. Even though the u.s. Hasn't had a military draft since 1973 all men whether citizens or u.s. Residents are required to register with the Selective Service once they turn 18 late last week a federal judge declared that exempting women from that requirement violates the Constitution's equal protection principles this does not yet mean women will have to register N.P.R.'s David Welner reports on what happens next in his ruling u.s. District Court Judge Gray Miller did not tell the Selective Service System to stop requiring all 18 year old men to register the Houston based judge simply rejected the arguments that agency had made for limiting that requirement to men there really is no more excuse to only require men to register That's Mark Angelou He's the lawyer who sued the selective service on behalf of the National Coalition for men a group that advocates for what it calls men's rights he also serves as its board's vice president and she says since women are now allowed to serve anywhere in the military including combat positions there's no longer a plausible argument for exempting them from the obligation to sign up for a possible draft we take no position on whether there's sort of Shouldn't be a draft or even on whether or not women should be in combat our concern is that if there is a requirement to register and women are allowed in combat then woman should share the same responsibilities as men because we equal rights comes equal responsibility Angeles he says he may now seek a court injunction to halt the male only draft registration the Selective Service has yet to file an appeal in this case in the meantime says Selective Service legislative liaison Jacob Daniels it's business as usual things continue your selective service they have in the past which is men between the ages of 18 and $25.00 are required to read source Selective Service at this time tell we receive guidance from the court or from Congress women are not required to register for Selective Service the Selective Service unsuccessfully argued that the court should post. Poni decision until after a national commission on military national and public service set up by Congress issues its final report a year from now former Republican congressman Joe hack who chairs that commission says that report will recommend whether women should register for the draft it is a critically important question that we will answer it is the number one charge that was given to us by Congress but where we will be on that answer is yet to be determined in a statement heck says the judge having found mail only draft registration unconstitutional means that quote Change is inevitable and the status quo is untenable still whatever hex Commission does recommend to Congress it won't be binding 30 years ago Congress did take up legislation requiring women to register for the draft but it ran into a buzz saw of opposition from lawmakers such as Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz and is a radical change that is attempting to be foisted on the American people not all Republicans see it that way Sen Tom tell us of North Carolina like Cruz serves on the Armed Services Committee if we're going to continue to make progress and not have any differentiation between men and women in the workforce I gets an issue that we should look at another armed services member Illinois Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth lost both legs when the Black Hawk helicopter she was flying got shot down in Iraq as long as all of the positions are open to women then yes I think that both young men and women in this nation should be given equal opportunity to serve and that that means saving registers the issue could end up before the Supreme Court unless Congress acts 1st David Wolman n.p.r. 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News I'm Ari Shapiro and I'm Mary Louise Kelly today Chicago officially began its journey of overhauling its police department under the watch of a federal judge and an independent monitor the massive plan comes after years of complaints about police brutality from residents of mostly black and Latino neighborhoods for many the video of a police officer fatally shooting a black teenager in 2014 was the last straw now Chicago joins more than a dozen other cities where consent decrees are forcing police departments to change N.P.R.'s Cheryl Corley reports it was just 2 years ago that the Department of Justice issued a blistering report calling the Chicago Police Department's use of force excessive and racially discriminatory soon afterward Chicago police issued a new use of force policy info sizing the sanctity of life and started holding training sessions. At the police training academy officers looked at videos of real use of force encounters and talked about what could have been better now under a consent decree there are many more changes in store for example the department must create a monthly report about the use of force incidents it bans police from using tasers on people who are simply running away the agreement also expands mental health services for police including an initiative for suicide prevention a big concern recently at the Johnson issue Congress police superintendent we've known about this consent decree for the last 2 years so we're prepared mentally to have to deal with it as a matter of fact the consent decree will make us better we say bring it all and listen down to business there are 14 other law enforcement agencies in the country getting down to business the police department and Ferguson Missouri is one of them a fatal police shooting there sparked nationwide protest and help spur the black lives matter movement activists Felicia Pulliam says progress under the consent decree is mixed you know I would have to say that I've seen. Some incidents of proof that there is a lot of resistance to a new practice of policing a new way of policing the community from some police officers Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan says it's a different story there after 6 and a half years of operating under a consent decree a federal judge said in January Seattle's police department was in compliance we still have a disproportionate amount of force being used against people of color that we think we need to look at more carefully but there has been a sea and cultural change well it was very frustrating from the beginning and Richard O'Neal was Seattle's police union is still critical the incentive to get out and be a proactive officer I think has been damaged and something the city cannot deny anymore is that we have had a real hit in recruiting retaining officers that's a problem nationwide even in departments without decrees Chicago officials and community activists say they study the consent decrees in other cities Sheila Betty is an attorney with the MacArthur Justice Center she represented activist and community groups in a successful fight to allow them to have a direct say and overseeing the court ordered reforms she says that's uniquely different from other consent decrees there are very specific ways that police in Chicago abuse their power and it was critical that this consent decree could not just be imported from Seattle for example that they really address that that particular harm that Chicago communities face the federal judge overseeing Chicago's police reform plan says it's an important step in the city's ongoing effort to repair the damaged relationship between police and resident He says it's no magic wand but it is a beginning Cheryl Corley n.p.r. News Chicago. In 2005 Tyler Perry debuted a character whose movies have gone on to make more than $500000000.00 Medea how you do are not just Maybelline is good to see all your hands pretty thick look at Chile looking at how you began us feel that this is a map see what happened well save it that's a clip from Diary of a Mad Black Woman the 1st of 11 Medea movies the 11th drops this weekend and Tyler Perry who plays Medea and drag says this will be the last one in the franchise it's called the Medea family funeral to say goodbye and talk about why this character has become such a phenomenon Lisa France joins us now she's a senior entertainment writer for c.n.n. Digital Hi there hammering house like own good so I was just browsing Rotten Tomatoes and Diary of a Mad Black Woman has a 16 percent rating the most recent media film. Has a 5 percent rating but the franchise has been a huge financial success how do you explain all of that because people love to hate Medea movies it's kind of like a black family reunion like you know someone's going to embarrass you but you also know you're going to have a great time so I think it's one of those things where people just don't want to admit how much they enjoy Medea films and even if they really don't like them they still like to hate watch them they make a lot of money you don't want to be left out of the conversation when somebody is talking about the latest media film what is it about the character that inspires both the love and the hate Well you know Spike Lee has gone on record as saying that the films are kind of like. As he said and he feels like it's very stereotypical to have this angry black woman but for many people it also reminds you of your grandma or your auntie you know those people who say whatever they use their age today or managed to be able to you know her she wowed or let you have it and it's just a very divisive character because on some levels it's very historical but on others it feels very stereotypical. These films all have certain themes in common there's often kind of a family narrative sometimes a moralistic or a Christian streak sometimes Medea does kind of almost like public service announcements this clip is from Medea's family reunion when you get tad of Maine. And nothing you can do but cook breakfast phone rang him into the kitchen and get you a big ole pot of hot greens and one is thought to blah blah blah blah after he even got good constable you say good morning to throw it right on it. I mean that right there you have the dichotomy that is Medea own one hand incredibly loving looking out for someone who's being on Buz But on the other hand also violent. Abuse is a frequent topic and a lot of these movies which seems like a heavy subject slapstick humor What do you think is the value of returning to it again and again in film after film I think because it's one way for us to have the discussion and in a way try to keep it light you know people want to see the reality of life and African-American life and what happens in families but they also want some levity to it so I think by using humor Tyler Perry has been able to open people's eyes and allow people to have the conversation which would otherwise be extremely uncomfortable to have our own we're talking about this because Tyler Perry says this weekend's movie about the a family funeral be the last one in a franchise do you believe him I don't. Know if the reason is while he says that he's tired old portraying moody and he has a new deal with a new studio he's using that as an opportunity to kind of leave behind these movies makes so much money and I just feel like it's going to be a Michael Jordan situation Michael Jordan said that he was going to retire and that was it and then Michael Jordan turned right around and came back so I think there's going to be a sense that is some point Medea's going to have to come back Ok as I just want to be clear here seems like you're saying Tyler Perry asthma deal is the Michael Jordan a film do I understand you correctly here. Are you going to quote me on that I realize that you're on the record with that I think we got that on tape America's going to hear you saying that I think I'm going to go ahead and stand by that because when he comes back to play again you'll say Lisa France that it Lisa France senior entertainment writer with c.n.n. Digital Thanks a lot thank you so much Ari. This is n.p.r. News and this is 897 w g b h i. Barbara Howard and coming up on All Things Considered more than anything Democrat primary voters say that they want a candidate who can beat President Trump but so far no consensus on what that candidate might look like well consider that ahead on all things considered this was done under the radar with Cali Crosley 1st so white still relevant how this year's awards did and didn't break the mold leaving Neverland a new documentary revived questions about Michael Jackson as a child predator and is the $21000.00 American Girl dolls girl of the year a throwback to an old fashioned image it's our pop culture roundtable that's under the radar with me Alec Crossley Sunday night at 6897 talking to the gate and the w. G.b.h. App support for w g b h comes from you and Lexus introducing the 1st Lexus us available in hybrid all wheel drive across over inspired by architecture shaped by street corners now at your local Lexus dealer. Still ahead on d.v.d. V.h.s. All things considered the man wanted in connection with the death of Jesse Correll will be brought back to knowing when to face charges in a mass she says Congress will in making a new push on legislation requiring presidents to reveal conflicts of interest when it comes to their finances We'll have details ahead but 1st this news update. Live from n.p.r. News in Culver City California and to Wayne Brown the governor of Washington state is joining a growing list of Democrats running for president in 2020 Jay Inslee also becomes the 1st governor seeking to replace President Trump as Austin Jenkins of the Northwest News Network tells us he wants to make climate change the focus of his campaign Insley held his campaign kickoff in the warehouse of a solar installation company so I am announcing today that I'm a candidate to become the next president of United. 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State Department says there are no plans to intervene militarily we continue to say and we always will that all options are on the table because they always are but I think anyone who actually looks at American policy in Venezuela would not reach that conclusion the u.s. Is backing Venezuela's interim president won quite doe but the security services have remained loyal to President Maduro. Stocks rebounded finishing higher on Wall Street this is n.p.r. From the radio newsroom in Boston I'm Barbara Howard over the island man tied to the death of a Dorchester woman has waived extradition Louis Coleman the 3rd will be returned to Rhode Island from Delaware to face charges in connection with the death of Jessie Correia or a a was allegedly kidnapped this past weekend she was found dead yesterday Boston Mayor Marty Walsh met with her family today just a real sad situation here in the city it's so investigation the whole circumstance break you know it's so sad when you see a young young mother the whole life in front of or. Lose or life this way it was last seen alive outside a club in Boston's theater district early Sunday morning her body was later found in Coleman's trunk of his car in Delaware she was 23 years old as police continue to investigate that Correia case radios Tina Martin tells us that one nonprofit is encouraging women to take self-defense classes Meg stone with impact Boston a nonprofit that teaches self-defense says both men and women can benefit from classes and there are ways to fight back what we know from the research is that the most effective ways to resist violence are huge is equally or robbery forceful that means yelling breaking making a lot of noise she's careful to say women should never feel at fault if they are assaulted Meanwhile on social media many women are posting about staying in groups when they go out to clubs and parties Tina Martin w g b h Boston local n.p.r. Message she says Congresswoman Katherine Clarke reintroducing a bill that would mandate presidents reveal any financial conflicts of interest Clarke's bill would also force presidents to divest of those interests the congresswoman is making the case that the legislation is necessary given concerns about President Trump's financial ties Senator Elizabeth Warren has filed similar legislation. Former Massachusetts Congressman Congress men Michael Capuano has landed a new job Happy want to join the law firm of Foley in Lardner as a public affairs director he'll split is time between the firm's offices in Boston and Washington d.c. 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This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Mary Louise Kelly and I'm Ari Shapiro Colombia and Venezuela share more than a 1000 miles of border and more than a 1000000 Venezuelans have recently poured across that border so Venezuela's economic and political chaos are sending shock waves across Colombia Francisco Santos is Colombia's ambassador to the United States and he joins us now in the studio to discuss the next steps in Venezuela Welcome everybody to pleasure being here just to remind listeners 2 men claim to leave Venezuela Nicolas Maduro is holding on to power he has the support of Russia and China among other countries and many Western countries including the u.s. And Colombia support opposition leader want have been calling from Edward to step down and he refuses so how do you see the stalemate ending let me add something it's not equal Don't be a you have 600000 finished I don't think you have 2 150000 Venezuelans seen Ecuador you had a 180000 in Chile and you have around 100000 in Argentina so the population is poor how difficult it's a continental crisis it's something that the Western Hemisphere has not had in its history so it's a very very big challenge that can destabilize the whole continent and how do you reverse this I think. Obviously must step down obviously what we need a free and fair democratic vote in Venezuela which is something that was taken away from the Venice one and many many years ago so we're working all of the countries to get important members of the military back why dull and and I think that's the tipping point the u.s. Vice president Mike Pence was in your country Colombia this week where he insisted that all options remain on the table that includes military options as Ambassador what have you told the u.s. About that possibility but we have never discussed anything related to to me Terry action at all you haven't even warned no no no no we haven't discussed that we work very clearly in terms of diplomatic pressure economic pressure the economic sanctions are only starting to hurt there probably the 2 or 3 more weeks of cash that they have and then they're literally going to run out of cash so that you think you expect this to end in 2 or 3 weeks no no no I did that. The crisis will be will deepen and that the even the most staunch supporters off model will start looking the other way and we hope that that this will end well but it can go bad very quickly for the 1st time I heard in the border people saying we want weapons. They can get weapon who at the border is asking for weapons when you mean they're the young kids who are throwing rocks at the other side trying to get kids on the Columbia side throwing rocks at the Venezuelan military when kids Venice saying in saying listen we're going to let them kill us without their being able to protect ourselves that's the 1st time I've heard that and I was worried sick because it's very easy to get weapons we don't want to follow that path that path is a civil war and a civil war would be a disaster for the u.s. For Canada for all to come to majority claims that this is a u.s. Backed coup effort that was quite oh is a puppet of the Americans does the trumpet ministration risk playing into that narrative with its actions Well I think he wants that to be the discourse but if you look almost all of the countries in Latin America are for a minute to exit this group that he might be not half the u.s. The group of dilema is an association of Latin American country yes it came out with a statement saying it's time for majority leader Exactly and the u.s. Wasn't there it's not present this is something that Colombia has let you have Argentina you have Brazil you have cheated you have been a model start Reka So this is something that the continent has led and has led diplomatically and look for the 1st time in that in American history Latino American countries are sanctioning another country from Latin America without the u.s. Being involved that shows a maturity from the Latin American diplomacy that we didn't have 5101520 years ago the humanitarian crisis is one of the worst in Latin American history and more Venezuelans have gone to Colombia than any other country does Colombia have what it needs to deal with the need there know we are doing our best effort but I'll give you more than 180000 at 105-0000 nice you of innocence in the last year $180000.00 that General 2nd as well as in the i.c.u. In Colombia and Colombia because of month attrition kits come and women pregnant ready to lift a baby because of the nourishment we have. Chicken Pox we have seen polio sickness is that in Colombia where eradicated decades ago are back so our health system is very stressed our classrooms are up to the limit if we get one more 1000000 that can happen very quickly they will start affecting employment in Colombia for Colombia and then you can have sent and you have something like that and that's a flame that light it and you don't know how to put it down so yes we're worried the u.s. Is helping definitely very much so we need more help to treat this huge migration crisis I'm Besser sometimes Thank you so much thank you Francisco Santos is Colombia's ambassador to the United States and elsewhere on the show we hear from Elliot Abrams the u.s. Special envoy for Venezuela. This is 8970 g.b.h. I'm Barbara Howard Well it's been a heck of a week for the m.b. T.s.a. Officials who recently announced a plan to increase fares by more than 6 percent have been roundly derided at public meetings by customers riders have said for the most part they understand why a hike is needed but they don't think it's fair that they should have to pay more for service it has not gotten better from our transportation desk radios Bobsy reports as the m.b.t. Has been hosting meetings around the region there's been a common complaint about the proposed 6.3 percent fare hike I think a lot of people are feeling that they're paying more getting less have paid fare increases in the past not willing to pay right just don't feel like we're getting our money's worth when we do it Mary Kate Fenian our guardian aren't wrong when they say it's unlikely that fare increases would lead to better service u.c.l.a. Transportation researcher Brian Taylor says that almost never happens so it's not raising prices to provide better services that almost never happens the thing that motivates the fare increases usually an infant in financial crisis that financial crisis for the t.v. Is balancing its budget the 6.3 percent fare increases that will kick in July 1st would bring in. More than $32000000.00 tax fiscal year it would alleviate pressure on the operating budget deficit and give the tea an opportunity to spend more on capital improvements like new cars and power systems things that really do improve service but at a hearing this week in Boston Egan Mullard of Weymouth wasn't buying it I realize that he needs a lot of money to be brought back to life after must have lacked but a fare increase would place the burden of undoing that neglect squarely on the backs of the people who have suffered most because of it we should reward people who choose a stable modes of transit instead of the cheese budget is just over $2000000000.00 a year fares account for only a 3rd of that the road has been made up since 2000 by a portion of the state sales tax the argument is even if you don't use the t.v. The state as a whole benefits for mass transit economically and environmentally but some argue the state needs to pick up more of the tab there are already discounts for seniors and students and advocacy groups are pushing to get discounted fares for lower income riders and then there's Boston City Councilor Michelle boo who's crusading to make the t.v. Free we need to do everything we can to get more people on this matters in this to make a difference and if we're aiming for that then we don't get stuck saying is a 6 percent hike 9 percent hike it's my commute to get closer who's for POWs who may be an attractive gold but neither she nor anyone else has come up with a viable way to replace that fare revenue except more taxes lot of popular option with lawmakers and moves right about increased fares decreasing ridership at least initially U.C.L.A.'s Brian Taylor says improving service can lower those rotters back to more sensitive to changes in service quality than they are the price of the service people want frequent service they want it to be reliable Taylor says his research shows that ridership will grow if the quality of services had probed more than it would have fares or lowered or eliminated there is another issue of fairness when it comes to fares not everyone. Who uses the t.v. Pays as many passengers have observed and people who have no other choice for transportation are often those with the lowest income and the most affected by even small increases to officials say they will address both those inequities when their new automated fare collection system comes online in the next 2 years Bob c w g b h Boston's local n.p.r. The story was edited by Aaron Schachter This is w. G.b.h. Is All Things Considered and and and. And and and and and. When it comes to their 2020 presidential nominee there is one thing Democratic voters seem to agree on more than anything they tell pollsters campaigns reporters they want a candidate who can beat President Trump N.P.R.'s as well how it has been asking Democratic voters to explain what they mean by that whether it's Iowa New Hampshire or South Carolina Democrats are all seeing some iteration of this I want to with. Their own simple That's Douglas Lake He's the majority leader in the New Hampshire state house Lee says it's still really early and he wants to hear from all the candidates 1st and you know quite frankly if the if the ball's down to let's say 2 or 3 candidates that I'm happy with but one is perceived by me to be more electable than the others I'll go with electability and that word electability is also something I hear thrown around a lot so I ask him what exactly it means for me is in speaking to working people speaking to good you know middle class people who are getting shot only thinks his party needs to do a better job of appealing to the working class he's not sure if that means a progressive or centrist frankly he says voters just want solutions and he's not alone here at the big annual New Hampshire Democratic Party dinner Christmas is chair of the Democratic Party in him to a small town on the New Hampshire seacoast I grew up in Michigan I mean I think one of the things that the Democrats have. To do is reconnect with that you know the industrial heart his wife Melanie says candidates geography might help and it's a thing Amy Chua's share may have a chance because she's still in it was she in a field to the middle of the country where I was Melanie months says she's already seen 3 or 4 candidates in person and a lot of them have similar policies because there are so many similarities at that point it just sort of be was a good feeling to find someone electable that word is something Jamie Harrison says he also hears a lot in South Carolina people say missing fingers to get nice for things to different people here's in is an official with the d.n.c. Even South Carolina he says Democrats he talks to are searching for a candidate who will pay attention to the base of the party so one who will go in American communities still me sources to talk to them and mobilize them and get them involved and get each who will not take the black culture agree whether that's a progressive or a moderate is up for debate I'm researching for charity which are doing a centrist message let's Keith wearing a city councilor in Charleston He says if he could choose the ticket he'd go with former Vice President Joe Biden as President in California senator Kamel Harris as vice president Waring says Biden has experience and here is could reenergize parts of the Obama coalition I think Camara have to do to bring all of the Southern states with. The North Carolina diligent here and partially even Georgia are probably going to appeal in Florida wearing says the biggest change this time around regardless of which candidate he chooses is that he's excited with his options way more excited than 2016 after all of the last time of our settling. Because she was Candidate her mom even if wearing is not 100 percent sure who held votes Lord he's a. Excited about a number of potential Democratic contenders this time and in the end that kind of enthusiasm can churn out and high turnout is precisely what a Democrat needs to defeat. N.p.r. News. Considered from n.p.r. News. I'm Karen Miller our stuff isn't just being China anymore it's being invented there too what that means for America next time on innovation hub Saturday at noon on. The. 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News I'm Mary Louise Kelly and I'm Ari Shapiro the late pop star Michael Jackson is the focus of H.B.O.'s new documentary leaving Neverland It includes graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse and for that reason the conversation are about to have may not be appropriate for some listeners the 4 hour long film centers on interviews with 2 men and their families James safe Chuck and Wade Robson both say that Jackson sexually abused them for years beginning when they were children Jackson always denied similar accusations and in 2005 he was acquitted after a trial on The Last Station charges here James safe Chuck describes a kind of code he and Jackson had when they were out in public together myself or Michael would scratch each other here on the palms of your holding your hand and that meant. Mike you are thinking of them sexually for many years Jackson posed as this innocent lover of children and we wanted to make it absolutely clear that what happened was sexual activity without any doubt whatsoever That's filmmaker Dan Reed he worked on this film for 3 years and when we spoke I asked him if he ever doubted the stories that safe tracking Robson were telling him I approached their stories with a good deal of skepticism I mean this is a story that attracts a lot of controversy and. You know the go to tactics from the estate in the Jackson family has always been one of these people are lying for money and so with that re my years I certainly took her a good while before I let myself really begin to embrace and believe what would engender telling me the Jackson family is not in your film but they have been speaking about it or they said they haven't watched it Marlon Jackson Michael Jackson's brother was on c.b.s. This morning and here's something that he said about you so he took what they were saying to face it I guess is to be true but I think it's just it is but which is nothing wrong with that but you know is there 5 Dan Reed How do you respond to that well my answer is simple is that I did verify you know I did a huge amount of work on my team did a huge amount of work digging into the 993 and the 20032005 criminal litigations against Jackson by the l.a.p.d. By the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department splits investigators would have the documents we found nothing that contradicted and we found the corroborated Wayne gentle story specifically we're talking about something that the Jackson family has already accepted I believe which is that Michael spent many many nights in the company of little boys they had little boys in the bed all the time I don't think the family denying that now what we're looking at is what happened once the bedroom door closed just to be specific you refer to little boys Wade Robson says he was 7 years old when the abuse started and James safe Tuck says he was 10 years old yes so I mean 7 is very little indeed is meant to be in a sexual relationship Michael Jackson was the biggest celebrity on earth and at one point. James safe Chuck talks about the extraordinary peel of this man who had been on his t.v. Screen virtually since he was born he's the biggest entertainer and he's a creative genius and that creative genius thinks that you're special. What's not to like. How does the nature of fame and celebrity factor into what happened here I get asked this a lot and it's an interesting question for these times isn't blind devotion I think for many years Michael was so famous and so dazzling such a star in the firmament that it was almost impossible to think anything bad about him and you know I think people completely lost their ability to think critically and that goes for James and Wade's mothers too they were dazzled They were star struck and you know they let their little boys sleep in Jackson's Bad night after night didn't think twice about that so this film is coming out 10 years after Michael Jackson's death post me to post surviving our Calley do you think there is something about this moment that makes the from possible that might not have been possible 2 or 5 or 10 years ago now we could've made this film when Jackson was alive I believe the testimony in it is that strong it would have stood up in court to me to movement erupted while we were in production and it did play a part actually in Wade's mother's decision to take part in the film she felt like you know the time has come so I think we're blessed with a kind of a gathering momentum behind the idea that we should listen to the people who say they've been sexually abused whether they're women or children or men and I think this film expands the me too notion into the area of male rape and the rape of children and it's amazing to be part of that and to feel part of that but I do think we could've made this film earlier I think it's it has a powerful validity that transcends this moment friends are asking me whether they should watch this film and I'm honestly torn as to what to say because however important and well made it may be it is explicit and painful and can be really difficult to watch so why do you think people should choose to spend their time with a story. I think this is a really important story to get out there because as well as being Wayne James a story it's also the story of grooming how grooming pedophile tore 2 families apart it happened to be Michael Jackson it could have been the uncle or the guy down the street or any trusted family member and it's about that terrible abuse of trust and it's about the dynamic of grooming pedophilia where you know there's this deep connection and this deep attachment forms between the abuser and the child and that's something a lot of parents don't understand some of the a lot of people out there don't understand that's why everyone is like yelling at Wade saying wait a minute you know used to the witness stand you defended Michael Jackson in 2005 and now you're saying completely different thing and why should we believe you when you know way stood up there and he wanted to defend his close friend and the man who had been his lover for many years and then many years later when he had a son of his own he realized that the whole relationship had been abusive one so you know I want people to be able to watch this film and understand child sexual abuse a little bit better I think that's important for parents and it's also important for people who've been victims and might see waves and James's courage and might be able to break their own silence you know and that's the horrible thing is that children are sucked into this contract of silence through shame through fear through love and they don't dare to break it off until many many years later I think you know the average age of disclosure is something like you know late forty's or early fifty's when James you know head of the gang and that the way the word love dovetails with this abuse is so complicated because at many points throughout the film the Central Figures Wade Robson and James safe Chuck describe love for Michael Jackson and out loud seems reciprocal You know it's very clear that they are being abused how does that work itself out how do you reconcile that well that's the contradiction at the heart of this film and it's the the complexity that drew me into wanting to really tell this story which is that in an abusive relationship there is both love affection mentor. Friendship caring and there is sexual abuse and those 2 things Koenig's ist and that's really difficult for all of us to wrap our heads around in or in but we have to understand it otherwise will never understand child sex abuse will never be able to keep children safe which is the most important thing that I think people could get from this film. Dan Reed thank you for speaking with us today and most welcome leaving Neverland airs on h.b.o. This Sunday and Monday and we should note that the estate of Michael Jackson has filed a lawsuit against h.b.o. For breaching a contract clause which included language that the network would not disparage Jackson at any future point. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. 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