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Health dot org That's our Health dot org. Mourning today. I'm Lori Mack thanks for joining us this morning it's 7 minutes past 7 o'clock. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Noel King and I'm Rachel Martin good morning for weeks we've been hearing of crowded and rundown conditions at migrant detention centers along the southern border lawyers and lawmakers have toured some of those centers Here's what Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro told n.p.r. Recently about what he saw there was a group of women. And some of them said they had they were showered in about 15 days one of them said that she had epilepsy and had received her medication some of them said they'd been separated from their kids and they didn't know where their kids were the Department of Homeland Security's own internal watchdog released a report this week calling the situation a quote ticking time bomb on this program yesterday Brandon Judd the president of the National Border Patrol Council didn't deny the problem of oldies going out of 10 are absolutely overcrowded so the problem is clear why isn't the solution Doris Meissner is the former commissioner of the u.s. Immigration and Naturalization Service is now known as u.s. Citizenship and Immigration Services she is now at the Migration Policy Institute thanks so much for being with us again thank you so Democratic lawmakers and advocates for migrants immigrants say that the situation unequivocally is horrific the Border Patrol agrees so what's the problem here where's the disconnect and what's the way out. Well there are a whole set of problems and disconnects the primary or the disconnect right at the moment is that these young people and also the families are to be turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Health and Human Services does not have enough facilities and isn't able to place people quickly enough but the problem also is that the administration has intended to keep people in custody who are adults as a deterrent and that clogs up the facilities basically the larger problem when you step back just slightly is that Border Patrol facilities which are the ones that are primarily the ones being reported on were never set up for this kind of a population the whole experience at the southwest border for Border Patrol in force meant has for decades more than 40 years been one of Mexican young Mexican males coming to the country trying to avoid the Border Patrol in order to work in the United States and that population that flow began to change more than 5 years ago to more and more Central Americans more and more families to the point that for the last several years Central Americans have far outnumbered young Mexican males those Central Americans are coming for protection they're looking for asylum and they want to be found by the Border Patrol so that they can file an application when they are found they are placed in Border Patrol facilities which are just like police stations they are set up for overnight turnaround of people that traditionally have been able to be returned to Mexico but under these circumstances it's an entirely different process an entirely different population and the government agencies involved and responsible have not adjusted their. Procedures and more importantly in the case of these humanitarian conditions there are facilities to respond to the change in the popular let me let me ask you about that because we spoke with the head of the National Border Patrol Council president on this program yesterday and he said basically it's not their fault the issue has been about funding let's listen we only have a finite amount of money that Congress appropriates to us for these facilities I mean when you look at this issue this fall correctly on Congress's while Iris That is the body that determines the facilities that we have I mean do you agree Well certainly Congress is the body that appropriates the money but at the same time the executive branch has the responsibility for making requests and outlining its issues to the Congress but Congress has not always been responsive because there's been in the case of these. New flows because there's been a real dispute between unions duration in the Congress about. Asylum and asylum processing but at the same time this is not just an issue that has appeared in the last 2 or 3 months this is an issue that's been developing for years Central Americans have outnumbered and been the largest population for at least 3 or 4 years and the procedures of the border and the requests that are made for resources have not adjusted in response to that so present time did sign a 4.6 $1000000000.00 aid package this week that's supposed to go toward migrant care but I want to get into that issue of asylum because this is really at the at the core of this debate President Trump and others have suggested that America can't be everyone's solution to every problem I mean in particular when you're thinking about asylum or the issue of domestic violence if a woman is abused in her home in El Salvador should she and all those like her be granted asylum in the u.s. What do you say to that. They would not all be granted asylum in the u.s. And it's absolutely true that asylum is not the answer for this is a pervasive problems that exist in Central American countries at the same time many people who are coming have connections in the United States and they have a right to apply for asylum and the asylum system is not at the present time set up to make decisions in a timely manner in order to respond to those requests that needs to change. Doris Meissner former head of the u.s. Immigration and Naturalization Service says thanks for your time thank you Boris Johnson is the favorite to become the United Kingdom's next prime minister if Johnson wins a leadership contest later this month he will inherit Bracks it that's the issue that ended the careers of the 2 previous prime ministers N.P.R.'s London correspondent Frank Langfitt has this profile of Britain's most colorful and confounding politician and there are many Boris Johnson's there's the public booster who slyly plays the book as he did as mayor of London writing backwards on waving a pair of Union Jacks to promote the 2012 London Olympics only to be stranded 15 feet off the ground harness chafing against his growing. Fears Johnson the philanderer who has gone through 2 marriages now 55 the former u.k. Foreign secretary recently had a round with his 31 year old girlfriend the resulted in a visit from police on the front page of every major newspaper reports of a domestic between Boris and his partner but there's also Johnson the feel good politician who can inspire as he did at the Conservative party's convention last year if I have a function here today it is to try with humility to put some into the collective. To stop what seems. To me to be a ridiculous c.p.o. Way of also belief and 3 invites you to feel a realistic and justified confidence in what we can do this month the Conservative Party members will vote for a new leader to replace Prime Minister to resume a new stepping down Johnson faces the current foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt the acknowledged underdog Nicolas Allen teaches politics at Royal Holloway University of London he says like President Trump Johnson has a special connection with grassroots party members chops make him such a favorite lots of people just all by his charisma they know that he's problematic they know that he's a flawed character and they do not care if anything they love him more for it Johnson has promised to take the United Kingdom out of the you do or die that pledge resonates with many disillusioned Breck's of voters who are angry that 3 years on the u.k. Still hasn't left voters like John May's who drives a taxi in London but often is the only person who's going to get out of Europe. He commits of it if he doesn't achieve it in the 1st of October and many have dealt with Johnson find him charming Richard Radcliff an accountant met Johnson several times when Johnson served as foreign secretary he doesn't spy people genuinely He was quite kind personally Rachleff was seeking Johnson's help to free his wife Gauri Ratcliffe She's a British Raney and dual national who's been jailed in Iran on spying charges which she denies but Johnson was not known as a detail guy made the situation worse when he told a parliamentary committee she'd been teaching journalism in Iran which her husband says is false arraigning state t.v. Seized on Johnson statement as evidence of our Radcliffe was indeed a spy Johnson later apologized again Richard Radcliffe do I mind him winning things I think there are consequences for it you know one of the things they'll say with forms actress is that I think that dangerous. He wasn't Radcliff is reluctant to be too critical of Johnson whose office did not respond to requests to speak with n.p.r. Others who know Johnson better or less reticent I'm actually quite frightened about him coming prime minister he has a very very long track record of lying This is so new personnel author of Just bars a tale of Blonde Ambition Pernelle worked with Johnson when they were both journalist with London's Daily Telegraph based in Brussels in the 1990 s. That was after The Times of London had fired Johnson for making up a quote from his own godfather and before Johnson became a politician and the Conservative Party sacked him from leadership for lying about an affair in fact Pernelle down to the Johnson despite all he says ever really believed in bricks when I worked in the 1990 s. He was writing it's going to. Pay in Union but in private as you know over a coffee or something he would talk about the affectionately sympathetically and I think deep down he's a remaining days before going public in favor of Breck's it in 2016 Johnson wrote a secret opinion piece supporting staying in the European Union career comes 1st or way and then he could see that we had to remain prime minister we had David Cameron there was a new mark of. A leave prime minister now says personnel Johnson could face the hugely difficult task of executing a policy that he may never have really believed in in the 1st place Frank Langfitt n.p.r. News London. And later today on All Things Considered Iran is being accused of getting around export sanctions on its oil by turning off the satellite tracking devices on its tanker it's to listen ask your smart speaker to play n.p.r. Or just ask your local member station right now. This is n.p.r. News. 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Anderson Cancer Center where physicians treat all types of cancers with a team of nearly 21000 all devoted to ending cancer and providing hope to patients more it making cancer history dot com. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Noel King good morning life is getting harder and harder in the Gaza Strip public services are crumbling the economy is in collapse most of Gaza is blockaded by Israel and Egypt but over the last year Egypt has been giving more Gazans the choice to leave the strip and they are N.P.R.'s Daniel Estrin met some of them Gaza's main portal to the world is a black iron gate on the Egyptian border for years it's been mostly closed Egypt and Israel impose a blockade to contain Hamas and keep militants from crossing their borders to offer relief for Gaza's 2000000 residents Egypt opened its border last spring and since then tens of thousands of Palestinians some estimate around $35000.00 have left. The. Men in their twenty's wait at the border for Hamas authorities to call their names so they can process I mean a 25 year old with a backpack and a small carry on suitcase the journey here I decided to leave Gaza Seydel Corti has a typical story his family's poor His house was destroyed in an Israeli air strike during the 1st of 3 wars that Hamas and Israel have fought his dad went broke paying off a loan to rebuild their house Cordie went to college got to be a an English and French he was sure his language skills would lead him a job I tried to buy for the national organization one of the many aid organizations trying to help Gaza but he couldn't find a job because aid groups are scaling back their work here the u.s. Has cut all humanitarian aid to Gaza but he couldn't find work 40 applied for a visa to the u.s. Would like to travel to America you know we learned of our journey but his application was rejected so he plans to fly from Cairo to Abu Dhabi to look for work his families at the border to see him off as you see of these are my brothers it's really bad for me to leave them I'm also really about to leave my mother my father but say this is. This is for me to seek a better future because I didn't find my future here doesn't have seen conditions go from bad to worse since Hamas took over in 2007 Hamas refuses to recognize Israel and Israel considers Hamas a terrorist group and blockades Gaza more pressure comes from the Palestinian Authority it wants to regain control so it's cut money to Gaza the economy has collapsed youth unemployment is above 70 percent and there's a humanitarian crisis electricity is spotty tap water is on drink people a recent White House proposal for investment in Gaza still seems like a distant prospect many Gazans aren't waiting around for of my nephews have left Gaza over the past year I have also to my son he love to go to the u s I want him to be in the wars Gaza political science professor will claim are up to Saddam I can't tell you many many other stories about people I know most of them are college graduates who are no jobs you cannot get married you cannot. You cannot start a new life you have many fly from Egypt to Turkey where it's easy to get a visa then they take boats for Europe some of drowned along the way I will start a says some who make it to Europe seek asylum claiming they were harassed by Hamas Hamas has arrested critics and beaten protesters in Gaza 2 of his nephews made it to Belgium It was a journey of death so to speak it took them days and days to get out from Turkey to give you some form of abuse to be intercepted by border police many times were returned back but they kept trying until they got there I must seize the open border as a positive step for Gaza Egypt lets only a few 100 Gazans cross a day a mosque manages a long waiting list pay a bribe and you can get bum tire up the list. Find that you know I visited an English translator waiting months for her turn to leave see Hampshire Wow what a nice place. Yeah I'm sending it to leaving she's moving to Egypt with her 2 sons because she's had enough in late March she was home when Israeli airstrikes hit a Hamas security building around the corner retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire I show you from here. They targeted that building 6 heavy strikes I really panicked she slept in the living room away from the windows for a week she takes me to her bedroom balcony and points to a building across the street she was told a Hamas affiliated group recently moved in there 2 months ago and what did you think when that happened to Hamas that it's it's over this building is going to be targeted and this is the main thing I don't want to just leave and I'm afraid. From the bombings and then missiles whether from the Israelis or from from it I know that I have a nice apartment and life in Gaza is nice when it's peaceful but when they station comes on I change my mind is evil I want to get the hell out of here Gaza's flight includes talented English speakers like her and medical staff. I visited Gaza's main hospital and doctors are leaving at a time they've been needed most the World Health Organization says Israeli soldiers shot more than 7000 Gazans during a year of protests and violence at the Israeli fence nurse Mohamed El Cantante name some surgeons who have left Gaza. But the situation on the. Mom or debit. Card just so lets you counted at least 4 surgeons who left this past year we had. Experience with experience when he knew our country just said above there was no heart surgeon no hospital because he did doctor salaries have plummeted and many med student. Are looking for better paying jobs abroad many young people say they'd stay if they were decent work even with all the other hardships it hurts to leave their families their culture their home. Some who left for Europe ever turned I met one at the border of Leiber have also become soldiers themselves on a lot of cool he says he took his wife and kids to Austria but he couldn't keep up with the cost of living so they're back in Gaza and he's finally found a way to make some good money using his experience it collects a fee helping other young Palestinians fly for visas to escape Daniel Estrin n.p.r. News Gaza. And this is n.p.r. News becoming an American it means reciting a citizenship oath I hear by the care that I absolutely and entirely wring our hands if any at all and they can see dissent it is a great transformation I felt so when I was saying the wards I'm Mary Louise Kelly thoughts on the pledge from new citizens on this July 4th That's this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Listen for all things considered a weekday afternoons beginning at 4 support comes from the Jackson Laboratory a nonprofit Biomedical Research Institute working to treat and even cure cancer through genomics and genetics research cures are in their d.n.a. J.x. Dot org slash c.t. . Good morning and Lori Mack thanks for joining us this morning it's 730 live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly the White House says patriotism not politics will dominate today's July 4th celebration on the National Mall in Washington it includes a parade displays of u.s. Military tanks and armored personnel carriers and fly overs by b. 2 stealth bombers and the Navy's Blue Angels N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith says President Trump will be speaking the seating at the Lincoln Memorial ahead of the traditional fireworks display critics are already objecting to the fact that the White House gave v.i.p. Tickets to the Trump re-election campaign and the Republican Party to hand out to supporters now they defend that saying well this is a pretty common thing if that were if it was on the South Lawn of the White House we'd be doing that and they also say that members of the military and their families thousands of them have also gotten these v.i.p. Tickets at Australian Graduate student is now free after being detained in North Korea for a week it's unclear why he was held N.P.R.'s Michael Sullivan says Swedish diplomats intervened on his behalf 29 year old Alex signee was studying modern Korean literature in the North Korean capital but the normally active social media user went quiet on June 25th when friends and family raised the alarm signal told reporters in Beijing he felt great but did not say what caused his detention in the 1st place this is n.p.r. News from Washington. A Russian deep sea submersible that caught fire this week in the Barents Sea was a nuclear powered military submarine the acknowledgement came earlier today from Russian President Vladimir Putin Russia's defense minister says the subs reactor has been isolated and the vessel is fully operational a fire aboard the sub killed 14 sailors Netflix is pledging to reduce scenes of people smoking in its original programming and p.r.s. Andrew Limbaugh says it's in a response to a report by an anti smoking group showing a rise in tobacco imagery and shows popular with younger audiences There's a scene in Stranger things where he grumpy police chief is at his desk he spits out an Apple puts a cigarette in his mouth and lights out oh you're trolling me the barber on who's kidnapped by Russian spies kidnapped the recently published studies from the truth initiative looked at 6 popular Netflix shows and found that not only has the amount of tobacco imagery grown but it's also more prevalent on Netflix then on cable and broadcast t.v. With stranger things being the biggest offender and the statement Netflix said that it will not show smoking or easy to use in the future unless it's quote essential It also says information about smoking will be included as part of its ratings Angela n.p.r. News there's no trading today on Wall Street because of the July 4th holiday yesterday the Dow The s. 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It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Noel King good morning the 4th of July is always a big deal in Washington d.c. It is the nation's capital after all but this year President Trump says it will be an even bigger deal he'll give a speech there will be military fly overs there will be tanks Eleanor Holmes Norton represents d.c. In Congress as a delegate and she is not happy about this I asked her what she's worried about July 4th here in the nation's capital is a hometown affair what he has done is to politicize the event remember he's already announced that he's running for president and added to that now to me militarizing the event nothing could be more in Congressman than tanks on the National Mall the mall is that strip of land that is regarded as the nation's playground it's where we fly kites this is very un-American and it couldn't be in a worse place than on the green space where we've gathered to have fun this symbolism of tanks on the mall or near the mall is obviously very troubling to you are there also logistical concerns from the city's point of view about what it might mean to have tanks rumbling through certain areas. 1st we had to scare them off the streets and we did that simply by pointing out what kinds who would do to Pennsylvania Avenue and who would pay for it I haven't figured out a way where the heavy military equipment can sit on the grass and not harm the grass we spent a considerable amount of funds to make sure the mall was fed in a very particular way so we don't even allow many vans to be held on the Mall any longer because of the grass magine what military serial do the Washington Post reported that the National Park Service is diverting about 2 and a half $1000000.00 to cover some of the costs of this event do you think there will be questions in Congress raised about how that money's being spent whether that money's being spent in the right way I'm already proffered a question to the appropriators about whether or not the president had the authority to divert funds from our national parks to this event the District of Columbia is owed more than $7000000.00 for the inauguration remember we provide we in the city provide lots of what is necessary including police and security along with federal officials we haven't paid for that from the inauguration I had another event and there has been no estimate of what the cost of that event will be or who will pay for it I can tell you this much I'm going to see to it that the District of Columbia does not pay poured in that we get paid for what we already owed Let's say Congress determines that national park money should not be spent on this 4th of July event which is happening it's going head it is happening what do you expect that you get paid back from someone. Who would pay for it at the moment or the American taxpayers who should pay for it. Is the Trump campaign because what it amounts to is a campaign event there is no way to get around that and that's why the president has to be very careful and not involving himself in the 4th of July because everything he does is inherently political What are you hearing from people who live in Washington d.c. From your constituents are they happy about this unhappy about this and very concerned I think the best thing residents can do is to do what I'm going to do I'm going to March in the palace a separate a neighborhood parade and t.c. But I'm afraid some will feel since this is has the appearance of a campaign event that they can go and protest and so there is no question that if you make it look like a campaign event it on be treated like a campaign event Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton thank you so much for taking the time always a pleasure also disease starts to change the brain long before any symptoms appear so scientists are developing tests to actually detect these changes and the tests are making diagnoses more accurate and drug treatments more effective N.P.R.'s Jon Hamilton reports the tests are known as biomarkers and the 1st one hit the market in 2012 it's a dye called Am a vid that reveals clumps of a protein called amyloid these amyloid plaques are a hallmark of Alzheimers and Dr Howard Phillips says before him of it came along diagnosing the disease involved a lot of guesswork so this test which I can now send a patient down the block to the radiology office and within 24 hours with 98 percent certainty I can tell people if they have Alzheimer's disease and so that's a biomarker the test is expensive though and requires a brain scan also amyloid plaques are just one of the brain changes associated with Alzheimer's so the all timers drug discovery foundation where Philip is Chief Science Officer has launched an effort to speed up the development of biomarkers for other brain changes Phillips says one promising marker reveals the presence of toxic proteins known as tangles the tangles referees. The dying neurons and the main component of the tangles is a small kill called Tao brain imaging can show Tau tangles in patients who've been injected with a special die and several drug companies are competing to get a version of the dye approved by the Food and Drug Administration feel it says an approved test for Tao would make it easier to evaluate new Alzheimer's drugs this tower imaging is going to be very important not only diagnostically but also for use in clinical trials as a biomarker for monitoring the efficacy of many trucks but there's more to all timers than amyloid in town oh Phil it says people can have both and still do pretty well until something else shows up in the brain inflammation it's like having the highest sensitivity computer up there and thrown coffee on it so researchers are working on biomarkers for inflammation and Field says there's even a biomarker that indicates the health of synapses the connections between brain cells we're funding a clinical trial at a company that is going to use this biomarker as a measure of how well their truck is preserving synapses and the hippocampus of people without Simon's disease most biomarkers still require people to receive brain scans costing thousands of dollars but Phillips says future tests are likely to use a sample of spinal fluid or blood and cost far less marÃa could he always chief science officer at the old timers Association which is a recent n.p.r. Sponsor she says all of the new biomarkers will have to be tried in different populations what may represent as a biomarker in one population may not actually hold true in another and this is we see this in other diseases also biomarkers still don't offer doctors a reliable way to assess a person's memory or thinking even so cardio says the tests have the potential to make all timers more like other diseases we don't treat today you know heart attack after it happens which we treat high cholesterol to reduce the risk of that heart attack because cholesterol is a biomarker for heart disease and cardio says someday doctors may be able to detect and treat Hi I am a Lloyd or Tao. Or inflammation in the brain for the future we hope that we might be able to use these I am markers in order to stop or delay the memory changes from ever happening our goal is to prevent dementia in other words stop Alzheimers before it starts John Hamilton n.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News. 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News I'm Joel King and I'm Rachel Martin Amazon just closed down its food delivery service it's called Amazon restaurants but the tech giant is trying to learn from its mistakes it's now trying to solve an issue that has perplexed them for years the so-called last mile delivery Planet Money Stacey Vanek Smith and Sally Herships explaining compared to the kind of traffic Amazon sees on its main site Amazon dot com Amazon restaurants it was kind of limited never even heard of well Stacey the service was offered in only about 25 cities and you could only use it if you were prime subscriber Amazon restaurants worked a lot like other food delivery services you pull up the say Take been years since code you figure out what you want to eat and then hopefully very soon a delivery person from Amazon's grocery delivery service prime now would show up with your food the service faced all of these problems and one of the biggest problems was delivery you talked of usual agro about this delivery problem he is the c.e.o. Of it's a checkmate dot com That is a company that makes software which helps restaurants get orders from services like seamless and grab Amazon if you look at it very minute the Amazon doesn't really do the last mile delivery and food is all about the last minute if you order batteries or yoga pants from Amazon they may be shipped to one of the companies a film that centers but getting your box to the last mile to your address that represents a giant but just a culture out think about it the United States Postal Service is the only service that does regular daily to live free to every single address in the country Michelle says the reason other food delivery service is the reason they have been able to succeed at delivery is because they are the opposite of Amazon they start at the local So you can't launch something on a national scale with one delivery you have to go city by city to get any good foothold Amazon has really been trying to figure out this last mile delivery problem but is. Not been able to crack the code yet no and another problem Amazon restaurants faced customers they did not want to paid more than $5.00 for mail delivery and keeping delivery costs low is hard enough if you're ordering a book or something nonperishable But now imagine when you are responsible for shipping a juicy warm cheeseburger some fries sounds delicious right also to make sure the fries don't get soggy yet and all of this the knowledge and the special ability to deliver food and the ability to be able to get it where it needs to go warmly that's really really hard to do and Amazon has shut down other services and canceled other products in the past there was a high fashion site that Amazon launched in 2007 and there were the dash buttons physical buttons and you would push them to automatically reorder fabric softener dish detergent they are also God Well kind of this is the thing about Amazon be shot says an Amazon fail it's not as black and white as it might 1st seem I don't think they feel I think they learned and they really evolved from there the dash but also still lives on in a way it's become a virtual button in app and that's what the shelf thinks is happening with Amazon restaurants so if you were paying attention you'd know that yes Amazon closed its restaurant delivery service but at the same time it also made this massive investment $575000000.00 in this company called deliver rule and it delivers food to people in 14 countries so this sounds like a failure on the part of Amazon instead it maybe we should be calling it more like a recalibration Stacey Vanek Smith Sally Herships n.p.r. 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You know what that music means Mike 11 and their little gang of brave nerds are back stranger thing season 3 is out today so Monster from the upside down dimension is terrorizing the town again and Police Chief Jim Hopper has his hands full he has adopted 11 She's now a teenager who not only has super powers she also has her 1st boyfriend. 3 inch model mom we've. Just. Open the store. Was from. Actor David Harbor plays chief Hopper in the show and harbor says saving the world from monsters seems easier than being a dad as bad as the superpowers were in season 2 the boyfriend is 10 times worse in season 3 you mix hormones and everything to talk about the upside down or. So I wonder you've been working with these child actors this is season 3 now is it weird watching them grow up I mean watching them get tall and skinny and turn into awkward teenagers not just little kids yeah I mean weird is not even the word it's sort of profound you know I mean there are and that I think is one of the most amazing things of the show this season you watched the kids grow up in real time and you feel the passage of time more strongly than anything you could write or act when they started like I still look at them as I specially I'm I pick on him all the time but I remember little friend Wolf hard with his little pudgy face and tiny stature and now. Like a rock and roll God or something is this man he's talking about is this you know yes but he could hear his old features and he's just like dreamy. So yeah I mean it's very strange and like I sort of mirror Hopper in a sense where I started off with them trying to be very separate you know even with my work I just wanted to be apart from them and then as the show grows and they grow and they become more of who they are we've gotten closer and closer do you give them advice like teenagers or are they don't listen yeah I mean I don't know that they're not listening to us that it would be unfair but I think that as young artists they're getting so much success and I really want them to be the next you know I want to be the next Meryl Streep and I want to be the next Daniel Day Lewis and I mean I have these desires for them to be the great actors of the next generation and I feel like that takes work and it takes development and it takes acting classes and even when you're paid a lot and well respected for your acting and even when it's good at a certain level it still takes development of that tool of that of that you know tool box Well we should note that you are like a capital a actor you've done a lot of stage work you played a lot of serious roles when you were coming up did you want to be famous or did you just want to be an actor Well I of course in the back of my mind there was a draw to fame I looked at the celebrities that I grew up with you know Harrison Ford or Gene Hackman and these guys and I looked at them as a sort of American royalty and then as I've progressed along that line it's become more and more apparent that you know I want to be the messy artist that I always dreamed of being when I was a kid do you mean messy with your life messy with your work like I mean messing with my work yeah yeah especially as we move forward with the superhero movies and all this sort of guise of things happening there's a temptation to be more beautiful and more capable. I've always been drawn to characters that are less than capable that make me feel not alone in my weirdness in the fact that I don't always fit in the fact that I don't always do the right thing and in all these sort of ways that sort of mass I want to bring to the screen so that people can maybe feel deeper empathy for others. We're all a bit of a mess I mean we're home kind of chaotically struggling to get through this life in various forms and there's a lot of joy in that a lot of sadness and a lot of all kinds of different emotions so I've always wanted to portray that much more than to be someone who people looked at as perfect well tell you something you're doing it really well there's this thanks moment in season 3 of hopper you know you see Chief he's got a daughter now but he still lives in a cabin in the woods then he gets stood up on a dinner date in a fancy restaurant so I'm watching this last night I'm going to you I started crying Oh no parable that's amazing. He put on like a Hawaiian shirt and any sitting at the restaurant alone and I felt terrible about that but it sounds like you're saying that's the art Yeah Ok I love that you have that response that's so generous of you as a. I think one of the most fun things about this season is that you know in the 1st season we sort of unpacked how he had been a man of justice and he he wasn't anymore and he had to reawaken that in the 2nd season we sort of unpacked this fact that he was he had been a father at one point and he had to unpack that and so in this season he kind of chaotically goes about how to become a man again and one of those things is you know he subconsciously is responding to television like Magnum p.i. I mean he shaved his beard into a mustache he buys an eighty's type outfit and he tries to be like a modern cool guy and it doesn't succeed very well but what I like that he's trying I love that I think it's very beautiful. I have am a question for you Season one deep cut real fans are going to get it do you still want justice for Barbara. I guess I have to go there go there but we should say for people who have not obsessive we watch the show as I have is the best friend of the character Nancy a teenage girl whose younger brother is one of the main characters and Barb goes missing in season one and just me to terrible things and it's all very unfair. It's so funny I was just thinking about every other day she was such a great character and I think each season gets better especially this season I think it's so beautiful and epic and profound and I was like oh we can't get a bit of this and the only thing I thought was I kind of wish Barb was around. It would be better here she makes everything a little better. David Harbor place Police Chief Jim Hopper in Stranger things season 3 starts on netflix today David thanks so much for coming in we appreciate it thank you it was great to see you. 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So will the president's 4th of July celebrations be regaled for their patriotism or reviled for their politics I'm no wilting and I'm Rachel Martin one of the country's largest coal producers closes down is it a sign of what's to come. The u.s. Supreme Court ruled that the trumpet ministration couldn't include a citizenship question on the 2020 census but the president is fighting back and we mark this holiday as we do every year with a reading of the Declaration of Independence It is Thursday the 4th of July and we do hold these truths to be self-evident. News is next. From n.p.r. News in Washington. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a freeze on Pentagon funding being used for building a southern border wall Lily Jamali of member station k.q.e.d. Reports the trumpet ministration can appeal to the Supreme Court in a 2 to one decision the 9th Circuit panel reiterated an argument made by those suing the administration they say President Trump is trying to get money for a while construction that Congress explicitly denied him and Congress controls the federal purse strings Dean is a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union one of the plaintiffs in the case everyone for Congress and the wall on the. Government shutdown in history over the wall it's just not credible the government can say that it can go but Wall I mean next the trumpet ministration can ask the appeals court to reconsider or take the case directly to the Supreme Court for n.p.r. News I'm Lily Jamali in San Francisco Congressman Justin of Michigan's 3rd Congressional District says he's leaving the Republican Party he writes in a Washington Post op ed today he's becoming an independent calling the 2 party system an x. a Stench a threat to America's principles and institutions earlier this year I became the only Republican to support impeachment proceedings against President. Nearly half the field of Democratic presidential candidates will be in Houston tomorrow for an education forum including many front runners Andrew Schneider of Houston Public Media says they'll face some unscripted questions the National Education Association is hosting the strong public schools' presidential forum as the centerpiece of its annual assembly the speakers include former Vice President Joe Biden as well as Senators Bernie Sanders Harris and Elizabeth Warren says thousands of teachers administrators and parents have submitted questions for the event. An Australian student detained in North Korea late last month has been released and the safely left the country N.P.R.'s Michael Sullivan has the story from Seoul Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison told parliament today that 29 year old Alex sadly had been released from detention this morning and is safe and well he extended his deepest gratitude to Swedish authorities for their invaluable assistance in securing Alex prompt release Australia has no formal diplomatic presence in North Korea and relies on other Western countries to act on its behalf on his arrival in Beijing told reporters he felt great but did not say what had caused his detention in the 1st place say Glee had been studying in the North Korea .