Area of state might Pompei o says a batch of recently leaked documents proves Chinese authorities have been engaged in a systematic repression of Muslims and other minorities in the western part of the country Pompei o says the documents leave no doubt as to disc ale of the effort where it says upwards of a 1000000 people been forced into detention camps news reports are consistent with an overwhelming and growing body of evidence that the Chinese Communist Party is committing human rights violations and abuses against individuals in mass detention . We call on the Chinese government to immediate release all those who are arbitrarily detained and to end its draconian policies that have terrorized its own citizens remarks follow the leak of classified documents showing that rather than for voluntary job training as Beijing has claimed the Chinese camps use for ideological and behavioral reeducation public health officials of more evidence long injuries among people who are linked to an additive founded so-called gray market products Here's N.P.R.'s Richard Harris the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously reported that they had found a substance called vitamin e. Acetate in lung fluid of people who had fallen ill after of aping this material is apparently used to dilute vaporing fluids that contain t.h.c. Marijuana extract Now the Minnesota Department of Health reports that they found vitamin e. E. 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News I'm elf The Chuang And I'm Mary Louise Kelly it was just last week when Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher was facing the real possibility of being kicked out of the Navy SEALs and President Trump intervened the secretary of the Navy was fired and Gallagher who had been convicted of posing with the body of an ISIS captive was told he could retire in peace his turn of events may have a long term impact on the seals it could also change the fates of other SEALs caught up in Gallagher story joining us to explain is Steve Walsh of k. P.b.s. From San Diego Hey there I merely We who are the other SEALs caught up in this so Lieutenant Jake Portier was originally charged with covering up the 2017 incident in Iraq including the one charge where a military jury convicted Gallagher which is posing with a corpse on the battlefield or 2 years case was thrown out by the chief of naval operations after of the Gallagher trial I talked to Jeremiah Sullivan who is the attorney for Lynn Lieutenant Portier he said the Navy indicates his Triton review board will continue he wants the Pentagon and the head of the Naval Special Operations Rear Admiral Cullen green to end this process there are very junior Petty Officers Dexie men even junior officers who are looking now up their chain of command at the admiral green and the secretary the Navy who can't follow the president's order you may disagree with the president but it's an order. So the review board is also looking at the unit's commander Lieutenant Commander Robert Bryce during Gallagher's trial witnesses indicated that the commander knew about allegations of misconduct interact earlier than indicated but didn't take action also Lieutenant Thomas McNeil now McNeil was one of 7 seals who testified against Gallagher So the way this could play out is Gallagher could retire with 20 years at full rank and benefits and one of the men who actually testified against him could be thrown out of the SEALs Wow what an extraordinary turn of events that would be who will get to do the reviewing remind us how this process works so the way this works it's a group of officers who will review their status now they've been invited to submit statements but this isn't like a court martial they aren't going to get the opportunity to actually speak directly to this board now this process is not as uncommon as you might imagine the Navy revoked 154 Trident pins since 2011 Ironically one of the most clear cut reasons for ousting someone from the elite SEALs is after they've been convicted of a crime and among this group only Gallagher was convicted. As Fred so for these specific review panel on these remaining seals defense secretary Mark Esper is asking the acting secretary of the Navy to review this case we could hear as early as tomorrow esper has said publicly that he wants to move on. Just give me a sense of how this is playing out in the Seal community as it were speaking to you you're there in San Diego which is you can see SEALs training there on the beach every day what are people saying about this so Gallacher does have his supporters people who think the military overstepped when they came after him they support the president's decision to intervene now there are others who worry about the impact of the President reaching down to overturn the decision of his commanders that this may lead to others just bypassing the chain of command and appealing directly to the White House now I mean give me a sense of what the long term impacts of this might be on the seals on the Navy overall so so. So the head of Naval Special Warfare Rear Admiral Collin Greene has been pushing to reform the culture and ethics of the SEALs the worry is that this could be lost in this battle of the White House actually talked with a law professor at the University of San Diego and a former judge advocate general for the Marines I think the way you resolve that is getting back to basics and ensuring a strong ethical foundation and I think the concern is by the president's recent actions perhaps he's suggesting that he doesn't think that that's the right course so the question for green is is whether or not this is this is even going to go forward we've really never seen anything like this it's basically unprecedented specially amongst these secretive seals Ok that Steve Walsh of k. P.b.s. Thanks. Thanks critics said President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson say the men share something in common both Trump and Johnson they charge are undermining democratic institutions in their countries in September Johnson tried to shut down Parliament in the run up to a major brags that decision and Trump has called some of the Constitution phony N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt reports from London on how both leaders are testing the checks on their power in September Boris Johnson asked the Queen's permission to suspend or prorogue Britain's parliament for 5 weeks saying he needed time to prepare his legislative agenda but opposition lawmakers said Johnson just wanted to stop them from scrutinizing his Breck's its strategy that's are just as Brenda Hale of the u.k. Supreme Court seemed to see it when she rejected Johnson's argument and reversed his decision the prime minister's advice to her majesty was unlawful void and if not a sect Johnson said the suspension was beyond the court's purview I did is absolutely no disrespect to the deuce 3 to say I think the court was wrong to provide. This tree right. Across the Pond president trial was dismissed various attempts to shake his power including the impeachment inquiry this is how c.b.s. News covered it in a letter to top congressional Democrats the president's White House counsel called their inquiry unconstitutional and said Mr Trump will not cooperate I don't know how you can impeach somebody who's done a great job. I'll tell you what if I ever got a Ph I think the market would crash many scholars on both sides of the Atlantic say Trump and Johnson pro-trade themselves as instruments of the people's will against what they describe as obstructive institutions to bail teaches politics at London's Queen Mary University they are pissing the people against the elite they are representing themselves as the tribune of the people against those inmates so any institution which stands in the way he's open to legitimately criticism for. It's Rex It's hearsay Johnson isn't the problem of the solution to parliament they say is trying to force Geoffrey Cox is Britain's attorney general this Parliament is very scared you should hurry and sit Trump supporters go even further saying the Russian vest a Geisha was an attempt to overturn the 2016 election his former house speaker Newt Gingrich on Fox Business It was in effect an attempted coup to defeat the duly elected president and states on the part of the deep state both Trump and Johnson wrote protest votes to power targeting the political establishment in Washington and London that their supporters see as out of touch both of used incendiary language to denigrate those who challenge them a few days ago I called the fake dues the enemy of the people and they are when British lawmakers moved to block Johnson from crashing the u.k. Out of the European Union the prime minister responded with this there is anyone mean is if they give this pride this deal it is Jeremy Corbin is surrendered to British years Q Some leader of the opposition of surrendering to the e.u. Echoed the language of World War 2 And U.K.'s battle against the Nazis language many lawmakers see as dangerous this is policy shared with the opposition Labor Party. To death and appears. Right now the prime minister. This month. We're trying. To say just because I've never had such a humbug in all my life Joshua Monk is a professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of the people versus democracy why our freedom is in danger and how to save it he says the prime minister carefully chooses his words for their political effect he insinuates that faith so enemies of the people he says that his party is the party of the people and everybody else a pound is not truly part of the British people so that's a way. Of digital Mises descent Monk says similar factors help explain the rise of Trump and Johnson in these old stable democracies as well as the rise of populism in other countries such as Italy and Hungary assignation of living standards for ordinary citizens rapid cultural and in many countries demographic transformations which are leading to a rebellion especially amongst people who feel that status in society is increasingly being challenged Monk says the system of checks and balances in the United States faces greater threat right now because Johnson of a moment is more popular but I think his attacks on institutions are limited so far to the topic of Brecht's that Donald Trump is less popular and less strategic but he is more willing to attack institutions in a fundamental way but Jim Bell of Queen Mary University says it's the British system that's more vulnerable I think the fact that the president's term is time limited and you have a written constitution which employs rules that all moral difficult to get around means that the danger long term is perhaps less than it is in the u.k. Both scholars say Johnson and Trump have already damaged the system of checks and balances in their respective countries most says it's up to opposition parties and citizens to use all the mechanisms available to fend off further attacks Frank Langfitt n.p.r. News London all packed up and ready to travel for Thanksgiving not so fast a bombs like Lone is predicted for the West Coast and a big storm is sweeping across the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains Nathaniel minor with Colorado Public Radio reports from Denver manual Korea was about as chipper as you could expect someone to be this morning considering he slept on the floor at the Denver International Airport it was a bad stuff on the floor before it's not a hand I want pillow know if it was warm. So yeah I have a Dreams Korea was trying to get to Seattle. To see a friend he got to the airport late yesterday and spent the night here with more than a 1000 other travelers but then his early morning flight was cancelled and a 2nd one to hundreds of other flights here were called off as a major storm rolled over the Rocky Mountains dumping more than 2 feet of snow in some places it's even temporarily shut down busy Interstate 70 the main thoroughfare to Colorado ski resorts the storm is expected to move northeast across the plains and toward the Great Lakes close to a foot is expected in Sioux City and Minneapolis with gusts of winds up to 40 miles per hour in some places it could even touch New England later in the week meanwhile another storm is brewing off the Pacific coast that could help Oregon and California with rain snow and winds up to 80 miles per hour transportation officials and weather forecasters say it's best to just stay home and wait out these storms manual Korea is going to give it one more shot to get to Seattle but he says if that falls through there are probably call it quits and to stay here for Thanksgiving you know but he wouldn't be alone Creo says he'd spend the holiday with his sister in Denver for n.p.r. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm else the Chuang And I'm Mary Louise Kelly if you're in the emergency room with your kid it's scary and the bill is probably not the 1st thing on your mind but a visit to the emergency room can interrupt getting pretty pricey each month n.p.r. Takes a medical bill to sort through why they can be so confusing and confounding Today we look at the case of a pretty big bill for what seems like a pretty simple medical service that only took a minute or so we're joined by Dr Elizabeth Rosenthal She is editor in chief of our partner Kaiser Health News Welcome back Hi this is quite a story quite a story so who are we hearing from what's what's the story today we're meeting the Branson family from Las Vegas they're a young couple with 2 little girls Emma and Lucy and the bill involves a Polly Pocket doll and an emergency room visit Ok looking forward to hearing where this one goes and our guide is going to be Reporter Stephanie O'Neill who visited the Branson's Let's hear what happened for the Branson's of Las Vegas the story of Lucy and the tiny doll shoes is one no one in this family will ever forget it happened last April Lucy was just 3 and a half and on this particular evening her parents Katie and Michael were getting ready for a long awaited concert it was to be a special evening one given to them by Katie's parents we had a baby sitter coming in like less than an hour we had these take Airds we were really excited and Lucy comes up the stairs and I hear. And I was like whoa what is going on and Michael said well you coughing but loose he wouldn't answer them beyond gesturing at her nose Michael says well I kind of pulled her back to kind of lift her head up and put her on our bed and that's when I could see something up or nodes that something was a pair of tiny pink plastic dolls shoes one perfectly lodged in each a loose his little nostrils Michael says panic over took a while Katie. It was in the midst of reading herself for the date sprung into full on mom mode and so I went out with my little to ease ours and I get one little pink shoe out and I put it on the counter it's maybe about the size of a Q tip head easy peasy she thought so she takes a deep breath then reaches into the other nostril but as Lucy now 4 years old explains it didn't work and there was decking Manos and I can ink and my mom couldn't get it out big sister Emma says Anna died for Emma 7. Let me scary yes. Have you ever done anything like that never in my life but it is pretty common for kids to stick things up their noses with some items even requiring surgical extraction still Kitty wasn't too worried even when her tweezers couldn't reach the 2nd shoe I'm thinking Ok well I can't get this out I want to hurt her so I say Ok Lucy you need to blow like and then I kind of do the motion of blow and she goes. Oh that was a giant snuff and I was like oh look. Shoot. After that Katie knew it was time for the professionals so I said Ok Michael you need to go to the urgent care they should have the tweezers all we need is our trees are like maybe half an intern inch longer than my standard day to day traders but urgent care didn't have a long enough pair next stop the hospital emergency room and voila the e.r. Doc easily plucked the shoe out of little Lucy's nostril and it was probably less than one second the time the time he put up her nose left on it pulled out she was out Lucy got a lollipop Katie and Michael got to the concert it seemed like they're lucky day then they got the bill almost $2000.00 for the e.r. And almost another grand for the e.r. Doc and because the Branson's have a high deductible plan they're responsible for all of it I thought it was simply an air like there is no way it's the most you've ever paid for a pair of shoes on many. Proudly $178.00 Yeah they were normally to 20 and I keep on as very proud of it so you have never had a pair of shoes anything close to the cost of these shoes or who have never had a 3 about now a pair of shoes still Katie Branson says she remains hopeful that Lucy has learned her lesson but she has said she will never put shoes up her nose again she's promised. And her parents hope that also means she won't be sticking anything else up or nostrils ever again for n.p.r. News I'm Stephanie O'Neill in Las Vegas Oh well I am in full on myself right there . And Elizabeth Rosenthal you were in your dock before you before you moved to Kaiser Health News is that right how how common is this kids in the e.r. With something they have managed to shove up the nose Well I worked in an adult t.r. And grown ups have mostly learned not to do this kind of thing but pediatricians say it's very common and very easy to treat if you have long. Which they call forceps and medical lingo as a kid I myself put pussy willows in both ears so I've been there in your ear Ok I have been there yes with kids for many things including things up the nose but I have never been presented with a $3000.00 bill for something that took less than a minute to get out what's going on here what's going on here is that today everything in anything will be build and build a lot the doctor charged over $900.00 k. Branson very smartly negotiated that into half right away but the hospital charge more than $1700.00 and so far they aren't budging they aren't and I'm sure the parents have asked for them to budge why aren't they well their attitude seems to be an e.r. Visit is an e.r. Visit and you could have gone to urgent care they did go to urgent care though right and it was a Friday night and they didn't want to leave Lucy uncomfortable weekend m. Plus what lay person knows whether or not it's dangerous to leave Polly Pocket chews up your kids know that you don't want to keep sniffing and it may end up in our lungs and then right they made a rational decision so their insurance did not pick up any of this exploring Well lots of families these days like the Branson opt for a high deductible plan that means in the Branson case they had to spend $6000.00 before insurance kicked in there pretty savvy they made a decision that they would set this money aside for like a medical crisis they just never imagined that they'd have to spend this money for a little shoe up the nose and what is the take away here what should they have done differently particularly as we said it's a it was a Friday night the pediatrician wasn't there well a pediatrician might have told them it could safely wait until Monday morning or at least look for other options the next day so it's important I think to have a primary care doctor who can say be where there are other options but they did one really smart thing that others should follow instead of getting angry when they saw this bill they began to push back right away and got a discount from the doctor. At least. A minor point but I have to ask whatever happened to the shares the hot pink ones that cause the trouble disappeared into the play room for Tex but Lucy and Emma had lots of other Polly Pocket choose to show us when we visit the. Danger lurking in every corner you can see those pictures if you dare at N.P.R.'s Shots blog Elisabeth Rosenthal thank you so much for being here today thanks for having me. And now we have got a question for you does your family have a one of a kind holiday tradition maybe something that when you tell non-family members about it they are either in shock or falling over laughing If so please tell us about it you can shoot an e-mail it to n.p.r. Crowdsource at npr dot org Thank you also please repeat gladly n.p.r. 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News I'm Mary Louise Kelly and I'm else the Chuang new details have surfaced this week spelling out how the Chinese government has been monitoring and detaining weaker is and other Muslim minorities inching John that's a region in northwestern China these details appear in a trove of leaked classified Chinese government documents operations manuals intelligence briefings all of which were obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists one of their reporters is with us now Bethany Alan Abraham welcome it's great to be here alpha so I 1st want to get at how these documents advance what we already know about what's been happening in shing John we know that possibly more than a 1000000 weekers and other Muslim minorities have spent time in detention we know that the Chinese government has gone to great lengths using technology to monitor this population what new details do these documents provide us on what the Chinese government has been doing they give us new details about what's happening inside the camps specifically especially in terms of the measures that Chinese authorities have taken to make sure they can't stay secret and some of our other documents give us new insight into what exactly all that surveillance was for it's being fed into a database that's then used to round up people it deems suspicious on a mass scale a database that includes bio data their d.n.a. Their names their relations etc That's right and including information that was sent to that database via China's embassies and consulates abroad what kind of guidelines did you see spelled out in the operations manual for how these camps should run just give us a couple of brief examples it shows a very regimented strict life for the end mates of the camps including tight regulations on when they're allowed to use the toilets where they're allowed to sleep and total secrecy what struck me about these new. Documents is how precise and surly systematic all of this was I mean this was a very very intricate plan is this the closest glimpse we have of the Chinese government's intentions Yes I think it shows Chinese authorities had a very clear idea of the scale at which they were building these camps and of the danger that they were putting many human lives in it also shows a cold calculated almost machine like attitude towards how to detain people by the thousands and tens of thousands in response to this reporting the Chinese government called these leaked documents quote pure fabrication and fake news what do you have to say about that the documents came to us through a very careful and verified chain of transmission if you look at the documents themselves they conform to every template of classified Chinese government documents that is available and classified Chinese government documents follow a very very regimented kind of layout and these documents match that 100 percent well I guess the big question for me is what happens now we have these documents that if you are correct are straight from the government spelling out in great detail the detention the indoctrination and the mass surveillance of leaders and other Muslim minorities how do you think the u.s. Can have more influence on this particular issue think about what we did after Tiananmen there was a wide range of sanctions and China became at least temporarily a pariah in the international community what we're seeing and she deserves exactly that response because what's happening and she isn't staying and she and John China is actively exporting its surveillance systems around the world through its safe cities projects and other ways that it's so important that the United States deploy every tool at its disposal from sanctions from. Magic pressure from multilateral you know diplomatic campaigns to put pressure on the Chinese government we have seen very few of those measures being taken that any Alan Aber he me and is an investigative journalist with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists thank you very much for coming in today thank you for having me to the latest now on the president's financial records and whether we will ever get to see that yesterday the Supreme Court put a hold on enforcing a congressional subpoena of the president's records this hole just temporary it is to allow Trump's lawyers time to file briefs with the court justifying why they think it should hear the case n.p.r. Legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg is here Anya Hi there Mary Louise So 2 cases in play right what's going on well one case is from New York the lower courts have upheld a grand jury subpoena for records related to hush money paid to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election campaign the subpoena is not directed at Trump but at his longtime accounting firm now the firm hasn't objected to turning over the documents and if this were anyone else the firm would have already done that but the president objects that he is different because he's president and in the 2nd case the lower courts have ruled that the House Oversight Committee was within its rights when it subpoenaed financial records from the same accounting firm the committee's justification is that it's trying to determine whether legislation is needed to require presidents in the future to disclose their taxes every modern president has done that voluntarily but Trump has refused to do so and now is asking the Supreme Court to block and force mint of the congressional subpoena Ok so for the court the options are what it could hear both cases it could hear just one what might happen if you're here either one or none of them if it hears none of them that means the president would be out of luck the lower court decisions would stand and his accounting firm would have to comply now my opinion on this is not worth much but actually I would beg to differ if that guy moderated a program of the Council on Foreign Relations last 3. That featured 2 former solicitor general the government's chief advocates in the Supreme Court have the job for President Obama and argues a lot of cases now and Paul Clement had the s. G.'s job in the George w. Bush administration he is I think it's fair to say the leading advocate for conservative causes in the Supreme Court today so I asked these 2 very experienced lawyers who come at this from different political perspectives what they think the court will do cartel said he thought the court would not agree to hear these cases at all they're probably pretty happy with the careful reasoning by the 2 lower court opinions the Trump briefs I think are pretty extreme in their legal views and so I think might be better for the court to just stay out altogether and let the process unfold but climbin said he thinks there's a decent chance the court will review at least one of the cases probably the congressional subpoena case Ok And did they have any predictions in terms of where the court might land well when you're talking about the Supreme Court nothing is a sure bet but both men thought the president likely would lose both Clement and Chi shell observed that all the precedents are against the President Clinton said the court might well take a trump case here out of deference to the institution of the presidency but I think if they did it would be a mistake to view the fact that they took the case as a precursor to them ultimately ruling in favor of President Trump you know the president's argument it's a tough one I mean uphill one would be the right way to describe it and in terms of process and you know you don't need the full court to rule on this you don't need 5 out of 9 you know you need $44.00 Ok so do we have a timeline on this one might decision come before the court is already fast tracking the briefing which means they're going to expedite the cases or a case if they decide to hear one of them and we probably get a decision in June just when the presidential campaign is heating up never a dull moment but for sounds like bottom line for now. President Trump remains the only president for decades who's not released his tax records as usual you're right Mary Louise we will interrupt there say no more n.p.r. Legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg thank you thank you. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. There has been another twist in the long running story about the Chinese electronics company Huawei the us is telling its allies that using Chinese equipment to upgrade their telecommunications infrastructure presents a security threat while way denies it has direct links with the government in Beijing in Germany Chancellor uncle Americal was on course to allow Huawei to build Germany's 5 g. Network but now her own party says that is a decision that should be made by the German parliament The move means it's increasingly unlikely that Huawei will have a role in upgrading Germany's telecom systems N.P.R.'s Rob Schmitz joins us from Berlin to talk about all this Hey Rob Hayles I'm so just helps understand what was Chancellor Merkel's plan here well I think to understand her position on it while it helps to understand that Germany's biggest companies have an extraordinary amount of dependence on the Chinese market one out of every 4 Volkswagen cars for example is sold in China nearly a 3rd of Siemens global sales is made in China China is the largest market for Mercedes-Benz that they you know the list goes on and I spoke to choice and better about this he's the director of the global policy public policy institute in Berlin and he says miracle understands how exposed to China Germany's economy really is Chancellor Merkel is extremely afraid of retribution by the Chinese parties there in case Germany do stunts to extremely way from 5 g. Critical infrastructure so why does America's party so opposed to this plan while opponents in her own party say the threat of retribution is a price that's worth paying because it's clear to them that under Chinese law Holly would have to take orders from Chinese government if China's government wanted to compromise Germany's telecommunications network and as it stands all 3 of Germany's big telecoms companies have spent years installing hallway equipment into routers cell phone towers and other infrastructure already in the cost of ripping all. Of that out could be big Yeah if Germany's poller and dancehall was equipment so where do German people in general stand on this issue I mean do you get a sense that there are strong feelings there. What's interesting just today the results of a survey released by a Berlin based foundation that showed that 76 percent of Germans feel that Germany should defend its political interests more strongly piece of the China even at the expense of German economic interest so it appears the Germans themselves don't agree with Chancellor Merkel on this issue so if Huawei gets banned in Germany what kind of fallout might we see in the country of course there could be substantial economic losses for German companies in China and that's a little scary especially since Germany's economy is teetering on the edge of recession at the moment but a Huawei band is also not how Mayor Cole wants to go out as chance or miracle is in the final year or 2 of her leadership she had hoped to conclude her term in office with a big china e.u. Investment summit scheduled for next autumn here in Germany which would have left a positive legacy between the e.u. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Miles the Chuang And I'm Mary Louise Kelly in the Democratic Republic of Congo efforts to end an Ebola outbreak have been hampered after surge of violence the World Health Organization pulled a 3rd of their a bolo responder's N.P.R.'s man reports the Daily Show says this pullout comes just as they were making significant progress all more than 3300 people have been infected with Ebola in this outbreak health workers have managed to reduce the rate of new infections to a trickle Christian Lynn Meyer is a spokesman for the w.h.o. Last me we for example I don't need 7 new cases this should illustrate how well his response was going but those cases are concentrated around the city of Benny which has erupted in violent demonstrations over the last several days people there are outraged that the government and a longstanding u.n. Peacekeeping force there have failed to protect them from a series of recent massacres by a rebel group protestors have torched the mayor's office and stormed 2 u.n. Offices Now earlier in the outbreak Ebola workers have faced direct attacks Limor notes that right now on a good knowledge of this violence it's not against the able to reform but he says it's seriously hampered the u.n. Peacekeepers ability to keep Delhi Acho workers safe so the organization has transferred nearly a 3rd of its 120 personnel in the area to a city more than 200 miles south Unicef has pulled all but 12 of their 39 workers they were notes that The Daily Show still has 71 staffers on the ground so the doctors the nurses the back summation team the borough team but consider the teams who trace people who've been exposed to an infected person check in with them daily to make sure they're not getting sick normally says Lynn Meier The Delhi h o teams can follow up with 95 percent of these cases yesterday it was only possible to follow up with 7 percent of cases so he says you can see how easily it would be for. Ebola to spiral up again narrate Eisenman n.p.r. News kids are always listening even when they seem distracted by their cell phones or their i Pads So why not take advantage this holiday season and tell and retell the classic family stories shared around the table they matter to sue Shellenberger shares research that backs up this idea in her recent column the secret benefits of retelling family stories she's a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and joins us now welcome thank you Elsa So you write that research shows kids absorb a lot more information from family stories than most adults assume tell us what these studies bound at Emory University's Institute for liberal arts researchers have taken a really deep look at what kids remember from family stories and a surprisingly large number about 90 percent of teenagers and young adults can remember a family story when asked even when they seemed an interest riveted to their phones when the stories were told it was surprisingly they do you really listen and what are the psychological benefits of retaining all these family stories karats may be surprised to learn that their children actually acquire a sense of identity from hearing family stories they learn about their past people who came before them if parents describe their emotions when they tell stories their kids learned about regulating their own emotions and giving them names and the examples in the stories can even service antidotes for some of the pressures kids space today that they can see that well maybe it's Ok to take risks or you know Uncle Henry really screwed up once and he came out Oh so it's. So interesting because when I was growing up my mom used to talk about how hard she always studied and what a superstar student she weighs and I would think about her when I was studying for math tests and spelling test because I wanted to be her growing up and I did well in school and so I guess she got some benefit out of that it's humbling in a way when you're. Lysis in adults how much youngsters are listening to you so I know that you took this research and you presented it to a bunch of parents and kids how did they see these results play out in their own lives some kids were really inspired by their ancestors stories one woman said that her mother who had really suffered from a lot of personal problems and worked as a seamstress and became divorced she really found a new career by going to college and becoming a social worker at age 60 some of the best years of her life were working from age 660 to 78 as a social worker great and this woman took inspiration from that inner own life and really rejuvenated her career in her fifty's and became a college instructor at that time and she thinks her students benefit even from hearing these stories and don't be too stressed out if your career trajectory isn't a straight shot so as you were reflecting on each of these stories that stood out to you in your reporting could you kind of sum op what makes up for a particularly impactful story on children the story if told over a holiday table which is what we're approaching should be entertaining I think if you have his appearance to think ahead a little bit it's sometimes easier to tell a story over the Thanksgiving dinner table than it is on what it's to get you know 10 am and I think that it helps to maybe think through what's the point of this story one of my favorites or as I found in reporting this column but a young man from message she said to heard about how his grandfather instead of going to college on the day his parents showed up at his boarding school to drive him there jumped out a 2nd floor window grabbed his bags and took off for Chicago and lived under don't for a moment he wasn't having it and he came back after a year and went to college and did just fine but this young man remembered that story at a critical time in his life and it motivated him to take risks and to assume maybe things would work out Ok after all the point of that is there should be a value. To a sense of purpose that a child can remember and will resonate with that child when making a decision on their own in the future what about you when your family sits down for Thanksgiving dinner what kind of stories have you told your kids one thing I told my children was that I was not a particularly good student in college or even in grad school but I set out to work harder as hard as I could and that that actually eventually got me places I persisted and maybe out West some people competing for the same jobs you were Tarter because you felt like you had over com An academic record you weren't that proud of that's exactly right and I think my kids took from that that you learn partly by doing you get out in the workplace you apply yourself 100 percent and over time you will get the skills you need and not to be too discouraged if you don't get a perfect score on how it's entrance exam or a great grade in college and I think that really encouraged my children particularly my son who took that to heart so obviously we're talking about family stories here is sometimes they get told so much over the generations nobody thinks to actually fact check and here a few stories that we never have tried that didn't matter in terms of the way they impact the listeners whether these stories are true one of the longest time researchers on this topic Robin 5 ish University left clients but the same question she said these stories can evolve over time as we take different meaning from them and I know my own stories involve as I told them to my children I emphasize different things as I gained in maturity and wisdom and that's part of the benefit yes it should be true it should mean what you intend it to mean but the details may change over time our memories aren't perfect and so I think it's important to realize as your children grow up they will take new meaning from the stories just as you take new meaning from them as you mature and gain wisdom and love that sushi Ellenberger writes The Wall Street Journal's Work and Family column thank you so much for joining us this holiday week it's been my pleasure. 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Who oversees spending on national security programs he testified under oath earlier this month that the White House began inquiring about the funding for Ukrainian military aid in June it wasn't until July 25th the same day as president Trump's call with Ukrainian president's Olinsky that the official hold was placed on the 8 sand he said he warned the White House that the hold could run afoul of budget law he requested information on the hold for months but it wasn't until early September that a White House official explained that the president had concerns about other countries not contributing more to Ukraine the hold prevented about 35000000 in aid from reaching Ukraine on time Susan Davis n.p.r. News Washington we're running president trumps dealings with Ukraine the House Judiciary Committee says it's set to take the next step in the impeachment probe next week the body now scheduling a hearing December 4th where lawmakers say a variety of constitutional experts and others will address the question of high crimes and misdemeanors outlined under the Constitution and constitutional grounds for impeachment Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler also sent a letter to President Trump reiterating the president or his legal counsel can attend global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases continue to rise N.P.R.'s Rebecca Herschel reports on the latest analysis by the United Nations under the Paris climate agreement virtually every country in the world promised to .