I have taken this position especially you know since that basically says the Democrats took over the house that they don't have to cooperate and they continue that with this impeachment inquiry they told they told officials not to testify some of them some of the career people did go against them and went ahead and did that they have kept documents and they have just said the White House has taken this position that they don't have to comply with what Congress is asking and so and there was this question in all of some of the arguments that the Republicans were making was that that that the Congress should have done more to try to force people to testify that they should have done more to to kind of force the issue I think Democrats were looking at it and saying that it would just drag out and that's what they didn't want to happen because that's what happened with the Moeller inquiry it's kind of like the White House created a situation that allowed Republicans to say hey you're not getting testimony from people with firsthand knowledge all this is hearsay how can we impeach someone in here say well the White House has refused to allow people who had direct contact with the president testify although one of the strongest arguments I think that Republicans are making is that the Democrats could have pursued 2 tracks at once they didn't have to wait till the courts resolve this but why didn't they have the courage of their own convictions to actually issue a subpoena to John Bolton which they did not do why did they pull back the subpoena from John Bolton's former deputy which they did so they haven't you know they they haven't tried to get that that testimony with every possible tool that they had at the same time they don't want to wait they don't want to delay the process they could do both of the law and this is same to this is the argument that that constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley had been making when he testified before the House Judiciary Committee right he was a witness that Republicans had called and he said listen Democrats you will strengthen your argument. If you let the court splay out on these contested subpoenas that somehow he was arguing that unless Congress let that play or at least go to court you don't have to wait for them to decide but at least go to court that Congress was going to be the one the ones abusing their power not the president which was something that Republicans seized on I mean I want to play a clip from an interview we did earlier this morning with a Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee Congresswoman Jane appall of Washington state because this isn't as Democrats see it the obstruction charge in particular is not about a tit for tat your house you're not you're not releasing the documents you should she sees the stakes as far higher Let's listen to this clip that obstruction of Congress essentially means that we no longer have a democracy we no longer have those checks and balances that the framers were so intent on providing so that no one individual or one body in this case since we have 3 would ever be unchecked in its power Kelsey what do you make of that is that something that you're hearing from other members Yeah that's absolutely one of the part of the big discussion here I should say that we are seeing the chairs approaching right now Gerri now there is approaching the day aside with the other chairs of the committees who have participated the investigation and Speaker Pelosi is with them as well Speaker Pelosi approaching as well as he says with the committee chairs You're listening to Special Coverage the committee chairs congressional leadership in the Democratic Caucus will soon announce the articles of impeachment we have known that this step is coming and now Nancy Pelosi presumably will will announce what is in those articles. You're listening to n.p.r. Special coverage we're just awaiting Palosi as she. Here we go for members of Congress. Is the solemn apt to take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Respect and gratitude that I thank the chairs of the committees the 6 committees been working to help us honor our oath of office I also want to thank the staff of those committees and the committee members for all of their work over this period of time to help us protect and defend. I want to thank the chairman of the committee Mr Nasser chair of the Intelligence Committee. Mr shift as chair of the Ways and Means Committee. Chairman and all these chairman chairman Neil of Massachusetts the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee Eliot Engel of New York the chair of the Financial Services Committee Maxine Waters of California chair of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. I also want to acknowledge the important work that was done by our dear departed may rest in peace a life of Cummings as chair of the Committee of the Oversight Committee now please to yield to distinguish chair of the Judiciary Committee Mr Knapp and. 3rd you Madam Speaker over the last several months the investigative committees of the House are being gaijin an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump's efforts to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 elections. Efforts that compromised our national security and threatened the integrity of our elections throughout this inquiry he has attempted to conceal the evidence from Congress and from the American people our president holds the ultimate public trust when he betrays that trust and puts himself before country he endangers the Constitution he endangers our democracy and the endangers our national security the framers of the Constitution prescribed a clear remedy for presidents who so violate their oath of office that is the power of impeachment today in service to our duty to the Constitution and to our country the House Committee on the judiciary is introducing 2 articles of impeachment charging the president of the United States Donald j. Trump with committing high crimes and misdemeanors the 1st article is for abuse of power it is an impeachable offense for the president to exercise the powers of his public office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring or in injuring the national interest that is exactly what President Trump did when he solicited and pressured Ukraine to interfere in our 2020 presidential election thus damaging our national security undermining the integrity of the next election and violating his oath to the American people these actions moreover are consistent with president trumps previous invitations of foreign interference and have a 2016 presidential election. And when he was caught when the house investigated and opened an impeachment inquiry president trumping gauged in an unprecedented categorical and indiscriminate defiance of the impeachment inquiry this gives rise to the 2nd article of impeachment for obstruction of Congress here too we see a familiar pattern in president trumps misconduct a president who declares himself above accountability above the American people and above Congress's power of impeachment which is meant to protect against threats to our democratic institutions is a president who sees himself as above the law we must be clear no one not even the president is above the law I want to recognize the great contributions of the investigative chairs particularly intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel committee on oversight reforms former chairman the late Alija Cummings and his new chairwoman Carolyn Maloney financial services chairwoman Maxine Waters and Ways and Means chairman Richard Neal who helped lay the foundation for the articles we are introducing today I also want to thank my judiciary committee colleagues who are critical in our work to hold the president accountable and in the drafting of these articles. Later this week the Judiciary Committee will meet to consider these articles of impeachment and to make a recommendation to the full House of Representatives we do not take this action lightly but we have taken an oath to defend the Constitution and I'm like President Trump we understand that out of duty 1st and foremost is to protect the Constitution and to protect the interests of the American people that is why we must take this sounds that today elections are the cornerstone of democracy in a foundational to the rule of law but the integrity of our next election is that risk from a president who has already sought foreign interference in the 20162020 elections and who consistently puts himself above country that is why we must act now I want to turn now to chairmanship who explained the evidence that supports these articles and the need for us to act with such urgency today. Thank you Mr Chairman thank you Madam Speaker and to my colleagues Good morning. The framers of the Constitution recognized that some day a president might come to office who would abuse that office betray the public trust and undermine national security to secure foreign help and his reelection and who would seek to abrogate the power of Congress to hold him accountable they recognize this danger and they prescribe a remedy and that remedy is impeachment. It is an extraordinary remedy and one that I've been rather reluctant to recommend until the actions of President Trump gave Congress no alternative. We stand here today because the president's continuing abuse of his power has left us no choice to do nothing would make ourselves complicit in the president's abuse of his I office the public trust and our national security the president's misconduct is as simple and as terrible as this President Trump solicited a foreign nation Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into his opponent and a baseless conspiracy theory promoted by Russia to help his reelection campaign President Trump abused the power of his office by conditioning 2 official acts to get Ukraine to help his reelection the release of hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid that nation desperately needed and a White House meeting with an ally trying to fend off Russian aggression. In so doing he undermined our national security and jeopardized the integrity of our next election and he does so still. The evidence of the president's misconduct is overwhelming and uncontested and how could it not be when the president's own words on July 25th I would like you to do with a favor though lays so bare his intentions his willingness to sacrifice the national security for his own personal interests and when the president got caught he committed his 2nd impeachable act obstruction of Congress of the very ability to make sure that no one is above the law not even the president of the United States . The evidence is every bit as strong that President term has obstructed Congress fully without precedent and without basis in law if allowed to stand it would decimate Congress's ability to conduct oversight of this president or any other in the future. Leaving this president. And those who followed to be free to be as corrupt malfeasance or incompetent as they would like with no prospect of discovery or accountability Now some would argue why don't you just wait why don't you just wait until you get these witnesses the White House refuses to produce Why don't you just wait until you get the documents the White House refuses to turn over and people should understand what that argument really means it has taken us 8 months to get a lower court ruling that Donegan has no absolute right to defy Congress 8 months for one court decision. If it takes us another 8 months to get a 2nd court or maybe a Supreme Court decision people need to understand that is not the end of the process it comes back to us and we ask questions because he no longer has absolute immunity and then he claims something else that his answers are privileged and we have to go to back to court for another 8 or 16 months the argument why don't you just wait amounts to this. Why don't you just let him cheat in one more election. Why not let him cheat just one more time. Why not let him have foreign help just one more time that is what that argument amounts to. The presence misconduct goes to the heart of whether we can conduct a free and fair election in 2020 it is bad enough for a candidate to invite for interference in our political process but it is far more corrosive for a president to do so and to abuse his power to make it so. Despite everything we have uncovered the president's misconduct continues to this day unapologetically and right now as we saw. When he stood on the White House lawn and he was asked what did you want in that July 25th call and he said the answer was a simple one and not just a simple one on July 25th but a simple one today and that is he still wants Ukraine to interfere in our election to help his campaign. Even this week the president's lawyer was back in Ukraine seeking to revive the same debunked conspiracy theory promoted at the president's behest. Which gets to the final and most pernicious of the arguments that we have heard in the president's defense that the president can do whatever he wants under Article 2 including get foreigners involved in our elections and we should just to quote the president's chief of staff get over it. Ben Franklin said we have a republic if we can keep it the president and his men say you can't keep it and Americans should just get over it. Americans don't get to decide American elections anymore not by themselves not without foreign help. For the members of Congress this is not a question of fact because the facts are not seriously contested it is rather a question of duty the president's oath of office appears to mean very little to him but the articles put forward today will give us a chance to show that we will defend the Constitution and that our oath means something to us. I thank you Mr Chairman. One more listening to Special Coverage from n.p.r. Of the latest the latest step in the impeachment inquiry we just heard Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi introducing her committee chairs the chair of the House Judiciary Committee Gerald now also the chair of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff those 2 men have been leading the investigation into President Trump and whether or not he committed impeachable offenses and we heard there those committee chair the chairman outline the content of the articles of impeachment there will be 2 articles one on abuse of power and a 2nd article of impeachment will relate to obstruction of justice so let's talk about what that means the consequences of that I'm joined in studio by n.p.r. White House correspondent I go also n.p.r. Political correspondent Mara Liasson and we also have n.p.r. Congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell is on Capitol Hill Mara I want to turn to you 1st what did you make of what you heard there well we now know that the House has decided to keep this pretty narrow to just 2 articles abuse of power he solicited a foreign nation Ukraine to publicly announce an investigation into his opponents something that would help him that was not Congress want with the foreign policy of the United States but also I think the the 2nd article which is one that's probably less salient with the public but is more serious which is this separation of powers clash that he obstructed congress that. If the Democrats said if this is allowed to stand then Congress the Congress is ability to conduct oversight of the exact. Branch is decimated in other words the check and balance of 2 co-equal branches of government will be obliterated and other presidents have clashed with Congress have refused to turn over witnesses and documents but the argument that the Democrats are making is that they never did this in such a categorical way usually other presidents kind of negotiate something in the end but this is across the board no documents no witnesses and if you think Donald Trump or the Trump presidency is a stress test on democratic institutions certainly the Democrats feel that he is in this case and that he'd be undermining a pretty important one and I think that that argument is very real regardless of what happens with impeachment I do wonder and I think it's something that this country is going to have to deal with why would a President or future presidents comply with investigations from Congress like if you can't if you don't have to if you can get away with it I don't think any president or administration likes to be investigated why would you turn over evidence why would you turn over documents. I think that's a real question going forward for this country and what will happen with future presidents it's a real affirmation of executive power in this case Kelsey I want to ask you this this whole idea that if President Trump is not held accountable as Democrats say he needs to be for what they point to as impeachable offenses in particular obstruction of Congress in this investigation I mean does that is that something Republicans talk about are do they raise the concern that by not holding President Trump accountable that this will somehow undermine the institution that they represent it's really interesting because this is something that we have been exploring with the Republicans for more than a year we've talked to many of them about their feelings about the separation of powers eroding with each new president they do feel that in some ways that. Trump has gone around Congress they talk about things that he did like appointing acting people into positions of power instead of having them confirmed like secretaries of different agencies they feel very uncomfortable with Trump's actions but they never go as far as Democrats in what they want to do to kind of keep Trump reined in they never want to take actual steps to keep Trump from using the powers the way he wants to use them I do think it's really interesting too that they didn't really reference Robert Muller or his reports but they did talk about these Foundation a pattern of conduct that members have been discussing they want to vote on articles that make clear the president's actions with regard to Ukraine didn't happen in isolation Gerry now where the Judiciary Committee chairman called it a pattern of misconduct of inviting foreign interference in our elections and that is something they want to make clear when they vote that this is about a pattern of the president not just what he did in Ukraine Kelsey we actually have a clip of chairman now let's listen to this. We're still waiting on that clip of chairman Jerry Nadler but reaffirming some of what you just said about his arguments in about how the president has abused his power has obstructed Congress and the long term damage that could do to the democracy I want to turn instead to the Republicans arguments here because we heard these laid out yesterday in front of the Judiciary Committee Stephen Castor was the attorney who was representing the Republicans point of view let's let's hear him articulate the Republican defense the record in the Democrats' impeachment inquiry does not show the president trying to abuse the power of his office or obstructed Congress impeach a president who's 63000000 people voted for over 8 lines in a call transcript is Boni I mean Mara rehear Stephen Castor there pointing to 8 lines in that in the transcript the White House released the summary of that July 25th phone call with President Trump Adam Schiff pointed out 10 words rather I would like you to do us a favor that's right for the Democrats the mere ask was enough that as Schiff said President Trump solicited a foreign nation to publicly announce an investigation into his opponent thereby helping him in the next election that's enough for the Democrats for the Republicans they've put the bar much higher they're saying he has to have explicitly said if you don't do this I will not give you military aid and also the Republicans say it's just 8 lines Democrats would say we've had hours and hours of testimony that witness after witness corroborated the initial whistleblower account and went beyond that no one has contradicted what the president said that transcript and what's really interesting is the president decided to release the transcript even though the Democrats are accusing him of unprecedented categorical indiscriminate defiance he released that transcript because he thought it was expelled but Tory In other words he didn't do it because he. Spectate Congress has oversight article one he had hours it up he thought it would clear him out because it showed him being polite I'd like to ask you a favor not I'm going to break your legs but it jammed out not to have that effect I want to play some more tape of what we just heard we've got that clip now this is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Gerald now for throughout this inquiry he has attempted to conceal the evidence from Congress and from the American people our president holds the ultimate public trust when he betrays that trust and puts himself before country he endangers the Constitution he endangers our democracy and the endangers our national security and now this from the House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff the evidence is every bit as strong that President Trump has obstructed Congress fully without precedent and without basis in law if allowed to stand it would decimate Congress's ability to conduct oversight of this president or any other in the future. Leaving this president and those who follow to be free to be as corrupt malfeasance or incompetent as they would like with no prospect of discovery or accountability so will this move Republicans in a Senate trial Kelsey It is hard for me to see how it will move many Republicans if any this is something of that they they do have some discomfort with the president's unwillingness to participate in the norms and even the regulations of the way that the White House is supposed to behave with relation to Congress they have never been able to identify what they want to do about it and for many of them impeachment is a bridge far too far for them to get on board they have a lot of voters who still support this president you have been listening to Special Coverage from n.p.r. News we heard the Democratic committee chairs outline 2 articles of impeachment against President Donald j. Trump. This is Special Coverage from n.p.r. News. Coming up on the next another round of impeachment hearings in the House Judiciary Committee break it all down. The impossible cost of health care in. $40000.00. We'll take a look at the cost of health care consolidation in America that's coming up on the next point from n.p.r. . This morning at 10 on the next fresh air Peter Bergen national security analyst. And author of the new book general. Talk about how Trump went from bragging about the administration to later basically going to war with. The generals are no longer in the administration. Today at noon. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly Well months ago House Democrats announced they're moving forward with their impeachment of President Trump the House Committee on the judiciary is introducing 2 articles of impeachment charging the president of the United States Donald j. Trump with committing high crimes and misdemeanors That's House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler of New York speaking at a news conference alongside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic lawmakers the articles of impeachment or abuse of power and obstruction of Congress stemming from Trump's July phone call with the president of Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening to expel German diplomats after Germany expelled 2 employees at Russia's embassy in Berlin Here's N.P.R.'s Rob Schmitz in Germany expelled Russian embassy employees last week over Moscow's failure to cooperate in the investigation of the murder of a former Chechen commander in a Berlin Park in August Germany's highest prosecutor says there is sufficient evidence the murder was carried out by the Russian government Putin denies any involvement describing the murdered man as a bandit and killer he said Russia's request to extradite him had not been heeded He added though that Moscow is ready to assist in the investigation German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she'd raise the issue of Putin during their bilateral talks in Paris urging for Moscow to cooperate option it's n.p.r. News Berlin this is n.p.r. News Washington. Search teams in New Zealand say conditions on White Island remain too dangerous for crews to set out on foot with more than a half dozen people still missing following yesterday's volcanic eruption at least 6 people were killed many more were injured some remain hospitalized with burns from the steam and ash the European Court of Human Rights is demanding the release of Turkish businessman and activist Osman. As during bus Karen reports of allah has been held for 2 years on charges of trying to overthrow Turkey's government and a verdict still livered by a chamber of 7 judges the court says Qabala was detained in order to silence him and other human rights defenders Turkish Prosecutors accused him of participating in an elaborate scheme to overthrow the government connected to the 2013 protests in Istanbul's Gezi Park today's decision from the European Court of Human Rights is not a done deal Turkey has previously ignored the court's decisions but it does put international pressure on Turkish authorities to order release of Allah helped found the Turkish arm of the Us based Open Society Foundation which funds efforts to sustain democracy worldwide the group ceased operations in Turkey last year for n.p.r. News I'm very scared and Istanbul and repeating our top story moments ago House Democrats announced 2 articles of impeachment against President Trump. I'm Dave Mattingly n.p.r. News in Washington. I'm Robin Young a new chapter in the impeachment inquiry unfolds this week as Democrats begin drafting articles of impeachment speak of historian Julian Zelizer How does this inquiry compared to others in u.s. History next time here and now. Join us this afternoon at 2. Many Democrats views on Medicare for all are drawn from their personal experiences with the health care system some insurances want to cover them some insurance as well cover half the sensor that I have for my insulin plan is not covered by Medicare I don't have any health care at all the divide on Medicare for all this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Listen this afternoon at 4 support comes from oh sure Lifelong Learning Institute at u. Conn Waterbury support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Heather Stewart Hagen and Paul g. Hagar supporting African Wildlife Foundation working to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern Africa learn more at a w.f. 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Well you know it went on for hours and hours and didn't break up until after midnight so here's this press conference you know after midnight you had this young neophyte politician Volodymyr Zelinsky meeting with the strong man who's run Russia for 20 years without a mere Putin and continues to create havoc in Ukraine so everyone is watching body language and faces and Zelinsky and Putin were at the far end of the table separated by their mediators German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel macro Solecki spoke 1st all right after the host my call and he appeared nervous but it's what he said seemed heartfelt Harry as you can hear him and I believe she will Greenstein it's really true also he said he had all of Ukrainians with him in Paris and he felt their support he said he also had truth with him and the desire for justice and peace in his own country he said the meetings were long but they were concrete and important and that the dialogue had been unblocked Selenski also asserted that Ukraine is an independent and free country and its future will be decided by Ukrainians and he asserted that Donbass that's eastern Ukraine and Crimea are part of Ukraine Remember Russia took Crimea 5 years ago and still destabilizing eastern Ukraine Well what exactly did they agree on then given that Russian forces still control a lot of Ukraine right well they agreed on a ceasefire before the end of the year but I might add that there have been 20 cease fires in this war so will it hold but what was really important and is very concrete and measurable is they agreed to exchange all prisoners before New Year's Eve So that will be measurable and also they agreed by next March to withdraw forces from 3 major conflict zones and this Crisis Group is going to meet again in 4 months when you say crisis group that includes a manual the president of France the host of this meeting in Paris where you are what is his perspective on all this while France has taken a lead role in trying to to solve the situation has actually spoken recently of a getting a new die. Namak between the wrath the West and Russia you know retiring Russia to Europe he wants a reset and it's actually one of the things that mackerel and President Trump agree upon also you know what Steve Michael needs a win and he needs a win on the international stage he's not in good shape at home I don't know if you have her but there's huge strikes and protests and Paris and then a huge protest today against his pension overhaul So I spoke with analyst Chris John McAfee He's editor of L'Express magazine and here's what he said about the talks. It's something very concrete about Ukraine and. There is someone who can help him it's Selenski because he's also in a corner because of the tramp affair. So you know he said they need each other and you know what you could see that the while the Lenski spoke he would look down the table over at my call and I would look at him and smile is almost like a smile of encouragement his his guide it was buttressing Zelinsky you know encouraging him to keep going it was very interesting appreciate your observant eye on our thanks so much think is the That's N.P.R.'s Eleanor Beardsley in Paris President Trump has long complained that the United States is a loser on the playing field of global trade now his administration is going after the raf the United States is taking action to sideline the World Trade Organization which has been the chief in force or of global trading rules allies say the president simply wants to reform the organization critics say he is tearing it apart here's N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley you might not think the World Trade Organization would have much to say about solar rooftops in Connecticut but it does for years Connecticut like other states has offered rebates to homeowners who invest in solar panels the goal was really to encourage adoption of residential solar projects sell you prices with Connecticut's Green Bank which runs the program for a while the state offered an extra incentive to homeowners who bought solar Quitman . That was made in Connecticut not many did nevertheless India challenge that provision along with similar by local measures in other states and the World Trade Organization ruled in India's favor saying it's illegal for the u.s. To champion domestic products over foreign imports President Trump complains that as an international trade referee the deputy yo is taking advantage of the u.s. We never used to read it before me because before me the United States is a sucker in fact since the founding the u.s. Has enjoyed a good track record of winning cases there but as of today the appellate body that decides those cases and rules on trade disputes between countries is losing its power term limits have left 6 out of 7 seats on the appellate body vacant and the trumpet ministration is blocking the appointment of replacements u.s. Trade representative Robert light hisor says the administration is fed up with an appellate body that drags its feet makes its own rules and fails to deal with trade challenges posed by countries like China we clearly need to reform every other country or almost every other country has made the same point previous administrations have raised similar complaints but none has gone so far as to cripple the w t o n Foresman body Carly Hills who had light her job in the 1st Bush administration acknowledges the w.t. 0 needs modernizing to deal with 21st century challenges like digital trade and powerful state subsidies in China it's kind of like having an old house that didn't have a washing machine and a to be upgraded that doesn't mean you're knocked out the house Hill's warns that without a functioning appellate body to decide cases countries may be tempted to ratchet up tariffs and make other hostile trade moves I think it's a law of the jungle from its inception in the 1990 s. The deputy you know is designed to prevent big powerful countries from throwing their weight around Trump However like the freedom to squeeze other countries and drive a hard bargain just as he did in his business career veteran trade lawyer Scotland succumbs says whatever the shortcomings of the deputy o. . 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News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin we turn to art to try and process the world around us the joys and the tragedies tonight the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will premiere a new dance piece in New York it is called owed the choreographer says the work is an ode to gun violence in America and I was inspired by the deaths of Trayvon Martin and others Jeff Lunden reports there are no gunshots in oh did but it begins with one dancer motionless on the floor as a piano place detached chords. The dancer gets up and is eventually joined by 5 other dancers and flowing circular motions they dance together is an ensemble but then one dancer falls and crumples to the floor he's picked up by another dancer but then 2 of them fall inspiration for the piece was a couple years ago when there was this long stand of what appeared to be racially biased sittings by the police Jim or Robert is the 1st resident choreographer for the elite company and created this stance and really disturbs me and I start to think about what does it mean you know what does it mean to me what does it say about our world was that say about our community is set to a solo jazz piano score by the late Don Poland called Sweet sweet Malcolm Part One memories and gunshots you know piano and bodies the beautiful the Celesio sublime but it also has like this process of ness about it that I really like. The piece has 3 distinct sections one being a life the middle section being 3rd despair and the end section being an afterlife or some type of resolution went out premieres tonight 6 men will perform it but in a couple of weeks the same dance will be performed by an all female cast gray divorce Stokes is the solo as. I had questions for the choreographer about the casting and he told us what it was about about victims and families and survivors of that violence in America we kind of understood the q. Dynamics it had female that's of course where mothers were sisters were on where daughters and also sometimes victims but it is a predominantly male centric issue dancer Jiro a bomb Bozeman does the same steps with the all male cast he says some of the movement particularly during the per customer middle section is angular and intense and some is in slow motion but it's all very personal these things impact me as a black male in a dance and living in America so having small imagery of bodies laying down slowly I think of it as playing bodies to rest and kind of giving them that closure for them to say. As he's worked on more Robert says not only coached the dancers on the steps but the meaning behind them paying homage to the lives lost and the survivors who carry on I think art has power has been power to bring things to lie you know and have people see the world in ways that they may not have seen and then says it without words and I think that that is one of the most beautiful things about this art form and. We don't use or words but everybody knows exactly what the feeling is and audiences across America will be able to feel the power of this winter as the Alvin Ailey Company takes it on tour for n.p.r. News I'm Jeff Lunden in New York. This is n.p.r. News on the. Radiolab we asked he takes a look at him and says Question Who are you when you look at his mother says Dr who this woman she was thinking this is some strange man who's sitting here you know her husband's clothing this woman looks exactly like she's an impostor. Impostor she is an imposter can you ever really know another person like really know that's on the next radio that was him tonight at 9. To chipper wonder where we come from and where we're going I think we already are a different species we've supersized our diets we have eradicated certain diseases we're putting more data into our brains and wonder than we used to put in a life time I'm Guy Raz The source of everything our origins and our future next time on the Ted Radio Hour from n.p.r. . And tonight at 11. I was a scholar American read Coming up on the wheel house We're live from New Haven we're talking about New Haven stuff but not only new Even stuff yes New Haven gentrification but was also be talking state politics state journalism in a word that rhymes with shoals that were really really tired of talking about you know shoals All right joining us from New Haven into your speakers tomorrow morning at 9. Just in time for the holidays unwrap Connecticut magazine's December issue with Connecticut artisans crafting unique creations and the gift guide stuffed with 50 ideas to shop local on newsstands and online and Connecticut Mag dot com. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin the hit film from South Korea parasite has added 3 Golden Globe nominations to its growing list of accolades the movie's director bond June hole as a rising star and N.P.R.'s Neda Ulaby recently had a chance to sit down and talk with him about what this year marking 100 years of Korean filmmaking means I caught director at the end of a hectic publicity push this must have been his 100th interview in a week he said and he has a target or share in Troy or a little slap at the start over and so with this interview he wants to charge not easy any of the words he's been using so far words director Bob is officially tired of includes class. Warfare the 1st idea next project. Director Paul may also be getting tired of the word Oscar it's widely speculated that parasite could be the 1st ever foreign language film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. This story about a rich family and a poor one sharing a house is already the year's highest grossing foreign language film it's in rapture audiences partly for the actor's shining performances I set them free director and host has his style has everything to do with his predecessors it turns on you for the genuine guy now we've reached the 100th year of Korean sentiment and I hope people will discover that Korean cinema has also had a lot of masters like who so many 20300 overlays tofail and but. They don't open the question and go but I will introduce 2 films that are very accessible and easy to watch the house may. Be young but $966.00 must be house neat came out in 1960 it remains hugely influential director Buntin hoses the story is something similar to. The parasite it keeps in parasite you may recognize the story of an upwardly mobile family with an interloper in the form of the family name. Grady Hendrix has seen lots of Korean movies he co-founded the New York Asian Film Festival and she says disruptive influence was poisoning people with rap poison having an affair with a husband and killing the kids and this is real gothic nightmare and that spawned several remakes it was a big hit at the time as an enormously influential Korean ferry and helped the stablished to which parasite belongs this sort of drama of domestic Dothan. Meaning maids people locked in basements or bloody birthday parties may reflect the anxieties of a country where families remain divided across borders and class mobility is relatively new still says Grady Hendrix those fears are hardly limited to South Korea it's this real sense that the ice is very very thin and the raft of money you've built could go under at any moment which brings us to director bond you hoes 2nd film recommendation posts Secret Sunshine the tongue. And then again secrets when China in 2007 stars 2 of the main actors in parasite it's about his grief and like parasite there's a shocking twist all these movies face the fragility of what we call here the American dream as great a Hendrix and perhaps that's propelled parasite success worldwide and if the movie has a thesis statement that stated over and over throughout with all the subtlety of a concrete block being dropped on your head it isn't life last year plans poor people shouldn't dream of being rich because you won't get there rich people shouldn't dream of safe because you aren't safe Still director bond Junho says parasite was intended to be bittersweet but I'm in this hobby so I don't think that as a person or as a creator I've become pessimistic about the world with parasite I really wanted to be honest I didn't want to brag. Random hope to the audience I really wanted to reflect the truth of our current times and I think the and Dana this found really reflects that as well and reflect them with a domestic drama for the world. Libby n.p.r. News while the Oscars and the Golden Globes will honor the best films of the year we're thinking bigger than a single year we are considering one of the best films of the past decade we asked the enigmatic Jeff Goldblum Well favorite movies from this decade Well listen this is going to sound self-serving and awful but there are a couple that I'm in believe it or not I think that Wes Anderson is a genius and I've been lucky enough to be in a couple this decade the Grand Budapest Hotel I think is a beautiful beautiful work why would you want to be a lot people who wouldn't at the crimbo to pester and also I love dogs is a quite quite beautiful canine so to raise them has reached epidemic proportions. There so person all his movies and of course stylishly unconventional and unique trash island becomes an example because. The I Love don't exist but sides that there's another movie that we came out that I think is very artful and I I like a lot just from the inside out it's called the mountain and Rick Al verse and directed it to believe their dreams are. Besides that the ones that I'm not in let me see you know what came to mind as I was thinking of this I like Paul Thomas Anderson another Anderson and I like a master with you do. Me right down to the newcomers. This is the room to call from Los. Lobos home I am a man just like you. I do love his kind of political awareness and the the how they touch on the American story that part of the American story that is complicated and sometimes darkish good science by definition allows for more than one opinion which is why our gathering of data is so far reaching Otherwise you really have the will of one man which is the basis of cult I would love to work with him I liked inherent price I like to all of his movies playing nice and of course great gee I just think he's a very special he admired somebody that I work with I think worked with him a little bit with Robert Altman I did 4 movies with Robert Altman I was so lucky to encounter him early in my career. You should never name drop you know who told me that Robert Turner. 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And w b u r Boston I made the trucker party this is on point abuse of power and obstruction of Congress 2 articles of impeachment against the president of the United States and Bill today by House Democrats America has arrived at this place for only the 4th time in its history Democrats argue that if president trumps actions aren't impeachable the nothing is Republicans are railing against the process and insisting Democrats are holding the office of the presidency hostage to a manufactured scandal so what happens now what could happen before the end of this year and what's at stake next some point analyzing the articles of impeachment 1st the new. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Corba Coleman House Democrats have announced the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump N.P.R.'s Claudio reports the Democrats have announced 2 articles abuse of power and obstruction of Congress the House Judiciary Committee could approve the articles of impeachment later this week that would be followed by a historic floor vote on impeachment as early as next week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined the chairs of committees leading the impeachment inquiry to make the announcement on this solemn day and I recall that the 1st order of business for members of Congress. This is a solemn asked to take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States the plans come on the heels of a daylong hearing laying down the groundwork to draw up articles of impeachment Clottey Selous n.p.r. News the Capitol President Trump is set to receive Russia's foreign minister at the White House today N.P.R.'s Jackie Northam says foreign minister Sergei Lavrov last visited Trump in 2017 but is in Washington now to meet Secretary of State Mike come pale Pompei you know a lot of rough have a number of pressing issues to discuss including the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria life rafts last visit here was controversial photographs showed the Russian foreign minister and President Trump sharing a laugh in the Oval Office and that was one day after Trump fired then f.b.i. Director James Comey who at the time was heading up the investigation into the trouble campaign's involvement with Russians N.P.R.'s Jackie Northam House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is holding another press conference at this hour she is expected to discuss the status of a new Accord that supposed to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement as recently as yesterday Pelosi said negotiations over the pact were close but not complete President Trump tweeted last hour it looked like there was good support among Democrats for the trade pact a lawsuit expected to be filed in California today demands that the University of California system stop using the s.a.t. And the a.c.t.a. In its admissions process n.p.r. Has obtained a draft of the complaint it claims that the tests are biased against low income and nonwhite students N.P.R.'s Alyssa nab Warney reports the lawsuit is being filed by the pro bono firm public counsel on behalf of students and a number of advocacy organizations they complain argues that by requiring these tests.