Will be leaving this fall again met with special counsel Robert Muller's team and reportedly answered questions for hours Harvard professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told N.P.R.'s Morning Edition that he believes that the main factor him against departure but he also says McGinn is not Trump's personal lawyer many presidents see the White House counsel as there are a lawyer but he's not there are a lawyer he's a lawyer for the presidency these are shuttle distinctions that are awfully hard to make when you're a kind of politician who's thinking about the big picture in the political picture President Trump is tweeting today that his decision on McGann had nothing to do with the Moeller probe or what Trump calls quote the ring Russia witch hunt President Trump heads to Indiana later today for a rally with supporters he's continuing a heavy roster of campaign events ahead of the midterm elections as N.P.R.'s Sarah McCammon reports Trump is visiting a state with a closely watched Senate race Indiana is a mostly red state the home of vice president Mike Pence in a place that solidly supported Trump in 2016 that makes Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly potentially vulnerable as he runs for reelection in November Donnelly is up against Republican challenger Mike Bron a businessman and former state representative Ron has aligned himself closely with President trot on issues including his trade policies which have been controversial in ag states like Indiana Donnelly is among a handful of red state Democrats up for reelection who are facing pressure from supporters of Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh Sarah McCammon n.p.r. News Evansville Indiana Detroit is celebrating the life of the queen of soul in royal style this week before her funeral on Friday N.P.R.'s Debbie Elliott reports Aretha Franklin will lie in honor today at the Church founded by her late father over the last 2 days thousands. The fans have paid their final respects to Franklin filing past her gold plated casket in the rotunda of the Charles Wright Museum of African-American history today visitation moves to New Bethel Baptist Church it's the Regal treatment says funeral director O'Neal Swanson the 2nd and keeping with her. Usual personality and. Uniqueness you have to provide a service that's a different it's distinguishable and I think that's what this is this evening there's a people's tribute to the queen a free concert with more than 20 acts including the 4 Tops and Gladys Knight Debbie Elliott n.p.r. News Detroit on Wall Street stocks are lower the Dow Jones Industrials are down 60 points at 26063 the Nasdaq is down 16 points you're listening to n.p.r. News it's you know for this is news from Aspen Public Radio I'm Zoe Rome earlier this week the state approved excel in her G.'s plan to close to coal fired power plants as Elizabeth several reports the move means more renewable energy for the state x.l. Plans to retire 2 aging coal fired power plants in Pueblo and invest 2 and a half $1000000000.00 in clean energy including wind and solar Excel provides electricity to 1400000 customers statewide including some in Carbondale and Glen wood Springs the move was applauded by environmental groups and green energy advocates including Aspen Skiing Company vice president of sustainability Auden Chandler this move which will bring Colorado to 55 percent clean power by 2026 it is a nation if not world leading it may be one of the most significant climate victories in the country this year much of the Roaring Fork Valley gets its electricity from Holy Cross energy c.e.o. Brian Hannigan says it too is working on acquiring more renewable energy and some of that will come from exiles plan. Environment reporter Elizabeth Stewart several hear more tomorrow at 330 on Valley round up the g.s. Labor Day experience returns to Snowmass this weekend Sunday American rock n roll band the record company takes the stage in front of a sold out crowd arts and culture reporter Kristin Kaye has more the record company might be relative newcomers to the rock scene they just released their 2nd album all of this life but Chris Voss the singer and guitarist for the group says they're influenced by some of music's elder statesman Muddy Waters to think of her early rock n roll Chuck Berry as your Elvis Presley's your Little Richard's big fans of The Stones Hendrix and on down the line the group is the opener on Sunday but boss says the energy they put into their live shows stays with their audiences we just try to throw down with reckless abandon or have a really good time it's about fun it's about positivity the j s Labor Day experience starts tomorrow night and runs through Sunday other acts include Lionel Richie Jack Johnson and the Zac Brown Band Kristen k. Atlas Neeson arts and culture to ask the salt in Eagle County consider a new collaboration on zoning that they hope could lead to less bickering pastoring coming up at 833 I'm Zoe Rome Aspen Public Radio News 8 o 7 Good morning support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include. Working in partnership with open source libraries technologies and open access journals to support libraries and their users learn more at Abscam dot com and that William c. Grant foundation at w.c. Grant Foundation dot org. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm David Greene in Culver City California and I'm Rachel Martin in Washington d.c. Canadian negotiators are working away here in Washington to hammer out a trade deal ahead of a Friday deadline to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA President Trump said Wednesday that a deal would be quote very good for Canada and Canada's foreign minister Krista Freeland seemed to agree sounding a cautiously optimistic note about talks this week but Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau made it clear he will not sign just anything I said from the very beginning no live to deal is better than a bad NAFTA deal we've got Christophe Bondy on the line with us he was senior counsel in Canada's negotiations with the e.u. Over a trade deal and he joins us from the b.b.c. In London Mr Bonnie thanks for being here thanks very much so those are bold words from the Canadian prime minister the u.s. Is Canada's largest trading partner I mean can Canada afford not to sign some kind of revised NAFTA agreement. Well I think Canada is going to continue its longstanding efforts to have a good update to the NAFTA one knows that President Trump only has congressional authority to do a 3 way deal and the deadline of Friday really relates to his efforts to get this deal over the line in time to have congressional approval before the midterms so that he can declare a winner I think Canada's negotiators are very experienced they're level headed and will agree to the deal if it's encountered disinterest if not the discussions will continue and the original NAFTA stays in place. Don't forget this is just a preliminary agreement in principle and some of the sticking points I think the Canadian negotiators may see this as an opportunity to deal with some of the more difficult issues I don't want to talk about those but you do point out something important here that Canada does have some leverage even the president has established this deadline of Friday. So he can get this through before there's new leadership in Mexico. He actually doesn't have the authority to negotiate to bilateral deals that would be different Congress gave him the authority to negotiate a deal that would include Canada and Mexico so you feel like Canada has has some leverage in the moment well the other thing is that Canada is the u.s. Is single biggest foreign export partner for 35 u.s. States Canada is their single biggest foreign export market millions of u.s. Jobs depend upon 3 way trade between Canada Mexico and the United States the automotive industry in particular is deeply integrated and so to you know try to to sort of throw a spanner in that kind of work to be very economically damaging for the United States but that's not what we're focusing on here I'm sure that the negotiators are looking to work to mutual advantage and they're thinking about some of the negative impacts that may flow from some of the more protectionist rules that have been. Proposed So one of the interesting questions is if you increase the amount of auto parts content for example the North American content rule what impact will that have on the total sales of North American cars we should just say that this is this is a tenet of the Us Mexico proposal the president from Trump has agreed to that would require that a certain percentage of the parts of any car be come a originate from North America yeah so I think one has to just analyze that and see does it come to the right outcome I mean can it is a high wage economy so perhaps it's less relevant for us it's like the steel and alum Union tariffs that have been imposed that end up acting as a tax to American producers to American consumers and end up leading to countervailing tariffs which are damaging to both economies so I think that we're trying to seek the negotiators will be trying to seek a rules big approach an update that makes sense for everyone what concession would Canada make. I don't know I'm not part of the negotiations right now I think they're going to be looking at the deal that's on the table and considering whether they can agree to the elements at least these issues in principle that u.s. And Mexico have been discussing Don't forget it's not unusual in a multi-party negotiation to have sideline discussions Canada has been following those closely and is coming to the table with an understanding of what's being discussed but I am sure that the outcome if it's in everyone's interest will be a positive one Christophe Bondy was lead counsel to Canada and multiple NAFTA arbitrations you know practices law with Cooley l.l.p. He joined us from the studios of the b.b.c. In London thanks so much for time this morning we appreciate it thank you some us cities are trying to open up medically supervised sites where people can inject illegal drugs the trouble ministration is threatening prosecution Bobby Allen of member station w.h.y. Why has more on Tuesday deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein wrote an op ed in The New York Times outlining the administration's opposition to so-called supervised injection sites Rosenstein agreed to sit down with n.p.r. He says providing a place for people to inject illegal drugs is a crime I'm not aware of any valid basis for the argument that you can engage in criminal activity as long as you do it in the presence of somebody with a medical license Rosenstein says supervised injection sites where people bring their own drugs to use in a medical space normalizes drug use he says those addicted to opioids need treatment not more places to use heroin and other illegal substances This is not a disease that gets spread like the flu people can only become addicted if they have access to these illegal drugs and so if we can prevent that access we can prevent an addiction most studies challenge Rosenstein view academic research has shown that sites can drive down fatal overdoses and advocates say they help move more people into treatment and that's why. At least a dozen cities want to open them they point to the latest gram federal statistics they show that more than 72000 people died from drug overdoses last year that's nearly 200 people a day in a crisis like this with as many people dying as we have it's worth a try That's Thomas Farley the health commissioner for Philadelphia one of the cities moving forward with supervised injection nobody likes the idea of watching people who are addicted just inject drugs we want to get all those people into drug treatment but we all have to recognize that despite all of our efforts many people not going to drug treatment Farley worries that if the Justice Department's threats spread widely enough people will be too scared to show up on the city site does open you know if the message is clear that if you walk into a facility going to be arrested people wouldn't be using that in California law makers recently passed a bill awaiting the governor's approval that would advance a 3 year supervised injection site pilot program San Francisco mayor London breed says the Justice Department putting cities on notice should make them back down given the worsening over to the problem and I think that there is strength in numbers and we're talking to other cities who want to consider this as an option I mean here in San Francisco and other cities like New York I'm in Seattle we're trying to address this crisis just because somebody tells you San Francisco that San Francisco is not going to prosecute you for doing something that does not make it legal deputy attorney general Rosenstein says the view from Washington is different it remains illegal under federal law and people engage in that activity remain vulnerable to civil and criminal enforcement Rosenstein says federal officials are watching every city with supervised injection site plans he said asking a judge for an injunction is on the table so is a criminal prosecution with decades of possible prison time but city officials say they plan to move forward with their plans for supervised injection sites even if it means risking arrest for n.p.r. News I'm Bobby Allen in Philadelphia. The city of Detroit continues to celebrate the life in the music of the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin today the New Bethel Baptist Church will hold a public viewing of her body this is the church where young Aretha found her voice and launched her career morals services like this can of course be somber events but a wreath visitations have been anything but Quinn Klinefelter of member station has more. Friends take those own head down with the book and the suit a very. Few thousands of fans have already viewed Franklin disciplined in her gold casket she was lying in repose at the right Museum of African-American history over the past 2 days and a kind of a wreath a theme to bazaars sprang up along the sidewalks around the museum dozens of tables filled with posters and shirts featuring Franklin at one table is a seller who gave his name as Kwasi Biddy aka He chewed on a toothpick saying the media publicity over the passing of the queen of soul drew him from Alabama to do business here though he says he never sought any permission from her family to do so it's a demotion and it's immediate that right after the transition so the family problems in your state of shock boy and in mourning and been a problem so we just take it as it is in fact many people here were embracing the chance to in essence buy a piece of this moment in history that includes Brenda Mackintosh Boone who was haggling with vendors on packing a van filled with shirts she says she definitely wants something to commemorate Franklin's passing just to remember her every time I put it on I get think about her because she was a soul singer she could just take you through some of your problems nearby Detroit or Alice Fowler says Franklin helped her personally Voller says she was born to a mother in prison she shared her story with the singer at a church one day and says that encounter reshaped her life she told me I was going to be a strong person so she was really a good as Rush as the. Save me from drugs and everything I tell ever says the end she was always like the angel to me fall or glances of the merchandise passing hands she's not by and finds it far from angelic just what I was saying my wires are so much they should be almost given away this is a legend a die it's a starting time and 2nd place for stuff with that dollar filters back into the crowd squeezing past others still searching for their souvenir for n.p.r. News I'm Quinn Klinefelter in Detroit right. Here 2 2 6 6. And later today on All Things Considered Germany has been suffering under high temperatures and severe drought and many farmers they are starting to question whether they can survive climate change to listen to that story more Ask your smart speaker to play n.p.r. Or your local member station by name. This is n.p.r. News. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm David Greene a volunteer trip to Africa over school vacation had a special meaning to several Missouri students this summer it was the kind of program where young people travel overseas to dig wells or maybe help build a village school but for these students it was also a trip to the nation where they were born Kenya St Louis Public Radio's Ryan De Laney has the story of their trip and also the man who made it happen Jeffrey saurian tat made the move from Kenya to Missouri when he was 29 years old it was January he remembers the cold point I wanted to go back but I did we had a very lot of struggle he says he struggled because there wasn't much of a community of Kenyan immigrants for him to lean on now 43 he spent several years trying to build a network of job and housing resources suddenly he was the got a call for Kenyans moving to St Louis so I had to resupply my phone was actually calling all the time he now runs a nonprofit be tender for Africa which translates to action for Africa and Swahili which assists and mentors new arrivals but he worries younger immigrants are losing some of their Kenyan heritage so most of them there are kind of China we be immigrants and because of that the loss of my dentity through his organization so intact leads trips of teenage Kenyan immigrants back to their home country over summer breaks 4 teenagers joined scientists travelling around K