Clashing with police and shopping malls today's demonstrations come as Leader Kerry lamb is in Beijing she is to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping tomorrow President Trump tweeted overnight about New Jersey Congressman Jeff Andrew he is a freshman Democrat from New Jersey who is believed to be planning to switch parties and become a Republican as the House moves to hold a vote this week on whether to impeach the president Fandor was among the House Democrats who represent districts Trump carried in 2016 in New Jersey last night family members remembered one of the people killed in an attack on a kosher market last Tuesday N.P.R.'s Jeff Brady reports Douglas Rodriguez was an employee at the store during the memorial service a staff person for Senator Bob Menendez gave Douglas Rodriguez's wife a folded u.s. 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News and The Good morning the moment is arriving this week on Wednesday lawmakers will have to put their vote where their speeches have been the full House will cast their ballots for or against impeaching President Trump on Wednesday and that vote is expected to go along party lines with the Democrats in the majority President Trump will be impeached and after that a trial in the Senate to consider whether Trump should be removed from office but Senate Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox News's Sean Hannity that there is quote 0 chance the Senate will vote to convict the President so is this all a foregone conclusion and P.R.'s national political correspondent Mara Liasson will have the answer for us this morning Hi Mara Hi Lou All right no quote no cliffhanger that's the question do we already know what's going to happen well we know that the House will vote to impeach the Democrats do have the votes the vote in the Judiciary Committee was strictly along party lines 23 to 17 we don't expect any Republicans to vote yes on the House floor but we do expect a handful of Democrats to vote No he just don't know how many of them are right so take us through the next steps what exactly does a Senate impeachment trial look like well despite the fact that the president has said he wanted witnesses he wants a kind of spectacular trial he once called the Bidens he seems to now be accepting the will of the Senate Republicans who want a short trial with potentially no outside witnesses at all because they know that if Republicans did try to get the Bidens as witnesses Democrats would insist on having witnesses like Mick Mulvaney and Mike bump aoe and John Bolton the bill that the White House prevented from testify they don't want to do there right it's a double edged sword or in the words of Mitch McConnell calling witnesses quote mutually assured destruction and even Lindsey Graham who's one of the president's most ardent defenders said let's just deep 6 this thing as fast as we can. Deep 6 this thing as fast as we can how long do you think this is going to last that I think it will last about 2 weeks that's what I'm hearing from people I talk to on both sides of the aisle Republicans can't just dismiss this the minute it comes over there they have to show the public they're serious about this process but it seems like Mitch McConnell has decided that for his incumbent Republicans who are up for reelection in 2020 a long trial is not a good thing I want to take us back for a moment to last week when we saw Democrats and Republicans really going at each other for hours and hours in the last hearing it seems like Democrats and Republicans are living in these different universes if you were watching this as a viewer you're just getting this completely different narratives What struck you about what you heard Well what struck me we already knew the basic contours of both sides arguments Democrats say the president abused his power by simply asking a foreign government to open an investigation into one of his top 2020 rivals that's interference in an American election. But the 2nd article of impeachment he obstructed Congress by across the board refusing to honor subpoenas for witnesses and documents Republicans which was more interesting to me seemed to be moving away from the yes he might have asked but it doesn't rise to the level of impeachment because there was no quid pro quo that the aide finally went to he never asked which is amazing because on the south lawn back in October when he was asked exactly what he wanted Ukraine to do he said this they should investigate the by by the way likewise China just started investigation instead of by because what happened to China is just about as bad as what happened with. With Ukraine so he did it in plain sight in front of the cameras but now Republicans some of them are saying he didn't do it and some Republicans are even going so far as to say it's Ok to ask foreign governments to interfere that is definitely a change in tune n.p.r. National political correspondent Mara Liasson who will be looking at impeachment all next week thanks so much thank you today is the last day of open enrollment for 2020 under the Affordable Care Act also known as Obamacare it's help provide health care coverage for millions of Americans Republicans have long been trying to weaken Obamacare both in and out of court and for a check up on the health of the law itself we're joined now by Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News Hi Thanks for having me so remind us who this deadline effects it affects everyone who's currently enrolled in the Affordable Care Act It affects people who have been thinking about it perhaps want to check it out and they can start at Health Care dot gov if they want to take a look and what have you seen during open enrollment this time around when it comes to how many people are signing up overall it's down about 6 percent at this point however the number of people who are coming back and actively renewing that number has been increasing particularly in. Last week snapshot of numbers as well as new people coming into the exchange so the thought is there's always a last minute rush the race has been every single year that that will perhaps accelerate enrollment or at least keep it stable where it has been and we have to remember if you are currently enrolled in Affordable Care Act plan and you do nothing you'll be automatically reenrolled What are the possible reasons though that the overall enrollment was down from last chance there could be a lot of factors that have been ongoing for the last couple years big drop in advertising from the federal government that has been down 90 percent the navigator's the assisters this is the on the ground one on one help that has dropped there certainly have been a lot of concern a lot of talk from President Trump and Republicans opponents of the health care law that it's a failure that it doesn't work people may simply be confused about it that could certainly be part of it but another factor is for people who don't get a subsidy that some of the cash assistance polishes only fordable Care Act have been on affordable and might continue to be so for them so there's a variety of factors if you will involved in that as you mentioned the Republicans have repeatedly tried to weaken the Asean among other things they've eliminated the individual mandate that required everyone to have health insurance or pay a penalty the top administration expanded access to these short term plans right there sort of the best comprehensive right don't give you a lot of coverage they don't have to be as comprehensive as the right and it's allowed states to require Medicaid beneficiaries to prove that they either work or go to school I imagine that those. I imagine that all this has had quite a significant effect on on the bomb care so I think they can I want to for example the work requirements have been somewhat of an issue they've been challenged in court and so on but in Arkansas for example 18000 people lost their health insurance under the work requirements and part of the thought was people didn't know about it the information campaign wasn't out there. State officials are trying to correct that but the thing to note is that most Medicaid beneficiaries live in a home where people work and something like 6 out of 10 Medicaid beneficiaries already have a job so the whole issue of work requirements has been debated whether is it really worth the investment financially states are making because many of these folks are already working and then there's of course been this concern for quite some time about the number of insurers per state a number of places were down to just one or 2 available providers and those numbers have gone up haven't they they have gone up while the average premium has dropped about 4 percent for 2020 nearly 7 in 10 people will have access to at least 3 marketplace plans and that's up from 6 in 10 a year ago so insurers who may have left the marketplace because of all the term or whether it was the drop in the advertising or the outreach or the government stopped spending money on these cars sharing subsidies to help beneficiaries some of the lower income ones with out of pocket costs that basically insurers who may have stepped out have now stepped back and they've seen it's a profit making enterprise they can do well in the Affordable Care Act marketplace and they've come back and so the number of options available has they are increasing for 2020 What would you say the health is of the Right now I think it is resilient I mean you've still got about 20000000 people that have received coverage either through the Affordable Care Act exchanges or through the Medicaid expansion So you mentioned earlier the political fire the dozens of attempts by Republicans in the House to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act it's failure to for Republicans to repeal in the Senate after all of this the law is still there and is still standing and polls show that most people actually support Obamacare now right it has grown my polling colleagues of the Kaiser Family Foundation have found that the favorable rating if you will has clicked up it's at about 52 percent of the unfavorable about 41 percent and that is a change from prior years that's Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News thanks so much thank you. 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News I'm little Garcia Navarro e-mails from Steven Miller indicate he harbored racist and Islamophobia Now the woman he was writing to says he helped radicalize her as a white supremacist Miller worked in the Senate at the time for Jeff Sessions he's now a senior advisor to President Trump Katie McHugh works for Breitbart she was fired in 2017 after racist tweets Kim She joins us now on the line Welcome thank you thank you for having me I'm going to start with a pointed question about your motives because people may wonder you have tweeted things in the past that were racist things that got you fired from an already far right website you told c.n.n. You don't have a full time job or consistent lodging is this a bid to regain respectability by taking aim at someone who many people deeply dislike you know my personal life is simply of my concern why I will say is that I believe there are what happened to me these e-mails must be made you know public the public needs to see full and complete transparency and I do not do this for you know money at all receive no money I sacrificed a great deal to make sure that these were carefully vetted and they weren't going to work as ations that would simply pull one or 2 things or could say I gave in to the Southern Poverty Law Center especially the reporter Mike was in Hayden because I believe he's the best report in the country to carefully go through them and understand that there is a higher network and structure of white nationalism that has infiltrated conservatism and furthermore is now in control of the White House. Well let's dig into that last month when we 1st learned the contents of these e-mails you gave to the Southern Poverty Law Center. And these e-mails which Miller has not disavowed we saw hostility to immigrants from both Miller and yourself. And now you see I say something of course he did not disavow them because they are authentic you can't deny their authenticity The only thing they can do is the like and I am appalled that they would say that is an anti-Semitic attack that actually breaks my heart that you're referring to the White House's response to this saying that the fact of accusing Steven Miller or releasing these e-mails is based on the fact that he's Jewish and. This is an anti-Semitic attack that is a start and your background you know where you came from doesn't matter if your actions were this is a person who believes and discredited race science and eugenics. And how you propose to her people actually people of color especially Muslims What did you understand his role to be at Breitbart it's there that we see in these e-mails Steven Miller suggesting stories to you. Some of the things he pointed you to are from white power groups he approvingly quoted an infamous White Power Book the camp of the Saints even though I was the editorial director of the political section of my partner explain how that worked exactly he would suggest something and then use to him and how you would do it to him by. The Washington political editor 3 partners in her on June 25th. It was understood that I would take direction from him and this is why he's working in the Senate for Jeff Sessions Yes yes it's absurd to be like a small Harris's office was you know writing off as you know c.n.n. And saying This isn't from us and they will publish it under a like you know news desk c.n.n. . While the owner of the court incredible violation of journalistic ethics. Breitbart who is called you a liar said that you were fired for many things that weren't just that tweet but we also know the steep and headed Breitbart when you were there called it a platform for the all right and there's a lot of reporting that show that there was a political strategy behind the stories Breitbart chose and the Banon chosen who they targeted did you have a sense of that while you were there did everyone understand what they were a part of yes and I was being fired from Breitbart was one of the things ever have me I'm certainly not a disgruntled employee there are actually many like I am not a conservative but th