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Good morning from news in Atlanta I'm Lisa or am your time 704 Georgia u.s. Senator David Purdue is slamming military officials for poor housing conditions on military bases Purdue and other senators grilled military officials this week after a recent report found the Defense Department failed to address issues at the privately managed complexes produced said contractors in the d.o.d. Were to blame but so was Congress who was quote occupied with political games instead of military funding this is the end of the 1st quarter of our fiscal year we have not funded our men and women in uniform period we can talk about a continuing resolution all we want to but we've sent a message to Putin and she and everybody else in the world that the political games here are more important than our men and women in uniform that's unacceptable according to the Government Accountability Office military housing complaints have grown over the last year some state lawmakers will unveil recommendations today on whether how the state should handle East scooters as Roxanne Scott reports their suggestions could lead to a statewide law a state senate scooter committee has been meeting for the past few months to figure out what to do about the devices one of their tasks is the finding of what is a scooter cities like Atlanta have welcomed the device and passed an ordinance at the beginning of the year other places such as Athens have banned scooters citing public safety issues more than 20 states have Scooter laws on the books including Alabama and Florida they define everything from the speed limit to where scooters can go Roxanne Scott news some Georgia State University students are calling for the removal of a statue of Hindery Grady that's in downtown Atlanta Tony Gorman reports the request cites Grady's views on race Grady's strong support for white supremacy during Reconstruction prompted student groups and yes you student newspaper to call a mayor Keesha last bottoms to do so. Something David Varitek is the signals editor in chief we would like a plaque erected adjacent to the statue that places Henry Grady's legacy in the least in the historical context Secondly we would like to see Mayor bottoms come out in opposed the state law and certainly we would like to see eventually that this statue be relocated but we understand that it's presently a number of prominent buildings Bures name including the College of Journalism which describes him as a legendary Elana journalist who often spoke and wrote about the need to shift away from slavery the mayor's office did not return calls for comment Tony Gorman w a b e News support for w a b e comes from ren wealth management group financial advisor Pat Rahn author of Finding your money's greater purpose and his team have overseen the financial affairs of local clients for 35 years more and are in wealth dot com and from Been Franklin academy to providing innovative college prep instruction for students in grades 9 through 12 been Franklin Academy is hosting an open house on Thursday December 5th from 5 until 6 30 pm in Franklin Academy dot org Our News I'm Rachel Martin in Washington d.c. And I'm David Greene in Culver City California while the stakes were not so high if the environment was not so partisan yesterday's impeachment hearing may have felt more like a class in law school for scholars laid out the constitutional standards for impeachable offenses and among them George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley he was invited to the House Judiciary Committee yesterday by Republicans we then interviewed him this morning and Turley said Democrats need to build out their case further it's not a fully developed record and all I'm saying is that before you give that record to the Senate you should deal with some of those conflicts and some of those gaps and this is an example of one of those said I think the president could very well be impeached and removed for obstruction based on these. Now the member of the house Scott Perry would have to vote on any articles of impeachment he's a Republican from the state of Pennsylvania joins me this morning Congressman welcome David good morning so what do you make of what we just heard from Jonathan Turley there I mean do you agree the Democrats could have a case to impeach or move the president they just haven't they haven't built the record yet to do it well I'm not sure I'm not an attorney by trade but I would think that we'd want to go through every single part of this to be absolutely sure I mean from our perspective impeachment is the 2nd most important thing member of Congress or you know them a member of the legislature will ever ever deal with of the 1st being declaring warring war and sending America's best and brightest you know to fight somewhere so . So this is really really important and we have to get this right and so and Mr Turley is a well respected individual around Capitol Hill he was a Republican witness and probably your audience knows that he's a he's a Democrat and not a fan of the president but yesterday I don't know that we we learned a lot of we've changed a lot of minds in that comes from the viewpoint that most of the Democrats on the committee the majority of them have voted for impeachment it least once if not more than that before hearing any of this but we should say many many of your colleagues have come out basically saying that the impeachment process is a sham even before hearing anything so it's not their oath parties that sort of dug in in a way well I mean where you say the process is a sham We have talked about the process because the process is so important around here from the viewpoint that if the bar is going to be lowered to what many people believe is a policy dispute I get that you know some people like the president some people really don't like the president but we have elections for that so the question is is is is this you know about impeachment should this be about impeachment and what does this say about future policy to disputes because we're sure there. Going to we're going to have them whether it's you know there's a death in the White House or Republican This isn't really a policy dispute I mean this is looking at some acts of of the president and I'd just like to focus if I can on some of the gaps that Jonathan Turley that the Republican winners might have been talking about I mean there has there have been these witnesses who have talked about you know the things we've heard about military aid whether or not it was was held up you know to start an investigation into into the Bidens it does seem like the burden is on Democrats to prove what the president's intent was or not shouldn't they be able to hear from people closer to the president like acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to figure out what his intent was and I think everybody is fine with that to a point but that all has to be adjudicated so there are both houses have both houses both branches have have their own their own propriety to make sure that they're co-equal branches and and that that is protected so that so that the tension remains between the 2 and we don't do things that inadvertently that we don't want to in the president has asserted his and then the legislature has predictably disagreed and that's fine but that's where it should go to a court and if you say that well every time that the executive branch disagrees there they're in violation of obstruction and and then they should be impeached again and that then becomes a policy question which is not adjudicated but there are even some legal analysts I mean Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano has said that you know if there's a subpoena the comes from Congress to people like Mick Mulvaney my components and they're thrown into a drawer and not complied with that is an act of obstruction so how long can this executive privilege claim last before the president is obstructing it and what was a legitimate article of impeachment we don't we don't know because it hasn't gone to the courts and we're moving ahead he might have a legitimate claim is the point. But but he might not and there's a process to determine that and we've I guess in the house to a certain extent just said just because he's not. Playing ball so to speak we're going to impeach him for it and so and even when we get down to the finer points of not the process but more the substance regarding military aid and why it was withheld we withhold military aid and aid in general all the time and I think that was borne out even even yesterday but understand as well you know we look at this and we usually think as Americans that court proceeding trials are based on facts and are generally dispassionate and I think it was pretty clear yesterday that like I said that the majority Democrats have already voted for impeachment without any hearing any of this and every member of the panel had voted against the president but then they even went as far as to the one member of the panel said that within 2 weeks of the president's election he should be impeached for a tweet that he made in and so we only was like seconds left you're still open minded you're still open to seeing where this process goes into something out of you have to be I think you have to be but it does concern me you know the one fact that we have is that the president said he wanted to investigation into 2016 and we keep on hearing it being conflated into 2020 and I think that look I guess you can make that assessment but I don't think there's one fact there is not one fact that bears that out and impeachment is really really important it has huge implications for the present and the future we have to get it right all right Congressman Scott Perry of Pennsylvania Republican thanks so much thank you sir I want to bring in lead political editor N.P.R.'s political editor Dominica month and our at the Medical I'm struck he is not just attacking the process if we've heard as we've heard from other Republicans I mean he is saying at least that he's that he's going to see how this plays out and think about and reflect Yeah you know Republicans are pretty locked in as are Democrats for the most part on this I don't think many minds were changed based on yesterday and you know Perry has in the past blamed the deep stay. For coming out against President Trump having people being against the president from the beginning I don't think you're going to count him as somebody who's going to vote for impeachment or is really open to it so I think that some of what he said there conflated a couple things himself I mean he said that people are conflating the president wanting investigation into 2016 and conflating that with 2020 while the president on that phone call did ask for both he asked for an investigation into whether Ukraine interfered in the 26000 election and wanted to have the Vice President Biden and his son investigated as well which would benefit him for 2020 and just remind us and in a few seconds what happens next in the process Well next we're going to see whether the Judiciary Committee does write up those articles of impeachment which is expected and we're probably going to house vote by Christmas with a Senate trial that begins and continues through January n.p.r. Leave political editor Dominica I want to narrow thanks to Monica you're welcome 3 years 3 mayors and a cascade of missed deadlines and Nashville police officers in Tennessee's capital still are not wearing body cameras despite promises to do just that in the meantime there have been 2 high profile police shootings Samantha max of member station. Reports this story on officially begins on October 30th 2016 then Mayor Megan Berry stood at the pulpit of Temple Church in Nashville and made a promise but we do Chief Anderson and I we will be in a position to recommend full funding for all police officers to have body cameras when we present next year's budget to the Metro Council from that moment on Barry's administration seemed to move full steam ahead she convened a task force to research body camera programs across the country interactive policy but even at the group's 1st meeting activists climbing Greenlee wondered whether the city was really ready for body Camerons I want to make sure you knew we reassured that we were. It is time make here. One object. Flash forward 3 years and 2 mayors later the police department still hasn't bought a single body camera. This week protesters gathered outside the mayor's office demanding answers some top officials say Barry made a hasty promise that would prove too expensive to keep and then priorities shifted his power changed hands twice in less than 2 years and while other police departments around the country have slowly phased in body cameras Nashville pledge to buy them all at once Here's Chief Steve Anderson the Tom of course associated with cameras would be 50100000 dollars Let's rewind to 2017 Jacqui's Clemons had just been shot and killed after a traffic stop an activist demanded police reform they wanted interactions between officers and civilians caught on camera but a budget hearing Chief Anderson has said there was no room for short cuts there's the price of each individual camera and the cost to store thousands of hours of video capture each day plus salaries for new employees who will review all that footage before it's released to the public or used to try I have never made a request during my tenure for any funding anyway approaches but we've never taken on something as complicated and expensive as this chambre project then Daniel Hambrick was killed last year again after a traffic stop it wasn't until this past August that the city signed a contract with the camera vendor and promised a quick rollout weeks later another bump in the road district attorney Glen Funk said officials hadn't taken into consideration the ripple effect body cameras would have across the legal system Marcus Floyd says this is all just such a lang tactic he worked for the last mayor and believes Nashville can't wait any longer it can't be a hurry. 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It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm David Greene we take certain parts of the natural world for granted right trees cleaning the air worms enriching soil bees pollinating crops but increasingly these natural systems that we all rely on are failing they're under attack from climate change human development and disease N.P.R.'s Nathan Rott has the story of one critical species that's dying and the team racing to find out why slip into your waiter's and slush out into the knee deep waters of the Clinch River and southwest Virginia. The clincher close at the feet of the age rounded Southern Appalachian Mountains slowly descending towards Tennessee its water is sharp cold and gin clear which is good because what we're looking for lives on the rock crusted river bottom of the woods I walk along this is a matter of like how long the day it's always the same thing that died very recently that is Jordan Richard a biologist with the u.s. Fish and Wildlife Service and it doesn't take long for him to find what he does not want to see that on. The present shell is just laying there you can see it's not buried here and that's it's going to be there and by that. He pulls a palm sized object from the water. That's dead Richard is holding a fresh water mussel less edible version of its salt water cousin that lines river bottoms across the country cleaning water and providing habitat to other species it show is golden brown and glistening but the milky white muscle inside is turning a gray brown at its edges the color of decay biologist Rosetta log brings over another muscle in similar conditions that that smell. Oh yeah it's parang. So that's been dead maybe. A couple days day or 2 they find another dead muscle and another stop right there upon like 5 and then more after that standing mid river a bit later Richard lifts his gaze from the water and looks upstream at seemingly nothing in particular 3000 thanks not a good life. Which I'm pretty used to I'm pretty used to like coming out of a thing that I'm going to see just getting completely like I am going to have muscles. 3. 3 such as. The u.s. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that hundreds of thousands of freshwater mussels have perished since the die off was 1st noticed in 2016 biologists and fishermen were finding fresh dead mussels week after week after week and not just here unexplained freshwater mussel die offs have since been documented in Oregon Washington Wisconsin and Michigan there's even been one in Spain. A major concern for each our own for the future health of our Emily Blevins is a conservation biologist with the Society for invertebrate conservation a nonprofit that focuses on some of the world's more let's say under loved critters or people who are trying to get quite as exciting about the lack backbones unfortunately but many of those species are critically important to the natural worl