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Has learned that a key witness in the impeachment inquiry is set to leave his post on the National Security Council Tim Morrison is the top Russian official on the n.s.c. And he said to testify before the House tomorrow now Morrison was privy to the contents of that July phone call between President Trump and the Ukrainian president and joining us now with more is White House correspondent Franco or don't Yes Hey Frank Oh hello so briefly remind us who is Morris and why is he such an important witness here well as the senior director responsible for that region to Morrison would be the person at the n.s.c. With the closest relationship with Ukraine's issues as a former n.s.a. Official told me if there was a quid pro quo he's the one who would know about it it was Morrison who alerted n.s.a. Lawyers about alleged demands being placed on Ukraine government to investigate a company where the former Vice President Joe Biden son sat on the board and that was according to earlier testimony it was also Morrison who said he had heard from Gordon Sunland trumps ambassador to the European Union that Trump wanted the Ukraine president to actually go to a microphone and announce this investigation Ok So have you gotten any indication of why Morris in plans to leave his job I mean does it have anything to do with his upcoming testimony tomorrow Well I was unable to reach Morrison and his lawyer won't speak to me about his job status I did speak with 3 sources who did confirm this you know he's only been in this particular job since the summer it's very unusual to take such an important position Adams and s.c. And to leave so soon yeah details are usually about a year but they can be extended but the White House has stopped sought to stop current and former aides from testifying citing that they are protected are entitled to immunity from the investigation so while it's not clear yet whether he's leaving the post or the end or the administration entirely his attorney. Has said publicly all along that he planned to testify if subpoenaed what's been really interesting so far is that staff members from the National Security Council have been sort of at the center of this whole Ukraine scandal and the people who are proving to be the most important witnesses are these really staunch conservatives the most important witnesses for Democrats it really is interesting there's always been at the n.s.c. Kind of a mix of somewhat ideological and career officials there Morrison was certainly on the ideological side of the spectrum at n.s.c. He's considered a hawk on foreign policy has views are in line with national security John Bolton I spoke with John Gans a former speak Pentagon speechwriter about this who told me that one of the ironies of all this is that officials who raised eyebrows with their hard line views when they joined at the n.s.c. Are now kind of a source of investing a slice of hope for investigators as you pointed out and Jim Morrison is one of those people but in fact now we see as those who are trying to get to the bottom of the Be Different Greer placing a lot of hope on his testimony that he will be willing to say this but it is sort of hard line views and by perhaps agreeing with President trouble on matters that in fact there was a problem here on Ukraine and that's what Democrats hope to hear when he comes to speak now the person who hired Morrison in the 1st place was former national security adviser John Bolton and we understand that House investigators now want to speak directly with Bolton is that right yeah and n.p.r. Has confirmed that house investigators have invited Bolton to testify next week on November 7th as part of their impeachment impeachment inquiry right now it's called a voluntary appearance which may not be quite enough for Bolton right let's remember Bolton has written represented by the same lawyer as former deputy national security advisers adviser Charles Cupper man who has filed a lawsuit arguing that he can't testify until a judge tells him whether he needs to adhere to the congressional subpoena or White House a direct White House. Active that's n.p.r. White House correspondent Franco or don't use Thanks Franco thank you. The u.s. Economy has been slowing down but it got another push this afternoon from the Federal Reserve Fed chairman Jerome Powell announced that the central bank is cutting interest rates for the 3rd time since July we took this step to help keep the u.s. Economy strong in the face of global developments and to provide some insurance against ongoing risks the Fed's action comes on a day the Commerce Department reported that economic growth weekend in the summer and early fall to an annual rate of just 1.9 percent to explain what all of this means we're joined now by N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley Hey Scott good to be with you now I understand if action today was widely anticipated right so how did the stock market react to all this there was no surprise in the rate cut itself but what investors were watching for was help how would describe this you know was this all there is or is there likely more monetary juice to come later in the year the official Fed statement seem to suggest the former language that the Fed has used in the past about acting as appropriate to sustain the expansion was missing from today's statement and one might read that as a hint that this is going to be the last rate cut for a while but during his news conference Powell did leave the door open to additional action should the economy we can further of course if developments emerge that cause a material reassessment of our outlook we would respond accordingly policy is not on a preset course and that seemed to be enough to reassure investors all the major market indexes which were kind of flat during the day rose during pal's news conference the Dow ended the day up about $115.00 points or so the stock market is doing well the but the broader economy is losing steam Q How does that work how can that be how can both things be true for a while now we've been seeing kind of a 2 speed economy on the consumer side things have been going pretty well which is not surprising we've got a lot of people working their wages have been going up modestly So consumers have money to. Spend and they're spending at lower interest rates have encouraged that we're finally seeing a pick up in the housing market thanks to lower mortgage rates consumers are buying more refrigerators and other big ticket items but business investment is weak and getting weaker that is largely because of uncertainty in the global economy and as a result of the president's trade war pal conceded cutting interest rates may not help that much I think interest rates are a factor in in business investment but I don't believe they're they're the main factor and main driver what would help out said would be a pick up in global demand and some resolution of the trade war he pointed to some encouraging signs the possibility for example of a mini deal between the u.s. And China but he added There's still a lot of risk out there so is there a danger that this this overall slowdown in business will spill over into the job market which has been really strong lately it's certainly a possibility and one that passes the Fed is keeping an eye on but they're not seeing that happen yet there has been some slowdown in hiring this year but that's to be expected when you've got a 3 and a half percent unemployment rate we do get another monthly jobs report this Friday so we're watching that closely but keep in mind there's an asterisk on that report because it covers the period of the General Motors strike which idled tens of thousands of auto workers and others how was careful not to comment on the settlement but he did say that it's good to have that strike resolved That's N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley thanks Scott you're welcome you've heard the phrase home sweet home right well so far in this year's World Series it has been more like home sweet doom the team on the road has so far won every game the Houston Astros' want all 3 games they played in d.c. And the Washington Nationals Nats have won every game in Houston and this is the 1st time this has happened in the playoffs and not just for Major League Baseball it hasn't happened in a 7 game series in pro basketball or hockey either so what's going on here well Michael Lopez is director of data and analytics at the National Football League he is also a statistic. Collector at Skidmore College and he has been crunching some numbers on that site there hi thanks so much I mean what is a home field advantage I mean just explain why this would help a team when in the 1st place what are the factors that go into that sure so the home advantage is a combination of a couple things one it's travel to it's rest in 3 Certainly it's the case and in several sports that there could be an impact of the home advantage on referee decisions and so when you mix all that together there's some benefit of playing at home but the exact way that works obviously depends on each of the sports and when we apply this to baseball how much of an advantage does playing at home can for so in a baseball it's about a 4 percentage relative to say if it is 50 game if you took 2 teams that were relatively evenly matched paired him up at where one of the teams was a home team that home team is going to win about 54 percent of the time and if you were to contrast that to other sports say like the n.b.a. You could say 2 n.b.a. Teams that were roughly the same in terms of talent but one of them at home in that home teams going to one about 62 percent of the time so when all that ends up being about 3 times the benefit to being the home team in the n.b.a. Relative to in Major League Baseball and you're basing this on crunching statistics over the last several years sure this is over the last 15 years or so of looking at data specifically we're looking at the betting odds in terms of who the betting odds I'm perceived as the likely winner and what would explain to us why I were playing at home matter more when you're playing basketball than playing baseball Well certainly in basketball the fans are right on top of the court and you can imagine that they're going to have a little bit of influence whether it's influence over the opposing team influence over the officials or just general support for the home team when things are going as well in baseball there's a little bit fans are for us for other setback and then I think the other funny thing about baseball is that when fans are cheering to support their team at their pictures up in a big spot they're standing in clapping if their batteries up in a big spot they're standing clapping and so regardless they're actually kind of doing the same thing and so maybe that their behavior and their overall influence on the game is a little bit harder to come through all right so let's turn you to. Tonight the decisive game 7 it's going to be played in Houston should if we were putting bets on the should we put our money on the nets. That depends on who you want to root for the games pretty well but our money on the Nats not sorry. The game is pretty close to $5050.00 sort of and if you look at the betting odds it's pretty close to $5050.00 game the Astros are given a slight bump but that perhaps that's you know obviously in part because their own team so they're getting that 4 percent edge sort of $5446.00 outcome and part of that is because you're playing at home that is sports statistician Michael Lopez joining us by Skype thanks so much thanks for having me on. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm else the Chang and I'm Mary Louise Kelly a closed door that is how France's finance minister Bruno in the mail is describing the trumpet ministration when it comes to trade talks the u.s. Has slapped new tariffs on more than $7000000000.00 worth of European imports from Italian Hammett to Irish butter 2 of particular interest to France French wine visit your local wine shop and you will find Bordeaux and science are now cost up to 25 percent more than they did at the start of the month these tariffs are the latest twist in a long running trade dispute between the u.s. And Europe and we're going to talk about that and other matters at stake between the u.s. And France with France's new ambassador to Washington Philip 18 is in the studio with me now welcome. Thanks for having me I do hope you are able to stock up in advance you're not running low on fabulous French wine at the embassy just you know we have plenty of good wine to offer and we will continue to do that this is very reassuring. Not to make light of a very serious situation I mentioned your finance minister he has called this latest round of tariffs an economic and political error on the part of Washington how so just explain where French stands on this well yes economically for us it doesn't make sense to to have tariffs and counterterrorists when we need jobs we need grows the French companies for instance other largest investor in the u.s. By the number of jobs created American companies are the 1st in France and it is really something which we are proud of and we must we must continue that and tariffs and counterterrorism will calm the positive if Lucian it's also politically difficult to understand or small wine growers in France which are hate because the American. Market indeed is important for them and we we appreciate that. American we don't think that our winds so politically. We must recall it's about a dispute we test to be settled in the craft industry yes a Boeing Airbus and so that's why it for your wife shoot very small companies and farms. Have these very very determined and quinces politically it's a bit difficult to understand all the more that Airbus and Boeing face big challenges they are not any more the only producers on the markets they have to face come and challenges from potential competitors in the other continents So my conclusion the best thing is really to settle this dispute through negotiation as soon as possible and to avoid terrorists and counter terrorist you're talking about tariffs and counter tariffs and this prompts my next question because economists here are watching what might come next we mentioned this is a long running dispute that next round will play out next year this World Trade Organization ruling is expected to go Europe's weight next time exactly I meant that so will France and the rest of Europe be hitting back with counterterrorism then we get involved in this whole set for to trade war between between allies yes it doesn't sound very logical and doesn't sound very very positive for our economies this is a reason why we say we Europeans we must negotiate now and have regularly an agreement. When you say you want to negotiate you're here is all that's on the aircraft industry's on subsidies right on the on the issue which was at the to avoid the recourse of this dispute. Do you feel you have in the us a negotiating partner that you can trust do you feel that your government has influence on the trumpet ministration well on trade to the intellect or is the u.s.g. All on the one side and the European Commission On the other side things are pretty clear speak more broadly though do you feel that France that your President Emanuel McCraw has any influence over President Trump and what he decides to do whether it's regarding trade or anything else well what I can tell you is that the 2 presidents have a very very close relation President Trump came 4 times to France our president made a state visit to the United States they had many meetings in New York on the margins of the different international meetings they have many calls they talk one to the other quite often that's for sure and to talk about the most important and most sensitive issue for instance right now on Syria on Syria and that reason is recent developments in Syria. Allow me to ask a pointed question that flows from recent events in Syria which is do you feel. Does France feel it can trust the us to keep its word. Well the real issue for us now following the latest developments and in particular the Turkish military incursion into Syria Israeli is that we are worried about whether we can continue to fight against terrorism I don't know whether you remember 2015 November 13th in particular the terrorist attacks against Paris plotted from north eastern Syria from Iraq we consider that indeed we have succeeded in. Having no more caliphate no more territory controlled by Dash ISIS but I say still does exist under and another form as a commander Stine network and they commit steel cut terrorist attacks and we must continue to fight against that issue against this is a priority we must also care for the people for the populations there are humanitarian issues and we must also of course build a political solution in Syria we should note that France has been very involved in the coalition against ISIS have special forces on the ground from here is the 2nd largest contributor to the in forces in military means to the Coalition Against after the United States of course which leads to the coalition so I have to circle back to my question with President Trump saying he wants to pull u.s. Troops back out of Syria that he keeps changing his mind or changing what he's saying in terms of exactly how many and when that might happen but do you still find the u.s. a Reliable partner you can work with in Syria and the Middle East more broadly while we have to work together because we have the same issues and I'm confident we will continue to work together for this through reason we think this coalition against that issue against ISIS remains absolutely said. Szell and for this reason our foreign minister call for a meeting of this international coalition which will take place in Washington on November 14th and it's very important here to reaffirm the not only the importance of the fight against terrorism against this terrorism but also to have the u.s. And the other members of the coalition reaffirming their commitment you've mentioned a meeting in Washington which leads to the last thing I want to ask you in the minute or so we have left put it would like to be the French ambassador in terms Washington in 2900 is this still a plum assignment for you or would it be I don't know easier to be assigned to Damascus and you know really not. For once we have for one thing we have no no embassy right now in the miscues but anyway it's fantastic to be ambassador to the United States I was in Los Angeles in about still in the last days and of course in Washington it's obviously a marvelous assignment the conditions are changing but the relations between the u.s. And France remain such important starting with a history yes I have a beautiful portrait. Of another Washington in my residence we thank you and we invite her next time that's Philippe a.t.n. France's ambassador to Washington this is n.p.r. News. Well. 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Jack Dorsey via tweet of course in his announcement that Twitter will take the drastic step of no longer allowing political advertising the decision comes as Facebook has been in the spotlight for refusing to hold politicians accountable for misleading or factually in accurate ads N.P.R.'s tech correspondent Shannon Bond has the story and joins us now Hey Shannon Hi So what's going on here I mean how did Dorsey explain why Twitter would no longer be taking any political ads yet he so he says they're not going to political ads anywhere in the world starting next month and he says it's not about speak free speech or free expression it's about whether politicians and campaigns should be allowed to pay to reach Twitter's hundreds of millions of users Dorsey's argument here is that Internet ads are really different than other kinds of ads that we've seen before because the speed in the scale at which social media in particular let's misleading information spread and because of the targeting that's allowed there right those messages can end up in front of really susceptible people and so he's also calling for more regulation of political ads that takes into account these differences and just how powerful the Internet is as a way to reach people I mean this is a really major decision at a time when there is this ongoing big conversation about the role of social media and political advertising that's right it's Twitter's breaking really here with Facebook I mean most of all the I mean that's the Facebook is sort of the elephant in the room here yeah there's this big debate going on about political ads and Facebook in particular has taken this really hands off approach so the latest uproar in the past couple weeks about this was kicked off by this ad that the Trump campaign ran that contained false allegations about Joe Biden and they ran that ad on Twitter on Facebook on You Tube the Biden campaign complained but the platforms all said that the ad didn't violate their policies and that really maps with what those these tech companies have been saying recently they don't want to. Regulate speech particularly political speech and it's mostly that they don't want to be accused of bias by deciding what's true and what's not true and kind of being that judge I cannot but wonder I mean it can't be a coincidence that Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook was asked about all of this just last week when he was speaking at public events how as Facebook been responding to all the scrutiny over political ads Yeah you're right Zuckerberg has been all over the place talking about this you have a speech at Georgetown University he was a Capitol Hill and he's been defending this policy so just a reminder Facebook has said it's not going to fact check political ads even though fact checks all other kinds of ads right and that's left the door open for politicians to lie people have been testing Facebook Elizabeth Warren ran a deliberately false ad and you know after Zuckerberg gave that speech at Georgetown Dorsey went on the attack you know he said that there was a major flaw in Zuckerberg argument that that Facebook is just you know promoting free speech here so in some ways this is in a stupor surprising change and in the tweets you know today laying out this policy Dorothy referred pretty clearly designed her Burke you know he said you kind of can't say we don't want to spread misleading information but it's Ok if people want to pay us to spread misleading information and they follow that up with a winking and I think it's pretty clear reference still how might this decision by Twitter to not take a more political ads affect profits there it will have some financial impact on Twitter it's a popular place for politicians to advertise and you know Twitter doesn't break out how much money it makes from political ads but it says it's not a substantial portion of the total advertising sales but it's not nothing and you know the Trump campaign has already responded to that said Twitter just walked away from hundreds of millions of dollars and called the decision a very dumb move but ultimately I think this means people are going to be asking really what it means for Facebook the social media platform that's a lot bigger than Twitter and runs a lot more political ads so the ball is now in Facebook's court are they going to follow suit that's n.p.r. Tech correspondent Shannon Vaughn thanks so much and thanks for having me. Being related to a president or vice president can be lucrative take former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter he got a seat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company despite having no experience in the energy business he was paid $50000.00 a month N.P.R.'s Jim looks at the long history of politicians relatives trying to make a buck off their more famous family members Billy Carter owned a Georgia filling station when his brother Jimmy was elected president he soon became famous in his own right selling a brand of beer doing personal appearances even going on he hall but I still can't figure out what to do with the outside of the hoa problem. It was all in good fun until it came out that Billy Carter had taken money from Libya for lobbying work presidential historian Julian Zelizer and it explodes into this post Watergate scandal Billy gate it's called Billy Carter insisted he done nothing wrong he even made light of the scandal in a commercial later but I got to not about when dollars but Libya a lot of people thought it was because of the Marbella it's just not true I was giving them advice whether you believe it or not I'm going to give you some advice try eighty's grand light still the revelation embarrassed President Carter lobbyists pay lots of money for access to a president and Meredith McGee He of the campaign finance reform group issue one says that's often meant going through their relatives and they've always been special interests looking for a short cut to get access to power and they're betting right that the benefit that they get from hiring that relative will get them access and influence scandals over presidential relatives have happened in both Democratic and Republican administrations Richard Nixon's brother Donald made headlines for taking a $200000.00 loan from aviation billionaire Howard Hughes businessmen Neil Bush was the son of President George h.w. Bush he sat on. The board of a Savings and Loan called Silverado that would later fail costing taxpayers a $1000000000.00 Bush denied any wrongdoing I believe in the press but if you didn't do anything wrong go to admit to it and I didn't do anything wrong there was never any proof that Neil Bush got preferential treatment from the White House still it almost doesn't matter says Julian Zelizer very often there's nothing wrong nothing is actually done that's illegal nothing that is there and that's formally an ethical and rarely has it affected public policy but that's different than does it become a scandal it looks bad today it's former Vice President Biden's turn President Trump brings up Hunter Biden's financial endeavors all the time Trump's efforts to get Hunter Biden investigated are central to the impeachment inquiry Here's Trump at a recent rally Joe's son Hunter got thrown out of the Navy and then he became a genius on Wall Street about 2 days. By the way whatever happened to Hunter when that was sick but Trump has relatives 2 and Zelizer says the Trump family finances are of a different magnitude not only are the Trump still actively doing deals in foreign countries trumps daughter and son in law actually work in the White House Billy Carter was not in the White House he was not making decisions with the president and that was the case with Neil Bush too so what we're talking about now is fundamentally different the Trumps have actually embraced the idea that they can do business and still run the government but for other presidents drawing a line between the public interest and their family's finances has been a struggle Jim n.p.r. News New York. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. And you're listening to it here on Jefferson Public Radio listener supported public radio covering southern Oregon Northern California and beyond America feel just burns us here hello good afternoon a. 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Double a Others see this as a lousy idea here to discuss eco young he's a professor at Cardozo School of Law He has written about this an essay in The New Yorker back in 2015 titled Why n.c. Double a athletes shouldn't be paid he joins me now from London welcome dot Things Considered thank you for having me what did you make of this announcement yesterday like most people were all sort of waiting to see what the announcement needs the n.c. Giveaway often tries to do the vaguely right thing when it has absolutely no other choice and so I take it that this is a capitulation that what they see coming down the pike in terms of a slew of laws that are passing from state to state and threaten federal action but I gather you think this is a lousy idea you're in the lousy idea camp how come well I'm torn about the name unlike this issue which is slightly different than paying the athletes but at bottom the reason I'm concerned is because I think this will be awfully hard to distinguish from salaries I consistently worry about the continued professionalization of college athletics look there's no question that the current system is deeply exploitative and deeply problematic I guess my baseline worry is many people I think people in good faith see the exploitation and they say the answer is to pay these young athletes some amount of money while they're playing football or basketball I look and I say the answer is to make sure that these young men and with the revenue generating sports it's typically young men that they get the thing that they. Or promise that was of value that is to say they get a college degree that was of value and one of the things I worry about is how many of at least the listeners to n.p.r. Those who have opportunity and resources how many of them would trade a college degree for their child for 3 years of their child being paid in college I doubt that's a trait that your listeners would make and those are not the dreams I have for my children too in your view should anything change in the current system Yeah I think everybody agrees that the current system needs to be changed and that the corruption of the current system is untenable and indeed deeply racially scarred I'm not interested in whether or not even my beloved will over eans crank out 3 or 4 professionals a year I'm interested in universities that can crank out generations of black lawyers and doctors and. It seems to me that the best way to make sure that we are actually serving these young men is to do our best to support and create a true minor league system similar to the way it works in Europe already some of the way it works in Europe young kids who want to play for Manchester United are playing in soccer camps from when they're young every year that they get cut down but the ones who dream of playing on the big stage pursuit through the minor league system and some of the way it works in baseball and by the way similar to the way it works in hockey in the United States I want to make this personal you played soccer a little bit in college new college athletes but you want to get paid. Maybe in this way I'm a little bit pushed the other way I plea very briefly when Michigan was a club team in order to keep playing I would have had to pay money to play I was working a full time job in college on top of scholarships I would have been thrilled to be able to play just not to pay and so in this way. I am one of the people who truly thinks that sports are actually a part of an education you know we don't think of the dancers as not students and we don't think of the chess players as not just team isn't bringing in a $1000000000.00 every year though no that's true that's absolute right and I think you know that's a concern on the other hand if there was a true professional league where the students who wanted to make their money could go make their money then the university could look the student athletes in the eye and be quite clear that that revenue generation was more about the university than any particular student athlete that is say if your skills at the kind for which you can get paid you can go to the to the minor league and get paid that's echo young he is a professor at Cardozo School of Law and he wrote an essay for The New Yorker titled Why. 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