Immigrants illegally crossing the Southwest u.s. Border has declined according to new figures released on Thursday as N.P.R.'s John Burnett reports the Border Patrol says actions taken by Mexican and u.s. Authorities are having effects apprehensions of unauthorized immigrants are down 70 percent over the past 6 months from a peak of one 144000 in May to just over 45000 last month and the demographics have shifted as well back in the spring 2 thirds of all crossers were families and children mostly from Central America today 2 thirds are single males mainly from Mexico a senior border patrol official gave 2 reasons for fewer immigrant crossings Mexico is aggressively deporting asylum seekers and the trumpet ministration has stopped releasing them into the us interior on their own recognizance asylum applicants are now sent to dangerous Mexican border cities to wait for their hearings in immigration court which critics say is cruel John Burnett n.p.r. News you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington. The government says retail sales increased modestly last month the Commerce Department says they rose by 3 tenths of one percent in October the government says people purchased more items online and bought more automobiles the American Civil Liberties Union is asking a federal judge to review newly disclosed e-mails about the origins of the citizenship question that the trumpet ministration wanted to add to the 2020 census N.P.R.'s Hansi Lo Wang reports the e-mails show administration officials consulted with a Republican strategist on the now blocked question it's been more than 4 months since u.s. District judge Jesse Firman of New York permanently blocked the citizenship question from the 2020 census but at the request of the questions challengers represented by legal groups including the a.c.l.u. The judge is still deciding whether to punish the Trump administration for allegedly withholding evidence ministration had previously denied that a study by g.o.p. Strategist Thomas Hoffer played a role in its push for the question how fair concluded that the question would benefit Republicans and not Hispanic white people when voting districts are redrawn e-mails released this week by the House Oversight Committee show that half are directly communicated with an advisor to the ministration about the question and the long n.p.r. News defense secretary Marc Esper is visiting South Korea he's urging the South Korean government to contribute more to defense spending for the Korean peninsula the government in Seoul is paying up to $1000000000.00 a year for shared defense costs some South Korean news reports say the Trump administration wants as much as $5000000000.00 a year I'm Corba Coleman n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include Warner Brothers presenting the new motion picture Richard Jewel based on the true story of the 1996 Atlanta bombing a Clint Eastwood film only in theaters Friday December 13th. 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It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm David Greene the people who serve as u.s. Ambassadors around the world do so at the will of the president of the United States today we might learn why President Trump removed one ambassador in particular. Was recalled from her post as ambassador to Ukraine so how does that decision fit into the ongoing impeachment inquiry she testifies publicly in front of the House Intelligence Committee today her name already came up on Wednesday Democratic Congressman Andre Carson asked career u.s. Diplomats George Kent and William Taylor about her removal Ambassador Taylor Mr kid and all of your combined it is at the State Department have you ever before seen an instance where in a Bassett or was forced out by the president following the smear campaign a misinformation orchestrated by the president's allies I have not nor I are we have Stephen grows on the line as White House deputy press secretary he helps craft the president's message to Americans as this impeachment probe goes on a Mr goes Welcome back to the program and trust me on that morning why did the president one out of her job. You know I don't know that that is a matter of record as yet I can just look at some of the objective facts see that there was an election that brought Zelinsky into office. And there was the fact that she only had I believe about 6 weeks left on her on her tenure there you know she was there when when the president came into office and remained there and served but 6 weeks is still I mean that's still a decision I mean to the deputy secretary of state John Sullivan you know when you're one of which was removed I mean he has said in testimony that she did nothing wrong that she was the victim of a smear campaign and you're saying there's no record but I mean can you tell me at all what the president is thinking as to be a reason he did this I cannot and I don't know if there are witnesses that know the president's thinking on this or the advice that he received to recall this particular ambassador and then appoint Oh I'm sure Bill Taylor who I think we can agree. You know was a very credible witness from from Tuesday's hearing the president some called I doubt it really it doesn't really quite matter I mean the president gets to hire fire promote demote recall and appoint who he chooses to considerably ruins questioning the power to do that I mean no one's quite manpower but it it it matters that's what I mean very central to our well I mean that's up for disagreement I think there are a lot of Democrats who would say that it's very central to to what they're trying to figure out and I just want to I just want to probe a little more with you here because you know there's been testimony suggesting that there was a smear campaign that the president's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was at the center of he was you know looking for information that he wanted in Ukraine you know digging up information Here's what Giuliani said about investor Vonage they were trying to get to us and they were. Being blocked by the ambassador who was a Obama appointee and. Who was holding back this information that makes it sound like Giuliani was upset that in his view of on of it was blocking him from talking to people could he have told the president then that's what happened here. I mean I would be speculating since I'm not privy to any attorney client conversations between the president and his attorney but he very well could have expressed his concerns to the president and the president gets advice from many people in and out of government on on appointments and you know he doesn't need to have a reason and more importantly I just don't see and maybe you can tell me I just don't see where you know recalling Ambassador you've on a bitch fits into being an impeachable offense how is it a high crime or misdemeanor to recall your own ambassador and then appoint a new one well I think I mean I think it's an issue with with with when the president fired him call me and everyone you know was up in arms that you've been firing someone who he was allowed to fire for some for reasons that he thought were were very valid reasons Well you know as well as I do I mean what has been suggested here that the president was withholding military aid a time that he was asking the Ukrainian government for certain investigations Rudy Giuliani was at the center of that then you have your fun of each Many saying that she was part of a smear campaign by Giuliani went on to go through all the all the facts of of what's what's come out here but I do want to ask you about this military aide because one of the revelations this week is that the military aid to Ukraine that the president temporarily withheld was only released after a whistleblower came forward and raise questions about all this did the president essentially is it possible he got caught here and decided while there are lot of concerns being raised I better get that aid to Ukraine now. There's that sound like present the president trumpet you know does that sound like how he's operate in the past oh my God I guess. Caught by some anonymous whistle blower so I better take and make an act I really don't want to do it it's insane but do I have the timing right you know I do have that so you're not you're not disputing the timing here I mean that aid was released after the whistleblower raise these concerns I'm not sure exactly what the timing is I don't have a chronology in front of me but even if the timing was correct you're assuming causation and not correlation and there's no evidence of causation it's rank speculation and it's all fine for you and I don't have a conversation about it but if you're going to try to impeach a president you better have something more than speculation to do it regardless of what the timing is you need causation not correlation and thus far there hasn't been a shred of direct evidence under oath that there's any causation between a whistleblower complaint and the release of funds and we should say one person that lawmakers are going to be hearing from is Mark Zandi an official with the White House Office of Management Budget who apparently knows a lot about exactly what what happened with that aide. I want to thank you for joining us this morning Stephen Groves is deputy White House press secretary really appreciate your time as always thanks for having me on and maybe after more testimony you can have me back on well we'll talk about it we will do that and we're ready if you're going to come on I want to turn now to n.p.r. White House correspondent Frank or don't you as Frank what did you hear there in the White House message well I mean I think you we heard what we have heard in the past from the administration and what we're likely to hear from Republicans in the hearing room today when they speak with you you have on a bitch you know Steve talked about how this is largely based on speculation and he alleges that there now is no evidence and that causation is not the same as correlation but as you pointed out there is the alleged smear campaign against her many diplomats have spoken to that. And this you know her removal raised a lot of concerns because it demonstrated the. Power that Giuliani had despite the fact that he did not even work for the government and Steve acknowledged that the president takes advice from Giuliani and so we have your vantage today she's the only witness right testifying today but many more witnesses to come as the days go forward correct she is the person who will be testifying in public today but after she testifies in public in private they waltz with the members will also be hearing from the Ada William Taylor who talked about hearing about overhearing president tump talk about investigations n.p.r. White House correspondent Frank Odone Yes Thanks so much Franco thank you. In many countries people protesting their government often fear intervention by the military but in Lebanon as demonstrators recently drove a prime minister from power soldiers helped protect protesters that's made the country's armed forces popular So why is the United States withholding military aid to Lebanon N.P.R.'s Daniel Estrin reports from Beirut. Are you will never be again given that they made mistakes we will never be again that they are our families and they are the fictional account that's 30 year old Ali the time anti-government protesters in Beirut see the army as a symbol of the unity they're fighting for it's one of the few institutions where all of the country's religious and ethnic groups work together even though this week the army shot and killed one protester for the 1st time generally it's protected the demonstrations the order love the anybodies and you have done me to come not the others even I was in a state. You know very well until the labs about Hezbollah these protesters don't want to use their names as they talk about Hezbollah is part of the government and still has the support of many and has a militia even stronger than the Lebanese army that's why it's confusing them that the u.s. Has no. Frozen aid to the military about half of the annual $200000000.00 in military aid is on hold a senior administration official wouldn't say why but these protestors have a gas pressure they want us to get to the Hezbollah which is very hard now for us to get to the office but. Again somebody that has weapons and you don't have weapons the Army has weapons right yeah they cannot fight them they have much more than this then the Lebanese army the u.s. Aid to Lebanon's army is under review it could be released any time or not the White House has long pressured Lebanese officials to distance themselves from Hezbollah which is backed by Iran and is an enemy of Israel but like the protesters analysts say withholding money from the army is not the way to do it. As a former Pentagon official at the Middle East Institute who wants the u.s. To keep funding the army you still have to move along with the process of what you call State Building and that includes building an effective military as down the road a credible alternative to Hizbollah. But it doesn't Army veterans are among the protesters their names reflect their diverse Christian and Muslim backgrounds in the stormy. Seas. These men used to fight each other during Lebanon's civil war but eventually all joined forces in the reconstituted national army and began training with the u.s. Military one veteran keeps a reminder as his ring tone. Another retired General Joseph us market used to work on military procurements He says the Army gets most of its weapons and equipment from the us. The Lebanese army is really vital for the us the only other option would be small militias competing against each other Lebanon survival is dependent on the art. And the Lebanese army survival is dependent on u.s. Ports support that the Lebanese army may not be able to count on now Daniel Estrin n.p.r. News they were. This is n.p.r. News on the next fresh air will days like today also goes off in the time I've been on this trail but I actually achieved season 3 of the Netflix series The Crown about Queen Elizabeth and the royal family begins Sunday it's set during the turbulent 1960 s. We'll hear from series creator Peter Morgan and John Powers will review the new season join us. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm David Greene and I want to take you back to November 16th 1989 to an eerily quiet morning in a sunny courtyard at a university in El Salvador American freelance journalist Mary Jo McConaughey heard that something horrible happened overnight we knocked on the door and saw what looked to be the forms of bodies under a sheet reporters were talking in hushed tones their cameras clicking there on campus with the bodies of 6 prominent Catholic Jesuit priests also there Cooke Elba Ramos and her 16 year old daughter Celina they were modern day martyrs in one of the most high profile religious crimes in recent Latin American history a woman stopped it and she said. Tell the truth about what the armed forces are doing here. And then she just burst into tears Tomorrow marks 30 years since that day in that courtyard by sacred ground N.P.R.'s Danny Hey Jack has the story and just a warning here this piece begins with the sound of gunfire outside the walls of the Central American University Salvador was being torn apart by civil war. N.P.R.'s Alan Tomlinson was in the capital in 1989 caught in the crossfire between leftist guerrillas and the Salvadoran army we ourselves am under fire from a sniper. During the $980.00 s. The United States sent over $4000000000.00 to Salvatore's anti-communist military regime but El Salvador's military supported by the us kidnapped tortured and killed innocent civilians there were always bodies being discovered in the dumps victor of a Los reported in El Salvador in the eighty's young old women men and the thing was for a lot of people was that life was sort of cheap and the murders at that university 30 years ago these were jazz would priests Ignacio Korea Ignacio Martine borrow. Amanda Lopez Juan Ramon Moreno and Joaquin Lopez the Lopez some of the top scholars in El Salvador known for Minister going to communities caught in war zones they were speaking for people who are too afraid to speak you know they had the mike at that time they could deliver this message which was this is wrong this violence against the poor and the country heard the priests calls for social justice including those who wanted them dead whoever was viewed as the enemy was the enemy they didn't matter whether they were clerical call or not priests and nuns who stood with the poor were targets accused of communism right wing death squads had a mantra back then be a patriot kill a priest one of the murdered Jesuits Sigmond a month as one spoke to n.p.r. . A member scattered. We all must risk a little he said. November 16th 1989 the reports came flooding out of El Salvador 6 Jesuit priests from Central American University were tortured and murdered. 6 just what Roman Catholic priests were tortured and assassinated the question loomed over all of this did anyone know the truth. Jesuit priest say they have a witness for what they have and will have to write him nor the only known witness the woman is really yes sir nothing she's the only living witness to what happened in the dark hours of that morning. This is Lucy a Crna the witness. It's a peaceful afternoon in her cozy living room she asked that we not say where she lives today her husband Jorge sits in an armchair scrolling through the news and when she talks about the priests she smiles Crna was the housekeeper for 10 years in her memoir titled. Crna says she knew every hall every office every corner of the priest's residence because she cleaned they looked on the man. I knew the priest so well I could go nice this son of their footsteps senior they were such great people. Cerner remembers being startled awake when soldiers opened fire on the residence where the 6 priests were sleeping. I saw them or than men old did a quick mention uniform I was seeing and hearing it all from their window via. The Jesuits cook and her teenage daughter were found and shot who see a Crna Jorge and their 4 year old huddled on the floor in a nearby house but. It is Shia. These Shia one of the priests screamed he said that he was an injustice then they pushed him stairs and they killed them and everything was silent yes if nothing happened. Crna flew to a Radisson hotel in Miami where the f.b.i. Questioned her and she's long allege that American officials intimidated and pressured her to change her story saying that she never saw us back Salvadoran soldiers that night claim that the f.b.i. Denied and does a job they love it that the lithium I always tell the truth that's what manipulation taught me the 5 things. Thank God. The funeral mass overflowed with people near the courtyard where the massacre took place 8 rose bushes were planted in the garden for the cook her daughter and the 6 priests. Was the Jesuit murders drew the world's attention to a crisis and El Salvador and Congress faced mounting pressure to end American support of a brutal military regime a u.n. Sponsored report in 1903 concluded that the Jesuits were killed by a Salvadoran army battalions trained and equipped by the United States as for Lucy a Crna sitting in her living room 30 years later she still wonders if she could have somehow changed the hearts of the soldiers who killed her friends see less hence they step in 7 local and if the soldiers had his book in Jimmy's arced they couldn't have done it I would have told them not to know and they wouldn't have not and this is the the. I miss them always saying Danny Hitcher n.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News. The impeachment inquiry continues with public testimony from the former u.s. Ambassador to Ukraine memory of it and Sterling k. Brown talks about his role in the new movie waves Ronald is the sort of classical patriarch and he's a very stern authoritative figure Sterling Kaye Brown on fatherhood on screen and off this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Around the nation and the world with N.P.R.'s All Things Considered right here on case you t. Public Radio we bring you that program from 4 to 6 on Monday through Friday and at 6 pm on Saturday and Sunday right now we're going up on $730.00 and b.b.c. Topline and support is provided by ultra steam professional cleaning and restoration with green cleaning for carpet upholstery stone tile and grout as well as sand less wood floor refinishing green cleaning for a healthy home packages include green card protector and details or at alter steam cleaning dot com Good morning from the b.b.c. In London I'm in line with b.b.c. Top line a few stories we're following right now after weeks of violent civil unrest in Chile the government and the opposition have struck an agreement to allow a public vote on changing the constitution that explains Poland Molina a journalist in Santiago meets a key demand of those who've been protesting on the streets the current constitution until it was written under a dictatorship and I think that's being poor and in the teeth and demands these says that we didn't seems to go with the country became much about r.c. In Vietnam a court has jailed a music teacher for 11 years for making what the government cold and t. State comments on social media the teachers lawyer said the Facebook account didn't belong to his client despite sharing the same name the communist state retains a strong grip on the media and has been accused of targeting faced. As it's popular with activists and state media in North Korea has launched a ferocious attack on u.s. Presidential hopeful Joe Biden this statement described him as a profiteer He was giddy for power and compared him to a rabid dog that must be beaten to death of the state before it was too late it appears to be a response to a campaign speech today in which Mr Biden said the North Korean leader Kim Jong il was a dictator and a tired and a lot of big Care in civil and in London I'm Lynn at the b.b.c. The House Ethics Committee is expanding its investigation into Michigan Congresswoman Rashida to leave Quinn Klinefelter with member station w d e t says the panel is examining whether the Democratic lawmaker who's been a vocal critic of President Trump misused campaign funds to leave called for Trump's impeachment well before any official inquiry and the president tweeted she and 3 other congress women of color should go back where they came from which until leaves case would be Detroit but the bipartisan House Ethics Committee says after Detroiters elected to leave she was still receiving thousands of dollars from her campaign fund which could violate federal regulations to leaves attorneys counter that the funds were simply delayed salary payments she is permitted to take during a campaign and needed as a single parent who left her job to run for Congress they add that is unprecedented for the house to investigate what a member did before they even took office for n.p.r. News I'm Quinn Klinefelter in Detroit the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says it's still investigating why a 16 year old student opened fire on classmates yesterday at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita 2 students were killed and 3 others wounded before the teen turned the gun on himself he's hospitalized in critical condition at the ready say it appears the suspect fired randomly with a 45 caliber semiautomatic pistol before shooting himself I'm Dave Mattingly n.p.r. News in Washington. 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News I'm David Greene and I'm Steve Inskeep good morning who thought Democrats did not have enough presidential candidates former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick clearly thought so he entered the race this week and he may not be alone Matt Bennett is co-founder of the center left think tank 3rd Way and he's in our studios thanks for coming by thanks for having me good morning was there a wing of the Democratic Party who thought Wow 17 candidates is not enough apparently someone has said that to people like Governor Patrick and maybe Mike Bloomberg because they're now talking about getting in but it was surprising for many of us who felt like you know we started with something like 28 and we're down to 17 that seems fishy but I guess it's not the number that they're worried about it's whether the options fit their politics is there a part of the Democratic Party that's uncomfortable with a candidate like Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders being at the top of the polls is that what's happening here are near the top there certainly that there are plenty of people who are not comfortable with either Senator sander Warren but rip of course Joe Biden is leading in the polls and I was acting as a more moderate figures it was exactly so it's not clear that there is a a wing of the party looking for alternatives that are in the field I will say the Democrats always are kind of hand-wringers and we're always looking for somebody else to magically come along on a white horse at this stage in the race and then generally by the time the voters start voting we get comfortable with the people who lead I'm also just thinking you know a lot of voters clearly like those Elizabeth Warren a lot of voters clearly like Bernie Sanders and if you didn't if you're more of a Biden figure and you're fearful that Biden is slipping a little bit maybe isn't going to make it aren't there other moderates already there people to Judge Amy clubbish are we could name several there are indeed and it was I think surprising for those of us following the race closely that people would be demanding somebody else because there are plenty and there are plenty of people who aren't even on the debate stage yet like Steve Bullock and Michael Bennet but there's got to be somebody who's saying to someone like. Patrick listen we can support you we can help you we've got money for you I mean he doesn't just dive in randomly does he he does not and he's a very well respected figure in Democratic politics people all across the spectrum really like him so clearly there were people saying exactly what you said we're going to get you the money you need and we're going to help you ramp up quickly but boy he's got a long row to hoe Well let's talk about that because Tom Perez is the chair of the Democratic National Committee and he was asked about this late entry Let's listen we've got an incredibly deep bench of candidates running for president people say while the steel plate Well then Governor Clinton entered the race for president in October of 9091 so this is not unprecedented for people to get in a little bit later on in the process and I welcome that because everybody's going to be talking about the issues that matter most to people chairman Pres makes it sound like this is plenty of time work for Bill Clinton might work here yeah 992 is a long time ago I worked on that campaign and all of the things were different so for example 'd when I worked for Wesley Clark in 2004 and when we got in it was 2 months earlier than this and it was still too late just if you think about Iowa for a moment there are 99 counties in Iowa there are thousands of precinct sites you need people at every one of them it's almost impossible to build a team like that getting in this late if you're Deval Patrick do you also call up your old friends your former campaign workers your former managers and say hey I'm ready to run and they have to say I'm sorry I'm already committed to some other candidate at this late stage yet if you have a pulse in Democratic politics you have a job at this moment there are so many candidates so I don't know where he's going to find people who work for him now he did find a very good campaign manager of coming off of other races but getting past that is going to be hard should Democrats be worried about a large field at this point no I think the Eventually it will winnow itself the political marketplace will take care of that but I do think the. There were some tough choices being made at the d.n.c. For example about who gets on the debate stage whether those choices are the right ones or not we'll have to debate as co-founder of what seems a fairly centrist think tank Are you worried about this primary campaign pushing the Democratic Party much too far left to win yes I think if you look at what has happened this year 2019 it's been kind of the year of the activist and all of the incentives for the candidates have been to go to the left I think you saw that during the debates but now as we round the bend towards Iowa and the voters start weighing in I think you're going to find that more moderating influences to dogo people just want big change I mean Barack Obama big change Donald Trump big change people still seem dissatisfied maybe they want to big change there is no doubt they want big change and any of those candidates will offer enormous change from Donald Trump the question is What does that change look like Mr Bennett thanks so much thank you Matt Bennett is co-founder of the think tank 3rd Way. A student at Saugus high school in southern California pulled out a hand gun and shot 5 teens before pointing the weapon at himself on Thursday morning 2 students were killed 3 others were wounded and the alleged shooter a 16 year old boy is also in critical condition this was the 38th shooting on an elementary or secondary school campus in the United States this year for member station Carla Javier reports here's what the last Angeles County Sheriff's Department says happened the local sheriff's station got the 1st of several 911 calls at 7 30 in the morning there was a shooting at soccer's high school chef in a way of a told reporters that off duty cops from his department and local police departments had family at the school and were already on campus or nearby at least one was dropping off someone they were the 1st to respond they tended to the care of all of the victims and got the 1st aid rolling so their actions definitely saved lives. The in a way of us had sagas high itself and other schools in the district are closed by authorities investigate I hate to have Saugus be added to the names of Columbine parklands Sandy Hook but it's a reality that affects us all throughout the nation something we're have to deal with and we've got to figure out what are we doing wrong and how can we stop this from happening in the future detectives said interviewed students who were potential witnesses before they reunited with parents gathered at a local park one of those parents was Tom Quest 2 sons at the school a senior and a sophomore he says one of his kids a brand as soon as he heard the gunshots and the other was in his classroom when the school went on lockdown why would the beer it's going to go through drills and they do all this other stuff for us and they were certainly planning that occurred up in the news but then they did I guess was almost on a new route Middle East run Oh yes the notes again so it's really unexpected based on the way things are saw this junior event Mohicans says she never expected something like this would happen at her school and the neighborhood that's new so safe and so like welcoming it is just it's crazy she and the other students at her forensics class barricaded their classroom door with a computer cart I could see evidence of seeing their parents telling them that they were Ok that's what I did I text my parent's rights on the take I laid on the bed located President Trump tweeted that he's monitoring the situation and sends his condolences and in the community and number of vigils and services have been planned for this weekend for n.p.r. News I'm Carl of year in Pasadena. This is n.p.r. News. I'm Tanya Moseley I'm Jeremy Hobson The former ambassador to Ukraine Maria Vonnegut's testifies publicly for the 1st time we'll have the latest on the impeachment hearings plus the 2020 field is growing with former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick getting in the discuss with our political roundtable That's next time on her not. 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He's not currently playing in the n.f.l. Because in 2016 he began his protest against police lethality against unarmed black men in America and he did so by either sitting or kneeling during the national anthem it caused quite a bit of consternation huge controversy Yeah with the n.f.l. With its face and the president got involved in it and when he opted out of his contract in March of 2017 to become a free agent nobody touched him and he then filed a lawsuit to try and get back into the league by saying that the league had colluded against him the league settled out of court with him and he is as free to join the league now as he was then and the league league's franchises are as free to hire him now as they were then so now all of a sudden the n.f.l. Is giving him what appears to be a shot is this a real you know what sin is this just for optics you know what this seems to me like 1945 all over again and what I mean by that was that in 1945 the Boston Red Sox invited 3 Negro League baseball players to try out for a team one of whom happen to be a guy by the name of Jackie Robinson they showed up at Fenway Park and the manager was there and very few other people it lasted about 90 minutes and none of those players got. A shot after that 1st workout and in fact Jackie Robinson said that he felt that it was a sham when the whole thing was called that seems to me unless something else happens to be the case here with the n.f.l. If a team in the n.f.l. Wants Collin capper Nick or is interested in him all they have to do is call is represented and bring him in for a workout they may need to go through this entire theater which by the way is happening on a Saturday when most teams are traveling to a Sunday game rather than on a Tuesday which is the open day which is when they often will bring in free agents to work them out for a position that they may have an opening for Nevertheless Collin Kapur Nick is taking the opportunity right and he is the calling this for his own theatrical purposes Well I think he's doing it because at the end of the day he's a professional football player and he would like to ply his trade before he's too old not to he he started his protests when he was 29 he's 32 now you know you could argue that the prime time of his career was was lost during this hiatus and you know he wants to play football and I think that there's a place for him in the league I don't know that any of the teams that have suggested they may show up are the teams that would have an opening for a quarterback but certainly he should be given every opportunity which he should never have lost to play professional football sportswriter Kevin Blackistone Kevin thanks appreciate it thank you. 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War on terror after September 11th it's called the report and it's the story of how the CIA came to adopt the use of torture as part of its intelligence gathering operations and how the Senate Intelligence Committee brought this program to light through an investigative report Ok but if nobody who actually worked in the program is going to do. So we have the files their e-mails and cables their memos we have to use their own communications to tell the story that's Adam Driver there playing the Senate staffer who led the grueling 6 year investigation that staffers real name is Daniel Jones and earlier this week he talked with All Things Considered about the impact of that report we were front page of newspapers around the world for 24 to 48 hours but given the news cycle and then it's gone and what you really need is a narrative in storytelling to penetrate culture and I hope that this film is is a piece of that crafting that narrative felt to Scott Burns he wrote and directed the movie and I spoke with him recently about that weighty responsibility turning a 6000 page report into an on screen story that people could connect to it started out really as an exploration of the program that these 2 psychologists sold to the CIA after 911 claiming that they had some sort of magical special sauce that would make people talk and you know what that really was was medieval torture but eventually I was led to the report and also I became aware of Daniel's story and this incredibly Kafka esque odyssey he went on to get this study out into the world so let's talk about why he spends these years in these. Kind of solace rooms putting the pieces together reading e-mails reading memos what was he trying to answer. This all began because at one point there was an awareness in Congress that the CIA had made tapes of various interrogations and they had asked to see them and those tapes worse destroyed by officers at the CIA after that request had been made known and Daniel began with a 2 year investigation into what was on the tapes he presented those findings to the Senate Intelligence Committee and the conclusions of Dan's initial study were so alarming that that committee voted $14.00 to $1.00 to have him go forward and that sent down on a 5 year odyssey to look at the entire scope of how this program came to be was it effective was it legal what sort of obfuscation This went on between the CIA and really 2 administrations both Bush and Obama and Congress and the American people I want to ask about the interrogation scenes. They're obviously disturbing I imagine you had to make some difficult decisions about how to treat those what to depict what not to depict Can you walk us through how you were approached those scenes yeah it's probably the part of the movie that caused all of us the most reflection and you know the early drafts that I did that didn't include any of those scenes Initially I had thought that that should be my goal why. I think that's personal for me I didn't really want to be on set and asking people to do brutal things I didn't want the audience to have to look at that and then I had a conversation during my research with a gentleman named Alberto Mora who was the Navy's general counsel during the program and he said are you going to show these techniques and I said I'm I'm not sure I'm still trying to sort that out and he said but if you don't do it aren't you perpetuating the sin of the CIA and this aren't you concealing what this really looks like and I was persuaded that I have to use the tools of a visual medium to make sure that people understand what exactly was done to these men and that it was done without gaining the intelligence that would save lives as the c.i. a Had told us it would. So Dan does all this work over 6 years comes up with these very important findings and there are all kinds of interests who don't want to see that released why. Well I think there are 2 sources of pushback the 1st one is obviously the CIA not wanting to be seen as having conducted a program that was this brutal and this ineffective I think beyond that and the agency may have had influence and this was this fear that they tried to call Kate into Congress and the Obama presidency that by revealing these things it would cause ISIS and the people in the region who want to hurt us that it would somehow fire them up in some new way and cause damage to the coalition that we had put together to fight ISIS none of that happened when the report came out and the Obama White House was more interested in in looking forward in the past yeah you know Barack Obama said that we should turn the page and I think this goes to the heart of a big question that America needs to face and it became one of the larger sort of issues that the film has to take on is do we believe in accountability does Congress exist to hold the executive branch accountable that larger issue really began to influence. I thinking about this story that when you never hold anyone accountable then you allow these things to continue and I think some of the difficulties we're seeing in just how the government can operate. Their antecedents in these past events you know history isn't discrete you know events they have a knock on effect. Scott Burns he wrote and directed the new film about the CIA's enhanced interrogation program it is called the report thank you so much for talking with us thank you. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News our theme music was inspired by. I'm Rachel Martin I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm David Greene. N.P.R.'s Morning Edition continues on the great support provided by Bank of the San Juans offering mortgage loans and home equity lines of credit at the loans for happy homes thank you the San Juans one big happy little bank locations in Durango and the ghost Springs ember f.d.i.c equal housing lender this is kids you know. You Durango. 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Also this hour how climate change is impacting a pretty important industry in France winemaking and in Story Corps a man tells the story of surviving an attempted lynching in the sixty's It's Friday November 15th actors Shailene Woodley turns 28 years old today. News is next live from n.p.r. News in Washington encore of a Coleman Democrats of open today's impeachment hearing by alleging that a former u.s. Ambassador to Ukraine was abruptly dismissed because she stood in the way of President Trump's scheme N.P.R.'s Claudio chrysalis reports Marie of out of it is expected to recount how the president forced her out of her post House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff said You've on of it was a highly regarded career diplomat but he said she was an obstacle to Trump and his allies hoping to force Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election the best of a lot of this was tough on corruption. Too tough on corruption for some and a principled stance made her enemies but Ranking Member Devon union has said impeachment is taking over legislative work on issues such as trade instead the Democrats have convened us once again to advance their operation to topple a duly elected president lawmakers are examining whether Trump withheld military aid for a political favor this n.p.r. News the Capitol as the impeachment inquiry got underway the White House released a memo of another phone call between President Trump and Ukraine's leader this call occurred in April before their infamous phone exchange in July in the July call Trump is accused of improperly pressuring the Ukrainian leader to investigate Joe Biden and his family the phone call memo has now.