From the secretive court that oversees intelligence gathering Morning Edition from n.p.r. News. This hour a whistleblower complaint against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints I'm David Greene and I'm now well King a former investment manager says the church misuse $100000000000.00 that was meant for charity. Also the shutdown of the Boeing 737 Max jet could slow overall economic growth and research shows a racial divide in the opportunity gap will go to Albany New York where kids with the best chances live in a few select neighborhoods It's Wednesday December 18th singer Billy Eilish is 18 today. And the news is next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington on core of the Coleman today lawmakers in the House of Representatives will take up the impeachment case against President Donald Trump N.P.R.'s Brian Naylor reports the lawmakers will debate 2 articles of impeachment the articles charged President Trump with abusing the power of his office and obstructing Congress each was approved on a party line vote last week by the House Judiciary Committee and it's expected today's vote will also closely follow party lines Democrats say the president be trade the nation's trust by enlisting a foreign power in corrupting democratic elections and that his defiance of House subpoenas for information and testimony constituted an assault on the impeachment clause itself President Trump fired off an angry letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the eve of the vote calling the impeachment effort an illegal partisan attempted coup and telling Palosi quote you view democracy as your enemy Brian Naylor n.p.r. News Washington meanwhile thousands of people held rallies on Tuesday to call for the president's impeachment activists gathered in cities from New York to California and in towns from Alaska to Florida the League of Women Voters has filed a federal lawsuit to try to stop the potential removal of more than 200000 names from voter rolls in Wisconsin from member station. In Milwaukee reports the league claims voters did not get enough notice a state judge in Wisconsin has ruled that election officials should within 30 days remove about 234000 names from the role of registered voters but the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin argues the removal would violate federal due process projections one of the league's attorneys Cecilia Hagel era of the Washington d.c. Based Fair Elections Center says the group is asking for a slow down and obey Election Commission have an opportunity to notify voters eg Bakley of what's going to happen to help. We need you to respond to a conservative legal group that pushed for the voter name removal says is trying to protect the integrity of Wisconsin the watchman's for n.p.r. News I'm Chuck Walky in Haiti there have been months of protests against government corruption and P.R.'s Carrie Kahn reports from Port au Prince Why Haitians are very angry people are upset here about corruption specifically with regards to billions of dollars opponents of the current president. Says was stolen mismanagement just gone that money was part of a low interest program by Venezuela that provided all its ideological allies and neighbors and there's just no accounting for that money and Haiti is unable to repay the billions now that press N.P.R.'s Carrie Kahn despite massive protests Haitian president says he won't step down before the end of his term in 2022. You're listening to n.p.r. News. Studies suggest the world gender gap won't be closed for another century New statistics show that 8 years sooner than the last estimate Teri Schultz reports the most progress is expected in education the World Economic Forum the predicts gender equality worldwide will only be achieved another 99.5 years the 14th Global Gender Gap Report surveys more than 150 countries ranking member quality of participation and opportunities in politics the economy and education as well as by health and survival rates Iceland takes the top spot for the 11th year in a row followed by Norway Finland Sweden and Nicaragua the Us ranks 53rd despite more women holding high profile political positions around the world equality in politics is the worst performing category meanwhile is projected to take just a dozen years to reach gender equality in education and 40 countries have already achieved that for n.p.r. News I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels Southwest Airlines says it's going to ground its Boeing $737.00 Max planes until at least next April that comes after Boeing announced that it would suspend production of the troubled just liner until at least January Southwest decision will affect about 300 of its flights every day out of some 4000 daily flights the National Weather Service warns a vigorous storm system will dip from the Great Lakes into the northeast this week that will set up several days of frigid temperatures and snow in New England across the country a storm system is approaching the West Coast that region will get heavy rain with a chance for flash flooding I'm core of a Coleman n.p.r. News from Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from I drive providing cloud backup full system back up and on site I drive appliance to protect P.C.'s Macs and servers from data loss due to crashes and ransomware and I drive dot com slash n.p.r. And Americans for the Arts. Good morning The time is 6 minutes after 6 o'clock on this Wednesday morning December 18th your tune indicates you radio and N.P.R.'s Morning Edition as always thanks so much for joining us Time now for our 1st look at the weather forecast with support provided by big-O. 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Public Radio and stay tuned coming up at the bottom of the hour we've got 90 seconds world news headlines with b.b.c. Top line. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Joel King in Washington d.c. And I'm David Greene in Culver City California a secret federal court has emerged from the dark to publicly slam the f.b.i. And Justice Department the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance or phase the court has to sign off if say the f.b.i. Thinks someone may be a foreign terrorist or spy and they want to wiretap them or carry out surveillance on u.s. Soil recently the inspector general of the Justice Department strongly criticized the f.b.i. For how it handled the investigation into President Trump's campaign and Russia now the inspector found no political bias against Trump from the agency but he also said the f.b.i. And the Justice Department mishandled surveillance on a former campaign aide to Carter page they didn't disclose information to the court that made page less suspicious now the phase the court itself has demanded that the f.b.i. Explain its mistakes and show how it will fix the problems Mary McCord is a former top Justice Department official she served during both the Obama and Trump administrations and was partly involved in the files applications we're talking about she is now a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and joins us this morning thanks for coming on the program my pleasure happy to be here I just want to start with you know your former role you were assistant acting assistant attorney general for national security played some role in the 1st 2 phase applications during this f.b.i. Investigation I mean you're actually named to me in the inspector general report so how do you defend the department's actions that are in question here well I think if you know a kept careful read of the report shows that most of the blame at least that the inspector general is placing on the department is. With respect to a failure of the f.b.i. To apprise Department of Justice attorneys those in the chain of review phase applications of all of the pertinent facts and relevant facts that should have been provided and not only to the Department Justice officials but also many facts that should have been provided to the court and so. And I'm not here to you know trash the f.b.i. There are very good people excellent people there who try very hard every day and are very careful every day to make sure that their face applications are 100 percent accurate but obviously the inspector general's report found a number of deficiencies in this particular fuzzy application and so I'm not at all surprised that the chief judge of the FISA court has asked for the government to answer to those to those misrepresentations and those omissions and explain what intends to do to rectify the situation so you're saying that if employees of the f.b.i. Were were trying to look at quarter page for example they might not have been totally forthcoming about things that for example may have seemed less suspicious about this former Trump campaign aide that information never even made it into the department that like the level where you were working that's correct and you know it's similar phys cation is not that much different than say an application for a search warrant or an application for it Title 3 warrant in normal criminal case in the process is different the court it goes to is different because it's a face a court but the feds the court is made up of Article 3 judges the same judges that sit in criminal cases and any time that Department of Justice lawyer or a prosecutor is going to be submitting an application for any type of search or surveillance to any court they are reliant on information provided by law enforcement sometimes that might be local law enforcement sometimes it might be the f.b.i. Sometimes it might be other law enforcement and so the in this case the Bureau of course the. The strength of the application is dependent on the information provided by the Bureau to the Department of Justice and the Department of Justice of course is the only entity that can make applications to the FISA court for these orders so it's a a union a yang relationship the f.b.i. Needs the department the department relies on the f.b.i. And the face a court relies of course on both and the phase a court now saying that they can't necessarily rely on on the f.b.i. Or the department to be truthful even in future applications So what needs to be done here what needs to be fixed Well I think that what you're going to see and we've already seen out of director read a you know 40 different recommendations or 40 different things he intends to change about the process I think we're going to see a much more rigorous review of the factual accuracy of every assertion made in a phased application so there's a procedure that the f.b.i. Uses and it's a creation of something called a woods file named after the f.b.i. Assistant director who came up with this notion which is a file where every single factual assertion is stored it's where any kind of derogatory or negative information is stored any kind of information as you indicated earlier David that would tend to suggest that maybe the target of the application is less culpable and so I think what we'll see is a much more rigorous of review to make sure that everything that is in that would file 1st of all that everything's in there and that everything in that woods file that needs to be presented the Department of Justice and needs to be presented to the FISA court will in fact be presented very McCord was a long time Justice Department official now with Georgetown University Law Center thanks so much for time this morning really appreciate it you're welcome Boeing's decision to suspend production of its 737 Max airplanes has hit the airline industry but it probably won't stop there Boeing is this country's most important industrial company so important that the decision to. Making the plane is expected to cut into u.s. Economic growth on the whole N.P.R.'s gyms are only has the story in October Boeing c.e.o. Dennis Mueller Emberg appeared before a congressional committee to apologize for the 737 Max crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people and he said government officials should keep the plane on the ground as long as necessary regulators around the world should rigorously scrutinize the max and only approve its return to flight when they are completely satisfied with its safety and that's what regulators around the world have done refusing to say when the 737 Max will fly again throughout this crisis Boeing has continued to build the planes and parked them in giant facilities in Texas and Washington state now it's shutting down production Boeing is just one company but it's an enormously important one it's the biggest u.s. Export are and the 7 $37.00 Max is by far its biggest selling plane says Gregory Dak of Oxford Economics Boeing is a big company and the 737 is the largest share of its production of of aircraft 80 percent of the planes produced by Boeing are the 737 doco says because of the decision to stop making the plane u.s. Economic growth will tumble over the next few months at an annual rate of half a percentage point it's a view shared by other economists the impact will be so great because Boeing has tentacles throughout the manufacturing sector says aviation consultant Ross aimer there are hundreds of sub contractors who supply engines and other parts to Boeing they're going to be affected that includes big companies like General Electric which makes engines for the $737.00 and spirit Aviation Services which makes assorted aircraft parts they. And many smaller companies will now have to decide how long they can afford to keep their factories open and their workers working as for Boeing it says it won't layoff anyone with the job market so tight the company is reluctant to see skilled workers walk out the door but the company has lost billions of dollars since the plane was grounded and Gregory doco says it could be forced to cut jobs as the months drag on some of these employees will be geared towards other parts of Boeing's production chain but that being said I wouldn't be surprised that as we move into 2020 there will be some layoffs announced that says that could lead to the loss of thousands of jobs next year alone none of this includes the potential impact on Boeing's customers the airlines both domestic and foreign carriers have had to reduce flights in recent months because they haven't been able to fly their 737 Maxes and that's cut into the money they make one of the worst hit has been Southwest which operates War of the plane than any other carrier yesterday Southwest said it would have to cancel more flights at least through April Jim n.p.r. News New York. In Pakistan a country long dominated by its armed forces a military dictator has been sentenced to death for high treason for suspending the constitution but the government says the special court that sentenced the country's former president General Pervez Musharraf is void N.P.R.'s Dia deed has more from Lahore the verdict was unheard of in Pakistan and for many unimaginable in a country with full military generals had ruled the country for nearly half of its 70 year is a mirage as an analyst and deputy director of South Asia for Amnesty International we spoke by phone it's actually a huge huge to the idea all anyone senior and beyond full says let's learn official military rule. Being elder council or in this way the president of the punishment isn't likely to be carried out Musharraf was tried in absentia because he now lives in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates he resigned from power in 2008 a year after he suspended the constitution and imposed a state of emergency since then Pakistan's been ruled by civilians but the army is still considered the country's most powerful institution and is quite close to the current government led by Prime Minister Imran Khan in fact the attorney general told local media that he thinks a special court doesn't have legitimacy it was created at the instigation of the government that was in power in 2013 the attorney general statement echoes the military spokesman who tweeted that Julie go process was ignored this is Amar Duranty a political analyst and add on day for the judiciary to dig a body or it. Is huge because despite all stand to both spending of democracy the army is perceived. With the army and government on one side the judiciary is pushing back that's a role it's stepped into in the past few years as it tries to demonstrate is independent of both this is what Raj The analyst again you can hear the tick talk of his car into Qaeda in the back row. And you can see the judiciary saying no one is above the role we will hold powerful accountable he says the judiciary isn't going to take orders and that's a challenge to those who have always seen the military as beyond accounts did the n.p.r. News local. This is n.p.r. News. What documents released through. The flawed strategy. Question what we were misled the public. Of The Washington Post. Gross for. Public radio as today at 6. Considered and. Provided by pipe. Goods stocked with holiday gifts from. The clothing and accessories. Shop they located in the heart of downtown. Pine needle dot com. As we move toward the. Project. Expand. To continue. Support provided by crisp a team. And their team at. 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News I'm David Greene and I'm Noel King good morning if you want to know how a kid is going to do as an adult look at the neighborhood they grow up in schools safety access to healthy food all of it matters new research shows a big racial divide in almost every major metropolitan area in the United States most white children live in neighborhoods with lots of opportunity most black and Hispanic children live in neighborhoods with low opportunity and often these neighborhoods are just a few blocks away from each other N.P.R.'s Pam Fessler went to Albany New York where the disparity is among the widest in the country drive around the arbor Hill and West Hill neighborhoods of Albany and you can't help but notice all the boarded up homes they have big red signs with large Access slashed across the middle put there by the fire department signal to let them know on Case of Emergency. The structure could fall today Jonathan Jones is Albany's commissioner of recreation youth and Workforce Services he's trying to help turn things around here by pushing more investments into the area like b