Homebuilding government says spending on single family home construction actually moved higher helping to offset some of the losses in other areas new trade tensions and a disappointing report on manufacturing weighed on Wall Street today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling nearly one percent N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley reports President Trump is trying to pin the blame on the Federal Reserve the drop in the stock market came after President Trump ordered a new round of tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Brazil and Argentina that was followed a few hours later by a worse than expected manufacturing report factory activity declined in November for the 4th month in a row manufacturing's been hampered in part by the president's ongoing trade war and lingering uncertainty over Tariff Policy that was underscored when truck abruptly announced the new tariffs in a pair of surprise tweets later in the day Trump tweeted that manufacturers are being held back by a strong dollar he blames that on the Federal Reserve and his own nominee is fed chairman Jerome Powell Scott Horsley n.p.r. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm also Chang and I'm Mary Louise Kelly Congress is returning to Washington from Thanksgiving break and some lawmakers are settling in tonight in a secure room on Capitol Hill members of the House Intelligence Committee are reviewing a report that outlines Democrats' findings from the impeachment inquiry that report is expected to be out tomorrow Meanwhile Republicans have gotten ahead and released their own report today that appears to Mack is here to tell us what's in it hi tell me there so what is in the report what are Republicans saying are their findings from the proceedings thus for what's become a familiar set of defenses for the president we've heard a lot of these rationales from Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee during these impeachment proceedings Republicans are arguing that the president has done nothing wrong that any requests he made for investigations into the Bidens or Barisan or the Ukrainian government had nothing to do with benefiting him specifically the Republican report says the president has a quote deep seated genuine and reasonable skepticism of Ukraine due to its history of pervasive corruption and that concerns about 100 bitin are valid they also write the evidence just isn't there to say that the president was trying to benefit himself. Ok how do Republicans square that with the numerous witnesses many of whom work or have worked for this president they have testified in open hearings that the president was leveraging aid for his personal and political benefit so this Republican report attempts to discredit those witnesses saying that these witnesses simply disagreed with the president's policies that they are unelected bureaucrats who did not understand quote and elected presidents outside the Beltway approach to diplomacy and quote They also argued that the impeachment inquiry did not yield direct 1st hand evidence of a scheme to withhold the meeting or and or security assistance to coerce Ukraine to investigate the binds me turn you to the Democratic report which I'm guessing is going to sound very different and have a very different take on this evidence It's out tomorrow what do we know about it yet it's going to be quite different I mean the the rules of the impeachment inquiry passed by the House said that the House Intelligence Committee must prepare a report outlining its findings and possible recommendations for the House Judiciary Committee it will kind of be a roadmap for the judiciary committee to look through as they consider possible articles of impeachment so Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff has said that he has seen evidence of bribery and obstruction of Congress and so we expect to learn more in this report this Democratic report about the facts that support their contention ultimately all the facts have been released to the public in some way whether through hearings hours and hours of hearings or transcripts that have been released publicly that's been done in an open setting so we don't expect new facts just new packaging the argument of how these facts fit together so we have heard as you say all of the witnesses all of the testimony we have read and now this is Republicans and Democrats giving their very different takes on absolutely what it all amounts to Ok Meanwhile you mentioned the House Judiciary Committee which holds the next phase of those this public hearing on Wednesday I spoke with Stephen Groves today he's a special assistant to President Trump he talked about why. The White House is not planning to participate on Wednesday and I want to play you a little bit of what he told me in the mail talk at the White House counsel set out in detail why the White House isn't participating in this in this particular hearing it really boils down to. You know we were not given much notice to plan or prepare for a hearing we don't know who the with this is at this hearing that will be and you know how does one even prepare for that all we're told is this is going to be a discussion about you know constitutional issues so even if we knew who the witnesses were this is going to be some type of constitutional law seminar and not knowing who the witnesses are not having sufficient time to prepare for it it just didn't make sense for the president to ask any counsel on his behalf to attend the hearing of course the president himself will be over in London attending a NATO conference and will not be able to really watch this so that was Stephen groves at the White House today since I spoke to him Tim We have got the waitlist the witness list for Wednesday that's right who's testifying who it's going to be a number of law professors from Stanford and Harvard and the University of North Carolina and one law professor that Republicans have requested from George Washington University but there's you know the president has made his position clear on why the White House will not be participating in this hearing there is a reason however why Democrats are holding it I mean polling shows that 70 percent of Americans believe the president has committed misconduct but that's a lot higher percentage than believe that the president should be impeached and removed so the hearing is to set the bar what exactly constitutes an impeachable offense All right thank you Tim thanks a lot N.P.R.'s Tamara. How do you rebuild the Democratic Party after losing an election that is the question one presidential candidate was wrestling with 15 years ago and shaped his political path south. And Mayor people to judge was a newly minted Harvard graduate studying at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship he and his friends created an informal group with a mission to help their party's future N.P.R.'s a small Khalid reports When people to judge arrived in England he was a curious bookish 23 year old known to his friends as Peter the year was 2005 the Iraq war was raging on John Kerry had lost the presidential election and Democrats were souls which is still a pretty good name day and weeks was one of beauty judges old buddies at Oxford I think finding like minded people who were progressive no one quite content with playing in a 3rd Way status quo that had defined the Democratic Party for basically our our lifetimes we were really looking for a way out of that and so every week they would meet up with other friends to discuss deep political thought their group was like a book club but without books together they called themselves members of the Democratic renaissance project you were nerdy types I suppose it was something more than just the comradery which counted for a lot we were looking to challenge each other's thinking especially that moment when asked your almost 8 years even George w. Bush a lot of us were feeling like the country was almost unrecognizable sometimes they met in common rooms in the ancient ornate colleges around Oxford other times that a local British pub that had been frequented by a now famous former Rhodes scholar Bill Clinton but a judge 1st conceived of the Democratic renaissance project with good Nash said Iran a friend from his undergrad days at Harvard said Rahman declined to be interviewed on the record for this story he's a longtime adviser to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren but see below Raman who was also a part of the group says the name the Democratic renaissance project was kind of tongue in cheek was very informal we would take turns hosting in our you know we'd bring some snacks or something we rotate who would tea up a different topic of conversation but as ad hoc as it was there was also a sense of. Generational urgency that if they wanted to leave in a better country they were going to have to fix the country themselves and so they wanted to prepare for public service sometimes the group would circulate writings by modern day political theorists about citizenship or progressive values here's what Monica and he's now president of the progressive group Deimos a lot of times we think through some of the policy debates of the day in the Iraq war was was one that came up a number of times on was one of beauty judges roommates in Oxford at the time but the judge was studying politics philosophy and economics you know we were students it was our full time job to try to think big thoughts and understand how the world works and that's beauty Gedge reminiscing over as Oxford days in an interview with me he says there was an assumption that in order to win elections Democrats had to contort their values work within the Republican framework and put a conservative spin on their message there has been a small business to the aspirations of I think our own party because Foley being tied to all those years that whole 1st decade of this century you felt like all the Democrats were doing was responding to Republicans but it Gedge was frustrated that the g.o.p. Seemed to have a monopoly on family patriotism and morality I contacted over half a dozen old Democratic renaissance project members most to climb to talk on tape for this story they didn't want to discuss campaign politics given their professional ties but the consensus among former members is that the focus in these discussion groups was on values and philosophy not so much specific policy here is good each can a big part of what we were doing was studying the right value one of the things that we noticed was that it was actually the American right wing that had built the strongest relationship between kind of ideas in politics and the British judge and his friends were obsessed with reforming the Democratic Party Ron says he remembers one particular example we actually staged a debate in rocks. And the frame for the debate was the 3rd way is good for the Democratic Party yea or nay the 3rd way refers to the moderate Democratic politics of the Bill Clinton era that sought to reconcile centrist economic ideas with progressive social ideas here's Dan weeks again he'd spoke up I remember used against that way approach he was a strong and I thought certainly a pretty compelling critic of the way but it judges critics now accuse him of being a modern 3rd way politician focused on rhetoric when bridge began his presidential campaign he spoke about some radical changes like getting rid of the Electoral College and reforming the Supreme Court now that he's seen as a more viable candidate he's not as vocal about those ideas I asked buthe judge how he reckons ows how people see him today with his vocal opposition to the 3rd Way back in the day time I've come to appreciate more of the policy work the comes out of modern organizations those friends who formed the Democratic renaissance project never came to a consensus on ideology amongst themselves today some are more centrist others more liberal but says there was something that united them I think we came into that space not just with the scent of price of the with the sense that progressive politics as it was being practiced in the Post Clinton era was not up to the task of what we needed progressivism to do many friends said the focus on freedom values and generational change that you hear in big today come from all the soul searching they did as a liberal millennial living in a George w. 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Support N.P.R.'s general is in northeastern Syria she joins me now hi Jane hi there hi I know you've been out and about reporting today were you actually able to see vs Russian flags flying what's it look like we actually were able to see them on the side of the road just on the outskirts of this town called a move which is a couple of miles from the Turkish border but outside of what's widely considered to be the agreement for Turkish Russian patrols So earlier today the commander of Syrian Kurdish forces general Muslim Abdi announced that he had reached this agreement and it's with the commander of Russian forces in Syria for the deployment of Russian troops in 3 new areas including this one and so we're going down the highway end on one side there is now a collection of buildings that has a Russian flag flying and not only the flag there were soldiers on the roof and the weird thing about this also is after driving Pownce to the new Russian base we turn down a highway and there is a u.s. Convoy armored vehicles find the American flag because although the numbers of u.s. Forces have been reduced here they're not entirely gone there's still 4 to 500 of them so it makes for a very interesting space here and right up next to each other what I described the Kurds thinking here as hedging their bets What is the calculation that the Kurds are making Well it's essentially that they need protection and that's a protection they lost when the u.s. Pulled out from border areas that allowed Turkish troops to invade in October. I spoke to one of the spokesman for Syrian Kurdish forces and he said They've lost 4000 square miles and basically they don't have a lot of good options here they're going to probably have to sit down and negotiate with the Syrian regime that they broke away from and that also means coming to an agreement with Syria's Russian allies. And before we let you go I want to ask our u.s. And Russian troops bumping into each other they crossing paths so how close are they well they're doing what they call de confliction which is making sure that everybody knows where everyone is supposedly so they don't actually cross paths but you know there's a bigger concern here t