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News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly another Democratic candidate is dropping out of the race for the White House and 2020 Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced the end of his campaign last night it's become clear that I'm not going to be carrying the ball I'm not going to be the president's arm withdrawing tonight from the race that's Ensley speaking to m s n b C's Rachel Maddow later today Insley is expected to announce he'll seek a 3rd term as governor last week Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination more than 20 candidates continue seeking the nomination to challenge President Trump's reelection civil rights attorneys in California are asking a federal judge to block a new rule from the Trump administration allowing migrant children to potentially be held indefinitely at family detention centers along the Us Mexico border currently children are to be released after 20 days Tuckey Hendricks with member station k.q.e.d. In San Francisco says the change was announced yesterday by the Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security officials say the new rule will deter migrant families from coming to the border but if it takes effect the rule would terminate the legal settlement that limits the detention of children Holly Cooper with the u.c. Davis Law School says attorneys are challenging the proposed rule because it could put children in prison like conditions for prolonged periods we need to start questioning whether there's a necessity at all detention and I would say I would counter that what is most humane is to never detain a child once the new rule is published Friday a federal judge in Los Angeles will decide whether it respects the settlement or whether to grant an injunction to stop it for n.p.r. News I'm typing Hendricks in San Francisco Israel's president as voicing concerns about President Trump's comments critical of Jewish voters in the u.s. Who support Democratic candidates N.P.R.'s Daniel Estrin is in Jerusalem last week to Democratic Congresswoman Eleanor Marr and Rashida to lead where did. Knight entry to Israel at Trump's encouragement because they support a movement to boycott Israel over its treatment of Palestinians President Trump returned to the subject as he left the White House on Wednesday in my opinion if you vote for a Democrat you're being very disloyal to the Jewish people and you have a very disloyal to Israel and only weak people would say anything other than in a statement Israeli president Ruben Rivlin says he spoke with House speaker Democrat Nancy Pelosi and told her quote We must keep the state of Israel above political disputes and make every effort to ensure that support for Israel to not become a political issue he said us Israel ties are quote not dependent on the relationship with one particular party Daniel Estrin n.p.r. News Jerusalem this is n.p.r. News from Washington from the radio news and in Boston I'm Henry Santoro with the local stories that we're following 10 of 13 members of the Boston City Council are criticizing the recent federal explores and convictions of 2 city hall aides earlier this month the jury found Timothy Sullivan and Ken the percent guilty of pressuring the Boston calling music festival into hiring union labor by threatening to withhold permits their lawyers argued that the 2 men were advocating for good jobs and trying to prevent a picket line councillor linear Edwards says their convictions will make it harder for public officials to work on behalf of unions. See is not extortion but asking for union jobs diverse workforce is fighting for racial justice assuring that people have a placed and a home to be those are all forms of advocacy those are not forms of extortion meantime Sullivan and percent have yet to be sentenced in the case their lawyers are asking the judge to overrule the jury and acquit them on all charges u.s. Attorney from Massachusetts had rebelling dismissed the accusation that charges were politically motivated motivated as the offense and as well into fed to the Boston calling Casey also announced fraud conspiracy and obstruction charges against the former president of the Massachusetts State Police Union as well as a former Beacon Hill lobbyist Dana Pullman and lobbyist and Lynch were arrested yesterday morning w. G.b.h. Radio's Isaiah Thompson was there Welling said Pullman had orchestrated illegal reimbursements for union members political contributions God and illegal kickbacks from codefendant Lynch and spent union funds on himself he used the union debit card to pay for $9000.00 in flowers $8000.00 in restaurants and thousands more on travel including a trip to Miami Florida with a woman with whom Pullman was having an affair at that time outside Boston's federal courthouse Pulman attorney Marty Weinberg said his client is innocent people nice to each and every one of the allocate today's problems like both defendants were released on bond Isaiah Thompson g.b.h. Boston's local n.p.r. The latest Department of Public Health Report on the opioid crisis estimates over $930.00 people in Massachusetts died from overdoses in the 1st half of this year still though there is some progress being made w. G.b.h. Radios Mary Blake has more Massachusetts public health commissioner Dr Monica Burrell says when compared with the 1st 6 months of 2018 the number of fatal opioid related O.D.'s during the 1st half of this year has dropped 11 percent. If you're going to be if you can we go look at the. 23rd 24th it would increase by or however the powerful synthetic opioid that in all is taking more lives during the 1st quarter of this year toxicology tests found fentanyl was present in more than 90 percent of fatal O.D.'s and that is an all time high Mary Blake w g b h Boston's local n.p.r. Sunk clouds and low ninety's today 70 degrees of the partly cloudy skies in Boston right now I'm Henry Santoro. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include Sierra Nevada Brewing Company family owned operated and argued over since 1980 proud supporter of independent thought whether that's online over the air or in a bottle more at Sierra Nevada dot com. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Noel King in Washington d.c. And I'm David Greene and Culver City California one trillion dollars of red ink is a whole lot of reading yes it is and the Congressional Budget Office says the federal budget deficit could rise to nearly that level a trillion dollars in fiscal year 2019 the c.b.l. Gave that estimate yesterday and of course this comes as we're getting mixed signals on some other really important economic indicators and let's bring in n.p.r. Political reporter Daniel Kurtz Lavan who has been covering this good morning Danielle good morning David So you just say a trillion dollars That sounds bad but I mean what do these numbers mean what does this new deficit estimate actually say about the economy right now well I mean let's start with the super super basics that means we're going to keep borrowing a lot as a government now the actual number you said a trillion there it's going to be 960000000000 in fiscal 2019 and an average of yet 1.2 trillion over the next decade so the deficit is set to be well above average those are the C.E.O.'s words. By 2029 the CVO projects that could hit levels we haven't seen since after World War 2 Well that's over 90 percent of our economic output Now the CVO director Phil Swagel He said quote The nation's fiscal outlook is challenging that the nation's debt level on this trajectory could become unsustainable and he in his words so deficits they're not always bad but he seems to say that yeah if if our debt keeps piling up that could be a not a good thing but what's interesting here is what this doesn't say about the economy because right now the economy is pretty good despite a few warning signs so in times like these the deficit should shrink that's what usually happens but one thing that happened recently was we enact these big tax cuts those tax cuts even the revenue so that helps explain why that debt and growth relationship has gone haywire when the c.b.i. Was weighing in on a lot of stuff yesterday right I mean did they also talk about new tariffs that have come from the trunk ministration and how they may be affecting American families and businesses right now right yes and they didn't say great things now to be clear the c.e.o. They don't make policy judgments they don't come out and say a policy is good or bad they tend to be drier and not drink the numbers right yes here are the numbers but what they say what they said was largely not good for the effects of these tariffs the report said that the tariffs the u.s. Imposed are slowing the economy down they're making goods more expensive they're lowering our buying power they're increasing uncertainty and they're causing China to retaliate and other countries so that means others are buying fewer u.s. Goods which means we are exporting less so if you put all that together you're hurting us growth and one stat that the White House might not love is that if these tariffs remain in place the CVO projected it could reduce average real household income by $580.00 next year. So to what extent does all of this coming from the c.b.o.t. Call into question President Trump and his argument that that the economy is just really all things are rosy right now. Right so this doesn't change that the unemployment rate is low it doesn't change that the economy has been doing pretty Ok this is more about how our revenues and spending don't reflect that it means that in the future and this is again CVO director Phil Swagel he said that we're going to have to do some belt tightening we're going to have to deal with our debt burdens which could leave us less fiscal room to deal with future economic issues potentially N.P.R.'s Daniel card's live in thanks so much then you know yes thank you. Immigrant advocates are raising concerns right now that the trumpet ministration will start detaining migrant families seeking asylum in the United States for much longer periods of time in this would be a big change yet the moment kids cannot be detained for more than 20 days that rule has been around for years and it was meant to protect children from the harsh conditions of being confined but then yesterday the trumpet ministration announced these new regulations that would let the government detain kids with their families indefinitely N.P.R.'s Joel Rose covers immigration and is with us and Joel just explain what the term ministration is in from here right the administration is proposing to get rid of the Flores settlement which is this longstanding legal agreement that basically set standards for the care of migrant children in detention and also limits how long those kids can be detained the ministration has been arguing for a while that Flores has come to be a quote unquote loophole in u.s. Immigration policy because migrant families from Central America know if they arrive at the Us Mexico border with kids and ask for asylum the entire family is likely to be released into the u.s. To wait for their day and immigration court here is acting homeland security secretary Kevin Macklin and yesterday this single ruling has substantially caused and continued to fuel this current family unit crisis and the young president flow of Central American families and minors illegally crossing our border until today McLain and says these new rules will discourage tens of thousands of migrant families from making this journey because they know they won't be quickly released into the u.s. And instead they'll be detained together until their cases are resolved but immigrant advocates dispute that they say these migrants are fleeing from extreme violence and just want a better life for their kids and that many are going to keep coming regardless of changes in our immigration policy one of that prediction is right if this does not serve as a deterrent and families escaping these horrible conditions do keep coming is the government prepared to detain all of these the families the short answer to that is no not not at the moment there are 3 detention facilities that are currently set up to detain families together only about $3000.00 beds all told but says that these new rules around. Tension will still help stem the crisis because officials will be able to get through more asylum cases more quickly if the families are detained and will be able to deport more of them back home and that is supposed to send this message that bringing a child along with you does not get you into the u.s. Anymore McClean and also says these new rules would uphold the spirit of the floor as settlement by setting high standards for care while kids and families are in detention but you know we've heard so many horror stories of kids in just these crowded facilities unsanitary conditions you know in places like border patrol stations I mean as the government as a trial ministration makes this change we can a guarantee that kind of stuff is not going to keep happening immigration lawyers say no they do not trust the government to set its own detention standards which is basically how it would work under these new rules and the lawyers point to those allegations of squalid conditions especially a few months back when they were record numbers of migrant families arriving at the border here is highly Cooper from the u.c. Davis School of Law She's one of the lawyers involved in the forest case so we're going to have a wall that makes a lot like the internment of families and children where we have you know basically regular prison as the default family seeking political asylum in this country in other words it would look a lot like the world before the flora settlement more than 20 years ago except potentially on a much bigger scale N.P.R.'s Joel Rose covers immigration for us thanks Joe You're welcome. That's when recent years use of the gene editing technique that's known as crisper has really been the talk of the whole scientific world it's exciting stuff researchers have edited genes in human embryos they're experimenting with it with using it to cure a genetic disorder and now N.P.R.'s learned that scientists are trying to come up with a new way to make modifications in human d.n.a. That would be passed down for generations they want to edit the d.n.a. In human sperm All right let's talk about that with n.p.r. Health correspondent Rob Stein who's been reporting on many of these discoveries for us and he recently got exclusive access to the lab where this research is being done either Rob Hey David Ok so editing d.n.a. And human sperm What is this research exactly and who are doing yes what the experiment is being conducted by scientists at Weill Cornell medicine that's in New York City now a lab run by jumping rope Palermo he's a reproductive scientist who runs the un drala ji lab and here's a little bit of what he told me when I met with him recently. From the scientific point of view to investigate. To be able. To remove certain disease that the 50 family so the goal here is to find ways to fix genetic mutations in sperm and to do things like you know maybe prevent genetic forms of male infertility or diseases caused by genetic mutations that are passed from men to their children through their sperm and in fact the team is starting with one of the so-called breast cancer genes which men can pass down to their kids to. How is the team doing this I mean you were actually in the lab watching this right yeah I was really interesting David you know it turns out the big obstacle to editing d.n.a. In human sperm is that the genes are packed really tightly inside the head of each sperm and that makes a really hard to get the microscopic Gene editing tool they're using you know the the crisper Gene editing tool into the d.n.a. So what they're doing is literally shocking sperm with a machine that the liver is a split 2nd 1100 fold jolt of electricity to basically try to loosen up the d.n.a. Let's listen a little bit to how June when when a lap. Explain this as she was running the experiment I'm going to turn the machine here. And. Zapping is a kind of Frankenstein like. Yeah one of the weird concepts. From this all sounds weird. It so let me ask you this that the scientists said they're doing this in an ethical manner that does everyone agree with them yeah well I mean editing the d.n.a. In sperm it does raise you know many of the same really tough questions raised by editing the d.n.a. In human embryos which is you know you might remember is how Chinese scientists treated the world's 1st Jenny modified babies unary figured you know outrage around the world you know there are big questions about Is it safe to do that sort of thing and could it open the door to possibly someday someone trying to create designer babies I talked of fear door enough he's a scientist at University of California Berkeley about all this we know from in China last year that despite our best hopes folks will tend to go rogue We've also learned that it's really hard to prevent them from. Before we let the crisper of the bottle we have to ask ourselves how will we be able to control it so what are the scientists say about concerns like that yes so you know they knowledge that they know this is really controversial and very sensitive stuff but they say look you know it's important to least try to see if this is possible because there's so much potential here for crisper trying to do so much good but you know it's important make sure that they haven't gotten it to work yet and some side to say that made may never just be technically possible to do it and just maybe too hard so the researchers are planning to just keep trying to see if they can do it interesting stuff from n.p.r. Health correspondent Rob Stein Rob thanks. David. This is n.p.r. 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