Pietschmann inquiry into President Trump on Saturday Mark Zandi was the 1st employee from the White House Office of Management and Budget to cooperate with House investigators and he was expected to provide information about a freeze in military aid to Ukraine Democrats accuse Trump of using that aide as leverage to press the Ukrainian president to investigate a political rival that Republican congressman Zeldin who sat in on the deposition says there's no link there you'll go back and you'll watch statements that the president has made way back in the past and it's all going to add up but I'll tell you it's not the dots that Adam Schiff is trying to connect the House Intelligence Committee resumes public hearings in the inquiry on Tuesday South Bend Indiana Mayor and a presidential candidate Pete booted judge has surged to the top of a closely watched poll of Iowa caucus goers Iowa Public Radio's Kate Payne reports 25 percent of likely Democratic caucus goers lisper to judge as their 1st choice according to the latest mine register c.n.n. Mediacom Iowa poll that's a 16 percent bump for him since the newspapers previous poll in September Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has slipped to 2nd place with 16 percent followed by former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders both with 15 percent while a greater number of Iowans polled say they've made up their minds nearly 2 thirds of likely Democratic caucus goers say they can be persuaded to pick someone else indicating the race is still largely open the margin of error in the poll is 4.4 percent for n.p.r. News I'm Kate pain in Cedar Rapids the trial of ministration has imposed travel sanctions on the interior minister of Cuba as N.P.R.'s Carrie Kahn reports this is the 2nd high ranking Cuban official to be banned from traveling to the u.s. In recent months u.s. Secretary of state might bump a 0 announced the travel ban against Cuba's interior minister who place their ground there have been made whole get a what he said was the minister. Gross violations of human rights in Venezuela. Would be barred from entering the u.s. Also because of the legal detention of more than $100.00 political prisoners in Cuba in a statement on pay or urged other nations to punish Cuban high ranking officials in September the trumpet ministration sanction Cuba's former president Raul Castro and several of his relatives the travel bans are just the latest sanctions imposed by President Trump against Cuba Trump has taken a much harder line with Cuba than former President Obama who had thought warmer relations Carrie Kahn n.p.r. News there are reports of a collision between 2 passenger jets on the tarmac at Frankfurt Airport in Germany officials say the crash caused damage but left no one injured you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington. Clashes between pro-democracy demonstrators and police in Hong Kong are intensifying protesters shot bows and arrows and hurled Mala top cocktails from a barricaded university campus today as police fired back with tear gas there are also been reports that protesters have set fire to the Harbor Tunnel bridge a major thoroughfare out of the city demonstrations in Hong Kong have been ongoing for nearly 6 months. The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle is moving ahead with plans to sue a British tabloid over the way it's covered her marriage to Prince Harry they keep Barker reports from London. 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Stations other contributors include the Pew Charitable Trusts committed to improving public policy invigorating civic life and turning indifference into action more information is available at Pew Trust's dot org And Americans for the Arts. Welcome to let you know USA I'm marrying a horse that today a favorite from our vault It's called the returned. This story originally aired in December of 20. And it recently won gold for Best Documentary at the 21003rd Coast Richard treehouse foundation competition so we're bringing it back for you today. And. There are now I think this is my 7th birthday and the last birthday there celebrated. But 8th and 9th birthdays and then celebrated. My parents for saving for me to come here. This is right in our backyard underneath like the avocado treats and there's a party outside. Michael and I was playing about. Am I and those are my friends that's my cousin and out of all those boys all of them have left and they're on the United States. My grampa he's young he's fatter. He still looks strong and very. Very imposing he's carried. By a family I know that you wanted to live where. There is all I laid my grandmother like here and like her hand motions and everything she's very likely to have a baby on your hip. She's like saying thank you. And the weird part is that she's talking to my mom and my dad in the United States and she's like I hope that. This party met your expectations. Make you gave us money to provide for your kid and. And we hope that you met your like think that you had imagined in your head. That yes it or. She was like my mom. Brought me here he would visit I think almost twice a year. To see how old it was he was gauging to see if I could make the trip. So we started this relationship last time I saw him he said next time news have to be ready and I had had my bags just waiting I knew that I was going to leave its didn't know when. And I don't remember what day it was but then my grandpa walked me up and his I get to go shower and. My aunts and my grandma made breakfast and they were crying my grandpa and I walked out the door and it was dawn. And the dogs were barking. And the sun hadn't broken through yet it's like this bluish tent all over and I just walked out on to the road and took a left all the way to the pier which is where the buses stop. And so in that that was the last time that a walk through my entire town. And my grampa. Left me and what the Maila. And we had stayed there for 15 days but my grampa couldn't go anymore so I remember him walking us to the bus. And I was the last one to get on. And I was saying goodbye to my grampa and he was wearing a white polo shirt black. Shoes and black belt and blue jeans and he was in the middle of the road. And he was waving. 'd 'd when I left I wasn't thinking about the time apart from them I was mostly happy that I was en route to be reunited with my parents it wasn't until much later that I began to understand that it wasn't going to my grandparents again. 20 years ago poet and writer had yet somewhat am traveled to the Us Mexico border as a child this is a journey that have yet is written about in this book of poetry and a company which has garnered a lot of attention for how yet over the last couple of years including a northern California Book Award and a fellowship at Harvard. Last year. On January 8th things changed for him and his family have yet it will come to a phone call from his mom she was crying saying he announced it. I said Come. What are we going to do Trump had just announced that he would not be renewing temporary protected status for Salvadorans in 2001 nearly 200000 Salvadorians received temporary protected status or t.p.s. After powerful earthquake hit the country t.p.s. Allowed them to live and work in the u.s. Until it was safe to return back to all Salvador but with Trump's announcement essentially ending his protected status and he adds life in the u.s. Was thrown into question. After living here for almost 20 years most of his life now he faced the possibility of having to leave it all behind. In order to stay in the u.s. And yet decided to apply for an easy one visa which is otherwise known as the extraordinary abilities visa and in order to apply he would have to return to all Salvador in person his 1st trip back in almost 2 decades. We wanted to help share his experience so producer Sarah give it worked with him to document his journey with audio diaries interviews and other recordings just a warning that this piece contains some language that might not be suitable for young years. We're going to begin he had story on a particularly important day for him it's June 10th that is the day that had he had 1st arrived to United States when he was only 9 years old it's also the day before he will return to all Salvador 19 years later. It's June and I'm alone. 19 years. I haven't packed I leave tomorrow. Yesterday I babysat a kid a 4 year old with Britney at the end he chose 4 books for me to read and the one of and start this is all the places you would go and after Britney read it to her. He said that it made him feel better he was hiking me. And work. With Brittany and I feel good about leaving. And I don't know when that changed because I've been scared and there's something about this day. Is Full Circle. On June 10th the day before I left to us. I had dinner with my mom and my aunts we had started talking about the trip and my little cousin really surprised me your name and how do you think you would feel if you were going for happy being played great now I feel happy for you yesterday calling near and seen my grad and my grandpa. And I wish abc and he had a vice. If you were to go to a place that you never been to where would you bring. Want to gain my. I think that is. Just natural feeling for a little kid the same age as me when I came here that all you want is your parents to be with them imprinting him everywhere I think is that feeling I want to bring my parents who knows makes me cry because that's what I wanted when I came into it but I want to be it was to be with my parents. I was thinking about this from San Francisco to Houston Houston I think it really began to kick and by then I was like Ok am I going to come back and I'm going to return to this. Hour my going to be turned from. I was thinking about see my grandparents for the 1st time in 1000 years. After I got here my grandparents and I mostly communicated over the phone like how are you doing how itself or how's the United States House work How's the weather Ok I love you but I feel like they hide a lot of things from us and also we had a lot of things from them. Thank. You after. When I landed and I go through the checkpoint. And a get away for the humidity and I get to the road. My grampa is waiting. I think he's wearing white he's wearing a white polo Maybe he always wears white polo that I know but that crucial moment he always wears the same outfit. Before I was 5 he was rarely in the picture because he was working. But when he was in the picture. He was. The one memory. That I remember as him coming in through the door the back door. Pounding it. He was trying get in on something else. Now for. A burst through and you start arguing. And throwing he was throwing stuff and like cursing my grandma. That happened multiple times. Every year. And. He still has a huge cut. But he's frail. The a. They. Are not and there are the meat has been taken away from him and with it I think that they now make his change unless cared. And now I'm bigger. The moment I get in the car I start commenting on what I remember the guy magically like on cue. And I tried to remember the way home. First thing I know is there's now a solar panel fields and then we're given driving and the sugarcane fields are still there but now we have like a little thing that has. I mean you know the let alone welcome to letter water right near the cemetery I remember the cemetery being this huge thing. And the cemetery was like a block big and in my head it with felt like half a mile. And so we take it right up a new road that they've just built with new houses and I'm commenting on it and I don't even recognize the clinic that I lived in front of so he parked the car parks . And my grampa starts to get out and I'm like What are we here and they don't remember. My grandma opens the door she's in turn I count and she looks around to see if anybody's looking and cheers and get out of the house she waits for me to get in. And she is way different than what I remembered my grandmother was is joyful woman. That he was man and would always be dressed to the nines who are into her makeup who would take care of her hair she is not that person a marsh is seeing a shadow of who she was you. Know she's Freo her armchair so skinny. And there's like dreads in the back of her hair she doesn't care for her hair any more than I hug her and she didn't hug me fully She put one of her hands on me trained her chest and mine. On a protect my chest where my heart is and that's what she did. Whenever I thought of see my grandparents I imagine this big dramatic moment where I would run up to them and hung them crying my grandma crying hugging me I imagine staying up talking with them I wanted. To take them out on the walk to the market or to the pier. That's what I wanted most. When we return I feel down there in the hope that I can go back to the United States stay with us not that I. Support comes from food works natural market your local full service organic and natural foods store and deli wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy Holiday locations in Guilford and Old Saybrook follow them on Facebook at Food Works natural market. Next time on the New York Radio Hour screenwriter Lena way her new film Queen in slim looks at the issue of police violence I just wanted to write something about us I don't fortunately if I'm right about us but how can I ignore the fact they're being hunted mean away next time on the New York radio listen this morning at 10. 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And one of me. And that's the 1st thing you see. And the fridge is new but it's still in the same place that it used to be the t.v. With newer but it's still in the same place it used to be. Or the roof changed the roof used to be Terry quarter of an hour. There's like steel. That you can hear when is it when it rains kids throughout. Their executives now there's like an infestation. Like squeak like birds they keep you up as well I still showered outside. So everything hadn't changed. That much. As part of the visa appointment I had to go to this doctor in the capital do a lot of tests and once that was approved I could to go to the embassy today I went to the dogs years appointment and once a there they asked why I was getting the visa and I explained that I have a book with the moment I mentioned Stanford Harvard he treated me differently and then there's like an hour later the doctor actually saw me and the 1st thing is that you know they really told me about you know I'm really proud of you and I thought it was going to be fine and then and he begins asking me about drugs and then he told me to be honest I don't know if I did the right thing or not and I told him that I had tried to want to before. And you had a stop there arrested and I said no and then under his breath you told him he said You guys always yourself in Spanish and then he kept impressing me had a trial of their drawings trying to marry one of more than one. I really hope. That. Are my chances and I was is being honest and I guess that's what's stupid. And some of us who have been really I feel down I really hope that they can go back to the United States. I really hope that it did and today. I couldn't leave the house so it was like when I was a little kid again. But this time it was kind of my grandparents telling me not to leave the house but it's also myself. I didn't feel safe leaving the house and I was afraid to leave because I'm a stranger there and nobody would really know me so I was scared that I would be identified as a potential outsider gangster and just that made me feel unwelcome. Unloaded by them and I don't know if he had any young young young if they now the Lido Beach . In which I asked my grandparents how do they feel that they are part of my poetry and other people who are reading these poems and other people and like. In colleges and universities are reading them I want to look at it in there. And my grandma says she's happy and my grandpa says that he's proud and then when people ask how I am doing you know he's he's very people out. Here you know. That I'm like studied learned. Were so I've read my grandma poems in Spanish but not the ones about domestic violence. We didn't suffer the war but my grandpa brought the war into the domestic sphere. We all still love them you know it's like a bad figure in who is still my grandpa and it's still my my mom's dad. But silence is definitely still a big part of our relationship. Today we want to say that the local which is in the news a narrower it's one of the most dangerous places games here in this department and it was so interesting to go with my grandpa to pick up his from it and the bank was full in the. Heat Of The Day My grandma was supposed to go with us but she did and she still in her house feel kind of bad that I didn't I was unable to get her out but I'm in the try again I was asking why Graham. And the same thing. Had been 34 years and my grandma had left the house. So I really hope that I was going to be the one you know had and yet the other one that she raised like a son that I was going to be the one to finally get her out maybe you're going to go back to who you were. I think race relation has a lot to do with culture or expectations she had 3 daughters you know and a grandson who was like a son to her and we all left in a culture ia least one of us is supposed to stay there and help her out and so I think all of that has taken a physical and emotional toll on her. My grandpa lives at office and of the house is like its own he has his own kitchen he has his own room. In the morning he goes then wakes my gramma up and ask her what she wants for breakfast and then he takes them with a taxi to America he brings back the stuff he goes back into he retreats into his kitchen after that he reads the paper and then he goes out into the fields he's constantly cutting the grass that's like his thing and then he eats again and then he goes back to the fields to burn leaves and trash and then he retreats and watches no Ls and has dinner and then goes to sleep he does it every single day . My gramma's days literally at the