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This is v.o.a. News I'm David 1st Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has scored a decisive victory in the Democratic presidential caucuses in Nevada on Saturday early returns show that former Vice President Joe Biden will finish in 2nd place something that would give his struggling campaign new hope we get more on the day from Ben Thomas. Was that a number of candidates showed up at some of the 200 caucus sites around the Vada including Joe Biden I don't know whether you're saying the role of the Us way through the voting forward are there I'm not sure which was the stimulus he said Thank you Senator Amy Klobuchar concedes she's had a lot of ground to make up in Nevada but whatever the final tally no need viable no matter what and I mean we're headed we're already running ads in Super Tuesday states Meanwhile Senator Bernie Sanders is already campaigning in one of those Super Tuesday states holding a rally in Texas we can see I'm Ben Thomas China's who Bay province reported another 630 confirmed cases of the corona virus infection on Saturday that's up 366 from the previous day meanwhile the virus continues to spread across the globe with more deaths reported outside of China A.P.'s Julie Walker reports South Korea reported an 8 fold jump in viral infection Saturday with more than 400 cases mostly linked to a church and a hospital the death toll there remains at 3 while the death toll in Iran climbed to 6 in Italy a dozen towns went into lockdown after hundreds came into contact with about 54 people confirmed infected the death toll there to health officials say some virus clusters have shown no direct link to travel to China globally nearly 78000 people have been infected in 29 countries and more than 2300 have died none in the u.s. I'm Julie Walker this is v.o.a. News. A u.n. Report says Afghanistan passed a grim milestone with more than 100000 civilians killed or hurt in the past 10 years the report released Saturday by the un Assistance Mission in Afghanistan comes as a weeklong reduction of violence agreement between the United States and the Taliban took effect you know my human rights chief Fiona Fraser says the un welcomes any effort that will reduce the number of deaths and injuries in Afghanistan as we welcome any effort to move on and. Casualty what we want to see. An end to the front and casualties the reduction of violence agreement paves the way for a Feb 29th signing of a peace accord that the United States hopes will end its longest war bring home u.s. Troops and allow intra Afghan negotiations to begin South Sudan opened a new chapter in its fragile emergence from Civil War Saturday as rival leaders formed a coalition government one day after President Salva Kiir dissolve the previous government opposition leader react much Shar was sworn in as his deputy here declared the official end of the war and said we can now proclaim a new dawn it will be as one's ability to store people's diets. And his by them once again will believe that if I were to be done the world's youngest nation slid into civil war in 20132 years after winning its hard fought independence from Sudan more than 400000 people were killed as supporters of Kir and Machar clashed thousands took to the streets in chill a on Saturday in protest against proposals to bring in a new constitution demonstrators called for the rejection of the constitution which would replace the one inherited from the dictatorship of how boost open the call for a new constitution has been one of the demands in street protests that have swept Chile sands last October. Brazil's famed Carneval kicked off in earnest on Saturday as millions of scantily clad revelers poured into the streets many of whom took the opportunity to parody or otherwise comment on the nation's deeply polarized politics the sense of right wing president gyre both Sinatra took office in January of 2019 Brazilians have been sharply divided supporters credit him for improving the economy its detractors to denounce what they call his racism and sexism I'm David Berg v.o.a. News. This is Encounter on v.o.a. Here's Carol Castillo. Welcome to Encounter on The Voice of America on this edition our focal point is the status in future of strategic arms nuclear treaties and the implications posed by deployment of a small so-called pinpoint nuclear warhead aboard u.s. Missile submarines over the past decade Washington and Moscow by a series of treaties every deuce both their stockpiles of nuclear warheads and the missiles and aircraft that can deliver them through the progression of these treaties from start one an acronym for strategic arms reduction talks through start to in the present day do start agreement warheads have been removed from active service missiles and are in ground silos dismantled and long range bombers such as the b. 52 have been cut up to start began on February 52011 and it ends on that date in 2021 there is a built in 5 year treaty extension the Basco says it is open to discuss but so far Washington has not signaled the same this after the United States has exited the 1987 intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty asserting that Russia has not complied with its terms what is the future for Strategic Arms Limitation agreements at this point the answer is not clear. As for the new small warhead on u.s. Submarines it's rated at roughly half the size of the nuclear weapon that destroyed Roshumba Japan in August 1905 in practical use it would be directed at specific targets more tactical and strategic according to some proponents of this new warhead say it provides both deterrence and so-called measured response to an adversaries use of a nuclear weapon but others disagree Hello I'm v.o.a. T.v. Senior analyst Jeffrey Young sitting in for Carol Castillo with us to define and discuss the situation are 2 season nuclear arms analysts from the Washington office of the research organization Council on Foreign Relations stands a nuclear security fellow June Kim and the director of Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists Hans Christian sin who has recently published a position paper on the deployment of the small nuclear weapon known as the w 76 dash 2 1st let's discuss where things stand with strategic arms agreements the one no one forced to start limits both the United States and Russia to $700.00 delivery systems whether they're aircraft or missiles either land or submarine base with another 100 in reserve for a total of $800.00 delivery systems and to start limits the total number of deployed nuclear warheads to $1550.00 on each side. There are voices in Washington both retaining and extending this is a treaty and there's others that say Russia is engaged in a new arms race and the United States cannot be left behind Mr Christianson describe what both sides and Washington are saying about new start well one side is saying that continuing the New Start Treaty is essential for continuing the process of drawing down treaty to nuclear forces and keeping a cap on them for another group or saying that it might have outlived its purpose because we need to broaden the strategic discussion to also include other countries such as China All right this Kim what can we add to that if we don't extend the New Start Treaty I think it will give Washington disadvantage because. When if the New Start Treaty is extended we will buy time until we modernize the current stockpile and nuclear weapon system without the danger of Russia actually increasing their stockpile and the argument about China not having any constraint on their the current treaty is false because China. Does not have the stockpiled company that are matchable to the currents Russia and United States stockpiles so including China to the treaty or the argument saying that because China has no constraint we need to think about China as an increase of their stockpiles as Knott's beneficial for the United States standpoint because if China is included in the treaty will actually give them the wiggle room to increase stop because the current number is extremely low compared to the Russian in the United States do we have a majority numbers on China at this point I mean we know by new start that we have 800 delivery vehicles between the United States and Russia and we also have 1550 warheads What about China how many delivery vehicles how many warheads What do you know strategically Lavery vehicles the. That means those that can reach across the pacific right that that's a number that is about a snotty 90 or so. It's entirely intercontinental ballistic missiles. In terms of warheads much much lower than the u.s. Arsenal of nearly $4000.00 Russian a little higher the Chinese is thought to be in the range of about $300.00 are there any other nuclear powers that have both the capable delivery vehicles that are beyond theater range yes they're Britain and France also have intercontinental ballistic missiles on strategic submarines. So those 4 countries the United States Russian and Britain and France are the ones that have those and now obviously China to a growing extent we're seeing other countries like India trying to deliver or develop systems that have a longer range and they're not quite at Intercontinental range because of course India is pretty close to in terms of Pakistan and China so it's still mainly those original p. 5 city the original 5 nuclear powers powers that have those capabilities of course India is very aggressively working on a still Beason space launch vehicles and historically countries that develop a successful or Sylvie often wind up at the same vehicle capable of being an i.c.b.m. They don't really get capabilities they can be converted and it's it's also clear that those that developed i.c.b.m. Stated partly through space launch programs and so there's a flow of technology back and forth between those too. Let's stay on new start for a minute here so that we can continue that discussion Moscow says it is willing to discuss the builtin 5 year extension in new start but so far Washington has not signaled whether it agrees to continue under those terms now we've heard the public statements back and forth but talk about what's going on behind the scenes on both sides what are the back discussions in both the Kremlin and the Pentagon and for that matter the White House what are these back discussions on do start talk about it well. I would say so in Washington we've had a conversation over the last year or 2. This extension of a new start was coming up and everybody knew about it and so the way people have been discussing this is basically should we make an extension of the treaty with Russia when when Russia is trying to build partly trying to build nuclear weapons with long range that do not fall under the treaties limits are they trying to sort of bypass it and also how important is the trying to get trying on board she would really put more pressure on getting China on board than trying to limit Russia you know how do we play these 2 things so that's one kind of conversation and the other conversation that's going on of course is in Mohsin from Moscow we have a trump administration that has been very unclear about where it wants to go with their arms control and not presented any alternatives to not extending new start except Wouldn't it be great to have another treaty it wouldn't be great to China on board so Moscow sees that they see that as an opportunity to play the good guys and say listen we're willing you know we want to extend this unconditionally what are you doing you know so it's a it's of the Russia it's also a way of improving its profile after the failure of the i.n.f. Treaty and if Washington keeps our game that we need to consider both Russia and China we need to also think about what can Washington offer to China if it were to include China into the treaty currently Washington does not have anything to offer for China to have the incentive to join the treaty when as I mentioned earlier Russia United States have on comparable its stockpiles compared to China you know here's another thing about do start and where the treaty lies where could go and that's technologies that are not covered by a new start and of course the 1st thing off the top of my head is hypersonic large weapons there's nothing in to start whatsoever about these emerging technologies that are not so much emerging that they're actually being proven at this point Mr Christians and let's talk about. Technologies flying under the radar of the treaty or at least under the paper of the treaty what about this well the good news about new start is that it covers weapons that are launched by ballistic missiles and long range bombers beyond a certain range and so if us hyper glide vehicle is launched by a ballistic missile like the new Russian Evan guard it is covered by the New Start Treaty and the Russians have said it's covered and then our guys believe it has covered. The areas where there is some discussion about it are relating to 2 other weapon systems one is a very long range torpedo or under underwater drone which is clearly not covered by the treaty and then there's also the issue of a ground launched nuclear powered cruise missile those 2 would not be covered by the treaty but those 2 a very very sort of silver bullet very limited programs and so if one insists that they have to be covered or one should you know risk the treaty over those 2 type of weapon systems you have to put those 2 systems in perspective what's most important getting these relatively few weapons included or controlling the vast majority of the Russian nuclear arsenal the nuclear cruise missile wasn't that a point of contention raised by Washington when it abrogated when it bake hated the i.n.f. Treaty. Well the the nuclear powered cruise missile. Has a very very long range that goes even beyond the i.n.f. Range so to speak Ok but so it would fall into another category what Russia and the United States argued about of course were was the group of missiles that are between 500 kilometers and 5500 kilometers which is the guy in a frame correct you're listening to Encounter on The Voice of America by guess or nuclear security fellow June Kim at the Washington office of the research organization Consul on Foreign Relations and from the Federation of American Scientists Nuclear Information Project director Hans Kristensen today's v.o.a. Encounter program focuses on the current status in future of nuclear arms agreements between the United States and Russia and other nuclear nations possibly and also the strategies and implications connected to the deployment of a small Do clear warhead aboard u.s. Missile submarines This is a reminder that our encounter podcast is available for free download on Eid to it's you can find the download by clicking on the i Tunes tab on our website the away News dot com forward slash encounter You can also follow us on Twitter at Carol Castillo of the away or you can connect with Encounter on Facebook here's a shout out to one of our v.o.a. Encounter listeners Valentini. If you do go to Nigeria if you want to hear your own name and country on this program send us an e-mail to encounter it be a way to use dot com or on Facebook give us a like and leave us a comment let's get back to the discussion on nuclear arms treaties and hardware developments now this examine the implication of this nuclear warhead the w 76 stash 2 it's half the size of the nuclear weapon that flattened Hiroshima Japan an August 1905 when I learned of this warheads deployment I had mediately thought of it as tactical. Rather than strategic a warhead used to for instance destroy a naval base a missile launching facility a leadership bunker or perhaps a nation's nuclear enrichment capability along with using a small warhead to take out a specific target rather than annihilate a large land mass there is the theory of measured response. This means that if an adversary used a small nuclear weapon against a us asset then Washington would have the ability to as the saying goes take an eye for an eye with a similar response without escalating to the level of nuclear weaponry that erases all hold major metro area or a similar effect let's discuss is the room about your response in the heat of conflict in the face of possible as collision with or indeed just be an eye for an eye or with the thought of a bass a response to be entertained to ensure an adversary's total destruction what's your perspective on this so personally I don't think that there is a possibility that the United States can escalate just to the degree that it will it will just use one low yield of weapon I believe that once United States responds with low yield weapon there will be off follow up and then eventually it will ask to go to a nuclear war so in the sense that the arguments that Russia has asked like to be asked late and the United States wants to have an option to respond with low yield weapon I think there is a danger to it however the rationale behind the us government is that Russia is currently modernizing their nuclear weapons system in a way that they will have the option to use low yield weapon. Against contingencies in Europe and currently the United States does not have option to use low yield weapon against Russia contingencies because it would either have to use the conventional weapons or use a strategy nuclear weapon however it is true that. Many allies believe that United States will be reluctant and to cost us to use strategic weapon in any serious contingencies so in order for the tourist to work against Russia the argument is that United. They still have flexible offsets such as having low yield option I want to go back to the good old days of the Cold War Let's bring up the folder gap Ok for our listeners the Fulda Gap is a part of Germany that's rather hilly almost mountainous and this would have been the main mountain pass or the main transit area through which the Russian army would have invaded West Germany if indeed there would have been a invasion or provocation the chances are it would have been at the Fulda Gap So for the longest time part of our strategic posture of was we had tactical nuclear weapons that were available and deployable so that if we suddenly saw a mass movement of Russian armored going through the Fulda Gap they could quote unquote seal it with a tactical nuclear weapon of moderate yield I'm not going to come up with a number but just a moderate you know a nuclear weapon and not only take out the force but make passage through the area essentially impossible now this is back in the Cold War days when that was a very specifically focused point because it was very strategic for both sides what do we have today in present terms Mr Christianson what kind of Fulda Gap do we have today well today that the tables have been turned and so today it is Russia that perceives the United States has a an overwhelming conventional capability that they need to use low yield tactical nuclear weapons to defend against So we have this flip situation. But there are 2 issues in this one is about whether it's needed. The other one is if it is what will happen if we start doing it on the 1st part. It's a common misunderstanding that the United States does not have low yield nuclear options in its arsenal today we have a lot by my count we have about 1000 nuclear warheads on our stockpile that have low yield options in build into them $115.00 or $150.00 or so of those are currently deployed in Europe and they have yields of exactly the same range that the new warhead that has been deployed has. The only difference is that they're delivered by aircraft not by fast flying ballistic missiles so the argument from those who advocate this new weapon system is that well we understand that but we need to have a low yield option on a fast flying ballistic missile that can get through missile defenses and air defense systems Ok but I'm going to bring up the next point and that is the we have had a standing procedure for decades and so have the Russians and it's called launch on warning so both sides have. Orbiting detection satellites and they're focused on each other's territory and they're circling around the earth and if they saw for instance if the United States theoretically used one of these new w $76.00 days to and it's launched from a submarine you've got a launch detection satellite sitting up there that instantly says I see a heat signature Ok something's in boost phase now these things are smart enough that they can tell the heat signature and pretty well discern what they're looking at Ok And because of that they would have a pretty good idea that this is a trident d 5 I'm sure that they know what a what a trident d 5 signature looks like by now so they see a single defun launch what does the other side think at that point. You mean the Russians that yes you have Russians I would not be able to distinguish between Dell'Olio and weapon or thermo nuclear weapon true right so if they can't distinguish it but they only see a single one launched what's the decision swirling around over on the other side in the ground that what are they thinking at this point I would say they will go for the worst case scenario and learn to launch an attack with maximum capability. Mr Christiansen that is definitely the risk and this is why everybody is really concerned about this development you know do we seriously imagine that once nukes start going off that either side will back down why would we we wouldn't back down we have a nuclear strategy is that is explicitly developed so that we can scale up our response to make the other side try to back down so this I don't believe for a 2nd that this is a de escalating initiative on the contrary I think it buys into the old fashioned nuclear war fighting scenario then we get into pardon there's the John Wayne movie there's a bar full of bad guys and John Wayne walks into the bar and stares at all the bad guys have pulls out his pistol and shoots one of them now I bring this up not as amusement but as a tactical theory and this one is called 1st we're going to show you something this size and after it detonates we're going to give you the the information the message that. There's a lot more where this came from so you can either knuckle down and put your hands up and do it our way or you can suffer whatever the consequences are this is using a w 76 days to basically in bully mode and I don't want to be provocative but there are other countries besides us and Russia that there are certain concerns about and I brought up nuclear enrichment facilities specifically because for instance and I'm not making a direct connection here because I'm trying to be careful but forto in the Islamic Republic of Iran is dug into the hill and if you wanted to flatten that facility and cancel it out you're going to need either a deep nuclear earth penetrator which they do it you know are naps they do they do exist or you do it with something like a w 76 to. What about the idea that such a weapon would not necessarily be part of a u.s. Slash Russia slash other major power exchange but something to use toward another country is am I going off the table here or is this theoretically possible I think it's very possible I think it's in fact intend intentionally part of the strategy this is not just about Russia of course we argue for this weapon in that context it is very much also about how to respond to a country like North Korea but initially even Iran so that is part of the strategy and if you look at where this weapon is now deployed it started in the Atlantic and now it is also out in the Pacific. And where does it go from here what response on the other side every time one side makes a move the other side makes a move and then 11 ratchet forward so if you were the Russians at this point with the w 76 stairs to deploy where do you go from here what your strategy Well I don't think there is anything in Russian strategy that tells us that their decision to respond to a nuclear use has anything to do with how powerful the weapon used against them is they will respond if it's a nuclear attack regardless of what that the yield is so I don't think this has anything to do with Russian nuclear strategy there's more to do with way we think about this and how we talk to ourselves about it and mind you now this is out and when Russia does not change its strategy or its behavior Well guess what well then there will be a net another proposal for another weapon so we can be more credible in our Michoud response and that next weapon is going to be a sea launch nuclear cruise missile. You know there's a little bit less than a year left for the u.s. Russia's new start treaty is it's still practical and capable of restraining both sides to the agreement again there are strong voices both supporting its continuance and others believing it no longer works or it needs to be left behind to enable new strategic tactics and technologies more on this will unfold in the coming months and what about new strategic agreements that would also include other nuclear powers such as China. There's a lot on the table and there's good reason to discuss it the guess Stana list on this edition of the away encounter Jhoom Kim the Stanton Nuclear security fellow at From v.o.a. The science edition of Press Conference USA here's your host family. Welcome to the science edition of Press Conference USA on The Voice of America I'm Rick Panta Layo here in the United States February is considered African-American or black history month this month long event can trace its roots to 1926 then in the 1960 s. With the civil rights movement and increasing feelings of black pride and identity the celebration grew into Black History Month it has become known as a celebration of the achievements by African-Americans and the central role blacks of had throughout u.s. History President Gerald Ford officially recognized Mike History Month in 1976 the year of the United States bicentennial on today's science edition of Press Conference USA we celebrate Black History Month as we discuss the many contributions black inventors have made throughout the years my guest for today's program is Keith Holmes the founder and c.e.o. Of global black inventor research projects incorporated He's also author of The Book black inventors crafting over 200 years of success which highlights the work of black inventors from over 70 countries to write his book he spent over 20 years devoted to researching innovations and inventions by black inventors from 769 to 2007 Keith in your book you do a thorough job of tracing black inventors throughout the world from ancient to modern times looking back to the ancient past can you talk about some of what you consider to be important inventions or concepts Well I think that a lot of your listeners might not be aware that a lot of the things that we take for granted today such as mathematics agriculture use of animal husbandry come from a city which is of course part of Africa and for most of us we just think that. The things that we have today are just things that came out of maybe Europe maybe out of China maybe out of the Middle East but a lot of the things that we take for granted such as paint the use of wind different seeds grains that we eat right now such as barley wheat those early crops are cultivated in nature of Egypt and I get that onus in my book because I want to stablish a procedure when you talk about inventions that inventions are not something that were discovered in just one part of the world but come out of the growth of different civilizations and he just happens to be one of them and then when you further value the law and when you look at the use of different instruments such as the drum the drum is a very prevalent instrument throughout the world and when you look at the drums to as it's been developed here in the United States a lot of it has its roots in Africa so I start my prefects in the beginning of the book by stating the fact that a lot of the things that we do take for granted today do come out of Africa and that something that I think a lot of your listeners might appreciate in terms of being able to identify a particular continent when it comes to the idea of innovation and intentions and I'm not just saying that it totally came out of Africa Europe played a very major role in developing a lot of different things of course China in the Middle East but a lot of times in the history books that we read there is no credit given to the innovations or inventions that might have been a development out of ancient Africa or even Mark day after as we know it today one thing that I think a lot of people don't realize when they think of inventions and inventors is many times a product a device a concept whatever takes a long time to develop so something that could have started to develop as you mention in an ancient Egypt could take centuries to develop to get to a modern product we have today exactly I get there and you know mathematics played . A very big role in development of buildings you know architects support road and some of those mathematic wireless were developed in ancient Egypt Greece and Rome but their beginnings comes from ancient Egypt I see that you began your research into your book back in 1000 media events a long time ago what inspired you to find it and how long did it take you to write it and with global black inventors research projects do you consider this to be a work in progress I do consider it to be a work in progress because it's ongoing my discovery of inventors and innovators from Africa the Caribbean Central South America Europe candidate as the as well as the United States and United Kingdom has taken almost 3 years to find this information but of course with the advent of the Internet and the use of a very good database system such as looking up scientists and engineers of color it's been far easier but in 1988 I attended an event in Brooklyn called the African street festival and at that event there were a lot of booksellers from around the United States and outside and I came across a book by a writer by the name of Burt Mechanically he wrote a book called black inventors of America and I consider that one of the groundbreaking books when it comes to the idea of inventions by people of color or African-Americans or black inventors in that book and just let me just paraphrase this for in that book I quickly identified it set off a light bulb in my head and I went to my mentor Dr Ross never met and I suggested you know I'm going to sell this book and the neighborhood on the street he said No why don't you write a book about black inventors and of course a light bulb went off I started working on a p.c. I went to the Schomburg library and Hall and I went to the New York public library downtown Manhattan and I started to research information about African-American and one quick. And I like to ask people who write a book that uses a lot of research is were you surprised by anything that you found it was a I didn't know the depth and I didn't understand what I was getting involved when I 1st started out I you know used a database of information that Schomberg had provided and reference to black engineers and scientists and I quickly discovered that in the early ages of NASA there were over 300 mathematicians engineers chemist who were working for NASA and the early missions of Mercury Gemini and the Apollo and recently of course the movie Hayden figures have come out with the fact that Catherine Johnson was the black woman who developed the mathematical formulas for the Mercury mission that Gemini the Apollo and quiet as it's kept She also did it Matt about calculations for traveling to the Mars and back and many of your listeners might not know about this one thing interesting about Catherine Johnson is the fact that back during the Mercury program she was part of a group of African-American women they called them computers human beings called computers and that John Glenn was getting ready for his 1st orbital flight into space and even though they had mechanical computers working at the time John Glenn said in essence unless Katherine takes care of the math on this I'm not going up in that capsule Yeah and that's you know here and history is now proven that the human computer that they were known back then played a very pivotal role in NASA as well as the exploration of space as we know it today let's get back to a historical perspective if we could Keith when Africans were brought west to the New World they were taken to not only want to game the United States but the Caribbean as well as central and. South America so the seeds of invention among them well you know it's interesting you bring up that point from what I've been able to find one of the things that's very clear as we mentioned earlier is that the drum as we know it today you have bongos you have the jam base you have different drums that have been developed that have their roots in Africa you also have dance as we know it you had the rumba you have what we call African dance you have jazz Martin that all of them had their influences by African rhythms and then of course we have foods we have which was grown and after that peanuts which was grown in Africa which is now a part of a staple diet of many not only Americans but people around the world so there's also different cloth different colors sounds and what I found is that the influence of course in music when it comes to jazz r. And b. Pop all of them had their African roots and I think one of the things that I did find out that hip hop as we know it today there's over a 1000 trademarks related to hip hop and of course rap but that has an influence in advertising industry as well as branding and many of our children as well as commercial advertisements that we see on television today have jingle that are somewhat hip from a historical perspective what effect do you think slavery and the years following such as the Jim Crow era had on early African-American inventors What were some of the other difficulties they faced in developing their inventions I think one of the major difficulties of course was funding educational opportunities to develop their skills in terms of math but cataclysm earing electrical engineering which you take for granted today to just go to school and get those skills but one thing that I did find it in the discovery of these inventors and their invention they had a drive and I think that comes out of the American experience where you do not. If you have an idea and I think what I was able to find when you come across men like Garrett a Morgan who didn't have a great educational background but he had a dream and he had an idea and then one day and just a quick story he observed a very bad accident between a car and a horse drawn carriage with the action that was so bad they had to put the horse down on that spot and that had such a dramatic effect upon him that what he did was Kemp with the idea of a traffic light now his traffic light was a little different than the other traffic like that had been developed and what it did it had a stop go do some colors red and green and as we know today without a traffic light globally around the world which is universal many of the pedestrians cars and trucks the motor along the different highways and streets there would be accidents that would be taking place you know much more than they are taking place today but I had a great impact and then we talk about the use of peanuts when the South was growing cotton but it was known as cane cotton they grew so much Congdon question became you know what are we going to do with this Cod and what is the one thing about cotton what it does is it depletes the nutrients out of the soil and Dr George Washington Carver one of the 1st African-Americans inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame advised the southern farmers to grow peanuts and by going to replace the nutrients that had been lost from the depletion of the valuable nutrients in the soil the question became well what are we going to do with all the speed and from his idea he was able to come up with over $300.00 different products from the Tina so much so that the Senate passed a special bill raising the Tarot on peanuts imported from other countries and United States is one of. Leading grows of peanuts in the world throughout the years African Blacks also settled in other parts of the world as well as from Europe to Asia to Oceana how did settling in these countries with such a wide range of different cultures and peoples impact black inventors and of course vice versa with the advent of Africans coming through the United States caravan of South America has that they have the knowledge of cultivating grasses and preparing crops crammed cram maize Millet sorghum half their occasion African rice Ethiopian oats and those agricultural products we have. That they transferred over these men women and children to the west and that knowledge some other way Africans were herbalists. Some are carpenters can Smith Some knew how to work for Darren some knew how to sew and work with quad and guys so the assumption that the Africans would bring anything with them as far from the truth I think one of the things that we have people here in the United States have to understand we bought with different set of skills and the Carolinas the women are known for their basket weaving in South Carolina of course Georgia and those small islands as well as coastal region which were Rice was grown the Africans had a great understanding of how to grow agricultural products so they want this knowledge with them they also brought with them you know how to make bricks sinkin not well chefs earthworks systems how to build a house in an irrigation of buildings bridges they were familiar with coffee color sorow sorghum beer and millet beer ceramics parts plates and bowls they also had their own development of feudal rights or rights when a baby was born when someone dies a New Orleans they celebrate someone dying by having a big party all of their hesitant Florence's from Africa and I think that's something that we just can't for good with fibers really understood the course basket weaving string instruments a quarter turn a chair mats hats net shields one the Africans were 1st brought here to the shores United States they bought with them a plethora of skills that we just can't take for granted and was a very important foundation and the building of America as we know it today let's take a break you're listening to the science edition and Bruce concerts you will see on The Voice of America I am. Panta Layo Here's a reminder that press conference USA is available for free download from our website v.o.a. News dot com slash p.c. USA and from many streaming services such as Apple podcasts I'd also like to tell you that a new video away English app for both Android and Apple devices has been developed and we encourage you to download and use them you can find them at the Google Play store for Android or Apple's App Store for their devices we also hope you get in touch with us through either Facebook or Twitter Carol can stay young v.o.a. Or by sending is an old fashioned email to p.c. USA at feeling News dot com Now back to the science edition of Press Conference USA today in celebration of African-American History Month we're discussing the many contributions black inventors of made throughout the years my guest for today's program is key Holmes the founder and c.e.o. Of global black inventor research projects Incorporated is also author of The Book black inventors crafting over 200 years of success which highlights the work of black inventors from over 70 countries Keith I noticed in many parts of your book you focus on blacks earning Patton's from all over the world why do you consider the granting of patents to be such an important tool in measuring the success of black inventors Why didn't point because that's men of science and technology based on invention I want to talk about the computer as we know it today the one gigahertz. By Mark Edward the corner that shit has changed the way we do our daily tasks the use of the very problems that we're using right now are dependent on the one gigahertz chip and beyond banking systems you know that is why you want to cash or check. And you wanted to withdraw funds you had a way to that check cleared x. Amount of data that has all changed because of the computing power that we have now the very microphones that we were using for talking on this interview as well as and it came in at different elections that take place around the world is a development of different microphone system developed by James West who worked for 18 t. He has over 100 patents so technology the invention of different devices and different products have a major impact on how we conduct our daily business and go about the task that we need to accomplish on a daily basis can we take a look at some of what you consider to be the most important or even famous African-American inventors and their inventions everyone thinks that Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb but without the work of his African-American system Lewis Lattimer it may have taken more time if ever for such an important vention to be invented your thoughts Well you know it's important Thomas Edison had over a 1000 back he had the Edison brain trust a number of different inventors engineers chemists working for his. Company in West Orange New Jersey but one of the things that I think that Edison ran into a problem with was the filament that was being used for the light bulb and that filament plays a very important part in terms of the lifespan of a light bulb and it was Louis h. Latimer who found the filament that would be the proper filament to use to extend the light of the light bulb and he thought so that Patton in 1882 and he did as you said he didn't receive the kind of credit he showed up but he was working with Thomas Edison and I think that what we have to realize particularly in today's time you got to give credit where credit is due now he did not develop the lightbulb in itself but the filament and the light bulb is what gives a light. The light bulb and all the light books that are used currently in the world today use that filament What about other important products and concepts that may not have been invented both the contributions of African-Americans blood that magical or who came from Sherman South America who migrated here to the United States he worked in the shoe industry. As a laborer but he came up with an idea concept now I want you know imagine that the shoe Laster is back in the 800 an early night hundreds of good she lasted maybe 10 or 15 shoes a day and that's playing the sole attack machine that but it was Jan matching le who developed a device that would allow a shoe last there to do anywhere from 152700 pairs of shoes a day that revolutionized the shoe industry it also put the city that he came on the map in Massachusetts and as we know today we can go shopping and get any kind of shoes we want we don't have to worry about price cos we don't have to worry about the kind of quality of work that's done with the shoe but that's you left there as well as for the devices that he developed very important to the shoe industry as we know it since you mentioned patents in your book can you tell me about Thomas l. Jennings who was the 1st African-American to receive back in 1821 time itself Jennings 1821 Genya developer was what was called a dry scowling process which is which is commonly known as dry cleaning today and it's interesting you bring up that very good point and 2013 he was inducted into the national vanish Hall of Fame that's how important his invention was you talked about Mark Dean and his contributions to the development of the computer you talked about the one gigahertz chip did me develop a system that allowed for the introduction of other peripherial computer equipment like printers and such yes he did. On what was called the i.b.m. 43 point one and figure if you bring that up I have a strong computer back when I actually took computer programming courses as well as system design courses back in the late 1970 s. And I actually had an opportunity of working in a data center back in 197877 those machines were as big as probably the studio as they had a cape memory the i.b.m. Men would walk in with engineers and technicians would walk in with their suits and ties and ask advantage that they had used to diagnose a problem in terms of the machine but once Dr market were deemed develop these other peripheral devices as well as other invention he had close to 200 inventions with an international business machine and those developments has led to the monetization and design of scaling down the size of the machines and I'm sure you can remember the P.C.'s back in the 1980 s. How big they were they had you know maybe 4 megahertz in terms of speed they were 8 megahertz and then they quickly exponentially grew over the years so yes Mark has played a very important and role in the development of different devices as well as the co-inventor of the one get her ship it's interesting that you mentioned the evolution of computer technology like for example what we had back in the early 1980 s. With the i.b.m. P.c. Can't even touch what you're holding in your hand right now which is an Apple i Phone That's correct I wanted to store about 23 years ago with my youngest and he turned to me and asked me what is that it was a typewriter we don't even think about going to a typewriter the type of paper we use our phones we use a different computer system that has been developed over the years to do all of our typing now that's how my. Things have been in bed Lucian by the use of computers in the world today let me move on to Dr George Carruthers He's an astrophysicist talk to me about some of the work that he has done well he's also inducted into the national Benish all of thing and he developed an ultra violet camera that was used on the moon he would have been seen years old when he began working with NASA on the development of this device and that's pretty amazing fact that he was a young African-American scientist with a brilliant brain as well as a l.s.t. His career in front of them and for his device which is currently they want to go I don't know if it's still working right now but it was taken by the Apollo vision to take different pictures of the moment they use this device you were talking a little earlier about Dr George Washington Carver does work with peanuts the man had a major impact on society back in the early 1980 team hundreds not only for his work in science and invention but have impacts on American culture and history as well can you tell us about that you know I've recently been getting in contact with the different school systems around the x. States that house and use his name his influence in the area of agricultural based products Henry e. Ford was very interested in the work that Dr Carter was doing so much so that he did ask and I offered Dr carvers 6 figures to come forward and carb of course a very humble man it's hard to doubt and might I say also that if we're going to do about African-American inventors or scientists one of the 1st film because Dr Carver was one of the 1st African-Americans to be inducted into the national convention hall a thing that film should be about his life and the work that he did at Tuskegee but getting back to your question when Dr Carver has influence in times of different areas he began to realize you could use vegetable oil as she'll what we know today is ethanol comes. Back from the research that Dr Carter did back in the 1930 s. That twenty's also the use of agricultural based products he was able to develop different plastics using peanuts and other products that could be used in Carson and other different products and so much so that when we look at a car today a lot of different things that we use it has an influence plastic being used some of them come from agricultural based products some of them come from different petroleum based products so that the converse influence now only affected us in terms of the use of peanuts but also as well as a number of other different things that we just take for granted and I think it is my opinion that if we're going to do a film about it after an American scientist or inventor he should be the 1st 11 thing I don't want to forget and I want to make sure we get the sense is the contributions of African-American women as well from Sarah good the 1st African-American woman to receive a u.s. Patent What can you tell us about her well what I've been able to research it was from Connecticut you know the use of an arm and board is very important in our house so I don't know so with the new generations now in terms of them using aren't born I'm just being funny about that but I still use an r.n. I'm bored I'm my coach and she developed an arming board that was quite unique then that was it helped a lot of women who had to use our into our in their clothes as well as maybe their husbands on other family members and she was in a dry cleaning business of course back in those days you know because a lot of things that would send out to the cleaners or to laundry in terms of being prepared properly for you know a businessman from what you're going to church with different other special events what I would like to focus on is Sondra Balor who worked for i.b.m. Who developed the number 10 patents used by the international business machine which is now the course known as i.b.m. And her development time. A number of different patents related to computers played a very important role in the computer age Tell us about Dr Patricia bath Dr Patricia bath was born and raised and went to school in New York she developed a laser scope that was used in a coma and you know coma has a major impact around the world she developed 10 different devices she was nominated to be inducted into the national and then a Hall of Fame Unfortunately she wasn't she died last year and I am suggesting to your listeners and as well as those people have influence that she should be renominated to go into the national that is Hall of Fame because as it stands now there are no African-American women inducted into the national better Charlotte Frank and if we're going to be talking about women and eventually the innovations I think some court press for your listeners that stem as we know today science technology engineering mathematics is not something limited to one group you know a lot of times when we talk about inventors we only talk about men but women have played a very important role in terms of science technology engineering and mathematics and I'm not just talking about African-American women I'm talking about women of color I'm also talking about women from your women in United States kind of the Central South America for us little East and Africa and Australia and the parts he comes you're the author of black inventors crafting over 200 years of success I want to thank you so much for joining us today and sharing your thoughts and insights thank you so much for having me on your show and your listeners if they're very interested in getting a copy of our book our book is available on Amazon as well as to i Tunes and Google Play you also have a Web site the Web site is w w w dot global black inventor dot com that was keep Holmes the founder and c.e.o. Of global black inventor research projects in court. Paraded He's also the author of The Book black inventors crafting over 200 years of success which highlights the work of black inventors from over 70 countries and I'm afraid that's all the time we have for this science edition a Press Conference USA I'd like to thank our technician just in the way this is Rick Pantoliano reminding you to be sure to join Carol Castillo next week for another press conference USA on The Voice of America.

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Radio. Good morning and a very happy Christmas to you I hope you enjoy the day so far I hope you feel to have a visit from Father Christmas as the Turkey says it will sit in the oven and you roll up the pigs in blankets and prepare the vegetables and clear up all that wrapping paper I will be with you for the next 2 hours with festive cheer and Christmas crackers chosen by my b.b.c. Radio walks with colleagues one by one they'll drop into my studio grotto and also reflects on the Christmas tights past so if you've always wanted to know what drum sell sticks almost Christmas morning and I don't mean what he's wearing so pajamas I have no doubt what David pre-vote tucks into his festive feast or indeed which of my colleagues is on the Judy ending of carrots under strict orders from her mother for how about which b.b.c. Radio Oxford presenter is about to wrap his new baby up in swaddling clothes as it lies in a manger It's my Christmas crackers and as much as I would love to hear from you this is a prequel to the program so don't call text chat Oh man on b.b.c. Radio obsolete. I start my Christmas crackers with my favorite Christmas song and this is the 17th Father Christmas has painted the tacky of him and David prefers to which people it should be all been cooking so I knew there was something. I show your wife is that I'm doing it well I sincerely hope so she what do you have because you are a vegetarian and she said while at me talking into the large breasted bad of a sob unknown reason I have. Every You have another little site you have in the someone current I never know what I don't know why that started why it's become a thing that I saw how have you. Ever enjoyed. It and every year I think now maybe it's the time to go back to the big but maybe this year I was the sandwich is a miss. And I'm sure you still I am particularly if I thought of the pigs in a blanket Well yes. What about growing up to have it on Christmas Day it was present Christmas was incredibly magical playing all the carols as we have been on the breakfast club for many primary school was an incredibly magical toy the carol concert the school play policies in every class which was so big. All the posts. We had the tree we put out the milk for the reindeer and all of that how do you know that rain did drink milk I mean normally in our house it's a carrot so I'm glad to get. The whole thing to Brandy for Father Christmas but I still yearn for those magical times which we. Children really really. Really do what about. Your favorite toy I mean that one Christmas morning when you woke up and you opened the Christmas present that perhaps you had . It was a James case which I still have it's a tough box now and I want to this so bad it was a Christmas when we were on holiday we want a wife if he is right the art of water a McDonald's still tells a story how I've worked myself up into a state of childhood I was apoplectic frenzy tossing and turning all night long in a cold sweat and had a complete melt out and then rip the thing open and I still remember it I've still got it I should bring it in my James Bond. Magical much in terms of you know the traditions that you want to hold in the previous family we all have a family tradition. Critical of toughness. Some of them crude that's what it's that oh I have to watch the queen yeah I don't know if everybody else in the family is as passionate about it as I am but it's my thing that we have to see the court stand up with you. But I don't like it if anybody talks that's my big thing we have to watch the queen your Christmas records Yes it really is one of the best and most traditional Christmas record isn't it it is and I love it because of a book I read years ago Jody Rosen It's called White Christmas the story of a song and he writes about the story of how in Israel as he was this Jewish boy came to write the greatest Christmas song of all time on a boiling hot day in California so the legend goes how does a song that never should have really been a hates it was for the movie Holiday Inn the recording that we hear was in the original because by 947 the mosses of worn out because we had to go back in every record the thing 50000000 copies sold maybe double that with the cover versions it is the only crisp I'm glad that you've chosen this because for me Christmas isn't Christmas without me and it is a bit of a cliche but it's from that era of Slade and Chris Read the post but of call Paul's a. Georgian Ira Gershwin and for me it's those Christmas classics please before you get any Come on Dr Jaime please introduce it for us absolute pleasure Linds beautifully crafted 940 composition of White Christmas Happy Christmas Happy David and you found. Listen. Listen. I have a. Dream is. A Christmas. 30 offering. Some free long Christmas. Trees Oh you going to sing for us not a lovely lovely Christmas surprise I know that you thought long and hard about your favorite Christmas song I was actually 1st off the bat you know how competitive I am soon as I got the email I was like this one. Doesn't surprise me told me it was probably a few people I'm going Coldplay I think that will surprise a few people I mean I'm a cult with the next person but why this particular song doesn't have any bells in it I have a few bells tools the end but it's mostly a very slow you piano a plastic Christmas lights it's cold and I'm a big fat of songs and lyrics where the music doesn't match the lyrics so this is again quite upbeat what you like don't songs often they really really buzzy and then it seemed like a tragic story line on voting one of the lines is you've got so much poison in your blood he kind of sums up that dark side of Christmas how on earth do you identify with this is the there but also you know you have all your family around there's maybe we don't see all the time sometimes as a few fights I feel like it's one of the only true representations of how Christmas can sometimes get a bit passé when you have all your family in one room and quite a bit of alcohol you know I mean cap yeah I do absolutely know what you mean. So it's sort of jolly and yet stories that we talk we saw them at the expert to find a way Little Mix one that's what got my so many years ago that was pretty kids and it was the 1st time they have the response that lights up and none of us had seen them before we were all thinking one of the states that we go had. My husband bashed a on this side of the handrail because he thought that's how to make it work and of course what it was actually for was at certain points in their performance to light up with. And it was incredibly cool to has up on the back of your neck whether you love them or hate them and they are very mom might patent my own kind of afraid of doing what they want to do no matter what people think of them on a quiet mild Absolutely and actually the new record the new album is doing very well the moment to this season of goodwill so what about when you were little and what it felt like that much of Christmas that your little boy's feeling at the moment again this very day always great memories of Christmas when we got a really big family my mum and my dad both one of 3 and each of them has 2 children so I've got a cousins they've obviously all now have kids as well and so very rarely we have all the family together normally we do one side or the other but there's a couple of occasions where there were about 25 of us around the table you know when the kids get relegated to a separate level so we were in the lounge by the crushed up by the having on dinner and it was just so fun we played a lot of ball games and talking to each other and old fashioned stuff but that's lovely isn't it and that is actually how it should be and I think it is about talking it isn't sharing those moments together on this very very lovely day I wish you a very happy Christmas Ok How can you please introduce your song your favorite Christmas I'm now joined by my colleague who has a shot every single event you have a particular shot on this Christmas morning James what I have a very special shirt bowl bowls everywhere everything is jingling and jangling just for you I'm wearing it today because I knew you'd like that because I mean your favorite dish I was your favorite presenter I think you said that I didn't. I must admit your bubbles of my face I thank you very much for that you very much what are your memories of Christmas and the magic when you were little point shame's well though big family Christmases we had one of the ones I remember we spent the weekend on a boat in the Ottawa with a whole family and we arrived about Christmas Eve probably about 10 in leave now if I guess I was about 10 years old a stormy night as we left Southampton and we went on this very small boat to join. In the bigger boat we arrived there was a Christmas tree on top of this motor boat and we play silly games with the whole family and there was some kind of of murder game we had to make granny the murder rash and you are the murderer I remember as all I remember about the whole thing is a very bizarre thing but my uncle is similar to me in many ways perhaps that's where I got it from he was a little bit mad do you have a favorite toy from your childhood Well I was always very grown up as you know Cat I got a bus ticket machine dispenser and so I could pretend to be a bus conductor for the whole of the weekend I could use you were ticket to go to have been done yes you may be 5 p. Make you some money to be honest that was it was very successful said James what's what I did that for the rest of the day in terms of your Christmas Day and indeed the centerpiece on the dining table I do like Turkey people say they don't like turkey I do like Turkey but I'm thinking of doing a video while I'm carving the turkey on how to carve the turkey because there's a specific way you can carve the turkey you carve it wrong if you carve it wrong you're carving it right could you you cut it down the middle somehow and everyone gets a nice bit of the meat we've got a jigsaw route this year as well because all how many pieces as about a 1000 but they all look the same which is not good so I feel as though by about next year we might have got it it's just going to sit there for months you have any sky in that jigsaw has to have you know has got quite a lot of scar and the bits that haven't got Sky have got water and a few boats in the middle so this water and sky the scar the water a quite similar colors as well so it's not proving so easy so far but we'll be fine don't worry about it because my brother in law here and sometimes we need to go to shut him up I think I need to let you go tell me about you. Choice of Christmas song James Well here's the thing I've done a survey of Christmas songs over the years being on the right are wild and there are no Christmas songs that aren't middle of the road even people that used to be quite trendy like Robbie Williams have made middle of the road Christmas songs now so Chris most everyone down a little bit so we need to try and rock up but even Bruce Springsteen has been dumbed down a little bit of that but there's still a little. In that you know there's a cheeky smile so I feel as though Bruce Springsteen is the song from May this year you have brightened up my Christmas morning you really have it is Bruce Springsteen a Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Merry Christmas. a time of giving. The use receiving things you might. Need. Don't sit every Christmas every Christmas kind of whole set of makeup that I was allergic to get to the rich son James slowly slowly if you get something he doesn't want to eat he's got a really good solution donate them to January sales on this will usually unwanted gifts to raise money for Children In Need to give the gift of. Boxing Day on b.b.c. Radio Merry Christmas to you Well this is caps and you're listening to my Christmas crackers and my next little cracka I think possibly the most spectacular Christmas jumper that I've seen they see it sounds like a merry Christmas no matter what left means. A lot outside Ok thank you very much in the build up to Christmas you and I want to flee Christmas evening that was a Dickensian a nucleus while tree upping and light switching on you reprimanded something trumpets and you're playing with a brass band the process of a just it's become quite a tradition somebody will thrust and all of. Which was p.t.p. As I said here have that was Ok I well I don't have a lot of play with the corps and it looks up to many people haven't played corner in years it's lovely from the beginning of Christmas and I do love blasting out a Christmas carol and to see people all joining in the Khalil's But before that yes we bumped into a regular listener of b.b.c. Radio Oxford a Thomas More Mandy Yes we made them a promise to Dave and not wanting to break a promise over the instruments in the hand this is about. Tom loves hearing you play the trumpet Yes he's in the minority not many people do. So Tom did request that you give a little blast of your trumpet and what you're going to do is give a little blast of the song that you've chosen exactly and Tom has a couple of minutes to figure out what it might be Ok Ok so I will give you 1234 I'll give you 7 stop worrying about that. That's all I'm getting I just want to give let me wanting more rounds before we feel what your favorite Christmas song What about growing up in Ireland while Christmas at our house start of the oldest. My dad especially of the would get the Christmas records out and there was always the rituals of you could under the local shop at the top of hill and buy Christmas tree stick on the top of the be a mix bike and bring it back I'll let the various spirals over that fly out of it so you could bring it into the house but by lasting childhood memory of Christmas besides the music is the smell of Christmas cake because my mother is an avid baker . She had this over the years in the electoral office and she just had the method the knack of making the Christmas cake a Christmas puddings and you can move from school and up one after Christmas cake that would hit you as you can before and that sort of that you know the dark evenings when you called me in and the smell it hits you and in the back room is Christmas music on as well and it's just lasting this wonderful picture of the smell of tar in the air as well because Arlen being so to recap so well exactly where I grew up and killed there it's sort of all around the by bugs and Pete's briquettes was always the fuel of the fire and this particular song that you chose or yeah that was a big part of Christmas when that smell that was delivered last thank you there were also very very big film buffs still are used to tape movies during the day the bottom of the thing I was 67 years of age and Meet Me in St Louis with Judy Garland we're not going to listen to the Judy Garland version of it because as I say I brought in the LP and it's the LP that we used to have at home and it's a jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra This is my favorite Christmas record of all time it's like trying to pick your favorite child but it's a Frank Sinatra it's obvious of a Merry Little Christmas with Milton riddle of you it's very well picked I wish you a very Merry Christmas our you took out on. Your. Little career. Let your heart. From now on. Trouble over whose will be it out of sight. Of your. Courage. May see you. Get. Enough. Trouble we'll be. Lucky. Happy golden. Girls of your load. Was who are dear. Smoke. Through with you sweet all will be to get. Here if the fates allow. Hang a sharp star was. Just. A little Christmas night. Was. Larry was. Through. Us we will be through. The Fades. Wearing a show. There's. Very little room. In the queue just stumbled in from the call that the fly and I've got a nice big bowl books out. I didn't know how big Christmas album Christmas to you I love today yes I do as well it's an important day and it's Jeanette's really nice to share it with the extended b.c. Ready mix of family as well because normally you come a little bit later than I do because you're on a high time yeah so we can open our presents together last night yes yes tell me about your choice of Christmas song I've chosen Kelly Clarkson underneath the Christmas tree right I love this song because it's just the 1st time I heard it when it came out 10 years ago and any it was just one of those new Christmas songs that I instantly went out works as a feel Christmassy I felt warm there's loads of Christmas food in front of me I. I feel like family is around me the lyrics a lovely. Feel good Christmas song it's not all down and I don't have no exactly I need a tree it's just one of those modern day Christmas that is absolutely I think. Of the way a Christmas song makes you feel and that's that is what I feel like as soon as I put out that is like the 1st Christmas song I will allow myself to play whether it be in the car whether it be at home. Big boy wasn't such a big boy Bill he was a small boy but. Most of my memories as a child at Christmas are of me trying to find my Christmas present. My mom was very clever because she figured out that this was what was happening she knew that I knew my main Christmas present I mean if one has a main Christmas present as a child. The one thing that you've always like the bicycle. As far as a pony but this particular Christmas I wanted a t.v. And. I was about 11 and I was really excited I'd ask for a t.v. That's quite something to Father Christmas to bring down the chimney Yeah exactly so my mom took on the responsibility of getting that Christmas present she knew that I would look where she didn't it so. It's not no so what she did she put in an ottoman in her bed. My parents had an ottoman is great for storing really not so great for president need to look absolutely So one particular evening I went and I saw all the box I didn't open the box but it had a picture of a t.v. On it and excited. Close the ultimate My mom knew that because of course as a child you want to go back again before Christmas so when I went back the next time it was wrapped with the little tag on which said to Grandad Happy Christmas from. I was absolutely gutted I got the t.v. . When I was younger that she made me I kind of. Liked because I would never go to bed on Christmas Eve I was actually going to bed on the 24th of December but my. So I went to bed. And I have the next morning I mean I have a whole lot. So yeah my mom was very clever Well look I'm sure you'll be spending it with your mom and you'll see you know your family have a Christmas and that's what it's all about as we mentioned before you go off to enjoy that big breasted. Would you please introduce. Us date choice to feel festive it's Kelly Clarkson underneath the tree. Lives the seeds of Rob's writing my generation to use and I'm loving your Christmas outfit yet I know what you have you have. A person. I thought about about you know me I don't necessarily know. You around do anything I do like Christmas my like the Christmas pudding every. Year I wouldn't wear them at Christmas day particularly tends to be the one day you. For Christmas because overseas lots of sport actually love everyone being around quite happy not to leave the house a lot came in Christmas songs like Christmas traditions not to ball books and I would never put you down this is been quite a surprise that she because you know all of our colleagues in fact have been choosing their favorite Christmas song and very traditional Yeah I mean for me Christmas is a time for traditional things and to be traditional You have to be at least as old as me. And I like the fact that there's almost like an unwritten code about some of the songs you can sleep in earlier than others you can hear the Mariah Carey one almost like the one that breaks the dam and then the rest come flooding in afterwards maybe a bit of the Pogues and Kirsty McColl there are others like Slade that you can't really deal with until Christmas Eve but my choice is none of them my choice is a song from the 1960 s. 1st 963 and featured on an album that actually was a soundtrack to my Christmas as a kid my parents love this Christmas album I didn't really understand it I thought it was a little bit Motown a it was a little bit different but it what it was of course wall of sound and this song was never my favorite song when I was a kid has become my favorite song in recent memory because and yeah I think that definitely helped epitomizes the album I'm talking about which is a Christmas gift to you for you which he's done a lot of not very good things in his life but Phil Spector did a very good job on that album and I think this is the one that sums it up it's the one that kind of takes me back to my Christmas Day which I didn't realize at the time I didn't realize it was a soundtrack to the Christmas days a when I was a kid but it was there was a Motown Christmas album that was a lot but I don't think it quite captures it in terms of taking me back in the way that they sell them and this particular song does and thinking about the parents the time that we had then. And again funny people want to use a simpler time and rest of it was but this was not simple I just felt that musically was and still is now the she's 50 odd years later still I think brilliant and sums up Christmas sums up what can be achieved in music and this woman has got an unbelievable voice that just says Christmas introduce your Christmas song to rhyme I think if this is all about the singing the song brackets that said absolutely. Spot on please come home I think you did Christmas Christmas please come back it may be please come back it. my little Christmas cracker since just. Coming in on Christmas day. You having a lovely day. Reading some of our colleagues have surprised me some have a. Nice surprise in your choice of Christmas song because you are a front on. This back and I am a mix of. That. And my happiness at the breaking out a Christmas song. About 34 weeks out when you 1st. Think of Christmas is very Christmassy very emotional it's a very slow love song. Titled The fails about missing people it's not about. Us. But it's love. Little Mix. I mean she's done a lot. And I think I just made a big made. Of this stuff for the black community. She was around. And a member. Of my parents and she was. It's. Such a. I don't know how they're saying. Right . Now when I was growing up. As well but it's very different now. You have a. Christmas. What about your memories of growing. Christmas. With my grandparents. At my house and just having them. In the morning. As. Actions. On a. Very very merry Christmas. Of Christmas song. Juno Well let me make sure this is so nice because on Christmas Day All my love for the Christmas cracker colleagues are drawn to buy yourself included Merry Christmas . Have you had a lovely morning so far all I have been being sushi chef to my mother Julie ending carrots and basically anything that Paul says. Parents Actually yes but but do they have to be exactly the same length and we would know it sort of all meat levels of 2 inches. Thick but to be honest I quite enjoyed the regularity in the beautiful uniform. I would have you always being the sushi my sister and I have done it for many a year absolutely what about yourself and your sister staring at the Christmas cake Oh yeah absolutely although I wasn't one facet of licking it roll and dousing it with Brandy every week every week. As a little bit more. And you know what even though we had piles and piles of presents because we were beloved grandchildren and it was absolutely definitely towards the end of the day that I loved the best when all of the adults would take themselves off to my grandma's but was cleared of all that ribbon. It's of crackers and they do play cards. When it's raining other leagues have been on the telly or something and. Playing with toy. Ones and that. Really would get your Christmas to just a few members time in terms of tradition and being traditional definitely definitely feeding many more people than. We have for about. Afterwards but it will be absolutely stuffed to the brim with stuffing and that is my favorite thing on the plate really yeah coveted and lashings of. So how. To tackle it takes up the entire oven you could remove all of the shelves and then this beast is shining for the old beast and then asked to be pasted and that involves 7 people doesn't it hold it back because you can get the juice to how many Michel's does it take to the thing and one of these people that wraps your turkey do very rests Oh yeah yeah. You know you can't do it just to teach it is not enough surface area. To your Christmas song I would fight almost to the death with anyone who disagrees. Has the best male singing voice that has ever walked the planet. And then the opening line chestnuts roasting on an open fire if that doesn't melt your heart Kalman. Get back to that reaction I've left it for too long Goodness knows what's happened to. Merry Christmas to everyone this is my favorite Christmas song. And the Christmas song. Jack Straw snipped. You tied. Being sung. And folks dressed. Everybody no. But Turkey and some this will. Help to make this. Tiny Tots with I. Will find it hard to sleep tonight. They know that some. Songs would. Ease load it is lots of talk soon. And every mother's cha. Is going. To see the reindeer really in the hot. Dog on this really. It's from long to land into. It's been said. Many times many ways. Not King Cole and the Christmas song choice of Lee Mitchell after the 11 o'clock news I'm not a whole hour of Christmas crackers as more of my colleagues drop in to wish so very happy Christmas day. On Freeview island on b.b.c. Sound this is b.b.c. Radio. It's 11 o'clock with the b.b.c. News from such air and there's still services for children with special educational needs and disabilities in Oxfordshire are improving the latest said Review says 3 out of 5 areas that need to drop viewing off to the 2017 inspection and now making sufficient progress will to needed further improvements parent carers forums welcome the opportunity to work more closely with the n.h.s. And local authority to ensure parent. Volved in decisions about provisions in the county literature of Children Services false a chick county council told us they acted on the 2017 inspection we have in our central action 2 years ago which are the same as actual and slightly areas and the revisit was looking at how we're doing it all quite 5 areas and I'm really playing with my progress and we've now only got 2 areas as action 3 members of the same family reported to a drum to holiday resort on the Costa del Sol in Spain they were found unresponsive in a swimming pool yesterday at club along Costa will have clanking Rola the Foreign Office say is a system of British woman in Spain the queen will lead members of the roll family for the annual festive church services Sandringham which starts around now Prince George and Prince a shell that will attend for the 1st time here in Oxfordshire the Bishop of don't just of the Right Reverend column Fletcher be has been telling us he echoes the pope's message this Christmas God never gives up on anybody and God's love is for all certainly something I try and replicate him or try to every Christmas after leaving here I'll be off to Bullington prison and then from there Catherine House Hospice and those are 2 very special groups of people very different stages in their lives but very special John Howell says that in many moments in 2019 when he considered quitting as an m.p. The conservative representative for Henley was reelected earlier this month he says it's been a difficult year to serve I'm afraid most of the year has been quite negative before the election for I've never never say anything donkey constant negativity it's hard to hide from him for a post-election the main create their own nervousness but the result was just what the doctor ordered a private school in some town has applied for permission to build a giant tree house and its grounds some a failed school Mayfield Road says the wooden structure will be built on a punch of land next to the school's playing field. And used by peoples as well as parents watching games you can see more on the design 3 Hots on stilts connected by a walkway or Oxford city council's planning pages the American songwriter Willis who composed the theme tune to the t.v. Show friends has died Willis who was 72 suffered a heart attack in Los Angeles on oxygen as well the dry mostly sunny with gentle winds the Salton in becoming chilly again this evening with missed him fall the softening of 8 Celsius b.b.c. Radio up so here's a 3 minute. You and your story. Radio . Welcome back to my Christmas crackers on Christmas morning Fear not be Holland I bring you more tidings of great musical joy for on this Christmas morning a further forward as my b.b.c. Ready Oxford colleagues will bestow upon you favorite you will touch their shutters and wants. Their own Christmas stories as well you know wise men don't please no shepherds and no angels but another hour of songs to accompany your Christmas Day morning whether your enjoying some eggnog perhaps making your way to visit your friends Mary and Joseph basting the bad I wish you a very happy Christmas. To a woman on b.b.c. Radio and. I'm absolutely loving this Christmas crackers show and being joined on Christmas Day by all my colleagues and look who's just dropped by only snag it's Daddy cocks Happy Christmas got the stomach I got the beard I could be Santa for a future career you must be really looking forward actually to all the food on Christmas Day That's always been the key thing as you can imagine from a you for Christmas Day from getting up early in the morning and my grandparents in the big family. The house started out about 7 o'clock getting all of food prepared and ready we were banned from the kitchen there was 1st of all this heat and the steam coming out the kitchen and then a couple of hours later the gorgeous smell started to come out and it was quite a torturous day because we had a big family tradition that everything followed the Queen's speech at 3 o'clock everything happened after 8 after the queen's we ate after them we also couldn't open our Christmas presents until after so imagine children seeing all these prezzies around a tree and for most of the day just having to look at them and only after the Queen's speech a quick unwrapping of the presents then the turkey so you had to wait the entire day for Chris.

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Today it's the season of goodwill and my mom asked me to pop to the shops to get her a few bits. Now just as I was about to tap and pay for the goods it happened yes the Christmas music started playing stop the cavalry. There was simply no escape as I had to pay for the goods. You do have to do that you do risk a prison term. Since I was on a mission of mercy says Pay can I get an extra life. Although there was nothing you could do about it no where to run. It was fates that brought you and Joe Louis together. Some afraid if you just knew to the show and what you're trying to do is avoid this song between now and Christmas. One of my favorite Christmas songs. Loads of people have gone out over the weekend. Just texted in one trouble 3 Start your message with the words. To. Stop the cavalry in the pub last night. Just a simple as that in the. People saying in at me in the straight. The man gave you. In the since the pub last week starts humming it. That can't knock you out. You can't be stitched up and it has to be the Jonah Louis version cover versions don't count and don't forget the b.b.c. Radio stuck is an absolute safe zone. Now doesn't count if it gets played on another show on b.b.c. Radio like you. Or Susan plays it before me. Doesn't count you still in. The world John and Mal cop says it's cold and dark up here in this morning but I'm still in John again. Thank you John. We should. Let me know are you still in Johnny Gaddar 101-2188 see or text me one travel story start your message with the words whatever you want to talk to me about this morning I am here for you hear those numbers again. Because I'm breakfast 0801 c 1881 channel 3 and start your message with the word Stoke getting on social media b.b.c. Radio Stoke. We brought you the news on Friday morning for the for the 1st time ever North Star gone blue after the general election and now this morning we know that Boris Johnson is welcoming 109 new M.P.'s to Westminster their 1st job will be voting on the BRICs it withdrawal agreement Bill here's what happened last week. Boris Johnson is beginning a new term as prime minister after his conservative party won a majority of 80 seats everyone to find closure and to let the healing begin the Labor Party lost 59 seats across the country it's later Jeremy Corbyn says he'll be stepping down early next year I think the responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing and I won't do that I will stay here until somebody elected to succeed me and then I will step down at that point in Stoke north it's former Labor m.p. Ruth's mate says she won't walk away I think she has huge challenges and collectively we need to decide whether we have the right to exist or not for me I will stay in fights the Tory m.p. For Stoke South Jack Britain increased his majority tenfold I think organ had a huge impact. He was absolutely toxic on the doorstep but the Labor Party's candidate for that constituency Mark MacDonald has no regrets over his leader I think history will go I will see German court reporter who was an inspirational leader the new Tory m.p. For Stoke central Joe Gideon pits labor by just 670 votes it was a long journey for people to go on from and most people would say I've lifelong Labor supporter you know my parents are Labor supporters. Jack Dowling there the conservatives have a clean sweep in the pottery state north central south and New Castle in Cheshire to people in Crewe and Nantwich dropped labor for the Tories the question I'm asking you this morning and maybe you have some thoughts on this is what's next for labor now you know we do Job Watch here on b.b.c. Radio telling you about work that could be available to you if you're out of work in the area well producer Jack has had a go at one himself. B.b.c. Radio Stoke job watch the Labor Party is making for a new leader you'll be working at their site in Westminster you must be good at working in a small a team shouting skills a strong opinion on breaks it and an intimate knowledge of the Christmas Day t.v. Show are essential you must have an empty cause it's an familiarity with bacon sandwiches the salary begins at $79.00 grand depending on experience to find out how to apply or tell John whether you're getting. Pulled over 800. 8080 making a difference in Staffordshire and Cheshire b.b.c. Radio Stoke is never right don't call in about we can't help you with the job b.b.c. Impartiality and all that however back to reality what has happened to labor or b.b.c. Radio. Has spoken to people in Stoke on Trent about what they think of the Labor Party. Strong awful labor all its life and that's totally to be wiped out but I think the biggest problem was a lot of majority the people didn't like it was a labor it was called being. And I think a bit of a shame to be very much labor heartlands he would Stoke on Trent now it's completely what you think went wrong for the Labor Party down so I guess it's one stance and Bracks. Myself being a mono. I don't I I didn't see Brett says the main issue of previous version of. The policies and it's not just this year that you've decided yes and used to be labor but I didn't. If you were the sum changed why do you think Labor suffered so badly it really is a catastrophic loss for the Labor Party are to not being. The unity. In the Labor Party they were all over decrease because of their background as well didn't help much and he was a lady sure about the bricks it was going to do. I think he was bad for the Labor Government I think he did 2 big mistakes us being the head of the Labor Government and the other one to start sporting back seats I think the people of Stoke on Trent even if he spoke it out you know enough so you know for got to get back seat don't think that's what's on the boat listening to all the talk to Gemma looms politics expert kill University morning Gemma morning what do you think is next for the Labor Party now that the dust has settled just how bad was it for labor and what do they do next. It is a pretty catastrophic loss for the light of policy in the problem for the Labor Party is as we had quite a lot of the M.P.'s say the weekend done and the defeated and pays site it's not just a problem replacing the leader but problems within the Labor Party run much deeper inside the Labor Party really needs to undertake a review of what it actually stands for now so it needs to work out whether it wants to actually carry on top of the thing areas like ours where we're actually still sees itself as a party the working class because at the moment it's very much they need a policy based in the big cities in the metropolitan areas in London in particular and whether it actually wants to govern because the manifesto this time around was same very much as having very strong Leslie socialist policies but were necessarily a very cohesive. Program to government so the Labor Party really needs to reflect on what it stands for what it sees cost of protests and oversee the leadership will be important as well who is most likely to be that next leader what kind of pull do you see them choosing someone from. Interesting way most of the men come to the same aisle so it's their least the next major like policy will be favorable to the Brits probably some a lot Rebecca long Bailey because for many years now we've heard she's someone that Jeremy Corbin trusted she was member the From bench she was the shuttle business secretary so she's got quite good credentials and she comes most importantly from the right from that correct wing of the party not the right wing of the party from the left wing of the policy that she comes from the part that say me we'll start with I'm wing of the party's chairman Bogan but it's likely that she will probably be popular with parliamentary Labor Party and more importantly with the party members because they're the ones that are going to make the final decision on who the next leader is when you speak to a lot of the public didn't like some of the very left wing policies of labor and they weren't keen on Jeremy Colvin So isn't it a bit of a gamble to choose someone with a similar view to Jeremy Koeppen shouldn't they be trying to pick someone from more from the center. For electoral reasons yes they absolutely should but the problem for the Labor Party at the moment is the way that they're organized that the membership have such power and it's the members that will ultimately decide who the leader is as the members you started that Jeremy call been was to be the leader he wasn't particularly agricultural or with the parliamentary Labor Party with those M.P.'s in Parliament but he was incredibly popular with the membership so because the membership really has all the power in terms of deciding who the next Labor leader is it's fairly certain that with a similar membership pattern that we've had over the last t.v. Is it's going to be someone with the same ideological ideological perspective as Jeremy Colvin is going to be chosen as the next leader and how likely do you think is the labor will be able to get themselves into power in 5 years I know a lot of water is going to pass under the bridge between now and then but at the moment it seems a long way off. The problem is that 5 years is very very ambitious the size of the state was so great that it will take a swing of around the same size as Labor had in 9097 to return to 5 years' time so really it's got to be a long term plan of maybe looking at 10 years time before the party can return to government and the process of choosing this leader will be important but really we're looking at the leader also with to potentially take the party towards the more center left so it's going to be a very very long process there are no short term solutions to this always interesting to talk to you thanks so much Dr Gemma looms politics expert that kill university maybe you were someone who switched from the conservatives to labor maybe your one of those Labor members who voted for Jeremy Corbin and will vote for someone with similar policies as Jeremy Corbyn to be the next leader you can get in touch with the show whenever you like our 801-2180 or text me one trouble 3 Start your message with the word stuck. With only one of the 15 biggest cities in the country that doesn't have a Christmas lights with counting How do you feel about that it's disappointing and . You've already got the lights in my can you just use the ones you've already gone . Is the council really short of money we have to make some difficult decisions. B.b.c. Radio Stoke 18 minutes past 7 on the breakfast we'll have a look through the papers for you now let me take a selfie. After this and I just. Inside of the pages of the newspapers this morning there's a story about selfies and how they can do you real damage Jenny I can is producing the show this morning hi Jan Hello is this I mean this affected you apparently carpal tunnel syndrome one doctor is claiming here that there's been a 3rd. 30 to 40 percent increase in cases that he is seeing because of the angle of the wrist when you're taking a selfie with a big smartphone Love Yeah specially the really big ones that are almost like tablets that you've got there is Nick thank you so so yeah I think if you've got a lot to lose now you've got selfie sticks and selfie Yeah plonk things in all sorts of contraptions to take a selfie it's going to take me one of my not yet Ok so I have got the camera Yeah I think this is already good in there. So that my wrist that is quite an angle is there so if I just kind of tweak it a little bit. It's a duty as he really did that we did just take a selfie down as well as high as. Put them on social media and tell them I don't know I have a bad rest actually my right wrist year so maybe that is it that's what I'll blame it on. Jay we're not going to get a white Christmas I know that's why you've made me say I know I know I know but there's an article in the paper this morning all the meteorology people have been looking at all the data for 9 days time that's all it is 9 days. Ago I was there after everything we did do a lot of shopping yesterday to do Christmas shopping over the weekend we got paid on Friday and we saw some of that on line or in actually not sure shops yet hit the high street because you can go into shops because you're out John against the final Yeah did you know I haven't had it since I've been out but you know you think. You are quite absent minded though it might have been on. It because you didn't even realize it was play in the 1st journalistic until someone. Started covering this Plame your out. So it's going to be wet they reckon on Christmas Day there's a good chance of it being wet or. Dry and cold but the chances snow are minimal even money a snowflake will fall in the u.k. On Christmas Day at $1.00 of the $270.00 weather stations snow fall in Manchester and the northwest and around here is $5.00 to $1.00 all the experts saying it will not be a white Christmas. Christmas. Christmas instead. It's like Nativity week isn't it lots of people this weekend last week going to the Nativity. Of their kids and grandkids so cute. There's a picture in the paper this morning of a little girl. Just called a lag. And she's only 5. And she landed the role of an angel that's a good roles a great role in the Nativity. During the Nativity at some point. She developed a sole middle finger on her right hand. Now a mum was in the audience of course watching so what do you do when you go to a saw a middle finger and your mum is in the audience. You show your mum. Your saw little thing. There's a picture of little I am holding up a middle finger to the audience. I love not just briefly. She held her middle finger to just as an angel in the density for 20 minutes. 20 minutes the audience was just giggling the whole way through it she stole the show in the wrong way. And. Jen's going to be an elf in just a 2nd you can hear what happened when she tried out as an elf with Santa and everything that's coming up in just a 2nd after Stephen tells us how the roads are looking out the m 6 doing now heading north Stephen still queues of 5 miles John Burns always have now reopened 12 through 13 free lanes of the 4 remains shut since all right about 1050 minutes or so ago due to over running road work so travel times now at 20 minutes traffic tries to improve on that section but the story further north between 13 and 14 the 2 Stafford loans are the inside lane was shut there for a breakdown that's now being fully recovered recovery of a minor accident continues only a $51.00 included word as you approach common lane police are on scene directly traffic for you as our recovery work takes place in busy westbound on the 850 coming away from May now towards either way around about to join the day road anything else will number 801 c 180. Mr. Morning Hope you're Ok 23 minutes past 7 on Johnny because that breakfast from b.b.c. Radio stout Jordan from bottle says morning John I'm out John again because I went into as the yesterday to get some bread and it came on it up in 30 seconds I would have avoided it this is just how fate can throw you together with Jonah Lomu We've got actually a little song for the fall and coming up in just a 2nd producer. As been well hard at work spending your license fee on putting together I am and am style rap to the song Stan of all the people who have gone out so far is a work of pure genius you might well get a mention if you've gone out of John again and you've messaged me in the last week or so so a few years ago Jen is still with me I went out about for the breakfast show to elf Skoal Alton Towers it's one of the most humiliating things I've ever done the video is still circulating on the Internet when you search my name it comes up it's humiliates on top the other day didn't it yes a date I think someone resharing me shared it is so good I was so embarrassed by doing this video that I thought you know are I'm going to send you out today. Classic classic So this is what happened when I did it yes I did qualify and yes it was ridiculous. You. Can work from everybody. To be pretty. Good to my next 5. Know that you. Know how they say they. Don't know what it is not quite a word. So I've forgotten just how ridiculous it was probably in the hours though Alton Towers I also has done a brilliant so I had to go on so it seems quite surreal isn't it the whole the whole kind of experience Alf experience but also I think I did pretty well I think I'll make quite good out will be the judge of that. Mistletoe delay at Alton Towers but I have 2 lovely elves with a. Jingle a in suitcase going to put me through my paces. Oh yes absolutely yet to learn how Spain elf so well she's the 1st thing I need to lead Oh I think we need to start off right at the basics you distributed out I think we need to do a little bit off else in fitness Oh yes absolutely bring up ready for Christmas is a bit of a shake that lack of those candy canes thoughts it oh yes fill the boxes and shovel the reindeer pen you shuttle to tell us focus sucks pick up the Senate you know Hilda sex hotel in the chimney how you get will be jetting ready I don't run tight so we start with some briefings that. Ok so we need to practice our waving now the fast way we need to practice is the most a bullshit when it comes to Christmas think some. Truth. In the Gulf but only when the o.e.s. Where we felt well you know one where you need where with your albums where you heard. We were young it's on notice the word hope it's not the full mouth wave that you're about to fall off way find out the biggest complaint yes I was the next thing Ok we need to practice all rapping skills quick to the last shot. But I managed to go so young I'm dropping Wolski Sarmento now for not much help yet can be and here I am was no biggie that's what we do with 2 journey to get to the gals so far Love it love it right to the action. Come. On you're having a fight of quite a lot of challenging gifts to wrap so as we can see here well we got to go late we've got the 1st born to play a little sick a. Corkscrew Oh. Don't have don't don't don't don't don't. This is enormous This is basically a piece of a roller coaster track a Wouldn't yet we want you to think Jenny. We've got some generic wrapping paper. Already sold around the way so how do Elvis rock because this is a this is a hard rock you just have to get sucked in and hope for the vast numbers of patients that are on the. Set He prayed over God got some trick. This Sellotape everyone at this paper of every fire is Ok I was pretty rough and tough. But this is a strange it's a leave a little bit out maybe they consider time. I think. Yeah we've got the roller coaster track what is next. But the one thing is. Going to do. Well I want to me. To decide on the good latest and if. It's going to. Be fairly good natural about wrapping a roller coaster track. I mean yeah it was honestly it was ridiculous there was literally solitary at Rock and paper it was just chaos is great it's great how you have to be very extra Don't you think I was a very extra extra is the word extra Yeah fantastic later on we've got Santa on the shop. And I he's playing celebrity birthdays against me this morning he's taken time out of his busy sched you'll come in and play some. Pretty birthdays and you actually met Santa didn't you as well yes ours Yes And one of his many layers so for me yeah we are going to have all of the latter failing to Christmas a 6 think the December b.b.c. Radio 730 news and sport next gens here with today's final top 10 a bit of a supply teacher feel today I mean we are. Feeling quite all Thora through tive good wrongly. Top 10 today I'm looking for the top 10 t.v. Christmas specials as voted by the Radio Times dot com readers the top 10 t.v. Christmas Peter specials Jan I've got news for you and your supply teacher but we did that last week No you did do it did we lay We did it last week Christmas specials. Going on sorry say again after Homer hands up here John because I was asked Has it been and I checked with a number of people here and we all came to the conclusion it was similar but hadn't been top 10 to Christmas t.v. Specials we did it last week and I probably took parts Well right we're going to come up with a new top 10 in the next 3 minutes or right Ok. We can do that together supply so far so got 6. $731.00 using spore comes from Lee Thomas an 18 year old man from Cheshire is cheaper for magistrate Syncrude today charged with the murder of a 15 year old schoolboy the body of Alex Rider he went to Holmes Chapel comprehensive was found in a lane in Ashley near nuts for it on Friday morning more than 100 newly elected conservative M.P.'s including 2 for Stoke on Trent Swann for Newcastle one for Crewe and Nantwich will be welcome to Westminster today they could be asked to vote on the Prime Minister's Bret's a deal before the end of the week after parliament officially opens on Thursday Labor could have a new leader by the end of March the party's general secretary says the contest to replace Jeremy Corbyn should starts on the 7th of January and health bosses across North Staffordshire say they're working hard to get as many people home for Christmas as possible role Stoke hospital usually discharges 100 patients a week but there are plans to substantially increase that over the next 9 days. Today's big stories from still exactly incredible d.d.c. Radio stuck sports. Fans Stokes who helped England win the Cricket World Cup has been named b.b.c. Sports Personality of the year the award decided by a public vote represents redemption for Stokes he was cleared of a freight following an incident outside a nightclub in 2017. He paid tribute to his teammates and individual favorite teams and the best thing about that is you get to share special moments with teammates backroom staff and management who make days like we had in the summer possible. Receiving this award not just by myself without the office that you put in the summer I wouldn't be doing that Stoke City midfielder Jordan cousins of minutes he's relieved to be playing again after one of the hardest times of his career Cousins has played in Stokes last 2 matches after not featuring in the league since August and he was named man of the match in Saturday's draw with reading this is the Finn and I want you know I want to be a plan for what I said in previous interviews but one of the toughest times of my life you know what you've been around the team and I'm running squad but you know I just got myself right to myself were mentally worked hard showed the graph in order well get a place in the team I want to just replace Faye for me and give me a chance John ascii believes there's plenty his poor viol players can improve on after Saturday's goalless draw at Crawley Vale at 10 thinly 2 and haven't won a league game in the last 3 I just may need to control the game for longer periods that's the main think little bit more movement from players movement there were many early on in the season we're not as fluid as we were before us patches during the season we've got to keep working hard and if they keep doing the right things eventually come right crew Charlie Kirk impressed manager David Art's hell with his performance in Saturday's one all draw against Mansfield the 21 year old been a key figure this season and are tell the holders he's going from strength to strength or Charles the best player on the pitch I thought it was the more creative you get in the tie at the poles with a rocket. You sell the goal is one of the sister I thought was really good you know if you're going to score a goal in the last half an hour is going to come from your side the pictures show up and drink and in the Premier League. Manchester City 13 nil away to ask Tottenham how to late to one win awards and Everton drew one all Manchester United and you up to date 735. John Aiken is at breakfast b.b.c. Radio Stoke. Morning 735 your weather today we are going to get some sunshine today apparently often dry and fine with spells of sunshine around may turn to hazy in the afternoon breezy at times this morning but light winds 7 Celsius 45 in Fahrenheit saved. That's only the 2nd time I did the 2nd time of ever sneezed on the radio that. You know when you think of a sneeze Yeah it goes away yeah that's a thing isn't it yeah I didn't Oh no he just. I did cover my hand by that I think of my mouth. And generally it's unclear in the May The pollen count very high Yes very very high spikes what it is with the temperatures 0 so we are going to get some Mr Fog patches developing tonight and we might well get a frost tomorrow just for it's going to absolutely Baltic tomorrow and we might get some late light rain and drizzle for a time as well mainly dry but chances and drizzle for Celsius is the high tomorrow and just f y I the sunrise at the moment is 820 around here and sunset 7 minutes to 40. It's not much light at all is it Jan Hey now I might have made a mistake on this by the top 10 thing and Jan. Did we do the top 10 most viewed Christmas Day specials or did we do this is different isn't this is this is the favorite Christmas t.v. Christmas specials. We did it by the Radio Times we all use waited we did audience didn't we yeah they got all around in NY it was it's a marginal of course a marginal don't upset you John it's Monday you know you couldn't upset me it's impossible. Should we go we're not going to go with then top 10 Christmas specials so they're not based on audience figures they're just based on what we think was good what's been voted for as they wanted as a favorite as Cathy v. Christmas special all right I stand corrected Are we ready. To go 1st Okey dokey. Ok Only Fools and Horses has got to be in the. Number 2 good for me and I will say. The more common wise Christmas special not on the top. All right surprise is there anything involving no lemons and Mr Blobby in their circle the early ninety's I mean the show pay but not top 10. The office yes. The Office Christmas specials number one yes but I want to. Can we look ahead to one that will be but isn't yet I know what you're referring to you don't want to. Have don't want Ron on that I'm going to go with Governor Stacy Yes Christmas special 2008 I think Can't wait for that you can't wait until you hear this one. So easily to one up yes I need this than. Best Christmas specials of all time. Mrs Brown's Boys. It's a good man somebody to talk to. So you've got we got 3 you got 3. 777 sat and mole on a slate this list is so easy to fill just think of all the Christmas specials that are on all of those channels play all the older stuff Yeah Ok t.v. Yeah you'll get a $101.00 to $1.00. Is after a phone number of you think you can fill this top 10 before the 2 before 8 o'clock this morning or you can text one trouble 3 Start your message with the word start league it says victory music I want to. B.b.c. Radio we've got some problems on the m 6 the small inning How's it looking now Stephen still looking slow John but so much improved north on the m $612.00 through Thursday and got to be a 5 absolute stop at south of the a 449 This follows 3 lanes of the 4 remaining shut until just after 7 o'clock this morning for overrunning road works from overnight looking busy on the a 51 flew through Clifford's word possible g.t. One x. And there's a common light couple of vehicles involved in that collision a busy south now on the day right now as you approach the by. Would write about G.'s the road works and if it also 801 c 18080. B.c. Radio Mr. Coming up later here on b.b.c. Radio Stoke Perry speller and Liz Allison here from 9 o'clock with what's the year the Spice Girls The Verve an old saints in the 1st half hour Edwin star Nina Simone and the Isley Brothers in the 2nd half hour that's 9 till midday today with what's the hour between what's the what's the year between $9.10 in that hour John is a breakfast from b.b.c. Radio state we pay our respects to the fallen in John again and trying to avoid hearing stop the cavalry between now and Christmas day very soon but 1st we're hearing this morning about Boris Johnson welcoming 109 new Conservative M.P.'s to Westminster amongst them several from North Staffordshire of course where the conservatives made a clean sweep last week north central south in Newcastle in Cheshire to Crewe and Nantwich they dropped labor in favor of the conservatives the question I'm asking you this morning and maybe you've got some thoughts on this is what next for labor . What's happened to the more b.b.c. Radio. Has been out about speaking to people across the contract to ask them what I think happens a labor. Strong awful labor all its life and that sort of only to be wiped out but I think the biggest problem was a large majority the people didn't like it was a labor it was called in and I think a bit of a shame to be very much labor heartlands he would Stoke on Trent now it's completely what you think went wrong for the Labor Party down so I guess it's a one stance and Bracks. Myself being a homeowner. I don't I don't see breaks as the main issue we've both labor so I go because the policies and it's not just this year that you decided yes and used to be labor but I didn't. If you were some change why do you think Labor suffered so badly it really is a catastrophic loss for the Labor Party are to not being. The unity. In the Labor Party they will all be different because a bit of the background as well didn't help much and he was a lady sure about the bricks it was going to do. I think use but for the Labor Government I think he did 2 big mistakes us being the head of the Labor Government and the other one is that sporting backseats I think the people of Stoke on Trent even have spoken out you know you know for got to get back seat don't think that's what's been the vote. More from clients and he is a labor activist and he is on the line with us this morning morning Dave good morning now the dust has settled over the weekend how you feeling about what happened last Thursday and Friday so early down really a series where you put it have a listen to what he was out in the streets and. Say barely touched on most of the things I just you just may miss those activists. So we. So the governor has to gather and says Well why do we go from here. A lot of 8. As the people expected touched on what the problem was it was breakfast obviously. Eventually leave concision city. And of course those people decided. Once Tory what do you think they beneath to do next what kind of leader the thing you need well. We both agree in some degree that we need. That water is not left wing We don't want to Jericho being too. We need somebody who's centrist labor at least central maybe Center has somebody like Johnny Law. Who feel like was. It was more sense oh yeah last left wing and so on the trouble with that is you know that a lot of your fellow members of the Labor Party you want to vote someone in who does lean more heavily to the left yes not so all of those I mean I'm been a member for the spot 50 years and there are a lot of people well when I go to meetings if you like the people in New Castle and it's probably $6040.00 for the eligible guys if you like so there's a lot of those Laborites were around during generally a successful government. Of the ninety's. The support that. Yes you're quite right there are a lot of the younger members on so much know some of the younger members of course on more left wing. Dave thanks for coming on this morning pretty appreciate that Dave Baird more from Clayton you can chip in 201 to want to see did you switch from Labor to the Conservatives do you agree with what Dave had to say there you need someone more in a tony blair kind of mold of labor to ever get back in the Potteries here in Stoke on Trent 801-2188 is our free phone number on John Akers at breakfast or do you think from now on your Actually you'll stay blue you'll States or you might have switched but that's the way you'll vote from now on let me know this morning we're going to have a look through some of the showbiz stories that are making the newspaper headlines this morning including a new number one which could be number one for Christmas coming next after this. How you getting on only 9 days left to survive on John I get and. This is from Rob from new says hope you well John I am mourning your right I'm still in John again I took a big risk going to the Tesco where Lee Blakeman caught you. Keep looking at shops and thinking Is it safe. And what happens if I go to see Dan in the Panta will they be playing it there I'll have to call ahead. We're going to see him tonight Dan. Thank you Rob from blood and well done still in. The from staff it went for a day out in Stalybridge little. On Saturday and stopped over a friend's we did 5 pubs and I managed to Miss Joan the song all afternoon went back to a friend's house who decided to ask Alexa to put on Christmas songs I thought without it now thankfully Alexa play did they know it's Christmas about 10 times and not Joe Louis. On the way back to Stafford yesterday we had Radio 2 on because we couldn't get radio start reception despite numerous Christmas songs we still never heard the song good news I'm still in. The bad news is that you may get sued by Jonah is no. Station seems to be playing this song maybe everyone is getting merry Christmas. If you didn't really need. Well done for still being. In check in people. Desperate to survive. To survive. The. Very. Of the. Classic. Christmas scared of I'm ducking and diving to avoid stuff. Don't want to get caught . She was safe but you can no longer smile. From kids she's no longer in. You know the blue. Was out of the care home. Switching to Radio 2 at night and if you change stations you know you can no longer because we know the radio safe zone this whole game is sending me a little bit screwy to go to bed and I'm dreaming about. Home and it's doing my head in only 10 days to go. Another week and I still ain't heard it you know like I didn't want to get caught out at Tesco Roy thought he missed it packed his own band with tools but when the hearing it in the warehouse lose. Wish he hadn't set foot in the Marion factory shop at the Christmas markets feeling proper. Until a festive. Trackball there was anger there was ts. Got caught by a drive by walking on West want to break down and cry and went mentions he heard it in the pool tried to put his head under the water to avoid it before. The radio Sam was in pink. But you won't get me that there is no doubt in the background. If proof. That producer is a genius is. Will play again lights are on did you get a mention let me know this morning this is from Phil Wainwright Nash bank he says and producer Matt I just wanted to say a big thank you obviously since the 1980 s. And never have as much as the guy and in dimensions he put tried to put his head under the water for 3 minutes to try and avoid hearing Jonah Louie stop the cavalry I'm still in it by the way Merry Christmas to all of b.b.c. Radio thanks again for making me smile says Phil this morning is the intention fail and thank you for listening to John Ickes at breakfast on b.b.c. Radio stag right then well out of the weather forecast in just a 2nd quick look through some of the showbiz stories making the headlines in the papers this morning 1st. The u.k. Number one. Is by the debate. Is about sausage rolls again. Well. I think it's brilliant I think of themselves from last year I think is so good Jenny is producing today she's with me so baby with Christmas number one last year of course is real name is Mark oil and along with his wife they stole into number one ways I love sausage rolls on Friday night to raise money for the food bank charity the Trussell Trust but streaming means rivals It's close the gap this week just 2000 copies separate number 2 storms e with his ed sheeran and been a boy collaboration. And Wham's Last Christmas which is at number 3 and Ellie Golding's River which is at number 4 baby has another reason to be placed because Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is at number 6 I think it's amazing they see what they do is number one is number 3 Yeah that's amazing they keep him off the top spot Good luck to them this Friday. Love sausage. News if you are lucky enough to have got tickets to Glastonbury or you just enjoy watching the bring coverage on the b.b.c. . Will be playing the main stage this year on the Sunday night it was revealed over the weekend should be shaken. Off Point Oh my God. This has been voted as the best finale of a t.v. Series of all time is the last one in France. I. Tried under. I won anyway. No no the word God that you think that you get off the plane and. I got off the plane was. The way Jazzy was the flight I have cried so many times. How many times you see and then she got off the plane she got off the plane just brilliant saw a blizzard at the Weather Center she got off the plane. Start watching friends it's like it was brilliant wasn't it didn't take this in a. Song or if she's here with the weather she's seen with the weather just. Got off the plane don't worry and we've got to tell you a bit of a better day today there's a few showers that have been sort of present overnight they're clearing out of the way now so the skies will gradually start to clear further across stuff a chair and Cheshire and a daytime temperature today of 7 or 8 Celsius and the breeze sort of easing into the afternoon too and then quite a cold night tonight but there's a very sort of weather things going on overnight and we will see the start of a frost temperatures going below freezing so around minus one also some mist and fog developing as well so some very dense fog conscious possible 1st thing tomorrow morning and a weather front moving up from the southeast which will also start to increase the cloud and give us a bit more of a gray sort of drizzly day tomorrow so it's going to quite misty I'm a 3 Tuesday feeling colder as well with highs around 5 Celsius thank you sorry she should go she did this the weather Foreman is on b.b.c. Radio star This is John like as a breakfast morning did you watch sports personality of the Year last night I absolutely made up because you know I love my cricket. And it was a cricketer who won Sports Personality of the year. Who gave me one of my favorite t.v. Moments of the year. All over the front pages of the papers this morning the b.b.c. Sports Personality of the year went to England cricketer Ben Stokes. He was the all rounder who was man of the match when England won the World Cup for the 1st time with a dramatic victory against New Zealand laws it was just thrilling. He also hit number 135 in the one wicket 3rd Test against Australia at Headingley which I think been even better. Many took place in Aberdeen last night thousands and thousands. Pay tribute to his World Cup winning team mates and individual. Teams The best thing about that is you get to share special moments with teammates. Who Make days like we had in the summer possible you know I'm up here receiving this award not just by myself. I wouldn't be doing. The trophy was delivered by the former Welsh rugby player Gareth Thomas who cycled there for 500 miles from Cardiff to Aberdeen to raise money for Sports Relief I met some people who are so inspirational but only inspirational because they benefit from Sport Relief and the money that people donate so for me it's all about people realize in these people out there fight to keep inspirational people go and soar That's why I wanted to bring the trophy I wanted the people the real inspirational people. England one team of the year. 11 time Paralympic champion Tony grey Thompson won the Lifetime Achievement Award. Has the power to change the world to my family. And helps change my life. Thank you for putting up with me and I love you thank you very much. Real inspiration Tony great Thompson and in the public vote Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton came 2nd is not used to that for the 2nd consecutive year amazing achievement really from him while sprint to Diena ashes Smith was last night on Sports Personality of the year and could be watching it stay this afternoon on catch up after I finished off a bit of Christmas shopping the softer name our top 10 today was a good one it was the top 10 Christmas specials of all time let's have a round up shall we well you got the top 3 between you and Lee did so the office Christmas special came in at number one number 2 Only Fools and Horses number 3 government Stacy Christmas special from 10 years ago Ok the new one Derek in Preston is giving us a call 801 c 188 he says is the Vicar of Dibley and yes Derek for. A also says only falls and he says The 2 Ronnies Christmas special not on the Livingstone morning Lynn Hope you're Ok have a Christmas Eve Ted that's pretty. Late as number 7 is it Maison the Vicar of Dibley Christmas show says day from Stafford Frank says what about the royal family Christmas special number 5. Ok To be fair then they've got all they're almost there so many of them have to give us a top down so the office Only Fools and Horses governor Stacey Christmas special they could do play the Christmas lunch incident as a great Christmas special Well family Christmas special number 6 the good life silly but it's phone number 7 Father Ted Christmas the tat Yes classic number 8 the League of Gentlemen you'll never leave Number 9 black out is Christmas Carol no one but yeah I just saw. Number 10 dinner ladies Christmas and Minnelli and we will play again same time tomorrow here on b.b.c. Radio stoked. Jan thank you very much coming up that was the Strictly final last night talking of good t.v. We'll be talking about that after the news on John I was at breakfast from b.b.c. Radio stove. Difference across. Mission. To Radio Stoke. It's 8 o'clock on the b.b.c. Radio state news comes from Lee Thomas a teenager from Cheshire is due in court in Crewe later charged with the murder of a 15 year old boy follows the discovery of the body of Alex Rider in a country lane in Ashley named nuts for it on Friday morning the 18 year old accused he's from the nets for the area he's also charged with possession of a bladed article in a public place Alex Rider was a Year 11 pupil at Holmes Chapel comprehensive The school says it is open today and will be offering support to people's. Boris Johnson will welcome more than 100 new Conservative M.P.'s to Westminster later as Parliament returns following his general election victory he'll address the u.n. Taken many of whom come from former Labor areas sink leading to from Stoke and one from Newcastle M.P.'s will be sworn in from tomorrow the queen will set out the government's programme on Thursday Bracks it legislation could return as soon as Friday the B.B.C.'s Norman Smith says it's a busy shuttle deliberately so I think to convey this idea of momentum hitting the ground running not waiting until after Christmas before getting on with anything the other I think pitch that Boris Johnson will make to his M.P.'s today is a message of delivery the need to make good on electoral commitments and to show they're making good very very quickly Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce has told b.b.c. Radio Stoke It looks forward to working with new local M.P.'s following the election it's after reports that businesses in the region have been hindered by uncertainty caused by the Bracks it process chief executive Sarah Williams says she's feeling positive a. Moving forward we've now got a cohort of people who we have to develop new relationships with and work out how we're going to work with them but I'm sure we will work effectively as we always do with our employees but I think all the wide thing in having such a majority in the House of Commons now means that we are on a definite timetable leaving the 31st of January the water regulator off what has told companies in England and Wales it wants household bills cut by an average of 50 pounds a year by 2025 Some are expected to appeal to people have been questioned after more than 6000 pounds worth of stolen clothing was found during a vehicle stop on the deal road in Stoke on Trent Police say the arrests were made yesterday with the driver detained on suspicion of a number of serious offenses as many patients as possible will be discharged from Wirral Stoke over the next week and a bit to get them home for Christmas the boss at the Royal Stoke hospitals told b.b.c. Radio Stoke it will substantially increased his charges now from 100 a week it usually manages to pull by the way is the chief operating officer u h m m it's the 1st time in probably a couple of years that we've done a real told 1000 system act it where everybody is involved it's not just you wait the whole system has come together we had about 40 people in our boardroom all working together to discharge patients Prince William has revealed he talks about social issues including homelessness with his children as a young boy his mother Princess Diana took him to the passage homeless center in center.

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Because there are constitutional implications here when I'm joined now by the use of who's the cabinet secretary for justice in the Scottish government under Nicolas sturgeon Good morning to you. Could even wealth but just in the morning anyway let's not argue about that and also let's not argue about the number of seats precisely that you're going to get but it's it's pretty well agreed on all sides that you're going to increase that number tonight in one way or another what difference do you think that makes in the argument that will ensue with we assume the majority Conservative government about a 2nd independence referendum. First things 1st you know let's not argue that this is an exit poll. Result in terms of what it means the 1st minister could nor has been cleared her throat this election campaign what this election was about of course it was about stopping breaks it was a very knocking number 10 if we could work with other progressive parties to do so but importantly of course independence in the late for Scotland to choose their own futures front and high and same terms of this general election campaign the mandate that we already had for the independence referendum has no just been strengthened will understand the case and it's a familiar one that you've made the interesting question is this for people who don't follow these things because they don't live in Scotland very closely under the evolution settlement what's known as a Section 30 order has to be applied for from Westminster which has the power to refuse under the settlement it was agreed in 1970 now where Boris Johnson in the 1st instance to say no I don't believe this is justified and it appears that that is his preferred response to you how do you then proceed I mean I know they'll be a lot of huffing and puffing but do you try at some point as a party to initiate a referendum just off your own bat a unilateral one city points to make on the fast and foremost I think it's important. To stress once again that it is normal for a conservative prime minister anyways Minister government to dictate when a Scottish independence referendum should take place and I know you understand I knew it was certainly legislation your 2nd point and the 2nd point is this and I could not be Farmar about it nobody in the Scottish National Party is talking about an indicative referendum in 2014 behind a gold standard for a referendum and you had look to governments that were diametrically opposed in their position and independents come together in the table extensible Adams and agree what that legal gold standard referendum should like should be the standard this applied for the referendum in 2020 as I said Boris Johnson tangent and simply denies the mandate of the Scottish people look at I can tell you know for a fact that the support for independence will rocket not the use of member of the Scottish Government Cabinet thanks very much we can now go to and of course an important place to be right now and speak to all reporter Nick Robinson Nick in terms of Jeremy Corbin land Emily Thornberry land what's the latest word on the street because on Twitter it's trending care Starmer and Jess Phillips as potential replacements That's right everybody is simply waiting to see where Mr Coburn arrives here we're not expecting him for a couple of hours yet whether when he declares and says thank you very much for electing me is local m.p. Again but I've lost the election does he also say I'm standing down as Labor leader I did his only clear he'll do that today but it is very like he'll do it in the days to come and the expectation on both the left and the rights of the Labor Party is that within days Joe McDonald be acting the leader of the Labor Party why because remember the deputy leader the elected leader Tom Watson has stood down and didn't run in this election now why it matters that McDonnell takes over is that would allow him to lead. The full leadership contest with the agreement of Labor's national executive committee for potentially months in the hope that strong candidates of the left can come through people like Rebecca long Bailey a people like Laura Pitt Koch If that is lower pickpockets still an m.p. Because what extraordinary rumor a day more than a rumor at this stage but it's wood from Durham North East she might not hang on as poles of that sweep of Tory support that is going through the northeast of England at the moment but I think you'll seeing already from interviews you're having on the programme this battle of blame do you blame bricks it for Labour's words or do you blame Corbett and in the last few minutes one of the 1st M.B.A.'s to say in public what so many same private Ian Murray former Labor m.p. For Adam Rozelle who knows he may be and be again in the next year has tweeted every door I knocked door and my team and I spoke 211000 people mentioned Corbett not Brick City said but Corbett that's the route that's down taking place Nick Robinson thank you we're going to go to Wrexham and Shelley Phelps Now Shelley what's happening in Wrexham after a Labor seat for decades and decades I mean since the thirty's Yes exactly labor have held this seat since before World War 2 And there's also another seat counting here clearly itself that's also been since $1007.00 when it was created in the Tories take that they would be making history now this still counting in verifying the votes just looking out in front of me the counting of us both to look up at people in a festive jump has got you out sometimes have labor faces are looking very tense contrast that with the conservatives who are looking pretty cheery and they're very merry wandering around in the us now chatting to labor they tell me that despite what the exit poll is saying for sure it's out and Wrexham they've been kind of looking at the. Doing a bit of their own sampling and counting up how they think they're doing they tell me at the moment they think they're doing better than the exit polls said here in Wales they say that they think that they will hold on to clear itself but it's looking very difficult difficult in Wrexham and as they might be lost in Wales. And a critically remain party their policy is slightly different to the National Party and they say that here they think that's been a success for them because they've managed to squeeze the Lib Dems a lower and so they think that's helped them talking to the Bracks it Party Now interestingly they said they feel that they've taken quite a lot of states from labor but less from the conservatives say labor at the moment saying things are looking a little bit better if the for them here the exit poll is saying but they accept that it's a really challenging night Sheli thanks very much will be back when we get a result and just to mention one that comes to Sunderland Central a bit of held it but the majority which has gone down from just about 10000 to under 3000 Juliet Julie Elliott reelected there yes let's pick up on that point with Phil would want to say we've actually had 2 seats we have Newcastle upon Tyne East which is Nick Brown being returned and son central they're both slightly better for labor than the exit polls like he was the cause of his next well but neither were expected to go on the basis of example the other thing that is worth saying about the 5 seats we've had so far as the turnout is down in 4 the 5 that we've had so far which may surprise some people who'd read on social media earlier and seen a lot of fuss about huge queues at polling stations I was really a very high turnout election which it may still turn out to be was it may be that there are high turnout in some seats but of the 5 so far turnout is down in 4 of them Ok interesting Ross want to bring in the Bill Wilson in field Labor's seat as was Tony Blair's seeders was say for the Labor leadership of laying bricks if the result was mendacious nonsense Jeremy Corbin's leadership was a bigger problem has been the last 5 weeks have gone round in circles these constituencies talking to him talk. In talking to people and you are cautious as a reporter I might use exaggeration the people I happen to meet but again and again and again Labor constituencies you mention Jeremy Corbin's name and you've got a tirade of abuse much of which you couldn't broadcast and clearly that has been a significant element of how the seeds have played out well let's bring in now Margaret Hodge of course Labor candidate Good evening. Your reaction then to Labor's what could be the worst result since 935 who do you blame what kind of before I pay individuals and get involved in that I think I'm thinking about my community tonight there are 6000 homeless people in Barking and Dagenham in the last 6 months the Council of had to hand over a 1000 emergency parcels from the town hall and these are the very people in whose name the labor purports to be interested and I just think we've got to stop playing the Labor leadership has got to stop playing politics with people's lives what do you mean by that because of course we've we would have and will have throughout the noise people saying there was all that wrapped up in our amazing manifesto What are you talking about when you say playing politics Well I think you know what I heard John Donald's interview after the exit poll came out and of course we want to still talking a little it's early in the night thing it might change but it looks as if it's it's coming true and he tried to blame bricks and I think what the election is showing in a way that I hadn't even imagined is a really fundamental rejection not just of Jeremy Corbin But of course of his team of everything that he stood for the Labor heartlands appear to have fundamentally rejected or of that and the people who've always supported labor always supported anybody can use the name the Labor Party exists have said very clearly this is not for us we don't trust it. Do you regret staying a Labor candidate you of course of been very outspoken about the party's issue that he Semitism. No I've always said that I want to fight. In the. Bill actually. Going To Do you feel like you've won tonight. You know going back to going back to the people in Daraa I haven't won I'm sorry I wasn't bringing it back to those people and I really don't want to draw them into my question what I was also know is it's over it's a fine of Ireland there you just sorry I accept that and we'll find out the results of your count shortly I'm sure but the point that I'm trying to make is you said you want to fight for the soul of the Labor Party on your that particular point alone you've won your argument. Not in a way that I would have wanted Emma I haven't wanted in the way I want I think has been fundamental rejection of course as you asked me what. I think the part that was incredible economics believed in this scattering of promises like confetti. Irony is that would defeat because we can't carry out policies that people do care but I don't think they've been trusted on national security I think there is not just in this in the Labor Party in the anti semitism that nastiness and I hope now that I can be part of the rebuilding of labor that we can we do become a credible party again people in politics to gain power to use that power for the values in which they belief and I still want to be part of that argument Margaret Hodge thank you very much for your time this evening and no quarter past 12 let's talk to another bit of the opposition the co-leader the Green Party Jonathan Bartley is in studio with us one seat in the last Parliament of course breaking Pavillion Cullen Lucas you confident that that will remain in your column Yes I believe and we must get that over with I don't think it's one that anybody was expecting to go. There's a very interesting question lurking under all the discussions we've been beginning to have over the last hour and a half Jonathan and it's this that there's really a big question for all the opposition parties now after this if if the picture that is beginning to take shape is the same in the morning as it appears to be the Labor Party will be consumed by internal divisions but it will also have to look forward to how it behaves as an opposition in the House of Commons and to some extent although your strength isn't in the you'll be part of that you know how do you see it yeah I mean I think that the sort of things we need to take from this one as long as Labor doesn't embrace electoral reform it's just going to be lining up the next Conservative Government needs to make an unequivocal commitment to work constructively with other parties in the form of the voting system is part of that . Secondly I want to make clear we didn't vote for this general election we were very very clear that we were worried this was going to happen we warned about it Caroline voted against thirdly we reached out to labor and the other parties No we did this is going to arrangement with the Liberal Democrat Yes and I will see what happens tonight and how that impacts that you know we take votes off conservatives as well as labor and you know we can play a very important part in any kind of progressive movement but we need to recognise that the conservatives want to have this big majority in the House of Commons to drive through what I think is still a terrible deal for the whole country but with less than 50 percent of the vote you know they have they will get my food Steve 43 I'm not sure what the exact projection is but but they are going to have a big majority that without taking off the country with them but from your perspective there's another point here Boris Johnson is paying to argue but he frequently that you can say all sorts of things about him but he says I am a green politician I believe in cleaning up the planet I believe in planting trees I I do think that is a climate emergency he might not use that phrase but he or do you think there's something in not a michael girl who was in the studio a little earlier when he was that environment a lot of the greenest people in the land thought my goodness this guy is a good good cabinet minister do you suspect that out of this might come something that you don't find as awful as you perhaps he said during the campaign you know I think this is a very very bad night for the climate and for the environment and I'm very clear and my entire party believes that and I think most environmental N.G.O.s believe that campaigners on these issues believe that the record of the conservatives and the Boris Johnson has been abysmal when we see what they've done to feed in tariff for solar when they've put blocks on shore wind when they're looking to build more roads when they're looking at the devastated countryside presumably still with h.s.t. Will say will be tragic. And to stop that you know the fossil fuel subsidies and now we are going to see if this deal goes through I think a race to the bottom and that of course we don't have the cliff edge breaks that which is still potentially there if the trade deal can't negotiate in that ridiculous time frame that the prime minister thinks he can get it through and I think it's looking incredibly bleak for the country not just in terms of rampant inequality which is not going to be addressed but also the climate emergency which I can't see us making any progress on but we will be that fighting in Parliament to hold that this government's feet to the fire on every single one of those issues Jonathan Bartley called leader of the Green Party thank you let's now welcome to our studio cynical a son of course conservative m.p. From it Sussex and so having the whip removed when he voted against the government he's not standing in this election you are a free agent as it were to our election giving him it seems that the country doesn't share could I put it like this your disdain for Boris Johnson I don't have disdain for words just another fundamental disagreement with the New Deal which I believe to be. Fundamentally damaging to the interests of my country and I felt that with a number of other colleagues that that point had to be pressed. I'm glad to say you know Barr is very kindly and I was grateful to him to give me the whip back I didn't want to leave as a member of parliament after 45 years as a member of the Conservative Party in 36 as a member of parliament. I wanted to leave on good terms with my party but I want to say this what Boris Johnson has achieved tonight whether people agree or disagree with him is a earthquake in British politics and he has created tonight actually a new one nation Tory party from the far north it will be through the middle that's right the way through the country he has created a One Nation Tory party and he is a one nation do you fear hard because of course that's where your disagreement was I know it was about no deal specifically but of course Boris Johnson's Prexy is now well he's going to happen it seems I think it's likely that Boris Johnson's Bracks it is likely to be a softer breaks it frankly with a large majority the would otherwise have been the case and I think Morris knows very well. He's a very clever man and he now understands this perfectly that it is in by far the best interests of this country to have a very close economic and security relationship with the can with the European Union and I believe he has shown that he can balance all these interests but he is now free and I don't wish to be just respectful to my. Friends in the East free of the of the of the influence of Saturn he's back that meant that he had no room for maneuver we just had one of the many Francois he says no no that's not the case and. They will make the case very part and then there are a lot of new members upon to electric who want to see Bracks occur not it and that's what Boris ran on and he went I mean pressure is going to happen. That but I think it gives him more leverage more movement and if they really want to deliver for these people like that like in the Newcastle member of parliament who is elected tonight we're I mean Ronnie Blythe Ronnie Campbell's old city I mean unbelievable earthquake never seen a thing like it in my time in Boulder as your mouth hanging open Gondry Mars if I wasn't talking to it really at the floor if I had a few open mouth conservatives in here Michael David I'm sure The yourself now and I'm sure they'll be many more I say evening a bit maybe I pronounce on the labor side as well yes and I think it is you know I think I personally believe this is the last time. That this country will see a hard left manifesto led by someone on the extreme left of the party I don't think you'll ever see that again this you know the interesting about Jeremy Coburn is that I've stood in the t.v. Room queue with him for 36 years I've no doubt across where the music streaming coach is very polite but his views have not changed and his maiden speech in 1903 he's gone back 40 years and the people of this country are full of common sense they do understand that we can't go back that we've got to go forward I do think the bar is ready has fought an outstanding campaign and I take my tip for off well maybe those comparisons to Winston Churchill grandfather will keep on coming Well I don't know about that but he certainly delivered a stupendous Electra cynically sent thank you very much for your site thank you. Let's go back to the northwest to Workington and Sean Dilly is waiting there this is a seat held by Labor working to sue him in is the m.p. What's the new Sean Well the conservative team they say they're not partying but they have ordered pizza and they're sitting probably about 12 feet from me now so that smells wafting across almost rubbing in the face of the Labor team who are much more solemn they say that they are stoic about the result that may well happen just bombed in a short while ago to sue Heyman the incumbent defending her 9.40 percent majority I think you know from her point of view she's just seems stoic about the situation here but we're expecting a results around $1245.00 but it is looking potentially like Workington man in the theory of appealing to a voter who backed the Bracks who's a white older male who supports Rudd believe may well prove to be true in this election Sean thanks will be back with the result Let's cross now to the actual who's in Finchley tell us about where you are what's going on. Leslie we've got you. I'm hoping we can cross to Leslie Ok we'll go back to that line in just a moment as national You can hear me out now you can. Line coming in and out Ross I think is going to bring in Ross is there any flavor coming through on line the carousel now the stone was Labor m.p. Says he now thinks the conservatives are going to win all 3 Stokes unimaginable a few years ago and just this is a necklace stones there if you're on the sort of moderate centrist liberal part the Tory party this is what you going to do having argue with Boris Johnson you going to hug him close to going to say he's one of us well isn't it interesting that he's saying what next Holmes was saying was Look if you have a party that encompasses seats in you know blood Valley Workington perhaps with heating and so on then actually that plays to his part of the Tory party you've got to listen to that argument that's coming from you know many parts of the country that have not done well in recent years and any prime minister who's trying to hold the show to gether with a majority which allows and freedom is bound to take account of that what we heard there was the sound of the bit of the Tory party that lost the argument Albrecht's it completely in totally wiped out vanquished by their foes trying to win it on the coming arguments which are probably going to be doing on spending on public services and so on that's where they're going next with that just a little word here Alex welcome on the f.t. . Reporting that Labor will lose both over I mean just remind anybody who's arrived from Mars bowls over is the seat of the beast of that constituency Denis Skinner m.p. There for decades I think would have been father of the house the all discontinuous sitting member I think if it's not him if he doesn't get in I think it's a pita Bottomley will becomes father has but anyway but the idea of Dennis Skinner losing to the conservatives is one that you know most of us never thought we'd live to see and 70 percent leave and time and again people did the stories about would you get with the Brits it Party when there was the concern of the tensions Let's cross now to Marci's our. Political Editor Richard where are you what news do you have. On especially more leisure center which is the home for 3 counts now it was one we thought would certainly because hostess would definitely get away which is Bishop or could for the labor which focus never had a conservative m.p. But the big shock here is that actually Tony Blair's former seat of such field does look like the Conservatives will take it from labor I've heard from both conservative and labor sources here saying they expect the conservatives to take it possibly with a majority of more than a 1000 maybe even double that what's the exit poll Catherine that's amazing is this it just disappear a can impose on the areas and that's a that's a major moment. I mean this is obviously an iconic seat in Tony Blair very much basis new labor policies on the kind of people used to talk to in the search field seats. Tough on crime top of the causes of crime education education education he would tell you it was based on talking to local Labor Party members and their concerns of what they wanted in this constituency and of course the big concern pay Phil Wilson is absolutely clear that Labor's lost touch with those voters he's already tweeted that he says it's mendacious for the leadership to try and just blame it on prices he says breaks it was a problem of the doors but a much bigger problem was Jeremy Corbin's leadership now it has to be said Phil Wilson is no fan of John because when he never has been and there is this tussle is going to go on in the Labor Party about whether Bracks it was to blame entirely or whether the leadership on the manifesto took them in a completely the wrong direction for some of the core labor support in places like this but my understanding is that you know labor basing their prediction of a figure on the votes that come in from the pit villages the places that usually support them some of the communities that are much more conservative orientated haven't even reported in yet but because the support is so poor in those privileges compared to what it usually is they are you know absolutely convinced that they've lost the seat which should last thank you very much the Northeast political editor there for the b.b.c. Is coming up to half past 12 we're going. One of the interesting London seats which was very very close result last time when the majority was 20 would have been thought to be Labor Conservative marginal but then the Lib Dems in the person of Sam Jima former Conservative m.p. . Sort of pushed themselves in and has become a kind of 3 way fight there the labor m.p. With that majority of 20 was Emma dent code who joined just no good morning. Good morning how's it looking. I think it's looking pretty positive for us here in Kensington Market Oni's give thanks to the liberal Democrats who split the Tory vote for me yet again so bless them. So some genius the hero of the early you might be winning you think you'll be back in the house. Well that's how it seems to me and this is the b.b.c. Projection my I believe so it's looking positive at the moment that's hard to say. With no disrespect to you a tall obviously like everybody in the constituency you've gone through horrors in the last year with the Grenfell tragedy but it's a stroke of luck getting somebody parachuted in the next Tory who split your opponent's vote. Yes or no way I mean as the 2nd he was selected. He made a terrible allegation against me that I was actually partly complicit in the conflict our fire which is approved will lie so he kind of set the tone for his whole campaign so apart from splitting the Tory FOTA gain he has completely discredited the Liberal Democrats in Kensington which has been really unpleasant I have to say but so am I at guess I have to thank him for that. But looking more broadly away from central London it's clearly shaping up to be a dreadful night for your party what do you think has to happen at the top after this. Well I would never have stood for Parliament under any other leader in my lifetime other than Jeremy Corbin Well you're going to have to serve under another man I miss socialist but I'm not I'm not it's our flying club it's just my particular So if I lose some beliefs I wouldn't have stood under any other . Any other leaders so for me I hope he continues you know there been numerous other minority governments over the years who has ever said that people should step down after that it's yet again they overwhelmingly Tory friendly press who are going to do just can make up their own. Photos make up their own minds come out of course they can well they haven't. Sent it but this is a prick say it it's a prick so issue it just mean hideously divisive I have been a solid Charmain. Campaigner for 44 years since the 1st referendum in 9075. But this hideous debate has split the country down the middle they have weaponized this issue for political gain and has been an utter disgrace shame on them all Emma dent code member for Kensington in the last Parliament and until ending reasonably confident but holding the seat thank you conservatives take Swindon north just to bring you up to date on the now let's head to Dumfries and Galloway and talk to Jamie McCoy of all reports are there it's thought that the Scottish secretary to Jack could be one of those Tory losses tonight 6 thought it could be an s.n.p. Game talk to us more about what's going on where you are. Yes Yes indeed Mr Jack is actually on a bit of a shoe could be pegged here to his constituency is the constituency of the recent Galloway he wanted to the majority of 5 and a half stones and over the s. And p. You back in 2017 he came to the seat from there saying he read him who wanted to not and same piece an army of 2015 the s.n.p. Sources here are optimistic that if the current trains here continue they could be talking about gaining the seat with a majority of friend devoted voters and so that would be a significant scalp for them one of the most prominent Scottish conservatives the Scottish Secretary there's a 2nd seat being can teach here tonight as well that's a seat of them freeze share quite still and treaty 0 which is held by the former Scottish secretary David Mendell one of the best known of the Scottish conservatives at Westminster he has been an m.p. For 18 years rusting venti had a majority of almost $10000.00 over the s.n.p. It would be absolutely seismic if he didn't win here he was the only conservative elected in Scotland 4 years ago but certainly nobody's taking the result in his code for granted either Thanks very much that's Jamie McCarthy back let's have an update of the news now from Kate Williams the 1st results have been declared in the general election with an exit poll suggesting the conservatives are on course for a majority of $86.00 seats the Tories have already gained the former mining constituency of blight Valley Northumberland part of what's known as Labour's red wall the seat has been held by Labor since it was created in 1950 and it changed hands on the swing of more than 10 percent the conservatives Labor have held 5 other seats in northeastern England but with reduced majorities the conservatives have held Swindon north according to the polls the Tories could win $368.00 seats 50 compared to 2017 which would be that best result since 1980 said. An election under Margaret Thatcher Labor predicted to be down $71.00 on 191 worst result since 1935 the longstanding Labor m.p. Day Margaret Hodge told us the poll showed the party's heartlands had fundamentally rejected. The s.n.p. a Forecast when all but 4 of Scotland's 59 seats the poll suggests the Lib Dems will end up with one seat putting them on 30. Thank you very much Kate Well let's go to Scotland and talk about the Liberal Democrats we just heard from Jim in McCarver in the recent Galloway that our subject is called a secretary conservative Scottish secretary his seat is hanging on a shoe Glee peg it's the 1st page of the evening but there seems to be another one in the person of none other than Joe Swinson the Liberal Democrat leader in eastern Bart she had a fairly sort of comfortable majority last time just over $5000.00 but it's very close we got that Martha Carney is watching it all Martha what's the latest Well we're just trying to work out just how should we have paid is but I've been talking to a conservative and down and out on the a floor where they're doing all the counts and he told me that he thought the result of this contest was on a knife edge and the reasoning for this is that he said that she's not doing as well in an area where she should be the most popular areas like bears then though he did admit that in the end he thought she would scrape through an s.n.p. Councillor here said that they were quietly confident and but the Lib Dems are adamant that they don't trust the results of the exit poll when it comes to Scotland that they are confident that she will be able to come through but I think even if that's the case if she does hold on to her own seat there are a number of questions that she's going to be facing from people in the party I've been talking to a number of them off the record you know they're concerned about the fact that her own popularity plummeted during the campaign and for one senior figure said it really would be very disappointing if they get. Fewer than 20 seats but they are saying that they think they're going to be very many close counts and people in her circle are also blaming Labor actually saying latest the campaign concentrating on stopping us from winning seats in the Tories instead of concentrating on their own problems they've shot themselves in the foot well I was talking to a very senior figure in the party a couple of weeks ago about this and this person said to me Look it's quite simple if the number of seats does not increase significantly then it is absolutely inevitable unless they were not happy position in a hung parliament that very serious questions would be asked about the strategy in the leadership Well I think that's absolutely true and in particular aspects of the strategy the decision to say that if there were lip dam majority in government they would revoke Article 50 In other words stop breaks it without going to referendum lots of questions being asked about that questions too about whether they should have been more compromise on the ground with other pro remain comedies and you actually had live Dead candidates 2 of them deciding to stand aside in favor of labor in some areas but and I think it's certainly true to say that whatever the result tonight here in east of Boston share this with a huge amount of interest and we've just got the turnout figures 80.3 percent which is even higher than it was in 2017 which is the highest in her Scotland Well any idea of timing of the result we were thinking about $230.00 Martha does that seem reasonable people here from the council saying you know between 230 and 3 o'clock and it was 20 to 3 last time so we'll bring you the result is a series we know it's coming to will certainly. Not Thanks Martin I can now speak to the Co National Campaign Coordinator Andrew Quinn of the Labor Party's as he's counting Denson redish what went wrong with your campaign if you're going to have this great loss Well it's. Incredibly disappointing. That the Labor Party are having its very clear that the people in key parts of the contrary. Have decided the BRICs it is an issue they are just angry about but that they want to see. It completed. That the Labor Party I'm afraid was not able to convince them that they would be able to proceed with a conclusion to the bricks it issue that they would be satisfied with then it is so it's very clear from my own constituency where it was the predominant issue on the doorstep when you heard the exit poll as the co national campaign cooled innate or you've now know if it's right presided over a campaign that has produced the worst result for labor since 1935 How did she feel . Upset. Very very. Sorry for those communities that are crying out for a change of direction and you know feel not just a sense solve loss for my party but for some incredibly good colleagues that worked with for a long period of time there can be no joy in losing good. Do you take the blame as the co coordinator of the campaign well clearly I've been involved in the running of the campaign and I take my share of the blame but it's very clear that the Labor Party has stew over the next few days and weeks just to itself down take very serious stock of where we are. Because we have an absolute jus t. To those people who did vote Labor today to rebuild to regroup and to provide this government with a credible opposition and hopefully in the next 5 years with a credible alternative government where do you stand on the Jeremy call Been problem well look the leader of the Labor Party was chosen by the members of your labor. But we're talking about how people have voted on him and what we're hearing from a few more perhaps liberated voices in your party this evening is that it it's not necessary the message is a messenger I'm not going to put the blame on one person it is the Labor Party that has delivered this result it is an incredibly disappointing result and we have to take stock of that moving forwards regroup rebuild and provide a credible alternative Firstly as an opposition to this government and at the next general election as a viable alternative government and thank you very much for your time Phil Kelly just try to put in context for us perhaps historically sort of throwing this out you without any warning. If this trajectory that we're seeing the Labor Party on tonight continues you know through to 6 in the morning when we leave everyone had to digest what's happened where does it sit in the story of that party Well let's look at it there's a good news for the low body and there's no no been for no good news but there are $22.00 ways of looking in this one is seats which is what we're talking about so if you're in seats this is Labor's worst performance in 135. In vote share and we don't really notice remember that many of the seats in yet it might actually prove to be slightly better in vote share than for example 2010. Or even maybe out of 182015 certainly better than $93.00 so if I was on the sort of core being left of the Labor Party I think that is one of the straws I would be clinging to at this point I would say look we got hammered here because the remain vote splits are the next question would be in that case why don't we change the electoral see the states all about it's all of their service all that breaks it we've got trapped trapped between the sort of remain split and people's antagonism with Brits we've heard a lot of that already. But still it is the worst kind in seats the worst since $935.00 and I was not going to even try to quibble about that now. For the Tories this is their best result probably since 1902. And in vote share and again we have to be very cautious at this stage you know but inversion might even be further back in that sort of 18390 something not about you know the high point of the high point of such as. There will be lots of time later in the evening for this but you know it is whatever else you think about is a remarkable achievement by that and you could see 2 stories Ross unfolding of one on the Labor side and inevitably with concentrated a bit and that in the last half hour or so because it is so dramatic and so cataclysmic and Nick Soames was talking about an earthquake but it was fascinating to hear him we've touched on this earlier really talking about what he and his colleagues would want to see and what they would call a One Nation Conservative Party and consigning the e g The European Reform Group cross when the studio at their 2 sort of backstage role rather than the front and center role that they had during the breaks it argument Boris Johnson's like one of those lottery winners you sometimes see give press conferences or ask how they're going to spend it and haven't the faintest idea all of a sudden he probably looked splattered all. His words not mine exact all of a sudden he has a credibility and a majority of the sort that he probably couldn't have dreamed of how does he respond to it tell you the question what does he do with it now on the labor side let me just give you 2 competing views and one bit of news on the left and he see member tells me Corbin should stay on while they work out why the working class went Torii why vote on your oppressor this person says and just to give you the opposite view someone who was northern Labor m.p. Says the leadership needs to resign taking his anti west and unpatriotic economically illiterate sect with them let me ask you a pretty straightforward question and it's a bit silly at quarter to one in the morning because we don't really know the final result but if that kind of dispute about the causes and the answer to them continues. If the the korban faction as it were on the Any see any has a majority and then e.c. Say well it's the fault of the voters who didn't understand it's not our fault if that prevails isn't the Labor Party going to split fundamentally arguably already has I mean has a new Doesn't it pretty fundamentally already split the the power will lie immediately with the ne see one other important point John McDonnell as told Sky News that he's made it clear he's not standing for the leader of the Labor Party I've said that time and time again either as a temporary or permanent leader now if that quote is accurate and if he means what he says there isn't some context around it we can't say from reading it on Twitter then that would seems is just the theory that you have him as a stand in to hold the fort for a long time and you push back the leadership contest won't hold water the key question on the labor side of things play out as we expect is when does that leadership contest take place and how much time to the camps have to get their stuff together and who is still surviving at the end of this politically to actually stand in support just to say Washington and Sunderland's Shannon Hodgson reelected for labor but majority done from $13000.00 roughly speaking to under $4000.00 Let's talk now to our reporter James who's in Bowl so for a seat almost synonymous with Labor's dentist Skinner the beast of also over it is known for decades what are you hearing about this iconic see. The reaction he was very glad when the exit poll was announced I don't think anyone is expecting that outcome at all and the predictions that Dennis going there could lose his pulse over see what the results of the exit polls show it's almost certain and it's more than a 90 percent chance of conservatives going here now Mr Skinner is not here tonight himself and I've been told that it's unlikely that he will come to the count because he's not very well but I've tried to speak to his team who are being very very tight lipped in fact one of them told me he'd been told he'd been freed. Not to talk to me which is some indication of the feeding. On the conversation and. The story. So. It has been the m.p. Here for 49 years on the streets been nothing but. In 1950. To take the seat he's been a bit tight lipped as well he told me he's feeling tired but has. Said that he's looking forward to waking up to being the father of an m.p. Now Mr Fletcher is quite different to. 7 year old former miner. Is the former director of communications for how the company and the. Very big departure from what has been here for the last almost 50 years and his campaign message has been really simple get it done and in an area where percent of people who turned up at the polls in the e.u. Referendum voted to leave that message has gone very well. Also but we will await what happens there thanks for putting us in the picture we're going to Wales for the 1st time now 40 seats in Wales. In Cardiff labor and oppression in some parts and of course the interesting contest involving the Liberal Democrats and plug. Picture. I'm currently sit in a study hall I must say before we get into what's going on around the country it's officially lunchtime or dinnertime here right in front of me Everyone's talking into their sandwiches and their crisps and they can be very hungry it's 10 to 1 in the morning. And over I haven't eaten since about 7 o'clock but I'm starving. And all it's got a little orange and I've got some biscuits that Emma made and brought into the studio and start to top the sunlight test much pressure and we get on with it only if we could only we could share one cart of central and. It's going to stay. Ever see Thomas Labor leader of the Carter cunt said that is nice sure that they have hung on to both states with Johnson majorities night since 1800 Labor has won both the majority of votes and the majority of seats in wheels in general elections but they could be in for a long night as a couple of really interesting developments. Over insight wheels that voted for Bracks it we're hearing that it's neck in neck now it has not returned a conservative Stuart another not since 1903 election. And at 2017 Madeline min the local m.p. She and she increased her majority but it's looking we understand that quite good for them and when you look at places like Newport West the current conservatives there are saying that it's that it's just too close to call which would be a real harm or blue for Labor members been red since nuisance poor Flynn one in $1000.00 it is 70 this year and Ruth Jones not the actress Ruth Jones took over but it looks like she could be in for a real fight to hang on to that seat and one of the most interesting ones Jim is Nathan labor sources are saying that's in the heart of the site with volleys they're saying that the Bracks party vote has crumbled and is instead going to the conservatives that are still confident that they can hang on to the past in the heart of the well it sounds like will be more drama from you before the night is over very much just a word Newcastle upon Tyne North held by Labor and Holton Derek twig there that's 1st I think we've had which is done from 25000 majority it to 18 but obviously a very safe Labor territory in Cheshire Let's talk to the labor pay Lord Mandelson now the exit poll Good evening old Manderson appears to be accurate so far what would you be saying to Jeremy cool been right now if you were his advisor. I would be saying to him that I hope he shares the pain of every member and support at night it's absolutely heartbreaking for everyone who's been campaign. For a Labor government but heartbreak is nothing compared to what it means for the many millions of people up and down the country who desperately need. Defending champion and frankly have been comprehensively let down by this campaign are you surprised by how bad it looks like it might be for Labor having of course worked on campaigns yourself and right reading the manifesto seeing as of course you know a series of radical offers are you surprised it's gone down so badly when I've been on the doorstep I mean I've been in care in constituents is in London Midlands and the north over the last 3 weeks and I know exactly how people have reacted. To the campaign to the programme and to the leader himself I mean if we can take anything positive and it's extremely difficult to do so from this awful result I think is that 2 arguments of it has been settled the 1st is the hard left Labor Party of the sort that Jeremy Corbyn and his cronies have created and foisted upon us cannot win and that the only party in the u.k. That can fall a left of center government as an alternative for the Conservatives is labor but it has to be built on an electoral Coley coalition scripting across the country across class across ages in the way that we have done in the in the in the Labor Party in the past and could I just ask they when you were out on the doorstep so essentially you're saying you're not surprised because you've been hearing people's reservations what General I know I want them surprised by the scale of it I've got a 5 by the size of the earthquake you're surprised by the size but what did those people say to you listen a couple of things that what did they blame for not supposedly labor over and over and over again. It was. The leader himself and the programme of policies many parts of which aspects of which they liked and supported but which together they just thought were fanciful an affordable and just sort of incredible I mean they just didn't think that a Labor government could take on so much at such cost. Of 4 or 5 years it was a combination of the 2 What specifically was the issue with Jeremy Corbett it was specifically that they did not feel that. That for reasons of character and policy that quite simply he was up to being prime minister they just didn't think they just couldn't see him as being prime minister I mean they couldn't stand Boris Johnson by the way which which in a sense was slightly surprising I think he fluffed the entire election I mean they clearly saw it as a sort of lying pursuit but if the old town is not on the way as the Lord Mandelson he did but if the alternative being offered is a marxist of the sort that Jeremy Corbyn represents not just of the country I'm afraid that very very many people people whose votes we needed if we were going to say these Labor M.P.'s form a labor. Government they're going to choose the before and who do you want to take over the Labor Party rather than salute the no idea who I'll come on you know what . I didn't say that no. I said I'm I'm simply not going to discuss with you this time I'll go and you must have a wish list I don't. I don't you know it's a man short of opinion. Come on let's have a sensible discussion because I don't want to get into this nonsense. Would mean a lot so whoever that was. Let's have a discussion. Because it brings the building Well it brings me on the. Earth less is mine than me defeat me and what it means for the party is that you should be flattered we want to know how labor is going to get itself out of this extremely deep hole and in order to do so it has to have a dynamic leader the Labor Party now has to decide if you're serious about returning to its mission of winning power to change our country for the better and the 1st stage is about expecting and understanding why we lost not looking for scapegoats bricks it all blaming the media as I noticed Seamus Milnes line to take for the tragic happening he says is doing that's the behavior of a sect not of a serious political party it means by the way teaching any association with the sort of poison of anti Semitism that was brought into the Labor Party when Jeremy became. Leader but a powerful All it means understanding that when Labor needs to rebuild a coalition in the country that will include millions of people who were unable to vote for us in yesterday's election because without that we cannot win that is the beginning in the end of it we have to understand why people wouldn't vote for us what it will take for them to change their mind and what sort of party and policies and leader they'll support and indeed the leader will be hopefully coming into clear vision at some point but no names for me tonight thank you very much for your insights great pleasure. Lord Mandelson we're going but. We talked to. Made it pretty clear he thought he was going to lose his seat of Stoke in time Central. North is also a Labor seat is conservative and we can join. Just a list of us. Well I would say really that serious despondency as you've already heard from earlier in the evening amongst the candidates and labor supports his head there are 3 seats as you just said in the city of Stoke on Trent this area that would have one speaking been considered absolutely rock solid Labor territory it's a prime example of the traditional Labor seats in the Midlands and north that the conservatives have been targeting in this election these constituencies posted just under 70 percent even 2016 and as he said Labor lost stuck south in 2017 is a is 1st time that Labor lost that seat since the 19th and of course the conservatives head tonight really hopeful now that they are going to do the same thing in Stoke central and instead north I mean you were speaking to. He and his team pretty despondent his majority is just on the 4000 the majority. In the East and North Sea she's actually even smaller than Matt and both teams thinking that this battle has been lost really. Anger towards Jeremy Coogan I think and and the wider front bench that something. He was saying that that's been the front bench been pandering to that remain constituencies in London with one eye on the leadership and they've basically to say can the seats in the north in the Midlands and also hearing from people that Mr Tobin not playing very well on the doorstep in these traditional labor areas they're not sure about him as leader they're not sure about his policies in areas like foreign policy and hearing time and again from his head that that was what they were coming up against the door step. Elizabeth Lincoln stock will be back for results thank you there are rumors flying around by the way that in Lavery the chairman of the Labor Party whom we've. Heard from earlier this evening his constituency is one speck which is not a 1000000 seed old mining it he says x. Mine and of course he may be in a bit of trouble over his majority was over 10000 which is 25 years 25 fact 25 percent majority of the absolute rock solid seat and they've gone to a full recount Well let's now cross to Belfast where our correspondent Chris may Chris page me is there tell us a bit about the picture where you are. Well on a dog like decorations yet in Northern Ireland but it looks like the 1st sea which is in line to declare here may bring a significant story actually it is north on a constituency to the east of Belfast it's been hell for the last 18 years by the independent unionist city Sylvia Hermann to remain supporting the liberal unionist but she has stood in the Democratic Unionist Party been targeting that seat for years but so too have the cross Community Alliance Party and sources in the Alliance Party have been indicating they are not feeling very confident that they are going to take North drawing their candidate there is the deputy leader Stephen Fahri He's a former minister in the storm the executive the devolved government in Northern Ireland where it is it's certainly going to be close but alliance throughout the evening have been increasingly optimistic about that the chance is there we may get a result there pretty soon and if events unfold in that way well it'll be a significant breakthrough for the Alliance Party me the 2nd time at the left had an m.p. Elected to to Westminster at an early blow for the d. U.p.a. Chris Page thank you very much it's just on 1 o'clock let's get the news from Kate Williams the Airlie general election results of thanks to the predictions of a brutal cost his exit poll which suggests the Conservatives could win with a majority of $86.00 the Tories 1st game was Blythe Valley which they took with a 10 percent swing from labor the form a minor Ronnie Campbell had been the m.p. Since 1987 Labor have held 7 seats in the northeast and Holton in Cheshire but there was a swing to the conservatives in all of them the conservatives have held Swindon north with an increased majority the former Conservative M.P.'s Nicholas Soames who had the whip removed this year told us Boris Johnson had achieved a remarkable feat what Boris Johnson has achieved tonight whether you people agree or disagree with him is a. Earthquake in British politics and he has created tonight actually a new one nation Tory party from the far north it will be through the Middletons right the way through the country the Labor candidate in Barking day Margaret Hodge a former minister and a long time critic of Jeremy coupons leadership said that those around the Labor leader were playing politics with the lives of people they were supposed to represent or the election is showing in a way that I hadn't even imagined is a really fundamental rejection not just of Jeremy Corbin But of course of his team of everything that he stood for the Labor heartlands appear to have fundamentally rejected or of that Phil Wilson the Labor candidate in Tony Blair's former constituency said Field said Mr Coons leadership was a bigger problem than Briggs it and he went down like a lead balloon on the doorstep the polling expert Professor John Curtis says that while the early results appear to bear out the broad thrust of the exit poll there are likely to be variations around the country do not be surprised if particularly when we get further south and we get into much more programme a constituencies though we do not see spectacular advances by the conservatives but in the north of England in living as a working class seats the Labor Party does seem to be in serious trouble. Downing Street says if the exit poll numbers are correct there will be a minor reshuffle of necessary appointments on Monday the Cabinet minister Michael Gove told us that if the Conservatives did get a majority then the government would push through breaks it at legislation over the Christmas period if it is the case that we get a Conservative majority we absolutely will be cracking on an M.P.'s both reelected and newly elected can't presume that it will be a gentle glide path into the new year people want us to get on with it and if that means that M.P.'s miss a few Christmas shopping days or members of the House of Lords have to spend the period between Christmas and New Year legislating then I think the public would expect us to do that the Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley told us that the early predictions suggested it would be a very bad night for the climate turnout in 9 of the 1st 10 declared seats has been lower than in the 27000 election. Thank you for that well early results if you're just joining us welcome to election 29 seen on b.b.c. Radio 4 and 5 live with myself and the bonnet and James Naughtie and early results to suggest that the broadcasters exit poll which predicts a large conservative majority may be rights the Tories gained Bly Valley which they took 10 percent swing from Labor Labor held 7 seats in the northeast and halted in Cheshire but there was a swing to the conservatives in all of them the conservatives have held Swindon north with an increased majority let's now go to Stephen God who Zinka Stephen. Hello there yes yes I'm in Fife for the county your in Scotland 4 seats being counted here and the way things are going so far it looks as though the s.n.p. The words and body language very comfortable in 2 of them but the other 2 she cheered are fascinating for very different reasons the 1st of which is is North East Fife which you might remember had the smallest majority in the u.k. In 2017 we we had the vote we had the counting of the votes and then we had 3 recounts until half past 6 in the morning when eventually Stephen Geffen's was declared the winner for.

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In the background listening to. The surgeon. But anyway. One with. Its now. No. It. Anyone. Want to align my. Business no matter what the job may have been told. Me the whole world. Is 0 sense to say no says it's nothing. To live off until he can you. Know I'm going to. Tell. Him. Looking good and when to move seems. Easy to say can. Only men I think. Just lost. World. We. Well have with Linda Ronstadt. A full version of the 126 Gershwin song written by George and Ira Gershwin from one to 26 like I said Someone to Watch Over Me Great song parted out threw in a few little holiday Frosty the Snowman from 1950 written by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson performed by being Crosby and that Miller's version of cool you will in 1953 song written by Steve Allen Let it snow let it snow let it snow Diana Krall prior to that $145.00 Family con and Joel Stein falling and in the background and starting out with white Christmas. 142 Irving Berlin song from an instrumental by j. Lacey so. I noticed that when I was looking through holiday songs that there was a huge peak and a lot of songs especially Christmas songs obviously in the forty's and fifty's and. In terms of the number of songs that were written about it so you know. I'm dying MacIntyre this is down then playing music for you. From the bygone era until 4 o'clock hope you. you. Are nearly always going to spoil walked a little wholesome together. Again the. Off the. It is. Is. Well we got a little bit of stormy weather out there so I thought that was appropriate and dynamic entire This is now and then play music for you until 4 o'clock at which time the wonderful beautiful Jenny Michael will be here with the music magazine always a great show after that we have of that 6 o'clock the Katie married a new 630 the sages among 7 o'clock Democracy Now Amy Goodman aid. The cadence with any Has back and at 10 pm until midnight rag pickers review with Jeff right that's a great programming coming your way. So we wanted to let you know we were listening to your core stormy weather like I said a change version of that 14133 song written by Harold Arlen and Ted color collaboration's and these days. Your overcoat for stormy weather 1928 gray Henderson and b.j. Distill the end Little Brown song covered by Nana Freelon like that version hers. And an updated version and Johnny Mathis winter wonderland the 1934 song by Felix Bernard and Richard Smith so many people have covered that song over 200 artists covered winter wonderland and just picking up a few of these holiday songs in wintery songs and you know it's time to cozy up to this winter weather and enjoy it while you can and I and I get tired like I said now and then till 4 o'clock hope you enjoy not having a wonderful afternoon. Old War. On. Women opened. And. Jack Straw being a young man Going on. Like the old body loves to. Come rain or shine. As in the. Days. Is Easy come rain or shine. Lloyd. You're. All right. Blue Christmas our wonderful Elvis Presley 148 song prior to that we heard from Frank Sinatra and Gloria Estefan a duet of theirs Come Rain or Come Shine from 1986 a song written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer a team that collaborated quite a bit in those days. And we heard the Christmas song or chestnuts roasting on open fire. Necking call together with his featuring his daughter Natalie call $945.00 song from Robert Wells and Mel Torme beautiful song and prior to that silver bells and that was performed by our local songbirds Cassidy joined Karen Warner a 950 song from by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans kind of funny story about that they originally were going to call it tinkle bill and then Jay went home and told his wife you know yeah we've got great song where you call people bells and she said Are you nuts you know what the word tinkle me so they changed it to Silver Bells a little trivia there and we started out with Moonlight in Vermont $144.00 John Blackburn and Carlson store performed by Linda Ronstadt and Frank Sinatra and little interesting story about Moonlight and remarked each verse that the verses don't rhyme and they figured out after the 1st 12 bars that it wasn't right mean so they decided to continue that but the other interesting part about that song is other than the bridge every verse is a haiku kind of call and I and McIntyre This is now and then and I'll be playing music for you until 4 o'clock. Today just sort of. Putting together music some holiday music and Simmias 6 from. The thoughts. Of winter and rain and snow and all that we have today and how wonderful and cozy it can be I also have a couple different musicals and I'm going to feature and I've got one coming up right away here. So before I do that I just want to give a big thanks to a couple couple of our wonderful business supporters Atria senior living of Grass Valley engaging the residents by fostering social life community independence learning and doing the Assisted Living in memory care offering a family oriented care community onset and way information available at a tree a Senior Living dot com and Gold Country copier providing sales service and supplies for copiers and fax machines carrying digital copiers and fax machines 964 Golden Gate terrace in Grass Valley 530-477-1184 the pizza joint offering New York style pizza by the slice or whole pies using non g.m.o. Flour. Tomatoes and Wisconsin chains open daily late Thursday through Saturday. Commercial Street in Nevada City the pizza joint and State dot com So many shifts a little bit here right now and go to law and musical one called funny face and there's quite a cool chance I had a call of last time I think I was on the show from someone who wanted to hear some Marjorie Hepburn so she speech or Don some of the songs got a few of them but the 1st one is Ella Fitzgerald someone called Funny Face. World. I thought. I. Or we had no plan for man. I was full of those defenses. The old No I feel that I really should save the constant cruel. Life the stakes game last me is. I lose 500 while I'm the saint is behaving like. A clue to push you. Forward. To hang out the. Door early good. A poor key to. 'd war with the other the ole even. Aged further. Today. How long has it been Goldwing old. Boy. I'm. Sorry. Shoulders and who would know. Her lover who has been gold old. Olaf. Couldn't. Hold. Off. The. 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A flag right now with it is not going through the public testimony and also the even the transcript that is not Mr Lee I will make you does somebody between now and the founders into the jury pool here. Well 1st of all only I will speak for James Madison. No no we all will speak for change Madison with about the same level of accuracy I do find it rather surprising that you would have George Washington in this jury pool I would strike him for cause George Washington was the 1st guy to raise extreme executive privilege claims he had a rather robust view of what a president could say if you were going to make a case to George Washington that you can impeach over a conversation he had with another head of state I expect his hair is powdered hair would catch on fire Fortunately George Washington Law Professor and constitutional expert Jonathan Turley was there to bring the cold reality to the cruise to fantastic cool abuse of power so. What I would caution the committee is that these crimes have meaning. It gives me to no joy to disagree with my colleagues here. And I really don't have a dog in this fight. But. You can't accuse a president of bribery and then when some of us noted the Supreme Court has rejected your type of boundless interpretation say well it's just impeachment we really don't think up right there this is a longer report John Brown did not time there the last 3 minutes or so that wasn't it said in force dot com It's a ban on video shot down section a mission it out in the newsletter email today needs to go viral that's why they're blocking everybody on Facebook Twitter and Google so they can get away with these criminal attacks we need to get these things out. And. On to the. Net but. 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Done here awareness and down she can hurt you and treat you like an animal and if you act like an animal and if you submit to the system like that you get in this incident tile position where you just expect the system to take care of you and anybody that gets in the way of that that doesn't know the system to take care of us in spite of us. That attack those people you're never going to find the you tell peer looking for I know this awesome audience fully understands that let me start of the broadcast with a piece of their my brain put out just the latest world out of left just acting like on the end is a she says she will demonic creatures. That it ties in to report that Paul Watson has put out that's up on in force dot com a news Wars dot com Again I know you're awake. But this isn't a spectator sport we need to get watch and report out and in front of everybody because each one of these critical pieces of information is game changing now we have as a rule of the hand of rebel media so much great work not just here in the u.s. Not just in Canada not just in Europe all over the world to get his take on where the planet is right now and a big breaking news. So he's going to be joining us coming up at the bottom of the hour I ended up on the phones up in the 3rd hour and I want to get next segment . To this report puton in some countries the word mother is being replaced how big a statement that isn't in and why that's so important on so many levels so we're going to cover that next segment but I meant to get to this one Skowron I'm trying to get more of these important clips and here. Because it's really important and we are having Arrested Development the infant has ation for the infant tal the station of popular culture and that's really what the minions of the left and who they are and what they're like show let's go ahead and roll that report. Why do you think that the relentless parade of 5 page comic book superhero movies remained so popular Alan Moore creator of the iconic comic book from hell and v. For Vendetta was roundly condemned by surprise surprise the very people he was referring to when he dead voice of don't say of all truth the reason comic book superhero movies are so popular is because an entire generation of 30 something the line yells and even some Gen x. Is of chosen to freeze their brains in a state of permanent adolescence the West is overrun by fragile mind babies regressing back to that childhoods because of the Shia Tara at the prospect of adult hood. But. Why exactly did Alan Moore say I think the impact of superheroes on popular culture is both tremendously and Barrus thing and not a little worrying while these characters were originally perfectly suited to stimulating the imaginations of the 12 or 13 year old audience today's franchise to mention aimed at a supposedly adult audience seem to be serving some kind of different function and fulfilling different needs primarily mass market superhero movie seem to be abetting an audience who do not wish to relinquish their grip on the way that relatively reassuring childhoods or be the relatively reassuring 20th century. What went on to point out that superhero movies made for children remaining so popular amongst adults is not only an indictment of the increasingly infantilized nature of the individual it's another telltale sign that our culture in general is mired in a state of in stagnation the continuing popularity of these movies to me suggests some kind of deliberate self-imposed day of. Tional arrest combined with the numbing condition of cultural spaces that can be witnessed in comics movies popular music and indeed right across the cultural spectrum Alan Moore is right we've all been socially engineered to over share to become emotionally incontinent blubbering testosterone deficient wrecks to the point where we can barely handle reality and react by sucking Athens and embracing the cotton wool infancy of superhero safe spaces that poll you love to the Joker that's a superhero comic book movie No it isn't it's a deeply disturbing intimate all region story that's nothing whatsoever like for example the mall full movies Joker is for adults Marvel movies at the children Martin Scorsese's right superhero comic book films a not cinema that theme parks and cinema and theme parks for children Star Wars that's also for children when I was growing up in the eighty's and early ninety's the only people who liked Star walls were kids below the age of 12 2. Notice how an army of won't come brained rushed to the defense of this guy because they're also mental juvenile stuck in a permanent state of stunted adolescence. One with a fully developed prefrontal cortex should get this emotional over a children's movie it's not normal adult behavior and show I can look forward to seeing a movie an adult movie because it was if the children but the only time when I can ever remember getting this excited over consuming a product was when I was about 7 years old crying over the anticipation of consuming a product that is for children. The 38 year old cons Suma doesn't ask questions just consumes product and then gets excited for next product thinks watching comic book movies doing politics. Political views appeal to no one of the no the consumers political views entirely focused around being vindictive towards people who were mean to him in high school in 1997 and pull white people suffering in the Midwest should have consumed the correct product thinks everyone else has political opinions both to the left and right of him all based simply on chauvinist it biases which he obviously does not have on ironically thinks doing video reviews of movies for children is a significant contribution to society Halloween that the children but every year adult Americans appear to become more obsessed and stop preparing earlier and earlier for something that's clearly meant for kids but children throwing violent tantrums because you didn't get your food. This fights car crashes even murder yeah this is going to sound pretty ridiculous but all of that is over a chicken sandwich all because he didn't get it quick enough. I don't want to. Hear. What the children throwing violent hissy fits because you didn't get the opportunity to consume a product quick enough. For children emotional support pets that's for children the rise in popularity of adult coloring books for children pretending to be a baby in diapers while frolicking around in a playpen to satiate you and your boyfriends we had fetish ageplay is not sexually stimulating to me in any way shape or form that's not for children millennial just so innately infant child that they had to invent a word to remind them how to behave like adults adult trying to carry out one or more of the duties and responsibilities expected of fully developed individuals paying off that credit card debt settling beef without blasting social media etc exclusively used by those who adult less than 50 percent of the time inventing words to make normal adult behavior sound like some kind of astounding achievement just to make yourself. Special that children it's not just movies but also t.v. Shows that are becoming increasingly mole lowbrow to meet the needs of a sophomore it cold in the late night shows which was at least reached 1st in pretense of sophistication now reduced to pure raw in the chew and don't you look human the up until today I had to go off air here I wonder the 40 ways to get such huge news that I've been working on behind the scenes and I'm not ready to break this we may break it today but just. Maybe not today not tomorrow but you need a plan in place to survive for good bankers not to live underground culture you need survivalist keep the ultimate fully functional off the grid mobile survival bug out house that's well equipped and custom built to outlast any other or b. Or trailer. You it seemed a lot survivalist camps dot com That's survivalist camps Doc Tom trust your family's survival to survive was Games dot com Hi I'm Dan Pilla I started fighting the iris over 40 years ago when they tried to seize my mother's house I sued the i.r.s. 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Mann It is such an incredible crossroad that we could all feel a lot of anxiety is a lot of anger out there. Because what's going on this planet around natural. I meet people almost every day. Who said family die from. Overdoses that have been added to what people think if I could enter what they think is opium or heroin you know it's not just Eric Bolling Stein that thought he was taken some pain pills and had no wonder he can't walk 5 feet without running into some by the dad from the Chinese government hitting us with a chemical weapon we'll talk about that with us Rove and a lot more next segment and Trump is trying to block the Democrats that run m s 13 all this ship and end their parish that's why. Can't you Plus he calls him a 13 God Sheldrick is God's children is a man group that's according to her that's what you choose to call him Mr t. Got children now it's nice to inform callous sick joke isn't it and my lawyer that I had like 6 years ago I ran back into a good friend and talked to a few years. His son died the same day his mother died they got the call 5 minutes later that they found his son dead in college. Somebody had put. In the heroin and people just bring up the everywhere you just tell you how my cousin my wife my husband got upset Gnome last month you know really let me get everywhere and you don't hear anything about that I mean it's killing millions of people a year guns kill $24000.00 half of those are suicides a couple 100 are what they call mash still terrible but boy are they personalize those dead people and then blaming you as a gun owner that somebody did something wrong with a tool and then millions and millions dead illustrates hundreds of thousands of no year of the hundreds of thousands of this type of that type but you add it all together and complications it's huge in the millions. And it's all being done on purpose. Tall they are not on purpose. They want to drug out of our minds you know I almost started the show with this really is the most important. And our just out of time. Or is there really a way to cover this properly. I'm not trying to build suspense you know I just mention this article and just half ass cover it I'm not doing justice to it I need to tie everything into it and about why it's so important and if I can't do that just right I'm not going to do it and I had one of my complaining had my mind all focused and ready to lay this out it was all crystal clear the angles that the you know the systems the decision we have to make the important speech that I would spend a week writing I just write my mind from the truth but it got blown to bits that's not a problem with important stuff right to meter in the break. But I'm going to try to reconvene my thoughts around this and then I'll probably never covered actually so that's not a problem because even something just as big in the same area came in there on the right that very exciting and very incredible and not an x. Files episode but the real world and we have it confirmed that we have the documents. And we have the witness is. What they're doing to the homeless in Austin with a microchip. You know just think the mayor gave them a former hotel and a warehouse and everything paid for for free from the rays and they're now testing doing medical experiments on them and once they get him in there is a reeducation camps really what it is what they do in Latin America and Africa and the Middle East these reeducation centers they scan and they check people in their background who they are and these companies quote take one of their When they finally got assets they don't know about they find out they don't have family they thought who they are and then they're signing up to go to nicer digs and they do medical experiments on the pope's course they did I mean do you do you just think they injected poor whites in Appalachian and poor blacks in Alabama for 40 some years take really was of course and had him spread it to hundreds of thousands and that was only then they did know there's thousands of the classified legal studies done and man they're doing it all over and because we reached a point where people just can't handle it anymore. It's all 9 yards you know there are white vans going around picking people up. And they're taking them to the field camps. Member Hillary 70 fund camps for American men and there are these reclamation centers where they help you and they get you cleaned up and they help you know she who you are and find out Suppose that there was trouble makers going to another area after they've been processed and this was all in Obama's executive orders and they would use the term re-education can't remain an army document and they're even telling the people oh this is a small beta test by next year it's going to be much bigger and they're getting ready for a total economic collapse and millions of people per famous actor to be processed through it and update it as they're doing it with the homeless and of course they're doing it in a un meaningless Asian treaty Shadi where Op members forcing a few years ago said oh we're going to climate change taxes through at the city level because they couldn't get the country to do it and it's illegal to do it but number one a member will redolent almost left office when Obama was almost gone it was in the military news she wants the un to take over policing and the un to be in our local cities the un has contracts and is priming the pump with the indigents homeless who can contract their rights away basically as indentured servants and so they put the fountain on the street there's killing people all over the place then the dissolution as they bring in the u.n. And then they find that all the people signing on for medical experimentation and microchip him ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha oh and i almost forgot the best part so you is run by communist China to standardize the face scanning of the controls all of it so that was another discussion I had during the last break and I'm not complaining. Just you know it's killing I'm a police murder investigator and they're digging up 10 kids in the Shard 5 in the Shard and on trying to dig out the next group of dead bodies and all we found 25 more cross the street over here and it's just more more more more more more more more than 10 and mayors around here there are Watkins and kids missing and people from our neighbors some gratitude to the homos for what's going on here. It's called evil and it's called just the background noise that they bring us into an artificial cheval war martial law becomes clearer and clearer and clearer what they're planning that all the different stories armies ready with their petrol bombs with their mock cocktails ready to burn America down they give the order Stay with us. You want to break some globalist ribs you want to crush them skulls politically you want to drive ice picks to their eyeballs spiritually there's nowhere you can spend money there's nowhere you can place your bet. 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Files dealing with microchip in a home one medical experiments can show this stuff is just incredible and it's all going on right under our noses as they get ready to try to implode the economy and bring in the civil war the Democrats meant that they talked about plunging the economy to get rid of Trump you've got the ongoing impeachment where they're going to picture the president in the house that's indict him and they'll say Oh there's no evidence you want me problems the Senate I believe they're going to trigger civil war violence during that period and they're going to trigger Racial of ads and false flags to ram this through you could feel it you could see it. 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And I wanted to get him on about a host of issues but I said hey shimmy other topics you want to get into well most yesterday at 2 or 3 days he sent me like 30 things are all right almost same page I'm on because he gets it he's on the side guys as well. But I knew about the government trying to shut down his news service and trade old trying to do it how uncut idea is that how on westerners that how on America's I mean how dangerous. And yes what Trudeau lost but of course he should never have tried to shut down rebel the shore as did others about it lawsuits against just like us so as an event judge to get into that in just how dark the days are for free speech and where is Trump standing up to the center ship love Trump to death but my God this is a dereliction of duty as recession coming on with us oh it's a pleasure to to be here he said it's on Canadian censorship Unfortunately it's too Canadian because unlike you we don't have the 1st Amendment to protect us and if you think it's bad here well you know our friend Tommy Robinson in the United Kingdom who's literally being put in prison in solitary confinement several times per doing journalism that would be unremarkable in America and finally I've been looking at how social media censorship in China is directly connected to their police state and I feel that that's the slow I mean we are about 5 years worse than you the u.k. Is about 5 years worse into the future than us and China today is the direction we're headed in if we don't change the course we're all Communist China is where we're going to show these dogs we come back they admit that they've signed on to China to help create the model for all of us so where is China now that's where we're going and where is China going to go what's the next step. Yeah well I mean China is has perfected this surveillance state but the trouble is they have one of the world's leading telecommunications companies it truly rivals Google it's called Huawei and they're actually world leaders in 5 g. Technology so they're building the Internet and cell phone backbone not just in China but around the world who would be crazy enough to let the communist Chinese government put communications hardware into your home your country your police service your military it I think that in the olden days they had to plant a bug and our camera in your house or office now we're literally signing up for Huawei to bug us all the time I think it's a genuine worry and. The example of what China did to the African Union office in that country in that call it is something we can talk about over the next you know it however much time you have today I'll tell you stay with us at the bottom of the next hour to take calls next hour but you're right in line with the breaking regional research we're working on that is just so insane and want to keep you with us to church of walk through this but we're going to break in a minute but just the outrageousness. Prime Minister of your country trying to take you off the air and all the persecution again you're not a victim you're an overcomer but there's nothing anybody else out there has been persecuted as much as we have media wise except you they are really scared of you. Well I mean think I haven't been thrown in prison like our friend Tommy Robinson has in the United Kingdom. But again that's because they don't have a 1st Amendment and they're disarmed so I regret that the land of Churchill you know the land of the great British Empire is they are disarmed and I regret to say a lot of Brits are passive I don't think Winston Churchill would recognise his own country the people that fought the battle of Britain and held the line against the Nazis they are now allowing themselves to be censored and silenced I find it terrifying and so whenever I visit the u.k. 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Waging rules on corruption Alex Joel. You know if you're awake in your informant hearing hey. You know things are urgent and dangerous gone from Arjen al to I'm physically. Having urges to. Do physical things and only the mean violent but I'm going to have him go down and start just demonstrating. It all different types of leftist and globalist points we've seen have been a lot more active lately r.t. On the straight shows or crew just because now is the time for maximum action and you cannot underestimate how there is a collapse of all of our western values all the basic freedoms that we fought so hard for and how dangerous it is every time those values are 1st taken and when you think about the persecution of journalist and when you think about the persecution of independent media and you think about the roll out of this and the assault on nation state of the assault on borders and the assault on families and Putin having to defend the word mother because all over the world are saying don't say mother he think that's like a cult isn't it it's beyond a call they think well that's because the left and saying well they want total power and we've always done what they've said and submitted to them like they're the moral authority and so at a certain point the dam is broken as are a well van but rebel News dot com. Has had a bird's eye Crows Nest view of all this and you want to get into China 1st and I'm glad you do Chinese tech group shaping un facial recognition standards times China brings a mandatory facial recognition a mobile phone users the ones looking at it as a global id system for global governance and this is a major news here so they've gone from denying world government the yeah we're going to face can you buy and sell in China has got the model and you know they got millions of people in a literal death camp and as a rule that the left is in bed with China they have the Washington Post headline she's heaping need to destroy Trump to save America I mean it's like a Twilight Zone episode where the child comes into a way more than Stalin or Hitler or Lenin combined of their own poor people and now they're the pantheon to be like Hitler 2020 and he's the model and everything he wants is being done and we're putting Hitler's communications systems everywhere they had better watching and controlling us just what the hell dimension did we wake up and. Well I think there's 3 things going on with the sign Ofelia that you're referring to I think part of it is plain old left wing ideology even though China is a form of corrupt crony capitalism now there are many communist vestiges there so there's an idealogue the logical sympathy some people support China simply because it's the leading counterweight to the Free West These are the same people who would've supported or been sympathetic to the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. But finally I think the biggest corrupting factor is plain old cash that's why the n.b.a. Cracked down on its people for supporting Hong Kong even just in tweets that's why Michael Bloomberg did an interview essentially saying China is not a dictatorship that's why Hollywood would no longer portrays China as the bad guy in movies because it's all about the money now and Donald Trump is trying to take on the economic strength of China through tariffs he's also you know trying to blunt their stalking horse North Korea but I want to can I sent you a link to a video Alex and I wonder if you can have your producers put it on there we don't need the sound because it's just Chinese language conversation there's on screen captions it's a ordinary guy not a political activist not a big shot who was on a Chinese social media app called We Chat which is pretty much as big as Facebook has got about a 1000000000 users it's got its own payment plan it's like a he it's like a combination of Facebook and Amazon it's that big. So this guy like a regular guy was on some chat group and he criticized the police for seizing a motorcycle like so he's not saying I want Democracy Now he's just saying something like I wish the cops didn't take that motorcycle but 1st of all look at this terrifying device he's in it's a form of a torture device his wrists are strapped in it his feet are walked into bars there he's obviously uncomfortable he looks like he's being sleep deprived and and they show the cops grilling him saying What's your screen name when were you all and what were you talking about was it a group chat by the way they knew all those answers in advance of course because under Chinese law we Chad has to give full access to the People Liberation Army and it goes on and they say will you apologize to the police say you love the police say I'm sorry Uncle police promise you'll never do this again so this is a few things 1st of all it's outsourcing censorship to corporations which I think we see in America and Canada too and 2nd of all it shows the total blending of this survey of the social media Internet state with the surveillance state and finally and you know this because Paul Joseph Watson of your team has been the real leader on this and I know you have to Alex the concept of Social Credit where you get points you get points taken away for saying bad things you get points given to you for doing good things I believe all of the seeds to this. This authoritarianism are already planted in North America you don't see that's all and I mean we're all adopting the exact same thing this was built by Silicon Valley and exploited there because that's the authoritarian regime where you can test it all out show and the damage broken and we were. Her and all that protected us is being destroyed and it's good to trump standing up too while you coming in here but it's only from a business perspective it's a national security issue and we have Google Apple's move to China as you know and said well we let the Chinese government and they have access to everybody's Apple i.d. That was in Reuters in February of 2018 and Apple admitted that So basically we are just marrying communist China Communist China is our uncle now just like the man being tortured who I guess disappeared off somewhere in there is like say you love your uncle you know before we send you to the re-education camp and this is what the police put out to tell everyone submitting so they learn that will do this to you Have you don't submit I mean this is this isn't 94 this isn't a netflix movie about it is Topeka is what we are adopting this is what we're in Congress with you know if this is what we're literally merging with. What's so incredible about that video which you showed is that the police obviously released that and other official propaganda arms of the communist regime they publish details about their social credit system there's an English language Chinese propaganda arm called Global time so it is absolutely dedicated to spreading Chinese propaganda in English to people in head of the United States Australia u.k. And they positively brag about the millions of people every month who are banned from taking a train taking an airplane getting an apartment simply because of their quote social credit score that is again when your social media spies on you and just last week new legislation was enacted in China that you need facial recognition before the early vote even install internet in your home on January 1st and. Probably know this there's a new edict coming into China that automatically gives the government backdoor encryption access decryption access to all the social media all the systems in China it's just automatic There is no longer any balance between what tech companies and China know and what the government knows that comes in on January 1st so it is the total surveillance state and as you correctly point out a lot of that technology was sold to them by Silicon Valley to make money and as a template for trying those things out in the West. The big thing people have to understand is we're not talking about again some fiction or simulation this is happening it's unfolding it has been a view it is being abused it is. A post human world where they admit a I is going to make all your decisions for you making humans obsolete is what all the big tech heads say is the singularity where their company takes over reality and they're all competing for this it's beyond any megalomania I've ever read about in the history books and it's happening now. You know. I think a lot of. Dystopian futurists like George Orwell they had some glimpse of what a surveillance state might look like your t.v. Screen spied on you in 1904 so that was very futuristic for George Orwell to imagine that but you were still able to leave your apartment and go out into the wilderness or something and there were still things that were underground I don't think even the most imaginative stay there back in treatment Jake was in big trouble with the i.r.s. He owed how much $92000.00 and the i.r.s. Left no room for j. 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Defending the Republic from Fannie Mae's foreign and domestic. Alex Jones. Has room for what about you the person. Much further you discard one of the biggest conservative media outlets in Canada what shot of that old hour to talk about that came after you shut it down that was successful your promise was very successful. And now all you've been through there it's not that you're a victim Egypt illustrating who you are why you did this how you persevered how you haven't backed down how you haven't given up because. I I'll tell you I think the globalists these evil people that have bet against humanity but then when I see how many men I know that are successful business and life they go I'm glad you're there doing this because you know I'm going to go play golf we're glad you're out there we're looking out for interest we're going to lose everything our fundamental freedoms this is dangerous and I really get pissed off at men who are successful and smart you don't get engaged in this so I know you are to successful in business separately from media but still like you had to do it to say I admired people like you I don't admire Le Bron James I don't admire you know he was the star quarterback of the of the doing on Patriots even though I like Tom Brady. Because he doesn't save my children's future people like you are the heroes and even with the audience of listeners our audience you know you and I prefer admire them because they admire people that are standing up for common sense but since when is it heroic just to stand up against your communist evil I thought it was survival as really it's not really why you do what you're doing. Well I mean I I share your view I think not everyone's built for fighting though some people are calling click a verse some people have too much at risk they will be personally punished in some way so I'm lucky in that I have the ability to speak out and no one can fire me because I'm my own boss that's why I'm worried about this contracted out censorship where an authoritarian style prime minister or president can just pressure Facebook and it's not like it's coming to start getting I mean this is a short time a long time coming up I mean they're trying to silence you the prime minister just lost in court against you yeah and that's that's an interesting point see he banned us from covering the Prime Minister's leaders' debate it we just had an election here.

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News in Washington with k s j d Local News I'm Daniel rhizome the younger alleged shooter of the May Highlands Ranch stem school shooting will be charged as an adult and a judge made the ruling Wednesday Alex McKinney was 16 at the time of the shooting when he and then 18 year old divan Erickson allegedly opened fire in a classroom McKinney's attorneys argued rehabilitation programs available in juvenile detention would benefit him but the judge's ruling said McKinney's history of voiding provided services runs counter to the argument defense attorneys said McKinney's upbringing school records and emotional trauma caused by the shooting were reason enough to not transfer his case to juvenile court. A group of Democratic state legislators in Utah introduced legislation Tuesday to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment the men meant was passed by the u.s. Congress in 1972 and sent to states to ratify in over 40 years 37 states have ratified the amendment the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints has remained in opponent of them and meant sense its introduction in a press conference Utah Democrats spoke to the state's precedents in women's rights including equal rights protections in its state's constitution and that ratify and that you are a is a natural next step this is j.t. News k s j d is supported by Southwest health system health plan open enrollment is from November 1st through January 15th Southwest health system has staff available to help guide you through the Connect for Health Colorado marketplace and find additional health assistance programs if they are a fit for you learn more at s.w. Health dot org. Morning I'm David Greene in Culver City California and I'm Rachel Martin in Washington d.c. It was 3 to one split right down party lines the 3 legal scholars brought in by Democrats to testify before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday agreed that evidence shows President Trump has committed impeachable offenses the other constitutional expert brought in by Republicans said no he also gave this morning if you impeach a president if you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts it isn't the pusa power it's your abuse of power. You are doing precisely what you're criticizing the president for doing that's George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley yesterday as noted he was testifying impeachment inquiry this morning he has with us thank you so much for being with us. Thank you Rachel I want to start with that clip we just heard you say it's Congress that risks abusing its power can you explain what you meant there. Well 1st of all my testimony I said as I did in the Clinton impeachment that a president could be impeached for not criminal act and that President Trump could be impeached for abuse of power you just have to prove it he can also be impeached for obstruction of Congress the problem with the of struction of Congress claim in my view is that it's based on a very short period of investigation this is one of the shortest we've had depends how you count the days between this and the Johnson impeachment but it's a very short period of investigation and what Congress is saying is that if the president invokes executive privilege or immunities and goes to court he could be impeached for that that he has just turned over the information to Congress now that's a position that was maintained during the Nixon impeachment factor was the basis of the 3rd article of impeachment I've always disagreed with it's not that you can't impeach a president for withholding documents and witnesses you can and President Trump could well be the next one to be impeached on those grounds what I was and what I was telling Congress is that they've burned 2 months they should have gone to court over people like John Kerry. Subpoenaed and gone to court over people like John Bolton and gotten a court order that would make it a stronger case so let's talk about what you just laid out here I mean you are saying that because the White House has has refused to allow certain people to come and testify refused to hand over certain documents that the committees have requested and is fighting this in court you're saying that that process should be allowed to play out that Congress is making an impeachment argument that is weak because they're not waiting for the courts to weigh in. I'm saying that this case could be much stronger and no one has really explained why they have to have a vote by the end of December wasn't raised about election interference I mean isn't that the answer that the central query here is about the interference of u.s. Elections and 20 twentieth's coming right up. Well 2020 is coming right. The problem is that when you look at health fast this is unfolded their record remains thin it remains conflicted you have about 12 witnesses you have other witnesses with direct evidence and more importantly you have a lot of defenses that have not been fully addressed it's not a fully developed record and all I'm saying is that before you give that record to the Senate you should deal with some of those conflicts and some of those gaps and this is an example of one of those but I think the president could very well be impeached and removed for obstruction based on these acts but by the way that record is conflict no other respects we had 12 witnesses many of those witnesses correctly appeared before Congress they did so against the wishes of the president but they remain in federal employment they have not been disciplined and what you're saying their testimony is insufficient to prove obstruction or abuse of power well it's an insufficient because there remain conflicts in part of the problems I have with with the arguments made by my steam colleagues on the panel is that they kept on using the terms inference and circumstantial evidence and those actually can be used in an impeachment but it's a problematic if there's information out there you can still get this is not a question of the unknowable this is using the peripheral This is using information that could be strengthened that's what I'm arguing although they pointed to the report as evidence of obstruction presumably you don't believe that the Miller report conclusions are true then. I never said I didn't think they were true but the obstruction claim was rejected by the Department of Justice not just not Attorney General Bill Barr but by Rod Rosenstein was a respected deputy attorney general and I agree with their decision on that all right Jonathan Turley one of the constitutional scholars testifying before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday thank you thank you. These days there is this paradox in the job market the unemployment rate is as low as it's been in a half century but men in their prime working years are much more likely to be unemployed than they once were 10 years after the Great Recession many men have fallen through the cracks of the labor force especially in rural areas Here's N.P.R.'s Jim It's mid-afternoon on a sunny autumn day but David Pierce is doing what he often does sitting inside at his dining room table he lives in the sleepy New York town of Apple Lake and until a few years ago Pierce was busy and active he worked as a chef and caterer he did community theater then in his mid fifty's he was sidelined by diabetes he had to have part of a foot removed my. Health just when I got a really downhill early. Took a turn for the worse I was just I couldn't maintain even a part time schedule now he spends his days listening to classical music and surfing the net has changed a lot but we can't do what we did together they have the thing that makes it the harder and of course it's wearing on you know in a marriage where you're not doing things together and that's set you know I mean obviously it's way to get married you want to have a partner and with David not working money's tight Lana is a retired school librarian but she's gone back to work temporarily they're having to sell a rental house they own a year ago Pearce went on disability officially leaving the workforce for good he's got plenty of company the job market has rebounded sharply from a decade ago but Economist Melissa Carney of the University of Maryland says men ages 25 to 54 are still less likely to be employed than they once were the employment rate among these prime aged man is still far below what it was and in the 80 s. And seventy's in 1968 about 95 percent of men in their prime years were working today even in a tight labor market it's just 86 percent Carney says this decline has been almost entirely among those with a high school diploma or less or maybe a bit of college these men once worked at the same rate as college graduates Jonathan De Marco hasn't had full time work since 2006 when he was let go from a metal fabricating plant he still looks for a regular job last one loads down and. I told them right out I was on a set I have problems renewed and right in and they. Had 10 deaths a reason why they didn't hire me Demarco has leathery skin and thick gray hair that stands up like a Roosters coxcombs he concedes he's not well suited to today's. Workplace he doesn't like email he can't understand why they won't let you smoke at work anymore so he picks up odd jobs whenever he can find them like a lot of men in his situation he depends on his wife to get by she works in a factory her help this is not to great as she was at a war dead last year that began is sheer for 4 or 5 months way by the bills and now it's really hard to Marco lives in scary county in the hilly farm country of upstate New York the county's unemployment rate is a very low 3.8 percent but Gail Breen executive director of the local employment office says the numbers mask a larger problem factories have closed over the years many men stopped looking for work a long time ago which means the government doesn't even count them as part of the workforce anymore there are a lot of hidden people in those numbers the don't have jobs like a lot of rural places this part of New York state doesn't have much public transportation so even if you find a job it can be tough to get the work 40 year old Frank all Terry lives in a we go a quaint Victorian town along the sus where Hanna river he hasn't worked full time since he got out of prison 4 years ago but today it's pretty much dead around here there's no Arlene a work around here. One restaurant a sitting up here at North. He told me if I can get a car I can do deliveries for. And I get like 20 percent of that but he has no car and he's not likely to get one anytime soon I'll Terry points out that if he works he and his wife could lose their food stamps and monthly disability check so unless the pay is decent it doesn't make much sense to get a job in the past men like Al Terry could move to big cities to find work they'd make more money there but Economist Melissa Carney says. That's not true anymore the weeds premium for cities that everyone used to get even last as a parent for the non-college educated Carney says a high school graduate in New York City or Boston doesn't earn much more than someone in a rural area and the city's a lot more expensive so it doesn't make sense to move on the other hand having a job is not just about making money back in his dining room David Pierce says that as a chef used to spend all day on his feet cooking now he barely has the energy to make breakfast and he's not really trained for office work he's struggled with depression he doesn't sleep well I think you know for a man it was disabling in the fact that my career is my identity who I am and to lose that really affected me I no longer could identify as you know the guy with that was a wonder with food the job market may be booming in much of the country right now but a growing number of men in the prime of their lives have stopped working and that can take a psychic toll gyms are only n.p.r. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm David Greene the trumpet ministration is tightening work requirements for some food stamp recipients this change could cut nearly 700000 people from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program also known as snap this new rule makes it more difficult for states to waive a requirement that able bodied adults without children work at least 20 hours a week or else lose their benefits Elaine Waxman has been researching the possible impact this could have across the country she's a senior fellow at the Urban Institute and joins us this morning thanks for coming on good morning thanks for having me so what kind of impact should we expect from this well I think it could be really significant as you noted the administration itself suggests that about 700000 adults are likely to lose benefits as a result of this change and they don't expect them to actually find employment so that's very concerning because we know that snap is a very effective program it reduces food insecurity it reduces poverty it improves health outcomes and so all else being equal when fewer people are unsnap who need it we would expect more negative outcomes. Just you know listening to the administration announced this yesterday the agricultural secretary Sonny Perdue said quote We need to encourage people by giving them a helping hand but not allowing it to become an indefinitely giving hand I mean that produces making the point that you know the role of Congress the role of American taxpayers is to help people through difficult times but that it's not open ended is is it unreasonable at some point to ask able bodied adults to to work 20 hours a week to keep these benefits I don't think anybody on Snap would think it was unreasonable either the bigger question is whether people are able to maintain stable work at a regular number of hours it's true that the economy overall has greatly improved and but that sort of general rate masks a lot of variation among counties and cities and states. And in addition we have to remember that not all people face the same unemployment rate so a number of people in this category may have fairly limited education they may have less than a high school diploma they may be unstable how many of them have mental health or physical health conditions that interfere with work and what we know from data is that when snap participants are able to work they frequently do so the characterization that somehow it's. A way of life I think was the phrase that was used is just not borne out by the data Well you mentioned that a lot of people find it hard to find stable work I mean what are the requirements I mean could you could you volunteer for certain number of hours a week and keep it another job for some hours and build up to 20 hours and use that as a justification for benefits if you need. Well you can meet it in a couple of different ways it's true that it's about 80 hours a month and. You know what we often see is that some people have no trouble meeting that at certain parts of the year for example they may have seasonal work but other weeks they might not get any hours one of the things that people can do is a new role in a snap Employment and Training Program the problem is that there are many more people who would benefit from that program that there are than there are available slots and the other thing that we know about those programs is that the number one activity that's usually supported is job referral or resume enhanced mint and those are not things that necessarily connect people directly to stable employment so it sounds like there's some other I mean if this does go through we should say it's you know this could face litigation it's not 100 percent clear this rule go in but there are other things that people like you might lobby the government to do to help people if this will goes into place. Yes I think that's a really good point. When we focus on work rules we're not focusing on really the 1st part of that question which is work and the nature of work in the 21st century so a lot more focus needs to be on the quality of that work and in helping people connect with Step work I mean Weisman with the Urban Institute thanks so much for joining us this morning thanks for having me. Now to the Southern Pacific island nation of Samoa where the government has shut down for 2 days to deal with a measles outbreak that has killed at least 60 people most of them children the government says more than 4000 measles cases have been reported since late October and just to put this into context the most population is less than 200000 people we reached Dr Allen right he's heading the New Zealand Medical Assistance Team they arrived over the weekend and they're working out of a hospital near the capital city of Apia it's really busy there's lots of people presenting with young children with very nasty names or with complications was supposed to have that we generally have 28 or staying in the hospital any one time so we've created extra space we actively have to manage she real crisis. You know probably 8 to 10 a day before they become stable are now somehow has been under a state of emergency since November 15th and all schools are closed indefinitely as the government works to immunize everyone who isn't unvaccinated families have even been asked to hang a red flag outside their homes to make it easier for medical teams to find them but Wright says it's been hard to reach some of those people spread so widely around you know what is essentially a rural population and so on it's really getting out to the need to get the vaccination program organized which of course they're doing today and tomorrow having the country. And really quite a attention in great detail the outbreak appears to be calm pounded by a low measles vaccination rate among Samoans only 31 percent are vaccinated that's according to the World Health Organization that is down from a high of 90 percent in 2013 and immunizations plummeted last year after a high profile scandal in which improperly prepared vaccines cause the deaths of 2 in. Since now though life on the island has temporarily come to a halt right is predicting that the worst is over we are still saying lots of presentations but that's you know they're much help the ones coming just now so there are a good message coming early or you know the vaccination campaign it's starting to kick in which I suspect is a combination of. Medical groups from Hawaii also Australia the u.k. Have joined the team from New Zealand to fight this outbreak. This is n.p.r. News. 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News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly next hour House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to have more to say about President Trump and impeachment This follows yesterday's hearing in the House Judiciary Committee featuring 4 law professors N.P.R.'s Claudio chrysalis says while that hearing was under way Senate Republicans were meeting with White House officials White House counsel Pat simple Loney and Legislative Affairs Director Eric healin were among those who met with Republican senators behind closed doors on Capitol Hill Elance said the White House is still holding out hope President Trump won't be impeached but if he is says he'll end the president wants his case made fully in a Senate trial and that President Trump is very eager to have witnesses testify in the underlying impeachment rules of the Senate for the president a full suite of rights to argue his case and the facts and on the merits eeling called the process thus far fatally flawed and said the Senate trial can remedy that cloudy Salis n.p.r. 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With k s j d Local News I'm Daniel rhizome the younger alleged shooter of the May Highlands Ranch stem school shooting will be charged as an adult a judge made the ruling Wednesday Alex McKinney was 16 at the time of the shooting when he and then 18 year old van Erickson allegedly opened fire in a classroom McKinney's attorneys argued rehabilitation programs available in juvenile detention would benefit him but the judge's ruling said McKinney's history of voiding provided services runs counter to the argument defense attorneys McKinney's upbringing school records and the emotional trauma caused by the shooting were reason enough to not transfer his case to juvenile court. A group of Democratic state legislators in Utah introduced legislation Tuesday to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment the men meant was passed by the u.s. Congress in 1972 and sent to states to ratify in over 40 years 37 states have ratified the amendment the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints has remained in opponents of the amendment sense its introduction in a press conference Utah Democrats spoke to the state's precedents in women's rights including equal rights protections in its state's constitution and that ratify and that you are a is a natural next step this is. News k s j d is supported by Aaron Johnson attorney at law ready to help you with the state planning real estate and business matters and can be reached at Johnson Law dot us where you can submit questions online. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from t. Rowe Price offering a strategic investing approach that examines investment opportunities 1st hand institutions advisers employers and individuals choose to Rowe Price to price invest with confidence and from c 3 dot a i c 3 dot a I's software enables organizations to use artificial intelligence at enterprise scale solving previously unsolvable business problems learn more it see 3 dot a I. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin in Washington d.c. And I'm David Greene in Culver City California So where in the world is Rudy Giuliani well as new turns out President Trump's personal attorney has reportedly surfaced in of all places Ukraine Giuliani's trip comes as Ukraine's president of the mirrors the Lenski is trying to disentangle himself from the u.s. Impeachment drama but it appears that his approval ratings have begun to fall let's talk about all this with N.P.R.'s Moscow correspondent Lucy and Kim who is in the Ukrainian capital Kiev Good morning Lucy and good morning Ok so this week here in the u.s. The House Judiciary Committee began hearings that could lead to a vote on whether to impeach President Trump what what is this story feel like as it's playing out in Ukraine I think there's a one word answer to that question exasperate president Selenski won a landslide last spring this was based on Ukrainians frustration with the 5 year conflict with Russia with corruption with a lack of economic opportunity but the one thing that Selenski didn't expect was that Ukraine's friendship with the u.s. Would be called into question he really expected the us to have Ukraine's back here just yesterday at a press conference he reiterated that he wants to focus on Ukraine's problems and stay out of the impeachment scandal I asked a political commentator here named even Yacov in a how we should understand the landscape position. Has to keep a smile of face although he and the sounds perfectly well that trump hates Ukraine and loves Russia but still his as a responsible leader of his own country has to be nice with with the United States because it's the biggest and the strongest country in the world and he doesn't want to have any additional problem with America. So in other words Alinsky is in a much weaker position compared to the American president and he isn't certain he certainly isn't going to do anything to rock the boat Additionally and I mentioned his poll numbers are starting to fall I mean he was enormously popular when he came in right. That's right I mean he just a couple of months ago he was still at about 70 percent and he's seen those poll numbers drop to just about 50 percent he's under enormous pressure right now to deliver on those things I mentioned on a piece with Russia and on bread and butter economic issues so that's what he really wants to focus on next week he's having his 1st meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and going into that Selenski again was expecting much more backing from the u.s. The huge Warry here in Kiev is that this whole impeachment issue could cause Ukraine to lose bipartisan support in Congress that's really the biggest war here which could be even a long term problem I mean no matter what happens in the presidential election in the United States I got to ask you about Rudy Giuliani I mean this transpersonal lawyer is such a key figure in the whole impeachment saga I just think about the New York Times comes out with this report that he's in Key of probably not the thing that Selenski wants money is trying to disentangle himself from the whole Pietschmann affair what does this visit about. Well we don't know a whole lot about it journalists have been looking for him but we're just learning right now that an independent Ukrainian lawmaker here in Kiev says he met with Giuliani he posted a couple of photos on Facebook he said they met to discuss alleged misuse of u.s. Taxpayer money here in Ukraine and that he wants to start an anti corruption initiative together with Giuliani he says he is reaching out to u.s. Lawmakers including Lindsey Graham and newness as well as the White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney But again you know from the point of view of the Ukrainian government as you mentioned this Giuliani visit is highly unwelcome because again it brings in American political scandal to Ukraine where there's a new government really doing its best to turn a new page N.P.R.'s Lucy and Kim in Kiev thanks Lucy and thanks Dave. Tonight in Rochester Minnesota residents will look to the sky and see some very unwelcome guests thousands of crows threatening to shower waste on the city's downtown as Minnesota Public Radio's Katherine Richard reports chasing them away falls to a dedicated band of city workers if you're in downtown Rochester around dusk tonight and nearly every night this winter you'll see this thousands of black crows animating the night sky flying in from all directions and calling to each other as they look for places to park. Their clothes come here every winter and with them their poop left unchecked all that crow waste could create a mess for city residents as well as staff and patients at the sprawling mail clinic campus it's a constant battle to keep the sidewalks clean the keep cars clean that's very which he's among a handful of city employees standing in the way of the poop be chaos every night all winter just because it is such a problem it's gross it is gross and they have tried banging pots and pans together they were netting the trees and just nothing seemed to be working. Until we finally went to using Stern pistols and really interview the crow patrols cache of tools also includes a distress call machine that sounds like this. Crows are big birds they average about 17 inches long with a wingspan that can stretch to 3 feet they're widely considered to be among the world's most intelligent birds they prefer grassy open areas where they can forage for grains nuts and even small animals this night the crows are just starting to arrive for the season so Barry which he and his team will spend a lot of time figuring out where the crows congregate before swarming down town naturally it's the local cemetery and it's noisy here as thousands of crows perch in trees cutting sharp silhouettes against the gray late fall sky we stop there to test the crows reaction to the starter pistol. They take off instantly Kaley swift studies crows at the University of Washington and is amused to hear that they congregate in Rochester cemetery it's a very convenient coincidence but it has a lot less to do with crows intuiting the function of cemeteries as it does cemeteries just make really nice staging areas Swift says big loud crow gatherings happen right before the birds head to their roosts to sleep the gatherings likely service social purpose maybe it is a way for Crows to meet potential mates for example or reconnect with individuals that they haven't seen for a long time but it's something of a mystery as to why the crows flock to urban centers in the winter Swift says One possibility is that the environment provides warmth on cold Minnesota nights but she says crows will eventually learn that starter guns and lasers signal danger. Back in Rochester park's employee Don used is patrolling a street of popular restaurants and bars this is no hot spot where. He spots a tree filled with crows and players across any crow calls from the back of a struck he doesn't work so he's trying to laser at them because if you fly off finely used whips out his last resort to start around. That scares all but one bird you'll get that stubborn one that will not believe no matter what you like I phone my home for the real you may take a few weeks or longer but you says the crows will eventually learn to stay on the outskirts of downtown at least for this winter. For n.p.r. News I'm Catherine Richard in Rochester Minnesota. Later today on All Things Considered winter is here and in Miami that means it's sure a season listen to that story by asking your smart speaker to play n.p.r. Or your member station my name. This is n.p.r. News. J.d. Is supported by the divorce food market unexpected gourmet know your grocer know your community open 8 to 8 every day in town and online at dolores Food Market dot com. 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Baby Yoda's debut at the end of the Mandal Laurean is 1st episode was a surprise with big eyes and ears the tiny green youngling makes small cooing sounds. The creature learns to use the force take snaps and follow its protector the man to Laurean who refers to it as the kid the baby steals the show every time it appears. So fans of all ages including my daughter Amalia are gaga over baby Yoda some have written love songs like they do ice to ice. Baby Nudo a chance same change. You have paired Plato here. When you came across thing. At approx hurting fans will be heartbroken if they expect a baby Yoda toy for the holidays Mattel's 11 inch plush toy of the child as it's known won't begin shipping until February companies Mattel fungal and Buffalo games are only taking preorders for toys and collectibles Lucasfilm which produces the Mandal Laurean said in a statement that it wanted to keep the new character a surprise on the red carpet of the show's premiere writer and director John Fabro told Entertainment Tonight he was glad Disney and Lucasfilm held off on releasing any baby Yoda merchandise because the way the cat usually gets out of the bag with that stuff is merchandising and toy catalogs and things like that so they really back us up but that requires a lot of restraint Fabro. Correct that once you start getting into the production phase the designs will come out and people trying glean the spoilers and whatnot David Lazarus is the consumer columnist for The Los Angeles Times I understand the caution but nevertheless that has to be outweighed by the millions that stand to be made from having a very cute sweet wonderful couple of All Star Wars character in everybody's Christmas stocking the fact that they didn't anticipate that this was going to be a commercial goldmine is insane and that they let this opportunity slip away strikes me as sheer madness it's reminiscent of 1977 when the original Star Wars movie came out toymaker is were caught off guard by its popularity Kenner responded by selling boxes a voucher has to redeem toys months later here's an old t.v. Commercial are tuned into. A bucket and producer you build a strong wars really birds that are bigger easy for action figures are not yet available but the doors for early bird season begins in sewers John Davro told Entertainment Tonight he had to wait for his Star Wars figures and you know what my generation went through yes they didn't have a Star Wars toys available to last Christmas I got a voucher for Christmas are in 77 today some fans can't wait that long. On line you can find d.i.y. Videos demonstrating how to make baby yoga Christmas ornaments crocheted hats and stuffed dolls today I'll be showing you how to shape their face for baby yoga and have to shape the nose and those who don't want to handmade baby yoga off Etsy will just have to wait. To be. Chilling in the flow. Of call and see are in the sand and I'm meeting you a baby Yoda right now now you can start watching many Laurian hour has I absolutely promise I'm sorry I want you to Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm David Greene and I'm Rachel Martin. Not your average holiday movies at the sunflower theater returns on Thursday December 12th with the 984 fantasy horror film gremlins a gadget salesman finds a unique gift for his son that proves to be a little more than he can manage one wild Christmas Eve tickets are $7.00 a sunflower theater talked over Archie. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin I'm David Greene and I'm Noel King Good morning Rosa Parks is the woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus it was 955 it was the segregated South and it was the start of the monk Amerie bus boycott from that moment on Rosa Parks became an icon in the civil rights movement but for a long time we haven't known much about her as a regular person is that Rosa Parks on a yoga mat a few days ago I went to see a new exhibit at the Library of Congress in Washington d.c. It's called Rosa Parks in her own words and it shows a very different Rosa Parks than the woman we learned about in history class she was a radical She maintained. A calm demeanor but beneath the surface was always that militant spirit and that that void her and that guided her throughout her life a dream can in curated this exhibit and she says that militant spirit was instilled in Rosa Parks when she was a very small girl the right of self-defense was stressed in the home you can see in that early schedule early childhood incidents and experiences she opens it with talking about the Klu Klux Klan riding through the community terrorizing black families burning churches and homes in the aftermath of World War One and that she sits up at night fully dressed with her grandfather keeping visual over the home they often sat up all night long because they couldn't take the chance of being caught off guard and she says that she wanted to see him kill a clue clocks or she says that she says that I as a child the 1st one that entered our house would surely die this when I was 6 or 7 I talked to Carla Hayden the current Librarian of Congress to learn more about the exhibit this exhibition Rosa Parks in her own words gives you the impression that title gives you the impression that there's a story that's been told about Rosa Parks but it's not quite the whole story people have a view of Rosa Parks as this very sad day woman with a purpose and that's the are kind of image and she was just hard and would this exhibit show you that there was so much more to Rosa Parks in terms of her belief and civil rights her determination and also the hardships that she endured because of them do you think she was concerned that she had become a one dimensional figure because she was she must have seen herself described as a demure seamstress and and thought What the heck that's not and I think that you when you look. The photographs in the exhibit you look at her writings you also can imagine that every now and then she probably had a very small smile when she thought of that. She get to know Rosa Parks as a person and not as icon and she is so relatable in that way you feel like you're visiting one of your grandmothers or your aunt and you want to hear more from her and you just start speaking in a different way when you get into the exhibit as well who was she as a little girl she was feisty feisty and anecdote of her. Being just a little bit not violent but she thought about it and it becomes clear as you walk through the exhibit that her family were feisty people these were not folks who sit by and let things happen to them and when you think about what was going on in the fifty's I was alive then and I in fact I've talked to my Any Your own mother recently and she remembered in 1955 we were in Tallahassee Florida and things were pretty rough at that time and so to have a young person with these. This determination to fight for rights and to be part of a movement was will bring took a lot of courage there was the risk of physical harm she would have known that yes and at that point you get a sense that she was making a decision a conscious decision that she was going to do what she could to help others and she was going to take the roof which is a lot gutsier frankly than just going to get that summit I hope that people will get from the exhibit and that they will realize that she was in breeze Mario Stokely car. Remarkable and younger activists and Angela Davis is mom and she likes a very she heard his appétit she wrote a lot of the the exhibition is called Rosa Parks in her own words and I thought that was metaphorical but in fact she wrote a lot she wrote a little kept what looked like diary entries what in there surprised you did you read anything that surprised you well the strength that comes through but also the forcefulness in her writing telegrams through and the repartition and it's almost a stream of consciousness aspect and so she was demure shoes lady like right in her writing you can see that there were these deep feelings and emotions that she was expressing and yet hardly a picture where she's not smiling and I found that impressive she seems to have a cheerful heart I had not seen you know I had seen the pictures of her around the time of the boycott she would have been in her early forty's we see pictures of her younger and and older and then much older and she has a serenity about her doesn't she hand she seems to enjoy being very well presented and there's a beautiful video and of photographs of her in there who are just ground floor length. Kind of sequinned inlays and it's painting her favorite color and she is just happy as a lark she just looks wonderful read the essence award goes beautiful and you can see that that was that was something that made her happy your colleague Adrian cannon the curator described Rosa Parks in our interview as both a militant and a radical. Lots of people when they're young can be described that way was Rosa Parks that way in her eighty's and she certainly was an. You can see her as I mentioned with Stokely Carmichael and other instances where she's with people who are doing. Breaking things presidential candidates Jesse Jackson so she was active politically and she was right up to the minute she was at the 1000000 Man March and participated in that So Rosa Parks kept her hand in the game a little bit. 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News in Washington I'm core of a Coleman House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she'll make a statement this hour about the impeachment inquiry into President Trump this comes as the House Judiciary Committee has held its 1st public hearing in the matter N.P.R.'s Winsor Johnston reports lawmakers heard from 4 legal experts who discussed constitutional grounds for impeachment the 3 legal scholars who were called by House Democrats agree that evidence shows that trump abuse the power of his office to solicit the help of a foreign government to advance his political agenda and that his actions constituted at least one impeachable offense but the 4th scholar who was invited by Republicans on the committee called the inquiry quote woefully inadequate and warned Democrats against rushing the process N.P.R.'s Winsor Johnston reporting u.s. Navy officials say a u.s. 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Was driving to his night shift last week on a narrow rule road in Manitoba Calif Canada when he has car hit what he thought was a dog streaking across the dark road after he clipped the animal it flew into the ditch on the shoulder so he parked and used a small flashlight to get a look I thought it was a German shepherd or a husky he told c.n.n. News partner c.b.c. I didn't think it was a wild animal bird said he was reluctant to leave it lying on the side of the road it is amazing how docile it was I was petting it he said. So to protect it from predators in the night he picked up the animal and laid it on the floor of his one dime he drove the last mile or so for his 10 pm shift at the Bothwell cheese factory in news Bothwell Manitoba just south when a pig but a coworker went out to look at the animal and delivered him a big surprise that dog the coworker said was actually a coyote the coyote is recovering in an animal rehab center it wasn't immediately obvious it was a wild animal the coyote was only about 30 pounds seemed tame though hurt but Burra Dow ski's coworkers who had more experience with animals said it looked to be a young female coyote it was Tuesday night and Barra dowse case started researching where he could take the coyote to get care but he was told he'd need to wait until morning for someone in animal management to come pick her up over the next 11 hours of the Coyote didn't even deaf Akkad or urinate while spending the night in the relative warmth of Burra douse keys car one of his coworkers of either Cohen told c.n.n. She arrived for work at 6 am But although Bardach a shift was over he couldn't drive home he still had a wild animal in his backseat. Cohen Text cell phone number for a nearby wildlife rehab center and a conservation officer was able to arrive just before 9 am the sole Nikita the executive director of the wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Center told c.n.n. The coyote is now recovering well at her facility she said the coyote is between one and 3 years old getting stronger by the day the Katyn noted the animal sustained head trauma in the collision along with scrapes on the face and leg but she said she expects the coyote to make a full recovery and be ready for release back into the wild in a few weeks kind of an interesting story there don't you think and how many of you would have done what this guy did. Now that gives credence to Mayor Hinds who I was in a council meeting the other night when a guy was complaining about skunks in his. In his yard and all of that and the mayor says well do like I did when I. When I trapped a. Raccoon he said just get you an animal trap and trap that Scott put it in your car take him down to the animal control people and the guy said You mean to tell me you expect me to put a skunk in the in the car in my $50000.00 car. Now Greg you can tell him that in all probability you know if a coyote is shall we say potty trained what would lead you to think that that a skunk wouldn't be as well. All right 16 minutes folks after 716 past 7 we're going to play trivia here in just a little bit we get Tommy Elmore to come in and help us with the phone calls some really interesting things happened on this date in history I want to share with you here this morning. For example on December 5th 2013 Nelson Mandela the anti our path on our part the leader who became South Africa's 1st black president died at age 95 now for you music people out there who have been directing bands and all this I think of of Hotlips. They all Marvel. How about this in 1791 composer and Wolfgang Amanda Yes Mozart died in Vienna Austria at age 35 in 1848 President James k. Polk triggered the Gold Rush Tommy. Of 49 by confirming that gold had been discovered in California Ok how about that about that James k. Polk cognac not very many people would realize that he started it you know yeah I thought it was Larry Gatlin who was singing all the golds and California yeah yeah yeah let a good fellow man that is good it was I wish we could pull you could pull it up I don't mean here and I are tonight seen one on this date movie producer Walt Disney was born in Chicago now Tommy that comes as a little bit of a surprise for me because I spent 11 years at Moberly Yeah and I and for some reason Walt Disney. Has some. There's a lot of connection with Marsha lean in Missouri which is a town probably 4050 miles from overly And I've done ballgames for marshaling I remember doing the high school football game with Macon and marshaling and and they put me in there's a school building that is just it borders the football field it's a dharna saying yes and I was in a classroom I think it was the 4th grade classroom and I was looking out the window I was sitting inside there doing the ballgame from from inside the school the darndest thing that I run into and I always thought that that Walt Disney was connected with Marcin so he must have spent some time there yeah. Could you see very good that well you know I mean I'm pretty good going to I could see better there than I could at Seneca the other night put me under you know in the wind tunnel I guess I got to have is make it take time yeah what I learned it that what I learned over at Seneca it when people are really really anxious to give you a special seat in the press box kind of look at that with trepidation because. Yes I did not realize that I knew the glasses the glass was out in all of their press box but the the extreme left front of the press box where they gave me the special seat. That was right in the teeth of this 20 mile an hour wind that was blowing and it was cold and right off the bat my entire folder flew out through the window into the stand oh yeah and the guys that put me over in the corner I guess they felt sorry for me they said we'll go get we'll go get your papers and so they did yeah boy I was cold after that. In 1932 on a state German physicist Albert Einstein was granted a visa making it possible for him to travel to the United States now think about that here's Albert Einstein one of the great geniuses of all time German physicist came to the United States and he's an immigrant now yeah does that say something about the potential of some of these men yeah yeah in 1033 national prohibition came to an end and as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st consul amendment to the Constitution repealing the 18th Amendment in $194055.00 u.s. Navy torpedo bombers mysteriously disappeared after taking off from Fort Lauderdale Florida on a training mission with the loss of 14 crew members all 14 in the last squadron contributed to the legend of the Bermuda Triangle. 5 u.s. Navy torpedo bombers disappeared it's hard to believe that in 1952 the great smog of London descended on the British capital the young usually thick fog contain toxic pollutants lasted 5 days and was blamed for causing thousands of death yeah thousands of deaths Thomas speaking of that yesterday here here's how this unfolded I was on my way to grab it where my tower site is for the f.m. To pick up some hay and I'm driving out on the west wall and here in Rogers and I see this pillar this plumes of smoke and black is smoke you ever saw billowing up so I called in to the station and at 1st I thought it was on the north side of Rogers I couldn't really detail tell where the. Smoke was coming from I thought it was north of Rogers and then as I drove back toward the west I called back and I said you know this looks like it's kind of north of 30 it street and then I called back a little later not said hey listen this looks like it's only on the Bentonville side of the interstate Well it certainly was yeah now the thing that eventual here I go on the air with with the report and I'm telling people. At 1st I suggested to our people get ahold of the fire department to see if they've got a controlled burn a system but I said you know the smoke is too black for a controlled burn it looks like it it's a chemical fire Yes So as it got on over in the Bentonville area. And over toward sun and I called back and I said listen we're going to call the call on the local authorities to get some information out here to warn the people because this is potentially very very serious only said I don't want to be an alarmist but you better err on the side of caution and I said this This stuff is spreading the smoke is spreading all over the area and I told the station I said for Miles it's spreading Yes And this is potentially toxic Well a little bit later on we get some reports that yeah the hospital says there may be some upticks in restored problems and then they get the word out but and I'm not criticizing I'm not criticizing the authorities but were we were real slow in getting this information out this thing could have been potentially hazardous only after a lot of people I hope nobody really breathed these fumes really out but it turns out that this material could produce carbon monoxide Oh yeah and it's a tough tough the and here's what I think you know occasionally I get a inventory sheet I know this was true down in Russellville where they were at the fire department every year I would fill out a inventory as to whether I had any chemicals stored in the building or what and I think that it's they they probably have this here in Bentonville in Rogers Yeah what you but if they don't I certainly would recommend that they understand particularly on these warehouses knowing what chemicals are in there so that you immediately can conclude whether there is a Dane. You're not because this thing could have could have been a disastrous deal for school kids in the area oh yeah adults outside or whatever but but as I said to the listers take precautions get inside do not raise your windows and stay out of the smoke you know he asked it because I felt like that it was really dangerous because of the blackness of it was so high her own when I was leaving Farmington yesterday from the Ace matches have again up I 49 you know just out of valence like well I mean I could see it it was clear day black I thought Man something I knew something was going on but they're not doing Denard shown talking about it on the set was really burned up at 1st I thought it was a controlled burn too but that kept coming up Interstate toward Springdale get larger and larger my boy there's a big Well if it's below the smoke for well over an hour oh yeah it will run out drift you could see them having a big you have was drifting out you know over the like you know yeah Ok in 1994 Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be the 1st g.o.p. Speaker of the house in 4 decades Newt Gingrich as you know Tommy was a guest on the party line we know we vested with Newt Gingrich Here's a sometime ago. In 1980 James p. Hoffa claimed the teamster presidency after challenger Tom lead him conceded defeat in the union presidential election now here is our trivia question for this morning and it's kind of the economy. You have to listen closely here it happened on this date in 2002 strawman Thurman the oldest and longest serving senator in history at the time. Celebrated his 100th birthday on Capitol Hill. And in toasting the South Carolina lawmaker Senate Republican leader Trent Lott who we've also had on this program you know seemed to express nostalgia for Thurmond's segregationist past the resulting political firestorm prompted law to read the resign his leadership position so be careful how you brag on people celebrating their 100th president Yeah now this this leads me to the trivia question for this morning at the time he was the oldest longest serving senator in history who is the guy that overtook him as longest serving senator in u.s. History Ok now that's my trivia question this morning if you think you know the answer to that 86367979 or 807677171. In 2003 on this date the 2 makers of flu shots in the United States Sharon and a Ventus past 2 are announced they had run out of vaccine and would not be able to meet the a surge in demand in 2008 the Labor Department reported that an alarming half 1000000 jobs had vanished in the vendor 2008 as unemployment hit a 15 year high of 6.7 percent that was in 2008. Also a judge in Los Vegas sentenced o.j. Simpson to 33 years in prison with eligibility for parole after 9 for an armed robbery in a hotel room Simpson was released to parole on. October 1 2017 a lot of people look at then they say you know he got a lot more time for robbing robbing a room than you did for killing his wife and then her friend there Ok. Now 10 years ago today a jury in Perugia Italy convicted American student Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Rafi El Sully Seon that's probably not right of murdering Cox's and Knox's British roommate Meredith Kercher here and sent a 7 to long prison terms after a series of back and forth rulings Knox and Sollecito were. Definitively acquitted in 2015 by Italy's highest court also a night club blaze in Perm. See Russia killed more than 150 people in Spain won the Davis Cup for the 2nd straight years 5 years ago today President Barack Obama announced his choice of Ashton Carter to be the new u.s. Secretary of defense Nasa's newest space vehicle or eon accomplished its 1st test flight shooting out more than 3600 miles from Earth for a hyper fast hot return Rolling Stone magazine issued an apology and cast doubt on its story of a young woman who said she had been gang raped at a fraternity party at the University of Virginia the magazine said it had since learned of discrepancies in her account one year ago today former President George h.w. Bush was mourned at a memorial service and Washington's National Cathedral attended by President Donald Trump and former presidents Barack Obama Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter along with their spouses former President George w. Bush was among the speakers eulogizing his dad as the brightest of a 1000 Points of Light Canadian authorities said they had arrested the chief financial officer of China's Weiwei technologies for possible extradition to the United States on fraud charges mang was you. Waits extradition hearing scheduled for January 2020 Wisconsin Republican lawmakers passed measures to weaken the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general now if you're celebrating a birthday today in good company singer Little Richard is 87 Lucille author cabin trillion is 84 opera singer Jose Carreras is a 73 World Golf Hall of Famer Lenny Watkins is 70 actress Morgan Brittany is 68 Country singer trying Lynn is 56. Let's see we've got. The Milwaukee Brewers all star outfielder and m.v.p. a Last year Christian yell it is $28.00 today Tommy let's check the news here the geisha is underway after a u.s. Sailors shot 3 people killing 2 of them at the historic Pearl Harbor base near Honolulu Rear Admiral Rob Chadwick the shooter. Who was tentatively been identified . As a active duty sailor assigned to u.s.s. Colombia. Has a son $771.00. Is also deceased by an apparent self-inflicted gunshot will be admiral on possible security changes after the incident but we always look at. The current situation and make a valuations on any operating security that needed a level 2 to c.b.s. News military analyst Mike Lyon says the Navy will be looking into how they got their hands on weapons in most cases these bases are weapon free zones it's difficult to get a weapon on the base there this Saturday marks the 78th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that forced the u.s. Into World War 2 c.b.s. News update I'm Deborah Rodriguez Deborah All right now literally our thought for the day is attributed to me get this guy's name here who said this really wise thing it was author shop in our. German philosopher 0.1788 died 860 Here's what he said talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see. About this all right Tommy I guess we're going to have to blow the whistle here on our question I am surprised that none of our political types out there were able to get this but it or are here's the answer in 2000 to this date Strom Thurman the oldest and longest serving senator in history at that time celebrate his 100th birthday on Capitol Hill. He was overtook However in tenure by Robert Byrd Robert Byrd and Sally I remember covering a meeting one time in Russellville put on by the Chamber of Commerce at Arkansas Tech it was a. Program over there and Robert Byrd was the speaker as the featured speaker and you know what I remember most about that night was the little issue I had with a little rock television station and I was out there to broadcast the event and I had my k r v license plate up in front of this t.v. Guy from Little Rock one of the channels down here comes up to me and he says can I get you to take that down and I said take it down he said yeah you know I said well why why would I do that he said well we're going to be shooting some television film films here recording this and I said sir I don't mind you seeing my like a.r.v. Son and he said Well at least we'd prefer not to do I said well let me explain something to you sir you're in my town tonight and I don't believe that that you ought to come in from Little Rock and tell me to take my. Identification deal down off the microphone so he goes and speaks to one of the chamber people and they said well I guess the colonel is right you know you're in his town yeah yeah so he got a he shot from a different angle I guess or whatever yeah they go that's not the 1st time it's happened Captain maybe for some time we interview speaking of that and I you know there's there's probably I'd be better off not to even mention these things but when this station when this station 1st went on the air yeah now right now Raymond burns and the Colonel are good friends and we. Wonderful really well yeah it's with the chamber where we've been members for a long long time yet. But that 1st year I was a member of the Chamber of Commerce and we had a banquet so I sent a reporter over there to cover the banquet and we had r k r v I'm sorry Akka you r.e.m. License plate that we put up on the microphone and the Chamber of Commerce manager required him to take that down boy you talk about getting under my skin that did yeah shock I go over to talk to him the next morning and I said why would you do that and he said Well Ok mo doesn't have one and I said well let me ask you this do you think it is proper for you to penalize k u r m because a competitor radio station doesn't this doesn't do this sort of thing I said. I said that doesn't hold water and so I go back to the radio station and not I inform this guy that this was seriously jeopardizing my involvement with the chamber as a member and he called me up and he said you know Kerman He said I've been thinking about this and he said You are right he said You are right why should we penalize you because another radio station doesn't see fit to do this yeah and so but that was a kind of a slap in the face right off the bat how about Roger's chamber of commerce and so thank goodness it's a little better today yeah a little you know we understand each other a little better I don't see Kamal out there anymore well I'm just here low Ses No I don't see any radio stations Well you haven't seen at the at the city county things no corn court meetings school board meetings either Now you know and I remember one that many years ago at the. Springdale school board meeting when Jim Rollins introduced me to the to the school board and he said this guy's radio station does more for us than any of the Springdale stations force right now you know we don't really think of Springdale radio stations or yeah Rogers radio stations or whatever it's all gonna change kind of change around the around us I mean that's what we do what we do if you ever counted Carmen how many stations there are now say just been watching I believe Tommy there's about 20 I think you're right I think Hillary needs saying that 20 stay in Tommy here's something else Cumulus operates about 7 I think they argue Clear Channel operates about 44 and both of these conglomerates have headquarters way out of town on their own or longer in fact Kerman is one of the few locally owned radio stations now John likens over here lol My good pharmacist when I get all my prescriptions. He's calling radio man yeah he owns a few radio stay at and he's a local for sure and so that's kind of the way the cookie crumbles Yeah and you've got some other people that have several stations but we're one of the few when I go by course I've known John for years and I'm getting some medicine for myself or wow you he know to have a house Radio been a so I know it's going pretty good out yours Ok so now he is back and I kid him and I say John every time I have a new cam born I think of you. Has said as I said well you sell me this great big bottle of iodine and every time I have a new camp I dabbed the label there with his add it is. To prevent infection Yeah and I said so when I put. At all and I say Well I think of John like it's. Only there and yeah all right Tommy Ok what it's it's another day that you went to the Ace match yesterday farm again at the cooperative place there right in the farm a Good Marriage Act a trite next well to the old Farmington high school next to the cardinal football field of course that new one now is across town more or less been that's where it was that it was Ok we had a little bit of sound problems didn't have everything quite right but all in all it came out alright bit and built over my bill is having a good year athletically musically and academically I got here are gonna get handed to Bentonville and and I say that you know just to indicate that bin bill is the only big school that continues to to put an academic team out there yeah yeah well for the Who goes to Miss Jones and to the school it meant until and Rogers needs to step up and do that too it was going to have athletic teams especially we can spend $40000000.00 on. Athletic facilities we ought to have an interest in putting an academic team out here to compete as well don't you think yeah yeah sure thing and I ask every year course keeps getting smaller and y'all are wats up and the head guy you know the coordinates is says it's hard to get everybody participate because of the changing times and I'm a I look at him like what if i'm always look at the palm of my hand as it's a new signal for me you know oh me your hands your op ed Well part of it Todd or part of it is that people are busy and yeah that's just it's a matter of priorities Yeah I met I mean I or it's everybody's going all different directions out of it is really hard you know that was always the situation with Nick don't county in the football team I've covered him now for 3 or 4 years and when I talk to the parents of them it's it's so hard to be in spread out to get everybody in because everybody gets up mail you know you know in the old days I remember that was a big night football practice now there's you know there's so many other activities and if you have a large family and that to me they have the student body population with their substandard out and of course everybody knows and others that are not in wide Yeah and they thought of me remember Vera and some of those kids that are it's hard for my practice is only athletic you know it's kind of out of school hours they're biking it around but it's always one of the things I always talk to up there with the McDonnell county people is and it's kind of the same way over to Huntsville when you have rule kids so far out it's hard to get a man for everything that you want him to do a speaking of Huntsville we have our translator on yell in the air people are you know a lot of people are just now finding out about that but it's $97.00 f.m. There in Huntsville Yeah it's a low power f.m. Station so it doesn't cover a big area it doesn't cover a big area. But for Huntsville and for that area and I had a call last night from Kingston I believe and also. We've got some other towns marble you know that are I'd say towns that are within 10 miles of us will probably can pick that up pretty good but anyway we're going to be doing their ballgame again on Friday night with the gravity gravity so all of the and the On am 790 s. And in Huntsville f.m. 97.5 f.m. 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Collins of Georgia we have noted in the last little while that this is an essentially political progress process politicians are conducting it they're doing it in public public opinion matters and yet the law does matter as well history does matter as well whoever does anything in this process will want to be able to say that they were operating within the rule of law and that they were operating within president and so let's listen to some of the scholars who were brought forth to debate President and debate the law one of them is Noah Feldman of Harvard Law School and he spoke about the phrases in the Constitution about impeachment which says that an official may be impeached for treason bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors High Crimes and Misdemeanors are abuses of power and of public trust connected to the office of the presidency on the basis of the testimony and the evidence before the House President Trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency specifically President Trump has abused his office by corruptly soliciting president the emir's Selenski of Ukraine to announce investigations of his political rivals in order to gain personal advantage including in the 2020 presidential election Jonathan Turley of George Washington University affectively argued the other side with the case that he built partly on process and partly we might say on emotion when it comes to process he says the process is not complete the Democrats are moving too quickly when it comes to emotion Turley said that this is a country that is overcome by emotion where everyone including Turley's wife and his dog are mad he says and that because of that Congress risks moving too quickly he made a statement at the beginning of his testimony that he said was irrelevant but he felt a need to say that I'm not a supporter of President Trump. I voted against him. My personal views of President Trump are as a relevant to my impeachment testimony as they should be to your impeachment vote President Trump will not be our last president and what we leave in the wake of this scandal or shape our democracy for generations to come. I'm concerned about lowering impeachment standards to fit a paucity of evidence and an abundance of anger I believe this impeachment not only fails to satisfy the standard of past impeachments would create a dangerous precedent for future impeachments. So there is a discussion of precedence there's a discussion of history there's a discussion of process certainly a discussion of politics and the mood and the anger in the country there is also a discussion by Republicans on this committee of the process who have several times jumped in with procedural questions that were designed to highlight their view that the process is unfair that witnesses they would like to hear from have not been heard from but amid all of that we should note also that there has been some focus on the facts of what the president did which are facts that are largely undisputed which can be based in many cases on White House released documents Pamela Karlan a scholar of Stanford Law soon law school focused on that in some of her testimony a president should resist foreign interim Ference in our elections not demand that and not welcome it if we are to keep faith with our Constitution and with our Republic President Trump must be held to account so that is some of the testimony we've heard in the past 4 hours or so and after this break which should be ending in a few minutes we think that testimony will continue to Mack we just heard Jonathan Turley there in the slew of tape that Steve just played for us Jonathan Turley making the argument that this entire process has been too rushed to be too to be seen as a proper impeachment proceeding what do you make of that argument well yeah it really stood out to me he said that this process needs quote saturation and maturation right and that it that it's not that it's not an impulse buy you need to give some time to build the record and you know I heard Steve making that comparison back to the Nixon impeachment in 1902 in the 2 years that that that developed beef between the break in and the impeachment but you know I I wanted also to point out the Clinton impeachment also did take place on a pretty. Low rated tide celebrated time when I write I I'm sorry I'm citing Peter Baker here of the New York. Times he did the math and he looked at the number of days between when be impeachment inquiry was authorized for the Clinton impeachment process the days between when it was authorized and when the impeachment vote occurred was 72 days now it's been 71 days since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the start of this impeachment inquiry process and of course we haven't had a vote on right impeachment as you know needing to do that by the end of December it's possible it could come within the next couple weeks here in the house but if you compare the impeachment process for the President Trump with President Clinton you can you can see that actually there's a little bit more time being considered a different circumstances of course but a little bit more time considered here for the Trump impeachment process intrastate and during the Clinton she's very interesting All right well this is Law Day So I'm going to put my legal nerd hat back on I don't really doctor remind people that you're a lawyer if their own lawyer and a legal marriage be just me here in. Hell such as Jim I've been listening for what are the threads that Democrats are pursuing to try to make the case that certain high crimes and misdemeanors have been committed so we've been hearing about bribery already a lot this morning there's also this thread that they're pursuing called obstruction of Congress and in a separate thread called obstruction of justice so I'm just going to hand this over to you Allen my fellow lawyer here in the room what is it again yeah we've got to stick together we're going to prove that lawyers can be likable people don't you promised him I. Didn't Doug Collins Republican of Georgia begin his statement today by saying people are going to hear why it's almost that most people don't go to law school right and I was very personally offended by that is actually a lot of fun Ok so what is the difference between obstruction of Congress and obstruction of justice let's just start there you know I think it's terminology more than anything else something. Presumably Congress tries to do just this and if you're stuck in Congress you are stuck in just as I don't think there's a big gap or dividing line between the 2. It's interesting you know in some ways one could argue as serious in my my view that the Ukrainian caper was that in some ways the obstruction of. Letting having Congress have the resources and what it needs to do to do its job is even more of a threat to our constitutional process why do you say that we have 3 branches of government they're supposed to work in harmony if possible but to basically take away from the Congress the ability to do their function and they are the only ones who can do the role handled the role of impeachment that really it's a dagger right at the heart of our constitutional system and I really do think if we if we focus on that. It many ways it may be a more serious threat to our constitutional government then the Ukraine caper although I do think that the Ukraine. The facts about Ukraine are very serious we should remember before we go Tamara Liasson that in the Watergate impeachment process which ended of course when Nixon resigned the 3 articles of impeachment they were approved by a House committee essentially focused on obstruction of justice for the most part President Nixon didn't commit the Watergate burglary he was not accused of that kind of a crime he was accused of obstructing justice in the effort of Congress is more important than the underlying crime yes but what's so interesting is the charge of obstruction is the most constant as Alan just said the most constitutionally threatening and undermining and perhaps the most significant but it is the least politically compelling because most people that 1st of all most people have no idea what it is why it's important now people did understand that Bill Clinton lied under oath about sex now they came to feel that that was an impeachable that's why his numbers shot up 10 points as soon as he was impeached I think they understood that Richard Nixon. Covered up a burglary but on this one the underlying facts seem more dangerous than either of those 2 acts you're saying at any time for our a new president is a sexier argument than saying well we want to subpoena them but I think they would read this writing is already won't give us Dr Rice or even even even putting aside the bribery just merely asking a foreign government to intervene as the president has done in numerous occasions Russian if you're listening please give us the e-mails he stood on the South Lawn and said Ukraine and China should both open investigations into the Bidens I mean he is he said on June 13th George Stephanopoulos of a foreign government came to me with information I take it in other words this is is is basically something that the president things is. Is fine and the question is do the American people so given that given that maybe this argument about what happened between President Trump and Ukrainian president is going to capture the public's imagination more powerfully than any obstruction argument how likely do you think it is that any of the obstruction of justice findings that we saw in the Muller report and let me be very clear were not saying that special counsel Robert Mueller found obstruction of justice though he did point out that had he found evidence that there would that there was no obstruction of justice he would have pointed that out and he kind of deferred to the internal policy of the Justice Department not to prosecute a sitting president so he didn't make a conclusion on obstruction of justice but there is some talk among some Democratic lawmakers that certain things found in the Miller report related to possible obstruction of justice should be brought into this impeachment inquiry how possible or how politically palatable do you think that is I think that look we this is a montra you know impeachment is political we say that over and over again there are Democrats who think the impeachment should be kept very narrow and there are Democrats who think that who have already pretty Ukraine thought that there were reasons obstruction from the report from the mother of Terri handler Terro the gesture of commuters that making that are that's a that's an internal debate among Democrats but what's so interesting to me is even though we say that that impeachment is a political judgment and it's a political exercise the politics of this are totally unclear for both sides there has not been a groundswell for impeachment that's good other Republicans are not but there hasn't been a backlash to impeachment and that's good for Democrats we are basically going into this the most serious thing that one branch can do to another we are going into this with public opinion split unlikely to move and in a way even though we keep on. Saying this is political the house is not doing this because of politics they're doing this because of the constitutional order that's being threatened to the fundamental system of checks and balances that has nothing to do with public opinion because the public is not engaged with that with this on that level more let me ask you something about it that makes them it makes sense you always make sense not to deny something about not publish a 3rd of all you know exactly what congressional opinion you have noted that the public may not necessarily keep track of the meaning of these allegations of the structure of justice or a conflict between the president and Congress but we know that that's the centerpiece of American government the people who are in the government usually would be expected to know and if we had civics education people would know there was no necessary I'm going to have all of their help but any case what the what what I have seen in the past is that you will have lawmakers who will follow that maxim where you stand is determined in part by where you sit they sit in Congress and even if they are in the same party as the president they may get angry if the president over reaches his authority there were stories during the Obama administration of Democrats who felt that the president was being a little too arrogant There were stories in the Bush administration Republicans who were unhappy with overreach by the Bush administration are you surprised at all that we've seen relatively little of that from Republicans in Congress who might say I support this president I know what my voters think but I'm unhappy that the president is defying the will of Congress here are you surprised at all have things which are he's a proper we're you guys are I know what right has been rising up there's no the truth yes I was surprised that there's nobody in the president's party who has at least said I want to stick up for the institution that I meant well 1st of all some Republicans have said a version of that I mean Mitt Romney has said what you know what the president did was wrong there are some Republicans who said some version of what the president did was wrong but it's not impeachable that as far as any Republican who is not retiring at least is willing. To say what about the part about cooperating with Congress has there been any Republican groundswell that should at least not with you know certainly not but but I can tell you that there are Republicans who privately worry about that and there are I think a couple Republicans who are retiring who have made a few peeps about that but look we are in a thoroughly tribal ised political moment and that has been one of the most significant. Features of this entire process that it is that Republicans are not even saying I know what the facts are they don't rise to impeachment they are saying there are no facts that's pretty much what the House Republican rebuttal statement document said or arguing that the facts are different that the president was merely trying to go after corruption and you crave another word corruption never get never came up in that phone call got a remarkable moment in which the Republican counsel in these proceedings raised past impeachments raised past obstruction of justice as a way of defending President Trump because he was supposedly going after some kind of covered up crime in Ukraine Alan Baron What do you make of that argument that on the face of it the facts would suggest that President Trump by calling and asking for investigation of 2016 conspiracy theories and Joe Biden would be engaging in anti corruption Dr. It's just it just doesn't pass the laugh test to be honest it's silly and everything else tells you what really happened the one thing that comes out of all these the all these testimony from these witnesses we know what happened there's no mystery here. Trump wanted the Ukraine to launch at least publicly an investigation of Biden and the earlier election and what he was holding up and dangling in front of them was the $400000000.00 that had been appropriated and a visit to the White House end of story either you think that's wrong and impeachable or you don't know mystery here about what happened all right we're going to be taking a very short break right now we are here with n.p.r. National political correspondent Mara Liasson with lawyer Alan Baron and with N.P.R.'s to mak You're listening to special coverage of the impeachment hearings from n.p.r. News. B.c.c. Supporters include the l.a. 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News I'm also changing by my co-host Steve Inskeep I want to go to you Mara Liasson you wanted to jump off a point that Alan Baron just made which was look it's either impeachable and wrong or it's not what I said and I'm just saying there could be a 3rd option to that end which is it's wrong but it's not impeachable and what I think is so interesting yes Republican yes Democrats have some hope for some period of time that some Republicans moderate Republicans would cross over that hope has now been dashed but for the same reason that I think the the sound bite for today was Jonathan Turley saying the call was not perfect but still it's not impeachable I think it will matter in the Senate what Republican senators say when they stand up and say I'm voting to acquit but you know and they'll have some of them will either say what the president did was perfect or something if they can say I had the one you know what I'm saying is there might be some criticism just as Jonathan Turley soundbite will be fodder for Democrats I think it matters Hal Republican senators explain their decision to acquit because what the Democrats want to do is force Republicans to defend what the president did not really to argue whether it's impeachment impeachable or not because I think Democrats are now giving up on that here but happen but can they defend what the president actually did you think that there is turf out there for Republican senators to be disapproving of what he president really. The field at hand yeah that's right are the ones that feel it's politically necessary for them to win their election for instance I'm thinking of Susan Collins or Cory Gardner You know 2 things to note on that point one of course president trumps defense and he's been explicit about this at all times is to never admit a mistake never give an inch of ground say that whatever I did I didn't do that and even if I did it it's totally fine that's a standard formulation for the president since long before he was elected president but the other position that Mara lays out is intriguing because of those who may be thinking about President and thinking about history if you're a Republican senator and you decide to take the position that this is not impeachable conduct but it's wrong you would at least be putting yourself in a position where you're not inviting further abuses where you're trying to say you should not be soliciting foreign interference in an election but I'm not going for an impeachment here I wonder if that opens up the possibility of a movement to to censure of the president but not go to the point of end of impeachment and conviction in the Senate we have asked questions about that and one of the people we asked about that actually was Adam Schiff the House Intelligence Committee chairman and here's part of what he had to say about that I'm not a fan of the idea of censure and I guess we should define it for people we're talking about Congress one house or the other voting to severely criticized the president but not actually trying to remove the reprimand it's a slap on reading this out a lot of lawmakers would describe how it made matters in history if you think about someone like Joseph McCarthy these senator the anticommunist senator in the early 1950 s. He was censured finally by the United States Senate and that is part of the Forever record of Joseph McCarthy is that he was censured by the Senate it matters to history you could raise a question of whether it matters in the moment but in any case shifts and I think we have to decide whether the mechanism that the founders provided ought to be utilized were it should not be utilized impeachment or no that was the way that Adam Schiff phrased that option but of course some other people have phrased this other ways I. A note I want to remind people of a little bit of what's been said today in the note that people are beginning to file back into the hearing room where the House Judiciary Committee has been hearing from these legal witnesses and we're going to listen to a just a bit of the testimony from this morning and the early afternoon and we will begin with Jerrold Nadler he is the committee chairman who will gavel this hearing back to order you know in a short time and although his Republican counterpart accused him of wanting impeachment for quite some time never insisted that he has a reluctant Chairman I do not wish this moment on the country it is not a pleasant task that we had to take today but we have each taken an oath to protect the Constitution and the facts before us are clear President Trump did not merely seek to benefit from foreign interference in our elections he directly and explicitly invited foreign interference in our elections it is the powers of his office to try to make it happen so a lot of what today's been filled with is arguments legal arguments constitutional arguments historical arguments for what kinds of high crimes and misdemeanors President Trump has committed we talked about bribery we talked about obstruction of Congress we talked about obstruction of justice but sort of an overlay to all this is the foreign element today Professor Pam Carlin from Stanford Law School she noted that this is the 1st impeachment proceeding to involve foreign interference by a foreign country in one of our elections here's how she put it. The founding generation like every generation of American since was especially concerned to protect our government and our democratic process from outside interference for example John Adams during the ratification expressed concern with the very idea of having an elected president writing to Thomas Jefferson that you are actor hence of a foreign interference intrigue influence so am I but as often as a lections happened the danger of foreign influence recurs and in his Farewell Address President Washington warned that history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most being full foes of republican government and he explained that this was in part because foreign governments would try and foment disagreement among the American people and influence what we thought the very idea that a president might seek the aid of a foreign government in his re-election campaign would have horrified them based on the evidentiary record that is what President Trump has done I'm interested in Alan barons and N.P.R.'s Ron Elving spots on this and Ron Elving I think of you as a pseudo lawyer because you edited Nina Totenberg for so long you have a daughter who has a lawyer so we have more than 2 lawyers in this room essentially But this idea of foreign interference how crucially important is it do you agree with Pam Karlan that that is what makes this particular impeachment proceeding so compellingly different from previous ones either of you can chime in particularly legal standpoint it does add a dimension that we haven't seen in either the Nixon case or the Clinton case or for that matter. In a 100 Johnson's case what we're talking about here is something that involves national security because we have the foreign policy of the United States towards Ukraine which involves resisting Russian incursion on their territory they took over Crimea they've been nibbling away at the eastern portion of Ukraine and the Ukrainians are fighting back and they're fighting back largely with our weapons. So to hold that up and to make it clear that it's going to be held up while you ask for a favor that's a national security issue affecting the future of Ukraine and the future of the survival of NATO and a lot of other things that are crucial to American national security that's a different thing from what you were talking about with Bill Clinton and his perjury and his sexual affair which is why go ahead what do you make of that Allan this that this element of foreign interference does it mean for impeachment even more compelling absolutely you know that we came within a hair's breadth of impeaching Richard Nixon and there was no component of foreign interference at all here it's right at the heart of what's going on what went on between Trump and Ukraine it is truly sinister truly sinister when our foreign policy or when the screws are put to a devalued. Country that is in desperate shape and needs us and says well we're sitting on $400000000.00 worth of aid that you need and you need to come meet with me to have more credibility with your constituents but you can't have it because I need you to do something for me so I'm more likely to win my election that is so. Reprehensible and so against the way the system should work I think it it adds a whole new dimension making it much more sinister which helps to explain why some of the legal scholars that we're hearing from today have essentially said there are various boxes you can check for impeachment various things and this is a grand slam this gets them all your check all the boxes just about every reason the founders would have wanted there to be impeachment is present here according to some of the legal scholars and let's hear a bit more from one of them this is Michael Gary Hart of the University of North Carolina law school if what we're talking about is not impeachable the nothing is a beach this is for syce Lee misconduct that the framers created a constitution including impeachment to protect against and if there's no action if we if Congress to concludes. They're going to give a pass to the president here as Professor Karlan suggested earlier every other president president will say Ok then I can do the same thing and the boundaries will just evaporate and those boundaries are set up by the Constitution and we may be witnessing Unfortunately there are ocean and that is a danger to all of us Ron Elving let me put the same question that we put to morrow Liasson about this earlier Mara Liasson noted that some members of Congress do at least privately worry about the erosion of the powers of their institution of the president taking greater power but also I think correctly noted that we're in an age where people make everything up as they go along and maybe nobody will say this is a president because nobody will be able to remember any more than 5 minutes 5 minutes later do you have a sense of how concerned people are if at all in Washington about the presidents that are being said here either by the impeachment or by the president's acts and actions that have led to this inquiry highly concerned and in both directions on both points that you race the big question the ultimate question of the entire trip presidency is how much it's going to permanently change the way things are done now for many of the people who voted for Donald Trump that's exactly what they wanted they wanted to change the way things are done in Washington they wanted to disrupt the way Washington works and the 2 party system if you will and the way that they saw the elite represented by Republicans in those regulated represented by Democrats divvying up all the power in running the country and they wanted that disrupted so the question is whether he serves one term or 2 terms or all of one term Donald Trump has clearly disrupted the normal arrangements for both parties that clearly pleases many of the people who voted for him if not most of the people who voted for him in fact and how permanent a change is that going to be will it survive Donald Trump will we never go back to the way things were before or would be one way that normalcy has been disrupted to it during today's hearings the White House noticeably has chosen not to participate today they were invited by the House Judiciary Committee to supply counsel to engage in the line of questioning let me ask either of you Ron Elving or Alan Baron What does the White House substantively give up by not having counsel here anything yes I think they do give up something they give up the opportunity to cross-examine witnesses to test whatever thesis is being put forward by a witness who has been called by the Democrats but. It's also there's a risk for one by participating you a sense give it up you embrace its authenticity you embrace its validity and they they say well we're just not going to play because it's not valid it's not authentic and I think that you've got to have good ammunition if you're going to get out on the field and start cross-examining And if they're going to not going to have very much to say other than you know beating their Did there on the desk. I don't think they want to be in that position I think they sense that there's a weakness in their position and better not to play at all than to go out and get hammered kind of something about the checks and balances that we were talking about before Ron Elving there have been a number of surveys this year noting a rise among Republicans who tell pollsters that they're not so interested in checks and balances anymore I'm looking at reporting from August 2019 a Pew Research Center poll finding that a majority of conservative Republicans this isn't all Republicans 50 percent of them agree that many problems would be solved if u.s. Presidents didn't have to worry so much about Congress or the courts. Now now we people laugh your I suppose are nervous laughter laughter there it's not something you would like to hear necessarily but it's the way that people feel and of course there was a moment during the Obama presidency in which President Obama faced a Republican Congress that said no to just about everything that he asked for that that people felt it was time for the president to go around Congress is this is this normal for the people in power to think the rules are just so unfair and for people who are not in power to be leaning in the rules to some degree yes I think that is normal I think that people in power always think there are too many restrictions on them and the people who are trying to restrain them always think they don't have enough tools but if you went back 5 years and asked those same conservative Republicans that same question during the 2nd term of Barack Obama I doubt very much they would have given quite the same answer and this is one of the problems with polls that people hear questions in a context and they sometimes. Here are kind of code in the question and that whole becomes do you approve of Donald Trump or do you not and for conservative Republicans the answer is going to be yes they do approve of him and they will approve of him even if they hear your question being rephrased in such a way as to be in their minds rather invidious like we're trying to pull you away from what you really think and getting to talk about checks and balances are the traditional way that our government used to work they understand that I think on a on a on a visceral level they understand it that you're asking them to change their minds when they say 1st that they approve of Donald Trump and then you're asking them how they feel about all these other issues so I do think you've got a partisan issue I think you've also got people who want to be consistent in their answers poll this past week that said that something like 50 some percent of conservative Republicans or some category of Republicans thought that Donald Trump was a better president than Abraham Lincoln now I doubt very much that all the Republicans that I grew up with wouldn't give that answer at any of their various ages but they had more personal experience with Abraham with Abraham Lincoln Well let me just let me just say that that I doubt very much that that is the long term historical judgment of the Republican Party that Lincoln was a lesser president than Donald Trump but at this particular moment in time I can understand why people would hear that question in a particular way and hear it in kind of a decoding fashion and say you know I think Donald Trump is in some sense his is a greater President speaking of his moment in time and how it's compared to the past I'm interested in both of your takes on this because you both have a long view I'm not making a comment about your ages but I know that you have they both are very young. Ron you covered the Clinton impeachment I'm just curious what so far has jumped out at you as noticeably different between how this House Judiciary Committee is running this particular impeachment inquiry at least this stage and how we did so in the past is there anything. Strikingly different well 1st of all something strikes me that similar which is that obviously these Democrats gerrymander and so on as accused have had it in their minds to have an impeachment proceeding once they got control of the House majority and we saw that kind of language pretty early on even in fact before they got the House majority so yes they got started with the idea thought they weren't going to have enough and then boom the whistleblower happened and now they've really got a wedge so there's that and the Republicans back in 1908 had all kinds of problems with Bill Clinton and in his 2nd term they were feeling very frustrated and all of a sudden along comes this sexual affair with an intern in the White House and that was just right because they got him in front of a grand jury and once he lied about it then they had him on perjury and because he had tried to in some sense interfere with the entire process they could call it obstruction of justice and off they went to the races so there there are there are some feelings of visceral similarity the big difference of course is the nature of the offense what Bill Clinton did that was wrong what Donald Trump is being accused of doing and being told was wrong those it seems to me are on entirely different planets because you're talking about an entirely personal matter and then perjury about that personal matter and then on the other hand you're talking about as we've described an issue of national security and international relations and in fact the survival of Ukraine I want to bring an element of things you know I think that's a perfect ending of cancelations what you or I think everything I want to bring in a younger voice to N.P.R.'s Jim. Morris and he didn't report it on the Hill for many years back with him not that not that he'll necessarily but other than right I don't even know how old you were during the Clinton impeachment or if you were even born yet Tim I don't know. But I'm curious from your vantage point because you have spent a lot of time now on Capitol Hill. This particular has to do serious. I mean he is known for having missed the citrus defenders of President Trump on its panel who do we expect to be the most visit for us defenders today as each of the members after we get back from lunch will have a chance to at least have 5 minutes of questions Who do you think are going to lead to some fireworks you know let me start with someone I was a little bit surprised with Congressman Sensenbrenner right he is c. He's a Republican a long time member of this committee he was of former chairman of this committee for I believe 6 years and he's really been seen as the as a as a really real seasoned veteran of the procedure and. The things that take place on the committee saw to seasoned that he was around for that impeachment here you were just joking around Correct going but he's he's also taking the lead now I mean he was never a very strong supporter of the president certainly not during the 2016 campaign and he has been kind of a more moderate voice on this committee but you can see that behind the scenes he is he is leading the charge in terms of ideas in how to handle these procedural objections we we heard 2 or 3 times interrupted the proceedings this morning I was a little bit surprised that he would be willing to lead that in terms of you know conservative voices and and really vocal allies of the president obviously Congressman Doug Collins has been very vocal We'll also hear from Congressman Louie Gohmert who has not been shy in Texas who has not been shy about his support for the president there's also Jim Jordan Jim Jordan sits on this panel as well the Hyatt who was quite vocal in during the House Intelligence Committee portion of these hearings as so he may also be vocal once again I want to as we're watching lawmakers slowly file back in from lunch I want to ask Ron Elving to go back in time again for us because you did cover the Clinton. Hearings and when we were listening to Jonathan Turley one of the 4 legal scholars testify today Ron you kind of went down a little bit of a memory lane and started resurrecting quotes from Turley sentiments that he expressed back in 1918 kind of give us a rundown of what Turley's position was back then when President Clinton with getting impeached Well again he did not want people to think of him self as a Republican he said I voted for Bill Clinton I'm not here to tear down Bill Clinton but I think if he perjured himself we can't have a perjurer as president and he has to leave office if he committed perjury which is I think a very defensible loyally position to take and after all Bill Clinton himself was a lawyer and understood what he was doing before that grand jury and was eventually disbarred over that testimony as well so OS has lost law license but other presidents but not the presidency because the Senate which by the way had a Republican majority could not muster even a majority let alone a 2 thirds majority for either of the 2 counts that came out of the House largely because people thought they had pretty much understood what they had before them what the limits were what he had done why he had done it and that he had been exposed and in some sense or another punished and that he was not particularly likely to continue in that particular vein going forward so in this particular case however I think we're looking at something very different it's a 1st term of a president who is obviously going to call himself exonerated if the Senate doesn't remove him from office and he's going to use that as a major part of his campaign and then he is going to also feel as though he has been given a license to do any of the things that he has done up to now and been accused of doing criminally and he will then feel course as though they're not criminal little I suppose we should note his general never with a folder under his arm walks back and it will be get gaveling the hearing back into order once again we know from various sources that this House Judiciary Committee is at least thinking about including charges from the Muller report from the Russia investigation we know that from Adam Schiff who told us in our interview we heard some question. It's from that are that related to that the model report could be there and since you have Republicans on the committee who voted to impeach President Clinton for lying under oath there's a little time bomb of hypocrisy there right because the president was told to answer questions for Bob Mueller he ultimately did answer written questions and there are now some allegations some questions about whether everything the president said was strictly truthful when talking about his association with Wiki Leaks if they broaden this out we do have a possibility of perjury charges along with everything else against the president the United States wrote on have been in front of a grand jury on tape and that's a big difference and also if it does come to that I suspect that will possibly change some minds or could change the mind Sensenbrenner was one of the 13 managers of that impeachment who actually took the case from the house over to the Senate to argue for the removal of Bill Clinton from office so I think it was good of him to bring up the record of Jim Sensenbrenner and how he has been seen as you know a traditional Republican if you will a Midwestern Republican not some hard right figure conservative to be sure but also somebody who worked to to renew the Civil Rights Act in the Voting Rights Act and so forth so if he were to see a different set of facts and something that more lined up with what he went after Bill Clinton for he might be in some sense or another tractable that said are Democrats as unified on the findings of the most part as they are on the Ukraine affair probably not because among other things it requires a great deal more reading you really not really need to read that 2nd volume of the motor report to get just read the phone call transcript but there are those who have read it who say you know if you look at this carefully it's a road map it's a road map to impeaching the president so that he would then be indicted bill as Miller says he's not unless he's been impeached him back let me just ask you as we wait for NAVL or to bring down the gavel I'm just curious as someone who wanders the halls of Congress or all the lawmakers there as angry as they seem to be on t.v. Not not at all I mean lawmakers are generally pretty jovial. They're willing to talk in answer questions that the angry Doug Collins is not what you would get when you had to stop him for a question in the hallways outside the hearing room were during House votes or something like that how do they explain that difference if they ever do is it simply a performance I mean I don't think that they explain that particular difference I'm not sure that question specifically has been asked but it's clear that these hearings have a theatrical element to them no one would deny that it does not seem from the outside like it is necessarily a fun job but I suppose if you're a certain kind of person with a certain kind of background it might be kind of a joy to be in this kind of verbal combat all the time well you know one thing that I really that struck me was that Congressman Doug Collins and chairman Adler were kind of joking at the beginning of this hearing before the tell me you know that the television lights came on and they hearing started they actually had a kind word it appeared for each other at the very beginning and I want to note that Chairman Adler is in his seat Doug Collins is in his seat we would expect them as soon as they get a sip of water to begin this hearing and we'll remind people who are just joining us our witnesses are Noah Feldman Pamela Karlan Michael Gearheart And Jonathan Turley they are all legal experts the 1st 3 names that I gave were called by Democrats the 4th by Republicans here we go by. The committee will come to order the chairman carrying out her round of the 5 minute rule and I recognize Mr Sensenbrenner for 5 minutes to question the witnesses thank you very much Mr Chairman Here's the maker we mentioned. Of Wisconsin. Is the teacher and you're informed Pietschmann has claimed 3 judges that's more than anybody else in history and one of the things every teacher the ones that I was involved are others that have come before the committee were. I was not a manager is a debate what is a high crime and misdemeanor and how serious does that have to be in order for it to rise to a level of an impeachable offense 50 years ago then Republican leader Gerald Ford. Made comment that saying a high crime and misdemeanor is anything in majority of the House of Representatives deems it to be in any given day I don't agree with that you know that says either a very low bar or a nonexistent bar and it certainly would big the president to serve the pleasure of the house which was not what the framers intended. When they rejected the British form of parliamentary democracy where the prime minister in the government could be overthrown by a mere vote of no confidence in the House of Commons so I am looking at what we're facing here. This whole in Cari always started out by a. President Trump made the president's Alinsky in the July 25th call of quote Do me a favor I'm cool There are some who say it's a quid pro quo there are some who have implied that there's a quid pro quo but both Trump and Zelinsky is that it wasn't insolence he has said there was no pressure on me and the AIG came through within 6 weeks after the phone call in question was made now you can contrast that to where there was no impeachment inquiry Vice President Biden. And he was giving a speech and said You know I held up a $1000000000.00 worth of aid unless the prosecutor was fired with within 6 hours and son of a bleep that's what happened. You know it seems to me that if you're looking for a quid pro quo and looking for something that was really over the top it was not saying Do me a favor. Saying son of a leave that's what happened in 6 hours. You know. The Republicans who are in charge of Congress at the time Biden made that comment we did not have the country up for 3 months and going for now. Wrapping everybody in this town or the Axelrod we continually attempting to do the public's business that's not what's happening here and I think the American public are getting a little bit sick and tired of impeachment impeachment and Pietschmann when they know that less than a year from now they will be able determine whether down Trump stays in office or somebody else will be elected and I take this responsibility stream least seriously you know it is an awesome and very grave responsibility and it is not one that should be done lightly it is not one that should be done quickly and it is not one without examining all of the evidence which is what was in the Nixon impeachment and what was by Can a star in the Clinton impeachment now I'd like to ask you Professor Turley because you're buying is the only one of the 4 of you up there that doesn't seem to have it made up before you walk into the door isn't there a difference between saying Do me a favor and son of a bleep that's what happened in 6 hours time. Grammatically Yes. Constitutionally it really depends on the context I think your point is a good one in the sense that we have to determine from the transcript and hopefully from other witnesses whether this statement was part of an actual quid pro quo I guess the threshold question is if the president said I'd like you do to do these investigations and by the way I don't group them together in my testimony I distinguish between the requests for investigations into 2016 from the investigation of the Bidens. It is an issue of order of the magnitude of the border Constitutionally if you ask. Like you see you do this is opposed to I have a quid pro quo you either do this or you don't get military aid Thank you. You leave the military. Thank you Mr Chairman for yielding Vesicare. Jack when he. Is not impeachable then nothing is impeachable I'm reminded of my time on the House Judiciary Committee during the 1990 s. Impeachment and as well a number of federal judges I was guided then not only by the facts but by the Constitution and the duty to serve this nation. I believe as we greet you today that we are charged with a sober and somber responsibility so Professor Harlan I'd like you to look at the Teligent volume were hundreds of documents are behind that in the model report Reza Carl and you study the wreckage do you think it is quote wafer thin and can you remark on the strength of the wreckage before. So obviously it's not wafer thin. And the strength of the record is not just in the September I mean the July 25th call I think that we you need to ask about this is how does it fit into the pattern of behavior by the president because what you're really doing is you're drawing inferences here this is about circumstantial evidence as well as direct evidence that is you're trying to infer did the president ask for a political favor and I think this record supports the inference that he did. What comparisons Professor Karlan can we make between Cain's that the framers were afraid of and the president's conduct today so kings could do no wrong because the king's word was law and contrary to what President Trump has said Article 2 does not have give him the power to do anything he wants and I'll just give you one example that shows you the difference between him and a king which is the Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility So while the president can name his son Baron he can't make him a baron. Thank you the founding of. The Founding Father George Mason as any man be above justice and Alexander Hamilton wrote that high crimes and misdemeanors mean the abuse of violation of some public trust as we move quickly professor of film and you have previously testified that the president has abused his power is that correct yes ma'am what do you think is the most compelling evidence in this impeachment inquiry that would lead you to that the phone call itself of July 25th is extraordinarily clear to my mind and that we hear the president asking for a favor that's clearly of personal benefit rather than acting on behalf of the interests of the nation and then further the further from that further further down the road we have we have more evidence which tends to give the context and to support the explanation for what happened. Professor Carlin How does such abuse affect our democratic systems having foreign interference in our election means that we are less free it is less we the people who are determining who's the next winner than it is a foreign government I think it is fair to say that the president's actions are unprecedented. But what also strikes me is how many Republicans and Democrats believe that his conduct was wrong let's listen is improper for the president and let the United States listen to the Colonel. Is improper for the president of the United States to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. Citizen and a political opponent. Vesa Fellman in light of the fact that the president asked for an investigation and then only when he was caught release the military aide is there still a need for impeachment yes ma'am impeachment is complete when the president abuses his office and he abuses his office by attempting to abuse his office there's no distinction there between trying to do it and succeeding in doing it and that's especially true if you only stop because you got caught over 70 percent of the American people. Believe as I said what the president did was wrong we have a solemn responsibility to address that and as well our fidelity to our olds and our duty reminded of the men and women who serve in the United States military and I'm reminded of my 3 uncles who served in World War 2. I can imagine them being on the battlefield needing arms and food and the generals says do me a favor we know that General would not say Do me a favor and so in this instance the American people deserve unfettered leadership and it is our duty to fairly assess the facts and the Constitution I feel that my time you know way back. Thank you Mr Chairman it's pretty clear to me that no matter what question you publican Steve Shabbat Ohio today and no matter what their answers or that most if not all of the Democrats on this committee are going to vote to impeach President. That's what their hard core Trump hating base wants and they've wanted that since the president was elected 3 years ago in fact when Democrats took over the house one of the 1st things that they did was introduce articles of impeachment against President Trump and that was way before President Trump and Ukrainian president Selenski ever had their famous phone call weather was perfect or not and now today we're undertaking a largely academic exercise in stead of hearing from fact witnesses like Adam sheriff or Hunter Biden not being permitted to call those witnesses it would seem that sense shift for example misled the American people on multiple occasions common sense and basic fairness would call for shift to be questioned about those things but we can't Mr Chairman back in 1998 when another President Bill Clinton was being considered for impeachment you said and I quote We must not overturn an election and impeach a president without an overwhelming consensus of the American people and the representatives in Congress you also said quote There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment substantially supported by one of the major political parties and largely opposed by the other. You said such an impeachment would lack legitimacy would produce divisiveness and bitterness in our politics for years to come and will call into question the very legitimacy of our political institutions that's what you said back then Mr Chairman Well what you said shouldn't never happen that we should never do is exactly what you're doing now moving forward without a consensus and impeachment by one major party that's opposed by the other and it's almost certain that it's going to result in the very divisiveness and bitterness that you so accurately warned us about back then Mr Chairman a couple more quotes from a very wise Jerry Nadler from about 2 decades ago quote The last thing you want it's almost illegitimate is to have a party line impeachment you shouldn't impeach the president unless it's a broad consensus of the American people those are wise words Mr Chairman but you're not following them today and finally again your words back then the issue in a potential impeachment is whether to overturn the results of a national election the free expression of the popular will of the American people that is an enormous responsibility and an extraordinary power it is not one we should exercise lightly it is certainly not one which should be exercised in a manner which either is or would be perceived by the American people to be unfair or partisan unquote Again Mr Chairman those things that you warned against then are exactly what you and your Democratic colleagues are doing now you're about to move forward with a totally party line impeachment that is clearly not a broad consensus of the American people you're overturning the result of a national election and there's no doubt that it will be perceived by their listening to special coverage of the impeachment hearings rather n.p.r. 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Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles This is rising up on Ali and I'm your host son on legal hot car we're online at rising up what's on Ali dot com In today's news headlines House Republicans have released their own report on the impeachment inquiry to rebut the official report from committees that was shared with members on Monday the Republican Party's $123.00 page report which was obtained by media outlets claims that quote the evidence presented does not prove any of these Democrat allegations and none of the Democrats witnesses testified to having evidence of bribery extortion or any high crime or misdemeanor House Intelligence chair Representative Adam Schiff denounced the report as having been written for quote an audience of one and he added that it quote ignores voluminous evidence that the president used to the power of his office to pressure Ukraine into investigating his political rival by withholding military aid and a White House meeting the president of Ukraine desperately sought committee members voted on the official report on Tuesday after being given copies on Monday President Donald Trump was currently in London for the annual NATO summit took an opportunity to blast just political rivals while speaking with reporters he dismissed an idea of censuring him as a weaker alternative to impeachment saying quote I did nothing wrong you don't center somebody when they did nothing wrong you also accused Democrats of being quote unpatriotic while at the summit Trump also clashed with French President Emanuel McCraw saying he had made quote very very nasty comments about trumps role in NATO McCraw had recently claimed a trumps u.s. Leadership. Was leading to a quote brain death of NATO Trump on Tuesday responded saying you can't just you just can't go around making statements like that about NATO it's very disrespectful he may have forgotten the many times that he has personally insulted NATO including calling members of the alliance delinquent only a year ago. Despite Trump's trip to Europe the impeachment process here in the Us will continue with the House Judiciary Committee ordering hearings starting on Wednesday committee chair Jerrold Nadler revealed the list of legal scholars that will testify including No I felt many Harvard law professor Pamela Karlan a law professor at Stanford and Michael Gerhardt a law professor at the University of North Carolina Republicans are calling their own witnesses including Jonathan Turley a law professor at George Washington University there are now reports that Democrats may be considering expanding the list of prompts impeachment offenses beyond the Ukraine stand all. The Justice Department's inspector general has reportedly concluded that the f.b.i. Has had enough reason to launch a probe of the 2016 presidential campaign and collusion with Russia but Attorney General William Barr is apparently skeptical of that conclusion the highly anticipated report on December 9th is the culmination of an investigation done at bar and Trump's behest in order to undermine the special counsel's investigation if Barr rebuts his own department's conclusion it would confirm the partisanship that he's been accused off and repeatedly siding with Trump Meanwhile bar slammed a judge's recent ruling that has allowed lawmakers to see secret grand jury evidence from the special counsel's probe saying that it would discourage future witnesses. Republican lawmaker Duncan Hunter has pled guilty to one of a series of campaign finance violations hunter who represents areas in southern California including parts of Riverside and San Diego had been accused of violating laws for years only language reminiscent of President Trump he had denounced the investigations as fake news a witch hunt and the product of the deep state the l a Times explained that hunters wife and former campaign manager Margaret Hunter admitted to her role in a widespread scheme that saw the couple allegedly spend more than $200000.00 in campaign donations on family expenses like vacations gas groceries school lunches and oral surgery a u.s. Appeals court on Tuesday directed to issue bank and Capital One financing group to turn over Trump's financial records to House committees that have subpoena them the ruling represents another defeat for the president was striven to keep his finances a secret for years. The California State Utilities Commission has just released its report on Pacific Gas and Electric or p.g. And e. California as a model to private utilities company the findings are damning and conclude that key Jenny was responsible for the devastating camp fire that destroyed the town of Paradise last year and killed $85.00 people according to the report quote the identified shortcomings in p.g. And E.'s inspection and maintenance of the incident power were not isolated but rather indicative of an overall pattern of adequate inspection and maintenance of p.g. And E.'s transmission facilities a day before the report was released Laurette m. Lynch the former president of the California state utilities commission but changed her position at p.g. And e. Seeing she now thinks the state should take it over. The u.s. Senate on Monday confirmed of formal auto industry lobbyist the head of the Energy Department replacing outgoing secretary Rick Perry that grew at was once a lot b.s. For Ford Motor Company and won over 70 senators including several Democrats to oversee the Energy Department. The Washington Post on Monday a pained e-mail showing that state senators in Montana took direction from health industry health insurance industry lobbyists and writing op eds that slammed a Medicare fraud plan the lobby group called Partnership for America's health care future is funded by the industry that relies on our current health care system and that one of the groups consultants provided language but the Medicare for all our beds. The Center for Constitutional Rights c.c.r. Has just published a report on Alec the American Legislative Exchange Council showing that the group has generated bills that promote racism and white supremacy in states across the country Alec whose annual summit opens on Wednesday has been the source of cookie cutter state level builds on a host of conservative issues the report by c.c.r. Is called Alec attacks and was produced by collaboration with Dream Defenders Palestine legal and other groups in international news 7 men have been sentenced up to 50 years in the murder of Honduran and Vajra mental and indigenous rights activist Burke that Gossett s. a Man were convicted a year ago after a court ruled that the leadership of a dam building company ordered home murder. Tensions have once more ratcheted up between the u.s. And North Korea with President Trump again resorting to demeaning name calling against Kim Jong un Trump called Mr camera Rocket Man while the North Korean leader slammed talks for the u.s. As a quote foolish trick he warned the u.s. To drop its quote hostile policy and ominously added It is entirely up to the u.s. What Christmas gift it will get. Protesters in Iran continued their activism against the Iranian regime even as leaders admitted that security forces had killed what they called rioters Amnesty International released a report on Monday concluding that more than 200 people have been killed by the government crackdown on dissent and anger over rising fuel prices meanwhile u.s. Intelligence sources of announced that Iran faces a serious economic recession as a result of being cut off from access to funds through severe international sanctions. And finally California Sen Campbell Harris has just announced her withdrawal from the Democratic Party presidential race heiresses bid made an initial splash a chance recently struggled to make headway in the polls and our campaign was suffering from infighting and a lack of cash and that doesn't fire News Headlines Today will be back with the best of the show after this break. 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The legendary civil rights activist Rosa Parks was on entered with a new statue in downtown Montgomery Alabama on Sunday 64 years to the day that she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a city bus today will kick off this hour long broadcast with a clip of Rosa Parks speaking to Sidney Rodgers on December 1st 1059 about her break 155 about her brave stand her voice along with hundreds of other iconic figures from American and world history is preserved by the Pacifica Radio Archives and as you're listening to Rosa Parks today please call us at 807350230 pledge 250 dollars to get your own copy of the archives is voices that change the world order your collection on a u.s.b. Memory stick we have a goal of 22 callers this hour to help raise the funds that are needed to keep the . Pacifica Radio Archives alive and thriving I laughed way on my way home the Sam 950 fad about 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Downtown. As they. Proceeded out of town on the theory they. Might just head feel their front of the bus when I got own the bus they. Was feel with the passengers and they were beginning to Spain and the sea. Was a voice of the seats where the negro passenger. Take as a around. They noted that they have front of the. Field with passengers and. There would be. 23 me and standing he looked back and that the seat I had taken along with 3 places one in the seat with me and 2 across was seated he demanded the seat that we occupied and they all the passengers there it looked and they gave up their seats but I refused to do so. And the officers of the law they came and placed me. And I was. On. There is and. They. Feel. On the next Monday and they protest began from that day and it is still continuing and measures are just one in the world ever made you decide to be the person after all these years of Jim Crow and segregation What made you work that. Particular moment decided you were going to keep that seat and I think that I was not being treated right then that I had a right to retain the seat that I had taken as a passenger on the bus but Mrs Parks you have been mistreated for many many many years you lived most of your life in more government Alabama what made you decide the 1st part of the month of December 1955 that you would have them out. That time had this kind. Of been placed as. They in to be placed I suppose Mrs Parks had you planned there's no ahead and it just happened yes at the as well have there been many times before in your life when you thought that maybe you were going to do just that kind of. I hadn't thought that I would be the place and to say it had occurred to me but don't you suppose you and many others for one time or another you were going to do those things sooner or later or we didn't know what to expect. An avid. Ways try to have trouble and be as careful as possible to stay out of travel and long as. I want to make various saidan they did this on the state of it I had not taken a seat in the White say. As has been reported in many cases they say. We were in the coast and taken this seat on the way home even though at times own this own the same bus route we had the same seat with white standing in. Space had been taken the seat had been taken out and I was there my surprise at that Dravid at this point the man did that I removed myself from the seat you have done something here that I didn't quite understand myself namely this you said you did not. Take a seat in the white section that I had that and that is there's no doubt that it has been reported in that way what happened that you were in what is normally a colored section and because whites had to stand up at this point the driver asked you to get up to allow someone else to sit down yes I place a white person to sit down yes a person who may or may not have been as tired as you manage straight but who had not paid any more than you had no hand and then what happened. They dragged so you had that if Barry used to leave the seat he would have to come out of a police and tell him just call the police. Day and when they they came they placed me on there it was not a pretty frightening thing to be arrested in Montgomery Alabama you know I wasn't you weren't frightened Why are you frightened I don't know why I wasn't that. Afraid and I had. Decided that I would have to know once and what rights I had as a human being and a citizen even my gammer Alabama because you considered yourself a citizen as well as a human being in Montgomery Alabama you say you weren't frightened and yet to be arrested in Montgomery especially on a charge in which you are in which you are challenging the whole system of segregation could be a pretty frightening thing it could even lead to a certain amount of physical brutality couldn't it that's possible he could have but those didn't bother you no he didn't and a lot of people of course are feel quite ashamed at the disgrace of being arrested apparently you didn't feel there was any disgrace involved in this one you know night in this well then you were arrested and what was the charge validation of this segregation this state and state of Alabama transportation Yes but you were so . And the colored section what Laura were you violating I did think as validating in. Mrs Parks the recent trial of rubber and male came it was brought up by the defense so there had been over many many years many brutalities and humiliations of negro passengers on these buses can you give us some examples that you yourself have seen or experienced personally of some of these humiliations that took place day after day when you were writing the buses yes I have been refused they. Would not pay my riding go around there to. Let me have that again now you need to pay your fare at the front and then were forced to walk around and enter into the rear door if it was a custom if that bus was crowded to the point where the right passes that stat. And even if it was raining or anything of that sort you might have to pay your fare at the front and walk back in the rain to the back of the bus and get it yes that's true but this barge that you were arrested you say you went to you you posted bond did you have a trial yes and you were found innocent or guilty. And what a case. Out of this particular incident of your being arrested and. Convicted and appealing How did this lead to this particular protest. From the time of the there is tonight and and Saturday and Sunday it would have gotten around over money. Because of this and sedan. And people just begin to this sad that they wouldn't ride the bus on the day of match which was the fear. And London. Wanting. They remain there and people. Getting. People who would take them as best they could. Meeting at the Hope Street Baptist Church. And there were many 1000 people. They. Kept coming and some people never did get in the church they were so many in the face they were Maying out that this had been so successful it was. Banned that. We wouldn't read the request had been granted. Mrs Parks How did word get around Montgomery Alabama so quickly 1st of all that you were arrested and convicted and 2nd of all how did the word get around so quickly that there would be a meeting and that people would refuse to ride. Their. Telephone calls from those who knew bad to. So an article came out in the news paper on Friday moaning about the negro woman over the segregation she was stated in the front of the white section the and refuse to take a seat in their area of the it was a face newspaper account. They didn't write on the day of the trial they walked and then how come they kept right on walking and they can't own walking because I was not in the place and who had been mistreated and humiliated. Had gone through the same experience even waste experienced and. And they failed that. The time had that they should. Decide that we would have to stop supposing they best company until we were given van to say this. How did it happen to become the kind of religious movement it became. Or at least we seem to understand it as a kind of a religious movement there's the talking of walking and praying there's the whole appeal to the. The religious peaceful aspect and of course a number of ministers have taken a very active part in the leadership how did this come about. I think this came about because they manifest. There might interested in it and we had our meetings in the churches and being the minority we felt that nothing could be gained by the balance there it's. A bit later in 82. We believe that no could be accomplished through the 9 balance passive resistance we had no quarrel with anyone we only have to. Stop reading the best is until we. Treat it as any other passenger and what you mean when you say is if you are treated as any other person here does this mean for example that you want these buses to be completely desegregated. If that's true you want to stop the segregation on these buses Mrs Rosa Parks December $955.00 and that is an incredible taste of what the Pacifica Radio Archives preserves decades of American history and of course this incredible interview with none other than Rosa Parks done by Sidney Rogers in 1955 the same month that she was arrested for her brave stand just one of the many many things that are available to us part of our voices the change the world encyclopedia of sound it's an incredible collection of ordeal on a single $64.00 gigabyte u.s.b. Memory stick and all of this history can be yours if you call us right now 180-735-0230 extension 1 this national broadcast and if you pitch $250.00 right now to Pacifica Radio Archives you help the beat you will be helping. To keep this kind of ordeal preserved and available for future generations when you get there enjoy yourself close right now 180-735-0230 page 250 dollars We've had a few calls already this hour and we are we have a goal of $22.00 callers this hour we are broadcasting across the nation so this is every major signal area that Pacifica Radio has the 5 signal areas in stations around the country that means there's many many thousands of you listening and we just need a couple dozen a few to call us at 180-735-0230 page 200 $50.00 on this Giving Tuesday the keep the Pacifica Radio Archives alive and get your very own copy of voices that change the world what does that include Rosa Parks and others joining me now in studio I keep b.f. 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Live so it's put the archives a little bit behind this drive should have happened 2 weeks ago they should have had you know their projected monthly funding flow gets delayed by 2 weeks and of course it actually worked out since it is giving Tuesday after you've sort of spent your money on Black Friday if you've done that or Cyber Monday and maybe you have maybe you haven't Regardless make up for it by giving on Giving Tuesday to your favorite nonprofits that included the Pacifica Radio Archives 18735023 zeroes a phone number to call we need 18 people calling in budging 250 dollars from all of the 5 signal areas that we're broadcasting on right now to get your very own copy of what he says that change the world so we're going to go in just a moment to an incredible clip of Martin Luther King Jr speaking about militarism and war and how war funding is taking away from the things that actually matter a conversation that is so relevant to our current political moment but before we do that Mark I know that you are very excited about the fact that it is giving Tuesday today and there's a lot of money food nonprofits today absolutely just about $200000000.00 is given on Giving Tuesday if we can get a fraction of that we have $1000000.00 We're good to go we can complete the digitization of the remaining $50000.00 programs there are some large donors we had somebody give a $1000.00 matching fund for this our thank you so much so we need for people to call right now 187350230 Remember your contribution is tax deductible we are a nonprofit unit of the Pacific Foundation goes twice as far as the 1st 4 people who call will be matched by one of these generous donors who donated a $1000.00 if you would like to be. One of those angels you can donate 1000 dollars 5000 dollars will use it as a match in a future hour so next. To Martin Luther King Jr on February 25th 1967 d a speech at the Beverly Hilton in verses military costs a 3rd casualty of the war in Vietnam is a great society. There's going to feel the wall has played havoc with our domestic destiny. Despite feeble protestations to the contrary the promises of the great society have been shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam. Pursuit of this wide and wall has now a domestic welfare program making the white and Negro bad the heaviest burdens both at the front and at home. While the anti-poverty program is called initiated salvos list supervised and evaluated fought immediate results billions of liberal liberally expended this ill considered war. The recent reveal Miss estimate of the wall budget amounts to $10000000000.00 for a single year this Aaron alone the amount committed to anti-poverty program. This a carrot we profess to seek in foreign adventures we will lose in our decaying cities the bombs in Vietnam explode at home. To decent America. If we reversed investments and gave the on. A budget the generals could be forgiven if they walked off the battlefield and. Poverty. Poverty. Problems and social progress in general they are ignored when the guns of walled. A common national obsession. When it is not our security that is at stake but questionable and they regime values disintegrate into foolish an adolescent slogan. It is estimated that we spend $322000.00 for each enemy we kill. We spend in the so-called war on poverty in America only about $55.00 is poor we have escalated the war in Vietnam and the escalated the skirmish against poverty it challenges the imagination comtemplated what lives we could transform if we were to cease killing. It is irrefutable. The press. Our war policy excites pronounced contempt. And aversion virtually everywhere even when some national governments for reasons of economic and diplomatic interests do not condemn us that have made clear they do not share the official policy. In a world demand in social and economic justice we must undergo a very good reordering of on national priorities. Dr 5th 1967 of the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles talking about the expenses of the Vietnam War and how the impact the domestic needs of this country and he could have been giving this exact same talk about the wars that are happening today we are told over and over again right there's not enough money for Medicare for olders not enough money for one of the things that we need for free college for free public education and to fully fund public educational for a subsidized housing there's never enough money for that but there's always new money for and you have 35 so he's talking relevant today you know. Way that is so Howard full is part of why we strive to preserve the Pacifica Radio Archives every single day and you're listening to a special Sunday fundraiser on Giving Tuesday that the archive or you have to do is call us at 180-735-0235 owners to get your very own copy of 1432 hours of public radio history on a single u.s.b. Memory stick 64 gigabyte u.s.b. Memory stick that $250.00 pledge gets you this beautiful and powerful thank you gift that includes the clip that you just heard and most of all that donation keeps the archives alive so call us at 180-735-0230 we have a goal of 22 callers this hour we've had about 6 or 7 so far so we're well on our way but we've got to up the pace in studio with me is Mark Tori's director of the archive again Sonali on the on our National Day on all 5 signal areas here in Los Angeles San Francisco Bay Area Oakland Berkley New York Washington d.c. And Houston Texas thank you all for joining us we're getting calls from all 5 signal areas thank you but we need you to keep the phones ringing the good news is we did a $1000.00 match and we got 6 callers so we made that match the challenge is we need 16 more people to call for us to reach our goal this hour and I know Sonali is a very competitive person really and. Would like for us to make the school yes yes I would absolutely like for us to make this go but not because I'm competitive but because I love the Pacific I read archives and like many of the Pacific I programmers I believe in its importance because the programming that I do every day the content that I create every day alongside the content that other programmers create every day that's preserved in the archives for future generations and so today we're listening to ordeal that was recorded on our stations decades ago and it is here today and available for you to listen to enjoy think about an analyzer and be inspired by because the. 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C.D.'s and you're at $250.00 today here we are 10 years later and we're offering 12 over 1200 hours for to the same amount of money people have said that I've asked for too little a donation for this gift but we really want this information out you'll enjoy it for years and it'll keep on giving because you can hand it to a family member or friend to enjoy when you're done with it but it'll take a long time for you to get through that many hours and there's a little something for everybody and as we made sure as we curated this collection that everybody was represented women's history black history poetry music cinema active as community people you know just. Solitary Housewives like Rosa Parks who found it in her heart to take us these are things that will inspire us in our own lives but we must know our history and some of the strategies that were used so we can make an impact a better impact today and also the messaging that was used to inspire that framing of ideas that was used to inspire Americans back of then and help us move forward you know you know progressive direction right so here is Robert Kennedy Robert f. Kennedy so in San Fernando Valley State College 1968 just months before he was assassinated asking Which Side Are You On. To cry the growth of just sand yours that and I quote that the time has come to unite. To support our leaders to support our government and they ask which side do you want. Thank. God somebody listening. And I think the Congress to answer that question. And I think you are on the side of those who seek to preserve a decent respect for the opinion of mankind we caning the common sense of purpose that was always our bond and. I am on the side and I believe you are on those who are not afraid to recognize past era as I must recognize it in my own actions in dealing with the problem and struggle in South. Thank you refuse to blindly pursue bankrupt policies which render us from our friends and drain our treasury in the fruitless pursuit of illusions which have long since been shattered Thank you I am on the side of those who seek to reconcile the divisions that exist within our country divisions of age and divisions of belief divisions that exist because the color of our skin we respect differences in ideas Well you know and the determination to meet our dilemmas will not watch frozen in the ice of their own indifference I am on the side of those who seem to bring jobs into the dark corners of our nation. And slit city slums and in the Raul hollows alike where proud men seek work and receive instead a welfare handout and I don't think that's satisfactory Thank you I am with those a seek to build their communities and stead of ignoring them out of apathy or destroying them out of despair I'm on the side of those who seek more than blind dissent and only respect the opinion of others I am with those who express not simply opposition to the present but propositions for the building of a better country. And very importantly I am on the side of those who do not shout down others but I will listen and challenge and then prepare a better policy for the United States was. That is Robert f. Kennedy for my attorney general of the United States former senator and of course like so many icons of his time assassinated taken to so in the speech was given just months before he was killed which side are you on he asked it was what I liked about it was its honesty and sincerity the fact that he admitted that he you know was wrong about certain issues about the Vietnam War and how he came around I mean this is the kind of politician that we just don't have as many of these days I mean there's certainly a few prominent ones but it's quite remarkable to get this piece of history on the air and we're so excited today to be celebrating the Pacifica Radio Archives that has preserved clips like and speeches like the one that you just heard a clip of we're celebrating the archives we're also raising money for the archives because money is required to keep it on the air to keep us on the air and to keep our programming preserved by the archives the archives is a very small operation compared to other Pacifica Radio stations but it does need funding it can survive on love and fresh air and so we're calling on you right now to call us at 187-350-2301 this one day fundraiser the one day a year that we set aside where all 5 stations come together to celebrate the Pacifica Radio Archives call us at 180-735-0230 we need over a dozen calls in the next 15 minutes that's just you know over a little under a one call a minute 180-735-0230 is a phone number to call when you pledge 250 dollars to a Pacifica radio archives you will get voices. The change the world an incredible collection of 1432 hours of public radio history on a single u.s.b. Memory stick $64.00 gigabyte u.s.b. Memory stick that includes so much history we're talking about voices of people like not just Rosa Parks and Dr King and Robert f. Kennedy but Markham x. And James Baldwin and my Angela we'll hear from my Angelou next but you know George Carlin and Russia Rachel Carson and Ralph Nader and Dorothy Dahlan Upton Sinclair and Betty Friedan and so many incredible voices of people whose names you might have read about in history books what have you actually heard them speak of you heard the quality of their voice the tone of their voice as they give the inspiring messages that moved generations and that changed politics so call is right now at 180-735-0230 so that you yourself can hear these for yourself we can't feed all of this history on a single national broadcast right we can only share snippets with you but you can get this incredible treasure trove for yourself even as you through that contribution support the archives and then have this collection for you to enjoy for years later if you have children share it with your children I have played clips of these from my sons who are in school and who have read about these figures and who are so moved to hear them speak directly 180-735-0230 is a phone number to call so that you can get you know the voices of Miriam Akiba and Molly Ivans and June Jordan and Emma Goldman and many many others incredible incredible collection so keep those calls coming in at 180-735-0230 support the Pacifica Radio Archives pitched $250.00 to get you know the voices of people like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn and Studs Terkel and Cornel West and Dick Gregory and so on. Others. In studio still with me is Mark for he's director of the archives he knows better than anybody else how important the archives is and how important it is that we find it absolutely you know Sonali is just you know with all the wonderful names that she's mentioned she's just scratching the surface you know she did mention Bob Dylan when he was 20 years old his 1st live radio performance on Pacifica Radio w.b. In New York City she didn't mention Leonard Cohen his very for he was a poet he didn't he didn't do anything he had nothing to do with music but he picked up his guitar and people heard him strum and he actually his very 1st live radio performance was for a w.p.a. I Pacifica fundraiser in 1968 we have an interview with him in the early seventy's where he tells tells us all of those stories and of course he became a legendary songwriter and just passed a few years ago but holds a very special part Pacifica history in his heart because you know we launched so many we created space for so many important people people that would eventually change the world please get to the phones now 180-735-0230 I don't know we were talking about Cornel West do we want to play his endorsement of. The Pacifica Radio Archives we spoke to him a few years ago about it Cornel West is one of my personal heroes and he loves the archives and so we want to play for you what Cornel West had to say about the Pacifica Radio Archives and of course he is still so active so vocal so proudly militant and uncompromising and you know tickets his ideals and there's a whole section in the archives featuring Cornel West and what he has said his critique of the Obama era and you know he is seminal book Race Matters So here's Cornel West Hello yes this is the corner. Wes and I am here to do all that I can to support the campus campaign. Pacific students faculty teachers need to get in on this magnificent project and program I'm doing all that I can and I'm behind it 120 percent it is what we need in these times. And that is Cornel West who is emphasizing how critically important the archives ease and I actually want to echo what he just said about how educators and schools in particular could benefit so greatly from the voices the change the world collection that is our thank you gift to you today we just have 10 minutes left in the hour and we need to hear from as many of you as possible right now at 187350230 get a very own collection of this wonderful wonderful treasure trove of ordeal voices the change the world 1432 hours of public radio history and a 64 gigabyte u.s.b. Memory stick that can fit in your pocket that can be part of your collection a permanent collection for years to come that you can enjoy that you can share with your family and future generations what I really appreciate about the archives is that it isn't just preserving the audio for museums or you know for the Library of Congress which is important too but it's disseminating it to the public and that is where this kind of material can have the greatest impact Pacifica Radio has been right from the start on the frontlines of the struggles for social justice for racial justice for Economic Justice speaking out against the war speaking out for women's rights and we've been there putting microphones in front of the figures that have changed history that decades later conservatives changed their tune on in the Lord as heroes but that we Pacifica Radio folks have known from the start where the change makers were the important heroes of our time and so we're continuing that work today and we need to. Our history through the Pacific our radio archives call us right now at $187350230187350240.00 It's a $250.00 pledge for voices of change the world I know I'm speaking too facile let me say that. And I get carried away I'm excited about the archives 180-735-0230 no matter where you are in the country listening right now call the toll free number and support on Giving Tuesday the Pacifica Radio Archives and you don't just supported out of the goodness of your heart you can be selfish and want this incredible collection of audio for yourself because I think you gift to you is where it's so much more than $250.00 it is worth thousands of dollars and on this our own memory stick is the voice of one my aunt Angelou the late great Maya Angelou who just incredibly gave this impromptu performance Mark tell us very quickly about what we're about to hear . My Angela was about to launch her 1st Broadway play and she wrote a song called Phenomenal Woman which is performed in the play and she was giving a talk about women's role in art and she just decides you know what I am going to perform this song before it was launched in the play and still I rise so Pacifica Radio was there at a women's poetry reading and Maya Angelou presented this in 1977. Thank you we are involved in a pub Vonne And a terrifying dance terrifying dance and we are hooked together whether we like it or not and we must add me that the past only the person who knows her past his past can begin to and say where she or he is today and how she all he may begin to chart is tomorrow her tomorrow so we must deal with that ladies and gentlemen. Many young people. Think that the revolution began when they woke up. In the 19th century and in the 18th century there were white American women. Who were involved in the struggle against slavery. Who were serious. Unfortunately for us all then names for the most part have been lost on the sands of time unfortunately I feel belittled because I am not able to tip my heart and my head to those women who sometimes lost their lives in the Underground Railroad movement not because they love the blacks but because they love truth. They love truth more than lie. And because of those women. We are all here today it is a pity if we don't have some of their statues Mr Owen Dodson wrote a poem for 2 women who founded Spelman College. And the 19th century. Just after the Civil War 2 white women went. To Georgia to women who founded Spellman 2 women here and they prayed alone and saw again their vision of an altar of built mind and spirit flesh and bone they never turned away they never said this dream is they are let's go back to New England then cultivate an earth that is not there they never said let down our mothers weep for dark children. This land is barren land incapable of see they made their crucifix far more than our name in they wrestled with denial. And pinned him to the floor year by year their vision is shared it's missed knowing that they had not dared to feel knowing that their future would be now and every April assembled here wonderful idea I suggest particularly to some young white women students that you do some research find the names of people who live in direct relation to this she rose and he rose they keep her alive I would be delighted to know the names of some of those women I would like to share sing a song to you from for my new play the play is called I'm Still Iraq and it's opening. In a prolonged Broadway and it's a musical pretty women wonder where Martin secret. I'm not cute of Bill so pseudo fashion model size when I start to tell them they think I'm telling grounds that he it's in the return of my own span of mind here. And a monastery out there currently lives cause I am lonely Oh my mother. In law men no more. That. I won't get into are saying just to school is to pee and to man the fellow stand up fall down on their knees then there's harm around me honey bees are. In the room my are. Certain not to eat they're around out of my friends. We confound moment. Phenomenon. There may be. I don't know if you didn't find yourself clapping and moving to this incredible recording of Maya Angelou a 977 then you don't have a heart but we know that you do a Pacific a listener is do what an incredible impromptu performance at a coffee shop just you know before this incredible piece when I made it to Broadway the late great incredible Maya Angelou call is right now and support this kind of material being preserved and get your very own copy of it in the last couple of minutes of this our 18073502301807350230 this was the 1st time it was ever performed before it went to Broadway and we have it because Pacifica Radio has always been there capturing these incredible moments in history and Archives has always been there preserving and disseminating them 187350230 as a phone number to call we are asking you to pitch 250 dollars in the last minute of this hour and get your very own copy of voices the change the world 1432 hours of public radio history on a 64 gigabyte u.s.b. Memory stick and you will be celebrating my Angelou when you get this and so many other voices as well Mark I'm hoping that we have raised a few $1000.00 so far I think we have and we need 10 phenomenal women to call right on the right $1800.00 lingo Lady 50230 It's toll free it's giving Tuesday it's tax deductible and we will try to get these gifts out to you by the holidays please call now thank you so much Sonali thank you so much Mark and I just want to throw out years and years ago the Cal State Northridge women's studies department gave me the phenomenal women award and I always always inspired and blessed by the thank you so much thank you to Teddy Robinson our board operator Mark tours I'm so not equal hacker This is rising up it's on Ali And thank you so much for calling in budget. Well when it comes to. 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