the host "fresh air" on npr, terry gross is stopping by! >> steve: yeah! ] >> jimmy: she wanted me to sing "despacito." i love her. oh, she's great. plus we have great new music. oh, we love her. i haven't seen her in a while. i'm so happy she's back. sha is here, you guys! >> steve: oh! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: this is the album. look at this album cover. this is a fantastic -- this might be my favorite album cover of the year. this is just fantastic. look at it. so much going on. a spaceship. >> steve: spaceship. [ light laughter ] >> steve: what is that in the middle? >> jimmy: and the song is beautiful. "praying." have you heard it yet, higgins? >> steve: i love it. >> jimmy: she has a great voice. oh, my goodness. listen to this. this is the jam. ♪ i hope you're somewhere praying praying ♪ >> jimmy: powerful. >> steve: ooh. >> jimmy: yeah. [ cheers and applause ] kesha is here! anthony, terry, kesha and i are all going to play a game of "password." >> steve: ooh. [ audience oohs ] guys, it is time for "tonight show" hashtags. [ cheers and app

but today the fine folks of npr deliver a stunner.r story detailing a lawsuit that alleges that fox news deliberately concocted a story with the specific intent of helping clear donald trump of suspicion that his campaign colluded with russia in the run-up to the 2016 election. the story involved a 27-year-old dnc staffer named seth rich who was murdered last year in which police said was a botched robbery attempt. in may of this year fox published a story saying it was rich who leaked all of the e-mails and not russian government hacker. the story quoted rob wheeler saying his only investigation showed a leak between the dnc staffer and wikileaks. a week later fox news retracted the story. it said it did not meet fox news' standards. and today in a lawsuit uncovered by npr, rod wheeler, the contributor alleges that those quotes were fabricated. that he never said he connected the dnc staffer to wikileaks. more than that, he alleges that fox's story was designed to shift the blame from russia and help put to bed speculation that donal

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>> no, i really don't. >> reporter: in 2014 an npr and propublic ka investigation found the red cross misstated how money is spent. after the devastating earthquake in haiti, a report by iowa senator chuck grassley found one-quarter of red cross donations went to administrative costs. >> the red cross should be responsible to make sure they're very transparent. >> reporter: the red cross disputes the critical reports and today promised 91 cents of every dollar would go to victims. >> we are going to make sure that this money is spent to help people with food, with shelter, with water. >> reporter: the watchdog group charity watch gives the red cross a b-plus overall. >> they can do the heavy lifting at the scale the community organizations and churches and some of the other nonprofits are not going to be able to r. has already served more than 250,000 meals in texas and opened over 240 shelters. >> you want a blanket while you're sleeping? >> reporter: a charity in the midst of providing disaster relief now fighting a different kind of storm. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, new york. >>>

the results from our latest pbs newshour/npr/marist poll. also ahead, as the city of raqqa becomes ground zero in the battle against isis, we go to the front lines where syrians fight for their lives, and their homes. >> ( translated ): these people are our families. every soldier we lose to free the people, is worth it to us. we are ready to be killed for the freedom of the people. >> sreenivasan: plus, a rare coast-to-coast total solar eclipse is on the horizon. we preview what to expect, and how to prepare for the much anticipated celestial event. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. >> the lemelson foundation. committed to improving lives through invention, in the u.s. and developing countries. on the web at lemelson.org. >> supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundati

we met with producer, producer of npr. i saw a fox news producer that we deal with a lot. it's a chance to show fall list and highlight a few titles that would be appropriate for them. >> give me one more title that you're excited this fall? >> by robert watson, it's about a ship that was harbored in brooklyn during the revolution, the american revolution. it was a prison ship, terrible, terrible conditions, he has made a career robert watson of researching ships that play a role in war. he did nazi titanic not too long ago. >> senior director of publicity, thanks for your time. >> good evening, my name is abraham foxman, from time to time i have an opportunity to welcome some of our guests particularly in the area of antisemitism and bigotry and engage with them in conversation.

and host of the npr politics podcast tamra. jamie, i want to start with you, you know a thing or two about north korea. can you blame them? what is his incentive for coming to the negotiating table? >> well, north korea has one big goal, that is to develop nuclear weapons. to maintain the position of their regime. so, they are going to hold on to power and they see nuclear weapons as essential for doing that. having said that, once they have established their nuclear deterrent and they're pretty close to that, they would like to have negotiations, particularly direct negotiations with the united states. so, that's their goal. if they can keep nuclear weapons and negotiate with the united states, that's a big win for them. >> nikki haley was out on "today" show this morning and she was talking about this. giving stark acknowledgments about what is and what is not realistic on the ground, jamie. i want you to listen to what the u.n. ambassador had to say. >> he may not negotiate now. i think what we did we sent a message and now

breaking news on afghanistan --npr is reporting the president donald trump who make a speech in my neckm this evening will order approximately 4000 army troops into afghanistan and place more pressure on pakistan, withholding funds to pakistan. we heard treasury secretary steve mnuchin talk about his power of sanctions as treasury secretary. he mentioned north korea and venezuela but npr is saying that the troop surge we heard about is potentially happening and that will be 4000 army troops sent to afghanistan. that will place more pressure on pakistan and we will get more details from the president tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. secretary of the treasury steve mnuchin and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell have also been talking about u.s. economic policy in louisville, kentucky. steve mnuchin says there was zero chance that congress would not raise the debt limit. mitch mcconnell said there is zero chance congress will not raise the debt limit. the senate majority leader has a lot of faith in congress. time for our latest bloomberg business flash. fox sky deal is facing trouble fro

he praises work at c-span npr and local d.c. stations. next to him as diana marrero, the director of the hill looking and a new media platform that she helped to launch that is focus on latina public affairs. before shifting to the business side of the media she was an award-winning journalist beginning her career at the miami herald which is part of a team that covered the elian gonzalez international custody battle, and she also served as the acting washington bureau chief for the "milwaukee journal" settle for her work has appeared in the "washington post," "usa today" and the south florida sunset approaches abound and past president of the washington, d.c., chapter of the national association of hispanic journalists. so welcome, diana. next to her is roslyn jordan, the united nations correspondent for al-jazeera and sh she's priy covered the state department and the pentagon for al-jazeera. previously she covered the white house for nbc news as well as broadcastinbroadcast missions nr an emmy for work on nbc's 2004 presidential electi

npr launched an ongoing series of investigations into the american red cross.f their articles headlined "how the red cross raised half $1 billion for haiti and built six homes." you were in haiti. can you talk about the specifics of projects they have been involved with, and the lack of accountability? jonathan: there is a complete lack of accountability, that is exactly it. the case in haiti a a be very hard to talk about exactly what the red cross did because they have been so opaquque and not forthcoming with information about what they were up to. they complained a lot about that investigation was a damning investigation, the fact they had so$488 million and little to show for it and they could not even turn around and point to the things they had done. when the hurricane hit haiti, they only had three full-time staffers on the ground and what they did is swung their whole operation into the direction of what they do really well, raising enormous amounts of money y barry quickly -- very quickly, and they do that by being incredibly vague. they will use extr

for more on all this, we turn to anya kamenetz, she's the lead education writer for npr.elcome back to the news hour. >> thank you. >> brangham: before we get into the nitty-gritty of this, the cases we're talking about here, the assault cases, an allegation one student has made against the other student, and it's the schools, not law enforcement that are ajute kateing this. >> a lot of people feel like that's the heart of the issue. the obama administration's guidance was attempting to get schools, colleges to take a stronger stance in adjudicating these claims. a lot of people might say, shouldn't that be law enforcement's problem? but their argument is under title ix, this is a civil rights matter because it has to do with female students and other victims' ability to have equal access to educational opportunity. schools might say, well, we don't have the infrastructure to necessarily investigate these claims or the fact finding, and then some critics of the policy as well from outside say, yeah, there's not necessarily the same standard of evidence when a school looks

. >> that dallas investor and trump reporter now insists to npr he was just joking about the president pushing the story. >>> it may be summer, but it's a first day for fall sports in the area's largest school district. despite concerns over concussions, seeing steady rt football. their football program has seen a 40% drop in the number of concussions over the past three years. other sports, also seeing fewer concussions. school leaders point to greater awareness, and their concussion policy, which requires training for all involved in high school sports, including students and parents. >> from where we are in fairfax, the majority of our concussion cases are managed, and evaluated essentially from start to finish by the athletic trainers in our schools. they're typically here on the sidelines, and are able to help manage that student's recovery. >> the cdc recommends a baseline exam which assesses balance, memory schools, concentration, problem solving, and previous concussion symptoms. it's recommended for kids playing sports who are over 10 years old, they should take the exam every

economy -- i listen to npr and an economist talks about how we do not get enough revenue from taxing our citizens. one of the solutions would be to lax our immigration policies to let more in so we can get more tax revenue. i was wondering your thoughts on this. guest: i am not an expert on in mmigration policy. bring in skilled workers who can contribute can provide a boost to not only economic growth, but boost revenues. guest: the evidence go further than that. unskilled workers are beneficial to tax revenues. they tend to be younger, healthier, scared to take full advantage of the offerings the u.s. has -- they pay more. that is not the way to solve the issue. host: you disagree with the proposal yesterday to cut legal immigration by half? guest: i disagree with it, but not with the revenue implication. the u.s. has been benefiting from immigration in a number of ways. social security benefits from immigration. the real problem -- we need to address the spending side of the ledger, not necessarily mindless spending cuts. guest: if we do not address the --ua host: shane has been w

npr has a statement from fox. fox president of news jay wallace told npr, there was no concrete evidence that wheeler was misquoted by the reporter. that's an interesting response. >> that's word smithing there. >> the evidence speaks for itself, they retracted the story. they did not stand behind the reporting in which rod wheeler was quoted. that says all you need to know about fox's confidence in the reporting behind the conspiracy theory. >> but the real basis of this, we know fox radio retracted the story. what's interesting now is the ties to the white house, actually a second page to the quote from the president of fox news, the news executive did not address a question about the story's allegedly partisan origins and fox news declined to allow zimmerman to comment for the story. what's most interesting is the white house's ties to the story. as we already heard this morning on a different story, the president and his lawyers certainly love the term fake news. >> yes, but, again, this shows possibly if the

susan davis of npr. carol lee of nbc news. and franco ordoñez of mcclasmy. >> celebrating 50 years, this is "washington week." funding is provided by -- >> their leadership is instinctive. they understand the challenges of today. and research the technologies of tomorrow. some call them veterans. we call them part of our team. >> additional funding is provided by dana-farber cancer institute. more at discover, care, believe.org. newman's own foundation. donating all profits from newman's own food products to charity and nourishing the common good. through the yuen foundation. , the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your cbs station from viewers like up. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator robert costa. robert: good evening. this was supposed to be a chance for the white house to reset. a new chief of staff was instituted to stabilize a divided west wing. but instead president trump found himself in a familiar place, up against the ropes with new developments about the ongoing russia

interview this morning with a woman i've actually interviewed with at least price for and she said and used npr voice as if she was trying to really connect with me on my level. she was like, a white lady and said so, describe your body to me. [laughter] i was like, i'm tall because i knew what she was trying to get me to do this was expecting me to enter this fugue of self loathing and say my body is this huge hulking mass but that's not how i think of myself because i do need to get to the day. in the interview she came back and said so, describe your body to me. i lost my [bleep]. i said seriously? yes, i was like no. i hope they air it. i hope the air every single word. i had a witness, my publicist was there and it's exactly as bad as you think it is. people don't know how to talk about it. every single review, i write with my highest weight was and i wrote it just to get people context his people are actually really bad about guessing numbers of what weight looks like. people think that every woman weighs 140 pounds or 110 pounds and she's like no, i'm rocking to ten. every single review

he's appeared in "the new york times," npr, "boston globe" and the atlantic and is here today for his new book how may i help you their journey to minimum wage. [applause] i moved here in 2003 and have an mba from india. when i came here to. i thought i would have no problem getting a job but in the qualifications and experience it didn't matter much, and also with my accent. working in radio coming here i have to speak like an american and say things like bag-dadofb&. instead of bag-dod. there's a few things about me like how i came to the united states. i was working for bbc news and met a woman from her old pennsylvania on a scholarship. she was, her name is holly and i met her and became friends and fell in love and got married ane i came to this country and that is how america became my new my home. it gives you a lot of money and you live with them forever and ever but i did get an mba but i didn't get the job i wanted and i got a job at bbc and i also married a woman not by their choice but they liked her anyway. i came here and a lot of this is in this book. there is a lot of

but the start -- the story goes back further than the average of as i was a science correspondent for npr and a partial solar eclipse was set and how oh the viewers that we emphasize that but a taller solar eclipse is totally different the it a completely obscure the face of the sun creating the most lot inspiring spectacle of all of nature so this astronomer said to me before you die you owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse. that is shocking but he got my attention so i did some research. if you wait for someone to come she will be waiting a long time. about once every 400 years. and i found out a few years later a total eclipse would cross the caribbean. this is visible in the narrow path of 100 miles wide in february 1988 the path of totality would cross so i thought aruba and figure sounds like a good trip so i head south to see what would happen. the date of the eclipse of was behind a the hyatt regency on the beach in we were wearing eclipse glasses with a really dark glances so that begins as a partial eclipse so first a look like it had notches and it grew larger

npr's white house reporter scott horsley is in newjersey, following donald trump's summer holiday.get out of town, out of washington, dc, in the august, when they swamp kabir specially swamping. 17 days is a little longer than some presidents have taken, but a correspondent for cbc -- cbs have taken, but a correspondent for cbc —— cbs radio has demonstrated that while president trump has taken more days away than his immediate predecessor, president obama, he is taken predecessor, president obama, he is ta ke n less predecessor, president obama, he is taken less time away then say george w bush did. taken less time away then say george w bush did. it is interesting, what you're sing about president trump, because he criticised president obama for taking too many vacations. it is all that he's taking a 70—day holiday? he criticised as an obama for taking time away from the white house, but also for not using his frequent golf outings more strategically to cosy up to world leaders or lawmakers. the current white house is being very sensitive to that, and one side of that is, even whe

the results from our latest pbs newshour/npr/marist poll. also ahead, as the city of raqqa becomes ground zero in the battle against isis, we go to the front lines where syrians fight for their lives, and their homes. >> ( translated ): these people are our families. every soldier we lose to free the people, is worth it to us. we are ready to be killed for the freedom of the people. >> sreenivasan: plus, a rare

we cover it all with jeff bennett of -- geoff bennett of npr. shawna thomas of "vice" news. michael scherer of "time" magazine. and molly ball of "the atlantic." announcer: celebrating 50 years, this is "washington week." fund something provided by -- >> their leadership is instinctive. they understand the challenges of today. and research the technologies of tomorrow. some call them veterans. we call them part of our team. >> additional fund something provided by dana farber cancer institute. more and discovercarebelieve.org. newman's own foundation. donating all profitses from newman's own food products to charity and nourishing the common good. the ethics and excellence in journalism foundation. the ewe win foundation. committed to bridging cultural differents in our communities. the cormings for -- the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator robert costa. robert: good evening. after weeks and months of speculation, steve bannon has been relievinged of his d

general, when do you expect the npr and bmdr to be complete?>> my expectation is that it will take several more months to complete the nuclear posture review and the ballistic missile defense review will follow it because the secondary review is informed by many of the struteatic choices made in the posture review. >> you testified earlier this year that the npr would be examining response options to russia's violation of the inf treaty. is that correct? >> yes, ma'am. >> by that, do you mean that the mpr will describe potential response options or will it contain a decision that we pursue a particular course of action? >> the design of the npr is to provide the president with options so we will provide him with a set of options that might be reasonable responses to the russian activity with respect to the inf. >> with no decision on those, just options? >> yes, ma'am. >> and i know that we have conferred with the russians about their violation and what has their response been? >> they have been moot on how we intend to respond. >> have you see

he has appeared on npr, the "boston globe" and eight atlantic. he is here today to present his new book "how may i help you?: an immigrant's journey from mba to minimum wage." [applause] thank you for having me here. my name is deepak singh, and if you can't tell and seen the posters everything, i'm from india originally. i moved to the united states about 13 years ago, 2003. i have an mba from india and i was working for bbc world service in india. when i came here, i came from a good educational background. i had spoke well and came from good well-known organization, would have no problem getting a job. but i was surprised that might mba, educational qualifications and my experience of pba world service didn't matter much and also my accent. especially working in radio, come here i had to speak like an american, say things like pakistan is that a pakistan. or baghdad instead of baghdad. anyway, i took a job in retail. this happened. tell you a few things about me, how i came to the united states. i was working for bbc world service in indiana m

back in the 90s i was a science correspondent for npr and in may of 1994 the partial solar eclipse was set to cross the country so i did a story about this. i interviewed an astronomer. he explained what was going to happen and how to view it but he emphasized as interesting as the partial solar eclipse is, a total solar eclipse is completely different. in a total eclipse for two or three minutes usually the moon completely obscures the face of the sun creating what he described as the most awe-inspiring spectacle of and all of nature. this astronomer from williams college gave me a piece of advice that i will always remember. he turned to me and he said before you die, you owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse. it was kind of a shocking thing for someone to say that i didn't know very well. but he got my attention so i did some research. the first thing to know about a total eclipse is if you wait for one to come to you you are going to be waiting a long time. any given point on earth experiences a total eclipse about once every 400 years but if you are willing to tra

you want to talk about listening to npr of the way home with that mind set world view but i come from a long line of workers in new york they get live in manhattan for very long time but first of all, their with from manhattan to charlotte may be in the '70s you jersey city then touche charlotte but it was very hard to leave a middle-class family life in manhattan. but it seems with all the talk of how to revitalize the major richer politician areas they begin with public schools. so that is extraordinarily selective if you make 130,000 and one to to raise a family that did say revolution so i don't see that happening. >> so did is similar to immigration radically transformed however they change the culture of our country so is a two-way street and guided rita prospect for change but we are doomed of the high end people of those millennial type singles and to be held by the left because the demographics is because those demographics change with that middle-class voter is gone. if that is gradually retreating population rise. >> we haven't done massless get in the game of questions fro

. >> >> i explained my interview from npr. but they don't really want to describe people fairly and accurately because then they may see a conservative that is persuasive if reasonable. i have been called white nationalists, pedophile kava homophobic if you gave it. >> you have the pretty interesting ally right now defending you that i would not expect that is the aclu. tell us house of how you have covered together and fight for free speech. >> once every millennium they get right. actually they approached us and i was impressed. so my hunch is the people who run it are sound and good job of first amendment but they have trouble keeping their troops in line because they have a bunch of activist and a crazy social justice warriors require them to hate me so we express our concerns about the language they would use about me in the top brass agreed to say so they approached me we agreed to we would talk about each other even though i hate every physician they take except for this one but there are high principles involved. give

radio interview this morning with a woman i've interviewed with at least twice before, and she used npr voice as if she was trying to really connect with me on my level so she was like so, describe your body to me. i said i'm tall. [laughter] i knew what she was trying to get me to do. she was expecting me to enter this self loathing, my body is just this huge mass, but that's not how i think of myself because i do need to get through the day. later in the interview she came back and said so, describe your body to me. i lost my ship and i just said seriously. she was like yes. i was like no ma'am. i hope they air it. i had a witness. my publicist was there and she said yes, it's exactly as bad as you think it was. people don't know how to talk about it. every single review so far, i write in the book what my highest weight was. i wrote it just to give people context because people are really bad about guessing numbers of what weight looks like. people think every woman weighs 140 pounds or 110 pounds and she says now, i'm to ten. every single review has mentioned it. every single one. i

goes back a little further than that so we have to go back to 1994 i was a science correspondent for npr and a solar eclipse, a partial solar eclipse was safe to crosso the country and he explained what was going to happen. a total solar eclipse is completely different. the ne moon completely obscurese base of the sun creating what he described as the most awe-inspiring spectacle in all of nature so this astronomer from williams college gave me a piece of advice i will always remember. he turned to me and said before you die you owe it to yourself to experience a total solar shon eclipse. if you wait for one to come to you you are going to be waiting for a long time. in 1998 a total eclipse was coming to the caribbean. it's visible only in a narrow pass about 100 miles wide called the path of totality and in february, 1998 the path of totality was going to cross over aruba so i thought aruba in february summed up like a good h trip anyway. i was out behind the hyatt regency there were a lot of people waiting for the show to begin and we were wearing eclipse glasses like the ones evelyn s

it's an npr-commissioned poll. it's the worst week the democrats have ever had. if they start this

. >> it is a great way to see booksellers and to lay to meet with the media with the npr marketplace show how to highlight in persons. >> one more title?. >> this book is about to ship harbored in brooklyn during the revolution with terrible conditions but was researching ships to like those maritime stories were roll history. >> thinks we're time . >> i.m. reading james cliburn's booked of his experiences about the life of koresh does scott king. >> what inspired these choices. >> let me say that when she was really in the movement those women never got the credit for what they did women were integral to the success of the civil-rights movement you don't hear much about them you hear about malcolm x said d you hear about coretta? so i am intrigued with say pastor added of georgia to be so complacent in our churches this is how we explain that we go to the same place to catch fish even though they are not there but we do the same thing. maybe we have to go to the deeper waters. as a leader into a christian person had when i expect officialese to be in the same place or come to me and

npr justice correspondent, carrie johnson, previous the announcement by attorney general jeff sessions regarding stepped-up efforts on the investigation. be sure to watch seasons washington journal i that seven eastern on friday morning. during the discussion. >> saturday night on c-span twos book tv, on "after words" journalists jesse reports on how the justice department handles white-collar crime in his book the chicken ship club while the government. he's interviewed by the law professor. >> justice requires ambitious and raising your site so that you're not just kicking off the vulnerable, low but going against the most powerful wrongdoers in society and not being worried that you can't take them on or that you might lose the case. >> louisburg businessweek senior national correspondent, joshua greene, reports on the 2016 political partnership between the president and his chief strategist in his book devil's bargain. steve bannon, donald trump and the storming of the presidency. >> i'm sure that bannon is frustrated that he got the president he want, cheap white house strategist

i actually had the npr interview and a playback that actual event for i was right. this was off some. but at the end he is full of sweet he goes to walk offstage and puts out his hand he puts his hand phone in his hand in my phone rang 10 seconds later. i said hello? i city were awesome and amazing he said where are you? i said i mmi desk and he said it must be nice and hung up. [laughter] but then many months later that the person who took the photo won the pulitzer prize for that photos so and that came out amazingly we were in texas cop who was there that day and we pulled the photo op he said yes i won the pulitzer. so that is where the title of the book came from casio is wants to know who thought that was a good idea. [laughter] questions?. >> how involved are you now in the political arena?. >> i work with a private company i am not as political as i would be otherwise but a march, i tweet don't tell the people that i work for. and i try to support those to support the aclu and planned parenthood so with the presale of the book went to a womenswear and we wil

. >> it is a great way to see booksellers and to lay to meet with the media with the npr marketplace show how to highlight in persons. >> one more title?. >> this book is about to ship harbored in brooklyn during the revolution with terrible conditions but was researching ships to like those maritime stories were roll history. >> thinks we're time . >> i.m. reading james cliburn's booked of his experiences about the life of koresh does scott king. >> what inspired these choices. >> let me say that when she was really in the movement those women never got the credit for what they did women were you hear about martin. you hear about malcolm. you hear about marilyn. you hear about coretta. do you hear about people like dorothy hayek? i'm intrigued about the women behind these great men and the women who made the movement move so that's

the story was first reported by npr.eler was hired to investigate seth rich's death, quote: the president just read the article, he wants the article out immediately. but he now says he was only joking, and he challenges >> wasn't serious because rod wheeler was always looking for a job because he has no money, and by the way, this lawsuit is all about rod wheeler trying to get money because he messed up. by the way, i've never talked to president trump in my life, and trump has need to do with this. >> the white house spokesman told me yesterday that butowsky had asked for ten minutes to catch up, didn't ask him to do anything, and spicer took no action. >> it doesn't bother me that the press secretary would take a meeting with somebody involved in the media about a story. none of that was disclosed. they had a conversation, and that was the end of it. the president didn't have knowledge of this story, the white house didn't have any involvement in the story. >> wheeler says he asked fox to remove the quotes such as him