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is he better informed about america's bad lands than the npr bleeding hearts.he united states is the supposed global super power but its writ does not run in large parts of southern texas, southern arizona, southern california. they are no different from helmand province or beers stan n in that respect. ceding our territory to criminal enterprises is so heart-warming and wholesome can you promote it on facebook like all those nice cat videos. >> human smugglers are turning to new victims in search for victims. going on facebook and advertising false services and promising central americans safe trips into the country. >> mark: that's your country by the way or used to be before joe biden outsourced the border to the cartels. on facebook, mark zuckerberg is so concerned about disinformation that if you suggest there might be something a bit iffy about those philadelphia election returns, you are out of there. if you wonder how an unarmed woman called ashley babbitt can be shot dead by a police officer and three months later nobody knows who did it or why, thomas

i've got to say, trickle down economics -- the new york times, npr, cnn, they told you trickle-down economics makes sense. do you know that is? give all the money to the rich and hope it trickles over you. come on. how could you believe such nonsense. it turns out look, you get a covid-19 relief bill and most of the coast of the american people in the last version, it stimulates the economy from the bottom up. every economist knows the truth but they never share with you on television. or in the new york times. the rest of it, they slip into insanity so often in republican media. they lost 60 cases in a row in the courts. every conservative appointee, every trump appointee said you have no evidence. there was no fraud. republican media gets up and says, obviously there has been fraud, obviously all of the judges are liberals, they didn't actually roll on it. ok, well, you're a weirdo liar. they lose all credibility every time they leave the arena of facts. host: on the republican line from nashville, tennessee. tom, go ahead. caller: i would like to talk -- remember ukraine? getting away blan

the states where the fewest people pretend to like npr.ow they came up with this list? well they weighed a bunch of factors. actually they looked at population percentages with degrees, the percentage in arts and humanities and how much wine each state consumes and also using the phrase, oh, the book was much better. also congrats to west virginia for ranking 50th where they prefer moon shine over mall beck. doesn't pair well with cheese but it will clean your paint brushes. i drink a butt load of wine. >> you sure do >> greg: am i a snob. >> i think -- you keep hitting the judge for being rich, you're not a blue collar guy, greg. >> i don't have a summer home. >> secret layer. >> greg: wait a minute. i spent most of my life making regular money. it wasn't until later. >> so you admit that you are rich. >> thank you judge. thank you. >> had to do it. >> i did not like the wine correlation in the survey at all. >> greg: you know what? i don't either. >> that's because you're a snob. >> you know why? because he's correlating wealth with snob

the press reaction just to remind everyone in a stunning admission by npr, which came out and issued essentially said we said this was russian disinformation. let's put it on the screen. it says correction, a previous version of this story about hunter biden's laptop said u.s. intelligence had discredited the laptop story. u.s. intelligence officials have not made a statement to that effect. it is pretty stunning, michael, the way that this story was treated and now that he is bringing it back into the limelight himself, some at least npr has had to back pedal. >> i wrote on sunday the door to this now has to remain open. there is a way to do that. there are a lot of good, honest journalists in washington who do not work for the legacy media corporate cover-ups and they can be asking joe biden at press conferences if they ever get called on but they can ask jen psaki any day about the laptop and emails, about what it says about joe biden. ultimately this is about joe biden. it is not just hunter's laptop and what hunter or others wrote. it is about the president of the united states

reporter: a new pbs newshour-npr-marist poll released today found americans split on whether transgendere allowed to play on high school teams, but among republicans, an overwhelming majority said they should not. however, when asked whether they should be banned by law, a large majority of both republicans and democrats said no. >> they do not want to legislate. they do not want to go to that level of extreme views or actions in their own minds. >> i'm not a politician. i'm a pediatrician. reporter: for transgender youth and their physicians like robert garofalo at lurie children's hospital in chicago the effect of these bills could be very personal. >> my understanding of legislation is that we legislate things that are problems. this is legislation in search of a problem. reporter: the ncaa allows transgender athletes to compete after a year of hormone therapy. neither they nor state high school athletic associations keep track of the number of transgender competitors. but a recent associated press analysis found only a handful of instances among the hundreds of thousands of students

despite that, a new pbs newshour -npr-marist poll found that americans across the political spectrum and more than half of people personally know someone who is transgender. john yang has our report. >> yang: late afternoon in boise, idaho, and lindsay hecox is doing what she loves most. a track and cross-country runner in high school, hecox, now 20 years old, dreams of running for boise state university, where she's a student. >> i don't know how i would have gotten through high school if i didn't have my running teams. they were my only friend group. i kind of just feel like i need friendship through running again. >> yang: for most teenagers, going from high school to college is a big step. but for hecox, it was a major life change: she came out as transgender, meaning her gender identity does not align with the sex she was assigned at birth, a condition known as“ gender dysphoria.” >> gender dysphoria just sucks. you don't get to be the person you were meant to be just because of some random luck when you're born. i'm able to deal with struggles in life a lot better now just beca

on april 29, we have a very special event with the mothers of npr -- i am very excited about this one, i worked as an npr affiliate as one of my first jobs out of college -- susan sandberg, nina totenberg, and leader wertheimer along with lisa monopoly. her new book explores their extraordinary story. more of the events happening at the national press club are listed at press.org. we hope you will join us. questions for both of you from our listening audience. i don't know, maybe folks do not hear this quite street, but they want to -- quite straight , but they want to hear it again. the question from washington post to both senator manchin and president roberts. bottom line, do you support a version of a clean energy standard as proposed in president biden's infrastructure package, and what would you want in exchange for support of a standard? cecil roberts? mr. roberts: thank you. if i could just follow up on what joe said -- a point joe made a minute ago, if you don't mind i think the reason congress acted to support coal miners' pensions and health care, and by the way, they did t

jeremy hobson is the former host of npr's "here and now" program and he is a journalist.ticle on medium. it is a good read. >>> another attack on the u.s. capitol leaving an officer dead. i will speak with the person tasked with security on capitol hill. then digging into major league baseball's decision to pull its all-star game from atlanta, georgia, in response to the state's new restrictive voting law. stick around, we have another full hour of "velshi" coming up. (splash) ♪♪ turn today's dreams into tomorrow's trips... with millions of flexible booking options. all in one place. expedia. hello this is vanilla. vanilla ice? ice, ice baby. ♪ this is a cold call! ♪ i'm bizz... [barking] stop! collaborate! and listen! alright, i'm listening. we're on a mission to get everyone to turn to cold washing with tide. ...and tide cleans better in cold than the bargain brand in hot. it saves you $1oo a year on your energy bill. if hot is a problem, yo i'll solve it. word to your mother. word to your mother. you know his mother? ♪ this was a cold call! ♪ guy fieri! ya know, if you

hi, i'm laura sullivan, npr and pbs "frontline." what's happening with k-cups?mean, you got a, a couple of hurdles, in the sense that you're going to he to have people sorting out tiny cups, right? >> ideally, mechanical sorting. >> sullivan: how many k-cups do you sell? >> about 11 billion. >> sullivan: 11 billion, a year? >> a year. >> sullivan: so, the idea would be mechanical sorters pick out 11 billion k-cups, right? >> ideally, we want all of them back. >> sullivan: others, like colgate-palmolive, saw a need for better education. >> so, we're here today to showcase our first-of-its-kind recyclable tube. >> sullivan: so, if, if you put this in your curbside tonight, do you think that this tube would be recycled? >> we need more work. we're working with other organizations to get the word out. >> sullivan: so, not yet? >> not yet, not yet. >> sullivan: i notice that you guys put the big chasing aows. >> correct. >> sullivan: do you think that because it's not quite recyclable yet, that that might be a little misleading? >> we don't think that we're being mis

hansi lo wang covers the census for npr. how big a deal is the announcement today?his is a very big deal. this is a culmination of nearly a decade's worth of planning and execution last year, and this is a once a decade reset of the national political map. >> desjardins: hence the massive drive for responses. >> counting everyone in your home helps support your neighborhood for the next ten years, by funding things like schools, hospitals and busses. >> desjardins: but like so much in 2020, the census was hit with unprecedented acts of god and man. march 2018: the trump administration adds a question asking if people are u.s. citizens. ultimately the supreme court blocks the idea, but it raises confusion and fear in some immigrant communities. january 2019: the partial government shutdown furloughs some census staff during a critical preparation time. march 2020: the coronavirus hits, precisely as census forms are mailed out. the agency delays its field operations for almost two months. september 2020: hurricanes and wildfires across the country hit, causing thousan

we want a hedge against an uncertain future, is something the npr says. russia and china are expanding the size of their arsenals. new start put in tomorrow, if russia decided to pull out. so we need to think about that. having icbms does give us that hedge, it would allow us to increase the size of our arsenal if we wanted to, and achieve our objectives. the primary purpose of nuclear weapons is to deter. the enemy gets a vote. if russia or china decided to he attack, we would want to achieve our objectives, and icbms helps us to do that, helps us to limit damage. cutting clearicbms, cutting the number of icbms means that god e forbid, in the event of a liliar war, millions of americanss s would die, whereas we kept those icbms, they wouldt survive. >> if i can just real quick, forhe those watching, when we talk bu about modernizing the entire 6, 7% r triad, it's about of the entire national defense budget. the t foricbm leg is a tiny frat of that, incredibly reasonable amount for what we're getting. so you should reject the argument that it's simply not

the npr, the pbses of this world. a certain percentage actually contributing but it's enough we get this thing done. >> it's the same for creators. we've taken the membership. we've taken the membership system. we've extracted it, shipped it to every creator in the world and do the same thing. we've added a lot of functionality. delivering physical goods to your patrons. there's a lot more coming and capabilities that i think creators will be able to use to build businesses. >> when you came up with this, a simple idea. i'm a musician mysel and create a way paid, complicated from a computer coding point of view but overall, the concept is simple and then you ran into the same problems that other big tech companies run into like you said certain people can't be on your platform. what they're doing is offensive and then you had to say, all right, take this gate keeper. it got more complicated than i think the original idea may have led you to think. >> i had no idea how complex it was to build a software company from sc

look at these more hospital personnel because of the list though is care since the infant rose person npr's of medical care i was but i could put his arm and this important. things in them and this has sort of i thought oh god no i didn't just look at it you know i don't i'm going but i'm going to do nothing for the you're misusing their focus on i wish you the legal issue. the mother he. or she would let you know that when i wanted one thing. and. not all of it as you know that i had in my you that i'm the national reconnaissance of you know pretty one thing you know you know this was that or no that was new mom outlook on the i mean mom it is just so not. you know he got his youngest but i'm not going to put the most local kid off commune those you know want to go home that's because they cough and no. one else seems wrong. well just don't call. me. to say pal it just it comes to cancer. and in the game because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. tough and i mean i'm on the pull of the highest amount when you go through a suit because

a recent npr analysis found that vaccine science, particularly across the south, were largely missingantly black and brown communities. this point to a lack of access, one of the reasons why black churches across the country paired up with clinics to not just bridge the mistrust gap, but to expand vaccine accessibility. >> those who desire to take the vaccine, they will not have to walk far. hi, i'm the pastor of the church, how are you feeling? >> reporter: bishop john borders is pastor of morning star baptist church, located in a predominantly black neighborhood on the south side of boston. he has turned his house of worship into a house of healing, both spiritual and physical. >> how do you feel, do you feel all right? >> yes, thank you so much. >> reporter: his church has partnered with boston medical center to offer covid vaccinations to community members. >> when you ask them to come out to gillette stadium or something like that, to take a vaccine, you're not going to receive much of a response. but when they know they can go to their house of worship and find trained, skilled

. >> sreenivasan: npr correspondent lauren frayer joining us from mumbai.so much. >> you're welcome. >> sreenivasan: when the covid-19 pandemic hit, cities worldwide were already facing environmental crises. many of them are vulnerable to climate change induced flooding, heat waves and drought. the pandemic added a health and economic crisis on top of that. but amsterdam is now experimenting with a radical new theory to rebuild its economy and create a more sustainable post-covid future for its residents. special correspondent megan thompson has more. this story is part of our ongoing series "peril and promise: the challenge of climate change." >> so welcome to the denim clubhouse! >> reporter: james veenhoff is taking us for a tour of denim city. it's a combination workshop, foundaon, archive and trade school in amsterdam, a city with a high concentration of big-name demin brands and denim wearers. >> we wear it to work. we wear it to school, weddings and funerals. we wear denim all the time. >> reporter: but denim is also one of the most resource- intensi

. >> tamara, npr. reporter: thank you so much. i have just a couple but i hopefully won't take too long. one question i have is whether you're seeing rural-urban divide in the uptick in new cases. and also whether that divide is showing up in vaccine hesitancy or nonhesitancy. and then a broader question for my colleague, rob, who asks, with surging cases, again, in many places and now even deaths rising again, should the federal government be doing more than just appealing to people to be careful? andy: let me take that -- dr. walensky will take those questions, rural versus urban divide, and i think the second part of the question, what precautions are we erjing people to take and -- urging people to take and what else can we tell people? dr. walensky: we can't do it at the state level. we have to do it at smaller county levels. zip code levels to really understand what the uptick is. and what the cases are. as well as looking what the f.b.i. is in all those ranges and we are doing that data now and hopefully get back in touch w

founder of punch bol bowel news and co-host of "the daily punch," and ayesha rascoe, correspondent for npr. this is fresh news. we don't know much yet about what happened but what do we know? anna: we know, officer billy evans, 18 dwhreerns force is dead. a man coming into contact with the barricade at the capitol. and really, just i think what you and i are feeling as reporters, we're often on capitol hill, is just another attack on the u.s. capitol police which is devastating, having very, very low morale. they've already lost multiple members of the u.s. capitol police force this year alone. it was just felt like the building itself was getting back to norm also a little bit after the january 6 insurrection. there had been massive fences an different layers that had really built this fortress around the capitol that had just started in the last week or so to be taken down. you know, reporters and everybody back in the building, feeling like it was maybe a little more business and usual but clearly the u.s. capitol is a target. that's something we're going to have to face and certainly m

the npr/pbs/marist poll shows 56% support, 34% oppose. increase taxes on corporations and high earners, according to quinnipiac. 62% support raising corporate taxes. the same poll found 64% support raising taxes on those making $400,000 or more. 31% oppose. the npr/pbs/marist poll find 64% support raising taxes on those same high earners. 33% oppose. the last takeaway, the president's personal ratings are better than his policy ratings. in the new poll, 46% of americans say they like how biden conducts himself while 27% disagree and another 27% have a mixed opinion. that's combined with a 46% that say they like all or many of his policies. elise jordan is still with us. and joining us now, pulitzer prize-winning columnist and associate editor of "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst, eugene robinson. and professor of history at tulane university, walter isaacson is with us as we hit just about right now, the top of the hour. >> so gene robinson, it's interesting, we have a popular president who appears to be personally liked,

that's why you don't see ads on npr. if you don't agree, you are a terrorist. it's an interesting thing. you get ratings by talking crime on the news and talking about the cops on the news. if you get rid of the cops the crime will go up so they will get the ratings. it's an endless feedback loop. >> greg: it's true. i bring this it up. we don't address the origins of the crime that lead to this horrible event where a woman or man days at the hands of the police. we don't look at that. the interesting thing about the ap-article. what if they continue to do this. every incident of a police shooting they looked at and they -- they can do. you have the manpower. the narrative would dissolve the way their article did. >> or there would be another article saying that was fueled by white supremacy. this is an important issue. but when you are focussed more on the narrative than on the truth, you will never solve anything. you are not operating in reality. you should always be focussed on the truth more than the narrative. talking about life-and-death especially. >> g

white house stairs with chair lifts you go gill brand said infrastructure is anything she heard on npr there? then free college could be infrastructure. taco tuesday is infrastructure and mowing her lawn is infrastructure. roads need mending and not social spending. like a derailed train, you have to wonder where it will stop. >> [coughing]. >> oh! 3 hours late. what do you have to say for yourself? >> [laughing]. >> it was definitely infrastructure. >> what is in your pocket? >> this is infrastructure. >> [laughing]. >> i had to walk around the office like that. >> [laughing]. >> that's the first time she's done. >> kat finally snapped. >> greg: the last 5 years i have known you has been method acting for this moment. >> [laughing]. >> greg: can i pray for you? >> i need it. >> i didn't understand what she was doing. maybe she was on lsd. everything is infrastructure. or it's just people on the left. they are used to being able to say what words and don't mean. this word racist. maybe she was trying to do that and took it too far. . >> greg: does gillibrand have a pot hole in her brai

. >> a reporter from npr overheard and recorded the communications. >> we have a good group.gether and sticking to the plan. >> we'll see you soon, jess. airborne. >> roger that, brother. god speed and fair winds to us. >> amen, sister, stay safe. >> watkins had been preparing for months. in texts from november, cited in court documents and now being used as evidence, she wrote a potential recruit. i need you fighting fit by inauguration. in another text, she wrote, biden may still be our president. if he is, our way of life as we know it is over. our republic would be over. then it is our duty as americans to fight, kill and die for our rights. as the crowds from the trump rally get closer to the capitol, watkins gives progress reports. >> yeah, we're one block away from the capitol now. i'm probably going to go silent when i get there, because i'm going to be a little busy. >> the walkie talkie app she's using allows supporters to join in from a group chat from anywhere. >> the u.s. military news is reporting that the national capitol has been breached. that's right, mother

what we have seen in the past is we tend to get these stories, it will be one npr there, and it tends to be relatively well contained. i think there was in the past always expectation of further contagion which could spread to the market more deeply, and that is not really happened in the bond market, from my perspective. it will be interesting, in terms of overall appetite for credit within asia. it has been robust over the last year, and i think it is only the last month or so we have started to see that wayne. -- wane somewhat. there has been less demand for longer dated debt to secure. these spreads, there's clearly a lot of risk, they can widen further, given overall credit has been crating -- trading incredibly tight. rishaad: getting back to the trade numbers, they are skewed by basis factors in a large part as you alluded to. if we go further down the line, what are we seeing with the chinese economy? when does it return to trend growth and what is trend growth at the moment for the pending? >> it is a get -- for the pandemic? >> we expect to see sequential growth in china lar

we have been working with npr shows that allow them to do streams that bring audio to video to life anddo more with interactive content through streaming that supports and adds to what they see and hear on the radio. emily: we will have to leave it there. thank you for joining us. that does it for bloomberg technology. have a wonderful weekend. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: as the economy starts to come back bringing jobs with it in the u.s. hits new records of covid vaccines? , what's not to like? this is "wall street week." contributors larry summers of harvard. >> i would like to have seen a boulder, bigger vision on infrastructure. david: howard marks of oaktree capital, josh bolton of the business roundtable. >> we are against the increases in corporate taxes, strongly against it. david: marty chavez of 6th street partners. >>

here is how npr covered it at the time. >> the first corporation to call for a renewal of the act was walmart. walmart has a great number of our customers who are african-american and hispanic american. we have a great interest in the issue. s it executives met with the black caucus in 2005. >> in june of last year the walmart ceo sent a letter to president bush urging him to support an extension of the voting rights act. at eli lily the spokesman said they wanted to add a voice from the heartland adding it is a unique situation. >> when we lobby on capitol hill, we are lobbying for broader health care issues or industry/pharmaceutical issues that may impact our company. and we saw this as an opportunity to be a leader on this and we did so because we believe in the legislation and we think that it has contributed to monumental and dramatic changes in american society. >> there was a letter from the pfizer ceo writing as chairman of the business roundtable, a group of ceos of 160 major companies. the group's public policy director. >> our main purpose is to promote economic growth. bu

>> there was another question that came up in an npr interview.sma? he skirted the question saying i don't want to get it wrong. apparently he also said that he has never said how much money he was made. i was paid handsomely. i don't want to say text act number. i was paid very well. a bad thing if he sat there and said i made millions. >> dana: if he doesn't want to say it it probably means it was a lot. martha maccallum >> the white house is growing chaos. this is "the faulkner focus" i'm in today for harris. stunning numbers as the feds say they have encountered more than 171,000 migrants in the month of march alone. take a good look at that number. look at the year-over-year number. 34,000 in march of 2020. anybody that tells you there is not a huge escalation here is simply not looking at the numbers. and the latest sign that the border crisis is

i wrote an essay about this which aired on npr-a few years ago where i said, , here i was a newly arrived immigrant and i was low on confidence. i thought there are so many things that i had brought with myself to this country were totally useless because there were just so many things that were betterr here. then the things i i had broug. but then i thought whatever they have that may be superior to what it is that i have, they can't top me or top the tradition i come from in poetry. and then one day, i think it was -- i don't know exactly what it was allen ginsburg or just haphazardly i fell upon it, but i fell upon a poem called my public walls. it's one of the greatestof poems and it's the story of a father who, not a story but it's a short poem about a father who is physically abusing his son. the poem is being told to the perspective of the son is being beaten by the father. i read it and i thought it was the most staggering thing i have ever read as a poem. and the reason was, i reached back into w my memory and i remembered that there was nothing like this in all the thousand year

you may recall that poll from last year from npr and maris showing about 47% of people who supported donald trump were against getting the vaccine. so there is concern that that attitude could delay, or maybe even prevent us here, in the u.s., from reaching herd immunity. so as more and more republicans here in florida, we're seeing it with our governor and the governor in texas come out against these vaccine passports and making a wedge with the democrats, quo actually see a spike in vaccine hesitancy, don. >> randi kaye, thank you. i appreciate your reporting. and thank you, everyone, for watching. our coverage continues. grease a. finish. clean dishwasher. clean dishes. dealdash.com, the fair and honest bidding site. an ipad was sold for less than $24; a playstation for less than $16; and a 4k television for less than $2. go to dealdash.com right now and see how much you can save. remember, shipping is always free. rely on the experts at 1800petmeds for the same medications as the vet, but for less with fast free shipping. visit petmeds.com today. >>> a lead investigator in the de

i want you to listen to sh short audio from npr national public radio back in 1975 but i'm going to makent to you that joe biden is the most racist president in the oval office since woodrow wilson. >> there are those social planners who think somehow if we just sub man's individual characterize and traits by making sure that presently heterogeneous society becomes a homo seen use society that we'll solve and quite to the contrary i think the concept of buffing which in that concept is the question you just asked. or that the statement was in the question you just asked that we're gong to integrate people so that they all have aim access and learn to grow up with one another and all of the rest is a rejection of the whole movement of black pride is a rejection of the entire black awareness concept where black is beautiful. black culture should be studied and a cultural awareness of the importance of their own identity their own individuality. and i think that's a healthy solid proposal. >> there are a lot of people who oppose back then who weren't racists including certain supreme court

you can get these books, at the bookshop, there is a link, also listen to my podcast, petri dish, and npr, so give that on spotif, and i will try to get to your question. i want to ask these gentlemen to wrap up with the second title which is covid-19, how it has changed us. how do you think it has changed us. >> made it more lonely, killed a lot of people, not only it killed a lot of people but left a lot of people with permanent disabilities of one sort or another, not just physical, it is a disaster us year for millions of people losing loved ones, losing their jobs, housing, livelihoods, that is the way it worked. for all of us lucky enough not to experience that directly in our immediate families loneliness would be the big thing and i don't think we can underestimate how bad that is for a social species. bad to our very core. it is really bad for the global economy. what has led to 200 years of immense economic and social progress, life expectancy going from 33 past 70 worldwide, the last few decades worldwide more educated than ever before, lower rates, what lies behind all of that

you may recall, that poll from last month, from npr, pbs, and marist, showing about 47% of the peopleting the vaccine. so, there is concern that that attitude could delay, or maybe even prevent us here, in the u.s., from reaching herd immunity. so, as more and more republicans here, in florida, we are seeing it with our governor and the governor in texas. come out against these vaccine passports. and make it a wedge issue with the democrats, we could actually see a spike in vaccine hesitancy, don. >> randi kaye, thank you, randi, i appreciate your reporting. and thank you, everyone, for watching. our coverage continues. now, simparica trio simplifies protection. ticks and fleas? see ya! heartworm disease? no way! simparica trio is the first chewable that delivers all this protection. and simparica trio is demonstrated safe for puppies. it's simple: go with simparica trio. this drug class has been associated with neurologic adverse reactions, including seizures; use with caution in dogs with a history of these disorders. protect him with all your heart. simparica trio. you know that lo

. >> six months after npr published a review of hunter biden memoir, they are issuing bombshell correctiony. after falsely claiming that the story about hunter's laptop was discredited by intelligence agents. the review initially read lapto story was in credit discredited by u.s. intelligence in these organizations. now, numerous news organization cast doubts on the credibility of the laptop story. no mention of intelligence, nor independent investigations just news organizations. let's bring in our panel. alicia, i'm going to start with you. why after five months are they coming out with this and this really could have made a big difference in the election back in october. >> not only could this change have made a difference another change that could have made a difference was the washington post remember after the electio when they were talking about th transcript from georgia and their source actually completel made stuff up. i'm not completely surprised that the american people are continually distrustful of not just our institutions, but like with the cdc has been doing bit of our med

fbi director christopher wray told npr last month that evidence of a national conspiracy has not yet emerged. but dozens of members of the far-right extremist groups the proud boys and oath keepers have been charged with conspiracy counts. as prosecutors detail how they coordinated travel and planned for violence. >> what's going on, everybody? this is joe biggs. >> reporter: joseph biggs is one of the handful of alleged leaders of the proud boys charged with conspiracy. court papers say the men communicated on an encrypted messaging app about their plans while preparing paramilitary and high-tech communications equipment, crowdsourcing $5,500 between december 30th and january 4th, and encouraging their right-wing members to descend on washington. >> overran the capitol. >> we're in the -- capitol. >> reporter: donovan crowell and jessica watkins are two of the more than dozen oath keepers charged with conspiracy. some members are seen moving in military-style formation through the crowd on the east side of the capitol that day before congregating in the capitol rotunda. and the feds

npr falsely reported that the laptop was "discredited by u.s.ntelligence and independent investigations by news organizations." before later issuing a correction. they got the story totally wrong. here with reaction, former acting director of national intelligence officer rick grenell along with an update on the ongoing situation with iran. russian disinformation, that's what hunter biden is still out there spewing? >> look, nobody outside of washington, d.c. believes that. we've seen the pictures which we can't show here but you could google. we've seen the text messages. we've seen all the information. we have witnesses "new york post" was kicked off of twitter and social media accounts for reporting the truth. we have a crisis going on in washington, d.c. because a whole bunch of people don't want to pay attention to the truth and they think that we don't notice. but the reality is, jason, that there wasn't a single piece of intelligence that said the russians were responsible for this laptop. that's a made up lie, and also, it was made up th

he told npr, "the new york times," cnbc. he's been saying it. i'm glad he's changing his tune. >> neil: he was complementary of you. i should stress as well as you are with him. too classy guys. thanks very much. dr. marty makary on that. the attention that is getting noted here, whether it's happening this week or next monday, the notion that herd immunity, something that you hear so much about, may be has come to britain and could come here. it's all in how the progress goes, not only with vaccinations but the body's own inherent ability to fight things off on its own regardless of those vaccinations. so we are on top of that. also on top of what was behind major league baseball's decision to boycott atlanta and move atlanta out of the consideration for the all-star game. what if i told you it wasn't all major league baseball? it was just one guy. after this. here's exciting news for veteran homeowners who need cash. refiplus from newday usa. with mortgage rates low and home values high refiplus can help you lower your rate plus turn your home

i've got to say began trickle-down economics mainstream media in "new york times" npr and "cnn" they said trickle-down economics make sense? i know that is? evolve the money to the rich and hope it trickled all over you. come on how could you possibly believe such nonsense? almost qanon like and it turns out you do a covid relief bill and it actually stimulates the economy bottom up. every economist knows it's true yet they never share with you on television at least or the near times. though there more independent-minded people and that's good in their media as well but look at the insanity so often are public and media. they have lost in the court everyt conservative appointee every trump appointee said you have no evidence there was no fraud and republicans are like obviously there's broad and all the trump appointed judges are liberals and they didn't rule on it. then you are worried a liar so they lose all credibility and they leave the arena facts. let's go on the line nashville tennessee tom, go ahead. >> caller: hello. i would like to talk about remember ukraine giving weight

>> joining me is the film critic for the "los angeles times" and npr's "fresh air," justin shang, great on the oscars themselves more broadly, the types of films chosen, does it speak to a broader trend or has this year been so extraordinary, it's just kind of a one-off that we can basically write off? >> thanks for having me. i wouldn't write it off at all. some have spoken about, should there be a special asterisk next to this year's academy awards? because -- as fit doesn't really count? because this was a year without a lot of big studio movies, a year when most of us stayed home and watched movies at home, if we watched new movies at all. i know many haven't and are concerned about the ratings of the oscars tomorrow. but i would see this, if there's an as terrific next to this year, i would say this has been one of the more interesting years for the academy awards. and that a lot of really terrific movies were recognized that might not have had a chance to be recognized in other years. >> what happens to those big tent pole movies that you were talking about that were kind of held,

in fact, i think it was npr that pointed out that from the moment of the chauvin trial starting until the day of the verdict, someone died in police custody every single day. that is a tragedy that should not happen in a democratized society, but we can only change that if we change how voting happens and who gets to participate in our elections. >> the florida governor, ron desantis, signing a controversial pro-law enforcement law supposedly meant to crack down on riots. oklahoma passing a law that could protect drivers who run over protesters. are these an assault on another key right under the first amendment to protest? >> not only is it an assault, it is a statement. we are being told by the gop in its current form that they do not intend to hear from us, they do not intend to protect us, and they do not intend to allow us to protest their failure to serve us. and by treating americans in this way, by saying that our value as citizens is diminished simply because of what we want and who we are, they are telling us what we need to know about their intentions as leaders. and my hop

now npr which had a back review out of the new book yesterday had to issue a correction. discredited the laptop story. they have now had to since come back and say well, actually, that's not true. juan, what does the mainstream media do with this story because it's uncomfortable for them the role they played in the days leading up to the election. >> juan: i think the correction, shannon, simply indicated that it's not u.s. intelligence but there is no credible evidence as to the -- origins of that laptop. and so they don't know. that's all they are saying. i will say this. i think it's easy to go after hunter biden. the guy looks pretty weak. i thought that answer was totally limp. you know, nothing to it. either he says he owns it or he doesn't. it's hard for me to believe he doesn't remember but that's what he says and as trey points out he has got a troubled past especially with drugs and the like and guns and women. everybody knows. he has had a boat load of trouble. but, look, you know, i see this as going after joe biden. i saw a poll this week said joe biden is at

friedman is with wttw, the pbs station in chicago, and wilken brutus is a reporter for south florida's nprstation. thank you for joining us. in chicago, even as the trial was going on, chicago was dealing with the adam toledo case. what has the reaction been to what happened in minneapolis? brandis: all of this has reinforced what a lot of activists have already been saying even since last summer and long before the george floyd death last summer. you are aware we had the laquan mcdonald case several years ago, a 17-year-old young man killed at the hands of a police officer. folks are calling for more accountability out of the chicago poce department and the mayor. specifically, they want to see civilian oversight over the chicago police department, which is something they have been fighting for for quite a while and will take quite some time before they reach something where both sides are satisfied. john: jason, in st. louis, the michael brown case in ferguson, a flashpoint in this whole issue. what has been the reaction in st. louis? it's jason: been a reaction of relief and a lot of su

npr had a time for a story and poetry during the pandemic but they didn't have time for this.nder the trump administration they would find these so-called bombshells and they didn't wait to confirm them. they would say nbc news has yet to indefinitely confirm it but it was rushed into the lead of the show anyway. here they are going to say it's under baked we don't have enough information. it shows you what we usually find, there's a complete difference in the way these networks cover republicans versus democrats. >> kristin: we had a former trump administration official, mike pompeo, he was on fox news earlier today and he was asked a question. you are a former secretary of state. how often do former secretaries of state meet with their counterparts after they left office and here's what he said. >> secretary kerry statement about talking to foreign leaders is true. seniors from the past. dr. kissinger does. others do. perfectly appropriate but is not the case that private conversations about active and ongoing conversations are ever appropriate to discuss. >> kristin: fred,

but npr did differently.journalism acknowledging some facts reported by the media may turn out to be wrong. never mind there's no such thing as an incorrect fact. tweeting this message to the mayor of columbus quoting "your police department murdered a 15-year-old child with impunity right before the chauvin verdict." if an officer then officers talk to people in the neighborhood. he has apparently decided to lead his astoundingly incorrect tweet stand. and then there is a harvard professor and civil rights attorney, colonel william brooks on cnn. >> what if it were your daughter, what if it were your child, what if it was a member of your family, your neighbor? and in essentially a teenage fight, schoolyard fight. >> though it was not a schoolyard fight, video shows ma'khia bryant with a knife violently attacking another student. but instead of praising what many have called a hero cop, the officer was bill and eyes by lebron james who tweeted and deleted a picture of the officer involved with the caption "y

calculations behind the pressure in the response our politics monday team amy walter and tamera keith of npr. hello to both of you. so good to see you on this monday. amy i'm going to start with you and the georgia law. the reverberations continued. i number of companies taking a stand. coca-cola, delta airlines, prominent black leaders taking a stand. over the weekend, major league baseball pulling up the all-star game from atlanta. my question is, how does this kind of pressure sit with political leaders? can it be effective in getting them to change a law? >> this is really vaccinating. it is been a fascinating develop ment. it did not start with this georgia law. we saw it in places like north carolina with the bathroom bill. we are seated on gay rights and other states. the laws and other states. what is happening, and this is especially true in the south, these metro regions like atlanta, dallas, houston that were pretty republican have become a lot more democratic. this is where these companies are headquartered and many of their employees come from those blue areas. they live in thos

here's how npr covered it at the time. >> the first corporation to call for a renewal of the voting rights act is walmart. lee cull pepper is the company's vice president for federal relations. >> walmart is the largest employer of african-american and hispanic americans. >> walmart regularly battled with lawmakers over unionizing health-care and other issues. its executives met with the congressional black caucus in early 2005. the result. >> the walmart ceo sent a letter to president push urging him to support an extension of the voting rights act. >> the crunch came this summer when conservative lawmakers pushed amendments to weaken the bill. they used the walmart bill and reach out to others. at eli lily, in indianapolis, the spokesman says they wanted to add a voice from the heartland. >> when we lobby we are bobbying for brder health-care issues or industry. we think it has contributed to monumental changes in american society. >> there was also a letter from the pfizer ceo, writing as chairman of the business round table. that's a group of ceo of some 160 major companies. tom lehner