i worked for marketplace and then npr's "planet money." so my mind was consumed by economics all the time. i began to realize i never used capitalism on air. i would talk about housing, oil prices and markets, always. jobs and unemployment, but the system was not something we discussed. it was not even something we discussed behind the newsrooms. in the summer of 2017, i was watching a friend's podcast taping and she was a cultural reporter and they were -- and her guests were cultural reporters and they talked about capitalism. it -- they were talking about jay-z's new album and his bravado about money. what does he mean for the culture when he exhibits this sense of time rich, i got rich and i want to get richer? and they just -- and they started discussing capitalism, not just jay-z, bankers or money itself, but the system. i realize that that summer i had been hearing an awful lot about capitalism but not about it in my newsroom where i was covering economics. i went running back to my colleagues and i said i think people are out here

npr who is embedded so you're trying to impress npr. to wait a little longer for some family to charge up. so what. it shows you that she doesn't want to be inconvenienced. even at the best charging station it takes one to two hours to recharge. one to two hours versus 5 minutes. it doesn't make any sense. trump has the great line, i forget where he's headed. when someone buys an electric car, the first 50 units are fantastic and then the rest of the time you're just nervous about where you're going to charge. [laughter] also it's not making gm any money. excuse me, ford. ford loses $60,000 per electric car. the only sold 12,000 in the first quarter and all of their factories went to mexico. it's a boondoggle. >> judge jeanine: biden just banned drilling in alaska. why are they doubling down on this disaster? >> harold: the same advance team, the same spokesperson talked about pearl harbor. they should be let go. in all seriousness, i was in advance guy and i was bad. but i was not this bad. there were some things i didn't do. but granh

i shouldn't say listening to npr this morning, there's actually going to be a story about this on thenews afternoon. so if you're listening to npr this afternoon and all things considered, they're actually doing a whole segment about guest worker and about the aging population. if you look at these men, they are not young. look, this idea that many men are older. and what this means for both them as workers and also them, what is the sort of commitment that these farms made to them? do they need to keep hiring them year after year because they feel a commitment, to these workers or do they simply go to less expensive workers? and this is a great argues happens in new york. she argues that there is a move from guest workers to undocumented workers. and this is again from an npr in 2012 and this is day new york farm farms farms generally hire undocumented workers rather than guest worker programs. this is not across the board, but the guest worker program is bureaucratic and requires a lot of paperwork. and you do have to pay people at a particular level. and so many farms now have turn

you can find that at npr. when it comes to book fans, it was the subject of a senate judiciary hearing that took place this week. you can find the whole hearing on our website at c-span.org. but it was during the hearing that the illinois secretary of state was there to talk about not only his concerns over bands but how legislatively had state was dealing with it. here is of the full portion of his testimony. [video clip] >> our libraries have become targets by move-in that disingenuously claims to pursue fruit him -- freedom but is moaning authoritarianism. authoritarian regimes ban books, not democracies. tragically, our libraries have become the thunder domes of controversy and strife across our nation. the likes of which we have never seen before. these radical attacks on our libraries divided our communities and our librarians have been harassed, threatened, and intimidated for simply doing their jobs. the need to stand up and fight for our freedoms and libraries, especially at this perilous time for our

you can find that at npr. when it comes to book fans, it was the subject of a senate judiciary hearing that took place this week. you can find the whole hearing on our website at c-span.org. but it was during the hearing that the illinois secretary of state was there to talk about not only his concerns over bands but how legislatively had state was dealing with it. here is of the full portion of his testimony. [video clip] >> our libraries have become targets by move-in that disingenuously claims to pursue fruit him -- freedom but is moaning authoritarianism. authoritarian regimes ban books, not democracies. tragically, our libraries have become the thunder domes of controversy and strife across our nation. the likes of which we have never seen before. these radical attacks on our libraries divided our communities and our librarians have been harassed, threatened, and intimidated for simply doing their jobs. the need to stand up and fight for our freedoms and libraries, especially at this perilous time for our

quote: ron desantis scoffed when an advisory was issued for black people, and npr's reporter asked this> does the white house see any connection with the changes that the florida governor has made in teaching about african-american history to the kind of violence that we saw in squawk sonville? -- jacksonville? howard: i took this up with rich lowry, editor-in-chief of national review from if new york. rich lowry, welcome. >> hey, howie. howard: even somebody as critical of ron desantis' education policy towards african-americans, fair debate, how does a mainstream journalist go from that to trying to say he has some responsibility for these awful shootings in jacksonville by a guy who later killed himself? >> i have no idea. it's low, it's dishonest, it's shameful. the idea that anything desantis has done, the the idea that if you say, oh, we shouldn't have critical race theory in the schools or you reject the african-american studies curriculum and craft your own that that's going to catalyze racist murders is obviously preposterous. but unfortunately, line of argument and commentary

rather than the news provided by fox news, john david folkenflik of npr.u very much. >> you bet. amna: fallout from the tasing and arrest of an alabama high school band director is sending ripples across the nation. video of the incident after a thursday night football game in birmingham shows a chaotic scene. we're going to play some of it now, and we should warn you that it may be disturbing to some viewers. in that video, they approach the band director. both team bands -- play dueling songs after the game ends. officials can be heard asking mims to stop playing, as he tells them they are on the last song. the stadium lights then go dark. and the situation escalates when mims steps off the platform and officers begin trying to handcuff him. a physical altercation starts between the officers and mims. he objects to being arrested and then is repeatedly tased by police. welcome to both of you and thank you for joining us. i want to begin with you because i'm interested in your perspective in that moment. we just saw in the video multiple officers are aski

that is amy walter of the cook political report with amy walter and tamara keith of npr.o you both. great to see. we talk a lot about the republican side of the 2020 for race. we will focus on the democratic side. specifically, how voters are looking at the race. i know you saw a couple questions i want to put to you from a cnn poll. the first asked, does president biden have the stamina and sharpness to serve effectively? 26% said yes, 74% said no. among the rats on that question, they are split. and they asked who should democrats nominate in 2024, 66% said to someone other than biden. at the same time, these polls are coming out, mr. biden was heading overseas. biden campaign released this ad. >> in the middle of a war zone, joe biden showed the world what america is made of. that is the quiet strength of a true leader. who does not back down to a dictator. amna: when you talked to white house sources, supporters of mr. biden, what do they say about the polls and why that at? tamara: they are pretty dismissive of the polls. the ones who are paid to work for president b

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i saw a lot about your book on different media, npr and etc..ed the cvs -- cbs morning interview with you. and i wanted to ask the way the reporter set it up there was quite an epiphany once you hit the new jersey turnpike. you call at the center of commerce of the capitalist world or something. and i wanted to know more information about what the motions of that -- emotions you felt in that more natural and human parts of your trip versus seeing the new jersey turnpike. guest: that is such a great question. the whole, my main purpose of walking out the door is putting aside distractions and paying attention to the particulars of every moment if i could. and to really watch one particular spring unfold as i walked north. and in doing that, it brought about so many of these moments of unexpected joy and really super simple things. that little clip that you mention, i came into this town right along the jersey turnpike, i was going to hike up this river to go under the jersey turnpike. the people they are said he would not be able to do that there

the car he was driving had been flagged on a police a npr camera, automatic number plate recognitionital from belong to chris and he later died in hospitalfrom a single belong to chris and he later died in hospital from a single gunshot winter. today's decision by the crown prosecution service to authorise a charge of murder of the family have said that they welcome today's decision which they say could not have come to sin. they go on to say that chris was so very loved by our family and all his friends, he had a bright future ahead of him but his life was cut short. in terms of today's decision by the crown prosecution service, the independent police complaints commission who launched a homicide investigation seven months ago, they then passed their evidence on to the crown prosecution service who have today announced that they have authorised a charge of murder for the metropolitan police firearms officer who fired that gun back in september. if the officer will appear before westminster magistrates�* court tomorrow and currently remains suspended. the metropolitan police have iss

west ham will be playing npr costs and a serbian side.un to remember, they have been drawn against kayaks and marseille and athens. forthe against kayaks and marseille and athens. for the full draw you can head to the bbc sport website. today was a rare day in the fi calendar. instead the owner fell to ferrari who... first up and was only sixth quickest. that is all your support for now. back to you matthew. premier league clubs have already spent a record amount of money. that is expected to rise to more than £2 billion by the time the window closes with the last—minute flurry. of closes with the last—minute flurry. of course this year there are the new kids in town. the saudi arabian league which has attracted star players with megamoney moves away from the big european leagues. a little earlier i spoke to mr critchley. few clubs will be more happy than others with their business, not least arsenal. i think they are the club that has managed to add the most world class talent without losing too many key players. they managed to get a se

you read that article from npr. it's weeks and months later they admit things that are obvious.y say other presidents do this but the one time they could think of was barack obama where they didn't have the red carpet planned for him. what does this tell you about the trajectory of this president? >> his performance in maui was so bad. he was so out of it. frankly, it's frightening. this is not about politics and scoring points. this is the commander-in-chief of the most powerful military in the world. it is clear that half of the time he is just not there. month by month, his cognitive collapse is more and more obvious. the associated press reported that 77% of all americans, democrats, republicans and independents, believe that biden is too old to run for reelection. i suspect by next summer that will be in the 90s. this will get worse. he is clearly in cognitive decline. it makes me wonder who is making the real decisions at the white house? obviously joe biden is not. he is not capable of it. >> pete: mr. speaker when you hear 77%, in the past numbers like that would have ra

when pressed by an npr reporter, he blames his dying son, beau biden. see if this makes sense to you. >> you know it didn't look good for hunter biden to be on that board even if he didn't do anything wrong and the optics were not good. you talk about the integrity imbued in that family name but there were white house aides of yours that tried to warn you. >> nobody warned me about a potential conflict of interest. >> george kent testified that he raised it to you. >> i never heard that once, at all. >> your staff told him he has no bandwidth. >> my son was dying, i guess that's why he said it. >> here with the latest, great to have you. [applause] >> they say they found no evidence, nobody warned me about a potential conflict. explain that to me. when he leveraged the taxpayer dollars, one of the consequences was his son, a drug addict at the time who had no experience in energy, no experience in ukraine, he continued to get paid as a result of the firing of the prosecutor and ukraine. that sounds like a conflict of interest. >> i want to point into an

according to npr, network stafler tried parking nonelectric vehicle by one charger to reserve a spot car blocking the spot for a free charger? the family blocked out on sweltering day with a baby in the vehicle, they decided to get authority involved and called the police. steve. >> steve: hilarious. point of this stunt was to show this is fine. what i love about the story, energy policy they have, out of all policies, most stupid and incoher upon sxent we see examples of it. they announced they are banning gas powered trucks, all trucks that drive stuff to stores, that is the life blood of our economy, going to be electric only. do they realize how long it takes to charge a truck eight or 10 hours, trucking driving at night that will be charging driving during the day increasing traffic. they have not thought this through, it is a total joke. >> emily: kellyanne, someone in the motorcade, and failed to charge their car efficiently in tennessee. >> kellyanne: most are not buying electric vehicles, car size 53,000 plus at time when average income went down last year because of bidenom

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npr's media correspondent is also the author of murdoch's world.urdoch steps down in november he will hand out the reins over to his elder son, who is 52. will anything change about the approach, the tone, the political slant of particularly fox news? reporter: i don't. i think the sun if anything is slightly more conservative than his father and less politically engaged. and less ceaselessly ambitious then his father to keep expanding and maneuvering. he has been focusing his maneuvering on getting on top of his family empire. the father and son have been trying to figure out if there is a way to cultivate a challenger to donald trump in the republican primaries for next year's presidential elections. giving ron desantis the longest audition possible in front of viewers. he has failed to catch fire. it is widely reported that they are interested in glenn youngkin and many others. as donald trump steamrolled the competition i think you will see fox news sprinted to the front of the parade and make as if they were leaving it all along. just as fox n

he went to msnbc and npr saying a lot of things that he said previously, but saying that the ball is in their court, that they need to come up with something better than they have put out. and if they don't come out with what he called serious progress by friday, they could expand those strikes. remember, we have less than 10% of the union currently striking across three facilities. this union has the power to bring the big three to a complete standstill in north america. kriti: you mentioned north america. talk to us about how this extends across that northern border. oliver: right now you have -- 60 minutes ago just about -- you have the contracts expire for the canadian union that works at the ford factory, they have two engine plants, and they are currently negotiating to get wages and pensions, and guarantees around evs, which is the background music to all these conversations in the industry. they have been told to stay at their post for the time being. they are negotiating right now. the question is what does this look like going forward? these assembly plants make the v-8 eng

let's bring in a business reporter for npr, good to see you, so the uaw is targeting these parts distribution centers. does that mean people who need their cars repaired will have a hard time getting parts? >> yes, that's definitely a likely consequence here. i will note a lot of dealerships did know that this was coming, and they've been stockpiling parts in anticipation that at least this might happen, right? but when they run through stockpiles that they have locally, they may not be able to get the parts that they need to do repairs from the company. one interesting question is what gm and stellantis might be able to do to keep these warehouses running without uaw workers. they have plans to evaluate and deciding whether to put into action. stellantis didn't comment. before, auto companies did things like send white collar salary workers to try to pull parts off shelves and send them to dealerships. the parts are important for companies. they're very profitable for automakers. that's one reason the unions are targeting these warehouses. and they are important for customer satisfaction, wh

also as ecstasy to treat ptsd laura been interviewed by npr, cbc, abc news as well as featured in the new york times, business insider, newsweek and nature. she's spoken at tulane university, brown university medical school and the national academies of sciences, engineering and medicine. her is published online in having huffington post and prime mined most. she was featured in the netflix docu series starring michael pollan. how to change your mind, laurie currently serves as co-executive director, the psychedelics society of new orleans. thank you, laurie. i told welcome back. i told her i was going to read the whole thing. so our guest, rachel knew her is an award winning science journalist who regularly contributes to the new york times national geographic scientific american and many other publications for reporting for the new york times broke the news globally about the mdma three clinical trial. it was highlighted by michael pollan, ezra klein and tim ferriss, among other thought leaders, in 2022, newer was among the inaugural recipients of the ferriss uc berkeley psychedelic

one scholar from the left-leaning urban institute had this to say on npr the other day. and i quote, "i think it's going to be less obvious that it's a big loan forgiveness program to both borrowers and on-lookers as well, but, yeah, it's a big loan forgiveness program. so no longer a safety net like it has been in the past for under graduates, this looks more like a broad-based subsidy for undergraduate degrees through loan forgiveness, unquote. that from a scholar at the left-leaning urban institute. let me repeat that. a broad-based subsidy for under graduate degrees through loan forgiveness. or, in other words,in the words of one scholar from the american enterprise institute, quote, a functional entitlement program, end quote, whose costs, he adds, and i quote again, will prove difficult to control. mr. president, i don't need to tell anyone that the problems here are myriad. let's think about it. for starters, someone is going to have to bear the cost of all these unrepaid student loans, and that someone is the american taxpayers, including taxpayers who worked har

according to npr, a staffer even tried to save a charging spot for the secretary by using a gasoline-poweredd. tisk tisk. but that did not go over well with another e.v. driver. that driver called the police to complain that they were blocking what should have been an open charging spot. but police reportedly could not do anything because as of this moment, and this is bound to change, it's not illegal to use a gas-powered vehicle to occupy an e.v. charging spot. granholm's team tried to smooth things over and did graciously give up one of the spots that they were holding for the family. >> sandra: after they put up a fight for it. >> john: yeah. >> sandra: this happened in early june, we are just starting to hear about that. >> john: might not be illegal but there are words to describe that. >> sandra: indeed. that makes the next story even more interesting. trucking companies are bracing for the impacts of president biden's stricter emission standards. more clean energy mandates will not only kill small business but crush the country's supply chain. sir, thank you for joining us. you are w

of an npr reporter, he seems to blame his dyings hi son, beau biden. see if this makes sense to you. >> so why didn't? didn' you know, it didn't look good go for hunter biden to be on that board. even idnter bidenf he nothing we the optics weren't good. and you talk a lot about what it meansdo to be a biden and theu talk a integrity that has imbued in that family name. but there were former white house aides of yours who tried to warn about the potential conflicts of interest. nobody warned me about a potential conflict interest. nobody warned me about that. and at the same timel , george,g the state department official testified that he raised it to you testifi know, he didn't o stuff. he did not do your stuff. never corrected, ever heard i that once to your staff and your staff told him he has no bandwidth. >> well, my has been i guess>> that's why he said it, becauses my son was on his deathbeddying >> wow. anyway, here with the very latest editor in chief just news.com, john solomon. >> john, great to have you, sir. e yoyeah, give me a review. all

. ♪ reporter: the song has what npr music deemed "a swagger that leaps out of the speaker."t's nat meyer's reaction to the racism, particularly the anti-asian hate crimes that he observed during the pandemic lockdown. >> my thing about this song is, anything that tries to insert itself and breaks apart, what it means to be a minority or a person of color in america - we ain't going to let that happen. reporter: but nat meyers relationship to the blues goes back a long time before that. all the way back to the beginning. >> i had like a pretty archetypical, just like, american childhood, i guess, you know. put my head on my heart that my hand -- put my hand on my heart every day and said the pledge. reporter: the son of a mom from south korea and a white dad from indiana, he was raised in a mostly white part of northern kentucky. >> my parents didn't really kind of instill in me a sense of my own identity in terms of me being asian. i look at younger pictures of myself. i look at a kid who really thought he was white. i didn't have a very happy childhood. i got picked on a lo

and tamara keith of npr. thanks for being here.ive days left until the deadline to fund the government or there is a shutdown. speaker mccarthy said he is a believer they can get a stopgap funding bill done, but the hold up is it is republicans' inability to reach consensus. if there is a shutdown, is not clear to the american public, that this is a potential republican shutdown? >> i don't know if they are paying as close attention, there is a lot of other news. the reality is we are spending a lot of time talking about one person, kevin mccarthy, and the number of republicans in the house saying we are ok with a shutdown because we didn't get what we wanted. i think the fact the focus will be on him will make that somewhat clear. the real question is what the implications are in the months and weeks to come. does this last for a significant amount of time? so significant it has a real impact on real people's lives and the economy and how people see the republican party, who is trying to run in 2024 on making us stewards of the ec

npr's political director at the time came out and wrote this really great article which said it is laughablely, it's never going to happen. this is the ticket. i think that columnists, strategists, media connoisseurs, their time would be better spent analyzing how exactly president biden and vice president kamala harris are doing trying to connect with voters. i think there are ample things to analyze, not these racist imaginary scenarios. >> right. one of the things that the vice president is doing, she's on her college tour. she's going to historically black colleges and universities. this is not new. she has been out there barnstorming the country basically since the leak of the dobbs decision a year and a half ago. can you just talk about the impact of having the vice president out there in the field talking directly to voters? >> it makes a difference. i saw it on the first day of her fight for our freedoms college tour. she went to hampton. the lines at hampton were so long outside. they were all of these videos. >> the marching band came out. >> we love a marching band at an hbcu, hon

the nuclear posture review but i think there was some value there, one of the outcomes was that we do npr implementation. a lot of those issues that were identified had a body to go back to for implementation. in many cases the nuclear weapons counsel for policy and somewhere else. as we were going through the process we realized the value of getting collective group of people and officials in the same room on a weekly basis to have these discussions and dialogue and identify gaps wherever they may be, kind of recognize, it is the same in some ways as the statement and people wins when i say this because it took a while to do but just as with nuclear posture review i hope it would not be the first and the last bio defense posture review, that there will need to be a regular review of this which is the value of the council existing to determine, not saying it has to be every presidential term or every administration, may be up to the council to decide but there should be a regular look at this and in stride, issues identified or need to be adjusted, that is why the council exists, one of t

according to npr, gun violence is one of the five most important issues that will inform young people'slth care, economy, housing, reproductive rights, and climate change. it's inspiring to see young people are focused on the future with their votes. favoring action, rather than being paralyzed by fear. this voting bloc should not be taken for granted. in 2020, young people turned out to vote, especially in some key swing states. president biden won. like georgia, pennsylvania, nbc exit polls suggest that 60% of those between ages of 18 to 29 voted for biden. higher than any other age group. unfortunately, a new pew research center report reveals that about six and ten u.s. adults express they don't have too much or no confidence at all in the future of the united states political system. and young people are the most frustrated. only about half of adults under age 50 say voting can have at least some effect on the country's future direction. republican presidential field candidate, vivek ramaswamy has suggested raising the voting age to 25 years old. which is a strange position for the

joining us is npr's conseil along. -- hansi lo wang.hard yesterday, saying that "the law requires the creation of an additional district that affords black alabamians, like everyone else, a fair and reasonable opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. the 2023 plan plainly fails to do so." you have followed this closely. what happens next now that this has been struck down? hansi: now that it is shut down, the court has come up with experts, with three proposals, congressional maps, and they are due later this month, and the judges will review those maps, and all the sides in the case will be able to bring out objections, there may be a hearing in early october, and the court will decide which map used next year for the 2024 elections, but there might be a potential complication because the state of alabama has also said it is waiting to appeal this ruling to the u.s. supreme court, and so there could be a request here that we are respecting -- expecting soon from the state of alabama, asking the supreme court to pause the ruling

. >>> eric dug against is a media analyst and the tv critic for npr. great to see you. we're talking about the last four days in particular of these hard core negotiations. what is it about these negotiations that are suddenly bringing so much optimism? >> well, i think first the fact that the actual moguls, the people who actually run these companies are said to be participating in these talks. previous iterations of talks involved representatives of the group that represents all the studios that are involved and party to this agreement. now we're hearing actual industry leaders are in the room and they're hearing these proposals and offering their feedback. it's also made it clear that they're really interested in closing a deal rather than batting around proposals and playing in the press, trying to win public sentiment. it's been obvious that the public has been on the side of the striking writers and actors in poll after poll. i think the studios realizes they really need to prove that they're serious about this, and they need to get down to brass ta tacks. if the

difficult it is to find electric the goal charging stations and it babies long distances is reporting from npro you see us take account of her road trip. >> will be taken electric vehicles on this road trip and i'm excited to point out all of the investments happening. reporter: jim farley portillo also recently took a road trip f1 50 lightning and as far as we work on the cops were not called but he did admit that he ran into some of the same challenges charging the vehicle driven transition tvs is a sticking point is the auto workers union prepares for a possible strike later this week the. liz: thank you so much for joining us now the president of the american petroleum this is mike summers, when use of history, would you think i'm in the block to family with a baby in the car i block them from fusing a charging station so that energy secretary granholm could use that in the use of gas powered cart to block than they call the cops and amenable this just screams entitlement and abuse of power people comparing into an episode of . mike: i think it gives recent the role of consumers was here,

. >> bret: she was very existed but secretary granholm npr.oad problem even for the secretary of energy. sit set out on four day. she knew charging might be a challenge. there were all kinds of challenges in her caravan. they were planning to fast charge there weren't going to be enough plug plugs. they tried parking nonelectric vehicles to reserve a spot that didn't go well. family boxed out. sweltering day with a baby in the vehicle they were so upset they called the police. bottom line getting from one side of the country to another, it's not working, right? in electric vehicles? can you say that definitively? >> i think the way we see the market today is that there is more and more electric vehicles offered to customers but they are just not willing to pay a premium for them. some customers who have the right duty cycle are really interested. but the price premium that we see a year ago is not there today. and we're going mass consumers who have a lot of charging anxiety. they don't have range anxiety they have charge anxiety. >> bret: you

it's appeared on npr's talk of the nation. abc's world news tonight, pbs's american experience. bbc radio and. also at ten x dean is here today to speak about his book, guardians of the valley. john muir and the friendship that saved yosemite. please welcome our four authors. i'd like to start start we'll have a discussion among the authors. and as we approach the end of this hour, we will take questions. and for those questions, there is a microphone and a podium and, the center of the room. so please, as we get closer or around the 40 minute mark, step up there and, wait patiently and we will take your question. first, though, i'd like to start and ask each of our guests to just give a three or four minute overview of their book, the premise of the book, and just talk in general a little bit about it. and ryan, like to start with you. tell us a bit about ryan pelican, how you found it, how you got into it. sure i think what will become over our short time together, it's not already evident, is that compelling stories about nature and the environment require compelling characte

amy walter of the cook political report and tamera keith of npr. both laboring on this labor day. president biden as we reported spent the day in philadelphia. he delivered the speech where he touted his economic record, his jobs record and he took more than a few jabs at donald trump's record. >>>> when the last guy was here, you were shipping jobs to china. now we are bringing jobs home from china. >> so tell us more about what the president said and the strategy behind the speech. >> so this is part of what the white house has taken to calling bidenomics. their pitch is biden's policies are good for working people. that yes it is climate change, trying to prevent climate change and spending money on clean energy is important but also it is creating jobs. the chips bill exists but it is also about bringing jobs into the united states. that is the pitch he is making. it is a pitch he has made frequently. it is not a pitch that is really sinking in yet with the american public. >> what about that because as you both know big labor helps the back bo

he told npr steve and see that he felt, quote, it was time to service publicly the thing that i finaliste of his second term to be an effective president. democrats, a brooding clan where the glass is always half empty because the other half is needed for bed-wetting they are never satisfied always looking for someone to be president even when one of their own is sitting right there in the oval office right now. yes, president biden is 80 years old. an 80 year old presiding over an economy where wages are up, unemployment is at record lows, and job creation is climbed past a record -- >> since inauguration in january 2021. and 80-year-old who leads an international alliance against russia and its war in ukraine. an 80 year old whose leadership his worries about america. if he isn't reelected. leave it to democrats and gleeful republicans leaving the anxiety to want to ditch and -- successful team, because he is old. ronald reagan was old. he was 73 at his second inauguration in 1985. then the oldest president to take the oath of office. there were comments about his age. but it republica

i'm the only television reporter and npr was with us and reuters and what we saw was just horrible.so i asked her about the fact that history is repeating itself. >> you know, it did change, but now we are seeing the evidence of it starting again, what we see happening in darfur right now portends to what we saw happening in darfur in 2004 so we have gone backward in those years, and that is why it is so important that we hold those responsible accountable and i will, as you know, announce the sanctioning of senior individuals from the rsf who have been engaged in the commission of atrocities in darfur. >> reporter: that is the rapid support force which is one of the adversaries in this, but, katy, both sides are guilty of different scales of problems and she says there are no good people involved in this. what she announced today was new sanctions and she reached the decision about new american sanctions, the treasury department, state department had to be satisfied that there are mass atrocities. there are also report, katy of mass graves and those are being investigated to see wh

audience that didn't feel it was being served by "the new york times" and pbs and "washington post" and nprn stoking that audience, stoking the grievances, the resentments they felt against the press, against the elites that he invades against in his retirement note this morning to colleagues the idea that the rest of the media is out to mislead you or scream or shadowy elite figurings. -- figures, and transformed the nature of cable news into a one of cable views, a place where people could feel that their outlooks were affirmed and their beliefs supported as opposed to being told about stories we may not know about and might not think they wanted to know about or needed to know about. he really transformed the nature of cable news, and he also in the process transformed the nature of our politics and civic understanding. there were many players in the realm of politics and media, but none has had the same effect as murdoch particularly through fox news, and really shaping, influencing, driving, and in some ways disporting the republican party, and you see it over the years in republican l

npr's legal affairs correspondent nina totenberg. and nina, thank you for joining. who prepared a statement saying that he is always striving for full transparency and adherence to the law. but, i think that might raise some eyebrows, given, look how long it took to reveal this. >> well, we've seen a plethora of stories in the last year, from propublica and other news organizations, a belt the justices benefactors, people who have given him lush vacations, help in a loan secured to fund a big fancy rv. the variety of issues that have come up, has been really pretty substantial. and, that justice has, as far as i know, not contest the accuracy of these pieces, that have been published in a variety of veins. now, this year, he asked for a delay of three months. which he is entitled to do, and was granted, to make his disclosure form for 2022. and what i found so interesting was not the revelations of several jet trips provided by harlan crow, his friend, who is a big republican megadonor, but the fact that he used the 2022 disclosure form to telegraph that he is not g

depending on npr, if in lake mead that's bringing i called prepared, yeah, because i walk around withts and t-shirts a lot and i feel unprepared. but we are looking out there at what we got out there, which is a little bit of that low cloud cover sitting still across many parts of the bay, including. >> right at the bay bridge. the embarcadero. not the windiest, though. we do see some offshore winds kicking up into tomorrow and thursday, though, so expect couple of breezy days ahead of us. just not today. so much. you can see faintly hear some of that cloud cover still hanging out on the peninsula as well as parts of the north bay. lot of the rest of us clearing out thunderstorms yesterday up in the sierra nevada. and we've got another active afternoon for the sierra and in active week ahead of us in general. while the bay area stays quiet, look at the shower. activity will see thursday into friday up in the sierra. if you have plans on heading up there this week, get ready to bring the rain jacket with you and for us next week here locally, we are hinting at a chance of rainfall ours

following this closely is npr's ponzi low on. thank you for joining us today. the three-judge panel in alabama came down hard on the state's new map yesterday saying the law requires the creation of an additional district that affords black alabamians like everyone else a fair and reasonable opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. the 2023 plan plainly fails to do so. you have followed this closely. what happens next now that this has been struck down? >> now the court has appointed experts to come up with three proposals, three congressional maps for the state of alabama. those proposals are due later this month and the judges will eventually review those maps. all sides of the case will be able to bring up objections. there might be a hearing. ultimately the court is going to decide which map ends up being used for next year, the 2024 elections. but there might be a potential complication because the state of alabama has also said it is planning to appeal this ruling by the three-judge court to the u.s. supreme court. there could be a request here th