Congress Averts Shutdown, Trump To Appear In Court, Climate Solutions Week
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the government shut down by passing a .

short term spending measure over the weekend. But to do that.

the republican speaker of the house, Kevin, he had to work with democrat.

put his job on the line. Are you? Are tina that's lay a bottle? This is up first from npr news.

Former president Donald triple appearing court today in new york. The trial, one of many, is a civil trial. He and his company accused of fraud. The new york attorney general wants two hundred and fifty million dollars and a ban on truth, and his other sons running businesses in new york.

Plus the effects of climate change may feel difficult to rain in, but that's what this week on N P, R is all about solution. We got in paris, july, a Simon, with us to share ideas on how to help as we launch climate solutions. We stay with us will give you the news you need to start your day.

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With only hours to spare, congress averted a government shutdown, a deal came .

together after hospital came out the backtrack and decided to work with the craters to pass a short term spending measure on saturday.

The room, and we're going to keep government open.

Why we solve this problem, but in choosing by parsonage, mccarthy also put a job at risk. D, A republican congress of mt. Gates says he plans to introduce a resolution to remove machias speaker as early as this week. I think we need to move on with new leadership that can be trustworthy.

Npr political correspondent Susan Davis joints us now to discuss all this high. Sue, good morning. Good morning. okay. Before we get to the drama surrounding the city's job, could you spell out exactly what congress agree to this weekend?

sure. They have passed the stop gap spending measure that basically keeps the government on autopilot until november seventeenth s there was one at on provision that includes sixteen billion dollars in disaster relief ade to assist with things like recovery from the hawaii res. Notably later, what I did not include was any aid for ukraine. Despite very strong lobbying from senate minority leader mccoll and obviously president fighting, the president ari said publicly he believes that he has a deal with the speaker to move something separate on ukraine. But just yesterday on cbs, the speaker said that while he might support money for ukraine, he wanted IT tied to some kind of legislation to secure the border or so it's .

gonna a complicated negotiation. okay. And as you point out, november 10， that pires is right back at a shutdown standoff. Yeah.

I mean, almost certainly. I mean, the thing that's important to remember here, as stop gaps are easy there. The underlying twelve annual spending bills, none of them have been passed by congress. shit. The house and senate are on completely different pages. If you were called, the speaker walked away from the budget deal that he cut with the president that was signed into law in early june, and the house has been passing bills with very steep cuts to domestic spending that we know has no chance of survival in the senate would never be signed by the president.

So how the two chAmbers reconcile this, I can answer for you, and neither can anyone on capital hill right now, not just in terms of the spending levels, but republicans have also put into their bills a number of provisions that they say would remove the quote, quote woke from the government. That will also be you not going to see the later day in the senate. So they have about a month, and I have to try to reconcile some of this. But the chances that they're all resolved in the ready to role in november seems highly unlikely.

And then in the meantime, mccarroll y, because he worked on this deal with the democrats, is facing a possible removal of from his speakership. Mean, how realistic is IT that he loses a job?

You know, remember, he won't be in this position. If he had negotiated himself into this position again back in january, he had to agree to make this easier to remove the speaker to get the votes he needed from the far right to become speaker. Now IT could be used against him.

I would say most republicans still support Kevin mccarthy. They still want him to be speaker. But the political irony here is that now puts a lot of power in democrats hands. If all democrats voted in mass with just save five or a few more republicans, they could remove them from the job. I talked to democrat all last week about this.

They are very wary of um adding to the kol capital hill, but they don't really hold much regard for the speaker, especially as he is started moving forward with an impeachment inquiry of the biden. And the big question is, if the carthy needs democrats to remain speaker, what do they want in return? And again, that's gonna a very another very complicated negotiation for the speaker to figure out and maybe as soon as this week.

And p is political. Susan Davis, i'm sure we will be speaking to you again soon.

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Former president Donald trump will appear in a new york courtroom today as his legal troubles s enter the next face.

A civil trial brought by orkney n. James, who is the man the former president and company, pay the state two hundred and fifty million dollars already, new york judge Arthur and goron has found that Donald drop in his two sons committed persistent fraud and ordered them to start taking steps to sell off large .

pieces of our company. Andrea is at the courthouse in lower manhattan, and he joins us now. Hi.

Andrew. Good morning.

Good morning. So explain what's the issue here, what the judge already found.

So last tuesday, surprising so far, I can tell almost everyone judge and go on issued ruling that when you read that, you can practically see the steam rising. He said, based on paper work alone, all of the defendants committed persistent and repeated fraud d by lying about their property values, for example, done on trump lied about the size of his own triplex apartment at trump tower. He said he was three times as big as that actually is worth several hundred million dollars more and with morale go, the judge said, trump, ed, by two thousand, three hundred percent about the value at one point the judge like and down on trump to chickle Marks in the thousand nine hundred thirties classic movie ducks soup who said, well, who you are going to believe me or your own eyes?

Two thousand, three hundred percent, quite a lot. The judge has moved to cancel the tram company's business certificate. Is, what does that mean?

So in new york, the lizer clear, if you commit persistent and repeated fraud, you can't do business. So now there's a process which begins with the cancellation of the business certificates. The idea is that trump would have to sell some of his most iconic pieces of his business tower, golf courses, commercial buildings. The process will move in parallel with the trial trump has appealed. But so far in new york, courts are allowing both the trial and the cancellation of the business certificate gets to move forward.

I guess what i'm confused about is if all of this is already happening, why even a trial?

So the judges ruling .

was only for the first cause of action. There are six more they have to do with drawing up false documents, conspiracy y and lying to insurance companies. On top of that, the ag has to present evidence supporting her claim that trumps company made two hundred and fifty million dollars in extra profits from these fragile ant representations.

Now, trust him has argued no one was hurt, that he made money. Banks made money, all good. But the judge said, that's irrelevant. You're not allowed to lie or commit fraud. The judge called from to defense, quote to legally proposal .

I S and so what do we expect today?

So they'll be opening statements by assistance attune general trumps lawyer and possibly lawyers for dog junior and erick poor also defended here. First witness is trumps former outside account Donald bender from the firm mazard mender us a lot. So that should be interesting. Alan whie berg and Michael coin, two former executives, uh, are expected this week, and then later in the trial, Donald trump, eric, don junior and eva trumpet all on the witness list. We're not sure how long that will go, but one gas is that IT will conclude before thanksgiving and .

from there today, will he be back tomorrow?

As with everything involving a former and would be president going on, trial is uncharted. Well.

know when we know Andrea burns time. Thanks so much.

Thank you.

This week, M, P, R, bring your stories about the search for climate solutions .

just has past friday in new york city, major disruptions after several inches of rain LED to flash flooding. This comes after a summer of brutal heat and deadly flooding and wild fires in several countries across the world.

Is the climate solutions porter on mp r climate death? And he joins not to explain what this week is all about july. When I talk to people about climate change, I often hear a lot of hopelessness. So what do you?

Things are really bad right now, but what if we refrain? The conversation with climate change is actually not like there's this media hurdling towards earth and there's nothing we can do about IT. Humans are driving climate change.

And that means we can find the solutions to change the trajectory we're on. We actually have many solutions already. Robert will, our professor, urban planning at texas southern university, equates this moment to when our country face past injustices.

Slavery was an evil institution, and I needed to be this metal. I I pushed back against any individual organization that that will say, well, we can do anything about us this chAllenge, we can do something about IT.

ala. Climate solutions. That's what this week is sent around. How do you to find IT?

Broadly speaking, climate solutions are things that reduce screenhouse gases, renewable energy, solar, wind batteries, energy efficiency. And the way we use land matters are we burning forest, destroyed mangroves. Individuals can play role, too, by eating less meat.

For example, we have to remind folks, solutions are not all about individuals. A lot of solutions come down to governments and companies. Okay.

government, would that be something like when president, by inside the invention reduction act? Last, that really the most get piece of climate policy in U. S. History that were talking about.

right, right? Governments can really set the agenda for climate policy. We saw this in brazil.

The new president, luna silva, is really cracking down on deforestation in the amazon. Under his predecessor was saro brazil. Deforestation was surging. So some advocates see voting as a real powerful climate solution.

What if those someone's thinking in, well, okay, this is the planet is already warming, then we need to adapt to that. Is that considered a climate solution?

Yes, we will need to rebuild infrastructure for rising sea levels, new rainfall patterns. Adapting to climate change doesn't mean we're giving up. Adaptation is part of the solution.

If we replaced coal and gas plants with renewables, we reduce Greenhouse gases that warm our planet, and we also end up reducing the air pollution that is bad for long. Gs disavowed communities bear the brunt of that pollution. So reducing fossil fuels with help communities of color.

So that sounds like there's an equity component of climate solutions.

one hundred percent. And we have to remember that some individuals, companies, are more responsible for climate change than others. So how do we hold them accountable? This summer in montana, sixteen Young plaintives one a climate lawsuit arguing against the state's development of fossil fuels. IT could have huge implications across the U. S, so accountability can be a climate solution to july.

Simon is the climate solution reporter on M. P. S. climate. Does Julia thinks?

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