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Others followed, such as Lamborghini's angular Countach and the Lotus Esprit, one of which was made into an amphibious vehicle for Roger Moore's James Bond — a car that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/18/tesla-elon-musk-james-bond-lotus-submarine-car\">Musk bought in 2013\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The front of the Cybertruck angles up to a point just above the front-seat headrests, where it meets an even longer slope down to the rear — a continuous plane that includes both a transparent roof panel and the truck's rolltop bed cover, which retracts behind the back seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk seems to have expected the wedge-shaped design to split some potential customers, saying months before the truck's long-awaited unveiling that \u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2019/03/15/tesla-cyberpunk-electric-pickup-truck-teaser-elon-musk/\">its look\u003c/a> \"may be too futuristic for most people.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/cybertruck-5_wide-a71c29f4a3bb25b815a5eea6bb234c41e4e3fd27-800x450.jpe\" alt=\"Tesla unveiled its Cybertruck electric vehicle Thursday night. 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After the much-hyped event, the company's fans were divided on the truck's aggressively angular design. \u003ccite>(via Tesla Motors)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Cybertruck also looks markedly different from the truck concept improvised by Tesla owner Simone Giertz — who won fans earlier this year when she hacked off the back roof of a new Tesla Model 3 and converted the sedan into a truck. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giertz, who was at the Tesla event, said of the Cybertruck,\" I have no idea what I think of it. Need to sleep on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, she elaborated somewhat: \"I've slept on it now, but my facial expression is still the same. I think I might have gotten chronic shocked \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cybertruck?src=hashtag_click\">#Cybertruck\u003c/a> face.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SimoneGiertz/status/1197929481454813184?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics called it a doorstop or a very ugly DeLorean — or something that might be seen in an old vector-graphic video game. But the truck also had its defenders, who seem to chalk up the initial negative comments to the Cybertruck's bold look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Really disappointed by my colleagues at so many pubs who are dismissing the Cybertruck because it looks weird,\" \u003cem>Roadshow \u003c/em>Editor-in-Chief Tim Stevens \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Tim_Stevens/status/1197783753705185284\">said via Twitter\u003c/a>. He added, \"Many of these same colleagues spent this entire week lamenting an industry that is churning out samey, half-assed crossover SUVs. I'll take weird over anonymous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter user David Wu \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/libdave/status/1197750810261647361\">compared it to a stealth fighter\u003c/a>: \"The F35 of pickup trucks. Don't think my mind has ever been blown like this before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla says the Cybertruck drives better than most sports cars and is more useful than a normal truck. From a standing start, the truck's maxed-out version can accelerate to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds, according to the company. And on paper at least, the pairing of electric motors — known for their high torque output — with a truck would seem to be a slam-dunk concept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pickup trucks, like most automobiles, are also sold on image. And both Tesla and Musk have repeatedly played up the new electric truck's ruggedness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You want a truck that's really tough? Not fake tough?\" Musk asked the crowd Thursday night. He also said Tesla will make the exterior of the Cybertruck from a stainless steel alloy developed by his companies. \"We're going to be using the same alloy in the Starship rocket,\" Musk said, referring to his SpaceX project. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is literally bulletproof to a 9 mm handgun, that's how strong the skin is,\" Musk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then things went off track with the \"Tesla armor glass\" strength test. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7atGkba-Z8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A metal ball was dropped onto a sheet of what Musk described as \"regular car glass,\" leaving a long crack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To test a sheet of Tesla's glass, the metal ball was taken up to a height of around 10 feet and dropped again. The \"armor glass\" remained intact. But Musk didn't stop there — he turned the ball over to Tesla's chief designer, Franz von Holzhausen, who had previously whacked the truck's doors with a sledgehammer to show its durability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Franz, could you try to break this glass, please?\" Musk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You sure?\" von Holzhausen asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without much of a windup, von Holzhausen whirled the ball at Tesla's brand-new truck — leaving a nasty-looking spiderweb of splintered and dented glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well,\" Musk said afterward. \"Maybe that was a little too hard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staring at the ruined window, one hand on his chin, Musk added, \"It didn't go through. That's the plus side.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then von Holzhausen asked if they should try the rear window. Musk agreed, and was soon standing in front of two pock-marked windows for the rest of the carefully stage-managed event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not bad,\" Musk summed up that portion of the night, adding, \"Room for improvement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cybertruck has six seats and a cargo bed (or \"vault,\" as Tesla calls it) that's 6 1/2 feet long. Its tailgate also hides a ramp, for rolling materials or vehicles into the bed. The truck is 231.7 inches (19.3 feet) long, nearly 80 inches wide and 75 inches tall. Tesla lists its maximum range at more than 500 miles. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck will be offered in a wide spectrum of driving range and weight capacity, depending on which motor is powering the vehicle. While the basic single-motor truck would have a range of around 250 miles and a tow rating of 7,500 pounds using rear-wheel drive, the three-motor all-wheel-drive version would double that range and be capable of towing 14,000 pounds, Tesla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The starting price for the CyberTruck is $39,900. In the most high-powered version, it would cost $69,900. The company is taking preorders now, with a $100 deposit required to reserve a vehicle that Tesla says will hit the market in about two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps reflecting the uncertainty over the new design, Tesla's stock price fell overnight and continued to dip on Friday, down by around 6% at midday ET. 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That proposed rule is subject to 60 days of public comment, and it’s unclear when it would go into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to give patients the knowledge they need about the real price of health care services,” said Trump. “They’ll be able to check them, compare them, go to different locations, so they can shop for the highest-quality care at the lowest cost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administration officials heralded both rules as historic and transformative to the health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under the status quo, health care prices are about as clear as mud to patients,” said Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma in a written statement. “Today’s rules usher in a new era that upends the status quo to empower patients and put them first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR has reported, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/24/735578519/trumps-plan-to-lower-your-hospital-costs-heres-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hospitals are currently\u003c/a> required to post their “list prices” online, but that information has been very hard to use and doesn’t tell consumers much about what they are likely to pay. The new rule makes hospitals show what they really pay for services — not the list prices — and requires them to make that information easy to read and easy to access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if the hospitals are going to like me too much anymore with this,” Trump said in a White House news conference Friday afternoon. “That’s OK.” He later added, “We’re stopping American patients from just getting — pure and simple, two words, very simple words — ripped off. Because they’ve been ripped off for years. For a lot of years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11752360\" label= \"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second rule Trump announced Friday (which is a proposed rule, still subject to public comments before being finalized) affects insurance companies. It would essentially make insurers give patients their “explanation of benefits” upfront. It would require insurers to explain how much a service would cost, how much your plan would pay and how much you would owe — before the service is performed. The idea is that patients could use that information to shop around ahead of time for a better deal — assuming a better deal can be found, and the service isn’t a medical emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certainly these rules would give patients more information than they currently have. 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He asked what effect she thought it might have on witnesses’ willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very intimidating,” she said, although Yovanovitch said she couldn’t address what Trump’s intentions might have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responded Schiff: “Well, I want to let you know, Ambassador, that some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/DbW-A96UIm8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chairman repeated his warning to reporters during a break in the hearing. Afterward, Schiff linked what he called the intimidation with an “incriminating” pattern of conduct by Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an unrelated event at the White House on health care prices, Trump told reporters that he had been exercising his “freedom of speech” and did not feel that he had been intimidating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have the right to speak,” Trump said. “I have freedom of speech just as other people do. But they’ve taken away the Republicans’ rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Witness about early phase of saga\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yovanovitch was a key witness about the earliest phase of the Ukraine affair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lost her post in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, earlier this year after what has been described as a smear campaign by Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and associates \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/23/771849041/how-a-complicated-web-connects-2-soviet-born-businessmen-with-the-impeachment-in\">Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman\u003c/a>, witnesses have told House investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those three worked with Ukraine’s then-Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko to spread what Yovanovitch called lies about her, including that she was disloyal to Trump and that she had given Lutsenko a list of Ukrainians she didn’t want prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parnas and Fruman have been arrested and charged with violating U.S. campaign finance law; \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/23/772650522/giuliani-associates-plead-not-guilty-to-charges-of-making-illegal-campaign-donat\">they have pleaded not guilty\u003c/a>. An attorney for Parnas has told NPR he’s open to working with congressional impeachment investigators, but the outlines of that aren’t clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"impeachment\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors may be investigating whether Giuliani stood to profit from a natural gas business linked with Parnas and Fruman, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-prosecutors-probe-giulianis-links-to-ukrainian-energy-projects-11573837576?mod=hp_lead_pos6\">The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile at the Capitol, Schiff said that Yovanovitch’s ouster was a necessary prologue to the main story about Ukraine — that Trump and Giuliani had to push her out of the way to put in place the shadow lane for communication they wanted outside of officialdom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Getting rid of Ambassador Yovanovitch helped set the stage for an irregular channel that could pursue the two investigations that mattered so much to the president: the 2016 conspiracy theory, and most important, an investigation into the 2020 political opponent he apparently feared most, Joe Biden,” Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Military assistance for Ukraine was frozen by the White House for a period of weeks this summer, then released. Ukraine’s president, however, never made the public commitment for investigations that intermediaries have said they sought on Trump’s behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Risk seen to U.S. diplomacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yovanovitch warned Congress on Friday that the precedent set by her recall from Ukraine weakened Washington’s ability to work with developing nations around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. has set an example for countries seeking to build institutions and fight corruption, Yovanovitch said — but her ouster showed that enemies in Ukraine could exploit American officials to get rid of someone they disliked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How could our system fail like this? How is it that foreign corrupt interests could manipulate our government?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yovanovitch acknowledged that Trump has the power to appoint and remove diplomats as he pleases, but she argued that if an American representative can be “kneecapped” for political reasons, it dilutes U.S. power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shady interests the world over have learned how little it takes to remove an American ambassador who does not give them what they want,” Yovanovitch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yovanovitch already has talked with investigators; read her \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6538626-Marie-Yovanovitch-Testimony\">closed-door deposition here\u003c/a>. Her opening statement Friday \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/779674990/read-former-ukraine-ambassador-yovanovitchs-opening-statement-to-congress\">is available here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“I saw it as a threat”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some State Department officials have said they objected to what they saw happening, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo agreed to end Yovanovitch’s tenure early and spurned requests to defend her in public, witnesses have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pompeo’s adviser, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/04/776075712/read-ex-state-department-adviser-michael-mckinleys-testimony-to-congress\">Michael McKinley\u003c/a>, faulted what he called Pompeo’s willingness to sell out a career diplomat and resigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yovanovitch said Friday that she lamented that Pompeo has declined to acknowledge that attacks on the foreign service are “dangerously wrong” and impair America’s ability to work its will overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also was asked what she made of the account released by the White House in which Trump is described as telling Ukraine’s president that “things were going to happen to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw it as a threat,” Yovanovitch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Case for the defense\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans emphasized Yovanovitch’s tangential involvement in the central narrative and repeated that Trump has broad powers to replace any ambassador — and many other officials — within the administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. 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Her opening statement Friday \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/779674990/read-former-ukraine-ambassador-yovanovitchs-opening-statement-to-congress\">is available here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“I saw it as a threat”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some State Department officials have said they objected to what they saw happening, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo agreed to end Yovanovitch’s tenure early and spurned requests to defend her in public, witnesses have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pompeo’s adviser, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/04/776075712/read-ex-state-department-adviser-michael-mckinleys-testimony-to-congress\">Michael McKinley\u003c/a>, faulted what he called Pompeo’s willingness to sell out a career diplomat and resigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yovanovitch said Friday that she lamented that Pompeo has declined to acknowledge that attacks on the foreign service are “dangerously wrong” and impair America’s ability to work its will overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also was asked what she made of the account released by the White House in which Trump is described as telling Ukraine’s president that “things were going to happen to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw it as a threat,” Yovanovitch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Case for the defense\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans emphasized Yovanovitch’s tangential involvement in the central narrative and repeated that Trump has broad powers to replace any ambassador — and many other officials — within the administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>High winds are in the forecast this week for all of California as fires burn up and down the Golden State. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kincade Fire\u003c/a> in Sonoma County has charred more than 75,000 acres, destroyed more than 120 structures and forced thousands to evacuate in the state’s famed wine country. To the south, firefighters in Los Angeles are battling a number of blazes, including the Getty Fire in the hills near UCLA. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Kincade Fire\" tag=\"kincade-fire\"]Helping teams on the ground as they fight the flames is an arsenal of air support. The fires have prompted authorities to call in some of the biggest firefighting planes in operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About an hour east of Los Angeles, the three engines of Tanker 914 whine and fade as the jet comes to a halt on the tarmac at the former Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino. The onetime military facility is now partially used as an air operations center for the U.S. Forest Service and hosts both firefighting helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, pilot Kevin Hopf explains why the main cabin is so roomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re standing in a Douglas DC-10 made in the mid-to-late ’80s,” Hopf says. “In its original passenger configuration it had about 350 seats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopf is the lead pilot with 10 Tanker, a private company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that operates four of the firefighting jets. It contracts with government agencies such as the Forest Service and Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/774456972/774507074\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking in the plane’s interior, it’s … spartan. No seats. No overhead bins. No nothing, really. Three big tanks attached to the outside of the plane hold the fire retardant. The minimal interior paired with a light fuel load makes for a pretty nimble jet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re flying this airplane at about 200,000 pounds lighter than we normally did, which makes it very maneuverable,” Hopf says. “Are there places that the helicopter can get to that we can’t? Sure, absolutely. But it’s a pretty small margin there of places that we can’t put this airplane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most remote terrain in canyons and on hillsides is where the plane shines. It drops its load of up to 9,400 gallons of Phos-Chek, the sticky red gel that helps keep fire at bay, from only a few hundred feet above the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11783653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/retardanttanks_custom-f9315839eade11228d5fa5d8a09aaa0efd28be86-s1600-c85-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Over 9,000 gallons of Phos-Chek, an orange-red gel that slows the spread of fire, can be stored in three huge tanks attached to the bottom of the aircraft. 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All of the fire retardant stays outside the plane; what was the DC-10’s cargo hold is now the home of hydraulic equipment that opens the tanks when the plane makes a drop. \u003ccite>(Matt Guilhem/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We get a lot of input as far as, ‘How can you get that big of an airplane down that low to the ground?’ ” Hopf says. “The airplane doesn’t know what’s below it; it has no idea what kind of terrain we’re flying over. We just need to keep it at a certain airspeed, which we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That airspeed is about 160 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopf is passionate about his job; he has flown firefighting jets for 10 Tanker for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would not give this up to go back and fly the airlines,” the longtime pilot says. “Airlines was fun, I enjoyed that, but now having done this, there’s nothing that I’d rather do in an airplane than what I’m doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11783668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Tanker911-flyover-kincade-fire-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tanker 911, a DC-10 similar in configuration to Tanker 914, flies over PG&E electrical transmission lines en route to drop fire retardant in the valley below during firefighting operations to battle the Kincade Fire near Healdsburg on October 26, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11783668\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Tanker911-flyover-kincade-fire-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Tanker911-flyover-kincade-fire-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Tanker911-flyover-kincade-fire-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Tanker911-flyover-kincade-fire-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Tanker911-flyover-kincade-fire.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanker 911, a DC-10 similar in configuration to Tanker 914, flies over PG&E electrical transmission lines en route to drop fire retardant in the valley below during firefighting operations to battle the Kincade Fire near Healdsburg on October 26, 2019. \u003ccite>(Philip Pacheco/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside the plane, standing in the jet’s shadow, is Diego Calderoni, the co-captain of Tanker 914. Calderoni, too, relishes the harrowing profession he is in, but he is not sure how much the danger of his job registers with his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they don’t know what I do,” Calderoni says. He pauses, then, says in fits and starts, “I mean, they’ll see it on TV, but they don’t know all the … I mean, they do know it’s dangerous. I’ve always been in forms of aviation of this sort, so they’ve gotten used to it. They know what I do, and they know I’m happy doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He loves the work, knows the risks and gives up any sort of regular schedule to battle blazes across the country. Could he see himself in any other job?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 30-something Calderoni heaves a sigh. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah? 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Maxine Waters, the chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, which is holding hearing, told Zuckerberg: “Perhaps you believe you are above the law, and it appears that you are aggressively increasing the size of your company, and are willing to step over anyone, including your competitors, women, people of color, your own users, and even our democracy to get what you want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Democrat repeated her call for Facebook to stop working on Libra until it fixes its other problems, from election interference on its platform to its policies about political speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Zuckerberg says it’s Facebook’s way — or China’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told lawmakers that Libra is essential to projecting American financial leadership around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He warned that any delay risks losing that leadership to China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“China is moving quickly to launch a similar idea in the coming months,” Zuckerberg said. “We can’t sit here and assume that because America is today the leader that it will always get to be the leader if we don’t innovate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He frequently invokes China as a rival to American technology supremacy, and American values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Committee members seized the opportunity of Wednesday’s hearing to grill the Facebook founder about a whole host of topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five questions raised in the hearing room.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is Facebook Really Going to Launch a Currency?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Thee future of Libra has been thrown into doubt in recent weeks as several of the project’s initial partners backed away, including the credit card companies Visa and MasterCard and the digital payment firms PayPal and Stripe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"cryptocurrency\" label=\"More on Libra\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked why the partners had dropped out, Zuckerberg gave a blunt response: “Because it’s a risky project and there’s been a lot of scrutiny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators around the world have taken a dim view of the project, sounding fears that it could pose a threat to financial stability and be used to fund terrorism and other illegal activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook says Libra would let users around the world — especially those without traditional bank accounts — send money as easily as sending a text message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg said he was still in favor of the project. 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The company lets advertisers select who can and cannot see ads, based on a range of different categories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook is discriminating against people based upon who they are and where they live,” in violation of the Fair Housing Act, HUD Secretary Ben Carson said when the suit was filed in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has also been accused of allowing age and gender discrimination in job ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nicol Turner Lee, fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation\"]‘We have to ask ourselves, are companies like Facebook clear about the guardrails that are protecting human and civil rights, and the extent to which they’re building products and services that comply with those laws?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/19/704831866/after-lawsuits-facebook-announces-changes-to-alleged-discriminatory-ad-targeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has stopped\u003c/a> letting advertisers target ads for housing, jobs and credit to people based on their ethnic group, gender, age or zip code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, it pledged \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/10/facebook-commits-1-billion-to-address-housing-affordability/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1 billion\u003c/a> toward affordable housing in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg told the committee that “people shouldn’t be discriminated against on any of our services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicol Turner Lee, a fellow at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/center/center-for-technology-innovation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation\u003c/a> who studies access to technology, said Facebook may not have intended its advertising tools to be used this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said Internet platforms need to take more care to consider the consequences of the technologies they build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to ask ourselves, are companies like Facebook clear about the guardrails that are protecting human and civil rights, and the extent to which they’re building products and services that comply with those laws?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Why Won’t Facebook Stop Politicians From Lying?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s latest firestorm is also about advertising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics are furious about the social network’s policy of allowing politicians to publish misleading or downright untrue posts and ads on its platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How does this new policy benefit you?” Waters asked Zuckerberg. “It seems that a policy that allows politicians to lie, mislead and deceive would allow Facebook to sell more ads, thus making the company more money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook says its policy flows from its commitment to free speech. It says it does not want to judge whether political speech is true or not, and that users should be free to hear from politicians and make up their own minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that has not satisfied critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of this will be a massive voter suppression effort that will move at the speed of a click,” Waters said. “Your claim to promote free speech does not ring true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts ran her own \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/13/769946841/troll-watch-elizabeth-warrens-facebook-ad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deliberately false Facebook ad\u003c/a> to protest the policy. In it, she incorrectly claimed Facebook and Zuckerberg had endorsed President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg said he had considered dropping political advertising altogether — noting that it contributes just a tiny fraction of Facebook’s billions of dollars in annual sales. But he argued that could have the effect of favoring incumbents and candidates favored by the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What is Facebook Doing to Prevent the 2020 Election From Being a Repeat of 2016?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With U.S. intelligence agencies warning that foreign governments may try to influence American politics leading up to next year’s election, lawmakers want to know how Facebook is defending its platform from manipulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook has been found at the scene of the crime” when it comes to false information spreading in many places around the world, said Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11770683,news_11750792,news_11619331\" label=\"Facebook and Election Security\"]Zuckerberg gave an update about Facebook’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/21/772035601/we-have-a-big-responsibility-facebook-rolls-out-new-election-security-measures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">election security\u003c/a> efforts on Monday. That included a number of new features and updates to existing policies to provide more transparency about who is posting on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the site will now be labeling content from media outlets it considers to be “state-controlled,” which Facebook defines as “wholly or partially under the editorial control of their government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the scope of the problem Facebook must confront was also highlighted on Monday when the company said it had taken down four more networks of fake accounts. Facebook said it has removed more than 50 such networks, which could attempt to manipulate its users, in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three of the newly disabled networks were tied to Iran, while the fourth originated in Russia and showed some links to the Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin-backed troll farm involved in political interference in 2016, Facebook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg told reporters on Monday that election security “is one of my top priorities for the company” and that Facebook is no longer “on our back foot” when it comes to identifying fake accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Is Facebook too Powerful?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Congress is not the only branch of government asking tough questions about Facebook. The Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and a group of 47 state attorneys general are all investigating Facebook for potential antitrust violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have opened up a serious discussion about whether Facebook should be broken up,” Waters told Zuckerberg on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"mark-zuckerberg\" label=\"Related coverage\"]The state prosecutors are “concerned that Facebook may have put consumer data at risk, reduced the quality of consumers’ choices, and increased the price of advertising,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics are calling for the company to be broken up, or for its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp to be unwound. Warren has made the breakup of Facebook — along with Google and Amazon — a key part of her campaign platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some tech veterans agree. Marc Benioff, the CEO of software company Salesforce, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/tech/salesforce-marc-benioff-break-up-facebook-boss-files/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CNN\u003c/a> that Facebook is “addictive” and has too much control of users’ data — and therefore should be broken up. “They’re having an undue influence as the largest social media platform on the planet,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even a Facebook co-founder has turned on the company. Chris Hughes, who was one of Zuckerberg’s roommates at Harvard, launched a $10 million anti-monopoly fund to support policy, academic research and organizing to take on corporate power in tech and other industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg bristles at the idea of breaking up his company. 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Get a better candidate this time, you'll need it!\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1179422987684077568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he tweeted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1179422987684077568?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(According to the \u003ca href=\"https://transition.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2016/2016presgeresults.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Election Commission\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/2016/election-results.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Electoral College\u003c/a>, Trump actually ended up with 304 electoral votes and Hillary Clinton with 227.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee chairmen — Schiff; Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., chairman of the Oversight Committee; and Rep. Eliot L. Engel, D-N.Y., chairman of the foreign affairs panel — say they will issue the subpoena Friday, unless the White House complies with their request, which they say was made more than three weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other call-related documents, the chairmen are seeking any records referring to the president's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and his communication with Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic leaders have already \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/30/765836181/rudy-giuliani-subpoenaed-by-house-committees-in-impeachment-inquiry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subpoenaed Giuliani\u003c/a> as well as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/02/766349932/secretary-of-state-pompeo-says-he-was-on-phone-for-trumps-call-to-zelenskiy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who said he was on the phone call\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='impeachment' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff said he was very concerned about Pompeo's \"efforts to potentially interfere\" in the panel's efforts to obtain documents and testimony from witnesses. After Pompeo raised concerns about lawmakers' requests on Tuesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/01/766055754/pompeo-pushes-back-against-house-efforts-to-question-state-department-officials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats pushed back\u003c/a> the first of their series of planned depositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff said Wednesday that said any attempt by Pompeo, the president or anyone else to interfere would be considered evidence of obstruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump zeroed in on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/us/politics/adam-schiff-whistleblower.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times report\u003c/a> that Schiff had learned in advance about the whistleblower complaint over the Ukraine call and the president's alleged abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's a scandal that he knew before, and I'll go a step further, he probably helped write it,\" Trump claimed without any evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi made the point that House Democrats were continuing to work on two legislative priorities — lowering prescription drug prices and a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She insisted that the legislative efforts were separate from the impeachment probe and that Democrats were still ready to work with the president. As far as the president's attitude about cooperating on legislation, \"that's really up to him,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 12:08 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation's top spy told lawmakers on Thursday that he supports the whistleblower whose complaint sparked the Ukraine affair but said he struggled to deal with how to handle the case inside the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire told the House intelligence committee in an open hearing that he believed the whistleblower and the spy world's inspector general had acted in good faith and that he has tried to handle a unique situation as best he could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that this matter is unprecedented,\" Maguire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stopped short of characterizing the conduct by President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/764071379/read-house-intel-releases-whistleblower-complaint-on-trump-ukraine-call\">described in the complaint\u003c/a> and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/25/764052120/read-transcript-of-president-trumps-call-with-ukraine-s-leader\">a partial transcript\u003c/a> released on Wednesday of a phone call between Trump and the president of Ukraine on July 25 — in which Trump asked his counterpart to investigate the family of former Vice President Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/EfZeuBH4rp0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maguire said he did not want to get into the middle of the political battle: \"I am not partisan and I am not political,\" he said. \"I believe in a life of service and I am honored to be a public servant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once the complaint reached him, Maguire said the White House counsel's office said the documents appeared to involve executive privilege, which he said was beyond his power to resolve — and which might mean Maguire couldn't give the documents to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, the Justice Department also opined that the documents \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6429085-OLC-Opinion-Trump-Ukraine-Call\">didn't qualify under the law to be forwarded to Congress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, when Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson told Maguire that he felt compelled to tell Congress about the complaint, without revealing what it contained, Maguire said he agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11776241,news_11776733\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is not, perhaps, on the timeline I would have desired, Mr. Chairman, or you,\" Maguire said to Adam Schiff, D-Calif., chairman of the intelligence committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ultimately, Maguire said he believed the process has been followed correctly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe the whistleblower did the right thing,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/764582548/whistleblower-complaint-released-detailing-concerns-about-trump-ukraine-call\">the complaint was revealed on Thursday\u003c/a> via the House intelligence committee, following the release on Wednesday of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/25/764164340/trump-asked-ukrainian-president-for-a-favor-on-biden-doj-says-no-charges\">White House's account of President Trump's call\u003c/a> with the president of Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Democrats miffed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff pressed Maguire as to why he approached the White House about the complaint when it, and Trump, were the subjects of that very complaint. And Schiff also asked why Maguire asked the Justice Department for legal advice even though Trump's conversation also invoked Attorney General William Barr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That this whistleblower was left twisting in the wind for weeks, and has been attacked by the president, should concern all of us,\" Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chairman also stressed that he believes there's no ambiguity under the law and Maguire and his aides atop the intelligence community have no choice but to give Congress complaints like these.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maguire said the executive privilege aspects of the complaint meant he had no choice, and that as an executive branch official he also was bound by the opinions issued by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sought to stress that this situation is unusual and that he has been trying to do his duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was not swept under the rug,\" Maguire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Temperature rising in the capital\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House hearing was watched closely in a capital roiling after House Democrats reached a new consensus this week about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/24/763700264/trumps-ukraine-call-may-be-game-changer-on-impeachment\">moving ahead with an impeachment inquiry\u003c/a> — although no one knows what that may mean in practical terms or whether it will bring real consequences for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Existing investigations led by House Democrats will continue but the Republican-controlled Senate remains largely behind the president. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one big question raised by this week's events was whether the action in the House and the revelations from this week might move any of Trump's allies in the upper chamber. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key Senate moderates said earlier they were waiting for facts to come through official channels, as in the testimony and documents that are now public, before making up their minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, many of Trump's allies, as exemplified by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., have remained stalwart in their support of the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1176868363332653059?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Acting DNI in the spotlight\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The saga began with a complaint to Atkinson, the intelligence community's internal watchdog, about allegedly improper commitments made by President Trump to a foreign leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint was later released by the House intelligence committee; \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/764071379/read-house-intel-releases-whistleblower-complaint-on-trump-ukraine-call?preview=\">read it here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led, on Wednesday, to the extraordinary release by the White House of the account of a call in which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/25/764164340/trump-asked-ukrainian-president-for-a-favor-on-biden-doj-says-no-charges\">Trump asked Ukraine's president to investigate\u003c/a> the family of former Vice President Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maguire vowed before the hearing, in general terms, that \u003ca href=\"https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2046-statement-by-acting-director-of-national-intelligence-joseph-maguire\">he will do his duty\u003c/a> in handling the Ukraine affair — but he also denied a press report on Wednesday that he had threatened to resign if he was constrained from talking with lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maguire found himself in the job following Trump's removal of the Senate-confirmed former DNI, Dan Coats, and the resignation of his deputy, Sue Gordon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no word as to when the White House might nominate their full-time replacements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in the meantime, Maguire is caught in the midst of the latest contretemps involving Trump, the intelligence community and a foreign government. He stressed that he sees himself as outside the political arena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, however, the acting DNI acknowledged that the biggest challenge facing the intelligence community faces today is securing American elections — which bears on the issue raised by the Trump phone call with Ukraine's president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>President sanguine\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he had at least one other phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, as did Vice President Pence — calls that Trump said were also innocent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said he was willing to release a transcript of those earlier calls, but he was dismissive about the reaction by Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Impeachment, for that?\" he said. \"When you have a wonderful meeting — a wonderful phone conversation?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president stuck by his characterization of what he called the real Ukraine story — one he said was about \"corruption\" involving Biden, his family, Ukraine and China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump responded to a question about whether his request to Ukraine's leader was improper by charging that former President Barack Obama and conspirators within the U.S. government had persecuted him in the earlier Russia imbroglio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham added on Thursday that the administration has been cooperating all along with revealing the documents at issue in the Ukraine affair — first the partial transcript and then the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The president took the extraordinary and transparent steps of releasing the full, unredacted, and declassified transcript of his call with President Zelenskyy, which forms the heart of the complaint, as well as the complaint itself. 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I'm sure you will figure it out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, on his visit to the United Nations on Wednesday, scoffed that the Ukraine affair is a \"witch hunt\" and that Democrats are worried about being defeated in the 2020 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump pointed to what he called the successes of his first term, saying, \"We've got the strongest economy we've ever had.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Flow of Assistance Was Cut Off\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The president's July conversation followed moves by the White House to stanch the flow of military assistance for Ukraine that Washington had been providing since the armed incursion by Russian forces in 2014. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zelenskiy raised the military assistance in the call with Trump, according to the White House account. 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