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A study released today by the non-profit organization Public Agenda, shows that 93% of the general public, and 88% of welfare recipients, want the current welfare system changed. The study, "The Values We Live By: What Americans Want from Welfare Reform," also finds that 4 in 10 Americans say that they or someone in their close family has received benefits at some time. Robert Siegel speaks with the study's author, Steve Farkas, Vice President and Director of Public Agenda.

In this presdiential election year, there has been a debate as to whether television networks should give the major candidates free television time. Commentator Mickey Edwards believes that it's not only the presidential candidates who need free t.v. time but more importantly the people who are running for Congress who need free t.v. time for debates. Edwards says that if we are to hope for more changes in government, the cost of running for office needs to be pared down.

President Clinton will be videotaped on Sunday testifying as a defense witness in the Whitewater trial in Little Rock. The defense hopes his testimony will undermine the credibility of the chief prosecution witness. Charged in the fraud case are the president's former business partners and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker. NPR's Mara Liasson reports on how the testimony will be handled and what will happen to the videotape.

Linda talks to Joanna Weschler, the United Nations representative of Human Rights Watch. The United States and the European Union proposed at a meeting this week in Geneva that the UN's commission on Human Rights take up a proposal to criticize China's human right record. However, China's political maneuvering among the members of the commission kept the proposal from being debated. Weschler says that is not good for the future of human rights in China because it indicates that China feels that it is about the rules of international relations.

Roving correspondent Bob Garfield talks about one man's dreams of cornering the aerial condom advertising market.

Robert talks with Lionel Barber of The Financial Times about the European Unions decision to ban British beef. Barber says this decision to ban a product is not UNprecedented, in fact there have been other bans imposed by the E-U in recent years.

This year's run drew a record number of entrants... almost 40,000 runners. But all the extras didn't seem to distract the favorites.

is trying to reach internationally competitive levels again. At 40, Smith has learned that patience is as important as a commitment to training.

Robert talks with Dan Swift, president of the Riverside Sheriff's Association. Swift attended a rally held yesterday in support of two deputies who were videotaped beating two illegal immigrants from Mexico. The Mexicans were beaten April 1st after they ran through a border patrol checkpoint in a pickup truck full of illegal immigrants. Swift says what has not yet been determined is whether a reasonable amount of force was applied and the videotape only shows the moment of the arrest.

Today is the day of remembrance for the lives lost in the Holocaust of World War II. In this commentary, Emily Benedek recalls meeting a Holocaust survivor and and learning her explanation for why she did not perish with so many others.