what's going on we're going to break in the. latter days of the figurine or do nothing congress has decided to do nothing about the government shutdown so here we are for the first time in seventeen years capitol hill effectively closed for business but don't worry n.s.a. is still spying on you in the military still drone bombing however all national parks are closed and services like flu monitoring by the centers for disease control are shut down until further notice to top it off one hundred thousand other federal government employees are out of work with no pay indefinitely and one of the lawmakers who calls the shutdown. ok you know all we did know you are both are just a moment you are both paid one hundred seventy four thousand dollars

a year that's your salary would you be prepared to add some kind of a rider or an amendment onto a continuing resolution that would take you out of the essential services category and stop payment on your paychecks in order to get a continuing resolution through would you know when a yes or no yes or no ready to see if you will when you hear you up and down about your paycheck yes of course lawmakers don't have to give up their cushy salaries for the mess they created. hundreds of thousands of average americans have to take a hit pissed off at the idea of politicians shutting themselves down and leaving us to foot the bill yeah me too it's great to see. it was a. very hard. to. get or how to act with the terror threat there.

it's been six months since two hundred thousand gallons of oil spilled in the suburbs of mayflower arkansas spill in the exxon pegasus pipeline soaked along has uncovered streets with toxic sludge. on one we. can only. go on if i have to grab. it we're going all throughout the neighborhood now mayflower residents claim

that they have lingering health of facts and that exxon has failed to properly clean up the spill and jerome was one of those residents and she joined me earlier and first asked her what it was like on the ground six months ago. it was very smelly very bad problems all of the chemicals that came out in the very you know first few days and few weeks there was all the really where. the managed to clean up a lot of it to where he can see that there are still a lot of it are buried and you know back in the areas where the most public people would. see. the state health department initially blew off the symptoms of dizziness and so that residents were welcome to leave their homes that they wanted to why do you think the health department was so nonchalant initially about serious health risks. this is the first time they've ever had to deal with all spill and just being happy with all the extra chemicals in it there are

equipment that they were using to test the air with measures parts per million where these chemicals that we were breathing in are dangerous parts per billion. they didn't really know a lot of that they were going to lead because exxon has been through this before so i just kind of you know tell them this is how we need to do stuff. that in my opinion that's kind of what happened is they were just following the law and what are some of the short and long term health of facts that you and your fellow residents have felt from the spill. from day one and it was. it was just almost like that there and i did actually vomit a couple of different tops had a terrible headache that just i mean i would wake up in the middle of the not crying because my head hurts so bad and that had migraines before migraine medicine didn't touch it my doctor gave me several different medicines it would not at all

sore throat coughing and hurting even down and it felt like you couldn't get air even though you're breathing and then since they don't any time they do any type of work over in the area which they've been constantly doing enough that will put it in. what's releasing all those toxins back into the air and it's make everyone in our little area sick. and you've said that. temporary housing from read. once they deem the home safe but residents are scared to go back what are people supposed to do if they don't feel safe yet you know they aren't receiving compensation for exxon anyone. not sure what a lot of the people at the north woods are doing if they're just you know now some have been in other places there are medical or there are it's not close to the

pipeline or where it you know the old it all. live outside of the north with subdivision just on the other side of the fans and my house is actually closer than some of the houses that they evacuated in the northward subdivision but they did not evacuate anyone on our side that. we were as close to not closer to the rupture site and all and what have they done for those residents on the other side of the fence so they've done a sort of compensation for your neighborhood. nothing for we were just too late for. the crew that came in and actually lay down. a roadway type thing out of plastic so they could get there because quite many into the back part of our mind this subdivision. might have and i would have a chance on daughter and grandson where they are and they did so hurry up in the

hotel for i think this three maybe four nights because she was and we came back to the baby and to get into the driveway because of all the big commitment in the area and stuff they tell me that they would pay for her to stay in the hotel just for her to see what i thought was really interesting is that immediately after the spill exxon told residents they didn't do evacuate even though some of them were just three hundred yards away from where the pipes burst why do you think it was that exxon was the one who was handling public relations and telling people what to do and not local government or law enforcement i. i know that i walked up to the exxon people and they were there right outside my browser and i started testing. for knowledge should this. three month old grandson in my house you know should we be waiting and i was told by the lady from next i'll know it's nothing to worry so big all in two or three days and you know you may have. you may have

a little knowledge of but it will be gone in just in this thought that my heart and you know when i hear things like this and also know statistics that there's at least one hundred significant oil spills across this country every year there's absolutely no excuse from this company compensation needs to be made to the to the victims thank you so much for sharing your story will keep on the pressure really push airtime mandrel. thank you. you know in the wake of every disaster there's a barrage of charity groups asking you to donate well do you ever wonder how much of that money actually makes it into the hands of those who need it look no doubt there's a lot of corruption out there but if there's one person we can trust to give our money to it's bano right well as it turns out the pop superstar has been catching serious flak after it was revealed that his charity one dot org isn't quite living

up to its altruistic promises check this out in two thousand and eight alone there were his asian reportedly received over fifteen million dollars in donations yet little more than one percent of that money made it into the hands of starving children of course one spokesperson the front of the organization reminding us that raising awareness with celebrities isn't cheap so keep in mind the next time that you're throwing money to one dot org you're basically giving money for a concert drive featuring bob and his friends now please or not one dot org is far from being the worst charity out there. thanks at the center for investigative reporting and the tampa bay times we now know of nearly six thousand charities that hire corporations to get donations for profit corporations how defeats the purpose of a charity doesn't it and all of those six thousand charities fifty of them raked in almost

a billion dollars to pay off their corporate solicitors instead of the hands where it was promised let's start with the shady project here or an operation that's raised over sixty five million dollars over the last few decades not a single penny of which is going to funding any sort of care for anything in fact according to iris records after paying off solicitors project cure is actually three million dollars in debt and like many of these so-called charities project here is nothing more than a money making scheme with a name that sounds totally legit which brings me to the committee for missing children charity that took an almost twenty seven million dollars over the last ten years yet somehow less than one percent of that money was used to find kids so what the hell did the money go well it's called the magic formula for charity money making these people do is hire a nice firm to do their telemarketing p.r. and then end up paying these firms ninety percent of the donated funds basically

they're all giant do nothing organizations all a facade and on that note here's another black hole for your well intentioned dollars that cancer fund of america that seems innocuous enough right who doesn't want to cure cancer well apparently they don't see the so-called nonprofit is run more like a crime syndicate than a charity and they raise ninety eight million dollars in donations over the last ten years but less than one percent of that cash made it into anything remotely charitable or know how many cancer patients died waiting for treatment from a nonprofit far too concerned with profit. but you know there's one group that really drew the rest when it comes to paying out corporations instead of those it claims to be helping. and that's the kids wish network no not to be confused at the make a wish foundation an organization that is fully legitimate so the kids wish network raises twenty million dollars a year and one hundred twenty eight million over the last decade all in the name of

dying children and their families and every year just the same it squanders nearly every single cent to massive corporations in fact it's been named the all time worst charity at the tampa bay times you can check out the whole list in the about section of this video so what can we do to ensure that we're not contributing to these pyramid schemes well if the charity can't provide a tax deduction form then that's your first red flag and if you further suspect the organization contact the federal trade commission or the national white collar crime center look there's way too many in need out there for us to be lining the pockets of those that have too much. just ahead i speak with former u.s. senator bob graham stick around. lisa.

i am. first time as a new alert and if they should scripts scare me a little bit. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news here. alexander's family cry tears of joy at your grave things out there that have you ever read or at a court of law on the ground. there's a story made sort of movies playing out in real life. the fact that. we're going to go digital the price is the only

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a. cold. it's a rare to get an insider's view on the taboo subjects i often talk on the show but today former senator florida governor bob graham joined me to talk about the most pressing policy decisions he was involved with his eighteen years in the front graham served as the head of the senate intelligence committee during nine eleven it was the chairperson for the b.p. deepwater horizon oil spill national commission and as a member the cia external advisory board i first ask senator graham about the current government shutdown and how it compares to the one seventeen years ago while he was in office. flu shutdown in the mid ninety's was placed over budget matters so you have a difference there a disagreement over numbers that's relatively easy to compromise one party says tam you have a sense a you agree on not. this however is much more fundamental goes

to the question of the role of government. particularly in a sense the rarity as such is the health cuter. i need hope the parties can come together but i think this could be a more extended. government and we experienced. twenty or so years ago and you've said that you're convinced that quote there was a direct line between at least some of the terrorists who carried out the september eleventh attacks and the government of saudi arabia what evidence do you have to back up that claim which one is an example there's a very extensive evidence of the situation in san diego where to project who's the person to to enter the country were given extensive assistance financial support and anybody by persons with close ties to saudi

institutions and the government of saudi arabia my sister. is that some are relationships existed in other places in the country there's some evidence coming out that one of those may have been a training ground for three of the aviators near sarasota florida. yes so there are i think the questions are what was the full extent of the role of the saudis and i don't have a why would the saudis have been involved and third why is our government going to such lengths to cover up the saudi involved all let's turn those questions around back on you know why do you think that saudi arabia wasn't fully explored and what does it say that one of our biggest allies in this war on terror is potentially involved in carrying out nine eleven. well i'm. that still.

a mystery out there a lot of theories as to what may have been and of course the united states since world war two has had a special relationship with saudi arabia which we provide them some security assistance they have provided us reliable sources petroleum the close ties between particularly the bush administration and the. saudi royal family is another possible reason there may well be some other reasons that we don't know. and what was the reason told to you when you inquired about this over and over again. no answer. well you were adamantly against iraq war because you thought it would divert attention from afghanistan at the time but considering what a disaster afghanistan has become do you regret supporting not intervention no i think afghanistan was like our our we were attacked thousands of americans as well

as many people from other countries were killed. that is the kind of provocation that justifies a military response my concern with iraq is that it constituted a diversion of a way from achieving the goal of completing the military mission in afghanistan or in my judgment has substantially extended the duration of our involvement in afghanistan and it was predicated largely on the allegation that there were weapons of mass destruction in iraq that were over being utilized on very short notice. i was very suspicious as to whether those weapons existed or not and i believe the failure to find any such weapons. then became

my suspicion yeah but if you said yourself that saudi arabia was potentially complicit in the attacks why a target out of gas and i mean just a fine one man. well. we targeted afghanistan because that was where the entity. led by one man but with. thousands of followers and many of those being more hardened. veterans of the war in afghanistan against russia and incidents such as the attack against two u.s. embassies in africa. that was that was the place from which the attack against the united states and emanate. thus became i believe the appropriate target of our attack but there was no relationship between iraq

and the attack against the united states on nine eleven turned out to be no weapons of mass destruction no justification for our of diverting attention from afghanistan where the real war was being waged to iraq where it war under false pretenses was about start. center of the cia maintains that you were briefed in two thousand and two about waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques used by the bush administration on terrorism suspects. why didn't you speak up at the time about this issue. and i'm smiling because i was asked that exact question within the hour . or conversation. i'm holding up a notebook since nine hundred seventy seven i have carried a notebook in which i. inscribed among other things what i do

throughout the day when these charges were made there i had been briefed on enhanced interrogation i asked the cia to give me the dates when those briefings took place and they gave me four dates are i went back to my note books or contemporaneous record of what i had done and i found that on three to four dates there was no greeting and on the fourth day there was a cia briefing but it was on a subject other than enhanced interrogation when i presented this information to the cia and the f.b.i. they. determined that i probably was not at any of those free pins and they have a stop representing that i had a bit had prior knowledge of u.s. intentions in terms of enhanced interrogation or thank you for clearing that up

senator i mean considering how we now know that the torture was systematic authorized from the top down you think that the bush administration officials who did this should be prosecuted for war crimes. oh that's for somebody else to sour i think it was a very bad decision the united states i don't i'm never been convinced that we got . any positive benefit out of it and. you know we saw lead to our fundamental bag use in trying to in the constitution and i think states. evidence derived from torture ears evidence snow that is suspect as to its credibility and unfortunately a lot of that torture testimony is a lot of what the precursors for that i don't commission report let's move on to be a piece that a grammy or the chairperson on the national commission on the deep b.p. deepwater horizon oil spill who bears the majority of the responsibility for the spill and how do you react to the news that b.p.

is still fighting to limit payouts to victims. i think the primary responsibilities b.p. also trans ocean which is the owner of the drilling rig and how a bird which was responsible for poor which was the initial point of failure on the deepwater horizon for. as to why is the piece resisting payments i happened to be with one of your attorneys recently and it was his contingent that many of the claims that have been made are. that have limited linkage to be p.t.s. . and negligence in that lead to the hospital and therefore were not eligible to be participants this bill that's something that our

judicial system is going to sort through and decide. who has a legitimate claim and what is the dollar value of that claim and given that how a burden knowingly destroyed evidence and bt was criminally negligent why are these companies still being awarded government contracts. i'm not certain what kind of government contracts any of the three. our receiving. course coming out of halliburton is in a lot of businesses and i don't problem would be inappropriate to. do part of the you know from. just nation in government contracts because there are. inappropriate actions. of be on the deepwater arise but do you think that the pentagon should stop him from arrow oil and gas from the very company that poison the entire gulf of mexico i mean do you

think enough has been done to punish these corporations from the government. they've been punished quite severely to date and with more still to come so i don't think anyone is going to. be accused of being excessively lenient would it be a transition were our what were those punishments. very soon a severe fines in the case of b d they were denied access to do leases from mexico. those are those armor. actions which have significant economic consequences so unfortunately however and stocks actually went up in light of their admitting to criminal negligence and actually destruction of evidence in light of that spill thank you so much for all of your time do you want to say final words the stock

market. i think it is it's its own value system and motivations indeed it does thank you so much senator bob graham really appreciate your insight and your time. thank you very much. if you like what you see so far how do our you tube channel you tube dot com breaking this a version. subscribe to our channels that you can off as a single episode we also have our interviews and all of our videos posted separately under the videos tab everyone check it out because you tube changed their format it's really confusing and courage i want to check out my interview with nico up his lead about his latest book the general's son to talk about the true nature of the israeli occupation of palestine or debunk some of the myths about the jewish state so go to you tube dot com number go to the videos tabs and scribe youtube dot com slash break in a set and you guys that's it for our show they should come back tomorrow break the south me all over again.

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