we're following a number of of dwechlg stories tonight. including news that the house ethics committee is launching an investigation into the longest serving member of congress in washington, 88-year-old john coniers, democrat of michigan. after reporting from buzz feed news yesterday about settlements paid to former staffers in his office, john can't are conyers said today that he vehemently denied he sexually harassed anyone. he said quote i expressly a vehemently denied the allegations made against me and continue to do so. my office resolved the allegations with an express denial of liability to save all involved from the riggers of pro tracted litigation. that shouldn't be lost in the narrative. that was his statement this morning. but then this afternoon buzz

feed published another allegation from another former staffer. and now the house ethics committee says it will be investigating. congressman conyers is the top democrat on the jshdary in the house. no contactic leader nancy pelosi had called for the ethics committee to evaluate the evaluations against congressman conyers she may have a decision to make as to whether he keeps that prime seat on that prime committee. judiciary while the accusations are investigated. that happened today. meanwhile in alabama where serious ails have been lodged against republican candidate roy moore. his democratic opponent doug jones is now overtly trying to capitalize on roy moore's troubles in this race. including a stepped up campaign schedule for jones. jones is also put out this blunt new ad. >> on roy moore's disturbing actions ivanka trump says there is a special place in hell for

people preying on children and i have no reason do to tout the victim accounts. jeff sessions says i have no reason to doubt the young women. and richard shelby says he will absolutely not vote for roy moore. conservative voices putting children and women over party. doing what's right. >> after that ad was released today and got lots and lots of national attention, president trump decided to speak about roy moore for the first time. the president's comments on the matter today were that roy moore denies the allegations against him. and besides, the president said quote we don't need a liberal person in there. >> i can tell you one thing for sure. we don't need a liberal person in there, a democrat, jones. >> which is the too afraid to say it i want you to vote for roy moore. those are the president's first remarks on roy moore since the

allegations against him first surfaced two weeks ago. the president himself of course faced allegations during the campaign from 16 different women who is a say he groebd, sexually harassed or sexual assaulted them one of those by a former contestant on the apprentice has led to a lawsuit in new york in which lawyers for the women accusing trump demanded documents from the trump campaign which any say detail how the campaign discussed and reacted to the multiple women who made the allegations against mr. trump. in realtime. also a new report tonight in the "wall street journal" that witnesses interviewed by the prosecutors working for special counsel robert mueller have been asking -- have been asked extensive and detailed questions about white house adviser jared kushner the president's son-in-law. according to the "wall street journal" tonight mueller's investigators have been trying to nail town details with other witnesses about jared kushner's

involvement with foreign leaders during the transition, and what role jared kushner may or may not have played in the white house stigs to fire the fbi director james comey. the lines of inquiry about jared kushner and are separate and apart from the multiplestoneses where jared kushner had reported contacts or communications with russian officials or russian actors during the campaign, during the transition, and then he did not report those contacts publicly or on his security clearance application, or even reportedly while he was under oath and being questioned about the matters before congress. in light of this mueller investigation, and those congressional investigations -- i mean those repeatedly nondisclosed contacts would be difficult things for anybody to explain who had had any role on the trump campaign. the fact that jared kushner wasn't just involved with the campaign -- he he is still employed at the white house at a high level -- it makes this

detailed questioning about him a particularly risky endeavor for the white house and for people who still work -- discuss me still working alongside him now. and speaking of which we are waiting word about the counter white house communications director. hope hicks. hope is reportedly set to be interviewed by mueller's investigator. it's been reported she maybe testifying to the grand jury in the mueller investigation as well. hope hicks of course was in a front row seat at the trump organization. and on the trump campaign. and in the trump white house where she remains a senior official. so it's expected that her testimony could potentially be a big deal depending how it goes. we await word on when that's going to happen if fact it hasn't happened already. we have a bunch more on a bunch of the stories ahead. we have jenny jarred dane on the donald trump administration decision to let internet controls what you can and can't look at online and what internet

based tools you can and can't use. we're talking to jenny tonight about the -- the fight, the political fight that the trump administration has picked for itself with this decision. i think all indications are that they have underestimated the fight they have or thin hands on this one. we have also a more here tonight raising an alarm about a senior career law enforcement official just fired without explanation by the trump administration. that story and that interview are both ahead tonight. with you we're starting tonight in michigan. in the flint water crisis in michigan. criminal charges have been brought now against 15 current and former government officials. flint's water -- you probably remember flint's water didn't get poisoned by lead because of some degraduation in the infrastructure some poor local planning by city government. flint's water got lead poisons

and kids in flint got lead poisoned because of the state government in michigan. rick snyder is the republican governor of michigan. the flint lead poisoning happening after the governor and the state declared a financial emergency in flint and because of that financial emergency they declared they would install their own emergency manager, appointed by the governor and who overrode local democracy. essentially voided local election results in flint. local elections where people picked the elected officials were null and void because this governor appointed emergency manager would make uni lateral decisions on his own about flint. one of the decisions made by the governor's appointee while he was running the city was to switch the water supply in flint. and they made that switch improperly. they did it in a way that wrecked all the pipes in town. and that's how flint got lead poisoned. that's how their water got lead poisoned how the kids of flint

got poisoned as well. incidentally that's also apparently the reason why flint had a gigantic of outbreak of something called legiona aires decease and it did damage beyond just poisoning thousands in the city. that part of the flint water disaster killed people directly at least 12 people died from ledgen aires. the disaster in flint wagon some slow moving inevitable breakdown where lots of things went wrong and combined to create the crisis. the flint water crisis was caused by a bad government decision, bad state government decision. the state government took over the tourn and then poisoned it with the flick of a switch. now, the head of the state government in michigan governor snyder is still governor. by the time people figured out what his administration had done in flint, he had already been re-elected to his second term. and he can't run for a third term. michigan voters never got a

chance to tell rick snyder what they thought about him at least at the ballot box. after the flint catastrophe became known. but over the course of the past year 15 current and former government officials have been criminally indicted for their role in the flint water crisis. and some of them are low level but some aren't. the man who rick snyder appointed to be the director of the michigan department of health for example, the head of that agency, prosecutors say his reaction to the legionen air deaths was everyone has to die of something. he was charged this summer in a multiple felony count indictment. criminal charges also brought against at least two other members of his department. the state department of health. criminal charges were also brought against five officials from the state department of environmental quality. the state epideemologist was charge. rick snyder hand picked chief medical executive for the state of michigan was charm. charged in a multiple count indictment and last month

prosecutors went back to her and said they'd seek to upgrade the charges against her adding new felony counts of misconduct in office and involuntary manslaughter. today that official was back in court for preet proceedings in the criminal case against her. and that's a -- that's a big deal for the people of flint for the families of people who may have died for the families of kids who is kited were hurt by the criticizes. the proceedings are a big deal for the flint and the defendant obviously. turns out they are also a big deal for the snyder administration and state government in michigan. because the woman who is under a multicount felony indictment in the flint crisis -- she is still serving as the chief medical executive for the state of michigan. governor rick snyder kept her in that position after she was

indicted. also, the everybody has to died of something guy, who is running the state department of health, he kept him as well, after his felony indictment. and when it comes to this one would be the chief medical executive, the one facing the new manslaughter charges, the one in court today he has a lot on her plate when it comes to state government because rick snyder judges just appointed to run to head up a public health advisory counsel for michigan in between her responsibilitylines to the court pertaining to the felony charges against her presumably. so that's how well your state government is working right now in michigan. you can play duck duck goose at after cabinet meeting to figure out who is under felony indictment a and who is not. the associated press just profiled a volunteer effort that sprung up in michigan after the 2016 election last year. to try to fix part of governance

in that state. obviously around the country there have been a ton of protests, a ton of new organizations founded lots of new organizing efforts of all kind since the 2016 election. but one very, very successful one has happened over the course of the past year in michigan. it's been way below the radar certainly on a national level. but in michigan it has been very successful and it has been flummoxing the political powers that be. it's a simple campaign. they want districts in michigan to be drawn in a nonpartisan which. congressional districts and legislative districts, nonpartisan districts. oh, the horror. the republican party bragged nationwide in 2012 about how well, they rigged the districts in michigan for the republican party. this is from the republican party's own national self-assessment after their effort to use the census here in

2010 parties' leverage to change districts in their favor all over the country. michigan was one of the praises where they felt like they did the best work. in 2012, the republican party was actually superpsyched in a way they got a lot fewer votes than democrats did for congressional races that proved any had guaranteed a way for them to win more seats in congress for republicans even when republicans got fewer votes np 2012 in congressional race fls michigan people in that it cast nearly a cold war are quarter million more votes for democrats than republicans. and the results of the vote where democrats got a quarter million more votes. the results is republicans got nine seats and democrats got five. which shows the system worked very well backup that was in 2012. the republicans were superexcited to brag about that. in the 2016 election last year it worked the same way in the state legislature. people in 2016 they cast the

votes for legislature 50/50 between democrats and republicans st opinion the result was that republicans took 16 more seats in the legislature than the democrats did. which made the republicans very happy. and it showed how well, they had done theirwork. when they rigged the districts to their own benefit after 2010, after the 2010 census. and that same dynamic, that's the same reason why we still don't know tonight who is in charge in the state of virginia. two weeks after democrats just absolutely shellacked republicans in virginia. winning not just the governorship but unaring the table against republicans in the state legislature. you add up the froets for the virginia legislature two weeks ago. it's a stunning disparity. democrats beat republicans by nearly ten points in terms of votes cast for state legislature. pu even tonight we still don't know who is going to be in charge of that state legislature. because apparently it takes

democrats winning by at at least 10 foints points for them to have a shot at winning the majority of seats. that's because republicans were really, really, really aggressive and smart and strategic about using state legislatures to rig districts in their favor so they could win the most seats. in congressional elections, state elections, even when they don't win the most votes. they did it all over the country. and that's why republicans right now are freaking out about in wildly successful effort in broken, broken michigan to put a measure on the ballot so districts won't be drawn in a partisan way anymore. they'll be drawn in a compare, competitive nonpartisan way. and all volunteer group of activityists has defied the odds by collecting hundreds of thousands of districts to overhaul redistricting in michigan without having to pay a dime for a signature. it's a rarity in state politics.

voters not politickingens a. opposed to gerry manneders of district. poised to turn in signatures which year 350,000 signatures gather gathered into three months thanks to a legionen of at least 3,000 volunteers. a local republican strategist saying they were recently spotted at a table at a rest in interstate 96. wherever two or more are gathered they've been interest. their grass roots effort has been remarkable. i mean, i don't know what you've done since the election last year. but somebody has been setting up a card table alongside the interstate in michigan in a town you have never heard of to get signatures to make the districts in that state not so partisan anymore. and it's working. what they're doing in michigan. they're blowing everybody away with the number of signatures

they have been able to get in a very short period of time with no paid signature gathers that is on the ballot next year. if it's on the ballot it's going to pass. and again, i don't know what you've been doing since the election but in virginia a whole bunch of people turned their own lives upside down to do everything they could to try to bring about a democratic land slide in that exactic state in 2017. in virginia that worked as far as it goes. but the districts are so partisan there even that democratic land slide two weeks ago might not be enough to give the democrats control. it all goes back to the republicans using the occasion of the 2010 census to us change all of the districts so much in their favor. they did it through something called the red map project. which was an act of political genius on their part. they had almost no competition when they did it. well now the 2020 census is just

around the corner. and this time the democrats are very aware that it's coming. that's why the political effort that president obama and eric holder are working on together after the obama administration what they're working on is districts. how the districts will be drawn after the 2020 census. they want democrats to make up what they lost when republicans ran the table and changed all the districts in their favor in 2010. that's the same effort that's going on with that massive effort in michigan right now not to make the districts more democratic but to make them nonpartisan make them competitive. that's what's going on with all the focus in democratic politics on winning state level elections. you keep hearing democrats and democratic party partisan fighting about the stuff talking about the need to win at state level, win state legislature seats. that's what that's about. it's a renewed focus for democratic activism in every state in the country. that's what's driving it. the fact that every state in the country is about to redraw districts again. based on the results of the 2020

census which is right around the corner. today we learned who president trump wants to put in charge of the 2020 census. i did not make this up. it's the author this book. see that -- the title is in large letters you might have to look close to see the sub-heading the author of this book. it's titled redirecting and representation: why competitive elections are bad for america. he is a professor to the university of tax at atlas never worked if government before. never managed a large agency never worked with federal government statistics but but he is the leading the proponent of the theory that kpet et elections are bad. literally wrote that title for his book. he has been a republican activist for years representing republicans most controversial efforts to use the census to create intensely partisan districts. including the north carolina

effort they tried to get away with a few years ago which was struck down as profoundly racist even for in everything goes era in this part of politics. for perspective here the last person who willing this job in the obama administration left the job to become the chief statistician for the united states government because this is a job for which you are expected to be a massive statistics brain. president trump nominee for the job has no background in statistics. at all. according to reporting in politico.com today. president trump initially wanted him to be census bureau director but then apparently the white house got shy when they realized that means he'd have to be senate confirmed. instead now the trump administration plan according to politico.com appears to be to nominate no one to be the census bureau director since that's a job that needs senate confirms and instead they're going to install mr. ketive elections are bad for america as the number 2 in the agency as the deputy

director which is the jb where you actually hands on run the census and very importantly that's a job for which you do not need to be senate confirmed. truch just said says i pick you. and you're in. we are a big complicated country with big complicated politics. there are very few disparity multi state problems in american politics that trace back to a single cause. but making a partisan sledge hammer out of the census last time around that really is one of those things that has been ringing like a bell loudly across the country ever since. and that will be nothing compared to this. if the trump administration is now going to turn the census officially into a tool designed to destroy competitive elections in america. that would be such a radical move. it's almost hard to overstate. watch this space. insurance.

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kurnl the top -- currently, the top prosecutor -- i don't think they like to be called% cuters. -- currently the top prosecutor at the in the his name is dana benta. he has been acting in that capacity since may of this year. he was a career prosecutor. has worn many hats in the justice department including recently in the trump administration. and the jobs that he had recently have landed him spak dab in the center of the ongoing russia investigation.

dana briefly serve as acting attorney general after the president fired sally yats yates. he acted as acting attorney general meaning the director supervisor of james comey during the time james comey was being pressured by president trump to let go of the investigation into michael flynn. james comey testified that he reported those interactions with the president up the chain of command to his boss at the time. his boss at the time was da dana bentae. incidentally that's also the time the fbi started the investigation into whether or not the firing of comey was an attempt to obstruct justice by the president. that investigation started before robert mueller was appointed as special counsel. dane aifr himself may well end up being a witness in at least that part of the mueller investigation. but his real day job the one appointed to in the firststones by president obama was being the

u.s. attorney in the eastern district of virginia, a really important federal jurisdiction. as the top prosecutor in the eastern district of virginia among other things he oversaw the issues of grand jury subpoenas related to the mike flynn investigation and the paul manafort investigation. in that role in the eastern district of virginia. he has also been overseeing the continuous and ongoing investigation into wikileaks and the role in the russian operation targeting our election last year. i mean there is a case to be made that if anybody outside of special counsel robert mueller's office knows what's going on from the very beginnings of the trump russiavision it's probably dana bentay. given his role in the eastern district of virginia. acting deputy ag, national security division. so it was really something when last month on the same day we learned about the first criminal indictments from robert mueller, last month dana boente we

learned would be quitting. he announced resignation as u.s. attorney. the initial reports proved misleading but nbc soon reported that he wasn't voluntarily stepping aside. he wasn't jumping. he was pushed. the trump administration demanded his resignation. for some reason and as a surprise, dana boente did not see it coming days before the trump administration told him to resign. boente was telling people how excited he was to continue work as u.s. attorney in virginia. there has been no explanation for why he was pushed out at the national security division and out of the eastern district of virginia, just as the first indictments were announced in the mueller investigation. and despite the fact that the trump administration had previously told him that he could keep his job. well there is one key senator who has been trying to figure this out. i sent a letter to attorney general jeff sessions and to the deputy attorney general demanding an explanation for the

abrupt termination of dana boente, the delinquent the senator gave to get the answers was november 21st, which is i'm not wearing a watch but i remember it's today. that senator is pushing hard on this. i have a feeling he is ultimately going to figure it out. he joins us live next. nick was born to move. 3 toddlers won't stop him. and neither will lower back pain. because at a dr. scholl's kiosk he got a recommendation for our custom fit orthotic to relieve his foot, knee, or lower back pain,

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went dana boente the u.s. attorney for the eastern district of virginia was told to

resign after the first indictments were coming down to the mueller investigation. the trump administration gave no explanation for why they wanted him gone. they previously told him he could stay. dana boente's aabrupt dismissal immediately raised concerns for chris kuns. he sent a letter to the attorney general demanding an splapgs for the abrupt termination of dana boente. he gave the justice department a deadline of november 21st to provide the answers. today is insofar 21st. and tonight we can report there's been no response from the attorney general or the deputy agp senator kuns is not no for an answer. he drafted another letter to the other than general about why the resignation was asked for. he opened a new fibrin. he is asking the republican chairman of the judiciary committee to hold a hearing examining presidential sbrerchs.

trump's reported demand for boente's resignation the sudden nature of times proximity to the indictments issued by special counsel mueller and reported connections between the u.s. attorney office for the eastern district of virginia and the investigations of paul manafort and mike flynn all 11 me concerned this resignation was not business as usual. i can't take on faith the dismissal was normal or justified. joining us now is senator chris kuhns of delaware. >> thanks for drawing attention to this important matter. >> well i have been -- i've been really interested in this because i felt like this potential seriousness of this firing, the surprise nature of his resignation is very much out of proportion to the a explanation we've had for why he went. one of the reasons i wanted to talk to you about this, senator, is that sometimes senators push like this public will you because secretly you know what happened to the guy you're trying to get people to admit it. is this one of those cases?

do you have a sense of what happened to dana boente? >> well i have real questions but not a firm answer to why dana boente was pushed. as i laid out in the letter i sent to the attorney general which has gone without a response so far and as i laid out in my letter it the chairman of the senate judiciary committee asking for hearing. this fits within a broader troubling pattern of interference with u.s. attorney's offices. while the president does have the right to act for u.s. attorney's resignations he can't do it for an improper purpose to interfere a ongoing investigation. as you pointed out in the run up to the segment there are some troubling intersections between the ongoing investigation, the announcement of indictments and in the case of papadopoulos a guilty plea and the timing of dana boente's now revealed forced resignation. >> we have had some reporting about the role of the prosecutors office in the

eastern district of virginia. grand jury proceedings are secret and we oneill know what's into the press and we're not talking about anything we're for the supposed to that you may know about. but i also wondered whether or not the question base dana boente should be both about his role as the acting director of national security division at justice department and also his role in that key jurisdiction in the eastern district. again, that district has been named quite a few times in reports about elements of what is now the mueller investigation. i don't know what the national security division does in terms of whether it might also overlap with this investigation. is that part of way you're also concerned? >> it is part of which i'm also concerned. the national security division lass a central role in law enforcement matters that relate to actions by our adversaries or actions that implicate our intelligence community. and i think it would be easy to conclude which why that might be specifically relevant to refresh russian attempts at interference in our last election or any

counterintelligence matters that might be a part of that ongoing investigation. i also want to raise the matter that dana boente, the eastern district of virginia u.s. attorney is fourth in line of succession. if there would happen to be a set of circumstances where the attorney general was recused, the deputy attorney general was ordered by the president to do something improper, refused to do so and resigned, dana boente would be the third in that line of succession. those of us who know our watergate history and the saturday night massacre know it's possible that there be a fact pattern where the president ordered folks in the senior he levels petition headquarters of department of judge justice to do things which they refuse. the first person in that line of succession outside of d.o.j. headquarter something the eastern district of virginia u.s. attorney. >> that's ominous prospect. senator, one last question for you. i know the deputy attorney and the attorney general did not respond to your initial letter about this.

you gave them this deadline of today. do you have any options in terms of compelling them to respond? do you anticipate in the future being able to question them about this or potentially being able to question mr. boente himself about the circumstances of this firing? >> well it's my hope that the senate judiciary committee will continue to work in a bipartisan way. it is my expectation we'll have a chance to continue to seek the production of both documents and witnesses in the coming weeks. there are folks who i think should be appearing in front of the senate judiciary committee because of their incomplete or misleading previous answers. and it's my hope that the senate judiciary committee chairman will agree that these are folks who ought to be in front of us and that getting to the bottom of what's happened with dana boente is an appropriate use of committee resources and protection of the independence of the department of justice. >> serious matters. senator chris kuhns of delaware thank you for joining us nice to have you here. >> thank you rachel. >> all right. coming up. why thanksgiving may be way more

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the neutrality of the internet to restore net neutrality regulations took over every crevice of the country in 2014. it was a big loud effort. heated, sustained. and eventually it worked. president obama sided with the neutrality activists, the administration put in place rules that kept internet companies from giving preferential treatment to certain website making some run fast appear some slow. all information on the internet has to be treated equally regardless what's on the website or what the internet service providers want to do with it. but then today the trump administration wiped all that away. the fcc today under new trump appointed leadership announced they plan to do away with virtually all of the existing rules that protect net neutrality including the obama era regulation that is filed the tidal waive of public outcry now the part i should tell that you msnbc is owned by comcast which

has an interest in this fight. they say they support net neutrality but would like to get rid of the regulations that currently guarantee it. before the trump administration's net trurltty proposal gets put in the box, the fcc has to put it to a vote on that commission. that could come as early as next month. that's expected to easily pass the commission because it's controlled by republicans. for the people tracking this stuff. the people in the streets in 2014 none of this came as a surprise. they have been getting ready for this moment. protests already started even before today's announcement. the pressure is already on. there's been some specks today they might have announced this before thanksgiving because they thought it would die away into the news cycle and people don't notice. but people are spending the thanksgiving praek being activists about this. we have seen this before. joining us now is jenn yes the editor of boing boing. great to see you thanks for joining us. >> it's a pleasure rachel.

thank you for focusing on this issue. this really matters. >> it does really matter. and i think it's hard for a lot of people to grasp. you above everybody else i know in the world is better at putting issues like this in terms that regular people can understand even if they don't usually follow it. what is so important about this? >> what's important is that we the people have a right to communicate. we have a right to access information and to share information. and the internet is an important part of all of our lives. even those of us who don't like to spend all day on facebook or twitter or playing mine craft or what have you. we know that it's an important part of the national discourse leading up to the elections like leading up to elections like the one we had last carrier. basically what's at stake with net neutrality is this. the -- the changes that are being proposed would give internet service providers -- that's like comcast or at&t or

verizon -- it would give the large companies the option to charge you more for fastest service or to block certain kinds of content that might be night -- not aligned with their business interests. so you can imagine for instance if you wanted to watch a sporting event, and the -- let's say espn is broadcasting a sporting event live and you happen to have an isp that toents have the sweetheart deal with espn maybe you miss the best plays or maybe it's kind of janky and buffering. and you miss the experience. or more importantly in my opinion, think about -- so i'm here in nevada. and nevada in utah where i spend time and california and every state in the country there are communities that are rural that have been kind of left behind. the digital divide. remember we talked about that a lot. not everybody has affordable access to 21st century internet.

and i think there is great concern that this is going -- that this change -- these changes -- we don't know all the fine print yet but in could make the infrastructure that is so sorely needed around the country that could make that harder. i got to say the only people excited about the news announced by the trump's fcc, the only ones really happy about it are the isp, everybody from mozilla to alphabet to parent company of goingle, small independent publishes like boing boing. it's been around for a long time. but independent publishers like us are also very concerned. i mean, look, bottom line, do you want donald trump changing the internet right now? >> i mean seriously? >> jenny, what do you make of the political prospect for stopping this? the reason i highlighted that activism in 2014 is because even

if it was -- it was sort of greek to some people who didn't necessarily understand what fast versus she internet meant in terms of free speech and the ability to protect our first amendment rights as you describe, there was a huge and very energized movement to fet done what got done. in that fight with the obama administration. what do you think about the prospect for stopping this now given the trump administration's position and the fact that that political organizing is now recent american history that we can learn from? >> we know that whether we are talking about off line civil rights or the rights that each of us reinforce by being connected to each other, being connected to the country as a whole, these rights have to be continually reaffirmed and fought for. you don't just fight for things once. to all of you fellow nerds at home fixing mom or grandpa's kpurt or thinking about your

wish lists for the holiday, this is the time to talk to your families to talk to people who maybe don't understand the very weird bland word net neutrality. what does that mean? wells in a good time to hold teach-ins around the thanksgiving table with people. most importantry i think it's important to affirm it's not a political -- this is not a bipartisan issue. this is -- let me say that more clearly. this is not a republican versus democrat issue. this is an issue of inclusion. so many of the challenges we are dealing with right now are we didn't care about health care policy until they started mucking with the health care. we didn't care much about changing taxes until everybody started getting really worried that that might be abruptly changing in a way that harms a lot of people. it's time to get really worried about the internet. and to inform yourself and to inform people around you. but when the only people in the

room that are loudly cheering are the largest isps in the country. look when they opened this up right before the thanksgiving holiday and the vote is of course slated to happen in mid-december -- i think to look at the timing of that and wonder, if we aren't being invited into the conversation we're going to need to start the conversation, because the internet is really important for america. it's really important that we keep -- that we include more of america in the conversation. >> jenny editor at boing bing it's always great to have you on the show. great to hear you on this thank you. >> thank you rachel sla we'll be right back. stay with us. kimchi bbq. amazing honky tonk? i can't believe you got us tickets. i did. i didn't pay for anything. you never do. send me what i owe. i got it. i mean, you did find money to buy those boots. are you serious? is that why you don't like them?

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this is not normal but it keeps happening. around 1:00 eastern time this morning reuters published a tiny blush three innocences long sort of a major piece of news. president trump would be talking on the phone to russian president vladimir putin sometime today. these guys get together a lot. wasn't it last week on the asia trip when he met with putin three times. but yes. but apparently they this more to talk about. that's one thing putin and trump getting together again. but then there is the news about then getting together how we learned about it. reuters was the first english language media outlet to have the news but it wasn't reuters exclusive. in fact it was third hand.

they got what they got from something called interfax, a russian -- a russia-based news agency. and where interfax got this news was from the kremlin. so we learned about trump and putin having this next meeting, yet another meeting today. we learned about it from the kremlin. it's not the first time the kremlin has scooped all american media and the white house with big news on the behavior of our own president. less than two weeks ago it was a putin staffer who informed all of america that his president would be meeting with our president on the sidelines of that asia trip, the asia economic summit in vietnam. and that wasn't the first time either. in may president trump met with the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov on the ambassador sergei kizlyak. everybody in the trump campaign can't remember meeting, that guy. they met in the oval office. we found out about it because a russian state media outlet

uploaded pictures of the meeting to the getty news service. and they were all credited to the russian foreign ministerry. the white house has an entire department with people whose salaries we pay that's devoted to communicating the president's wheres abouts and actions to the public. but when it involves russian government officials, the white house consistently is silent and not just silent. they're creeding control of the narrative to the kremlin. the kremlin tells us what trump does with putin. we don't get it from our side. why does that keep happening? we'll be right back.

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