between the crash itself and the decision that was made to burn off the contents of some of those cars. the result in east palestine was just this huge, disgusting, really dangerous environmental disaster for the people who lived there or lived near there. there was so many levels of danger. there was the immediate danger of the crash and the resultant conflagration. but then immediately there's also these very serious health concerns and contamination concerns about their air and their soil and their water. and those concerns seem to stretch on infinitely. now, for reasons we'll call them reasons. this was also a disaster that sparked a ton of conspiracy theories and misinformation, particularly on the far right people like the pro-trump, far right congresswoman from georgia, marjorie taylor greene. also the

eccentric nfl quarterback aaron rodgers spread conspiracy theories about what had really happened in east palestine and who had really caused it and tried to make it look like a disaster. and what they didn't want you to know, and what they were trying to distract you from. senator jd vance of ohio had just become the senator from ohio one month before the derailment happened. and he did do some kind of normal senator work on the derailment issue with democratic ohio senator sherrod brown. it's kind of the only highlight of j.d. vance's whole senate career. but he also kind of went down the rabbit hole on this. he went to capitol hill and announced that the country didn't care about the east palestine derailment because the people in east palestine are white people and nobody cares about white people. okay. a fox news host suggested that the epa had deliberately

caused the derailment, saying about the biden administration's epa director, quote, is this his idea of fighting environmental racism, spilling toxic chemicals on poor white people in ohio? i mean, this was a really terrible disaster, full stop. it did not help that, for whatever reason, it also became the focus of some very, very strange, very divisive politics. but you know what also didn't help in the aftermath of that disaster? the other thing that really, really didn't help was the scammers, including, famously, a scam, clean water, fake charity that swooped in right after the derailment. this is the second harvest food bank of mahoning valley in ohio. they are a legit and really well-regarded charity. for decades, they have

provided food and support to people in the part of eastern ohio where this derailment happened. but but about a month after the derailment happened, somebody set up something online that was supposed to look like a charity, even though it wasn't registered as a charity. and they said that if you donated money, they would provide, quote, clean bottled water to families in and around east palestine. and they listed the name of this food bank, this, this long established, well-regarded local food bank as their partner in this effort to get clean water to the people of east palestine. which sounds like a great cause, right? sounds like a great way to do it. a local charity working with this local food bank to provide this really specific local need that just seems right. and this was just weeks after the derailment, when a lot of people all over the country really did want some practical way to support and help the people of east palestine, ohio. this thing

even had a great name. it was called the ohio clean water fund, which just i mean, how can you take issue with that? thousands of people all over the country, all over the country, donated to this people who are trying to do right by the people of east palestine in the wake of this disaster. and they got scammed and so did the people of east palestine, and so did that local food bank. >> and they were raising money, saying they were raising it for the food bank, with the food bank. and that was totally untrue. >> these guys raised more than $140,000 and something like 6.7% of that money actually ever got donated to east palestine, 6.7%. the other 93 plus percent just went poof. campaign staffers for

republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene of georgia and new york republican congresswoman elise stefanik, who is now trump's choice for un ambassador. campaign staffers for them were involved in raising money for this scam. ohio clean water fund they were eventually ordered to pay tens of thousands of dollars in costs and restitution. in a settlement with the state attorney general's office. they also got a four year ban on incorporating, operating or soliciting any soliciting for any charity in ohio. again, staffers for elise stefanik and marjorie taylor greene, the guy who founded the scam and operated this thing, claims that he did nothing wrong. but he got a lifetime ban on incorporating, operating or soliciting for any charity in ohio, and he was forced to actually pay the money to the food bank, and he had to pay $25,000 in restitution and costs, and he had to shut down this sham charity, what the ohio

attorney general called a sham. and it's just it's just infuriating, right? i mean, if you live in east palestine or even if you live somewhere else, but you were just moved to try to help those folks, you wanted to help them. i mean, to have a scammer tell you they were going to help, right? to tap the empathy of the american people who want to help, to also use the name, the good name of this good local food bank to do it, and then just to screw everyone involved. it's just it's just infuriating. and of course it does lasting damage. >> that affected this community a great deal. it affected. >> it shook a lot of. >> confidence in. people to have someone. >> from local, a local. >> person be a scammer. >> in fact, shook a lot of confidence in people to have a local person be a scammer. the local scammer in question has just been hired by the

republican congressman who represents east palestine, ohio. the congressman in question is named michael ruley. are you lie? he just hired as his new communications director on his congressional staff, the same guy who founded and operated this scam charity. what the ohio attorney general called this, quote, sham charity that actively didn't provide clean water to people in east palestine. after raising tons of money for that purpose. >> after the train. >> derailment in east. >> palestine. >> a charity. claiming to. >> raise money for. >> second harvest. >> food. >> bank was formed. >> the problem? the food. >> bank never. >> heard of them. >> the man who. >> set up that charity. >> mike paypal. >> was accused of setting. >> up. >> an alleged fake charity. >> two years. >> after agreeing to. >> pay tens. >> of thousands in a settlement. >> paypal is now. >> congressman michael rowley's congressional communications director. >> he is now the congressional communications director for the local congressman in that area,

which means the tax dollars of the people of east palestine, ohio, are now paying the salary of that guy who scammed them because the local congressman for east palestine thinks so highly of his constituents that he thinks the best spokesperson for his office as their congressman is the guy who just had to settle with the attorney general's office for scamming the people of east palestine in their hour of their worst need. the head of the local food bank apparently cannot quite believe it. he told the cleveland plain dealer, quote. he is now a communications director covering the same area that he scammed. it's almost laughable. it's a head shaker. it's like, what the hell is congressman michael rowley thinking? indeed, what is congressman michael rowley of ohio thinking? i mean, it's

possible he's not thinking anything about this at all. i don't know how he thinks. the other thing it seems like congressman rowley might be famous for in his district is a time last year when a teenage boy says congressman rowley, shot at him with a handgun while he was bow hunting near the congressman's property. the congressman says it was just a warning shot, and he says the kid was on his property, not near it. but nobody disputes that he fired his handgun, and nobody disputes that. when the kid came back later that day with his mom and dad and his brother to retrieve his tree stand and his other hunting stuff. after the shots were fired, the congressman's wife then came out with yet another gun and fired again. the congressman's wife said. in her case, it also was just warning shots. the kid's mom told the plain dealer, quote, all of a sudden a gun is fired at us. again. she is screaming, get off my property! we were all shot at

me, my husband and my two sons. that's like the other thing he's famous for in his district. so maybe, maybe congressman michael rowley of ohio doesn't think much about what people in his district think of him. maybe it doesn't matter to him that he has just put on his payroll a guy who is best known in east palestine as the guy who ran the clean water scam that screwed the people of east palestine over and screwed over the local food bank, too, at a time when the community was absolutely on its knees. maybe he does not care about that. maybe he doesn't even care how it looks. but i tell you this story tonight, not only because it's kind of one to grow on for this particular ohio republican congressman and marjorie taylor greene and elise stefanik. just a good thing to know about them and how they run their congressional business. but i also tell you this story tonigh, because there's a lot of really excellent news coverage of this

little scandal in the cleveland plain dealer, at cleveland.com, at local channel 21, the local nbc news station, wfm at channel 27, the local cbs station, wkbn at the vindicator, the local paper, the vindicator in nearby youngstown, ohio. and i don't know if that really high quality, well done local news coverage might eventually kindle a sense of shame in congressman michael rowley. i don't know if that local coverage might create enough local outrage that he could feel pressured to reverse this decision and get that guy off his staff, because he's going to keep getting asked about it and he's going to find it hard to justify. i mean, i don't know, but it seems like there's a chance, right? if it gets covered, if everybody knows what happened, if he has to keep answering to it, maybe that'll

change what he's doing. people in public office occasionally do terrible things. from time to time, we enter into a period where people in public office very frequently do lots of terrible things. what turns them around, what stops them from doing terrible things, what makes them correct course and start doing the right thing instead? one thing that sometimes works is shame and embarrassment, and being confronted with the wrongness of what they are doing, feeling shame or embarrassment, or at least the possibility of public rebuke and the awkwardness of being unable to explain their actions in a way that satisfies anyone. because sometimes you can't turn public officials around, but sometimes you can. sometimes that sort of thing can cause public officials who are otherwise behaving in ways that are weak and wrong, to find their spine and to change their minds. and that is why it may be

important for our country as a whole and for the history of the american republic, that the first full day of donald trump's second presidential term was like this today for republicans in washington. >> senator scott. >> what do you make of president trump pardoning? i haven't seen all of it clearly. you know, first off, so many people were barely prosecuted. what about those that. assaulted police officers? i don't believe anybody. if you violate the law, you prosecute. >> but what about. >> those. who assaulted police. >> officers and then. >> were pardoned by the president? >> i haven't. >> seen i. >> haven't i haven't gone into the detail. >> but there. are those pardons that exist. i'd have to read it. >> i haven't seen any. i haven't gone into the detail. i have to i have to read it. very embarrassing for senator rick scott today also turns out to be kind of a theme for the day.

>> senator nelson. >> good morning. how are you feeling about some of the trump's executive actions, particularly. >> specifically a pardon? >> love him. what about the pardon? >> yeah, i think they were absolutely justified. again, i don't know all the cases. >> i certainly. >> don't want to pardon. >> any violent. >> actors, but there was a real miscarriage of justice here. >> so pardons for violent offenders. >> are you comfortable. >> with that? >> i haven't seen. >> the details. >> he went forward with pardons for violent offenders, though. are you comfortable with that? i, i haven't seen the details. i love what he did. i love it, really? do you know what he did? i haven't seen the details. >> on the january. >> 6th pardons. >> what message do you think that that sends to the capitol police officers who. >> were assaulted on that day? >> well, i saw. >> where one family said that they felt it was an injustice. and i understand why they feel that way. >> what are your specific thoughts about president trump's pardon? >> it's his. >> authority and he's using it.

>> we're looking. >> forward and. beyond onto other policy issues. >> we're looking forward and beyond these questions, on to other things that are not these questions, because these are questions i do not want to have to answer. >> are you worried about. >> cases like. >> the leader of the proud. >> boys. >> the oath keepers, folks that were convicted for 20 or 30 years? am i concerned about it? i mean, it's again, it's not ideal, but i'm not overly. >> concerned about. >> it either. i think that the gift is that it's all behind us now and we can stop talking about it. >> oh, is that the gift? the gift is that it's all behind us now and we can stop talking about it. it's not ideal, but wow, what a gift. i'm not going to talk about it anymore. is it a gift, though, senator? really? because, you know, maybe everybody else thinks we should keep talking about it. how about we keep talking about it,

senator? >> a lot of senators who voiced concerns. >> that they didn't. >> want any people who had committed violent crimes to not get pardon. >> i didn't either. >> but they did. >> they did. and so we're going to move forward. >> we're going to move forward. yeah. i really do not want to talk about this. i said the gift here was that i could stop talking about this. why do you keep why do you keep asking me? i said it was a gift. they really do not want to talk about it. because there's no easy way to talk about it. i mean, what they are effectively going along with here by not raising objections, by not standing up and saying, this is wrong, i disagree. you shouldn't have done that. i dissent. what they are going along with here is something that they cannot justify. and so therefore they have no way to reasonably answer even very basic questions about it. and that turns out to be important, because the stomach

churning self-loathing that all of those senators felt today, the shame and embarrassment that they felt today as they were asked and asked and asked again about the president of their party springing 211 people who were actively incarcerated in federal prison, mostly for acts of violence against police officers while they were taking part in a violent attack on the u.s. congress, from which some of these same senators had to run for their lives. the feeling they are having that disgusting feeling of having to swallow this and try to come up with some way to try to stop talking about it because they can't say anything about it. that doesn't disgust them, and that isn't viscerally wrong. that feeling of being unable to say anything rational or true that justifies trump throwing open the prison doors for 211 actively incarcerated people, many of

whom were there for violently assaulting police officers. that feeling it created in senators when they were pressed on, that that sickening feeling, maybe that maybe that is what will save the country, or at least slow its descent. i don't know if that random republican congressman in ohio is going to change his mind and drop the guy off his payroll who ran the fake clean water scam against the poor people of east palestine in his own district. i don't know if he's going to change his mind, but i know that the fact that there's so much local news coverage of it, i know that the fact that everyone in east palestine and everyone in his district and everyone in ohio now knows that he did this thing. i know that that coverage and everybody's awareness of what he did and the. blatant, unjustifiable of what he did, i

know that that makes it more likely that he will reverse course. i don't know if he'll reverse course, but i know the attention to this and his inability to answer questions about it make it more likely that he will change. and that principle is at work here. vice president jd vance nine days ago, when he was just vice president elect, he went on tv and said that donald trump absolutely should not pardon people who committed violence. on january 6th. >> if you. >> committed violence on. that day, obviously you shouldn't be pardoned. >> obviously. obviously you shouldn't be pardoned. j.d. vance, his running mate, allowed him to go on television and say that obviously he shouldn't be pardoned. and then thereafter, after j.d. vance had drawn that line in the sand, trump gave a blanket pardon to everyone from january 6th, including the people who beat police officers with two by fours and baseball bats. jd vance said. obviously

that shouldn't happen. and then trump did it anyway. jd vance should be asked about that every time he pops his head out of his little mole hole. from here until the end of his political career, senator lindsey graham, same thing. to seek a pardon of these. >> people would be wrong. it would be, i think it would destroy president trump. and i hope we don't go down that road. >> it would be wrong. it would destroy president trump. we shouldn't go down that road. senator lindsey graham should be asked about the fact that trump did pardon these people every time he pops up in a senate hallway. so should house speaker mike johnson. >> pled guilty and was charged with attacking officer associate. 12 years. he got less than one. are you okay with that? it's not my place. >> it's the president's sole decision. and he made a decision. >> pled guilty, charged with attacking officers. got 12 years

in prison. ended up serving less than one. are you okay with that? it's not my place. it's the president's decision. he made the decision. i don't want to say. don't ask me. please don't ask me. donald trump's excesses in this second term are not going to be constrained by the reactions of his critics, right? the more his critics are upset, the happier he is, but the more friction he finds from people in his own party, the more people who are his supposed allies are embarrassed to be asked about his actions, or find it difficult to explain why they're going along with what he's doing, or feel compelled by some little voice inside them that they ought to be saying no to what he's doing, that they ought to dissent. the more people feel the gut wrenching power of shame and embarrassment being asked to explain, the inexplicable being asked to justify the unjustifiable, the

slower his road to ruin may get. the pardons and commutations of the january 6th felons are dangerous on their face. people who turned in january 6th rioters to the authorities or testified against them in their trials. they're worried they're going to be stalked or attacked, or worse, by the people who trump just sprung from prison officer michael fanone, who was tased in the neck until he had a heart attack during january 6th. today, he reportedly sought protective orders against some of the now released rioters who were convicted of assaulting him. the so-called qanon shaman guy from arizona. he reacted to news of his pardon today by posting this online. now i'm going to buy some. mother effing guns. congressman lauren boebert earlier today offered to take pardoned january 6th convicts on a tour of the scene of the crime. she said she wanted to take them on a guided tour of

the u.s. capitol building. at the moment that she said that the group she was addressing included one paramilitary leader who had just been released from what was otherwise an 18 year long federal prison sentence. it also included this gentleman who, while she spoke, was flashing the white power sign. an attorney who represents three of the january 6th defendants, including the 18 year sentence guy. he told reporters today, quote, our politics has always been violent. violence is the norm in this country. that's the lawyers for these guys talking as his clients are released, another lawyer for these guys was just appointed by donald trump to be the acting u.s. attorney for washington, d.c. so this is this is dangerous stuff. this is deliberately uncorking something in our country and in our political culture that we have seen happen in authoritarian countries abroad. we have not seen it happen here,

but it also matters that the trump nominee for attorney general said these pardons would all be handled on on an individual case by case basis, and that was the right way to do it. pam bondi should be asked about that, about her saying that's the way to handle this stuff. every time she appears in public to talk about any single thing, or even if she's there in public to talk about nothing at all, shame and embarrassment and the difficulty of answering unanswerable questions about indefensible things. those are breaks that can be tapped in our political system today in washington, that brake pedal was hit. it was hit by republicans, members of trump's own party deciding that they didn't want to answer these questions about this indefensible thing. some of them mitch mcconnell, bill cassidy, lisa murkowski, thom tillis decided they would just come out and criticize the pardons decision that actually happened today. and today. an episcopal bishop in washington was brave enough to tell trump and j.d. vance to their faces

that the country needs them to be decent and needs them to be merciful, and that the country is afraid of what they're going to do. that bravery from that bishop today also hit the brake pedal just a little bit. >> let me make one final plea, mr. president. millions have put their trust in you. and as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving god. in the name of our god. i ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. there are gay, lesbian and transgender children in democratic, republican and independent families, some who fear for

their lives. and the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. i ask you to have mercy, mr. president, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away. >> and there's donald trump and j.d. vance sitting there and listening, having to. i don't think you probably, but donald trump himself, by calling on his better angels. but in washington, in our politics, there's basically one way to make public officials who are otherwise behaving in ways that are weak or wrong and know it. it's basically one way to make

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and it's not just john bolton who has faced that kind of threat specifically from iran. this is interesting. there's interesting reporting that some of the last warnings, the outgoing biden homeland security team gave to the incoming trump team before the inauguration. some of their last warnings were about iranian threats to kill current and former u.s. government officials. so that was the last thing biden's folks told trump's folks before they walked out the door. and then one of the first things trump did when he walked in the door is he canceled john bolton's secret service protection. john bolton responded today in part, quote, i'm disappointed, but not surprised, that president trump has decided to terminate the protection previously provided by the u.s. secret service. notwithstanding my criticisms of president biden's national security policies, he nonetheless made the decision to extend that protection to me in 2021. bolton says the threat to him from iran remains, end quote. the american people can

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okay, but there also continues to be stuff like this new hair raising reporting from the washington post. today's reporting on gabbard casts doubt on her longtime explanation of a trip she took to syria in 2017 as a congresswoman, a trip where she infamously met with the dictator bashar al assad and then came back and refused to say that he was a bad guy for bombing and gassing his own civilians. gabbard has also said it was a surprise she didn't expect to meet assad on that trip, but she said the opportunity arose once she was there and she just felt spur of the moment, like she should take it. the washington posts review today of documents and interviews with her congressional staff from the time show that she met with assad basically, immediately when she got there, she met with him for about three hours, and then she met with him a second time, one of her staffers from the time telling the post today, quote, i will go to the grave

believing that she lied to us. her claim is that it just sort of happened. how do you just happen to meet with the leader of a police state? not once, but twice? a trump transition spokeswoman calls the post story a, quote, deep state smear campaign filled with gross misrepresentation and conjecture. but someday soon, republican senators are going to have to decide if this is the right person who should be in charge of all 18 u.s. intelligence agencies. joining us now is the journalist and author tim weiner. he's the author of the seminal history of the cia, legacy of ashes. his next book is called the mission the cia in the 21st century. it's out later this year, i can't wait. tim, it's nice to see you. thanks for being here. >> hi, rachel. >> what do you make of the choice of tulsi gabbard to be the nominee to be director of national intelligence? >> with the nomination of tulsi gabbard for director of national intelligence. kash patel for the fbi. pete hegseth for defense.

john ratcliffe for cia. what you are seeing is an element of trump's desire to decapitate the national security. establishment of the united states. >> decapitate it, meaning disable it. >> by putting in empty heads in. >> charge of it. >> you've written so much about the structure and history of the cia, and also the fbi is the person at the top determinative in terms of not only the actions of the agency, but potentially the fates of these agencies and these functions. >> once, when. >> i was in afghanistan. >> a mujahideen. >> said, we have an old saying in our country, the fish stinks from the head. which is a universal truth. >> yeah. >> if you. put in charge of the american national security establishment, crackpots and fools whose only qualification is their deathless loyalty to donald trump, you are not going

to get good intelligence. we are in a very dangerous moment in this world. we are approaching a state of total war. in this world, we. have the axis of autocracy lining up against the ukrainians, the russians, the chinese, the iranians, the north koreans lining up against ukraine. you've got a moment. where we have to have smoothly functioning intelligence. intelligence is just $1 billion word for information. the president is supposed to know and care what's going. on over the horizon. the intelligence agencies, when they. >> work. >> are in charge of anticipating surprise. so you don't get a bolt from the blue, as we've seen in our lifetimes. you cannot run an intelligence service if you are putting the people in charge and the people

beneath. >> them through. >> loyalty oaths. and ideological purity tests, this is what's happening in that executive order. after he strips the nationals of the security clearances of five former directors and deputy directors of cia. >> three of the guys. >> who ran very nervy. operations against the russians, some of the best intelligence analysts of our lifetime. the paragraph below, he says the director of national intelligence and the cia director shall go into the ranks and root out people who are politically suspect. if you do that, you are going to have people running for the exits rather than submit to purity tests. and that's a dangerous thing. >> are you. >> what is the danger of giving out social giving out security clearances at the highest level as party favors to anybody who

asked for them at the white house without any vetting? >> well, if i were a foreign intelligence service allied with the united states, would i want to share secrets with tulsi gabbard or some 25 year old who's. >> a, you. >> know, qualification as he wears a maga hat? i would not. i would think it would make the world a more dangerous place. >> tim weiner, his latest book on the cia, will be out this summer. book me already for that. tim, it's good to. >> see you. thank you. rachel. >> thank you. thank you. we'll be right back. stay with us. >> to avoid digital threats, just turn on nordvpn. improve your protection against. >> trackers, malicious. >> websites and. malware ridden downloads. get the deal now. >> if you love cleanliness. >> as much. >> as your cat. >> you have. >> to try pretty litter. i love

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