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 where yes or no yes or no where did was illegal where you are in the oil and your paycheck so yes of course lawmakers don't have to give up their cushy salary 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 was a. very hard. line that had sex with her right there.

it's been six months since two hundred thousand gallons of oil spilled into the suburbs of mayflower arkansas spill in the exxon pegasus pipeline soaked along as uncovered streets with toxic sludge. on one we. can only. go on and i had to grab. it we're going are there out of 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 your role as 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 very good and you know back in the areas where the most public it forward. the. the state health department initially blew off the symptoms of dizziness and said 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 this being can be crude with all the extra chemical they manage their

equipment that they were using to test the air with measures parts per million where the chemicals that we were breathing in are dangerous parts per billion. and since they didn't really know a lot of that they were kind of following exponentially because exxon's been through this before so i just kind of took the reins and tell them this is how we need to do stuff. that in my opinion that's kind of what had been following the law and what are some of the short and long term health effects that you and your fellow residents have felt from the so. little from day one and it was not some we needed it was just almost fell off and not do actually involve a couple of different talents or 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 not half of my brain spoke for migraine

medicine and didn't touch it my doctor gave me several different medicines it was not such at all sore throat coughing and turning even down into your lungs it felt like you couldn't get air even though your brain the thing and then send any time they did any type of work over in the groups or side area which they've been constantly doing enough that will bring in thirty and was released in august tossed back into the air and everyone in our area. cut off temporary housing for residents 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 anymore. not sure what a lot of the people in north. are doing that there just now some have written in other places there on my fire that are not close to the pipeline or where it the

whole city halls i've lived outside of the north with subdivision just on the other side of the fence and my house is actually closer than some of the houses that they evacuated in the north with subdivisions but they did not evacuate anyone on our side. we were supposed to not post search of the rupture site and all and what have i done for those residents on the other side of the fence they don't and it's sort of compensation for your neighborhood there's nothing for us we were just a late forgotten. the crew that came in and actually laid down. a roadway type thing out of it so i stick so they keep it there because put money into the back behind the subdivision read what might happen and i would have a chance on daughter and grandson where they are and i did her up in

a hotel for three maybe four nights because she was out and we came back to the baby in to get into the driveway because of all her big blocking the area and so i felt that that would pay for her to stay in the hotel just for her being. what i thought was really interesting is that immediately after the spill exxon told residents they didn't do evacuated 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 know that i walked up to the ex some people when they were first there right outside my driveway and i started asking them got terrible we're not sure this. three month old grandson in my head also you know should we be evacuated and i was told by the lady from exxon notice and don't worry about it so big on interest free day and you know you may have to you may have

a little knowledge of it it'll be gone in just gotten this thought that archer. 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 we'll 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 gee 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 org isn't quite living up to its altruistic promises check this out in two thousand and eight alone they were to zation 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 defended 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 the 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 for an operation that's raised over sixty five million dollars over the last few decades not a single penny of which has gone to funding any sort of care for anything in fact according to iris records after paying off solicitors project care 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 what 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 of the saud and on that note here's another black hole for your well intentioned dollars the 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 as 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 you know not to be confused with 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 million over the last decade all in the name of dying

children and their families and every year just. 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.

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the seven. of them in a. couple. it's a rare to get an insider's view of the taboo subject i often talk on the show but today former senator and florida governor bob graham joined me to talk about the most pressing policy decisions he was involved with his eighteen years in the senate 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 in disagreement over numbers that's relatively easy to compromise one party says to him you have a sense that he you agree on. this however is much more fundamental goes to the question of the role of government. particularly in a sense the rarity as such is a health cuter. i 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. or as an example there's 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 anonymity by persons with close ties to saudi institutions and the government of saudi arabia my suspicion. 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 side 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. that's 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 of the close ties between particularly the bush administration and the. saudi royal family you as 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. player out of l.a.

against iraq war because he thought it would divert attention from afghanistan at the time but considering what a disaster afghanistan has become do you regret supporting that intervention now i think afghanistan was like pearl are we were attacked thousands of americans as well as many people from other countries were killed. that is the kind of provocation that the justifies a military response my concern with iraq is that it constituted a diversion away 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 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. who then became my suspicion yeah but if you said yourself that saudi arabia was potentially complicit in it tax why target outguess and i mean is the fine one man . when. we target afghanistan because that was where the energy. led by one man but with. thousands of followers and many of those being more hardened. veterans were 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 in yemen

a. must be again 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 hour 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've carried a notebook in which i. inscribe among other things what i do throughout the day when these charges were made there i've been briefed on enhanced interrogation are 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 contemporaneous record of what i had done and i found that on three or four dates there was no briefing 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 the. those regions and they have a stop representing that i had

a bit had prior knowledge of us intentions in terms of enhanced interrogation well 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 bad news in trying to in the constitution and i think states that. evidence derived from torture ears evidence snow that is suspect as to its credibility and unfortunately a lot of the 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 the victims. i think the primary responsibility is to b.p. also trans ocean which is the owner of the drilling rig and our bird which was responsible for poor concrete which was the initial point of failure on the deepwater horizon four. as to why it is to be 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. claims that have limited linkage to. b.p.'s.

negligence in that led to the spill and therefore were not eligible to be participants 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. and given that how a burton knowingly destroyed evidence and b.p. 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 are receiving. of course coming out of halliburton is in a lot of business and i don't probably would be inappropriate to. do bar of the from. just patient in government contracts because there are. inappropriate actions. of be on the

deepwater horizon but i 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 transmission were our what were those punishments. very soon the severe fines in the case of b.p. they were denied. access to do leases from mexico. those are those armor. actions which have significant economic consequences so

unfortunately however the 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 had. through our you tube channel you tube dot com breaking this it doesn't scribe to our channel so you can offer 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 i encourage you to check out my interview with nico his lead about his latest book the general's son to talk about the true nature of the israeli occupation of palestine debunk some of the myths about the jewish

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