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exploring the topic that doesn't belong on the. question more. oh i'm tom hartman at washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture they may have open to debate on repealing obamacare but center republicans are still actually having trouble repealing it that's because obamacare is that because obamacare is the republican health care plan a law school your very own charles our throats a liberal wrong and six years after the meltdown do we finally have some good news

out of focus. we'll talk with kevin camps later on the program. the campaign version of donald trump said he would fight for the all g.b.g. community his words in fact even said that he would fight harder for them and then hillary clinton surprise surprise the campaign version of donald trump was lying let's roll. with me for tonight's ramble or holy aura vera editorial director of reactionary times and columnist for newsmax and charles our economist and president of the market institute thanks guys for being with us tonight because we have much time

and julio what's the name of your new podcast. it is a reactionary times t.v. on facebook live periscope and you tube ok there you go in a series of tweets this morning sixty nine years to the day that harry truman integrated the united states armed forces that was today donald trump claimed that after consultation with his generals he had decided that transgender americans will no longer serve in any capacity in the u.s. military is justification the tremendous medical costs of disruption that transgender in the military would entail so the rand corporation recently conducted in the left wing think tank it was a solid defense group conducted a study of transgender integration in the military and found that it would cost a maximum of a little more than eight million dollars a year and amount that would have little impact and represents an exceedingly small proportion of overall d.o.d. health expenditures for the record the military spends about eighty four million

dollars every year on erectile dysfunction drugs like viagra this is really about stigmatizing transgender americans so trump can shore up his support with the american taliban is not that and he's basically cutting a deal going is ridiculous according to politico trying to do is to ensure that some hard right congressman supporting the defense funding bill would put money toward his wall who you were saying yes this is ridiculous first of all if you're transgender unfortunately you do suffer from some form of mental illness there are two genders this entire gender spectrum stuff is nonsense obama did this to our military he weakened it to the point where now we have so many of these people within our military but the truth of the matter is if you're out there and you're in the field of battle we need sharp people people that don't have these quite frankly it is a mental emotional sort of issues that they did they have and it does cost more but it's a distraction it's a unnecessary distraction that our soldiers do not need to. julio can't be more

wrong on this issue the fact is and not only is he wrong but the general that is leading the military disagrees with julio and i think i'm going to go with that general mattis when he testified before congress said that he doesn't care who people sleep with he doesn't care who they go home to the fact is if they're willing to get that get into the fight with harry a gun they are julio if there will be a big fight with you if they're willing to carry a gun we should be willing to have them in the military look there's a lot of reasons that people don't qualify for the military nowadays and it should have to do with their sexuality or it should have to do with mental illness though which it is you know this is not a mental illness and the message in the psychiatric community is clear that it's not a mental illness however julio i'll give you i'll give you this just yesterday the american psychological association in the mid the american psychotherapists association amended rules that went back to nine hundred sixty four to say that the

goldwater rule no longer stands in other words it is now legal and not a violation of professional ethics for a psychiatrist psychologist and psychotherapists to say that donald trump is mentally ill. so you want talk about mental illness that that's you know they're all agreeing on that they're not agreeing on trans people so there's only one person that should be happy with this and that's cleaner right klinger from mash he could finally get get out of the military on this but nobody else should be happy this is a disgrace that something this trump i was excited about when he was on the campaign trail look i wasn't frankly that excited about trump on the campaign trail that often but when he stood up for the community on the campaign trail carrying the flag around the stage i thought that that was a moment this is a step back and it's a gigantic is dangerous and included in this is we're talking about the military the battlefield we are yeah and i'm assuming you've seen the picture of leo of the

navy seal team guy who who has gone through a transition and is out there speaking out on this issue this guy is decorated he's seen combat over and over and over again well now he's a she she has seen you know combat i mean there are some some really extraordinary people who just happen to be trans o. r. and r. and i literally all know right now and i'm sure a lot of muslims are a community and this isn't just the entire the entire the pentagon everybody has embraced them and now donald trump makes a deal with the right wing crazy woman who's in the house of representatives who says that she's going to blow up is that the funding for his border wall if he doesn't go after trans people and he doesn't anyone does it in a way that has freaked out the military you know his first tweet it was three tweets the first tweet said i've talked to my generals and come to the conclusion or words that effect and for another nine minutes nobody knew what the generals told him he was supposed to do and the generals are looking at it go on we didn't tell him to do anything and they were i mean you know read the headlines they were totally freaked out they thought he was going to announce that he was he was nuking

north korea so anyway this is this is listed as a job as secretary of defense he is not currently a general if that's what his generals told him i would rule with that. well i see no evidence of that actually and how they may have voted open debate on the so. called health care bill but republicans in the senate are still having trouble actually repealing obamacare last month to build a repeal obamacare and replace it with the mitch mcconnell supported better care reconciliation act or b c r a or b. strong or wall failed forty seven forty three and then the saffron una build a completely repeal obamacare without any kind of replacement failed fifty five to forty five sessions repeal and a really delayed bill would result in thirty two million people losing their health insurance so which version of the republican health care reform scam do you guys hope the senate ends up passing how many people should lose their health insurance or die to satisfy the libertarian ideology of david and charles koch should be twenty two million or thirty two million that's such

a false frame the bills don't take absolutely accurate at it that is not the bills don't take insurance away from anybody not one person the last insurance is scored by c.b.l. is people that choose not to get their shareholder and when you're slumlord raises your rates from one thousand dollars a month for your reynolds of thirty thousand dollars a month for your rattle he's going to stay as a no i don't i don't sort of right away her history was barack obama because that's when the rates skyrocketed i'm really disappointed with the republicans here they should have after all the show voting while barack obama was president while harry reid was majority leader they should have just got in i already have this point a straight repeal then they can work on a truly comprehensive plan that will encourage competition and actually bring down rates a repeal of obamacare so that came on january twentieth that that that comprehensive plan that would guarantee health care and bring down rates is either a single payer health insurance or is the republican alternative since one nine

hundred seventy two which today we call the affordable care act or obamacare that's right if you use the c.b.o.t. score because the the liberal left is built the c b o scoring into the cake it soon as you don't mandate that somebody buys insurance the c.b. . oh decides that well there are likely people aren't going to buy insurance even though that's the smart thing for consumers they are not assuming that people are going to go without insurance because how does the on issues into their head is how silly the uninsured who will no longer be able to afford internet is half of the uninsured numbers that you're talking about in the private marketplace which works out to about eight or nine percent of you know i will numbers and look i mean most of it is going to come out of medicaid look i'm in the private marketplace and my cost has been skyrocketing we need to change something we've gone from zero to one hundred forty insurers in the private market to one hundred forty insurers i have lost in the three plans since obamacare has been in place yeah you want to do something about that talk to marco rubio he's the one who blew up obamacare by by nuking the risk corridors last year and now trump is making it even worse as the

president of i believe it was at a pointed out today and as the as blue cross blue shield pointed out two weeks ago in a press release and how republicans are once again putting the interests of wall street first in the interests of working americans second on wednesday the house voted two thirty one to one ninety kill a new rule put in place by the consumer financial protection bureau that makes it easier for average americans who've been defrauded by wall street to sue the banks toure's that rule which the c.f.p. be unveiled just a few weeks ago bans banks requiring their customers to sign away their rights constitutional right at that to a class action lawsuit if republicans had their way would they just repeal every single consumer protection we've had in place since the financial crisis why do you guys want to go back to what it was like a two thousand if you are you trying to throw another ten million people out of their homes and into the streets. no that's nobody implied that what i'm saying is the c.f.p. b. is unnecessary we have layers upon layers of bureaucracy in this country the serially most of it in corporate america said that wait a minute you're more likely to actually get relief in arbitration then you actually

are in a class action suit the average payout from a class action suit is thirty two dollars eighty seven percent of class action suits result in no money so if this is all only so. thing to help lawyers i mean death you only get no i'm sorry well you know that it was completely wrong this is to protect consumers if you've got a bank like like wells fargo did for years that just opens accounts for you and doesn't even tell you the charges you and it's not a lot of money you're getting doing ten bucks a month five bucks a month and you don't even notice and you don't even know about it but your one of ten twenty million people that bank just engaged in a phone call i would generate if you do three hundred million dollars for it ok only way to stop that is the class action of damages you know there's it's i'm telling you arbitration has actually worked and one on one but you know what is our nobody's going to pay for a lawyer to go to arbitration come over one hundred bucks yet relief in arbitration seven perfectly oh you're going to be in the scam artists now what we're doing is

taking this off track let's look and see which side is for wall street versus main street right there a company can provide whatever product they want they can provide a product that has arbitration or they can provide one that doesn't if they provide the one that has arbitration it can be a cheaper product if they provide one that doesn't it's a more expensive product that means the company makes more money who supports that the left supports that that's the left supporting wall street over main street this is clear on every single issue that the market should choose charles the reality is in the arbitration they hide these these these limits on it and nobody reads nobody id when you know when somebody puts a piece of paper in front of your face you've ever signed an insurance document or a mortgage who will have you read every word and it really just when i when i signed my mortgage i read every word on that piece of paper i didn't i every word and i've been to law school you know what they all meant. no i haven't been a law school but i do know what they meant ok well if i find them press or

a verizon charles our thank you guys thank you going out when i finally have some good news out of focus shame and more on that with kevin camps right after the break. called the few we don't go to. every the world should experience. and you'll get it on the old the old. the old according to just. welcome our moral come along for the ride.

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that's. not letting anything get in your way to bring it home to the american people. it's been six years since the two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami that caused the most serious nuclear incident since journo bill and we might just might finally have some good news out of her shame over the weekend a robot operated by tepco the company that owns the focus human daiichi power plant found a fuel rods from a reactor involved in the two thousand and eleven disaster to help explain the significance of this development i'm joined now by kevin camp's radioactive waste watchdog at the nuclear kevin welcome back thank you sam it's great having you so. the reason why is so i thought this might be good news and i'm not the expert on this you are but i'm reading the news story and it looks like this big chunk of core that this camera saw has been relatively stabilized as it has it if fissioned

out to the point where it's no longer critical and it's just kind of blowing off heat or or am i completely misinterpreting the news well i guess you know glass half full. so there is some core it's taken them over six years to find the core you know and they still haven't said yes for sure this is core but if it isn't it likely is and it solidified that means their cooling operations which are hundreds of tons of cooling water per day have stabilized the melt down so it's not molten anymore it's not burning deeper into the facility or into the ground that is good news of course tremendous amounts of radioactivity have already escaped are still escaping as we speak because these buildings are shattered so even that cooling water flow is resulting in releases they try to capture as much of that now highly contaminated cooling wastewater as they can which they then have to store so it's good news it's bad news but you know big picture it's taken them over six years to

find to begin to find where the cores are this is just one you know not a five unit three there were three meltdowns units one two and three had full scale meltdowns so this is a unit three where they sent the submersible robot with a camera the robot even lacked radiation measuring capability and it's the first time a robot hasn't quickly fried from the radiation levels so they're still going to have to figure out what the radiation levels are in there so it's good news it's bad news in the big picture it is going to take many decades to decommission they have to figure out how to get this now you know solidified molten core out of where it's at into a safe place and it's going to cost i mean even tokyo electric submitting it's going to cost something like two hundred billion dollars over time that includes a lot of different things but decommissioning is in there so it's just the beginning it was hard it was hard to tell from the pictures the size of it is it possible that this is actually much smaller than the original core and the much of

it has just dissolved and been washed out into the ocean exactly that's the big question i imagine tokyo electric and even japanese government officials and international atomic energy agency officials are now going to try to do ballpark figures based on what the. these images show as to how much is still there and i'm sure there's a lot that they can account for so where is it is it still up in the pressure vessel probably not is it out into the environment at least partially we know it is right and it's scattered all over from the initial explosion scattered all over the landmass of japan or in that area anyway but in the ocean what's what's the status of radiation in the oceans right now as a consequence of fukushima and what's the status on the u.s. west coast or canadian mexican west coast with regard to focus. well the worst releases were in the first days weeks and months but they have had bad days since i remember summer of two thousand and thirteen they lost an entire one of these giant storage tanks some hundreds of tons of highly contaminated water simply washed out

into the ocean because they lost it gave up its ghost. they've had. storms that have overfilled overflowed containers that's washing of the ocean sometimes workers of over filled containers that has washed into the ocean so those are the bad days but on a constant daily basis there's a constant hemorrhaging of radioactive groundwater into the ocean at something like eighty thousand gallons per day the big news though is the seven hundred seventy thousand tons which is something like two hundred million gallons of highly radioactive waste water that they have in the storage tanks that are vulnerable to a big earthquake. they have to deal with this catastrophe waiting to happen but their current proposal is to simply release it into the ocean two hundred million gallons of highly radioactive water they're claiming tokyo electric as we've filtered out sixty two of the radioisotope some of the worst ones like strontium ninety plutonium cesium one thirty seven but they can't filter out the tritium and

tritium is not harmless and their argument is oh it's going to dilute in the ocean and they'll be fine nobody will get hurt while the japanese fishing cooperatives are up in arms about this announcement it's their. seafood supply that they hope to sell to the public that would be contaminated by a concentrate the tritium and people likely would not buy and probably should not buy that seafood if it's being exposed to such a massive dose of tritium right and the trillions of beta matter but a very weak bit in there so it's if it gets in your skin it's not that much of a problem but if you eat it or a nail it or drink it what happens well the worst is organically bound to tritium which if it organically binds in a fish and you eat the fish and it organically and binds and you it can stick around for ten years in your body it can go anywhere in the human body the hydrogen goes which is everywhere or it's right down to the sea walls out of you know basically it can cause cancer it can cause birth defects it can cause genetic damage and the industry and the governments who support them often say oh it's

harmless don't worry about it it will dilute. well this is a delusion it is a harmful substance and this dumping in the ocean is very concerning do we have any sense of whether the the west coast seafood supply is safe. while there is inadequate testing going on there are folks like arnie gundersen the nuclear engineer who will not eat fish from the pacific ocean we you know there's been some remarkable data points like a couple years ago when measurements were taken of sea water on the west coast of north america radioactive cesium one thirty four which is shorter lived and one thirty seven which is longer lived had doubled in open ocean water all the way across the pacific you know it had radioactive cesium artificial from bomb testing fall for example it had doubled because of fukushima which is like that's a big ocean to be doubling radioactive cesium levels do you see any any sign at all that policymakers in japan in the united states and the rest of the world have

looked at fukushima and said you know there are lessons to be learned here like the number one lesson no nukes you know is there i mean you are and i believe off the air before we started you were to have a quebec. that that was prefocus no it was after it was you know it was late two thousand and twelve so i mean that's kind of on their last or a little bit of a bright light of it there are places there is good news there are shut downs happening we've set records for numbers of reactor shutting down in north america u.s. canada just in the last several years and fukushima had something to do with that because the public rose up and demanded these shutdowns but it's still a small number they're still one hundred operating reactors in the united states around twenty in canada we're about to see the worst nuclear regulatory commission in my twenty five years of watchdog in the nuclear power industry you've got the nikki is chairman who's been an industry rubber stamp for a decade already these are trump appointees you've got who's a former nuclear industry lobbyist and top level senate staffer working on behalf

of the industry essentially sees. about to be confirmed by the senate and then you have wright who's a former public service commission chairman from south carolina their bias for example in favor of yucca mountain couldn't be more clear and we have house action on yucca mountain trying to revive that cancelled project but in in light of fukushima. they have tried to not learn any lessons because the lessons to be learned would be if you're going to keep operating these fukushima designs in the united states and we still have like thirty of them operating as we speak and their ancient reactors are really old they're well over forty years old you'd at least have to put in herden vent with a filter on it japan is doing that they're trying to restart reactors in japan the public's not letting them in the united states the nuclear regulatory commission already before this new dark age we're about to enter had said you know the staff said we should do this at n.r.c. which is kind of a miracle really the commission said not we're not going to do it don't worry be

happy and they're overseers congress have nothing to say the republican committee chair so we're entering a very dangerous phase of nuclear power in the united states when we have as i recall two plants down in the southeast georgia north south carolina in that area that are about to come online or are being and built are where far from telling on line westinghouse nuclear went bankrupt a few months ago trying to build these plants there's four new reactors under construction isn't westinghouse japanese owned yes it is as of about a decade ago but it still has its base in the pittsburgh area and it is bankrupt as we speak and the bankruptcy is so bad billions of dollars of cost overruns of these four proposed new reactors years behind schedule that the instability has now spread to the parent company toshiba of japan this hundred twenty year old company is now wildly and may not itself survive what's going on here so this nuclear relapse in north america is over it's just how much money is going to be lost right

and what's the status of the of the most of the nuclear. plants in the united states that should concern us most i know they were there a couple that nearly got taken out by river flooding a couple years ago you were on our program talking about you've got of course a bunch of them on earthquake faults and along the ocean in the pacific in california we are the ones that we really should worry about what's the status of these things are there any efforts to shut them down oh absolutely there's one hundred operating reactors in the united states and twenty more in canada all on the great lakes up there and you know a natural disaster a terrorist attack any scenario that cuts off the primary cooling supply from the grid and the emergency diesel back ups and you are in fukushima land it'll just take hours before the meltdowns begin so they need to be shut down there's a very vibrant anti-nuclear movement in north america always has been fighting very hard to shut down these very old reactors that are so dangerous so some of the ones that come to mind palisades in southwest michigan has

a dangerously in brittle reactor pressure vessel the worst of any in the united states maison is it near chicago it's directly across lake michigan from chicago so if it has a bad day it could take out chicago's drinking water supply which is like michigan and it is the head waters of the great lakes which forty million people all told depend on for drinking water so again arnie gundersen did an essay about what would a fukushima like meltdown on the shores of the great lakes look like while it's a drinking water supply for forty million people. in eight states and two provinces and countless native american first nations it would be an unprecedented catastrophe for drinking water in the world and it's in our the great lakes the largest supply of fresh water available to humans anywhere on the planet or something else of twenty one percent of the world's surface freshwater it's eighty four percent of north america surface fresh water and forty million people depend on it just this generation for drinking water and these nuclear catastrophes are

multigenerational affairs they have a beginning day march eleventh two thousand and eleven they don't have an ending date it depends on the radioactive poison you're talking about but on the west coast the u.s. west coast well the ocean is big it's not drinking water but it is the source of the sea food supply for hundreds of millions or billions of people and so when you have contaminated fish being eaten by that many people you're going to harm people you know and that's that's the risk you take i see that kevin great to see thank you so much thanks so much and that's the way it is tonight and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport get out there get active tag and your. would you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those three up faces your wife

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surrounding health care the republicans just can't seem to get it done the president will not get a clean repeal of obamacare as promised the senate rejected a proposal today to repeal parts of. the affordable care act without providing a replacement the vote was fifty five to forty five seven republican senators oppose the measure the effort was reminiscent of the year twenty fifteen when the republicans in the house and the senate passed a similar bill vetoed by president obama senate leadership is now trying to put together a scaled down version of repeal this would protect the preexisting conditions and reduce the impact on medicaid cuts for more on this let's turn tonight to north dakota congress and kevin kramer a staunch supporter of the president congress and nice to have you with us and i i guess with the backdrop of what has unfolded the basic question tonight is can the republicans govern can they get.