tv Face the Nation CBS February 7, 2016 10:30am-11:00am EST
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and you could save up to $509. call liberty mutual for a free quote today at secar insurance in a whole new light. libertmuy tual iurance. megan: so has charlie been able to find a link between the paving materials and the cancer? it's circumstantial. the stuff seems harmless. yeah, but everywhere it shows up, there's there's a cancer cluster. you don't think kentwell's manufacturing it, do you? no, their rent company, desert shale-- who's paid to receive toxic waste from 48 states. don: they don't do what they're supposed to. they don't dispose of it. it's expensive, so desert shale melts it into gregate. and then sells it to their own company, who sells it to schools. jackasses. they're making money coming and going. it's a brilliant scheme. i knew about the fraud, but not the potential environmental crimes. and you said this is all over the west? well, if that's true, howard, this case just got huge. oh, yeah. these people will not want to go in front of a jury. they'll want to deal, but... right, you want to lock them up. so do i.
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all right, well, let's be smart about it. ooh! i thought you were mildred. where have you been? i have a life. that's where i've been. a life i'm clearly unaware of. where have you been staying? oh, no. seriously... seriously, i thought you've been staying with megan these last few weeks. we have decidedly not gotten that structured in the expansion of our complexity. do you need something? i've got a class in five minutes. are you sleeping in the steam tunnels? only as a fallback. a fallback to what? larry, why don't you come stay over our place? you know you're welcome. i thank you, sincerely. you and your father, your generosity, it's gone beyond what any friend could expect. yes, i'm so generous. look, just come over. come over. stay with us. i can't afford the distraction. the distraction of what? distraction of a place to live? of sharing a bathtub. bathtub? yes. see, if i'm so much as around a bathtub, i can't seem to stay out of it. which is no problem if i'm alone. but you have one bathtub; it just doesn't work. so you've been sleeping in the steam tunnels. well, one copes as one does.
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where will you go when mildred seals those steam tunnels? the arroyo parkway suites. what? (sighs) i could use your help later. all right, you bet. we've taken every precaution to protect anyone who comes into contact with the aggrete. we've got 17 cancer clusters saying your... that's kentwell construction's liability. meeks: it's one company. i'll pierce that corporate veil so fast... we prove you knew this material was toxic and you used it anyway, you're going to prison. the product is inert. we've established that through repeated testing we have an epa compliance officer who knows every inch of the business. call him. let me guess-- he's got a vacation house in catalina? i'm sending a new epa officer. desert shale is a legitimate business. no one wants to deal with this kind of chemical garbage, but this company has made a good faith effort to recycle industrial waste, and to do so within every rule and regulation on the books. and yet we have this problem. what we don't know about the aggregate
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we'll work with the government to get to the bottom of this. if i have to liquidate kentwell to pay for it, i will. let's just take this one step at a time. i got kids and grandkids. i'm not leaving them a company with this legacy. we'll straight out the problem with the aggregate. meanwhile, let's compensate the families and repave every site with asphalt. so, mildred wants me to chair the phd admissions committee. she didn't ask me to do it, she just announced it, and i won't do i she's a trifle pushy, our mildred. i really don't appreciate her trying to throw you out, you know? i mean, i agree. i don't think you should sleep in the steam tunnels, but that is your choice. that's not her choice. have you made your reservation at the arroyo parkway suites? charles, i have to say, i don't think this material is active. this rock is 12 years old.
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you would have to eat a pound a day of this to become ill. yeah. well, then, if the aggregate is not causing kids to get sick, what is? the recycling process-- it seems sound. they heat waste chemicals to 3,000 degrees, they cool the slag, they test it for toxicity. if any remains, they process again. and how much evaporates? they capture the evaporate. very little escapes. well, then, the amount of waste that they take in should roughlyatch the amount of aggregate that they put out. that's correct. it doesn't. here. check it out. i've developed a set of inequalities that indicate with high confidence that desert shale has taken in over 154,000 tons of waste over the last ten years. the aggregate that they produce is... i mean, they're missing nearly 80,000 tons of toxic waste. so what caused the sinkhole? i mean, the acid didn't just seep into the groundwater
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right. right what? desert shale is missing 80,000 tons of acidic chemical sludge. where is it? oh, they wouldn't. don? hey. so we found benzene residue in the sinkhole. now, that is probably what killed the elderly lady, and probably what caused the children's rashes. this is benzene from the aggregate? no. from acidic sludge in the groundwater. well, if it wasn't fro the aggregate, where the hell did the acid come from? well, we think that desert shale buried toxic waste in the ground, and then it seeped into the water table, dad. theye dumping toxic waste at elementary schools? okay, charlie, time to clear the area. okay. fire in the hole! three, two, one! seismic imaging, huh? yeah. locating the source of the acid. what are you saying haened here, man?
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bacteria devour lactic acid, giving off carbon dioxide, which cannot escape, producing bubbles in the cheese. now, here, acid in groundwater ate into the rock, creating pockets of gas which became the sinkhole when the surface was breached. so what about the explosion? seismic imaging. it's the same as in oil fields. gives them a picture of what's underground. that's right. we send controlled vibrations to the ground to receivers. it's sonar, like a bat? like thousan of bats all sending their information back to the computers. we get a precise map of the geology, plus it pinpoints anomalies just like these. okay. j-28/ae-87. so, yeah. right over there. right there. okay. yeah. three feet down. if you and charlie are right... david, we're not just guessing here. we've got three dozen barrels down there. we got something here. i can't believe this. dad, why don't you get away from there? i see iron ore.
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school district have leukemia. how in god's name do you rationalize something like that? they told me it was harmless, and i believed them. i didn't know. you knew. i didn't know what was in the barrels-- what it would do. please, i would never... you know that grandmother was an asthmatic? she died from inhaling benzene. that's a death that we can link to you. i can't go to prison! you should be forced to inhale that crap. can we make a deal? depends on what you have to say. boyd resnick paid for my school board campaign. he put me in office so that i would give them contracts. she's a drunk. she's not credible. this is your client. we're talking about your client. and, as for the barrel by law, the school district
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unless it can be tied specifically to desert shale, you've got nothing. i thought you were representing kentwell construction? my firm represents both companies. come on. who you think you're talking to here? it's one company. you better get your own lawyer. we're looking at you as a coconspirator. when will you depose her? you seem a little rattled, counselor. you better get your game face on. they'll try to pay samson off, send her to aruba or someplace. you think they'd try to whack her? these guys don't like to get their hands dirty. they'll do it with money if they can, but she's the link between resnick and the barrels. all right. so i better get her into protective custody, huh? kac-moody algebras. nice to see you in teacher mode. mildred. we need to talk. millie. and same here, mister.
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rude. it was urgent, or else i wouldn't have taken off. look, honestly, i don't think it's right for you to... sure. okay. so here's the rule: no canceling class for fbi consulting. and, if you use the super computer, they have to pay for it. i've adhered to those standards all along. yeah? yeah. great. wonderful. we're good, then. shouldn't you apologize? for what? for harassing me inappropriately. that wasn't harassment. harassment is what you're in ste for if you give me any more trouble about your phd committee. i don't have time for that. i told you. you know what? you're going to make time, and you're going to be great. we need you. we need a young professor ther to attract the best students, and undersnd their issues. come on, face it-- as far as math professors go, you are the sean connery. double-o seven? handsome, suave, you solve crimes. hmm?
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are little girls compared to connery. with the exception of timothy dalton, who had a little something going on, it's been a downhill slide since george lazenby, so believe me, you want to be the sean connery of the math department. first meeting, my office. what? good. you know, you... you speak of collaboration. i must tell you that this feels more like tyranny. yeah. well, you say potato. you know what? we should get some publicity from your fbi thing. we'll figure out a way to leverage it for fund-raising. dr. finch... good idea? mildred... good. mil... have a good class. millie! hi, handsome. hey. what are you doing here? ah! oh, i'm sorry. is it wednesday already? did i miss our lunch? forgive me. it's monday. oh. all right. okay, i'll see you later. hey, i just wanted to have a conversation. no lunch, no dinner. is this the use of the wild card? i think i should get to use the wild card
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okay. i was thinking you should come and stay with me. oh, no. oh, no, no,no, no! my god, no. that would just be untenable. charlitold me you were staying in a hotel. i have an extra room. no. that would be a serious breach of the protocol that we've so carefully and thoughtfully established, and... what? oh, that's just my... my floss. no, no. i think that would mark the end before we've even really begun." i'm not going to be there. oh... i have to go stay with a witness for a couple of days. you can use the space and sort out your life which is a friendly offer with no strings attached. have you a bathtub? why? don: so, any luck? not yet. when we get the ecific chemical makeup of each barrel will we be able to trace it back to the company of origin? is there the chemical equivalent of a fingerprint? we're going through garbage. we'll be lucky to figure out which industry each barrel came from.
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i mean, so the whole thing's going to ride on samson's testimony. set up her deposition for tomorrow. megan: i'm all set, don. we'll have her delivered to the district attorney's office at 9:00 a.m. thanks. (sighs) how long do we have to keep up this, this witness protection routine? until you're deposed or relocated, whicver comes first. and after i'm deposed, i'm free? first, you'll have to testify. sure you want to drink that right now? (laughs) believe meagent, you do not want to spend the evening with me if i'm not drinking. davidson to megan: approaching your location. copy. cobb salad for the ladies, cheeseburger for me. megan: you got it from dominick's? watched the old man cook it myself. uh! this is ridiculous.
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megan: i don't believe it. that's what killed her? ventricular tachycardia? her heart basically exploded? the lab said the food was clean. we checked with the restaurant. she never even ate the food-- i have no idea how this happened. all of the hotel glasses were laced with peanut oil. she's extremely allergic. anaphylactic shock? she was allergic and parkman and resnick knew this?
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at the school board. i'm sorry. i had no idea. hey, no. come on. look, this could have happened to anybody. without daria samson' testimony, we don't have a case. we have to nail these animals. no, each one of these kids was attacked by these men for money. and each of these families will never be the same. well, we got to get these guys on tape somehow. meeks: eavesdropping warrant could take weeks. who knows how long after that before we get them saying something incriminating? we're just going to have to help them along. who's the epa sending? guy out of chicago office-- lyle grant. what do we know about him? enough. well, walk him through same as before. just get it done (phone rings) yeah. send him over.
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mr. grant, i'm floyd resnick. shh, hold it. here we go. david: i need full access to all areas of your plant, sir. of course. reed'll take good care of you. anything you need. what's resnick doing there? they're desperate. let's take a walk. mr. resnick and i intend to do whatever we can to cooperate. attitude like that helps a lot. which is why we want to be sure things are being done carefully, slowly. i can't help you there. under a lot of pressure from the doj to speed up the process. it's just that we'd really like to be your partner on this if we can. epa records indicate your company receives about 12,000 barrels of contaminants a month, correct? there's a lot of background noise. i need a clean transcript.
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parkman: it's the slag furnace. they fill it with chemical waste, heat it to 3,000 degrees and out comes harmless aggregate. it's really a recycling miracle. what is a miracle is that desert shale only uses 52% of the waste it takes in to make its paving material. where does the rest of that toxic waste go to? they have a warehouse. i'll need to have a look there as well. i want a chemical team out here to check their storage safeguards. the other epa officer was able to accomplish his work with just a visual inspection. we're paying closer attention now. i think you understand. still, it would be a shame for all of our reputations to be destroyed on the basis of an error in your judgment. excuse me. an error in my judgment? parkman: if one looks hard enough, one is bound to find something, isn't that right? oh, they're totally buying it. for instance, you vacation in vegas quite a lot. don't you, mr. grant? credit report shows you in substantial debt
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in your child-support obligations. are you trying to blackmail me? just the opposite. like i said, we'd like to be your partner in this. there's a chance here for all of us to benefit. you going to buy me off? we can arrange a loan from a legitimate source with very long terms. if i fix the records. we send out trucks of waste for burial, you mark them as aggregate, simple as that. and all of our problems go away? you really can't imagine the kind of future we can offer you, mr. grant. just need one more thing. what about the money? mr. resnick controls a number of legitimate lending institutions. we offer you an offshore account number. just implicated resnick. which means we got 'em all.
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no one wl ever know any money ever changed hands. fbi, nobody move! fbi, nobody move! turn around, resnick! get your hands behind your back. let's go. whoa-oa-oa! all right, all right. all right, what's going on? what's going on is you're under arrest, parkman. thiway. parkman, what the hell? don: all right, get 'em out of here. i think you're gonna need yourself a new lawyer. let's go. so, um... you know, i've been thinking and, uh, i'mot sure if it's such a great idea for us to go out. what? why? what happened? i don't know. i don't even know if i mean that.
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i mean, college protocol frowns on it... and we don't even seem sure if we want to be together, and i'm massively confused and you're ambivalent. and you know, i'm about to get incredibly busy working with mildred on this research. it's something i'm interested in. it would be a great stretch for me, not to mention it's just smart to have her as my mentor. and i know that i shouldn't even consider... i just never know what's personal and what's professional with us. yeah, i know. it's been... that was nice. i concur. hello? oh! dr. finch, what are, what are you doing here? oh, my god, i'm so sorry. are you checking up on us? absolutely not. i'm looking for alan. my father? pretd i wasn't here.
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what is up with that man? i don't know about you, but i can't just pretend that she wasn't just here. she was here. i-i saw the woman. shall we? let's all. what's going on here? uh, we're going to the movies. mm-hmm. a movie? you and, and mildred? millie. millie. thank you. uh, millie wanted to see, um... the new double-o seven film? right. that's where we're going. okay? see you later. shall we? yep. good night. bye. "millie." yep, "millie." just think, she could be your boss and your step-mom.
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man: i believe what we all believe in, and i believe that there is no higher calling than that of public service. (applause) and where others see the state senate as a steppingstone to higher office, let me assure you, i can see no greater service to the people i love. operator: 911. what's your emergency? there's a man with a gun at the quincy hotel.
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