i don't exley want you to repeat it, it was disturbing. oesophagus.eat it, it was disturbingm september, an organisation of surgeons put out... they have fairly gruesome examples of kids who had swallowed these batteries. they can burn you, surely. they showed what it does to a piece of ham, strangely enough, and just burned straight through. just by putting it on the ham? something to do with the liquids and batteries. it is a really good news story. the content is horrible, but it has christmas, and there is a slight mystery to it, it is if you did want to hurt children, this would be a very effective way of doing it. you just wonder if some nasty person out there has done this. how did they get inside? and they have done a bit of public service by putting it on the front page. that santa claus already looked a little bit sinister, whenjuxtaposed already looked a little bit sinister, when juxtaposed with the lithium battery... maybe i amjust paranoid. i think you might be, too much time spent as a correspondent. let's find something a little more ch

we talk about wireless networks 90% of that is exley fiber. you mentioned the internet of .hings and smart city you need a massive fiber infrastructure to develop that. >> watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. this morning and discussion on the future of the health with sd amy goldstein of the washington post. later discussion on the future of medicare and medicaid with tom scully, former administrator of medicare services and resplendent, former administrator of the health care financing administration. we will take your calls. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: good morning. it is monday, december 12, 2016. president obama prepares to sign a new medical research bill into law this week. president-elect donald trump is already looking ahead to january when republicans promised to make repealing the affordable care act one of their top priorities. as discussions continue about how to repeal and replace the law that they refer to as obamacare, democrats are vowing

. >> exley, that is not why do it. do it because my brain is -- amy: that is alec baldwin lane donald trump as he continues to do now after r the election as e did before. there are many who felt if this had started earlier on, that trump never would have made it to this point or perhaps as jon stewart still doing "the daily show" or stephen colbert still on "comedy central." but this issue of satire and theld trump tweeting after scene we just played, trump tweeting "it was a totally one-sided biased show. nothing funny at all. eqequal time for us?" how s serious this is, robert reich. >> on one level, is simpson reveals a very thin-skinned -- is simply reveals a very thin-skinned and vindictive person on the part of donald trump who does not have any sense of humor. but on a deeper level, there are some real dangers here because it president and administration, particularly when the administration and congress are of the same party, does have some power in terms of the federal communications commission and other agen

supported clive the group that took over oregon in an armed revolt, one of 15 members of congress that exleyported the takeover of the oregon park. so mcmorris rodgers, she has aligned some -- with some of the most radical anti-environmental, anti-comment movements here in the united states. she is now -- she has been nominated to now run the department of interior, which is responsible for managing 500 million acres of u.s. public land. friends of the earth and 350, many of us have said we have to keep fossil fuels in the ground -- which means the federal government cannot lease anymore oil, coal, natural gas. now we have interior department official who not only doesn't believe in climate change, but wants to sell off those public the highest bidder or the lowest bidder, she doesn't care, she just wants to sell them off, for the express purpose of extracting is fast as possible. this is a trend we're seeing with scott pruitt. the former attorney general, current attorney general of oklahoma, who has opposed each of the major roles the president obama has tried to put in place to regulate c

zack exley, who i think i is no longer, goes all the way back to 2000 when he built a website that made fun of george w. bush and got called out by the president in 1998. and then he went from there. he worked for a while in the early days of move on.org to help presidential campaigns in the 2004 cycle and ended up helping the howard dean campaign and the john kerry campaign with their work. more recently, he worked for organizations like wikipedia, which is another kind of entity that involves lots and lots of people in a big distributedat enterprise and more recently along with becky bond worked on the bernie sanders campaign distributed organizing team. bakke, the many of you may know if you've ever heard of credo mobile or before that, working assets. i don't know if there's any people here, but becky has long been organizing the trenches with the conscience is the tagline. she actually built as president a political action committee that is some very interesting work in the last off year cycle targeting members of congress with the feel organization in way in a serious way. she's r

into this question than really two of the-- our best veteran organizers in the digital arena, zack exley, who i think i've known longer, goes all the way back to around 2000 when he built a website that made fun of george w. bush and got called out by the president. >> it was 1998. >> 1998. >> during the primary. >> and then he went from there, he worked for a while in the early days of moveon.org, was sent by move on to help presidential campaigns in the 2004 cycle and so, ended up helping the howard dean campaign and then the john kerry campaign with their work. more recently, he worked for organizations like wikipedia, which is another kind of entity that involves of lots of, lots of people in a big distributed enterprise and more recently, along with becky bond, worked on the bernie sanders campaign's distributed organizationing team. becky, who many of you may know if you've ever heard of credo mobile or before that, working assets. i don't know if there are any people here, but becky has long been organizationing in the trenches of progressive movement work with credo, a phone comp