john: webster then called her cousin, vanda thomas, who lives nearby.grabbed my pocketbook, my child, my fiance, and we got in the car with our pajamas on and we left. john: no one died in winston-salem that night, but other communities have not been so lucky. in 2013, a fertilizer plant explosion leveled the farming community of west in north-central texas. >> at first, we just saw a little bit of smoke. next thing i know, shrapnel was falling down everywhere, burning all of us, and we just got out and ran. john: the blast left 15 people dead. 12 of them first responders. and as many as 200 others injured. since 2021, there have been 614 accidents in the united states involving chemicals. and between 2016 and 2020, 133 chemical accidents required more than 64,000 people to be evacuated from their homes and at least 85,000 to shelter-in-place. >> chemical disasters occur about once every other day in the united states. and so this is this is a massive problem. john: maya nye is the federal policy director at "coming clean ," a nonprofit group that advoc

longer existing pvk wagner, about a certain leader that no longer exists , let's say it directly, pmv vandas, i don't exist, not an existing organization anymore, these are all fables and only political, let's say, some of his personal intrigues, uh, i don't see a shortage of means, yes, i emphasize, i don't see a shortage of ammunition, artillery artillery weapons of the enemy, ugh, and with aviation, are aviation actively working in your direction and helicopters , the enemy's aviation is really working actively, well, in the end , the same problem and the same reality, they have more means, that is , planes and the very potential, let's say, human. a resource that owns this type of military art, of course, us it is necessary to build up, i see certain steps to build up the potential of our aviation, but russia is currently trying to take in numbers because of emphasis, it is clear, thank you, it was radion kurdryashov, deputy commander of the third assault brigade of the armed forces of ukraine, major, we wish you success your direction of fighting, well, we continue our broadcast, my br

ali: vanda felbab-brown, thank you so much for joining us.ut how chinese entities are working with mexican drug cartels to produce and distribute fentanyl. vonda: well, thank you for having me. china is the principal source of precursor chemicals from which mexican cartels synthesize fentanyl. so various chinese brokers, individuals, sometimes larger family based networks and companies produce and sell these precursors to mexico, often very knowingly enabling the cartels in synthesizing fentanyl. they even provide recipes to the cartels, how to make fentanyl out of them. ali: the biden administration has made very clear that the actions that they've been taking over the past few months are part of a very deliberate effort to stop the global fentanyl trade. why is the u.s. stepping up these actions now? vonda: for well over a year, we had no meaningful cooperation from the government of china. and frankly, we have had minimal and inadequate cooperation from the government of mexico as well. in 2018, 2019, we had the height of china's cooperati

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>> yeah, it's definitely a vanda driven by the tyranny of minority.hen you allow emotionally driven politics to determine the future of america, we are in bad shape as you already illuminated and reiterated, democracy is best when it has a healthy discord, a kind of dialogue that is based on serious intellectual and political differences. not the kind of personal hatreds that have so clouded the american mainstream that bigotry seems to be normal and deliberation seems to be out the door. >> you know, it's interesting because it's not the first time in history we have had divisive rhetoric or politics or very personal attacks, but our system itself was designed from the start to make change slowly so we could not make rash decisions to change the entire structure of government. but i wonder if in these times that we are in, is it too slow to keep pace? >> yeah, well depending on what side you are on, the thing is too much, too little, too fast, too quick or too slow. look, that's why moderation has been of the ringing endorsement of a greek derived se