Law and litigation for more than 28 years. Hes a former chair of the cincinnati bar associations environmental olaw committee and graduate of the new college of the ba at Ohio State University of law. Jd cum laude. Rob received the International Livelihood award commonly known as the nobel prize for his years of work on pfo a. Please give a warm savanna welcome to rob billott. [applause] good morning. Thank you so much for inviting me here. With t to thank everyone the book festival. This is really an amazing event and im honored to be here. Its moving for me to be part of this group and looking through all the otherfolks that are here you are wondering this guy is a lawyer. Whats going onhere . And thats what i want to talk about today is why i ended up writing this oobook exposure and whats the story about and why i believe its an important story forall of us. You know, i think most of the people in this room have probably heard of flint michigan and the lead crisis, right . Im curio
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And the spotsville military park, he is now working as an interpreter in military programs at the colonialsburg foundation. He lives in williamsburg with his wife johanna, and please welcome we join me in welcoming ryan quint. Well, thank you. How is everyone doing . Yeah. Everybody excited to be here . Yeah. Good. It would not be a great answer if you said no, because we are five minutes into the program. Awesome to see you and great to see some not so familiar faces. I was so excited when the program was announced with the forgotten battles of the civil war. And so my book was in 2017 and then the question was whats next . At the time i worked at the s s slosingberg park. And so when you look into some of the battles the smaller they are, the easier they are to be forgott forgotten, and i then found dranesville that i have been working on and hope the make a book out of it. So, polling the audience. Has anyone heard of the battle of dranesville . Okay. Second question, do you know wh
I hate you all very much, and thank you for being here. [ light laughter ] first question. No. Next . But, mr. President , no one has even asked a question yet. Doesnt matter. No. Next. Mr. President , youve been in office just four weeks. And yet weve made so much progress. [ light laughter ] in fact, if you ask any american, theyll say that ive managed to make the last four weeks feel like four years. Four more weeks four more weeks four more weeks [ cheers and applause ] next. Can you address the recent missteps in your administration . Look, its not my problem. We inherited a mess. It is such a mess. Not even a giant roomba can clean it up, which we are working on with elon musk. Its top secret, confidential, and im going to leak it in about 15 minutes. [ laughter ] next. Yep, reports say that you knew about Michael Flynns correspondence with russia three weeks ago. What did you know and when did you know it . Look, i knew that he knew that i knew, but he didnt know that i knew tha
[ applause ] seth hey, what are you doing . [ laughter ] as i understand it you were elected to bring jobs back to the u. S. Now, you dont want to let transgender kids use the bathroom of the gender they identify with . Do you think thats why the Auto Industry went to mexico . For the bathrooms . [ laughter ] first, you demonize muslims, then immigrants and now the transgender community. Hey, just because you want to bring back coal mining, doesnt mean you have to bring back everything from the 1800s. [ cheers and applause ] and hey, during the election, you told the Lgbt Community and i quote, i will fight for you. Did you not mean to include the word, for . [ laughter ] theres apparently [ cheers and applause ] theres apparently this fear that transgender kids are using it as a ruse to sneak into restrooms and grab people by the genitals but if youre looking for the kind of person who would do that, you need to look no further than the oval office. [ cheers and applause ] hes right t