assigned the assurance that the water from to the new source would be safe, all in all, we have tracked three emergency managers who had a role in this mess, all of whom replaced locally electriced officials and all of whom reported just to governor rick snyder. plus there s the state environmental agency which reports to governor snyder. plus we have the state health agency, which found evidence of elevated lead levels of flint human beings over the summer while the state publicly maintained that everything was fiep, everything was safe and anybody telling you otherwise was a kook or a crank. the boz ss of all of them, the e they reported to is rick snyder, governor of michigan. the new mayor of flint just decided to test to see what powers she might still have in michigan. she decided to declare a state of manmade disaster. state of manmade emergency in flint. that s how she s spending her holidays. they re currently work on a response plan. they say they ll try to get the most help
it was made a statewide electriced job in pennsylvania in 1980. she s the first woman and democrat elected to that job. but there is a problem right now with her status as attorney general, the highest ranking law enforcement in that state. because the state constitution says in order to be eligible for that job, you have to be a member of the bar. and kathleen cain, attorney general of the state of pennsylvania isn t right now. she just got her license to practice law suspended. we ve been following the story for a little while, since criminal charges were filed against kathleen cain. these criminal charges say she leaked criminal grand jury charge against an opponent. she also pulled that amazing move when she was arraigned where her twin sister walked in ahead of her and distracted the
of state in new mexico in 80 years or so. but the state legislature takes up her possible imimpeachment soon, that committee will be made up of equal numbers of republicans and democrats. that will be worth watching. on the democratic side, the biggest police blotter story involving a democratic politician right now, it honestly got so dra mat ilgidra would be surprised if it doesn t turn into an mcis plot. it was made a statewide electriced job in pennsylvania in 1980. she s the first woman and democrat elected to that job. but there is a problem right now with her status as attorney general, the highest ranking law enforcement in that state. because the state constitution says in order to be eligible for that job, you have to be a member of the bar. and kathleen cain, attorney general of the state of pennsylvania isn t right now. she just got her license to
legislation that wouldn t fund obama care, and in effect there could be a government shutdown. you lived through two government shutdowns in the 90s. republicans paid a huge political price for both. yeah, you know, i thought so at the time, and then as i got away from washington and was no longer speaker and thought about it for about two years, it occurred to me that s all nonsense. the first reelected house republican majority since 1938 occurred after the shutdown. so i ve always wondered, what is this big price to be paid. we got reelected. nobody had been reelected the big price was that mr. bill clinton was rea electriced in 1996. i don t think he was reelected because of the shutdown. that was certainly a major part of it. but he also signed the well fair reform bill. that was important as well. but he certainly benefited dramatically in recapturing the white house for four years
guards. mike carpenter was one of the prison guards interviewed. let s look at this clip. we made drugs into this huge thing, and we ve made it so illegal and we ve made it such a marshall issue with that tough on crime stance, you can t electriced if you don t do things to be tough on crime. toughen sentences, beef up law enforcement, and build new prison space for 24,000 inmates. you know, nobody can apoured to be the first guy to say, wait a minute, we can t afford what we re doing. let s do something different because if you even made a noise like you were going to be soft on crime in any way, you would be out of a job. you will be put away and put away for good, three strikes, and you are out. it s bipartisan. you cannot be a political leader in this country, successfully at the national level and talk about being more compassionate