Here to talk about the new documentary. Remind viewers when and why fresh water was contaminated. And 2014 the plant one the city of flint decided to have a new Water Pipeline coming from lake huron surrounding counties and cities. In the interim before the pipeline is fully constructe constructed, state officials in charge of the finances at the time decided to switch the city onto the river and turn off the t treatment water to the plant that was barely operational over the last 50 years. So what needed to happen for that to be successful and whatn didnt happen to make withat switch to the flint river quick. There were a lot of upgrades that needed to happen at the plant, tens of millions of dollars worth o that i guess was not operational in this way and half a century. There is a lot of things that needed to be done and equipment that needed to be replaced and staff adequately trained and what we found is before they made the switch , there is not enough. They didnt have the adequa
Michigans contom mated water supply. As always well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning on monday, september 16. Well begin this morning with calls from some democrats to Impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett kavanaugh after the New York Times over the weekend corroborated, they say, previous allegations of Sexual Misconduct and revealed new allegations. Those allegations raising questions about whether Justice Cavanaugh perjured himself during the confirmation hearings last year. Democrats, 2027488000, publicans 2027488001 and independents, 202748800 it 2 2788003 or go to twitter and post comments on facebook. Com cspan. Well get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with the new york piece that ran over the weekend and the headline was Brett Kavanaugh was one of the privileged kids and she didnt fit in with the privileged kids. A story about Deborah Ramirez and her allegations that surfaced
A vegetative state. Next hour kevin and takes you through the weeks top stories. On the cars are up for. Theyre going to do this is done on a. Summers solution here. Its summertime on cars the record everything is sunning. States actually you and i are going to be on vacation while everybody in the world is looking at the solutions that we offer to all the stories that we cover on kaiser report we talked to the likes of no reprints steve keen Michael Hudson we look for solutions to the problems of the world and in fact this 1st segment were introducing this notion of our Summer Solutions for 21000 is i want to say like i want to solution to the kaiser report the kaiser report exists only because of all of the Financial Economic and monetary skullduggery out there in the world and if that didnt exist then we wouldnt need kaiser report its like james grant there are Interest Rate observer said about the head of the Federal Reserve bank their 1st act if he was to take over would be to fir
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For donald trump because he promised to make America Great again the platform that joe biden and to be fair he has not really spoken to anybody but billionaires and closed door sessions raising money but from what we can tell what his solution on offer. Is more of the same that has basically brought this country to where it is biden tells rich donors not to worry nothing would fundamentally change if he won you know it is that everybody in the u. K. That supports brags that their number one reason for braggs it is to return to the 1950 s. Because thats when things were great and we need to go back to the 1950 s. Joe biden is saying to the American Population that you know we need to go back to the 1950 s. Where men were men and women knew their place in the home and american corporations were the greatest and the minority populations of various ethnic group and races groups were not a problem you know and its such a reactionary claptrap for billionaire nonsense its hard to imagine hes