the fracking industry to prove that they are safe, but what has been the case over the last ten years in the united states is that the burden of proof has been on the citizens. citizens can in no way really prove like, you know, we can light our water on fire because of fracking. the industry can prove that. the science can prove that. what we ve seen right now is that that is no longer anecdotal. we know that the industry s own science shows that methane migration happens at very high rates, but it is the citizens and the grass roots themselves. this is an enormous victory for the hundreds of anti-fracking organizations in new york, mom and pop organizations that started around kitsch tables five people at a time. this is community meetings. these are the people who pushed the scientists to go ahead and do these josh, a victory on an issue that you worked a lot on and a
been the case over the last ten years in the united states is that the burden of proof has been on the citizens. citizens can in no way really prove like, you know, we can light our water on fire because of fracking. the industry can prove that. the science can prove that. what we ve seen right now is that that is no longer anecdotal. we know that the industry s own science shows that methane migration happens at very high rates, but it is the citizens and the grass roots themselves. this is an enormous victory for the hundreds of anti-fracking organizations in new york, mom and pop organizations that started around kitsch tables five people at a time. this is community meetings. these are the people who pushed the scientists to go ahead and do these josh, a victory on an issue that you worked a lot on and a victory for doing live tv from an internet cafe in the amazon. thank you so much. we re out of time. that s all in for this evening. you can e-mail me. the rachel maddow show
the burden of proof should be on the fracking industry to prove that they are safe, but what has been the case over the last ten years in the united states is that the burden of proof has been on the citizens. citizens can in no way really prove like, you know, we can light our water on fire because of fracking. the industry can prove that. the science can prove that. what we ve seen right now is that that is no longer anecdotal. we know that the industry s own science shows that methane migration happens at very high rates, but it is the citizens and the grass roots themselves. this is an enormous victory for the hundreds of anti-fracking organizations in new york, mom and pop organizations that started around kitsch tables five people at a time. this is community meetings. these are the people who pushed the scientists to go ahead and do these josh, a victory on an issue that you worked a lot on and a
the i.r.s. has a new focus, targeting small business, including mom and pop organizations who they feel are not paying enough taxes. if the small business has their back against the wall any way saying is this worth it, 20,000 letters went out in the first wave looking to find out if everyone is on the up and up including the person who owns the candy store down the street. peter: basically saying we re watching you really closely, that you shouldn t sleep at night. gretchen: if you think this is going to go away now, karl rove had these thoughts about the scandal getting even bigger. this did not happen because of people at the bottom of the food chain. we know this goes all the way up to the office of general counsel. there are two people in the i.r.s. out of 60,000 appointed by the president. one of them is the general counsel of the i.r.s., and we now know that his office was involved in personally taking away a nearly 50-year kphraoe of the i.r.s. 50 year kphraoe of