of where the republican candidates running for president stand in ukrainening a little bit shocking.t republ it s all we expected, and it sin cas at all what republican on capitol hill are saying.disc more evidence that there son a disconnectnect between republicans in washington and everyone else. we ll get that in just everyon a minute. but first tonight, it hass sinc been 15 years since the global 2018financial crisis of 2008, a. a long time, but it hasn t gonee away. it s consequences st is , in fa. still define our world. sy is the u.s. government so deeply in debt?how di how did wall street get so muchm money? what did they do exactlyuc? why are housing prices so high? hi why do our leaders stoke racial conflict? why have so many mano americans concluded that their system is rigged? in every caserigged. the anss to those questions is the same . it all bega n inin two thousand eight now 2008. u and its aftermath is a complex story, but it s justncia some up in
to consumers, that s allowed in only one other country on the planet. but it s allowed here. surpr so it may not surprise you thatn in this country, drug companies spend more on lobbying congressress than any other industry. a lot more than an industry, a lot more than any other industry. and they don t d o it by accident. they do it because it pays off in a deal like this. a pretty remarkable deal . the drug companies have worked out with politicians. so the government usesthe gove x dollars to buy billions worth of their products and then in prme cases forces you to use those products. d sometimes sometimes those products work, sometimes they don t work. in some cases, those products can injure work. d some cases t you. no matte but no matter what happens,appes there s nothing you can do about it because politicians have given these companies s have gcomplete immunity. if their products hurt or kill you, you can t sue them. you re not even really allowedtt to complain abo
it because you days dad ran the place and you did not want to make him mad .e and en you might wind up likelike t the members of his personal soccer team who dared to miss spenalty kicks. that s what third world countries are like. all citizens are not equal inver countries like that. power derives from proximityom to power. op that meansle in the second mosh powerful people in a countryftee like that are the children ofan the president. and very oftenar they don t have jobs and are addicted to something. that s the way it works in places like that. and for a long time, that system seemed very foreign to most americans. they were used to living in a democracy. they could barely even imagine it. but then during the last presidential campaign, joe biden s daughter abandoned her diary somehow in a house she was staying at in florida after she got oun t of rehab. t diary, ashley biden recounted how her father had taken showers with her when shew was young and she attriter.
back ever on moral grounds. so that s it.y do him back on and will admit to feeling some sadness at this news. the prospect of cable without don lemon isn t quite as bright as we d imagined as the tide of dullness and uniformity sweeps over americawhat wn culture. as everything becomes was the apple store, there wasredice a certain joy in watching his unpredictable low iq zaniness. w let s see where a conventional news anchor working for a conventional news based news network and a malaysian air flight disappeared over the pacific.d n you would immediately thinkgr hijacking or mechanical failure ? not don lemon. onl only he had the childlike creatt creativity to imagine the plane had been swallowed imagine by ak hole.e yo in case you ve forgotten, thatot legendary moment putin wasnica hijacking or terrorism or mechanical failure or pilott error. but what if it was somethingt wa that we don t really understandn ? a lot of people have been askin asking about that, about
himself. quote, no one s going to believe it was a suicide bomber. suide.t to his chief of staf f. there will be conspiracyrett theories all over the place. now,response it s a pretty odd e if you think about it at the time. there is no way that bill barrew could have known for sure how jeffrey epstein died.ncern so you would think as the attorney general, his first conceroun would be finding out what actually happened, but instead, his first concern waseu worry that the public mightto jump to unapproved conclusions d. not belhappene and in some ways, bob barr was right to worry. many americans did notth believr that jeffrey epstein had killedc himself. he was ge strange circumstanceus of his death. stranger even the most a people understood at the time ustainedit was going to takeconn a sustained public relations campaign to convince americans that jeffrey epstein killed th himself. but bill barr was willinghe fle to make the effort. two days later, he flew to new orle