the story. i didn t need the times to tell me that the people of palestine doubted the e.p.a. we have been doing this story all week. we have been talking to the people there all week. we sent a producer out there this week. so the times reporting guys with primetime s reporting. these people don t trust the government because the government hasn t given them a reason to trust them. and we can go down the list. why? the story ends on page a-17 and then next to it was a second story on the toxic train wreck. this story headline chernobyl 2.0? feverish speculation after derailment, fire and toxic smoke. stuart thompson of the times is saying that right wing commentators are speculating that the toxic train wreck could be really catastrophic and people shouldn t trust what the government tells them. yeah, guilty as charged. the new york times then mentions this show, quote: you better punch in at 9:00 a.m., ohio, even if it means inhaling mustard gas on the way in said
and then just told these people to deal with it. so, primetime sent summer, our producer, out to see how they are dealing with it. how has this chemical contamination impacted your life? it s been absolutely terrible. it s uprooted me and my six children. it s making me move out of my house. people don t know if it s safe to drink their water. they are saying yes but then we have fish kills everywhere. i have a well so i worry in six months, you know, what could happen to my water. what have you noticed about the environment since this has happened? it s dirty. there s a lot of dust flying around. that creek is dead. there is not a fish in there. there s not a salmon der. there is no frogs. dead snakes. i don t know where the birds all went but we don t see any birds in our place? do you feel safe. no, i don t. no i don t feel safe i would be a fool to say that i feel safe right now. my throat has been burning, horrible cough, sneezing. congestion.
allowed to draw their own conclusions. you are not allowed to have an opinion. you are just supposed to agree with experts. well, where are the experts? they re not anywhere near east palestine. only way i m going to feel good about anything that s going on here is when they come down off of their pedestals, come to east palestine, drink the water, bring their kids, make baby formula and take their kids, play basketball and right where i m at right here i m at ground zero practically right now. i don t feel safe. i haven t seen any ground testing as far as my kids can go play basketball outside. my kids could ride their bicycles, play in puddles, i haven t seen any of it. i want to see that, until i see that, i don t believe any of it. jesse: but the people of east palestine aren t scientists so they are not supposed to question what the government tells them, right? this country was fountained on
bring their kids, make baby formula and take their kids, play basketball where i m at. i m right here at ground zero practically right now. i don t feel safe. i haven t seen any ground testing as far as my kids can go play basketball outside. my kids can go ride their bicycles, play in puddles, i haven t seen any of it. i want to see that until i see that, i don t believe any of it. jesse: lenny, have you seen this video of j.d. vance, the senator stir up the bottom of that creek and watch all those chemicals rise to the surface? yes, jesse. i have. that s the same creek that, you know, i can access from my house right on that side of town. i can walk my house through the park, through the walking trail. that trail actually goes down along that trail my three kids, my dog, my wife. we have walked it many times and if you keep going to the end of it, it s my parents at the bottom of that hill. to say to see him there today, you know, digging up those