right it s hard to see compromising with them on almost anything because they are not what donald trump campaigned on. as i said to you last time, if he were to say i ll abolish the carried interest loophole yeah, of course we d support him but they re not close to that. this administration still occasionally talks populist but its actions are hard right and that s bad news not only for america but them. we ve never had a hard right government. we ve never had a president, house and senate that are hard right. it s so far away from the views of average americans and i would posit the views of most trump voters that they ll have a real hard time. chuck schumer, thank you for your time. i know it s been a week of late nights already. i m filled with energy, i m invigorated by the fight. thank you, sir. a quick programming note. i mentioned senator richard blumenthal the senator meeting with neil gorsuch and made the
coverage of military casualties coming home in flag-draped caskets. americans could see the combat. they were happy to embed reporters with the military to make sure the public saw that, but americans would not be able to see for ourselves this other part of the war, the part where we see the human cost to u.s. troops and their families. it s not that there were no pictures of the flag-draped coffins coming back from iraq. the pentagon had pictures. but they wouldn t release them. and they wouldn t let the media take their own. they walled off those ceremonies and all the visual evidence of them. and for years we did not see them. and then one day a blogger in arizona got a letter from the department of defense. that blogger was named russ kick. and he specializes in finding and preserving and publishing documents that the government wants to keep hid el paso. and he had been asking repeatedly in all different kinds of ways for photos of the solemn ceremonies.
breeders and animal abuse reports. the usda just removed all of that data without an announcement and without any warning just a few days ago. now, today, look, that data is beginning reappear in a new and different location because russ kick is back with a new website, the memory hole 2. he has already posted a bunch of the animal abuse data the usda was trying to hide. he apparently saw this coming and started calebing this information ahead of time before the usda disappeared it. he said, quote, i ve learned that if i see something and think i m really surprised the government posted this, i need to download it. i thought this is surprising and i downloaded them. now he doesn t have everything that the usda removed. he is asking anybody who might have copies of the reports who are up there to send them his way. when we heard from russ today he was busy uploading his newest finds. he told us he got inspection reports from dozens of
a new way to snack special. all right, we have an june date on a story we have covered previously on this show. you want to stick around to this the end of this one. it has a good ending. this is a nuts-and-bolts in real life yes this is really happening story. it s almost an experiment in american governance because it s something we never tried before as a country. the first thing you will note? that this is a corruption story, a conflict story, a story about the sitting president having active business interests that he hasn t divested from and then once he s president the government has to make decisions about his businesses, about whether his business gets its way, whether his company doesn t get its way in a particular matter. for the first time in our country s history because of the way the trump presidency is going to unfold state officials and federal officials will have to make decisions that directly affect the president s profits, the president s bottom line and that h
tell you, we did hear about this matter from the president s lawyer back in december when we first contacted him at the story. at the time the president s lawyer told us this whole deal was settled and complete, th application had been approved, south carolina said yes to the president s company and that was flat out not true. we now know not only was that application not approved, it s not going to be approved. they just got told no now last night. so the trump organization lawyer lied to us directly. we know that in full technicolor now and as of tonight we know mid-level regulators in south carolina state government had the uncomfortable task of staring down the most powerful man in the world, the man who happens to be known for suing companies and threatening states and threatening people who defy him but they steeled themselves and made their decision. this is a nutting thing to have to put them through but that s our world now and the folks in