60000000000 dollars can buy you a lot of after trust but you cant record theres a lot to talk about Michael Bloomberg just a couple of berg was certainly not going to win when you have a new york city that included racist policy like stuff but 1st he needs to go unchallenged like this which he has said that he just cant hide behind the airway he has to answer questions im a leader who can be honest about my mistakes and i believe when you make a mistake you just learn from it. Next time you write is a lightweight you going to find that hes also one of the worst debaters ive ever seen. His presence is 0. Also coming up rule number one of the boy scouts of america always be prepare a motto for more than a century but not for the events of right now the National Organization of the boy scouts of america has filed for a chapter 11 financial restructuring you might be wondering what this means for scouting and why the b. S. A. Is taking this step and. The short answer is that scouting continues. Well to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day. With tesla boss musk here in berlin trying to clear the trees despite the forced tomorrow a german court will hand down a decision that could be make or break for germanys most promising high tech project in years before that project even begins tesla plans to construct a gig a factory near berlin to manufacture electric cars a big boost for jobs and you could say green jobs and yet environmentalist say that the trees being cleared for that new factory well those trees should be left standing tonight a story of green washing but by whom. The german press has started calling it the tesla forest and the machines felling trees here have stopped a court order has brought them grinding to a halt the environmental organization. Says the company shouldnt be allowed to continue clear cutting before it has all the appropriate permits to jesus he had just starting activities right now sets a precedent these are things that cannot be reversed after all you cant just put the trees back in the ground after you cut them down as i smile because at the. Cutting has to be suspended during the bird nesting season which begins in march if tesla hasnt cleared the site by then it could delay the opening of the factory slated for next year. If it doesnt work out with tesla and i hope it does it will send a fatal signal to German Companies but also to International Investors it say that when it comes to global competition germany has grown unable to assert itself as the right place to do business but on social media users in other parts of the world are scratching their heads at the german delay to a major investment that would bring 3000. 00 jobs tesla has already cleared 60 of the 90 head tears planned for this site the carmaker has promised to replant 3 times as many trees nearby the dispute has some people worried that tesla could withdraw from the deal the matter. Being taken out by a state Administrative Court itll just i dont one stay with that the cutting can continue. Of the forest in the trees in the electric cars to talk about all of that im joined now here the big table by rob watts from our business desk good to see you again rob so i mean were were seeing that the judge is going to hit on this decision tomorrow what happens if the judge says that the tree clearing has to wait at least for now or even forever well i doubt that will be a problem to test so theyve got this target of having this completed by july of next year is ambitious to begin with is ambitious because you can bear in mind that it was coming off the back of having built its last kick a factory in shanghai and china in a very different climate to what theyve experienced here in germany and perhaps a level that they may have underestimated this famous jim and bureaucracy that we like to joke about but occasionally does rare its head like this and so. They did allow themselves an extra 6 months compared to shanghai to build this but it looks possible that if they can get this decision soon they need it by march when the nesting season begins because they can its money which is yeah its soon right with investing in the season comes that they cant sell these trees so that will be a you know a tangible delay that they have to deal. With the problems here in germany doing business investors were surprised when they decided to build that gigafactory here in germany this is not a cheap place to do business labor here is not cheap and germany is known for being a jungle of rid tape is that being confirmed by what were seeing right now. Well to some extent it is i knew you could say that people were always going to jump on the 1st delay to sort of reinforce that idea particularly when you bear in mind that this gigafactory is being built on the doorstep of whats considered a. Shame which is the bill in brandenburg airport that is 9 years behind shuttle and counting not all of that due to what you would call bureaucracy but certainly some of it down to what you could to bureaucracy which planning delays were talking about health and safety issues now health and safety in particular you can criticize us as bureaucracy but maybe thats the sort of bureaucracy that some people might be glad to know is that were talking about the airport were you talking about the trees mean what about what the environmentalists are saying do they have a point are they right to be worried about these trees being cleared where theyre where theyre being cut down i mean is there an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen there well i think its a bad sign if youre an Environmental Group like this one to have the green party of germany speaking out against you not being on your side on this issue so what theyre complaining about is 90 heck tez of trees being felt its not the sort of thing you might expect an Environmental Group to have a problem with but well that has not taking into account is that the these 90. Of plantation its. Been its been planted deliberately to be eventually cut down or whats happening here is thats happening sooner and tesla has promised that it will build in the stead of these 93. 00 times as many more trees and they will be a more diverse crop of trees that in turn will be better in terms of the wildlife that they can attract because you know a pine plantation is not actually that good for wild. Life so in that respect that i necessarily have a point thats also just the general irony of an Environmental Group getting in the way of the building of a massive electric car factory theres going to be pumping out hundreds of thousands of cars over the coming is mentally ready of according to footprint for everybody they havent heard anything you know directly from tussle about what could happen to more we havent heard from them we havent heard from mr musk on this theres perhaps some soul searching going on back in the United States where theyre thinking hold on did we underestimate a few things here did we underestimate what we might come up against this isnt the 1st issue theyve had for example theyve already had to organize the the moving of certain communities of animals weve seen bats had to be moved weve seen birds have to be moved or seen ants have to be moved im not quite sure how the logistics work on that that is true and another thing that is unique to this part of your supposed is the fact that theyve also had to deal with the defusing a 2nd world war bowmans things that you might not have thought of and certainly they would have had to have dealt with in shanghai you know thats true and we heard anything from the German Government i can imagine that in the government you know they are pulling their hair out with the prospect of this gigafactory being killed yeah i mean the concern over this has gone right to the very top there was great excitement about this gigafactory coming to germany creating thousands of jobs and hopefully kick starting the ema billet he said sure here which has been a bit just slow to get over yeah exactly so we have from the economist minister out he said that there should be no delays to this construction to this to this project he says the its a great crossover between it being good economically and also being good ecologically you know its going to be good for the environment and he stressed that this must not be held up where we will see what happens. If indeed that decision comes down tomorrow or right rob whats think you know. So that. Those billionaire. Who was spending hundreds of millions of dollars to support candidates who represent the rich and the powerful today we. Are bloomberg we. See not an oligarchy you are knocked up by. Well that was democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders they are firing one of what will most likely be many shots aimed at the late arrival among democratic or white house hopefuls Mike Bloomberg bloomberg did not even run in the iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary tomorrow bloomberg will appear for the 1st time on stage and on Live Television to debate the issues with the other Democratic Candidates and believe it or not his poll numbers are surging the talk about them toward the big table tonight by line she is vice chair of democrats abroad berlin its good to see you again and savvy what do you make of how do you explain Mike Bloomberg to our International Viewers here youve got a late comer to the race youve got a billionaire and suddenly hes in the running. I think you have a lot of people that whether you can believe it or not are tuning in now. This has been going on for a very long time but most people have not been paying attention which i dont blame them for an out of the primaries have started theyre all really focusing in trying to really figure out what their options are so in many peoples minds it might not be that late after all you know i mean you know a lot of people around the world when they watch our coverage they hear about whats being talked about in the campaign in the United States they think you know why even tune in because the campaign is so long is now the time to start turning to media i mean if you havent eaten before i definitely think now is the time this is when you so have as many people left in the field as there is going to be if anything i doubt its going to grow its going to get smaller so its good to tune in now to figure out who your options are to go to your primary participate democrats abroad as having their own primary coming up on super tuesday i mean nows the time to figure out how concerned are you about the image of a new york billionaire youre buying his way into the campaign i mean what signal does this send a thank you specially to the left wing of the party i think that as a Democratic Party and also as a democratic system we cant just stop people from entering areas that they want to enter the race if that is all you want to spend his money he i believe is welcome to you we will welcome people to come to the primaries to come participate and to make that decision they still have the voice and the option to decide who is the actual candidate at the end of the day bloomberg has been criticized for being out of touch somewhat i want you to take a listen to what he said just a couple of days ago and he says ill be there has farmers in the United States open arms take a listen. And we could teach processes i could teach anybody even people in this room so no offense intended to be a farmer its a process you dig a hole you put a seed in you put dirt on top add water up comes the corn then we had 300 you could look all right so thats how you become a farmer in the world of bloomberg well there was reaction double drunk Donald Trump Jr tweeting this bloomberg wouldnt last 3 seconds as a farmer but like his comments on minorities you can tell he really hates regular hardworking americans he will never fight for them because he couldnt care less about them. All right trouble of course you know farmers are upset with him in his china policy that is a different story but. When you look at this. What do you see do you see bloomberg as the calls for yet another french or another splintering in within this Democratic Party right now this field of candidates no i dont think so i think its still early we still have a long way to go well see what happens like i said people can go and choose and i think at the end of the day we all know that its important we come together we Work Together as a party to make sure that donald trump is elected out of office and any of our candidates are going to be a better option at the end of the day what about him turn out to you know what you and i spoke before the caucus in the primary season that was had started and then weve gone to iowa behind his New Hampshire behind as the turnout in both of those was low lower than expected are you worried about what that maybe is foreshadowing in terms of what were going to see on election day in november i think that i was this particular case its a caucus its a very different set up than most regular elections or regular primaries New Hampshire was actually up and i do think especially with democrats abroad were expecting for our primary to have a very high turnout and i think most people are and as this process continues i think people will show up and they will want to make sure that their voices are heard i mean we have 15 people on super 15 states. Included about the brown on super tuesday theyll be casting votes and i think that will be a big determining factor to see how many people show up for those what would you say is the level of interest right now you know were not in the United States so we are expense looking at this race whats the level of interest among expats if youre in berlin theyre very interested there we have a lot of people coming to have and definitely tell beginning in january our numbers were up a lot of people joining becoming members theyre requesting their ballots people are asking us how they can do it so i think people are tuning in and they really want to make sure that we do what we can even abroad to make sure something to inches all right in the minds vice chair of democrats abroad is going to see you again and im sure well be talking again in a couple weeks theyll avoid. It could be one of the most complex bit were up sees in u. S. History and it strikes at a giant organization that is as american b. Could say is apple pie the boy scouts of America Today the boy scouts with assets of almost 1500000000. 00 filed for bankruptcy the organization faces at least 300. 00 lawsuits from men who say that they were sexually abused as scales it has been 3 decades since the public 1st learned of far reaching allegations of sex abuse within the boy scouts of america i should say it has been several years 2012 when those revelations came out later it was also revealed that the scouts kept records on volunteers who had been accused of sex crimes records going back to 944 known as the perversion files of those files remain sealed at least for now here is how the boy scouts are informing parents and the world about todays bankruptcy filing the National Organization of the boy scouts of america has filed for a chapter 11 financial restructuring you might be wondering what this means for scouting and why the b. S. A. Is taking this to. The short answer is that scouting continues meetings and activities district in Council Events and other scouting adventures and countless Service Projects will take place as usual. Well since the announcement dropped opinions have been flying on social media about this both condemning and praising the boy scouts of america one former scout tweeting this of the Program Saved my life he said it instilled in him a love for the outdoors and environment mentalism another wrote im conflicted i cherish the experience but i despise the organization for its misconduct and backwards leanings he added perhaps its time for it to end others voiced stronger feelings one former scout called his experience is overwhelmingly negative he said that he was completely unsurprised by the revelations stressing that his former scout leaders had less cognitive and emotional capacity than the boys that they were meant to mentor and a parent of a former scout chimed in with this the boy scouts of america provided my son and myself countless adventures and great memories but the commenter had harsh words for his more hands off counterparts he writes i was not a parent that dumped my kid off and did not take an active role in the leadership when these gatherings survivors of sexual abuse are organized their movement is known as abused in scouting and one of the attorneys leading that movement is Andrew Van Arsdale he joins me tonight from San Diego California and it was good to have you on the show im glad we got that skype up and working i want to ask you what does filing bankruptcy what does it mean or what does it represent for your clients. Well its its a day of reckoning and they give for having me on the show its been an important day for abuse survivors across our country and honestly around the world you know it was a very long ago a few years and that many men were afraid of coming for their friends or in these stories are afraid of how our society would view them that this happened to them you see when this happens to a 91011 year old boy and they harbor these secrets deep inside of them as they grow up in their adolescence and young adulthood and many times until to 506070 years old before they ever revealed this to happen in through you know the me too lou have been through are changed people have the courage to come for the falsity ready to listen to them and so they started to do it in a certain comfort and grows and today kind of represents a