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Was good for south dakota. We had millions missing. Potential 140 million fraud. The former secretary of the Governors Office of Economic Development committed suicide. We just heard saying that it couldnt have been a suicide. I dont believe that squares well with the people here in south dakota or anywhere in the country. Good to have you with us. Thanks for watching. Well, in three weeks voters will decide if republicans will control both houses of congress. Some have been predicting doom and gloom for the democrats for months. Tonight ill show you what the beltway just might be missing. I spent last week in iowa and in south dakota. In the hawkeye state, new polls shows joni ernst slipping to a onepoint lead over congress and bruce braley, mike rounds is sinking like a rock in his bid to fill senator tim johnsons seat. Prairie pop you list rick wallace former senator and socalled independent Larry Pressler brings up of here. These put in over 2 million into this race. The dscc put money work that, hammering rounds for his questionable handling of the eb5 program. Youve had heard about mike rounds citizenship for sale schemes, the fallout, the investigations, turns out theres more. After using a beef packing plant to sell citizenship to wealthy chinese investors, rounds gave special tax breaks to a shady offshore corporation to keep the scheme afloat. Mike rounds, schemes, special favors, vargz, the commit aye is responsible for the content of this advertising. What is the eb5 program . It gets very little media attention. Eba allows foreigners to obtain u. S. Green cards by investing a minimum of 500,000 in American Business project to create jobs. The eb5 issue has south dakota voters attention at this hour. I was in aberdeen, south dakota, home of the northern beef packers plant at the heart of this scandal, the 115 million northern beef packers plant went bankrupt when the chinese eb5 investors bailed out. Mike rounds was the governor when south dakota was selling the u. S. Citizenship to chinese investors. Rounds and his former administration are neck deep in this scandal, and it may cost the republicans an easy win on the prairie that they were counting on. The Rounds Administrations crown jewel of Economic Development had a lot of hope and promise, but not much else. Nothing from the start seemed to work. Locals say the project was flawed from the start, michiganed, underfunded. In the end, a big cost to the taxpayers. Eb5 is an immigrant Investor Program that allows wealthy foreigners to purchase a green card, permanent residency into the United States for 500,000 if they put that money in a local project. Here in south dakota, something went terribly wrong in the administration of this program during governor mike rounds tenure as governor. His employee, ymt olt bowl len signed an illegal contract with a company he owned to privatize the program. This was something the eb5 program was a Company Component of mike rounds Economic Development strategy. Case in point, the northeastern beef packers plant here in south dakota. 100 million beefpacking plant that is now bankrupt no one here in south dakota knows exactly how the eb5 scandal is going to affect the selection, but for governor rounds, it is certainly his biggest challenge. Hes trying to convince people of the state that there was a multimillion Economic Development project going on with this meatprocessing plant. His office was administration a program, but he didnt do anything wrong and he didnt know anything about t thats a tough sell. I believe it was good for south dakota. It was sold to the people this was going to be a big economic boost in the community. Correct, and everybody in the community got behind it, was giving them credit. They wanted it to succeed, because it was going to be a big economic boom for aberdeen. Who is on the hook for the money to the city . Well, the city probably wont get that money. After using a beef packing plant to sell citizenship to wealthy chinese investors, rounds gave special tax breaks to a shady offshore corporation to keep the schema afloat. I was trying to find out how much it lost. I got ahold of the bankruptcy records. Reporter who is responsible . I think it goes back to the beginning. It goes all the to the top with the eb5 money. There was 90 investors who put money into this project. That totals 45 million extra on top of the 19 million allocated. A lot of that money is just gone. We know who didnt get the money the people in aberdeen. I think there were promises made that were never kept. What happened to the beef processing plant, from your perspective . They were behind the eight ball, to start with. As far as funding, and that was probably the biggest obstacle. They couldnt actually go out and buy enough cattle to supply the plant. I saw a lot of things that werent correct. Even building the lagoons, we couldnt get the right equipment. So corners were cut . Lots of corners were cut. Poorly managed . Very terrible. Did you still get paid . We havent been paid for our wages 15 months later. The day the plant closed, roughly within a month, 20 apartments vacated. The employees really didnt have ties to aberdeen, so their wages quit, they just up and left. Costing you money. A substantial amount. And not just me, but the people i manage for, too. How sour is the town . A lot of people are still hopeful. I still have empty apartments. There was a lot of new construction that came in at the same time. We had a shortage of apartment. I hope it does open up. The voters are most certainly talking about eb5 every single day. Weve seen that reflected. Mike rounds is a former twoterm governor of the state of south dakota. Look, america is not broken. This has hurt not only the aberdeen area economic with this beef packing plant, but in fact has risk the reputation of our entire state. Mike rounds championed this program on the states good name. The ed show reached out to mike rounds to invite him onto the program. Rounds has not responded to our request. If i had to go back to south dakota to interview the former governor, i will do that. Joining me is democratic candidate for the United States in south dakota, rick whyland. Good to have you with us tonight. Your poll numbers are moving up. Is that because of eb5 and as residents become aware of whats unfolded with the story . I think thats part of it, ed. Ive been traveling nonstop to every town through south dakota, my second tour through. I really this is that that kind of campaign, that kind of grassroots is connecting with the voters. Whats important to the people in south dakota. . What is the linchpin . Right now its on the side of big money, special interests. I came out against eb5. I dont think we should be selling citizenship and i dont think we should be selling a seat to the United States senate itches is that what happened to the beef processing plant, that citizenship was being sold . I dont think that sets well. For half a million bucks, gut to cut to the front immigration line. I dont think south dakotaens like that. No one should be able to buy their way to the front of the line. Thats whats wrong with government right now. This is government on big money steroids, and its being rejected by the people of south dakota. Here is what Larry Pressler, running as an independent, he of course is another choice, its a threeway race there in your state. Here is what he had to say about his involvement. If there is a problem there, the new senator will be vetted in his first year. Ive been in the senate for 18 years. I know how these things work. Youre not really vetted until you get to washington. These campaigns they play such low salaries, they cannot be investigative journalists. But next year it will be investigated, and then well know what questions to ask. Rick, whats your response to that . He raised a good point at that debate. I do believe there is a fullblown media investigation under way. I dont know that well ever get an official answer for the committee that was established by the legislature between now and the end of this election cycle, or for that matter from the u. S. Attorneys office. Frankly, ed, i have to go back to what i think this campaign is more about thats big Money Politics and buying citizen. When you talk about what and how big money is calling the shots, i think primarily thats why im going to win. With this eb5 parameters, the crowned jewel of mike rounds why isnt there an investigation if there were millions missing . There may end up being one. When youre governor of the state of south dakota, you good et to take credit for the things that go right on your watch, but you also have to take responsibility for the things that dont go so well. That unfortunately has not happened in this case. The south dakota press knows that, eight papers have come out demanding more information, wanting to know what people knew and when they knew it. I think this thing will unfold. Unfortunately were getting down to the last three weeks, it may come out as senator pressler said, at the end of the election. Senator tom harkin will be on iowa turf on your behalf in sioux falls. Will that help . Oh, yeah. Im never him for years. Hes out there still pushing for an increase in the minimum wage, expanding social security, all those things ive been talking about in my campaign, and im excited to have him out here on my behalf. Hes right next door. Hes good people. Rick weiland, good to have you with us. David, good to have you with us tonight. Why isnt there a criminal investigation if theres so much money missing . There have been, and thanks for having me on. And concluded in november, that was on the verge of filing felony charges against a former state cabinet secretary richard benda, accusing him of misappropriating 550,000 in a state grand that went to an eb5 funded project, a northern beef plant. That investigation concluded after he died by suicide in october. The attorney general said he didnt find any evidence to brings charges against anybody else and make them stick in a court of law. Okay, the excuse my. I didnt mean to interrupt you. There was a federal investigation, when they received a grand jury subpoena back in april last year. That federal investigation, we havent heard much from them. Its possible theyve concluded and didnt find any evidence to bring charges. Its possible that they concluded and are waiting under after the election to brings charges. Its possible this is still ongoing and just one of those investigations that takes year. The federal officials have refused to comment. We have no idea whats going on. Okay. But since that suicide took place, everything kind of fell by the wayside as far as the investigation is concerned . Is that as far as were aware. The state investigation is closed. The attorney general has said if anybody has any of wrongdoing, he might reopen it, but hes not aware of any prove he can to bring charges. From your reporting, how deep was the Rounds Administration into this . Well, the Rounds Administration definitely championed the eb5 immigrant Investor Program. And it never worked, did it . Well, there are actually a number of projects that were successfully funded by eb5 and are still going today. There are also several highprofile failures. There have been slaughterhouses, a casino, a power plant, all of have received eb5 money and still operating, apparently successfully. Theres also the beef plant, which of course went bankrupt, and several daries funded by eb5 also went bankrupt. The city of aberdeen, the sense i got there is they feel like they really got shafted on this deal. Did you send that . People in aberdeen were promised a lot from this. As they try to make it a new center in the cattle industry. And so far, none of that has happened. Looked like it passed some to help get it built. There were more public expenditures. The northern beef plant was sold as a bankruptcy option and the new owners are apparently trying to restart it. Where did all that money go. To the tune of half a million to see a green card, tonight in about 100 million in eb5 investment, which is a lot of money for that side. No one is really quite sure where all that went. Is it fair to come to the conclusion that theres money missing, money unaccounted for when you have employ crease saying these worked at this plant. You can certain speculate. I dont think theres evidence that suggests that yet. One of the arguments i heard is the plan was poorly built and there were a lot of bad decision and they had to keep coming in and fixing stuff. Thats just a suggestion, theres no real evidence for that. Theres just a lot of Unanswered Questions about how exactly this plant just kept getting more and more money. And it seemed that people in the know should know exactly what happened, if anybody is doing any Due Diligence or doing any pro forma to do a project worth hundreds of millions on the prairie. Very interesting. David montgomery, i appreciate your time tonight. Thank you. Remember to leave us your thoughts at the bottom of the page, also like us on the ed show on facebook. Culling up. Governor scott walker has a horrible night of debating. His bad performance could cost him his job. Well break it down when we come back. First, a texas nurse has tested positive, Health Professionals are not prepared for an outbreak. 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The contracts already has been training and guidelines in place. They put out new educational material just last week on how to protect health care professionals, but the message isnt being delivered, a new survey from National Nurses united says many hospitals around the country are not prepared to handle ebola. 76 say they have not provided any policy regards admiration of ebola patients. 85 say the hospital has 23409 provided education, 37 say the hospital has insufficient protective gear. On sunday the National Nurses united held a press conference in oakland, california, they are calling for full training of Hospital Personnel to handle ebola. They also want adequate protective gear and isolation units. These hardworking nurses are simply calling for the basics. There is no reason that hospitals around the country cant train and prepare for this deadly disease that wasnt supposed to come here. For more, let me bring in jean ross from the National Nurses united and dr. Peter hotez, a director in texas for vaccine development. Great to have you both here. Ms. Ross, shoo how concerned should we be that a nurse has tested positive for ebola . Well, at least as concerned as the rest of us nurses of. It is impossible for us to protect 9 public if we cant expect to protect ourselves. So we have been calling for optimal protection for us, not just the basics that should cover it. When we see people in the media treating ebola patients, no matter what country or hospitals, they wearing hazmat suits. We believe the standard should be set for everyone. Are you saying theres hospitals in this country that do not have full hazmat suits to deal with this . They just havent invested in it . Well, theres a variety of responses. You know, this is part of our problem. If you had like a National Health care system where you could coordinate and had some actual enforcement to your dictates, for example, in canada, when they had the sars epidemic. That would be one thing, but we have a piecemeal fragmented system thats private. You cant necessarily tell people what to do. The cdc is urging hospitals to put things in place, but they are free to choose what they want. If one hospital says, yes, of course well do hazmat suits, and others say, no, weve been told that a gown and gloves, one pair of gloves is perfectly adequate with a mask, then thats what they are going to do. We are calling for a universal standard of safety for all nurses and health care workers. Dr. Hotez, how could this infection have been prevented . Your thoughts. First of all, thank you for having me. The ebola virus infection is one of the most complicated diseases to treat. As the patient progresses with the illness, the viral load, the amount of virus in a patients body grows to enormous levels. This is why this virus is so evil. It can grow to billions and billions of virus particles that completely overtake the patient. So theres really very little, if any margin of errors in managing a patient. Now you throw on to that of the felix of youre into waiting this patient or used a needle dialysis. We dont have that you also have to true. This creates a very complex set of circumstances. How concerned should the general public be, doctor, when the head of the cdc says we have to rethink what we are doing after telling the American People last week that they had control on it. I think, you know, when an ebola Patient First presents i think we saw what happened in dallas. Providing the context, isolating the context, and as a result weve had no additional ebola cases from that one index case. That may be a different matter and may remember a level that may require putting individuals in Regional Centers of excellence rather than any community hospitals. So this is something thats going to have to be looked at very carefully. Doctor, what is your response to the nurses, who are saying that the Health Care Providers are not being properly protected, and theyre calling for more precautions . I think from my sxerges as a former pediatric house officer, one of the things i learned about being a peet tries is you always listen to nurses. If a nurse is telling is theyre not having adequate training, i think thats something we have to take very seriously. I think its probably doing the best it can. Theyve had that you are funding cut, too, just as many other things that are important to nurses and the public. I would look at the kind of instruction where you have a discussion about how many nurses, for example, it takes. If you are to doff and don garb, appropriately enthen thats what it takes, youve doubled the number of health care workers. So that kind of things has to be taken into account. The time people might slip up is when people dont have the time to do what they need to do appropriately. 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The topic of minimum wage also backfired. He managed to dodge the question twice. Governor walker, do you believe a wisconsin worker can live on a minimum wage . Do you believe the state has an obligation to make sure workers are paid some sort of minimum wage . I believe the state should be focused on creating jobs that are much greater than minimum wage. I worked at mcdonalds as a kid. I didnt expect that would be my lifetimes work. We have to have opportunities for union people. Here is the shocker. Walker also said there are plenty of jobs in wisconsin. Theres a web side that the state has. Right now this week, theres over 70,000 job openings on that. We have a work problem. We have to connect the dots between people looking for a job or looking for a better job and the skills these need to fill those jobs. I think hes insulting workers, when he says wisconsin has a work problem. If theres a low voter turnout, i believe dems in the country are in trouble. Walker has gone after voting rights, he says no to minimum wage. Hes cut the Education Funding to the tune of almost a billion, and he has said no to obama care and expansion of medicate. He has failed to create the jobs that he promised he would. If he wins, wisconsin as i see it, will be in deep trouble, but he has the money. Joining me tonight on our rammed response panel, editor of progressive magazine ruth conif. Katrina, you first. I think wisconsin is a microcosm of middleclass america, which walker on record has repeatedly attacked itches its the homeplace of labor unions. There are National Implications if this governor wins. He is the Koch Brothers poster boy. The Governors Association has vowed to pump in some dlsh he is out of touch of the economic realities and the midwest families. You know 60 of minimum wage earners in wisconsin are women . Hes basically saying, hey, you dont deserve a raise. Hes also out of town wisconsins dead last in jobs. This is a governor who came in promising to create jobs. His priorities are all wrong, and ed, he is a poster boy for the extremism of republican governors across this country. A good wisconsinite will see through it, but the voter suppression, thats what it is. These republicans, governors, others, go around the world and talk about democracy and letting people use their precious right to vote. Then they come home and suppress it as hard and as fast as they can, because they know that minorities, single women, young people arent in their camp. Ruth conniff how will this play, a governor distance franchising of 300,000 people is worth it. How else do you read it . You can see how far a state has moved to the rights when the Roberts Court has to intervene to impose rationality, but thats where we are. Actually, i think you see that again and again with scott walker. The debate, i think he was very smooth, if you werent listening to the content, you would think he has it under control. Makery burke pointed it out, he makes it sound so reasonable. He says, we8, i just want health and safety for women. Thats where mary burke kind of lost it. Basic health care, all over our state, tens of thousands of women. So he presents in this kind of moderate sounding jenting way, an agenda, as katrina says, is the far rightwing agenda, that have people with no control, and to ram through some really extreme rightwing policies. You know, ruth as a progressive is out there doing a great job, but i think its important to continue to expos how too much of our medias mainstream extremism. He is slick scott, right . But what hes talking about is so out of sync with what the Republican Party in wisconsin a decade ago was. Republican governors in wisconsin have used a statute to increase the living wage. Tommy thompson did so. So youve got a Movement Among not just this governor, but corbett, snyder and michigan, into a kind of lala land, which is out of sync is what is Many Americans say they want, say they need. I think theres a pop you list moment in this country, and youre seeing it in the movements. It will be tough to dislodge the money. The money cannot be discounted that is being pumped in. The Governors Association is fearful about the governors losing some control, so youre looking at a lot of money pushing through, coming through. Ruth, how important is the issue of raising the minimum wage . If theres low voter turnout, my lord, what does it take to get people motivated . I think we have a real chance in wisconsin to see things change. I think the reason for that is largely the Supreme Court has said, youre not going to prevent people from voigting coincidentally people largely lowincome folks, people of color, so i think theres a real chance Elizabeth Warren had to stand on a table, because she was in a room that was so packed she couldnt move. I think as katrina says, are in favor of increasing the minimum wage, having a living wage. I think there is, you know, real popular sentiment behind moving out this governor, who really represents corporate interests, and really specifically as mary burke pointed out, has rewarting the Campaign Donors with legislation thats harmful. So it really is going to come down to a get out the vote drive. And the poster child for the American Legislative Exchange council. Its corporate funded, it is working for lobbyists, working for the big megabucks donors, not for the citizens of wisconsin or other states. Katrina and ruth, great to have both of you with us tonight. 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This weekend, senator Bernie Sanders offered up a reminder. Its very easy to criticize the president. But this is an enormously complicated issue. We are here today because of the disastrous blunder of the bushcheney era which got us into the war in iraq in the first place. Its a can of worms that were trying to deal with right now. Senator, good to have you with us. I know a lot of people appreciate you speaking up so we dont get amnesia when we think where this all came from. What do we do now . If mccain is correct and isis is winning, does there have to be a reevaluation in your opinion . Well, it depends on what you mean by reevaluation. Heres the issue to me. I believe from the bottom of my heart, that there is no way that the United States can or should lead this effort. You have countries like saudi arabia sitting right, sharing a border with iraq, which has the fourth largest Defense Budget in the world, more than the uk, more than france. They have 200,000 soldiers in their army. Ed, where are these guys . They have a major air force. You have turkey sitting over there. If this becomes a war between the United States and isis, the west and the east, christianity and islam, its a losing proposition. It is what isis wants. This is, as i understand it, a war for the soul of islam. If that is the case, the muslim countries in that area have got to stand up and they have got to fight. They have got to provide the Ground Troops. Should the United States, the uk, france, be supportive, provide weapons . Yes. But should we be putting Ground Troops in there, getting involved in what i see as a quagmire, perpetual warfare in the middle east, i think that would be a disaster. Senator, clearly theres no short schedule here whatsoever. And theres no short menu of what exactly is going to be needed to remedy this whole situation. But have we gone as far as we can go, as you see it, as a country . As far as the air strikes, as far as the equipment, as far as the training on the ground . Is this it . Well, i think we should be prepared to provide the weapons and the training that those countries in the middle east need in order to fight isis, which is a horrible and dangerous organization. But i am adamantly opposed to us having combat troops in that area. The other point i would make, ed, which nobody is talking about, is, if we get involved, were talking about tens and tens of billions of dollars. We spent over 3 trillion in iraq and afghanistan. Where is that money going to come from . Republicans are clear, theyre not going to raise taxes on the wealthy. It will be custodies in social security, medicare, medicaid, education, and nutrition. Thats how the war will be paid for. The bottom line for me, and this is a difficult situation and obama is trying, but the word has got to get out to those countries in the region, who, in fact are threatened daily by isis, turkey, saudi arabia, qatar, jordan, they have to get into the fight. We can provide support, but theyre going to have to have the troops on the ground. Were about 60 days away from that discussion. Where is this going to go before the new year . Thats a good question. Thats a very good question. And i think, as you know, that at a time when we have massive wealth and inequality in this country, where the wealthiest people are doing phenomenally well while the middle class disappears, the time is now to ask the wealthiest people and Largest Corporation to start paying their fair share of taxes, so we can rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and create the jobs that we need, and make sure the Government Services are not cut for those who need them. Senator, good to have you with us. I appreciate it so much. Tomorrow night on this broadcast, well have more from the midwest. The race in iowa, ernst and braley, is more than interesting. And well have a report on that, and some Economic Development news after may tag left. Good evening, rev . Good evening, ed, and thanks to you for tuning in. Im live tonight from chicago. Tonights lead, will there be more cases of ebola . Late today, president Obama Meeting with Senior Health and National Security officials, reviewing the governments response to ebola so far. Heres what we know. Nbc news confirming the identity of the dallas nurse who got ebola while caring for the late thomas eric duncan. 26yearold nina fong is isolated, in stable condition. Now officials are investigating wh