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>> part of the reason youre winning, i see the other side resorting to more extreme tactics that are hard to defend in the long run. whats your understanding about the administration closing down the state capitol, keeping people out of that building now? >> thats actually very frustrate to go hear about, more frustrating to watch on the show, i was watching ahead of time here. the problem ive got is this, it is a public building, it is owned by the taxpayers of wisconsin. theyre requiring ids t...

Were okay. many of their neighbors were not. that explosion left a 90-foot-wide crater in west. it was as if a daisy cutter bomb had been dropped on that town. 15 people were killed, more than 200 people were injured. a whole portion of that town was just missing in the wake of that explosion. hundreds of buildings destroyed, or damaged. i mean, given the size of the blast, it is a miracle there were not more than 15 people killed, given that the buildings heavily damaged or totally destroyed by...

Structures. apparently that sounds like things inside the building that enforcers deemed a potential problem. what does that mean? >> well, it means illegal occupancy. it means use of the building according to the building and fire code. what you do inside the building is its occupancy. and when you have an illegal occupancy, it means you have occupied it without the proper permits from the agencies that issued the permits, such as the building department, the fire department. when you have peop...

Evacuation in february where thank god the plant did not go off like a bomb that day. but it did go off like a bomb two months later. and when it did, for anybody nearby, it really was like the freaking end of the world. the reason that that plant full of explosives was in the middle of all those schools and the nursing home and the apartment building was all packed right around it is because there were literally no zoning laws there at all. the only rule about where you could put your house you...

Wildfire. it had been set on purpose. but it was a brush fire next to all that explosive fertilizer packed into that plant. while school was in session right next door. and so the school, when they saw that controlled burn, they made the decision to evacuate. to get all the kids away in case that fertilizer plant went up. so we know folks in town knew the fertilizer plan was there. they knew at least some of the dangers of having a plant like that there with the explosive fertilizer stored there...