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We should make the people aware of this. she was a prosecutor in new york city during that time. i want to talk about now your show. this episode was inspired, i should say, by the flint water crisis and as you started looking into it you found toxic communities like flint all over. lets look at a clip and then well talk. >> people dont vote to get poisoned. usually it happens to them and it happens in a way that people find out later. >> after they have a kid with asthma or after a kid has a ...

The zip code is the most important predictor of health and well willing. tell me a zip code and i will tell you how healthy you are. all zip codes are not created equal. >> really? >> you can find adjacent zip codes and have a life expectancy of 10, 15 years, whats in the neighborhood and whats not. >> just by your zip code. breaking it all the way down. >> you can tell how healthy a person is, and their life expectancy based on their zip code. >> thats dr. robert bull ard, known of the one of t...

Plans to expand it to 150 institutions this fall and then use it broadly the following year. shannon, what is your opinion of this adversity score? i think not showing it to the students is an interesting -- >> shannon: i think thats a key problem. you cant challenge it in any way. if they are using data you didnt provide, they are going to your school and looking at those kinds of things -- in my case, i didnt grow up with money. we were very lower to middle class. but if you look at the school...

Eager to back candidates who want to seize their assets to fund new entitlements? this is confusing. here is one reason. buildinbillionaires understand y will never have to pay those taxes because the top federal income tax rate stops at about 500 grand. why. whats the difference someone making 500,000 a year and someone making $50 million a year? the answer the rich every one can much more easily avoid paying full freight and they do. this group makes far more of their money on capital gains ta...

Democratic party. why are billionaires so eager to back candidates who want to seize their assets to fund new entitlements? this is confusing. here is one reason. billionaires understand they will never have to pay those taxes because the top federal income tax rate stops at about 500 grand. why. whats the difference someone making 500,000 a year and someone making $50 million ae year? the answer the rich every one can much more easily avoid paying full freight and they do. this group makes far ...

What the democratic party should be. the president is more concerned about running against somebody like joe biden who would perhaps embody a different strategy for trying to win back the presidency. which strategy do you think is the way democrats should go? >> well, i think the forward-looking strategy, kasie, would be the one that we saw in georgia with stacey abrams, right, that ascending coalition, to kind of begin to think about how do you make straightforward appeals to bread and butter i...

System. factoring, for example, the household income of those families and zip codes. im going to tell you, we can get into some real detail here, i think so much public policy would be better if we really started to factor in zip codes in terms of how we distribute resources. and the beauty of it, im really going to get into detail, which i talk about in my book, is also that right now in terms of public policy in our country, we cant get into that level of detail because we also have the techn...

2018 was higher than 2017. so, david, after these school shootings, people always say, the people who dont want anymore gun control say, well, no more laws would have prevented this. would background checks have prevented what happened at parkland? >> i think theres many instances and instances of gun violence that could have stopped further acts of gun violence. theres 40 acts of gun violence every year, a very small minority of them end up in school shootings. when were talking about hardening...

Most of your senior officers are products of the clinton, bush, obama area. they have a lot invested in this. remember, that the people who live in the seven zip codes in and around washington, d.c. have all become millionaires as a result of their investment in these failed operations. >> tucker: thats not a talking point. thats literally true. >> yes, of course. you put the two together, you have a lot of resistance to ending something thats profitable for them. it hasnt been profitable for th...

Products of the clinton, bush, obama era. so they have a lot invested inot this. remember, that the people who live in the seven zip codes in and around washington, d.c. have allll become millionairesen as a result of their investment in these failed operations. >> tucker: thats not a talking point. thats literally true. f >> yes, of course. you put the two together, you have a lot of resistance to ending something thats a profitable for them. it hasnt been profitable for the american people.s i...