But she was never a Government Employee. The fact in this lurid story, the taxpayers of alabama were not paying her salary. And whether or not she was sh stooping the governor, having someone working there that was not a Government Employee . Well, the group that apparently was paying her is called the Alabama Council for excellent government. Ace gov. Com was their website. But when the relationship became a national sex scandal, they disappeared their website. This is their website today. Its jaups nothing. Just a little place holder in case you might want to build something at acegov. Com because theres nothing there now. In the middle of this raging story with national implications, theres this black hole, this group who was apparently paying this woman who was in the Governors Office every day, this group does not answer its phones, they dont directed towards institutions that provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior. Mike pence ran for congress saying lets not try to cure aids. Lets try to cure gay instead. And mike pence may not be interested in showcasing that part of his politics now that hes about to be Vice President of the United States, but he should still answer for it. Does he still think that . The only reason we have a record of him running on that as a political position is because the Way Back Machine archived his website from back when he was running for congress back in the day. They screen shotted it. We can look at it today. The same way that we as a nation, incidentally, also have proof that on the very first day that he could, the new President Elect started using the resources of the federal government in his position in the white house to enrich himself. To promote his family business
interests. Now, they have since taken this down, but the very first thing they built online after the election, the very first thing they built online for President Elect Trump was this meet the President Elect webpage on the Transition Website that was provided to the trump folks by the federal government. Its a dotgov website, something you and i pay for. What they put up was an exhaustive list of all of the, quote, worlds Top Properties that donald trump owns including the world renowned fifth avenue skyscraper trump tower, plus trump park, trump tower, on and on. Wait, act now and well send you some knives. In addition to properties that occupy the manhattan skyline, mr. Trump also owns many of the premier golf clubs around the world, Trump National golf club in westchester new york, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That advertisement for trump properties, that was the very first thing they put up day one on the very First Federal government website they had access to. Advertisements for Trump Properties and golf courses. That is not like some threat that the President Elect might use his new office to enrich himself. Thats him doing it. Thats him using the resources of the federal government to promote the personal business interests of one very important federal office holder. As ive said, theyve since taken that down, but weve got it on record because of the Way Back Machine. Because the Internet Archive grabbed it and saved that and will not let it be disappeared. Thank god for them. And tonight i can report they are moving to canada. The Internet Archive, the people who run the Way Back Machine as well as lots of other free archives and resources, i mean, the Way Back Machine alones s h
archived a billion pages of history on the web. The people who run this. On november 9th in america we woke up to a new administration promising radical change. It was a firm reminder that institutions like ours, built for the longterm, need to design for change. For us, it means keeping our cultural materials safe, private and perpetually accessible. It means preparing for a web that may face greater restrictions. The history of libraries is one of loss. The Library Of Alexandria is best known for its disappearance. Libraries like ours are susceptible to different fault lines, earthquakes, legal regimes, institutional failure. This year weve set a new goal, to create a copy of the Internet Archives digital collections in another country. Theyre calling it the Internet Archive of canada. They already have mirrors of some of their content in a few
other countries around the world, but they dont have a complete additional copy of what they have built anywhere. They dont have a backup. They dont have a completely mirror of the servers theyve built, in San Francisco where theyre headquartered. And the Internet Archive folks have been around for a couple of decades, since the dawn of commercial access to the internet. But now because of what happened in the last election, they now feel like the only way they can keep their entire Historical Library safe, the only way they can protect this resource that theyve built, this history that they have archived, they feel like the only way they can ensure its safety is to build a complete mirror of it outside the reach of what is about to be our new federal government. Were losing a lot of people because of the internet. And we have to do something. We have to go see bill gates and a lot of other people that really understand whats happening. We have to talk to them maybe in certain areas closing that
internet up in some way. Someone will say, freedom of speech, freedom of speech. These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people. Weve got to maybe do something with the internet. Nobody really knows what the President Elect meant that when he said what he did this time last year. About closing off parts of the internet. Weve got to do something with the internet. Weve got to maybe in some areas close that internet up in some way. Nobody knows if he meant that when he said that during the campaign. But Public Service oriented keep information free parts of the internet, theyre not waiting around to find out. Theyre going to canada. That happened today. And its interesting. There are these first amendmewo about the new incoming president , there are corruption worries about the new incoming president. And those things feel like show
stoppers in some ways. But it turns out one monkey dont stop the show. Turns out those things dont bring everything to a halt. The show goes on. And frankly, the show gets some new element of weirdness every day. Today while the President Elect was tweeting threats about flag burning apparently in response to a Fox News Channel segment on the topic, he was also simultaneously announcing his new Secretary Of Transportation and alongside all these other, you know, worries about trump and transparency, worries about trump and the First Amendment, worries about trump and the press, that announcement today about the Transportation Secretary it also points out a really interesting pattern that the Washington Post picked up on this morning because elaine chao, among all the other interesting things that she is, elaine chao tapped today to be Cabinet Secretary in the Trump Administration, shes also a former Fox News Channel contributor. Last night we led this show talking about the newly announced deputy national
security adviser for the incoming administration. She, too, is a Fox News Channel personality. We finished the show last night talking about the meeting the President Elect would have today with this very controversial activist who has made it his lifes work to abolish the v. A. , to private ize the v. A. Hes also a fox news personality. Its kind of remarkable the number of points of overlap between who the President Elect is meeting, who hes floating for top jobs in his administration, who hes appointing to top jobs in his administration, the points of overlap between that roster of people and the roster of people who are contracted to appear on cable news, specifically on the Fox News Channel, which the President Elect does sometimes like to criticize but we know he apparently never likes to turn it off. The pattern is amazing. All those folks also, you know, ben carson, has reportedly been offered a job in the cabinet. Former fox news contributor. Newt gingrich considered till the last second for Vice President in the Trump Administration, former fox news contributor. Scott brown who has met with trump about the v. A. Job, fox news contributor, Laura Ingraham and Monica Crowley both considered for White House Press secretary, both fox news contributors. John bolton reportedly under consideration for Secretary Of State, fox news contributor. Theres mike huckabee, right, theres Jeanine Pirro both meeting with the President Elect in this weird Runway Camera Thing that we do at the elevators of his Apartment Building because he hasnt moved the office. Both fox news contributors. The First Amendment may or may not be safe under this president. It has now been four months since the President Elect has answered questions from reporters. Four months. Youd have to go back more than 30 years to find a President Elect who has gone this long after an election was settled without giving at least one formal press conference
during the transition but trump apparently has no plans. The Internet Archives may or may not raise the millions of dollars they need in order to build a complete mirror of the Internet Archive outside the bounds of the United States. And honestly they may or may not need that geographic protection from a new president who really has said that he wants to close off parts of the internet. But we do know that the incoming president watches fox news and he likes it now, apparently. He likes it enough that hes picked it up by the ankles, give it a good shake and started to move its whole roster off of Rupert Murdoch and on to the taxpayers of the United States. What a time to be alive. I hope somebodys writing all this stuff down as it happens because if anybody ever succeeds in disappearing this history of what were going through right now, people will not believe it in the future when you tell them this is how it happened. I hope somebodys writing this all down. Screen shot this. Lots to get to tonight. Stay with us. Energy is a complex challenge. People want power. And power plants account for more than a third of energyrelated carbon emissions. The challenge is to capture the emissions before theyre released into the atmosphere. Exxonmobil is a leader in carbon capture. Our team is working to make this technology better, more affordable so it can reduce emissions around the world. Thats what were working on right now. Energy lives here. Schautauqua county is the furthest county west in the state of new york. If you look at this map its all the way over on the left. It borders pennsylvania and lake erie way over there on the west side of new york. And that Little Red Dot in chautauqua county, thats the town of jamestown. Population roughly 31,000. In the year 2004 a doctor practicing out of little jamestown new york, an internist named dr. Rudolph mueller, received a kind of amazing honor. He was named physician of the year. Congratulations. Physician of the year. Obviously, a very big deal. He got the good news in the form of a fax from a high ranking congressman in washington. Which is kind of an unexpected, unsolicited weird way to hear, but the physician of the year
award, which is a nice thing, then you got down to the question of what exactly this dr. Mueller would have to do to collect this prestigious award. Turns out that to get that award, the National RepublicanCongressional Committee would need the doctor to write them a check for about 1200. He told abc news Investigative Unit at the time to actually buy your award and its not from your peers or from your patient ors from the community that you serve its really deceptive, its not being honest, its just not right. But dr. Mueller wasnt the only one. Hundreds of other doctors were also told that year that they had just won physician of the year. And it was all part of the same scam. A scam run by republican congressman named tom delay. The scam targeted doctors, told them theyd won this prestigious award, told them because they were so famous and so well regarded that they were being invited to join something called the physicians Advisory Board which is a very prestigious
thing in order to go to events for this fake prestigious Advisory Board theyd just been signed up to, though, they would have to shell out Something Like 5,000 and again that money would go to the National RepublicanCongressional Committee. It was a scam. A fundraising scam run by then House Majority leader tom delay back in the early 2000s. Tom delay eventually Left Congress in an Ethics Scandal that led to him being convicted and then his conviction being overturned. We do still have the lasting benefit of this amazing mug shot from that time in his life. But tom delays time in congress had to come to an end. His doctor scam did not end, though. He passed it on, apparently. In 2009 a congressman out of georgia started running the same con. Under a different name. He created what he called the Physicians Council for responsible reform and he sent out these faxes, sent out these letters. He promised doctors who joined
his exclusive group that they would be, quote, receiving special briefings and providing input to republican members of congress. Congressman promised that these select physicians on this council would be providing input to House Republican leader john boehner, congressman eric cantor and others. None of that was true. This was just the same con that tom delay used to use. All they were doing was raising money. Theyre basically shaking down doctors for donations. In some instances this congressman even used the names of his marks, used the names of these physicians hes targeted on this fake press release, he would actually put those out, put the doctors names out publicly as if they were in support of this mission even though hed never gotten those doctors permissions to raise funds in their name. Since june 2009 this congressman raised more than a Million Dollars for the Republican National committee but it was a scam run by a republican congressman from georgia. And thats the same guy that donald trump just tapped to be
his health and Human Services secretary. His name is tom price. Hes an Orthopedic Surgeon by trade. Hes been in Congress Since 2005. Before that he served in the Georgia State senate. As a congressman hes known for being very antigay. He cosponsored a constitutional amendment banning samesex marriage. During the bp oil spill in the gulf, he was very famous for siding with bp who spilled the oil. He was a Founding Member of the tea party caucus. At one point he said he considered running against john boehner for speaker because he didnt think john boehner was right wing enough. But the thing hes most made his mark on in congress is for being the number one antiobamacare congressman among the republican caucus. In january 2010, you might remember during the State Of The Union