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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140603:03:38:00

lamp, but it is that same industry that has been and continues to wage war on them. joining me now, bob kinkade, radio broadcaster, cofounder of appalachian emergency health campaign, ninth generation appalachian and a coalminer's son. what is your response to this indig -- indignant populism directed at president obama on behalf of coal country. >> i don't know why we even attaining to these people anymore. they have lost all relevance. denial is at flood stage in appalachia among the political class. i heard representative respond to a question about climate change by saying the weather changes every day. i heard the head of the west virginia coal association say that this was a political struggle and not a technical juan, one, and then claims

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140603:07:41:00

time after time from politicians. we have a senator in our state who won't even acknowledge the health crisis and the studies that delineate the nature of that health crisis in our mountaintop removal communities. how can that be? >> what is the future, bob, for appalachia? >> we don't know, chris. we want a bright one. i want a bright future for my grandchildren who are playing at home this evening. but if the attitudes of the coal industry retain its death grip on our state and our region, all you can say is will the last person out please turn off the lights because they are tox fiing, ruining, eliminating any future for appalachia. >> bob, thank you so much. an astrophysicist next. >> science is a process. it's mott the answer.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140603:07:38:00

co-founder of appalachian emergency health campaign, a ninth generation appalachian and a coal miner's son, bob, what is your response to all this indignant populism directed at obama on behalf of coal country? >> onwhy we even pay attention to some of these people anymore, chris. they've lost all relevance. denial is at flood stage in appalachia among its political class. i heard a representative today respond to a question about climate change by saying the weather changes every day. i heard the head of the west virginia coal association say this was a political struggle and not a technical one and yet at the same time claim that there's no consensus on the science behind the epa's admissions. the fact of the matter is we are

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140603:03:40:00

labor force for years 'isn't that right? >> that's absolutely right, chris of the single largest engine behind coal job loss in appalachia has nothing to do with environmentalists or the obama administration and everything in the world to do with the move toward mechanization. the coal industry is about the profits it can reap off of appalachia and appalachian people by minimizing the number of people who work in the industry and maximizing the amount of coal they can take out. >> so, why is it that the coal interests, even as the job numbers decline, retain such a stranglehold interest or control of the politics in states like kentucky and west virginia? >> i hate to be so blunt but the fact of the matter is politics in appalachia is that most loyal of politics, the kind that gets bought and stays bought. it's obvious from the numbers you cited that people in

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140603:13:00:00

talk about it, the more questions you have. it is one of the more fascinating and possibly disturbing decisions and events that i've seen in a long time in news. michael steele? >> what i learned is what joe manchin put on the table, that there's more to this epa decision that should be uncovered and discovered about cost and the effect that this policy is going to have. >> jeremy. >> i learned that you cannot apply the lessons of the tea party nationally to what's happening in mississippi and that we should be prepared for maybe a little bit of a surprise tonight. >> gene? >> shock, horror, people in appalachia where they mine coal don't really like -- >> no, they don't. we'll end on that note. if it's way too early, it's time for "morning joe." now it's time for "the daily rundown." chuck is abroad with the president, you'll hear from him too. have a good day. crazy eights. a major mess in mississippi and eyebrow-raising rumble in iowa and a likely coronation in california.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140603:00:40:00

>> that's absolutely right, chris. the single largest engine behind coal job loss in appalachia has nothing to do do with environmentalists or the obama administration and everything in the world to do with the move toward mechanization. the coal industry is about the profits that it can reap off of appalachia and appalachian people by minimizing the number of people who work in the industry while maximizing the amount of coal that they can take out. >> so why is it that the coal interests even as the job numbers decline retain such a stranglehold or control of the politics in states like kentucky and west virginia? >> i hate to be so blunt, but the fact of the matter is politics in appalachia is that most loyal of politics, the kind that gets bought and stays bought. it's obvious from the numbers that you have cited that people in appalachia and the rest of

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140603:00:38:00

the black and white image of our collective imagination. in fact, it has been that industry that has been and continues to wage war on them. co-founder of appalachian emergency health campaign, a ninth generation appalachian and a coal miner's son, bob, what is your response to all this indignant populism directed at obama on behalf of coal country? >> onwhy we even pay attention to some of these people anymore, chris. they've lost all relevance. denial is at flood stage in appalachia among its political class. i heard a representative today respond to a question about climate change by saying the weather changes every day. i heard the head of the west virginia coal association say this was a political struggle and not a technical one and yet at the same time claim that there's no consensus on the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140603:00:41:00

the country, for that matter, want real change and yet statement we hear the same thing time after time from politicians. we have a senator in our state who won't even acknowledge the health crisis and the studies that delineate the nature of that health crisis in our mountaintop removal communities. how can that be? >> what is the future, bob, for appalachia? >> we don't know, chris. we want a bright one. i want a bright future for my grandchildren who are playing at home this evening. but if the attitudes of the coal industry retain its death grip on our state and our region, all you can say is will the last person out please turn off the lights because they are tox fiing, ruining, eliminating any future for appalachia. >> bob, thank you so much.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140603:07:40:00

coal job loss in appalachia has nothing to do do with environmentalists or the obama administration and everything in the world to do with the move toward mechanization. the coal industry is about the profits that it can reap off of appalachia and appalachian people by minimizing the number of people who work in the industry while maximizing the amount of coal that they can take out. >> so why is it that the coal interests even as the job numbers decline retain such a stranglehold or control of the politics in states like kentucky and west virginia? >> i hate to be so blunt, but the fact of the matter is politics in appalachia is that most loyal of politics, the kind that gets bought and stays bought. it's obvious from the numbers that you have cited that people in appalachia and the rest of the country, for that matter, want real change and yet statement we hear the same thing

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140603:03:41:00

appalachia and the rest of the country for that matter-want real change, and yet at the same time we hear the same thing time after time from politicians. we have a senator in our state who won't even acknowledge the health crisis and the studies that delineate the nature of the health crisis in our mountaintop removal communities. how can that be? >> whats the future for appalachia? >> we don't know, chris. we want a bright one. i want a bright future for my grandchildren, who are playing at home this evening. but if the attitudes of the coal industry retain its death grip on our state and our region, all you can say is, will the last person out please turn off the lights. they're toxifying, they're ruining, eliminating, any future for appalachia. >> bob kincaid, thank you so much.

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