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Neighborhood and what's 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. >> that's dr. robert bull ard, the heart part of this episode is two of the most boring words you can say are environmental justice. we had to figure out a way to talk about how important this is. this is all manmade disasters, as we talk about in the show. it's easy to fix this stuff. it's easy to fix flint and fix lead poisoning but people in power won't do it. it's expedient and cheaper not to do it. >> you spent tim...

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, what's in the neighborhood and what's 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. >> that's dr. robert bull ard, known of the one of the leaders of the environmental justice movement. the heart part of this episode is two of the mo...

American city." dr. mona hanna-attisha is a pediatrician in flint. she shook the denial off the flint story and made people face what was going on there. congratulations on the book. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. it's good to be back. >> i wanted to ask first of all about why you wanted to write a book about this. the reason i wanted to ask you is you are busy. not only were you busy before flint, since then you got a lot of national attention and a big platform you've been using for good but you're still trying to fix flint. >> i'm still a pediatrician in flint. i deci...

Book about this? the reason i wanted to ask you is you are busy. not only were you busy before flint since then you got a lot of national attention and a big platform you've been using for good but you're still trying to fix flint. >> i'm still a pediatrician in flint. i decided to write it for three reasons one when i started to write the book, i knew we would need a vehicle to shine the spotlight back on flint. the nation's attention would fade but our crisis and needs would be ongoing. we needed a reminder that flint is still here. it's still on bottled water. you need to pay attention to f...

Midwest that where republicans are holding the seats, they're not going to win those seats, because they're culturally divided. not knocking them at all, but they're going to have to find some people that, again, fit those seats culturally. >> we sometimes extrapolate from our coastal supporters that on social issues, there's a mirroring of those things in the middle of country because there's democrats. pro-life democrats are being shunned by liberal progressives in the country. i'm pro-choice, but we want to win. you have to expand on your point. in the counties across this country where the...