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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Data Show with Trevoro with John Stewart's.
Speaker 3: This guy is here.
Speaker 2: So just to bring you up to speed, today we're
Speaker 2: talking about the Zadroga Reauthorization Acts, which gives permanent healthcare
Speaker 2: to ninety eleven first responders injured or sick through their
Speaker 2: work at Ground zero. Now it seems like a no brainer.
Speaker 2: So John, what's holding it up?
Speaker 3: Now? No brains?
Speaker 4: So right now, there's sixty seven Senators sponsoring the bill,
Speaker 4: two hundred and sixty representatives, which even by stupid Senate
Speaker 4: and housemath, is more than enough to do this. So
Speaker 4: it really comes down to the two individuals who currently
Speaker 4: control Congress. One Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.
Speaker 4: Right now, as we speak, the House is still trying
Speaker 4: to pull money out of the healthcare portion of this bill.
Speaker 4: But I believe when push comes to show, Paul Ryan's
Speaker 4: going to do the right thing, because ultimately he is
Speaker 4: still human. And then there's doctor Doom.
Speaker 3: You could say that.
Speaker 4: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, he is the key to
Speaker 4: getting this done. And so far he has been an
Speaker 4: enormous obstacle, unwilling to move the bill forward for purely
Speaker 4: political reasons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but John, to prove that it's purely political, you'd
Speaker 2: have to have a video of McConnell supporting or even
Speaker 2: sponsoring a similar bill granting permanent healthcare for national security
Speaker 2: related workers who happen to live in his home states.
Speaker 3: That's a brilliant idea trev Roll two twelve.
Speaker 1: During the Cold War, workers at Paduca's gaseous diffusion plant
Speaker 1: are patriots who did some of the most dangerous work.
Speaker 1: We found out along the way that it was more
Speaker 1: dangerous than we.
Speaker 3: Were might aware of.
Speaker 1: Exposure to radiation was making some workers thick.
Speaker 2: They needed help.
Speaker 5: Senat McConnell took it on his own to do something
Speaker 5: for these people that did so much for the country.
Speaker 4: These programs would not be here at all for it
Speaker 4: not for social mcconnald.
Speaker 6: I'm Mitch McConnell, and I approve this message.
Speaker 2: This is crazy.
Speaker 4: That is correct, and if you're looking for more direct parallels,
Speaker 4: it gets worse.
Speaker 6: We created the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program to
Speaker 6: ensure that our nation's nuclear workers finally now get the
Speaker 6: attention they deserve from their government. Medical screening is available
Speaker 6: to all Paduca workers so that they may be tested
Speaker 6: and treated for any illness they contract as a result
Speaker 6: of working.
Speaker 3: At the plant, and rightfully so.
Speaker 4: And that bill costs more than what the nine to
Speaker 4: eleven first responders are asking for. More so, this clearly
Speaker 4: isn't about Mitch mcconnald's principal objections to permanent healthcare programs
Speaker 4: for heroic workers.
Speaker 2: So then the question is what is it.
Speaker 3: Here's what I believe it is. Here's what I believe
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 4: Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky doesn't give a shit about
Speaker 4: anything but politics. The first responders were told as a
Speaker 4: Droga Act would be included. They were told us last
Speaker 4: week it'd be included in the transportation bill passed last week.
Speaker 4: Mitch McConnell of Kentucky pulled it out of the transportation
Speaker 4: bill when he didn't get concessions about loosening oil export regulations.
Speaker 2: So he used the health of nine to eleven first
Speaker 2: responders as a boggaining chip to make it easier to
Speaker 2: sell oil.
Speaker 4: Yes, Trevor, he's not nice, so I don't know what
Speaker 4: else to do to make sure this bill happens.
Speaker 3: We don't know what else to do.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, John, back in twenty ten, Yes, didn't
Speaker 2: this very show have a panel of first responders that
Speaker 2: helped get the Zadroga Act posts.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 4: Hearing from a panel of first responders firsthand who were
Speaker 4: struggling with their health was undeniably powerful.
Speaker 3: It was a wonderful thing to hear from them personally.
Speaker 2: Well, there's the answer right there. Why don't we get
Speaker 2: that panel back together again?
Speaker 3: That's amaz that's exactly let's do this. Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 3: Let's get it back.
Speaker 4: Hey Kenny, Hey, John, Kenny, spect everybody.
Speaker 3: He's had a curiosity. Where's everybody?
Speaker 5: She and I? Five and a half years ago we
Speaker 5: did a show. Seventy five percent of the panels no
Speaker 5: longer here. Two of the people have illnesses, and obviously,
Speaker 5: by law, I can't comment on how sick they are.
Speaker 5: And John Devlin, who sat at the last chair and
Speaker 5: operating engineer, passed away since our show. So I think
Speaker 5: we brought the statistics to show that when we did
Speaker 5: the show five and a half years ago, men sat here,
Speaker 5: you and I and.
Speaker 4: This is the reality of people's lives that are affected
Speaker 4: by this, and even the idea that you had to
Speaker 4: come here five and a half years ago to plead
Speaker 4: your case on national television to get this done was
Speaker 4: insulting and embarrassing for us as a nation.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, John, we we did your show five
Speaker 5: and a half years ago. You stepped up and you
Speaker 5: asked what you could do to help us. Five and
Speaker 5: a half years ago, we didn't have the votes to
Speaker 5: get to Droga passed the first time, and because of
Speaker 5: your show, we were able to get it through at
Speaker 5: the last minute, right before the holidays, almost the same
Speaker 5: time of years we have right now. Now we're back
Speaker 5: five and a half years late, and not because we
Speaker 5: don't have the votes, because you put the numbers up
Speaker 5: sixty seven senators, two hundred and sixty members of the House.
Speaker 3: We're back.
Speaker 5: We have the votes, and now we don't have the
Speaker 5: people that want to do what's necessary to either vote
Speaker 5: for it as a straight up and down bill, what
Speaker 5: put it on as an attachment. So they keep moving
Speaker 5: the goalpost, and they keep telling us there's things we
Speaker 5: have to do, and when we do it, it's not enough.
Speaker 3: The pay for it thing is what drives me nuts.
Speaker 4: They have paid for this bill over and over again
Speaker 4: with the lives of their friends and with their health.
Speaker 4: So if I hear one more of these guys talking
Speaker 4: about it pay for it's going to make me insane.
Speaker 4: But you got to meet with McConnell for just a
Speaker 4: little time.
Speaker 5: I did, so my team they're with us tonight, John,
Speaker 5: feel right. We were able to meet with Mitch McConnell
Speaker 5: last week, the four of us, and well we got
Speaker 5: pats on the back, and we were told by so
Speaker 5: many people how difficult it is and how how happy
Speaker 5: we should be that we got a chance to meet
Speaker 5: with an elected official in the United States. Exactly. Well, anyway,
Speaker 5: we met with Mitch McConnell, and Mitch McConnell gave us
Speaker 5: his word that he's going to attach us to the
Speaker 5: omnibus bill and he's going to fully fund and permanently
Speaker 5: extends a Droga Healthcare Act. That's what he told us.
Speaker 5: So as this bill comes up this week, we're going
Speaker 5: to keep him to his word. And this show is
Speaker 5: doing that part of it.
Speaker 3: Let's keep him to it.
Speaker 4: And the other thing is people forget with all this
Speaker 4: talk now about terrorism and from the World Trade Center
Speaker 4: to San Bernardino. The one common link to all of
Speaker 4: this is the first people on the scene were first responders.
Speaker 4: So I don't want to hear about what we're all
Speaker 4: concerned about terrorism now and things that are going on.
Speaker 3: This is the legacy you guys.
Speaker 4: What message does it send to our first responders if
Speaker 4: once we're done as a nation with them helping us,
Speaker 4: that we forget about them.
Speaker 3: That's unacceptable to me.
Speaker 5: You're right, and it's unacceptable to tweet and post on
Speaker 5: Facebook around the anniversary of September eleventh that we'll never
Speaker 5: forget right. And it's inexplicable to continue to get re
Speaker 5: elected off the backs of the soldiers of this country
Speaker 5: and the first responders when you get a chance to
Speaker 5: do something about that, to back away from so here.
Speaker 3: We need your help. So now you know what.
Speaker 4: It doesn't work when those guys go down there. It
Speaker 4: doesn't work when we bring cameras down there. I think
Speaker 4: the only thing is all politics are local, Kentucky. It's
Speaker 4: up to you. I would like you right now write
Speaker 4: your Congressman Mitch McConnell a letter.
Speaker 3: John Hanna letter John John.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Yes, I'm sorry, sorry, insrupt no one really writes
Speaker 2: letters anymore.
Speaker 3: That's You're exactly right.
Speaker 4: A sharply worded editorial in your local paper would.
Speaker 2: Be people don't really read the newspaper.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right.
Speaker 4: Get out your phone, dial your congressman, John Klondike.
Speaker 2: Five, John, just tell the people to use social media.
Speaker 3: Social media. Oh great, something catch you like this and
Speaker 3: the free and okay.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of pressure as guest hosts. You know,
Speaker 1: you got to be funny, you got to be satirically,
Speaker 1: you got to be powerful. You gotta you gotta you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta go viowl. And I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: I wish I just wish I had somebody that I
Speaker 1: could talk to to gud me some of this stuff.
Speaker 1: Man Roy, use the false Roy who that Roy?
Speaker 3: Use use the false man who Roy, use the false
Speaker 3: use the use the Roy right right, just because I
Speaker 3: know you, I know you, I know you.
Speaker 1: I don't know him, I know you, I knew I
Speaker 1: knew you as.
Speaker 3: Your Obi wan Kenobe.
Speaker 4: I'm John, I'm John Stuart. I used to work here
Speaker 4: when the budget wasn't as big.
Speaker 3: Years back. You were doing you were.
Speaker 4: Were actually I actually hosted the program to be honest.
Speaker 1: The Daily Show had a white house. Yeah, why are
Speaker 1: you dressed like Obi Wan Kenobi?
Speaker 4: I like to be comfortable, Roy. The point is this,
Speaker 4: Donald Trump doesn't define.
Speaker 1: You want Knobe.
Speaker 3: What does that make me?
Speaker 1: Because if you're Obi Wan, that makes me Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be Skywalker.
Speaker 4: Why the fuck wouldn't you want to be Luke Skywalker?
Speaker 1: Luke Skywalker kissed his sister. I want to be Han
Speaker 1: Solo instead. Han Solo's badass. Han Solo was cool, he
Speaker 1: had the ship. You can beat youbaka?
Speaker 3: Why would I bother it? Be like a wolf ape?
Speaker 4: That doesn't make look I think it would make more
Speaker 4: sense if I were the wise sage who mentors the
Speaker 4: young host and not the wolf ape. Also, I cannot
Speaker 4: return this robe. What happened was the events that took
Speaker 4: place in.
Speaker 1: This But if you're Obi Wan, if you're Obi Wan
Speaker 1: and I'm Luke didn does that mean my dad is Vader?
Speaker 1: Because if my dad is Dar Vader, does that mean
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is my dad? Why I'm trying to I'm trying.
Speaker 4: To know that, Roy, Why would Donald Trump be your father?
Speaker 1: Because if I'm Luke and Trump is Vader, that means
Speaker 1: Trump killed you.
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 3: Fine, you're Han solo, I'm baby Yoda. Fine. The point is.
Speaker 1: Why did you be regularly.
Speaker 3: About Well, I should have come when Silverman was here?
Speaker 5: What Tilverman?
Speaker 3: Listen?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, how about this? How about because I
Speaker 1: want to go alone with I want to go along
Speaker 1: with you on this. Okay, how about you be Yoda
Speaker 1: because you're all hobbled and green and ship and I'll
Speaker 1: be Lando for obvious reasons, I can be Lando, you know.
Speaker 3: Is this a trap?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you're both have a yes. My point is
Speaker 4: this Royan, thank you for having me on the program.
Speaker 4: The thing about and you're doing a fabulous job by
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Speaker 1: Time, thank you so much.
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