Le Show; 2017-06-04

From deep inside your audio device of choice. Ladies and gentlemen, I, in the welter of this week's news, of which there's been a welter, hence the weltering, you probably didn't miss the appearance by former secretary of state, and most recently Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the recode tech conference this week. It did make some news, elbowing through everything else, mostly because Mrs. Clinton, first of all said, I take responsibility for all of my decisions and then said immediately afterwards. That's not why I lost and then proceeded to enumerate a series of reasons why supposedly she lost a list which is growing longer every time she enumerates it. This time it included

shortcomings in the data operations of the Democratic National Committee. I think that re-curled Debbie Wasserman Schultz's hair hearing that. Apparently this is something that now she was asked a question about it, that's in her defense, but other people were asked similar questions about other things and had different answers. For example, in the administration which she served as Secretary of State, just as it was a warning, her chief executive former president was asked what he was going to do about the apparently well-grounded allegations that members of the previous administration had engaged in human rights violations and torture. And you may recall his answer. We're still evaluating how we are going to approach the whole issue

of interrogations, detentions, and so forth on the other hand. I also have a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards. Let's hear that, Mrs. Clinton. And ladies and gentlemen, this is a weekend fraught with the story of the most recent terrorist attack in London. I, as you know, originate this program from London on occasion. I like London a lot. I have very good friends there. This is for London. Hello, welcome to Lysha. Lysha. Little London sparrows. Carving garden market where the customers cry.

Cockney feet. Mark the beat of history. Every street dims a memory down. Nothing ever can quite replace the grace of London town. There's a little city flower every spring and sailing. Growing in the crevices by some London railing, though it has a Latin name in town and countryside. We in England call it London pride. London pride has been handed down to us. London pride is a flower that's free. London pride means our own dear town to us. And the pride it for ever will be. When the day is running, see the priest's morning on his lonely beat. Gay lady may fair in the morning, hear your footsteps echo in the empty street.

All in rain and the pavement's glistening. All parklain in a shimmering gown. Nothing ever could break a hand of the charm of London town. In our city darkened now, street and square and crescent, we can feel our living past in our shadowed present. Ghosts beside our stale pens who live then love them by. Keep throughout the ages London pride. London pride has been handed down to us. London pride is a flower that's free. London pride means our own dear town to us. And the pride it for ever will be. Grey city stubbornly implanted, taken so for granted for a thousand years.

Stay city smokeyly enchanted cradle of our memories, our hopes and fears. Every blitz your resistance tapping from the rift to the anchor and crown. Nothing ever could override the pride of London town. From New Orleans, I'm Harry Sheerer welcoming you to this edition of the show. How about our freedom-loving friends in Saudi Arabia? Just so recently, just a tiny little bit of time ago, President Trump was there shaking hands with King Salman, who was in season. It turns out that signing a deal to sell him $100 billion plus worth of new weaponry, which they're only

going to use against the Yemenites. Yemenis, Yemeni, Yemeni. But now there's this, a meeting between the two men who run Russia and Saudi Arabia's oil empires has occurred, suggesting a new relationship between the energy superpowers. This was the first time that the boss of Rosnift, that's the Russian energy company, Egor Setshin, and they had a Saudi aramco. I mean, Nasir, at first time they had a formal scheduled meeting, you know, said, oh, hi to each other, the way, let's say Putin and Mike Flindin. But this is different. Their conversation also broke new ground according to Reuters, quoting two sources familiar with the talks in the Saudi city of Dharan, not Iran, Dharan, last week. So the CEOs discussed possible ways of cooperating in Asia, such as Indonesia and India. They had to enumerate what Asia might mean. The sources didn't disclose further details, any cooperation on Asia between Russian

Saudi Arabia, who happened to be the world's two biggest oil exporters would be interesting, perhaps unprecedented. Aramco confirmed the meeting took place decline to give the tails of the closed door talks. That the talks took place on the same day as Saudi Arabia, the head of OPEC and Russia, not in OPEC, agreed to extend a cut in the rate of crude oil output in an attempt to keep oil prices from plummeting further. The meeting will be or the relationship and captured in the meeting. They're not saying captured. Spotlighted by the meeting will be closely watched by big oil consumers around the world, who have long relied on the rivalry between Russia and Saudi Arabia to keep prices down and secure better deals. Good deals, such a dead top between Moscow and Riyadh would have been almost unthinkable in the past. Until a year ago,

the two sides had virtually no dialogue at all, even in the face of the spike in U.S. shale oil production that led to the collapse in global oil prices. Last year, Rosnift outbid Aramco to buy an India refinery and boost Russia's share in the world's fastest growing fuel market, India. Now, Russia and Riyadh have become the main protagonists of the pact to cut output, agreed to last December and then extended and are even discussing possible cooperation in Asia. Said one senior golf official, it is a new axis of love. And by access he means attempted cartel and on the subject of our freedom-loving friends in Saudi Arabia. An investigation into the foreign funding of extremist Islamist groups by the British government may never be published. The British government's home office now admits as much,

according to the British newspaper The Independent, the inquiry was commissioned by former Prime Minister David Cameron. Remember him? He used to be a thing. It was launched as part of a deal with the his coalition partners, the liberal Democrats, back when there was such a thing, in exchange for the liberal Democrats supporting British air strikes against ISIS into Syria. They'd been only striking in Iraq before that. Although it was due to be published spring last year, it's a year late, but you know, these studies take it has not been completed and may never be made public due to its quote, sensitive comments, content. It's thought to focus on our freedom-loving friends in Saudi Arabia, which Britain recently approved about five billion dollars worth of arms export licenses to which to spokesperson for the home office told the independent a decision on the publication of the report would be taken after this week's election by the next government kicking the can down the week. In a separate interview with the Guardian,

however, a spokesperson said the report may never be published describing its contents as quote, very sensitive. But that's not all. Maybe it is. The Justice Department's copy in the United States of the famed torture report from the Senate Intelligence Committee may not be appearing, may not be returning to the Senate any time soon. Despite what we heard this week that all the copies were going to be returned to the

Senate, where they could not be accessed by freedom of information requests, because that's how the law works. Senator DeDien Feinstein, who chaired the intelligence committee when the panel produced the report in 2014, said over the weekend, she's confirmed that the CIA, its inspector general and the director of national intelligence have all returned their copies of the torture report to the Senate. Her successor is the chair, Senator Burr of North Carolina, North Carolina, had asked the administration to return its copies to the Senate where it could be blocked indefinitely from public view. The courts said Burr have ruled that it's a congressional document, but Attorney General Jeff Sessions pledged to Feinstein in written responses during his confirmation process that he would not return the Justice Department's copy to the Senate, asked whether that's still the Attorney General's view. The Department of Justice spokeswoman said the department's copy of the report is tied up in the courts, which raises the prospect

he could stay there for years. Secret courts, we don't know. The report is the subject of two district court orders and pursuant those orders has been lodged with the court, information security officers for the district court of the District of Columbia said they flagged for the Department of Justice. Copies of the 2014 report were distributed to the CIA and its inspector general, the FBI, the director of national intelligence, as well as justice, state departments, and the Pentagon with the eventual goal of making it public. So I was sent to the executive branch in the first place. A military judge has also ordered the Defense Department to preserve a copy of the report in connection with a prosecution pending against the alleged conspirators and the 9-11 thing. That's not going to be public because none of that is kind of almost none of that. There is a wonderful reporter from the Miami Herald who covers all the those military commission proceedings on Twitter and in the Miami Herald. But that's about it. Burr asked the Obama administration to return all executive branch copies to the Senate when he became chairman of the committee.

The issue has been tied up in the courts with the ACLU suing to make the report public the Supreme Court declined to hear that case. I guess the Obama administration could have ordered all of its departments not to cooperate with Senator Burr and even to make the report public. But it didn't. Multiple judges have ordered the report be preserved in court records and former president Obama did include another copy as a part of his White House paperwork with the National Archives, meaning it could be released as early as 2029. That's good work. News of secrets, ladies and gentlemen. It is a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Now there's obviously so much in the news about President Trump this week, centering primarily on his decision announced Friday too with draw the United States from the

Paris Accord on climate change, which seems to have well the whole week of this whole period of time has seemed to have driven some folks a little close to the edge. If not over, it's Stephen Colbert's memorable remark about the president's mouth being suitable only as a repository for Vladimir Putin's sexual organ. He put it more bluntly than that. But there was, you know, it was network television. And then Bill Maher this week. So not the same subject, but just something's going on. Anyway, it's not going on here. I think it's time to maybe take a somewhat more musical approach to what's going on. So today, two selections from the ever growing Donald Trump songbook. You may recall the week began with a bit of a mystery.

He as his his wound was on whatever he was sitting on, whether it has a hole in it or not, tweeting in the middle of the night and started a sentence with despite the and then the next word in the tweet and the last word in the tweet was COV F E F E. I'm sure you're familiar with this story by now. There was no end to the sentence, just trailed off like that. Few people focused on the fact that it just trailed off like that, because the word itself was so fascinating and mysterious. And Sean Spicer of the White House press secretary only added to the mystery at one of his soon to be last briefings by saying, President met exactly what he said. Like some kind of dream, it was champagne and cream. People would call me LFA,

but where is it now? I wrinkle my brow, but I can't find my way back to COV F E. Now people would say there's no friggin' way. There's a place that's so beachy and leafy. My head I would shake and say it's not fake and it's probably called COV F E but was it a trap? You know I look at the map. There's no place called COV F E.

Now it's too late, it's too much on my plate to search for a refuge so reefy. The skeptics are right, I gave up the fight to return to the calm of COV F E. My fantasy, I have renounced. My paradise is thoroughly trounced. I don't know how the hell it's pronounced. Now ladies and gentlemen, news of the atom. It's our friend.

Out of the atom. Yes sir, kill these charge. It's summertime. And now I'm spinning like crazy. It speeds you up, right? He speeds up the thing. The thing. Yeah, I'm not up on the lingo. Of your own? I'm my own physiognomy. I'm an atom. What do you want from me? Okay, good. We got that settled. It was an important question to begin with. I now let's get to news of our friend, the atom. I was waiting. Wait no more. At the United States continues to grapple with long-term storage of radioactive spent fuel from the nation's nuclear power plants.

Well, it was spent. It was well spent. Thank you. Science Watch Dogs are warning of serious flaws with the current storage method. Which involves densely packing the combustible spent fuel assemblies under at least 20 feet of water and pools located in individual plants while we wait for the creation of a permanent repository, which don't exist yet. Well, yeah, it's a long time. The warning came in an issue just out of the journal Science of that. Yeah, in an article entitled Nuclear Safety Regulation in the Post-Fook era flawed analyses underlie lacks US regulation of spent fuel. And that's just a headline. Yes. Following Fook, the US nuclear regulatory commission ordered a comprehensive review of regulations while the buildings that housed Fook's spent fuel pools were destroyed. The spent fuel fortunately remained covered with enough water to keep the metal cladding that enclosures the uranium from catching fire. You don't want that. You don't. Scientists working for the NRC estimated that a fire in one of the plants pools would have dramatically increased the

amount of radioactive pollution released could have led to the forced long-term relocation of between one and a half and 35 million people from Japan's East Coast rather than the 150,000 that were evacuated. It's a lot of people. But they're there. What? No, nothing. You were going to go Bill Maher on me, weren't you? Yes, I was. The NRC adopted a number of safety upgrades after the Fook disaster, but rejected a measure to end the dense packing of the spent fuel pools located in nuclear plants across the US. A technique that utilities use for the best of reasons. Did we do this cost? That's right. This is the United States after all. The authors say the screening process that was used by the NRC failed to adequately account for the impacts of, quote, large-scale land contamination events from spent fuel pool fires. Sanat very fast. Spent fuel pool fires. Okay, I lose. The NRC's own technical evaluation estimated that a fire in a densely packed spent fuel pool at the peach bottom plant in Pennsylvania,

just north of the Maryland border would require the evacuation of 4.1 million people from an area of over 9,000 square miles. Unless the NRC improves its approach to assessing risks and benefits of safety improvements by using more realistic parameters in its quantitative assessments and also taking into account societal impacts, mean like on people? Yeah. The United States will remain needlessly vulnerable to such disasters the authors warned. According to the Congressional Research Service, two of the five states with the largest amount of spent nuclear fuel stored in wet pools are North Carolina and Alabama. There's a real annoy Pennsylvania in New York. Nothing, right? Red and blue. Under the NRC's current rules, which the authors say are self-imposed, the potential solution for the storage problem moving the spent fuel from pools to air-cooled dry storage casks after a few years could be adopted only if the monetary value of the resulting public risk reduction would to exceed the cost of implementation and the end to if the increase in

safety were, quote, substantial. Those are the two rules the NRC uses to judge whether it's worth changing the method of storage. Estimated cost transferring the spent fuel to dry casks storage is five billion. I got that on me. The NRC's analysis assumed the chance of a fire resulting in a large release of radioactive pollution would be small, though with considerable uncertainty. Its risk analysis also failed to account for a possible terrorist attack, those don't happen, no? And made other assumptions that minimize the estimated health and economic consequences of a high density fuel pool fire. Say that real fast. Fuel pool fire. For example, it ignored an accident accident consequences beyond 50 miles. A radiation doesn't travel. I'll write them and assume radiation dose standards for population relocation that were less restrictive than those recommended by the EPA. Well, that's going to change. In addition, the NRC overlooked the societal risks of accidents such as the psychological trauma

of mass relocation. In our view of the NRC would use more realistic quantitative assessments and give weight to societal impacts. A requirement to expedite transfer of spent fuel to dry casks would be justified, include the authors. Yeah, but they're just authors. In science, blinded by it, I partially collapsed. Oh, let's go to Hanford. And the nuclear respiration in Washington state, I am sure you've heard of it and now has its its own theme. No, that would not be its theme. So we'll not do that. Or maybe we will. Let's try once more. It'll be fun. I'm waiting. Here we go. It's own theme. There we are. A partially collapsed waste storage tunnel at the Hanford nuclear plant will be filled with grout. Shut up. To further stabilize it according to the Department of Energy.

As we cannot quickly determine the exact cause of the partial collapse of the tunnel, the rest of the tunnel is still subject to collapse, said Doug Schoop, manager of the Hanford operations office. Shup, shup, shup, shup, shup. Now you're getting into that funky thing, huh? The State Department of Ecology, a Hanford regulator agrees with the plan. Earlier, well, in about a month ago, Hanford workers discovered a section of the tunnel roof about 20 feet long had collapsed, potentially exposing equipment with highly radioactive contamination stored in the tunnel. And emergency was declared and initial steps taken to stabilize the tunnel. It holds eight flatbed rail cars loaded with contaminated equipment from the nearby plutonium processing plant. The breach was filled with a mixture of sand and soil, that's my favorite mixture. And then a layer of heavy plastic was pulled over the length of the tunnel, tarp. Yeah, another tar program. Both DOE and the State agree on the advantages of filling the tunnel with concrete like grout. It would help stabilize the tunnel,

which is built mostly of creosoted timbers. I'm not going to say that three times. It would encase the rail cars and the equipment they hold in place and would provide shielding from radiation. The tunnel can't be filled completely to the top with grout. But leaving it mostly full means if another portion of the tunnel roof collapses, there would be far less risk. I like ground. And for donor, the Department of Energy is cramly to deal with the second emergency at the site. In a couple of weeks sites, signs of a merged merge that a massive underground double shell nuclear waste holding tank may be leaking. Tag is known as AZ-101. Let's put it into service way back in 1976. Its life was expected to be 20 years. Now it has been holding hot boiling radioactive and chemically contaminated waste for 41 years. It's a good tank. A seven person crew deployed a remote control device into the safety space of the double shell tank. And a radiation specialist for the crew spotted higher than expected readings.

Found radioactive material on one worker in three spots. Contaminated ions were moved, bagged, and appropriately disposed of. Everybody was freaked, shocked surprise. A veteran worker told King 5 News in Seattle. Contamination was not expected. They're not supposed to find contamination. Contamination in the annulus. Excuse me, it's a safety perimeter of the double shell tanks. But that's an annulus, annulus, or evenness. He almost said it right. Okay, that's enough of a handford. Southern companies chief executive has said more than once that the utilities project to build two more nuclear plant at plant vocal in Georgia would be history making. He may be right, but in a different way years behind schedule billions over budget. And with the key contractors, backroom see clouding its future. Troubled project near August is fast becoming exhibit A for why you know US utility before Southern had tried building a new

reactor in 30 plus years. Most Georgians who get electric bills could eventually pay for overruns on the project. They are likely to grow according to the Atlanta Journal. Customers of Southern subsidiary Georgia power already pay a surcharge related to the two new nuclear plants. About a hundred a year, a dollar a year to the average residential bill is added. The ultimate effect on rate payers. You have to be determined also uncertain is how the project will be done because Westinghouse Electric, the company that designed the new reactors and is the primary contractor on the project has filed for bankruptcy. That doesn't mean you can't. Does it? You can, I don't know what it means, you can't. Southern California Edison violated procedural requirements in building the storage facility. It's relying on to secure millions of pounds of nuclear waste generated by the failed San Anofere nuclear plant. That's according to. And I nuclear activists. The US nuclear regulatory commission. Close. And there were nuclear in it.

According to 11 page inspection report issued this week, Edison failed to properly test the density of the grout. There's that grout again. Placed under the stainless steel containers that will house the spent fuel assemblies. The oversight was discovered by company officials corrected soon thereafter. The report notes once properly tested the grout met the standard. It's easy to overlook, right? I guess for the third straight year, the three mile island nuclear plant has been shut out of a key auction to sell its power. It's still in business. Yeah, one of the plants is intensifying the chances that the country's most famous new facility will close in two years. Owner, excellent, issued a statement acknowledging the TMA for a third straight year did not sell power at the auction by a firm that controls power in parts of 13 states. Success at the auction could have guaranteed the sale of three mile island power in 2020 and 2021. It will likely sell its electricity to the grid, piecemeal, but the power auction is a staple for the plant's stability. TMI has been losing money for five years. No decision has been made.

It's too early to speculate on when that decision might be made. It said, excellent spokeswoman, Lacy Dean, however, we cannot continue to afford to lose money at TMI, she said, I'll go in. Keep losing. Oh, nice. PG&E customers in Northern California won a respite last week from more energy billing creases when state regulators blocked the utilities request to recover nearly a billion and a half dollars in added costs for retiring. It's the Alblok Canyon nuclear power plant retirement is costly and family. That's why they have social security, isn't it? Yeah, for people and deadline Boise Idaho. Some cleanup efforts at a nuclear waste land feel in eastern Idaho are unhoaled while workers try to figure out what caused a collapse in a dig area that sent an excavator into a pit. I blame the pit. The excavator was digging up trans-uranic waste,

raced contaminated with highly radioactive elements. No radiation was released during the incident and the excavator has now been rescued from the pit and kept the excavator the weekend off. Clean cheap, too hardworking to meet our friend, the Adam. I'm fixing our home when the rain gets in and stops my mind from wandering where it will go. I'm feeling the cracks that ran through the door and kept my mind from wandering where it will go. And it really doesn't matter. People are on their right.

Where I belong and right. Where I belong. Still be the same man who did the green and never win. I wonder why they don't get in my door. I'm painting a moon in a colorful way and when my mind is wandering then I will come. And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong and right. Where I belong and right. Where I belong. Still be the same man who did the green and never win. I wonder why they don't get in my door.

I'm taking the time for another place. This was a moment yesterday and I still go. Fixing our home when the rain gets in stops my mind from wandering where it will go. Fixing our home when the rain gets in stops my mind from wandering where it will go. Fixing our home when the rain gets in stops my mind from wandering where it will go. From New Orleans, this is Lesho. You know, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you watch CNN on a mobile device because I travel a lot and because I don't like cable. I end up watching CNN on a mobile device a lot. And the good news is you don't see a lot of the commercials that you see if you watch CNN on cable.

I haven't been hectic to ask my doctor about whether something is right for me in a while now because of that. On the other hand, you are treated to some what are called house ads that is to say commercials for CNN itself. I guess because they can't yet convince advertisers that it's worth reaching CNN viewers on mobile. I don't know, but anyway, this is one that gets played a lot. And to me, just as a little clue as to why the mainstream media enjoys a trust problem right now. Listen closely. No one asks us to go. Not friends, not family. No one asks us to go into the storm, into the chaos, into the heartbreak. The story that drives us forward.

It's the story that needs to be heard. It's the story that needs to be told. This is why we... We are breaking news out of Greece. That's why they go. And they're breaking news out of Greece. When is the last time you saw a new story about Greece on CNN? Now, the answer is not, there's no news from Greece. I think this coming week or this past week... I might have been watching too much CNN to be able to tell you. Greece is getting or was... It got another lashing from its financial masters at the European Union and the IMF. Called a bailout, but with another set of very restrictive austerity measures. Despite the fact that the International Monetary Fund has said... Now a couple of years ago, Greece has no way of repaying its debt. And its economy will not recover until the European Union and its fellows accord Greece debt relief. Currently, the youth unemployment rate in Greece is 50 percent.

The general unemployment rate in Greece is 25 percent. Imagine if that were happening here. But, there's more news from us. It's a big bubble. There's more news from it. Outside it. Yes, there's bad stuff going on all over the world. We know about some of it. Now, here's some of the rest of it. Myanmar must do more to prevent the drastic escalation of religious intolerance and violence. Following clashes between ultra-nationalist Buddhists and minority Muslims in Yangon. That's the conclusion of a senior United Nations envoy. Speaking to the Guardian, Yang Yi Li, UN Special Repo Tour and Human Rights in Myanmar, called on the year-old government led by Anxan Suqi to strengthen its efforts to curb hate speech and violence drummed up by nationalist Buddhists.

Think of it. Okay, you can stop thinking about it now. I have in the past raised concerns regarding incidents of hate speech, incitement to discrimination, hatred and violence and of religious intolerance, and these appear to be drastically escalating. Said the UN Special Repo Tour. I believe she said that the spread of anti-Muslim sentiments and rhetoric is not receiving the serious attention that it requires, left unchecked by the authorities. This cannot be tolerated any longer. Quote, last week, a fight broke out on a Muslim neighborhood of Yangon after dozens of nationalists rated home of a family they believed was hiding Rohingya. Members of a persecuted minority of Muslims deemed my many to be illegal immigrants. The violence which left several injured came two weeks after another radical group, involving some of the same people forced the closure of two Islamic schools. The Myanmar authorities have arrested several Buddhists in connection with the recent violence, but they bowed to nationalist pressure and shuttered the Islamic schools.

His spokesman for Unsung Suu Chi declined to take questions saying, he was in a meeting that would last all day. And Al Jazeera reports, a color epidemic is sweeping Yemen. By people are dying by the thousands in a country that Saudi Arabia is bombing with material supplied in a terrific deal by the United States. News from outside the bubble latest gentleman, a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. And now the apologies a week. Mayor of Kirbyville, Texas, Frank George told a crime website earlier this week in support of the battled school superintendent Tommy Wallace

that speculation rumors about the superintendent's conduct came from, quote, red necks who can't debate an issue. A couple of days later, on his private Facebook page, George apologized for his, quote, bad choice of words. He also posted a notice distancing his social media comments from opinions of the city. Three former Penn State officials are getting jail time for failing to report convicted sexual predator Jerry Sandusky to authorities. Former Penn State president Graham Spaniard and former vice president Gary Schultz will have to spend two months in jail. Former athletic director Tim Curley will spend three months in jail. Rest of their sentences will be house arrest. Sentencing guidelines had called for up to a year in prison. Mike McQuirey, a graduate coaching assistant told administrators that he saw Sandusky molesting a boy in a football team shower in 2001. Spaniard Curley and Schultz didn't report Sandusky to child welfare authorities or police. Why he was allowed to continue at Penn State facilities is beyond me.

So the judge all three ignored the opportunity to put an end to his crimes. The three former Penn State officials all apologized for their actions and to Sandusky's victims before the sentences were handed down. I deeply regret I did not intervene more forcefully. Spaniard said Curley and Schultz also told the court they were sorry they didn't do more. I'm very remorseful I did not comprehend the severity of the situation said Curley. I sincerely apologize to the victims and to all who were impacted because of my mistake said Schultz it really seconds me to think I might have played a part in children being hurt. I'm sorry I didn't do more and I apologize to the victims. The controversial scaffold installation you heard about it here last week. I believe that the newly renovated Minneapolis sculpture garden will be dismantled taken to a fort and ceremonially burned according to officials of the war. The sculpture partly depicts the mass hanging of 38 members of the Dakota tribe in Mancato, Minnesota in 1862. It sparked protests last weekend. Elders of the Dakota tribe met with the artist Los Angeles based Sam Durant as well as the city authorities and the art center to discuss the future of the installation following the meeting.

The neutral mediator for the parties announced this scaffold will be dismantled during a ceremony at the sculpture garden led by Dakota spiritual spiritual leaders and elders. The wood will be removed by a native construction company taken to fort smelling where it will eventually be burned during a ceremony. The artist agreed never to replicate the Dakota gallows. He also transfers the intellectual property rights of it to the Dakota people. Durant said he'd done historical research on the events depicted in his work but admitted he had not met with the people whose ancestors were affected by those events. Quote, I just wanted to apologize for the trauma and suffering that my work has caused in the community and I felt that very much Durant, the artist said. There's no question that the Walker's process in placing the sculpture in the sculpture garden was flawed. Said the executive director of the Walker art center. I apologize we were not sufficiently aware of the implications of displacement or sympathetic to the pain and suffering this would elicit. And Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi apologized to a 13 year old boy for the municipal government's failure to act swiftly when he was bullied in elementary school for being a nuclear evacuee from Fouke prefecture.

The mayor said that she vowed to the boy and his mother to more seriously tackle bullying. He was called germ as a reference to nuclear contamination by his teacher and he forked over $13,500 in apparent extortion fees to his classmates. That, ladies and gentlemen, is some bullying. The apologies the week a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Now in other news related to President Trump, of course, his one of the people who was most active in lobbying for him not to get out of the Paris Peace Accords was his daughter Ivanka and her husband, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner Kushner's efforts may have been possibly distracted because now he has been named a person of interest. There were reports this week that he had held a previously undisclosed meeting with a Russian banker during the transition period.

He remains, according to all reports, among the most trusted, if not the most trusted of the president's advisors. He could advise, he sheep at half the price, thinks my daughters ditch our nice son-in-law, son-in-law, son-in-law. He tries to keep me calm, son-in-law, son-in-law, to make sure I don't bomb, son-in-law, son-in-law.

Any things I need a clue, he knows just what to do, what's more, he's a Jew, son-in-law, son-in-law, son-in-law, son-in-law. Sometimes I'd light him down, son-in-law, son-in-law. That's when they call me a clown, son-in-law, son-in-law. Despite his strong appeal, I didn't like the climate deal. You called me a big slum meal, son-in-law, son-in-law, son-in-law.

And now ladies and gentlemen, news of the Olympic movement. A store bought teeth. Produced by Jim Eversold's junior. Not the teeth, the news. More than 80 American athletes have sent medals they wanted Rio to the U.S. Olympic midi headquarters to be shipped to games organizers who will replace them due to flaking, black spots, and other damage. The Americans, including gold medal wrestlers, Snyder and Helen Marulis, are among at least 100 Olympians from across the globe with defective medals. Beach volleyball star Carrie Walsh Jennings is also in the group.

She says her bronze medal is flaking and rusting. USA Swimming Spokesman Scott Lakeman said some swimmers have damaged medals as well. They'll wear them underwater. No. The USAC learned about the problems in December reached out to all American sports federations in January to begin the process. Apparently it's a long process because here we are in June. Rio officials, the Rio Games spokesman Mario Andrada said officials have noticed problems with the covering on 6-7% of the medals. The most common issue is that they were dropped to mishandled and the varnishes come off and they've rusted or gone black in the spot where they were damaged. It's not uncommon for medals to be passed around at post-game parties, but this amount of damage is unusual. Stockholm's mayor has maintained there is no chance of the Swedish capital pressing ahead with the bid for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Winter Games, the Swedish Olympic Committee had claimed they believed they can persuade politicians in the city to change their mind back to campaign. But the mayor announced their opposition in April due to a lack of political support, as well as a lack of clarity over finances. The Olympic Committee claimed her comments were, quote, premature and probably based on unclear facts, unquote.

Attention Kellyanne Conway, unclear facts, that's a new one. Deadline Tokyo, Japanese hotelier, who denies that a 1937 massacre by Japanese troops in the Chinese city of Nanjing ever took place, a Nanjing denier has no intention of removing books with his revisionist views from his hotels during the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Tokyo-based hotel and real estate developer. APA Group came under fire this week over books by its chief executive, Toshio Motoya, which contained essays in which he says the Nanjing massacre never happened. The books were placed in every room of the company's 400 plus APA hotels, following protests, including Chinese calls for a boycott of the chain. APA temporarily removed the books from hotels hosting athletes for a sport event on Japan's Northern Island of Hokkaido. In his latest book entitled The Real History of Japan, Japan Pride, Motoya says the so-called Nanjing Massacre story is fabricated and blames looting in killings in the city on members of the Chinese Army. Well, that'll do it.

He says his latest book, oh sorry, yeah, the Japanese Army merely exposed and put to death the plane closed soldiers who abandoned their uniform stole the garments of regular citizens and were hiding in the refugee zones with weapons and ammunition he wrote in the book. China says Japanese troops killed 300,000 people in Nanjing from December 1937 to January 1938. That's like a month and a half, a post-war allied tribunal put the death toll at about half of that. Would I remove the book during the Olympics just because they're Olympics? That's really stupid. He said at a ceremony to mark the publication of the book. His firm has 72 hotels, either built or in the planning stages in the Japanese capital, which suffers from a hotel crunch that has planners fearing a shortage of rooms during the games. He also says Korean women who worked in wartime brothels, the so-called comfort women, were not coerced. He's a broad band denier.

Slowly and steadily opponents of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics are being heard despite the overwhelming sense of national prides around in the games according to the Asahi Shimbun. Their criticism against hosting the event ranges from ballooning costs. Well, just don't go ballooning to exploitation for political purposes. Dozens of uniformed and plane closed police officers recorded protesters' words in January. When group members expressed opposition at a meeting of Tokyo Olympic bid committee attendees call them unpatriotic. And a new budget released by Tokyo 2020 appears to have cut over $5 billion in operating costs for the games after pressure from the IOC. That was easy. Tokyo organizers new budget projects the 2020 Olympics will cost a total of $12.9 billion.

Addies got that on him. This budget includes the 5.6 billion Tokyo 2020 organizing committee budget. That's a lot of organizing. The rest of the budget would be provided by the Tokyo metropolitan government. That's the taxpayers as well as other levels of the government of Japan. That's the taxpayers. Previously Tokyo 2020 had put a $18.1 billion cap on budgeting for the games. Last year reports showed hosting the games could be a $20 billion expenditure, the governor of the Tokyo metropolitan government immediately expressed concerns over the rising costs, pledging to come up with solutions to reduce expenditures. Initial solutions proposed including moving Olympic events outside Tokyo. The IOC was worried about the situation pushed for the creation of a four-party working group to address the rising costs. For more than a year Tokyo 2020 has been under pressure by the IOC to state its costs more clearly. Those unclear facts that they're hurting us. Tokyo 2020 president Yoshira Murray was quoted by local media apologizing for the delay in determining the allocation of costs.

Tokyo has just over three years to deliver its obligations to host the 2020 Olympics. Says the president of Tokyo 2020 preparations have been have fallen behind by about a year. We have to catch up. Let's all tune in, won't we? The Olympics. It's a movement. And we all have to catch up. Every day! The Olympics. The Olympics.

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