This morning more than 1.8 million residents in Washington and across much of the Mid-Atlantic are still without power, days after powerful storms caused major damage and left 22 people dead. Officials are concerned that the stifling heat could lead to more deaths as air conditioning units remain powerless and generator fumes fill the air.
Former Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has decided to use this crisis as a warning for the threat of EMP - or electromagnetic pulse - something he's championed for years as a possible threat to the U.S. Gingrich has taken to Twitter to sound the alarm, and it’s just the most recent example: it follows his warnings at debates, speeches, and even the forward to a science-fiction novel, One Second After by William Forstchen, that warns about the threat EMP purportedly poses.
We asked our friend, environmentalist David de Rothschild, to come on the show and separate fact from fiction and give us a sense of the most serious threats this wild weather poses. Here's to a Happy - and safe - Fourth of July!
PANEL
Robert Traynham, MSNBC Contributor/Sirius XM’s “The Flaks” (@roberttraynham)
Heather McGhee, Vice President, Demos (@hmcghee)
Lizz Winstead, Co-Creator, “The Daily Show”/Author, “Lizz Free or Die”
Hugo Lindgren, Editor, The New York Times Magazine (@hugolindgren)
GUESTS
David de Rothschild, Environmentalist/Author (@drexplore)
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Alex, can you please stop allowing your guest from Washington Post not give the facts correctly.
He insists on saying that Americans arent experiencing provisions of the health care reform,
He's wrong:
College students can stay on their parents insurance NOW.
The medicare donut hole is closed NOW. Elderly patients dont have to pay extra for their prescriptions
Catastrophic illnesses covered NOW
Children with illnesses covered NOW- cannot be denied for pre-existing conditions NOW...
Health care REBATES from insurance companies that have charged for administration costs are going out to Americans who have paid into their insurance----NOW
sry, its Hugo Lindgren from the New York Times...who's misinformed
Lady490, I'm curious to see how true all that is. Most of ACA's effects don't start until 2014, and there's also the fact some (mostly Republican) states are going to resist implementing it (particularly the Medicaid expansion) regardless, so for citizens of *those* states...
Eh, happier notes now. The hammer-off was lol (in a good way), Alex was pretty decent with a hammer, but maybe she can ask Skips for next time. Herman's such a joke now it's almost sad; his Cain TV's gonna stall right out the gate but for sh!ts 'n giggles I'll watch a little before they run into hosting issues and they replace the hard drives with weeks-old pizza.