Big Pharma/Oil Look To Derail Reconciliation & Hacker Stole Data From 50 Million T-Mobile Customers

Via America’s Lawyer: A group of nine Democrats pledge to obstruct their own party’s $3.5 trillion budget bill which would threaten their donations from pharmaceutical and fossil fuel industries. Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss more. Also, 50 million T-Mobile customers were targeted by a hack that exposed their driver’s licenses and social security numbers. Consumer rights attorney Abbas Kazerounian joins Mike Papantonio to explain.

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Big pharma and the oil industry are trying to derail a massive spending bill that Democrats are desperate to try to get passed. Um, wow.

Yeah, this.

This, this is, this is some real maneuvering, isn't it? It is to shut down this, to shut down reconciliation.

Yeah.

You know, first of all, real quick, reconciliation is what?

Yeah. It's basically where the chair of the budget committee, Bernie Sanders, can go through, can pass a bill with only a 50 vote margin, actually 51 vote margin.

Yeah, 51.

Which means you have to have every single Democrat on board and you have to get VP Kamala Harris to come in and be the tie breaking vote. You can only do reconciliation three times per session. So it's kind of like a little genie. You got to choose your wishes very carefully and this would be their third wish, but it's a big one and it's one that this country needs.

Ties up infrastructure with the budget. The, the, the, you got Democrats who are saying, oh, we can't, we hate this because you're taking away, they're not saying this, but it's affecting the, it's affecting the oil industry and it's affecting big pharma. Here's what's so ugly. It affects big pharma. These are Democrats who are willing to say, hey, you know what, I am against the idea of lowering prices for drugs. I mean, can you imagine that. The other thing that these Democrats are saying is I'm really against making any move away from fossil fuel. That is the, that is a simple truth about what's going on here. And it's Democrats, it's moderate, what you'd call moderate Democrats, but some of them have not been characterized as moderate in the past.

Right. And let's go, let's name them here. We got Gottheimer, Bordeaux, Case, Costa, Cuellar, Golden, Gonzalez, Schrader, Vela and of course you have the US chamber of commerce right now, running ads, complementing and praising all nine of these Democrats. This, by the way, it was put together by David Sirota over at Jacobin. And he's wonderful. I love what he does here.

This, this report by Sirota in Jacobin magazine is excellent. Let's put the names of those folks up there and let's let the American public see who's messing with them. These are the folks.

Yeah. And this, this is a must pass piece of legislation. It gives the public something real, some real benefits to their daily lives. You can't have these big interests come in and try to kill them.

Big pharma, big oil, always in charge of our lives. No difference here. Farron, thank you for joining us. Okay.

Thank you.

Consumer data breaches unfortunately happen like clockwork these days. There's been a massive cyber attack against wireless customers. This time targeting more than tens of millions of T-Mobile users. Consumer rights attorney Abbas Kazerounian joins me now to talk about that. Abbas, first of all, fill us in on the details of this breach. How many, how many of the T-Mobile's customers were actually affected, Abbas, and how exactly did hackers get, get ahold of this information?

Hi, nice to see you again, Mike. So on approximately August 16th, last month, some bad actors, some hackers, if you will, hacked into the networks of T-Mobile and compromised approximately 55 million consumers data points. And the data that we're talking about includes social security numbers, driver's licenses, names, date of births and the, if they used a, a pay as you go, they, they also hacked into the pin numbers.

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