Flint Officials Caused MASSIVE Crisis & CNN Dismantled From Within

A judge in Michigan has dropped the criminal charges against seven officials involved in the Flint water scandal. Also, CNN wants to become more “neutral,” but the network might be too far gone to save itself. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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A judge in Michigan has dropped the criminal charges against seven officials involved in the Flint water scandal. Wow. Okay. So here, so here's, here's the headline here. The headline is, these politicians made decisions, specific decisions about where the water supply was gonna come from. They knew when they made, and they, they made it because they said, well, we're reworking the, we're, we're reworking the main supply right now, so we're gonna put you the secondary. They knew secondary was completely contaminated, not just with lead, but all types of chlorine oxide, you name it. It was in that water. Caused, caused people to die.

Yeah. It did. Multiple people died of Legionnaire's disease that these public officials who just had the charges dropped against them, they knew Legionnaires was in the water. They knew it was going to kill people, and they hid that information from the public. They have documents, they have tests in their hands that are telling them people are gonna die because of what you did. And they still said, well, let's hide this away so nobody knows. And then this judge who, who is an, an elected judge.

Yeah.

I, I did actually came from a plaintiff's firm.

Yeah.

I was shocked by this decision.

Yeah, me too.

But she comes out and says, you know what? No harm, no foul. All charges dropped.

Yeah. And her rationale was ridiculous. Okay. Her irrational is ridiculous. Look, the state has a constitutional system that they use. It's a way that you bring about charges. You don't, some, you don't sometimes strike, you know, a six to 10 member grand jury. They have a system that in the right circumstances, a judge can sit as a, as the person who reviews the facts and says, yes, there's enough here for an indictment. That's what happened here. This judge says, oh, that's horrible. It's a star chamber. Well, if it's a star chamber, they should change it. The legislature should change it in Michigan. But right now, it's a way that you can bring about an indictment. So that's what they did. And this judge says, oh, no, this is all based on, this is all based on a bad indictment. And all these people walked. They killed people. It's no different than manslaughter. That's what it is. It's absolutely manslaughter. And they let 'em walk. Nobody cares.

Yeah. And, and, and it's even worse too, because you had the original Attorney General of Michigan, it was a Republican at the time, investigating Republicans. Before he leaves office, he says, I'm gonna put people in prison. Then you had the Democrat, Dana Nessel take over.

Oh.

Nessel fires the special prosecutor and his entire team, basically for.

To protect, to protect her party.

Right.

That's what she was doing.

Well, well, she's a Democrat going after Republicans and still stands up for 'em. But this whole thing is a bipartisan failure.

Yeah.

Everybody protecting the powerful is what's happening.

Yeah, yeah.

And people died. They're dead people here.

Well, it wasn't just it, there wasn't, there wasn't completely polarized parties. There, there's a mixture of that.

Oh, absolutely.

And Nessel made some decisions that were pretty close to just being pure political favor and payback.

And, and it's almost as if Nessel intentionally tried to sabotage the way she did with the, you know, one judge grand jury.

Right. Right.

She knew that the other courts probably wouldn't be okay with that. She, to me, is at the heart of all of this, Dana Nessel.

Yeah, well, she may be. The truth is, there's still time to bring charges. There's still time to bring these charges. They still have a chance to do something about it. Otherwise, you're just letting people that, that look, it's no different from somebody drinking a fifth of Jack Daniels and driving 90 miles an hour through a school zone. Okay.