BONUS: The Dangers of Using Tear Gas on Women and Children
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
We are using tear gas on women and children at our Southern border. Peter Ogburn talks to Emma Roller, who wrote a piece for HuffPost about how dangerous the chemical warfare is. Plus, using tear gas is usually just the beginning. Things have a tendency to escalate after that. Read her piece here:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tear-gas-border-warning_us_5bfdceb4e4b0d23c21378b68
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Bill Press Show. |
| 0:13.2 | It is the Bill Press show. |
| 0:14.4 | My name is not Bill Press. |
| 0:15.9 | My name is Peter Ogburn. |
| 0:17.1 | I am here for the weekend edition of our podcast. |
| 0:20.6 | As you know, we cover just as much news as we |
| 0:23.6 | possibly can when we are on during the week. But there are a lot of things that we want to dig |
| 0:29.1 | into, go a little bit deeper on the weekends. And that is what we are doing today. And I am so |
| 0:35.1 | excited to bring on my guest today. |
| 0:38.1 | She is a familiar voice, if you've listened and watched the show for a long time. |
| 0:42.0 | She's Emma Roller. |
| 0:43.2 | Emma, how are you? |
| 0:45.1 | Hello, Peter. |
| 0:46.0 | How are you? |
| 0:46.9 | I'm so good. |
| 0:47.6 | Now, folks might remember you came in the studio with us until you moved away. |
| 0:53.6 | You're no longer in the D.C. area, but we're so |
| 0:55.7 | happy to have you back on to talk about some of your writing. You're still writing, of course. |
| 1:01.8 | I am. I live in Chicago now. I'm from the Midwest originally, so I'm a little closer to home now, |
| 1:08.6 | though I miss my D.C. friends, and especially you guys. |
| 1:12.9 | Well, we certainly miss having you in, but it's very nice to reconnect with you. |
| 1:18.4 | You are writing about a number of different things and a number of different publications. |
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