The following podcast contains a bit of explicit material,

but much, much more that is not explicit, just as a percentage.

It's Tuesday, April 7, 2018, from slated to the gist,

I'm Mike Pesca.

Daniel Dahl, my favorite surf rock pioneer,

no, the indispensable Toronto star reporter,

the fact checker to the stars,

a really one star, the president looked into Donald Trump's recent claim about

how good steel production was going.

Here he is in a meeting last week with pastors.

The dumping is stopping and the steel mills are opening.

The United States steel just announced another two plants.

They're up to eight.

Up to eight.

As Dahl notes, Trump lied in June when he said that US steel was opening six plants,

and then he made it seven, and then talking about that exchange we just heard,

he noted it's now up to eight.

The truth, US steel is restarting blast furnaces in one plant, two blast furnaces, one plant.

Now there is even more scandalous steel news out there, and I wish everyone knew about this.

But what the administration, as headed by steel magnate, really,

Wilbur Ross is doing is it's allowing two huge steel companies,

including US steel and new core, to essentially have veto power over which other US companies

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