Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I am the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine.

It is my privilege today to be joined by the excellent journalist Jordan Cheridan. He is the author of the new, We the Poisoned, the Flint Water Crisis cover-up,

and the poisoning of 100,000 Americans is also a journalist with status coup news.

Jordan Charitin, welcome to Kurt Affairns. Hey, thanks for having me.

Well, I suppose the first question is,

you know, the Flintwater crisis began over a decade ago now.

You've just come out with a book about it.

Some might say you're revisiting, but I think you would say that you are reporting on a story

that has not yet ended.

So tell us a bit about why you thought it was so important to do all of the work that you have

in documenting this crisis in this book and putting it out now.

Yeah, I mean, the book might have come out this year, but it's kind of just the manifestation

of eight years of ongoing reporting.

And really, besides getting the story and building the sources and getting the reporting,

the biggest challenge has been keeping this in the news as an active,

ongoing disaster. Because like so many other stories, I mean, hell, we have mass shootings in

this country and the media stops covering them after a day or two. The media stopped covering

this about eight years ago, for the most part. So I have stayed on it, and it's clear to me,

based on my reporting and just my eyes and ears, this is still an unfolding disaster.

I don't even like the word crisis because people are kind of numb to that word. It's a disaster.

I mean, I was just there two weeks ago. People are still showing me rashes they're getting from the water on their skin.

People are still showing me images and video of brown water coming out of their taps. People have cancer.

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