A powerful energy company in Florida has been running a secret lounge used to lobby politicians. Plus, you can now add dangerously contaminated water to the growing list of problems facing California residents. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. A powerful energy company in Florida has been running a secret lounge used to lobby politicians. Wow. Okay. Let me lay it out a little bit. It's 3000 square feet. It's hidden from the public. There's no way that you even know that the Florida Power and Light or NextEra who owns Power and Light, owns this. And this is, this is a, it's been described by the politicians who go there and the lobbyists who go there as the nicest venue in Tallahassee that some kind, people call Tallanasty because there's not a lot of venues like they've built here. Well, and, and it is, you know, the, the media did describe this very aptly as this is as close to the smoke filled back rooms that, you know, we've heard legends about as you're ever going to get, because that is exactly what this is. They bring in lobbyists. They bring in the politicians from right down the street at the Capitol. Regulators. Yeah. They bring in the regulators and they say, hey, come on in, have a couple drinks on me. Look at this nice plush place. You have to have a special employee who has a key card access to even get in. There's no signage on the outside of the building. So nobody even knows what this place is. But it's so they can basically rub elbows and tell people, listen, you gotta give us this legislation. We'll put money in your campaign. We'll schmooze you. We'll wine and dine you. Everybody goes home happy. And what does it accomplish? It accomplishes in Florida right now you have people that are paying rates, you have, we get calls all the time. Unfortunately, we can't sue them. They have this weird immunity that doesn't allow us to sue 'em. Mother of two called couple of weeks ago, Mike, I can't pay my bill and feed my children. Retirees who are living on a fixed pension that have gone, their bill has gone from $100 to $400 a month. And the regulators who, by the way, hang out at this really ritzy venue where they're served free liquor, those regulators are the people who said, yeah, you can go ahead and raise your rates $10 billion. It doesn't make any difference to us. Doesn't make any difference how you load it. You confronted it, load it, however you wanna do it. And it, it's just absolute pay to play. That's what this is. It, it really is. And just so people understand too, you know, my power bill was about $200. It jumped up the one I just paid yesterday, $540 a month. It's not just Florida. You see this, this is NextEra. NextEra is honest to God, they have been caught with their hands in the tilt so many times where they're clear influencing politicians. In Florida, the question is, are they violating our sunshine laws? Are they violating a, a law that says you can't simply gift things like liquor and a venue like this to politicians. And you have to report when you're going to meet with our politicians. That's what this is. It's a closed door meeting. And you know what? Taxpayers and consumers are paying for that. Well, and what's even more interesting too, is that even inside this secret floor of this building, where the room exists, there's also a second secret room. Yeah. Talk about that a little. So there's another secret room and that is where the real, you know, back room deals are taking place. Yeah. Again, you gotta have a different key card to get into that one. And this is, I mean, my God, if you were to put this in a movie, people would say, well, that's just too unrealistic. Yeah. That's way too on the nose. You're exaggerating. Yeah. But it's happening probably right this second. Oh. In Tallahassee, Florida. Okay. Well, what we know from looking at documents, and again, people don't understand, I can't sue them. I get calls all the time. Can you sue them? No, I can't because of the way the laws are written. But here's what we do know. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH_GKhQ5NZQ

Donald Trump's former lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen this week said that he believes Trump will end up flipping on his own children in order to save his own skin. This prediction came after it was announced that the New York attorney general was joining into the criminal investigation into the Trump Organization. Cohen knows Trump better than anyone, and given what we know about Trump it seems incredibly likely that he would throw anyone under the bus to save himself. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/554539-michael-cohen-predicts-trump-will-turn-on-family-after Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RingofFireRadio Google+: http://plus.google.com/118415831573195648557 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ Follow more of our stories at http://www.TROFIRE.com Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. This week during an interview on MSNBC, Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer slash fixer, told Joy Reid that he believes, he is predicting that Donald Trump is actually going to flip on his own children in this New York investigation. Michael Cohen, a guy who knew Donald Trump worked for him for 20 years, again, as the lawyer slash fixer. So he's very familiar with how Donald Trump reacts in legal situations. That's why this is actually fairly important information. He knows how Trump works. He has helped get Trump out of trouble. So when this guy comes out and says, listen, based on two decades of experience of working with this, man, I fully predict him to flip on his children and throw them under the bus to save his own hide. I think that's the kind of thing we might want to take a little bit seriously. And honestly, I don't care if he does, or if he doesn't, this is going to be fun. I know there's a lot of speculation right now about why the New York attorney general decided to get involved in this. And unfortunately, right now, all we have is speculation. But another Trump organization executive earlier th ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd99__Ay90E