Tonight:
Obamacare's staying power.
Hunters against climate change.
And…
Another gross R. Kelly scandal.
Minneapolis' police chief is asking for an independent investigation
into the shooting death of Justine Damond.
The 40-year-old Australian yoga teacher called 911 on Saturday night
after hearing a sound in the alley near her house.
Two officers responded,
and one of them shot and killed Damond.
Neither of the responding officers had turned on their body cameras.
South Korea's government,
under recently-elected president Moon Jae-in,
is proposing rare direct military talks with North Korea as early as this week.
The overture to stop hostile activities at their joint border
comes after several missile tests by the North.
Pyongyang hasn't responded yet—
but if the meeting happens,
it would mark their first set of high-level talks since 2015.
— Chinese censors have banned images of Winnie the Pooh on social media.
The block comes after netizens circulated comparisons
between the honey-loving character's rotund figure
and Chinese President Xi-Jinping—
though authorities didn't give an official reason.
The memes were widely shared in 2013,
but the latest "Pooh Crackdown"
comes ahead of this fall's Communist Party Congress,
where key political appointments will be announced.
Russia says any conditions the U.S. sets to return two of the country's diplomatic compounds
would be "unacceptable."
The Kremlin spokesman said the properties, located in Maryland and New York
and seized by the Obama administration
as part of sanctions against Russia for its meddling in the 2016 election,
should be returned without caveats.
Kicking off his "Made in America" week,
President Trump showcased U.S.-made products at the White House,
which included guitars, rakes and cowboy hats.
He also climbed into a fire truck, before making a speech:
— We've signed more bills,
and I'm talking about through the legislature,
than any President ever.
For a while, Harry Truman had us,
and now I think we have everybody, Mike—
I better say "think," otherwise they'll give me a Pinocchio.
— In the Senate, the health care vote is on hold…
…again.
On Saturday,
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced a delay—
because Arizona Senator John McCain had to have a small blood clot removed from above his eye.
His recovery is expected to take at least a week,
and Republicans, the Senate, and the country will wait for him to come back to the Hill,
because that's how close the health care vote is.
President Obama dealt with something similar back in 2009,
when he was trying to get the Affordable Care Act through Congress.
The very old and very frail Senator Robert Byrd
had to be wheeled in to cast multiple key votes for the bill.
This time, two Republicans are already firm "no" votes,
and that means every other Republican has to vote "yes," or else McConnell's bill—
and the Republican promise to repeal and replace Obamacare—
will collapse.
And in the meantime,
the Republican case is getting tougher.
— Why is this so hard?
One reason is that the Republican talking point
that Obamacare is an abject failure just isn't cutting it these days.
Turns out, it's hard to convince people Obamacare is garbage
after people have seen it benefit their own lives or the lives of people they know.
Let's break it down.
Insurance is now, well, more insurance-y—
a Consumer Reports study in May found Obamacare
had helped cut personal bankruptcies in half since it was implemented.
We used to talk a lot about people who were "underinsured"—
Karen Pollitz at the Kaiser Family Foundation
took me down health insurance memory lane today,
to a time before the ACA:
75 percent of plans back then didn't cover maternity care;
60 percent of plans would only cover a fixed amount over your lifetime—
if your coverage cost more than that, you were screwed;
Almost half didn't cover addiction treatment;
And more than a third didn't cover mental health.
Now, the vast majority of insurance plans have none of those coverage holes.
So that's a real personal economic impact—
from Obamacare.
The health care economy is feeling impacts, too.
Some of the sharpest criticism of the Republican proposed healthcare bill
has come from the health insurance industry.
That could be because, over the past 10 years,
health care stocks have done dramatically better than the S&P 500 as a whole.
Now, is it all sunshine and rainbows?
Not at all.
It's true that for some people in some states,
Obamacare has meant higher premiums and fewer choices.
Polling also shows that most Americans want changes to the law.
But the improvements in healthcare
make it impossible to honestly argue that the ACA has been a total disaster.
— The U.K.'s Brexit Secretary David Davis
met his counterpart Michel Barnier in Brussels today
to resume haggling over Britain's departure.
— For us, it's incredibly important we now make good progress
and now it's time to get down to work and make this a successful negotiation.
— So far, the negotiations have been sluggish and testy—
especially arguments over the rights of European citizens in the U.K. after Brexit,
and the amount the U.K. will pay to cover the costs of obligations it's already signed up for.
When negotiators finally have a deal in place,
EU lawmakers, MEPs, will have to vote to ratify it,
and many of those from the remaining 27 countries
are in no mood for compromise.
— I'm going to pull you back a year:
The United Kingdom has gone to the referendum,
the vote's come in, and they've voted to leave.
What was your reaction?
— Well, first of all, disappointment.
After they decided to leave,
the biggest search on Google was, "What is the EU actually?"
I'm just disappointed that's the main feeling—
that we couldn't have had this honest debate earlier.
And then, of course, the British people make up their minds, it's up to them.
— This is such a grave decision,
for the U.K. but also for the European Union.
It sent really shockwaves, I think, throughout Europe,
and I'm very disappointed.
And I still haven't gotten over it, so to say,
a year later, that they're really leaving.
I mean, imagine, they're really gonna leave.
— But there must be lessons to be learned, surely.
If there are people who are saying,
"Actually, we want to reclaim our sovereignty,"
"we don't like the amount of laws that are being drawn up here in Brussels"…
— …and they voted against it. — The union is not perfect, that's for sure.
The situation now is also in the hands of the U.K.,
and you can see that they don't know how to do it
and how they're gonna handle this crazy situation
in which they have put their people.
We all feared, at that time,
that this would open the door for other "exits."
— The wrong reaction would be, "Ah, okay, we defeated populism,"
or, "We defeated the extreme right or the extreme left and the problem is solved now."
No, I hope that the conclusion here is not,
"Okay, now the pain in the ass has gone," you know?
Sorry for my undiplomatic language, but, to some, the U.K. was.
I mean, it's important that we, hopefully, do a deal with the U.K.
But the interests of the 27,
from our perspective, is now much more important.
And we put at the top of our list—
and indeed we may disagree on a number of economic things—
but we put on top of the list, all of us, the rights of EU citizens in the U.K.
— Britain's Foreign Secretary has said the EU can "go whistle" for the,
his words, extortionate divorce bill:
— And I think that to "go whistle" is an entirely appropriate expression.
— It's not an extortionate divorce we want.
We want a fair deal.
We didn't vote in favour of the exit.
— The only thing the U.K., or the EU negotiator, is saying
is, "We didn't want Brexit, but we're ready to negotiate."
The U.K. wanted Brexit,
but has been very, very chaotic in actually signalling what they want.
So let's get to work.
— Do you think that, at the moment,
the United Kingdom are on course for getting a deal?
— It's gonna be very, very difficult.
Because I mean, they wasted so much time
finally agreeing what they actually want,
because no one knew that…
— And still they don't know. — …and then, they did an election…
— …wasting many more precious months.
So we're now in 2017 already, so a year has passed.
And the idea is to have a divorce arrangement agreed on,
and then also a new trade agreement.
And if we look at trade agreements,
they take usually years to negotiate…
— So, let's say there's been some negotiations
and some form of deal is put forward to them members of parliament—
including yourselves, 751 of them.
What would make you vote "no"?
Are there any red lines?
— The issue of the citizens' rights.
Absolutely.
— That would go for all three of us, I am quite sure.
— That's the red line, the first red line.
— And then there are some more, if I read between the lines correctly.
— It's really interesting—
three different parties, different countries, all very unified when it comes to Brexit.
— On this issue, yes.
Here we stand united on the issue of the citizens.
Let's fight for them first.
— This is Bill Geer.
For four decades,
he's been working on wildlife conservation,
both in Utah and in Montana, where he's lived for the past 30 years.
So, when he retired four years ago, he could have taken a step back.
— Can we do some soundcheck now?
— Instead, he embarked on an ambitious, self-funded project:
to travel the Northwest giving climate change presentations to an important voting population—
hunters and anglers.
— Thank you for being here.
Without further ado, I'd like to invite up Bill Geer.
— So far, he's driven tens of thousands of miles,
and spoken to 43 clubs.
— We get to vote in elections.
We get to discuss things in town square or on TV.
We get to call things fake news if we want to.
We get to debate whether or not we think climate change is real.
Fish and wildlife don't have that.
— In the U.S.,
42 percent of hunters and anglers identify as Republicans,
and conservative Republicans are more than five times less likely than liberal Democrats
to believe that climate change is caused by humans.
But Bill,
who was a delegate for Bernie Sanders in the last election,
thinks he can change that.
— I'm not going to ask you to sign a letter
or call a congressman.
I'm asking you to think for yourself.
And if you can do that, it'll be worthwhile.
— Where is your favorite place on Earth?
If you're like me, Montana's pretty hard to beat…
— Bill's presentations consist of videos he makes himself,
with help from a small team of volunteers.
He says he prefers them to powerpoints,
because using videos prevents interruptions by climate deniers.
— …it's time, while no one has all the answers to climate change,
we all know that we're dealing with a rapidly changing world.
— Why did you guys come here tonight?
— I wasn't familiar with Bill,
so I was curious what he had to say.
I thought his videos that he gave tonight were pretty informative
and, um…
…kinda scary, to be honest.
— What did you think of the presentation?
— The part of this whole presentation which dealt with Montana.
I think that it speaks for itself.
— Are you Republicans, Democrats?
— You know, I bleed red, white and blue.
— So no specific affiliation?
— I have a really hard time with everybody back in Congress and Senate right now.
— Hellgate Hunters and Anglers was one of the clubs that attended Bill's latest presentation.
We spoke with their president, Kit Fischer, about Bill's approach:
— When Bill talks about climate change to people like your club,
do you think that it helps
that he's the kind of guy that you want to go fishing with?
— Yeah, you've gotta be one of the tribe.
A climate organization could not walk into Hellgate Hunters and Anglers
and say, "Hey, I wanna sit down and tell you guys about climate change."
— Yeah? Why not?
— Because they won't be able to get 10 minutes at a meeting.
When you have one of your peers come in,
who can say, "I'm not here to sell you on something,"
"but if you looked even 25 years ago,"
"conservationism was not a partisan issue."
And in recent years, it has become more and more partisan
as some of these big issues have popped up.
— This isn't just some retired guy's pet project.
Back when Bill worked for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation,
appealing to hunters and anglers to affect political change was one of his strategies—
and it got real results.
— How many acres were you able to to protect?
— Over 2 million acres.
— When Bill talks to hunting clubs,
he makes a point of telling them that he's not here to make them lobby Congress or sign a petition—
but that's only sort of true.
— You, by going to these various hunters clubs,
you're essentially changing the minds
of a very, very important voting population in Montana.
— Of course.
— Is that by design?
Are you trying to do that?
— Yes.
— Yeah?
— Except I have to do it in stages.
I have to provide factual information so they can feel like they're better informed,
then come back and take the next step.
And eventually get to, "You know?"
"I need you to sign a letter or call your congressman up and down the road."
— You're retired. — Yes I am.
— Are you spending your retirement fund on this, or your savings on this?
— Yes I am.
— Why would you do that?
— I have 11 grandkids.
The world we're going to live in is going to be a living hell, quite frankly.
That's why.
It's not just us in our lifetime—
the changes are coming faster than we ever thought they would.
I can't bear the thought that what I'm doing is ignoring all that.
And I love hunting and fishing.
— In 2002,
music reporter Jim DeRogatis received a videotape
that allegedly showed R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl
and urinating in her mouth—
which set off a child pornography trial.
The singer was acquitted of all charges.
Now, 15 years later,
DeRogatis has published a lengthy report on Buzzfeed
that claims R. Kelly is running a "cult"
in which young women are being emotionally and sexually manipulated.
Dexter Thomas has more.
— According to the article,
Robert Sylvester Kelly is keeping several young women in isolation from the outside world,
and essentially is controlling every aspect of their lives.
He allegedly tells them when they can bathe,
who they're allowed to talk to,
and even dictates how they're supposed to have sex with him.
If they break any of his rules,
they're punished.
The parents of the young women have gone to the police,
the police aren't able to do much about it.
That's because, unlike the charges of child pornography that put him on trial in 2008,
what's happening here isn't necessarily against the law—
everyone involved is above the age of consent,
and the women themselves have said that they're fine.
I talked to Richard Devine,
former Cook County State Attorney who was involved in the 2008 case.
— In our situation, the child pornography was appropriate
because the individual woman was underage.
At least as far as I understand it from the article,
all the young ladies involved are of adult age,
or age of consent.
Frankly, it would be very significant
to have the women themselves be willing to cooperate
in order to see if there's anything there.
— In an email,
R. Kelly's lawyer told us he is "both alarmed and disturbed at the recent revelations,"
and that R. Kelly "unequivocally denies such allegations."
So what happens next?
Well, it depends on whether people care more about this
than they cared about the child pornography case nine years ago.
After all, that trial didn't end his career.
It didn't stop Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber from wanting to collaborate with him,
and it didn't stop Alexander Wang from featuring him as a model.
It also didn't stop his album from going number one last year.
And people are still going to his shows—
and unless he cancels this next one,
people will probably still go to his concert next week.
A lot of companies are making money off of R. Kelly.
And unless they all of a sudden decide to stop doing business with him,
this scandal might blow over just like the last one.
This past spring,
Sarah Bond found herself at the center of an unexpected controversy.
Sarah is a classicist—
a profession that doesn't really attract conflict,
especially about race.
This particular controversy, weirdly enough,
was about an article she wrote
on ancient statues and something called "polychromy."
— White marble statues are what you normally see when you go into any museum today.
They're really what is mostly presented to the public,
either in movies or in video games or in museums.
But we know, particularly from a lot of digital technology,
that polychromy was something that was quite common.
— "Polychromy" is an academic term that just means "lots of paint."
Over the past 30 or so years,
scientific and imaging advances have made it possible to know that this archer,
sculpted around 500 BCE,
actually looked like this.
Sarah's argument was about skin color.
Paintings from ancient Rome and Greece
show a wide variety of skintones that reflected multi-ethnic society.
So why are these statues always presented in bare marble?
— The belief that Romans are white people is something that's widespread.
Julius Caesar often gets depicted as a pretty white guy,
when in fact he probably had a much darker, Mediterranean skintone.
— The image of these ancient societies as mostly white
can be traced back to an 18th-century scholar named Johann Winckelmann,
who was fixated on the purity of white marble.
— There is no monolithic skintone or the entirety of the Mediterranean.
You have people that are from North Africa,
people from what is modern day Nigeria and Ethiopia,
that are intermixed.
— For centuries, nobody questioned any of this.
And now, the work of figuring out what these statues actually looked like
fall to people like Rachel Sabino,
a conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago:
— This pigment in here we analyzed,
and it is red lead so we know certainly
that this whole sweep of drapery was more than likely a maroon-y color.
As for the skintones,
that's always the question because those are some of the more fugitive types of pigments.
They don't last the longest.
We're not always sure if they were meant to be somewhat ephemeral-looking,
or if they were meant to be these flat monochromes.
— To Sarah,
the paint on these statues challenges the belief
that the Western world was built by white emperors, white scribes,
and white artisans who created white statues.
— What you're describing is this normalization of white marble.
What effect do you think that's had
in terms of building out standards of beauty in the Western world?
— So I think that Western civilization is itself a cultural construction,
something that has been reused
to argue for the superiority of Europeans and for Western civilization,
and thus to connect the U.S. to Europe in this cultural heritage.
— Sarah and a growing number of classicists believe
that polychrome statues should come with some cards, displays,
or even overlaid projection that would show how they originally looked.
— There's resistance to any sort of alteration,
in something that's been perceived as an art historical standard—
even in the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
So there are gonna be people who are attached to the idea that these things were white.
— It's something that was transmitted to us because paint gets rubbed away.
But at the same time,
it's not something that is a reality.
It's a fiction that we really like telling ourselves.
—That's VICE News Tonight for Monday, July 17th.
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