Episode 59

3:47 VICE News went to southeast Texas to see how Houston families are facing the limitations of government aid after Hurricane Harvey. 10:37 Darrell Issa became the latest Republican lawmaker to step aside. VICE News asks the question why so many members of congress are retiring. 12:54 Uganda made a bold commitment to end AIDS by 2030, the first pledge of its kind for any country in Africa -- or the world. But now that goal may be out of reach, because of cuts in funding from its biggest donor of health aid: the United States. 19:23 The new U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, Pete Hoekstra, spent his first official day on on the job getting destroyed by the Dutch press. At a conference two years ago, Hoekstra said, falsely, that Muslims in the Netherlands were burning cars and politicians. Dutch reporters have been working together to try to get Hoekstra to explain what he meant. 22:31 VICE News puts artists in a tough position while providing them with their biggest vices. T-Pain’s vices are: drum-machines, cognac, and video-games.