♪ good evening. welcome to "the van jones show." i'm van jones. we've got an amazing show for you tonight. we've got two lifelong champions for justice. one has made it his personal mission to stick up for working families and to challenge the billionaires. we've got vermont senator bernie sanders in the building. bernie's in the building. that's amazing we've got bernie in the building. also, she's been fighting for labor rights, for women's rights, for women's health for decades. the outgoing president of planned parenthood cecile richards is also here tonight. she's in the building. we're going to hear from her. and later, now it's been awhile, agate back in my van, yes, van in the van. get it? because my name is van -- never mind. this time i go to wisconsin, the state that shocked everybody in 2016. it voted for trump, turned republican red.

first time a republican won that state in 32 years. now wisconsin's favorite son, paul ryan, says he's quitting, the republican governor warning they've got a big blue wave billing in that state. i went out and talked so some voters. very surprising results from that conversation. so much to get to. but first, let's talk. i feel like we're living inside a political pin ball machine, okay? in the past two weeks, just been knocked around. bounced from u.s. air strikes in syria, secret talks with the north contrarians. the former fbi director comparing president trump to a mob boss. and we even lost the former first lady barbara bush, who was laid to rest earlier today, rest in peace to her. now, in all this chaos, there are actually some deeper trends and some of them are quite disturbing i don't want us to lose sight of. for example, as difficult as things are right now, most of us got this belief that the next generation's going to make everything better.

just yesterday, we had thousands of young people protesting peacefuling against gun violence. very positive stuff. so it's tempting to believe all we've got to do is just hold on because the youth are going to grow up and they'll fix everything. but hold on a second. just this week, at syracuse university, a fraternity of young engineering students, supposed to be smart kids, got suspended after a video surfaced showing members pledging hatred against black people, latinos and jews. now that i say it was just a satire skit, no malice, but it's super troubling anyway. and you've got a group of white students that got upset that someone stole there confederate flag, this is in michigan, so they returned with a bunch of pickup trucks draped with these confederate flags, intimidating black students. officials had to close the school briefly because of this type of thing. then students at depaul university in indiana. they're protesting after they found racist and anti-semitic threats on their campus. these are young people.

so you've got hate mongering from the 1930s cropping up among today's kids. so maybe we can't just rely on that old myth of inevitable progress. maybe inside every generation, young and old, there is a strong pull towards justice and injustice. if so, you can't just assume that the last generation's human rights achievements are going to stand up forever or that the next generation's advances are going to roll in automatically. unless each generation puts in an equal measure of work. freedom is a constant struggle. so if this period teaches us anything, it's this, take nothing for granted. now, if there is any silver lining, the actual protest against the hatred was bigger than the instance it started. that's a good thing. we've got to keep the fight for good going, though. if there is one person i know to keep a fight for justice alive for a long time, it's our first guest. welcome to "the van jones show" senator bernie sanders. [ applause ]

the legend. good to see you, sir. big honor. big honor. wow. i am so happy to see you, and i have to say, i was surprised -- you've got a new political adviser, cardi b. cardi b. she's out there sticking up for fdr. were you surprised to hear cardi b.'s in line with you on that? >> yes. and here's what the modern world is about. for 20 years i've been fighting to strengthen social security, fighting to increase benefits, and she comes along and suddenly we get more attention in one day than i think i've gotten in 20 years. that says something about the modern world. >> well, it's amazing how she said if you want to make america great, fdr made america great because of social security and you retweeted it. listen, it's so amazing to me

the way that young people relate to you. you are, you know, you're young at heart. i wouldn't say that you're a young guy -- >> you wouldn't? >> and yet somehow -- not so much. >> see, there is droipgs thiscr that goes on. >> why is it that you have >> one time we did a rally during the campaign and a lot of people there at the end you go down and shake a lot of hands. and some young man came up to me and said you know, bernie, what i like about you is you treat us like intelligent people, all right? in other words, we live in a complicated world. and you know what? i cannot explain what's going on in six second sound bite and i can't give you answers in a minute. so when i'd give speeches they'd be an hour or an hour and 15 minutes, and not a lot of people left. because i think there's an a

hunger in this country, kind of an understanding why we are, where we are and how we go forward in a more positive way. >> when i say you're young at heart i really mean that. to me you feel like you're very close to your initial inspiration. i think a lot of people don't know where that comes from. i think a lot of people don't know a big part of your father's family was actually wiped out in the holocaust. >> that is very definitely a part of my fabric and what makes me who i am. i never fully understood, to be honest with you, until rather recently my father came from an area in poland where hunger was an issue, i mean really, really poor people. and anti-semitism was an issue, and there was a world war going on at that and all of that impacted him which impacted me. and the other thing is he came

to this country without anything. we grew up in brooklyn in a rent controlled apartment. and the fact our family not that we were poor, but that money was always a struggle and source of tension between my parents. and i remember the arguments that took place. so i never forgot what it was like to be in a family which struggled financially. >> you know, your dad is an immigrant, and there's so much anti-immigrant stuff, but you're the son of an immigrant. >> right. >> does that give you an ability to understand these dreamers? >> it does. i wouldn't say understand. the situation is different, but i have great sympathy with them. i think, van, and i just a couple of years ago went back to poland with my brother to see where my father came from. it's hard to really feel it. here is a guy at the age of 17 leaving, didn't speak a word of english, no money, had one

brother here in the country that had come a few years earlier. think of the courage to come to a new country and, you know, that just overwhelmed me. so i see these kids and i've been all over this country. kids who have come to this country at the age of 2 or 3, and we have this guy in the white house now who wants to throw them out of the only country that they have ever known, and that's a horrific situation. we're going to fight as hard as we can for these young people. >> absolutely. you mentioned your brother and the most emotional i've ever seen you, when your brother at the democratic convention stands up and starts speaking from his heart about your parents, starts speaking from his heart about you and what it meant. how did that feel seeing your brother making that kind of a statement? >> well, it was -- you know, we came like i said from a family that never had any money.

in a million zillian years my parents wouldn't dream i'd become a united states senator, and that's what my brother was talk about and i love my brother very much. >> you lost your parents very young in your early 20s. how did that impact you? >> my mom died when i was about 18 and my father three years later. and we were out on the world -- you kind of learn to stand on your own two feet and it wasn't the easiest thing. >> you know, i think a lot of people they look at you, they see somebody who has been consistent. i think one reason young people like you, they can go on youtube and they can find you giving a speech in 1970, 1980, 1990, last week and it's basically the same speech. >> i'm not very smart, but i am

consistent. >> you don't spend money on speechwriters. it's basically the same speech. so far so good. you know, at the same time, of course, everybody does evolve. what are some of the things you at this stage of your life know or understand and believe that you didn't know maybe in 1980 or 1990? >> look, i come from a small beautiful state. i urge everyone to come and visit us. we have just great beautiful people. we are an overwhelmingly white state. and when you go around the country you learn it is a beautiful country physically and there are wonderful, wonderful people around the country. but there are a lot of people who have a lot of different issues. and i learned a lot during the campaign. we went into african-american dmunt and sat down and listened. to be honest with you i was not aware of the extent of police

oppression in many communities and the anger that people felt, the fear that people felt against the police. that's not something that exists in -- and i'll never forget as long as i live i was in phoenix young kids with tears rolling out of their eyes and saying it's a constant worry when they come home from school, worried if their parents would still be there. you just learn more and understand the problems better. i'll tell you, van, what i'm feeling good about are the many ideas i laid out during the campaign were seemingly so radical. raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. oh, bernie, you're nuts, we can't do that. well, all over the country people are now doing medicare for all. why isn't the united states

joining every other country on earth? making marijuana legal. all of those ideas just a few years ago seemed very radical are kind of main stream. >> we've got so much to talk about including an issue that doesn't get a lot of coverage but could have a big, big impact on democrat's ability to win elections. as we go to break i love to hear from you. and here's what you had to say to bernie sanders and what he's fighting for. >> we need more universal health care, need more universal day care, parental leave for everyone. we need free public education. >> bernie, please run in 2020. we need you so badly. [ applause ] , you can do it. we can do this. at fidelity, our online planning tools are clear and straightforward so you can plan for retirement while saving for the things you want to do today. -whoo!

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welcome back to "the van jones show". i am talking to senator bernie sanders. there are questions people have, but i want my questions first. i get some prerogative around here. i am thinking about the mid-term elections. i don't hear us talking about as democrats ideas as much as porn stars and robert mueller and et cetera. isn't there a concern or danger we're in the biggest mid-term election of our lives and we're not talking about the right stuff? >> absolutely. and, you know, that has been my criticism of mead from way back when. we have a middle class which has been shrinking for four years. there's enormous pain out there.

the younger generation will have a lower standard of living than their parents. we have a climate change situation which is threatening the entire planet. you've got three people in america who own more wealth an the bottom half and the gap between the very rich and everyone is growing. those are the issues it seems to me we should spend a lot of time talking. >> people who are not on television, it's all impeachment all the time. is that realistic? >> it's bad. i think that that is a mistake. look, i think, you know, the mueller investigation will go where it goes. and i should say that if trump fires mueller that is obstruction of justice. that is an itmpeachable offense. but i think ordinary americans are out there and working two or three jobs, kids are leaving school $40,000 in debt. people can't afford health care,

can't afford prescription drugs. they want us to deal with those issues. so, yes, i think you have to be taking on trump's racism and sexism and homophobia. that you got to do, but most of our energy has to be bringing people around an agenda that speaks to middle class working things. >> on the one hand you've got to appeal to those trump voters who maybe have the economic pain, but some people are afraid now if we go after too much of that we're going to be putting those black women on the black burner on the back seat. this is tough thing. >> this is what i think. it goes without saying that we have got to combat institutional racism and sexism and homophobia in every way we can. we can't give trump an inch on that. but on the other hand, when you're a white working class guy in kansas or a young

african-american in brooklyn, new york, you know what, you want wages that you can live on. i talk about the working class. this is not white people. over 50% of black workers in america make less than $15 an hour. you know what it would mean if we raise the minimum wage, huge wage increases for african-american and latino americans. >> i want you to see what i found about labor unions and the vote. during the industrial revolution the u.s. labor movement began to bring some power to the workingman. they got higher wages, better hours and protection from unsafe working conditions like sweatshops. you like weekends? you like overtime pay? you can thank unions for that. the unionization rate peaked in 1954. back then more than a third of wage slry workers in the u.s.

were in unions. through collective bargaining labor unions increased weekly earnings and brought job security and benefits to workers especially in manufacturing. and that helped to develop a strong middle class in america. >> the middle class. >> the middle class. >> unions built america's middle class. >> well, that was then. recently union membership has plummeted over the past 40 years to 20% in 1983 and less than 11% in 2017. there are a bunch of reasons for this. corporations took factories overseas and jobs have also been growing in the service sectors which often don't even have unions. anti-labor critics say unions are too restrictive, charging members hefty dues, making it hard for companies to innovate or get new employees. >> we won our battles against big union bosses. >> i'm attacking the leadership of the union because they're

greedy and self-interested. >> 28 states have passed right to work laws which have been bolstered by americans. >> what they're really talk about is giving you the right to work for less money. >> these strong holds delivered a real gut punch to organized labor in traditionally blue states. many argue the decline of union membership is also responsible for wage stagnation and an increase in inequality in the u.s. [ applause [ applause ] you know, when i went up to michigan and other places it turns out a lot of union organizations had been streppip of a lot of their right to work laws. and i don't think the obama administration did enough to make sure we built our labor unions to have an opportunity. did we miss an opportunity in

the last administration to strengthen our unions? >> i think so. some fought very hard i think with the opposition we had from corporate america. and when workers come together and they sit down at the bargaining table and they collectively negotiate, they get better wages and they get better working conditions and better pensions and benefits. and by the way, this is important, van. this not only impacts unionized workers who get those benefits. but if you're a nonunion worker and wages go up, your employer is going to have to match those wages. and the truth is over the last 40 years or so we have seen a decline in wages for millions of american workers. we have to rebuild that movement. >> again, and just say, though, the labor unions they went to bat for democrats, fought hard for democrats. they didn't get that help. now, if you critique that sometimes you run into the idea you're being too tough on obama. how do you handle that?

because you got into a bit of trouble recently. people got mad. tell me about it. >> what i talked about was the fact was the business model, if you like of the democratic party over the ten years has failed. and that is instead of being a 50s state party it's a 25 state party. the democratic party has lost about a thousand members of state legislators across the country. what i said that was disguised by the fact that we had a brilliant candidate who won a great campaign in 2008. obama got elected in 2012. that's great, but they forgot about what else was happening. that was my point. >> people may hear that as being tough on obama. it's another challenge i think inside of this moment of reflection for democrats. how can we critique the obama years and figure out where we could have done better or more

without stepping on the rake of people saying you're being too tough on obama, he was beat up by republicans, you don't get it. >> you're right. the 2018 elections will determine the cost of american history, no question in my mind about it. if the democrats control either -- regain control of either the house or the senate in a significant way trump's agenda will be ending. you'll see both bodies -- it will be over. this president is one of it most reactionary presidents in the history of this country. and what we need to do is not only stop what trump is doing. we need to start talking to the american people, working people, not wealthy campaign contributors about what their needs are. >> well, as we're trying to get ready to move forward, we still have to learn a few lessons. looking back, what do you wish the dnc had done differently

during 2016 so that your supporters might have felt more welcome and a moreermented part of the party? >> we're going forward and not back. in my campaign we have to take on everything. we took on the entire corporate establishment, the entire corporate ring of the democratic party. and i think the lesson of that, van, i would hope is that the future of the democratic party has to be with grass roots politics, has to be with working people, has to be with young people and not just wealthy campaign contributors. and by the way, i think that lesson is perkulating right now. you're seeing many people coming forward and saying we're not going to take any corporate tax. >> one thing i would love to get your sense about is going forward -- i'm not going to ask anything about 2020 and your plans, but it does seem like it's becoming more about a

physical fitness. biden says he want to get into it with trump. trump says he can take biden. >> this is among the major issues facing our country, probably a physical fight between biden and trump. i may be wrong. >> listen, i can't tell you how important it is to me to have you here. you -- when you were coming up you looked up to eugene debs, and he was the person you saw as like the leading light for working people. >> and martin luther king, jr. >> sure, martin luther king, jr. and other heroes. i want you know you've got young people who see you in the same light. when we get back, van is driving in the van. i'm driving around wisconsin with a bunch of voters.

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trump shattered that wall and promised manufacturing jobs and new trade deals to the white working class voters up there. and in wisconsin a state that voted twice for obama turned rudy red for donald trump. since then there's been some big shakeups. the democrats pulled off a big upset win. they got a new seat on the supreme court. scott walker says there's going to be a new big wave this fall, and last week wisconsin's golden boy, speaker paul ryan threw in the towel and said he's retiring. we went to check back in to find out what's going on up and also what about this proposed tariff that could start a trade war with china? i'm back in milwaukee. sunny milwaukee. lord, have mercy. it's supposed to be april. supposed to be springtime.

whoo. here we go. hello. >> you know how cold it is? >> yeah, get in here where it's warm. get out this cold. glad to have you. glad to have you. wisconsin is a strange state in that it's got a little bit of everything that donald trump needs to make happy. you've got farmers in wisconsin who might be scared about the trade war with china. you've got manufacturers. some are closing, some or opening. from your point of view when you look at your guys worrying about the farming community, do you

think donald trump starting all these trade wars is a good thing or bad thing? >> i don't call them trade wars. we've been getting jobs from our trade agreements going back a long time. we had 8,000 guys there in 1973, and theliest day i worked in may of '06 we had 60 people. we've got people that are trainable. they were talking about black folk, take these young guys that don't have jobs, train them. we can train these guys. and i think that's one of the things president trump wants to do. >> i have a cousin right now that just went through a trade program. she is is an african-american female that doesn't have a job in that trade. you know why, because she needed experience. she went through everything she went through but yet she still doesn't have a job. >> wisconsin has a lot of rural people that need jobs and make an actual living.

>> if you go into a trade or career medical field especially and you get a year under your belt, you're going to get hired. you're getting hired. >> i disagree. you can tell me that all i have to do is go through this trade program, but i as an african-american is hold to a different standard. >> do you see people favor their own over others? >> i think right now companies, corporations, businesses are doing all they can to hire qualified minorities as well as over whites because they don't want to hear about it. and i don't have a problem with that. if you're qualified i don't care what color you are. the most qualified person should get the job. you shouldn't get the job because you're black. you shouldn't get preferential treatment because you're black or white or blue or mexican. >> you've had two elections now where the republicans were

supposed to win and the democrats won. you've got scott walker saying there's going to be a blue wave. you've got paul ryan running for the hills. is this thing about to fall apart? are people dissatisfied with donald trump? >> i just think with our country we're just so fickle if we're not happy with one, we're going to flip-flop. i didn't see what i saw with obama. >> that's what you did. you voted for obama for change and voted for trump for change. how do you feel now that you voted for trump? >> he's our president, so at a certain point it's like, oh, god, he's our president so how do we move forward with what we have? >> okay. >> they're calling him names, calling him a racist, calling him this, that. it seems not a day goes by some aren't accusing him of something or saying something derogatory. >> i know people don't want to

call him a racist, but everything he says and everything he does is racist. i don't know but if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck. and the reality is he says some flat out racist things and he has not apologized and he has not change. >> and i think it's a matter of interpretation. you know i -- i've heard just about everything he's said and i can understand where somebody might say that's kind of racist. i don't interpret it that way myself. when he talked about mexican folks or illegal aliens, illegal immigrants, i don't think he's being racist by pointing out certain things that prove to be true. and like i said -- >> what about these mid-term elections? >> okay. >> you say there might be a secret red wave. >> yeah, i think a lot of people want and would vote republican. they're just not going to talk about it. they're not going to talk about it.

and my family is very republican. however, they're not happy with trump at all. >> you talk about this blue wave, some people might buy into it. i don't. >> the wave is coming. >> why not? >> this is me now, i wouldn't vote against scott walker because donald trump's president. i just wouldn't do it. >> i think we need to give americans more credit. do we think going to the polls, the things on twitter and the porn stars are going to play into it? do we romanticize kennedy because he had an affair with marilyn monroe? is that okay? >> if barack obama had had two or three porn stars come out and a shady lawyer paying him off, he'd be out of there, right or wrong? >> but is that the media? >> no, i'm just saying -- >> that'll be screaming impeachment, already in the process. trump is not held to the very

same standard as obama was. >> the reason that we have you guys in this car is because you are the three kinds of people that had trump win. you have a hard core conservative. you have a swing voter who's an obama voter who wanted to give someone else a chance and you have a black voter who said the heck to both of them. and that's combination that put trump in office. if you guys all do exactly what you just did he'll be there for eight years and so will republicans. but if anybody in this car changes big changes are possible. >> i'm going to change. i'm not doing that again. >> people are talking about politics again. isn't that what's important? >> i'm glad we're talking about politics because that means i've got a job. [ applause ] when we get back, we've seen these massive marches, the me too and times up movement online. but what are the real challenges

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office for protesting the vietnam war. cecil richards is no stranger to controversy. as a activist of planned parentho parenthood, and she's got a new book just published about her life appropriately titled "make trouble." please welcome cecil richards in the house on "the van jones show." welcome, welcome. >> thank you. >> well, first of all i actually read the book. >> i'm so honored. >> and more importantly i audio booked it, so i actually heard you read the whole book. >> with my texas accent and everything. >> and listen, there were times i was tearing up on the airplane and everything. people have been talking about you behind your back, and i'm

going to tell it to your face, you picked the wrong time to leave us cecil. you know who's in the white house? why did you decide to leave now? well, as you said earlier i'm not leaving in a sense. i'm stepping aside from the job i've had for 12 years in planned parenthood because i think the organization is as strong as it's ever been and i want to be 100% focused to your last segment, getting every single person we can registered, motivated and out to vote this november. >> the republicans are often saying, well, this next generation are on a different place in womens rights, abortion rights. and you're saying you're losing the next generation. is that true? >> it's interesting i've been out on tour for the last couple of weeks. women are flooding these events. young women, women who have been fighting these fights for a long, long time. but, no, i think is the most

progressive generation i've ever seen. they're flocking to planned parenthood not only as patients but activists. i have never felt it's been a better time to be an organizer and activist than it is now. >> one of those women in a strong position that can maybe make a positive difference is ivanka trump. you had an opportunity to meet with ivanka trump and it didn't go as well as you had hoped. what would you say as a strong republican woman leader that she should be doing that she's not doing rights now in the white house. >> well, i mean pretty much anything. i feel right now -- obviously she's the daughter of the president, but putting that aside she's actually one of the highest ranking women in the white house and federal employees. and my understanding is her portfolio is women. there are a number of places in which she could be making an impact, but we are seeing this administration is the worst for women that i've seen in my lifetime. >> just because some people may not know. you got a chance to meet with

ivanka, sat down with her, jared kushner. and rather than making the progress you're hoping to make it became more of a discussion of how planned parenthood gave up doing abortions, how you might be able to get more money. was that disappointing? and i just saw that in the book. >> i wouldn't say i had high expectations for the meeting going in, but certainly my position is anywhere i can go and talk about the important work planned parenthood does, particularly to provide affordable health care for millions of folks every year, then i'll do it. at least it was pretty clear at least in jared's mind, that if we could quit talking about providing safe abortion in this country, we could get more money. and i said, look we're not going to trade away women's rights for more money. i went out and defended oba

obamacare and planned parenthood. >> listen, you just wrote such a warm statement about nancy pelosi. you were her chief of staff and yet republicans want to run against her. what due you wish people knew about nancy pelosi? >> for one thing i think the reason republicans want to go against her as a progressive forgetting the gender issue, i have never worked with anyone who holds our values so strongly and does not give in. she's -- i think she is really und underrated and underestimated. and i guess my general feeling is when i see republicans going after nancy pelosi is we need

more plot less. >> of course hillary clinton wasn't able to pull that off. so you've seen two different campaigns. what do you think that women -- we've got others who might want to run against, like donald trump, having seen one go well and one go badly, what advice would you have for women running against people like him. >> i guess one thing i would say is because hillary ran, it's not going to be easy but i feel she really did what it takes. in any case she's not in the white house, but i do think by any measure she ran a really important campaign. i think what really -- and i know you were talking to senator sanders about this, too. i think that the frustration women are feeling in country right now is no one in

washington are talking about the issues they want. their not talking about health care, access to child care. >> you have people who are watching who feel under assault, they feel this president, his rhetoric is triggering them, traumatizing them. you had to lead an organization that's literally under assault. you had to hold a team together under the roughest of the rough. what gets you through? >> i've been very privilege today boo ea social activist my whole life, and i think you have to focus on the progress we make. because this is long journey for all of us who want to make social change. so i think it's important to recognize when we do win and do things like win obamacare and do things like keep planned parenthood doors open, is every single day we can keep our doors open 8,000 are getting help in

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thinking about the state of the world. first of all, he'd be rooting for the twins and also, as somebody who had to knock down so many racial barriers in the music industry, prince really cared about civil rights and racial justice than the world understood so he'd probably be writing a song about the killing of stephan clark way he did with freddie gray, another unarmed black man who died tragically. he's be disgusted of two young black men arrested walking into a starbucks, but he would be heartened today by the many examples of young, black artists breaking through barriers. he loved kendrick lamar. won a pulitzer prize this week for his album u, damn. he was a big fan of his.

he would have cheered beyonce for her historic coachella set. she's the first black woman to headline and she played for two hours. on the time 100 list. ryan cub lehr. tiffany haddish, rihanna. so many other young brown faces. he would have loved to see so many people streaming through those doors. so i like to close my show with the same words he used to close his show, especially meaningful tonight. peace and love for one another. thanks, prince. how do you win at business? stay at laquinta. where we're changing with contemporary make-overs. then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander with a double palm grab. who has the upper hand now? start winning today. book now at lq.com.

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