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ginsburg. there is also a link to see all appearances on c-span, as well as many other supreme court videos available on demand. follow the supreme court on c-span.org. >> we have been keeping our ion the lobby of trump tower in new york city, where donald trump has been holding meetings with his potential transmission -- transition team. several have walk through making comments. the president-elect this morning nominated kansas are presented mike pompeo for the job as cia director. alabama senator jeff sessions is expected to be the new attorney general. thetico reporting that president elect will be making a ,ictory tour of states he won and it will happen in the next couple of weeks. donald trump won 30 states.

video.- live you can watch it at c-span.org. south carolina governor nikki haley under consideration for a post. she talked to the federalist society this morning, including this on the republican party. this selection brought within countless things we never thought we would see. there is no need to run through all of them here, other than to say there are important lessons to outcomes, both in the primary , democrat and republican, and in the general election. lessons that we must acknowledge honestly, and problems that we must fix. the after-the-fact dissection of almostdential candidate always focuses on the losing side. that is understandable, but if we as republicans are going to lead effectively, and have staying power as a governing party, we must accept that

donald trump's election was not an affirmation of the way republicans have conducted themselves. the president-elect deserves tremendous credit for the way he was able to connect with the did not do itt he by celebrating the republican party, and the american people did not vote for him because he had an r next to his name. he ran against both parties -- the political system at large, a system he argued was fundamentally broken, an argument that the voters subscribed to in massive numbers. they rejected the political class of all stripes -- republicans included, and we had no one to blame but ourselves. there have been broken promises at every level of government. we need to go back to the basics, and remember we are the party of limited government, the

party committed to creating opportunities for all people, the party of inclusivity. we polled away from that over the past decade. we saw a republican congress that cap levels of spending completely out of control. we saw republican elected officials moved to expand medicaid, instead of working to find real solutions to our health care problems. we sell republicans start to move towards big government, instead of away from it, with things like common core. republicans lost our way. >> vermont senator bernie sanders criticized what he called the corporate media for looking ahead to the 2010 tweet -- 2020 potential election and potential comments. here he comments on party leadership, and what the party needs to do to prepare.

this is the monitor -- >> this is the monitor calling to tell me we are out of money. [laughter] probably not the best career move, but anyway. all right, here we go, folks. thanks for coming. our guest today is bernie sanders, senator from vermont, and member of the democratic senatorial leadership. his last visit with our group was in june 2015 and we appreciate him coming back. we are pleased that jane sanders is joining us for our locale breakfast. our speaker was born in brooklyn, graduated from the university of chicago in 1968 and moved to vermont, worked as a carpenter and later a writer and was elected mayor of burlington in served four terms. 1981. was elected a member of the u.s. house and then the u.s. senate and was overwhelmingly reelected in 2012. as this morning's crowd around the breakfast table underscores,

senator sanders made a spirited run for the 2016 democratic presidential nomination. the subject of his new book, "our revolution" and that ends the biographical portion of the program. now the compelling ground rules. as always, we are on the record. please, no live blogging or tweeting. in short, no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to what our guest says. there is no embargo on when the session ends. will probably end at 10:02 a.m., given the late start. to help you curb that relentless selfie urge, we will e-mail several pictures of the session to all reporters here as soon as the breakfast will end. if you want to ask a question, please do the traditional thing and send me a subtle nonthreatening signal and i will happily call on as many reporters as i can get to in the time we have with the senate -- senator this morning. i'm going to limit myself to one question and ask you to try to do so.

i realize that is probably hope over experience on my part. we will have opening comments and then questions. thanks again for doing this. the floor is yours. sen. sanders: thank you for inviting me to be with you. i want to thank everybody for being here. to say the least, these are interesting times for our country. let me begin by telling you that just yesterday, my office from vermont, montt, a small state, received many, many hundreds of telephone calls urging president-elect trump to withdraw his appointment of mr. bannon to be a major advisor to him. and i think what we're seeing all over this country is extraordinary fear about the president who in his career

before he ran for president led the so-called birther movement, which was a racist effort to undermine legitimacy of our first african-american president. there is great fear among the immigrant community that their families may be broken up and driven out of this country. there is fear of people of the muslim faith about what might happen to them. as i think everybody here knows, this country for hundreds of years has struggled with the issues of discrimination starting with our attitudes of the native american people. we have struggled with racism. we have struggled with sexism and homophobia. we have struggled with discrimination against italians and irish and jews and everybody else. that has been our history. we have a right to be very proud that overcoming a lot of

bigotry, we have moved forward to create a more less discriminatory society. i will tell you having been around this country over the last year, there is no generation in american history that is less discriminatory than is the young generation today. i would hope are a much that -- very much that president-elect trump understands the fear and anxiety of his attitudes on race, on his attitude toward women, and would try to make the american people feel comfortable, more comfortable, and i hope he would do it by rescinding the nomination of mr. bannon. the second point i want to make is that mr. trump -- i would like to get into this during the course of our discussion, campaigned as a populist. campaigned as somebody who was

antiestablishment. i have zero doubt he received the support of many working-class people across this country because some of the positions that he took -- he said he is not going to cut social security. he is not going to cut medicare. he is not going to cut medicaid. well, i was glad to hear that. we look forward to working with him to make sure that he does not cut social security, medicare, and medicaid. he talked about raising the minimum wage to $10 an hour. that is not high enough for me, but it is better than $7.25 an hour, and we look forward to working with them to raise the minimum wage. during the campaign, he said a lot. we will find out soon enough whether what he said was sincere, whether in fact he is prepared to take on the drug companies who charge us the highest prices in the world and

moved to reimportation. >> we will leave this conversation with senator bernie sanders for a couple of moments. work today.ve representatives.]. the house will be in order the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c.,, november 18, 2016, i appoint luke messer to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend vincent

derosa,st joseph's catholic church here in washington, d.c.,. >> gracious god from whom all truth, rights and authorities descend, grant this house wisdom to perceive the common good, strong resolve to carry it out in the service of our citizens, prudence to do so justly and love to do so with compassion and empathy for those most in need. we ask this in your most holy name. amen. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 3-a of house resolution 921, the journal of the last day's proceeding is approved. the chair will lead the house in the pledge of allegiance and invite others in the chamber to join me. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and pursuant to l.

clause 4 of rule 1, the following enrolled bills were signed by the speaker on thursday, november 17, 2016. the clerk: h.r. 845, h.r. 5392, h.r. 6007. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable, the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to the permission granted in 2-h of the rules of the house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on november 18, 2016 at 10:52 a.m. that the senate concur in house amendments to texan title of the bill, senate 2754, that the senate passed senate 3395,

that the senate passed senate 434, that the senate passed without amendment h.r. 5873. that the senate passed without amendment h.r. 4902. that the senate passed with an amendment h.r. 3471. with best wishes i am signed sincerely, karen l. haas. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house an enrolled bill. the clerk: h.r. 4902, an act to amend title 5, united states code to expand law enforcement availability pay to employees of u.s. customs and border protections air and marine operations. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 3-b of house resolution 921, the house stands adjourned until 2:30 p.m. on tuesday, november 22, 2016

the democratic party has to make a fundamental decision, and it goes back to an old song of woody guthrie. the song is what side are you on? it is notin my view , possible to be a candidate of corporate america, of the insurance companies or wall street, not take huge amounts of money from powerful special interests in and say, well, i'm going to champion the needs of a declining middle class. i'm going to fight for the needs

of working-class people and low income people. i do not think you can do that. and i think you have got to make a decision as to which side you are on. i think at a time when the middle class is shrinking, your 43 million people living in poverty, when you mothers out there who cannot afford childcare, when you have millions of people getting ripped off by the form suitable industry, the only major country under not to guarantee health care to all people as a right, the only major country not to provide family medical -- paid family medical leave. the time is for the democratic party to say, we're going to stem with the working families to take on the billionaire class, taking on wall street, taking on the insurance companies. that is my view. >> we're going to go to kevin hall, who i that has a budget question. >> an organization tries to not

to the gossip, let's talk about the budget and you will be the ranking member. what is your expectation and what can you do to slow down a process -- is your expectation that we're going to blow holes in deficits? if you parse the words, it sounds like we're talking not trickle down, but somewhere what kansas with tax cuts -- what you can do and what you're going to have to do. sen. sanders: if i indicated, and i think we can all agree, donald trump ran one of the most unusual campaigns and it turned out to be a very successful campaign. he said many things to many people. one of the things i think you will see, just to divert moment from the question, when he talked about ideas that will improve life for working people like taking on the pharmaceutical industry or not cutting social security.

you will see some of us working with him. but you are quite right. on the other hand, when he also campaigned on, and i will call it trickle-down economics theory, giving huge -- if i may use that word -- [laughter] tax breaks to the very, very wealthiest people in this country and the largest corporations, and then, you know, just magically, which is the essence of trickle-down economic theories, all of these folks are going to reinvest in our economy, create jobs, see an increase in tax revenue and everybody lives happily ever after. it's a wonderful idea except it has never worked and i think it is an unfortunate idea. if the question is, will many of us vigorously combat the idea of trickle-down economic theory in giving tax breaks to the wealthiest people in this country and large profitable corporations, absolutely. i know we talked about tax reform.

well, it is a funny thing. as you know, i've been running around this country for last year and a half talking about the grossly unfair taxes which benefit the wealthy and large corporations. then in one day during the campaign, donald trump did more to educate the american people about the unfairness of our his than i did in the year and a half. he went before the american people and said, i'm a multimillionaire. i have mansions all over the world. i live in the lap of luxury and i don't have to pay any federal income tax. and he told the american people just how unfair and how stupid our current tax system is. if i have anything to say about it, donald trump and is billionaire friends will start paying their fair share of taxes. we have to move to prevent corperations not only in our country, but from all over the world, costing governments all over this world trillions of dollars in needed tax revenue. >> chuck?

>> i would like to take your corporate media chapter into a postscript this morning. the last time i checked, you had 7 million followers are so on twitter, facebook. there has been a discussion about fake news on social media. buzz feed is out this morning with the store this has the final three months of the u.s. presidential election, the top-performing fake election news sites on facebook outperformed the 19 legitimate website, "new york times" and the like. facebook is $320 billion dollar company. it is larger than ge, walmart, and larger than a lot of corporations. are you concerned about that phenomenon on the election? secondly, do put facebook the facebook is $320 billion dollar company. spirit of corporate media influence? sen. sanders: the figures you

gave should concern all of us. i cannot give you a definitive answer. my concern? absolutely. i don't have to tell people in this room, you know better than i do, the changing face of the media in america. the point you are raising is another whole area. there are millions and millions of people who are getting their nsteinifion from fake news from

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