that's all for now. "the ed show" starts now. >> good evening. welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. let's get to work. ♪ >> changing climate is harming communities. >> the pressure of the presentation faces to reject keystone. >> the jobs creating the

keystone energy project. >> the keystone pipeline would create thousands of jobs. >> the jobs will move the needle, essentially, although the permanent jobs will be about 50. >> the people have not earned the right to use our land. >> one spill. >> you would not be able to drink it. >> the dirtiest oil on the planet. >> if there is a crack or leak. >> contaminated. >> when do we want it? >> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. when i first came to msnbc five years ago, it was the health care debate. we did a story on the public option. i wanted it. i believed in it. this is an every day story. i believe that we are now in the 11th hour. i believe we are on the verge of potentially stamp of approval to the worst decision this

president could make. for generations to come. if there is a disaster, over the aquifer and it is irreversible damage, what president will do that after president obama? we would be remembering president obama for a long time for all the wrong reasons. he's done so many good things so far. i plead with the president now again tonight. say no. we begin with the angle of the story that is very, very important because i was a 65% person. we have new numbers on the keystone xl. the washington post abc poll shows 65% of americans think president obama should give it the stamp of approval and move forward. 22% oppose it. i make the case tonight to you that i believe that the majority of these folks here don't have all the facts. nobody else is covering it on a day-to-day basis. i used to be part of the 65%

until i did research on all of this. if you look at the facts and talk to folks on the ground, i think fair minded americans would make the turn as i did. they would change their minds. the pipeline is so important to america. it is so important that it is not there. let me make the case again tonight against the pipeline. the polls show that 85% of americans think the xl pipeline will create a significant number of jobs. hold it right there. almost nine of ten americans think this is a job creator. that is the only thing the republicans talk about. where are the jobs? where are the jobs? we have a job creating project in the middle of the country. rand paul in the opening sound bite we just played? he is wrong. he is 100% wrong. some of the righties are feeding on this stuff. here we go jumping in front of the parade.

wisconsin governor scott walker. he wrote a letter to secretary of state john kerry yesterday urging him to approve the pipeline. wisconsin behind the pipeline. interesting. it is nowhere near wisconsin. now walker claims, he claims that the keystone xl would create 9,000 jobs in his state alone over the next 20 years. what what study is he talking about? who can project the country 15 years from now? give me a break. there is no study out there that backs that number out. he is pulling it out of the air throwing it out there thinking people will believe it. he is working on the 65%. this is a big job creator is what it is. no, it's not. governor walker, you're lying. my team worked all day today trying to find that study you

say will create 9,000 jobs in the badger state in the next 20 years. show it to me. embarrass me, walker. show me it is wrong. it's not there. the state department says the pipeline will create 1,900 temporary jobs. when i was on the ground, i talked to people in nebraska and they said, yeah, it will create some jobs, but a lot of them are not going to be permanent. once the project is completed, according to the state department study, there will be 50 full-time jobs. this is the number that they're hanging their hat on at the state department. under 2,000 jobs for two years. in the long term, we're talking 50. somehow there will be 9,000 jobs on a part of the country that doesn't have the pipeline and you are supposed to believe that? meanwhile, 47% of americans, here is a big one. 47% of americans think the

keystone pipeline will pose a significant risk. almost half of america thinks that this is kind of risky to the environment. make no mistake. these are americans that are concerned about the risk. they have good reason to oppose. for example, not too long ago, just last year, there was a devastating, devastating pipeline rupture in the town of mayflower, arkansas. there it is. right below the keystone xl. on march 29th, 2013, exxon mobile's pegasus pipeline ruptured. >> 12,000 barrels of oil covered the streets and back yards of the mayflower neighborhood. although 12,,000 barrels have been vacuumed so far, some

backyards are a more challenging project to take on. >> the surface is wet with oil. the volume is off the street. that is separate from the oil in the yards of the fine residents. >> it was a big pop or loud bang sound. i didn't think anything about it. went on about five minutes later. there was the river of oil. >> the river of oil. that's how residents are describing it. what it looked like as thousands of barrels of petroleum came down the road. >> you ready to have that happen? 40 homes evacuated. five homes were bought out by exxon mobile to mop this thing up. two homes were demolished. hundreds of animals impacted and the nearby lake conway had been

contaminat contaminated. a year later, residents of mayflower are not only mopping up, but still fighting exxon mobile in court. it is interesting. when i was on the ground in nebraska, one of the good old boys told me, if we have a problem on the land, we don't have deep pockets as the oil companies to fight. they are living that in m mayflower, arkansas. it is nothing compared to the keystone xl spill. the pegasus line carried 95,000 barrels a day. the keystone xl is expected to carry 830,000 barrels a day. big difference in numbers. gosh, i wonder if the pressure of the oil going through the pipe is the same. uh, i think it will be a hell of a lot more pressure on this number here. that good old china pipe, i'm sure will work good, isn't it?

here is the map of both pipelines. the pegasus pipeline doesn't run over the aquifer. there it is. if the keystone ruptures, it will be irreversible. you take this spill and you put it right there. you have generational irreparable damage. the reasons to oppose the keystone xl pipeline are clear. many nebraska lawmakers, well they have been bought out by the oil company. they are just not on the same page. is that an inflammatory statement? prove me wrong. 29 nebraska state senators sent a letter to secretary of state john kerry. we have got a lot of letters floating around since we have been covering this. urging support of the pipeline. the 29 nebraska state senators are telling kerry, let's go. let's do it. it is over half the state senate. the report shows trans canada might be buying a bit of influence right here.

according to the web side nebraskawatchdog.org. transcanada has spent thousands of dollars over last few years. $700,000 in a small media state. that buys a lot of time and a lot of influence. there is no doubt transcanada has a deep wallet. they are buying insuranfluence. when i was in nebraska, one former state senator said lobbying was rampant. >> were you in the legislature? >> yes. >> 49 representatives. >> uncamral. >> there was heavy lobbying on both sides. >> on the letter that was sent to john kerry, only one democrat. they are all republicans. one democrat. the one person who can't be bought on this is president obama because this will follow him for a long time. if he really wants to make the

generational statement and make the turn, he has to say no. he has to stand up to big oil and show the american people that big oil doesn't get all it wants. he has to protect the aquifer. he has to keep the town of mayflower, arkansas in mind when he is making this decision. there is another thing to take under consideration in this part of the country if we look at the map. where is the next pipeline going to go? if they have the pipeline approved and the keystone comes over the aquifer, what other pipeline will be stopped in america? this would set a precedent because everybody would say, on the oil side of things, hey, we already have a pipeline going over the aquifer. as a matter of fact, they do right now. when i was in nebraska, that is the case they were making. oh, ed, don't worry about it. we have the first keystone over the aquifer. we have no problems.

yes, they have. they have not had a mayflower problem yet. if they have one here, let's put two. there will be no boundaries. it will be limitless. they will say let's put a pipeline anywhere. you might as well drill in the teddy roosevelt national park in north dakota. that's what they want to do there, too. big oil gets everything it wants. maybe not this time. get your cell phones out. tonight's question, do you think public opinion can be turned on the keystone pipeline? text a for yes or b for no. you can go to our blog. for more, let me bring in climate scientist and professor alan robak and michael broome. great to have you with us tonight. you first, professor. you wrote an editorial today urging president obama to reject

the pipeline. why did you do this? what is your argument? >> first of all, global warming is a real problem. we can explain it in ten words. it is real. it's us. scientists agree. it is bad, but there's hope. >> and we have to solve the problem. building more fossil fuel infrastructure will just delay when we finally move toward solar and wind power. this would be a symbolic statement for president obama to make. to tell the world that the united states is done continuing to expand our fossil fuel infrastructure and ready to take a turn to fossil free energy. >> professor there are studies out there to say carbon emissions would be reduced because of the method of transporting from truck and barge and train. >> the method may be less, but when you burn the oil, you get carbon dioxide. there is a lot of oil in the tar

pits in alberta. we need to leave it there. >> all right. michael, we highlighted the issue in mayflower, arkansas, that spill. what if that happened over the aquifer? >> the impact would be enormous. ed, let me take a second to applaud your change of heart on this. it takes a lot of courage for someone to take a step back and look at the facts and talk to real people about the impacts of this decision. >> i appreciate that. you are very kind. this is not about me. this is about the 65% of the people in this country who want this. i was in there. i do believe that the lack of media coverage on all the networks and all the newspapers don't talk about the issues that you were talking about or any of the other owe poen ends to this. on the jobs to the environmental impact to the land rights to the

constitutional issues involved here. there is a lot of stuff that has to be unpacked on this if you are going to make concisive decision on this. >> this is an proposal to take some of the most toxic and corrosive oil from canada and build the pipeline through 1,000 miles of farms and ranches all the way to the gulf. you brought up the mayflower spill. this is heavier and it would be shipped under intense pressure. the average car tire is under a pressure of about 30 pounds per square inch. the best example we have of a

pipeline of this size is and what happens if there is a spill, can be found in michigan and kalamazoo, michigan. there was a spill there three and a half years ago of tar sands oil. it fouled more than 35 miles of the river in michigan. now three and a half years later, more than $1 billion has been spent. it sunk to the bottom of the river and almost impossible to get out of the river. >> the residents of nebraska are very concerned about the liability issues there as to who is responsible to clean it up. professor robock, i want to ask, if the oil gets into the aquifer, is it irreversible damage? >> it will leak down into the aquifer along with the rain water and contaminate this huge area that is used for agriculture and irrigation over the bread basket of the united

states. it would not be a good scene. >> which would have a long term effect. >> yes. >> professor and and michael, great to have you with us tonight. coming up, the political circus is in full swing at cpac. the rapid response panel breaks down the conservative clowning, but first the fight for workers rights to unionize continues in chattanooga as the national labor relations board considers whether to allow a revote. we weigh in on bob corker's constant pounding on this issue. she ma kes unrwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ she can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪

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i would have never made them if i did not have full assurances that everything i said was 100% fact. >> the right to have a union should be left to the workers. >> joining me tonight is the national steel workers international. the uaw has decided not to talk about it. the bottom line is senator corker continues to talk about it. he wrote in the wall street journal about his actions involved in this. mr. gerard, how hard is it going to be to get a vote, a revote in this plant or any plant? what precedent has to be set or what has been set to call and set the table for a revote? >> look, anytime you are trying to get a revote, it is never easy. let me say this, when you see the response from senator corker, and his sort of exaggeration that he brought forward, when you see him being so defensive, that is because he knows he is guilty. what he is guilty of is

interfering in an independent free election with the workers at volkswagen. what he didn't do is just say it is the workers' choice, but what he did was try to intimidate him he heard from a high source if they voted for the union, they would not get the next model. let me just say a couple of days after that, one of the workers was on the board of supervisors, a senior person on the board of supervisors at volkswagen in germany, with corker's attitude, they have to rethink any plants in the south. >> it is like he is running a pr campaign to mop this up. he says the uaw wants to muzzle public officials like yourself. >> the uaw doesn't want to muzzle any public official. what the uaw is saying and rightfully so, is corker as a senator, the governor of the state, the state senator, all

ganged up and made interference into a free election into the workers and made threats. had that been done by an employer, that would be an unfair labor practice. the agreement with the uaw that they worked together on making sure that the plant was successful, corker, the governor and the state senator came in and intimidated the workers in the form of threat that they could end up losing their jobs over the long term if no new mo models were put in chattanooga. this is a new precedent in my time in the union in 40 years. i never seen a government official stick their nose in like this. >> he is now trying to soft pedal it saying they think i interfered somehow. go ahead. >> he is on record. we have his voice. this is not make believe.

we have his voice making that threat. the governor's voice supporting that threat. we have the state senator's voice making that threat. this is a direct statement. >> why would it take the nlrb a long time to make the decision? >> i think the nlrb is cautious no matter who is sitting at the board. they look at precedent. they look at history and look at the witnesses and they go through it. if you have a labor board that is half fair, they womill come the realization that corker does it to influence the outcome of the vote. >> if he is not challenged, i don't know where it will end. it sets a precedent for actions of other officials in the future. >> if i can for just one more moment. the labor movement met not long ago.

on behalf of the steel workers, we are not run out of the south by his representation. our union and many other unions will organize in the south. >> leo gerard, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. coming up, the conservative clown car has unloaded at cpac. the response panel weighs in. and nina turner, has been at the fight for the voting rights in ohio. i sat down with the senator to see who nina turner really is and why she takes this fight so personal. next, i'm taking your questions on ask ed live. we're back here on "the ed show" here on msnbc.

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welcome back to "the ed show." you can call it a political convention, but a circus. the cpac clown car. the canadian senator from texas gave kudos to the establishment. >> all of us remember president dole and president mccain and president romney. those are good men. they are decent men, but when you don't stand and draw a clear distinction when you don't stand for principle, democrats celebrate. >> embattled new jersey governor chris christie had a turn at the microphone thursday. he was snubbed at the event last year. this year, he had something to prove after the recent public scrutiny over bridgegate.

>> i will remind you. we don't get to govern if we don't win. it is not only bad when we don't get to govern because we don't get to mold and change our society. what's worse is they do. they are doing it to us right now. so please, let us come out here and resolve not only to stand for our principles, but come out of the conference to resolve to win elections again. that is what i intend to do for the next year and i hope you join me. thank you. >> a number of gaffes made. one from p-90x poster boy paul ryan. he credited a story from luis anderson. the department of children and families. >> she once met a young boy from a poor family. every day at school, he would get a free lunch from the government program. he told her he did not want a free lunch. he wanted his own lunch.

one in a brown paper bag just like the other kids. he wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown paper bag had someone had cared for him. >> well, as it turns out, ryan's anecdote is possibly a plagiarized story. wonkette says the story is a striking similarity to the story in the book "an invisible thread." the biggest is to the donald. it appears the donald could use a history tutor to keep up on history and current events. >> we are getting into jimmy carter territory. and i never thought i would see anything like that again. i lived through that time and it was not a good time. and we're pretty close. i think maybe by next month we will have surpassed the late, great jimmy carter. >> the late great?

former president jimmy carter still alive. very much alive. carter's grandson james quickly responded on twitter saying, i'm pretty sure i would have heard about that. trump seems to think jimmy carter has passed away. cpac will close tomorrow with a straw poll. joining me tonight on the rapid response panel, john fugelsang. great to have you with us. what is ted cruz's prediction here? what do you think now? >> i'm not much of a conspiracy theorist? i can spot a talk radio want-to be a long way away. he doesn't have his sights set on higher office. he is great in a primary.

he can to the get through a general. he is throwing help red meat at cpac. i think he wants to be the next rush limbaugh. he sees jim demint no longer having to be held accountable for votes. jim demint has a driver and expense account. cool deal to have a radio show and play golf every afternoon. big bucks at fox news. a conspiracy theory. he has the twinkle in his eye. >> he had the forum at cpac. john, chris christie got snubbed last year. is this the chance to reset the tone? >> of course. it is nice to be in a roomful of people who will never been called to testify against him. i don't rule this, ed, as a clown car. this is comic-con for vladimir putin fans. it is like the star wars

cantina. christie's shocking statement was the democrats are intolerant because they don't invite anti-abortion speakers at their convention. i'm not sure, but chris christie wants to make abortion illegal. he is saying democrats are intolerant because they don't invite speakers because they want women to be jailed. >> what do you think of paul ryan's free lunch story? >> ouch! what about donald trump? he has the republicans held hostage. if it they don't give him exposure, he will go rogue and start talking third party which they need like a hole in the head. it would split anti-democrat vote. this is a real circus at cpac. i swear all the cool kids are at south by southwest. >> jimmy carter is a moral peace maker who did not dodge military service and still married to his

first wife and builds houses for poor people. i can see why donald trump would see that is death. >> you know it is family values thing. holland, moving forward. how do you think jimmy carter feels after hearing donald trump talk like that? obviously the response i thought was apropos. if you are hillary clinton, what are you doing? >> you are licking your chops. it is a world turned upside down. every four years, the republicans take turns. it was bob dole's turn. it was john mccain's turn. it was mitt romney's turn. there is no clear heir apparent in the wings. hillary clinton is running tantamount. >> john, when you take a look at

how crazy this thing has gotten over the years, it is just the chance to pontificate in front of the wacky right. what is the headline going to be this year? will there actually be a lead candidate coming from the cpac? >> it depends how they keep the libertarian college kids out so rand paul can win the poll. this is like vietnam because bush, cheney and romney are not there. these guys are all running for higher public speaking fees in 2016. that is all that is. we can acknowledge that. we can mock these guys all day. the democrats don't have an equivalent event to this. they are getting organized for 2014 right now. this is not about 2016. this is about this november and the democratic party needs to catch up on the organization. >> john and holland, great to have you with us tonight. coming up, state senator nina

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welcome back to "the ed show." this is the story for the folks who take a shower after work. the american dream may have changed over the decades, but the formula to succeed remains the same. i recently had the chance to sit down with ohio state senator nina turner. now, you have seen her on this program and other programs many times, but tonight we want to introduce you to a side of nina turner that maybe you have never seen. ♪ nina turner has been an ohio state senator since 2008. she was the first black woman to represent ward 1 on the cleveland city council. now nina turner has set her sights on higher office. >> it is time that we had a secretary of state in an office who understands that part of the

goal is to stand up against unjust laws. >> no matter the outcome of the election, turner has already proven she has what it takes to succeed. we've done a lot of interviews, but we've never really asked you where did nina turner come from? give us your background. what brought you to where you are today? >> born and raised in cleveland. teenaged parents. they got married really young, divorced early. i grew up in a single parent household. my grandmother is the staple for our family. i am the oldest of seven children. so a lot of pressure having a mom. my mom died at the age of 42 years old, aneurysm burst in her brain. hi was 22. my baby sister was 12. so it was a hard way going, ed. i'm a first generation college graduate, and very, very proud of that. and just her death really in a weird kind of way motivated me to just press for her memory. and so i'm really proud. i've been up the rough side of

the mountain, let me say that. >> it's her own experience with hardship which makes nina turner's political fight a personal one. >> as you say you have had to climb up the tough side of the mountain. >> yeah. >> you really had to blaze a trail. >> yeah. >> and you were an example early in life for the rest of the kids. >> i tried. i was 22. my baby sister was 12. and when i see people try to marginalize poor people because it hits me in my heart. not only did my mother died at the age of 42, she died on the system of welfare. i'm a safety net child. but for a safety net, i don't know where i or my siblings would be. so when you have heartless and callous politicians on any level of government, but especially in congress as they debated the s.n.a.p. program or in the ohio general assembly when they seek to introduce legislation that would drug test welfare recipients, that gets me in my heart, because i think about my mother, who was not perfect, but she certainly tried. i think about everybody that doesn't run the race at the same pace. and we should be proud to be a safety net country. nobody wants to be poor, you

know. i know you have interviewed many people. i'm sure no one has told you i want to be poor when i grow up. i want to be on public assistance. i want to have public housing and medicaid. that's the life for me. but things happen. >> so this is all very personal to you. >> yes. >> these -- when you fight for the middle class, when you fight for against poverty in this country. >> yes. >> you see hey, that was me. >> that's right. a righteous indignation. my harrison fire at all times. so people wonder why am i always on fire. that is the reason. i don't think that i was elected to sit back and be idle. >> and whether you're rich or poor, black, white, hispanic, asian, indian, we are better together. >> i was elected to fight for the people, for poor people, for working class people, for middle class people. and there is a distinction. there are a lot of poor people in this country trying to make it to the middle class. and there are a lot of middle class people who are trying to

hold on to the middle class. and if public officials don't use public policy to advance the causes of equality and justice, then why are we there? so, yes, i do take it very personally. and i don't pretend. when things are going wrong, i make that i express that. >> nina turner isn't afraid to call out injustice where sees it. and she is red to fight for what is right. >> when i asked my grandmother what does it take to be successful in this thing called life, she says my dear granddaughter, all you need are the three bones. the wishbone, the jawbone, and the backbone. >> when ohio secretary of state jon husted launched his latest assault on voting rights, nina turner had the backbone to stand up. >> what happened in ohio in 2012, and you were on the ground in ohio. you went all across this country. the ballot box is the only equalizer that we have, or the greatest equalizer. i won't say the only. because it is the only place that regardless of our socio-economic status, our

ethnicity, our gender where we are totally equal. and when you have a people attacking the democracy to that level, it cries out for somebody to stand up and say i will go. so i stood up in the state of ohio and said that i will go. if i were secretary of state, i would have stood up to the general assembly to tell them that the bills they are passing right now are anti-voter. that it puts up hurdles and roadblocks. voting shouldn't be a contest about how long you can stand in line or how many forms you can fill out. voting is about determining the will of the people. and ohioans deserve better than what they're getting, ed. >> the money. where are you going to be? >> ed, we're working very, very hard. but you know what? money doesn't always buy you love. we need people power. we do need campaign finance reform in this country, period, because we're going to come to a place that only people who are ultra wealthy or ultra positioned with a lot of wealthy friends are going to be able to run for office. and we need to ask ourselveses is that the kind of america that we want to live in where certain

people are priced out of being able to compete and compete fairly. it's going to be a hard battle. but, you know, i've been a trail blazer. i'm going to try my best to overcome that i'm working very hazard to overcome that. >> aside from the issue of money, nina turner faces an uphill battle. ohioans have never elected a black democrat to statewide office. >> this would be a historic victory for you to win the secretary of state seat in ohio. >> yes, sir. but i'm standing on shoulders of people who have gone before me and blazed the trail for me. i believe because ohio has elected president barack obama twice that our state is ready, that we will do it, and that people will believe. they will see in me a fighter. i want them to see fighter, not disregard. i am an african american woman, because it really gets to me where people say well, you happen to be. no, i don't happen to be african american. i am. but i am standing up for all voters in the state of ohio, no matter what this ethnicity is, gender. no matter who they want to vote

for, i just want people to have unfettered access. i'm not running for a seat. i'm running for a cause and that is unfettered access to the ballot box. i hope people see me as a champion of the people. i've tried to be that. i have been that in the state senate. and i want to be that as the chief elections officer in the great state of ohio. >> in today's political climate, nina turner could have just been another statistic. but against all odds, she has turned her story into an example of the american dream. nina turner is not done fighting to make sure future generations of americans have the same opportunity she did. >> we need more people who are willing to put a little extra on their ordinary, because when we put extra on our ordinary, extraordinary things start to happen. >> and we are off to lorraine, ohio tonight and tomorrow, working on a story for middle class america. the steele industry. we're working on a documentary on steel in america. that's "the ed show."

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