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low, take on the tightrope ♪ the great lawn in central park new york city where 60,000 people will gather for quite a lawn party. they're here to celebrate, communicate and get commitments to help eradicate extreme poverty around the world. today they're hear some inspiring stories and some amazing music on this beautiful fall day. good afternoon and welcome to the seventh annual global citizens festival live on msnbc. i'm joy reid joined by chris hayes and ari melber. >> tonight we'll hear incredible performances from some of the biggest names in music in

janel janelle monae, john legend, shawn mendes, cardi b. >> today we've seen more than $37 billion in commitments, which has impacted more than 650 million lives worldwide. >> global citizen does this by tackling the issues that matter most to that population, among them health, education, gender equality and citizenship. in honor of what would be the 100th birthday of nelson mandela, they are urging everyone to be the generation to take action. >> what better to start our coverage than to be joined by hugh evans, who is here with me, joy and chris. >> hugh, it's great to have you. yet another year on which we is another picture perfect gorgeous

day in new york city. >> we're just so blessed that we've got incredible weather, incredible artists, but also most importantly, incredible leaders coming on stage to make mult multi-million dollar commitments. >> one of the best stories of what's been happening in the world over the last ten years is the steady decrease in the population of the world living on less than $2 a day in extreme poverty? >> you're exactly right. when i was born in 1983, 52% of the world's population lives in extreme poverty. it's now down to less than 10% of the population. over a billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty but there is a new report out this week that suggests while progress is continuing, it is actually slowing down. we have now only two years,

until 2020, to get that back or we will not meet the goal of getting rid of poverty by 2030. rihanna was headlining 2016. we worked on a huge campaign with her. she came to the global partnership of education and emmanuel macron. >> so that's french citizens and others sort of lobbying their government, right, to make these commitments and then the french government delivering on that. >> exactly. we have about 25 million global citizens who take action every single month, regardless whether the festival is on or not. when someone like rihanna puts

up her hand as an artist and says i want to call on this particular leader and french and global citizens join the chorus, nine times out of ten, the leaders respond. >> tell us who is gathering here today. they are music fans and activists but they didn't pay to get here. >> that's right. every person has to do something to get in here. you can't buy your way in, you have to do something. some went to a rally last week encouraging people to get out to vote on the eve of the mid terms. some people were picking up litter, some were volunteering their time, some were tweeting, signing petitions, making phone calls to members of congress on foreign aid. they get points and they use those points to come here for free. >> near and dear to my own personal heart, i understand the next big festival will be in south africa in december. tell us about that.

>> this is truly extraordinary. this year as you said in your introduction marks the 100th anniversary of the great mnelso van del mandela. we're bringing global citizen to south africa. it going to be headlined by beyonce, jay-z, shakirah, oprah wintry, dave chapelle. >> i think our services are available. >> it's not a bad call. >> we're very excited to have you here. >> thank you. >> also with us in the park today, jacob soboroff. what's it look like back there?

>> first of all, i want to go to south africa with you guys. let me show you around backstage. you can come out and see the great lawn in central park. this is something if you think about it that almost gives you the chills that only a select group of artists get to experience in their entire life, to come together for such an extraordinary cause, the eradication of extreme poverty around the globe. i know you said we're going to try to take a break from the news of the week but it always feels when we're out here it almost impossible. we talked about the importance of getting clean water to our fellow citizens. stevie wonder stood right here and took a knee in honor of colin kaepernick's protest against racial justice and i guarantee we'll hear about the separated children at the border and a new american hero, dr. christine blasey ford.

you cannot disconnect from what guess on and the people here don't want to disconnect either. >> let's go now over to savannah, who is with the crowd that's gathered for today's concert, all of whom have earned tickets by taking action. savannah, take it away. >> first of all, jacob looks really cool. i'm here with a bunch of people who have taken action. about 20 minutes ago you would have seen them running to get their spots to be in the front to is he all their favorite acts. in is my new friend gabriel. what exactly did you do to get here? >> it was all about getting involved with not only with the community about around the world. e-mail williing senators, makin change and not just sitting there in the office not doing anything about it. >> so you were actually sending those e-mails? >> yes. >> that's so cool. thank you for taking those actions. you guys will continue to be out

here the rest of the day letting you know how excited everyone is and what they've done to get here. >> we're here bringing attention to a bipartisan prison reform bill flounced. you also look like you're in concert casual. >> this is how we do in b.k. >> let's start with the big news and get into everything else. the whole nation was watching these hearings this week. where do we go from here? >> well, hopefully you'll see a thorough fbi over the week or beyond if necessary. and then the facts will be brought to the forefront we can all hope. and then the senators will take their constitutional responsibility of providing consent that is informed that's principled, that's not based on partisanship and then we'll see what decision is made. >> and tell us about the prison reform legislation you have and how you see that figuring in to all the people gathered here.

>> we have a mass incarceration epidemic in america. when the war on drugs started in 1971, there were less than 350,000 people incarcerated in america. today 2.2 million disproportionately black. at least in the house with the first step act, we concluded that overcriminalization is not a democratic problem or republican problem, it's an american problem and we should work together and we should start by helping currently incars rited individuals provided with the resources and tools to successfully transform themselves back into society. >> people are trying to get people formerly incarcerated their right to vote back. how do we get to a vote that republicans will sign on to such that it can actually become law? >> we had strong bipartisan support at least for taking that first step related to prison reform and dealing with currently incarcerated individuals and facilitating

their successful rehabilitation and reentry into society. we have to break apart the prison industrial complex which is broader and targets low-income communities of color, things like mandatory minimums, the failed war on drugs, which jeff sessions has been an obstacle to achieving. >> in the senate there's been a similar track for this bipartisan legislation. you have a strange situation, the d.o.j. lobbying against those bills, chuck grassley got quite angry at jeff sessions about that. >> i think because jeff sessions' credibility continues to erode, it non-existent on the democratic side and falling apart on the republican side. his voice to continue to try to block criminal justice reform will be minimized even further.

>> it's going to be minimized if he's out of a job. >> that's another situation to deal with as it relates to the constitutional crisis as it relates to the mueller investigation. we'll stay in the prison we form lane. >> the private prison industry is not only a behemoth but is a funder of one of the two political parties. they have a voice. and with immigration also involving what will be mass incarceration, including of minors, how do you bring something together to address that problem. >> the notion and overreach we've seen troubles all of us in congress. i think we've decided we have to approach criminal justice reform on one track and immigration on the other. but in the context of criminal reform related to incarcerating individuals here in this country who are american citizens that we should not be subsidizing private companies either. >> you're slightly older than

me. who are you most excited to see here today? >> i'd say maybe cardi b. >> oh, okay. >> there you go! >> tease an answer of someone who might run for mayor someday. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we're living in a new generation of activism leading to a new type of political activists. stay with us. activists. stay with us what would it look like... ...if we listened more? could the right voice, the right set of words, bring us all just a little closer, get us to open up, even push us further?

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>> be the generation. >> be the generation -- >> to take action. >> that takes action. >> be the generation to take action. this is very important. >> record breaking numbers of women and people of color are running to be elected officials in 2018. truly becoming the change they want to see in the world. one of those candidates running for congress in connecticut joins us now. tell us your story. you were a single teen-age mom, you are a teacher. what inspired you to become a member of congress? >> everything we're talking about today. just realizing that i have a voice, i have a platform. there are so many people who do not have a voice and i have a

heightened responsibility to speak for those people. >> what do you think you can uniquely bring to the table for the people if you do win? >> i think education, a heightened access to education. we talk about the economy, health care, making sure our environment is clean and safe so that my kids can breathe. all of those things are really important to eme. >> you're a first-time candidate, right? >> yes. >> what have you learned? has surprised you or slighted you or bummed you out about running for office? >> it doesn't have to be like this. a lot of the things that we complain about, we can just work together and change them. we don't have to accept -- government should work. it's a force for good. i hear people talk about it in a negative way. it doesn't have to be that way. do your part and let's change

it. >> joy mentioned a record number of women running for office. joy mentioned the gender gap, thinking about the republicans on the committee turning to a ringer to do their questioning because they didn't have a single female member putting ideology aside. is that part of your candidacy appeal or do you not get into that out on the trail? >> i think our priority is dictated by who is in the room and who is at the table. i think if more women are elected to congress, we'll start to move to solutions in the problem. the people in the room are not the ones most impacted by these situations. michelle obama had comments i wanted to get your response on. take a listen. >> i am tired of the daily

chaos, the pettiness, the meanness that too often dominates the political discourse. we all are. it is exhausting and honestly it is depressing. >> is that who you're feeling? or are you feeling energized by it all? >> well, a little bit of both. i mean, i would never accept this behavior from children. i would never tolerate it in my classroom. so it's almost comical to think that adults are behaving this way. but i also believe so strongly in the possibility of who we can become. i see what happens when young people are inspired and hopeful. i see what happens when people work together. i refuse to succumb to that negativity. i think we just have to do more and be better. like what people are -- we all

have the capacity to make it better. >> when you're out there talking to constituents, what do they want? >> people are worried about their families and their family's future. people want people who can collaborate and work together, who will listen and work toward solutions. i want people to know when you get up out of your home and you take the day off or you leave the kid's soccer game to go vote, people are voting for something. people are done with the negativity. that i think is so powerful. >> jahana hayes, republican -- democratic congressional

candidate, good luck. >> thank you. >> i'm he know you're specifica fighting to end child marriages in your country of lebanon. tell me sort of what these women are like. what have they been through, what age are they, that kind of thing? >> with my world organization in lebanon, we work with syrian refugee girls. we support them to go to school. those girls, they are facing barriers after barriers and the challenges in their life. they are facing child marriage, they are facing poverty, and gender discrimination. we are working with them to end the child marriage and to protect them to be in the schools. >> how exactly are you doing this? when you say you're working to end child marriage, what are you

doing? >> we hold workshops with the girls, we educate them on their rights, teach them to be advocates, we visited their parents at their homes. we discuss with them the cultural beliefs and we work with the religious leaders, the people who are signing the marriage agreement and we education them on the risks of child marriage. >> you were telling me that you do workshops with these women. tell me sort of the change that you make in their lives. what do you hear from those workshops? >> as a result of the workshops and the work, the mentality is changing. the girls are starting to speak out. the parents and community are starting to listen to them. the girls are start raise their vouz and advocate that they don't want to be married in theered ages.

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ welcome back to the 7th and knew global citizen festival. reforming the criminal justice system is another way to combat global poverty. joining us now is the anchor of

"nbc nightly news," lester holt. he recently had the chance to sit down with john legend. >> he does it all. he's a family man, he's open about his family life, he writes, he singing and he's got this deep down commitment to the social justice cause. >> before there was john legend, there was john roger stevens. >> legend was a nickname some of my friends started calling me. i think it was because i sounded like a lot of the artists we listened to. i think i was an old soul and embraced classic soul. >> the multi-talented artist is living up to his name, a musician with more than a dozen hits like "all of me."

>> you hold on to the past but jazz is about the future. >> he's also an actor on stage, in "jesus christ superstar." he won an emmy, oscar, grammy and totem. >> all the fun i got to have in my career. >> john legend lives his life in public sharing family moments with wife chrissy teigen and their two children luna and myles, as well as his passion for social causes. he founded free america, dedicated to criminal justice reform. >> i want our leaders to make better decision. spend less locking people up,

spend more educating our young people. we have to set better priorities for the future. i believe our priorities are off right now. my mom and other family members that have been locked up, community members that have been locked up. this is not an abstract problem. it not ju it's not just a statistic to me. this is something that's real. >> this is his second year participating in the global citizen festival. >> the global citizen festival and organization around it have been all about fighting poverty around the world. one of the issues in america that perpetuate poverty is that we criminalize poverty. we make it harder for people to get a fair shake in the justice system. the most clear manifestation of that is our cash bail system, which makes it harder to be free if you don't have the money to

get out. >> a lot of people started with the idea why should we listen to celebrities? are they more important than anyone else? do you as a performer, do you feel a responsibility to be socially active and to be outspoken? >> well, i feel like i come from a tradition of socially active artists. some of our favorite artists in history have been activists from stevie wonder to martin gaye. they have a way of speaking to the world that is unique and politicians can't really duplication. we have a lot of influence. i believe it my responsibility to use that influence for good. >> for a man who wrote "ordinary people" says those are the people he's trying to help. >> john legend's nonprofit is

also working to help former inmates to contribute to their communities. he's passionate about a lot of things and very, very open. >> what was the import in your mind to his point that it's not new of musicians to do activism? in the african-american community that's been happening for a long time. >> for a long time we've been hearing this shut up and sing kind of thing. and he's no, we've got these voices and stage, what better place to talk about these issues. >> i was just going to say we were talking earlier about the challenge of trying to get something that is a bipartisan -- stated bipartisan prerogative. everyone agrees there needs to be reform of the criminal justice system. i wonder is celebrity the sort of missing ingredient of getting people to walk away from their

corners and actually get something done? >> we were talking about that. what he touched on about this bail system, that's something that we're getting a lot of attention about now. if one of you were locked up, we could come up with the cash but a lot of people can't. his question is are we penalizing them because they're poor because it is innocent until proven guilty. >> thank you for being with us. >> happy to do it. >> lester holt, thank you very much. as these musicians and celebrities are shining the light, it's also the work of every day activists. color of change is on the front lines and its president joins me and joy and chris now. first, your reaction to what you just saw. >> it's incredible. we had the ability to work with

john and we produced a video with mollie fraphapple. more than 4 million people have seen it and gotten active. we've worked to bail out mothers and fathers on mother's and father's day. help people see what's possible. you hear about bail and if you do the time, you do the time. you're better off being guilty and rich than innocent and poor. that's not okay. >> we all know the story about highlighting the eye about being able to come up with a small amount of became that can leave. you have made it clear that the idea of citizen activism, getting out on the streets, using social media, it actually

can make change. when you look at what's happening around with what we saw with the kavanaugh nomination, with women out on the street again, does activism produce meaningful change? >> it aly it's actually one of y ways. without people organizing, we're not going to get the results, especially for the most vulnerable communities. we'll never have as much money as the people on the other side. if we can have organized people power and that's what we've been bringing to bail rights and other issues. >> and they've been talking also about voting rights for felons. it's called amend 4, it's on the ballot in florida. it was described as the single biggest enfranchising as americans, what is it? >> it is an amendment that would

restore voting rights for people who have done their time. this is for people who have been disenfranchised for life. it is polling at 70%. >> it's wild. >> it's incredible. it speaks to what it is to have a democracy, where all of us are heard and counted, regardless of whether we're privilege nd and venerable. people are able to participate and engage in their community, engage in their life for their children, for their parents. they're actually a citizen. >> we're going to go to orlando and talk to john legend and taking a special look at that issue on wednesday. >> we'll check back in with

savannah. >> we've been talking a lot about all these actions everyone has been taking to get here. some people do go above and beyond. not just their actions to get here to the concert. i want to talk to some incredible global citizens right here. so tell me a little bit about your nurse as a nurse and then your work with global citizen. >> i work with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. and then with global citizen i've been able to connect that work to people around the world, doing outreach and helping raise people up. >> that's amazing. thank you for what you do. h hannah, what do you do?

>> calling world leaders to take action for the betterment of our world. >> you're from nepal, right? >> yeah. >> what have you been doing in your country? >> i've been helping girls and helping them end the taboos. >> you guys have been taking some freaking great action and citihas be has been an incredib supporter. our sponsor wanted to give you guys citi premium vip upgrades. you'll get to see the rest of the concert from the vip section. how does that feel? >> saw soawesome! >> and that's called getting a little v.i.

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welcome back. one of the core issues tied into sustainability is of course clean water. global citizen has been working to reduce waste tied to water

consumption. for the second year in a row msnbc and comcast universal are making fresh drinking water available for free for those attending today's festival. last year was quite hot. this year is more comfortable. i've got my reusable msnbc water bottle here. it's just one small fix to help stop a growing plastic problem here in america. we literally put jacob soboroff on trash duty. >> part of keeping our water clean is keeping this water -- bottle crap out of it. there's a lot of room for improvement. i checked into what goes into

recycling and how we can do better. watch this. >> three years ago i went to the port of long beach, los angeles, america's biggest, to see what happens to the plastic you recycle. >> 60% of these containers are going back empty and the stuff that's in the ones going back full would really surprise you. america's main export to china by volume was trash, recycled metal, card board and plastic. >> we're sending china our pepsi bottles, our aquafina bottles, vitamin water bottles and they're sending them back to us as insulation in our coats. >> but in january this year, china stopped accepting our plastic. >> it all gets squished together like that. after china banned some types of plastic earlier this year, now more than ever, that stuff could end up in a land fill.

>> today at this material recovery facility in los angeles, they process your garbage. >> check this out. what they're storing is a what at home people are putting into their recycle bins, all this different stuff. glass bottles, plastic bottles, plastic bags, cardboard boxes. >> we recycle at home. >> what would you tell the average person that just threw all of their crap away at the same time? >> start using their head and save the planet. >> so this is the stuff that china says they don't antonymor? >> correct. >> where does it go from here? >> we bid it out. highest priced broker will get material. we still have stuff that does go to china. for example, the cardboard over here. >> it sounds like china not buying mixed rigid plastics has

really sent shock waves true through kind of the recycling economy. >> not just that but the more e restrictive specs. >> we are a recycling company that ships materials overseas and do processing as well. >> so you put them into shipping containers and this will go on to a boat out to the pacific from here in l.a. out across the world. >> correct. >> before china changed the rules, i have a feeling that most of these were going to china? >> no. >> what else won't they take? >> the majority of most countries don't want this either. >> so that could end up in a land fill, too? >> yes. >> you used to send 500 of those a month? >> a month. >> how many you sending now? >> china? zero. >> they won't take it? >> the problem is china have

their own plastic. everybody generate scraps themselves. what the whole world want whoever generates a plastic, they should recycle it. >> we should recycle our own plastic? >> yeah. >> the guys said rather than dealing with our own waste, the u.s. got in the habit of shipping it to china. now they say the u.s. has to figure -- they have to utransfom it into a form that can be reused. >> it just like raw material. >> but americans aren't sophisticated enough to recycle all of our products into that? >> no. >> americas shouldn't be outraged at china, we should be outraged at ourselves for not recycling into this. >> ourselves. >> what does president xi think

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>> welcome back to our coverage of the global festival. as you can see behind us people are already gathering as we are set to start in just ten minutes. first, we want to bring you two athletes working toward a greater purpose. >> monique and jocelyn shined while helping the u.s. defeat canada in the women's hockey gold medal game earlier this year. they have a new goal, gender equality and their fight for women around the world. >> they serve as ambassadors and spokes people for comcast. joining us is jocelyn lamaro

davidson and monique. we were just talking about how heavy these medals. >> they're 1.2 pounds, the heaviest gold medals ever handed out. >> also, we said you guys helped win. you scored the goal that tied it. >> yes. >> and you scored the goal that won. how incredible was that? >> you dream about having moments like that. that was our third olympic gold medal game. so to be able to have an opportunity like that, to be able to contribute to your team's win in that fashion is, i mean, those are moments you dream about when you're little. >> it's amazing. you're twins, you're identical twins, we're both pregnant about the same rate. so it is actually pretty amazing. but i want to talk about the other thing that you both have in common that you both have decided to devote your time, the fame and notoriety you've gotten from the olympic game to the issue of gender equity. tell us what you've been doing. >> we've been very involved with our team's fight for gender

equity with women's hockey across the country and we're hoping that sparks more equality in women's sports and generally gender equity in every aspect that you can think of. >> with that goal in mind, what does this festival mean to you guys? >> well, first of all, it's amazing to be here today. but to be a part of the presentation and the rollout of the gender equity pillar, i think it's really special for us to be a part of it. it's giving us a platform that we wouldn't otherwise have, just the two of us. so it's just so amazing to be here today and to be a part of this. >> at a time when women really are demanding equity in all walks of life, you've seen what's going on in washington this week, sports and athletics have been challenging to get the same notarity and investment. talk about that, and how you've overcome it. >> our greatest strength when our team was going through some big changes is our ability to

stick together. it was a group of strong and empowered women. i think the lesson learned is that if we stand together as women we can create big changes. and not just in hockey or in sport, but all over the world. and so it's really amazing to be here and to be a part of a group like that. >> and what do you guys think the future of female is within the sports world? >> i think it's bright. you look at the wnba, the u.s. women's soccer team and how far women's sports have come in the last 20 years, but still how far it really needs to go, i think the future is bright and i think the more female role models that young girls can see, i think they can then dream about being those females one day. and so i think the future is very bright for female sports. >> well, jocelyn and monique lamoureux, congratulations on the medals, the babies, and working on gender equity. it's great, terrific. thank you very much. after the break, the moment we've all been waiting for, the start of the global citizen

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