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>> electiony, integr questi those results. >> all of a sudden, out of the wilder theyind lot of votes. and the federal courts after a disappointin ruling. >> this was an obama judge. it's a disgrace wh happens. >> tha a back to you from john roberts who says we do not have obama jues or trump judges bush judges or clinton judges my guest thism ning, republ of utah. and democratic congressman elijah
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elij elijah cummings of maryland. and they spt $1 million callin for thes president' impeac >> he is a clear and present danger he is mentally unstable and armed weapons. he sounds is if runnin wa impeach. the to energize voters? and a new report says the conseq of climate change includ not justan fire squad droughts but a big econom so why is the trump admini dismissing its own report? joinin me this morning for insigh andanalysis are doris concer goodwin, helen cooper, daniel pletka, and nbc news politi analyst elise jordan. welcom to sunday, it's "meet the
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good sunday morning. when president clinton lost contro of oth houses congre in 1994, the day after the election, he accepted his share sponsibility. mr. clinton then worked with the new republican majority on sues like welfarereform and balanc the budgets two years later, both were easily elected. when president obama lost the nous 20 in 2010, he called it ae in and two years later he and that republ congress were easily re-ele presid trump's re-election chance in big trouble. mr. clinton and mr. obama accept the public's refwuk and pivote work with the n opposition in some so far president trump has s do
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h thing. he is sticking to the base only strate accelerate ago tacks on those hes can to be oppone iosince the ele he attacked the press again, attacked e judici again, attacked our %lection positi electi process again. are assaults helpful to the presid politi they may be but they'r predented. >> we get a lot of bad court decisi the ninth circuit which has become a t bigorn in our side. >> president trump using a thanks teleconference with troops deployed overseas to renew attacks on the u.s. courts and double down on criticism of chief justice john roberts. h >> i li and i respect him. but i think we have to use some common sense. >> that's after roberts in an extrao step by a chief justic rebed the sitting presid for slamming a federal judge who ordered the admini to accept asylum claims for migrants no matter
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how theyr ente the united states >> you go to the ninth circuit and it's a disgrace. thm going to put in a major compla was an obama judge. >> the judge john tiger does not actual sit on the ninth circui the ruling was handed down by a distri court. robert defended and independent judici to the associated press "w do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. what we have is an group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right those appearing before them." mr. trump's renewed attacks on the courts are just his latest assaul on american instit he's questioned u.s. elections claimi without evidence fraud . >> bhere's a lot of stuff going on in this country. >> he's relentlessl tacked the media. >> the dishonest, terrib people. >> and thiswe he again contra his own intell community. this time their assess. of the killing of jamal
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khashopearing to take the word of the saudi crown prince instea >> the crown prince hates it more t i do andey have veheme denied it. the cia points at both ways. you know, as isaid, maybe he did. maybe he didn't. >> house democrats are promising to exa khashoggi murder and the president's financial ties to saudi arabia which mr. trdep e to for years. >> i like the saudis. the they're very nice. i make a lot of moneyem with th they buy all sorts of my stuff. all kinds of toys from trump. >> the president is also disput an urgent warning from his own administration on theis e of climate change. the report from 13 federal enci was intentionally releas on black friday in order to bury it in the news. the whithouse dismissed the findin based on the most extreme scenario." the report warns that if signif aren't taking to reign in global warming, climat change could slash theon u.s. ey by 10% by the end of the century.
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just this week the president tweete about east coast cold apweathe whatevned to global warmin >> i don't know that it's man made. you ha to show me the science. they have a very big political agenda >> and joining me now is republ senator mike lee of utah. is a member of the senate judici committee. senato lee, welcome back to "meet press." i hope y enjoy your holiday break. >> thank you. >> let me start with the presid back and forth with the chief it was really the heads of two branch i think, having a debate about -- about the consti perhaps and i feel as if that's in yourl wh house. so let me ask you, what was your reacti to the psident's dismis of the rebuke that chief justice rberts gave to him about how the judiciary works and how it should bepr by public officials? >> look, it's not entirely unprec for a president of the united states or another public official to criticize
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court rulings. in some cases supreme court as president trump criticized the ruling in the citizens united cas this isn't my style. >> he didn't call it bush justicthough, did >> no. he didn't. but i serve with a number of collea in the senate includ some on the judiciary commit who routinely athcuse current supreme court of being in the pocket of big busine in the united states of americ this m uncomfortabl too. i'm a lawyer by traini. as a lawyer, i try to express disagr withe courts withou impugning the court's motive seems -- >> as presiden of the united states he certainly has the right to express his opinion on these things. >> the problem is when he speaks he carries with him a bigt follow t goes down the rab rabbit with him. he's gone after the judiciar the election systems, again contra his own cia, t justicdepartment, free press.
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i can go on and on. you rebuke him rhetoricall quite a bit when he does these things but hisio behr never changes. do you ask yourself what is the point in rebuking him? >> well, he has been elected prid the united state we know that he has an unconv has had different approa than other people have taken to this job. but he president of the unitedome of the same styles that helped get him place. the first and so what i can do for my part as a united states senator iso help sear him in a direction that i think is consistent with his policies and the best intere of the american people i do think for -- >> do you have breaking h,int? >>sure. look, any time somebody violates the constition i'm going to call them out on it. i'm going to do what i can from my position as a member of nate to the president's credit and
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the need to pivo after an electi didn't go his way during the midterm, i presid trump is doing that. someti with this president you have to look not just at bwhat he says also at what he does. look at the fact that in the days following the midterm nt trump come out aggressivel for criminal justic reform. this is a big bipartisa opport and i look forwar to getting it done. i want to ask you somethi about what you said though recent you said thatyou were so worrie about political rhetoric and the ranker and that it regohed such a fev g to drive our to toward violence. this will come down to federa or violence. that's extreme diagno of the current proble >>yeah, it's no the extreme. in fact, it's probably the least contro speech i've given in a long time. accord a recent poll conduc by npr, 80% of americ believe that our politi desivness in th
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countr at a national level is drivin to a point that could result in thviolence. is a real legitimate concer it's o of the reasons why the foundi fathers were right in settin up government that the nation level would be in charge of only a few things that are unavoidable. and by designation of theti co mandated to be at national . reserv all other powers for states localities. recogn is more agreem a gional basis, state by state or community by commun than there will ioever be at the nl level. i think that is the best way. it may be the only way to avoid some of this devisivness >> i want to speak to the sue withsaudi arabia. here is the president pushing back on the cia assessment, not necess but it's their best --t's an assessment of high confidence that the crown prince in saudi arabia ordere the murder of jamal khasho is the president respondg to it. >> it's a verany impo ally.
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and if we go by a certain standa we won't be able to have allies with almost any countr okay? >> who should held accoun >> maybe the world should be held accothtable. world is a vicious place. the world is a very, very viciou place. here's what fred ryan the publish publis of "the washington post" wrote in response to the presid dismissal of the cia assess clear and dangerous mess has be sent to tyrants around the world, flash enough money in frond of the presidentst united states you can literally get away murder. is he right? >> i disagree with the presid assessment. t it's inconsistent with the intell i've seen. now, look, i don't have access i' everything that the president sees. sure what he is relying on. the intelligenc i've seen sugges that this was ordered by the crown prince. nd is yet another reason why i've been pushing why i joined forces with bernie sander febrry to get us
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out of fighting saudi arabia's civil war effort inyemen. i think this is yet another indica that this unauth unconstitutional war from our standpoint is not someth we ought to be fighti this is not an allyat deserv this kind of military interv especially because there' been no connection betwee safety of the americ peoplend our involv in this war. it's o of the reasons we got to get out now and i believe this is an opportunity for the congre to weigh in and say let's halt our efforts in yemens questi wha the president's motive behind siding with the saudis and is it -- should congre look into see if he's motivations into why he might be siding with the saudis over the cia? >> look, i n't know why he's siding with the saudis. but i thin there are things question do to cha relati the saudis notwit whatever his person motivations might be.
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i'm also certain that in the next congress people will look into that. but again, i think congress has to take some o.ership of u foreig policy. especi as it relates to our interv war. our unconstitutional fighting of a civil war in yemen that hasr neen declared by the u.s. congre is a problem. and that's on us. >> final question. i'm curious your reaction to the climat report. this is from the federal govern congress, you guys ordere the federal government to do this. let me give you one of the conclu with continued growth and emissi at historic tes, annual losses and economic sector projected to reach hundre bi of dollars by the end of the century. more t current gross domestic produc product of manufacture thestates. thiss not paintin a picture of an environmental catastrophe coming but an economic catast what are you going to do about it in congress, senato >> well, first ofall, iook forwar to digging into the report and listening t what
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her experts on the outside have to say about it. i think it's important anyime take a report like that to examin what public policies they might have in mind. arat public policies that could be brought fothat would addres the problem they're addres without simult t devastati u.s. economy. there is no question that for a variet of reasons and regardles regard of where one stands on the issue of climate change that the burning of fossil fuels does emit into the environment a number things that aret the health >> should we put a price on a carbon tax? are open to a carbon tax? >> i'. not. all the proposals i've seen so far that would address any of thes issues would devastate the u.s. economy and have little or no benefit that is demons from our standp so i have yet to see a propos that would bring this about. i think if we're going to move away from fossil fuels, that has
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to be through innovation and it n be choked out through excessivusgovernme >> amorning. we got a lot today. i really appreciate your time. thanks for coming on. hope you enjoyed your weekend. >> thank you. >> all right. joinin now from the othe side t aisle is democratic congre elijah cummings who will join the house oversight commit weh om >> to be wu. let many he start saudi issue first and foremost. becaus i know you've been on thisssue as well. you have the president disagr with his a. responsibili oversi -- you see -- do you look to see if he has financial motiva for making the decisi nis this something congreds to look into? >> i think it's definitely someth that we need to look into. and we probably will. keep in mind, chuck, one thing that we're concerned about in oversi is the monument clause and wondering whet presid is acting in his best intere or those of the americ people.
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i think this is appropriate and there other committees that will b looking at this too. >> you have so manypo sa reques you have memeyrs t the investig to start. your job is to prioritize this. explai your priorities, how are you going to make decisi what i worthy of the commit and what will it look like sort of crass partis politics? >> there are a number of things at we have requested, some 64. these are things we would have normal done under republican or democratic administration. let's be clear. us american people said to throug this election we want accoun we want to check on this presid the united states. but they also said something else. they said we want you tosolve our problems. and a lot of our emphasis is going to be on and laser focus on things like the skyrocketin cost of prescriptio carugs,
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heal, dealing with things like issues like opioids and one that is nearand dear to me, voting rights. we are going to look at all of that. now as far as president trump a -- and his administration, the americ peoplewaaid they robust and transparent invest with integrity. i haven't figured out exactly what order they're they'r important. but i guarantee you we'll look at them quite a bit. >> i want to play for you -- put up a quote from jaso chavitz. you were the ranking member when he wre chair on theblican side of the aisle. he says, first of all, he makes the claim, i sent lette and bpoe to the trump admini and got no respon i was stimied every st t of the whatnk that elijah comin cummin get a response? was he stymied? >> no doubt about it. i think the remembers were aiders and abetters with regard
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to hel trumpdo p some o the unfortunate things he's done. presid trump knew there was not ping to be anyh back. now he knows there is going to . it is to be serious push that's what the american people want. i don't know wat will happen. we're going to be very careful with issuing subpoenas. i don't want people to think th first walk in there we're going have 30 soubpoenas going the door. not going to do. we're going to carefu andake sure that it's done with integrity. >> you dinot have your own subpoe power when ranking rememb >> that's right. for a long tim>> he first time that had eenr haompared to previous congre correct? >> right. >> do you plan on grting your rankin member own the republ side subpoena author >> no. >> so your not? explai why you.wouldn if you believe this is something that should have been granted to
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you when you were in the minori >> i didn't say that. you know, they who have power in washin all power. >> right. >> and i think the american people have said they want checks and balances. the subpoenas that i want to issue would be much different than ones that what i have seeno i want issue them that go to the very heart of our democracy and protecting that democracy and subpoenas by the way that mainvolve,say, private indust like the pharmaceutical compan with ese skyroc drug prices. i just don't -- it's o opport i will consult with them. i work with them. unlike they did with me. but, no. >> this is one of those what's good for the goose is-- i guess the point is when do you stop? >> chuck, let me be clear. i'm hoping that we will return to a level of civility now. that's what i'm hoping for. hop
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that just doesn't move to common ground but move to higher ground and i plan to lead that way. one other thing, we've g-- our democratic party, we -- althou we may not have been le electe all the people, we have t govern as if we were wha? you ha to work with this presid >> oh, yeah. i willove to work with presid trump. i want to hold him accountable no only to the american people but i want to hold him accoun to himself. in mind, he id recently that he's for pres drugsing down. he's the same one who said that he wants -- he mplained during the election about the infras and howur airpor so poor and our roads. and now is the time. chuck, wenly have two years. that's nothing. and so we've got to get it done we do not have to -- we do have hit the ground as democrats runnin we have to hitou the flying
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>> let me ask you about the presid potential deal with omthe ing government of mexico its no the clear yet if theyne totall soff on this but the idea that any asylum seekerh that comugh mexico seeking asylum would stay in mexico until the court date instthe unites. if the president cuts a deal with mexico, are you supportive? >> no. >> why? >> because that's not the law. they should be allowed to come in, seek asylum. that's the law. and we don't -- >>rt would you suphang the la no. i think we have a system that has worked for a long time. the president wants to change it. that's up to him. gress to stand . >> do you think what he's doing is constitutional? >> i don't know. i don't think so but we'll se you know, the court -- a lot of people don't realize that presid tmp is now -- he's basica controlled the legisl because they haveen aiding and beeti defend him. he controls the executive
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branch and now he controls pretty much or trying to conol judiciary. so he's basically had all three branch with nocheck. now he has a check. and, again, chuck, let's not be confus we have to address thehings that the american people want us to address. oey'r tired of this. they'r tired hearing the lies. they'r hearing people say that lies are truth, truth is lies. they'r tired of it. and what they're saying is help me get my prescriptio drugs. help me get halth care help g roads fixed. if you're return that, isn't what you want the focus to be. >> focus is -- my zero focus is on thees day to day l of the american people. but i'm also -- by the way, we can do more than one thing at a time. i'm also focused on making sure that after the storm is over, it we're going through, the trump storm. after that storm is over, wiat we have? will we have our democracy? and as i said, i said to the w
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presn i spoke to him in his office, mr. president, look, i said i'm 67, you're 70. the greatest gift we can leave to our children is a democracy intact an opportunity. and with the voting rights. and that's so important to me. baltim maryland, thank you for coming down and being here. i hope weekend. >> i enjoyed it. whene come bac president trump on the courts, the intellcommunity, the press, our ♪ what would you ♪ lianening to people er that question, is how we find out what matters most to them. for a busine it's the power to grow. r an entrepreneur, 's the power to innovate. and for a family, it's the powero own a home. we stand with the ones who day in and day out put in the hard work to make things happen.
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conver a listen. who are you th for, mr. president? >> for having a great family and for having made a tremendous differ in this country. cemade a tremendous differ in the country. this country is so much str iger now thanwas wh office that you wouldn't believe it. >> and then here's what kathleen parker wrote. when reality is ignored or rechar in ways that defy national rebuttal, then new normal dip by drip just anothe category of current events this bizarre thing happened and the pr looney off th wall obscene thing. wash, rinse, repeat, danny. >> first thing i thought when i saw say that, we were ally talkin turbefore is, you know, everybody at thanks is thankful for i turkey and guess president trump is thankful for a turkey aswell. i did not think ofhat before look, this is this -- this tells us everything that we already know about donald trum which is that his entire point of
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refere everythingthat he thinks about is about himself. the hat is going to be answer to every question you ask today whether it is about saudi arabia or climate change or about anything else. donald is number one about donald trump. >> so how do you conduct a policy how do you conduct the basics of govern under this? >> you know, i was just think about what i'm thankful for is forme. this is great. i'm thankful for me. >> i'm thankful for you. and you and you and you. >> it's always been me, me, me. so it is sort of that's what we have come to expect. i think what's been really intere in the past week just watching president trump is starti to -- you really are tarti to see made clear just nstitution he both understands e of the united states and what make this country that we all love. ofd th things that he does
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unders is sort like, you know, how little he cares when he go fro the i tacks on the judici to sending american troops t the border, to attack the military for not catchi osama enn laden fast gh when it was actually the cia that was responsible forhu e for osama bin laden to look hia rather refreshing statement on the announce sort of laid out the honest terms the american relati with saudi arabia which has always been pretty transa he just came out and saidsait. >> h what it is. clm going to put up -- he also used eight ation points. i highlighted six of them. this was not from the president. it was a statement states americ first. the world is a very dangerous place. i won't read them all here. maybe he did, maybe he didn't. doris questioning. i mean, can you imagine fdr, teddy roosevelt, no you can't, i know the answer to that already. but the exclamation points.
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and, yet,helene is right. the most honest statement that a esident ever sai relati with saudi arabia. >> the asides is what he is thinki about. i love the one when he was asked in the fox interview, you know, how do you rank yourself with lincol and fdr and reagan and he said a plus. you can't go any higher. so i kemept thinking that buchan was lowest in the polls. recent they did one that put trump so thean bu family was celebrating. they w no longer at the bottom e th worries me is the attack on the institutions, you're attacking the rule of law. worry is do the people themse understand how troubl is? we're in a rip tide that could really t ow usover. i saw in a recent study in the "new y they said one out of three people couldn't name branch of the government. one out of tenht people tho judge on the supreme court. it's funny but not. where is that civics. when i was an old girl, a young little girl, we studied. i i want too back to
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middle school now teachi middle cool kids and teachi them how to go active in cty councilnd the lastate legisl >> we're seeing this transa foreign policy play out in such a devastating way through the destruction of instit denigrating the rule of law and justice as a great american import, as part and parcel of our foreign policy and during the 2016 campaign, i think that trump, his message of a differen ss intervention more common sense foreign policy esona with the american public he was very outspoken about saudi arabia and their ro in funnel terrorism around the world. here is that donald trum today? he is back in transactional purely foral dtrum mode. and that's why it's key what repres just said about lookin into donald trump's person ties with saudi arabia.
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>> just teed up something here. he is thomas friedman. what is the worst thing about presid trump p's approach to foreig policy? the combination is terrible he sells out american values enough but then gets nothing of value in return. a litt harsh? >> well, it's tom friedman. let's take it where it's coming. i don think that -- i don't think that calling the president helpful.is i don't think that calling him immora althoughay it be cathar is especially helpful either our relationshi with sdi arabia has always beentran transa relationshi about saudi arabia is always about our larger saudi arabia rule of law or anything else. so my view of this is informed by the problem that we have and talked about many times the politicalization of
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absolu everythin look, if people cared as much abt jamal khashoggi as they did about half a million people in syria, as they cared about the 85,000 kids in yemen, about what i hpening about the murder frankly clearly by the way ordered by putin of dissid in the uk. if everybody cared about those the same way, ie would credit object to his statements on saudi arabia a lot bmore. he was elected to up end the status quo when it came to foreig policy. that's not what he's doing. he's reinforcing the very worst elemen of a policy that quite frankl just isn't working when i would argue that saudi arabia s done more to further terror than iran. that's a debate we can have. but you look a what he's doing. it's not what he was elected in his supporters wanted when they took donald trum to office. >> that's not quite factual, i'm raid i think iran is the larger
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suppor of terrorism. udi arabia has done more to ms of tself around in t financ support for terrorism, in terms of support for indivi and in terms privat support for terrorism than almost any country. iran remains theer suppo of hezbol probably the most powerf terrorist group in the fountr iran is responsibl what is happen syria. iran is responsible for what is happen bahrain. >> saudi 9/11. >> yes. think that -- we all remember 9/11. thank >> all right. pause the convers there. is campaigning for president's trump impeachment a successful strate to win the nomination in for the 250k service members who transition out of the u.s. military everyear... ...one of the toughest parts is the search for a job that takes advantage of the skills you've gained while servg. you can now search with the phrase 'jobs for veterans' directly on google...
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>> thank you. al i noted there, there are 30 potential democr candidates that could run. why u? and why you more so than any of the other 30? y>> let me stop and say that presid >> fair enough. okay. what i did in 2018 was basica two things. our organizatio nexgen america he mobilized the larnleges yout voter action in the country. we gathered almost 6.5 million
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signat of american citizens callin for the president's impe and removal for office so basically during 2018 i was full time working on grassroots organi americans to get their voic heard in the countr what i'm doing right now is puttin out an, agen a framework for a so for the 21st century which i call the five right which a the rights that americans need to be free to pursue aeir own nd their own destiny. >> i read it. sound a presidtia platfo >> what it is, is a framework ve a positive agenda in the 21st century. i'm putting it out thereor all of the people who are running for president to look at and gee nd becaus what's missing in americ politics is a positive vision of what this country stands for and wt the socia contra is with the american citize they can be and have the world the freedom to go forward and live out the lives they want to live. >> get you to respond to someth that a progressive
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column about you. fairlytt fing portrayal. he wrote this. i will admit i start with a bias agains billionaire who think they should be president. super that everyone is t them ho bril they arli they are whic makes them think they cansu ee in every area. explai >> i h spent the last six years traveling around the united talking to average citize going to redtates and blue states to really understand what americ are going through. and what i can tell you, chuc the is really close to bone. one of my town halls in newark about six weeks ago, two differ people stood up and said if they had repeeled taled afford care act, i wouldn't be here because i'd be dead. one of our five rights is the right to health. weeed universal health care as
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aright. i was down in greensboro, north caroli probably the week before the election. i was talking to a bunch of helleg students. one of people at lunch with me was a young man named avez who is 18 years old who got a 4.1 in hig school who had absolu dedicated himself, got into college, couldn't afford to go.he one of rights is the right to learn. free e pre-k through colleg we canthis. what see when you go around un othe bone average americans are. that that's >> why you and not warren sanders? they have similar experienes. they h similar points of view. what do you think you bring to the table that is different than he's other elected officials? >> i'm one of the luckiest people in the united states. is. i had a family that really took. they sure i got a fantastic
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educat i never had to wonder whether i was go hot meal at night. i knew for sure i was getting a hot meal. i feve as if i been enormo privileged both by my by ly taking care of me and the -- what people have built in the united states over hundreds of years. but what i've seen when i w invest money for schools and unda and people was that this system has been rigged for big corporation and people like me. andrigging this system, its not about me, chuck. it's about getting the needs of theeople of the united states put first and foremost. which they are not right now in our political system. and which they all know that ey'r not first and foremost. wh impeac now for the newcr de house? you think it's front and center, don't you? >> i think it's an absolute first step to getting towards a positi vision for the country. and let me say this -- >> you would start with impeac if you elijah cummings, you
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would start drawing up the articl >> i think there is no qu ption thsident met the grounds for impeachment and that it's urgent to get him out of office. and i list ebbi to the last segment. is there anybody inni thed states tells you the presid is acting on saudi arabia nth because're paying him money? >> let me ask you. what is your line on foreign policy there is some allies that are sort of necessary evils. it's american foreign policy realis where you draw the lin on human rights versus america's nation interests? >> i think the idea that america is not value driven is a break with hundreds of years of what eric stands for. are we interested in our -- how we do personally? >> what abou the human rights policy >> absolutely not. but would i also cut off all values in order to get along for a short term bump inome trade situat also not. the united states has doneest
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ound the world when we've done right. becaus then people who we are and the idea of cooper with people who are fair trade partners who have a brde vision wh understand that when you cooperate, everyb does better. in fact, a fistfight is not where you create the most chuck. did you learn that when you were in fourth grade? >> final queson is this if you just -- what do you -- what i biggestmpediment to running for you? >> as far as i'm concerned, the bigges hole in american policy >> this is for you. >> i understand. i'm answering your question. i'm answering your question. what i mising in america ti povision. what i for, is someone going to take something similar to the five rights i put fo pard totect the american people and really run with it so that we have a vision of what we're trying >> if another candidate grabs your five rights, you would step aside? >> this is about the peopl
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united stat of the united state. if there is a movement to get someth in place we desper need which we always need is a vision of what the country stands for and how o the americane come first, i'll be part of that movement, absolu100%. one wa other. >> whether you're a candidate or a supporter? absolutely. tom steyer, thank you. much appreciated. when we come back, democrats picked up as many as 40 house seats in theid terms. but some are still not calling it a wave. explain nex every day, people are fighting type 2 diabetes with food, family and farxiga, the pill that starts with "f". farxiga, along with diet and exercise, helps lower aic in adults with type 2 diabetes, it's one pill a day. and although it's not a weight-loss drug, it may help you lose weight. do not take if allergic to farxiga. if you experience symptoms of a serious allergic reaction such as rash, swelling, difficulty breathing or swallowing, stop taking and seek medical help right away. do not take farxiga if you have severe kidney problems,
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it was blue wave. no, it wasn't. at least at my house. what is the deal? democr are going to net at least seats in the house. and with twogop held seats, it's possible the democrats could get up to 40. histor that's big. last time demrats gained this many seats in a midterm was 1974. the post watergate election. one point for team wave. democr also won the national
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house popular vote by a whopping 8.9 mi votes, 53-45. eightpoints. the gop's last two wave electi republicans won the popula vote by a smaller margin so that's another point for team wave. but was it a wave? maybe not. republ knocked off ormocr senators in dakota missouri, florida and indian while losing only in arizona and nevada as of now, they're plus two in a wave should have saved two or three vulnerable incumb and two of them lost by six points each point wave. there were also some high profil losses for the democr nail biters in georgia's govern race, florida' govern and senate races all went trepublicans. plus in ocio, dts lost every big race except for hangin on to the brown seat. all points for no wav look, are strong points for both sides of the argument.
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the report wasreleased on friday some o the projected impacts includ according to the report, three to 12 degrees of additio wor additi warming by 00. this report was put out on black 'sfriday congressional mandated. trump p administration had to do this. their own response to theipoown was, hey, this was worse case scenario. we'll a different assess the road. what do you ma of it? >> i make of it that there is an absolu lack of leadership onor the coe level, national level, even on the state levelsh
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he this is man made or whether or not it is -- it clearl man thmade, but w some is made from something else that dmatter. what matters we're seeing everyt around us, therirfir and droughts and now they say this may had been happening by 2050. every important ac taken in americ is because people in the govern begin to feel i care what ispe going to hn to my kids and grandkids. wher do civil rights? becaus better for the south in the long run. we came through a tough period and now we have a new south. look tfuture. if you can't look past yourself and the greater go future that is not leadership. imct which i think for politi might wak themup more t an environmental impact >> -- youod hope start to wake up r politi but to doris' point, i'm very concer about the short termis within congress and there is no political will to put dwn and think
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intent make tough politi choices and think about the future when there isn't an immediate political payoff and so i do think it has to be more of a corporate interest for corpor to am come togeth and try to deal with this and even if it isn't worse case scenario, even a 20th of this is a big problem. >anny? he problem, again, is that i think there is a perception among those for whom donald sp that donald trum does speak for some ople, that -- >> 46% is a number that seems t. >> well, that's a pretty substa bunchof people. the problem for many is that they perceive this as an agenda that is much more about corpor and muchore about law and much more about the kind of governance that america has and much less about climate. so from thein standpoof those that have doubts about this, and i don't think we can have any doubts that cthere ismate change whether it is man made
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or not. i don't know. i'm no scientists. iis look at as a citizen. we need to recognize we had two drop in global temperature that we have had since the 1980s, the bigges in the last 100 years. we don't talk about that. its not part of the agen the united states has been droppi in co-2 emissions since we pullut of paris. there are actually good things . we are dirty coal anymor it's the europeans who are using gi dirtycoal. shthere is corporate lead on. thisyes, we need to deal with the problems. yes, we need to mitigate the things with we shouldn't b hyster >> it seems like there is more corpor interest in doing someth than government intere >> yeah, just the problem isnot th corporation that's are pollut the most. we shouldually think be hysterical. i'm going to disag you on this. think anybody that has childr or anybody thatcan imagin having children and grandc can you look
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at the and think this is the kind of wor that through our own inaction and inability to do someth that we're going to lead them. i'm gl you're having us talk about this on this show because think it was the cynici to release this report on bla by the trump admini i just think that at some point we are going to need not just e political leadership but also the corporate leadership to actual sit down and do somebout this. >> it does seem as if we're afraid of buying this insurance policy why are we afraid? why is the republican party in g this afraid of buy insura policy? >> i think it goes abont a to deeplynched corporate intere in the republican party. i think this is a very defined politform that you can see how republicans have been histor influenced by their donors on th plank. >> you mean it's distrust that enviro left will use it go aft rather than -- >> philosophically the anti-r bend is.
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there i think that if you look at donors, there is a direct correl there. nd this is why education of the citize essential the end of citizenry has the power and it's like a movement. an environmental movement but it haed to be u now. every young person has to realiz they're fighting. the eople are fighting fo young now too. i care about them. we care about the kids. you're so right. h e a responsibility. better civics movemeter i'll be with you on the ground.. before we go, if you would like to help the victims of the califo wildfires, we picked out a few organizatio that's we have found that we think you should reach out to. if you don't have a penh dy, don't worry. we have the organizations listed on our meet the pressocial dia accounts. that's all for today. thank watching. i hope you enjoyed your thanks break. we'll be back next sunday becaus if it's sunday, it's "meet
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