>> guest: he was working for ralph nader as well. c-span: now los angeles times gets in this somewhere. >> guest: yeah. i--i worked for ralph a short while, a n--a year and a half, an--and decided i really needed to be a journalist journalist. and i wanted to--at the time, it was really important for journalists to specialize, and i was really interested in getting my feet on the ground as far as business reporting. so i worked for legal times covering the sec and a number of re--regulatory agencies. then i worked for the american banker, an independent financial paper. again, i covered the savings and loan crisis, if you remember, in maryland. i covered those--i got to be in on the entire savings and loan crash of the '80s, the whole--when the whole system crashed. covered a lot of that. it was actually quite exciting. went to businessweek in los angeles and then decided that that wasn't really for me. and i had been writing some freelance pieces for the los angeles times' sunday magazine, and i went to shelby coffey, the editor of

because as you know the idea of nader acting as court martials for the i.c.c. is a total no go for both russia and china and if you believe in the impartiality of the court while good you need not and they go in the in the picture ok maybe we need not feel bored or the concert i was trying to explain is. we can use in a much more smarter way into a major international criminal court but normally. people say ok but just additions you wouldn't have no influence that's why i would mention me to the forces if there is a prospect of an international criminal investigation that would be enforce it that would be people we arrested vend that would create incentives to do a different location a real negotiation to stop the crimes that's all the consulate to present is the pragmatic approach but mr moran the company why would we need to involve both the i.c.c. or possibly nato what again because we first need to establish whether or not there are any crimes committed saw coming back to the same issue watt could possibly be the charges against president bashar assad why d

that was general earnestly and dr corder nader for the right for the constitution and trucker mike mike meet way. while still ahead here on our team marching dance monsanto was like it's a lot of protests over the weekend against of by. tech giants back in a moment. i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question. six . dramas that can't be ignored. stories others the few still know. it's changing the world right now. the old picture of his days. from around the globe. welcome back over the weekend protestors on six continents in fifty two countries held a massive march against one santo and genetically modified foods the rallies came right before the world food day on october sixteenth from berlin to strasbourg chicago to london sydney to mumbai over five hundred cities soft crowds chanting no no g.m.o. and demanding food labeling one company in southern california has even taken their food find two against labeling to the label of its own products after c

police department's crisis intervention team for 20 years, 1988 to 2008, now project were nader withniversity of memphis's cit center. welcome to democracy now! you have heard the stories of family members calling police to get their loved ones to a hospital or to get them help and the police shooting -- coming to the scene and shooting the people dead. can you talk about your response and what memphis has done? >> first of all, stories like this are happening across the united states of america. all you have to do is search newspaper articles and read even similar to this throughout. communities are looking intensely, how can we might do things better? fact,phis years ago, in 1987, officers responded to a call that came in through 911 system. it was reported to our dispatcher the individual had a mental illness, 27 years old, armed with a very large knife and cutting himself. he was threatening family members. he was also threatening neighbors were arriving on the scene. and they needed help. our officers arrived. after a brief encounter with this individual, he was shot multiple ti

now all of a sudden you're ralph nader, the biggest consumer protection party in history. >> 80% -- aree with their coverage. were there issues? a guy like him and guy like me could have sat down and during that period of timed a bill that would have scratched the itch for the 15%. not hard. this was a total makeover. >> here we go. the history on this -- i want you to correct the record. we've been hearing this over and over again, this history that democrats just rammed this horrible idea down. was this not a republican idea? >> the president did reach out to republicans on this. i think it was considered something tactically. the minority leader said our objective is to defeat the president. we're not going to give him anything. this is the domestic agenda achievement. when you have such a massive change, this is one of the biggest pieces of legislation since the new deal. when you have such massive change, there are going to be problems. and -- and this -- look -- >> hey, i wasn't part of the whip organization. there were a lot of republicans that wanted to vote from this. the polit

quarter nader -- coordinator for right for because the tuition. and a trucker. both of them took part in the rally. thank you for joining me. from a trucker's point of view, let's start with you artist. what happened? what was the point? >> yesterday's rally or friday or saturday? lots of information can be found online. write for the constitution -- ridefortheconstitution.org. and facebook is on fire. what is the purpose was mark b focus on yesterday. friday and saturday are complicated. -- what is the purpose? -- let me focus on yesterday. yesterday was supportive our veterans and protests of all of these bearricades in our national parks especially blunt out our world war ii veterans. this president has gone away to farm and way out of bounds -- way too far and out of bounds. i issued him a personal warning in a facebook post around midnight. from what i understand, th these barricade back in place ar the memori am calling on then people to join me. these barricades everywhere are coming down. >> what are the goals of your group? the goals you are trying to p

and what you sat back down is that they are in conjunction with nader let's hear exactly what he had to say back then suppose the security council referred the case the international criminal court and supposed international court preparing by minigames assad because he is a commander in chief and there are to declare killing of civilians there then the issue is east international movie ready to say ok we request not to to prepare another who aren't. and implementer who are on again assad in syria and he is enough to receive instructions i thought i would negotiate there now obviously syria is not a party to the i.c.c. that is but if you believe the un referral but i wonder why would you adverb bring major into the question because as you know the idea of nater acting is court martials for the i.c.c. is a total no go for both russia and china and if you believe in the impartiality of the court why did you need not a nadir in the in the picture ok you're maybe we're not all board or the concert but i was trying to explain is that. we can use in a much more smarter way intermissions a

the solar energy is the things that we know are there for us nader said a long time ago if solar energy if you could put a a meter on a sunbeam in it that would be the you know that would be the the thing that people would be pressing because they'd be able to make money on it. we but we have to be the leaders we have but first of all i think we have to convince the people in this country to speak out against the members of congress who are the naysayers who deny evolution and deny global warming and deny all the other obvious things this is the flat earth society is there as i see them now and i you seen that we have about a half of that michael are you seeing movement in that direction well i think so i mean i think in most of these areas the people once they wake up are what jefferson said there are a powerful voice for this country the but it has to be an informed electorate and what we have to do is provide the information. ok mike carroll thanks so much for being with us tonight my pleasure tom always nice to see you it was nice to see you too and look for mike by the way in the u

we were one of the original nader organizations -- host: ralph nader? guest: yes, that's right. our founder and executive director worked for ralph back in the 1970's, so it's been around for many years. we're affectionately known as the food police, because we're the people who report on the fat and salt content in restaurant foods, as well as reporting on a lot of food safety issues. i've been running the work safety work at cspi for 20 years, so we have experts who have a lot of experience at this,&a very strong team of people who just worry about making sure what you eat is good for you. host: how are you funded? guest: we have over 900,000 subscribers, so our magazine, nutrition action health letter, actually goes out to about 900,000 households, and that's what funds us. host: first call is from jules. jules is from benson, pennsylvania. you're on. go ahead. caller: yes, good morning. thank you for having me. i would like to say, first off, i keep hearing that the president has overspent and his spending has gone through the roof, and i believe the fact is that congress is

americans feel about the government shutdown and what they're doing is general honestly dr corder nader for the ride for the constitution and mike best ploy he's a trucker and both of them took part in the rally over this weekend gentlemen thank you so much for joining me so far most truckers point of view let's start with you ernest what happened what was the point of this rally. yesterday's rally or friday and saturday we actually had two different purposes there were warned some information for this can be found obviously or run for the constitution or. org there is also a secondary facebook page that has just opened fire it's the one thousand march facebook page. what was the purpose let me just focus on yesterday yesterday because friday and saturday are complicated hard to understand really lots of different issues saturday was nothing but for support of our veterans in protest of all these berry cade's that are put up everywhere in our national parks especially blocking out our war two veterans this president has gone way too far and way out of bounds and i am a personal warning

first amendment rights to be exercised here now i spoke with general lee he's the truck driver core nader for this event i spoke with him last night here's how he put it people are going to remember all this idiocy and foolishness during the shutdown i believe president obama had a plan that he was going to take and punish the american people but he went a little too far when he started shutting down war memorials for like the greatest generation in our history and again he was supposed to be here for the honor flight and to give their list of demands to congressman gohmert some other demands might just surprise you take a listen part of our agenda is we're counting for his resignation or impeachment just like marcy in egypt and if we raise one hundred million americans across the country we will demand his resignation or pressure of the house and senate to come for his impeachment on trees and from other than calling for barack obama to leave office they are also demanding that the usa shall not support al qaeda the debt ceiling shall not be raised and the national security agency survei

sarah taylor and makes a lot of the occupied movement points of cronyism, ralph nader, ron paul make a lot of the far right points. the insider outsider paradigm is much stronger. around the margins republicans intend to be more unabashed about making money in democrats to go want to become a lobbyist are very quick to say they are missing consultants and not lobbyists because the democrats will cloaked themselves with the higher virtue and that is not lobbying. but somebody like trench lots lobbying partner once famously said my vote cannot be bought but it can be rented. [laughter] somebody said you are just a cheap pork and he took great offense to that he said i am not that cheap. [laughter] so he is a southern democrat but as an author i admirer the transparency in a warped way. >> i think we are finished. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> that was mark leibovich talking about his book "this town" it takes a critical look at the inner workings of washington d.c.. we will be back with then next panel and about 15 minutes when it begins with a panel on t

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the court invalidated the results and called for a new round of voting nader this month after the third place candidate alleged fraud. nasheed is known internationally for his activism against global warming which he says threatens life in the small island country. to see our interviews, go to democracynow.org. u.s. officials are pushing for an agreement by the end of the year on the secret transpacific partnership described by critics as nafta on steroids that would establish a free trade zone from vietnam to chile to japan and encompassing nearly 40% of the global economy. john kerry emphasized the u.s. commitment to the deal during an address to the business leaders at the apex summit in bali, indonesia. core, tpp is about generating growth and economies for our people by unleashing a wave of investment and entrepreneurship. all across the asia-pacific. and at a time when we all seek strong and sustainable growth, tpp is creating a race to the top, not to the bottom. >> afghan president hamid karzai criticized the u.s.-then nato publication of that condition monday on its 12 year ann

but she hatched the plot to allow duncan to talk to me about the arc of my career from the nader of my history to the 2,000 show milestone. but what about that original ford fairmount? i bought my first car in 1977, that car, when i won $1,000 from the philadelphia's home run play-off game. i only entered once. i got picked, and greg the bull slammed the pitch over the left center wall. they announce mid name and i got the check. i took it to ford and had it shipped to tallahassee, florida where i was working. after i won a bunch of spot news awards for my reporting of ted bundy, including some homicides, the now defunct l.a. herald examiner hired me to do crime. my paycheck in tallahassee was a kingly ransom. but the $20 bumper week put me in a hand to mouth situation. i rented a bungalow near fairfax. and soon after it was broken into on repeated days, the worst being when i came back from covering a sniper in san diego, one of the horrible school homicides by a girl named brenda experience. when i returned from san diego, there was nothing left, nothing. cleaned out. so all i had we

they gave the passed over nader book before he passed away. >> he's a journalist. >> he gave two copies to the book of the national security advisor. nothing wrong with it. to the shoppers out there, i'm myself. i wonder if it had been a jewish president and if he was given christian books would people in the jewish community think it was odd. i highlighted that. people are krit sooizing me on that. they don't think it's an apt comparison or anything is wrong with it. i'm not saying anything is wrong with it. it raised an eyebrow. >> you grew up in new york city. what were your parents like? they are alive. what did they do? >> my parents are both retired now. my dad is a new york city public school himselfry teacher. and my mom was a guidance counselor in the new york city public school districts and reading was big in the family. my dad would sit in the chair or bed and read. and my mom liked to read a lot of mystery novels. my brothers were older. i was on my own a lot. >> can you remember the books you read? not when you were 5, but when you got serious about history that had an imp

saying that ralph nader messed it up. that teddy roosevelt and the whole party, we have a third-party movement, those that can be a mistake. one that comes from outside the mainstream, you think of it as kind of a bell curve and if you have a third-party movement, this is a complete dynamic. and this is the electoral college there and there is no way a third-party movement is going to win the presidency in the near term. the strategy in the book is all built around the u.s. senate which is to say that if you can muster some centrist strength and handful of states, a senator from one party to another, we know that they make a difference. you know what the two parties are going to do. they're going to talk crazy talk and they will walk back and they kind of give us this. there would be a candidate in the middle of a person has to do is hold 34% of the vote. and then you have this percentage. >> in your view, has the tea party are even broken? >> no, i think that they are active at times particularly in the sun at the rehab

it had nothing to do with ralph nader. enough,der, ironically has been rallying for third, fourth, and fifth parties for years. we should be behind that. the democratic party is not the democratic party that my family belonged to years ago. the democratic party used to represent the working class of america. no longer. the right has gone so far to the right that it is absolutely ridiculous. we need third parties, we need to stop these dynastic brings -- dynastic reigns. people like to see elizabeth warren of running for president, bernie sanders. if only we had 535 bernie sanders in congress. we need heard parties. we need to stop both parties from intervening to the president's election fund, which disallows people from sitting at the table such as candidates getting their views out. a progressive third, labour party, thank you very much. host: in case you missed it yesterday, i want to share with you a story that could have some longtime legal ramifications. this is the headline -- you can read more details online at and

we were one of the original nader organizations -- host: ralph nader? guest: yes, that's right.ur founder and executive director worked for ralph back n the 1970's, so it's been around for many years. we're affectionately known as the food police, because we're the people who report on the fat and salt content in restaurant foods, as well as reporting on a lot of food safety issues. i've been running the work safety work at cspi for 20 years, so we have experts who have a lot of experience at this,&a very strong team of people who just worry about making sure what you eat is good for you. host: how are you funded? guest: we have over 900,000 subscribers, so our magazine, nutrition action health letter, actually goes out to about 900,000 households, and that's what funds us. host: first call is from jules. jules is from benson, pennsylvania. you're on. go ahead. caller: yes, good morning. thank you for having me. i would like to say, first off, i keep hearing that the president has overspent and his spending has gone through the roof, and i believe the fact is that congress is th

ralph nader messed it up. ralph nader was not in the middle. if they are history buffs, they think the bull moose party. we have third-party movements that tend to do things, both of which are mistake. one is they tend to come outside the mainstream. they think of voters at the bell curve because that was a book about statistics. if you've got a third-party movement coming from the tail, that is a completely different dynamic. second, people focus on the presidency, which is a fool's error. with the electoral college, there is no way a third-party movement is going to win presidency. the strategy in the book is all built around the u.s. senate, which is if you can master some center string and a handful of strength, but have a senator from one party and a senator from the other for governor from one and senator from the other. if you could run a century stand open seat in a note the two parties will do. they will go to the primary sentara crazy talk. democrats say things republicans will say things that want back and they will expect that they

a role for nader indiscriminate will wider indications in the region?and minister ivanov, you start your marks saying let me be clear that the syrian government itself use the chemical weapons. i remind myself of the september 11 op-ed by president putin who said the same thing but and i think if you took out a vladimir putin's name in the op-ed it could been assigned by bashar al-assad. so how do you square his op-ed by what's going on now after everything regarding where we are today? and i realized that we have to move forward, but i mean, how do you, unicode look at all these issues given what's going on in the region. and you consider russia enabling the bad behavior and the violations of international law? >> we have for diverse sets of questions. in the last 10 minutes, i'm going to come back to you. let's start with ambassador hof and work your way down any sort of fire, joined to make as rapid as well. ambassador hof. >> i'll be very, very brief. i agree entirely that the syrian opposition sees the chemical weapons framework agreement and resol

next former nader ago barry black discusses the history and the role of the senate chaplain and responseestions about the language used in his daily prayers during the october 2013 federal government shutdown. >> when our federal shutdown delays payments of death benefits to the families of children dying on faraway battlefields, it's time for our lawmakers to say enough is enough. cover our shame with the robe of your righteousness. forgive us, reforms, and make us all. we pray in your merciful name, amen. >> i write my prayers out of the overflow of my devotional life. i read the bible every day, probably for at least an hour. i read the bible to prepare sermons. i read the bible for my personal spiritual growth, and out of the overflow of my devotional life, my prayers emerge. what i get devotional he, i connect to my pastoral interaction with our lawmakers, the members of their family, the members of their staff, and the other people who make up the senate side of capitol hill. so my prayers consist of a synthesis of devotion and pastoral outreach. >> during the shutdown you use pret

ralph nader in some ways, ron paul in some ways makes a lot of the far right's point. i do think the insider outside paradigm is much stronger. around the margins i think republicans tend to be much more unabashed about making money, democrats who go on to become lobbyists are quick to tell everyone there not lobbyists, their strategic advisers or consoles because democrats are much more invested in cloaking themselves in a higher virtue and lobbying is not considered a higher virtue. >> a share over that. >> some like trent lott's lobbying partner from louisiana once famously said my vote can't be bought but it can be rented and someone was appalled by that and said you are just a cheap hole or, he took great -- i am not that cheap. he is a southern conservative democrat but he might be an out liars. as an author i admire the transparency in some warped way. >> thank you all very much. [applause] >> that was mark leibovich talking about his book "this town: 2 parties and a funeral--plus, plenty of valet parking!--in america's gilded capital" which takes a critical loo

further consent the measure be read three times in passing that the motion to reconsider be considered nadermight upon the table. >> is there objection? >> mr. president. >> majority leader. >> prior to responding to my friend, i would use a few minutes later time for -- here's what i'm going to say. mr. president, we've heard this back in four sets. but let's also come into addition to what the senator from washington said, let me read one paragraph from the record of yesterday. i also note that i believe the resolution the senator is offering the past by partial running for the va. there is no fun in here to operate the national cemeteries. there's no funding for the board of veterans appeals. there's no funding for constructing hospitals and clinics. there's no funding to operate the i.t. system to continue going forward. mr. president, i reserve the right to object to my friend from texas request. i object as do most americans. there is the reason for us to have to choose between important government functions as has been said by my three colleagues so brilliantly this morning. i guess m