senator ron wyden. thank you so much and congratulations. you are an advocate of tax reform. but there is no way you can do a comprehensive reform this year. >> the challenge will be a two step drill. we had about 50 of what are called tax extenders. these are measures like research and development and energy that expired. my hope is we can get them reenacted promptly. so we do not sacrifice important investments. and then use them as a bridge toward comprehensive reform. >> you mention the rnd and renewable issue. are there other extenders that should be killed? >> my first choice would be to go to comprehensive tax reform rather than have to proceed with the extenders. the reality is, when the house leadership last november declared that obamacare was their primary issue, that changed the timetable. i'm not going to sacrifice critical issues like research and development on the altar of some actions. >> can you do that this year? >> it would be a big lift. a comprehensive reform package this year. but we can make headway. >> and can you do pieces of it? >> my view is the ta

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if ron wyden were here, i would say he is a democrat who is an advocate of privacy. i would not that hillary clinton and that cap or a. areou and your father popular on the web. they are getting pushback from republican leaders, especially in the house. internetink this libertarianism is an overly vocal minority or is your party's leadership ignoring an important part of this country? >> i think there is a growing movement. if you look at the use, they voted 3-1 or president obama. if you look at the polling data spyingcause of the nsa and president obama has become an extension of the bush administration with less concern for civil liberties, there has not been as many people speaking out on this. through, there was almost a hatred for bush from people who believed in civil liberties and thought he had gone too far on the war. president obama has carried on all of those things. he did bring some troops home. as far as your right to privacy, he has gone up far beyond what bush has begun. i think there is a growing mood among young people looking for something differe

ron wyden can begin that process. i liked that idea.. >> i will bring over chocolate and champagne, so you and i can watch together, senator ron wyden on political capital. what better to do? and we are not through with "market makers" yet. i just want everyone to be on a date tonight. >> it is time for my favorite friday activity, the yearbook game. who is this man? he is an innovator. he graduated from high school in st. louis. this is upsetting. he graduated from high school in 1995. me out. send me your guesses. it hurts me. you know what i was doing in 1995? i was living it up in college. i have done that twice already today. we will be back in two. ♪ >> i want to take you back to the yearbook game. the first, i announce person to tweet or message me could the innovator was. it seems that everyone in this bloombergnd watching new who this was. i am going to point out the one person on the planet who did not know. that is my partner, matt miller. how did you not know? >> i just did not recognize him. >> he looks exactly the same as

senator ron wyden. thank you so much and congratulations. you are an advocate of tax reform.s no way you can do a comprehense

he never could get it through the senate or the entire congress and now, i guess his buddy, ron wydento try it and see what happens. >> what is their intent? is that part of the income equality debate? >> it would be helpful. if you give them 500 a year and tax- free account that helps those who are 75 percent below the average household income. and so it would be significant. >> this is taxpayer dollars. do you like the idea? >> do i like the idea. i like the idea better than some. but what is the bad idea is coming up with a program rather than clean up all of the programs that clearly haven't worked and put together a metric and judge their success and keep those. the federal government has so many programs, that not even health and human service or education department, none of them know what is replicated and what they are costing us. it is extraordinary. >> is the principle of helping kids who need money for college good. but inflating the cost of education? every kid. >> it is a fair point. on that point, i want to squeeze this in quickly. among college grad. accept in ten had

it was a proposal made in a speech in southern california by democrat ron wyden. he is a senator from oregon. the proposal is as you suggested, bill, $500 to go to each and every baby born in america. every baby is an american citizen if you're born here. $500 straight -- bill: tell me about this democratic senator, ron wyden. oregon, and he will get a bit of a promotion soon? >> this week he could become the chairman of the senate finance committee, replacing senator max baucus. that is the tax-writing committee. he would become the top tax person in the united states senate. this deals with tax and handing out money. he is a powerful guy. bill: powerful indeed. didn't chuck schumer have an idea like this couple years ago? >> 2009 this proposal was raised at that point by senator charles schumer and his suggestion was, $500 to every child born in the united states that money would go towards college or towards a house, or towards eventual retirement. bill: where does the money come from? >> taxpayers. bill: taxpayers, right? >> federal taxpayers. you and i bill,

here are some of your emails on democratic senator ron wyden of or gone.oposed to give every child 500 bucks courtesy of the federal government and your taxpayer dollars. an draw from texas writes, government teaching children how to save mon, like wolf teaching sheepdogs how to guard the flock. amen. she agrees. parents teach kids how to save. it is not the government's job. they can't run health care. no one gave my kid 500 bucks. they worked for it. good stuff, darlene. we love to hear from you. go to gerriwillis.com. finally tonight every once in a while you get a window what is really going on and how thing really work. that is what happened tonight when we talked to dennis hill, an insurance agent in north carolina. hill found hits efforts to enroll his clients on federal obamacare exchange, frustrating. nearly half the applications he files gets turned back with obscure and odd questions. and despite being told by hhs, health and human services, to keep on enrolling people despite notices asking for more information, hill is beginning to wonder whet

. >> that was an exchange last march between senator ron wyden and james clapper, the director of nationalree months later, edward snowden leaked documents directly contradicting clapper. this week a bipartisan group of congressman wrote president obama demanding clapper's resignation. more now with the president. >> when your director of national intelligence general james clapper testified before congress and said before the snowden leaks that there was no mass surveillance going on, a lot of democrats in the senate think that he was not honest. he said later that it was the least untruthful answer he could give. i know that you have faith in clapper. i know that you believe that these programs protect the american people. but i can't believe that you weren't disappointed by his answer, because least untruthful is not a phrase i remember hearing on the campaign trail. >> i think jim clapper himself would acknowledge, and has acknowledged, that he should have been more careful about how he responded. his concern was that he had a classified program that he couldn't talk about and he was a

. >> when we say tax reform, when we say ron wyden is a fan, and i'm a fan of tax reform, we're almoster talking about the same thing when we use that phrase. i certainly am not a fan of republican tax reform and republicans are not fans of democratic tax reform. but it's the phrase that everybody uses for wildly different ideas. david corn and ezra klein, thank you both for joining me tonight. >> they haven't cast the movie yet because the story is still playing itself out right now. the disappearing of a president. and that story is so hard to believe the details of it. including the girlfriend who's on the run with him. that's coming up. and michelle obama uses snl grads to get her message out there. my sinuses are acting up and i've got this runny nose. i better take something. truth is, sudafed pe pressure and pain won't treat all of your symptoms. really? alka seltzer plus severe sinus fights your tough sinus symptoms plus your runny nose. oh what a relief it is my dad has aor afib.brillation, he has the most common kind... ...it's not caused by a heart valve problem. dad, it say

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and senator ron wyden, i believe wyden with work with camp to make some of the tweaks to get things throughthem back in the batter's bock. steve, what did you hear? >> i don't great with everything, but this is a big day for tax reform. for my friends that are republicans in congress, i'm sick of the republicans being in this fetal position. this is a big issue for republicans. it's popular with voters, it's pro-growth, and jared, if you don't like this plan, let's see the democrats put something on the table. we haven't cleaned out the stables since ronald reagan was president. >> i like that point, as i said earlier, i think this is a good play to start the conversation. when you end accelerated depreciation, all you're doing is collecting same thing, he phases down the corporate race very slowly, so it looks better in this decade than the next. there are other timing problems, but these are problems i think can be managed. i don't like the way he goats after the earned tax credit, but again, we can talk about that. >> steve moore, is there enough in here to satisfy middle-class desires?

i know senator ron wyden from being in the house.ed compromise tax reform bills in two previous congresses and done that with republican senator. theee is some similarities what he tried to put forward and what i'm trying to do. i think there is going to be a strong basis for a good working relationship. >> have you started discussions with him? >> i talked to him several times. he is aware of what i'm trying to do. he just become chairman. i look to work with him even more when we work forward. >> speaker called this beginning of a conversation. you see the way i it is billed in number of different outlets. call this the republican tax reform plan. is this republican tax reform plan. >> look, there is a lot of bipartisan ideas in the plan. research and development tax credit is something i and congressman sandy levin worked on for years. many tax provisions get introduced. reforms get introduced by a republican and a democrat. there is lot of bipartisan issue @n this bill. but look, somebody had to take the bull by the horns to star

it was called wyden/bennett after democratic senator ron wyden of oregon and republican bob bennett who were main backers. democrats ended up abandoning the idea in favor of obamacare. you know what happened to bob bennett for his sin of co-sponsoring this legislation? this. >> government health insurance that pushes you out of your current plan. citizens can only buy health plans approved by the government. job killing tax increases on employers. >> yes, bob bennett was one of those so-called establishment republicans purged by tea party grassroots for the sat betrayal in large part because he favored, quote, a government takeover of health care. even though he actually voted against obamacare. he was dumped by the state's gop convention. ultimately replaced with mike lee who proudly waves the banner for the tea party in the senate. bennett's main prab with the grassroots is he committed the unforgive bl sin of proposing, yes, a conservative alternative to obamacare he actually seemed to want to make the law. and, of course, there's the obvious fact that the entire mandate and subsidy

we would love to see someone like senator ron wyden get involved as an individual, not as a senator. let me share with the president said on this program. [video clip] the have ordered that transition away would proceed in two steps. effective immediately, we will only pursue phone calls that are numberps removed from a associated with a terrorist organization, instead of the current three. i have directed the attorney general to work with the foreign intelligence surveillance court so that during this transition. the database can be queried only after a judicial finding or, insert -- or in the case of a true emergency. i havetep two, instructed the intelligence community and the attorney general to use this transition to develop options for a new approach that can match the capabilities that and fill the gaps that the program is designed to address without the government holding this metadata itself. back to me with options for alternative approaches before the program comes up for reauthorization on march 28. during this time i will consult with relevant committees in congress to s

last year senator ron wyden asked nsa director james clapper whether the nsa collected any type of datall on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. clapper, who was under oath, responded by saying, no, sir. we now know that this was a blatant lie. furthermore it could not be ignored that the author of the patriot act, representative jim sensenbrenner has been quoted on saying on multiple occasions that congress would never have passed or twice reauthorized the patriot act had it known the full breadth of the nsa's snooping operation. the fact is, as usual, when you give the government an inch, they take a mile. we simply can't afford to play around with our most basic, fundamental human rights. back in may the 4 -- before the revelations of edward snowden came to light i introduced legislation to restore transparency, accountability and confidence to our national security apparatus. hr-1847, the electronic communications privacy act, is designed to increase protections for electronic communications, including personal e-mails, of u.s. citizens, and addresses the privacy concerns

oregon senator ron wyden perhaps giving every newborn $500 in the way of a savings account and his wayt do you make of this? he says it's the way to fight poverty. give every newborn $500 and goes into an account in their name for housing, college, retirement. charles: everything from the left to fight poverty is about giving stuff away rather than the getting something from the recipients. >> in ten years, over 3,000 weeks, in 20 years won't cover college, by the way, 10% is being generous. stuart: where are they going to get 10%. stuart: we don't know where the money is going to go, the $500 invested in what, stocks? i don't think so. charles: it won't be stocks, if they weren't good enough for social security main. stuart: where are you going to put it. charles: in treasuries, 8% and then-- but the point is that, it's so disinagainous and i can see some poor mother sitting around thinking, well, my kids are cover. there's a fund out there and they've got $500, it's going to cover college. it won't. we need to be pressing this country about getting-- you want to change poverty, help

last year senator ron wyden asked nsa director james clapper whether the nsa collected any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. clapper, who was under oath, responded by saying, no, sir. we now know that this was a blatant lie. furthermore it could not be ignored that the author of the patriot act, representative jim sensenbrenner has been quoted on saying on multiple occasions that congress would never have passed or twice reauthorized the patriot act had it known the full breadth of the nsa's snooping operation. the fact is, as usual, when you give the government an inch, they take a mile. we simply can't afford to play around with our most basic, fundamental human rights. back in may the 4 -- before the revelations of edward snowden came to light i introduced legislation to restore transparency, accountability and confidence to our national security apparatus. hr-1847, the electronic communications privacy act, is designed to increase protections for electronic communications, including personal e-mails, of u.s. citizens, and addresses the privacy con

they want to get ron wyden on board. there is much more disagreement about how much revenue should be raised. to patty murray and harry reid who say that $1 trillion should be raised and that is doa with republicans. there is not going to be tax reform in the house of the senate because there would be an immediate roadblock when it got to the upper chamber. like i said, they put the brakes on it last december and they seemed to alleviate that hard line a little bit to allow them to put out a draft. this is a draft and this is not a real bill. it will be written in legislative language and they have to introduce it as legislation to go forward for markup or a vote on the house floor. what we're hearing from both conservatives, members of the republican caucus, and moderates, is that it is not going to go past the debate and the discussion. he may be able to have hearings on it. it will not happen until after the midterm elections on the house floor. >> on house floor, you tweeted about some of this this morning. you said

center ron wyden replaces him on finance one was in sender barelegged takes over the gavel on the energy committee. senators maria cantwell of washington, jon tester of montana will chair the small business and indian affairs committees respectively. some news in the house, congressman doc hastings of washington announcing he will not seek reelection later this year. attend the republican chairman of the natural resources committee said in a statement last friday, isolate or my 73rd birthday of our have the ability and seniority to continue serving, it is time for the voters to choose a new person. that's from doc hastings. house democrats today, tomorrow holding their annual policy retreat in cambridge, maryland. democratic leaders have a briefing set for 4 p.m. eastern. we plan to carry that live for you on c-span. president obama also speaking to the group tomorrow morning. politico reporting that democratic congressional campaign committee chairman steve israel told colleagues at the retreat that the president will headline at least six fundraisers for house democrats this year quote

ambassador to china caused a bit of a shakeup in leadership with sender ron wyden replacing them on finance. louisiana senator mary landrieu will take over the gavel on the energy committee and senators maria cantwell of washington and jon tester of montana leading up the small business and indian affairs committees. join us tonight at eight eastern for remarks from supreme court justices ruth the ginsburg and elena kagan. they talked recently about the court and women's rights that election -- a lecture series hosted by the new york city bar association. here's a look. >> so in my three and a half years on the court, serving with justice ginsburg, i've come to admire her really more and more each day. as a judge, college and a friend. you know, they say that life on the court can be a little cloistered, and i didn't realize until recently that the folks on the outside justice ginsburg is much more than that. too many of them, she is a hip-hop icon. [laughter] i'm going to disappear from my first crop. the notorious rbg. [laughter] [applause] >> they sell these, truly. she is the subject of

if ron wyden were here, i would say he is a democrat who is an advocate of privacy. i would not that hillary clinton i in that category. >> ok. speaking of the rise of libertarianism you and your , father are popular on the web. they are getting pushback from republican leaders, especially in the house. do you think this internet libertarianism is an overly vocal minority or is your party's leadership ignoring an important part of this country? >> i think there is a growing movement. if you look at the use, they the youth voted three to one for president obama. if you look at the polling data now, because of the nsa spying and president obama has become an extension of the bush administration with less concern for civil liberties, there has not been as many people speaking out on this. if you think it through, there was almost a hatred for bush from people who believed in civil liberties and thought he had gone too far on the war. president obama has carried on all of those things. he did bring some troops home. as far as your right to privacy, he has gone up far bey

for the senate energy and natural resources committee now that she's taking the gavel from senator ron wyden, they say senator landrieu favors building a keystone xl pipeline, protecting tax breaks for and sent his for oil drilling in placing limits on the power of federal agencies to set up her career carbon dioxide guidelines for coal-fired power plants. wyden takes the opposite position on all these issues. that is from "washington post".com. >> former israeli ambassador to the u.s., michael oren spoke monday about the future of the middle east and the perception that the u.s. is recoiling from the region. he also discussed the israeli-palestinian peace talks, the fallout from the arab spring and what is next for u.s. policy in the region from the atlantic council, this is an hour and 20 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> it's a great pleasure to welcome you all this afternoon to the atlantic council. and fred camper, president and ceo. this event marks the beginning of an important new initiative that the council, the introduction of the first public events around our first ambassador

we would love to see someone like senator ron wyden get involved as an individual, not as a senator.et me share with the president said on this program. [video clip] the have ordered that transition away would proceed in two steps. effective immediately, we will only pursue phone calls that are numberps removed from a associated with a terrorist organization, instead of the current three. i have directed the attorney general to work with the foreign intelligence surveillance court so that during this transition. the database can be queried only after a judicial finding or, insert -- or in the case of a true emergency. i havetep two, instructed the intelligence community and the attorney general to use this transition to develop options for a new approach that can match the capabilities that and fill the gaps that the program is designed to address without the government holding this metadata itself. back to me with options for alternative approaches before the program comes up for reauthorization on march 28. during this time i will consult with relevant committees in congress to see

ron wyden, the new chair of the finance committee saying there's a chance for tax reform, pro-growthto republicans still talk about particularly tea partiers and the need to raise the minimum wage. you could find a possibility for agreement around some of those issues. i think it's hard to see a path to that today. >> let me see if i'm getting this right. you think there's a chance of something around the minimum wage on a federal level? >> i do. i think democrats will stick to this issue. if you look at the national polling. even amongst the most conservative republicans, including members of the tea party wing of the party, there seems to be a desire to see that happen. don't get me wrong, i don't think it's an easy thing to do but i think there's a chance that something around these issues could come to fruition. >> i thought the tea party was a hands off party. >> if you look at the polling with be they are big supporters of raising the minimum wage. it may run counter to our thinking of them. i'm not going to sit here and try to psycho analyze that wing of the party. tea partier

it will be different from ron wyden. >> ron and i worked closely together. we met earlier this morning on an issue. we had a committee meeting that wills at 9:30, that he still be chairing. my focus is to work over the next year to make sure that lisa murkowski chairs the energy committee in the next session. i will continue to work toward that end. >> you push folks to say these democrats should take votes, whether it be mary landrieu or others? >> one thing that can happen, since last july until the beginning of this week, there have only been a vote on for republican amendments in the united states senate, which is astonishing. advocates cuts have been shut down on amendments, too. all legislation seems to be written in harry reid's office. committee chairmen have lost their authority and opportunity to bring forth legislation. it has turned into a one-man show, and he is doing the bidding of the white house -- not this white house, the other white house. >> the concert is to what amendments that you can be best that concern is what amendments that you ca

ron wyden becomes chair of the finance committee. mary landrieu will lead the energy committee. cantwell will become chair of the small business committee. and jon tester will now head up the indian affairs committee. >> i think every first lady brings their unique per expectively to this job. if you didn't you couldn't live through it. i think to the extent that this feels natural to me at any level and i never would have thought living in the white house and being first lady would feel natural, it's because i try to make it me. i try to bring a little bit of michelle obama into this, but at the same time respecting and in valuing the tradition that is america. >> watch our program on first lady michelle obama at our website, c-span.org/firstladies. or see it on c-span at 7:00 p.m. eastern. and we conclude a special two-hour program looking at all of the first ladies from marsha washington to michelle obama. >> cotton avenue serves as a metaphor r macon's -- for macon's history. they laid it out in blocks alternating from large, wide boulevards, wider than the washington, d.c.