nader that -- i would like to , yout say mr. nader have had a real impact on my life. we met in 1992. i was enthralled with you and still am. you might recall it is rob arnold. donald trump has said some things that have been very frustrated to hear coming out of the mouth of a presidential candidate and front runner of the republican line, by don't see anything he has said as bigoted. i think it is easy to automatically brand someone that way.you referred to donald trump as bigoted , and i would like you to give an example of why you see him as such. guest: sure. he has repeated himself again and again. remember when you said that after 9/11 a lot of arabs on one side of the hudson river were shouting in the streets? that is completely false. he went after hispanics for example. repeated statements about them. is attacks on certain refugee families. there are three syrian refugee families who have been vetted. they are trying to flee terror and rebuild their lives in south carolina, and he attacked them as if they are terrorists. this is anti-semitism against arabs. i

nader that -- i would like to , yout say mr. nader have had a real impact on my life. we met in 1992. i was enthralled with you and still am. you might recall it is rob arnold. donald trump has said some things that have been very frustrated to hear coming out of the mouth of a presidential candidate and front runner of the republican line, by don't see anything he has said as bigoted. i think it is easy to automatically brand someone that way.you referred to donald trump as bigoted , and i would like you to give an example of why you see him as such. guest: sure. he has repeated himself again and again. remember when you said that after 9/11 a lot of arabs on one side of the hudson river were shouting in the streets? that is completely false. he went after hispanics for example. repeated statements about them. is attacks on certain refugee families. there are three syrian refugee families who have been vetted. they are trying to flee terror and rebuild their lives in south carolina, and he attacked them as if they are terrorists. this is anti-semitism against arabs. i

ralph nader? >> the two-party tyranny is so exclusionary of ballot access barriers, keeping independent candidates from being on the debates and on and on. here we go again. that the hillary cowdrey is getting ready basically to say, drop out, dropout bernie sanders. i don't think anyone should be told to drop out. they're exercising their first amendment rights of speech, petition, simply. you want to oppose them, fine. but to tell them to drop out is to tell them to shut up and give up their rights. i wrote in 2008 a letter to henry clinton, urging her not to drop that when the obama forces in june of that year were telling her to drop out. so i think that is a very anti-democratic and very presumptuous, especially since the only reason hillary clinton is ahead now in delegates is because of closed democratic primaries and the superdelegates who are her cronies, as i mentioned, mostly in congress. amy: explained that, ralph. i think people for the first time in 2016 maybe waking up to all of the

and again the opening and closing remarks by ralph nader. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, everyone. [inaudible] >> on jim hightower. [applause] [inaudible] since my daddy took me to the show years ago. so let's get started, beginning with our leader. ralph nader, of course, is the author, yes, it's been 50 years now of unsafe at any speed and numerous consumer protection, environmental, worker protection laws in our country that is made it altogether a better place to live. the late great southern humorist said something some years ago that we in the south have always known to be true, that is there's a great big difference between being naked and being naked. being naked means you have no clothes on. being naked means you have no clothes on and you're up to something. well, i believe in the image of ralph nader nakedly own imagination but the naked truth is that ralph is always coming up with something, including this great democracy rally. ralph nader.

famous doctors and scientists will be there and so will ralph nader. >> yay. >> ralph nader is our leader and we're really pleased to have him here with us today. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, jay. >> so and then there are poll nay tors. you heard about the colony collapse disorder, health. our job is to bring issues like this into the forefront. it takes years. those stories didn't just appear on the front pages of our newspaper. it was years and years of education. one-third of all the food we eat is dependent on pollinators for its production. yet epa is eager to register the next new pesticide. so they did that. they invade the vascular system of the plant and express themselves through the nectar and pollen and indiscriminately attack beneficial organisms, bees, birds, butterflies. we brought a truckload -- the bees aren't actually in the hives. beekeeper came to the epa to make that point. congressman kiss sin niche joined with us. and then beekeepers speak. >> started seeing things that nobody ever knew was there. looking at pollen samples, finding as high as 27 d

ralph nader won zero. only thing he and ralph nader they have in common are neither of them owns an iron. [ laughter and applause ] but the nader comparison wasn't the weirdest analogy pundits use to talk about bernie. >> bernie sanders taking some strong criticism tonight labeled a zombie candidate who's damaging hillary clinton's campaign. >> he's like a zombie candidate. she actually can't kill him, but he can continue to do damage to her. >> bernie sanders says he's no zombie candidate. >> bernie sanders is the zombie candidate. he's the walking dead wreaking havoc on hillary clinton and the democrats' chances. >> seth: hey, can you just wait until you're out of the car to do your report? you're not in a hummer in the green zone. this isn't reporters in cars getting coffee. [ laughter ] and bernie sanders is not a zombie candidate. although it is fun to picture him as one -- "the top 1% of the zombies are getting 99% of the brains!" so, bernie sanders is a brain-eating nader-esque spoiler zombie. next

ralph nader. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. thank you -- thank you to jim hightower and greetings to all of you here and those watching around the country through live streaming. thanks to the real news network out of baltimore. this is, indeed, the largest gathering of citizen advocacy groups covering more directions redirections and reforms ever brought together. under one roof. most conferences are focused on single important issues. we thought it would be important to demonstrate one speaker after another, what is involved in building the civic community, the civil society, it was in many ways a demonstration that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. we all know that problems and injustices in society are all connected to one another. even though they may be treated in a specialized way. what's important to foe on is, how did these groups accomplish what they accomplished? that's why we asked them to talk about their accomplishments. citizen groups are not very good at celebrations. they will celebrate the 20th,

who believed in me, and that was ralph nader.er people said, goes to washington, what are you doing here or something like that. but ralph stood next to me. he stood by me. i'll forever be grateful to ralph to breakthrough that other sort of cultural power if you will that's out there. so thank you, ralph. and let's all give him a round of applause. he's done something for all of us, right? so i love breaking through power. but i have to say i didn't used to when i was gidget, whatever that means. i was a homemaker. i believed in the system. i believed that if there was a problem, something -- someone would come to our aid. some government agency would do something. how silly. but i believed it. and so we went at love canal, we had 20,000 tons of chemicals. it leaked out of the dump. it was in our communities, for those who don't recall the struggle, because it was quite some time ago. and our children got sick. so we went to the agencies and they said they weren't going to do anything because we don't evacuate communities becaus

nader: a few closing observations. have seen now over 500 years of the vick action experienced in one day and you can see what i meant to earlier today by the features of a civic personality. and what it takes to persist and be accurate to en and inviting and to have priorities in order. years ago when i was a youngster we would have discussions at the kitchen table and one time my parents talked about something i did not know anything about. economic opportunity for people andave a decent job livelihood and they said, well what about a civic opportunity? and here i am pretty community-minded. i had a lucky choice and parents. and they said, what is the civic opportunity? i said, one that makes a democracy more able to function and to reflect peoples rights without civic opportunity, how much economic opportunity are the masses of people going to have? if you don have civic opportunity to elevate the consumer laws, get public debate underway, work on town meetings, work at the state level, you're not going to have the

plus, dana warns that bernie sanders could be the 2016 version of ralph nader. i'm going to ask the man himself about that comparison. remember this exchange i had with donald trump. >> you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no? >> the answer is that it has to be some form of punishment. >> for the woman? >> it has to be some form. >> trump says he didn't mean what everyone heard him say. we'll dig into that. let me finish with a test of leadership for the democrats. this is "hardball" the place for politics. real is touching a ray. amazing is moving like one. real is making new friends. amazing is getting this close. real is an animal rescue. amazing is over twenty-seven thousand of them. there is only one place where real and amazing live. seaworld. real. amazing trump leads clinton by four points. trump, 45-clinton, 41. we'll be right back. even a ufh2o. [man] that's not good. [pilot] that's not good. [man] that's really not good. [burke] it happened august fourteenth,2008, and we covered it.talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a

one who has already spoken, ralph nader. using our statement of purpose as a quite, chapters decide which to pursuit that best fit the communities. they decide our national efforts. we believe peace is possible. the name of our organization is not veterans against war, it's veterans for peace with a capital f to emphasize peace. we know peace is possible and we know that to advocate for peace, we have to believe in peace. we cannot champion peace if we do not believe in it. this is the proactive answer to service members and coming home to fight street violence and homelessness or what people call war at home. we understand if we are to have peace, we must not look at it in isolation and think of peace as an international issue and advocate for peace if they are not at peace in their own communities. if a person faces gun violence or other social ills, how can they act for peace,000s of miles away? two recent efforts as well as justice for veterans and victims of war are the deported veterans work that seeks to help detorted

rove nader published a book called "unsafe at any speed." tuesday, we will talk to congressman rick nolan about the 2016 campaign. iner, airport security lines tsa management. >> the libertarian party holds its national convention this weekend in florida. on sunday at 9:40 5 a.m. eastern time, the party chooses its presidential and vice president john nominees. presidential and vice presidential nominee will appear on ballots in all 50 states this year. madam secretary, we probably give 72 of our delegate votes to the next president of the united states. ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ >> this sunday night on q&a joins us.betty koed mintedme as a newly historian. my colleague said, it will be nice and quiet. we have an election coming up. you will have time to read and get comfortable. within a few weeks, the house had decided to impeach bill clinton and we got as he quickly. we had to do a great deal of research, we had not had a presidential impeachment sense senate really wanted to follow historical precedent as much as they could. >> is sunday

congratulations to ralph nader for organizing this nice party. [applause] you know, i came to washington and volunteered with ralph nader and my first day on the job i sat around with him and a few of his aides and he says okay, what are we going to do with this guy he has a phd from mit, is that a good enough imitation? [laughter] one of the people sitting there was jim turner who jus just that week wa is publishing a book cad chemical feast about the food and drug administration and its various failures and inadequacies. so he said okay, why don't you write a book about food additives. so i had just come out of graduate school studying a virus and i knew nothing about writing books and no idea even about a food additive was. i said well okay. i'm glad to do it but how do you write a book and what is a food additive effects they said just go and do it. it seemed like everybody on the staff was writing a book of the year. so i scurried into the library, looked up the food additive was. i don't think there was a book on how you write a book, but i

nader: justice needs money. the abolition movement was funded significantly by rich bostonians and new yorkers. the women's suffrage movement drew on rich philadelphians, among others. in the 1950s the civil rights and environmental movements, in the '60s, due on families such as the stern family from louisiana, and the curry family from virginia. we would like to have some enlightened very wealthy people recognized. -- very wealthy people recognize that their legacy to america is not in their material accomplishments. their respect for posterity as to what they bequeathed to their descendents, that the legacy to america is to unfurl a civic and political energies of the american people, to turn our country into what it can be, and what it can be overseas as well. finally, finally i want to conclude by urging all of you to spread the word, by your appearance today and watching it on live stream. you have preselected yourselves in terms of interests and commitment, reflecting your own civic energies. it's importa

i came to washington volunteered with ralph nader. my first day on the job i sat around with ralph, what are we going to do with this concept? is that a good enough imitation? one of the people sitting there was jim turner who just that week was publishing a book about food and drug administration and various failures and inadequacy. so ralph said why don't you write a book about food attitudes? i came out of grad school studying viruses, i knew nothing about writing books, no idea what a food attitude was. i said marco -- i would be glad to do it. how do i write a book about food attitudes? everyone on staff was writing a book that year so i scurried to the library. how do you write a book? i put my nose to the grind stone and wrote that book which was novel, and food attitudes. from the 1930s, the authors had to prove every food additive was dangerous. and an intellectually honest book, my conclusion was food attitudes like sodium nitrate and artificial flavorings were not nearly as big a problem as the foods themselves, the sugar a

you may recall ralph nader wrote the book about the car dangers 51 years ago. well, today, "7 on your side" asked him about metro safety today. >> is our metro system safe? >> well, obviously not. there are a lot of deferred maintenance and repairs. there has been serious crashes. it's symptomatic of the country. we spend trillions of dollars blowing up places around the world. and we don't pay attention to our own leon: he argued that it affects all of us. he insists congress needs to step up with funding to fix the issue. maureen: while metro receive decline in ridership, the d.c. new streetcar is beating expectations. ddot says it is averaging 2,600 riders a day. it expected to average 1,500 passengers a day. 64,000 people rode the streetcar last month. the streetcar is free until august. leon: it's been as constant as deaths and taxes in the area. it seems like the stuff you see here, umbrellas, mud puddles, windshield wipers going on the cars around here. well, today marks 150 straight days of measurable rain at the reagan national airport. will the streak

his name was ralph nader, he spoke for the trees. he put seatbelts in cars to prevent shattered knees. he led the green party. his speeches were soaring. and he took votes from gore. my god, gore was boring. ( laughter ) ( applause ) he took votes from florida! he took votes from ohio! he took votes from sneedle, and wumbus, and xylo! i know those aren't actual states. but there were a lot of voting machine irregularities that year. okay. he even bagged the odd florida resident, and that's how george w. bush became president. thanks to ralph nader, who gave it his all, we got cheney, whose heart was three sizes too small. ( cheers and applause ) so once in that booth, vote your conscience and heart. go with the person you've backed from the start. but think it through carefully, don't press your luck. because, trust me, 2000 was a real cluster-- ( laughter ) ( applause ) unfortunate event. ( laughter ) now say hi to jon batiste and stay human, everybody! ♪ ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: this is going to be a big saler. this is g

i think on the flip side to your point about nader, if the sanders folks don't come together, which it looks like they're not, there's a lot of distrust and concern but for how bernie sanders is treated by the democratic national committee throughout this process. i would be more concerned about a wing of the progressive party or green party, whatever on the left, kind of evolving or putting someone like a ralph nader out on the ballot as a protest vote. so i'm very confident where we are as a party and moving forward. i think any republican, any true conservative understands the way to keep hillary clinton out of office is to stay united as a party which we're seeing as the polls are showing together for us and not for them. again, i don't spend time thinking about this. we're pretty happy with how the party is moving forward and the poll results speak for themselves. >> sean spicer of the rnc, thanks very much. >> thanks, wolf. >>> coming up, trump and clinton in the statistical dead heat that according to two polls. in fact, in one of those polls, trump even sur passes hillary clint

speakers include consumer advocate ralph nader. >> this week "the communicators" goes to the intx show in boston, the internet and television expo sponsored by the national cable and telecommunications association. we interviewed fcc chair tom wheeler. >> host: as a regulator and a consumer, what's your view of the cable industry today? >> guest: so, you know, i was listening to pat, and he was talking about roots 40 years ago. and i was saying, golly, 40 years ago i was working at ncta, and so my relationship with the cable industry goes back a long, long time. and it was always a great privilege, i thoughting, to be associated with this industry at that particular point in historiment -- history. and, you know, michael powell was kind enough after i balm chairman to ask me to come and meet with the ncta board. and i sat down and i said, you know, folks, everything that i believe about the relationship between government and industry were, was a philosophy that was developed while i was at ncta. because that was a period in time when the cable industry was the voice of competition and

[applause] >> thanks, jim, and thank you, ralph nader. i am so honored to be a part of this illustrious group of people and organizations. what i would like to do in my 20 minutes is take you on the journey that i've been on because it's been an extraordinary one. ralph has asked that we all tell our story, so i'll share that journey with you going back 40 years. we are -- we're now facing a sustainability/survivalbility issue in this country when it comes to public health and the environment. i always like to take an upbeat approach to that question as we sit on the precipice of worsening environmental public health problems, we can see the solutions in sight. beyond pesticides was set up to take advantage, leverage those solutions and empower people to act. you know, a lot of us grew up with ddt. and these are the kinds of ads you could see in magazines at the time. ddt is good for me. and the advertisers were telling us that not only did it kill destructive pests, but it was a benefactor to all of humanity. that's in the small print on

my pick is titled "does bernie sanders want to be the ralph nader of 2016?" on the party have released something just as damaging to the causes he professes to represent. milbank also credits nader in his similar protests for helping to elect george bush. won oregon, lost kentucky, people wonder why is he still in the race, only with 100 votes to go for hillary clinton. clearly, he wants to support his cause and back his supporters. >> and that idea of a fed can be the force because you can have it on both sides with strong talks like cuba and others. surely, it will go down to two. >> it's just so unusual to have two leading candidates with high disapproval ratings. >>> switching the gears, my pick is in "financial times." it's titled "amazon: control freak." this relating to the amount of ownership in tech companies, jeff bezos, 17.6%. a lot in terms of absolute holding but that is also what he has of the voting rights. it refers to the fact that facebook, mark zuckerberg is down to 4.5% but has a good portion of the voting rights. but with amazon, that has

. >> we have a history with democrats, which is ralph nader, and a lot of people feel ralph nader turnedction -- republicans don't ask. >> if you look at trump as a noninterventionist on foreign policy. some of the rand paul supporters have drifted toward trump, because they see the main republican party as too hawkish. >> actually, kellyanne, trump would be more comfortable in the libertarian party. >> the libertarians are comfortable with trump as their nominee. and i think they will be. none of the above this year is no more outsiders. who is the change agent. and i don't think there's a single hidden hillary vote in this country. i think there are hidden trump votes. >> i heard that it's a fascinating debate. i've had people swear there is hidden hillary votes on the right. hidden trump votes on the left. we'll find out in november. we'll be back. 45 seconds end game segment with a look at what a trump-sanders debate might have looked like had it happened. >>> and our colleague got access into america's drone warfare operation. and a sitdown with the cia director, john brennan, to ta

[applause] >> so i thank you, ralph neighbor--ralph nader... >> [laughter] >> ralph nader, the consumer advocate in our neighborhood. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you. [laughs] [applause] ññ1111@1@1@1@1púúa xx [applause] thank you. thank you very much, and good evening to every body. thank you so much for coming out tonight. to the muslimell legal fund for inviting me here and for the outstanding work they do. i'm as genuine as i can be when i say everyone in those two organizations is extremely impressive, even inspiring to me because of the work they do in areas where very few other organizations are able or willing to venture. i'm truly delighted to participate in any event they sponsor any work they do. for the last 6, 7 years, i have been writing about the systematic erosion and attack on civil liberties in the united states and the war on terror that justifies those erosions that drivesm-phobia those. the past few years i have been spending an increasing amount of time traveling around the country speaking about these issues at events like this, si

now former green party presidential candidate ralph nader spoke in washington wrapping up a day long for them on community organizing. his remarks are about 15 minutes. 15ph nader: you've seen now years of civic action experience in one day. what it takes to persist and to invitingte and to be and to have priorities in order. one time my parents talked about something i didn't know anything about, we were talking about and theyopportunity said what about a civic opportunity? i had a lucky choice of parents. it is one where it works to make the democracy more able to people'sand to reflect rights. without civic opportunity, there is not much economic opportunity. without civic opportunity to elevate the labor laws, get fair elections and public debate underway. you're not going to have a functioning democracy. you will share my commendation of all these people. let's give them a good hand. [applause] this is the super bowl of citizen in action. here, all ofoints these initiatives would have left-right support back home. when to get down to where people live and work and raise their fa

between al gore and george bush. >> even if johnson falls back, remember ralph nader still made a bigit put bill clinton in the white house. >> if you just look back, you would say, based upon where he's in the poll right now, he'd still get about 5% of the vote, which would be tremendous. >> and more if he got in the debate. >> it's only tremendous if the splits are different than in the general election. >> that's true. >> when you scratch the surface of nader, it looked like his splits were not that different from the general electorate. >> exactly. >> i think that will be one of the things that we watch going forward. with the high negative ratings for hillary clinton and donald trump, it's no wonder he's getting 10%. i would potentially do it. >> if you look at bill crystal, the editor of the weekly standard, why is he never trump? because he feels that trump is not committed to neoconservative policy. you may end up with these two republican governors with seasoned resumes, but also they break with the party on a lot of key issues of foreign policy and social policy. so some rep

we have had this discussion many times, either bernie sanders will be ralph nader or he is not. >> that is a low blow. the. >> basically, saying that there is no path to the nomination for bernie sanders at this point. at this point, if bernie sanders does not want donald trump to be president, he has to start thinking about something else, not leading -- that is what i am reading here. >> the very first conversation they had with bernie sanders. >> give me a break here. i have to say, the first conversation i had with bernie sanders running for president, i told him, you can't be a ralph nader, bernie sanders promised the world, he will support hillary if she is the nominee. >> what about mccarthy. >> he doesn't come out -- >> you say that, that is one thing to say it, it is another thing to actually do it. every time he speaks, from this point forward, what he is doing right now, what he did tonight, was dele jit myself hillary clinton. >> he didn't. >> yes, he did. they are yelling, bernie or bust. when hillary was running against barack obama, she didn't go out and say he was a wond

i watched the 2000 race you mentioned and i watched ralph nader.d to move over to the left to catch him. he got him down but at the cost of moving away from the center, can hillary clinton risk going over to the left to try to match bernie? >> i don't think in 2000 we moved to the left. we went after nader. >> you joined him in his critique of the corporate american. >> no. gore had his own critique of what was going on. he wasn't repeating what nader said. i think there's basis for sanders and clinton to get together. i think it involves a reform of the nominating process and platform accommodations. in new york, she endorsed the 15-dollar an hour minimum wage. i don't think this will be as tough as we make it out to be. i think he's going to come on board. he said she's clearly better than donald trump. i think he will help to bring his people around just as she helped to bring her people around in 2008. >> won't be as tough as we commentators. i'm saying it will be tough so the "we" doesn't really apply. what do you mean by that "we." it means i

nader who has been my role model for life.

nader, is someone encouraging cruz to drop out of the race.will or should come wednesday morning if trump wins by a lot in indiana? of course you've been in similar positions hey, drop out of the race. so what about cruz? >> not at all. telling somebody to drop out, neil, is like telling them not to exercise their right of free speech. you can oppose him but don't tell him not to drop out. you can see the person who challenged cruz based just like trump. in other words he overtalked. he didn't want to hear any response from cruz. that's the problem with trump. if trump is the nominee, trump is going to be one who will sink trump because he can't control his mouth. one thing, slandering and shouting at opponents on primary trail or debates so-called or press trying to question him but he can get away with that when he starts shouting at courts or foreign governments and people that can oppose him pull the rug out from under him should he get to the white us he will be in deep trouble. he is clearly the most, he has the worst temperment for bein

i think that margaret is right about bernie sanders, he says, i am not route nader and i do not want. what they care about is the bernie sanders- brand and for it to continue and flourish, he needs to get concessions on things like the platform and secondly, he needs to be credited with energizing those democrats in the fall. john: one more second longer, i have been among those who have said, you know, you are forgetting how bitter 2008 was. the paradigm should apply here in the bernie sanders if he gets to the end, there are some accommodations reached, otherwise he endorses her wholeheartedly and helps nominate her, and they will all come together like they did in 2008. one hit to me is not just on the platform, but the thing that causes me to revise my view, is the extent to which bernie sanders has gone, in terms of painting her as corrupt. and part of the oligarchy and trying to revolutionize. my question about that, even if he does all the right things, will it actually convince the voters that he has been arguing, telling them all year long, that she is easily almost as bad a

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nader. and welcome to all of you this evening. we are gonna have a conversation. and then we're gonna open up to questions that you all have submitted. so let's just kick it right off now. when i told my friends, ralph, that i was going to interview you tonight, the most frequent response i got was, "ralalph nader. where'e's he be? what's he been up to?" so where have you been? and what have you been up to? >> see, if you're not on tthe evenining news, you're notn the national media, they don't think you're doing anything. we have never stopped. we start new groups. we foster all kinds of propoposals. we try to disseminate ininformation. we lobby capitol hill. we n never stopped. i mean, if you want to see what we're doing, you want to get my weekly column free, just go to nader.org and sign up and look back over the years. it's been 40 years now. you'll see what we're working on. and all the groups that i founded i like to spin off so they're autonomous and they're on their own two feet. there have been over a hundred of these groups. >> fantastic. so we're comin

consumer advocate ralph nader wrote the book "why women pay were" exposing that women charged more for things like haircuts and dry cleaning more than 23 years ago. he said gender pricing is not perfect, but it is better today. >> there has to be space for serious content if we are going to have a better world. kimberly: this is something you will ask the essays -- fcc for? say, consumerd news again and again proves high ratings. why don't you have more consumer news? kimberly: he argues that commercial media has too much entertainment and sports and not enough serious news. new information on a story we first told you about friday -- this young man looks like your average teenager, but he is anything but. use a scholar athlete, valedictorian, so why was he not allowed to walk the stage at graduation? it was the facial hair. the school has a policy against it. >> i feel they should let me march. what does the hero and my face have to do with school? the school says that it asked jones to shave on several occasions. shehool board member said wanted to investigate whether the school viol

among those scheduled to speak, consumer advocate and former presidential candidate ralph nader. live coverage begins at 9 a.m. eastern here on c-span2. >> vice president joe biden and former speaker of the house john boehner recently received the university of notre dame's latarre medal at the 2016 commencement ceremony. they were honored in recognition of their leadership, civility and dedication to our nation. it's the latin word for rejoice. this is 25 minutes. [applause] >> father jenkins, vice president biden, graduates, it's truly an honor and a privilege for me to be here with all of you today. just a regular guy who used to have a big job. [laughter] you know, it's been six months since i left public service, and it's given me a little time to reflect. something that occurred to me a few months ago about the difficult task of what we call governing. governing, in my view s the art of the possible. politicians these days are constantly being pushed to promise the impossible. and this being a presidential election year, you've been hearing a lot of impossible promises. [la

words, but donald trump said that ted cruz his father spent time around lee harvey oswald, this asked nader of jfk.>> it appears that path has been foreclosed.>> reporter: that leaves john kasich in the race against donald trump, and he would appear to have no path to the nomination at this point, and the expected trump win has no shadow over the democratic race, bernie sanders snatching the win over hillary clinton. >> i understand that hillary clinton things that the campaign is over. i have bad news for her.>> reporter: clinton did not speak last night, but she won almost as many delegates in indiana as sanders, and almost assure in for the democratic nominee. but she has extremely high negatives among the voters. >> donald trump and hillary clinton are both flawed candidates, and i've never seen two candidates from the walking wounded parade going up against one another. >> that is one way to put it.>> reporter: and they both have in common that they both had to reunite the prospective parties. and hillary clinton will have to turn around the bernie sanders supporters, and donald trump

>> i will say ralph nader continues to disagree with that assessment. most people feel the other way. in talking to voters out there, you hear people, you hear republicans saying, i can't vote for donald trump. and maybe libertarians are a landing place because they are fiscally conservative they want government out of your life. then you talk to some democrats, i was talking to democrats in albuquerque who is bernie people f. he's not there rather than write in they might vote for gary johnson they said. libertarian platform is pro-marijuana which has in the past attracted some subset of younger voters who get excited about. that so, they are not as far as we can tell, things have been wild this year, subject to change, they are not getting a huge influkes of voters necessarily. >> yang: you talk about the republicans the never trumpers they still keep talk be about another candidate this weekend. we had the tantalizing tweet from bill kristol say going to be another candidate. are they still trying to come up with someone, amy? >> there's still a frin

nader cost gore florida and new hampshire. and either one of those states would have elected gore. so you never know. you know, it's possible. i think it's unlikely but possible they'll have some impact. >> and larry, of course, this is an election nobody knows, really, what's going to happen and so many twists and turns here, but who do you think the libertarian party hurts or herps in terms of pulling voters to one candidate or the other? donald trump or hillary clinton? >> well, traditionally, libertarians hurt republicans a bit more than democrats. that's been true in a number of state elections. you know, this is an unusual ticket. if they get a lot of attention, i'm not sure that that is a centrtaint certainty. they have so many positions republicans won't like and so many positions democrats won't like that notice of their voters may well come from people who wouldn't vote otherwise. >> and brine, libertarian party on the ballot in 50 states now. is this the alternative that voters are looking for? >> yeah. you know, gary johnson certainly thinks so. he says over and over th

. >> we have a history with democrats, which is ralph nader, and a lot of people feel ralph nader --sk. >> if you look at trump as a noninterventionist on foreign policy. some of the rand paul supporters have drifted toward trump, because they see the main republican party -- >> actually, kellyanne, trump would be more comfortable in the libertarian party. >> the libertarians are comfortable with trump as their nominee. none of the above this year is no more outsiders. who is the change agent. and i don't think there's a single hidden hillary coat in this country. i think there are hidden trumps. >> i heard that it's a fascinating debate. i've had people swear there is hidden hillary votes on the right. hidden trump votes on the left. we'll find out in november. we'll be back. 45 seconds end game segment with a look at what a trump-sanders debate would look like had it happened. >>> and our colleague got access into america's drone warfare operation. and a sitdown with the cia director, john brennan, to talk about our country's drone strategist. you could watch that report on assignm