you know first of all i'm really grateful that ben cohen a step forward in doing what he's doing you know i mean he's saying that we're going to fund certain projects but we're going to limit those projects that are going to be funded to be red light or green lighted i'm sorry green lighted by a small group of people if ben cohen really had faith with the occupy movement stands for it is totality you would say here comes a butt load of money and here comes i'm going to hand it over to ga to decide how to do it the problem to be fair is that i think occupy wall street would be the first to admit they really didn't handle the nearly one million dollars that they had in the fall going into the winter so. where the money where the state money it all has become an issue within the movement and some people feel like money is a corrupting power and that they should do we would all together i don't myself think that you do need money to grow the movement and organize a ben and jerry and other people who want to support a movement that helps you grow we trust the horizontal consensus building

after ben cohen of ben & jerry's, talking about his political involvement in occupy washington. we will be right back with mr. ben cohen. >> louisiana governor bobby jindal schedule to reveal his proposal for balancing the state budget for the next fiscal year. a budget of $900 million in the red. it's mostly cloudy in shreveport, sunny, 70 degrees at the airport. you're listening to shreveport's news and weather station. >> this weekend, "book tv" and american history tv explore the culture of shreveport, louisiana. saturday starting at noon eastern on c-span 2, on the union army's failure in louisiana. the red river campaign of 1854. and then a look at over 200,000 books of the john smith nobel collection housed at the lsu coach reports archive. then a walking tour of freeport with neil johnson. and on american history tv on c- span 3 sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern from barksdale air force base, a look at 9/11 and a history of the b-52 bomber. also, visit the founding fathers autograph collections at the louisiana state exhibit museum. and from the pioneer heritage center, medica

if you go on top bill o'reilly's site on the fox news channel, his comments from tuesday aimed at ben cohen and jerry greenfield. that's right. ben & jerry, the ice cream guys as he calls them. and bill o'reilly critical of them for their attempts to raise nearly $2 million in order to give out grants to occupy protesters. bill o'reilly asking this question, so what is exactly is a grant? well, it's a salary says bill o'reilly. they're going to pay people to agitate all over the u.s. that is dangerous because we've seen in cities like oakland and new york people can get hurt but apparently they don't care. today, ben cohen joined us on c-span's "washington journal" with questions fres c-span host peter excellent. >> mr. cohen, in november, there was a gallup poll about occupy and its goals and there was some support for it, but people were confused about what its goals were. do you think it's the movement as a whole has been clear in spelling out what its goals are? >> actually, yes. the movement is very clear that they want a world that works for the 99% instead of just for the 1%. and i t

so far they've raised about three hundred thousand dollars the bulk coming from the foundation of ben cohen of ben and jerry's and the nonprofit is website mission statement reads as m.r. g. provides a single point of contact as well as accountability for how funds are expended for individual donors foundations and unions and they fund projects within the following guidelines messaging direct actions and recruiting projects to build the base locally and nationally but we have to ask if it's very organization in of itself goes against what occupies trying to do so joining me to discuss it is dennis trainer jr writer video producer and host of acronym t.v.'s also has an upcoming documentary on the occupy movement that will be released on april thirtieth and it's nice to have you back on the show tonight so for starters let's just start with this group m r g they've decided to set it up and say that we are going to be this soul central point of contact for those that want to find the occupy movement but is that a problem in and of itself or the occupy movement well first of all i can see and s

you're on with ben cohen, co-founder of ben and jerry's and political activist. >> good morning, ben. and good morning, c-span. i applaud you both for your efforts in this country. c-span, my tv doesn't change very far from you guys. i just love you. i guess to stay with the subject, in my personal opinion, i think the biggest fire of occupy has been the lack of a coherent plan. which rightfully or not, it invited ridicule from the right. and if i can make one suggestion, mr. cohen, if you can pass this on to the powers that be within occupy, perhaps a reawakening of henry george's single tax theories would be an excellent base of which to start from. i don't know if you're familiar with henry george. but he still has probably the most -- the most widely purchased book on economics called "progress in poverty" ever written and 100 years ago that he put it out. and thank you for everything you do. and i tried to get in earlier, veterans don't need another parade. i'm a vietnam veteran. and that's last thing we need. we just need to not be used and thrown away when we get back home. >>

all can kind of guess how they will play out thank you very much for coming on the show that was ben cohen editor for the daily banter and president of the dancer media group and that is going to do it for now from are the stories we covered you can head on over to our team dot com slash usa and you can also check out our you tube page it's youtube dot com slash see america you can also follow me on twitter wall the capital account with lauren lyster that's coming up next we'll see right here a five. i passed. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images go horribly and seeing from the streets of canada. sheinkopf orations are all day.

earlier i had an in-depth discussion with ben cohen editor for the daily bands or and president of bands or media group about the growing frustration over and on the injustice i asked him if he thought that rich people if you got rich people aren't quite as a glorified as they once were here in the u.s. here's his response. yeah in the subsidy correct i think right now in accordance he saw it's so big and so deep that the resistance of the rich is is reaching kind of epic proportions not for america which is difficult because that america is a country that has our desires wealth is so different from him so now you are seeing is in a very interesting cultural phenomena when the rich are now. less idealized and they were before and it's a it's a really interesting and significant shift in culture now that to go along with that the a.p. census bureau report came out recently that shows that while people are upset about is the income inequality and they're saying that fair fairness is not it's not in our economic system anymore so doesn't that kind of go along go against the american ideal y

all can kind of guess how they will play out thank you very much for coming on the show that was ben cohen editor for the daily banter and president of the big dance or media group. all that is going to do before the news but for tonight but stick around because the big picture is coming up at the top of the hour it's night host tom hartman has congresswoman jan schakowsky of illinois on the show to get her take on the rising gas prices in the u.s. and later we'll tell you why wofford of capitalism save the u.s. economy and why you think you lead agree. and for more on the stories we've covered you can head on over to our dot com slash usa there you'll find my interview with rebecca ville comber sen with a jewish voice for peace she told me all about the battle going on between mitt romney newt gingrich and rick santorum and the four primary votes these men are duking it out over.

. >>> ben cohen, co-founder of ben & jerry's ice cream is helping to raise $1.8 million for the occupy wall street movement, and he takes your phone calls on tomorrow's "washington journal." we'll also talk with republican congressman doug lamborn of california about the proposed keystone xl oil pipeline and rising gas prices. "washington journal" live on c-span with the day's headlines and viewer phone calls, every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >>> and with a firm confidence in justice, freedom, and peace on earth that will raise the hearts and the hopes of mankind that distant day when no one drags a chain. >> as candidates campaign for president this year, we look back at 14 men who ran for the office and lost. go to our website c-span.org/thecontenders to see video of the contenders who had a lasting effect on politics. >> it is further the cause of republicanism to restore clear understanding of the tyranny of man over man in the world at large. it is our cause to dispel the foggy thinking which avoids hard decisions in the delusion that a world of conflict will somehow mysteriously r

again, ben cohen, what is your website? guest: it is movementresourcegroup.org, and hopefully if you want to support the occupy movement, you can donate. host: ben cohen we appreciate you coming on and talking with our viewers, thank you. >> in about 20 minutes, president obama holds the 100 fund-raiser of his reelection campaign. he actually has four event in new york city tonight. they are expected to raise about $5 million. one was a fund-raising dinner at 8:20 eastern. you can watch it live. >> john gainers says republican leaders had a positive bating with president obama yesterday discussing many issues including jobs and energy. he spoke with reporters for about 10 minutes. >> good morning. american families and small businesses continue to struggle. they fill the impact of prices. that is why it is critical that both parties find common ground to help our struggling economy. we have seen some positive economic news lately. but it is being overshadowed for many families by soaring energy costs that are increasing the

of new belgium brewing nicole rose got a company called back to the roots ben cohen of course of ben and jerry's jerry fiddler created a company called wind river systems a tech company that he sold to intel for eight hundred and some odd million hugely successful individuals. so yeah absolutely we want to honor entrepreneurship we want to encourage that kind of leadership but it's not an either or question and that's where i and rand and paul ryan get it wrong it's not quote a. either private sector or government it's both and we need private business we need the private sector we need entrepreneurs venturing out striking out breaking out group great new ideas but we also need a robust public sector because that's what makes all those businesses possible that's what makes all our prosperity possible we need a well funded education system we need an efficient transportation system we need significant funds for publicly funded research and development and we need a court and regulatory environment that provides fair rules to the road that is the foundation upon which success is made p

the cofounder of ben and jerry's the ice cream company, ben cohen is joining us to talk about, among other things, occupy wall street, the movement raising about 1.8 million to help the occupy wall street movement around the country. he'll be with us to take your phone calls from new york city and gas prices, the excel pipeline and what to expect from the obama administration. a republican perspective from the member of the house natural resources subcommittee on energy and mineral resources. the chair of that committee is doug land born, a republican from colorado. he'll be with us tomorrow morning. the washington journal every day. thanks for being with us on this wednesday. i hope you enjoy the rest of your evening. >>> up next, a congressional hearing looks at cruise ship safety, following the costa concordia accident. we'll hear from survivors and cruise line officials. >>> and then in case you missed it, you can watch c-span radio "washington today" later tonight. >>> and interior secretary, ken salazar testifies about his department's 2013 budget request. >>> if you had said i

republicans in congress don't like our next comments one comes from paul who tweeted this after seeing ben cohen on our program tuesday night at tom underscore harben how about asking ben and jerry to make occupy ice-cream it be a great way to make money for the occupy movement well. perhaps i don't know that's a business decision that they have to make or their company has to make but i think frankly though that their private philanthropy is great and it's more than enough so impressed to see you know senior level major businesspeople aligning themselves with the occupy movement and saying yes let's make something happen that's just absolutely great and i wouldn't be surprised to see the ice cream appear but who knows and our final common of the night comes from our tom hartman message boards or tom harkin dot com calipers and said any tax rate over fifty percent is inherently immoral and the state confiscates over half of the workers income that worker has the every right to ask oh does he in fact get to work for every day get up every day to work for is it himself or is it someone else in ess

dollars and the ongoing primary spectacle has some wondering i'm all the madness at earlier i spoke to ben cohen who is an editor for the daily be answer and president of the dancer media group he told me his real thoughts about super tuesday take a lock it's a waste of time well i mean i think it's pretty clear that romney's going to win this thing this is just a bit of a dog and pony show so we can go in the media can have a kid it's going to consider it and have some fun. yeah i mean it's a gigantic waste of money we've spent this spending millions and millions of dollars on this stuff and you know the policies of these cars are so similar there wouldn't be much to differentiate between any of them we would know who's going to win it's going to be mitt romney so you know that's going to be with and but you do make this argument that the two party system in the u.s. is not sustainable it's not working why not. because i think in. in the long run when you have two parties that are so similar their policies are so it's very difficult to differentiate between the two parties you've got about two

to be funded to the red light or green lighted i'm sorry green lighted by a small group of people ben cohen really had faith in the occupy movement stands for it is totality he would say here comes a butt load of money and here comes i'm going to hand it over to ga to decide how to do it and the problem to be fair is that i think i was true to be the first to admit it really didn't handle the nearly one million dollars that they had in the fall going into the winter so. where the money where the take money it all has become an issue within the movement and some people feel like money is a corrupting power and that they should do we would all together i did myself think that you do anybody to grow the movement and organize it ben and jerry and other people who want to support the movement it helps you grow trust the horizontal consensus building process that has been in place that's the one non-negotiable thing it's the one thing stands for people trying to create a new world using a different process that has been in place and is hire or process and think of it this way if you have a public

our guys it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening are two producer jenny churchill and ben cohen and they're of the daily banter hey guys thanks for coming on. so rick santorum as always kind of crazy stuff that rick santorum says recently though we've heard him say a lot about how the breakdown of the family really is the root of all evil is the biggest problem in society here's an example. but the biggest problem with poverty in america we don't talk about here because it's an economic discussion and that is the breakdown of the american family you want to look at the poverty rate among families that have a husband and wife working in them it's five percent today a family decided by one person it's thirty percent today you can't have the wealthy society if the family breaks down that basic unit of society and that needs to be included in this economic ratio of what i think here is about wealth and stuff but i think that you just break that down and go back in one thousand nine hundred four when he was censoring himself a little bit because he was a national debate stage rick sa

host: ben cohen, we always appreciate you coming on and speaking to us. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> several live events to tell you about tomorrow. the brookings institution holds a forum on nuclear proliferation. our road to the white house continues with the gop candidate rick santorum in ohio. we will also be covering mitt romney and cleveland. the event is scheduled to include remarks by his wife and new jersey gov. christie. >> even a person who is a senator. even a person now who is president faces a predicament when they talk about race. they face the fact that there are many people who are racially prejudiced. they face the fact that a much larger portion of the american populace with like to deny the reality of race even now. >> sunday, a harvard law professor and former clerk to thurgood marshall randall kennedy on race, politics, and the obama administration. >> president obama spoke at several fund-raising of fans in new york city including his 100th of the

and they are vowing that they are going to make a comeback this spring ben pleasure to have you in the studio that was then cohen he is the editor for the daily banter and president vance or media group how the maryland primary is less than a week away and as expected the g.o.p. candidates are hoping to convince part very voters of what is usually a more liberal leaning state to swing their way in tuesday's election when specific group candidates like to appeal to young voters and hundreds of them showed up last night at a town hall meeting at the university of maryland to show support for a texas congressman ron paul and as our kids christian friends out shows us plenty of young supporters ron paul rock star treatment. oh rounding round the ring from. the stage set the rock song was that a rock n roll concert has not gone home ladies and gentlemen the. he calls it a town hall meeting they call it a revolution in the was that our goal should be to enhance liberty that should be what we're all about the one hours before the event the line stretched around the building with students and other ron paul disciples wh

cohen is an expert on monetary policy and macro-commick economics. he advised benernanke in the 2008-2009 financial crisis and served as a key advisor to alan greenspan. he was a 40-year member of the federal reserve. before this he was an advisor to the board, secretary of the federal open market committee, director of the division of monetary affairs and deputy staff director for monetary and staff policy and a few more junior positions. he's also written extensively on monetary policy and implementation by the federal reserve. >> thank you, kevin. thanks to poth kevins, actually. thank you congressman brady for the opportunity to read your proposed legislation and for the opportunity to comment on it. this is a very welcome effort. in my opinion this is a constructive way to respond to concerns about past and potentially future performance of the federal reserve. open up the debate on objectives. the optimal central banking is often thought of as the elected representatives giving the central bank the objectives and the central bank having the independence to mo

advise federal reserve chairman ben bernanke throughout the 2008-2009 financial crisis and also served as a key adviser to former fed chairman alan greenspan. mr. cohen is a 40 or better -- veteran before taking office as a member of the board of governors he was an adviser to the board for monetary policy, secretary of the federal open market committee, director of the division of monetary affairs and deputy staff director for monetary and financial policy and a few more junior position. he as also written extensively and his implication by the federal reserve. >> thank you, kevin. my thanks, both cabins. thank you, congressman bernie. certainly for the opportunity to read your proposed legislation and for the opportunity to comment on. this is a very welcome effort. in my opinion, this constructive way to respond to concerns about past and potentially future performance of the federal reserve, open up, open up the debate, open up the debate on objectives. the optimal central banking is often thought of as the elected representatives, giving the central bank the objectives, and the central bank having considerable independence to move their instrume