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bernie sanders believes in stasis."ughter) >> no, bernie sanders believes that the middl middle-class is collapsing. that working families need a break. that the wealthiest people are doing phenomenally well and that it's totally appropriate that they start paying their fair share of taxes. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you for cheering me as a wealthy person. surely by wealthy you mean job creator. >> actually if you look at the largest corporations in this country they've been outsourcing millions of jobs to china and other countries. >> stephen: i didn't say where they were creating the jobs, sir. >> (laughs (laughs). >> stephen: you will admit they are job creators. >> unfortunately not in america. >> stephen: one of your bugaboos-- if i can use that word on a family show-- is the citizens united decision. >> the absurd citizens united decision. >> stephen: in this decision it said that because corporations are people which has been settled law since santa clara v. southern pacific railroad in 1886, becaus

bernie sanders.aling with citizens united is a piece of statutory legislation that would say that actually shareholders have to at the very least vote on -- sign off on any political expenditures. what do you think of that idea? >> i think it is a great idea. look, did i'm a stockholder, if i have money invested in a corporation, that corporation is spending money and -- against something that i believe in. do i have a right to voice that concern? of course i should. the other things that you can do short of a constitutional amendment, for example, is if i put an ad in as a candidate, an ad on television, i have to say that i'm senator bernie sanders, i approve this ad. there's legislation out there right now that we can't get any republican support for to say that if the ceo of bank of america is putting money into an ad, let that ceo -- i'm the ceo of exxonmobil, i approve this ad. the third thing, of great concern, by the way, is that if you have companies in this country that are controlled by, s

senator bernie sanders joins me tonight. senator, thanks for your time.s for coming over at this hour. the president -- i want to talk about some of the hits that he has taken from the right wing. obama care is what they call it. they all talk about repealing it. tonight the president made it very clear he doesn't want to go back. how important was that, to make sure, look, we've come this far? we're not turning around. >> we've had a dysfunctional health care system, 50 million americans no health insurance, millions more that are underinsured. 45,000 people dying every single year because they don't get to a doctor on time. what do the republicans say about health care, cut medicare, medicaid, repeal the health care reform bill. that's insane. i think the health care reform bill is a step forward. we have to defend it. we're the only country in the industrialized world that doesn't have a health care program yet we spend almost twice as much on health care per capita. >> the president talked about the payroll tax cut, the tax code and taxes have been in

. >>> joining me now, senator bernie sanders, independent from vermont. senator sanders, thanks for coming on the show. >> my pleasure. >> now the president talked about fairness and we hear a lot of people now raising the issue that you've been raising for years about economic fairness. about we're not saying that there must be equal results but there certainly should be equal investment and an even playing field. does this put the republicans in a bad spot, senator sanders? >> absolutely. i mean, they talk about class warfare. the fact of the matter is, there has been class warfare for the last 30 years. it's a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle class and working class of this country. and the result is, al, that you now have, in america, the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on earth, and the worst inequality in america since 1928. >> wow. >> how can anybody defend the richest 400 people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of america, 150 million people. and that gap between the peo

senator bernie sanders has proposed a constitutional amendment which will do just that which says that corporations are people and money is not speech you can sign the petition over at sanders dot senate dot gov and participate in that make it up you know make it the top of your to do list sanders does dot gov check it out. after the break more bad news for europe but time gives us some insight into how one nation across the pond is succeeding despite the economic headwinds. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here. i think. even one well. we never got that that says they're going to keep you safe get ready because you give them your freedoms. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear see some other part of it and realize everything. i'm tom are welcomed as a big picture. so how do you know when corporate lobbyists have crossed the line advocating for a certain piece of corporate legislation well it's when this guy comes out against it paul ryan one of the best congressmen money can

bernie sanders between his two sons in the backseat misty eyed and shaken struggling to hold it togetheras the hit already received bad news that was trying to cope with the, andrew said. andrew stared out the window, his brain a dead zone. clive dropped them off on 64th street in front of the entrance to ruth and bernie's penthouse apartment. the three wood up to the 11th floor in fits and removed their wet shoes in the foyer, opening bernie's shoes off for. a labor coach across the banister taking care not to drip water onto the floor. ruth greeted them at the door, her face grim. she, too, had no idea why her husband had rushed him in the middle of the day to talk to his family but like her sons she subducted the news was bad. somehow connected to the mayhem on wall street. burning had called from the office and said i something to tell you. i can't tell you on the phone. i'm coming home with the boys. she had gotten off the phone, shaking and had waited for them in the kitchen. together, the family added the sitting room, a forbidding limit and had never like with dark green walls, t

need to raise taxes on everyone that's something that all politicians and country maybe except bernie sanders would run away from you know there's a fundamental positive totally in that frame this. i want to focus on president obama's call for thirty to thirty percent nobody else is going to chance to jump in here and we just have a minute left of all the on the issue of taxes newt gingrich kind of brought it up and ineloquent way i'll try better but the idea is there is a separation between income tax rates obviously which are progressive and the wealthy do pay higher taxes when it comes to income tax rates and capital gains rates were a cab where they're paying less but the problem is when you're on capital gains on capital gains that's investment there's a tax dollars that you've already paid into you paid in on your income now you've exempted that paris hilton paid in on that money use any of that know she's she's a trust fund baby. so she's. on her butt around the pool wall and gets the dividend checks right but most american businessmen are not paris hilton they're generating wealth fro

there's bernie sanders, who's not identified as a democrat.g about progressives in the democratic party, you've lost byron dorgan, an economic populist, you've lost russ feingold, who just lost the election, and you lost paul wellstone, who died. >> even barney frank on the house side. >> but the senate, because it's statewide elections, you have so few true progressives. elizabeth warren would walk in and on day one be the de facto voice for -- >> and it was always going to be hard for scott brown to win that re-election. i'm from massachusetts, i can say this. >> are you pre-spinning scott brown's loss already? it's so early. >> that's what they do, ari. >> it's so early. >> he's going to lose. massachusetts likes elizabeth warren. she has the support, obviously, of barack obama. i think this is going to -- i think scott brown's in for a rough road. >> let's talk about housing. foreclosures were down 34% in 2011, but that news comes with an asterisk, which is to say, a lot of the reason the foreclosures were down is because some of the quest

i think he needs to listen to the bernie sanders and others in his own party.and powerful were critical of him, we support principles, not politicians. but certainly he's been at republicans. but for the most part, the best thing to happen to the issue of poverty is tavis raised the issue, keith observe better man raise an issue, you raise an issue on your show, and the occupy movement making sure that we talk seriously about poverty, wealth, and equality. >> we have to wrap it up there. thank you very much for your time and the conversation. >>> 30 years later, the investigation into natalie wood's death is still ongoing. we're going to have the latest on that. >>> we are keeping a close eye on the white house there. you see president obama's just minutes away from making remarks. he's going to be talking about insourcing jobs, keeping jobs in this country rather than providing them overseas. this is all about his push to show voters that he is paying attention to the middle class, that is he concerned about the struggle that many americans are feeling during

>> bernie sanders, max seen waters, steven cohan, they have tried to play an important role in termsdemocrats being complaisant on the other. >> we have not heard much about poor people we put more pressure on the president to do that. >> we have a political system for the most part is broken it doesn't work it is dysfunctional poor people are suffering, working people are suffering. >> we are seeing this huge occupy movement now. >> that is a beautiful thing. >>> i have to ask you about that. >> oh, yes, indeed indeed. >> he would know he got arrested a couple times. >> okay so there are people watching hopefully with discussions like this, we will get momentum going this is thursday, january 12th, 6:30 p.m. it is free but you have to preregister doors open 5:00 p.m. you have an event afterwards, busboys and poets. >>> the official after word. >> you heard of the after party this is the after word. >> after par party. >> speak for yourself. >> we are going the go people always want to know imimmediately what we thought of the conversation, we will give a quick debrief. >> if we can'

. >> bernie sanders would raise it. there are national democrats that would.rd to imagine them -- >> none that could run for president. >> could be front-runner. >> anybody can run. >> -- would say things like this. he ran for president. >> fair point. but there's no -- one of the things that's interesting. what is the opposite of predatory capitalism? kinding, gentler capitalism? social democracy is the opposite. no one is going to touch that. >> i think he's trying to harkin back to the retro feeling. we're going back to the 1950s when the america we all dreamed about, when there were manufacturing jobs. this is me giving him ideas. but i do think, that it fits in line with the kind of society that he's talking about. >> that's interesting. also with the rick santorum speech on the night of the iowa caucus when he harkined back to his father working in a coal mine and his kind of manufacturing. what's interesting is you hit deep ideological bedrock very quickly. the reason for that, on the left we hear that nostalgia all the time. that's an absolute common t

please come join me in recognizing the great work of senator patrick leahy, senator bernie sanders andh and the partners at fema. [applause] there are two lessons we must seize from our experience over the past four months. the first lesson is clear. if after irene which can rebuild over 500 miles of damage to roads and 34 bridges for a fraction of the normal cost with dwindling federal resources in the future we must apply the same lessons to maintaining and rebuilding firm of's transportation infrastructure from this point forward. we will build faster, smarter and more economically. [applause] instead of having to state workers and their individual agencies processing paper, we broke down the silo, formed a partnership between aot, anr, private contractors and as the levees, contracting procedures were modified, access to stone and gravel was expedited, dangerous debris was removed from the streams as the engineers work together with environmental experts to get the job done. projects that would have taken years, gotten done in months, environmental quality was preserved, taxpayer d

or bernie sanders.ne came from newt gingrich and one came from mitt romney. disclosure will reveal at least the true identity of our organizations, and as one of our predecessor justices said -- i believe it was louis d. brandeis, sunlight is the greatest disinfectant. people will not have as malicious, as pernicious, as false ads if they have to disclose who they are. plain and simple. but if you can hide behind a shroud of secrecy and put unlimited money into these campaigns as the supreme court decision allows, we're not going to change it because our colleagues on the other side of the aisle thus far -- we haven't changed it because our colleagues are even against disclosure which of course is allowed by the law, the american democracy gets weaker. even eight of the nine justices in the activist overreaching decision of citizens united say the american people deserve meaningful disclosure. that makes the decision even more galling because they didn't require disclosure or limit what they did in ligh

please come join me in recognizing the great work of senator patrick leahy, senator bernie sanders and, peter welch and the partners at fema. [applause] there are two lessons we must seize from our experience over the past four months. the first lesson is clear. if after irene which can rebuild over 500 miles of damage to roads and 34 bridges for a fraction of the normal cost with dwindling federal resources in the future we must apply the same lessons to maintaining and rebuilding firm of's transportation infrastructure from this point forward. we will build faster, smarter and more economically. [applause] instead of having to state workers and their individual agencies processing paper, we broke down the silo, formed a partnership between aot, anr, private contractors and as the levees, contracting procedures were modified, access to stone and gravel was expedited, dangerous debris was removed from the streams as the engineers work together with environmental experts to get the job done. projects that would have taken years, gotten done in months, environmental quality was preserved

you talk to keith ellison, bernie sanders, maxine waters, they say keep doing what you're doing., we know that poor people don't vote therefore they don't have the kind of weight and gravitas. and they reinforce the very establishmentarian orientation as part of our political system. and we know the only way in which poor people will really have a say is when poor people organize, mobilize. it's what people of good conscience -- it's people who are concerned about the future of democracy say we better acknowledge the poor and keep track of these oligarchs walking away with big money but leaving our precious workers and poor people behind. >> it's true that your job is to push all of the candidates, democratic and republican -- >> that's right. >> i understand that. >> independents too. >> they're not undifferentiated. you have a president in office who had a tough political battle that got 30 odd million in the health care rolls. you may want more, may want single payer. i do too, in fact. now you want the republicans, and even romney who put more or less the same bill in massach

, i want you and your families to know senator sanders, congressman welch, governor shumlin, and i, we will not stop one moment standing up for you. berniepplause] >> thank you. let me begin by thanking all of you, not only for being here tonight. this is phenomenal turnout but thank you for the ex-trord -- extraordinary work you do every single day. sometimes we take you for granted. we shouldn't. you're doing a great job and thank you for that. [applause] i also want to thank the post office. this meeting was originally scheduled for december 18th. that was a very bad time. i appreciate you're rescheduling the meeting to a more convenient and appropriate time. now, let me begin by picking up on a point that the governor and senator leahy have already made. we are in the midst of the worst recession since the great depression. 25 million americans are either unemployed or underemployed. on the floor of the senate and the house, senator leahy, congressman, welch and i, and many others are doing everything we can to try, i got to tell you, again get very strong opposition, to try to create the millions of jobs our economy needs. we are al