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host: now joining us is senator bernie sanders, an independent from vermont. tor sanders thomas you helped to draft -- senator sanders, you helped draft the health-care legislation and you were active in your committees. what do you think of the current status of the health care bill? guest: this is what i think. i think health care is a good debate. given the fact that we are the only nation in the industrialized world that does not guarantee health care to all of our people, that we have 48 million people who have no health insurance and many more are paying a high copayments, that we have about 45,000 americans die each year because they do not get to a doctor when they should am a i think obamacare is a step forward, peter. it is a step forward. it will provide health insurance to 20 -- 20 million more people and do away with the examiner -- obscenity a pre-existing emissions. keeps young people programs. between you and me, my own view is the united states has got to join the rest of the world in developing a national health care program which guarantees h

tonight a conversation with senator bernie sanders from vermont. beting under business would to decide whether there would the an immediate strike on syria. other issues include immigration and the looming debt ceiling. a will then pivot to conversation with writer michel jackson, whose new autobiography, "the residue ," takes a look at what it is like to grow up under extreme conditions. we are glad you joined us. ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. ♪hank you. ♪ congress reconvene on a vote whether or not to begin military but it is not, the only issue congress has to tackle. there are other issues, the looming debt ceiling among others. have you on this program once again. let me start with the news on where and i don't know this puts us. let's start with your news first. you tell me what harry reid told us about this pending vote, and we will talk about what kerry said about assad. i understand it, majority leader reid was going to introduce a cloture vote tonight. what he has just announced is he will not do tha

. >>> joining me with more is independent vermont senator bernie sanders. thanks for being here this morning. >> my pleasure. >> now, if the house works through the weekend, the senate would get a new resolution on monday. does that give you and your colleagues enough time to act before tuesday's deadline or is there not enough time left to avert a shutdown? >> well, i think there is time but it depends absolutely on whether or not the speaker of the house, mr. boehner, listens to his right-wing extremists and whether he's prepared to work with other members of the house and come up with a reasonable approach. my concern right now is where we are at this moment should not be a debate about obama care. we could have that debate. it is to my mind a step forward, it's far from perfect, we should make improvements of it. the question is whether right-wing republicans are prepared to hijack the american people, shut down the government, tell members of the military who are putting their lives on the line to defend this country that they may not get a paycheck or

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joining us from burlington, vermont is independent senator bernie sanders. senator, good to see you. thank you for talking with us tonight. >> my pleasure. >> can you give me your reaction to what you've seen in washington over the last few days? >> i can give you a better reaction about what i see here in the state of vermont, and that is my phones are bouncing off the hook. almost unanimously people are saying, do not get involved in a bloody and chaotic civil war in syria. i think people are also concerned that the president and other members are prepared to go forward without the support of the united nations or nato and do it in a unilateral way, which sets a very, very bad precedent. >> have you made up your mind based on those calls? >> well, what people in my state tell me is certainly -- it certainly influences me greatly, but i have not made a final decision because i don't know what the final resolution is going to be that we'll vote on. i certainly want to hear the debate and want more information from the administration. i will tell you this. i

i want to bring in independent senator bernie sanders of vermont. sir, it's good to have you with us. i want to start out with this because there's a new poll out today showing 59% of americans say congress shouldn't approve a resolution authorizing even limited military action against syria. have you made up your mind how you'll vote? >> no, i haven't. i want to listen to the debate and get as much information as i can. but i can say this, in vermont the people who are calling and e-mailing my office are opposed to the tune of 95%. and i think when we understand that congress' favorability rating is 10% to 15%, there is an understanding in vermont and throughout this country, is that the united states congress and the president are not addressing the issues that the american people care most about, and that is the collapsing middle class, high unemployment, growing wealth and income inequality, global warming. we have a huge menu of issues that we are not addressing. i think what the people of vermont, the people all over this country are worried a

bernie sanders is an independent from vermont, caucuses with the democrats. scenario, good to he sue you here. we know that you are in a hurry, you're on your way to meet with the president in about 15 minutes or so with other members of the senate democratic caucus. what do you want to hear from the president right now the in terms of can he make the case, the dual case, one track being military strike, the other being diplomatic action? >> well, what i want to hear from the president is that he recognizes that the overwhelming majority of the american people do not want to get sucked into a war in syria. they were misled about iraq. they were misled about afghanistan. and i think the response that you're seeing, and i've got to tell you in vermont, 95% of the e-mails and calls we're getting are against the war and i this i you're seeing similar numbers from around the country. what really this tells me is the american people are saying you, you know what, mr. president, the middle class is collapsing. our kids can't find jobs. why don't we as a government s

. >> let me bring in senator bernie sanders, an independent from vermont.t's always good to see you, senator. good morning. >> good morning. >> you know a little something about lengthy speeches on the senate floor. you were a pure voice in 2010. you talked for eight hours and 37 minutes about tax cuts. was that different than what we're seeing from ted cruz? >> well, kroou has gone on a lot longer than i did. and i appreciate very much his ability to stay away from the bathroom. that's not easy. >> what is your take, though, on him using this as a way to get out this conservative position? >> well, by definition, he is succeeding because you were talking about ted cruz and he's all over the media. but in reality if we get away from personalities, if we look at health care, in my view obama care is kind of a moderate republican piece of legislation which is working reasonably well in massachusetts. chris, we are the only nation in the industrialized world that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right. and what mr. cruz and his republican frie

let me bring in a good friend, a warrior for the people, senator bernie sanders from vermont.ood to have you with us tonight. we now see that the republicans care about phone calls to their office. senator, are republicans not voting for a strike to make president obama look bad? >> well, i think that's certainly the motive of many of them. on the other hand, ed, they are getting calls from their districts, which are saying that people are tired of war. they were lied to about iraq, they were lied to about afghanistan. we're there now 12 years. and as you have just indicated, very passionately and correctly, what the people of this country want right now is a focus on the part of the congress and the president to start ending the collapse of the middle class, record-high poverty levels, growing income and wealth inequality in america, and most importantly, the need to create millions of decent paying jobs. and to put our people back to work. that is what the american people want. are the republicans interested in those issues? absolutely not. and you're quite right. on every s

for more, let me turn to senator bernie sanders, independent from vermont., good to have you with us tonight. senator, where do you stand on what you have heard and the sell job that's going on? and it is. they're trying to make the case to convince the american people that we should have "a limited strike against syria." how do you assess it? >> i'm keep agopen mind and i want to hear everything the administration has to say. but i would be less than honest with you if i didn't say i had very, very deep concerns about this proposal. and by the way, i could tell you that in my office, the phones are bopping off the hook there, and almost unanimously, people are opposed to what the president is talking about. and here are my concerns, ed. there are a number of them. number one, the congress as everybody knows is significantly dysfunctional today. and in the midst of a collapsing middle class, high unemployment, low wages, global warming and all of the other major problems, our country faces, we're not dealing with them today. and what do you think happens if

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bernie sanders supports obamacare and lindsey graham who is so opposed to obamacare he said in ain't view yesterday that the whole bill sucks. so welcome to you both. let me start with you, senator graham. in your home state of south carolina. we're both southerners. we have the 430,000 people right now in south carolina, don't have insurance a week from today. they're going to be able to sign up and get insurance. do you think they think this sucks? >> i think the people who had a full time john and who are now working 29 hours think it sucks. i think the employers who say i can't get there from here really believes it's bad for business. at the end of the day -- >> there's some mother in your state, maybe she's got cancer, been turned down for insurance, a week from today she can go onto a website. health care.org. can you tell her that sucks? >> i think that's a good -- i think there are several things in the bill i would adopt, one, you cannot be denied insurance because you've been sick before. children can stay ton their parents' plan. these things make sense. the structure of

bern earn -- bernie sanders in vermont, famous liberal. -- this is the funny one. 488 phone calls, 10 in support. gwen: how many people have call sexblesd it's a good thing? >> very few. >> here's the tough point. and the president, i'm going to summarize his remarks. he said it's not always our jobs to vote for the most popular things. was trying to appeal to morality and decency, which i think was a huge part of the message of john kerry's address on capitol hill. i'm not sure it's the most effective. this is a white house that has had really bad rhythms with capitol hill. they don't have a reservoir of political good will of strong or trust rhythms. this is a president who most recently has said i don't need congress and now is trying to corral them. gwen: there's also a moral argument that congress doesn't have a morale that sticks. not only from iraq but the previous administration. let's listen to what the president said in his fare well address in st. pierce burg. >> when people say it is a terrible stain on all of us that hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered in rwa

senator bernie sanders of vermont saying almost unanimous people saying do not get involved and braderman from congress says i don't know a member of congress whose e-mails and phone calls are in favor of this. we're joined by elijah cummings from maryland. he has expressed serious doubts but hasn't ruled of voting in favor of the syria regulation. and juan vargas of california has come out in favor of strike. i want to start with mr. vargas. i haven't met you before, sir. where are you on this, and more importantly, where are your constituents to start with? >> well, my constituents generally are not in favor of it. i think it's like the rest of the country. but i certainly am. i've in favor of this. you've used these type of weapons. these weapons should never be used. and the amount of children that killed with this, the grownups, everybody else, we have to do something. and if the rest of the world does not want to come along, we have to do it ourselves. we can't allow this to stand. >> what about the other part of the resolution, that mccain jammed in there that talks about aidi

we were talking before about senator bernie sanders. i respect the heck out of bernie sanders. and actually -- and this is a comment that often surprises our friends in the media and even some democrats -- i respect president obama. i respect the man a great deal. because i think he's deeply committed to his principles. i think he has taken political risk for his principles. i think he has fought for them. and i think he's a true believer. everything i've seen about his entire course of life, i think he believes genuinely, ernestly, with all of his heart in government solutions, government control of the economy and our lives and in redistribution of wealth. and i -- i have no reason to doubt that the president sleeps like a babe at night believing that he is fighting to better america. now, listen, at the same time i believe that the ideas the president believes in, the policies that he has advanced are profoundly harmful. not a little bit wrong but profoundly harmful to this country. but you know what? that's a debate we can have. that's a policy debate i welcome. has it been

. >>> that's bernie sanders later tonight. you will hear of the opposition trying to influence sanders and others like him in congress. >>> oregon, idaho and washington all with heavy rain tonight bringing flash flood warnings in the pacific northwest with parts of central washington tonight and had wind gusts over 60 miles per hour it's right in the columbia basin of washington to the south. had a 79 miles per hour wind gust. we're looking at these showers as they're tracking up to the north and bringing intensely heavy rain. we are expecting anywhere from half an inch of rain up to three inches potentially for southwest washington. so, yes, we've get some flash flood concerns here and for the resent wildfires the burn areas easily we can have not only the flash flooding but mudslides or landslides. a lot of warnings are going on here in the pacific northwest due to flooding but also the severe thunderstorms tracking up now towards canada to washington state. this isn't over yet. the rain is going to be wrapping around the ar

boy be happy if this body had 10 more bernie sander skpiz think that would be far more truth in advertisingal debates about what should the role of government about in our lives. >> sean: coming up next, we're going to keep following this throughout the hour, now been going over seven hours, when ke come back, live with reaction to this, look at that picture. that is an awesome picture. they're coming up next, live in studio. ♪ nice car. sure is. make a deal with me, kid, and you can have the car and everything that goes along with it. [ thunder crashes, tires squeal ] ♪ ♪ so, what do you say? thanks... but i think i got this. ♪ [ male announcer ] the all-new cla. starting at $29,900. "i" formation! "i" formation! we have got to get the three-technique block! i'm not angry. i'm not yellin'. nobody's tackling anybody! we got absolutely... i don't think this was such a good idea. i'm on it. if we can't secure the quarterback center exchange... you're doing a great job, coach. well they're coming along better than i anticipated. very pleased. who told you to take a break? [ male announcer ] wa

i'm joineded by senator bernie sanders.expressing serious reservations about air strikes if syria. has your opinion changed at all since then? >> no. the call that are coming into my office are overwhelmingly against getting involved in a bloody and complicated civil war in syria. the american people are profoundly disgusted with the fact that the united states congress continues to ignore the enormously serious problems facing the middle class of this country. real unemployment close to 14%, youth unemployment, even higher than that. poverty at an almost all-time high. what the american people are saying is, we were in war in afghanistan. we're in a war in iraq. we've lost thousands of soldiers and spent trillions of dollars. how about coming home and addressing the crisis facing the american people? everybody understands that assad is a horrendous dictator and the use of chemical weapons is beyond words. it's totally disgusting. what we need is the world community to come together to address that issue. other issues in th

>> i respect that degree of candor, and frankly, i'd be more happy if this body had ten more bernie sandersuse i think it would be far more truth in advertising and then we would have more debates about what the role of government should be in our lives. >> it keeps going strong, we'll keep following this throughout the hour. stewart varney, dana perino, anyway, they're coming up next live in studio. nice car. sure is. make a deal with me, kid, and you can have the car and everything that goes along with it. [ thunder crashes, tires squeal ] ♪ ♪ so, what do you say? thanks... but i think i got this. ♪ [ male announcer ] the all-new cla. starting at $29,900. >> announcer: introducing the redesigned jitterbug plus, our smartest, easiest cell phone yet. >> when i heard about the jitterbug, i went online and ordered one for my mom. now my mom has a cell phone she actually enjoys using. >> announcer: the jitterbug plus is easy to use, easy to see, and it has the longest-lasting battery on the market. for a limited time, get a free car charger with purchase. to locate a store near you, visit grea

we'll have full coverage of the vote and hear from senator bernie sanders ahead. >>> but we begin withth itself. and the biggest casualty could be the american people. today tea party senator ted cruz raised the stakes to a dangerous new level. promising a filibuster against obama care in order to advance his far right agenda. >> i will do everything necessary and anything possible to defund obama care. >> filibuster? >> yes.

ted cruz praised people like bernie sanders, the independent who caucuses with democrats for his filibuster. he said he understood why harry reid was doing what he was doing. he understood why democrats were taking the approach they took to obama care. he really saved kind of the rhetoric for his own side. why weren't more republicans there? he called some of the procedural votes that republicans had advocated for fake and phony. he knew what he was doing, and i'm sure he knew that the likes of john mccain were not going to be happy about it. >> mark halperin, what is the next step? you have a dysfunctional congress, house and senate. now we have the funding bill. we have the debt ceiling. jack lew says the money will run out. >> there's a side show we've observed for the last 20-plus hours with ted cruz. but it's meaningful. it weakens the republicans' hand going into the showdown. the president's hand is not super strong, but it's stronger now because republicans are divided. they're aiming a lot of their fire at ted cruz. it's keeping them from formulating a strategy. the reality is the

continue to require this mandate and now there has been there have been a couple of proposals i know bernie sanders got one through that actually roll that back but the one that everybody seems to be attending to is the carper colburn postal reform act and their sponsors say it's going to fix the post office is that really the case not at all it doesn't again it's as long as you don't address the prefunding which that senate bill does not do it just reactor ises and puts off the famous to later as long as you don't address that as you can see in that bill you're just going to take the service out of the postal service and are going to attack the workers and that's what those bills to. senator sanders got as i recall it's been a few weeks since i've discussed it with him but i think you got over twenty co-sponsors his act has got close to thirty yes close to thirty why isn't that being pushed harder by by democratic leadership at this point in time i don't know why they aren't supporting that i think they would like to see it come out of the committee and maybe they have some hope that the carper co

senator bernie sanders of vermont saying almost unanimous people saying do not get involved and bradn't know a member of congress whose e-mails and phone calls are in favor of this. we're joined by elijah cummings from maryland. he has expressed serious doubts but hasn't ruled of voting in favor of the syria regulation. and juan vargas of california has come out in favor of strike. i want to start with mr. vargas. i haven't met you before, sir. where are you on this, and more importantly, where are your constituents to start with? >> well, my constituents generally are not in favor of it. i think it's like the rest of the country. but i certainly am. i've in favor of this. you've used these type of weapons. these weapons should never be used. and the amount of children that killed with this, the grownups, everybody else, we have to do something. and if the rest of the world does not want to come along, we have to do it ourselves. we can't allow this to stand. >> what about the other part of the resolution, that mccain jammed in there that talks about aiding the rebels? are you confid

republican so you just have to be respected as a republican now you have to anything obama said i had bernie sanders on my radio show today any read to me from the texas republican party's two thousand and twelve platform which was and social security now period and social security and all welfare programs now and all food stamp programs and all medical health care. there was a couple of other things you know like. well they've already gone right to work for less than a couple but they were it was like whoa and you know what you see is that you know this this food stamp battle you know the which is very about just the obamacare battle all these things are really just small parts of a much larger idea that government really should just run the army in the police and the crazy thing is that obamacare is a conservative that's the that's the the craziest thing is that this stuff would have been thirty mainstream and then conservative or it was in two thousand and six and romney has a master's yet and i'm ok doug well i don't think a while i would have to i would have to work respectfully disagree that o

we're at a moment as republicans where even bernie sander has described our party on the offense. and now we are going to let our party run into moving traffic against a red light. it's idiotic. >> you worked for jeb bush who spoke at the national press club. he said quote, if you control one half of 1/3 of leverage in washington, d.c. your ability to influence things are also relative to the fact that you have one half of 1/3 of the government. it's a reality. this isn't a hypothetical. so as we get closer to these, there needs an understanding of that. >> president obama's response in the navy yard. at some point the country has tired, fatigued of hearing this back and forth nonsense between the two. and, again, if you are a hard-working business person or business woman, hard-working laborer at a great company, small or big and you watch that congressman speak, you have to wonder what on earth, where on earth is he living and what so talking about. the metaphor used by my friend, by nicole is spot on. the question comes why can't they just come together and work through a deal

. >> it is interesting to point out as carroll from the washington examine points out, when bernie sandersact same thing it was hailed throughout the mainstream media as a filibuster when in fact all he was doing was a long floor speech. there is kind after double-standard about this stuff. yeah, i wrote a column basically making the case that barack obama and ted cruz have a similar idea about how politics work. if you build a huge, outside of washington grassroots effort, you can force change on washington. this has been the theory of the entire obama administration and it hasn't really worked out that way. even founded, turned his presidential campaign into a grassroots organizing thing and he couldn't even get a vote in the senate or in the house on gun control which was his top priority in the state of the union address. my point is is that you have to do both. he is great at galvanizing grassroots support and all of that and that's fine and that's great and the party needs that but he also needs to be able to work the inside game in washington and much like barack obama when he came

is a live picture right now of heated debate going on on the senate floor and that is senator bernie sanders right now giving a very animated speech at the moment. kyla campbell is in washington, d.c. where bay area congressman john garamendi weighed in on how the looming government shutdown could have an impact here. >> reporter: garamendi said when the government shuts down, the national parks close and the bay area economy suffers. >> the presidio, i'm not sure they are gonna shut down the highways. they can't do that but all of the activities there, all of the activities north up in the marin county area, yosemite, all of those things are gonna be shut down. >> reporter: california's national parks bring in $1.1 billion a year for the local economy. that averages out to $3.2 million lost every day the parks are shut down. garamendi also said bay area residents on fixed incomes should watch out. if there's a government shut down next week, he says people who collect social security and disability should expect their checks to be delayed. nancy pelosi is scheduled to talk to reporters in 3

i especially like to comment with bernie sanders, who i like. you wouldn't know it, but he does have quite a sense of humor. a different point of view. if you want breakfast, i'd be happy to buy you breakfast. but we'll let that go. the other thing that i want to point out and it is a question on how do you feel coming here as a new senator and knowing on how the senate used to operate and knowing in the senate that i came to that every senator on an important issue had the opportunity to offer an amendment? it could be germane or it could not be germane. but for the last five years that has not been the case. there have been a few exceptions when we've had what's called regular order. the folks back home don't know what regular order is, but it's the way the senate used to operate. it is the difference between the senate and the house. it is the reason that i left the house and ran for the senate, because i wanted to have that opportunity to be an individual senator. and last year -- i'm going to reference the farm bill, which has somewhat some

senator bernie sanders of vermont spoke on the senate floor about his opposition to a u.s. strike against thierry at. -- syria. his 20 minute remarks came before the president's speech to the nation. >> madam president, i wanted to use this opportunity to say a few words about the issue that is on everybody's mind. that is syria. approximately 95% of the thousands of e-mails and phone calls that my office has received our against u.s. military intervention in the bloody and chaotic civil war in syria. the truth is that the numbers in than theay be higher national average in terms of opposition to this war. state inprobably no this country where u.s. military intervention in this bloody and complicated civil war in syria is being supported. phenomenonteresting that we have a very invited make -- divided nation politically, but on this issue it appears that the vast majority of democrats, republicans, independents, the vast majority of progressives, conservatives, moderates have all come together to express deep concern about the united states being involved in the third to t

you got bernie sanders. >> you won one chamber.amber that passes the laws. >> we can't even run it. >> is it the notion the white house can't, everything, the weather, global warming. it's all because of the house. it's ridiculous. >> it's the president's fault john boehner can't lead the house republicans? >> it's the president's fault that john boehner has the potential of going for the delay of picking up lots of democrats t. reason they're in this position is they passed a health care law wildly impopular not just with republicans but independents and democrats. >> what does your polls sigh? sample that is a fair critique, how nay went about it. where it became pass it at all costs, compromising so much so that they didn't realize what was in it and then failing to even attempt to sell its after the fact either. >> chuck -- >> we can unpack this for an hour about how everything they did wrong, messageing, trying to pass this thing, sitting there, putting their political life in the hands of max baucus, which, of course, was ano

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it wasn't long ago in th the but committee, senator bernie sanders said he favored a single-payer system and senator roberts mentioned others, and of course the president did. i checked the president's quote in 2003, he denied it since when he was trying to get the votes to pass it. in 2003 he said he was a proponent. quote -- "-- of a -- quote -- "single-payer universal health system." close quote. so i think this is a huge national issue. the legislation before us today is clearly driven by an agenda to have a single-payer -- so i'll ask you, senator cruz, if there is a single-payer, who will be the payer be? mr. cruz: the government, which ultimately means the taxpayer, hardworking american families. mr. sessions: so, in other words, the federal government -- mr. cruz: i'll continue to yield for a question without yielding the floor. mr. sessions: so, let me ask you first ... so, in other words, the government is going to be the one the pays for everything in health care in america. there will be only one payer, the government. and it will then, since it is a predominant power here, i

call with your questions and comments to senator tom coburn, it and vermont independent senator bernie sanders. "washington journal" is live on c-span everyday at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> the senate has scheduled a number of votes to fund the federal government. the geordie leader harry reid and republican senator mike we objected. we will have that exchange in a moment on c-span2. the congressional budget office director testifies on capitol hill. and later, a hearing on newborn medical screening programs. >> the majority leader. >> as i have indicated for the entire week, each day that goes by, each hour that goes by, we are we're that much closer to a government shutdown. and i have been told that the needs more time to work on this. saying that maybe what we need is an extension of this. madam president, the stock market and the business roundtable, the american chamber of commerce, 80% of the american people, including 75% republicans says what is going on here is not taking care of the finances of this country is absolutely wrong and there is no reason to stall this. so i ask unanimous cons