>> congressman john dingell and his years in congress. the ukraine debacle, and debates thelson political pull of bill clinton. >> we begin the program with a member ofrving congress ever. served with 11 presidents and 10 students -- 11 presidents. it is a privilege to have john dingell. thank you for being here. >> god bless you. you still call me john. >> you have revered the institution. what reforms would you make? the nasty partisanship. it shouldn't be that way. the congress means the coming together. the assemblage of the american people. business has been moved into the office of the speaker. newt gingrich started that. the thenontrol over congress. they had the control they wanted place they wanted. >> you would return that? >> you bet i would. but with the money in politics, the 24 hourver -- news cycle, do you worry that rather than a temporary cycle, this may be a condition for a long time? >> i am afraid that it is so. i am very much afraid that the congress will never be able to go back. you mentioned the other problems we h

>> congressman john dingell and his 58 years in congress. the ukraine debacle, and margaret carlson debates the political pull of bill clinton. we begin the program with a longest serving member of congress, ever. served with 11 presidents. he announced his retirement this week. it is a privilege to have john dingell. thank you for being here. >> god bless you. you still call me john. >> you have revered the institution. what reforms would you make? >> one is the nasty partisanship. that is a great shame. it shouldn't be that way. the congress means the coming together. the great assemblage of the american people to decide the issues that are important. all of the business has been moved into the office of the speaker. newt gingrich started that. it gave control over the then congress. they had the control they wanted to run the place they wanted. >> you would return some of that power? >> you bet i would. >> but with the money in politics, the 24 hour news cycle, do you worry that rather than a temporary cycle, this may be a condition for a

gwen: what would john dingell say were his chief accomplishments? >> certainly his work on clean -- what is it? the clean water act. working for medicare -- the health care reform, the biggest achievement. his father fought for that. he served through all those democratic presidents who tried. i think he would consider his biggest -- >> and now his wife debbie dingell is running for his seat. >> if she serves nine terms that ding ll be have hold that seat for 100 years. gwen: wow. the east room in the white house -- full of fill lan throw philanthropists. it's called my brother's keeper and it's his boldest effort yet to reach outside partisan lines and the bat. to address what he considers to be important. >> while there might not be much of an appetite for new initiatives, we all know we can't wait. and so the good news is, folks in the private sector who know how important boosting the achievement of young men of color is to the country, they are ready to step up. >> is this approach reaching outside of congress, reaching outside of the problems

. >> now that debbie dingell has announced she'll run for the house seat that her husband john dingell held for 30 terms, she has one overwhelming advantage, that last name. consider this. congressman john dingell, the current congressman, who announced his retirement earlier this week first won election to the house of representatives back in 1955. he won a special election that year to fill the seat, which was held by his father, john dingell sr., who had died. the elder dingell was in congress since 1933. so that's more than 80 years with a dingell in congress from that district. and debbie is stepping to the plate that name means a lot in those detroit suburbs. we'll be right back. [ female announcer ] who are we? we are the thinkers. the job jugglers. the up all-nighters. and the ones who turn ideas into action. we've made our passions our life's work. we strive for the moments where we can say, "i did it!" ♪ we are entrepreneurs who started it all... with a signature. legalzoom has helped start over 1 million businesses, turning dreamers into business owners. and we're here to he

john dingell wants out, neil neil -- neel kashkari wants in. they have their reasons. social, viral, all things he had any awards. we will kick it off with what analysts are talking about, one intense weekend in the ukraine. >> what is the russian military going to do next? friday, 10 helicopters. saturday, two more warships. monday, two more warships. >> what's next? russia sent 6000 troops into the ukrainian peninsula. this morning vladimir putin took action under the banner of protecting the russian speaking population that lives in crimea. all right, putin, but do not say president obama did not warn you. >> it would be a clear violation of the borders of ukraine. and of international laws. just days after the world came to russia for the olympic games they would invite the combination of nations around the world. indeed, the united states will stand with the international community in affirming the cost on military intervention in ukraine. >> a mildly tough talk from the president on friday. there could be only one way for his administration to get the message out

in telco policy, each of them for at least 40 years, and in dingell's case 60 years, and they won't be on committee. so you've got a whole -- i won't say a new generation, but frank pallone of new jersey and and anna eshoo of california, green of texas, these are all very seasoned members who have -- they're not junior by any means, but they haven't served and been in the positions as the guys that i just mentioned who are retiring. so, you know, it is time to look at the telco act. in '96 republicans had taken the majority for the first time in 40 years. tom bliley was the new chairman, jack fields of texas was the new subcommittee chairman. i think mr. markey was ranking member on the subcommittee, many dingell was the ranking member on the full committee. and then, you know, we were trying to be leading edge at that time. but if you go back to 1996, there really wasn't an internet. cell phones were these bag phones that were very expensive, very few people had. it was in a totally different environment. and now i have two, i have a congressional blackberry and a campaign iphone p

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. ♪ >> congressman john dingell and his years in congress.kraine debacle, and margaret carlson debates the political pull of bill clinton. we begin the program with a longest serving member of congress, ever. served with 11 presidents. it is a privilege to have john dingell. thank you for being here.

we are also thrilled to announce that this week congressman dingell, the ranking member and the house affairs committee and chairman ed royce made clear that they will be introducing new legislation to address the humanitarian needs of the syrian people and hold the putin regime accountable. as a result of the congressman's steadfast commitment to democratic aspirations of the syrian people as well as the people around the world the coalition for democratic syria would like to present congressman angle with a token of gratitude. and i just want to mention, we are honored that as congressman endo is with us here tonight the chairman and constituents talking about this bill. so please join me in welcoming a true friend of the syrian people . [applause] >> thank you. thank you. well, thank you. thank you very much for that really nice welcome. good afternoon to all of you. one day we're going to meet together in a free and independent syria. [applause] just yesterday congressman royce, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee and i am the ranking member, he is a republican. i'm a de

. >> if she wins, a dingell will have sat in that seat starting with -- 482 years, starting with the2. maybe neil cache kari can get from thetical advice family. the former treasury official is challenging jerry brown, running on the platform of education and reform. and jobs. here he is on "bloomberg west." >> i want to bring manufacturing brock -- back to california. it is great that apple and these other companies have designed great technologies here. let's produce them hereto. 17% of californians need work. we can bring that down by putting people back to work. how is it that the ceos and leadership at google have had so much success? it started with a great education. i know that many are donating money to education and nonprofits. they know that education is the key to the future. governor brown says we are doing great, but our schools are 46 in america. unless we can get every kid and education, we will not be a fair society. >> you can watch more of those interviews on bloomberg.com, or on our award-winning tablet app. you can marvel at the strange, weird circus of weirdness

john dingell wants out, neil neil -- neel kashkari wants in. they have their reasons.al, all things he had any awards.

. ♪ >> congressman john dingell and his 58 years in congress. debacle, and margaret carlson debates the political pull of bill clinton. we begin the program with a longest serving member of congress, ever. served with 11 presidents. he

we have dingell, who is retiring. we have a republican for governor. state has turned around, but detroit has just been like a tumbleweed blowing along. so what is the responsibility of the senators and representatives to their districts and to their cities? and why should we reelect either a mayor -- we have elected a somewhat moderate to republican mayor in detroit right now. what are they doing for their homes? it is a big game in washington, but what effect should voters have, what expectations for their elected? for cities like detroit. guest: michigan has accumulated a lot of seniority, particularly in the house but also in the senate with carl levin, who is retiring this year. it will be a challenge for michigan because john dingell, longest serving member ever in the house has decided to retire. you know it is bad when someone who has served 59 years says in their retirement announcement that he finds serving the house to be somewhat of noxious. in that district, we're likely going to see a transition of democratic supports to his wife, debbie

. >> congressman john dingell and his years in congress.kraine debacle, and debates thelson political pull of bill clinton. >> we begin the program with a member ofrving congress ever. served with 11 presidents and 10 students -- 11 presidents.

. >> john dingell, chairman of the energy and commerce committee, and i, requested the gao to do an investigation because while we were sending letters to the vice president, we weren't getting responses. >> they said, no, these are presidential advisers. we don't have to divulge what they're doing. whereas if it had been cabinet agencies, they would have forced to divulge who they were meeting with, what the e-mails were, what the topics were. >> did we talk to energy companies? absolutely. you'd have to be a damn fool to put together a comprehensive nationwide energy policy and not talk to energy companies. >> in order for me to get good, sound opinions, those who offer me opinions or offer the vice president opinions must know every word they say is not going to be put into the public record. >> the white house battles to keep secret most task force files. and they will ultimately prevail in the courts in that fight. but administration opponents are eventually able to pry loose a number of secret task force files. although it's not known to the public at the time, the cheney energy task force

failure of the regulatory process because of the power of members of congress like retiring john dingellfrom michigan who made a career out of stamping down on the auto safety agency and the department of transportation. not just in terms of opposing strong safety enforcement and penalties, but also feel emissiony advances and controls. so this can open up a whole new opportunity to protect the american people and to support those engineers inside general motors who have tried to do the right thing, but were not backed up. >> we're going to take a break in the move from cars to the issue of climate change and also talking about issues of energy, the third anniversary of the fukushima disaster. our guest is ralph nader. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. i want to ask you about the all-night filibuster staged by more than two dozen senate democrats monday in order to urge congressional action on global warming. this is senator edward markey of massachusetts. fever planet is running a , but there are n

dingell, miller, waxman, maran, mccarthy, with nine or more terms behind them, since november 1 decided. all of them cite different reasons. but collectively, i can't help but wonder if they thought a chairmanship was coming soon, they'd have stuck around? >> well, people make their decision for different reasons. there are 11 republicans, senior republicans, who decided to leave the congress because they knew they were no longer welcome in a tea party congress as moderates. the fact is that the numbers stack up very favorably for us with respect to vacancies. 11 republican districts are now competitive, because republican incumbents left. three, a total of three democratic districts are more competitive because of democratic departures. i'll take the three and fight for the three. we'll let the republicans fight in those 11. >> florida 13, special election coming up. i think basically we're 10 days away. if you can't win this seat, what kind of message does that send nationally? >> well, chuck, you know, every district has its own unique dynamics and terrain. this is a very tough terra

when representative dingell retired from congress several weeks back we can't replace leaders like that. it takes years to grow. when you look at districts like tulsi gabbard's district compared to the one that you were in, we've got to elect veterans into safer seats that they can then build a long-term relationship with their constituents in congress in d.c. where they can really build the type of infrastructure and capabilities to run for national office. we do have some anthony brown should win and become the first iraq veteran to become a governor of a state. but i think we're still ten or so years away. it's going to come from people that we can make a long-term investment in, such as tulsi's situation, where she's obviously the most popular politician in hawaii right now, but in a place where she's going to continue to win and be successful. >> listen i thought i was teeing this up for you. i was ready for you to say gabbard 2024. is that about right? >> i'm going to tell you, i'm gabbard 2014 right now. obviously i continue to support tulsi in her house races. but i think it tak

dingell, mr. pallone.e worked long and hard to get the policy right and we worked with the other committees to do it as well. the difficulty we always knew was going to be on the pay-for. and i would suggest this -- we want to work with the senate, we want to get this thing done. the pay-for is the toughest part. let's go to conference. let's work with the senate to get a pay-for that can work. now, we know that there's a deadline coming up at the end of this month, and as we look to try and find a pay-for, let me go through some of the other delays that this administration has already done. individual mandate delay, americans with canceled coverage due to obamacare, delayed. individual mandate deadline for purchasing coverage, delayed. individual mandates for non-a.c.a. compliant plans, delayed by the administration. annual limit requirement, delayed. m.l.r. requirement, delayed. m.a. cuts through demo bonus money, delayed. employer reporting, employer machine date, high-risk pool closure delayed. out-of-

. << dingell's bill is set at $17 million in years to go back to court march 28th << he was a studentring of 2012 he was also a substitute teacher of the route accounting annapolis school districts said there's no reports << a 52 is a timer and i will be back on this wednesday morning will get a live look here at the san mateo bridge lots of sunshine the big news and weather and see how warm it's gonna be as we head towards the weekend in salmon stay right now is 59 degrees and a high of 72 and this afternoon. ♪ ♪ ♪ i gotta have that bag. italian leather? for an amazing deal, and i love that designer. [ shopper ] you paid how much for that? [ female announcer ] two stores. two amazing ways to score. t.j.maxx and marshalls. two amazing ways to score. save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.d everybody knows that. well, did you know pinocchio was a bad motivational speaker? i look around this room and i see nothing but untapped potential. you have potential. you have...oh boy. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. work will come back a

however, john dingell, the democrat of michigan who was there at the time of the clean air act and oneauthors said i think the supreme court came up with a very much erroneous decision on whether clean air act covers greenhouse gases, close quote. so what happened was the supreme court by a 5-4 ruling after it was contended through the international panel on climate change that co2 could be causing climate change, they ruled that this was a pollutant, like particulates, like nox and sox, sulfur dioxide, and therefore under the 1970 law which never mentioned co2, the environmental protection agency was required to regulate it. and it gave these unelected bureaucrats, people in that agency the power to regulate an individual american's barbeque grill, their lawnmower and every major business in america the amount of co2 that they emit from their business and their plants. it's a remarkable development from a pure constitutional question, and if the issue were brought up today, it would not pass. however, they have not sufficient votes apparently to overturn it, but there is not -- there

the longtime chairman of the energy and commerce committee, john dingell, is famous for -- famously known for pointing to a photo of the earth, which i have here to the right, to describe the committee's jurisdiction. under his leadership, the committee was known for listening to the experts, tackling the toughest problems and crafting responsible science-based policies, but today we need a new symbol to represent what we are doing. the energy and commerce committee has joined the flat earth society. we're considering a very similar bill. we considered a very similar bill to this one last congress, and here's what nature, one of the world's leading science journals said at the time, quote, misinformation was presented as fact. truth was twisted and nobody showed any inclination to listen to scientists, let alone learn from them. it has been an embarrassing display, not just for the republican party, but also for congress and the u.s. citizens it represents. it's hard to escape the conclusion that the u.s. congress has entered into intellectual wilderness, the flat earth society. the unite