the life of jimmy carter. & professor of darmouth college. along after watergate and redeemed the country from the sins of watergate and a southern baptist sunday school teacher and promising the american people he would never knowingly lie to them. and redeemer in the second sense. after his presidency which was not successful by most measures, he redeemed himself in the eyes of the country and world through humanitarianests. >> he harnessed the votes of evafrjelicals, right? >> he did. and part of the reason he was able to do so. there was a brief resurgence in the mid to known 70s and that harkens back to evangeliical. and they were working for equal rights for women and voting rights and very much in support of public education known as common schools at the time. as a way for those on the lower rung of society to improve themselves and aspire in the middle-class. it was a resurgence of progressive evangelecan and jimmy carter articulated many of those same thomes and agenda items. >> he articulated some of them as president. this is part

jimmy carter literally hugged and kissed brezhnev and that was june of 1979. six months after that they invaded afghanistan. that is carter's christmas present at the white house enjoying christmas with his family and the national security advisers come in and see that guy that you just kissed a few months ago is from afghanistan. so that's didn't do anything. but with these approaches ronald reagan thought this, too the words were the weapon in the arsenal and you didn't want to fire missiles because that would unleash a nuclear exchange in the war but in the sense he fired the cruise missiles which could become even more damaging and at the same time, those words like evil and fire were incredibly inspirational and uplifting to the people who are "in the gulags. he said here is reagan, cowboy, neanderthal. they couldn't contain and he was jumping up and down and he starts tapping in morse code to the guy next-door he called us an evil empire and the next one starts leaping up and down and tapping and he said this and ready soon you've got to imagine the gulag

think of election monitoring they think of jimmy carter. >> guest: yes. rightfully. so he deserves a lot of credit for building election monitoring. he and his center there, and they've been on the forefront of helping to develop the standards the u.n. as well. they have been a major mover in election monitoring, dough finding what it is -- defining what it is. and carter has done a lot of important work. but it's important to understand there is no organization out there that has complete ability to rid itself of any kind of constraints, impositions by concerns about donors, there are other operations within countries, et cetera. even jimmy carter faces dilemmas about how to conduct his missions in different countries. >> host: so, let's start, where has it worked well? >> guest: so, it works best where it is least glamorous, and that's the problem from the perspective of organizations who are trying to thrive and survive. it's for somebodiesome of these organizations it's they're livelihood or -- it's what they do. even when they're within intergovernmental organiz

. >> host: judith kelley, when people think of election monitoring that think of jimmy carter. >> guest: and rightfully so and he deserves a lot of credit for building election monitoring he and his center, people there, and they have been on the forefront of helping to develop the standards and the u.n. as well. they have been major movers the election monitoring, defining what it is. and carter has done all lot of good work, but it is important. no organization out there has complete ability to rid itself of any kind of constraint, you know, and position by concerns about donors. there are other operations within countries. even jimmy carter faces dilemmas about how to conduct his missions in different countries. >> host: let's start. where has it worked well? >> guest: so, it works best where it is least glamorous, shall we say. and that is the problem from the perspective of organizations are trying to drive and survive. you know, it is -- for some of these organizations it is their livelihood, what they do. even when they are within intergovernmental organizations you have some age

. >> host: judith kelley, when people think of election monitoring that think of jimmy carter. >> guest: and rightfully so and he deserves a lot of credit for building election monitoring he and his center, people there, and they have been on the forefront of helping to develop the standards and the u.n. as well. they have been major movers the election monitoring, defining what it is. and carter has done all lot of good work, but it is important. no organization out there has complete ability to rid itself of any kind of constraint, you know, and position by concerns about donors. there are other operations within countries. even jimmy carter faces dilemmas about how to conduct his missions in different countries. >> host: let's start. where has it worked well? >> guest: so, it works best where it is least glamorous, shall we say. and that is the problem from the perspective of organizations are trying to drive and survive. you know, it is -- for some of these organizations it is their livelihood, what they do. even when they are within intergovernmental organizations you have some age

. >> america tonight only on al jazeera america >> a plea from former president jimmy carter. to end world violence against women. he'll join us. >> and extraordinary kids. in the present. why won't congress allow the cdc to conduct a study on gun violence. a members of congress and of -- a member of congress and a spokeman joins us. i'm antonio mora, here's more of what's ahead. >> former president jimmy carter,ing advocate for the treatment of women and girls. >> i've seen tangible examples of how horribly women and girls are treated. >> gender violence, he brings an extremely important voice to the conversation. >> studying and memorizing the gettysburg address. >> gluten are free. why do you enjoy it? >> it makes you fat. >> we begin with a call for action from former president jimmy carter. , the deprivation and abuse of women and girls. false interpretation of religious text almost exclusive by powerful male leaders, to proclaim the lower status of women and girls. growing tolerance of violence and warfare following the example set by the u.s. has also played a role as v

jimmy carter as is often forgotten was very pro-marijuana he ran on a platform of decriminalization. e nominated a drug czar who petitioned congress to pass a lot decriminalizing marijuana and then carter himself stood on the floor of congress in 1977 and said famously no drugs. if there's a penalty can sit there's -- that's as bad as the penalty itself. so he doubles his input. he starts driving winnebagos full of weed out of key west enthusiastically looking to grow and reach further into the country. and then shortly after carter's famous speech that christmas in fact this is an amazing moment in drug history. to change my father's life and changed my life by extension. so he says let's go upstairs and we will do some cocaine. he goes to the top floor and it's not a townhouse. in full view of hunter s. thompson for "washington post" reporters he does a1a, one start in his left nostril and one snort in his right nostril. >> it's called a bullet. >> this story holds unbelievably. unbelievably the story holds for six months. and then he makes the mistake of writing a prescription for

. >> the governor's race in georgia, jimmy carter's grandson will run. he is currently a state senator. >>> two congressmen are set to face-off for the race in arkansas for the gubernatorial race there. democrat mike ross and hutchens won their primaries as the incumbent mark pryor will face tom cotton. >> let's go to pennsylvania where chelsea clinton's mother-in-law lost. she picked up a quarter of the voters in the philadelphia district, a democratic district despite last minute campaigning for her by the clinton's. a businessman, tom wolf won the primary after pumping millions of his own dollars in that race. he will face tom corbett in the fall. corbett is one of the most vulnerable republicans in the country. >>> let's get straight to paul steinhauser to break down the results. as we were talking earlier in the show, ads coming out this morning about november, right? >> no doubt about it. the race is on. remember the "star wars" movie, "the empire strikes back," well, it was the republicans who struck back. the establishment candidates, the incumbe

he is, of course, part of the jimmy carter linage there.ll help or hurt him being the grandson of the former president. he's going to join us later in the hour. >>> more conservative republicans also falling in oregon, where cnn projects monica wehby winning despite new allegations she has a history of harassing her ex-husband. wehby is looking to unseat merkley. it's one of several democratic seats that republicans are focused on as they try to shift the balance of power in the senate. >> mark pryor and tom cotton. both ran unopposed in their primaries. >> in pennsylvania, marjorie margolies, chelsea clinton's mother-in-law lost the house primary to state legislature brandon boyle despite major backing from the clintons. >>> let's get back to the big race of the night though. that was in kentucky. mitch mcconnell easily defeating his tea party opponent. will he do the same with a formidable democratic challenger in november? let's get to chief congressional correspondent dana bash in louisville with more. i qualified my formidable a little

joined us in the community celebration yesterday actually, it was signed into law in 1978 any jimmy carter and we've celebrated with our folks 0 so this is the tenth anniversary of the city's organization and i want to share if and the members of the committee asked me to medical cannabis come and honoring the asian pacific islander americans in your district. yesterday mayor ed lee and the apa selection committee on the street exceptional asians at our events they are a filipino-american and jonathan chinese-american and japanese-american and for their contributions in the community. so our committee had an additional to talk about the guests so our committee asked me to come and present this in celebration of the month. i have your apa heritage month local pin to give to you all one for each and thank you for your time (clapping.) thank you claudine why not continue on with our district 7 presentation by supervisor yee >> i don't think my honoree is here yet oh, there you are sorry (clapping) colleagues today i am not only honoring someone that is a trait blazers in our community but als

as in jimmy carter. gloria borger, what's happening? e projecting some winners in the primaries. governor nathan deal and faces jason carter, the grandson of former president jimmy carter in november. jason carter ran unopposed, anderson. wasn't much of a race on that side but trying to carry on that dynasty. >> for the republicans, vying for the georgia senate seat, vacated by sax xi chambliss, any results yet? >> no. you have five candidates. three from the tea party and two from the establishment and very likely to result in a runoff. and so, we don't know the result yet. >> and as we mentioned earlier, mitch mcconnell secured the republican nomination for senate in kentucky. alison grimes won on the democratic side. is there an early read on how they match up? polls show them even, right? >> very close. don't forget, kentucky, kentucky is a republican state. barack obama only won four districts in that state. so, you know, you have to favor mitch mcconnell. some say over $100 million is going to be spent in this state. but she's a go

>> a president that gets up every day and says what would jimmy carter do.installed those solar panels and the white house and ronald reagan took them out. it is fine that he is doing it. it is a distraction from the fact that he is leading letting the keystone pipeline fallaway. >> they could be paying more. >> i think it is great when you encourage the companies to do good that they start doing good. could you imagine a president holding a cell phone in his hand and saying this technology is ridiculous, i am throwing it in the trash. that is what ronald reagan did by throwing the solar panels out. they are 100 times cheaper than when jimmy carter was president. >> i am not sure that the analogy fits. >> i think it is supposed to pay itself off in eight years. he believes in clear energy. >> how will that about pay for itself in eight years? >> over time, the price will get more efficient. >> this is not what the president did this. it is a distraction. the fact that this obama family has a huge carbon footprint. >> they can take that energy. the extra ener

you could argue that it's kind of true of jimmy carter. having not very much presidential, very much foreign policy experience. he found himself pushed to abandon retrenchment and, ultimately, almost kind of did. didn't quite get there. that's at least the way i read that, that period. but just to come back to the broad answer, i think the surprising thing you see when you look at these alternations from administration to administration is how much the theory of the case that presidents run with does shape the way they act afterwards. >> thank you very much. let's open it up. we have a very expert group. >> [inaudible] >> i think, yes. if you could -- i'm going to ask you because you're right next to the mic to go first, and then perhaps you could go up afterwards. >> yes. the next best thing after being the dean. steve, thank you for a very engaging discussion. so my first question, i have two very short ones. >> yep. >> is all of your cases of cyclical history are contained in one particular period when the united states has been economi

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. >> raymond buckley, chair of the new hampshire democratic party says governor jimmie carter on theday" show. i was home sick from tenth grade and decided to support carter. pivotal moment for me. >> isn't that funny how we remember things when we're home sick from school? >> he even remembers the year. carol ann costa says katherine "i would be an oak tree" hepburn. >> every president and first lady since nixon. biggest gets in the business. congratulations to barbara. >>> we have to say happy birthday to our cue to drops all the musical beats for "way too early" and "morning joe." let's hear it for david! whoo! >>> stories you'll be talking about in the days ahead. come on, let's dance. it's q's birthday! thank you. i got this. oh, no, i'll get it! let me get it. uh-uh-uh. i don't want you to pay for this. it's not happening, honey. let her get it. she got her safe driving bonus check from allstate last week. and it's her treat. what about a tip? oh, here's one... get an allstate agent. nice! [ female announcer ] switch today and get two safe driving bonus checks a year for drivin

when richard nixon and jimmy carter both said the energy crisis is here to stay, the foremost problem on our generation, caused by the declining oil supplies, the experts wind up and said, yes, they can give you often a calculation. what they could not count on was the entrepreneur should of the 1980's by george mitchell and others that developed fracking, and thereby we are able to reach sources of moral that we did not know could be reached in the 1970's. once those sources are reachable, then once we developer ways to remove the environmental problems, then we have the opportunity to increase our energy supply by 100 years. it is no longer an energy crisis . the experts are virtually unanimous. markets and entrepreneurs say, though, it is not. when we realize -- that is why i say "uncle sam can't count". entrepreneurs often can't or if they can't they are not in business law. the good ones can, and when they do, they change the lives of americans for the better. the late 1800's, the absence of a lot of these subsidies in the late 1800's with the get through the transcontinental rai

richard nixon the 70s and jimmy carter that time was at an and. that is when we really begin to get solar energy begins and of course the ethanol subsidies in a big way come and with dwayne andreas becoming one of the biggest recipients of federal subsidies to try to put together the ethanol business. nixon -- carter and nixon in their speeches say the amount of fuel that we have in the amount of potential fuel is deadly dwindling. it's finite whereas these crops are renewable. solar energy, it's all renewable and it's good. in west texas there are areas where experiments can be done where they may be competitive. so this is good but with the decline in the amount of fuel we need to shift. when you have government doing this and it's okay if we have these high prices for oil because it's going to dwindle down to nothing anyway and that will keep the dwindling from being so dramatic. we will shift over into these alternate fuels into green energy and we will be a better country for it. nixon and carter sold a bill of goods and we bought it except f

close, and you have to understand, if jimmy carter had 2.8 million jobs in four years. todid a lot of things to try get jobs, but inflation was so bad, it made it look like nobody was making any money in real dollar terms. so those numbers are low because of the inflation. you are familiar with the reagan numbers. president bush had a decline in , but i believe you should see that in terms of the other eight years. sooner or later, the wheels had to run off of running these big deficits and letting the interest rates go up and potentially, there was a limit to it. president bush, believe it or not, this is both a compliment and a cautionary tale. when president bush ran for office, the second president bush, unlike the first president bush, he was free to decide what he wanted his economic policy to be. he basically said vote for me and i will bring you back to supply-side economics. the rhetoric was clever. i will give you the same thing clinton did with a smaller government and a bigger tax cut, wouldn't you like that? i am a compassionate conservative. he believed th

not since jimmy carter, he writes, was held hostage by iran has the oval office seemed so inconsequentialces of international darkness. joined now by colonel oliver north, author of "american heroes on the home front." colonel north, good to have you with us. >> always great to be with you, martha. martha: what do you think about that? >> well, he's right. michael's got it dead on, and putin is just the most visible part of those who are playing obama like a drum. you know, somewhere along this administration, martha, they're going to figure out that foreign policy takes more than selfies, holding signs, "bring back our girls." i grant you that's very visible in social media, but at this very minute the people of ukraine are paying a terrible price for america's leadership deficit disorder all because of this administration. the europeans are never going to go and act on sanctions against putin without american leadership. putin knows that the o team, as i call it, is afraid of russian reprisals like, for example, nasa launches or the afghan transit rights we've negotiated back in the bus

something that jimmy carter started. he's in the paper with the five presidents. it's time for america's greatest terror is no housing, and that's the war on us, and we must stop this. and i hope mrs. breed that it can start here today, thank you. >> thank you. mr. washington, you are cutting in line? i am just messing with you. come on, ace on your case. >> okay, let me say now, i only have two minutes, should i save the last minute for the sock -- song. all of this talking we are doing, it doesn't make any difference, hud is responsible. hud knew 20 years, when i was involved with hud and the housing authority, 20 years, before they built hayes valley, and i was with the supervisor and niller and (inaudible) started with san francisco and now we got rad. everyone is sad. and everyone is mad, because we don't know about the things going on here. ♪ may name is ace ♪ i have been on this case ♪ some people don't want me on on their case ♪ ♪ but it's not history, just look at my history ♪ ♪ i have been working on cases and conspiracy ♪ ♪ what is going on down, down,

jimmie carter is warning egypt's transmission to democracy is faltering.d the center won't be sending observers either. >> journalists of al jazeera have been imprisoned 140 days. the trial was adjourned against this week, accused of son spiring with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. al jazeera reeling rejects charges. they are due in court on may 22nd. alshamy said he will continue to refuse food. he has been held without trial since august and been on hunger strike for four months. he confirmed he was placed in solitary confinement where attempts have been made to force feed him. he said the authorities are trying to dent his resolve. morni >>> more than a month after the ab duction of 270 nigerian school girls, many have grown impatient with efforts but hopes have been raised by west african leaders to wage war on their captors. the group boko haram, mohammed adow reports from abuja . >> reporter: the epi center of most of boko haram's attacks in recent years. he says he is unhappy with how the government is handling the crisis. >> i feel disgusted, and

by the way of others to deny them but the unfortunate story of democrats for getting those from jimmy cartersee them as having no monopoly. maybe with clear channel with those as ultraconservative that we talk about the ideals of those freedoms ready to take up the crusade and with that 9,000-mile track to year when americans had to say is to echo the four freedoms in this past summer my wife and i finally drove a truck back across south dakota it was one of the spiritual high points of my life rand we jokingly said next time we go together to find out what americans want. >> i had been wondering when talking to libertarians college students who are into freedom is to make clear the four freedoms that they have to understand all of them. >> absolutely. the libertarian hero ron paul a few years ago had a book that i now forget about but like 50 chapters one of those basically denigrated and denied everything to deny that those represented the united states jim tennant and the day could be libertarian or a reactionary but in one of his recent books attacked freedom from want as the ideal and i

were there when after 1964 the defeat of barry goldwater, after nixon's resignation in 1974 with jimmy carter'slection in 1976 when there was a darkness of biblical proportions. it was tough. as tough as it is now, we have things going for us. we didn't have jim demint, rand paul and michael lee and ted cruz and marco rubio land all these wonderful governors, scott walker, we didn't have all of them. we didn't have talk radio or cable television or the internet. we have so much going for us now that we didn't have. we have persevered and conservatives we are close to prevailing. in 2016 conservatives, if you remember, it is the primaries. if we do that we can score big victories in 2014, 2016, we can nominate, elect a principled limited government constitutional conservative to be the republican nominee and elect that person in november and the governing america by 2017. in order to chart the future we have to understand the past as i said earlier. so this is the cliffs notes version of my book takeover. read the book, understand the problem, where we have been, where we are now and how we go f

we went on to do an interview with jimmy carter, when he had just gotten the nomination.ill and i talked about it. bill asked him about first memories of growing up and playing. this was almost like, then candidate carter went back. he was back in that time and place. the emotional charge of the interview was elevated. it wasn't just a political interview. this is where i came from. the thing i would like to explore with him is the notion of where his spear was. -- jhihs fear was. where was his vulnerability? we know of a connection to his mother. that will give you a sense of the balance between insecurity and overconfidence. >> his mother who he admired and loved, but was also very strict for the time. she was the disciplinarian, and tough one. and a there were times when she would withhold affection from young if she was displeased with his behavior or grades. -- almost like he was not in the room. i don't hear him, i don't see him. for a young boy, that created extremeemptiness and desire to be loved. that is what i found the emotional core of lyndon johnson. >> the n

. >> in the governor's race in georgia, jimmy carter's grandson will run. >> two congressmen run for arkansas. they both won their primaries as did mark pryor who will face congressman tom cotton in the fall for the right to represent arkansas in the senate. >> in pennsylvania, this was closely watched. big names were involved. chelsea clinton's mother-in-law lost her bid to run for congress. she picked up only a quarter of the vote in her philadelphia democratic primary. that despite last minute campaigning by bill and hillary clinton. she was defeated by boyle. then, in the gubernatorial race, cnn projects tom wolf won the democratic primary after pumping millions of his own dollars in that race. he will face tom corbin in the fall. he is seen as vulnerable. >> so many election results to pour over. let's bring in paul steinhauser. the word we keep saying over and over and over again is establishment. a big, big night for the establishment. >> remember that "star wars" movie, "the empire strikes back." this year the establishment strikes back. you saw it in kentucky and georgia. th

. >> not since march of 1978 when jimmy carter was in the white house. the same level it was in the second year of president carter's term. in 1978 it was also 62.8%. it hit its highest level in january of 2000 at 67.3%. it has been on a steady decline ever since then. nearly 1 more americans don't have jobs and want one. >> already. thank you so much. back now with dallas ceo richard fisher. where do you see the most job creati creation. >> obviously the expansion is coming in professional services, it. a lot of high value added jobs. there is an interesting question. we have a skilled mismatch. you're going to hear reports that there are jobs available. there is a skills mismatch. there is an issue of generalic mick expansion and we have to see growth in that in order to bring these employment rates down and one could say, i think that texas is a good demonstration of this. put it to work in putting people back to work. >> so texas has created an environment which has been a positive environment for business and business therefore creates jobs. they ar

jimmy carter described the internal revenue code as a disgrace to the human race and soposed it be sunset every often so congress would have to reenact everything. congress been wafting caskey -- congressman rostenkowski proposed that maybe we should use that r&d credit as an experiment on how sunsetting the code would work. it was enacted and became effective in june of 1981, expired at the end of 1985. and it has been temporarily extended ever since. interestingly, over those 30 years, the treasury department has completely changed its view. if you look at the studies out of the treasury department, they conclude that the research and develop a tax credit is very beneficial and encouraging businesses to maintain technological advantage. host: to get there is still concern about the research and development tax credit from groups like citizens for tax justice. i want to get your thoughts on what they wrote last year. some of the criticism about the r&d tax credit. the white -- accounting giant deloitte openly advertises its services to help the food credit industry get credits. guest: th

jimmy carter, reagan almost, george w. bush. any smart and sensible president would try to avoid having the wheels come off in the middle eastern conflict. and other people in the white house have said this privately, but it has become public. the bumper sticker, mainly, is don't do stupid stuff. that is not fdr. it's not mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall, but in reaction to eight or 10 really difficult years, it's not the worst approach to take for some of these problems. >> thank you all. david and michelle, thanks. great to see you all. we will be right back. stay with us. ♪ for 16 years, google has helped us navigate the information superhighway alongside its core business investing in the internet of things. one such project is a driverless car. they have relied on modifying existing vehicles and yesterday it unveiled its own prototype. it has no steering wheel, no breaks, no gas pedal. it takes all responsibility from the human driver and relies on a combination of radar and laser sensors. ron medford is the director of s

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. >> community revitalation act under jimmy carter caused this turmoil with all of the housing lones that went to subprime loans, look at regulations on credit card, essentially people are think they ar are looked out for guy the benefit whether they put these regulations in place. neil: your points, i am not a saint, you are by the way. but then it would not surprise me, if you have to lend in an environment with politicians are badgeing on your head, you will try to come up with creative ways to absorb the losses or potential risk, now when it goes full circle and bankers are getting reamed for over doing it, now they are reamed ared fot doing enough. >> absolutely, the government condition have it both ways. -- they can't have it both ways, what worries me about these billion dollar penalties from what i read it looks like in the government, higher the panality you can obtain the greater the badge of honor. >> that has always been the case. here is what scares me about these fines, i am sure credit suisse did some of this, did the pupunishment fit the crime? are they playing catch

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hall won his seat when jimmy carter was president.e said if he wins, it will be his last term. >> detroit is set to unveil a long awaited plan to rid the city of blight. the results will be this morning, including recommendations on dealing with abandoned buildings and vacant lots across the city. it's part of the efforts by the obama administration to help detroit, undergoing the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy. who's a part of this blight removal task force and what can we expect to hear today? >> this task force was formed in september and consists of the city, state, federal government, as well as private institution. now, just a couple of hours, the task force is expected to reveal just how bad the blight situation here is in the city of detroit. they're expected to plot a course on just how the city should rid itself of all of this blight. now it's important to note that the city has been knocking down blighted structures for several years, but we have never seen a plan of this magnitude. >> how does this study factor into

my conversation with being former national security advisory to jimmy carter. >> greasgreece opened its town l meeting with prayer. just after the supreme court said it was within its rights to do that. marking the right for the town and other communities across the country. roxann saberi has the story. >> small town of greece in upstate new york where town meetings began with prayers. >> let us pray. >> from crifnlg christian liquo. said that practice was a violation of the constitution separation between church and state. they sued to have the prayers stopped. here's what they told john siegenthaler. last year. >> the town of greece had no written policy. they basic were inviting credit clergy to do this prayer and i felt like they were not including all the residents. >> reporter: the court side wednesday the town and in a 5-4 decision said the prayers were constitutional. writing for the majority, justice anthony kennedy called the are prayers ritual not religious. as part of a larger exercise in sink recognition suggests its purpose and effect are to acknowledge leaders and the ins

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pat a former pollster for jimmy carter.doug, a fox news contributor as well, via satellite on this fine memorial day weekend. and look at that. it looks like you guys are still here. it's amazing, the technology. boom. there it is. let's start with some ideas that are already crossing twitter. i asked before we came into this conversation here for you guys to give me your ideas. evon tweets private care is needed if immediate appointment cannot be made for our veterans. give our veterans vouchers. >> pat, i'm going to start with you tonight. >> i think this is -- we talked about last week and it's obvious the problem that the va has been going on for a long time. john can speak to his proposal which goes to some of the things we're hearing now, but vets go to private hospitals but this has been going on for decade after decade, but what really bothers me the most. we have a president who -- i'm very glad he was to afghanistan today, but his basic attitude about the military has been -- now there's been a crisis. i can't hel

groups, charitable groups, religious charities, labor groups, environment, consumer did,s, as jimmy carter urging people to give more money to them, it would create more jobs. sector, if theic say 10,t got behind it, $15 billion more a year, you would get hundreds of thousands of new jobs working to help young children in need or to clean up the environment. all these expand into nonprofit groups. >> how big is the nader compared these days? to when you're doing the most? >> you know, i spin off groups. i am not a control freak. you have probably created close to a hundred group strictly all over the country. the student public interest research groups, which i hope foundational right up someday. they're big on citizen engagement area and we have a big pension rights center, the center for auto safety. . don't believe in controlling when i help people do our nader raider reports. it is a ripple effect when he asked that question. -- at an older monsoon terms of budget, maybe 40 or $50 million a year. most of it is small contributions, foundation grants . some publication sales. most of it

solar in 1891, now they cross their arms, jimmy carter increaseed their subsidies, say time we begin investing in these losers, it is not about the climate, it is about as president said in 4 big speeches, it is about finally making renewibles profitable, that is not a legitimate government purpose, he said he will do it by bankrupting the things that work. that is what he is doing in the name of climate salvationism. >> we should . out among the 77 billion we spend over years we have almost 50 million to a chinese company to build wind farms, so many like this, but to hear harry lea harry reid tell e dirty awful koch brothers stoping them at every impasse. >> these billionaire oil tycoons are certainly experts to a tri beaut to climat change, they are one the main causes of this. neil: leaves aside their i flew en and power. even they don't have 80 billion to push something. so who is zooming whom? >> this is -- you may have noticed it is a campaign year, he had a senate majority, he tried to agenda it of rejected in democratic process, now a mega-donor, dangleing a million if he go

the last time it was at the rate was there was march, 1978, when jimmy carter was president. >> and that's point. you want to create job, you got to have a government less burdensome, regulatory environment and tax environment that is a lot more cooperative to the entrepreneur in this country, and then i believe you start to see real sustainable jobs and vitality in the u.s. economy that makes long-term sustainable sense. the other area is the keystone pipe loan. i think that unleashes a significant amount of real well-paying jobs in the united states. >> that's pretty controversial. the administration has been delaying that. let me go back to the rate for a second. even though it was 62.8, the same as now during jimmy cartser's administration, it was the highest ever, 67.3% in 2000 during president clinton's rate. it's gone down 4 1/2%. that's millions of americans who have given up. >> they're giving up. they are going back to school. they are going to what now is being defined as the underground economy, which is this $7 trillion economy that exists that is money under the table in diff

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