we will be joined by congressman john conyers in a few minutes.ost extensive congressional race in u.s. history. the race for the sixth district in georgia. on tuesday, voters will head to the polls to fill the seat left vacant after tom price resigned to become secretary of health and human services. amy: while polls show the democrat jon ossoff in the republican karen handel are in a hereal tie, civil rights butter suppression tactic could cause -- cost jon ossoff election. we turn to reporter greg palast. georgia sixin congressional district were 6000 very proud, very patriotic and very white georgia citizens are celebrating. republican candidate karen handel, basking in donald trump's endorsement, is working this crowd which has little sympathy for democrats. >> that is who lost the war for us. jane fonda and that group, the whole leftie in the media, too. baby killers. that was all lies. >> this is 30-year-old democratic candidate jon ossoff who fell just two percentage points short of winning this out right in the first round. this should be

it is like congressman john conyers has introduced a bill with 112 cosponsors for single payer.o now is the time to be saying to the electorate, the aca was a step forward, but not a big enough step. we need to be moving forward from the aca to the single-payer medicare for all plan that americans need and deserve. amy: how feasible do you think this is? senator bernie sanders has yet to introduce this bill of the type that john conyers has already introduced in the house. >> my understanding is sanders is planning to introduce a bill over the summer. the john conyers bill has gained a lot of cosponsors -- more than half of all of the democrats in the house of representatives now bill.sor the conyers that is more than any time in history. we're seeing a lot of public support for the idea of single-payer. we're seeing a big movement at the state level in california. we are getting a whole lot more discussion of single-payer now than we've had before. quickly, andou california, it passed the state senate but has to go through the assembly, then it has to go through governor brown.

another democratic lawmaker the ethics committee is weighing action against is michigan congressman john conyers, accused of paying a staffer who had been fired. the office says "this is not a new controversy but rather involves this a matter that the office of congressional ethics released back in february." a third democrat, staffer for john lewis is being looked at for potentially double dipping, getting paid by the congressman's campaign and his congressional office at the same time. his actions were also flagged by the conservative group. >> part of the reason that they are so borten does because house members and their employees are paid with taxpayer funded salar. we expect house members and their staff to be working on official actions and doing official business rather than being paid from outside sources. >> none of these three democrats are under investigation yet. their cases have been referred to the ethics committee which now has 45 days to decide what they want to do. >> bill: busy day for you, thank you. peter doocy on the hill. meanwhile another deadlock in the house over the bu

defazio said, "i have no idea what ryan is talking about." [ laughter ] and finally congressman john conyersryan's just jealous that he doesn't own his own romphim." [ applause ] gotta have a romphim. some news for travelers, the tsa is testing a new policy that makes passengers take out their books at airport security. the policy has already affected the three americans who still read books. [ applause ] speaking of books, i saw that today marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the very first "harry potter" book. so we though we'd -- [ cheers ] take a look at what all the characters are up to now two decades later. for example, here's draco malfoy 20 years ago. today he's running his dad's business. [ laughter ] isn't that nice? >> steve: that's sweet. that's sweet of him. >> jimmy: next here's ron weasley, 20 years ago. now he's a famous pop star. >> steve: wow. [ applause ] >> jimmy: world famous popstar. >> steve: world famous. >> jimmy: next up, here's hagrid. [ light laughter ] today he is working on the next "game of thrones" book. well, that's exciting. [ applause ] next here i

>> for john conyers who has been a stalwart for years.hose have sponsors, but that does not get the attention. i think in my column, what has happened is there is been so scandalss on the that it is shameful in the course of two daysys, the major newspapers "wall street journal" "you are times" did not given you from page coverage to health care bill that has the ability to reshape this country. i think we need attention on substantive policy issues and not just sensationalism the gets ratings for a lot of these. filledd airwaves are with something. i'm not talking about foxconn i'm talking about msnbc and cnn. it is the constant russia drumbeat. you have to ask when you're looking at politics in georgia, when people turn on television, they are not -- they're talking by the russia covever-up, how ts affects their lives. your thoughts on this as a russia expert? >> it is common sense. one in step coverage of the investigation into alleged collusion, the corruption matrix. what about what is going on in flint? i think it is obscuring the r

john conyers introduced hr676 years ago. we belieieve in single-payer.le we are going to fight and defend the affordable care act, our sights are set higher. whereire to assist everyone is covered and everyone can go to the doctor. that is what i believe the united states should have. we should join the rest of the world and cover all of our people. amy: compass minerals and, thank you for joining us, co-chairman of the house progressive caucus. that does it for our show. democracynow.org [captioning made possible by democracacy no announcer: many people enjoy the anonymity city living provides, but this also creates s dangers for people like ththe homeless d the elderly.y. in malaysia, an organization feeds the needy, paying particular attention to those living on the streets. in tokyo, a community for senior citizens helps them cope with the issues they encounter in their newly-independent lives.

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now washington boulevard by john conyers boulevard. so we point out the russell street baptist church. it is still there. but right across the street used to be the drugstore. that was sidney boswell, he was a student of mine and we talk about the whole entrepreneurial thing in black detroit. so that is important. begin to look at how these black businesses all the way back to the -- they are important elements of have a culture and the jazz, they say nothing about jazz! at one time kiki, you could in the 1960s - actually 1950s, 1960s and into the 70s you cannot talk about any kind of a major ensemble, a major quintet, trio, quartet, orchestra that did not have an african-american from detroit. not one! [applause] i had the opportunity to work very closely with youssef. he taught me lessons on the flute. and what he met in terms of audio physic music.check that out. no jazz for you. physio- psychic music. a great photo in the book about him and my mother. so the whole music thing and i think about tim cox and charles moore the thing ab

last year, we had two members of congress, john conyers from michigan and we had bobby scott from virginia commissioned a study. it was released may 17th, 2016. it identified that we had a number of schools, nearly 3/4 of the schools that african-americans attend are either predominantly african-american or student of color or predominantly free reduced priced lunch and predominantly underresourced. those challenges that still exist. one part of the report that we didn't sfendpend a lot of time the number of majority or minority, a number are nonwhite now. there are majority/minority schools that won blue ribbons or in fact won gold medals because of their academic achievement. high schools that are predominantly low income that are doing well academically. what we need to do is to look at the schools that exist. what are they doing is it resources? educators? family involvement? is it the curriculum? is it expectations? all the things we knew 50 years ago make sense? but we know how to make sure it makes sense across the board. to say that we have schools that are segregated and not doing

in this building, in this sanctuary, the guest speaker, the keynote speaker was representative john conyers of michigan. [applause] the author of h.r. 676, america's expanded and improved medicare for all bill. that's our national single payer bill. he was also, by the way, introduced by the indefatigable dr. gorman at that time. representative blumenauer's endorsement of h.r. 6 6, the national single payer plan, is momentous for many reasons. one of which is, it helps move the national conversation about health care reform from, should we repeal, repair, or replace the affordable care act, to what kind of health care system do we want and how do we get it? what we want is not easy but it's simple. we want access to our families to health care that's independent of our credit rating at the time we need care. we want our costs to go down and it doesn't matter whether we call it taxes or premiums or out of pocket payments, it's all our money. want the total amount to be more. excuse me. less. we want it to be less than we pay now. which is pretty easy. no one else pays more. lastly, we want b

. >> finally congressman john conyers said is he just jealous he doesn't own his own romper.to to wear one of those. brian: like 1920 beach wear. steve: have yoentertained the ie should wear one of those on friday? brian: i don't think so. yesterday we had a chance late in the afternoon. just as the cbo was coming out to visit the speaker of the house. he invited us down to washington so hopped on a plane, went down there, and here's part one of our two-part interview with speaker paul ryan. >> mr. speaker, while you were in your series of meetings, the cbo came out with a score. you ne knew it was coming out a brief look shows over a course of 10 year period you will save 321 billion off the deficit. however 22 million will be without coverage. >> >> what they are basically saying at the congressional budget office is if you are not going to force people to buy obamacare. if you are not going to force people to buy something they don't want, then they won't buy it it's not that people are getting pushed off the plan. it's that people will choose not to buy something they don

conyers: mr. chairman, i yield myself as much time as i may consume. john sopko: the gentleman -- the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. conyers: i just have to adhere, h.r. 1215 deeply intrudes on state sovereignty. in particular, h.r. 1215 preempts state law governing joint and several liability. the availability of damages, the ability to introduce evidence of collateral source benefits, attorneys fees, and periodic payments of future damages. members should not be fooled by assertions that the bill preserves state law. in fact, the rule of construction contained in the bill expressly states that it preempts state law except in very limited circumstances where state law is more favorable to defendants. yield m now pleased to to the gentlelady from washington state, ms. jayapal, two minutes. the chair: the gentlewoman from washington is recognized for two yield to the minutes. ms. jayapal: i rise today to express my strong opposition to h.r. 1215. first of all, my state, my home state of washington, is one of those states where our supreme court has