>> 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

let's leave aside john dingell for a little bit. hat one or two legislators struck you as a great legislator? >> george mitchell. one of the great, capable compromisers. no longer much remembered. but beloved of mine. john moss. >> you have said over the past 30-plus years, no one has mattered more to you than your wife. are you going to be an advisor to the next congressman dingell? >> i'm going to wait to see what the next congressman dingell wants me to do. i'm going to be her constituent. that is a remarkable position to be in. deborah is smart. she has lots of experience in government. and in the house. she knows how to make things happen. she will be a great congressman with no help from me. she is going to be a little giant. a lot smoother and more gracious. >> i rarely disagree with you. i think that she will be just like john dingell. thank you very much. best of luck to you. >> i have been honored to be with you. it has been wonderful. i have done a lot of wonderful things and met a lot of wonderful people. i saw to it that

it is a privilege to have john dingell.

. ♪ >> 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.

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

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 help start yours. >>> back to "hardball." the traffic is a nightmare. those are the words of one new jersey paramedics dispatcher on september 9th of last year, day one of the george washington bridge lane closure scandal that we now know as bridgegate. new police and emergency responder radio transitions were released this day, today, by the municipa

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

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

. >> 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

the 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

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

it will be a challenge for michigan because john dingell, longest serving member ever in the house hasided 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 dingell. in the caller's homebase of royal oak, representative sander levin, carl levin's brother cometh the current representative. he is getting up there in age as well and it is an open question of whether he will retire anytime soon. john conyers from detroit's has served since 1954 in the house. so there is a lot of impending suleiman -- impending seniority loss in michigan which is another obstacle for the state to overcome. snyder,s governor the challenge for a lot of governors is that they really have to prove that their number one focus is bringing companies, bringing jobs to their state. that is what voters are going to judge him on this fall. host: another way of looking at the different race ratings around the

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

john has brought to this job for 58 years, serving the people of southeastern michigan. tough decision for him. but i respect the fact that he has decided it is time. >> if she wins, a dingell in that seat starting with -- 482 years, starting with the senior in 1982. 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-win