so amy walter, you just heard from senator merkley, congressman i can't rememberth.t is the -- yarmouth. what is the state of this democratic primary? >> there have been skirmishes in this race but there is not a big gaping wound here the democratic nominee specifically hillary clinton is going to have to heal. and we've talked about this before, but the real challenge for the democrats going forward, and i think you've pointed this out, too, is more generational than anything else, but that donald trump helps to generate enthusiasm where hillary clinton cannot. so where she may have trouble getting those young voters who have been turning out for bernie sanders is very hard to believe that those voters will go to donald trump and as a matter of fact what may be getting them out to vote is going to be donald trump, enthusiastically voting against him. >> woodruff: tam remarks you have been talking, i think, to the clinton people today. do they think it will be relatively easy to come together with senator sanders when all of this is over? >> they are not entirely cle

merkley: thank you, madam president. i was laying out the various impacts we're seeing across the united states from the impact of global warming and just noting that these impacts are from the north to the south, from the moose being killed by ticks in the north to louisiana losing a football field's worth of coastline every 48 minutes. that's less than an hour. that's a substantial amount of land gone hour after hour, day after day, week after week, month after month, and of course year after year. it's a huge impact. and then we come to understand that, as the weather warms, certain insects that provide hosts to various diseases gain a greater terrain. one of those are mosquitoes in the southern part of the united states. and as the temperatures are changing, they are moving north, and two of those mosquitoes carry the zika virus. and just as an example of the concerns that are presented by changing insect populations, ors over on the -- or over on the atlantic coast, we can look at the impact on the lobsters in maine

merkley: i ask the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: i rise to discuss the frank r. lautenberg democrat cal safety for the 21st act. this is landmark legislation that will honor the legacy of our dear colleague frank lautenberg. i had the privilege to serve with frank for a number of years and know how passionately he wanted to undertake this challenge of the toxic substances that are in our everyday products, our household products that are causing cancer, causing other diseases because we have completely failed to regulate them. and so i so much appreciate that frank lautenberg took on this cause, pushed it forward and presented it in a bipartisan fashion, a fashion that continued following his death. in this congress, this bill is the equivalent of a aoupb corn, as the -- a unicorn as the phrase go. a bipartisan, bicameral compromise that majorly reforms a badly broken law. it has brought democrats and republicans together to take action to protect public health. i've tpelgt -- felt privileged to be a part of this coalition

here to talk with me about it, dan in a brazile, oregon senator jeff merkley, who is supporting bernieandre bauer, former lieutenant governor of south carolina supporting donald trump and cnn politicalical commentator ana navarro. >> not supporting anybody. >> and let me just start with you, everything is a suggestion, mr. trump says, including he was specifically being asked about his proposed ban on all noncitizen muslims entering the u.s. "until we figure out what the hell is going on." now he's saying it's just a suggestion. do you think it might disappoint some of his supporters the idea he seems to be kind of backing off? >> you know, his supporters are very loyal. they're so frustrated, he's talked about a multitude of different things. they're glad anybody is even engaging in the discussion at this point in time, because political hot button issue no, sir one wants to engage in the discussion you can never fix them. at least there's a candidate willing to engage in some of these discussions that for far too long have been something no one wanted to touch so i think it doesn't d

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. >> senator jeff merkley in oregon. thank you for making time. >> we're looking ahead to the oregon poll closing at 8:00 p.m. local time which is 11:00 p.m. eastern time. we have a lot to do between now and then. we'll check in on a bernie sanders rally. respect expected to spe bernie sanders expected to speak tonight. we'll be talking about some, we'll be talking with someone who has been short listed as a possible vice presidential selection by hillary clinton if and when she is the democratic nominee. we have a lot ahead, stay with us. >>> the last few minutes. nbc news projected an apparent winner in the kentucky democratic primary. it was as close as you basically can get but hillary clinton is projected as the apparent winner in kentucky tonight. we don't expect to be hearing from hillary clinton tonight. she is having a night at home in new york just north of new york city. we expect to be hearing tonight from bernie sanders who is not in kentucky, he is in carson, california. joining us now from carson from the

jeff merkley of oregon joins the table. >>> but first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> it was cold this morning, very cold. i reached for the gloves and i'm sure i'm not the only one. the images from northern new england are not pretty. a good reason they tell you not to plant anything until after memorial day, it's snowing right now in northern portions of maine. there's a covering of snow on the ground in many places in northern new england. temperature in new york city is 43. one degree away from our record low for this date. at 33 in columbus, ohio. a little shock in the system as you head outside. the next couple of days, a slow but painful warm-up. get into the 60s in chicago, detroit will be 60s all week, but no 70s in sight for the great lakes, ohio valley, and northeast. d.c. will only be 58 on tuesday. and another rainy day, one of the chilliest mays so far you've ever had there in washington, d.c. the other story, worst weather this morning in the country, flooding is going on right now in areas from corpus christie, up the coast of texas, torrential rains early

merkley: thank you so much. the most important words in our constitution are the first three words, "we the people." our founders when they were crafting the constitution put those words in oversized print so that hundreds of years later citizens across this nation could remember that this is what our constitution is all about, "we the people." it is not "we the powerful." it is not "we the privileged." it is "we the people." and it is president jefferson who said that we can only claim to be a republic to the degree that the decisions of our government reflect the will of the people. and he went on to say that the only way that our government will make decisions that reflect the will of the people is if the people have an equal voice. and by that he meant the example of the town square, where each individual can stand up and make their position known before a vote is held on who you're going to elect and so on and so forth. but today we have a challenge, and the challenge is that the town commons is now televis

is not a place where you have a lot of bernie sanders supporters who have won, actually, and jeff merkleysupport hillary clinton and the concern is that, what you just heard before the break, that they want to have a calm experience in philadelphia. and they want to try to figure out the best way to control any particular chaos that might come up. so that's what the discussions are. but the other thing that i -- i don't know about you, because i know you've been doing some reporting, as well, that i'm told to use a lot of caution, because senators are not going to decide this. it's going to be the presumptive nominee and presumably that will be hillary clinton and the clinton campaign will decide whether or not it's appropriate for debbie wasserman schultz to stay many place. >> as you said, dana, it's one calculation from clinton campaign headquarters in brooklyn is how to make sure we're not engulfed in some distracting drama about dnc leadership which is totally not the message they want to be on at all, right? versing this conversation taking place in a new context. this is not the fi

best sort of example of that we have so far is this keep it in the ground at the 2015 at senator merkleyntroduced. in fact, i was up on the hill the day he introduced it. senator sanders was there as well as the other -- one of the other cosponsors. that is a really powerful and interesting piece of legislation. amy: i want to thank you for joining us, bill mckibben, cofounder of 350.org, we will link to your piece in the guardian headlineded "let's give , up the climate change charade: exxon won't change its stripes." author of many books, including "oil and honey: the education of an unlikely activist." he has been named by senator sanders to the platform committee to the democratic national convention taking place in philadelphia in july. of course, democracy now! will be there throughout. thank you also to anna kalinsky the granddaughteter of james f. , black, who worked for decades as a scientist at exxon. he alerted company executives to the original scientific findings of climate change in the 1970's. sheet ,anna, question the ceo of exxon yesterday at the exxon shareholders meeti

jeff merkley, the only senator to come out and endorse bernie sanders is from oregon.n the wall. this is sanders country. he doesn't want to irritate those sanders voters. but the closed primary and how those ballots work there was a poll that came out last week that had hillary clinton leading by 12 points in oregon and a lot of people said that doesn't sound right. you may be explaining why that number is something to watch, why hillary clinton has a shot. >> tonight with steve kornacki at the big board. >> we'll just repeat everything we just said. hillary clinton has a shot. two states on paper people said look like bernie sanders states. hillary clinton has a shot to win both of them tonight. a little surprise there potentially on the democratic side. cal perry, appreciate it. >>> jacob soboroff hitching a ride with some truckers in the big crucial, all-important swing state of ohio. he's trying to get the 10-4 on who the people on the road are supporting there. >>> up next, after several last-second appeals, will we learn any more about chris christie and his rol

here's senator jeff merkley talking about some of these issues. >> we can see here particularly flavore ecigarette category. and we have a whole variety we have coffee, we have cherry. no individual can look at the flavors of these products and not know that they're targeting our children. >> you know, back in the day tamron, they used to target the advertising, why you need joe the camel, a cartoon, to appeal to adults. here some say the product itself is tailored towards children. the flavors themselves, of course, aren't being banned or anything like that, but it will be a lot harder, starting today, for children to get ecigarettes, tamron. >> all right. thank you, ari. >>> a new law in california has raised the legal smoking age from 18 to 21. governor jerry brown signed that legislation yesterday. it includes restrictions on dipping and chewing tobacco, as well as ecigarettes. the new law does not apply to military personnel. california is the second state to raise the smoking age. factoid, here. hawaii was the first. >>> coming up, two elite universities are investigating online

senator jeff merkley is a democrat from oregon.only sitting senator to support senator sanders. >> absolutely. >> not easy to say. not easy to do, but you are steadfast. first, do you accept donald trump's proposal? do you think bernie should do that? >> absolutely not. bernie went into this, no way i'll be ralph nader. we're not going to split the party, empower the republicans. he understands the damage that bush did to this nation and is not going to allow trump to follow on and do even more damage. >> so give the response. i know this sounds tedious and tired, but it remains true. that's why we keep having to say it. math, math, math, math. bernie sanders, you know he's on this show a lot. you know always happy to have him. always happy to have the campaign. understand the momentum. but math is a limitation here to getting the percentage of delegates pledged and super that he would need to contest at the convention in a real way. isn't that just true? >> it's certainly true he would need two-thirds of the vote. it's an uphill c

he's the nominee and if he's supporting the ticket -- >> how deeply does that -- >> senator jeff merkley heard from him. now what's happening is sanders and clinton are making arguments now that's really more fitting for a general election against trump than rather slamming each other during the primary, carol. >> suzanne malveaux reporting live for us. a former president as a first spouse? it could happen if hillary clinton wins in november. she wants bill clinton to be in charge of fixing the economy. but will that make her more or less attractive to potential voters? cnn politics executive editor mark preston joins me to talk about this. good morning, mark. >> good morning, carol. no doubt look at bill clinton on the campaign trail for hillary clinton has been very good, but he's also been fraught with a little bit of danger. he has upset the black lives matters activists recently, and, of course, he had the crime bill back in 1994 which was problematic, carol, because a lot of nonviolent offenders were put in jail. having said that though, if you were to look at his favorability rati

now, isn't there somewhat of a discrepancy, at least new merkley between the priorities that are -- numerically between the priorities that are openly set and i know it is politically difficult to just reroute money like that but i think that extreme percentage difference is kind of unacceptable. [applause] >> that was a comment. >> i think we'll take this as a statement. [laughter] yes? >> thank you. i'm asking this question mainly to the syrians on the panel and without getting too hypothetical but just to frame for context i'm reading an academic paper currently. the idea behind my question. i definitely agree with some of the questions and comments about most of americans in particular really not understanding who syrian refugees -- who a syrian refugee is. so i've been trying to kind of consider how do we actually change that at large? you know, one-on-one it's not going to happen fast enough and it's not going to be prevalent enough. one of the things that i get push back k from, from american counterparts, is don't you think it's invasive to say to syrian refugees, well tell us your stor

sanders: in that regard, i want to thank your senator jeff merkley will stop -- your senator, jeff her claim. i want to thank your senator. jeff is the only member of the united states senate to support our campaign and i thank him for that. [applause] tuesday,ers: next there is going to be an enormously important democratic primary here in oregon. what i have found out throughout this campaign is that when the voter turnout is high we do well. we win. [applause] next tuesday here in oregon, let us have the oregon voter turnout in democratic voter turnout history. [applause] sen. sanders: and let the great state of oregon, the progressive on sayingregon, go yes, we want a political revolution! thank you all very much. [cheers and applause] ♪ [music, david bowie's "starman"] ♪ announcer: bernie sanders want me democratic primary in west theinia tonight, making it caucus he has one. donald trump has won both riemer is in west virginia and nebraska. next week, west virginia holds its primary and those cast votes in oregon's primary. >> c-span's washington journal live every day with news

i continued to negotiate with my colleagues, and i want to commend senators whitehouse, merkley and booker. they went forward and negotiated some significant fixes to that disastrous bill as it moved through the e.p.w. committee. their improvements were very important, but still, still many serious flaws remained. and my state of california and other states take had programs to regulate chemicals and all these public interests, probably 450 organizations that protect the health of our children, of our families, of our elderly, of our disabled were all strongly against it. and i ask unanimous consent to put in the record letters from states and many organizations demonstrating the opposition to that bill. you can see -- you can see what the opposition was and still colleagues said no, no, no, senator boxer, you're unreasonable. really? was i unreasonable when we had letters against the bill from the massachusetts attorney general, letters from the attorney general of new york, iowa, maine, maryland, oregon, washington, a letter from the office of california attorney general, the california

this past tuesday within the senate democratic caucus at which harry reid presided, at which jeff merkley it, apparently barbara boxer was also part of that meeting, and they sort of made decisions about how to deal with bernie sanders. apparently harry reid talked to bernie sanders, had what he thought was a good conversation, then here's an excerpt of the statement that from our reporting came out literally within minutes of what senator reid described as a positive phone call with senator sanders. the sanders campaign puts out a statement saying at the nevada convention the democratic leadership used its power, used its power to prevent a fair and transparent process from taking police and the pugnacious statements have just gone on from there. abby, is there a sense from your reporting that bernie sanders himself or his campaign are refusing to tamp down the kind of conspiracy theories out of nevada even after talking with the senate leadership? >> i think the sanders campaign believes that the statement adequately addressed the question of discord at the november convention. they fel

i spoke to jeff merkley, the only senator who supports sanders, he says it was unbelievable.s tone deaf. so i think she'll really -- what these pro clinton democrats are worried about, not so much whether bernie will endorse hillary, that will happen but worried about getting supporters to embrace her enthusiastically. >> debbie wasserman schultz has been on this show and defensive of the debate schedule, for example, defending the superdelegate system, defending the closed primaries. do you believe in all your reporting that the dnc has been fair to bernie sanders in this process? >> i don't think so. from having follow the campaign. the scheduling of televised debates during times that aren't likely to draw big audiences, freezing his access to key voter database before the iowa and new hampshire caucus and primary, characterizing it as a theft of data when really that isn't what happened. those are things that set the tone early. then joint fundraising between dnc and clinton campaign, that's something sanders saw as unfair and supporters. there are a number of data points

and jeff merkley, bernie's lone senate supporter, has told me that as well. chris, expect to hear a lot more of that in the coming weeks. >> manu, appreciate the reporting. >>> flip to the other side for a second. donald trump, pressure to stop talking about other people and start talking about what you're going to do. he started doing that and says he's willing to do what no president has ever done. the presumptive gop says he would be willing to pleat with north korean leader kim jong-un to hold nuclear talks. this as the billionaire developer long boasted about self-funding his campaign no longer is technically. cnn's phil mattingly joins us now with more. >> reporter: good morning, chris. donald trump is scheduled to meet with former secretary of state henry kissing j inger tod. ed elder statesman, they have something new to talk about. north korea. trump telling reuters in an interview tuesday he would be willing to speak directly to the north korean leader kim jong-un. a significant policy shift for the u.s. towards the country. >> i would speak to him.

supporters, so these are not -- there's only one sanders supporter in the senate, and that's jeff merkleyese sources are clinton backers, and that, as you mentioned, that, quote, came from a senator who is a clinton backer who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the talk. so there have been a lot of discussions, and when we contacted the dnc, they certainly were not disputing that those conversations have taken place. we're not sure if they've taken place directly with debbie wasserman schultz, but we got the sense they definitely had heard about them, and they are clearly, debbie wasserman schultz -- who has taken criticism from a number of quarters, including from her own party since she was tapped by president obama in 2011 -- she's been a survivor, she's been a fighter, and she's clearly fighting to keep her job. she does not want her head on that plate. >> host: what role, what public role will she play in philadelphia this july? >> guest: well, traditionally, the party chair opens up the convention and has a huge role on what's going on, whether that's on the plat