mr. sanders, i worked with him 22 years ago and travel in fact to the middle east with him. so this is vintage bernie sanders. it's absolutely nonsense. so is this an agenda by mr. sanders and about socialists? they like to see the entire american workforce unionized worse than the employees at a progressive company. like as you reported, like starbucks, he's also an agenda to unionize or certainly make employees. all kinds of americans involved in direct selling a door to door, that type of business, realtors and others. the fact of the matter is this testimony began correctly with mister schultz saying, the c e o. the company has done nothing illegal to nothing wrong. it's ok to say that people like the interview, the interview, the employee, have grievances, but those have just allegations. who knows? that employee was fired because of union, suppose union organizing activities or just he's a bad employee is 80 guest 80 employees out of thousands. starbucks employees, but it's not just send it to sanders. he's been saying this in recent months. multiple federal judges have

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the court heard that gwyneth paltrow considers herself to be an intermediate skier but mr sanders lawyerthe incidence of mr saunders has symptoms of persistent brain injury and would encounter problems for the rest of his life. the case continues. as always much more of our stories on our website for monitoring the events in paris, protesters still out on the street of those pension reforms. we will bring more on that to you. we will bring more on that to you. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter — i'm @kasiamadera. hello. there is more rain in the forecast for the next few days, adding to what — for many of us — has already been quite a soggy march. in fact, parts of eastern england have already seen more than two and a half times the rainfall they'd normally expect in a typical march. compare that with just a third of the normal rainfall at kirkwall in orkney. but all of us are going to see those rainfall gauges getting topped up during tonight with this band of heavy rain pushing eastwards, particularly wet over high ground in southwest scotland, n

and bernie sanders, those 2 couldn't be any more different encountering themselves. so now bert, now mr. show problem solving a senate hearing because bernie sanders threatened him with a subpoena that they didn't want. and this was packed not for free coffee. there were a lot of people in this hearing, and they, and that's what the sound by we just ran didn't show. she broke out in laughter after mister shawl said that the company never broke broke a law and never punished anybody who was involved in or taking part in unionizing or organizing. so how did this end there? because the national labor board has filed so many complaints more than against any other company in the united states, against starbucks for doing exactly what sanders said, they're breaking the law as a federal judge also concluded hundreds of times all across, over the nation. so on this, this fight is already ca, starbucks, a tremendous amount of money. do we have any idea where it's going from here? well, if starbucks doesn't change, of course, then it will cost them even more money. that's is clear, but you know,

mr. sanders. there is no objection to that, sir? the presiding officer: without objection. mr. booker: and i will say i really feel so blessed to be a senator, and one of the great blessings for me has been getting to know my colleagues. i know folks on both sides of the aisle and have sincere friendships and admiration. senator lee is one of the people i respect in this body the most. he's learned. i have learned from him. my positions on issues have evolved from taking the time to actually listen to my colleague speak. he's passionately -- i see both colleagues from utah here. i need to get menendez down to this floor and get some firepower here. i've also learned a lot about utah itself. when he talks about the reasons for getting rid of this, they're very compelling to me. the reality is tourism is one of our greatest industries. it creates jobs and opportunities. when he talks about sports teams, i'm not sure it's because he's a sports fan. i think he understands that sports teams help create economic growth and economic opportunity. and even more than that, what i've lear

you're, if you're a bernie sanders, if you're an aoc, if you're talib, if you're a bennett, no such thing as far enough. you have dance in fire you get burnt. that what happened to mr bernie sanders is a socialist, demonized him because he wants to fight for his employees rights. he wants to still have a relationship with his employees. this is what i brought up in the hearing it is funny to me that these unions are anti-ceo, they're anti-corporation, but yet they're the one hires their members. if you are a member you can never be a manager. you can never be an executive. you can never be a ceo to i am my meant the changes that the union want to be implemented. it is, it is like never ending circus. neil: sometimes you hear it in the context, we're so used it, senator, we want good june jobs. i think priority should be on good jobs period whether union or not. >> that's right. neil: starbucks, whether you're in to 5 or 6-dollar coffee, the lemon tart is well worth the five bucks. but i digress. >> i'm on board for that one. neil: all kidding aside, senator, these are still well-compensated workers, much more so than anyone else in that industry. >> right. neil: an

mr. byrne, thank you for being with us. thank you senator sanders. i appreciate the opportunity to be here. i have submitted a written statement. i won't read that to you. i do not represent starbucks. i did not have a position about whether they have or have not committed unfair labor violations. i do not have a position on whether they should or should not be organized. i believe it is up to the workers. i trust the wisdom of the workers at the top stories to make those decisions in a properly conducted election. i'm here because i represent a whistleblower, a longtime professional employee at the national nation labor -- who has gone forward at the inspector general to information that there have been significant irregularities, violation of the neutrality of the organization of the agency during at least one such election. a lot of that matter? the process that we follow in these elections is very important. and the previous speaker said, it is to make sure that the employees make a free and uncoerced decision. it is not to protect the management

sanders will appreciate. >> bill: you are right about that. >> dana: yeah. the "wall street journal" said all the president's tax increases, budget shows where mr. biden wants to take the country. bernie sanders would be pleased. a couple of things, james. when they were in control of congress, when the democrats were, they did not propose these wild tax increases, okay? they want to now blame it on republicans for not being willing to raise taxes. when they weren't willing to do it when they had the chance themselves. they know they won't pass and want it as a political thing. remember the student loan forgiveness? it is not in the budget. was that all a fake -- head fake? >> great point. this budget is even much worse than it looks. it looks terrible in terms of the fiscal health of the u.s. i suppose maybe if we want to be op at the mystic we assume that means the administration expects the supreme court to assert the rule of law and say you have to go to congress if you want to create a massive new spending program. but this idea with the campaign event and the music suggesting that you can raise taxes on the wealthy and fix our entitlement p

mr. bancel, has made $5 billion. >> stephen: him personally? >> senator sanders: yeah.after all of that, and remember this is in the midst of a pandemic where over a million people died and then after that they said well, when the government reserve of the quade ofs,e ar goio so this is corporate greed at its worst. so you know. >> stephen: what can you do? >> senator sanders: well, we can do a lot of things but for a starter, turns out that on the day that we announced mr. bancel was going to come before the committee, just coincidentally they announced that they were going to make the vaccine available for free to people. but in addition to that, medicare and medicaid should not have to spend billions for the vaccine. look, the bottom line is, i think most americans know year after year the pharmaceutical industry makes tens of billions of dollars. they pay their ceos outrageous compensation packages and meanwhile, we pay by far the highest prices in the world. stephen, i've taken people over the canadian border to buy insulin products for one-tenth of the price in ca

vermont senator bernie sanders is the chair. mr. schultz testimony comes only a few days after he officially stepped down as ceo. the hearing should begin shortly, live here on c-span 3.

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here is what senator sanders wants to sheahear from shultz. >> i want mr. illegal activity, he is going to sit down with the union and negotiate a contract. >> there are some 285 starbucks stores out of about 9,000 in the u.s. that have voted to unionize. starbucks denied all allegations of union busting. schulz remains adamant unions are counter to starbucks' vision. do you see the union push as an existential threat to the starbucks that you built? >> no. it is not an existential threat. >> no. >> no, not at all. i recognize the right that starbucks partners have the right to they want to unionize their store or district, whatever, but we have a right as a company to create the vision for the company which the large vast majority of starbucks partners embraces. >> shultz will appear march 29. starbucks top lawyer wrote in part that testimony, quote, will endeavor to provide a deeper understanding of our culture and priorities. >>> later today also a new batch of video is going to be released of that deadly police beating of tulsa. shimon has been on the g

previous invitation, indicating he is not the right witness, senator bernie sanders is leading the effort to roast schultz. i want mrz to tell us but at long last he is going to stop his illegal activity that is going to sit down with the union and negotiated contract like a black cup of coffee. the fight has been better. sanders is demanding schultz testify about the roughly 80 complaints lodged by the national labor relations board against starbucks. just last week, a federal judge ruled that the coffee chain violated labor laws while responding to a unionization campaign and buffalo, new york every time that we make noise every time that we go on strike, it reminds them of who really is the essential worker. nearly 300 starbucks locations have voted to unionize. none have successfully negotiate. did a contract with the coffee company for myself, a billionaire ceo who nearly ran for president as an independent, has doubled down on his opposition. we as a company, have a right also to say we have a different vision that is better, more dynamic, and we have a history to prove it. testimony would marco win for the la

previous invitation, indicating he is not the right witness, senator bernie sanders is leading the effort to roast schultz. i want mr schulz to tell us that at long last he was going to stop his illegal activity that is going to sit down with the union and negotiated contract like a black cup of coffee. the fight has been better. sanders is demanding schultz testify about the roughly 80 complaints lodged by the national labor relations board against starbucks. just last week, a federal judge ruled that the coffee chain violated labor laws while responding to a unionization campaign and buffalo, new york every time that we make noise every time that we go on a strike, it reminds them of who really is the essential worker. nearly 300 starbucks locations have voted to unionize. none have successfully negotiate. did a contract with the coffee company for myself, a billionaire ceo who nearly ran for president as an independent, has doubled down on his opposition. we as a company, have a right also to say we have a different vision that is betterwe have a historye it. testimony to boost union po, especially as they head.

previous invitation, indicating he is not the right witness, senator bernie sanders is leading the effort to roast schultz. i want mrchulz to tell us that at long last he is going to stop his illegal activity that is going to sit down with the union and negotiated contract like a black cup of coffee. the fight has been better. sanders is demanding schultz testify about the roughly 80 complaints lodged by the national labor relations board against starbucks. just last week, a federal judge ruled that the coffee chain violated labor laws while responding to a unionization campaign in buffalo , new york every time that we make noise every time that we go on strike, it reminds them of who really is the essential worker nearly 300 starbucks locations have voted to unionize . none have successfully negotiate. did a contract with the coffee company for myself, a billionaire ceo who nearly ran for president as an independent , has doubled down on his opposition. we as a company, have a right also to say we have a different vision that is better, more dynamic, and we have a history to prove it. testimony would marco win for

mr. byrne, thank you for being with us. thank you senator sanders. appreciate the opportunity to be here. i have submitted a written statement. i won't read that to you. i do not represent starbucks. i did not have a position about whether they have or have not committed unfair labor violations. i do not have a position on whether they should or should not be organized. i believe it is up to the workers. i trust the wisdom of the workers at the top stories to make those decisions in a properly conducted election. i'm here because i represent a whistleblower, a longtime professional employee at the national nation labor -- who has gone forward at the inspector general to information that there have been significant irregularities, violation of the neutrality of the organization of the agency during at least one such election. a lot of that matter? the process that we follow in these elections is very important. and the previous speaker said, it is to make sure that the employees make a free and uncoerced decision. it is not to protect the management o

sanders and senator cassidy. >> thank you very much. let me begin by asking dr. warden and dr. salvatore their assessment of mr. bancel and his remarks. >> thank you senator. there is a lot in mr. band sells remarks i might start with his claim that the u.s. government has already been repaid somehow by moderna for the contributions to the nih moderna vaccine. i think i heard mr. bancel say something like we already received 2.9 billion dollars in benefit from the company. he described it as a discount to the american public back in 2020 and 2021 when we were purchasing hundreds of doses. this is revisionist history. this is a new telling that moderna has come up with, i think since this committee called this hearing. at the time that we cut these deals these were negotiated prices between a buyer and seller. moderna sold its doses for about $20 a dose similar to what pfizer told its doses for similar to what it sold overseas. to view it as a discount i think is artificial and very much post-talk. >> thank you let me go to doctors up to gary -- >> microphone. >> thank you i would also like to touch upon the iss

sanders you are next. >> thank you very much mr. chairman let mee think the panel for beingith us today. you indiced inesponse to the question from the chairmanhat youu quote i am committed to doing what is right". we, i think all of us are committed to doing what is right. but the devil is in the details. wall street, about a decade ago in t order to increase the profs they were earning in the rail industry, implemented a program called precision scheduled railroading. the results of that is that norfolk southern reducedro its workforce by almost 40% over six years. meanwhil in fact wall street's goal was achieved profits sought for norfolk southern, you mad over $3 biion in profits last year. ii have been told byorkers who work for your company a other rail cpanies that they are now being asked to more work with fewerorkers and that includes safety inspectns. so disaster in east paltine we haveeenold abouthe potential safety hazards. will you make a commitment right now to themerican people that you will lead the industry and leadinhis disastrous precision whh has/i made railroading mu

mr. chairman, let me say under oath, these are allegations and starbucks has not broken the law. >> ryan nobles joins us today. ryan, this was contentious with bernie sanders strong labor union guy, against starbucks, with everything they have been accused of. mitt romney did weigh in. he was questioning whether sanders and his colleagues had their own political agenda. >> reporter: that's right. it was interesting to see howard schultz, who was a democratic dealing with this. romney was going to take the business point of view as it relates to this debate. listen to how he framd it. >> you are being grilled by people who have never had the opportunity to create a single job. yet, they believe that they know better how to do so. i think it's rich to not recognize the extraordinary conflict of interest we have, which is our democratic colleagues overwhelmingly get campaign funds from unions. therefore, would like to find every possible way to extend unions even if an enterprise feels it's in their best interest to pursue a different course. >> even though romney's point about job creation and the impacts that unions could have on that is probably a worthy o

sanders as chair of the senate health, education , labor and pension committee. he says starbucks under shelters leadership prevented starbucks workers from unionizing. mr schulz.ill you commit right now? that was in 14 days of this hearing, starbucks will exchange proposals with the union. something it has refused to do for more than 450 days so that meaningful progress can be made to bargain. a first contract in good faith. will you make that commitment? we have met over 85 times for a single store. we've tried to arrange over 350 separate meetings. we said publicly, and i say it here again. that we believe that face to face negotiations is to wait to proceed. and the reason i want to make that point is that there have been safety issues in which starbucks managers have been outed on social media. there are privacy issues. we don't want to do it on zoom, we are prepared to meet face to face on a single store issue. workers at 290. starbucks stores have voted to unionize for better pay and working conditions. starbucks has not signed a union contract. the senate banking committee hearing, the nation's top financial regulator says the federal reserve warned sil

mr. bancel, thank you very much for being with us. you may proceed with your testimony. >> chairman sanders, ranking member cassidy, distinguished members of the committee, good morning. my name is stephane bancel and i'm the ceo of moderna. when i speak with an accent, i either have a company that's an american success story. after losing money for ten years, moderna created a vaccine that helped and the pandemic. we were able to move quickly because of a decade of private investment in a platform and because of a decision [inaudible] we made these investments before anyone has heard of it. over christmas break, 2019, i read about an outbreak of pneumonia in wuhan, china. immediately reached out to the u.s. government because i believe our modern technology to make a difference. two days after chinese scientists put the genetic sequence online, our team created 12 73 of covid-19. as the world shut down in march, we moved faster. every day brought new pressure as case counts and death rows in the country and around the world. i am so grateful for our teams who worked relentlessly including saturdays and sundays, lock down from home and

mr. schultz, are trying to prevent unions from representing workers at starbucks. gets more involved than that. rich edson on the involved part. rich? >> good afternoon, neil. the democratic founder of starbucks faces senator bernie sandersned to subpoena howard schultz who stepped down as interim starbucks ceo last week. since late 2021, starbucks workers have voted to unionize in nearly 300 stores across the country. sanders accuses starbucks and schultz of waging the most union busting campaign in modern history. >> are you aware that there there be judges that have ruled that starbucks violated federal labor law over 100 times during the past 18 months far more than any other corporation in america? >> starbucks -- let me set this tone for this very early on -- has not broken the law. >> republicans on the panel have accused the nlrb of pursuing a political agenda to bust unions. schultz highlighted starbucks as among the first major businesses the industry to offer health insurance, retirement benefits and stock options. he also took exception to democrats on the committee calling him a billionaire. >> i grew up in federally subsidized housing. i came from nothing. i thought my entire live was based on the achieveme

mr. heaphy: i think it's frightening, candidly. i'm glad you mentioned that it's on both sides. i think there are a lot of people in this country that don't believe in capitalism, sort of the bernie sanders extreme progressives, and people that don't believe in government , that don't believem in the sort ofaga crowd -- these sort of maga crowd and they share this lack of faith in the rule of law, in the institutions that govern us. it's not right versus left, it's not republican and democrat, it's belief versus lack of faith in the system. until we collectively find a way to reach out to those people that don't believe, to show them that government works for them, that science is real, then we are going to keep having this problem. that fundamental, underlying issue is what those of us who believe in fundamental democracy need to wrestle with. >> there is one last question that i would love to hear an answer, and i saved it for the in. an online question. will donald trump be held accountable for january 6? mr. heaphy: i believe in the system. i grew up as a federal prosecutor. i think the system is flawed and needs reform, but the system works. i have a lot of faith in merrick garlandi

mr. schultz, you may proceed with your testimony. >> thank you very much, mister chairman. good morning, chairman sanders ranking member cassidy, and senators of the committee. i'm pleased to be here this morning and tell the entrepreneurial story of starbucks and how we have carried the american flag to 84 countries around the world. my vision first starbucks coffee company has always been steeped in humanity, respect, and shared success. it's a vision that was inspired by the struggles of my father, a world war ii veteran who slipped on a sheet of ice in 1960 and was promptly fired from his job as a delivery driver. it fractured our family, and it deeply scarred me. i decided at an early age, if i was ever in a position to run a business, it would be based on respect and shared success. with my one-year term as starbucks interim ceo having come to a close, i appear before you today with love and gratitude for what we have built at starbucks over these last 40 years. the essential operating april approach at starbucks since 1987, when we had just 11 stores, has focused on values based decisions. we've a

sanders, you are next. >> let me thank the panel for being with us today. mr. shore, you indicated a response to a question from the chairman that you quote, i am committed to doing what's right, and quote. by letting all of us do what is right, but the devil is in the details. mr. shore, wall street, about a decade ago, in order to increase the problems they were earning in the rail industry, they implemented a program called precision scheduled railway. the result of that is that norfolk southern reduced its workforce by almost 40% over six years. meanwhile, in fact, wall street 's goal has achieved profits from norfolk southern between a billion dollars in profits last year. i have been told by workers that work for your company, and other rail companies, that they are now being asked to do more work with fewer workers. and that includes safety inspections. well before this disaster in east palestine, we have been told about potential safety hazards. will you make a commitment, right now, to the american people, that you will lead the industry in ending this

mr. harvey is the ceo of indiana primary health care association, he will be introduced by senator -- of indiana. >> thank you chairman sanders, and ranking cassidy, pleasure to introduce ben harvey, fellow hush, or graduate of taylor university back in indiana. our indiana primary health care association, great job at heading it, previously served in a senior role at the missouri department of health and senior services. his work has helped increase the number of community health centers throughout indiana, and modernize states telehealth laws which has become increasingly important. down the road in health care. resulting in greater access to quality care for many -- greatly appreciate your willingness to come, and share your hoosier practicality and look forward to hearing what you have to say. >> thank you senator for the introduction, it is an honor to be, here it is an honor to be in this room, and by a -- like yourself. chairman sanders, ranking member cassidy, members of the committee, thank you for the invitation to be here and discuss community health centers. i would like to specifically thank you mister chairman,

in which chairman sanders has called a ceo for what i consider a show trial, to have them commonwealth before the committee and before the cameras to defend their business i suspect mrandle himself very well i think the reasons he's brought here are somewhat flimsy >> only in america i just -- i don't know no one sees the irony. he's a socialist not that there's anything wrong with that. howard schultz, he did do this before he came back as ceo, he personally conducted captive audience meetings while workers had to attend to hear him talk about how great things were without a union. then he returned to starbucks as ceo. so is that specifically bad form is that not allowed to come in employees had to listen to why they shouldn't join a union and then come comes back as ceo. i guess that might raise a few eyebrows so does some of the stuff the nlrb does, i should say. >> since 1984 that has been allowed where a business owner or management with bring in employees and can speak to them about why you should not join the union. it's equal time. it's been allowed, it's totally legal. i will say that nlrb wishes to end that practice, but it's been in effect since 1984 he's

mr. chairman and i want to thank all of our panelists for serving w our country if you served in the military and all the work you did to get afghans to safety. sergeant sanders i know you deploy it from -- and i want to say a special thank you to you for a your service. you have made their country very proud. we have talked a lot about how the evacuation happened. i was wanted the original members of the working group to my colleague mr. crowe it on a bipartisan basis and i worked with many recruits to get hundreds of afghans out of afghanistan and we are still betting that process. i think a lot of the criticism that we have heard should be leveled at this body and this committee because it's our job to oversee and over the years we have systematically underfunded and underappreciated their work to the point when we had to do this the state department didn't did have the capacity it needed to do the mission but i would welcome working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to figure out how we boost the department funding capacity and oversight to make sure the state department has the capacity in the future not only for a scenario like this. because

senator bernie sanders is chair of the senate health, education, labor and pensions committee. he says starbucks under schultz leadership prevented workers from unionizing. mr schulz. will you commit right now? that was in 14 days of this hearing, starbucks will exchange proposals with the union. something it has refused to do for more than 450 days, so that meaningful progress can be made to bargain. a first contract in good faith. will you make that commitment? we have met over 85 times for a single store. we've tried to arrange over 350 separate meetings. we said publicly, and i say it here again. that we believe that face to face negotiations is the way to proceed. and the reason i want to make that point is that there have been safety issues in which starbucks managers have been outed on social media. there are privacy issues. we don't want to do it on zoom, we are prepared to meet face to face on a single store issue. workers at 290 starbucks stores have voted to unionize for better pay and working conditions, but starbucks says not signed a union contract. he's been congressman eric swalwell announced that he is reintroducing a bill to crack down on