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one about alan greenspan and one about ralph nader. he lives in forest hills gardens in a beautiful place in queens and was designed by olmstead's sun. >> frederick law olmstead junior. >> difficult to be more casual. not charlie. anyway, it is fun to be here and write off the bat i was a little surprised to see that you were -- had written these books about ralph nader and alan greenspan who are controversial in their day and time and still alive and kicking. then you pick olmstead who was pretty well thought of -- by the time he died, an interesting guy. what made you move from one to the other? what do they have in common? >> what made me move into olmstead was i felt as the new yorker like central park or manhattan, mike, yard with so many new yorkers and i started to get a deep appreciation for the park. i had a friend who became a tour guide and i moved to forced hills gardens and felt like my next subject was staring me in the face. as far as -- it does connect in a strange way to alan greenspan and ralph nader. i like subjects

one about alan greenspan and one about ralph nader. he lives in forest hills gardens in a beautiful place in queens and was designed by olmstead's sun. >> rick. >> we need to be more casual. not charlie. it is fun to be here. i was surprised to see that you were -- had written the book about ralph nader and alan greenspan that were controversial in their day and their time and they are still alive and kicking and then you pick olmstead who was well thought of by the time he died and he was an interesting guy. what made you move from one to the other and what do they have in common? >> what made me move into olmstead was as a new yorker i live in manhattan, mike heinen yard with so many other new yorkers and over time i started to get a deep appreciation for the park. i had a friend who became a tour guide. the move to forced hills gardens and i felt my next subject was staring me in the face. it does connect to alan greenspan and ralph nader. i like to do several things and in the case of greenspan he was a professional jazz musician a

my name is ralph nader. today the center for the study of responsive law presents the second in a series of debates on generally taboo subjects in both political, legislative and mass-media arenas. the topic today is variously called "the wall street trading tax," the securities transactions excise tax or the financial transaction tax. tabuse exist in all cultures, and our society is rife with them. it is remarkable that with all the current pre-occupation of the major political parties and their governmental representatives, with deficits and debts, spending and revenue, a major form of public revenue from financial transactions is hardly on the screen of their consideration. it was not always so. until 1966, our country did have a transfer tax of 0.2% of all sales or transfers of stocks. it reached that level in 1932 under franklin del notice roosevelt to boost financial recovery and job creation during the great depression. after 1966, discussion of the tax went cold. though as trading volume skyrocketed

ralph nader said in an interview that he would say that chances are about 100% that obama would face a democratic primary challenger. >> i think unless ralph nader himself is thinking of running, which maybe he is, i don't see that happening. i don't really don't. that's a talking point from the left a lot of times when people are angry, we hear that. in general i don't think anybody's going to try to primary the president at this point. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> here's a look at some of the other stories making headlines today. libya rebels claim gadhafi's youngest son was killed in a western air strike. the libyan government denies it. >>> msnbc has learned the army as hay announced most combat deployments will decrease to nine months in a war zone. right now it's a year. >>> the cdc wants you to check your freerz for ground turkey. >>> and sir paul mccartney plans to talk to police about the phone hacking scandal. his ex-wife heather mills claimed a british newspaper spied on the couple while they were married. >>> a shocking case of murder in missouri where a man's fighting

my name is ralph nader. the second debate will be on july 8, 2011, which the topic being a wall street securities transaction tax. information is the currency of democracy. subjects treated as taboo, cut into the open debate and discussion necessary to motivate the citizenry toward higher expectations for their society and themselves. this is what a delivered of democratic society is all about. anthropologists have documented taboos in all cultures. whenever that this on some of the subjects are pierced, the matter closed out by the taboo is open up for examination and the possibility of change. very often in our society, tablas become entrenched controlling processes favoring the status quo and its related powers that be. the breaking of taboos in public arenas, for example, slavery, women's to vote, and the regulation of misbehaving businesses telling farmers and workers better livelihood's, those did lead to debate and change in the 19th century. similarly in our time, that is arising out of advertising a

do you say zenith or nader? i'm going to say both. >> one, two, three! >> oh! >> i've got to tell you, i like don lemon a lot but he's going to have to work hard to top that. cnn newsroom begins with don lemon. good morning, don. >> good morning. i don't think he's going to have to work that hard. what the heck was that? (cheers and applause). >> jon: what do you mean what the heck was that? that was ali velshi's doppelganger being knocked into a glass of water from a toilet paper tube. what is it your first day in news, lemon? turns out reporter don lemon prefers reporting such stories as the uprising in syria, breach of trust in british journalism or even some simple local interest stories. >> emily good says she recorded that video in her front yard because she was concerned about racial profiling and police harassment. do you believe that this is a systematic problem with rochester police? >> jon: that's lemon's comfort zone. don't worry, i'm sure cnn producers are hard at work trying to fit don lemon into their format with something catchy like "don lemon'

july and we came back on the seventh of august and we found a totally different situation because nader was bombarding civilians the bombings were not only carried out to a military target but they also hit houses hospitals schools television centers and this was totally against the humanitarian reasons these that they were there for i believe they were doing these to bring panic in the city that's why they were bombing the things that people use daily places with food and dissension utilities like hospitals this was a very difficult period because of ramadan and that is why they do time there on their housing and went to tripoli and to the town and we saw huge protests with thousands of supporters turning out against nato and all of these demonstrations were not shown in italy also visited to do work and since we were there and found a lot of women that were screaming at us asking why you were tania bombing us what did we do why are you killing our children that was the main question is it time the same day they bombed the heils and this house two children were killed and we tried to s

highly praised -- has written two great biographies, one about alan greenspan and what about ralph nader. he lives in forest hills gardens in a beautiful place in queens. and was designed by olmstead said. which one? >> will be more casual. not charlie. anyway, so it's really fun to be here tonight that it was right off the bat i was a little surprised to sort it cpq had written these books about theater and greenspan, who are controversial in their day in time and are still alive and kicking. then you pick olmstead, who is pretty well thought us by the time he died in with an interesting guy. so what made she moves from one to the other? what do they have in common? >> i guess that makes me move into olmstead and says "the new yorker" folk like central park was in a common yard along with so many other new yorkers in overtime sort of got a deeper appreciation for the park in the tour guide dedicated me to resume moved out to forest hills gardens and the like made that such a was staring me right in the face. and it actually does connect in a strange country to greenspan a major and that

to the market it was a remotely controlled bomb asked of the criminals installed homemade electric nader's on to it and the russian terrorists committee said it was the people who first noticed the suspicious looking car being parked and so they called the police meanwhile it's not the first time such client according to russia's office b. has a quite recently another large scale attack and as this time on the russian railways in the moscow region was prevented by the special forces right region of course in the live from the north caucuses thank you very much for those details. all right well back again to the max twenty eleven air show taking place in the outskirts of moscow we can cross live and take a look at what's happening there we were only promised a minute of the debut of the fifth generation t.v. fifteen super fighter jet but that's not the case what a joy for spectators there the first time ever people are seeing this jet in action it was kept very secretly under wraps as we've been hearing from our correspondent who's there in the little bit of an aviation expert i am self i m

absolutely i mean and that's certainly what ron paul's been saying i will say that ron paul and ralph nader and then excuse and and bernie sanders and cindy sheehan have all worked together cindy sheehan i know is friends with angela in the antiwar dot com people here it is happening and it can happen and they come together around not just the atrocities of war and the human cost of it but also the economic cost of it i do want to say i want to come back to one point we were talking about earlier which is that how do you mobilize people well you can't go into the ghetto and and sort of convince people that they should be forced against something i find that to be sort of paternalistic actually what is really to me the problem is obama because that is most americans are not political or their version of politics and the way they interact with politics is really through the head of states they don't actually pay much attention to anything else there is a tremendous amount i will come back to this again of psychological identification with the president of the united states now he is extremely

dive his position told allies they could duffy insisted that negotiations were only possible to him nader's actions were also an obstacle they far exceeded the mandate issued by the un security council. fighting in libya is reported to have reached the country's border with tunisia were heavy gunfire has been heard to nisa has beefed up its army presence in the frontier areas maybe an infant traders have allegedly crossed the border i think responded to the spot for us. well violent clashes have been reported along with unusually been border over the weekend it all started on friday when local resident has reported that near the town do reportedly several vehicles with libyan license plate carrying arms men have been spotted afterwards clashes have been erupting throughout the weekend between the tunisian border patrol and the even men we can talk with certainty about their density now you have to remember that it was in tunisia where the events of the so-called arab spring have started transpired transpired this year with the ousting off the tunisian president and the unrest which started

another debate from ralph nader and the center for the study of responsive law. and 6:00 p.m. eastern, whether there should be a financial transaction tax on stocks, derivatives, and other financial instruments. senior retired military officers and the former oil ceo per dissipate in a simulated destruction of the global oil despite -- supply. it includes the former head of shell oil in the former director of national intelligence, dennis blair. this is part of the national summit on energy security and hosted by the group securing america's energy future. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. with the senate adjourned, you can watch "but tv" prime-time all month. -- "booktv." a test of the will and faith in world war i . carl peterson on her book, "black got some." -- "black gotham." "booktv" primetime all this month on c-span2. >> republican candidates are drying in iowa for grass-roots politics. starting on thursday, we will interview the candidates can take your phone calls about politics. saturday, we will go to the iowa straw poll where three of the past five winners have gone o

to make a decision which is life and death for many people. >> monday and tuesday on c-span, ralph nader

. >> today and tomorrow on c-span, ralph nader hosts a series of debates looking at controversial topics. monday, the pros and cons of mandatory voting. tuesday, professors from georgetown and the university of massachusetts on taxing stock trades, derivatives, and currencies. debating the controversial, today and tuesday on c-span. 26.74- the motion to concur is agreed to. >> with the debt ceiling bill now signed into law, watch the debate from the house and senate floors and see what your elected officials said and how they voted. there is video of the recession and complete voting records. when members return in september, follow more of the process, including daily for actions in committee hearings, at c-span.org/congress. >> "washington journal" continues. host: robin harding is u.s. economics editor at "the financial times." good morning. guest: good morning. host: you have a story in today's paper looking at the decision of the s&p to downgrade the u.s. credit rating, but there's a complication because the white house has accused it of making a $2 trillion mistake. how did this ha

now, why are we talking about the tax now owner ralph nader had the idea to organize it?s a result of the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009 which left the economy in the most severe recession and still have not gotten out of it, i just heard the new unemployment statistics, 9.2% for the narrow measures and include underemployed, it's about 16%, and that's about 25 million people. 25 million people sounds like a number, but imagine the entire population, the biggest ten cities of the united states, new york, los angeles, chicago, houston, phoenix, san diego, and dallas -- imagine all the people, that's less than 25 million people. that's how many people in the country are underemployed. in addition, we know about the massive bailouts to the financial markets who created the mess in the first place. >> [inaudible] >> okay. the international monetary fund estimated after the money, the banks have paid back considerable portion, there's still about $500 billion that has been unpaid. now, i don't have much time for this initial statement, so i'll just make a couple of quick po

it was a removed he couldn't hold a bomb ass of the criminals installed homemade electric heater nader's on to it and the russian terrorist committee so it was the people who first noticed the suspicious looking car being parked and so they called the police meanwhile it's not the first time pope such kind according to russia's alpha's b. has a quite recently another large scale attack and those time on the russian railways in the most cruel region was prevented by the special forces team or had fever it fast as cuts a little bit of his business with. her welcome to business here at r.t. august seventeenth is a dark day in russian financial history of the country declared its own defaults back in one nine hundred ninety eight caught between a fall in crude prices and the asian crisis that was called short roll and national capital says we're not in line for a perfect storm to. the ninety nine price just makes me sick of the buy would look like a walk in the park in ninety nine the last ninety three percent of its value last week the the russian market lost about fifteen percent of its va

record in the senate it was one corporate giveaway after another so i didn't support him i supported nader i for that reason i didn't expect the rhetoric was brilliant the. the campaign was brilliant which is why after the election after obama won out her ties in age gave barack obama its top annual award marketer of the year beating nike apple zappos because the professionals knew precisely what he had got but he functions as a brand for the corporate state and the personal narratives of political candidates at this point are irrelevant they mean nothing the engines of the corporate state go forward have since the reagan administration there is nothing to impede them and there is a rapid reconfiguration of american society into a kind of very frightening neo feudalism and obama has aided that as a suicide as to george w. bush in any essence what the obama administration has done which i think perhaps is even more pernicious is that they've codified the destruction of international and domestic law that were put in place by the bush administration whether that is the same preemptive war or

say ok we're going to give you some unemployment money we're going to do the opposite of what works nader is doing because you're an employer and here's some cash we're going to give that to the homeowners so the homeowners then take some of that cash and they then they go to the supermarket they buy things and the owner of the sewer and they know they're buying things from those who are in the owner of the supermarket than course has to give some money to the farmer the farm now is making money and they say you know gee maybe we ought to buy something from like you know a store i mean let's let's actually you know get the a.t.'s lawn service out here and fix up our you know the help clean up the farm and make it look better and you know let's. buy some shoes and things in a sack and it's not. the farmer by the way because you know these people have some money too and in fact and so then you know it's a let's open a shoe store let's open a clothing store you know put some then you know we'll put some money because there's demand now because there's money circulating in the environment let

it was a remove he couldn't trolled a bomb ass of the criminals installed homemade electricity to nader's on to it and the russian committee so it was the people who first noticed the suspicious looking car being parked and so they called the police meanwhile it's not the first time full of such kind according to russia's office b. has a quite recently another large scale attack and as those time on the russian railways in the moscow region was prevented by the special forces. to iran says it's ready to resume international negotiations on its disputed nuclear program states use russia's efforts as key to restarting the talks that's according to the iranian foreign minister was on a visit to moscow to ron's currently under four sets of u.n. sanctions through the house more. of course has always been against this approach to the iranian nuclear i'd gend saying that the only way out is a diplomatic one and that in forcing further sanctions on iran would only worsen the situation and its proposal is a step by step plan which has been deemed acceptable by the iranian side and also cautiously

he goes to one of the worst place in the country where the economy is at the nader and unemployment is at 16 percent and said it is because of grid lock in congress. how about not enough money circulating here to creating too many jobs. >> and we touch base with reality. that the industrial base is represented in michigan is clearly in decline in this country. we have had structural shifts. this president is trying to compensate. >> he gave them three million to create 150 jobs. >> you gave money to wall street. >> oh, this is where he went to johnson controllings. >> wall street back over len. this is great. >> i am not saying -- >> he shouldn't give them money. that is creating new industry. >> this is what america needsment >> starting tonight with the fox news debate and going into this weekend, the political world will be focused on iowa the state that the president took over john mccain. iwans on president obama by the terrence group poll. approve 43 percent. disapprove 52 percent. our colleague dick morris said you can't get reelected if disapprove is above 40. his disapprove is

things we know of can't affect us to the stomach howard schmidt is the white house cyber secure record nader and special assistant to the president, but i've got to tell you mr. schmidt has had one of the most intriguing careers i've ever see me and i would suggest you go to the white house website in case you would like to look at it further but he served in vietnam with the air force, he worked as a policeman in chandler arizona and worked for the fbi at the national drug intelligence center and was a special adviser for cyberspace security for the white house chief security for white house chief security for the white house under the george w. bush administration and he was vice chair of the president's critical infrastructure protection board. he served as with microsoft as well, and that's just a couple of the things he's got and both his p.a. and his mba from the university of phoenix. one of the proposals the president calls for is this needs to be coordinated from the white house to do you misuse as a cyber securities are to coordinate this activity? >> the term coordinator is what t

i had never heard anyone since the i'm ralph nader who spoke so powerfully and truthfully for the consumer in america, for transparency in corporate and government life. i just was so impressed. not surprised, risen as the progressives have fought back to some extent. he was one of the voices that gave progresses a new sense of responsibility to consumers and the public. should be the head of the new consumer agency, the republicans this said that they will not let that happen. i don't know why he does not do it. i wish that barack obama would give her a recess appointment. it would -- she would be our joan of arc. >> do i have a question? >> does mr. moyers -- thank you very much, i worked for public government for 30 years. you have been the voice of truth and honesty for all those years. thank you so much for giving the public television everything they have. >> you are very generous. thank you. [applause] >> first off, i want to reinforce what she said. you are an important person and thank god for you. thank you for being here. the other thing is, in your book and when i heard you spe

now regulated to a point where they are disseminate years much like the having to post -- december nader's -- disseminators much like the huffington post? >> this is absolutely the problem. they can afford to be journalists. newspapers were relatively profitable. we are past that age. the business model of journalism is increasingly skewing the polar extremes. it turns out that pays. you get a more active audience that translates into better revenues. what is the alternative tax we do not have the business model yet. i am not sure there is an alternative yet. it is a way to fund this kind of journalism. it is a product of the increasing population in america. the news shows that you came down the middle. that is what they did. they spoke to the middle. that is not the incentive of the economy of news. there are so many potential sources that you have to find your knee should -- your niche. this was only about 40 or 50 years. it is how we think of journalism today. >> this is a huge topic. i see the problem a little differently. the business model of journalism is in tremendous flux. when i

ralph nader is on your screen. this is 90 minutes. >> good morning. this will be a debate on subjects rendered taboo in our country. the second debate will be july 8, 2011, with the topic being a wall street securities transaction tax. information is the currency of democracy. motivating the citizenry for their society and themselves. this is what a democratic society is all about. documentedist's have taboos on all subjects. it is open up for examination and the possibility of change. very often, tab oos become entrenched, favoring the status quo. breaking taboos, for instance slavery, those did lead to debates and change in the 19th century. in our times, taboos are rising at a advertising regarding the dangers of tobacco use and state motor vehicle safety design were broken in the 1960's. reforms followed that saved lives. breaking taboos on politically challenging jim crow laws and discrimination against gays and lesbians has led to real and advancements in human rights. in many areas, taboos remain secure in those that cannot tolerate some might.

it's hosted by the ralph nader center of responsive law. 6:00 p.m.astern. 22 navy seals were killed over the weekend when their helicopter was shot down in afghanistan. you can find out the life and training of the navy seals and the seal team that killed osama bin laden tonight on c-span, special operations commander eric olson is interviewed by abc news foreign correspondent martha raddatz. that's tonight at 8:00 eastern. security on new york stock exchange plunged this morning in reaction to the u.s. credit downgrade. shares lost over 200 points within the first minute of the market's opening. follow the trend begun by arab shan markets over the weekend after the u.s. credit rating was lowered on friday. we get details on what the credit rating change means from this morning's "washington journal." /congress. >> "washgton journal" continues. host: robinarding is u.s. economics editor at "the financial times." good morning. guest: good morng. host: you have a story in today's paper looking at the decision of the s&p to downgrade the u.s. credit rat

. >> today and tomorrow, ralph nader and the center for responsive law host a series of debates looking at controversial topics. on monday, the pros and cons of mandatory voting, and the competitive enterprise institute. professors from georgetown and the university of massachusetts on taxing stocks rates and currencies. this is at 6:00 eastern. primetime tonight on c-span, a look at the operation to capture or kill osama bin laden, and a man who trained the navy seals to do this. the foreignewed by correspondent, tonight at 8:00 eastern. republican presidential candidates are stopping by the iowa state fair. e comments by romney and bachmman, then -- antorum talked about his opposition to same-sex marriage in des moine, iowa. ed about an lastaed hour. >> we are with the "des moines editorial board," meeting with rick santorum. we will keep this very informal with the meeting, a combination of writers and editorial writers, and a couple of columnists. and after we kick things off, it will be kind of a free-for-all, a very informal conversation. and how much time have you got? i respect

we've heard ralph nader say yes. does that even show up on the radar for the president and his advisors? >> absolutely not, contessa. a lot of the frustration you're probably hearing right now from democrats during this summer of discontent is the fact that there won't really be a primary challenge. if you're angry at one reason or the other this is a cathartic moment where everyone's getting upset, but looking at people that might have the viability to challenge president obama. someone like howard dean, russ fine gold. they've all said no. the incumbent president won't have a serious primary challenger. that's the situation heading into november 2012. >> good to talk with you. appreciate that. with me on the phone is the mayor of piasta, iowa, population 1300. it sits behind cedar rapids and madison. mayor, good to talk to you today. >> yes. >> do you think the president can do anything for your town without the cooperation of congress? >> i don't think if he can do anything for our town. we've got -- we're pretty

. >> warner: nader ashraf outside the courtroom, left little doubt as to where he stood. >> ( translated ): mubarak should have been hanged on the first day of the trial. >> warner: since mubarak left office, the revolutionaries who forced his ouster have demanded he stand trial for three decades of repressive rule. but many feared the military council now running egypt would protect the former air force commander. >> a lot of egyptians saw all this as a moment as a turning point with more and more questioning whether military leadership would be willing to do this. so many doubted it would happen until last minute. >> warner: today, in tahrir square, the mistrust was still there. >> ( translated ): i think this trial is the beginning of a farce, because we expect that mubarak will never go to jail, and this is an attempt by the military council to calm public opinion. >> warner: but the image of a caged and prone mubarak was still stunning for many egyptians, who sat transfixed by live television coverage. >> most egyptians have been waiting for this moment, to see the person they feel

that was who what the whole nader campaign was about, this fury that clinton was a sellout. w we've had a president who's been vastly more successful in advancing the liberal agenda through congress and you have liberals angry again. now, carter, i think, was a genuine failure. johnson was massively successful on the domestic front but you had vietnam. but the anger at obama to me is just sort of baffling. >> rose: is it also baffling he might have done more? is that a baffling question, that he could have done better? yes, he had a difficult congress to deal with but if he had a different set of skills and was less of aconciliator he might have achieved more? that's the question that drew raises. >> i don't think that's right. he only had four months in which he he had 60 votes in the senate. other than that period, republicans were committed to blocking his entire legislation no matter what, pretty much even if it included ideas that they had once endorsed. the president has very limited tools at his disposal. the president may have had somewhat greater tools in the past w

. >> monday and tuesday on c-span, ralph nader and the center for the study of responsive law host aeries of debates. monday, the pros and cons of