the environment seem to be not doing their jobs for more we're joined by tyson close slocum of public citizen tongue tied there tyson sorry about it welcome back and first can we get your take on trade glenn the fellow who was indicted and has now i fortunately for my perspective resigned from the trump of ministrations e.p.a. yeah so it's part of this long running investigation down in alabama where a bunch of lobbyists and lawyers for a coal company colluded with regulators to try and get this coal company out from under this pollution enforcement case it's netted a bunch of other lobbyists and lawyers and now it's got trade glenn and you know the thing is you know this individual was put into this position to basically run the e.p.a. in the southeastern u.s. states. by the former e.p.a. administrator scott pruitt who really emphasized putting lobbyists and other folks from industry indicate he enforcement positions at the e.p.a. and that was exactly what this se administrator who was just indicted that was his background his background was working as a lobbyist for industry and so it's rea

thousand and sixteen you worked on that i voted on it you voted on it it's a very complicated rule public citizen and the progressive organizations did not like that rule in particular it was overly complex again this rule says that banks should not gamble especially with taxpayer backed f.d.i.c deposits they should be engaged in the difficult boring business of making loans. the. liquidity that was threatened hasn't really appeared and yet the banks want this relaxed and as we speak the five agencies including your former agency are busy at work relaxing that rule and hope it doesn't happen i want to ask you about the future what do you think might be the next big crisis. difficult to say. if i knew i would make a beeline to the regulators and make sure there is they are aware you're different such a different fellow people would say i'm headed to my investor you say go to the regulators well we got into the last mess because as some of your other guests point out we were giving away mortgages like can't like free candy we are also we have too much student debt we're also using all this corporat

quick break but hang here because when we return bartlett nailer the financial policy advocate at public citizen is back to discuss the u.s. bubble reserves effort to weaken keep capital and liquidity rules in the financial sector plus alex behala which is following the massive number of google employees around the world who have walked out in a solidarity protest over the treatment of women by company executives will bring us up to date and a host of the big picture here are to america holland cook answers the back thing question is print media past say as we go to break the dow nasdaq and s. and p. are all up as is bitcoin oil and gold to see investment. as i live the good feel confident. funny. need to. be young. again. we have learned things and the smiles and this is it will for everyone and why some people take our things all the power just for themselves and to see about that in. the talk of impending war around the world is on the. increase the great power speak openly on the need to prepare for a conflict what does this tell us if anything it appears to be a sign the global order they c

requirements for more than a dozen big bank lenders here's just a financial policy advocate at public citizen bartlett no thank you so much for coming back for shit thank you so tell us about this proposal is it is a bad as i think it might be yes it's troubling the context for this is a law that congress passed last year called the crêpe zero bill it was s. twenty one fifty five and it caused regulations on banks between fifty and two hundred fifty billion dollars to be relaxed the federal reserve is implementing that but most worrying is that they are going beyond the congressional mandate as you said they're reducing liquidity requirements for banks that are even larger than that what's the liquidity requirements this is the cash or cash equivalents that banks have to hold in case there is a downturn and that they need to meet their own bills banks themselves borrow money and this is being reduced not only for this slice of banks in the two hundred fifty billion dollars range but even higher than that also reducing the capital requirements what's that's that's the difference between assets

he is president of public citizen and has written many articles, when he was editor of the monitor. that was the only magazine reporting on global corporations exclusively and the issues which are still pertinent, including interviews, are on the website. keptlso a person who is off of tv and radio, more than his counterparts, like bill kristol and others. he continues to fight the good fight and he brings to us another perspective on the myths of market fundamentalism and their uses to block needed regulation in congress and to counteract any kind of public accountability of these global institutions. robert wiseman. [applause] robert: when i was working on the publication that ralph talked about, we talked about fundamentalism a lot which is where the term was first used. words ing upon the advance of this, it struck me it is a misnomer. the market part is like a fiction. the fundamentalist part israel. it is not -- part is real. it is not as a fundamentalist believe in markets. presentationgreg's was about. it will be in part what mine is about. the existence of the corporation,

he is now president of public citizen. and he has written many articles, especially when he was editor of the multi-national monitor. and that was the only really magazine reporting on global corporations exclusively. and the issues which are still pertinent, including the interviews, are on the web site, multinational monitor.org, i believe. he's also a person who has kept off a lot of tv and radio, more than some of his counterparts, like grover norquist and bill kristol and others, but he continues to fight the good fight, and he will bring to us another perspective on the myths of market fundamentalism and their uses to block needed regulation in congress, and to try to counter-act any kind of public accountability of these global corporate institutions. robert weissman. >> so when i was working on the publication that ralph talked about, multinational monitor, we talked about market fundamentalism a lot. which is i think where context in which the term was first used which is much more international economic debates t

an environmental business news and we have just the person to tell us about it tyson slocum of public citizen is standing by and speaking of the environment a lot of it and more was burnt to a crisp in those horrific california fires are to correspond to the talks this week tells us about the rude reality of insurance policies plus we told you about the new coordination and cooperation between china and the philippines bill today will give you some interesting details parties alex mahela dish has the story and thursday is thanksgiving in the united states and more than forty four million people will tune in to watch the world's largest parade macy's thanksgiving day parade parties trinity trial this takes us to the iconic macy's in the heart of new york city and tells us about the celebrated company and later facebook is floundering the c.e.o. of strong mark hillary ford which helps us take a longer look at the company headed into next year all that ahead but first we had some headlines let's go. leading today's global report the u.s. china and a number of other countries are taking their tan

and liquidity rules in the financial sector bartlett nailer is a financial policy advocate a public citizen is back in the house plus google employees around the world have walked out in a solidarity protest over the treatment of women by company executives alex my hell of it has been following the story will bring us up to date and later close to the big picture here in our few america holland cook joins us to answer as a vets in question is print media passe all that directly ahead but first we have some headlines that's putting. the impact of u.s. tariffs on china and other nations has been somewhat muted by the increasingly strong us dollar the dollar is increased in value by seven to eight percent on average versus all major u.s. trading partners at the same time while the trump administration has chosen not to designate china as a currency manipulator the value of the chinese currency the yuan has been dropping all year which further weakens the u.s. tariffs impact earlier this year in march the dollar fetched six point two you won today the dollar is even stronger and would fetch nea

life than losing a debate or election the worst is to do nothing but to show indifference as a public citizen it comes from my mother and my dad and i still believe in it after all these years but every problem that we face that could be traced back to kennedy all the problems are created by human beings. although we are adding to the problems of hurricanes because of climate but we can solve these problems if we really want to shut the door at the g 20 don't let anybody out. we can put the energy there is countless things we could do to rebuild america and use energy. we just choose not to do anything. >> host: listen to you here is a guy who has the same fire and passion that he did. you and i were on an airplane to los angeles in 2011 i have been offered the job of president and ceo of the wilson center with the foreign affairs committee for a long time. i am ambivalent i might disappoint my constituents what is your view? it has been a great decision eight years later to run an institution dedicated to nonpartisan serious scholarship leading to those policy ideas from the first internatio

>> yeah, eric brooks just as a public citizen. my building doesn't have a battery bin, so what do i do to make sure that it gets one? >> good question. director rafael? >> with the permission of the chair, i will answer the question? so that is a great question, and for anyone who's listening, if you are in an apartment building that does not have a battery bin, you can call recology and let them know, and they will deliver one to your property manager? if for some reason that is not successful, though it really somebody, call our department, and the receptionist will get you to the right person in the zero waste program, but recology is the deliverer of orange buckets, and they would be happy to make sure your property manager has one. >> thank you. next item. >>clerk: the next item is item 10, announcements. this item is for discussion. >> is there any announcements, commissioners? no announcements? any public comment on this item? hearing none, next item, please. >>clerk: the next item is new business, future agenda items, char

than $400,000 in a settlement from g, he put that all into starting public interest groups-- public citizentigation group, health research group. - and in the '60s and '70s, you'd get something done. congress had hearings. the regulatory agenclis beed a little in enforcing the law. lyndon johnson signed a lot of bills-- freedom of information act. even nixon signed the epa bill, the osom bill, product safetyssion bill. - i actually don't know of anyone in american history, other than presidents, who has as large a body of work on as many issues with as much impact over time as ralph, but his impact is not only law-by-law or book-by-book. it's the ethic that you can fight city hall or you can fight corporate america.id het and he won. - he inspired thousands of public intetest lawyers, advo organizers. - they weren't really in that hippie-dippie-doodle, crazy, civil rights, vietnam movement. they were the radical ne ws the sitting there, doing stuff in front of congress. - nader's raiders published fiercely and smartly. they really created a new form of political activity, which was consumer

i've been involved in most of the beginning is to set up a commission made up of public private citizens, businesses, government people to review regulations to see whether they're still working, to see what the fact is. if they find they are not effective they are not meeting their purpose they've overstayed their welcome, then they can be scrubbed off the books. that is the kind of thing i think we need to do. i agree regulation is an important issue and has to pass the commonsense test. that is where the cra comes into effect in the congressional review act to break the principle. this is from stephen and in every level of government, regulations on my family agribusiness. they are not making my business better or safer. among the many that threaten to put me out of business. what specific regulatory reform if any do you favor. >> constant reviews of what is helping out our economy are also making our workers and consumers safe. that needs to be a constant. a possible at washington county recently answers the regulatory standards are doing great work. the medicare for all, we need to

host: a washington paper citizen that public talked about campaign and don -- deon.r position on this? that, it was saw confirmed by another publication behind this and it raises about public citizens nonprofit status. i said then it was a frivolous complaint and it has been office of y the campaign finance who dismissed it. sheila in tacoma, washington. bowser.on with mayor go ahead. caller: hello. good morning. guest: good morning. tacoma,i'm calling from washington. guest: the other washington we like to say. caller: go seahawks. -- ou have guest: sorry? caller: could you -- do you have state streets where you have people volunteer for people who they care about their community. guest: i'm not familiar with that program, ma'am. caller: safe streets where people volunteer to be the of charge it free because they care about the community. guest: okay. e do have a volunteer corps hat works with the police and are police trained. we also have citizens that go in with the ity training police, and a citizens advisory in all of our police districts that work and support

reform, i've been involved in those from the beginning is to set up a commission made up of public private citizensprivate businesses, government people to review regulations to see whether they're still working, to see what the effect is and if they find they're not effective, they're not meeting their purpose, they overstayed their welcome, then they can be rubbed off the books so that's the kind of thing i think we need to do. i think a regulation is important as an issue and it always has to pass the common sense test and sometimes it doesn't and that's where i the cra comes into effect, congressional review act take those ones that break principal and repeal it. >> zach, would you like me to repeat the question? this is from even give you. every level of government, regulations are the biggest burden on my family agribusiness and most regulations are not making my business better or safer. fda's food safety modernization act as a big vendor among the many that threatens to put me out of business. what kind of regulatory reforms if any do you favor? >> we need constant reviews of what is both h

levels first of all all governments have an obligation to provide public security or public safety for their citizens there's no dispute about that but that not only has to be proportional to what the actual threats are we also can't encroach on basic human right and i think if we flip the conversation around and talk about security for readers in ginger we're talking about a region that has for decades had a very heavy security presence that has appalling reputation for torture and ill treatment at the hands of the authorities where people are heavily sort of a roll up to and including coming party official windier home to monitor behavior we watch the chinese government systematically hunt down and terrorize leaders overseas so i think if we're going to have a real conversation about security threats aren't you just let's round out that picture and make sure we're not just talking about the government's perception of the handful of incidents that we're talking about and whether they in any way justify the response that we're seeing in the region right now because they don't. einar a growing number

he said that the average citizen must be a good citizen if our republics are to succeed. debates and disagreements about public policy and political leadership are essential to building good citizens. the question for today's forum is how to respond when college administrators seek to prohibit or even to punish speech protected by the constitution. on college campuses, ideally, students hear about different perspectives. they test conflicting arguments. and they learn how do decide for themselves what is true, what is right, and what is just. to do that properly, colleges must expose students to a range of alternatives. i say that as a parent who just sent my first child off to college and i expect her to learn a wide range of all alternatives and learn how to make her own decisions and choose from among conflicting ideas. yet, we repeatedly hear about examples of hostility to free speech and viewpoint diversity on college campuses. professors, students, and guest speakers are shouted down and even physically attacked for expressing their views or in an effort to prevent them from expressing their views. as at

have nothing like that that there are countries in europe to spend one hundred dollars per citizen a year on public broadcast and we spend like five well you may not think that the end of the fairness doctrine had anything to do with the start of fox news rupert murdoch who owns the channel. would beg to disagree when he was asked why it is that he hadn't turned his british news channel sky news into a fox news he said because the regulations don't allow it now i get that the fairness doctrine may not have been the perfect regulatory measure but it was written in one thousand nine hundred forty nine it was forty years old when it was dispensed with by the reagan administration in most countries when they have a regulation that isn't doing the job they rewrite it they update it so why this approach well because we don't have a congress that works at all we don't have a regular regulatory regime that works for hardly anything and a third difference that you didn't mention is that. the first amendment in the united states is is much stronger than the equivalents in germany and the u.k. so for example

you are very much appreciated like you wouldn't believe by the american public, by the citizens of ourwith the air force, and i know that brigadier general david lions is on the phone. david, tell me a little bit about what you're doing. >> our mission here, we defend the two busiest airfields in afghanistan. we support our teammates in our mission sets and then we deliver combat air power across the entire country of afghanistan. mr. president, i know you can't see us right now, but you have got 150 airmen in this room that would love to say happy thanksgiving to you. what do you say to the president? >> happy thanksgiving! >> that's great. that's really fantastic. how are doings going over there? are you looking up? how is it looking to you? you have been there a while and you have seen what's going on. you know what's happening better than anybody. how do you find things going? >> the taliban and isis are resilient adversaries, but i thinkwhat i mean by that is we want this adversary to reach our shores again. every airman here is dedicated to keeping this fight away from our shores

citizen soldier. "we have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives." it would be strange if it could not call for these lesser sacrifices. lessor or greater, there were legacies for every american man and woman, including carrie buck. when it came time for oliver wendell holmes to cite an authority for the statement he had made, he cited arver versus united states. thank you. [applause] announcer: you're watching american history tv, only on c-span3. california democratic congresswoman jackie speier talks about her memoir "undaunted." >> i was in the remote jungles of guyana, having concluded a tour with leo ryan and we were ambushed on that airstrip and shop. officer ryan died on that airstrip. there were members of the press that died. one defector of the people's temple that died. i was shot five times. a bone out of my right arm, a wounded my lake the size of a -- my leg the size of a football. i am 28 years old. this is it. announcer: tonight at 8:00 eastern on q&a on c-span. >> it was home to the king of rock 'n roll. graceland is's also home to

citizen soldier. "we have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives." it would be strange if it could not call for these lesser sacrifices. lessor or greater, there were legacies for every american man and woman, including carrie buck. when it came time for oliver wendell holmes to cite an authority for the statement he had made, he cited arver versus united states. thank you. [applause] >> every weekend, american history tv brings 48 hours of unique programming exploring the nation's past. and an our schedule archive of our programs, visit c-span.org/history. monday night on the communicators, nyu professor and talks scott galloway about the largest tech companies in the u.s. in his book, the hidden dna of amazon, apple, and google. >> if you think about who really knows, your wife, kids, therapists. that know,ies google. google knows if you are about to get engaged, contemplating divorce. they know what ailments you have, what ailments you -- if there is a modern man god, it is google. they see your intentions and how the intentions will likely trans

citizens. when george washington took the unprecedented, and to many, unimaginable step of freely relinquishing power after two terms of office he, wrote a publicto his fellow citizens. he concluded with a wish for peace saying he looked forward most of all, "to the suite and enjoyment of the benign influence of good laws under a free government." no nation remains free without men and women, who in our era hour of need, rise willingly to its defense. and no nation can be considered good and benign that does not care for those who so freely and devotedly come to our aid. president george w. bush and laura bush remind us in their words, and their deeds, in their most of all in their unfailing support for america's ours is a nation devoted to liberty and justice for all. call --is a clarion theirs is a clarion call that we do right for those for us and by us. it is through that dedication that the liberty medal committee unanimously and enthusiastically selected president and mrs. bush honor.is single on behalf of the committee, on behalf of us all, i offer my heartfelt congratulations to you both and most of all, our deep felt gratitude. thank y

order to gain an accurate understanding of the state political and cultural climate, citizens need access to publicationsmedia that are completely owned by state run media. he rightly called on freedom of expression as the key to the advancement of arab societies and i think that's what made him such a target for a leader who is ready to control the narrative of his country . as i said, it's hard to imagine a country which is an absolute monarchy like saudi arabia getting worse in terms of the situation forcitizens rights , but on many indicators, the situation was getting worse, life was getting worse under mbs are many who were released in civil society and the power circles in the country had some role in governance . or at least being close to those in power. even for those that wanted to believe that saudi arabia was entering a reform period, a crown prince made it clear early on the and only he would be off of that form and that nobody could critique him or challenge his policies. so let's look at the record. in 2018 world press freedom index right saudi arabia on 6979 countries that oppress freedo

to productize action where you just saw the public access phones use and show the public how incredibly. soft on citizen and such does around us for pat and then what you do is you take an asset and threatens of the private sector and this is a classic trip when austerity has basically license that basically austerity taking money out of the economy instead of musing money and so it's a growth economy it's got productive our economy and generic exception moving again crazy bits of the economy not speculative bets like house. house prices and the says it sending money out of the economy and then saying well you know it's inevitable we have to do this because they use the. also bullshit analogy so you hate that when actually that analogy doesn't hold water right now the un special rapporteur tour is going to visit the u.k. look at the human rights issues surrounding austerity they came to the us and found an appalling situation from san francisco to the deep south and they're now they're on the way to the core to the k. what they think they can of the sea expect to say so you're all right the worry about

have nothing like that that there are countries in europe to spend one hundred dollars per citizen a year on public broadcast and we spend like five well you may not think that the end of the fairness doctrine had anything to do with the start of fox news rupert murdoch who owns the channel. would beg to disagree when he was asked why it is that he hadn't turned his british news channel sky news into a fox news he said because the regulations don't allow it now i get that the fairness doctrine may not have been the perfect regulatory measure but it was written in one thousand nine hundred forty nine it was forty years old when it was dispensed with by the reagan administration in most countries when they have a regulation that isn't doing the job they rewrite it they update it so why this approach well because we don't have a congress that works at all we don't have a regular regulatory regime that works for hardly anything and a third difference that you didn't mention is that. the first amendment in the united states is is much stronger than the equivalents in germany and the u.k. so for example

citizens with guaranteed everything. everything. everything that you have is guaranteed. welfare, public benefits, right? their entire extended family into our country through chain migration. that's another beauty. chain migration. you come into the country, you're like two months old, and you're going to take your brother and your sister and your mother and your father. you're going to bring elle all -- bring 'em all, aunts and uncles and grandfathers, lots of people. i tell the story, we have a horrible incident took place on west side highway a year ago where a maniac decided to kill people, so he's driving his car at a very, very high rate of speed along a park right along the beautiful hudson river. and there's a group of people working out and running and all sorts of things, recreation, most beautiful park along the river. and he decides to hang a right and run over many people. eight people died. they never mention all the people that have been so horrifically injured where they lose arms and legs and everything else. they say eight people died. what they don't tell you is many arms lost, many l

you are very much appreciated like you wouldn't believe by the american public and by the citizens of our country. i want to start with the air force. i know that brigadier general david lyons is on the phone. tell me a little about what you are doing. david: our mission is to defend the busiest airfield in afghanistan. we support our teammates and our mission and we deliver airpower across the entire country of afghanistan. mr. president, i know you can't see us, but you have got 150 airmen in the room that would love to say happy thanksgiving to you. what do you say to the president? >> happy thanksgiving. pres. trump: how are things going over there? how is it looking to you ? you have been there a while and you know what is happening. how do you find things going? david: both the taliban and the isis are resilient adversaries, but we are doing well. we get after them every single day. our objective is to fight the away game. what i mean by that is we never want this adversary to reach our shores again. every airmen is dedicated to keeping this fight away from our shores. a stable

they were very often in public in front of white upstanding citizens. ould show up to these lynchings, take photographs, and sometimes these bodies were dragged through the african-american neighborhoods as if this public lynching wasn't enough. they would drag them through the neighborhoods and oftentimes cut off the limbs and pass them around like souvenirs, so this is a really ugly, ugly history that that museum sheds a lit on. he talks about this idea of kind of confronting it and also saying never again. that is something that hasn't ever really happened. that's one of the reasons you get these casual comments about public lynchings, because the true history hasn't been recognized. it's been misremembered particularly by a lot of white southerners. you're from the south. i'm from the south. you know african-americans and white americans have a very different history of the american south. >> we repeat his words, never again. nia-mileka henderson, thank you so much. >>> up next, what is revealed about north korea's missile program, which appears to b

foreign office and the british public, who are now standing upfor the british public, who are now standing up for one of their citizenscretary tweeted that he had a constructive phone conversation with this counterpart in the uae. he said... —— and a tank. —— and i thank. the uae embassy is expected to get presentation from the british ambassador. there will be further developments today. matthew hedges and his family have there are. and that they lead his freedom. keith doyle, bbc news. this is the briefing from bbc news. the latest headlines: theresa may has hailed a draft agreement on post—brexit relations with the eu as "right for the whole of the uk." but spain's prime minister has repeated his threat to try and stop the eu withdrawal deal, saying spain and the uk were still far from agreement over gibraltar. president trump has said any disorder on the us—mexico border could result in the closure of the entire area. his warning comes as around 3,000 migrants reach the frontier. now it's time to look at the stories that are making headlines in around the world. and guess what? we begin with brexit. the leading br

get public welfare do jobs that american citizens could do but the way he's going about this is really frightening in sending military troops which presidents in the past have done and really putting a lot of families both that haven't entered into the united states yet but those as you mentioned in your previous story are already living there in those families and into really states of fear but to his base to his supporters this is perfectly justifiable no. well yeah i mean when when they're trying to ministration again overnight it seemed was putting children in cages and old wal-mart supercenter throughout the country separating them from from families we didn't see american citizens and their families gathering together in protest going to these these facilities in demanding that families be put back together that the base really believes you should only be in this country if you were born in this country by you know parents who are american citizens i mean they're very very clear that since before the nine eleven terrorist attacks they've wanted to have a real conservative agenda

citizens, not of political elites. they succeeded to change the bite of public thinking. pursuing not content pragmatic policy only. they were able to inspire. ronald reagan in america and margaret thatcher in britain, they brought back to the people the almost lost believe in capitalism and free markets, which was in fully opposition to the prevailing spirit in europe, especially in western europe at that time. in central andt eastern europe. in the last stages of communism, margaretagan, ronal thatcher, and john paul ii were regarded as heroes in our part of the world. not pay much attention to european politicians such as. they were no inspiration to us. we did not expect very much from them. the did not stand firmly and explicitly against communism. that the west did not use the fall of communism to forward.sive steps the end of communism proved to be a crucial moment in a positive direction, mostly for us in the former eastern bloc. decades ofatic operation and frustration, we were forced to go through. we very much enjoyed the freedom and democracy and used it to fundamentally change our soci eties. felt refr

citizens. they included journalists, a doctor, a graduate student, and public relations professional. >> the panel numbers are