the world fund education and the student loan debt in the united states remington a grade of public citizen joins us all of that directly ahead but first but to some headlines let's go. and unforseen error slowing the united states economy leads or global report today as analyst at two major players in global finance say the partial government shutdown is taking a measurable bite out of growth and may leave the federal reserve flying blind on interest rates bank of america merrill lynch says the partial shutdown of seven of thirteen federal agencies which has left eight hundred thousand federal workers unsure of when their next paycheck will rise shaved a tenth of a percent off of merrill's estimate of u.s. growth for the fourth quarter of last year reducing that estimate estimated g.d.p. to two point eight percent meanwhile economist at deutsche bank raised a key practical problem pointing out that the u.s. federal reserve which has touted data depended as a principal of decision making could be deprived of key data points from government sources including durable goods orders and new home

and robert weissman president of , public citizen. we will link to your report "ass shutdown drags on, agencies devoted to consumer and worker health and safety unfunded and deprioritized." when we come back, a woman will be freed from prison by the governor. ♪ [music break] amy: that's lady gaga singing "til it happens to you" joined by sexual assault survivors on stage at the oscars in 2016. lady gaga apologized wednesday for collaborating with r kelly on the 2013 single "do what u want with my body." prosecutors are considering against r. kelly, chronicling years of sexual abuse. lady gaga herself is a survivor of sexual assault and says she will remove her single with r. kelly from streaming services like spotify. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace reportrt. i'm amy goodman. we turn now to the story of cyntoia brown, who on nday was granted full clemency by republican tennessee governor billll haslam after serving 15 years in p prison. the decicision follows months of intense public pressure and outrage ov

government shutdown may be over for now but predatory lenders are still on the prowl bartlett nailer public citizen joins us to analyze the industry and how they target the most vulnerable among us and later here inside the washington beltway huawei has been charged with myriad crimes as senior u.s. government officials ramp up the rhetoric in the ongoing conflict with china on the eve of the u.s. china trade negotiations here in washington they begin wednesday mail edition the owner of which join us to discuss all that in our sites but first we had right to some headlines let's go. brinksmanship leads our global report today is u.k. prime minister theresa may opens her draft agreement to amendments from the british house of commons ms may effectively conceding that parliament has disregarded past precedent and their way to the breakfast table spent a full day of rollicking debate in an editing session on her draft plan ms may is especially anxious for changes on the matter of the so-called backstop issue on the irish border changes to the status quo on that front could violate and perhaps destroy

the world fund education and at the student loan debt in the united states remington a grade of public citizen will join us as we go to break here are the numbers at the closing bell we will be back in a flash. the country has gone into a non listing fever i think we got to hit the road and get out there traveling across america to find what makes america take them to charlotte is this the genius of the quintessential american hero this is it we've come to a point at which hollywood has gotten something we always are on the courage to step up this. culture is really important because. we're starting last with we're going to head east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the b. i think i want to leave now doesn't do any more gonzo on that we may be completely different but the end of this journey. to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race on all sides be very dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the most important mo

the world fund education and the student loan debt in the united states remington a grade of public citizen will join us as we go to break here are the numbers at the closing bell we will be back in a flash. what hopes and just to. put themselves on the line they did accept it or reject it. so when you want to be president. some want. to go on the pros this is like the before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. this. country has gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think we've got to hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take them to charlotte is the genius of this place especially american hero this is a weak point which hollywood has gotten so we always are on the current system what . else are you saying. we're starting last with. we're going to head east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the bees i think i want to. leave now doesn't get him oregon town and it may be completely different in the us. the most important moments are when the principals the foreign minister or the preside

man, presidentwise of public citizens. very pleased to be here today big roster of organizations that support h.r.-1, the for the people

investors and consumer advocates, public pension funds and state securities regulators, including public citizen, americans for financial reform, california public employees retirement system, the california state teachers retirement system, the council of institutional investors, healthy markets, northern american securities administrators association, and public citizens. i thank ranking member mchenry for joining me in reintroducing this bill. this congress -- this bill this congress. and i urge members to vote yes. so thank you, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california reserves. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. mchenry: i'd like to yield my colleague from texas, a new member of this body, and new member of the financial services committee, lance gooden, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. goodlatte: thank you, mr. speaker. and -- mr. gooden: thank you, mr. speaker. and thank you, ranking member mcmenry. i rise today in support of h.r. 624. introduced by

government shutdown may be over for now but predatory lenders are still on the prowl bartlet nailer public citizen joins us to analyze the industry and how they target the most vulnerable among us and later here inside the washington beltway huawei has been charged with myriad crimes as senior u.s. government officials ramp up the rhetoric in the ongoing conflict with china on the eve of the u.s. china trade negotiations here in washington they begin wednesday alex mail edition the owner of forward to join us to discuss all that in our sights but first we had right to some headlines let's go. brinksmanship leads our global report today as you.

the world fund education and the student loan debt in the united states remington a grade of public citizen joins them all of that directly ahead but first let's get some headlines let's go. and unforseen error slowing the united states economy leads our global report today as analyst at two major players in global finance say the partial government shutdown is taking a measurable bite out of growth and may leave the federal reserve flying blind on interest rates bank of america merrill lynch says the partial shutdown of seven of thirteen federal agencies which has left eight hundred thousand federal workers unsure of when their next paycheck will rise shed a tenth of a percent off of merrill's estimate of u.s. growth for the fourth quarter of last year reducing that estimate estimated g.d.p. to two point eight percent meanwhile economist at deutsche bank raised a key practical problem pointing out that the u.s. federal reserve which has touted data depended as a principal of decision making could be deprived of key data points from government sources including durable goods orders and new

government shutdown may be over for now but predatory lenders are still on the prowl bartlett nailer public citizen joins us to analyze the industry and how they target the most vulnerable among us and later here inside the washington beltway huawei has been charged with myriad crimes as senior u.s. government officials ramp up the rhetoric in the ongoing conflict with china on the eve of the u.s. china trade negotiations here in washington they begin wednesday mail edition the owner of which join us to discuss all that in our sights but first we had right to some headlines let's go. for exit brinksmanship leads our global report today is u.k. prime minister theresa may opens her draft agreement to amendments from the british house of commons ms may affectively conceding that parliament has disregarded past precedent and their way to the bracks it table spent a full day of rollicking debate in an editing session on her draft or exit plan ms may is especially anxious for changes on the matter of the so-called backstop issue on the irish border changes to the status quo on that front could violate an

. >> i'm robert wiseman kupfer public citizen, i'm pleased to be here today with doug roster to support hr one, this is intended to show the broad support for this legislation, the most sweeping co-democracy anticorruption legacy of the last 50 years. we will first hear from to members of congress that i will introduce it after that we will run through leaders of a wide variety of nongovernmental organizations. the first two speakers will be john surveying, john maryland, representative katie from california, representative saar baines is the lead sponsor of this unbelievable legislation that we are supporting, representative porter is a new member and we are excited to have her in congress and representing the new energy on behalf of democracy and against corruption . >> good morning everybody. it's great to be here with the leaders of the movement to take back our democracy from special interests and insiders. want to thank everyone who is assembled and the team behind me, we could not be here today for celebrating and introduction of hr1 without this broad strong grassroots coalition

the world fund education and the student loan debt in the united states remington a grade of public citizen joins the all of that directly ahead but first let's get some headlines let's go.

man, presidentwise of public citizens. very pleased to be here today big roster of organizations that support act,1, the for the people intended to show the broad support for this legislation, democracy,eeping pro anti-disruption legislation of the last 50 years. from going to first hear two members of congress whom introduce and after that run through leaders of a wide non-governmental organizations. our first speaker, representative john sarbanes maryland, representative katie porter from california. representative sarbanes is the lead sponsor of h.r.-1 but a spectacular champion for broughty issues, together this unbelievable legislation we're so thrilled to be supporting. representative porter, of a new member. we're so excited to have her in hercongress, have representing the new energy on behalf of democracy, against corruption. sarbanes?tive rep sarbanes: good morning, everybody. with theat to be here leaders of the movement to take back our democracy from the interests and insiders. i want to thank everyone who's a

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be a public citizen. social security card, pay tax like everybody else that lives and works in america already does. >> the president says that many of the federal workers who were not being paid for the last five weeks supported what he was doing with the shutdown. are you in that number? did you support the shutdown? >> yes. >> yes. >> so you supported the shutdown. even considering what it did to your family personally? >> yes. >> absolutely. if it's going to fend our country and keep illegals out, coming in, hurting my children that don't belong here, yes, i'm all for the wall. >> do -- will you support, if it comes to that, shutting the government down again in three weeks? >> it's going to happen. it's going to shut down again. there is no doubt in my mind. >> okay. so how are you preparing for this? >> we're not spending money. we're holding our money and it's just going to happen and they're going to continue to do this and hold this over our heads until there is something put in place that preven

last sort of elections have really been fixed they've been fixed by the massive patronage and public citizen machine of the ruling national congress party and by. the. frankly a rather incompetent and divided opposition and i'm guessing that if president bashir sees out these protests he will manage to stay in power to the next election and then he has the di lemma does he stand again for yet another term or does he hand over to a hand-picked successor and the problem there that he faces is that the handpicked successor is that he may. choose from the from his ruling if they're loyal they're not very competent and he needs loyalty because he doesn't want to be followed by a new head of state who might handed mobile to the international criminal court and leave him personally very very much in jeopardy that the more competent and capable politicians those capable of constructing a broader alliance are increasingly in the opposition although they are a fairly fragmented bunch acts develop thank you very much indeed if you announces a time. you're over to the us now where the government remains

occurred when a political party abdicated its responsibility of a public good in order to satisfy the interest of one faction of citizens against all others, against the public interest. mad dis son belie-- madison bel it was a threat to the ideals of compromise essential for robust governance. the rage of the party is now a dominant factor in our politics. today as you know a record 45% of republicans and democrats view the opposite party unfavorably. indeed, almost in terms of their being immoral or having interest that are injurious to the interest of the country and we detrust each other so profoundly that few of us would countenance our children marrying a person of another party. madison understood this affliction could not be easily cure bud he knew it must for the sake of the union. tonight we'll have an opportunity to explore how leaders and legislatures at the state level are addressing the rage of the party with three governors of states whose legislatures are controlled by the opposing party. governor tom wolf of pennsylvania, governor chris sununu of new hampshire, and maryland's own governor larry hogan. w

representative further highlighted it emphasizing it left students with fewer privacy protections than public citizens when it comes to health records. the last thing sexual assault victims should have to think about is whether their own words should be used against them when they seek help. holmes, an administrator at the university of oregon, who encouraged sexual assault victims to take advantage of the university's counseling service in her interview with the governor january looked particularly untrustworthy after seeking private records from these kinds of sessions for use as opposition research to be used in the case of a lawsuit. and shelley care was fined $5,000 and forced to take ethics classes which investigated morerock's complaint and found that care had breached the student's confidentiality. a month later the university of oregon reached a settlement with the student paying her $800,000 while providing four years of free tuition, housing and student fees. one week after the settlement was reached, morelock reseened in an open letter -- resigned in an open letter to the university's new

this is a food bank, charity in effect, for federal workers, our fellow citizens, public servants who can't afford food for him families. tonight the reality of this crisis appears to be sinking in for one donald trump and his white house and the search for the off-ramp may be under way. it was a bad day on the let them eat cake front, and this was just last night. we were on the air on this broadcast when the president agreed to hold off on the state of the union until the union was up and running again. well, today in the senate, there were two votes on competing plans to end this shutdown. one from trump, the other from the democrats, both of them failed, but the democrats' plan notably gathered more yes votes than trump's six -- than trump's version. six republican senators, forgive me. alexander collins, gardner, isaacson, murkowski and romney crossed the aisle to support the democrats' proposal. that kind of thing can get the majority leader's attention and indeed the vote appears to have jump started talks between mcconnell and schumer, republicans and democrats. while those ta

citizens. too many state have sought to match runaway public expenditures with ever- increasing levels of taxation. this creates a vicious cycle that leads productive citizens to flee, repels investment, and leaves the people overburdened with less opportunity to prosper all the while badly damaging the fiscal health of these states. indeed we in florida have benefited from these follies and it wisely chosen fiscal policy and maintained a favorable tax climate. let's promote a virtuous cycle whereby low taxes, a reasonable regulatory climate, a sensible legal system, and a healthy environment, attract jobs and businesses and investments, particularly in technology, manufacturing, and finance, and expending academic bays will yield more jobs for our citizens and is the best way to generate the revenue needed for public priorities like education. protecting our natural resources, and helping our infrastructure. we know what works and what doesn't. let's not veer off course. our economic potential will be jeopardized if we do not solve the problem afflicting our environment and water resources. peopl

also calls for $174 million to fund 24 it projects that will support 19 agencies and improve public safety, citizen-government interactions and voting integrity. this is the critical infrastructure. it's just as important as a road or bridge and interconnected world and it is a necessary investment to protect our citizens personal and private data. [applause] turning to main street. communities representing more than half a million north dakotans are engaged in one or more of the main street initiative's three pillars, exploring what they can do to build healthy, vibrant communities with smart, efficient infrastructure to attract a 21st century workforce. participation continues to grow, with 61 communities large and small engaged so far from grand forks to williston and regan to robinson. those who have participated in one of our 45 main street listening sessions report positive results experiencing greater engagement from their community members and increased momentum on community projects. in the southwest, more than 150 community members took part in helping hettinger day, a communitywide impro

the citizens that the public has we can cannot get the job done slodges big money as the bigger voice than people have in our government is something that we must reduce. we must increase their chance, reduce their cynicism and reducing the role of big dark special interest money is a pledge we have made and something that we will work on and has a direct relationship to a positive grogive agenda for our country. thank you for seeing -- thank you for seeing that connection and lowering the impact of big money in politics. in addition to that, we have other assaults they are making on health care that are well-known to you. we'll -- work requirement for medicaid, etc. there are work requirements there. they want to make them so unreasonable that -- if you see them on the floor of the house, they say things like, when you work, you eat. what? hat about little children? god said, when you you you work, you eat. what about little children? what about adults without children but who have other needs? what is that? what is that? i don't know what that is. i don't get it. apparently there is

the report says alone, 2018 alone, the public money was matching 4.16 million public dollars. as a citizen, as a public government employee, as a mom, we have no future in san francisco because of all this corruptive behavior. the super pac was created by people who are super corrupt for the city. we have no end, no future for our society because we are no longer a people government. you discuss what the people want behind you, and you implement the laws to interests, somewhere the illegal stuff and corrupted stuff. i am here to urge you, we should have limited -- still have limited public funds. in the old days, we went out and talk with people, the residents, how we can be improving. clean the city. remove the drug dealers from the street, help the homeless, heal people, give people life. use the money effectively for sanctuary city and sanctuary state, california, 2017 spent $ $27 billion on illegals. that's money that we can use for publics. you repeatedly corrupted and not help the people. so please, you could make it matching and save the money and use it for after-school programs an

the banking crisis miraculously became a sovereign debt crisis dr addends became public that governments and the citizens press objected to a sturdy policies under which millions of people suffer to this day. thanks and stock markets however keen to demonstrate a sense of normalcy as soon as possible in reality nothing is as it seems kept the business survive the crisis that no longer functions like it once did. even though it's not as busy as it used to be this is still the center of capitalism you can look at all the tourists who are outside the building taking pictures they all still believe this is the center of capitalism it's a symbol of something that means something to that. ten percent i'm sort of like the weatherman for the stock market i come in every day and try to figure out what's going on in the stock market i talk to trading desks i talk to analysts i talk to people who know a lot about the stock market and i go on the air and on the internet and explain what's going on. remember the s. and p. five hundred is down one and a half percent this month you have very clear market leaders and th

public service. kpix nding citizens >>> last night the 2018 jefferson award winners collected their medals at the ceremonyt the san francisco dark theater, the nobel prize for public service, as it is known. they profiled 51 outstanding very impressive citizens last year. six winners will have their names sent to the national jefferson award foundation for consideration for the national award. where always accepting new nominations for the award and you can find the email form online at kpix.com/hero. >>> our storm watch coverage continues with kiet do. >> reporter: the south bay got its fair share of drama due to the big storm, a live report is straight ahead. >>> live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. powerful storm of the season is causing all kinds of problems >>> good thursday morning. the arcing power lines are one of the dangers that the people around the bay area are facing with the most powerful storm of the season causing all kinds of problems. >> the flooding is a huge concern with many roads impassable. >>> good morning, it is thursday, january 17. i am kenny choi. >> i am an

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public everyday. he has made our citizens and safe and less secure.nd less the third level of illogic is a consequence of action that we are taken by congress and the president in the last week. for this, i want to offer thanks to my colleagues. i was o able to use of my adjournment objection last week, to negotiate a successful vote on a bill guaranteeing back pay to all workers affected by this or any future shutdown. i appreciate the cooperation of all my senate colleagues and majority leader and others. and the house. i appreciate the president's bill in the last few days. b but mr. president, having guaranteed that pay, we are now faced with an unusual question of continuing the shutdown. now that we know the federal treasury will wrote checks to all affected workers, to make them at least for the salary they lost, wouldn't we rather have them at work serving our fellow americans rather t than walked out of their offices and enable them? what sense does it make to guarantee them p to prohibit thm from doing work for which they are paid? these workers want to go back to work because they want to s

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these fires threaten public safety and pump millions of tons of pollutants into the air harming the health of citizens. damaging wildlife has been at that time and contaminate our pristine waters. any disrupt our economy and cause taxpayers millions of dollars every year. one of those threats is the build up of fuels on the public lands, closest to where we live, work and play. a few weeks ago i signed a first of its kind agreement between idaho and the u.s. department of agriculture. in collaborative agreement will reduce wildfire risk, improve forest health, enhance wildlife has been at that time by actively managing more acres of federal forest. the new shared stewardship approach unifies land management activities that are now disjointed across federal, state, privately owned tracts. we'll use all tools available to reduce fuels around communities, including timber harvest, prescribed burns and other activities. [ applause ] we're already seeing a return on our investment in the good neighbor authority. a program utilizing state employees and contracting processes for restoration work on federal l

group fighting graft and corruption annually ranks countries by how corrupt their citizens think their own country's public sector is not that this ranking goes by the perception of corruption not by documented evidence well looking at the asia pacific region the results are quite sobering countries that have made little progress the region's most uncorrupt country was new zealand which came in second place globally singapore and australia followed closely behind the hong kong and japan came in fourth and fifth spot on the other side north korea comes in last new guinea and cambodia fell about afghanistan were among the region's most corrupt states asia pacific is on par with the americas in its lack of progress in the fight against corruption and as well the western europe and the e.u. concerns he says one reason for asia falling behind is a weakening of democratic institutions and rights this is how his country scored let's broaden our view a bit. despite its dreary weather denmark regularly features in the top five on the world happiness index and maybe that's partly because the danes feel they can trus

public, trump administration has asked agencies to make that sort of thing public, put it on your website, let private citizens see it. you should not have to hire a d.c. insider to go to an agency and look up some secret document that's available in their public records room but nowhere else. it should be available to people around the country. so this brings me to the final point which is what does this all mean for the recent challenge to obamacare? judges, regulations, statutes, where are we? there's a new challenge to the obamacare statute called the aca, the current challenge is down in texas before a district judge and the argument to understand one must go back in time a little bit and look at the original decision on obamacare from the u.s. supreme court. the case there, the court upheld obamacare as constitutional but made clear a majority of the court made clear it was not constitutional as an exercise of the commerce power in the constitution. if that was the power upon which the government was going to rely, it would have been unconstitutional. however, if the court then said it was constitutional

give props to dc for joining the ranks and others like me that have a similar election in public options for citizens and candidates before all of you were born i worked with hubert humphrey on campaign finance reform but also lobbyists under the involvement of the corporate tax and i'm listening to you. the honest answer is appearance because when you talk about corporate money that corporate money isn't going in it is and individual contributions. you want a company where you care about the thousands of employees. it would be helpful, and you've talked about how these independent expenditures that is the problem here. you could make a choice not to meet with people that represent corporate tax. i think the honest answer is it smells bad to the public who doesn't really know. it doesn't discriminate between the money which is just an aggregation of five, ten or 100-dollar contributions. i'm happy to have an answer but i think that is the honest answer to what the problem of corporate tax is. if you don't get done -- >> that is what would be good we were funding through the small dollar donors but wh