so public citizen is based on a concept that nader came up with of the public citizen. and the idea is that everyone as well as their day job should have a job, a role as an active participant in the life of their community and in the governance of their community, their state, their country. and the public citizen is such a person but of course it's obvious when people are really busy doing their day-to-day stuff that sometimes it's hard to get the information you need to be able to do that effectively. the idea of the organization was sort of to be the people's lobby. to snoop out the information, track policies over the long term to see how they worked and then to make the information a person needs to engage in the life of their community accessible. so, a, people can make informed decisions but, then, b, they have to participate. not everyone can figure out when is congress in session and when is the vote on the issue i care about? but we can make the information available. so global trade watch was the extension of that philosophy of empowering individuals around

accounts scandal with fines taking a big hit on the company's bottom line part with naylor a public citizen gives us his take on what lies in store for the banking goliath and how the sector has performed in recent times then as one bank has left another has started j.p. morgan you know on a few par profit we take a look at the stuff in the final quarter of 2019 and what does it mean for the forecast of the u.s. economy going forward without a mess of the out a mess trying to sell me stories so little time so let's go and dive right in. the head of the anticipate assigning a phase one the u.s. treasury has decided to remove china's designation as a currency manipulator never mind the fact that china should have never even been labeled that in the 1st place according to the i'm a commodity traders and analysts are now doubting these insane amount that china is committing to buy from the us under phase one of the trade deal china will pledge to buy over $50000000000.00 more in us energy and increase ag purchases by 32000000000 over 2 years which is above the 24000000000 baseline these totals

take a beating in the wake of a major health fine thank you to the company bottom line naylor public citizen gives his take on what you are for the embattled banking goliath how the banking sector one time. and one bank has left another has surged j.p. morgan has come in. we take a look at excess in the final quarter. and what that could mean for the u.s. economy. descriptions sound appetising even for the owners. to choose industry is telling us. it's really more of the. stein what they want to sell us then was necessarily good for the pet turns out that food may not be as healthy as people believe and we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis they have auto immune disorders they cut allergies we are actually creating these problems and it's a huge of a demagogue problems all of them i believe can be linked to very simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets less treats the larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because they're already making a $1000000000.00 on it and there's no re

take a beating in the wake of a major account with find this is a company bottom line naylor public citizen gives his take on what could be in store for the embattled banking how the banking sector one time. and one bank has left another has surged j.p. morgan has seen of some of that we take a look at excess in the final quarter. and what this could mean for the u.s. economy. is you'll need a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. the isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. directly to what is true what is great. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. as the democrats gear up to officially start their 2020 presidential primary it is fitting to assess donald trump's performance in office a report card of sorts where is he kept his promises and where has he come up short will any of this really matter to november. 6th geysers financial survival. when customers go buy your display. in elf well reducible our. that's undercutting but what's good for market is bu

the state of the clean energy sector and where we'll go in the next year with tyson slocum from public citizen. leaks last leak. when you. look at that is to close most of the book but. it's still it's a bit mean there's. just a little. there's a lot of areas in the economy where china has caught up or surpassed us you know the mobile payments markets 50 times the size of the u.s. or over here still writing checks our banking system is not innovated 5 g. we've kind of recently walking up the last couple years and go wow we don't even have a company that can make 5 year quitman it's been a win win for china and it's been a lose lose for the u.s. . thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision little sheltered lives every song came to a complete. the day that i was right to be instructed you know told to shut up what they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life and he screamed at me and he made me come in and you can my. and he right means berthing area if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it

the state of the clean energy sector and where we'll go in the next year with tyson slocum from public citizen but if she warned you posted by you can i do the dishes at the bottom or those jeans nudist beach and see me we need to you. cuz and about that when you guys e.q.'s will be home in years i mean guys without infringing balls. clock you will see sawing during fuzzy fights about to conduct out the bill for the most called. it as a little strange as if i touch. the. earring chick it will cabo but i don't dave doing this is. an english lady a thing people who simply knew. she would include in. the world is driven by shaped by one person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to excel or transitions to sustainable transport sustainability stay number may not be more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely hamas. because. it does not. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is again this must be done in and i

the state of the clean energy sector and where we'll go in the next year with tyson slocum from public citizen. time after time called her ration to repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to excel or a transition to sustainable transport sustainability stay number man on a more equitable and sustainable well. they claim that production is completely hamas does need that doesn't have. to be good to the models and it does not the present companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something else this must be going to mean and i mean look. this is the mood in unison we didn't even and i'm stunned seemed to be based on disconnect with superman and. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching cl

today are ellen brown and tyson slocum tyson of course is a lobbyist from self in a way for us public citizen so you have some experience with this 2.8 $1000000000.00 were spent last year on lobbying the top 5 industries big pharma health insurance oil and gas wall street and electric utilities tyson you have particular experience with electric utilities and oil and gas industry how much influence do you see that this lobbying has on regulation and government action around those 2 everything i mean corporate lobbyists continue to run the mechanics of washington d.c. and we have to remember you know the 2800000000 that was spent on lobbying last year that is just a fraction of their total advocacy budget lobbying is only those direct expenditures that corporations and others to meet with federal officials in the executive branch are with congress that doesn't include their budgets their grassroots spending or their. contributions to either political action committees or contributions directly to candidates or old the dark pools of money because of citizens united so corporations continue to se

fat and often die after the 1st dose and in a washington post op ed brown coauthored with the public citizens health research group co-founder sidney wolfe both warned the sunni a small dosage makes it more likely. to be sold for profit they added we predict that such diversion abuse and death will be encountered within the early months of its availability on the market they predict death in the 1st few months it's available. the only thing we can say the same of is the popeye's chicken sandwich the pentagon of the department of veterans affairs can get to see if you're at a discount a part of deployment which isn't encouraging considering more than 130 americans die every day from opioid overdoses and veterans are twice as likely to die from an opioid. am since our president has already tried to kick 2020 with a 3rd world war but the ploy might get happen at any time. i it's happening reporting from the pentagon badly macgill back to tonight thank god nobody is going to talk to videos anymore tax the average jack 233777 is pretty and quick if you're not in america you can also sign up at red

to a new study a new study released this week by the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization public citizen over the past 10 years just $25.00 ultra rich individuals have poured $1400000000.00 into super pacs corporations have spent at least half a $1000000000.00 to influence elections and donors in a small number of majority white zip codes exert a massively oversized influence on our political system and that my friends is why we here in the united states the choice that we are most often presented and sold to us at the polls 'd is old rich white person in a red suit or old which right person in a blue suit allan's i believe research director of public service and corporate presidency project and author of the report told the media quote this surge in mega donors of the past decade means that the 10 year mark of the citizens united decision is something to bemoan rather than commemorate this is not what democracy looks like the world is united made. but the ugly truth is that because of citizens united decision to hide bribery is free speech we might never know the actual numbers being sp

look at the state of the clean energy sector and world will go in 2020 with tyson slocum from public citizen so much to get you on the front so let's get right to. germany has been critical of washington's decision to sanction companies in europe's north stream to gas pipeline project as unacceptable chancellor angela merkel says that germany is against any extra territorial sanctions the measures may prove to be a major setback for the transatlantic relations meanwhile in russia the move is seen as an attempt to counter the country's energy project and promote america's own economic interests are t.v. . reports from moscow. on tuesday the u.s. senate approved the national defense authorization act for next year it's a record $700000000000.00 military budget more than $700000000.00 has been on the. to contain russia among other things it's obliges that ministration to impose sanctions on russia is nil stream to stream gas pipelines and approves military aid to ukraine the white house opposes the construction of millstream to believing that the project will give russia leverage over the forei

many people as possible we don't have access to the resources for an organization like mine a public citizen we don't take any corporate contributions so that there's never going to be an issue of undue influence over of the policy issues that we're engaged on and so limiting the ability of narrow special interests to affect broad policy issues is up to the corner is the cornerstone of where reforms have to be but it seems to me the president still is how do you do that you know how do you get how do you change the rules where when they're in control of the room making i wonder about even raising interest rates right raising the christ the money for the banks it seems to me that like j.p. morgan just did where they said we can't make any money banking anymore so we're going to take our money and buy our own stock back and prop up their prices i mean there's no regulation that says they have to make their excess reserves and bailable for the other banks or they want to have their buying back their own stock with borrowed money yet they borrow for 0 percent money yet again that's the cost of c

beating in the wake of a major account with fine taking it to the company's bottom line naylor public citizen gives his take a 100 b. in store for the embattled banking goliath how the banking sector in recent times. and that one bank has left another has surged j.p. morgan has come a profit we take a look at the success in the final quarter. and what this could mean for the forecasts of the u.s. economy going forward at the out i'm afraid into. the money is in my view. about what it was it was a mean time that we're in a sense is a bomb was more about. when we were on the side of the. scene that are going to begin but i'm before. them but i'll. be on the move on then. as the democrats gear up to officially start their 2020 presidential primary it is fitting to assess donald trump's performance in office a report card of sorts where is he kept his promises and where has he come up short will any of this really matter. just one magic bullet you could actually come up with some of the top of his baby talk about ways we get access capital in capitalism cavil's important so we could actually have

today are ellen brown and tyson slocum tyson of course is a lobbyist from self in a way for us public citizen so you have some experience with this 2800000000 dollars were spent last year on lobbying the top 5 industries big pharma health insurance oil and gas wall street and electric utilities tyson you have particular experience with electric utilities and oil and gas industry how much influence do you see that this lobbying has on regulation and government action around those 2 everything i mean corporate lobbyists continue to run the mechanics of washington d.c. and we have to remember you know the 2800000000 that was spent on lobbying last year that is just a fraction of their total advocacy budget lobbying is only those direct expenditures that corporations and others and to meet with federal officials in the executive branch are with congress that doesn't include their budgets their grassroots spending or their pool. nicol contributions to either political action committees or contributions directly to candidates or old the dark pools of money because of citizens united so corporations

accounts scandal with fines taking a big hit on the company's bottom line part with naylor a public citizen gives us his take on what lies in store for the big goliath and how this sector has performed in recent times then as one bank has left another has their j.p. morgan you know book on you part profit we take a look at the stuff in the final quarter of 2019 and what that means for the forecast of the u.s. economy going full at this at a mess of the out of messing with so many stories so little time so let's go and dive right in. the head of the anticipate assigning a phase one the u.s. treasury has decided to remove china's designation as a currency manipulator never mind the fact that china should have never even been labeled that in the 1st place according to the i'm a commodity traders and analysts are now doubting these insane amount that china is committing to buy from the us under phase one of the trade deal china will pledge to buy overfit.

major accounts scandal with fines taking a big hit on the company's bottom line partly naylor a public citizen gives us his take on what lies in store for the big.

sure everyone is aware of, where every animal study gets reviewed by a rigorous group, including public citizens to , determine whether or not it is justifiable on an ethical basis and whether the pain and suffering has been thought about in every imaginable way. if people are worried about that, they can learn more about it by going to our website. but i do think all in all, , animals in research are critical for our research at , least for the present time. steve: did you want to follow up? kimberly: i was going to ask, can you help viewers who are troubled by experimentations done on animals, can you help them understand why keeping the animal research is so important? there are some instances where it does not translate very well to humans and that has raised concerns among animal-rights groups and even government waste groups. dr. collins: sure. take the example of chimpanzees, where i did ask for a careful review by the national academy of medicine about whether research on chimpanzees was still justifiable. they looked at the ethical issues and looked at what we were learning medically fr

a new study on a new study released this week by the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization public citizen over the past 10 years just $25.00 ultra rich individuals have poured $1400000000.00 into super pacs corporations have spent at least half a $1000000000.00 to influence elections and donors in a small number of majority white zip codes exert a massively oversized influence on our political system and that my friends is why we here in the united states the choice that we are most often presented and sold to us at the polls is old rich white person in a red suit or old which right person in a blue suit allan's i believe research director of public service and corporate president presidency project and author of the report told the media quote this surge in mega donors of the past decade means that the 10 year mark of the citizens united decision is something to bemoan rather than commemorate this is not what democracy looks like the world seems united made. but the ugly truth is that because of citizens united decision to hide bribery is free speech we might never know the actual number

participated on the panel wednesday morning with my counterpart in seattle, the grassroots lobbyist for public citizen, and a woman who heads the state and local government work for common cause in washington, focusing on revolving door issues for campaign consultants as lobbyists. what was surprising to me is the conference on a wednesday morning on a day where there were other major events happening related to government ethics, we still had a room of close to 60 people wanting to talk about issues that were involved in the work we do every day. and so we had over 500 people at this year's conference which was a high for the organization's conferences. and that's a good sign of how much interest there still is around the country, how much resources, governments and citizens are willing to put into agencies doing this kind of work to get us to go to those conferences and understand and be on top of what the latest trends are. we are going to be debriefing with each other over the next couple days as everybody comes back to the office over the holidays so we can plan to do a more deep dive for the ove

he's a public citizen. he could do it at any opportunity. e the senate. but i think the public in this instance has a right to know if basically this president conspired against a united states citizen, with a foreign government and he has information to that fact, we should know it. >> i wan to ask you about our other top story tonight because obviously chairman, you are the chairman of the homeland security committee. the president was asked about the risk to america after the air strike against general soleimani and i want to play for you again what president trump said, chairman. >> he should have been taken out a long time ago and we had a shot at him and he took it out and we're a lot safer now because of it. >> is he right? america is a lot safer because of what he did? >> well, i think a lot of members of congress would want to know, as you know the president nor his administration has put any information before congress to justify the actions of last week. so i think it is important for us, members of congress, especially on the hous

she is the director of public citizen's global trade watch. welcome back to the newshour. >> thank you. >> nawaz: so overwhelming bipartisan support for this deal. slet's starts with what y as good in this deal. what are the improve especially when it comes to u.s. >> so the original deal that president trump signed in 2018, nafta 2.0, wasn'better than the original. but after fighting for a yearwi the democrats who made him reopen it and renegotiate it, the final deal that got passed improved labor standards and environmental standards, andng ends up whac variety of corporate protections that woofng bad for the consumers and the environment. >> nawaz: we saw one of the biggest criticisms the fact that it didn't address climate. the modest improvements are t bettn none. what do you say to that? >> there's a real difference between what you do to fix a really bad agreeme that's over a million u.s. jobs have been government rtified lost to nafta with re being outsourced to mexico every week, because real wages, they are now 40% lower than manufac

participated on the panel wednesday morning with my counterpart in seattle, the grassroots lobbyist for public citizen, and a woman who heads the state and local government work for common cause in washington, focusing on revolving door issues for campaign consultants as lobbyists. what was surprising to me is the conference on a wednesday morning on a day where there were other major events happening related to government ethics, we still had a room of close to 60 people wanting to talk about issues that were involved in the work we do every day. and so we had over 500 people at this year's conference which was a high for the organization's conferences. and that's a good sign of how much interest there still is around the country, how much resources, governments and citizens are willing to put into agencies doing this kind of work to get us to go to those conferences and understand and be on top of what the latest trends are. we are going to be debriefing with each other over the next couple days as everybody comes back to the office over the holidays so we can plan to do a more deep dive for the ove

wallach has been working to change the trade deal for more than 25 years.is shhe director of public citizen's global trade watch. welcome back to the newshour. >> thank you. >> nawaz: so overwhelming bipartisan support for this deal. let's starts with what you see as good in thi deal. what are the improvements, especially when it comes to u.s. workerin te economy? >> so the original deal that presidt trump signed in 218, nafta 2.0, wasn't better than the original.gh but after ng for a year with the democrats who made him reopen it and tenegott, the final deal that gopassed improved laborndstads and environmental standards, and ends up whacking a variety of corporate protections that woofng bad for mee con and the environment. >> nawaz: we saw one of the biggest criticisms the fact that it didn't address climate. the modest improvements are better than none. what do you say to that? >> there's a real difference between what youo to fix a really bad agreement that's causing ongoing damage. over a million u.s. jobs have been government certified lost to nafta with more being outsourced to mexico

participated on the panel wednesday morning with my counterpart in seattle, the grassroots lobbyist for public citizen, and a woman who heads the state and local government work for common cause in washington, focusing on revolving door issues for campaign consultants as lobbyists. what was surprising to me is the conference on a wednesday morning on a day where there were other major events happening related to government ethics, we still had a room of close to 60 people wanting to talk about issues that were involved in the work we do every day. and so we had over 500 people at this year's conference which was a high for the organization's conferences. and that's a good sign of how much interest there still is around the country, how much resources, governments and citizens are willing to put into agencies doing this kind of work to get us to go to those conferences and understand and be on top of what the latest trends are. we are going to be debriefing with each other over the next couple days as everybody comes back to the office over the holidays so we can plan to do a more deep dive for the ove

as a member of the hong kong police force i shouldn't be criticizing it in public but as a citizen of hong kong i have to say the senior officers have basically messed it up . officials deny the police have done anything wrong the police has been the focus of the demonstrators since june when they 1st violently broke up a protest. since then public anger has steadily grow especially among the young david says most of his friends have turned their back on him in the past 6 months. i was a bit upset about it because they were my good friends but then i thought about it there's nothing i can do he says several of his colleagues have quit their jobs but while he's at odds with the current tactics he has no intention to leave. i should be staying in the police force and try to maintain the right mentality and to uphold the values of the police. it's a tough challenge for david stuck between loyalty and don't. trust one of but his berlingo filed a report on his back in beijing where he joined us from but here's one of the things the officer said in your report was we should be impartial we

as a member of the hong kong police force i shouldn't be criticizing it in public but as a citizen of hong kong i have to say the senior officers have basically messed it up . officials deny the police have done anything wrong the police has been in the focus of the demonstrators since june when they 1st violently broke up a protest. since then public anger has steadily grow especially among the young david says most of his friends have turned their back on him in the past 6 months. he says several of his colleagues have quit their jobs but while he's at odds with the current tactics he has no intention to leave. i should be staying in the police force and try to maintain the right mentality and to uphold the values of the police. it's a tough challenge for david stuck between loyalty and dollars. to the norwegian arlen specter and in the arctic circle is the back of beyond the frigid climate isn't ideal for plants but a man from sunny florida did the impossible and started growing fresh produce there . this is not a u.f.o. it's a greenhouse inside it drops to minus 20 degrees celsius

and, the embassy is now officially close to the public. citizens are being warned to approach that building. >> you have to delay your trip for that. >> they did delay a trip to monitor developments at the middle east. the campaign trail. they wasted little time criticizing the present. >> they are the weakest force policy present. of my lifetime. it should see that play out in iran. they have applied into those hardliners. >> it involves about 750 united states soldiers. an official tells the associated press they are likely heading to kuwait. in washington, fox news. summit time is 7:37 am. survivors of wildfires say they are concerned about the terms of the settlement with pg&e. they agreed to pay $13.5 billion to fire victims and to others some of that money is to pay government agencies to pay with those recovery efforts. so far, they have filed claims more than half of that money. they have hoped to resolve those issues by the end of the month. >> right now, it is 7:38 am. still pretty light. probably back to work on monday. >> they are back

about its mind tension this time before the call to shatter all the public accusations against me a citizens of israel the mean achievement what is meant to protect. us from tided law i'm serving political crises into harming the will of the people. he has filed a request with the speaker of the knesset but it's likely to be months before m.p.'s vote on it israel will hold its 3rd election in a year in march and they said you know his requests can only be debated by a parliamentary committee wants a government has been formed it then has to come out of committee and be presented to knesset members to be voted on forming a government could take months. however some politicians are pushing to speed up the process holding the committee stage before the election already the request fame unity has divided israeli politicians avigdor lieberman from the israeli home party and an influential figure has said he won't vote for immunity netanyahu is only could party has said it will vote for immunity. in november israeli's attorney general decided to indict prime minister netanyahu in 3 separate crimin