thank you so much for your words, ralph nader. a real pleasure. >> thank you. essential.org is our web site. >> hinojosa: we'll go. thank you. >> okay. >> hinojosa: continue the conversation at: captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

let's draft ralph nader for a peace party in syria and in three years dr. bechard is supposed to be coming up for renewal. maybe we will have an election. we will have a two-party system in syria and we will have ralph nader as president of syria. so the question is for you and usaid, can we have some -- funding for this project? we have an air of peace party in syria where arab-americans who are like-minded bill draft ralph nader. >> just tell them no. just say no. [laughter] >> what i can say is -- what i can say, what i can say is that when the time comes, the united states will be ready to stand by and support democratic transition throughout the arab world, country by country. >> next question, please. >> i am from detroit. i'm a long-time activist and i just want to make an observation that i came here excited about analyses of the arab spring and iac a gloom actually. on the bright side, i am excited about the arab spring. is the most phenomenal, the most wonderful event that we have witnessed, that i've witnessed it. [applause] i don't see that disc

is marginalized and neutralized by the mainstream media, in the way that ralph nader and his greens and winona laduke are made to look a little off. because they want true change and true democracy, the mainstream media seeks to marginalize them. and that's why the average comedy audience listens-- you know, they listen to the mainstream media. they listen to when ari fleischer says, "loose lips sink ships," if you will, you know? and so it's harder for a comic to win over their audience or to get the audience to listen if they're not just being a "team player." you know, i've got a lot of things to say about my government, because i care, because i am patriotic, you know what i mean? george carlin is very patriotic. that's why he's so mad. you know what i mean? bill hicks, when he was alive, had a lot to say because he cares about what the government does in his name. now, the government makes decisions on your and my behalf constantly. they do not let us in on 90% of it, and then they will ask you to sacrifice your children and grandchildren to pick up the pieces and clean up the

let's draft ralph nader for a peace party in syria and in three years dr. bechard is supposed to be coming up for renewal. maybe we will have an election. we will have a two-party system in syria and we will have ralph nar as president of syria. so the question is for you and usaid, can we have some -- funding for this project? we have an air of peace party in syria where arab-americans who are like-minded bill draft ralph nader. >> justell them no. just say no. [laughter] >> what i can say is -- what i can say, what i can say is that wh the time comes, the united stes will be ready to stand by and support democratic transition throughout the arab world, country by country. >> next question, please. >> i am from detroit. i'm a long-time activist and i just want to make an observation that i came here excited about analyses of the arab spring and iac a gloom actually. on the bright side, i am excited about the arab spring. is the most phenomenal, the most wonderful event that we have witnessed, that i've witnessed it. [applause] i don't see that discussion o

long-time consumer advocate ralph nader wants cisco to increase its dividend. the company has $43 billion in cash. shares are less than 20 cents from a new 52 week low. the three-way effort to get a new, potentially less habit forming version of oxy-codone approved failed, sending this trio of stocks down. the f.d.a. rejected a new drug application for the treatment from pfizer and pain therapeutics. pfizer fell almost 3%. pain therapeutics shed more than 42%. the medicine uses technology from durect, which lost a third of its value. and that's tonight's market focus. >> tom: hewlett-packard hopes this time is the charm for its tablet computer business. h.p. takes another swing at apple's ipad and other touch- screen tablets next week when it releases its touch-pad. this device is bigger and cheaper than h.p.'s most recent tablet effort, the slate. the big difference: it's the first tablet to run hewlett packard's own operating system. h.p. inherited the web o.s. software when it bought palm last year. the touch pad enters a competitive market where apple has h

ralph nader, consumer activist in past presidential candidate has a debate on mandatory voting.the senate armed services committee held a confirmation committee for the tenet jon allen who is credited for guiding the campaign to turn iraqi sunnis against al qaeda. >> ralph nader consumer activist in past presidential candidate hosted a debate with a center for study of responsive law on mandatory voting. you will hear remarks from norman ornstein of the american enterprise institute and fred smith, president of the competitive and price-sensitive. in price sensitive. this is an hour and 30 minutes. >> good day. my name is ralph nader. today marks the first debate, mandatory voting patriotic runs democratic. in the forthcoming series of debates sponsored by the center for the study of responsive law. on subjects rendered taboo and political electoral and main media arenas in our country. the second debate will be on july 8, 2011 with the topic being a wall street securities transaction tax. information is the currency of democracy. subjects that are treated as taboo contradict th

host: which tea party candidate is capable of debating ralph nader for one hour on c-span questio? guest: there are so many. alan west, rand paul, scott paul. any of them would do a great job. marco rubio. i am not even sure that ralph nader would accept the challenge. host: we're taking listener calls. russ joins us from connecticut. caller: a want to talk about one idea. that is deregulation. it gave us aig, bear stearns. do you really love bernie madoff and what he did that much? enron and how it collapsed. derivatives started in the late 1990's. democratic congressmen stood up and said they looked tricky and maybe we should take a look at them. the chairman of the fed, greenspan came back to the senate and said it was a chance of capitalism to show what it could really do. look at where it led us. these of the fruits of deregulation. it can take years before the american public finally realizes what happened because of deregulation. host: thank you for the call. we will get a response. guest: i disagree with you. i think the two fundamental causes of the house in bubble in 2008

host: which tea party candidate is capable of debating ralph nader for one hour on c-span questio? guest: there are so many. alan west, rand paul, scott paul. any of them would do a great job. marco rubio. i am not even sure that ralph nader would accept the challenge. host: we're taking listener calls. russ joins us from connecticut. caller: a want to talk about one idea. that is deregulation. it gave us aig, bear stearns. do you really love bernie madoff and what he did that much? enron and how it collapsed. derivatives started in the late 1990's. democratic congressmen stood up and said they looked tricky and maybe we should take a look at them. the chairman of the fed, greenspan came back to the senate and said it was a chance of capitalism to show what it could really do. look at where it led us. these of the fruits of deregulation. it can take years before the american public finally realizes what happened because of deregulation. host: thank you for the call. we will get a response. guest: i disagree with you. i think the two fundamental causes of the house in bubble in 2008

and making both candidates uncomfortable, like i'm sure ralph nader would have done, would have been something of real value to show there are more voices than just two. >> i would expect to find some measure of fairness and justice in the way the process is managed so that people will have that understanding that everyone has been giving. if they share participation in the political process. because what happens ultimately will not only have implications for the american society, it has implications for the global community. the global community takes its cues from the american democracy , which is a model of democracy around the world. >> those of my students that would be likely to tune in a debate may not be likely to do so due to time constraints. i teach at a military academy. so the ability for them to not only see what they missed but also continue a conversation on line with whomever based on what they missed could be valuable. whether or not they will do that, i'm not so sure. that opportunity would be good. >> every semester i ask my students if they are called to look at

. >> he had previously done democracies -- biographies of ralph nader and alan greenspan. he researched the life of frederick olmsted who we know as the designer of central park and was and if infamous landscape designer but he was more than that. was an abolitionist which i wasn't aware of and a journalist which also was not aware of. this chronicles all of the different places he designed for including mclean hospital in the boston area and he ended up at the mclean hospital at the end of his life. strange how his life came full circle. >> host: what is coppo? >> it is

anyhow, i come to the conclusion that the way people vote for republicans, democrats, and then ralph naderers. i liken that to a housewife who catches her husband with the babysitter. when the husband says, "it's not what it seems. i'm helping her cram for anatomy." the democrat voters says, "that's not what i think, but i love you, anyway, and that's ok. the nader voter says, "that is fine. you will see my divorce lawyer in the morning, considering the fact that we do not have any kids." that's basically all i have to say. host: ok. where are you in michigan? caller: halfway between hooverville and buffalo. host: this comment -- fred has this comment from new jersey, saying the republicans and supporters think the american public is ignorant. please tell us where all of the jobs and economic growth is that eight years of bush tax cuts and lack of oversight by republican regulators. steve is a republican, joining us from kansas. good morning. what is your take on all of this? caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i'm proud of mr. cantor and mr. kyl for walking out on those ta

i fink making the republican and the democrats uncomfortable like i'm sure ralph nader would have done would have been of real value to show there are more releases than just two. >> i would expect to find a measure of fairness and justice in the way it is managed so that businesses who have the understanding that everyone has been given in the participation in the wide spectrum of the political forces because what happens ultimately implications with american society is implications on the committee because the global committee takes cues from the [inaudible] around the world. >> those are my students who would be likely to turn into a debate. i teach at a military academy where students have a lot of activities and responsibilities outside of the class has to students of the institutions working. so my ability for them to not only see what they've missed but also continuing conversation on line with whomever based on what the best could be very valuable whether they will do that i'm not so sure but that opportunity would be good. >> every semester i ask my students this very thing ab

of course in the program, ralph nader is listed as being a member of our panel this afternoon but instead he will be appearing at the grand banquet tomorrow night. he will be the keynote speaker. also, one of our guests, radia daoussi has been unable to attend this afternoon and we may be joined in part by khaled mattawa. we are going to get started now. allow me to set the backdrop. clearly we are familiar with the arab revolutions in the uprising which is ervin to the people of the airport with unique opportunities to advance and realize their aspirations for a quality freedom of expression, association as well as political, economic and legal reforms. but we are here this afternoon to also explore whether the largely peaceful protests on the part of the people, and i emphasize people, in tunisia, egypt, libya, yemen, bahrain and syria and the violent reactions to those protests by autocratic regimes have changed the way arabs are viewed by the local community and by extension change the perception of arab-americans and the united states. let's not forget the contemporary american histo