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part of the media more of sides conversations in the minds of ralph nader after this break. wealthy british style. rise. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mikes concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cons a report on. the new. policy face i think people. should be happy with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. and welcome back to conversations with great minds i'm speaking with ralph nader attorney consumer advocate five time candidate for president of the united states and author of numerous books most recent being told you so the book the big book a weekly columns. mr nader comeback is so good to have you with us told you so the big book a weekly column well there's a there's a bigger number at there why i told you so because in the last ten years. and the wrongdoers have been saying to the american people we've got to get this policy invade iraq we've got to deregulate wall street we've got to continue with fossil fuels and it turned out to be wrong everything they said would happen. a

ralph nader said this is just threat, they should still pay the money now.alph, good to have you back. >> thank you, neil. neil: i wondered that good intentions sometimes backfire, whatever your sentiment regarding walmart paying higher wages, if they just leave dc and pay no wages, what have you won? >> there is a bank for cooperative that can support the establishment of good modern food co-ops in those areas under serve. neil: would they make up there up for 3,000 jobs. >> far more, they are more labor intensive. neil: but co-ops would have appeared they didn't. >> no, the powers that be in dc like big box stores. neil: not the coun the council t voted to step on them. >> that is a good move. head of walmart makes $11,000 hour that is more than the head of walmart made in 1968, why are a million walmart workers today making less in adjusted wages than workers made in 1968. would you work for less than what a talk show host made in 1968, let's get real. neil: ralph, i know your sympathies for the workers in that expensive city. but what about average folks

when ralph nader talks on walm weekdays are for rising the challenge. they're the days to take care of buness. when possilities become reality. with centurylink as your trusted partner, our visionary cloud infrastructure and global broadband network free you to focus on what matters. with custom communications solutions and responsive, dedicated support, we constantly evolveo meet your needs. every day of the week. centurylink® your link to what's next. neil: unions are furious at walmart so is ralph, ralph nader wants the retailer to pay its workers more. and he is pushing washington d.c. to sign the bill to force walmart and other big box retailer to do just that. ralp nader said this is just threat, they should still pay the money now. ralph, good to have you back. >> thank you, neil. neil: i wondered that good intentions sometimes backfire, whatever your sentiment regarding walmart paying higher wages, if they just leave dc and pay no wages, what have you won? >> there is a bank for cooperative that can support the estaishment of good modern food co

we'll revisit my conversations with great minds with five time green party candidate for president ralph nader in our conversation we talked about how he got his start in politics and his views on the state of american politics today and we'll look back at my conversations with great minds with gabriel weinberg the c.e.o. and founder of duck duck go a search engine that keeps its users data personal and private and don't forget my new book the crash of twenty sixteen the plot to destroy america and what we can do to stop it is now available for preorder at all.

we'll revisit my conversations with great minds with five time green party candidate for president ralph nader in our conversation we talked about how he got his start in politics and his views on the state of american politics today and we'll look back at my conversations with great minds with gabriel weinberg the c.e.o. and founder of duck duck go a search engine that keeps its users data personal and private and don't forget my new book the crash of twenty sixteen the plot to destroy america and what we can do to stop it is now available for preorder at all online retailers like amazon dot com and your local bookstore so.

was in the 1970s, which was so deeply progressive that richard nixon had to do everything that ralph naderold him to do. >> michael: it's true, i listen to cenk say this for a long time, and he is right about it. what gets done in washington now without taking the money away. >> listen, if the people lead the leaders will follow. the only way it is going to happen is if you can convince your friends, family, everyone, that money is rotting the system. and when we can get people to get serious about getting money out of politics, make our republican brothers and sisters understand that citizens united hurt them, and the repeal of glass spiegel was a racket perpetrated on us by both the republicans in congress, and the democrats in the white house, but the politicians are not going to reform this. it is going to have to come from the people. >> michael: and when you talk about lawrence summers now being considered to run the fed -- >> yeah, i have a lot of jokes about larry summers, but they are all very derivative. [ laughter ] >> 12 peeps got that joke. >> michael: yeah, and two of them ar

this was a time when ralph nader was running and they saw ralph nader is a threat. i asked him might he not president clinton be responsible for ralph nader success because he had brought the democratic party to the right? i think it was at that point that president clinton said -- i just have a few more questions. i asked him about racial profiling because al gore had said if he became president he would be the first executive order to do away with racial profiling. so i said if that is his intention you both have been in power for eight years. why haven't you done it until now? anyway after half an hour he got off the phone. it got a lot of attention this conversation with a president. the next day i get a call from newsday the local newspaper in new york. i'm talking to the reporter and i get another call from the white house. so i just put the phonecall with a reporter down. at the time we use tape recorders but just as a physical place to put the phone down and i was not recording anything. i said just one minute please the white house is on the phone. he happe

and i would be told oh don't worry about media anymore everyone's going to have their own station ralph nader to get a consumer right station you know this this group's going to have a station the unions all have their own network well that never happened cable television became as concentrated a half a dozen corporations started taking over all of the channels so we have access to hundreds of channels most of them are still owned by a few companies those companies are comcast general electric viacom. so it's still a few company. that are owning hundreds of channels in the old soviet union they had hundreds and hundreds of outlets but they were all owned by the soviet state of the soviet union you know already better than say we are and it seems like we're reinventing more of tonight's conversations of great minds with jeff cohen right after the spring. but he sees things that scientists people don't notice. these days. but he hears things most people never do they call him disabled but he's the world's first deaf and blind doctor of science. professor i think the other civil of. the great li

this man whose name is harvey wiley, hated coca-cola and he was kind of the ralph nader of his day. very powerful, very popular. he was the one who got the pure food and drug act passed in 1906 and was the first head of the fda or what came to be known as the fda. he got the u.s. government to sue coca-cola in 1911 which almost put them out of business and one of his big complaints was caffeine was an added deleterious ingredient that they were trying to promote to children and polk barely survived this lawsuit. i hope you will read the whole chapter about it. i hope you won't go into detail here but one of the things that came out is they agreed never to show children under the age of 12 drinking coca-cola in an ad again and as far as i know they never have. here is harvey wiley in 1912 good housekeeping article warning the public against the gremlins of nervousness, habit and in digestion in coca-cola. that is what a coke class looked like. isaac handler always wanted to have a very wholesome women and no overt sexual appeals, kind of sexual appeals. this was his bottler in chicag

media anymore everyone's going to have their own station ralph nader is good have a consumer write station you know this this group is going to have a station the unions all have their own network well that never happened cable television became as concentrated a half a dozen corporations started taking over all of the channels so while we have access to hundreds of channels most of them are still owned by a few companies those companies are comcast general electric viacom time warner so it's still a few companies that are owning hundreds of channels in the old soviet union they had hundreds and hundreds of outlets but they were all owned by the soviet state or the soviet union you know the party or the state or we're and it seems like we're we're reinventing more of tonight's conversations with great minds with jeff cohen right after this break. and welcome back to conversations with great minds i'm speaking with jeff cohen professor and founding director of the park center for independent media to figure college and author of numerous books including cable news confidential misadventures

and i would be told oh don't worry about media anymore everyone's going to have their own station ralph nader to get a consumer rights station you know this group's going to have a station the unions all have their own network well that never happened cable television became as concentrated a half a dozen corporations started taking over all of the channels so while we have access to hundreds of channels most of them are still owned by a few companies those companies are comcast general electric viacom time warner so it's still a few companies that are owning hundreds of channels in the old soviet union they had hundreds and hundreds of outlets but they were all owned by the soviet state or the soviet union you know party at the state and it seems like we're reinventing more of tonight's conversations with great minds with jeff cohen right after this break. dramas that transfield ignored. the stories others the few similitudes. says changed the world lights never. told pictures posts. from around the globe. looked. up to fifty. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you

him a mega millionaire today. >> and how he lost his job at harvard, all that sort of stuff. >> ralph naderalled him a mega millionaire. is there anything worse you can call somebody than wealthy, andrew? not from a knowledge perspective -- >> yeah, there's one thing worse you can call someone. >> what's that? >> you can call him a deadbeat and that's what jack lew will talk about in our interview this morning, the need for congress to raise the debt limit. they sent a letter yesterday to congress saying mid-october is when we hit that "x" date that we'll only have $50 billion in cash, and we're getting ourselves ready for two simultaneous standoffs, one over government funding and the sequester and the other over the debt limit. and our interview with jack lew is going to be one of the beginning volleys in the really serious phase of that. >> okay, john. sounds terrific. ask him -- obviously, ask him also while you have him, mr. summers. i also want to know, if they take summers, does janet yellen leave? what's the calculus there? but that's a separate issue. anyway. >> you would think. >>

perot, i was a ross ralph nader, our current president, and hillary clinton. what about those four, in summary, do you support? caller: i am concerned about the -- the prior caller hit it on the head. not curve lineup is raining in the sequester -- north carolina is raining in the sequester. they try to cut back on schools, hospitals, you name it. i had to do a paradigm shift and go for independent money. how are you going to sell computer equipment to a family easier when it would be to sell the schools that can buy thousands. reynard from virginia, republican line, good morning. the person who i think best present my political party is none. did elected they start representing the national party. what makes you come to that decision? -- oncespecifically they get elected, even though locally we put them in for a specific reason, they start going to the national nra or the national republican position, regardless of what we locally said. who have you voted for in the past? caller: my recent vote was for ron paul. not representoes your vote? caller: no, he take