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ralph nader? >> the two-party tyranny is so exclusionary of ballot access barriers, keeping independent candidates from being on the debates and on and on. here we go again. that the hillary cowdrey is getting ready basically to say, drop out, dropout bernie sanders. i don't think anyone should be told to drop out. they're exercising their first amendment rights of speech, petition, simply. you want to oppose them, fine. but to tell them to drop out is to tell them to shut up and give up their rights. i wrote in 2008 a letter to henry clinton, urging her not to drop that when the obama forces in june of that year were telling her to drop out. so i think that is a very anti-democratic and very presumptuous, especially since the only reason hillary clinton is ahead now in delegates is because of closed democratic primaries and the superdelegates who are her cronies, as i mentioned, mostly in congress. amy: explained that, ralph. i think people for the first time in 2016 maybe waking up to all of the
ralph nader? >> the two-party tyranny is so exclusionary of ballot access barriers, keeping independent candidates from being on the debates and on and on. here we go again. that the hillary cowdrey is getting ready basically to say, drop out, dropout bernie sanders. i don't think anyone should be told to drop out. they're exercising their first amendment rights of speech, petition, simply. you want to oppose them, fine. but to tell them to drop out is to tell them to shut up and give up...
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well, i believe in the image of ralph nader nakedly own imagination but the naked truth is that ralph is always coming up with something, including this great democracy rally. ralph nader. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you, jim hightower, including to all of you here and those watching around the country to live streaming, thanks to the real news network out of baltimore, maryland. this is indeed the largest gathering of a conference of the citizen advocacy groups covering more issues and reforms than ever brought together under one roof. most conferences are focused on single important issues, but we thought that it would be important to demonstrate one speaker after another, what is involved in building the civic community, the civil society. it was in many ways a demonstration the whole is greater than the sum of its partner we all know problems and injustice in society are all connected to one another even though they may be treated in a specialized way. but what's important to focus on is how did these groups accomplish what they accomplished? that's why we
well, i believe in the image of ralph nader nakedly own imagination but the naked truth is that ralph is always coming up with something, including this great democracy rally. ralph nader. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you, jim hightower, including to all of you here and those watching around the country to live streaming, thanks to the real news network out of baltimore, maryland. this is indeed the largest gathering of a conference of the citizen advocacy groups...
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who believed in me, and that was ralph nader. other people said, goes to washington, what are you doing here or something like that. but ralph stood next to me. he stood by me. i'll forever be grateful to ralph to breakthrough that other sort of cultural power if you will that's out there. so thank you, ralph. and let's all give him a round of applause. he's done something for all of us, right? so i love breaking through power. but i have to say i didn't used to when i was gidget, whatever that means. i was a homemaker. i believed in the system. i believed that if there was a problem, something -- someone would come to our aid. some government agency would do something. how silly. but i believed it. and so we went at love canal, we had 20,000 tons of chemicals. it leaked out of the dump. it was in our communities, for those who don't recall the struggle, because it was quite some time ago. and our children got sick. so we went to the agencies and they said they weren't going to do anything because we don't evacuate communities bec
who believed in me, and that was ralph nader. other people said, goes to washington, what are you doing here or something like that. but ralph stood next to me. he stood by me. i'll forever be grateful to ralph to breakthrough that other sort of cultural power if you will that's out there. so thank you, ralph. and let's all give him a round of applause. he's done something for all of us, right? so i love breaking through power. but i have to say i didn't used to when i was gidget, whatever that...
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ralph nader won zero. only thing he and ralph nader they have in common are neither of them owns an iron. [ laughter and applause ] but the nader comparison wasn't the weirdest analogy pundits use to talk about bernie. >> bernie sanders taking some strong criticism tonight labeled a zombie candidate who's damaging hillary clinton's campaign. >> he's like a zombie candidate. she actually can't kill him, but he can continue to do damage to her. >> bernie sanders says he's no zombie candidate. >> bernie sanders is the zombie candidate. he's the walking dead wreaking havoc on hillary clinton and the democrats' chances. >> seth: hey, can you just wait until you're out of the car to do your report? you're not in a hummer in the green zone. this isn't reporters in cars getting coffee. [ laughter ] and bernie sanders is not a zombie candidate. although it is fun to picture him as one -- "the top 1% of the zombies are getting 99% of the brains!" so, bernie sanders is a brain-eating nader-esque spoiler zombie. next
ralph nader won zero. only thing he and ralph nader they have in common are neither of them owns an iron. [ laughter and applause ] but the nader comparison wasn't the weirdest analogy pundits use to talk about bernie. >> bernie sanders taking some strong criticism tonight labeled a zombie candidate who's damaging hillary clinton's campaign. >> he's like a zombie candidate. she actually can't kill him, but he can continue to do damage to her. >> bernie sanders says he's no...
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ralph nader. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. thank you -- thank you to jim hightower and greetings to all of you here and those watching around the country through live streaming. thanks to the real news network out of baltimore. this is, indeed, the largest gathering of citizen advocacy groups covering more directions redirections and reforms ever brought together. under one roof. most conferences are focused on single important issues. we thought it would be important to demonstrate one speaker after another, what is involved in building the civic community, the civil society, it was in many ways a demonstration that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. we all know that problems and injustices in society are all connected to one another. even though they may be treated in a specialized way. what's important to foe on is, how did these groups accomplish what they accomplished? that's why we asked them to talk about their accomplishments. citizen groups are not very good at celebrations. they will celebrate the 20th,
ralph nader. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. thank you -- thank you to jim hightower and greetings to all of you here and those watching around the country through live streaming. thanks to the real news network out of baltimore. this is, indeed, the largest gathering of citizen advocacy groups covering more directions redirections and reforms ever brought together. under one roof. most conferences are focused on single important issues. we thought it would be important to...
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you are on the air with ralph nader. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. mr. nader, i am a big admirer of years. i wanted to get your opinion on something that i have been trying to do, which is to start a petition which would begin a movement called take the pledge and mode out every incumbent. everyone, local, state, national. this would in effect get money out of politics because if every incumbent new they were going to get voted out at the next election, there would be no reason to try to run for reelection. un aroundbe an end ryu term limits. guest: that is a rejectionist point of view obviously. if you have an agenda attached to it, it will be rejection for a purpose of whatever changes you want in the country. some peopleing, will say there are good people in politics. why do you have such a broadbrush? they are good but they are letting bad things happening. they tend to be passive. they let bush and cheney boulevard iraq. iraq.blow apart they let wall street people take over a set of challenging them an imposing standards against the bailouts. at leas
you are on the air with ralph nader. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. mr. nader, i am a big admirer of years. i wanted to get your opinion on something that i have been trying to do, which is to start a petition which would begin a movement called take the pledge and mode out every incumbent. everyone, local, state, national. this would in effect get money out of politics because if every incumbent new they were going to get voted out at the next election, there would be no...
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who believed in me, and that was ralph nader. r people said, goes to washington, what are you doing here or something like that. but ralph stood next to me. he stood by me. i'll forever be grateful to ralph to breakthrough that other sort of cultural power if you will that's out there. so thank you, ralph. and let's all give him a round of applause. he's done something for all of us, right? so i love breaking through power. but i have to say i didn't used to when i was gidget, whatever that means. i was a homemaker. i believed in the system. i believed that if there was a problem, something -- someone would come to our aid. some government agency would do something. how silly. but i believed it. and so we went at love canal, we had 20,000 tons of chemicals. it leaked out of the dump. it was in our communities, for those who don't recall the struggle, because it was quite some time ago. and our children got sick. so we went to the agencies and they said they weren't going to do anything because we don't evacuate communities because
who believed in me, and that was ralph nader. r people said, goes to washington, what are you doing here or something like that. but ralph stood next to me. he stood by me. i'll forever be grateful to ralph to breakthrough that other sort of cultural power if you will that's out there. so thank you, ralph. and let's all give him a round of applause. he's done something for all of us, right? so i love breaking through power. but i have to say i didn't used to when i was gidget, whatever that...
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congratulations to ralph nader for organizing this nice party. [applause] you know, i came to washington and volunteered with ralph nader and my first day on the job i sat around with him and a few of his aides and he says okay, what are we going to do with this guy he has a phd from mit, is that a good enough imitation? [laughter] one of the people sitting there was jim turner who jus just that week wa is publishing a book cad chemical feast about the food and drug administration and its various failures and inadequacies. so he said okay, why don't you write a book about food additives. so i had just come out of graduate school studying a virus and i knew nothing about writing books and no idea even about a food additive was. i said well okay. i'm glad to do it but how do you write a book and what is a food additive effects they said just go and do it. it seemed like everybody on the staff was writing a book of the year. so i scurried into the library, looked up the food additive was. i don't think there was a book on how you write a book, but i
congratulations to ralph nader for organizing this nice party. [applause] you know, i came to washington and volunteered with ralph nader and my first day on the job i sat around with him and a few of his aides and he says okay, what are we going to do with this guy he has a phd from mit, is that a good enough imitation? [laughter] one of the people sitting there was jim turner who jus just that week wa is publishing a book cad chemical feast about the food and drug administration and its...
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i came to washington volunteered with ralph nader. my first day on the job i sat around with ralph, what are we going to do with this concept? is that a good enough imitation? one of the people sitting there was jim turner who just that week was publishing a book about food and drug administration and various failures and inadequacy. so ralph said why don't you write a book about food attitudes? i came out of grad school studying viruses, i knew nothing about writing books, no idea what a food attitude was. i said marco -- i would be glad to do it. how do i write a book about food attitudes? everyone on staff was writing a book that year so i scurried to the library. how do you write a book? i put my nose to the grind stone and wrote that book which was novel, and food attitudes. from the 1930s, the authors had to prove every food additive was dangerous. and an intellectually honest book, my conclusion was food attitudes like sodium nitrate and artificial flavorings were not nearly as big a problem as the foods themselves, the sugar a
i came to washington volunteered with ralph nader. my first day on the job i sat around with ralph, what are we going to do with this concept? is that a good enough imitation? one of the people sitting there was jim turner who just that week was publishing a book about food and drug administration and various failures and inadequacy. so ralph said why don't you write a book about food attitudes? i came out of grad school studying viruses, i knew nothing about writing books, no idea what a food...
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as you all just saw, i asked about dana millback's piece that sanders may be the ralph nader. e this. this was his argument in 2000 that there isn't that much difference between the two political parties. sanders said at start of his came campaign that he couldn't do what nader did. where does it stand now? >> i spoke with him before he started this kpanl, he said there's a difference between two parties. he wasn't going to do this. i suspect in his heart he doesn't want to do that. i think he can't get out of his own way right now for the moment. he says repeatedly, the top priority is not having donald trump become the next president. what he's doing is contrary to that. it's too late for that kind of thing. all he needed to do is say i'm not with her and you have a president. >> he must be thinking what fairness means. in the end it's not about procedure. it's about whether he got the votes he deserves. no more caucuses. no more conventions. no more super delegates. what does he want? is it rule changes or particular things about health care, student loans, whatever. >> i th
as you all just saw, i asked about dana millback's piece that sanders may be the ralph nader. e this. this was his argument in 2000 that there isn't that much difference between the two political parties. sanders said at start of his came campaign that he couldn't do what nader did. where does it stand now? >> i spoke with him before he started this kpanl, he said there's a difference between two parties. he wasn't going to do this. i suspect in his heart he doesn't want to do that. i...
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congratulations to ralph nader for organizing this party. [applause] >> you know, i came to washington and volunteered with ralph nader and my first day on the job i sat around with him and a few of his aides and he says ok, what are we going to do with this guy he has a phd from mit, is that a good enough imitation? one of the people sitting there was jim turner who just just that week was is publishing a book called "chemical feast" about the food and drug administration and its various failures and inadequacies. so he said ok, why don't you write a book about food additives? so, i had just come out of graduate school studying a virus and i knew nothing about writing books and no idea even about a food additive was. i said, well, ok. how doad to do it but you write a book and what is a food additive? they said just go and do it. it seemed like everybody on the staff was writing a book of the year. so i scurried into the library, looked up what a food additive was. i don't think there was a book on how you write a book, but i put my nose to
congratulations to ralph nader for organizing this party. [applause] >> you know, i came to washington and volunteered with ralph nader and my first day on the job i sat around with him and a few of his aides and he says ok, what are we going to do with this guy he has a phd from mit, is that a good enough imitation? one of the people sitting there was jim turner who just just that week was is publishing a book called "chemical feast" about the food and drug administration and...
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you may recall ralph nader wrote the book about the car dangers 51 years ago. well, today, "7 on your side" asked him about metro safety today. >> is our metro system safe? >> well, obviously not. there are a lot of deferred maintenance and repairs. there has been serious crashes. it's symptomatic of the country. we spend trillions of dollars blowing up places around the world. and we don't pay attention to our own leon: he argued that it affects all of us. he insists congress needs to step up with funding to fix the issue. maureen: while metro receive decline in ridership, the d.c. new streetcar is beating expectations. ddot says it is averaging 2,600 riders a day. it expected to average 1,500 passengers a day. 64,000 people rode the streetcar last month. the streetcar is free until august. leon: it's been as constant as deaths and taxes in the area. it seems like the stuff you see here, umbrellas, mud puddles, windshield wipers going on the cars around here. well, today marks 150 straight days of measurable rain at the reagan national airport. will the streak
you may recall ralph nader wrote the book about the car dangers 51 years ago. well, today, "7 on your side" asked him about metro safety today. >> is our metro system safe? >> well, obviously not. there are a lot of deferred maintenance and repairs. there has been serious crashes. it's symptomatic of the country. we spend trillions of dollars blowing up places around the world. and we don't pay attention to our own leon: he argued that it affects all of us. he insists...
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now, to you younger sanders supporters out there, i'd like to read you the story of a man named ralph nader. can i have that please. this is our new book. it's called, "see ralph run." ( applause ) and if you don't know the story, if you're too young to know the story, this is for you. this is a tale you're too young to remember. it began in 2000, the month of november. young voters don't know about "bush versus gore." but trust me, this has all happened before. his name was ralph nader, he spoke for the trees. he put seatbelts in cars to prevent shattered knees. he led the green party. his speeches were soaring. and he took votes from gore. my god, gore was boring. ( laughter ) ( applause ) he took votes from florida! he took votes from ohio! he took votes from sneedle, and wumbus, and xylo! i know those aren't actual states. but there were a lot of voting machine irregularities that year. okay. he even bagged the odd florida resident, and that's how george w. bush became president. thanks to ralph nader, who gave it his all, we got cheney, whose heart was three sizes too small. ( cheers a
now, to you younger sanders supporters out there, i'd like to read you the story of a man named ralph nader. can i have that please. this is our new book. it's called, "see ralph run." ( applause ) and if you don't know the story, if you're too young to know the story, this is for you. this is a tale you're too young to remember. it began in 2000, the month of november. young voters don't know about "bush versus gore." but trust me, this has all happened before. his name was...
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speakers include consumer advocate ralph nader. >> this week "the communicators" goes to the intx show in boston, the internet and television expo sponsored by the national cable and telecommunications association. we interviewed fcc chair tom wheeler. >> host: as a regulator and a consumer, what's your view of the cable industry today? >> guest: so, you know, i was listening to pat, and he was talking about roots 40 years ago. and i was saying, golly, 40 years ago i was working at ncta, and so my relationship with the cable industry goes back a long, long time. and it was always a great privilege, i thoughting, to be associated with this industry at that particular point in historiment -- history. and, you know, michael powell was kind enough after i balm chairman to ask me to come and meet with the ncta board. and i sat down and i said, you know, folks, everything that i believe about the relationship between government and industry were, was a philosophy that was developed while i was at ncta. because that was a period in time when the cable industry was the voice of competition and
speakers include consumer advocate ralph nader. >> this week "the communicators" goes to the intx show in boston, the internet and television expo sponsored by the national cable and telecommunications association. we interviewed fcc chair tom wheeler. >> host: as a regulator and a consumer, what's your view of the cable industry today? >> guest: so, you know, i was listening to pat, and he was talking about roots 40 years ago. and i was saying, golly, 40 years ago i...
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. >> we have a history with democrats, which is ralph nader, and a lot of people feel ralph nader turnedction -- republicans don't ask. >> if you look at trump as a noninterventionist on foreign policy. some of the rand paul supporters have drifted toward trump, because they see the main republican party as too hawkish. >> actually, kellyanne, trump would be more comfortable in the libertarian party. >> the libertarians are comfortable with trump as their nominee. and i think they will be. none of the above this year is no more outsiders. who is the change agent. and i don't think there's a single hidden hillary vote in this country. i think there are hidden trump votes. >> i heard that it's a fascinating debate. i've had people swear there is hidden hillary votes on the right. hidden trump votes on the left. we'll find out in november. we'll be back. 45 seconds end game segment with a look at what a trump-sanders debate might have looked like had it happened. >>> and our colleague got access into america's drone warfare operation. and a sitdown with the cia director, john brennan, to ta
. >> we have a history with democrats, which is ralph nader, and a lot of people feel ralph nader turnedction -- republicans don't ask. >> if you look at trump as a noninterventionist on foreign policy. some of the rand paul supporters have drifted toward trump, because they see the main republican party as too hawkish. >> actually, kellyanne, trump would be more comfortable in the libertarian party. >> the libertarians are comfortable with trump as their nominee. and i...
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we have had this discussion many times, either bernie sanders will be ralph nader or he is not. >> that is a low blow. the. >> basically, saying that there is no path to the nomination for bernie sanders at this point. at this point, if bernie sanders does not want donald trump to be president, he has to start thinking about something else, not leading -- that is what i am reading here. >> the very first conversation they had with bernie sanders. >> give me a break here. i have to say, the first conversation i had with bernie sanders running for president, i told him, you can't be a ralph nader, bernie sanders promised the world, he will support hillary if she is the nominee. >> what about mccarthy. >> he doesn't come out -- >> you say that, that is one thing to say it, it is another thing to actually do it. every time he speaks, from this point forward, what he is doing right now, what he did tonight, was dele jit myself hillary clinton. >> he didn't. >> yes, he did. they are yelling, bernie or bust. when hillary was running against barack obama, she didn't go out and say he was a wond
we have had this discussion many times, either bernie sanders will be ralph nader or he is not. >> that is a low blow. the. >> basically, saying that there is no path to the nomination for bernie sanders at this point. at this point, if bernie sanders does not want donald trump to be president, he has to start thinking about something else, not leading -- that is what i am reading here. >> the very first conversation they had with bernie sanders. >> give me a break here....
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i think that margaret is right about bernie sanders, he says, i am not ralph nader and i do not want. what they care about is the bernie sanders brand and for it to continue and flourish, he needs to get concessions on things like the platform and secondly, he needs to be credited with energizing those democrats in the fall. john: one more second longer, i have been among those who have said, you know, you are forgetting how bitter 2008 was. the paradigm should apply here in the bernie sanders if he gets to the end, there are some accommodations reached, otherwise he endorses her wholeheartedly and helps nominate her, and they will all come together like they did in 2008. one hitch to me is not just on the platform, but the thing that causes me to revise my view, is the extent to which bernie sanders has gone, in terms of painting her as corrupt. and part of the oligarchy and trying to revolutionize. my question about that, even if he does all the right things, will it actually convince the voters that he has been arguing, telling them all year long, that she is easily almost as bad
i think that margaret is right about bernie sanders, he says, i am not ralph nader and i do not want. what they care about is the bernie sanders brand and for it to continue and flourish, he needs to get concessions on things like the platform and secondly, he needs to be credited with energizing those democrats in the fall. john: one more second longer, i have been among those who have said, you know, you are forgetting how bitter 2008 was. the paradigm should apply here in the bernie sanders...
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washington university and, anyway, spun out of that and hit here, there, but ended up seeing what ralph nader was doing. and so i got into the public interest world creating a project modeled directly on ralph's work called the agri-business accountability project. and we were looking at what corporate power was doing in the food industry, what it was doing to farmers, what it was doing to farm workers, what it was doing to consumers, the environment, to food itself. and we wrote a book, susan demarco and i did in that project in 1973 i think it was called "hard tomatoes hard times" and it was about the lingering college system which is a public school system set up to assist small farmers, consumers, rural communities, et cetera. it had turned into an agri-business playground pretty much. in fact, the title of the book "hard tomatoes hard time" comes from uc davis out there had responded to del monte corporation wanted to get rid of farm workers. they wanted a tomato harvester mechanical so uc davis dutifully made one but then that machine crushed the tomatoes. uc davis teemed up with the un
washington university and, anyway, spun out of that and hit here, there, but ended up seeing what ralph nader was doing. and so i got into the public interest world creating a project modeled directly on ralph's work called the agri-business accountability project. and we were looking at what corporate power was doing in the food industry, what it was doing to farmers, what it was doing to farm workers, what it was doing to consumers, the environment, to food itself. and we wrote a book, susan...
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[applause] >> so i thank you, ralph neighbor--ralph nader... >> [laughter] >> ralph nader, the consumer advocate in our neighborhood. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you. [laughs] [applause] ññ1111@1@1@1@1púúa xx [applause] thank you. thank you very much, and good evening to every body. thank you so much for coming out tonight. to the muslimell legal fund for inviting me here and for the outstanding work they do. i'm as genuine as i can be when i say everyone in those two organizations is extremely impressive, even inspiring to me because of the work they do in areas where very few other organizations are able or willing to venture. i'm truly delighted to participate in any event they sponsor any work they do. for the last 6, 7 years, i have been writing about the systematic erosion and attack on civil liberties in the united states and the war on terror that justifies those erosions that drivesm-phobia those. the past few years i have been spending an increasing amount of time traveling around the country speaking about these issues at events like this, si
[applause] >> so i thank you, ralph neighbor--ralph nader... >> [laughter] >> ralph nader, the consumer advocate in our neighborhood. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you. [laughs] [applause] ññ1111@1@1@1@1púúa xx [applause] thank you. thank you very much, and good evening to every body. thank you so much for coming out tonight. to the muslimell legal fund for inviting me here and for the outstanding work they do. i'm as genuine as i can...
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he eventually became president of the united states but a third party candidate, ralph nader had 90,000 and a lot of experts believe those came from the democrat. that would be al gore and he caused the republican in effect to become president. so that's why a third party candidate, libertarian candidate, william weld, even if they don't get a lot of votes, they could be decisive. you've got to be worried potentially about that. >> well, i would if i thought they had any sense of structure or organization. they don't. i think on the flip side to your point about nader, if the sanders folks don't come together, which it looks like they're not, there's a lot of distrust and concern but for how bernie sanders is treated by the democratic national committee throughout this process. i would be more concerned about a wing of the progressive party or green party, whatever on the left, kind of evolving or putting someone like a ralph nader out on the ballot as a protest vote. so i'm very confident where we are as a party and moving forward. i think any republican, any true conservative understa
he eventually became president of the united states but a third party candidate, ralph nader had 90,000 and a lot of experts believe those came from the democrat. that would be al gore and he caused the republican in effect to become president. so that's why a third party candidate, libertarian candidate, william weld, even if they don't get a lot of votes, they could be decisive. you've got to be worried potentially about that. >> well, i would if i thought they had any sense of...
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among them, ralph nader. 9:00coverage begins at a.m.astern on c-span two. >> at c-span.org is a video-rich complement to your c-span that viewing. most of our government-related programs like house, senate, and congressional hearings stream live on the site. from your laptop, desktop, even from your handheld device. and over 2000 programs are video libraryur and you can find it and watch it. it contains over 200,000 hours and itsn programs powerful search engine helps you finding and research programs going back many years. c-span publishes its on-air schedule. just click on the schedule link. service of public your cable or satellite provider. check it out. it is on the web at c-span.org. announcer: tonight, "q&a" with michael kinsley. then queen elizabeth ii gives the annual address at the state opening of parliament. after that, a discussion on ways to strengthen security in europe. ♪ announcer: this week on "q&a," vanity fair columnist and slate magazine founder michael kinsley. he talks about living with parkinson's disease and his
among them, ralph nader. 9:00coverage begins at a.m.astern on c-span two. >> at c-span.org is a video-rich complement to your c-span that viewing. most of our government-related programs like house, senate, and congressional hearings stream live on the site. from your laptop, desktop, even from your handheld device. and over 2000 programs are video libraryur and you can find it and watch it. it contains over 200,000 hours and itsn programs powerful search engine helps you finding and...
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my pick is titled "does bernie sanders want to be the ralph nader of 2016?" on the party have released something just as damaging to the causes he professes to represent. milbank also credits nader in his similar protests for helping to elect george bush. won oregon, lost kentucky, people wonder why is he still in the race, only with 100 votes to go for hillary clinton. clearly, he wants to support his cause and back his supporters. >> and that idea of a fed can be the force because you can have it on both sides with strong talks like cuba and others. surely, it will go down to two. >> it's just so unusual to have two leading candidates with high disapproval ratings. >>> switching the gears, my pick is in "financial times." it's titled "amazon: control freak." this relating to the amount of ownership in tech companies, jeff bezos, 17.6%. a lot in terms of absolute holding but that is also what he has of the voting rights. it refers to the fact that facebook, mark zuckerberg is down to 4.5% but has a good portion of the voting rights. but with amazon, that hasn
my pick is titled "does bernie sanders want to be the ralph nader of 2016?" on the party have released something just as damaging to the causes he professes to represent. milbank also credits nader in his similar protests for helping to elect george bush. won oregon, lost kentucky, people wonder why is he still in the race, only with 100 votes to go for hillary clinton. clearly, he wants to support his cause and back his supporters. >> and that idea of a fed can be the force...
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you are on the air with ralph nader. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. mr. nader, i am a big admirer of years. i wanted to get your opinion on something that i have been trying to do, which is to start a petition which would begin a movement called take the pledge and mode out every incumbent. everyone, local, state, national. this would in effect get money out of politics because if every incumbent new they were going to get voted out at the next election, there would be no reason to try to run for reelection. un aroundbe an end ryu term limits. guest: that is a rejectionist point of view obviously. if you have an agenda attached to it, it will be rejection for a purpose of whatever changes you want in the country. some peopleing, will say there are good people in politics. why do you have such a broadbrush? they are good but they are letting bad things happening. they tend to be passive. they let bush and cheney boulevard iraq. iraq.blow apart they let wall street people take over a set of challenging them an imposing standards against the bailouts. at leas
you are on the air with ralph nader. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. mr. nader, i am a big admirer of years. i wanted to get your opinion on something that i have been trying to do, which is to start a petition which would begin a movement called take the pledge and mode out every incumbent. everyone, local, state, national. this would in effect get money out of politics because if every incumbent new they were going to get voted out at the next election, there would be no...
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[applause] >> thanks, jim, and thank you, ralph nader. i am so honored to be a part of this illustrious group of people and organizations. what i would like to do in my 20 minutes is take you on the journey that i've been on because it's been an extraordinary one. ralph has asked that we all tell our story, so i'll share that journey with you going back 40 years. we are -- we're now facing a sustainability/survivalbility issue in this country when it comes to public health and the environment. i always like to take an upbeat approach to that question as we sit on the precipice of worsening environmental public health problems, we can see the solutions in sight. beyond pesticides was set up to take advantage, leverage those solutions and empower people to act. you know, a lot of us grew up with ddt. and these are the kinds of ads you could see in magazines at the time. ddt is good for me. and the advertisers were telling us that not only did it kill destructive pests, but it was a benefactor to all of humanity. that's in the small print on
[applause] >> thanks, jim, and thank you, ralph nader. i am so honored to be a part of this illustrious group of people and organizations. what i would like to do in my 20 minutes is take you on the journey that i've been on because it's been an extraordinary one. ralph has asked that we all tell our story, so i'll share that journey with you going back 40 years. we are -- we're now facing a sustainability/survivalbility issue in this country when it comes to public health and the...
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[applause] ralph nader: this is a super bowl of citizen action all right. couple points here. notice how many of these proposals, how many of these initiatives, how many of these reforms would be left/right support by home. once you get down to where people live, work, and raise their families, the ideology isn't as much around. it is around on some of the issues like reproductive rights and school prayer and things like that. but on the basic issues of health, safety, economic well being, you think conservative families differ from liberal families? you think they don't want their kid to breathe clean air, drink clean water, have safe food and have economic security et cetera? divide and rule has been the strategy of the ruling classes for centuries. and they pick those areas where there are divisions. and they pit people against one another. and the media jumps in. but as i pointed out in my recent book "unstoppable recent book "unstoppable: the emerging left-right alliance to dismantle the corporate state" i came up with 24 major areas in our country where there is major le
[applause] ralph nader: this is a super bowl of citizen action all right. couple points here. notice how many of these proposals, how many of these initiatives, how many of these reforms would be left/right support by home. once you get down to where people live, work, and raise their families, the ideology isn't as much around. it is around on some of the issues like reproductive rights and school prayer and things like that. but on the basic issues of health, safety, economic well being, you...
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consumer advocate ralph nader wrote the book "why women pay were" exposing that women charged more for things like haircuts and dry cleaning more than 23 years ago. he said gender pricing is not perfect, but it is better today. >> there has to be space for serious content if we are going to have a better world. kimberly: this is something you will ask the essays -- fcc for? say, consumerd news again and again proves high ratings. why don't you have more consumer news? kimberly: he argues that commercial media has too much entertainment and sports and not enough serious news. new information on a story we first told you about friday -- this young man looks like your average teenager, but he is anything but. use a scholar athlete, valedictorian, so why was he not allowed to walk the stage at graduation? it was the facial hair. the school has a policy against it. >> i feel they should let me march. what does the hero and my face have to do with school? the school says that it asked jones to shave on several occasions. shehool board member said wanted to investigate whether the school viol
consumer advocate ralph nader wrote the book "why women pay were" exposing that women charged more for things like haircuts and dry cleaning more than 23 years ago. he said gender pricing is not perfect, but it is better today. >> there has to be space for serious content if we are going to have a better world. kimberly: this is something you will ask the essays -- fcc for? say, consumerd news again and again proves high ratings. why don't you have more consumer news? kimberly:...
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former presidential candidate ralph nader talks more about this. re watching, mr. nader, is someone encouraging cruz to drop out of the race. do you think that he either will or should come wednesday morning if trump wins by a lot in indiana? of course you've been in similar positions hey, drop out of the race. so what about cruz? >> not at all. telling somebody to drop out, neil, is like telling them not to exercise their right of free speech. you can oppose him but don't tell him not to drop out. you can see the person who challenged cruz based just like trump. in other words he overtalked. he didn't want to hear any response from cruz. that's the problem with trump. if trump is the nominee, trump is going to be one who will sink trump because he can't control his mouth. one thing, slandering and shouting at opponents on primary trail or debates so-called or press trying to question him but he can get away with that when he starts shouting at courts or foreign governments and people that can oppose him pull the rug out from under him should he get
former presidential candidate ralph nader talks more about this. re watching, mr. nader, is someone encouraging cruz to drop out of the race. do you think that he either will or should come wednesday morning if trump wins by a lot in indiana? of course you've been in similar positions hey, drop out of the race. so what about cruz? >> not at all. telling somebody to drop out, neil, is like telling them not to exercise their right of free speech. you can oppose him but don't tell him not to...
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among those scheduled to speak, consumer advocate and former presidential candidate ralph nader. live coverage begins at 9 a.m. eastern here on c-span2. >> vice president joe biden and former speaker of the house john boehner recently received the university of notre dame's latarre medal at the 2016 commencement ceremony. they were honored in recognition of their leadership, civility and dedication to our nation. it's the latin word for rejoice. this is 25 minutes. [applause] >> father jenkins, vice president biden, graduates, it's truly an honor and a privilege for me to be here with all of you today. just a regular guy who used to have a big job. [laughter] you know, it's been six months since i left public service, and it's given me a little time to reflect. something that occurred to me a few months ago about the difficult task of what we call governing. governing, in my view s the art of the possible. politicians these days are constantly being pushed to promise the impossible. and this being a presidential election year, you've been hearing a lot of impossible promises. [la
among those scheduled to speak, consumer advocate and former presidential candidate ralph nader. live coverage begins at 9 a.m. eastern here on c-span2. >> vice president joe biden and former speaker of the house john boehner recently received the university of notre dame's latarre medal at the 2016 commencement ceremony. they were honored in recognition of their leadership, civility and dedication to our nation. it's the latin word for rejoice. this is 25 minutes. [applause] >>...
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. >> we have a history with democrats, which is ralph nader, and a lot of people feel ralph nader --sk. >> if you look at trump as a noninterventionist on foreign policy. some of the rand paul supporters have drifted toward trump, because they see the main republican party -- >> actually, kellyanne, trump would be more comfortable in the libertarian party. >> the libertarians are comfortable with trump as their nominee. none of the above this year is no more outsiders. who is the change agent. and i don't think there's a single hidden hillary coat in this country. i think there are hidden trumps. >> i heard that it's a fascinating debate. i've had people swear there is hidden hillary votes on the right. hidden trump votes on the left. we'll find out in november. we'll be back. 45 seconds end game segment with a look at what a trump-sanders debate would look like had it happened. >>> and our colleague got access into america's drone warfare operation. and a sitdown with the cia director, john brennan, to talk about our country's drone strategist. you could watch that report on assignm
. >> we have a history with democrats, which is ralph nader, and a lot of people feel ralph nader --sk. >> if you look at trump as a noninterventionist on foreign policy. some of the rand paul supporters have drifted toward trump, because they see the main republican party -- >> actually, kellyanne, trump would be more comfortable in the libertarian party. >> the libertarians are comfortable with trump as their nominee. none of the above this year is no more outsiders....
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>> i will say ralph nader continues to disagree with that assessment. most people feel the other way. in talking to voters out there, you hear people, you hear republicans saying, i can't vote for donald trump. and maybe libertarians are a landing place because they are fiscally conservative they want government out of your life. then you talk to some democrats, i was talking to democrats in albuquerque who is bernie people f. he's not there rather than write in they might vote for gary johnson they said. libertarian platform is pro-marijuana which has in the past attracted some subset of younger voters who get excited about. that so, they are not as far as we can tell, things have been wild this year, subject to change, they are not getting a huge influkes of voters necessarily. >> yang: you talk about the republicans the never trumpers they still keep talk be about another candidate this weekend. we had the tantalizing tweet from bill kristol say going to be another candidate. are they still trying to come up with someone, amy? >> there's still a frin
>> i will say ralph nader continues to disagree with that assessment. most people feel the other way. in talking to voters out there, you hear people, you hear republicans saying, i can't vote for donald trump. and maybe libertarians are a landing place because they are fiscally conservative they want government out of your life. then you talk to some democrats, i was talking to democrats in albuquerque who is bernie people f. he's not there rather than write in they might vote for gary...
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between al gore and george bush. >> even if johnson falls back, remember ralph nader still made a bigit put bill clinton in the white house. >> if you just look back, you would say, based upon where he's in the poll right now, he'd still get about 5% of the vote, which would be tremendous. >> and more if he got in the debate. >> it's only tremendous if the splits are different than in the general election. >> that's true. >> when you scratch the surface of nader, it looked like his splits were not that different from the general electorate. >> exactly. >> i think that will be one of the things that we watch going forward. with the high negative ratings for hillary clinton and donald trump, it's no wonder he's getting 10%. i would potentially do it. >> if you look at bill crystal, the editor of the weekly standard, why is he never trump? because he feels that trump is not committed to neoconservative policy. you may end up with these two republican governors with seasoned resumes, but also they break with the party on a lot of key issues of foreign policy and social policy. so some rep
between al gore and george bush. >> even if johnson falls back, remember ralph nader still made a bigit put bill clinton in the white house. >> if you just look back, you would say, based upon where he's in the poll right now, he'd still get about 5% of the vote, which would be tremendous. >> and more if he got in the debate. >> it's only tremendous if the splits are different than in the general election. >> that's true. >> when you scratch the surface of...
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washington university and, anyway, spun out of that and hit here, there, but ended up seeing what ralph nader doing. and so i got into the public interest world creating a project modeled directly on ralph's work called the agri-business accountability project. and we were looking at what corporate power was doing in the food industry, what it was doing to farmers, what it was doing to farm workers, what it was doing to consumers, the environment, to food itself. and we wrote a book, susan demarco and i did in that project in 1973 i think it was called "hard tomatoes hard times" and it was about the lingering college system which is a public school system set up to assist small farmers, consumers, rural communities, et cetera. it had turned into an agri-business playground pretty much. in fact, the title of the book "hard tomatoes hard time" comes from uc davis out there had responded to dell monte corporation wanted to get rid of farm workers. they wanted a tomato harvester mechanical so uc davis dutifully made one but then that machine crushed the tomatoes. uc davis teemed up with the unive
washington university and, anyway, spun out of that and hit here, there, but ended up seeing what ralph nader doing. and so i got into the public interest world creating a project modeled directly on ralph's work called the agri-business accountability project. and we were looking at what corporate power was doing in the food industry, what it was doing to farmers, what it was doing to farm workers, what it was doing to consumers, the environment, to food itself. and we wrote a book, susan...
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you know, we had a story in politico about how could sanders be the ralph nader of this election, andin november if he's not fully supportive of hillary. after hillary, you know, presumably wins, then we -- you know, i bet hillary is going to want to have sanders out supporting her and rallying the millions of supporters who have been brought into the party. >> yeah. she wants that if that's to happen in the future. in the meantime she's tapped husband bill clinton for the economy. is that the ace in the hole for her and if so, why reveal that now? >> you know, we are going to see donald trump, he's already hitting hillary for, you know, supporting her husband who's had his various personal indiscretions. what we will see, hillary remind that bill clinton had, you know, created 22 million jobs in the 1990s. and, you know that she can give him the economic portfolio to, you know, really help create jobs if she's elected in november. >> all right. daniel, thanks for your insight. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> just ahead, is hillary clinton facing an uphill battle in ohio? that sto
you know, we had a story in politico about how could sanders be the ralph nader of this election, andin november if he's not fully supportive of hillary. after hillary, you know, presumably wins, then we -- you know, i bet hillary is going to want to have sanders out supporting her and rallying the millions of supporters who have been brought into the party. >> yeah. she wants that if that's to happen in the future. in the meantime she's tapped husband bill clinton for the economy. is...
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we will show that column there and the new book that is coming out why ralph nader. we will talk about that, breaking through power. website, youtheir can find more details about the book and the events. let's go to baltimore -- go to new york. caller: it is a pleasure having a direct chat with mr. nader who has been my role model for life.
we will show that column there and the new book that is coming out why ralph nader. we will talk about that, breaking through power. website, youtheir can find more details about the book and the events. let's go to baltimore -- go to new york. caller: it is a pleasure having a direct chat with mr. nader who has been my role model for life.
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or is it ralph nader? or is it socialist workers party candidate david mcreynolds?ourt so unfortunate. the court, in a narrow five to four decision, ordered the counting of florida's votes to be stopped ensuring that the identity of our next president will forever remain a mystery. [ laughter ]
or is it ralph nader? or is it socialist workers party candidate david mcreynolds?ourt so unfortunate. the court, in a narrow five to four decision, ordered the counting of florida's votes to be stopped ensuring that the identity of our next president will forever remain a mystery. [ laughter ]