tonight, our conversation with ralph nader, with everything in the news lately the gop lawmakers have been busy in the last couple of weeks in part trying to unravel the regulations, including the epa, ralph nader has had a long-time rallying cry. there can be no daily democracy without citizenship. and we'll talk about how people can fight for their values and win actual gains. we're glad. a conversation with ralph nader coming up right now. ♪ ♪ >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> this is the week federal lawmakers return home from d.c. for their recess and traditionally for town hall meetings. several of those have been disrupted as protesters have shown up. one strategy that ralph nader has called, breaking through power. easier than a lot of us think. he has a all right lot of thoug resisting the administration. and first of all, in los angeles, in green los angeles, the rain has made it look greener out here, good to have you on the program, man. >> thank you. >> let me start with you, i follow you in all of your writings and in all

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. >> that's a ralph nader quote. >> ralph nader is right about this one. >> i actually teach this stuff. we do a national security council simulation. the national security adviser, i was pretty sure flynn wasn't going to be a very good one anyway. the job of the national security adviser is to coordinate policy among several people who have enormous amount of experience from ambassadors, from the defense, intelligence agencies, and then to bring the president in and make recommendations to the president, who then decides. this administration doesn't work like that. trump makes his decision before he knows what the facts are, then he's backing and filling. what kind of position does that leave the secretary of defense in, or the secretary of state, or all the intelligence agencies? the intelligence agencies know a whole lot more about what's going on in the world than donald trump and donald trump is not interested in hearing from them. >> gene, doesn't that go to the problem here with experience? it's one thing to run an outsider campaign, we've seen that many times in history. it's an

even then for rent control and evolved into third-party politics supporting the campaigns when ralph nader ran. it took an effort to get these people to set aside their focus and learn how to come together in a broad political tent where people's differences about the nature of socialism and capitalism and other big picture questions were set aside in the interest of pursuing a concrete agenda for local change and improvements and actually it was proof because of the persistence and patience of the group achievable the past 15 years. this was not a university town. we have examples in the 60s and 70 70s of people trying to take over the city government. those were different kinds of cities. richmond is not a university town but for many years, it was until quite recentl recently ith contested and dominated by the kind of alliance and the compa company, building trade organizations and firefighters organizations. that's big coalition had virtually no counterweight for decades. a few good governance liberals and voices of integrity on the city council tried to impose the coalition but it was

some kind of factuals are worth asking. 1900 votes like what would have happened if ralph nader had not campaigned in florida in-and al gore had won in florida. i think it's worth asking also some of historians. among the problem in americans who supported this peace coalition was this guy. henry ford, the most popular industrial oust, not just in america but the world because he made the automobile affordable to the mass, the model t. henry ford charters his own ocean liner in 1915, transports himself and other activists. i see i'm going on far too long so i will speed up a little bit. what motivated those who opposed preparedness and going to war? this is more complicated than i have time to go into the complications of but interesting one. two types of arguments, i think, they made. the first one is quite radical. they wanted a peaceful war. they were passivists, didn't mean they opposed all. most people think passive vists now. they were opposed to going to war, pretty much anywar. they thought preparing for war would make world war i more likely, look at the russians and french, th

because i see hundred votes, you know, -- because 1900 votes, you know, it would be like, what if ralph nader had not campaigned in florida where al gore only needed 30 more votes to win? would the u.s. have gone to war in iraq? some historians will yell at me for saying that. and among the prominent americans who supported the peace coalition was this guy, edgar schwartz, the most popular industrialist, not just in america, but in the world, because he made the model t. henry ford charters his own ocean liner and goes over to europe. i see i am going on far too long about all of this. i should speed up. what motivated those who opposed preparedness and going war? this is a complicated question, and i have no time to go into the publications. -- complications. two types of arguments they made i think. the first one is quite radical. they wanted a peaceful world. they were pacifists. did not mean they oppose all use of violence, but they opposed world wars. they were not against belief of people not fighting back when they get beaten up, which some people think pacifism means now. they were op

former president bill clinton former president al gore, reverend jesse jackson, steve forbes and ralph nader. most recently combs returned to radio as the host late night talk show. alan combs show which is sinned indicated on fox. his family released a statement saying he died after brief illness. alan combs was 66. >>> man attacked a police officer tackling the cop to the ground. someone caught the whole thing go down. what investigators say the man was doing right before the assault. >>> nba trade deadline has come and gone. the surprise move the sixers made. >> and tired of chasing drones through park. it's a way to keep them active. they'll have to get a new one. stick around for the video that shows us why. >> it's hank. with daytona 500 coming up this weekend on fox, i got established auto racers telling me our suv's are not fast enough to win races. i say they are. watch me prove it. hank' take coming up. (avo) this holiday... ...get the presidential treatment... ...with a special trade-in offer... ...february sixteenth through the twenty-eighth... and let enterprise car sales... fli