public citizens have been around for nearly 50 years founded by ralph nader. we work on a wide range of issues to advance the public interest and we are very concerned about too much concentrated and corporate power. done a lot for all five of our decades focused on keeping our democracy and improving governmental ethics . at a big attention for us. individuals d by and foundations we don't take any money from corporations or the government . >> presidents signed recently and executive order. at that set the following, respect former appointees from lobbying their former agencies for two years. it has restrictions on shadow lobbying and a golden parachute fan for incoming appointees. let's begin with the first ee restriction of former appointees from lobbying their former agency for two years. who does this apply to? >> it's applying to the political appointees of the biden administration, the top people go in so county officials and people belowthe doing confirmation by the senate as well as top white house employees . and the first division that talking abou

public citizens have been around for nearly 50 years founded by ralph nader. we work on a wide range of issues

moose party, alabama's segregationist governor george wallace, billionaire ross perot, and activist ralph naderrom vastly different political agendas, but they shared some common traits. barry: typically, the party needs a charismatic leader at the top. then there needs to be a set of issues, or maybe one core issue, that the major parties are not addressing. joie: and you also need money. it is -- especially running for president. if we're thinking about a presidential campaign, it is a massive undertaking simply to get on the ballot in all 50 states. joie: a massive undertaking, but in a time of unprecedented political upheaval, could independent voices finally force real change in the political landscape? for "matter of fact," i'm joie chen in lancaster, pennsylvania. announcer: next, president biden promised immediate change at our border. but thousands of migrants hoping to call america home are still ♪ soledad: president joe biden has delivered on a campaign promise to introduce sweeping immigration reform. he ended trump's travel ban on mostly muslim and african countries, paused constru

ralph nader made the attempt but he eventually was corrupt.ou lost your college liberals in the 60's and 70's and now you have a new crop of people who feel like conservatives are not worth their time. host: robert weissman, your response? guest: there is a lot there. public citizen is a nonpartisan organization. we don't just say that, we mean it. our history has been working with democrats and republicans and independents. it has become more difficult in the past decades as congressional partisanship has become more extreme. i would not say infect the american public has become more polarized, i think that is a myth. even though party polarization israel. if you asked -- is real. if you ask americans what they care about, there is uniformity. people support raising the minimum wage across-the-board. for support taking measures to contact the environment across-the-board. the support taking aggressive measures to lower drug prices 90% across-the-board. they support doing things against corporate criminals, take down wall street, click down ex

ralph nader and bruce fein have drawn up a list of 12 real impeachable offenses, not just a shakedown, but of course, i did the democratic party has been complicit in this administration. they could have impeached trump the first week, jumped on the emoluments clause alone. perpetuation of nine wars, if you count yemen, that were never declared by congress. but they did not do it because they saw trump as a fund-raising tool. the media has made tons of money off of trump. as was pointed out, the digital platforms love trump as essentially keeping people on their platforms. again, profit-driven. and now we have ended up in the final week of the trump administration with people attempting to respond to the deterioration of the american political system and the judiciary and the checks and balances and everything else. think, clearly, if we coldly read what trump said to his supporters, he called for people -- he did not call for people to break into the capitol and take people hostage. amy: certainly he and his family in the speeches alone at this rally come as he talked about he was wi

ralph nader hasta the election -- lost the election when the bush election took place.re was a concession. you areling! -- smiling! this is not funny. guest: while i totally respect your opinion, i do not think hillary clinton still to this day has conceded. the lincoln project are not republicans. they are members of the consultant class who are making more money trying to pretend didn't play this role that they are republicans trying -- attacking trump. i encourage you to watch c-span tomorrow and see what happens on the house and senate floor. we will be excited to see the american people first seeing the evidence and for that to play out in a direction that president-elect joe biden willlly exists -- we address that and cross that bridge when we come to that point, but right now we are not at that place. i encourage everyone to go into tomorrow and be willing to hear facts. guest: -- host: two weeks from now the vice president elect will be sworn in. what will your group do after that? guest: i think that we are all a little bit in need of a break, all of us. 21re w

we got ralph nader.d, we got to get together and mobilize and politicize and create, you know, certainly keep ourselves from being washed away. but then lets create a counter establishment. of course he became the avatar godfather of that. he got famous in the '60s. five yeasimply, all that times" matters is prit all that matters is profits. not racial equity, not environmental justice, not anything else that you liberal ceos may be thinking of. that was really a call to arms. at the end of 1970 at the moment of great flux. it went from there. a year later louis powell just before richard nixon named him to the supreme court had -- he had gotten riled and frightened and hysterical. he was a low key establishment democrat lawyer. he wrote this memo commissioned by the u.s. chamber of commerce to do so laying out a plan for here's how we influence the media. here's how we influence academia. here's how we have to make ceos become political fighters for free market capitalism. and then charles koch came alo

let me say about ralph nader who i worked with directly for 12 years and continue to work in your -- >> we take you like to capitol hill from to hear from senate majority leader chuck schumer and other democratic leaders. >> let me keep my mask on, sorry. there you go. that's the yiddish. you thought it was noodles. that's gross. i think they're something like noodles that has a similar word. all right, good afternoon everybody. thank you for joining us. i want to thank our great leadership team, durbin, murray and stefan out for joining us as well. we had a very good virtual caucus meeting one hour ago. we are all energized by the opportunities that are ahead with the new senate majority. our entire caucus agrees we must have big, strong, bold action to deal with this crisis for the last six years later mcconnell and the republicans turn the senate into a legislative graveyard. now that leader mcconnell has relented on his demand that was preventing descendent from moving forward with an organ signing resolution we can begin work to help the american people get out of this crisis an