joining us now is democratic senator ron wyden of oregon. he is the ranking member on the senate finance committee and also the author of the new book. it takes chutzpah, it takes chutzpah how to fight fearlessly for progressive change. senator, good morning. thank you so much for being here. thanks for having me back. congratulations on the book. i do want to start with this new bombshell, new york times reporting, and a little bit more of what? of what they put into their story. it was july 13th, 2024, a humid summer afternoon just before 4:00. mr. schumer, the democratic leader of the senate, was about to make a blunt case to mr. biden that he needed to drop his bid for a second term if there were a secret ballot among democratic senators, mr. schumer would tell the president no more than five would say he would should consider continue running. what is your reaction to this? and did you feel at this time that the president should have stopped his bid? >> well, first of all, chuck schumer and joe biden have a long relationship. chuck was

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well, this week on book tv's after words program, oregon democratic senator ron wyden discusses his newest book, it takes chutzpah how to fight fearlessly for progressive change. he was interviewed by wall street journal congressional reporter natalie andrews. here's a preview. i decided when i went into public service and maybe when i'm done, my wife always gets half. what? what's your husband going to do? you know, she says he's going to shoot baskets and drink chocolate milk with his kids. and i always say, maybe i'll think i didn't do it right. but i decided early on that the best approach was to come up with good policy, good ideas and then work like hell to get them done. if you don't get them done, then they still don't happen. but what really breaks down around here is too often people do their politics first. and every week of, oh, boy, what do we do? let's go out and try to think up a good idea. and i decided that i wouldn't do it that way. and that's why, you know, finding good ideas and i start with the proposition that good ideas is are the foundation of principle of bipartisa

they're about ron wyden and running for president. there is fact my take in off the table. any prospect that at least one united states senator is definitely not going to be running. yeah out all right over. you're not the first person who's told me that and then changed mind. so we'll keep chasing you in the halls. but i did enjoy i mean the book talks about sports it talks about your basketball dreams and weaves in kind of what you learned playing sports into, you know, your real the real basketball story that i don't you as much in the book but it's a statement i feel about i went to calarts santa barbara on a basketball scholarship. the book says all i wanted to growing up was to play in nba. kind of ridiculous, you know, proposition, you know, really but i got an offer, gonzaga, which is a big basketball powerhouse and eventually we put it up on the wall and people said, well, why'd you do it. and i said, if i had gone to gonzaga, i would have sat on the bench even more than i did it called santa barbara. but the world would have seen that a jewish could play with the

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ron wyden, the second-most senior senate democrat and a leading progressive voice, offers something oftrategy guide in a new book, "it takes chutzpah: how to fight fearlessly for progressive change." amna nawaz recently sat down with wyden. amna: thank you for being here. sen. wyden: good to be with you. amna: you write a lot about your family, escaping nazi germany in the 1930's and how this inspired the way you live and work. this idea being central to how you do your work. how do you define it? sen. wyden: it is inherently good and it is the indispensable instrument to have a better life in america. it's about grit, it's about nerve, it's about taking on big odds. i was just a kid who had sort of had my start working with senior citizens after i was dreaming of playing in the nba and that didn't work out. a senior citizen said why don't you run for congress? i was 29 years old. i had never run for anything, but one of them looked at me and said nobody could say no to their grandmother and i got elected to congress. amna: you lay out how this value has really driven you over your fou

that clobbers people of modest means oregon senator ron wyden said workers and small businesses would have to pay more taxes all through the campaign. we heard they were at the foreign countries were going to pay it. i think baloney. but bessent disagreed saying foreign countries will continue cutting prices to maintain market share. democrats also accused bessent of avoiding paying roughly 1 million dollars in taxes related to his hedge fund. >> besson told the committee it's a lower number and the matter is currently in litigation. if confirmed, i have agreed to shutter my from republicans signaled they're ready to support his confirmation in washington. i'm jessi tenure. we have just learned former speaker of the house nancy pelosi will not be attending president-elect donald trump's inauguration on monday. >> a spokesperson for pelosi confirming this to kron 4 pelosi joins former first lady michelle obama has the second high profile figure on the democratic side to announce that they're going to be skipping monday ceremony. the spokesperson did not provide a reason for pelosi's re

. >> now on book tv's interview program afterwards, democratic senator ron wyden from oregon shares his thoughts on pursuing progressive goes on strong alliances and hard work. he is interviewed by natalie andrews. afterwards is a weekly interview program

some democrats say they have concerns with the current bill like senator ron wyden. there are provisions in today's legislation that i would never vote for the final package, but other democrats have committed to voting for it. and senator john fetterman says he thinks it will be enough to pass if we as a party as democrats. we can't come up with 7 rebotes them. i would describe that as one of the reasons why we lost the final vote in the senate could happen as soon as next week in washington. i'm hannah brandt. the department of government efficiency known as led by elon musk and vivek ramaswamy. >> are hiring a quote, very small number of people for full-time salaried positions. a post on x course formally known as twitter calls for candidates to send a message to the department's account with a few bullet points detailing their abilities along with their phone number. the doge account also says it is hiring for human resources, it and finance and candidates should include a resume along with an explanation for why they want to join the department. >> all right. ti

. >> and, caitlin, i do want to mention ron wyden just tweeted that his staff has confirmed reports that medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. at the very least here, there's so much confusion over this. what do you make of this? >> well, and that's why there are so many questions because saying, you know, that individuals who who get this, this money won't be affected. there's a lot of groups that get this money that then disperse it to individuals. and so that's been a big question here when it comes to these programs or things like homeless shelters, disaster response, veterans organizations as well, that money isn't given to an individual vet, for example, but it is given to an organization that helps these people. and so that's why there have been so many questions about this, as well as with the portals and how that shakes out. i think that sounds like it came from a lot of confusion overnight, from people saying they weren't sure exactly what this guidance meant. it's a very comprehensive document that lists all of the agencies t

he defended trump's tariff push is something that will be sound, but democratic senator ron wyden saidrt average americans, people who can afford it to the least. i want to play their exchange. >> it's going to be paid for by workers and small businesses. so your response? >> i would respectfully disagree. foreign manufacturers, especially china, especially china, which is trying to export their way out of their current economic malaise. they will continue cutting prices to maintain market share. >> that's an academic view of it. but what i know is the history of this is it clobbers people of modest means. geoff: this is a -- amna: this is a critical debate not just for this country. bessent was measured throughout and there was a feeling he has on a path to confirmation. the top environmental officer also faced senators. correspondent: we are talking about lee zeldin, a former congressman from new york and ran for governor, but he has seen as someone who is more moderate. he has been a strong trump supporter. trump has made it clear he wants to dismantle the epa at rollback protection

some democrats say they have concerns with the current bill like senator ron wyden. there are provisions in today's legislation that i would never vote for the final package, but other democrats have committed to voting for it. and senator john fetterman says he thinks it will be enough to pass if we as a party as democrats. we can't come up with 7 rebotes them. i would describe that as one of the reasons why we lost the final vote in the senate could happen as soon as next week in washington. i'm hannah brandt. still ahead on the news at 4 >> okay. take a look at this deal is part of sonoma county sheriff's office says k 9 unit me. >> sniffed out a suspected drug dealer stash on wednesday morning. investigators say they carried out a search warrant to the man's home in santa rosa for allegedly dealing large amounts of meth in the area. according to police, do alerted to the presence of drugs in the kitchen, revealing around 4 pounds of suspected methamphetamine. police say that without do, detectives would most likely not have found those drugs. oh, boy, duke. >> fa

it was a big line of questions from senator ron wyden, for example, senator bennet pushed him on thisue because trump promised he would put tariffs on goods coming in from mexico, canada, china, and democrats are worried that it's going to fall on americans to pay for it. watch this exchange. >> all through the campaign we heard they weren't -- foreign countries would pay it. that's bologna. it will be paid for by workers and small businesses. so your response? >> yes, senator, i would respectfully disagree, and the history of tariffs and tariff theory, optimal tariff theory does n support what you are saying. >> reporter: bessent said that irs program that makes it easier to file taxes will remain in effect for this year. he also gave trump credit for ushering the golden age of a new economy. >> and julie, the choices for secretary of the interior and administrator of the epa spaced questions over climate and energy policy. what did they say? >> reporter: doug burgum and lee zeldin getting grilled by democrats on the heels of the wildfires. how he will make sure that climate change p

so we will see what happens. >> willie, let's bring in democratic senator ron wyden of oregon. senate intelligence committee, which is set to hear from cia director nominee john ratcliffe today, as well as director of national intelligence nominee tulsi gabbard in the coming days. and senator wyden is out with a new book titled it takes chutzpah how to fight fearlessly for progressive change. senator, good morning. good to have you with us in new york. we'll get to the book in just a second. i'm curious about your busy week ahead, though. as i mentioned, you're on both the finance and intelligence committees. let's start with what we saw yesterday as sort of a tone setter for how republicans in particular, are going to behave in these hearings. what did you see in that room? >> well, first of all, willie, the trump people are just making a mockery out of the whole advise and consent process, this idea that senators aren't going to get the information from the fbi and remember what's going on here. these fbi folks are going to be working for trump here in a couple of weeks. so th

a pair of democratic lawmakers, including senator ron wyden of oregon, say that medicaid portals are down in all 50 states. these are payment portals. following the pause, it's a pause the white house said would take effect at 5 p.m. eastern, and it could impact millions of people across the country. in a memo, the acting director for the office of management and budget writes this, this temporary pause will provide the administration time to review agency programs and determine the best uses of the funding for those programs, consistent with the law and the president's priorities. and while the memo does not specify which projects will be impacted, it does not say that it will not affect social security or medicare benefits, nor does it include assistance provided directly to individuals. some assurances, though, we did just get from the white house press secretary about some of those. still, the uncertainty here, it's causing a lot of turmoil for some organizations that rely on federal support. meals on wheels, for one, which is known so well, it serves more than 2 million senior c

. >> i'm going to make sure we expose that senator ron wyden, who sits on several very important committees coming up on 30 years in the us senate and author of a new book. >> it takes chutzpah. thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks for having me, chris. >> that does it for this special hour of coverage. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening alex. nice to see you again. >> i can't get enough. it does take chutzpah. it does take chutzpah. >> does. >> it does. it's a great title where he found time to write a book. i don't even know. thank you, chris, and thank you, senator. as always, there are still some significant details to be worked out, but as of today. negotiators for hamas and israel have reached a cease fire agreement that commits to returning the remaining israeli hostages and ultimately ending the 15 month long war in gaza that has killed at least 46,000 people. people took to the streets in both israel and gaza to celebrate the deal after it was announced. the agreement will still need to be ratified by the israeli cabinet before it can be implemented, and th

joining us now is democratic oregon senator ron wyden, a member of the intelligence committee and alsof the new book, it takes chutzpah how to fight fearlessly for progressive change. what a great title. congratulations on the book. you talk about that in a moment, but so you would introduced legislation earlier to delay the ban. and there's a lot of support, senator schumer and others for delaying the ban, which was just approved. everyone knew the date, the date of january 19th was embedded in the legislation. it was signed. so what's changed, other than the fact that just today the treasury has sanctioned other chinese actors for the telecom and treasury hacks? you know, i was i was the one to blow the whistle on salt typhoon because we wrote a law, incredibly, 20 years ago that said that the phone companies were supposed to have real security. >> and it wasn't until people caught, most recently, the chinese climbing around in our telecommunications systems that we had the. >> so with all this aggressive chinese behavior online and the fact that they have so much influence in terms

in fact, there was significant pushback from the top democrat on the senate finance committee, ron wyden, who said that this puts us back and said that this is there's been a widespread belief that this would raise costs on consumers, even though republicans came out of this hearing defending him and defending his remarks, despite republicans own general philosophy of supporting free trade and raising concerns about tariffs, they have a different view in the trump era now. but in talking to the democrats coming out of the hearing, they were sharply critical of bason's remarks. >> basically offered up an academic mumbo jumbo to try to justify the trump across the board tariffs that are going to clobber our workers and our small businesses, and i believe it will spur more inflation. >> i'm going to give him full consideration. i completely disagree with some of his facts about characterization of the trump tax cuts. that's just factually not true. but i'm open and that last comment is significant. >> mark warner, a democrat on the committee, said, quote, i am open, meaning he is open to vo

oregon senator ron wyden said, quote, his politicization of intelligence, including through selective releases to political allies, damages the country and undermines the intelligence community he purports to lead, end quote. this week, ratcliffe will once again enter the senate confirmation arena, this time tapped to lead the cia. according to reporting, ratcliffe is not expected to face major difficulties being confirmed. when trump announced his intentions to nominate ratcliffe in november. ken dilanian reported, quote, former intelligence officers who worked with ratcliffe said he is a relatively constructive figure compared with some other potential trump appointees who are more hostile to the spy agencies. but it is unclear whether ratcliffe would be ready to push back against proposals from trump's team that could politicize the country's most powerful intelligence agency, end quote. after a quick break, i'll discuss what ratcliffe, at the helm of the cia could mean for the intelligence community. with david rohde, nbc news senior executive editor for senyour best defense again

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for collecting tariffs, so we will see what happens. >> willie, let's bring in democratic senator ron wydene committee, which will hear from trump's treasury secretary pick tomorrow. senator wyden, also a member of the senate intelligence committee, which is set to hear from cia director nominee john ratcliffe today, as well as director of national intelligence nominee tulsi gabbard in the coming days. and senator wyden is out with a new book titled it takes chutzpah how to fight fearlessly for progressive change. senator, good morning. good to have you with us in new york. we'll get to the book in just a second. i'm curious about your busy week ahead, though. as i mentioned, you're on both the finance and intelligence committees. let's start with what we saw yesterday as sort of a tone setter for how republicans in particular, are going to behave in these hearings. what did you see in that room? >> well, first of all, willie, the trump people are just making a mockery out of the whole advise and consent process, this idea that senators aren't going to get the information from the fbi and r

and on afterwards, the author of "it takes chutzpah," senator ron wyden discusses achieving your goalsough hard work and focus. find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime at tipi.org -- i look tv.org -- at booktv.org. host: bart jansen joins us now. i would like to start on the january 6. at this point, is there anyone convicted of some crime related to january 6 that has not had their sentence pardoned or commuted by president trump? guest: i think that is right, the work of the pardon was very broad, basically pardoning anyone with any actions on january 6 at the capital, with the exception of the 14 commutations, and he said he may review those and come back and pardon them. host: what is the difference? guest: pardon his full release from the charges and any punishment stemmed from them, commutation is shortening a sentence. all the people in prison are in the midst of being released. host: we have heard about the january 6 investigations, one of the biggest in justice department history, are there any pieces still pending or are all of those wiped away? gue

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yesterday with the treasury secretary nominee from the top democrat on the senate finance committee, ron wyden[video clip] >> it is a tariff. you can call it whatever you would like in terms of trying to gussy it up, they are going to be paid for by workers and small businesses. all through the campaign, we heard foreign country stay we are going to pay it. that is baloney. it is going to be paid by workers and small businesses. your response. >> senator, i respectfully disagree. the history of tariffs and optimal tariff theory does not support what you are saying. traditionally, we see that if we were to use a number that has been thrown around in the press of 10%, then traditionally, the currency appreciates by 4%, so the 10% is not passed through. then we have various elasticities, consumer preferences may change. finally, foreign manufacturers, especially china, which is trying to export their weight out of their current economic malaise, it will continue cutting prices to maintain market share. [end video clip] host: scott bessent, the president-elect elect stick to serve yesterday on the

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and that caused some pushback from the top democrat, ron wyden. >> he basically offered up an academic mumbo jumbo to try to justify the trump across the board tariffs that are going to clobber our workers and our small businesses. >> i think president trump recognizes that there is no such thing as free and fair trade, especially with china. the cheats routinely and doesn't play by the rules about canada and mexico, too. well, we've got a free trade agreement with both of those. and so that any tariffs would be bound by that, we're going to trade around the world. >> we're going to continue to trade with china. we're going to continue to trade with europe, with africa, you know, unless we've got sanctions on them like russia, we're not going to trade with them. >> and those last two comments coming from gop senators showing you that they are not concerned with the trump's threat to impose these widespread tariffs, even though many of them have been opposed to the idea of tariffs and have supported the idea of free trade for many years in the past. but, brianna, this is also just shows

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that has been one of the criticisms that came from the top democrat on the committee, ron wyden, momentssaying that he believes that those costs will be passed on to consumers and to businesses. that is actually besson pushed back on that notion in this open hearing and signing a lot with donald trump on this issue. so this is one of several nominees that are expected to be to move rather quickly, potentially as soon as next week. we could here see some of these nominees be confirmed on the senate floor. and also some of the more controversial ones like pete hegseth, pam, pamela, there's signs that republicans are in good shape on that as well. some of the gop swing votes indicating they are on board. now. i just talked to senator john curtice of utah, who says he is going to support this nomination. so a good sign for donald trump in getting his cabinet filled. >> yeah, that's actually really notable that that senator curtis is saying that he was the one he was one of the ones we weren't really sure about. manu raju. thank you so much. we'll be right back. >> super man, the christopher