jane sanders, the senator's wife. [applause] a reporter at "usa today" and vice chair of the closest speakers committee. skipping over our speaker for a moment. a reporter for bloomberg news and the committee member who organized today's event. thank you. [applause] the chief of staff for senator sanders. congress reporter for bloomberg first word. lacy crawford, jr., and phil contrino, chief analyst at boxoffice.com. [applause] senator bernie sanders is widely known in vermont simply as bernie. he began a life of activism as a student at the university of chicago, where he led a sit in two protest discriminatory housing policies. after graduating and living on an israeli cabinets, he moved to vermont and had a series of jobs in areas ranging from filmmaking to carpentry. he ran and lost as a third-party candidate for several offices before winning a race for mayor of burlington in 1981. his margin of victory was 10 votes. sanders gained popularity by promoting burlington's local businesses, fixing potholes, and bring

senator enzi: sanders. senator sanders: i speak in opposition to this. no other bank is subjected to regular appropriations. it is one way of singling out the one regulator which is a consumer advocate and this amendment would weaken an important agency. the copd has been successful. it has helped consumers who will receive relief from unsafe financial services. it has ordered consumer relief. i would urge a no vote on this of amendment. >> mr. chairman. can i be recognized? senator enzi: senator toomey. senator toomey: i think the senator from georgia is correct. it is unaccountable. it is unique among powerful regulators and having no accountability to congress. it has exceeded its authority because it is not subject to congressional oversight. it is outrageous they are able to operate with the budget they have in the latitude they have without having to come to congress. i think the gentleman from georgia for offering the amendment. i join them. senator enzi: senator kaine has an amendment to offer. senator kaine, i do. it has some bipartisan support.

sanders: ms. murray. ms. murray: i worked very hard to make sure the federal government meets its moral and legal obligations to clean up hanniford as well as similar sites throughout the couldn't thrism department of energy has the responsibility to uphold the legacy responsibilities of our federal government. these sites are the result of more than 50 years nuclear weapon research development and production from the manhattan project in world war ii. i applaud the increase in the budget request for $5.8 billion but it's $200 million less than last year's budget request and still $43 million below what congress appropriated in f.y. 2015 omnibus. funding will be cut at nine of the 16 nuclear waste cleanup sites. i have been crystal clear with my expectation that the federal government meet its milestones at knew cheer waste sites in our country. and the administration under both democratic and republican control has failed to meet that threshold. this is of great importance to me as well as other senators who

[applause] senator bernie sanders sanders is widely known in vermont simply as bernie.e began a life of activism as a student at the university of chicago where he led a sit in to protest discriminatory housing policies. after graduating and living on an israeli cubits, sanders moved to vermont and had a range of jobs from filmmaking to carpentry. he ran and lost as a third-party candidate for several offices before winning a race as mayor of burlington in 1981. his margin of victory was 10 votes. sanders gained popularity by promoting burlington's local businesses fixing potholes, and bringing a minor-league baseball team to down. vermonters elected him to the house in 1990 and the senate in 2007. when sanders arrived on capitol hill, he was the only independent in the house. he has gone on to become the longest serving independent and congressional history. he caucuses with the democrats and he has become the ranking member of the senate budget committee. sanders speaks out frequently on issues he is passionate about thomas such as cutting military spending, taking ac

sanders. mr. sanders: i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: anyone wishing to vote or change their vote? if not the yeas are 45, the nays are 52. the amendment is not agreed to. under the previous orders, there will be a -- there will be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment 386 offered by the senator from vermont, mr. sanders. mr. sanders: mr. president could we have order. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. the senator from vermont. the senate will be in order. a the senate will be in order. the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: senator portman's amendment touches on a very serious issue that i believe has broad bipartisan support the need to deal with children who have serious chronic conditions and, in fact, over three million kids in this country have medically complex health conditions and senator portman appropriately is calling attenti

sanders: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: when we look at budgets, we look essentially at two things. for a start we look at what the budget actually does because it is a set of priorities, and we look at what the budget does not do. any sensible group of people, whether it is a family, whether it's local government, state government, whether it's a business, people sit around the table and say okay, these are our needs, this is what we have got to address or this is no longer relevant or this is wasteful and we've got to get rid of it. that's what a budget process is about. and when you examine the republican budget, it almost seems that they turn that equation upside-down and that they do everything that we should not be doing and they don't do what we should be doing. the overall reality of america that most people understand is the middle class of this country for the last 40 years has been shrinking. yes, we are in a lot better shape today than we w

senator sanders. senator sanders: i am not opposed. i think this amendment touches on exactly the right issues. it's an issue we have been dealing with year after year after year. i would urge senator ayotte to perhaps get some of her colleagues onboard this concept going beyond a -- just a deficit-neutral reserve fund. we need to invest billions of dollars in energy efficiency, weatherization and sustainible energy. her amendment is exactly the right thing. but we have to go beyond a deficit-neutral reserve fund. senator enzi: next would be senator baldwin. senator baldwin: thank you chairman enzi. i would like to bring up the baldwin amendment to strike section 405 of the budget resolution. this amendment is also co-sponsored by senator warner. it's very simple. it would strike section 405 of the chairman's mark which eliminated a point of order against reconciliation legislation that would increase the deficit or reduce a surplus. i can see no good reason why we should be making it easier to increase the debt and deficit that the ma

james sanders, the senator's wife -- jane sanders, the senator's wife. [applause] donna reporter at "usa today," former national press club president, and vice chair of the club speakers committee. speaking over our speaker for a moment reporter for bloomberg news and the speakers committee member who organized today's event. thank you. [applause] >> senator sanders chief of staff. derek wall bank, congress report for bloomberg first word. lacey crawford junior, q. mutation structure for social security works. and philip, vice president and chief analyst at box office.com. [applause] senator bernie sanders is widely known in vermont simply as bernie. he began a life of activism as a student at the university of chicago where he led a sit in to protest discriminatory housing policy. after graduating and living on an israeli kibbutz, sanders moved to vermont and had a series of jobs in areas ranging from filmmaking to carpentry. he ran and lost as a third party candidate for several offices before winning the race for mayor of burlington in 1981. his margi

senator sanders: an important issue. when i was involved in dodd frank, a major piece of financial legislation, we managed to get an amendment for the first time in history in the united states that did not audit the fed in its entirety but did audit the fed during the financial crisis. boy, bloomberg was active in that effort as well. i think they brought forth a lawsuit. what we found out was that during the financial crisis, $16 trillion in zero or low interest loans, was led out of virtually every major financial institution in the united states and central-bank all over the world. $16 trillion, zero or low interest loans. and yet, working families today have to figure out how they will pay 7% to 8% interest rates. in terms of auditing the fed that is legislation -- here is an example of strange bedfellows, together, ron paul and i worked together on that legislation, which we managed to pass some of it in the bill. the idea of auditing the fed does not make sense to me. >> several questions about war and defense we

jane sanders, the senator's wife. [applause] a reporter at "usa today" and vice chair of the closest speakers committee. -- club's speakers committee skipping over our speaker for a moment. reporter for bloomberg news and the committee member who organized today's event. thank you. [applause] and the chief of staff. congress reporter for bloomberg first word. lacy crawford, jr., and phil contrino, first analyst at boxoffice.com. [applause] senator bernie sanders is widely known in vermont simply as bernie. he began a life of activism as a student at the university of chicago where he led a sit-in protest discriminatory housing policies. after graduating and serving on an israeli cabinet, he moved to vermont and had a series of jobs in areas ranging from filmmaking to carpentry. he ran and lost as a third-party candidate for several offices before winning a race for mayor of burlington in 1981. his margin of victory was 10 after graduating and serving on votes. sanders gained popularity by promoting burlington's local

caller: i was trying to work with bernie sanders but he is a day late and a dollar short as far as i'm concerned. i keep getting a million e-mails and it is like, bernie, i am asking you to run for presidency but you do not seem to be trying . i'm giving you inside information that i helped bill clinton with, george bush, and i tried to help these people over the last two presidencies. even barack obama has my work. host: what kind of inside information to provide? caller: i do work on new developing programs, services, and it that are very important to create job opportunities and careers for the average person in the united states of america. my major concern is that people need opportunities and they are not getting them. host: that is going. he mentioned bernie sanders and he is mentioned in this article in "the washington post." john weidner writes that new

senator sanders. >> what senator sessions is doing is focusing on a very important issue, but i think he's approaching it in the wrong way. as i understand it, what he has done is lumped in the quote unquote welfare programs, many programs essential for the middle class and working families of this country, within the umbrella term "unquote welfare, he includes the earned income tax credit, supplemental security income ssi funding for breast and cervical cancer early detection, meals on wheels for seniors, the chip program and many other programs. now, senator sessions is right to point out, as i often do, that we have more people living in poverty today than almost any time in the modern history of america. the very next amendment that is going to be offered i will offer will create millions of jobs to start putting people back to work when they need those jobs. we're going to be talking today about raising the minimum wage to a living wage so people don't need governmental programs talking about pay

senator sanders. >> with offender is doing is focusing on important issue but i think he is approaching it in the wrong way. as i understand it, what he has done his lump in his welfare programs, many programs that are essential for the middle-class in this country per within the umbrella term of welfare, he includes the earned income task credit, supplemental security income ssi funding for breast and cervical cancer, early detection, meals on wheels for seniors, the chip program and many other programs. now, senator sessions is right to point out, as i often do, that we have more people living in poverty today than almost any time in the modern history of america. the very next amendment that is going to be offered i will offer will create millions of jobs to start putting people back to work when they need those jobs. we're going to be talking today about raising the minimum wage to a living wage so people don't need governmental programs talking about pay equity so women workers can get the same w

a leader of the excavations in copan since 1980 is archaeologist william sanders. an objective of archaeological research is to try to reconstruct the whole culture from top to bottom from the economy and technology up to the religion. the problem is that what we find in the field as data is primarily information on technology, on the material culture. you find buildings and pot shards and stone tools and things like that. so how do you move from that data to the organization of society and then to their religion and these other aspects of culture ? and there is only one way to do that. and that is to go to living populations, living cultures that are being studied by ethnographers by our colleagues in cultural anthropology and use them as analogies. keach: in the 1970s, anthropologists documented a society called the kawelka in the highlan of papua new guinea. the kawelka society numbers about 1,000. they could be either a tribe or a chiefdom, because the population limits defining social types are not fixed. here in the highlands, people raise sweet potatoes and

senator bernie sanders join me now. odds of your running increased due to secretary clinton's e-mail troubles? >> no. i think that is an issue that the inside the beltway punditry is interested in but i can tell you in vermont that i think around the rest of the country that is not an issue of major interest. people are worried about how we create millions of jobs how we deal with income and wealth inequality deal with climate change how we deal with the disastrous citizens united supreme court decision i think hillary's e-mail issue is not a major issue. >> il think that bernie sanders as a champion of openness would be bothered by the lack of transparency that seems apparent with . >> i can tell you in the last week we've gotten maybe five, seven calls to my vermont offices. look hillary has her problems i have my problems jeb bush has his, everyone has their problems but i think it's imperative that we focus on why the middle class in this country for 40 years is disappearing the top one tenth of 1% owns more wealth

sanders: mr. president, i want to thank -- the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: i want to thank the senator from rhode island not only for his important remarks today but for the work that he has been doing for years to protect and defend social security. let's be clear about a number of facts. when people jump up and they say social security is going broke not quite true. as senator whitehouse indicated social security can pay out every benefit owed to every eligible american for the next 18 years. when other people jump up and say social security is contributing to the deficit also not quite accurate,s because as everybody knows social security is funded by the payroll tax an independent source of revenue for social security. now, the fact is that for many, many years in a variety of ways my republican colleagues have been tempting to either cut social security or in the extreme case, privatize social security and allow -- force americans to go to wall retirement benefit

sanders: mr. president i wanted to respond and speak as to why i am in opposition to the blunt amendment which requires a point of order for a carbon tax. the scientific community is not in debate. the scientific community tells us that climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, it is caused by a very significant increase in carbon emissions. the scientific community tells us that climate change is already causing devastating problems in our nation and around the world. and what the sign p tsk community tells -- and what the scientific community tells us if we do not as a planet -- not just the united states, china india, the entire world -- if we do not get our act together, the planet that we're going to be leaving for our kids and grandchildren will be substantially less habitable than the planet that we enjoy. we have a moral responsibility to respond to this crisis and we have to use every tool that we can in our arsenal. what does that mean? it means we need to invest heavily in

senator sanders. >> who was on our side. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this is an amendment to create a budget against legislation that would reduce medicare outlays below the fiscal year 2014 level. in other words, a point of order if medicare is cut. in this budget. this is a big difference between the budgets we've presented, the budgets we have presented over time and republican budgets frankly and whether it's called a voucher or supports, the result is the same. that the republican budgets look to dramatic change the programs in ways that threaten senior citizen citizen's benefits and which frankly, we have promised them and so this would say no to those approaches. what i find also very interesting mr. chairman is that in the house, while the house has voted over 50 some times to repeal the affordable care act and take away health care exchanges in the medicare section, two pages later in the house budget, they've put in place health care exchanges for medicare. so, one might say they want obamac

archaeologist william sanders. between 1200 a.d. and 1428 the area was occupied by 40 competing states. occasionally one of these states would conquer some of the others and form a small empire for one or two generations. but then it would collapse again. in 1428, however things changed dramatically. three of these states overthrow their lord form a military alliance and embark on a career of conquest that is to carry them over all of mesoamerica. keach: within less than a century, the aztecs had conquered hundreds of formerly independent states established provincial capitals, and controlled a population of five to six million people. the center of the aztec empire was the city of tenochtitlan an island in the middle of an extensive lake system. today, tenochtitlan is buried becenter of mepic in 1978, workers digging ditches for electric cable hit something hard. it turned out to be a huge stone sculpture depicting an aztec goddess. excavations around the sculpture eventually led to the discovery of a large complex of buildings dir

sanders: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: thank you mr. president. let me just begin by commenting on a few of the thoughts raised by my good friend, senator enzi. senator enzi says that the economy today is not where it should be, and he's right. i don't think anybody thinks that the economy is where it should be in terms of low employment high wages. no debate about that. but i ask the american people to think back six and a half years ago at the end of president bush's term to what the economy was like. at that point we were not gaining the 200,000 jobs a month that we're gaining now. we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. at that point the deficit was not at $480 billion where it is today, it was at $1.4 trillion. at that point the stock market was not soaring as it is today. the american and world's financial system was on the verge of collapse. so let's begin by putting issues into perspective. now, nobody i know thinks that we are where we should be

and sanders said, see that guy down there? and i looked at him and he was about sanders' age but is fit, tan, and he was with all these beautiful people and he was looking up and he said that guy down there, do you know know what he is thinking? we all looked and oh, are we going through this? we just want to get out of the hospital. you know what he is thinking? i looked down and none of us ventured a guess. and sanders says, that guy is thinking, i should have been a doctor. [laughter] >> and this is what we struggle with as physicians. people still view our profession in simple terms but today, i have a more nuanced view of medicine, and doctors are not perfect, and our profession isn't perfect but i do feel that doctors still want to be knights, and i think that there's a lot that we have to go through in the next ten 15, 20 years; we need to figure out a way to reclaim our professionalism, we need to figure out how we want to practice. we need to improve access to medical care. we need to control costs otherwise we're goi

sanders: i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. sanders: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: sanders: i raise a point of order that the amendment is not germane to underlying resolution and therefore violates the budget act of 1974. the presiding officer: the senator from arkansas. perfect cotton: i move to waive the appear -- mr. cotton: i move to waive the applicable provision of the budget act and i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. mr. reed: mr. president? mr. president? mr. president? the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. mr. reed: is there still time available? the presiding officer: there is no time available. mr. reed: thank you. the presiding officer: the clerk will continue to call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote? on this vote the yeas are 48, the nays are 48, three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the the

sanders. i just ask mr. sanders a question, the way i look at it it's identical to my amendment -- >> you can talk into the microphone a little bit for last sentence. >> that is the main point but also includes the language without raising new revenue. to strike that language. essentially what we're doing is agreeing with your basic tenet but we're making it deficit neutral. >> yeah. i would be happy to support the alternative. this san opportunity for us to go on record. it's an important statement for us to make on export promotion. as i said earlier, the intent here is not to decrease spending, increase spending or increase or decrease revenue. with that, i would be willing to accept this as an alternative if my colleagues would like a voice vote. >> you're modifying -- >> yes, i'd modify my amendment. >> i thank senator portman very much. i think we're all interested in increasing exports. >> a voice vote then unless there's an objection. all those in favor say aye. opposed. accepted. >> senator stabenow

sanders denies the allegations. he's set to go on trial in may. >>> new this morning, a fraternity kicked off campus at the university of oklahoma has hired a lawyer and may sue the university. steven jones has been hired to represent the sae chapter. they were kicked off campus after video emerged showing members singing a racist chant. jones says he's outraged that the sae members have been branded as racists and bigots. the football players walked on to the field arm in arm to show their solidarity, and their mission is to raise awareness and he said thed the culture of exclusivity >>> the teen who nearly abducteda toddler may have attempted a similar act in the past. this video is chilling. a 15-year-old boy grabbed a 22 month old boy from a stroller. the toddler's siblings then ran after him. on wednesday, that teen was arrested. one woman says that same teen tried walking off with her 11-year-old autistic son last summer. he escaped less than a block away. >> i'm like, hey, what are you doing? and he go, oh i

sanders: when we look at budgets, we look essentially at two things. for a start we look at what the budget actually does because it is a set of priorities, and we look at what the budget does not do. any sensible group of people, whether it is a family, whether it's local government, state government, whether it's a business, people sit around the table and say okay, these are our needs, this is what we have got to address or this is no longer relevant or this is wasteful and we've got to get rid of it. that's what a budget process is about. and when you examine the republican budget, it almost seems that they turn that equation upside-down and that they do everything that we should not be doing and they don't do what we should be doing. the overall reality of america that most people understand is the middle class of this country for the last 40 years has been shrinking. yes, we are in a lot better shape today than we were when president bush left office, but really unemployment is 11%. we have the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industriali

the sanders immediately began researching cancer treatment options. >> and i said, "lord just lead us. show me where we need to go. and i started searching and cancer treatment center just kept popping up. and i said, "this is where we need to take him." >> announcer: after a year of traveling around to different doctors, the sanders decided that having all treatment under one roof was exactly what they were looking for. cancer treatment centers of america in tulsa arranged for terry and his parents to be there within a week. >> when i got there, i was shocked because on my appointment time everybody was in the same room waiting on me. that was a turning point. you're part of the team. you may be the patient, but you're just as integral as the next person standing there next to them. >> announcer: terry met with his team of doctors, including his oncologist dr. ritwick panicker. >> terry sanders is a young man in his 30s who was diagnosed with primary mediastinal b-cell lymphoma. it's a disease in which the lymph nodes in front of our heart enlarge and become malignant. fortunately fo

sanders: mr. president, how many you how much time on the democratic side remaining? the presiding officer: the democrat side has five minutes remaining. mr. sanders: mr. president over the last several months actually i've had three town meetings in vermont with young people on this issue. and it is an issue of huge concern to them and their parents and as senator booker just mentioned we are competing with countries all over the world who say to their young people if you have the ability and if you have the desire, you can go to college regardless of your income. in germany, tuition for college is now zero. many scandinavian countries it is now zero. what they are saying to the young people, we need you to get the best education to help us create the strongest economy, to create the jobs we need. how insane is it for us to literally discourage bright young people from attending college, or to tell others that if they graduate college or graduate school, they're going to be $70,000 $8,000, $100 i

sessions number one sander number one, grassley number one and sanders number two. will you also just -- if everybody has their material together i will call sessions number one for 30 seconds and the other side gets a 32nd. i think i see confusion on both sides unless there is an objection people start after words and have a lunch break and hopefully everybody can grab something to eat after time. [inaudible conversations] in a come back at 1:30. at 1:00 there will be a republican caucus, too. just the ones on the committee. continuing continue in the amendment process until the offering and months until the vote is called. that will give people time to prepare. >> 1:00. senator ayotte. >> we will go back to offering. >> there was some confusion on both sides. we will give you more time to prepare. >> i am offering an amendment and i'm going to be making one on the revision to the amendment because it is an amendment -- this is an amendment to strengthen our civilian workforce that works on national security and military issues. the language that is being handed ou

john: what do we think about bernie sanders?proud liberalism in moral to keynes about how we treat our citizen. >> i don't think he would ever win. i definitely would like to see him run. john: does everyone know who martin o'malley is? does anyone? he is the former governor of ireland -- of d-maryland. does everyone think hillary clinton can win the presidency? do you feel like you know where she stands? >> i don't. i was a big supporter of hillary in 2008 and i was kind of trying to refresh myself because we all know that she is pretty much the only viable democratic candidate at this point. i was trying to think of what she is trying to accomplish and i don't know. mark: what you think? campbell: they are really tough on her, especially the e-mail. this is what happens. any mistake you make it amplified. mark: up next, some twitter secrets revealed. ♪ campbell: the white house just announced that president obama finally called bib.i. mark: back to march madness. pimm: hello. i am pimm fox. here is what i'm taking stock of. eu

lee sanders, we're all out there for the reasons you talked about. but on employee free choice, she was one of the original sponsors on free choice. she was always out there when there was an issue of fundamental fairness. this is the very beginning of this process, but i'm glad she's listening and diving into what do we need to do. >> that's what candidates are supposed to do. the candidates are supposed to listen. i think the union folk in this country are sick and tired of being second fiddle after giveing support in winning states for the white house. in your position is hillary for charter schools? is she going to run the country with the philosophy of rahm emanuel and have every union person against them? rahm emanuel is very aligned to hillary clinton. what about that? >> what about making sure -- like she did in new york -- having equity? we want to make sure public schools are fixed, not closed. that there's real community engagement engagement. you're totally right. we have to have a president that doesn't demonize and doesn't scapegoat tea

john: what about bernie sanders?he has moral dictates about how we treat our citizens. >> it would be hard to conceive of him as winning, but i definitely like to see him run. john: does everybody know martin o'malley? >> he's a governor, right? john: he's the former governor of maryland. does everybody in the room think that hillary clinton can win the presidency? >> yes. >> yes. john: no one disagrees. you feel like you know or hillary clinton stands? >> i don't and i was a supporter of her before obama won the primaries in 2008. i was trying to refresh myself because we know we know that she is the only viable democratic candidate at this point. i was trying to think of what she is trying to accomplish here. i don't know. i would like to hear more about what she plans to do. mark: what do you think? campbell: they were tough on her. this is what happens when you don't have a primary. anyone mistake is amplified and magnified. mark: if they like her they would like to have a challenge. some twitter secrets revealed

i'm joined by senator bernie sanders, one of 30 lawmakers who will be boycotting netanyahu's speech toongress tomorrow. you're a democrat senator -- independent, you she say. >> independent. >> you caucus with the democrats and number of democrats are also boycotting boycotting. tell me why you decided not to attend. >> despite the prime minister's assertions obviously was taking place is extremely partisan and in fact unprecedented. the speaker of the house, john boehner, invited mr. netanyahu and forgot to consult with the president of the united states who leads our nation in terms of foreign policy. and i think that's wrong and i think it's a very dangerous precedent. second of all, andrea no great secret that mr. netanyahu is in a tough re-election race in israel. that election is in two weeks and i do not want to see the congress of the united states being used as a prop or photo-op opportunity, not for him or any other leader around the world who is running for re-election. >> have you felt any pressure because of your decision not to attend? >> no. in my state i've gotten calls

, and -- bernie sanders and martin o'malley. speaking of, here's the maryland governor talking about the challenges of hrc. governor o'malley: that inevitable frontrunner is inevitable until he or she is no longer inevitable. i think we will see a conversation about how to restore middle-class opportunity. john: from hillary's point of view, how she looks at things, would it be better for her to have a credible challenger or challengers, or better off with none of that and going to go with the press? mark: she will get martin o'malley helping her out. to his base: governor, but behind his back i call him unemployed. he's close to his faith. i call him governor, but behind his back i call him unemployed. he's close friends with the clintons. the role he will serve will be in the debate and discussion not attacking her, but giving her a sparring partner. john: i was interviewing him this morning and i asked him what kind of campaign are you going to run if you run this campaign? will you run to win coming in the things that people

townshipch the mraep with two people on board brandywine airport went down at the intersection of sanders lane and andrew drive. both the pilot and passenger were killed. >> vernon odom is live near the scene and joins us with the latest. the vernon. >> good evening, many questions linger here at the this hour in west goshen. was this a recreational weekend flight or up instructional session. no official words from authorities yet this tragedy occurred on a brisk, clear day for flying. >> authorities say this piper cherokee pa 2 crashed through intersection of sanders lane and andrew drive in west show shen less than 2 miles from the brandywine airport where the flight originated. two were killed, one the pilot. >> it was observed from the area that the plane took off from brandy win airport. shortly after taking off the plane sputtered and took a nosedive and came into the wodz behind us. >> the local fire department squink wished the fire. this man lives in apartment near the crash scene. >> i heard a bang like a big bang. >> like a crash. >> all relevant agencies launched their officia

senator bernie sanders, always great to have you with us. i appreciate your time tonight.ight, my friend. that's "the ed show." "politics nation" with reverend al sharpton starts now. >> geek, ed.ood evening, ed, thanks to you for tuning in. breaking news a guilty plea from the armed intruder who got deep into the white house. omar gonzalez could spend up to a year and a half in prison and will stay behind bars until he is sentenced this summer. in a string of high profile scandals plaguing the agency this one has always stood out. authorities had numerous chances

unit of deutsche bank and sander has it rejected. the big winner may be citigroup which saw its stock initially rise in after hours training after its capital plan was approved a big change from a year ago when it failed the annual test. kayla tausche joins us now with more on that. it is a big win for citi kayla. >> it is. of course you remember last year when citigroup was rejected on qualitative issues and mike korback said he wanted to take the entirety of 2014 to fix those issues and citigroup by many measures was best in class when capital levels came through in the stress test. and in the form of being able to raise its dividends to 5 cents a share and $7.8 billion buyback. previous year only done $1.2 billion. so this is multiple of what been doing before. >> let's talk about how the banks are doing so well. deutsche bank and sander. got a conditional approval. what was wrong there and do depositors or investors in those banks have anything to really worry about? >> well the capital levels tyler, on the whole looked okay. a c

i agree with senator sanders that we have a problem. it has been moving in this direction for a number of years and middle americans, working americans here. the federal government spends now around $750 million on welfare and poverty programs with state contributions at the million dollars a year and money is spread out over 80 programs administered by vast bureaucracy with little oversight and no guiding moral vision about the purpose ultimately of our government actions. only a miniscule 1% of the spending is dedicated to job training while job training is fragmented into 47 different programs throughout the federal government. who among us can say there isn't a more effective, compassionate way to spend this $1 trillion each year. we could spend $30,000 a year on every household living in poverty and still spend half of what our current welfare bureaucracy consumes each year. so what i would urge colleagues is let's create a system, a deficit reserve system that will facilitate reform of these programs. my vision is all government a

we begin with nbc's kerry sanders in new orleans. >> reporter: two minutes of sheer chaos in concourse b at the new orleans airport friday night. >> there was just a lot of screaming and everyone was running and hiding behind stairs and everything. >> reporter: panicked travelers ran and ducked for cover from a man deputies have now identified at 63-year-old richard white. witnesses who recorded the rampage say white began spraying insect repellant at tsa officers and passengers at the security screening area. seemingly aiming for their eyes. he then pulled a machete from his waistband and began swinging. >> he swung the machete several times. the agent actually was able to prevent him from swinging it even more times by striking him with a piece of luggage. >> reporter: 56-year-old tsa officer carol rochelle, who's also a grandmother, took charge. telling passengers to take cover. that's when he took aim at her. as he chased her an armed deputy pulled her gun. >> i saw her starting to back up and then shoot him like three shots. >> reporter: she was so close she thought she was hit by

nbc's kerry sanders has more. >> reporter: it's a mystery that harkens back to an ugly past. a black man found hanging from a tree limb, a bedsheet used as a noose. 54-year-old james otis byrd had been missing for two weeks when his body was discovered deep in the woods near port gibson, mississippi. >> it's just like all of a sudden, bam. we don't do stuff like this, not these days. >> if the evidence said that he was lynched, we're going to seek that person out and try to find who they are and try to get a conviction on them. >> reporter: byrd had served time in prison for killing a woman during a robbery but was paroled in 2006. law enforcement sources tell nbc news byrd had recent financial problems. he was last seen leaving a casino march 2nd and was reported missing days later. while investigators are leaning towards suicide, the fbi says it's too early to say. >> we're really trying to paint a picture as to what was going on, both personally and professionally to help us further identify a potential reason. >> reporter: officials say among the clues that they're workin

i agree with senator sanders we have a problem. i think we all agree we have a problem and it's been moving in this direction a number of years years. middle working americans are being hammered here. the federal government spends $750 million on maintenance-tested welfare and poverty programs. with state contributions, a million dollars a year, the money spread out over 80 programs administered by vast bureaucracy with little oversight and no guiding moral vision about the purpose ultimately of our government action. only 1% of this spending is dedicated to job training while job training is fragmented into 47 different programs throughout the federal government. who among us can say there isn't a more effective compassionate way to spend this 1$1 trillion each year? we could spend $30,000 a year on every household living in poverty and still spend half of what our current welfare bureaucracy consumes each year. what i would urge colleagues let's create a system a deficit neutral reserve system that will facilitate reform of these

>> i don't know what kind of campaign omailie will run or webb, but i think if bernie sanders decides-- i've worked for him, he's never attacked an opponent, never run an negative ad. >> how by comparison ads? >> no, he's going to run against something, the enormous greed that's strangling the middle class. >> who is he talking about? >> the billionaires that are buying -- >> no, which politicians? >> it's not going to be against hillary clinton. they have real differences and records that are different. for example, he voted against the iraq war, so there are drchszs, but he's not good to run a campaign, if he decides to run, against her. he's going to run against what he thinks -- >> other than bernie sanders, and i'm sure he will -- >> it's a different kind of campaign not mentioning your opponent's name, but the three that you brought up in the intro, there's no reason for them to jump in negatively right now when the presses doing it for them. >> that's a good point. >> they've all been introduced to the public positively, so why go negative right now when there's no purpose to i

our senators leahy and sanders would love to see you. so please consider coming to vermont. senator cruz: i will confess, i know both of your senators well. and listen, i will say bernie sanders, i at least respect that he admits he is a socialist. i will give him credit for candor. i actually respect someone that, as you all know, sanders ran as a socialist as a line on the ballot. i can respect someone who is candid and what they are doing much more than many of the politicians who get elected pretending to believe in commonsense conservative values and they go ahead and vote exactly the same as a socialist would vote. i love vermont, it is wonderful great i will confess there is something about the 2016 calendar that orders the timing people visit various states. [laughter] >> senator cruz, you are president crews, what are you going to do with the -- to deal with the isis threat? senator cruz: a great question. isis is the face of evil. they are crucifying christians. they are beheading children. they are using race as a rep in of war. a few months ago, i was sitting dow