from vermont is taking action this week senator sanders introduced an amendment to the f.d.a. bill that would strip away hundreds of millions of dollars in exclusive contracts for drug companies if those companies are found guilty of the fraud in consumers or the government as senator sanders said companies that are fine for overcharging medicare or medicaid or for dangerous illegal marketing practices should not enjoy government granted monopolies on those same medications good work by senator sanders but i want to take it a step further i think it's time to consider another way to deal with misbehaving corporations give them the corporate death penalty. here's the bigger picture how do we deal with criminals in the united states the really bad i mean people who are just to reveal they they've committed they've killed people we execute them they're too dangerous there are a menace to society so you know we either lock them up forever we get you know or off them so what should we do about corporations that are menaces to society you know in the old days they got executed to ha

sanders. >> not only then. but since march, when he did everything to get me out of the home, except for buying and purchasing a home for myself and our children. his thought process is pretty gone. >> so, what exactly will you be asking for on may 15th? >> the hearing on may 15th has to do with temporary orders pertaining to the children. so, all matters pertaining to the children will be heard this tuesday. >> and going forward, will you be asking for full custody? >> oh, absolutely. there was never a question of whether i really had full custody anyway. deion traveled and he worked all the time. and the only interaction he really had with our children was during sports. practices or games. so, it really was never a question who was the primary parent of our children. who helped with homework. who took them to the doctors' appointments. who took them to the dentist. who did school projects? who went to parent/teacher meetings. it was never, ever an issue. it was never a problem because i did everything. and i

moon, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you very much, senator sanders. it's a real honor to be here. and thank you for holding this hearing on this really crucial topic. i'm going to focus my comments today on the link between drug prices here in the united states and the challenge of access -- global access to medicines, two topics that are often discussed separately but are often closely interlinked as you pointed out this morning. first i want to provide a quick update on where we are today and how you got here. as you mentioned, global medicines have reached 240 million people as of 2010, 90% of whom have lived in developed countries. i think this treatment was unimaginable ten years ago. two that were key in access in developing countries in particular were the development of anti-retroviral medicines and the lack of funding. they have dropped from 10 to $15,000 down to as low as $100 or less today, in other words, less than 1% of the patented u.s. price. these price reductions came about because of robust competition among producers through a numbe

nfl superstar, deion sanders, and his wife, pilar.war of the roses" 25,000-square-foot mansion. they're both inside it right now. and this morning, deion sanders breaks his silence on what happened in their marge. >> you're going to hear that in a little bit. >>> also, this mother, arrested for taking her 5-year-old daughter to a tanning salon. people are saying what could she have been thinking? she could lose her daughter after this. >> she could. >>> yesterday, we showed you the startling joyride, all caught on tape. a parking lot attendant takes a customer's corvette. there's hidden camera. all kinds of commotion in florida overnight. >> when the people came back to get their cars, you'll see what happens. >>> let's get to football star, deion sanders, locked in a bittle divorce battle with his wife, pilar. they were living under the same roof, until both were charged with assault by police. the three children caught in the middle. we'll speak exclusively to deion sanders in texas. first, ryan owens has their story. >> reporter: t

vermont senator bernie sanders is chairing this hearing. he's in the room. this is about to get under way. [ gavel ] >> we're going to begin the hearing. and i want to thank all of you very very much for being here. in my view, the issue that we are discussing today is of monumental importance. and while it may be controversial within the halls of the united states congress, i have the feeling that the more the american people understand this concept, the more support that there will be. and i think it's fair for me to tell you that i do not expect the legislation that we'll be discussing today to be passed tomorrow or in the next few months. for the united states congress, this is a fairly radical piece of legislation. many billions of dollars of opposition that will be out there from drug companies and other sources, but i believe from the bottom of my heart that this issue is so important that discussion has got to begin as soon as possible, and that's what we're doing today. so the ideas that people may be hearing on c-span today may sound fairly radical

keach: archaeologist william sanders has been leading excavations in the copan valley since 1980.e decided to do a series of large-scale excavations out in the countryside to get an idea what the farming population was like. what kind of houses did they live in ? what was their lifestyle like ? probably 80% of the population of copan was in that social category. keach: unlike ceren, the ancient houses of copan had been exposed to centuries of erosion. very few artifacts remained intact or in their original location. still the team finds significant clues. in one structure, the team discovers a razed platform of stone, the remnants of a sleeping bench. in another, they find evidence for a kitchen -- shattered obsidian blades that once were knives and broken pieces of pottery that were once used for cooking. the layout of ancient maya houses is quite different from our own. the maya constructed separate buildings for sleeping, cooking and storing food. they organized these buildings around patios. after two seasons of work up here, what can we say ? we have almost fully excavated a

moon, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you very much, senator sanders. it's a real honor to be here. thank you for holding this hearing on this really crucial topic. i'm going to focus my comments today on the link between drug prices here in the united states and the challenge of access to -- global access to medici medicines, two topics that are actually discussed separately but are actually interlinked. first a quick update on where we are today. global access to hiv medicines have increased over the last decade to reach a total of 7.4 million people as of 201090% of whom live in developing countries. this is an achievement unimaginable ten years ago. two of the enabling factors that were key for increasing access in developing counties in particular was first the dramatic reduction in the price of antiretroviral med since and second the inability of funding. in developing countries use has dropped from $10,000 per patient down to as low as $100 or less today. in other words, less than 1% of the patented u.s. price. these price reductions came about b

sanders: mr. chairma, thank you -- the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: mr. chairman, thank you very much for your hard worng this legislation, for the opportunity to talk about what i consider to be a very important amendment. the amendment is -- i would like to call up amendment 2109. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from vermont, mr. sanders, proposes an amendment numbered 2109. at the end of title 11, add the following: section -- san mr. sanders: i would ask that the amendment be considered as read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sanders: this amendment, to my mind, is an exstrombly important amendment -- extremely important amendment, and it has the support of some of the major consumer organizations in our country, including public citizen, u.s. pirg, the consumer federation of america, consumers union, the national committee to preserve social socia social sed medicare and the national women's health network. these

. >>> a court victory for deion sanders. the latest in the war of words in a celebrity divorce. >>> and bob will update your first warning forecast coming flo is a gentle giant. bundle home and auto at progressive.com. >>> university student charged with driving a u-hall truck, charged with driving into a crowd of students. he did not enter a plea in the tailgating crash that left one woman dead. ross's attorney claims the truck malfunctioned. ross is due in court again in june. >> well, the main suspect in the disappearance of the natalee holloway may eventually stand trial in the u.s., on fraud and extortion charges. in 2010, joran van der sloot received $25,000. however, authorities say the information he gave was false. the 24-year-old was currently in prison in peru for murdering a student. van der sloot is appealing that sentence, only after the appeal is decided will possible extradition to the u.s. be considered. >>> an indiana couple is under arrest after taking the young children on a dangerous joy ride. kai is liv

archaeologist bill sanders. sanders: the writing system i doubt was understood by more than 10% or 20% of the population. the rest of the population, i am sure understood the meaning of the icons -- the carvings of gods, the representations of the kings and the symbols that they carried on their dress, headdress and so on. when they came here for the great public ceremonies, they would see these things and understand what they meant. keach: but for today's archaeologists, the meaning of these symbols is more elusive. at copan, artist barbara fash directs the reconstruction of a building commemorated after the death of king 18 rabbit. the workers are guided by an ancient pattern on a surviving wall. how do scholars interpret patterns like this which don't contain specific information like dates or words ? if you look at the side of the building that was still in place, and you see the regular course of rock going horizontal. and then there are these pieces going diagonally and weaving in with each other, and they

who were really standing behind senator sanders and representative keep thousands of bill to roll back all subsidies for fossil fuels that's months about one hundred thirteen billion dollars over the next ten years to kind of potential allies that it's about a hundred roughly about eight hundred fifty dollars per american taxpayer for that same period so this is money that we're going towards in our pockets to keep it going towards development of you know energy going towards education it sounds going into the pockets and coffers of the world's richest richest companies which right now the fossil fuel company it's you know last year exxon mobil made thirty billion dollars in profit that's more money than in the history of money at a corporations that are made in one year it's ridiculous that our government is subsidizing that at the expense of some of the other projects that are going to still unfunded underfunded in this country so do you think are you proposing that this money is instead used to fund alternative or renewable energy source says well this bill doesn't call for that it

president, i urge my colleagues to oppose the sanders amendment.vernment's ability to fied fraud and harm patients and u.s. competitiveness by eviscerating existing incentives to invest in medical innovation. the sanders amendment would result in the automatic revocation of any remaining regulatory exclusivity on a product when a company is convicted of or even enters into a settlement agreement for certain violations of the food, drug and cosmetic act or any violations of the false claim act or several other listed statutes. there are several reasons why i think this is the wrong approach. first, the amendment will result in less lifesaving drugs ever getting to patients. obviously we should be fighting for lifesaving drugs getting to patients even faster. we provide these periods for exclusivity as i mentioned earlier, for a reason, to enable companies to recoup the significant investments that they make. as high as over a billion dollars, $1.2 billion per drug to develop new medicines. some of the exclusivities that the amendment would revoke ar

sanders was on "good morning america."en to a small portion of that interview. >> trust me, and i can put this on my mama. never touched her. never did anything derogatory to her in front of the kids. never will. >> okay. so now what is being said is attorneys for her said she violated a gag order. he shouldn't have gone on the air like he did, and he shouldn't tried to reveal all that he wanted on the case. >> where does it go from here? >> exactly. there's a gag order in effort, and what does it mean? it means you zip it. don't speak about the case or any issue about the case while it's ongoing. what does he face if the judge determines he violated the gag order? it's either a fine or a jail sentence. i think a jail sentence is somewhat punitive. of course, he is going to argue, look, i wasn't speaking about the case. i was addressing the latest charges. i shouldn't have been assaulted. we'll see what the judge rules on that ash. >> he wanted clear theary, but now he got himself into other trouble. >> thanks so much. app

joining me tonight, vermont senator, bernie sanders. good to have you with us.tances surrounding jpmorgan, how big an opportunity is this right now? >> i think it calls attention to the recklessness and the greed of wall street. it reminds people that four years ago, these people on wall street forced this country into worst recession since the 1930s. forced us to have to bail them out. and while dodd/frank was a step further, it did not go far enough. the american people are angry with wall street. you know what? they want our financial institutions to invest in the real economy. they want wall street to be lending money to businesses, so we can create jobs. they do not want wall street involved in a gambling casino, waging risky bets, and losing substantial sums of money and threatening the entire economy. >> how hard is it going to be for the senate to do what the american people want them to do when wall street is so terribly influential and some say the banks own the senate. >> ed, let me tell you what many others might not tell you. some people think, well

vermont senator bernie sanders is here. >> this is absolutely huge. a homosexual activist in a very prominent place in mitt romney's campaign has stepped down. >> republican homophobes claim victory after a gay romney aide quits. >> i will flat-out guarantee you, he is not going to make this mistake again. >> why is mitt romney silent on this issue? karen finney and chris kofinis are here. >>> the republican assault on public education is getting uglier in pennsylvania. that report tonight. >>> and new polling in wisconsin shows scott walker is in deep trouble. i'll ask robert greenwald if the koch brothers can bail him out. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. it's still all about jobs and all about the economy. and that's why i want to start the show tonight with a few charts. because they're so unlike mitt romney, they don't lie. the economic policy institute has a new report out. it's called the state of working america. whoa, we've got some information here tonight. this is the growth of worker productivity in hourly

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lester. >> kerry sanders in florida tonight. thanks, kerry. >>> health news tonight, and a sweeping new proposal aimed at america's millions of baby boomers. the cdc wants all boomers to be tested for a dangerous viral infection many don't know they have. hepatitis c. more now from chief science correspondent, robert bazell. >> under the proposed cdc guidelines, those in their 40s, 50s, and 60s should get a hepatitis c test at least once. more than 3 million americans already have hepatitis c, a liver illness transmitted by contaminated needles, blood transfusions prior to 1992 when widespread screening for the virus began, and possible sex wbl contact. and 75% of those are baby boomers. born between 1945 and 1965. according to the cdc, 1 in 30 boomers has been infected with hepatitis c and most do thought know it. the virus can cause serious liver diseases. including cirrhosis and liver cancer. still, people can remain without symptoms for decades. cdc officials estimate that the new recommendations for testing could detect hun

kerry sanders starts us off from sanford, florida, tonight. kerry, good evening. >> brian, tonight, we're getting a never before seen look at some photos of defendant george zimmer taken hours after the shooting. also, where trayvon martin had gone to buy skittles and an iced tea. also this surveillance video from the club house. there are photos of the crime scene where he shot the unarmed teenager on february 26th. and then there's this photo of the weapon zimmerman had with him that night. now, one of the investigators in an interview says with trayvon martin's father, this interview was on february 28th, innight of the shooter, quote, i asked . imartinf the voice calling for help was that of his son. mr. martin clearly emotional, impacted byhert recording, qu t quietly responded, no. now, trayvon martin's mother listened to that tape and clearly identified the person calling out for help as her son. and in another document, a witness told police the screams were coming from george zimmerman, and trayvon martin was throwing punches mma styl

all four say they plan to appeal. >> former 49er deon sanders is making headlines again, this time not football but over his bitter divorce battle. and he his estranged wife pial were living under the same roof until both were charged with assault. today in an interview he says his two sons saw the whole incident. >> thank god that both of my sons witnessed the whole thing, unfortunately they did but i have witnesses and they testified and wrote statements out for the police. i can't wait for those statements to come out so everyone can see the truth. >> pillar sander has been ordered out of the house, for her part she says she cannot compete with the football star and claims she's not going to be treated fairly in court. >> there is a victory in court for a cal law professor charged with contributing to torture a chinese activist is reunited with his family, fwhu afternoon facing a new challenge. >> can the dmv go into your checking akt and take out your money without your permission? an answer to that and more coming up in today's q and u. >>> a little victory for the cal law school

kerry sanders, nbc news. >> doesn't get much sweeter than that, does it?>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. don't forget "dateline" tonight. for all of us here at nbc news, don't forget "dateline" tonight. for all of us here at nbc news, good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

our report tonight from nbc's kerry sanders. >> florida a&m drum major robert champion was beaten and stomped to death in what the prosecutor called homicide by hazing. in more than 1,500 pages of court documents, the very band members who were at champion's funeral including some of those who escorted his casket claimed in interviews the 26-year-old willingly chose to face down the band's ritual challenge. >> did anyone try to take him into it or talk him out of it? >> he was wanting to do it all season. he wanted to do it all season. >> boyce is among 11 band members now charged in champion's death, an attack that boyce told detectives spiraled out of control. >> i saw people kicking him, so i stopped them from kicking him and i put my body around his body. >> after climbing onto one of nine charter buses, witnesses told police in the darkness, champion faced down the so-called cross over, a band initiation in which members endure a gauntlet, stumbling from the front to the back of the bus. champion was allegedly beaten by other band members who kicked, punch, and hit him with drum

not only did we discuss the citizen's united decision where senator sanders is working so hard to overturn, we discussed an event that took place earlier that week where citigroup shareholders rejected the pay package for ceo. truly a great moment for all shareholders, if only a symbolic one. here is my conversation with the senator. >> eliot: senator, thank you for your time. >> good to be with you, eliot. >> eliot: i know you're focused and rightly so on citizen's united, efforts to repeal it. you had a big event today. tell us about it. >> well, we brought together groups all over the country to bring together a strong grassroots movement that says clearly the citizen's united decision which allows corporations to spend unlimited sums of money on political campaigns is not what america is about, that we are seeing a situation where big money are just grabbing hold of the entire political process, and that we got to stop that. we need short-term fixes that we're working on here in congress, but long-term, there is no question. this citizen's united decision will go down in lift as one of

brian. >> kerry sanders, thanks. >>> in presidential politics this evening, it's safe to say he changed the race while he was in the race, but today, that came to an end for newt gingrich, the former house speaker finally suspended his bid for the gop nomination today after leaving behind memorable moments in the campaign that seemed for a while there like it was not going to end. our report tonight from nbc's peter alexander. >> today, i'm suspending the campaign. >> newt gingrich's campaign was improbable, unpredictable, and always optimistic. >> we're going to contest every place and we're going to win and we will be in tampa as the nominee in august. >> that's a promise the former house speaker won't be able to keep. >> i'm asked sometimes, is mitt romney conservative enough? and my answer is simple, compared to barack obama? >> from the start, critics questioned the seriousness of gingrich's bid for presidency. less than a month into the race, his decision to take his wife on a mediterranean cruise led to the exodus of much of his staff, but gingrich fought back. >> can we drop a l

deion sanders has been given temporary custody of the children.t night, the former nfl star tweeted, god so so good, don't ever doubt him. >>> evangelista and the billionaire father have reached a settlement. details will be presented to a family judge in new york today. evangelista was asking for 46,000 bucks a month in child support from francois-henri pinault. the french businessman, now married to salma hayek, has a 5-year-old son, that was born after a 4-month relationship. >>> the president of eastern michigan university, has sent an e-mail, apologizing for an e-mail that expelled most of the student body. the e-mail was supposed to go to students with poor grades. the school hires an outside company to send e-mail notices like this. >> a big oops there. >>> the epidemic of obesity in this country is only getting worse. a cdc study shows that by 2030, 40% of americans will be obese. that's up from about 30% today. and that the number of severely obese people will double to about 11%. all that comes with a huge cost. the cdc estimates an incr

bernie sanders and two democrats are introducing legislation to curb that blatant conflict of interestas for morgan's jamie dimon, his bad day isn't end there. morgan employees are suing the bank over losses to their requirement plans after morgan announced may 10th it lost over $2 billion in risky trade. the investigators are all over those trades. so we'll probably hear back from them in about a decade. they'll focus on morgan's financial reporting. and facebook stock fell. it's on the sec's to do list also. >> are issues we need to look at with respect to facebook and as we just testified to we're all looking carefully at the jpmorgan trading. >> facebook shares are now down 18% since friday, when they went on sale with enormous fanfare to the general public. a public that didn't have the benefit of inside information, all of whom reportedly cut their estimates of facebook's lowering the value. if you think that sounds fishy, you are not alone. with me now is with me now is the story today under the title "bombshell: facebook bankers secretly cut forecasts for company in middle of i

joining me now senator bernie sanders, independent of vermont.lways good to have you on the show. >> thank you governor. . >> was this a harbinger of what will happen here if we follow austerity or the republicans continue to push it? >> i think absolutely. the people in france and europe are not stupid and the people in our country are not stupid. what you have in this country now is a collapsing middle class, poverty is increasing. in 2010 elliot the top 1% earned 93% of all new income. you have growing, huge disparities between the very rich who are doing great, and everybody else. and ordinary people are catching on and saying wait a second they want to balance the budget on the backs of people who are around hurting, and they want to make the rich even richer. and i think the people are beginning to catch on that just from a moral perspective is wrong, and from an economic perspective it is also wrong. >> it is not only that dayty you just presented, but it's all failing as you said as an economic program there is no growth coming out of it.

our report tonight from nbc's kerry sanders. >> florida a&m drum major robert champion was beaten andomped to death in what the prosecutor called homicide by hazing. in more than 1,500 pages of court documents, they included those who carried his casket and he willingly faced it down. >> did anyone try to take him into it or talk him out of it? >> he was wanting to do it all season. >> bise is among 11 members now charged with his attack, an attack that spiraled out of control. >> i saw people kicking him, so i stopped them from kicking him and i put my body around his body. >> after climbing onto one of nine charter buses, in the darknist, he faced down the cross over, a band nishation in which members endure a gauntlet, stumbling from the front to the back of the bus. members punched, hit, and kicked him. >> he said he couldn't breathe. so i checked hum. >> this is shameful. >> champion's parents and his lawyer said they're not satisfied with the third degree felony hazing charges. they call this a murder and dismiss any notion their son willingly submitted. >> he wasn't violent. he

kerry sanders starts us off from sanford, evening. >> good evening, brian. the evidence includes never before seen photographs of the crime scene, where the neighborhood watch supervisor actually shot and killed trayvon martin. that was on february 26th. george zimmerman has claimed self defense. and there are these photographs of the weapon that zimmerman had with him that night. it's a cal tech 9 millimeter. and there's this grainy photograph of george zimmerman. it was photo copied, but it appears to show him with a bloody nose. included in the documents are investigators' reports. one with trayvon martin's father on february 28th. quote, i asked mr. martin if the voice calling for help that night was that of his son. mr. martin, clearly emotionally impacted by the recording, quietly responds, no. the victim's mother has insisted that the screams were indeed her son's they were recorded on a phone conversation to 911. >> in another document, a witness told police the screams were coming from george zimmerman and trayvon martin was throwing punches mma sty

kerry sanders starts us off from sanford, florida, tonight. kerry, good evening. >> good evening, brian. we're getting our first look at never before seen photographs of defendant george zimmerman taken at the jail after he was taken into custody the night of the fatal shooting. we're also getting a chance to look at some photographs of the crime scene where the neighborhood watch volunteer shot the unarmed teenager. that was on february 26th. george zimmer man has claimed self defense. and there is this photo of the weapon that george zimmerman had with him that night. it's a 9 millimeter cal tech pistol. there are also audio recordings with witnesses, and there are long interviews with witnesses where the verbatims are played out. in one of them, one investigator reported to his interview with trayvon martin's father, which was also taken on february 28th, i asked mr. martin if the voice calling for help was that of his son. mr. martb, according to the interviewer, who was clearly emotional, responded no. that's in sharp contrast to what tra

. >> sanders mcgee, i'm from las vegas. >> sanders, have you ever seen your mother naked?mmy: sanders mcgee, has he seen his mother naked? the audience says yes. almost uniformly. >> no. >> jimmy: i think it's more rare with boys and more traumatizing, as well. see who we have never next. >> i'm lizzie from washington. >> have you ever seen your mother maked? >> jimmy: has lizzie seen her mother naked? everyone says yes to lizzie, too. >> no? maybe? i'm not -- wow, that's a very -- yes, i have seen my mother naked. >> jimmy: okay. next up? >> is this your mother? >> yes. >> have you ever seen this woman naked? >> jimmy: try to read their faces now and let's see if we -- the eyes have shifted to the side. what do we this? yes? all right. let's find out. >> unfortunately. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: all right. next up? >> i live here in hollywood. >> have you ever seen your mom naked? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: ah -- no? no? all right, we're mixed on this one. >> ah, yeah. i can't do this. no. >> jimmy: sorry, larry. didn't mean to bring up bald memories. who is next? >> scott from t