what have you been organizizing around in vermont? >> in vermont, there is a united communitity.worork and the dairy industr, and we know theyey are all over thee world, violations of human rights. things we really do not want to endure. so we organize and we meet in the community, talk about the problems we are facing and issues of health and so on. so now we are in a campaign which started based on community priorities after having had meetings and doing inquiries in community. about -- we created the milk with dignity campaigngn, which is the guarane of our human rights. to get humuman rights for dairyy workers. in terms of wages, workers and living condiditions. we do hold the big companies responsible because they are getting rich off of us. immigrants in that state. amy: one of the companies that you have targeted is ben & jerry's based in vermont. what has been their response and what are you demanding of them? >> after w we learned abouout te successfsful model off the progm in florida, whichh guarantees human rights, which has won human rights for the workers, we identif

in my state of vermont, we are seeing -- it's really sad and extremely upsetting. we are seeing young people leaving our small towns because they can't find decent jobs and these are kids who wanted to stay in vermont. and that's going on all over this country. so what we're seeing is an exodus of jobs in rural america. we're seeing a lot of educational challenges kids who can't afford to go to college, we're seeing environmental problems, health care problems. so the problem here may be a little more severe but what we're going to talk about tonight, in fact, is taking place in many, many hundreds of small towns throughout this country. >> there's a lot of promises that got made to places like mcdowell county and the campaign particularly. president trump promised to bring coal jobs back. he recently -- i want to play a little bit of sound saying that he made good on a promise when he had a bunch of coal miners into the oval office to sign a piece of legislation that would repeal a law that prevented coal companies from polluting streams. take a listen. >> this is

in my state of vermont, we are seeing -- it's really sad and extremely upsetting.e seeing young people leaving our small towns because they can't find decent jobs and these are kids who wanted to stay in vermont. and that's going on all over this country. so what we're seeing is an exodus of jobs in rural america. we're seeing a lot of educational challenges kids who can't afford to go to college, we're seeing environmental problems, health care problems. so the problem here may be a little more severe but what we're going to talk about tonight, in fact, is taking place in many, many hundreds of small towns throughout this country. >> there's a lot of promises that got made to places like mcdowell county and the campaign particularly. president trump promised to bring coal jobs back. he recently -- i want to play a little bit of sound saying that he made good on a promise when he had a bunch of coal miners into the oval office to sign a piece of legislation that would repeal a law that prevented coal companies from polluting streams. take a listen. >> this is hj re

in my state of vermont, we are seeing -- it's really sad and extremely upsetting.are seeing young people leaving our small towns because they can't find decent jobs and these are kids who wanted to stay in vermont. and that's going on all over this country. so what we're seeing is an exodus of jobs in rural america. we're seeing a lot of educational challenges kids who can't afford to go to college, we're seeing environmental problems, health care problems. so the problem here may be a little more severe but what we're going to talk about tonight, in fact, is taking place in many, many hundreds of small towns throughout this country. >> there's a lot of promises that got made to places like mcdowell county and the campaign particularly. president trump promised to bring coal jobs back. he recently -- i want to play a little bit of sound saying that he made good on a promise when he had a bunch of coal miners into the oval office to sign a piece of legislation that would repeal a law that prevented coal companies from polluting streams. take a listen. >> this is hj

congratulations to new hampshire, followed by west virginia, maine, and vermont. vermont is 47.ermont, they're really making the most of this. vermont, they're even using these new stats to help boost tourism. ♪ vermont ♪ it's the place to be if you don't want to get an std ♪ ♪ the mountains and trees and it won't hurt when you pee ♪ ♪ vermont ♪ come to vermont ♪ we'd love to see you ♪ we won't give you herpes or gonorrhea ♪ ♪ just maple syrup and lots of skiing ♪ ♪ no blood in your urine for the times when you're peeing. ♪ >> in mountain, our mountains are green but your genitals won't be. we've got low rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and even crabs. you'll have a great vacation, not painful urination. ♪ make vermont your destination ♪ ♪ when you pee here, there's no burning sensation ♪ ♪ vermont, we're vt, not vd >> i'm bernie sanders and i approve this message. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's the only burn i feel. anyway, it's funny, but it's a serious thing. and the center for disease control reminds you, still the best way to avoid contracting an std is to

there are a couple of hills in the vermont statehouse which would strengthen vermont's policies that rrently in place to limit for might law enforcement collaboration with immigration enforcement. one bill promoted by the governor would make sure the state does not sign on to the agreements that deputize local law enforcement to do ice's dirty work for them. another, house bill 492, the racial justice reform bill, we see as even more important. that would mandate full enforcement of the state's fair and impartial policing law, a law that kike helped to write. juan: have you been in touch with your senator bernie sanders about intervening in these cases? >> we have. both senators sanders and senator leahy had been made aware of thease, as well as many of vermont's political leaders. we fully expect they will speak out and take action against these her rend us targeted arrests of human rights leaders in their state. amy: will lambek, thank you for being with us, staff member with migrant justice. we will continue to follow these cases, three migrant leaders have been detained by ice an

last year in vermont -- and keep in mind, vermont has a population of just over 600,000 people. planned parenthood centers provided vital primary and preventive services to more than 16,000 patients. so a small state like vermont, if you vote for this resolution, think what you're doing to hurt these people. now, those who support the resolution argue the states should be able to determine who receives title 10 grants, and the women under the program can simply find another clinic to go to. well, that's not the case. in fact, that argument is false. it's a lie. family planning clinics overwhelmingly serve populations of rural and medically underserved parts of the country where access to health care, especially for low-income individuals, is difficult. easy -- easy for senators to vote to cut off this health care for women and children, and people in rural areas because each one of us, if we need health care, can walk two minutes down this hall and walk into the capitol physician and say i'm a united states senator. i need health care. and you're going to get it. well, that may

joining us is vermont senator bernie sanders. senator sanders, thank you for being with us tonight, nice to see you. >> good to see you. >> what is ttatus of obamacare and if it gets to the house what happens to it? >> i don't understand why you bring it up to lose. they're going to have a different set of circumstances in the senate and our job is to do everything that we can to explain to the american people in kentucky, in west virginia, in arizona, in nevada, and all of these so-called red states what a disaster this plan would be to their lives. to explain to them that donald trump and many of them voted for trump lied to them when he said he was going to protect the interests of working people. you don't throw 24 million people off of health insurance, you don't tell seniors their premiums are going to soar, you don't cumedicaid which not only will impact low income people but it will impact middle income people whose parents are in nursing homes. you don't cut medicaid by almost $900 billion and by the way in the midst of

about the midpoint in 200 of we passed health care in vermont. i can go into the details if you want but it extended coverage and focused on preventative care and within the next year or so reduced uninsured rate by about 25%. this is preaca. then in 2009 i was on national governor's association and i won't offer any qualitative adjectives of it, of chairing @chairing chairing @the aca during a debate. our message and my message was the same one that nba is offering today.our message and the same one that nba is offering today. i saw the letter that nga just sent to house leadership within the last month. first, listen to governors. secondly, don't impose any unfunded mandates on the states. thirdly, give them the flexibility to design health care programs that work tore their respective states. and in 2010 we were having pretty good discussions with the congress initially but as everyone knows in the end, it was ran through on party line vote and the rest as they say is history. i vetoed the first pibill they passed because of the taxes but then

the people's republic of vermont. vermont is very much like the electoral college. for 30 years have been politically dominated but the flyover country the multi generational are still adhering to the same fiscally responsible moderate republican is him that we had been doing. >> well had ten seconds left. he's taking a shot at the opposition. he is blaming on emotions as i told you last time. this is about mathematics. we determined we could not afford this. thank you so much for your time. coming up we have a video going viral. it was a day for women why was this man leading one of the protest. also this. the president of the united states tweeting about our show last night. we have all story --dash make our story coming up. find out why they are avoidingl this one. . ooohh!! aaaahh!! uh! hooooly mackerel. wow. nice. strength and style. it's truck month. get 0% financing for 60 months plus find your tag and get $5500 on select chevy silverado pick-ups when you finance with gm financial. find new roads at your local chevy dealer. when you're close to the people you

these are kids who wanted to stay in vermont. that's going on all over this country.hat we're seeing is an exodus of jobs in wrurural america. kids who can't go to college. we're seeing environmental problems, health care problems, the problem here may be a little bit more severe, but what we're going to talk about tonight in fact is taking place in many, many hundreds of small towns throughout this country. >> president trump promised to bring coal jobs back. i want to play a clip of him saying healing good -- he would sign a piece of legislation that would repeal a law that would prevent coal companies from po looting streams. >> this is hj resolution 38 and that will eliminate another terrible job killing rule saving man thousands of american jobs, especially in the mines which i've been promising you we're going to fight for you like i promised i would in the campaign. and you were very good to me and i'm going to be even better to you. i promise you that. >> that's the president signing a piece of legislation promising to bring jobs back to coal country, places l

we have two cases in vermont. leahy versus beecham, leahy versus bartlett, tell you briefly about it, leahy versus beecham was a case that brought declaratory judgment before roe v. wade, before the vermont supreme court. i organized that case so that the vermont supreme court, a very conservative court, could rule on the constitutionality of our anti-abortion statute in vermont. they came out with a decision. basically what roe v. wade did, this conservative five-member vermont supreme court in leahy versus beecham, leahy versus bartlett, these are the dark days that i want to go back to. i got a call from the police at 3:00 in the morning, state attorney at the time, i went to the emergency room at our local hospital, and a young coed nearly died from bleeding from a botched abortion. at that time it was illegal. we found out the person who procured them, had done this with a number of people. he then -- he would then blackmail them for either sex or money and when i brought it to trial, found the person doing t

constitution of our antiabortion statute in vermont. they came out with a decision basically went roe versus wade did. the conservative number of vermont supreme court and lahey versus beauchamp. lahey versus bartlett was a case where prosecuted somebody for carrying abortions. and these are the doctors we -- and these are the dark days i don't want to go back to. i got a call from the police at 3:00 in the morning. i was the state's attorney at the time. i went to the emergency room at a local hospital. a young poet nearly died. -- a young coed nearly died. from bleeding from a botched abortion. at that time it was illegal. we found out the person who has procured this had been with a number of people. he would then blackmail them for either sex or money. and when i brought that to trial, i found the person doing the abortion was from montreal. she was there. mounties canadian escorted her. and i pointed out the evidence was shown that she was trained to do these abortions. working for the ss so she could abort women prisoners that the

i'm, as i said yesterday, a lawyer from a small town in vermont.t if it says that he cannot receive any emolument without consent of the congress, isn't the answer pretty simple? what a president must do if he or she receives a foreign emolument, they have to get the consent of the congress. >> sure. i thought you were asking what would be the remedy. >> no, i'm asking what they would have to do. >> no, you're absolutely correct, senator. >> i appreciate that. >> you've read -- >> i understand your concern, and i appreciate it, as a judge answering questions about any pending litigation. but you have been very hesitant to even talk about various supreme court precedents. i know that chief justice roberts when he was before us, he said he agreed with griswold and brown. justice alito said he agreed with humdee and icenstat. so we've had justice nominated by republican presidents who have been willing to discuss past precedent. i was just kind of hoping you would be as transparent as these prior nominees were. during the campaign, president trump pro

welch of vermont. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 198, the gentleman from vermont and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from vermont. very good this bipartisan bill that's before us will help the v.a. improve its ability to recruit, hire, train, promote and retain physicians in v.a. by the way, the significant number of veterans are in rural america, including vermont. my amendment would add two provisions. first, the underlying bill requires the g.a.o. to conduct a study on succession planning at the v.a. that's intended to try to better understand the problem the agency has to have a pipeline of candidates to assume critical roles that are open. and my amendment wodequi r the g.a.o. to study and analyze succession planning, hiring in rural area. the vast majority of our country is rural, so we have to put an emphasis on that and challenges in rural america are different than in the urban areas. [no audio] and other barriers to recruitment and

what they were doing in vermont, i don't know. i said that's a great idea. so susie, suzanne was there. she said if i'm in tim buck too, i'll be back in a new york minute. and the audience didn't know. you could tell by the reaction. >> it was a total surprise. >> when they saw it, they didn't even see susie or myself. they saw the bedroom set and they knew it was from the bob newhart show and they started applauding the bedroom set. it was wild. >> it was a great surprise if ever there was one. you and i were talking before we came on camera and i was saying, in some ways, speaking of suzanne pleasureett. you're the last man standing. you're 88 this year? >> i'll be 88 in september. >> 88 in september. >> still fooling them. still making them laugh. you've been so blessed, my word, not yours. >> i feel the same way. i've been very blessed. we were talking during make-up. we were talking with the first album. it was the very first album, will copp comedy record. >> you were living in japan at the time. >> we were in houston, texas. and we thought it might go

he joins us from vermont. thanks for talking about this. prof. parani: thanks for talking about this. soledad: you said you were horrified by what happened on the campus. tell me why. prof. parani: i haven't seen anything like this before. i realized, something horrible is going on here. students need to think about and be taught what it means to understand free speech in an academic institution, what this is all about. soledad: i do wonder, when we talk about free speech, often it is framed around your ability to articulate opinions without government censorship or without the government retaliating against you. if i can play devils advocate for a moment, some people might say, you don't necessarily have a right to a stage at middlebury. prof. parani: this is the way free discussion works. i consider it to the baseline for any academic inquiry, for an academic village, that we allow people of different viewpoints to speak. even though i don't approve of marie, i grant him his right to free speech. soledad: i always wonder, and i think we have th

kennedy. >> i thank my colleague from vermont. i obviously wholeheartedly agree with the way you characterize this amendment and the intent of it and i think it speaks to a bit of the discussion we were having earlier on both sides of the aisle here, and the belief, my interpretation anyway, that some of these protections are actually already in place in the bill. i know these protections are or my understanding is that these protections are in place for the individual market, that these are in place for other aspects of intrinsic coverage. to echo what mr. welch has said trying to make sure it remains available, those essential protections remain available for the 11 million or so people that are on the medicaid expansion would seem to make sense, given the fact that they are a vulnerable population, and are going to need access to those benefits, and the debate that we had earlier around ensuring there is one coverage, but then the benefits are also available so that people can actually avail themselves of the care that they're

he joins us from vermont. thanks for talking about this. prof. parani: thanks for talking about this. soledad: you said you were horrified by what happened on the campus. tell me why. prof. parani: i haven't seen anything like this before. i realized, something horrible is going on here. students need to think about and be taught what it means to understand free speech in an academic institution, what this is all about. soledad: i do wonder, when we talk about free speech, often it is framed around your ability to articulate opinions without government censorship or without the government retaliating against you. if i can play devils advocate for a moment, some people might say, you don't necessarily have a right to a stage at middlebury. prof. parani: this is the way free discussion works. i consider it to the baseline for any academic inquiry, for an academic village, that we allow people of different viewpoints to speak. even though i don't approve of marie, i grant him his right to free speech. soledad: i always wonder, and i think we have th

we're back with former democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders of vermont. to the debate going on on capitol hill. a lot is being made out of the congressional budget office estimate that there will be 24 million more uninsured americans within a decade if the republican plan goes forward. but the cbo also says that a portion of those 24 million will be individuals who want out of the insurance market who voluntarily drop out and who are only buying insurance now under threat of penalty. theoretically, why shouldn't americans have the freedom to not buy health insurance if they don't want to? >> well, theoretically in my view, jake, the united states should join every other major country and guarantee health care to all people as a right. now, it is understandable that if you're young and you're healthy and you don't have a lot of money, you would say, well, you know what, i don't need to buy health insurance. but on the other hand, you can get hit by a bus tomorrow, end up in bankruptcy having your credit rating destroyed. so, i think what most americans be

protester the in middlebury college in vermont lieu wined a lecture planned by protestary charles murray, saying his ideas were so offensive, they should not be allowed. in a moment, we will talk with someone who degrees with the protesters. but president trump is launching a fierce counter attack on the subject of russia and the meeting with the russian ambassador. nancy pelosi claimed she negative met him, but here is a picture of her with him. and chuck schumer schmoozing with vladimir putin. and president trump tweeted this, we should start an investigation. a p total hypocrite. and he demanded a second investigation for pelosi and her close ties too russia and putin and lying about it. schumer said i would happy talk about my contact, took place in '03 in full view of the press and public under oath. would you and your team, question mark. nancy pelosi tweeted this, donald trump doesn't know the difference between official meeting photographs by press and the secret meeting his ag lied about. andd he is a criminal, too potentially. congressman, thanks for coming on. >> nice to be wi

in vermont, they ruined a lecture planned by social socios charles murray. they were so offensive, they should not be spoken aloud. a professor was briefly hospitalized. first up, president trump is launching a fierce attack on the story about jeff sessions and the russian ambassador. nancy pelosi, we are looking at a picture of her meeting the russian ambassador. chuck schumer schmoozing with vladimir putin. president trump tweeted this... the president later said i here by demand a second investigation after schumer or pelosi for her close ties to russia and how she lied about it. would you and your team? nancy nancy pelosi tweeted this. congressman sean patrick represents new york. he has called sessions a bigot and now he is potentially a criminal. he said we need to look into the bigger picture here and figure out why sessions perjured himself. we have an independent investigation, what are they hiding? the obvious question is what are you implying? that sessions is in the kremlin, that he is an agent? >> no i'm saying we should find out what the truth

the derailment from vermont is next. -- gentleman from vermont is next. we are trying to stay in senior dirty. i do not want you to to get cranky with each other. -- we are trying to stay in seniority. we will go with the gentleman from california since he is so much more senior than the gentleman from vermont. i strike the last word. i am in support of congressman e's amendment.lon i do so in honor of a constituent, denise jefferson. denise jefferson credits the aca with saving her life. she was diagnosed with: cancer age 41. cancer at but it wasolicy expensive due to her previous condition. a few weeks after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer, denise received a letter from her insurance company. it in front her that he were canceling -- and form to her that they were cance canceling their policy. it would not cover their covered -- leave five months of therapy to treat her cancer. buckley, the affordable care act had become law because -- she was able to cover her treatment and scans. been forys had it not the aca she would not be alive today. fortunat

. >>> vermont family is using s a to produce genuine maple syrup. >> i'm don dahler in vermont. with the competition, the maple syrup farmers are having to turn to technology. ♪ >>> you might be starting your day this morning with a pte >>> you might be starting your day with a plate of pancakes or waffles. chances are you're dousing them in maple syrup. i'm getting hungry now. >> i know! >> it's a $300 million industry. some people call it liquid gold. vermont farmers are facing increasing competition from large corporations and artificially flavored corn syrup. don dahler met one family using technology to preserve their tradition. don? >> good morning. sugar farmers hike into the woods and tap thousands of trees. it takes up to 60 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup. the ultimate renewable resource, maple trees produce sugar four to six weeks a year potentially for hundreds of years. it only takes a taste to know that's a sweet deal. how old do you think these things are? >> 100 years old. >> reporter: for 75 winters, dave silloway's family has been making maple syrup.

kansas wins. [ cheers ] purdue versus vermont. vermont's got ben & jerry's. i love cherry garcia.appetite. vermont wins. butler versus winthrop. what kind of names is that? that sounds too british to be basketball. both teams lose. [ light laughter ] this is taking too long. let's skip to the end. louisiana state wins. that's where i went to school. i'm shaq. >> jimmy: there you go. there's "i'm shaq." [ cheers and applause ] shaq called it. "i'm shaq." next one's from tim ramos. "hey, jimmy, i love that famous announcing guy who says, "'let's get ready to rumble.'" do you think you could have him on the show? of course. he's great. his name is michael buffer and whenever he says his catchphrase, he calls it buffering. >> steve: ooh. >> j: buffering, please welcome the one and only michael buffer, ladies and gentlemen! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ whenever you are ready, michael. >> ladies and gentlemen, let's get ready to r -- [ laughter and applause ] -- umble! >> jimmy: there you go! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ michael buffering! good to see you, buddy. michael buffer right there! m

balcazar, who is known as kike, serves on vermont attorney general t.j. donovan's immigration task force, which was created to respond to the trump administration's immimigration policieses. thisis is zully palacicios, speg after being released tuesday. >> it is sad to see the situation within the prisons and jailils where they intimidate u, try to make us feel like we are all alone and there's no one to support us. once i founund out i was going o be released, i want to dish found -- shout out loud. said, there are so many innocent there, so many who had dreams cut short, so many with families waiting for them at home, so many people we have in captivity and it is not fair. amy: a third activist with migrant justicece, 23-year-old cesar alex carrillo, remains jailed. he was arrested by ice outside a courthouse two days before zully and keke were arrested. this is carillo's wife, lymarie deida, also speaking tuesday. >> firsrst of all, it i is a viy today becauause i h have two o e three of m my familyly members r back home,e, but we're still missing one.

vermont democratic senator patrick leahy. you said this morning in a the attorney general should recuse himself, that a special counsellor should be appointed, if you will, a special prosecutor. our leadership has gone further. this is what minority leader chuck schumer said this morning. >> there cannot be even the s scintilla of doubt about the impartiality and fairness of the attorney general, the top law enforcement official of the land. after this, it's clear attorney general sessions does not meet that test. because the department of justice should be above reproach for the good of the country, attorney general sessions should resign. >> nancy pelosi also said that sessions should go. as we've learned more today, senator, any change in your view on what jeff sessions should do? >> i think we should make sure we do things that can be done right now. and should be done. attorney general sessions said, if appropriate, he would recuse himself. well, that's not his decision. the justice department is very, very clear on what

vermont, vermont, phil scott, and south carolina, governor mcmaster.to the new governors with us today. [applause] went to recognize all of the chairs of the state workforce board. we appreciate all of the great work you do to help us on workforce and our respective states. before i go further, part of of the rules of the nga require that any governor who wants to submit a new policy or resolution for adoption at this meeting will need a three force vote to suspend the rules to do so. please submit any proposals you have in writing to anna davis. anna, please put your hand up. that needs to go to her by 5:00 p.m. tonight. now we like to recognize several companies that have been so critical to the national governors association. their commitment through the years and participation in our corporate program has allowed us, since 1988 to facilitate the exchange of expertise and knowledge between our governors. they have been critical for us to share best practices. with with annual contributions more than 125 companies have provided the crucial financial

amy: that is peter welch, vermont congressman, who together with senator bernie sanders of vermont, says they will both introduce legislation for single-e-payer. if you could respond to what he said and then talk about what their plan is a north thoughts on it. >> the republican plan, which was defeated, was a meaner version of the affordable care act. putrtunately, both of those the entrance industry in the center of the system. we need to get a private insurance industry out. their overhead profits and the overhead they impose on doctors and hospitals are costing us $500 billion annually that we do not need to be spending. $500 billion annually that we could save through a single-payer program, use that money to cover the 26 million americans who now have no coverage, and then to improve the coverage of insured americans who often have insurance they cannot afford to use because of the high copayments, high deductibles. the deductibles and copayments, that is a problem that predated obamacare. it obamacare failed to fix list of a single-payer could eliminate that problem, as it has don

debate economics and the constitution in the coolidge debate cup at the presidential birth place in vermont have a coolidge merit scholarship for college for which this year 15,000 kids registered to apply. two scholarships, 15,000 candidates. we plan to bring coolidge to washington so more americans can get to know him. imagine it. [ applause ] roosevelt momentum, wilson house, coolidge house. everyone has to go, right? but even harder than choosing a favorite president is choosing a forgotten man. which will it be for president trump? the individual or the group? when the white house picks winners or losers it's following in the line of roosevelt. when the white house undertakes measures that benefit the overall population, the white house honors the individual. the record suggests that the latter sort of move makes the u.s. stronger in the long run. the white house has to decide, but we have to decide too, perhaps even more. lobbies, groups and croniasm have dominated us for a long time. it's a bipartisan problem. i hope that this year will usher in a new era for the original negligented

outlining zuckerman, a progressive party leader and state senator, became the lieutenant governor of vermont, the first time in 25, 30 years where an independent progressive candidate other than bernie has been elected statewide, state legislative delegation of 11 or 12 now, evenly split between members of the house and state senate, dave zuckerman, a ponytailed organic farmer, pro-environmental guy, in a few years to become a progressive governor of vermont. the story i did, bernie said that was great but we need more case studies, alexa laurel initiatives, we need to get them into the mainstream media, not just publications like in these times, i told him in the phone call that was arranged by a staff member that i moved to richmond and started to meet people in the richmond progressive alliance, had up to that time richmond was the largest city in the country with a green mayor, there were important struggles going on locally against big oil and the big banks and money in politics generally and you should come out at some point and check it out which he later did. in the meantime i was ab