democratic process and get what they want through this so-called free trade agreement and senator wyden one of the senators that is speaking out against this among other people and he is concerned that this legislation gives corporations more influence than the elected leaders is that essentially what it does well we certainly believe so if the senate senator wyden who is the chair of the subcommittee in the senate that oversees our international trade does not have access to the text nor does his staff even though they have security clearance to do so and yet there are six hundred cleared corporate advisors who we know have access to that text that is exactly what we're seeing and so senator wyden in a bold move right now is say. i don't understand why this could possibly be the case that include even a senator with his jurisdiction in our in our congress is does not have access to the text that is the obama administration do they not have the obligation to to to give these details senator wyden certainly thinks so and we do as well as the public and he his bill basically will reinterp

yes well we certainly believe so if the senate senator wyden who is the chair of the subcommittee in senate that oversees our international trade does not have access to the text nor does his staff even though they have security clearance to do so and yet there are six hundred cleared corporate advisors who we know have access to that text that is exactly what we're seeing and so senator wyden in a bold move right now is say. i don't understand why this could possibly be the case that a clue even a senator with his jurisdiction in our in our congress does not have access to the tech that is the obama administration do they not have the obligation to to to give these details while some center why did certainly think so and we do as well as as a public he his bill basically will reinterprets two thousand and two law that over that created a congressional oversight group and what he's saying is that the obama administration is saying only members of the congressional oversight group should be able to have access to the text when he said no this was supposed to actually increasing gauge

and this week they've been established as at least being called out on it by senator ron wyden he's one of the few democratic lawmakers out there that actually speaks up that take the stand for your privacy your civil liberties that seems to understand the dangers of a growing and secretive surveillance state and he's exposed elements of the patriot act were being abused he took a stand against sopa and pipa and he's blasted cispa and now this week he's decided to take on a new battle you see senator wyden is also the chair of the senate finance subcommittee on international trade customs and global competitiveness the as a long title but it would make sense that somebody with that title but have access to details surrounding trade agreements that our government is making right well it turns out of the obama administration isn't granting that access to all the surrounds the transpacific partnership it's an international trade agreement between nine nations about which we know very little we're going to get into more details next week but for now what information has been put out there s

but guess who isn't being barred by the administration according to senator wyden and these are his own words from this week he says that quote the majority of congress is being kept in the dark as to the substance of the t p p a negotiation is all representatives of u.s. corporations like halliburton chevron ph r.m.a. comcast and the motion picture association of america are being consulted and made privy to the details of the agreement not nice but corporations are being let in on the deal but lawmakers aren't going to guess that we could call this a trend for this administration because it sounds pretty similar to way that they treated act at the end i counterfeiting trade agreement now there's a lot of anger about this on the hill already on may third more than sixty house democrats and one house republican sent a letter to obama objecting the buy american ban that on may fifteenth congressman darrell issa leaks the entire draft of the intellectual property chapter from this q on to his website to make a point about the need for more transparency and now this week ron wyden introduc

for people who use it service i think senator wyden also correctly said in another statement that this is a reaction to it in that sphere. you know certainly cyber security is a very important issue but these measures don't make us any safer and you know i think implementing these types of measures would create that cyber cyber industrial complex i think this is his word and that is his wording indeed but you know mike proponents are going to say they're going to point the hacktivist groups and they're going to use foreign threats as a justification you know they say look we need to do something to protect us from these very real threats what do you say to that. i mean it is true that we definitely need protection for these threats but the rule of law must be held up held online just as it is offline you know law enforcement agencies can get warrants to access user information certainly there are there will be times when they do need to do that but just because they need to do it doesn't mean that we have to step on fundamental democratic principles so are you saying that there's alrea

when it comes to spank looting senator ron wyden and here's what he had to say recently on the senate floor take a listen it creates uncertainty in place of trust it a wrote erode statutory and constitutional civil rights protections and it creates a surveillance regime in place of a targeted. cyber security program that is leading to truly protect our nation so he goes on there to say that suspect a cyber industrial complex or far into a system that profits from a problem so you know we've heard about the military industrial complex is cyber in the next complex. yeah i mean there's a lot of money to be made off of user data you know i think that's you know why you saw a company like facebook to be valued so high it's because it is out of the information that it has. for people who use it service i think senator wyden also correctly said in another statement this is a reaction to it in that sphere. you know certainly cyber security is a very important issue but these measures make us any safer and you know i think. implementing these types of measures would create that cyber cyber ind

. >> that is why liberal senator ron wyden is cosponsoring a plan with conservative house member paul medicare before budget problems lead the program in tatters. >> diet of reduction and cost shifting. it will all take place until the medicare guarantee is threatened. i'm not going to sit buy. and let it happen. >> medicare pays only 80 cents for every dollar private inurious pays. that's why more than 40% of seniors in oregon already fete medicare from the private insurance companies. >> i am going to the plan because they offer prevention and otherringses but most importantly guarantee i will get to see a doctor. >> so senator wyden joined paul ryan to propose something called cranium support to allow healthcare insurers compete for business of seniors. the insurance companies would have to cover everything that medicare dis. premiums get -- seniors get premium support for the second lowest bid sore delay have choices for insurance and level of support is updated every day. >> we a program. guaranteed benefit, guaranteed affordability, choice and competition. it was a originally de

the wyden sidewalk itself is widened on post street. why take the parking lane and the bus line? you need to demolish the entire side walk and you are automatically and the driving. >> my last question is the tunnel. for the exclusive views of people in the medical building in the hospital and vice versa. at every point, if it is difficult to cross the street in one cycle. i've basically get there when the number is already at zero. they are biased and i think they will stay that way. >> it would not be convenient. the two levels below grade with a below grade level at the hospital at both of those buildings. the publican entered both of those buildings, it would not be your first choice across venice avenue. commissioner moore: thank you. commissioner sugaya: i think i know the answer to this, but i will ask anyway. at today's paper, there was an article on a 400 ft high rise that is being proposed. the article seemed to imply that the environmental review ha was already under way. i don't know if it is in the department or not. is there any kind of ceqa something that says ther

i offered a medicare reform plan with a senator from oregon, ron wyden, considers himself a progressive. ron was just e vitiated by his party. he was taken to the wood shed so severely by his party, and he's fine, and he can handle it, but i i think it was probably to send signals to other democrats you start working with republicans, this is what happens to you. so what we see is every time some of us actually do things together on medicare reform that the liberal corner of the party which is the majority part of the party which is the leadership of the party doesn't want to see it happen because it violates an ideological premise, a philosophical premise. now, let me say it this way. if we win the kind of election i just described, we need to be bigger than that. we need to be magnanimous. we need to invite these democrats into our coalition. that's what ronald reagan did. it worked. we need to invite these reforming democrats, you know, erskine bowles, alice rivlin, the medicare ideas we've talked about, john bro, alice rivlin, ron wyden, they're all saying this is the best way to sa

senator wyden, how much time would you like? mr. wyden: oh, 12 minutes or thereabouts. mr. conrad: yeah. i want to give 12 minutes. mr. wyden: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, without turning this into a bouquet tossing contest, i just want you to know how much i've appreciated your leadership and i also want to make sure people understand the record. and that is that if the congress had passed the bipartisan proposal you put together on the budget -- it was the conrad-gregg proposal -- as i democrat, you joined republican judd gregg -- we could have forced in 2010 an actual effort to put together a comprehensive tax reform and spending agreement. as you know, we don't need to go over the history, some of the sponsors of the proposal weren't even willing to go along. but i think it's important that the country understand that we've got to do this in a bipartisan way, and had you and judd gregg prevailed in 2010, we could have forced an actual spending reductions and tax reform, bipartisan effort. and i sure wish we had proceeded with it. and as one who supported it, i

wyden says that has got to be fixed and that he says both political parties have to come together.kely team. we'll see what else is possible out there, jim, thank you. >> reporter: you bet. jon: right now the search for two missing female college students. police in both indiana and louisiana are now investigating potential links between the two cases. rick folbaum at the breaking news december w-bg that. >> reporter: jon, real similarities in these two cases, both women arblond hair and petite college students. they both went missing after a night of drinking with friends and more importantly perhaps authorities in both of these cases have looked into a white pickup truck as a part of their investigation. police in indiana thinking that there are enough similarities, at least to check it out. lauren speir missing for exactly one year now, disappearing from the campus of indiana university in bloomington after a night of partying. mickey sch u.n. ick went missing this past may 19th. a few days before her 22nd birthday. last seen leaving a friend's house not far from the university

. >>> senator ron wyden will join us coming up. arnie duncan. and david ig-nate yus. but first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? >> good morning, mika. hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. thunderstorms once again this weekend the top weather headline. this time, we're in ohio, illinois, and areas of indiana. on the radar, over 5,000 lightning strikes in the last hour in this region from champaign, illinois, from fort wayne to toledo. strafling interstate 80 right now, that's a rough drive. through the afternoon hours, we'll also see storms expanding into kentucky, tennessee. watch out lexington, louisville, nashville, and down to memphis. east coast, you're ok today. but all of these thunderstorms and heavy rain will head your way tomorrow. so the forecast, late day afternoon showers and storms for buffalo to pittsburgh. once again, you're dry during the day from philly to new york and d.c., but later this evening after dark, the rain will move in. the southeast pop-up storms today, the west coast is absolutely gorgeous. here is a look at tomorrow. j

critics say it is a dangerous bill that would wipe out internet freedoms as we know it senator ron wyden gave this warning on the house floor it creates uncertainty in place of trust it a wrote erode statutory and constitutional civil rights protections and it creates a surveillance regime in place of a targeted nimble cyber security program that is needed to truly protect our nation despite these warnings it seems the possible threat to our online online freedoms is largely ignored or accepted by most people but with so much of our lives being conducted online why aren't people more bothered to discuss this and more i was joined by david seaman he's a journalist and host of the the else show here's his take. it is a combination of apathy and just a lack of knowledge i have spoken to some very intelligent well connected people who had never heard of says they had never heard of of the security checks and some of these other bills being rushed through congress it's not making here on the evening news so how would somebody know about this unless they're very plugged in and follow you know

ron wyden says we are all lying to people on medicare.ere's no way it's going to be what it is today. we can't borrow enough money. he's made the assessment we have to fix it. what are the ways to fix it? micromanage it from a board in washington or you can say let's use the premium support system and do it over a period of time and give people some choice and let market factors work in that. ron is one of the persons i would think a senior would say gosh, he's really looking out for me. the context isn't that you can leave medicare alone. we can't. nobody will stand-up and say that. >> that's what's so preverse about the whole thing. jon meacham, those who claim they are trying to protect medicare are like a doctor that opens a cancer patient, looks at cancer, closes him up and says you are healthy. instead of closing him up and saying we are going to have to make really tough decisions to keep you alive. >> what i'm curious about is the dynamic and proportion of responsibility both the leaders and the led. that is, we live in a country

critics say this is a dangerous bill that would wipe out internet freedoms as we know it senator ron wyden gave this morning on the house floor. it creates uncertainty in place of trust it or wrote erode statutory and constitutional civil rights protections and it creates a surveillance regime in place of a targeted nimble cyber security program that is leading to truly protect our nation. now despite these warnings as seems the possible threat to our online freedoms is largely ignored or accepted by most people but with so much of our lives being conducted online yron people more bothered to discuss this and more i'm joined now by rob biscuits are managing editor of bling buoying. your website was the one that chose to take a stand against the legislation and fight against it and you know what i think there it is went as far as to blackout the entire website for a day to fight against sopa and pipa and here on the website you say are company. states and this bill would kill forever put the company in legal jeopardy and in essence undo the internet and you know many say that the bat becaus

critics say this is a dangerous bill that would wipe out our internet freedoms as we know it senator ron wyden gave this warning on the house floor it creates uncertainty in place of trust it or wrote erode statutory and constitutional civil rights protections and it creates a surveillance regime in place of a targeted nimble cyber security program that is needed to truly protect our nation. despite these warnings it seems the possible threat to our online freedoms is a largely ignored or accepted by most people but with so much of our lives being conducted online why are people why aren't people more bothered to discuss this and more our own r t a web writer andrew blake joins us now good to have you in the studio and so would you say that americans are apathetic to losing their online freedoms and online privacy we don't want to but it's kind of obvious at this point it's really really unfortunate and it shouldn't be the case but after years and years of congress trying differently censoring the internet and all different mediums all over the world you know outside the united states wherever

senators have also spoken out against the law senator ron wyden of oregon and mark udall of colorado say the acts they oppose the extension of the law on civil liberties grounds will bring the latest developments of this act as it makes its way through congress and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america or check out our web site r t dot com slash usa and you can also follow me on twitter abby martin thanks for watching see you in thirty minutes what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it to be made who can you trust no one who is you view you with a global reach see where we had a state controlled capitalism.

senators have already spoken out against the law senator ron wyden of oregon and mark udall of colorado so they x. they oppose the extension of the law on civil liberties grounds we'll continue to bring you the latest developments of this act as it makes its way through congress and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america or check out our web site r t dot com slash usa you can always follow me on twitter at abby martin for now have a great night and we'll see you tomorrow. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old i like to tell the truth. i confess and i am a total get of friends that i love rap and hip hop music and pretty. she was kind of a yesterday. i'm very proud of the role that out she has played.

wyden: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr.wyden: madam president, i strongly support this legislation, s. 2343, the stop student loan interest rate hike act. i appreciate the leadership, particularly of senator reed of rhode island who has been so eloquent on this subject, and i also would note that senator alexander and i have worked together on a host of issues, and i think he brings great expertise to this discussion as well. the bottom line for me, madam president, is that millions of young people are hurting right now in america.

i mean, ron wyden's a democrat and paul ryan's, obviously, republican. it's the ideal vehicle which won't get us fully out of this. it would have when it was originally offered. >> and the age of turbulence you certain on 2030, and you show higher yields and lower bond prices on a path to 2030. you mention a bond crisis. some of the tone i hear there is you would find a bond crisis to be constructive for washington even as it could be destructive for our retirement plans and for new york. why haven't we seen it now, and krugman of princeton, are they correct, look, interest rates are low, there isn't a crisis? i just want to get you going this morning. [laughter] >> interest rates are low before they go up. [laughter] look, at the top of any speck rahtive -- speck speculative bom not saying the market's a speculative boom, you'll always find just before the top, bids outrank offers of that particular product very significantly. and all you have to do is remember 1979. i remember it vividly. the treasury, i think the ten-year note had gotten up to 10% yie

and finally, i want to thank senators schumer, klobuchar, shaheen, wyden, as well as sanders and akaka, as well as representatives hinrich and perlmutter on the other side of this body for working with me in introducing this bill. i'm hopeful that the congress will consider it promptly and successfully because i think it sets a marker and provides a milestone in protecting individual privacy against abhorrent invasions, in the workplace and elsewhere, that have no place in american life. thank you, mr. president, and i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senior senator from rhode island is recognized. mr. reed: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, unless we act quickly, students across the country will face the largest increase in subsidized student loan interest rate in more than 40 years. in the last 40 years, the interest rate on subsidized student loans has never doubled from one year to the next, yet that is what is happening unless we act on july 1, just 52 days from now. unless my colleagues on the other side of the aisle relent and allow le

wyden: mr.president, i ask unanimous consent to vacate the quorum call and speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. wyden: mr. president, i believe the development of the internet, its networks and the digital economy is one of the great achievements of our age. the internet links humanity together, facilitating economic growth, bringing education and health resources to remote regions, reshaping societies and advancing human rights. while networks foster innovation , job creation and political and social progress, networks can also be used by actors with nefarious motives. it is in our national interests to deter, detect and destroy real and viable cyber threats and to protect americans and preserve the benefits of the internet. americans must not be afraid to go online. mr. president, the internet works not just because it is open to all but because it is founded on the principle of trust. users truce -- trust that their browsers are visiting real web site

i have already prepared with senator wyden, we have a bipartisan piece of legislation on the table, on tax reform, but simplifies it, reduces the rate from 6% to 3%, protect the middle class. you can do your taxes on one sheet of paper. not all these multiple pages. it enhances opportunities for small businesses. i hope that when we get to the tax debate we are not just dealing around the edges. we should do tax reform. it is a broken system. we see very rates on the corporate and, something as high as 35% and some paying almost nothing or getting tax credits. host: the first call is from new castle, indiana, ted, democrat. caller: good morning. i would like to discuss oil drilling in alaska and the keystone pipeline. i agree with the senator but that we should be drilling to benefit us. but the keystone pipeline will be just like the alaska pipeline. none of the oil is coming to this country. it's going somewhere else. it will create jobs for a while. but once it is finished, then the oil will go to russia or japan or something. host: senator. guest: russia has plenty of on oil. we ar

stpeupl, signed -- system, signed by 18 senators as follows: reid, leahy, bingaman, coons, levin, wyden, nelson of nebraska, shaheen, blumenthal, boxer, feinstein, whitehouse, merkley, rockefeller and johnson of south dakota. mr. reid: i now move to legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection the senate moves to legislative session. mr. reid: i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 647, jerome powell of maryland, to be a member of the board of governors of the federal reserve system. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination federal reserve system, jerome h. powell of maryland to be a member of the board of governors of the federal reserve system. mr. reid: i send a cloture motion to the desk with respect to that nomination. mr. reid: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: cloture motion. we the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of jerome h. powell of maryland to be a m

ron wyden to his cred embraced the plan for changing medicare so that it's sustainable.budget. we'll have a big discussion about this. and you've got multiple republican plans that address this fundamental problem. i think several of them will have broad support within the republican conference, and we get nothing from the other side. that's just not reasonable. >> so we have a republican making a charge about democrats in the senate. i'm a republican. and from everything i have seen, what he said about senate democrats is absolutely true. but i want to be fair. i want to put this on the table right now. does anybody have any evidence that harry reid's democratic senate has put any plan on the table over the past two years to address the biggest fiscal issues? donny? >> no. the answer is no. and i love -- >> i want to be fair here. but a lot of times people make charges and there's another side to the story. i think in this case, mort zuckerman, there is no other side to the story. the democrats have decided in the midst of a financial meltdown they're going to do absolu

now on monday's show, we're going to be talking to senator ron wyden about his plan to reshape medicareout and abused by other democrats in the senate. >>> also, dr. brzezinski. he'll probably heap a little abuse on me. >> now, now. >> and up next, author edward luce from the financial times and he is here to break down the nation's biggest challenges from soaring debt to the rise of china. "morning joe" is back in a minute. if you made a list of countries from around the world... ...with the best math scores. ...the united states would be on that list. in 25th place. let's raise academic standards across the nation. let's get back to the head of the class. let's solve this. er. [ male announcer ] why not talk to one of the 6 million people who've switched to the most highly recommended bed in america? it's not a sealy, a simmons, or a serta. ask me about my tempur-pedic. [ male announcer ] did you know there's a tempur-pedic for everybody? tempur-pedic beds now come in soft, firm, and everything in between. ask me how i can finally sleep all night. [ male announcer ] to learn more or f

bennett also of utah was chucked out because he had the tell merit to work with a democrat on -- ron wyden, on a series of a couple pieces of legislation. and so those kinds -- patch and bennett -- hatch and bennett, had friendships across the aisle. that's not helping them with voters. look at richard lugar. great friends with the president. got him sunk by 20 points. >> part of this must have to do with your decline of the roman empire theory. we are in this moment where there are very stark choices that seem like they have to be made in the near future and they aren't going to be any fun. this is going to be the moment your university president who has to shut down the french department and -- >> right. i think the sociology department, usually. >> you are the person who doesn't get to build the building. who wants this? right. and the country sin credibly divided about what to do. right? because the tea party's fair narrative about this we have to cut everything. that we can do -- if we just cut the government enough, we'll take ourselves back to sustainability. and they say that they