nader. - it's not just ralph nader as a self-deluded wild man. it's ralph nader as an expression of the worst element of left-wing politics, moralistic self-approval, it moralistic rig moralistic "my way or the highway." - the nader campaign didn't really get either the democratic or the republican parties to take up his issues. what he became was a symbol for a lot of liberals of self-defeating puri, because a lot of liberals conclud that the country could have been spared george w. bush and his conservatism if only nader hadn't played the role of the spoiler.sh - you did have a tough reaction to someone deeming you a spoiler. - i always thought the word "spoiler" is a politically bed term because they apply it to someone in a third party who is exercising his or her first-amendment rights-- the right to speak, the right to petition, the right of assembly. so when they call someone who's exercising their constitutional rights a spoiler, they're basically saying, "shut up." the whole political system is spoiled, right? and they accuse someone who

ralph nader, i incle in that bunch. a lot of republican candidates i include in that bunch, as well. - as a generalization, black and latino voter have tended to be very practical.e they hnded to see the democratic party as the protector of their interts and seen the republican party as on the other side. and so the pressure to go with the democrat and keep the republicans out of power and not waste their votes on a futile gesture is something that i think has be particularly powerful among african american and latino voters. - a vote for conscience, a vote for a higher expectation, not a lesser of two evils, where at the end of the day, you're still left with evil. - as we started to get on the ballot 0 in more and more states, then more attention arted to be paid to our campaign. i saw that the enthusiasm ir for the thparty run was growing. we hosted rallies around the country. we called them super rallies. when it came time to think about new york and renting madison square garden, for the campaignmone to put out for

i'm ralph nader. welcome to the conference on the myths of market fundmentalism. we welcome the distinguished participant who's are delivering summaries of their intellectual and active work on this subject. this is really the first of conference of this kind. there have been single issue conferences focusing, for example, on regulation, deregulation and

sinema, who worked on ralph nader's presidential campaign in 2000, will become the first openly bisexual senator. the first female senator from arizona and the first time -- the first of victory a first-time democrat has won a u.s. senate seat in arizona in 30 years. it means democrats will have at least 47 seats in the senate, as results from florida and mississippi remain uncalled. as the senate and gubernatorial recounts continue in the state of florida, president trump said both races be called for the republican candidates, claiming voter fraud without any evidence. trump tweeted -- "the florida election should be called in favor of rick scott and ron desantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged. an honest vote count is no longer possible -- ballots massively infected. must go with election night!" trump's tweet drew outrage and alarm. vermont independent senator bernie sanders responded on twitter -- "donald trump, like his friends in russia, saudi arabia and north korea, is an authoritarian leader who does not belie

consumer advocate and two-time presidential candidate ralph nader talked about capitalism and free market policies with a panel at the center for study of responsive law in october. is thenext speaker oftor for over three decades the corporate crime reporter, a weekly newsletter based in washington, d.c. he writes internet articles exploring corporate crime and he is the founder of single-payer action. it

ralph nader joins us right now. longtime corporate critic and former presidential candidate, author of breaking through power, it's easier than we think. ,oe manchin, we just learned will retain his seat in the senate from west virginia, and so will tammy baldwin. if you can talk about her, jeremy. firstmy baldwin was the openly gay person elected to the senate. openly gay person. she got involved with politics in wisconsin very young, was a state presented it, and she represented one of the most liberal districts in all of wisconsin. and a lot of people in the state were skeptical that tammy baldwin could win a statewide election when she first ran for the senate to decades ago. and you know, she has been i would say a slightly left of onter member of the senate most issues, and then she has a few core issues that she has really made her focus, and part of why she has sort of evolved into being -- she is not a radical leftist on most issues. she is a very careful politician. you can say this with a lot of states. y

nader to robert bork was that the antitrust laws were really unclear. people at trouble planning around them and worth than that they both deter inefficient conduct. they've encompassed in doing things that would help consumers, , workers, shelled ad so forth and actually ended up perversely encouraging from ceylon a lot of things that were bad for everybody. give an example of this. the law used to be quite hostile both to horizontal mergers, that is mergers among competitors, and vertical mergers, mergers among different companies in the supply chain. the result was less mergers. it was worse mergers. you have what are called conglomerates, large companies, itt is a great example of. the next administration got in a lot of trouble with trying to meddle in antitrust enforcement with itt. large firms that had subsidiaries that nothing to do with one another. so you could realize efficiencies and a really hard to manage. so i american firms are making bad business decisions and at the same time foreign firms sometimes supported by foreign government help

nader to robert bourke -- was that the anti-trust laws were really unclear. had trouble planning around them. and worse than that, they both conduct.efficient they prevented companies that doing things that would help coworkers, shareholders and so forth. and they actually ended up encouraging firms from doing a lot of things that were bad for everybody. i'll give you an example. to be quite hostile both to horizontal mergers, that among competitors, and vertical mergers, mergers among different companies in the supply chain. are calledat conglomerates, large companies. example.great the nixon administration got in a lot of trouble with trying to meddle in anti-trust enforcement with itt. firms that had subsidiaries that had nothing to do with each other. they were really hard to manage. so american firms were making bad business decisions. time, foreigne firms sometimes supported by help, wereernment stepping up to compete. if you looked at a parking lot in 1978, the year robert bourke looked at aou parking lot today, they would look very different, not just

nader to robert bork, was that the antitrust laws were really unclear. people had trouble planning around them. and worse than that, they both deterred efficient conduct. they prevented companies from doing things that would help consumers and workers and so forth, and the actually ended up encouraging them to do things bad for everybody. i'll give you an example. the law used to be hostile to horizontal mergers and vertical mergers, burden -- mergers among different companies in the supply chain. the result wasn't less mergers, it was worse mergers. you had conglomerates, large companies, itt a great example. of the nixon administration got into trouble in trying to meddle with the enforcement of itt. large firms that had subsidiaries that had nothing to do with one another. they couldn't realize efficiencies and they were really hard to manage. american firms for making bad business decisions. at the same time, foreign firms, sometimes supported by foreign government help, were stepping up to compete. if you looked at a parking lot an1978, the year rob

. >> john who preceded harry and then there was oversight like you talked about ralph nader one of the gray oversight chairman of modern science. the ways and means and appropriations of energy and commerce, the hardcharging engines of the house. >> absolutely is one of the main policies in the house of representatives. >> if somebody reads this book what will they learn quick. >> a lot of politics, the everyday street level politics how things happen on the hill how members and staff put together the external coalition. people think it's about the county vote but it's not. with the national fabric of organization supporting legislation it is a much broader topic that's it they get. >> i wrote every day. and obama care that was put together by the hearings and special interest relationship between the chairman and the speaker and the president and how that's all brought together. like abortion did you get that through to the house of representatives? is also about management and also purpose that is what we have seen over the past few years there is a sense of what they wanted to achie

consumer advocate and two-time presidential candidate ralph nader talked about capitalism and free market policies with a panel at the center for study of responsive law in october. is thenext speaker oftor for over three decades the corporate crime reporter, a weekly newsletter based in washington, d.c. he writes internet articles exploring corporate crime and he is the founder of single-payer action. it is if you want updates on what is going on in this field. he founded and runs morgan county usa.org in west virginia, works at the local level as well. countyusa.org. he is the author of "corporate crime and violence," put out by an environmental group. helives in west virginia and has interviewed more people than anyone you have met over the years. he once put out a daily newspaper five days a week and had interviews in each one and the corporate crime reporter, which is not enough law school libraries, where corporate crime is not a feature of the , he is trying to expand the documentation of corporate crime. he is in touch with scholars all the time. welcome, russell. [applause] russe

i'm ralph nader. welcome to the conference on the myths of market fundmentalism. we welcome the distinguished participant who's are delivering summaries of their intellectual and active work on this subject. this is really the first of conference of this kind. there have been single issue conferences focusing, for example, on regulation, deregulation and market economics. it approaches it from many angles based on the work of many years of scholars and activists and people who engage in both endeavors. also welcome c-span and real news network out of baltimore who are conveying the proceedings to a larger audience. we will submit the papers here and also turn the material into a variety of media interfaces. it's important to know that free market mythology is basic educational tool in this country where the chambers of commerce, for example, go right into the middle schools and teach what isn't so. they teach the myths of free markets which are very hard to find these days given the prevalence of corporate power. there will be additions to the proceedings here. of

one of the reasons i wanted to be sure to be here is because a few years ago i heard from ralph nader who said it was -- he was insistent to me that what we had to do is demand a much higher minimum wage and confess that this was before anybody had ever heard of a fight for 15. and so i sort of took as a lesson of that experience it's a good idea to hang around ralph a little bit. he has good ideas so i'm going to take the opportunity that's been offered to me to talk about the market fundamentalism in part of security regulation and in part of history and i'm going to try in the course of doing so to make an argument for a very specific way of understanding the threat that market fundamentalism poses to the future of prosperity of the united states and the globe. since a number of people who have spoken before me have talked about sort of larger political dynamics, i just want to point something out to begin with about market fundamentalism. i think it's important to remember. because a number of people have pointed out or have asked, including several of the prior speakers, how is i

bush ran against gore, ralph nader was largely vilified for having cost gore that election. but if you had rank choice voting in bush against clinton, ross perot siphoned off votes from george bush. so you could have made the argument george bush might have gotten a second term. >> the argument is you'll get less extreme candidates. jonathan fishman, thank you. >> thank you so much. >> i'll see you on new year's eve. in the meantime we'll be right back. is now in session. and... adjourned. business loans for eligible card members up to fifty thousand dollars, decided in as little as 60 seconds. the powerful backing of american express. don't do business without it. you're in the business of helping people. we're in the business of helping you. business loans for eligible card members up to fifty thousand dollars, decided in as little as 60 seconds. the powerful backing of american express. don't do business without it. ♪ applebee's bigger bolder grill combos are back. now that's eatin good in the neighborhood. we were talking about the model t. now here we are talking abou

she started as a ralph nader supporter in 2000. ran as a green party candidate for the state legislature and lost. was a pretty liberal member of the legislature when she got elected as a democrat. after going to congress she tried to stay to the business community in phoenix i'm a business-friendly democrat. so mcsally, who is a combat pilot, air force veteran from tucson, the population is not -- she started out with and came from the smaller part of the staift but it turned into a hot race. >> bill: she sang the national anthem and the home team won. sinema had the coin cost. >> she went to arizona state. she belittled arizona state students when she was a teacher there and while she may have sung the national anthem she said on a radio program with a 9/11 truther she said she didn't care if people went to join the taliban in afghanistan. >> sandra: the president was asked whether it was a referendum on him and his presidency. i believe this is with sean hannity last night. >> president trump: it's really about the candidate but