Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal 20150527 : comparem

Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal 20150527

That yesterday. In burlington yesterday, independent senator Bernie Sanders officially launched his 2016 president ial bid. Promising a revolution. We will begin there with your thoughts on the center for the campaign. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. And independents, 202 7488002. Send us a tweet cspanwj, facebook. Com cspan, or send us an email, journal cspan. Org. The Burlington Free press this morning, courtesy of the museum, has this on their front page. Bernie sanders launches his quest for the presidency quoting him, we began a Political Revolution turko cspan covered we begin a Political Revolution. Cspan covered that yesterday. Here is a little of what he had to say. Senator sanders host we will get to that in a second. We apologize for that. As we said, cspan cover the campaign the official launch of this event where the senator was in the hometown of burma. Here is a little bit of that speech. Senator sanders this Campaign Starting today, is going to send a message to the billionaire class, and that is you cannot have it all. You cannot get tax breaks while children in this country go hungry. You cannot continue sending our jobs abroad while millions are looking for work. You cannot hide your profits in the Cayman Islands and other tax havens while there are massive unmet deeds on every corner of this nation. To the billionaire class, i say that your greed has got to end. You cannot take advantage of all of the benefits of america if you refuse to accept your responsibility. Host senator Bernie Sanders in vermont yesterday talking about the billionaires and what kind of campaign he will run. A Political Revolution is what he called it, and that is what the times argus of vermont puts on their front page this morning. Let michelle show you other front pages on the announcement by the let me show you other front pages on the announcement by the senator. It is official vermont senator launches Political Revolution. Sanders promises to be the champion of liberal causes. We want to get your take on that. What do you think of senator sanders running as a democrat, the independent from vermont, challenging Hillary Clinton so far in a primary contest. Tim in gainesville, florida, democrat. Good morning to you. What do you think . Caller good morning, greta. How are you . Host doing well, sir. Caller i am a doozy this man is in the tradition of the kennedys, the roosevelts, and i will be voting for him. Host tell me the issues, tim. You told me the person that he analyzes to you he symbolizes to you. Caller race relations, Social Security, the environment, getting us out of these wars, the Martin Luther king agenda. That is what i am for. Host ok, another democrat, what are your thoughts on senator sanders . Caller good morning, maam. Im fully in support of mr. Sanders campaign. I would like to see Elizabeth Warren because she is a fighter for what she believes in. But since she is not running, i will support senator sanders. The reason i will do that is this country is totally rigged in favor of the very wealthy. There is nothing wrong with being wealthy but for the last 20, 30 years, the middle class cannot get their head above water and the rich 1 is getting richer and richer and having a much bigger slice of the pie while everyone else is struggling. It is complicated. In europe, there was a time of plenty before i finished, i want to tell you one more thing, maam. The republicans, all of their billionaire supporters say sanders is a socialist. It is not socialism it is just being fair and dismantling the rigged system. Thank you very much for taking my call. Host before you go, you said you wanted Elizabeth Warren because you thought she could really fight for what she believes in. Caller yes. Host hold on, do you doubt the fight in Bernie Sanders . Do you think he could win the nomination . Caller here is the thing a politician needs to have a good way to talk in order to win votes. That is one of the great advantages president obama had. Elizabeth warren can get people fired up very easily the way she talks, the way she gives her energy into the speech, but since she is not running, i am supporting bernie. I am impressed with his speech yesterday appeared i thought he had a lot of fire in his speech. He picked the right words. I think you need to work with Elizabeth Warren and some of the speechwriters of obama because speeches mean everything. It can win or lose elections. No matter how good ideas are, if people do not get excited bernie was very good yesterday to be honest with you. Host all right, we will show more of him. Bernard, an independent. Caller good morning, greta. What an enthusiastic speech from bernie yesterday. Between him and Elizabeth Warren, everything that they say, the two of them say the American People they need to wake up. He is giving us a message, and i do not care i used to be a democrat but this is something some of the things that he said, i mean if hillary needs to carry that message as well she needs to do that, but right now, he is saying everything that the American People need to Pay Attention to. Host ok, so about what he was saying politicos piece this morning, it is not your Everyday Americans at Bernie Sanders kickoff rally. He personally wrote the speech and spoke for half an hour and seemed overwhelmed when he came out with his wife, jane, after being introduced as vermonts adopted son. Host here is a little bit more from the senator yesterday. Him talking about these Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court. Senator sanders let me be as blunt as i can and tell you what you already know. As a result of the Disastrous Supreme Court decision on Citizens United, the american political system has been totally corrupted and the foundations of american democracy are now being undermined. What the Supreme Court said, essentially, was that it was not good enough for the billionaires to own much of the economy they can now own the United States government as well, and that is precisely what they are trying to do. [crowd boos] now, what i learned in school, and i think many men and women have put their lives on the line to defend our country have long known that american democracy is not about billionaires being able to buy candidates and buy elections. It is not about the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson another incredibly wealthy individuals spending billions of dollars to elect candidates who will make the rich richer and everyone else poorer. According to media reports, if you can believe it, the Koch Brothers in this election cycle are prepared to spend more money than either the democratic or Republican Party. That is not democracy that is all about the that is oligarchy. [cheers and applause] in vermont at our town meetings, we know what democracy is about, and that is one person, one vote. And that is the kind of political system we are going to fight for and are going to achieve. Host senator Bernie Sanders officially jumping into the 2016 president ial campaign in burlington, vermont yesterday. By the way several president ai ial candidates are announcing coming up, senator Rick Santorum will announce today. Go to cspan. Org for more details. Martin omalley, the former governor of maryland and Baltimore Mayor will be announcing over the weekend. Lindsey graham will be in South Carolina june 1 for his agreement, and then we will hear from Texas Governor rick perry announcing a bid for the presidency a Second Time Around. We will go to john next in ohio, a democrat, john, your thoughts on senator sanders and his bid for the presidency. Caller i really like mr. Sanders speech yesterday. I am a little confused as why he rand paul on nsa data collection. I think there is a real big problem in the United States. We have Police Departments using stingray technology, spying on its citizens. We have this information being sent off to the dea to do their own investigations. I think mr. Sanders would get a lot more credit if he was stand up for the Fourth Amendment and stand up for the people of this United States. Host you are a democrat, john, would you consider voting for senator rand paul . Caller i would vote for either one, i mean, there is a bigger problem in this country when it comes to the nsas writing on it citizens the nsa spying on its citizens. This goes farther than the government, this goes to local government, this goes to the dea, this goes to the Treasury Department and this goes on and on and on. I just understand what he does not stand up with senator rand paul in the senate and block the nsa. Block it, block it. Lets do away with it. Host all right, john, you might be interested in Dana Milbanks column in the Washington Post today. That, dana milbank says, is part of the problem. Host but that is the problem paul is not running for the nomination. The primary voters do not necessarily show his views that the party is too old and too white. His candidacy has so far failed to ignite. The most recent National Poll by fox news has paul in sixth place with 7 , trailing jeb bush the Washington Post, by dana milbank goes on to say and caught fire on social media it and forced Party Leaders and take notice, but this time, paul found in difference as he fought to limit government surveillance. As the posts philip bump reported, it only got about 1 10 of the twitter attention that his first ever did. Caroline and andin illinois, what do you think . Caller i very much support senator sanders. I have been watching for years. Senator sanders takes questions from the general public every friday on the tom harkin are on the tom hartmans show. I incurred your viewers to watch bernie. I think they would see that he is the real thing. Host senator sanders has appeared on this program, talked to all of you as well, several times throughout his tenure in the senate. Bill in pennsylvania republican. Bill good morning. Caller jefferson township, actually. If i ever heard a demagogue this guy is one. I mean he is for Big Government. He is suckering all these people. They want the government to do everything for them. Put the lollipop in their mouth get them addicted. That is what he wants them to do. Host bill, who do you like on the republican side so far . Caller i like a lot of them. I am reading Mike Huckabees book and he is saying a lot of things that makes sense. Host like what . Caller like we have too much government. Like the federal government was created by the states it is not the other way around. The powers that the federal government has was given to them by the states. This is in the constitution. This is the way the country was run. Now the federal government wants to take care of your babies they want to take care of everything. They have disintegrated the family in this country our federal government has. It gets in between parents and their children. Host all right, that is bill. Debbie and Bloomberg Debbie in bloomsburg, pennsylvania, democrat. You are on the air. Caller thank you for taking my call. I am for Bernie Sanders because he is for the poor people. There are just too many poor people in this country, and i think if he makes president , he is going to do something about it. Not only that, what about people who have worked all their lives and have retired and get a nice pension, and they are still taxed after paying taxes for 50 years . I hope mr. Sanders does something about that, too. Host all right, paul springfield, ohio. An independent. Go ahead. Caller yes, i served my country over 30 years as a commission warned officer. Our government has gotten away from taking care of the people by not looking at the advantages. We spend billions of dollars. We could turn around the catastrophes that are going on in texas and oklahoma with water. If we set up the proper scenarios, we could pull that water, use that water to truck it to areas who are depleted of no water put people to work, but veterans to work and others who are sitting out there, wanting a job. Pay them a decent wage. Get the government to the point where it realizes that you cannot just tax everything, and we hear this infrastructure infrastructure, infrastructure, but i do not see any of it happening. Mother nature is giving us all the rain. Host which candidate best represents what you are saying here . Caller well, at this point there are multiple. There are some that have not even jumped into the race yet. We need someone who has leadership, which i have done my whole career as a Business Owner and a military officer. If i had to pick one right now with the best business plan, it would probably be donald trump. He has not joined in yet. Or Mike Huckabee because there are moral and ethical issues that tie to infrastructure economy, and this country so the long for the longest time this country stood alone for the longest time being the best. Now we have sold out. We do not do anything anymore. It is easier for big countries to invest in Foreign Countries and pay minimum wages to people somewhere else to produce for us. Host all right, paul. Here is what the 2016 field, those that have jumped and so far, are saying on twitter. Ernie sanders tweeting this out that the Burlington Police estimate more than 5000 showed up for his big lunch yesterday in burlington, vermont. Hillary was in South Carolina, or she will be in South Carolina today, will be tweeting from her visits around the state. One of the early primary states, South Carolina. Carly fiorina in New Hampshire thanking the folks there for hosting a house party in bedford, new fancher in bedford, New Hampshire. Marco rubio do you agree echo let me know. Marco rubio tweeting about policy issues. We will also show you what the other candidates are saying on twitter as well. As we said, Rick Santorum officially launching his second bid for the white house today. Go to cspan. Org for more details about that. Emmanuelle and durham, north carolina, democrat. Good morning to you. Caller good morning. I firmly support senator sanders for his president ial bid, and i believe that he cares about americans, he believes in the american way, and he has apple pie, baseball, and he loves mom. I think he can do it. Host all right, charles, an independent. Good morning, charles. Caller good morning, greta. I hear republicans say we to get rid of Big Government, but what do you really want to get rid of . Do you want to get rid of the cdc, the fbi, the fda, the fcc . What do you want to get rid of . I never hear that. They are always yelling, oh the Big Government is taking over. I do not see that. What i like about sanders is instead of sitting out there and giving the usual spin, this guy is saying, i want to do this, i want to break up the big banks these are things i want to get done. Unfortunately, the American Public will not go for it, even though a lot of things he is saying agrees with the right. If i talk with my rightwing friends, he is the biggest liberal sense forever. Although he makes sense. Host charles, what do you think about him challenging Hillary Clinton . Caller there is no way. I mean, hillary have got the machine. She can debate. Really, people do not want change. People do not want the system to change. They want to vote for their values how shall i say this . We just want the same old, same old. It really kills me when i hear people say, the system is broken, and these people are corrupt, and they keep voting the same people in they keep voting the same democrats and the same republicans in that have corrupted the system because their ideologies they will not even listen to anything. Sorry, it is just how i feel about our system. Americans are really strange when it comes to voting. Host all right, charles. Here is slate. Com Hillary Clinton may be the front runner, but the tandem of Elizabeth Warren and B

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